Proxy war
Proxy war – a war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate
Ordezko gerlaz:
Oraingoa:
Errusia versus (Ukraina, AEB, EB, NATO)
Laster ikusiko duguna:
Txina versus (Taiwan, AEB, EB?, NATO)
Gerla horien atzean dagoena: sistema multipolarra versus sistema unipolarra
BRICS
Learn #MMT
Warren Mosler
(http://www.collectedworksofwarrenmosler.com/)
Randall Wray
Randall Wray: Dirua hasiberrientzat
Randall Wray: dirua hasiberrientzat (elkarrizketa)
“Whaever is doable is financially affordable”, alegia, “Egingarria den edozer eskuragarria da
finantzen aldetik.”
Randall Wray: Egin al dezakegu diruak guretzat lan egin dezan?
Randall Wray: nola MTM-k mundua salba dezakeen (elkarrizketa)
“Whar matters is resoursez, not money”, alegia, “Axola duena baliabideak dira, ez dirua.”
Sarrera:
No feu còrrer aquest video més que molesta molt a l’espanyolada
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1689888747574132736
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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu
Kataluniak galdu zuen bere ‘xarma’ 2017ko urrian:
Saldukeria, ihesa, ipar politikoa erabat galduta…,
Harrez geroztik, neoautonomismo hutsa eta Europako ‘distopian’ sartzeko amets gaiztoak,….
Ná de ná!
Irtenbidea:
XXI. mendeko Independentziaz: https://unibertsitatea.net/blogak/heterodoxia/2021/01/26/xxi-mendeko-independentziaz/
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https://www.rt.com/news/581164-youtube-bans-scott-ritter/
YouTube bans Scott Ritter
The site has completely scrubbed the channel of the former US intelligence officer, who has repeatedly voiced support for Russia
Former United Nations Chief Weapons Inspector on Iraq Scott Ritter talks to readers during the presentation of his book Disarmament Race, dedicated to nuclear security, at the Pobeda Culture and Leisure Centre in Novosibirsk, Russia. © Sputnik/Andrey Bortko
YouTube has terminated the account of former US spy Scott Ritter and deleted all of his videos on the platform. According to Ritter, the Google-owned social media giant accused his channel of violating the terms of service.
Writing on X (formerly known as Twitter), Ritter stated that his channel, ‘The Scott Ritter Show’, through which he attempted to “import Russian voices to an American/Western audience,” had been flagged for ‘hate speech’ and taken down without prior warning or any specific examples of the offense.
“There was never any hate speech involved in any of the episodes of ‘The Scott Ritter Show’, unless one views unique content from silenced voices hateful,” Ritter said, calling the move “the latest in a series of actions by YouTube to silence Russian voices.”
“[This] represents the living manifestation of the disease of Russophobia which has swept America and US-based social media platforms,” he wrote.
Western media under ‘military censorship’ – Kremlin
In a separate post, Ritter noted that in addition to his channel, YouTube had also deleted the ‘Ask The Inspector’ channel, claiming that the move is “a targeted effort by YouTube to remove/minimize my voice, and those of my guests and the people who took the time to ask probing questions about the pressing issues of the day.”
“Those who are behind this should know – you won’t succeed,” Ritter said, adding that there is a “vast social media world” beyond YouTube, while warning those that remain on the platform that they will at some point have to conform to it or have their channels deleted, too.
“Both of them: Ask the Inspector and ‘The Scott Ritter Show. We’re moving to Rumble,” he told RT on Friday. You can share this story on social media:
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Niger Update Direct consequences of ECOWAS sanctions on the population of Niger are a hundred trucks bound for Niger blocked in Malanville, the border town between Benin and Niger and Nigeria cutting off the electricity supply to Niger. Why punish the population of Niger?
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690412051573755904
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Case in point, just one of many:
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“Federal Government has the unique legal and financial capacity, relative to the local and State governments and the private sector, to credibly commit to funding the programs and institutions necessary to establish a true full employment economy, ….
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Warren B. Mosler@wbmosler
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Case in point, just one of many: https://congress.gov/bill/117th-con
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in which every individual wishing to undertake paid work can do so”.
