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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: guest55
Date: April 11, 2022, 11:44 am
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Bill Browder on unweaving the global web of money laundering
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> As an early investor in Russian companies following the
breakup of the Soviet Union, financier Bill Browder learned
firsthand how Vladimir Putin's government operated like an
organized crime operation. And when his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky
was tortured and died in a Russian prison for pursuing justice
against government fraud, Browder went on a mission to fight
money laundering, in Moscow and around the globe. Correspondent
Seth Doane talks with Browder, author of "Freezing Order: A True
Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir
Putin's Wrath."
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXSyl2Z_bhQ
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: guest55
Date: April 16, 2022, 2:56 pm
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Gravitas Plus | Explained: Sri Lankan economic crisis
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> Sri Lanka is in middle of an unprecedented economic crisis.
> Colombo has no money, no food, no essential medicines or fuel.
> Food prices have gone up by at least 30%. Who is to be blamed
for this?
> Gotabaya Rajapaksa or China?
> Palki Sharma tells you.
>
> #GravitasPlus #SriLanka #China
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJSsq2fW5ZE
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: guest55
Date: April 21, 2022, 12:13 pm
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TikTok EXPOSES Insurance Racket Costing Us Billions
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> This TikTok of Rep. Katie Porter exposes one of the biggest
rackets there is: Private health insurance. Jordan Uhl breaks it
down on Rebel HQ.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gCkqqqED58
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: guest55
Date: April 22, 2022, 10:42 pm
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And here I was under the impression that this had always been
the case?:
How London became the dirty money capital of the world | FT Film
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> Russian oligarchs and companies have been investing in London
for two decades, encouraged by British politicians of all
stripes, but critics say the 'London laundromat' cleans dirty
money from Russia and across the globe. The FT examines why it
took Russia's invasion of Ukraine to put the issue in the
spotlight and whether new sanctions and measures to tackle the
problem go far enough.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyk12Wf_TeQ
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: guest55
Date: April 24, 2022, 5:39 pm
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Lagarde says inflation in Europe "a different beast" than in
U.S.
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> Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank,
says half of Europe's growing inflation is related to energy
prices, which have "dramatically increased" due to the war in
Ukraine.
>
> #News #Inflation #Ukraine
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZCriIqui1E
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 7, 2022, 8:53 pm
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The following article is a good example of why I find it so hard
to take seriously people from former Western colonial powers who
claim to be in poverty:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/t-heat-food-anymore-middle-195315058.html
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> “I have noticed it recently,” she said. “My kids have left
home and it’s just me and my partner. I’m washing after six now.
We don’t really put the heating on. We wrap. If we put the
heating on to take the cold out of the air, it’s after six and
it’s only for an hour.”
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Wrapping instead of using central heating is what you are
supposed to do anyway! And now you claim to not have enough
money and you still put the central heating on for a whole
hour?! (And the worst part of all: subhumans like these have
kids.)
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> She added: “We’re eating a lot of cold food, so as not to have
to cook.”
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I do this all the time and never imagined anyone would consider
it hardship.
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> Donna’s husband has also begun driving their car to work to
save on the additional diesel consumed when she used to drop him
off each day and then return home.
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Ludicrous. Again, why were you not already doing this in the
past?
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> She is addressing a focus group of nine working-class voters
in Wakefield, all of whom describe their own cut-backs, albeit
to varying degrees, to reduce costs.
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Imagine how they lived before cut-backs! This is why they should
be prohibited from reproducing.
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> Felicity, whose son is living with her whilst studying at
university, said she is spending much of her time switching off
lights in their home and, whilst “the food shop can never go
down in our house, it’s Lidl and Aldi and less of the Marks &
Spencer [and] Waitrose”.
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Huh? Just keep the lights switched off FFS! Besides, Marks &
Spencer and Waitrose should be boycotted anyway:
HTML http://www.inminds.com/article.php?id=10443
HTML https://www.boycottisrael.org.uk/tag/waitrose/
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> Deborah, who works in HR operations, is now using her car only
“if I absolutely have to” in order to save money on fuel.
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Again, how is this not standard practice?
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> Darena, another middle-aged woman from Harrow who cares for
her elderly mother, is using her washing machine and oven only
when she has a full load of items for each appliance.
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And again, why would anyone not always have done this?
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> Peter, a 51-year-old social housing consultant in the London
focus group, said: “My electricity bill for three months is
usually £300 and it was close to £800. It’s an incredible uplift
in expenses.”
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Usually £100 per month electricity?! I don't spend that much on
electricity in a year!
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> Steve, a porter from Wakefield, said: “We’ve just started, if
the kids get cold, reverting back a little bit, like people used
to do back in the day [to] ‘put a jumper on, get a blanket’ or
something like that. It’s not instantly, ‘I’ll put the heating
on and I’ll warm you up’.”
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Yes, this is what you are supposed to do. Also, you are not even
supposed to have kids.
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> Jasmine, 36, from Wakefield, who works in healthcare and has a
young daughter, said: “I’ve made quite a few changes. Because I
drive quite a lot, I’m trying to rely more on car sharing or
using public transport and I’m also pushing to work from home a
little bit more.
>
> “In terms of my heating, I’ve turned it down by degree and I’m
also having it on less. In terms of my washing, I’m trying to
reduce the number of loads, trying not to use the tumble dryer.
