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Bibi1581 Blog For 07/01/2018: Evening Edition

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1…………> Aussie, US In Danger: China Bubble Burst 

 

The Chinese yuan has just suffered its steepest monthly decline on record, down more than 20% since the recent peak in late January, now clearly in a now in bear territory, having lost 1.5% against the US dollar last week and is down about 3% over the past two weeks.

A weaker Chinese currency would soften the blows of higher US tariffs. 

The US-China trade conflict will ratchet up another notch this week as rhetoric transitions to action and the US imposes a 25% tariff on a narrow $US34 billion worth of imports, the threat targeting another $540 billion worth of goods should China retaliate is hanging over the markets. 

“A statement from the PBOC late on Thursday pledging [unspecified] support for the economy was a further step and it may have helped the yuan and Shanghai equities recover a little [on Friday],” Capital Economics chief Asian economist Mark Williams said. 


“If falls resume next week, more forceful intervention is likely, including foreign exchange sales and equity purchases by the ‘national team'”. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-01/chinese-currency-stockmarket-just-had-one-worst-months-on-record/9920626 

 

 

 

2…………> Child Soldiers: Islamic Sheikdom Of France

 

“They recruited and trained orphans, and then you also have the wives of ISIS [Daesh] militants whose children have been indoctrinated with the group’s ideology and who have been taught to hate the US-led coalition and Europe,” said the French jihadist Jonathan Geffroy who was captured by the Free Syrian Army as he tried to flee the war-torn country with his wife and two children. 

He was quoted by Le Monde as saying that the terrorist group planned to use children in order “to carry out suicide missions” in Europe, having been in the know of “future external operations” promulgated “by children who grew up in the area and who, after adolescence, will be sent to the West, to Europe.” 


The child soldier plan is a brainchild of the Clain brothers, the highest-ranking French members of Daesh, who engineered the deadly November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. 

 

 

 

3…………> “I Better Shop Around”: Trump’s Nafta Deal

 

“NAFTA, I could sign it tomorrow, but I’m not happy with it. I want to make it fairer, okay? I want to wait until after the election. You’re going to have an election. I think it’ll be very interesting. I think it’s going to be fine,” President Trump said about the current political reality.

He wants to wait until after the midterm elections in November to sign a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico.

Calling NAFTA as “the worst deal ever” during his campaign and presidency, he requested the agreement to be renegotiated in order to make it “fair” for his country, with the aim of reducing the U.S. trade deficit.

However, Trump imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports of the U.S. in March has strained relations between the three countries.

Canada responded to the U.S. on Friday by imposing $12.6 billion in retaliatory tariffs against American products that will take effect on Sunday.

 

http://v.aa.com.tr/1192370

 

 

 

4…………> World VW Day: Remember the 60’s?

 

Photo taken on July 1, 2018, shows colorful Volkswagen cars in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Volkswagen Beetle Owners’ Club held an annual World Volkswagen Day celebration in Colombo on Sunday.

 

 

 
 

 

5…………> Mexico vs The US: Border Wars 

 

Mexico’s richest man and entrepreneur Carlos Slim did not take President  Trump’s ” Make America Great” plan seriously when took office in Washington:

 “Even for building a wall you need Mexican workers,” he quipped when he heard the specifics of Mr.Trump border visions.

This careless attitude has vanished since, as President Trump has relentlessly humiliated the US’s southern neighbor not just during his campaign, but also during his first year in office.

“Even before his victory, Trump accused Mexico of sending criminals, rapists and drug dealers to the US, and he has stuck with this position,” Washington-based Mexican journalist Gregorio Meraz tells DW.

“His approval ratings went down after the separation of children and parents at the border,” Meraz says. “But he did it to put the Democrats under pressure so they would agree to tighter immigration laws and approve 25 billion dollars for the border wall.”

https://p.dw.com/p/30QIK

 

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Bibi1581 Blog For 06/09/2018: Morning Edition

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1…………> Chinese “Five Fingers”: A CIA Mole 

A federal jury convicted Kevin Patrick Mallory, 61, a former Central Intelligence Agency case officer of Leesburg, Virginia, on espionage charges related to his transmission of classified documents to an agent of the People’s Republic of China. 

“It is a sad day when an American citizen is convicted of spying on behalf of a foreign power,” said Assistant Attorney General Demers. “This act of espionage was no isolated incident. The People’s Republic of China has made a sophisticated and concerted effort to steal our nation’s secrets. Today’s conviction demonstrates that we remain vigilant against this threat and hold accountable all those who put the United States at risk through espionage.” 

According to court records and evidence presented at trial, in March and April 2017, Mallory traveled to Shanghai and met with an individual, Michael Yang, whom he quickly concluded was working for the People’s Republic of China Intelligence Service (PRCIS). During a voluntary interview with FBI agents on May 24, 2007, Mallory stated that Yang represented himself as working for a People’s Republic of China think tank, however, Mallory stated that he assessed Yang to be a Chinese Intelligence Officer. 

