US On Brink Of WWIII After Trump Responds To N. Korea ICBM Missile Launch
Never since the Cuban missile crisis of the early 60s, when John F. Kennedy was president
and we were in the middle of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, have we been so close
total global annihilation.
US Secretary of Defence James Mattis in a statement earlier today confirmed that the
fetus looking Dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un has now fired its highest-ever intercontinental
ballistic missile and it poses a dire worldwide threat.
Later the Pentagon confirmed that the missile had flown for about 1,000km (620 miles) before
falling into the Sea of Japan.The Japanese government released an official statement
saying the missile traveled for about 50 minutes but did not actually fly over Japan, as some
have done in the past.
The White House confirmed that President Donald Trump was briefed while the missile was actually
still in the air, to which he afterward said: �We will take care of it.� South Korea�s
military later said it had responded with a missile exercise of its own.
This will get ugly.Via Freedom Daily:
After months of threats and tests, North Korea�s despot dictator, Kim Jong-un, flexed his muscles
and launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this morning.
The little �Rocket Man� likely chuckled to himself, basking in the glow as he envisioned
the explosion of what ended up being his target.
Now, for the first time since the end of the Cold War, Hawaii has just something that indicates
the threat of World War III could be a reality, as other world leaders warn of the same thing.
This is North Koreas latest provocation of war that could be their last after �two
missiles flew directly over Japanese territory, terrifying citizens and sparking a round of
worldwide condemnations and sanctions,� according to Express.
The Japanese government has issued an urgent warning that the final blow could be coming
within the �next few days.� Hawaii has been under direct threat and they aren�t
taking any chances after seeing the Jong-un is not willing to stop until President Donald
Trump personally makes him, which looks like will be sooner, rather than later.
Fox News reports:
North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile in the middle of the night local time
Wednesday, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News.
South Korea�s Yonhap News Agency, which first reported the launch, said the missile
�flew eastward from the vicinity of Pyongyang� toward the Sea of Japan, according to South
Korean military officials.
The missile launch happened around 3 a.m. in North Korea.
South Korea�s military has reportedly staged a �precision strike� missile exercise
in response.
Japan�s Prime Minister�s Office for disaster and crisis management information tweeted
shortly after the report: �North Korea launched a missile that has the possibility of arriving
in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of our country,� according to a translation.
There have been signs indicating Kim Jong Un�s regime was planning a missile launch
in recent days.
Japan�s Kyodo News reported Monday the Japanese government detected radio signals pointing
to a possible missile test in the near future.
It was only a matter of time before North Korea tried this since Kim Jong-un has been
strangely silent for a few months since his last launch in late July.
There�s no mistaking that what the dictator did was an act of war against Japan, and now
it�s time for him to pay the price for his actions.
Today�s launch comes only hours after Hawaii resumed Cold War-era nuclear siren tests after
getting word of a pending threat from North Korea.
According to Reuters:
Wailing air-raid sirens will be sounded for about 60 seconds from more than 400 locations
across the central Pacific islands starting at 11:45 a.m. on Friday, in a test that will
be repeated on the first business day of each month thereafter, state officials said.
Monthly tests of the nuclear attack siren are being reintroduced in Hawaii in conjunction
with public service announcements urging residents of the islands to �get inside, stay inside
and stay tuned� if they should hear the warning.
�Emergency preparedness is knowing what to expect and what to do for all hazards,�
Hawaii Emergency Management Agency chief Vern Miyagi said in one video message posted online.
He did not mention North Korea specifically.
But the nuclear attack sirens, discontinued since the 1980s when the Cold War drew to
a close, are being reactivated in light of recent test launches of intercontinental ballistic
missiles from North Korea deemed capable of reaching the state, agency spokeswoman Arlina
Agbayani told Reuters.
A single 150-kiloton weapon detonated over Pearl Harbor on the main island of Oahu would
be expected to kill 18,000 people outright and leave 50,000 to 120,000 others injured
across a blast zone several miles wide, agency spokesman Richard Rapoza said, citing projections
based on assessments of North Korea�s nuclear weapons technology.
While casualties on that scale would be unprecedented on U.S. soil, a fact sheet issued by the agency
stressed that 90 percent of Hawaii�s 1.4 million-plus residents would survive �the
direct effects of such an explosion.�
Oahu, home to a heavy concentration of the U.S. military command structure, as well as
the state capital, Honolulu, and about two-thirds of the state�s population, is seen as an
especially likely target for potential North Korean nuclear aggression against the United
States.
Japan can only take so much and have appeared to have reached that threshold.
For how small Kim Jong-un is, he�s sure making a huge mistake by playing big boy games.
He doesn�t want to get into a war with America since we have the best army in the world and
could obliterate his country from the planet in a matter of seconds.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis stressed that the U.S. is trying to exhaust all diplomatic
and economic options to end North Korea�s missile program, however, those efforts are
wearing out quickly with the persistence of refusal to cooperate from North Korea�s
leader.
It can be difficult to tell when the diplomatic options have been exhausted because your enemy
might be sneaky, or duplicitous in some way, and it�s the responsibility of a country
has to try and determine fact from fiction.
That�s not the case with North Korea who has been clear about their intentions by coming
right out in the open and announcing their plans for a fight.The Japanese government
said they would �never accept North Korea�s continuous provocative behavior� and PM
Shinzo Abe called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
The EU called the launch a �further unacceptable violation� of North Korea�s international
obligation.
Britain�s ambassador to the UN called it �a reckless act�
Although condemnation of the launch was swift and plentiful It�s pretty much a given no
one will do anything until President Trump gives the order, and we can rest assured he
will not hesitate in giving the order at the precise moment.
As always the safety of the world rests on our shoulders.
And it seems like this time the fat ugly kid from North Korea is on a suicide mission.
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Trump Breaking News 11/29/17 North Korea new ICBM puts U.S. mainland within range of nuclear weapons - Duration: 11:41.
In a town just north of Pyongyang officials say a missile ripped through the night sky around
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threaten serve a political threat that
Endangered world peace regional page and certainly the United States justice will be served
And then the process will occur
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He asked for your vote. I was more than willing to give it to him in conference here today
But they decided not to show up
They've been all talk and they've been no action and now
It's even worse now. It's not even
President doesn't indicate. He's serious
We're not going to sit down just for a photo-op that strikes me as a lack of seriousness about the matter before us
So-called mastermind behind the Benghazi attacks was convicted today on terror charges
But he was cleared of murders two previous administration granted this foreign terrorist
American constitutional rights
And that should not have happened
Good morning to you
You are watching Fox and Friends first on this Wednesday morning made it midway through the week so far, but a lot has happened
Yesterday and overnight so we need to get straight to that for you
And we begin with the Fox News Alert a game changer from North Korea at the rogue nation test launching a new
Kind of intercontinental ballistic missile overnight one that is capable of striking
anywhere in the US but president Trump remaining firm a
Missile was launched a little while ago from North Korea. I will only tell you that we will take care of it
Amy Kellogg is covering this story for us, and she joins us now live from Milan with more good morning Amy
Hi Heather well
It's very hard to imagine just how this will be handled
The Secretary of State has said that diplomatic options are still out there, but again
It's hard to imagine exactly what they are here is what the vice president said
all options are on the table and
We will continue to
Marshal the full resources of the United States to bring economic and diplomatic pressure to bear until North Korea
abandons its nuclear and ballistic missile programs once and for all
Cut to North Korea giving glory to its missile test with a montage of past
Launches reinstate TVs was North Korea's most potent missile tested to date it flew higher than previous ones
North Korea says it could hit anywhere in the United States and analysts say they may be right an
Anchorwoman exactly made the announcement the missile flew
2,800 miles high before landing in the sea this was North Korea's 15th ballistic missile launch of the year
This is the actual order Kim jong-un signed to authorize the launch it said quote
fire with courage for the party and country a North Korean government
statement said quote Kim jong-un after the launch declared with pride that North Korea has achieved its goal of becoming a
Rocket power it is impossible to know what the North Korean mass is out in the cold
Watching all this on big screens were thinking we know their neighbors in the South were rattled firing a series of
missiles and response to show that it will not be threatened and just sit by but of course this just
underlines of course Heather how grave the threat from North Korea is and it certainly is casting a shadow at this point
Over the South Korean Winter Olympic Games in Seoul oh absolutely. I hadn't even thought about that Amy Kellogg live for us
We wouldn't talk much more about this coming up later in the show. Thank you
Meantime Hillary Clinton as you might imagine
She came out attacking President Trump over his North Korea approach saying that he needs to soften things up
but Fox News contributor Mark teason says that we need to decide as a
Country are we okay with Kim jong-un being able to hold all of our children hostages to nuclear blackmail
He says if we're not okay with that then president Trump should take military action
My proposal is simply that the President of the United States
Should stop the nuclear the North's nuclear and ballistic missile testing by declaring that
Henceforth the United States is going to enforce a ballistic missile
no-fly zone over North Korea and a nuclear no test zone and that anytime the North Koreans attempted to launch a a
Ballistic missile we're going to take it out. We might take it out with our missile defenses
We might take it out on that on the ground if they tried to take a nuclear test
We're going to take it out, and he should give them assurances that it'll be a limited strike
Just like his strike in Syria was when when he took note of the Syrians
Violated the nofa they were Obama redline and and his chemical weapons he just took out the base
But he didn't overthrow them and give them that assurance that if they don't retaliate that'll be it
But we can stop their testing and I doubt that they would respond
We're following this Fox News Alert for you from overnight a
51-day nightmare appears to be over for a Florida community living in fear of a serial killer, but just hours ago
Tampa Police arresting 24-year old Howell Donaldson the third in connection with four murders in the Seminole Heights neighborhood
Tampa at the break in the case coming when Donaldson showed up at a local
McDonald's with a gun a local news reports say that he has been working there for the past few months
Donaldson reportedly has ties to New York City, but has no criminal record in Florida
in the battle between darkness and light
Light has won. We're bringing someone to justice who doesn't deserve the right to walk amongst us justice will be served and
Then the process will occur
when this individual rots and health
All four victims were randomly shot and killed near bus stops now this grainy surveillance
Video near one of those bus stops the only clue that police had four weeks and a possible break in a frantic
Nationwide manhunt to find a three year old girl police say that Mariah Woods went missing from her
North Carolina home look at her there when she went missing
Overnight Sunday night after her mother put her to bed of the FBI now pleading with the public
Trying to determine if these photos are of the toddler taken at a Walmart yesterday morning
That's nearly 50 miles from her home look closely. They're currently searching for the woman seen carrying this child
Priority number one is to find Mariah
And we are asking the public's help in the localist surrounding community for
Anyone that has had contact with the family from Sunday on to please contact us with any
information
Mariah's family claims that several adults were home when she disappeared including her mother's boyfriend
Who says that he told her to go back to bed that was around midnight?
