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Post by Entendance on Oct 3, 2024 3:12:53 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 3, 2024 8:23:13 GMT -5
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict.
The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear.
The material reveals a range of illegal activities, from wanton destruction and looting to the demolition of entire neighbourhoods and murder.
The film also tells the story of the war through the eyes of Palestinian journalists, human rights workers and ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip. And it exposes the complicity of Western governments – in particular the use of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as a base for British surveillance flights over Gaza.
Investigating war crimes in Gaza ➡️Gaza
 This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict.
The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear.
The material reveals a range of illegal activities, from wanton destruction and looting to the demolition of entire neighbourhoods and murder.
The film also tells the story of the war through the eyes of Palestinian journalists, human rights workers and ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip. And it exposes the complicity of Western governments – in particular the use of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as a base for British surveillance flights over Gaza.
“The west cannot hide, they cannot claim ignorance. Nobody can say they didn’t know,” says Palestinian writer, Susan Abulhawa.This is “the first livestream genocide in history … If people are ignorant they are wilfully ignorant,” she says. Investigation reveals Israeli troops committing first ever 'live streamed genocide'
The new documentary compiles footage of war crimes committed and posted online by Israeli soldiers in Gaza |
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Post by Entendance on Oct 10, 2024 4:14:58 GMT -5
Heads of 24 States to Attend BRICS Summit in Kazan - Kremlin Aide
'...Now we come to the second theater of operation, the Mid-East, which is the subject of this article because of its possible impact on the oil price. (the 3rd theater of operation, Taiwan, doesn’t warrant much attention at this juncture, because the action there hasn’t started yet). Israel and the (Zionist) US are in a race against time and moving to assert dominance over the region before the BRICS gain too much power and the dollar collapses. Once the dollar collapses they will no longer be in a position to do this. Israel has never made any secret of the fact that it has no intention of living in peace and harmony with its Arab neighbors – it intends to dominate them and subjugate them and kill them if they get in the way, as is now obvious to anyone. Its territorial aspirations are shown on the following map… 
...In considering the likelihood of Israel bombing Iran’s oil facilities we must take account of what may be termed “differential advantage”. A fine example of this is The Hegemon’s recent sabotage of the European economy by blowing up the Nordstream pipeline and starting a war in Europe – everyone suffers but the US suffers less, so this is considered an advantage (by the Hegemon). So if we now factor in that China is much more dependent on Iranian oil than the US is – it’s believed to import something like 40% of its oil from Iran – then the motivation for Israel to strike Iran’s oil facilities and encourage Iran to block the Straits of Hormuz becomes clear – it will be to disadvantage Iran. Higher oil prices also benefit powerful vested interests. Bombing Iran is also a direct way to punish a BRICS nation...' ➡️ OIL and IRAN...
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Post by Entendance on Oct 13, 2024 7:22:30 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 15, 2024 1:57:26 GMT -5
🏝️The declining status of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency is prompting a significant shift towards precious metals, particularly Gold and Silver, as countries seek to preserve wealth amid rising national debt, inflation, and geopolitical tensions.
Global Economic Shift
🏝️The US dollar’s 50-year reign as the world’s reserve currency is fraying due to massive debt accumulation ($100,000 per second, $1 trillion every 90 days) and moral decay, affecting America’s global prestige.
🏝️The BRICS alliance, representing 60% of world population and 50% of global GDP, is growing stronger with 59 countries joining in the past year, moving away from US dollar dependency and reshaping global trade dynamics.
New Financial System
🏝️A BRICS settlement currency called the “unit” is being developed, composed of a 60% currency basket from BRICS countries and 40% Gold, allowing nations to trade without relying on Western systems.
🏝️The Bank of International Settlements has reclassified gold as the world’s only other tier one Reserve asset alongside the US dollar, making it a riskless asset and prompting central banks to buy Gold at record levels.
Infrastructure and Technology
🏝️The Belt and Road Initiative, the largest infrastructure project in history, connects 75% of the world’s population and 50% of global GDP, integrating with the Eurasian Economic Union and Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Project Mbridge, designed by China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and UAE, allows countries to trade their own central bank digital currencies without SWIFT interference, supporting the BRICS settlement currency.
Precious Metals
🏝️Gold is expected to reach “unimaginable levels” as it becomes pegged to the BRICS settlement currency, with central banks repatriating gold in preparation for a new monetary system.
🏝️The Gold to Silver ratio is at an 11:1 anomaly, compared to a historical average of 42:1, suggesting Silver is 11 times undervalued relative to Gold.
'...any new system that is likely to succeed has to be Gold and Silver based...'
