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Barbados watch out, another global financial crisis on the horizon

Another global financial crisis seems set to engulf the world with the collapse of banks in the United States and Europe, two of the major financial markets in the world. Attempts by regulators and big banks to intervene by bail ins and other means have failed to calm unease in the markets. Banking and other…

Another global financial crisis seems set to engulf the world with the collapse of banks in the United States and Europe, two of the major financial markets in the world. Attempts by regulators and big banks to intervene by bail ins and other means have failed to calm unease in the markets. Banking and other financial stocks have seen declines which reflects a lack of confidence by investors.

Too many Barbadians are going about day to day business oblivious to the building of dark clouds on the horizon. There is the saying when the USA economy catches a cold Barbados will become sick. The graph about is forecasting a scenario which does not augur well for Barbados. The Barbados economy is precariously positioned, another global financial crisis will catspraddle all effort made since the 2007 financial crisis to right the local economy.

In Deo Speramus!

127 responses to “Barbados watch out, another global financial crisis on the horizon”

  1. John2 Avatar
    John2

    Stupessss

  2. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://youtu.be/WDoXRbr860U
    Colonel MacGregor!

    Maybe he can be more persausive.

  3. TheOgazerts Avatar
    TheOgazerts

    “The Russians have already killed 257,000 NATO soldiers and inflicted 300,000 to 500,000 casualties.”

    These numbers are too large not to have drawn protest demonstration in at least one NATO country. It would be interesting to read your source.

  4. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://youtu.be/JCR-Phtgx0k
    For John the Johnny was cannot be disabused of the notion that fascism is some kind of entirely”leftist politics.

    Even as Stephan Bandera is the national hero of Ukraine. And that their army is filled with the Azov Battalion, the Kraken Battalion, and many more.

    Separately
    Listen to Colonel MacGregor above video. He cites them and sources every day.. In fact, those estimates are two months old. Meaning the numbers are significantly larger now. The killing has not stopped. These are numbers readily available

  5. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://youtu.be/kYymzUt2h-0
    For the Johnny Clot!

  6. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    This is precisely the concern with recent projections. They have a Sincklarian echo.
    An extra $1B in private sector investment?
    With all the talk about hotels, I noted in January, all works on the old Heywood/new Beaches seem to have stopped.

  7. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    David, you are surprised? Powell less than 2 weeks ago, told US politicians, to expect raises. The ‘terminal rate’ was likely to be higher than initially anticipated.
    His ‘transitory’ theories already have left a credibility gap.

  8. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    War is devastating and surely many more Ukrainians have died that Pres Zelensky and his commanders have reported … that simple reality also says that hundreds of thousands of Russians have ALSO been killed!

    Ukraine is a pimple on Russia’s arm which was to be squeezed into oblivion in a jiffy … that we are discussing these large numbers of deaths is a clear indication that Putin’s gambit have failed significantly and the old adage aptly applies: he will likely yet win the battle but badly lose the war!

    And of course Russia has failed so miserably at this war that they had to empty jail cells for soldiers, replace, reassign and remove generals, oligarchs and war officials (some with extreme prejudice) and suffer much financial upheavals.

    But as befits a modern behemoth with a massive military infrastructure, extensive natural resources and a determined citizenry they will prevail and rise from this embarrassing spectacle …

  9. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    “You should expect a military capitulation no later than this summer”.
    Pacha, last March you told us the SMO would be done by April?
    You had multiple orgasms when the Ruble value rose at breakneck speed. This, before Sanctions, which in general, you had to know we’re coming.
    If the death toll is as stated, how could anybody be winning.
    Last year you seemed rather proud of the “humane” manner Russia was executing this SMO. Well that ended? It’s now a war? They are attacking everything. And why not, if you wish to capture it, you must attack.
    Given the front line locations over the past 6 months, a military capitulation will have to be a mutual cease fire.

  10. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    “But they intend to fight to the last Ukrainian.”

    A real disturbing statement. It’s been at least six months that all sides, except for Russia have complained about dwindling artillery. I take it they have now reached crisis level.

    So, whoever has artillery will win the war…since large resources of guns, bombs and ammunition are not maufactured overnight by those with significantly reduced stock.

  11. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    Depleted munitions dont win wars. By the time another batch is ready for the war machine, 3/4 of their cannon fodder soldiers will be dead…and since they are using up productive age males, there will be a trickle down effect..

