"In any deal with Putin, we must not pay him a single dollar."
Host:
"Nothing has changed yet, but there are now reports that Russian diesel fuel will begin to be sold in the United States as early as next week."
Mike Pompeo, former U.S. Secretary of State under Trump:
"I honestly don't know what's really going on... I understand that this diesel fuel will be entering the market soon. The volume is not very large, and it is likely that it will not have a significant impact on global diesel fuel prices. Therefore, our farmers will still have to buy diesel fuel at very high prices.
We must not pay Vladimir Putin a single dollar – just as we should not have sent financial aid to the Iranians. As long as Putin does not change his position regarding Russia's unprovoked attack on the people of Ukraine, we must not pay him a single dollar."
Russian drone units are inflicting a huge toll on Zelenskys forced conscript army.
Thiusands a day are dying, deserting, or being killed by their own corrupt commanders.
You wont see any of this in the Western media.
Fifty members of the House of Lords have asked the UK Home Secretary to bar Macklemore from entering Britain ahead of his October 30 Wembley concert. The peers argue his presence is "not conducive to the public good."
https://t.co/WVOUn5wnDy
A Turkish clown says:
“Chinese products are cheap and low quality.”
Then a Chinese netizen tries to boycott Turkish goods, searches his entire house, finally finds a souvenir crystal ball bought in Istanbul—
Made in China.
Meanwhile, Chinese factories have already turned the entire online feud into T-shirts, pillows and meme merchandise.
This is the funniest part:
You provide the outrage.
China provides the supply chain.
Even your resistance to “Made in China” is made in China. 😂
'IS IT WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD THAT I’M MUSLIM? I'M JEWISH!'
French protester caught STEALING BOXES from LOOTED ZARA gets CONFRONTED over 'HARAM behavior' — before getting DEFENSIVE and insisting she's JEWISH
'Oh... okay!' — confronter WALKS AWAY
Alastair Crooke explains how President Trump was saved by the Israel lobby, which explains his subservience to Israel:
‘Sheldon Adelson saved Trump. In the 80s and 90s the whole Trump empire was collapsing because the Atlantic Trump Casino was in financial difficulties, but the structure of his company meant that he would lose all his properties.
And it was Sheldon Adelson who put together some like-minded pro-Israeli billionaires that saved him.
So he owed everything, if you like, to that group of Israeli billionaires. They saved him, and he’s been repaying them in kind ever since.’
-Alastair Crooke, the former Middle East Advisor to the EU Foreign Policy Chief, on Going Underground
The US ambassador walked into the Duterte stronghold, and the cameras loved it.
Ambassador Lee Lipton visited Davao City and met Mayor Sebastian "Baste" Duterte. Warm words, photos, talk of hospitality. No agreements announced.
Remember the context. Rodrigo Duterte is in The Hague facing the ICC, his camp has spent years attacking Washington's influence, and Sara Duterte is eyeing 2028.
So why the visit ? Washington hedging its bets. Whoever wins in 2028, the US wants the bases, EDCA and the alliance to survive.
The Dutertes get a photo of legitimacy. The Americans get insurance. Davao gets nothing on paper.
BREAKING: Netanyahu says Iran has now restarted its nuclear program and intends to destroy Israel within a short time.
"Iran has restarted its nuclear program, and it wants to destroy us within a short time," Netanyahu said an hour ago.
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has warned that resuming the war this close to Tuesday's election will force the vote to be postponed indefinitely.
Netanyahu said on Wednesday that toppling the Iranian regime is now his directive to the IDF and Mossad.
Russia is our enemy - Merz
“We are facing a massive threat in the east of our continent.
We see Russia trying to destabilize Germany every single day.
I do not want a return to the darkest periods in the history of of the continent.”
👉 Dear Fritz, what was the darkest period?
When your grandfather was defeated by the Red Army?
Or was the darkest period when your grandfather supported the Holocaust?
Iran WARNS U.S.: Don't Attack Iran AGAIN, We Already Destroyed Your Bases
Foreign Minister Dr.Araghchi warns Washington:
"You tried twice and saw the results. If you try again, you know the outcome will be no different."
Citing Pentagon Figures, Araghchi Shares U.S. Losses:
• Nearly ALL U.S. bases in the region destroyed.
• HUNDREDS of military buildings destroyed.
• Over 80 American aircraft lost, most struck on the ground.
