Washington should release the assets of the Afghan Central Bank it froze last year after the Taliban takeover and return them to the Afghan people, a group of more than 70 renowned economists said in an open letter on Wednesday. The economists and academics from the US, the UK, India, …
Read More »WATCH teachers battle for dollars in schools funds
The video shared on social media by a local reporter shows teachers taking part in a ‘Dash for Cash’ event, which includes the educators wearing helmets and scrambling for about $5,000 worth of single-dollar bills in a hockey rink. Ten teachers were invited to battle for the cash at a …
Read More »Brussels’ ‘blackmail’ of holding EU recovery funds hostage threatens Poland’s climate goals, Warsaw warns
Speaking on the sidelines of the UN’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on Monday, Morawiecki insisted that the heavily coal-dependent central European country needs to receive funds from Brussels to achieve “ambitious climate goals.” There can be no blackmail from other elements of European policy, because any attempt to take …
Read More »Democratic state rep accused of taking $630,000 in Covid federal funds and using some to GAMBLE
DiMassa, a Democrat, was charged on Wednesday with wire fraud. According to the FBI, DiMassa took checks from the city of West Haven meant for Covid-19 expenses, including legal work and labor for a local clinic, and deposited them into an account for a dummy company, created in January, called …
Read More »Freezing Afghanistan’s assets, aid funds could ‘throw millions into poverty’ & spark ‘massive’ refugee crisis, UN envoy warns
The UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, issued the dire warning during a briefing to the Security Council in New York on Thursday, arguing that ordinary Afghans will suffer dearly if the international community halts the flow of aid dollars into the country in order to “deny” the Taliban resources. …
Read More »US waives sanctions on frozen Iranian oil funds… but there’s a catch
“Allowing these funds to be used to repay exporters in these jurisdictions will make those entities whole with respect to the goods and services they exported to Iran, address a recurring irritant in important bilateral relationships, and decrease Iran’s foreign reserves,” the waiver, which the Department of State presented to …
Read More »Tying coronavirus recovery funds for Hungary to its contentious law against LGBT propaganda ‘will ruin EU’ – Budapest
The issue of EU funds should not be tied to the new Hungarian law that banned LGBT themes from school curriculums and children’s TV shows, Hungary’s Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, Gergely Gulyas, told reporters on Thursday. “Such a connection will ruin the European Union. The Child Protection Act …
Read More »Islamists in Germany fraudulently received €1 MILLION in Covid-19 aid, some funds used to ‘direct terrorism financing’ – media
The misuse of coronavirus aid to finance terrorist activities was reported by German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. “In individual cases there is a suspicion of direct terrorism financing,” a source within Berlin law enforcement told the newspaper. According to the report, law enforcement in Germany’s capital is currently conducting over …
Read More »Warren accused of ‘protecting’ hedge funds by saying Gamestop surge helps no one, demanding SEC action
“Casino-like swings in stock prices of GameStop reflect wild levels of speculation that don’t help GameStop’s workers or customers and could lead to market instability,” Warren wrote in a Friday letter addressing controversy on Wall Street. Warren, long painted by herself and supporters as a critic of Wall Street, said …
Read More »War profiteers: Danish pension funds accused of financing war in Yemen
Those weapons were most likely used in the war in Yemen, as Saudi Arabia and the UAE are heavily involved in the conflict there, said the report. It has accused the pension funds of “profiteering.” One of the 21 companies that received Danish pension fund money is US missile manufacturer …
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