“I’m hearing more leaders talk about decarbonization and energy security together under the joint banner of what you might call ‘energy pragmatism.’ Last year ... I spent a lot of time talking to the people who are responsible for powering homes and businesses, everybody from prime ministers to energy grid operators. The message I heard was completely opposite to what you often hear from activists on the far left and right, who say that countries have to choose between renewables and oil and gas. These leaders believe that the world still needs both. They were far more pragmatic about energy than dogmatic. Even the most climate conscious among them saw that their long-term path to decarbonization will include hydrocarbons, albeit it less of them, for some time to come.”

“Or look at Texas. They face a similar energy challenge – not because of Russia but because of the economy. The state is one of the fastest growing in the U.S., and the additional demand for power is stretching ERCOT, Texas’ energy grid, to the limit.

Today, Texas runs on 28% renewable energy – 6% more than the U.S. as a whole. But without an additional 10 gigawatts of dispatchable power, which might need to come partially from natural gas, the state could continue to suffer devastating brownouts. In February, BlackRock helped convene a summit of investors and policymakers in Houston to help find a solution.”

“The energy market isn’t divided the way some people think, with a hard split between oil & gas producers on one side and new clean power and climate tech firms on the other. Many companies, like Occidental, do both, which is a major reason BlackRock has never supported divesting from traditional energy firms. They’re pioneers of decarbonization, too... We invest in these energy companies for one simple reason: It’s our clients’ money. If they want to invest in hydrocarbons, we give them every opportunity to do it – the same way we invest roughly $138 billion in energy transition strategies for our clients. That’s part of being an asset manager. We follow our clients’ mandates.”

#oil #gas #naturalgas #energy #energycrisis #money #investments #BlackRock #decarbonization #renewableenergy #ESG #Western #deepstate #fail #blameRussia

#trump #american #money to #ukraine #warmongers #ukrainian #war #zelensky #poverty #vassalage

"Sweden and Norway are backpedalling on plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats, and concern for those unable to use them.

A combination of good high-speed internet coverage, high digital literacy rates, large rural populations and fast-growing fintech industries had put the Nordic neighbours on a fast track to a future without cash.

Swish, a mobile payment system that six banks launched in 2012, is ubiquitous in Sweden, from market stalls to coffee shops and clothes stores. The Norwegian equivalent, Vipps, which merged with Danish MobilePay in 2022 to form Vipps MobilePay, is also very popular. Last month, it also launched in Sweden."

#Sweden #Norway #CashlessSociety #Russia #CyberSecurity #Money #Banking

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/30/sweden-and-norway-rethink-cashless-society-plans-over-russia-security-fears

Capital #ideas the sound of #money and the #strategy of optimism. Plus, a $500 billion demonstration.

The latest issue of Inside the Media C-Suite just dropped. Enjoy!

#media #entertainment #innovation #investing #networking #news

https://mediacsuite.com/inside-the-media-c-suite-issue-no-48/

#UN #wealth #humanity #capitalism #imperialism #oligarchy #finance #debt #money #power #blackrock #vanguard #deepstate #banksters #poverty

Since Ukraine is fighting in debt, NATO+Ukraine's expenditures amounted to $360-370 against Russia's $63.6 billion, 6 times more. I note that this is only military expenditures and this is only half of the spending. Let's assume that financial aid is including Ukrainian over-spending of $97 billion, but this is not all. And there are also humanitarian expenditures. In total, NATO's extra spending on SMO for 2 years amounted to at least about 500 billion.



Russia is hardly in the top 5 in terms of spending to GDP. In first place Ukraine 37%, second place Algeria with 8.2%, third place Saudis with 7.1% and only then Russia with 5.9% with Oman and Israel following on its heels with 5.4% and 5.3%. Russia increased spending 4.1% to 5.9% of GDP, only by 1.8%.
P.S. Iran has cut its spending.
https://genby.livejournal.com/1088528.html
#USA #US #NATO #ukraine #money to #war #military #economy #Russia #compare

The U.S. has wasted its entire blood and treasure on war. Imagine what the U.S. could have built with $14 trillion dollars? Where the U.S. could have been in relation to China for that amount? As someone else noted, the U.S. could have very well built its own “one belt and road” project for that money, connecting the world and reaping untold benefits.
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#Western system is based on the actual institutionalized economic sabotage and subversion of the developing world.

