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25-3-11 [MENA Hx] North Africa - Europe's New Power Plant? > .25-1-30 Logistics of Natural Gas - Wendover > .
24-8-24 New Geopolitics of Oil - gtbt > .
24-3-22 The truth about LNG - DW Planet A > .
Showing posts with label resources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resources. Show all posts
Friday, March 14, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Resource Logistics 2025
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24-8-24 New Geopolitics of Oil - gtbt > .25-1-30 Logistics of Natural Gas - Wendover > .
24-3-22 The truth about LNG - DW Planet A > .
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Trade & Skill Wars 2025
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23-7-30 Skills Wars Are the New Trade Wars - EcEx > .25-3-4 [Xina Hit c 38% Tariffs | Stocks Plunge, Manipulation Fears] | Update > .EVs
25-3-17 [How Xina Poached Global EV Supremacy] - Update > .25-3-8 Office of Shipbuilding | Sal > .
CONomics - Buck >> .
DUHmented Oligarchy - Buck >> .
Economic Warfare Fronts - Weighs 'n Means >> .
DUHmented Oligarchy - Buck >> .
Economic Warfare Fronts - Weighs 'n Means >> .
Tariffs, Trade War, Tech War, Sanctions, Blockade - Weighs 'n Means >> .
Trade & Chokepoints - Buck >> .
Trade Corridors & Geostrategy - Buck >> .
Trade War 2025 - Buck >> .
Trade Wars - West, Autocracies - Buck >> .
Trade & Chokepoints - Buck >> .
Trade Corridors & Geostrategy - Buck >> .
Trade War 2025 - Buck >> .
Trade Wars - West, Autocracies - Buck >> .
Trade Logistics, Shipping
25-1-21 Report: X's Dominance of Maritime, Logistics & Shipbuilding Sectors - Sal > .
⇒ 2025 ..
Xina's EV wars
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Economic Front 2024
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24-3-21 Ukraine attacks Ruscian oil and gas sites to slash P00ti's war chest - Forces > .24-9-12 Reshoring of US Industry - gtbt > .
[24-9-12 History of Industry - gtbt > ]
24-9-8 Ruscian War Economy 2024: sanctions, inflation, mounting risks - Perun > .
24-7-25 +33,991,753 [orc] Deaths [& tanked economy] to Take Ukraine - Span > .
24-7-12 [Hung Parliament] France Plunged Into Political Uncertainty - Bloomberg > .
24-6-8 Ruscia-Xina Pipeline Dispute is Big Problem for Krumblin - Spaniel > .
24-6-3 [Unsurprising] US microchips in Ruscian weapons | WSJ > .
24-4-28 New U$ Military Aid for Ukraine - content & impact? - Perun > .
24-4-28 [Orcine response] when Ukraine receives more weapons? - Anders > .
24-4-27 $115 Billion From US & Europe Gives Ukraine Hope - gtbt > .
24-4-19 Swedish factory working 24/7 to make shells for Ukraine - Kyiv Independent > .
24-4-19 Age of Wars:[Karaganov's Bellicose Ode to Axis of Envious Resentment - gtbt > .
24-4-18 [Biden Administration Suggests Tripled Tariffs on Xina] - Update > .
24-4-13 Ukraine's strategic bombing of Russian oil refineries - Anders > .
24-3-30 Ruscia's Declining Oil Capacity; Deeper Problems of Cartel Politics - Spaniel > .
24-3-23 Ukraine's drone campaign against Ruscian oil infrastructure | Kyiv Ind > .
22-11-24 Conflict in Ukraine's Donbas Region: Geology & Resources - E&SS > .
24-3-31 Global Arms Exports - Winners, losers, trends in race to rearm - Perun > .
24-1-24 Importance of 155mm shells - WSJ > .
24-8-13 Economics of War - CNBC I > .
24-3-24 Altai, Power of Siberia: Xina Outplayed Ruscia in Gas Negotiations - Res > .
24-3-24 Why We Can’t Just Stop Oil - EcEx > .
Global Geoeconomics
24-6-28 Top 5 stories currently changing future of global economy - M&M > .Постукраїнська перемога - Postukrayinsʹka peremoha - Ukrainian victory
Economic Front 2024 ..
Kharkiv Front 2024 ..Saturday, November 2, 2024
Resource Competition 2024
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24-5-1 How Xina Threatens Europe via EU's Green Deal - gtbt > .24-11-2 Michael Beckley: End of Xina’s Rise & [Risk to] Global Order | AEI > .
