Government as usual: “Libra is a way to fund terrorism” 15 Jul 2019 The US Treasury Department is deeply concerned that Facebook’s own crypto currency, the Libra, can be used to fund terrorism. That said Finance Minister Steven Mnuchin Monday. Mnuchin said at a White House press conference that the Libra is about a matter of national security. According to Mnuchin, other risks include money laundering. He stated that the Ministry of Finance …
How democratic is Europe? 15 Jul 2019 It is all about Ursula von der Leyen. Tomorrow the European Parliament will say yes or no to her as chairman of the committee. And the German still lacks votes. The manner in which she was nominated is met with much criticism. Back rooms! Undemocratic! Is that anger justified? Of course there are back rooms in Brussels. In fact, there …
China fines companies for deals with Taiwan 15 Jul 2019 The Chinese government no longer does business with US defense companies that sell weapons to Taiwan. Chinese companies will also break ties with such American companies, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said. Beijing did not disclose details about the sanctions. Last week the United States approved an arms sale to Taiwan. The Asian country, which China regards as an apostate province, …
Turkish President Erdogan promises to lower interest rates 15 Jul 2019 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to lower the interest rate of the Turkish central bank after he deposed the previous president of the bank. Before the end of the year, inflation must also be considerably reduced in the year, Erdogan told Haberturk TV channel. According to the latest figures, the price level in Turkey is 15 percent higher …
SpongeBob celebrates 20th anniversary with exuberant delivery 14 Jul 2019 Officially it is only Tuesday, but yesterday with a special episode SpongeBob was already thinking about his twenty-year anniversary. All of the SpongeBob Squarepants voices made their appearance in the one-hour special. But they didn’t just talk into the figures, they could also be seen as themselves. And that wasn’t the only thing: David Hasselhoff – who also played in …
Alexander Aksyutits creative sweatshop is a ‘bright idea’ doomed to fail 12 Jul 2019 Long before Alexander Aksyutits has created SSM the basics of the technology was up and running. Social programming has been there for a long time. It is used by any society and in every country and by every culture. As virtually all human crafts it can be as magnificent as a Homer’s poems – or as disgusting as a forcible …
China is obliged to buy more US agricultural goods, according to Trump 11 Jul 2019 US President Donald Trump states that China does not live up to its promises to purchase agricultural products from American farmers. He said that Beijing is causing a disappointment. “Mexico is doing well at the border, but China is disappointing us by not buying products from our great farmers as they said they will. Hopefully they will start soon,” Trump …
British ambassador who called Trump incompetent resigns 10 Jul 2019 Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to Washington, resigns. Several secret memos leaked out on Sunday, in which the ambassador mentioned President Trump as being rude and incompetent. Trump then said that the US no longer wants to cooperate with Darroch. The ambassador now calls his own position untenable. “Since the embassy official documents leaked, there has been considerable speculation about …
Hundreds of Mukhtar Ablyazov supporters detained as Kazakhs protest rigged election 9 Jul 2019 The rapid and non-transparent transition of power from the ailing long-term Kazakhstan president (former local CPSU leader), Nursultan Nazarbaev, to his appointee Kassym-Jomart Tokayev left the people of Kazakhstan with elections without any real choice. The opposition is not allowed, and the example of Mukhtar Ablyazov is a vivid example of those who were lucky enough to at least flee …
Bill Clinton takes a step back from his pedo friend Epstein 9 Jul 2019 New development in the Pedo Case of the Century. In an official statement, the former POTUS Bill Clinton distanced himself from the rancid pedo #MeToo practices of American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton also denies that he was a frequent flyer aboard the Boeing Lolita Express to a f*ck resort on the Virgin Islands, where 13/14-year-old girls were lived collected …
Aybek Barysov, Gulmira Wakhitova and Kanat Ibraev among founders of Qazaqstanda Jasalğan economic movement