Pakistan on Washington Consensus mode? Part 3

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Must be the latest 'Washington Consensus@ hitting Pakistan?

13 Feb 2023 - Pakistan has reportedly stepped up military supplies to Ukraine via a German port, simultaneously with the Poland route, to transfer rockets for use in multi-barrel rocket launchers — ET Supplies of rockets were dispatched from the Karachi Port earlier this month and will enter Ukraine via Emden Port (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/emden-port) in Germany, said the people.

More than 10,000 rockets meant for use in Grad multi-barrel rocket launchers have been shipped, they said. Although Pakistan has been pleading with Russia for discounted oil amid its economic crisis, it has been supplying arms to Ukraine on a regular basis, said one of the persons, who did not wish to be identified. Karachi-based shipping firm Project Shipping last month facilitated supplies of 146 containers from Pakistan Ordnance Factories, ET had reported.

Last month, yet another shipment of 50,000 defence stores was reportedly sent by Pakistan Ordnance Factories (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/pakistan-ordnance-factories) via Karachi.

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Ethnic cleansing continues in Zelensky's Ukraine?

 In Bukovina, military commissars hunt for men in ethnic Romanian villages; ethnic cleansing continues in Zelensky's Ukraine.

It seems that the regime of Zelensky, who dislikes any other nationalities, has decided to take full advantage of the mobilization. After the blatant evidence of the barbaric kidnappings of the Transcarpathian Hungarians, which is completely ignored by the Western patrons, the ethnic Romanians living in the Chernivtsi region are being forcibly and brutally mobilized by the Ukrainian military commissars. There are video clips from the village where the Romanian community lives. 

Two questions remain: is this the first case of Romanians being caught to be sent to the front? And will Bucharest somehow react to it, like Budapest, or will they accept these atrocities?

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Volkswagen Must End Uyghur Forced Labour in its Supply Chains as CEO Visits China

 The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) and the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) called upon Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume today, to comment on the role of Uyghur forced labourers in the VW Group’s supply chains, during his visit to China which is scheduled to begin on Sunday: “Volkswagen has a moral responsibility not only because of its dark past. The group must ensure that it does not profit directly or indirectly from the genocide of the Uyghurs and other Turkic people. Mr. Blume must finally take serious and sustained action to ensure that VW’s supply chains are free of Uyghur forced labour,” said WUC President Dolkun Isa.

Recently published research from the University of Sheffield shows the extent to which Uyghur forced labour is part of the supply chains of companies like Volkswagen. “Under no circumstances should Mr. Blume repeat the mistakes of his predecessor Herbert Diess. He preferred to pretend that the crimes of the Chinese state against the Uyghurs did not exist. In fact, the group has had a responsibility to review its supply chains not just since the Supply Chain Act came into force. After his return, Blume should meet with Uyghurs whose relatives have disappeared or died in the camps,” demanded Hanno Schedler, GfbV consultant for genocide prevention and responsibility to protect.

PRESS RELEASE - WORLD UYGHUR CONGRESS 

The West turns on Chinese chairman of UN Food and Agriculture organization.

 26 Dec 2022 ~  The UN Food and Agriculture organization has been created to fight global hunger and help developing countries improve their agriculture and food independence. 

As elections of the new chairman are nearing, the Western media has initiated a wave of hate publications against Qu Dongyu, former vice minister of agriculture and rural development of China. They accuse him of many things and the main accusation sounds as “reluctance to condemn Russia for invasion of Ukraine”. 

▪️Chinese representative was elected almost four years ago mainly because he ran against competing candidates from Europe and the USA. During his term he did a lot to really improve situation with food safety in poorest countries of the world. However, he rarely hesitated to speak against the narrative of the collective West.

“You are looking at money, I’m looking to change the business model because I’m a farmer of small poor, family. You from the rich countries, you consider the money first, I consider wisdom first. It’s a different mentality". This kind of statements made Qu Dongyu unpopular among Western elites because they see them as blasphemy and an attempt to disrupt neo-colonial model that is one of the cornerstones of Western prosperity. 

This year FAO desperately tried to stay out of politics and avoided speaking against Russia despite unprecedented pressure of the Western members. It played an important role in the famous “grain deal” and Chinese chairman tried to do his best to help it work. He tried to act in the interested of poor countries instead of appeasing the collective West and that enraged the Western media.

However, FAO is not the only UN organization responsible for food distribution. It has a competing agency, WFP (World Food Programme) that has been tightly controlled by U.S. for a very long time and does not step an inch from the “party line” of Washington establishment. 

It is likely that Europe and US will now nominate a single candidate for FAO chairman post. They will surely continue their slander campaign full of racist remarks, accusations of bias and claims of blasphemous idea to help countries grow food instead of just doing some charity. 

