Nothing particularly new here - Australia being the usual arrogant USA-lapdogs, America being aggressive against any nation that might be at all "useful" to undermining Russian and Chinese economic success, and the CIA being the most significant arseholes on the planet: Mike Pompeo’s latest rant demonstrates that the CIA is far more unreasonable than North Korea http://theduran.com/mike-pompeos-latest-rant-shows-cia-far-unreasonable-dprk... “Now though, the US has taken its peace averse attitude a step further as the perpetually unhinged CIA director Mike Pompeo, has made another ludicrous and provocative statement. In a recent statement, Pompeo talked brazenly about assassinating Kim Jong-un. The CIA director stated, “With respect to … if Kim Jong-un should vanish, given the history of the CIA, I’m just not going to talk about it. Someone might think there was a coincidence. ‘You know, there was an accident.’ It’s just not fruitful”. Pompeo then ominously stated that the CIA is “going to become a much more vicious agency”. Pompeo’s statements will be seen by North Korea as yet a further sign that the US does not seek peace, but in fact seeks yet another illegal overthrow of a head of state. With someone like Pompeo engaging in Dr. Strangelove style rhetoric against North Korea, is it really unreasonable to assume that North Korea should want to expand its deterrent against a US which is openly promising acts of illegal violence against North Korea? This is not the first ludicrous thing Pompeo has stated. He previously said that Russia and the Lebanese party Hezbollah are operating in Venezuela, in combined efforts to harm the US. He also stated that the publisher and peace activist Julian Assange would have supported Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. Pompeo also said that Russia’s current Chief of the General Staff invented the concept of RT and Sputnik, one which relies on the power of the internet in 2017, in the early 1970s when he was in his late teens and still in the equivalent of high school. Finally, Trump’s CIA director stated that Russia not only rigged Donald Trump’s election but also did so with Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012.” ”