🔹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.

🔹China 🇨🇳 imported 1,343 tons of gold in 2022, the highest import level since 2018. Total gold imports for 2022 were up 64% over 2021. During the 15-day period from the Chinese New Year day to the Spring Lantern Festival, Chinese gold consumption was up by 18% year-on-year. China raised its gold reserves for a third straight month as central banks worldwide bolster their holdings.

🔹 The demand for gold bars & coins in Russia 🇷🇺 last year grew faster than in any other country & almost five times as much as in 2021.

🔹Burkina Faso's 🇧🇫 authorities are seeking to process more of its gold locally to ensure control over the country's main source of revenue, following a drop in output. Production sank 15% last year as the gov't battled a sprawling Islamist insurgency.

🔹 Turkey 🇹🇷 will suspend some gold imports to soften the economic impact of recent earthquakes.

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💠Central banks are scooping up gold 📈at the fastest pace since 1967.

💠 Central banks of China, Turkey, Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 & India 🇮🇳 increase gold purchases.

💠 Prof. Everisto Benyera on the shift in relationship between Africa, gold & the USD.

💠 BRICS 🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 plan an international reserve currency based on a basket of the national currencies, backed by commodities such as gold.

Video courtesy Sean Foo

🔹France's 🇫🇷 state-owned nuclear operator EDF is considering using funds from depositors in a centuries-old savings account to finance part of a €50bn plan to build six nuclear reactors. Between €10bn to €20bn could be freed up for the nuclear need.

🔹A 9-month planned maintenance shutdown of EDF's SA’s Chinon-1 nuclear reactor 🏭 has started. French nuclear generation slumped to the lowest in more than three decades in 2022.

🔹France already generates about 70% of its power from nuclear. France has approved looking into the possibility of extending the lifespan of nuclear reactors to 60 years & beyond if safety rules allow it.

🔹France seeks strategy as nuclear waste storage is decreasing. EDF considers to resume sending recyclable uranium to Russia 🇷🇺 as it is the only country able to process it into reprocessed uranium (95%). As a result, France backs Hungary 🇭🇺 on removing Russian nuclear sector from EU 🇪🇺 sanctions.

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💠 🇫🇷 EDF said that it had lowered its nuclear output target for 2022 due to the impact of strikes on its reactor maintenance schedule.

💠EDF is rushing to get nuclear power stations online. 20 of 56 offline due to strikes & corrosion issues. (Last reported 6 of 12 with corrosion issues being repaired).

💠The French gov't to fully nationalize the EDF. which runs a 29 billion Euro loss.

🔹Booming trade flows with Russia’s 🇷🇺 neighbors may be a sign that sanctions are being evaded by EU 🇪🇺& US 🇺🇸 companies. German exports to Russia fell to 38% from May-Jul '22 compared to the average of May-Jul '17-'19. But they almost doubled to Armenia 🇦🇲 & more than tripled to Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬. The EU is poised to adopt a 10th package of sanctions next week.

🔹Latvia's 🇱🇻 PM K. Karins has called on the EU for a crackdown against anyone trying to evade the sanctions. He said It is clear that traders are finding ways to legally trade with Turkey, Kazakhstan, Armenia etc. which are then resent to Russia.

🔹2 weeks ago the US sanctioned nearly two dozen individuals & entities in multiple countries for assisting Russia to evade sanctions. Last week the US declared more focus on sanctions evasion is coming soon.

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💠 The US warns Oman 🇴🇲, UAE 🇦🇪 & Türkiye 🇹🇷 of possible embargo if they continue to evade US sanctions on Russia.

💠 European traders are evading sanctions with fake paperwork claiming Russian/Belarussian firewood is from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 or Kyrgyzstan.

💠 Belarus 🇧🇾 president warns that sanctions will lead to global food crisis.

🔹Yevheniya Kravchuk, deputy head of the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 parliament's committee on humanitarian & information policy confirms the continuation of the policy for millions of Russian language books 📚to be confiscated from schools, kindergartens & libraries to be destroyed.

🔹Both Russian & Ukrainian are East Slavic languages, and most Ukrainians speak Russian. Ukraine had withdrawn from its libraries about 19 million copies of books, and 11 million Russian-🇷🇺 language books were destroyed in Ukraine last year alone.

🔹On 19 May 2022, the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 Ministry of Culture instructed the Ukrainian Book Institute to destroy all books 📖 published in Russia, printed in Russian or translated from the Russian language, amounting to millions of books. This includes some Ukrainian-language books from the Soviet era.

🔹Ukraine's SBU searched the premises of Sarny eparchy Ukrainian Orthodox Church ⛪️ in Rivne Region. The SBU confiscated books & newspapers dated from 2020 & 2013.

🔹The first 57 tonnes of Russian 🇷🇺 -language books have already been sent for recycling. The proceeds were used to buy a jeep for the AFU.

🔹Hungary's 🇭🇺 FM P. Szijjarto, completed a 2-day meeting with Belarusian 🇧🇾 FM Sergei Aleinik in Minsk, Belarus. Szijjarto stressed that without negotiations, there will be no peace in Ukraine. Aleinik said “we are on the same page with our Hungarian partners in many ways".

🔹Due to the Western imposed sanctions, the bilateral trade between the two countries has shrunk by more than a third. Belarus is ready to support their Hungarian partners in mutually beneficial investment projects.

🔹Szijjarto said "we are feeling the pain of the inflation, which is already double-digit, & energy prices, which have skyrocketed due to the erroneous sanctions policy,"

🔹The visit marked exactly 31 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Belarus & Hungary.

