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AARON MATE: It's The Real News.

I'm Aaron Mate.

The Trump administration and its Israeli government ally continue their warmongering and destabilization

campaign against Iran at the U.N.

On Thursday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed to expose what he called

a secret atomic warehouse in Tehran.

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Today I am disclosing for the first time that Iran has another secret

facility in Tehran; a secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and

materiel from Iran's secret nuclear weapons program.

AARON MATE: It turns out the warehouse is not secret, and even U.S. officials say it

contains file cabinets and paper, not centrifuges.

Netanyahu's comments come after Trump and other top officials used high-profile speeches

to target Iran.

Just blocks from the U.N., National Security Adviser John Bolton addressed a pro-regime

change gathering in New York City.

JOHN BOLTON: According to the mullahs in Tehran, we are the great Satan, lord of the underworld,

master of the raging inferno.

So I might imagine they would take me seriously when I assure them today that if you cross

us, our allies, or our partners, if you harm our citizens, if you continue to lie, cheat,

and deceive, yes, there will indeed be hell to pay.

AARON MATE: The U.S. is set to reimpose yet another new round of harsh sanctions on Iran

after withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal earlier this year.

But this week saw a major sign that the remaining parties in the deal are not going along.

On Monday, the European Union, China, and Russia announced an agreement with Iran to

create what's known as a special purpose vehicle.

This mechanism would shield financial transactions between Iran and other countries from U.S.

sanctions.

SPEAKER: Participants recognize that Iran has continued to fully and effectively implement

its nuclear-related commitments as confirmed by 12 consecutive reports by the International

Atomic Energy Agency, and reiterated the need to continue to do so.

Participants underlined their determination to protect the freedom of their economic operators

to pursue legitimate business with Iran in full accordance with the UN Security Council

Resolution 2231.

AARON MATE: The U.S. has warned of terrible consequences against those countries who continue

to do business with Iran, setting up a major showdown if its former partners in the nuclear

deal hold their ground.

Well, joining me is Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson.

He is a former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, now a distinguished

professor at the College of William and Mary.

Welcome, Colonel Wilkerson.

Let me get your reaction first to what we saw this week on display at the U.N. and other

forums, where You have Trump, Netanyahu, Bolton, and Pompeo, and Nikki Haley, all continuing

to push this destabilization pro-regime change campaign against Iran.

LARRY WILKERSON: All I can say, Aaron, with regard to Bibi Netanyahu, is that he must

have had Karl Rove and his crew in in a class called How to Lie.

Bibi just, he just continues to surprise with what he's willing to drag out and present

as a case against Iran.

I know that he does it because there are people that believe him, in Israel and in the United

States.

So he keeps on doing it.

And John Bolton- and the clips you played from John Bolton's just being John Bolton.

More importantly for me was a curious serendipity, as last week my students examined Iran, and

this week I'm preparing them to examine the DPRK.

And I was struck immediately by the fact that I went back and did the analysis on what we

did in my administration, the George W. Bush administration, did to the Bill Clinton administration's

agreed framework.

You may recall that that was the executive agreement, more or less, between the United

States and North Korea and other parties.

But they were the principal parties, with South Korea, of course, being a principal

also, to essentially arrest the nuclear weapons program of North Korea, to put it on hold-

indeed, to eliminate it eventually- to build light water reactors, to provide heavy fuel,

and all the things that, interestingly enough, are being talked about today in a new spirit

of sunshine policy and so forth by the South Korean president Moon Jae in.

And I was comparing that with the JCPOA, and what we did to the agreed framework when we

came into power in 2001.

We immediately coined this mantra of ABC, Anything But Clinton.

Well, you might claim the same thing for Trump, Anything But Obama.

And of course, the singular diplomatic achievement of the Obama administration- and to a certain

extent of the Clinton second administration- were the JCPOA for Obama, and the agreed framework

for Clinton.

So what did Trump do?

There's precedent for this.

He did the same thing George Bush and Colin Powell and Dick Cheney and all the rest of

the people in my administration did.

We threw away the agreed framework.

We threw it away, just as Trump threw away the JCPOA.

It was a little bit more serious with Donald Trump than the JCPOA, because Germany, China,

Russia, the other members of the Security Council, permanent members of the Security

Council were also signatories.

But nonetheless, pretty much the same kind of act.

And what I saw over almost a year and a half review- far too long, but you can excuse the

Bush administration because 9/11 intervened- but far too long to do a review, was it at

the end of the review we came to the same conclusions apparently the Clinton administration

had come to, because Jim Kelly was headed for Pyongyang with a package offered, to be

offered to the North Koreans that was as robust or moreso than anything the Clinton administration

had offered to get them into the agreed framework.

