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Airbus fires 16 employees linked to alleged industrial espionage on German military contracts


RT
Sun, 01 Dec 2019 21:38 UTC
airbus
© FILE PHOTO. Reuters / Regis Duvignau
Europe's aerospace giant Airbus has found itself at the center of a scandal after it was revealed that some of its employees, in a division handling German military projects, are suspected of involvement in industrial espionage.

The aviation and defense company has dismissed 16 employees, including a department manager, without notice, as all of them were suspected of spying on corporate secrets and of illegally obtaining confidential documents on future projects of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr).

Airbus is one of the major suppliers of the German Armed Forces; it regularly wins contracts to provide the Bundeswehr with new airplanes and helicopters, as well as for retrofitting existing equipment.

Comment: Considering this investigation was only prompted because of an employee sounding the alarm, isn't it likely that similar activity is occurring in other countries but, as yet, has gone undetected? It's also notable that Airbus had been recently considered a safer option following the deadly crashes caused by Boeing's MAX planes.

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Sherlock

Netanyahu behind Labour anti-Semitism scandals according to Dutch Daily newspaper's cartoonist


Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Sun, 01 Dec 2019 14:28 UTC
Netanyahu
© De Volkskrant
A caricature suggesting Benjamin Netanyahu is behind British Labour's anti-Semitism scandals
A major Dutch daily ran a caricature whose critics say reinforces anti-Semitic tropes and suggests that Israel's prime minister is attacking Britain's Labour Party over anti-Semitism to distract from corruption charges against him.

In the caricature Thursday in De Volkskrant, Benjamin Netanyahu is depicted holding a stone labeled "anti-Semitism charges" in one hand and reading an indictment for corruption in the other.

Opposite the Israeli leader is Jeremy Corbyn, who heads Labour Party, which is under an investigation by the British government's Equality and Human Rights Commission over complaints that Corbyn's anti-Israel agenda and far-left politics have made it institutionally anti-Semitic.

Comment: While it's highly unlikely that Corbyn will become PM, what with an establishment campaign to keep him out of power, were he to do so, he would likely pose as a significant thorn in the side of the psychopaths controlling Israel: Labour party adds ban on selling arms to Israel and Saudi Arabia to election platform

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Red Pill

Yes Virginia, it really did happen: Ukraine and election meddling in 2016

Yasha Levine
yasha.substack.com
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:29 UTC
Ukraine interfere US election cartoon hillary trump
I know I've written about this before, but I feel like I have to address it again — seeing how just about every impeachment witness has repeated the claim that meddling by Ukrainian government officials did not happen in 2016 and that anyone who says otherwise is spreading toxic Russian propaganda. I've been dipping into these hearings every now and again and've seen this said over and over. It reminds me of those new age quantum-mind-over-matter types in the The Secret: Repeat the mantra often enough and convince yourself it's true and...it is!

Let's start with a fact: Meddling in the 2016 election by Ukrainian politicians and government agencies happened.
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Bizarro Earth

Jeremy Clarkson mocks 'idiot' Greta Thunberg, but the cancel-culture 'snowflakes' are the ones out of touch with reality

Graham Dockery
RT
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 19:05 UTC
Jeremy Clarkson Thunberg
© Global Look Press / Planet Photos and Reuters / Carlo Allegri
Jeremy Clarkson and Greta Thunberg
Jeremy Clarkson is piggish, childish, and uncool. But people like him because, despite what woke puritans would have you believe, people still love cars and don't care about nonsense like "toxic masculinity."

An interview with Jeremy Clarkson by The Independent was never going to be a friendly exchange. Clarkson has built a career out of mocking the social justice proclamations of the liberal newspaper's bedfellows, and the Independent unloaded a woke broadside at the 'Grand Tour' host the moment he swaggered into the room.

