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9 Bank Employee Unions Join Forces Against Selling Govt Banks To Private Firms; Declare Massive Strike On These Dates
By Shreya Bose Last updated Feb 11, 2021
In another firework set off by the Union Budget proposed of the current year, a mega-union [United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU)] of 9 bank unions have made the decision to oppose a proposal that has to do with disinvestment and subsequent privatisation of 2 Public Sector Banks (PSB) —IDBI (its majority stake sold to LIC in 2019) along with the mergers of up to 14 PSBs in the past 4 years..
The mega union includes the following participants- All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), All India Bank Officers' Confederation (AIBOC), National Confederation of Bank Employees (NCBE), All India Bank Officers' Association (AIBOA) and Bank Employees Confederation of India (BEFI), Indian National Bank Employees Federation (INBEF), Indian National Bank Officers Congress (INBOC), National Organisation of Bank Workers (NOBW) and National Organisation of Bank Officers (NOBO).
1 What does this mean for citizens?
2 Why are unions peeved?
3 What's a "bad bank"?
4 Reasoning behind the strike
5 What to watch out for
What does this mean for citizens?
They wish to express this discontentment by means of a nationwide strike called for 2 days on Mar 15 and 16, as declared by AIBOC general secretary Soumya Datta.
This indicates likely no banking facilities will be available to the public for 4 days beginning Mar 13.
Banks in several locations are also expected to remain closed on Mar 11 due to Maha Shivratri.
Why are unions peeved?
Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister and hence presenter of the Budget, announced that the Centre intended to disinvest state-run and non-strategic firms.
This announcement put PSU bank employees and unions on high alert because they feared they were going to be left outside the strategic gamut of the Budget.
Apart from the aforementioned grievances, UFBU, represented by General Secretary Venkatachalam, also lamented the following components of the plan announced by the centre to revive and rejuvenate an ailing bank economy.
"The meeting discussed the various announcements made in the budget of the central government regarding reform measures like privatisation of IDBI Bank and two PSBs, setting up of bad bank, disinvestment in LIC, privatisation of one general insurance company, allowing FDI in insurance sector up to 74 per cent, aggressive disinvestment and sale of public sector undertakings, etc," just about summed it up.
A callback to history was made in a statement from Bank Employees Federation of India (BEFI) which noted that UFBU has been relentlessly opposing privatisation for a long time now.
What's a "bad bank"?
For those not in the know, the term "bad bank" refers to an Asset Reconstruction (ARC) or an Asset Management Company that presides over bad loans possessed by commercial banks, takes over its management and eventually recovers the money over a certain period of time.
Reasoning behind the strike
They reasoned that these measures are "retrograde", hence they need to be "protested and opposed". Furthermore, they spoke about plans to launch "intensive struggle programs" and "agitational actions" to really drive home the fact that they do not approve and are unhappy.
What to watch out for
UFBU has a long line of activities in the coming days.
A day-long "dharna" has been planned in all state capitals on the date of Feb 19.
"Relay dharnas" have been scheduled in all states, districts and towns between the dates of Feb 20 to Mar 10.
The main event is set to be staged on 2 separate days, Mar 15 and 16.
Further strikes are already in the offing, which is dependent on subsequent developments.
This is already preceded by demonstrations across the country last week in protest.
The same is evidenced as per statement by UFBU convener for Maharashtra Devidas Tuljapurkar, "UFBU is meeting on 9 February at Hyderabad to decide on full-fledged agitation against the proposed privatization of public sector banks".
As further justified by AIBEA General Secretary, the announcement made by the Centre to privatise PSBs is "unfortunate and unwarranted". He seems to be hopeful of the demonstrations scheduled by his organisation to reach the intended objective of "strengthening PSBs".
Also to take into cognizance is the fact that revenue from these disinvestment receipts for FY 2022 is expected to reach into Rs 1.75 trillion. This is expected to fuel the Centre's social and developmental schemes.
The ideal situation would have been that the banks be granted the rightful conditions to operate efficiently. However, given the lack of communication and general distrust, it looks like the near blackmail sentiment echoed by strikes is unlikely to cease anytime soon.
Air India made similar threat of strike back in December, learn more
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Q: Service testing in Angular 6 - mockBackend I am trying to test a function in my service that returns an observable (BehaviorSubject).
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
import { BehaviorSubject, Observable } from 'rxjs';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class TopicsService {
  private topics = [];
  private obs = new BehaviorSubject<any>(this.topics);

  constructor(private http: HttpClient) {}

  getTopics(): BehaviorSubject<any> {
    if (!this.topics.length) {
      this.http.get('http://localhost:8089/topics')
        .subscribe(
          (topicsData: any) => {
            this.topics = topicsData;
            this.obs.next(this.topics);
          }
        );
    }

