Poland arrests Chinese businessman and Pole on espionage allegations

A Chinese man who reportedly works for telecoms giant Huawei and a Polish national have been arrested on suspicion of spying. Huawei said it was aware of the situation and was looking into the case.

Poland's Internal Security Agency has arrested a Chinese businessman and a Polish citizen over espionage allegations, officials said on Friday.

Maciej Wasik, deputy head of Poland's special services, said that the Chinese suspect was a businessman working for a major electronics corporation and the Pole was "known in circles associated with cyberbusiness affairs."

Read more: Berlin's dilemma: My way or the Huawei?

Wasik said the arrest of the two suspects had been underway for a long time and was carefully planned.

Local media identified the Chinese man as a Huawei official but the company has not confirmed the claim.

https://www.dw.com/en/poland-arrests-chinese-businessman-and-pole-on-espionage-allegations/a-47040593

New armoured vehicle to be unveiled at AAD

A joint venture between Saudi Groups and South Africa’s Industrial and Automotive Design (IAD) will unveil the Noyka Mk 2 armoured vehicle at the Africa Aerospace and Defence exhibition later this month.

The Nyoka Mk 2 mine-protected armoured personnel carrier (APC) will be marketed throughout Africa by the joint venture. It was first unveiled by Saudi Groups in 2011 as the Masmak, reports Janes.

The APC is a 4x4 vehicle powered by a 450 hp six-cylinder diesel, giving a top speed of 150 km/h and a cruising speed of 120 km/h. A more powerful 530 hp diesel engine can also be supplied. Standard range is 700 km.

Hungary's Viktor Orban pushes for anti-migrant bloc to counter France and Germany

Hungary's Viktor Orban hopes a right-wing alliance can help gain an anti-migrant majority in the European Parliament. The alliance was pitched by Italy's Matteo Salvini, whom Orban described as a "hero."

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday pledged his full support for an Italian-Polish initiative to form a right-wing alliance for European Parliament elections due in May.

Orban said Hungary's goal was to gain an anti-immigrant majority in the European Parliament that he hoped would spread to the European Commission, and later, as national elections change the EU's political landscape, the European Council.

Read more: Is Viktor Orban the EU's hard-line hero or villain?

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said during a visit to Warsaw on Wednesday that Italy and Poland should join forces in a euroskeptic alliance, expressing hopes that an "Italian-Polish axis" would replace the current "French-German axis."

"The Polish-Italian or Warsaw-Rome alliance is one of the greatest developments that this year could have started with," Orban said, describing Salvini as a "hero" for stopping migration on Italy's shores.

https://www.dw.com/en/hungarys-viktor-orban-pushes-for-anti-migrant-bloc-to-counter-france-and-germany/a-47030790

Head of Japan’s Olympic Committee denies corruption charges

The president of Japan’s Olympic Committee has been indicted in France on corruption allegations, a judicial source confirmed on Friday.

Tsunekazu Takeda was indicted last month by the national financial prosecutor’s office in Paris, the source said.

Takeda, a retired equestrian sportsman who is helping to organise Japan’s hosting of the 2020 Olympic Games, denied the report in a statement, saying on Friday he had cooperated with French authorities.

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2181721/head-japanese-olympic-committee-indicted-france-corruption

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Use to make really good money here.. FK U Obama and Clinton dirty FKing traitors

Man who died in Democratic donor Ed Buck’s home worked at Saks Fifth Avenue

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office on Thursday identified the man who died this week in the home of Ed Buck, long-time Democratic donor, as 55-year-old Timothy Dean of West Hollywood.

Dean worked at the department store Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills and was active in a religious group, according to law enforcement sources. He also once worked in the adult film industry, one law enforcement source said.

