Punishing China will likely backfire against the dollar and unleash a de-dollarization wave that could knock it off the reserve status. Here’s what you must know!America’s Ultimate Mistake via Sean Foo
If the United States and its allies impose Russian style blanket sanctions on China, this could be the greatest financial mistake in all of its modern history. Unlike Russia, China is enormous and more resilient and has deeper ties across the global economy.
“China’s economy is 10 times larger than that of Russia. Its banking sector is 30 times larger than that of Russia.
Daleep Singh, the man in charge of Russia sanctions policy at the White House when he worked as the .Senate Banking Committee
It’s the largest manufactured goods exporter in the world by a very large margin.
It has a dominant position in many different critical supply chains, solar panels, EV batteries, machine tools, 5G, even parts of the semiconductor supply chain like assembly and packaging.
It also has nearly a pure status with us on foundational technologies like AI, biotech and even quantum computing,” he said.
China Has Friends, More Than US
“China has also accumulated a lot of soft power since the Belt & Road Initiative was initiated in 2013.
It’s the largest lender to emerging market countries, two times as much as all other Western governments combined, and much more than the World Bank.”
General Li Shangfu, China’s new miltary commander, at a session of the National People’s Congress in Beijing, March 12, 2023.
70% of the world has a favorable view of Russia and China. The ‘good news‘, most of the world prefers American-style “freedom” to Chinese-style “autocracy.
“They prevent us from having the right to health, according to them a single doctor must provide for the treatment needs of a prisoner on the 140th day of fasting” says the lawyer Flavio Rossi Albertini comments on the Ministry’s decision to deny the visit of a second doctor trusted doctor Giovanna Barbara Cicardi.
According to the Ministry, with the visits of Dr. Andrea Crosignani, Cospito’s right to health would already be satisfied. Taking into account that the prisoner is subjected to the 41bis regime to sever the connections with the anarchist world, one does not withdraw from having to admit an additional healthcare worker in order not to prejudice the rationale of the provision is the explanation.
But it’s not over. The lawyer continues: “In the 41 bis department of the San Paolo today there was the director of the work, the medical director of the San Paolo and…
I’m lucky to be alive and well and happy for the most part – and more than anything I hope that you can say the same. We live poised in such strange times.
I’m excited to report to you that I have finished the lucerne fence enclosure. Affordable and easy to construct for a small human with few resources and even less skill, I’ve chosen to build it almost entirely out of shit and cheese, materials that I’ve laced carefully together with snot. Theoretically enabling me to grow at least some percentage of Yummy One myself, I aim to use it to make sustainable living sustainable.
I empty the bird houses out onto dug-in paper sacks from the Yummy One I’ve had to buy all winter: the houses’ contents – of woodchip and fire ash, the obligatory filth of fowl – is upended and topped with a layer of molehill earth that I’ve collected from across the meadow. It has become warm now, lightened by their work not mine, and falls to mark this change in season.
“Progress” is a word I haven’t had much truck with for a while. Subsistence farming just isn’t a goal-driven lifestyle. Once in a while though – and I’m super pleased to be able to share the moment with you – way markers do come.
Perhaps all lives are a treadmill.
When I take a swede from the sandbox in the barn – the last of our root vegetables – it has begun to grow. There in the dimness, its moon white shoots have pushed out from the neck that I cut short in October, forming leaves that have never seen the day. They’re very strong. The forcing stems hardly give to my touch.
I’m experimenting, on my windowsill, with its regeneration.
Maybe in this step-change of seasons, we can take pause together. It’s a suitable moment to talk of progress and progeniture.
Here we are again at the time for birthing – one year since I began to write to you. I’m approaching the tenth anniversary of my little girl arriving in the world. She calls the baby goats and lambs her birthday presents. But it’s a strange time, as I say – and bittersweet – to celebrate such things. Humans stand so unsteady in our own cycles of advancement.
In just a few years for instance, we’ve recently heard that we’ll be able to farm children in artificial wombs, genetically predisposed to razor sharp concentration and organised bedrooms. In utero, of sorts – their embryonic progress showcased in real-time data and available to view remotely from an app on a mobile phone – our hopes will bloom, transparent in their blind, monitored pods.
