There is no such deal – just another pipe dream lie! The Trump administration and the U.S. defense industry are scrambling to save the few actual deals in the much-touted $110 billion arms package for Saudi Arabia as concerns rise about the role of the Kingdom’s leadership over the death of a prominent critic.
Monthly Archives: October 2018
Jamal Khashoggi: How Pakistan ‘ignored’ journalist’s murder to secure Saudi loan

While many pulled out of the ongoing Saudi investment summit citing the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Pakistani PM Imran Khan chose to rub shoulders with the Saudis to seal a bailout package. Social media reacts.
EU Parliament votes for ban on single-use plastic

European lawmakers have approved measures to reduce plastics polluting seas and oceans. A proposed ban targets the top 10 single-use plastic products that litter Europe’s beaches.
Nazism was ‘left-wing ideology’ remark by British MEP Syed Kamall sparks uproar
Some people should consult history experts or read a D@mn book before making really stupid remarks – apologies not accepted! A leading British conservative has told European lawmakers that the Nazis believed in a “strain of socialism.” Many members of social democratic and socialist parties were imprisoned or killed by the Nazi party.
Todd Bol, Creator of Little Free Library Movement, Dies at 62
He built a wooden box, filled it with books and stuck it in his front yard; today there are more than 75,000 like it in 88 countries, run under the honor system.
Trudeau gambles Canadians will take the long view on climate: Don Pittis
There is no long term – change now or we die! 
Skeptical Canadians may have trouble voting for short-term pain, but the Trudeau government thinks it can win on carbon pricing.
‘She was coming at me with her mouth open’: B.C. man shoots grizzly in front yard
Never thought about calling authorities for assistance? 
A homeowner in central B.C. has been captured on video shooting a charging grizzly bear in his yard — a decision he says he made in trying to protect himself and his family, but one that has drawn threats in the days since.
European parties urged to agree Israel boycott tactics are antisemitic
So if you were Irish and in 1920s British controlled Ireland and boycotted British goods or American and dumping tea in Boston Harbor you would be racist-anti-British?

Convention backed by Israeli government to propose red lines for prospective MEPs
A conference in Brussels backed by the Israeli government is to push for all European political parties to sign up to “red lines” that declare boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) tactics to be “fundamentally antisemitic”.
The two-day convention, attended by Israel’s minister of Jerusalem affairs, Ze’ev Elkin, will propose a text for prospective MEPs and political parties to sign up to before European elections in May next year.
UK police recruited teenager to spy on her pimp
You would think that thy might get her into care instead of exploiting her just like her pimp! Lowlife coppers.

Lords debate reveals sexually exploited girl ended up becoming accessory to murder
A teenage girl who was being sexually exploited was enlisted by police to collect information about her pimp, which led to her becoming an accessory to murder, a member of the House of Lords has revealed.
In a Lords debate on the use of child spies, peers said 14 minors had been recruited since 2015. Sally Hamwee revealed the case of the 17-year-old, who was “on the edge of care”, and was one of a group of girls the suspect – whom “she thought of as her boyfriend” – had been selling for sex.
Scarlett Johansson reportedly turned down film funding from Saudi prince

Actor vetoed money from Mohammed bin Salman for a biopic in which she will play photojournalist Lynsey Addario
Scarlett Johansson reportedly vetoed funding from the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, for her next film.
The actor is set to play the Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario in a biopic directed by Ridley Scott, but when she found out the initial set of funders included Bin Salman, she rejected his involvement.
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