🔹Reports from Downdetector show US 🇺🇸 based users in the past few hours access to Twitter, Facebook (Meta), YouTube & Instagram have been restricted due to ongoing glitches. Fox News has also faced issues.

🔹Twitter problems began around 4:45 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, when users who tried posting messages saw a notification that said they were “over the daily limit for sending tweets.” “Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you,” the company posted. “Sorry for the trouble.”

🔹Netblocks noted that Instagram was down in multiple countries. Reports also show the same for YouTube.

🔹Coincidentally, earlier today, A US House Oversight Committee hearing meant to put former Twitter executives and their actions under a spotlight, but the room suddenly went dark in the middle of the questioning.

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🔹A copper deficit is set to inundate global markets throughout 2023, fueled by increasingly challenged South American supply streams and higher demand pressures. The world is currently facing multiple problems in the copper industry.

🔹Ongoing unrest in Peru 🇵🇪 (world's #2 copper producer) & higher demand for copper in "green" energy push are major factors pushing up prices. Moody’s switched its outlook on Peru’s sovereign debt from stable to negative.

🔹 You can’t see electric vehicles 🚗 take off before you get the charging infrastructure which is actually much more copper intensive. China’s 🇨🇳 reopening would increase demand outlook and will push copper prices even higher due to the supply shortage.

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💠 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 plans to ramp up copper mining.

💠 Global copper smelting declined 📉 in Oct. 2022 due to fears of a recession & maintenance shutdowns.

💠Europe’s largest copper producer, 🇩🇪 Hamburg-based Aurubis AG, plans cut back due to high natural gas prices

🔹 China's 🇨🇳 central bank has signed a MoU on setting up yuan clearing arrangements in Brazil 🇧🇷 to facilitate the use of the Chinese yuan in cross-border transactions. China has in recent months signed similar yuan clearing deals with Pakistan, Kazakhstan & Laos.

🔹Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov sees the possibility of a single supranational currency being created for settlements within the BRICS 🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦. However, there is a long way to go before a final decision is made.

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💠 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 is open to discussions about trade in currencies other than the USD, such as the Chinese yuan.

💠 China's holdings of US 🇺🇸 Treasuries have been decreasing in recent months.

💠 Moscow & Beijing 🇨🇳 are developing a system of settlements to allow cross-border transactions bypassing SWIFT.

💠 The yuan's share of the Russian 🇷🇺currency market has risen to as much as 45%, up from less than 1% in Jan. 2022.

Video courtesy Sean Foo.

🔹H5N1 influenza (bird flu), a low risk to humans, is now a concern for the WHO which claims the recent spread to mammals means preparations is needed in case of an outbreak. The WHO 🇺🇳 is also continuing to engage with vaccine manufacturers for a ready supply for such a case.

🔹There is no evidence that one human infection can spread to anyone else.

🔹Nepal🇳🇵& Slovakia 🇸🇰 have reported bird flu outbreaks at poultry farms.

Earlier bird flu posts on this channel:

💠 Culling chickens due to bird flu along with farm fires increase US egg 🥚prices.

💠 Japan 🇯🇵 culls a record 10 million birds due to bird flu.

💠 US - Bird Flu outbreak worsens as over 50 million birds are culled.

💠 UK 🇬🇧- Customers are facing limits on how many eggs they can buy.

💠 Spain 🇪🇸 - 2 poultry farm workers tested positive for bird flu.

💠 Millions of chickens euthanized to prevent spread of bird flu at US & UK farms.

💠 Death of seabirds & duck farms in Canada 🇨🇦 linked to bird flu.

🔹Famed journalist & Pulitzer prize winner Seymour Hersh, who for decades was a star reporter writing for The New York Times & New Yorker, published a new bombshell as his first Substack post, prompting a quick US 🇺🇸 White House response.

🔹After conducting his own investigation into who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines via a series of underwater blasts on Sept. 26, Hersh has concluded the United States blew up 🧨 the pipelines as part of a covert operation under the guise of the BALTOPS 22 NATO exercise.

🔹His article gives details of the planning & execution of covert ops which he got from a source close to the operation, due to the intricate details he has published. US & European 🇪🇺 media have been silent on this.

🔹Subscribers would remember admin's video update given on this channel 2 days after the explosions, clearly debunking the utter nonsense western media ran that 'evil' Russia 🇷🇺 blew up Germany's 🇩🇪 gas pipelines, not mentioning that Russia owns majority stake in the pipelines.

