UAE, Turkiye ink agreement boosting trade to $40bn over five years

There will inevitably be a lot of bumps in the road moving ahead with Gulf and Turkish cooperation, for obvious historical reasons. Turkey was the most successful organizing element in the Muslim world for hundreds of years. Despite the current difficulties, Turkey remains one of, if not the most, solid Muslim countries in the world in terms of overall geopolitical fundamentals; but Saudi Arabia has unlimited capital. Just as rivalry existed between the Ottomans and the Arabs for a variety of reasons historically, Ankara and Riyadh today have competing credentials to deserve dominant status. I pray that, as with their relatively brief experiment with hostility towards Qatar — that ultimately failed epically — the Khaleej is realising that strategic cooperation better serves the interests of the region; with each nation bringing its resources to the table for collectively beneficial utilisation.

https://ift.tt/ueXto3F

Little by little, European commentators are comprehending what Middle Nation viewers knew a year ago.

https://gpovanman.wordpress.com/2023/03/06/big-brother-is-back/

I don't know if you all have seen, but Israel is currently rocked by massive protests — from marches and rallies in the streets, to soldiers refusing to serve under the Netanyahu government, and even citizens attacking military checkpoints. It is my hope — I will not be so confident as to say it is my belief — that we are seeing the last hurrah of extremist zionism.

There is an interesting lesson to be learned, I think, from what is going on in Israel right now. I have long maintained that Ariel Sharon was the most realistic and practical zionist leader they ever had. He had no illusions about what Israel was, and what it needed to be if it wanted to continue to exist — namely, an American dependency, a military outpost, that needed to sow conflict in the region and maintain a strict racist ideology, fueled by a steady stream of lunatic settlers from the West (who could be managed through payoffs and basically kept on the outskirts of Israeli society).

The Israeli Doves, the "liberals", wanted to have it both ways — they wanted to appear civilised and non-racist, while still maintaining the zionist enterprise. They were and are delusional. Someone like Sharon understood that the slogan "no justice, no peace" is just a statement of fact; and therefore, when you want to preserve an unjust state, you can forget about peace. The Liberals did not, and do not understand this harsh reality. Or, rather they did, but thought it made them look better if they pretended it wasn't the case.

Now, the problem for Israel is that those duplicitous Doves TAUGHT young generations their rhetorical delusions. In other words, younger people actually believe the rhetoric, and do not understand the reality it was meant to obfuscate. This will, insha'Allah, result in the total crumbling of the zionist experiment.

Now, what is the lesson here? We have our own people — speakers, influencers, imams, da'ees, academics, etc — who try to soften harsh realities about the irreconcilable differences we have with Western values and beliefs. I think they KNOW they are obfuscating; but the problem is, they are TEACHING young people who do not necessarily know better. And those young people will be the way the Deen manifests itself in at least the English-speaking world in the very near future.

Whereas Ariel Sharon was concerned with maintaining injustice, and thus did not delude himself into thinking peace was an option; we are sincerely interested in peace, and must therefore know that justice must precede it. In other words, you cannot actually speak untruthfully — unjustly — with the intention of doing so in order to get along peacefully. If you miseducate the youth on this point, you are prolonging injustice and impeding the possibility of real peace.

If you use strategic language and finesse when talking to non-Muslims about Islam, basically to lessen the extent to which they may feel it to be strange or in conflict with their values and beliefs; just be careful who is listening, because we should not be teaching our own youth this version of Islam. If we have to present Islam to our own young people the same way we present it to non-Muslims, because otherwise they will turn away from it, we have a very serious problem.

For anyone who does not know Edward Bernays, you really should learn about him. He was the father of modern PR, propaganda, marketing, and really, social engineering.

For example, when he had a cigarette company as a client, he created a whole movement to connect women's empowerment with smoking — this was the early days of feminism. He labelled cigarettes 'torches of freedom", and had smokes passed out to women marchers and so on. Suddenly, his client had a whole new market for their tobacco products.

You should think about this when you think about the LGBT and trans movements in the West (and globally). These are, in my opinion, essentially market-creation campaigns for Big Pharma.

French unions said they would cut electricity at "sensitive economic sites" with the aim of shutting down the country. It will also cut electricity to political HQs.

There was never any movement in the United States so viciously and relentlessly attacked by state and corporate power than the labour movement. With good reason. Action by workers completely upends the enforced narrative that the population inhabits the lowest rung of the social power hierarchy — because it is a false narrative.

Egypt update

Preparing for the replacement of independent cryptocurrencies with CBDCs...As Middle Nation viewers were advised to expect quite some time ago.

https://www.theblock.co/post/217346/bis-develops-cross-border-retail-cbdc-payment-system

JUST IN - Britain’s National Grid uses coal-fired emergency units for the first time as the country’s power market failed to provide enough electricity.

So, basically, the US can now be referred to as "a pro-Ukrainian group"

https://archive.is/pzN3u

Again...Middle Nation viewers have known this since the beginning...


One in four German industries would like to relocate to another country, BILD writes, citing a secret European Commission document.

"The energy crisis," the report says, "is dealing an unprecedented blow to German industry." "It is felt far more strongly than in the case of other countries, such as the U.S. or China."
34% of European CEOs plan to temporarily freeze their business investments; another 15% are willing to do so permanently.

The Ukrainian crisis was organized in order to rip off Europe and move all the capital to the U.S.

Protests in France against plans to raise the retirement age

Farmers protest in Brussels against plans to impose restrictions on emissions which will undermine their ability to farm

Protests in Austria against sending weapons to Ukraine

Protests in Frankfurt against sending weapons to Ukraine

Protests in Athens against negligence of authorities in relation to a train accident earlier, which killed 56.

All of these protests are essentially protests against Austerity and neoliberal seizure of national governments by the owners and controllers of global financialised capital. They are each protesting the contempt of their governments for their own populations, for the sake of anational, corporate elites.