Has anyone yet joined onto the new THREADS app and if so, was it easy to do? Can you easily download it onto one's home computer or must it be onto one's cellphone? Is the fact that you can't delete it w/o also deleting one's Instagram account a deterrent to anyone actually joining up? Just curious.
08:06 AM - Jul 07, 2023
03:25 PM - Jun 16, 2023
Stupid people are unaware of the existence of intelligence itself. They cannot recognize the value of being smart and fail to acknowledge the benefits of knowledge and wisdom.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
02:03 PM - Jun 13, 2023
Source: Bloomberg - WORLD ECONOMIC GROWTH PROJECTION using IMF, WEO, April 2023, Forecasts For 2023-2028
CHINA - 22.6
INDIA - 12.9
U.S.A. - 11.3
Indonesia 3.5
Germany - 2.1
Turkey - 2.1
Japan - 1.8
Brazil - 1.7
Egypt - 1.7
Russia - 1.6
Bangladesh - 1.6
U.K. - 1.5
Vietnam - 1.6
France - 1.5
CHINA - 22.6
INDIA - 12.9
U.S.A. - 11.3
Indonesia 3.5
Germany - 2.1
Turkey - 2.1
Japan - 1.8
Brazil - 1.7
Egypt - 1.7
Russia - 1.6
Bangladesh - 1.6
U.K. - 1.5
Vietnam - 1.6
France - 1.5
09:43 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(4/4) The Iraq War Logs published on October 22, 2010, consisted of more than 390,000 military incident reports and revealed 15,000 civilian deaths that were previously unknown. They also exposed an arrangement US military officers had to ignore allegations of torture. Cf. Gosztola, at 151. #Assange
08:40 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(3/4) released by Wikileaks showed officials had meddled in the justice system of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain to shield CIA agents, US military officers, and Bush administration officials from prosecution." Cf. Gosztola, at 155-6.
08:36 PM - Jun 11, 2023
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(2/4) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the lengths to which US diplomats would go to protect Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers, US soldiers and government officials implicated in torture and war crimes from accountability. Cf. Gosztola, at 148, Guilty Of Journalism. US diplomatic cables
08:31 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(1/4) In the span of one year, Wikileaks did more to expose wars of occupation in Afghanistan and Iraq than most media organizations had accomplished during the previous decade. The media organization also revealed further evidence of human rights abuses against prisoners at the US military prison
08:26 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(3/3) accept the new reality. - Ryan Mc Maken (2023),
"Thanks to Sanctions, the US Is Losing Its Grip on the Middle East." MISES WIRE, mises.org, 5/20/2023.
"Thanks to Sanctions, the US Is Losing Its Grip on the Middle East." MISES WIRE, mises.org, 5/20/2023.
08:21 PM - Jun 11, 2023
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(2/3) the regimes Washington has attacked the most...The US regimes foreign policy "tool box" continues to bve centered on sanctioning violence, and making demands on both its allies and its professed enemies. The rst of the world is moving on, however, and washington may be among the last to
08:19 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(1/3) Yet, it appears that the US's ongoing sanctions war against a growing percentage of the world population is having the opposite of its intended effect. The US threatens to sanction Saudi Arabia and China, and in return, both countries become even more willing to seek cooperation with some of
08:16 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(2/2) We're on the cusp of a seismic shift. - Dr. Clemen Chiang (2023)
Source: Dr. Clemen Chiang, ClemenChiang, 2:57AM-May1,2023
Source: Dr. Clemen Chiang, ClemenChiang, 2:57AM-May1,2023
08:11 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(1/2) The current dedollarization efforts by China, BRICS and the Middle East could potentially be a "Pearl Harbor mmemnt" for the US economy. This concerted shift away from the dollar threatens to disrupt its hegemony and could mark a dramatic turning point in global financial dynamics.
08:10 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(2/2) How long, after all, can (or, for that matter, should) the G-7, with 10 percent of the world's population, continue to do so?
Source: "The G7 must accept that it cannot run the world." Financial Times, 5/23/23.
Source: "The G7 must accept that it cannot run the world." Financial Times, 5/23/23.
08:05 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(1/2) Clearly, what brings its members (Brics) together is the desire not to be dependent on the whims of the US and its close allies, who have dominated the world for the past two centuries.
08:03 PM - Jun 11, 2023
The US is pursuing the fiscal and monetary policy that certainly are not designed to maintain its reserve currency status.
