Every article this guy has written in "The Atlantic" has been critical of Trump and BK. He is part of the Brookings Institution - the Deep State. The irony here is BK is part of the Republican establishment.A_Gupta wrote:Remarkable essay from a Kavanaugh character witness:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... gh/571936/
long story short, they want $65b from china under CPEC but not sure if it will be self supporting or sunk investment. in case it heads sound, they were planning to use IMF/WB to get yet another bailout and carry on, while giving gaalis to both amrika and chinaUlanBatori wrote:Psst.. I missed this. What stunt did the WB pull on the cheen/CPEC? I saw where terroristan had reduced the amount that they plan to beg/borrow, but nothing beyond.
And the US directly quoted that as "disputed teritorry". Translation for Beijing:Not surprisingly, eevil yindoo India, as America’s strategic partner and keen aspirant to becoming a counter-weight to China, has fully supported the American approach, alleging that CPEC will pass through Indian territory “occupied” by Pakistan.
Get out of Northern Areas/POK and there is better chance of Gwadar surviving.
Fitch warns of CPEC ‘curtailment’ under IMF programme
Khaleeq Kiani
August 17, 2018
ISLAMABAD: The US pressure could lead to ‘stricter’ conditions by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to bailout Pakistan, including curtailment of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and greater transparency in its financing, according to Fitch Rating.
The “US pressure could lead to stricter programme conditionality, including the curtailment of CPEC projects and greater transparency in CPEC financing”, said the New York-based rating agency. It said US backing was not strictly required to secure an IMF programme, but the IMF board emphasised consensus decision-making.
It said Pakistan’s incoming PTI-led coalition government will be under immediate pressure to arrest the deterioration in external finances and address fiscal challenges, as well as to attract the external funding necessary to meet its financing gap.
“The new government has more political capital to take positive though difficult policy actions, but it has a thin majority in parliament and faces a strong opposition, which could complicate policymaking,” Fitch said.
The rating agency expects Pakistan to seek potential financing from several sources including China and multilateral development banks, and possibly the IMF. Pakistan has been a repeated user of IMF financing, entering 12 programmes since 1980.
The IMF would probably require further fiscal and monetary tightening, greater exchange-rate flexibility, and wide-ranging structural reforms, which could also help attract other sources of financing.
Moreover, the IMF has unique monitoring mechanisms to implement corrective policies, without which there will continue to be significant uncertainty over the medium-term sustainability of Pakistan’s finances.
Negotiations over an IMF agreement could be complicated by loans linked to the CPEC, part of China’s Belt Road Initiative (BRI), particularly amid rising global geopolitical tensions. Recent statements from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggest the US administration does not want IMF financing used to bail out Chinese lenders.
The $62bn CPEC project makes Pakistan one of the largest recipients of BRI financing. These loans have financed imports of capital goods, which have in turn inflated the current account deficit. The loans will eventually need to be repaid or refinanced.
The rating agency said PTI founder Imran Khan, outlined a broad economic agenda for a “New Pakistan” during his campaign, with a focus on confronting corruption, reducing inequality and expanding social services. However, advancement of this policy agenda is likely to be limited in the short term, with external and fiscal problems taking priority.
The current account deficit reached 5.6pc of GDP in the fiscal year ended June 2018, up from 4.7pc in FY17, while liquid foreign-exchange reserves fell by almost $4bn from end-December 2017 to end-July 2018 to just over $10bn.
The sharp rise in global risk aversion towards emerging markets, and a projected pickup in Pakistan’s external debt obligations in 2019 are adding to financing pressures. The fiscal deficit has also widened and is likely to well exceed previous estimate of 6pc of GDP in FY18, up from 5.8pc a year earlier.
Fitch revised the outlook on Pakistan’s ‘B’ rating to ‘negative’ from ‘stable’ in January to reflect these rising external and fiscal pressures.
The State Bank of Pakistan has already taken some steps, raising its policy rate by 175bps since January and introducing greater flexibility in the heavily managed rupee by allowing four separate depreciations since mid-December 2017, which resulted in a cumulative 17pc decline against the dollar.
These measures have so far not been enough to prevent the widening of the large external financing gap, which has been bridged with support from China, including an agreement to provide $2bn in additional bilateral lending in July. The Saudi-backed Islamic Development Bank has also reportedly extended a $4bn loan, the rating agency claimed.
The new government appeared to recognise the urgency of the situation, with the likely incoming finance minister, Asad Umar, stating that “all options are on the table” and that the government will formulate a policy and financing path within six weeks.
