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The White House pledged $55 billion in economic, health and security support for Africa over the next 3 years on Monday, one day ahead of the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington.
https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2022/12/12/us-commits-55-bn-to-africa-over-next-three-years-whouse
How very generous. Let’s see now, there’s 54 African nations & 1.2billion people. That amounts to $45/African over 3 years or $15/year. And then there’s Ukraine.
NOTE: As with most foreign aid from the collective West, its spent on multinational corporations to provide ‘supplies’ e.g. Coca Cola at vastly inflated prices/unit.
Also can you see which way this is headed?
“US Government Spent $103billion on Debt Interest in Two Months” – FX Macro
This is what happens when you have to redeem bonds which were paying 0% & have to replace them with bonds paying 4%. The US will break a $trillion a year in no time at all.
shelter for the night –
bashō on the narrow road
to the deep north
experience brings
necessary understanding
uncovering
the way to go
soul senses and follows
the directions
toward the understandings
it needs to implement
when soul is able
to establish and stand its
spiritual ground,
it begins to deal effectively
with the world and its effects
the world ( the devil )
tempers and refines soul,
like the sea smoothes
the ocean stone, and so
advances soul’s agenda
of self-mastery
the game of life
an atheist who
understands love is further
along on the spiritual
path than a religious
person who does not
love is as fragile
as morning dew on the
blade of grass, and
evaporates as soon
as temperatures rise
man can never win
in the game of life, but
soul can never lose
to have loved and to
have lost is better than not
having loved at all
Says Rahim do not snap ever
the threads of love
once broken, it does not unite
if it does, knots appear
The sun rises with glowing rays
it sets with equal grace
so does a good man
living through ups and downs
Abdul Rahim Khan-I-khana (1556 – 1627)
our reactions
reflect our level of acceptance,
or lack thereof
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/basho
When the wind blows at random
go the leaves of the basho
Thus is it laid waste;
Can anyone rely on this world?
Thus spoke the 12th century poet Saigyo! And on through the centuries, from one to another, so why not write Haiku in a way that mirrors times a’changing. But what changes are there, when the above is so relevant now ? Everything is new for the poet or musician, how are new ideas come by, in the face of evil…
…why not write Haiku in a way that mirrors times a’changing.
— I myself and others have been doing so here for at least 3 or 4 years. Although right now,
poets are fairly thin on the ground.
But what changes are there, when the above is so relevant now ?
— The more things change the more they stay the same.
Everything is new for the poet or musician, how are new ideas come by, in the face of evil…
The law of life means that new experiences on a daily basis effect subtle changes in the
individual. Youth becomes age. Ignorance becomes wisdom and so on. These changes
are reflected in the work of contemporary poets, but, as in the past, the components and the
challenges facing human beings are not that different to those faced by human beings in the
past. Inspired work is the poet’s challenge. One aims to use the established forms to express
both the universal and the particular, reflecting the times the poet lives in, through the lens of
the individual perception of the poet.
When the wind blows at random
go the leaves of the basho
Thus is it laid waste;
Can anyone rely on this world?
Thank you, Idols of Despair, for Saigyo’s lines.
The “father of haiku”, Bashō, inspired by the Chinese poet
Li Po, or “white plum” took his name from the basho tree.
for you the sun,
for me the driving
wind and rain
NATO, Serbia, Russia: Second front and conflict in the Balkans The Duran (29:95)
https://youtu.be/voL3aJqSagg
Big call!
After Xi’s visit to KSA & reaching agreement on paying for oil in yuan, time is ticking on the petrodollar. Meanwhile the Saudis better take precaution for regime-change operations. The US will lash out. That’s a certainty!
Dec 9 Bretton Woods II ended today
https://www.pacemaker.global/commentary/bretton-woods-ii-ended-today?s=09
Sun square Neptune, ‘end of the course of life.’
