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It is expected to be implemented in 18 months and would be the world's largest free trade zone in terms of the participating countries. Forty-four African countries signed a free trade agreement Wednesday to boost intra-continental trade. Known as the African Continental Free Trade Area, or CFTA, the agreement was signed at an African Union (AU) summit in the Rwandan capital Kigali, as part of the 10th Extraordinary Session of the Assembly.    It is expected to be implemented in 18 months and would create the world's largest free trade zone based on the number of participating countries. " Our peoples, our business community and our youth, in particular, cannot wait any longer to see the lifting of the barriers that divide our continent, hinder its economic takeoff and perpetuate misery, " said, AU Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat, according to Deutsche Welle News. Nigeria excused itself from the pan Africa tr

Upon Harold Martin’s arrest in 2016, an Obama administration official said his case was being kept under wraps “to keep this guy from becoming another NSA martyr.” The tactic seems to be have paid dividends. by Whitney Webb Part 3 - The Shadow Brokers: love of money or country? In August 2016, in the aftermath of the DNC leaks among others, the group known as Shadow Brokers made its debut, releasing computer exploits that the NSA had kept hidden from the public as well as auctioning off access to an encrypted file also containing NSA data to the highest bidder. More releases soon followed, including numerous tools developed by the NSA’s elite hacking group, Tailored Access Operations (TAO). The fact that they apparently sought not to divulge the information from the public at large — instead choosing to auction it off — as well as the fact that some of the tools they have released were later used by others for nefarious purposes, initially suggested that the Shad

The last thing Saudi Arabia and its Western allies want is a self-sustaining, economically viable, militarily strong, and anti-imperialist Yemen at the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula, controlling the Red Sea and its strategic waterways. Yemen’s geographic placement in regards to the flow of world capital cannot be stressed enough. by Randi Nord Part 7 - Responding to accusations of Iranian influence in Yemen The accusation of Iran’s supporting of Ansarullah in Yemen serves a few purposes that benefit Saudi Arabia and Western powers. Not only does it publicly justify foreign intervention in Yemen, but al-Houthi says it also helps improve Riyadh’s public image. “ The Saudi regime is working day and night to improve its image in order to avoid extradition of the perpetrators of the events of September 11 and to draw attention away from its crimes and terrorism acts against all the people in the region and the Yemeni people in particular. This is also to deceive the w

globinfo freexchange As expected, following the orders of his Wall Street mafia buddies (obviously), Donald Trump finally decided to take action against Venezuelan Petro Cryptocurrency, by " prohibiting 'all transactions' with 'any digital currency' issued by the Venezuelan government. " Recall that after the Wall Street mafia declared war on Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies in at least three cases , it was the turn of Facebook to obey by choosing the camp of Western banking cabal against Cryptocurrencies. Yet, new revelations provide evidence that the US deep state was about to take action against Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies at least since 2013. As reported by The Intercept : Classified documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden show that the National Security Agency indeed worked urgently to target bitcoin users around the world — and wielded at least one mysterious sou

The United States Senate killed a resolution introduced by Independent Senator Bernie Sanders and Republican Senator Mike Lee to withdraw U.S. military support for the Saudi war in Yemen. By a vote of 55-44, the resolution was tabled. A simple majority was required to kill the resolution. If ten Democrats who voted to kill the resolution had instead voted no, an extraordinary debate on Saudi Arabia and U.S. support for the war in Yemen would have taken place . Democratic Senators Christopher Coons, Catherine Cortez Masto, Joe Donnelly, Heidi Heitkamp, Doug Jones, Joe Manchin, Robert Menendez, Bill Nelson, Jack Reed, and Sheldon Whitehouse each voted against debating whether to exercise Congress’s war powers under the Constitution. The outcome was similar to a vote on a resolution introduced by Republican Senator Rand Paul to oppose the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia. It failed by four votes, and if five Democrats had not voted to preserve the arms deals,

