🇪🇺🇺🇦 Belgium’s refusal to back a multibillion-euro EU loan to Ukraine could prompt the International Monetary Fund to block financial support for Kyiv — resulting in a cascading loss of confidence in the war-torn country's economic viability, - Politico

UK GOVERNMENT: CLOSE YOUR X ACCOUNTS NOW

Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating. My thoughts with all involved

“With Trump it’s like every day is Halloween — except it’s all tricks and no treats.” 👻 Barack Obama in Virginia, last night, campaigning for Abigail Spanberger. Not just a jab — a warning about what’s at stake.

Read my laterst substack, where I talk about patience as the greatest asset to navigate extreme uncertainty while preserving agency, creativity and innovativeness. #patience #innovation #reinvention #uncertainty #aging

Mountbatten was also hugely responsible for the slaughter that occurred with the partition of India/Pakistan, as he was Viceroy at the time and accelerated the process largely because he wanted to get back to England. Lovely folk…. theconversation.com/how-a-britis...

Read some history. Subjugation of my peoples happened long before The United States. As example. The Treaty of Hartford of 1638 eradicated the Pequot cultural identity prohibiting Pequots from returning to their lands, speaking their language, killed thier identity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_...

Prince Andrew now being called Andrew Mountbatten Windsor seems oddly fitting as the “Mountbatten” comes from Lord Mountbatten, the great uncle and mentor to King Charles, who was also a child molester. www.bbc.com/news/uk-nort...

In the midst of a government shutdown, as masked ICE agents roam America’s cities with impunity, with lines at food banks across the country growing, and farmers at risk as America bails out Argentina instead… Donald Trump threw a Roaring 20s/Great Gatsby themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago.

How incredibly evil and without conscience do you have to be to do this? They will literally starve low income people, including children and seniors to get what they want.

Obama: The weird videos of a U.S. President with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet and dumping poop on protesting citizens… All of that is designed to distract you from the fact that your situation has not gotten better.

Greetings from Kyiv! Some good news. On Oct 31, Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence destroyed parts of the Koltsevoy oil pipeline in moscow oblast – a key fuel route for russia’s military. 🔥

To read more: www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

"If Hegseth and other U.S. military planners think they are going to defeat China through ferocity in close combat, they are fooling themselves."

HUR, SBU, and SZR destroyed one of three Russian Oreshnik missile systems at the Kapustin Yar test site in a joint operation during summer 2023, SBU chief Vasyl Maliuk announced.

Harrison Ford calls out the POS would-be-king tRumpty-dumpty: "I don’t know of a greater criminal in history... It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨Matt Waltz, Ambassador to the UN, is called OUT during a General Assembly by Cuba’s Foreign Minister! 🚨 Sound ⬆️. 1/2

It’s encouraging to see that sane, statesmanlike representatives at the United Nations are no longer willing to put up with the lies of the Trump regime. The president of Finland similarly rebuked Trumpism at the recent NATO conference. There is nothing to be gained by appeasement of Trump.

653 drones and 52 missiles – that’s what russia launched at Ukraine last night, our Air Force reported.

The European Commission is working in tandem with national governments and Nato to co-ordinate the sharing of trucks, rail carriages and ferries that can carry tanks and heavy artillery across the continent in case of war ft.trib.al/6uHvIBU

Russlands Krieg allein in den letzten Tagen: - Angriff auf Kinderkrankenhaus in Saporischschja - “Safari” mit Drohnen auf Menschen in Cherson - Clustermunition auf Wohnblöcke - Drohnenangriff auf Kindergarten in Charkiw während die Kinder da waren Kriegsverbrechen in Europa.

What was your first rigged election? Mine was 2000 Bush v Gore. A quarter of a century ago..

Her eyes. I love many of his paintings, but this one has become my favorite. 🇺🇦 Viktor Zaretskyi Portrait of Iryna Zaslavska, 1970s

Even though we already know that answer.....thought to throw in a little backup. 👇

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Today's #ACTUALNEWS OCT 27: Biden Honored in Boston, Trump’s Asia Tour, Russia’s Arctic Build-Up, Carney’s $500B Deal onest.substack.com/p/oct-27-bid...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Capitalism perpetuates and pushes self-interest, it totally smothers self-sacrifice.

"y'all are sitting with $40 billion, and you can't oppose this man?"

Even if you had a perfect candidate versus Trump, the perfect candidate would still be the lesser evil because the art of politics is the art of compromise. The problem with not voting for "the lesser evil" is when people discount the fact that the greater evil is horrendous.

The Democrat politicians keep telling us we need to settle for the lesser evil but that can't happen if the Republicans aren't in office, so more inferior candidates go against Trump and other republicans -- risking worse people getting into office.

If only it was just cowardice. There is a species of politician that figures that under Trump and his supporters, they'll never have to stand for election again.

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

Young Ukrainian volunteers from the Garage association have woven more than 700 camouflage nets and made hundreds of trench candles for the Ukrainian Defenders in two years. Kids share they do it because they know they can save soldiers' lives 📹: garage_prom/Instagram

◾️ Andrii Tarasiuk: "They subjected us to 'electrotherapy days.'They electrocuted us for no reason." ◾️Danylo Murashkin:"There could be stones in the cup,some strange debris in the food,rat feces." This is only a small part of the horrors that our Defenders have endured in Russian captivity

What is Sunday Letter from Ukraine? I tell key news briefly and this week, about Halloween here. Ukraine has never had a tradition of celebrating it, but we have something interesting instead. Free to read: www.patreon.com/posts/142080...

Sunday Reading: A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, and Complicity American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.   Some thoughts from my new piece:

Good morning! There’s an amazing new podcast that premiers today with Martin Sheen. Listen and subscribe for some of the best self care out there. 💙💙💙

Im Nachbarland taumelt die Regierung, es gibt Misstrauensanträge gegen sie. Ist die französische Demokratie in Gefahr? Ein Gespräch mit der Philosophin Corine Pelluchon

Hamas expands search for hostages' bodies in Gaza as Egypt joins effort

Russia claims it has conducted a test of a new nuclear-tied cruise missile, the Burevestnik, on October 21. According to Gerasimov, the missile flew 14,000 km and showed it was capable of bypassing the air defense system.

Watch this and listen carefully. Singapore PM on the change in the global order given the US is no longer the insurer of stability - a sentiment that will go beyond the current administration. But nobody else has stepped in building a foundation of multipolarity amid turbulence.

From Africa to Eastern Europe, I’ve listened to many people talk about the brutality of Russian fighters who’ve committed human rights abuses in these areas. It doesn’t matter where it happens, the stories are similar. We can’t be quiet. We betray our friends when we stay silent.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Reuters: “Trump is expected to witness the signing of a ceasefire deal between the Southeast Asian nations on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's foreign minister said last week.” 😅

A two-year-old Ukrainian boy helps his father put on a prosthetic leg. This is a reality our children have to live in. 📹: alona__23/TikTok