The government of Djibouti seized the Doraleh Container Terminal from UAE based DP World. In doing so the theives governing Djibouti unilaterally breached a 30 year contract they entered into with DP World in 2006 allowing the firm to develop the port out of nothing and operate the port as part of their enterprise. Operations at the port began in 2009. (archived)
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Chicoms Take Their Anbang
The Chicoms have seized local conglomerate with international holdings Anbang and turned it over to the Chinese Insurance Regulatory Commision nominally to "protect the rights and interests of consumers."
Missouri Governor Arrested By Saint Louis Pantsuits For "Invasion of Privacy" Allegations
The Governor of Missouri, Eric Grietens, has been arrested following an indictment by Saint Louis, Missouri Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner alleging (archived):
…Greitens violated a Missouri statute that makes it a felony if a person transmits the image contained in the photograph or film in a manner that allows access to that image via a computer.
Greitens was elected to office as part of the Great Again wave in Fall 2016 which brought President Trump into office. Before taking office as Governor elect, Greitens' wife Sheena was robbed at gunpoint in the city of Saint Louis.
The Governor of the State that contains Saint Louis was booked at the "Saint Louis Justice Center" and is being released from the jail on a personal recognizance bond without travel restrictions. Pantsuit continues thrashing.
Fickle Fiat: Twenty Year Old Social Media User Knocks 1.3 Billion USD Off Snapchat Market Cap
After Kim Kardashian's 20 year old sister Kylie Jenner announced she doesn't really use Snapchat anymore, traders on the NYSE began dumping shares of the application's parent company Snap Inc. More than 1.3 billion Unified Standard Dosiedos in value has been shaved off the social media firm.
Buttfunder Founder Montroll Arrested
The U.S. Department of [in]Justice has arrested the founder of BitFunder, Jon Montroll (WOT:nonperson) – better known as Ukyo – in response to an investigation by The FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission. BitFunder was an early Bitcoin "securities exchange" that saw around 6000 BTC liberated from it's coffers due to a bug that allowed attackers to credit themselves funds among other lulz. The announcement on the Department of [in]Justice website alleges that Montroll lied to SEC investigators in 2013 when questioned in regards to company finances after the hack, while depositing some of his own coins to BitFund in an effort to conceal the SFYL. Mr. Montroll has been charged with two counts of perjury and a single count of obstruction of justice.
India's City Union Bank Claims 2 Million USD Loss Through SWIFT
City Union Bank in India is claiming to have lost 2 million USD1 of fiat currency through the SWIFT network following what they are referring to as an attack (archived). The bank is negotiating with various other fiat actors to recover a portion of the funds, while the destination of other funds transfered out of the bank is lost in the soup of legacy fiat systems.
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Former FBI Director Prepares Constitutional Crisis In United States With Indictments
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller acting as a "Special Counsel" has indicted 13 Russian nationals and one organization for engaging in political speech. The indictments are based on laws which nominally prohibit foreign nationals from engaging in US Federal Elections. Challenges to the laws which would arise from a serious legal defense citing the Consitution's protection of free speech and a free press would likely either result in their gutting to the point of uselessness or the disenfranchisement of many pantsuit supporters that happen to be undocumented foreign nationals physically present in the United States.
The indeterminism inherent in the US Courts Circus makes predicting which outcome arises, provided the case is litigated at all, a challenge, but either way the squeeze is in.
Shooting Outside USG.NSA Fort Meade
Reports are emerging of a multi casualty shooting incident this morning outside of the main entrance to the US NSA's Fort Meade Headquarters. The freeway around the area has been closed and local media is reporting differing numbers of casualties and other details at this time.
Unilever Prepares To Stop Feeding Facebook And Google
Consumer goods giant Unilever is preparing to cease continuing to spend bleeding marketing dollars on advertisements through Facebook, Google, and other online platforms. Unilever Chief Marketing Officer Keith Weed is offering:
"As one of the largest advertisers in the world, we cannot have an environment where our consumers don’t trust what they see online."
"And we cannot continue to prop up a digital supply chain – one that delivers over a quarter of our advertising to our consumers – which at times is little better than a swamp in terms of its transparency"
Mainstream propagandists are interpreting this as a call for "social responsibility" on Unilever's part, but the point appears to be that Unilever can't count on Facebook and Google to deliver a return on their portion of the marketing budget.
ICO Scams Continue: Dying Kodak's Appears To Stall Before Starting
Eastman Kodak Company has announced that numerous "fake webpages and facebook accounts" are offering fraudulent KodakCoins for sale, despite the company not having the actual scam token available to the general public yet. Kodak executives awarded themselves company shares in the day before the announcement that they would license the brand to a "blockchain project company" which caused share prices to nearly double. Kerrisdale capital, a hedge fund, said in analysis of the project that "the team behind KODAKCOIN has zero credibility" and the chairman and founder behind the ICO is "a stock promoter that was previously banned from a Canadian stock exchange." Eastman Kodak Co. filed for bankruptcy around 6 years ago, with debts of more than $6.75 billion USD and has failed to make a comeback despite Citibank infusing it with $950 million in cash to prop-up operations.