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NatWest, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, will refuse service to RT:
NatWest bank has frozen the accounts of Russia's state-run broadcaster RT, its editor-in-chief says. Margarita Simonyan tweeted: "They've closed our accounts in Britain. All our accounts. 'The decision is not subject to review.' Praise be to freedom of speech!"
An MP from Russia's ruling party has said the country's Parliament will "demand an explanation" from the UK. RT says the bank gave no explanation for its decision. It said the entire Royal Bank of Scotland Group, of which NatWest is part, was refusing to service RT.
[...] A letter posted online by the channel appears to show that the freeze is not in effect yet. It warns that banking facilities will be "cancelled and closed" on 12 December. MP Sergei Zheleznyak, from the ruling "United Russia" party, told the privately-owned Interfax news agency: "We will be demanding an explanation from Britain's official authorities in connection with this situation." [...] A member of the Russian parliament's upper house, Igor Morozov, has called for the BBC's bank accounts in Russia to be "arrested" as a reprisal. RT chief Ms Simonyan said the closure included the personal accounts of some senior staff working in the UK.
Unnamed sources in the British Treasury denied involvement and said the decision was made by NatWest itself. The Prime Minister Theresa May's office told reporters that "It's a matter for the bank and it's for them to decide who they offer services to based on their own risk appetite".
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @02:35AM
No need to hack the RNC, Trump the traitor already gave Putin the passwords.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 18 2016, @02:48AM
Clinton the male sells military secrets to China, Clinton the female sells fissionable products to Russia, but Trump is the traitor? I'm certain that Trump is guilty of a long list of crimes, including offending the politically correct, but treason is a Clinton characteristic.
Thanks for playing though.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @02:13PM
> Clinton the female sells fissionable products to Russia,
The sale of the canadian mining company to a russian owner was approved by nine separate federal agencies [politifact.com] who did not even have veto power, [factcheck.org] the most they could have done was bump the issue up to the president for him to make the decision. None of them did.
> Clinton the male sells military secrets to China,
Bill Clinton agreed to a bipartisan supported loosening of export restrictions. [cnn.com] As a result, Loral put a sealed black box with guidance tech on a chinese rocket launching one of their satellites. [washingtonpost.com] It was personally observed by US personnel the entire time until the rocket blew up during launch. Afterwards a 25-page analysis of the launch failure was faxed to the chinese in error. That may have given them enough info to incrementally improve their guidance tech. [washingtonpost.com] If you want to complain about "military secrets" look at Bill Clinton relaxing the restrictions on crypto exports [zdnet.com] that (even to this day) are classified as munitions.
But never mind the facts, infowars has the troooth!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 18 2016, @03:29PM
Thank you - you help to prove that under a Clinton administration, everything is up for grabs. Highest bidder takes all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @04:25PM
And runaway does his best impression of a child with his fingers in his ears yelling "I can't hear you!"
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 18 2016, @07:08PM
Well, yeah, but you gotta take your fingers out of your own ears too. My mind is made up, your mind is made up. I believe that the Clintons are criminals who should be in prison for life. I believe that Trump, as big an ass and a fool as he is, is far less dangerous to the nation and to the world, than Clinton is.
And, YOUR mind is made up. No matter how much dirt is dug up on the Clintons, you accept any sniveling excuse. You buy into any (im)plausible deniability tossed out there. You refuse to even understand the definition of "is".
The Clintons are filth - but you like their kind of filth.
And, I'm back to describing you, along with our society, as decadent, and degenerate. Some poeple sleep with dogs, and they are surprised to wake up with fleas. Almost half of America isn't surprised to find fleas - they are used to them, they expect them. You almost seem to LIKE the damned fleas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @09:54PM
> No matter how much dirt is dug up on the Clintons, you accept any sniveling excuse.
Lol. It comforts you to believe that doesn't it?
I actually happen to believe that Bill Clinton most likely did rape Juanita Broderick. But, unlike yourself, I come to my conclusions based on a careful perusal of the evidence, not being easily distracted by smoke signals sent up by people who have every motivation to make you believe there is a fire.
> And, I'm back to describing you, along with our society, as decadent, and degenerate.
that's right you just keep on eating that comfort food cooked in your own kitchen. in runaways world everybody is a tribalist because you can't conceive of someone who isn't a tribalist and your tribe is just a better tribe than everyone else's.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @02:54AM
My mind is made up, your mind is made up
Dude, you are so obviously projecting. In response to a well-documented clear-cut refutation of your statements you argue that its just "sniveling excuses." You practically admit that facts do not matter to you and that's ok because they don't matter to anyone who disagrees with you either. That is the most messed up moral relativism I've ever heard. Governance should not be a team sport, stop trying to justify the concept. Its more than just unamerican, its fucking medieval.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 19 2016, @05:28AM
Well documented? Clear cut? Link me to that again. And no, I don't want to read about more democrats praising the party and other democrats. Seriously, I saw no "clear cut refutation". I did see that you chose to believe something that you desparately need to believe.
The party is corrupt. It is at least as corrupt as the other party. Is it a requirement that you enjoy wallowing in fecal matter before you can join the party?