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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	6/19/2022 5:37:18 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218722

Re <<Pope Francis agrees with me>> dunno, agnostic, but here might be more useful data points zerohedge.com Public Opinion On Ukraine Shifts As Europeans Back Immediate Peace Over Seeking Russian Defeat Authored by Magyar Nemzet via Remix News, Europeans are divided between those who want the war in Ukraine to end as soon as possible, even if that means giving concessions to Russia, and others who believe Russia must be clearly defeated and punished. According to a survey published on Wednesday by the European Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, a relative majority of 35 percent of Europeans want a negotiated peace agreement with Russia as soon as possible, while 22 percent of those polled believe the war must continue and the West must refrain from offering Russia any concessions. Now destroyed Metallurgical Combine Azovstal plant, in Mariupol. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP The survey polled residents in 10 European countries including the United Kingdom, Finland, France, Poland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sweden in mid-May, three months after the war had broken out. Respondents who want peace as soon as possible are in the majority in all countries except Poland, insisting the war must end even if Ukraine has to make territorial concessions to Russia. Italians are the least concerned about retribution for Russia, with 52 percent of those polled just wanting an end to the conflict that has destabilized the European economy and worsened the cost of living crisis. In contrast, just 16 percent of them would see the war continue. A similar story can be seen in Germany where 49 percent want peace compared with 16 percent who back a continuation of the war. Romania follows with a 42:23 swing, France with 41:20, and Sweden with 38:22. In contrast, 41 percent of Poles want Russia defeated and punished with just 16 percent supporting a negotiated peace agreement. In the eyes of most Europeans, there is a clear instigator for the outbreak of the war, with 73 percent of all respondents blaming Russia, while 15 percent believe the blame lies at the feet of Ukraine, the European Union and the United States. Source: Datapraxis and YouGov, May 2022. The question of who is the main obstacle to peace does not particularly divide Europeans either. In this case, too, they point to Russia (64 percent), but in the case of Italians, the rate is only 39 percent, while 35 percent blame Ukraine and the West. Asked whether the war should lead to severing ties with Russia, 50 percent of those who call themselves pro-peace would end all economic ties, 42 percent all cultural ties, and 40 percent all diplomatic ties with Moscow. It is no surprise that 82 percent of the pro-war camp would ban Russian oil imports into the European Union, 81 percent would supply Ukraine with additional weapons, and 52 percent would send EU troops to defend Ukraine. In the case of pro-peace parties, 52 percent would support an oil embargo, 47 percent arms transfers to Ukraine, and only 24 percent troop deployments. Looking at the long-term effects of the war, 61 percent fear a sharp rise in housing costs and energy prices, and the same proportion of respondents worried about Russia’s use of nuclear weapons. The third threat of concern is the use of chemical weapons by Russians (46 percent). Reducing energy dependence on Russia is considered more important by respondents (58 percent) than meeting climate targets (26 percent).

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	6/20/2022 12:18:22 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218722

This day’s curation - the last video is something about what Pentagon allegedly admitted to bio labs I remain agnostic

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	6/20/2022 2:06:08 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By marcher Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218722

