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Lieutenant General
This is just another series of blunders by Cristina. Argentina’s economy contracted 1.5 per cent last year and
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before growing 2.6 per cent in 2016, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

I can tell you that many Argentines joined in the chorus of disapproval, ridiculing the government for focusing on new bank notes when inflation - thought unofficially to be running at 40 per cent - was of serious concern.

A 50 peso note is now in circulation to honor the Falklands. Soon we will need one for 500 pesos in honor of inflation. COL (Cry out loud)


Argentina's new 'Malvinas' bank note ridiculed by Falkland Islanders

(Daily Telegraph) - Argentina's redesign of their 50 peso note to include the Falklands has been mocked by residents of the islands.

The new bank note will go into circulation next month, Alejandro Vanoli, president of the central bank, announced on Monday. The design of the note was
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, on the 32nd anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the British archipelago, which in Argentina is termed the Malvinas.


The 50 peso note, worth £3.70, has been designed and produced by Argentina's Mint House, and shows the map of the South Atlantic territories and another map of Latin America and the Caribbean - meant to show the support Argentina has rallied among regional nations in its long-standing sovereignty dispute against London.

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On the other side features an image of Gaucho Antonio Rivero - an Argentine rancher, or gaucho, who in 1833 is alleged to have headed the resistance fight against the British occupation of the archipelago.

Back to bottling my Grenache

The bank note is pretty at least.;)
 

Miragedriver

Brigadier
This woman seems delusional...and I am sorry Mirage...an abject embarrassment...to Argentina.

When I think of her terrible blundering (and probably criminal dealings) with that Prosecutor who was killed.

Her unbelievable comments about Chinese whom she is seeking to make a deal with.

Her over the top comments on the Falklands/Maldives.

Now going ahead and printing these new notes.

Like I say, she seems just completely delusional and caught up in what she thinks is her own grandeur.

but that is just my opinion from afar.

I could not agree with you more, my brother!

Like a good little communist/progressive (same thing) she has outlawed the private ownership of US dollars, hence creating a black market. The official rate for the US dollar is around 10 pesos; however the black market rate is at around 15 pesos for a dollar. Currently petrol for automobiles is approximately 15 pesos per liter.

Please don’t let this happen in other nations. If Argentina can’t be an example, it can be a warning to others of what not to do.


crying over my Grenache

PS sorry about the rant and commentary
 
Supposedly the perpetrator has a gun license for hunting in Czechoslovakia which is hard to obtain...according to CCTV last night. Anyway my condolences to all of the victims families.:(

thanks Equation (I have to say though your TV station should know Czechoslovakia ceased to exist on midnight of December 31, 1992) indeed the story is horrifying; I was wrong in my previous post about
"the shooter picked up the pub at random"
as he chose the place where he could kill as many people as possible using two handguns (which was a pub he knew, and he came around 1 pm -- most people here eat lunch at that time, sitting at the tables ...), terrible, in the end, when he realized a SWAT team arrived (and a negotiator contacted him), he shot himself dead
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
U.S. Internet providers hit with tougher rules, plan challenges
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday approved the strictest-ever rules on Internet providers, who in turn pledged to battle the new restrictions in the courts and Congress, saying they would discourage investment and stifle innovation.

The rules, which will go into effect in coming weeks, are expected to face legal challenges from multiple parties such as wireless, cable and other broadband companies and trade groups that represent them.

Experts expect the industry to seek a stay of the rules, first at the FCC and then in courts, though the chances for success of such an appeal is unclear.

The new regulations come after a year of jostling between cable and telecom companies and net neutrality advocates, which included web startups. It culminated in the FCC receiving a record 4 million comments and a call from President Barack Obama to adopt the strongest rules possible.

The agency's new policy, approved as expected along party lines, reclassifies broadband, both fixed and mobile, as a more heavily regulated "telecommunications service," more like a traditional telephone service.

In the past, broadband was classified as a more lightly regulated "information service," which factored into a federal court's rejection of the FCC's previous set of rules in January 2014.

The shift gives the FCC more authority to police various types of deals between providers such as Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O:
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) to ensure they are just and reasonable for consumers and competitors.

