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Planning to fly to Auckland today? Maybe you're not, as officials are warning that the flight disruptions caused by yesterday's fuel pipeline leak will continue today:  "There are a number of cancellations again today," tweeted airport officials, "Please check with your airline for information about your flight."  Officials say an "external force" of some sort broke the underground pipeline that carried jet fuel from the Marsden Oil Refinery to Auckland Airport, and it will take up to two weeks to repair.  The breach occurred on a farm, but locals say the land was only used for grazing.  

Pyongyang says the UN's latest round of economic sanctions are "the most vicious, unethical and inhumane act of hostility" - and they "will only increase our pace towards the ultimate completion of the state nuclear force".  The North Korean Foreign Ministry charged the goal of the sanctions was to "physically exterminate" the country's people, system and government".  Meanwhile, US and South Korean forces carried out an aerial military drill near the border between the Koreas; Seoul said that was to "demonstrate the deterrence capability of the US-South Korea alliance against North Korea's nuclear and missile threats". 

China and Russia also are conducting joint military exercises off Vladivostok, in the Sea of Japan and the Okhotsk Sea - right next to North Korea.  Beijing says the goal of the Chinese and Russian navies is to maintain global peace and regional stability.

The orange clown attended his first round of meetings at the United Nations General Assembly, and will embarrass himself and the White House in a speech before these green marble tiles he hates so much tomorrow.  Donald Trump said, "The United Nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement."  But rather than threaten to leave the world body, as he did to appease his dopey base, Trump urged cooperation:  "I am confident that if we work together and champion truly bold reforms the United Nations will emerge as a stronger, more effective, more just and greater force for peace and harmony in the world."

Even other police officers are taken aback after militarized cops in Saint Louis were recorded chanting, "Whose streets?  Our streets!" after clearing protests over a judge's decision to acquit a white officer who murdered a black man and planted a gun to try and frame the victim.  The gloating chant was co-opted from numerous protests against rising police violence in the United States.  Police arrested more than 80 protesters on the third day of demonstrations, added to the scores arrested over the previous two nights - compare that to the mere handful arrested in the neonazi riot in Charlottesville last month, when police were recorded standing idly by while racists fired guns at people and murdered a woman by plowing a car into a crowd of peaceful counter-protesters.

Venezuela charged a man with June's helicopter and grenade attack on the capital.  Frank Cabana is accused of "complicity and association with terrorism" for the attack, in which 15 shots were fired at the interior ministry and four grenades were dropped on the Supreme Court before the copter flew off.  Authorities are still searching for ringleader and rogue former policeman Oscar Perez.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is demanding the Kurds suspend next week's independence referendum.  The US, Iran, Turkey, and other regional powers are also against the Kurdish independence move, although Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped up as the only world leader to support it.  Kurds are the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East but they have never obtained a permanent nation state since two Europeans drew up the region's borders in the early 20th Century.

Anyway:

Everyone in the world is alive today because of one man - former Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, who didn't believe the United States launched five Minuteman ICBM's at his country on 26 September 1983.  This was at the peak of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was stepping up rhetoric against the "evil empire" and decrepit, aging Soviet hardliners were growing paranoid.  Petrov refused to launch a "counterstrike" when the computerized early warning system went off.  "The siren howled, but I just sat there for a few seconds, staring at the big, back-lit, red screen with the word 'launch' on it," he recalled for the BBC in 2013. 

Petrov trusted his common sense instead, and he waited for 23 agonizing minutes to see if he was right or wrong.  If Petrov had just followed instructions, he would have launched several missiles, and the US would have launched missiles, and the UK, China, France, and anyone else who had them in 1983.  And that would have been it - no more World.  It turned out the system mistook sunlight bouncing off of a cloud for a US pre-emptive nuclear missile attack.  The world didn't know that it had been saved by Stanislav Petrov until his commanding officer published his memoirs almost two decades later.

He was honoured by the Association of World Citizens at the UN headquarters in 2006 as "the man who averted a nuclear war'.  In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Dresden peace prize, and was the subject of a documentary "The Man who Saved the World".

But the world only learned about his death this week when a journalist friend called for an interview before the 34th anniversary.  Never honored by the Soviet Union - in fact, he was reprimanded for failing to log it properly - Retired Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov died in a Moscow suburb in May, with nary a peep in the Russian media.