Forwarded from Brian Berletic's New Atlas Channel
Brian Berletic's New Atlas Channel
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇳 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…
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?"
These strikes hurt China, an Iranian ally, more than the US to answer the question "to whose benefit?"
Forwarded from Wikispooks.com - A Wikipedia of deep politics
It never fails to amaze me that there are people out there who oppose globalism while refusing to acknowledge that it really is… global!
They apparently find it impossible to believe that Putin’s Russia and, even more so, Communist China, could be controlled by the same gang that dominates our own societies.
https://paulcudenec.substack.com/p/china-and-the-same-old-global-mafia
They apparently find it impossible to believe that Putin’s Russia and, even more so, Communist China, could be controlled by the same gang that dominates our own societies.
https://paulcudenec.substack.com/p/china-and-the-same-old-global-mafia
Substack
China and the same old global mafia
[I read the article here]
Forwarded from Intel Slava
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Forwarded from Victor vicktop55 (victor)
The US has admitted that it is destroying Iran and its people for oil, just as it did with Venezuela.
Jarrod Agen, executive director of the National Council on Energy Superiority, drops all pleasantries and admits that ultimately the US doesn't care about democracy or the liberation of the Iranian people: "We will take all the oil out of the hands of terrorists." A White House spokesman stated that the US will confiscate "all the oil" from Iran.
The White House also announced that Trump is happy with any friendly mullah, as long as they hand over the oil. Just like the US, Israel is happy with a terrorist in Syria's leadership, as long as they remain obedient.
Jarrod Agen, executive director of the National Council on Energy Superiority, drops all pleasantries and admits that ultimately the US doesn't care about democracy or the liberation of the Iranian people: "We will take all the oil out of the hands of terrorists." A White House spokesman stated that the US will confiscate "all the oil" from Iran.
The White House also announced that Trump is happy with any friendly mullah, as long as they hand over the oil. Just like the US, Israel is happy with a terrorist in Syria's leadership, as long as they remain obedient.
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
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
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
Forwarded from Vanessa Beeley
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
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
Substack
The Invisible Siege: How Insurance Markets, Not Missiles, Closed the Strait of Hormuz
And Why the Disruption Will Last Four to Sixteen Months Longer Than Any Model on Wall Street Currently Prices
Forwarded from SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence
Iran Shot Down 13 U.S. And Israeli Combat Drones Over Past Day (Videos, Photos)
The Iranian military announced on March 7 that it had shot down at least 13 American and Israeli drones over the past day.
In a statement, the military drones, which include American-made MQ-9 Reapers and Israeli-made Hermes 900s, were shot down by the anti-aircraft missiles and guns of its ground forces and air defense units and those of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, operating under the command of the Joint National Air Defense Headquarters.
The e drones were shot down over different areas in the northwestern and western regions of the Islamic Republic, as well as over the southern region and the provinces of Isfahan, Kerman, and Tehran.
Read more HERE
The Iranian military announced on March 7 that it had shot down at least 13 American and Israeli drones over the past day.
In a statement, the military drones, which include American-made MQ-9 Reapers and Israeli-made Hermes 900s, were shot down by the anti-aircraft missiles and guns of its ground forces and air defense units and those of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, operating under the command of the Joint National Air Defense Headquarters.
The e drones were shot down over different areas in the northwestern and western regions of the Islamic Republic, as well as over the southern region and the provinces of Isfahan, Kerman, and Tehran.
Read more HERE
Forwarded from Esc