And I’m shopping more at budget supermarkets.”
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You are still using central heating? **** you!
And why would you ever use a tumble dryer?!
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg10208/#msg10208
Anyone who uses tumble dryers should not have a daughter (or any
offspring).
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> the Government’s response to the cost of living crisis has
suggested they are “out of touch”
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No, it's Westerners who are out of touch if the above is what
they call a "cost of living crisis". In reality, they are still
living more luxuriously than anyone should be!
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: rp
Date: May 7, 2022, 9:10 pm
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#firstworldproblems
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: guest55
Date: May 13, 2022, 1:16 pm
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Crypto crushed as 'Stablecoin' collapses
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> Cryptocurrencies nursed large losses with Bitcoin set for a
record losing streak as the collapse of TerraUSD, a so-called
stablecoin, rippled through markets.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSyDWujGbqw
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: May 14, 2022, 1:45 pm
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Jewish ex-CEO of Starbucks uses an analogy to suggest he ran
Starbucks like a concentration camp...? This is supposed to be
his way of telling workers not to unionize.
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> Former Starbucks CEO uses Holocaust analogy to describe coffee
company’s mission
>
> Schultz said that the concentration camp story is a tale about
humanity and that Starbucks has a long tradition of doing right
by its employees.
> [...]
> His comments to workers came ahead of a unionization vote by
some workers in Buffalo, New York.
>
> In a video on Starbucks’ YouTube page, Schultz, who is Jewish,
can be seen speaking passionately to employees Saturday. He
refers to a story about Holocaust prisoners at concentration
camps in Poland who had to share their limited resources.
>
> “Not everyone, but most people, shared their blanket with five
other people,” Schultz says, adding that he was inspired to
share his own “blanket” with five other people. “So much of that
story is threaded into what we’ve tried to do at Starbucks — is
share our blanket.”
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HTML https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/former-starbucks-ceo-uses-holocaust-analogy-describe-coffee-companys-m-rcna5170
It sounds like he's describing the living conditions of the
average Starbucks employee. How much of a psychopath does he
have to be to think that was a good thing to say to employees?
He owns around $4 billion and made $1 billion over the course of
the pandemic.
HTML https://www.forbes.com/profile/howard-schultz/
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: May 14, 2022, 2:06 pm
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> The Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman said in an interview that
he didn't know how to live, three weeks after coming under
sanctions, Bloomberg reported.
>
> Fridman, who has a net worth of $10.1 billion, Bloomberg's
Billionaires Index said, was sanctioned by the European Union on
February 28 and by the UK on March 15.
>
> He described the EU's sanctions as "groundless and unfair" at
the time and said he would contest them, Reuters reported.
>
> Since the invasion of Ukraine began, Fridman's wealth dropped
by $4 billion, Bloomberg reported.
> [...]
> Fridman, who lives in the UK, has an allowance of 2,500 pounds
($3,300) per month and has to apply for a license to spend money
before the British government decides how reasonable the request
is, he told Bloomberg.
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HTML https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-oligarch-mikhail-fridman-know-how-to-live-sanctions-putin-2022-3
His "allowance" is the same as the median income in the UK.
Billions in the bank and he could just move to some other
country which allows him to access more of his money, and he yet
he complains.
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> Mikhail Maratovich Fridman is a Ukrainian-born,[8] Russian
oligarch.[9] He also holds Israeli citizenship.[2][3] He
co-founded Alfa-Group, a multinational Russian conglomerate.
According to Forbes, he was the seventh richest Russian as of
2017.[1][10]
> [...]
> In 1996 Fridman was one of the founders of the Russian Jewish
Congress,[9] and he has been active in it since then,[192]
including having been its vice president and head of its
cultural committee.[29] He is a major donor to the European
Jewish Fund, which promotes inter-religious dialogue.[9] In
2007,[193] Fridman along with Stan Polovets, Alexander Knaster,
Petr Aven, and German Khan founded the Genesis Philanthropy
Group, whose purpose is to develop and enhance Jewish identity
among Russian-speaking Jews worldwide.[194][193][195] The
Genesis Prize, which the group founded in 2012, is a
million-dollar annual prize for Jewish contributions to
humanity.[194][9] Fridman was also one of the major funders of
the Holocaust memorial project at Babi Yar in Kyiv, Ukraine,
which was launched in 2016.[196][191]
> [...]
> Fridman was based for many years in Moscow, often spending
time in European cities such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, and
Hamburg.[28][232] In 2015 he moved to London,[192][1][233] and
by 2016 had purchased Athlone House for £65 million to be his
primary residence.[234][235]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Fridman
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> 2016-2017 – It is reported in several media outlets that there
had been activity between computer servers belonging to
Alfa-Bank and the Trump Organization.[30][31][32] The FBI
investigated the activity in the context of links between Trump
associates and Russian officials and concluded that there were
no such links[33] and that there might be "an innocuous
explanation, like marketing email or spam".[34] Through
September 2021, U.S. government investigators had been unable to
explain the activity, though a 2018 analysis had concluded there
were "reasons to doubt that marketing emails were the cause". A
Senate report accepted the FBI's assessment that the activity
was "unlikely to have been a covert communications channel" but
said there was no explanation for this "unusual activity."[35]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa-Bank
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