    Surprised they weren’t better prepared. The dude Scholtz is probably saying that based on the stock they still have…countries are still donating/supplying. Looks like Ukraine is now in IMF hands.

    Saw a missle hit an apartment complex yesterday, ugly indeed.

  12. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    Pacha, William, TLSN…it’s our own people committing this level of extraordinary evil against us…..cant trust the niga mind….our most dangerous diabolical and deadliest enemies…as i have been saying for DECADES until it’s proven beyond a doubt…more to reveal about these beasts in black face…

    “Nigerian politician, wife, and a doctor guilty of organ trafficking to UK

    Four convicted of conspiring to exploit a man for his kidney in first verdict of its kind under Modern Slavery Act.”

  13. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    @ King David,

    It concerns me that Barbados has, recently, appointed “luxury” diplomats to a number of countries whom are not our natural allies. It pains me that we have unelected individuals who appear to be embedded in the heart of our government.

    Guyana’s, President Ali is an extremely confident and an inspiring leader. He has expressed his desire that Barbados and Guyana should, in effect, twin their economies. Guyana is a sleeping giant and has no need for small island Barbados except for in one area.

    President Ali, a member of the Indian diaspora, comes from a people who revere gold. They are cognisant of its economic importance to the world economy.

    “Some cruise liners go to some [Caribbean] islands specifically because of the creation of a gold market hub. So, that is what we are trying to create. Barbados is a major cruise destination and we’re working on the possibility of adding value to Guyana’s gold and creating a gold market hub concept in Barbados, …….” President Ali.

    Although Guyana is far more beautiful and has a lot more to offer tourists than Barbados. It will never rival Barbados “fast food” tourist industry.

    The link below probably explains why Barbados has been identified by Guyana as a gold market hub.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/23/gold-mafia-looting-southern-africa

  14. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    TLSN…the only thing to add is, the people have to individually get up and take control of their own destiny, no other option available, those who are able…ya see now that politicians have other agendas that have absolutely nothing to do with the people whose votes they beg and beg and beg in cycles..dem got bigger plans even if they are impossible to achieve…lol

    Just heard a clip where a local young lady seeked work on a cruiseliner…dont know specifics, but apparently her passport was seized and she is being held against her will allegedly…the voice note says local authorities are aware but more concerned about PR visuals….let’s see how far they let this go on before it turns into another one of their famous cockups…and to tink they want to control other people’s Empire…wat a ting..how delusional…

  15. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    TLSN…got a whole run down on that gold scam back in January…..it is greed at its most potent..a crooks paradise…the person on the ground who explained it in detail made it even more frightening to hear.

    Although through certain events now taking place, we as African descents will be able to legally partake in our entitlements……once certain things are put in place.

  16. David Avatar
    David

    @TLSN

    The blogmaster does not support race hatred. We see in Guyana what it can do to destabilize a country.

  17. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Well, well, well!

    Not tooooo much longer, the truth shall be known soon.

    Despite the propensity of their brain trust to ignore disliked realities.

    But even in those circumstances, as in the past, the platoon of known assholes shall just keep chugging along.

    We remain hopeful that the big deckie will make an entrance in their pedantic, pragmatic-authoritarian, democractic- wokeist pooooooookerts.

  18. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    We see at Barbados Today that Barbados and France are calling for a new international financial system.

    Mottley, a “woe unto man” who has no time for such when the BRICS or the Global South seeks to overthrow financial imperialism.

    Indeed, she’s the darling if Washington Consensus thought and praxis.

    And France, a country currently being run out of Afrika, after all these years of financial hegemony. A country whose own people are up in arms, pun intended, against internal oppression currently.

    Financial imperialism cannot be changed nor be different. The whole architecture must be dismantled. Certainly, those who imposed it. Have and continue to benefit from it. Weaponized it cannot be at the centre of the transformation which shall come in spite of lackey countries like Barbados or criminals like France.

  19. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ David
    @ de pedantic Dribbler

    Apparently, China has been able to ‘achieve peace in the Middle East.’

    According to news reports, Chinese President Xi Jinping has been able to broker a peace agreement between Suadi Arabia and Iran.

    It is also rumoured that both countries have expressed their intention of joining the BRICS alliance, which would essentially embrace all the major oil producing countries.

    Additionally, Saudi Arabia was in discussion with Beijing to price some of its oil sales to China in yuan and is also considering including yuan-denominated futures contracts, known as the petroyuan, in the pricing model of Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Aramco.

