More Money For Coup Groups From US Agency For International Development By Nan McCurdy, AFGJ.org. November 18, 2020 More Money For Coup Groups From US Agency For International Development2020-11-182020-11-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/nicacoup.jpg200px200px Above photo: Right wingers supporting the coup attempt. Reuters. Organizations that led the coup attempt in 2018 against the constitutional government of President Daniel Ortega, continue to receive foreign funding from the United States and some European […]
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By Sajjad Shaukat Pak VT For years, India has been lobbying the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international watchdog, to blacklist Pakistan, accusing Islamabad of using the banking system to sponsor terrorism. Pakistan has been on the grey list of the FATF since June 2018. In this regard, some Western countries and particularly India have been calling on Islamabad to take action against the terror […]
Describing the reveal regarding the Biden family’s alleged activities, Stear called it “the biggest political story” of his lifetime. Following the emergence of media reports about Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in the business dealings of his son Hunter during Obama’s presidency, US commentator Christopher Stear recently drew comparisons between the Biden family and a fictional mafia clan from a certain HBO series. While speaking to Sky […]
As well as making cryptocurrency transactions, the man is alleged to have bought luxury cars and property to launder funds. Source link
The New York Times, whose article last month on Donald Trump’s tax filings set off a firestorm of accusations, now says there’s no evidence the president owes money to Russia, and any suggestions otherwise are conspiracy theories. David Enrich, the newspaper’s business investigations editor, detailed in an article Tuesday some of the rumors that have been lobbed around by Democrats since the Times reported that Trump […]
Ten years ago, humanity wrestled with a generational crisis named COVID-19. In the wake of the pandemic and its cataclysmic fallout, seismic changes occurred and a wellspring of ideas burst forth. The weaknesses of our society laid bare, people were freed to think differently about the social contract. Conversations around the function of money and who controlled its minting began, triggered by the unprecedented money printing […]
Payments company Square’s announcement that it would put some $50 million, or 1% of its assets, into bitcoin has touched off speculation that more corporations might do the same. Jack Dorsey, the Twitter CEO who also helms Square, is a longtime bitcoin bull, so it wasn’t a huge surprise his company would put some of its corporate liquidity into the cryptocurrency. He’s following the path of MicroStrategy […]
The Money Reimagined Podcast After reading this newsletter, make sure you check out the latest edition of our podcast. This week, Sheila Warren and I talk to Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf about self-sovereign identity, the topic of the column below. A developer whose three-decade career has seen him deeply involved in efforts to foster a more open internet, Brian grasps, like few others, the nuances […]
Missile Defense Has Bipartisan Support Even Though It Wastes Money By Subrata Ghoshroy, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. October 6, 2020 Missile Defense Has Bipartisan Support Even Though It Wastes Money2020-10-062020-10-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/missile-e1602009277137.jpg200px200px Above photo: The Nike Zeus antiballistic missile system, developed in the 1950s and 1960s, was designed to defend against a Soviet nuclear attack against the US mainland. It was never deployed. Public domain. The program to […]
In the year 2030, if we do this right, money, the foundation of our economy and civilization will be unrecognizable. As a society we have grown so accustomed to the status quo of today’s money – fiat currencies issued and controlled by governments and central banks – that we forget money periodically goes through a great upheaval. We are on the brink of one of these […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/03/1080652941_0:0:2500:1408_1200x675_80_0_0_e4a06f45827b69f733adba89c290b4f0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202010031080652976-sex-pistols-star-lauds-trumps-ability-to-put-money-in-peoples-pockets-as-potus-gets-covid-19/ Having described how Trump’s actions affect the situation in the United States, Lyndon remarked that he doesn’t care “how many scandals” the POTUS is “involved with”. John Lydon, famous English musician and Sex Pistols’ lead singer, recently offered a positive assessment of Donald Trump’s conduct as President of the United States, the Daily Mail reports. According to the newspaper, […]
Undercover videos published by Project Veritas over the weekend allege, citing a Somali political operative, that special ballot harvesters were hired in the community in July for the Democrats to take advantage of elderly and other vulnerable community members. The politicians named in the allegations have denied them. Minneapolis police have started investigating reports of voter fraud after an undercover video emerged allegedly featuring associates of […]
Donald Trump is looting America! pic.twitter.com/ZuQUw7956U — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 28, 2020 Trump is a fraud #TrumpTaxReturns pic.twitter.com/AOhJeQqYbt — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 28, 2020 Looks like @IvankaTrump will be going to jail for a very long time. #ByeIvanka pic.twitter.com/W4aG9BPacW — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 28, 2020 https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1310591272957087744?s=20 VT Editors is a General Posting account managed by Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff. All content herein is owned […]
Before we get into this week’s column, an announcement, one I’m super excited about. Today, we’re simultaneously launching a new podcast under the same name as this newsletter: CoinDesk’s Money Reimagined. Like the newsletter, it’s a conversation around the technological, political and social forces reshaping our financial system. For each show, I’ll be joined by the tremendous Sheila Warren, blockchain lead at the World Economic Forum, […]
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9pUq3FXLaifk/ Dr. David Martin founded M·CAM® in 1998 and has served as its CEO and Chairman since that time. M·CAM® has been an international intangible asset underwriter and analyst firm spanning work in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance. Dr. Martin is the developer of several innovation-based quantitative indices of public equities and is the Founder of the Purple Bridge Funds. He managed the […]
The massive leak of suspicious activity reports shows how banks let the government know about likely money laundering, then go right on providing services. The FinCEN Files are a leaked cache of suspicious activity reports filed by banks with the U.S .Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The more than 2,000 files, representing $2 trillion in transactions, were leaked to BuzzFeed News more than a year ago. BuzzFeed, […]