Describing the show as "schoolboy sniggering from a trio who have drawn much criticism over the years for encouraging toxic masculinity and cracking colonial-style jokes," the Independent went on to suggest that "the public is finally tiring of his schtick," and noted that it's "tough to justify" a car show in 2019, when the European Parliament has declared a "climate and environment emergency."
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Bizarro Earth

The murdered Armenian priest in Syria and the roots of hatred and genocide of its Christians

Steven Sahiounie
InfoBrics
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 15:35 UTC
syria
Father Hovsep Bedoyan, the head of the Armenian Catholic community in Qamishli, and the priest's father, Abraham Bedoyan, were killed November 11, on the road leading from Qamishli to Deir Ez Zor, were they were headed to check on the rebuilding of the Forty Martyr's Armenian Apostolic Church in Deir Ezzor, which was destroyed in 2014 by terrorists who targeted Christians and churches. Deacon Fati Sano of the Al-Hasakeh church was injured in the attack when the car was ambushed at a checkpoint by masked gunmen on motorcycles, which shot at point-blank range. The car they drove was inscribed with the Armenian Church's logo. The same day, a series of bomb blasts in Qamishli occurred, targeting the Armenian Catholic church, an Assyrian Christian-owned business, and a Catholic school, killing at least 6 people and wounded 22 others. More than 100,000 ethnic Armenians lived in Syria, mainly in the province of Aleppo prior to 2011; however, after the constant targeting of Christians by the Free Syrian Army (FSA) beginning in 2011, thousands have fled and many hundreds went to Armenia, who offered the Syrians a visa, when most of the world had shut its doors to them.

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AG Barr says Epstein died via 'series of coincidences', ends all conspiracy theories forever

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC

Comment: Imagine our shock...


AG Barr
© twitter.com
US Attorney General William Barr
In an interview with Associated Press, US Attorney General William Barr put all conspiracy theories to rest once and for all by assuring the world that alleged sex trafficker and alleged billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's death was simply the result of a very, very, very long series of unfortunate coincidences.

"I can understand people who immediately, whose minds went to sort of the worst-case scenario because it was a perfect storm of screw-ups," Barr told AP on Thursday.

This perfect storm of unlucky oopsies include Epstein being taken off suicide watch not long after a previous suicide attempt and shortly before his successful suicide, suggestions that the first attempt may have actually been an assault via attempted strangulation inflicted by someone else, two security guards simultaneously falling asleep on the job when they were supposed to be checking on Epstein, one of those guards not even being an actual security guard, security footage of two cameras outside Epstein's cell being unusable due to a mysterious technical glitch, at least eight Bureau of Prisons officials knowing Epstein wasn't meant to be left alone in his cell and leaving him alone in his cell anyway, Epstein's cellmate being transferred out of their shared space the day before Epstein's death, Epstein signing a will two days before his death, unexplained injuries on Epstein's wrists and shoulder reported by his family after the autopsy, and a forensic expert who examined Epstein's body claiming that his injuries were more consistent with homicide than suicide.

Comment: Common sense says there's more to Epstein's death than presented; thus whitewashed assessments are suspect. Epstein was the tip of an iceberg and just that idea alone is enough to not trust the 'evidence' nor Barr's conclusions. Barr was in fact directly intimately involved (twice) in Epstein's 'career'. Did he capitulate? If so, why and for whom?

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Bad Guys

US abuses justice systems to target its enemies, like it did with Huawei - Assange's father


RT
Sun, 01 Dec 2019 09:52 UTC
Assange supporters
© REUTERS / Luis Cortes
Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange protest in Mexico City.
The incarceration and extradition trial of Julian Assange is one of many examples of the US abusing the legal systems of other countries to target its political enemies, said John Shipton, the father of WikiLeaks' founder.

Assange is currently held at a top security UK prison pending a hearing on extradition to the US. An American court wants him on espionage charges that may effectively result in imprisonment for life. Assange's case is one of many in which Washington puts pressure on other nations to abuse their legal systems to persecute people that the US government doesn't like, Assange's father believes.

The situation with Assange is similar to what happened to other people in Washington's crosshairs, Shipton told an audience at the University of Cologne on Saturday.

One similar case he cited is that of Huawei Chief Financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested in Canada on a request from the US. Like Assange, she is fighting an extradition request by the US, which accuses her of financial fraud in relation to violations of anti-Iranian sanctions imposed by Washington.
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Arrow Down

Blow for Kamala Harris as aide resigns with scathing letter: 'I've never seen staff treated so poorly', 'no plan for the campaign'

Alex Woodward
Independent
Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Kamala
© AP/John Locher
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris
A blistering resignation letter from a member of the Kamala Harris campaign paints a picture of low morale among staffers of a directionless campaign with "no real plan to win" ahead of the crucial Iowa caucus in 2020. The Democratic primary challenger faces division among the ranks as the critical Iowa caucus nears.

