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Magyarország
2019. IX. 30. Gyurcsány: 'Magyarkodjatok csak!' 'Egy amerikai cég egy kevés DNS-ből kimutatja, hogy őseid honnan származnak. Én mostanában megcsináltattam géntérképemet. Eszerint döntően kelet-európai, talán dél lengyel származék vagyok, német-francia és némi görög, balkáni beütéssel. Most mi a bánatot csináljak? Lehetek-e így magyar? Magyarkodjatok csak! Olyan sokan tették már tönkre a hazát ilyen eszmékkel, hogy felsorolni is nehéz. De van remény. Ezek mind elbuktak. Ahogy Orbán is fog.' (Forrás: gyurcsanyf): https://tinyurl.com/yx95coor
2019. IX. 28. Puzsér kampányol Újpesten /video/ (Forrás: YouTube): https://tinyurl.com/y3wt8j73
2019. IX. 27. 'Klímasztrájk'. Több ezer kisdiák, gimis és egyetemista lógott pénteken az iskolából... /video/ (Forrás: Index): https://tinyurl.com/y656plpd
2019. IX. 24. Hatmillió forint kártalanítást ítéltek meg egy másik olaszliszkai lincselőnek. A többszörösen büntetett előéletű F. az ügy hatodrendű vádlottja volt. Első fokon 15 év fegyházat kapott, ám a 2009-es jogerős ítélet szerint életvitele, viselkedése annyira veszélyes a társadalomra nézve, hogy nem elegendő határozott ideig tartó szabadságvesztésre ítélni. Ezért életfogytig tartó szabadságvesztésre ítélte a táblabíróság, leghamarabb harminc év fegyházbüntetés letöltése után szabadulhat feltételesen. F. volt az a lincselő, aki a már földön fekvő, magatehetetlen Szögit páros lábbal oldalba rúgta, összetörve a bordáit. A bíróság Szögi családjának 2010-ben – kamatokkal együtt – 46 millió forintos kártérítést ítélt meg, de ebből sokáig egy forintot sem kaptak. Egészen idén májusig. A Szögi család ügyvédje a megítélt kártérítésről értesítette a végrehajtót, aki zároltatta a lincselő büntetés-végrehajtási számláját. Így a most megítélt 6 millió forint összeget valószínűleg az áldozat családjának utalják majd ki. (Forrás: Index)
(2019. IX. 23.) Tehetséges tartalomkészítőket képez a Nemzeti Tehetséggondozó NKft. programja. A Nemzeti Tehetséggondozó Nonprofit Kft. saját budapesti bázisa ad otthont a programnak. Itt, a kifejezetten médiaoktatásra kialakított vadonatúj tudásközpontban kerül sor az alapozásra: előadások megtartására és a gyakorlati foglalkozásokra. A helyszín technikai felszereltsége ugyanis teljes körű lehetőséget nyújt az újságírói munka összes munka-fázisának megtanulásához és gyakorlásához: 2 darab 16 fős multimédiás tanterem várja a résztvevőket, audio-vizuális prezentációs és rögzítési lehetőségekkel, ezen felül 2 darab 12 fős és 3 darab 8 fős ugyanilyen termük van, prezentációs lehetőséggel, 3 kamerás televízió-stúdió, greenbox technológiával, vezérlővel, merevlemezes rögzítővel, 3 darab non-lineáris utómunka-állomás, broadcast-megtekintő monitorral, ezen felül további 7 darab non-lineáris utómunka állomáson zajlik majd a munka, a rádiózást tanulókat 2, adáslebonyolító rendszerrel felszerelt rádióstúdió várja, non-lineáris hangutómunka stúdióval, hangfelvételi lehetőséggel. (Forrás: NTGN).
