IMF sets another condition for crisis-hit Pakistan to revive loan

March 28, 2023March 28, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Crisis-hit Pakistan has made various economic modifications including hikes in fuel prices, raising taxes, and others demanded by IMF to unlock the loan program.
IMF sets another condition for crisis-hit Pakistan to revive loan

In 2018, Imran Khan became Prime Minister of Pakistan. For this, they arranged friendly loans from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and China to avoid tough IMF conditions. In 2019, when economic conditions worsened, they went to IMF for the twenty-second time for a loan of US$1 billion. IMF gave loan based on conditions such as hike in energy tariffs, removal of energy subsidy, increase in taxation, privatization of public entities and fiscal policies to the budget.

IMF bailout package — rescue or trap for Pakistan?

“The IMF’s agenda is not to strengthen global economies because if it does that, then the Fund itself will be out of business,” he said.

Steve Bannon Is Neck-Deep in Guo Wengui’s Allegedly Fraudulent Business Empire

March 17, 2023March 17, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Federal investigators have asked witnesses about Bannon’s connections to the far-right mogul.
Steve Bannon Is Neck-Deep in Guo Wengui’s Allegedly Fraudulent Business Empire (archived)

Previously:

MAGA Mogul Guo Wengui Charged in $1 Billion Fraud Scheme

March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Steve Bannon’s wealthy patron “led a complex conspiracy to defraud thousands of his online followers,” federal prosecutors allege.
MAGA Mogul Guo Wengui Charged in $1 Billion Fraud Scheme (archived)

We Build the Wall’s corporate entity might be tried ‘in absentia’ after officers resign

March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

We Build the Wall’s corporate entity might be tried “in absentia” alongside former Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon after the purported border-wall charity’s officers resigned, court filings indicate.
We Build the Wall’s corporate entity might be tried ‘in absentia’ after officers resign

Michael Hudson: Why the US banking system is breaking up

March 12, 2023March 14, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Economist Michael Hudson responds to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and explains the similarities with the 2008 financial crash and the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.
Michael Hudson: Why the US banking system is breaking up

At CPAC, China is the new big bad

March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

At CPAC, China is the new big bad

Roy Liu had not come to CPAC to hear Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville accuse leftists of wanting “one gender,” or to buy a “Biden-Fetterman 2024: It’s a No-Brainer” T-shirt. He, and dozens of other activists with the New Federal State of China, wanted to build support for destroying the Chinese Communist Party.

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At CPAC, those kinds of familiar riffs were supplemented by media and lobbying groups that support regime change in Beijing, and have never been more visible.

The Epoch Times, a newspaper associated with the Falun Gong religious movement suppressed by Xi’s government, had a sprawling presence at the conference, including the screening of “The Shadow State,” billed as “the first documentary about ESG” — another target of conservatives, both at CPAC and on the Hill.

And the New Federal State of China, “declared” three years ago by Steve Bannon and exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, made its first CPAC appearance with a $75,000 sponsorship, and two high-tech booths where volunteers handed out leaflets and explained why the battle to destroy the CCP had to be won in America.

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Zimbabwe: Private Voluntary Organisation Bill will be signed into law

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Private Voluntary Organisation Bill, PVO Bill, has now passed the various stages of the legislative process.
Private Voluntary Organisation Bill will be signed into law

Fascinating Timing: Home of Ukrainian Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky Raided

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

While the FBI was busy conducting a “planned search” of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Delaware beach house (which follows their search of his Wilmington residence in January and, we just recently learned, the Penn Biden Center in November), Ukrainian officials were carrying out a search at the home of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky. Why reference them in the same sentence? We’ll return to that.
Fascinating Timing: Home of Ukrainian Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky Raided

Imran Khan: ‘West gains from corruption’

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Western nations are benefiting from corruption across Asia, the ousted prime minister of Pakistan has said in a brave new documentary: Behind Closed Doors.
Imran Khan: ‘West gains from corruption’

Top FBI ‘Russiagate’ Official Arrested For Colluding With Russian Oligarch: DOJ

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A former top FBI counterintelligence official – in fact, the guy who received the tip that supposedly kicked off the Trump-Russia investigation – has been arrested and charged with violating US sanctions on Russia by taking secret payments from a Russian oligarch in order to investigate another oligarch.
Top FBI ‘Russiagate’ Official Arrested For Colluding With Russian Oligarch: DOJ

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IMF sets another condition for crisis-hit Pakistan to revive loan

Steve Bannon Is Neck-Deep in Guo Wengui’s Allegedly Fraudulent Business Empire

MAGA Mogul Guo Wengui Charged in $1 Billion Fraud Scheme

We Build the Wall’s corporate entity might be tried ‘in absentia’ after officers resign

Michael Hudson: Why the US banking system is breaking up

Fascinating Timing: Home of Ukrainian Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky Raided

Imran Khan: ‘West gains from corruption’

Top FBI ‘Russiagate’ Official Arrested For Colluding With Russian Oligarch: DOJ