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US, South Korean missile destroyers in fresh show of force to North Korea

Updated 1735 GMT (0135 HKT) September 26, 2016

(CNN) The US and South Korean navies put on a show of force in the Sea of Japan on Monday, the latest in a string of displays of military might in response to North Korea's testing of nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles.

Monday's exercises saw the US guided missile destroyer USS Spruance join ships, submarines and planes from the South Korean navy in waters east of the Korean Peninsula.

But during the joint drill, a South Korean helicopter with three people on board crashed into the sea, according to South Korea's Navy.

Shortly after taking off, the helicopter issued a distress signal, before disappearing from the radar, added the statement. Nearby forces have been deployed to find the downed helicopter.

It was the first time U.S. and South Korean vessels have operated together in waters so close to the east coast of North Korea, a US Navy official said. The ships were armed with long-range, precision, land-attack cruise missiles, the official said.

The drills saw the US guided missile destroyer USS Spruance join ships, submarines and planes from the South Korean navy in waters east of the Korean Peninsula.

The naval show of force followed last week's flight of US Air Force B-1 bombers along the Demilitarized Zone, the closest the powerful, combat-tested heavy bombers have ever flown to the line separating North and South Korea, according to a U.S. military source.

What if North Korea's missiles come from underwater?

That flyover followed North Korea's announcement of what it claimed was a successful test of rocket engine.

Earlier this month, B-1s flew over Osan Air Base, south of the South Korean capital of Seoul, in response to North Korea's fifth test of a nuclear warhead, a test Pyongyang said showed it's ready to mount warheads on missiles.

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US-South Korea partnership

The drills show off US and South Korea military might.

"We work side-by-side with our ROK partners every day; we are by their side today at sea, and we will remain by their side to defend against North Korea's unprovoked acts of aggression," Rear Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Korea and Task Force 78, said in a statement.

Notable in Monday's drills were the presence of the Spruance and South Korean destroyers equipped with the Aegis missile defense system. Touted by manufacturer Lockheed-Martin as "the world's most advanced combat system," Aegis can track more than 100 targets at a time and is the only naval system capable of intercepting ballistic missiles.

North Korea has increased its testing of submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) this year, its most recent in August flew around 300 miles (500 kilometers), which Pyongyang claimed as a success.

Pictures allegedly showing North Korea testing submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) off the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula earlier this year.

South Korea's intelligence agency NIS told lawmakers recently that Pyongyang is progressing toward its goal of mounting a nuclear warhead to ballistic missiles "faster than previously estimated."

North Korea's submarine technology: What do we know?

"Our ROK-US alliance will counter the North Korean nuclear development and SLBM threats with determination," Vice Adm. Lee Ki-sik, commander of the Republic of Korea Fleet, said in a statement.

North Korea says US is the threat

Pyongyang blames the US for the escalation of tensions surrounding its nuclear program.

"(North Korea) had no other choice but to go nuclear" to defend itself "from the constant nuclear threats from the United States," Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told the UN General Assembly on Friday.

Meanwhile, experts disagree on whether the repeated shows of force by the US can stop Pyongyang's nuclear testing. South Korean officials believe Pyongyang is already physically ready to carry out its sixth nuclear test.

The show of force comes after North Korea fifth nuclear test.

The military displays show North Korea that "the United States won't be intimidated by their pursuit of nuclear weapons, much less the threat to use them," David Straub, a former State Department Korean affairs director, told CNN.

Shows of force are also "useful in reassuring the South Korean government and people that the United States has both the capability and the will to deter North Korea," Straub said.

But Victor Cha, Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said the movement of military assets into the region is part of a US strategy that is "as predictable as it is ineffective."

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversees the August testing of a submarine launched ballistic missile test which he claimed as a success.

"With each missile and nuclear test, Kim Jong-un appears to be gaining confidence and certainty that the world will recognize North Korea as a nuclear state and deal with it on those terms," Cha said in congressional testimony on September 14.

Andre Gerolymatos, coordinator of the Terrorism, Risk and Security Studies Program at Simon Fraser University, told CNN flyovers and exercises are "not sufficient to cause alarm" in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

"Like all bullies, he only understands force," Gerolymatos said.

READ: South Korea's assassination option

CNN's Nicole Gaouette contributed to this report.

