PPCC: Pisitófilos Creditófagos. Primavera 2024

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https://www.ft.com/content/f7070bac-6312-4156-b390-8fd36ef40c39#post-5f2ba872-4dbe-49d1-91a7-c0752515ff95

Germany says Ukraine can hit military targets in Russia with German weapons

Germany has followed the US in granting Ukraine permission to attack military targets on Russian territory using German weapons.

Steffen Hebestreit, spokesperson for Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said Russia had recently been launching “co-ordinated attacks” on areas around Kharkiv “from positions in the immediately adjacent Russian border region”.

He said western leaders were convinced Ukraine had the right under international law to defend itself against these attacks. “It can also deploy weapons that have been supplied [by the west], in compliance with its international legal obligations, to do that, including weapons that we have supplied,” he said.

Weapons supplied by Germany that might be used for such attacks include the Panzerhaubitze 2000 and Mars II rocket launcher.

https://www.ft.com/content/cae8f22b-4b12-4bcd-acc8-31deeff7cc42

Joe Biden allows Ukraine to use US weapons to hit targets in Russia

Shift by Washington comes after weeks of pressure from Kyiv and its allies

US President Joe Biden has approved Ukraine’s use of American-made weapons to strike within Russia as long as the targets relate to Moscow’s offensive in the Kharkiv region, a US official said on Thursday.

The decision marks an important shift from Washington’s previous position that Ukraine should not use US weapons to strike targets in Russia — and follows growing pressure on Biden from Kyiv and its allies.

“Over the past few weeks Ukraine came to us and asked for permission . . . that went right to the president. And as you heard, he has approved the use of our weapons for that purpose,” secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Friday in Prague. He added that the US would continue to adapt its policies regarding the use of its weapons by Ukraine.

Ukraine requested permission during a video call with top US officials on May 13 to use US weapons systems against targets in Russia that were being used for its assault on Kharkiv, according to a US official. The request was approved in recent days by Biden.

Germany announced on Friday that it was following the US in allowing Ukraine to use German-supplied weapons to attack military targets in Russia.(...)

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https://www.consilium.europa.eu/es/press/press-releases/2024/05/30/anti-money-laundering-council-adopts-package-of-rules/

Anti-money laundering: Council adopts package of rules

The Council today adopted a package of new anti-money-laundering rules that will protect EU citizens and the EU's financial system against money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

"The new and stricter rules will strengthen our systems in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. A new agency based in Frankfurt will supervise the work of actors involved. This will ensure that fraudsters, organised crime and terrorists will have no space left for legitimising their proceeds through the financial system."

Vincent Van Peteghem, Belgian minister for finance

With the new package, all rules applying to the private sector will be transferred to a new directly applicable regulation, while a directive will deal with the organisation of national competent authorities fighting against money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT).

The regulation exhaustively harmonises anti-money laundering rules for the first time throughout the EU, closing loopholes for fraudsters.

It extends the anti-money laundering rules to new obliged entities, such as most of the crypto-sector, traders of luxury goods and football clubs and agents. The regulation also sets tighter due diligence requirements, regulates beneficial ownership and sets a limit of € 10.000 to cash payments, among other things.

The directive will improve the organisation of national anti-money laundering systems setting out clear rules on how financial intelligence units (FIUs - the national bodies which collect information on suspicious or unusual financial activity in member states) and supervisors work together.

The package sets up a new European Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) that will have direct and indirect supervisory powers over high-risk obliged entities in the financial sector.

Given the cross-border nature of financial crime, the new authority will boost the efficiency of the AML/CFT framework by creating an integrated mechanism with national supervisors to ensure obliged entities comply with AML/CFT-related obligations in the financial sector. AMLA will also have a supporting role with respect to the non-financial sector, and coordinate and support  FIUs.

In addition to supervisory powers and in order to ensure compliance, in cases of serious, systematic or repeated breaches of directly applicable requirements, the Authority will impose pecuniary sanctions on the selected obliged entities.

