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Looks like fat boy is having less and less to lose...

North Korea's economy could be kaput within a year, defector says
North Korea's economy may not survive another year, defector says
Defector says sanctions will cripple North Korea

As I have said before on this forum, Kim Jong Un is like that creepy outcast kid in school threatening to bring a gun. He's likely going to take down some classmates before turning the gun on himself since his sense of control in life is spiraling down the drain.
 
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Looks like fat boy is having less and less to lose...

North Korea's economy could be kaput within a year, defector says
North Korea's economy may not survive another year, defector says
Defector says sanctions will cripple North Korea

As I have said before on this forum, Kim Jong Un is like that creepy outcast kid in school threatening to bring a gun. He's likely going to take down some classmates before turning the gun on himself since his sense of control in life is spiraling down the drain.
Well, he needs to learn to play nice.:nono:
 
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A few news articles and a little commentary...

Joe Biden may not be running for president, but the more he talks, the more he attacks Donald Trump
Donald Trump is 'the most dangerous man in the world', claim leading psychiatrists
https://www.salon.com/2017/10/15/donald-trump-makes-the-world-more-dangerous-what-do-we-do-about-it/

I find this interesting because Trump has done a lot to promote Christianity inside the United States as well as take in Christian refugees from Syria and has won the support of Evangelicals across the world. At the same time, he is taking this spat with North Korea far more seriously than what most of the world is comfortable with. If it so happens that we reach another World War because of Trump's actions, then I believe this would be the final nail in the coffin for what's left of Christianity's image to the rest of the world. After the Antichrist takes over, I can imagine Christians will be primary scapegoats because a Christian administration nearly brought nuclear death to us all. A nuclear war would be the ultimate crime against humanity and would surely make us look pure evil in the eyes of the world.
 
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Can anyone say food replicator?:eek:

WATCH: 3D-printed food a reality, thanks to Israeli scientists
October 25, 2017

Professors Oded Shoseyov and Ido Braslavsky, members of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Agriculture Faculty in Rehovot, have developed a new technology in which “personalized food” can be created by a 3D printer using a natural, edible, calorie-free fiber.
https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-3...ew_notification_1508943437&pushcrew_powered=1
 
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Can anyone say food replicator?:eek:

WATCH: 3D-printed food a reality, thanks to Israeli scientists
October 25, 2017

Professors Oded Shoseyov and Ido Braslavsky, members of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Agriculture Faculty in Rehovot, have developed a new technology in which “personalized food” can be created by a 3D printer using a natural, edible, calorie-free fiber.
https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-3...ew_notification_1508943437&pushcrew_powered=1

That's so cool.
 
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These happened during the Obama years:

‘US pressure nixed Israeli strike on Iran last year’

An Israeli plan to attack Iran in 2012 was canceled due to US objections, a former head of Israel’s National Security Council confirmed Tuesday.

“[Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu seriously considered a preemptive strike on Iran, and the Americans were not excited about the idea,” Maj. Gen. (res) Giora Eiland told The Times of Israel.

The conservative Israeli political website Mida on Tuesday quoted Eiland (Hebrew link) to the effect that Israel possesses the military capacity to destroy Iran’s nuclear program at will.

According to the report, Eiland discussed the Israeli plan and Washington’s objections during a closed conference two weeks ago, saying that Netanyahu had originally intended to order a strike on Iran sometime between September and October of 2012, at the height of the US presidential campaign and around the same time as Netanyahu’s famous speech at the United Nations.

The report claimed that Netanyahu was requested by the Obama administration to call off the attack, possibly so as not to interfere with the American electoral process.

The former general was quoted as saying that although Israel is not controlled by the US, it does take American considerations into account with regard to issues of global significance.

“On many subjects Israel can perform independently,” Eiland was quoted as saying. “The construction in Jerusalem, the attack on Gaza as well as other regional issues — we don’t need to ask the Americans before we take action, even if they don’t like it. But, when an issue involves something of American interest, we cannot act against their will.”

However, “changing times” could allow for an Israeli strike in the future, Eiland reportedly said, also noting that in light of Washington’s apparent lack of appetite for military action in Syria, the chances of an American strike in Iran were slim.

