“An apparent leaked minutes document suggests that a trade association held a meeting in April to undo the confirmation of Kennedy by the duly elected US Senate. It is embedded below.
“On the eve before the US Senate reconvenes, a detailed secret trade-association memo plotting the removal of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has leaked. It reads like a coup attempt against regulatory reform—and they are spending millions to make sure Kennedy is out of office by September.
“It seems that the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), whose membership includes Pfizer, Merck, Novavax, Vaxcyte, and hundreds of biotech firms that profit from regulatory insulation, has a mole. This article critiques the documented lobbying behavior of the trade group BIO, not the internal operations or clinical data of its member corporations.
“When the nation’s leading pharmaceutical trade group convenes a closed-door strategy meeting and openly discusses the need to “go to The Hill and lobby that it is time for RFK Jr. to go,” the issue is no longer health policy—it is democratic integrity.
“According to the apparent leaked minutes, verified by the name of the creator of the file, on April 3, 2025, BIO held a “Vaccine Policy Steering Committee” (VPSC) meeting whose internal summary, soon to be publicly available thanks to whistleblowers, reveals a campaign of strategic deception, institutional capture, and psychological warfare and exposes a campaign of institutional deception, investor protection, and coordinated sabotage of the MAHA reform platform.”
Much more at the Brownstone Institute.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-plot-to-get-rfk/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Posted by: aye, myself & me | Jul 3 2025 14:30 utc | 3

Considered posting this one on ukraine thread but it sits better here
Particularly as it seems to dispel all the doom and gloom about main battle tanks
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/returning-tank-production-soviet-era-levels-russia-over-3000
Thoughts?

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 3 2025 14:35 utc | 5

It doesn’t have to be Armenia, Georgia would work as well …or Iran. The “Ottomans” would like it all, no different than the US or “Israel” (and more) in their attitude.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jul 3 2025 15:01 utc | 7

Thoughts?
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 3 2025 14:35 utc | 5
All those tanks did not stop the Soviet Union from collapsing.
Some might argue they accelerated it…
I’m not convinced that production figures alone, any more than narratives, win wars.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Jul 3 2025 15:13 utc | 9

Trump: “Will be speaking to President Putin of Russia at 10:00 A.M. Thank You”
🇺🇸🇷🇺 You are welcome

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/154398

🇷🇺🇺🇸 According to Peskov, the phone call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump is currently underway.
The Kremlin plans to hold a briefing following the conversation to share key outcomes

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/154417

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 3 2025 15:23 utc | 11

🇮🇷💔 37 years ago, the US Navy murdered 290 people on board Iran Air Flight 655
On July 3rd 1988, during the Iran-Iraq War, the United States Navy ship USS Vincennes shot down the Iran Air Flight 655 murdering 290 people, including 65 children.
On board the aircraft carrying 290 souls, 274 were passengers and 16 were crew. Of these 290 souls, 254 were Iranian, 13 were Emirati, 10 were Indian, six were Pakistani, six were Yugoslavian, and one was Italian.
The aircraft had been given a scheduled air corridor over the Persian Gulf which was known and tracked by the USS Vincennes, taking off from a stopover at Bandar Abbas International Airport on the coast of the Persian Gulf. A disturbing part of the event was that the American media attempted to blame Iran for the tragic incident, framing it as a deliberate act of sabotage.
Furthermore, the US never issued an apology but rather defended their war crime as “wartime incident”. The commanding officer, air warfare coordinator, and entire crew received medals for their war crime…
This is another, of very many, examples which explain the Iranian hatred towards the evil of the United States. May God give peace and rest to the souls of all those onboard.

https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/44328

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 After the murder of 290 passengers by the American naval group Vincennes, such a grand reception accompanied by celebration and joy was held in San Diego harbor and later captain of naval group received medal for downing Iranian passenger plane

https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/44330

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 3 2025 15:29 utc | 13

@3

Posted by: Fred777 | Jul 3 2025 15:32 utc | 15

@Newbie | 5

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/returning-tank-production-soviet-era-levels-russia-over-3000
Thoughts?

