Argentina slides into the Yuan zone

Bloomberg: China Allows Argentina to Spend Up to $10 Billion of Currency Swap Line. In fact, it is a loan negotiated by Sabino Vaca Narvaja (son of the founder of Montoneros guerilla group). Argentina has spent the fifty billion dollars credit line granted by the IMF and now the local demand for dollars is sky high. The Banco Central imported by cargo jets, tons of paper dollars from the Fed, to satisfy the demand and restrict inflation. Elections are close, so China is helping the Peronista government. China is investing in lithium mines and other infrastructure. 

About honesty

 

• A Citibank employee tried to claim several dishes on expenses, saying he had eaten them all himself.

• The banker later admitted he had shared the food with his partner and was fired by Citibank.

• A judge ruled in the bank's favor in a wrongful-dismissal lawsuit.

The banking giant Citibank has won an employment lawsuit against an employee who was fired after claiming expenses for food and drink for his partner during a business trip and misleading the bank about it.

The former analyst Szabolcs Fekete had sued the bank, accusing it of unfair dismissal after being fired last year for gross misconduct over the expenses claim. He initially said he had consumed two sandwiches, two pasta dishes, and two coffees by himself during a business trip to Amsterdam but later acknowledged his partner had shared some of the food.

People managing money needs absolute honesty and integrity. I am glad that strict Victorian morals are still effective in the USA. 

Under siege

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MOD·9 hr. ago·Stickied comment·edited 7 hr. ago

***I'm editing this post the more I find - if number appears, it's the relevant section in the paper***

The right side of the paper has the Arabic word/expression and the left side show how to pronounce it in Hebrew. For example, row no.40 says in Arabic:

"Ana mish fahem" (Arabic - "I don't understand") and then to the left it says "Ani lo mevin" - (Arabic letters but Hebrew meaning).

Here is the list:

1. Stop

2. Don't move

3. Come here

4. Go

5. Raise your hands and open your legs

6. Drop your weapon

7. Take your pants off

8. Lay on the floor

9. Don't talk

10. where is... (unclear)?

11. ?

12. Walk forward

13. Don't look back

14. Where is/are the weapon/firearm?

15. How to use (this) weapon?

16. Shut up / silence

17. Where is the road?

18. How to access to?

19. Move fast

20. Move up/climb

21. I will kill you

22. You are wounded

23. Do not make any problems

24. Calm down

25. You are a hostage

26. Everyone, move here

27. Who is in charge in this Kibbutz?

28. What is the Kibbutz name?

29. We have hostages

30. We will kill the hostages

31. How to use the tank?

32. I want a doctor

33. Treat him

34. We want food and water

35. We want to call

36. Where are the car keys?

37. Men (move) here

38. Women (move) here

39. Kids (move) here

40. I don't understand

41. Stay here

42. Who speaks Arabic?

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Yehudit and Shmulik (Shmuel) Weiss are still missing. These docs were found next to the shelter in their private home. House was full of bullets and destruction.

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ilishpaturi

·8 hr. ago

Well, ‘take your pants off’ does kinda confirm their intention to commit sexual violence, does it not?

Above: A Hamas dictionary forgotten in a kibbutz home. Occupants disappeared. 

There is a war going on in the South and occasionally, the booms of rockets and anti-rockets exploding in the sky above. I may have lost a few clients in the South, including Kfar Aza and Ashkelon, buy I am still fully occupied. My problem is the fact that I am working from home, and I have an irrepressible bored woman here who is bothering me all day. One of my sons in law is in the army in the Northern frontier, the other is in a logistics branch somewhere in Israel. I am not worried, what unexpected may befell on me at age 77? So, I keep working and sending out bills. 

The USS Gerald Ford fighting planet

The American nuclear warship is stationed in front of our shores, waiting for the opportunity to enter into the fight. The Royal Navy is moving to the East Mediterranean to join the action. Thought of the 1948 evacuation are in the minds of the Palestinians. 

Argentina evacuating

Three days ago, arrived here the cargo plane seen at the left ([pic of the evacuation of Kabul). Innocently, I thought they are sending us weapons. In fact, they are quietly airlifting American citizens from Israel at war. Argentina is also sending planes to evacuate its citizens, and Hungary and several European countries are doing the same. The picture, as seen from their peaceful homes afar, must be terrifying. As for us, it not terrifying yet, military age men and women are being conscripted, and the youngest sister of a friend (a tatzpitanit) was assassinated by terrorists. There is no bottled water in the supermarket. I have no knowledge of what is going on, because the internet is self-censured or censured, except for the daily report on the number of soldiers killed. I have been working hard on the SPAR supermarket project till 1 AM today.   

The Bank of Israel defends the shekel

The BoI announced that is selling US dollars to the limit of 30 billion. It means that the local currency is under attack by speculators. They will not succeed. 

The country is emerging from the shock that the frontier was undefended, and the frontier villages were open. Kibbutz Beeri (Beeri was the pen name of Berl Katzenelson, a leftist Zionist) not only was open and hosting vacationing visitors. Its neighbor, Kibbutz Re'em was holding a big trance all-night party. The revelers were caught at 6 AM drugged and tired when attacked but some were able to run to the nearby trees. 240 of them were killed on the spot. A massacre. One "militant" who was taken prisoner explained that they had prepared this surprise attack for a year, and were ready to fight ZAHAL, but it only appeared after 5 hours. 

We are at war. Support Israel!

They took more than two hundred hostages. The mother of the girl in the pic identified her as Shani Luk, 30, a German tourist. They brutally assassinated unarmed 600 civilians. I think this means the end of HAMAS. Probably other enemy forces too. We need fifty more years of tranquility. Tomorrow and after we may not be nice. Please understand and support us all over the world.