BRICS has expanded to 20 countries – 10 members and 10 partners – after adding Vietnam. BRICS+ now makes up 44% of world GDP (PPP) and 56% of the global population. The US failed to divide China and Vietnam in its Second Cold War.

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#economy #economics #geopolitics #brics

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@freeagent
I never said it wasn't political, every trade agreement is political. What I said is #BRICS is not a military or political alliance it is an alternative system of multi polar trading free of interference from the current US hegemony system where international trade requires trading in US dollars.

For example, New Zealand, which is not even a #BRICS member country, has a FTA with its biggest trading partner China that means NZ and China can freely trade with each other in their own currencies.

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@freeagent

I have no idea what argument David is trying to make. His initial comment was that BRICS doesn’t appear to be a unified bloc pointing to the relationship between India and China. Which is why I pointed out the fact BRICS is not a political or military alliance but a cooperative economic system of trade.

USA’s 3 largest trading partners are Mexico, Canada, and China. It would be ridiculous to assume this makes these countries a unified political bloc.

Ironically, since Trump introduced his tariffs India, Japan, South Korea and the ASEAN member nations have all agreed to increase their economic and political cooperation with China.

The unexplained death of a top Russian oilexecutive on July 4 is fueling renewed scrutiny over the rising number of high-profile Russian officials and businessmen who have died under mysterious circumstances -- specifically, have fallen out of windows.
Andrei Badalov, vice president of Transneft, Russia's largest state-controlled pipeline transport company, died after falling from the window of his apartment in Moscow.
Russian state news agency TASS, citing law enforcement sources, claimed the preliminary cause of death was suicide.
While Russian authorities often label these falls as suicides or accidents, others suggest something more deliberate may be at play
kyivindependent.com/out-the-wi…

How brutal is Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’? The answer is in the charts:

📉 Millions lose Medicaid
💸 Student debt payments spike
🌍 Climate investment gutted
📈 $3T deficit explosion
All to shower billionaires in tax cuts. One big, draconian mess 👇 #press

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…

Which MLB player have I RE-NAMED "KETTLE OF VAGINAL SECRETIONS?"

FIND OUT at @Darren's fantastic RANDUMB THOUGHTS episode:
randumbthoughts.com/2025/07/02…

That Big Bullshit bill, among other horrors, bloats the ICE gestapo budget to a genocidal degree. And here’s why….the first is a history is truly horrible, starting with the vile activities of COINTELPRO.

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/from-co…

There is finally a genuine counter-culture push against this, described adroitly here. The BBC is a complete load of crap.
caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-empire…

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And Chris lays out the vile profiteers who will be behind the coming genocide against the American people. Because genocide is profitable. And bonus! Cruelty is the point for many of these shits. IBM, MIT, Microsoft, Palantir, BP, Chevron, Blackrock, Amazon, “Alphabet” (google), so on ad nauseam.
chrishedges.substack.com/p/pro…

Today is a day of profound mourning.
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Nunca digas que has sido hacker


Nunca digas que has sido hacker, la gente no te preguntará por tus conocimientos o tus hazañas, en vez de eso todo cambiará, te mirarán con desconfianza y te tendrán miedo, te echarán la culpa de los fallos de sus sistemas, y creerán que con el roce de un teclado sabrás su contraseña y que puedes destruir satélites o provocar un caos global, y si eres desarrollador nunca probarán tus aplicaciones por miedo a ser infectados con el virus más sofisticado que puedas imaginar. Entiendo el miedo de la gente que no entiende, pero la vida no es una película, o sí? 🎥

https://blog.manalejandro.com/tag/Nunca

Yesterday, 2/3 of Dutch parliament voted for laws designed by Wilders' PVV to make life for refugees and other asylum seekers in the Netherlands even more miserable. Even giving support (food, shelter) to 'illegal aliens' would become a criminal offence. nos.nl/l/2573574
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Today, the green/social-democrat opposition party started a petition to block these laws in the Senate.
It has 60,000 signatures already:
groenlinkspvda.nl/petitie/stop…

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>Romans 9, Galatians 3, and Revelation 7

Probably the three chapters from which snippets are quoted the most at those who think like me to "prove" what we're saying is false.

It is ironic because those are probably three of the strongest passages stating exactly what we're saying. They're where we even get the idea.

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Land acknowledgements are like this: Your parents give you $100k, you ask where it came from and they say "we stole it from Larry's parents, but they're dead now" and then, instead of giving the money to Larry, you spend the money on yourself, but every time you buy something you say "I feel bad about screwing Larry" like that makes you a good person. If you really believe you’re on stolen land, then give it back or STFU.

youtube.com/watch?v=AXyBjAcbLG…

Man, Synth finds no joy in anything, lmao. I really can't help but disagree with his view of gaming this time, Death Stranding is garbage that's for sure, but I don't believe for one second you're "wasting your time" playing games you enjoy.

Mongabay India podcast ‘Wild Frequencies’ wins audio reporting award


Mongabay India won an excellence in audio reporting award recently from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA). The award was for the limited series podcast Wild Frequencies. SOPA, which promotes best practices and excellence in journalism, announced the winners of its 2025 Awards of Editorial Excellence during a ceremony in Hong Kong on June 26. Wild Frequencies, a three-episode series that follows researchers in India studying animal sounds to better understand wildlife, is hosted by Mongabay India’s Kartik Chandramouli and Mongabay’s Shreya Dasgupta. It features sound design and original music by Abhijit Shylanath. SOPA shared the judges’ comments on the series: “With a rich audio-scape and creative sound design, rigorous reporting and engaging storytelling, these reports from the field (and forests and wetlands) around India offer listeners a deeper understanding of how the sounds [are] made by creatures in the natural world, and what those creatures and their bioacoustics can tell us about whether an ecosystem is healthy or imperiled.” The series also won “Best Science and Medical” podcast at the Publisher Podcast Awards in June and the “Best Produced Show” in the science category for the India Audio Summit & Awards 2025. In 2023, Mongabay won SOPA’s Excellence in Bahasa Indonesian News Reporting Award for the story ‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom, which was a collaboration with The Gecko Project and BBC News. Find the Wild Frequencies episodes here: Episode 1: “Find Them” — introduces the science of…This article was originally published on Mongabay