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'Very exciting!' Trump applauds Pyongyang summit results & declarations

US President Donald Trump
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US President Donald Trump said the results of the latest meeting between Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang and their joint declaration were "very exciting."

Trump in particular praised the North Korean leader's willingness to allow international monitors to witness the dismantling of the nation's missile and rocket engine test site. "Kim Jong Un has agreed to allow Nuclear inspections, subject to final negotiations, and to permanently dismantle a test site and launch pad in the presence of international experts," Trump tweeted.


Comment: See also: Bilateral summit in Pyongyang: Korean defense chiefs sign 'military pact' after Kim & Moon adopt denuclearization roadmap


Arrow Up

Bilateral summit in Pyongyang: Korean defense chiefs sign 'military pact' after Kim & Moon adopt denuclearization roadmap

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have signed a joint statement following their bilateral talks in Pyongyang. The countries' defense chiefs have meanwhile signed a separate military pact.

As part of the military agreement, the neighbors will halt border drills from November 1, Yonhap reports. South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo and North Korea's No Kwang-chol also agreed to stop military flights in the vicinity of the demarcation line. In addition, the agreement envisions setting up a buffer zone in the Yellow Sea and suspending maritime drills.

As a clear sign of mutual trust, the Pyongyang military agreement also calls for the withdrawal of soldiers from the demilitarized zone and disarming the servicemen keeping watch at Panmunjom border village. The nations also agreed that each would close eleven border guard posts by the end of 2018.

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Gear

Russian UN envoy: White Helmets continue to prepare provocations in Idlib

Syrian northwestern city of Idlib
© AFP 2018 / Mohamed al-BakourSyrian northwestern city of Idlib
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Syrian Reconciliation already warned of possible false flag operations in the rebel-held region, claiming that the terrorists had transported several barrels of chlorine gas to the village of Basankul, near Idlib.

"Militants and White Helmet activists in the Idlib de-escalation zone are continuing preparations to stage false chemical attacks," Russian Envoy to the UN Vassily Nebenzia told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.

The statement comes just a day after Moscow and Ankara signed a settlement memorandum, announcing they would establish demilitarized zone along the contact line between the armed opposition and Syrian troops.

Comment: Militants entrenched in Syria and activists of the White Helmets grouping continue conjuring up a provocation in the Idlib zone of de-escalation, the Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya said on Tuesday at a meeting of the UN Security Council that discussed the situation in Syria.
"The filming of these fakes has already taken place in some Syrian districts," Nebenzya said. "Notably, the organizers forced the Syrians abducted previously in Idlib and Aleppo Governorates to take part in the filming."

"Also, we have the data suggesting that Jabhat al-Nusra [a terrorist grouping outlawed in Russia by a ruling of the Supreme Court - TASS] handed barrels with chlorine to Jaysh al-Izza grouping in Lataminah and Kafr Zita," Nebenzya said. "Once again, we'd like to call attention to the fact. We've warned about it many a time."

"We can see full well some of our partners are using Syria as a bridgehead for triggering a far more serious and dangerous conflict with more far-reaching consequences in the entire region," the ambassador said. "In the light of it, we'd like to call once again for real collective efforts on all the conflict situations in the region and particularly in struggle with terrorism and for giving up the attempts to solve Syria's problems behind its back.".



Evil Rays

A war, censorship and inequality nexus coming from the oligarchs of Silicon Valley

Jeff Bezos
On Wednesday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, will give the keynote address to the US Air Force Association's annual conference. Bezos will discuss "how industry can better partner" with the US military.

Bezos' speech comes amid his Seattle-based firm's lobbying to win a $10 billion contract, known as "Project JEDI," to host large sections of the Pentagon's operations infrastructure on the internet cloud. In a move that will likely win him points with the military brass awarding the contract, Bezos recently donated $10 million to a Virginia-based super PAC seeking to elect veterans to office and create a "less polarized government."

The Amazon CEO will appear as the representative of the world's second-largest company by market capitalization, the second-largest employer in the United States, the world's biggest provider of cloud computing services, and America's largest e-commerce retailer, with twice the sales of the next nine competitors.

Jet3

Putin: Israel didn't down IL-20, it was caused by a chain of tragic circumstances

Putin
© Sputnik/Alexey DruzhininRussian President Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin has addressed the downing of a Russian IL-20 by a Syrian surface-to-air missile on Monday evening. Earlier Moscow blamed Israeli jets for having provoked the tragic accident.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered condolences over the death of the crew of the aircraft Il-20 downed in Syria.
"When people die, especially in such tragic circumstances, it is always a tragedy, a tragedy for us all, for the whole country and for the families of our dead friends. In this connection, I certainly offer my condolences to the relatives of those who got killed in the downing,"
Putin said at a press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Moscow.

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Jet3

Military expert: France is partly to blame for Russian plane's crash

Russian Jets
© REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
By launching cruise missiles, the French Navy's frigate only complicated the situation in that part of the Mediterranean Sea, says expert.

France is partly to blame for the crash of Russia's Ilyushin Il-20 aircraft in Syria and the death of Russian military servicemen, military expert Mikhail Khodaryonok told reporters.
"The French Navy's frigate, The Auvergne, did not make the best contribution to the air situation, creating additional difficulties for Syrian air defense teams," he said, adding that "the French frigate was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"By launching cruise missiles, the French Navy's frigate only complicated the situation in that part of the Mediterranean Sea, which is already difficult. This is why the Russian Il-20 aircraft crash is partly France's fault," the Russian expert stressed.
Downing of Il-20 aircraft

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, at about 23:00 Moscow time (20:00 GMT) on September 17, contact was lost with a Russian Il-20 aircraft flying over the Mediterranean Sea back to the Russian Hmeimim air base in Syria. The ministry said the aircraft had disappeared from radar during an airstrike carried out by four Israeli F-16 fighter jets on targets in the Syrian province of Latakia.

