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Why Chinese students are abandoning architecture
Students have given up on building the physical world in the hope they’ll earn more in the virtual one
I recently convened an urban studies summer school in a top university in Shanghai and asked the assembled class of architectural master’s students: “Who wants to be an architect?” Not one hand was raised
As my Chinese students are discovering, there are too few jobs in the sector, the pay is low and the work is unappealing. Notwithstanding the Norman Fosters and Zaha Hadids of this world, the same is largely true in the West. But architecture retains its appeal in the West, in part because it is seen as a high-status profession, not a job
Now, in China’s tightening jobs market, thousands of arts graduates are competing for each role. Internships are often unpaid, while junior architects earn as little as $500 per month. The nine-nine-six working week of old (working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week) is back. Chinese architecture students seem desperate to avoid it
#China #Education #FindTruth
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Banks urged to defund farming industry to limit meat, dairy consumption
Major banks are being urged to stop financing the global farming industry as part of an effort to force limits on the general public's meat and dairy consumption
A collective of over 100 climate groups, led by Friends of the Earth, is pressuring JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and other private banks to stop financing global meat and dairy companies
According to a report from Agriculture Dive, the groups argue that the institutions' lending activities undermine their environmental commitments
#Banks #Economy #Farmers #FindTruth
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Final guidance released for cellphone-free education in Virginia
The department says the policy will “ensure” a “distraction-free environment” for learning while reducing the “alarming mental health crisis” and other health conditions impacting students
The Virginia Department of Education released the final guidance for K-12 public schools' cellphone-free education policy following an executive order issued by Gov. Glenn Youngkin
The department says the policy will “ensure” a “distraction-free environment” for learning while reducing the “alarming mental health crisis” and other health conditions impacting students
The final guidance underscores that cellphone-free education is defined by “bell-to-bell,” meaning students’ cellphones should be turned off and stored at the beginning of the “first bell at the start of the school day to begin instructional time until the dismissal bell rings at the end of the academic school day,” to include lunch and passing periods
In response to a call for public comment, the department received nearly 6,000 through public engagements, 21 stakeholder convenings and “public Commonwealth Conversations” with over 1,100 Virginians
#USA #Education #FindTruth
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Russia’s RT banned from Facebook under orders from Biden-Harris admin
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta reportedly banned RT from its social media platforms under orders from the Biden-Harris administration
The move comes in response to a Biden-Harris admin directive urging entities and nations abroad to ban all activities by Russian state broadcaster RT and other Moscow-funded networks
In the company’s announcement, Meta said it agrees with the Biden-Harris admin’s allegation of deceptive influence operations
“After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets
“Rossiya Segodnya, RT, and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,” a Meta spokesman said
At this point, no RT page or channel will be present on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads
RT’s Facebook page with 7.2 million followers has disappeared as has its Instagram page with one million followers
#Meta #Censorship #FindTruth
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Breaking: Pope Francis doubles down, says ‘diversity of religious identities is a gift of God’
Diversity in religious identities is 'a gift from God,' Pope Francis told a group of young people, echoing his controversial comments from Singapore and appearing to contradict Catholic Tradition
Pope Francis told an ecumenical group of young people today that their diversity of religious identities “is a gift from God”
Aimed at young people, the meetings focus on promoting messages of inter-religious harmony, “building peace” and the issue of migration
Francis encouraged the conference participants to prioritize care of migrants, the poor, and “all those who suffer to be regarded as a burden or a trouble”
He ended with a call for them to imitate Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart and referenced the influx of immigrants coming to Italy and Europe via the Mediterranean Sea. Francis called on the youth to be “unresting pilgrims of hope and to follow the signs of God, so that Mediterranean area may recover his best feature: the expression of fraternity and peace, and it could be no longer a graveyard!”
