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News Burst 17 November 2019

• France reportedly pushing eu away from dependence on NATO as Macron brands bloc ‘Brain Dead’.
• EU seeks US-lodged complaint on Amazon allegedly ‘abusing’ its power amid antitrust probe.
• At least 100 protesters detained in Paris – Prefecture.
• Paris police use tear gas, water cannon on ‘yellow vest’ protests anniversary.
• Orion combat drone crashes near apartment house in a town of Russia’s central Ryazan Region.

• During a BBC interview, the Duke of York was asked about Virginia Giuffre, during his answer, the Duke blinked no less than 10 times in the space of just 10 seconds.
• A couple of weeks ago, Trump said that he wouldn’t rule out a government shutdown. Unless Congress acts in the few days that are left, the government’s funding will expire on November 21st, next Thursday. Interesting timing, now that Q says the harvest has been prepared and soon will be delivered.
• Confirmed: Iran is now in the midst of a near-total national internet shutdown; realtime network data show connectivity at 7% of ordinary levels after twelve hours of progressive network disconnections as public protests continue.
• Vladimir Putin: “The Dollar Enjoyed Great Trust Around The World. But For Some Reason It Is Being Used As A Political Weapon, Imposing Restrictions. Many Countries Are Now Turning Away From The Dollar As A Reserve Currency. US Dollar Will Collapse Soon.”
• Facebook app is secretly accessing iPhone users’ camera. Facebook says the strange behavior is caused by a bug that was added to the code by accident.

• A chemistry professor at Henderson State University in Arkansas, who once called ‘Breaking Bad’ one of his favorite shows, has been arrested for allegedly producing methamphetamine together with a partner.
• Hong Kong protesters unleash stash of petrol bombs; Chinese soldiers clear roads.
• Boeing says timing of 737 MAX return in hands of regulators to approve changes to the jet in the wake of two accidents.
• 88.61% of the worldwide search market is owned by Google.
• QAnon drop 3601 shows a video of Big Mike and Hussain disdain for the American Flag. Q: Many who ‘represent’ us, do not love us.

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News Burst 16 November 2019

• Pakistan on Friday began vaccinating millions of children against typhoid fever, a dangerous bacterial infection that can spread through contact or contaminated food and water, in an effort to contain a drug-resistant outbreak of the disease that has infected around 11,000 people since 2016.
• In response to escalated, student-involved violence during Hong Kong anti-government demonstrations and “riots,” Taiwan’s Ministry of Education has moved to evacuate over 500 students from the semi-autonomous city via government-chartered flight. As of Friday, nearly half of the Taiwanese student body attending universities in Hong Kong have returned to their home state, according to a November 15 announcement from Taipei.
• The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has purchased $3.9-billion worth of seats from Russia to transport its astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) since July 2011.
• As of December 10, 2019, “YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service, if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable.” In other words, if you have a YouTube channel that YouTube employees decide isn’t profitable enough for Google, then the company has now granted itself the option to completely shut down your account without warning or consequence.
• US President Donald Trump has moved to issue at least two pardons to US military service members involved in multiple cases associated with charges of war crimes. The commander-in-chief granted Army Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn and Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance clemency and restored the rank of Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward Gallagher early Friday evening.
• Ankara recently raised the issue of the fate of captured Daesh terrorists, arguing that they must be sent back to their countries of origin, where they must be prosecuted in accordance with local laws. Many European states, however, have refused to accept those extradited from Turkey, claiming they were denationalised.