2019. IX. 22. Meghalt Sára filmrendező. A magyar filmtörténet – és Sára nemzedéke – számára a Balázs Béla Stúdió 1960-61-ben kiteljesedett „kivételes időszaka” hozott mind tartalmi, mind formai tekintetben gyökeres fordulatot. A politikai propagandával átitatott művek helyett saját személyes élményeiket akarták megjeleníteni a filmvásznon, a legjobb magyar hagyományokat a világon akkor tért hódító modern filmművészet eszközeivel ötvözve. Korszakos jelentőségű filmek új és erőteljes képi világot, kompozíciós módszereket teremtő operatőre lett (Sodrásban, Gyerekbetegségek, Apa, Tízezer nap, Szindbád). Rendezőként első játékfilmje a Feldobott kő című önéletrajzi ihletésű film volt. Sára és Csoóri közös nagyszabású történelmi vízióit, terveit az 1978-as 80 huszár megvalósítása szimbolizálja. A nyolcvanas évek ma már felbecsülhetetlen forrásértékű tanúságtevőket megszólaltató dokumentumfilmes irányzatának a megteremtője. 1993 és 2000 között a Duna Televízió elnöke. Valódi közszolgálati, kulturális televíziót épített föl munkatársaival. 1999-ben az UNESCO a csatornának ítélte a Világ legjobb kulturális televíziója címet. Szoros együttműködést valósított meg a Duna Televízió és a dokumentumfilmeket gyártó Dunatáj Alapítvány között, és ő hívta életre 1995-ben a fiatal filmesek számára filmkészítési lehetőséget biztosító Duna Műhelyt. A Kossuth-díjat 1978-ban, a Balázs Béla-díjat 1968-ban vehette át, 2002-ben kapta meg a Magyar Köztársaság Érdemrend középkeresztje a csillaggal kitüntetést, 2003-ban a Gulág-emlékérmet, 2004-ben a Hazám-díjat, 2005-ben a Magyar Mozgókép Mestere címet és a Prima-díjat, 2012-ben a magyar filmkritikusok életműdíját. 1974-ben érdemes művész, 1987-ben kiváló művész, 2014-ben a nemzet művésze lett. 2018-ban kimagaslóan sikeres operatőri és rendezői pályája elismeréseként kapta meg a Kossuth Nagydíjat. (Forrás: MagyarNemzet)
France
September 27, 2019 The butler who managed Epstein’s posh Paris pad claims he waited on a rotation of famous faces including Prince Andrew, the Gates', former Israeli Prime Minister Barak as well as Bannon, in fall 2018. (Source: TheNewYorkPost)
Greece
22 Sep 2019 The so-called "blue zone" describes the regions dotted around the world where populations are thought to live the longest. Along with Ikaria, in the Aegean Sea, anthropologists have identified the world's blue zones to include: the Japanese island of Okinawa, claimed to be home to the world's longest-lived women, Costa Rica's Nicoya Pensinsula where there were lower than normal rates of middle-aged mortality, and Italian tourism beautyspot Sardinia. (Source: Mirror)
Romania Románia
September 28th, 2019 The Eldorado Gold Certej gold mine proposal is blocked. Today the Cluj Court of Appeal upheld a verdict pronounced by the Cluj Court which cancelled the urbanism zoning plan (PUZ) for the entire mine proposal. Today’s verdict is final. (Source: MiningWatch)
2019. IX. 26. 'A szinte élethossziglan kinevezett magyar kormányfő olyan Magyarországot álmodott meg, mely Közép-Európa vezetője lesz, de nemrég lemondott erről, amikor megértette, hogy a magyar terület, gazdaság és demográfia mérete nem jogosítja fel őt arra, hogy ilyen státuszt reméljen. Sőt, abban a térségben Lengyelország képzeli el magát vezetőnek, nagy magabiztossággal és elég jogosan, Ausztria és Csehország pedig sokkal erősebb és szofisztikáltabb gazdaságok, mint Orbán szerény hazája. Ilyen körülmények között a magyarok vezetője, hozzáértő módon, átértékelte regionális hatalmi vízióját és egy balkáni világot vezető Magyarország képét tervezte meg. Orbánt némiképpen csodálni lehet azon ügyessége miatt, amellyel a térség vezetőjévé válik, kiszorítva az egyetlen országot, melynek érvei lehetnének ebben a vállalkozásban. Az erős Magyarország térségbeli érvényesítésének útja nagy cégek megerősítése, lehetővé téve ezek expanziós eszközökként történő felhasználását, így aztán Magyarországnak 71 cége van a térség 500 legnagyobb vállalata között, sokkal több mint nekünk (alig 56 ilyen cég). És miközben a legnagyobb magyar cégnek, a MOL-nak több mint 15 milliárd euro-s árbevétele van, a legnagyobb cégünk, a Dacia alig éri el az 5 milliárd euro-s árbevételt. A magyar érdekérvényesítés útja a regionális kezdeményezések átvétele és saját célra való felhasználása is. Megjelent a Három Tenger Kezdeményezés; Budapest rájött, hogy a lengyel kezdeményezés közepén helyezkedik el. És akkor miért ne használja ezt ki és miért ne alakítson ki egy olyan energetikai és szállítási infrastruktúra felvázolására összpontosító napirendet, mely regionális központtá (hub), Közép-Európa és a Balkán, Lengyelország és Balkán közötti összekötő kapoccsá változtatja Magyarországot? Ám miként minimalizálhat egy akkora országot, mint Románia? Egyszerűen, kis szerepet szánva neki és elérve, hogy az autópálya-projektek csak hazánk szélét érintsék (a megadott térképen a Via Carpatia közlekedési folyosó minden országnak csak a „szélét” érinti!). A jelenlegi fő gázvezetékek