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Tag Archives: war
Africa: Blood and Rare Earths
The ‘Peace Accord’: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/12/signing-of-the-washington-accords-for-peace-and-prosperity-between-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-rwanda Summary: The conflict between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the M23 rebel group involves ongoing fighting primarily in the eastern regions, particularly North Kivu, where M23 has captured significant territories, including the city of … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, conflict, deals, DRC, ecological harm, genocide, Great Lakes, Gulf States, human displacement, human misery, land grabs, mining, neodymium, Peace Accord, pristine land, rare earths, Rwanda, trade, Trump administration, USA, war
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Deal maker, ball breaker
Trump suggests Ukraine may have to trade land for peace with Russia By Staff The Associated Press Posted October 19, 2025 5:44 pm https://globalnews.ca/news/11485009/trump-ukraine-potential-land-exchange-russia-peace/ Remember back in July of this year: On July 20, 2025, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard … Continue reading
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Tagged China, civilian suffering, conflict, Europe, five eyes, intelligence sharing, land grab, rewarding wrongdoers, Russia, Trump, ukraine, war, war playbook
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Cries for help from Sudan
Sky News: Fight to the death under way in besieged Sudanese city after mosque massacre https://news.sky.com/story/fight-to-the-death-under-way-in-besieged-sudanese-city-after-mosque-massacre-13436056 https://news.sky.com/story/uae-is-main-backer-behind-rsf-militia-in-sudan-intelligence-officer-claims-in-secret-interview-13437966 October 2025: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-increasing-support-sudans-rsf-new-chinese-drones-report Why hasn’t UAE been condemned for supplying lethal weapons which result in genocide in Darfur? Satellite images and videos capture … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab, black Africans, conflict, Darfur, drones, genocide, inhumane, innocents, international crime, land grabs, resource rich Sudan, RSF, starvation, sudan, UAE, war
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Drill, baby, drill…..
The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia are the leading producers of oil in the world. There are two major oil contracts that are closely watched by oil market participants. In North America, the benchmark for oil futures is West Texas … Continue reading
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Tagged Caribbean, conflict, crude, drilling for oil, emissions, end game, finite resource, fossil fuels, marine life, oceans, pollution, South America, war
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Arms to Israel: Why?
A sequence of recent headlines: The new man overseeing Britain’s arms exports is vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel By Iain Overton on 7 Sep 2025 https://aoav.org.uk/2025/the-new-man-overseeing-britains-arms-exports-is-vice-chair-of-labour-friends-of-israel/ Israel’s objective is ‘annihilation of diplomacy’ itself 8 hours ago 22:16 BST “The stated objective of Israel’s … Continue reading
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Tagged arms to Israel, degradation, evidence, Friends of Israel, inhumanity, israel, Palestine, protest, Qatar, recognition of Palestine, sovereignty, suppression, war
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Always watch the supply chain for rare earth magnets, the pulse of vital industries globally
China dictates access to vital rare earth magnets. Here is a reproduced piece about this year’s issues with supply to vital industries:
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Tagged China, conflict, consumer electronics, deal making, global industries, rare earth magnets, supply chain, war, weapons
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Lest we Forget
I am reproducing this page of names of those who died trying to let the world know of the horror suffered in Palestine. Journalists killed at Nasser Hospital August 25, 2025 Reuters news agency said its cameraman, Husam al-Masri, was … Continue reading
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Tagged Cisco, computers, databases, death, destruction, electronic tracking of citizens, Gaza, holocaust, humanity failing, IBM, innocents, israel, journalism, Netanyahu, Palestine, seige, starvation, targeted killing, targeted killings, war
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Stablecoin and Criminal Activity: who will win the Monopoly?
I am reproducing this article from Cointelegraph Back in 2022: How Ukraine embraced cryptocurrencies in response to war Young techno-natives help Zelensky’s government raise over $100mn in crypto donations Kyiv this week launched an Aid for Ukraine website, which accepts … Continue reading
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Tagged banking sector, Binance, conflict, corruption, cryptocurrencies, datacentres, digitisation, financial power, fresh water, global competition, mining, replacing currencies, resources, sanctions, stablecoin, Trump pardons Changpeng Zhao, war, world domination
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Alaska
From Christopher Armitage List of Actions of Trump administration since Jan 2025: See Christopher Armitage, Substack Trump and Putin chose to meet in Alaska, Aug 15th 2025 Looking up the history now as Trump sometimes made it sound like Putin … Continue reading
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