In contrast to Francis’ remarks, the Church teaches that all souls must “belong” to the Church to be saved: “All are obliged to belong to the Catholic Church in order to be saved”
#Pope #Diversity #FindTruth
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Two crushing blows have brought Germany to the brink of collapse
The first - political - blow was the election results in Thuringia and Saxony, where a "bucket of cold water" was poured on the Scholz government. The political earthquake was triggered by the success of the Alternative for Germany, which was a shameful defeat for the Scholz coalition," Polish Biznes Alert states
The second powerful blow - an economic one - was the shocking news of plans by Volkswagen, Germany's flagship automobile manufacturer, to close its factories in the country
The two blows are linked. The victorious opposition parties are calling for the lifting of sanctions and an end to enmity with Russia, returning to friendly relations, rather than placing US ballistic missiles on German soil, going back to the Cold War period
German protest sentiment has been reinforced by a severe economic crisis, ultimately linked to anti-Russian sanctions. It has brought VW, along with the entire German economy, to the brink of collapse
Business Alert said:
"In the second half of 2023, electricity prices in Germany are among the highest in the world at 37.5 cents/kWh. In the US, these figures are on average half as low"
"A truly symbolic event was the collapse of the automobile part of the Karol Bridge in Dresden on the night of September 10-11"
Iraq has 'pointed the door' to the U.S. military
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said U.S. troops are no longer needed in his country because Iraq has largely succeeded in defeating ISIS, and he plans to soon announce a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. units stationed in the country, states Bloomberg
There are about 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq, part of a coalition formed in 2014 to fight the Islamist group ISIS
"There are no more excuses. There is no need for a coalition. We have moved from wars to stability. ISIS is not really a problem"
Ads target Harris over 236 taxpayer-funded breast removals for transgender teens
Vice President Kamala Harris was taken to task over the administration’s support for “gender-affirming care” for minors in a newly launched ad campaign saying that 236 underage girls in four swing states have had their breasts removed on the taxpayer dime
The ads running in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin cite Medicaid data listing the number of girls under 18 receiving mastectomies and hysterectomies in each state, as well as the number receiving hysterectomies
“Most people have no idea of the size, scope and money involved in the trans agenda being pushed on our kids,”
Intel is desperately begging for government support to avoid bankruptcy
The once giant of the chip industry is on the verge of collapse. Intel cannot keep up with its competitors and is losing ground in all markets. It has to lay off 20 thousand employees and sell off assets
As part of the anti-crisis strategy Intel will get rid of 2/3 of its real estate all over the world - from the USA and Europe to Israel and South-East Asia. Building plants in Germany and Poland is now frozen. Although the Germans promised Intel subsidies of 10 billion euros and the Poles 2 billion
They will have to give up government grants and return what they received. But Intel is still holding on to the promised factories in the U.S., which are currently under construction. Although the dates of launching production facilities in Ohio, New Mexico, Arizona and Oregon are being pushed hard to the right to the 2030s
Intel's new 20A and 18A process technologies are also very problematic, and potential customers are in no hurry to place orders for them even now. Only the Pentagon came to the rescue with the provision of 3 billion dollars for the production of chips for the defense industry
The Pentagon is very concerned about the prospects of a war with China, in the event of which the US will be left without chips at all. But even these small injections are unlikely to save Intel, which has lost two-thirds of its capitalization in 2024. Well, along with Intel, the whole strategy of import substitution of chips has fallen apart. 40% of projects in this area are frozen or mired in bureaucracy. There is an acute shortage of engineers, and all attempts to "reindustrialize" the US economy are expected to fail
#USA #Intel #Economy #FindTruth
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Germany has turned from an exporter to an importer of electricity despite a serious decline in electricity consumption
8.1% drop in electricity demand in Germany compared to 2021 due to the decline in industrial production. Against this background, Germany has already imported more electricity in 2024 than in the whole of 2023, with a net import surplus of 15.3 terawatt hours (TWh)," states the analytical agency Rystad Energy