elkerülik Magyarországot, az oroszok pedig teljesen ki akarják zárni a tranzit-útvonalból Ukrajnát. Ilyen körülmények között miként válhatnak a magyarok hub-bá? Egyszerűen, meggyőzik a románokat, hogy építsenek meg egy vezetéket, amelyen a fekete-tengeri gáz eljut… Budapestig. A Tuzla–Podişor kiterjesztésről van szó, ami a BRUA-n keresztül fogja küldeni a tenger alól kitermelt gáz szinte teljes mennyiségét. Fenntartásaik vannak a románoknak e tervvel kapcsolatosan? Nem baj, Orbán talál majd magának erős ügyvédeket, az Exxon-csoportot és Trump elnököt. Hogyan kerülhetett sor arra, hogy Magyarország az Exxon szövetségese lett, mely cég állítólag a román gázt majd kitermeli? Egyszerűen, célul tűzte ki ezt magának és végig is vitte… Orbán a Balkán meghódítása felé vezető megingathatatlan útján bármit felhasznál, amit csak tud, az új selyemúttal kapcsolatos kínai kezdeményezést (One belt, one road – OBOR) is beleértve, hogy olyan vasúti fővonalat építsen ki, amelyik teljesen kiszorítja Romániát a regionális dél-észak útvonalból. Orbán szintén a kínaiakra támaszkodik a Budapest–Kolozsvár vasútvonal megvalósításában is. Annak bebiztosítása érdekében, hogy Románia sohasem lesz elég erős ahhoz, hogy komoly játékossá váljon, Orbán Viktor minden erőfeszítést megtesz, hogy az OECD-n kívül tartsa: Budapest blokkolja Románia meghívását ebbe a szervezetbe. Egy olyan ember, aki gigantikus projektekbe vonja be Oroszországot és Kínát és ugyanakkor megszerzi az amerikai támogatást a román források kitermeléséhez, minden kétséget kizáróan tele van eltökéltséggel. Ugyanez az ember, akinek két házi cégén (MVM és MET) keresztül sikerül monopolizálnia a potenciális román gázexportot, miközben arra szólítja fel a románokat, hogy a saját pénzükből építsék meg a Fekete-tengertől húzódó vezetéket, újra csak víziót és eltökéltséget bizonyít. Mégiscsak ugyanarról az Orbán Viktorról beszélünk, aki az Európai Unió mechanizmusain keresztül Magyarországnak nyújtott totális német védelemnek örvend, miközben Románia egy jelentős német projekt (az Északi Áramlat-2 vezeték) megakadályozásáért háborúzik Berlinnel'. /térképek/ (Forrás: Főtér) : https://tinyurl.com/y42txlve
Russia
September 26, 2019 The third EKS, or Tundra, early warning satellite. A Russian military satellite designed to detect missile launches arrived in orbit today following a successful liftoff aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Its elliptical orbit inclined 63.8 degrees to the equator, with altitudes ranging from around 1,645 kilometers to 38,536 kilometers above Earth. The egg-shaped, or Molniya-type, orbit matches the orbits of the first two EKS-class early warning satellites launched on Soyuz/Fregat rockets in November 2015 and May 2017. They replace Russia’s Oko series of missile warning spacecraft, the last of which launched in 2012. The spacecraft’s thermal infrared sensors long views over the northern hemisphere on each 12-hour loop around Earth. The orbits provide the satellites the ability to detect missile launches from North America, and detect incoming missiles that threaten Russian territory. (Source: SpaceFightNow)
25 Sep 2019 Mr Dougan said he had about 200 hours of video from inside Epstein’s properties - including scans of documents seized by the cops. MI6 is worried about how much Dougan knows of the original police investigation into the paedo’s activities. Dougan fled to Moscow following a raid by the Feds on his home. (Source: TheSun)
September 22, 2019 Major Russia-China war games involving 120,000 military personnel, about 600 aircraft, up to 15 ships and additional support vessels. An annual military exercise hosted by Russia and involving China, India, and Pakistan. Other central and east Asian countries are participating, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Kyrgyz President Jeenbekov was the only foreign head of state to attend the exercises. (Source: InfoWars)
Svédország
2019. IX. 23. Thunberg a 15 éves diáklány 2018-ban néhány hét alatt világhírű klímaaktivista lett, miután iskolai sztrájkot hirdetett a klímavédelemért. „Felfedezője” néhány hónap alatt 10 milliós haszonra tett szert a lány nevének köszönhetően. Rentzhog ismertette meg a világgal 2018 augusztus 20-án, amikor közösségi oldalain közzétette a klíma-harcot egyedül vállaló lány képét. Rentzhog elismert PR szakember, 2017-ben alapította cégét, a We Don't Have Time közösségi média platformot. A vállalat célja egy nemzetközi hálózatot létrehozása a klíma-védelem jegyében. Rentzhog eleinte tagadta, hogy kapcsolatban állt volna a Thunberg családdal. A lány édesanyjának, Ernman-nak a könyve éppen három nappal azután jelent meg, hogy Gretáról cikkezni kezdtek az újságok, így a könyv is még nagyobb nyilvánosságot kapott. Az olvasók betekintést nyerhetnek a család életébe. Ebben Ernman beszél arról, hogy milyen volt a család élete, míg az ő énekesi karrierjének érdekében körbe turnézták Európát, és hogyan alkalmazkodott az egész család az utazgatás mellett a lány Asperger-szindrómájához. 2018 novemberétől pedig a lány is tagja volt a We don't have time tanácsadói testületének a november 27-i részvénykibocsátáskor. Rentzhog-ék az ügyleten, az új befektetőkön - a lány nevét felhasználva - az elérhető információk szerint mintegy 10 millió svéd koronát, vagyis majdnem egymillió euro-t kerestek. (Forrás: v4na)
