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[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Covid-era policies of wealth transfer and mass surveillance and coercion using state institutions showed us what the ruling classes were preparing for us. And liberals, and in some cases even actual lefties, forbade talking about any of this because it's 'anti-science'. I was pretty vocal on the skeptical and critical side of things in Israel back then (Shoken, the owner of Haaretz, invited me to write an opinion piece explaining my social justice and common sense critique of Covid policies and approaches, but then refused to publish it), and it cost me much of the support I had gained being a prominent anti-Zionist and Jewish-Arab voice.

Covid was the era during which real estate and stock-owning people disconnected from the rest of Western population, and maintaining their balance sheets became the only real concern of Western governments.

In Covid I also realized that the Netflix class of people will never do anything for change, as their entire consciousness is made up of CIA propaganda. There is no independent self there. They are lost.

And, in general, if you consume mainstream entertainment regularly, you are politically and spiritually dead

(So has spoken the freedom ayatollah)

[El Mercurio Ahora o Nunca @elmercurioAON]

🇺🇸 El cofundador de Palantir, Joe Lonsdale, admite explícitamente que las grandes corporaciones utilizan las regulaciones gubernamentales para aplastar a competidores más pequeños y mantener sus monopolios 👇

[Raúl @RaulInfanteCHI]

Pablo Rodríguez Grez alertó en 1982, a través de su artículo «Destrucción de la clase media», sobre la toma de poder dentro de la dictadura militar por parte de elites aristocráticas y religiosas aliadas a una nueva derecha tecnocrática y millonaria. Su objetivo, según el autor, era achicar el Estado para acaparar fortunas, lo que provocaría el colapso de la clase media y abriría la puerta a una futura explosión social.

[Evan @EvanWritesOnX]

The Western colonial empire is dying in the very cities where it was born. London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Sydney.

You can see it in rents, in food prices, in the price of a doctor's visit, in the closed factory at the end of every regional town.

The headlines call it recession.

But its actually the empire eating itself, because the outside has stopped feeding it.

For 300 years the deal was to extract from the Global South, subsidize the Global North. Cheap cotton, cheap rubber, cheap oil, cheap tin, cheap cobalt, cheap labor, cheap everything. The Western worker was poor by global standards but rich by global standards at the same time, because the rest of the world was bleeding out so they didn't have to.

That deal is over.

Because the people doing the bleeding stopped agreeing.

The Gulf states have quietly dropped petrodollar exclusivity. China and Russia settle in yuan and ruble. India buys Russian oil in rupees. Brazil and Argentina trade in local currency. The African Sahel kicked French troops out of 4 countries in 24 months. Niger nationalized its uranium. Burkina Faso is mining its own gold. Mali built a refinery for the first time in its national history.

None of this was supposed to happen.

It is happening anyway.

I think most Western analysts cannot see this because they were trained to look upward at presidents and downward at GDP, and the actual movement is sideways across capital flows.

Notice how the headline countries, the US, UK, France, keep losing wars they pretended to win.

Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Syria. Niger. Ukraine.

The military is still the loudest instrument in the toolkit. It is also the only one left that still works, not by serving its colonial states, but by fattening private sector profits.

When a hegemon's only working tool is the gun, and the gun keeps missing, that is what decline looks like in real time.

Now, the toolkit the West built to control the colonies is being repointed at its own population.

Debt traps. Criminalization. Prison labor. Surveillance. Mass eviction. Drug-economy management.

Engineered scarcity.

Permanent renter classes.

Two-tier policing.

The same playbook that flattened Congo, Indonesia, Honduras and the Philippines is now being applied to Detroit, Marseille, Manchester, Newcastle. The boot is the same boot.

This is the part that should make a working-class American or a British retiree or a single mother extremely angry, and unfortunately not at the people they're being told to be angry at.

Migrants did not cause this.

Welfare recipients did not cause this.

China did not cause this.

The class that owns the boot caused this, and it owns the boot in every country including yours.

Some of you might call this overblown.

You might say the West is still rich, still strong, still the world's reserve currency, still where the world's billionaires want to live.

All true. For now.

Empires take a long time to fall, and the rich exit the building decades before the lights go out.

They have already exited.

Watch where the wealth is parked. Not in the country it was extracted from. The capital has gone where the growth is, which is not London and not New York.

It is Riyadh, Dubai, Mumbai, Jakarta, Shenzhen, Sao Paulo. The owner class moved their money. Then they will move their passports. The flag will be the last thing they put down.

