{"id":40363,"date":"2018-11-10T07:36:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T12:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40363"},"modified":"2018-11-10T07:36:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T12:36:43","slug":"uk-blatantly-violates-norms-of-decent-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40363","title":{"rendered":"UK Blatantly Violates Norms of Decent Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK Blatantly Violates Norms of Decent Behavior<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

Russia and Venezuela are among the countries the EU, including Great Britain, has imposed sanctions on. Both nations have been targets of London\u2019s vigorous attacks, being blamed for numerous nefarious things they have allegedly done. The UK insists that everyone play by the rules. Meanwhile, London is making mockery of commonly accepted norms in the international relations.<\/p>\n

The government of Venezuela\u00a0is seeking<\/a>\u00a0to eventually repatriate at least 14 tons of gold held at the Bank of England (BOE). It has recently asked to release the gold bars worth about \u00a3420 million or $550 million. This is the right and timely move as the new round of punitive measures\u00a0recently imposed<\/a>\u00a0on Caracas by Washington showed. The Bank\u00a0has refused<\/a>\u00a0to do so!<\/p>\n

UK officials have reportedly insisted that Venezuela clarify its intentions for the gold. Venezuelan President Maduro is suspected by London of harboring plans to sell the national treasure for personal gains. There is also a subterfuge used to explain why the Venezuelan property has not been returned to the owner. The UK says it\u2019s very hard to obtain insurance for the shipment to move the large cargo. Even if Venezuela gets the gold back, it\u2019ll be a large order to use it for raising hard currency because of the\u00a0new round of US sanctions<\/a>\u00a0announced on Nov.1. With the penalties in place, it\u2019s impossible to sell the gold straight from the Bank of England.<\/p>\n

The UK knows better who should be suspected of what and who can be trusted to have one\u2019s own property returned. If it\u2019s not theft, then what is? The rules of civilized behavior, you say? Forget about it, it\u2019s up to London, faithfully complying with the instructions coming from Washington, to decide what\u2019s civilized and what\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

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UK Blatantly Violates Norms of Decent Behavior Russia and Venezuela are among the countries the EU, including Great Britain, has imposed sanctions on. Both nations have been targets of London\u2019s vigorous attacks, being blamed for numerous nefarious things they have allegedly done. The UK insists that everyone play by the rules. Meanwhile, London is making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[56,1997,279,284,4413,16490,694,8203,2080,827,851],"class_list":["post-40363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bank-of-england","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-great-britain","tag-peter-korzun","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40364,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363\/revisions\/40364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}