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1…………> The “Trump Shake-Up”: North Korea
 

In a new sign that President Trump’s policy “big stick and sweet carrot” is working, North Korea’s top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior US official said, a move analysts say could support efforts by the North’s young leader to jump-start economic development and engage with the world

 

According to an unidentified intelligence official, General No Kwang-chol, first vice minister of the Ministry of People’s Armed Forces, had replaced Pak Yong-sik as defense chief, while Ri Myong-su was replaced by his deputy, Ri Yong-gil.

North Korean state media previously confirmed that Army General Kim Su-gil had replaced Kim Jong-gak as director of the KPA’s General Political Bureau.

 

In a remarkable shift in tone eight days after canceling the summit, citing Pyongyang’s “open hostility,” Mr. Trump welcomed North Korea’s former intelligence chief, Kim Yong-Chol, to the White House on Friday, exchanging smiles and handshakes.

All three of the new officials have at least some experience interacting with foreign delegations, a factor that is critical as Mr. Kim seeks to line up meetings with leaders from the United States, China, Russia, and Syria.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-04/kim-jong-un-shakes-up-military-leadership-ahead-of-trump-summit/9832346
2…………>”Pardon Me, Pardon You”: President Trump

 

The “anti-Trump” crowds of “illegal” Special Counsel Robert Mueller that were salivating at the opportunity to drag President Trump in front of a grand jury before impeaching him, may have had a “legal monkey wrench” tossed in their wheels, as even Constitutional scholars are divided on whether a president can pardon himself.

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As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong? In the meantime, the never-ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very Angry and Conflicted Democrats (& others) continues into the mid-terms!

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When White House adviser Kellyanne Conway was asked by a reporter why the president talked about pardoning himself, she replied: “Why would he need to pardon himself if he’s done nothing wrong? You just like to engage in these hypothetical exercises constantly”.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44359434

 

3…………> Mozart In Beijing: The “Zauberflouete”
In yet another cultural triumph for Chinese musicians and performers, an artist from the China National Opera House performs in Mozart ‘s opera classic “Die Zauberfloete (The Magical Flute)” in Beijing, capital of China, May 30, 2018.

 

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-05/31/c_137218890.htm
4…………> “Get Them Ruskies”: NATO Hordes
In the biggest wargames since the “Cold War” intended to taunt the “Russian bear”, US deployed 6000 soldiers from its new base in Poland into operation “Saber Strike” exercise, which involves Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and 17 additional participating Allied and partner militaries.

 

It is “a clear demonstration of the commitment and solidarity of the Alliance,” according to the US Army Europe. “Saber Strike 18 is not a provocation of Russia but an exercise with our Allies.”

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Lithuanian and @USArmy Soldiers officially launch Saber Strike 18 with the opening ceremony in @USEmbVilnius, Lithuania. @US_EUCOM #USArmyEurope #SaberStrike has begun!

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“Yes, we are interested in the presence of American forces in our country,” said Pawel Soloch, head of the office of national security at the Polish presidency.

 
http://p.dw.com/p/2yruN
5…………> “Feminism” IS Style: Knife Terror
In planning an attack in the capital of the Islamic May’sdom of UK, Safaa Boular tried from prison to recruit her sister to execute an attack in London, with her mother surveying major London landmarks and hoarding knives and a rucksack.
The Crime Plan:

 
Boular was detained last year after she attempted to travel to Syria to visit her partner, an older Islamic State group fighter she wanted to marry, who was later killed in Syria.

 She tried to recruit her older sister Rizlaine in phone calls from prison to execute an attack in the British capital, using code words over the phone that referred to an attack as an “Alice In Wonderland”-themed tea party. 

 A fourth woman, Khawla Barghouthi, pleaded guilty to having information about acts of terrorism and will remain in custody along with the other three women.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon said the women, “were filled with hate and toxic ideology and were determined to carry out a terrorist attack. Had they been successful, it could well have resulted in people being killed or seriously injured.”

http://www.dw.com/en/teenage-girl-found-guilty-of-plotting-all-female-uk-terror-attack/a-44071823
 

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1…………> The Scent Of Eros & Aphrodite: Greece
 

For the first time, an ancient scent takes its place among the treasure of antiquities next to sculptures of Eros and Aphrodite at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, after chemists used oil formulas referenced in the works of Dioskourides and Theophrastos and later studies focusing on the ancient technique of aromatic oil production.

