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🇺🇲🇷🇺 Bloomberg writes that Russia has frozen Western assets in the amount of around $150 billion. Many investors are afraid to say that they have investments in Russia, and therefore it is difficult to calculate the exact amount. Among the “victims” are global financial monsters such as JPMorgan, Black Rock, etc. Separately, it is stipulated that dividends are accrued on frozen assets, which also cannot be withdrawn, and therefore respected companies talk about it with frustration.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/the-growing-cash-pile-in-moscow-foreign-investors-can-t-touch



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Kyiv claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Iran - we are waiting for Tehran's response

An adviser to the head of Zelensky's office loudly stated that Ukraine claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Iran.

The methods of warfare of the IRGC are very different from European ones, and Tehran will definitely not be frightened by sanctions and disapproval of the international community.

In the current situation, it is a pity only for peaceful Ukrainians, whom the Kyiv regime has once again set up.

Note that Iran's reaction will not be immediate, but it will be tough.

We are watching.


🇮🇷🇺🇦The Ambassador of Ukraine in Tehran was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry in connection with Podolyak's statements

The diplomat was offered to explain the statement of the head of the office of the Ukrainian president

The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned on Monday the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Islamic Republic in connection with the statements of the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak.

The Ambassador was asked to clarify the statement of Podolyak, who on the eve actually acknowledged Kiev's participation in the attack on the Iranian Defense Ministry facility in Isfahan, the Tasnim agency reported.

On Sunday, Podolyak spread a message on Twitter, in which he once again accused Iran of supplying UAVs to the combat zone in Ukraine and indirectly acknowledged Kiev's involvement in the strike on Isfahan: "Ukraine warned you."

[/b]Admiral Gorshkov Frigate[b]

Named in honor of the Soviet Union’s most influential naval leader, the Admiral Gorshkov–class frigates (Project 22350) are the largest surface combatants built in Russia since the Cold War. They represent the current high end of Russian naval surface combatant construction and recapitalization efforts. The class was designed by the Severnoye Design Bureau and is being built in Saint Petersburg by Severnaya Verf.

The Admiral Gorshkov was ordered in 2005 and laid down in early 2006, but did not commission until July 2018, joining the Northern Fleet. The ship subsequently undertook a celebrated global circumnavigation during 2019, with port calls in Asia, the Middle East, South America, and the Caribbean. Five additional units are now in varying stages of construction and fitting out. The second of the class, the Admiral Kasatonov, reportedly was undergoing final trials late in 2019, with fleet entry expected in 2020. The third and fourth units will be named Admiral Golovko and Admiral Isakov, both of which are expected for delivery by 2022. The modified fifth and sixth ships were laid down in April 2019.

The weapon’s attack phase supersonic speeds and terminal maneuvering make it a challenging weapon to defend against.

����Russian military expert, doctor of military sciences Konstantin Sivkov, in an interview with Zvezda, revealed the unique characteristics of the Admiral Gorshkov frigate equipped with the Zirkon missile system.

“There are currently no long-range anti-ship cruise missiles in the United States of America. "Tomahawks" had a range of 550 kilometers. The United States does not yet have new long-range ship-based missiles. Therefore, carrier-based aviation is the only strike force. The Admiral Gorshkov ship, armed with the Zircon missile system, is capable of defeating an aircraft carrier multi-purpose strike group while providing full-fledged reconnaissance target designation, without entering the reach of all the weapons that this aircraft carrier multi-purpose group has," said the military expert.

As Sivkov explains, the Admiral Gorshkov frigate is capable of defeating an enemy carrier-based multipurpose strike group without entering the reach zone, first of all, of its carrier-based aircraft.

⚡️IMF data shows that Russia entered Top 10 global economies, in 9th place at $2.1 trillion in 2022.

