Vomit and used condoms in MPs offices: Parliament’s cleaners complain about partying politicians

Cleaners at the Houses of Parliament complain that they have to clear up used condoms and vomit left by unruly MPs and their aides.

MPs are reportedly to face strict new rules about their behavior. Commons authorities are considering the introduction of a ‘service agreement’ that would cover the appropriate use of workspaces in the Houses of Parliament, the Sunday Times report.

It’s the type of behaviour you would expect from students enjoying freshers’ week, not MPs and their staff,” a source reported in the Sunday Times said, “but cleaners are being confronted with vomit and used condoms in offices used by MPs and their staff.”

“It should be made clear that the cleaners are not there to clear up after their debauchery and this is not an appropriate use of their office space.”

Westminster was rocked by sex scandals last year when the then-manager of Parliament’s Sports and Social bar complained after being pestered for sex by an MP. She reported that one even followed and groped her. The bar was closed down and handed to new management following the revelations.

Additionally, numerous MPs were called out for sexual misconduct, the most prominent of which was then-Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon, who quit the cabinet after admitting his behavior towards women had “fallen short” in the past.

Fallon’s colleague Damian Green also resigned from the cabinet after an internal investigation found that he had lied to colleagues over pornography found on his computer.

https://www.rt.com/uk/440678-sex-sick-parliament-cleaners/

UK gearing up for cyber-war against Russia? Moscow asks London to clarify media report

The UK military is war-gaming a cyber-strike on Russia, in a scenario where Libya’s oil reserves are seized and a refugee crisis ensues, British media said. It wasn’t a tabloid report, so Russia’s Embassy asked for clarification.

The Sunday Times cited anonymous senior security sources, who said that London was concerned by the capability gap between the British and Russian militaries. The lack of conventional weapons makes a nuclear strike just about the only possible response by London to a Russian aggression, the report said.

“This is why cyber is so important; you can go on the offensive and turn off the lights in Moscow to tell them that they are not doing the right things,” a source told the paper.

The “not-right things,” according to the paper, may include occupying small islands belonging to Estonia in order to test if NATO was really eager to follow Article 5 of its treaty, which says an attack on one of its members means and aggression against the whole block.

Another scenario is that Russia may intervene in Libya in order to claim its oil and provoke a new refugee crisis in Europe, it may target a British “aircraft carrier with a nuclear-tipped torpedo.”

Cyberwarfare was singled out as the best deterrence against Moscow during the weekly, highly classified planning meetings at Whitehall, the Sunday Times reported.

The Russian Embassy to the UK commented on the report by urging the British government “to clarify its stance in view of the aggressive plans in cyberspace” revealed by the paper.

More at

https://www.rt.com/uk/440611-uk-russia-cyber-attack-libya/

Thanks, but no thanks: Turkey rejects future loans from IMF

Ankara will no longer borrow money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“Turkey’s economic indicators are at a very good level compared to other countries,” Erdogan told his AK Party on Sunday, adding that the IMF chapter in the country has been closed for good.

Last week, Erdogan’s government was criticized by opposition party CHP for the hiring services of international consultancy firm McKinsey to estimate the Turkish economy every three quarters. The opposition says it shows a lack of confidence in the country’s economy.

“We undertook a debt of $23.5 billion when we took office. We paid off the debt in 2013. Aren’t we the ones who saved this country from the IMF yoke?” Erdogan said on Sunday, referring to the criticism.

Turkey’s lira has lost around 40 percent of its value this year, while inflation is above the central bank’s rate of 24 percent.

“Inflation was really a disappointment on all fronts. Real rates are now slightly negative, so the massive September rate hike has been completely offset,” Guillaume Tresca, senior emerging market strategist at Credit Agricole, said, as quoted by Reuters.

However, Turkey remains a country with low debt levels. Turkey’s 28 percent public debt and 16 percent household debt-to-GDP ratios are both roughly half the developing country average, Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said on Sunday.

https://www.rt.com/business/440649-turkey-imf-funding-erdogan/

Venezuela has officially launched its oil-backed cryptocurrency

claims is a first state-backed oil-backed cryptocurrency, El Petro.

Over the past months, Maduro has been touting a new plan for economic recovery, which includes a new policy on gasoline pricing that would raise Venezuela’s ultra-cheap gas prices for the first time in two decades. The plan to ease the severe economic crisis also featured a devaluation of the currency and pegging the new bolivars to the Petro.

Maduro claims that the Petro is strengthening his recently announced economic overhaul plan and will “revolutionize” the global crypto economy with a new form of trade, finance, and monetary exchange.

