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About 35% of the world's 500 top companies are #US-based and #US-based investors own about 46% of the shares of these 500 top firms.

Contrast those figures against this:
15% of the world's top 500 firms are #China-based but Chinese own only about 6% of the top 500 firms.

In fact top Chinese companies, even majority state-owned companies, have on average a larger foreign ownership than top US firms.

Americans own 82% of their top 50 firms.

Chinese only own 64% of their top 50.


People have been conned into beliving that because China is by far the world's biggest exporter, it must generate (and keep) a huge amount of profits from this.

The fact is that most of the profits from Chinese exports go to ..... the US!

Remember this post and these numbers the next time someone tries to tell you that:

"#China is a big threat, China is taking over!"

Source:

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1600606726310531080
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The most HONEST Christmas advert you will see this year! 😂
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For the first time ever, 2 African teams will meet in the semifinals of the World Cup.
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🇦🇺 #Australia 🇦🇺

#Totalitarianism in Action in Oz.

Australian Government propose
#SocialCredit System Plan Regarding Social Media Access For Citizens

Under proposed legislation citizens will need 100 points of identification to use social media and police will have access to accounts including private messaging.
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Poland wants Ukraine without Ukrainians

The American National Democratic Institute, together with the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation, commissioned a sociological study on the topic: "How Poles treat Ukrainians."

As a result, it turned out that the Poles need Kyiv, Lvov, Uzhgorod, the Carpathians, but they cannot stand Ukrainians (they treat Russians better). They are not going to forget about the crimes of Bandera, who killed thousands of Polish women and children. One of the tragic episodes is the Volyn massacre.
The Poles do not like that the social assistance intended for them is leaking to the Ukrainians. This also irritates the Poles.

Translated from Kremlin prachka
Follow 👉@TrFormer💤
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RUSSIA IS SELLING CRUDE OIL TO ASIA ABOVE THE $60 PRICE CAP

Well, that didn't take long. 

It will be interesting to see which countries end up on the
#Russian #oil & #gas ban list for attempting to enforce this ridiculously petty, economically-suicidal and totally ineffective #EU-mandated price cap

Getting banned from purchasing Russian
#oil and #gas may well cause their citizens to freeze to death in the dark
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Video translations and information from Andras Horvath:

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Hungary refused to participate in the joint EU loan initiative to provide Ukraine with 18 Billion euros of aid, but agreed to provide Ukraine with 187 Million euros on the basis of a bilateral agreement, to which Ukraine’s foreign ministry replied that they are only interested in aid within the framework of a joint EU loan.
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GERMANY: THE COUP THAT WASN’T?
11 December 2022

Clocks were set back to 1919 this week with the news that the #German #Bundesrepublik's pretence of having just in the nick of time foiled a dastardly #plot overthrow the state by allegedly "Russian-backed German #nationalists" ........ at least if German Government can be believed.

Leading to the arrest of 27 alleged "insurrectionists" on Wednesday the 7tb of December, in a 3,000-strong police operation, among those arrested was a loose network of ex-military and policing personnel, survivalists, right-leaning businessmen, a former #AfD-aligned judge, a Berlin MP, and a minor aristocrat from the Thuringian House of Reuss.

While grandiose-sounding at first, events of the week have seen the wheels come off initial statements by German Federal police as to the seriousness of the threat posed.

While Federal Police initially claimed a haul of 50 weapons seized, the days following revealed those weapons to be a collection of hunting rifles (understandable considering the fact police raided hunting lodges and survivalist shops) and potentially even SwissArmy knives and brass knuckles, though police statements as to exaclty what was seized have been purposefully ambiguous. 

What was seen on Wednesday 7th Devember, was likely a German Gov't-manufactured plot to preempt German nationalists getting ideas in the years to come.

Rest assured that the Kaiser is not set to return to his throne whatever the truth of the matter.

One should never underestimate German state chicanery
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Each dot represents $100,000 of US taxpayers' money ostensibly donated as vital "Aid to #Ukraine".

