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In two welcome signs of de-escalation after yesterday's sudden spike in bellicose rhetoric, moments ago North Korea released a Canadian man from prison on humanitarian grounds, the Korean Central News Agency reported on Wednesday. He was serving a life sentence in the country for anti-state activities. As CGTN adds, Rim Hyon Su, also known as Rev. Lim Hyeon-soo was sentenced to life in prison with hard labor in December 2015.

In the latest car-ramming terrorist attack in France, at least six French soldiers were injured, three of them seriously, after being rammed by what was described as a black BMW in a Paris suburb, French Armed forces confirmed, adding that the police were searching for the driver in what prosecutors are treating as the latest act of terrorism.

???? Incident à Levallois Perret : intervention de #Police en cours. Un véhicule est recherché

— Préfecture de police (@prefpolice) August 9, 2017

Authored by Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces) via SHTFplan.com,

“An elected legislature can trample a man’s rights as easily as a king.”

Mel Gibson as Benjamin Martin, in “The Patriot”

Paul Craig Roberts writes that the admirable and honorable truth-teller John Pilger warns us that nuclear war is closer than we think.

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John only likes to support terrorists inside Syria and Neo-nazis inside The Ukraine. When it comes to war, the good senator from Arizona never shies away from one, unless of course it is being menaced by the man he hates most, President Donald John Trump.

Watch McCain, for the first time in his thousand year life, criticize American saber rattling against another country. Typically, 'going down again' John is all for it. In this case, he'd much prefer we BOMB MOSCOW, than all of N. Korea.