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Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today
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To my knowledge they haven't frozen any critics' assets, although I put nothing past them.
They did it here in Canada to the trucker protestors. While everyone cheered it on, those of us with an eye for the future noted that what can be done to them can be done to us.
It reinforced the need for non-central-bank digital currencies.
I never understood exactly what they did? Did they freeze all their assets, including stock portfolios, lines of credit, etc? I would have thought that would never happen in the US, but who knows. I wonder if they could freeze access to offshore accounts, e.g. Switzerland. I'm guessing Canadians affected by the freeze have moved a lot of their assets to offshore accounts now.
Wait, what?
Please recommend a good source for that movement coverage!
The only reason I’m asking for a source is because, well, a lot of sources tend to leave out pretty vital info…!
NPR has gotten pretty neo liberal. Or maybe it always was, and I just didn’t have anything better to compare it against.
Sorry I don't understand, you want a source about the protestors getting their accounts frozen, or about the coverage of that event? I've seen both but the meta-coverage will be harder to find because it is largely confined to Medium/Substack/blogs/etc..