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Zelensky is selling off public assets in a huge privatization spree.
Led by the Biden administration
US corporations like,Chevron, ExxonMobil and Halliburton are going to run the Ukrainian oil and gas industry.
The IMF is imposing the Washington consensus.
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/04/28/us-corporations-ukraine-oil-gas/
Led by the Biden administration
US corporations like,Chevron, ExxonMobil and Halliburton are going to run the Ukrainian oil and gas industry.
The IMF is imposing the Washington consensus.
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/04/28/us-corporations-ukraine-oil-gas/
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US corporations cash in on Ukraine’s oil and gas
As Ukraine sells off public assets in a privatization spree, US fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Halliburton are in talks to run its oil and gas industry, and the IMF is imposing the Washington Consensus.
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Ciò che accadrà questa settimana a Xi'an, l'antica capitale cinese da cui partiva la Via della Seta, fa parte di una contesa globale e senza esclusione di colpi per creare un nuovo assetto economico mondiale. Stiamo parlando del vertice di giovedì-venerdì, in cui Xi Jinping incontrerà i leader dei cinque "Stan" dell'Asia centrale, gli stessi che il 9 maggio, il Giorno della Vittoria, hanno fatto visita a Mosca e hanno discusso non solo di come resistere ai contraccolpi della nuova guerra fredda che sta dividendo il mondo in blocchi, ma anche di come trasformare i loro Paesi nel baricentro dell'integrazione eurasiatica. A differenza di quanto sostengono molti analisti occidentali, la Cina non è in competizione con la Russia in questo spazio post-sovietico, Cina e Russia stanno coordinando i loro sforzi per facilitare lo sviluppo di un'area strategica per gli scambi commerciali tra Europa e Asia. L'intero commercio estero della Cina nei primi quattro mesi dell'anno è cresciuto del 5,8% (per un ammontare, tra l'altro, di quasi duemila miliardi di dollari), ma con questi cinque Paesi dell'Asia centrale il commercio della Cina è cresciuto del 34,7%. Nello stesso periodo, il commercio tra Cina e Russia è aumentato del 41,3%. E se si guarda a quello della Russia con l'Uzbekistan nell'ultimo anno, le cifre sono molto simili. In nessun'altra parte del mondo si assiste ad un tale tasso di crescita. @LauraRuHK
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THE BELT & ROAD INITIATIVE IN CENTRAL ASIA - The main gateway through which China is advancing its economic cooperation with the economies of Eurasia, most notably with Central Asian economies, is through the BRI. One of the key areas of economic cooperation within the BRI framework is transportation connectivity and such a focus renders this platform particularly important for Central Asia.
This is because all Central Asian economies are land-locked and rely on economic integration and greater connectivity to surmount the limitations of distance and geographical separation from key regional and global logistical centers.
In fact, the scale of the limitations of geography for Central Asia is in some ways unprecedented and calls for particular emphasis in economic cooperation with the outside world to be placed on connectivity projects. https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-05-16/China-s-cooperation-with-Central-Asia-Targeting-connectivity-1jQyR8u4hrO/index.html
This is because all Central Asian economies are land-locked and rely on economic integration and greater connectivity to surmount the limitations of distance and geographical separation from key regional and global logistical centers.
In fact, the scale of the limitations of geography for Central Asia is in some ways unprecedented and calls for particular emphasis in economic cooperation with the outside world to be placed on connectivity projects. https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-05-16/China-s-cooperation-with-Central-Asia-Targeting-connectivity-1jQyR8u4hrO/index.html
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China's cooperation with Central Asia: Targeting connectivity
The China-Central Asia economic cooperation is "win-win" cooperation.
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No, it's not a TV game show, just the democracy show hosted by former NATO Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Copenhagen. @LauraRuHK
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Those who buy Raytheon stocks understand the performance of the Patriot missile system in Ukraine. @LauraRuHK
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Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi oversaw, via video-link, the signing of a deal to finance and build the Rasht-Astara railway, an important link in the North-South Transport Corridor. The 162 km railway along the Caspian Sea coast would help to connect Russian ports on the Baltic Sea with Iranian ports in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf. Two years ago, Russia, Iran and India signed an agreement in St. Petersburg laying out a vision for this crucial transport corridor that stretches from ports in India across the Arabian Sea to the southern Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, where goods then transit to the Caspian Sea. From there, the route stretches along the Volga River. @LauraRuHK
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Map of the Rasht-Astara railway in Iran to develop transportation along the North-South international transport corridor (INSTC)
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The Polish State Atomic Agency has denied reports of increased radiation levels in the Lublin region.
The agency also called reports of "increased radioactivity" in Khmelnitsky in Ukraine false, stressing that there was no radiation danger.