Ukraine
September 29, 2019 Biden joined Burisma less than two months after U.K. authorities opened money-laundering investigation. At the time, Zlochevsky’s ownership of the company was not widely known. Bringing aboard a son of the U.S. vice president was part of a broad effort by Burisma to burnish its credentials that had started before the 2014 uprising. The company tapped Apter, an investment banker who has worked in the United States and Europe, as its board chairman, and the former president of Poland as a board member. The addition of prominent Americans and Europeans to the company’s board in the weeks after Kiev’s dramatic change in government sent a message internally in Ukraine that Zlochevsky had access to powerful people in the West, according to Bullough, who wrote about Zlochevsky in “Moneyland,” his book on tax havens and shell companies. Burisma got licenses to extract gas in Ukraine through very suspicious means, look like a Western, legitimate company. Such “whitewashing” was a common tactic for tycoons and officials who are looking to legitimize assets of questionable origin. Burisma also began emphasizing that its gas production would reduce Ukraine’s reliance on Russian energy, an argument that appealed to Washington, where the company began donating to the think tank the Atlantic Council. During Ukraine’s political upheaval in 2014, the Yale Law graduate Biden jr. was the unpaid chairman of the board of World Food Program USA, a partner in an investment firm called Rosemont Seneca and a counsel for the New York law firm Boies Schiller Flexner. He told earlier this year that he joined the company at the urging of another board member, the former president of Poland, Kwasniewski; they shared a belief that Ukrainian energy independence was critical to rebuffing Russian President Putin. A month before Biden joined Burisma’s board, his father traveled to Ukraine as vice president and announced an aid package designed to enable Ukraine to boost its energy production. Biden brought knowledge of international politics to the board, which met twice a year. His decision entangled him in a country that Transparency International had ranked among the world’s most corrupt, a place where business executives have co-opted prosecutors and manipulated the courts to enhance their financial interests. This May, just after Biden launched his presidential bid, Biden jr. decided not to serve another term on Burisma’s board. Zlochevsky remained in the crosshairs of authorities in Ukraine. By 2015, prosecutors had opened two probes into the former ecology minister - one into claims of unlawful enrichment and the other into alleged abuse of power, forgery and embezzlement. By 2015 journalists in Ukraine were documenting the enormous wealth enjoyed by former government officials such as Zlochevsky, at one point flying drones to film two side-by-side mansions outside Kiev registered to his family and associates. His daughter promoted a new luxury store in Kiev named Zlocci - a play on his surname - that was offering crocodile, alligator and ostrich shoes as Ukrainians faced a biting recession. Much of the ire about corruption focused on Prosecutor General Shokin, who U.S. and European officials believed was not sufficiently aggressive. Western aid was largely contingent on reform. During a 2015 speech before the Ukrainian parliament, vice-president Biden called for the country to root out corruption and said, “The Office of the General Prosecutor desperately needs reform.” Biden later recounted telling Poroshenko more bluntly that the United States would withhold a billion-dollar loan guarantee if action was not taken against Shokin. “I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’ ” Biden said during a 2018 speech before the Council on Foreign Relations. (Source: msn)
Vatican
09. 29. 19. In October 2017, Pope Francis announced a Vatican synod on the Amazon region “to identify new paths for the evangelization of God’s people in that region.” One item among the 146 topics on the agenda listed in the 45-page working document is whether or not to allow married “viri probati” – men of proven virtue – to be ordained as priests for the purpose of delivering the big sacraments: baptism, confession, weddings and funerals, in far flung areas where no priests are present. The synod’s working document clearly suggests studying “the possibility of priestly ordination for elders, preferably Indigenous, respected and accepted by the community, even if they have an established and stable family.” At the moment, many of the 2.8 million mostly Catholic people