ELizabeth Rozenberg US government official who serves as Assistant Secretary of Treasury visited Turkey this week.

During her visit she met with a delagation of Turkish Treasury & Finance ministry. As per statement issued basic aim of her trip was to deliver a warning to Turkey over their tightening relationships with Russia.

The trip follows the non clear attitude of Turkey regarding sanctions against Russia as well as the big announcement of Putin & Erdogan that they plan to make Turkey a primary gas hub for all Europe.
The Bloomberg article can be found here:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-19/us-ratchets-up-pressure-on-turkey-over-russia-ties?leadSource=uverify%20wall

Taiwan and US sign a 5 year contract for the island Patriot missiles.

Contract sum amounts 78mln $ for 5 years maintenance and includes on-site services of Lockheed Martin & Raytheon technicians between 2023 - 2027.

This comes on a time when the Taiwan issue and the US involvement constitutes a clear red line for Chinesh government.

The related article from South China Morning Post can be found here:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3196665/taiwan-and-us-sign-deal-maintain-islands-air-defence-systems

Bill Gates made interesting statements regarding the transition to clean energy.

He considers we need to start immediately to avoid a climate disaster and consider the progress achieved so far minimal.

He considers emerging economies as South Africa, Brazil, India, China are responsible for 2/3 of greenhouse gas emissions and are not thinking responsibly from a global perspective.

Maybe true but would he be asking his own country US to slow down development a few decades ago ? Maybe appropriate motivation should be put in place for these countries to contribute to gas emissions path to zero?

All the notes from him can be found here:
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/2022-State-of-the-Energy-Transition

Emmanouel Macron accuses US of double standards in prices of energy sold domestically in US and abroad in Europe.

Surprise, surprise. It took a military operation, 9 rounds of sanctions, Nordstream pipelines sabotage before the French leader spoke out loud what every rational person in Europe understood from day 1. That the whole purpose of this conflict was to substitute cheap Russian pipeline gas with US expensive LNG transferred by carriers.

4 times more expensive US sells to EU versus its domestic market the French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire stated.

All relevant info on Bloomberg article:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-21/macron-accuses-us-of-trade-double-standard-amid-energy-crunch?leadSource=uverify%20wall

US deploys 101st airbourne division of the US army on the borders of Romania. Claiming they are near borders with Ukraine in order to protect NATO territory.
Here is the CBS video:
https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/L5TiO8FoYo5kk4n_tqwo3z_jXflAnO_G/

Huge news: China supports the potential addition of the Saudi Arabia in the BRICS coalition.

Last week Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman expressed the Saudi (KSA) interest in joining the strategic alliance.
Wang Wenbin supports this expansion!!
Please see the article from theCradle.co
https://thecradle.co/Article/news/17160

Xi Jinping has been reelected as General Secretary of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

The members of the standing committee of the Political buraeu elected are: Xi Jinping , Li Qiang , Zhao Leji, Wanh Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi.
Chairman of the Military Committee is also Xi Jinping.

On his address on Sunday he highlighted key aspects of new era for China:
1. The party acts for the people and relies to the people.
2. Party should self-reform
3.Chinese economy is strong and should continue its positive trajectory
4. China should open its borders to the rest of the world and not leave in isolation!
5. The world also.needs China for its further development!
Here you can see main highlights:
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202210/23/WS63552780a310fd2b29e7e0d1_9.html

A fighting aircraft Su-30M of Russian Airforces fell today in Irkutsk region on a civilian building.
Both pilots are dead.
There seems to be no casualties among civilians. The reasons and exact circumstances of the incident are being investigated.
The video can be found here.

Officially the EU countries one after the other announce that they train Ukrainian soldiers on their territory getting deeper and deeper involved in the crisis.
After Baltic countries and UK it was turn of Macron to make a similar announcement.
It is amazing how Europeans destroy their continent with their own hands step by step.

We remind it was Macron who stated 2 days ago that US who is demanding support for Ukraine same time sells to European allies 4 times more expensive gas!!!!

During his speech at Athens Democracy Forum American Economist and Professor of Columbia University Jeffrey Sachs dared to spell out the truth: UK has been the most violent country of the world in 19th century and USA has been the most violent country of the world since 1950...

Reaction of the panicked moderator: Jeffrey STOP , Jeffrey STOP now!!
So much for the democracy born in Greece...
It is all on record: look at 19:50 of the youtube video...
https://youtu.be/PjCcctr3BxU

In Moldovia and in its capital Chisinau thousand of protesters continue gathering the last weeks.
Protesters request from Maia Sandu government to quit.
Main reason is the foreign policy and the increasing prices of Energy that make cost of living impossible for people to handle.
Below the article from Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thousands-new-moldova-anti-government-protest-2022-10-23/

Rishi Sunak confirmed as new prime minister of UK after Penny Mordaunt drops out

He planns to address Tory's party later today.
Please see what guardian reports on the subject:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/oct/24/uk-politics-live-rishi-sunak-penny-mordaunt-boris-johnson-withdrawal-nominations-deadline-tory-leadership-contest-race

European Industry Associations warn EU to Not proceed with sanctions and bans on Russian aluminium because it will lead hundreds of European companies out of business.
Will Europe shoot its legs one more time?
Please find here the article from Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/business-groups-say-bans-russian-aluminium-will-decimate-european-industry-2022-10-24/

Urgent news coming from US: 30 members of Biden's own party sent today Monday a letter to the White house asking US president to change his position regarding the war in Ukraine.
The letter which is signed by some of the most known Democratic Party members of the House is requesting from Biden to start immediate diplomatic efforts & sit down with President of Russian Federation in order to find a solution that ends the war.
The letter comes just one week after Republicans' Representatives also stated that they are hesitant to continue supporting Ukraine if they get majority of the House in the midterms scheduled next month.
The letter is signed among others by: Jamie Raskin (Md.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Ro Khanna (Calif.) και Ilhan Omar (Minn.).
Here the original source from Washington Post article late today:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/24/biden-ukraine-liberals/

Whatsapp is not working. Thousands of people worldwide cannot send messages or receive. Other functions of the app are also affected.
This is developing story.
Invite your friends in telegram (it is safer in any case)
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/whatsapp-down-users-facing-problems-in-sending-receiving-messages-350700-2022-10-25
Update: after a few hours seems whatsapp engineers are solving the issue and most services come gradually back on line.

As we revealed last night the "movement of the 30" is causing an earthquake within US democratic party.
As you can read they openly call Biden to roll back part of the sanctions and negotiate with Russia a peaceful resolution.

On Sunday 30th October in Brazil will take place the 2nd round of the presidential elections.

Brazil a country of 216mln people will take a critical decision for its future in times of worldwide uncertainty.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva currently appears to be leading the race as per the polls vs. current president Jair Bolsonero.

As per the polls however the difference is not big (52% - 48%) and everything could happen till Sunday.

As per AlJazeera Brazil’s Lula thinking ahead says he hopes Bolsonaro will accept election result.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/24/brazils-lula-says-he-hopes-bolsonaro-will-accept-election-result

And some humour from Munich in Germany.
While Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz is exiting a meeting a citizen is asking him to start negotiations with President of RF Vladimir Putin for peace.
As basic reason the fact that he wants to pay the doner 4 euros as he used to pay before the crisis and not 8 euros.
😁
Good sense of humour can brighten the day!