Speaking with The Times of Israel, Eiland distanced himself from the statements attributed to him by Mida.

“The quotes are rife with inaccuracies,” Eiland said, although he didn’t specify further. However, he did confirm that an attack had been mulled by the Israeli prime minister.

“At any rate, I don’t feel like getting into this discussion; there’s nothing new here,” he concluded.

According to reports, Israel’s security chiefs vetoed a plan by Netanyahu and then-defense minister Ehud Barak to attack Iran in late 2010.

In August, Amos Yadlin, who served as chief of the IDF’s Intelligence Directorate from 2006 to 2010, claimed US opposition to an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear program may be abating.

“The American stance on an Israeli strike against Iran has changed dramatically recently,” Yadlin said.

“In 2012 the [Americans’] red light was as red as it can get, the brightest red,” Yadlin said in an interview with Army Radio. “But the music I’m hearing lately from Washington says, ‘If this is truly an overriding Israeli security interest, and you think you want to strike,’ then the light hasn’t changed to green, I think, but it’s definitely yellow.”

Yadlin is thought to be close to parts of the US defense establishment. He served as Israel’s military attache in Washington from 2004 to 2006, and was a Kay Fellow in Israeli national security at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in 2011.

The US and its allies fear Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon, a charge Tehran denies, saying its atomic program is meant for peaceful purposes only.

In efforts to get Iran to account for its nuclear ambitions, Obama and other Western leaders remain publicly committed to diplomacy though they stress military options against Iranian nuclear sites are not off the table.

Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike

The Bethlehem-based news agency Ma’an has cited a Kuwaiti newspaper report Saturday, that US President Barack Obama thwarted an Israeli military attack against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2014 by threatening to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran.

Following Obama's threat, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was reportedly forced to abort the planned Iran attack.

According to Al-Jarida, the Netanyahu government took the decision to strike Iran some time in 2014 soon after Israel had discovered the United States and Iran had been involved in secret talks over Iran’s nuclear program and were about to sign an agreement in that regard behind Israel's back.

The report claimed that an unnamed Israeli minister who has good ties with the US administration revealed the attack plan to Secretary of State John Kerry, and that Obama then threatened to shoot down the Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran.

Al-Jarida quoted "well-placed" sources as saying that Netanyahu, along with Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon, and then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, had decided to carry out airstrikes against Iran's nuclear program after consultations with top security commanders.

According to the report, “Netanyahu and his commanders agreed after four nights of deliberations to task the Israeli army's chief of staff, Benny Gantz, to prepare a qualitative operation against Iran's nuclear program. In addition, Netanyahu and his ministers decided to do whatever they could do to thwart a possible agreement between Iran and the White House because such an agreement is, allegedly, a threat to Israel's security.”
The sources added that Gantz and his commanders prepared the requested plan and that Israeli fighter jets trained for several weeks in order to make sure the plans would work successfully. Israeli fighter jets reportedly even carried out experimental flights in Iran's airspace after they managed to break through radars.

Brzezinski's idea

Former US diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski, who enthusiastically campaigned for Obama in 2008, called on him to shoot down Israeli planes if they attack Iran. “They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?” said the former national security advisor to former President Jimmy Carter in an interview with the Daily Beast.

“We have to be serious about denying them that right,” he said. “If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back or not. No one wishes for this but it could be a 'Liberty' in reverse.’"

Israel mistakenly attacked the American Liberty ship during the Six-Day War in 1967.

Brzezinski was a top candidate to become an official advisor to President Obama, but he was downgraded after Republican and pro-Israel Democratic charges during the campaign that Brzezinski’s anti-Israel attitude would damage Obama at the polls.

Now Israel is saying this during the current administration:

'Israel prepared to use force to stop Iran from acquiring nukes'

Israeli Intelligence and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) declared Thursday that the Jewish state is prepared to use military force to prevent the Iranian regime from obtaining nuclear weapons.

