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[Ravenlocke]

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🇦🇴 #Diamants : #Angola produced 12 million carats in 2024 for the first time in its history.

This represents an achievement rate of more than 82% compared to the target set in the National Development Plan 2023-2027, the Ministry of Mineral Resources announced on Monday.

In total, the country earned $1.5 billion last year from diamond exports. 💎 Angola, the world's fourth largest producer of the precious stones, sold nearly 10 million carats of diamonds.

The production boom was, however, thwarted by a 40 to 60% drop in prices on the international market 📉 , said the chairman of the board of directors of the public company Endiama, Ganga Junior.

Meanwhile, global production totaled 111,522,755 carats, worth $12.7 billion. Russia 🇷🇺 leads with over 37 million carats, followed by Botswana 🇧🇼 (over 25 million carats) and Canada 🇨🇦 (about 16 million carats).

https://x.com/sputnik_afrique/status...44969823215671

[Ravenlocke]

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Sputnik footage of the handover of Russian grain donation to Ethiopian authorities

This food aid of 1,600 tonnes is intended for refugees in the Gambella region.

#Ethiopie

https://x.com/sputnik_afrique/status...89347600253216

[Ravenlocke]

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Today, President Biden spoke with His Holiness Pope Francis and named him as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction.

For decades, Pope Francis served the voiceless and vulnerable across Argentina. As a loving pastor, he joyfully answers children's questions about God. And as a welcoming leader, he reaches out to different faiths and commands us all to fight for peace and protect the planet.

This is the only time that President Biden has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction.

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1878182694380528092

[Hermoor]

The shameful abomination that is the British establishment continues to reveal more of itself through its favourite deviance.

Earlier today former Labour MP Ivor Caplin fell for a sting operation and was arrested under suspicion of being a paedophile.

Here he is waiting to meet up with a 15 year old boy he had been grooming online for sex. The "15 year old boy" turned out to be concerned military veterans. They act to protect British children because their ruling class only ever covers up for paedophiles in public whilst further encouraging their filth in private.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DYKYkhRwzU8

Like so many establishment paedophiles Caplin was educated at a very expensive school where the most important lessons are, by long-standing tradition, the three Bs: brainwashing, bullying and buggery.

Caplin was born in Brighton and served as MP for Hove from 1997-2005. Both areas are well known for being favoured residences and haunts of homosexuals.

As with many of his ilk Caplin is married with children but likes to wear a beard for the sake of public appearances, is genuinely bisexual or both.

He was one of the bigger middleweight dogs under the leadership of Tony "Miranda" Blair, the scale of whose deviancy tends only to be eclipsed by British royalty and nobility.

In 2010 Caplin was busted for fiddling his MP expenses. Stealing from the taxpayers tends to be the second most favourite crime of the British establishment. But they always leave enough in the kitty for endless wars and colonial genocides.

He was chairman of the Jewish Labour Movement from 2018-2019. Quelle surprise.

In June 2024 Caplin was suspended from the Labour Party due to "serious allegations" made about him. The allegations were not made public, or investigated. The freemasons and Zionists are good to their pawns when it suits them.

Chapeau to the former squaddies. Their moral compasses and leadership qualities are an exemplar to us all.

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Edit. Here is a link to the "Labour 25" website. It shines a welcome light on the profoundness of the paedophile problem in the Labour party alone.

https://labour25.com/

It's safe to say a similar website on Conservative party paedophiles would be at least as horrific. It deeply shames the UK that all established political parties are populated by paedophiles far more by design than random coincidence.

It's also worth noting that the British Brainwashing Corporation has yet to report on the arrest of Caplin. Their overlords; think tankers; editors and scriptwriters must be sweating bullets about how they can lie and cheat their way out of the current avalanche.

[Eva2]

This is reported today from Intel Slava Z (Intel slava is a Russian News aggregator who covers Conflicts/Geopolitics and urgent news from around the world).

'Unknown individuals broke into a US Army warehouse in California and stole three Humvee military vehicles, 18 bayonets, and machine gun equipment.'

