How to beat your wife

A LEADING academic and cleric from World Cup host country Qatar has filmed a shocking guide on how Muslim men should beat their wives.

The vile video features Abd Al-Aziz Al-Khazraj demonstrating how to "punish" a woman in accordance with Islamic law.

In a further sick move, the sociologist used a school-age boy called Nayef to show how to deliver beatings “out of love” - so a woman can feel a “man’s strength”.

And he disgustingly said that some women enjoyed being married to “violent and powerful husbands”.

But he warned: “Some people punch her or slap her on the face… That's not allowed."

Al-Ansari uploaded the sick footage to the Al-Mojtama YouTube channel.

'LIGHT AND PAINLESS'

In the guide he says: “The Prophet Muhammad… Look how merciful Islam is. The Prophet forbade striking the face. He forbade men from beating their wives on the face. Slapping the face, hitting the head, punching the nose – all of this is prohibited. The beating is for discipline.”

World cup organisers FIFA are already under-fire for allowing the 2022 tournament to be held in a country where homosexuality is illegal.

The video is a stark reminder about how women are treated in the strict Muslim nation.

Al-Ansari begins the 3.30 tutorial by saying that the beating should be light and painless, and that it should make the wife feel her husband's masculinity and strength, as well as her own femininity.

Al-Ansari then demonstrated how to beat a wife on Nayef by slapping him on the shoulders, grabbing him and shaking him, and saying loudly: "I told you not to leave the house! How many times do I have to tell you?"

He said: “Dear viewers, many people – especially people who are married – would like to know how to beat one's wife. Is beating your wife necessary? Must a man beat his wife every day? No.

“First, we must understand that the man is the leader of the house. A leader has authorities, just like a company manager.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8876237/world-cup-cleric-qatar-guide-muslim-men-beat-wives/

If this isn't some division propaganda shit….

I would bet this clown works for the division agency.

Domestic abuse happens in every freaking country and needs to be punished accordingly (with a kneecapping).

The call for division is failing.

UniCredit Bank AG Agrees to Plead Guilty for Illegally Processing Transactions in Violation of Iranian Sanctions

UniCredit Group Banks Agree to Pay Over $1.3 Billion for Violating Sanctions

UniCredit Bank AG (UCB AG), a financial institution headquartered in Munich, operating under the name HypoVereinsbank, and part of the UniCredit Group has agreed to enter a guilty plea to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and to defraud the United States by processing hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions through the U.S. financial system on behalf of an entity designated as a weapons of mass destruction proliferator and other Iranian entities subject to U.S. economic sanctions. UniCredit Bank Austria (BA), another financial institution in the UniCredit Group, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, agreed to forfeit $20 million and entered into a non-prosecution agreement to resolve an investigation into its violations of IEEPA. UniCredit SpA, the parent of both UCB AG and BA, has agreed to ensure that UCB AG and BA’s obligations are fulfilled.

Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu of the District of Columbia, Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeny of the FBI’s New York Field Office and Special Agent in Charge Kelly Jackson of the IRS-Criminal Investigations (CI) Washington Field Division made the announcement.

According to court documents, over the course of almost 10 years, UCB AG knowingly and willfully moved at least $393 million through the U.S. financial system on behalf of sanctioned entities, most of which was for an entity the U.S. Government specifically prohibited from accessing the U.S. financial system. UCB AG engaged in this criminal conduct through a scheme, formalized in its own bank polices and designed to conceal from U.S. regulators and banks the involvement of sanctioned entities in certain transactions. UCB AG routed illegal payments through U.S. financial institutions for the benefit of the sanctioned entities in ways that concealed the involvement of the sanctioned entities, including through the use of companies that UCB AG knew would appear unconnected to the sanctioned entity despite being controlled by the sanctioned entity.

“When the United States sanctioned Iranian entities for proliferating weapons of mass destruction, UCB AG went to great lengths to help one such entity – Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines – evade sanctions to gain access to the U.S. financial system,” said Assistant Attorney General Benczkowski. “The integrity of our financial system requires financial institutions to comply with our laws, and UCB AG willfully failed to do so. Today’s guilty plea and $1.3 billion penalty are just punishments for undermining U.S. sanctions and putting our financial system at risk.”

“UCB AG’s actions in deliberately providing a designated weapons-of-mass-destruction proliferator with access to the U.S. financial system for almost two years after such access was prohibited by U.S. law were particularly egregious,” said U.S. Attorney Liu. “The bank’s impending guilty plea and the accompanying monetary penalty announced today send a clear message that financial institutions that subvert U.S. sanctions, and therefore our national security, should expect severe consequences.”