During an interview in Tokyo, Katz said that Israel was hopeful that President Donald Trump’s October 13th decision not to recertify Iranian compliance with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) would lead to the renegotiation of the deal, but added that Israel would use whatever means necessary to ensure that Tehran does not achieve nuclear capabilities, Reuters reported.

"If international efforts led these days by U.S. President Trump don’t help stop Iran attaining nuclear capabilities, Israel will act militarily by itself," Katz said. "There are changes that can be made (to the agreement) to ensure that they will never have the ability to have a nuclear weapon."

Israel has in the past intervened militarily to prevent rogue states from obtaining nuclear weapons, including a 2007 strike on a Syrian nuclear reactor widely credited to Israel, and an airstrike in 1981 code-named Operation Opera which destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor.

Katz also discussed Israel’s efforts to help President Trump renegotiate the JCPOA, including his own recent talks with the Japanese government, during which he called on Japan’s center-right government to take a firm stand against Iran’s nuclear program.

"I asked the Japanese government to support steps led by President Trump to change the nuclear agreement. The question of whether Japanese companies will begin to work in Iran or not is a very important question."

President Trump is slated to meet in November with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who’s conservative Liberal Democratic party won a landslide victory this Sunday.

If Trump fails to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions, Israel will strike, minister warns

Israel is willing to resort to military action to ensure Iran never acquires nuclear weapons, the intelligence minister said on Thursday in Japan where he is seeking backing for President Donald Trump's tougher line on Tehran.

Trump said on October 13 he would not certify Iran is complying with an agreement on curtailing its nuclear program, signed by his predecessor, Barack Obama, opening a 60-day window for Congress to act to reimpose sanctions.

"If international efforts led these days by U.S. President Trump don't help stop Iran attaining nuclear capabilities, Israel will act militarily by itself," Intelligence Minister Israel Katz said in an interview in Tokyo.

"There are changes that can be made (to the agreement) to ensure that they will never have the ability to have a nuclear weapon."

Israel has taken unilateral action in the past without the consent of its major ally, the United States, including air strikes on a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007 and in Iraq in 1981. A strike against Iran, however, would be a risky venture with the potential to provoke a counter strike and roil financial markets.
An Israeli threat of military strikes could, nonetheless, galvanize support in the United States for toughening up the nuclear agreement but it could also backfire by encouraging hardliners in Iran and widening a rift between Washington and European allies.

So far, none of the other signatories to the deal—Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, Iran and the European Union—has cited serious concerns, leaving the United States isolated.

Japan relies on the U.S. military to help defend it against threats from North Korea and elsewhere. Tokyo's diplomatic strategy in the Middle East, where it buys almost all its oil, is to maintain friendly relations with all countries, including Iran.

"I asked the Japanese government to support steps led by President Trump to change the nuclear agreement," said Katz, who is a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party. "The question of whether Japanese companies will begin to work in Iran or not is a very important question."

Katz's visit to Tokyo comes ahead of a planned trip by Trump from November 5 for a summit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Officials at Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs were not immediately available to comment.

Israel, Katz said, wants the nuclear agreement to be revised to remove an expiration date, and to impose tighter conditions to stop Tehran from developing new centrifuges used to make weapons-grade nuclear material.

He also urged sanctions to stop Iran from establishing Syria as a military base to launch attacks on Israel and action to put a halt to Tehran's development of ballistic missiles.

"We will not allow Iran to transform Syria into forward base sea harbours, air bases and Shia militias," he said. "We will act together with the United States and other countries in the world until they stop the ballistic missiles that threaten Israel."

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday backed new sanctions on Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah militia.

Iran can no longer hide behind Obama. Trump even agrees that the Iran nuclear deal is a dog that needs to be put down.

The art of the 'worst' deal: Trump blasts Iran agreement

President Donald Trump called the Iran nuclear deal "one of the most incompetently drawn deals I've ever seen" on Wednesday night, just hours after his top advisers had briefed lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the president's plan for dealing with the agreement.

"It should have been taken care of long ago," Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity taped in Harrisburg, Penn., where the president had promoted his tax plan.

"I think it was one of the most incompetently drawn deals I've ever seen...we got nothing," Trump added.

