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In a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump called off a summit that had been scheduled to discuss the rogue regime’s nuclear weapons program and issued some strongly worded threats.

“I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting. Therefore, please let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place,” Trump wrote in the letter.

“You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used.”

The letter came in response to some harsh words by North Korean officials, who had said the U.S. demand that Pyongyang give up all of its nuclear weapons is unreasonable. On Thursday, North Korean officials also criticized Vice President Mike Pence.

"U.S. Vice-President Pence has made unbridled and impudent remarks that North Korea might end like Libya, military option for North Korea never came off the table, the U.S. needs complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization, and so on," Choe Son-hui, a North Korean vice foreign minister, said Thursday before Trump issued his letter. "As a person involved in the U.S. affairs, I cannot suppress my surprise at such ignorant and stupid remarks gushing out from the mouth of the U.S. vice-president."

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/24/2018 6:08:47 PM
	In the Wake of Mass Shootings, Parents Reconsider Mass Schooling MAY 23, 2018 By Kerry McDonald Parents who remove their children from the confines of the conventional classroom are not running away from reality. They are running towards it. In the wake of recent tragic school shootings, anxious parents are contemplating homeschooling to protect their children. After February’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the Miami Herald reported that more parents were considering the homeschooling option. And after Friday’s disturbing school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, a local ABC news affiliate in Alabama reported the increasing appeal of homeschooling. “If I had the time, I would teach my kids myself, and I would know that they’re safe,” a father of four told ABC station, WAAY31. A public school teacher interviewed by the channel disagreed with the idea of homeschooling. According to the news story, the teacher “says resorting to homeschooling is teaching your children to run from reality.” But that raises the question: Is compulsory mass schooling “reality”? Public Schools Are Consuming More and More of Kids’ Time Segregating children by age into increasingly restrictive, test-driven classrooms where they are forced by law to be unless a parent or caregiver liberates them is hardly “reality.” What’s worse is that young people are spending increasingly more time in this coercive “reality” than ever before. For young children ages six to eight, schooling increased from an average of five hours a day in 1981-82 to an average of seven hours a day in 2002-03. And for today’s teens, schooling consumes much more of their time than it did for previous generations, seeping into summertime and other historically school-free periods. According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 42 percent of teens were enrolled in school during July 2016, compared to only 10 percent enrolled in July 1985. In the case of teens, spending more time in school and school-like activities may be further separating them from the actual real world in which they previously came of age. As Business Insider reports: “Almost 60% of teens in 1979 had a job, compared to 34% in 2015.” Spending more time in the contrived reality of forced schooling and less time in authentic, multi-age, productive communities may be taking its toll on today’s youth. Compulsory Mass Schooling Is Hurting Our Kids New findings from researchers at Vanderbilt University show a disturbing correlation between time in school and suicidal thoughts and attempts by young people, which have been increasing over the past decade. Whereas most adults see suicide spikes in July and August, most kids see suicide dips in summer. Children’s suicidal tendencies appear strongest during the school year. Boston College psychology professor Dr. Peter Gray believes that increasingly oppressive schooling is leading to serious psychological damage in some children. He writes on his blog at Psychology Today: Children now often spend more time at school and at homework than their parents spend at their full-time jobs, and the work of schooling is often more burdensome and stress-inducing than that of a typical adult job. A century ago we came to the conclusion that full-time child labor was child abuse, so we outlawed it; but now school is the equivalent of full-time child labor. The increased time, tedium, and stress of schooling is bringing many kids to the breaking point or beyond, and more and more people are becoming aware of that. It can no longer be believed that schooling is a benign experience for children. The evidence that it induces pathology is overwhelming.” Recent school shootings may be extreme examples of this rising school-induced pathology. Choosing to Homeschool Isn’t “Running from Reality” Instead of overreacting, parents who decide to remove their children from school to homeschool them may be acknowledging the disconnect between the inherent coercion of compulsory mass schooling and the freedom to live in the genuine world around us. Rather than sheltering their children, parents who select the homeschooling option may be endeavoring to widen their child’s community, broaden their experiences, and restore their emotional well-being. Former New York State Teacher of the Year, John Taylor Gatto, writes in his book Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling about his growing disillusionment with mass schooling: I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.” Parents who remove their children from the confines of the conventional classroom are not running away from reality. They are running towards it. (activistpost.com)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/25/2018 10:15:55 AM
