One guy who seemed to escape the scrutiny of the left’s internet army, however, is the one guy pictured actually holding a Nazi flag – something which caught the attention of several on the right.
The one guy with a nazi flag is like the only one who hasn't been doxed https://t.co/E4WGOcPKK8
In yet another case of Democrats trying to erase reminders of their slave-owning past, a 25 year old Houston man previously convicted of a Federal explosives charge was arrested over the weekend after he was caught attempting to blow up a Confederate statue of General Dowling at Hermann park, acting U.S. attorney Abe Martinez of the Southern District of Texas said Monday.
Schneck, who earned a chemistry degree at an Austin college, was found ‘kneeling among the bushes in front of the General Dowling Monument’ with items ‘capable to produce a viable explosive device,’ according to a press release issued by prosecutors.
Andrew Schneck, 25, is in custody & charged for attempting to maliciously damage or destroy property receiving federal financial assistance
According to a criminal complaint, Schneck had two boxes of duct tape, explosives, and wires.
“Some very hazardous materials were found (in the house), said Houston Police Assistant Chief Larry Satterwhite at a Monday press conference. “And we are in the process of trying to mitigate that and remove those materials in a safe manner that does not jeopardize the public and keeps everyone safe.”
Per the Justice department:
The clear liquid was field tested as was a white powdery substance found in a small, black aluminum tube which revealed they were most likely nitroglycerin and Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD), respectively, according to the charges. HMTD is a high explosive organic compound used as an initiating, or primary explosive. Nitroglycerin has been used as an active ingredient in the manufacture of explosives. ln its pure form, nitroglycerin is a contact explosive, with physical shock causing it to explode, which degrades over time to even more unstable forms. Nitroglycerin is highly dangerous to transport or use. ln its undiluted form, it is one of the world’s most powerful explosives.
"I can reassure you that we have no information to indicate there is any additional threat to the Houston area at this time"- ASAC Ogletree pic.twitter.com/hzgdpWgkla
Schneck, rich-kid son of prominent Houston art appraiser Cecily E. Horton, was recently released on probation after serving 28 months of a 5 year sentence following a 2014 conviction for improperly storing explosives at the family’s four homes and his Austin college dorm, requiring authorities in Hazmat suits to remove chemicals and detonate two devices.
According to the criminal complaint, Schneck “conducts ‘chemistry experiments’” at his Houston residence. The case falls under Federal jurisdiction because Houston, “receives federal financial assistance for maintenance of Hermann Park where the General Dowling Monument is located,” prosecutors said.
Andrew Cecil Schneck attended Memorial High School in the Spring Branch school district, graduating in 2010, according to the Houston Chronicle. A former classmate called him a loner who never had a girlfriend and struggle with social interactions, according to the Chronicle.
“I can’t even think of a single friend he had, to be perfectly honest,” he told the newspaper, adding that he was called Ace because of his initials. “None of this is surprising. He seems a bit disconnected from reality.”
The former classmate said Schneck wrote a “manifesto” about the school’s popular girls during their senior year of high school, decrying how they were treated by their boyfriends and saying he would have been better than them, according to the newspaper.
Schneck faces between 5 and 40 years in prison if convicted, as well as a charge of up to $250,000.
A Los Angeles jury awarded $417 million to a 62 year old woman who blamed her ovarian cancer on Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder – the first such award in a California court, and the third highest award in the U.S. so far in 2017.
The jury found the parent company and its consumer-products unit liable Monday for failing to warn a woman over the alleged risk of the baby powder. The verdict includes $347 million in punitive damages. J&J, which faces 5,500 claims in U.S. courts, has lost four previous jury verdicts in St. Louis for a total of $300 million.
The company is appealing all the verdicts, and was successful in halting a new trial in St. Louis after the U.S. Supreme court made it more difficult for plaintiffs living out of state to join lawsuits in states deemed favorable to their claims.
J&J spokeswoman Carol Goodrich said in a statement “We are guided by the science, which supports the safety of Johnson’s Baby Powder,’’ adding “We are preparing for additional trials in the U.S. and we will continue to defend the safety of Johnson’s Baby Powder.”
Long term talc use
In statement on the courthouse stairs, plaintiff Eva Echeverria’s attorney, Mark Robinson, said that J&J should star warning women immediately about the risks of talcum powder.