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“To adequately and appropriately fund these efforts on a permanent, nondiscretionary basis, using Congress power of the purse, through a combination of Federal support to local and State governments, and various direct Federal grant and investment programs”
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And then to adjust fiscal balance such to keep the JG pool at the minimum size necessary to maintain price stability.
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JG [Job Guarantee] framing: Brits in Africa levied hut tax/created unemployment then offered work o]n the plantation to all NOT BECAUSE WORK IS A HUMAN RIGHT. Taxation causes unemplymnt by design- gov not hiring the unemplyd created by gov tax is a malicious crime. JG works to reverse this error.
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Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle
“We will never allow France to interfere in our affairs. If France risks an intervention, then it will just have to kill the entire civilian population.” – Citizens of Niger
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690468789115088897
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This is all that Zelensky was able to muster for the counteroffensive. Reinforcement of elderly Ukrainians, who were caught by the military commissars in the rear, line up on the front line for an attack that will be the last for every second of them. (the photo is two days old, so with a probability of 98% most of them are already dead).
Black in the Empire@blackintheempir
The US and France are terrified they won’t be able to get the African countries they control to attack Niger and have to do it themselves, proving to the world they are still the abusive thieving colonizers they always were and care nothing about human rights, values or democracy
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Nigerian military warns about plot to instigate army to overthrow president Tinubu
The Nigerian Armed Forces High command says there are plots from different quarters to instigate members of the army of Nigeria to overthrow the present administration led by Bola Tinubu.
Spokesman for the Nigerian Armed Forces, however, told that the military does not express dissatisfaction with the existing system in the country and will not allow itself to be involved in any actions against current administration.
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Next time you hear the US blabbering about the “rules based order” you might want to refer to this report just issued by China’s Ministry of Commerce.
For the first time they’ve compiled the myriads of ways in which the US violated international trade law, whether it was by “undermining the multilateral trading rules, imposing unilateral sanctions, manipulating double standards in industrial policies, and disturbing global industrial and supply chains” or in general “taking unilateral measures against other members under the guise of so-called ‘national security,’ ‘human rights’ and ‘forced technology transfer'” and “coercing others into abiding by its diplomatic policies and illegitimate demands”.
The report is available here: https://news.cgtn.com/news/files/202
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NIGER PIPELINE: EUROPE’S SALVATION?
You may have noticed the West is quite worried about Niger’s new, post-coup direction. When you filter out all the noise about ‘defending democracy,’ there could be a lot more self-interest at work than many realise.
Sure, we’re all up to speed on France’s energy interests and US military interest in the country. But there’s also a new gas pipeline project – a key segment of which runs through Niger – that Europe’s pinned a lot of hope on.
Clayton Morris, the host of Redacted, argues here that it was supposed to come to the rescue after war and the Nord Stream explosion made Russian deliveries a no-no. US companies have a lot of money tied up in the project as well. It certainly puts much of the condemnation coming from the EU and Washington in a new light.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690010466255351808
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Where was the International Criminal Court when NATO bombed Libya into oblivion, turning it into a war-torn country with open slave markets?
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COMBATE |@upholdreality
abu. 11
GADDAFI (2009): “We joined the United Nations because we thought we were equals, only to find that one country can object to all the decisions we make. Who gave the permanent members their status in the Security Council? Four of them granted this status to themselves.
The only country that we in this Assembly elected to permanent member status in the Security Council is China. This was done democratically, but the other seats were imposed upon us undemocratically through a dictatorial procedure carried out against our will, and we should not accept it.”
David Roth-Lindberg@RothLindberg
How come I’ve never seen Greta protest against the US military? …
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova The Kiev regime is a neo-Nazi malignant growth on the body of Eastern Europe. It gives the Hitler salute, stages torchlight processions, harasses the Jewish population and, of course, espouses total Russophobia.
http://t.me/MFARussia/17003
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So this convicted terrorist and friend of the Manchester bomber says he was trained by NATO in the Libya war of 2011. This is something the Western mainstream media should be telling you. But they won’t….. #JoeBiden #TuckerCarlson #Tucker #Ukraine #UkraineRussianWar #Davidsacks #ElonMusk #CNN #MSNBC #BBC #SkyNews #NYTimes #ITV #TheTimes #abcnews #nbcnews #Zeit #BILD #STERN #ZDF #ARD #OAN #NEWSMAX
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690254804038103040
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Ambassador Andrei #Kelin to Jomana Hachim for @Alqaheranewstv:
Ukraine’s stalling counteroffensive
“Approximately 2 months ago, under pressure from the West, Ukraine decided to launch a decisive counteroffensive against our positions, aiming to demonstrate that the Ukrainian armed forces are capable of inflicting defeat upon us.
