🏴 Former Blackwater CEO, Erik Prince:

Ukraine (...) we need to bring that war to a close because all that Ukraine is doing now is destroying itself demographically, They're chewing up the next generation of manpower that they can't really replace right now. They don't have enough manpower, the Western defense base is pathetic and you're not going to out-conventional war the Russian bear.

And I say that an ugly peace is better than their idea of what an ideal war is (...) meaning freeze the lines, straighten the lines, let them have Crimea, accept, let them keep Donetsk, Lugansk whatever, they need to. (...) It is not the American taxpayer's obligation to spend another hundred billion dollars on Ukraine when there has been significant corruption and really nothing to show for it.

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🇾🇪❌🇬🇧🇧🇿 Rubymar cargo ship attacked by Houthis has sunk, Yemeni government says

The Rubymar cargo ship, attacked last month, has sunk in the southern Red Sea, Yemen's internationally recognised government said in a statement on Saturday.

If verified, it would be the first vessel lost since Houthi militants began targeting commercial shipping in November.

The government statement said the ship sunk on Friday night and warned of an "environmental catastrophe".

The ship was carrying more than 41,000 tons of fertilizer when it came under attack, the U.S. military's Central Command previously said.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/freighter-rubymar-has-sunk-red-sea-yemen-internationally-recognised-government-2024-03-02/

🇾🇪❌🇬🇧🇧🇿 Video of the partially sunk Rubymar, filmed some time before its complete sinking.

The British bulk carrier, Rubymar, was first struck by Houthi missiles on February 19.

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🇦🇷🗳❗️ — On tonight, March 01, 2024 AD, the Argentinean Libertarian President Javier Milei called on all politicians of the Argentinean Republic, including current and former ones, including former presidents, governors, mayors and MPs, to join him Next May 25, 2024 AD to establish a New Refounding Pact of Argentina

Such a New Pact, nicknamed by him as the May Pact will be the core for his administration and the future administrations of the country, being based on 10 points:

➡️ 1. Inviolability of private property

➡️ 2. Non-negotiable fiscal balance

➡️ 3. Reduction of public spending to 25% of GDP

➡️ 4. Massive Tax reform with reduction of tax pressure

➡️ 5. Rediscuss co-participation

➡️ 6. Commitment of the provinces to advance in the exploitation of natural resources

➡️ 7. Modern labor reform that promotes formal work

➡️ 8. Sustainable pension reform that respects those who contributed (+ private retirement system)

➡️ 9. Structural political reform. Align interests of representatives and represented

➡️ 10. Opening of Argentina to international trade

Thus, if such reforms are in fact achieved, together with the now-stalled Omnibus law, Argentina will move from its century-old economy based on domestic consumption to an economy based on free markets, competitiveness and globalization.

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💰 Bitcoin ETFs are growing.

Gold ETFs are losing funds.

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🦠💉 It’s Official: We Can Pretty Much Treat Covid Like the Flu Now. Here’s a Guide.

New guidelines from the CDC Friday bring Covid precautions in line with with those of other respiratory viruses

A case of Covid no longer means isolating for five days, according to the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday. It’s the latest sign of the virus’s normalization four years after it upended our lives.

📝 ... and then one day, four years later on a Friday afternoon when no one was looking, the CDC admitted that the great conspiracy theory about Covid was true.

🔗 https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/covid-guidelines-2024-cdc-symptoms-contagious-cdefb6b8

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🇺🇸🗯🇨🇳— 🇹🇼 Taipei Times | China remains biggest challenge to trade, US says | February 24, 2024:

"China remains the biggest challenge to the international trading system, the Office of the US Trade Representative said in its annual report to the US Congress on China’s WTO compliance released on Friday.

“It has been 22 years since China acceded to the WTO, and China still embraces a state-directed, nonmarket approach to the economy and trade, which runs counter to the norms and principles embodied by the WTO,” a release from the office quoted US Trade Representative Katherine Tai (戴琪) as saying.

“Even more problematic, China’s approach targets industries for global market domination by Chinese companies using an array of constantly evolving nonmarket policies and practices,” Tai said.

“This report details the breadth and scale of China’s nonmarket policies and practices and the serious harm that they cause to workers, businesses and industries in the United States and around the world,” she added. “It is a stark reminder that the members of the international trading system must continue to work together to defend our shared interests against these many harmful policies and practices, particularly in sectors targeted by China’s industrial plans.”

China’s “socialist market economy,” which it was pursuing when it joined the WTO in 2001, “has turned decidedly predatory,” the report says."

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