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Telegraph.co.uk
March 29, 2018
North Korea has no intention of keeping any promises that it makes to the international community to dismantle or disable its nuclear or ballistic missile capabilities, according to analysts. Despite the recent thawing in relations between North Korea and the rest of the world - marked by Kim Jong-un's recentÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 29, 2018
(Rick Bowmer | The Associated Press) In this Oct. 4, 2017 file photo, a device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. The Trump administration is proposing banning bump stocks, which allow guns to mimic fully automaticÃÂ ...
Chicago Booth Review (blog)
March 29, 2018
On this episode of the Capitalisn't podcast, former Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner Sharon Bowen tells hosts Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales how she helped bring transparency to the market and visited a few grain elevators along the way.
TheFix.com
March 28, 2018
Speaking at a press conference at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on March 22, Cotton likened the synthetic opioid and its analogues to a "weapon of mass destruction" due to its high potential for overdose death, and said that his bill would assist law enforcement by reducing the amount of the drugÃÂ ...
LobeLog
March 23, 2018
Even his critics acknowledge his positive contribution in launching the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), a multilateral effort to mitigate trafficking in weapons of mass destruction (WMD) material. But Bolton's ideological approach and grating manner damaged the international standing of the UnitedÃÂ ...
Defense One
March 23, 2018
In particular, he said, SOCOM planners have been better able to contemplate whole-of-government approaches. About a year ago, SOCOM became the Defense Department's lead agency for countering WMDs. “Our primary counter-WMD effort as a coordinating authority is really: how best to orchestrateÃÂ ...
Financial Post
March 22, 2018
“China's countermeasures will be extraordinary and unconventional,” said Gao Zhikai, a former Beijing-based diplomat and former vice president of crude oil giant CNOOC Ltd. “The reported US$50 billion of tariffs against China are weapons of mass destruction for trade. They will violate WTO rules andÃÂ ...
The Advocate
March 16, 2018
But laughter burst out Wednesday from the Baton Rouge Metro Council chambers and onlookers leaned forward in their seats when the phrase “weapons of mass destruction” was invoked. Baton Rouge Mosquito Abatement Director Todd Walker pleaded his case this week to the Metro Council to spendÃÂ ...
TheStreet.com
March 16, 2018
Warren Buffett Loves Quietly Using These Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction. Don't believe what you have read on billionaire Warren Buffett's use of stock options. He likes them. ByMark Sebastian. Mar 16, 2018 12:19 PM EDT. There is an oft-used quote from Warren Buffett's Berkshire HathawayÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
March 16, 2018
Russia's Chemical Romance: Don't Call It a WMD Attack ... The Salisbury incident shows that it is not analytically useful to place chemical weapons attacks on individuals and large-scale chemical weapons use during military conflicts in the same nebulous category of “weapons of mass destruction.”.
Daily Commercial
March 15, 2018
The guarantees and freedoms assured by the U.S. Constitution are all limited by laws. All laws are designed to limit personal freedoms, for example I can not drive 100 miles per hour just because I might want to, rob a bank just because that is where the money is or raise livestock in violation of zoning laws.
Telegraph.co.uk
March 9, 2018
The nerve agent used in the assassination attempt on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal has left three people in intensive care. Mr Skripal, 66, his 33-year-old daughter Yulia and the police officer who first attended them are all in a serious condition following exposure to the substance in Salisbury townÃÂ ...
Task & Purpose
March 9, 2018
The stories and images of brutality that have come out of Syria during the now seven-year civil war have resulted in devastatingly little action from the United States. We've claimed war-weariness, or “America first,” and turned a blind eye to the slaughter of 500,000 people and suffering of millions more.
Deseret News
March 8, 2018
A detention hearing was held Wednesday for a teenage boy accused of leaving explosives in a backpack at a St. George high school and raising an ISIS flag at another. Related Link. Student who left explosives had posted ISIS propaganda, police say. SALT LAKE CITY — A detention hearing was heldÃÂ ...
In Homeland Security
March 8, 2018
Last week, President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia has produced indomitable weapons of mass destruction. Putin's annual speech on March 1 suggested Russia had created new cruise missiles, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and hypersonic missiles, as well as underwater drones.
St George News
March 7, 2018
A person who without lawful authority intentionally or knowingly manufactures, possesses, sells, delivers, displays, uses, attempts to use, solicits the use of, or conspires to use a weapon of mass destruction or a delivery system for a weapon of mass destruction, including any biological agent, toxin, vector,ÃÂ ...
