Showing posts with label Cyprus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cyprus. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

The price of NATO membership for Sweden and Finland is for them to throw the Kurds under the bus to please Turkey

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 Same as it ever was. The Kurds have been pretty much voiceless in the West since Winston Churchill first threw them under the bus in 1919 a...
Saturday, March 5, 2022

Cyprus has denied five Russian navy ships the right to moor and refuel there, so Cyprus' participation in EU sanctions has real teeth

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 https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/cyprus-forbids-mooring-of-five-russian-navy-ships-this-week-due-to-ukraine-war/ : Even though Russia has si...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

Germany is still hedging on banning Russia from the SWIFT system at this hour after worldwide outcry at EU intransigence two days ago

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And as usual Biden is a follower, not a leader, still mulling over what he should do. Austria, Hungary, France, Italy, Cyprus all have now s...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Rick Gates testimony the complete opposite of MSNBC buffoon Chris Hayes: Manafort working to ally Ukraine with EU not with Kremlin

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From the story here : Gates said that their shell companies in Cyprus had transferred money between themselves in payments disguised...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

AP finally runs story detailing Treasury's leadership of Trump-Russia investigation

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Gee, how does the Treasury Dept. "collect a vast repository of records" in order to "piece money trails together and identi...
Friday, December 19, 2014

America pushes NATO right up to the Russian border, the EU confiscates Cyprus' assets, and the Economist calls Putin paranoid

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Proving once again that the West completely disrespects Russia. They could easily be our friends, if America were still a Christian countr...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Is Crimea Payback For Cyprus?

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I haven't heard anyone say this yet, but Russians lost a lot of money when the EU "bailed out" Cyprus by bailing it in. More t...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Another Gold Bear Recognizes Fair Value Is Below $500 The Ounce

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Noted by Bob Pisani, here : Gold bears like MKM note that if gold had simply moved with the CPI basket since 1913, it would stand at $490 an...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Gold Fell Out Of Bed Today, Dropping 4%

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The carnage continues in after hours trading with spot prices around $1,477 the ounce. It is thought in some quarters that the terms of the ...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Russia Was Just The Excuse For The Eurogroup To Steal From Cyprus

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So says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, here , for the UK Telegraph: "First they purloin the savings and bank deposits in Laiki and the Bank o...
Friday, April 5, 2013

First They Came For Your Silver . . .

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First they came for your silver (1964, last year minted). Then they came for your dollar (1971, final year of dollar convertibility to gold)...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Cyprus: "Punishing A Whole Country Just To Hit Russians"

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'Particularly successful at luring Russians, Cyprus has built up a large infrastructure of lawyers, accountants and other professionals ...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

Why Deposit Confiscation On Cyprus Was Wrong

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Liam Halligan, for the UK Telegraph, here : "Across Cyprus this Easter, hundreds of family-owned businesses are trying to come to terms...
Friday, March 29, 2013

US Bank Failures 2009-2011 See $3.92 Billion In Uninsured Deposits Lost

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Click each to enlarge. Losses from 2012 payoffs remain as yet unconcluded at the FDIC website. These things do take time. "Payoffs...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Wiped-Out Rich Russians In Cyprus' Banks Should Get Remaining Assets In Return

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So Steve Forbes, rightly, here : The deal in Cyprus spares insured deposits, those of less than 100,000 euros. But deposits above that thres...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Uninsured Deposits: Cyprus, Maybe 17 Billion Euros, America, $4.75 Trillion

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All you high rollers had better hope the big banks don't go bust, but that's what the last five years have been all about now, haven...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Uninsured Deposits Make America A Much Bigger Casino Than Cyprus

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According to the FDIC, here , at the end of 2012 there were $7.406 trillion in insured deposits, but that report covers commercial banks onl...

EMU Sees Something Big On Cyprus And Decides To Tax It

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Reuters, here : Cyprus clinched a last-ditch deal with international lenders to shut down its second-largest bank and inflict heavy losses o...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

US Banks Still Keep Literally Trillion$ In Liabilities Hidden Off Balance Sheet

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So said Floyd Norris just last week, for The New York Times, here . And you thought they laundered money only in Cyprus.

Cyprus Bailout Deal Amounts To Robbery Of Ordinary Citizens' Accounts

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The Chair of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, Britain's Liberal Democrat Member of the European Pa...