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🇺🇸🎪 If Looks Could Kill... (DS tried 3 times?)

The Obamas’ faces say more than a thousand words ever could, haunted, almost resigned. These are not expressions of two political titans confidently championing “democracy.” No, these are the faces of insiders who know the script better than anyone, sensing that the next act might end in a reckoning beyond their control. With the November 5th election inches away, the show goes on, all circus, no bread. But perhaps, just perhaps, even they can sense that the ground beneath their feet is shifting, and that the Global Majority, fortified by BRICS and the Kazan firewalls, is watching bemused, the American spectacle from a distance, immune to its theatrics.

For all the sound and fury, this election is a dead-end play for the Global Majority. American power games have lost their bite; the world has moved on. Yet here in the heart of the fading empire, it's a different story. To the American Deep State, this isn’t just another cycle of choosing between red and blue. They know they've tried every trick in the book, from Russiagate to two impeachments, a circus of indictments, and still, the man they tried to banish is marching back with more vigor than ever. It’s a script that’s spun wildly out of control, even for those who wrote it.

What do the Obamas know that we don’t? The irony is palpable. The same Obamas who once championed neoliberal “progress” and sold the world on the virtues of Western democracy now wear the strained faces of those who know the emperor has no clothes. Both sides of this election, Kamala’s slurred-nonsensical platitudes and Trump’s theatrical bombast, are puppets in a machine that can no longer deliver on the promise of control. The “choice” on November 5th is merely between two faces of a crumbling empire.

If looks could kill, the Obamas’ expressions would be the harbingers of the end.

- Gerry Nolan

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Two Majors #Summary for the Morning of 4 November 2024; 07:03 (GMT+3)⚡️

🎯During the night, our troops used Geranium strike UAVs on the enemy's capital region, #Izmail and the Bolgrad district of #Odessa region, as well as on #Kharkov, Poltava, #Zhitomir, #Kirovograd, #Sumy and #Cherkassy regions.

🔹In
#Sumy region, the accumulation of enemy militants and equipment continues to be recorded. FAB strikes and missile weapons destroy the arriving AFU reserves from other directions, while ours do not rule out new provocations from the enemy.

🔹In
#Kursk region, the past day brought no significant changes. Weather conditions are deteriorating, the RFAF are clearing forest areas, the enemy is bringing in reserves.

🔹In
#ChasovYar direction, our 6th Motorised Rifle Division notes the withdrawal of the AFU from forest plantations behind the line of the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal due to difficulties in supplying units.

🔹In the #Pokrovsk direction, the RFAF are advancing near #Ilyinka, west of #Vishnevoye and #Selidovo towards #Grigorovka, near #Novodmitrovka and near #Novoselidovka. Enemy resources assess the actions of our troops as an offensive with a broad front.

🔹South of #Kurakhovo, our troops are rushing north from the captured #Bogoyavlenka towards #Trudovoye, behind which there is an important local logistical junction - #Uspenovka.🗺👆In case of its capture, the RFAF will cut off the supply of the AFU in the villages to the southeast, which are currently being attacked, and will go to the rear of the enemy grouping.

💥In
#Belgorod region, the AFU Nazis hit the village of #Kiselyov in the Volokonovsky district with a drone, killing a man. Four civilians were wounded in the #Oktyabrsky settlement. #Shebekino and #Tishanka came under attack.

💥In the #DPR, in #Gorlovka, men born in 2000, 1985 and 1977 were injured when an explosive object was dropped from an AFU drone on the territory of the Nikitovsky Market.

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The simple dreams of a Gazan young girl amidst the ongoing Israeli genocide... Food and shelter.

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⚡️🇺🇸👔🗣🐫☠️🇷🇺🐿🗣📈🗳 Trumps Chances increased with the Murder of a Coon and a Squirrel by democratic controlled Death Squads
🎅🏿 The Islander's IEF (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore) reports that New York State Department of Environmental Protection kidnapped local resident Mark Longo's pets:
Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon - and two days later the fascists murdered both due to suspicions of rabies.

