The June 12 summit between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un was already going to be historic, with high hopes it would be a starting point for resolving some major, long-standing issues. President Trump now says it could also be the day the Korean War ends.
Though nothing is set in stone, Trump confirmed on Thursday that the US and North Korea have discussed the possibility, and that he and Kim may both sign an agreement to end the Korean War when they meet in Singapore.
The Korean War began in 1950, and an armistice was signed in 1953. No peace deal was ever reached, and North Korea’s previous offers to talk about such a deal under prior administrations were rebuffed. North and South Korea have been talking about a peace deal for some time.
Trump had made clear he sees the summit as the start of a process, and the first round of talks. If it goes well, Trump says he may invite Kim to visit the White House in the future. This too would be a major historic accomplishment, though clearly peace and denuclearization are the top priorities.
Good start! Lets hope it moves forward.
This sites commenting system Disqus is using a software known as “Persistent Cookies ” that’s embedded into your cellphones,computers,tablets etc… to spy on you. Under Disqus terms it can sell and share your personal information with foreign companies and governments and monitor your activities even when you’re not using your device. It’s very intrusive and is what’s used to help governments spy on their people. Antiwar after all the Pro-Snowden privacy rights stories y’all put on this site criticizing the N.S.A. how ,could y’all allow a tool it uses to spy on people to be used on your very own commenting system? This is crazy!!! How can we trust anything y’all promote if, y’all are allowing the things you’re writing about that our government’s are doing that are wrong, like spying on its citizens to happen on your own site? No one wants to be put on a target list to be hacked and monitored for expressing themselves on Antiwar. Please find a way to protect the people commenting on your forum and our personal information.
See here for ways to opt out of various information collection by Disqus.
If you’re aware of a commenting app with better privacy protections, I’ll be glad to pass the information along to the people who have to make the site work at the technical level. We switched to Disqus after IntenseDebate became nearly unusable.
In discussions on what commenting utility to replace IntenseDebate with I advocated for Disqus because, over years of installing, maintaining, and administering commenting systems, I hadn’t found another as flexible (including guest commenting and logging in using other services), as well-formatted or as reliable as Disqus. Nor had I found any with notably superior privacy protections. If any of those things are changing, I’ll be recommending a new commenting system.
Frankly, here is the difference between Disqus (and all other commenting systems) a week ago and Disqus (and all other commenting systems today: They’re disclosing more about what they collect and how they use it than they used to because they’re coming into compliance with the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation.
thank you Thomas. That was very informative and easy to “opt out”.
Glad to be of as much help as I can. I’m researching it further even as we speak. Here’s some stuff from Disqus’s blog on what they’re up to. Excerpts:
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Disqus already offers a strong Do Not Track (DNT) framework. This includes both honoring DNT settings from browsers and allowing users to opt-out of tracking within Disqus for targeted advertising and content recommendations. Currently, users with Disqus accounts can update their settings to opt-out of tracking across all devices and browsers where they are logged in. Logged-out users or readers without Disqus accounts can also opt-out of tracking for individual browsers.
A key piece of our planned updates is to expand on this framework and create a new feature called Privacy Mode that users can opt-in to from the Data Sharing Settings page. When a user is in Privacy Mode, Disqus will not collect or process any personal data, as defined by GDPR. In cases where we do not have a lawful basis for processing personal data we will apply Privacy Mode to requests from IP addresses associated with an EU country.
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We afford users right to access the information that Disqus holds about them and the right to have that information deleted.
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Can you put up the Disqus “Persistent Cookies ” description and let people see what it says?It’s in the Privacy Policy and it’s extremely intrusive.
Sure. Here’s their description of cookies. BUT, first let me point out a couple of things:
1) Cookies, including persistent cookies, have been around for decades.
2) There are numerous options in every major browser for preventing persistent cookies from installing, deleting them at the end of a session, or disconnecting them from your other browsing.
Or, to put it a different way, they are exactly as intrusive as you choose to allow them to be. The only difference between Disqus (and virtually every other web-based service) a month ago and Disqus today is that GDPR notifications are calling more attention to them, as previous events of various kinds have done.
Glad you finally noticed; sorry that you think your privacy is our responsibility rather than yours, even though you have total and easy control of it while our only option if we were to take responsibility for your privacy would be to shut down commenting completely.
Here’s that description from Disqus that you asked for:
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A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer or mobile device.When you use the Service, or visit a Partner Site using the Service, we send one or more cookies to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. Cookies help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the site. We also use cookies to collect Technical Data and information about how you use the Service and Partner Sites (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take), to track your usage of the Service on Partner Sites over time, and to personalize the content we show you, including ads. We may use both persistent cookies, which remain on your hard drive after you close your browser, and session cookies which terminate when you close your browser. Many browser settings can be set to decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie. If you have questions about such functionalities, you should consult with your browser’s manufacturer. However, some features of the Service may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
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Thank you. I have found disqus reliable and readily available. many other options are difficult and insist on facebook etc which I do not use.
All of this seems to apply everywhere since the new EU rules came in. I am avoiding giving “permission” on sites which I reach by links to other articles.
A “cookie” is not piece of code or software. A cookie is just plain text file that browser can read/write to(in accordance with the RFC specs) as a simple data store. The browser will send up the cookie data for the requested domain in the request headers of a http request and the server can write to a cookie by including the data in the response headers. A website can only read/write to cookies associated with that website domain. Cookies more or less allow user identification for websites.
Without cookies, the web would still be little more than its original function as a hyperlinked document repository.
The tracking issue relates to third-party cookies. If a web page, say, http://www.mydomain.com/mypage, includes references to media assets or scripts hosted by a third party, then that third party can read and write their own cookies to your hard drive whenever you point your browser to http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.
Now the third party cannot read/write from/to mydomain.com’s cookies. Nor can the mydomain.com read/write from/to the third party’s cookies. Isolated, that third party’s cookie(s) aren’t that useful to the third party. However, if a bunch of websites are referencing those same assets/scripts, then it becomes a marvelous tracking system for that third party.
Today, almost every website includes scripts form google, facebook and twitter. That’s is how they are still able to track you even if you are not using their website/services. Strip away all the fluff from those aforementioned companies and what they are at root are DMP platforms. They may or may not be able to match a a tracking identity to a real world identity(and if they are able to make that match, they ain’t telling anyone else), but making that that match is the holy grail of digital marketing.
Even if you try commenting as a guest it won’t allow you to comment unless, you check 2 boxes allowing Disqus to spy on you. This just started because I’ve been commenting on Antiwar for years as a guest and, this has never been the terms to comment as a guest. “Persistent Cookies Software” N.S.A. tool allows them to use a private companies data collection policies to monitor your activities on your devices. With all these patriots on this forum I wonder why they could be looking for. People commenting you’ve been warned.
Your anonymous posting days are coming to an end señior…
It’s getting harder to express yourself in a guest capacity that’s an understatement for sure.
When you’re this good nothing surprises me ……..
A sign, a wonder coming to the world on a piece of whitest, cleanest, most honest paper ever?
The Korean War was a UN action, so how can We end the war. It would make more sense to say South and North Korea may end the war.
Any talk about Trump getting a Nobel Prize for such a happening should be tempered with the facts about his persistent murders of innocents with drone and hellfire missile warfare, the ongoing brutality in Syria, and the non-stop provocations of the Russians and Chinese. Not that even worse prevented Obama from getting the prize followed by at least 6 undeclared wars.