Trump's announcement of his Iran plan could come this week.
The president's decision about whether to decertify the agreement with Iran comes ahead of a deadline Sunday that triggers a 60-day window for lawmakers to determine whether to reimpose sanctions related to Iran's nuclear program that were lifted as part of the 2015 deal.

Trump also lashed out at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who backed the Iran agreement negotiated by then-President Barack Obama.

"Clinton gave them billions of dollars, gave them lots of other things and before the ink was dry on the contract they were already starting again with the missiles and with the nuclear, frankly," the president said in the interview.

"They got a path to nuclear weapons very quickly and think of this one — $1.7 billion in cash — this is cash out of your pocket. You know how many airplane loads that must be?"

Trump added, "So this is the worst deal. We got nothing. We got nothing."

The Obama administration has previously acknowledged the $400 million cash payment airlifted to Iran in January was used as leverage to ensure the release of four U.S. prisoners.
The payment was part of a $1.7 billion settlement of a decades-long legal dispute related to the sale of military equipment prior to the Iranian revolution. The Obama administration denied claims that the transaction amounted to paying a ransom for the four American hostages, insisting that the timing was coincidental.

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson briefed lawmakers Wednesday on Trump's plan for Iran, officials told NBC News.

Administration and congressional sources say that the president's decision on the agreement is part of a larger strategy to crack down on Iran's missile program and its support for terrorism.

The White House denied that advisers had briefed lawmakers about the president's specific plans, but officials said McMaster left no doubt that Trump intends to decertify, as he has indicated numerous times in the past.

Trump often excoriated the nuclear agreement on the campaign trail, once describing it as "a deal at the highest level of incompetence."

Last month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told NBC's Lester Holt in an interview that decertification is tantamount to withdrawing from the agreement, and will have consequences. "No one will trust America again," he said.

The president's decision about whether to decertify the agreement with Iran comes ahead of a deadline Sunday that triggers a 60-day window for lawmakers to determine whether to reimpose sanctions related to Iran's nuclear program that were lifted as part of the 2015 deal.

Trump also lashed out at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who backed the Iran agreement negotiated by then-President Barack Obama.

"Clinton gave them billions of dollars, gave them lots of other things and before the ink was dry on the contract they were already starting again with the missiles and with the nuclear, frankly," the president said in the interview.

"They got a path to nuclear weapons very quickly and think of this one — $1.7 billion in cash — this is cash out of your pocket. You know how many airplane loads that must be?"

Trump added, "So this is the worst deal. We got nothing. We got nothing."

The Obama administration has previously acknowledged the $400 million cash payment airlifted to Iran in January was used as leverage to ensure the release of four U.S. prisoners.

The payment was part of a $1.7 billion settlement of a decades-long legal dispute related to the sale of military equipment prior to the Iranian revolution. The Obama administration denied claims that the transaction amounted to paying a ransom for the four American hostages, insisting that the timing was coincidental.

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson briefed lawmakers Wednesday on Trump's plan for Iran, officials told NBC News.

Administration and congressional sources say that the president's decision on the agreement is part of a larger strategy to crack down on Iran's missile program and its support for terrorism.

The White House denied that advisers had briefed lawmakers about the president's specific plans, but officials said McMaster left no doubt that Trump intends to decertify, as he has indicated numerous times in the past.

Trump often excoriated the nuclear agreement on the campaign trail, once describing it as "a deal at the highest level of incompetence."

Last month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told NBC's Lester Holt in an interview that decertification is tantamount to withdrawing from the agreement, and will have consequences. "No one will trust America again," he said.
 
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Now that stuff like this is possible, it makes me think of this verse...

"The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed."
~Revelation 13:15

Suppose they mass produce robots in the likeness of the Antichrist and made the artificial intelligence so advanced that it could identify unloyal behavior and order the execution of those who do not submit. It's one of many possibilities.
 
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I have been saying this for years. Also, I can see the AC being a hybrid being. With this CRISPR technology and gene editing, a part human and part something else being can be created.I have been trying to get people to wake up to this very present reality.
 
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