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WHAT WE CAN EXPECT AT THE PUMPS

By Patrick DeHaan  

Senior Petroleum Analyst, National (USA) / Midwest

The direct hit that Hurricane Harvey took on the Texas Gulf Coast in August sent gas prices soaring as this refinery-rich area shut down due to the storm’s rain, winds and flooding. The national average jumped 25 cents in a week’s time – the largest weekly rise since 2005.

Supply and distribution were slow to recover as the refineries came back online after the sting of this storm. Followed quickly by a massive evacuation of Florida residents anticipating the dangerous Hurricane Irma, supply chains were on their heels which kept prices high.

So now what can we anticipate for gas prices?

Many of you are paying an average of 40 cents more than you were prior to August 25th with the nationwide average being $2.59. That average peaked on September 7th to $2.67 but be assured that relief is on its way.

National gasoline prices will trend lower and the downward movement will accelerate in the coming days as supply and demand tilt back towards a normal balance after Harvey’s shutdowns caused more gasoline to be consumed than produced.

Another factor in the decrease of gasoline prices is less seasonal demand as we enter the autumn months combined with the switch to winter-blend gasoline. In some areas, the switch has already occurred due to waivers granted after Harvey but overall this will add to the downward pressure on gas prices in the days ahead.

The good news is that you can expect lower gas prices in the upcoming weeks. The bad news? They are some of the most expensive autumn prices since 2015.

In the meantime, you can research the lowest prices in your area as they are fluctuating daily. The Price Spread in the GasBuddy app will give you valuable information you need on what the price differential is before you pull up to the pump. If you are looking for even more relief at the pump, get the Pay with GasBuddy card. You’ll never pay full price again! Sign up is free, you’ll save 5c/gallon and it’s accepted at stations nationwide.

Trump Administration Continues To Move Forward With The Wall

Washington Free Beacon by: Elizabeth Harrington

The Trump administration is moving ahead with constructing designs for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Department of Homeland Security recently awarded eight total contracts for prototypes to be built within the coming months. U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued awards for 30-foot-tall concrete prototypes and designs made out of other materials.

While President Donald Trump and Congress are still negotiating ways to fund a border wall—a signature campaign promise of the president—the administration is moving forward with existing funds to test designs for the wall.

"Congress approved DHS and CBP to reprogram $20 million to commence wall planning and to award the construction of four to eight prototypes," a DHS spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon. "Planning includes use of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and architecture and engineering support for real estate, environmental, and wall design efforts."

Feds were wiretapping head of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Then-Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. U.S. government investigators were wiretapping the head of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, both before and after the election, .

U.S. government investigators were wiretapping the head of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, both before and after the election, CNN reported Monday night.

Citing “three sources familiar with the investigation,” CNN Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had his phones tapped under secret orders from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court.

“The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump,” CNN reported.

Mr. Manafort has owned a home in Trump Tower since 2006.

In March of this year, Mr. Trump tweeted that he had “just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”

CNN said it was “unclear whether Trump himself was picked up on the surveillance” and, according to two of the network’s three sources, the wiretaps on Mr. Manafort did not pick up conclusive evidence.

The FISA court granted two warrants to tap Mr. Manafort’s phones, the first related to an investigation of his consulting work with Ukrainian politicians, a probe that CNN said was abandoned at some point in 2016.

However, the FBI got a second warrant later that election year to tap Mr. Manafort as part of its investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties with Russian operatives. That warrant was good into at least part of 2017, CNN reported.

“It is unclear when the new warrant started. The FBI interest deepened last fall because of intercepted communications between Manafort and suspected Russian operatives, and among the Russians themselves,” CNN wrote.

The White House declined to comment to CNN and did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Washington Times.

Law Firm Backing Luther Strange Set Up Sweetheart Deal for Bob Corker in Alabama Retail Development

(long but interesting)

(Long but interesting...)

by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY

A partner in the Alabama law firm whose members and political action committee donated $28,000 to the 2017 Senate campaign of Senator Luther Strange (R-AL) represented a real estate development company in which Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) has a 13 percent interest in a sweetheart deal that put over $100,000 of sales tax revenue paid by customers at the McGowin Park retail center in Mobile, Alabama in the pocket of the junior senator from Tennessee in 2016.

