Redcuban1959
joined 4 years ago
I watched Inside Out 2 by mistake on cinemas, and I thought it was a solid 7/10 movie.
Lula da Silva will visit AMLO in Mexico
The trip to Mexico promised by President Lula da Silva right after the Claudia Sheinbaum election, to "thank" comrade Andrés Manuel López Obrador, should take place in September.
The president wants to combine his visit to Mexico City with a trip to the UN General Assembly in New York. AMLO's successor will take office on October 1st.
US Government blocks the unsealing of evidence related to the 9/11 attacks.
A recent letter reveals the US government opposed the release of evidence concerning the 9/11 attacks.
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Families of the victims have initiated a lawsuit to uncover evidence they believe implicates the Saudi government in the attacks.
Fifteen out of nineteen hijackers involved in 9/11 were of Saudi origin, and the leader of al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden, also had connections to the Saudi royal family. Despite these connections, the Saudi government has consistently denied any involvement in the attack that resulted in nearly 3,000 fatalities.
The Department of Justice and the FBI have written to the judge presiding over the lawsuit between 9/11 victims and Saudi Arabia, urging him not to disclose the materials sought by the families for public release.
The letter, obtained from court records, argues that previously undisclosed evidence should not be made public until the agency has had a chance to review it.
"The FBI believes it is not appropriate to request a blanket Privacy Act order to unseal a large collection of documents before the FBI has had the opportunity to review them.
The materials cited in the plaintiffs' filings, including their 564-page averment, and the documents marked at depositions are extensive, and they involve a wide range of privacy interests and information of varying levels of potential relevance to the issues in the pending motions," the letter states.
"Furthermore, while the majority of the redactions identified through the FBI's review to date have been subject to the Privacy Act, the FBI has a broader law enforcement interest in preventing the wholesale public disclosure of the personally identifying information of U.S. persons who were witnesses or of investigative interest in FBI investigations."
I think some info about the Saudi Spy agency having connections with the 9/11 guys was released.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Korea summoned the Russian Ambassador in Seoul Georgy Zinoviev and expressed his protest to him in connection with the conclusion of the agreement on a comprehensive strategic partnership between Russia and the DPRK - Yonhap Agency
Seoul is concerned about the rapprochement between Moscow and Pyongyang and believes that the signed agreement forms a military alliance.
Therefore, South Korea is going to reconsider its attitude towards the supply of lethal weapons to Kiev. Previously, the South Koreans did not supply anything to Ukraine.
given the track record of the Brazilian UN peace keeping force (which shamefully was under a PT government)
Lula da Silva biggest mistake as President. The UN is there only to protect the interests of the US, France and the Haitian elite. The Brazilian General that went there (A Far-Right Pos who later worked for Bolsonaro on spying the opposition) said that the west pressured them into working basically as goons. They would receive orders to kill any opposition to the pro-West Haitian goverment.
Zelensky accuses China of trying to undermine Peace Summit, but also criticizes Biden. The Ukrainian president spoke at the Singapore Defense and Security Forum and spoke to journalists.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday accused China of trying to prevent other countries from participating in the Ukraine Peace Summit, which will take place on June 15 and 16 in Switzerland. But his criticism didn't stop there. Although he was grateful that US President Joe Biden had authorized the use of US weapons against targets in Russia, he says that this is "not enough".
"The world has to be resilient, it has to be strong, it has to put pressure on Russia," Zelensky said at the Shangri-La Dialogue Defense and Security Forum in Singapore. "There is no other way to stop [Vladimir] Putin - only diplomatic isolation, a strong Ukrainian army and for all the countries of the world not to seek a balance between Ukraine and Russia, but to uphold international justice and law," he added.
On the sidelines of the forum, Zelensky expressed his disappointment that many world leaders had not yet confirmed their presence at the summit in Switzerland - without mentioning China or the US (Biden has not yet said whether he will attend). On Beijing's side, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning argued that the summit should also be attended by Russia, considering that without this it will be "difficult" to play a "substantial role in restoring peace".