Her family says that she wears leg braces
And she could not have walked out on her own despite the back door of the home being unlocked
Well there is drama on Capitol Hill imagine that after Democrats boycott a meeting with President Trump just days before a possible government shutdown
This as the Senate takes a major step on tax reform Doug mackelway joins us now live from Washington DC
With where in the world Republicans go from here good morning Doug
Morning to you Heather's passage of the tax bill through the Senate Budget Committee was a significant victory for Republicans
especially because two GOP committee men who had expressed reservations about it bob corker of Tennessee and Ron Johnson of, Wisconsin
voted yes now that does not necessarily mean, they're gonna support the full bill, but it's an encouraging sign for Republicans I
Think what's gonna propel us to success here is within the Republican Conference everybody agrees we need
pro-growth tax reform
And so it's really just that legislative process you're seeing the sausage-making occur right now
Make sure we can as good a package as possible
The straight party-line vote 12 to 11 in the Budget Committee capped a wild day that began with this presidential tweet
Meeting with Chuck and Nancy today about keeping government open and working problems
is
that
A problem is they want illegal immigrants flooding into our country unchecked our week on crime and want to substantially raise taxes
I don't see a deal well Senate and House minority leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi
Retaliated to that by boycotting the White House meeting of the big four congressional leaders
Given that the president doesn't see a deal between Democrats and the White House
Leader Pelosi, and I believe the best path forward is to continue negotiating with our Republican
counterparts in Congress instead
the counter-puncher in chief returned fire later at that meeting by keeping Schumer and Pelosi's nametags in place at their empty
Chairs next to the president while McConnell and Ryan awkwardly sat one seat away
So they decided not to show up
They've been all talk and they've been no action, and now it's even worse now. It's not even Talk
So today while the Senate could begin floor debate on the tax bill as early as 2:00 p.m.
The president has to say Charles, Missouri where he will push the tax bill
No lack of drama here in DC
Absolutely not and one of the cinders
I think it was senator Johnson yesterday said this is the part where they make the sausage
I was like well. Is it turkey sausage, or is it pork sausage? Well. It's not pretty. It's not pretty whatever it is
That is true all right. Thank you so much darling
Well Nancy Pelosi meantime had plenty of time to praise embattled representative John Conyers on Sunday
But couldn't find the time to negotiate taxes with the president Kelly and Conway counselor to the president blasting the Democratic Party and its leadership
for being reduced to acting as
obstructionist against President Trump
They're not there representing the opposition party
They're there is the minority leaders of the two chambers in Congress, and it is a major disappointment
That's why they're the minority party that Sean. It's why they lost
1000 seats in state legislatures in the house in the Senate in the governorships
And of course the biggest prize of all the White House
It's based on the policy the Democratic Party is talking about presidential elections instead of passing policy
and I'm telling you the American people see it too a
Person even folks who didn't vote for this president come up and tell us all the time they can't stand the constant negativity
resistance lies and the rest of all the blather a government that functions, and he's leading the way and
Then there's this overnight Congressman John Conyers
Spotted flying coach on a plane back to Detroit igniting rumors that he may be heading home to resign
This comes as a top Democrat ramps up some pressure on the veteran lawmaker to bow out
following the sex scandal avalanche an aide says the House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is trying to convince the
Representative to step away from Capitol Hill, that would be a reversal in her partner. This isn't Conyers first rodeo
with the xyx committee though back in 2006 you may remember that he was accused of using former aides as
Personal servants, but the investigation was closed because Conyers quote took responsibility
Well a shocking move rocking the NFL this morning, did you hear about this the New York Giants?
benching star quarterback Eli Manning of the two-time Super Bowl MVP holding back tears as his incredible streak of
210
consecutive regular season games
The starts comes to an end
Hang in there figure it out
Well the move announced by head coach Ben McAdoo after the team only winning two games through the first 12 weeks
Fans now are outraged as McAdoo is also expected to lose his job at season's end a backup quarterback
Geno Smith will now take over. Let's see what happens with that
Well the time now is about 12 minutes after the top of the hour and a Fox News work for you
North Korea taking a dangerous new step toward war firing a missile that could hit anywhere in the US
Why our next guest says that he's confident President Trump is the one who can end this?
first of all this is a total miscarriage of justice an accessory to murder is also guilty of murder and
Outrage as the mastermind of the Benghazi attacks
skates on the most serious charges against him why the victim's family members say that the Obama
Administration is to blame and America has been and still is a white supremacist Society
For the lesson that one professor at a taxpayer-funded college is teaching that will make your blood boil
You
Welcome back to Fox and Friends first
It is 416 in the morning here on the East Coast a Fox News Alert for you
North Korea launching an intercontinental ballistic missile that has the power to reach the US mainland a president Trump
Promising to quote take care of it
So how should we respond here now to weigh in is asia analyst and the author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world
Gordon, Chang. Thank you so much for joining us this morning really appreciate it
Thank You Heather, so let's talk a little bit about what happened yesterday this ICBM test it flew 2,800 miles into space
2,800 miles up the highest that's ever gone it flew for 53 minutes
And then it landed off the Chaput Japanese coast about 600 miles away
And then we hear that this could reach any city here in the US were you surprised by what happened yesterday
You know I was surprised that they launched it this time
I thought that they were deep into preparations for the military's winter training cycle
So I thought that we would not see a missile launch until February
But you know in terms of the improvements in range
We shouldn't be surprised
We know that they're making constant
Improvements whether they test or not and so the United States has an obligation right now to do its best to make sure that North
Korea doesn't have the money for missile launches or detonation of nukes and we can do that and that is the key you say
To keep the money away, and how do we do that?
Well president Trump has is September 21 executive order, which tells the world you do business with North Korea
You don't do business with the United States
So we need to enforce that and that isn't not only about countries that sell things or buy things from North Korea
It's also countries that handle the money for North Koreans and that basically is China
So we need to start imposing costs on North Korea's backers because we can strangle, North Korea
And we don't have to use force to do it so there's so many
Non forceful options we heard Senator Lindsey Graham yesterday with all this war talk and that introduces a lot of fatalism into
the global conversation
We need to start talking about
Sanctions instead right but Gordon at the same time
You know people hear you saying this and obviously this is what people want they they don't want a war they want this
Negotiations a diplomatic solution to be able to work
But we've heard about these sanctions before and clearly North Korea is getting further and further ahead in terms of their nuclear capabilities
We're here, South Korea saying that they could reach those within a year
Well, yeah
And I think that the North Koreans will have a proven capability within a let's say a nine month time frame
Maybe even less than that
But we also are hearing that the sanctions are
Working so for instance junior officials in Pyongyang who are part of the regime's favorite class are not getting their rations from the special distribution
channel we are hearing that the regime is rounding up children putting them in labor camps so they can turn out products and
the acceleration of what our informal tax is indicating cash flow problems
And then secretary Tosun also talked about fuel shortages
So there's a lot of anecdotal evidence suggesting the regime is hurting and I cam pain is actually starting to work
But I also think that President Trump needs to ramp it up all right well Gordon. Thank you so much
We certainly hope that that works. We appreciate your joining us this morning with your insight as always
Thank you
Well the time now is about 20 minutes after the top of the hour and a high-stakes heist in Las Vegas the wig-wearing robber
Who held up a casino at gunpoint as gamblers watched and?