Published in Dawn, August 17th, 2018
No thanks. India has built own goodwill despite the stigma of the being British Gungadins during colonial era.Singha wrote:good thing is american deep state at top levels sees the OBOR/CPEC as a major strategic threat both in rimpac/ior and eurasian steppe and they are taking steps to counter. good thing about murica is once the deep state and think tanks and pentagon are on the same page, they take some action, rather than pass gas like our establishment.
in africa, they might work with people like india to cap, rollback and eliminate the chinese inroads one by one. african govts are now aware of the debt trap loop and they too are accountable to the electorate for economic health.
in africa, they might work with people like india to cap, rollback and eliminate the chinese inroads one by one.
UlanBatori wrote:Several African nations got Chinese projects going, back in the 1970s. Tanzania for example. They seem to have stayed low-key, just exploiting the mining etc. In recent times they started offering the lure of Big $$$ which meant huge bribes as well. Now they are finding out that there is a hook with the bait, and a very tough line attached to the hook - and the line is being reeled in as cheen starts feeling the credit crunch themselves.
Reminds me of the very senior university/Boeing executive who was asked by two HR she-Godzillis why he wasn't attending the Sexual Harassment Course. He asked with 400% innocent expression on his face:of using sexual and homophobic language in the workplace.
"I'll never forget the day he told me he got four erections while watching Jennifer Hudson rehearse," a female former CBS executive recalled to CNN.
Favale allegedly made the comment about Hudson as he watched the Oscar-winning performer rehearse ahead of a December 2015 appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
Two other CBS employees, one former and one current, told CNN they heard Favale say the vulgar remark. Others told CNN they learned about it from co-workers later that day. Of the five sources CNN spoke to about the incident, two said Favale allegedly made the remark in the presence of a CBS standards and practices representative.
Favale was placed on administrative leave on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for CBS, following CNN's request for comment on this story. Favale denies allegations of retaliation and said his comments were taken out of context. {And in today's US environment, he might as well be fa*ting in the wind for all the sympathy he will get}
But no, they couldn't afford to fire him for that.H*rass? Oh! I always thought that was two words?
If you want any better security you better have uniformed soldiers with the Led Stal on their helmets, and machine-guns, and a reputation for using them. Like Dr. No's Carribbean property in James Bond. Which is why PeeAllSee had the inside track. GOI until very recently (if at all) has not seen fit to enclose a mailed fist in the Kancheepuram gloves. Hence the probability of repeating the Uganda, Kenya and other ripoffs is very high. IOW you better make a 1000% profit while you can, to cover for the disasters. Now with the Boko Haram and their Mali buddies setting the standards, one has to be brave - or have one's own office located somewhere far away like Bilayat - to do big bijnej there.It's their right. They have nothing, so they come by and get something for themselves.
{What they had to say was all unprintable}In his current role, Favale develops programing around talent and advises on comedy bookings for the network. He started his career with CBS in 1996 and served as a senior programming executive for "Late Show with David Letterman" and "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" through 2017. He appeared on the program in comedic bits several times during Letterman's tenure.
From 1998 to 2001, Favale also oversaw the CBS syndicated "Howard Stern Radio Show." He gained recognition among followers of Stern in numerous appearances on his TV shows between 2004 and 2012. He is also credited as one of the founders of the Comedy Central television network.
According to several people who work or worked with Favale as a CBS executive, the off-color humor prevalent in some comedy circles has followed him professionally.
Nine current and former CBS employees, a mix of men and women, agreed to be interviewed by CNN as part of this story. All spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing non-disclosure agreements, or concern over professional retribution. These individuals described instances in "Late Show" meetings and rehearsals, between 2015 and 2018, where Favale used sexual innuendo, made homophobic comments and allegedly said derogatory remarks about the appearances of female guests.
When contacted by CNN for this story, Favale issued the following statement:
"Allegations that I have ever retaliated against anyone in any fashion are 100% false. I have spent my entire career working at comedy shows, where there has always been a wide latitude to make transgressive jokes while preparing the program. While we make a lot of jokes, these jokes attributed to me, whether said in rehearsals or production meetings, are being taken out of context and were not said in the way being presented here."
The individuals interviewed for this story said they felt emboldened to share their accounts about Favale's language after former CBS CEO Les Moonves resigned last month.
Related: Les Moonves is out at CBS after harassment allegations, corporate battle
Moonves was forced to step down following allegations of sexual harassment and assault in two reports by Ronan Farrow published by The New Yorker. While Moonves acknowledged consensual relations with three women cited in the stories, he disputes the allegations of assault and harassment.
Two sources detailed a problematic "Late Show" department meeting around 2015, where Favale was in attendance and loud construction could be heard outside the office.
"There was a big drill, and we looked outside and went to the window. [Favale] compared the drill to 'a big black dick' as it was drilling into the ground," a former CBS employee recalled. "I couldn't believe he said that."
This former employee said she complained to her superior about Favale's drill remark and other comments she deemed offensive and felt she faced retaliation. Favale began blocking her out of "important" and "necessary" meetings, she said. She voluntarily left her role at CBS and said Favale was a contributing factor.
