Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Thursday August 28 Housing and Economic stories


U.S. Government Caught Using Humanitarian HIV Program As Front To Foster Cuban Dissent - (www.zerohedge.com) Regular readers of Liberty Blitzkrieg will recall that earlier this year I highlighted how the U.S. government covertly created a “Cuban Twitter” called ZunZuneo in a failed attempt to overthrow the island nation’s regime. The elaborate plot was implemented under the umbrella of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which is responsible for overseeing billions of dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid. If you need a refresher, check out the post: Conspiracy Fact – How the U.S. Government Covertly Invented a “Cuban Twitter” to Create Revolution. Well we now know that USAID went a lot further than that. Another scheme to unseat the Cuban government has now been revealed. This time with even more immoral foundations, and which could disrupt genuine humanitarian relief efforts the world over. Incredibly, the U.S. government used an HIV program as a front to foster dissent amongst Cuba’s youth. The HIV-prevention workshop was even referred to as the “perfect excuse to recruit political activists.” Despicable.

SEC files securities fraud charges against state of Kansas over muni bonds and pension liabilities - (www.cnbc.com) Securities regulators have filed fraud charges against the state of Kansas, alleging bond offering documents failed to disclose the risks to investors from the state's underfunded pension system. The Securities and Exchange Commission has previously taken action against New Jersey and Illinois over pension disclosures to investors.

French builders steal $1.2M in buried treasure - (www.cnbc.com) "If you find any treasure, let me know!" This instruction, given by French woman to the three workers she had hired for landscaping work, was meant as a joke. But the unfortunate homeowner failed to see the funny side when the workers found -- and then stole -- $1.2 million in gold buried in the bottom of her garden. According to the French regional daily Paris Normandie, three men will soon appear in court in northern France charged with theft, after uncovering and stealing 16 gold bars and hundreds of gold coins in a couple's garden. The three workers, hired to level out the couple's garden in view of a house extension raised Tracfin's – a service from the French ministry of finances tasked with fighting money laundering –suspicions after one of them cashed in two checks worth 270,000 euros ($361,000) and 30,000 euros ($40,000) into his account.

German Economy Backbone Bending From Lost Russia Sales - (www.bloomberg.com) MWL Apparate Bau GmbH, based in the eastern German town of Grimma, has relied on strong ties with Russia to bolster business. Today, those links don’t mean much. The maker of equipment such as pressure vessels and hot water tanks for the chemical and petrochemical industries has seen a “significant” decline in orders in the last six months due to the crisis, sales chief Reinhard Weber said. The company has annual revenue of about 20 million euros ($27 million). “There are two contracts from Russia we didn’t get and we think that’s for political reasons,” Weber said in a telephone interview. 

Russian Sanctions Dim Greek Hopes for Exit From Recession - (www.bloomberg.com) Greece’s hopes of a 2014 exit from its deepest recession in a half-century may hit a stumbling block after Russia banned European Union food imports in retaliation for sanctions stemming from the insurgency in Ukraine. “The estimated total cost of Russian counter-sanctions for the Greek economy may look tolerable, but the impact could be quite damaging for industries such as tourism and agriculture amid the fragility of a slowly recovering economy,” said Thanos Dokos, director-general of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, a Greek think-tank. “It also raises questions about energy security in the coming autumn and winter.”





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