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Post by Entendance on Oct 18, 2024 9:40:29 GMT -5
London metals trader Andrew Maguire, appearing on Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program with Shane Morand, says physical demand now is overwhelming derivatives trading in Silver, just as it has done in Gold, and he expects a similarly explosive rise in Silver's price soon.
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Post by Entendance on Oct 19, 2024 3:46:17 GMT -5
'...the average westner on the street is not even interested in terms of Silver as an investment, so they have absolutely no clue of what is currently building for Silver below the record Gold price surface...'
Russia declaring Silver as an asset has changed the game!
Countries lining up to join BRICS – Putin
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Post by Entendance on Oct 20, 2024 5:39:40 GMT -5
Total Global Debt to Surpass $100 Trillion by Year's End, Warns IMF
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Post by Entendance on Oct 22, 2024 3:42:12 GMT -5
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend, though Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva cancelled his trip following medical advice to temporarily avoid long-haul flights after a head injury at home that caused a minor brain hemorrhage. |
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Post by Entendance on Oct 23, 2024 1:42:02 GMT -5
🇮🇳 India 🇨🇳 China 🇷🇺 Russia 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇪🇹 Ethiopia 🇮🇷 Iran 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇦🇪 UAE 🇦🇲 Armenia 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇧🇭 Bahrain 🇧🇩 Bangladesh 🇧🇾 Belarus 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇨🇬 Congo 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇮🇩 Indonesia 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan 🇱🇦 Laos 🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇲🇷 Mauritania 🇲🇳 Mongolia 🇳🇮 Nicaragua 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 🇹🇯 Tajikistan 🇹🇭 Thailand 🇹🇷 Turkey 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan 🇵🇸 Palestine
BRICS Summit in Kazan: The End of the U.S. Hegemony. Part 2
BRICS Summit in Kazan: A Turning Point in Geopolitics and World Economy. Part 1 |
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Post by Entendance on Oct 24, 2024 7:48:37 GMT -5
 'It has been more than a year since Israel began its war on Gaza following Hamas attacks on Israel in October, yet the Arab world – which claims the closet geographical, political, and religious proximity to Palestine – has neither a united front against Israel nor has it taken any step that might push the Western world to cut back its support for Israel’s war. Only if it was 1973, the world might have seen an oil blockade. But no such block exists today even though oil remains the Arab world’s key trade commodity. In short, they have somehow decided not to weaponize their key power. This is where the combined power of the Arab world stands vis-à-vis Iran.
Powerful Arab states, such as the UAE, are not only trading with Israel but states like Saudi Arabia are still open to making a deal with the US to sign The Abraham Accords, the 2020 bilateral agreements signed between Israel and the UAE and between Israel and Bahrain mediated by the Trump administration to recognize Israel in exchange for a defense pact with the US.
As far as the UAE is concerned, it is the only country in the Gulf that reportedly hosts an Israeli ambassador (Israelis had recalled its ambassadors from other Arab states following the Hamas attacks). The key reason for this is, perhaps, the UAE-Israel trade ties. According to data shared by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, their trade with the UAE grew last year by 17 percent to reach US$2.95 billion. In the first quarter of 2024, despite the war, trade growth has remained at more than 7 percent. explaining why the UAE is unable – and unwilling – to launch any serious diplomatic push against Israel. All we have seen is a combination of rhetorical statements from the Emirati officials that are meant to put on public display their continuing attachment to the Palestinian question. In other words, while they may have their “eyes” on Palestine, they are certainly “looking” at their own future with Israel (and beyond).
In fact, the UAE is making money out of this war. As a report by the International Crisis Group shows, Israel’s economy has contracted by almost 20 percent since the start of the war. Amid this, investment by the UAE has become a crucial source of growth. This is not an exclusive example. Deep trade ties between the Arab world and Israel now exist that are too costly to be reversed. In 2023, trade between Israel and seven Arab states that have normalized ties with Israel broke all previous records to reach US$4 billion, up by almost 16 percent from 2022.
While the war in Gaza has had some impact, it is little relative to the impact the war has left on Israel’s trade with the rest of the world. According to the annual report of Abraham Accords Peace Institute (AAPI), Israel’s trade with the Arab world contracted by 4 percent, while Israel’s trade with the rest of the world contracted by 18 percent. In the fourth quarter of 2023 when the war already begun, Israel’s trade with Egypt jumped 168 percent year on year, from $71 million to $191 million. Trade with Morocco increased 8 percent from $24 million to $26 million.
Therefore, despite wider popular demands across the Muslim world for boycotting Israel and US products and food chains, the reality is the continuous existence of trade ties without any tangible signs of their reversal, or even official boycotts, in the immediate future.