This revelation comes just days before President Donald Trump is set to campaign for Strange in Huntsville, Alabama, on Friday night–and the White House is distancing itself and the president from this real estate deal. Many media reports note that it was Corker–in a meeting with the president last Friday–who finally convinced the president to campaign for Strange ahead of the September 26 GOP primary runoff for the U.S. Senate. Corker, of course, is facing his own primary battle in Tennessee next year, something intricately connected to the goings-on in Alabama’s race politically and financially.

“It’s absurd to say that the President is responsible for actions of others,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Breitbart News in an email on Tuesday when asked if Senator Corker informed President Trump about his sweetheart investment in the Mobile, Alabama retail development when the two met in person at the White House on Friday.

“That’s like when someone gets shot and people say it’s the gun [manufacturer’s] fault. As a staunch conservative who I know must believe in personal responsibility I can’t believe you would argue otherwise,” she added.

While Sanders has not answered directly when asked whether Corker informed the president of this sweetheart investment deal during the meeting in which Corker convinced the president to campaign for Strange–in this quote or in follow-up emails–she generally said that the White House knows nothing about it.

“As for this alleged deal we know nothing about it, ” Sanders said of Corker’s sweetheart investment in McGowin Park, LLC.

In July 2013, Alvin Hope, a partner in the Mobile law firm of Maynard, Cooper, & Galerepresented a real estate development company known as McGowin Park, LLC before the Mobile City Council and the Mobile County Commission and secured extraordinary deals in which both local governments agreed to allow the developer to keep 28 percent of city sales taxes and 30 percent of county sales taxes collected from retail stores in the development for 20 years.

A year later, on July 11, 2014–still a year before the first retail store opened in the McGowin Park development–Corker purchased a 13.7 percent interest in McGowin Park, LLC for between $1 million and $5 million, according to financial disclosure documents he filed with the United States Senate. Six days later, on July 17, 2014, McGowin Park, LLC made a Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filing in Alabama disclosing that it secured a loan of an unknown amount from Wells Fargo to finance the project.

At the time the deal was approved by the Mobile City Council and Mobile County Commission in 2013, Luther Strange was halfway through his first four-year term as Alabama Attorney General, a position he held until February 2017 when now disgraced former Governor Robert Bentley appointed him to the United States Senate, which Alabama developer Stan Pate referred to as a “corrupt bargain” when he filed a complaint against Strange with the Alabama Ethics Commission on August 9.

It is unclear what, if any, oversight responsibilities Strange may have had over the McGowin Park, LLC/Mobile City Council/Mobile County Commission deal in his role at the time as Alabama Attorney General. Nor is there any indication that Mr. Hope or any attorney with Maynard, Cooper, & Gale sought or received any formal or informal advisory opinion or guidance from Strange or any other lawyers in the Alabama Attorney General’s office when preparing to present the proposal to the city or county governments in Mobile.

Corker and Strange appear to be close political allies in the United States Senate.

Between May and June of this year, Rock City PAC, which is Senator Corker’s Leadership PAC, donated $10,000 to Senator Luther Strange’s campaign, according to FEC records.

Since 2007, Karen Hutton, CEO of the Hutton Company, the Chattanooga, Tennessee real estate development company that appears to be the majority partner in McGowin Park, LLC, has donated $18,300 to Rock City PAC and $6,890 to Senator Corker’s campaign committees, according to FEC records.

Then last Friday, in a meeting at the White House, Corker asked President Trump to visit Alabama in the last days before the September 26 Republican primary runoff election for the U.S. Senate seat previously won by Attorney General Sessions between Strange and his conservative opponent, Judge Roy Moore, to support Strange.

Though President Trump endorsed Strange prior to the August 15 Republican primary election in which no candidate obtained a majority and Moore and Strange qualified for the runoff, Trump had not been very visible in his support for Strange since that initial election.