« Εκλεισαν με θόρυβο την πόρτα της Προανακριτικής για να ανοίξουν το παράθυρο της παραγραφής »: Αυτό το σχόλιο κοινοβουλευτικού στελέχους, που τυγχάνει και έμπειρος νομικός, μάλλον αποτυπώνει τα πολιτικά κίνητρα και τις απώτερες επιδιώξεις πίσω από τον τορπιλισμό της Προανακριτικής Επιτροπής για την Novartis στον οποίο προχώρησαν συντεταγμένα χθες Νέα Δημοκρατία και Δημοκρατική Συμπαράταξη. Οι βουλευτές των δύο κομμάτων, όπως και εκείνοι της Ενωσης Κεντρώων, αποχώρησαν από την Προανακριτική Επιτροπή καταγγέλλοντας την κυβέρνηση ότι δεν επιθυμεί την ουσιαστική διερεύνηση της υπόθεσης. Αυτή η ουσιαστική διερεύνηση, όπως τουλάχιστον την προσδιορίζουν ΝΔ και ΔΗΣΥ, θα έπρεπε να περιλαμβάνει την αναλυτική εξέταση όλων των στοιχείων της δικογραφίας, καθώς και των προστατευόμενων μαρτύρων. Η κυβέρνηση, ωστόσο, χαρακτηρίζει προσχηματικό το εν λόγω αίτημα και απαντά πως ο πραγματικός στόχος των κομμάτων της αντιπολίτευσης είναι να παραμείνει η υπόθεση στην Βουλή προκε

Σε μία πολύκροτη αποκάλυψη προχώρησε κατά την κατάθεσή του ο Παύλος Πολάκης. Όπως γνωστοποίησε ο αν. υπουργός, στο ΚΕΕΛΠΝΟ εντοπίστηκε ταμειακό κενό ύψους 230 εκατ. ευρώ για την περίοδο 2007 έως 2014, με τον κ. Πολάκη να ζητά άμεση παρέμβαση εισαγγελέα. Στην εισαγωγική του τοποθέτηση, ανέφερε πως η «μαύρη τρύπα» ανακαλύφθηκε πριν από 10 μέρες, καθώς δεν υπήρχαν συγκεντρωμένα λογιστικά στοιχεία του ΚΕΕΛΠΝΟ κυρίως από το 2011 και έπειτα. Συγκεκριμένα, έκανε λόγο για «κρύψιμο στοιχείων» που προκαλούσε εμπόδια στην έρευνα που διεξαγόταν, με αποτέλεσμα «δεν μπορούσαμε να έχουμε την εικόνα του όλου». Κατά τα λεγόμενά του, μέχρι το 2011 το ΚΕΕΛΠΝΟ τηρούσε λογιστικά βιβλία, ωστόσο, από το 2011 και μετά το συγκεκριμένο λογισμικό πρόγραμμα απεγκαταστάθηκε και για το 2013 – 2014 υπάρχουν μόνο φύλλα excel για τη ροή του δημόσιου χρήματος στο Κέντρο. « Από το 2007 έως το 2014 στο ΚΕΕΛΠΝΟ εισήλθαν εισροές με όρους πραγματικού χρήματος -μπήκαν λεφτά δηλαδή- 750.304.452 εκατ

Upon Harold Martin’s arrest in 2016, an Obama administration official said his case was being kept under wraps “to keep this guy from becoming another NSA martyr.” The tactic seems to be have paid dividends. by Whitney Webb Part 2 - Hoarder or whistleblower? While most recent reporting on Martin’s case has focused exclusively on legal proceedings and how Martin will plead, there has been little examination of the facts that don’t seem to fit with Martin’s portrayal as a loner with a hoarding disorder. According to court documents, Martin’s case is just as complex as the man himself, making it difficult to ascribe his intent. For one thing, Martin’s habit of taking government documents home remained undetected for over 20 years – even after tightening of security following the Snowden leaks – and he extensively used “ sophisticated encryption, anonymization, and virtual machine technologies ” to hide his actions online. He also possessed “ remote data storage a

The last thing Saudi Arabia and its Western allies want is a self-sustaining, economically viable, militarily strong, and anti-imperialist Yemen at the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula, controlling the Red Sea and its strategic waterways. Yemen’s geographic placement in regards to the flow of world capital cannot be stressed enough. by Randi Nord Part 6 - Ansarullah leader submits peace plan to United Nations The official statement opens by pointing out that the Security Council has failed to prevent “ daily massacres against citizens in Yemen ” and has essentially given up their responsibility in this matter. It reiterates the SC’s legal and moral responsibility to prevent further deterioration of the humanitarian crisis. The six-point plan includes a concrete basis for building peace in Yemen without influence from foreign entities. The plan suggests initiating national elections for a governing body that includes all parties, granting amnesty to political prison