Military Times
March 1, 2018
Coordinating the counter proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is now in the hands of U.S. Special Operations Command, but it shouldn't be on ... Given that, Waltz expressed concern that a whole-of-government approach wasn't being fully implemented in preventing WMD proliferation from NorthÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
March 1, 2018
Combating the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Success Story for the U.S.-E.U. Partnership ... When the United States and the European Union have worked together to strengthen the capacity of partner nations to detect and respond to the threat of WMDs, the results have been far more effective.
CBS News
March 1, 2018
Glor also asked Morell about reports that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is trying to develop a weapon of mass destruction, namely a ... on a real world threat related to ISIS in the WMD [weapons of mass destruction] space," according to The Cipher Brief, which covers global security issues. Col.
The Cipher Brief
February 28, 2018
U.S. officials are working to protect the continental U.S. from possible chemical attack by ISIS followers in the Mideast, who are plotting to bring chlorine or other “simple” weapons of mass destruction to America's shores, U.S. officials told The Cipher Brief Wednesday. The U.S. has intercepted “chatter” byÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
February 26, 2018
Between 1991 and 2003 politics was Saddam's 'weapon of mass destruction'.” Iraq's internal documents not only demonstrate the details of its fairly successful influence operations in the 1990s, they also highlight the limitations of such operations. Most importantly, the Iraqi case suggests that suchÃÂ ...
Daily Signal
December 31, 1999
Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has filed legislation to allow stricter prison terms for dealers of fentanyl, a substance he calls a “weapon of mass destruction.” Cotton introduced the legislation Thursday along with Senate colleagues who include Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb. The bill wouldÃÂ ...
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
December 31, 1999
I ask you: When our Founding Fathers included the words “right to bear arms” as part of the Second Amendment to our Constitution, what did “arms” refer to? Weapons of mass destruction were not invented at that time. Therefore, our Founding Fathers could not possibly be referring to them. And yet, ourÃÂ ...
Colorado Daily
December 31, 1999
"I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government." Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated one year later to the day — April 4, 1968, 50 years ago thisÃÂ ...
The New Indian Express
February 13, 2018
Sections of the WMD Act have been applied based on prima facie suspicion that the IED recovered from South Gate No. 5 — packed in an unusually large flask — was made of material falling under the category of weapons of mass destruction. The exact nature or the category of the material will, however,ÃÂ ...
DualShockers
February 9, 2018
Bad news for Worms fans who love physical copies of games (and happen to own a Nintendo Switch), yesterday, Team17 announced that a physical version of Worms W.M.D. for the Nintendo Switch was canceled. This news comes by way of the official Worms Twitter account, which replied to a fan whoÃÂ ...
Daily Reckoning
February 9, 2018
It turns out the carnage can be traced back to a kind of financial “weapon of mass destruction” — or WMD. Traders regularly use these instruments to ... information itself wasn't a big deal. But as a few traders started selling some shares, it triggered a chain reaction in these nuclear WMDs for the market.
Nintendo Enthusiast (blog)
February 8, 2018
In Worms W.M.D for Nintendo Switch™, players will be able to feel the full power of all the game's campaign missions, levels, customisations and updates, including Liberation and the fan favourite Forts Mode whether at home or on the go. And coming first to Nintendo Switch, a whole megaton more!
My Nintendo News (blog)
February 8, 2018
Award-winning veteran games developer and international games label Team17 has today released a free update for its hit turn-based strategy Worms W.M.D on Nintendo Switch™. With a gorgeous, hand-drawn 2D look, brand new weapons, the introduction of crafting, vehicles and buildings, plus theÃÂ ...
CBS News
February 6, 2018
In a statement Monday, its Foreign Ministry called the review's assertions frightening, "utterly hypocritical" and dangerous. It asserted that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons in only two scenarios: in response to an attack involving nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction, and in response toÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
February 6, 2018
"We will negotiate with no one on our weapons," Rouhani stated during a press conference in Tehran, adding that Iran's existing missiles are purely defensive and not designed to carry weapons of mass destruction "since we don't have any." The president further reiterated the country's position on theÃÂ ...
ExecutiveBiz (blog)
February 5, 2018
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on Feb. 23 in Arlington, Virginia to discuss a program that aims to develop technology that can detect whether an individual has been exposed to materials associated with weapons of mass destruction. DARPA said Friday theÃÂ ...
Consortium News
February 5, 2018
WMD Claims in Syria Raise Concerns over U.S. Escalation. February 4, 2018. Following a well-established script, anonymous U.S. officials are making unsubstantiated claims about weapons of mass destruction – this time in Syria – while the media fails to ask tough questions, reports Rick Sterling. By Rick Sterling. It's theÃÂ ...