Young Girl's Emotional Council Speech Laments 'Shame' of Fatal Charlotte Shooting

By MICHAEL EDISON HAYDEN

Sep 27, 2016, 12:29 PM ET

WATCH Girl Makes Tearful Plea at Charlotte City Council Protest

Peaceful protesters crowded Charlotte's first city council meeting since the cop shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, with over 50 people speaking out against police violence.

But none of them stood out Monday quite as much as a young girl.

Zianna Oliphant, her hair done up in braids and tears streaking her face, brought into focus the stress police shootings place on children, as well as the pain the black community of Charlotte has suffered in the wake of Scott's death last week.

“I’ve been born and raised in Charlotte. And I never felt this way until now and I can’t stand how we’re treated,” the grade-school girl said, wiping away tears.

PHOTO: A group of people watch a monitor of the Charlotte City Council meeting outside the Meeting Chamber during time for public comments, mainly concerning last weeks Scott shooting, on Sept. 26, 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina. — A group of people watch a monitor of the Charlotte City Council meeting outside the Meeting Chamber during time for public comments, mainly concerning last week's Scott shooting, on Sept. 26, 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina

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She expressed the hardship that children face when a parent dies. Scott himself, who was African-American, had seven children.

“It’s a shame that we have to go to their graveyard and bury them. And we have tears. We shouldn’t have tears. We need our fathers and mothers to be by our side,” she said.

Zianna, as well as the protesters in the room who chanted "no justice, no peace" after she spoke, helped to underscore the degree to which communal wounds have been slow to heal in North Carolina’s most populous city since the shooting.

Protests started on the streets of Charlotte after news of Scott's shooting broke last Tuesday and, occasionally, became violent as they continued deeper into the week.

PHOTO: Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts listens to a speaker at the Charlotte City Council meeting during time for public comments, mainly concerning last weeks shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, on Sept. 26, 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina. — Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts listens to a speaker at the Charlotte City Council meeting during time for public comments, mainly concerning last week's shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, on Sept. 26, 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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The scene grew especially tense Wednesday night when police clad in riot gear fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators. Some people in the crowds threw bottles and rocks at officers and passing cars, blocked an interstate highway, surrounded and jumped on vehicles, looted businesses and stormed the entrance of a Hyatt hotel, injuring two of its employees.

At the city council meeting, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts called for decorum at several points during public remarks. At several points, protesters yelled criticism of her and Police Chief Kerr Putney.

After the meeting wrapped up, The Charlotte Observer reported, more than 20 protesters moved to the lobby of the Government Center.

“Release. Release. The whole damn tape,” the protesters chanted, according to the newspaper.

PHOTO: The Meeting Chamber at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center is at capacity during the Charlotte City Council meeting, on Sept. 26, 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina. — The Meeting Chamber at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center is at capacity during the Charlotte City Council meeting, on Sept. 26, 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Ray Dotch, Scott's brother-in-law, Monday called for the release of the entire video of his shooting in an interview with ABC News.

Chief Putney has released body and dashboard camera videos of the fatal police shooting of Scott, answering to demands made by community leaders, protesters and politicians. But it is not entirely clear from those videos or from the one taken by Scott's wife, Rakeiya Scott, that the victim had a gun on his person, as the police allege. It is also not entirely clear that he brandished it in such a way that would have posed a threat to the officers who approached him.

(abcNEWS)

This shouldn't come as a surprise, however. The mask is off, as Syria's UN Ambassador, Bashar Jaafari, put it in New York City this weekend. The truth that "alternative" media have been shouting in the wilderness for years is now out in the open: al-Nusra (formerly known as al-Qaeda) and ISIS/Daesh are strategic U.S. allies, and they always have been. As if it weren't clear enough that the coalition airstrikes on Deir ez-Zor were conducted in cooperation with Daesh ground forces, Damascus now says it has audio of Daesh communications with U.S. military before the airstrike. (Rumors of similar intercepts have been floating around for months, if not years, but this is the first time the Syrians have officially acknowledged it.) Churkin also upped his rhetoric during hisspeech to the UNSC:

They [al-Nusra] are armed by tanks, APCs, field artillery, multiple rocket launchers... dozens and dozens of units, including heavy weaponry... Of course, they couldn't have made this equipment themselves. All of this has been received by them and is still being shipped to them by generous Western backers, with the US,presumably, turning a blind eye.

So it's only natural that the U.S. would use every lying scheme in the book to defend their terrorists, now that it's clear who they work for.