Longo picked up Peanut as a baby squirrel after his mother squirrel died under the wheels of a car. The man nursed the pet for eight months before releasing it back into the wild. But Peanut, he said, returned a day and a half later with a broken bone sticking out of her tail. Longo decided that she could not survive in the wild, so he took her home and cared for her for seven years.

The Death Squad raided Longo's farmhouse on 30 October and conducted a five-hour search. He claims they used “excessive force” to kidnap his pets.

📌 Conclusion: The American's own pets are closer to him than the millions that are killed abroad by US Troops of or with the approval of the US Government.

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🥷The True Measure of Utility: Why Monero's Acceptance on the Darknet Proves Its Value

Monero’s acceptance on darknet markets is often used as a criticism, but let’s flip the script. The reality is, Monero's prominence on these platforms highlights its unmatched utility as a digital currency. Here’s why:

In a world where privacy is eroding, Monero stands as one of the few currencies that truly respects your right to financial autonomy. Its fungibility and robust privacy features mean that every unit is indistinguishable from the next, ensuring that no one can trace or block your transactions. This is what real utility looks like: a currency that functions regardless of the politics or judgments surrounding it.

Yes, Monero is used on the darknet. So is cash. This isn’t a stain on its reputation; rather, it’s a testament to its strength. Just like cash, Monero allows people to transact freely, outside the bounds of surveillance. And in an era where governments and corporations are expanding their reach into every aspect of our lives, this kind of privacy-preserving technology isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity.

Privacy isn't criminality; it's freedom. Monero provides that freedom, allowing users to take control of their financial lives without censorship or control.

In a future where Central Bank Digital Currencies and surveillance creep threaten individual sovereignty, Monero’s utility shines brightly as a haven for those who value true digital cash. Real utility lies in resilience, in empowering the individual, and in protecting privacy.

Monero doesn’t just talk about privacy, it embodies it. And that’s why it matters.

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Foreign diasporas ensured Sandu's victory in the elections in Moldova - she gained 55.25% of the votes, more than 10% ahead of her rival Stoianoglo with 44.75%

The Central Election Commission provides data based on the results of processing 99.5% of the votes.

Sandu gained leadership thanks to votes from abroad. Inside the country, the majority voted for Stoianoglo, but he obtained only 17.44% of the votes in foreign polling stations.

Former Prosecutor General Stoianoglo, with 100% of the protocols counted within Moldova, scored 51.19% in the presidential elections, while Sandu scored 48.81%, the Central Election Commission reported.

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🇮🇷 WATCH HEZBOLLAH HIT IDF RIGHT WHERE IT HURTS where soldier grouping is least expecting it as Lebanese Resistance group launches anti-tank guided missile at grouping of 12 Israeli soldiers in house near Deir Mimas, Marjeyoun area, South Lebanon in video above.

Of course, IDF didn't acknowledge the event, and didn't announce any deaths or serious injuries - yet here's the evidence.

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❗️Israel Informs UN it’s Terminating UNRWA Agreement

Tel Aviv has officially cancelled its agreement with UNRWA - that has regulated its relations with the org for Palestinian refugees since 1967, Israel’s foreign ministry said Monday.

The Knesset passed legislation banning UNRWA from operating in Israel and stopping authorities from cooperating with the org, which provides aid and education services to millions of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

The legislation has alarmed the UN and some of Israel’s Western allies who fear it will further worsen the already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.

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🇺🇦😱Google has once again disclosed AFU positions!

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Ukraine is one step away from introducing labor service.

"And then no one will have any salaries. There will be rations, money for cigarettes and gasoline on coupons,"
said Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine Aleksandr Mamaluy.

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⚡️📱🗣⛓️⚔️🐸🇫🇷🇧🇪🤡🔍⚖️💬 Illegal Arms Traffickers like Telegram - The Belgian joins the Fight against Durov
📰 The Belgian Tabloid 'De Standaard' writes that Belgium and France have joined forces in an investigation against Telegram:
Moreover, a representative of the Belgian prosecutor’s office confirmed that Belgium itself has been conducting an investigation since 2020, since “in almost all cases of arms trafficking, suspects use Telegram.” And now
The Belgian federal prosecutor's office has joined the French investigation into Telegram and its co-founder Pavel Durov.