Massive tank armies won the WWII for Soviet Russia, and afterwards the massive output was – as the linked article does note – a strategic advantage over the west with possibly global reach of effect. I’d be surprised if Stavka did not have a red drawer which, upon opening, has drawn-out plans to ramp up tank production like there’s no tomorrow (literally). I imagine after a quick review of those plans it was decided that again building a massive stockpile in preparation the next war after the SMO appeared like a good thing to do. Maybe this took precedence over tactical calculations involving the new technologies such as drones, which are not fully apparent now, so they just went with it. I would have done the same.
While at it, it occurs to me the western sneaky drone attacks on civil infrastructure like, as of late, oil tankers in transit and appartements in Teheran housing generals and even civilian targets like the nuclear scientists is not really an edge. Everyone else could just start doing the same, and then? Considering that the war is existential for Russia, Iran or NK more so than, say, for the US or Britain, I would imagine that those powers are to come up with an actual edge should push come shove. And then there’s China … wtf are they thinking, one wonders.
On yet another related note, perhaps Armenia was put into an existential squeeze as well. Siding with Azerbaijan smells like coercion to me, not so much actual self-interest. But I could be wrong – I met an Armenian at a real bar some time ago, and he sided with Pashynian, and the west in general. It was a very interesting conversation, as he was strategically minded and very savvy. I asked him what he feels about the west winning their quest for global dominance, and he answered that then “the US will have freed everyone of us”. He became pale and almost fainted saying it though. Quite the moment actually.

Posted by: persiflo | Jul 3 2025 15:38 utc | 17

“China has a Debt-to-GDP of over 400 % ?????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LygiZAFZ86Y“
Posted by: WMG | Jul 3 2025 14:52 utc | 6
CDP is not a good measure of Sovereign economic output; PPP is much superior yardstick.
In PPP China’s economy is 30% larger than that of the US.

Posted by: canuk | Jul 3 2025 15:58 utc | 19

Will moon and petergrfstrm
I didn’t know about it being his plan. Bernard Lewis being a rabid zionist English Jew was famous for whitewashing Armenia’s slaughter at the hands of the Turks. Noone could be allowed to have victim-status but the Jews.
If poor Armenia is being pushed into being an ally of Turkey and Azerbaijan they are destined to be forgotten as a people in history. It was the Russians who actually made an Armenia for the Armenians after almost two thousand years, just as they made a Finland for the Finns.
Armenians in Armenia are either sold-out, too weak or too stupid to see what is being dome to them by their leaders and the West. That it is a plan formulated by their greatest denier is rubbing salt into the wound.

Posted by: Total | Jul 3 2025 16:01 utc | 21

One wonders if Biden can still find his own arse with both hands – let alone do anything meaningful.
“Former US President Joe Biden has claimed that foreign leaders have been urging him to reengage in global affairs, despite his retirement from public office.
Speaking at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) conference in San Diego on Wednesday, Biden, 82, said “I’m getting calls – I’m not going to go into them, I can’t – from a number of European leaders asking me to get engaged.”
The ex-president said that he declined to do so “because things are different.” At the same time, Biden acknowledged that while he is “not actively involved with NATO issues,” he is still “giving advice.”
Biden also said he remains in touch with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. “I’ve been dealing with a lot of Democrat and Republican colleagues calling me… wanting to talk and bounce things off of me,” he said, adding that he remains involved in political discussions “because I really cared about what I was doing.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 3 2025 16:13 utc | 23

I hope this evil b*stard gets locked up for the rest of her miserable existence.
“Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are set to vote on a motion of no confidence against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen next week, citing her refusal to share details of a controversial, multi-billion euro Covid-19 vaccine deal, according to multiple media reports.
The motion, brought forward by Romanian MEP Gheorghe Piperea, is scheduled for debate on July 7, followed by a vote on July 10 during the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg, Politico reported on Wednesday.
Von der Leyen has been accused of a lack of transparency and mismanagement during the pandemic, specifically over her refusal to disclose text messages exchanged with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla during 2021 negotiations over a contract for millions of Covid-19 vaccines.
The move follows a ruling by the EU’s Court of Justice, which found that the European Commission had failed to provide credible justification for not releasing the texts.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 3 2025 16:19 utc | 25

🇬🇧 Sky News reports that british Prime Minister Starmer could resign in a few months, with the decision to be made if Ukraine will stop supplying him with magic talcum powder and rent boys “if labour will fare poorly in the next May elections”.
“If labour will fare poorly”?! Oh my sweet summer child, how optimistic of you. Nowadays British prime ministers have a shorter political life expectancy than a chronically depressive lemming.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/133990

