George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag (colour)

Remembering NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Ties to Cuban Regime

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's relationship with the Cuban dictatorship

-What a flashback.

At that time (depending on our memory it could have been long ago or recently), Cuomo led a business delegation with executives from MasterCard, JetBlue Airline, and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, among other large American companies interested in doing their first good business with the Castro regime. “We are witnessing the start of a transition in relations between the two countries, which is going to have significant economic benefits for both parties,” he said in a statement to EFE when he arrived at Havana airport, where he was received by Josefina Vidal, U.S. Director of the Cuban Foreign Ministry.”

“This mission will be a tremendous stepping stone for our state’s relationship with Cuba and will help open the door to a new market for New York businesses,” said the Governor of New York. Meanwhile, the Chief of the Cuban Interests Section, José Ramón Cabañas, called Cuomo’s visit “historic,” a word that communists love to manipulate. Well, all the blessed leaders of the progressives of the earth do that. To make history; to change history. It is an obsession, and at the same time, a powerful weapon with a strong silencer.

https://panampost.com/editor/2020/04/14/andrew-cuomos-cuban-regime/

Google Subpoenaed For Hillary Clinton Emails Believed To Contain Backup To Records Scrubbed With "Bleachbit"

Google has been ordered to turn over all Hillary Clinton emails from a Gmail account believed to contain backups to communications from her personal server which her IT specialist, Paul Combetta, reportedly scrubbed using BleachBit.

Combetta allegedly used the Google account to transfer Clinton's emails from a laptop to a server at Platte River Networks, after which BleachBit was used to remove all traces from the device.

On Wednesday, watchdog group Judicial Watch announced that Google had been served with a subpoena seeking all Clinton email from January 21, 2009 until February 1, 2013 from her time at the Obama State Department where she served as Secretary of State.

The Google subpoena comes in a Judicial Watch’s lawsuit that seeks records concerning “talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). Judicial Watch famously uncovered in 2014 that the “talking points” that provided the basis for Susan Rice’s false statements were created by the Obama White House. This Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit led directly to the disclosure of the Clinton email system in 2015. -Judicial Watch

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/google-subpoenaed-hillary-clinton-emails-believed-contain-backup-records-scrubbed

Mexico Downgraded To Just One Notch Above Junk On Imminent "Severe Recession"

While Mexico scored a dramatic, if mostly symbolic, victory in its "Mexican standoff" with Saudi Arabia over the weekend, when the oil producer who famously hedges its output every year in preparation for the worst received an exemption from the uniform 23% production cut, its economy sadly remains in shambles as it enters a deep recession, the Mexican peso recently plunged to all time lows (and is headed in that direction again), the coronavirus epidemic is ravaging its population, its industrial base is frozen with its biggest client - the US - on indefinite hiatus, and generally things are going from bad to worse.

None of that has escaped Fitch, which moments ago downgrade Mexico from BBB to BBB-, the lowest rating above junk (outlook stable) because as the rating agency writes, "the economic shock represented by the coronavirus pandemic will lead to a severe recession in Mexico in 2020."

It gets worse: "the outlook for the public finances is much less favorable than at the time of the last rating review in December 2019." Fitch expects the general government deficit to widen by around 2.5% of GDP to 4.4% of GDP, higher than implied by the most recent budget review, with little scope for consolidation in 2021. Sensitivity of revenues to changes in the growth rate is comparatively limited given the low non-oil tax take but more serious damage to the tax base is possible if the current one month lockdown is prolonged or subsequently re-imposed.

In short, Mexico is now caught in a perfect storm: on one hand the economy is collapsing and desperatly in need of more fiscal stimulus; on the other any new debt issued to fund this stimulus will immediately result in a junk rating causing even more pain for the country.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/mexico-downgraded-just-one-notch-above-junk-imminent-severe-recession

An abducted Saudi princess broke her 13-month silence to tweet for freedom. Her family says a hostile faction in the royal court is trying to take her share of a multibillion-dollar inheritance.

A disappeared Saudi princess, who was abducted 13 months ago and accused of trying to flee the country, emerged on Thursday for the first time to ask her cousin Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for mercy on Twitter.

Princess Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz al-Saud was taken "on suspicion of trying to flee the country" in March 2019 as she tried to fly to Switzerland to receive urgent medical care.

The medically equipped private plane, rented for $87,000 from Redstar Aviation, never left. She has not been publicly seen or heard from since.

https://www.insider.com/saudi-princess-basmah-abducted-broke-silence-twitter-2020-4