More at

https://www.rt.com/business/440565-venezuela-oil-currency-petro/

>>3399084

All possibilities exist. I think you are onto something.

But I also have some other theories floating around in my mind. Google wants to know who is looking at what, how often, why, and who are they sharing that info with. The demographics of whom is looking and learning.

Just my crazy thoughts. XD

>>3399130

Or saving and protecting themselves from IMF and………….

>>3399220

Well, seeing I need the instruction manual to find the power button. You would be correct.

The Bolivar isn't worth the paper it is printed on. Why?

Russia is also moving away from the dollar.

It is about fiat debt control system and paying rent to central banks to use the money they lend out. The inter3et is killing countries and ,along them sickos rich.

All backdoors have locks.

>>3399220

Countries are moving to resource backed currency and away from Saudi Oil Rothschilds banking pyramid. ;)

Hell they are fucking running from it.

Turkey just said no more loans from OMG

Syria doesn't take money from OMG

And so on.

IMF

OMG fuck you autocorrect you possessed fucked up thing

US dollar dominance ‘idiotically’ outsized – economist Jim O’Neill

The status of the US dollar as the kingpin currency is pretty much overrated, as America’s share in the global economy has been dramatically falling since the Second World War, says prominent economist Jim O’Neill.

“We live in this very peculiar situation where the role of the dollar in global finance is just idiotically more important than the US economy. So, if a strong economy translates directly into a higher dollar, some of these things just sort-of follow like night and day,” he told CNBC.

The US share of global GDP now stands at 18 percent, a significant slide from the 30 percent seen after World War II. The Chinese economy has quadrupled to 16 percent, while emerging markets like the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and others account for 60 percent of global GDP.

Despite this, the dollar is predominantly used by some 60 percent of countries, accounting for 70 percent of global GDP because of the Bretton-Woods system. The Chinese yuan has become more widely used, but still accounts for just 1.84 percent of global reserve currencies, while the US dollar reserves still have a vast 62.25-percent share, although this is its lowest level since 2013.

“The kingpin role of US policy and the dollar in world finance is an issue, and the US economy, over [the last] 30 years, has gone to less than 20 percent of world GDP, and yet the dollar is seemingly playing this dramatic role,” O'Neill said.

BRICS emerging economies have recently been increasing settlements in local currencies to avoid using the dollar. Countries like China, Russia and Iran are in talks to substitute the greenback in oil trade.

https://www.rt.com/business/440375-us-dollar-dominance-idiotically-outsized/

China halts all oil imports from US amid escalating trade war

America’s second-largest oil client, China, has completely stopped buying crude from the United States as trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies continue to grow.

While oil has not been included on the list of bilateral tariffs, Chinese refiners have been staying away from buying crude from the US.

We are one of the major carriers for crude oil from the US to China. Before [the trade war] we had a nice business, but now it’s totally stopped,” Xie Chunlin, the president of CMES, said on the sidelines of the Global Maritime Forum’s Annual Summit in Hong Kong, as quoted by Reuters.

“It’s unfortunately happened, the trade war between the US and China. Surely for the shipping business, it’s not good,” the CMES president said.

He added that the trade war was also forcing China to diversify its soybean supplies. Beijing is now buying most of its soybeans from South America.

China’s crude oil imports from America reached an average of 334,880 barrels per day through August, making Beijing the second-largest buyer of US oil after Canada.

In fact, China may be the largest buyer of American crude since much of the oil imported by Canada is re-exports – Canadian crude that briefly crosses into the US on pipelines before re-entering Canada. After ending a 40-year ban on oil exports in late 2015, the US has ramped up sales to two million barrels per day (bpd).

China buys most of its crude from Russia, with imports soaring from 665,000 bpd in 2014 to 1.2 million bpd last year. Beijing’s other major suppliers are Saudi Arabia and Iran.

https://www.rt.com/business/440296-us-china-oil-imports/

>>3399397

No you don't. This is the worse relations between Russia and the U.S.

Do you guys read any thing? Or just blow shot out of your ass?

>>3399384

Ty! I knew you were a helper lol.

>>3399397

>>3399470

You don't know who Putin is and who don't know who Trump is.

And they are not, will not EVER be allies.

But you have nonidwa whatnot am saying so. Go on with your bad self. :)

>>3399382

I am going to be honest. I don't speak that language or even understand it.

So I can't argue with you. Not sure I want too! lol. But you did make it easier to understand. Ty.