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Google faces $9B EU fine for rigging internet search results in its favor

Foo Yun Chee
The Independent
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Google antitrust investigation
© GettyThe EU competition authority accused Google in April 2015 of distorting internet search results to favour its shopping service.

A seven-year investigation into the world's most popular internet search engine was triggered by scores of complaints from both US and European rivals

EU antitrust regulators aim to slap a hefty fine on Alphabet unit Google over its shopping service before the summer break in August, two people familiar with the matter said, setting the stage for two other cases involving the US company.

The European Commission's decision will come after a seven-year investigation into the world's most popular internet search engine was triggered by scores of complaints from both US and European rivals.

The EU competition authority accused Google in April 2015 of distorting internet search results to favour its shopping service, harming both rivals and consumers.
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Hillary's delusional conspiracy claims: Trump won the election with help from a thousand Russian agents


Daily Mail
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:34 UTC
Hillary Codecon
They're all against me: Clinton used a question and answer session at Codecon in Rancho Palos Verde, California, to outline a vast conspiracy to keep her out of the White House
Hillary Clinton launched an all-out assault on Donald Trump Wednesday, claiming he must have 'guided' Russian efforts to keep her out of the White House.

Openly saying that she believed he had 'colluded' with Russia, she made an astonishing series of claims about the presidential election, including claiming that the 'vast majority' of news about her on Facebook was 'fake'.

She even cited 'Pizzagate', claiming that claims she was involved in a child sex-trafficking network in a Washington D.C. restaurant had helped swing 'low information voters'.

Clinton spoke at a tech conference in Silicon Valley to an audience which applauded repeatedly as she outlined her allegations against Trump - a man she described as having a 'visceral grasp on America's political underbelly'.

The question and answer session is her latest return to public life after her defeat. It was unclear if she was paid for the appearance at the Codecon conference in Rancho Palos Verde.

The loser began by saying: 'I take responsibility for every decision I made but that is not why I lost.'

Comment:

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Attention

Hungarian PM Orban: Soros 'mafia state' speech a declaration of war


RT
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 19:06 UTC
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban and George Soros
© Spencer Platt, Emmanuel Dunand / AFP Hungarian PM Viktor Orban and George Soros
The war of words between George Soros and Hungarian PM Viktor Orban is threatening to boil over after the billionaire philanthropist claimed Hungary is a 'mafia state' posing as a democracy.
"He [Orban] sought to frame his policies as a personal conflict between the two of us and has made me the target of his unrelenting propaganda campaign,"
the Hungarian-born American financier said during his keynote address at the annual economic forum of the European Commission Thursday.

The speech was Soros' first public comment in response to a controversial bill proposed in April which threatens to close his Central European University.
"[Orban] cast himself in the role of the defender of Hungarian sovereignty and me as a shady currency speculator who uses his money to flood Europe — particularly his native Hungary — with illegal immigrants as part of some vague but nefarious plot," he added.
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Elite donors bankrolling Tory campaign under investigation for fraud, tax dodging


RT
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:21 UTC
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© Jack Taylor / Agence France-Presse
Theresa May's Conservative Party has scooped almost three times more in cash donations than Jeremy Corbyn's Labour, bagging up to £10 million from some of Britain's wealthiest men and women. But some of its supporters stand out.

The Banker

According to an investigation by the Morning Star, the former CEO of Lehman Brothers Europe, Jeremy Isaacs, handed the Conservatives over £25,000 (US$32,000) on May 11.

Isaacs, a longstanding party donor and a Remain backer, donated a whopping £100,000 to the party in 2010.

His contribution to Tory coffers amounts to roughly £377,000 since 2006.
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Tory charged over 2015 election expenses just a week before Britain votes


RT
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:22 UTC
Theresa May's election bus
© Justin Tallis / Reuters
Conservative candidate Craig Mackinlay has been charged over his election expenses. He has been under investigation for alleged overspending in the 2015 general election.

Mackinlay, 50, who is running for South Thanet in the general election on 8 June, has been charged with knowingly making a false declaration of his election expenses, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says.

"We have concluded there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to authorize charges," the CPS said in a statement.
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Putin regarding Trump relationship: 'How can you be friends with someone you've never met?'


RT
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 22:29 UTC
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© Sergey Guneev / Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he is not "friends" with Donald Trump, as they are not even acquainted, adding that he only hopes to build a constructive working and personal relationship with his US counterpart.

Putin was asked about his alleged friendship with Trump during a meeting with the heads of international news agencies at the 21st International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg on Thursday. "How can one be friends with a person he's not acquainted with? I think Mr. Trump can't call me his friend and I can't do it as well. We're not acquainted with each other. We've never met," the Russian president said.

Putin added that he generally likes the type of people that Trump represents, saying that he believes the US counterpart to be a "straightforward, frank person." "He can't be regarded as a traditional politician. He never worked in politics," Putin said, calling the chance to have "fresh look at things" one of Trump's main advantages. "Whether someone likes it or not, this always... very often brings certain benefits," the Russian president said.