out of the blue scmp.com St Petersburg bourse to add Alibaba, Tencent, other Hong Kong stocks from June 20 in trial to widen access for Russian investors - Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing says it is not involved in the initiative - St Petersburg Exchange to add a dozen Hong Kong-listed stocks including Alibaba, JD.com to broaden access to Russian investors asiatimes.com Russia’s bourse to start trading HK stocks Besides helping Russians diversify into Chinese assets, move might help Moscow evade Ukraine-focused sanctions by Jeff Pao June 19, 2022 The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing flag, China's national flag and the Hong Kong flag outside the exchange. Photo: Reuters / Bobby Yip Russia’s Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange has announced it will allow the trading of 12 Hong Kong stocks from Monday, June 20, raising concerns that Russians may use Hong Kong to evade western sanctions. It remains unclear how the proposed cross-border stock trading can be done without the SWIFT. According to the SPB Exchange’s announcement, brokers will be able to trade 12 Hong Kong stocks from June 20. The 12 companies include CK Hutchison Holdings, WH Group, Tencent Holdings, CK Asset Holdings, Sino Biopharmaceutical, Xiaomi Corp, Sands China, Country Garden Holdings, Sunny Optical Technology Group, Meituan, Alibaba Group and JD.com. Sputniknews, a Russian news agency, said that the number of the Hong Kong-listed stocks that could be traded on the SPB Exchange would increase to 50 in two months, 200 by the end of this year and more than 1,000 next year. Mankevich Vitaly Vikentievich, President of the Russian-Asian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RASPP), was quoted in the Friday Sputniknews report as saying that Russian people could diversify their investments by trading Hong Kong stocks. A stock trading department head of Russia’s Alfa Group told Sputniknews that Russians would increase their investments in Chinese assets, particularly Hong Kong’s information technology sector, due to the rising risks of having their foreign assets frozen by the West amid the unstable geopolitics. He said some Russians would convert their euros and US dollars into renminbi. Currently, the SPB Exchange allows brokers to trade 17 foreign-listed stocks, mostly US-listed companies, such as Citibank, the Bank of New York Mellon and Lumen Technologies. A statement titled “SPB Exchange is operating normally” has stayed on top of the bourse’s website since late April but it is unclear how it can trade foreign stocks without the SWIFT. Herman Gref, chairman of Sberbank, said Friday during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum that Sberbank stopped clearing its cross-border contract payment service in the Chinese currency from June 7 but the service had already been resumed. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong stock exchange said it had not formed any partnership with the SPB Exchange. It said on Friday that it believed that the scheme was part of the global issuer promotion program rolled out by the SPB Exchange. Last August, Joseph Yam, an Executive Council member and the former chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, said Hong Kong had a role to help connect the financial markets of the mainland and foreign countries. He suggested that investors should be allowed to buy Hong Kong stocks in renminbi and sell them in Hong Kong’s dollar currency, which is pegged to the US dollar. Yam’s suggestion has so far not been implemented. However, The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said in early May that it had prepared emergency plans in case Hong Kong or mainland China eventually is sanctioned by the US. The old St Petersburg Stock Exchange. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Rounds of sanctionsThe latest scheme was announced after Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Wednesday phone call agreed to push for steady and long-term development of practical bilateral cooperation between China and Russia. A spokesperson for the United States State Department on Thursday criticized China for forming closer ties to Russia and accused Beijing of echoing Russian propaganda around the world. The US and European Union had imposed several rounds of sanctions on Russian officials, banks and oligarchs since Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24. On March 12, SWIFT disconnected seven Russian banks and their designated Russia-based subsidiaries from its financial transfer network. The sanctioned banks include Russia’s second-largest, VTB, as well as Bank Otkritie, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, Bank Rossiya, Sovcombank and VEB. EU leaders said they agreed in principle on May 30 to cut 90% of oil imports from Russia by the year-end and also agreed on other sanctions including the removal of Russia’s largest lender, Sberbank, from SWIFT. The West also urged China to refrain from helping Russia to elude the sanctions. Xi and Putin held their first phone call on Wednesday since their issuance of a joint statement on February 4 to “oppose further enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and call on the North Atlantic Alliance to abandon its ideologized cold war approaches.” Xi told Putin on Wednesday that China was willing to work with Russia to continue supporting each other on their respective core interests concerning sovereignty and security, as well as on their major concerns and deepening their strategic coordination. He said the two countries would strengthen communication and coordination in international and regional organizations such as the United Nations, the BRICS mechanism and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Xi said China was also willing to work with Russia to promote solidarity and cooperation among emerging market countries and developing nations and to push for the development of the international order and global governance in a more just and reasonable direction. The Kremlin said both countries agreed to expand cooperation in energy, finance, industry, transport and other spheres, taking into account a global economic situation that had become more complicated due to the West’s sanctions policy – which Moscow described as illegitimate. A US State Department spokesperson noted that China claimed to be neutral but said Beijing’s behavior made clear that it was still investing in close ties to Russia. The US spokesperson said the world was watching to see which nations stand up for the basic principles of freedom, self-determination and sovereignty, and who stands by or tacitly supports Russia in its premeditated and unprovoked war of choice. Read: Call for HK to prepare for possible US sanctions Read: Chinese media mount huge campaign against Zelensky Follow Jeff Pao on Twitter at @jeffpao3

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	6/20/2022 7:40:48 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By fred woodall Respond to of 218722

curations this day to watch, brief and triangulate with the Rouble : USD exchange rate is saying something, unsure yet what finance.yahoo.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	6/21/2022 7:27:47 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218722

this day's curations

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	6/22/2022 6:44:08 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218722