So I immediately start thinking, what is Trump's plan with regard to the JCPOA that might reflect

what we saw with Bush and the agreed framework?

Now, that all went astray, because by that time the North Koreans had actually refined

enriched uranium, and probably had made a couple of bombs.

And so it all got derailed as we presented it to Kang Sok ju and [name inaudible] and

others in Pyongyang what our new, robust package of offerings for North Korea was.

Is Donald Trump doing the same thing right now?

Is he letting Bolton out there as the wild man on the street, as it were, to say all

the things that he initially said with regard to North Korea?

You know, fire and hell and brimstone, and all this kind of stuff?

And is he planning a Singapore moment for Iran?

Is he looking right now for a city- Geneva comes to mind, for example- where he and Rouhani

can sit down, and then Donald Trump, just prior to the midterms in November, can announce

to the world that look, I'm sitting down with President Rouhani, I'm going to make a deal,

and it's going to be a lot better than the deal with President Obama.

And will he discard John Bolton if necessary in order to do this?

I wouldn't put it past him for a moment.

He's already gotten rid of three, or two national security advisors.

A third one wouldn't be of any consequence.

So what is it that Donald Trump is doing?

Is he getting ready to foist on us a diplomatic coup, as it were?

Is he going to sit down?

I hear some from some very credible sources that the offer has already been made to Rouhani,

and that Rouhani has turned it down.

I don't blame him for that and all.

But I wonder if he can persist in turning down this offer if it persists, and it becomes

something that maybe Iran feels like it wants to do, given the things that might result

if it doesn't.

So I'm looking for a November surprise, if you will, in this.

One that will negate all the hard rhetoric and all the bombast that Bolton's been throwing

out there; in particular Nikki Haley's been throwing out there; Pompeo, to a certain extent,

has been throwing out there.

Because Donald Trump will take over.

He'll take over, and he'll say, I'm siting down and we're going to have a deal.

AARON MATE: Let's go to more of John Bolton, because I think a big calculation in this,

in the Trump administration's thinking, is that it can squeeze Iran's economy enough,

make enough people suffer, that the Iranian government will be forced to renegotiate terms

that the Trump administration sees as favorable.

And John Bolton spoke about that this week, and he spoke with particular anger at the

European countries, and Russia and China, that are trying to form this alternative to

the U.S. sanctions which might be a roadblock to U.S. efforts.

And this is what John Bolton said.

JOHN BOLTON: These crippling sanctions have already had a devastating effect on the Iranian

economy.

This year the Iranian rial has lost about 70 percent of its value, and the Iranian housing

market is sliding into recession.

Iranian crude oil exports have also plummeted dramatically in recent months.

Pressure on the regime will further intensify on November 5, when the rest of our nuclear-related

sanctions resume.

We will not tolerate investments that enhance Iran's ability to develop its petroleum or

natural gas infrastructure, and we expect purchasers of Iranian oil to reduce their

imports to zero.

AARON MATE: That's John Bolton.

And he also went, in that same speech, went on to warn of, quote, terrible consequences

to those who don't cede to U.S. demands.

I wonder, Colonel, we heard that that clip there from the EU official announcing this

new mechanism to basically continue to do business with Iran and evade U.S. sanctions.

Will that be enough to keep Iran in the nuclear deal?

And do you think that those countries that are taking part will continue to withstand

U.S. pressure?

LARRY WILKERSON: Let's look at what Bolton said first, and then I'll come to your question.

What Bolton said is we're punishing the Iranian people.

Now, John doesn't care.

I know John.

I know him well.

He does not care.

But what he said was we're punishing the Iranian people.

Not that we're punishing those we want punish, the leaders, the IRGC and so forth.

And that's exactly what we're doing.

We're even to the point where we're influencing humanitarian items like medicine and food

and so forth.

But to get to your question, he's not going to order China.

He's not going to order Russia.

And I suspect very strongly he's not going to order very effectively India, and a host

of other lesser lights out there in the world who are going to continue to deal with Iran,

either on the black market or on the white market.

And Iran has shown in the past, just as Iraq showed, that no matter how "crippling" these

sanctions are, it can probably get along.

Now, might they bring a situation about today, because the situation in Iran internally,

domestically, is different today than it was 10 years ago.

Might they bring about today enough tension in that body of Iranian people that matters

that they are revolt, and that somehow they manage, as in earlier times, to overthrow

the government?