For the everyday person in the West, the next 20 years is going to be a managed contraction.

Real wages flat or falling. Public services rationed. Pensions clipped. Insurance unaffordable. Housing impossible.

They will tell you it is the migrants, then China, then the climate, then a new virus, then the algorithm.

It will be none of those.

For the everyday person in the Global South, the next 20 years is messier but freer. New patrons, new dependencies, but also new bargaining power. The petrodollar is no longer the only door. BRICS is no longer aspirational. The IMF is no longer the only lender. Africa is no longer waiting for permission. Latin America is choosing its own debtors.

I do not think this is a happy story for everyone.

Multipolarity is not peace. It is a different kind of pressure, distributed differently, with the violence rotating to new edges.

But the colonial age that started in 1492 is closing. Not gracefully. Not neatly. Not with a flag-lowering ceremony.

But forcefully.

Because capital dictates.

And it is dictating that the Western colonial empire is over.

[Fotos de la Unidad Popular Chile @AUnidadPopular]

Palabras de Hernán Larraín Acuña, destacado sacerdote jesuita y académico, fines de septiembre de 1970. Larraín Acuña fue Rector de la U. Católica de Valparaíso y Director de Revista Mensaje.
Extracto de "4 de Sept. 1970", dirigido por Fernando Balmaceda.
#Chile #UnidadPopular

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

Palantir is murdering children with AI targeting. They’re dropped hard $207 to $128. They are still a $300 billion market cap company with a totally overvalued 202 P/E ratio. In my opinion they are worthless. I would never have this stock in my portfolio. I shorted it.

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Este gabinete de escritura perteneció al rey Federico Guillermo II de Prusia durante 1744-1797!!

Arte Puro.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The ceiling of Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Persia(1611), featuring a mesmerising array of geometrical tessellations and radial designs.

The patterns are meticulously planned, with each tile cut to fit into the celestial design.

[Lorenzo Ramírez @lorenzoramirez]

Hay que ver la gran capacidad "predictiva" que tienen algunos para anticipar lo que va a ocurrir: juego de guerra (simulación) de la Fundación Heritage que consiste en un escenario en el que Irán cierra el estrecho de Ormuz para volver a una apertura gradual con instauración de un nuevo ecosistema financiero y tecnocrático, a traves de la tokenizacion de los activos naturales y del racionamiento energético de los ciudadanos, desviando el suministro hacia los grandes centros de IA con un nuevo sistema de unidades de energía tal como lo soñaron los tecnócratas de los años treinta del pasado siglo. Gracias a Don Mauricio Castillo (fiel oyente de La Voz) por ponerme sobre la pista: https://t.co/V6Atefrxng

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

Trump lied to Pakistan and Iran. The US now claims the ceasefire was a ‘misunderstanding’. How do you have a misunderstanding with so many parties involved? Netanyahu’s prophecy game is over. Israel is the most hated in the world (part 1) but there will be no Messiah (part 2).

Pakistan, North Korea and China said they are going to nuke Israel. The Jews will find out in a mushroom cloud that there is no Messiah and Trump is stupid enough to believe the Jews. What a tool. To buy into a death cult. A religious prophecy from 3000 years ago.

It’s not going to happen. Make peace while you still can.

[pedro musalem @PedroMusalem]

@elmercurioAON Sería interesante una prospectiva para LATAM 98% de la energía en Chile la compramos de Argentina y de Brasil

[El Mercurio Ahora o Nunca @elmercurioAON]

🇬🇧 Analistas británicos empiezan a escribir:
Las guerra contra Irán matará el Petrodólar: El Petroyuan ya es inevitable 👇

El cierre efectivo del estrecho de Ormuz por la guerra en Oriente Medio está rompiendo las bases del petrodólar que sostuvieron la hegemonía del dólar durante medio siglo.

Desde el pacto de 1974 entre EEUU y Arabia Saudita, petróleo en dólares a cambio de seguridad y reciclaje de superávits en Treasuries, el mundo acumuló dólares para comprar energía.

Hoy ese esquema se desmorona: la mayoría del crudo del Golfo se vende a Asia, Arabia exporta cuatro veces más a China que a EEUU, Rusia e Irán (14% de la producción mundial) ya operan completamente fuera del dólar, y los sauditas experimentan con mBridge y monedas digitales.