Re <<Finally Pope Francis agrees with me>> I am beginning to have my doubts about your take, because Core Comrade Jinping also agrees with you. Did you communicate with either or both? In this particular instance democratic India seems shy about increasing voices represented in BRICS whereas authoritarian China is wishing for more voices heard. What gives? Agnostic, but watch & brief Modi’s government will also seek to delay China’s effort to expand BRICS by pushing the organization to decide on criteria for adding members, the officials said. Last month, China proposed that the grouping should start a process to include more countries. bloomberg.com Xi Slams Sanctions for ‘Weaponizing’ World Economy at BRICS Open Chinese president delivers speech to BRICS Business Forum Xi suggests NATO was responsible for antagonizing Russia 22 June 2022, 20:36 GMT+8 Xi JinpingPhotographer: Feng Li/Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping criticized sanctions for stoking global economic pain in a speech kicking off this year’s BRICS summit, as he seeks to bolster relations with emerging markets in the wake of strained Western ties. Without explicitly naming the US, Xi said that the international community is worried that the global economy will split into mutually exclusive zones, and called for the world to fight against the hegemony of any one country. “Politicizing, instrumentalizing and weaponizing the world economy using a dominant position in the global financial system to wantonly impose sanctions would only hurt others as well as hurting oneself, leaving people around the world suffering,” Xi told the BRICS Business Forum via video link Wednesday, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. The virtual event, which Beijing is hosting this week, is set to bring together Xi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. The summit beginning Thursday offers Xi and Putin a vehicle to expand their vision of a global order after they declared a “no-limits friendship” just before Russia invaded Ukraine. China has since provided crucial diplomatic support for Russia, as Beijing more broadly pushes back against US sanctions and seeks to redefine terms including democracy and human rights. In his speech, Xi called for the lessons of two world wars to be remembered as he cautioned against confrontation, while again suggesting that NATO was responsible for antagonizing Russia. “Those who obsess with a position of strength, expand their military alliance, and seek their own security at the expense of others will only fall into a security conundrum,” Xi said. Xi offered an alternative to Western-dominated global governance, including reducing barriers for trade, investment and technology with the WTO at the core, as well as giving emerging economies and developing countries a bigger say in economic governance. He urged the BRICS to deepen cooperation in trade, investment and finance, as well as the digital economy, smart manufacturing, clean energy and infrastructure. India is expected to counter an anticipated effort by Xi to use the summit to highlight his efforts to build an alternative to the US-led global order, according to Indian officials with knowledge of the matter. Negotiators from the South Asian nation will look to ensure any joint statement from the summit is neutral, they added. Modi’s government will also seek to delay China’s effort to expand BRICS by pushing the organization to decide on criteria for adding members, the officials said. Last month, China proposed that the grouping should start a process to include more countries. The Chinese leader is scheduled to host a dialogue on Friday that will include leaders from BRICS countries and some from other emerging markets. China said last month that it wanted to expand the BRICS grouping that was formed as a quad in 2009, with South Africa joining the following year. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told an online meeting of his BRICS counterparts that Beijing would like to start the expansion process, without specifying which countries might be included. China is also working to expand its influence in the Pacific Islands, where it has proposed a sweeping trade and security deal with ten nations. That yet-to-be-signed deal, which was dealt a setback last month, has been taken as a sign of Beijing’s intensifying competition with the US and Australia for influence those emerging markets. — With assistance by Krystal Chia, and Jing Li

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)

6/22/2022 7:04:42 PM

From: TobagoJack

Respond to of 218722

Do price caps work?

Did price caps ever work?

Is the construct as simple as sending a purchase order to Russia w/ stamp, 'take it or leave it'?

If 'no' and 'no' and 'no', then does 'anti-Russia' team have a strategy or are we doomed to succumb to marching Russians?

Is the world ex-anti-Russia throwing Ukraine under the bus? If so, when will Team Nato tee up boots on the ground to get the job done? Or the Team shall do Afghanistan II?

Team Biden needs to lead by action instead of cowering behind words.

