So Putin as finally decided to remind America of who they're dealing with. Eversince the demise of the USSR of which this country arrogantly takes credit for, Russia has been dismissed as a trifle on the world stage, nobody to fear. Russia is reminding the government here that they are still a nuclear power inspite of this country's attempt to disarm them years ago and that they can and will use them against the U.S. Now the U.S. government in true form is lying to us saying, 'they haven't developed that technology yet' or 'they're bluffing.' Is the fact that Assad in Syria is about to win that war started by the U.S. thanks to Russia? And they're not calling for Russia to disarm their nuclear missiles, they're still trying to pick on N Korea in a vain attempt to try an get them to give up their nukes. Well everyone saw how this country murdered Ghaddaffi and Saddam Hussein when they gave up their quest for nukes. So Iran, N Korea keep your nukes. White man still speak with forked tongue! And rather than dismiss Russia's grave threat, do you honestly believe this man would broadcast all they are capable of on tv. No, he's not bluffking, I say they probably have more advance weaponry than they're talking about and we really don't want to find out the hardway rather than the u.s. government trying to dismiss this as some bart maverick bluff! But eitherway, Russia is a legitimate threat to the security to America, soon to be Nuvo Afriqe, but the U.S. government needs to look a little closer to home for the real threat. Coz' they got no love south of the border here.
Putin’s ‘Invincible’ Missile Is Aimed at U.S. Vulnerabilities
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President Vladimir V. Putin offered Russians a rosy picture of future prosperity and military might in his annual speech, delivered on Thursday in Moscow.Credit Maxim Shipenkov/European Pressphoto Agency
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia threatened the West with a new generation of nuclear weapons Thursday, including what he described as an “invincible” intercontinental cruise missile and a nuclear torpedo that could outsmart all American defenses.
The presentation by Mr. Putin, which included animation videos depicting multiple warheads aimed at Florida, where President Trump often stays at his Mar-a-Lago resort, sharply escalated the military invective in the tense relationship between the United States and Russia, which has led to predictions of a costly new nuclear arms race.
While Mr. Putin may have been bluffing about these weapons, as some experts suggested, he cleverly focused on a vulnerability of American-designed defenses: They are based on the assumption that enemy nuclear missiles fly high and can be destroyed well before they reach their targets.
The new class of Russian weapons, he said, travel low, stealthily, far and fast — too fast for defenders to react.
Mr. Putin’s announcement, in his annual state of the nation address, seemed intended chiefly to stir the patriotic passions of Russians at a moment when he is heading into a re-election campaign, even though his victory is assured in what amounts to a one-candidate race.
He also used the speech to reassure Russians that the military buildup was taking place even as the government was spending big sums to improve the quality of their lives.
But the main attention grabber in the speech was the weapons, which Mr. Putin described as a response to what he called the repudiation of arms control by the United States and its plans for a major weapons buildup.
The Trump administration has said that countering the world’s two other superpowers, Russia and China, was becoming its No. 1 national security mission, ahead of counterterrorism.
It has largely blamed Russia’s military modernization for that shift and has justified new work on nuclear weapons and bolstered missile defenses as the appropriate answer.
Mr. Putin may have further fueled the tension on Thursday by essentially declaring that Russia’s military brains had made America’s response obsolete.
He said a team of young, high-tech specialists had labored secretly and assiduously to develop and test the new weapons, including a nuclear-powered missile that could reach anywhere and evade interception.
“With the missile launched and a set of ground tests completed, we can now proceed with the construction of a fundamentally new type of weapon,” Mr. Putin said.
He showed a video that illustrated the weapon flying over a mountain range, then slaloming around obstacles in the southern Atlantic before rounding Cape Horn at the tip of South America and heading north toward the West Coast of the United States.
Given that deception lies at the heart of current Russian military doctrine, questions arose about whether these weapons existed. American officials said that the nuclear cruise missile is not yet operational, despite Mr. Putin’s claims, and that it had crashed during testing in the Arctic.
The threats evoked the bombast of the Cold War. But this time they are not based on greater numbers of bombs but increased capabilities, stealth and guile.
Mr. Putin’s boasts about undersea nuclear torpedoes and earth-hugging cruise missiles emphasized the uselessness of American defenses against such weapons.
