I would like to emphasise that the expansion of the BRICS group is causing a turmoil in the countries of the West and above all in the USA…
At the dawn of 2024, from January 1, five more countries became full members of the BRICS, a transnational association, which until then consisted of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and thus became BRICS+ (BRICS Plus), totalling ten countries.
Egypt which is located in northeast Africa and partly on the Sinai Peninsula, which is an isthmus to southwest Asia, thus making it a transcontinental country, it is considered a major power in North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, the Islamic world and the Red Sea. A populous – with 104.5 million inhabitants – historical Arab country with a long and very rich cultural heritage and at the same time the most powerful military country in Africa that controls the strategic Suez Canal. Egypt also has huge reserves of natural gas, estimated at 2,180 cubic kilometres and Egyptian liquefied natural gas is exported to many countries.
Ethiopia is a country located in the Horn of Africa, at the eastern end of the continental African. With a population of 107.5 million inhabitants, according to an official estimate for 2023, it is the most populous Mediterranean state-i.e. that has no sea- in the world. A poor but rapidly developing country with great geo strategic weight in Africa, which apart from its agricultural production which contributes 41% of GDP, also has the largest water resources in the entire continent. Ethiopia is the largest producer of coffee in Africa and the second largest producer of corn.
Iran is a Middle Eastern country in Southwest Asia. It has a population of 88.5 million according to the United Nations average estimate for 2022. Iran is considered a major regional power and occupies a prominent position in matters of global energy policy and economics, mainly as a result of its large oil and natural gas reserves. Iran was the eighth largest oil producing country in the world in the year 2022 with 3,822,000 barrels per day. At the same time. it has strong armed forces and a large scientific staff, which are stationed in key parts of the planet such as the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf.
Saudi Arabia is a country on the Arabian Peninsula, occupying most of it, about 80%, and which is washed by the Persian Gulf to the northeast and the Red Sea to the west. According to an official estimate for 2022 its population is 32.2 million inhabitants, 30% of whom are non-Saudi citizens (2013 estimate). Saudi Arabia’s economy is based on oil, from which approximately 75% of budget revenues and 90% of exports come. Saudi Arabia in the year 2022 came second in the world after the USA with a production of 12,136,000 barrels per day and holds 17% of the total proven oil reserves on a global scale.
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated UAE, is a federal state consisting of seven emirates, at the southeastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. The UAE is washed by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and borders Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate of Oman. They have a population of 9.3 million according to an official estimate for 2020. The country is rich in oil and natural gas deposits and its people enjoy an income comparable to that of developed western countries. The UAE was the seventh largest oil producing country in the world in the year 2022 with 4,020,000 barrels per day.
As for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which are among the wealthiest countries by GDP per capita, they have continued to post economic growth despite global uncertainties, including high interest rates, inflation and geopolitical tensions, as they focus on diversifying their economies.
Saudi Arabia’s economy grew according to the IMF by 8.7% in 2022 – the highest annual growth rate among the world’s 20 largest economies – and by just 0.8% for all of 2023. On the other hand, the economy of United Arab Emirates grew by 3.4% in 2023, with oil GDP growing at 0.7% and non-oil GDP at 4.5%, supported by strong performances in tourism, real estate, construction, transport, manufacturing and increasing capital expenditure.
With this entrance, therefore, the group, which appears as the rival force in the G7, now expands in the Middle East and includes within its bosom the countries, traditional allies of the West, which now manifest tendencies towards autonomy and of course control a large part of the world’s production of hydrocarbons, further increasing the group’s financial strength.
Thus, the BRICS+ countries collectively now represent 45% of the world’s population with approximately 3.5 billion people, a third of the Earth’s solid surface, 44% of total global oil production as well as almost 1/3 of global GDP, amounting to approximately 29 trillion dollars, having surpassed in purchasing power parity terms the G7, the group of the seven most powerful economies of the developed world.
At the same time there are at least thirty other developing world nations that have already expressed a keen interest in joining the group. Among these countries are Algeria, Congo, Bolivia, Venezuela, Indonesia and Kazakhstan, which are not rich countries, but possess enormous mineral wealth, and would very much like to break free from the noose of Western multinational corporations and dollar.