In 2019, it was in 11th place at $1.578 trillion

The Russian/Ukrainian war has given the Russian economy $0.522 trillion

@IntelRepublic

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[/b]Why Russia, Which Spends One-Twentieth What America Does On Military, Is Militarily More Successful Than America[b]
Written by Eric ZUESSE on 30/12/2022

Whereas in America (which makes and sells half of all of the world’s war-weapons), the manufacturers of war-weaponry are privately owned and succeed only by enriching their investors, Russia’s manufacturers of war-weapons are majority-owned by the Government and succeed only by winning Russia’s wars — serving the Government, which controls these companies, instead of serving private investors, who control the Government itself by lobbying and political donations. In America, the arms-manufacturers control the Government in order to control their markets, which are their own Government and secondarily its ‘allied’ or vassal-Governments (which also buy their products). Russia never privatized its war-industries; so, they serve the Government — the public, not investors (who, in turn, control the Government in order to be able to control those corporations).

Ever since America’s failed war against Vietnam, the U.S. Government has been accustomed to military failure. That war began in 1954 when President Eisenhower “sent 700 military advisers to South Vietnam” without seeking congressional approval, and in violation of the U.S. Constitutional requirement for there to be no U.S. standing army and thus explicitly that only after a congressional declaration of war can a President send any U.S. forces to any foreign country. Ike relied upon his immediate predecessor President Truman’s precedent of having done the same thing (violated the Constitution) by sending a force for “police action” (lying that it wasn’t military) to start his war to conquer Korea by enforcing Truman’s General Order #1, on 17 August 1945, to stop North Korea’s forces from advancing into South Korea. Ike then hid from JFK this and other traps that were awaiting him in Vietnam, and in Cuba. According to JFK’s description of his 19 January 1960 meeting with Ike prior to assuming office, JFK said, regarding Vietnam, “Eisenhower never mentioned it, never uttered the word Vietnam.” Ike never mentioned the 700 troops in Vietnam, but JFK found that he had inherited that. So, “In May 1961, Kennedy sent 500 more American advisers to Vietnam” — he just continued Ike’s unConstitutional policy there; it was the path of least resistance. Soon, however, he learned that it was a dreadful mistake, and that Ike had silently left minefields for him and had aimed to get his successors blamed for Ike’s disastrous decisions (which Kennedy learned too late). “By early November 1963, the number of US military advisers had reached 16,000”, but Kennedy already knew that he was trapped and would be attacked especially by Republicans if he changed course. He was just learning the ropes, and starting to think about how to change course, when he got assassinated (and his V.P. Johnson continued those errors).

That war ended in a U.S. defeat when President Ford withdrew the last U.S. troops from Vietnam by helicopters on 30 April 1975. (He, of course, failed to win election. His successor, Carter, then failed to win re-election, due to Ike’s having stolen Iran in 1953 and Carter’s suffering the resultant Iranian anti-American fervor in 1979, which doomed his campaign and brought in President Reagan.)

Afterward, the only successful U.S. wars were two very limited ones, both waged by President GHW Bush: one to seize and capture Panama’s leader and drug-trafficker Manuel Noriega on 3 January 1990; the other to expel Iraq’s forces from Kuwait during 24-28 February 1991.

America’s other wars were failures, or, at best, partial failures: Grenada in October 1983, Beirut in 1983-4, Libya in 1986 and again in 2011, Somalia 1992-95, Haiti 1994-5, Yugoslavia 1995-2000, Afghanistan 2001-2021, Philippines 2002-2017, Iraq 2003-22, Libya 2011-2022, Syria 2012-2022, and Ukraine (coup) 2014-2022. (They all were successes for America’s arms-makers, however.) None of America’s invasions after WW II was justified, nor was any of them in accord with America’s Constitution. All of them were done in order to use, test-out, and to wear-out and replace, U.S. weapons, so as to increase sales-volumes and enrich political donors, who got the congresspeople elected that they wanted elected, to vote for these invasions and for the military appropriations. The system succeeded at what it was designed to do: produce profits for those American international corporations, whose owners control the U.S. Government.