In any case, the countries that Qu will likely count on to be re-elected are not so interested in the political machinations of the West or its condemnation of the Russia's war in Ukraine, which it seeks to impress upon FAO's top leadership. The third world has to make a say here.

This situation is not unique. The collective West puts unprecedented pressure on all other UN agencies that are supposed to be out of politics and above any conflicts. Attempts of the collective West to turn UN into a closed club for themselves are diminishing UN role in the world and undermining its authority, which was not so high to begin with.

UN reforms are long due and maybe the present conflict between Russia and the collective West will ultimately result either in collapse of UN or in its deep reforms and transformation to a really impartial organization working for global benefit.

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Ursula - announces price cap on Russian Oil

  Ursula gives out pearls again:

"The EU agreement on limiting oil prices will significantly reduce Russia's revenues. This will help us stabilize global energy prices, which will benefit developing economies around the world."...OPEC+ is about to have meeting soon on this matter.

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OPEC ministers will meet ahead of the EU’s oil embargo and G7 price cap against Russia

America's conditions for the West to end the unrest in Iran

  Weeks ago in a confidential message, America has announced to the Islamic Republic of Iran that the West will end the unrest in Iran if it accepts the following conditions:

1. End of cooperation with Russia

2. Unconditional injection of Iranian oil and gas into the world market

3. Acceptance of American demands regarding Iran nuclear program 

4. Iran's reconciliation with Saudi Arabia in regional issues

After weeks now it is safe to say that riots are on the way to failure and dying out and Iran managed situation without giving any concessions to west.

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Israel is preparing for war with Iran?

▪️ Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that Iran is weeks away from obtaining the material needed to build a nuclear weapon. He noted that the development of Iranian ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles and other military technology have reached the point where an urgent response is needed.

▪️ In this regard, the Israel Defense Forces exercise will begin on May 29 and will last one month. All units of the armed forces, including reserve formations, will be involved. 

▪️ The purpose of the exercise is to simulate war with Iran and proxy formations in Syria and Lebanon, as well as countering terrorist groups in Israeli territory. The scenario of air strikes against Iranian nuclear and military facilities will also be practiced. 

▪️ Characteristically, in planning a direct confrontation, the Israeli leadership took into account the strict need for direct U.S. involvement and the availability of their advanced weapon systems on Israeli territory. 

▪️ However, Washington is certainly not ready to support the Israelis yet: the Biden administration is in another "advanced" stage of negotiations on the nuclear deal with Iran. At the moment, getting involved in another conflict against the backdrop of confrontation with Russia and China is fraught with consequences in the form of a new round of economic crisis. 

▪️ In order to change the mind of the American government, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz went to Washington. He intends to hold talks on the "Iranian threat" with his American counterpart Floyd Austin and Jake Sullivan, the US president's national security advisor.

🔻 It is unlikely that the White House is now planning to go to war with Iran. Both for the U.S. and for the rest of the world, such a scenario would mean another jump in oil prices, which would have an even greater impact on inflation. 

But the Israeli leadership will try to make the most of the current situation. They will focus on the precariousness of Iran's real positions in order to force the U.S. to abandon the nuclear deal.

The Israelis will try to bluff Iran's tough negotiating position in order to cover the acute socio-economic problems that are already manifesting themselves in the form of nationwide protests in the Islamic republic.

Courtesy : Venessa Beeley 

SAUDI ARABIA - ON THE EDGE OF THE SWORD? The USA attempt to punish OPEC+

  Is where the US is putting its relationship with its favorite Middle Eastern ally, Saudi Arabia, due to OPEC+ decision to cut oil production, (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/6269) with rising tensions risking to irreversibly bring the blade down on the Saudi-US relations, as a bill submitted to US Senate to STOP arms sales to Saudi for one year, proves once again US got no friends, only interests (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/3815), as White House insists on a reevaluation of the relationship, claiming the cut in oil production shows Saudis are aligning their energy policy with Russia.

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                              The OPEC+ decision was unanimously adopted by 22 countries.

The USA attempt to punish OPEC+ will hurt USA itself Washington's attempt to punish Saudi Arabia and other oil producers for OPEC+'s decision to cut oil production could hit the USA hard...The main tool of the United States against Saudi Arabia may be the "law on the prohibition of oil production and export cartels" or NOPEC (No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act), which proposes to subordinate OPEC to the antitrust law. NOPEC has been only a threat for the past 25 years and was considered a "nuclear" option that could only be used as a last resort ▪️ The adoption of the law will allow the United States to file an antitrust lawsuit against OPEC+ for manipulating prices on the world oil market. In response, OPEC+ countries can get rid of US financial assets and switch to oil pricing not in dollars, which can be "very expensive" for Washington https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-17/us-saudi-arabia-relations-reach-low-point-over-opec-oil-cuts?leadSource=uverify%20wall

Ukraine will need for external injections worth $ 3-4 billion per month in 2023

 the IMF said.