	PAKISTAN HEATWAVE KILLS 65 PEOPLE IN KARACHI BY REUTERS MAY 22, 2018 00:00 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A heatwave has killed 65 people in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi over the past three days, a social welfare organization said on Tuesday, amid fears the death toll could climb as the high temperatures persist. The heatwave has coincided with power outages and the holy month of Ramadan, when most Muslims do not eat or drink during daylight hours. Temperatures hit 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) on Monday, local media reported. Faisal Edhi, who runs the Edhi Foundation that operates morgues and an ambulance service in Pakistan’s biggest city, said the deaths occurred mostly in the poor areas of Karachi. “Sixty-five people have died over the last three days,” Edhi told Reuters. “We have the bodies in our cold storage facilities and their neighborhood doctors have said they died of heat-stroke.” Residents cool off from the heatwave, as they are sprayed with water jetting out from a leaking water pipeline in Karachi, Pakistan May 22, 2018. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro Nonetheless, reports of heat stroke deaths in Karachi will stir unease amid fears of a repeat of a heatwave in of 2015, when morgues and hospitals were overwhelmed and at least 1,300 mostly elderly and sick people died from the searing heat. In 2015, the Edhi morgue ran out of freezer space after about 650 bodies were brought in the space of a few days. Ambulances left decaying corpses outside in sweltering heat. The provincial government has assured residents that there would be no repeat of 2015 and was working on ensuring those in need of care receive rapid treatment. A government spokesperson could not be reached for comment. But Sindh province’s Health Secretary Fazlullah Pechuho told the English-language Dawn newspaper that no one has died from heat-stroke. “Only doctors and hospitals can decide whether the cause of death was heat-stroke or not. I categorically reject that people have died due to heat-stroke in Karachi,” Pechuho was quoted as saying. “They work around heaters and boilers in textile factories and there is eight to nine hours of (scheduled power outages) in these areas,” he said. Temperatures are expected to stay above 40C until Thursday, local media reported. Writing by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by Alison Williams (REUTERS)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/25/2018 10:48:18 AM
	RUSSIA LAUNCHES BIGGEST BALLISTIC MISSILE TEST SINCE COLD WAR, SHOOTING NUCLEAR-CAPABLE ROCKETS FROM UNDER WATER BY CRISTINA MAZA ON 5/23/18 AT 9:49 AM Russia Launches Biggest Ballistic Missile Test Since Cold War, Shooting Nuclear-Capable Rockets From Under Water This week, Russia launched its largest ballistic missile tests since the Cold War, shooting four nuclear-capable missiles from underneath the White Sea, located in the northwest coast of Russia. The Russian Northern Fleet officially reported that the underwater cruiser Yuri Dolgoruky successfully launched four Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles, all of which hit their targets on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East. The Bulava missiles can carry multiple nuclear warheads and can reach a range of around 5,700 miles. The missiles were launched as tensions ratchet up to Russia’s east in the run-up to a landmark meeting in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The two men had been slated to meet on June 12, but now leaders from the U.S. and North Korea have cast doubt on whether they will eventually meet and discuss North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Countries like Japan have been preparing contingency plans in case the meeting falls apart. The U.S. Navy sent one of its deadliest warships to Japan this week, a vessel that could help protect Japan from a North Korean attack by shooting down warheads. (Newsweek)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/25/2018 5:02:30 PM
	DONALD TRUMP CANCELS KIM JONG UN MEETING, MAKES VEILED THREAT ABOUT USING 'MASSIVE AND POWERFUL' NUCLEAR WEAPONS BY CRISTINA MAZA ON 5/24/18 AT 10:00 AM In a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump called off a summit that had been scheduled to discuss the rogue regime’s nuclear weapons program and issued some strongly worded threats. “I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting. Therefore, please let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place,” Trump wrote in the letter. View image on Twitter Colin Campbell ✔@colincampbell inbox: 8:43 AM - May 24, 2018 6 See Colin Campbell's other Tweets Twitter Ads info and privacy “You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used.” The letter came in response to some harsh words by North Korean officials, who had said the U.S. demand that Pyongyang give up all of its nuclear weapons is unreasonable. On Thursday, North Korean officials also criticized Vice President Mike Pence. "U.S. Vice-President Pence has made unbridled and impudent remarks that North Korea might end like Libya, military option for North Korea never came off the table, the U.S. needs complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization, and so on," Choe Son-hui, a North Korean vice foreign minister, said Thursday before Trump issued his letter. "As a person involved in the U.S. affairs, I cannot suppress my surprise at such ignorant and stupid remarks gushing out from the mouth of the U.S. vice-president." Some experts said that it is unsurprising that the meeting was canceled given the largely divergent views on how to seek peace on the Korean peninsula. But the letter does not destroy all hope that diplomacy could be pursued in the future. (Newsweek)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/25/2018 5:31:26 PM
