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I was waiting for my friend outside his condo, when two street dogs approached each other. Stiffening up, one started to smell the other. Then all hell broke loose, snarling, teeth baring, neck hair standing straight up, they stood their ground. They stared at each other for another 15 seconds. Then still growling, they backed up and went their way.
AP sometimes remind me of a dog pound.
Will we ever know who killed Nisman?
[URL]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/11540744/New-questions-in-mysterious-death-of-Argentine-prosecutor-after-mother-discovers-gun.html[/URL]
Tres3.
Who's gun was used to kill Nisman. Where was the owner of the gun at the time of the murder? Why did the reporter ( a dual citizen ) who broke the story, before anyone else knew anything, fly to Israel under false pretexts only to then claim erroneously that he feared for his life for breaking the story and was seeking asylum in Israel.
Hmmmm. We will never know unless we actually pay attention to facts and not sensationalist tabloid headlines.
I called it at the beginning. But it's fun to watch the blind lead the blind. Carry on.
[QUOTE=Tres3;444680]Will we ever know who killed Nisman?
[URL]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/11540744/New-questions-in-mysterious-death-of-Argentine-prosecutor-after-mother-discovers-gun.html[/URL]
Tres3.[/QUOTE]
More fodder for the Argentine LIV. Even if they get a judgement and/or conviction, how does Argentina expect to enforce it? The only Argentines who will make any money are the lawyers.
[URL]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-empty-threats-argentina-falkland-213336567.html[/URL]
Tres3.
[QUOTE=Tres3;444740]More fodder for the Argentine LIV. Even if they get a judgement and/or conviction, how does Argentina expect to enforce it? The only Argentines who will make any money are the lawyers.
[URL]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-empty-threats-argentina-falkland-213336567.html[/URL]
Tres3.[/QUOTE]The FPV is doing this to show the unwashed masses that they are fighting for their rights so that they vote for them again! Remember, this is a election year! The curtain on on a three ring circus is about to go up!!! :-).
The upcoming election gets more interesting all the time.
[URL]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/argentina-5-billion-mine-projects-040001769.html[/URL]
Tres3.
It looks as if Argentina will try to use the Falklands as a distraction forever.
[URL]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/argentine-judge-orders-embargo-over-falklands-oil-probe-211659666.html[/URL]
Tres3.
CFK lauds someone else who wants something for nothing.
[URL]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/argentinas-fernandez-celebrates-greeces-no-creditors-021251453--sector.html[/URL]
Tres3.
Argentina and Greece have a lot in common. Perhaps that is why CFK lauds Greek defiance.
Both have a tradition of living beyond their means.
Both have massive corruption.
Both have a failure to improve their education and innovation systems to become competitive in the global economy.
Both have lazy citizens.
Both have many citizens who do not pay taxes. And,
Both governments have defaulted multiple times in the last 100 years.
Tres3.
[QUOTE=Tres3;445668]Argentina and Greece have a lot in common. Perhaps that is why CFK lauds Greek defiance.
Both have a tradition of living beyond their means.
Both have massive corruption.
Both have a failure to improve their education and innovation systems to become competitive in the global economy.
Both have lazy citizens.
Both have many citizens who do not pay taxes. And,
Both governments have defaulted multiple times in the last 100 years.
Tres3.[/QUOTE]...and both have beautiful women...
[QUOTE=Tres3;445668]Argentina and Greece have a lot in common. Perhaps that is why CFK lauds Greek defiance.
Both have a tradition of living beyond their means.
Both have massive corruption.
Both have a failure to improve their education and innovation systems to become competitive in the global economy.
Both have lazy citizens.
Both have many citizens who do not pay taxes. And,
Both governments have defaulted multiple times in the last 100 years.
Tres3.[/QUOTE]How about where you are coming from?
The below link appeared in today's Miami Herald. Oppenheimer is a well respected, bilingual, and well connected, columnist who writes a syndicated column about Latin America.