🗓 On 5 Sep 2024, Pavel published a 👉 Statement:
❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!
Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.

This was surprising for several reasons: 

1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”. 

2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.

3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools. 

Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.

... 👉 Statement

❗️Pavel's situation worsens. The question is, what did Durov/TG to help the Belgian? To think that an investigator can google to find contacts is certainly a somewhat naive approach, especially since the results of inquiries can change on a daily basis.

📌 Note, this is not about freedom of expression, but about crimes that are already prohibited on Telegram. He is accused of abetting this.

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VULTURES WAITING TO BE REBORN

✍️ Written by Wassim Morjane ✍️

✍️ Edited by Hikaru Kitabayashi ✍️

Here we are 79 years after world War 2 (WW2), a war mainly publicized by the mainstream media via the “Holocaust”, a targeted extermination of people (mainly European Hebrews) by the Nazis. WW2 caused millions of deaths, people from all around the globe, and actually the non-Hebrew deaths were far more numerous. 

But whoever the victims of such atrocities were or are, it remains unjustifiable, whether 500 years ago, 79, or now! Unfortunately, humans don't seem to learn from past mistakes. The same scenarios repeating themselves: genocide in Palestine, bloody civil war in Sudan, and dehumanizing slavery in the Congo and Libya. The list goes on. 

Since WW2, the US has been acting in the same manner that the Roman empire did some 1600 years ago or the British and French empires did for the last several 100 years. We see the same use of force and coercion. We see the same regime change and national destabilization policies that, when all else fails, combines with shock an awe warfare which is even more destructive of human life than Israeli genocide in Palestine.

Many will say that it's just human nature, since most empires through history have acted the same. Whether it's due to pure vanity and/or greed, one thing is sure, our present-day world gives no evidence of being “SUPERIOR” to that of our ancestors. it just demonstrates either its pure ignorance of history or, more likely, its unconscious choice to ignore it. 

In today's human society we are kept so busy with our own lives, that we disregard everything else, and then we get angry watching what's happening around us. At the same time, we feel impotent to do anything about it.

Taking for example western societies, most ordinary people can feel something is wrong, but get angry only about what they can see, which is just a FRACTION of a small highlight of what their governments are doing (or maybe not doing). They blame this “new leader” or that, blaming them for what's wrong and for them being under “Zionist control” for what's happening. What they forget is that the negative trajectory of western military superiority is a historical fact that has been going on for centuries and that, due to fiscal restraints Christianity imposed on European governments, had Judaism not existed to provide an underclass of despised money lenders, something else would have risen to take its place! 

In the end, words are not enough. People have been using words for hundreds of years with limited results on human emotions, where hatred universally finds a home where it shouldn't, Hatred is everywhere real and everywhere aggravated by atrocities, atrocities which are exacerbated by historical ignorance. 

What the West is incapable of seeing is that a major part of its struggles is due to its denial and cancellation of its past! The questions to be answered are how can we move forward if we deny where we came from and how can we have a more stable and peaceful world if we ignore our knowledge and acceptance of our history, 

Many humans would rather leave our past behind us, but what guarantees do we have that it won't come back, like some Halloween horror, to haunt us later? After all, ignoring history all too often means that we are condemned to watching it repeat itself.

But, what are the negatives of too much historical knowledge? Too much boredom, perhaps, in not being able to enjoy the excitement of wars and rumors of wars? Suicide rates sky-rocketing because shedding the blood of others is blocked? Who can say? Mankind has never ever faced the problems of continuous peace, so it's probably better not to prematurely worry about it.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 En Moscú, se proyectó la frase en el edificio de la Embajada de Estados Unidos:

« Sabes quién va a ganar
No importa para quién se coloque su papeleta electoral

Sabes quién ganará, no importa por quién sea tu voto "

Un juego de palabras cuyo significado es que, en cualquier caso, sólo ganará Putin
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🇷🇺🇺🇸 In Moscow, the phrase was projected on the building of the US Embassy:

« You know who will win
No matter who you cast your ballot for

You know who will win, no matter who you vote for "

A play on words whose meaning is that, in any case, only Putin will win
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🇪🇺🛤 Ukraine to be integrated into logistics railway corridor with Western Europe

🇪🇸The Spanish state-owned company ADIF is developing a project (worth 15 billion euros ) together with JSC Ukrzaliznytsia to create an automatic track gauge change system for 1520 mm (Soviet) / 1435 mm (European) / 1668 mm (Spanish). According to the plan, this will connect Ukraine to the Mediterranean corridor of the TEN-T transport network , which runs through six EU countries 🇪🇺 (🇪🇸Spain, 🇫🇷France, 🇮🇹Italy,🇸🇮 Slovenia,🇭🇷 Croatia and 🇭🇺Hungary).