Christmas grinches CNN boycotting the White House Christmas party
But the White House is getting the last laugh Carli Shimkus here with the burning response from Sarah Huckabee Sanders
That's up next good morning
And
Welcome back campus
Craziness taken to a whole new level on your dime a public university in Florida is now offering what they're calling a white
Racism course for the upcoming spring semester now social media is not signing up for this course Carly Shimkus with fox news headlines
24/7 Sirius XM 115 is here with all the outrage online
So what in the world is this about Carly you know and how their social media might not be signing up
But it is it appears to be very popular at the University the class was just expanded from 35 to 50 students
And it is currently at capacity now. This is happening at Florida Gulf Coast University
professor Ted Thornhill told Fox News
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The US Health Care System Needs Immigrants - Duration: 6:37.
as a recent eight-nation bracket tournament in the new york times showed
and i've discussed that a lot many people think the united states
healthcare system has a lot of problems so it seems reasonable to think of
policy changes that make things better not worse making it harder for
immigrants to come here to practice medicine would fail that test that's the
topic of this week's healthcare triage
by any objective standard the United States trains far too few physicians to
care for all the patients who need them we rank towards the bottom of developed
nations with respect to medical graduates per population when physicians
graduate from medical school they spend a number of years in a residency program
I did not enjoy mine although they have their degrees we still require them to
train further in the clinical environment to hone their skills
residents are more than learners though they're doctors they fill a vital role
in caring for patients in many hospitals across the country we don't have enough
graduates even to fill residency slots this means that we're reliant on
physicians trained outside the country to fill the gap a 2015 study found that
almost a quarter of residents across all fields were foreign medical graduates
and more than a third of residents and sub specialist programs were even
training aside foreign medical graduates are also responsible for a considerable
share of physicians practicing independently today about a quarter of
all doctors in the United States are foreign medical graduates as in many
other fields foreign medical graduates work in many of the areas that other
doctors find less appealing more than 40% of the American primary care
workforce is made up of people who trained in other countries and moved
here more than half of all the people who focus on caring for older people or
geriatricians are foreign medical graduates as well as if this weren't
enough foreign medical graduates are more likely to practice in geographic
areas of the country where there are physician shortages like non urban areas
and they're more likely to treat Medicaid patients - as a physician who
graduated from a domestic medical school I've often heard others disparaging
doctors who went to medical school outside this country as if they were
inferior those complaints are not supported by data study from health
Fair's in 2010 found that patients with congestive heart failure or myocardial
infarction had lower mortality rates when treated by doctors who were foreign
medical graduates another from earlier this year in the BMJ found that older
patients who were treated by foreign medical graduates had lower mortality as
well even though they seemed to be in general in other words foreign
medical graduates take care of patients who appear to be more ill but seem to
achieve better outcomes a recent study in annals of internal medicine shows
that these graduates are also responsible for a significant amount of
teaching of the 80,000 or so academic physicians in this country more than 18%
were foreign medical graduates more than 15% of full professors and medical
schools in the u.s. were educated elsewhere most often in Asia Western
Europe the Middle East Latin America and the Caribbean foreign medical graduates
also do a lot of research although they are ineligible for some NIH funding
which is granted only to citizens of this country they still manage through
collaboration to be primary investigators on 12 and 1/2 percent of
grants they led more than 18% of clinical trials in the US and were
responsible for about 18% of publications in the medical literature I
spoke to the lead author of the study Dhruv cooler who's a physician at New
York Presbyterian Hospital and a researcher at Weill Cornell he said and
I'm quoting our findings suggest that by some metrics these doctors account for
almost one-fifth of academic scholarship in the United States the diversity of
American medicine and the conversations ideas and breakthroughs this diversity
sparks may be one reason for our competitiveness as a global leader in
biomedical research and innovation the United States is not the only country
that relies on doctors trained or educated in other countries we're not
even the country with the highest percentage of such physician according
to data from the OECD almost 58 percent of physicians practicing in Israel are
foreign medical graduates about 40 percent of doctors in New Zealand and
Ireland we're also trained outside those country
because of the sizes of those nations even though the percentages of foreign
medical graduates are higher there the total numbers aren't as high as in the
u.s. though in 2015 the OECD estimated that the United States had more than two
hundred and thirteen thousand foreign trained doctors and no other country
comes close Britain had about 48,000 Germany about thirty-five thousand and
Australia France and Canada had between 22 and 27 thousand I've listened to
people tell me stories of physicians who leave Canada because they were
dissatisfied about working in a single-payer health care system that
might have been true debt to go but in the last 10 years that
number has dropped precipitously the number of Canadians returning to their
country to practice may actually be higher than the number leaving and
although many feared the coverage expansions from the Affordable Care Act
might lead to an overwhelmed physician workforce that didn't happen that
doesn't mean that America doesn't have a shortage of physician services as we've
discussed in previous episodes especially when it comes to the care of
the oldest the poorest and the most geographically isolated among us even
though we know foreign medical graduates care for these patients just
proportionally we make it very difficult for many born and trained elsewhere to
practice here some Americans need those doctors desperately all the evidence
seems to suggest that policies should be made to attract them not deter them
sometimes talking about drugs and sex education and health insurance aren't
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North Korea fires 'SUPER LARGE WARHEAD' that can 'annihilate any United States city' - DAILY NEWS - Duration: 2:36.
North Korea fires 'SUPER-LARGE WARHEAD' that can 'annihilate any US city'
NORTH Korea can now destroy any city in the US after developing a devastating new ballistic
missile, Pyongyang has claimed.
The Hermit Kingdom made the announcement on Wednesday following the rocket test that shattered
a three-month lull of missile launches.
Top military boffins fired the intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM from a site north of
the capital on Tuesday.
It flew about 590 miles and hit an altitude of 2,780 miles before it crashed into Japanese
waters.
State-controlled media wasted no time to capitalise on the successful Hwasong-15 test and bragged
of leader Kim Jong-un's pride in the weapon.
It added: "The development and advancement of the strategic weapon of the North are to
defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country from the US imperialists'
nuclear blackmail policy.
"We also wish to ensure the peaceful life of the people, and therefore, they would not
pose any threat to any country and region as long as the interests of Pyongyang are
not infringed on.
This is our solemn declaration."
"As a responsible nuclear power and peace-loving state, North Korea will make every possible
effort to serve the noble purpose of defending peace and stability of the world."
US defence secretary Jim Mattis said the missile was the most-advanced that had been seen by
army officials before declaring it could hit any target in the country.
He added: "It went higher, frankly, than any previous shot they've taken.
"It's a research and development effort on their part to continue building ballistic
missile that could threaten everywhere in the world, basically."
US President Donald Trump – alarmed by the North's actions – declared he would "take
care" of the situation.
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The C I A Literally Controls EVERYTHING … Even Deep State - Duration: 9:27.
The C.I.A. Literally Controls EVERYTHING � Even Deep State
The C.I.A. is likewise controlled by much more secretive levels of command and control
State of the Nation
The following perceptive comment was sent by email to SOTN. It simply states the obvious
about the Central Intelligence Agency and its complete control of the United States
of America, and beyond.
It also shows just how extensive Deep State really is. Every publicly traded corporation,
for example, within the Anglo-American Axis is controlled, either directly or indirectly,
by the C.I.A. That�s why the U.S. Intelligence Community refers to it as The Company.
The Global Control Matrix (GCM) is actually the backbone of the New World Order, and functions
as a de facto One World Government. Deep State is just one critical piece of the GCM puzzle.
Just because the current World Shadow Government operates in total secrecy doesn�t mean it
doesn�t exist. The globalist New World Order has actually been here for well over a hundred
years.
The practical reality is that the World Shadow Government (WSG) rules over every square inch
of planet Earth � to varying degrees, of course. (Russia, for instance, has left the
reservation in many ways, but still has to play the game in many ways.)
The bottom line is that the C.I.A. is primarily the enforcement agency for the WSG. It was
recently written that the C.I.A. is the �enforcement agency for the Council on Foreign Relations�.
And that�s entirely true. However, the C.I.A. is also the enforcement agency for every other
entity within Deep State, both public and private, covert and overt.
Only with this correct understanding can the true magnitude of humanity�s problematic
predicament be comprehended. Essentially, a thoroughly rogue intelligence agency � the
largest in the world � has taken control of every sphere of life. In fact, the C.I.A.
acts with absolute impunity, whenever and wherever it so chooses to. As follows:
JFK Assassination Plot Was Coordinated and Conducted by the C.I.A.
And all the C.I.A. ever has to do to justify their never-ending criminal conspiracies is
claim that they are being implemented in the interest of �N A T I O N A L S E C U R I
T Y�. As if publicly executing a POTUS was carried out to make the nation more safe and
secure.
What a place!
State of the Nation November 26, 2017
N.B. What is remarkable is that the post below only represents the tip of the CIA-controlled
Deep State iceberg. It also illustrates why The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Must
Be Shut Down before it shuts US down.
What Does the CIA Control?
Submitted by GA
The Mainstream Media is CIA (all TV, Radio, Newspapers & News Magazines).
Hollywood is CIA (all Motion Pictures and TV programs).
Google is CIA. Facebook is CIA.
Twitter is CIA. Microsoft is CIA.
Apple is CIA. IBM is CIA.
Intel is CIA. Hewlett Packard is CIA�..the list here is
endless, let�s just say all of Silicon Valley is CIA!
All Defense Contractors are CIA, like: Lockheed Martin is CIA.
General Dynamics is CIA. Northrup Grumman is CIA.
Raytheon is CIA. Boeing is CIA.
Halliburton is CIA. United Technologies is CIA.
Bechtel is CIA.
ISIS is CIA. Al Qaeda is CIA.
Al-Nusra is CIA The Bin Laden Family is CIA.
