A MORE ACCURATE HEADLINE: Leaked data shows Switzerland banks engaged in criminal activity, now trying to clean up their act. nytimes.com/2022/02/28/wor…
Now, an extraordinary leak of data from Credit Suisse, one of the world’s most iconic banks, is exposing how the bank held hundreds of millions of dollars for heads of state, intelligence officials, sanctioned businessmen and human rights abusers, among many others.-@nytimes
Last fall it agreed to pay $475 million to U.S. and British authorities to resolve an investigation into a kickback and bribery scheme in Mozambique.A trial got underway in Switzerland in which Credit Suisse is accused of allowing drug traffickers to launder millions of euros.NYT
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Ep15 @radicalizedpod I read an email from Martin Sheil—former IRS criminal investigator—near the top of the show dissecting Russia sanctions. Check it out:
Also threading: “Swift is HUUUUGE!”
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Detaching major Russian banks from SWIFT which was announced is HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This will be devastating to the Russian economy which is rather paltry - maybe analogous to that of Portugal or Texas.
What is scary is the sanctions are backing Putin into a corner.—Marty
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He sounds more and more paranoid. He is also very enamored of his nukes, and I am getting concerned that he is like a cat caught up in a tree that may decide to take desperate measures. Here is something else: Will the Russian Generals allow Putin to take nuclear measures?-MS
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My dad was born in Czechoslovakia in 1934. Sudetenland was handed to Hitler. His sisters grew up hiding in hay stacks from Russian soldiers. We’ve learned nothing.
Four days later, during the famous Munich conference — now known as the centerpiece of the “appeasement” of the Nazis — Great Britain, France and Italy agreed to the handover of the Sudeten region to Germany, hoping it would prevent further aggression.-@washingtonpost
“It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe,” Hitler said. Within six months, he took the rest of Czechoslovakia, and on Sept. 1, 1939, he attacked Poland, starting World War II.-@washingtonpost
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.
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We want to live by each other’s happiness—not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. The good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful…
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