 

“We started the infusion of the wild olive oil, we mixed it with nutsedges. Then we flavored the formed oil with rose petals and colorized it with the root of alkanna,” Korres explained.

 

According to Korres, the final scent is absolutely original, and it takes one back to something primitive and fresh which is the rose, with two more scents, are being unveiled and take their place in the museum in the coming months, the coriander, and the sage.

 

 

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/03/c_137227669_2.htm
2…………> Volcanic Erruption: Guatemala
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 Cuerpo de Ingeniros del Ejército realiza trabajos de remoción de ceniza volcánica en el Aeropuerto Internacional “La Aurora”.#365DíasAlServicioDeMiPatria

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Seven people have been killed and nearly 300 injured after Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted, officials say.

The volcano, about 40km (25 miles) south-west of the capital Guatemala City, has been spewing black smoke and ash into the sky.

Flows of lava have reportedly struck at least one village, causing deaths and injuries.

People have been evacuated from several areas and the capital’s La Aurora airport has closed.

President Jimmy Morales said a national emergency response was under way.

The head of the National Disaster Prevention Authority Sergio Cabañas told a local radio station that a river of lava had changed course towards a small town.

“People have been injured, burned and killed. Evacuations and searches are underway,” he said, quoted by Reuters.

A total of about a million people have been affected by the eruption, the Guatemalan government says.

Officials have advised citizens to wear masks due to falling ash, which has been raining down in four of Guatemala’s administrative regions.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44350974
3…………> PLA Air Force: Deliberate, Experienced & Obedient
The “Shenwei” unit of PLA long-distance aviation in the words of veteran pilot Wang Aiping, and his co-pilot Wei Xing, gives us a window of the degree of precision and hard work pilots and support crews go in piloting H-6K nuclear-capable bombers that have been observed landing on the “artificial” islands of the deeply contested South Chiba sea.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/04/c_137228600.htm
4…………> Money Laundering: “Down Under”
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 CBA CEO, Matt Comyn on AUSTRAC settlement: “Our agreement today is a clear acknowledgment of our failures and is an important step towards moving the bank forward. On behalf of Commonwealth Bank, I apologize to the community for letting them down.”

4:28 PM – Jun 3, 2018

The settlement of $530 million dollars came after court-ordered mediation between the country’s biggest bank and the country’s financial intelligence agency, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), for “serious and systemic non-compliance” with anti-money laundering and terror financing rules following Deutche Bank and a long list of US and EU banks that have used the very loose Central Banks monetary policy to procure tens of thousands of suspicious transactions and failed to adequately report them to authorities, allowing criminals and terror financiers to launder millions of dollars through CBA accounts.

 

 

http://www.dw.com/en/australias-commonwealth-bank-to-pay-450-million-money-laundering-fine/a-44062899
5…………> Murder Capital: Mexico City
Mexico City has recorded its most violent first four-month period of any year of the past two decades with 382 intentional homicides between January 1 and the end of April.

The figure is 14% higher than the 335 recorded in the same period last year and 24% higher than the murder rate registered in the first four months of 1998 when there were 309 homicides.

There have not been more than 300 murders in Mexico City in the January-April period of any other year in the past 20.

 

 

 

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/violence-surges-in-mexico-city-worst-in-20-years/
 

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1…………> “Alien Sanctuary” NY: Cuddling Criminals
ICE prepared more than 440 detainers against aliens booked by NYPD or NYDOC. Nearly 40 individuals who were released from custody, reoffended and were again arrested for crimes by local law enforcement officers, for “minor” crimes like Criminal Contempt, Assault-3rd, Disorderly Conduct, Aggravated Unlicensed Operation of a Motor Vehicle-Felony Grand Larceny, Robbery, Criminal Contempt,  Assault and Disorderly Conduct, Fraud, Robbery and finally Homicide.