Saddam Hussein was CIA, who went rogue on the CIA. (There were no weapons of mass destruction,
as we know, Daddy Bush was pissed off at his rogue CIA Agent, Saddam, and THAT is why so
many U.S. soldiers had to die and get wounded in Iran.)
Noriega was CIA, who went rogue on the CIA. Castro was CIA, who went rogue on the CIA.
Soros is CIA & MI6.
Bush Family is CIA. Clinton Crime Family is CIA, especially the
Clinton Foundation. Obama Family is CIA.
The White House has been CIA for over 25 years.
The FBI is CIA. (obviously, or else the FBI would have shut down the Mafia years ago.
But they don�t do they? Because the CIA and the Mafia are joined at the hip. They
are partners in crime as the JFK assassination clearly demonstrated.
Monsanto is CIA.
The Las Vegas Massacre was CIA. Northern California UNnatural Fires were CIA.
9/11 was CIA/MI6/Mossad. Oklahoma City Bombing was CIA.
Aurora Movie Theater Massacre was CIA. Sandy Hook was CIA��this list too is endless.
Agenda 21 Depopulation Goals are CIA.
When I say CIA, I mean CIA/Deep State controlled.
Insiders call the CIA �The Company�. That makes sense now, doesn�t it?
6 Million people work for the CIA.
CIA/MI6 have their tentacles into EVERYTHING of value, GLOBALLY.
SERCO is CIA � and MI6 � and Mossad.
The CIA sets the AGENDA and Controls the Narrative.
Big Brother is CIA. They are everywhere: in your phone, on your PC, in your TV, in your
car, in your fridge, your smart meters, and in all surveillance cameras and spying devices
which are now everywhere. Even if these items are turned off, and you don�t pay the bill
and shut down services, they can still turn it on whenever they want to and listen and
watch you.
That was step one for total control. Next is step 2:
Agenda 21, Big Brother (CIA) wants you dead, either through deadly vaccines that injest
you with cancer and then cancer treatments that don�t work.
Agenda 21/Big Brother/Deep State/ CIA wants to decrease the global population through
disease, wars, pestilence, famine, weather modification (droughts and deluges, mudslides
and floods, earthquakes and volcanoes, massive hurricanes, ice storms, blizzards, tsunamis,
sink holes, you name it).
And, of course, through the promotion of rampant homosexuality (homos can�t reproduce).
Christian Western Civilization is being destroyed on purpose by importing Islam which never
assimilates and only brings division and civil wars. Just ask Gandhi. It got so bad in India,
they had to divide their land, and all Hindus and Christians staying in India, and the Muslims
went to Pakistan��.because militant Islam (Wahhabis) NEVER lives peacefully with anyone
else. So you have to ask, why is the CIA/Deep State flooding the USA with Muslims? To promote
Peace? No, to promote DIVISION and CONFLICT.
These are just some of the TRUTHS the CIA/Deep State does NOT want you to know about, and
that is why they HAVE TO CONTROL all media: TV, radio, newsprint, and now they are going
after the Internet with censorship.
You are supposed to remain in the dark, dumbed down, and swallow hook, line and sinker whatever
Big Brother CIA spoon feeds you from TV, radio, newsprint�.and the Internet. Everything
else if �fake news�, remember?
What has upset the status quo is a groundswell of truth getting out via the Internet and
Alternative Radio, YouTube and Instagram. A tipping point was reached last year, and
in spite of MASSIVE Vote Rigging on all levels, Trump still WON!. Trump is NOT CIA, thus the
nonstop smears from Mainstream Media!
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Secretary Tillerson Delivers Remarks on the U.S.-European Relationship - Duration: 51:28.
SECRETARY TILLERSON: Well, good morning, and thank you, Jane, for that very kind introduction,
and also thanks to the Wilson Center for this opportunity to address you today.
The Wilson Center has made many important contributions to public policy over the years,
and therefore it's a very fitting venue for our discussion today on Europe, considering
that 100 years ago this year the United States entered World War I under the leadership of
President Wilson.
While we tend to associate Wilson with spearheading America's first major involvement in European
affairs, I think it's worth remembering that our commitment to Europe was earlier
championed by a predecessor of his, Theodore Roosevelt.
When Roosevelt died in 1919, just as Wilson was striving for peace in Europe, European
leaders joined the American people in an outpouring of grief and praise.
British Prime Minister David Lloyd George remembered him as an "inspiring figure far
beyond the country's shores."
Another British politician said he had been "the greatest of all Americans in a moment
of dire stress."
And a French senator said he had been "the apostle of the cause of right on the other
side of the Atlantic."
President Roosevelt was beloved in Europe because of his vigorous commitment to the
continent in the years before and during World War I.
While President Wilson steadfastly adhered to a neutrality policy, Roosevelt felt a responsibility
to come to Europe's defense.
It was reported he even once asked President Wilson for permission to personally lead an
Army division into Europe, and he had even written to a British army officer, saying,
"If we had done what we ought to have done after the sinking of the Lusitania, I and
my four boys would now be in the Army getting ready to serve with you in Flanders."
What motivated Theodore Roosevelt's rejection of neutrality and an ardent commitment to
the defense of Europe?
We can see the answer in something Roosevelt told the U.S. Congress in 1904, and I quote,
"A great free people owes it to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness
before the powers of evil."
Roosevelt knew that the defense of freedom demanded action from free nations, confident
in their strength and protective of their sovereignty.
Roosevelt also knew that the United States and Europe, then as we are now, are bound
by shared principles.
Our nations live according to a self-evident truth on which Western civilization is built:
Liberty, equality, and human dignity.
These foundational principles are protected by the construct of our institutions dedicated
to the rule of law, separation of powers, and representative government.
Our principles are also protected from external threats by our collective determination, action,
and sacrifice in the face of security challenges.
World War I was the first great test in the 20th century of whether the United States
would pay the high cost of liberty.
Theodore Roosevelt never participated in that war, but he did pay that high cost: His son
Quentin, a fighter pilot, was killed in the skies over France.
In past decades, our way of life – and by extension, our core Western principles – have
been tested by the totalitarian threat of Nazism, by Soviet power and its communist
ideology, by ethnic and sectarian conflicts, and by internal political pressures.
Together, the U.S. and Europe have passed these tests, but we know that the United States
and Europe are again tested today and we will be tested again.
Under President Trump, the United States remains committed to our enduring relationship with
Europe.
Our security commitments to European allies are ironclad.
If we are to sustain the shared security commitments that ensure stability in the region, the Trump
administration views it as necessary for our allies to be strong, sovereign, prosperous,
and committed to the defense of shared Western ideals.
Over the past 10 months, we have embarked on a new strategic policy that bolsters European
and American security: namely, a recommitment to Europe in the wake of the failed "Russia
reset;" a new effort to adapt security institutions to combating emerging threats like terrorism,
cyberattacks, and nuclear proliferation; and an expectation that European nations accept
they are more secure when they contribute more toward their own defense.
These new policy directions will better position the United States and Europe to confront the
challenges that threaten our prosperity, the actors that seek to sow chaos and instill
doubt in our laws and institutions, and the enemies that threaten our security and oppose
our way of life.
This is a message I will repeat in my meetings with NATO and OSCE leaders, and in bilateral
meetings in a trip to Europe next week.
The preservation of our liberty begins with guaranteeing that our people can live in safety.
To that end, the United States places the highest importance on security relationships
with European allies, including NATO.
Alliances are meaningless if their members are unwilling or unable to honor their commitments.
Earlier this year, President Trump reaffirmed the United States commitment to Article 5
of the NATO treaty because it is the best mechanism we have to deter aggression.
And as the text of Article 5 reads, "The Parties agree that an armed attack against
one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them
all."
Any attack by any actor on a NATO member-state will trigger Article 5, and the United States
will be the first to honor the commitment we have made.
We will never forget how NATO members came quickly to stand with us after the September
11th attack, and we will do the same for them if they are attacked.
While the West continues to seek a productive new relationship with post-Soviet Russia,
thus far it has proved elusive, as both attempts by the prior administration to reset the Russia
and U.S.-Europe relationships have been followed by Russia invading its neighbor Georgia in
2008 and Ukraine in 2014.
Russia continues aggressive behavior toward other regional neighbors by interfering in
election processes and promoting non-democratic ideals.
We, together with our friends in Europe, recognize the active threat of a recently resurgent
Russia.
That is why the United States has strengthened its deterrence and defense commitments in
Europe through the European Deterrence Initiative, or EDI.
Earlier this year, the administration requested $4.8 billion in its budget towards the EDI.
This increase of $1.4 billion over the previous year will enhance the U.S. military's deterrence
and defense capabilities and improve the readiness of our forces in Europe.
The EDI facilitates training and exercises with our European allies and partners to better
integrate our militaries and provide security for Europe.
And it will bolster the capacities of our Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps to
deploy assets and support NATO joint exercises.
In view of Russia's Zapad military exercises conducted near the borders of Baltic States
in September, our ability to respond to an attack in concert with our allies is more
important than ever.
The EDI also includes $150 million to help Ukraine build its capacity for defending its
territorial integrity.
The United States recognizes that the war in Ukraine – in which people are still dying
every day – must come to an end.
We have repeatedly urged Russia to begin the path to peace by honoring its commitments
under the Minsk agreements.
Any resolution of the war that does not entail a fully independent, sovereign, and territorially
whole Ukraine is unacceptable.