Mallory, a U.S. citizen who speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, told FBI agents he traveled to Shanghai in March and April to meet with Yang and Yang’s boss. After Mallory consented to a review of a covert communications (covcom) device he had been given by Yang in order to communicate covertly with Yang, FBI agents viewed a message from Mallory to Yang in which Mallory stated that he could come in the middle of June and he could bring the remainder of the documents with him at that time. Analysis of the device, which was a Samsung Galaxy smartphone, also revealed a handwritten index describing eight different documents later determined to be classified. Four of the eight documents listed in the index were found stored on the device, with three being confirmed as containing classified information pertaining to the same U.S. government agency. One of those documents was classified TOP SECRET, while the remaining two documents were classified SECRET. FBI analysts were able to determine that Mallory had completed all of the steps necessary to securely transmit at least four documents via the covcom device, one of which contained unique identifiers for human sources who had helped the U.S. government. 

Mallory was convicted of conspiracy to deliver, attempted delivery, delivery of defense information to aid a foreign government and making material false statements. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison when sentenced on Sept. 21. The statutory maximum penalty is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the judge. 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jury-convicts-former-cia-officer-espionage 

2…………> “Barbed Wire Renaissance”: Turkey 

Obviously enlightened by Israel and President Trump’s much heralded “Mexico will pay for it, and gladly” wall along the Mexico border, all designed to keep “unwanted” friends and relatives out, Turkey has completed the construction of a 475-mile concrete wall along its border with Syria. 

A part of Turkey’s effort to increase security and combat smuggling and illegal crossings on a 566-mi border with civil war embroiled Syria, the wall will seal provinces of Sanliurfa, Gaziantep, Kilis, Hatay, Mardin, and Sirnak from hostiles intrusions. 

The border wall project incorporates physical, electronic and advanced technology layers, includes modular concrete walls, patrol routes, manned and unmanned towers and passenger tracks. 

http://v.aa.com.tr/1170257 

3…………> “Markets Up”: To Duterte Prison 

Eight Israeli fraudsters and nearly 500 Philippines call centers agents are now locked in the prisons of President Duterte, accused of promulgating a multimillion-dollar online investment scam, the Philippine National Police said. 

Following complaints from Australian and South African investors who had been victimized out of millions of dollars, the PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group (ACG) and the Special Action Force raided three buildings in the Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga province being used as the company’s offices. 

ACG director Chief Superintendent Marni Marcos Jr. said the company was allegedly involved in a fictitious stock trading business which held a portfolio of stocks that kept rising. 

“They showed their victims that they will invest in this because you saw it — the graph is going up, and you are going to earn money,” Marcos said at a press conference Thursday as quoted by Rappler, a Philippine-based online news portal. 

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/philippines-arrests-hundreds-for-investment-fraud/1168987 

4…………> Comrade UN’s Jet: IL62M 

Following a family tradition, Mr. Kim is known to use a special armored train for travel, but that’s not an option for getting to a state like Singapore, hence an Ilyushin-62M with a range of about 6000 miles puts the island safely within non-stop flying distance.  But there have been questions about the mechanical reliability and absence of advanced communications systems typical of modern planes, and Mr. Kim’s cargo plane, carrying heavy things like his limousine, can’t fly as far with a full load and might need to stop for refueling along the way.

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5…………> The Crabs Of Wrath: Hooper Islands

Maryland’s remote Hooper Islands are beautiful and conservative, quiet and industrious, hence the mostly older population voted heavily for Donald Trump with his promise of a border wall, but now that immigration rhetoric risks their most important crab meat industry that for decades relied on Mexican “slave” workers employed under H2-B visas to do the labour-intensive work of picking tasty white flesh from the shells. 


“We’ve been getting these workers for 25 years and we depend on them,” says 81-year-old Dot Ruark who runs one of the picking factories that rely on Mexican workers. “And I don’t think we should have to go through what we have to go through every year.” Ms. Ruark’s picking factory is bustling with mostly female Mexican workers who laugh in Spanish as they finish a shift and collect their pay cheques. She is one of the lucky few to get visas for her workers this year. But she is watching friends have their workshops shut down as the President’s immigration crackdown bites with unintended consequences. “I mean it’s just hard, it’s hard to think that they’re sitting there and you don’t like that because we all work together down here and it’s just devastating you know,” Ms. Ruark said of her fellow factory owners. 
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Bibi1581 Blog For 05/30/2018: Morning Edition

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1…………> The Sugar Cartel: Coca-Cola

In the relentless battle against the “sugar” addiction in the most of the industrialized countries, “sweeteners” alternatives like “Stevia” made from the leaves of the “Stevia rebaudiana” plant that contain a variety of steviol compounds helping bypass digestion in the small intestine and are broken down by bacteria in the colon are the news again.

