News, Rumors and Opinions Late Tuesday Night 6-22-2021
KTFA:
Clare: US seizes three dozen Iranian websites for spreading ‘misinformation’
Two Iranian state-controlled news outlets, Press TV and Al-Alam, were inaccessible Tuesday afternoon
Top security officials seized approximately three dozen Iranian-based websites Tuesday, citing concerns over the spread of misinformation, a national security official told Fox News.
Two of the roughly 36 sites seized included Iranian state-controlled news outlets, Press TV and Al-Alam.
The sites were inaccessible Tuesday afternoon and instead displayed a single page that said each site had "been seized by the United States Government."
The Iran-backed Houthi rebel satellite news channel, Al-Masirah in Yemen, was also targeted by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The group said the shutdown came without warning, but it promised to continue its mission of "confronting the American and Israeli acts of piracy against our nation, by any means."
The DOJ has yet to comment on the site seizures and it is unclear what "misinformation" was propagated.
The move by the DOJ comes as tensions between the U.S. and Iran have heightened following Tehran’s presidential election Saturday.
The Biden administration's plan to bring Iran back under a nuclear arms agreement could prove more difficult with the election of judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi.
In his first address Monday, Raisi said he had no intention of speaking with President Biden and rejected further talks of a nuclear deal.
Biden made reentering an Iranian nuclear deal a key component of his campaign after Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018, effectively rendering the agreement between the United Nations and EU ineffective.
But despite Raisi’s opposition to a nuclear deal, the Biden administration remains confident nuclear talks will continue, noting that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – who signed the deal in 2015 – will have the final say.
"The president’s view and our view is that the decision leader is the supreme leader," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday. "That was the case before the election, it’s the case today, it will be the case probably moving forward."
The White House could not be immediately reached for comment on how the Tuesday seizures may affect Iran-U.S. relations.
The DOJ is expected to release a statement detailing the media outlet closures. Check back on this developing story.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-seizes-3-dozen-iranian-websites-for-spreading-misinformation
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Samson: Al-Attar calls for the digitization of life to develop the Iraqi economy
22nd June, 2021
A member of the Iraqi Economic Council, Ghadeer Al-Attar, called on the government, on Tuesday, to benefit from the digital experiences of the Dubai government.
Al-Attar said in a statement, Mawazine News received a copy of it, that "the Dubai government has issued a law, the Dubai Digital Authority, and all smart circuits are attached to it, in order to digitize life in Dubai and not just digitize Dubai services." He added that "digitalization has changed the way the world lives in most of its economic and social aspects, so that it has become rare to find someone who has nothing to do with it from near or far."
Al-Attar pointed out that "digitization is one of the pillars of the economy of the twenty-first century, as the rapid technological development that the world has known has had a great impact in the field of economy, as technological systems have touched various economic and service sectors and contributed to achieving more advantages for these sectors, including the speed and efficiency of services, including Developing innovations and solutions that society needs, including improving administrative and governmental work methods. LINK
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Courtesy of Dinar Guru
Pimpy When they tell you it's being exchanged in country...that doesn't make no sense...I want you to understand something. If the rate change happened in country do you understand what type of black market we'd have going on here? You can go to the United States and buy the currency dirt cheap, run over to the border, give it to a friend who can run it to Iraq, exchange it for the higher exchange rate, take the money, bring it back to you, go back to your country buy more and get rich that way. This is why there is no change of rate in country. It would definitely disable the currency. That doesn't make any sense
ALERT! Rigged Silver & Cryptos! Free Markets Died in the 1970's! (Bix Weir)
Jun 22, 2021
It's times like these that make it EASY to remember that THERE HASN'T BEEN FREE MARKETS SINCE THE 1970's! In the 60's & 70's Alan Greenspan invented computer programs to rig ALL markets and implemented them through his mentor Arthur Burns, the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve System.
Since then NOTHING HAS BEEN FREELY TRADED!
Central Banks See No Way out of the Low Interest Rate Trap
The Survival Economist: Premiered 20 minutes ago
Since the 1980s, slower economic growth in the industrial countries has been accompanied by declining interest rates. They have even turned negative in more recent years.
At the same time, investment, productivity, and real GDP growth all have slowed. Recession caused by lockdowns of the economy to fight the corona pandemic in 2020/21 has accelerated the demise of interest.
Even as the world economy recovers, central bankers around the world have signaled that interest rates will be kept low for a long time to come. What is going on here?
Various economists have provided different theoretical and empirical explanations for the global decline of interest rates. The Keynesian perspective in the tradition of Alvin Hansen and Larry Summers has attributed secularly declining nominal and real interest rates—and thus declines of the “natural rate”—to a global savings glut driven by aging societies, a declining demand for fixed capital investment, and a declining marginal efficiency of fixed capital.
1 From this perspective, monetary policy has simply adjusted to these changes and lowered nominal and real interest rates. The corona crisis has only reinforced what has been going on for a long time before. Owing to the lockdowns, household and company incomes fell off a cliff, so the neutral rate has dropped even more, probably deeply into negative territory.
2 In sum, central banks simply take account of exogenous forces, such as secular stagnation and the corona crisis, by aligning policy and market interest rates with a natural rate of zero or less.
For the full transcript go to https://financearmageddon.blogspot.com