New British passports no longer say “European Union”

British passports that no longer say “European Union” began to be distributed on the 30th of March.

This change was announced by the Home Affairs Minister on Saturday. The new passports have been handed out despite the fact that the final details of Brexit have not yet been set in stone. The initial date set was the 29th of March.

The minister was questioned by a British citizen over Twitter on Friday. The citizen concerned said they were “really appalled” at their new passport cover.

“We are still in the EU. Why doesn’t my new passport reflect that?” asked Susan Hindle Barone.

“Bordeaux-coloured passports that don’t say European Union were distributed on the 30th of March”, a Home Affairs minister’s spokesperson said in a press release.

“Passports that still say European Union will continue to be handed out during a short period after this date so we can shift the remaining stock”, the spokesperson continued. The spokesman added “that both models are as valid as each other when it comes to travelling”.

The United Kingdom was initially supposed to leave the European Union on the 29th or March, exactly two years after activating article 50 of the Lisbon treaty. Article 50 is the one that takes a member state out the Union.

http://www.brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/14845/new-british-passports-no-longer-say-european-union

'It's good to be Rich': Meet the Goldman Sachs banker who has built a private investing empire that goes head-to-head with Blackstone — and you've probably never heard of him

Rich Friedman built Goldman Sachs' merchant-banking unit into a sprawling collection of funds invested in real estate and infrastructure, private equity, and credit markets that often competes with flashier investment firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR.

Since 1991, Friedman has built the bank's private-investing activities into a sprawling collection of funds that have invested more than $180 billion in real estate and infrastructure, private equity, and credit markets that often competes with flashier investment firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR.

Though advocates put him in the pantheon of buyout greats, Friedman hasn't enjoyed the same name recognition as men with names like Schwarzman, Kravis, and Rubenstein. That's by design, according to interviews with about a dozen current and former colleagues, clients, and competitors.

https://www.businessinsider.com/rich-friedman-goldman-sachs-profile-2019-4

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Merkel tells Obama: 'Spying on friends is unacceptable'

Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'

President Barack Obama was told about monitoring of German Chancellor in 2010 and allowed it to continue, says German newspaper

President Barack Obama was dragged into the trans-Atlantic spying row after it was claimed he personally authorised the monitoring of Angela Merkel’s phone three years ago.

The president allegedly allowed US intelligence to listen to calls from the German Chancellor’s mobile phone after he was briefed on the operation by Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), in 2010.

The latest claim, reported in the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, followed reports in Der Spiegel that the surveillance of Mrs Merkel’s phone began as long ago as 2002, when she was still the opposition leader, three years before being elected Chancellor. That monitoring only ended in the weeks before Mr Obama visited Berlin in June this year, the magazine added.

Citing leaked US intelligence documents, it also reported that America conducted eavesdropping operations on the German government from a listening post at its embassy beside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, one of more than 80 such centres worldwide.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10407282/Barack-Obama-approved-tapping-Angela-Merkels-phone-3-years-ago.html

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Hillary Clinton considered drone attack on Julian Assange - report

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reportedly wanted to drone Wikileaks founder Julian Assange when she was secretary of state.

According to True Pundit, Clinton and the state department were under pressure to silence Assange and Wikileaks in the months before the whistleblowing site released a massive dump of 250,000 diplomatic cables from 1966 up to 2010, dubbed CableGate.

“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton asked, according to unidentified state department sources.

Published by True Pundit on Sunday, Wikileaks posted a link to the story on their official Twitter account on Monday, along with a screenshot of the article.

UN condemns killing of at least 15 civilians in US drone strike in Afghanistan https://t.co/MzY9yWwBKF

— RT (@RT_com) September 30, 2016

Clinton and the state department held numerous meetings to discuss what could be done about Assange and his site which had already exposed damning military secrets about the war in Afghanistan and Iraq before the promised document dump was to come. The department was under pressure from both the White House and foreign governments to silence Wikileaks.

https://www.rt.com/usa/361459-secretary-clinton-drone-assange/

R.I.P. Scott Walker - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - The Walker Brothers

Scott had one of the greatest singing voices in popular music… so underrated

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Global Waring my ass 2 days ago the sound of rolling thunder was on the street ,, now were snowed it.. FKing idiots