So, in this direction, the countries of the BRICS group have created the New Development Bank (NDB) since 2014, while a large part of the trade between them is done in national currencies and not in dollars. They are also moving forward with discussions and elaborations on the creation of a common currency (slowed down, however, by Indian objections). And they are still looking for solutions alternatives of international transaction to SWIFT. As a result, all these unfolding movements gradually lead to a de-dollarisation of the global economic system.
At the next BRICS+ summit to be held in October 2024 in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, a Russian city located at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka rivers in central European Russia, other countries – energy giants – may join the group and this will have as the effect of increasing the control of the global energy market from the 40% that it is today to a higher percentage.
In closing, I would like to emphasise that the expansion of the BRICS group is causing a turmoil in the countries of the West and above all in the USA, which are proceeding with knee-jerk reactions, with the mere idea only of the definitive loss of their global leadership, and is a real milestone towards inevitable historical course of formation of a new intercontinental world order, a polycentric world.
Curriculum vitae
216 responses to “BRICS+: AN IMPRESSIVE ENLARGEMENT”
TLSN on January 26, 2024 at 5:02 PM said:
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The tanker belongs to the mother country according to The Times of Israel.
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You mean Mother Russia.
Russia could complain that the US, UK, Indian and Chinese naval assets could have shot down the Houthi missile.
But each intercepting missile is probably worth many times more than the weapon the Houthi’s used.
Maybe if Russia paid the US, UK, India and China in future no Russian tankers would get hit.
But wait, India and China are members of BRICS as is Russia.
But I guess Russia did not have US dollars, only BRICS currency.
So, what conclusion can you draw from the fact that the naval assets of BRICS not killing the Houthi missile?
They either don’t have the technology or they hate one another.
That means the Houthis may end up sinking an Indian or Chinese ship!!
Cargo ships and tankers are being escorted mainly by US and UK naval assets.
Clearly, some will get priority over others as there are only so many of these assets.
Not a good time for Ethiopia to be a member of BRICS and dependent on food imports from the Ukraine and Russia.
For the Houthis, western technology is a bitch because not only can their missiles be knocked down with relative ease, but launches can be detected and missiles from the sea can target the launch sites.
But there is a cost in $$ ……. USD.
TLSN
Of course. The Zeitgeist’s that politics were involved. Interests!
Well cited by you.
‘You mean Mother Russia.’
Clearly, the ‘nationality’ of the tanker would be found out after some time.
What alarms me is that the Israeli’s media first draft of a story is often wrong and its numbers are exaggerated.
Why is this?
Was this an attempt to get a
hot headed and give a quick response to propaganda and lies. Was this an attempt to spread the war by pulling in other ciuntries?
British one too!!
Captain tried making it without cover.
TheOGazerts on January 27, 2024 at 8:30 AM said:
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‘You mean Mother Russia.’
Clearly, the ‘nationality’ of the tanker would be found out after some time.
What alarms me is that the Israeli’s media first draft of a story is often wrong and its numbers are exaggerated.
Why is this?
Was this an attempt to get a
hot headed and give a quick response to propaganda and lies. Was this an attempt to spread the war by pulling in other ciuntries?
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The big story is the UK tanker, not the Russian one.
Internet now full of the British tanker hit, looks like Israeli media was spot on and way ahead of everyone else …. no wonder TLSN relies so heavily on it!!.
Can’t be long before Iran gets hit.
However, the Russian story is big too.
The tanker is carrying Russian oil to Asia in breach of US and UK sanctions resulting from the Ukraine war.
Getting complicated now.
What is clear is that the BRICS countries can’t guarantee safety of trade on the high seas.
Ships with a BRICS association flouting US and UK sanctions and engaged in shadow schemes of trade would probably be safer going around the Cape of Good Hope.
They can’t expect protection in the Red Sea from Houthi/Iran missiles.
Sooner or later the US, UK and Israel will go to the source, Iran.
“The Marlin Luanda tanker of the Trafigura Group, carrying Russian petroleum products for gasoline and plastics production, has been attacked by Yemeni Houthi rebels. The raw materials were loaded onto the vessel in Greece, indicating a violation of EU and US sanctions on the export of Russian petroleum products, according to Bloomberg.
It is noted that after Europe rejected Russian oil supplies due to the war in Ukraine, significant volumes of Russian oil now pass through the southern part of the Red Sea to Asian buyers. The vessel attacked last night was transporting fuel from Russia, and this likely concerns Moscow.
