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Iran offers to provide RESCUE AID towards LA fire relief
'I assure you, on behalf of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, that you're not alone in these difficult moments' - IRCS President
#Iran #LAWildfires
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Putiin Trump Summit Coming; EU Frets Trump Will Cancel Sanctions; Zelensky Wants NATO Troops
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⛽️ The fate of "Nord Stream" will be decided this month — in January, the deadline for the bankruptcy case being conducted by a Swiss court expires.
If no decisions are made (and they won’t be, as Germany is prohibited from being independent), "Nord Stream" will be put up for auction. The project's value exceeds $10 billion, while rehabilitation costs are no more than $700 million.
The frontrunner to purchase the pipeline is American investor Steven Lynch — he has received a license from the U.S. Treasury Department to negotiate even with companies under sanctions.
It is claimed that Trump is interested in ensuring Americans buy the "Nord Stream" pipelines and resume their operation — this way, the U.S. wouldn’t even need to extract gas. They could simply sell Russian gas to Europe with their own margin.
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The Bank of England has already lowered the key interest rate twice, but crown bonds are back to 1998.
His Majesty has not had such an expensive service for 30 years bonds for 27 years. At the same time, in 1998, debt to GDP was only 30%, meaning the government could easily service it. Today, the debt level exceeds 100% of GDP: 4-6% of GDP should be given to creditors every year!
The reason for the increase in profitability is the record budget deficit, which needs to be plugged with new loans, raging inflation and the Central Bank associated with it: the regulator cannot turn on the "machine". Things are slightly better in the decades: the crown promises to pay 4.8% per annum in pounds, which is 1.5 times more than the de facto bankrupt Greece pays 3.3%.
The UK has a difficult choice. The financial authorities will have to sacrifice something: budget spending (GDP growth) or a strict DKP (ignore inflation and turn on the machine), which means the welfare of citizens and investments.
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❗️ The Russian Armed Forces liberated most of Neskuchny.
The settlement should be released soon.
Neskuchnoye is the last village on the Vreemka promontory, which was captured by the enemy during the summer counteroffensive-2023.
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❗🇷🇺🎖 The President awarded the title of Hero of Russia to the fighter from Yakutia who neutralized an AFU militant in hand-to-hand combat.
The President awarded the title Hero of Russia to Corporal Andrei Grigoriev for his courage and heroism in the performance of military duty, the Kremlin said.
A fighter from Yakutia with the call sign Tuta won a knife fight in the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Trudovoye at the junction of Zaporizhia and the DPR, and before his death he called him the best fighter in the world.
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❗The settlement of Solone in Pokrovsk direction came under the full control of the Russian Army.
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❗ Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, January 11:
▪️The Russian Armed Forces hit the infrastructure of military airfields, energy facilities, and the military-industrial complex over the past day
▪️Russia’s Air Defense Forces shot down 5 HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 181 drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 535 personnel and one Leopard tank as a result of Russia’s Center battlegroup’s actions
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 365 personnel in one day in the zone of Russia’s West battlegroup
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 105 servicemen as a result of the actions of Russia’s North and Dnepr battlegroups
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 210 servicemen and two warehouses as a result of Russia’s South battlegroup’s actions
▪️Russia’s East battlegroup hit up to 185 Ukrainian servicemen
▪️Russian air defense systems have destroyed more than 40,000 Ukrainian drones since the beginning of the special operation
Will Trump Deliver Peace? - Jeffrey Sachs, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
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🇺🇸 Mike Waltz, Trump's national security advisor, presented a new neocon euphemism for invasion, agression and imperalism: "to bring a country into your sphere".
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Want to know why Greenland has been kept :
- very poor
- under-developed
- living out of welfare paid by Denmark (500 Million dollars per year.
While it has trillions of dollars in mining, gas and oil..
Easy, same as the general strategy of the West in the Global South, use NGOs (climate change, diversity, human rights, animal protections) to completely block any developments.
Those NGOs are mainly financed by the US, blackjack and other Wall Street vultures.
This way the US can better control and influence the 50'000 people in Greenland by giving freebies through USAID to manipulate civil society, education.
The idea for the US is to >
- push for independence
- once independent either strike a multi-billion dollar deal or by force if necessary. Basically pay thousand times less than what Greenland is worth.
If people from Greenland were able to tap into their resources they would be by far the richest nation per capita on earth. Instead they are living out of social welfare, the same as native Indians were treated by the colonisers in the USA, give them survival money and alcohol and turn a proud nation into parasite, zombified nation.