“J&J needs to see they not only have verdicts against them in St. Louis, they now also have them in Los Angeles,” said Robinson, adding “There’s a problem all over the country with women using talcum powder on daily basis for 10, 20, 30, 40 years.”
Echeverria said she began using J&J baby powder since she was 11, and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007.
J&J says it’s horseshit
The New Jersey based J&J has said that the plaintiffs’ allegations aren’t supported by science, pointing to two cases last tossed out of court last year in which a judge found evidence linking baby powder to ovarian cancer inadequate.
Johnson and Johnson stock didn’t budge in the wake of the announcement – considering its $40 billion in cash on hand, $16.5 billion in net annual revenue, and the fact that appeals should tie the case(s) up in court for months to years.
One day after Steve Bannon told The Weekly Standard (Bill Kristol’s rag) that the ‘Trump Presidency we fought for, and won, is over,” the ousted Trump advisor tells the Washington Post that ‘No administration in history has been so divided among itself about the direction about where it should go.’
Bannon added that Trump’s efforts to balance his nationalist campaign promises with the priorities of moderate Republicans on Capitol Hill were an extreme uphill battle, as his agenda has ‘dovetailed more with traditional Republican priorities than the agenda Trump championed.’
“In an interview in Washington on Saturday, Bannon warned Republican leaders to enthusiastically support Trump’s priorities on taxes, trade and funding a massive border wall — or risk the wrath of the president’s base, including Breitbart, to which Bannon returned Friday as executive chairman.
“If the Republican Party on Capitol Hill gets behind the president on his plans and not theirs, it will all be sweetness and light, be one big happy family,” Bannon said.”
That said, Bannon isn’t holding his breath – adding with a smile that he doesn’t expect ‘sweetness’ anytime soon.
Weaponized Breitbart?
Let’s be honest here. Trump ran on a platform of economic nationalism, non-interventionism, and America first. Since winning the election, his core team has been wholly dismantled – replaced by long-time establishment shills such as H.R. McMaster and Gen. Kelly. Breitbart had been muzzled several times for his opposition to the Syria strike, and his vocal opposition to military action in North Korea was reportedly the straw that broke the camel’s back in terms of his departure from the White House.
‘there is no military solution in North Korea… Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 3o minutes from conventional weapons.’ –Steve Bannon
Meanwhile, globalists Gary Cohn and Dina Powell of Goldman Sachs are effectively holdovers from the Obama administration through their close ties to Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, and Jared and Ivanka are pushing their own leftist agendas. While those on the left may love the way the White House has shaped up, this isn’t what Trump supporters voted for.
In a pair of farewell tweets, Trump thanked Steve Bannon for his service, adding in a later tweet, ‘Steve Bannon will be a tough and smart new voice at @Breitbartnews… maybe even better than ever before.’
I want to thank Steve Bannon for his service. He came to the campaign during my run against Crooked Hillary Clinton – it was great! Thanks S
Several friends and former co-workers said that they expect Bannon to use the platform to attack his political opponents, including those he has derided as “globalists” and Democrats inside the White House.
“I think Steve is going to be more effective on the outside,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and a longtime friend of Bannon. “On the outside, if you are well-funded and you are feared and you have a platform, you are going to be a power player. Steve has all of that in spades.”
We’ll see. Many expect that Bannon will still have Trump’s ear from outside the White House – as is the case with other fired staffers such as Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s first campaign manager who pops into the White House on occasion.
Whether that will mean jack shit has yet to be seen… According to Roger Stone, Bannon was a huge pussy when it came to pushing Trump’s nationalist agenda from inside the White House – letting the establishment steamroll the hopes and dreams of Trump supporters. Maybe he won’t hold back now from the safety of his desk at Breitbart.
Barclays managers were inundated with WTFs when investment banking staff in London discovered little black boxes underneath their desks, according to several surprised employees.
The monitors, installed by OccupEye, use heat and motion sensors to log employee ‘chair time’ at the bank. Barclays joins Lloyds Banking Group in using the monitors, which were introduced in stages.
There was a “phased roll-out” of the devices, and Barclays staff and the Unite union were notified before they were installed, although the bank did not send out a specific memo about them, according to spokesman Tom Hoskin. The Barclays employees said they don’t remember being informed about the boxes, but spokespeople for the bank said there have been no official human-resources complaints.