    China purchases more than 25% of the oil exported by Saudi Arabia….. and, if priced in yuan, those sales would increase the demand for and value of China’s currency.

    Trading in yuan would obviously affect the US$.

    What are your thoughts?

  20. Yolande Grant -African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant -African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    “We see at Barbados Today that Barbados and France are calling for a new international financial system.”

    Afrika is definitely going to watch this collusion, seeing as neither can be trusted….at anytime, anywhere and not for any reason.

  21. David Avatar
    David

    @Artax

    China has grown its economy to be global top tier and with it pursue strategic/geopolitical power in that region, add Africa. It should be understandable that a powerful China will have a greater influence on that side of the globe compared to the USA for example.

  22. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    …..It should be understandable that a powerful China will have a greater influence on that side of the globe compared to the USA for example.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    That is the understatement of the Century so far…

    BRICS represents the beginning of the end of an era as we all knew it…. NOT only on ‘THAT’ side of the world, but WHEREVER the albino-cenric dollar is worshipped….

    ‘It ah go be dread ina Babylon’…. and too ina BBland.

  23. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Waru
    Well there’s more than that. A parallel war is going on between and amongst financial elites in Washington and the in Europe.

    Long nascent, the Federal Reserve (Fed) and the European Central Bank (ECB) are at war about control of banking and by extension the socalled international financial system.

    From reading Mottley and her French interlocketer we got the sense that both parties where blissfully ignorant about what is really happening in high finance.

    While the Europeans are solidly locked into the George Soros/Davos crowd. On the other side of the pond there’re long held fissures within the Fed coming to the fore. While all sides support American supremacy Jerome Powell, who claims roots from the first Europeans in America and an opponent of zero or near zero interests rates, resists another faction led by Yellen, a firm adherent. Powell seeks to displace the school represented by Yellen, Bernanke et al.

    The recent coffee bond issue, the recent banking failures within the USA, circumstances around the takeover by UBS of Credit Suisse, the abandonment by Japan of a decades old zero or near zero interest rate regime, are all indications about growing doubts on all sides.

    So this imprecise talk by Mottley and co misses what’s really happening internal to the “Collective West” far less the external challenges growing.

  24. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    “Waru
    Well there’s more than that. A parallel war is going on between and amongst financial elites in Washington and the in Europe.”

    Ahhh ha!!! I did not know about that one.

    “both parties where blissfully ignorant about what is really happening in high finance.”

    sheesh…the lengths they would go to get close to Massa, ya tink they would know…lol..the plight of pretenders..

    Ah guess they int as connected as they tink..

    Wuh if neider of dem know what’s really going on, wuh dey calling for anything for, while on the outside looking in…feeding off each other’s negative energy, no one should trust them..

  25. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ David

    PM Browne stated: “Consequently, the position of the Antigua Workers Union that the Government of Antigua and Barbuda should use taxpayers’ money to pay 100 per cent of monies to LIAT (1974) Ltd employees and former employees to which they have no legal claim, and for which the Government of Antigua and Barbuda could only reasonably be responsible for 32 per cent, is both reckless, misleading and unhelpful.” [Loop News, March 21, 2023]

    https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/antigua-pm-clarifies-position-severance-and-former-liat-employees
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Early in March 2023, Browne reitterated his government’s position on severance payments to former LIAT employees based in Antigua.

    That unless his regional counterparts are part of discussions on LIAT, he will not hold any talks about severance for the former employees.

    Ironically, on March 17, Mottley announced during her ‘Budget,’ the Barbados government would pay $75,000 and bonds to former Barbadian LIAT employees based in Antigua.

    All those former employees in Antigua would’ve contributed to that island’s social security fund and should’ve been entitled to some sort of compensation therefrom.

    In the meantime, while Browne has been complaining about being alone in his attempts to revive LIAT and remitting a further US$1M into LIAT 1974 to fix an aircraft engine that has not worked since Covid……

    …… interCaribbean Airways is expanding its network in the southern and eastern Caribbean and the T&T owned Caribbean Airlines has extended its itinerary to offer three (3) additional direct, round-trip flights per week, between BGI and SVG, commencing April 1st.

  26. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Artax, there is much deep discourse on this matter as you know so not much to add other than the whimsical, IMHO.

