https://archive.is/GBsq2 (rolling stone)

The day before the festival, Rodrigo talked about its philanthropic aims. “It’s a real honor to announce that we are donating $10 million to be given directly to these 10 nonprofit partners that you just had the pleasure of hearing about,” Rodrigo said at a press conference attended by 10 organizations that advocate for women and girls and were participating in the festival.

Those nonprofit participants included Baby2Baby, which provides children in need with basic necessities; Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA), which advocates for Black mothers’ rights and provides resources throughout and after pregnancy; Center for Reproductive Rights, a legal organization that advocates for reproductive rights and health care access for women worldwide; FreeFrom, which works to end gender-based violence by providing survivors with financial resources and more; Jhpiego, which provides critical health care to women and families worldwide; John Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, which advances health equity for Indigenous communities worldwide; National Domestic Workers Alliance, which advocates for the rights of domestic workers; National Institute for Reproductive Health, which works to advance reproductive health care for all at the state and local level; National Women’s Law Center, which fights for gender justice on the legal front and beyond; and Planned Parenthood, which works to protect, provide, and expand access to sexual and reproductive health care and education. Net proceeds from the event are being directed to Daisy Chain Fields Fund, which benefits those nonprofits.
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Philanthropist Melinda French Gates joined Rodrigo and pledged to double the $10 million being donated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Chain_Fields

Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement on Monday:

We can witness the U.S. stand of confrontation with the DPRK being more clearly expressed recently.

A spokesperson for the Department of State and other officials concerned of the U.S. administration on August 26 clarified the stand that there has been no change in the U.S. policy toward the DPRK, asserting that the U.S. remains committed to the complete denuclearization of the DPRK.

It also more openly betrayed its extremely sinister and vicious hostile attempt to tarnish the image of our country and create its internal instability, talking about someone's "human rights abuses".

Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced its plan to stage the U.S.-Japan-ROK multi-domain joint military exercises Freedom Edge, which constitute a threat to the DPRK and regional countries, as scheduled, and is perpetrating air espionage and other anti-DPRK military provocations one after another.

The Trump administration has thus fully reconfirmed its invariable hostile policy to wantonly violate the sovereignty, political system and security interests of the DPRK through the "denuclearization" racket, "human rights" smear campaign and military threat.

The U.S. hostility toward the DPRK, manifested in its stand of confrontation that gets clearer in terms of rhetoric and behavior, has become a root cause of pushing the tensions on the Korean peninsula to a more dangerous level and escalating the structural instability of the region.

It is pointless to expect any detente in the region, given the grave situation where the U.S. persistent hostile policy toward the DPRK is evolving in a more dangerous way.

Our nukes serve as an absolute guarantee for defending its sovereignty and the nuclear weapons in possession of the DPRK and their sustained bolstering are the most responsible and correct option for ensuring regional peace and security.

This can be fully explained by the unstable security environment brought to the region by the U.S. nuclear posture transforming into more offensive one and Japan's rearmament and the ROK's arms buildup being accelerated in the framework of the U.S.-Japan-ROK triangular military cooperation system.

The present position of the DPRK, fixed on a permanent basis by its supreme state law, can neither be weakened nor be diluted by the U.S. repeated expression of stand on "denuclearization".

To absurdly stick to the past can never get a grip on reality or deter the future.

The DPRK will be more resolute and clear in its exercise of sovereignty to defend the supreme interests of its national security, based on the premise that the U.S. policy toward the DPRK never changes and there will be no change in the future, too.

There is no change in our policy toward the U.S. to respond to its invariable hostile policy with the toughest stand to the last. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/d71edc38f50c81691e4f69e6507f146b

https://archive.is/DjgVT

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the latest terrorist strike on Iran’s Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz martyred and wounded several IRGC combatants and civilians, and has promised that the aggression will not go unanswered.

In a statement issued shortly after the terrorist attack on Sunday night, the IRGC Public Relations Department said the American-Zionist enemy, acting out of desperation over its domestic failures and falling standing among regional states, once again sought to revive its “sinister role” and shape public opinion through an act of aggression.

“In an aggressive act, [the enemy] attacked Larak Island, resulting in the martyrdom and injury of several of our combatants and compatriots,” the statement said.

“The sons of Islamic Iran will answer this action and will result in the punishment of the aggressor.”

The IRGC opened the statement with the Qur’anic verse: “Indeed, We will take vengeance upon the criminals.”

The Tasnim News Agency, citing initial field reports, said two people were martyred and two others wounded in the US assault. Local residents also reported hearing explosions near the island.