24-8-20 Can America and China [post-Xi] be Friends Again? - gtbt > .
WW2 amphibous challenges
24-11-4 'Dutch Disease' is Destroying Russia's Economy - Warburg > .
> EU Migrant Crisis >> Economic & Climate Migrants
European Economy, Industry, Government
24-10-18 The EU Could Die (If It Fails To Reform) - gtbt > .
24-10-18 Should the EU become a Federation? - EUMS > .
Famine
X~T
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Friday, May 31, 2024
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Canada - Geopolitics
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24-7-16 (Failed) Race For The Arctic - gtbt > .
24-7-1 P00ti lost Ruscia's Arctic dominance to Xina & Baltic NATO forces | Forces > .23-7-23 Arctic is heating fast! - Just > . Arctic Straits > .
20-12-14 Geopolitics of Canada - CaRe > . skip ad > .
1 CE to 2024 Mapping History of the Arctic - Tigerstar > .
Friday, May 24, 2024
Economic Interests - Arctic
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19-1-8 New Economy of the Warming Arctic > .
24-12-19 North America is preparing for an Arctic battle | CBC > .
24-7-16 (Failed) Race For The Arctic - gtbt > .
24-7-1 P00ti lost Ruscia's Arctic dominance to Xina & Baltic NATO forces | Forces > .23-7-23 Arctic is heating fast! - Just > . Arctic Straits > .
21-4-30 Is Russia Becoming Irrelevant? - CoCa > .
1 CE to 2024 Mapping History of the Arctic - Tigerstar > .
Saturday, April 6, 2024
WI - Women's Institute
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Canning Machine, WI > .Women's Institute (1950-1959) - Pathé > .
The Women's Institute (WI) is a community-based organisation for women in the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. The movement was founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, by Erland and Janet Lee with Adelaide Hoodless being the first speaker in 1897. It was based on the British concept of Women's Guilds, created by Rev Archibald Charteris in 1887 and originally confined to the Church of Scotland. From Canada the organisation spread back to the motherland, throughout the British Empire and Commonwealth, and thence to other countries. Many WIs belong to the Associated Country Women of the World organization.
The first WI in Britain was founded on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales in 1915. The idea for the WI came from Canada where the movement was formed in 1897 to help connect women in isolated rural areas.
By the outbreak of WW2 in 1939, the WI was a well-established pillar of rural life in Britain, with institutes in more than 5,500 villages. But its National Executive Committee initially struggled to decide whether the WI would be able to help with the war effort at all as they had taken a strong anti-war stance. The WI's Chairman, Lady Denman, realised that the WI's members would want to 'do their bit'. She suggested that the WI might be called upon to help with caring for evacuees and with rural food production.
These predictions proved correct. The WI made a significant contribution on the home front. In September 1939, over 1.5 million children, mothers and babies, elderly and disabled people were evacuated from Britain's major towns and cities to rural areas. As well as the evacuation of these vulnerable groups, many businesses and government departments also moved their staff to the countryside. Members of the WI in reception areas were active in billeting and receiving evacuees and helping to settle them into rural communities. WI members often organised activities such as country walks and tea parties to help keep evacuee children occupied and entertained. Early in 1939, members of the WI had also assisted those planning the Government's evacuation scheme by carrying out a survey of rural homes to find out how many households might be able to take evacuees. In 1941, they also published an influential report on their members' experiences of evacuation.
The National Savings Movement was a British mass savings movement that operated between 1916 and 1978 and was used to finance the deficit of government spending over tax revenues. The movement was instrumental during WW2 in raising funds to support the war effort. A War Savings Campaign was set up by the War Office to support the war effort. Local savings weeks were held which were promoted with posters with titles such as "Lend to Defend the Right to be Free", "Save your way to Victory" and "War Savings are Warships".
In January 1940, R M Kindersley, President of the National Savings Committee asked the WI to help raise the profile of the National Savings Campaign. Each branch was asked to display posters and distribute leaflets and to set up its own National Savings Scheme. Stotfold in Bedfordshire raised £8,190 (the equivalent of £283,000 today) in just two years.
The WI had run markets in rural areas since 1919 and in wartime, with food supplies scarce, these became an ever more valuable addition to rural towns and villages. WI markets sold surplus produce – mainly fruit and vegetables – from WI members, from smallholders and allotment holders. In a report on WI markets, the Ministry of Information concluded that they were 'business-like and practical examples of cooperative rural enterprise'. The WI also assisted the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) distribute and sell pies to agricultural workers as part of the Rural District Pie Scheme.
