About to Go Down?: All 100 Senators to Attend N. Korea Breifing at WH

[jllundqu]

$#@! is about to get real... at least there is a higher than normal possibility of massive escalation.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/ar...korea-briefing

All 100 Senators Invited to White House for North Korea Briefing

Top Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing on Wednesday at the White House for the entire U.S. Senate on the situation in North Korea, senior Senate aides said on Monday.


All 100 senators have been asked to the White House for the briefing by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the aides said.


While top administration officials routinely travel to Capitol Hill to address members of Congress on foreign policy and national security matters, it is unusual for the entire 100-member Senate to go to such an event at the White House, and for those four top officials to be involved.


U.S. officials have expressed mounting concern over North Korea's nuclear and missile tests, and its threats to attack the United States and its Asian allies.


President Donald Trump criticized North Korea's "continued belligerence" and said its actions were destabilizing during a telephone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday, the White House said.



The briefing will take place at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT).

Carriers and Strike Groups headed there....
No moon that night, perfect for bombing runs...
Kim Jung Un is so unstable he could crack at any moment and start a shooting war...
Japan has bought up every water filter and nuclear fallout shelter on the market...


When the President summons the entire Senate for a military briefing... nothing good follows.

[jllundqu]

Oh yeah..... it's also 'coincidentally' happening at the same time as Operation Gotham Shield:

Operation Gotham Shield: U.S. Gov't To "Simulate Nuke Blast Over Manhattan"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...tual-war-looms

[Origanalist]

Damn

[Jan2017]

Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing

"House aides said they were working with the White House to set a similar briefing for members of the House of Representatives."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-no...-idUSKBN17Q1LR

[jllundqu]

#MAGA ?

[jllundqu]

Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing

"House aides said they were working with the White House to set a similar briefing for members of the House of Representatives."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-no...-idUSKBN17Q1LR

Makes sense (in the Trumpian way) to not just call a Joint Session of Congress... he needs his pit bulls and generals to do the talking.

[opal]

Simple just isn't in that man's thought process.. would have been much easier to load 4 or 5 guys in a van/limo and go to the senate, no?

[dannno]

[jllundqu]

If this is a prelude to military action, which it may or may not be, I give trump credit for at least bringing in the Senate to keep them informed and perhaps ask for declaration/authorization etc.

[Jan2017]

Makes sense (in the Trumpian way) to not just call a Joint Session of Congress... he needs his pit bulls and generals to do the talking.

Simple just isn't in that man's thought process.. would have been much easier to load 4 or 5 guys in a van/limo and go to the senate, no?

and WH staff will want the psychological advantage of tours showing Senators the WH war room, portraits of Presidents, etc. and maybe show some members of Congress the bunker Trump and Rinse Pubis will be hiding in during the next rounds of attack.

Will the WH chefs be serving hors-d'oeuvres before the wargasms show (?),

[Brian4Liberty]

Makes sense (in the Trumpian way) to not just call a Joint Session of Congress... he needs his pit bulls and generals to do the talking.

Sounds like a way to bully any Senators that might not want to go along.

[helmuth_hubener]

When the President summons the entire Senate for a military briefing... nothing good follows.

My guess is that it will be no big deal, actually. Just theater.

[phill4paul]

If this is a prelude to military action, which it may or may not be, I give trump credit for at least bringing in the Senate to keep them informed and perhaps ask for declaration/authorization etc.

I thought I read somewhere that the president was supposed to go to the House, not the House come to the president?

[TheCount]

Simple just isn't in that man's thought process.. would have been much easier to load 4 or 5 guys in a van/limo and go to the senate, no?

Power games. Trump wants to be the host and in charge of the event.

[specsaregood]

Power games. Trump wants to be the host and in charge of the event.

Reach-arounds and Rusty trombones for everyone!

[TheCount]

Reach-arounds and Rusty trombones for everyone!

I heard that it was catered. Cheese pizzas and chicken pizzas, enough for all attendees.

[oyarde]

Well , gold has dropped 12 dollars since the market opened this morning which I doubt if the fire bombing of norte korea was imminent .

[kpitcher]

It can't be too serious or he'd be flying them all to Mar-A-Lago

[Occam's Banana]

Sounds like a special case of the following:

"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session." -- Gordon J. Tucker

I thought I read somewhere that the president was supposed to go to the House, not the House come to the president?

The former is what happens in republics. The latter is what happens in empires.

Even the Caesars sometimes attended the Senate, if only for the sake of form.