🔹Russia 🇷🇺 will voluntarily reduce oil production in March by 500,000 barrels per day as it halts sales to buyers complying with a Western-imposed price cap.

🔹Russia thus far, has not responded or retaliated on the oil price cap imposed by the US/EU/G7 & will unveil retaliatory measures to the price ceiling by March.

🔹Russia’s Deputy PM A.Novak had warned that there was a risk of lower oil production this year due to the EU import bans and the price caps on Russian crude & petroleum products. Russian oil 🛢production held at 9.8 million barrels per day (bpd) in Jan. 2023.

🔹The US 🇺🇸 sanctioned 6 Iran-based petrochemical manufacturers or their subsidiaries & 3 firms in Malaysia 🇲🇾 & Singapore 🇸🇬 involved in facilitating Iranian 🇮🇷 oil to Asia.

🔹Shipments of Azeri 🇦🇿 crude oil from the southern Turkish 🇹🇷 port of Ceyhan are not expected to be restored until late next week until assessment of earthquake damages is complete.

🔹Hungary🇭🇺-Ukraine🇺🇦 relations continue to be worsen after a recent minority law passed by Ukraine, is designed to target ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia. This has resulted in Hungary's Foreign Minister speaking out. Hungarian language institutions & culture in Transcarpathia has been under constant threat.

🔹Ukraine is forcing conscriptions of ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia. Journalists report that the Ukraine regime is conducting ethnic cleansing of Hungarians.

🔹Slovakia's 🇸🇰 FM R. Káčer’s statement “if Vladimir Putin had been successful in Ukraine, Hungary would have territorial claims against Slovakia” has resulted in Slovakia's ambassador summoned in Hungary to explain.

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💠 Hungary's 🇭🇺 PM Orban concerned over the deaths of ethnic Hungarians from Transcarpathia.

💠 Ukrainian 🇺🇦 'Right Sector' neo-nazis threaten to slaughter all Hungarians in Transcarpathia.

💠Ukraine's new regulation targets Hungarians with dual Ukrainian-Hungarian citizenship

🔹CEO of Russian 🇷🇺 oil major Rosneft, Igor Sechin —— "Europe will no longer set the reference price for Russia's flagship Urals crude as Asia has emerged the largest buyer of Russian oil". "Reference prices will be formed where oil volumes actually go.”

🔹Around 70% of Jan. 2023 loading cargoes of Russian Urals was destined to India 🇮🇳. India has started importing a wider variety of lesser-known Russian Arctic grades 🛢including Sokol & ESPO.

🔹Today, Feb 10th, an Indian diplomatic envoy celebrated the 30th anniversary of bilateral relations with Russia.

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💠 Russia cuts oil production in March by 500,000 🛢 bpd.

💠 India’s ambassador to Russia, considers jointly building oil-carrying ships & establishing energy insurance companies.

💠 India now buying thirty-three (33) times more Russian oil than a year earlier.

💠 Russia is now transporting more of it's own crude on its own tankers 🚢.

💠 Russia’s crude grades re-routed from Europe to China 🇨🇳 & India 🇮🇳.

🔹Russia’s 🇷🇺 ambassador to Türkiye 🇹🇷, A. Yerkhov has confirmed that both countries are working on an alternative to replace the Russian payment system MIR after the US threatened Türkiye with sanctions for servicing its cards. However, he said "it’s too early to announce results.”

🔹MIR was developed by the Central Bank of Russia in 2014 as a domestic alternative to Visa & Mastercard. In 2022, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 & Vietnam 🇻🇳 followed in Türkiye's steps to stop processing Mir payments, after the US threat of sanctions.

2022 timeline of events as reported on this channel:

💠 Jul. - A few countries begin processing Russia's Mir cards.

💠 Aug. - 5 top Turkish Banks adopts MIR system.

💠 Sep. - US 🇺🇸 & EU 🇪🇺 threaten to take action against Turkish Banks processing MIR.

💠 Oct. - Türkiye & Russia discusses the possibility of using the Turkish 🇹🇷TROY payment system instead of MIR.

💠 Nov.- EAEU 🇷🇺 🇦🇲 🇰🇿 🇰🇬 🇧🇾 considers uniting MIR, China’s Union Pay, India’s RuPay, Brasil’s Elo & others

🔹The UK 🇬🇧 will probably impose a limit of £10,000 to £20,000 💷 for holdings of a new CBDC once it comes into existence. The gov't will impose a cap on how much of the currency people can hold to prevent bank runs. Consultation is ongoing.

