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China "Strongly" Urges US To Halt Taiwan Arms Sales After $300 Million Deal
The $330 million request covers spare parts for "F-16, C-130, F-5, Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF), all other aircraft systems and subsystems, and other related elements of logistics and program support," the Pentagon said, adding that it notified Congress of the possible sale. Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) makes the F-16.
The Pentagon said the proposed sale is required to maintain Taiwan’s "defensive and aerial fleet," and would not alter the military balance in the region.
Chinese defense ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang: China "strongly" urged the US to honor "One China" principle and immediately revoke its sales of military hardware to Taiwan, saying that U.S. arms sales to Taiwan were a serious breech of international law and harmed Chinese sovereignty and security interests.
Drones Unleashed to Find Tax Evaders as Greece Sets Disturbing Precedent
Greece is apparently battling a “black economy” in one of its most popular tourist attractions: the island of Santorini. According to tax authorities, the area has become a hotbed of tax evasion, primarily by day trip organizers who are not properly recording their income.
As reported by Yahoo News, the country has turned to high tech to equip their coast guard with drones that can physically look for hidden transactions.
Based on data from the drones, authorities were able to establish how many passengers were on board, then cross-referenced it with declared receipts and on-site inspections.
Nine tourist vessels checked were alleged to have not issued a number of receipts, totalling about 25,000 euros ($29,460). Their owners now face fines.
A controversial startup that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with young blood is opening its first clinic
Ambrosia Medical— a startup that fills the veins of older people with fresh blood from young donors — in the hopes that the procedure will help conquer aging by rejuvenating the body's organs. The company plans to open its first clinic in New York City by the end of this year.
Poland vows to launch Baltic Sea canal construction to bypass Russian waters
Link: http://tass.com/economy/1022890
Leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, promised that work on a canal running across the Baltic Spit (or Vistula Spit, as it is called in Poland) to connect the port city of Elblag with the Baltic Sea would start soon, despite Russia’s protests that it might harm the environment.
The politician said the project is important for the county’s independence and sovereignty, because right now vessels have to sail through Russia’s territorial waters to get to Elblag. Kaczynski pledged that work would get underway in a month’s time. Replying to a question about Moscow’s opposition to the project, he said Russia had always been against it, but Poland was not going to abandon its plans.
Safe Now: Norway to Cancel Refugee Status, Send Back 1,600 Asylum Seekers
Link: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201809051067759605-norway-refugees-safety-protection/
The Norwegian government rejects human rights activists' claims that this step violates international rules and undermines integration efforts.
Norway has announced plans to deprive 1,600 Somali immigrants of their refugee status, as their homeland is considered safe enough to return to, the newspaper Nettavisen reported.
Wendy’s Sued For Violating Illinois Law Against Biometrics
Link: https://www.activistpost.com/2018/09/wendys-sued-for-violating-illinois-law-against-biometrics.html
A class-action lawsuit was filed in Illinois against a fast food restaurant chain of the Wendy’s franchise. The suit accuses the company of violating state laws for the way the business stores its employees’ fingerprints, ZDNet reported.
The complaint alleges that the practice of using a biometric scan of employees’ fingerprints to clock when they arrive at Wendy’s for work, when they leave, and when they use the Point-Of-Sale and cash register systems, is a violation of the state Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) law. Wendy’s fails to inform employees in writing of the specific purpose and length of time for keeping fingerprints collected, stored, and used, as required by the BIPA.
The suit also suggests the company never obtained a signature from employees giving consent to obtain and handle fingerprints.
The suit also expressed that Wendy’s doesn’t provide how long it stores the fingerprints data including for its former employees.
Plaintiffs are further requesting that Wendy’s disclose whether or not the company “sold, leased, traded, or otherwise profited from Plaintiffs’ and the Class’s biometric identifiers or biometric information,” and if Wendy’s or NCR (the company Wendy’s uses) have ever used any of their data and any subsequent class filers’ fingerprints to track or monitor them in any way shape or form.
China shuts down 4,000 websites in purge on 'improper values'
China has shut down thousands of websites and online accounts following a three-month campaign against "harmful" content, the state news agency Xinhua announced.
The content, on 4,000 sites, included infringements of copyright and material spreading "improper values, vulgarity or obscenity", it said.
China tightly controls the country's internet access.
Previous targets have included lottery apps and material containing pornographic or violent content.