And earlier times, we can go back and look at '53 when Mossadegh became the first democratically

elected leader of Iran.

There been a lot of turmoil before that.

We can look at '79 when the Shah fell and what we have now came into power.

So we know there's a potential for that kind of revolutionary spirit to develop in Iran.

What we don't know is what will come out of it.

What could very well come out of it would be a government much worse than the one we

are confronting right now.

What also could come out of it very realistically could be a more Mohammad Mosaddegh type government;

a real democracy with a lot of participation from all elements in the Iranian lifecycle.

What will we get from that in the way of a foreign and security policy?

Well, I would submit to you it's still the same demography.

It's still the same geography.

It's still the same region, with Saudi Arabia, that vicious totalitarian state, sitting across

the Gulf from it.

It's still the same country.

And by and large, I would bet that it will have much the same foreign policy vis a vis

the interest we're trying to deal with today that it has right now, is a theocracy with

some democratic aspects to it.

So what are we looking for?

The other possibility is it'll be chaos.

Utter chaos.

Now, I know Bibi Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman, his defense minister, and all the Zionists

who are on the right wing in Israel, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

John Hannah, Mark Dubowitz, and all the rest of the nuts over there at that place.

I know they all think that this chaos that would then be produced, not only amongst the

Arabs as we have today, but also the Persians, and maybe even Arabs and Persians fighting

one another, they think it's beneficial for Israel's security.

Well, I got news for them.

It's not going to be beneficial for Israel's security.

Israel is going to be in mortal danger when all this chaos breaks out and spreads, and

there's no power in the world, not even the United States, that can do anything about

it.

So be careful what you wish for, my old boss Colin Powell used to say.

In this case, wishing for chaos all around Israel, and hoping that that chaos will make

Israel safe, because the Arabs nor the Persians can get together to attack Israel.

That's a very bad strategy, in my view.

But that is nonetheless FDD's, and all these other people who are neoconservative when

you scratch the paint off of them, that's their plan.

And that's ultimately Bibi Netanyahu's plan.

AARON MATE: You know, Colonel, what you said there about John Bolton talking about punishing

the Iranian people, I was actually there at that summit where he was speaking put on by

the group United Against Nuclear Iran.

And I was struck by what a uniform theme that was throughout the speakers.

Pompeo, Bolton, former Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman.

Everybody included extensive remarks basically gloating over the fact that the Iranian economy

is suffering under the sanctions that they've supported and have reimposed; Lieberman bragging

about Iran losing tens of thousands of jobs, as if that was a good thing.

Quite striking to hear that up close.

LARRY WILKERSON: It's not- it's inconsequential to them.

I know this is hard to believe, but these people have no morals no ethics.

They have nothing but power.

They remind me of Thucydides' Greeks on the island of Melos, when the Athenian general

was going to kill every man, woman, and child.

And the Melian ask him, why are you going to do that?

And the Athenian general said, because we can.

That's John Bolton.

That's Nikki Haley.

That's these people.

They believe that because we have the power, we have the right to kill people indiscriminately.

The right to ruin people's lives indiscriminately.

The right to tell them what kind of government they should have.

The right to break down any government that we don't think is submissive to our wishes.

That's these people.

That's John Bolton.

AARON MATE: Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, currently a Distinguished Professor at the College of

William and Mary, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Thanks very much.

LARRY WILKERSON: Thanks for having me.

AARON MATE: And thank you for joining us on The Real News.

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The art of connection: how the little things bring us together | Exhibitionists S04E2 full episode - Duration: 21:56.

♪ ♪

In these divisive times, we've decided to make

today's show all about what brings us together.

Today's theme is Connection.

♪ ♪

Tom Brown: People do feel like they've been invited

into my kitchen and we are sharing

a meal together.

♪ ♪

Nadia Monczak: Music is actually very simple.

Even the simplest notes can touch people so fast.

♪ ♪

Kasie: I have a few videos of my mom crocheting

and knitting, and I love to look back at them.

♪ ♪

[sizzling]

♪ ♪

Tom Brown: When I do a performance, typically,

most people smile and laugh when they see it.

They'll squint at it and usually it's a laugh

and then a question.

♪ ♪

I started creating miniatures from

the perspective of art.

And out of that was born the miniature kitchen.

♪ ♪

Produce?

Produce, yeah.

♪ ♪

It does take that environment

of the full-sized kitchen, the intimacy,

the way that it kind of lubricates conversation.

It does take it onto the street

and into these public spaces.

And people do feel like they've been invited

into my kitchen and we are sharing a meal together.