Oddly, apart from a reference to renewing the American nuclear arms enterprise in his State of the Union address, Mr. Trump has said almost nothing about the new era of competition with Mr. Putin or Russia. With multiple investigations into whether his campaign’s connections to Russians had influenced policy, he has neither protested the Russian buildup nor publicly endorsed, in any detail, his own administration’s plans to counter it.
The cruise missile was among five weapons introduced by Mr. Putin, each shown in video mock-ups on giant screens flanking him onstage. He threatened to use the weapons, as well as Russia’s older-generation nuclear arms, against the United States and Europe if Russia were attacked.
“We would consider any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies to be a nuclear attack on our country,” he said.
Mr. Putin said he could not show the actual weapons publicly, but assured his audience of Russia’s main political and prominent cultural figures that they had all been developed.
If Mr. Putin was not bluffing, said Aleksandr M. Golts, an independent Russian military analyst, then “these weapons are definitely new, absolutely new.”
“If we’re talking about nuclear-armed cruise missiles, that’s a technological breakthrough and a gigantic achievement,” he said in an interview. But, he added, “The question is, is this true?”
Several analysts writing on Facebook and elsewhere leaned toward the bluff theory. Given the recent history of Russian launch failures or premature crashes, the idea that Russia suddenly possessed a new generation of flying weapons strained credulity.
“The real surprise in among all of this is a nuclear-powered cruise missile,” said Douglas Barrie, a senior fellow for military aerospace at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. “It was talked about in the ’60s, but it ran into a lot of obstacles. To the extent that the Russians are seriously revisiting this is pretty interesting.”
Such technology could alter the balance of power, but Mr. Barrie questioned whether Russia was even close to deploying it.
“Does reality mean you have an item in the budget saying, ‘Develop nuclear propulsion for a missile?’” he said. “Or does it mean, ‘We’re going to have one ready to use soon’? I’d certainly want to see more evidence to believe that.”
Mr. Putin said Russia had developed the weaponry because the United States had rejected established arms control treaties and was deploying new missile defense systems in Europe and Asia.
President Barack Obama said that he was willing to negotiate cuts deeper than the 1,550 arms that Washington and Moscow are permitted to deploy under the 2010 New Start treaty, which took full effect last month. But it expires in a few years, and neither Mr. Putin nor Mr. Trump has shown interest in renewing it.
The United States has also accused Russia of violating the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty. After Mr. Putin’s speech, Heather Nauert, the State Department’s spokeswoman, said Mr. Putin essentially confirmed that by trumpeting the country’s development of new nuclear weapons.
Mr. Putin was correct that the United States is investing in expanding missile defenses. But those were not meant to counter Russia’s huge arsenals, but rather the launching of a few missiles by a state like North Korea.
The new Russian weapons would render such defenses obsolete, Mr. Putin gloated, and if anyone found a workaround, “our boys will think of something new.”
Other weapons the Russian leader discussed included a ballistic missile called Sarmat that could round either pole and overcome any defense system; hypersonic nuclear weaponry that fly at 20 times the speed of sound; and unmanned deepwater submarines that could go huge distances at enormous speed.
Mr. Putin said that some of the weapons were so new that they had yet to be named, and announced a naming contest on the Ministry of Defense website.
Political analysts said it was an effective campaign ploy whether the weapons existed or not. “He’s giving people the image of a desired future, of a future for Russia, and that’s appealing for his domestic audience,” said Aleksei V. Makarkin, the deputy head of the Center for Political Technologies, a Moscow think tank.
Mr. Putin’s guns-and-butter, Russia-can-do-it-all speech came 17 days before the March 18 election. It seemed intended to reassure voters that expanded social spending would help solve the economic problems of the past four years, while sending the message that Mr. Putin was their best hope in protecting a Russia portrayed as a besieged fortress.
The reality that the country lacks the money to pay for a giant increase in social spending combined with a new generation of weapons was beside the point, Mr. Makarkin said.
“People may say Russia depends on oil, Russia doesn’t have the money, but the population at large doesn’t care about that,” he said. “They just want to know that we are a superpower.”
On the social front, Mr. Putin promised to double government spending on health care and raise pensions. He said Russia would reduce the poverty rate — official statistics indicate that around 14 million Russians live below the poverty line — by 2024.