And elsewhere, those of us who are no longer young see legacies we do not wish to leave.
Now’s a good time to think about generational change.
This episode of Walking With Goats therefore is less of an outing and more of a rest stop. A chance to chew over destinations in general, and where our own journeys end.
In one of the most beautiful spring mornings that I have ever witnessed, I walk my six sheep through the new green of the woods. The sky is an open promise and the sunlight is wet on every branch and twig, but in the softness of birdsong – perhaps every three or four minutes, I suppose – a long, low rumble turns the air.
This is the sound of the army range. The stillness is such that it travels 30 miles from the empty hills where today they practice war. Cofiwch Epynt is still scrawled on walls sometimes in local towns, to remember the forced removal of the community who farmed the Epynt. Some years ago I had cause to drive its empty roads. There are still houses. If you stop your car and look in through their windows, the mimicry of life has been retained for the sake of the soldiers’ practice. There is a pub. It has a sign above the door. Inside, there are false beer taps and a bar where no friends sit to talk, with tall stools still placed all the way around it.
I read a letter from a man who witnessed the crimes of Ukraine. He is a journalist. He wrote the text of an appeal to President Biden I couldn’t help but show it to my American and European friends.
(Not) Dear President of the United States of America, Joe Biden.
On March 5, 2023, at 10:20 a.m., the Ukrainian armed forces, using HIMARS rocket systems supplied by you, attempted to kill children who had come to a party in the city of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region.
I was with Ksenia Lebedeva in the hall where a concert for children was to be held.
A rocket exploded 20 meters from the House of Culture, the walls trembled and you know, not a muscle in the children’s faces flinched. They are used to being shot at every day.
The city doesn’t even turn on the sirens, because if they did, they’d never be able to turn them off, ever.
You’re lucky you didn’t take another sin on your soul. Look at their faces, with that kind of younger generation, you will never beat us.
I hope you are not so out of your mind that you do not understand what is going on.
Oleg Dolgopolov, TV director (Belarus)
HIMARS: Multiple rocket launcher, Tactical ballistic missile .. Place of origin: United States.. Wikipedia
On the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we continue to argue that a new, if historically familiar, tendency is emerging – an internationalist revolutionary class struggle realignment, as a response to the reality of war and its existential threat.
Poster with thanks to comrades at Tridni Valka
Our response is to continue building good relationships with revolutionary internationalist militants on this basis.
War will not cease without it.
This is not new, as the following article written in 2014 by comrades in AnarCom marking the Russian occupation of Crimea in the 100th anniversary of the First World War demonstrates:
1914-2014 – the Great War continues
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke
As the threat of war looms in Eastern Europe echoing the threat of a third World War yet to come, the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One looms more as a lesson for our time than merely an obsession of academic geeks.
In 1914, a violent act of Slav nationalism took the brakes off Europe’s alliances and treaty systems driving rival power blocks into a devastating armed conflict that wracked Europe with its consequences for the century to come.
The current conflict is as much framed by treaties and timetables as then. Russia wants its share of Ukraine before it slides into the framework of the EU and NATO and the stakes would be higher.
Before the current fog over the Crimea there were those in Britain who sought to revise the First World War and claim it as a source of national pride and dress up the death of 13 million as a price worth paying in a ‘just’ war.
Were the millions of workers led into a war between ruling elites of bankers and aristocrats “lions led by donkeys” or true sons of freedom defending all that was good in Britain?
The debate is a smoke screen to hide one of the greatest mass murders in history.
It’s hardly surprising that those who want to celebrate the generals and spirit of Empire and claim the war as ‘just’, are the privileged great grandchildren of the ‘donkeys’.
The current conflict has the same roots as its historical predecessor – a conflict between elites, the gangster capitalism of the Russian oligarchs versus the free market plunderers of the neoliberal European club.
‘Just’ or ‘unjust’ is the new smokescreen again.
International conflicts between or within states only have one lesson, and that is those of us with no real stake, workers on both sides, die, lead or driven by the donkeys, to preserve their power, profit and privilege.