BANNED DRUGS FOUND IN YOUR MEAT - Video
Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/banned-drugs-found-in-your-meat_092018
The four drugs identified:
•Chloramphenicol7 — Antibiotic associated with toxic effects in humans, including aplastic anemia (inability to produce new blood cells.
The drug was found in beef, chicken, pork and turkey samples.
•Phenylbutazone — Anti-inflammatory pain reliever known to cause aplastic anemia in humans, blood disorders and cancer.
•Ketamine — Ketamine is a hallucinogenic anesthetic, used experimentally as an antidepressant.
•Nitroimidazole — Antifungal drug with suspected carcinogenic activity, of 5,756 beef, pork and poultry samples, 667 contained the drug.
Russia to supply S-300 to Syria within 2 weeks after Il-20 downing during Israeli raid – MoD
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/439190-russia-il20-downing-reaction/
Within two weeks Russia will deliver to Damascus an S-300 air defense system, previously suspended on a request by Israel. It comes as part of response to the downing of a Russian Il-20 plane amid an Israeli air raid on Syria.
Moscow accused Tel Aviv of failing to inform Russia about its impending attack on targets in Syria, which resulted in a downing of the Russian electronic warfare aircraft by Syrian return fire. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the defense ministry to take several measures in response to the incident, the ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Russian MoD: S-400 data shows Israeli F-16 hid behind Russian Il-20 to avoid Syrian missile (VIDEO)
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/439246-russian-mod-israeli-f-16-hid/
Data captured by Russia’s S-400 system proves Israeli jets were responsible for the downing of the Russian plane, the Defense Ministry said, adding that the Syrian missile changed its course shortly before hitting the Il-20.
Data gleaned from the S-400 air defense system deployed at the Russian Khmeimim air base in Syria’s Latakia province has revealed that the Syrian anti-air missile was, in fact, targeting an Israeli F-16 jet before it abruptly altered its course and eventually hit the Russian aircraft. This, and the position of all the aircraft at the moment of the September 17 incident, proves that an Israeli jet was de facto using the larger Il-20 as a cover, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov told journalists at Monday's news briefing.
Shares in Apple suppliers fall after Trump’s call to make iPhones at home
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/438098-apple-production-asia-trump/
Apple’s Asian suppliers are facing a sell-off in their stocks Monday after US President Donald Trump tweeted that the Californian company should move its production back to America.
Shares in the Chinese-based suppliers Luxshare Precision, Shenzhen Sunway Communication and Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing all plunged as much as 10 percent. Taiwan, camera lens-maker Largan Precision fell almost 8 percent, Foxconn, a major manufacturer of Apple products, plunged 3.4 percent, while assembler Pegatron lost nearly 4 percent. Apple is worried that a new round of Trump’s tariffs against China, on a further $267 billion of goods , will result in a price hike of its products. Trump tweeted “Apple prices may increase because of the massive Tariffs we may be imposing on China – but there is an easy solution where there would be ZERO tax, and indeed a tax incentive. Make your products in the United States instead of China.”
Apple manufactures some parts in the US.
Over 100 detained at unsanctioned pension reform protests in Moscow & St. Petersburg - Video
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/438010-pension-reform-protests-navalny-arrests/
Countrywide protests against raising of the pension age, organized by supporters of opposition figure Aleksey Navalny, have ended in calls to disperse and mass detentions from the police. The pension reform law, passed by the Duma in July, will see the working age eventually extended by five years – to 65 for men, and 60 for women. Multiple surveys conducted by leading pollsters during the summer showed 9 out of 10 Russians oppose the legislation.
Since the first reading of the law was approved, Vladimir Putin’s personal ratings have fallen by double digits, and the president proposed softening the terms of the reform in a televised address last week
MoneyGram Fined $100 Million for Wire Fraud
Link: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/11/moneygram-fined-100-million-for-wire-fraud/
U.S. Justice Department announced that MoneyGram International had agreed to pay a $100 million fine and admit to criminally aiding and abetting wire fraud. U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania brought conspiracy, fraud and money laundering charges against 28 former MoneyGram agents.”
“MoneyGram has 293,000 agent locations in 197 countries and territories,” “more than twice the locations of McDonald’s, Starbucks, Subway and Wal-Mart combined.” The company has settled a bevy of other fraud-related lawsuits, including a case in 2008 with 43 U.S. states, and an $18 million fraud case brought in 2009 by the Federal Trade Commission.