The only reason certain Washington players wanted a ceasefire in the first place was because the Syrian Army was winning against the terrorists in Aleppo. Some, like Kerry and Obama, probably wanted the ceasefire to work, but the administration appears to havelost control of its own foreign policy. Lavrov made this fact clear today, revealing:

[President] Barack Obama always supported, as I was told, cooperation with Russia, and he confirmed it himself during the meeting with [President] Vladimir Putin in China. It seems to me that the military may not be obeying their supreme commander too much.

But the U.S. military is also in a bind. It can't establish a no-fly zone (that would mean war with Russia); it can't send in ground forces to defend al-Qaeda (that would mean war with Russia); it can't get a ceasefire for al-Qaeda (separation of al-Nusra and moderates is now a precondition for any future negotiations). All it has left is the information war, which means that all it can do is lie more often. From now on, we can expect a barrage of reports from terrorist groups and their supporters of Syrian army atrocities, Russians targeting civilians and eating babies, and humanitarian crises perpetrated by U.S.-backed terrorists which are blamed on Syrian and Russian airstrikes (e.g., In retaliation to Syrian air strikes, US-backed rebels shut off water to 1.5 million civilians). As The Duran put it:

It is this US awareness of its own impotence as its Jihadi proteges in Aleppo face total defeat which accounts for all the angry rhetoric and cranking up of atrocity stories we have been seeing over the last week. These have now culminated in some typically furious denunciations of Russia by US ambassador Samantha Power on Sunday's 25th September 2016 at the UN Security Council, over the course of which she actually accused Russia of "barbarism".

The problem is, this is the same strategy the U.S. has been using for the last five years, so it's hard to see what they think they can accomplish, other than more of the same. The fact is, Russia has already radically changed the dynamic of power in the Middle East. As an advisor for the ruling Lebanese Democratic Party told Sputnik:

"Now we are counting on the Russian role to return the balance of forces in the region," Dr. Saleem Hamadeh said. "The only thing that we can expect in the future [is that] the United States of America will not play alone again in this region." The adviser with the LDP, a junior partner in the Lebanese coalition government, said Lebanon was "thankful to Russia for its approach in the region."

The Syrian terrorist 'opposition', in contrast, is taking its ball and going home. The Saudi front group "Syrian High Negotiations Committee" coordinator Dr. Riad Hijab, who was in New York for the UN General Assembly session, cut his visit short to return to Aleppo to "coordinate opposition actions". No doubt he'll do so in the most "moderate" way possible. The 'original rebel group', the 'Free Syrian Army' and the "National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces" said the current negotiation process is "meaningless" in light of the fact that their jihadists are getting their butts kicked in Aleppo. If these people were serious about wanting a ceasefire, they would be pressuring Washington, not Damascus. Conclusion: they're not really interested in peace, just regime change.

Meanwhile, the International Red Cross successfully sent 71 trucks of aid all over Syria (no mention is made in Western media of all the aid that does get through, when U.S.-backed terrorists aren't blowing it up or threatening to do so). The World Food Program delivered 45 trucks of aid to four besieged towns in Damascus and Idlib provinces. 26 UN aid trucks have crossed from Turkey into Idlib, with 10 more expected later today. Russia and Iran have reaffirmed their readiness to work with the Syrian government, Syrian Red Crescent, and relevant UN bodies to deliver aid, including to Aleppo. And the jihadis are jumping ship in the face of imminent defeat (apparently the Norwegians are the most eager to return to their Nordic paradise). And the Kurds are reportedly finally fleeingback across the Euphrates from Turkey and the Turkish-backed jihadists.

Rumors in the alternative media have for some time speculated about the possibility (or likelihood) of Putin's government releasing bombshell information that would expose 9/11 as an inside job. What if this exposure of the US controlling and using al-Qaeda/ISIS is 'it'? It's certainly a question all patriotic Americans ought to be asking themselves: how did we go from a situation where al-Qaeda attacked us on 9/11 because they hate us for our freedoms... to us being allied with al-Qaeda against a regime that had nothing to do with 9/11? And, perhaps, this follow-up question: why in God's name are we against the Russians on this issue, not with them?