    return this.obs;
  }

Then I have created a mockResponse object that I expect to receive in the Http fake call.
Then I call the getTopics() function and I subscribe to the Observable and I expect that what comes is actually the body of the response:
import { TestBed, inject } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { HttpClient, HttpHandler } from '@angular/common/http';
import { ConnectionBackend, ResponseOptions } from '@angular/http';
import { MockBackend } from '@angular/http/testing';

import { TopicsService } from './topics.service';

describe('TopicsService', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      providers: [
        TopicsService, HttpClient, HttpHandler,
        { provide: ConnectionBackend, useClass: MockBackend }
       ]
    });
  });

  describe('#getTopics()', () => {
    it('should be created', inject([TopicsService], (service: TopicsService) => {
      expect(service).toBeTruthy();
    }));

    it('should return a BehaviourSubject<any<Topic>>',
      inject([TopicsService, ConnectionBackend], (service: TopicsService, mockBackend) => {

      const mockResponse = {
          name: 'Chess',
          decription: 'Best chess courses'
      };

      mockBackend.connections.subscribe((connection) => {
        connection.mockRespond(new Response(new ResponseOptions({
          body: JSON.stringify(mockResponse)
        })));
      });

      service.getTopics().subscribe((topicData) => {
        expect(topicData.length).toBe(1);
        expect(topicData.name).toEqual('Chess');
        expect(topicData.description).toEqual('Best chess courses');
      });
    }));
  });
});

I am obviously doing something wrong, but I can't seem to get it. Thanks a lot in advance!
Edited: Sorry I forgot to add the test output, my bad:
TopicsService #getTopics() should return a BehaviourSubject<any<Topic>> FAILED
        Expected 0 to be 1.
            at SafeSubscriber._next src/services/topics.service.spec.ts:38:34)
            at SafeSubscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.SafeSubscriber.__tryOrUnsub node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js:195:1)
            at SafeSubscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.SafeSubscriber.next node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js:133:1)
            at Subscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.Subscriber._next node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js:77:1)
        Expected undefined to equal 'Chess'.
            at SafeSubscriber._next src/services/topics.service.spec.ts:39:32)
            at SafeSubscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.SafeSubscriber.__tryOrUnsub node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js:195:1)
            at SafeSubscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.SafeSubscriber.next node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js:133:1)
            at Subscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.Subscriber._next node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js:77:1)
        Expected undefined to equal 'Best chess courses'.
            at SafeSubscriber._next src/services/topics.service.spec.ts:40:39)
            at SafeSubscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.SafeSubscriber.__tryOrUnsub node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js:195:1)
            at SafeSubscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.SafeSubscriber.next node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js:133:1)