Neptune aka ‘the child’ signifys the beginning and the end of a coursef of life.
this week
in Sagittarius
Sun
heart and center of the
Anthropos
(hence us)
high above under the clear sky of
Sagittarius
in square-resonance
with the
confidence
of the childly god
Neptune
of the ‘feeling’ water-element
quarter part of divine truth
in each human’s entirety
insight meeting serenity
heart meeting thrust
all temporal interests meeting their end
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2022/12/sun-and-soul-child-neptune-this-week.html
Interesting article about the WEF and associates:
Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab.
Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier. The Davos Great reset is merely an updated blueprint for a global dystopian dictatorship under UN control that has been decades in development. The key actors were David Rockefeller and his protégé, Maurice Strong.
In the beginning of the 1970s, there was arguably no one person more influential in world politics than the late David Rockefeller, then largely known as chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank.
Creating the new paradigm
At the end of the 1960s and into the early 1970s, the international circles directly tied to David Rockefeller launched a dazzling array of elite organizations and think tanks. These included The Club of Rome; the 1001: A Nature Trust, tied to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF); the Stockholm United Nations Earth Day conference; the MIT-authored study, Limits to Growth; and David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission.
Club of Rome
In 1968 David Rockefeller founded a neo-Malthusian think tank, The Club of Rome, along with Aurelio Peccei and Alexander King. Aurelio Peccei, was a senior manager of the Fiat car company, owned by the powerful Italian Agnelli family. Fiat’s Gianni Agnelli was an intimate friend of David Rockefeller and a member of the International Advisory Committee of Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank. Agnelli and David Rockefeller had been close friends since 1957. Agnelli became a founding member of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission in 1973. Alexander King, head of the OECD Science Program was also a consultant to NATO. [i] That was the beginning of what would become the neo-Malthusian “people pollute” movement.
In 1971 the Club of Rome published a deeply-flawed report, Limits to Growth, which predicted an end to civilization as we knew it because of rapid population growth, combined with fixed resources such as oil. The report concluded that without substantial changes in resource consumption, “the most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.”
It was based on bogus computer simulations by a group of MIT computer scientists. It stated the bold prediction, “If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years.” That was 1971. In 1973 Klaus Schwab in his third annual Davos business leader meeting invited Peccei to Davos to present Limits to Growth to assembled corporate CEOs. [ii]
In 1974, the Club of Rome declared boldly, “The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man.” Then: “the world is facing an unprecedented set of interlocking global problems, such as, over-population, food shortages, non-renewable resource [oil-w.e.] depletion, environmental degradation and poor governance.” [iii] They argued that,
‘horizontal’ restructuring of the world system is needed…drastic changes in the norm stratum – that is, in the value system and the goals of man – are necessary in order to solve energy, food, and other crises, i.e., social changes and changes in individual attitudes are needed if the transition to organic growth is to take place. [iv]
In their 1974 report, Mankind at the Turning Point, The Club of Rome further argued:
Increasing interdependence between nations and regions must then translate as a decrease in independence. Nations cannot be interdependent without each of them giving up some of, or at least acknowledging limits to, its own independence. Now is the time to draw up a master plan for organic sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all finite resources and a new global economic system. [v]
That was the early formulation of the UN Agenda 21, Agenda2030 and the 2020 Davos Great Reset.
David Rockefeller and Maurice Strong
By far the most influential organizer of Rockefeller’s ‘zero growth’ agenda in the early 1970s was David Rockefeller’s longtime friend, a billionaire oilman named Maurice Strong.
Canadian Maurice Strong was one of the key early propagators of the scientifically flawed theory that man-made CO2 emissions from transportation vehicles, coal plants and agriculture caused a dramatic and accelerating global temperature rise which threatens “the planet”, so-called Global Warming.
As chairman of the 1972 Earth Day UN Stockholm Conference, Strong promoted an agenda of population reduction and lowering of living standards around the world to “save the environment.”
Strong stated his radical ecologist agenda:
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” [vi]
This is what is now taking place under cover of a hyped global pandemic.
