✈️ Qantas Faces ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in Fines over Already-Canceled Flights - 🇦🇺Consumer Watchdog Warns

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) wants Qantas to be dealt a record fine for a consumer law breach if its allegations about the airline's canceled advertised tickets proves to be true.

The watchdog has launched Federal Court action claiming the troubled airline engaged in false, misleading or deceptive conduct after continuing to sell thousands of tickets that were already canceled.

It is seeking penalties, injunctions, declarations and costs that would ‘deter’ future offences by companies.

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🚩 Thai 🇹🇭King Commutes Former PM Thaksin Shinawatra’s Jail Term to One-Year Within Days of Former Leader Returning from 15 Years of Self-Imposed Exile

He was sentenced to an 8-year prison sentence on his return to the country on Aug 22 - before petitioning for a royal pardon.

Shinawatra fled Thailand in 2008 to avoid corruption charges after he was ousted in a 2006 military coup.

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As 🇬🇧 Crime Rate Rockets with Police Solving Just 10% of Cases – the UK Govt Quietly Speeds Through AI Tools for “Your Protection" 👀

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☄️ Brent Crude Futures Shoot Up $1 to 87.83 per Barrel

On Thursday Russia announced it was cutting back supplies to foreign markets from next week.

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🛍 Germany’s 🇩🇪Right-Wing AfD Eclipses Conservatives to Easily Top Recent Poll

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is polling at 35% in the populous eastern state of Saxony, forging ahead of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) on 29%.

A total of 9% those surveyed would vote for the hard-left Die Linke (The Left) party, 7% for the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), 6% for the Greens and 5% for the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP).

The numbers would not be enough for the current governing coalition of the CDU, SPD and Greens in Saxony to continue. Will any of the establishment bow to voter power and form a coalition with AfD?

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Poland 🇵🇱 and South Korea 🇰🇷 to Hold Joint Military “Autumn Fire” Exercises in 🇵🇱

Poland’s Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak and his South Korean counterpart Lee Jong-Sup held talks in Warsaw on security and support for Ukraine as well as on further cooperation in the armaments sector.

Blaszczak said that a joint exercise called Autumn Fire beginning Sept 17 will be held by Poland’s armed forces, using recently purchased South Korean armaments.

He also said that steps are being taken to allow for some of the equipment made in 🇰🇷 to be produced in 🇵🇱.

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🧐Reversing Colonialism Domino Effect: 110 Years on from a Resources Grab Across a Whole Continent

Africa is leaving the US/EU and turning to Russia and China.

Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Gabon… will the domino effect continue?

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🇨🇳-🇮🇳Border Map Feud: Beijing Tells New Delhi to “Stay Calm”

The response came after New Delhi registered a “strong” diplomatic objection following the release of a map which asserts ownership over territories in the Himalayas to China.

Beijing said that neighboring nations should avoid “over-interpreting” the matter after Taiwan, the Philippines and Malaysia lodged rejections to the new “standard” map.

🇨🇳’s Ministry of Natural Resources released a map Monday showing 🇮🇳’s Arunachal Pradesh and the hotly disputed Aksai Chin area as 🇨🇳– it also included 🇹🇼 and the entire South China Sea as Chinese territories.

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Soros Heir Confirms His Org is "Not Leaving Europe” 🤬

Alex Soros, who recently took over leadership of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) from his father George – has insisted his org will remain very much engaged in Europe, in an opinion piece for Politico.

Earlier reports had indicated that the OSF was to end a large part of its European ops – causing widespread delight to anyone not on the far-left.

He did admit that OSF will engage in new European domains – specifically looking to operate in countries that are working towards EU accession, especially in the Balkans.

A Soros-backed company has recently taken a majority shareholding in the daily Rzeczpospolita, hr confirmed - one of the most influential newspapers in Poland, just weeks before national elections.

The election meddling is neverending…

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ICYMI: 🇮🇹Italy’s PM Meloni Dropping Some French 🇫🇷Colonial Truth Bombs 🔥

‘The solution is not to take the Africans and bring them to Europe. The solution is to free Africa from certain Europeans who exploit it…’

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🇨🇦’s Economy💲Unexpectedly Shrinks in Q2 – Recession Ahoy?

Canada's economy contracted by 0.2%, data showed Friday - a result that will probably allow the central bank to hold rates amid a possible recession.

The second-quarter reading was far lower than the Bank of Canada's forecast for a 1.5% annualized GDP growth.

The quarterly slowdown was largely due to declines in housing investment and smaller inventory accumulation as well as slower international exports and household spending, Statistics Canada said.

Time’s up for Trudeau? 

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