The bank says that the boxes aren’t monitoring ‘people or their productivity; they are assessing office space usage,’ Barclays said in a statement. ‘This sort of analysis helps us to reduce costs, for example, managing energy consumption, or identifying opportunities to further adopt flexible work environments.’
Ok…
Apparently this is all part of a push to shift to ‘hot-desking’ – or using a temporary desk on an as-needed basis, which supposedly allows companies to maximize office space efficiency and reduce overhead.
Barclays joins Lloyds Banking Group Plc in the use of the technology, however JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Credit Suisse haven’t done so. That said, I’m sure they’re using the finest in surveillance technology to monitor lazy bankers.
The 7th Feet announced in a tweet today that the USS John S. McCain has collided with a merchant vessel in the Strait of Malaca, sustaining damage to its port side aft – suggesting the Navy destroyer was rammed.
The Navy reports that the McCain is currently sailing under its own power and heading into port.
The merchant vessel involved in the collision is the Alnic MC, a tanker built in 2008 that flies under the Liberian flag:
The USS John S. McCain is named after Senator McCain’s father and grandfather – both admirals in the Navy. Earlier this month, the destroyer irked Chinese officials when it sailed by contested man-made islands in the South China sea – drawing ‘strong dissatisfaction.’
Fourth incident since February
4th mishap in the Pacific since February? USS Antietam, USS Lake Champlain, USS Fitzgerald, & now USS McCain.. What is going on?? pic.twitter.com/cZoS8E6PdR
In February, guided missile cruiser USS Antietam ran aground, damaging its propellers and spilling oil off the coast of Japan.
In May, the San Diego based guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain collided with a South Korean fishing vessel on its way to go scare Kim Jong Un into giving up his nukes.
And in June, seven sailors were killed when cargo vessel ACX Crystal rammed the USS Fitzgerald off the coast of japan, resulting in the top three officers losing their commands for ‘losing situational awareness.’ One of its compartments flooded in about 90 seconds.
The destroyer suffered flooding in three compartments
So it appears that the first two incidents were Navy fuckups, and the last two were merchant ships ramming into U.S. vessels. I wonder if it was on purpose? The ship which hit the Fitzgerald, the ACX Crystal, appeared to make a u-turn before the collision, so it will be interesting to see what route the Liberian Alnic MC took.
Less than a week after white supremacist James Alex Fields drove his car into a crowd in Charlottesville, VA, leaving one dead and 19 injured, leaked chat logs from several weeks before the event reveal participants joking about mowing down counter-protesters blocking their path.
Of note, several conservative groups around the country who are not affiliated with white supremacy or Neo-Nazi movements, such as The Three Percenters, have severed all ties with the protests in the aftermath of last weekend’s deadly events.
“While we support and defend everyone’s right to free speech, we will not align ourselves with any type of racist group.”
In screenshots from a ‘Discord’ chat room moderated by former liberal Obama activist turned white supremacist event organizer Jason Kessler (username ‘MadDimension’), attendees can be seen discussing transportation in case things turned violent. While one member’s suggestion to use Uber was shot down, another participant suggested coordinating with Enterprise rent-a-car in case of a ‘worse case scenario.’
In a subsequent comment, user AltCelt(IL) posted a picture of a two buses being mobbed by protesters, typing ‘this will be us’ below.
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In response, an event organizer named ‘Tyrone’ – who worked closely with Kessler, advised the group that it would be legal to mow down protesters under certain circumstances:
‘I know NC law is on the books that driving over protesters blocking roadways isn’t an offense. This is crossover for this channel and VA law. Sure would be nice,‘ along with a meme of a John Deere ‘Multi-Lane Protester Digestor.’ –‘Tyrone’
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It is unknown whether or not 20 year old James Alex Fields, the white supremacist arrested after his 2010 Dodge Challenger plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters, was in the Discord chat room at the time – however members of the group “Vanguard America,” which Fields belonged to, participated in Kessler’s server.
What we do know is the same ‘Tyrone’ who made the vehicle-ramming comments also made several posts telling members that attending the event ‘in general’ would be risky.