And then there are the U.S. regime’s many other undeclared wars, which are partnerships with U.S.-allied regimes in which America supplies only the weaponry and training but no direct fighters, such as in America’s partnership with the Sauds to grab control over Yemen — causing mass starvation in Yemen. (It burns up lots of U.S. weapons, thus likewise pumping U.S. weapons-sales and profits.)

Russia has been spending $70 billion annually on its entire military; America has been spending (not just in its ‘Defense’ Department but in all Departments) around $1.5 trillion per year, for its military.

In crucial military technologies, Russia is the world’s leader. For example, on December 23rd, South Front headlined “KINZHAL HYPERSONIC MISSILE PROVED TO BE UNSTOPPABLE IN UKRAINE: RUSSIAN MILITARY CHIEF”, and it’s no mere brag by Russia; it is true. (Such missiles would be unstoppable in any nation.) Furthermore, on November 14th, I headlined “U.S. GAO Finds Failure Is the Norm in U.S. Military Aircrafts”. That’s what happens when the military manufacturers serve their investors instead of the public. On June 17th, U.S. military expert Alex Vershinin headlined at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute, “The Return of Industrial Warfare”, about how inferior America is militarily as compared to Russia, and he argued — without mentioning or even showing any awareness of it — that America’s replacing industrialization (the manufacturing economy) with financialization (the financial-services economy) had done this (hollowed-out America’s military). I would argue more specifically that the resultant intense corruptness in America’s military has done this. The U.S. ‘Defense’ Department is the ONLY federal Department that can’t be audited. Its opportunities for graft are unlimited (or else are limited only by the value of the dollar, which would mean that the dollar’s international value is bound to crash and collapse some day, as having been the ultimate Ponzi scheme). In fact, trillions of dollars in spending by the Pentagon simply cannot be traced. Nobody knows, or can find out, where it went. However, already on 3 June 2016, America’s National Interest magazine had headlined “Russia vs. America: A Nuclear Bomber Showdown: Who wins?” and answered that Russia was way ahead and would likely remain so: “the situation is not going to change in the foreseeable perspective — each step of the parties is followed by a quick response. Thus, as long as the United States develops its antimissile defense, Russia is going to develop ICBMs and warheads likely to penetrate this antimissile defense. The only beneficiaries in such a situation are weapons manufacturers.” And, as things have turned out, even Russia’s antimissile defense systems are superior to America’s. However, to America’s rulers — its billionaires — their net worth is more important, and their system is very successful at increasing that.

Another reason why Russia gets far higher bang for each military buck spent is that whereas America’s military is designed to expand the American empire throughout the world, Russia’s is designed to protect the nation’s sovereign independence and to ward-off America’s constant (ever since 1945) aim to turn Russia into yet another U.S. ‘ally’ (vassal-nation). Whereas America’s billionaires drive America’s military for increasing their empire, the Russian population drive Russia’s military for the nation’s protection and very survival.

There is no evidence — none — that Russia, spending $70 billion annually on its military, is militarily inferior to America, which spends $1.5 trillion per year on its military.

In a country that spends 20 times more for its military but gets military inferiority instead of military superiority, deceiving the public is essential (in order to function as being a ‘democracy’, which the U.S. Government needs in order to be able to call any country it aims to take over — or regime-change — a “dictatorship”). And that is the way it is done, and has been done, for decades, now. So, the military has been, at least since 2001, the highest-respected institution of all, by the American people. The trick has been very successful

COLD WAR 2.0, HYBRID WARS, RUSSIA, UNITED STATES

[/b]Why Russia, Which Spends One-Twentieth What America Does On Military, Is Militarily More Successful Than America[b]
Written by Eric ZUESSE on 30/12/2022

Whereas in America (which makes and sells half of all of the world’s war-weapons), the manufacturers of war-weaponry are privately owned and succeed only by enriching their investors, Russia’s manufacturers of war-weapons are majority-owned by the Government and succeed only by winning Russia’s wars — serving the Government, which controls these companies, instead of serving private investors, who control the Government itself by lobbying and political donations. In America, the arms-manufacturers control the Government in order to control their markets, which are their own Government and secondarily its ‘allied’ or vassal-Governments (which also buy their products). Russia never privatized its war-industries; so, they serve the Government — the public, not investors (who, in turn, control the Government in order to be able to control those corporations).

