>>70445 chek't POTUS diggies for the bred
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2 Haitian Americans detained in slaying of Haiti president
Two men believed to be Haitian Americans — one of them purportedly a former bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince — have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haiti’s president, a senior Haitian official said Thursday. Mathias Pierre, Haiti’s minister of elections, told The Associated Press that James Solages was among six people arrested in the 36 hours since the brazen killing of President Jovenel Moise by gunmen at his home in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday. Four other suspected assailants were killed and two are still missing, Pierre said. Pierre would not provide additional details about Solages’ background, nor would he provide the name of the second Haitian-American he said was arrested.
Solages describes himself as a “certified diplomatic agent,” an advocate for children and budding politician on a website for a charity he established in 2019 in south Florida to assist residents. On his bio page for the charity, Solages said he previously worked as a bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Haiti. Calls to the foundation and Solages’ associates at the charity either did not go through or were not answered. “The pursuit of the mercenaries continues,” said Léon Charles, director of Haiti’s National Police, in announcing the arrest of suspects. “Their fate is fixed: They will fall in the fighting or will be arrested.” Witnesses said two suspects were discovered hiding in bushes in Port-au-Prince on Thursday by a crowd, some of whom grabbed the men by their shirts and pants, pushing them and occasionally slapping them.
Police arrived shortly afterward to arrest the men, who were sweating heavily and wearing clothes that seemed to be smeared with mud, an Associated Press journalist at the scene said. Officers placed them in the back of a pickup truck and drove away as the crowd ran after them to the nearby police station. Once there, some in the crowd chanted: “They killed the president! Give them to us. We’re going to burn them!” One man was overheard saying that it was unacceptable for foreigners to come to Haiti to kill the country’s leader, referring to reports from officials that the perpetrators spoke Spanish or English. The crowd later set fire to several abandoned cars riddled with bullet holes that they believed belonged to the suspects, who were white men. The cars didn’t have license plates, and inside one of them was an empty box of bullets and some water.
At a news conference Thursday, Charles, the police chief, asked people to stay calm, go home and let police do their work as he warned that authorities needed evidence they were destroying, including the burned cars. Officials did not provide any details about the suspects, including their nationalities, nor did they address a motive or say what led police to them. They said only that the attack condemned by Haiti’s main opposition parties and the international community was carried out by “a highly trained and heavily armed group.”
Prime Minister Claude Joseph assumed leadership of Haiti with the backing of police and the military and on Thursday asked people to reopen businesses and go back to work as he ordered the reopening of the international airport.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-caribbean-haiti-health-coronavirus-pandemic-bd1bc9e9e87247f1267d2c97c6ce94f4
Consumer Credit Soars Most On Record As Credit Card Borrowings Explode
The American consumer is making a triumphal return.
After several months of subdued increases in consumer credit, moments ago the Fed reported that in May, total consumer credit surged by the most on record, soaring by $35.28 billion, nearly double the consensus estimate of $18 billion and sharply higher from last months' $20.04 billion. The monthly increase was a whopping 10% SAAR, pushing the total to a new record high of $4.279 trillion. What was behind the surge? Well, one month after we noted a surprising dip in credit card usage in April, in May Americans went all out, and splurged, pushing revolving credit, i.e., credit card debt, higher by a whopping $9.2 billion, the biggest monthly increase since December 2019, and pushing total revolving debt to $974.6 billion.
In light of this indiscriminate desire to "charge it", one can't really blame Wells Fargo for doing away with lines of credit: just give Americans credit cards and charge them a juicy 20% APR on all future purchases.
But if the spike in credit card debt was notable, it was the explosion in non-revolving debt, i.e., auto and student loans, that was the true outlier in May when it surged by a record $26.1 billion, the biggest monthly increase on record!
This latest shift in spending patterns, means that things are now indeed back to normal, and that with consumers now spending not just using their debit cards (which is where the stimmy checks arrive) but their credit cards, Americans are once again highly confident about the future, and are spending far beyond their means, as they always tend to do. Either that, or the latest batch of stimmies has now been spent, and having no other source of funds American consumer are again resorting to their trusty old credit card to provide that much needed 70% consumption component of GDP.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/consumer-credit-soars-most-record-credit-card-borrowings-explode
dunno wut you talkin bout
kek!!
seriously did that in '03-04 but always done for most of adult life.
First oz was a present from gma (she fuggen knew then and the Hunt Bros thing was going on too) in 1979-still habs it too.
U.S. regulator drops case against two London forex traders
A U.S. federal regulator has dropped a case against two former top London currency traders that alleged exchange-rate rigging, their lawyers said on Thursday, drawing a line under an eight-year pursuit by U.S. authorities.
