Mastodawn

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just the phrase 'pivot away from newspaper-focus' makes me depressed.

AP/UPI and similar old style 'just the facts' journalism (while they are not without institutional bias!) are the life blood of Internet conversations and debates. If they disappear or fall victim to #Enshitification – we are doomed.
/jd

#Media #Capitalism #MSM #USpol #Journalism

Yesterday I posted this https://todon.eu/@jd/116357591067448343 Shanaka Anslem Perera Tw/X essay about the 1974 Kissinger deal with the Gulf Arab states to buy US Treasuries.

Today Bloomberg media reports the same...
/jd

The Iran War Just Broke the Petrodollar (Bloomberg)
https://archive.ph/20260406041307/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-06/the-petrodollar-loop-supporting-the-treasury-market-is-broken
– 'The virtuous loop that has seen America underwrite stability in the Middle East in exchange for Gulf states recycling their dollar revenues into US Treasuries has been broken.
The understanding traces back to 1974, when Henry Kissinger struck one of the most consequential financial deals in modern history. Saudi Arabia would price its oil in dollars and park the surpluses in US assets — Treasuries above all. Other Gulf states followed. In exchange, America provided security guarantees and a stable global order.

The arrangement was elegant in its circularity: Oil consumers paid dollars for energy, those dollars flowed to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, and from there back into Washington’s debt. For 50 years, this petrodollar loop quietly subsidized American borrowing costs and cemented the greenback’s role as the world’s reserve currency.
The US-Israeli war with Iran has fractured this arrangement — at both ends...'

#UKpol #USpol #EUpol
#Capitalism #Dollar #Euro #Currency #Kissinger

https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist/116357746548329743

#UKpol #EUpol #Israel #Zionism

The deleted list of #UK 'Friends of Israel' includes:
Prime Minister
Deputy PM
Foreign Secretary
Chief Secretary to PM
Health Secretary
Education Secretary
Northern Ireland Secretary
Cabinet Minister
Foreign Minister
2 Home Office Ministers
Justice Minister
Trade Minister
Energy Minister

tweet: https://x.com/declassifiedUK/status/2011733315645292678

Eliminating “Talent Pipelines”.

This is the new sanitised word-slop from the USA/Israelis...
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FYI, Mark Dubowitz is the CEO of 'Foundation for Defense of Democracies' a DC think tank funded by American millionaires, Israeli sources and, interestingly, the United Arab Emirates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies#Funding

#Israel #USA #Language #Propaganda #Zionism #Genocide
#USpol #EUpol

GhostOnTheHalfShell 1h ago

Has anyone looked up what university Mark went to?

Reliably, the far right has an unblemished record of projection.

why not wy 1h ago

@jd "If we let the slaves learn to read, they will organize a revolution..." hmm, where have we heard this kind of rhetoric in the past???

Petro Yuan🇨🇳 (China) vs Petro Dollar🇺🇸 (USA)

1,,,2,,,3,,, what we dying/killing for? Propping up the US Dollar?? #WTF 🤪

Again, Trump caused the problem he is now trying to solve. Trump has created a potentially irreversible Imperial Catastrophe
/jd

Sen. Lindsey Graham is upset that Iran is attacking the US dollar.
video source: https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/2041360535791288422
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#JD20260407 #JDLinkBlog
#Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #IranWar
#UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel #Dollar #Yuan

ProScience 🇪🇺6h ago

This totally depraved criminal fascist deserves to be on the receiving end of war crimes that the US has committed over the decades.

Γιανίρης 5h ago

The beneficiary of a rising dollar is the one that holds most of dollars and most of US debt. By far China right?

With devaluation of dollar the influence of the US becomes insignificant to world markets .. and raw materials globally become too expensive to supply any US industry.

What are you fighting for? Because only WW3 can prolong the inevitable bankruptcy and collapse of western hegemonic market system, Trump knows it well, you are too dumb to realize it, #Israel is in denial the party is over, and UK/Euro-Leaders are practicing what a gun-barrel deep down their throats feels like.

Russian Ukranian armies are practicing how fast they can reach Iceland and Portugal when the news are announced - party is over.

#Vaccines #Covid19 #Measles

More than 150 million lives. Saved by vaccines. Since 1974. That is health and science in action.

This #WorldHealthDay, Together for Health #StandWithScience 💙

https://x.com/WHO_Europe/status/2041431558595166404

jd 🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺🚀 & 👍🇺🇦🇵🇸+🇮🇷🇨🇺2h ago

Who will stop him?
Who will even try?

Too late for the 25th Amendment - the time for that was before this. The US Constitutional System has failed to stop a mad man.

Madness.
/jd

verified Trump 'truth'
https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/37626

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#JD20260407 #JDLinkBlog
#Iran #USA #Israel #EndlessWar #IranWar
#UKpol #USpol #EUpol #Palestine all for #Israel

#Epstein #EpsteinWars

HakeemG 1h ago

The Democrats tried, but 77 million people voted for this deranged lunatic and another 90 million stayed home. To this day I still have deranged leftists telling me that both sides are the same. America is a brainwashed and delusional country.