After the fall of France in June 1940 it was no longer possible for Britain to import food from mainland Europe. This meant a drastic reduction in the availability of onions. The Ministry of Food tried to encourage commercial production in the UK but the first crop failed. People had to try to grow their own. The WI helped by organising the distribution of onion seeds and sets. The Oxfordshire WI harvested 13 tons in 1942. The National Federation of WIs also distributed tomato seeds and seed potatoes in large numbers and sold other seeds to their members at a preferential rate.
Oranges were scarce during the Second World War and, as they were an important source of Vitamin C, when available they were given as a priority to children over adults. But alternative sources of Vitamin C were needed. The WI and other voluntary organisations were asked to collect 500 tons of rosehips. These were used by pharmacists to make rosehip syrup which was very rich in Vitamin C. WI members in Oxfordshire also collected Foxgloves (Belladonna atropa) which were dried to make the drug digitalis, used for patients with heart conditions.
Making jam is probably one of the things that the WI is most famous for. But what is less well known is that during the Second World War, WI members made jam on an epic scale and made a significant contribution to Britain's food supplies. In 1939, realising that much of the fruit from the summer's bumper harvest might be wasted unless it were made into jam, WI's headquarters secured sugar supplies direct from the Ministry of Food. WIs across the country gathered in surplus fruit from gardens and allotments or growing wild. In their first wave of jam making, it is estimated that the WI saved 450 tons of fruit from rotting.
From 1940, the WI's jam making efforts escalated but came under increased supervision from the Ministry of Food. After the introduction of food rationing in January, there were restrictions on how and where jam could be sold. The supplies of sugar needed for jam making were tightly controlled and records had to be kept of all fruit preserved and sold. Preservation centres were set up in villages or near where fruit was harvested.
Some institutes were keen to look for new ways to preserve fruit and other produce and organised professional canning. This was a skill that had to be learnt and practised as faulty cans could explode. In August 1940, the Queen visited a WI canning centre at Hyde Heath in Buckinghamshire. Canning operations received a further boost when the American Federation of Business and Professional Women donated six mobile canning vans to the WI.
The first WI in Britain was founded on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales in 1915. The idea for the WI came from Canada where the movement was formed in 1897 to help connect women in isolated rural areas.
By the outbreak of WW2 in 1939, the WI was a well-established pillar of rural life in Britain, with institutes in more than 5,500 villages. But its National Executive Committee initially struggled to decide whether the WI would be able to help with the war effort at all as they had taken a strong anti-war stance. The WI's Chairman, Lady Denman, realised that the WI's members would want to 'do their bit'. She suggested that the WI might be called upon to help with caring for evacuees and with rural food production.
These predictions proved correct. The WI made a significant contribution on the home front. In September 1939, over 1.5 million children, mothers and babies, elderly and disabled people were evacuated from Britain's major towns and cities to rural areas. As well as the evacuation of these vulnerable groups, many businesses and government departments also moved their staff to the countryside. Members of the WI in reception areas were active in billeting and receiving evacuees and helping to settle them into rural communities. WI members often organised activities such as country walks and tea parties to help keep evacuee children occupied and entertained. Early in 1939, members of the WI had also assisted those planning the Government's evacuation scheme by carrying out a survey of rural homes to find out how many households might be able to take evacuees. In 1941, they also published an influential report on their members' experiences of evacuation.
The WI had run markets in rural areas since 1919 and in wartime, with food supplies scarce, these became an ever more valuable addition to rural towns and villages. WI markets sold surplus produce – mainly fruit and vegetables – from WI members, from smallholders and allotment holders. In a report on WI markets, the Ministry of Information concluded that they were 'business-like and practical examples of cooperative rural enterprise'. The WI also assisted the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) distribute and sell pies to agricultural workers as part of the Rural District Pie Scheme.
Sunday, December 3, 2023
23-12-3 Venezuela vs Guayana Esequiba □
24-3-5 Alliance Between Venezuela and Iran - IDF > .
24-1-26 Why Venezuela wants to annex Guyana - Caspian > .
23-12-26 Oil Wars and the Venezuela-Guyana Crisis - Spaniel > .
23-12-11 Venezuela's Invasion Armada, What You Need To Know - HIS > .
23-12-10 Venezuela, Guyana & Essequibo Crisis - Posturing, XIR SMO? - Perun > .
23-12-7 Venezuela To Annex 70% of Guyana's Territory? - gtbt > .