Mr. Putin also said that life expectancy, currently at 73, a leap from when he first took office in 2000, should exceed 80 by 2030.
Critics doubt that Russia will ever have the means to deliver so much, given its stumbling economy and relatively depressed oil prices. Max Trudolyubov, a newspaper columnist and political analyst, called the speech a modern version of the Czar Cannon, a giant 16th-century piece of armament that sits on the Kremlin grounds and that legend holds never really worked.
For years, Mr. Putin has chafed at the perceived disrespect showed to him and Russia by the United States. “Nobody listened to Russia,” he said near the end of the speech, to huge applause. “Well, listen up now.”
Correction: March 1, 2018 An earlier version of this article misstated the age of the Czar Cannon. It is from the 16th century, not the 15th century.
That young college student in California was murdered by his friend it is evident seeing his truly silly answers t the police questions. He don't know the name of his girlfriend or where she lives. He dropped his friend off and didn't see him again. Really? What the police and we were born yesterday? I would like to know why he committed this senseless murder? What was the purpose? Or he just wanted to committ a murder? it's a shame when murder becomes a sport for some people. Some people have no moral convictions, no conscience whatsoever. To many of them do, and so crimes like this become second nature to them.
Police: Friend Of Murdered Student Blaze Bernstein Has Been Interviewed Several Times
NEWPORT BEACH (CBSLA) — Investigators said Thursday that the friend who said he dropped off murdered UPenn student Blaze Bernstein at a park has been interviewed several times.
As the investigation into who killed the 19-year-old Foothill Ranch teen continues, the friend who sheriff’s deputies say was last with Bernstein at Borrego Park is not being called a suspect or person of interest.
But in an affidavit obtained by the Orange County Register — before search warrants were sealed — that friend’s actions were highlighted.
According to the affidavit, “on their way out of Sheriff’s Headquarters investigators noticed every door the friend had to touch on the way out of the building he pulled his jacket over his hand to prevent his hand and fingers from touching any part of the doors he touched.”
Authorities will not release the name of the friend and say no one is in custody.
Now the media is getting ridiculous with this women's rights bullshit; can't wait til the king gets here to fix this cr.ap. They are now putting out about a re-shoot of a movie that never should have taken place in the first place was sexist coz' Mark Wahlberg a well-known bankable star made more than this unknown actress bitch who supposedly won some award. So?!!? They are mocking and making a mockery of Civil Rights by bringing up this frivolous crap and of course the truly ignorant will not be able to make the distinction which is part of their plan, (thank God the king is coming soon) between right and wrong properly! Whoever this chick is she has not earned her stripes or made her bones. Mark Wahlberg is a huge star with a PROVEN track record for getting people to lay down their hard earned money to watch one of his movies! He has made millions for various properties he's been a part of, so who is this bitch? Never heard of her. I wouldn't go see a movie just coz' she's in it, at least not right now. And neither would millions of other people in America or the rest of the world. And I will say that whatever perverted underhanded purpose they had for re-shooting Kevin Spacey's scenes, we're about sick of you people and your bullshit! YOu are no more serious about representing women's issues than you are about representing Black people's issues. You are part of some wicked convoluted satanic plan and when we finally uncover your true motives (part of it we feel has to do with trying to undermine Bill Cosby so you can 'legally' railroad him) trust me, we will be very serious by the Hand of God in bringing you down permanently!
Mark Wahlberg Was Paid $1.5 Million for All the Money in the World Reshoots; Michelle Williams Got Less Than $1,000
By Matthew Dessem
JAN 10, 2018, 12:27 AM
Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams at the premiere of All the Money in the World.
Kevin Winter/Getty Images
When Kevin Spacey’s career abruptly imploded in a cloud of allegations of sexual misconduct, director Ridley Scott replaced him with Christopher Plummer in his already-completed film All the Money in the World, putting the cast and crew through a frenetic nine-day reshoot around Thanksgiving. Although the crew—and new addition Plummer—got paid for their work, the director told USA Today in December that he and the film’s stars had all worked for free in order to save the movie. It turns out that wasn’t entirely true. While four-time Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams did work for nothing but a per diem, earning less than $1,000 in total for the reshoots, two-time Academy Award nominee (and one-time Funky Bunch front man) Mark Wahlberg got paid $1.5 million, according toUSA Today. Here’s Williams explaining why she was willing to spend her Thanksgiving working for nothing:
I just thought that this experience that we had all treasured was going to be essentially flushed down the toilet. … I said I’d be wherever they needed me, whenever they needed me. And they could have my salary, they could have my holiday, whatever they wanted. Because I appreciated so much that they were making this massive effort.