Strong was a curious choice to head a major UN initiative to mobilize action on the environment, as his career and his considerable fortune had been built on exploitation of oil, like an unusual number of the new advocates of ‘ecological purity,’ such as David Rockefeller or Robert O. Anderson of Aspen Institute or Shell’s John Loudon.
Strong had met David Rockefeller in 1947 as a young Canadian eighteen and from that point, his career became tied to the network of the Rockefeller family.[vii] Through his new friendship with David Rockefeller, Strong, at age 18, was given a key UN position under UN Treasurer, Noah Monod. The UN’s funds were conveniently enough handled by Rockefeller’s Chase Bank. This was typical of the model of “public-private partnership” to be deployed by Strong—private gain from public government. [viii]
In the 1960s Strong had become president of the huge Montreal energy conglomerate and oil company known as Power Corporation, then owned by the influential Paul Desmarais. Power Corporation was reportedly also used as a political slush fund to finance campaigns of select Canadian politicians such as Pierre Trudeau, father of Davos protégé Justin Trudeau, according to Canadian investigative researcher, Elaine Dewar. [ix]
Earth Summit I and Rio Earth Summit
By 1971 Strong was named Undersecretary of the United Nations in New York and Secretary General of the upcoming Earth Day conference, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Earth Summit I) in Stockholm, Sweden. He was also named that year as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation – which financed his launch of the Stockholm Earth Day project.[x] In Stockholm the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) was created with Strong as its head.
By 1989 Strong was named by the UN Secretary General to head the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development or UNCED (“Rio Earth Summit II”). He oversaw the drafting of the UN “Sustainable Environment” goals there, the Agenda 21 for Sustainable Development that forms the basis of Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset, as well as creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UN. Strong, who was also a board member of Davos WEF, had arranged for Schwab to serve as a key adviser to the Rio Earth Summit.
As Secretary General of the UN Rio Conference, Strong also commissioned a report from the Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, authored by Alexander King which admitted that the CO2 global warming claim was merely an invented ruse to force change:
“The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.” [xi]
President Clinton’s delegate to Rio, Tim Wirth, admitted the same, stating,
“We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” [xii]
At Rio Strong first introduced the manipulative idea of “sustainable society” defined in relation this arbitrary goal of eliminating CO2 and other so-called Greenhouse Gases. Agenda 21 became Agenda 2030 in Sept 2015 in Rome, with the Pope’s blessing, with 17 “sustainable” goals. It declared among other items,
“Land, because of its unique nature and the crucial role it plays in human settlement, cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership also is a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice…Social justice, urban renewal, and development, the provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only ‘be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole.”
In short private land ownership must become socialized for “society as a whole,” an idea well-known in Soviet Union days, and a key part of the Davos Great Reset.
At Rio in 1992 where he was chairman and General Secretary, Strong declared:
“It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class— involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing — are not sustainable.” [xiii] (emphasis added)
By that time Strong was at the very center of the transformation of the UN into the vehicle for imposing a new global technocratic “paradigm” by stealth, using dire warnings of planet extinction and global warming, merging government agencies with corporate power in an unelected control of pretty much everything, under the cover of “sustainability.” In 1997 Strong oversaw creation of the action plan following the Earth Summit, The Global Diversity Assessment, a blueprint for the roll out of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, an inventory of every resource on the planet, how it would be controlled , and how this revolution would be achieved.[xiv]
At this time Strong was co-chairman of Klaus Schwab’s Davos World Economic Forum. In 2015 on Strong’s death, Davos founder Klaus Schwab wrote,
“He was my mentor since the creation of the Forum: a great friend; an indispensable advisor; and, for many years, a member of our Foundation Board.” [xv]
Before he was left UN over an Iraq Food-for-Oil corruption scandal, Strong was member of the Club of Rome, Trustee of the Aspen Institute, Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and Rothschild Foundation. Strong was also a director of the Temple of Understanding of the Lucifer Trust (aka Lucis Trust) housed at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City,
“where pagan rituals include escorting sheep and cattle to the alter for blessing. Here, Vice President Al Gore delivered a sermon, as worshippers marched to the altar with bowls of compost and worms…” [xvi]
This is the dark origin of Schwab’s Great Reset agenda where we should eat worms and have no private property in order to “save the planet.” The agenda is dark, dystopian and meant to eliminate billions of us “ordinary humans.”
