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One poisoned carcass can kill over 500
vultures.
In regions where
vultures
have gone extinct, corpses take three times longer to decay.
Fortunately, some communities have already realized how important
vultures
are.
With help,
vultures
will be able to continue their role conserving the health of our planet— transforming death and decay into life.
I ate snails, vultures, rabbits, snakes, and anything that had life.
But that's due to natural predators like
vultures
that pick them off on a beach or predatory fish that are waiting offshore.
You don't care about any of the confused and screwed up cast that drifts in and out of the story like
vultures
feeding on a corpse.
Do
vultures
really attack living human beings?
Michael Caine in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure; Laurence Olivier in Dracula; Roger Moore in Escape to Athena; Jason Robards in Hurricane; Peter Cushing in A Touch of the Sun; Donald Sutherland in Bear Island; James Mason and Anthony Quinn in The Passage; Robert Shaw and Lee Marvin in Avalanche Express; and Richard Harris in A Game For
Vultures.
Director James Fargo ('Forced Vengeance', 'Every Which Way But Loose', 'Caravans' and 'A Game for
Vultures'
) has appeared in some of Eastwood's early films as assistant director, and here he paces it well-enough and let's the foundation play out more like an expansive low-key action fling filled with the constant buddy routines (as Harry is paired up with a young green-horn female detective fidgety played by Tyne Daly.
While he was a proud businessman, he is disgusted by the greedy
vultures
that seem more interested in money than sailing.
With a cast that includes the likes of Richard Harris, Richard Roundtree, Ray Milland, Joan Collins and Denholm Elliott, you would expect A Game For
Vultures
to be a pretty bankable success.
Griesa’s ruling threatened to hold the Bank of New York Mellon, the Argentine government’s agent, in contempt if it paid other bondholders without also paying the
vultures.
The
vultures
showed no scruples in profiting at the expense of Argentine taxpayers.
But this still allowed the
vultures
to block the process by buying up a third of a particular bond issue.
The Vultures’ VictoryNEW YORK – A recent decision by a United States appeals court threatens to upend global sovereign-debt markets.
Incredibly, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York decided that this meant that if Argentina paid in full what it owed those who had accepted debt restructuring, it had to pay in full what it owed to the
vultures.
Nominal bonds are not well hedged against inflation, and, over the long run, assets that are claims to cash without effective control are highly vulnerable to financial
vultures.
Recent court rulings in the United States have given the
vultures
the upper hand, and may make debt restructuring even more difficult, while enthusiasm for bailouts is clearly waning.
If, by one of those political cross-breedings of which the last century gave us such infamous examples, the academic owls who savor their wads of rejection and rancor should form a hybrid with the
vultures
of far-right populism, Le Monde diplomatique will have been the laboratory.
In an effort to regain access to capital markets, her economic team patched up things with the Paris Club of sovereign creditors and Spain’s Repsol (the former owner of nationalized oil giant YPF); but the fight with the
vultures
has set the country back.
The
vultures
were neither long-term investors in Argentina nor the optimists who believed that Washington Consensus policies would work.
The figures are so high in part because the
vultures
seek to earn past interest, which, for some securities, includes a country-risk premium – the higher interest rate offered when they were issued to offset the larger perceived probability of default.
NML Capital and the other
vultures
comprise just 1% of the creditors, but would receive a total of $1.5 billion.
What’s more, the existence of credit default swaps creates the possibility of further gains for the
vultures.
In the run-up to July 30, the
vultures
conducted a scare campaign.
Otherwise, US Federal Judge Thomas P. Griesa’s ruling that Argentina must pay the
vultures
in full (after 93% of other bondholders agreed to a restructuring) will give free rein to opportunistic behaviors that sabotage future restructurings.
According to Griesa’s interpretation of pari passu, if Argentina paid the interest that it owed to creditors that accepted the restructuring, it had to pay the
vultures
in full – including all past interest and the principal.
The vultures’ business was enabled in part by litigation over the so-called champerty defense – based on a longstanding English common-law doctrine, later adopted by US state legislatures, prohibiting the purchase of debt with the intent of bringing a lawsuit.
Argentina is simply the latest victim in the vultures’ long legal battle to change the rules of the game to permit them to prey on poor countries seeking to restructure their debts.
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