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Japanese top diplomat: US puts forward 47-point list of demands to Pyongyang


TASS
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 15:14 UTC
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono
© AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, poolJapanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono
"If the demand for full denuclearization is not carried out in this form, sanctions against North Korea will not be lifted," the Japanese top diplomat said.

The United States has filed a list of 47 demands that North Korea should fulfill to achieve total elimination of its nuclear arsenal, other weapons of mass destruction and relevant infrastructure, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said in an interview aired by national broadcaster NHK on Sunday.

"The supreme leader of North Korea agreed to full denuclearization. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during his visit to Pyongyang that, according to the United States, this notion includes elimination - in the transparent and irreversible form - of the nuclear stockpile and other types of weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological ones, as well as missiles and all relevant infrastructure," he said.

"In this regard, a list of 47 demands was submitted to North Korea. If the demand for full denuclearization is not carried out in this form, sanctions against North Korea will not be lifted. I think they [North Korea] understand this," the Japanese top diplomat said.

He added that the demand includes elimination of all North Korean missiles, including those posing a threat to Japan.
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Snakes in Suits

US acts as World's police making others comply with its national laws

Peter Korzun
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:58 UTC
US congress
An anti-doping bill was introduced to Congress on June 12 to make the use or distributing drugs during international sports events a punishable crime. The act offers fines of up to $250,000 for individuals and prison sentences of up to 10 years for those who make, distribute or use banned substances at sports events including four or more US athletes and other athletes from three or more countries.

Whistleblowers that expose doping schemes will also be protected under the act. When the legislation goes into effect, any wrongdoer will be able to say he's unfairly persecuted in his own country for exposing doping-related activities to get American protection from justice at home. And athletes from different countries will have to prove their innocence in US, not national or international, courts. Inevitably, there'll be problems with proof making US prosecutors politicized and enjoy extended authority to get the evidence they could go upon.
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Bad Guys

'As crimes pile up, they become invisible': Western complicity in Saudi Arabia's dirty war in Yemen

John Wight
RT
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:41 UTC
Yemeni women inspect a destroyed house after it was hit by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, 06 June 2018
© Hani Al-Ansi / Global Look PressYemeni women inspect a destroyed house after it was hit by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, 06 June 2018.
The complicity of Western governments in the ocean of suffering being wrought in Yemen exposes them as agents of Saudi brutality.

After three years of relentless conflict, it has been estimated that out of a population of 27.4 million, 22.2 million people in Yemen are in need of humanitarian assistance, 17 million are food insecure, 14.8 million lack basic healthcare, 4.5 million children are suffering malnourishment, while 2.9 million people are internally displaced. As for dead and injured, the toll stands at almost 10,000 and 50,000 respectively.

As a result of the conflict, the country is also facing the "largest documented cholera epidemic of modern times." And this epidemic can only have been intensified by the Saudi bombing of a cholera treatment center in the west of the country, causing the French NGO Médecins Sans Frontières to halt their work at the facility.
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Bad Guys

Bilderberg 2018: Populism, AI, Russia and much more - Reporter infiltrates secret meeting attended by world's top politicians and power brokers

Sian Boyle
Daily Mail
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:48 UTC
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An entrance to NH Lingotto hotel where the secretive Bilderberg conference was held. The large bubble meeting room can be seen in the distance over the roof of the building
On the first day of my new job as a hotel waitress - before I have a chance to polish a glass or proffer a canapé - I'm primed in detail about how to enter the building. Not via the front foyer, but circuitously through a 'secret staff entrance'.

It is imperative I memorise the route, I'm told by the briskly efficient restaurant manager, who steers me through it, via an obscure door by a KFC outlet in a low-rent shopping mall.

We then travel up two floors in a shabby service lift, past a phalanx of security men, through an underground delivery area, past bins, a staff canteen and along a harshly lit subterranean corridor that smells of urine.

Another staff lift disgorges us into the hotel kitchen, through two swing doors and finally into the light and bustle of its restaurant and gleaming lobby.

Comment: While we may not know exactly what goes on at Bilderberg, it is pretty clear that there are conflicts of interest by political figures which should result in their sacking. The rest we are left to speculate, but it is decidedly sinister. Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Trump Ditches Europe, Europe Bluffs, Russia and China Carry on With Eurasian Integration

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Light Sabers

Trade War? India to tax 30 American products in 'equivalent' retaliation for US tariffs hike


RT
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Employees of Harley Davidson Mumbai
© Arko Datta / ReutersEmployees of Harley Davidson and biking enthusiasts in Mumbai, India
India will suspend trade concessions and raise import duties on 30 products from the United States by up to 50 percent, in a mirror response to Washington's impetuous move to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

New Delhi has drawn up a list of 30 American products it now wants to target with increased import duties. The new measures will see a 50 percent tariff increase on motorcycles with engine capacities of over 800cc, while apple imports would be charged with a 25 percent levy. Imports of almonds and walnuts would see a 20 percent levy.