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 3 2025 16:33 utc | 27

The Lord Haw, Haw of Nato mentions Daddy (Trump) and agrees Daddy has his own country’s priorities to think of first – I wonder if the Ukrainian Rent Boys – called Starmer Daddy – now they’ve burn’t down some of his properties and vehicles, he’ll be a Bad Daddy.
“NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said he “totally understands” the US prioritizing its own national interests, but stressed that European allies cannot continue backing Ukraine in its conflict with Russia without support from Washington.
Rutte made the remarks in a Wednesday interview with Fox News, responding to reports that Washington has scaled back critical military aid to Kiev, including deliveries of air defense ammunition, missiles, and artillery shells.
“I totally understand that the US always has to make sure that their own interests are covered,” the NATO chief said, but argued that “flexibility” was needed.
“In the short term, Ukraine cannot do without all the support it can get when it comes to ammunition and to air defense systems,” Rutte stated.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 3 2025 16:44 utc | 29

The Yanks aren’t happy (and neither should we be) – that the EU law on disinformation became live on July Ist this year – which supposedly forces social media platforms to block disinfo – ie (The TRUTH) from getting into the public domain – the EU bigwigs do not want the truth out there.
“US President Donald Trump must urgently threaten to “knock… the f out” of a new EU law on disinformation that requires online platforms and search engines to restrict content deemed ‘fake news’ by the bloc, former State Department official Mike Benz has said.
The formerly voluntary Code of Conduct on Disinformation, which was integrated into the Digital Services Act (DSA) by Brussels earlier this year, became mandatory as of July 1. Under the law, major online platforms and search engines, mostly owned by US tech firms, are obliged to follow EU content rules or face penalties.
Benz, who worked on cybersecurity and internet policy at the State Department during Trump’s first term, took to X on Wednesday to warn that the likes of YouTube, X, Facebook, and Google would “now get whipped by huge EU fines.”
The Code of Conduct on Disinformation, which he described as a “Global Censorship Law,” had been the “secret weapon” of Brussels for a long time, but is now “fully unleashed,” the head of the self-described pro-free speech website Foundation For Freedom Online said.
Trump must “act urgently, top priority, to apply massive diplomatic, trade, aid and security muscle, every tool in the hardball diplomacy toolkit – up to and including our participation in NATO – to knock this law the f out,” he insisted.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 3 2025 16:48 utc | 31

I pay a lot of attention to what is happening in Asia, specifically China but also Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
I see confusion (misinformation) about the state of trade with China.
I would argue it is the most important economic and military subject in the world right now.
1. China has the best and most diversified supply chains in the world.
2. China has made it a focus for decades to secure mining rights and to build transportation for the resources it is obtaining.
3. Building mines is not enough. Those are trivial infrastructure projects for a first-world country. It’s processing what is mined that is the critical value-added part of the operation.
4. China’s real advantage on the planet is that it processes and refines tons and tons of dirt to extract and collate the valuable minerals. These are energy-intensive processes and increasingly utilize cutting-edge science. China offers many degrees in processing technology that aren’t found elsewhere.
5. By controlling the flow of resources for which there are no analogues like antimony and bismuth, industries like military, aerospace, and high technology are dependent on the Chinese.
6. Magnets are essential to industrial production. They are in every device, from fridges to SUVs to smartphones. China basically owns the global magnet supply.
7. Recently, Trump claimed to have made a “deal” with China for access to resources (see end note). The Chinese did agree to open up some trade that was globally banned, but only for non-military industry. You can still get a dishwasher, but not fabricate APC. You can build an air conditioner, but not an interceptor missile.
8. As Carl Zha (Silk and Steel podcast) has said, the Chinese are not going to supply the US to build a military that will engage China.
9. The Chinese leverage on rare earth and magnets is the trump card of all trump cards. They don’t need to fight with their already impressive military; they can turn off the supply spigot and watch the West squander what inventory it has in Israel or in foolish adventures against Ansar Allah. Maybe sending more and more to Ukraine.
10. If this topic interests you, and it should if you care about geopolitics, IMO, watch this short series of clips with Carl on another podcast with some inserts of relevant information. He’s ethnically Chinese but grew up in America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70AVNpbUZ84
11. Think about what it means to “the Empire” if they are short on bullets. Extrapolate that to the economy, to the colonies, to foreign policy. Many ramifications.
I welcome any feedback/suggestions on what I have missed, what I may have overlooked about how the West can work around this challenge.
About Trump making a deal, several US manufacturers have been talking about moving to China, which is the opposite of what Trump wanted to do. Their thinking was that, without magnets, they could not produce. It would be better to make their stuff in China than not at all. Tariffs get passed on to the consumer.
Trump had to cut a deal to prevent a hemorrhaging of industry and to save retail inventories before back-to-school. The Chinese want trade and are not trying to destroy America. My reading of the situation is that the Chinese want to surpass and then ignore the West, the way the West (supposedly) surpassed and pretty much ignores Africa.
The relative first and third worlds are poised to flip over the next 50 years.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 3 2025 16:59 utc | 33

