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Warpy

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1. BBC seems to be concentrating on HSBC and Barclay's
Mon Sep 21, 2020, 12:12 AM
Sep 2020

and their role in circumventing sanctions on Iran. NBC is the only US network to give this even the barest mention, and that's about money laundering for N. Korea in US banks.

Together with the Panama Papers, this whole stinking thing could be blown to smithereens. It needs to be, but no one wants to take that first step, the big banks are all too dependent on the easy money to survive even timid regulation.

Kudos to the BBC for giving Buzzfeed credit for breaking the story today.

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