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@keubiko.bsky.social and right on cue, the scummy dying car biz is going to get bailed out by the scummy government handout & propaganda biz

A big new story from us: a big new leak means that we can put numbers on the scale of A7 -- the Kremlin's huge money-laundering machine. $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system via SWIFT, with $1.1bn sent to StanChart alone. www.ft.com/content/3848...

@dieworkwear.bsky.social a wonderful example of a collar gap

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@keubiko.bsky.social when will DJT demand the FX pair priority list to be rewritten so USD is #1 ?

@fishratings.bsky.social Pareto is tapping the $150m SLMGRP 15% 2028s, spawning a further $75m without a rating. I would have expected Salmon Group to at least have tried to net a Fish rating to bring this to market.

@bondhack now pull the thread of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium and whose money that is funding these guys (hint is in Orr's own expression "Ukraine Brain") James Orr and the gospel of the new British right - www.ft.com/content/c2d0... via @FT

As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

Wildberries is at the center of attention amid Ukrainian strikes. We have interviewed Vladimir Milov, a former deputy minister, who explained its links to VTB, the wider financial risks, and why this is a much bigger problem for Russia’s wartime economy: frontelligence.substack.com/p/from-retai...

"In one chapter [of Cottrell's book] entitled 'The Art of the Bribe', [he] sets out how politicians can be bought....'Long-term relationships keep the bought person in hand while you're making money'". Subtle. www.ft.com/content/7a0f...

@keubiko.bsky.social what's the betting they'll get there before a certain car company?

In just over a month, the duration of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will match that of the entire World War I. And the entire might of Russia and its totalitarian allies, as well as of the Kremlin's corrupt useful morons in the West, still can't defeat Ukraine.

⚠️ A new Russian disinformation campaign is using celebrity deepfakes to spread false claims about Ukraine arming Iran. In the age of AI, seeing is no longer believing! Don't fall for the trap.🚫

Vance: Election interference! Some Ukrainians were campaigning with Democrats! No evidence, just trust me bro. US Envoy: Vance and Trump repeatedly endorsing and offering help to Orban in his election is not election interference. Seems like rules are for other people, not them.

A leaked exchange suggests Sergey Lavrov coordinated with Hungary’s foreign minister Szijjarto to block Ukraine’s EU accession talks, discussing minority rights wording as a key lever in negotiations. The interaction points to alignment between Moscow and Budapest on slowing Kyiv’s EU path. #Hungary

🚨 Russia is a voting member in the EU - it votes by proxy through its vassal Hungary. Russia has unilateral veto power to scuttle any EU legislation requiring a unanimous vote. More audio recordings of secret phone calls between Lavrov and Szijjártó. vsquare.org/kremlin-hotl...

‼️Report: Orban's first election campaign in 1998 was funded by Russian organized crime via National Police Chief Pintér, now an Orban Minister. The money courier involved, László Kovács, has promised to testify in court once Orban is gone. 4 days left. Tick tock, MF.⌛️

"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project" That could all end if Orbán loses... open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

💥 Ukrainian housewife kitchen drones are protecting the Middle East from Russian-Iranian Shahed drones. ✊

🚨 Russia: Bioweapons lab in Novosibirsk, Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology may have had a lethal virus leak requiring mass culling and burning of thousands of cows in the area. At this point it's speculation as the Kremlin regime continues to obfuscate.

After another Iranian attack, drone debris marked "Geran-2" in Russian was found near Jebel Ali Port in Dubai. Notably, the footage circulating on social media is being posted by Russian relocants and tourists who are riding out Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in the UAE.

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@conservatives.bsky.social Great move to ditch that vacuous, nasty opportunist Jenrick The UK is screaming out for a financially literate party that is able to turn away from the constant short-termism and fake solutions pushed by the populists I genuinely hope you can climb your way back

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African mercenary Francis, who for some reason chose to fight in the Russian army, has suddenly “upgraded” from infantryman to disposable kamikaze.

The Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Kelin, openly says that Russia wants Ukraine’s capitulation.

Excellent interview of Lawrence Wong by @roulak.bsky.social Only missing question: Can Singapore please export some politicians as part of deeper co-operation with Europe & the UK? Please?

@mylovanov.bsky.social This morning's Bloomberg. Higher taxes, higher borrowing and still less money to spend on war. And that's before the effects of 'Ukrainian Sanctions' on russian energy really started biting

@keubiko.bsky.social 🤣

@keubiko.bsky.social X tapping the 9.5% TLB with $1.225bn. 97.5-98 PT

@bondhack.ft.com Key to the whole thing: "Ofwat did not check whether companies were delivering.." RCV drives shareholder/creditor/boardmember returns = incentive to max RCV The only check billpayers have to RCV inflation is ofwat on.ft.com/3ErR7wm

There’s a new draft of the U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal. It’s a sharp break from the version agreed on the day talks collapsed in the Oval Office. And it stuns with what Washington demands. Zelensky didn’t comment, except saying nuclear plants are out of the deal. 0/

Not a single person out of 18 of the very most senior officials in this Admin — including the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA Director — voiced any concern with highly classified military plans circulated on Signal. You also can be sure this is not the only time.

@mccrum.bsky.social ahaha good article today on Tesla The cash pile, ocf and debt raise combo immediately reminded me of Jan & Markus (or at least that's what triggered my short report on that one back in 2019) 😁