Challenges facing central banks included “how to ensure that banks’ liquidity insurance remains appropriate as technological change increases the risk of larger and faster deposit runs, of the kind seen this spring in the U.S.,” the BoE’s executive director for markets, Andrew Hauser, said.
Central banks also needed to judge where their balance sheets should settle after expanding hugely since over 15 years of emergency bond-buying.
A third challenge was how to ensure the stability of the financial system as a whole - including non-bank market finance such as hedge funds - in the face of increasingly frequency systemic liquidity shocks.
I know about Rutte and agree with what you’ve said. Recently I read he is ‘interested’ in a Nato job (Stoltenberg is about to retire soon), but I do hope they’ll find someone else.
Did’t know about Kaag, though. Thanks for the comments.
This forced browsers to accept certificates set by public authorities, banned additional security checks on certificates (such as Certificate Transparency) unless the EU agrees to them (and with the ongoing lobbying work we see in Brussels there’s not much trust if I may say so), it stopped innovation, destroyed years of work in encryption, and created an environment prone to Man-In-The-Middle-Attacks.
I fully agree. It’s not only online media but rather the entire public debate that gets increasingly poisened, including those of many politicians from the right as well as the left.
Full justice has been achieved in fewer than 5% of murders of journalists since 1992, with four unsolved cases in the EU, the media freedom association the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found in its 2023 Global Impunity Index.
While the top 12 countries in which murderers of journalists are likely to go free are non-European, the report noted that press freedom is under increasing pressure in the EU although it is typically considered one of the safest places for journalists to work.
Full justice is yet to be achieved for Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, assassinated in a car bombing in 2017, and Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak, who was killed with his fiancée at their home in 2018, the report said.
Likewise, Greece is yet to hold anyone accountable for the killing of broadcaster Socrates Giolias in 2010.
In 2021, Dutch reporter Peter R. de Vries was fatally shot as he left a TV studio.
I would agree, but there are people here on Lemmy and elsewhere who don’t distinguish between Palestinian people and the Hamas. It’s like a ‘tankie’ versus ‘anti-tankie’ game, ‘us and them’, and nothing in between. If you don’t choose, each side accuses you of being the enemy.
Addition:
Just watched this interview (video + transcript). A journalist tells about his visit of tbe occupied territories in Palestine. At some point he arrives at one of the many checkpoints.
And I was walking to the checkpoint, and an Israeli guard stepped out, probably about the age of my son. And he said to me, “What’s your religion, bro?” And I said, “Well, you know, I’m not really religious.” And he said, “Come on. Stop messing around. What is your religion?” I said, “I’m not playing. I’m not really religious.” And it became clear to me that unless I professed my religion, and the right religion, I wasn’t going to be allowed to walk forward. So, he said, “Well, OK, so what was your parents’ religion?” I said, “Well, they weren’t that religious, either.” He says, “What were your grandparents’ religion?” And I said, “My grandmother was a Christian.” And then he allowed me to pass.
So there, even as you just walk around, you seem to be checked ‘to whom you belong’.
Mokhiber said he had not been made aware of the review.
He said: “Israel lobby groups regularly harass and complain about UN officials who speak out on Israeli violations, but the UN is used to this tactic, so I would be surprised if any such ‘complaint’ went anywhere.
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After the death of the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was almost certainly fatally shot by an Israeli sniper, Mokhiber posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Israel was “whitewashing the cold blooded murder of its own citizen”.
The post continued: “No accountability. Just an official cover-up. A pattern of supporting #impunity that goes back 75 years and includes covering up war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, apartheid & state terrorism.”
The Guardian’s title is a bit misleading I would say.
"[A UN spojesperson] can confirm that he is retiring today. He informed the UN in March 2023 of his upcoming retirement, which takes effect tomorrow. The views in his letter made public today are his personal views.”
So he steps down because he is retiring, not because of the genocide.
It’ll take years and a lot of effort by all parties. It is very important imho that the process starts as soon as possible, though - important to the Ukrainian people as well as the Europeans. We need unity now more than ever in this world.
And let me say that what is true here for Ukraine is also true for Moldova, of course.
The Dagestan Governor Sergey Melikov blamed the riot on “Ukrainian traitors and Banderites”.
“It is no secret that attempts to destabilise the situation in Dagestan by stirring up interethnic and interreligious hatred come from our enemy, the foes of our country,” he said.
Western countries are permitting genocide because it is easier and more convenient for them than to take a stand against a traditional ally. There’s a lot of cowardice in politics right now.
This is not limited to Western countries as we can see in China, Russia, and other non-Western countries. There’s a lot of cowardice in politics everywhere.
The Russians told us what we did on October 7th will be learned a lot in their military academies. This benefits the Russians because it diverts US attention from Ukraine. The Chinese are considering similar action against Taiwan."