America reacts with violence and chaos

As their leaders' penchant for terror and chaos becomes clearer overseas, the spike in mass shootings, stabbings and other bloody mayhem in many major US cities in the last 48 hours is perhaps American society mirroring their elites' terror and chaos. Last weekend, as the U.S. teamed up with Daesh to attack the Syrian Army in Deir ez-Zor, we saw a mass shooting in Philadelphia, a mass stabbing in Minnesota, and numerous bombs go off in New Jersey and New York. This weekend was even crazier:

Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations, asks us to understand an Indigenous perspective on what has happened to America but also offers a very important message about a solution to turn around these terrible times including justice for the Palestinians. His words should be heeded for they are in essence the same as mine ~ Peace begins with me ~ go within and find your role in the great coming together of mankind and the truth of a Unified Field of love and soul consciousness whose principle property is the universal propensity or urge to unite: Allen L Roland, PhD

You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. – Navajo Proverb

The Sioux Nation standing rock pipeline uprising is indicative of a growing global cry for justice which most certainly includes oppressed Palestinians ~ but brings hope to oppressed people all over the world as well as the realization that the human spirit will never be destroyed but will instead evolve.

The genocide of the Native Americans, similar to the ongoing destruction of the Palestinian Nation, represents one of the low points in the history of human morality ~ where for 500 years, Native Americans witnessed every attempt at erasing them from the face of the planet and their numbers dwindled from 50 million prior to the arrival of Europeans to North America to less than three hundred thousand at the turn of the 20th century

Ramzy Baroud, Transcend Media Service elaborates ~ “Calls to destroy Native Americans were hardly implicit but, rather, clearly-articulated. For example, Spencer Phips, Lieutenant Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Province issued this statement in 1755 on behalf of King George II: “His Majesty’s subjects to embrace all opportunities of pursuing, captivating, killing and destroying all and every of the aforesaid Indians.”

The price list for the scalp of murdered Natives were as follows: “50 pounds for adult male scalps; 25 for adult female scalps; and 20 for scalps of boys and girls under age 12.”

The genocidal approach to Native Americans continued, unabated.

A century later, in 1851, California Governor Peter H. Burnett made this declaration: “A war of extermination will continue to be waged between the two races until the Indian race becomes extinct.”

Palestinians have always felt that the legacy of the Native Americans is similar to their own.

“Our names: branching leaves of divine speech; birds that soar higher than a gun. You who come from beyond the sea, bent on war; don’t cut down the tree of our names; don’t gallop your flaming horses across the open plains.”

These were a few of the verses in Palestinian poet’s Mahmoud Darwish’s seminal poem “Speech of the Red Indian.”

Palestinians are losing their lives, land and olive trees as they stand up to Israeli tanks and bulldozers. Their reality is a replay of similar experiences faced – and still being confronted – by Native Americans. Well into the 21st century, the Native American-Palestinian struggle remains one and the same.

“Our pastures are sacred, our spirits inspired, The stars are luminous words where our fable is legible from beginning to end..”

Wrote Mahmoud Darwish, of the Native Americans. Of the Palestinians. “See article ~

It is particularly disheartening that there are yet to be serious attempts at addressing these grave injustices which continue to this day ~ but there is a growing chorus of prominent voices speaking out like Chris Hedges and Miko Pele on the legitimacy of the BDS Movement and the need to boycott Israel.

On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges discusses the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement with Israeli human rights activist Miko Peled.See article ~

They discuss the global campaign to economically and politically pressure Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian land, grant equality to Arab-Palestinian citizens and allow Palestinian refuges the right of return to their homes. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil examines the history and breadth of the BDS movement and the obvious need to resist ~ which innately joins the Sioux rebellion with the global BDS movement and the common crime of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. See 25 minute video ~

Thus we have the non-violent peace message of Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations, offering a solution to turn around these terrible times against humanity including justice for the oppressed Palestinians as well as the need to unite spirituality as a global nation ~ “or be faced with chaos, disasters, diseases, and tears from our relatives’ eyes”

Native American activists taking a stand in support of Palestinian rights. (Photo: via Counter Currents

The Native Americans see the birth of a white buffalo calf as the most significant of prophetic signs, equivalent to the weeping statues, bleeding icons, and crosses of light that are becoming prevalent within the Christian churches today.Where the Christian faithful who visit these signs see them as a renewal of God’s ongoing relationship with humanity ~ so do the Native Americans see the white buffalo calf as the sign to begin life’s sacred hoop.