Much of it now likely lining the pockets of members of the corrupt
#Zelensky #regime of #Ukraine.

It was recently revealed that some of this
#US "aid-to-Ukraine" money was "invested", by the Zelensky regime, in the #FTX #crypto #ponzi scheme

Money from #FTX was subsequently laundered ("donated"), by #FTX founder Sam #BankmanFreid, back into the coffers of the Biden election campaign

#moneylaundering
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Question government policies? You have a mental illness
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Little Black Book by Jeffrey Epstein.pdf
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Jeffrey #Epstein's Little Black Book, Unredacted
Forwarded from Geopolitics & Empire
PCR (not the test):

"I am beginning to think that the Kremlin is even more insouciant than the American public. How can the Kremlin be unaware that Washington is operating against Russia on all fronts? How could the Kremlin not expect Washington to brew trouble in Kosovo? And between the EU and Serbia? And trouble in the former Central Asian Soviet Republics? And in former Soviet Georgia? And in the Baltics?

And Putin is cruising along with hardly a skeleton for an army. What does Putin do when Georgia has another run at South Ossetia while Russia’s limited forces are deployed in Ukraine? When the CIA- organized Albanians begin slaughtering Serbs in northern Kosovo? When conflicts erupt in former Russian Central Asia?

How can Russia be left so unprepared when Putin acknowledges that it is Washington’s intent to destroy Russia?" https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/12/13/is-the-kremlin-out-to-lunch/
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VANGUARD QUITS CARBON-REDUCTION PACT AMID POLITICAL PRESSURE

The worlds largest Asset Management firm #Vanguard ( $8Trillion Dollars AUM) said it is leaving the #NetZero Asset Managers initiative, an international #carbon-reduction pact

In late November, 13 state attorneys general filed a motion with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission asking it to block Vanguard’s attempt to purchase larger quantities of stock in public utilities. 

But an increasing backlash among Republicans and the fossil-fuel industry has sought to cast #ESG investing—particularly the “E”—as a “woke” exercise in virtue signaling, or as something even more cynical.

Recent attacks on ESG investing, including moves by #Florida and #Texas to block state pension funds from investing in companies and funds engaged in ESG strategies.

Last month, the attorney general of #Kentucky launched an investigation into #Vanguard and #StateStreet Bank, suggesting that their ESG strategies could violate the state’s consumer protection laws.
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EU'S OIL PRICE CAP IS "SIMPLY MORONIC", CHINA AND INDIA ARE ALREADY FILLING GAPS

The #EU and the #US went forward with their long-debated, long-telegraphed move to put a price cap on #Russian #oil at $60 per barrel.

By believing they can pressure suppliers into not hauling Russian oil lest they run afoul of the sanctions that support the price cap, they believe they can take only Russian oil off the market for the long run.

Because of the way oil is actually traded in the real world, versus the way it trades in Janet Yellen’s head, this policy is actually much harder to implement than it actually looks.

You don’t buy oil at the crude oil counter at Target or Wal-Mart.


Janet #Yellen may be stupid, but she’s not that stupid.

She knows what this price cap she’s championed will do.
 

So, as always, with these people the question you shouldn’t be asking isn’t, “Will this work?” or “How will Russia respond?” but rather, “Is this the point of the exercise?”

If everyone involved knows that price floors and price ceilings always and without fail create production shortages, then why did they do this when the world clearly need more oil?

Because this is a feature of the policy, not a bug.

By doing this, like every other intervention into oil delivery since the start of the war in Ukraine, the goal was to take Russia’s supply offline and hope that other producers would see the opportunity to take market share from the evil Russians while simultaneously trying to push capital investment into competing energy technologies — like nuclear, hydrogen and unicorn farts

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German Data Analyst Reveals Data from Health Insurance Shows Increase in Sudden Deaths Following COVID Vaccine Rollouts

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/german-data-analyst-reveals-data-health-insurance-shows-increase-sudden-deaths-following-covid-vaccine-rollouts/

#safe #effective #numbers #Germany