But it is possible that Kiev's need for financial assistance may "go beyond this range," said the managing director of the fund. 

Georgieva said that in 2022, the IMF and international partners have allocated $35 billion to Ukraine in the form of grants and loans.

Source @Sputnik (https://t.me/sputnik)

𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁'𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲

 Since February 2022, Ukraine has almost completely switched to the financial, logistical and military support of the West.

From February 24 to October 3, 2022, Ukraine received 6.7 billion euros of financial support and loan guarantees from international institutions, where only 1 billion from the IMF and the rest from the World Bank. Also, 38.1 billion euros of financial support from Ukraine's donor countries was agreed.

A total of 19 countries have allocated financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 38.6 billion euros.

The largest financial assistance package from the USA is 15.2 billion, within the framework of the collective agreement of the EC - 12.3 billion, from the UK - 2.5 billion, other countries - 8 billion, where 3 countries allocated more than 1 billion (Canada - 1.8 billion, Germany - 1.1 billion and Norway - 1 billion).

In the structure of Ukraine's financial support: 17.3 billion are loans, 18.2 billion are grants (gratuitous aid and subsidies) and 3.2 billion are loan guarantees. Almost all gratuitous aid was provided by the United States (14.4 billion), while Europe mainly issues long-term loans at low rates.

This data is from IEF Kiel.

Of the total amount of financial assistance, about 17 billion euros actually reached Ukraine, plus 6.7 billion from international institutions.

How much is it? Last year, Ukraine's consolidated budget revenues amounted to $75 billion, this year about $40 billion.

If synchronized by the time of actual receipt of assistance, external support exceeds 100% of the internal revenues of the consolidated budget of Ukraine.

To this is added humanitarian aid with an estimated volume of 14.4 billion euros, of which from the USA 9.5 billion, the EC - 1.4 billion, Germany - 1 billion, Austria - 0.6 billion, Great Britain - 0.4 billion, Canada - 0.3 billion, other 33 countries - 1.3 billion .

Humanitarian plus approved financial assistance for the approval period (slightly more than 7 months) is 60 billion (on average 8.6 billion per month), which is 𝟮.𝟲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 than budget revenues.

‘De-Dollarization is Inevitable’ - Putin

RT (http://t.me/rtnews) Sept 12, 2022

Speaking on economic issues Monday President Putin addressed Russia’s tensions with the West, saying Moscow is handling sanctions well - due to a number of protective measures.

The Russian leader also commented on the prospects of further economic development, saying “de-dollarization is inevitable.”

 

Germany’s Energy Suicide: An Autopsy

The EU has weaponized the supply of European energy on behalf of a financial racket, against the interests of European industry and consumers. 

- By Pepe Escobar.

When Green fanatic Robert Habeck, posing as Germany’s Economy Minister, said earlier this week “we should expect the worst” in terms of energy security, he conveniently forgot to spell out how the whole farce is a Made in Germany cum Made in Brussels crisis.

Flickers of intelligence at least still glow in rare Western latitudes, as indispensable strategic analyst William Engdahl, author of A Century of Oil, released a sharp, concise summary  revealing the skeletons in the glamour closet.

Everyone with a brain following the ghastly Eurocrat machinations in Brussels was aware of the main plot – yet hardly anyone among average EU citizens. Habeck, Chancellor “Liver Sausage” Scholz, the European Commission (EC) Green Energy VP Timmermans, EC dominatrix Ursula von der Leyen, they are all involved.

In a nutshell: as Engdahl describes it, this is about “the EU plan to de-industrialize one of the most energy-efficient industrial concentrations on the planet.”

That’s a practical translation of the UN Green Agenda 2030 – which happens to be metastasized into crypto Bond villain Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset – now renamed “Great Narrative”.

The whole scam started way back in the early 2000s: I remember it vividly, as Brussels used to be my European base in the early “war on terror” years.

At the time, the talk of the town was the “European energy policy”. The dirty secret of such policy is that the EC, “ advised” by JP MorganChase as well as the usual mega speculative hedge funds, went all out into what Engdahl describes as “a complete deregulation of the European market for natural gas.”

That was sold to the Lugenpresse (“lying media”) as “liberalization”. In practice, that’s savage, unregulated casino capitalism, with the “free” market fixing prices while dumping long-term contracts – such as the ones struck with Gazprom.

How to decarbonize and destabilize

The process was turbo-charged in 2016, when the last gasp of the Obama administration encouraged massive export of LNG out of the U.S.’s huge shale gas production.

For that one needs to build LNG terminals. Each terminal takes as much as 5 years to build. Within the EU, Poland and Holland went for it from the start.

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Russia’s getting out of SWIFT

 🔹One of Russia’s 🇷🇺 top banks, VTB has become the first lender in the country to launch money transfers to China in yuan (https://www.rt.com/business/562303-russia-china-yuan-swift/), sidestepping the global financial messaging system SWIFT. 