Since then, they have suffered significant losses and have not made any progress.
<…> The losses for the Ukrainian armed forces currently amount to 700-800 individuals per day.
Over the course of 2 months, they have lost 46,000 military personnel.
These are substantial figures, and we can observe that the Ukrainian counteroffensive is yielding virtually no practical results.
A considerable amount of their own equipment, as well as Western equipment, up to 30%, has been lost.
<…> Russian forces in the northern part of the Lugansk region continue to hold positions that were previously held by Ukrainian forces.
In essence, the offensive appears to be primarily focused there.
Therefore, despite these immense losses, unfortunately [for Kiev] there is no tangible outcome. We believe that the counteroffensive has essentially come to an end at this point.”
Watch the full interview:
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690333875803688960
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Internationalisation of INR – Report of the Inter-Departmental Group (IDG) of RBI. Our response to the report with editorial assistance from Warren Mosler. 1/13
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BQ Prime@bqprime
uzt. 24
The #RBI report for internationalisation of INR moots a phased glide path for the internalisation of the #rupee. Read #BQOpinion by @ShankkarAiyar. https://bqprime.com/markets/rupee-
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The report appears to have totally missed the benefit of policy options available, INR being a floating exchange rate currency (even the managed float doesn’t restrict greatly those policy options), as it brings back to the fore the real economy. 2/13
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Internationalisation of INR happens to the extent non residents want to net save INR, as evidenced by a country that runs persistent trade deficits. That desire to save INR, evidenced by net exports to India, is what makes the INR what’s called a reserve currency. 3/13
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Most important, however, is to keep one’s eye on optimizing india’s real wealth which =Total domestic output + imports – exports. So, how do we optimize real wealth? 4/13
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First and foremost is to optimize domestic output, which means sustaining full employment. India’s lost real output from underemployment and unemployment is beyond imagination. 5/13
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India’s labor force participation rate indicates real output could be increased substantially simply by adapting a true full employment policy, with living standards increasing accordingly. 6/13
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Domestic full employment is India’s low hanging fruit. Nearly 800 million, out of working age population of 1 billion, being underemployed or unemployed, wealth gain from full employment would be approx. INR 192 Lac Cr ($2.3 trillion) and then the multiplier impact 7/n
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from that wealth means a giant leap forward in the real standard of living, that is what awaits with that fundamental policy change to true full employment. 8/13
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External economy follows from there. With the leap forward in domestic employment and profitability, foreign direct investment likewise increases as global firms are always on the lookout for profitable investment opportunities, even with relatively higher wages,…. 9/13
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transforming India from a nation dependent on low wages for exports to one that attracts foreign investment based on its profitable opportunities. The US, for example, with low unemployment and high wages, attracts the most foreign investment due to prospects for profits. 10/n
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The dynamics of full employment policy will further result in the exporting nations targeting India for their exports. To do this, their central banks accumulate the currencies of their target nations which would then include the INR, 11/13
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allowing India to further benefit in real terms with increased low cost imports, again following the US model. And as imports increase, exports, though a bit lower, also increase at a high and rapid rate, as a proportion of the INR held by non residents from India’s imports 12/n
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are in turn spent on buying India’s exports.
The above model not only makes INR a desired currency to save by central banks and non residents, but the country would achieve growth of tremendous proportion with full employment, stable prices and high standard of living. 13/13
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Thousands march in Nigeria to REJECT military intervention in Niger. #NoWarInNiger
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690451076707737600
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Colonel McGregor: Foreign mercenaries are fleeing en masse, the defeat of the Ukrainian army is approaching
Discontent is growing among Ukrainian soldiers due to failures on the front, and foreign mercenaries are fleeing en masse, said Colonel Douglas McGregor, a former adviser to the head of the Pentagon.