	“Slow Motion Genocide”: Indonesia Is Bombing West Papua — and Nobody’s Talking About It MAY 23, 2018 By Darius Shahtahmasebi In May 2016, a fact-finding mission conducted by the Brisbane Archdiocese’s Catholic Justice and Peace Commission reported that West Papua was experiencing a “slow-motion genocide.” The report also warned that West Papua’s indigenous population is at risk of becoming “an anthropological museum exhibit of a bygone culture.” The culprit behind these atrocities is none other than the Indonesian military, which has long received immense protection from the United States, as well as from regional allies like Australia. Rather than withdrawing its support for the practice of wiping out the victims in West Papua, these countries continue to enable Indonesia as it carries out numerous atrocities, which receive close to zero media coverage. For example, just last month the Jakarta Post reported that the Indonesian military shot dead a parishioner standing on his church’s front porch, injuring three other parishioners as hundreds of villagers were forced to flee into nearby forests. “His name was Timotius Omabak, he was shot and killed recently during Indonesian military raids in West Papuan villages,” the Free West Papua Campaign (FWPC) told Anti-Media via email. When the Indonesian army arrives in the villages people are scared. People often run and hide in churches, but the military will chase them. The Indonesian military claim they are hunting for people who support independence, but in reality, almost everyone in these areas supports independence. Recently, the West Papuans people’s petition, calling for an internationally supervised vote on independence, was signed by 1.8 million West Papuan people, 70% of the population. How can the Indonesian military hunt for people who support independence when an overwhelming majority of people support independence? These instances are part and parcel of daily life while there is Indonesian rule in West Papua. They have gone on for over 50 years and will only stop when the Indonesian military finally leaves. A recent Facebook post purporting to show a bombing raid by Indonesian forces (also completely ignored by the corporate media) is apparently a common occurrence for the subjugated people of West Papua. “The bombing of West Papuan villages by the Indonesian military is nothing new,” FWPC explained to Anti-Media. Over the last 50 years, countless thousands of West Papuans have been killed by Indonesian bombs. We received reports that the Indonesian military had fired rockets into some West Papuan villages around the Freeport mine area. It was reported that two people had been killed. There is no international media presence in the area so it remains very difficult to find out exactly what happened. The Indonesian military keeps tight control of who goes anywhere in the area. The FWPC urges all international media to go to the area where the Indonesian military is carrying out its operations to find out the truth from local people on the ground. Indonesia has a long, documented history of blocking reporting on its activities in Papua. Earlier this year, the Indonesian military forced a BBC journalist to leave Papua and return to Jakarta after her statements on Twitter “hurt soldiers’ feelings.” At least 500,000 West Papuans have been killed by the Indonesian military since 1961. Remember this statistic when the media urges you to believe that people like Donald Trump care about the death toll in Syria and elsewhere, all while the U.S. ignores staggering casualties caused by one of its Indo-Pacific allies. “It’s difficult to understand sometimes why West Papua is not in the international news,” FWPC also added. Many other places in the world are on the international news, but not West Papua. In the history of the world over the last 50 years, West Papua is one of the big injustices with so many people killed, but still today many people have never heard about West Papua. The Indonesian government has always been able to hide what it has done in West Papua, but now, in the internet age, they can no longer hide. Gradually the world is finding out the truth about West Papua. We hope that international media can get to West Papua and help expose the truth. The reason this conflict typically receives close to zero media coverage is simple. West Papua is home to one of the world’s largest gold mines (and third largest copper mine), known as the Grasberg Mine, which is majority-owned by the American mining firm Freeport McMoRan. The mine has reserves worth an estimated $100 billion, and the American company is reportedly Indonesia’s biggest taxpayer – hence the cover from the Indonesian military. “The West Papuan people always continue our struggle for our right to self-determination, decolonisation, and independence,” FWPC articulated to Anti-Media. For 55 years we struggled, and still today we continue. We may be slow in getting there, but we will get there in the end. We hope all the world can study the history of West Papua and understand why we have the right to self-determination, an internationally supervised vote, a referendum on independence. We hope that all people of the world, wherever they are, can find their own way to support us in our struggle. One day we will be free people. Creative Commons / Anti-Media (activistpost.com)
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