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Post by vintagecomics on Jul 7, 2023 11:23:29 GMT -8
Meanwhile, in Mexico the cartels have attempted to assassinate a high ranking, Government official.  An assassination attempt on a high-ranking Mexican official has unfolded in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas after the car carrying the state interior minister came under gunfire. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ According to the State's security spokesperson, the motorcade carrying Interior Minister Hector Villegas was attacked on the San Fernando Reynosa Highway, leaving his vehicle riddled with bullet holes. Security officials say the Interior Minister's security detail returned fire on the attackers. The car they were traveling in was armored, which they credited with saving his life.https://www.instagram.com/p/CuQF_AWPjiK |
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Post by vintagecomics on Jul 7, 2023 12:34:11 GMT -8
Blackstone, who owns CGC, now owns your DNA data if you sent it to Ancestry.com Ancestry sold it for $5BIL What could go wrong?  |
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Post by vintagecomics on Jul 7, 2023 12:34:59 GMT -8
Well, I suppose THIS could be one thing that could go wrong: /photo/1 |
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Post by vintagecomics on Jul 26, 2023 15:07:18 GMT -8
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Post by vintagecomics on Aug 1, 2023 19:36:39 GMT -8
Global government debt tops a record US$92 trillion, the Bank of Canada said yesterday. Risks of default worldwide were “challenging” given inflation and rising interest rates, it said.
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Global government debt tops a record US$92 trillion, the Bank of Canada said yesterday. Risks of default worldwide were “challenging” given inflation and rising interest rates, it said.
“Against a backdrop of historically high inflation and rising nominal and real interest rates, debt service payments remain challenging,” said a Bank report Sovereign Default Database: What’s New In 2023? “General government debt remains elevated as interest rates rise globally,” it added.
Worldwide defaults totaled US$558 billion last year. “The total value of sovereign debt in default increased 35 percent,” wrote researchers.
Governments to default on loan payments included Puerto Rico, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela. Major defaults in the past included Mexico in 1982, Chile in 1983, Russia in 1998, Argentina in 2001 and Greece in 2012. The Republic of Ireland in 2010 skirted insolvency after receiving European Union loans equivalent to 40 percent of its GDP.
Two provinces to date defaulted on debts in Canada: Alberta in 1936 and pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador in 1933. No federal government has defaulted on its loans. Cabinet in 2021 raised its debt ceiling 56 percent under the Borrowing Authority Act to a record $1.83 trillion.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in her March 28 budget estimated debt service charges at $43.9 billion this year. The Bank of Canada has since raised its key interest rate on interbank loans by half a point, adding at least $2.3 billion in charges according to a Budget Office calculation.
“Following such a shock of one percentage point federal debt charges go up by $4.5 billion,” Budget Officer Yves Giroux said in 2021 testimony at the Commons finance committee. Cabinet even before recent rate hikes projected debt interest payments would cost $46 billion next year.
“I think it’s really important to put numbers in context,” Minister Freeland testified May 16 at the Commons finance committee. “Without context numbers are meaningless. Our debt service charges are low in Canada’s historical context and they are low compared to what our peers in the G7 are paying.”
“Our debt service charges are absolutely handleable,” said Freeland. She did not elaborate. The Department of Finance projected at now-eclipsed rates that debt servicing would cost taxpayers $50.3 billion by 2027, double the pre-pandemic cost.
“You have to pay the money back,” Conservative MP Adam Chambers (Simcoe North, Ont.) told the finance committee. “Through an entire cycle we haven’t paid any money back. The government said it was just going to run a couple of small deficits when it started and now they are as far as the eye can see.” |
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Post by vintagecomics on Aug 2, 2023 9:48:26 GMT -8
Justin and Sophie Trudeau announce divorce.
They've been separated (and kept it hidden) for years but now it's official.
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Post by vintagecomics on Aug 4, 2023 21:34:06 GMT -8
I'm going to make a few posts to discuss a very interesting POV happening in Russia.
Bear with me.
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Post by vintagecomics on Aug 4, 2023 21:54:38 GMT -8
Alexei Navalny is a political dissident in Russia. He is Putin's most vocal critic. He has been in prison multiple times for protesting against Russia. He came in 2nd in an election for Moscow Mayor. His prison sentence was suspended about a decade ago when the European legal community got involved, calling his trial corrupt. The German Government have confirmed that he was once poisoned by a Russian nerve agent. Moscow denies involvement. He continued to go in an out of prison from there. This AP article has laid out Navalny's history in a timeline / bullet point format. Protests, poisoning and prison: The life of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny |
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Post by vintagecomics on Aug 4, 2023 21:58:32 GMT -8
His first major jail sentence came about a decade ago, he mounted some of the largest protests Russia had seen since the 1962 Novocherkassk massacre where 1000s were slaughtered by the Russian Army, simply for protesting for more food and pay. 1000s of Russians were imprisoned during this protest. 2 years ago, literally RIGHT BEFORE Russia's invasion of the Ukraine, Navalny started with another organized round of protests. 10,000s of Russians protested even though protesting was BANNED by Putin. Alexei Navalny: Thousands across Russia defy ban on protests |
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Post by vintagecomics on Aug 4, 2023 22:04:48 GMT -8
Navalny was already serving a total of 11.5 years in sentencing in one os the strictest Russian penal colonies in the country and is now considered an "Etremeist". This week he was sentenced to an ADDITIONAL 19 years in prison. Navalny's words: "Nineteen years in a maximum security penal colony. The number does not matter. I understand perfectly well that, like many political prisoners, I am serving a life sentence. Where the life sentence is measured by the length of my life or the length of the life of this regime," said Navalny.
"The sentencing number is not for me. It's for you. You, not me, are being frightened and deprived of the will to resist. You are being forced to surrender your Russia without a fight to the gang of traitors, thieves and scoundrels who have seized power. Putin must not achieve his goal. Do not lose the will to resist."Putin critic Alexei Navalny has 19 years added to jail term, West condemns Russia |
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Post by vintagecomics on Aug 4, 2023 22:09:20 GMT -8
In case anyone is interested, there is an award winning documentary about this.
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Post by vintagecomics on Aug 4, 2023 22:15:26 GMT -8
Meanwhile, people from the area of the original 1962 massacre see the world very differently.
They are still traumatized from the slaughter of 1962 and wouldn't dare protest.
But then, this is likely the EXACT reaction that Putin was trying to get from Russia after he attempted to poison, sentance, imprison and silence Navalny.
That's how bullies work their magic.
What an incredible story.
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Post by vintagecomics on Aug 9, 2023 9:52:58 GMT -8
If you don't know what BRICS is you should.
The idea of developing a new #BRICS #currency to shake the dominance of the US #dollar is gaining momentum as leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) gear up for the economic bloc’s summit in August.
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Post by vintagecomics on Aug 18, 2023 19:05:52 GMT -8
Wow.
This is the civilized West.
Flip through the pics of his jail cell.
/photo/3
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Post by vintagecomics on Aug 24, 2023 12:56:14 GMT -8
BRICS continue to oppose the West by uniting the East. The BRICS coalition, comprising of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has officially invited six other nations to join.
The invitations to Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates come as South Africa's BRICS summit comes to an end.https://www.instagram.com/p/CwVrLFbvjGW |
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