Over 300 screenshots leaked exclusively to unicornriot.ninja were made available in a 65 MB .zip archive on Friday. Here are a few more notable finds:
Kessler organized the event with military precision
To preface, perhaps this 2015 blog entry of Kessler’s in which he proclaims “I can’t think of any occupation that I admire more than the professional provocateur” can shed some light on how a hyper-liberal Occupy activist did an ideological flip and wound up leading a group of white supremacists in a protest that has since polarized the nation:
And in addition to applying for a license to hold the protest in Emancipation Park and successfully utilizing the ACLU to sue the city when it was rejected, Kessler issued instructions to the group regarding the tiki torch ceremony and other matters.
Kessler was concerned about optics…
When one participant in the discord chat asked another protest participant if he was in ‘Vanguard’ and if Vanguard was in the ‘National Socialist Front’ (Also known as the National Socialist Movement, or NSM), the other user replied ‘Yup,’ adding ‘Nsm is not the optic Kessler wanted tho.’
Although I guess he didn’t mind the optics in May when he was hanging out with white supremacist Richard Spencer at Jackson Park:
Some have questioned whether or not the May demonstration was a ‘dry run’ for last weekend’s ill-fated rally. Note Kessler’s long pause at the :15 second mark when asked.
Kessleralso didn’t mind the optics of the haircut he got to match his new friends attending the ‘Unite the Right’ protest he organized.
Self professed agent provocateur got a haircut to play the white supremacist role for #UniteTheRight rally. Left 2/15/17 & on right today pic.twitter.com/cAUB6998pz
The group also discussed using burner phones and cash to avoid doxxing
‘Unite the Right’ attendees were also weary of was VA felonymask laws – something the police did not enforce when it came to masked Antifa, as well as whether or not they’d be turned away if the wore shirts with swastikas instead of the polo / khaki ‘uniform’ most of the group can be seen wearing.
Back to Kessler – it appears he’s taken himself out of the equation…
Right before deleting his Twitter account, Kessler made a wildly inappropriate tweet about Heather Heyer – the counter-protester killed in Charlottesville:
This allowed Richard Spencer to disavow the compromised Kessler and continue the movement I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of.
After his offensive tweet, Kessler stated “I repudiate the heinous tweet that was sent from my account last night. I’ve been under a crushing amount of stress & death threats,” adding “I’m taking ambien, Xanax and I had been drinking last night. I sometimes wake up having done strange things I can’t remember.”
Less than a week after white supremacist James Alex Fields drove his car into a crowd in Charlottesville, VA, leaving one dead and 19 injured, leaked chat logs from several weeks before the event reveal participants joking about mowing down counter-protesters blocking their path.
Of note, several conservative groups around the country who are not affiliated with white supremacy or Neo-Nazi movements, such as The Three Percenters, have severed all ties with the protests in the aftermath of last weekend’s deadly events.
“While we support and defend everyone’s right to free speech, we will not align ourselves with any type of racist group.”
In screenshots of the ‘Discord’ chat room moderated by former liberal Obama activist turned white supremacist event organizer Jason Kessler (username ‘MadDimension’), attendees can be seen discussing transportation in case things turned violent. While one member’s suggestion to use Uber was shot down, another participant suggested coordinating with Enterprise rent-a-car in case of a ‘worse case scenario.’
In a subsequent comment, user AltCelt(IL) posted a picture of a two buses being mobbed by protesters, typing ‘this will be us’ below.
Click to enlarge
In response, an event organizer named ‘Tyrone’ – who worked closely with Kessler, advised the group that it would be legal to mow down protesters under certain circumstances:
‘I know NC law is on the books that driving over protesters blocking roadways isn’t an offense. This is crossover for this channel and VA law. Sure would be nice,‘ along with a meme of a John Deere ‘Multi-Lane Protester Digestor.’ –‘Tyrone’
Click to enlarge
It is unknown whether or not 20 year old James Alex Fields, the white supremacist arrested after his 2010 Dodge Challenger plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters, was in the Discord chat room at the time – however members of the group “Vanguard America,” which Fields belonged to, participated in Kessler’s server.
What we do know is the same ‘Tyrone’ who made the vehicle-ramming comments also made several posts telling members that attending the event ‘in general’ would be risky.