I thought, what better way than the kitchen.

It's the doorway to the heart.

We all gather around the hearth

and have conversations, that kind of thing.

I have a lot of really great memories of cooking

with some very special people in my life.

And I thought that environment would be interesting

to try to replicate.

[sizzling]

♪ ♪

When I was a kid, I was always fascinated with miniatures,

starting with things I that I wanted;

say, a guitar, or a little football

or something like that.

It became almost a compulsive act

for many years in my childhood.

And I recognized that miniature could be used

as an artistic discipline to speak

to certain aspects of perception

and share this idea of how miniature affects

the way you see the world.

♪ ♪

Very intense.

A lot of people will say, yeah,

"it's funny," or they'll say "it's so cute,"

or "it's adorable."

And at first, when I heard those words,

I did have that reaction inside of me

where I was like, well, no,

I'm a serious artist and I'm making this

from a very serious place.

But I recognized that it is cute,

it is adorable, it is funny.

It is whatever that person wants it to be.

And I'm there to allow them to have

that idea about it.

And if they do think that it's funny,

how petty of me to be offended by that.

Because humour is a great reaction to something.

It's a very positive reaction.

-That's just so cute.

-Yeah.

♪ ♪

"You learn a lot about someone

when you share a meal together."

Those are the words of Anthony Bourdain

and I love that this is exactly

what Tom Brown is attempting to do.

When you invite someone into your kitchen --

even if it's a miniature one --

and share a meal with them --

even if it's a tiny one -- you create

such an intimate form of connection.

My name is Amanda Parris.

♪ ♪

Connection is actually our theme today

and it feels like a particularly relevant topic.

Although we have access to more technology,

transportation and means of communication

than ever before, opportunities for real

and transformative connection feel less and less.

You might have 5000 followers on Snapchat

and still feel like the loneliest person

in the world.

That's why today's episode is all about the things

that bring us together.

When I was younger, I made a list of qualities

that my ideal boyfriends would have.

But once I fell in love, I realized

that my carefully considered list

had gone flying right out the window.

You might think you want someone who looks like

Michael B. Jordan, rides motorcycles

and shares your love of Nora Ephron films.

But then your face turns into an airplane turbine

and you end up falling in love with a ceiling fan!

Did I lose you there?

That little love story is the premise behind

a short film called Turbine

by Montreal-based animator Alex Boya.

It features a shell-shocked war pilot whose face

has been replaced with an airplane turbine

and a wife who realizes her husband and his new face

have fallen in love with the kitchen ceiling fan.

You'll be seeing scenes from the film

throughout our episode.

I'll guarantee you've never seen a connection

like this one.

But first, meet the artist Alex Boya.

♪ ♪

[low muffled voice]

Alex Boya: Hi, CBC.

Thanks for your invitation.

My name is Alex Boya.

I'm your Exhibitionist in residence this week.

♪ ♪

You are going to be seeing animation

that I made at the National Film Board of Canada.

♪ ♪

Take a look here now.

[leather squeaking]

♪ ♪

Amanda: Coming up, we're travelling

to the Greek island of Lesbos with a Canadian violinist

who is connecting with young people

through the universal language of music.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

When Michael Jackson died, a memorial moonwalk

was held at the Eiffel Tower in Paris

in the Philippines, inmates at a prison

in Cebu performed a dance tribute.

In Nairobi, radio DJs switched their programs

to all MJ All Day.

And in Brooklyn, they closed down streets

and danced the night away.

Music is the most universal of all languages.

From classical to jazz and dance hall to rap,

music has the power to connect generations

and nations.

In this next story, you'll see how one musician,

armed only with her violin, was able to use

music to build connection with a group of young people

who have been disconnected from everything

they once knew.

[violin music]

My name is Nadia Monczak.

I'm a classical violinist from Montreal.

I'm here in Lesbos, Greece, working with music

with refugee kids.

♪ ♪

Lesbos is one of the closest Greek islands to Turkey.

During our stay here, we see the Turkish coast

all the time.

So, it's become the gateway to Europe

for all the refugees that go through

the Middle East through Turkey.

There's about one million refugees

that have come through the island since 2015.

And now, the situation is even more difficult because

many EU countries are closing their doors,

or making the entry more strict.

And thousands of people are actually

stranded here in Lesbos.

They cannot continue on to mainland Greece.

They cannot continue on to different countries.

A lot of kids that I've met are over a year here.

And they don't know when they will leave.

Before coming to Lesbos, I looked

at the different organizations

that especially worked with kids.