15,000 White South Africans to Be Given Asylum in Russia
Following Australia’s offer of fast tracking visas for White South African farmers in April, Russia has now agreed to take 15,000 Boers. The decision by the Russian government to allow the immigration follows the well documented troubles in South Africa, where White farmers are being attacked or killed in an attempt by the ANC to reclaim land. In Australia, The Boers are already making a successful home for themselves in and around Perth.
The reason for Russia being an ideal country for the newcomers is they can help with the agricultural economy in the South. With the families having a background in farming, and Russia, being vast, needs help in this area. The first of the migrants have already reached Russia and been warmly welcomed by locals.
Venezuela In Chaos After Maduro Announces Massive 95% Devaluation, New FX Rate Tied To Cryptocurrency
Chaos and confusion erupted across Venezuela, and most stores were shuttered on Saturday, after president Nicolas Maduro announced that the government would enact a massive currency devaluation, implement a new minimum wage, hike taxes, and also raise gasoline prices for most citizens even as the country struggles with the greatest hyperinflation on record, surpassing even that of the Weimar Republic.
As a result of the enacted actions, the new version of the bolivar will be pegged to the value of the state cryptocurrency, the etro, which according to Bloomberg amounts to a 95% devaluation of the official rate, and will trade in line with where the black market was; the government will also raise the minimum wage more than 3,000 percent, which works out to about $30 a month.
Student Loans Are Starting To Bite The Economy
Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-20/student-loans-are-starting-bite-economy
Student loans are now the second-largest category of household debt in America, topping $1.4 trillion and trailing only mortgages at $9 trillion. The average student loan payment is $351. Tack that on to average rents and you’re pushing $1,800.
‘Panicking’ white farmers putting land up for sale in South Africa – report
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/436364-south-africa-land-sale/
South Africa’s white farmers have been desperately trying to sell their lands at record pace ahead of planned government land seizures, according to a local farmer’s union. However, there are no buyers. Investors in South Africa are worried that the economy would contract the way it did in Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe, who also seized land from whites. The country’s economy hasn’t recovered since then, with inflation reaching 89.7 sextillion percent during the peak of the crisis, according to some estimates.
Zimbabwe 2.0? Land confiscation will damage South Africa's food production, says rights group
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/431389-land-confiscation-zimbabwe-africa/
The South African economy and the nation's food production could collapse if the government seizes land from white farmers and redistributes it to black citizens, a local race relations organization has told RT.
The move, approved by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) earlier this year, is aimed at redistribution of wealth and "radical economic transformation." The government is reportedly planning to put an end to what they call the legacy of apartheid, where nearly 95 percent of the South African wealth was kept in the hands of 10 percent of its white population. "Banks have surety bonds on farms to the value of 180 billion rand. If the farms are expropriated without compensation the whole banking sector will collapse, And with that the economy," the body's spokesman told RT.
Liberal project of new world order has failed, top Russian senator claims
Link: https://www.rt.com/politics/436357-liberal-project-new-world/
Russian Upper House chair Valentina Matviyenko says the liberal project of a ‘new world order’ has failed because liberals have abandoned many of their original ideas and have become repulsive for the general public.
“Liberalism in the form that it achieved in the United States, a considerable part of the European Union, and some other Western nations, not only lacks attractiveness for a considerable part of humanity, it frightens and repulses the people,” Matviyenko said in a recent interview with International Affairs magazine. The senator added modern liberalism has lost many of the principles it was originally based on – including humanism, freedom of speech, and tolerance. She said that these principles have been replaced with the suppression of traditional values, replacing truthful information with ‘fake news’, and increasing intolerance to differing opinions, especially in politics.
Venezuela crisis: Brazil deploys troops after migrant attacks
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45242786
Brazil is sending troops and extra police to the border town of Pacaraima where Venezuelan migrant camps were attacked and set ablaze.
President Michel Temer held an emergency meeting on Sunday as regional tensions rose over the numbers fleeing crisis-hit Venezuela.
In Ecuador, desperate Venezuelans were reported to be crossing the border in defiance of new entry requirements.
Hundreds were stranded on Saturday when Ecuador brought in new rules requiring Venezuelans crossing from Colombia to have valid passports rather than just identity cards.
Most of the migrants are heading south to join family members in Peru and Chile.
They are seeking a better life amid a worsening political and economic crisis in Venezuela that has led to soaring inflation and chronic shortages of food and medicines.
In Pacaraima on Saturday, several migrant encampments were attacked by angry residents following reports that a local restaurant owner had been badly beaten by Venezuelans.
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