SHE USED TO FISH ABOVE THE ARCTIC CIRCLE. NOW MOSCOW IS TRYING HER IN ABSENTIA. 🇳🇴➡️🇺🇦
Sandra Andersen Eira is a member of the Norwegian Parliament and the captain of a fishing vessel in the Barents Sea.
In March 2022, she left everything behind and traveled to a country she had never visited before.
Why?
Her answer deserves to be carved in stone:
> “The last time there was a major war in Europe, it was MY country that needed help. Now it is my moral duty.”
Her grandfather remembered the Nazi occupation of Norway. She chose to repay that debt.
A combat medic. The only woman in her unit. Soledar. Bakhmut. And now serving with the Ukrainian Marines.
Ukrainians gave her roses, chocolate, and warm socks. The Kremlin “gave” her an international wanted notice and an 18-year prison sentence in absentia. Because actually getting hold of her is beyond their reach.
MOST POLITICIANS STAY IN THEIR OFFICES. SHE PUT ON COMBAT BOOTS. 🔱💙💛
Fiona Hill, the former aide to Trump during his first term, participated in the #Kultaranta Talks, organised by the President of Finland, and gave an interesting interview to the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. Some excerpts:
▪️Greenland could suffer the same fate as Crimea.
▪️Hill says she sees the United States acting more like Russia, the White House more like the Kremlin, and Trump behaving more like Putin. ▪️Hill says that Trump's desire to take over Greenland is psychological. “He wants to own things. This is about him."
▪️”If we look at history, this is exactly how the Soviet Union acted towards its own Warsaw Pact allies: it occupied Hungary, it occupied Czechoslovakia, and it pressured Poland in a way that led to the declaration of martial law in Poland," Hill says.
▪️”Trump is now essentially treating his NATO allies the same way the Soviet leaders treated the Warsaw Pact members: as vassal states and states that have no decision-making power of their own."
▪️On the stage of the Kultaranta discussions, Hill was asked whether Europe can trust the United States.
Hill answered bluntly no. And she reminded that the next administration cannot necessarily be trusted either.
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Brazilian president Lula da Silva was supposed to go and visit his poor electorate but in the end decided that the “bridge” they cross on a daily basis wasn’t safe enough for him and turned back.
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🇷🇺 Russia is running an influence operation in plain sight. Fly in every Western grievance influencer, walk them down three polished streets, and have them file dispatches about paradise while X gets carpet-bombed with migrant crime clips from Europe.
This clip is a perfect specimen. Women strutting past Red Square as proof that Moscow is safe and pure, watermarked by a Russian content team. His “candid street footage” is a choreographed shoot, produced, branded and exported for exactly this purpose. The man is posting the brochure and calling it a window.
And what a brochure it is. Russia has roughly one and a half presentable city centres, downtown Moscow and the nice bits of St. Petersburg, spread across a continent spanning eleven time zones. Everything between them is the part the content teams don’t film. That’s why every one of these clips is shot on the same three streets: it’s not a country being shown off, it’s a film set being reused.
The rest of the paradise: largest Muslim population in Europe, millions of Central Asian migrants doing the work, a murder rate several times Western Europe’s, and wife-beating downgraded to a parking ticket in 2017. Over 2,000 women killed by their partners in two years, per Russia’s own women’s organisations.
“Unafraid, unmolested, completely safe.” Sure. Just don’t marry a Russian.
Meanwhile, here’s Europe: two girls dancing in the rain outside an apartment block, filmed by a neighbour through the bushes. No choreography, no content agency, no Red Square backdrop. Just people living their lives, completely unaware they’re supposed to be drowning in decay and despair. That’s the bit the Kremlin can’t manufacture. Spontaneity doesn’t take direction.
One of these clips needed a production company. Europe just needed two girls and some rain.
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Absolut halucinant ce face gruparea Savonea.
CSM - instituția care ar trebui să garanteze independența justiției - ajunge astăzi să întocmească liste cu cetățeni români care au îndrăznit să critice mersul non-justiției din România.
Liste pentru ce? Să ne trimiteți la canal, cu târnăcopul? Sunteți sănătoși la cap?
