Europe Blackmails China as Beijing Battles US Trade Restrictions

Despite the US intensifying its trade war with China, Beijing hasn't found ready allies among its European partners. According to the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, some European companies may relocate production unless Beijing exempts them from taxes on the components they import from the US.

The European companies reportedly intend to relocate their factories to countries in Southeast Asia such as Vietnam or the Philippines in order to evade additional tariffs imposed on components imported from the US for their final assembly in China.

The report states that almost 54% of respondents believe that the US-China trade war will affect production chains around the world. As a result, about 7% of European companies intend to relocate or have already left the People's Republic of China, and the number may grow as a lot of businesses haven’t yet decided what to do further.

However, according to Carlo Diego D'Andrea, Vice President of China's EU Chamber of Commerce, this situation can be avoided if China opens its market to European companies and introduces effective economic reforms.

For her part, Ying Fan, an associate professor and researcher at the UIBE School of International Trade and Economics, believes that the report issued by the EU Chamber of Commerce is not objective and presents a distorted image of the country’s business.

The statistics show that both in 2017 and in the first half of 2018, European investments in China amounted to $6.67 billion is estimated to grow by 3.7%, she said.

“According to the data, European companies are optimistic about investments in China; they have confidence in the Chinese market, and in terms of problems it's a matter of negotiations,” the trade specialist said.

The negotiated measures will be able to benefit China as well as countries with better business environments, Fan Ying explained. She believes that it’s unfair to deny the efforts that the Asian country is making to carry out reforms, or the fact that the business climate in China is improving.

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201809221068241724-europe-china-trade-restrictions-blackmail/

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FIGURES. Christine Ford’s Attorney is Unhinged Nutbag — Seen at Anti-Trump Protest Spouting Off “Resist” Garbage

In the past week anti-Trump activist Christine Ford accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of groping her over her swimsuit sometime around 36 years ago at an unknown place. The three men she accused of being present during the incident have all vehemently denied her accusations.

Ford picked at least two far left attorneys to represent her and top Democrat advisers helped her plot her strategy to stall the process and smear Judge Kavanaugh.

If Ford and Democrats get away with this it will set a dangerous and frightening precedent for every American – male or female. Men will risk being destroyed by accusers who can’t remember where or when an alleged incident took place and without a shred of evidence. It is absurd! And yet this is today’s Democrat Party.

Ford and her attorneys continue to delay the process in hopes of ending Kavanaugh’s confirmation process. According to Tucker Carlson, Democrats know if they delay the Kavanaugh vote for another week his confirmation process will be over.

And it should be NO SURPRISE that Attorney Debra Katz is an unhinged loon who attends anti-Trump rallies in Washington DC.

Daily Caller caught the wild-eyed attorney at an anti-Trump White House protest spouting off “resist” garbage to the cameras.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/figures-christine-fords-attorney-is-unhinged-nutbag-seen-at-anti-trump-protest-spouting-off-resist-garbage-video/

British Spies Hacked Belgian Telecom Firm on UK Government Orders - Reports

Belgian prosecutors' report supported previous claims made by Edward Snowden that British GCHQ had been intercepting communications at NATO HQ and key European institutions for at least two years.

The operation had a codename “Operation Socialist” and was conducted by the British intelligence service GCHQ, the Guardian reported. Belgian Justice minister, Koen Geens, has confirmed that he received the report from the prosecutors and would discuss it with country’s national security council, led by Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel.

According to the federal prosecutors, the interception of Belgacom, country’s biggest telecommunications operator, had been conducted since at least 2011 and was closed in a matter of minutes of being exposed in August 2013. The slides with the evidence of GCHQ operations were leaked by the CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who exposed such targets of hacking as NATO headquarters in Brussels, European Commission, European Parliament, and the European Council five years ago. Elio di Rupo, the Belgian prime minister in 2013, promised to take “the appropriate steps” if the “high-level involvement” of a foreign country was confirmed.

The British spies allegedly targeted the computers of Belgacom employees working in security and maintenance by using faked LinkedIn messages. The espionage was focused mostly on the company’s subsidiary unit, Belgacom International Carrier Services, which operates phone and data traffic in Africa and the Middle East. It was also reported to seek targeted communications between roaming smartphones.

The unpublished report is said to document this matter as the first example of an EU member state into the critical infrastructure of another and the union. It also indicated that the espionage activities of this scale must have been authorized at the highest level of British government, though stating that there isn’t enough evidence to prosecute any particular individual.

