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ISIS Leader Baghdadi Reportedly Killed in Russian Air Strike

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According to Russian reports, an air strike on May28 may have killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and up to 330 other fighters.

BBC reports:

A statement by Russia’s defence ministry published by the state-funded Sputnik news agency said 30 IS commanders and up to 300 soldiers were at the Raqqa meeting.

“According to information that is checked through various channels, IS leader Ibrahim Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed as a result of the strike, was also present at the meeting,” it added.

Colonel John Dorrian, a spokesman for the US-led coalition, said the US could not confirm whether Baghdadi had been killed.

There has been no official comment from Syria’s government.

Multiple claims of his death have been made in the past which turned out to be false.

 

North Korea to China: Stop Calling Kim Jung-Un Fat

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North Korean ministers have made a state request to officials in China begging them to stop referring to their “glorious leader” Kim Jong-un as fat.

The officials in the North Korean government reportedly asked China to stop referring to their overweight leader as Jin San Pang, or “Kim Fatty III,” in media or conversations.

Other nicknames used by China’s media for the “glorious leader” include Jin Pang Pang (Kim Fat Fatty) and Jin San Fei (Kim Abundant III).

It has been widely cited that the plump leader’s extravagant taste is largely to blame for his weight, gaining 88 pounds in his five years in power from feasting on Swiss cheese, whiskey, and scallops.

Read more: Washington Free Beacon 

North Korea Claims Successful Hydrogen Bomb Test

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On Tuesday, North Korea claimed it had successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb.

They made the announcement about an hour after detection services around the world recorded a 5.1 seismic event off its northeast coast.

NYTimes reports:

“This is the self-defensive measure we have to take to defend our right to live in the face of the nuclear threats and blackmail by the United States and to guarantee the security of the Korean Peninsula,” a female North Korean announcer said, reading the statement on Central Television, the state-run network.

There is always some level of skepticism because of how isolated North Korea is.

However, if the claim is found to be accurate, this is its most significant threat to date.

NYTimes continues:

Outside analysts took the claim as the latest of several hard-to-verify assertions that the isolated country has made about its nuclear capabilities. But some also said that although North Korea did not yet have H-bomb capability, it might be developing and preparing to test a boosted fission bomb, more powerful than a traditional nuclear weapon.

Weapon designers can easily boost the destructive power of an atom bomb by putting at its core a small amount of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen.

Lee Sang-cheol, the top nonproliferation official at the South Korean Defense Ministry, told a forum in Seoul last month that although Mr. Kim’s hydrogen bomb boasts might be propaganda for his domestic audience, there was a “high likelihood” that North Korea might have been developing such a boosted fission weapon.

And according to a paper obtained by the South Korean news agency Yonhap last week, the Chemical, Biological and Radiological Command of the South Korean military “did not rule out the possibility” of a boosted fission bomb test by the North, although it added it “does not believe it is yet capable of directly testing hydrogen bombs.”

The Associated Press reports:

The White House says the U.S. government’s early analysis of underground activity in North Korea “is not consistent” with that country’s claim of having conducted a successful hydrogen bomb test.

 

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Iran Discovers Unexpectedly High Reserve of Uranium

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Iran is saying that it has discovered an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium, and they will start extracting it at a new facility.

Many thought the country had a relatively low supply and that they would eventually have to start importing uranium for their nuclear programs.

According to Reuters:

“I cannot announce (the level of) Iran’s uranium mine reserves. The important thing is that before aerial prospecting for uranium ores we were not too optimistic, but the new discoveries have made us confident about our reserves,” Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.

This news casts some doubt on the Iran deal that has been so highly debated.

The question now is ‘What’s next?’

 

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Gorbachev Says America Needs A Perestroika

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In an interview with RT, Gorbachev said in reference to the US that ‘they need a Perestroika.’

Translated from Russian, Perestroika means ‘restructuring.’ During the end of the Cold War, Gorbachev was largely viewed as the leader of the perestroika in the then USSR.

Personally speaking, I never thought that I would ever agree too much with anything someone from Russia would say, but I have to hand it to Gorby on this one. The US is in need of a bit of restructuring, or perestroika if you will.

Within the realm of politics lies layer upon layer of corruption and failed policies. Year after year of a little here and a little there, and it all adds up to what we see in Washington today.

“They can call it any name they want, the American way,” he said, adding that “Americans do not want a war. But it is not easy for them, with the society that they have.”

The US uses tensions and instability to intervene into a conflict, then creates an enemy to enable their “policy of pressure” and shift responsibility, he said.