Ever since America’s failed war against Vietnam, the U.S. Government has been accustomed to military failure. That war began in 1954 when President Eisenhower “sent 700 military advisers to South Vietnam” without seeking congressional approval, and in violation of the U.S. Constitutional requirement for there to be no U.S. standing army and thus explicitly that only after a congressional declaration of war can a President send any U.S. forces to any foreign country. Ike relied upon his immediate predecessor President Truman’s precedent of having done the same thing (violated the Constitution) by sending a force for “police action” (lying that it wasn’t military) to start his war to conquer Korea by enforcing Truman’s General Order #1, on 17 August 1945, to stop North Korea’s forces from advancing into South Korea. Ike then hid from JFK this and other traps that were awaiting him in Vietnam, and in Cuba. According to JFK’s description of his 19 January 1960 meeting with Ike prior to assuming office, JFK said, regarding Vietnam, “Eisenhower never mentioned it, never uttered the word Vietnam.” Ike never mentioned the 700 troops in Vietnam, but JFK found that he had inherited that. So, “In May 1961, Kennedy sent 500 more American advisers to Vietnam” — he just continued Ike’s unConstitutional policy there; it was the path of least resistance. Soon, however, he learned that it was a dreadful mistake, and that Ike had silently left minefields for him and had aimed to get his successors blamed for Ike’s disastrous decisions (which Kennedy learned too late). “By early November 1963, the number of US military advisers had reached 16,000”, but Kennedy already knew that he was trapped and would be attacked especially by Republicans if he changed course. He was just learning the ropes, and starting to think about how to change course, when he got assassinated (and his V.P. Johnson continued those errors).

That war ended in a U.S. defeat when President Ford withdrew the last U.S. troops from Vietnam by helicopters on 30 April 1975. (He, of course, failed to win election. His successor, Carter, then failed to win re-election, due to Ike’s having stolen Iran in 1953 and Carter’s suffering the resultant Iranian anti-American fervor in 1979, which doomed his campaign and brought in President Reagan.)

Afterward, the only successful U.S. wars were two very limited ones, both waged by President GHW Bush: one to seize and capture Panama’s leader and drug-trafficker Manuel Noriega on 3 January 1990; the other to expel Iraq’s forces from Kuwait during 24-28 February 1991.

America’s other wars were failures, or, at best, partial failures: Grenada in October 1983, Beirut in 1983-4, Libya in 1986 and again in 2011, Somalia 1992-95, Haiti 1994-5, Yugoslavia 1995-2000, Afghanistan 2001-2021, Philippines 2002-2017, Iraq 2003-22, Libya 2011-2022, Syria 2012-2022, and Ukraine (coup) 2014-2022. (They all were successes for America’s arms-makers, however.) None of America’s invasions after WW II was justified, nor was any of them in accord with America’s Constitution. All of them were done in order to use, test-out, and to wear-out and replace, U.S. weapons, so as to increase sales-volumes and enrich political donors, who got the congresspeople elected that they wanted elected, to vote for these invasions and for the military appropriations. The system succeeded at what it was designed to do: produce profits for those American international corporations, whose owners control the U.S. Government.

And then there are the U.S. regime’s many other undeclared wars, which are partnerships with U.S.-allied regimes in which America supplies only the weaponry and training but no direct fighters, such as in America’s partnership with the Sauds to grab control over Yemen — causing mass starvation in Yemen. (It burns up lots of U.S. weapons, thus likewise pumping U.S. weapons-sales and profits.)

