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| 1…………> BALTOPS Maritime Games: NATO |
| BALTOPS is an annual joint, multinational maritime-focused exercise. It is designed to improve training value for participants enhance flexibility and interoperability, and demonstrate resolve among allied and partner forces in defending the Baltic Sea region. The exercise will involve maritime, ground, and air forces so as to strengthen combined response capabilities necessary to ensure regional stability.
Participating nations in BALTOPS include Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. A total of 43 maritime units, more than 60 aircraft, and a combined amphibious landing force are scheduled to participate in BALTOPS 2018. Here’s how you can follow BALTOPS 2018. We will file everything under the tag BALTOPS 2018, but you can also join the conversation on Twitter at @USNavyEurope, or with the hashtag #BALTOPS. You can also register for email updates and follow us on Facebook. |
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| http://www.c6f.navy.mil/news/status-fleet-baltops-aircraft-participate-photoex |
| http://www.c6f.navy.mil/forces-efforts/baltops |
| 2…………> Drug Gang Busted: Mississippi |
| Eleven individuals are facing federal drug charges in multiple indictments unsealed May 30 targeting a large, multi-state drug trafficking organization based in Mississippi, following a joint investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.
According to court documents, the indictments resulted from an extensive Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation dubbed Operation Highlife. The Mississippi-based drug trafficking organization is charged with distributing more than 40 kilograms of methamphetamine, more than 3 kilograms of cocaine and over 100 pounds of marijuana illegally smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico across numerous states to include Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee and California. |
| Brandon Deshanta Miller, 32, of Dallas, Texas, and ten other co-conspirators are charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fifty grams or more of methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute fifty grams or more of methamphetamine, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. If convicted, Miller and his cohorts face a maximum penalty of life in prison and up to $30 million in fines. |
| https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/11-indicted-multi-state-drug-trafficking-case-following-ice-hsi-investigation |
| 3…………> President Trump’s Power: Article 2 US Constitution |
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US President Donald Trump’s lawyers have sent a secret 20-page letter to special counsel Robert Mueller, asserting that Mr. Trump cannot be forced to testify in the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election because he has absolute authority over all federal investigations. The existence of the letter is a bold assertion of presidential power and another front on which Mr. Trump’s lawyers have argued that the President cannot be subpoenaed in the special counsel’s probe. |
| Mr. Trump’s lawyers argue that a charge of illegal obstruction is incorrect because the Constitution empowers the President to, “if he wished, terminate the inquiry, or even exercise his power to pardon”.
A court battle is likely if Mr. Trump’s team argues that the President cannot be forced to answer questions or be charged with obstruction of justice. |
| Mr. Giuliani said last week that the special counsel probe may be an “entirely illegitimate investigation” and need to be curtailed because it was based on inappropriately obtained information from an informant and Mr. Comey’s memos. |
| http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-03/donald-trump-accuses-robert-mueller-of-leaking-letter/9829288 |
| 4…………> South China Sea War: Impending Disaster? |
| US Defence Secretary James Mattis warned about the prospect of additional American steps against China if its “militarization” of the South China Sea keeps apace, saying Beijing was intimidating and coercing others in the region by putting weapons systems on manmade islands.
US President Donald Trump, backing the remarks by his Pentagon chief at an international security forum in Singapore, said on Twitter: “Very surprised that China would be doing this?” Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump Very surprised that China would be doing this? https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1002760314734170113 … · · 12.5K people are talking about this Mr. Mattis said the Trump administration’s recent decision to disinvite China from a multinational naval exercise was an “initial response” to Beijing’s island activity. He called the US action a “relatively small consequence”. “I believe there are much larger consequences in the future,” he said. China’s reliance on military muscle to achieve its goals “is not a way to make long-term collaboration the rule of the road in a region that’s important to China’s future,” Mr. Mattis said when asked to elaborate. “There are consequences that will continue to come home to roost, so to speak, with China, if they don’t find a way to work more collaboratively with all of the nations who have interests,” he said. |
| China’s deployment of defensive facilities on its islands in the South China Sea is legitimate and necessary, a senior Chinese military official said here on Saturday.
