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Veteran racist Bill Maher says “China🇨🇳 is the new Islam, we can’t be honest about them because they’re not white.”

Aside from the fact that this is nonsense since US legacy media pumps out anti-China propaganda 24/7, the audience clapping shows acceptance of these nonsensical narratives.

While US🇺🇸 cities look like decaying relics of a bygone era with outdated or no modern infrastructure, Chinese cities lead the way in infrastructure, design and innovation.

While the US spent the last 70 years creating chaos and carnage around the world with coups and wars, and letting mega-corporations rip off US citizens for profits, China lifted 800 million people out of poverty in 40 years.

While the US spent the last two and a half decades bombing away to enforce its hegemony, China focused on trade and business, and became the largest trading partner of over 120 countries.

China even beats the US in electricity generation, with China’s electricity generation volume being double that of the United States. Between 2000-2020, China’s electricity generation increased by 599%.

This garbage McCarthyite red scare 2.0 propaganda is meant to distract from the US’ own catastrophic failures and decisions. Instead of learning from China’s success, the US’ anti-China propaganda is part of a historical pattern of Washington always needing an external enemy to distract from its own failures at home and abroad, and the daylight robbery of the American working class and middle class.

Before the external distractions were the Soviet Union, the War on Drugs, and the War on/of Terror, now it’s Chinese communism.
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🚨BREAKING, TRUMP SAYS ‘WE ARE TELLING UKRAINE THEY HAVE VALUABLE RARE EARTHS AND WE WANT A GUARANTEE’

The mask is off again, the US’ involvement in the proxy war in Ukraine isn’t over democracy, sovereignty, or the rules-based order

Its involvement is for disaster capitalism, pushing Ukraine into a disastrous war against Russia and reaping the profits by forcing the wholesale privatisation of Ukraine’s remaining industry and natural resources

Here’s a throwback to when Lindsey Graham bluntly lifted the mask off of US foreign policy:

‘They’re sitting on a trillion dollars of minerals that could be good for our economy’

-Republican Senator Lindsey Graham
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Trump: ‘Ukraine has very valuable rare earth...we’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they’re going to secure what we’re giving them with their rare earth.’

Washington is the new owner of Ukraine (what’s left of it) after it disastrously pushed Ukraine into a suicidal proxy war against Russia
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Donald Trump has demanded Ukraine gives the US its rare earth metals and minerals in exchange for US aid

Here is a map of the rare earth metals and minerals that Zelensky will privatise and sell off to the US

Disaster capitalism 101
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UKRAINE’S🇺🇦 RARE EARTH METALS & MINERALS THAT TRUMP HAS DEMANDED BE GIVEN TO THE US🇺🇸 IN EXCHANGE FOR AID:

*Note: Russia🇷🇺 now controls some of these deposits after successive victories in the proxy war

-Titanium: Ukraine possesses the largest titanium reserves in Europe, accounting for 7% of global reserves. It is one of the few countries that mine titanium ores, which are crucial for the aerospace, medical, automotive, and marine industries.

-Lithium: The nation has significant lithium reserves, estimated at nearly 500,000 tons. Lithium is vital for batteries, ceramics, and glass production.

-Gallium: Ukraine ranks as the world’s fifth-largest producer of gallium, essential for semiconductors and LEDs.

-Graphite: The country holds substantial graphite reserves, representing 20% of global resources. Graphite is used in batteries, lubricants, and various industrial applications.

-Beryllium: Ukraine has confirmed deposits of beryllium, crucial for nuclear power, aerospace, military, acoustic, and electronic industries.

-Uranium: The nation possesses uranium deposits essential for nuclear energy and military sectors.

-Zirconium and Apatite: These minerals are vital for nuclear and medical applications.

-Nickel and Cobalt: Deposits of nickel (215,000 tons) and cobalt (8,800 tons) are found in the Kirovohrad and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

-Ukraine is known for its substantial, high-quality iron ore and manganese reserves, which are crucial for green steel production. In 2021, Ukraine supplied 43% of the EU’s steel plate imports.

The total value of Ukraine’s rare earth deposits is estimated between $3 trillion and $11.5 trillion
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POLITICO: UKRAINE🇺🇦 FREAKS OUT AS US🇺🇸 & RUSSIA🇷🇺 PUSH FOR ELECTIONS

Ukrainian officials are in a state of panic over the prospect of fresh elections that would boot them and Zelensky out of power…after saying for nearly 3 years that this proxy war was about defending democracy…

Regardless of this farce over supposed democracy defenders being scared of democracy in action, a former Ukrainian minister, who was granted anonymity to freely discuss the sensitive subject, told POLITICO that “the alignment on elections between Washington and Moscow is worrisome,” adding, “I see it as the first evidence that Trump and Putin agree that they want Zelensky out.” 

Hour by hour, it looks more likely that Zelensky will face the same fate as Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein; another US ally to be discarded after their usefulness runs out
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🚨DONALD TRUMP LEAVING THE DOOR OPEN FOR ISRAEL TO ILLEGALLY ANNEX THE WEST BANK🇵🇸?