The Cipher Brief
February 2, 2018
“We reserve the right to use military force to prevent or deter the use of weapons of mass destruction.” Why does it matter, when the horrific meat grinder of Syrian civil war has already taken hundreds of thousands of lives? Because if it's allowed to happen there, it could catch on. As one of the officials put it:ÃÂ ...
Homeland411
February 1, 2018
His report, The Financing of Nuclear and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation, released Jan. 24, explores funding and proliferation of WMDs with insight and recommendations of how global leaders can better track sources of WMD financing. It's not an easy undertaking. In fact, it's a “needle in aÃÂ ...
HeraldScotland
January 30, 2018
Freddie Scappaticci pictured at the 1987 funeral of IRA man Larry Marley. He is widely held to be 'Stakeknife' the Army's top informer inside the IRA. 0 comments. I STILL do not think the people of Britain understand the true significance of the Stakeknife story. In May 2003, when I and the Sunday Herald firstÃÂ ...
RT
January 25, 2018
Iraqi WMDs were not fake news, but RT is... because US govt says so ... The same US intelligence agencies that fed mainstream media the narrative about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction should be trusted when they say RT's critical reporting is propaganda, according to a BBC-hosted panel on fakeÃÂ ...
Salon
January 24, 2018
He went on to rehash the ultimately disproven theory, forwarded by the Bush administration, that Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist government had developed and stockpiled weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that it intended to use on the U.S. and its allies. This was, of course, the much-contested pretext forÃÂ ...
Media Matters for America
January 23, 2018
There was detail, there were photos, there was conclusive evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. And it wasn't just U.S. intel[ligence] -- it was MI5, MI6, it was intelligence agencies all over the world. George W. Bush kept quoting them. George W. Bush kept citing them. George W.
DutchNews.nl
January 19, 2018
The Netherlands has instigated 30 criminal investigations into the possible export of chemicals, materials or equipment which could be used to make weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) since 2012, ministers said on Thursday. Virtually all cases where the investigations have been completed have 'led toÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 18, 2018
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday warned that threats posed by weapons of mass destruction seem to be gathering force in current world. Guterres told the Security Council that global anxieties about nuclear weapons are at the highest level sinceÃÂ ...
thenews.pl
January 18, 2018
Polish president talks WMDs at UN Security Council ... arms continue to be a threat to global security and are an issue connected to Poland's priorities in the United Nations Security Council, Polish President Andrzej Duda said during a council meeting on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Xinhua
January 18, 2018
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reads a statement at the UN headquarters in New York, on Dec. 6, 2017. (Xinhua/Li Muzi). UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday warned that threats posed by weapons of mass destruction seem to be gatheringÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 17, 2018
The risk of extreme weather ending human existence is topped only by the risk posed by weapons of mass destruction. A global survey released by the World Economic Forum on Wednesday showed that for the second year in a row, the dangers of extreme weather are only second to that of nuclearÃÂ ...
The National
January 17, 2018
Fears over weapons of mass destruction feature prominently in the survey results. Pictured: Activists wearing a mask of North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and of US president Donald Trump stand with a model of a rocket during a demonstration against nuclear weapons in Germany. Adam Berry / GettyÃÂ ...
The Peninsula Qatar
January 14, 2018
Doha: The National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons (NCPW) celebrated the 5th anniversary of Doha Regional Centre for Training on the Conventions on Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). It also outlined its role since inception in December 2012 in capacity-building at the national, regionalÃÂ ...
Gulf Times
January 14, 2018
The National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons (NCPW) has marked the fifth anniversary of Doha Regional Centre for Training on the Conventions on Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). It also outlined its role since inception in December 2012 in capacity-building at the national, regional andÃÂ ...
KWCH
January 13, 2018
In the motion to dismiss the weapon-of-mass-destruction charge, a federal public defender representing Allen wrote, "The defense asks the Court to dismiss (the charge) as constitutionally defective." You can read the court document arguing the case for the dismissal of the weapons-of-mass-destructionÃÂ ...
Kuwait News Agency
January 13, 2018
PARIS, Jan 12 (KUNA) -- France expressed satisfaction at the announcement that Libya had finally destroyed its chemical and other prohibited weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in line with international agreements. A Foreign Ministry statement said on Friday that Paris welcomed the news about theÃÂ ...
FT Adviser
January 11, 2018
Sir Philip Green used a "weapon of mass destruction" to force BHS into administration, a court was told today (10 January). Dominic Chappell, who bought the struggling retailer from Mr Green's company Arcadia, said he was compelled to put the former High Street giant into administration in 2016 on theÃÂ ...