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The agency also called reports of "increased radioactivity" in Khmelnitsky in Ukraine false, stressing that there was no radiation danger.
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Sei missili Kinzhal NON sono stati abbattuti ma sei blogger ucraini che hanno pubblicato il filmato dell'arrivo di un vero "Kinzhal" sul sistema di difesa aerea Patriot, e quindi smascherato senza volerlo le menzogne delle Forze Armate ucraine, dovranno rispondere della perdita del costoso sistema missilistico e del danno all'immagine del Patriot. Tutti rischiano fino a 8 anni di carcere...perche' "l'Ucraina e' un paese democratico dove vige la liberta' di informazione". https://t.me/intelslava/47800
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🇺🇦 "Six downed daggers" turned out to be six Ukrainian bloggers who published footage of the arrival of a real "Dagger" on the battery of the Patriot air defense system and the operation of other Western-made air defense systems.
Now they will have to answer…
Now they will have to answer…
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Chiude centro LGBT a Pechino, apparentemente subiva da tempo le pressioni di una parte del vicinato che non ne gradiva la presenza. Immediatamente scatta la reazione coordinata dei media occidentali che parlano di stretta repressiva del governo cinese e fanno il confronto con Taiwan dove e' appena stata approvata una legge che permette a persone LGBT di adottare bambini. Tre anni fa in un articolo sul tentativo di rivoluzione colorata a Hong Kong ponevo l'attenzione sul sostegno strumentale da parte di paesi occidentali a varie minoranze etniche, politiche o sessuali, per creare fratture nella societa' e rendere la citta' ingovernabile. Ad esempio, attraverso la promozione del matrimonio tra persone dello stesso sesso le ONG per i diritti umani cercavano di mettere il governo in una situazione di "doppio legame": se non avesse soddisfatto le loro richieste di approvazione della legge sui matrimoni tra omosessuali, sarebbe stato considerato intollerante, oppressivo e arretrato, mentre se lo avesse fatto, la maggioranza della popolazione cinese, che ha opinioni conservatrici in merito, non si sarebbe sentita rappresentata dal governo. Ai miei occhi era chiaro che la questione LGBT venisse sfruttata per fini che trascendevano gli interessi delle persone coinvolte. E immagino che sia chiaro anche a quei governi che limitano la propaganda LGBT. In Cina, come anche in Russia, uno e' libero di avere relazioni con chi vuole, ma trasformare l'orientamento sessuale in una forma di separatismo identitario per frammentare la societa' non e' consentito. @LauraRuHK
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The French TV channel RTL openly mocks Zelensky and his trip to Europe.
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❗❗❗Sono 25 gli ex diplomatici italiani che hanno lanciato un appello per chiedere la liberazione di Julian Assange e contro l’estradizione negli USA. Il giornalista e editore di WikiLeaks è attualmente rinchiuso nel carcere di massima sicurezza inglese di Belrmash come se fosse un terrorista o un feroce criminale. La sua unica colpa, invece, è quella di aver rivelato all’opinione pubblica mondiale i crimini di guerra commessi da USA e Gran Bretagna in primis, nelle guerre in Iraq e Afghanistan. Se fosse estradato negli Stati Uniti, Assange rischierebbe una pena detentiva fino a 175 anni di carcere. Si potrebbe definire un ergastolo, ma nei fatti è un’esecuzione capitale date le condizioni psicofisiche del fondatore di WikiLeaks.
Segue il testo della lettera degli ex diplomatici ❗❗❗
https://www.lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-appello_di_25_ex_diplomatici_per_la_liberazione_di_assange/82_49678/
Segue il testo della lettera degli ex diplomatici ❗❗❗
https://www.lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-appello_di_25_ex_diplomatici_per_la_liberazione_di_assange/82_49678/
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Appello di 25 ex diplomatici per la liberazione di Assange
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🎱 The economic forces – those post war strong tailwinds – that have shaped the last 35 years, and which accelerated gilded journeys through the western ‘plentiful era’, are no longer blowing in a favourable direction. They were already slowing, but now are reversing.
The winds now have shifted 180° in direction – they are gusting headwinds. This is a structural shift within a long cycle. There are no quick ‘silver bullet’ solutions. The ‘Cabaret’ good-time years are gone. We will have to ‘make do’ with less; and consequent political volatility is inevitable.
China had earlier industrialized, giving us inflation-killing, cheap manufactures; Russia gave us the cheap energy that kept western economies (just) competitive, and (almost) inflation free. A ‘Frictionless Ease’ at that point characterised the movements of goods, capital, people – everything. Today however, it is Friction and Impediment that is prevalent.
