George Frangeskides, Chairman at ALBA, explains why the Pilbara Lithium option ‘was too good to miss’. Watch the video here.
Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet members won't be satisfied until they pull the US into a war with Iran!
The Israeli cabinet and opposition leaders have been meeting in Tel Aviv as Israel considers its response to Saturday's attack
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-68737710
Palestinian doctors tell Al Jazeera they have discovered another mass grave in the courtyard of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, recently besieged by Israeli soldiers,
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/15/israels-war-on-gaza-live-five-killed-in-nuseirat-as-israel-strikes-camps
I really can't understand why the USA keeps supplying and supporting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Zionist cabinet in their policy of genocide against the vast majority id ordinary powerless and innocent Palestinian people.
Benjamin Netanyahu and his evil cabinet members should be tried for war crimes rather the=an supplied with sophisticated arms to facilitate the complete destruction of a nation.
God bless America indeed, what hypocrisy from the US government and the bunch of right wing Zionists that rule Israel at present!
In determining how Israel may respond to the overnight attack, analysts have focused on Israel’s own attack on the Iranian consulate on April 1.
That strike, which killed two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) generals and five officers, was carried out with scant regard to Israel’s allies, who were only notified shortly ahead of the attack, according to at least one analyst Al Jazeera spoke to.
Hamidreza Azizi, a visiting fellow at SWP Berlin, outlined two scenarios, both resting upon the motivations behind the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate.
In the first scenario, the Israeli strike occurred with little or no thought given to the consequences. In the second, the strike was a deliberate attempt to draw Iran into regional war and shift US and Western focus away from Israel’s war on Gaza and towards the regional bogeyman, Iran.
ttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/14/what-does-israel-want-to-do-after-irans-drone-and-missile-attacks
Israel defense minister to Pentagon: No choice but to retaliate against Iran
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/15/israel-iran-attack-missiles-retaliation
15 Apr 2024
The civil war in Sudan has displaced more than eight million people, driving millions to the brink of famine and triggered waves of ethnic killings and sexual violence. We hear from people in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere in the country. We also speak to our correspondent in Port Sudan and get an analysis from our former Africa correspondent Catherine Byaruhunga.
Iran has rejected Western criticism of its attack on Israel involving hundreds of drones and missiles, insisting it had shown restraint. We answer audience questions about the weekend's attack with the help of our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet and BBC World Affairs Correspondent.
Jury selection is beginning in a courtroom in New York, where Donald Trump will become the first former US president to stand trial in a criminal case.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172zbhz0f8zk34
NATO will begin to immediately fragment after Trump's reelection | Michael Clarke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0P63HAapLs&list=PLGeQKoGUstRDKNEs656pLBQnNH-OQg9xS&index=3
Washington can no longer dither in support for Ukraine
Editorial
Le Monde
As Russian forces pound Kharkiv and the country's energy infrastructure, it's urgent that America's Trump-supporting Republicans lift the six-month block on a $60 billion aid package.
Published yesterday at 2:57 pm (Paris) Time to 2 min. Lire en français
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/04/13/washington-can-no-longer-dither-in-support-for-ukraine_6668321_23.html#
Putin's economy could be 'crippled' by tightened sanctions | Tim Ash
The West has the power to ruin Putin's economy directly limiting its capability to fund the war if the allies can find the political will, says Economist Timothy Ash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDEglbl0Afw
NATO ‘isn’t prepared’ for war with Russia | General Sir Richard Shirreff
General Sir Richard Shirreff, former deputy supreme allied commander Europe joins Frontline to discuss the challenges facing NATO as it celebrates it's 75th anniversary, and updates from the war in Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzzhQSEj-Nw
PUBLIC OPINION: USA Abandoning Ukraine? Or just Trump GOP?
A proposed $60 billion in aid to Ukraine passed a US Senate vote but has been held up for months in the House of Representatives.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops lacking crucial ammunition have had to abandon positions to invading Russian forces.
Kyiv Post took to the streets of Washington DC, Austin and London to ask people whether they thought the US was abandoning Ukraine or whether it was only a far-right group of Republicans holding up Ukraine aid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVbZy-kW3qE
Iran has warned Israel that any "reckless" retaliation to its unprecedented aerial attack would receive a "much stronger response".
More than 300 drones and missiles were launched at Israel by Iran overnight, following the 1 April Israeli strike on Iran's consulate in Syria.
Israel said it and allies had intercepted 99% of the weapons.
It marked Iran's first direct attack on Israel, with the two countries having waged a years-long shadow war.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68811241
Iran launches direct drone and missile attacks at Israel - as it happened
Ahram Online , Sunday 14 Apr 2024
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched a drone and missile attack on Israel on Saturday, according to a statement released by the IRGC.
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/58/1262/520848/War-on-Gaza/War-on-Gaza/Iran-launches-direct-drone-and-missile-attacks-at-.aspx
The war escalates!
Absolutely Paul, the timing of a trade of this magnitude and type has all the hallmarks of FED who are trying to hold down the POG..