[URL]http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/[/URL]#navlink=kicker.
Tres3.
[QUOTE=Tres3;445889]The below link appeared in today's Miami Herald. Oppenheimer is a well respected, bilingual, and well connected, columnist who writes a syndicated column about Latin America.
[URL]http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/[/URL]#navlink=kicker.
Tres3.[/QUOTE]The way I see it, it does not matter who wins the election. The out going president has left too many time bombs ticking and timed to go off after she leaves. That way she can return in four years and say the country needs her to put everything "right" again....
Since the K govt cant make a convincing suicide case and they don't want to declare it a murder.....(They will just let the case ride for 30 years like the bombing of the Jewish center) They now want to go after his mother, sister, and part time computer / IT guy. Typical Argie style , if things cant be made to fit their supposed scenario they go and make a new one and accuse others to make you forget about the original crime where it looks like they are trying very hard to hide something ( As with the Jewish center bombing). I wonder if things will be better under Scioli????
[QUOTE=Gandolf50;445893]Since the K govt cant make a convincing suicide case and they don't want to declare it a murder.....(They will just let the case ride for 30 years like the bombing of the Jewish center) They now want to go after his mother, sister, and part time computer / IT guy. Typical Argie style , if things cant be made to fit their supposed scenario they go and make a new one and accuse others to make you forget about the original crime where it looks like they are trying very hard to hide something ( As with the Jewish center bombing). I wonder if things will be better under Scioli????[/QUOTE]Over $600,000US was deposited in his New York bank account between 2012 and 2014. Apparently all of it from a number of high profile businessmen, one of whom vanished about two years ago. Nisman was nothing more than an inept lightweight taken advantage of by many and utterly in over his head. Most likely painted himself into a corner, saw that everything was closing in on him, and knocked himself off.
The short of it is that all the political stuff and Iran stuff was peripheral to the laundered money/corruption stuff. Par for the course here and elsewhere.
[QUOTE=ElPerro;445894]Over $600,000US was deposited in his New York bank account between 2012 and 2014. Apparently all of it from a number of high profile businessmen, one of whom vanished about two years ago. Nisman was nothing more than an inept lightweight taken advantage of by many and utterly in over his head. Most likely painted himself into a corner, saw that everything was closing in on him, and knocked himself off.
The short of it is that all the political stuff and Iran stuff was peripheral to the laundered money/corruption stuff. Par for the course here and elsewhere.[/QUOTE]Was Nissman doing a few shady things on the side? No doubt. What Argentine with a visa to the US isn't. Thats including everyone right up to the president. My point is they cant prove a suicide, most likely because it wasn't. Police incompetence and politics have assured no one will ever know. So what do they do ? Look to make him a bad guy who does not deserve justice. Go after his family and friends so they keep quiet. This was a hit every one knew was going down, even the target knew in advance!
On a side note.... The Nissman money laundering case is already going ahead while his murder investigation is ??????? Mired in red tape and argie mierda de torro!
The below link appeared in today's Miami Herald. Oppenheimer is a well respected, bilingual, and well connected, columnist who writes a syndicated column about Latin America.
[URL]http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/[/URL]
Tres3.
After three tests on the gun the results keep changing.....
For the prosecutor (Fein), Nisman shot himself with gloves, he took them off after he died and threw them through the window, the San Isidro judge said today in statements to the Mitre radio station as she revealed the insurance company paid her 1,600 pesos for each of Nismans daughters and 22,000 pesos that we used for an appeal process before the (Supreme) Court to demand the recusal of Fein.
From todays B.A.H.
From todays Bs, As, Herald.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015.
'Scioli could be a constructive transition to wait for CFK's return'.
Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo head Estela de Carlotto.
Estela de Carlotto, the president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights organization, considered Daniel Scioli a faithful and different man whose triumph in the October presidential elections could pave the way for a constructive transition toward the return of Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner to power.