The remarks were made by He Lei, vice president of the Academy of Military Science of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, in response to remarks on the South China Sea made by U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis at the on-going 17th Asia Security Summit, also known as the Shangri-la Dialogue, which opened here on Friday. The South China Sea issue has always been a “hot topic” at the annual Shangri-la Dialogue in recent years, so much so that some have described it as a “golden routine subject,” said He, who is head of the Chinese delegation to the Dialogue. China has indisputable sovereignty over the islands in the South China Sea and the adjacent waters, a fact verified by historical evidence and supported by international law, he said. |
| http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/02/c_137225661.htm |
| http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-03/china-warned-against-militarising-south-china-sea-islands/9829244 |
| 5…………> A Message Of Peace |
| Leave the madness behind and listen to the music of eternal peace, Christus Vincit circa 1982. |
| http://youtu.be/7cFgpvylbRU |
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Bibi1581 Blog For 06/02/2018: Morning Edition
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| 1…………> Keep Open: Coal, Nuke Plants |
| “President Donald J. Trump believes in total energy independence and dominance, and that keeping America’s energy grid and infrastructure strong and secure protects our national security, public safety, and economy from intentional attacks and natural disasters,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Friday.“Unfortunately, impending retirements of fuel-secure power facilities are leading to a rapid depletion of a critical part of our Nation’s energy mix and impacting the resilience of our power grid.”
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| “President Trump has directed Secretary of Energy Rick Perry to prepare immediate steps to stop the loss of these resources and looks forward to his recommendations,” Sanders added.
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| The move would be unprecedented because the plants in question are at risk of closing down due to increased competition from abundant natural gas and renewable energy sources. The policy would coerce the owners of power grids across the nation to purchase electricity from coal and nuclear plants.
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| https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-may-force-coal-nuclear-plants-to-stay-open/1163335 |
| 2…………> Indian Dust Storm: Casualties |
| “We have reports of 16 people dead due to the storm which started on Friday evening. The casualties are from various districts of the state. The Moradabad district reported the highest number of deaths — seven.” T.P. Gupta, an official at the State’s Relief Commissioner Office in Lucknow, told Anadolu Agency.
Mahesh Palawat, the head of private weather agency Skymet, told Anadolu News agency that the intensity of Friday’s dust storm was “severe” in some places. “In most places, there is no prediction of any similar dust storm in the days ahead,” he said. He said at least 12 people were also injured in the storm. Local media reported that most of the deaths in the state were due to houses collapsing and trees falling. |
| https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/india-dust-storm-in-uttar-pradesh-kills-16/1163621 |
| 3…………> Ptolemy IV Coin: In Aussie Rainforest |
| A bronze coin minted during the reign of Egypt’s Pharaon Ptolemy IV, who ruled the country between 221 and 204BC, was found more than two millennia later in 1912 Australia, buried a few inches underground in the depths of the far north Queensland rainforest by a man named Andrew Henderson, who had abandoned the gold mining fields of Victoria for a warmer climate.
“Henderson got a block of land in the scrub and he became a settler,” far north Queensland historian, Dave Phoenix said. “One day in 1912 he was building a fence line and as he was digging a hole for a fence post his shovel hit something metallic. “He reached into the hole and pulled out this coin.” Henderson paid little attention to the coin at the time; when he returned home, he put it in a drawer and all but forgot about it for the next 40 years.
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| Among the most probable of theories is that the coin dropped out of a miner’s pack as they walked along the Aboriginal trail on the way to the Hodgkinson goldfields west of Cairns. |
| http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-02/far-north-queenslands-egyptian-coin-mystery/9708318 |
| 4…………> US Skid Row: UN Report |
| UN report on the persistence of extreme poverty in the US concludes that is a political choice made by people in power, and also criticizes the government policy for making healthcare a privilege rather than a right. Poverty in the United States is widespread and worsening under President Donald Trump, according to a human rights investigator for the United Nations.
Philip Alston, the UN special investigator on extreme poverty, said the Trump administration appears determined to pull the social safety net out from under millions of poor people while rewarding the wealthy with tax cuts. In his report, Alston called on the US to address the underlying problems facing the underclass rather than “punishing and imprisoning the poor.”