[Ravenlocke]

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🇺🇸🫳🌍Mineral wars: global conflicts fueled by Washington search for resources

The coming years are shaping up to exacerbate the global geoeconomics and military competition for the world’s mineral resources, with Trump openly eyeing 12 million sq km of territory containing untold riches. Here are the potential conflicts, present and future, to watch out for

🇺🇦 Ukraine, the US “cannot afford” to let Moscow achieve victory in Ukraine, which is “sitting on $10-12 trln of critical minerals,” Senator Lindsey Graham said in a ‘quiet part out loud’ interview moment last year, revealing what America's "NATO" proxy war against Russia is really about. Ukraine is endowed with $3-11.5 trln of lithium, plus additional trillions more in silver, gold, uranium, aluminum, copper, iron, manganese, titanium, and hydrocarbons. It’s also got Europe’s biggest supply of rare earths, including beryllium, niobium, and zirconium.

🇮🇷 Iran, classified by the US as an “extraordinary threat,” Iran is home to an estimated $27 trln in resource wealth. No wonder it’s been a regular target for regime change since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. While proven resource reserves consist mostly of oil and gas, Iran regularly discovers vast stocks of minerals. In 2023, Tehran discovered a massive, 8.5-million-ton lithium deposit.

🇨🇦Canada, endowed with $33 trln in resources, from oil, gas and uranium, to phosphates, cadmium, lead, titanium, zinc, and an array of ferroalloys, a sprinkling of rare earths mines dot the True North Strong and Free, mining cerium, neodymium, promethium, and more.
Who knows if Trump’s really “joking” about making Canada the “51st state”?

🇬🇱 Greenland is sitting on mineral wealth the scale of which has not been fully explored, from precious metals and stones to graphite, uranium, and of course rare earths – at least 1.5 mln tons of them. Even if Trump’s dreams of a buyout don’t come true, a quiet battle – confined to boardrooms, is already taking place amid US efforts to block a series of Chinese investments in Greenland’s mineral resources.

🇧🇴 Bolivia possesses lithium, gold, silver, tungsten, zinc, led, tin and nickel, and has faced 190+ coups and revolutions over its history. “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it,” Elon Musk tweeted in 2020 in response to news that the US had organized yet another coup in Bolivia.

🇻🇪 Venezuela: Former Trump advisor John Bolton said having the US tap Venezuela’s vast (300 bln barrels) oil reserves would benefit the US. Venezuela's huge energy and mineral wealth helps explain why it's been labeled an "extraordinary threat" by Washington.

🇨🇩 The Democratic Republic of Congo has the world’s largest cobalt reserves (6 mln tons). It’s also faced repeated coup attempts, most recently in 2024, when a US and Belgium-backed politician unilaterally declared himself president. Besides cobalt, the DRC is rich in monazite, euxenite, niobium, tantalum and zirconium.

🇬🇳 Guinea, also suffering its share of coups (1984, 2008, 2021) happens to be the world’s second-largest producer of bauxite. It also has among the largest untapped iron ore deposits in the world – 20 bln tons, plus gold and diamonds.

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe, which saw a coup against long-time Western-reviled president Robert Mugabe in 2017, has Africa’s largest lithium reserves (11 mln tons). Local economists believe that with more exploration, their country can come to rival China’s rare earths superpower status.

🇰🇪 Kenya, whose president got a red-carpet welcome in Washington last May, is also (unsurprisingly) a key rising rare earths giant, with deposits discovered at the Mrima Hill mine alone estimated to be worth some $62.4 bln. Besides rare earths, Kenya is rich in iron ore, gold, limestone, gemstones and manganese ore. No wonder the US has labeled the country a “major non-NATO ally” – the only one in Sub-Saharan Africa.

https://x.com/Hawkeye1745/status/1878369260134707250

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1877717079358308414

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1877717084588667078

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1877717089919685073

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1877717095170891844

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Hawkeye1745/status/1878201011539452413

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🇺🇸🫳🇵🇦The Canal Chronicles: When Trump Channels His Inner Globalist Mafia Don

The Panama Canal, a lifeline of global trade and a symbol of sovereignty reclaimed by Panama, now finds itself in the crosshairs of Trump’s latest imperial fantasy. According to European media, Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino is mulling over taking the United States to the United Nations Security Council, a bold response to what he sees as Trump’s plans to annex the canal.