According to the analytical company Kpler, the tanker picked up its cargo of Russian origin through a process known as “ship-to-ship transfer” from the area of the Laconian Gulf in southern Greece. This region plays a crucial role in the supply of Russian oil to the global market and in processing raw materials that do not exceed the upper limit of the price. This indicates the use of shadow schemes in trade.
Trafigura, along with other commodity traders such as Glencore Plc, Vitol Group, and Gunvor Group, was one of the largest suppliers of oil from Russia before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The company was also a partner in a major oil project implemented by the state producer PJSC Rosneft.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/houthis-attacked-tanker-carrying-russian-oil-bloomberg/ar-BB1hl0eO?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W069&cvid=ac235f9d722942f397956fb0d9ba58f4&ei=20
BRICS been around since 2006. This trade thing is an impediment. Maybe they need Iran on board.
Lord!
Yemen, Hezbollah, Iran, the Iraqi resistance, the Syrian resistance along with SA, are the only countries or entities which are doing what the world has signed up to under the Genocide Convention of 1948 and endorsed on assumption of UN membership.
That the criminal Americans, the British and the Europeans, largely, are supporting acts of genocide for nearly 4 months should at least tell us about the nature of these devils.
Not that this is new. For these are all colonial states still, with abominable histories in which this kind of thing is and has been central.
That the Yemenese would confront these White, racist, exceptionalist karkens should be praiseworthy.
That the British and Americans have been and will be unable to stop the rightness of the Yemenese blockade with their motley coalition which include the Bahrainian satrap should be illustrative.
Barbados Today, Sir Ron Saunders
Red Sea Crisis: Houthi Attacks raising prices worldwide
Up until a few weeks ago, the Red Sea and Yemen held little significance for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. However, an unexpected turn of events thrust these regions into the spotlight—the relentless attacks on commercial shipping by a group known as the Houthis. Emerging from global obscurity, the Houthis have become central to headline news worldwide.
Houthi attacks driving up prices for goods
The Houthi assaults severed vital shipping routes by blocking access to the Suez Canal, a critical link connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, representing a staggering 15 per cent of global trade. These attacks have propelled shipping costs to unprecedented levels data from the London-based Drewry Shipping Consultants reveals that the average global price for a 40-foot container has more than doubled in the past month.
Furthermore, the World Trade Organisation reported a staggering 40 per cent decline in wheat shipments through the Suez Canal in the first half of January. Faced with this disruption, companies are re-routing fleets away from the Red Sea, opting for the Cape of Good Hope route around South Africa. However, the journey takes 10 days longer, further increasing costs.
No region of the world is immune
While Europe, Africa, and the Middle East directly bear the brunt of trade disruptions from the conflict, the global turmoil poses risks for all, including the Caribbean. Intertwined global transportation, with rising shipping costs, idle warehouses, and disrupted container schedules, initiates a ripple effect, impacting prices universally.
Additionally, the global stock market’s speculative nature further contributes to rising prices. Notably, in mid-January, heightened risks in the Red Sea led to a surge in oil prices to US$80 per barrel.
The Caribbean, already grappling with elevated costs from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, is not immune to the recent price hikes. Prolonged disruption by the Houthis, far from a distant concern, directly affects the Caribbean, impacting the pockets of people across the region.
Who are the Houthis and why are they attacking shipping?
The problem is the Houthis have no self-serving interest to stop. The Houthis are a political and military organisation in Yemen, a country located in the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast. Significantly, it overlooks the Red Sea at its narrowest point a 20-mile strait of water before it plunges into the Arabian Sea. It is from this vantage point that the Houthis have been attacking ships since the conflict between Hamas and Israel in Gaza began in November 2023.
The Houthi organisation controls most parts of Yemen, including the capital. They have been at war with a military coalition, organised and supported by Saudi Arabia for 10 years. The Organisation is supported by the Government of Iran for two reasons. The first is that Iran rivals Saudi Arabia for regional dominance; Yemen is a proxy for the wider competition. The rivalry is exacerbated by religious differences – Iran is largely Shia Muslim, while Saudi Arabia is Sunni Muslim.