And I was lucky enough to find

an organization that works with music.

The organization is called Art Angel Relief.

They have about twenty violins.

They do violin lessons.

They do music workshops.

And I thought, this is a perfect fit

for what I'm qualified to do.

And they work with children from two of the camps

here in Lesbos, as well as the local Roma children.

And this music gives space for them

to have some discipline to work creatively

to get better at a craft.

And, of course, to have fun while doing it.

Sol, clap.

Sol, clap.

Sol, clap.

Sol, clap.

As a classical violinist, we spend so many years

perfecting our craft, being the best musicians we can

that we forget that music is actually very simple.

Even the simplest notes can touch people so fast.

Even playing very simple melodies

which are so easy on the violin lift people's faces.

[playing Four Seasons]

My parents come from Poland

and they were actually refugees

that came to Canada.

I was actually conceived in Greece

after a hitchhiking trip they did from Poland.

And already at three months old, we were on the road.

We were leaving Poland.

And they were very lucky to end up in Canada

and start a new life there.

I think it's very hard for a lot of us to really

understand what people who are in these camps

went through: the war, the travelling

through different countries.

But through art, it's another way to express feelings,

to have a sort of catharsis

to heal your emotions.

The thumb give a kiss.

-A kiss.

And a hug.

-A hug.

Violin out of the garage.

-Out of the garage.

And then, start the concert.

[plucking strings]

Of course, it's always the individual connections

that touch you the most.

And there's one African boy who, when he took the violin,

it was his first time -- he was 16.

I had to work with many kids at the same time.

And I came back to him and he was still at it;

he wasn't just having fun.

You could see he was so into the music.

And I actually managed to teach him 16 of the notes

of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

He was listening to everything I was saying

and applying it and learning the next note

and the next note.

And he was so fast and it was so magical.

And I could see it was a very special experience for him,

and, of course, for me.

Bland is sort of the superstar of the Kara Tepe camp.

He's a 15-year-old boy, so full of energy.

He's translating for everybody.

He's speaking Kurdish and Arabic and Farsi and English.

And he's very enthusiastic to help anyone

who needs help around.

And I'm really happy he's joining us

for the concert today.

[Greek music plays]

Actually this time in Greece, I got to spend

my 30th birthday while on the island

far away from my family and my friends.

And it was turning point as well to realize

what's important, where do I want to go,

further in my career.

For sure the work that I've done here

has inspired me to continue

doing this kind of work.

Not only thinking of faraway places, I would love

to do more of that kind of work in Montréal as well.

[violin music plays]

I'm almost at the end of my stay

here in Lesbos.

And of course, as a violinist, it's great to

give back to the people from the place I've been.

So, we're doing a concert for the people of Lesbos

but also with local musicians.

With a great violinist Danai Koletsa.

And we have picked a few of the refugee kids

and the Roma kids to join us in the last pieces

of the program.

So, a celebration of the time that I had here

and sort of a gift giving back to the people

of the place that has hosted me here.

[violin music]

[applause]

Amanda: Now, it's time to put down the violin

and pick up the paper.

Karla Monterrosa is about to show you

how to express your love zine-style.

Hi!

My name is Karla Monterrosa.

And today, I'm going to teach you

how to make a little friendship zine.

♪ ♪

These are the supplies you will need.

♪ ♪

Choose one of your friends that you wanna give

a zine to.

I'm going to choose my friend Emily.

-Oooooh.

♪ ♪

Write a list of compliments or nice things

you want to say about your friend.

Some of the things I like about Emily

are her clothes, her jokes,

how she likes to eat brunch,

her birthday is in July.

She has really pretty blonde hair.

She has beautiful bright eyes.

For this next step, you'll need a sheet of paper.

I'm using an 8 1/2 x 11.

♪ ♪

For this next step, you can add your drawings,

any poem you've written about your friend,

and all your nice thoughts.

♪ ♪

For texture, you can add different types

of paper or cutouts from magazines.

♪ ♪

At this point, you might be worried

about whether your friend thinks you're crazy

or obsessed with them.

It's fine.

Maybe you are.

It's okay.

I am obsessed with Emily.

♪ ♪

Last step, seal it with a kiss

and give it to your friend.

I make you this!

Oh, my god!

♪ ♪

And that's how you make a friendship zine.

Amanda: Coming up, some super surreal

crocheted sculptures that may bring you to tears.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Kasie: She sends this picture of this crocheted boob

and she goes, "How long do you want that tit?"

And I was like, what?

[laughing]

Oh, no!

She just had so much fun with it.