Justiția apără libertatea, nu o îngrădește. Justiția protejează cetățeanul, nu îl intimidează. Justiția nu există ca să apere orgoliile, privilegiile și tupeul inimaginabil al unei grupări care pare să fi confundat statul de drept cu propria moșie.
Gruparea Savonea își mărește singură salariile, atacă Guvernul, atacă politicieni, iar acum atacă și cetățeni români pentru „tupeul” de a critica o justiție care, în multe locuri, pare că nu mai există decât pentru ei și ai lor.
Este un abuz de mentalitate, înainte de orice altceva. O demonstrație de dispreț față de cetățeni și față de însăși ideea de justiție. Doar criminalii comuniști mai întocmeau liste pentru corecție…!
Nu mai am cuvinte pentru acest tupeu jegos. Îmi este scârbă.
In May 1944, 23-year-old Phyllis Latour jumped out of a US bomber and parachuted into occupied Normandy, France. Her mission was to gather information about Nazi positions in preparation for D-Day. Once on the ground, she quickly buried her parachute and clothes, and began a secret mission that would last four months, pretending to be a poor teenage French girl.
Phyllis had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). She learned how to send secret messages in Morse code, how to fix wireless radios, and how to spy without being caught. She also went through tough physical training in the Scottish highlands. Phyllis wanted to get revenge on the Nazis who had killed her godfather.
Phyllis said, “The men who had been sent before me were caught and killed. I was chosen because I would be less suspicious.” She would ride a bicycle through the region, pretending to sell soap, and secretly pass messages to the British about German locations. She acted like a country girl chatting with German soldiers to avoid raising suspicion. She moved from place to place to stay hidden and often slept in forests finding her own food.
Phyllis also came up with a clever way to hide her secret codes. She wrote them on a piece of silk and pricked it with a pin each time she used a code. She kept it hidden inside a hair tie. Once when the Germans briefly detained her and searched her she took out the hair tie and let her hair fall, showing she had nothing to hide. In the summer of 1944, Phyllis sent 135 coded messages helping Allied bombers find German targets.
After the war, Phyllis married and moved to New Zealand. Her children didn’t know about her wartime service until 2000, when her oldest son found out online. This hero passed on October 7, 2023. May she rest In peace.
🚨 BULGARIAN DEFENCE MINISTER HALTS MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE 🚨
Guys, the Bulgarian government seriously needs to start paying me, because every time these incompetent clowns open their mouths, I have to translate their provincial talking points - masquerading as foreign policy - into a language comprehensible to people with an IQ above room temperature.
Let's clarify something first: Bulgaria doesn't provide military aid to Ukraine. We did - in the early days of the war, and it was crucial. We emptied our reserves: ammo, shells, tanks (some reportedly pulled from museums, lol), diesel, etc. Zelenskyy thanked us. Politico wrote about it years after the fact, that's done. We have nothing more to give.
What Bulgaria does have is a robust private arms manufacturing sector running 24/7, three shifts, selling arms and ammo to Ukraine. The government cannot stop that. They wouldn't even if they could. Worst case - it all gets filed under "3rd party" - it goes to Germany or Poland and then ends up on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Just to illustrate how genuinely illiterate the current Bulgarian government is: two days ago, Bulgaria's Foreign Minister told French media that Ukraine must be armed and Russia - sanctioned. Today, the Defence Minister performs the opposite for a domestic audience of Soviet-coded grandmas on blood pressure meds.
These morons can't even coordinate their own messaging. 🤦♀️
This will play out exactly like Czechia and Slovakia - government talks tough, orc body counts keep climbing courtesy of locally produced weapons and ammunition.
Bottom line: Bulgaria is an irrelevant player on the European geopolitical chessboard. File this under noise. Ignore, and move on.
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Președintele PSD, după discuțiile cu prim-ministrul desemnat Eugen Tomac: “Am dori ca viitorul guvern să scadă TVA la alimentele de bază și la medicamente și să ia în calcul reducerea taxelor pe muncă pentru salarii mici și medii”. PSD va decide “în zilele următoare” dacă îl susține sau nu pe Tomac.