IRGC spokesman and public relations chief Hossein Mohebbi called the strike a grave blunder committed in the middle of Washington’s economic war on Iran.

“This action was a strategic and fatal error by the Trump regime in the course of the economic war, an error that will shift the balance against its planners and will entail heavy costs,” Mohebbi said.

“The enemy will pay the consequences of this miscalculation in both the economic and military arenas,” he added.

Larak sits at the northern edge of the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials have long described the island as part of the country’s sovereign territory and a front line in the defense of the Persian Gulf.

The American media later claimed US forces had struck “launchers” on the island. Tehran rejects such accounts as a familiar pretext used to justify attacks on Iranian soil and to cover the enemy’s inability to impose its will in the region.

Myongsasimni Railway Station Inaugurated in Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area

Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- Myongsasimni Railway Station has been built in the Wonsan Kalma coastal tourist area of the DPRK crowded with tourists enjoying their fantastic holiday under the care of the Workers' Party of Korea which seeks to provide the people with a new brighter and richer life and high civilization.

The station, with a total floor space of 7 000 square meters, was built in a unique architectural style to suit the characteristics of the coastal tourist city. It is a standard local railway station built practically in terms of its mission, function and service to ensure sightseeing.

Myongsasimni Railway Station, another valuable asset for the people impeccable in its appearance and amenities, is a precious fruit of devotion made by respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who finds his greatest pleasure in working hard for the people's happiness.

Its inauguration ceremony took place on Thursday.

Present there were Pak Hun, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Hwang Man Bok, chairman of the Kangwon Provincial People's Committee, officials concerned, officials in the field of railway transport, employees of Myongsasimni Railway Station, builders, working people, youth and students in the province.

Kim Ha Gyu, minister of Railways, addressed the ceremony.

He said that Myongsasimni Railway Station was successfully built under the energetic guidance of the Party Central Committee which regards the people's laughter and happiness as a symbol of the socialist system and a criterion of national power and devotes all to providing the people with the happiest life and the best civilization in the world.

True to the noble intention of the Party which set forth the task of building a new station in the Wonsan Kalma coastal tourist area and clearly indicated the orientation and ways for completing the project at the highest qualitative level, the builders and railway workers devoted their patriotic sweat and enthusiasm to the construction of railways and structures and created unique landscape around the station, he said.

He stressed that Myongsasimni Railway Station, built as a model of Korean-style local railway station in the coastal wonderland, clearly shows level of creation and civilization in the era of the Workers' Party that subordinates all affairs of the country to the welfare of the people.

He called upon the officials and workers in the railway transport sector to thoroughly establish the unified command system and put transport organization and command on a scientific and rational basis and the employees of Myongsasimni Railway Station to well manage the station building and the railway and conduct guide service in a responsible manner so that the travelers deeply feel the love and benevolence of the motherly Party.

The speaker stressed that all the officials and working people should single-mindedly and devotedly uphold the ideas and leadership of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un so as to fulfill their responsibility and role in the sacred drive for overall development of Korean-style socialism and promotion of the people's wellbeing along the path indicated by the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

At the end of the ceremony the participants looked round the railway station. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/663d3eeecc6a533e1f32c64ae6b99fa6

https://archive.is/uRixL

DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson on U.S. Hostile Moves

Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on Thursday as regards the fact that the U.S. is repeatedly resorting to a series of hostile moves adversely affecting the security environment of the DPRK and the regional situation:

Recently, the U.S. Department of State decided to sell the ROK AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, the latest ultra-modern tactical missile currently operated by the U.S. army and which can be used to attack ground targets, and their related equipment worth 125 million US$.

Earlier, it announced its plan to allot millions of U.S. dollars to the "human rights" smear campaign in order to create conditions favorable for grasping so-called "human rights situation" in the DPRK and gathering information about the DPRK.

The above-said acts are another case proving the persistence and sequence of the U.S. hostile moves to add a new threat to the security sphere of the DPRK and create instability in the social system of our state.

This year alone, the U.S. approved the sale of various lethal equipment worth an astronomical sum of money, including the latest air-to-air missiles, new-type helicopters for naval operation, attack helicopters and precisely guided bombs, encouraging the ROK to boost its capability to fight a war.

Now that the military integration of the U.S. and its allies is being accelerated in the Asia-Pacific region, we can not overlook the adverse effect of the U.S. sale of its weapons to the ROK on the regional security environment.

The reality clearly proves how actively and zealously the U.S. is trying to expand the new threat to the DPRK.