“The arrival of the white buffalo is like the second coming of Christ,” says Floyd Hand Looks For Buffalo, an Oglala Medicine Man from Pine Ridge, South Dakota. “It will bring about purity of mind, body, and spirit and ;unify all nations ~ black, red, yellow, and white.” He sees the birth of a white calf as an omen because they happen in the most unexpected places and often among the poorest people in the nation. The birth of the sacred white buffalo provides those within the Native American community with a sense of hope and an indication that good times are to come.” See legend description ~

See video on White Buffalo ~

Excerpt :

” I have been learning about these important issues since the age of 12 when I received the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle and its teachings. Our people have strived to protect Sacred Sites from the beginning of time. These places have been violated for centuries and have brought us to the predicament that we are in at the global level.

Our ancestors have been trying to protect our Sacred Site called the Sacred Black Hills in South Dakota, “Heart of Everything That Is,” from continued violations. Our ancestors never saw a satellite view of this site, but now that those pictures are available, we see that it is in the shape of a heart and, when fast-forwarded, it looks like a heart pumping.

The Diné have been protecting Big Mountain, calling it the liver of the earth, and we are suffering and going to suffer more from the extraction of the coal there and the poisoning processes used in doing so.

The Aborigines have warned of the contaminating effects of global warming on the Coral Reefs, which they see as Mother Earth’s blood purifier.

The indigenous people of the rainforest say that the rainforests are the lungs of the planet and need protection.

The Gwich’in Nation in Alaska has had to face oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, also known to the Gwich’in as “Where life begins.”

The coastal plain is the birthplace of many life forms of the animal nations. The death of these animal nations will destroy indigenous nations in this territory.

As these destructive developments continue all over the world, we will witness many more extinct animal, plant, and human nations, because of mankind’s misuse of power and their lack of understanding of the “balance of life “

The Indigenous people warn that these destructive developments will cause havoc globally. There are many, many more indigenous teachings and knowledge about Mother Earth’s Sacred Sites, her chakras, and connections to our spirit that will surely affect our future generations.

There needs to be a fast move toward other forms of energy that are safe for all nations upon Mother Earth. We need to understand the types of minds that are continuing to destroy the spirit of our whole global community. Unless we do this, the powers of destruction will overwhelm us.

Not everyone will have the right to drink safe water. We fail to appreciate and honor our Sacred Sites, ripping out the minerals and gifts that lay underneath them as if Mother Earth were simply a resource, instead of the source of life itself.

Attacking nations and using more resources to carry out destruction in the name of peace is not the answer! We need to understand how all these decisions affect the global nation; we will not be immune to its repercussions. Allowing continual contamination of our food and land is affecting the way we think.

A “disease of the mind” has set in world leaders and many members of our global community, with their belief that a solution of retaliation and destruction of peoples will bring peace.

In our prophecies it is told that we are now at the crossroads: Either unite spiritually as a global nation, or be faced with chaos, disasters, diseases, and tears from our relatives’ eyes.

We are the only species that is destroying the source of life, meaning Mother Earth, in the name of power, mineral resources, and ownership of land. Using chemicals and methods of warfare that are doing irreversible damage, as Mother Earth is becoming tired and cannot sustain any more impacts of war.

I ask you to join me on this endeavor. Our vision is for the peoples of all continents, regardless of their beliefs in the Creator, to come together as one at their Sacred Sites to pray and meditate and commune with one another, thus promoting an energy shift to heal our Mother Earth and achieve a universal consciousness toward attaining Peace.

As each day passes, I ask all nations to begin a global effort, and remember to give thanks for the sacred food that has been gifted to us by our Mother Earth, so the nutritional energy of medicine can be guided to heal our minds and spirits.

This new millennium will usher in an age of harmony or it will bring the end of life as we know it. Starvation, war, and toxic waste have been the hallmark of the great myth of progress and development that ruled the last millennium.

To us, as caretakers of the heart of Mother Earth, falls the responsibility of turning back the powers of destruction. You yourself are the one who must decide.

You alone – and only you – can make this crucial choice, to walk in honor or to dishonor your relatives. On your decision depends the fate of the entire World.

Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind “

Chief Arvol Looking Horse is the author of White Buffalo Teachings. A tireless advocate of maintaining traditional spiritual practices, Chief Looking Horse is a member of Big Foot Riders, which memorializes the massacre of Big Foot’s band at Wounded Knee

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/27/2016 6:13:54 PM
	US, South Korean missile destroyers in fresh show of force to North Korea By Brad Lendon and Paula Hancocks, CNN Updated 1735 GMT (0135 HKT) September 26, 2016 (CNN) The US and South Korean navies put on a show of force in the Sea of Japan on Monday, the latest in a string of displays of military might in response to North Korea's testing of nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles. Monday's exercises saw the US guided missile destroyer USS Spruance join ships, submarines and planes from the South Korean navy in waters east of the Korean Peninsula. But during the joint drill, a South Korean helicopter with three people on board crashed into the sea, according to South Korea's Navy. Shortly after taking off, the helicopter issued a distress signal, before disappearing from the radar, added the statement. Nearby forces have been deployed to find the downed helicopter. It was the first time U.S. and South Korean vessels have operated together in waters so close to the east coast of North Korea, a US Navy official said. The ships were armed with long-range, precision, land-attack cruise missiles, the official said. The drills saw the US guided missile destroyer USS Spruance join ships, submarines and planes from the South Korean navy in waters east of the Korean Peninsula. The naval show of force followed last week's flight of US Air Force B-1 bombers along the Demilitarized Zone, the closest the powerful, combat-tested heavy bombers have ever flown to the line separating North and South Korea, according to a U.S. military source. What if North Korea's missiles come from underwater? That flyover followed North Korea's announcement of what it claimed was a successful test of rocket engine. Earlier this month, B-1s flew over Osan Air Base, south of the South Korean capital of Seoul, in response to North Korea's fifth test of a nuclear warhead, a test Pyongyang said showed it's ready to mount warheads on missiles. North Korea: The biggest issue for the next US president? 00:38 US-South Korea partnership The drills show off US and South Korea military might. "We work side-by-side with our ROK partners every day; we are by their side today at sea, and we will remain by their side to defend against North Korea's unprovoked acts of aggression," Rear Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Korea and Task Force 78, said in a statement. Notable in Monday's drills were the presence of the Spruance and South Korean destroyers equipped with the Aegis missile defense system. Touted by manufacturer Lockheed-Martin as "the world's most advanced combat system," Aegis can track more than 100 targets at a time and is the only naval system capable of intercepting ballistic missiles. North Korea has increased its testing of submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) this year, its most recent in August flew around 300 miles (500 kilometers), which Pyongyang claimed as a success. Pictures allegedly showing North Korea testing submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) off the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula earlier this year. South Korea's intelligence agency NIS told lawmakers recently that Pyongyang is progressing toward its goal of mounting a nuclear warhead to ballistic missiles "faster than previously estimated." North Korea's submarine technology: What do we know? "Our ROK-US alliance will counter the North Korean nuclear development and SLBM threats with determination," Vice Adm. Lee Ki-sik, commander of the Republic of Korea Fleet, said in a statement. North Korea says US is the threat Pyongyang blames the US for the escalation of tensions surrounding its nuclear program. "(North Korea) had no other choice but to go nuclear" to defend itself "from the constant nuclear threats from the United States," Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told the UN General Assembly on Friday. Meanwhile, experts disagree on whether the repeated shows of force by the US can stop Pyongyang's nuclear testing. South Korean officials believe Pyongyang is already physically ready to carry out its sixth nuclear test. The show of force comes after North Korea fifth nuclear test. The military displays show North Korea that "the United States won't be intimidated by their pursuit of nuclear weapons, much less the threat to use them," David Straub, a former State Department Korean affairs director, told CNN. Shows of force are also "useful in reassuring the South Korean government and people that the United States has both the capability and the will to deter North Korea," Straub said. But Victor Cha, Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said the movement of military assets into the region is part of a US strategy that is "as predictable as it is ineffective." North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversees the August testing of a submarine launched ballistic missile test which he claimed as a success. "With each missile and nuclear test, Kim Jong-un appears to be gaining confidence and certainty that the world will recognize North Korea as a nuclear state and deal with it on those terms," Cha said in congressional testimony on September 14. Andre Gerolymatos, coordinator of the Terrorism, Risk and Security Studies Program at Simon Fraser University, told CNN flyovers and exercises are "not sufficient to cause alarm" in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "Like all bullies, he only understands force," Gerolymatos said. READ: South Korea's assassination option CNN's Nicole Gaouette contributed to this report.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 9/27/2016 11:49:06 PM