We just had so much fun.

♪ ♪

Crochet is generally objects of comfort.

And they're given to us by those we love.

And they're functional.

And so we wanted to take that notion

and sort of flip it on its head.

So, I started doing a series of pretty rough

and provocative sketches.

And then, I would just send them to my mom via text

or email and she would just make them through crochet

and bring these two-dimensional images to life.

So, it just really made sense to go ahead

and do a series of sculptural crocheted works.

♪ ♪

I just thought it would be really fun

to sort of push my mom a little bit.

And she totally got into it

which was the best.

I guess I drew this sketch of this costume

that I could wear for performative purposes.

So I did this really rough sketch

of the front and the back.

And then she came over to me with

a measuring tape and measured my everywhere.

And two weeks later I get this text

and it's a picture of her with this mask on her face.

And I'm like, okay, that's great.

♪ ♪

I have a few videos of my mom crocheting and knitting.

And I love to look back at them.

I'm glad I took them.

My grandmother used to knit and crochet us

beautiful baby sweaters and blankets

and so did my mom.

So, there's just a long history of gifting

and receiving of handknit and handcrocheted items

in our family.

And my grandmother taught my mother

and my mother taught me.

So, it really made sense to go ahead and do a series

of sculptural crocheted works.

[garage door humming]

This was sort of hanging in a tent

at the legislature grounds.

And it was a little bit closer to the floor.

But when the wind would come in,

it would lift it up and the hands would glide

across the floor and come back down really softly.

And it was almost like it was breathing,

which was really interesting.

♪ ♪

My mom passed away on May 12,

which was her mom's birthday.

Growing up with my mom, I never would

have characterized her as a sick person, ever.

She suffered with lupus for 35 years.

And then, it sort of caused a few heart problems.

And then the stroke.

And due to the immunosuppressive drugs

she'd been on for so long, her body couldn't fight cancer.

So, cancer is ultimately what took her life.

♪ ♪

The more I think about how sick my mum was

and how she managed to get all of this done

while sort of being stuck in her chair.

She just sat in her chair and she crocheted

and she crocheted and she would send a picture

and say, "What's next?"

One of the last few things that she said to me

that were really hard was that she still

had so much art left to do with me.

[laughing]

Don't laugh.

Kasie: For her, I will make sure that the work

continues to be seen.

I'll continue to...

share these collaborative efforts with my daughter

and teach her the value of fostering

those relationships.

To keep her spirit alive, if people continue

to talk about her and say her name,

it feels more like she's here.

And, um, we'll just keep going for her.

This beautiful tradition of crocheting

that Kasie's grandmother taught to her mother

who then taught her and now will be passed on

to her daughter... this is the connection

that I'm talking about.

Their family history is literally

woven into the yarn.

So that's a wrap.

Tune in every week for another deep dive

into the Canadian art world.

If there's an artist you think should be on

CBC Arts Exhibitionists, or if you just want

to share your own stories of connection with me,

a song that you love,

a meal that you've cooked,

a strange, surreal sculpture with long boobs

that connects to a family tradition,

I'd love to hear it!

Send me your story on Twitter, Instagram

or Facebook.

Our handle is...

Peace.

Here's a little eye candy courtesy

of Vancouver based artist

Hanna Lee Joshi who took ten days

to make her awesome echo portal.

♪ ♪

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North Korea says no denuclearization without U.S trust - Duration: 1:24.

North Korea says it won't denuclearize as long as sanctions stay in place and unless

the U.S. can provide a solid guarantee of its security.

That's according to the North's foreign minister, who addressed the UN General Assembly on Saturday.

Seo Bo-bin reports.

Speaking at the 73rd UN General Assembly in New York on Saturday, North Korean Foreign

Minister Ri Yong-ho reaffirmed that the regime is willing to denuclearize, but demanded corresponding

measures from the United States.

"Without trust in the U.S, our country cannot be sure of its security.

And under these circumstances there is no way we will denuclearize first."

The U.S. has, for example, canceled military drills this year, but so far there has been

no action that North Korea sees as not easily reversible and the continued sanctions deepen

its mistrust in U.S. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un himself has

said he would work toward denuclearization in exchange for a security guarantee.

The U.S. will have a good chance to respond next month when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

goes to Pyeongyang for his fourth visit there.

And in the mean time, plans are in the works for a second summit between Kim Jong-un and

President Trump.

Seo Bo-bin, Arirang News.

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Why China Can Finally Defeat the US Navy - Duration: 10:10.