"It's a small country. My desk is the Middle East, and the top of the pen is Israel. That's not good. It's a small piece of land.”

Miriam Adelson’s donations may have secured Washington handing the West Bank to Israel
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Ron Paul: ‘No wonder so many in Washington continue to support this hopeless war [in Ukraine]…USAID needs a full and transparent audit, then the agency needs to be shuttered completely’
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Marco Rubio vows to use more pressure against Iran🇮🇷 to stop it obtaining a nuclear weapon, which Tehran says it officially is not seeking to acquire

US sanctions ‘pressure’ against Iran have failed for the last four decades to get Iran to do what the US wants

If that ‘pressure’ involves military action, then the entire region will be plunged into another Washington-designed disaster
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Want to know why Britain’s BBC continuously parrots State Department talking points and covers every geopolitical event exactly how Washington would want them to cover it?

Because USAID is one of the BBC’s top 10 biggest donors
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The known death toll in Gaza has reached 62,000.

Never forget that the countries that claim to stand for ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ brought nuclear apocalypse level destruction to Gaza, targeting some of the poorest people on Earth.

When the US, UK, and EU say they have ‘shared values’ with Israel, believe them. They share the values of colonial barbarism.
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NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said

‘The front is moving in the wrong direction…’

But ‘Ukraine is not losing.’

Using this logic, ‘there is a lot of water falling from the sky and the ground is very wet…but it’s not raining.’
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John Mearsheimer on China as Trump’s US-China tariff war begins:

‘The US🇺🇸 is not simply containing China🇨🇳, we’re talking about a rollback strategy…you never want to underestimate how ruthless the United States is despite all the liberal rhetoric we use…in the early 90s I told the Chinese if you continue to grow economically, there’s going to be a fierce security competition and you’re going to be shocked at how ruthless the United States is’
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🚨BREAKING: After meeting with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order reimposing maximum pressure sanctions against Iran🇮🇷.

Donald Trump wants to stop de-dollarisation and the rise of BRICS, yet he’s only fuelling de-dollarisation and the rise of BRICS with more and more useless sanctions that he himself said were counterproductive during the election campaign.

This isn’t 2017 anymore, Iran has entered its best period of relations with Saudi Arabia, UAE, and GCC countries. While the region looks towards cooperation and economic development under the umbrella of BRICS, the US once again is interested in increasing tensions.

Iran won’t blink first because of these maximum pressure sanctions, just like it didn’t blink during Trump’s first term. Iran is likely to just double down and continue its nuclear program.
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One of the most prominent propaganda rags in the United States the New York Times published a piece just before Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with Donald Trump saying Iran🇮🇷 is now racing towards a nuclear bomb.

Iran has now been ‘racing’ to a nuclear bomb and has been ‘months away’ from a nuclear bomb for over 20 years.

Another episode of US media uncritically reporting the words of current and former US officials as if they haven’t serially lied in the past and caused foreign policy disasters.

Another episode of manufacturing consent, to prepare the population for a potential apocalyptic war in the Middle East with Iran.
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🚨BREAKING: Zelensky says he wants Ukraine to have nuclear weapons if Ukraine is not allowed in NATO or if NATO membership is delayed.

If Ukraine even shows that it is taking steps to acquire nuclear weapons, Vladimir Putin would do what he hasn’t done for the last 3 years and completely obliterate the regime in Kiev.

If Zelensky thinks any NATO country would seriously risk World War 3 with Russia and give him nuclear weapons, he has become delusional beyond the point of reason.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN ON FOREIGN NGOs LIKE USAID IN 2004:

(He kicked USAID out of Russia🇷🇺 in 2012)

“Thousands of associations and civil unions exist and work constructively in [Russia]. However, far from all of them are concerned by the defence of the real interests of the people. For some of these organisations, the main objective has become to receive funds from influent foreign and domestic foundations, for others the aim is to serve dubious groups and commercial interests.”
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The line between satire and reality has become blurred to the point where sometimes you can’t tell the difference
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Trump's Crypto Czar David Sacks says stablecoins have the potential to ensure the international dominance of the US🇺🇸 dollar

If BRICS truly wants a multipolar world, they must start innovating in the crypto space, or else the US will dominate the next era of the internet
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Donald Trump says once again that Palestinians must leave Gaza ‘for normal lives’ and that Egypt and Jordan must take displaced Palestinians

The Palestinians of Gaza will refuse to leave the land they have been on for generations

The entire Arab world, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Jordan all absolutely reject any idea of forcibly displacing Palestinians from Gaza

The wider Islamic world is revolted by the idea of forcibly displacing Palestinians from Gaza

If Trump wants to save the US’🇺🇸 image which is currently at rock bottom in the eyes of most of the world, belligerence on displacing a population that just subjected to a genocide is the most counter-productive thing he can do for the image of the United States
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