who live in the Amazon region, which skirts Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela and Suriname, don't have access to ordained priests. If they want to baptize newborns or bury their dead they have either to wait until a traveling priest shows up, which could be once a month or longer. A phalanx of conservative Catholic clerics, led by American Cardinal Burke and a host of other traditionalists, are ready to demand the resignation of the pope if he signs off on such heretical matters. By allowing married men to become priests in remote areas, they fear, the church could pave the way to the abolition of celibacy. Their slippery slope concern is that next, ordained priests will be able to marry. Then, God knows what could happen, maybe even women would be allowed into the priesthood. German Cardinal Müller of Germany is vehement: he warns that it could actually cause a schism, leaving conservatives with no choice but to leave the church under Francis. (Source: TheDailyBeast)
Egypt
22 September 2019 Egypt has seen a second night of clashes and dozens of arrests in rare demonstrations against President Sisi. About 200 demonstrators took to the streets in the port city of Suez demanding his resignation. Protests also took place in Tahrir Square in Cairo yesterday which are in response to corruption allegations against President Sisi's government. An Egyptian businessman and actor, Ali, posted a series of videos online accusing the country's leader of wasting millions on luxury residences and hotels while millions of Egyptians lived in poverty. (Source: BBC)
China
21 September 2019 Video showing hundreds of shackled, blindfolded prisoners in China. China is holding one million people, mostly ethnic Uighurs, at detention camps. (Source: SkyNews): https://tinyurl.com/y6r3ucbc
United States
September 28, 2019. Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO caught in the middle of a whistleblower complaint over the President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, resigned yesterday from his post as special envoy to the Eastern European nation following disclosures that he had connected Trump’s personal lawyer Giuliani with Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Biden and his family over allegedly corrupt business dealings. Volker was brought into the Trump administration by former Secretary of State Tillerson to serve as envoy for Ukraine. He worked in a volunteer capacity and had retained his job as head of the John McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University. (Source: AP)
09/28/19 The State Department reportedly intensified a probe into former Secretary of State Clinton's private email server, contacting dozens of former aides involved in email exchanges that passed through Clinton's server. As many as 130 former Clinton aides have been contacted by State Department investigators in recent weeks. (Source: TheHill)
September 27, 2017 President Trump told two senior Russian officials Foreign Minister Lavrov and Russian ambassador Kislyak - in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow's interference in the U.S. election because the United States did the same in other countries, an assertion that prompted alarmed White House officials to limit access to the remarks to an unusually small number of people, according to three former officials with knowledge of the matter. (Source: NewsTimes)
27 September 2019 A strange but utterly terrifying weapon has been dubbed "rods from the God" and is based on the concept of creating man-made meteorites that can be guided towards the enemy. Instead of using rocks rods the size of telephone poles are deployed. These would be made out of tungsten - a rare metal that can stand the intense heat generated by entering Earth's atmosphere. One satellite fires the rods towards the Earth's atmosphere while the other steers them to a target on the ground. Reaching speeds of 7000mph they hit the ground with the force of a small nuclear weapon - but crucially creating no radiation fall out. Molten metal cannons. This intriguing idea is being developed by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It is called the Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition or MAHEM. This game changing rail-gun can fire a jet of molten metal, hurled through space at several hundred miles per second by the most powerful electromagnets ever built. The molten metal can then morph into an aerodynamic slug during flight and pierce through another spacecraft or satellite and a munition explodes inside. (Source: TheSun)
September 27, 2019 The first casualty of Pelosi's cause is almost certain to be the front-runner for the party nomination. Biden has already, this past week, fallen behind Sen. Warren in Iowa, New Hampshire and California. The principal beneficiary of Pelosi's decision that put the Biden's at the center of an impeachment inquiry is Warren. She already appears to have emerged victorious in her battle with Sanders to become the progressives' first choice in 2020. If there is a significant falling off, it could be fatal. (Source: CNSNews)