Earlier this week, New Delhi sent a letter to the World Trade Organization notifying the body of its intention. The total tariff increase on all products in the list will amount to an estimated additional $240 million in import fees. The sum is roughly equivalent to the damage India would suffer from Donald Trump's protectionist measures.

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Document

FBI's anti-Trump bias clearly seen in DOJ inspector general's report

Ben Shapiro
The Hill
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 23:05 UTC
FBIDOJ/TRUMP
© UnknownPresident Donald Trump
I've long been a skeptic of the conspiratorial claims surrounding the actions of the so-called "deep state" during the 2016 campaign. While I believe that the FBI acted in political fashion to exonerate Hillary Clinton, I never believed that the FBI deliberately targeted the Trump campaign; the evidence just didn't seem to be there.

After all, Trump could merely declassify such evidence if it existed; he could fire everyone involved. And why didn't these "deep state" actors release damning information about Trump during the campaign, if they were so committed to stopping his campaign?

I'm rethinking that position pretty seriously after the release of the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general's report.

Now, I'm not making the case that there was a broad-based, well-organized conspiracy inside the FBI to stop President Trump. But it is obvious, from the available evidence, that (1) certain high-ranking actors inside the FBI felt the necessity to stop Trump from becoming president, and were willing to act under color of authority to do so; and (2) the leading actors inside the FBI assumed that Hillary would be president, and tailored their actions based on that assumption.

These claims are well-supported in the inspector general (IG) report.

Comment: See also: Imminent release: Anticipation builds for DOJ report on FBI's Clinton probe

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Senators press Amazon for answers on improper Echo recording incident

Harper Neidig
The Hill
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Amazon
© Getty
Two senators are demanding answers from Amazon following an incident where an Echo device reportedly recorded a couple's conversation and sent it to an acquaintance.

"While Amazon has stated that the company is evaluating options to make this series of events less likely to occur, we are concerned that the device in this instance performed precisely how it was designed," Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Christopher Coons (D-Del.) wrote in a letter to the company on Friday.

"Without prompt and meaningful action, we expect that additional instances like the one summarized above will happen again," they added.

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German MP speculates Merkel could be ousted by the end of next week over migration policy argument

Alessandra Scotto di Santolo
Sunday Express
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:50 UTC
Merkel
© Krisztian Bocsi/BloombergAngela Merkel, Germany's Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader, speaks at the CDU party conference in Essen, Germany


German Chancellor Angela Merkel could lose her powerful seat in the heart of Europe as soon as next week amid clashes within her coalition Government over EU migration policies, claimed German MP Kai Whittaker.

Speaking on BBC World at One, the German politician claimed clashes between Angela Merkel and German interior minister Horst Seehofer could result in a "new political situation" in Germany by the end of next week.

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician said it was still unclear in Berlin what the essence of the disagreement between the Chancellor and Mr Seehofer was and that other members of the coalition had been left "in the blue".

Mr Whittaker said: "We are in a serious situation because the question of the migration crisis evolved into a power question.

"The question is who is leading the Government? Is it Angela Merkel or is it Horst Seehofer?

Comment: Merkel being replaced is at this moment mere speculation. It is more interesting that Germany's migration policies might be about to change - and not without reason, since accepting one million people in one year comes at the price of social turmoil.

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Lawmakers out of control: Federal and state prosecutors' underhanded tactics

Brian McNicoll
Townhall
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC
judge gavel
In the middle of the night last summer, FBI agents raided the home of Paul Manafort, President Trump's one-time campaign chairman, and seized documents prosecutors assumed Manafort would not voluntarily surrender even though he had cooperated with all prior document requests.

This spring, the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, acting on a tip from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, made a surprise appearance at the office of Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and removed thousands of documents.

It appears law enforcement officials were not necessarily looking for documents directly related to the ongoing investigation of whether the Trump campaign worked with Russian agents to defeat Hillary Clinton, but rather at possible crimes wholly unrelated to the campaign, presumably to put the squeeze on Manafort and Cohen to turn on Trump in the Russia probe.

Comment: Whether it's naked ambition or partisan tactics, prosecutors' abuses of the system ensure one thing: a complete and total lack of justice.

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British MEP's microphone cut in European Parliament while asking 'approved' question about Tommy Robinson's prison transfer


Voice of Europe
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC
Janice Atkinson, MEP
Janice Atkinson, MEP
British MEP, Janice Atkinson, attempted to raise the urgent human rights issue of Tommy Robinson's secret transfer from a safe prison to a highly dangerous prison at today's ENF group.

Her microphone was cut (video fragment at the bottom) and abuse hurled at her by Conservative MEP, Ashley Fox, before she was able to get past her introductory statements. Janice describes today's event here:

Comment: You'd think the PTB would recognize that the more they suppress discussion of Tommy Robinson's case, the more attention they bring to it. The people are getting angrier and angrier as a result.

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