Trump, Macron agree on defense after 'insulting' European army spat

PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and France’s Emmanuel Macron agreed on Saturday on the need for more European defense spending, papering over an earlier Trump tweet that had described Macron’s call for a European army as “very insulting”.

“We want a strong Europe, it’s very important to us, and whichever way we can do it the best and more efficient would be something we both want,” said Trump.

“We want to help Europe but it has to be fair. Right now the burden sharing has been largely on the United States.”

Macron echoed those sentiments, saying he wanted Europe to bear a greater share of the defense costs within NATO, a point he has made repeatedly since taking office, alongside his ambitions for Europe to have its own military capability.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ww1-century-trump-macron/trump-macron-agree-on-defense-after-insulting-european-army-spat-idUSKCN1NE2MA

>>3832758

That is something we need a answer for it , what are they not telling us

Millions of US tax dollars ‘knowingly’ went to terror groups from charities, Pentagon says

A new Pentagon report released this week has revealed that U.S. humanitarian aid repeatedly ended up in the hands of terror groups, including Al Qaeda, over the past year.

The report identified “numerous instances” in which U.S. aid was “knowingly diverted” to terror groups in Syria, including one of the strongest in the region, a Pentagon Lead Inspector General report exposed Monday.

The report said, “Since late 2017, USAID [U.S. Agency for International Development] OIG investigations have uncovered numerous instances of possible or confirmed diversions to armed groups in Idlib Governorate in northwestern Syria, including Ha’yat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.”

HTS surfaced as a new terror group over the past two years and has quickly grown to be a major threat in the region, becoming one of the most powerful terror groups in Idlib, Syria, according to Reuters. In August, Turkey designated HTS as a terror group, citing their ties to Al Qaeda and ISIS. It was previously designated a terror group by the U.S. in early 2018.

“One investigation found that an NGO’s employees knowingly diverted thousands of USAID- funded food kits worth millions of dollars to ineligible beneficiaries (including HTS fighters) and submitted falsified beneficiary lists. The investigation resulted in USAID suspending the program and the NGO terminating the employment of dozens of individuals from March to May 2018,” the Pentagon report added.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2018/11/millions-of-us-tax-dollars-knowingly-went-to-terror-groups-from-charities-pentagon-says/

Koreas ready for joint guard duty as DMZ truce village gets new look

The two Koreas and the U.S.-led United Nations Command agreed Tuesday to draft rules for joint guard duty and unveiled new posts as they prepare to reopen the truce village of Panmunjom to the public.

Military officials from the three sides held a third round of talks in Panmunjom aimed at disarming the jointly patrolled area, which has been the only spot on the heavily fortified border where the adversaries come face to face.

North and South Korea already have removed guard posts and weapons following a mine-clearance operation.

The three sides “agreed to establish rules for joint guard duty for implementing order in the opposite parties’ areas … and to finalize them by exchanging documents as soon as possible,” according to a press release from South Korea’s Defense Ministry.

It also released photos of new guard posts on each side and said the officials discussed ways to readjust their respective surveillance equipment.

The three sides also agreed to implement measures to ensure “the free comings and goings of tourists” when the steps are completed, the ministry said.

But it gave no date for resuming popular tours of the area, which were suspended late last month while authorities reconfigure the security DMZtrarrangements in accordance with a bilateral military pact.

The military agreement, which was reached during a summit between the leaders of the two countries in September, calls for civilians to be allowed into the area with “freedom of movement” from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The tours have been tightly controlled. Visitors were previously limited to specific areas and only allowed to cross the so-called Military Demarcation Line while inside a blue building that was the site of the signing of the 1953 armistice.

The armistice ended the three-year Korean War after the warring parties failed to reach a peace treaty.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2018/11/koreas-ready-for-joint-guard-duty-as-dmz-truce-village-gets-new-look/

>>3832848

Does anybody remember the 80/20 and 60/40 post

The Rise of Fascism in a Brave New Digital World

“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.” – Aldous Huxley

We are watching Huxley’s dystopian vision of a Brave New World controlled by state-sanctioned addiction unfold right before our eyes. And true to Huxley’s prescience, we rather enjoy it. The only surprise is that the operative pharmacological agents he warned against aren’t delivered in pill or liquid or other physical form, and we don’t call them soma or heroin or crystal meth or crack. They’re delivered in bits and bytes instead, and we call them media. Consider…

The average American household has only 2.75 people, but 3 TVs and 6 Internet devices.