(September 26, 2019 / August 12, 2019) The Trump whistleblower complaint (photo) /Source: msn / HousePermanentSelectCommitteeon Intelligence): https://tinyurl.com/y3ko777y
September 26, 2019 The Anti-Defamation League has added the symbols to its online “Hate on Display” database, which already includes burning crosses, Ku Klux Klan robes, the swastika and many other of the most notorious and overt symbols of racism and anti-Semitism.The New York City-based group launched the database in 2000 to help law enforcement officers, school officials and others recognize signs of extremist activity. It has grown to include nearly 200 entries. The “OK” hand gesture, a mass killer’s bowl-style haircut and an anthropomorphic moon wearing sunglasses are among 36 new entries in the Jewish civil rights group’s online database of hate symbols. (Source: AP): https://tinyurl.com/yys4b5jy
September 25, 2019 US President Trump has told other world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly that wise leaders put the future of their own people and country first. The future does not belong to globalists. "The future belongs to patriots,” Mr Trump said. “The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations who protect their citizens, respect their neighbours and honour the differences that make each country special and unique.” He attacked China’s trade practices. Mr Trump said China’s “abuses” have been “ignored” or “encouraged” for years but said “as America is concerned, those days are over”. Mr Trump also urged other world leaders to join the US in cutting off Iran. He also warned the United States was watching the situation in Venezuela “very closely". Mr Trump also railed against illegal immigration and vowed he would protect America’s borders. (Source: News.com.AU)
25 Sep 2019 A high-tech anti-drone weapon has been cleared for use by the US Air Force overseas for the first time. The PHASER weapon system can knock swarms of drones out of the sky using pulses of energy. (Source: DailyStar)
(September 25, 2019) President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky at UN General Assembly. Trump addresses Ukraine phone call during meeting with President Zelensky /video/ Live: 73 minutes earlier.4 347 viewers (Source: YouTube / FoxBusinessNetwork): https://tinyurl.com/y6rqzvur
September 24, 2019 Telephone conversation on July 25, 2019, 9:03 - 9:33 a.m. EDT with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine Declassified by order of the President. (Source: WhiteHouse): https://tinyurl.com/y2co9y3z
Sept 24, 2019 Impeachment inquiry poses risks for democrats as well as Trump. The Senate is firmly controlled by Republicans, who enjoy a 53-to-47 seat advantage in the chamber. The Constitution requires a two-thirds majority of the Senate to vote to convict - and expel from office - a president who has been impeached by the House, and it seems wildly implausible that a sufficient number of Republican senators would abandon the president. So it’s possible Democrats could walk into the kind of trap Republicans fell into when they took on Mr. Clinton: the ability to impeach in the House, a lack of votes in the Senate to drive out the president and a public that came to see impeachment as an overreach and a distraction. The net result then was that Democrats actually gained seats in the 1998 midterm election held amidst the impeachment process. After that, Mr. Gingrich stepped down from his position as speaker - and Mr. Clinton survived and went on to finish his second term on a rising tide of popularity. (Source: TheWallStreetJournal)
September 23, 2019 At least a week before Trump is said to have pressured Ukrainian President Zelensky in a July 25 phone call to work with his personal attorney Giuliani to investigate Biden's son, who did business in Ukraine while his father was vice president, the president ordered his acting chief of staff Mulvaney to place a hold on the $400 million in funds. Trump says he was concerned about "corruption" in Ukraine. Bolton advocated for the release of the money to help Ukraine counter Russian-backed separatists in the eastern part of the country and a meeting between Trump and Zelensky. (Source: TheWashingtonExaminer)
September 23, 2019 The story behind Biden's son, Ukraine and Trump's claims. In 2014, Then-Vice President Biden was at the forefront of American diplomatic efforts to support Ukraine’s government as it sought to fend off Russian aggression and root out corruption. And Biden’s son Hunter was hired by a Ukrainian gas company, named a paid board member of Burisma Holdings in April 2014. The company’s founder was a political ally of Yanukovych, Ukraine’s Russia-friendly president, who was driven out in February 2014 by mass protests. At the time, the company ran a natural gas extraction operation in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia after Yanukovych was pushed from power. V. P. Biden in March 2016 pressured the Ukrainian government to fire its top prosecutor, Shokin, who had previously led an investigation into Burisma’s owner. On May 19, Trump claimed the former Ukrainian prosecutor “was after” Biden’s son and that was why the former vice president demanded he be fired. There is no evidence of this. (Source: AP)