I think that (Daniel) Scioli will continue the project of Cristina (Fernndez), which is the one we have always applauded, and that of Nstor (Kirchner), because he has promised that. He is a loyal, different man and, well, he could even be a very constructive transition to wait for the return of Cristina, Carlotto told reporters today.
The below link appeared in today's Miami Herald. Oppenheimer is a well respected, bilingual, and well connected, columnist who writes a syndicated column about Latin America.
[URL]http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article40769703.html[/URL]
Tres3.
The below link appeared in today's Miami Herald.
[URL]http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article40564761.html[/URL]
Tres3.
[QUOTE=Tres3;446287]The below link appeared in today's Miami Herald.
[URL]http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article40564761.html[/URL]
Tres3.[/QUOTE]In a nutshell, this article illustrates what's wrong with the socialist policies infecting both Argentina and the USA.
"[I]Today, an estimated 15 million Argentines, or about 35 percent of the population, receive some kind of direct financial assistance from the government[/I]"
"[I]...the government is giving cash subsidies to millions of people and has increased the number of public employees by 42 percent, to 1.7 million people.[/I]"
"[I]...with some saying they'll vote for the ruling party candidate because they fear their social programs will be taken away under a new party[/I]"
"[I]'If I lose this [government 'make-work'] job, I'll go back to zero,' Diaz said of her $275-a-month salary. 'This government has to stay in power.'[/I]"
There you have it gentlemen: A progressive road map to destroying a nation while simultaneously staying in power by bribing it's citizens with promises of free money that in fact does not exist.
Jax
"'If I lose this job, I'll go back to zero,Diaz said of her $275-a-month salary. This government has to stay in power.'"
Or back to Exedra.
So I am in Portugal now, and that country moved to the left in the last election. I am of and from the left. But the difference between Portugal and Argentina is, the people in Argentina are [B]just so [I]fucking [U]lazy.
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Socialism or government spending programs can equal Keynesian pump priming. But not if all you want to do is drink mate all day long.
You have to take Oppenheimer with a kilo of salt, though.
[QUOTE=Dickhead;446293] the people in Argentina are [B]just so [I]fucking [U]lazy.
[/U][/I][/B][/QUOTE]I think that the Argentine people are the laziest in the Western Hemisphere, without doubt. I would say the World, but it is a toss up whether or not the Egyptians or Greeks are lazier than the Argentines.
Tres3.
I haven't been to either of those countries, but out of the 49 I have been to so far, argies are the laziest ones by quite a wide margin. Here in Portugal there is not a lot of good land. They do what they can with it.
[QUOTE=Tres3;446294]I think that the Argentine people are the laziest in the Western Hemisphere, without doubt. I would say the World, but it is a toss up whether or not the Egyptians or Greeks are lazier than the Argentines.
Tres3.[/QUOTE]The Argies beat the Greeks hands down! The Egyptians?? I cant say as I have never been. But culture stereotypes make them a runner up at the very least!
Newly coined word...Not mine but stolen from another forum I read on Argentina.
A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
"Import substitution industrialization" was a hallmark of Perón despite already having failed in México, among other places. Now we have "inflation denial importation" as Argentina pays Brazil to print 100 peso notes for them.
Seldom have so many striven to do so little with so much. Tomorrow is the big day!
[QUOTE=Dickhead;446308]"Import substitution industrialization" was a hallmark of Pern despite already having failed in Mxico, among other places.[/QUOTE]It was also tried, and failed miserably, in Costa Rica. NAFTA contributed to the "salvation" of Mexico, but the rest of Latin America eschews free trade and keeps their collective heads in the sand. Will they ever forget the Spanish tradition of high customs taxes on imported goods that the well connected find a way to avoid?
Tres3.
The below link appeared in today's Miami Herald. Oppenheimer is a well respected, bilingual, and well connected, columnist who writes a syndicated column about Latin America.
[URL]http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article41711442.html[/URL]
Tres3.