@Republicofscotland | Jul 3 2025 16:19 utc | 25

Berliner Zeitung: Resistance to Ursula Von der Leyen is growing.
The resistance to Von der Führer grows: 14 States criticize the redistribution plans of regional funds.
Fourteen EU member states oppose the plan of the President of the European Commission to centralize the management of regional funds.
The proposal plans to transfer the control of these funds, equal to about a third of the EU budget, from the management shared with the Member States to Brussels’ direct control. Critics fear that this penalizes the poorest regions, favoring the richest ones and reducing local autonomy.
In a joint letter, the ministers of these countries have expressed concern about the loss of transparency and flexibility, essential to deal with regional specificities. The centralization, according to Von der Leyen, would serve to make the EU more competitive, but critics see it as an attempt to centralize power.
It’s not that they “see” it as an attempt to centralize power, IT IS.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/133993

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 3 2025 17:07 utc | 35

A general comment on Armenia.
I assumed that it was general knowledge ((as it is in Russia) that if you boil up seven Russians, you get one Armenian.
If you then boil up seven Armenians, you get one Assyrian.

Posted by: Montreal | Jul 3 2025 17:15 utc | 37

Posted by: WMG | Jul 3 2025 17:03 utc | 34
Are you the same troll who posts this shit at Naked Capitalism? Yves loves it I’m sure.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 3 2025 17:26 utc | 39

Posted by: WMG | Jul 3 2025 17:03 utc | 34
See my post #38 so you can catch up to the new measures of Sovereign wealth.

Posted by: canuk | Jul 3 2025 17:28 utc | 41

PPP by country/capita (1)
#1. Singapore
#3 Ireland
#8 Guyana (hmmmnnnn..)
#9 US
#24 Canada
#72 China
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

Posted by: canuk | Jul 3 2025 17:49 utc | 43

test

Posted by: KOB | Jul 3 2025 18:23 utc | 45

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Jul 3 2025 17:30 utc | 42
Best post I’ve read today!
I guess, like me, you now that the City of London has been behind this mess since 1694 when the Dutchman William III, sold $1.2 MM paper pounds to Jewish bankers and English nobility (the future Duke of Marlborough whom betrayed James II in ‘The Glorious revolution of 1688) to strat this anarchic beast!!

Posted by: canuk | Jul 3 2025 18:39 utc | 47

BBB passed.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HZni3j0NjDk

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 3 2025 18:40 utc | 49

on the topic of armenia, i have to thank the poster ‘will moon’ for the video he shared yesterday on a different thread… i highly recommend this video from gaining more insight into the developments in armenia.. here is the link again for anyone interested.. rumble link first.. youtube link 2nd – same video apparently..
Azerbaijan, Turkey & Armenia: A New Coalition Against Russia? | Syriana Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR_5UOaSVI8
@ petergrfstrm | Jul 3 2025 17:30 utc | 42
that’s interesting.. would you care to elaborate on any particular books by carroll quigley?? thanks..

Posted by: james | Jul 3 2025 18:57 utc | 51

36 lovedonbass
To be precise, on aggregate, lots of new debt-money is created when a house is sold in the west… a ponzi on top of a ponzi!

Posted by: E | Jul 3 2025 19:11 utc | 53

Re: Graz Mass Killing
Indeed does seem to be yet another pasty. To what end is unclear.