Russia has been spending $70 billion annually on its entire military; America has been spending (not just in its ‘Defense’ Department but in all Departments) around $1.5 trillion per year, for its military.

In crucial military technologies, Russia is the world’s leader. For example, on December 23rd, South Front headlined “KINZHAL HYPERSONIC MISSILE PROVED TO BE UNSTOPPABLE IN UKRAINE: RUSSIAN MILITARY CHIEF”, and it’s no mere brag by Russia; it is true. (Such missiles would be unstoppable in any nation.) Furthermore, on November 14th, I headlined “U.S. GAO Finds Failure Is the Norm in U.S. Military Aircrafts”. That’s what happens when the military manufacturers serve their investors instead of the public. On June 17th, U.S. military expert Alex Vershinin headlined at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute, “The Return of Industrial Warfare”, about how inferior America is militarily as compared to Russia, and he argued — without mentioning or even showing any awareness of it — that America’s replacing industrialization (the manufacturing economy) with financialization (the financial-services economy) had done this (hollowed-out America’s military). I would argue more specifically that the resultant intense corruptness in America’s military has done this. The U.S. ‘Defense’ Department is the ONLY federal Department that can’t be audited. Its opportunities for graft are unlimited (or else are limited only by the value of the dollar, which would mean that the dollar’s international value is bound to crash and collapse some day, as having been the ultimate Ponzi scheme). In fact, trillions of dollars in spending by the Pentagon simply cannot be traced. Nobody knows, or can find out, where it went. However, already on 3 June 2016, America’s National Interest magazine had headlined “Russia vs. America: A Nuclear Bomber Showdown: Who wins?” and answered that Russia was way ahead and would likely remain so: “the situation is not going to change in the foreseeable perspective — each step of the parties is followed by a quick response. Thus, as long as the United States develops its antimissile defense, Russia is going to develop ICBMs and warheads likely to penetrate this antimissile defense. The only beneficiaries in such a situation are weapons manufacturers.” And, as things have turned out, even Russia’s antimissile defense systems are superior to America’s. However, to America’s rulers — its billionaires — their net worth is more important, and their system is very successful at increasing that.

Another reason why Russia gets far higher bang for each military buck spent is that whereas America’s military is designed to expand the American empire throughout the world, Russia’s is designed to protect the nation’s sovereign independence and to ward-off America’s constant (ever since 1945) aim to turn Russia into yet another U.S. ‘ally’ (vassal-nation). Whereas America’s billionaires drive America’s military for increasing their empire, the Russian population drive Russia’s military for the nation’s protection and very survival.

There is no evidence — none — that Russia, spending $70 billion annually on its military, is militarily inferior to America, which spends $1.5 trillion per year on its military.

In a country that spends 20 times more for its military but gets military inferiority instead of military superiority, deceiving the public is essential (in order to function as being a ‘democracy’, which the U.S. Government needs in order to be able to call any country it aims to take over — or regime-change — a “dictatorship”). And that is the way it is done, and has been done, for decades, now. So, the military has been, at least since 2001, the highest-respected institution of all, by the American people. The trick has been very successful

French President Macron promised young people aged 18-25 free condoms in all pharmacies of the country next year. This is done to reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases.



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Billboard somewhere in the USA: "All men have the right to pregnancy. Support the freedom of reproduction"



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Russia's future: empire and "complete" self-sufficiency.

In light of the Russian Special Military Operation in the Ukraine it became more and more clear that globalism is finished and only powerful sovereign nations will be able to survive in the 21st century, as president Putin stated recently.

Russia's role in the new geopolitical arena is going to become increasingly important exactly because Russia has sovereignty (very few countries can take decisions based entirely on their national interests instead of abiding by the diktats of the US and supranational institutions, Russia is one of them) and most importantly has enough resources to be almost completely self-sufficient, in details:

_ Russia has enough oil and gas for hundreds of years, taking into account a reduction of the exports, both for households and industries.