“Even the foreign mercenaries who fought so zealously on the side of Ukraine have now largely left. They packed their things and fled. Probably only the Poles remained,” McGregor said on his YouTube channel,
According to his words, cases of desertion may become more frequent in the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to the failure of the offensive. As a result, the Ukrainian army will be divided and then completely defeated. “I can’t say exactly when it will happen, but I think we are already close to it,” he added.
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So the two “journalists” singled out by Paul Keating in March for their shameless “Red Alert” war propaganda have been rewarded with a BBQ at the US Embassy.
We’re being played, Australia, right into a war of OUR annihilation.
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U.S. Embassy Australia@USEmbAustralia
abu. 11
Ambassador Kennedy invited Peter Hartcher and @KnottMatthew from the @smh over this week. https://smh.com.au/politics/feder
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Black in the Empire@blackintheempir
12 years ago the West attacked Libya the richest country in Africa, and murdered their President with little pushback even from Africa
Now they fear attacking a poor country like Niger, and have to try to get African countries they control to do it
Their power has diminished
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UNNATURAL DISASTER – THE UKRAINE PROJET IS DESTROYING THE US EMPIRE
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YqKDokRpWLxV
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Russian Ambassador to Argentina: After “sorting out” Ukraine, the Westerners will not relent. They will find new victims and fuel new conflicts.
The West is basically just a huge geopolitical spider that lives off the blood of its victims.
http://t.me/MFARussia/17004
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Black in the Empire@blackintheempir
Some call it the Deep State, some the Permanent State If you think it’s some kind of right wing conspiracy. you’re wrong
A good example is Victoria Nuland who no one elected but has been around causing death and destruction since the Clinton Admin
Presidents aren’t in charge
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It is time to finish what they started. It is time for a United Africa.
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara and Muammar Gaddafi.
Next : Orban will get demonized in Western media, regime change NGOs will start working on colour revolution in Hungary
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Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle
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Hungary has BLOCKED Sweden’s accession to NATO.
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Russian Embassy, UK@RussianEmbassy
Ambassador Andrei #Kelin to Jomana Hachim for
Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia
“The thing is, Ukraine is currently facing defeat on the battlefield in its counteroffensive, that’s clear. And it has largely focused on terrorist, I won’t hesitate to use that word, attacks against civilian targets on Russian territory.
Yes, a few drones did manage to reach us. They didn’t cause any damage to Moscow or other cities. Our towns near the Russian-Ukrainian border have suffered. There are indeed casualties among the population; this is happening.
If you intentionally target civilian infrastructure, that is nothing but terrorism.
Russian forces are not striking civilian infrastructure. They are exclusively targeting Ukraine’s military infrastructure.
Yes, there can be collateral damage; that can’t be avoided. Especially given that Ukraine is placing its air defense systems inside local settlements, which is, by the way, prohibited by the Hague Conventions.”
Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/034Y8gkHmf4
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690365969359622145
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Ukraine’s acts of sabotage will be responded in kind, as such barbaric steps cannot be justified, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said commenting on Ukrainian attempts to attack Crimea and the Crimean Bridge: https://vk.cc/cq8Gwp
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Next time someone cries about Russia destroying Ukrainian grain warehouses, just show them this… #RuleOfClowns
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“Are you saying treasury securities still safe to invest in?”
“Credit rating is nothing to do with this. The sovereign government can pay any debt.”
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690352843507597312
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Black in the Empire@blackintheempir
Reminder It wasn’t Trump that was involved in going into Africa, destroying the country of Libya, murdering their President, and creating a State controlled by terrorists that had open slave trading It was Obama and Hillary Hillary was proud of it and thought it was hilarious
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While the U.S. whines about how “China stole our jobs!,” China has moved on.
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Zhao DaShuai 无条件爱国@zhao_dashuai
abu. 11
China’s Flexible Manufacturing System in a lights-out factory. The production line can make 136 different types of washing machine, it finishes 1 machine every 18 seconds Places like South East Asia & India are in trouble, you can’t compete with this using cheap human labor 1/3
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1689940241174708224
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Commons mass media key to our survival@MikeHMMT
*Economics 101* – my take, as described by #MMT
1. An ‘economy’ begins with a *monetary system* – that a Gov creates as a matter of law.
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In the beginning… – Gov mandates by law that taxes will be due from the private/non-Gov sector, typically as a % of earnings or asset value growth, to be paid ~12 months in the future, payable only in the Gov’s unit of account/issue.