Posted by: Exile | Jul 3 2025 19:16 utc | 55

Here in Britain they arrest people at pro-Palestinian demos, or they proscribe pro-Palestinian outfits as terrorist groups – what a sick f*ckin place Britain is now. Of course if you’re pro-Israeli that’s okay – and if you support the proscribed terrorist outfit (HTS), tha’s running around Syria butchering civilians in huge numbers that okay as well.
“Peru has taken a major step in pursuit of accountability for atrocities committed by the Israeli regime in the Gaza Strip, formally assigning a genocide complaint against an Israeli trooper to its Human Rights Prosecutor’s Office.
The procedural move, confirmed on Wednesday by the Hind Rajab Human Rights Foundation (HRF), a Belgium-based body that has referred the case to Peruvian jurisdiction, transitions it from a jurisdictional review to a preliminary investigative phase.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 3 2025 19:18 utc | 57

Posted by: Exile | Jul 3 2025 19:18 utc | 58
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Nothing more righteous than a colonizer going bankrupt.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 3 2025 19:22 utc | 59

“Whatever that might mean, what is clearer is that British ministers have authorised 77 export licences to supply Israel with components for its submarines since 2010. This makes that category of equipment the fourth most numerous for all UK military exports to Israel.
The total value of these licences is £8.96m, Declassified has established. Two of the licences are, however, “open” rather than “single”, meaning that unlimited quantities and values of such equipment can be exported from Britain.
These licences for Israel’s submarines were excluded from the UK’s restrictions on exports of military equipment for Israel announced last September during its bombardment of Gaza. ”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/britain-is-aiding-israels-nuclear-force/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 3 2025 19:30 utc | 61

They have pockets full of money but blood stained hands as well.
“A group of MPs have been accused of a “crystal clear breach of the rules” after taking money from a weapons firm owned by the Israeli government.
RUK Advanced Systems Ltd – which makes missiles for urban warfare – is part of Israel’s state-owned defence giant, Rafael.
Records showed that the company paid at least £1,499 to partner with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Defence Technology, which provides “opportunities to network with MPs”. The money was paid directly to the group’s secretariat.
But parliamentary rules say that APPGs should not “accept the services of a secretariat funded directly or indirectly by a foreign government”.
RUK describes itself as a “UK company”. But official records show it was controlled by the Israeli government’s Ministry of Finance, which is led by far-right politician Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain for inciting “extremist violence” against Palestinians.
The company’s director has also confirmed it is “owned by Rafael in Israel”.
Tommy Sheppard, a former SNP politician who sat on the Standards Committee said: “This seems a crystal clear breach of the rules.”
He told Declassified: “The APPG should immediately cease taking funds from a company controlled by a foreign government and repay any monies it has received in the past two years. If it does not the group should be suspended and actions considered against office bearers.”
When questioned by Declassified, neither the APPG nor any of the MPs involved responded. But RUK’s name was immediately removed from the group’s website.”
Tommy Sheppard, and his SNP party at Westminster didn’t vote against the proscription of Palestine Action – Sheppard is only thinking about his own party in doing this, not the people of Gaza.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 3 2025 19:35 utc | 63

My English translation of an interesting article, originally in Italian, on the close link between war, the US Dollar and US debt: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/the-us-global-war-to-save-the-dollar

Posted by: Ismaele | Jul 3 2025 20:00 utc | 65

UK – Zarah Sultana MP, suspended by Labour for not being right wing enough, has officially resigned from Labour and will be fronting a new left party with Jeremy Corbyn and other left independent MPs.
Details to follow, no doubt.

Posted by: Red Star | Jul 3 2025 20:29 utc | 67

UK – Zarah Sultana MP, suspended by Labour for not being right wing enough, has officially resigned from Labour and will be fronting a new left party with Jeremy Corbyn and other left independent MPs.
Details to follow, no doubt.
Posted by: Red Star | Jul 3 2025 20:29 utc | 66
It sounds like one of those leftist fantasies that will never come to fruition, but this time it’s actually real: two of the only politicians in the UK with a shred of integrity are forming a new political party. Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn will co-lead, with other independent MPs getting onboard, meaning the party will have several MPs from day one. This is a big deal.
Things are happening so fast, I’m unclear if the new party even has a name yet. I can’t find any mention of one. Sultana announced her resignation from Labour in a Twitter post in which she called out the government’s role in genocide and her suspension for voting against policies that impoverish children
Full article : https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/jeremy-corbyn-and-zarah-sultana-are