The new anti-money laundering directive also prescribes that EU member states make information from centralised bank account registers – containing data on who has which bank account and where – available through a single access point. As the AML directive will provide access to the single access point only to FIUs, the Council today adopted a separate directive to ensure that the national law enforcement authorities will have access to these registers via the single access point. This directive also incudes the harmonisation of bank statement format. Such direct access and use of harmonised formats by the banks is an important instrument in fighting criminal offences and in efforts to trace and confiscate the proceeds of crime.

Next steps

This is the final step of the adoption procedure. The texts will now be published in the EU’s Official Journal and enter into force.

The AML regulation will apply three years after the entry into force. Member states will have two years to transpose some parts of the AML directive and three years for others.

AMLA will be based in Frankfurt and start operations in mid-2025.(...)

[sudden and sharp]

[Desde el 'éxito', ja, de la 1.ª alza explosiva de la burbuja popularcapitalista (1985-1989), que conllevó la caída del muro de Berlín y los sucesos de Tiananmén, el objetivo del anglo ha sido «evitar la aparición de un nuevo rival» (Doctrina Wolfowitz). Hoy podemos decir que el anglo ha conseguido su objetivo. En efecto, no le ha aparecido un nuevo rival. Le han aparecido dos docenas coordinadas, que suman la mitad de la población del mundo, y la UE le ha montado una moneda competidora cojonudísima. El 'euromaidán' antieuro ha sido la puntilla. La caída del modelito ochentero supone el nacimiento de un nuevo mundo multipolar y la rehispanización de América.]

Razonablemente conforme.




Pongamos una raya:

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Vale... a partir de ya, el Sol sale para todos. *









*) Para mí, lo anglos son como mucho, unos determinados financieros que ya pagarán lo que deben.



Lo del Anglo, con mayúscula... en fin. 

[sargento.algodon]

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/es/press/press-releases/2024/05/30/anti-money-laundering-council-adopts-package-of-rules/

Anti-money laundering: Council adopts package of rules

The Council today adopted a package of new anti-money-laundering rules that will protect EU citizens and the EU's financial system against money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

"The new and stricter rules will strengthen our systems in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. A new agency based in Frankfurt will supervise the work of actors involved. This will ensure that fraudsters, organised crime and terrorists will have no space left for legitimising their proceeds through the financial system."

Vincent Van Peteghem, Belgian minister for finance

With the new package, all rules applying to the private sector will be transferred to a new directly applicable regulation, while a directive will deal with the organisation of national competent authorities fighting against money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT).

The regulation exhaustively harmonises anti-money laundering rules for the first time throughout the EU, closing loopholes for fraudsters.

It extends the anti-money laundering rules to new obliged entities, such as most of the crypto-sector, traders of luxury goods and football clubs and agents. The regulation also sets tighter due diligence requirements, regulates beneficial ownership and sets a limit of € 10.000 to cash payments, among other things.

The directive will improve the organisation of national anti-money laundering systems setting out clear rules on how financial intelligence units (FIUs - the national bodies which collect information on suspicious or unusual financial activity in member states) and supervisors work together.

The package sets up a new European Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) that will have direct and indirect supervisory powers over high-risk obliged entities in the financial sector.

Given the cross-border nature of financial crime, the new authority will boost the efficiency of the AML/CFT framework by creating an integrated mechanism with national supervisors to ensure obliged entities comply with AML/CFT-related obligations in the financial sector. AMLA will also have a supporting role with respect to the non-financial sector, and coordinate and support  FIUs.

In addition to supervisory powers and in order to ensure compliance, in cases of serious, systematic or repeated breaches of directly applicable requirements, the Authority will impose pecuniary sanctions on the selected obliged entities.

The new anti-money laundering directive also prescribes that EU member states make information from centralised bank account registers – containing data on who has which bank account and where – available through a single access point. As the AML directive will provide access to the single access point only to FIUs, the Council today adopted a separate directive to ensure that the national law enforcement authorities will have access to these registers via the single access point. This directive also incudes the harmonisation of bank statement format. Such direct access and use of harmonised formats by the banks is an important instrument in fighting criminal offences and in efforts to trace and confiscate the proceeds of crime.