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💠 USAID 🇺🇸 chief, Samantha Power accuses Hungary of eroding relations with the US.

💠 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.

Video courtesy People Say.

🔹The BRICS 🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 group of nations plans to decide this year whether to admit new members and what criteria they would have to meet, with Iran 🇮🇷 & Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 among those who’ve formally asked to join. While BRICS accounts for 42% of the world’s population, its members have less than 15% of the voting rights in the World Bank and the IMF.

🔹BRICS founded the New Development Bank, in 2014, & Bangladesh & the UAE joined the institution in 2021. Egypt 🇪🇬 & Uruguay 🇺🇾 are expected follow suit soon.Other countries that have expressed interest in joining include Argentina 🇦🇷, the UAE 🇦🇪, Algeria 🇩🇿, Egypt, Bahrain 🇧🇭 & Indonesia 🇮🇩.

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💠 Russia sees the possibility of a single supranational currency being created for settlements within the BRICS.

💠 The EAEU 🇷🇺 🇦🇲 🇰🇿 🇰🇬 🇧🇾 is interested in setting up a common payment system with BRICS nations.

💠 South Africa expressed that BRICS economies wants to find a way of bypassing the USD.

💠 Egypt has officially become a member of the New Development Bank of the BRICS.

💠 BRICS plan an international reserve currency based on a basket of the national currencies, backed by commodities such as gold.

🔹India 🇮🇳 appears to be pulling off a diplomatic high-wire act between Washington & Moscow as imports from Russia have surged nearly 400% so far this fiscal year (Apr '22 - Mar '23), fueled by purchases of discounted crude oil. The total value of Russian 🇷🇺 imports came to $37.31 billion, up from $7.71 billion in the same period of the previous year.

🔹Russia became India's top crude supplier in Nov. 2022, receiving around 1 million bpd 🛢 & in the first two weeks of Jan. '23, nearly 1.3 million bpd.

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💠 Around 70% of Jan. 2023 loading cargoes of Russian Urals was destined to India 🇮🇳.

💠 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.

Compilation video of India's External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar.

🔹The European Commission 🇪🇺 is exploring options to confiscate Russian 🇷🇺 state & private assets. This includes $300 billion frozen Russian central bank 🏛 foreign exchange reserves / bonds & applies also to assets of individuals / entities.

🔹The EU disregards that assets of private entities are considered foreign investments, which enjoy protection against expropriation without compensation & a right to fair & equitable treatment under international treaties that Russia has with a lot of EU countries.

🔹The 'UN Convention 🇺🇳 on Jurisdictional Immunities of States & Their Property 2004' is not yet in force & the EU believes that Russia's Central Bank reserves can be "legally" confiscated.

🔹EU member states must report if their financial institutions hold Russian central bank assets. Switzerland 🇨🇭has said it is legally impossible for it to confiscate the assets of sanctioned Russians which violates Swiss law. EU Commission President U. von der Leyen says she is "disappointed” over Switzerland’s decision.

🔹The EU is also planning an "exit tax" on the assets of sanctioned individuals that want to transfer their wealth out of the EU.

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💠The EU has undermined ‘Lex Mercatoria’ (Latin – ‘Merchant Law’). The autonomous legal order of international economic relations for trade & rules for settling disputes. The west has now destroyed, how money & currencies function in relationship to trade & private property rights.

Video courtesy IntelRepublic & Sean Foo

🔹Is the EU's 🇪🇺 plan to confiscate Russian assets an indication of the EU undermining key concepts of western civilization? These include private property rights, free markets & the right to exchange property by mutual agreement.

🔹While the EU claims Russia 🇷🇺 wants to re-create the USSR, is the EU becoming it's own version of the USSR? Is the EU pursuing policies in a direction that coincides with some of the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto, 1848 by Karl Heinrich Marx?

💠 Plank I - Abolition of private property.

💠 Plank II - A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

💠 Plank IV - Confiscation of the property of all emigrants & rebels.

💠 Plank V - Centralization of credit in the hands of the state. (The ECB determining EU member states monetary policy).

Video: Vladimir Bukovsky in 2005 - USSR defector in the 1970's to the West.

🔹People burned several banks in Lebanon 🇱🇧, as the Lebanese pound fell to a historic record low of 80,000 against the US dollar. Protestors are against informal restrictions on cash withdrawals in place for years & rapidly deteriorating economic conditions. Protesters also gathered outside the house of Salim Sfeir, head of the Association of Banks 🏦 in Lebanon, and started a fire.

🔹Lebanon has been facing its worst economic crisis since October 2019 & Beirut's port blast in 2020. Banks in Lebanon were on strike, over haphazard judicial decisions against the sector.Late in 2022, the Lebanese 🇱🇧 parliament approved an amended banking secrecy law, a key demand of a $3 billion bailout out from the IMF.

🔹The US 🇺🇸 denied that it was considering imposing sanctions on Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh, for his involvement in “covering Hezbollah's financial activities". Hezbollah claims that it has succeeded in establishing its own banking & monetary system away from the Lebanese banking system, geared towards dodging existing US sanctions.

🔹Hezbollah leader S. H. Nasrallah said “if the Americans or some inside are planning chaos & the collapse of the country, I tell them that you will lose everything in Lebanon.” He stressed the need to revive the industrial & agricultural sectors, & look for other markets, such as Russia 🇷🇺 & China 🇨🇳.