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1…………> Tariff Sledge Hammer: China

The U.S. will implement a 25% tariff on goods worth $50 billion from China that come “in light of China’s theft of intellectual property and technology and its other unfair trade practices”, a part of President Trump’s pressure campaign of impose tariffs, a move that escalates trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

The administration could impose additional tariffs if China engages in retaliatory measures, with U.S. stock market opening with heavy losses, down more than 200 points, or 0.8%.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-15/donald-trump-announces-tariffs-on-chinese-goods/9876356

2…………> Hit On Taliban: Drone Strike

A notorious leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Mullah Fazlullah, has been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the Afghan province of Kunar, officials and local media confirmed on Friday.

Hailing from Pakistan’s Swat district, the Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader is believed to have been operating from his hideouts in the forests of eastern Afghanistan since 2009.

Mohammad Radmanesh, the deputy Defense Ministry spokesman in Kabul, told Anadolu Agency that Fazlullah — wanted under the U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice since this March — was killed in a drone strike carried out two days ago.

In a statement released by the TTP, the group acknowledged its leader had been killed. The terrorist group accused Afghan intelligence service NDS – long suspected by Pakistan of harbouring Fazlullah – of providing information for the U.S. hit.

Lt. Col. Martin O’Donnell, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan spokesman, also confirmed the strike, telling local TOLO news: “U.S. forces conducted a counterterrorism strike, June 13, in Kunar province, close to the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which targeted a senior leader of a designated terrorist organization.”

http://v.aa.com.tr/1175743 

 

3…………> Inspecting The Fleet: Mr.Xi

China’s President Xi Jinping,  general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), made the call during an inspection to the navy under the Northern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, a part of his implementation of the “new Party socialism” thinking on strengthening the military for the new era, enhancement of the political loyalty of the armed forces, strengthening them through reform and technology, and running them in accordance with law. 

Xi also spoke of the need for the navy to meet the requirements of transformation. 

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/15/c_137256952.htm

 

4…………> Hitler’s Obsession: Grandiose Operas

Someone said years ago that Richard Wagner is the “Father of Nazi Germany”, and a new exhibition shows how the Nazis used opera as a powerful tool of propaganda, especially during the Nuremberg Rallies, with Hitler being personally involved in the staging of some epic Wagner productions.

Adolf Hitler, a dark Austrian house painter with a tooth-brush “Charlie Chaplin” mustache, became the exponent of the super-race of blond, blue-eyed goons who would guide his 1000 year Reich into immortality by labeling Nuremberg the “City of the Nazi Party Rallies” in 1933,  providing the backdrop for his epic, annually staged million men hypnotic gatherings, a prelude to madness that will claim more than 50 million lives.

But for both Hitler and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels — who oversaw the censoring and distribution of film, music, theatre and the visual arts in the Third Reich — German music, and especially opera, would lend vital propagandistic impact to these mass Nazi military gatherings.

http://p.dw.com/p/2zY4n

5…………> One Against The Wind: “Deep State” Cronies

Ex-CIA and ex-NSA chief Michael Vincent Hayden, a brilliant man fluent in Russian who described Mr.Trump as “poleznii durak”, or “useful fool”,  has written nothing short of a manifesto, calling upon his former colleagues,  many of whom are on record of lying to Congress and on National TV, including John Brennan, James Clapper, Jim Comey and Robert Mueller, to oppose US President Donald Trump, according to Israeli political analyst Avigdor Eskin.

“We in the intelligence world have dealt with obstinate and argumentative presidents through the years,” Hayden wrote in his op-ed for The New York Times. “But we have never served a president for whom ground truth really doesn’t matter.” 

Admiral Hayden also hinted that the US president is up in arms about the American intelligence community: “[Trump] humiliated the attorney general, undercut his national security adviser and engaged in personal vendettas against senior FBI officials.” 

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201806151065447598-cia-trump-elites/ 

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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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Bibi1581 Blog For 05/20/2018: Morning Edition

1…………> Breaking: Did FBI “Infiltrated” Trump’s Campaign?

President Trump has stated that he would demand the country’s Justice Department probe into the FBI/DOJ meddling in the 2016 US presidential election upon the request of “people within the Obama administration” by taking on Twitter to draw a line in the reported FBI/Department of Justice’s involvement in 2016 presidential election.

“I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for political purposes, ” the president wrote on Twitter.

Trump has specified that he would also like to investigate whether this alleged surveillance or infiltration into the elections was carried out by some people from the administration of his predecessor, Barack Obama, after mocking “The failing” New York Times report concerning that alleged an Israeli-linked company manipulated the vote through social media, aiming to ensure Trump’s victory.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201805201064630922-trump-fbi-justice-department-surveillance/

 

 

 

2…………> Back To Uncle Adolf Cartoons: Suddeutsche Zeitung

 


A leading Islamic Merkeldom of Germany daily fired a cartoonist over anti-semitic views after he drew a caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 
carrying a missile in his hand, dressed up as Israeli singer Netta Barzilai, who won this year’s Eurovision contest, with a speech bubble on top says, “Next year in Jerusalem.”

The cartoon by Dieter Hanitzsch led to an uproar on social media and other German media outlets after the 85-year-old cartoonist said he wanted to criticize Netanyahu’s exploitation of the Eurovision contest for his own purposes and accused him of abusing the singer’s victory.

“You can reprimand him, warn him, but firing is not a good way,” he said.

Hanitzsch had drawn cartoons criticizing and even insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan but was defended on the basis of freedom of the press and expression, for his drawings published in the same newspaper.

“Zieg Merkel”? “Brownshirts” raising again?

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/german-cartoonist-sacked-after-netanyahu-drawing/1151404

 

 

3…………> No Trade War: China

With “minutes to midnight” the great US-China trade war appears to have been averted with the US deadline to impose tariffs on China set to expire on  Monday, after a deal has been struck with the Chinese agreeing to take measures to reduce its bilateral trade surplus, principally by buying more US goods.


“There was a consensus on taking effective measures to substantially reduce the United States trade deficit in goods with China,” a joint statement drawn up by both sides negotiators read.

“To meet the growing consumption needs of the Chinese people and the need for high-quality economic development, China will significantly increase purchases of United States goods and services. This will help support growth and employment in the United States”, the statement concluded.

The communique was light on detail, pointing more to a detente rather than a total end to hostilities, and done just before worlds market are about to open, preferably not on a large “downside gap”.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-20/china-agrees-to-substantially-reduce-trade-surplus-with-us/9777482

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-44190169

 

 

 

 

4………….> The Mug-Shot Shakedown: California

 

“This pay-for-removal scheme attempts to profit off of someone else’s humiliation. Those who can’t afford to pay into this scheme to have their information removed to pay the price when they look for a job, housing, or try to build relationships with others,” “Anti-Trump”, “Sanctuary Cities Supporting” State Of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned in a statement, followed by the arrest of the four owners of a website which publishes photos of people taken soon after they have been arrested, have been arrested themselves.

 

The alleged owners of the mugshots.com website have been accused of extortion and a variety of other crimes.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44168094

 

 

 

 

5………….> “Welcome Aboard, Dear Girl”: Meghan Markle

“We love our Royal family”, “Everything is changeable”, two remarks related to the colorful wedding of Prince Harry and his beautiful American wife Meghan Markle.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-05/20/c_137193314.htm

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