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Chess

Syrian-Russian victory only way to avenge Israeli-French strikes

Russian II-20 reconnaissance aircraft
Western and Russian media sources have reported an alleged joint Israeli-French strike on Syria on September 17. The attack included Israeli warplanes and French missile frigates operating in the Mediterranean off Syria's coast. Amid the attack, a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft with 14 service members aboard disappeared.

The attack immediately prompted commentators, analysts, and pundits to call for an immediate retaliation to the unprovoked military aggression, warning that a failure to react would leave Russia looking weak. Some commentators even called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to step down.

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MIB

Flashback Best of the Web: 'Prevent the rise of a messiah': Hoover's chilling directive to FBI agents explains why Americans have no real resistance

The US government's efforts to discredit Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders illustrate the lengths to which it will go to stifle left-wing movements
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Good man, bad man
Forty years ago today, a bullet severed the spine of a man whom many the world over thought of as a prince. We have all seen the picture of the hotel balcony where that prince stood, and fell, surrounded by his entourage, all pointing - presumably, in the direction from which the bullet came.

All but one.

One man was not standing, not pointing, but kneeling by Martin Luther King's body, presumably checking to see if - or that - he was dead. That man, Merrell McCullough, was an undercover police officer who had infiltrated King's circle. According to Time magazine, he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, at least as far back as 1974.

Comment: Oh for the days when the Guardian wasn't (always) a failing piece of garbage spouting govt propaganda.

They didn't just target left-wing movements/leaders: they targeted anything and anyone that could cross divides and "unify and electrify people".

This evil practice of culling, corrupting or otherwise containing leaders embodying noble virtues, by the way, is why Americans have no real 'resistance', and certainly no 'messiah', at a time when they most need one.

They have Trump, who means well, but he's not exactly cut out for the job.


Lemon

SOTT Focus: The Apple Story: Trump Tariffs Penalize US Multinationals as US Taxation Fails Americans

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Think Different - iRotten Apple
Trump tariffs are based on flawed pre-global doctrines, which penalize US multinationals, as evidenced by Apple. It is not China that fails Americans, but US taxation, as evidenced by Apple.

In the pre-1914 era and during the protectionist interwar period, global economic integration declined drastically. As major corporations competed largely in home markets, their value activities were mainly domestic. Following World War II, the US-led Bretton Woods system ensured a greater degree of internationalization - including systemic US trade deficits since 1971, decades before deficits with China.

Thereafter in the '80s, US multinationals began to cut costs through offshoring as large chunks of productive capacity were transferred to emerging markets, especially in Asia. So today the "eco-systems" of US multinationals are increasingly global.

Comment: 'Gyna' is not 'killing us'. Greedy elites are. And they've taken the money and run to their private islands. What they're doing may not be illegal, but it's extremely corrupt, and it is the source of what is killing Western society.


Bad Guys

Administration of Trump-bashing Puerto Rican mayor facing FBI corruption probe for obstructing supplies to hurricane victims

Trump and Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz
Cruz’s feud with the president over recovery efforts have turned her into a liberal star – and it’s a role she seems to be relishing. Her global close-up has morphed into a parade of self-promotion.
The administration of the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who shot to international fame after criticizing President Trump for not doing enough to help Hurricane Maria victims, is being investigated by the FBI on corruption charges, according a local news outlet.

Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz and her administration are under fire for allegedly obstructing critical supplies from reaching victims of the category-4 hurricane that leveled much of the tiny U.S. territory nearly nine months ago.

The FBI reportedly launched the investigation following a February lawsuit filed by Yadira Molina, the former director of procurement. Molina claims she was retaliated against for reporting "alleged irregular acts" to the local comptroller.

"On February 21, Molina sued the city council after reporting alleged acts of corruption in the shopping division in the town hall under the administration of Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz Soto," according to El Vocero de Puerto Rico.

The report says Molina claims she was punished for reporting on the allegedly rigged system and that she was blocked from her right "to report wrongdoing in her capacity as a private citizen, not as a public employee."

Comment: There have been numerous claims that Cruz and other elected officials were sabotaging relief efforts:
Puerto Rican Secretary of State uncovers relief fraud - U.S. aid found unopened in dumpster

Most of Puerto Rico still does not have power, and its inhabitants are struggling with shortages in food, water, and essential supplies. However, yesterday Marin made the shocking discovery that a sizable portion of United States aid to Puerto Rico is going to waste before it ever reaches the hurricane victims.

The video shows countless unopened boxes full of ready-to-eat meals in a dumpster, presumably thrown away by Puerto Rican officials. The video was shot in Patillas, a city on the island's southeastern coast.

This bombshell revelation appears to confirm GotNews' earlier reporting on a Puerto Rican police officer who claimed elected officials, including Carmen Yulin Cruz, the anti-Trump Mayor of San Juan, are deliberately sabotaging hurricane relief efforts for political reasons.
See also: Photos emerge of 'millions of water bottles' left on Puerto Rico runway a year after Hurricane Maria - 3,000 died waiting for help