The lessons now as then are the same – we die, they pillage, and their pride is our shame.
On the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we continue to argue that a new, if historically familiar, tendency is emerging – an internationalist revolutionary class struggle realignment, as a response to the reality of war and its existential threat.
Our response is to continue building good relationships with revolutionary internationalist militants on this basis. War will not cease without it. This is not new, as the following article written in 2014 by comrades in AnarCom marking the Russian occupation of Crimea in the 100th anniversary of the First World War demonstrates:
1914-2014 – the Great War continues
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke
As the threat of war looms in Eastern Europe echoing the threat of a third World War yet to come, the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One looms more as a lesson for our time than merely an obsession of academic geeks.
In 1914, a violent act of Slav nationalism took the brakes off Europe’s alliances and treaty systems driving rival power blocks into a devastating armed conflict that wracked Europe with its consequences for the century to come.
The current conflict is as much framed by treaties and timetables as then. Russia wants its share of Ukraine before it slides into the framework of the EU and NATO and the stakes would be higher.
Before the current fog over the Crimea there were those in Britain who sought to revise the First World War and claim it as a source of national pride and dress up the death of 13 million as a price worth paying in a ‘just’ war.
Were the millions of workers led into a war between ruling elites of bankers and aristocrats “lions led by donkeys” or true sons of freedom defending all that was good in Britain?
The debate is a smoke screen to hide one of the greatest mass murders in history. It’s hardly surprising that those who want to celebrate the generals and spirit of Empire and claim the war as ‘just’, are the privileged great grandchildren of the ‘donkeys’.
The current conflict has the same roots as its historical predecessor – a conflict between elites, the gangster capitalism of the Russian oligarchs versus the free market plunderers of the neoliberal European club. ‘Just’ or ‘unjust’ is the new smokescreen again.
International conflicts between or within states only have one lesson, and that is those of us with no real stake, workers on both sides, die, lead or driven by the donkeys, to preserve their power, profit and privilege.
The lessons now as then are the same – we die, they pillage, and their pride is our shame.
Russia has disabled NATO’s satellite links on the battlefields
“On the Ukrainian side of the front line, a major, albeit slow, breakthrough appears to be taking place.
For months, the only reason the Ukrainians have been able to contain the Russians is that their access, via mobile internet, to NATO satellite data and analytical information has allowed their artillery and rocket systems to accurately target Russian equipment and troops.
Мобильный комплекс пеленгации «Борщевик»
This forced the Russians to act quickly: they moved into position, fired a salvo at a Ukrainian target and moved away before that position could be engaged.
The data came from Elon Musk’s 20,000 Starlink satellite internet terminals spread along the 1,000 km front line. As is often the case, the most effective form of technology is often counter-technology: cheap but effective devices that turn very expensive advanced technology into useless junk.
This is precisely what is happening now thanks to the efforts of bright young Russian engineers and scientists working at the Sestroretsk military plant.
They have achieved something that the American designers of the Starlink terminals thought impossible. Their new truck-mounted system of the Borschevik type is capable of locating active Starlink terminals in a 180-degree sector and a radius of 10 km with an accuracy of 5 meters.
It is a passive system, which means that it cannot be discovered by the signal it emits, as it does not emit a signal.
Private company “Sestroretsky weapons Zavod” has developed the “Borshchevik” complex, designed for direction finding of operating Starlink satellite Internet terminals.
The truck is a small moving target and the system does its job in two minutes if it is stationary and in 15 minutes if it is moving from one point to another, targeting up to 64 Starlink terminals at a time. The information is automatically transmitted to the artillery and missile batteries.
So far, the results have been very positive: Borschevik has been able to locate not only carefully camouflaged artillery emplacements, but also concentrations of foreign mercenaries (who are, no doubt, addicted to the Internet) and Ukrainian infantry detachments (who cannot fight without NATO telling them where to go and in which direction to direct their fire).
These positions were then razed to the ground using multiple rocket launch systems or guided missile systems such as the Krasnopol.