    On one side is the position by those like the BushGriot and the Pacha who offer ‘rapturous’ words to the effect that “BRICS represents the beginning of the end of an era as we all knew it….”. That is true obviously but also overblown because we have seen ‘several’ currencies being used to back stop oil purchases for some years now.

    And on the other hand one can readily hold truth to the blunt realization that “China has grown its economy to be [at the] global top tier” so yes it’s very understandable that they want to dominate further and have their yuan supported and used in a reserve form by others.

    BUT let’s be crystal clear it is only in the last …what 10 years or less … that the Chinese currency has been ‘PROPERLY’ managed by their central bank and allowed to operate within market dynamics (and even then …!).

    So the experts (here) and otherwise will advise expertly (of course) but let’s just relax … world finance will not spin out of control just so …because of the current banking crises, nor the BRICKS ‘new’ interchange system, nor a US green back slipping from its perch. Nope.

    World finance will set and reset (falter maybe) because there is a thing called crypto (decentralized), the bank governed digital currency regime (centralized), serious wars and rumors of nuclear troubles and such … so I am confident it can readily survive any impact to US (financial hegemony) by the Chinese.

    Afterall is said and done, tho, the yanks have basically been riding full saddle since WWII when they styled themselves the world’s protector and ring master … it’s long past time that others pull back the reins and snapped their whip (rationally, of course)!

    So on we go boldly.

  27. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved

    Pacha…watching a Redacted live. Saw the report where the Fed said recession has started, no more interest rate cuts, let the market sort itself out naturally.

    One person opined it’s the sequel to ’08…when that is what should have happened back then.

  28. David Avatar
    David

    @Artax

    Ignore Brown, his mouthings nothing more than trying to win points and stay relevant.

  29. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    “It should be understandable that a powerful China will have a greater influence on that side of the globe compared to the USA for example.”

    @ David

    Let’s contextualize the issuse.

    It has been reported that the social and economic relationships between Saudi Arabia and the USA has significantly deteriorated under President Joe Biden.
    You may recall, during his 2020 presidential campaign, Biden acccused Saudi’s Crown Prince Mohammed of odering the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

    According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the US imported 2M barrels of per day from Saudi Arabia, which, as at December 2021, has fallen to 500,000 per day.

    Data from China’s General Administration of Customs indicated Saudi Arabia was China’s main crude supplier in 2021, at 1.76M barrels a day, followed by Russia at 1.6M barrels a day.

    Remember the JCPOA, which was negotiated by the P5+1, signed in 2015 and went into effect in January 2016, that imposed restrictions on Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program?
    Also, recall in 2018, former President Trump withdrew the US from JCPOA, claiming it failed to curtail Iran’s missile program and regional influence.
    Sanctions were reimposed on Iran and its oil exports in 2018, which took the economy into recession. Additionally, the US imposed sanctions on 18 major Iranian banks, causing the Iranian rial to fall further against the US$.
    The US president subsequently made attempts to lure Iran into signing a new JCPOA deal, which was refused as well. So, he accused Iran of assisting Russia in the Ukraine war.

    In October last year, the White House accused the Kingdom of helping Russia fund its war in Ukraine and coercing OPEC oil producers to reduce oil output by 2 million barrels per day, so as to increase the prices of gas and oil.
    Subsequently, Biden was, ‘more or less,’ attempted to rekindle the relationship with Saudi Arabia.
    It was reported he went to that country ‘begging’ for a meeting with the Prince and to secure oi and energy supplies, which were all denied.

    The US’s influence in the Middle East is slowly coming to an end?

  30. David Avatar
    David

    @Artax

    No foreign relations expert but clearly China given current state is trusted more by the two players who have a deep distrust of each other. The standing of China in recent years means it is an easy decision to jettison the US for one of their own as the kingmaker.

  31. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    Pacha…here it is, i couldnt want a better crash course in real time., i think this is just before it was hiked to 5% yesterday or earlier.

    “Fed hikes rates by 0,25% despite turmoil in banking sector

    The US Federal Reserve raised its key rate by 0.25 percentage point to a target range of 4.75%-5%. In total, the rate has been increased nine times since March 2022 by a total of 500 bps.

    The rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee noted that future rate hikes are not guaranteed and will depend heavily on incoming data.”

  32. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Waru
    Dey between the devil (runaway inflation) and dee deep blue sea (an addiction to free money).

    So they will try to cure the excesses of the beneficiaries of a decade of free money on the backs of the poor.

