08-05-23
Today's commentary on various articles and events
Orientation for new readers regarding the underlying research and data for this blog
Map of African countries that have signed military agreements with RussiaRussia – Africa 2023 Summit- Progress & Joint Declaration
This is a stunning report from an independent research and investment firm. Here are a few highlights:
Geopolitics
Russia and the African countries concerned agreed “to contribute to the establishment of a more just, balanced and stable multipolar world order, firmly opposing all types of international confrontation in the African continent.”
That is a direct opposition to the Western model of a unipolar global regime led by the United States. This also further accelerates the African part of the Global South as moving away from the European Union in particular, where old colonial attitudes remain and are generally resented within Africa. This has specific repercussions for African relations with France, Spain, and the United Kingdom, in addition to Brussels.
Food Security
Russia plans to increase exports of food and fertilizers, vehicles, and industrial machinery to Africa. These commercial transactions will be increasingly settled in national currencies, including the Ruble, as opposed to the US Dollar and Euro. Moscow intends to send both commercial and humanitarian shipments of grain to “African friends”, according to the Russian president. This includes free deliveries and shipping of Russian grain to six African nations as soon as possible, and the delivery of free fertilizers and shipping to a further six. Russia is set for a record grain harvest this year, with President Putin stating that Russia will provide sustainable and affordable deliveries to Africa.
Compare this to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s confabulations:
World must tell Russia to stop ‘blackmail’ involving Ukrainian grain, Blinken tells UN
Basically, the US and its puppet state, Ukraine, were using the shipping agreement to mask military operations, while only a small portion of the grain that Ukraine shipped was going to the poorest countries, which was the point of the agreement. Instead, Russia is shipping free grain to these countries.
Continuing with the Russia – Africa 2023 Summit report:
Debt Forgiveness
Russia has written off US$23 billion of African debt and is in discussions to allocate a further US$90 million for lowering the overall debt burden of African countries. According to Oleg Ozerov, Chair of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum Secretariat, African countries’ debt issues involve restructuring “some financial issues, but we are not talking about the direct debt. We are talking about certain financial agreements and the obligations of both sides.”There was criticism of the Western method of using debt from the Libyan Presidential Council Chairman Mohamed al-Menfi, who said that “The West seeks to maintain its “dominant position in Africa, prevents reforms and exerts pressure, using the financial debt, which destroys the economy and increases poverty.” Russia, and China under its BRI schemes, will be filling in the financing gaps left by the African countries now looking beyond the EU and US for financing.
Summary
Despite the West shrugging the Russia-Africa Summit off in public, dismissing it as a ‘failure’; the event actually provided a huge strengthening of relations which will in fact be of huge concern. In essence, it boils down to the basic issue that Africa has turned away from Europe as a seat of power and is increasingly aligning itself with Moscow, New Delhi, and Beijing. Of particular note is Russia’s and the African nations desire to provide a fairer voice for Africa in both global (the United Nations Security Council, dominated by the West), and regional memberships of the G20 and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. These are all significant steps that the West will find it increasingly difficult to ignore or rebuff, certainly at the United Nations level. It also means that Russia can count on African votes at UN debates or referendums. Any attempts to block African voices will be met with huge amounts of criticism. This is a huge step forward for a multilateral global society.
IMF-Argentina Debt Repayment Agreement is Good News- Massa
This is what happens when your government is owned and operated by banking cartel yes-men: Your people become debt-slaves and your resources belong to the financiers. Just a short time ago, Argentina thought it had gotten off the treadmill:
Argentina, during the period from 2001 to 2005,[1] serves as a perfect example of how “the full faith and credit of the people” is the actual value, or promise of value, that backs a currency, and not “fractional reserves” nor vast gold holdings belonging to a small group of persons,[2] who use the illusion of “sound money” to manipulate the system for their advantage.
[1] http://www.voltairenet.org/article167517.html
[2] http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Global-1--Exposing-th-by-Peter-Phillips-120819-734.html
Unfortunately, following that period, Argentina was sold down the river, as we see today.
Venezuela- 7,253 Illegal Miners Evicted in Amazonas State
All of the countries that contain portions of the Amazon rainforest need to band together to remove illegal logging, agriculture, grazing, and poaching. If the UN were not in the pocket of the financiers, then it could serve to coordinate this effort.
Meanwhile, there is a bill in Congress (S.995 - Venezuelan Democracy Act) to sanction Venezuela until its government is overthrown. Apparently, stealing Venezuelan gold and CITGO isn’t enough—it must become a vassal of the amoral sociopaths who claim their fascist corporate state is a “democracy.”
Saudi Arabia Slams Israeli Incursion Into Al-Aqsa Mosque
The mosque was built on the Temple mount; that is, the site of the first and second Temples. It was put there by the conquerors at the time, not as a holy site, although that is the myth that “sanctifies” it, but as a sign of dominance. Now, the site is controlled by the Jews, to whom it is an affront, given the history of abuse from Islam.
If the Jews were to remove it (and/or ship it to Mecca), then the process by which the mosque got there would be reversed; that is, if it was okay to put it there as a sign of power, then it’s okay for it to be replaced as a sign of power. That’s how wars go—and this is a long-standing religious war.
Islam sees itself as the natural successor to Judaism and Christianity, the latter from which it adopted by reference the lie that the Jews killed Jesus—a lie generated by the Roman empire to cover its own crimes. At the same time, the Roman empire wiped the name of Israel off the map. As a result, the Jews have been subject to expulsions/exiles/exodus, asset seizures, forced conversions, torture, murder, and the Holocaust over the centuries at the hand of “Christians” and “Muslims.” That is why 850,000 Jews left Islamic countries after Israel was restored.
