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Officials: New Signs of North Korea Missile Preparations
May 30th, 2009
Daily NewsAssociated Press
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning;War

YEONPYEONG, South Korea —  Spy satellites have spotted signs that North Korea may be preparing to transport another long-range missile to a test launch site, South Korean officials said Saturday, as the U.S. defense secretary issued his harshest warning to the North since its recent nuclear test.

"We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in Asia — or on us," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a regional defense meeting in Singapore.

He said the North's nuclear program was a "harbinger of a dark future," but wasn't yet a direct threat.

Since last Monday's nuclear blast, North Korea has test-launched six short-range missiles in a show of force and announced it won't honor the 1953 truce that ended the fighting in the Korean War.

Now, the reclusive communist state appears to be preparing to move a long-range missile by train from a weapons factory near Pyongyang to its northeastern Musudan-ni launch pad, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said.

Images of the movements were captured by U.S. satellites, said the official, who was not allowed to be identified when discussing intelligence matters.

The threat of a long-range missile test comes amid heightened tensions over North Korea's nuclear program.

North Korea, believed to have enough weaponized plutonium for at least six nuclear bombs, walked away from international disarmament negotiations in April in anger over U.N. criticism of a rocket launch Washington and others called a cover for the test of long-range missile technology.

Experts say Pyongyang is working toward mounting a nuclear bomb on a long-range missile, one capable of reaching the U.S.

Gates and the defense ministers of Japan and South Korea said North Korea must not be allowed to continue playing a dangerous game of brinksmanship in hopes of winning aid.

"We must make North Korea clearly recognize that it will not be rewarded for its wrong behaviors," South Korea's Lee Sang-hee said.

Gates said Pyongyang was engaging in familiar tactics. "They create a crisis and the rest of us pay the price to return to the status quo ante."

Preparations for a long-range missile test would take at least two weeks, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unidentified intelligence official.

Officials in Washington said they noticed increased activity at the test site. They spoke on condition of anonymity Friday, saying methods of gathering information about North Korea are sensitive.

Yonhap said the size of the missile was similar to a long-range rocket the North tested in April.

Experts have said the new three-stage rocket has a potential range of more than 4,100 miles (6,700 kilometers), putting Alaska within its striking distance.

The North is likely to fire the missile shortly after the U.N. Security Council adopts a resolution criticizing its recent nuclear test, said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul's University of North Korean Studies.

A partial draft resolution — obtained Friday by The Associated Press — calls on all countries to immediately enforce sanctions imposed by an earlier U.N. resolution after the North's first nuclear test in 2006.

The sanctions include a partial arms embargo, a ban on luxury goods and ship searches for illegal weapons or material. They have been sporadically implemented, with many of the 192 U.N. member states ignoring them.

Leap in U.S. Debt Hits Taxpayers With 12% More Red Ink
May 30th, 2009
Daily NewsUSA TODAY - Dennis Cauchon
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

The 12% rise in red ink in 2008 stems from an explosion of federal borrowing during the recession, plus an aging population driving up the costs of Medicare and Social Security.

That's the biggest leap in the long-term burden on taxpayers since a Medicare prescription drug benefit was added in 2003.

The latest increase raises federal obligations to a record $546,668 per household in 2008, according to the USA TODAY analysis. That's quadruple what the average U.S. household owes for all mortgages, car loans, credit cards and other debt combined.

"We have a huge implicit mortgage on every household in America — except, unlike a real mortgage, it's not backed up by a house," says David Walker, former U.S. comptroller general, the government's top auditor.

American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper
May 30th, 2009
CommentaryPravda Ru
Categories: Commentary;Warning

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?