A spokesperson for the federal prosecutor confirmed that the report exists, yet declined to comment on the matter, saying that the situation is “too delicate right now”. GCHQ has also declined to comment.

Earlier this month European court of human rights ruled that the methods used by GCHQ to bulk interceptions of online communications violated privacy, granted under the article 8 of the European convention on human rights, saying that the safeguards for such interceptions were “insufficient” with an inadequate selection of “related communications data”.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201809221068244730-british-spies-hacked-belgian-telecom-firm-uk-government-orders/

Hold The Front Page: The Reporters Are Missing And Journalism Is Dead

o much of mainstream journalism has descended to the level of a cult-like formula of bias, hearsay and omission. Subjectivism is all; slogans and outrage are proof enough. What matters is 'perception'…

The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age of the reporter. Parry was “a trailblazer for independent journalism”, wrote Seymour Hersh, with whom he shared much in common.

Hersh revealed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the secret bombing of Cambodia, Parry exposed Iran-Contra, a drugs and gun-running conspiracy that led to the White House. In 2016, they separately produced compelling evidence that the Assad government in Syria had not used chemical weapons. They were not forgiven.

Driven from the “mainstream”, Hersh must publish his work outside the United States. Parry set up his own independent news website Consortium News, where, in a final piece following a stroke, he referred to journalism’s veneration of “approved opinions” while “unapproved evidence is brushed aside or disparaged regardless of its quality.”

Although journalism was always a loose extension of establishment power, something has changed in recent years. Dissent tolerated when I joined a national newspaper in Britain in the 1960s has regressed to a metaphoric underground as liberal capitalism moves towards a form of corporate dictatorship.

This is a seismic shift, with journalists policing the new “groupthink”, as Parry called it, dispensing its myths and distractions, pursuing its enemies.

Witness the witch-hunts against refugees and immigrants, the willful abandonment by the “MeToo” zealots of our oldest freedom, presumption of innocence, the anti-Russia racism and anti-Brexit hysteria, the growing anti-China campaign and the suppression of a warning of world war.

With many if not most independent journalists barred or ejected from the “mainstream”, a corner of the Internet has become a vital source of disclosure and evidence-based analysis: true journalism sites such as wikileaks.org, consortiumnews.com, wsws.org, truthdig.com, globalresearch.org, counterpunch.org and informationclearinghouse.com are required reading for those trying to make sense of a world in which science and technology advance wondrously while political and economic life in the fearful “democracies” regress behind a media facade of narcissistic spectacle.

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In Britain, just one website offers consistently independent media criticism. This is the remarkable Media Lens — remarkable partly because its founders and editors as well as its only writers, David Edwards and David Cromwell, since 2001 have concentrated their gaze not on the usual suspects, the Tory press, but the paragons of reputable liberal journalism: the BBC, The Guardian, Channel 4 News

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-21/hold-front-page-reporters-are-missing-and-journalism-dead

Virginia - Rare Two-Headed Snake Spotted in Resident’s Backyard

An extremely rare copperhead snake with two heads was spotted in a resident’s backyard in Woodbridge, Virginia. Photos of the two-headed snake were shared on social media, becoming not only viral but contentious as well, with some questioning if the shocking photos of the snake were real

The Virginia Wildlife Management and Control shared the photos of the snake to Facebook on Sunday. They also shared a video of the two-headed serpent twisting and wriggling inside a container.

The department wrote in its post: “Check out these extremely rare photos of an actual 2-headed copperhead that was found in someone’s yard in Woodbridge… Cool, huh?”

The post has since been shared more than 1,000 times and generated 600 reactions as of Friday afternoon.

Still, there are social media users who were quick to question the authenticity of the post. The department, however, gave assurances that the photos and video were both “very real.”’

The department even told a local media: “Absolutely not a fake! We assure you, it’s very real and was shedding its skin.”

Two-head snakes develop similarly to the case of Siamese twins when an embryo does not properly split into two.

According to the National Geographic, two-headed snakes are rare and commonly do not survive for long in the wild. As far as snakes are concerned, the dictum “two heads are better than one” does not apply to them. Such rare genetic abnormality can, in fact, hinder the snake’s ability to catch prey.

National Geographic explained: “Snakes operate a good deal by smell, and if one head catches the scent of prey on the other’s head, it will attack and try to swallow the second head.”

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