🔹Meanwhile, there were lengthy queues & chaos at ATMs across Nigeria 🇳🇬, one of the first big economies to launch a CBDC, as most Nigerians struggle to access physical money following the gov't’s disastrous demonetisation campaign.

🔹Retail CBDCs will grant central banks; the ability to “program” our spending, power over our payment behavior, no limit on negative interest rates & greater gov't surveillance.

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💠 U.S. 🇺🇸 Treasury to press forward on digital dollar.

💠 Maajid Nawaz- CBDCs are a control mechanism.

💠 Bank for International Settlements 🇨🇭report on CBDC interoperability.

💠 Catherine Austin Fitts- CBDC's are a foundational building block of tyranny.

Video courtesy GBNews & UK Column

🔹Moldovan 🇲🇩 PM N. Gavrilita resigned. Pro EU 🇪🇺 politicians insinuate that Russia is destabilising the country. Supporters of former president Igor Dodon (an advocate of good relations with Russia) believe he is facing politically motivated corruption charges.

🔹 NATO member Romania 🇷🇴 has rejected Ukraine's 🇺🇦 claim that a Russian missile crossed its & Moldova's airspace.

🔹The gov't forced several Russian-language media outlets to shut down after not renewing their broadcasting licenses.

Previous 2022 Moldova posts on this channel:

💠 Nov 28th, Protesters call for the resignation of the president & the gov't

💠 Nov 13th, 60,000 protestors marched, escorted by retired military.

💠 Oct. 30th, Stand-offs between Moldovans & police 🚓 grow violent amid protests.

💠 Oct. 23rd, police brutalities continued amid a breakout of protests.

💠 Oct. 16th, 50,000 protestors marched🇲🇩 Weekend before 60,000 protested.

💠 Thousands protest high energy prices during Sep.

Video courtesy The Duran

🔹US 🇺🇸 diplomat & USAID chief, Samantha Power shares concerns over US-Hungary ties, accusing Budapest of eroding relations. She claims that journalists do not have free speech & LGBTQI+ rights are needed in Hungary 🇭🇺.

🔹The Biden admin dispatched her to "strengthen democratic (anti-Orban) institutions". Hungary has been fighting George Soros funded NGO's working with USAID.

Chain of events reported here:

💠 Hungary rebukes US ambassador for meddling in internal affairs.

💠 Western critics accuse Hungary 🇭🇺 of purging NATO officers from it's military.

💠 Hungary supports Türkiye 🇹🇷 in a call for negotiations with Russia.

💠 Hungary claim Germany 🇩🇪 is blocking the upgrade of Hungary's Paks nuclear facility by Russia.

💠 Ukraine 🇺🇦 disproportionately conscripting ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia.

💠 The EU 🇪🇺 withholds both Hungary's budgeted & post-pandemic recovery funds as punishment.

💠 Hungary has agreed with Russia 🇷🇺 to re-route gas transit to Hungary via the TurkStream.

🔹Nicaragua 🇳🇮 has deported 222 "political" prisoners to Washington DC. The US 🇺🇸 said it was the result of concerted diplomatic efforts. 1 of 222 is confirmed to be a U.S. citizen & many others were stripped of their Nicaraguan citizenship. Nicaraguan lawmakers approved a constitutional reform that would allow this.

🔹Nicaragua's 🇳🇮 president Daniel Ortega, said the U.S. should “take their mercenaries.” The US has long imposed sanctions over Ortega's crackdown on the political opposition. Spain will offer a path to citizenship for Nicaraguan political prisoners.

🔹Several thousand demonstrators marched in Nicaragua in support of the expulsion of 222 prisoners.

🔹The Pope🇻🇦has called for prayers regarding Bishop R. Álvarez who refused to be deported to the US while under house arrest. He was charged with conspiracy for "undermining national integrity". He is now sentenced to prison. The Nicaraguan gov't is accused of violations of civil & religious liberties.

Video courtesy Fiorella Isabel

USA 🇺🇸- Under-reported news.

On Feb. 3, a train 🚂 carrying over 20 different hazardous chemicals in 150 cars derailed in the village of East Palestine, Ohio. Americans have been distracted by a weather balloon & UFO sightings. The train crew had apparently ignored warnings that their wheels were on fire. The train crashed into a diesel storage facility, igniting a fire🔥.