Internet providers will be banned from blocking or slowing any traffic and from striking deals with content companies, known as paid prioritization, for smoother delivery of traffic to consumers.

The FCC also expands its oversight power to so-called interconnection deals, in which content companies pay broadband providers to connect with their networks. The FCC would review complaints on a case-by-case basis.

Republican FCC commissioners, who see the new rules as a government power grab, delivered lengthy dissents. Their colleagues in Congress hope to counter the new rules with legislation. All five FCC members are expected to testify in the Senate on March 18.

Large Internet providers say they support the no-blocking and no-discrimination principles of the new rules but that the FCC's regulatory path will discourage investment by lowering returns and limiting experimentation with services and business plans.

Some smaller telecoms, such as Sprint Corp (S.N:
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), have argued new rules will have little impact on investments. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on Thursday agreed.

"The (Internet service providers') revenue stream will be the same tomorrow as it was yesterday," he said at the FCC meeting.

"I have spent a lot of time in public policy, and today is the proudest day of my public policy life," he later told reporters.

Legal experts and industry lobbyists say corporate lawyers are waiting for the FCC to publish the specifics of the rules, a document more than 300 pages long. Lawsuits can be filed after the rules are recorded in the Federal Register, likely days later.

Wheeler sought to address in the new rules some Internet providers' concerns, proposing no price regulations, tariffs or requirements to give competitors access to networks.

Cable and telecom shares saw muted reactions on Thursday. They had jumped earlier this month when Wheeler confirmed long-bubbling expectations that he would seek a tougher regulatory regime, with some adjustments to the network needs.



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one step forwards... 80 years back...
better save up the internet bill is going to jump big time.
 
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one step forwards... 80 years back...
better save up the internet bill is going to jump big time.

It's too soon to tell with the details still unknown and it seems like there is a technical question of whether it should be regulation by the FCC or by Congress legislating. Overall I do think net neutrality is important for fair competition and innovation built on top of it, just as everyone abides by the same speed limit on the road and not having to pay more in order to drive faster.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
The Speed of your connection Pan is based not just on the server but the mechanics. the Fastest Speed in the US (for the record Hong Kong ranks #1 in internet speeds the US is #31.)
is... Drum Roll Please... Minneapolis, Minnesota @ 10 Gigabit per second. to do that US Internet a Minneapolis based company has to wire your house with Fiber optic cable as opposed to the traditional Copper used by the Phone and Cable companies.
Fiber Optic wiring services are expanding most phone and cable services have partial fiber optic but they always have copper lines especially in your walls and once the data hits that the speeds drop.
The problem is not lack of regulation it's lack of initiative. Cable and Phone get sweet heart Contracts that lock out competition and ensure that only Comcast (Xfinity) can wire you up or AT&T or Verizon or Charter or Cox... ecta.. ecta...
the fastest speeds though aren't being offered by the cables and phone companies they are the up and comers examples US Internet being top of the class but hitting you for $399 a month for 10 Gigbits or $65 per month for a very respectable gigabit per second. ( for the record Xfinity from Comcast is offering me as a package in my area 105 Mbps for $90 a month that's right for $25 Dollars more I can get a connection that is 10 times slower then a that offered to the good people of Minneapolis) Or Google fiber... that's right Google Who offers 1 gigabit service in Provo Ut, Austin TX, Kansas City and is working on wiring Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham as well as 5 more cities down the line. Centurylink with service in Columbia/Jefferson City, MO, Denver, CO, Las Vegas, NV, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, Omaha, NE, Orlando, FL, Portland, OR, Salt Lake City, UT and Seattle, WA. Chattanooga, TN gets it's 1 Gigabit speeds from a municipally owned power company EPB who partnered with a bunch of local business owners to tell Comcast where to stuff there slow speeds,and there my friend is the Dirty little secret.
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"Perhaps you should switch to another cable company… oh, that's right, we're the only one in town."
and this FCC rule wont change that.

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Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was assassinated.
An unidentified attacker shot Mr Nemtsov four times in central Moscow, a source in the law enforcement bodies told Russia's Interfax news agency.

He was shot near the Kremlin while walking with a woman, according to Russian-language news website Meduza.

"Several people" had got out of a car and shot him, it added.
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