News and notes from around the interweb:
- Whistleblower fears for life after exposing Adani’s Kenyan airport deal
Nelson Amenya, the whistleblower who spilled the beans on confidential talks about a possible takeover of Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by Adani Group, is now worried about his safety.
Back in July, Amenya went public with documents revealing that the Adani Group was in talks for a 30-year lease of Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta airport.
- Bangkok airport eliminated fast track immigration for arriving premium passengers back in August but in typical Thai fashion that decision has been reversed. Reader Don shares,
Thailand immigration reinstates Priority lane for Biz and FC arriving passengers. Just went thru and the Priority Lane for immigration has returned.
- Pro-tip: it doesn’t always take as long as the time quoted, even just a third of it, however:
[Y]ou’ve already eaten a bunch of the mediocre buffet food by then.
Wait time for SFO Polaris dining room
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- And we’re giving Eric Adams a hard time over Turkish Airlines business class upgrades…?
Ok we all saw the French Laundry connection coming… https://t.co/se5fOVwq64
— Lee Hepner (@LeeHepner) September 30, 2024
“Whistleblower fears for life after exposing Adani’s Kenyan airport deal”
And that was unexpected?
It wouldn’t have been possible to hide for very long the corrupt Modi-fanboy-and-fellow-Gujaratis’ involvement in trying to lock in this deal in Kenya. But an airport deal like this there was likely to be questionable regardless of foreign investor play.
The problem in NYC was the paying player : foreign state consulate and state-owned airline .
NYC was so moronic , it wanted “chump change” airline and hotel upgrades , in a third-class smelly Istanbul .
@GU … the Kenyan politicians are similar to NYC in that regard .
Dining delayed is dining denied.
No justice, no peas.
Regrading the California bill, it’s just a small joy from the Citizens United decision, where everybody’s dollars are equal. Oh, wait…and we are still talking about corruption in other countries?
Probability of BA canceling your flight/downgrading you and or losing your luggage so high would not fly BA even if Award seat available
And yet Newsom lectures the rest of us about values and morals. Politicians suck.
@ drrichard. So, in theory, your contempt would focus on the one doing the bribe, but not the one taking it? I expect people waiting in a retsurant queue might try to jump the queue with a bribe/tip. My contempt is 90% directed at a host that takes the bribe and lets them jump the queue.
Whistleblower denotes something illegal, and discussions about privatization that took place with many parties is not against the law and in fact would be a great boon for Kenya and NBO. Anybody who doubts this should compare BOM before and after Adani began managing it. The only people opposing this will be the unions and bureaucrats who prefer the status quo which has allowed them to skim with both hands for decades which the privatization of NBO would bring to a halt.