Protest in Prague, Czech Republic - people demand no weapons supplies to Ukraine and the removal of the Ukrainian flag from the National Museum.

18 people are detained

Around 3,000 demonstrators in Bern protested against Swiss arms exports and economic sanctions against Russia.

The protesters' main demand to the country's government and parliament is to strictly adhere to the policy of neutrality.

It is entirely conceivable that the campaign against Perikatan Nasional and Muhyiddin is actually being engineered by UMNO, not PH or Anwar. UMNO has more to gain by undermining the party garnering the most Malay support

With regards to a question in the discussion about India becoming an economic superpower. Value-added manufacturing has barely budged in two decades. India is a major economy, but a lot would have to develop before we could call it a superpower

News recap

The owners and controllers of global financialized capital have made the calculation that, for Europe, euthanasia makes more sense than life support. Europe can be more profitable as a conflict zone.

Thoughts on the Muhyiddin case

How America identifies

Trading halted for multiple U.S. bank stocks at open.

Western Alliance Bancorp down 75%
First Republic Bank down 66%
Customers Bancorp down 54%
PacWest Bancorp down 46%
Zions Bancorp down 44%
Bank of Hawaii down 42%
Comerica down 39%
East West Bancorp down 32%

Particularly good background for contextualising the situation around Egypt's withdrawal from the United Nations Grains Trade Convention (GTC) agreement

For a pretty detailed study on Egypt's agriculture situation:

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/34322/mwd24.pdf;jsessionid=9BD9D4D783B41C78074A2B50522752F2?sequence=1

20 more US banks are sitting on huge bond losses, at least 10 are bankrupt applicants - Financial info website, Marketwatch.

Only the powerful are lied to

UAE exercises the leverage they have built

https://thecradle.co/article-view/22464

Biden's deceptive "billionaire tax"

“Biden has proposed to double the economic support fund to crisis-hit Pakistan to USD 82 million for fiscal 2024 to help its recovery from devastating floods, diversify the energy supply, & support activities to build emergency preparedness capabilities.”

Following the China-brokered Saudi Arabia-Iran deal, he is worried

Protests in Moldova against the government over the high cost of utility bills. While these protests may well be genuine, as I have mentioned, the US is interested in both exaggerating the severity of the opposition and in characterising it as Russian-orchestrated. They have a vested interest in social unrest in Moldova which they can portray as a threat to democracy originating in the Kremlin. It should also be acknowledged that Russia may indeed be involved in stoking protest. At any given event, there are likely operatives from both countries' intelligence services, each pursuing their own agendas

EU Parliament votes for the mandatory renovation of "old buildings" to save energy — estimated 35 million buildings are affected across Europe, SPIEGEL reports.

The "climate-neutral conversion" of buildings could cost 254 billion euros in Germany alone (kfW). Spiegel writes that tenants and owners will have to pay for this first and foremost.


Read: society-wide property seizures...

Kenya signs oil deals with ADNOC and Saudi Aramco to curb foreign exchange pressure

Kenya has signed deals with UAE's ADNOC and Saudi Aramco for the supply of petroleum products with a six months credit period, energy minister said on Monday.

This move designed to curb demand for dollars that has weakened the local currency. Kenya is switching to the longer payment period from settlement on delivery, to remove the need for importers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars every month.

Foreign currency traders have cast doubt on the ability of the plan to stem the pressure on the shilling currency, saying it merely amounts to a postponement of demand.

French police spraying tear gas on homeless people....just because.

Collate this with the news about an impending tsunami of property seizures across the EU.