Over 300 screenshots leaked exclusively to unicornriot.ninja were made available in a 65 MB .zip archive on Friday. Here are a few more notable finds:
Kessler organized the event with military precision
To preface, perhaps this 2015 blog entry of Kessler’s in which he proclaims “I can’t think of any occupation that I admire more than the professional provocateur” can shed some light on how a hyper-liberal Occupy activist did an ideological flip and wound up leading a group of white supremacists in a protest that has since polarized the nation:
And in addition to applying for a license to hold the protest in Emancipation Park and successfully utilizing the ACLU to sue the city when it was rejected, Kessler issued instructions to the group regarding the tiki torch ceremony and other matters.
Kessler was concerned about optics…
When one participant in the discord chat asked another protest participant if he was in ‘Vanguard’ and if Vanguard was in the ‘National Socialist Front’ (Also known as the National Socialist Movement, or NSM), the other user replied ‘Yup,’ adding ‘Nsm is not the optic Kessler wanted tho.’
Although I guess he didn’t mind the optics in May when he was hanging out with white supremacist Richard Spencer at Jackson Park:
Some have questioned whether or not the May demonstration was a ‘dry run’ for last weekend’s ill-fated rally. Note Kessler’s long pause at the :15 second mark when asked.
Kessleralso didn’t mind the optics of the haircut he got to match his new friends attending the ‘Unite the Right’ protest he organized.
Self professed agent provocateur got a haircut to play the white supremacist role for #UniteTheRight rally. Left 2/15/17 & on right today pic.twitter.com/cAUB6998pz
The group also discussed using burner phones and cash to avoid doxxing
‘Unite the Right’ attendees were also weary of was VA felonymask laws – something the police did not enforce when it came to masked Antifa, as well as whether or not they’d be turned away if the wore shirts with swastikas instead of the polo / khaki ‘uniform’ most of the group can be seen wearing.
Back to Kessler – it appears he’s taken himself out of the equation…
Right before deleting his Twitter account, Kessler made a wildly inappropriate tweet about Heather Heyer – the counter-protester killed in Charlottesville:
This allowed Richard Spencer to disavow the compromised Kessler and continue the movement I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of.
After his offensive tweet, Kessler stated “I repudiate the heinous tweet that was sent from my account last night. I’ve been under a crushing amount of stress & death threats,” adding “I’m taking ambien, Xanax and I had been drinking last night. I sometimes wake up having done strange things I can’t remember.”
Less than a week after white supremacist James Alex Fields drove his car into a crowd in Charlottesville, VA, leaving one dead and 19 injured, leaked chat logs from several weeks before the event reveal participants joking about mowing down counter-protesters blocking their path.
Of note, several conservative groups around the country who are not affiliated with white supremacy or Neo-Nazi movements, such as The Three Percenters, have severed all ties with the protests in the aftermath of last weekend’s deadly events.
“While we support and defend everyone’s right to free speech, we will not align ourselves with any type of racist group.”
In screenshots of the ‘Discord’ chat room moderated by former liberal Obama activist turned white supremacist event organizer Jason Kessler (username ‘MadDimension’), attendees can be seen discussing transportation in case things turned violent. While one member’s suggestion to use Uber was shot down, another participant suggested coordinating with Enterprise rent-a-car in case of a ‘worse case scenario.’
In a subsequent comment, user AltCelt(IL) posted a picture of a two buses being mobbed by protesters, typing ‘this will be us’ below.
Click to enlarge
In response, an event organizer named ‘Tyrone’ – who worked closely with Kessler, advised the group that it would be legal to mow down protesters under certain circumstances:
‘I know NC law is on the books that driving over protesters blocking roadways isn’t an offense. This is crossover for this channel and VA law. Sure would be nice,‘ along with a meme of a John Deere ‘Multi-Lane Protester Digestor.’ –‘Tyrone’
Click to enlarge
It is unknown whether or not 20 year old James Alex Fields, the white supremacist arrested after his 2010 Dodge Challenger plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters, was in the Discord chat room at the time – however members of the group “Vanguard America,” which Fields belonged to, participated in Kessler’s server.
What we do know is the same ‘Tyrone’ who made the vehicle-ramming comments also made several posts telling members that attending the event ‘in general’ would be risky.