The U.S. Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) withdrew its case in federal court against Richard Usher, an ex JPMorgan head of EMEA foreign exchange spot trading, and Rohan Ramchandani, Citigroup’s former European forex trading head, according to their lawyers and a court notice. The OCC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The men, who have faced no action by British authorities, were acquitted by a jury in U.S. District Court in 2018 on charges of scheming to rig the multi-trillion dollar forex market. They had travelled voluntarily to the United States to face the charges.
But the OCC still sought to ban them from life from the industry and fine them $1.5 million. They were facing another trial later this year, their lawyers said. “This is a complete and total exoneration for Mr Usher,” said Jonathan Pickworth of Paul Hastings, adding that the OCC had pursued a meritless case. “It brings to an end an 8-year-long nightmare, during which he has had to endure two different sets of stressful and costly proceedings in the USA... Mr Usher can now rightly feel completely vindicated and seek to resume normal life,” he said. Heather Nyong’o, a WilmerHale lawyer for Ramchandani, said the OCC had persisted with “constantly morphing theories of prosecution” although her client had already been acquitted of essentially the same allegations.
“Finally, on the eve of trial, they have dismissed their notice and my client can hopefully feel some vindication after tirelessly fighting these false allegations ...,” she said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/forex-traders-occ/u-s-regulator-drops-case-against-two-london-forex-traders-idUSL5N2OK5L0
UK liable to pay 47.5 billion euros to EU in post-Brexit settlement
The United Kingdom is liable to pay 47.5 billion euros ($56.23 billion) to the European Union as part of its post-Brexit financial settlement, according to the EU’s consolidated budget report for 2020.
The report adds that the money is owed under a series of articles which both sides agreed to as part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement. The figure was reported earlier on Thursday by RTÉ News. The total amount is significantly higher than expected. The UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicted in its March 2018 economic and fiscal outlook report that the bill would amount to 41.4 billion euros. An initial amount of 6.8 billion euros is due for payment in 2021, the EU’s consolidated budget report added, with the remainder of the amount to be paid later.
A sum total amount of 47.5 billion euros was mentioned in the report as “net receivable from the UK”. A trade and cooperation deal between the UK and EU was struck in December after more than four years of acrimonious negotiations and lingering mistrust as Britain ended 47 years of EU membership. On Tuesday, the European Union urged London to consider a Swiss-style veterinary agreement with Brussels on agri-foods to end a post-Brexit ‘sausage war’ row over certain goods moving between Britain and its province of Northern Ireland.
Tension has mounted over trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, particularly for chilled meats, because the province’s open border with EU member Ireland is Britain’s only land frontier with the EU and its vast single market.
https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-settlement/update-2-uk-liable-to-pay-47-5-billion-euros-to-eu-in-post-brexit-settlement-idUSL2N2OK2B7
Square plans to make hardware wallet for bitcoin
Square Inc will make a hardware wallet for bitcoin, the payments company confirmed in a tweet on Thursday shortly before U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren flagged growing risks posed to consumers and financial markets by the cryptocurrency market.
Bitcoin wallets can be stored offline or online at cryptocurrency exchanges, venues where bitcoin can be bought and sold for traditional currencies or other virtual coins. With a non-custodial wallet, you have sole control of your private keys, which in turn control your cryptocurrency and prove the funds are yours. With a custodial wallet, another party controls your private keys. Most custodial wallets are web-based exchange wallets.
Last month, Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey hinted in a tweet that the company was considering creating a non-custodial hardware wallet for bitcoin. Dorsey is also the chief executive of Twitter Inc. Cryptocurrencies reached a record capitalization of $2 trillion in April, but U.S. oversight of the market remains patchy. Warren, a former U.S. presidential candidate, on Thursday raised concerns in a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler, in an effort that could help lay the groundwork for legislation to regulate the fast-growing cryptocurrency market.
https://www.reuters.com/article/square-bitcoin/square-plans-to-make-hardware-wallet-for-bitcoin-idUSL3N2OL07F
169441 US Navy V-22 Osprey 'floater' west of Baja Norte
He has just departed
>>70541
warm welcome here.
>>70547
coming to muh door is the line.
Doubt it habbens
if they try it overtly they gonna wish they hadn't.
Many places won't put up with that shit.
>>70552
>close that gap baby
it would prolly be accepted here ftmp or very little said about it.
Many around here got it so mebby not a priority.
States with low participation be first.
>>70555
chek't
got some irl nao
nite all