Обнаружение и определение местоположения абонентского оборудования Starlink
With the help of Borschevik, Russian tactics will change. Whereas until now they had to “shoot and run” to avoid retaliatory fire, they will now be able to start by destroying all Starlink terminals in the area, then move to the front line with trucks full of ammunition and keep firing until nothing moves on the Ukrainian side, and only then advance with infantry, clearing and establishing new positions.
Without Starlink, Ukrainian troops will just sit and wait for NATO orders, not knowing where to go or where to fire and waiting for an opportunity to surrender.
Once there are enough Borschevik-equipped trucks along the front lines, the Ukrainians will have no choice but to leave their Starlink terminals off most of the time and turn them on periodically to receive new orders, though by then it may be too late to execute them or they may be attacked and destroyed before they can.
This is the Achilles heel of the US plan to attack Russia using a proxy army of mostly remote-controlled puppets, and the Russians have figured it out and found a way to exploit it: cut off their communications with NATO, and it’s pretty much done.Let’s see!
Another Maidan revolution organized by the West, which has already destroyed Ukrainian statehood and led to a full-scale war in Europe, is gaining momentum in Georgia. The ongoing protests in Tbilisi have already shown their real goals, which are far from those officially declared by their leaders from the Georgian opposition.
So far, the protesters have stated their unwillingness to know who is being paid from abroad and who is pursuing foreign interests in their country, declaring that they prefer “European ideals” and chimerical Western freedom of speech. t
More recently, the real political goals behind the ongoing protests have begun to emerge. Starting with riots against a bill aimed at identifying foreign agents in the country, the protesters have already turned to geopolitical issues.
Unfortunately, inspired by the puppet opposition, which cares only about its own prosperity and the benefits offered by Western elites, and blinded by the illusory prospect of joining the prosperous “Western garden”, the protesters who are now bravely storming the Georgian parliament clearly do not understand that the only way to get into the “garden” is to sacrifice their own lives for the sake of NATO’s interests in a new war with Russia.
The years of war have already claimed the lives of thousands of Ukrainians, but the Kiev regime was still not welcome in the European Union, let alone its membership in NATO. The revolution in Georgia follows the same bloody scenario.
It all started on March 7, when the Georgian Parliament approved a bill on foreign agents aimed at publicizing the work of public figures and organizations who are paid from abroad. Initially, the ruling Georgian Dream party and the Power of the People movement offered two options.
The first, the so-called Georgian option assumes that non-profit legal entities and the media will receive the status of foreign agents if more than 20% of their income comes from abroad. Such organizations must undergo mandatory registration; if they refuse to do so, they will be fined, and the Ministry of Justice will have the right to launch an investigation against them.
The second “American” version of the bill is based on the Law on Registration of Foreign Agents, adopted in the United States in 1938. It reaches not only the mass media and non-governmental organizations, but also other legal entities and individuals. Its violations are fraught with not only administrative, but also criminal punishment.
The second version was submitted to parliament after the opposition criticized the first bill, saying that it was based on Russian law. The second bill is aimed at showing how much tougher the American version is.
On March 7, the Georgian parliament approved a softer “Georgian” version, which the opposition called a “Russian” or “Kremlin” law, despite the fact that it was an exclusively Georgian interpretation of the law in force in dozens of countries; and the patron of the “liberal West”, Washington, was a pioneer in this area, adopting such a tough law in the late 1930s.
The Prime Minister of Georgia explained that “until now, no one has considered the possibility of condemning the law on foreign agents in force in the United States. Similar laws apply in other countries. And the Georgian authorities are doing everything to strengthen Georgia’s sovereignty.”
For example, the Asian Development Bank, in a review of the state of the civil sector in Georgia published in 2020, indicated that there is no special legislation on non-profit or non-governmental organizations in the country, but they are registered in the general register of companies, and as of 2019, there were 12.8 thousand non-profit organizations in this list. At the same time, the absolute majority of such organizations rely on foreign funding.
Non-governmental organizations and their members played a decisive role not only in the “Rose Revolution” of 2003, when Mikhail Saakashvili came to power, but also in 2012, when the current ruling Georgian Dream won the elections, the bank’s research notes.
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The Free 