Putin recalled that, during his presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly spoke about the need to restore meaningful relations between Washington and Moscow. Putin said, "We're ready for such dialogue with the US president." However, he said that there's no certainty about how things will turn out between the two countries because an "internal struggle continues in the US, which prevents building relations" in many key areas.

Comment: Within the climate of Russiaphobia in the US, the delay (if it is one) in the Putin-Trump face-to-face is best saved until it has a reasonable chance of unbiased success. Will the innuendo of the fake Russia connection subside by July? Probably not. This dog has its bone.

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Snowden's epic rant smashes the police state, 'Terrorists don't take our rights, government does'

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00 UTC
1984
© Pixabay
Whistleblower Edward Snowden does not mince words, and his ardent assessment of our perpetually-dwindling rights in the United States and around the world — offered live in a teleconference Tuesday — certainly didn't break that mold.

"Government will not act in accordance with the public interest unless it is made to," Snowden contended, beginning what would arguably be one of the most powerful public appearances since he blew the whistle and the U.S.' Intelligence Community's expansive surveillance programs in 2013.

"You may never be safe in any country — whether it's Brussels, or Russia, or Portugal, or the United States — to speak a necessary, but inconvenient, truth," he continued, addressing the erosion of free speech, and a lack of justice for those who exercise that right.

Terrorism won't be combated by governments — nor by invasive surveillance. Rather, Snowden argues, such programs have proven more harmful, overall.


Comment: Snowden, with guts and wisdom, means to alert and enlighten the public to what has been hidden. But in order to acquire new understanding and apply it, we have to train our minds to acknowledge our ability to think differently and subsequently affect change.

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Rosneft gains access to vast oil transportation system in Iraqi Kurdistan


RT
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:15 UTC
Kurdistan oil workers
© Azad Lashkari / Reuters
Russian energy major Rosneft and the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq have signed a number of oil exploration and production agreements. It is the biggest deal made by a Russian company so far at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2017).

Rosneft will get access to a major regional transportation system with the capacity of 700,000 barrels per day (bpd), the company said. It is planned to expand capacity to more than 1 million bpd by the end of 2017.

The documents were signed ahead of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan Nechirvan Barzani. Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin and Minister of Natural Resources for the Kurdistan Regional Government Dr. Ashti Hawrami signed the contracts within the framework of the Forum.
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The never-ending list of Killary's excuses for losing a rigged election

Amanda Prestigiacomo
The Daily Wire
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:05 UTC
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© Kevin Mazure/Getty Images for SeriousFun"Not my fault."
Two-time failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has blamed everything and everyone other than the old lady looking back at her in the mirror for her 2016 presidential election loss. The politically irrelevant former politician began whining and complaining about her stunning loss to Donald Trump soon after Election Day, and shows no signs of letting up.

Here's a full list of all the people, organizations, government entities, and abstract concepts Hillary Clinton has blamed for her loss thus far:

1. Former FBI Director James Comey​

"[A]s I explain in my book, you know, the Comey letter, which was, now we know, partly based on a false memo from the Russians. It was a classic piece of Russian disinformation — comprimat, they call it. So, for whatever reason, and I speculate, but I can't look inside the guy's mind, you know, he dumps that on me on October 28th, and I immediately start falling," said Hillary.

She later added: "Remember, Comey was more than happy to talk about my emails, but he wouldn't talk about the investigation of the Russians."

Comment: Even Killary's own base is fed up with her.

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Driving Mr. Stone: Putin gives Oliver a lift, says 'Snowden not a traitor but what he did was wrong'


RT
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 02:37 UTC
StonePutin
© Showtime/YouTube
Vladimir Putin told Oliver Stone that while he agrees that the NSA has gone too far in its snooping practices, and that the public sharing of data can't be called treason, he disapproves of Edward Snowden's decision to leak troves of confidential files.

"Snowden is not a traitor. He did not betray the interests of his country. Nor did he transfer information to any other country," the Russian president told Stone in an interview, featured in a teaser to an upcoming documentary titled The Putin Interviews.

In contrast to US President Donald Trump, who once labeled Snowden "a traitor and a disgrace," the Russian president believes the whistleblower has not done anything "which would have been pernicious to his own country or his own people."

The snippet of the film by the award-winning director, released by Showtime on Thursday, shows Putin in the driving seat taking on the case of the former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and CIA employee, who leaked classified information on the extent of the NSA's surveillance to journalists, and is now wanted on espionage charges in the US.


Comment: Kudos to Mr. Stone for producing this documentary, a necessary and beneficial gift to the American people who remain fairly ignorant of who Mr. Putin is and why he has become the eminent leader in the world today. Come to think of it, Putin in the driver's seat is a comforting thought.

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