- Niall Ferguson
Stanford University Hoover Institution Senior Fellow
- Niall Ferguson
Stanford University Hoover Institution Senior Fellow
07:47 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(2/2) with Russia's foreign reserves and followed that up by cutting Russia off from the dollar-based payments system.
- Felix Salmon,
"How the U.S. eroded the dollar, www.msn.com, May 3, 2023.
- Felix Salmon,
"How the U.S. eroded the dollar, www.msn.com, May 3, 2023.
07:45 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(1/2) The Biden administration has been unusually aggressive in using the dollar as an instrument of foreign policy. It confiscated $7 billion belonging to the central bank of Afghanistan,, which it was able to do because these funds were on deposit at the New York Fed. It then did the same thing
07:42 PM - Jun 11, 2023
I think it is a mistake to underestimate how much other countries want and need the dollar to fail as the world reserve currency. This time is different.
- Sasha Breger Bush (2023)
Source: Sasha Breger Bush, IPEwithSBB, 7:02PM, Apr 22, 2023.
#dedollarization #dedollarisation
- Sasha Breger Bush (2023)
Source: Sasha Breger Bush, IPEwithSBB, 7:02PM, Apr 22, 2023.
#dedollarization #dedollarisation
07:39 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(5/5) Source: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts as quoted by Tyler Dorden, In "Paul Craig Roberts: The United States Has Been Destroyed By Its Ruling Elites." Zero Hedge, zerohedge.com, Saturday, May 20, 2023, 11:30PM.
07:34 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(4/5) American living standards will fall, and the US will begin to look like India in 1900.
- Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2023)
- Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2023)
07:32 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(3/5) other currencies. therefore, the demand for dollars is declining, but the supply is rising because of the US trade and budget deficits. Sooner or later the US's dollar excahnge value will fall, setting off high inflation in the US that is outside the control of the central bank.
07:30 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(2/5) bank deposits. This finally convinced the rest of the world that holding dollar balances exposed a country to the risk of exprpriation or control by washington. The consequence is that the world is moving away from the use of the dollar, instead settling their trade balances in their own or
07:27 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(1/5) Washington in an act of incredible stupidity has driven a dagger through the heart of teh US dollr as world reserve currency, thus ending Washington's ability to pay its bills by printing money. The dagger was the Biden's regime's Russian and other sanctions and the seizure of Russia's central
07:25 PM - Jun 11, 2023
1932 Sir Norman Angell won the Nobel Peace Prize: Economic sanctions between interdependent economies harm the sanctioners too by devaluing all similar property, claims, and credit. West sanctioned 11% of Earth's landmass by sanctioning Russia.
- Kathleen Tyson
Kathleen_Tyson,4:15AM-May12,2023
- Kathleen Tyson
Kathleen_Tyson,4:15AM-May12,2023
05:21 PM - Jun 11, 2023
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The world was putting up witha lot of sh*t from America. But the seizure of $300-$400 billion of Russian foreign exchange reserves was the last straw. Biden and his inept handlers killed the US dollar in 2022.
- S.L. Kanthan (2023)
Source: Kanthan2030, 11:45PM-Apr 30, 2023
- S.L. Kanthan (2023)
Source: Kanthan2030, 11:45PM-Apr 30, 2023
05:16 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(2/2) currencies, it doesn't make any difference - yes, we are in a lot of trouble. The globalists know that and that is why they are so desperate now.
- Col. Douglas MacGregor (2023)
Source: David Burke-Exonerate LaRouche, 11:27AM-May 19, 2023.
- Col. Douglas MacGregor (2023)
Source: David Burke-Exonerate LaRouche, 11:27AM-May 19, 2023.
05:10 PM - Jun 11, 2023
(1/2) And what will come of this is that the BRICS countrie sare going to be increased by 81 additional members. And all of these people are going to go to a currency that is backed by gold. And once they go to that currency that is backed by gold, whether it is one currency or a basket of
05:08 PM - Jun 11, 2023
For eight decades the dollar has been a diamond hard currency, but overnight Russia's $600bn worth of hard currency reserves - the fourth largest in the world - was made useless.
- Ben Aris (Intellinas)
- Ben Aris (Intellinas)
05:04 PM - Jun 11, 2023
With sanctions against Russia the West undermines Western values of non-discriminatory rule of law, enforcement of contracts and credit terms, and respect for private property ownership, not to mention ancient diplomatic norms of statecraft and five decades of official reserves accumulation.K. Tyson
05:00 PM - Jun 11, 2023