23-12-7 [XIR] Ruscia-backed Venezuela to start war in South America? | DiD > .
23-12-7 Venezuela-Guyana Hostilities Rise | Oil War? | Palki Sharma > .
23-12-5 Why Venezuela wants to annex a huge chunk of Guyana - CBC > .
Guayana Esequiba, sometimes also called Esequibo or Essequibo, is a disputed territory of 159,500 km2 (61,600 sq mi) west of the Essequibo River. The territory is claimed by both Guyana and Venezuela, but it has been administered and controlled by Guyana since the 1899 Paris Arbitral Award. The boundary dispute was inherited from the colonial powers (Spain in the case of Venezuela, and the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the case of Guyana) and has been complicated by the independence of Guyana from the United Kingdom in 1966.
On 31 October 2023, the government of Guyana filed a request with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), requesting intervention against a proposed referendum approved by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council on 23 October 2023, asking to support its position in the dispute, arguing that the referendum served as a pretext for the Venezuelan government to abandon negotiations with Guyana. The proposed referendum was condemned by the Commonwealth of Nations and Caribbean Community (CARICOM), who both issued statements in support of Guyana and the agreed ICJ process for dispute resolution. In response to the increased tensions, the Brazilian military on 29 November 2023 "intensified defensive actions" along its northern border. On 1 December 2023, the ICJ ordered Venezuela to not make any attempts to disrupt the current territory controlled by Guyana until the court makes a later determination. The referendum took place on 3 December, and the National Electoral Council initially reported that Venezuelans voted "yes" more than 95% of the time on each of the five questions on the ballot. International analysts and media reported that turnout had been remarkably low and that the Venezuelan government had falsified the results.
People around the globe are witnessing the disintegration of an oil-rich country. Venezuela had the world’s fourth-highest per-capita income in 1950. Now it’s being ripped apart by record levels of poverty.
More than 90% of Venezuelans struggle to subsist. How did Hugo Chávez drive this once affluent, democratic country to ruin? This documentary ... investigates the political, economic, societal and geostrategic reasons for Venezuela's crisis. The film features interviews Debray did with then presidential candidate Chávez in 1998, and with Juan Guaidó in 2019. Multiple countries recognize Guaidó as Venezuela's president, rather than the man who occupies the office, Nicolás Maduro.
Monday, July 17, 2023
23-7-17 P00 ends grain deal □
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23-7-17 Ruscia ending Ukraine grain deal - [risking] world food shortage - CBC > .
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Bigger Picture - Ċold Ŵar 2
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23-7-12 China Prepares (economics, resources) for War: A Timeline - Hudson > .24-5-1 [German Marshall Fund: X's Distortion of UN 2758 re Taiwan] - Update > .
24-4-19 Age of Wars:[Karaganov's Bellicose Ode to Axis of Envious Resentment - gtbt > .
24-4-17 [XiP00gandistic Hypocrisy & Strategic Dicklomatic Stumbles] - Digging > .
24-2-17 Taiwan Question & World Order | X Economy - Update > .
23-12-19 Could Ruscia Rebuild And Threaten NATO by 2027? - gtbt > .
23-12-7 5 Hard lessons West should learn from dealing with XiXiP - Lei > .
23-12-2 Xina's Modern Military - Big, Imperialistic, Unproven - Armchair > .
23-12-2 Huawei: [Subsidized Weapon in Chip War versus USA] - Update > .
23-11-19 Niall Ferguson: How Civilizations Collapse - Triggernometry > .
23-11-17 Return of Wars: Explained | Yuval Noah Harari > .
23-11-14 XIR: Hezbollah terrorists: Iran, Ruscia, Assad funded militants - T&P > .
23-11-5 [XIR] Corrupt, Sanctioned Iran's Military & Power Projection - Perun > .
23-11-4 [Ruscia Wants to Destroy] International Rules-based Order - Kuzio > .
23-10-25 NoXious World (Dis)Order 2 - Sergey Lavrov - STG > .
23-10-21 XIR H-I WAR - Terror from Gaza, Inspired by Ruscia and Iran - U24 > .
23-10-20 Pentagon Report [re X(IR) threat] & Chip Curbs - Update > .
23-10-19 BRI, Hamas fit into XiXiP's Middle East [NoXious] strategy - Lei > .
23-10-12 Causes of the Crisis between Hamas and Israel - Spaniel > .
23-10-12 Xina Supporting Hamas in the Israel/Palestine Conflict - laowhy86 > .
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igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...