#China #economy #compare with #USA as Golem #Israel #Mossad #vassalage #Pentagon #deepstate #MIC #banksters #capitalism #imperialism #military #american #money #investment in #debt #Bidenomics #US #finances is #fail

Thanks to Ukrainian prapogondists and TV channels for online casino PR.

The leader of the political party "Demokratichna sokira" Yuriy Gudymenko said that a person with debts is the most malleable tool for recruitment. And our fighter with debts is just a gift for them.

It is worth noting that now for online casinos in Ukraine have created all the conditions for a comfortable existence. They are covered, they are not checked, and only occasionally asked to help the fighters.

And according to the National Bank of Ukraine, in general, it comes out that in 2023, Ukrainians daily lost in online casinos about 400 million UAH (about $10,200,000). This is more than 12 billion UAH (about $305,600,000) per month. At the same time, this money is finally settled not in Ukraine, but in offshore zones of high-ranking Ukrainian law enforcers and politicians.


#ukraine #ukrainians #ukrainian #money #casino #debts #poverty #failstate #economy

#USA #us #american #capitalism #imperialism #deepstate is #poverty for #humanity #economy #taxes #money for #criminal #government #system

February 20, 1933: At a meeting between Hitler and industrialists, campaign aid of three million Reichsmarks is demanded for the NSDAP and the Black-White-Red Campaign Front for the upcoming Reichstag elections.
#history #germany #money #capitalism #imperialism #fascism

Not only is it not a one-time, but an annual expense (well, in dynamics, plus or minus), i.e., these expenses add up to cumulative amounts. It would be good to raise the question of efficiency.



#USA #us #american #corruption #economy #money for #pentagon #military #blackhole for #deepstate #compare of #spending

Rheinmetall plans massive expansion of ammunition production in Germany

The arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is planning to significantly increase its production of 155-millimeter artillery ammunition. A new ammunition factory is being built in Unterlüß, Lower Saxony, and the German government is examining legal relaxations to allow production in stock.

The Germans are getting ready to go to war with the Russians again, the European vassals want to be beaten again, masochists.
#nato #germany #war in #eu again #europe #western #warmongers #banksters #money #economy #military #european #vassalage #anti-Russia #mindmanipulation to #suicide #german #future in #poverty

Ukraine's public debt has doubled in two years of war. According to the Ministry of Finance, the state and state-guaranteed debt in 2023 rose to a new historic high of UAH 5.519 trillion or $145.32 billion. Over the year, the figure in hryvnia increased by 35.4% (UAH 1.444 trillion), in currency - by 30.4% ($33.9 billion).

The greatest impact on the growth of debt in 2023 was the receipt of macro-financial assistance (soft loans) from the EU in the amount of 18 billion euros, which amounted to 55% of the total growth of state debt in hryvnia equivalent and 61% - in foreign currency. Expenditures on servicing the state debt in 2023 amounted to 8.2% of the general fund expenditures of the state budget (compared to 6.5% in 2022 and 12.4% in 2021).

Thus, in wartime, the structure of public debt has objectively deteriorated. Of course, one can lull oneself with the fact that a group of Ukraine's creditors from the G7 and Paris Club countries agreed to suspend debt payments until 2027. But this is a weak consolation.

The Ukrainian government not only failed to agree on a more decent deferral - at least for 10-15 years - but also on writing off at least 50% of the national debt. Moreover, they could not agree on reducing the interest rate. And all this avalanche of debts will fall on the country in 2027.