_ Russia has the larger fresh water reservoirs in the world (Lake Baikal for example)

_ Russia has enough uranium and plutonium to fuel its nuclear power plants for centuries.

_ Russia has unlimited supply of iron, aluminium and titanium for its military industry (they are always necessaty for weapons, ammunitions and carriers, as they cannot be replaced)

_ Russia has lot of gold and silver for its industries but also as key commodities (real money) in a world where Fiat currencies are destined to collapse in value due to enormous debts that cannot be repaid

_ Russia has large fields of corn, wheat and soy to feed its entire population without problems. What's important is to strengthen industries, have more and more top quality scientists and create an integrated system where all sectors prioritize Russian internal growth/expansion rather than trying to export stuff facing unlimited hurdles.

The idea a strong Russia cannot be fully self-sufficient is just liberal/globalist propaganda but the Russian govt has to do whatever it takes to shift to this new model.

PS.: Russia will need some help from friends abroad in technology sector but it has 90% of the components needed to produce a chip for example, it just needs the Know-how and to set up dedicated companies.
WEF controlled EU countries have far less resources than Russia even if the totalitarian EU becomes a unitary state which, judging from latest differences, looks increasingly like a globalist utopia.

Moscow has all the cards to be on par with the US but two other pillars of this process are population growth (Russia needs 200 mln people at least, current 152 mln are not enough, so support for families must be further enhanced) and it must fully reject the climate change fanaticism.

So what about empire? That's obviously needed in a situation where adding new territories can compensate the losses caused by reduction of exports, because otherwise Russia doesn't need more territory normally as it is already huge, it becomes important when facing an existential threat like NATO which must be pushed as far away as possible from the Russian border and as a form of compensation, when you gain a new territory you also gain all its resources which then become automatically unavailable to the enemy, in this optics the Ukrainian wheat fields must be all liberated and become full-fledged Russian territory.

So the new "Russian empire" must include 80% of what's left of the Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus in the West, must expell NATO from the Caucasus and the Black Sea, needs to be the centre of a new union with all of the Central Asian states, a sort of Eurasian Economic Union + CSTO on steroids.



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China is developing weapons capable of striking the United States from space, according to a Washington Times editorial.

They include lasers, jammers, killer satellites, anti-satellite missiles. The Pentagon notes that China's space force is actively growing, and the US low-orbit satellite constellation is under threat



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People are urging FIFA to expel the US team from participating in the World Cup because of the now deleted tweet where they used the flag of Islamic Republic of Iran, but removed the national emblem of Iran.
The emblem, which features four curves and a sword is a stylized representation of the word Allah.
According to FIFA's rules on discrimination USA should be banned for 10 games.

Edit: They removed the emblem on purpose.

- USSF said that the edited photo of the flag was intended to show "support for the women in Iran fighting for basic human rights," per AP.



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800k... (2 mins transfer)

According to Sky News, a security source claimed that Russia transferred 140 million euros in cash and a selection of captured British and American weapons to Iran in exchange for dozens of deadly drones for its war in Ukraine.


A Russian Military aircraft secretly transported cash and three samples of ammunition – a British NLAW anti-tank missile, a Javelin anti-tank missile and a Stinger anti-aircraft missile – to an airfield in Tehran in the early hours of August 20. He told Sky News, who spoke on condition of anonymity to share sensitive information.


The source said that the weapons were part of a shipment of British and American military equipment destined for the Ukrainian army “which fell into the hands of Russia.”

A Western intelligence source told Sky News that the transfer took place on August 20 at Tehran airport, and he estimated that the IRGC would reverse engineer the received weapons "for future wars."



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Last price

ZIMDRILL:
wikipedia is not a valid source anyone can edit and write what they want

Then create your own wiki so we can read

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ZIMDRILL:
your article is misleading

Read it again, read from Wikipedia.
Tell a friend to help explain the edition of Wikipedia to you.

[/b]The tribe where women raise and marry their children[b]

Bonda tribe in India is known as one of the primitive tribes that still exist even in 2022.