“Strange’s Republican colleagues got in on the push, too. Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, who is up for reelection in 2018 and faces the prospect of a primary challenge, spoke extensively with Trump on Friday. According to two people familiar with the conversation, Corker told Trump that Strange’s fate hinged on the president going to bat for him,” Politico reported about that meeting.

“Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) encouraged Trump to make the trip to Alabama when the two met at the White House on Friday, according to a source with knowledge of the discussions,” The Hill reported on Tuesday.

This Friday, President Trump and Strange will appear together at a Huntsville, Alabama campaign rally, an effort to reverse the tide currently favoring Moore. The latest Real Clear Politics average of polls shows Moore leading Strange by 8.8 percent.

Corker’s investment in McGowin Park, LLC appears to be one of those cases where behind-the-scenes knowledge has proved very lucrative.

In his Annual Report for Calendar 2014 filed with the United States Senate, Corker lists the value of his interest in McGowin Park, LLC between $1 million and $5 million. (see page 12)

In his Annual Report for Calendar 2015 filed with the United States Senate, Corker lists the value of his interest in McGowin Park, LLC between $1 million and $5 million. In addition, his interest in McGowin Park Shopping Center is also valued at between $1 million and $5 million, as is his interest in City of Mobile Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants and Mobile County Project Revenue warrants.

His 2015 income from McGowin Park Project Sales Revenue was reported to be $40,349, while he received rent/royalties from McGowin Park Shopping Center greater than $100,000 and less than $1 million.

In his Annual Report for Calendar 2016 filed with the United States Senate, Corker lists his interest in McGowin Park, LLC but places no value on it. However, he continues to list the value of his interest in McGowin Park Shopping Center at between $1 million and $5 million, as is his interest in City of Mobile Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants and Mobile County Project Revenue warrants.

His 2016 income from McGowin Park Project Sales Revenue was reported to be $108,682, while he received rent/royalties from McGowin Park Shopping Center greater than $100,000 and less than $1 million.

While it is not unusual for a private individual who makes an investment of between $1 million and $5 million in a large retail development to make a profit on that investment, the details of this particular investment are unusual in that the size and scope of the McGowin Park Project’s improvement districts deals between McGowin Park, LLC and the City of Mobile and Mobile County appear to be much larger than any other improvement district deal made in the State of Alabama before or since.

Authorized by the Alabama Improvement District Act passed by the state legislature and signed by the governor in 2000, an improvement district “allows developers to issue bonds to finance public infrastructure, usually in exchange for tax incentives,” as Lagniappe Weekly reported.

Thirteen years later, the McGowin Park Project became the first improvement district authorized by the City of Mobile and Mobile County.

“The Mobile City Council and the County Commissioners, during separate votes Tuesday, voted to unanimously endorse a development agreement that provides sales tax rebates for the construction of a new regional shopping center,” AL.com reported on July 23, 2013:

The votes support the development of the 600,000-square-foot McGowin Park shopping center along Satchel Paige Drive near Hank Aaron Stadium and abutting Regal Cinemas.

“We are very pleased with the progress with the city and county and look forward to a great project,” Steve Tingle, a partner with McGowin Park LLC, said after the votes.

The votes provide the developers of the project with 1.4 cents of the city’s 5-cent sales tax from new sales generated within the shopping center for 20 years. The county will pledge three-tenths of a cent from its 1-cent sales tax.

As proposed, if the project is completely built out and generates an estimated $200 million annually, the developers could get $1.4 million from the city’s sales tax portion. The project, which will attract at least three big-box retailer stores along with at least a half dozen “mid-size” retailers, is supposed to bring 1,200 new jobs to the city.

Tingle said ground could be broken to start construction in February 2014, with completion by July 2015.

The Mobile City Council also approved the formation of the Improvement District of the City of Mobile-McGowin Park Project when it met on July 23, 2013, according to the minutes of that meeting.

“The council, meanwhile, voted to endorse an initial board of directors for the McGowin Park Project that includes Tingle; Geoff Smith, a principle with project partners, The Hutton Co. of Chattanooga, Tenn.; and Josh Burmeister, a real estate broker involved in the project,” AL.com reported at the time.

