GERMANY - Merkel’s visit to Washington next week will be among the most important — and most awkward — of her career. The German chancellor must attempt to strike up a decent relationship with Donald Trump, despite the scorn he has poured on her policies. Ms Merkel did not seek this challenge. Nonetheless, it could be useful if it prompts an overdue rethink of Germany’s place in the world.
USA - 16-year congressman Dennis Kucinich writes: That the CIA has reached into the lives of all Americans through its wholesale gathering of the nation’s “haystack” of information has already been reported.
USA - A new report gives the US a D+ for its failing roads, dams, and bridges — the same grade it received four years ago. The American Society of Civil Engineers released its quadrennial infrastructure report card Thursday, deeming much of the country’s infrastructure “poor” or “at risk.”
USA - VP Pence Says The CIA Does Not Spy On American Citizens - Judge Napolitano Disagrees – FBI Director Tells Justice Department To Ignore Trump!
JORDAN - Six months ago, Jordan’s King Abdullah said that his country was “in dire straits.” I just completed a week of intensive travels and discussions throughout the country, and found that no one disagrees with this assessment. Jordan may no longer be hyper-vulnerable and under siege, as it was in decades past, but it does face problems that are likely unprecedented.
USA - The 8.2 million barrel increase was definitely much higher than what had been widely expected, but the real juicy details behind the oil price ‘crash’ weren’t found in the EIA report, and could be scored at the CERA Energy conference in Houston. That specific conference is one of the most important oil conferences in the world, and it’s usually a hot spot for industry professionals and companies to meet up.
UK - British Royal Family member 'likely' to be sent on official state visit to Israel for first time ever. The British Royal House will “likely” send a member of the family to Israel on an official visit, senior diplomats said, indicating a decision to end a decades-long silent boycott of the Jewish state.
UK - We are living at a time when there is great apostasy in the Christian world. But if you stand up and preach righteousness and holiness, you will almost certainly get attacked, and in some countries there is even a chance that you will be thrown into prison.
What is the fastest growing religion in the United States? If you said Christianity, you would be way off. In fact, the most recent numbers show that Christianity is in a serious state of decline in America. If you said Islam, you are much closer to a correct answer. Islam is the fastest growing major religion in the United States.
USA - The US military urgently needs to modernize all three legs of the “nuclear triad” because its existing weapons are getting old and won’t be able to breach Russian air defenses in the very near future, senior Air Force and Navy officers told Congress.
JAPAN - Rattled by North Korean military advances, influential Japanese lawmakers are pushing harder for Japan to develop the ability to strike preemptively at the missile facilities of its nuclear-armed neighbor. Japan has so far avoided taking the controversial and costly step of acquiring bombers or weapons such as cruise missiles with enough range to strike other countries, relying instead on its US ally to take the fight to its enemies. But the growing threat posed by Pyongyang, including Monday's simultaneous launch of four rockets, is adding weight to an argument that aiming for the archer rather than his arrows is a more effective defense.
USA - Secretary of Defence James Mattis said the US "remains steadfast in its commitment" to the defence of its allies.
Donald Trump is reportedly planning to send nuclear bombers to the Korean peninsula as tensions in the region reach breaking point.
North Korea and the US have been teetering on the brink of war for months after Kim Jong-un carried out a series of controversial missile launches. Earlier this week, trigger-happy Kim pushed his luck once more when he fired off four ballistic missiles into the seas near Japan. Now US military chiefs are reportedly planning to fly in B-1 and B-52 bombers – built to carry nuclear bombs – to show America has had enough, according to the Korea Times.
UK - Stephen Hawking has warned that technology needs to be controlled in order to prevent it from destroying the human race. The world-renowned physicist, who has spoken out about the dangers of artificial intelligence in the past, believes we need to establish a way of identifying threats quickly, before they have a chance to escalate. “Since civilisation began, aggression has been useful inasmuch as it has definite survival advantages,” he told The Times. “It is hard-wired into our genes by Darwinian evolution. Now, however, technology has advanced at such a pace that this aggression may destroy us all by nuclear or biological war. We need to control this inherited instinct by our logic and reason.” He suggests that “some form of world government” could be ideal for the job, but would itself create more problems.
EUROPE - "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied," they use to say in days of the Soviet Union. Today, the same is apparently true for the European Union. After years of official denials, the EU has announced its plans to build a unified military command in the Belgian city of Brussels — a move set to take NATO’s European partners away from the existing transatlantic alliance. Germany’s state-run ARD broadcaster called it an “attempt to transform European Union into a real defense union”.
EUROPE - Plans for an EU nuclear weapons arsenal under the control of Brussels were branded "insanity" by a senior Tory MP today. Under the idea being discussed by European politicians, the missiles would be located around the continent and overseen by a command centre appointed by Eurocrats.
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