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Shell_Seas

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June 20, 2017

Japan Preparing for North Korea War With 'Hit-to-Kill' Missile Drills

Source: Newsweek

Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force is scheduled to test its PAC3 missile interceptors on Thursday following a series of missile tests by North Korea.

The defense force will test the PAC3, which is designed to shoot down missiles, including any fired at Japan from North Korea, at four bases in Tokyo. PAC3 stands for Patriotic Advanced Capability, and is built by Lockheed Martin. The weapons manufacturer describes it as a “hit-to-kill” missile, and says it “defeats the entire threat: tactical ballistic missiles (TBMs), cruise missiles and aircraft.”

The missiles are part of the U.S. made Patriot missile system and the launch crew helps to protect Tokyo’s metropolitan airspace. The team that launch the system would have very little time to prepare in the event of an enemy strike, the airmen told Stars and Stripes. “I’m always on alert. Even when I go home I’m gathering information. I’m always ready,” Chief Master Sgt. Yoichi Yokoyama, 45, one of four airmen crewing the PAC3 launcher said.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/japan-war-north-korea-drill-missiles-kill-627528

June 16, 2017

Kellyanne Conway: If I was shot and killed tomorrow, half of Twitter would explode in applause

Kellyanne Conway blamed the shootings of two Republican congressman on critical media coverage of the Trump administration and suggested her own critics would cheer if she were killed.

[link:http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/kellyanne-conway-if-i-was-shot-and-killed-tomorrow-half-of-twitter-would-explode-in-applause/|

June 14, 2017

VA Shooting is the 153rd mass shooting in 2017

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

Also, Steve Scalise has an A rating with the NRA, so he helped facilitate some of this.

Irony.
June 14, 2017

Congress is set to debate deregulating silencers at 10 am today.

So, then you won't hear the gun shots.

June 13, 2017

What if everything is about revenge?

What if the ONLY reason Trump ran (and got elected) was to get revenge on Obama?

He's completely dismantling Obama's legacy. Not because he thinks it's right for America or the American people, not because he believes in policy, but what if it is completely for enacting revenge on Obama?

Why? Because the man is so self-absorbed, narcissistic, and thin-skinned he can't get over Obama humiliating him (birther thing).

June 12, 2017

On the 1 year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting

Trump has Tweeted about Ivank's appearance on Fox and Friends, fist and foremost. No word from him yet about remembrance or anything along those lines.

His priorities are himself and his family, not America.

June 8, 2017

Republican's Spin...

Top story on FOX is about Hillary.

They are saying testimony proved Trump is innocent.

They are saying Comey should be charged with treason.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

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