Dr. Araghchi says U.S. forces came to protect ISRAEL, but brought only INSECURITY. He calls for foreign military presence in the region to be reduced to ZERO, insisting regional countries must secure peace WITHOUT foreign interference.
🚨Jeffrey Sachs: “I Am a Defender of Ukraine”
— NATO Fights to the Last Ukrainian
🚨Ukraine was used by the United States
and used for more than 30 years.
🚨Now Ukraine is used by the Europeans in a utterly ghastly, darkly wrong, and cynical way.
🚨Miserable European leaders, is that if Ukraine goes down, we're next.
🚨I may say so, for you or others to be accused of being
against Ukraine for calling for peace puts things exactly upside down.
I call for peace because I want to save Ukraine from being used to its death by the United States and Europe.
I want this cynical game to end.
I want this craziness to end.
Yes, I want an independent, sovereign, secure Ukraine
where Ukrainians are not dying in vast numbers or freezing to death or suffering from disease because the water systems don't work.
But for the West to say that anyone that
calls for peace is simply against Ukraine is such a bizarre narrative.
Well, all of this is to say I was attacked as I have been over the years for being against Ukraine and I wanted to make very clear from Ukraine's independence,
I actually volunteered my time to help Ukraine in its early days.
I am for Ukraine.
I am for peace.
To be for peace does not mean to be anyone's apologist.
THIS JEWISH MAN QUESTIONS ISRAEL’S RIGHT TO EXIST.
🔔It is conceivable that a state ruled by a racist government that commits grave & unforgivable crimes cannot assume its continued existence in its current form is beyond question.
No state is entitled to exist unchanged at the expense of another people’s rights.
"The claim that Israel has a “right to exist” confuses a state’s existence with a licence to violate human rights.
States can change; peoples have the right to exist, live in freedom & exercise self-determination.
No state’s sovereignty should shield it from accountability for apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide.
The fundamental question is not whether Israel exists, but whether its existence can be used to justify denying Palestinians their rights."
By @Jonathan_K_Cook
https://t.co/7TTJjjCBXC…
Harry Truman's plan for World War II: let the Nazis and the Soviets "kill as many as possible."
On June 23, 1941, one day after Germany invaded the USSR, Senator Truman suggested that the United States help whichever side seemed to be losing: "If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany and that way let them kill as many as possible."
The New York Times printed his words the next morning.
Soviet cities were already burning. A man who would sit in the White House four years later was working out how to keep both sides dying as long as possible.
The USSR lost 27 million people in that war, about 18 million of them civilians.
Hanging out with .@guychristensen_ at my place in Chongqing. 3.6 million followers. Eight years building one of the most prominent pro-Palestinian platforms on the planet. Gone overnight.
Following the forced sale of TikTok’s US operations, the new owners wasted no time retroactively digging through his archives, culling content posted years before the acquisition. Yesterday, they permanently banned the channel.
The justification is pure farce. One of the "strikes" was a video on Italian port workers striking over weapons shipments to Israel, a post .@tiktok_us had already suspended, appealed, reviewed, and fully cleared. Another was a completely benign video from 2023, suddenly flagged last week. A channel built over nearly a decade wiped out by content their own system previously greenlit.
This is the "free speech" guaranteed by American ownership. Put Larry Ellison, a major private funder of the IDF, in control of moderation, and this is what happens.
Manila now says towing a rusting WWII-era ship would be an "act of war."
The ship is the BRP Sierra Madre. The Philippines grounded it on purpose at Second Thomas Shoal (Ren'ai Jiao) in 1999 and has kept a handful of marines living on it ever since.
What set this off: Chinese Commercial News, a Manila Chinese-language paper, reported Beijing is weighing 10 countermeasures:
> towing the Sierra Madre away
> blocking resupply runs
> sanctions on "anti-China" politicians
> cutting oil and fertilizer supplies
Beijing hasn't confirmed any of it. The paper itself says it's unclear the list ever reached a decision.
Still, Defence Secretary Teodoro went straight to "act of war" on Friday, then clarified it's not a "state of war," since only Congress can declare that. The US treaty? "The possibility is open," he said.
Backdrop: Teodoro called China "the only troublemaker" on Oct 14, Ambassador Jing Quan replied China could "easily win" but loves peace, and Philippine lawmakers now want him expelled.
So an unconfirmed newspaper list has Manila talking war and treaties within 48 hours.
Who exactly is escalating here?