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SECRETARY POMPEO: Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister.

It's an honor to co-chair this ministerial meeting with you.

It's my first meeting as well.

I'm delighted to participate in this first engagement here with U.S.-ASEAN, and it's

great to be back in Singapore.

I would like to thank you, Foreign Minister Balakrishnan, for Singapore's warm welcome,

both here and back in June, and for its leadership as this year's ASEAN chair.

On behalf of the United States, let me also offer my condolences to the people of Laos

for the loss of life and devastation caused by the dam breach.

The U.S.

Government is providing assistance to respond to this disaster, and we welcome the support

already provided by the ASEAN Humanitarian Assistance Center.

I would also like to express my condolences to Indonesia, where a powerful earthquake

struck; and to Myanmar, for the casualties suffered in recent flooding and landslides.

The United States is a Pacific nation, and we remain committed to ASEAN centrality under

our Indo-Pacific strategy.

Earlier this week, on Monday, I gave remarks on the Indo-Pacific and announced new United

States commitments to the region.

This included a $113 million down payment on a new era in U.S. economic commitment to

peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific.

Last year, we celebrated ASEAN's 50th anniversary, as well as 40 years of U.S.-ASEAN relations.

We look forward to broadening and deepening our Strategic Partnership.

Over the first year and a half of this administration, President Trump attended his first U.S.-ASEAN

Summit and the East Asia Summit in Manila; Vice President Pence visited the ASEAN Secretariat;

and numerous cabinet secretaries traveled to the region, including my own recent travel

to Vietnam.

I expect and am eager for this frequent engagement to continue.

Our economic engagement has created hundreds of thousands of jobs on both sides of the

Pacific.

ASEAN is the number one destination for U.S. investment in Asia and ASEAN member-states

have increased their investment into the United States by over 1,300 percent between 2004

and 2016.

Our policy cooperation on issues like ICT, energy, transportation, and agriculture is

also developing rapidly.

On security, we appreciate ASEAN's ongoing efforts to promote peace and stability in

the region, support the rule of law in the South China Sea, and to strictly enforce sanctions

on North Korea.

We are also working with ASEAN member-states to counter the threat of terrorism and violent

extremism in the region.

In terms of ASEAN's socio-cultural issues, we are building capacity among ASEAN's youth,

building opportunities for women, and working to improve disaster response and promote a

healthy marine ecosystem.

Our cooperation to jointly address cybersecurity challenges has also expanded, and we appreciated

ASEAN's leaders' first-ever cyber statement in April.

Again, Mr. Minister, ASEAN colleagues, it's a great pleasure to be with you here today.

I look forward to our discussions and to hearing your thoughts on how the United States and

ASEAN can strengthen our ties.

Thank you, Mr. Minister.

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United States v. The Amistad - Duration: 6:48.

Mr. Beat presents

Supreme Court Briefs

Havana, Cuba June 27, 1839

A Spanish ship called The Amistad (ahmichad) leaves for the Province of Puerto Principe , another part of Cuba.

On board, 53 illegally purchased African slaves.

On July 2nd, one of the slaves broke free and freed others on the ship.

Soon there was an uprising.

After a big struggle that resulted in the deaths of the captain of the ship and at least three others, the slaves took over the ship, forcing two dudes named Jose Ruiz and Pedro Montez to redirect the ship across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa.

Ruiz and Montez deceived the Africans, however, and ended up sailing the Amistad up the east coast of the United States, dropping anchor just off the coast of Long Island, New York, on August 26, 1839.

The United States Revenue Cutter Service...wait wait a second...What the heck is this organization?

Well just think of them as the Coast Guard before the Coast Guard existed.

Anyway, the United States Revenue Cutter Service, led by Americans Thomas Gedney and Richard Meade, arrested the Africans after they reached the shore and took custody of the Amistad.

Gedney and Meade made sure the Africans were brought to Connecticut, since slavery was still technically legal in that state.

After President Martin Van Buren found out about them, he was like, send them back to Cuba to go on trial.