    Essentially asking poor people to have less employment, effectively lower wages, cheaper food, less health care, higher mortgage payments etc.

    Even as 25 basic points also increase the interest obligations of the government itself.

  33. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    They need a sturdier fiscal foundation, especially during ebbs and flows.

    Even without fully understanding
    the monetary system in the 90s-00s, that is what caught my attention during recessions/contractions and restructurings. The current system might work well for those at the top but it wreaks havoc going down the food chain in its current fickle state,, it tilts too easily and becomes economically destabilizing..

  34. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    Btw…only 2 dummies, France and Barbados would call for a new financial system without first having a sturdy fiscal foundation anchoring the current one…but that is what happens when your intentions are despotic and nefariously diabolical..

  35. When Jah Come Avatar
    When Jah Come

    A TRIBUTE TO THE UPSETTERS
    History, Mystery and Prophesy

  36. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Quoted passage below is from U.S. Military Industrial Complex Is ‘Choking Democracy’ — How Do We Stop It? by retired US Air Force colonel and history professor William Astore.

    MIC = acronym for Miliary-Industrial-Complex as descibed and warned about by the retiring US President and former WWII army general “Ike” Eisebhower in his 1961 farewell address to the nation.

    I’ve written against this country’s wasteful and unwise wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its costly and disastrous weapons systems and its undemocratic embrace of warriors and militarism.

    Nevertheless, I remain a lieutenant colonel, if a retired one. I still have my military ID card, if only to get on bases, and I still tend to say “we” when I talk about my fellow soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen (and our “guardians,” too, now that we have a Space Force).

    So, when I talk to organizations that are antiwar, that seek to downsize, dismantle, or otherwise weaken the MIC, I’m upfront about my military biases even as I add my own voice to their critiques.

    Of course, you don’t have to be antiwar to be highly suspicious of the U.S. military.

    Senior leaders in “my” military have lied so often, whether in the Vietnam War era of the last century or in this one about “progress” in Iraq and Afghanistan, that you’d have to be asleep at the wheel or ignorant not to have suspected the official story.

    SNIP

    Well, give the MIC credit. Its tenacity has been amazing. You might compare it to an invasive weed, a parasitic cowbird (an image I’ve used before), or even a metastasizing cancer.

    As a weed, it’s choking democracy; as a cowbird, it’s gobbling up most of the “food” (at least half of the federal discretionary budget) with no end in sight; as a cancer, it continues to spread, weakening our individual freedoms and liberty.

    Call it what you will. The question is: How do we stop it?

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/united-states-military-industrial-complex/

  37. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. A Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. A Rights Reserved.

    It’s noted Pacha…Bull runs can last many years…juggling???…

    but when the market stumbles, many times over the most trivial things…no sturdy foundation????……….the Bear market then cascades..

    Hence the emergence of BRICS……a better guarantee..

    The Feds got work to do..

  38. It's A Serious Thing When You Do The Wrong Thing Avatar
    It’s A Serious Thing When You Do The Wrong Thing

    “U.S. Military Industrial Complex Is ‘Choking Democracy”

    The scam is: tax payers funds going to private businesses that politicians and donors are shareholders in.
    Iraq and Afghanistan ‘destroy, rebuild and get paid in oil’ was US MO.
    It’s not about winning or losing wars or morals doing the right thing it’s about making money.

  39. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Dr Paul Cottrell updates us with his latest findings re. bio-weapons research:

    https://www.brighteon.com/305eb2c4-b216-4ed0-b67e-af5fbb6ee291

  40. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Ralph Jemmot is a difficulr read. One some issues he is an agressive batsman with an impressive variety of shots; on others he is confined to just poke and run.
    His article in BT’s epaper “Barbadian Democracy is one in which he first poke and run and then let loose his variety of shots. I will write a detail comment on his “Barbadian Democracy”

  41. Hippos Avatar
    Hippos

    War Whores
    New World Order
    US soldiers suffered from PTS Post Traumatic Syndrome (with D Disorder dropped due to it’s negative connotations) mental health issues. US soldiers were dispensable members of society from poor or minority stock and not children of the wealthy or political class.

    But, Iraqi and Afghanistan civilians living in War Zones suffered many times mores stress and more serious mental health problems.