Williams was reportedly not told that Wahlberg was getting paid, even though both actors are represented by WME—yes, the same agency where alleged Terry Crews groper Adam Venit works. In lieu of a statement from Wahlberg as to why he felt his contributions were worth 1,500 times as much as his co-star’s, here’s the music video for Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch’s 1991 hit “I Need Money”:
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You know at one time I would be glad to see a Black female succeeding at anything she set out to do. But lately I have seen so many Black females, led by oprah winfrey, who have acquired success boasting just shamelessly arrogant and despicable in their attitude claiming somehow that they 'deserve' success and everything that comes with it. Little do they know that they're gonna' get what they deserve one day and it won't be the 'success' they feel they worked hard and earned. Success is a blessing, not a right, and all of humanity deserves nothing but death by God's account. I have seen many who have worked a hell of a lot harder than you, came up under much more difficult circumstances and though they did achieve a modicum of success didn't really reap in the gold some of you have. And miss gayle you didn't either. You started sleeping with a rich female, that's how you finally got rich after all your college and work experience! A great example for your kids eh? Find them somebody rich to sleep with and the money will roll in. But wealth is a blessing from the Lord coz do you think you're the only ones who can read the news? Get real! And then she sits up and arrogantly proclaims that 'I've done nothing wrong' after stabbing her colleague Charlie Rose in the back on national tv. Now Nora Macdonald she was in on it too and I assure you she's feeling the pain from her people for doing this. But gayle king feels she has no one to answer to but her girlfriend (lesbian lover) oprah winfrey. I gather she's more afraid of oprah than God himself and that is a big big big mistake. God is getting ready I'm sure to turn your life upside down if that's how you really feel. Just because oprah hates men, and we all know why, doesn't mean you have to follow suit idiot! What you gonna' follow miss winfrey all the way to hell too stoopid just coz' her purse is full of money? You used to be a competant professional...what happened? Just coz' you made friends with the wicked bitch of the south and she has a little money your gonna' trade away all that is you? The king is coming honey, and he is not pleased with you.
Eitherway honey yes you did do something wrong. Showing you have the loyalty of a jackal and the reserve of a cobra waiting to strike when your prey is weak. Pretending to be a friend when your a viper in waiting for your opportunity. I don't care if white people act that way, your supposed to be better than that. What do you kick dogs right after you've run them over? I wouldn't hire you to report on the weather with you displaying the sort of loyalty you possess. First off I'm not convinced Charlie Rose is guilty of all they say, and no he is no saint. There is a wicked little plot going on and he's signed on to be a part of it for some reason. Haven't uncovered it yet, but the truth will be forthcoming soon. But in the interim you have shown that you are a mean spirited worthless cow who will trample on the weak at the first opportunity. The king would lock you up in a deep dark dungenous cell and forget about you but there are other plans. The smartest thing you could have done is had you nothing good to say, say nothing! What this man did in his private life, if he did anything, had nothing to do with you! Every woman in the world isn't truthful and honest and victims. What you're gonna' take up the cause of every woman in the world without knowing if the tale they tell isn't just that; a tale? If ao then indeed you are stupid as you look! And yes gayle king, you did do something wrong; someone you knew had a problem and you knew him, you didn't know these other women who popped up out of nowhere. What did he make a play for you or something? Don't lie about it coz' God will really get you!! And then if he made a play and he threatened your job? Or did you sleep with him to get the job and this is your get back? If so that's your problem, coz' as long as you could say no, you may not have gotten the job but you maintained your dignity, if you had any anyway! You're not a victim and neither were any of these other women, and you had no right to judge this man coz 'YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WENT DOWN IF ANYTHING AT ALL!!! And what kind of friend are you? A colleague or associate of yours is drowning and instead of throwing them a life preserver you throw a rock to their head to help them drown? No we didn't expect you to sit down and try to solve his problem, but to show some empathy and sympathy to a person you knew! What were you mad at him about something anyway and this was your chance to get back at him? You're a sorry friend, associate, whatever! I try to help the people I know and have had friendly relationships with. Were he an eneymy ok what did he do to you? If you don't want to share that there's no reason for your actions and YOU DID DO SOMETHING WRONG BEING A LOW DOWN SNAKE IN THE GRASSS! BITCH!!! Something's funny about this whole business and the cover will get ripped down soon enough. In the meantime, the spotlight is on you, and word of advice; keep you bigg mouth shut!