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To provision itself, & provide the non-Gov sector with the means to pay future taxes, Gov must spend money (currency) into existence, *first*.
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Therefore, the primary driving force creating a money ‘economy’, is the (monopolist) issuer of the currency/unit – aka Gov. Whose unit thus automatically (& empirically) becomes the unit of account in ~99% of trade in goods & services transactions in its jurisdiction. (Proof of ‘force’.)
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Contrary to the mainstream (mass fraud) view that Gov is dependent on the ‘money’ units gathered from the non-Gov sector, in order to spend – the reverse is true, non-Gov sector is subsidiary to Gov.
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Further proof that Gov/currency issuer is the *driver*, & ‘price setter’, not ‘price taker’, is Gov’s unique ability as counter-cyclical actor, where the non-Gov sector acts pro-cyclically. The driving force can act in both up and down directions, non-Gov sector can’t initiate either, with any forcing comparable to Gov’s.
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Also as the *price setter* monopolist, Gov sets the general price level, in prices it agrees for what it purchases itself in goods or services. (Direct labour, significantly.) All other prices are relative to it, together with any changes to prices Gov makes (or does *not make* – eg. in response to Corporate pricing choices.)
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The only constraint on the overall real output of an economy, driven by its Gov (in its unit of issue), with the above understanding/framework, is not ‘money’ – but solely the ‘real resources’ available or producible to order. Note that this ‘constraint’ is in practice constantly expanding – & also significantly affected by Gov policy choices, especially in investment.
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Logically, and socially, all labour that desires to work in exchange for units of account, should have an opportunity to do so. Labour is our most efficient, least resource depleting/polluting device of production. Because we all need to eat & live somewhere, using resources, whether we work in common production of them, or not.
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Therefore, unless we choose to regard some people as disposable, or not worthy of life, all of us should have the *opportunity* of paid work, if we desire it. Maintaining full voluntary employment, in the (monetary) economy, at ~all times, is de facto a good thing if we care about our ‘common humanity’ (aka our ‘eusocial’ brains’ hard wiring, inclined to empathy, wherever possible, & damaging to us mentally, if not).
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MMT’s new paid voluntary sector Job Guarantee scheme is an optimal control mechanism to provide most timely acting voluntary full employment, & regardless of other Gov policy choices. Automatically absorbing any or all those unable – for any reason – to find suitable opportunity in the normal civil service or private sectors offering work, at wages & conditions on offer/incumbent. Gov pays the bill, at fixed minimum wage rate level, with an overhead % to local Gov/community orgs who administer the scheme’s offers & hiring.
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As a consequence of Gov’s currency issuance & law making monopoly –
a. ‘There is no financial crisis so deep that a sufficiently large tax cut or spending increase cannot deal with it’ – Mosler’s Law
b. ‘All markets are creatures of government’ – Nathan Tankus & others.
What more d’you need to know to structure your demands of Gov policy choices (& candidates for office), except to work out your budget needs (or saves) in ‘real resources’ terms? Labour, materials, productive capacity, pollution, recycling, re-use.
Govs can always make the ‘money’ whatever overall budget in ‘real resources’ terms is deemed physically feasible. And preferably via a meaningfully democratic process of deciding our priorities within it.
Go to it! 😉
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Going Underground@GUnderground_TV
Muammar Gaddafi: “NATO is expanding towards Russia. To reach the gas, oil, coal and iron owned by Russia. To occupy Russia.”
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690318910438969344
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Liberal imperialists often try to cynically use LGBTQ people as a tool to demonize foreign countries they are targeting for destabilization, but they actually don’t care about LGBT rights.
Case in point: the far-right authoritarian regime in Poland is a proud NATO and EU member.
Anti-LGBT bigotry, misogyny, and racism are absolutely rampant in Poland, and often have support from the state and the ruling Law and Justice party.
But because Poland is a reliable ally in its hybrid war on Russia, NATO doesn’t care.
