The IALPA (Irish pilots) settlement with Ryanair 6 Sept is to be ratified by Ryanair board and shareholders for the contract to take effect.

Interested unions across the EU have little confidence in this model of collective bargaining. Investor advisors have little confidence in this model. Several have publicly issued recommendations on the board's agenda and composition.

Now the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA) has added its market power to denouncing the legitimacy of Ryanair leadership and cut to the chase.

Pilots urge Ryanair shareholders to replace chairman and chief executive

Tomorrow is Ryaniar's annual shareholder meeting (AGM).

Employee activism in this sphere is a direct result of defects in Art. 153.


Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

PARIS -- Emmanuel Macron is deploying major tax cuts in his next budget to try to rev up the economy and lift his drooping approval scores -- but the headwinds are getting stronger.

The pro-business French president on Monday unveiled tax cuts worth as much as €26 billion for workers and employers, in the most substantial one-time reduction France has seen in more than a decade.

The cuts, which mainly target employers, fit into a strategy of making work pay more in a country where labor costs are high and unemployment -- currently stuck above 9 percent -- is plaguing the presidency.

But to pay for his cuts, Macron is hitting the less productive sections of society: Pensions are to be capped, as are welfare benefits, and public sector jobs are to be axed, according to a sneak peek of the budget provided Sunday by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.

AfD says German state, media favor the left -- do they?
"The term 'extremism' can be used in many ways."
AfD Plans for Jewish Section
"some Jewish members who are drawn to its rhetoric against Muslim immigrants."
German Protestant Church rules out AfD politicians as speakers at congress
"The congress is about listening, but I don't want to listen to Mr. Gauland"

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Recently, though, the Fed has begun reporting more detailed equity-finance flows, which break out the net issue figure into gross issues, repurchases, and retirements by acquisition. And it turns out that while buybacks are substantial, acquisitions are actually a bigger factor in negative net stock issues. Over the past 20 years, gross equity issues have averaged 1.9 percent of GDP, repurchases have averaged 1.7 percent of GDP, and retirements via acquisitions just over 2 percent of GDP. So if we look only at corporations' transactions in their own stock, it seems that that the stock market still is -- barely -- a net source of funds. For the corproate sector as a whole, of course, it is still the case that the stock market is, in Jeff Spross' memorable phrase, a giant money hose to nowhere.

Witness the witch-hunts against refugees and immigrants, the willful abandonment by the "MeToo" zealots of our oldest freedom, presumption of innocence, the anti-Russia racism and anti-Brexit hysteria, the growing anti-China campaign and the suppression of a warning of world war.

Thousands at risk from rightwing push to purge eligible voters from US rolls | The Gurdian |

In June last year, Luis, a resident of Virginia, was astonished to discover that his name and personal details, including home address, had been posted on the internet by a group known as the Public Interest Legal Foundation (Pilf).

Luis's data had been released by the group, along with hundreds of other names, as an appendix to Pilf's two-part report called "Alien Invasion". The front cover showed a UFO hovering ominously over a billboard on which the famous tourism slogan "Virginia is for lovers" had been photoshopped to read: "Virginia is for aliens".

In lurid language, Pilf claimed that it had uncovered proof that "large numbers of ineligible aliens are registering to vote and casting ballots". It warned its readers: "Your vote is at risk. New alien voters are being added to the rolls month after month, and swift changes must be made to ensure that only Americans are choosing American leaders."

Footnote NY Times on collusion Trump with Putin ...

○ No public evidence has emerged showing Trump's campaign conspired with Russia | NY Times |

'Sapere aude'

○ Trump: 'I could be persuaded' to change mind on Kavanaugh after hearing | CNBC |
○ Trump says 'may change mind' on Kavanaugh on eve of Senate hearing | France24 |

'Sapere aude'

"This case is one of those disputes," Sullivan stated in his 58-page ruling.

A Fairfax County focus group this summer found many college students who have gotten an absentee ballot simply fail to send it back because a U.S. Postal Service stamp seems to be a foreign concept to them.

"One thing that came up, which I had heard from my own kids but I thought they were just nerdy, was that the students will go through the process of applying for a mail-in absentee ballot, they will fill out the ballot, and then, they don't know where to get stamps," Lisa Connors with the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs said.

Meanwhile, US evacuated Daesh (IS/ISIS/ISIL/al-NUSTRA/al-Q*in*) commanders from Idlib.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Israel and Russia never had a closer, more intense relationship. Ever since the Russians first settled down right in the heart of Israel's most sensitive front, Netanyahu has been a regular visitor to the Kremlin. He sees Putin more frequently than he meets with Israel's natural ally, Trump. Senior Israeli intelligence, security and military officials visit Moscow frequently, and these visits are reciprocated. The possibility that the Americans have expressed concern about this intense cooperation between Israeli and Russian security forces should not be ruled out, which is why Israel updates Washington whenever any progress is made in the romance between Russia and Israel. Now is the moment that the Americans have been waiting for. It turns out that the romance between Netanyahu and Putin was fake all along. It was marginal and far less important than the real romance between Putin and the Assad regime, and with Iran and Hezbollah. Netanyahu was the kind of lover that Putin threw under the bus at the first sign of crisis.

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Given this hindsight, the chattering of the political class, their boastful statements, their boastfulness and their smugness are now being subjected to scathing criticism in Israel. Many politicians, including the prime minister, have boasted about Israel's attacks in Syrian territory time and again, instead of embracing Israel's long-standing tradition of radio silence -- and public silence, too. Now this is all exploding in the Israelis' faces.

Millions of Americans will confront similarly hard choices as climate change conjures up brutal storms, flooding rains, receding coastlines and punishing heat. Many are already opting to shift to less perilous areas of the same city, or to havens in other states. Whole towns from Alaska to Louisiana are looking to relocate, in their entirety, to safer ground.

The era of climate migration is, virtually unheralded, already upon America.

The population shift gathering pace is so sprawling that it may rival anything in US history. "Including all climate impacts it isn't too far-fetched to imagine something twice as large as the Dustbowl," said Jesse Keenan, a climate adaptation expert at Harvard University, referencing the 1930s upheaval in which 2.5 million people moved from the dusty, drought-ridden plains to California.

The plant represents a critical step in the Moroccan Solar Energy Program, which aims to generate 42 percent of its electrical power from renewable energy by 2020, and 52 percent by 2030.

"We know that men have been ashore from German submarine boats, for they have been in New York and other places. It would be quite easy for one of these German agents to turn loose Spanish influenza germs in a theatre or some other place where large numbers of persons are assembled.

"The Germans have started epidemics in Europe,and there is no reason why they should be particularly gentle with America. Of course, there is no way of proving that the disease was started here by German submarine agents, but it is well within the range of possibility."

BREAKING: Elon Musk has been sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission https://t.co/cVsrmBIaF6

— Bloomberg (@business) 27. September 2018