Usually, a woman will marry a boy at the age of 9-10 years and begin to live together as husband and wife; and within their relationship, the woman raises her husband so that when she becomes old he will have to take care of her. Women from the Bonda tribes get married between 25–30. If a boy passes the age of 14 he is considered as too old to be a husband.

The wife is also like a tutor that takes care of educating her “child husband” in all manners and making sure that once they reach an age when they can sustain themselves and the wife, they have the knowledge required to do so.

Due to this culture, the population within the Bonda tribes is mainly made of women and this is because women are seen as more valued than men within their culture. They are considered more powerful, more knowledgeable, and with a long life expectancy.

AN UNUSUAL WEDLOCK
One of the most unusual things about this tribe is their Marriage procession. Bonda women marry boys ten or twelve years younger than them. So a BONDA girl in her twenties marries a ten-year-old. She takes an oath to protect and feed her child husband until he becomes an adult. And the husband in return takes an oath to feed and protect the girl when she ages and loses her strength in future. Instead of dowry, they pay exact opposite, termed as ‘BRIDE PRICE’. Elder brother of child groom can pay the bride price, but the groom has to return it later compulsorily. Economic needs and physical support are the prime motives of such marriages; sexual relationship becomes a second priority. An intimate relationship is not established until boys become adults.

Source,: Womenofrubies.com

[/b] Man Hides in Costume, Receives $30 Million Lottery Win, Hides Identity From Family [b]

A man who won a lottery jackpot of about 219 million yuan ($29.9 million) in China appeared in a cartoon costume to receive his winning at the lottery office in Nanning, in the southern region of Guangxi. According to Bloomberg, the man who is known by the pseudonym Li said he is concealing his identity and does not plan to tell his family so that the knowledge of his win does not make them lazy or complacent.

Li said he has been buying lottery tickets for the past 10 years. According to reports, he bought 40 lottery tickets at 80 yuan ($11) each. Using the same seven numbers of 2, 15, 19, 26, 27, 29 and 2 for each ticket, Li emerged as the biggest winner when all seven numbers matched. The payout for the entire tickets added up to about 219 million yuan ($29.9 million)

Li who has been playing the lottery for around a decade says this is his biggest win even though he has won a few dozen yuan in the past. I only won a few dozen yuan in the past. I regard buying the lottery as a hobby, and my family does not care. Plus, I do not spend much money on it, and the lottery provides a ray of hope for me.

While he keeps his fortune from his wife and kid, Li says he has not yet decided what to do with the money. He has however donated 5 million yuan to charity as a first step even though the Chinese government by law will also tax him about 43 million yuan (approx. $5.9 million)

The United States needed a "sanctions expert" in order not to harm its own economy.

The US Treasury Department has opened a vacancy for the "guru of sanctions".

This is an economist who will advise the agency on the impact of restrictive measures on financial markets, foreign trade, energy and other areas, Bloomberg reported.

The consultant should help the government avoid economic shocks.

"Two decades after the US began relying more and more on sanctions to put pressure on opponents around the world, they are hiring someone to make sure that these measures work as they should," the agency points out.

Earlier, the White House analyzed the economic sanctions imposed and found that over the past 20 years, their number has increased by 933%.

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����Diplomacy in Anglo-Saxon. The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia was humiliated in the UK.

Mohammed bin Salman was banned from attending the funeral of Elizabeth II, although he was initially invited, Reuters reports.

Public activists called the prince's invitation a "stain on the memory" of the Queen. He was reminded of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which he allegedly sanctioned.

As a result, the heir to the throne leaves London. Instead, the kingdom will be represented by the State Minister Prince Turki bin Muhammad al-Saud.

It's time to demand a discount on Saudi oil.

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The first photos of the consequences of the use of Shahed-136 Iranian kamikaze drones by Russian troops (localized as Geran UAVs) appeared on the Web

A drone hit a self-propelled gun.