Over 300 screenshots leaked exclusively to unicornriot.ninja were made available in a 65 MB .zip archive on Friday. Here are a few more notable finds:
Kessler organized the event with military precision
To preface, perhaps this 2015 blog entry of Kessler’s in which he proclaims “I can’t think of any occupation that I admire more than the professional provocateur” can shed some light on how a hyper-liberal Occupy activist did an ideological flip and wound up leading a group of white supremacists in a protest that has since polarized the nation:
And in addition to applying for a license to hold the protest in Emancipation Park and successfully utilizing the ACLU to sue the city when it was rejected, Kessler issued instructions to the group regarding the tiki torch ceremony and other matters.
Kessler was concerned about optics…
When one participant in the discord chat asked another protest participant if he was in ‘Vanguard’ and if Vanguard was in the ‘National Socialist Front’ (Also known as the National Socialist Movement, or NSM), the other user replied ‘Yup,’ adding ‘Nsm is not the optic Kessler wanted tho.’
Although I guess he didn’t mind the optics in May when he was hanging out with white supremacist Richard Spencer at Jackson Park:
Some have questioned whether or not the May demonstration was a ‘dry run’ for last weekend’s ill-fated rally. Note Kessler’s long pause at the :15 second mark when asked.
Kessleralso didn’t mind the optics of the haircut he got to match his new friends attending the ‘Unite the Right’ protest he organized.
Self professed agent provocateur got a haircut to play the white supremacist role for #UniteTheRight rally. Left 2/15/17 & on right today pic.twitter.com/cAUB6998pz
The group also discussed using burner phones and cash to avoid doxxing
‘Unite the Right’ attendees were also weary of was VA felonymask laws – something the police did not enforce when it came to masked Antifa, as well as whether or not they’d be turned away if the wore shirts with swastikas instead of the polo / khaki ‘uniform’ most of the group can be seen wearing.
Back to Kessler – it appears he’s taken himself out of the equation…
Right before deleting his Twitter account, Kessler made a wildly inappropriate tweet about Heather Heyer – the counter-protester killed in Charlottesville:
This allowed Richard Spencer to disavow the compromised Kessler and continue the movement I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of.
After his offensive tweet, Kessler stated “I repudiate the heinous tweet that was sent from my account last night. I’ve been under a crushing amount of stress & death threats,” adding “I’m taking ambien, Xanax and I had been drinking last night. I sometimes wake up having done strange things I can’t remember.”
In one of the first interviews since his ouster from the White House, Steve Bannon spoke with Bill ‘neocon’ Kristol’s The Weekly Standard to announce that the movement which elected Trump is dead.
“The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” Bannon said Friday, shortly after confirming his departure. “We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.”
Considering that Trump is now completely flanked by Goldman Sachs and military generals who have spent their careers furthering the very open-border globalism Trump campaigned against, Bannon’s comments, to some, are a foregone conclusion.
Rah Rah
Steve Bannon will be a tough and smart new voice at @BreitbartNews…maybe even better than ever before. Fake News needs the competition!
Bannon has vowed to continue fighting for economic nationalism and the platform Trump ran on upon his return to the helm of Breitbart.
As former Breitbart lead investigative reporter, Lee Stranahan points out – many believe that Bannon’s firing will be the ‘worst nightmare’ for globalists – as he will now have his old platform back to convey his narrative, rather than impotently locked away in the West Wing (which drew great criticism from long-time Trump advisor Roger Stone).
Guess Bannon won’t get to clean up the State department or the DoD…
Four days ago, Bannon gave a lengthy interview to the very liberal The American Prospects, in which he said ‘there is no military solution in North Korea… Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 3o minutes from conventional weapons.’
Bannon also predicted U.S. economic demise to China’s ascendancy, and shed light on how he would deal with Trump’s enemies at the departments of State and Defense.
“I’m changing out people at East Asian Defense; I’m getting hawks in. I’m getting Susan Thornton [acting head of East Asian and Pacific Affairs] out at State,” said Bannon.
Trump was apparently very displeased with Bannon’s interview, which is said to have been the straw which broke the camel’s back and led to his ouster on Friday.
Meanwhile
Three weeks ago, Trump reportedly shot down a plan by McMaster to increase troops in Afghanistan.
Then, last week, Trump let Mattis and the Pentagon dictate troop levels in Afghanistan. Lo and behold, it looks like we’re probably sending more boys and girls (but not trannies) to die guarding the largest opium crop in history.