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unicredit-bank-ag-agrees-plead-guilty-illegally-processing-transactions-violation-iranian

1 Marine Raider killed, two injured in MRZR accident during California training exercise

Two Marine Raiders were injured and one was later killed after a tactical vehicle accident during a training exercise Saturday at Camp Pendleton, California, Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command announced Monday.

Two Raiders received minor injuries and one sustained critical injuries as a result of a single-vehicle accident during a training evolution, a command release detailed.

The vehicle involved was the Polaris MRZR, according to Marine spokesman Nick Mannweiler. The ultra lightweight, all-terrain utility task vehicle is capable of carrying several Marines and combat equipment.

The Raider with critical injuries was aeromedical evacuated to a higher level of care where he passed away on Sunday night, the command release said.

The incident is under investigation.

The identity of the Marine killed will be released after next-of-kin notification.

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2019/04/15/1-marine-raider-killed-two-injured-in-mrzr-accident-during-california-training-exercise/

Prayers of peace & comfort for the familys.

How China Is Driving US Interest Rates

Friday turned out to be an interesting day in yield space as US 10yr yields, for example, broke down sharply (hey 1/2 point is a lot in this low vol regime). This may be somewhat confusing as the data in the US has really been lackluster with US economic surprise indices remaining at local lows.

However, the story is the cyclical upturn in China something commodities, as shown a couple weeks back, were foreshadowing. The slew of better data out of China is turning yields back higher along with it.

China CPI, M2, Exports, and Aggregate Financing all turning higher off the lows.

The bounce in the data has been led by the myriad of stimulus measures (I have lost count) and the credit impulse.

Thus, Chinese yields, which led US yields on the way down, is now leading US yields higher…

That’s what got us here today, where now…

It still seems that US yields are too low for a number of reasons that would mean a tactical sell off can continue. I have been advocating Blue Eurodollar downside which have now started to turn profitable.

First, the fixed income market, which had been positioned short for quite some time, has now gotten flat. Using Eurodollars as the proxy, you can see specs have short covered all year and are now close to flat for the first time since 2016. Therefore, all of the excessive bearishness from 2018 has been vaporized and positioning is clean.

It seems to me that the tactical sell off can continue until those Fed cuts get priced out especially in the face of better Chinese growth that will feed into the rest of the world, at the same time short positioning is nil, and the Fed is neutral. 2019 rate cut/rate hike odds should be roughly equal and that means further tactical US fixed income weakness.

The next level to watch in Eurodollars (going back to the “blues” I have been focusing on) is 97.66 in EDM2 which is the top of the breakout in January. If that level gets taken out, you will see a sharp long liquidation.

Peaking oil is obviously important with regards to yields as it feeds through to inflation expectations and thus nominal yields. Therefore, if the upside in oil is now limited, so is the upside in yields.

The second reason why yields are ultimately capped is although China has stimulated and there has been a credit impulse, it was noted in Bloomberg Monday that the PBOC will not “flood the economy with excessive liquidity.” That can be most clearly seen in the PBOC’s Open Market Operations (OMO’s) where they have skipped OMO’s for 18 consecutive sessions (until a modest injection on Tuesday). Thus from a net injection point of view, the PBOC has withdrawn liquidity – meaning letting things like reverse repo’s, MLF’s, etc. just expire.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-16/how-china-driving-us-interest-rates

Four Days After Julian Assange Arrest, Ecuador Hit By Over 40 Million Cyber Attacks

Ecuador, the South American country has said that post the arrest of whistleblower Julian Assange from its embassy on London on Thursday, the country has suffered 40 million cyber attacks on the webpages of public institutions.iWikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested from his political asylum in the Ecuador embassy in London. Patricio Real, Ecuador’s deputy minister for information and communication technologies told that the attack started on Thursday and most attacks did “principally come from the United States, Brazil, Holland, Germany, Romania, France, Austria and the United Kingdom,” as well as from the South American country itself.

Assange was arrested after Ecuador president Lenin Moreno stripped him of his diplomatic immunity following after seven years of self-imposed exile in the building.

Moreno accused Assange of meddling in the “processes of other states” and “spying.”

Apart from removing his asylum status, Ecuador also ended his nationality as an Ecuadorian which he was given in 2017 under the government of Moreno’s predecessor Rafael Correa.

Javier Jara, the undersecretary of the electronic government department of the telecommunication minister, said that the government websites are facing “volumetric attacks” that blocked access to the internet following “threats from those groups linked to Julian Assange.”

Major hit were the webpages of the foreign ministry, the central bank, internal revenue service and the president’s office apart from universities and ministries.

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/world/four-days-after-julian-assange-arrest-ecuador-hit-by-over-40-million-cyber-attacks-365537.html