	Young Girl's Emotional Council Speech Laments 'Shame' of Fatal Charlotte Shooting By MICHAEL EDISON HAYDEN Sep 27, 2016, 12:29 PM ET WATCH Girl Makes Tearful Plea at Charlotte City Council Protest Peaceful protesters crowded Charlotte's first city council meeting since the cop shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, with over 50 people speaking out against police violence. But none of them stood out Monday quite as much as a young girl. Zianna Oliphant, her hair done up in braids and tears streaking her face, brought into focus the stress police shootings place on children, as well as the pain the black community of Charlotte has suffered in the wake of Scott's death last week. “I’ve been born and raised in Charlotte. And I never felt this way until now and I can’t stand how we’re treated,” the grade-school girl said, wiping away tears. David T. Foster III/The Charlotte Observer via AP Photo A group of people watch a monitor of the Charlotte City Council meeting outside the Meeting Chamber during time for public comments, mainly concerning last week's Scott shooting, on Sept. 26, 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina more + She expressed the hardship that children face when a parent dies. Scott himself, who was African-American, had seven children. “It’s a shame that we have to go to their graveyard and bury them. And we have tears. We shouldn’t have tears. We need our fathers and mothers to be by our side,” she said. Zianna, as well as the protesters in the room who chanted "no justice, no peace" after she spoke, helped to underscore the degree to which communal wounds have been slow to heal in North Carolina’s most populous city since the shooting. Protests started on the streets of Charlotte after news of Scott's shooting broke last Tuesday and, occasionally, became violent as they continued deeper into the week. David T. Foster III/The Charlotte Observer via AP Photo Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts listens to a speaker at the Charlotte City Council meeting during time for public comments, mainly concerning last week's shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, on Sept. 26, 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina. more + The scene grew especially tense Wednesday night when police clad in riot gear fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators. Some people in the crowds threw bottles and rocks at officers and passing cars, blocked an interstate highway, surrounded and jumped on vehicles, looted businesses and stormed the entrance of a Hyatt hotel, injuring two of its employees. At the city council meeting, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts called for decorum at several points during public remarks. At several points, protesters yelled criticism of her and Police Chief Kerr Putney. After the meeting wrapped up, The Charlotte Observer reported, more than 20 protesters moved to the lobby of the Government Center. “Release. Release. The whole damn tape,” the protesters chanted, according to the newspaper. David T. Foster III/The Charlotte Observer via AP Photo The Meeting Chamber at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center is at capacity during the Charlotte City Council meeting, on Sept. 26, 2016, in Charlotte, North Carolina. more + Ray Dotch, Scott's brother-in-law, Monday called for the release of the entire video of his shooting in an interview with ABC News. Chief Putney has released body and dashboard camera videos of the fatal police shooting of Scott, answering to demands made by community leaders, protesters and politicians. But it is not entirely clear from those videos or from the one taken by Scott's wife, Rakeiya Scott, that the victim had a gun on his person, as the police allege. It is also not entirely clear that he brandished it in such a way that would have posed a threat to the officers who approached him. (abcNEWS)
	"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? 9/28/2016 10:14:25 AM
	Rare 'black moon' to make an appearance on Friday - doomsayers go biblical RT Tue, 27 Sep 2016 20:33 UTC © Daniel Aguilar/Reuters You may need to cancel your weekend plans. Apparently, a rare 'black moon' is set to appear on Friday, and is, according to some, a sign that the end of the world is nigh. The black moon will cloak the Western Hemisphere in darkness on Friday and could be linked to the apocalypse. Conspiracy theorists are worried that after a "ring of fire" solar eclipse was witnessed on September 1, during which the moon lined up with the Earth and the sun above Africa, and now a black moon only weeks later, this could mean we're done for. The primary source for this thinking is the Bible's numerous references to the moon, sun and stars, particularly Luke 21:25-26, which states "there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars" which will result in "men's hearts failing them for fear." One anonymous Facebook user noted how these are "signs are letting us know that Jesus is soon coming," according to theExpress. "We are approaching the end of our world and the end of life on Earth for all human being. Every day, we have to come closer to our savior Jesus Christ. For none can escape for what is coming for the Earth," the conspiracy theorist wrote. A black moon occurs when two new moons happen in one month, with the second moon basically invisible as the illuminated side is facing away from Earth. A blue moon is the opposite, when two full moons happen in the same month. The last black moon happened in March 2014 and it won't happen again in the Western Hemisphere until July 2019. Whether this black moon is a sign that the end is nigh or not, the dark sky on September 30 will make for excellent stargazing conditions. (sott.net)
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