BITCHUTE (STEELE CENSORED BY YOUTUBE: https://www.bitchute.com/video/JLPB88zjwi8g/ Connect with Robert at https://robertdavidsteele.com See the tag cloud and free online chapters at https://pedoempire.org Study Wall Street crime at https://stopnakedshortselling.org Robert David Steele is the conceptualizer of integrated election reform (#UNRIG) and the integration of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) such that we can achieve a prosperous world at peace at 10-20% the […]
Haunting red skies, a mounting death toll and a giant swath of smoldering devastation across 12 western U.S. states compels us to talk this week about climate change and what it means for the cryptocurrency industry. Because, whether you like it or not, both of those things are not going away. Sadly, the overlap between people working in crypto and people working to contain climate change […]
YouTube The people behind the Guinness World Records used to make money by, well, selling books. But with the rise of the Internet came a decline in book sales, and so they had to create a new business model — selling publicity. This is the story of how Guinness (yeah, like the brewery) got into the business of record-breaking, and how one Planet Money intern broke […]
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For Australians of my generation, historian Geoffrey Blainey’s phrase the “tyranny of distance” was the defining descriptor of our place in the world, a place that seemed awfully far from everyone else. In September of 2020, with hundreds of millions of broadband-connected homes using global video-conferencing services like Zoom and with remote work the norm for white-collar workers everywhere, we might believe distance is now a […]
Hedge fund manager Arca is stepping up its campaign to overhaul Gnosis, claiming the decentralized exchange and prediction market platform has deviated from its original mission. The post describes Gnosis’ $12.5 million 2017 token sale (which valued the project at $300 million) as an “interest-free loan.” After borrowing the money, the team “failed to deliver the products laid out in its fundraising whitepaper,” Arca contends. The […]
Whether the U.S. government likes it or not, the world is demanding crypto-dollars and the private market is ready to supply them. In it, Carter argues that rather than fight the tide, the U.S. government should accept and take advantage of its unique position in the emerging world of global crypto monies. Source link
US’ Theft Of Syrian Oil Has Very Little To Do With Money By Steven Chovanec, Mintpress News. September 4, 2020 US’ Theft Of Syrian Oil Has Very Little To Do With Money2020-09-042020-09-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/ap_19299638952988_edited-e1599260361586.jpg200px200px Above photo: A US military convoy drives the he town of Qamishli, north Syria, by a poster showing Syrain President Bashar Aassad, Oct. 26. 2019.Baderkhan Ahmad | AP. To Capture and Subdue. Years of US […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/04/1080370900_0:0:3217:1809_1200x675_80_0_0_8e52657137f1fad2888b13254d051aa6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009041080370931-trump-says-willing-to-use-300-billion-of-unspent-money-for-covid-19-stimulus/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump said he wants to release an unspent $300 billion to use for coronavirus financial relief if Congress approves the plan. “We have $300 billion in an account that we didn’t use. I would be willing to release it, subject to Congress, and use that as stimulus money, and it will go right […]
Most people would be happy to have World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s wealth, which is reportedly somewhere between $10 million and $60 million. Yet, Berners-Lee’s net worth pales into insignificance against that of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who last week became the first person ever to be worth more than $200 billion. There’s something wrong with this picture. The inventor of an information system […]
Discover, one of the largest US credit card issuers, has blocked donations to GiveSendGo, a crowdfunding site where supporters of Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooter Kyle Rittenhouse have raised nearly $400,000 for his legal defense. The financial services company said it terminated payments to GiveSendGo for violating its operating regulations, Forbes reported Thursday. Discover declined to say what regulations the Christian fund-raising site violated, saying it “makes no […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/03/1080360670_0:0:1201:676_1200x675_80_0_0_408e5812b5a8a4f38e9d7146ee3c6cdb.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202009031080360701-teamwork-makes-the-dream-work-smart-ape-helps-human-friend/ We all need a little bit of help from our friends sometimes. Luckily, our animal pals are there to lend a helping hand on occasion. Footage shared on Twitter captures a chimpanzee and his human friend out on a stroll, walking hand-in-hand as the primate leads the way forward. When it is time for them to climb up to […]
Frances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics. Her book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing” explains how modern money creation and quantitative easing work, and advocates “helicopter money” to help economies out of recession. The Federal Reserve has just announced a change to its inflation targeting regime. Instead of shooting to hit 2% every year, it will […]
The Financial Conduct Authority is seeking to oblige more firms, including some working with cryptocurrency, to report how they manage the risks of financial crime. Source link
On a late afternoon in March, a large military aircraft bearing the Russian Federation insignia descended into John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Its mission: to deliver personal protective equipment and ventilators to nearby hospitals scrambling to treat patients during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Andrew Cuomo had pleaded for weeks with the federal government for additional resources, particularly ventilators, to […]
Kuwait is running out of money for the salaries of public servants and will have no money to cover these after November, the country’s finance minister told parliament. Unless oil prices rise, the money being used now, withdrawals from the General Reserve Fund, will simply be depleted, Middle East Monitor reports, citing the official, Barak Al-Sheeran. Kuwait’s budget deficit hit $18.44 billion in fiscal 2019-2020, which […]
To foretell the future of decentralized finance (DeFi), the exploding new field in which decentralized governance protocols set and execute the terms for lending, borrowing and stablecoin issuance, one should look to the past. Specifically, look to Wall Street’s past. By some measures, DeFi is nothing new. It extends a four-decade cycle of ever-more sophisticated financial engineering – from junk bond financing to collateralized debt obligations […]