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
Notes
[i] Biographies of 1001 Nature Trust members, Gianni Agnelli, accessed in http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_1001club02.htm
[ii] Klaus Schwab, The World Economic Forum: A Partner in Shaping History–The First 40 Years: 1971 – 2010, 2009, World Economic Forum, p. 15, https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_First40Years_Book_2010.pdf
[iii] Quoted from Club of Rome Report, Mankind at the Turning Point, 1974, cited in http://www.greenagenda.com/turningpoint.html
[iv] Ibid.
[v] The Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point, 1974, quoted in Brent Jessop, Mankind at the Turning Point – Part 2 – Creating A One World Consciousness, accessed in http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=154
[vi] Maurice Strong, Opening Speech to UN Rio Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, 1992, accessed in http://www.infowars.com/maurice-strong-in-1972-isnt-it-our-responsibility-to-collapse-industrial-societies/
[vii] Elaine Dewar, Cloak of Green: The Links between key environmental groups, government and big business, Toronto, James Lorimer & Co., 1995, pp. 259-265.
[viii] Brian Akira, LUCIFER’S UNITED NATIONS, http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/religion_cults/news.php?q=1249755048
[ix] Elaine Dewar, op cit. p. 269-271.
[x] Ibid., p. 277.
[xi] What is Agenda 21/2030 Who’s behind it ? Introduction, https://sandiadams.net/what-is-agenda-21-introduction-history/
[xii] Larry Bell, Agenda 21: The U.N.’s Earth Summit Has Its Head In The Clouds, Forbes, June 14, 2011, https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2011/06/14/the-u-n-s-earth-summit-has-its-head-in-the-clouds/?sh=5af856a687ca
[xiii] John Izzard, Maurice Strong , Climate Crook, 2 December, 2015, https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2015/12/discovering-maurice-strong/
[xiv] What is Agenda 21/2030 Who’s behind it ? Introduction, https://sandiadams.net/what-is-agenda-21-introduction-history/
[xv] Maurice Strong An Appreciation by Klaus Schwab, 2015, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/maurice-strong-an-appreciation
[xvi] Dr. Eric T. Karlstrom, The UN, Maurice Strong, Crestone/Baca, CO, and the “New World Religion”, September 2017, https://naturalclimatechange.org/new-world-religion/part-i/
Thanks, Skip! Saved for later… big topics.. P
I found something funny and interesting on YouTube yesterday. There is a Hollywood B action movie from 2011 that they did with a Russian film company. It is supposed to be filmed in Ukraine and Romania,though it think it was just really done in Ukraine. But the funny part is they used the famous (from the SMO) “Snake Island” as the phantasy setting in the movie. We can all pick out how ridiculous the story portrayal is.But it’s funny to see the stupidity of it all, knowing what we know now about that region:
Soldiers Of Fortune (2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYZX7o8BWJI&ab_channel=YouTubeMovies
Running out of weapons you say, just as the cold sets in. Tough times ahead.
https://www.rt.com/russia/568165-ukraine-shortage-air-defense/
winter of discontent;
beware the ides of march,
pride comes before a fall
Multipolarity continues apace:
Egypt has ratified its participation in the BRICS New Development Bank.
14 DEC: Is the UK at war with Russia?
The Royal Marines have taken part in covert operations in Ukraine, a senior general has admitted for the first time
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/royal-marines-deployed-on-high-risk-covert-operations-in-ukraine-r7b50gv3p
Not sure of the immediate implications of this – is Mr P in da house?
Where did this $1trillion “program”come from. Its larger than the budgets of Dept of Energy and Defense combined.
The DoE is administering a $1trillion program to maintain & modernize US nuclear arms.
