Interesting that this was published
The audience member made the shocking claims as he emphasised the Conservative and Labour parties were “unprepared” for a Brexiteer victory.
He stated: “The situation is, if I may say, we had a referendum, the majority of the people voted to come out of the EU.
"As a Government and as a shadow government, you weren’t expecting that result.
“You were so confident you weren’t going to get the result you don’t actually know what you’re going to do
Something has been bothering me about the Kim-Trump summit. The Kim Jong-un offer to denuclearize, agreement to refrain from additional nuclear and missile tests, and eagerness to meet with the U.S. president might never have happened.
Author
Jung Pak, Senior Fellow and SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies, Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
Jung H. Pak
SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies
junghpak1
What is nagging at me is that these alleged promises or concessions from Kim Jong-un seem so out of character for North Korea’s 34-year-old leader. Since he came to power, Kim has been fast-forwarding the nuclear weapons program, eschewing diplomacy, and mocking the leaders of the United States, South Korea, Japan, and China. Kim has taken full ownership of the North’s nuclear weapons program, enshrined it in its constitution, and for more than six years has explicitly stated that it was not a bargaining chip.
There has been very good analysis about why Trump should not have accepted, whether Kim Jong-un is being sincere, the risks and opportunities of a Kim-Trump meeting, and how the United States should prepare Mr. Trump. But we’ve already built an analytic infrastructure and policymakers are furiously trying to plan next steps based on a possibly incomplete or false rendering of what happened in Pyongyang.
Anon the author doesn’t know this yet - shhhhh ;)
Kansas can blow up a storm too
“From”*
“I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: From whence shall my help come?”
It comes from the Lord God through his good and faithful son President Trump !
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian political party that governs a southern state quit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coalition on Friday blaming it for a lack of financial support, officials said, in a blow to the coalition ahead of national elections next year.
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) controls 16 lawmakers in India's 545-member parliament, but Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition remains in majority.
Earlier this week, Pakistan said at least three of its diplomats had been harassed in New Delhi, and several of their children had been intimidated and threatened on their way home from their school.
New Delhi accuses Pakistan of having carried out an equivalent campaign of harassment against its own diplomats posted in Islamabad, alleging that Pakistani spy agency personnel entered the embassy's residential compound.
Bill Richardson hoping to buy some time looks like-desperate!
US should delay North Korea meeting after Tillerson ouster: Ex-ambassador Richardson
The "unceremonious" firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is "very concerning," especially in light of the upcoming summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said Bill Richardson, whose past diplomatic missions included negotiations with Pyongyang.
Last week, Trump accepted an invitation to meet with Kim by May, although it has yet to be arranged The two leaders have exchanged barbs in the past over North Korea's nuclear program.
Richardson told CNBC's "Closing Bell" on Tuesday that the meeting is "the most significant negotiations I think the country is going to have during the first term."
And those negotiations have to be led by a secretary of State, contended Richardson, who formerly served as ambassador to the United Nations and as Energy Secretary under former President Bill Clinton.
Therefore, he believes the meeting should be delayed by a month.
https:// www
.cnbc.com/amp/2018/03/13/us-should-delay-north-korea-meeting-after-tillerson-ouster-ex-ambassador-richardson.html
Not sure if this was posted- sorry if so
https:// www
.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-working-end-human-trafficking/
President Donald J. Trump
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS AN AFFRONT TO HUMAN DIGNITY: With millions affected worldwide, human trafficking is a global atrocity that deprives millions of their universal human rights.
Human trafficking, also known as modern slavery, affects people from all backgrounds at home and abroad, placing millions into a sickening form of exploitation.
Per the International Labor Organization, there may be as many as 24.9 million victims of forced labor across the world, with millions going unidentified and unseen.
Children are especially vulnerable to this evil practice, as they account for 25 percent of modern slaves.
Victims are compelled to perform labor or commercial sex acts through the use of fraud, force, or coercion, reducing the value of human lives to that of mere commodities.
The United States is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children – both United States citizens and foreign nationals – victimized by human trafficking.
In FY 2017, DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (ICE/HSI) initiated 833 human trafficking cases, resulting in 1,602 arrests and 578 convictions, and identified 518 victims of human trafficking.
The HHS-funded National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH) received reports of 8,686 unique cases of potential trafficking in FY 2017, identifying 21,644 potential victims.
Annual illicit profits from human trafficking were estimated to be as high as $150 billion in 2014, demonstrating the substantial economic scale of this abhorrent criminal industry.
PROTECTING THE INNOCENT: President Donald J. Trump is taking a stand against human trafficking, dedicating our Government’s full resources towards fighting this repulsive crime.
The President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF) is working tirelessly to address all aspects of human trafficking.
As defined by the Trafficking Victims Prevention Act (TVPA), it is the policy of the United States government to address human trafficking via “The Three P’s:”
Prosecution of Traffickers.
Protection of Victims.
Prevention of Human Trafficking.
In March 2018, the President appointed nine human trafficking survivors to serve on the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking for terms of two years.
President Trump declared January 2018 National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
In September 2017, Ivanka Trump and Deputy Secretary of State Sullivan joined more than 20 world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly for a global call to end modern slavery and to announce the State Department’s $25 million grant to the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery.
In February 2017, the President signed Executive Order 13773, “Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking.”
This Order directed the United States government to identify, interdict, disrupt, and dismantle the transnational criminal organizations that engage in human trafficking.
In light of the impending Senate vote on H.R. 1865 – the FOSTA-SESTA legislative package designed to fight online sex trafficking – the Trump Administration is hosting a roundtable on human trafficking to review and discuss the path forward on this critical issue.
Pyongyang said Ri Yong-ho's trip was for "bilateral relations and issues of mutual concern".
Sweden has a long history of mediating between Washington and Pyongyang.
Mr Ri had already met his Swedish counterpart Margot Wallstrom late on Thursday and early on Friday.
Sweden's foreign ministry said their discussions would focus on tensions between the two Koreas, and Sweden's diplomatic work on behalf of the US in North Korea.
Mr Ri's visit has been extended from the scheduled two days, and he will now stay in Sweden until Sunday, Sweden's SVT Nyheter reports.
Potus hosted the Swedish P. M Stefan Lovfen 10 days ago…
https:// www
.cnbc.com/amp/2018/03/06/watch-trump-and-swedish-prime-minister-hold-joint-news-conference.html
Agree!
Yes for sure… though I expect Stefan was given a good talking to 10 days ago ;)