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North and South Korea to announce official end to war


RT
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:14 UTC
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Seoul and Pyongyang are reportedly set to make a huge step in the peace settlement on the Korean Peninsula, as officials from the two states are negotiating a joint statement outlining a formal end to hostilities.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the South's president, Moon Jae-in, are scheduled to meet at a rare inter-Korean summit on April 27. A local media report indicated that the date could put an end to more than half a century of confrontation.

Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in are to meet in the demilitarized zone in the village of Panmunjom, 53km north of Seoul. It will be the third event of its kind in the history of the two nations. Two previous meetings in 2000 and 2007 focused on political and economic issues.

Delegations from the North and the South have been holding meetings prior to the high-level talks to discuss a joint statement. The document may lead to "the end of confrontation," newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Tuesday, citing a government official.

Comment: A long time coming, the end of confrontation between the Koreas strengthens both factions towards achieving peace and prosperity. The decrease of a NK nuclear threat is an upside for the West -- given the US shows a modicum of sensibility and keeps hands off. Will the West support this positive development or see it as a strategic detriment and meddle, now that Bolton and Pompeo are running the show.

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After Syria airstrikes, is all-out war now a distinct possibility?

Andrey Sushentsov, Richard Weitz
Valdai Discussion Club
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
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In the early hours of Saturday, the United States, supported by the United Kingdom and France, launched airstrikes on a number of targets in Syria in response to alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government forces in Damascus' suburb of Douma. The attacks were personally announced by US President Donald Trump.
"The US President is trying to easily score political points by carrying out an operation which is known to lead to no consequences or problems for him," Andrey Sushentsov, Programme Director of the Valdai Club, told valdaiclub.com. "What Russia needs is to keep restraint and to accomplish what it began - up to the complete victory of the government forces in Syria," he said.
According to him, the alleged use of chemical weapons was essentially a false flag operation aimed at drawing the West and Russia into confrontation in Syria.
"Those who carried out this provocation and used chemical weapons in Syria intended to influence the government's struggle with the terrorist forces and impede the implementation of Russia and its allies' plans to defeat the terrorists and continue the reconstruction of Syria."

Comment: War has always been the answer to conflict instead of the meeting of minds and hearts. It decides but never solves. Mankind is stuck in a worsening repeat cycle in that those who make the decisions for fight and might are never the ones who suffer the outcome. They 'live to fight another day.'

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Snakes in Suits

MEPs protest Syria strikes as Macron calls for unity


RT
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:11 UTC
EU Parliament
© Vincent Kessler/ReutersMembers of the European Parliament display placards "Stop the War in Syria" France, April 17, 2018.
A group of MEPs held placards reading "Hands off Syria!" during Emmanuel Macron's address before the European parliament on Tuesday, overshadowing the French president's call for greater European unity on security issues.

In his speech, Macron laid out his vision for a "profound transformation" within the EU, by which member states would abandon their "selfishness and negativity" for "what brings us together." He characterized the current political climate in the EU as a "civil war," and called for greater unity in the face of emerging "authoritarian powers," which seek to undermine the bloc.

However, Macron's impassioned appeal for unity was coldly received by more than a dozen MEPs, who displayed signs that read "Hands off Syria!" and "Stop the War in Syria" in protest at joint missile strikes carried out by the US, Britain and France against Damascus on Saturday.

Comment: There are outbursts of disgust, condemnation and backlash toward May and Macron, by their parliaments and citizens, for secretive planning and unauthorized participation in the Syria bombings. But in the end, accusers lay full blame on Trump.

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Chess

Preceding airstrikes in Syria, Trump wanted meeting with Putin, 'good relationship with Russia'


RT
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 10:38 UTC
Putin and Trump
© Carlos Barria/ReutersRussia's President Vladimir Putin talks to US President Donald Trump.

Comment: With the recent airstrikes in Syria, it seems the Deep State has checkmated Trump in his desire to meet with Putin and "have a good relationship with Russia".


Preparations for a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be affected by the new round of sanctions imposed on Russian government officials and businessmen, the White house has said.

"As the president has said, he wants to have a good relationship with Russia but that's going to depend on some of the actions by the Russians," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said at a news briefing.

When asked if the new round of anti-Russian sanctions meant that Trump's planned meeting with Putin was now off the table, Sanders replied: "No, not at all. We're going to continue working forward... to have a meeting with Vladimir Putin at some point," she said.

Comment: See also: Behind the Headlines: Humpty Trumpty? Western Reality Creation Taken to Breaking Point in Syria Strikes

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Yoda

Military-technological balance now in Russia's favor - Foreign Ministry


TASS
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 17:49 UTC
Russian Foreign Ministry
© Valeriy Sharifulin/TASS
Russia has an opportunity to come up with a fitting response to any US attempts to exert pressure on it, Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department Vladimir Yermakov said on Sunday at the Assembly of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy.

"Now, in 2018, we can now see that the military-technological balance has radically changed in Russia's favor," the diplomat stressed. "We have a fitting response to any US attempts to exert pressure on us".

The arms race in the world has become a "dangerous reality" today because of the actions by Western countries, Yermakov added.

"The current situation is characterized by the shrinking space for constructive interaction at an unprecedented scale. The principal cause is unwillingness by the US and its allies to recognize the objective realities of the emerging polycentric world order," the diplomat noted.

Comment: For a less optimistic view on how Russia measures vs the US Empire, see:

Options for Russia in the road to World War III

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Bad Guys

UK PM's husband's Capital Group raking in profits after Syrian airstrikes


RT
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:44 UTC
Theresa May husband Philip
© Phil Noble / Reuters
Philip May, husband of the UK prime minister, works for a company that is the largest shareholder in arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, whose share price has soared since the recent airstrikes in Syria.

