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A few site comments
Technical – Somewhere over the weekend we’re installing an image smusher – that is a thing to get my over-the-top imaging habits a little under control – I’m eating up disk space! So, if strange things happen, it is the image smusher/smasher/to decrease size in kB and any strange thing will be fixed.
Someone somewhere sometime… Continue reading
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Latin America: ‘Regional Financial Architecture’
From Ben Norton at multipolarista.com (with permission)
Ed Note: Reading this excellent piece from Ben in conjunction with the recently posted Valdai Club article, Latin America, Key to Multipolar Transition must convince us of the very important role that this region has to play: https://thesakeris.global/2022/12/01/latin-america-key-to-multipolar-transition/
Latin America’s plan to challenge US dollar with new currency and ‘regional… Continue reading -
FM Lavrov: Dialogue for the Future
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks during a meeting with the participants of the scientific and educational programme, Dialogue for the Future, Moscow, November 30, 2022
Colleagues.It is good to see everyone here at the Dialogue for the Future again. We hold this dialogue regularly, normally at the end of each calendar year. We find it very… Continue reading
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Latin America, Key to Multipolar Transition
From the Valdai Club
The key to the multipolar transition is the opening of the Latin American front, that is the shifting of the center of gravity of the great power competition from Eurasia to the Americas. The question is whether America’s challengers will be willing or able to do so, writes Emanuel Pietrobon.
Eurafrasia is the… Continue reading
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Dec 01 2022 
I’ll eat the bugs!
Looking at the food industry today, and the literal non-food chemical additives, bugs may be a solution (tongue-in-cheek comment). A new look at the food industry horrified me. In our home, we eat food, not stuff coming from a laboratory. Do yourself a favor and check something in your fridge, something in a bottle that… Continue reading
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Schrödinger’s Protests in China (updates)
First posted at Nov 28, 2022 at 08:03. Updates in the comments.
An update and previous information is in the current Daily Chronicles. Let’s draw the information together and I copy two pieces from the Daily Chronicles:
When did these protests start?
Well, they are ongoing. It is both legal and customary for Chinese people in an… Continue reading
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Nov 30 2022 
The Global South: new payment system
The Global South births a new game-changing payment system
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The CradleThe Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) is speeding up its design of a common payment system, which has been closely discussed for nearly a year with the Chinese under the stewardship of Sergei Glazyev, the EAEU’s minister in charge of… Continue reading
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Nov 30 2022 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
Life goes on with the regular US type provocation. Arms control is slowly slipping out of the reach of the world and Russia/China is in almost… Continue reading
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The Crux of the Putin-Xi Revolution
The Crux of the Putin-Xi Revolution for a New World Order – Arresting the Slide to Nihilism
Reprinted from Strategic Culture and within their framework: Republishing is welcomed with reference to Strategic Culture online journal www.strategic-culture.org.
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Ed. Note: This article by Alastair Crooke is one of the best that I have ever seen. The writing grabs the… Continue reading
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Nov 29 2022 
US paralyzed by Islamic Republic of Iran’s strategic swing
By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission, and first posted at PressTV
Iran’s parliament has just approved the accession of the Islamic Republic to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), previously enshrined at the Samarkand summit last September, marking the culmination of a process that lasted no less than 15 years.
Iran has already applied to become… Continue reading
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Lavrov’s comments: Film, Nazism on Trial
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the film, Nazism on Trial, Moscow, November 26, 2022
Question: Today, we are being told (primarily by the Ukrainians) that the Russians have “made things up” and there are no Nazis in Ukraine and there have never been any. However, we remember history well. We can see that over the… Continue reading -
A small personal story: + Mexico update
So today was a good day. Here in our little Latin American country, we have some excellent people. Today I was chatting with a Mexican fellow, an all-rounder with all kinds of practical technology. His real job is to work on high-performance vehicles but the idea here is that people continue studying. So, he is… Continue reading
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Briefing: Maria Zakharova
Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, November 24, 2022
These are selections from Maria’s last briefing. If you want to read the complete briefing, it is at the link.Crisis in Ukraine
I’d like to draw your attention to two dates in the recent history of Ukraine – November 21 and 22. They are linked with… Continue reading
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New ‘Slow Coup’ attempt in Bolivia
Ben Norton and Ollie Vargas update on the new attempt at a coup in Bolivia.
Take note of the Ustasha/Ustaša influence in Boliva (same as the Ukrainian Nazis and Fascists) and the Bolivian Economic Model. There is also information about the Amazon and the interaction with Brazil.