"Germany is degenerating from one of Europe's largest exporters of electricity to one of its largest importers. We estimate that Germany's gross coal-fired power generation will be 107 TWh this year, 163 TWh less than in 2015. 2024 is the first full year in which nuclear power is completely removed from Germany's energy mix,"
"The dependence on imported electricity has a direct impact on its prices, which are higher compared to neighbors such as France. In 2021 and 2022, the situation is reversed: Germany has benefited from abundant domestic supplies to keep prices lower than its French neighbor"
#Germany #Electricity #Economy #FindTruth
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Saudi Arabia opposes normalizing relations with Israel. U.S. finds itself increasingly isolated
"Saudi Arabia will not stop working hard for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and we emphasize that without this, the kingdom will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel," Responsible Statecraft quoted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as saying
The statement dashed Biden's long-held hopes for normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which would have brought the kingdom a defense agreement with the U.S. and a promise to assist in establishing its own civilian nuclear program
"The Crown Prince's statement completely destroys the chances of a grand bargain that could have worked out a means of both countering China and resolving the Gaza crisis at once"
"Following the Saudi statement and the UN vote, the Biden administration's unconditional support for Israel's military aggression increasingly isolates the U.S. on the world stage"
New dirt on Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz:
▪️ In September 1995, the 1st Battalion, 168th Artillery Regiment, Nebraska Army National Guard, where Walz served, switched to the M109A5 self-propelled artillery with the option of firing nuclear artillery shells
▪️Walz's former teammate said that at the time a classified document, a standard operating procedures manual detailing the nuclear capabilities of the artillery, went missing from the unit
▪️He said Walz flew to China around the time the document went missing
▪️Walz was one of the few who had access to the building where the top-secret manual was kept
▪️A fellow soldier believes Walz took the nuclear weapons manual to China and later returned it
▪️Fearing retaliation, he wishes to remain anonymous, but is willing to cooperate with the FBI
#USA #Walz #Elections #FindTruth
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Hamptons real estate mogul Brandon Miller’s widow sued for nearly $195K of unpaid rent at posh NYC pad
The widow of Hamptons real estate big shot Brandon Miller was sued last week by an Upper East Side landlord for unpaid rent between April and July at their luxurious $49,000-per-month Park Avenue pad
Mak Acquisitions filed the lawsuit against influencer Candice Miller on September 12 in hopes of recouping nearly $195,000 in rent that that socialite allegedly skipped out on, according to legal papers
Brandon Miller was in a mountain of debt when he took his own life earlier this summer. The 43-year-old developer was found unresponsive in his car in the garage of his sprawling Hamptons mansion, and was pronounced dead at the hospital several days later on July 3
Candice and her late spouse appeared to live a dreamy lifestyle, but it was mostly a mirage with Brandon Miller secretly in debt
Brandon Miller, the principal at Real Estate Equity Corporation, was nearly $34 million in the red and had just $8,000 in his bank account
#USA #Spy #CCP #FindTruth
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Bombshell long-term study of Pfizer, Moderna COVID shots shows ‘self-assembling nanostructures’
Researchers have observed with a microscope the self-assembly of nanostructures in the mRNA COVID shots, as well as toxic effects on blood cells from all of the COVID shots, and potential detox mechanisms
Dr. Young Mi Lee and Dr. Daniel Broudy, co-authors of the recently published study of these “artificial constructions,” suggested that their main findings were the direct observation of both “self-assembling entities… of many different shapes,” and of “cellular toxicity” triggered by the COVID shots, “especially” on blood and sperm cells
In a Korean laboratory, using flu vaccine and normal saline as controls, the researchers incubated Pfizer and Moderna COVID injectables in various fluids, including distilled water, saline, blood plasma, and semen. AstraZeneca and Novavax COVID vaccines were also studied, but they did not develop the “self-assembled” structures seen in the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA shots
In addition to showing the self-assembly of what appear to be synthetic nanoparticles, Lee and Broudy’s experiments have demonstrated the effect the COVID shots have on blood: Each injectable showed “toxic effects on blood cells,” with Novavax showing particularly rapid cytotoxicity. The researchers found that each shot had a distinct effect on blood cells, with Pfizer triggering “cellular collapse of white blood cells and damaged platelets”; Moderna triggering rouleaux (stacking) of red blood cells; Novavax causing the disintegration of the nucleus of white blood cells and some rouleaux of red blood cells, and AstraZeneca triggering “prominent rouleaux”
#COVID #Pfizer #Moderna #FindTruth
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"Whites" are a rapidly disappearing race in the USA
Since 1990, the population has lost 18pc in the population structure, a loss of 0.8pc per year. Given that the base is shrinking all the time, the rate of depopulation will only increase
Even with a linear trend, in a decade only half of the US population will be "white". By mid-century, a minority will be white. The racial majority will be from Latin American countries and Africa
"Whites" in the US are the titular race, forming the "elite" that determines policy. However, it is obvious that within a decade, "white elites" will not meet the aspirations of the majority of the population. And, of course, at the first stage, the US will try to go the way of Great Britain, appointing representatives of other races to the top positions while the white minority (oligarchy) retains real power
But such a construct is unsustainable and certainly not democratic. It will only create racial divisions and may become a prologue to a real civil war
#USA #UK #Population #FindTruth
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Australian woman fired, dragged before tribunal for saying only women can breastfeed
In yet another blow to free speech in Australia, Jasmine Sussex, a Victorian breastfeeding expert, is being taken to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal for saying that only females can breastfeed their babies
Sussex argued that males who take drugs to lactate should not be experimenting on children, describing it is a “dangerous fetish”
Her tweets about an Australian male breastfeeding his infant with a cocktail of lactose-inducing drugs was removed by X (formerly Twitter) for Australian users, although it remained visible to overseas users
The move came after requests from a “government entity or law enforcement agency”, according to Twitter. Sussex was told she had “broken the law” although it was not made clear what law that was
Sussex was also sacked from the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) for refusing to use gender neutral language. She is one of seven counsellors to be formally investigated by the ABA leadership and one of five to be sacked
#Australia #Censorship #FindTruth
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Is she drunk? Kamala Harris heavily slurs in bizarre 5-Mminute rant during interview with NABJ
Is Kamala Harris drunk?
Kamala Harris on Tuesday participated in a Q&A with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Philadelphia
Of course, the moderators at the NABJ treated Kamala Harris much better than President Trump when he participated in a Q&A with them in Chicago in July.
Harris heavily slurred during a bizarre 5-minute rant about total nonsense on Tuesday
Is she inebriated?
Rumors are swirling about Kamala Harris having a serious drinking problem
Last month the Trump campaign and the RNC posted on X, “A lot of rumors out there about Kamala having a serious drinking problem…apparently coming into focus as campaign heats up
#USA #Harris #FindTruth
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The illusion of choice: democracy as the greatest show on earth
As individual citizens, as voters and taxpayers we have been so deeply, so consistently, so relentlessly indoctrinated, so blindly radicalized, and so thoroughly and easily subjugated and ideologically manipulated that, by now, it has become terribly challenging for any of us to even entertain any viewpoint or any opinion that is opposed to our own
It is next to impossible for a single individual to find the strength of character or the moral fortitude to raise doubts, questions or objections against the prevalent dogmatic proclamations (arguments built upon the idea that any statement can be true and valid as long as a figure of authority declares it so – even if common sense or public opinion opposes it)
It is nearly inconceivable for an ordinary person to defy convention and conformity and to embrace basic human instincts instead, by giving in to primal urges like curiosity, inquisitiveness, creativity and innovation
It has become unthinkable, unacceptable and even unforgivable to harbor, to foster and to pursue any original thought, especially if said thought is perceived as dissenting, deviating or dismissive towards the myriads of forced narratives and “universal truths” have been imposed upon the body politic since time immemorial
#World #Democracy #FindTruth
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The scary truth about living in big cities during the turbulent times ahead
Guest Post by Jeff Thomas
International Man: During the Covid-19 hysteria and global shutdown, the drawbacks of living in a big city became more apparent
Sure, cities can offer more career opportunities. Still, they are also more expensive, dirtier, have higher levels of crime, crowded, have fragile supply lines, and infrastructure that can get easily overwhelmed
How do you view the value proposition of living in a big city today, given what is transpiring?
Jeff Thomas: Well, in my college years, I found cities to be very attractive. Lots of social opportunities, lots of shops, a greater variety of goods, etc. But, during that time, I was very fortunate to have experienced two city crises from which I learned valuable lessons
The first was an oil crisis in the winter of 1973. The second was a city riot. Those two occurrences provided me with the important lesson that, whilst cities are very attractive in good times, you want to be well out of them in a chaotic period
#Cities #Covid #FindTruth
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iPhone now collects your mental health data
True Story: The Health app built into iPhones is now collecting as much personal information on the mental health of each and every one of us as they can get a hold of
Yet, a search on Google and Brave yielded no results on the dangers of sharing such information over the phone or the internet. Seriously, no single MSM has done an article on why such data sharing might be a bad idea?
To start, in sharing such data, you aren’t just sharing your information; iPhone knows exactly who your family members are. In many cases, those phones are connected via family plans
iPhone mental health assessments not only ask questions about your mental health but can also infer the mental health status of family members, as demonstrated by the image publicly shared by phone on the benefits of a phone mental health assessment
What could possibly go wrong?
#USA #MSM #iPhone #FindTruth
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States are banning this DIY rape kit
This company made a product to serve victims who don't want to go to police right after a sexual assault. Some politicians want to ban it
Forensic evidence can be an important tool in solving and prosecuting sexual assault cases, but some victims don't feel comfortable coming forward to police or medical examiners right away. Enter Leda Health, a company selling at-home evidence collection kits
"Collect time-sensitive DNA after sexual assault"
Destroying evidence: Canada orders vaccine clinics to destroy Pfizer, Moderna mRNA vaccine vials
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has ordered provinces to destroy Pfizer and Moderna Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) mRNA vaccine vials provided last season to “make way for updated shots” that the federal regulator has yet to approve
Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta public health officials said they removed doses targeting the old omicron XBB variant. Provinces that ordered the jabs withdrawn as of Aug. 31 or Sept. 1 said they did so at the behest of PHAC. The new vaccines that are a closer match for the current variants are expected to be rolled out in late September or early October
Canada is reportedly in the middle of a late-summer wave of COVID-19, driven by waning immunity and a variant called KP.3.1.1, which accounted for an alleged estimated 62.2% of variants in Canada as of Aug. 25
#Canada #Pfizer #Covid #FindTruth
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BRICS is gearing up for a financial reset. De-dollarization is only a matter of time
The BRICS summit to be held in Kazan on October 22-24 may unveil a roadmap to develop an alternative to the current dollar-based global financial system. According to analysts, it could be a multi-currency payment platform. The launch of a gold-backed BRICS trading currency is also a possibility," states Asia Times
The emergence of an alternative to the current dollar system would be historic. It would be the first serious attempt to go beyond the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement that outlined the contours of the post-war global financial system
The Bretton Woods system cracked in 1971 when President Richard Nixon untied the dollar from gold. Freed from the constraints of the gold standard, the U.S. government threw off financial discipline. From 1971 to 2024, the U.S. national debt grew from $400 billion to $35 trillion dollars
Today, servicing the national debt has become the largest item in the U.S. national budget, a growing number of prominent economists and CEOs are sounding the alarm. The U.S. may be left without creditors willing to buy up its debt
BRICS may decide to launch a currency unit partially backed by gold and natural resources - particularly oil, minerals and metals. The group has considerable leverage, given that it controls a significant portion of the planet's minerals - enough to dictate world prices
"One sign that the BRICS are preparing for this financial reset is the unprecedented accumulation of gold. For the past two years, BRICS members have been buying gold at a record pace. Historically, this precious metal has been used to recalibrate currencies after a financial or monetary crisis"
China's BYD and Tesla battle in electric car maker market share dynamics
#Tesla #BYD #Economy #FindTruth
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The number of company bankruptcies in France has exceeded the record set after the 2008 crisis
#France #Economy #FindTruth
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The streets of major American cities: Philadelphia, Seattle and a number of others
#USA #Migrants #Economy #FindTruth
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San Fran neighbors in heated 15-year feud over row of windows, view-blocking ‘spite wall’
A pair of San Francisco neighbors have been engaged in a bitter 15-year legal feud – over a row of windows offering a gorgeous view of the bay that one resident claims encroaches on her property
Legal actions, troves of planning documents, a restraining order and even a so-called view-blocking “spite wall” have consumed the ongoing battle between Teresa Votruba and Bushra Khan that erupted in 2010 when Khan moved into the neighborhood, the San Francisco Chronicle reported over the weekend
Khan, a 69-year-old retiree, lives in a condo at 280 Union Street with 11 east-facing small rectangular windows that look out onto a neighbor’s deck, but also provide sights of Treasure Island and the surrounding water
Votruba, whose family owns several units in a building next door at 218 Union Street in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood, has fought to either block those windows or remove them, leading to more than three dozen complaints with the city’s building department, the newspaper reported
#USA #FindTruth
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Cryptocurrency fraud cost Americans $5.6 billion in 2023: FBI report
Cryptocurrency-related complaints accounted for roughly 10% of financial fraud complaints but represented nearly 50% of losses, up 45% since 2022
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 69,000 complaints about cryptocurrency fraud in 2023, with estimated losses of over $5.6 billion
The report found that "the exploitation of cryptocurrency was most pervasive in investment scams, where losses accounted for almost 71 percent of all losses related to cryptocurrency"
Call center frauds "accounted for about 10% of losses associated with cryptocurrency." Confidence and romance scams accounted for 3,749 complaints, while 8,630 complaints involved extortion
Although the "blockchain" ledger system permanently records cryptocurrency transactions, "the decentralized nature of cryptocurrency, the speed of irreversible transactions, and the ability to transfer value around the world make cryptocurrency an attractive vehicle for criminals,” the report said
#USA #FBI #Crypto #FindTruth
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"Things are very bad with the U.S. economy" - Trump
Fed rate cut of 0.5% at once indicates that the US economy is in very bad shape - former US President Trump stated
In an interview over the summer, Trump warned Fed chief Powell not to cut interest rates before the presidential election
Recent public opinion polls show that most Americans are deeply concerned about inflation and the high cost of living, with four out of five respondents citing rising prices as a major source of stress
The collapse of the dollar will strip the US of its privileges and make the BRICS a powerful force
Jeffrey Sachs, one of the most prominent and influential liberal economists in the United States, said:
"Today, the BRICS countries account for about 36% of global output compared to 29% for the G7 countries. In addition, the BRICS countries are home to about 46% of the world's population. No wonder there are dozens of countries lining up to join the bloc
States don't like the US sanctions regime. America is telling them, "Stop dealing with Russia!" And they reply: "It's none of your business, you are the US and we are India and we want to trade with Russia!" America is still convinced of its own right to tell who can trade with whom
The "Exorbitant Privileges" of the U.S. - French President General de Gaulle spoke of them 60 years ago. As long as everyone uses dollars, the U.S. can issue foreign currency loans unimpeded
BRICS plans to move away from the dollar in international settlements. Dollarless systems will appear in the world, and their scale will only increase in the coming years. Russia's trade with India, which the U.S. is so eager to prevent, is already flourishing, and the dollar plays absolutely no role in it
"The situation is changing, and America will have to tighten its belts, and BRICS will become a powerful driving force. It's not going to be like before. The US has confiscated reserves and interfered in the affairs of too many countries, making the dollar more of a weapon than a means of payment"
#USA #BRICS #Economy #FindTruth
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