Buck’s West Hollywood flat has been the scene of the apparent overdose deaths of two black men in the last two years, authorities said

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2181691/man-who-died-democratic-donor-ed-bucks-home-worked

Texas Republican keeps leadership post after Muslim controversy

Jan. 11 (UPI) – Texas politician Shahid Shafi will retain his seat as vice chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party, after a controversial push to remove him from office.

Shafi, a trauma surgeon and city council member for the affluent Fort Worth suburb of Southake, has attracted national attention for pressing American ideals amid what some say have been racially-motivated attacks.

Tarrant County Republicans voted 139-49 late Thursday to keep the Muslim Shafi in his leadership post.

Shafi, who immigrated the United States in 1990 and became a naturalized citizen in 2009, was appointed to the position in July. The move drew outrage from some residents in Tarrant County, one of the United States' most conservative areas.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/01/11/Texas-Republican-keeps-leadership-post-after-Muslim-controversy/2711547216064/

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Ex-Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn indicted for breach of trust

Jan. 11 (UPI) – Former Nissan Motors Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn was indicted on new financial charges Friday in a Tokyo court.

Ghosn, 64, was charged with aggravated breach of trust for allegedly transferring $17 million in personal investment losses to Nissan in 2008 as well understating his compensation by $37 million for three years through March 2018, the Nikkei Asian Review reported.

Last month, he was indicted for underreporting his pay by around $46 million between 2010 and 2015.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/01/11/Ex-Nissan-Chairman-Carlos-Ghosn-indicted-for-breach-of-trust/7351547190114/

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Hope that's true because this will have to be done but I know it won't. Because to many liberals and SJW and progressives running our colleges and government now

This is the ignorance in our colleges today and you wonder why we have these problems

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)

UC Berkeley to remove historic name associated with law school, citing racism

School still plans to honor figure’s wife

The dean of UC Berkeley School of Law has decided to strip the name of an early benefactor of the school off one of its buildings and stop its use with organizations and student activities because of anti-Chinese immigration beliefs the benefactor held in the 1800s.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky recently made the decision to officially stop using the Boalt name in connection with the law school, but still plans to honor Boalt’s wife’s legacy in some fashion.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/uc-berkeley-to-remove-historic-name-associated-with-law-school-citing-racism/

For a pocketful of mumbles

Such are promises

All lies and jest

Still, a man hears what he wants to hear

And disregards the rest

Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (Audio)

Hollywood Bit Player Had Curious Walk-On Role in Manafort Loan

Joey Rappa has spent decades on the fringes of Hollywood. He was a production associate on “The Nutty Professor’’ and an assistant to Keanu Reeves.

Recently he played an unlikely bit part – front man for a company seeking to collect the $1 million it lent to the family of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Rappa’s name appeared in a November federal filing after Special Counsel Robert Mueller moved to seize several Manafort properties. He was identified as the “managing member’’ of a Nevada company that had made the loan and is now making a claim against a Manhattan condominium that the Manaforts pledged as collateral

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-09/hollywood-bit-player-had-curious-walk-on-role-in-manafort-loan

then all these FKwits running around and crying the muh Jew bullshit all day long idiots

Top Iranian commander says Israel ‘must be annihilated’

Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Deputy Commander for Cultural and Social Affairs, said in an interview that Iran could easily defeat Saudi Arabia, and threatened to overrun American military bases in the Middle East.

In an interview that was originally conducted on 28 December by the Iraqi television network Al-Nujab, but translated only Wednesday by the Middle East Media Research Institute, Naqdi said that the “Islamic revolution in Iran will not back down” from the goal of bringing defeat to Israel.

Naqdi, a former head of the Basij militia, said that there is no doubt that Israel must be “annihilated and destroyed” while adding that neither Russia nor any other country could intermediate.

“We were, we are, and we will continue to be the soldiers of Imam Khamenei until our last breath and until the last drop of our blood. I myself will hoist the flag of the Islamic Revolution in Jerusalem, Allah willing,” the general said.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/top-iranian-commander-says-israel-must-be-annihilated/