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Post by baggins on May 24, 2021 5:04:31 GMT
This deserves greater coverage. It's on SKY News this Morning. |
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Post by Gassy on May 31, 2021 7:06:10 GMT
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Post by stuart1974 on May 31, 2021 9:53:49 GMT
Happens a lot, I recall this from a few years ago. Unless you are in a pact such as 5 Eyes, then just being allies won't prevent each other's security services being interested. |
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Post by Gassy on May 31, 2021 10:34:52 GMT
Happens a lot, I recall this from a few years ago. Unless you are in a pact such as 5 Eyes, then just being allies won't prevent each other's security services being interested. Fair point. But phone tapping? |
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Post by stuart1974 on May 31, 2021 11:47:17 GMT
Happens a lot, I recall this from a few years ago. Unless you are in a pact such as 5 Eyes, then just being allies won't prevent each other's security services being interested. Fair point. But phone tapping? Old-school but effective. Difficult to replace human eyes and ears. |
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Post by baggins on May 31, 2021 12:14:46 GMT
Fair point. But phone tapping? Old-school but effective. Difficult to replace human eyes and ears. North Korea do it all the time. |
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Post by matealotblue on May 31, 2021 12:14:46 GMT
Happens a lot, I recall this from a few years ago. Unless you are in a pact such as 5 Eyes, then just being allies won't prevent each other's security services being interested. Indeed. Just been reading “The spy and the traitor” by Ben McIntyre regarding Oleg Gordievsky. Surprising how intertwined all these spy bodies are. Good book, excellent author and well worth a read to open eyes as to what goes on out there.....and that involved Denmark spies as well. Stay safe.....🤔 |
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Post by stuart1974 on Jun 4, 2021 22:06:55 GMT
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Post by oldie on Jun 5, 2021 7:53:50 GMT
Given that a huge proportion if multi national companies are American, this will be a huge boost for the USA and a disaster for countries like Ireland |
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Post by stuart1974 on Jun 5, 2021 12:19:41 GMT
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Post by peterparker on Jun 6, 2021 6:57:32 GMT
Given that a huge proportion if multi national companies are American, this will be a huge boost for the USA and a disaster for countries like Ireland That depends i guess. Corporation Tax is 21% and Biden apparently wants to raise to 28%. Apparently it was as high as 35% so I guess there will still be incentive for many companies to stay in other places |
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Post by baggins on Jun 8, 2021 17:32:54 GMT
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Post by Gassy on Jun 15, 2021 9:39:53 GMT
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Post by baggins on Jun 18, 2021 8:15:37 GMT
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Post by stuart1974 on Jun 23, 2021 8:44:21 GMT
Not looking good for HK, glad we've opened the door to some of them. "Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy paper Apple Daily has announced its closure, in a blow to media freedom in the city. The publication's offices were raided last week over allegations that several reports had breached a controversial national security law. Company-linked assets worth HK$18m ($2.3m; £1.64m) were later frozen. Police also detained its chief editor and five other executives. The tabloid has been critical of the Hong Kong and Chinese leadership. Its founder Jimmy Lai is already in jail on a string of charges." www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57578926 |
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Post by oldie on Jun 23, 2021 9:08:03 GMT
Not looking good for HK, glad we've opened the door to some of them. "Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy paper Apple Daily has announced its closure, in a blow to media freedom in the city. The publication's offices were raided last week over allegations that several reports had breached a controversial national security law. Company-linked assets worth HK$18m ($2.3m; £1.64m) were later frozen. Police also detained its chief editor and five other executives. The tabloid has been critical of the Hong Kong and Chinese leadership. Its founder Jimmy Lai is already in jail on a string of charges." www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57578926Its over for Hong Kong. If HSBC had any balls, they would pull their operations there. |
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Post by stuart1974 on Jun 23, 2021 11:54:41 GMT
Hmm! 🤔 "Russia used bombs and gunfire in “warning shots” against a British Navy destroyer in the Black Sea, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Wednesday. A Su-24 aircraft dropped four bombs in waters near the Royal Navy destroyer H.M.S. Defender and a border patrol ship fired its gun to divert it after the British vessel entered Russia’s territorial waters off Crimea and refused to heed radio warnings, the ministry said, according to the Interfax news service. Russia alleged the ship was 3 kilometers (2 miles) into its waters near Cape Fiolent, south of its naval base in Sevastopol, when the incident occurred around noon local time. The Defender reversed course and left Russian waters within four minutes of the bombing, the ministry said." www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-23/russia-fires-warning-shots-at-british-warship-in-black-sea?sref=kA4qi9KT&utm_source=upday&utm_medium=referralUpdate via the BBC: "But the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said "no warning shots have been fired at HMS Defender". It added that the ship was sailing in Ukrainian waters. "The Royal Navy ship is conducting innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters in accordance with international law," the MoD said. The MoD said the Russians were carrying out a gunnery exercise in the Black Sea and provided prior warning of their activity. "No shots were directed at HMS Defender and we do not recognise the claim that bombs were dropped in her path," it added." www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57583363 |
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Post by stuart1974 on Jun 27, 2021 20:18:08 GMT
Macron and Le Pen not doing well, "President Macron's party was already sidelined in these elections after its poor showing in the first round. Marine Le Pen's also scored badly last Sunday, but she at least had hopes of picking up one region - which would have been a first and a boost for her presidential bid. It didn't happen - once again her voters stayed away from the polls - and overall these elections have been a big disappointment for the hard right. The winners are the mainstream right whose candidates held on easily to the regions they already controlled. One of them the former minister Xavier Bertrand, whose fief is the northern Hauts-de-France region, is now openly a candidate for the presidency next year." www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57631418 |
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