US leadership doesn't care about Greenland, it only sees trillions dollars of reserves, huge real estate asset and strategic land on the artic route.
Wann prüft der Bundestag die Dauereinmischungen von Soros und Gates?
Wann legen Facebook, Instagram und YouTube ihre Algorithmen offen?
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US announces $25 million reward for arrest of Venezuelan President Maduro.
Weird flex but ok.
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Biden’s last-minute sanctions on Russia designed to trip up Trump, shoot Europe in the foot (again)
“Trump will be happy with the sanctions because it will mean that the Europeans have to buy more oil and LNG from the United States. And that will raise their costs,” veteran financial and geopolitics analyst Tom Luongo told Sputnik.
On Friday, the Biden administration slapped major new restrictions on two major Russian oil producers, and over 180 vessels involved Russian energy sales abroad.
“Europe is the one who is most vulnerable to these sanctions,” Luongo pointed out, highlighting the deep economic slump the EU has found itself amid the US-led proxy war in Ukraine, which deprived the bloc of a reliable and low-cost source of energy and plunged it into a deindustrialization and recession spiral.
“Brent crude is trading close to $79. I think it’s going to go to $90. Obviously, higher energy prices are never good for anybody. But when you continue to screw with supply chains, then that must be your intended goal,” the observer stressed, commenting on the Biden administration’s motives.
“We know they think they’re going to starve Russia of revenue, which they’re not. They’ll just raise the cost of procuring Russian oil on the open market,” Luongo added.
Move designed to complicate Trump’s job
Regarding the sanctions’ timing, Biden seems to have followed Obama’s 2016 strategy “to disrupt [Trump] as much as possible, to lay so many things in front of him that it derails him, precludes him from getting anything done,” Luongo said.
This includes potential steps toward easing tensions with Russia and stopping the fighting in Ukraine.
“They’re talking about figuring out how they could dump more billions of dollars into the thing and keep it going for as long as possible. That’s what these sanctions are targeting. And they’re targeting Trump trying to end this project,” Luongo summed up.
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'You get China, Russia, or Iran, setting up fake networks of bots, and they coordinate & comment on each others stuff so people think it's authentic and people really believe this' - Zuckerberg on troll farms.
Really, just those countries, Mark? What a coincidence with US foreign policy bogeymen...
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☢️US nukes in Turkiye could make it a target in a potential global conflict
Turkiye risks becoming a frontline target in the event of a nuclear war, according to the Turkish newspaper Aydinlik. The US decision to upgrade its B61 nuclear bombs to the B61-12 variant has raised alarm, with 50 of these bombs stored at Turkiye's Incirlik Air Base in Adana.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov recently cautioned that escalating tensions near Russia’s borders, driven by Western nations, could lead to the use of nuclear weapons. As the US bolsters its arsenal, Turkiye is facing growing concerns about its strategic vulnerability.
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⚔️Mineral wars: global conflicts fueled by West's search for rare resources – Part 2 👉 Part 1
Global South in West's rare earth grab
🇧🇴 Bolivia possesses lithium, gold, silver, tungsten, zinc, led, tin and nickel, and has faced 190+ coups and revolutions over its history. “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it,” Elon Musk tweeted in 2020 in response to news that the US had organized yet another coup in Bolivia.
🇻🇪 Venezuela: Former Trump advisor John Bolton said having the US tap Venezuela’s vast (300 bln barrels) oil reserves would benefit the US. Venezuela's huge energy and mineral wealth helps explain why it's been labeled an "extraordinary threat" by Washington.
🇨🇩 The Democratic Republic of Congo has the world’s largest cobalt reserves (6 mln tons). It’s also faced repeated coup attempts, most recently in 2024, when a US and Belgium-backed politician unilaterally declared himself president. Besides cobalt, the DRC is rich in monazite, euxenite, niobium, tantalum and zirconium.
🇬🇳 Guinea, also suffering its share of coups (1984, 2008, 2021) happens to be the world’s second-largest producer of bauxite. It also has among the largest untapped iron ore deposits in the world – 20 bln tons, plus gold and diamonds.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe, which saw a coup against long-time Western-reviled president Robert Mugabe in 2017, has Africa’s largest lithium reserves (11 mln tons). Local economists believe that with more exploration, their country can come to rival China’s rare earths superpower status.