    The brunt of US and UK propaganda against Russia’s War is the same arguments that were ignored when they were engaging in illegal war but now twisted in their favour.
    The same goes for their spying arguments about China which were plagiarised from complaints about their mass spying on their own citizens.
    Blatant and Pure Hypocrisy from Hippos

  42. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/

    This a good read. You can look at what the US say about human rights in a country by selecting that country from a drop-down list. Barbados has a very mild report. Trinidad is of concern.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    What does the US say about the record of its legislature on voter suppression for example? Who gives a flying F what the US says.

  44. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Outsmarted again …
    In today’s BT epaper “Developer at Joe’s River said to be providing public access to areas of interest”

    It gives me no pleasure in watching men for nowhere outsmart the world’s smartest people (every year).

    Let me tell you how this will work. They will build their wall/gate and provide you with a small hole to squeeze through. They will then block the hole two or three years down the road. Their strategy is to give the locals a small victory in this battle and then win the war two or three years down the road.

    Excerpts from BT
    1) In a subsequent press release, Ullswater which bought the old Edgewater Hotel in 2015 stated that Tenby, the new name of the property, was and remains private and it includes the land on both sides of the Barbados Railway Trace bounded by Joes’s River and the foreshore, including the entire area called Teacup”

    This was a very good move by the developer. He asserts and insist that he owns every thing, Then through the goodness of his heart he will provide two access points and wait until the noise dies down.

    If I was in his position, I would provide access points like he is doing, but my path would be through cowitch, where you have to slip and slide and a few stinging nettles along the way. The public would get tired and in a few years I would close the two gates and get a small whimper. World’s smartest people gets outsmarted again. Would that make me the world’s second smartest man. This developer is obviously smarter than I am…. he will kill their ass with kindness.

  45. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @Hants,
    Leroy Parris, age 77, to face high court in CLICO theft case.

    Before I go, a word of advice to all.. If you are over 60 and have access to someone else’s money, then now would be a good time to rob them.

    With a 12 year delay in getting the matter to court, you would be well over 70 when the trial starts. You will get a pat on your wrist and sent home.

    Leroy Parris, age 77, to face high court in CLICO theft case.

    —————————–xx——————————————-
    Have a great day Barbados,
    Because I love you here is required watching. (Preparation for life)
    Have a great day.

  46. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    “he will kill their ass with kindness.”

    Just as they deserve, they aspire to only be Slaves and will get treated as such…their sellouts will make absolutely sure of that..

  47. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    William…looks like the Don will be back in the swing of things within hours…buckle ya seatbelt.

    “Former Barbados Member of Parliament and cabinet minister Donville Inniss is now a free man and is due to arrive in Barbados tonight.”

  48. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    MP Edmund Hinckson at a recent gathering… from BT
    Right now, the Government is owed $1.3 billion in arrears in tax. We feel that we could collect about half of that, $650 000, but unless people pay their just taxes and dues, we can’t expand.

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    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    Northern…are the usual suspects paying in the VAT or still tiefing it to be written off down the road..

    Cause if dey int paying taxes, although deductible from employee salary, so i guess it’s businesses withholding……and with vat so easy to tief by the BILLIONS……..lol

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    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David, that’s quite a meaty blow re “Who gives a flying F what the US says.” A hearty LOL too! … Your full remarks reminds us of the bold hypocrisy that makes the US what it is and further reminds us of another of your oft repeated statements that “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

    Yes, the US legislature is twisting itself into ‘self serving-follow-our-pied piper-leader’ with its voter suppression madness and too the moboton of investigations that assault the rule of law …

    Clearly, they have now lost their place as a moral leader and FINALLY many clearly recognize how fundamentally hypocritical they ALWAYS were.

    Recently their Joint-Chief top military commander said “We in uniform are willing to die — to give our lives, our limbs, our eyesight, to ensure that that Constitution lives for the next generation.”

    That’s uproariously laughable when one considers that way back in 1939 – 45, Black soldiers did just that and those who returned home as liberating heroes were IMMEDIATELY back to their subservient place as 3/5th of a human (back of bus, can’t eat next to similar white folks they had just saved from concentration camps etc).

    It’s absurdly cliched as he also said that ““Every single one of us in this country […], has freedom of speech. We’ve got freedom of the press. We’ve got freedom of religion. We are free to assemble. We are free to protest against our government and redress any grievances,” but what the US did BEST is to offer a ‘fascia’ of FREEDOM to hide their hypocrisy!

    THAT is now changing irrevocably — to the detriment of that thing called democracy … so indeed “Who gives a flying F what the US says”!!!

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