I guess we're getting past that point now ...

[kcchiefs6465]

Who else in public life has called for a preemptive strike on North Korea?

[helmuth_hubener]

Who else in public life has called for a preemptive strike on North Korea?

North Korea is the object of a long(-ish; couple decades) term vilification campaign. The media has been pumping out the anti-Nork propaganda for years now. Whenever you hear "North Korea has nuclear weapons, and is ruled by an insane, crazy, unhinged dictator" the obvious, unavoidable subtext is: "And it would be good if we or someone were to put a stop to that." When you call someone Hitler, you're making it OK to kill/war against that person. Because it's always OK to kill Hitler. Right?

So, to answer your question: Everyone.

So if we do have a war against the Norks, most Americans will be basically fine with that. They'll be supportive. It will be popular. I just don't predict that happening at this time.

[kcchiefs6465]

North Korea is the object of a long(-ish; couple decades) term vilification campaign. The media has been pumping out the anti-Nork propaganda for years now. Whenever you hear "North Korea has nuclear weapons, and is ruled by an insane, crazy, unhinged dictator" the obvious, unavoidable subtext is: "And it would be good if we or someone were to put a stop to that." When you call someone Hitler, you're making it OK to kill/war against that person. Because it's always OK to kill Hitler. Right?

So, to answer your question: Everyone.

So if we do have a war against the Norks, most Americans will be basically fine with that. They'll be supportive. It will be popular. I just don't predict that happening at this time.

Donald Trump has been at it for a couple of decades. The question was posed by him in 2000. Indeed, he was one of the first ones to call for a preemptive strike and in fact, used being one of the first to call for a preemptive strike to attempt to paint himself as a tough guy.

[TheTexan]

I hope so. Lockheed just had a poor earnings call, dropped stock by a couple percent

If you're right it would help send LMT stock back up

[shakey1]

Meeting with all senate & house?... to make a formal declaration?... or just to tell them to clean out their underground bunkers?

[TheTexan]

Power games. Trump wants to be the host and in charge of the event.

The white house has much better catering facilities, open bar, etc.

Much more pleasant way of kicking off WWIII

[bunklocoempire]

Interesting timing.

Rah rah muh daddy's Korean Pork Chop swill -waste some more money on a standing army serving fear, and pretend God approves.

[H. E. Panqui]

...yup, it's all 'fake news' until it's 'news' about north korea or some other place they want to kill..

...and where's rand and the so-called 'freedom caucus' calling bullsh!t on this loooooong-time disgusting republicrat warmongering?!..

...the airwaves are filled with goddamned republican and democrat bank$ter scumpuppets and so are 'our' public offices...fkn scum...every one of them...

https://www.sott.net/article/348568-...-hates-America

When one knows the hidden history about the massive targeting of North Korean civilians with so-called strategic bombing, it's easier to understand the hate from that country and see that it's not manufactured. It's rooted in a fact-based narrative. By the time the Korean War ended on July 27, 1953, B-29s alone had flown over 21,000 sorties, dropping nearly 600,000 tons of bombs. Fighter aircraft flew thousands of additional sorties over North Korea.

After China entered the war in late 1950, the United States switched to targeting civilians in much the same manner as conducted over Germany and Japan during WWII. Gen. Douglas MacArthur designated cities and villages in North Korea as "main bombing targets" and permitted the use of incendiary bombs.

© The New Nationalist

The bombing of Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, was conducted as part of a sustained U.S. Air Force aerial bombardment campaign. By the time of the armistice, 75 percent of Pyongyang was destroyed as part of a broader U.S. bombing effort throughout the country. It cost the lives of nearly 3 million North Koreans (mostly civilians) by the time the war ended.

The campaign was conducted by the blood thirsty Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command, who also has the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians on his hands from WWII.

LeMay bragged, "Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population during the Korean War".

Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed "everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another."

After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the latter stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops.

This means that virtually every person living in North Korea today has siblings, parents, grandparents or great grandparents that perished in this total war. It is a real stretch to gaslight Koreans as "crazy" or "irrational" given this reality. It is also the height of ignorance to not understand North Korea's need for powerful retaliatory weapons.

[Jamesiv1]

In 2011, only 3 remaining countries without Central Banks:

1. Iran
2. Cuba
3. North Korea

[JK/SEA]

the 9th circuit will put a stop to this.

[Occam's Banana]

In 2011, only 3 remaining countries without Central Banks:

1. Iran
2. Cuba
3. North Korea

Any countries without central banks can get the hell out.