At around the same date, the Mobile County Commission approved the formation of the Improvement District of Mobile County-McGowin Park Project.

“Since they were approved by state law in 2000, improvement districts have been cropping up around the state. In Baldwin County, similar public-private partnerships were used to create the Eastern Shore Center in Malbis, The Wharf in Orange Beach, The Spanish Fort Town Center and Colonial Pinnacle at Craft Farms in Gulf Shores,” Lagniappe Weekly reported:

Local economist Semoon Chang, director of the Gulf Coast Center for Impact Studies, said improvement districts may allow developers to construct higher-end shopping centers and attract new retail outlets to the region, but sales projections have to be realistic. In 2011, the Spanish Fort Town Center, which was incorporated with the authority to charge an additional district fee on top of local sales tax, fell into receivership after defaulting on a $17 million loan. There, developers had hoped a district anchored by a Bass Pro Shop would thrive, but today several of its storefronts remain vacant.

“What happened at Spanish Fort Town Center was they made sales predictions at the time that were a little rosy and actual tax collection was about a third of what was projected, so that’s when they got into trouble,” Chang said. “It is a really beautiful place, but the Bass Pro Shop didn’t play the kind of anchor role they anticipated and it failed to attract customers to the remaining stores in the Town Center.”

Though the intricacies of the deal are sometimes difficult to track, the sales tax revenues that under Alabama law are allowed to flow to the Improvement District of the City of Mobile-McGowin Park Project and the Improvement District of Mobile County-McGowin Park Project, appear to flow directly to McGowin Park, LLC, the development company controlled by the Hutton Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

According to bizstanding.com, The Improvement District of the City of Mobile – McGowin Park Project was registered as an Alabama domestic non-profit corporation on November 4, 2013, with three members and incorporators: Geoff Smith of Chattanooga, Tennessee (President of the Hutton Company); Josh Burmeister of Mobile, Alabama; and Karen Hutton of Chattanooga, Tennessee (CEO of the Hutton Company).

“McGowin Park, one of the largest retail developments in Mobile in recent memory, will not be a liability to the city or county despite a corporate partnership that will return millions in sales tax to the developers over a 20 year period, according to its manager. It may be the first example of an ‘improvement district’ in the county, which allows developers to issue bonds to finance public infrastructure, usually in exchange for tax incentives,” Lagniappe Weekly reported at the time:

“In the olden days, [developers] may go to local governments and say, ‘I need $5 million for water and sewer to lure in new businesses,’ but now it’s so much better,” said Phil Hunt, McGowin Park’s manager and financier. “There is no liability (to municipalities) and that’s the beauty of it, it’s a great tool for the developer to fund infrastructure without the city or county being on the hook. [Developers may say] ‘you give me the tools I need and allow me to form my own district’ and they are the one’s paying for it.”

In the case of McGowin Park, which will include 600,000-square-feet of retail space anchored by a 140,000-square-foot club store, the city will return 1.4 cents of its five-cent sales tax collection and the county will return three-tenths cents of its one-cent sales tax collection on revenues that are projected to be as high as $200 million per year.

The Mobile County Commission and Mobile City Council approved the district last summer with constriction originally slated to begin in February. But dirt at the 90-acre property near Hank Aaron Stadium has yet to be turned, although the developer, Chattanooga, Tenn.-based The Hutton Co., is still projecting an opening date sometime in 2015.

“The council was criticized for providing a sales tax incentive for McGowin Park in 2013. The former general manager at Bel Air, Tim Nolan, said at the time that city government should not be rewarding new shopping centers at the possible detriment of existing shopping centers,” AL.com reported last year.

In August and September 2014, both the City of Mobile and Mobile County took the unusual step of protecting the developer in which Corker now had a 13 percent interest, McGowin Park, LLC, from losing its sales tax rebate in the event the lender providing much of the financing to the project, Wells Fargo, decided to foreclose on the collateral pledged to secure that loan.