The second reason for Iran’s support of the Houthis is the conflict between Israel and Hamas over Gaza. Israel and Iran and sworn enemies, and Iran is believed to be financing the Houthis to attack ships serving ports in Israel. But what started out as an attempt to inflict damage on Israel in support of the Palestinian cause, has spread into attacking ships belonging to the US, the UK and other Western nations regarded as allies of Israel.
The UN response
On January 10, 2024, the United Nations Security Council attempted to address the issue by passing a resolution, condemning the Houthi attacks on shipping. But the resolution, while adopted, exposed serious divisions among the five veto nations on the Council. The US, UK and France voted in favour, Russia and China abstained. Both Russia and China linked their abstention to the consequences of Israel’s military operations in Gaza that have now lasted for more than 3 months, resulting in more than 25 000 people being killed.
Situation about to worsen
Recent US and UK airstrikes across Yemen, directed at Houthi operations, prompted a Houthi demand for the expulsion of all US and UK UN and humanitarian staff within a month.
Whether this demand hints at further retaliatory actions against the US and UK remains uncertain.
Meanwhile, the Houthis lack an incentive to cease attacks on Western-owned ships, as their actions in Yemen, purportedly in support of Palestine, have bolstered their popularity, diverting attention from the Organisation’s failure to provide basic services to the Yemeni people.
Both the US and UK governments are facing general elections this year. Wars – even small ones have the tendency to rally national support behind governments, particularly if they claim that the involvement in conflict is to provide economic benefits or enhance national power. Thus, the US and UK governments also have domestic political reasons to intensify their military response to the Houthis, in the hope that it will build their political capital.
No prospects for an early end
The ongoing disruptions underscore the urgency for nations to unite in diplomatic efforts, prioritising humanitarian concerns, and seeking enduring solutions to restore stability.
However, given all the vested interests at play, no such thing will happen.
Therefore, the prospect is real of a prolonged disruption of shipping. Countries around the world need to prepare for higher prices. And, once again, small states, through no fault of their own, will be the victims of events in which they play no part.
Sir Ronald Sanders is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organisation of American States. The views expressed are entirely his own.
The UN response
On January 10, 2024, the United Nations Security Council attempted to address the issue by passing a resolution, condemning the Houthi attacks on shipping. But the resolution, while adopted, exposed serious divisions among the five veto nations on the Council. The US, UK and France voted in favour, Russia and China abstained. Both Russia and China linked their abstention to the consequences of Israel’s military operations in Gaza that have now lasted for more than 3 months, resulting in more than 25 000 people being killed.
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Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The BRICS folks who are the least able to protect their trade voted against.
Seems to me support should be unanimous.
I don’t think the UN has much longer in this world.
BRICS seems all about creating mayhem with no plan for stability.
….. check the Bible!!
When pasty white warmongers lose they will always change the rules
US and it’s poodles scum are now fucking up aid relief
— 30,000 people work for UNWRA, according to its website.
US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said 12 UNRWA employees had been accused of helping Hamas
The US State Department said it had “temporarily paused additional funding” to the agency while it reviewed the claims as well as the UN’s plan to address concerns.
Australia, Canada, Italy and the UK also said they had suspended their funding to the agency.
Israel’s relentless bombardment and siege of Gaza has killed at least 26,257 people, including over 100 UN staff.
In 2006, Brazil, Russia, India and China created the “Bric” group. South Africa joined in 2010, making it “Brics”. Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are due to enter on 1 January. No name for the expanded group has been announced, but it is thought it might be “Brics +”
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What is unique about BRICS+?
No member countries have the Judeo Christian ethic.
They lack the civilizational driving force which comes from the Torah.
Confusion, division and “HAMAS” reign!!
Israel was put there by God to be a light to all nations, the source of that civilizational driving force.
You might say Brazil is Catholic, Russia is Greek Orthodox which is true.
So, what do Russia and Brazil lack in Judeo Christianity when compared with the UK and its progeny?
The Reformation!!
Then there is South Africa!!
Wasn’t it the progeny of the Reformed church of the UK and the Netherlands?
For sure.
But that civilizational driving force has long been driven out and we have South Africa taking Israel, the light to all nations, to the ICJ.
It is worth noting that no country was mad enough to join with South Africa as plaintiffs against Israel which is a good sign!!
There is hope.
So, on one side we have the Judeo-Christians and on the other BRICS+.
Sooner rather than later, the Christians will be gone and Israel will be on its own, having to rely only on God.