Ah, the Panama Canal, an artery of global commerce, a relict of the flaccid U.S. imperial muscle, now the stage for Trump’s latest act in the theater of late-stage empire. Annex the canal?

This isn’t MAGA; this is New York style mafia. Trump's mentor in politics and business was Roy Cohn, a lawyer whose clients included a host of mafiosi - including the bosses of the Genovese and Gambino families.
A shakedown masquerading as foreign policy, where soft power is traded for brute force because respect has evaporated. When empires lose the world’s admiration, they default to gangster diplomacy: threats, ultimatums, and a desperation that reeks of decline.

Trump, the “anti-globalist,” now playing the role of a globalist enforcer, showing the world that late-stage empire has no allies, only marks. The UNSC may become the next courtroom for America’s hubris, a stage where the globe witnesses Washington’s attempt to rewrite sovereignty with the ink of intimidation.

But here’s the irony: the harder they squeeze, the faster the world slips through their fingers.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1877717079358308414

That was so interesting I extracted the whole searchable text.

BATTLE FOR THE TECH METALS: 17 RARE EARTH ELEMENTS AND THEIR USES Whether it’s Greenland, Ukraine, West Africa or East Asia, rare earths are a key element of the global geopolitical competition hiding just below the surface. Learn about their uses in our thread.

Rare earths are a group of 17 silvery-white, soft heavy metals, including 15 lanthanides, grouped together on the Period Table, plus scandium and yttrium, which share similar properties. What makes them "rare" is finding large, easily minable deposits.

USES:

Batteries and energy storage

• Lanthanum (La): Nickel-metal hydride batteries for hybrid vehicles, catalyst for petroleum refining.
• Promethium (Pm): Atomic batteries for critical electronics, military, aerospace, and pacemakers.

Magnets and electronics

• Praseodymium (Pr): Powerful magnets, didymium glass
• Neodymium (Nd): Magnetic motors, headphones, electronics
• Samarium (Sm): Magnets, lasers, nuclear reactor control rods
• Dysprosium (Dy): Permanent magnets, powerful electric motors

Optics, lighting, and displays

• Cerium (Ce): Glass polishing agents, ceramics
• Terbium (Tb): Green phosphor for TVs, lighting
• Europium (Eu): Red phosphor for TVs, blue in LEDs
• Erbium (Er): Optics and lasers for medicine
• Holmium (Ho): Optics, medical tools

Medical and healthcare applications

• Gadolinium (Gd): MRI drugs, nuclear propulsion systems
• Thulium (Tm): Portable X-rays, meteorology, superconductors
• Lutetium (Lu): Tumor treatment, tomography
• Yttrium (Y): Drug labeling, cancer treatment, surgical needles

Industrial and aerospace applications

• Scandium (Sc): Lightweight alloys for military and commercial aircraft, high-end sporting equipment
• Ytterbium (Yb): Key element for the strengthening metal components, burnable poison for controlling nuclear reactions`

[Tintin]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1877717079358308414

That was so interesting I extracted the whole searchable text.

BATTLE FOR THE TECH METALS: 17 RARE EARTH ELEMENTS AND THEIR USES Whether it’s Greenland, Ukraine, West Africa or East Asia, rare earths are a key element of the global geopolitical competition hiding just below the surface. Learn about their uses in our thread.

Rare earths are a group of 17 silvery-white, soft heavy metals, including 15 lanthanides, grouped together on the Period Table, plus scandium and yttrium, which share similar properties. What makes them "rare" is finding large, easily minable deposits.

USES:

Batteries and energy storage

• Lanthanum (La): Nickel-metal hydride batteries for hybrid vehicles, catalyst for petroleum refining.
• Promethium (Pm): Atomic batteries for critical electronics, military, aerospace, and pacemakers.

