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Liberal boomer paid-protesters caught chaperoning at NYC 'No Kings' protest

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:25 UTC
liberal protester
The national conversation around the Democratic Party's dark-money NGO network, bankrolled by left-wing billionaires, has intensified following the weekend's "No Kings" protest, where unhinged white baby boomers paraded through city streets, turning the protest into yet another national laughingstock for the Democratic Party. White liberal boomers still fail to realize they are the "useful idiots" of the leftist billionaire class fueling these protests against right-leaning billionaires, President Trump, and Elon Musk. Many of these boomers fail to understand just how coordinated this color-revolution-style operation truly is.

On the ground this weekend at the "No Kings" rally in Times Square was independent researcher and content creator Nate Friedman, who revealed how heavily coordinated the supposedly "organic" protest actually was, featuring professional protesters and paid activists working hand in hand with city officials.
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Light Saber

Slouching towards peace

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00 UTC
TrumpPutin
© UnknownUS President Donald Trump • Russian President Vladimir Putin
"Zelensky has been given a Russian ultimatum via Trump. Accept Russia terms or face total destruction."
— SiriusReport on "X"
Well, "No Kings" came and went. Inflatable animal costumes did a brisk business for one week. The old Boomers got a social space to act out their nostalgic re-visit to the Age of Aquarius. They resisted. . . something. (Mainly authority of any kind, a retarded adolescent fantasy.) And now it's back to Rachel Maddow for further instructions. The Republic slogs on, albeit with a shut-down government.

Did you forget about Ukraine? Yes, a war is still going on there and it's a weeping lesion on Western Civ, possibly leading to fatal sepsis. US neocons set the stage in 2014 with the Maidan color revolution as a wedge to wreck and then loot Russia. Then, for eight years, Ukraine harassed the Donbas with US-supplied missiles and artillery. Russia had enough of that in 2022 and ventured in to stop it. For "Joe Biden," the war was a nice smokescreen to cover his long-running grift operations in Ukraine. The Euro club stupidly came along for the ride.
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Russian Flag

Shadow fronts: Russia's next move

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00 UTC
Putin
© UnknownRussian President Vladimir Putin
Russia's new war doctrine has left the trenches behind — merging drones, data, and diplomacy into a seamless front that stretches from the Caribbean to cyberspace, where power is measured not in missiles but in algorithms.

The world imagines the proxy war in Ukraine as something fought in trenches and timelines. Russia knows better. The new wars are fought in clouds, cables, and treaties, in signatures that hide missiles, in whispers that flicker through fiber lines beneath the sea.

Last week, the Russian State Duma ratified a sweeping military cooperation agreement with Cuba, a move that jolted Washington's memory of the 1960s. The deal grants Moscow the right to deploy advanced systems — drones, missiles, surveillance units — on Cuban soil, while shielding Russian personnel from local jurisdiction. It is not nostalgia for the Cold War. It is strategic aikido: while America plays east, Russia slips west, reminding the Pentagon that small islands can host large consequences.

This isn't provocation; it's positioning. The Kremlin is quietly drawing new frontiers of deterrence, expanding the map of relevance. Beneath that gesture lies a deeper shift — one that will redefine not just war, but what counts as human involvement in it.

Comment: Interesting take on the Russian future - what it might be, given progressive minds with a vision.

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Star of David

Netanyahu plans to seek another term


RT
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:57 UTC
Neti
© Alex Wong/Getty ImagesIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu • White House, Washington DC • September 29, 2025
Israel's longest-serving prime minister says he plans to win the 2026 parliamentary election.

Israel's longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he will seek another term in the November 2026 parliamentary election.

Netanyahu's recent tenure has been defined by his controversial judicial reform, the Hamas hostage crisis, and the war in Gaza - issues for which he has received both criticism and praise.

In an interview with Israel's Channel 14 on Saturday, the prime minister confirmed that he intends to seek another term in office, adding that he expects to win.

The polarizing leader of the right-wing Likud party served as prime minister from 1996 to 1999 and 2009 to 2021. He returned to office in December 2022 following the collapse of the ruling coalition.

Comment: He must not have done enough damage, killed enough people, bombed enough buildings to obliteration. Another term is justified.

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Arrow Up

Turkey prepares its historic turn: From NATO sentinel to Eurasian protagonist

Lucas Leiroz
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00 UTC
Erdogan Bahceli
© UnknownTurkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan • Deviet Bahceli
Only an alliance with Eurasian powers will ensure Turkey's survival and prosperity in a multipolar world.

For decades, Turkey was considered a pillar of NATO's eastern flank — a key piece on the chessboard of containing Russia. Since joining the alliance in 1952, the country has played a dual role: on one hand, a strategic partner of the West; on the other, a regional power with ambitions of its own. This balance was always unstable — and now, it is beginning to undergo substantial change.

What was once whispered behind closed doors is now being openly voiced by central figures in Turkish politics. In September 2025, an unexpected statement from the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Devlet Bahçeli, sent shockwaves through Ankara and beyond: he openly proposed the formation of a strategic alliance between Turkey, Russia, and China, directly opposing what he called the "US-Israel evil coalition."