The Lawrence Livermore lab plays a key role.
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/fusion-breakthrough-gives-us-new-way-to-evaluate-its-nuclear-weapons
Vague opinion>
(In college I dated a pretty Mormon gal whose dad worked there…his job was to make the physics projects actually work – good guy…a WW2 submariner, bless him.)
Livermore is a weapons machine. Not everything they do is direct and obvious…for example they produce scientists. One might assign to each new scientist a value according to what new weapon, like a fella might have value of “W = .5, meaning half probable he’ll invent or contribute to a new way to murder people. I noted the fusion claim as “k>1”, which means the machine produces more power than it consumes, in plain speak> that’s what happens when you start your car. In the instance, I am very skeptical as to the details behind the new claim. When (Dec ’42 CP-1) first fission reactor went k>1 this was purely a technical proof of concept. H, lies on the other end of the curve of binding energy of course, but there may a symmetry in terms of how long shall we have to wait for the secondary after-effect.
My guess? Somebody wants miniature fusion explosives (to pump gamma laser??) and manageable controllable fusion rocket motors. Maybe 10 years… I am sure that the Chinese and Russians are just as capable, and they have more wealth…
At the fission end of things…well CP-1 dates 1942, and the first fission engine became useful in 1954 when SSN571 was commissioned… And that was when the USA have mucho buckies and vast industrial base, like China and Russia do now…aheeemmm. So…10 – 12 years to some stuff.
fyi there are numerous errors in the wiki on CP1 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1
(the fella who actually built CP-1 was named “Gus”, hired out of the local union hall, a fine carpenter – and the work was done by the football team…hardly “secret”!!)
All just more or less vague opinion…the gal was a beauty.
Livermore minds me> https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marat/Sade >
“Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.”
Best! P
Thanks for that Mr P.
Biden Opens US-Africa Summit With Sanctioning African Leader
US sanctioned Zimbabwe President’s son.
Can anyone else notice the enormous hypocrisy it takes for Biden to sanction another president’s son for corruption?
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/12/biden-opens-africa-summit-with-sanctioning-african-leaders.html
For the (Canadian Patriot) Mathew Ehret fans:-
In this episode of The Great Game, we break down the developments of a new cockpit of war emerging in Serbia, and also take a deep dive into the historic roots of color revolutions, Young Europe anarchist sects led by Freemasons & the manipulation of WWI
The Great Game: Why the Empire Has No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Interests (1:02:46)
https://youtu.be/xg5oJTGkJQY
“The Russian Finance Ministry stated that the budget surplus was 557billion rubles in the first 11 mths of the year”. – The Sirius Report
Critical to Russia’s continuing financial stability:
OPEC+ pushes back on US pressure.
In remarks after Xi Jinping’s Saudi visit with an accent on stability of the oil market, Saudi Energy Minister Abdelaziz bin Salman said on Dec 11: OPEC+ “aim to preserve the market … it does not get into policies or alliances” …
“OPEC+ operates according to purely economic mechanism … what we are concerned about is reducing market fluctuations … to boost the sector & investment opportunities” …
“pressures to which OPEC+ has been subjected to in recent months will not change its orientation & working method.”
“Group action requires agreement and therefore I continue to insist that every OPEC+ member, whether a big or small producer … be a part of decision-making. Consensus has positive implications on the market” …
“World events have demonstrated the validity of OPEC+ decisions … in OPEC+ we seek to be market regulators, as happens in the case of central banks.” – fmr Indian diplomat MKB
A major turn of events in regional connectivity & geopolitics of the Red Sea.
UAE & Saudi will be dominant powers; Egypt & Israel beneficiaries; loss of influence for Iran; China may partner with the UAE under BRI.
DEC 5 peace deal in Sudan could be a setback for Russian hopes of base.
