Just the Headlines
We Assemble a Collection of Worldwide News Headlines so you #StayOnTheBall
Q3
Many are uttering the beginnings to World War 3 [imontheball.com believes we’re already in World War 3], but for this to be true you need the ‘world’ involved–> perhaps North Africa is the new place of conflict:
The Libyan army demands that the military regime in Algeria return the occupied Libyan lands or face a forceful reclamation.
Denmark to charge farmers €100 a cow in first carbon tax on agriculture
Coalition government agrees annual levy on emissions from livestock after months of fraught negotiations
BlackRock and Citadel Securities fund plans to start a new national stock exchange in Texas to “take on” the New York Stock Exchange
China sold a record $53.3 billion worth of Treasuries and agency bonds in the first-quarter. The sell off as been increasingly since 2021.
Germans very split
In Black (CDU party); Pro-european, leftism
In Blue (AfD; Right-wing Nationalism)
Macron calls snap election
After Le Pen, the right-wing opposition party had won a sweeping result in the European elections. Macron seeking to instil confidence again had called for an election in July, shocking many given Le Pen’s obvious momentum
We Don’t Need You Anymore!
Russia announced that 73.2 million tonnes of coal would be exported to India via Iranian ports. The Iranian shipping company named IRISL has prepared 300 vessels to facilitate this trade and the time for Russian goods to reach India would drop from 45 days to 15 days. As a mediator of this trade, Iran will earn several billion dollars in transit fees.
President Andrej Duda of Poland and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni are both talking tough by saying that “their goal is to break-up the country of Russia” (Duda) and that “If Russia does not agree to the terms of the Peace Summit, we will force it to surrender” (Meloni). Of course, they both leave out the crucial parts of how and why. Europe continues with their provocation of war against the Russian state.
Argentina votes
Argentina’s Senate began debating a sprawling bill on Wednesday that is key to libertarian President Javier Milei’s economic reform plans, while protesters set fires and clashed with police in the streets outside Congress. The Vice President, Vicky Villarruel, had the final vote because it was a 36/36 tie. “For those Argentines who deserve to recover the pride of being Argentine and always thinking of everything for Argentina
, my vote is affirmative”
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Its Call of Duty
The Russian military has begun converting thousands of it’s old Soviet tanks into remote control drones! Swarms of remote controlled Soviet era T-55 and T-62 tanks are to be deployed to the battlefield.
Russia retaliates, finally
Moscow Stock Exchange stops trading in US Dollars and Euros.
Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum highlights constitutional reforms for Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples as a key priority. Amazingly fitting all the stereotypes possible, she wastes no time in subverting the majority populations.
Corn
Mexico currently has more US corn on the books than ever before. Current 2023/24 commitments near 21mmt (820mbu) dwarf any previous year, are up 45% from this point last year and are more than 30% larger than the prior record
Communist Colombiano
The President of Colombia
, Gustavo Petro, has just expropriated and nationalized all the private pensions of Colombians. No debate in Congress. Upon his will, they were stolen abruptly. This is the blantant seizure of the savings of millions of Colombians.
Russian Warship
Russia has conducted military exercises with their close ally of Cuba amid raising provocations made in Ukraine.
Given the futility of such military drills and lack of naval forces of Russia–it makes sense that these moves are to merely prove a point of hypocrisy of US Foreign Policy makers.
Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK. This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organizers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations.
After more than five years in a 2×3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars. WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles, and for the people’s right to know. #StayOnTheBall
The US Air Force directed the ATACMS missile strike against Russian civilians today. This is an act of war by the US Govt against Russia. Did Joe Biden seek permission from Congress to start a direct war with Russia? At the same time, Dagestani rebels have been attacking in Russia after being armed by NATO/CIA weaponry.
House passes military bill automatically registering men 18-26 for draft. It’s hard to see why this would be done unless it was about to be used–especially at a time with all-time-low military recruitment numbers.