The September 19, 2014, minutes of the Mobile County Commissioners meeting spelled out those details:

McGowin Park, LLC pledged collateral to Wells Fargo bank for a construction loan. Mr. [Alvin] Hope [the attorney with Maynard, Cooper, & Gale representing McGowin Park LLC] said the Warrant issued by the County was not included as collateral. He said McGowin Park LLC wanted to transfer the County’s Warrant into a Special Purpose LLC named McGowin Park Incentive, LLC only as a precautionary action to prevent the Warrant from being attached as collateral in the future if an event was to happen out of their control.

Mr. Hope said they did not want Wells Fargo Bank to attach specific collateral to the construction loan if something were to happen. He said the Warrant issued by the County was purposely not included in the collateral that secured the construction loan for the project. Mr. Hope said McGowin Park, LLC created a Special Purpose LLC to house the Warrant and remove it from the possibility as collateral. He said McGowin Park, LLC was the only entity responsible for the project when they initially secured the loan.

Senator Corker lists McGowin Park Incentive, LLC as an asset in both his 2015 and 2016 Annual Reports filed with the U.S. Senate, but lists no value to the asset.

The first retail stores in McGowin Park opened for business in 2015. By the end of 2016, the project was completed and leased out.

In May of this year, rebusinessonline.com reported that “Hutton Co. has sold McGowin Park, an approximately 375,000-square-foot, open-air shopping center located at 3075 Government Blvd. in Mobile. Cole Credit Property Trust IV Inc. purchased the asset for $77.8 million.”

Completed in 2016, McGowin Park’s tenant roster includes Dick’s Sporting Goods, Field & Stream, HomeGoods, Ross Dress for Less, Hobby Lobby, Best Buy, Old Navy, Petco, Ashley Furniture HomeStore and Dollar Tree. The center is shadow-anchored by Costco and Regal Cinemas and features additional development opportunities with three outparcel pads and two restaurant pads.

It is unclear how much profit Hutton Co. and the related McGowin Park, LLC in which Senator Corker has a 13 percent interest, made in that transaction.

Breitbart News contacted both Senator Corker and Senator Strange for comment on this article but has not received a response from either senator.

These Seven Words About “Mad Dog” Mattis Spell The End For Kim Jong Un

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is developing nuclear weapons in the hopes that the threat of nuclear war will allow his tyrannical regime to remain in power.

But those hopes were badly misplaced.

One top Trump official said seven words about “Mad Dog” Mattis that now spell certain doom for the ruthless dictator.

North Korea escalated the crisis by conducting their sixth nuclear test – detonating what experts believe to be a hydrogen bomb – and launching a second intercontinental ballistic missile test over Japan.

The United States continues to warn Pyongyang that their actions are unacceptable and that they face severe consequences should they cross the line and threaten the United States or her allies.

But the North Korean government appears to believe the Trump administration is just like past administrations, where threatening talk is just that – talk.

They are badly miscalculating.

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley declared in an interview that North Korea must stop their behavior and then uttered just seven words that mean the end of Kim Jong Un.

She said in regards to a military option against North Korea “…General Mattis will take care of it.”

Haley also stated that a military conflict would mean North Korea would be destroyed.

CNN reports:

“US AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS NIKKI HALEY SAID PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S “FIRE AND FURY” COMMENT LAST MONTH ABOUT NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM WAS NOT AN EMPTY THREAT.

IN AN INTERVIEW THAT AIRED SUNDAY WITH CNN’S DANA BASH ON “STATE OF THE UNION,” HALEY EMPHASIZED THAT DEFENSE SECRETARY JAMES MATTIS HAS AN ARRAY OF OPTIONS TO DESTROY THE NATION OF SOME 25 MILLION PEOPLE.

IF THE US EXHAUSTS DIPLOMATIC OPTIONS ON NORTH KOREA, THE US MILITARY WOULD “TAKE CARE OF IT,” HALEY SAID,

“WE WANTED TO BE RESPONSIBLE AND GO THROUGH ALL DIPLOMATIC MEANS TO GET THEIR ATTENTION FIRST,” HALEY SAID. “IF THAT DOESN’T WORK, GENERAL MATTIS WILL TAKE CARE OF IT.”

HALEY WARNED A WAR WOULD MEAN THE DESTRUCTION OF NORTH KOREA.

