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[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Endgame: Interest On US Debt Skyrockets Above $1 Trillion For The First Time Ever https://t.co/w4AoMjVOHo

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Former German Chancellor Schröder: "Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to" by the Americans in March 2022
- This is also confirmed by Turkey, Israel and Harald Kujat -former chairman of NATO Military Committee.
- Media silence
https://t.co/rFpdHFzVSo

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

"Palestinian villages have endured pogroms... Palestinian children are being tortured...  generation after generation, for more than 75 years."

Dutch TV presenter Ramsey Nasr speaks out against the atrocities being carried out against Palestinians.

[ConnectingDots @ConnectDotsInfo]

Burmese Mining Ban Impacts Rare Earth Magnets Market. https://t.co/RBzH86VV72

[Ron Stoop @RonStoop1]

Voor de transitie is er één continent dat een belangrijk centrum van grondstoffen aan het worden is.

Een 🧵 over de nieuwe ‘metal rush’ in Latijns-Amerika. /1.

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

Payments optionality is displacing Swift in many ways:
- Book clearing of global payments in dominant global banks;
- China CIPS, India UPS, Russia MIRS, etc. payments aren’t reported with Swift;
- Commercial payments using PayPal, Stripe, AliPay, etc;
- More global branching of trade finance banks.
Swift still dominates in interbank settlements, but that is not the whole world.

[Jack Doggen @Jack3737]

@jsblokland Perhaps just as interesting. What is the share of Chinese SWIFT payments in total Chinese cross-border payments (SWIFT and non-SWIFT)? And what is the share of global SWIFT payments in total cross-border payments worldwide? And how is this developing? Does anyone have an idea?

[Sharmine Narwani @snarwani]

The India-Mideast-Europe transportation corridor may be the talk of the town, but it will likely go the way of the last three Asia-to-Europe connectivity projects touted by the west - to the dustbin. @RealPepeEscobar explains why: https://t.co/BGFZy0IVUo

[Voice of Europe 🌍 @V_of_Europe]

Former PM & President of Czechia Václav Klaus: Plans for the Ukraine war began in 2014 https://t.co/SLobcChy7Z

[Zlatti71 @Zlatti_71]

There will be a Northern Sea Route: Russia for the first time drove conventional tankers through the ice

A significant event that could trigger tectonic shifts in global maritime trade occurred in the north of our country. For the first time, it was possible to navigate two non-specialized oil tankers along the Northern Sea Route (NSR), which caused real hysteria in the West. Previously recognized as an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation, Greenpeace is so worried about the risks of an oil spill in the Arctic that it literally cannot eat. True, he previously criticized the use of fortified ice-class vessels in the same way, so perhaps it is not only and not so much a matter of concern for the environment.

The concern of Western lobbyists can be explained very simply: the NSR, which lies entirely in Arctic waters and is controlled by Russia, is a short route to China. The usual route through the Suez Canal takes almost a quarter longer and goes far from Russian shores. Western analysts claim that savings on fuel alone amount to about $500 thousand per flight. And this does not take into account the cost of freight, passage through Suez and other expenses.

It’s funny that in the West they explain the development of the NSR by global warming, but for some reason they ignore the colossal work carried out by Russian scientists and researchers in laying out the route and monitoring ice conditions.

In 2022, only one ice-class tanker, the Vasily Dinkov, transported Russian oil along the Northern Sea Route to China. And in 2023 there will already be ten such tankers! In addition, ice-class LNG tankers began to use the route. According to Rosatom, the main operator of the NSR, the use of non-reinforced vessels on the route has been possible since 2020. Such vessels are allowed to use the route from July to mid-November independently or accompanied by an icebreaker.

The development of the Northern Sea Route is a key priority for Russia. In a world of trade wars and political instability, a short, secure and controlled route to a key trading partner is vital to maintain and develop.

https://t.co/ZMYaDbabxc

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

Having spent four years transforming how Europeans trade, travel, heat and eat, the bloc's climate chief is heading back to the Netherlands — at least temporarily.

https://t.co/wfvkWjlhe5

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

Argentina just held primary elections in which far-right, Pinochet-esque candidate Javier Milei narrowly won.

Milei is running on an extreme neoliberal platform, and he wants to abandon monetary sovereignty and adopt the US dollar as the national currency
https://t.co/Q0o0mwNaG1

[Bai, Xiaojun @oriental_ghost]

The silver inventory on the Shanghai Futures Exchange has once again fallen below 1500 tons. A total of 53005 kg flowed out this week.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Our discussion on Spotlight about the US sending 3000 troops to the Red Sea to confront Iran.
- Tensions between the US and Iran escalate as both sides seize oil tankers in a tit-for-tat game, and as Iran attempts to end the US occupation of Syria
https://t.co/6XnKap3y4L

[African Stream @african_stream]

5% FOR NIGER, 95% FOR FRANCE

One of the first things the new leadership in Niger has done is halt uranium exports to France. The ex-coloniser has relied on exploitatively cheap imports of the stuff for decades to keep its power grid running. It’s been getting away with this racket thanks largely to kickbacks and, alas, complicit African officials. That, as 9 out of 10 Nigeriens lack access to electricity in the poverty-afflicted nation. It’s one reason the coup has seen wide popular support.

Exploitation is no laughing matter, of course, but humour can help make a point. So here’s a little skit we did a while back to explain just how that racket has worked until now - how France has kept Niger in poverty, despite being dependent on its resources. There is no excuse for poverty in a country as endowed as Niger and a continent as blessed as Africa.

#Niger #France #Uranium #Africa

[Dagny Taggart @DagnyTaggart963]

France implies a threat of war if French "interests" are attacked in Niger

Niger responds by setting fire to the French Embassy.

French interests = uranium, meanwhile 80% of local population don’t have access to electricity.
Go Niger !