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| He noted that welfare benefits are being slashed and access to health care has become more difficult during Trump’s presidency. This, in conjunction with “financial windfalls” for the super-rich and big corporations, has significantly widened the inequality gap.
Since President Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty in the 1960s US social policy towards the poor has been “neglectful at best,” Alston said. “But the policies pursued over the past year seem deliberately designed to remove basic protections from the poorest, punish those who are not in employment and make even basic health care into a privilege to be earned rather than a right of citizenship,” he said. In a country of about 325 million people, nearly 41 million live in poverty — including 18.5 million in extreme poverty. Alston said children accounted for 33 percent of the poor. No other industrialized country had so many children mired in poverty, he said. The data used to compile the UN report only covers the period through 2016, so there are no comparative figures that could measure poverty levels before and after Trump took office in January. |
| http://p.dw.com/p/2yqIT
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| 5…………> ISIS Aficionado: Miami |
| Vicente Adolfo Solano, 53, a citizen of Honduras residing in Miami, was sentenced to 210 months in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, after planning to detonate an explosive device at a Miami mall. Solano pleaded guilty on March 14.
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| Solano told an individual, who later became a Confidential Human Source (CHS) for the government, that he was upset with the United States and wanted to conduct an attack in Miami. Later, Solano told this CHS that he wanted to join ISIS.
Solano planned to place and detonate an explosive device in a crowded area of a popular Miami mall. Solano discussed his plot with the CHS and two undercover FBI employees. According to the complaint, Solano provided three videos to the CHS, in which Solano makes pro-ISIS statements and expresses anti-U.S. sentiments. Just prior to his arrest, Solano took possession of what he believed was an explosive device, took steps to arm it, and walked toward a mall entrance in order to carry out his attack. Unbeknownst to Solano, the device was inert and did not pose a risk to the public. Solano was taken into custody prior to entering the Mall.
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Bibi1581 Blog For 06/01/2018: Evening Edition
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| 1…………> From Monk To Airman: Tibet |
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MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga.(AFNS) After spending 18 years in the solitary world of a Buddhist monk, Airman 1st Class Kornkawee Rue Art, 23rd Medical Support Squadron pharmacy technician, traded his orange robes for a blue uniform, in his continual pursuit of a life bigger than himself; one of meaning and purpose. Born and raised on a farm in the countryside of Thailand, all along dreaming of joining the Air Force, along with successfully following over 200 rules as a monk, Rue Art developed a foundation that would carry his dedication to the honor, respect, and duty he would bring to the Air Force.
“This was something I felt I could do if I prepared myself,” he said. “I wanted to challenge myself and always keep growing.” “Even when I was young I wanted to join the military,” Rue Art said. “Being a monk, though, it closed my dream. I just wanted a chance, because talking with my friend it reminded me of how I used to dream about joining the military.”
Since joining the Air Force, Rue Art expressed that having to see people who aren’t always positive has put a test to his faith; but that it’s actually given him a stronger conviction in his beliefs.
“You learn how to deal with conflict (as a monk), but you never experience it,” Rue Art said. “Being at the pharmacy, I saw the realness of it all. So, when something would make me feel mad or upset, I would wonder how I’m going refresh myself every day and be ready to go to work tomorrow. But with my Buddhist beliefs, I was actually able to put it into practice and see how it really does work.”
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| 2…………>Down With Mr.Xi: Anti-China Alliance |
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Rich in resources and traversed by a quarter of n, the South China Sea is the stage for several territorial disputes that threaten to escalate tensions in the region, in the heart of these disputes are a series of barren islands- the Spratly Islands, off the coast of the Philippines, and the Paracel Islands, off the coasts of Vietnam and China, both chains being practically uninhabitable.
Still, all have been pirated out by an “Elephant in the China store” named Mr.Xi, who has build a constellation of military bases on reclaimed atolls and reefs, in complete disregard to the “Law of the Sea”, on islands claimed by no fewer than seven countries, eager to gain control of the vast oil and gas fields below them, as well as some of the region’s best fishing grounds.
