US intelligence believes North Korea is still between 12 and 18 months away from gaining the ability to load a nuclear warhead onto one of its ICBMs, but South Korean intelligence reportedly has credible evidence that Kim Jong Un and his regime have begun testing loading anthrax onto the country’s ICBMs, according to Japan's Asahi newspaper.
As Asahi reports (via Google Translate)
Over the weekend, it was supposed to be just another gun buyback event for San Francisco police, but that wasn’t the case at all.
In total, 280 firearms were exchanged for cash by officers, however, one individual took advantage of the “ask no questions” policy and handed over an M136 AT4 Anti-tank rocket launcher.
Yes, a rocket launcher, this deadly device is made by Saab and it’s used to blow up heavily armored tanks.
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The CEO of cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, George Kurtz, says North Korea is "absolutely" accumulating a giant pile of bitcoin to fund cyberattacks.
"They're building a cache of bitcoin, if you think about it. It's an anonymous currency, it can easily bypass any sort of sanctions because there are none on bitcoin, and the value has increased dramatically," Kurtz told CNBC's "Squawk Alley." "It's the perfect currency for North Korea to be hoarding." -CNBC
Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,
In the run-up to Christmas, President Donald Trump has been the beneficiary of some surprisingly good news and glad tidings.
Sunday, Vladimir Putin called to thank him and the CIA for providing Russia critical information that helped abort an ISIS plot to massacre visitors to Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
Monday found polls showing Trump at his highest in months.
Trump’s National Security Speech
Paul Craig Roberts
What do we make of Trump’s national security speech? First of all, it is the military/security complex’s speech, and it is inconsistent with Trump’s intention of normalizing relations with Russia.