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Trump Tweets His Nuclear Button is ‘Much Bigger’ than Kim Jong Un’s

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President Trump took to Twitter to respond to Kim Jong Un’s claim that he has a nuclear button on his desk at all times.

Trump tweeted, “North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

Honestly, I literally laughed out loud. It’s typical Trump fashion but equal parts savage.

PODCAST: Peace in the Middle East?

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On this podcast, we talk about the unraveling in the Middle East.

Are we finally getting to a point where we will see peace in the Middle East? No. And, as a matter of face, it’s only going to get worse from here.

You see, about 6 years ago, Iran was chattering about the next caliphate. And, a lot of people thought it was crazy to talk about it then. However, those times have changed now that other things have come into play.

Even when we did the Chess episode a year or so ago, we missed a very important piece of the puzzle: IRAN. They’ve got their dirty little hands in so many places around Saudi Arabia, it’s like they are trying to put the chokehold on them.

Also in the episode:

  • The NAACP in California wants to remove the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem.
  • We continue to dissect the Declaration of Independence, line upon line.
  • Did you see the video USA Today put out with chainsaw bayonets?

These 2 videos from Glenn Beck will put a lot of things into perspective:

North Korea Claims Hydrogen Bomb Test A ‘Perfect Success’

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North Korea says that it has detonated a hydrogen bomb on Sunday calling it a ‘perfect success.’

The nuclear blast was carried out at the Punggye-ri site at 12:29 local time, triggering an initial magnitude 6.3 earthquake, followed by a magnitude-4.1 temblor that was possibly caused by a structural collapse, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The test was estimated to have a yield of 100 kilotons, meaning a blast that was four to five times more powerful than the explosion in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, a South Korean defense official told the country’s Yonhap News Agency.

In a televised statement, North Korea described the underground explosion, which triggered a large earthquake, as a “perfect success in the test of a hydrogen bomb for an ICBM.” Pyongyang said “the creditability of the operation of the nuclear warhead is fully guaranteed.”

The test came just hours after leader Kim Jong Un showed off what he described as a hydrogen bomb capable of being mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile.

5 Takeaways from President Trump’s EO on Refugees

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All the bleeding-heart snowflakes care about is their agenda and nothing else. If people would just stop and realize – and maybe take a few minutes to actually read something for once – this isn’t a ban on Muslims. There’s more to this than what the lame stream media are willing to give effort into reporting on.

Here are 5 takeaways from President Trump’s Executive Order on Refugees:

  1. This is – and this will be hard for the melting snowflakes to understand – temporary.
  2. This is based on security reviews conducted by Obama.
  3. Trump isn’t the first to do this.
  4. This is entirely legal.
  5. This is all about security!

We discuss these 5 tid-bits on the show:

Russia is Hacking Our Energy Grid (#FakeNews)

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So apparently, Russia is out hacking our energy grid. Or at least that’s what some news outlets are reporting. However, it’s much ado about nothing really.

How is it nothing if Russia is hacking our grid? Well… it’s that whole #FakeNews thing. One media place says one thing, another basically reports on the same thing, and the next thing you know, it’s all the buzz.

But the devil is in the details! With just a little homework – and actually reading what was originally posted – you realize that everything was safe and sound and there was no threat at all. Seriously! They even said it in the original report.

Links worth taking a look at:

ISIS Suspected of Using Mustard Gas Against US Troops

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ISIS is suspected of firing a shell with a mustard agent that landed at the Qayyara air base in Iraq Tuesday where US and Iraqi troops are operating, according to several US officials.

The shell was categorized by officials as either a rocket or artillery shell. After it landed on the base, just south of Mosul, US troops tested it and received an initial reading for a chemical agent they believe is mustard.

A US defense official said troops had gone out to look at the ordinance after it landed. Based on seeing what they thought was a suspect substance, two field tests were conducted.
The first test was positive and the second was negative, the official said. The substance is now being sent to a lab for further examination.

US troops involved in the incident went through decontamination showers as a precaution. No troops have shown any symptoms of exposure, such as skin blistering. CNN has reported on previous instances where ISIS has fired rounds with mustard agents in Iraq and Syria.”I don’t know of a case like this where it was proximate to US forces like this before,” said one military official, noting that “potentially” the rocket round was “within hundreds of yards” of the US forces and “within the security perimeter” of the base.

“I don’t know of a case like this where it was proximate to US forces like this before,” said one military official, noting that “potentially” the rocket round was “within hundreds of yards” of the US forces and “within the security perimeter” of the base.The US officials said they “had expected” that ISIS might

The US officials said they “had expected” that ISIS might try to use chemical weapons as US and Iraqi forces push towards Mosul in an effort to take the city back from ISIS. Several hundred US troops are using the base as a staging area for supporting Iraqi forces.

Read more: CNN

U.S.’s $400M Payout to Iran; Timing is Everything

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The Obama administration withheld its $400 million cash payment to Iran until Tehran released multiple American prisoners in a calculated exchange.

New details from the Wall Street Journal emerged Wednesday night revealing that U.S. officials refused to transfer the money to Iran until three freed Americans aboard a Swiss Air Force plane were en route from Tehran. Only afterward could an Iranian cargo plane depart from a Geneva airport to bring the cash home.The exchange occurred Jan. 17, one day after the Iranian nuclear deal was formally implemented.

President Obama and administration officials denied the payment was a ransom, maintaining that it was part of a $1.7 billion settlement over a failed arms deal from the late 1970s, before the Iranian Revolution.

U.S. officials have said that the cash transfer and prison release occurred through separate diplomatic channels. The State Department, with assistance from the CIA and FBI, spearheaded the prisoner-swap negotiations, while the cash transfer was led by State Department attorneys.

Read more: Washington Free Beacon

Peter Roskam’s Comment at Benghazi News Conf. is Spot On

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During a news conference, Peter Roskam of the Benghazi committee said, “If we are going to ask Americans to put themselves at risk in the future, we’ve got to remedy this – all of us.”

He couldn’t be any more correct! This is something we absolutely must remedy.

Think about it what he said in context to the 2016 election.

During the Benghazi attack, Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State. It happened under her watch. Did she answer the 3:00 am phone call? Nope.

She, along with many others in the Obama administration, sat and watched it happen.

Then… then they came up with the crazy idea that it was a spontaneous protest that resulted from a YouTube video!

And now she’s the presumptive nominee for the Democrat party?

So, let me state what Roskam said again, “If we are going to ask Americans to put themselves at risk in the future, we’ve got to remedy this – all of us.”

 

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Iranian Leader Awards Medals for Capturing U.S. Sailors

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei awarded the ‘Order of Fat’h’ medal to the commanders who captured U.S. sailors.

According to Iran’s English-language Press TV, Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, commander of the IRGC Navy, along with four other commanders “for arresting the trespassing US sailors” received the Fat’h (Victory) medal.

The Blaze reports:

His office tweeted the announcement of the awards in both English and French along with a photo of Khamenei with the military commanders, as he labeled the Americans “intruding U.S. marines,” erroneously describing them as “marines.”

 

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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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