Sept 21, 2019 President Trump in a July phone call repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Biden ’s son, urging Zelensky about eight times to work with Giuliani on a probe that could hamper Mr. Trump’s potential 2020 opponent. Mr. Trump is to meet with Mr. Zelensky in person for the first time next week, at the United Nations General Assembly gathering in New York. (Source: wsj)
Globalization
30 September 2019 Twitter executive for Middle East MacMillan is British Army 'psyops' soldier. Head of editorial for MENA is part-time officer in the 77th Brigade, an 'information warfare' unit which has worked on 'behavioural change' projects in the region. The 77th Brigade unit was formed in 2015 in order to develop “non-lethal” ways of waging war. The 77th Brigade uses social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. The 77th Brigade's headquarters is located west of London. It brought together a number of existing military units such as the Media Operations Group and the 15 Psychological Operations Group. MacMillan, whose editorial responsibilities at Twitter also cover Europe and Africa, was a captain in the unit at the end of 2016. A former 77th Brigade officer has said on his page that he served with the unit’s “Information Warfare Teams” in the UK, Bosnia, France, Kenya and Albania. (Source: ZeroHedge / MiddleEastEye)
September 30, 2019 Flu vaccine is a four-in-one or a three-in-one shot that protects against both influenza A viruses - H3N2 and H1N1 - and either both or one of the influenza B viruses, B/Victoria and B/Yamagata. The selections that officials made last week for the next Southern Hemisphere vaccine suggest that two of four viruses in the Northern Hemisphere vaccine that doctors and pharmacies are now pressing people to get may not be optimally protective this winter. Those two are influenza A/H3N2 and the influenza B/Victoria virus. It appears the virus that was ultimately selected is not the H3N2 that dominated during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter 2019 season. In recent years the H3N2 component has generally been the least effective part of the vaccine. If H3N2 viruses predominate this coming flu season, a vaccine mismatch could add to the severity of the season. (Source: StatNews)
September 24, 2019 Thunberg’s ascendancy to the forefront of environmental activism could end up being a major negative to the movement – and the environment. Previous generations of environmental activists by focusing on what people could do in their own personal lives to cut down on pollution, presided over an environmental movement that used to be much more bipartisan in America. The new focus on making environmentalism an angrier protest movement threatens to make the effort to protect the planet just another wedge issue that politicians often use to motivate their base of voters. Similar wedge issues like abortion and gun control have long shifted become tribal controversies with little chance of progress and compromise. Thunberg is angry. Lots of people are angry. But anger without doing something other than protesting and making speeches won’t protect the environment or do much else other than produce more anger. (Source: CNBC)
September 24, 2019 Climate activist Thunberg rebukes world leaders giving speech at UN climate summit /video/ (Source: YouTube / SkyNews): https://tinyurl.com/yyx9q64n
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23 Sepember Teenage climate change activist Thunberg today opened the United Nations Climate Action Summit with an angry condemnation of world leaders for failing to take strong measures to combat climate change. The generations that have polluted the most have burdened her and her generation with the extreme impacts of climate change, she said. US president Trump did not give remarks but he listened to remarks by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Merkel announced Germany would double Germany's contribution to a U.N. fund to support less developed countries to combat climate change to 4 billion euros from 2 billion euros. Over the past year, Guterres has called for no new coal plants to be built after 2020, urged a phase-out of fossil fuel subsidies and asked countries to map out how to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. 14 nations representing a quarter of global emissions have signalled that they do not intend to revise current climate plans by 2020. (Source: Reuters)
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