Who will win?
Check the Bible!!
Grasshopper
Looks like it is the Houthis who believe the tanker to be British but no one knows for sure.
They attacked it because of their belief.
What that means is they have pulled their masters, Iran, into the act of attacking the UK.
More and more, Iran is becoming fair game for the US and UK.
The oil seems to be Russian a Brix+ member!!
So, one BRIX+ member has destroyed the goods of another BRIX+ member.
No civilizational force evident.
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/uk-airstrikes-against-houthis-are-backfiring-and-eradicating-them-fully-is-now-impossible/ar-BB1hlttF
So, if this article is true and the Houthis, proxies of Iran, can’t be eliminated what would you do if you were the US or UK?
Go to the source, Iran!!!
What do you think is the future for the UN after this?!!
@ John on January 27, 2024 at 12:08 PM said:
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What is unique about BRICS+?
No member countries have the Judeo Christian ethic.
They lack the civilizational driving force which comes from the Torah.
Confusion, division and “HAMAS” reign!!
Israel was put there by God to be a light to all nations, the source of that civilizational driving force.
You might say Brazil is Catholic, Russia is Greek Orthodox which is true.
So, what do Russia and Brazil lack in Judeo Christianity when compared with the UK and its progeny?
The Reformation!!
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Your massively big head is too full of confusion and historically inaccurate misfits to be of any rational thought.
How does the “Reformation” ideology square with Judaism?
Doesn’t Reformation movement put your rebellious Jesus at the centre of the Movement whereas Judaism denounces Jesus as having any claim to be the Messiah?
BTW, both Chinese and Indian (Hinduism) civilizations are just as old (if not older) as Judaism.
It seems that God has many “Chosen People”.
So, which one is God’s favourite? The Hindus, Incas, Aztecs or the Dogon people of present-day Mali?
Miller on January 27, 2024 at 7:58 PM said:
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So, which one is God’s favourite? The Hindus, Incas, Aztecs or the Dogon people of present-day Mali?
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Too easy!!
John 3:16
King James Version
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Miller on January 27, 2024 at 7:58 PM said:
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BTW, both Chinese and Indian (Hinduism) civilizations are just as old (if not older) as Judaism.
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Exodus 20
King James Version
20 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Abraham worshipped one true God at a time when everyone else had many gods.
God chose this single man to make a covenant with and to use his descendants who became known as Israel to be a light for all nations.
When did the Chinese and Indian civilizations get the message?
Doesn’t sound like these civilizations did.
That’s why God made a New Covenant.
John 3:16
King James Version
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Britain’s aerial attacks on the Houthis requires their Typhoon fighter bombers fly 3000 miles there and back from Cyprus.
It does have 2 aircraft carriers with a third on the way but neither is at readiness and can operate in the theatre of war required.
Its destroyers are also more suited for shooting down incoming missiles than attacking land targets.
Gone are the days when battleships with 18 inch naval guns would bombard land targets.
Not to worry though the US has the firepower and has the most formidable carrier fleet in the world. It has destroyers and one or more subs in the area.
Israel has some too and with nuclear missile capability.
Again, you see the limitations of the BRICS+ grouping, they can’t protect their trade.
I am sure if the UK and US were to approach Ethiopia which can’t get wheat shipments because of Iran’s proxy, Yemen, and asked what they felt about bombing Iran it would give its blessing even though both are members of BRICS+.
Home drums beat loudest plus BRICS+ lacks the civilizational force of the Torah.
Besides, Iran is closer to Cyprus than Yemen …. Turkey too.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/british-warships-lack-firepower-to-attack-houthi-land-targets/ar-BB1hmn36?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W069&cvid=cb6f128868874b74adc372fc2622d839&ei=49
https://news.sky.com/story/sean-bell-raf-jets-flying-3-000-miles-for-houthi-strikes-as-flagship-aircraft-carriers-remain-in-uk-heres-why-13056847
I was looking at Google Earth and trying to figure out how to bomb Iran.
Saudi Arabia is just across the Persian Gulf so bases there would make it easy.
Would Saudi Arabia as a member of BRICS+ prevent the US and UK using bases in Saudi Arabia?
My guess is they would jump at the opportunity.
Saudi Arabia has bombed the Houthis in Yemen 23,000 times so bombing their master should not be a problem.