According to the New York Times, the sentiments expressed in a letter from now-former state operations manager Kelly Mehlenbacher were corroborated by more than 50 current and former campaign staffers and allies, speaking largely on the condition of anonymity to disclose the campaign's many flaws and tactical errors, from focusing on the wrong states to targeting the wrong candidates, as a frustrated campaign staff draws closer to 2020 Democratic primaries, which at one point counted the California Senator as a likely star.

Ms Mehlenbacher's letter came a few days after a November staff meeting during which aides pressed campaign manager Juan Rodriguez about strategy and finances after sweeping layoffs ahead of the campaign's movement in Iowa.
"While I still believe Senator Harris is the strongest candidate. I have never seen an organisation treat its staff so poorly ... I no longer have confidence in our campaign or its leadership. The treatment of our staff over the last two weeks was the final straw."

Comment: Additional from Politico, 15/11/2019: Kamala Harris' campaign in meltdown
Officials said they've become increasingly frustrated at the campaign chief's lack of clarity about what changes have been made to right the ship and Rodriguez' plans to turn the situation around. They hold him responsible for questionable budget decisions, including continuing to bring on new hires shortly before the layoffs began.

"It's a campaign of id. What feels right, what impulse you have right now, what emotion, what frustration. No discipline. No plan. No strategy."

"From the outset of this race, [Rodriguez] has had all the responsibility with none of the authority. He's been managing this race with at least one, if not two, hands tied behind his back," a senior campaign official and longtime Harris hand said of the Rodriguez-Maya Harris dynamic.

One recently departed aide tried to sum up the mess: At the staff level, the person said, "everybody has had to consolidate. Everybody has had to make cuts. And people are pissed. They see a void. They want to push someone out. And I understand that. But the root cause of all of this is that no one was empowered really to make the decisions and make them fast and make them decisively. The apparatus wasted her talent more than she blew it."

The unorthodox composition of the campaign is further complicated by other factors. Rodriguez's California business partners — Ace Smith, Sean Clegg and Laphonza Butler — are senior Harris advisers atop a flat leadership structure.

She has slid into low single digits and is now banking on a top-tier performance in Iowa to pull her back into contention.
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Dollars

Argentina: New president pushes back against IMF nation-stripping and usury agenda

Matthew Ehret
FRN
Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Kirschner and Fernandez
© EIDla
President Alberto Fernandez • Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
When Christina Fernandez de Kirschner was ousted from power in 2015, many thought that Argentina was lost to the international financiers which her late husband Nestor Kirschner (2003-2007) fought so valiantly against.

The Kirschners together made a powerful team, valiantly fending off the Wall Street/City of London "vulture funds" which act as anti-nation state weapons of the oligarchy, feeding off the carcasses of dead nations whose murder they orchestrate through speculation on malignant debt serviced by draconian austerity and privatisations- all the while preventing all investment into the real economy.

While other Latin American nations fell under this killer policy for decades, Argentina was one of the earliest to fight back in a serious manner beginning with Nestor's application of the sovereign rights of a nation to abolish all un-payable debt- making him and his wife public enemies of the international financier oligarchy. Christina not only continued her husband's struggle amid CIA/MI6-orchestrated slanders of "corruption" across Argentine media which mobilised desperate and uninformed masses to protest against her government, but also opened up the door to large scale infrastructure projects recognising in China the key to Latin America's salvation.
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Attention

Merkel's wake up call: Coalition is threatened by new leftist leaders


RT
Sun, 01 Dec 2019 06:40 UTC
Merkel
© Global Look Press/Monika Skolimowska
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's 'Grand Coalition' is under threat from within, as the Social Democrats (SDP) elect new, leftist leaders. Their focus on social justice puts the SDP at odds with Merkel's center-right CDU.

The SDP announced its new leaders on Saturday, following a vote by party members. While Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and Klara Geywitz - allies of Merkel - were tipped to win, the leadership went to leftists Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken.

Both politicians have called for higher taxes on the wealthy, more government investment in infrastructure and climate change measures, and increased welfare spending, regardless of whether the country's budget slips into deficit or not.

The pair represent a bloc of SPD voters unhappy with the party's role in Merkel's centrist coalition. While many of these voters would advocate a complete break with the chancellor's Christian Democrats (CDU), Walter-Borjans said he will not leave yet.

"We have always said this is not just about whether we leave immediately or stay in for the duration," he told Phoenix television. "We must improve the policies and perhaps loosen the black zero," he added, a reference to Merkel's insistence on a balanced budget.
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