Russia chose to violate the sovereignty of the largest country in Europe.
The United States and Europe have stood shoulder-to-shoulder since 2014 in confronting this Russian aggression
with a coordinated sanctions policy.
Our transatlantic unity is meant to convey to the Russian Government that we will not
stand for this flagrant violation of international norms.
We hope Russia will take steps to restore Ukraine's full sovereignty and territorial
integrity and fully implement its Minsk commitments, allowing us to begin then the process of restoring
normal relations.
But let me be clear, Minsk-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia reverses
the actions that triggered them.
We are committed to the success of an independent and whole Ukraine.
However, Ukraine's future depends also on winning its internal struggle to implement
a broad range of economic, justice, security, and social sector reforms.
We encourage Ukraine to continue building capable, trustworthy institutions that will
reduce and eventually eliminate corruption, strengthen their judicial system, and deliver
economic prosperity to their citizens.
The Ukraine crisis also made clear how energy supplies can be wielded as a political weapon.
Enhancing European energy security by ensuring access to affordable, reliable, diverse, and
secure supplies of energy is fundamental to national security objectives.
The United States is liberalizing rules governing the export of liquefied natural gas and U.S.-produced
crude, and we're eager to work with European allies to ensure the development of needed
infrastructure like import terminals and interconnecting pipelines to promote the diversity of supply
to Europe.
In July, President Trump announced at the Three Seas Summit that the United States will
provide technical support for Croatia's Krk Island project.
The United States will continue to support European infrastructure projects, such as
LNG-receiving facilities in Poland and the Interconnector Greece Bulgaria pipeline, to
ensure that no country from outside Europe's Energy Union can use its resources or its
position in the global energy market to extort other nations.
We continue to view the development of pipelines like the Nord Stream 2 and the multiline TurkStream
as unwise, as they only increase market dominance from a single supplier to Europe.
The United States recognizes the fragility of the Balkans and will continue to work with
partners in the EU to bring stability, prosperity, and democracy to the region.
The people of the Balkan countries, to them we say: Abandon your old animosities so that
peace may become permanent.
You have a chance to direct a new course of history.
Bloodlines should no longer be battle lines.
The United States and the world long to see a new generation of Serbs, Croatians, Albanians,
Bosnians, Kosovars, and others who will forgive the past, even if they can never forget it.
A testament to America's shared values with Europe is our cooperation on issues beyond
the borders of Europe, which affect us all.
The United States and our European allies have partnered to hold Bashar al-Assad accountable
through sanctions for his crimes against his own people.
Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, the EU and its member states have pledged
over 9.5 billion Euros in humanitarian, stabilization, resilience assistance, and those efforts are
continuing as the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS stabilizes liberated areas.
As the last pockets of ISIS are defeated in Syria and international focus turns to resolving
the Syrian civil conflict, our European partners must continue to be strong advocates for the
UN-led Geneva process under UN Security Council Resolution 2254.
That alone can be the basis for rebuilding the country and implementing a political solution
that leaves no role for the Assad regime or his family in Syria's government.
Our European partners have also been strong supporters of our diplomatic and economic
pressure campaign against North Korea.
In addition to enthusiastically supporting UN Security Council resolutions, countries
have taken unilateral steps to maximize pressure on the regime in Pyongyang.
Portugal froze all diplomatic relations with the DPRK in July.
Spain and Italy have expelled North Korean ambassadors.
Latvia has fined banks who have violated the sanctions.
Our European allies know North Korea is a threat to all responsible nations and requires
a coordinated response.
We commend our allies for increasing pressure on the regime in Pyongyang in order to achieve
the complete, permanent, and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The partnership that the United States and European nations have forged are critical
– are a critical basis for confronting the threats of today and tomorrow, both in Europe
and outside of Europe.
The United States and Europe face many challenges and threats that – unlike in the past – are
simultaneously dispersed among many geographic frontlines and across multiple domains, whether
non-state terrorist actors, threats of a more conventional nature, cyber threats, or nuclear
threats.
Because we know we are stronger in confronting these challenges when we are working together,
we will pursue even greater cooperation from and with the nations of Europe, our best partners.
History has shown that when we are united, we succeed in the face of shared challenges.
As I remarked earlier, one of these challenges is Russia.
Europe and the United States seek a normalized relationship with Russia.
However, Russia has shown it seeks to define a new post-Soviet global balance of power,
one in which Russia, by virtue of its nuclear arsenal, seeks to impose its will on others
by force or by partnering with regimes who show a disregard for their own citizens, as
is the case with Bashar al-Assad's continuous use of chemical weapons against his own people.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union liberalized Russian society and created new trade opportunities
that benefit Russians, Europeans, and Americans.
But Russia has often employed malicious tactics against the U.S. and Europe to drive us apart,
weaken our confidence, and undermine the political and economic successes that we have achieved
together since the end of the Cold War.
Playing politics with energy supplies, launching cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns
to undermine free elections, and serially harassing and intimidating diplomats are not
the behaviors of a responsible nation.
Attacking a neighboring country and threatening others does nothing to improve the lives of
Russians or enhance Russia's standing in the world.
We want Russia to be a constructive neighbor of Europe and of the larger transatlantic
community.
But that is Russia's choice to make.
Russia can continue to isolate and impoverish itself by sowing disorder abroad and impeding
liberty at home, or it can become a force that will advance the freedom of Russians
and the stability of Eurasia.
Following the President's recent decision regarding our policy toward Iran, there is
actually much more that binds the United States and Europe together than drives us apart.
The JCPOA is no longer the only point of U.S. policy toward Iran; we are committed to addressing
the totality of the Iranian threat.
We ask our European partners to join us in standing up to all of Iran's malign behavior.
The Iranian regime is antithetical to Western principles in its totalitarian suppression
of individual, political, and religious freedom.
Neither the United States nor Europe wants another type of North Korea nuclear threat
on its hands, nor are any of our nations at ease with Iran's attempts at hegemony in
the Middle East through support for terrorist organizations, militias on the ground in Iraq
and Syria, and an active ballistic missile development program.
At Europe's intersection in the region, we know Turkey cannot ignore Iran because
of geographic proximity and cultural ties.
But we ask Turkey, as a NATO ally, to prioritize the common defense of its treaty allies.
Iran – and Russia – cannot offer Turkish people the economic and political benefits
that membership in the Western community of nations can provide.
We recognize the important contributions of our NATO allies that have been made in Afghanistan,
and we ask them to maintain their commitment to the mission.
The end state of the United States' new South Asia strategy is to destroy terrorist
safe havens and deny their re-establishment while the Afghan Government continues to strengthen
its own capacity to maintain security and create the conditions for reconciliation with
the Taliban and an inclusive government that accounts for the ethnic diversity of all Afghans.
We know this will take time.
But if we fail to exercise vigilance and undertake action against the terrorist threat, wherever
it is found, we risk re-creating the safe havens from which the 9/11 plot was hatched
and carried out.
We urge proportionate contributions of troops, funds, and other forms of assistance as we
seek to eradicate a terrorist threat that will not be confined to the place where it
was born.
NATO's Resolute Support mission is essential to our shared goal of ensuring that Afghanistan
develops the capability to contribute to regional stability and prevail over terrorist threats,
including al-Qaida and ISIS.
Even though ISIS is on the brink of complete extinction in Iraq and Syria, the threat of
ISIS and associated terror networks will persist in our own country and in others.
ISIS is looking for new footholds wherever they can find them, including the Sahel region
of West Africa.
We must take action so that areas like the Sahel or the Maghreb do not become the next
breeding ground for ISIS, al-Qaida, or other terrorist groups.
When these groups are able to occupy territory without disruption, their strategists, their
bomb makers, and online propagandists have an easier time encouraging, plotting, and
executing attacks elsewhere in the world.
This was for many months the case in Raqqa.
In support of our African and European partners, particularly France, the United States recently
committed up to $60 million to assist the G5 Sahel Joint Force to combat terrorism and
the potential rise of ISIS in the African Sahel region.
The emergence of ISIS in the Sahel is just one indication that threats to the safety
and well-being of our people will continue to have new and unexpected origins.
The evolving and unpredictable nature of the threats we face is already clear to the residents
of Paris, Brussels, Orlando, Nice, Berlin, Istanbul, London, Manchester, Barcelona, New
York, and many other places where our people have suffered at the hands of Islamist terrorists,
many of whom were radicalized in front of a computer screen inside their own homes inside
their own countries.
And the threats we face are clear to countries like Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Germany, who
have confronted the destabilizing impact of waves of irregular migration from North Africa
and the Middle East.
In the darkest hour of World War II, Winston Churchill declared that the British people
would fight on the fields, in the beaches, and in the streets to protect their country.
Today, our fight is increasingly located on the internet, at passport checkpoints, and
in the hearts and minds of young people in Europe and around the globe.
European security institutions, including NATO, must be properly adapted to address
internal and external threats such as radical Islamic terrorism to address cyberattacks
and to address unchecked migration.
Though we know these are the threats of the future, too many headlines have already declared
these are the threats of today.
New threats to the United States and Europe are long-term, unpredictable in timing, and
localized in many different places.
Properly anticipating and combating these threats require a greater European commitment
to security, because local responders are the most effective deterrent.