NATO is perfectly willing to support both conservative imperialists and liberal imperialists, on both sides of the reactionary culture war; the only requisite is that they must be imperialists
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Towarzysz Patryk☭@Patryk87837486
abu. 12
Comrades, according to the Polish modern history textbook created by the current Polish government, “LGBT ideology” was invented by Marx and Engels
Translation of the red line text in the comments.
The US cannot tolerate the existence of rivals. The objective is global domination at any cost. To these people, Earth is a battlefield. Destabilization is the preferred stratagem. Chaos is their goal…
The Sirius Report@thesiriusreport
As we have been saying in recent weeks, calls in the West to end the Ukraine war are growing. Kiev has now admitted this, only they intend resisting such calls.
Perhaps someone should point out to Ukraine that the only reason they are still capable of fighting this war is because the very same West is arming and financing them.
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Mali cancels Air France flight permit
Mali has revoked Air France’s permit to fly between Paris and Bamako after the carrier suspended operations to and from the country over regional instability.
The Malian authorities said the suspension breached the terms of its permit to operate the route. In a letter addressed to Air France, the National Civil Aviation Agency said the company had not provided notice and caused “inconvenience to passengers”.
“This failing entails the cancellation of your flight operating permit” for the summer season extending to October and other airlines could use the route, it added.
The agency asked Air France to submit a new flight programme before it could resume the service.
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Niger is one of the biggest uranium producers in the world. 1 out of every 3 light bulbs in France is powered with uranium from Niger, yet over 80% of Niger’s citizens have no electricity. French troops out of Niger! French troops out of Africa!
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Africa Archives™@Africa_Archives
abu. 12
In Niger, thousands of people have gathered in front of the French military base located in the capital, Niamey. They are demanding the exit of French troops and stating their opposition to the imminent ECOWAS intervention in their country.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690329316712951808
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Kevork Almassian@KevorkAlmassian
Here is the FULL interview of President Bashar al-Assad on Sky News Arabia with English Subtitles. The interview was conducted by .
WATCH: https://youtu.be/hnKpZS_IWXQ
WHAT FREEDOM OF SPEECH?
I have watched Scott Ritter’s channel for a long time. I never heard Scott utter one word of “hate speech” as to date. He rails against the propaganda narrative of the West and the only option that they have is to silence this man. Scott Ritter stands against the NAZI Kiev regime and for Russia, and so do I. The information war is real!
Eva Karene Bartlett@EvaKBartlett
Ukraine, as expected, has continued using clusters against civilians, hammering Donbass civilian areas with them.
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Eva Karene Bartlett@EvaKBartlett
abu. 1
My latest: “…They will almost certainly be used to kill, maim, & terrorize more Donbass civilians immediately & for years to come. …As for Ukraine’s feeble promises to not use the cluster munitions against civilians, it has been doing so since 2014.” https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/08/01/us-
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It doesn’t matter if you like or dislike Scott Ritter, YouTube censoring him is a threat to everyone. https://rt.com/news/581164-youtube-bans-scott-ritter/
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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu
YouTube bans Scott Ritter — RT World News https://rt.com/news/581164-yo
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Seems all those running Draft Boards in Ukraine were taking bribes and helping would be conscripts escape over the border. Can’t blame the escapees who don’t want to go to their deaths for NATO.
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Ambassador Andrei #Kelin to Jomana Hachim for
Black Sea Grain Initiative / Russian grain supplies to Africa
“The grain deal we entered into about a year ago consisted of two parts. One was the so-called Black Sea Initiative. Grain shipments from Ukraine were intended for Africa but ended up mainly in Europe and other developed countries.
The second part of this deal was a memorandum of understanding between Russia and the United Nations, outlining a set of conditions that would remove obstacles to the supply of Russian food, grain, and fertilizers. This was a crucial condition, and there were quite a few conditions to be met. They mainly involved removing obstacles related to freight shipping, ship insurance, the ban on supplying spare parts for agricultural machinery operating in Russia.
It was also very important to ensure proper financial facilitation of these transactions through the SWIFT system for Russian banks. None of this was accomplished at all.
The UN had no influence over the European Union, which imposed sanctions, nor over the United States.