Next steps

This is the final step of the adoption procedure. The texts will now be published in the EU’s Official Journal and enter into force.

The AML regulation will apply three years after the entry into force. Member states will have two years to transpose some parts of the AML directive and three years for others.

AMLA will be based in Frankfurt and start operations in mid-2025.(...)

Esto coincide con las nuevas directivas sobre Dividendos Matriz Filiar, la Directiva Foster, para evitar un fraude fiscal sorprendentemente germánico. No llego a España porque escogimos el sistema de exención en vez de devolución al aplicar la Directiva Matriz-Filial (creo). Los esquemas cum-cum (estoy seguro que si entro en Pornhub hay una categoría con ese nombre) se basan en que la entidad pagadora de dividendos ingresaba el 25% de retención al fisco al distribuir dividendos y, los bancos depositantes emitían certificados que permitían solicitar la devolución de esa retención a todo aquel que hubiera tenido derecho a esas acciones, incluso si eran vendedores a corto. Lo cual se fomentaba cuando el propietario era no residente sin derecho a la devolución, ya que buscaba a un residente con dicho derecho para lograr el certificado de devolución.
Se dieron cuenta en 2012 y cambiaron la normativa. Ahora lo cambian a nivel europeo.

Me vendrá bien porque parece ser que agilizarán la obtención de los certificados fiscales de residencia a los efectos (evitar retenciones) de la directiva original. Lo cual me deja dudando si toda la problemática sobre "beneficiarios efectivos", "clausulas antifraudes", "autonomía y reciclaje efectivo de los fondos recibidos por parte de la matriz", "clausulas ante sociedades conduit" que estoy teniendo que afrontar desde los puñeteros "casos daneses" seguirá en vigor...

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https://elpais.com/internacional/2024-05-31/stoltenberg-espera-que-ucrania-haga-un-uso-responsable-de-la-municion-aliada-para-atacar-en-suelo-ruso.html

Alemania se une a EE UU y permite a Ucrania utilizar sus armas contra territorio de Rusia

El secretario general de la OTAN, Jens Stoltenberg, espera que Kiev haga un uso “responsable” de la munición aliada para atacar las posiciones en suelo ruso

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https://www.statista.com/chart/29890/quarterly-real-gdp-growth-and-pce-inflation/

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-income-a-family-needs-to-live-comfortably-in-every-u-s-state/

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https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274391315/ex-russian-president-warns-nato-of-nuclear-miscalculation

Ex-Russian president warns NATO of nuclear miscalculation

Dmitry Medvedev believes that the Ukraine conflict is developing according to the worst-case scenario

The West is bringing the Ukraine conflict to a stage in which it could spiral into uncontrolled escalation with potentially global repercussions, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said. This comes amid reports that many Western countries have allowed Ukraine to use foreign-made weapons to strike deep into Russia.

Writing on Telegram on Friday, Medvedev, who serves as the deputy chief of Russia's Security Council, stated that Western countries, which are said to have signed off on long-range strikes, must understand that their military equipment and personnel either operating in Ukraine or carrying out attacks on Russia from other countries, "will be destroyed."(...)

[JENOFONTE10]

INFLACIÓN (LADRILLE-)RARA

DIRECTO | ESPECIAL INFLACIÓN PCE

LA INFLACIÓN PCE SE MANTIENE EN EL 2.7%

[36:42] ...caso positivo esa ligera bajada [de la subyacente], pero vamos ya te digo que ahora lo importante va a ser el desglose porque hay una cosa aquí evidente, Estados Unidos, veremos en [el desglose de] este dato, pero hasta ahora los datos que estamos viendo, no hay un problema de inflación en general.

Hay un problema de alquileres, de lo que es la valoración, el precio de los alquileres, la valoración de los alquileres, el equivalente..., bueno, por no liarnos, en los alquileres, y en los seguros de los coches, pero eso pesa menos; pero es que los alquileres son un 35% ahora mismo del IPC, son lo que tiran de la inflación.