The Ukrainian president told reporters that China has been supporting Russia's efforts to prevent some countries from taking part in the Peace Summit. "Unfortunately, Russia, using Chinese influence in the region, using Chinese diplomats as well, is doing everything possible to disrupt the Peace Summit. It is regrettable that a country as large, independent and powerful as China is an instrument in Putin's hands. Asia needs to know what is happening in Ukraine. We need the support of Asian countries."
Zelensky has said he is grateful to Biden for allowing the use of US-supplied weapons against targets in Russia, near the Kharkiv border regions. "Is it enough? No," he said, claiming that Russia launches its attacks "quietly" from certain air bases, knowing that Ukraine "can't retaliate" because it doesn't have permission to do so.
Trust the Worm
The US and France never stopped trying to ruin Haiti. They did everything they could to fuck up the entire country. These gangs are mostly remants of the older Haiti army and the secret police known as Tonton Macoute. The US used to support the far-right dictators of the Duvalier family who were the US allies against Cuba's Castro and the DR's Juan Bosch (democratic socialist).
When Haiti finally had a revolution in the 1990s, there were elections and a Catholic priest from Socdem known as Jean Bertrand Aristides. The US, under Clinton, supported him only because he brought some stability to Haiti and stopped the flow of refugees. Jean Aristitides dissolved the army (which had removed him from power for 2.5 years) and began using the police to repress the gangs that had become extreme right-wing guerrillas. Jean Aristitides' supporters created their own left-wing militias, known as Chimères, which began working with the police as a paramilitary force.
During the 2000s, Aristide was elected for a second, non-consecutive term and began pursuing the policy that the US and France should pay reparations for Haiti. The US and France backed a coup in 2002 and began repressing the Chimères and police loyalists. Both became involved in a guerrilla war against the Haitian government and US forces.
These extreme right-wing gangs used to be supported by the Haitian elite, but now it seems they don't care anymore and just want to take power for themselves instead of an alliance with the rich Haitian elite.
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Such chaos has prompted the speedy mobilization of a multinational contingent, supposedly led by Kenya, whose men should be in Haiti before the end of June, but the African nation claims that logistical details are lacking to disembark its troops.
On Wednesday, Haiti dawned with its army on a war footing, in another attempt to unite efforts to fight a coalition of gangs that controls 80 percent of the capital.
The Minister of Defence, Jean Marc Berthier, ordered the Acting Chief of the Army, Lieutenant General Jodel Lessage to put the Armed Forces in D-position.
The order in short is to put the military institution on alert, with soldiers in combat position, the daily Le Facteur Haiti reported.
Between March and June, gang members attacked the airport, the port, schools, universities, police stations, prisons, ministries, bank branches, community stores, the national printing press, which first published in 1804, and set fire to a 96,000 square metre warehouse in the free zone.
They also attacked private cars, a religious seminary, the first Baptist Church in Haiti, founded more than 180 years ago, and more than a dozen pharmacies, and in a demonstration that they mean business, they burned down the house of the former commander-in-chief of the Haitian National Police.
Such chaos has prompted the speedy mobilization of a multinational contingent, supposedly led by Kenya, whose men should be in Haiti before the end of June, but the African nation claims that logistical details are lacking to disembark its troops.
The US government, which appears to be out of Haiti’s internal affairs, threatened the coalition of criminal gangs that is keeping the national police in check.
“The gang members will have to choose between prison and the cemetery,” said the US ambassador to Haiti, Dennis Hankins.
In April, the US began landing its air force planes in Haiti, loaded with weapons, ammunition, armoured vehicles and other combat equipment, and in addition to its soldiers, it brought with it mercenaries under the guise of contractors.
Washington – some media recall – is considered here to be to blame for the economic, political and social chaos in the Caribbean country, which it intervened militarily in 1915 and supposedly abandoned in 1934.
Most of the arms and ammunition used by the gang members, who are martyring the population, come from the United States.