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Bibi1581 Blog For 06/04/2018: Morning Edition

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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.

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

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!

5:35 AM – Jun 4, 2018

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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.”

US Army Europe

✔@USArmyEurope

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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Bibi1581 Blog For 05/05/2018: Evening Edition

1…………> An Ancient Culture Cove: Tower Collection


Some of the 8 million books harbored and cherished in The Cambridge University Library, and its banned books of the Tower Collection, with the oldest manuscripts dating from 1710, and the most recent material from the 21st century, may see the light of day for the first time in decades.

The 17-story Tower, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, became storage home to the so-called “secondary material” which entitles Cambridge University Library to get a copy of every book published in the U.K.

Among the books the tower holds, there is “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien and Ian Fleming’s “Casino Royale”. Such novels were deemed of little academic value at the time of publication and effectively banished to the Tower.

“Now regarded as an archive of global importance, the Tower’s irreplaceable contents tell the story of our national life through the printed word,” the exhibition’s curator Liam Sims told Anadolu Agency.

The Cambridge University’s history goes back to 1209 and it holds 31 independent colleges, 150 departments, faculties, and institutes.


https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture-and-art/cambridge-university-opens-exhibition-of-banned-books/1134387

 

 


2………….> Putin 101: Bear Paw Across the Face


President “Comrade Colonel” Putin may be reliving some moments of past Soviet Union glory as the opposition leader Alexei Navalny and more than 1,600 anti-Kremlin refuseniks have been arrested by police during street protests ahead of his inauguration for a fourth presidential term.

Mr. Putin who has been portrayed by Kremlin-friendly media as the “Fatherly person” of the nation, won a landslide re-election victory in March, cementing his power position after being in power, either as president or prime minister, since 2000.


Protests were reported across Russia including the far east and Siberia as  Mr. Navalny called for Russians to take to the streets in more than 90 towns and cities across the world’s largest country to register their opposition to Mr. Putin’s autocratic “Tsar-like” rule.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-06/thousand-russians-arrested-in-anti-putin-protests/9731522




3…………> Shot At Political Correctness: Trump

President Donald Trump has done it again, outraging the Muslim believers in the Islamic Sheikdom of France by suggesting the 2015 jihadists attacks on Paris could have been stopped by giving people guns.

He mimicked gunmen summoning and shooting victims one by one, saying “Boom! Come over here!” and using his hand to imitate a gun being fired, while the politically correct opposition was infuriated by his omission of the fact that
the terrorist sprayed many of their 130 victims with semi-automatic fire and set off bomb belts.

“France expresses its firm disapproval of the comments by President Trump about the attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris and asks for the memory of the victims to be respected,” the foreign ministry said. 

François Hollande, who was French president at the time of the attacks, said Mr. Trump’s remarks were “shameful”. They “said a lot about what he thinks of France and its values”, he added.

Manuel Valls, who was France’s prime minister in 2015, tweeted: “Indecent and incompetent. What more can I say?”

Manuel Valls

@manuelvalls

Indécent et incompétent.Que dire de plus?

2:42 AM – May 5, 2018


In the same speech to the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Dallas, Texas, the US president criticised the level of knife crime in London, comparing one of the city’s hospitals to a “war zone”.

“Paris, France, has the toughest gun laws in the world… Nobody has guns in Paris, nobody, and we all remember more than 130 people, plus tremendous numbers of people that were horrible, horribly wounded. Did you notice that nobody ever talks about them? They were brutally killed by a small group of terrorists that had guns. They took their time and gunned them down one by one. Boom! Come over here. Boom! Come over here. Boom! But if one employee or just one patron had a gun, or if just one person in this room had been there with a gun, aimed at the opposite direction, the terrorists would have fled or been shot.” he told the NRA. 


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44017172 





4…………> CO2 Bomb: Tick, Tick You Die

 

Prof. Ralph Keeling has been recording carbon dioxide levels at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii since 1958. 

“We keep burning fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide keeps building up in the air. It’s essentially as simple as that. At the recent pace, we’ll hit 450 ppm in a mere 16 years, and 500 ppm 20 years after that. That’s well within the dangerous territory for the climate system,” he pointed out.

Carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere, which contributes heavily to human-induced global warming, is now at its highest level in the past 800,000 years, according to scientists. 



https://sputniknews.com/environment/201805051064182333-earth-carbon-dioxide-levels-high/







5…………> A Message Of Peace

Leave the madness behind and listen to the music of eternal peace, Christus Vincit circa 1982.

 
 
 
 

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