The average American family spends more money each month on media consumption than on groceries or electricity.

The average American consumes 12-15 aggregate hours of digital media per day.

The average American child consumes more than 10 hours of digital media per day.

The average American smartphone is checked every 6-12 waking minutes.

70% of Americans binge view.

The jury is in and the verdict is irrefutable: A pervasive and pernicious meta-addiction to all things media and all things digital has emerged over the past generation as the default condition of American life, the rule rather than the exception. We are born into and live our lives in a completely immersive screen culture whose primary directive is to search for, find and ingest media all day long — virtually every waking minute.

https://www.activistpost.com/2018/11/the-rise-of-fascism-in-a-brave-new-digital-world.html

where's Ebot, are these friends of yours

Meet the AI-Chatbot Bandwagon Which Shows no Sign of Slowing Down

Anybody walking on the street can identify how technology is changing at a whiplash-inducing pace. But do you know what the worst part is? Which of these technologies specifically are about to hit big. AI, machine learning, augmented reality, chatbots, have not just grabbed headlines — but are successfully infiltrating every aspect of our world. These show no sign of slowing down — from business to education, to the government, to our homes.

Chatbots & AI – Chocolate and Peanut butter

Chatbots are nothing but dedicated programs that employ machine learning and virtual intelligence (AI). Advancements in both fields, AI-powered virtual assistants can now learn independently and provide assistance to consumers without any additional human intervention. Also used as fantastic internal-facing tools, a high-end chatbot can help your business to a great extent.

One can easily speed up their internal business processes and create an efficient communication network for all professionals. Just by using an internal-facing bot. It is a safe bet to say that investing in AI-chatbots means there is no need to hire a professional. Other than this, chatbots can be integrated into a huge variety of channels, including Facebook Messenger and Slack.

https://readwrite.com/2018/11/09/meet-the-ai-chatbot-bandwagon-which-shows-no-sign-of-slowing-down/

>>3833030

Not to mention the brainwashing and social engineering the TV generation was programmed with

Trump Is Not Playing The China Card…He Is Confronting China

There are some truths that I strive to preach, for lack of a better word, in today’s information-culture wars propagated in our corrupt mainstream media. Here are a few: Nationalism is not racism, adherence to principles is not hate, masculinity is not toxic and there are only two sexes.

However, there are obvious truths in geopolitics as well. Chief among these is the fact that standing up to tyranny is not an attempt to maintain “unipolar world” or “dominance.”

Here are a few facts. The South China Sea is an international waterway that a large part of the world relies on for commerce. There are treaties that China has signed to protect right of passage in that area. However, China has decided to militarize it and seize that region of the world for itself.

The United States will stand up for these rights of passage. The United States will stand up for our ally, Taiwan. These two facts have nothing to do with an “aggressive” United States that wants to take over the world.

China wants to take over and be dominant in the world, not America.

Michael Pillsbury, in his eye-opening book “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy,” talks of China’s long-term strategy to achieve dominance over the West. “‘The Hundred-Year Marathon’ reveals China’s secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world’s dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic,” reads the intro. He also discusses in-depth the deceit and treachery China has used to achieve its goals in its relations with the United States over the decades.

https://tsarizm.com/opinion/2018/11/09/trump-is-not-playing-the-china-card-he-is-confronting-china/

>>3833100

Exactly, remember they always laughed and said TV can't affect your actions or thoughts. but then charge 3 million dollar for a 30 second commercial during the super Bowl because they can convince people to buy their product in 30 seconds

Fireworks In Albania As President Refuses To Accept Socialist PM’s Replacement Choice For Interior Minister Removed For Corruption

Yesterday, Albanian Prime Minister Rama claimed President Ilir Meta’s refusal to decree Sandër Lleshi’s appointment as Minister of Internal Affairs, was unfair and had no legal basis.

Nowhere is the President granted the right to refuse Ministers who enjoy the good faith of the Prime Minister. Even though the Constitution does not grant the President the right to refuse members of the government, neither explicitly nor implicitly, the President has drafted a document with no legal basis.

The Constitution includes the President’s 12 rights, and nowhere within is it determined that he has the right to refuse ministers.

This is the first time in the history of Albania that a President refuses to decree a Prime Minister’s choice for Minister.