“IF NORTH KOREA KEEPS ON WITH THIS RECKLESS BEHAVIOR, IF THE UNITED STATES HAS TO DEFEND ITSELF OR DEFEND ITS ALLIES IN ANY WAY, NORTH KOREA WILL BE DESTROYED,” HALEY SAID. “AND WE ALL KNOW THAT, AND NONE OF US WANT THAT.”

This is the second time a Trump administration official has warned North Korea they will be destroyed.

After a North Korean missile test, Secretary of Defense “Mad Dog” Mattis stated North Korea should stop its provocations before it was destroyed.

Business Insider reports:

“NORTH KOREA “SHOULD CEASE ANY CONSIDERATION OF ACTIONS THAT WILL LEAD TO THE END OF THE REGIME AND DESTRUCTION OF ITS PEOPLE,” MATTIS SAID IN A STATEMENT.”

North Korea – as well as many pundits – believes the Trump administration is bluffing about a military option.

They claim that because North Korea has thousands of artillery pieces poised to annihilate Seoul and their nuclear weapons can incinerate Tokyo, there is no chance the United States will engage in a second Korean war.

But “Mad Dog” Mattis has options at his disposal.

Do you think this will end in war?

Let us know your thoughts in the comment section.

Bill O’Reilly’s Accuser Just Had Her Arrest Record Exposed… Total Fraud

BY V SAXENA

Newly unveiled evidence proves that one of the central women behind former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s ouster from the network earlier this year is a complete and utter fraud.

According to an arrest report filed by the Detroit Police Department two years ago, this woman, Perquita Burgess, tried to frame her boyfriend by claiming he had struck her in the face with a gun, as reported by Newsmax.

When officers arrived on the scene, however, they found Burgess drunk and confused.

“I asked Ms. Burgess where the gun was that she was struck with in the face, she replied there is no gun,” the arresting officer reportedly said. “I again asked her where the gun was, and if she had been assaulted. Ms. Burgess stated there was no gun, and he didn’t assault me!”

Was it all just a big misunderstanding inspired by the overconsumption of alcohol? Not even close.

According to Newsmax, when the officers then asked her boyfriend what happened, he claimed she had threatened to call “the cops saying you hit me with a gun!” In other words, she made the whole thing up but wound up getting cold feet at the last minute.

And if she made this story up, what do you suppose are the chances she made up the story about O’Reilly allegedly calling her “hot chocolate” and leering/grunting at her?

Burgess’s disturbing history of distortion and lies don’t stop there.

Another document obtained by Newmax shows that “a social media user

thought to be Burgess” issued a tweet five years ago in which she described herself as “hot chocolate.”

That’s awfully coincidental, wouldn’t you say? A tad too coincidental, in fact, though according to O’Reilly, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

“When I left Fox News, I told my audience that no one was mistreated on my watch for 20 years and that this was a political hit job — well-financed, well-organized, and that is the truth,” he said during an interview Monday with D.C. radio station WMAL.

“So I immediately hired an investigative team and we’ve come up with an amazing amount of things and I applaud Newsmax.com for their investigation and coming up with what they came up with,” he added. “And now over the next few months we will start to tell the American people what a political hit job is and how dangerous this is to our democracy.”

If what he said is true — and there’s no reason at the moment to suspect otherwise — then a whole lot of heads are about to roll, including but certainly not limited to that of Burgess, an unrepentant liar whose days of smearing innocent people are quickly approaching an end.

Please share this story on Facebook and Twitter and let us know what you think about this woman’s apparent history of making up false allegations.

What do you think about Bill O'Reilly's efforts to expose his accusers?

Give Japan And South Korea The Bomb
By Dick Morris

   

On May 6, 1981, New York Times columnist Drew Middleton explained the rationale behind French president Charles de Gaulle’s decision to develop France’s own nuclear weapons rather than rely on those of the U.S. or U.K. He wrote that “General de Gaulle believed that the United States would not use its nuclear weapons if faced with a choice between the destruction of Western Europe and a Soviet-American missile exchange. His argument was that the United States would not risk New York or Detroit to save Hamburg or Lyons.”