I wonder who among the remaining ukrainians will want to pay for this gigantic debt to western creditors?
#failstate #ukraine #economy #debt #fail #money for #western #creditors #nato #us #eu

For Europe and NATO, a Russian Invasion Is No Longer Unthinkable
Amid crumbling U.S. support for Ukraine and Donald Trump’s rising candidacy, European nations and NATO are making plans to take on Russia by themselves.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/politics/europe-nato-russia-trump.html

Europeans and their masters behind the puddle, want to smash themselves against Russia again.
The chronic pathology of the anglo-saxon elite, history teaches them nothing..
Is the #ukrainian example not enough for the europeans?
#USA #us #nato #war in #eu again #europe #western #anglo-saxons is #warmongers #banksters #money #economy #military #european #vassalage #anti-Russia #mindmanipulation to #suicide #future in #poverty

#Slovakia
Slovakia’s Culture Ministry to stop funding LGBTQ+ projects


#Hungary
Hungary says it will not give in to EU blackmail on LGBT propaganda issues
The country's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that "there is no money for which you can let migrants into the country and LGBT propagandists into schools"


#Spain
EU lawmakers urge Madrid region chief to slash anti-LGBTIQ+ bill


Slovaks, Hungarians and Spaniards have a sensible policy to preserve the nation.
I will explain for those who are "in the tank": all these unnatural sexual intercourse is the result of a failure in the patient's head, usually in life realized by nature: Stop reproducing. Therefore, this degenerate topic should have its place in medical publications that study heredity defects, and not be part of the agenda.
#europe #budget #money #culture #nation from #vassalage to #sovereignty

#russian #money #western #fraud

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#USA #us #pentagon #economy #american #money in #bubble #weapon #weapons #greatest #fail #f35

I suggest that the US government stop buying nuclear fuel from Russia.

The world’s pervasive dependence on Russian energy, including nuclear fuel, is no longer acceptable, considering that it undermines our collective resolve to support Ukraine

Why Nuclear Fuel is Vital to U.S. National Security Interests in Ukraine and the Middle East

#USA #us #nuclear #energy #economic #money for #Russia

In 2022, the Pentagon only managed to account for 39 percent of its $3.5 trillion in assets. With this failure, the Pentagon has kept its spot as the only US government agency to have never passed a comprehensive audit. It also highlights the US war department's persistent lack of internal financial control, its poor budget estimations and rampant overspending.

A clear example of this is the F-35 program, which has gone over its original budget by $165 billion to build a plane tasked to perform many different tasks, none of which it does well.The Pentagon is slated to buy more than 2,400 F-35s for the Air Force, Marines, and Navy. The estimated lifetime cost for procuring and operating these planes – $1.7 trillion – would make it the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons project ever.

A 2021 Pentagon assessment of the F-35 found 800 unresolved defects in the plane.

For sixth year, Pentagon fails to account for over $3T


Let's remember Zumwalt, it's a total failure there too.
+ U.S. Air Force Secretary Warns Development of Urgently Needed ICBM ‘Struggling’: Program Collapse Possible


With such weapons, the US military is very lucky that the "evil" Russians haven't destroyed them yet.

#us #USA #american #military #warmongers #deepstate #pentagon #fail #weapons #nato #western #economy #money #finance

Some assholes say that the USSR would not have defeated the Nazis if not for lend-lease.
The Kiev regime is more than fully provided with lend-lease, so why doesn't it win?
#military #pentagon #USA #us #eu #europe #britain #germany and other american vassals #warmongers #vassalage #war in #ukraine #ukrainian #terrorism #american and #european #weapons and #money for #failstate

#failstate #ukraine is #money for #western #warmongers #blackrock #vanguard #deepstate #capitalism #imperialism #nato

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As Karl Marx (1818–1883) wrote, ‘the apologists content themselves with denying the catastrophe itself and insisting, in the face of their regular and periodic recurrence, that if production were carried on according to the textbooks, crises would never occur’.