China's meteoric economic rise in the last three decades has seen the world's largest

nation pick itself up from its agrarian roots to become a robust and modern economy.

While not more powerful than the US economically, China's is the only economy in the world to

truly rival the US's.

Yet all of China's economic expansion has created a crippling national achille's heel-

it's overwhelming reliance on naval trade routes to export its trade goods and supply

its ravenous appetite for oil.

If China is to truly become a peer competitor to the US, it must secure and defend its access

to the world's most important shipping lanes.

In today's episode of the Infographics Show, we're taking a look at the Asian powerhouse,

and asking: Is China Ready to Take on the US Navy?

For decades China focused primarily on maintaining national sovereignty by establishing a large

ground force capable of fighting off another Japanese invasion or their former Soviet rivals.

As China's economy expanded though, its reliance on maritime trade grew to a staggering disproportion.

While every nation relies on maritime trade, China's economy depends on the sea for 60-80%

of its imports and exports, and almost all of its oil supply.

This has placed China in a precarious situation where it is uniquely vulnerable to disruption

of those trade routes, and forced a shift in focus from a ground army to a growing naval

and air force.

China's maritime strategic position is unique, and completely stacked against it.

With the bulk of its oil passing through the Indian ocean, another of China's long-time

rivals- India- is in a position to easily disrupt and even completely shut down Chinese

shipping.

While China maintains a larger and better equipped naval force than India, Indian ships

would enjoy land-based support and quick resupply, while China would have to find a way to forward

deploy a sizable battlegroup to the Indian ocean that could fend off not just the Indian

navy, but the land-based Indian air force as well.

Not only is this currently strategically impossible for the limited Chinese navy, but China also

lacks the supply and logistics ships needed to keep a task force out at sea for extended

periods of time.

War against the US would likely involve India as an American ally, but even if it didn't

China would still have to face America's formidable Pacific Fleet.

With 2,000 aircraft and 200 ships, to include 33 nuclear attack submarines, America's Pacific

Fleet alone is more than a match for China's entire navy- which numbers at 193 combat ships

and 710 aircraft.

In any conflict the US Pacific Fleet would also quickly be augmented by other American

naval forces.

So could China hope to fend off the US Pacific Fleet in the event of war?

In 1996 in response to the US granting a visa to Taiwan's President, Lee Teng-hui, China

launched massive military exercises meant to intimidate Taiwan, beginning with live

fire missile and artillery firing just kilometers from Taiwan's shores.

This was followed by a widely publicized amphibious assault exercise meant to signal that China

was ready and willing to cross the Taiwan strait and invade the long-independent island.

In response, the United States deployed three aircraft carrier battlegroups to the area

and an amphibious assault ship- the largest display of American military might in Asia

since Vietnam.

This brief confrontation forced the Chinese to admit that they could not hope to stop

the US from defending Taiwan, and internally Chinese military leadership doubted the possibility

of defeating the US navy in any combat scenario.

Humiliated by the US's response and their inability to prevent it, China reshuffled

its military priorities, placing a much greater emphasis on its naval, missile and air forces.

Two decades later, their efforts have paid off in spades, with China boasting the largest

ballistic missile force in the world and a competent, if still limited navy.

Yet China is still saddled with a great deal of internal issues, the most pressing being

the systemic corruption that has for decades thrived amongst the Communist party leadership

and the armed forces both.

Despite Xi Jinping's anti-corruption purges, the damage to China's military by a long

legacy of corrupt and ineffective leadership could take years to reverse.

China also faces a serious recruitment, training, and experience problem with its armed forces.

Unable to meet military recruitment quotas, China's armed forces have been forced to lower

their recruiting standards several times since 2010.

This has resulted in a crop of recruits who's current capabilities are questionable to say

the least.

As noted by Chinese observers, in 2012 a People's Liberation Army unit became so stressed out

in the midst of a 15-day wartime simulation that the ongoing exercise had to be put on

pause, and time taken out for movie nights and karaoke parties.

By day nine of the exercise a "cultural performance troupe", PLA parlance for song-and-dance

girls, had to be brought in to entertain the homesick soldiers who's morale had plummeted.

Further reporting notes that this is likely not an isolated incident, and Chinese watchdogs

have long observed that China engages in little comprehensive training of its troops in comparison

with their western counterparts.

In fact, China's confidence in its own troops is so low that it was only in the early 2010s

that Chinese units began to take part in UN peacekeeping deployments, long refusing to

take part out of fear of international embarrassment.

To further compound China's challenges in waging war against the US or another peer

power, the nation has not fought a major conflict since a brief skirmish against Vietnam in

1979.

