The ink wasn't even dry yet on the just published Republican Tax Cut And Jobs Act, and within the hour UBS was already confident that it has virtually no chance of passing: As UBS chief economist Seth Carpenter wrote shortly after the publication, "to our read, the release confirms our view that tax reform is far from being a done deal.
With President Donald Trump arriving in Japan today to kick off a 10-day Asia tour, the Washington Post is reporting that the only way to locate and secure all of North Korea’s nuclear weapons sites “with complete certainty” would be a ground invasion, and in the event of conflict, Pyongyang could use biological and chemical weapons, the Pentagon told lawmakers in a newly released assessment of what war on the Korean Peninsula might look like.
War is coming...
This weekend's chaos in the middle east just got considerably more serious.
Yesterday we detailed reports that the Saudis intercepted a ballistic missile over the nation's capital Riyadh...
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Ahead of Trump's visit to Asia, there were understandable concerns that a diplomatic snafu was imminent. Those concerns were partially justified following a report from Japan Times, according to which Trump said Japan should have shot down the North Korean missiles that flew over the country before landing in the Pacific Ocean earlier this year.
Former UK Treasury Secretary and Prime Minister Says US Deceived UK Into Supporting US Invasion of Iraq
Gordon Brown says the US defence department knew that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction but kept Britain in the dark and that there was no justification for the invasion and war.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/gordon-brown-says-pentagon-misled-uk-over-case-for-iraq-invasion/ar-AAusrOs?OCID=ansmsnnews11