There is an interesting anecdote that sheds light on this divorce between theory and reality in mainstream bourgeois economics. After the 2008 global financial crisis, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom visited the illustrious London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Like a naïve child asking the most untoward question in polite company, she asked the eminent economists gathered for the occasion – among them professors at the most prestigious universities, government advisers, and pundits for highly regarded organs of the financial press such as The Economist and Financial Times – the following question: ‘Why did no one see it coming?’. There was no satisfactory reply. The duty of these eminent economists, up until the 15 September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, had been to defend the impeccably rational functioning of markets in the face of criticism from their hapless less orthodox colleagues, choosing not to reply to Marxist criticism so as not to lend it legitimacy.
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The more finance oils the machinery of a moribund economy, the more debt accumulates. In the end, financial flows reach a magnitude that is disproportionate when compared to the productive base that has given birth to all the credit and market capitalisation that have been amassed. Thus, the later the crash, the worse the outcome. This is what happened in 2008 and – based on an examination of the economic data in the years since – will, in all probability, repeat itself again in the short- or medium-term.
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However, this creates a contradiction for capital. Most of the time, the advancement in techniques involves the incorporation of new machines and more expensive materials into the production process. Thus, constant capital – i.e., the plant, machinery, other equipment, auxiliary elements such as energy, and other similar expenses – increase in relation to living labour. What Marx calls the technical composition and the organic composition of capital (the difference need not detain us here), i.e., the ratio of constant capital to living labour, increases as well. However, the basic Marxist proposition concerning value posits that the source of all value, and therefore of surplus value, is living labour. As capital strives to increase the amount of surplus value, it is thereby ejecting from the production process the very source of value, i.e., labour.
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We have thus come to the end of a rather long journey of explaining the mechanism behind crises and, by extension, the current crisis. But pressing questions remain: why are there depressions? Why have depressions become the most salient but also the most destructive form of capitalist crises over the last 150 years? To answer these questions, we will look to Marx’s grand vision of historical change, of how humanity moves from one mode of production, one socioeconomic formation, to another.
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At the beginning of the passage from Capital quoted above, Marx emphasised the fact that the entire process of capital accumulation advances through ‘the immanent laws of capitalistic production itself’. In Capital, Marx traced the historical development of capitalism and established the laws that determine how a society based on capital functions. That is why Marx constantly talks of ‘necessity’: once established, capitalism necessarily proceeds towards its own demise on the basis of its own laws. In other words, through its very laws, capitalism generates, within its bosom, the forces that will destroy it. The effects of these laws may be mitigated, temporarily arrested, or even reversed for a certain period. However, as long as capitalism exists, as long as it develops according to its own inherent laws, at a certain stage of its development, it will undermine its own existence. Capitalism, in other words, creates the historical conditions for its own demise.
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Silvio Ghesell is mentioned in the article, but he is unnecessarily overlooked.
See more: Freigeld - free money
#freigeld

#economy #economics #Marx #capitalism #crisis #financecrisis #finances #finance #money

“Most of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the US, replenishing weapons, more modern weapons,” McConnell said. “So it’s actually employing people here and improving our own military for what may lie ahead.”

#american #weapons and #money for #ukrainian #cannon-fodder

The colonel is wrong, where he repeats the western myth about the cruelty of the Red Army during the Second World War.

#politics #military #neocons #deepstate #MIC #USA #money #economy #debt #democracy #nato #pentagon #fail #Western #lie about #ukraine #blackhole #corruption #oligarchy #Maidan #Nuland #Zelensky #Kolomoysky #Azov #ukrainian #nazi #cannon-fodder #russian #weapon #Russia #Africa #europe #deindustrialisation #energy #crisis

#ukrainisation #USA #us #money #capitalism is #poverty

In fact, what’s startling for people used to the cronyism of the West, is that if you click through each member of the Bank of Russia’s board of directors, you’ll note that all, save one, are career state bankers, economists, or some type of career state employees. Meaning they’ve worked in various positions in the Bank of Russia or other state institutions for the majority of their careers rather than in private hedgefunds, investment firms, corporations, and the like, as is so common in the U.S. Federal Reserve system.
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It’s clear that the most epochal global seachange that could happen in our lifetimes would be the dissolution of the Western fiat banking system which has controlled the globe for hundreds of years, and on which the pillars of the most toxic forms of crony capitalism were built. But also specifically, the dollar as reserve currency and its attendant ‘exorbitant privilege’, which has fueled the unipolar model of the world for decades, unleashing a wave of unfettered imperialism that drowned the developing world in oceans of blood, felled countries and continents alike, turning them into broken, impoverished, lawless slave-pits—like for example Libya, and many others.