Hence, we had every reason to exit the deal until our conditions were met. By the way, another condition was the supply of fertilizers through the ammonia pipeline from Tolyatti to Odessa.
The Ukrainian side simply sabotaged it, and that’s why nothing could work out here. Nevertheless, over the past few months, we have adapted somewhat to the possibilities of exporting Russian grain.
Recently, there was a deal with Egypt in which we supplied 300,000 tons of wheat at a price at the lower end of the market.
We will continue these shipments. Last year, we supplied about 11 million tons. Many of them went to Africa.
In these first six months, we’ve already supplied 10 million tons and will continue to work with countries that have a greater need for this, primarily in Africa.
This is not like the Ukrainian part of the grain deal, where all the grain went to Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, and now there’s a ban on supplying that grain there.
A significant imbalance is occurring. We are in favour of a fair resolution of this matter.”
Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/034Y8gkHmf4
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690386597533933568
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Black in the Empire@blackintheempir
Just like Obama was on the side of destroying Libya, Biden will be on the side of attacking Niger That’s why I no longer live in this fantasy world where one Party is less evil than the other, or worship Obama because he is the same color as me
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Ukrainian soldiers who try to leave the fight are also killed by “NATO instructors”
ON THE RIGHT BANK OF THE DNIPR, UKRAINIANS SHOT AT THEIR OWNERS WHO REFUSED TO FORCE THE RIVER WITH BOATS
Lieutenant General Andrei MORDVICHOV, commander of the Russian Group of Units Center: In each Ukrainian company there are up to 10 foreign fighters, mainly from the Baltic countries and Georgia, who act in such a role
Hundreds of people demonstrate in the city of Kano, Nigeria, to show their rejection of a possible military intervention in Niger and bet on diplomatic channels.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690412774302814208
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Protesters at the French military base in Niamey, Niger “In Africa, we’ve studied, we know everything and now we’re intellectuals, and we’re here to get France out of the way.”
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690379812173443072
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pocalypsis
pocalypseos
?@apocalypseos
“No to War” “Down with France and America” — Huge demonstrations in Kano, the second largest city in Nigeria against a possible intervention in neighboring Niger.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690495458811224064
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What the media hides.@narrative_hole
SHOCKING lawlessness in the Ukrainian Military A Ukrainian mother of two girls says her conscripted husband was sh0t in the back of the head and now corrupт commanders are closing the case as a suicide She begs the public to share this video and raise awareness
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690343386635472897
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Can Syria win its war against the US forces of intervention?
“I make so bold as to say: Syria has already won. The US goal of Regime change and domination has been defeated.”
Syria has been fighting not for itself alone, but for the entire Arab people’s right to sovereignty, economic independence and self-determination. Look for the full conversation with
tomorrow at 11am GMT
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690418633598541824
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Pretty much everything in contemporary US politics involves obsessively trying to weaken and isolate China.
This Republican presidential candidate wants a neocolonial “Modern Monroe Doctrine” aimed at China.
He only wants peace with Russia in order to wage war on China – ini alliance with India, Japan, and South Korea.
Ramaswamy claims this is an alternative to neoconservativism, but in reality it’s just neoconservativism updated for the 21st century. The original neocons all wanted to eventually wage war on China too. One of the goals of their wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., in fact, was to project US imperial power into West Asia, overthrow Beijing’s potential energy partners, and gradually move to the east to militarily surround Chin
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Vivek Ramaswamy@VivekGRamaswamy
abu. 11
On August 17, at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California, I will unveil my comprehensive foreign policy vision, including on Russia, China, Taiwan, India, and other Asian nations: shifting from “liberal hegemony” to the Modern Monroe Doctrine. We will support freezing the current lines of control, reopening economic relations with Russia, & a hard commitment that NATO will not admit Ukraine in return for Russia exiting its military partnership with China, removing nuclear weapons from Kaliningrad, and ending its military presence in the Western Hemisphere — a reverse maneuver of what Nixon accomplished with Mao in 1972.
