Fox News:
BIG SCARY HEADLINE! No news here:
North Korea threatened Monday to turn Seoul and Washington into “a heap of ashes through a Korean-style pre-emptive nuclear strike” if they showed any signs of aggression toward the North’s territory during their annual military drills.
South Korea and the U.S. began the drills despite the strikes.That last sentence should read, "South Korea and the U.S. began the drills despite the IDLE THREAT OF strikes."
By the way, what is a "Korean-style pre-emptive nuclear strike"? It is one where no actual nukes are used.
Now if you want to see a real war, look at Turkey and...Sweden?
RT:
Turkey has posted its own "travel warning" amid an ongoing international scandal linked to Turkey’s underage sex law, placing ads at Istanbul Airport alleging that "Sweden has the highest rape rate worldwide."
The "warning" apparently appeared at the international Ataturk airport, in the form of a banner, by the Turkish Gunes newspaper, The Local reported on Friday.
Earlier, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom took to social media, calling on Ankara to "reverse" a court ruling which she believed legalized sex with children under the age of 15 in Turkey. Ankara blasted the Swedish official, with her Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu calling the allegations "lies" and said that Wallstrom had no idea of what she was talking about.Strangely, the "Great Airport Banner War" (or we can call it the "GAB War" for short) started with Austria:
International concern over changes into Turkish laws regarding punishment for sexual abuse of children has already triggered diplomatic trouble. Austria's deputy ambassador in Turkey has been summoned by Ankara over a message shown at Vienna airport, which read "Turkey allows sex with children under the age of 15."
Earlier this year, Turkey's constitutional court canceled a legal article pertaining to the sexual abuse of children under 15 years of age following a petition by a lower court, which said there was no difference between cases of sexual acts involving teenagers or toddlers. According to Turkish Hurriyet Daily, the move was to "increase rather than decrease sentences for the crime."Admittedly, the GAB War does lend new meaning to the phrase "war of words".
In other international news...
CNN:
My initial reaction to this lede story was, "So?" A lot of places in the world have overcrowded and/or inhumane jails.
But then I got to the reason for it:
It's always been packed, guards say, but recently the number of inmates has spiked.
Critics say this overcrowding is a predictable effect of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs -- a crackdown the pugnacious new leader promised in the campaign that propelled him into office.
Conditions inside are astounding. Every available space is crammed with yellow T-shirted humanity. The men here -- and almost 60% are in for drug offenses -- spend the days sitting, squatting and standing in the unrelenting, suffocating Manila heat.Yet another failed war on drugs. Get out the bear for President Duterte, as well as the Philippinos who elected him:
Speaking of CNN...
Zero Hedge:
In a somewhat shocking interview, CNN does not lob softballs at Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook when he refuses to answer the simple question of why The Clinton Foundation will continue to accept funding from homosexual-killing, terrorist-funding foreign entities... until she becomes President, when it will be unacceptable for more than half of her donors.
Having admitted that 53% of her current donors will be barred under her proposed new rules, questions remain as to why she continues to accept donations from these entities...
Sometimes, CNN does get it right:
Of course, I don't recognize the interviewer, so she must be new. She obviously didn't go through the proper socialist/progressive indoctrination. Otherwise she would know the first rule is "never hold Democrats accountable for anything". I am sure she will do better next time.
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