Hence Mr.Xi has created a dialect contradiction, forcing neighboring countries to gang up on him, as nuclear-armed India and Indonesia have joined Australia in pushing back by signing an agreement for closer military ties, and while it was not mentioned specifically in the official communique, concerns over China’s military expansion in the South China Sea are clearly at the heart of the deal.
Australia has welcomed the agreement, suggesting it will work closely with India and Indonesia to ensure international law is maintained in the region.
“I hope the partnership will contribute to stability, peace, and prosperity,” he said.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-01/india-and-indonesia-strengthen-their-military-alliance/9823720
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| 3…………>Methane Dunes: Pluto |
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After analyzing of the startling images sent back by Nasa’s New Horizons mission, which flew close to Pluto in July 2015, planetary scientists say they have found evidence of dunes of frozen methane on Pluto.
Following a decade-long trek through the Solar System, the “New Horizons” sped by at a speed of 36,373 mph, gathering data as it passed, helping the researchers explain how they studied pictures of a plain known as Sputnik Planitia, parts of which are covered with what looks like fields of dunes.
They are lying close to a range of mountains of water ice 5km high. The scientists conclude that the dunes are 0.4-1km apart and that they are made up of particles of methane ice between 200-300 micrometers in diameter – roughly the size of grains of sand.
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| 4…………> The Sleeping Lion: Catherine The Great
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| Once owned by Catherine the Great of St. Petersburg, Russia. world’s largest freshwater pearl named “The Sleeping Lion” has been sold at public auction for the first time in more than 200 years.
An auction house in the Netherlands sold the 7-centimeter (about 2.7 inches) pearl for €320,000 ($374,000) on Thursday to a Japanese trader. It had been valued at between €340,000 to €540,000 by auction house Venduehuis.
It weighs about 120 grams (some 4.2 ounces) or in an imperial unit of measurement based on grains of barley and wheat — 2,373 grains or 578 carats.
The largest known freshwater pearl in the world, and one of the world’s three largest pearls of any kind, the Sleeping Lion is so named because of its irregular shape, and it was probably formed in the early 1700s in China, perhaps the Pearl River. In 1765 it was shipped by a Dutch merchant to Batavia (present day Jakarta) before being auctioned in Amsterdam thirteen years later and acquired by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia.
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| 5…………> Market Report 06/01/2018, sell stop 24400, CG(10322), 11/22/17
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| New position long at 24200, stop 24850 closed for a gain of 650 DIA points. Last position short DIA 24850, cover shortstop 24860 for a gain of 390 dollars was closed to the usual Fed support rally that reverses any time DJI approaches the critical 23950 level. The last position is long DIA at 24460, stop 24400 for a loss of 60 points was closed due to sudden downdraft after President Trump levied new sanctions on EU Mexico metal producers. Closed position short 24400, cover shortstop 24500, for a loss of 50 DIA points.
New position long 24500, stop 24450 for a loss of 50 points.
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| We warned long ago that an organized attempt to remove President Trump from office is underway, and if this activity is not curtailed soon, the market will open on gap below 20,000 with next stop 17300 and 11800 support levels.
Stocks were up 219 to 24635, DJ futures 230, attempt to stage a covering short rally. Gold down to 1297.9 and USD/CHF at 1.01 despite President Trump setting tariffs on Chinese products. Translation? As the dollar goes down, we have to wait and see if the new Fed Chair Jerome Powell will continue pressuring gold and the Eurasian block with it down below $1000/oz in an economic WW3. Watch cover short at 24,450.
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| We have to wait and see if new Fed chair Powell will attempt to destroy Eurasian block by sending gold prices below 1000, despite the fact both Russia and China have been buying their whole gold production in local gold backed currency instead of money printing machines. In other words, US has lost controls of the precious metals complex, and with Trump’s infrastructure and tax cut campaign the National debt will soon be at, or over 30 trillion dollars, since D.C. swamp alligators have no intention dropping their pet projects. Read “Ziban Must Die” for more details on the coming collision of Trump’s administration with “Deep State” operators funded by the billionaires’ supporters of the New World.
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