 

“In just three months, more than three dozen criminal aliens were released from local custody. Simply put, the politics and rhetoric in this city are putting its own communities at an unnecessary risk,” said Scott Mechowski, acting field office director for the ERO New York. “ICE has no choice but to continue to conduct at-large arrests in local neighborhoods and at worksites, wasting valuable resources on criminal aliens who could be securely turned over to ICE custody at jails and prisons.  However, ICE remains committed to its public safety mission and will continue to enforce our nation’s immigration laws.”

 

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/3-month-review-shows-how-new-york-citys-failure-honor-immigration-detainers-leads
2…………> Up Against The Flow: Tariff Wars
After forty years of exporting US capital, know-how and technology to our “Chinese partners”, the administration of President Trump is trying to reverse the treachery of the Council of Foreign Relations(CFR) that turned a third world communist country into world’s 2nd superpower, and left thousands of American cities into drug-infested shanty towns, by using tariffs to reduce current account balance.

Mr.Xi and his lieutenants were clearly not amused:

“The achievements reached by China and the United States should be based on the premise that the two sides should meet each other halfway and not fight a trade war,” said the Chinese statement, carried by the official Xinhua News Agency.

“If the United States introduces trade sanctions including raising tariffs, all the economic and trade achievements negotiated by the two parties will be void.”

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-03/china-warns-us-trade-deals-off-if-tariffs-go-ahead/9830080
3…………> Google AI Project: Out Of DOD
“Cousin” Google “Artificial Intelligence Project” code-named “Maven” was using machine learning and engineering know-how to be able to distinguish people and objects in drone videos, an undertaking that led to 4,000 Google employees to sign an open letter saying that by its involvement in the project the Internet giant was putting users’ trust at risk, as well as ignoring its “moral and ethical responsibility”.

 

 

Company associates feared it was the first step towards using artificial intelligence for lethal purposes, and a top executive Diane Greene told the staff there would be no follow-up after the current contract expired next March.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-44341490
4…………> Superman History: A Pure Chance
Superman’s “Action Comics No. 1“ sailed into immortality in June 1938,  featuring  very the first appearance of the superhero genre, destined to become one of the world’s most coveted pop culture collector’s items, when in 2014, one of the first copies containing the debut adventure of original superhero Superman, which cost 10 cents in 1938, sold for $3.2 million (2.4 million euros) through an auction on eBay.
The Superman character was initially created in 1933 by Jerry Siegel in a short story titled The Reign of the Superman, illustrated by his friend Joe Shuster, a self-published work in a science fiction magazine, later discovered by DC Comics. Comic book publisher Jack Liebowitz said that the decision to pick up the Superman figure was “pure accident” as he selected the cover image, which depicts the super-strong figure with a red cape lifting a car over his head.

Creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were paid $10 per page — a total of $130 for their work on the issue.

 

http://p.dw.com/p/2ynGX
5…………> Air Force Honor Guard: Memorial Day
“On Memorial Day,” President Donald J. Trump said in his 2018 proclamation, “we pause in solemn gratitude to pay tribute to the brave patriots who laid down their lives defending peace and freedom while in service to our great nation.”

Paying tribute and honoring fallen service members is what the 11th Operations Group is all about. That’s why they were in high demand over Memorial Day weekend.

More than 80 U.S. Air Force Honor Guard parade element members traveled west; about half went to Illinois for the 2018 Chicago Memorial Day Parade on May 26, while the other half went to Indiana for the Indianapolis Power and Light 500 Festival Parade, also on May 26, and then continued to Pittsburgh for the Lawrenceville Memorial Day parade May 27.

“Every time we do a parade, and I hear the support of the crowd, it always reinvigorates me and reminds me of why we do this,” said Senior Airman Amanda Skidmore, U.S. Air Force honor guardsman.

Meanwhile, the honor guard’s drill team, along with Air Force Band’s rock band “Max Impact,” traveled to Miami for the two-day National Salute to America’s Heroes Air and Sea Show.

 

http://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1538281/air-force-band-honor-guard-perform-in-memorial-day-events-across-country/
 

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