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According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the Ukrainian military began to complain about the losses from the use of Iranian kamikaze drones Shahed-136 aka Geran-2 by Russian troops against them.

They write that only in the zone of responsibility of the Ukrainian 92nd brigade, as a result of strikes by these drones, two 152-mm self-propelled howitzers, two 122-mm self-propelled howitzers, as well as two armored personnel carriers, and before that also a 155-mm the towed M777 howitzer was hit by a similar drone. Well, at the same time, they want to receive from the United States and its allies more advanced technologies for protecting against drones, or for them to intervene and somehow disrupt further deliveries of Iranian drones to Russia.



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"I love beating, if my boyfriend doesn’t beat me a day, I will be so sick" – Nigerian lady

A Nigerian Lady who goes by the Name, Lopex Morrissa disclosed on Facebook that she so much Loved beating from her boyfriend.

That if her boyfriend doesn’t beat her a Day, she becomes Nervous.

She calls beating from Her boyfriend “Love Beating” and that it makes her relationship stronger with him. Here is what Lopex Morrissa shared on Facebook that got the Nigeria Online Community stunned and shocked beyond anything!

“I Love Beating Infact Beating Is My Medicine, If My Boyfriend Doesn’t Beat Me A Day, I Will Be So Nervous Throughout That Day” She went on to throw More light on her “Love Beating”.

Here is her exact statement on Facebook.

“I love beating Infact beating is my medicine. If My Boyfriend doesn’t beat me a day, I will be so nervous throughout that day. Beating a day makes relationship grow stronger. We call it love beating Before you come here talking trash, is it your beating?”

Fraudsters in India opened a fake police station and worked in it for eight months, writes the Guardian.

They extorted money from those who applied to the "precinct" for help, and also actively took "bribes" for various services.

Hundreds of people became victims.

The scammers wore police uniforms and carried real weapons. Interestingly, the fake police station was equipped just 500 meters from the house of the real police chief.

At least six gang members have been arrested, but the ringleader is still at large.

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Georgia, a country at the intersection of Europe and Asia, is a former Soviet republic that’s home to Caucasus Mountain villages and Black Sea beaches. It’s famous for Vardzia, a sprawling cave monastery dating to the 12th century, and the ancient wine-growing region Kakheti. The capital, Tbilisi, is known for the diverse architecture and mazelike, cobblestone streets of its old town.

�� More than a third of the Georgian population is on the blacklist of gamblers who are banned from gambling.

Since March 1, a register has been operating in Georgia, including ludomaniacs, social workers, officials and persons under 25 who are prohibited from playing in online casinos.

According to the Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance, 1917 people themselves applied to restrict access to the games, another 23 citizens closed it on the basis of a court decision.

� In total, the register contains information about more than 1.44 million people with a population of 3.71 million.

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In the event of a nuclear war between Russia and NATO, more than 5 billion inhabitants of the Earth will die.

This forecast was made by scientists from American, Norwegian, German and other universities who published their research in the journal Nature Food.

As noted in the publication, a nuclear war between the United States and its allies with Russia could lead to the use of more than 90% of the world's nuclear arsenal.

The result will be the release of more than 165 million tons of soot into the atmosphere, which will cause a nuclear winter all over the planet.

At the same time, 360 million people may die directly from the explosions of nuclear charges, and more than 5 billion more will become victims of hunger as a result of the climate catastrophe that has come.

A possible nuclear war between India and Pakistan, for example, would lead, according to their forecasts, to the death of 2 billion people.

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Russia controls the former Ukrainian territories with resources of at least $12.4 trillion.

This is reported by The Washington Post with reference to the SecDev analysis.

63% of Ukraine's coal deposits, 11% of oil deposits and 33% of mineral deposits, including lithium, are located in the liberated territories.

In addition, Russia has access to deposits of oil, gas, limestone, titanium ore, uranium, gold, zirconium ore and strontium.

The authors of the article believe that Kiev may permanently lose access to almost two-thirds of the deposits.

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