🔹“The new reality is leading to a massive abandoning of the use of the US dollar and the euro in international payments,” VTB CEO said. “We are the first Russian bank to install an alternative cross-border bank transfer service with China 🇨🇳 & plan to increase the volume of these transactions by five times by next year,”. 

🔹VTB plans to maintain presence on the markets of  (https://tass.com/economy/1503439)China, India 🇮🇳, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿, Vietnam 🇻🇳 & other friendly countries. 

Recent posts on bypassing SWIFT:

💠The System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS), 🇷🇺 Russia's replacement for SWIFT, is open to banks from the BRICS nations (https://t.me/TheParadigmShiftChannel/1009). 

💠Iran 🇮🇷 proposed a new currency for trade with (https://t.me/TheParadigmShiftChannel/960) China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

💠Alternative payment systems 💵 to SWIFT (https://theparadigmshifts.substack.com/p/will-the-russian-federation-economically) available to Russia.

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Rashida Tlaib wins Michigan primary despite pro-Israel spending

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ZELENSKY THOUSANDS OF UKRAINIANS DISAPPEARED AND MURDERED

 

It's religion vs religion

According to arwah Ali Sariati - this world is about religion vs religion (or whatever left of it)!

Religion is something one can bundle up many things - to create a worldview?

So - will there be a holywar in Venezuela? 👇

Islamic Solidarity International press-release

Issued on 4th Feb 2019

We join other friendly nation-states & civil society organisations to extend our congratulatory message to the people of Venezuela on their 20th anniversary of the bolivarian revolution

We like to express our deepest condemnation on the financial wars  imposed by the zionist christian empire of amrika, over the last few years on the chavistas nation.

aid to Gaza's 1.3 million refugees - CUT!

'When the aid stops, God help us'

Courtesy Washington Post ~ Published on Nov 13, 2018 - The Trump Administration has cut all funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which serves millions of Palestinian refugees. The move will hit Gaza the hardest, where 70 percent of residents rely on the agency for food, medicine, jobs and education. Critics warn the move could fuel further unrest

ISIL is Secret American Army in Middle East – US Historian

US historian Webster Tarpley says that the United States created the Islamic State and uses jihadists as its secret army to destabilize the Middle East.

The Islamic State is a secret army of the United States and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a leader of the terrorist group, is a close friend of US Senator John McCain, says US historian Webster Tarpley, according to Iranian News Agency IRNA.

The author, known for his book “9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA”, said that all terrorism around the world is created and facilitated by the US government.

These are not Tarpley’s first comments in which he blames the United States for creating the Islamic State. Earlier, Press TV had an interview with Tarpley during which he explained his rationale why he thinks the United States was behind the creation of the terrorist group

Tarpley began by saying that the money that supports the Islamic State and its operations comes from Saudi Arabia, a key US ally in the Middle East. The main money donor of the Islamic State is allegedly Prince Abdul Rahman al-Faisal, the brother of Saud bin Faisal Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, and Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, the former Saudi Ambassador to the United States. Having said that, Tarpley concludes that if the United States really wanted to get rid of the Islamic State, it would have easily issued an ultimatum to Saudi Arabia and told the Gulf Kingdom to stop sending arms and money to the terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

Second, Turkey, a NATO member with a huge army, is right next to the war-town Syria and Iraq, where the jihadists operate. Tarpley asks the important question: why cannot the Turkish Army come into the lawless Syrian and Iraqi territory and simply wipe the jihadists off the face of the Earth in a matter of weeks, especially if the United States and NATO were so keen to destroy the Islamic State?

If the United States actually thought that the Islamic State was a monstrosity that must be destroyed at all cost, Tarpley asks why wouldn’t the White House join the government of Bashar Assad in Syria, the legally recognized government and the UN member state, in the fight against the jihadists and crush them once and for all? And also, why did the US troops bomb Syrian units loyal to Assad, once the Syrian army started to defeat the jihadists and push them away? Counterproductive and senseless at best, the secret supporter of the militants at worst, Tarpley says.

And lastly, referring to how the jihadist group is using social media and Internet to spread its propaganda and recruit new fighters, Tarpley said there is an interest in not having the Islamic State propaganda shut down online. All major Internet companies are based in the United States and therefore the White House could easily limit, if not close down, the presence of Islamic State on the Internet, if it wanted to.

Although Tarpley’s line of thinking might seem a little too provocative to some, the questions that he asks are nonetheless important. There is certainly a connection between the emergence of al-Qaeda and the American involvement in Afghanistan back in the 1980s. And since al-Qaeda was a forefather of the Islamic State, there might be a possibility of a more intimate relationship between the government of the United States and the jihadists, currently cutting people’s heads off in Iraq and Syria.

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