In Other News ...

• The Norks apparently are working on an ICBM launch facility. 

         townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/2014/10/03/a-hidden-threat-n1900134

• Pro-democracy Hong Kong and the Communist Chinese overlords are headed for a showdown over China's future. Will China be a trade-oriented and increasingly more democratic country seeking a positive role in the world or a nationalistic empire-building giant more like the Japanese pre-WWII?  

        townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2014/10/03/can-beijing-survive-hong-kong-   fever-n1900132

• Turkey seems to be playing both sides in the war with ISIS. On the one hand, it appears to using ISIS to counter Assad in Syria and rein in the Kurds, who have been a longtime thorn in their side. On the other hand, they appear to recognize that ISIS is crazy and would happily stab them and extend the "caliphate" into Turkey given the chance. ISIS force were threatening a town on the Turkish border this week. The Turkish military is a force to be reckoned with and it would be nice to have them on our side against ISIS.

         www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-jihadist-activity-in-northern-syria- forces-turkey-hand-a-994392.html

• The U.S. replaced Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer. It became the largest natural gas producer in 2010. Heaven forbid that we should use it as leverage with the Russians and to lower our dependency on Middle East oil!

www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/30/U-S-Streaks-Past-Saudi-Arabia-as-World-s-Largest-Oil-Producer