The ‘turn’ began with the US determination to not allow an Asian ‘heartland’ to supplant it. But the shift has acquired its own powerful momentum, now generating severed trading blocs that are determined to shake free from ‘old hegemonies’.
There is no assurance at all that the tech prospect will materialise. It may, but it may not.And that is a huge gamble 🎲
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The winds now have shifted 180° in direction – they are gusting headwinds. This is a structural shift within a long cycle. There are no quick ‘silver bullet’ solutions. The ‘Cabaret’ good-time years are gone. We will have to ‘make do’ with less; and consequent political volatility is inevitable.
China had earlier industrialized, giving us inflation-killing, cheap manufactures; Russia gave us the cheap energy that kept western economies (just) competitive, and (almost) inflation free. A ‘Frictionless Ease’ at that point characterised the movements of goods, capital, people – everything. Today however, it is Friction and Impediment that is prevalent.
The ‘turn’ began with the US determination to not allow an Asian ‘heartland’ to supplant it. But the shift has acquired its own powerful momentum, now generating severed trading blocs that are determined to shake free from ‘old hegemonies’.
There is no assurance at all that the tech prospect will materialise. It may, but it may not.
💬 Alastair Crooke writes
#crisis #economy #NewWorldOrder
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Big Gambles Heading Into Gusting Headwinds
There is no assurance at all that the tech prospect will materialise. It may, but it may not. And that is a huge gamble. The economic forces – those post war strong tailwinds – that have shaped the last 35 years, and which accelerated gilded journeys through…
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Russophobia and Ukrainian bullying have obnubilated minds to the point that even Russian critics of the Kremlin are being denied a platform. Hard times ahead for those who made a career out of demonizing their own country. The West no longer needs them because it already has legions of Ukrainians and other certified Russophobes on its payroll to do just that. @LauraRuHK
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Canada is flirting with Nazism in more than one way. Besides supporting the Kiev regime with a passion that borders on insanity, harshly repressing those who protested against the Covid "vaccine" mandate a year ago, it is also actively pushing a eugenics agenda: the old, the poor, the disabled, the homeless are increasingly portrayed as a burden and euthanasia is openly proposed as a solution. @LauraRuHK https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-maid-assisted-suicide-homeless
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One third of Canadians fine with prescribing assisted suicide for homelessness
One third of Canadians are apparently fine with prescribing assisting suicide for no other reason than the fact that the patient is poor or homeless.
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Smartphones with Qualcomm chips were found to send private user information, including IP address, unique ID, mobile country code, back to the U.S. chipmaker, according to a report by the German security company Nitrokey.
Such personal information was sent "without user consent, unencrypted, and even when using a Google-free Android distribution," said the report.
Nitrokey tested with a Sony Xperia XA2 smartphone which was equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 chip and installed /e/OS, an open-source version of Android free of Google services.
No SIM-card was inserted in the phone, nor was the GPS location service turned on.
The company monitored the data with Wireshark, a network traffic software, and found that the data will be transmitted to izatcloud.net server, which attributes to Qualcomm. (Source:CGTN) @LauraRuHK
Such personal information was sent "without user consent, unencrypted, and even when using a Google-free Android distribution," said the report.
Nitrokey tested with a Sony Xperia XA2 smartphone which was equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 chip and installed /e/OS, an open-source version of Android free of Google services.
No SIM-card was inserted in the phone, nor was the GPS location service turned on.
The company monitored the data with Wireshark, a network traffic software, and found that the data will be transmitted to izatcloud.net server, which attributes to Qualcomm. (Source:CGTN) @LauraRuHK
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The planned Quad summit in Sydney, scheduled for May 24, has been canceled as Biden is busy putting out the financial fire of a possible debt default at home and the US is racked by increasingly severe domestic upheaval. The cancellation of the Sydney summit is a bad omen for Quad (Australia, USA, India and Japan) an alliance that was created to contain China's global rise.
Lü Xiang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said: "When calling off its participation in Quad Sydney summit, the US is just like someone who used to be loaded, going on a shopping spree, cramming the shopping cart, but suddenly realizes, on the way to the checkout counter, his credit card may be declined. In other words, the US is failing to financially afford its global strategic objectives, which not only require huge amount of money, but is also confrontation-centered and against the trend of the times."
Lü added that there is also growing discussion in Australia about whether the country is bearing the cost of an expensive mistake over the AUKUS submarine deal, and if Australia will benefit or just be exploited by the US.