Magnets and electronics

• Praseodymium (Pr): Powerful magnets, didymium glass
• Neodymium (Nd): Magnetic motors, headphones, electronics
• Samarium (Sm): Magnets, lasers, nuclear reactor control rods
• Dysprosium (Dy): Permanent magnets, powerful electric motors

Optics, lighting, and displays

• Cerium (Ce): Glass polishing agents, ceramics
• Terbium (Tb): Green phosphor for TVs, lighting
• Europium (Eu): Red phosphor for TVs, blue in LEDs
• Erbium (Er): Optics and lasers for medicine
• Holmium (Ho): Optics, medical tools

Medical and healthcare applications

• Gadolinium (Gd): MRI drugs, nuclear propulsion systems
• Thulium (Tm): Portable X-rays, meteorology, superconductors
• Lutetium (Lu): Tumor treatment, tomography
• Yttrium (Y): Drug labeling, cancer treatment, surgical needles

Industrial and aerospace applications

• Scandium (Sc): Lightweight alloys for military and commercial aircraft, high-end sporting equipment
• Ytterbium (Yb): Key element for the strengthening metal components, burnable poison for controlling nuclear reactions`

The first thing that came to mind when I saw that, was this....

Lyrics
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium
And hydrogen and oxygen, and nitrogen, and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium

Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum, and osmium, and astatine, and radium
And gold protactinium, and indium, and gallium
And iodine, and thorium, and thulium, and thallium

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium, and silicon, and silver, and samarium
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium

There's holmium, and helium, and hafnium, and erbium
And phosphorus, and francium, and fluorine, and terbium
And manganese, and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium
Dysprosium, and scandium, and cerium, and cesium

And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium
And cadmium, and calcium, and chromium, and curium

There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered

---

Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM

Sing along now

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Tintin (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1877717079358308414

That was so interesting I extracted the whole searchable text.

BATTLE FOR THE TECH METALS: 17 RARE EARTH ELEMENTS AND THEIR USES Whether it’s Greenland, Ukraine, West Africa or East Asia, rare earths are a key element of the global geopolitical competition hiding just below the surface. Learn about their uses in our thread.

Rare earths are a group of 17 silvery-white, soft heavy metals, including 15 lanthanides, grouped together on the Period Table, plus scandium and yttrium, which share similar properties. What makes them "rare" is finding large, easily minable deposits.

USES:

Batteries and energy storage

• Lanthanum (La): Nickel-metal hydride batteries for hybrid vehicles, catalyst for petroleum refining.
• Promethium (Pm): Atomic batteries for critical electronics, military, aerospace, and pacemakers.

Magnets and electronics

• Praseodymium (Pr): Powerful magnets, didymium glass
• Neodymium (Nd): Magnetic motors, headphones, electronics
• Samarium (Sm): Magnets, lasers, nuclear reactor control rods
• Dysprosium (Dy): Permanent magnets, powerful electric motors

Optics, lighting, and displays

• Cerium (Ce): Glass polishing agents, ceramics
• Terbium (Tb): Green phosphor for TVs, lighting
• Europium (Eu): Red phosphor for TVs, blue in LEDs
• Erbium (Er): Optics and lasers for medicine
• Holmium (Ho): Optics, medical tools

Medical and healthcare applications

• Gadolinium (Gd): MRI drugs, nuclear propulsion systems
• Thulium (Tm): Portable X-rays, meteorology, superconductors
• Lutetium (Lu): Tumor treatment, tomography
• Yttrium (Y): Drug labeling, cancer treatment, surgical needles

Industrial and aerospace applications

• Scandium (Sc): Lightweight alloys for military and commercial aircraft, high-end sporting equipment
• Ytterbium (Yb): Key element for the strengthening metal components, burnable poison for controlling nuclear reactions`

The first thing that came to mind when I saw that, was this....

Lyrics
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium
And hydrogen and oxygen, and nitrogen, and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium

Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum, and osmium, and astatine, and radium
And gold protactinium, and indium, and gallium
And iodine, and thorium, and thulium, and thallium

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium, and silicon, and silver, and samarium
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium

There's holmium, and helium, and hafnium, and erbium
And phosphorus, and francium, and fluorine, and terbium
And manganese, and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium
Dysprosium, and scandium, and cerium, and cesium

And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium
And cadmium, and calcium, and chromium, and curium

There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discovered

---

Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM

Sing along now

Yes, that's so utterly, classicly brilliant.... I'm delighted someone else remembers this!!

[Bill Ryan]

@Tintin, Tom Lehrer missed this one (posted by rgray222 on the MAHA Diaries thread, MUST SEE

Posted by rgray222 (here)
Someone was raising the alarm a few decades ago.