Spain, who controlled Cuba at the time, was like "yeah, bring them here."

After all, the Amistad was a Spanish ship and Ruiz and Montez were Spanish citizens.

Britain chimed in since they had a deal with Spain prohibiting the slave trade south of the equator and said that this slave uprising at sea fell under international law.

But a bunch of abolitionists were ultimately able to pressure the United States government to keep the Africans in the country, and they got a trial in the District of Connecticut.

Keep in mind that at the time, the slave trade was illegal in the United States.

The Africans were charged with mutiny and murder.

In court, there were a lot of people involved and wanting stuff.

First, Ruiz and Montez argued the Africans were slaves and their property.

They had a right to regain control of them.

And then there was a lawyer representing Spain, who argued the the slaves rightfully be returned to Ruiz and Montez or sent back to Africa.

The Africans, who were represented by an abolitionist group called the Amistad Committee, all argued that they were born free in their native Africa and unlawfully kidnapped to be sold as slaves.

Plus, they landed in New York, where slavery was illegal.

The Amistad Committee also accused Ruiz and Montez of assault, kidnapping, and false imprisonment.

And then, Gedney, as well as several others who helped Ruiz and Montez "rescue" the "cargo," aka Africans, argued they deserved a piece of the pie.

They were like, we helped you get your slaves, so can we have a few?

Another Spanish dude named Antonio Vega tried to get the captain's personal slave, claiming he actually owned him.

Whew. What a mess of a case.

The district court ruled that the Africans aboard the Amistad were unlawfully kidnapped (and you can't do that), and ordered the U.S. government to return them to Africa.

Martin Van Buren ordered the U.S. attorney, Henry Gilpin, to appeal the case to the Circuit Court for the Connecticut District,

and some of the other dudes appealed for their piece of the pie as well.

The United States basically argued it was legally obligated to return the Amistad and everything and everyone on it to Spain.

Oh, and here's another silly argument the United States made.

Believe it or not, they argued the Africans violated the American laws that said the slave trade was illegal.

You know, like they were voluntarily trying to import themselves into the United States as slaves or something?

Anyway, the Circuit Court agreed with the lower court, so then the United States appealed again to the Supreme Court.

By this time, the entire country was watching this case with fascination.

It really opened a lot of eyes about slavery, and really fired a bunch of abolitionists up.

The Court heard arguments on February 23, 1841.

Former President and son of another former President, John Quincy Adams, represented the Africans in front of the Supreme Court, passionately arguing for their freedom.

The main question the justices had to answer was, were the Africans aboard the Amistad the property of Ruiz and Montez?

The Court said "no." On March 9, 1841, it announced it had sided with the Africans.

It was 7-1.

The Court said the Africans were never citizens of Spain, and were illegally taken from their homes in Africa, where they were free people.

In addition, Africans aboard the Amistad were just trying to go home.

Justice Joseph Story, who wrote the opinion for the case, called the whole thing "peculiar and embarrassing."

The Court ordered the Africans be sent to the President to be sent back to Africa as soon as possible.

The Amistad Committee helped take care of the Africans until they could raise enough money to return them to Africa.

In 1842, the 39 surviving Africans, along with a few missionaries, sailed to Sierra Leone.

United States v. The Amistad, aka The Amistad Case, was one of the most important Supreme Court cases involving slavery in American history.

It helped the abolitionist movement grow, putting the issue front and center for many Americans for the first time.

24 years after the decision, the United States would abolish slavery with the passing of the 13th Amendment.

I'll see you for the next Supreme Court case, jury!

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So what might change that is if you like this video.

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within the first 48 hours of this being posted

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and it will be livestreamed, and you'll see me making a fool out of myself. It'll be great.

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Higher States of Consciousness Poetry: Salutation to the Day - Duration: 6:46.

This is Salutation To The Day from The Message

of the Divine Iliad Volume one by Doctor Walter Russell.

The dawn telleth the coming of the new day.

I turn my eyes to the morning and purge myself in the purity of the dawn.