While the United States will continue to maintain our guarantees against a catastrophic failure
of security in the region, and will continue to expend resources to maintain our protective
umbrella, the nations of Europe must accept greater responsibility for their own security
challenges.
Our alliances must be made stronger in the current strategic environment; a lack of diligence
and duty will only invite greater risk.
President Trump said in Warsaw, and I quote, "We have to remember that our defense is
not just a commitment of money, it's a commitment of will."
Our expenditures are in some ways a reflection of how much we seek to protect peace and freedom.
We once again urge European partners who have not done so already to meet the 2 percent
of GDP target for defense spending.
This year, Albania, Croatia, France, Hungary, and Romania have newly committed to attaining
the 2 percent benchmark.
These nations know they must invest in security to preserve liberty.
Every NATO member has previously agreed to the Wales Pledge on Defense Investment.
It's time for each of us to honor that agreement.
We also urge greater security integration, provided that the relationships are efficient
and serve shared interest.
These commitments are necessary because our freedom and security is at stake.
The United States and all nations of Europe – especially those who once lived under
the weight of communist dictatorships – value our freedoms as nations who can act on our
own authority.
If we do not exercise responsibility, we will not have sovereignty; and if we do not have
sovereignty, we will not have freedom.
Maintaining sovereignty also entails cultivating the virtues that make it possible.
Free nations must exercise vigilant protection of civil societies and the groups, families,
and individuals that compose them.
Rule of law and representative governments are empty shells when detached from a vibrant
civil society and a deep respect for certain self-evident truths.
We can win every great geopolitical struggle, but if we are not perennially vigilant of
our own behavior, our own people may lose in the long run.
The preservation of Western ideals depends on how willing we are to protect the core
truths upon which our political and economic freedoms are based.
We know the people and leaders of Europe are having many conversations about their future.
America will not attempt to impose answers to those questions.
We recognize that Europe is composed of free nations who, in the great tradition of Western
democracy, must be able to choose their own paths forward.
As in the past, the United States is committed to working with Europe's institutional arms,
and while we also recognize that our allies are independent and democratic nations with
their own history, perspective, and right to determine their future.
This position has a particular relevance for what is transpiring in the UK over the Brexit.
The United States will maintain our longstanding special relationship with the United Kingdom,
and at the same time maintain a strong relationship with the EU, regardless of the outcome of
Brexit.
We will not attempt to influence the negotiations, but we urge the EU and UK to move this process
forward swiftly and without unnecessary acrimony.
We offer an impartial hand of friendship to both parties.
The next chapter of European history must be written in Europe's own words.
As I mentioned at the beginning, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of America's entry
into World War I.
But this November also marks the centennial of another event in world history: the beginning
of the Russian Revolution.
Though the Soviet Union collapsed 26 years ago, a few symbols and phrases associated
with decades of Soviet rule endure in the English language: the Gulag, the five-year
plan, the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall.
These few words, almost universally understood, capture the bitter and brutal history of communist
rule in Europe and Russia.
And they remind us of what can happen if we fail to defend the core principles of liberty
and sovereignty in the Western tradition.
In our time, forces like authoritarian nation-states, radical Islamist terrorists, and hackers with
a lust for chaos are attempting to erode our principles of freedom, equality, human dignity,
the rule of law, and representative government.
We cannot fail to take on the sovereign responsibility of protecting those freedoms.
As Theodore Roosevelt also said, "Every nation, whether in America or anywhere else,
which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that
the right of such independence cannot be separated from the responsibility of making good use
of it."
Aware of this responsibility, the U.S. will remain firmly committed to peace, stability
and prosperity, and liberty for Europe.
As we reflect on how our ties with Europe have endured over the past 100 years, the
United States stands by our European allies and partners, so that our free societies will
be standing strong together another 100 years from now.
Thank you.
(Applause.)
MS HARMAN: Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for a speech that I think is worthy of many of the
leaders you cited – Woodrow Wilson, who served us as president a hundred years ago;
Theodore Roosevelt; Franklin Roosevelt; Winston Churchill.
You linked all parts of the world, and that is why we honor people like you with our public
and business awards over the years.
So let me focus just a bit more on Europe since that was your topic and you're going
to Europe next week.
Bob Dickie and I were recently at NATO visiting with our extremely able ambassador, Kay Bailey
Hutchison, and she convened a lunch of eight foreign ambassadors to NATO.
And what came through is – to me, is a view they have that this is a zero-sum game.
As the United States focuses on problems around the world like – urgent problems, and you
cited many of them – like North Korea and Iran, it will pay less attention to Europe.
I thought that your speech made the point that this is not a zero-sum game, that if
a strong Europe stands with us, we are stronger together to face the tough problems around
the world that are also developing blowback to Europe.
And am I right?
Is that – was that the elevator pitch?
SECRETARY TILLERSON: Well, that – yeah, that is the message that I'll be taking
next week, that just as the last 100 years I think have proven, we view the current times
we're in similarly, that the United States cannot alone confront all of these threats.
They are so widespread, and they are also so interconnected.
You can pick any one of the threats that I went through and you will find points of connection
between every one of them, in some form or fashion, whether it's a Russian involvement,
a China involvement, an Iranian involvement, Islamist terrorism involvement.
But we are confronted with a particularly complex time in our world of dealing with
threats to our civil society.
And we're only going to prevail against those threats with continuing to use our allies,
the strength of our allies.
And one of the things the United States is blessed in our foreign policy and in our national
security posture is we have many, many allies, many allies, all over the world, and those
alliances were forged in shared blood and shared sacrifice, unlike many of our adversaries
who can count their allies on less than all the fingers on one hand, because they didn't
forge those alliances through those shared sacrifices, nor are they forged through shared
ideals.
So I think what we're recognizing and promoting is the strength of these historic alliances,
which I think over some period of time, perhaps since the end of the Cold War, we lost our
way a bit in some of these relationships, maybe a view in particular in Europe that
with the end of the Cold War, the imminent threat that everyone faced for that 70-year
period was now diminishing, and what we now realize is it didn't.
It didn't diminish.
It's still defining itself; it's still searching for its role in the name of Russia.
But these threats that are emanating out of the Middle East, which now have brought themselves
right to the shores and to the borders of our European allies, whether it be through
the mass migration but also with the mass migration comes the transport of those who
would kill others and sacrifice themselves in doing it, that these are threats that we
can only confront with a very strong network of the alliances.
And so it is really – in some respects, it's a recommitment, but it's also a redefinition
of what this alliance means.
And I think the message President Trump carried early on when he went to Europe – and received
a lot of criticism for it – was to demand of our allies that you care as much about
your freedom and you care as much about the security of your people as we care about you.
And when you looked at the commitments that the U.S. – the sacrifice that the U.S. makes
in terms of not just the taxpayers' dollars but our own men and women in uniform, the
commitment we made seemed to be a little out of balance.
And I think the President was just sending the message that we're committed to this
alliance.
You have to get committed – you need to get as committed to it as we are.
And I think what I've heard in my – and I've had a lot of dialogue with European
counterparts – that message has resonated.
And we're seeing it in the commitments to NATO, commitments to defense spending, a recommitment
of personnel.
And this is really what was needed at this time, where we are under these enormous threats,
and we have to strengthen the alliances; we have to strengthen NATO's capability to
deal with what are now new and changing threats.
And that was really the purpose of the President's message early in his presidency, which we've
now followed through on in crafting these stronger relationships.
We have more work to do, but I think our message to Europe is nothing has changed in terms
of our commitment to you.
Nothing from that time we made that decision 100 years ago to enter World War I in your
defense – nothing has changed fundamentally.
The same values that bind us are still there.
MS HARMAN: Thank you.
SECRETARY TILLERSON: Let's keep that strong.
MS HARMAN: Mindful of your time, I just want to get in a few questions about other topics,
including questions from the audience.
But I would note that an interesting point you made in your talk was about Turkey, that
Turkey now has a choice: It can become more connected to Europe, which is a huge advantage,
and to us, or not.
And I heard that loud and clear.
I want to turn to the question of State Department funding and organization, something that many
people are interested in.
Every organization needs renewal.
The Wilson Center needs renewal.
And surely, everyone here, including long-serving Foreign Service officers, think the State
Department needs renewal.
However, questions have arisen about the steep cuts in your budget proposed by the Office
of Management and Budget – that doesn't mean that's what Congress will enact – and
what some claim is a hollowing out of your department.
Most recently today, two valued friends of the Wilson Center, Nick Burns and Ryan Crocker,
both of them enormously experienced Foreign Service officers and ambassadors, wrote a
piece in The New York Times with a lot of information about who's leaving and what
its implications are.
My understanding is there is another side to this story.
And so I would like to ask you to tell your side of this story and give us your vision
for what the State Department should become.
SECRETARY TILLERSON: Well, let me start quickly with the budget, because it's – I think
it's the easier – actually easier question to address.
The budget that the State Department was given in 2016 was a record-high budget – almost
$55 billion.
This was above what traditionally has been a budget that runs kind of the mid-30 billion
level.
And this was ramping up over the last few years, in many respects for some good reasons.
But as we look at that spending level, quite frankly, it's just not sustainable.
It is very difficult to execute a $55 billion budget and execute it well.
That's a lot of spending and deployment of resources, and I take our stewardship of
those dollars very seriously, and I take the congressional oversight obligations on us
very seriously and am not going to brush them aside light handedly.