Another press release on the default. The ironic fact is that neither Scioli nor Macri can repay the money without endangering Argentina's reserve position. CFK stole and/or wasted the reserves. I guess she thought it was better to give the money to Argentine LIVs rather than pay the legitimate contracts that the bond indentures contained.
[URL]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/judge-argentina-owes-another-6-1b-foreign-bondholders-212920330.html[/URL]
Tres3.
It appears that the Peso will float if Macri wins.
[URL]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-10/argentina-s-macri-says-market-will-determine-peso-exchange-rate?cmpid=yhoo.headline[/URL]
Tres3.
[QUOTE=Tres3;446399]It appears that the Peso will float if Macri wins.
[URL]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-10/argentina-s-macri-says-market-will-determine-peso-exchange-rate?cmpid=yhoo.headline[/URL]
Tres3.[/QUOTE]This is bad. It will make getting money in easier but really floating the peso will result in less purchasing power for dollar denominated income.
[QUOTE=DaddyRulz;446400]This is bad. It will make getting money in easier but really floating the peso will result in less purchasing power for dollar denominated income.[/QUOTE]What you say is true. But keeping a arbitrary low rate like they have in the past just fuels inflation which also eats into ones income. Which is worse??
[QUOTE=DaddyRulz;446400]This is bad. It will make getting money in easier but really floating the peso will result in less purchasing power for dollar denominated income.[/QUOTE]You mean relative to the blue rate, correct?
While this is true, the resultant devaluation will make everyone holding pesos seem poorer (while in reality they are already so), which will further erode local demand for nonessential goods which should have a deflationary effect on the price of those less essential goods and services. This process will not be without pain. However, for the good of the Argentine people, it is best (IMO) to break with past practices of whistling past the graveyard and pretending that the problem doesn't exist.
I am very excited about the prospect of a Macri win (it will help m business interests in Argentina and create more opportunity for all), I am so distrustful of the govt that I'll withhold my excitement until I actually see the results.
As for the holdouts, I don't expect Macri or anyone else to pay them in cash on the barrel head. So long as they don't have to increase payments to all bond holders (I believe that provision expired January-'15), they can negotiate a settlement, create a new bond and start paying it, over time like all the other bonds.
[QUOTE=WildWalleye;446405]You mean relative to the blue rate, correct?
As for the holdouts, I don't expect Macri or anyone else to pay them in cash on the barrel head. So long as they don't have to increase payments to all bond holders (I believe that provision expired January-'15), they can negotiate a settlement, create a new bond and start paying it, over time like all the other bonds.[/QUOTE]What will happen is, that the private banks and big players here will found a fund and pay Singer and Co.
When the tecnical default (31.07.2014) took place, for 3 hours here the headline of "ambito finianciero" published, THAT solution.
BUTTTTT.
Then interfiered "the Queen" and blocked the good solution.
As she tried to ruin "the campo y la oligarchia" as al of those where those, who killed N.K.
Which could/should be doubted.
Macri will arrange in that form, Brito (MACRO-Bank) will lead the solution.
[QUOTE=DaddyRulz;446400]This is bad. It will make getting money in easier but really floating the peso will result in less purchasing power for dollar denominated income.[/QUOTE]Can you elaborate/explain? My simplistic notion is that a floated peso should be worth about what the Blue rate peso is. Maybe that is wrong; but if not then dollars would maintain their purchasing power.
Thanks, Bob.
The problem is deeper then the exchange rate. The current government has drained ALL the countries resources. I read some where recently that if you subtract what Argentina owes out there is only 7 million dollars left for the reserves. Realisticly, that would put the peso at 50 to 1? 100 to 1???? They have drained the insurance (social security) and tax agency's (AFIP) accounts. Who ever is the next president is in for a large problem.
The below link appeared in today's Miami Herald. Oppenheimer is a well respected, bilingual, and well connected, columnist who writes a syndicated column about Latin America.
[URL]http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article45375171.html[/URL]
Tres3.