“Whenever tensions are high, whenever there’s instability in a certain country or throughout the region, it’s an opportunity for [the US] to intervene,” said Gorbachev.

During his interview with RT, Gorbachev explained that there were always two sides to the conflict in the 20th century – “one was supported by the United States, and the other by the Soviet Union.” Read more at RT.com

The 7-Step Plan The Islamic State Is Following Should Alarm You

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According to Obama and his administration, they don’t have a strategy to combat the forward momentum of the Islamic State. As alarming as that is, it is equally alarming that the Islamic State has one and they seem to be right on schedule.

Back in 2005, SPIEGEL online posted on a 7-step plan toward an Islamic caliphate from a book written by Jordanian journalist Fouad Hussein:

  • The First Phase Known as “the awakening” — this has already been carried out and was supposed to have lasted from 2000 to 2003.
  • The Second Phase “Opening Eyes” is, according to Hussein’s definition, the period we are now in and should last until 2006. (Reminder: these points to the plan were originally published in 2005.) Iraq should become the center for all global operations, with an “army” set up there and bases established in other Arabic states.

Click to read the entire article at WayneDupree.com

A Nobel Peace Prize for Putin?

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Russian President Vladimir Putin will appear on the Nobel committee’s agenda for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, possibly alongside several Russian dissidents.

Putin is one of 278 candidates — a record for the prestigious prize – who have been nominated and the nominees include such notables as Edward Snowden, Pope Francis and the individual formerly known as Bradley Manning.

Putin is believed to have been nominated for his role in averting a Western military strike on Syria and negotiating the agreement with the Bashar al-Assad regime to surrender its arsenal of chemical weapons.

Read more at the Daily Caller

These Eight Sketches of Life Inside a North Korean Prison Camp Will Leave You Terrified

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These chilling sketches depict life inside a North Korean prison camp. These haunting images show people being forced to stand for hours, people being forced to crawl on their hands and knees, and people being forced to feed off of rats and snakes.

The sketches included in the report, which come by way of Kim Kwang-il, a North Korean who claims he spent six years in a prison camp.

North Korean 'Pigeon Torture"
(Image source: United Nations)
North Korean Prison Torture
(Image source: United Nations)
Life in a North Korean prison camp
(Image source: United Nations)
North Korean prison camp transportation
(Image source: United Nations)
North Korean prison camp cell
(Image source: United Nations)
North Korean prisoners eating snakes and rats
(Image source: United Nations)
North Korean prisoners sleeping with rats
(image source: United Nations)
North Korean prisoners being forced to crawl
(Image source: United Nations)

 

Here is a copy of the UN report which further describes the sketches in detail:

North Korea Executes Uncle of Kim Jong-Un

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The uncle of Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korea, has been executed as a ‘traitor.’

Jang Song Thaek, uncle of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un
photo credit: AP/XINHUA (File photo from Aug. 14, 2012)

North Korean news is reporting that second in command, Jang Song Thaek has been purged for crimes that included faction-building, corruption, drug use and womanizing.

While all the details of this execution continue to come out, two things are on the minds of those on the Korean Peninsula: 1) it signals a turn in direction for the North, or 2) Kim Jong-Un is growing confident in his rule.

CNN reports:

For Jasper Kim, the founder of the Asia-Pacific Global Research Group, North Korea remains for analysts a “Rubik’s Cube that no one can solve.”

He said North Korea is a master at carefully choreographing the way it releases news events to cloak its real intentions. Nevertheless, he said a careful reading between the lines of North Korean new agency KCNA sometimes reveals glimpses of the state of the regime.

He said that far from asserting the leadership of Kim, recent events suggest that his position has been seriously eroded by the execution of his uncle.

“My guess is that these events happened some time ago and they are only now being released,” Kim told CNN. “The fact is that we don’t know what’s going on in North Korea but what we are seeing coming through on KCNA is very concerning.

“When you look at the language used in these KCNA reports it is particularly hawkish and it’s much more reflective of the military than it is of Kim Jong Un.

“Basically we are seeing the hardline faction reassert itself. For Kim Jong Un, Jang Song Thaek was the bridge between him and his father, and now he will have very little protection.”

 

Trophy Killings in Syria

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WARNING – What you are about to see is disturbing and disgusting!

There is some controversy over images coming out of Syria that they have been photoshopped.

Here is one of the images:
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This photo that was posted by Bare Naked Islam sparked some outrage. They had received messages that it was a fake. So, they contacted the source of the image. What did they get as a response?

They were sent the video as evidence that it is NOT fake!

Watch the video below: