🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇳 The US War on Iran is a US War on China

▪️US planners likely realized as a result of attrition in its proxy war on Russia and considering the outcome of ongoing war with Iran in the Middle East, that even a "distant blockade" in the Asia-Pacific against China was unlikely to succeed;

▪️Degrading or toppling Iran was already a prerequisite to further isolating Russia and then China, thus attacking Iran and shutting down energy exports from the entire region, no matter the cost, has effectively implemented the "distant blockade" on China at the very source of most of China's energy imports;

▪️At the same time, the US continues expanding its international blockade against the so-called "shadow fleet" through maritime drone strikes attributed to "Ukraine" and the interdiction and seizure of vessels by US proxies and in the case of Venezuela, by the US itself.

This can be expanded to target ALL Russian and Chinese maritime shipping - not just energy shipments;

▪️Note that the US invaded and captured Venezuela, halting energy exports to China in the lead up to this second war of aggression targeting the majority of China's remaining energy imports from the Middle East.

▪️The US CIA continues carrying out long-range drone strikes into Russia targeting energy production specifically to degrade both Russia's own economy and its ability to export significant amounts of energy to China.

These operations will only continue to increase in scale and scope with likely operations moving to target pipelines into China directly;

▪️The US is also carrying out terrorist strikes on China's Belt and Road Initiative, particularly in Pakistan and Myanmar, specifically striking at alternative routes for energy used to bypass a potential Asia-Pacific blockade.

These type of attacks can be organized and directed at whatever infrastructure China attempts to use next to mitigate the US-imposed shortages China now faces.

This is a systematic global war to strangle China;

▪️China has prepared for this for years - building out a massive 100+ day reserve and scaling out renewables, nuclear power, and coal-to-liquid energy production domestically.

It will still likely take years to replace dependency on the Middle East - about 5 years - a closing window the US knew was closing - prompting this reckless war of aggression now taking place;

▪️The US has also built-up and armed proxies in the Asia-Pacific region including Japan, the Philippines, and the island province of Taiwan - not to "beat" China - but to use long-range missiles/drones to strike and degrade domestic efforts to circumvent the US-imposed blockade - such as striking refineries, data centers, energy infrastructure, etc. just as the US uses "Ukraine" to do so against Russia - all while avoiding a direct confrontation with China itself;

▪️The US believes that rapid "initiative" can overcome the growing number of disadvantages the US has created for itself and faces due to China's rapid rise (like modernization, and surpassing of the US in terms of industry, military, and technology).

It hopes that is willingness to indulge in globally-destabilizing war of aggression is greater than China and the rest of the multipolar world's ability to unite and meaningfully fight back.

The US also believe that the wars it has ignited across the planet will primarily destabilize Eurasia leaving North America - just like during WW2 - relatively insulated.

So far that has been true.

Russia and China know about all of this. They have made their own plans.

Only time will tell who planned better.

The implications of Iran denying any involvement in striking energy infrastructure in the region (including specific denials regarding Saudi Arabia and Qatar) are that the US is carrying out false flags specifically to ensure the energy to China is shut off long-term.

These strikes hurt China, an Iranian ally, more than the US to answer the question "to whose benefit?"

New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level – Reclaim The Net

New York just proposed the most invasive state-level age verification bill the US has seen. Senate Bill S08102 would extend age verification requirements down to the device itself: internet-connected devices, operating system providers, and app stores would all be required to implement what the bill calls “age assurance” before users can access their own hardware and software ecosystems.

We obtained a copy of the bill for you here.

This is more than a social media platform asking for your birthdate. It’s your phone, your laptop, your operating system demanding proof of who you are before letting you use them normally.
The bill defines “age assurance” as “any method that can reasonably determine the age category of a user, using methods that reasonably prevent against circumvention.”

#BigBrother

California’s OS-based age verification law challenges open-source community | Biometric Update

An article in PC Gamer points out that this “sounds incompatible with many of today’s open source software, including Linux.” The open source community is wrestling with the problem of how to comply with the laws while also not violating core privacy principles.

#BigBrother #GnuLinux

Pedolf Shitler.

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Gold is the world’s oldest safe haven asset. Dubai is the world’s newest safe haven city. Right now, gold is stranded in Dubai and being sold at a thirty dollar discount to the London benchmark because the war that makes gold valuable is the same war that makes gold unmovable.

Bloomberg reported on March 6 that traders in Dubai are offering physical gold at up to thirty dollars per ounce below the London price. The reason is mechanical. Dubai handles roughly 1,200 tonnes of physical gold annually. About twenty to twenty five percent of all gold traded on the planet passes through this city. It arrives by air from African mines and Swiss refineries. It leaves by air to Indian jewelers and Chinese vaults. The entire system runs on flights.

The flights have stopped.

Iranian drones have struck the UAE multiple times since February 28. Commercial aviation across the Gulf is at roughly twenty five percent of capacity. Private jet charters are selling at $350,000 per flight. The gold sitting in Dubai vaults has nowhere to go. And gold that cannot move cannot fulfill delivery contracts, cannot reach buyers, cannot participate in the global market at the price the global market says it is worth.

So traders are dumping it at a discount to avoid indefinite storage and funding costs.

The spot price in London says $5,200 an ounce. A trader in Dubai holding physical bars is selling them for $5,170. The difference is not quality or purity. It is a logistics premium in reverse. The gold is worth less in Dubai than in London because the mechanism that moves it has been severed by the same conflict that is supposed to make it more valuable.

Dubai processes roughly 3.3 tonnes of gold per day. The war has grounded flights for over a week. Bloomberg reports some bullion moved mid-week but many shipments remain stranded. At the daily throughput rate, an estimated 50 to 100 tonnes of physical gold is sitting in Dubai vaults waiting for flights that may not resume for weeks.

At current prices, that is somewhere between four and five billion dollars of metal that is priced in a market it cannot reach.

This is the physical commodity version of the Hormuz insurance closure. The digital price of gold trades freely on screens in London, New York, Shanghai. The physical gold that the digital price is supposed to represent sits in a vault in a city where the airport is running at a quarter of capacity and the sky periodically contains Iranian ordnance. The screen says one price. The vault says another. The difference is thirty dollars and growing.

Every gold investor on the planet is watching a number on a screen. The number does not know that fifty tonnes of metal cannot get on a plane.

The screen price is fiction. The vault price is reality. And the war is widening the gap between them every day the flights do not resume.

https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-invisible-siege-how-insurance

holy moly that was a lot of work

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