Now that the shoe is on the other foot, listen to the objections behind the mask of “religious freedom.” Take off the mask and we see religious persecution.
Facebook censored COVID info for Biden admin
In response to Clegg’s email, a Facebook vice president of content policy said, “We were under pressure from the administration and others to do more. We shouldn’t have done it.” …
During Thursday’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “We have consistently made it clear that we believe social-media companies have a critical responsibility to take account of the effects of their platforms that they have on the American people, while making independent decisions about the content of their platforms.” …
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the chairman of the committee, stated, “These documents begin to reveal the pressure that Facebook and other social-media companies were under to alter their content-moderation policies and remove protected speech to appease the federal government, particularly the Biden White House.”
As usual, some entity down the chain of command from the financiers (who give the orders) will take the rap as directed from on high, much as when scores of fires are started overnight by directed energy weapons and a utility company is blamed and sued.
Of course, the Biden administration is unrepentant (see second quoted paragraph above), as these corporate-state lackeys are still pushing the fake flu pandemic to get folks injected with poisons, despite the overwhelming evidence of harm.
CDC likely to recommend annual COVID booster shot, director says
DOJ tries to jail key Hunter Biden witness Devon Archer on eve of congressional testimony
Hunter Biden fmr. partner testifies Joe Biden was on 20+ business calls
Hunter Biden partner Devon Archer says Joe Biden was on calls with foreign patrons for ‘the brand’
Devon Archer confirms Joe Biden 'lied' about knowledge of Hunter's business dealings, Comer says
Given the evidence, we have no need to dwell on Joe Biden’s violation of the Emoluments clause of the US Constitution, which forbids one from enriching oneself by leveraging the power of one’s federal office, but we must point out that Donald Trump did the same thing. It’s also worth noting that both Biden and Trump took classified documents into their private possession, a federal crime, for which only Trump is being prosecuted (by the Biden administration). The judge in Trump’s case:
Trump’s DC judge linked to Hunter Biden, Burisma
Behind this partisan charade, both the red and blue parties are controlled by the same small group of financiers and are part of a larger global corporate crime syndicate that hijacked the United States of America in 1871.
This is not a problem that is going to be solved through an electoral system that is controlled by the same group of traitors who, through their holding companies, also manufacture and program the voting machines, script the corporate media, and select the candidates.
That is not to say that elections are, per se, unworkable, but that they require paper ballots, independent observers throughout the entire process, political parties independent of cartel ownership, and publicly financed campaigns with no individual or corporate donations. Money is not free speech (“Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” —Bob Dylan), nor does it deserve the same consideration as a vote: “One person, one vote.”
Two Iranian journalists sentenced as media clampdown continues
Iran is a theocracy based on Islam which, among other things, is a misogynistic practice. In addition, Iran is the principle funder and armament supplier of Hamas, Hezb’Allah, and the Islamic Jihad, which control Gaza and the West Bank under the guise of “the Palestinian cause.” There is nothing progressive about any of this, including the historical lies by which they justify their objective of wiping out the Jews and Israel.
FCC Defies Court Mandate, Delays Review of Cellphone Radiation Guidelines
Just so we’re clear here, the FCC refuses to comply with a federal court order, confirming that the US Corporation is a rogue state.
The Fitch Downgrade of U.S. Debt- What You Need to Know
Despite the publication of some valuable information, this source does not factor into their analyses that the mega banks which own the Fed are controlled by a handful of financiers; instead, they call for regulation to fix the system, as if asking the criminals to punish themselves is a workable strategy.
Regardless, a lot has been made of the so-called “US debt” and its effect on the viability of “the government.” In the above article, the debt rating of the US Corporation is based on the ratio of debt to GDP.
A few years back, before the manufactured Fukushima incident, the US was warning Japan about its debt to GNP ratio, which was TWICE as high as the current US figure. However, most of Japan’s debt was owed to its publicly owned central bank (the Bank of Japan), meaning that the government of Japan owed the money to itself, thus the debt was illusory. This did not sit well with the western central bankers who use debt slavery as a means of control; thus, one half of Japan’s Postal Bank, the largest savings bank in the world (also publicly owned), was sold to “private parties” to pay for the so-called Fukushima cleanup (“Japan Post Sets IPO Plans for Next Year,” Wall Street Journal, Saturday/Sunday, December 27-28, 2014).
While the Ango-Euro-American banking cartel would hang itself rather than follow the Japanese model, it has done something similar. In February 2020, the banks that own the Fed (JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, etc.) stopped taking US Treasury bonds as collateral for the Federal Reserve Notes that it printed (digitally and/or on paper) for the US Corporation. Instead, the bonds were put into special purpose vehicles (SPVs) and held by the US Treasury Department.
In essence, the financiers turned the Fed into a “privately owned public bank,” as we described it then, meaning that, like Japan, the US debt to GNP ratio is meaningless, unless the financiers decide to take possession of the bonds. However, the problem with that strategy is that no one wants to buy the bonds, and collecting the interest from the US Corporation would just increase the speed of the bonds-for-FRNs cycle, an exercise in futility.
The UN Extends the Mandate of Its Mission in Colombia
The on-again, off-again truce between the Colombian government and the FARC revolutionaries, which has been marked with assassinations of FARC and other social leaders, brings into question the motives of the government and its big brother, the US intelligence services. One could easily assume that treaties signed by the government of Columbia are, like US treaties, nothing more than a means to get the opposition to come out of hiding to be executed. Just ask our Native Americans.
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