Courtesy of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Gayle King on Bravo's 'Watch What Happens Live'
“It’s one of the worst things that’s happened to me in my professional career I have to say,” King told Andy Cohen during an appearance on 'Watch What Happens Live.'
Gayle King on Tuesday night spoke candidly about her former CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose during a sit-down interview with Andy Cohen on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live.
“I don’t want to sit here and ‘boo’ like a girl or like a baby, but I have great affection for him, really still care about him and just because he’s done what he’s accused of doing, I can’t turn that off. I can’t turn off my feelings for him,” King told Cohen, after being asked about Rose being fired following accusations by multiple women of sexual misconduct.
“But, I also have sympathy for these women, these women that are speaking up,” King added. “So, it’s very, very difficult when somebody you care about has done something that is so egregious to everything that you believe in.”
When Cohen asked what the “tone” of King’s conversations with Rose have been, King was quick to mention that she has yet to see her former co-anchor. “I haven’t seen him yet … I’ve spoken to him,” she said.
Feeling conflicted over her admiration for Rose despite the allegations, King explained that it’s a "bad situation" that everyone has to “carry on” from, emotions aside.
“Listen, it is a bad situation for everybody all around, and I think at CBS, we’re still dealing with it. We’re still reeling from it," she said. "But I also know that we must and we will have to carry on. I believe in [co-host] Norah [O'Donnell]. I believe in me. I believe in our team, and we will carry on, but … it’s very, very difficult. It’s one of the worst things that’s happened to me in my professional career, I have to say.”
Although her colleague is one of the latest high-profile men to be accused of sexual harassment or assault, King finds “good” in the ongoing wave of allegations: “In the culture, where all of this is coming up, the only good that’s coming out of it is that everybody’s talking about it, even at CBS. Everybody’s encouraged to speak up, speak out about anything that you want to do. And I think that’s a good thing.”
King also revealed that she’s hoping to see Rose sometime this week and she doesn’t have any nerves.
“I didn’t do anything wrong. No, I’m not nervous to see him," King said. "I want to see him, because I have a lot of questions … I have a feeling I’m gonna ask. It’s difficult when somebody you care about and this happens, but … I know that we will be okay. … It’s a big blow for us.”
So the axis of evil, mossad, cia, and mi6 have finally succeeded in starting a grassroots uprising in Iran. The people there are responding to the economic pressures from trade barriers set up by the united states, britain, and the illegal government that occupies Israel right now. They've been trying to do this for years and now they have finally succeded. Let us all pray for them and the people there and pray that they can restore order and eject the agents who are there causing all of these problems. Pray the Iranian government still stands after this horrible time they're having. Let us pray they do not miss the destruction of the white establishment by the Mighty Hand of God for they are to be admired for standing up to whitey oppression and tyranny for so long! Do not give out yet for the time of the white establishment will soon be over! We will pray for you.
Iran protests: Third day of anti-government rallies
Anti-government protests have continued for a third consecutive day in a number of cities across Iran, despite officials calling on citizens to avoid "illegal gatherings".
Sparked by anger over Iran's ailing economy, the rallies have gained momentum and are described as the largest in nearly a decade.
In the capital, dozens of students on Saturday chanted anti-government slogans outside Tehran University, before being dispersed by riot police and large crowds of pro-government demonstrators.
Videos posted on Twitter by the New-York based Center for Human Rights in Iran appeared to show police in riot gear clashing with protesters outside the gates to the Tehran University. A second video showed smoke-shrouded streets, purportedly from tear gas, in the same area.
Al Jazeera could not authenticate the footage, but semi-state news agency Fars also reported confrontations between police and protesters at Tehran University.