It is marketed by as a “natural” product and added to drinks and other foods as a highly purified extract often blended with a sugar alcohol (usually erythritol) or complex carbohydrates called oligosaccharides.
Stevia has virtually no kilojoules and can be used by those with diabetes, but its effect on “good” bacteria in the colon may be undesirable.

Returning to the “usual suspects” in the “sugar war” and its associated cartels, it is important to observe that Coca-Cola’s products across the world with less sugar include: 

Coca-Cola with Stevia: 19g of sugar per 375mL, compared with the classic product with 40g per 375mL 


Kirks reduced sugar drinks: now 38g sugar per 375 mL (4-5% reduction) 


Sprite, sugar reduced with added stevia: 40g sugar per 375 mL (14% reduction)


Raspberry Fanta, sugar reduced with added stevia: 36g sugar per 375 mL (19% reduction) 


Lift hard-hitting lemon, sugar reduced: 31.5g sugar per 375 mL (23% reduction) 
Deep spring mineral waters, three orange-based flavors of sugar reduced: 28g sugar per 375 mL (26% reduction). 

Still a single can of the new Coca-Cola with Stevia has 37% of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recommended maximum daily intake of sugar for an adult, and the other products listed still have 55-78% of the WHO maximum recommendation, so stranger, choose wisely.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-30/coke-has-promised-less-sugar-but-less-is-still-too-much/9815590

 

 

 

 

 

2…………> The Silent War: FSB vs Ukraine

A few days ago, the Kremlin issued a demand to the government of Ukraine to find and punish the murderers of Russian reporter and blogger Arkady Babchenko, a new cycle of hostilities between two former members of the Soviet Union, without realizing the murder of a Russian dissident journalist in Kiev was staged in a sting operation to foil a Russian assassination plot.

Hence when he “rose from the grave” and arrived at a press conference on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he was reported dead, Ukraine’s security services said an elaborate sting was set up to catch hitmen paid by Russian forces.

Police said they had made one arrest.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44307611

 

 

 

3…………..> Merkel’s “Mustapo”: Listening Again?

Everything that was ever related to the infamous reign of Adolf Hitler is now outlawed in the Islamic Merkeldom of Germany, including the Gestapo, well, almost everything, since a news has broken out that for years, Germany’s foreign intelligence service (BND) or the “Mustapo”, as has been labeled by bibi1581.com, has been pirating out data from Frankfurt-based De-Cix (Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange), the world’s largest internet exchange point, in the most celebrated traditions of its predecessor of litening to other peoples phone conversations without a warrant.  

The “Merkel’s Gestapo” aka BND claims the data it’s been channeling from De-Cix is naturally paramount to the Islamic Merkeldom of Germany’s national security interests, but De-Cix says that the data is purely domestic internet exchange point and that as an international agency, the BND is forbidden to use surveillance measures pertaining to domestic communication without concrete suspicion; i.e., in other words, it dropped Uncles Adolf’s big, black boots in favor for fine Italian leather, with its big, long ears trying to hear the saboteurs that would stop the appaling Islamization of EU most important country, and prevent the raising of the blessed “Allah’s Green Flag” over the Brandeburg Gate. 

http://p.dw.com/p/2ycxx

 

 

 

 

4…………> Back On Patrol: USS Reagan

“[Ronald Reagan Strike Group] is very excited to get underway and begin to train and operate together, as well as with our allies and partners,” said Rear Adm. Marc Dalton, commander, Commander Task Force 70. “As we get underway for these operations we will continue to represent the United States as the security partner of choice in the region, to ensure freedom of the seas, drive stability and security and to promote adherence to a rules-based international order.”

 

The forward-deployed Ronald Reagan Strike Group departed Yokosuka, Japan, May 29, for a regularly scheduled patrol to operate in the western Pacific Ocean,
conducting training in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations supporting security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.

http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=105772

 

 

 

 

 

 

5…………> I Ain’t Paying For Y’r Wall: EPN

President Enrique Peña Nieto went to Twitter to issue a reply to the “They’re going to pay for the wall, and they’re going to enjoy it,” claim by his opposite across the fence:

“President @realDonaldTrump: NO. Mexico will NEVER pay for a wall. Not now, not ever. Sincerely, Mexico (all of us).”

a rebuttal supported by an obscenity-laden tweet fired by his “the longest middle finger” predecessor Vincente Fox:

Vicente Fox Quesada

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@VicenteFoxQue

.@realDonaldTrump, I repeat once again: Mexico is NOT paying for your #FuckingWall. You want it? you pay for it. Why waste American people’s money? Having so many more priorities: education, health, infrastructure and a good relationship with both of your neighbors.

4:26 AM – May 30, 2018 · San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuato

4,824 people are talking about this

 

President told a campaign rally in Nashville, Tennessee, that Mexico will pay for the wall “in the end” and like it.

“They make all of this money, and they do absolutely nothing to stop people from going through Mexico, from Honduras and all these other countries, the caravan, all of this stuff,” the president said. “They do nothing to help us, nothing.”

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/epn-to-trump-mexico-will-never-pay-for-a-wall/


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