• Hermann Historica, an auction house in Munich, Germany, is facing backlash for planning to sell 147 items from the Third Reich on November 20. Some of the Third Reich memorabila to be auctioned off later this month includes an edition of “Mein Kampf,” the 1925 manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler; Hitler’s top hat; and dresses belonging to Hitler’s wife Eva Braun. The dresses were discovered in 40 trunks obtained by US military officials in 1945 in Salzburg, Austria.
• US Army tests grenade-slinging drone. The Pentagon has been seeking a weapon capable of flushing enemy forces out of cover positions for years, testing a variety of weapons, including other kinds of armed drones. The latest project, a three-rotor drone produced by Australian startup Skyborne Technologies, can be fitted with existing US Army weaponry, including a grenade launcher and shotgun.
• Syrian President Bashar Assad has scorned the official story of wealthy sex predator Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide, suggesting that people like him, or the late White Helmets founder, knew too much for the rich and powerful.
• Epstein “was killed because he knew a lot of vital secrets connected with very important people in the British and American regimes, and possibly in other countries as well,” Assad told Russian channel Rossiya-24 in an interview.
• Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno continues to occupy the Carondelet Palace despite a brief relocation to Guayaquil as he faced mass protests over an austerity package, while Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is hanging onto power despite over three weeks of massive, daily protests that have pushed his approval rating to nine percent.
• “Bolivia is very rich, it is said that it has 70 percent of the essential material [lithium] to make the new batteries. We all know that there is a change in energy taking place in the world,” former Uruguayan president Jose Mujica said.

Internet

• Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo heads the ranking of the most popular 2019 Instagram accounts. He is the most-followed person on the photo sharing app platform with almost 182 million followers. Instagram’s own account was ranked first with almost 312 million followers.
• As of the first quarter of 2019, Twitter averaged 330 million monthly active users, a decline from its all-time high of 336 MAU in the first quarter of 2018. As of the first quarter of 2019, the company switched its user reporting metric to monetizable daily active users (mDAU).
• With 2.41 billion monthly active users as of the second quarter of 2019, Facebook is the biggest social network worldwide. In the third quarter of 2012, the number of active Facebook users surpassed one billion, making it the first social network ever to do so.
• In 2018, companies in Italy lost over 8 million U.S. dollars to cyberattacks. This represented a 20 percent increase compared to the figure for 2017. As companies embrace digital innovation, they become increasingly dependent on the Internet.
• The U.S. states with the largest losses through reported cyber crime in 2018 was California that reported a loss of more than 450 million U.S. dollars through cyber crime, more than double the amount of second-placed New York, which reported 201 million U.S. dollars of losses to the IC3.

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News Burst 15 November 2019

• Brutal Arctic fronts have engulfed Scandinavia over the past few weeks. The record for Finland’s lowest-ever Autumn temp has just been smashed (for the second time this week), as has Sodankylä’s all-time snow-depth record (for early Nov). The temperature in Enontekiö, in the Finnish part of Lapland, plunged to a Santa-freezing –28.2C(-18.8F), beating-out the nation’s previous all-time autumnal low.
• France Police are having difficulty warding off adventurous ‘beach combers’, some of whom reportedly traveled for miles to try and snatch a kilo or two of raw blow right off the beach. On Monday, police caught a 17 yo carrying five kilos of washed-up cocaine at Lacanau, a surfing beach near the city of Bordeaux that police had ordered closed because of the cocaine.
• Four men were jailed on Thursday, 14 November, after being convicted in London of being part of a “sophisticated” conspiracy to smuggle or produce £40 million worth of anabolic steroids.
• Investigators have completed the inquiry into the criminal case opened over a Boeing 737-500 passenger liner’s crash at Kazan airport in 2013, which claimed 50 lives. The investigation found that the air crash was due to mistakes made by the plane’s captain and co-pilot, Cpt. Salikhov (dead) lacked flying skills and had been allowed to run a passenger liner on the basis of false certificates. Salikhov in the process of the landing maneuver steered the plane into a precarious position. The co-pilot, Viktor Gutsul, did not intervene. In the emergency that followed Salikhov violated flying rules, thus causing the crash.
• Almost two million Syrian refugees have already returned to their homes, Head of Russia’s National Defense Control Center Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev said on Thursday at a joint meeting of the Russian and Syrian inter-agency coordination headquarters on the issue of resettling the refugees in Syria.

