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Pouria Zeraati: Scott Bessent, U.S. Treasury Secretary...
Pouria Zeraati
24, August #WarSpillover

Pouria Zeraati: Scott Bessent, U.S. Treasury Secretary...

Important/ Scott Bessent, U.S. Treasury Secretary, on the Islamic Republic: "Now we're entering the final stage... In 1943, Allied leaders gathered in the Tehran Conference to plan for a path that had never been experienced before. As Roosevelt and Churchill were thinking about operations that would ultimately lead to the landing of Allied forces in Normandy, they asked themselves: What can be done to bring the greatest possible pressure to bear on the enemy [Hitler]? History has brought that same question back to Tehran. It's time for America to answer this question with all its power and resolve. Donald Trump and the immense might of our military have destroyed a significant portion of the Islamic Republic's military capabilities and weakened its nuclear program as well. Now we're entering the final stage. At dawn, a 'D-Day' economic operation begins—the largest economic war ever organized against an enemy. The Islamic Republic has been a destructive force in the world for 47 years. Inside Iran too, it has dragged an economy that could have been one of the world's strongest to ruin and suppressed its hardworking and entrepreneurial people. Trump has brought the Islamic Republic's economy to a point where the rial has never been worth so little and inflation has rarely been this high. Now the regime's last hope is the self-deception of countries that, out of fear, still think that by giving in to an aggressive regime, a lasting peace can be achieved."
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Ben Judah: We have fallen behind with China...
Ben Judah
23, August #BrokenSystem

Ben Judah: We have fallen behind with China...

We have fallen behind with China now ahead of the West in 66 out of 74 critical technologies tracked by @ASPI_org and making huge leaps in their application. However, we do not have in Britain an effective public policy institute plugged into Westminster and Whitehall that is tracking what we need to either quickly adopt, militantly copy or stringently guard against from China when it comes to this technological revolution we are not leading anymore. This level of policy ignorance is both dangerous and unacceptable. Looking to government to fix this is has it the wrong way round. This is where major philanthropists and business leaders need to take a project to government and seek its support. The government should then incentive this to grow by tax deductible donations for donors and clear links to honours for a national priority project.
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Liz Webster: People have been brainwashed...
Liz Webster
22, August #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: People have been brainwashed...

People have been brainwashed via their fears 👉 especially of migrants. Fear is one of the most powerful tools in politics. Keep telling people that migrants are the threat to their jobs, homes, culture, safety and country and eventually every political failure can be viewed through that lens. There is neuroscience behind why threat-based messaging works. Sustained stress and perceived threat can narrow attention and impair the flexible, deliberative thinking needed to weigh complicated evidence. And while everyone is looking at the migrant? They aren’t looking at who owns the wealth, why their wages stagnated, why housing wasn’t built, why public services were cut, or why Britain voluntarily erected barriers with its largest trading partner. That’s the political power of fear: Give people a visible enemy and they may stop looking for the actual causes of their insecurity.
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