Lo definitivo: tanqueros están garantizando paso seguro por Ormuz solo si los pagos se hacen en yuan.

Deutsche Bank lo llama “la tormenta perfecta” y advierte que este conflicto será recordado como el catalizador que enterró el petrodólar y dio vida al petroyuan.

El impacto es estratégico y definitivo: sin la obligación de ahorrar en dólares para pagar energía, los bancos centrales reducen sus reservas de la moneda estadounidense y Washington pierde su privilegio exorbitante de endeudarse barato.

A esto se suma la transición energética global hacia renovables y autosuficiencia, que elimina aún más la necesidad de atesorar dólares.

Deutsche Bank lo resume sin rodeos: un mundo independiente en defensa y energía guardará menos reservas en dólares.

Lo que empezó como disrupción temporal por la guerra se está convirtiendo en cambio estructural irreversible.

El petrodólar no muere por sanciones ni por diplomacia, muere porque la guerra que Washington no controla está obligando al mundo a pagar el petróleo en otra moneda. El fin ya está en marcha.

[Vive con Propósito. @PropositoyVida]

Haz esto 60 veces antes de acostarte… tu cuerpo te lo agradecerá.

[NewRulesGeopolitics @NewRulesGeo]

🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷 TRUMP IN PANIC: CHINA CAN SHUT DOWN U.S. STRIKES ON IRAN ANYTIME

Trump’s Iran campaign is already sputtering because Washington’s entire arsenal runs on Chinese minerals, SCMP sources warn, giving Beijing direct leverage to decide how long the bombing can actually last before Trump meets Xi.

🔸 Pentagon reserves are down to just two months of rare earths while the first 48 hours of strikes already burned through 5.6 billion dollars in advanced munitions according to Washington Post reporting

🔸 Heavy rare earths like dysprosium and terbium, supplied 100 percent by China, are irreplaceable in US high-performance magnets, radar arrays, missile guidance systems and propulsion components

🔸 Destroyed radars expose the real fragility, the AN/FPS-132 in Qatar will take Raytheon 5 to 8 years and 1.1 billion dollars to rebuild while the AN/TPS-59 in Bahrain needs Lockheed 12 to 24 months and up to 75 million dollars

🔸 Both systems alone require 77 kilograms of gallium where China controls 98 percent of global supply plus another 30,610 kilograms of copper amid exploding tech-sector demand

🔸 US now readies the largest-ever 14 billion dollar arms package to Taiwan with PAC-3 and NASAMS missiles, almost guaranteed to be announced right after Trump’s March 31 Beijing summit, handing Xi perfect motivation to squeeze the rare-earth tap

Can the US survive a war without Chinese rare earth metals?

[pedro musalem @PedroMusalem]

@elmercurioAON https://t.co/ArNpAJGXhO

[SIMPLICIUS Ѱ @simpatico771]

Translation: "Sink a carrier and we nuke"

[pedro musalem @PedroMusalem]

@elmercurioAON https://t.co/YysicZZ8iM

[pedro musalem @PedroMusalem]

@elmercurioAON https://t.co/Ks9AFGr3CW

[Pepe Escobar @RealPepeEscobar]

Poetic justice.

The man - actually a techno-gangster - who sees everything has seen the whole edifice crumbling.

https://t.co/bpLvj7ZGsG

[pedro musalem @PedroMusalem]

@elmercurioAON https://t.co/fZqDGkKd4N

[Pepe Escobar @RealPepeEscobar]

THE CHINA-IRAN OIL EQUATION

US MSM spin that China is pressuring Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz open is total bullshit.

Hormuz is closed. But NOT for Russian and Chinese vessels.

Only Western tankers have to fight a floating traffic jam off Fujairah and Khor Fakkan.

Permission for them to travel is NOT coming.

Iran has de facto privatized Hormuz. A clever move.

That spells out Hell hitting the Western insurance industry - concentrated in London.

Not Russia-China.

Moreover, China is NOT dependent on Iranian or even Gulf oil.

Because China is 84.6% energy self-sufficient.

Iran accounts for only 17% of China's oil imports.

That’s less than Saudi Arabia.

Oil represents 59% of China's overall energy imports.

What matters is that in the end, China depends on Iran for only 1.5% of the energy it imports.

[pedro musalem @PedroMusalem]

@elmercurioAON https://t.co/HtSkCd4J61

[SourcedPress @SourcedPress]

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