Though shocking to some Western observers, this proposal did not emerge in a vacuum. According to analyst Farhad Ibragimov, Bahçeli's remarks mark "the deepest ideological shift in Turkish nationalism since the Cold War." A nationalism traditionally aligned with the West now appears skeptical — if not openly antagonistic — to the Washington-led structure.
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Red Flag

Israeli security minister calls for return to war in Gaza


RT
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:01 UTC
walk in gaza rubble
© Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu/Getty Images/FileA walk amid the rubble of residential buildings after Israeli airstrikes • al-Zahra neighborhood • Gaza Strip
Ben Gvir's demand comes after Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire brokered earlier this month.

Israel's National Security Minister Ben Gvir has called for the resumption of military operations in Gaza following alleged violations by Hamas of the ceasefire reached earlier this month.

According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), militants fired an anti-tank missile and shot at Israeli troops operating in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. Israel responded with several airstrikes on what it called terror targets.
"I call on the prime minister to order the IDF to renew full-scale fighting in the Strip at full strength. The false belief that Hamas will change its ways, or will even abide by the agreement it signed, is proving...to be dangerous to our security. This Nazi terrorist organization must be destroyed completely and the sooner the better."
Israel and Hamas agreed to a tentative ceasefire in early October under US President Donald Trump's 20-point peace plan.

Comment: Video discussion asks the right questions:



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Star of David

Videos show fresh evidence of Israeli support for Gaza militia

Sam Doak and Ben van der Merwe
Sky News
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:09 UTC
hamas idf supplies
Water, food and fuel are visible on board the trucks.

Comment: Editor's note: Go to the Sky News page to view the videos embedded in their article.


It's the dead of night, and a convoy is driving along a road in Gaza's far north, 1.4km inside the Israeli area of control.

Few people remain in this part of Gaza, near the Erez border crossing.

Almost all buildings here have been destroyed, and official data says that no aid has come through the crossing since February. These vehicles, however, are loaded with supplies.

They stop briefly as a child and two men disembark to collect water bottles and plastic jerrycans that had fallen off one of the overburdened pickup trucks.

The convoy moves south, past destroyed buildings and debris, ending at an abandoned school. This is the headquarters of the militia led by Ashraf Al Mansi, which calls itself the People's Army.
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Water

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Kuwait: Israel's secret mega projects behind enemy lines

Tomer Gonen/ Calcalist
Ynet
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:21 UTC
IDE's facilities in Hadera
IDE's facilities in Hadera
Israeli desalination firm IDE Technologies, headed by Chief Executive Avshalom Felber, allegedly used a Swiss front company to bypass official boycotts imposed by Arab and Muslim states that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel, according to information obtained by Calcalist.

IDE has reportedly been using the arrangement for more than a decade to compete in tenders in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Kuwait. The company allegedly acted through a Swiss-owned intermediary that bid on contracts while concealing IDE's Israeli identity and role in providing the technology and execution of the projects.

The reported activity, which generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue per project, has led to a legal dispute between IDE and the Swiss company Swiss Water (SW). Both parties have filed claims against each other in a commercial arbitration court in England.
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Smoking

EU could ban filtered cigarettes - Bild


RT
Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:59 UTC
Packs of Spanish cigarettes seen stacked on a table
© Getty Images / Gerard BottinoPacks of Spanish cigarettes seen stacked on a table.
Outlawing vapes is also being considered as an additional measure, the German tabloid has reported.

The EU is considering a ban on filtered cigarettes and e-cigarettes as part of its push to reduce tobacco consumption within the bloc, German tabloid Bild has reported.

Earlier this month, the World Health Organization said that Europe had surpassed Southeast Asia as the region with the highest number of smokers in the world. Some 173 million people on the continent used tobacco in 2024, according to the UN body's data.

The EU is planning to follow the recommendations by the WHO on "banning filters to reduce the palatability and attractiveness of cigarettes," the paper said in an article on Wednesday.

A bill by the European Council, which had been reviewed by the paper, suggested that outlawing the manufacture, import and distribution of filtered cigarettes "would make an important contribution to reducing tobacco consumption."

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Quenelle

Sarkozy to be put in solitary confinement - media


RT
Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:52 UTC
Sarkozy
Convicted of campaign-funding irregularities, the ex-president has become the first French leader in modern history to serve prison time

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, convicted of criminal conspiracy in a scheme to get funds for his 2007 election campaign, will serve his prison term in solitary confinement, AFP has reported.

On September 25, a Paris court sentenced Sarkozy, 70, to five years behind bars over a 2005 plot to obtain secret campaign funds from the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. According to the court, he offered to help restore Libya's standing in international affairs in return for the payments. The presiding judge cited the "exceptional gravity" of the offense in ordering that the ex-president be jailed even if he appeals.

President of France from 2007 to 2012, Sarkozy has become the first former leader of an EU member state to be jailed. His sentence is likely to begin on Tuesday.

Comment: It might just be wishful thinking that Sarkozy actually spends any significant time in prison.

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