Lawmakers clinch deal on decadelong fight against shell companies

6 min readNov 27, 2020

Why just add one? Because it’s achievable. If you add more than that — if you try to go from a 3 to a 9, for example — you’ll probably feel anxious about the huge undertaking and decide to put it off for later

handsome, or smarter than everyone else, so his time is more valuable than theirs. If you ask him to stand in line like everyone else, either he won’t listen, or he’ll tell you to get lost. It’s not that he despises other people; rather, it’s that he doesn’t think they deserve his attention

The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) held its third power show in Quetta on Sunday amid heightened security measures owing to a threat alert issued by the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA).

President of the PDM and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz vice president Maryam Nawaz and Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai attended the event, among other senior political leaders belonging to opposition parties. Pakistan Peoples Party chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and deposed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif also addressed the gathering via video link.

Addressing the rally, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazl said after Supreme Court’s verdict in Justice Qazi Faez Isa case, the “fake rulers” have lost all grounds including moral, legal and others to remain in power.

He said people of the all four provinces were empowered through the 18th Constitutional Amendment and now attempts are being made to curtail the autonomy of provinces.

“No one should dare to think that they can curtail the rights of small provinces and occupy their resources… we cannot let anyone to snatch the rights of people.”

The PDM chief said the selected government has brought down the GDP growth rate from 5.6 to 1.5 per cent during its two years in power. “I have always said that the country should not be handed over to these incompetent rulers who have now destroyed its economy,” he maintaine

At a conference of the Russian Academy of Sciences on space, Solovyov raised concern about the longevity of the International Space Station (ISS) as certain components have been damaged and could not be replaced.

Solovyov, who is also the flight director of the ISS Russian segment, said the station may stop operation by 2025 and the cost of maintaining it may amount to 10–15 billion rubles (132–198 million US dollars).

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Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos said Thursday that it plans to discuss the operational lifespan of the ISS with NASA early next year.

The ISS lifespan is highly dependent on the technical condition of the modules and certain political aspects that are planned to be addressed, Roscosmos said in a press release.

Perfect money does not exist, of course, but gold is the closest thing to it. The shiny metal might be a pet rock or a barbarous relic to some, but it has remained the most stable asset over the last 5000 years, granting stability every time monetary collapse ensues; the best candidate to replace whatever the elites claim is backing the fiat monetary system. In the early 1800s, during the first of George Friedman’s U.S. socioeconomic cycles, the greed of the Second Bank of the United States’ stockholders created an economic depression. To enrich themselves, they issued paper currency with no backing, prompting rampant speculation, ultimately leading to a crash.
The 1837 Panic ensued as President Andrew Jackson, a sound money advocate, had responded to the speculation by backing the U.S dollar with gold and silver to purge economic deformities from the previous cycle. The economy remained somewhat stable until America fought a civil war thirty years later. Abraham Lincoln’s government committed the same economic suicide as the shareholders of the now-defunct Second Bank of the United States. Issuing vast sums of paper currency to finance the Civil War — plus speculation on railways — drove America into yet another depression, which led to the Coinage Act of 1873 where President Ulysses S. Grant enacted the de facto gold standard to suppress malinvestment and inflation.
This period in U.S. history is what American’s should expect when the next crisis unfolds, only this time with a modern twist. The next major collapse will coincide with both the mass adoption of crypto and the resurgence of commodity money. Crypto suits an increasingly technological world in which we desire speed, security, and privacy. Using precious metals as a currency — trading in grams, and transporting freight loads between parties like in the California Gold Rush of 1848 — is a crazy proposal for a modern medium of exchange. Transacting with a crypto wallet beats transacting with a gold debit card, hands down.
Crypto, however, isn’t perfect money either. At best, it’s a currency without commodity backing. Though we live in a society where the elites have replaced gold with debt, this doesn’t mean we must continue their mission to destroy money’s intrinsic value. As history shows, we need a gold-backed currency to reverse the sickness that fiat currencies have inflicted on society, and to have any chance of preventing elites from siphoning off wealth for themselves via monetary manipulation.
Only when the great reset occurs — where the fiat system relinquishes, and money regains its value, meaning, and purpose — will we know whether this new monetary paradigm will be governed by the people for the people, or by the same type of elites who always finds a way to exploit the system. It’s obvious which outcome will create a better, fairer, juster world, but it’s also clear, based on history, that the power will end up in the hands of a more autocratic, digitally empowered elite. Is this the moment when the people finally rise up and take charge? We’re about to find out.

The corporation is currently awaiting proposals from Energia on the creation of a new national space station, which will first be considered at the Roscosmos Scientific and Technical Council and then reported to the government, it said.

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What will the new reserve currency look like? Will gold or crypto become the reserve asset, stabilizing the system, creating a new monetary order? This debate between the crypto nuts and gold bugs is unwarranted since both assets will play a part. Like gold, crypto is unviable as currency and money. To the dismay of hardcore fans within each group, these two communities will unite, creating a truce. Crypto will be used as currency; gold will be used as money — and the feud between the crypto nuts and the gold bugs will come to an end. Together, they will fix each other’s flaws.

Lawmakers clinch deal on decadelong fight against shell companies

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