When more and more such discussions, speculations, and doubts emerge, the dynamic of Quad will only decline. The cancellation of the Sydney summit is a fatal blow to Quad and foreshadows the fate of other US-led anti-China cliques. @LauraRuHK
Lü Xiang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said: "When calling off its participation in Quad Sydney summit, the US is just like someone who used to be loaded, going on a shopping spree, cramming the shopping cart, but suddenly realizes, on the way to the checkout counter, his credit card may be declined. In other words, the US is failing to financially afford its global strategic objectives, which not only require huge amount of money, but is also confrontation-centered and against the trend of the times."
Lü added that there is also growing discussion in Australia about whether the country is bearing the cost of an expensive mistake over the AUKUS submarine deal, and if Australia will benefit or just be exploited by the US.
When more and more such discussions, speculations, and doubts emerge, the dynamic of Quad will only decline. The cancellation of the Sydney summit is a fatal blow to Quad and foreshadows the fate of other US-led anti-China cliques. @LauraRuHK
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Il previsto vertice del Quad a Sydney, che avrebbe dovuto tenersi il 24 maggio, è stato cancellato perché Biden deve occuparsi di un possibile default del debito nazionale e gli Stati Uniti stanno affrontando problemi interni sempre più gravi. La cancellazione del vertice di Sydney è un cattivo presagio per il Quad (Australia, Stati Uniti, India e Giappone), un'alleanza creata per contenere l'ascesa globale della Cina.
Lü Xiang, ricercatore presso l'Accademia cinese delle scienze sociali, ha dichiarato: "Annullando la propria partecipazione al vertice Quad di Sydney, gli Stati Uniti sono come chi un tempo era pieno di soldi, va a fare la spesa, riempie il carrello, ma all'improvviso si accorge, mentre si dirige verso la cassa, che la sua carta di credito potrebbe essere rifiutata. In altre parole, gli USA non hanno abbastanza risorse finanziarie per sostenere le loro ambizioni strategiche, che non solo richiedono un'enorme quantità di denaro, ma sono anche incentrate sul confronto invece che sulla collaborazione, vale a dire sono l'esatto opposto della strategia cinese."
Lü ha aggiunto che in Australia si sta discutendo se il Paese non abbia fatto un costoso errore firmando un accordo con AUKUS sul sottomarino a propulsione nucleare e se l'Australia ne trarrà vantaggio o se sarà solo sfruttata dagli Stati Uniti.
Quando emergono discussioni e dubbi di questo tipo, significa che la strada del Quad non potrà che essere in salita. La cancellazione del vertice di Sydney è un colpo mortale per il Quad e prefigura il destino di altre cricche anti-Cina guidate dagli Stati Uniti. @LauraRuHK
Lü Xiang, ricercatore presso l'Accademia cinese delle scienze sociali, ha dichiarato: "Annullando la propria partecipazione al vertice Quad di Sydney, gli Stati Uniti sono come chi un tempo era pieno di soldi, va a fare la spesa, riempie il carrello, ma all'improvviso si accorge, mentre si dirige verso la cassa, che la sua carta di credito potrebbe essere rifiutata. In altre parole, gli USA non hanno abbastanza risorse finanziarie per sostenere le loro ambizioni strategiche, che non solo richiedono un'enorme quantità di denaro, ma sono anche incentrate sul confronto invece che sulla collaborazione, vale a dire sono l'esatto opposto della strategia cinese."
Lü ha aggiunto che in Australia si sta discutendo se il Paese non abbia fatto un costoso errore firmando un accordo con AUKUS sul sottomarino a propulsione nucleare e se l'Australia ne trarrà vantaggio o se sarà solo sfruttata dagli Stati Uniti.
Quando emergono discussioni e dubbi di questo tipo, significa che la strada del Quad non potrà che essere in salita. La cancellazione del vertice di Sydney è un colpo mortale per il Quad e prefigura il destino di altre cricche anti-Cina guidate dagli Stati Uniti. @LauraRuHK
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The China-Central Asia Summit is under way in Xi'an. Li Yongquan, director of the Eurasian Social Development Research at the Development Research Center of the State Council: "for 30 years, Central Asia has been situated in a complicated geopolitical situation. One of the reasons why regional countries can thrive is because China and Russia have cooperated on maintaining safety and stability in the region. China and Russia have a shared interest on this issue." Read more here https://t.me/LauraRuHK/4948
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Germany says not capable of being part of coalition to provide Ukraine with warplanes
🔹Germany has insisted that it lacks military capabilities to contribute to a British-backed initiative to supply Ukraine with warplanes in efforts to satisfy Kiev's desperate pleas to access air power in its war against Russia.
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🔹Germany has insisted that it lacks military capabilities to contribute to a British-backed initiative to supply Ukraine with warplanes in efforts to satisfy Kiev's desperate pleas to access air power in its war against Russia.
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