We will further deter China from annexing Taiwan by shifting from strategic ambiguity to strategic clarity: we will defend until 2029 but not afterward, at which point we will have full semiconductor independence from Taiwan, significantly reduced economic independence on China, stronger relationships with India, Japan, and South Korea, and stronger U.S. homeland defense capabilities to protect against cyber, super-EMP, and nuclear attacks. In the meantime, we will have absolutely *zero* tolerance for any breaches of our homeland or aggression in the Western Hemisphere, including Chinese spy balloons, Chinese spy bases in Cuba, intentional fentanyl poisoning, biological lab leaks, illegal border crossings, or any other encroachments of the U.S. homeland — and will make adversaries pay full-on hell if they do.
This is the way: I will lead our nation forward from “neoconservatism” & “liberal hegemony” toward a secure homeland that protects the tangible interests of its citizens.
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Africa STANDS with Russia
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690379467107999744
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IRAN has offered military assistance to MALI and BURKINA FASO
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Russian Mission Vienna@mission_rf
Comment by the Delegation of the Russian Federation to RIA Novosti and TASS news agencies on the outcomes of the first session of the Preparatory Committee of the 2026 NPT Review Conference
Read in full: https://is.gd/YlulUx
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Geoffrey M. Young@GeoffYoung4KY
If you actually listen to what Marianne Williamson (D) says and writes about war, peace, and US foreign policy, you’ll realize that she’s just another pro-war, lying, pro-war, pandering, pro-war, neoconservative, pro-war politician. I’ll never support a pro-war candidate.
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Helen Caddes@helencaddes
abu. 11
Williamson is the antiwar candidate. She is cofounder of the @PeaceAlliance. #marianne2024 https://secure.actblue.com/donate/marwilliamson2024?refcode=website-homepage
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690110874214948864
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Amid all the changes happening in the Sahel, one figure stands taller than many others – Burkina Faso’s leader, Ibrahim Traoré. His youth, his energy, his Pan-Africanism, his revolutionary zeal, his military fatigues and beret – all mark him out. But these attributes are strongly reminiscent of another charismatic Burkinabe leader – the man who gave the country its name under his revolutionary leadership, Captain Thomas Sankara.
We don’t know if Traoré also has a penchant for playing the electric guitar and composing national anthems like Sankara did, but in terms of political will and Pan-African vision and determination, he’s the re-embodiment. Alas, Sankara and his cause were betrayed when he was assassinated in 1987. Will Ibrahim Traoré be allowed to push ahead with his transformative policies for the region, like his federation with Mali and, it’s hoped, Niger and Guinea? Here’s a quick look at what the two captains have in common.
#Niger #IbrahimTraore #ThomasSankara #BurkinaFaso
Ellis Winningham@elliswinningham
The presence of a central government budget deficit, in and of itself, is not a problem.
The actual problem is always who and what benefits from the budget deficit.
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Zenbait zipriztin
Who benefits from the US Budget Deficit?
Ukraine?
The Military Industrial Complex?
The American people?
Learn #MMT
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The ‘help’ to Ukraine does not come from the US taxpayers: https://twitter.com/MikeHMMT/status/1690446107145375744
Learn #MMT
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BRICS: we need a new currency backed by gold…
But, a new currency always comes from fin air, as described by #MMT
So?
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Sindikatuentzat, Langileontzat
@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu
Try this: https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-228-full-employment-with-pavlina-tcherneva/
Learn #MMT
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Dylan Ogline@DylanOgline
abu. 7
Always intriguing to see complaints about living wages for ‘low-skilled’ workers. Aren’t baristas, cooks and groundskeepers deserving of a decent life? Or does employment now come with a side of hunger, homelessness & no healthcare? The incredible blindness of privilege.
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https://twitter.com/IndiaMmt/status/1690550149662269440
“Are you saying treasury securities still safe to invest in?” “Credit rating is nothing to do with this. The sovereign government can pay any debt.”
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1690352843507597312
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I’m a pacifist! Stopt the war (in Ukraine versus Russia)
I’m in favor of PSOE in Spain against Vox, I’m Basque
But: https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1690437489989697536 Belgium, Czechia,
Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sweden have joined G7 Declaration in support of security guarantees
In favor of NATO
No, problem, I’m a Basque pacifist
And so on and so forth…
All in all, Basques, Catalans, Scots,… are totally lost… in NATO’s hands!
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Next time we will take a rest, a non literary rest…