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The drive to get investors to support the Green deal and socalled “climate change” goals got a major boost, when the world’s biggest money manager, BlackRock, published its new strategy document for 2021 last December. In sum, the as set firm intends to favor those companies that contribute to a low-carbon economy. That is in line with the opinions long […]

The new year opened with a record high for Bitcoin (aka the new “tulip bubble”), which reached a peak of $40,000 on Jan. 9, to then lose 20% the next day. The growth of investments in the highly speculative cryptocurrency, which is now traded to the tune of 68.3 billion euros daily, is one of the many symptoms of the […]

The highly speculative Bitcoin cryptocurrency was launched as a pilot project to test the technical feasibility of such a CBDC. In fact, the deputy governor of the Bank of England Ben Broadbent, referred to Bitcoin as the model technology for the CBDC (https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2016/central-banks-and-digital-currencies), which raises the question of whether central banks themselves are behind the creation of the cryptocurrency (hiding […]

Uncertainty over the source of future power supplies for Europe’s leading industrial economy, in particular after the complete exit from nuclear energy by the end of 2022, is cause for concern in the entire European Union. In 2020, there was a 15% decrease in greenhouse emissions in Germany, but that was not due to the increase in renewable energy sources, […]

Following the Jan. 4 ruling by British judge Vanessa Baraitser against extraditing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States (cf. SAS 1/21), the same judge refused two days later to grant his request to be freed on bail. She had rejected the extradition request on the narrow grounds that Assange would seek to commit suicide if imprisoned in the […]

Egypt is deploying smart diplomacy and economic initiatives to help achieve a final settlement of the civil war in Libya opposing the Tripoli based Government of National Accord/ GNA), and the Benghazi-based National Assembly and the Libyan National Army (LNA). While the ceasefire brokered by the United Nations last October is holding, it is still fragile. Outside players, in particular […]

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi concluded a very successful visit to Africa on Jan. 9, on his first trip abroad in the new year, as has become traditional. Beginning in the continent’s most populous nation Nigeria, on Jan. 5, the visit then took him to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Botswana, Tanzania, and the Seychelles. The DRC and Botswana […]

The intentions of the elites behind the trans-Atlantic financial system for the year 2021 are clear: implement the so-called “Great Reset”/greening of the global economy, complete with its agenda of decarbonization, deindustrialization and depopulation. Now that the neoliberal model is acknowledged to have reached the limits of its usefulness, without provoking major popular backlash and revolts, the drive is on […]

Helga Zepp-LaRouche was asked in her weekly webcast of Dec. 30, what advice she would give President Trump for his next few weeks (at least) in the White House. She replied that he is absolutely correct to continue the fight on the issue of vote fraud, and to demand full clarity on the choice American voters really made in the […]

On Jan. 6, the U.S. Congress will act on its constitutional authority to certify the Electoral College votes, to determine who won the 2020 election. Since Nov. 4, there have been numerous challenges to the claim of a Biden victory in six battleground states –Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. In each of those states, Donald Trump had large […]