So part of this was just a reality check: Can we really keep this up?
And the truth of the matter is, it'd be very difficult to keep it up and do it well.
And secondly though, part of this bringing the budget numbers back down is reflective
of an expectation that we're going to have success in some of these conflict areas of
getting these conflicts resolved and moving to a different place in terms of the kind
of support that we have to give them.
So it's a combination of things – that sustainability, a recognition that those numbers
are really the outliers.
The numbers we're moving to are not the outliers; they're more historic in terms
of the levels of spending.
As to the State Department redesign – and I use the word "redesign" because it would
have been really easy to come in on day one and do a reorg.
A "reorg," when I use that word, is moving the boxes around on the org chart.
When I showed up in the State Department, I was stunned when I got the organization
chart out and I had 82 direct reports to the Office of the Secretary, to me – 82.
Now, almost 70 of those are special envoys, special ambassadors, positions that have been
created.
So we immediately undertook an examination of just what's a reasonable way to run the
place, and that isn't it.
Having run a large global organization – and I have been through three major reorganizations
in my history and actually enjoy doing it – it's always focused on how do we help
the people be more effective, how do we get the obstacles out of their way.
So we undertook a different approach, and since I don't know the department and didn't
know its culture, we had a massive listening exercise.
We had 35,000 people respond and we had over 300 face-to-face interviews, and we continue
an active dialogue with people today about what is it – if I could do one thing for
you that would make you more effective and make you – make your work more satisfying,
what would that be.
And we got hundreds of ideas.
We've actually selected about 170 of those ideas that we are now perfecting.
The reason we call it a redesign is most of these have to do with work processes internally
and work processes with inter-agencies that we should be able to improve the way people
get their work done.
Some of it is tools and enablement, so things like – we have a really antiquated IT system.
I was shocked when I went down to spend an afternoon with the A Bureau, and I said, "What's
the one thing I could do?"
And they said, "Get us into the cloud."
And I looked at them.
I said, "What do you mean?
We're not in the cloud?"
And they said, "No, no.
We're still on all these servers."
Well, that's a big cyber risk, first.
But it really made it very cumbersome for people, and when I started using my own computer
I started realizing just how cumbersome it was.
So a lot of the projects that have been identified out of the redesign are process redesigns
and some enablement for people, and it's all directed at allowing the people of the
State Department to get their work done more effectively, more efficiently, and have a
much more satisfying career.
We have a lot of processes in the HR function that have not been updated in decades, and
they need to be updated.
How we put people out on assignment – we invest enormous amounts of money in people
that we deploy to missions overseas, and I was stunned to find out in a lot of the missions
these are one-year assignments.
So we invested all this money; we send them out to the mission.
They're there for one year, and about the time they're starting to figure it out and
have an impact, we take them out and we move them somewhere else.
Well, a lot of people have said to me, "I would really like to stay another year and
start contributing."
So it's a lot of things like that that came out of the listening exercise.
So the – so we have five large teams.
They're all employee-led.
I've brought in some consultants to help us facilitate, but the redesign is all led
by the employees in the State Department.
The issue of the hollowing out – I think all of you appreciate that every time you
have a change of government you have a lot of senior Foreign Service officers and others
who decide they want to move on and do other things.
We've had a – our numbers of retirements are almost exactly what they were in 2016
at this point.
We have the exact same number of Foreign Service officers today – we're off by 10 – that
we had at this time in 2016.
There is a hiring freeze that I've kept in place, because as we redesign the organization
we're probably going to have people that need to be redeployed to other assignments.
I don't want to have a layoff; I don't want to have to fire a bunch of people.
So I said, "Let's manage some of our staffing targets with just normal attrition."
Having said that, I have signed over 2,300 hiring exceptions, because I've told every
post if you have a critical position and you really need that filled, just send it in.
And I think I have out of 2,300 requests I think I've denied eight positions that I
decided we really didn't need.
So we're keeping the organization fully staffed.
We've had over – we're still running our Foreign Service officer school; we've
hired over 300 this year.
So there is no hollowing out.
These numbers that people are throwing around are just false; they're wrong.
There was a story about a 60 percent reduction in career diplomats.
The post career diplomat was created by the Congress in 1955 to recognize an elite few.
The number of career diplomats in the State Department have ranged from as low as one
at any given time to as many as seven.
When I took over the State Department we had six.
Four of those people have retired.
These are your most senior – they were – they reached 65, they retired, they moved on.
We have a review process – we're very selective in replacing those, but we actually
have a review process underway and we're evaluating a handful of people who might be
worthy of that designation.
But we still have two.
But we went from six to two; it was a 60 percent reduction.
It sounded like the sky was falling.
The other comment I would make is while the confirmation process has been excruciatingly
slow for many of our nominees, I have been so proud of the acting assistant secretaries
and people who've stepped into acting under secretary roles.
And when the – I read these articles that there's this hollowing out, I take offense
to that on their behalf because the people that are serving in those roles are doing
extraordinary work, and they know they're not going to get the job permanently.
They already know we have a nominee, but they come in every day, they work hard, they travel
with me around the world, and that's – it's that group of people that have helped me put
in place and helped the President put in place the North Korean strategy with the international
sanctions; a Syrian approach to the peace process that we think we're about to get
on the right track; an approach to negotiating with the Russians on Ukraine; an approach
to the Defeat ISIS campaign; the Iran policy, the South Asia policy in Afghanistan, our
new posture towards Pakistan; the open – free and open Indo – all of that's been done
with the people that are working there today, and I'm very proud.
I'm very proud of what they've done.
They're working hard and I'm offended on their behalf.
I'm offended on their behalf when people say somehow we don't have a State Department
that functions.
But I can tell you it's functioning very well from my perspective.
Have we got more we want to do?
Yes, we got more we want to do.
And my only objective in the organization redesign is to help these people who are – who
have chosen this as a career – because I'll come and go, and there will be other politicals
that will come and go – what can I do to help them?
Because they've decided they want to spend their life doing this and they should be allowed
to do it as effectively and efficiently and without a lot of grief and obstacles.
And if I can remove some of that for them, that's what I want to do.
MS HARMAN: Let me tell you, that message will resonate around the world.
A lot of people wanted to hear that.
Your time is very short.
I just would like to group, briefly, three questions from the audience into one.
Molly Cole who works for Representative Gerry Connolly, and I'm sure was one of our vaunted
stars in our foreign policy programs, asks, "Do you think support for democracy and
human rights abroad is an important part of the State Department's mission?"
That's one.
Matt Rojansky who heads our Kennan Institute – George Kennan literally was a scholar
here at one point – asks, "Where do you think progress with Russia is possible?"
And finally, Mike Sfraga, whom you met, who heads our Polar Initiative, asks, "In light
of the increased interest and activity in the Arctic, is the Arctic and Alaska of strategic
importance to the United States and to its European Arctic allies?"
SECRETARY TILLERSON: Well, as to human rights and human dignity, of course they are priorities.
What I have said about those elements of our foreign policy is those are values, and those
are values that are enduring and they never change.
Now, when you're constructing foreign policy and strategies and approaches, you have to
prioritize, and you can't de-prioritize human rights.
It's with you, it's part of every policy decision you make.
The question is how do you want to affect it?
And if you make – if you say, well, it's a priority, priorities can change.
Well, this can never change.
This is enduring and it's a part of every foreign policy construct that we develop.
What I would say is that – but if you're dealing with a place like Syria or Iraq was
in under ISIS occupation, the most important thing was saving people's lives.
How can we keep people from getting killed?
Because the ultimate human right is the right to live.
The right to live first.
If I can live, then I can begin to take care of my family, then I can begin to fight for
my human rights, then I can begin to fight for my human – but if I'm being killed
every day, I'm being bombed, I'm being gassed – our priority was save lives.
So we want to save lives first, and if we do that, we stabilize areas and then we can
start creating the conditions to ensure people's human rights and dignity are respected.
With respect to Russia, there are areas of mutual cooperation.
We're working hard in Syria to defeat ISIS and we are on the cusp of having ISIS once
and for all defeated in Syria.
We got work yet to do.
We are working together with Russia on how to prevent the civil war from re-erupting,
and so we've had a lot of conversations over what does Russia see as the end state
of Syria, what do we see as the end state, and there's a lot of commonality there.
Tactically, how we get to those to peace talks, we're working very closely with one another
on.
We have our ups and downs.
If you saw – I think it was a very important joint statement was issued by President Trump
and President Putin from Da Nang, Vietnam on the margins of the APEC meeting.
That was an important alignment of how we see the Syria peace process going forward,
and it was an important statement to have Russia confirm that they see it the same way
we do.
We'll use that and we'll build on it.
I think there are other areas of counterterrorism.
Russia has great fear of migration out of the Central Asian regions and terrorism inside
of Russia.
We think there's areas of greater cooperation on counterterrorism with Russia.
There may be opportunities for cooperation in Afghanistan.
We've not yet come to what that might be, but we're talking about it.
In Ukraine, what I've said to the Russians is we're never going to get this relationship
back to normal until we solve Ukraine.
It just sits there as an enduring obstacle, and we've got to address it.
So, as you know, I appointed a special representative, former ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker, to
focus on nothing but working with his Russian counterpart which Putin appointed to see if
we can find a way forward – not marginalizing the Normandy process, but working with it
to see if we can break the logjam.
