VOA is blacklisted in Russia.
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Suspicious number of promotional toasters being sent to LLPâs in the Grand Caymans.
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Steals it from Starbucks next door. They found him out.
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Too bad Prescott Bushâs Union Banking Company isnât still around. They were always very accommodating for despots.
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Ha Ha, > âWe have an absolutely transparent operation there, absolutely transparent funding. There have never been any complaints in this regard at all.â
Sounds just like Trump.
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Why are they so quick to complain about censorship? Are they really prevented from moving to another bank in Britain?
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Hey, Vladimir and Julian â donât let the cyber-door hit you in your cyber-asses on the way out.
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âPraise to be freedom of speechâ
Sounds like some kind of Al Qeada slogan?
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That was my first thought â that Ecuador was not exactly thrilled with its grant of asylum being abused to interfere with another countryâs election, particularly where the affected nation is the U.S.
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Oh dear, maybe someone hacked into their accounts.
Would serve them right.
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It could be - and I donât think weâll ever know - that the US state department made it clear that we would not look kindly on them for housing someone who was meddling in our election.
I know thereâs no love lost between the US and the President of Ecuador, Correa, but itâs still the US, the worldâs badass. I donât think Ecuador is too anxious to piss us off too much.
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Russian is really a hard language to handleâŚat least thatâs what some people say.
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Praise be to freedom of speech!
Sure, because in Putinâs Russia, everyone is entitled to free speechâŚand then a nice trip to prison. What a load of BS. Maybe they can make a deal with Deutsche Bank, after all, they still do business with HO.
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Are they really prevented from moving to another bank in Britain?
No, obviously this doesnât prevent RT from doing anything; itâs just a minor inconvenience. Itâs actually a really strange thing to happen, and I doubt itâs driven by politics. Seems more likely NatWest has private, business-related concerns. Possibly they think thereâs a risk of money laundering or some other problem that could get their business into trouble downstream.
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I expect some of the response will involve service interruptions or hacked accounts of Russian political actors and oligarchs, which weâll never hear about because news of them will somehow never make it into the Russian media.
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If thatâs the case, then RT may also have problems finding any other financial institutions willing to do business with them in the UK. Possibly the US too, though our financial institutions are so amoral, corrupt, and under-regulated that it seems hard to imagine there would be no US banks willing to do business with them.
I suppose that depends on the decisions made, or conclusions reached, by whichever other banks they approach.
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our financial institutions are so amoral, corrupt, and under-regulated
Finance is inherently amoralâŚwhich doesnât mean itâs immoral, although the temptation is always there. Youâre right that regulation is needed, but itâs certainly not the case that regulation has been lax during the Obama administration. Even the Fed (federal reserve) is being massively more restrictive with its recurring stress tests than at any time in the past. In fact, one of my biggest concerns with the change in administration in 2017 is that this tight oversight of the banking industry will be loosened.
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As my dear old Irish grandmother used to say: People who stir shit are bound to get some on them.
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No accounts were closed. RT got 30-60 days notice to pay credit cards in full and transfer all other funds. So, we need RT to look up definitions for both truth and irony.
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