It removes both HAMAS and the Houthis and Hezbollah from the equation and would be a stabilizing influence for the Middle East.
With HAMAS gone, Saudi Arabia would then be able to enter into the Abrahamic Accord with Israel and other Arab nations in the Middle East and develop the Ben Gurion Canal with Israel, Egypt and Jordan.
South Africa, a member of BRICS+ was not joined in at the ICJ by any other nation, whether an Arab Nation or another member of BRICS+ suggesting there are major developmental plans for the area and multiple Arab nations plan to be a part of and derive benefit.
South Africa is a joke.
Looks like countries are pulling funding from UNRWA.
US, Australia, Italy for starters, nine so far.
UNRWA does not seem to understand why!!!!!
By the time Ms. Mockley is looking to the UN for her cushy job, the UN may have ceased to exist.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/un-agency-chief-shocked-as-nine-countries-pause-funding-over-claims-staff-involved-in-hamas-attack/ar-BB1hmdp0?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W069&cvid=40167b82153449edb522a6d343098d86&ei=22
The UN’s biggest problem is Mossad!!!!
UK getting ready for war.
Hope his King and country give HA a pass on conscription and he doesn’t have to run around on a battlefield dodging bullets and missiles!!
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/all-brits-must-be-ready-for-conscription-within-six-years-security-expert-warns/ar-BB1hldji?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W069&cvid=707d94b9e7894c0cb040955999c71ad6&ei=36
Al-Jazeera squealing over funding.
The United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Scotland have halted funding to the agency, whose facilities where displaced Palestinians sought shelter have been repeatedly attacked in Israeli air raids.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/27/palestinians-slam-suspension-of-unrwa-funding-by-some-western-nations#:~:text=The%20United%20States%2C%20Australia%2C%20Canada,attacked%20in%20Israeli%20air%20raids.
I know HA will want to do his duty as any true Briton would, but I hope they give him a break.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are called Abrahamic religions.
These religions trace their belief in the singular God to a common patriarch, the God figure of Abraham (Ibrahim).
But Jesus said that Israel would be left desolate, and that they would not see Him again UNTIL they acknowledge that He is their Messiah.
That all of the lost tribes will be returned and gathered together around the time of the second coming of Jesus Christ.
This is in accordance with Old Testament scriptures as well.
(Luke 19:38)
“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
Hal
When you attended the Quaker Meeting in London you should have joined.
You could now claim to be a conscientious objector and get a pass.
Of course, you could run and do it now, but I doubt they will believe your sudden conversion!!
Countries pausing funding to key UN aid agency ‘overtly defies’ ICJ order
A UN expert has warned that countries pausing funding to the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) were breaching a court order to provide effective aid in Gaza.
The day after ICJ concluded that Israel is plausibly committing Genocide in Gaza, some states decided to defund UNRWA, collectively punishing millions of Palestinians at the most critical time, and most likely violating their obligations under the Genocide Convention.
The ICJ ordered three things:
1. That HAMAS immediately release all hostages unconditionally
2. That Israel submit a report to the court within a month regarding their efforts to minimize civilian casualties
3. That South Africa comment on the report
Unfortunately, HAMAS is a law unto itself.
So, here’s how in the words of William Tecumseh Sherman Israel will prosecute the war against HAMAS.
“I would make this war as severe as possible and show no symptoms of tiring till the South/HAMAS begs for mercy”
Who killed the Buffalo?
He* also used his “scorched earth” brand of warfare against Native Americans.
After the Civil War, Sherman was given command of the Military Division of the Mississippi and tasked with pacifying the Plains Indians during the building of the transcontinental railroad. Sherman took to the job with characteristic vigor, orchestrating the relocation of the tribes and warning their chiefs, “you cannot stop the locomotive any more than you can stop the sun or the moon, and you must submit.” To help break the natives’ spirit, Sherman took a page from his Civil War playbook and set his sights on destroying one of their primary resources: the buffalo. Beginning in the late 1860s, he organized the killing of some 5 million bison in an effort to drive the creatures to the brink of extinction. Sherman continued his harsh policies after becoming commanding general of the army in 1869, and by the 1870s, he had helped force most of the Plains peoples onto reservations.