The modern Chinese military has absolutely no experience in modern combined arms warfare,

and to further compound China's problems, it also lacks a joint command structure amongst

its various military branches like the US employs.

This means that in war it would be difficult to coordinate Chinese ground forces with their

air forces, or naval forces with their missile forces, etc.

Given the fast pace and chaotic nature of modern war, this would leave China unable

to quickly respond to and defend from threats.

After the humiliation of the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis, China began to invest heavily into

its missile forces with the goal of threatening American aircraft carriers from deep within

the Chinese mainland.

Maintaining the world's only missile service as a separate branch of its military, China's

commitment to long-range stand-off weapons is not to be underestimated- yet despite boasting

that its new DF-21 'carrier killer' ballistic missiles could shut the US out of the West

Pacific, the truth behind these boasts is dubious at best.

A ballistic missile strike on a moving target in the middle of the ocean requires a long

and very complicated 'kill chain' involving land-based radar, airborne radar, satellites

and command and control nodes to all coordinate tracking and targeting of an enemy ship, and

to date China has not displayed the capability to successfully execute every step in this

complex kill chain, or to protect the individual links from attack or interference.

Yet even the most optimistic American naval commanders acknowledge the threat that China's

ballistic missiles present to a carrier battle group, which is why the US has responded by

engaging in the most ambitious ballistic missile defense program in its history.

Testing everything from airborne to ship-installed directed energy weapons such as lasers, to

a new generation of the Standard Model anti-air missile, to classified anti-satellite weapons

projects, the US has taken the Chinese ballistic missile threat very seriously.

China's missile forces are its best tool for keeping the US Navy at bay, but unproven as

they are its doubtful just how effective they would ultimately be.

However, the one thing that China (and most people in the US) tend to forget about are

the US's submarine forces, and that's no coincidence.

Secretive by design, the US's 'silent service' is the most advanced submarine force in the

world, and it maintains a constant rotation of 18 subs forward deployed in the Pacific

with another 8 loitering in potential conflict zones.

For the US navy in the Pacific this means Chinese coastal waters, and with China's very

limited anti-submarine capabilities and notoriously noisy subs, this underwater force alone would

be enough to choke China's trade completely and sink the entirety of China's very small

amphibious assault fleet should it try to invade Taiwan.

Immune to China's ballistic missile forces, America's nuclear attack submarines are its

best weapon in any conflict against China, something both China and the US are keenly

aware of.

In response, China has installed underwater listening sensors across the South China Sea,

and for its part the US has increased annual production of its new Virginia-class submarines

to 2 a year through to at least 2030.

China is not yet ready to take on the US Navy and win, yet this is a deficiency it has clearly

identified and is working to address with a huge expansion of its own navy, the building

of two aircraft carriers, and building new diesel-powered submarines.

But with a looming population crisis set to explode a demographic timebomb by 2030 where

over 65% of its population will be of retirement age, China may find itself pressed for the

economic resources it needs to continue expanding its military.

The US also faces challenges in maintaining its global peacekeeping naval fleet, but with

a strong network of alliances and access to financial networks China does not, it will

take some serious and very focused investment in its Navy- perhaps at the expense of its

other branches- for China to ever truly challenge America in the open ocean.

So, Can China's navy take on the US Navy?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

Also, be sure to check out our other video called China vs the US!

Thanks for watching, and, as always, don't forget to like, share, and subscribe.

See you next time!

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North Korea says no denuclearization without U.S trust - Duration: 1:25.

North Korea says it won't denuclearize as long as sanctions stay in place and unless

the U.S. can provide a solid guarantee of its security.

This is according to North Korea's foreign minister who addressed the UN General Assembly

on Saturday.

For more, Seo Bo-bin reports.

Speaking at the 73rd UN General Assembly in New York on Saturday, North Korean Foreign

Minister Ri Yong-ho reaffirmed that the regime is willing to denuclearize, but demanded corresponding

measures from the United States.

"Without trust in the U.S, our country cannot be sure of its security.

And under these circumstances there is no way we will denuclearize first."

The U.S. has, for example, canceled military drills this year, but so far there has been

no action that North Korea sees as not easily reversible and the continued sanctions deepen

its mistrust in U.S. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un himself has

said he would work toward denuclearization in exchange for a security guarantee.

The U.S. will have a good chance to respond next month when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

goes to Pyeongyang for his fourth visit there.

And in the mean time, plans are in the works for a second summit between Kim Jong-un and

President Trump.

Seo Bo-bin, Arirang News.