🔹5 cars contained vinyl chloride (25-33,000 gallons each). Vinyl chloride is one of the most toxic ⚠️ & carcinogenic substances known to man. Vinyl chloride was burned releasing toxic hydrogen chloride gas.

🔹Chickens found dead 10 miles & dead fish 5 miles away. 10% of the US population, live in the Ohio River Basin. The Ohio River is the largest tributary of the Mississippi River.

🔹Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) manages 19,420 route miles in 22 eastern states. The EPA's liability letter (Feb 10th) sent to NSC stated "Cars containing vinyl chloride... are known to have been & continue to be released to the air, soil & water.

🔹 The Biden 🇺🇸 admin plans to sell 26 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The sale is in accordance with a budget mandate enacted in 2015 for the current fiscal year. After this latest release, the reserve will dip to about 345 million.

🔹Refilling the SPR may possibly begin after Sept. 2023.

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💠 Russia 🇷🇺 cuts oil production in March by 500,000 bpd.

💠 US East Coast at risk of a gasoline shortage this summer due to EU’s 🇪🇺 ban of Russian fuel.

💠 US bans sale of SPR oil to China 🇨🇳.

💠 US SPR has not been this low since Dec. 30, 1983.

💠 US used 📉 218 million barrels of oil from it's SPR.

💠 Oil inventories in developed economies are at their lowest level since 2004.

💠 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 warns nations that use emergency oil reserves to manipulate prices.

💠 OPEC+ defends their role in oil market stability at OPEC+ HQ 🇦🇹.

💠 US reviewing various options regarding its relationship with Saudi Arabia after OPEC+ cuts.

🔹Iranian 🇮🇷 President Ebrahim Raeisi is in Beijing with a high-ranking politico-economic delegation on an official invitation by his Chinese counterpart. Chinese President Xi Jinping has lauded the close relationship between Iran and China 🇨🇳, stressing that Beijing will “unswervingly” develop friendly cooperation with Tehran irrespective of international & regional changes.

🔹Iran & China have signed 20 documents & MOU's to further expand cooperation in crisis management, tourism, communication, IT, the environment, international trade, intellectual property, agriculture, exports & more. The Iranian president thanked China for promoting his country's membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

🔹Iran & China signed a landmark 25-year comprehensive strategic partnership agreement in March 2022 in defiance of unilateral sanctions against the two countries by the US.

Video courtesy CGTN

🔹Ukraine accused Forza Italia's 🇮🇹 Party president & former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi of spreading Russian propaganda after he said he would not seek a meeting with 🇺🇦 President Zelensky if he were still head of gov't. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said "Berlusconi's accusations... are an attempt to kiss Putin's hands...".

🔹Italy's 🇮🇹 PM Giorgia Meloni said the invitation of President Zelenskiy to Paris, where he met his French 🇫🇷 & German 🇩🇪 counterparts only, was "inappropriate".

🔹Ukraine has urged its European allies to avoid “negative messaging” about its prospects of joining the EU 🇪🇺 as some of EU diplomats warn of Ukraine's unrealistic expectations. While EU leaders have refrained from public comments critical of Ukraine’s membership ambitions, some capitals have privately chastised Ukrainian officials for such expectations.

🔹The European Commission has set down seven reforming steps it wants Ukraine to deliver on before accession negotiations.

Video courtesy Intel Republic

Multiple answer poll results.

🔹China 🇨🇳 National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the largest gas importer in the country, is in the late stages of finalizing a huge long-term LNG 🚢 import deal with Qatar 🇶🇦. CNPC has agreed on the major terms with Qatar in a deal that will be very similar to Sinopec's 27 year LNG contract.

🔹This is a good move for CNPC, securing additional long term supply from a reliable and well positioned partner. This will further insulate from market volatility, diversify supply while optimising between the state owned units.

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💠 China signed a 27-year landmark $60 billion agreement for purchases of LNG from Qatar 🇶🇦.

💠 A crucial section of the East Route natural gas pipeline between Russia 🇷🇺 & China is completed.

💠 Chinese co.'s that signed long-term contracts to buy U.S. 🇺🇸 LNG are selling the excess & making millions per cargo.

💠 Qatar's Energy Minister says EU's 🇪🇺 natural gas price caps are hypocritical.

Video courtesy Shanghai Eye.