The EU realises that it makes sense to take BRICKS seriously, however the FED seems reductant to accept the reality that there is going to be an alternative reserve currency to the dollar!
On 1 January 2024, BRICS – the intergovernmental organisation comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – admitted four new members: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. The group's decision to open the door to new members was taken at its Johannesburg summit in August 2023, sparking a debate about its growing international influence. According to estimates, BRICS+, as the organisation has been informally called since its expansion, now accounts for 37.3 % of world GDP, or more than half as much as the EU (14.5 %). However, besides an increase in economic power the new members could bring potential conflicts (Saudi Arabia/Iran or Egypt/Ethiopia) into the group, making the reaching of consensus on common political positions more difficult. Since the new members would only contribute roughly 4 % to the group's cumulative GDP, the significance of the expansion should be seen beyond the purely economic effect, in the form of greater influence for the group and for developing countries as a whole within international organisations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the Bretton Woods institutions. The EU engages with BRICS+ countries individually. For instance, it has strategic partnerships with Brazil, India and South Africa, and is negotiating a free trade agreement with India. On the other hand, current conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza show the divergent approaches to security taken by the EU and BRICS+. The European Parliament has stressed that further political dialogue with the BRICS countries is needed, including on an individual basis. In an exchange of views with European Commission representatives in October 2023, Members of the Parliament's Committee on International Trade (INTA) underlined the need to keep an eye on the group's expansion, especially considering the effect of a potential BRICS+ currency and the consequences for EU trade policy.
What utter bullsh*t some of these these market analysts and traders talk to try and justify what is blatant manipulation with paper contracts to control prices in favour of the USA
The US & FED wont be able to keep the price of gold down like it has done in the past foe very much longer because the Chinese have the real billion not the paper stuff and they will be able to buy with a gold back currency soon.
Lets wait and see what happens after the weekend especially if Iran carries out it's threatened strikes!
A massive rally in gold and silver brought new attention to the precious metals market early Friday; however, it has also prompted warnings from some analysts that investors shouldn’t chase prices at current levels
https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2024-04-12/silver-can-still-outperform-gold-even-after-hitting-brick-walls-friday-2990
Dave Kranzler, publisher of the popular Mining Stock Journal, to analyse drivers behind the current physically-driven gold and silver bull run.
The precious metals experts take listeners through the current drivers of short-term market movements, including the possibility of unforeseen black swan events and the now beta-tested BRICS currency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzqMJ1dMJFE
The U.S. government may be tempted to restrain gold prices, but this would only serve to drive bullion higher, according to the latest GREED & fear report from Christopher Wood, Global Head of Equity Strategy at Jeffries.
https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2024-04-12/any-us-attempt-restrain-gold-price-would-backfire-jeffries-christopher-wood
Fifty years ago, on 18th March 1968, Robert F Kennedy gave a speech at the University of Kansas in which he famously questioned the authority of the Gross National Product (nowadays more often called the Gross Domestic Product or GDP) as a legitimate measure of national wellbeing. The GDP ‘measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country’, he said. ‘It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile!"
https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/rfk-gdp50/
From the BBC programme’s website:
For nearly a century, governments around the world have measured the health of their economies by a single metric: GDP, or Gross Domestic Product. It measures a country’s economic growth, and over the years has become a shorthand for national progress; a rising GDP is generally understood to mean more people in work, more companies in business, living standards on the rise.
Yet, as experts have argued for decades, there is a lot that GDP leaves out. While it measures the value of all goods and services produced and consumed in an economy, it doesn’t account for nature, wellbeing, or planetary health. To GDP, a 100-year-old carbon capturing tree is worthless until its chopped down and sold as timber. Cleaning up after disasters, such as extreme weather events, improve GDP due to the increase in spending – even as people and planet suffer the consequences.
In an age of climate breakdown, many economists are arguing that our obsession with GDP is damaging the planet. So is it time to ditch GDP as a measure of progress and come up with a new metric that puts sustainability at its core?
Presenters Jordan Dunbar and Tanya Beckett are joined by Kate Raworth, Senior Associate, Oxford University, Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Surrey, Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, and Celestin Monga, Visiting professor of public policy at Harvard University.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct2drv
https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/bbc-climate-question/
Hi Lucky,
Fantastic analogy, yes the lending of the wheat seeds worked very well, problem is today for our bankers that it doesn't work with leveraged up sacks of paper seeds!
kind Regards
Tibbs
(Kitco News) - The gold market continues to ignore solid U.S. economic data has it hold initial support above $2,350 an ounce even as the U.S. labour market remains relatively healthy.
https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2024-04-11/gold-price-remains-above-2350-weekly-jobless-claims-fall-11k-back-its
Hi Tony,
Glad that you found it interesting, I only wish that more people would challenge their political representatives, unfortunately they don't and this is why most of the political parities when in power are able to keep making the ordinary people pay for their governments failed policies and the incompetence and greed that is the banking sector and the stock market!!
We also need proportional representation in the UK !
https://makevotesmatter.org.uk/sign-petition/
https://makevotesmatter.org.uk/