Oh, the horror! Here it comes -- the 'scorched-earth' Cash Register War using 'sanctions' that I've been scoffing at ever since it was announced that THIS would be Trump Administration's big tactic against North Korea. What a pantload! Link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...hit-8-north-korean-banks-26-bank-workers.html Suggestion: anybody who thinks that this pantywaist idiocy is going to make little Kimmy or any of his Chinese allies do anything but belly-laugh is fooling themselves! The central-bankers who dreamed up this master strategy make very poor generals.... . "Yup... I'm terrified...."
Soccer, not hockey, will increasingly replace football in schools and professional competition. Every school student can play soccer, it is a safe sport and all that is required in costs is a ball. Hockey is an extreme costly sport few students could play or afford the uniform and equipment for. Hockey is a niche market. Soccer can be universal from the elementary school level.
Did you even bother to read the Fox article before you posted it with all this silly scoffing? --- New U.S. sanctions will punish eight North Korean banks and 26 bank workers living abroad, the Trump administration announced Tuesday, in the first use of new sanctioning powers granted by President Donald Trump. The sanctions rely on an executive order Trump signed last week to target North Korea's access to the international banking system. They come as the United Nations has also recently passed its toughest sanctions package targeting North Korea. Trump, speaking in the Rose Garden on Tuesday, said North Korea must no longer be allowed to "threaten the entire world with unthinkable loss of life." "All nations must act now to ensure the regime's complete denuclearization," Trump said. The eight banks are all in North Korea. The Treasury Department said the 26 individuals are North Korean nationals employed by those banks. Of the 26, 19 of them live in China, while three live in Russia and two each in Libya and the United Arab Emirates. OTTO WARMBIER'S PARENTS OPEN UP ABOUT SON'S TORTURE BY NORTH KOREA "This is a clear message to Chinese banks: We can find these individuals, so can you," said Anthony Ruggiero, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which advocates for tough sanctions on North Korea. The sanctions are part of a Trump administration effort to show it's still committed to using economic pressure and diplomacy to resolve the North Korea nuclear crisis, rather than the military threat that Trump has repeatedly issued. After Trump tweeted that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "won't be around much longer, his administration clarified on Monday that the U.S. is not seeking his overthrow. ... --- Obviously it isn't just about "scaring" fat Kim.
Uh, yeah, I read it (yawn!), and I didn't see one damned thing in any of this 'sanctions' pantload that will make Kimmy or the Chinese abandon their drive toward pushing us out of East Asia by using the threat of nuclear war on the United States. So, twenty-six North Koreans are going to have to go to more than one bank to buy their goodies? OH, THE HORROR! I'm sure that little Kimmy will be running after us any minute now, hoping to have these dreadful 'sanctions' lifted before they crush North Korea underfoot.... . Parenthetically, 'sanctions' have worked really well against Russia... right?
Russia would love to have sanctions lifted. They have been working like devils to make that happen, especially in the EU.
Sure, Russia would like to have sanctions lifted, but, when you mash all the air bubbles out of it, Putin can take it, or leave it. It's more the EU countries themselves -- particularly the business community of Germany -- who would like to diminish sanctions against Russia, or remove them altogether. Got any German friends? Ask them. I have....
Granny says, "Dat's right - Lookit dat Fatboy laughin' inna face o' Trump's sanctions... U.S. To Impose More Sanctions On North Korea, But How Effective Will They Be? November 20, 2017 • The Trump administration is increasingly using economic sanctions to try to influence behavior in North Korea, Venezuela and Russia. But the strategy doesn't always work — and can backfire. See also: Trump Designating North Korea As A State Sponsor Of Terrorism November 20, 2017 • That designation was removed in 2008, when the North Korean government pledged to dismantle its nuclear program. The president says additional sanctions will be imposed.
China not happy with new U.S. sanctions on North Korea... China denounces new U.S. sanctions on North Korea Nov. 22, 2017 -- China voiced its opposition to new U.S. sanctions on Wednesday, a day after the United States Treasury announced a blacklist of North Korean and Chinese firms. See also: Report: China asked South Korea to build THAAD wall Nov. 23, 2017 -- China may have asked South Korea to build a wall to block a U.S. missile defense system from monitoring Chinese military movements.
North Korean sanctions starting to pinch... North Korean citizens feeling bite of international sanctions Dec. 5, 2017 -- Dec. 5 The average North Korean is increasingly feeling the squeeze of international sanctions placed on the Pyongyang regime, the Asahi Shimbun reported Tuesday.
Granny says, "Dat's right - give Fatboy a taste o' some shock n' awe... The US reportedly wants a limited strike on North Korea to give Kim Jong Un a 'bloody nose' 21 Dec.`17 - The US is considering a limited strike on North Korea to give Kim Jong Un a metaphorical "bloody nose," The Telegraph reported.; The US has plenty of options for delivering a short, sharp strike against North Korea that could deny it the ability to test and perfect; intercontinental ballistic missiles.; But a US attack on North Korea would be a gamble that a limited strike won't turn into all-out nuclear war. See also: U.N. Security Council poised to vote on tough new sanctions on N. Korea December 22, 2017 -- The U.N. Security Council is meeting Friday to vote on whether to impose new sanctions on North Korea, including sharply cutting limits on its imports of refined oil, forcing all North Koreans working overseas to return home within 12 months and cracking down on the country's shipping.
