🇺🇸❌💵💵 — Bill to ban the United States' Federal Reserve from issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency/Digital Dollar, the H.R.5403 (CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act) passes on the House of Representatives

➡️ Last night, May 23, 2024 AD, the United States House of Representatives voted largely along party lines to prevent the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency.

➡️ The CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act, introduced by Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), seeks to block the U.S. central bank from continuing efforts toward the development of a digital dollar.

➡️ Libertarians and Republicans for very long expressed concerns that a U.S. CBDC could be used to control Americans and curb financial freedoms

➡️ Democrats and Progressives said during debate before Thursday's vote that the concerns were overblown and a ban would block public sector innovation and research.

Overall, the final vote was one:

🗳✅ 213 Republicans and three Democrats voted for the bill
🗳❌192 Democrats voted against it.

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸- Palestinian Presidency:
Agreement with Egypt to bring aid into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing on a temporary basis, until it is agreed that the official Palestinian side will operate the Rafah crossing.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/GeoPWatch/632

🇪🇺🇮🇱🇵🇸-European Union Foreign Minister Joseph Borrell said that the European Union must choose between respecting the institutions of international law and its support for Israel.

🇮🇷 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 Senior Iranian military officials are developing concepts for destroying Israel without having to defeat the IDF and triggering a full-scale war. One of these concepts is surprise ground attacks into Israel. | Critical Threats

🔶️ The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami articulated a blueprint involving Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian-backed Palestinian militias launching protracted ground campaigns from multiple fronts into Israel in 2022.

🔶️ Salami reasoned that such pressure would disrupt the Israeli political and social order and generate widespread civilian displacement—without needing to deal a decisive blow to the IDF.

🔶️ Gholam Ali Rashid, commander of Iran’s Khatam ol Anbia Central Headquarters, which is responsible for all joint military operations, expanded on this concept in a May 2024 interview and demonstrated how Iran is continuing to learn from Hamas.

🔶️ Hamas’ attack demonstrated, Rashid said, that the Axis of Resistance could destroy the Israeli state by launching surprise attacks from Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank simultaneously —echoing Salami’s comments.

https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/how-iran-plans-to-destroy-israel

🇺🇳🇵🇸- Palestinian ambassador Riyad Mansour to Al-Hadath news:

4 Asian countries are close to recognizing the Palestinian state

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸- Yesterday, the Israeli army published a photo of Egyptian journalist Mohamed Shabana who has the same name as the commander of the Rafah Brigade, and claimed they've assassinated him, after this scandal they claimed that the assassination failed and he survived.
Apparently mossad is pulling their information straight from Google.

🇨🇳💴❌🇺🇸💵 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | The Start Of De-Dollarization: China's Move Away From The USD | May 24, 2024:

"Since 2010, the majority of China’s cross-border payments, like those of many countries, had been settled in U.S. dollars (USD). As of the first quarter of 2023, that’s no longer the case.

As Visual Capitalist's Julian Wendling shows in the grahic [above], from the Hinrich Foundation, the Chinese renminbi (RMB) is growing in popularity in payments both domestically and globally.

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As of March 2024, over half (52.9%) of Chinese payments were settled in RMB while 42.8% were settled in USD. This is double the share from five years previous. According to Goldman Sachs, foreigners’ increased willingness to trade assets denominated in RMB significantly contributed to de-dollarization in favor of China’s currency. Also, early last year, Brazil and Argentina announced that they would begin allowing trade settlements in RMB."

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