We've had some very substantive discussions.
We're pursuing the possibility of a peacekeeping force in Ukraine to stop the ongoing – every
day people are killed, civilians are killed.
We want to stop that first and save the lives first, and then let's start working toward
the process.
So there are many areas of cooperation with Russia, and they have many others they'd
like to work with us on.
We just don't think it's time to do that.
Now, with respect to the Arctic, the Arctic is going – is important today.
It's going to be increasingly important in the future, particularly as those waterways
have opened up.
What I can tell you is the United States is behind.
We're behind all the other Arctic nations.
They are – they have dealt with this.
They've gotten way ahead of us.
The Russians made it a strategic priority.
Even the Chinese are building icebreaking tankers.
Now, why are they building icebreakers?
They're not an Arctic nation.
Because they see the value of these passages.
So we're late to the game.
I think we have one functioning icebreaker today.
The Coast Guard's very proud of it – (laughter) – as crummy as it is.
MS HARMAN: Yeah.
Yeah.
SECRETARY TILLERSON: And I know in the budget – there is money in the budget for us to
-- MS HARMAN: For one more.
SECRETARY TILLERSON: -- to make – to build another icebreaker.
But the whole Arctic region, because of what's happened with the opening of the Arctic passageways
from an economic and trade standpoint, but certainly from a national security standpoint,
is vitally important to our interest.
And so our engagement through not just the Arctic Council but through other mechanisms
is important to working with the Arctic countries on international norms, what are the rules
of the game going to be, because these are areas that have not been addressed in the
past, so very important.
MS HARMAN: So time is up.
I was going to ask you what you want your legacy to be, but listening to you, I don't
know that that question can be answered yet.
You're all over the world, you're focused deeply on the tough questions.
You're headed to Europe next week.
You have to come back and answer all the other questions we couldn't ask today.
(Laughter.)
Was that a yes?
SECRETARY TILLERSON: Yes, I'll be back.
(Laughter.)
MS HARMAN: Thank you, Mr. Secretary
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Interview with Col. Kathleen Turner of the U.S. Army Europe - Duration: 1:34.
so US Army Europe has been here in Europe for more than 75 years and and we
are here as invited guests of Germany our host our host nation as well as
Italy and now Poland we're here to maintain security and stability here on
the continent we are as a member of the Alliance the greatest alliance in
history NATO and you know we don't do anything alone
you know we operate side-by-side with our allies and partners every day and
and that's important to us we're invited guests and we truly appreciate being
here in the country
with the troop movements that have increased over the last couple years
especially this year in Eastern East Germany we we don't do that on our own
we coordinate all of our movements through host nation whether that's here
in Germany with the Bundeswehr or the Landes Commandes with the embassy with
the consulates or for operating in Poland or Romania or another country
here in Europe we always make sure that proper clearances are done that we are
escorted by the police by the polizei and that everything is coordinated so
that the communities the the towns the people within the towns know it's coming
and are not surprised because we are guests we are invited guests here in
Germany and here in Europe and we want to make sure that we comply with all the
local regulations and policies that are here
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Regions of the United States Digital Story - Duration: 4:00.
The US can be categorized into four different geographic regions.
These four regions are the Northeast, the Southeast, the Great Plains, the Southwest,
and the Pacific Northwest.
Each region can be described by its climate and physical geography.
First, we are going to discuss the Northeast region of the United States.
This region includes Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire,
Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
The climate in this region is a humid, continental climate.
In the northernmost areas, the summers are cool.
In the winter, temperatures are frequently below freezing, and snow is common.
Physical geography in this region includes the Appalachian Mountains.
The region borders the Atlantic Ocean to the East and Canada to the North.
The population of this region is 63 million people.
Next, let's talk about the Southeast region of the United States.
This region includes West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Florida.
The climate in this region is a humid subtropical climate.
The summers are hot.
Hurricanes and tropical storms can be common during the summer and fall months.
This region borders the Gulf of Mexico to the south.
A notable geographic feature is the Mississippi River.
Like the Northeast, this region also contains parts of the Appalachian Mountains, and borders
the Atlantic ocean to the East.
The population of this region is 82 million.
Moving Westward, we reach the Great Plains region of the United States.
This region includes Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota.
There is a humid continental climate in this region.
Snow is common in the winter, especially in the northern areas.
The Great Lakes are in this region, as well as the great plains.
The Mississippi River also flows through this part of the US.
The region borders Canada to the North.
The population of the Great Plains region is 67 million.
Next is the Southwest region.
This region includes Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona.
This region has an interesting climate, with a semiarid steppe climate in the West and
a humid climate to the East.
Some areas could even be called alpine or desert.
Physical features of this region are the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River, and the Grand
Canyon.
The region borders the Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico itself to the South.
The population of this region is 40 million.
Finally, we have reached the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
This region includes Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and
California.
Some would also include Alaska and Hawaii in this category.
This region is large, and therefore the climate varies greatly.
Climates in this region include semiarid, alpine, mediterranean along California's
coast, and desert in Nevada and southern California.
Physical features of this region are the Mojave Desert and the Rocky Mountains.
The region borders the Pacific Ocean to the West, Canada to the North, and Mexico to the
South.
The population of this region is 67 million people.
The US is a large country, and there are many different characteristics of the regions within
it.
Can you think of some similarities and differences between the Southeast, Northeast, Great Plains,
Southwest, and Pacific Northwest regions of the US?
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The United Nations Security Council has called a meeting for Wednesday to address the missile
launch.
The U.S., Japan and China have already condemned the North's latest provocation... as a threat
to peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Song Ji-sun has more on the global reaction.
Washington is taking the situation very seriously,... but U.S. President Trump is certain he has
the situation under control.
(English) "A missile was launched a little while ago
from North Korea.
I will only tell you that we will take care of it.
We have General Mattis in the room with us and we've had a long discussion on it.
It is a situation that we will handle."
But the U.S. is also keeping the door for talks open... as Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson,
added that "diplomatic options remain viable and open, for now" and that "the U.S. remains
committed to finding a peaceful path to denuclearization" in a statement.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the latest provocation a "violent act" that
can "never be tolerated."
(Japanese) "Japan will not back down in the face of provocation
but will maximize pressure on North Korea.
We will continue to protect the lives and livelihoods of the people of Japan under the
strong Japan-U.S. alliance."
Beijing also condemned Pyongyang's violation of international resolutions banning ballistic
missile launches.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang urged Pyongyang to stop actions that
accelerate tension on the Korean peninsula... and asked all concerned nations to act carefully
for the sake of keeping peace in the region.
Upon the request of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan, the UN Security Council will hold
an urgent meeting in New York on Wednesday to address Pyongyang's latest ICBM launch.
Song Ji-sun, Arirang News.
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US Police Secretly Tracking Citizens Using Illegal Military Devices - Duration: 2:21.
Dozens of police departments across the US are secretly using military devices to track
innocent Americans on the streets without warrants.
The International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers mimic cell phone towers.
They trick phones into routing signals through them, allowing police to track a suspect's
location.
Rt.com reports: The machines even allow police to get the location of a phone without the
user making a call or sending a text.
The most common of these devices is called a "StingRay."
Such devices can also collect the phone numbers a person has been calling and texting and
even intercept the content of communications.
At least 72 state and local law enforcement departments in 24 states and 13 federal agencies
use the devices, according to a new report from AP.
The report notes that further details are hard to come by because the departments that
use IMSI catchers must take the unusual step of signing non-disclosure agreements overseen
by the FBI.
An FBI spokeswoman told the news agency that the agreements, which regularly involve the
defense contractor that makes the machines, are intended to prevent the release of sensitive
law enforcement information to the general public.
Last year, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a report that found
the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security had spent a combined
$95 million on 434 cell-site simulators between 2010 and 2014.
Civil liberties unions such as the NYCLU say the devices are extremely invasive because
they operate in such a wide range, around two city blocks, that they don't just grab
up the target's data but also information from other people in the area.
Law enforcement agencies have also gone to great lengths to conceal StingRay usage, in
some instances even offering plea deals rather than divulging details on the machine.
In several states, courts are beginning to grapple with the issue.
Earlier this month, a Brooklyn judge ruled that the police need an eavesdropping warrant
to use a StingRay.
In September, a federal court ruled use of the device without a warrant violated the
US Constitution, specifically the Fourth Amendment.
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Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Rise by Most Since Mid-2014 - Duration: 2:16.
Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Rise by Most Since Mid-2014
Home prices in 20 U.S.
cities rose in September by the most in more than three years, indicating resilient demand at a time of persistently scarce inventory, according to S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller data released Tuesday.
The residential real-estate market is benefiting from steady demand backed by a strong job market and low mortgage rates.
The ongoing scarcity of available houses on the market, especially previously-owned dwellings, is likely to keep driving up prices.
Eight cities have surpassed their peaks from before the financial crisis, according to the report.
In the past few years, growth in property values has been consistently outpacing wage gains, crimping affordability for younger, first-time buyers.
That could eventually become a headwind to faster price appreciation.
For now, though, rising property values are also helping to boost home equity and support consumer spending, the biggest part of the economy.
"Most economic indicators suggest that home prices can see further gains," David Blitzer, chairman of the S&P index committee, said in a statement.
"One dark cloud for housing is affordability -- rising prices mean that some people will be squeezed out of the market.".
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