Si quitáramos [del IPC] los alquileres, la inflación norteamericana sería ya del 2%, es un dato a considerar, ¿eh?; no lo vamos a quitar, porque es una cosa muy importante para la gente y para la economía y para el sistema. Pero el problema de Estados Unidos ahora mismo NO es la inflación en general, es la inflación en el precio de los alquileres; todavía no lo he visto [el desglose], con lo cual no puedo decir si se han moderado, o si siguen siendo ese motor inflacionista... [Víctor Alvargonzález]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mu2LT15gJ0

Saludos.

[saturno]

# Respuesta #2340 en: Hoy a las 03:57:16
# Source

[Magnífica entrevista, la de Jeffrey Sachs, traída por

...

En Jeffrey Sachs, como en casi todo geopolítico, hay una ausencia prácticamente total del análisis estructural económico. Si lo añadimos nosotros, podemos completar 'the big picture' (panorama general).

¿Ejem?

A Sachs no se le puede tildar de geopolítico y de carecer de análisis estructural económico.

Parece a la inversa: el análisis estructural económico y la experiencia de Sachs en su labor con los Estados con los que trabajó le condujo a formarse una opinión subjetiva sobre la estrategia geopolítica USA.
No pretende exponer una tesis informada ni como geopolítico ni como científico (sobre la COVID). Es al contrario. Desde su campo de la economía (pública, administrativa), acabó forjándose una visión (subjetiva) de la geopolítica de EEUU.

Vamos, que es una entrevista de Tucker Carlson, que hace periodismo. Carlson busca una opinión subjetiva de gente que cooperó lateralmente a unos acontecimientos. Sachs no deja de repetirlo "I was naive".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs

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Jeffrey David Sachs (/sæks/ SAKS; born November 5, 1954)[4] is an American economist and public policy analyst, professor at Columbia University,[5][6] where he was former director of The Earth Institute. He is known for his work on sustainable development, economic development, and the fight to end poverty.[7]

Sachs is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.[8] He is an SDG Advocate for United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 global goals adopted at a UN summit meeting in September 2015.

From 2001 to 2018, Sachs was Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General, and held the same position under the previous UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and prior to 2016 a similar advisory position related to the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),[9] eight internationally sanctioned objectives to reduce extreme poverty, hunger and disease by 2015. In connection with the MDGs, he had first been appointed special adviser to the UN Secretary-General in 2002 during the term of Kofi Annan.[9][10]

Scholarship, consulting, and activism

Sachs has advised several countries on economic policy.[26][27]
... in 1985, Sachs was invited by the party of Bolivian dictator Hugo Banzer to advise him on an anti-inflation economic plan
... economic adviser to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
... 1989, Sachs advised Poland's anticommunist Solidarity movement and the government of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. He wrote a comprehensive plan for the transition from central planning to a market economy which became incorporated into Poland's reform program led by Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz.
... Sachs's ideas and methods of transition from central planning were adopted throughout the transition economies. He advised Slovenia in 1991 and Estonia in 1992 on the introduction of new stable and convertible currencies

En el hilo de Geopolítica he traido un artículo interesantísimo de análisis geopolítico tomando como punto de partida la tesis de Giovani Arrighi del proceso cíclico de la financiarización, que hace un puente entre la economía y la geopolítica.

Escuché a Sachs después de investigar lo de Giovani Arrighi y las composiciones subjetivas de Sachs sobre geopolítica toman otra dimensión.


Arrighi, Bourdieu / La muerte de los imperios

Vaya dimensión, cierto, pero donde la intuición subjetiva de Sachs se convierte en estudio objetivo de la geopolíitica, desde luego es con Arrighi.

(XThanks a El Malo, que cita mi entrada en este post posterior )

( @UNO, en el hilo de bibliotecas no salía Arrighi 
https://www.transicionestructural.net/index.php?topic=2552.0
)