We once again and clearly recognized the expression of the U.S. open attitude to be always hostile to the DPRK.

The DPRK is well aware of the reality that there always exists outsiders' malignant attempt and threat to the DPRK's security and its political stability, and will make a serious, immediate and powerful response to the hostile acts in different spheres. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/39b4817b129827ff50733a7f0efbd510

https://archive.is/KIBzz

https://xcancel.com/pathofexile/status/2092334226846949851#m

https://pathofexile2.com/register

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwYNNQJO-AE

"We have a lot of opportunities. We're growing. We're building in a lot of places, but when you find a conservative, business-friendly state with a phenomenal workforce, it makes a difference," Aplin said in a video shared by Huckabee Sanders on social media. "And I'm starting to realize life's too short to try to build in places that people don't appreciate what you're bringing versus a place like this, where people do appreciate what you're building."

"So that leadership, that concept, that idea of conservative, business-friendly, family-oriented concept works so much better if it trickles down from the very leadership," Aplin said. "From the very top at the governor's office, at the congressman, at the senator, at the mayor (and) the representatives."

video https://nitter.net/SarahHuckabee/status/2089694866934501410#m

(cw video has Islamophobia)

https://nitter.net/AbdulElSayed/status/2091160636008849863#m

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117135773042405247

People's Laughter Resounds through Resorts in DPRK

Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- Many working people, youth and students in the DPRK are enjoying themselves at all the holiday and tourist resorts, including the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area.

Myongsasimni, the east coastal scenic spot of the DPRK, is full of people enjoying the socialist civilization.

Many people are visiting the city of Samjiyon to enjoy a sightseeing tour of the Samjiyon area and spa bath.

An endless stream of people is flowing into Munsu, Mangyongdae and Rungna water parks in the capital city of Pyongyang.

Schoolchildren, youth and old persons are enjoying themselves at the bathing beaches of the east and west coasts.

The people's laughter and songs of happiness resound at the Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp, a monumental edifice symbolic of the spa culture of the country.

Working people, youth and students are enjoying themselves at bases for cultural and leisure activities in other scenic spots. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/9af9cd33a5df4c0342b9b113f1293279

https://archive.is/XTlSh

I'll post most photos from the article in a comment. the article has 10 photos.

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement "Poor plight of Seoul unable to play a war game it liked very much" on August 20:

Ulji Freedom Shield, a large-scale rehearsal for an aggressive war being conducted by the U.S. and the ROK in the ROK, was given a frosty reception right after its kick-off.

Trump issued a sudden order to reduce the scale of the drill. This has placed Seoul in a poor plight of discontinuing the "war game" it liked very much.

It will be something like the first "trouble" to the ROK, unprecedented in the history of U.S.-ROK joint military exercises, in the context that it has never seen the scale of a war game reduced to become coreless right after its kick-off with no prior discussion.

The ROK cannot let out a single word of protest at the GIs leaving without any mutual coordination at the U.S. chief executive's unilateral order. This is the inevitable fate of the puppet army, whose right to command has been left in the hands of the U.S., and the true situation of the ROK, whose security has been placed at stake due to a reduction of the joint military drill and who brags about its "enough capability for self-defence" despite its defence and security being under the care of outsiders.

The plight of the ROK, which is compelled to stop the "war game" it liked very much, is showing the structure of the relation between master and servant called the "U.S.-ROK blood alliance" of which it has boasted.

As recognized generally, this unforeseen consequence is an evident disaster brought by the unrealistic and anachronistic security outlook pursued by the ROK authorities who have ceaselessly repeated unnecessary attempts to reverse the regional mechanical structure controlled by a nuclear-armed nation, blinded by their firm belief in the U.S. master.

The ROK has reaped what it sowed.

The ROK authorities are hyping it as an "occasion for new phase and good opportunity for a change in relations" to cover up their poor plight, which is nothing but a lame excuse.

Lee Jae Myung curried favor with the U.S. in public by uttering shameful words that he pays "respects" for Trump's "decisive rollback decision" and it was a "decision from deep consideration" and then talked about "independent national defence" and "independent buildup of military capabilities" to prepare for the "worst scenario". Such double-dealing behaviour vividly proves uneasiness and impatience of the ROK.

The world witnesses that the U.S. security aids are no longer free of charge.

The whole territory of the ROK would be insufficient to curry favour with the cruel master.

What about deeply considering its position of complete subordination and finding a way of existence on this occasion?

Seoul should be aware of the unavoidable fate of the "puppet". -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/c95033ab45276e25a696bbe1d21b1ba2

https://archive.is/hQKqW