The same logic, of course, applied to Russia. The Kremlin could have no clear idea of whether an American president would trade New York for Lyons, but clearly a French president wouldn’t think twice before pushing the button in retaliation for a nuclear strike on Lyons.

The logic of deterrence relies on mutually ASSURED destruction (MAD). Any doubt or ambiguity will fuel the megalomania and delusions of a Hitler or a Kim Jong-un.

Now, we must apply de Gaulle’s logic to the dilemma of how to deter North Korea. Again, we come to the question: Will an American president strike North Korea with nuclear weapons in retaliation for an attack on Seoul or Tokyo? We don’t know the answer and Kim certainly doesn’t. And so, it now makes abundant sense to arm his two likely targets — Japan and South Korea — with the capacity to retaliate with nuclear weapons whatever the American president decides to do. Only then will Kim know that if he uses his atomic weapons against either country, he has literally bought into assured destruction of him and his own nation.

When Donald Trump proposed this solution during the campaign, he was hooted down. But circumstances have now come around to the point where we have to give his proposal a green light.

Some argue that giving the bomb to non-nuclear countries opens the door for everybody to get a bomb. As a practical matter, that door may already be open.

But why do we only allow our enemies to get the bomb and keep our friends from getting it?

Seventy years into the nuclear age, we have learned two things:

1. Any nation that wants to get the bomb badly enough will be able to get it.

2. Only mutually assured destruction can guarantee that the bomb is never used.

How much more evidence do we need?

Neither Japan nor South Korea will be thrilled to get nuclear weapons. Understandably, Japan’s experience in having been attacked twice with atomic weapons makes it averse to such armament. And South Korea just voted for a “peace” candidate whose politics are founded in wishful thinking.

But eventually, both nations will likely see the logic and arm themselves with our assistance.

And, when both have nuclear weapons, we can expect a radical de-escalation in Kim’s wild threats and rhetoric. We can also rest secure the nuclear weapons will not be used.

Susan Rice Lied About Unmasking, And It Finally Caught Up To Her

Washington Free Beacon by: Bill Gertz

Former Obama administration National Security Adviser Susan Rice told a House committee this month she requested the identities of Trump transition aides that were hidden in sensitive intelligence reports to protect Americans' privacy rights.

Rice testified before a closed session of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Sept. 6 that she asked U.S. intelligence agencies for the names of Trump advisers to be unmasked in transcripts of communications intercepts.

Rice asked for names to be unmasked in a transcript of an electronic intercept involving a meeting between three senior Trump aides and a United Arab Emirates official who had traveled to the United States for an informal visit.

Rice's disclosures before the intelligence panel appear to contradict earlier statements she made asserting that she had no knowledge of the unmasking of Americans, the process of identifying the names of Americans who are protected by privacy laws and who are incidentally spied on during sensitive foreign electronic intelligence operations.

Trump on Iran Deal: ‘I Have Decided’
By Melanie ArterPresident Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas

(CNSNews.com) – President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has made a decision on the Iran deal, although he wouldn’t indicate what that decision is or when he’ll announce it.

Prior to a bilateral meeting with Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Trump said, “I have decided,” when reporters asked whether he had decided that the U.S. would honor the Iran deal that the previous administration brokered or break the deal.

When asked when he would make an announcement, the president said, “I’ll let you know.”

Meanwhile, Trump said it was “a great honor” to have Abbas and his representatives with the U.S. delegation, adding that Abbas and his people “have been working very hard with everybody involved toward peace.”

“I mean, we're looking seriously at peace, and maybe, ultimately, peace in the whole of the Middle East, and I think we have a pretty good shot -- maybe the best shot ever -- and that's what we're looking to do,” he said.

“It's a complex subject - always been considered the toughest deal of all. Peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- the toughest of all - but I think we have a very, very good chance, and I certainly will devote everything within my heart and within my soul to get that deal made,” the president said.

“Our team is expert. Your team is expert. Israel is working very hard toward the same goal, and I must tell you, Saudi Arabia and many of the different nations are working also hard,” he said. “So we'll see if we can put it together. Who knows? Stranger things have happened, but I think we have a good chance, and it's a great honor to have you with us.”

