Anonymous ID: 699801 May 23, 2018, 12:49 p.m. No.1520047   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0061 >>0065 >>0078 >>0116 >>0123

WikiLeaks to Trump: ‘Obama Already Did it to the French’, Ordered CIA to Hack Le Pen and Other Candidates

 

Responding to a tweet from President Donald Trump, WikiLeaks pointed out that the Obama administration ordered the CIA to hack Marine Le Pen and other candidates during the French election in 2012.

 

On Wednesday morning, President Trump tweeted that “SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!”

 

In response, WikiLeaks noted that his presidential campaign wasn’t the first one to be targeted, as “Obama already did it to the French.”

 

The tweet linked to a WikiLeaks release that revealed all major French political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA’s human and electronic spies. The CIA espionage operation was active for roughly 10 months, from November 2011 to September 2012.

 

“The revelations are contained within three CIA tasking orders published today by WikiLeaks as context for its forth coming CIA Vault 7 series. Named specifically as targets are the French Socialist Party (PS), the National Front (FN) and Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) together with current President Francois Hollande, then President Nicolas Sarkozy, current round one presidential front runner Marine Le Pen, and former presidential candidates Martine Aubry and Dominique Strauss-Khan,” the WikiLeaks release explains.

 

The documents released by WikiLeaks are marked as “NoForn” which means that they are to be viewed by people within the US intelligence community only.

 

The spying order was justified by the agency because it was to “prepare key US policymakers for the post-election French political landscape.”

 

“Significantly, two CIA opposition espionage tasks, “What policies do they promote to help boost France’s economic growth prospects?” and “What are their opinions on the German model of export-led growth?” resonate with a U.S. economic espionage order from the same year. That order requires obtaining details of every prospective French export contract or deal valued at $200m or more,” the WikiLeaks statement adds.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/05/wikileaks-to-trump-obama-already-did-it-to-the-french-ordered-cia-to-hack-le-pen-and-other-candidates/

Anonymous ID: 699801 May 23, 2018, 1:11 p.m. No.1520191   🗄️.is 🔗kun

ASSHOLE OF THE DAY AWARD

 

Raising taxes on poor is a 'good thing for those people' – billionaire Michael Bloomberg

 

Left leaning billionaire Michael Bloomberg says he would like to hike taxes on low-income citizens in his crusade against sugary drinks. He says it’s a “good thing for those people.”

 

Bloomberg says he wants to decide on what is good for low-income people. “The question is do you want to pander to those people? Or do you want to get them to live longer? There's just no question,” he said.

 

“If you raise taxes on full sugary drinks, for example, they will drink less and there's just no question that full sugar drinks are one of the major contributors to obesity and obesity is one of the major contributors to heart disease and cancer and a variety of other things,” he said at the IMF discussion panel talking to the IMF Chief Chrisine Lagarde.

 

The billionaire went on to compare the US army with the coal industry. “We have a lot of soldiers in the United States in the US Army, but we don't want to go start a war just to give them something to do and that's exactly what you're saying when you say 'well, let's keep coal killing people because we don't want coal miners to lose their jobs.’”

 

“The truth of the matter is that there aren't very many coal miners left anyways and we can find other things for them to do. But the comparison is: a life or a job. Or, taxes or life? Which do you want to do? Take your poison.”

 

Bloomberg has been a fierce proponent of soda taxes. Last year, he spent $3 million on an advertising campaign that backs a Chicago-area soda tax. When he was a New York City mayor, he tried to ban super-sized sugary drinks in the city, but failed.

 

He has also criticized the recent tax cuts by US President Donald Trump. Bloomberg believes they are an “economically indefensible blunder” and will not lead to significantly higher wages and growth.

 

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/66019/raising-taxes-on-poor-is-a-good-thing-for-those-people–billionaire-michael.html

Anonymous ID: 699801 May 23, 2018, 1:13 p.m. No.1520205   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Landmark lawsuit claims Monsanto hid cancer danger of weedkiller for decades

 

At the age of 46, DeWayne Johnson is not ready to die. But with cancer spread through most of his body, doctors say he probably has just months to live. Now Johnson, a husband and father of three in California, hopes to survive long enough to make Monsanto take the blame for his fate.

 

On 18 June, Johnson will become the first person to take the global seed and chemical company to trial on allegations that it has spent decades hiding the cancer-causing dangers of its popular Roundup herbicide products – and his case has just received a major boost.

 

Last week Judge Curtis Karnow issued an order clearing the way for jurors to consider not just scientific evidence related to what caused Johnson’s cancer, but allegations that Monsanto suppressed evidence of the risks of its weed killing products. Karnow ruled that the trial will proceed and a jury would be allowed to consider possible punitive damages.

 

“The internal correspondence noted by Johnson could support a jury finding that Monsanto has long been aware of the risk that its glyphosate-based herbicides are carcinogenic … but has continuously sought to influence the scientific literature to prevent its internal concerns from reaching the public sphere and to bolster its defenses in products liability actions,” Karnow wrote. “Thus there are triable issues of material fact.”

 

Johnson’s case, filed in San Francisco county superior court in California, is at the forefront of a legal fight against Monsanto. Some 4,000 plaintiffs have sued Monsanto alleging exposure to Roundup caused them, or their loved ones, to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Another case is scheduled for trial in October, in Monsanto’s home town of St Louis, Missouri.

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https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/66015/landmark-lawsuit-claims-monsanto-hid-cancer-danger-of-weedkiller-for.html