Battlefield Dub, Dub Overcome
War is kind of ugly
Too much fussing and fighting when man should live in love and inity
live upfully leggo nonsense
Tell i what we are fighting for
Why there must be so much war
Give i a reason for this fighting
Why there must be so much backbiting
Say your defamed all of your treasures
Slaving in front for a pleasure
I never never though man life should sell
All those consumers bound to hell
No winner a go to left out
Those sellers
They must be on the train
With the consumers
Still we gonna have
Lots of liars
Oh no not one must escape the staight fire
Tell i what were fighting for
Why there must be so much war
Give i a reason for this fighting
Why there must be so much backbiting
We not gonna live out those sellers
They must be on the train
With the consumers
Still we gonna have
Lots of liars
Oh no not one must escape the straight fire
Tell i what we are fighting for
Why there must be so much war
Give i a reason for this fighting
Why there must be so much backbiting
The lyrics of Winston Heywood & The Hombres’ song Backbiting addresses the issue of conflict and war that continues to plague societies. The artist pleads to be given a reason for this fighting, pointing out that it is leading to so much backbiting- a form of betrayal where someone talks behind another’s back spreading rumors and negativity. The lyrics also touch on how people are willing to sell out their own values and beliefs for material gain, leading to a society filled with deceit and liars.
In the second stanza, the artist continues to criticize those who are willing to sell out their values and principles for their own benefit, mentioning how consumers become bound to hell due to their actions. Heywood highlights that there will be no winner in this situation, as everyone will eventually have to suffer the consequences of their actions. The artist stresses what we are fighting for and demands a reason for the continued violence and backbiting that takes place throughout society.
Overall, the song’s message is that society should be built on unity, trust and honesty, and that we need to work together and eradicate the behavior of backbiting, lying and cheating if we want to live in a harmonious world.
Run come come youths truth and rights in this time
Yes you are hypocrites
Hypocritical Countries that stopped funding aid for Palestinian refugees do not support or condone #BLACKLIVESMATTER sentiments
they may say #ALLLIVESMATTER or #BLUELIVESMATTER as mindless scripted retorts but in reality they only subscribe to their inner prejudice and biased brainwashing of #WHITELIVESMATTER that was taught to them
and in reality they are still full on racists just like their mummy and daddy and forparents were
and are still Hippo(crits)
Where you a go run? Hippo, Hippo. Where you a go hide?
Like im a telling you, babylon burning.
Them feel Ethiopia and disgrace South Africa.
Hippo, Hippo
Here come the cops yeah with another hostility
The will devastate you because of brutality
Now them reach down Zimbabwe and want come tell mi say
Its like the rising of the sun
Like the bullet from a gun
What is UNRWA and who funds it?
The acronym stands for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. It was established in 1949 to cater to tens of thousands of Palestinians ethnically cleansed from their homes by Jewish militias from areas that currently form part of Israel.
The UN agency operates in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, as well as in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria – the neighbouring countries where the Palestinian refugees took shelter after their violent expulsion known as the Nakba or catastrophe.
According to its website, the UN agency supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees, working in a number of areas.
Examples of these fields are primary and vocational education, primary healthcare, relief and social services, infrastructure and camp improvement, microfinance, and emergency response.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/28/which-countries-have-cut-funding-to-unrwa-and-why
Ballistic Invasion
The ICJ could not have ordered Hamas to do anything for Hamas is not a state-party to the Genocide Conventions of 1948. Hamas could not, for example, have brought an action against the Zionist regime. The simple fact that state parties have a judge on the panel begs the question where was Hamas’s adjunct judge on this panel. Additionally, only members of the UN could have lodged such a case.
Maybe, just maybe, there tooooooooo much racism in your water.
It’s criminal, if not in support of genocide, for an asshole to troll the internet and post all kinds of rasssoul from the furthest reaches of the extreme White right.
Don’t worry the gigantic deckie will soon enter, stage right!
The White Anglo-Saxons, in a well choreographed plot, one day after the ICJ decision, have responded with a claim by the most lied people the world has ever had, that 12 or 13 Palestinians, working for UNRA, were allegedly involved in the Hamas defense operation of Oct 7, based on the word of a set of liars, purportedly gotten through interrogation, by withholding funding given UNRA for the support of the Palestinian people.
Now UNRA employs 13000 Palestinians. That 12 or 13 might have been so involved can certainly not be the fault of their employer. That UNRA sought to justify such a patent lie by the devil only adds credence to this lie.