Abbas thanked the president for allowing the Palestinian Authority to meet with him for the first time this year.

“And if this is any proof to anything, it means -- it attests to the seriousness of Your Excellency, Mr. President, to achieve the deal of the century in the Middle East during this year or in the coming months, God willing,” Abbas said.

“And we are very certain that you, Mr. President, are determined to reach real peace in the Middle East, and this gives us the assurance and the confidence that we are on the verge of real peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis,” Abbas added.

“And I would not be giving away any secrets if I say we have met with your brave and active delegation more than 20 times since your ascension to power in the White House, and if this is any indication to anything, it indicates how serious you are about peace in the Middle East,” the Palestinian leader said.

“And allow me, Mr. President, to use this opportunity to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the Jewish people on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah today, and to the Muslim people on the occasion of the new Islamic year tomorrow.  And this is a very sweet coincidence that we can celebrate the new year together within a 24-hour period, and if this is an indication to anything it means that we can coexist peacefully together,” Abbas said.

President Trump’s UN Address Reasserts Patriotism and Sovereignty

In one of the most important speeches of his presidency, President Donald Trump has outlined a new standard for American leadership on the world stage. This speech explains the strategy of a sovereignty based patriotism as a clear alternative to the globalist desire to submerge nations in international agreements and institutions.

In his first address to the United Nations on Tuesday, President Trump called for “a great reawakening of nations, for the revival of their spirits, their pride, their people, and their patriotism.” It was a strong, clear, decisive call for national identity as the first step to healthy and sustainable international cooperation, at a time that is critical to determining the future prosperity and safety of our world.

Now, more than ever, it is too dangerous for the United Nations to remain ineffective at keeping peace.

Similar to his major foreign policy speeches in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia last spring and Warsaw, Poland this past summer, Tuesday’s speech was both historic and potentially game-changing.

The President placed intellectual clarity and emphasis on his principle that the world will be made safer when America and its allies in the United Nations work together as sovereign nations to achieve peace and security in the world – a notion which echoes the founding doctrine in the Charter of the United Nations.

This is a significant step toward breaking the United Nations out of the inefficient, bureaucratic, global government model, which has rendered the body incapable of stopping rogue nations, terrorism, and other human rights abuses for decades.

During his remarks, President Trump asked member nations, “Are we still patriots? Do we love our nations enough to protect their sovereignty and to take ownership of their futures? Do we revere them enough to defend their interests, preserve their cultures, and ensure a peaceful world for their citizens?”

This question was an intellectual call to arms. The United Nations’ sovereign members need to think critically about whether it is in the best interest of their citizens to allow terrorism and unstable rogue regimes, such as North Korea, Iran, and Syria to provoke chaos and death across the world.

If United Nations member states allow the likes of Kim Jong-un, Hassan Rouhani, and Bashar al-Assad to continue to possess and develop weapons of mass destruction, torment their own people, and disregard international laws, major war will become unavoidable.

In many ways, the President’s appeal was reminiscent of Winston Churchill’s warnings against European appeasement of Hitler in the years leading up to World War II.

No doubt, those on the Left will condemn this speech, saying that the President’s policy of putting the interests of America and Americans before those of other nations is divergent, isolationist, and dangerous.

However, this view ignores history. Since its founding, every member of the United Nations has been expected to put the interests of its own citizens first.

When the United Nations was established in 1945 to replace the League of Nations, which had proved too ineffective to maintain peace and security in the years following World War I, there was no expectation that Great Britain would hold its own people second to the citizens of France. The leaders of China would not have been expected to put the interests of the Dutch before their own people. And Joseph Stalin knew that President Harry Truman would put America before the USSR. Any other notion would have been utterly preposterous.

My hope is that the member nations heed the President’s call, reawaken their sense of national sovereignty, and realize how critically important it is to defend their nations against a range of foreign dangers.

As President Trump said on Tuesday, “If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph. When decent people and nations become bystanders to history, the forces of destruction only gather power and strength.”

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