Sudan to Develop Red Sea Port in $6-Bln Initial Pact with Emirati Group
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/4041796/sudan-develop-red-sea-port-6-bln-initial-pact-emirati-group%C2%A0
Recalling those thrilling days of yore when Lady Justice came to, like “Springtime for Hitler” it’s comforting to ready of her rebirth, as we see> https://www.rt.com/news/568220-uk-trains-ukrainian-judges/
Hopping along to the kangaroo zoo> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Court_(Germany)
The Russians and the Brits knew, and so too the nazis… as events have shown, and as was then said too, Nb was “victors justice”, and a show trial series…nearly all the criminals escaped, and nearly all the innocent suffered.
(The Producers, 1968, clip> https://youtu.be/ovCf9VRLnDY )
I recall a bit about trials in W2…the allied terror bombing of German cities produced captured allied criminal pilots and crews. The Reich proposed to bring them to trial. In response the US went into CONUS POW camps housing German submariners, and by introducing to the general population men who were known collaborators the US produced murder – and then tortured confessions, and ultimately death sentences… Thus a sort of balance of threat… Through an error, after the war, they German men were executed at Leavenworth, by hanging in an elevator shaft… I have this from personal interview with US Army expert once stationed there.
Best! P
This is old but they are talking about it again in some circles for 2023, recession.
https://indaily.com.au/news/2022/06/08/business-warning-of-economic-death-spiral/
Did anybody watch Z’s address to the NZ parliament? Is it reported anywhere in the world?
Skip59
Excellent summary Skip59! The names, the dates, the events, the notes. Many thanks for posting.
Looks like the Balkans are about to pop …
Serbia government official:
“Today, in the only remaining Serb-majority city of North Mitrovica, the Kurti-led Kosovo* government replaced the democratically-elected Kosovo Serb City Council representatives with Kosovo Albanian ones.
R.I.P. Brussels Agreement”
Iran’s Ambassador to Moscow:
“I’d like to announce some good news, it consists of the fact that negotiations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the EAEU Secretariat on a Free Trade Agreement have been completed.”
FTA will give “strategic depth” to both Iran & Russia under sanctions.
How to win friends and influence enemies … (hehehe)
Borrell is EU Foreign Minister. His racism & stupidity are truly amazing. The EU has clearly outlived any possible worthwhile role it played in the world and now, should just dissolve itself and disappear up its own backside.
Josep Borrell faces backlash following controversial remarks on Africa
https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20221210/15214178/Josep-Borrell-faces-backlash-following-controversial-remarks-on.htm
“This is what the rule of law looks like in #Brussels” – PM of Hungary, @PM_ViktorOrban
Trans from French: “As part of a Federal Prosecutor’s Office file of suspicions of corruption, targeting people active in the European Parliament, the Federal Judicial Police seized nearly €1.5 million during searches carried out in the Brussels region.”
Hint: its the wads of cash.
https://twitter.com/policefederale/status/1602950668620283905
Don’t cry for me Argentina
by Sinead O’Connor
https://youtu.be/WnG4uu4e7FY
Important #multipolarity
“BRICS goes digital. By end of 2024 all BRICS founding states will have national digital currencies released & “in the wild”. Digitization is running in parallel with discussions about a BRICS reserve currency backed by a commodities basket.”
All founding members of BRICS are likely to have digital currencies fully rolled out by the end of 2024, with the Brazil central bank announcing its intentions to launch that country’s CBDC in 2024.
India is likely to have its digital currency out and “in the wild” in 2023. Russia is targeting 2024, as is South Africa. China’s digital RMB has already been in extensive “real world” testing for more than 2 years and is being rolled out incrementally already.
Currency digitization is an important precondition for expanded Currency Multipolarity. BRICS nations’ discussions about a group reserve currency backed by a basket of commodities are well advanced.
Brazil central bank to launch its digital currency in 2024
https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/brazil-central-bank-launch-its-digital-currency-2024-2022-12-13/
Sums up the the mood n the UK
This is satire from Jonathan Pie, but many a truth is said in jest:
Strikes (3:58) https://youtu.be/Gljtvwhcdhc
Note: Forgive the foul language.