Watched the 2nd of the curated video Message 33891932 and am saddened that Ukrainians has to fight the Russians without material boots on the ground help from Nato, and do so using Toyota and Mitsubishi pickups

bloomberg.com

Germany Open to Discuss Russian Oil Price Cap, Scholz Aide Says
Birgit Jennen
23 June 2022, 00:15 GMT+8

Germany would support having an international debate about imposing price caps on Russian oil imports, according to Joerg Kukies, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s top economic aide.

“We are open to having this discussion on the international level and can definitely foresee this making sense if it’s implemented,” he said Wednesday at Bloomberg’s Future of Finance event in Frankfurt.

A key question, Kukies said, is whether the rest of the world will agree to it and participate. In light of the European Union’s own decision to halt Russian oil imports after the end of this year, the issue of a price cap “is a bit of a moot question” domestically, he added.

The US push to force Russia to sell its oil more cheaply comes amid concerns that a surge in energy prices has softened the blow from the international sanctions by bringing Moscow enough revenue to stave off economic collapse.

Some European officials, however, are wary of the idea, as it would likely require the EU to reopen the legal text of its latest sanctions package, which took weeks to approve.

Read more: A ‘Price Cap’ on Russian Oil -- What Would That Mean?: QuickTake

While Kukies appeared less concerned about how an oil price-cap would sit with the German government, he condemned Russia’s “blatant violations” of contracts to supply gas, and warned there could be risks to his country’s economy.

“We are working hard to mitigate the impact, but we shouldn’t be naive: it’s very obvious that there is an impact,” he said.

The government has been pushing to increase gas reserves in recent months to be in position to weather the winter. The task has become increasingly fraught after Russia slashed flows through its main link to Germany.

Daily fill rates fell by almost half on Wednesday. At the current rate, it would take more than 100 days to reach the government target of 90% capacity from the current level of 58.4%, according to data from Germany’s network regulator.

Consumers “would be protected the most” if the government was forced to ration energy, but he declined to comment on what industries would be affected.

Read more...

Germany Should Brace for Further Gas Flow Reduction, Habeck Says European Gas Extends Gains as Specter of Russian Cuts Persists Germany Prepares to Trigger Second Stage of Emergency Gas Plan Cold Winter Could Push Europe Toward Gas Supply Shortages

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	6/23/2022 10:31:18 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218722

Watching news before I go to sleep Call it night-cap curation This here under is for tomorrow

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	6/24/2022 9:23:49 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218722

curation set this day

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	6/25/2022 6:00:03 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218722

curation set this day, but have long lunch on some boat of a parent of soon-classmate of the coconut to get this year's crop together before they set off situation looks bad Lighter & happier note Note to self to re-watch Message 33896025

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	6/26/2022 7:58:39 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218722

Curations for this day (third to last indicates that Gold might get a slamming, as Conflict-Gold, so that Inflation-Gold buried) russian gold ban

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	6/28/2022 10:35:17 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218722

This day's curation inadvertently the YouTube played January 6 Hearing ... reminded me much of the Watergate hearings in feel interesting stories adding colour to that day's television coverage

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	6/29/2022 7:41:27 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218722

Curation for the day

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	7/1/2022 7:21:59 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218722

This day's curation

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	7/2/2022 6:20:17 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218722

Before I start whatever else I need to do this day at desk and around and around, I curate for self some 'listens' (I do occasionally glance but do not actually watch them as one would a movie) They help me to triangulate, and concur with, or obviate / inoculate against whatever I might chance upon in MSM even as some are part of MSM or otherwise sources from MSM the raw inputs

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (188948)	7/2/2022 10:55:27 PM
From: TobagoJack	2 Recommendations Recommended By marcher Maurice Winn Respond to of 218722