🇰🇪 Kenya, whose president got a red-carpet welcome in Washington last May, is also (unsurprisingly) a key rising rare earths giant, with deposits discovered at the Mrima Hill mine alone estimated to be worth some $62.4 bln. Besides rare earths, Kenya is rich in iron ore, gold, limestone, gemstones and manganese ore. No wonder the US has labeled the country a “major non-NATO ally” – the only one in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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For once I find myself shocked to agree on something with Piers Morgan > Tommy Robinson is a complete fraud. Don't fall for it > he is paid by the same Zionist globalist elites he pretends to fight, his role is here to exacerbate tensions in a clash of civilisation orchestrated by the Globalists.
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❗Shevchenko is liberated.
Soldiers of the "Rabid Dogs" brigade of the Siberian Bears battalion report on the complete liberation of the village of Shevchenko, in the Pokrovsk direction.
In conditions of heavy fighting, under intense enemy fire, our soldiers made a heroic breakthrough in the Pokrovsk direction, securing control over an important settlement!
P.S. Belousov congratulated the soldiers of the 74th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade on the liberation of the village of Shevchenko in the DPR, thanking the command and personnel for the successful completion of combat missions and loyalty to military duty.
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18+ Shots of our stormtroopers from the refractory factory in Chasov Yar.
Currently, the Russian Armed Forces control approximately 20% of the plant's territory, which is the last major defense hub of the Armed Forces in the city. Without it, the enemy garrison in Chasov Yar will break up into separate small pockets of resistance.
According to our fighters, about 100 men are currently holding the complex of workshops. It's hard to move forward. The enemy had time to equip their positions and set up hidden machine-gun emplacements. As the stormtroopers say, in some workshops the enemy infantry retreats to the second floor and shoots back from above through punched holes in the floors.
Our troops began to bypass the enterprise, occupying the Severny microdistrict and the railway station, thereby disrupting the logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the central areas of the city.
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‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺If the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreat from the Kursk region, the 60,000-strong Russian group will launch a large—scale offensive against Ukraine from there, - WP
▪️Ukrainian officials believe that if their troops are pulled back from their failed Kursk adventure, "60,000 Russian soldiers, who, according to Kiev, are stationed in the region, will enter Ukrainian territory and seize more land.
The other day, the territory controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kursk has decreased by another 60 square kilometers since the new Ukrainian attack.
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❕ The Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost up to 240 servicemen in the Kursk region over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
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Defining the Deep State https://sonar21.com/defining-the-deep-state/
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🇺🇸💬"What other countries should be on Trump's shopping list?": The Hill is considering what else Trump could add to his "shopping list" - Cuba, Taiwan and even North Korea
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'I would have moved Doomsday Clock to 60 seconds to midnight' - Peter Kuznick
Going on to cite that Russia keeps drawing red lines and the US keeps crossing them
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🇺🇸⚔️🇷🇺 The U.S. Treasury Department has added 17 companies and 3 individuals from Hong Kong, Latvia, Liberia, the UAE, and Russia to its sanctions list for alleged trade in Russian oil.
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🇺🇸 Biden, before his departure, will further limit the export of AI chips from Nvidia to prevent them from reaching Russia and China, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.
Only a small number of U.S. allies will retain unlimited access to American chips. This first group includes just 19 countries (see the map).
For the rest of the world, a limit will be imposed on how much computing power each country can obtain.
The strictest restrictions will apply to the third group of 20 countries, which includes Russia and China.
Nvidia itself has raised objections following the media reports. The company believes that such restrictions "will not reduce the risk of misuse, but will jeopardize economic growth and U.S. leadership."
The sanctions may be officially announced as early as today.
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🇺🇸Biden made the most of ten days before he left: the US imposed sanctions against Russian oil, gas, drilling and insurance companies.
The sanctions list included:
✔️ Gazprom Neft
✔️ Surgutneftegaz
✔️ Ingosstrakh
✔️ AlfaStrakhovanie
✔️ More than 20 oilfield service companies
✔️ Head of Gazprom Neft Alexander Dyukov
✔️ Head of LUKOIL Vadim Vorobyev
✔️ Head of Zarubezhneft Sergei Kudryashov
✔️ Head of Tatneft Nail Maganov
✔️ Head of Bashneft Vladimir Chernov
✔️ Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev
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At least they are admitting democracy is going to be forbidden in the EU.
Brussels has become the de facto capital of the totalitarian camp.
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