Posted by: Red Star | Jul 3 2025 21:02 utc | 69

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
welp, I guess the nation’s largest city is no longer free to elect a mayor of its choosing
“As President of the United States, I’m not going to let this Communist Lunatic destroy New York,” Trump posted on Truth Social, a reference to Mamdani. “Rest assured, I hold all the levers, and have all the cards. I’ll save New York City, and make it ‘Hot’ and ‘Great’ again, just like I did with the Good Ol’ USA!”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1940393133352833088

Posted by: Menz | Jul 3 2025 21:22 utc | 71

@Total

Sadly, I have no understanding or empathy for your Armenian. Possibly a youngish ,Pseudo-Leftist, tertiary-educated Knowledge-worker wanting riches ?

Well spotted.

Posted by: persiflo | Jul 3 2025 21:45 utc | 73

@48 Marian Ruccius
“As the issuer of its currency (like the US, or Japan, or the UK), the Government of China can never run out of money and can fund every single social requirement it faces.
It is impossible for there to be a limit on the capacity of a sovereign government to pay debts denominated in its own currency.”
A dollar bill is a credit note owned by the central bank, in other words the holder is owed by the central bank, so placing the central bank in debt.
The central bank cannot redeem that note …given that predominantly govt debt is used as reserve to create new ‘money’. In other words it has nothing of value to offer in exchange, except more dollars, or govt debt …in dollars.
They cannot run out of money, because (broadly speaking) they have none to run out of, given debt/credit note is not a proper base definition of money.
A limit on ‘capacity’ would be a choice not to pay “debts denominated in its own currency”. “The US is not capable of redemption, congress said no”.
Also “…can fund every single social requirement it faces” :-/
Society requires luxury villas with pools …
But in reality, govt tends to face the ‘social requirements’ of its choice. These include obtaining votes from society, and funding a security aparatus that is befitting to a wanted order of society.

Posted by: Ornot | Jul 3 2025 21:56 utc | 75

@Marian Ruccius | Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:39:00 GMT | 48

Domestic Private Sector Financial Balance + Fiscal Balance + Foreign Financial Balance = 0

+1

Posted by: persiflo | Jul 3 2025 21:58 utc | 77

Posted by: Republicofscotland /July 3 2025 19:12 utc/ 54
“Venezuela remains one of Iran’s all-weather allies in Latin America, with both nations strengthening diplomatic and trade ties…”
You’ve definitely put your finger on a growing geopolitical hotspot. And unfortunately, United Snakes is already well advanced into provocations and systematic destabilization via its growing and malign influence over pliant neighbour Guyana. Watch this space. More is sure to follow…
Venezuela Rebukes Guyana Over Cross-Border Gold Smuggling Allegations
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-rebukes-guyana-over-cross-border-gold-smuggling-allegations/
“…Caracas rebuke of its eastern neighbor came in response to Ali’s claim that the country is being forced to spend significant resources to crack down on the alleged smuggling of Venezuelan gold across the border to Guyana.
The Maduro administration likewise criticized the Guyanese president’s statements – made during an event at the US embassy in Georgetown, accusing Ali of ‘rendering accounts to his true masters.’
‘Ali’s rule, marked by subordination [to the US], theft and provocations, has no legitimacy to accuse Venezuela of anything,’ the document went on to say. For her part, US Ambassador Nicole Theriot praised US-Guyana cooperation as ‘powerful’ and ‘the strongest it has ever been…’
The latest controversy comes in the wake of reported armed clashes along the border involving the Guyanese Defense Forces (GDF) and illegal mining outfits in recent months. Caracas has accused Georgetown of manipulating the incidents as a pretext for further US military involvement in the region.
Venezuela and Guyana remain locked in a two-century-old border dispute over the Essequibo Strip. The 160,000 square-kilometer territory is home to significant mineral resources as well as major offshore oil reserves…The Maduro government has also condemned its Guyanese counterpart for undertaking massive oil drilling operations in undelimited waters.
It has additionally raised alarm bells over a heightened presence of the US Southern Command in the Caribbean, denouncing alleged plans to install us military bases in Guyana…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 3 2025 22:56 utc | 79

@Marian Ruccius | Jul 3 2025 18:39 utc
Marian: Your post looks like something I might benefit from understanding well.
Would you please provide definitions for these 3 terms:

Domestic Private Sector Financial Balance, Fiscal Balance, Foreign Financial Balance

and this one confused me a bit, too:

Note that it is impossible for all three sectors to net save, i.e. run a surplus, at the same time. Some sector has to be issuing liabilities.

