WW4 File: North Korea effectively declares war against Japan, launches ballistic missile at neighbor in communist regime’s most outrageous provocation yet, projectile crashes into Pacific Ocean after flying over Japan’s northernmost main island; coincides with completion of US-Japanese military drill Northern Viper on Hokkaido; weapon believed to be Hwasong-12 intermediate-range missile, Pentagon: “The missile launched by North Korea flew over Japan. We are still in the process of assessing this launch”; US forces also conducting annual maneuvers with S. Korean military, which N. Korea typically perceives as rehearsal for invasion; Russian FM Lavrov in Abu Dhabi, blandly says N. Korea must “respect UN resolutions,” while United Arab Emirates counterpart warns Pyongyang to “stop its provocations,” think tank: Kim Jong-un obtained rocket tech from Russian, Ukrainian black market; US President Trump juggling international and domestic disasters as he heads to Houston to survey catastrophic flooding in wake of Hurricane Harvey, comments on Pyongyang’s suicidal course: “All options are on the table”; N. Korea’s UN ambassador justifies attack against Japan: “My country has every reason to respond with tough counter-measures as an exercise of its rights to self-defence”

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North Korea’s missile flight over Japan, whether it contained a warhead or not, is a direct declaration of war against that country and an indirect one against the USA. It must not go unanswered.

Blogger’s Note: International Black Ribbon Day 2017/ European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism

Black Ribbon Day

Gray Terror File: ISIS claims responsibility for vehicle-ramming attacks in Spanish region of Catalonia, four suspects—3 Moroccans, 1 Spaniard—in custody, manhunt for others underway: Aug. 16, evening: 1 person killed in Alcanar, 120 miles S of Barcelona, after house leveled by massive explosion, authorities find 20 gas canisters in rubble, initially believed to be drug lab, next day authorities say jihadists building huge butane bomb; Aug. 17, 5:30 p.m.: Jihadist plows van, travelling at about 50 mph, into crowds of tourists in Barcelona’s Las Ramblas district on Aug. 17, 13 killed and 100 wounded along 500-meter path of carnage, perp reportedly escaped; Aug. 18, next morning: 5 jihadists ram car into crowds in seaside resort of Cambrils, 1 pedestrian killed, 5 injured; attackers wearing explosive belts, emerge from vehicle wielding edged weapons, police gun down all perps; flashback: Barcelona police arrest Swedish national after high-speed chase in Feb., suspect driving truck filled with butane canisters, MSM yet to link incident with this week’s atrocities; follows spate of Islamist-motivated “poor-man’s” vehicle-ramming attacks in France, Germany, Sweden, UK and USA since July 2016; deadly stabbing attacks also occur in Dusseldorf, Germany and Turku, Finland on Aug. 18, motives unclear, manhunts underway

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USSR2/WW4 Files: Prominent Russian communist Sergei Udaltsov released from penal camp after serving 4.5-year sentence, convicted of fomenting “mass disorder” during anti-Putin protests in May 2012; 40-year-old Left Front leader great-grandson of Bolshevik Ivan Udaltsov, managed CPRF chairman Gennady Zyuganov’s presidential bid in 2012, defended Russia’s takeover of Crimea: “I am a Soviet patriot and consider the destruction of the Soviet Union the greatest mistake and a crime. Therefore, I regard the absorption of Crimea to be a small but important step towards the revival of a renewed [Soviet] Union”; United Communist Party (OKP) chair Darya Mitina: “The release of Left Front coordinator Sergey Udaltsov permits us, on the one hand, to expect the strengthening of the left in Russia, and may change the relations between the [CPRF] . . . and other Red activists”; OKP founded in 2014, backs Donbass rebels in Ukraine, sends delegate to Aug. 10 meeting of Workers’ World Party in Los Angeles; meanwhile first units of Russian army arrive in Belarus, prep for Zapad 2017 exercise in mid-Sept., Russia’s Northern Fleet joins Union State drill; NATO fears 100,000 Russian troops to be deployed to buffer state, US Army Europe to monitor Zapad

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The delegation from one of Russia’s minor communist parties to LA is pretty low level but, still, it shows the contemporary (i.e., post-Soviet) linkages between US and Russian commies. Don’t expect the fakestream media to cover that story.