My Soul quickeneth with the beauty of the dawn.

Today is, and will be.

Yesterday was, and has been.

My yesterday is what I made it.

I see it in memory, perfect or imperfect.

My today is what I Will to make it.

I Will to make it perfect.

I am man.

I have free right to choose.

I may do as I will to do.

I have the power to build the day or to rend the day.

The day will be of my making, either perfect or imperfect, good or bad as I choose to live

it in spirit or in flesh, on the mountain top or earthbound.

The day is of my choosing.

None shall stay my hand in the making of the day.

If I rend the day I build ten other days, mayhap ten times ten, to undo the rending.

The Universal One will not allow this day to go unlived to the glory of Him whom I am

nor to the fulfillment of His command, nor to the fulfillment

of His purposes.

If I build the day I will have lived the day to the glory of the One in the fulfillment

of that part of His purpose which is mine to fulfill.

So that I may meet the day with knowledge to build the day, I will look into my Soul

while it is yet dawn, before the morning breaketh.

These are the words with which I greet the day.

These are words of the morning.

This is the spirit of the dawn.

This is the thought with which I meet the day which descendeth upon me and which cannot

be turned away.

Who am I?

I alone am not I. Thou my father, art I.

I am favored of Thee, my Creator.

I am of the Inner Mind.

I know the ecstasy and exaltation of genius.

All power is mine.

I know my omnipotence.

I have all knowledge.

I know my omniscience.

To me the universe is an open book.

I need not to learn.

I know.

I see the unseen from the mountain top.

I hear the music of the spheres.

I know the transcendent joy of Creation.

I know my universality.

I am the Light of universal thinking.

I translate the language of light into the words of man for those who know not their

universality.

Immortality is mine.

I will earn immortality.

I will bestow immortality.

Mine is the power to give immortality.

I shall not deny that which shall give immortality to those who

dwell in darkness and who reach out for the light.

I will reach out my hand into the darkness and lead him that asketh into the light.

I will keep my body charged with energy for the fulfillment of my purpose, in accord with

that which is commanded of me.

I have knowledge of my body, through age long memory of the building of my body.

The power of the dynamic universe is behind my thinking.

I have the power of self-vitalization and revitalization of my body to multiply its

productivity, in fulfillment of that which is commanded of

me.

I have power to revitalize others whom I have made to believe.

To him who believes I will give power to do that which is his to do for the glory

of man and the glory of the One.

I stand on the electrodes of the universe of energy.

Power is mine to give by the wayside.

I will not deny to any man who asketh the power which is mine to give.

I have no limitation.

Unlimited power is mine within those which are universal.

I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow, nor waste regrets

on that which was yesterday.

My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day; nor shall I waste

the day.

Those things which I must do I shall desire to do.

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify--and make an art of it.

Defeat I shall not know.

It shall not touch me.

I will meet it with true thinking.

Resisting it will be my strengthening.

But if, perchance, the day shall give to me the bitter cup, it shall sweeten in the drinking.

Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.

My joy will be in serving.

My power will be in thinking true.

My power will be in knowing.

My power will be in humility.

The taint of arrogance will I not know.

That which is I, will I keep within the shadow of the beautiful temple of modesty, but my

doings will I send forth into the light that all may see;

therefore, must my doings be true.

Force will I meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

Truth will guide my footsteps through tortuous paths and lead me to the glory of the day's

golden evening.

I will see beauty and goodness in all things.

From all that is unlovely will my vision be immune.

God dwelleth in me.

All that God hath to give He giveth me.

He withholdeth nothing.

Blessed be the new day which descendeth upon me.

I greet thee, 0 day.

I cross Thy threshold with joy and thanksgiving.

My eyes are in the high heavens as I enter thy sacred temple.

I will sing the day through with a glad song, that the problems of the day shall be as chaff

before the wind and that others may harken to my song

and be quickened.

My countenance shall reflect the Spirit within me, that all may see.

Descend upon me 0 blessed day of opportunity.

Thou shall not find me wanting.