The Arab world, therefore, continues to be an exceptionally important region for Israel’s economy to survive the impact of the war and be able to continue to reproduce itself on a level where it can keep its war machine well-oiled.
Trade aside, geo-political considerations, too, continue to shape Arab ties with Israel. This is most clearly evident in the fact that, despite Israel deliberately destroying the population (rather than Hamas) in Gaza, states like Saudi Arabia have still not stepped away from the possibility of signing The Abraham Accords in exchange for a security pact with Washington. The only reason why the deal has not happened is not merely the ongoing genocidal war, but that mutual ground is yet to be found and that finding that ground at this stage has become a little bit more difficult than it was before October 7, 2023. In June, the Wall Street Journal reported that Washington was “close” to finalizing the deal with Israel. If Harris wins the presidential elections in the US, the deal will still be on the table. The victory of Donald Trump will be even better given the nature of his ties with Saudi leaders (as opposed to Biden’s ties with Saudia).
In fact, in the event of Donald Trump winning the elections in the US next month, the basic framework of The Abraham Accords could find itself significantly reinvigorated. Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a former top aide and architect of the accords, recently said that “The Abraham Accords remain a crucial pillar of stability in the Middle East”. If these accords are a source of stability, the logical policy action would be to find ways to expand them. States like Saudi might be anticipating this more than a quick end to the war on Gaza.
Because these considerations related to trade and security continue to deeply matter, whatever diplomatic efforts Arab states have made have been of little consequence and/or completely meaningless. Immediately after the war broke out, the Arab League delegate visited China for support. Beijing extended the same. In reality, and unlike the US, Beijing carries no leverage on Israel that it could have used to push to end the war. Therefore, going to Beijing for support was neither realistic nor productive. It was merely symbolic, with Arab states fully cognizant of its true nature as something for public consumption and maintain a positive image. Cosmetic exercises like seeking Chinese support or passing resolutions from the toothless platform of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) tend to reinforce the existing pattern of using ‘soft power’ and avoiding ‘hard power’ (drawn from possessing oil).
But doing these cosmetic efforts also mattered for the Arab states to show so-called solidarity with the Palestinians. Again, the entire purpose of pushing the question of ‘humanitarian aid’ to Gaza is to help mask other things that these are not doing (not using their biggest weapon) or want to do (expand ties with Israel) in the future.' Trade and security trump support for Palestine
H/T Tom from Florida
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Post by Entendance on Oct 25, 2024 4:58:05 GMT -5
BRICS+, what’s next?
This international precious metals exchange being proposed by Russia for BRICS sounds very similar (if not identical) to the proposals of Russia and its fellow Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) members back in 2022 (spearheaded by Sergey Glazyev) to create:
- a Moscow World Standard (MWS) for precious metals trading
– an international precious metals exchange headquartered in Moscow based on the MWS, and known as the Moscow International Precious Metals Exchange
– a Price Fixing Committee, with price discovery precious metals price fixings based on the MWS -Ronan Manly | ManlyMedia
03:35 Introduction to Michael Oliver and Momentum Structural Analysis
09:35 The US stock market: a “bubble” poised to break
13:50 The degradation of the Money Unit, using 2009 as a benchmark
20:35 The Fed’s 50 basis point cut amidst a stock market rally.
26:40 Michael's analysis of Gold and Silver movements with MSA charts
34:55 Government monopoly over money supply control
38:50 It might take a crisis to reassess the economy
47:15 The evolving multipolar world and increasing demand for Silver
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Post by Entendance on Oct 26, 2024 4:55:04 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 27, 2024 4:03:46 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 28, 2024 5:29:42 GMT -5
History Channel posts 'America's Book of Secrets' episode citing GATA
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Post by Entendance on Oct 29, 2024 4:25:40 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 30, 2024 4:28:29 GMT -5
BRICS Summit Results Demonstrate West’s Failure to Isolate Russia – Lavrov
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Post by Entendance on Oct 31, 2024 4:11:45 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 1, 2024 3:01:50 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 1, 2024 11:22:18 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 5, 2024 5:24:49 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 7, 2024 4:03:54 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 8, 2024 4:02:24 GMT -5
The racist, colonialist, imperialist West that no one believes in anymore
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Post by Entendance on Nov 9, 2024 3:23:31 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 11, 2024 5:08:47 GMT -5
'The BRICS are the best expression of the global reaction to the attempt to submit humanity to the world hegemony of U.S. tribal rituals...'
The explosive growth in industrial Silver demand is creating an ideal environment for investors ⤵️
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Post by Entendance on Nov 14, 2024 3:57:56 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 16, 2024 5:26:14 GMT -5
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