The company, Capital Group, is also the second-largest shareholder in Lockheed Martin - a US military arms firm that supplies weapons systems, aircraft and logistical support. Its shares have also rocketed since the missile strikes last week.

The fact has not gone unnoticed by some on Twitter, who agree that BAE Systems has done very well out of the UK-US-France allied airstrikes on Syria, which were sanctioned by Theresa May. It has been reported that the UK's contribution to military strikes was to fire eight 'Storm-Shadow' missiles at an alleged chemical weapons facility, each of which cost £790,000 ($1.13 million) - totaling £6.32 million ($9 million). The missiles were manufactured by BAE Systems.
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Wedding Rings

Soy boys unite: Macron and Trudeau deepen their 'bromance' in Paris


Yahoo News
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:26 UTC
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© AFP Photo/STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN
French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stressed their common vision and the strength of their personal friendship as they met in Paris on Monday.

The two young leaders, both progressives in their 40s, exchanged a hug on the steps of the Elysee Palace and spoke warmly of their ties afterwards at a press conference that ended with them leaving the room with their arms across each other's backs.


Comment: In their 40s, going on 14.


Macron and Trudeau see each other as natural allies in a world increasingly shaped by right-wing nationalism which has gathered strength in Europe and the United States, as well as in Russia, Turkey and China.


Comment: Natural allies against the word of common sense and basic facts, more like it.


"We have an extremely close convergence of views," Macron said during the press conference, which came after a working lunch and talks with Trudeau.

Trudeau, speaking mostly in French, ended his remarks lauding the "friendship" between the two leaders -- a contrast with the often difficult relationship he has with his North American neighbour, US President Donald Trump.
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Wedding Rings

Flashback Judge Kimba Wood presides over George Soros wedding - attended by Nancy Pelosi


Page Six
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:16 UTC
soros bolton
© Julie Skarratt PhotographyThe first wedding picture released from the wedding of George Soros and Tamiko Bolton.
Billionaire investor George Soros, 83, will marry 42-year-old Tamiko Bolton today, followed by a huge party at his Caramoor Estate in Bedford, with 500 guests.

We're told the couple will say their vows in front of a select group of friends and family before they celebrate with hundreds from 4:30 p.m. onward.

Those expected include World Bank president Jim Yong Kim and Toomas Hendrik Ilves, president of Estonia; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia; and Edi Rama, prime minister of Albania.

Also there will be Paul Tudor Jones II and Rep. Nancy Pelosi. Festivities started Friday night with a dinner at Le Bernardin, followed by cocktails with a few hundred guests at MoMA.

Soros and Bolton, a health care consultant, will exchange vows in a small ceremony on Saturday morning at the Bedford, New York estate, which Soros bought in 2003 from "Jurassic Park" author Michael Crichton.

Kimba Wood, a federal judge, will perform the non-denominational ceremony, which will be attended by members of the couple's families, including his five children, a source familiar with the arrangements told Reuters.

Comment: It must have been for love... Regardless of matrimonial motives, however, Kimba Wood is in the news. It turns out Judge Kimba Wood will hear the case against Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. As it happens, Wood was President Bill Clinton's choice to nominate as first female Attorney General (it never went through on account of an inconvenient undocumented immigrant baby-sitter). Her "impartiality" can certainly be guaranteed.

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Bad Guys

Flashback How the USA armed terrorists in Syria

Gareth Porter
The American Conservative
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:14 UTC
Free Syrian Army fighters in Saqba, a suburb of Damascus
© Freedom House / CC-BY-2.0Free Syrian Army fighters in Saqba, a suburb of Damascus.
Three-term Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a member of both the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees, has proposed legislation that would prohibit any U.S. assistance to terrorist organizations in Syria as well as to any organization working directly with them. Equally important, it would prohibit U.S. military sales and other forms of military cooperation with other countries that provide arms or financing to those terrorists and their collaborators.

Gabbard's "Stop Arming Terrorists Act" challenges for the first time in Congress a U.S. policy toward the conflict in the Syrian civil war that should have set off alarm bells long ago: in 2012-13 the Obama administration helped its Sunni allies Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar provide arms to Syrian and non-Syrian armed groups to force President Bashar al-Assad out of power. And in 2013 the administration began to provide arms to what the CIA judged to be "relatively moderate" anti-Assad groups—meaning they incorporated various degrees of Islamic extremism.

That policy, ostensibly aimed at helping replace the Assad regime with a more democratic alternative, has actually helped build up al Qaeda's Syrian franchise al Nusra Front into the dominant threat to Assad.


Comment: If anyone expects to replace the Assad regime with a more democratic alternative by arming extremist Islamic terrorists, they are living in la-la land. And let's be honest, the US knows that, because the plan was NEVER to find a more democratic alternative but a government that would be pliant to demands from the US.

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Newspaper

Israeli Minister of Military Affairs Avigdor Lieberman: Russia cannot limit Israel's actions in Syria


Press TV
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:29 UTC
Israeli Minister of Military Affairs Avigdor Lieberman
© Photo by AFPIsraeli Minister of Military Affairs Avigdor Lieberman
Israeli Minister of Military Affairs Avigdor Lieberman says the Tel Aviv regime does not accept limitations from Russia or any other country on its "actions" in war-ravaged Syria.
"We will maintain total freedom of action. We will not accept any limitation when it comes to the defense of our ... interests," Lieberman said in a video interview with the Hebrew-language Walla news website.

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