• Fifty Beluga Whales from Srednyaya Bay that were released this month in the Primorsky Region in Russia have migrated across the region’s coast in a 40-km radius from their point of release and are getting used to their new habitat.
• Ecologists from the “Free Russian Whales” coalition have raised the issue of releasing walruses kept in Srednyaya Bay in the Primorsky Region, from where Beluga Whales and Orcas had been released last week.
• Robots will outperform humans, we’re told – but Boeing engineers aren’t that convinced. After years of struggle with a robotic system that flubbed the assembly of its giant 777X jet, they’ve gone back to human labor again. America’s biggest aerospace corporation has finally dumped the robots that were used to assemble two main fuselage sections on the Boeing 777 and 777X long-haul airliners.
• Judges at the International Criminal Court on Thursday approved a prosecution request to investigate crimes against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, the court said in a statement.
• Lack of forecast rains to prolong Australian bushfires threat. Official weather forecasts for Australia out on Thursday showed no substantial rains for at least three months, providing grim news as firefighters battle to get more than 100 bushfires raging across the east coast under control.

• An M7.2 quake occurred in Indonesia this afternoon, the epicenter is at sea but there were no tsunamis. In the days before we had seen a series of very deep shocks in the Western Pacific and a superficial shock of this magnitude, but also higher, was expected.
• New figures from a US military watchdog group have tallied the incredible costs of the US war on terror since September 11, 2001, finding that well over $6 trillion have been dropped on dozens of conflicts in which some 800,000 people have died.
• Indian Army asks officers to deactivate Facebook accounts, stay away from WhatsApp. According to the advisory issued by the Indian army, there have been numerous instances of information being lost through social media, which though inadvertent, suggest that despite multiple directives issued, army personnel have not been attentive to the existing threats and negative implications of using the online medium.
• The president of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations demanded that Fox News ban former federal prosecutor and Trump ally Joe diGenova for claiming that the Hungarian-American billionaire “controls a very large part of the career foreign service of the United States State Department.”

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News Burst 14 November 2019

• New Zealand has just suffered two colder-than-average months in a row, with last month finishing-up as the coldest October in seven years. Southeast winds helped hold temperatures down during the month and several southerly changes moved up the country bringing bitterly cold winds, with snow, ice and hail. The nationwide average temperature in October was 11.8C (53.2F) — that’s 0.3C (0.5F) below the 1981-2010 average, which makes it the coldest October since 2012.
• Venice hit by worst flood in 50 years, mayor says state of emergency to be declared. A six-foot high tide is running through the historic Italian city of canals. A similar one of nearly the same scale was recorded in 1966, St. Mark’s Square gradually turned into a lake. The Tuesday tide peaked at 187cm (6.14 ft) at 10.50 pm local time, just shy of the all-time record 194cm set in 1966.
• The US Health Department has opened a federal inquiry into tech giant Google’s Project Nightingale, which aims to collect and analyse personal medical data. Google had partnered with Ascension, one of the largest US healthcare systems and got access to results of lab tests, diagnoses and extracts from medical records. This data is a complete medical history of millions of patients, including their names and dates of birth. The report noted that neither patients nor doctors were informed about it.
• A new scientific report warns that if we don’t stop extinction and decline in the population of insects it would pose catastrophic consequences to all forms of life on Earth. Three quarters of crop types grown by humans are pollinated by insects, we wouldn’t be able to feed ourselves if they disappear.

