Little known fact:
China taking the long road to solve the petro-yuan puzzle | Asia Times – – 26 Mar 2018 |
Beijing’s media strategy seems to have consisted in substantially play down the official launch of the petro-yuan at the Shanghai International Energy Exchange.
Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Sun Apr 1st, 2018
More below the fold …
In context of the European Tribune …
Are we on the eve of a turn in the Great Game?
○ Putin, Petrodollars and Canada’s Useful Idiot Harper
Posted in April 2014 – H/T melo for the original post in the weekend newsroom.
Protecting the House of Saud – OPEC and the US Petrodollars
Saddam Hussein – eliminated after the second Gulf War
Muammar Gaddafi – eliminated by HRC in alliance with Tony Blair/David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy
Bashar al-Assad – because it could, planned by neocons in program called PNAC
US presidential candidate – defeated by boosted AngloSaxon dark forces of extreme right conservaties (plus Netanyahu’s revenge?)
[key words: Brexit – Tories – Robert Mercer – Cambridge Analytica – Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook]
Conclusion: pure capitalism wins, the individual loses, the nation and world suffers. Mourning deaths of millions, not even counting plight of refugees in the tens of millions.
[Update-1]
As the Jerusalem community observes Passover:
○ IDF Murders 17 Gazans, Wounds 1,400 in Great Return March Protest | Tikun Olam |
○ ‘We will not wait 70 years more’ : scenes from Gaza’s March of Return | Mondoweiss |
○ US Amb. Halley blocks UN Security Council statement on Gaza violence | Ynet News |
Abbas says Israel fully to blame as death toll in Gaza clashes rises to 16 | Times of Israel |
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel was “fully responsible” for deadly clashes that left at least 16 Gazans killed and over 1,000 more wounded amid violent clashes with IDF troops along the security fence Friday.
[Photo of Palestinian protest at Israeli-Gaza border – Easter 2018]
In a speech broadcast on Palestine TV, Abbas said he has asked the United Nations to immediately work toward providing protection for the “defenseless” Palestinians. “The large number of martyrs and injured in peaceful demonstrations affirms the need for the international community to intervene to provide protection for our people,” Abbas said.
○ Gaza crisis: Toll of operations in Gaza | BBC News – Sept. 1, 2014 |
General Custer’s last stand at Little Big Horn before genocide of the American Natives at Wounded Knee …