What it might be all-about, and if so, Ukraine systemically-pivotal more than just strategically-pivotal, and nothing remotely just-important zerohedge.com Mike Pompeo's Revealing Hudson Institute Speech Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via CaitlinJohnstone.com, Former CIA director and secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave a speech at the Hudson Institute last week that’s probably worth taking a look at just because of how much it reveals about the nature of the US empire and the corrupt institutions which influence its policies. [url=][/url] Pompeo is serving as a “ Distinguished Fellow” at the Hudson Institute while he waits for the revolving door of the DC swamp to rotate him back into a federal government position. The Hudson Institute is a neoconservative think tank which has a high degree of overlap with the infamous Project for the New American Century and its lineup of Iraq war architects, and spends a lot of its time manufacturing Beltway support for hawkish agendas against Iran. It was founded in 1961 with the help of a cold warrior named Herman Kahn, whose enthusiastic support for the idea that the US can win a nuclear war with the Soviet Union was reportedly an inspiration for the movie Dr Strangelove. A think tank is an institution where academics are paid by the worst people in the world to come up with explanations for why it would be good and smart to do something evil and stupid, which are then pitched at key points of influence in the media and the government. “Think tank” is a good and accurate label for these institutions, because they are dedicated to controlling what people think, and because they are artificial enclosures for slimy creatures. Pompeo’s speech is one long rimjob for the military-industrial complex which indirectly employs him. He repeatedly sings the praises of the weapons that are being poured into Ukraine, two of them by name: the Patriot missile built by Raytheon and the Javelin missile built jointly by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, both of whom happen to be major funders of the Hudson Institute. He repeatedly decries the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan,” and excoriates the Biden administration for failing to control the world’s fossil fuel resources aggressively enough in its efforts to “prostrate itself to radicals.” Pompeo, easily ranked among the most fanatical imperialists on the entire planet, hilariously says that “China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a form of imperialism.” He decries a “genocide” in Xinjiang and repeatedly implies that China deliberately unleashed Covid-19 upon the world, calling it “the global pandemic induced by China.” He repeatedly claims that Vladimir Putin is trying to reconstitute the Soviet Union. Along with praise for NATO and for the various anti-China alliances in the Indo-Pacific, Pompeo names “Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan” as “the three lighthouses for liberty” which those alliances must work to support militarily. You will notice that those three “lighthouses” just so happen to be the hottest points of geostrategic conflict with the top three opponents of the US empire: Russia, Iran, and China. But there are a couple of things Pompeo says which have some real meat on them. “By aiding Ukraine, we undermined the creation of a Russian-Chinese axis bent on exerting military and economic hegemony in Europe, in Asia and in the Middle East,” Pompeo says. “We must prevent the formation of a Pan-Eurasian colossus incorporating Russia, but led by China,” he later adds. “To do that, we have to strengthen NATO, and we see that nothing hinders Finland and Sweden’s entry into that organization.” To stop a "Pan-Eurasian colossus" from forming, @mikepompeo stresses the importance of #Finland and #Sweden joining @NATO as well as #Russia's resulting increase in military capability if they are denied entry. pic.twitter.com/er0BKvcjEK — Hudson Institute (@HudsonInstitute) June 29, 2022 That’s all the major international news stories of today are ultimately about, right there. Underlying all the smaller news stories about conflicts with nations like Russia, China and Iran, there’s one continuous story about the US power alliance trying to secure planetary domination by relentlessly working to subvert any nation which refuses to align with it, and about the nations who oppose that campaign working against it with steadily increasing intimacy. This is all the Russia hysteria from 2016 onward has been about. This is all the phony, hypocritical hand-wringing about Taiwan, Xinjiang and Hong Kong have been about. This is all the staged histrionics about human rights in Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Cuba have been about. It’s all been about manufacturing international consent for an increasingly dangerous campaign to secure unipolar global hegemony at any cost. It’s worth calling this to mind, as NATO for the first time designates China a threat due to its alignment with Russia and as NATO’s secretary-general admits that NATO has been preparing for a conflict with Russia since 2014. It is worth calling to mind the fact that the US has had a policy in place since the fall of the Soviet Union to prevent the rise of any rival superpower to deny any serious challenge to its planetary domination. It is worth calling to mind that in 1997 the precursor to the US Space Force committed to working toward “ full spectrum dominance,” meaning military control over land, sea, air, and space. US unipolar hegemony. They are right that China challenges NATO interests: the NATO cartel's existential goal of enforcing a US global dictatorship, one that imposes neoliberalism on the planet, destroying any country that proposes a state-led, people-centered economic model https://t.co/y5HCWAGkiL — Benjamin Norton (@BenjaminNorton) June 30, 2022 People like to talk about secret conspiracies by shadowy cabals to establish a one-world government, but what is by far the most tangible and imminent global domination agenda has been orchestrated right out in the open. The US government has long sought to unite the world under a single power structure, no matter how much violence and devastation it needs to inflict upon humanity and no matter how much world-threatening nuclear brinkmanship it needs to engage in to do so. This is the US empire which corrupt psychopaths like Mike Pompeo support. 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