• Air Arabia, a Sharjah based Emirati low-cost airline, will abandon its interest in Boeing 737 MAX jets and order over 100 Airbus A320 jets as soon as next week. The decision comes after Boeing’s 737 MAX jet remains grounded worldwide following two fatal crashes.
• In a controversial new landmark ruling that has enraged and frustrated Israeli leaders, Europe’s top court has ordered that all goods produced by Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights be labeled as such. Specifically the European Court of Justice decision on Tuesday forbids any products from settlements to be labeled simply as “made in Israel”; instead, they must have a “clear and non-misleading indication of origin” in line with the EU’s consumer policy, as stated by an EU official communicating the ruling to Tel Aviv.
• Violent protests continued in Hong Kong for a third day on Wednesday, crippling transport links and clogging roads, and prompting many major companies in the city, including HSBC and BNP Paribas, to instruct employees to stay home from work to avoid the risk of physical harm. Protesters set up an elaborate roadblock on Wednesday in the city’s Central district, a direct attack on one of the city’s main business hubs, while also disrupting travel on other major thoroughfares in Kowloon Tong, Yuen Long and Tai Po. Police accuse Hong Kong ‘rioters’ of turning university into ‘weapons factory’ as academic institutions cancel classes en masse.
• According to WSJ, Google will soon offer checking accounts to consumers. The project, code-named Cache, is expected to launch next year with accounts run by an interesting partnership: Citigroup, and a small credit union at Stanford University, a tiny lender located in Google’s backyard. Big Tech sees finance as the next frontier in their race to monopolize the American economy: It brings users – and their valuable data – closer into the product fold of companies like Google and Apple.
• Switch Lite, Nintendo’s new handheld-only device, helped the Japanese gaming company beat analysts’ expectations for the third quarter. The Switch Lite was only on sale for 10 days of the quarter, but Nintendo sold 1.95 million units.

• Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has exposed a drug trafficking group that ran one of the largest online drug trafficking stores. 440 kilograms of drugs, including MDMA, alpha-PVP, mephedrone and hashish, worth a total of $10.1 mln were seized during a large-scale operation conducted in ten Russian regions.
• The command of Bolivia’s Armed Forces has recognized Jeanine Anez, the second Vice President of the Senate (upper house of parliament), as the interim head of state and expressed support for her, Williams Kaliman, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Bolivia, said in a statement published by the Pagina Siete daily on Wednesday.
• Soft Disclosure: The landing site selected for NASA’s upcoming Mars 2020 rover could well be one of the best chances we have of discovering whether the Red Planet was once home to life and whether it could be again. The 28-mile (45km) wide Jezero crater was selected as the landing site for the new rover in late 2018, and has been found to contain vast deposits of hydrated silica and minerals called carbonates, according to a newly published study.
• Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg has managed to find a ride across the Atlantic with a pair of sailing YouTubers. Avoiding combustion-powered planes and boats, Thunberg’s options were limited. She had been offered a seat on board the ‘La Vagabonde,’ an ultra-sleek catamaran owned by a couple of Australian YouTubers who make a living sailing around the world.
• Australian officials on Wednesday ordered residents and tourists to get out of the way of fast-approaching flames as firefighters struggled to contain more than 150 bushfires raging on both the east and west coasts. While cooler weather overnight brought some relief for firefighters in New South Wales (NSW) state, of which Sydney is capital, attention shifted to its northern neighbour, Queensland, where more than 80 fires threatened lives and homes. Authorities issued a “leave immediately” warning.

• The honeymoon between Nike and Amazon is officially over. Nike has decided it is going to stop selling its sneakers and apparel on Amazon, which marks the end of a pilot program it started in 2017. Nike had acted as a wholesaler to Amazon during the program, instead of letting third party merchants sell their items.
• Atmospheric gases on Mars sure provide us with plenty of mystery. First, there was that business with the disappearing, reappearing methane. Now, oxygen levels have been observed rising and falling over the Gale Crater, by amounts that just don’t fit any known chemical reactions. Organic or geological processes? The new data comes from Curiosity that’s been up there for three Mars years now (that’s six Earth years).
• Rumors – 4chan – Ginsberg Death Train: Just an update on Ginsberg. The cancer has spread through her body and according to a Clinton phone intercept she is on final. Thought she would be dead by the end of the year but it now looks like we are talking mid-December. One of the reasons for the impeachment push now is Pelosi and Schumer know this and are trying to get this done before she dies. With her dead the whole show enters a new stage. On another front Brennan has now flipped and Oboma is in the cross hairs on Durham’s investigation and expect the Huber investigation on the Clinton Foundation to produce fruit. Barr is going to prosecute this.
• Outside the Paris premiere of Roman Polanski’s new film protesters held lit flares and carried banners branding the director a ‘rapist’ forcing the disgraced filmmaker, US fugitive and child rapist to flee out a back door.

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