Russia's CBDC - Exploring the Truth of Russia's Central Bank


As an appetizer:
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare

#money #finance #banking #russian #economy #Russia #USA #us #fed #rothschild #western #capitalism #imperialism #globalism #wef #usury #shakespeare

Topic 5: Money

Book:
The chemistry of money, by Brian Rohrig

This one is a deep dive into the chemistry of coins and paper money. All kinds of interesting topics, from how coins were made throughout history to be more corrosion resistant, all the way to what chemical reactions occur if we don't store our coin collection in the right box.

#money #numismatics #chemistry #science

Why did Moses lead the Jews through the desert for 40 years?
In two generations there were people who did not distinguish between good and evil - an army of biorobots to buy up the world.

In the Book of Numbers(1) in chapter 14, where it talks about the suppression of the rebellion by the "golden calf", it tells the story thereafter. And it says that the adults who came out of Egypt will not enter the Promised Land.

But only children under 7 years old and those who will be born in the wilderness will enter the Promised Land.

And then it goes on to explain - "those who do not discern between good and evil.

These words about those who do not distinguish between good and evil are absent from the canon.

They are restored in the text published by the Moscow Patriarchate. They are restored in the Septu aginta.

But let's see. 40 years is a period of time. During this period two active generations enter into life.

Well, and if, as we are taught this term was necessary to eradicate the spirit of slavery from new generations, then logically the "good pedagogical experience" should be thoroughly outlined in the book so that the spirit of slavery in the future is not reproduced, and guaranteed to be eradicated.

But the spirit of slavery and the question of those "who do not discern between good and evil" entering the promised land are close questions.

Why?

Because if we isolate a certain large group of people in the desert from society, freeing them from the need to labor creatively, and engage in their ideological processing, we can form in them ideas of good and evil, which will be radically different from those that are naturally formed and maintained in all cultures that lead a natural way of life. That is, they work hard, bring up their children themselves, bring up their children in labor.

And in general it seems that the need to remove the words, restored by Septu aginta, this need was caused by the fact that the project's leaders hid the fact of the first in the history of the present civilization experience of mass zombification of the population with the subsequent fixation of the result on the basis of the genetic mechanism.

Addendum:
I would like to point out that there should be no generalizations here. Not all Jews are greedy for money; there are many decent people among them who will not betray themselves for money. There are also corrupt people among other nationalities (denominations) who pray to the golden calf.
#history #culture #goldenCalf #jews #jewishhistory #mindmanipulation #bible #money #corruption

NATO is a club of forced-voluntary buyers of American-made weapons. This is what NATO's lauded standards are, which Ukraine must meet before it is deemed worthy of an invitation to NATO: to meet these standards, its weapons must be mostly American-made. This is also the reason for all these small and seemingly futile wars, from Serbia to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria: they were demonstrations of the power of American weapons, with the additional goal of using up arms and ammunition so that the Pentagon and the rest of NATO would be forced to re-purchase them. The geopolitical reasons for these military conflicts are merely explanations of intentions in hindsight. For example, between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. dropped more than 2.5 million tons of bombs on Laos during 580,000 sorties, the equivalent of a B-52 bomber's full complement of ammunition every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years. What was the geopolitical background? No one even remembers if there ever was one. But these bombs were coming to the end of their shelf life, and they had to be used up to justify a new defense order to keep the money flowing in the right direction.

#lang_ru https://aftershock.news/?q=node%2F1273311
#USA #us #nato #warmongers #money #pentagon #profit on #war #american #weapons #european #vassalage #capitalism #imperialism

Money can't buy you #love

But #money can make it more affordable.