MFA of russia has officially accused Armenia of violating Russian standards for conducting democratic elections. The statement notes that Russian observers armed with Kalashnikov rifles and wearing bulletproof vests were not allowed to attend the elections
MFA of russia has officially accused Armenia of violating Russian standards for conducting democratic elections. The statement notes that Russian observers armed with Kalashnikov rifles and wearing bulletproof vests were not allowed to attend the elections
Irina Dovhan was tortured not for carrying a weapon. Not for committing a crime. Not for hatred. She was tortured for one reason only — she loved Ukraine.
In August 2014, the world saw photographs that sent chills down the spine. In the center of occupied Donetsk, tied to a post in a public square, stood an exhausted woman wrapped in a Ukrainian flag. Around her neck hung a sign bearing a cynical accusation: "She kills our children." Beside her stood an armed militant. Around them gathered a crowd. People laughed, insulted her, beat her, and posed for photographs, as if she were not a living human being but a trophy.
At the time, the world did not know her name.
A few days later, it did.
Her name was Irina Dovhan, an ordinary Ukrainian woman from Yasynuvata.
She was 52 years old. She had poor eyesight, had never carried a weapon, and had never served in the military. She simply helped Ukrainian soldiers by bringing food, medicine, and clothing and by raising money for the army. She could not stand aside while war came to her homeland.
When most people fled Yasynuvata, Irina stayed behind. Not out of stubbornness or fear. She could not abandon her animals—three cats and two dogs left alone amid war, explosions, and empty homes.
She wanted only one thing: to save her home and care for those who depended on her.
But someone informed the militants about her support for the Ukrainian army.
One day they came for her while she was watering flowers in her yard. They blindfolded her, handcuffed her, and took her to a base of the Vostok Battalion. There, the interrogations began. Then came the torture.
She was beaten, humiliated, and threatened with death.
Later, Irina recalled that the worst part was not even the physical pain but the cold, limitless cruelty of the people around her.
Then they decided to make an example of her.
She was taken to the center of Donetsk, wrapped in a Ukrainian flag, given the false sign, and placed beside a post of public humiliation. She stood there for hours, holding onto the post to keep from collapsing after the beatings.
She was struck in the legs with rifle butts.
People threw tomatoes at her face.
They cursed and mocked her.
And many in the crowd smiled, took photographs, and watched with curiosity or hatred, as if it were a spectacle.
"Armed men stood nearby discussing how else they could torture me," Irina later recalled.
What happened outside the camera frame was even worse than the photographs themselves.
And yet, she endured.
Near the end of that ordeal, Irina noticed two men looking at her without hatred. They were foreign journalists, Andrew Kramer and Mark Franchetti. They later did everything they could to help secure her release from captivity.
And they succeeded.
Many people would have been broken forever after such an experience. But not Irina Dovhan.
Today, she heads SEMA Ukraine, an organization that supports women who survived Russian captivity and torture. She helps those who have gone through similar horrors find the strength to continue living and to speak openly about the crimes committed during the war.
Her voice has become the voice of thousands whose lives were shattered by violence.
In 2016, Irina received the People's Hero of Ukraine award. But her greatest achievement is that she never lost her humanity despite everything she endured.
In recent years, she has also fought cancer.
And once again, she prevailed.
Because some people simply cannot be broken.
Irina Dovhan is more than the woman in a famous photograph.
She is a symbol of resilience.
A symbol of Ukraine itself—remaining alive, dignified, and unbroken even in its darkest hours. 🇺🇦
Mao Ning says commemorating June 4 is "distorting historical facts" and interfering in China's internal affairs under the pretext of democracy and human rights.
An interesting standard: remembering history linked to the US or Japan is a duty. Remembering Tiananmen is a problem.
Путин призвал жителей западных стран «бороться за повышение зарплат».
Минимальная зарплата:
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Германия - €2 343
Нидерланды - €2 295
Бельгия - €2 112
Франция - €1 823
Испания - €1 381
Словения - €1 278
Литва - €1 153
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SENSITIVE CONTENT‼️Yesterday somewhere in Kherson-what's left of a civilian and his/her home after a russian terrorist attack😡!Cursed be russia,its supporters,the traitors of Ukraine and every single Westoid propagandist for russia😡!May Karma pay em back a million times worse!
Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.
Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.
She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.