{"id":189710,"date":"2010-02-20T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/20\/vulture-capitalists-need-to-be-slapped-down\/"},"modified":"2010-02-20T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T03:26:00","slug":"vulture-capitalists-need-to-be-slapped-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/20\/vulture-capitalists-need-to-be-slapped-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulture Capitalists Need to be Slapped down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would suggest prosecutions of the folks who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=aNbsoBTwnSoo\">pursuing Russia regarding bonds issued by the Czar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Russian government vowed to \u201cdefend our rights\u201d after French holders of czarist bonds valued at as much as 100 billion euros ($137 billion) threatened to sue the Kremlin and seize property it owns in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay God help them,\u201d Viktor Khrekov, a spokesman for the Kremlin Property Department, said by phone today from Moscow, after the Paris-based International Federative Association for Russian Bond Holders, or AFIPER, pledged to sue to recoup part of the century-old debt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The empire of Russia has not existed since 1917.<\/p>\n<p>That country was liquidated, along with Czar Nicholas and his family.<\/p>\n<p>People are buying this stuff at cents on the dollar, and then attempting to get be enough of an annoyance to coerce some payments out of sovereign nations.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s particularly egregious behavior because France and Russia had a final settlement since 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Surely, if terrorism statutes can be used against the reserves of Icelandic banks, it can be used against these extortionists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would suggest prosecutions of the folks who are pursuing Russia regarding bonds issued by the Czar: The Russian government vowed to \u201cdefend our rights\u201d after French holders of czarist bonds valued at as much as 100 billion euros ($137 billion) threatened to sue the Kremlin and seize property it owns in Paris. \u201cMay God &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,964,1017],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-foreign-relations","category-international-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}