The former CBS executive told CNN two employees complained to her after the drill remark and she shared their concerns with the company's human resources department. She said it appeared to her the network did not take any visible action against Favale. She, too, felt he began to retaliate against her. "He definitely knew that I had gone to HR. I told him, 'People are complaining about you and I let HR know,'" she said. "He stopped talking to me for long periods of time. Our roles required that we interact ... he shut me out of meetings. I went back to HR and complained, but I was told it wasn't happening and had been addressed with him." In April 2017, after at least one formal HR complaint had been made against Favale, he was promoted from the network's east coast late-night executive to his current role. "After you realize that that's the kind of thinking and logic that advances one's career at CBS, as a woman, you are left with one choice," a current CBS employee told CNN. "Are you a person who raises questions and calls that person out and has your employment jeopardized, or someone who just says nothing? Or do you become a good-time girl who laughs along with him and hopes that becoming a cool girl that gets it will help you advance? Those are not choices that someone should have to make in the workplace." "He has been known to say sexist things," another CBS employee said about Favale. "But I think that no one [in HR] took it seriously because it wasn't physical. It wasn't groping, so he got away with it."
When contacted by CNN for this report, CBS issued the following statement:
"The comments reported in this story are offensive and not consistent with the standards we expect from our executives or the culture we want at CBS. The network investigated a complaint for inappropriate language that was received in January 2016, and corrective action was taken. However, since concerned voices are speaking up nearly three years later, additional review is warranted. Mr. Favale has been placed on leave while we look into this situation further."
"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" declined to issue a separate statement.
Heck, BRF is getting so sexist that if I'm kicked off here for the whole list, I'll at worst join the illustrious Dr. Shiv. So here goes::1. If you go to a party, either have only one drink, or only drink soda or water, so you can keep your wits about you. Never get tipsy around people you don't know and trust fully—it could come back to haunt you later. Even around people you fully trust, remember that most false rape allegations come from people you know. Be vigilant!
2. Use the buddy system, so you always have a witness! Only go to the bathroom with a friend, or ideally with a group of friends. Always have a friend walk you to your car, in case you run into a strange woman in the parking garage. Never go camping or hiking or biking or running or even just walking alone. NEVER go to a bar or concert or party or event alone; that is just asking for it.
3. If you're going out anywhere, make sure you text the specifics of your plans to at least one or two trusted friends, in case they need to verify your whereabouts to police later. You may also consider using a location sharing app so you have proof of where you were and when.
4. If you're going to exercise, make sure that you bring a friend, or even better, just exercise at home. Never go through a park alone. There might be a woman there who could accuse you
.5. When you're heading to class or work, never listen to music or podcasts on headphones. You need to listen carefully to your surroundings to make sure no woman is accusing you of anything.
6. When you're getting into your car at the end of the day, always check your backseat to make sure there aren't any women hiding back there. Never take shortcuts through alleys or parking lots that aren't extremely well lit, in case a woman is hiding there, waiting to accuse you.
7. Only take out the trash, walk the dog, get your mail, go to the ATM, or get gas during daylight hours. Most false rape accusations happen at night, and you don't want to become a statistic. If you MUST go out alone at night, make sure to get your phone out of your pocket and start recording video. Grasp the phone between your fingers so it's not obvious, but keep it ready in case a strange woman approaches you
.8. It's expensive to take Uber or Lyft all the time, I know. But never use public transportation after dark. It's just too risky. Indecent exposure and groping accusations are very common on the subway, and you can easily avoid this by simply taking a cab instead. Protect yourself.
9. Never rent ground-floor apartments, and make sure you lock all your windows at night, even if it's hot out. You never know if a woman is going to break into your bedroom to accuse you while you are asleep.
10. Last but not least, even if you follow all these tips, you could still be falsely accused. After all, no matter what steps you take to prevent it, it's simply a fact of life that every year, a low single-digit percentage of rape allegations will turn out to be false, on par with other false allegations of felonies, and that's just a sad truth we all have to live with. You can take precautions, but that's all you can do.
Plus the part where the Fear Of Flying was all lying.boyfriend of Dr. Ford's, stating that he personally witnessed Dr. Ford coaching a friend on polygraph examinations. When asked under oath in the hearing whether she'd ever given any tips or advice to someone who was planning on taking a polygraph, Dr. Ford replied, "Never." This statement raises specific concerns about the reliability of her polygraph examination results."
This is pretty much true and has nothing to do with sexism. The first rule is not to drink. The 2nd is always watch your back. I give this advice to my children who are adults and late teenagers. For decades I have told them that for many positions of responsibility, there are background checks by security agencies and they make a timeline of all of your activities from the day you enter school. It must be spotless - especially if you’re brown. I’ve told my kids this since middle school. Nowadays colleges and employers check social media and ask if you’ve been disciplined in your school or college for non academic reasons.A_Gupta wrote:Turns out what a man has to do to avoid being falsely accused of rape is exactly what a woman has to do to avoid being molested in the first place.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1 ... n=trending
The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.