And in the foregoing, what constitutes a “surplus” for each sector? (e.g. US private sector, public sector (including local, state and national gov’ts, I presume) and the Foreign financial entities (what are they, I wonder – everyone not-US based?)
Thanks in advance!

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Jul 4 2025 0:07 utc | 81

Trump’s envoy Witkoff is planning to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi in Oslo next week to restart nuclear talks.
Source: Axios
– clash Report telegram

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 4 2025 1:18 utc | 83

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 3 2025 16:13 utc | 23
April fools day was several months ago.

Posted by: BroncoBilly | Jul 4 2025 1:45 utc | 85

Posted by: Menz | Jul 3 2025 21:22 utc | 70
Free to elect it’s own mayor?
Chinese funded NYC driving “school” and NY Dep’t Motor Vehicles are under arrest and investigation for bribes paid to DMV to allow drivers not proficient in English, and not able to pass a driving exam, to be awarded a drivers license anyhow.
Note that law allows anyone with a drivers license to have to option of registering to vote, with no review of citizenship status.
US Congress investigating FBI ALBANY NY field office report from 2016 that 1,000’s of Chinese immigrants were being allowed to register w/o proof of residency or citizenship. The report was squashed to protect then director Wray who had already testified to Congress that there were no anomalies regarding voter registration during the 2016 election.
How many NEW YORKERS are actually voting?
The 2 above cases could cause all election is NY since 2016 to be voided and redone. Unlikely to happen, but the depth of non-citizens voting is being exposed. Just before a NYC election…

Posted by: BroncoBilly | Jul 4 2025 2:07 utc | 87

As the Fourth of July Grows Closer, Let Us Examine The Reality of ‘Independence Day’
https://www.blackagendareport.com/terrible-origins-july-4th-1
…’He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.’ – Declaration of Independence –
“The causes of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence are rarely taught in this country. the American colonists chafed under British rules limiting their settlements and feared they would end slavery.
The ‘patriots’ motives were anything but noble.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 4 2025 3:00 utc | 89

Something completely dif’rent.

CP24
Motorcyclist dead after being struck by truck driver in Etobicoke: Toronto police
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CityNews Toronto
Motorcyclist seriously injured in Etobicoke crash
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Toronto Star
Motorcyclist dead in hospital after collision with pickup truck driver
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CP24
Motorcyclist seriously injured after being struck by pick-up driver in Etobicoke: Toronto police

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 4 2025 3:17 utc | 91

🇲🇽 Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that Mexico will participate as an observer at the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on July 6-7, with Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente representing the country.

https://x.com/apocalypseos/status/1940614038981169279
I love Mexico flirting with BRICS. That is how you manufacture trade leverage!

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 4 2025 3:23 utc | 93

If you’re into industry, manufacturing, fabricating, or home building, this is a fascinating video by an American expat builder operating in China about how China is revolutionizing the Global home-building business.
Making homes good, quick, and very affordable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1whWppZxoY
Inside China Business is a great YouTube channel. He does a lot of short, info-packed videos from an American business perspective.
The stuff you will never see on CNBC but could make a difference with your business or investments.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 4 2025 3:40 utc | 95

Thanks so much, karlof1. You highlighted the two main signposts, and even Richard’s dark Versailles prognostication can’t diminish the changes we who celebrate the 4th will be hoping for. I like the emphasis that all the great religous and philosophical movements at their origins make it clear that extreme wealth is the worst of all addictions. We who are not wealthy salute your dedication to helping us value our instincts towards a better world!

Posted by: juliania | Jul 4 2025 3:48 utc | 97

>80% gringo wanna fight China to protect TW from mainland invasion

If you dont incite TW independence there wont be any ‘invasion’ [sic] dumbass !
Then the !@#$% proceed to do just that !

Atimes
Give the A-10s to Taiwan and they can stop a Chinese sea invasion
US builds next-generation bunker buster with China in mind

Then they wonder why China is arming itself !

*>80% gringo are worried aboutBeijing’s growing military strength and advancements in artificial intelligence technology

fucking delusional persecution derangement
NO wonder so many shrinks in the land of freedumb

Posted by: denk | Jul 4 2025 4:09 utc | 99