The initiative is scheduled to begin implementation in 2025, but full development and certification will last until 2027.

At the same time , the preparation of the infrastructure for Ukraine's accession to this route is already in full swing. With the assistance of the EU, the construction of the European gauge on the " Chop - Uzhgorod " section should be completed by the end of 2024, which will connect with 🇭🇺Hungary through the border station of Záhony. In the future, the European gauge will extend from Uzhgorod to Lvov.

In addition, it is planned to develop a network of multimodal cargo terminals along the Mediterranean Corridor, as well as to increase the communication networks of the corridor’s sea ports with the internal routes of the countries.

Such “generous” investments indicate the continuing economic feasibility of Western investments in Ukraine, i.e., taking into account all the risks , the cost of the resource base exceeds the funds spent.

⭐️ By destroying all economic activity in Ukraine, Russia is bringing closer the defeat of the enraged NATO proxy state⚡️ .

Moreover, no one needs to be told that these logistics routes are being developed against the backdrop of military preparations by American satellites in Europe. And the Atlantic-Lvov corridor will allow for increased efficiency in the transfer of military contingents.

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I was on Army duty a few days ago at Ft Sill (I’m the commander of a Drill Sergeant battalion) where I attended a Basic Combat Training graduation. Several hundred new soldiers stood tall, proudly saluting the flag, and were finally reunited with family and friends. These young men and women are the ones who will pay the price, potentially with their lives, if people like Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney, and Kamala Harris are allowed to be in power. This is one of the many reasons I’m supporting President Trump’s return to the White House—to end wars, not start them.

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Silicon Valley Shocked: Vietnam’s Sovereignty Isn’t for Sale

US tech giants are wringing their hands as Vietnam dares to assert digital sovereignty with new laws aimed at regulating data centers and social media. It’s almost adorable watching Silicon Valley scramble, horrified that a Global Majority nation might want to safeguard its citizens’ data from the prying eyes of Big Tech and its cozy ties with Western intelligence.

Remember, this is the same Silicon Valley that has cheerfully turned over user data to the NSA and other alphabet agencies for years, all while preaching “freedom of information” to the rest of the world. Now, Vietnam’s decision to set boundaries has them acting as if it’s the end of the open internet, as if Hanoi has a duty to keep the floodgates open for their surveillance machines.

Vietnam’s move is hardly an isolated act. This is a continuation of a Southeast Asian legacy of resistance to foreign control, from repelling French colonialists to standing up to bloody U.S. intervention. In this digital age, that same spirit of sovereignty takes form in firewalls and data localization. The message is clear: No, Silicon Valley’s desires don’t define what “freedom” means for the rest of the world.

Of course, the usual Western mockingbird-media chorus is here to spin this as a “threat to free expression.” But let’s not kid ourselves, this isn’t about freedom. It’s about control, the kind Silicon Valley has wielded over nations’ data with a sense of entitlement for too long. Vietnam’s not isolating itself; it’s reminding Big Tech that the era of unfettered access to foreign data is over.

And as the boardrooms in Palo Alto mutter about “compliance issues” and bemoan this affront to their business models, one can’t help but savor the irony. The empire of data is used to dictating terms, not having them dictated. But maybe the real shock for Silicon Valley isn’t Vietnam’s audacity; it’s the dawning realization that the Global Majority is no longer playing by their rules.

Endgame? The age of Big Tech’s global playground may be ending. Vietnam is just a continued trend of defiance, taking heart from Russia, China, Iran et. Al, and the empire is finally feeling the tremors of a world that doesn’t need its permission.

- Gerry Nolan

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