[Tintin]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
@Tintin, Tom Lehrer missed this one (posted by rgray222 on the MAHA Diaries thread, MUST SEE

Posted by rgray222 (here)
Someone was raising the alarm a few decades ago.

HA! Yes, trisodium

This is brilliant as well

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

https://x.com/mihailneamtu/status/1878513003336745238
Mihail Neamtu
@mihailneamtu
What we’re seeing in Romania is absolutely historic. 100,000 brave, proud patriots gathered in Bucharest to stand up for their democracy.

That’s right—these are the true Romanian people, hard-working, God-loving, freedom-loving people, standing together in unity against a government that has decided to cancel their presidential elections.

Can you believe it? They just canceled them, like it’s no big deal. But it is a big deal, folks—it’s the voice of the people, the heart of democracy, that they’re trying to silence.

These incredible Romanians are saying, “Enough is enough!” They’re standing for their national pride, their Christian values, and their traditions—things that matter to everyday people. Things the globalist elites want to destroy.

They want to run the show, control your lives, and erase your heritage. But the Romanian people? Oh, they’re not having it. They’re taking their country back!

This is a movement that’s saying, loud and clear: “Democracy belongs to us!” These patriots are fighting for freedom, for their nation, and for their God-given rights.

This isn’t just about Romania—it’s about all of us who value liberty, faith, and the power of the people. Let’s support them, let’s stand with them, and let’s make sure that the globalists know: the people always win.

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/LastQuake/status/1878628389642203364

https://x.com/ESPECIGEST/status/1878640661588824444

[norman]

That's really great, as long they don't get back to their villages to find puffs of grey ash swirling around instead of houses.

[Ravenlocke]

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A golden era dawns for Pakistan with the discovery of significant gold deposits in the Indus River, particularly near Punjab's Attock district.

The Geological Survey of Pakistan estimates these deposits to be approximately 32.6 metric tonnes, valued at around 600 billion Pakistani rupees (nearly $7 billion).

Carried down from the majestic Himalayas over millennia, this treasure holds the promise of economic upliftment and national prosperity.

If mined responsibly, this natural wealth could become a beacon of hope for Pakistan's future.

https://x.com/Activewurld_/status/1878865252936208852

[Michel Leclerc]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
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Today, President Biden spoke with His Holiness Pope Francis and named him as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction.

For decades, Pope Francis served the voiceless and vulnerable across Argentina. As a loving pastor, he joyfully answers children's questions about God. And as a welcoming leader, he reaches out to different faiths and commands us all to fight for peace and protect the planet.

This is the only time that President Biden has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction.

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1878182694380528092

..desecrating the holy that was left, as they did at the "reopening" of the Notre Dame in Paris..

[Ravenlocke]

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DEADLY AVALANCHE IN ITALY: THREE SKIERS DIED AFTER BEING DRAGGED SEVERAL HUNDRED METERS

A sudden avalanche hit the northern Piedmont region of Italy, where warnings of "considerable danger" above 2,100 meters were issued, the Mirror reports.

A group of five skiers went to the height of 2,800 meters; as a result, three of them died, and the other two were rescued and transported to the hospital by helicopter.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1878672497975210115

[Ravenlocke]

Text:

China 1, USA 0

“Americans are flocking to Chinese short-form video app Xiaohongshu (known as RedNote in English).

The app today surged to the #1 spot for free apps on the U.S. App Store.

It is also the top Social Networking app across all free iPhone apps.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/xiaoh...162330873.html

https://x.com/Kanthan2030/status/1878847758213497255

[onawah]

Ingraham: Disturbing new details emerge about Chinese hackers
Fox News
12.7M subscribers
Jan 12, 2025

"Former State Department senior adviser Christian Whiton discusses how Chinese hackers have reportedly penetrated critical American infrastructure on 'The Ingraham Angle.' "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1ktOt9hRyEc

(Lots to report on the subject of CCP hacking now, a subject going back years, though it appears to have grown to much more serious potential now.
But those who live in glass houses....the collapse of the 3 Gorges Dam would be devastating to all of China, and it is very vulnerable to attack as well as natural disasters and the kind of faulty construction that is typical of Chinese infrastructure. )