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Meanwhile, in the Western Pacific

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North Korea Launches More Missiles

Today Japan moved to the highest possible alert level after North Korea fired four ballistic missiles simultaneously into nearby waters, the latest provocation from Kim Jong Un’s regime.
Three of the missiles fell into Japan’s exclusive economic zone, with one dropping about 350 kilometers west of the nation’s northern Akita prefecture, government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters after a meeting of Japan’s National Security Council. Authorities were still analyzing the type of missile launched, he said.

The launches “clearly show that this is a new level of threat” from North Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told lawmakers in Tokyo. American officials held phone calls afterward with counterparts in Japan and South Korea, which rely on the U.S. for security.

Perhaps it’s time to take these nutjob communists with the nuclear weapons a little more seriously, ya think?

Take him out?

Gutted and Gobsmacked

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The Daily Mail reports that the use of “Spice” and other synthetic cannabinoids among the homeless population in Britain is taking a serious toll. In Manchester, “The city has experienced a surge in ambulance call outs after users have fallen victim to the drug’s lethal side effects, with some left keeling over and smashing up their faces.”

Julie Boyle, support worker at youth homeless charity Lifeshare, said the new Spice on the streets had terrifying effects on people. Last Thursday she found a woman collapsed at a tram stop, having taken a drag of what she thought was cannabis but turned out to be Spice. When an ambulance arrived, the paramedic told her they had been called to 26 similar incidents that day alone. Ms Boyle said: “In the city centre there are people who just look like they are frozen, like the walking dead, sat in a catatonic state not moving.  You wouldn’t even know they were alive – it’s like when you press pause on the telly. They don’t know where they are.”

“My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”   Timothy Leary

Thanks, asshole.

More about synthetic cannabinoids HERE

The NEW Ban Roll On Roll Out

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New and Improved

President Donald Trump signed a revised travel ban today that will temporarily halt entry to the U.S. for people from six Muslim-majority nations who are seeking new visas, though allowing those with current visas to travel freely.

The revised order is narrower and specifies that a 90-day ban on people from Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia and Yemen does not apply to those who already have valid visas. The White House also dropped Iraq from the list of targeted countries, following pressure from the Pentagon and State Department, which had urged the White House to reconsider, given Iraq’s role in fighting the Islamic State group

“If at first you don’t succeed – try, try, again”

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