This is what happens when empire and her satraps get a smack on the ass! With a dog hunter.
Of course, the Americans, the British, the Australians, the Europeans and others have now joined the line more fully of those which shall be charged for aiding genocide.
Over the last 24 hours, 3 American soldiers were rightly killed and 30 something injured in an attack on one of their illegal bases in Syria.
The liars in Washington, led by Genocide Joe, have argued that these attacks occurred in Jordan. Jordan, a state where they occupy legally.
For a people who could not even win against the Boy Scouts in the BDF and in the wake of imperial collapse are certainly no different than Rome.
Something is up. That these feckless fuckers could continue to tell easily provable lies would suggest that another reckless action is being contemplated.
Regardless of what that might be, it must end up in the galvanization of the correlation of global forces to dethrone these White fuckers.
Dear Ntr, when will the gigantic, mushroom-headed, deckie seek flight in their tens of thousands?
Today the Republic of Iran launched 3 satellites into space. One of its newspaper’s ran the following headline: “The Sky’s the Limit”!
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/494255/The-Sky-s-the-Limit
https://www.euronews.com/2024/01/28/iran-launches-three-rockets-into-space-as-part-of-ballistic-missile-programme
Pachamama
on January 28, 2024 at 3:04 PM said:
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The ICJ could not have ordered Hamas to do anything for Hamas is not a state-party to the Genocide Conventions of 1948. Hamas could not, for example, have brought an action against the Zionist regime. The simple fact that state parties have a judge on the panel begs the question where was Hamas’s adjunct judge on this panel.
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….. like the Palestinians, no such state, no such people!!
No judge on the panel either.
The subject was Hamas, no other entity.
Then again exceptionalism requires, as a point of departure, the absence of a perspicacious mind.😄
Maybe, an apology to the blog for serial misdirections, might suffice.
Are all the countries who have withdrawn funding from UNRWA committing genocide?
ICJ rapidly becoming a farce!!
3 US soldiers got got
26,000+ Palestinians civilians were massacred
why the fuck we are supposed to feel sorry for tree men of war killed by drones more
Read the treaty. Its quite clear. Any entity or person or state party which gives any kind of support thereto violates, not only the local laws of the state party, but is also in violation of the maximum criminal law – genocide. Even, people like you, who write supporting genocide are in violation.
This UN court is not as bad as the ICC which is a wholly owned Western kangaroo court. With its prosecutor willing to, within a month, bring charges against Putin when there was hardly a case, and Afrikan leaders who have been for decades railroaded by the ICC. Of course, there are also a few exceptions. People who are not the friends of the West – Milosevic, for example. The exceptions which prove the rule.
Are we really asked to feel sorry for these 3 US soldiers?
Who asks us to feel sorry?
The only information we get from the number is that alot more people will die.
Those who are related to the three will feel grieved, as will those who are related to the people who die as a result of the three.
A man can live for a hundred years or more. For umpteen years and a score. Not only by the words of his mouth. But the meditation of his heart
As inferred by many others here John should be given a special award as
“The Bad Egg of Barbados”
Psalms
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Here’s how the Commonwealth commemorates the dead of WWI and WWII.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn1dak5IedU
Americans will commemorate their dead at Arlington and at memorials around the country.
Even at Harrison College as a boy, the Friday (I believe) before remembrance day, prayers were around the clock tower.
It is not about our love of the dead soldiers, it is about the love shown by those dead soldiers.
You can’t love the 3 dead US soldiers, all you can do is to remember the fact they gave their lives out of love.
…. and you are doing that the more you talk about them!!
Carry on!!!
Indeed we do not delight in the death of others, be it on the battlefield, in the streets or in some canefield in Barbados.
However, we cannot mourn the death of three and ignore the death of thousands of women and children.
What wickedness allows us to believe that death of one is more grievous than the death of 8,667. It amazes me when American news cries over the death of a few and gloss over genocide of Palestinians.
The past few years have ripped the masks off the left and right sides of the media. We see that right and wrong are conditional on who are the victims.
Listening to the radio or TV can be sickening.
Here’s the joint
The point was..
26,000+ Palestinians deserve more love and empathy than 3 deaded (US) soldiers, their families grieve and mourn too
Hitler did not kill any Jews…
His soldiers did…