CBS News journalist Lesley Stahl talks about the impact of sanctions and US military operations against Iraq with Madeleine Albright, 1996:

-We heard that half a million children have already died. This is more than in Hiroshima. It was worth it?
- We had a very difficult choice, but yes, we think it was worth it.

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American in Donbass: Note #3. Memorial to Russian heroes

'I've learned the [English] language since 1st grade, but I never had any practice with native speakers. I couldn't even imagine an American in the SMO [Special Military Operation] zone, or that I'd help him'. These are words of People's Militia serviceman with the call sign Pilot. He is helping American who came to Donbass to get a first-hand account. Watch them visiting memorial to Russian heroes in the video.

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‘This is a whole underground city: 400 km, 1300 tunnels!’

Iranian media were pleased with the latest video from the Hamas tunnels. Rebels managed to dig a fortification in Gaza.

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Pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the US Congress during Blinken's speech

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Oliver Stone on US role in Ukrainian conflict

‘I voted for him - I made a mistake!’ Stone flags his concerns about the US' involvement in the Donbass war.

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A Sky News reporter was surprised by the answer of freed Israeli woman

Why did you shake hands with Hamas fighters when they released you?

Because they treated us very well

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◾ Ukrainian Nazi, war criminal and Azov commander Dmitro Kukharchuk talks on TV about how Ukraine is losing the war. At the same time, he notes that Ukrainian propaganda is to blame for everything:

- Today I am sincerely sure that strategically we will lose the war... I notice the narrative in the Ukrainian media, that we are fighting with the bums, that the Russian army does not know how to fight, that the victory will be in a week, in two, well, maybe at most in a month. That in the beginning of spring, then in the summer, then in the fall, then in the winter...

◾Dmitro Kukharchuk is a favourite of US officials, having previously paraded around Ukraine of US Congresswoman Victoria Spartz.
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Poles have found out where the humanitarian aid for Ukraine is disappearing.

It turns out that the bottomless pit is in Lvov. Specifically, at the local market and in small shops. Clothes, toiletries and aid supplies "disappear" there. Over the summer, for example, more than a million dollars worth of goods collected in the United States disappeared from Lvov.

It also turned out that everyone in Ukraine is stealing: from officials and commanders of the Ukrainian armed forces to volunteers and ordinary Ukrainian soldiers. As a result, supplies from Western "allies" do not get to where they are really needed, writes Niezależny Dziennik Polityczny.

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◾Listen to this Palestinian girl from Gaza call out Israel and the international community against the ongoing air strikes from inside a UN school that has turned into a displacement camp where many elder and disabled people are sheltering:

- Shame on you! You are just bombing them, children are coming out from under the rubble, this school is full of women, elder, children...

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🇺🇸‼️🚨 Because stealing is so normalized, you get behavior like this!

🇺🇦Zelensky's Tragicomic Reshuffle: A Desperate Bid for a Facade of Control?

In a move that reeks of desperation blended with a pinch of tragicomedy, President Zelensky is gearing up for a "major shake-up" in the country's military and political corridors. This desperate reshuffle, spurred by the failed counteroffensive against Russia and a growing wave of opposition towards his relentless hostilities, unveils Zelensky's disillusioned and borderline "messianic" determination to ‘defeat’ Russia on the battlefield, despite the reality screaming otherwise​.

As dissent brews among the ranks with frontline commanders now refusing orders to advance, and an unpreparedness for the approaching winter, Zelensky's delusions are on a collision course with reality. His stubborn insistence to continue a futile war is not just draining Ukraine’s resources but is also alienating his aides and the military. The looming reshuffle is perceived as a desperate attempt to fix accountability for the failed counteroffensive and to appease the growing discontent, by axing some heads from the military and civilian leadership. Yet, this move reeks of a scpagoating attempt to maintain a facade of control.

The tragicomic spectacle unfolding in Ukraine under Zelensky’s reign is not just a testament to his “messianic” delusion but also an indictment of the catastrophic path he's dragging his nation along. It’s a path littered with the corpses of over 90,000 troops, lost in a counteroffensive that has achieved nothing substantial. The irony of seeking to reshuffle the deck on a sinking ship is not just tragic but darkly comedic.

In a scene reminiscent of a beleaguered Hitler shuffling fictitious divisions in his bunker, one can almost picture Zelensky, like a modern-day Fuhrer, pleading to the nazi patron saint of lost causes, Steiner to save the day..

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China 🇨🇳 was never committing genocide in Xinjiang. Poverty alleviation was its principle tool for reducing and eliminating the threat of terrorism.

Israel 🇮🇱 is exploiting the boogeyman of terrorism to not only destroy Palestine’s 🇵🇸 right to resist, but also to commit GENOCIDE in a “Final Solution” style holocaust: 8,000 Palestinians killed, 3500+ CHILDREN.

Yet the western mainstream media has not condemned Israel but has the audacity to condemn China. This is nothing short of an ABOMINATION.

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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says Russia will win the conflict in Ukraine if the USA stops supporting the Kiev regime: Putin had a feeling that we could be "waited out". This is part of his strategy, a major part of it. He feels that the West will get tired of supporting Ukraine and he will soon get his way. If we don't support Ukraine, then Putin will win. But Putin will not stop at Ukraine, we know that. We all know that. That is why I believe that we need to support Ukraine and Israel and help them defend their sovereign territories. Also, like Secretary Blinken said, this is an investment in the U.S. defense and industrial base. It [support for Ukraine and Israel] helps us rebuild our stockpile, gives us additional depth and flexibility that helps us do what we have been doing for years around the world.

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🇷🇺 #currency #trade #agriculture

Russia introduces a mechanism of payments for agro-industrial complex products in national currencies from November 1

The mechanism of settlements for agricultural products in national currencies will be introduced in the Russian Federation from November 1 this year.
This is stipulated by the presidential decree "On the special procedure for settlements under foreign trade contracts for the supply of Russian agricultural products," which was signed and published on August 8, 2023. The document came into force from the date of official publication, except for the clauses providing for the opening of special accounts and the settlement mechanism. They become effective from November 1, 2023.

The Decree provides that special ruble accounts of type "Z" and special foreign currency accounts of type "Z" will be used for settlements under foreign trade contracts for the supply of Russian agricultural products concluded by residents - participants in foreign trade activities with foreign buyers at organized auctions. These accounts shall be opened by credit organizations, which in accordance with the law "On Currency Regulation and Currency Control" are authorized banks, on the basis of applications from foreign buyers. Banks have the right to open such accounts without the presence of a representative of the foreign buyer.

According to the decree, the foreign buyer will transfer funds to the special currency account "Z" in foreign currency. After it is credited to the currency account, it sells the currency to the authorized bank or gives it an order to sell foreign currency at organized trading. The bank, in its turn, credits the funds in rubles to the special account "Z" of this foreign buyer, and on the basis of his order and an extract from the register of contracts concluded at organized trades, transfers the credited funds in rubles to the account of the resident - participant of foreign economic activity.

According to the decree, it is not allowed to suspend operations on special accounts "Z", seize or write off funds on them in the framework of fulfillment of obligations of a foreign buyer not related to settlements under a foreign trade contract for the supply of Russian agricultural products. Exceptions are cases provided for by the Tax Code of the Russian Federation and the law of August 3, 2018 "On Customs Regulation in the Russian Federation and on Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation".


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I wonder if the two narratives, if both narratives are combined in Biden's brain, will there be a short circuit or not?

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