By DAVID BARSTOW, SUSANNE CRAIG and RUSS BUETTNER
Oct. 2, 2018
President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found.
Mr. Trump won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help.
But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day.
Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.
These maneuvers met with little resistance from the Internal Revenue Service, The Times found. The president’s parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances.
The Trumps paid a total of $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax records show.
The president declined repeated requests over several weeks to comment for this article. But a lawyer for Mr. Trump, Charles J. Harder, provided a written statement on Monday, one day after The Times sent a detailed description of its findings. “The New York Times’s allegations of fraud and tax evasion are 100 percent false, and highly defamatory,” Mr. Harder said. “There was no fraud or tax evasion by anyone. The facts upon which The Times bases its false allegations are extremely inaccurate.”
Hmm! I think the work hard part is probably right. Don't know about the other two. You may SLEEP a lot better, but maybe hungrier. The whole scheme of frat parties, prom etc have become way beyond reasonable, and are taken to much worse extremes in the desi uber-noveau-riche circles, as pictured in Bollywood. Until recently I thought Bollywood movie parties were outrageously overdone, and over-copying the West, but now I realize that they are accurate and probably much more virtuous renderings of real life. What these sorts of revelations reveal is that they ***ARE** nonsense. One can grow up perfectly sane and mature without going to these things.If you want to make it in life. Never drink, cheat and work hard.
The US Constitution does not prohibit a non-lawayer from being a supreme court judge. All the president has to do is nominate someone with good judgement like an aerospace engineer, physicist, or even someone evil like a mathematicianUlanBatori wrote:FOIL-type hyena pack attack:
"650 Law Professors".
Interesting to see that the commie thought process is very similar. I bet these are mostly losers. Let me guess: Is that U. Chicago anti-Hindu Bibi on this list? Nussbaum, that's it!
Apparently there are 205 law schools in the US. Maybe average of 20 "professors" per school? That's 4010 profs, and 650 have signed this. Not a bad turnout! Nussbaum, sadly, is not there. But lots of desi Bibi - Behens
.Wonder why they finished the job in so little time. Gives a very bad name to Phederal Agintzis. Must be a message there somewhere? CT#331: Kelly Ayesha Con- Rasta made up the report and mailed itYagnasri wrote:FBI report submitted. It seems nothing new came out of it as expected. The report will be kept - Single copy for individual senators can visit and read. If it is true and nothing new came up BK will be confirmed.
Apparently they did not interview whatzername. Then again they may have found the person hu drove whatzername home after the "attack". Who was a concerned-enough adult to have gone and verified who was present and drunk at the place. That would nail it, wouldn't it?"PHROM EPH BEE EYE ONLEE. 4 ur ice onlee Taap Secret, bliss do not make more than 102 copies
1 phor the Fox
1 phor SeeEnnEnn
100 for the asses and elephants in the Dome
and none for little trump who .....
There is a liberal term for it it is called Contra majoritismUlanBatori wrote:FOIL-type hyena pack attack:
"650 Law Professors".
Interesting to see that the commie thought process is very similar. I bet these are mostly losers. Let me guess: Is that U. Chicago anti-Hindu Bibi on this list? Nussbaum, that's it!
Apparently there are 205 law schools in the US. Maybe average of 20 "professors" per school? That's 4010 profs, and 650 have signed this. Not a bad turnout! Nussbaum, sadly, is not there. But lots of desi Bibi - Behens
I thin using High school/College behavior is very smart move by Dems but this can be used against many people in USA. Wonder if they opened can of wormsObama on his adolescent years in a rare video of a 2001 interview:
-"I was a thug," a "mischievous child"
-"I got into fights."
-"I drank and did--and consumed substances that weren't always legal."
-"I might have drank a six-pack in an hour before going back to class"
When I didn't see the dhaga near the top I was 
because I assumed that it had been nuked again by Bredators. 
The other side is the Lynch Mob. Until just now it had not hit me that the Communist mob dragging people out of their homes and hacking them to death are === the racist lynch mob dragging a prisoner out of the city jailhouse, against whom there is no evidence, and beating him nearly to death before hanging him.Our Faculty Comrades' Opinions are Far Superior Than Those Of Mere Proletariat
His one-way ticket to Siberia is expected in the mail by tomorrow.Langbert wrote in his blog that the Senate committee hearing last week at which Ford and Kavanaugh testified was a travesty and that the Democratic Party has become "a party of tutu-wearing pansies, totalitarian sissies who lack virility, a sense of decency, or the masculine judgment that has characterized the greatest civilizations."
Brooklyn College Provost Anne Lopes called the comments in the post abhorrent and counter to the values of the school community.