Under these conditions, Prime Minister Rama must propose another candidate for Minister of Interior Affairs.

https://tsarizm.com/news/balkans/2018/11/07/fireworks-in-albania-as-president-refuses-to-accept-socialist-pms-replacement-choice-for-interior-minister-removed-for-corruption/

This will make Bill Gates real happy

Current Ebola outbreak is worst in Congo's history: ministry

KINSHASA (Reuters) - The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the most severe in the country’s history with 319 confirmed and probable cases, the health ministry said late on Friday.

The hemorrhagic fever is believed to have killed 198 people in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, where attacks by armed groups and community resistance to health officials have complicated the response.

Congo has suffered 10 Ebola outbreaks since the virus was discovered near the eponymous Ebola River in 1976.

“The current epidemic is the worst in the history of DRC,” Jessica Ilunga, a spokeswoman for the ministry told Reuters.

With over 300 cases the epidemic also ranks as third worst in the history of the continent, following the 2013-2016 outbreak in West Africa where over 28,000 cases were confirmed and an outbreak in Uganda in 2000 involving 425 cases.

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday that security represented the primary challenge in the current epidemic, followed by community mistrust.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-congo/current-ebola-outbreak-is-worst-in-congos-history-ministry-idUSKCN1NF0BW

Sri Lanka president dissolves Parliament, calls for election

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's president has dissolved Parliament and called for elections on Jan. 5 in a bid to stave off a deepening political crisis over his dismissal of the prime minister that opponents say is unconstitutional.

An official notification signed by President Maithripala Sirisena announced the dissolution of Parliament effective midnight Friday. It said the names of candidates will be called before Nov. 26 and the new Parliament is to convene Jan. 17.

Sri Lanka has been in a crisis since Oct. 26, when Sirisena fired his prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, and replaced him with former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa. Both say they command a majority in Parliament and had been expected to face the 225-member body on Wednesday after it was suspended for about 19 days.

Foreign Minister Sarath Amunugama told The Associated Press on Saturday that the president dissolved Parliament due to the need to go to the people to find a resolution to the crisis.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/world/article/Sri-Lanka-president-dissolves-Parliament-calls-13380085.php

EU heading for euro CRISIS as Italy budget CANNOT be stopped ‘Italy can’t beat the market'

THE EU is powerless to block Italy’s deficit-busting budget – meaning the showdown between Brussels and Rome is likely to escalate to the point where it triggers a market crisis, a financial analyst has warned.

But Vitor Constancio has warned the anti-establishment coalition of Lega’s Matteo Salvini and Five Star Movement’s Luigi Di Maio they “cannot beat the market”.

Italy has been on a collision course with the EU ever since unveiling budget plans to run a budget deficit amounting to 2.4 percent of GDP, which would amount to roughly almost £40 billion (€44 billion).

The proposals do not exceed the three percent ceiling set out in EU rules, but Italy had previously pledged to the cut the deficit significantly to reduce its mammoth debt, which is approaching €2.5 trillion.

Mr Constancio, the European Central Bank’s financial stability chief, said the situation was extremely difficult to resolve because the EU were effectively powerless to compel Italy to change its plans.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1043108/EU-italy-debt-budget-crisis-italy-league-euro-eurozone

CHRISTIANITY CRACKDOWN: Huge crowd of 100 attacks prayer meeting - 'Police just watched'

CHRISTIANS holding a prayer meeting were attacked by an angry mob of more than 100 Hindu radicals who stormed in and beat the worshippers, injuring several.

The attack took place in Santosh Nagar in Hubli city, located in India’s southern state of Karnataka, on November 1 when a group belonging to the Ceylon Pentecostal Mission were at a weekly gathering.

According to persecution watchdog International Christian Concern, the attack was witnessed by police, who stood by and watched.

Arjun S. Hattimatur sustained a serious head injury when the radicals hit him, leaving him with a deep cut which bled for hours before he could access medical care.

The 36-year-old told the ICC: “We were beaten up in the presence of the police. They were watching us like spectators.

“We were taken to the police station on the false charges that we were involved in the forcible conversions and the police filed an FIR (First Information Report) against us.”

The Christians subsequently filed counter First Information Reports against their attackers.

Mr Hattimatur claims the mob, who arrived at 7.45pm, targeted him because he was leading the prayer meeting in the absence of the local pastor.

He has been too afraid to leave his house since the brutal attack and said that other Christians in the area remain terrified.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1043484/Christian-persecution-christianity-India-Hindu-radical-attack

>>3833372

Haven't heard that in years