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Carmelo Anthony #7 of the New York Knicks looks on late in a game against the Miami Heat at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014. Credit: Jim McIsaac
By AL IANNAZZONE al.iannazzone@newsday.com @Al_Iannazzone Updated December 10, 2014 11:58 PM
SAN ANTONIO - Carmelo Anthony took Wednesday night off to rest his sore left knee, and hopes to do everything he can to avoid eventually having surgery.
But Anthony said that possibility has come up.
"I think any time you're dealing with something like an injury to the knee, shoulder, anything like that, that that will always be a solution, an option, but that was the last, last option," Anthony said.
"I'll explore as many other options as I can before I go under the knife and get surgery. We really don't know exactly what's the problem."
The Knicks also were without J.R. Smith because of a sore left heel. X-rays of Smith's heel were negative.
Anthony said the knee has been bothering him since the second game of the season, and for the most part he's been able to play through it. But he was getting it worked on before and after Tuesday's game in New Orleans.
He looked limited in the Knicks' 11-point loss to the Pelicans. Anthony took just 11 shots and scored 17 points with no assists. Anthony is averaging 22.9 points, nearly three points below his career total.
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"I think overall it's impacting him quite a bit," Derek Fisher said.
Anthony got treatment Wednesday. He said he's not sure how long he'll be out. Fisher hopes Anthony can play Friday in Boston. Anthony said they need to figure out what's wrong and the best way to deal with it, and there are no immediate plans to undergo further tests.
"I'm going to sit down with the team, with the doctors, just try to figure it out," Anthony said. "Sit down with the coaches, just try to figure it out.
"It's just a matter of getting to the bottom of it and seeing what's the problem. What I'm hearing is it won't get any worse, but it won't get any better, so it's just a matter of how much pain I can take while I'm out there playing. Some days are better than others."
Anthony is in the first year of a five-year, $124-million contract. If the Knicks continue to lose games at the rate they have, it might make sense to sit out longer or have surgery.
But Anthony has played through pain. Two years ago, he led the Knicks to the second round of the playoffs while playing with a partially torn labrum and rotator cuff in his left shoulder.
He missed two games this month with back spasms and the rest helped him. He's hoping something like that happens again. "Most important is his health overall," Fisher said. "So whatever decision he needs to make to make sure that's a priority, we support that 100 percent."
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Former Pfizer VP Urges All Women To Reject The Jab!
It truly baffles my mind how many people are willing to get to take this so-called vaccine knowing that it is completely experimental at this time. There have been no long-term studies to even show what it does to people and the CDC has even come out saying that it does not prevent transmission of the virus.
However, people are still lining up to get the gene therapy despite the fact that the virus has a 99% recovery rate and natural immunity is better and longer-lasting than the jab.
Countless doctors and scientists have come forward speaking out against the jab and that people should be cautious before taking it. Though as we have seen over the recent months, those that speak out are smeared and silenced for an opposing view that the masses want you to hear.
Dr. Michael Yeadon is the former vice president and chief scientist for allergy and respiratory at Pfizer.
Yeadon worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over three decades.
He has a Ph.D. in respiratory pharmacology and degrees in biochemistry and toxicology.
Dr. Yeadon is among the most highly qualified individuals to discuss the efficacy of vaccines.
Yet, Dr. Yeadon has remained one of the most vocal critics against the experimental COVID-19 vaccines.
Yeadon recently spoke at the "Stop the Shot" conference and discussed why all women of child-bearing age should reject the experimental jabs.
Watch some of the previous warnings from the former Pfizer VP:
LifeSiteNews shared the latest warnings from Dr. Yeadon at the "Stop the Shot" Conference:
Why 'we never, ever, give experimental medicines to pregnant women'
The British national explained his first point as being "so obvious" that all can agree. "We never, ever, give experimental medicines to pregnant women. Why do we not do that?" he asked.
He went on to explain how 60 years ago "women were exposed to a new product for morning sickness called thalidomide and it led to at least 10,000 birth malformations."
Studies before its release at the time were not capable of identifying "thalidomide as a toxin in the womb." This tragedy, he explained, taught scientists that "babies are not safe and protected inside the uterus which is what we used to think. But, in fact, they're a miracle of minute development. Critical stages, especially in the early stages, where if interfered with biochemicals or something else, can change the course of development of that child irreparably."
"You never ever give inadequately tested medicines, medicinal products, to a pregnant woman," he emphasized. "And that is exactly what is happening. Our government is urging pregnant women, and women of childbearing age, to get vaccinated. And they're telling them they're safe. And that's a lie because those studies have simply not been done."
Furthermore, "reproductive toxicology has not been undertaken with any of these products, certainly not a full battery of tests that you would want" Yeadon said.
"So, here we are. There's been potentially hundreds of millions of women of child-bearing potential [injected] with products which are untested in terms of impacts on fertilization and development of the baby.
"That's bad enough because what that tells me is that there's recklessness. No one cares. The authorities do not care what happens," he said.
But with a closer look, Yeadon said that given two other studies, the situation looks "much worse" due to evidence of actual damaging effects on fertility.
One Pfizer study on rats reveals at least 20-fold vaccine concentration in ovaries
Yeadon discussed how a study obtained from the Japanese medicines agency due to a freedom of information request revealed "how the vaccine [substances] distributed around the body" of rats over time.
"What we find is the vaccine doesn't just distribute around the body and then wash out again, which is what you'd hope. It concentrates in ovaries of rats, and it concentrates at least 20-fold over the concentration in other background tissues like muscles," he reported.
Cont. from LifeSiteNews:
Study finds 'vaccine-induced autoimmune attack' on the placenta
Yeadon called his final point "even worse" because it entails study results from experiments on actual humans.
Last December, Yeadon issued a petition to the European Medicines Agency with another physician from Germany expressing several concerns with the testing of the COVID-19 vaccines. As he explained, one such concern was that "the spike protein is faintly similar, not very strongly, but faintly similar to an essential protein in your placenta, something that's absolutely required for both fertilization and formation, and maintenance of the placenta. So, you can't get pregnant and have a successful pregnancy if this protein is damaged in any way."
Noticing that the coronavirus spike protein was "similar enough," Yeadon explained, "I wanted them to do some experiments, hopefully to rule out the possibility that when you vaccinate the person, who then makes spike proteins, and they develop immune response against this spike protein," this would not issue "a faint signal that would potentially bind this similar protein in the placenta."
While Yeadon's petition was ignored, he states that "a study has just come out a few weeks ago, and it says exactly what I was worried about.
"Fifteen women were given the Pfizer vaccine. They drew blood samples every few days. When they measured antibodies against spike protein, which took several weeks to appear, they also measured antibodies against the placenta and they found that within the first one to four days an increase of two and a half to three times. That's a 300% increase in the antibodies against their own placenta in the first four days," he explained.
"So, I'm sorry to say this, but that is a vaccine-induced autoimmune attack on their own placenta. And I think you can only expect that that is happening in every woman of childbearing potential. It's generating antibodies against this critical protein required for fertilization and successful pregnancy," he said.
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- pass the script 1 and 2 on the command line and observe the difference.
Yes, it happened to me. Was caught in testing, fortunately. By a colleague. Didn't I say my code sucked?