🇺🇸🤝🇶🇦 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Trump Inks Article-5 Style Defense Deal With Qatar After 'Apology' Over Israel's Doha Bombing | October 1, 2025:

"The US and Qatar have signed an unprecedented agreement which is similar to Article 5 in NATO, in which an attack on Qatar is considered a threat to the security of the US.

The robust security guarantees are spelled out in the deal posted to the White House website on Wednesday: "The United States shall regard any armed attack on the territory, sovereignty, or critical infrastructure of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States."

"In the event of such an attack, the United States shall take all lawful and appropriate measures including diplomatic, economic, and if necessary, military, to defend the interests of the United States and of Qatar," it adds."

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👃💸🇮🇱👏🇮🇱 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Israel Paying US Social Media Influencers $7,000 Per Post As Right-Wing Support Craters | October 1, 2025:

"Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting in New York on Friday with a group of pro-Israel influencers, we learn that Israel is likely paying them a whopping $7,000 per pro-Israel social-media post in a desperate drive to bolster plummeting support of Israel among America's young conservatives.

That's the conclusion of Responsible Statecraft's Nick Cleveland-Stout, based on analysis of a disclosure filed with the US Department of Justice as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). While pro-Israel lobbying heavyweight AIPAC is notoriously exempt from FARA registration, the social media operation comes under the transparency law's provisions because Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is paying for it.

The influence campaign is being facilitated by Bridge Partners, a DC-based firm owned by founders Yair Levi and Uri Steinberg. "[Bridge Partners] has also enlisted the help of a former major in the IDF spokesperson unit, Nadav Shtrauchler," writes Cleveland-Stout. "For legal counsel, Levi and Steinberg have turned to Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a firm that previously worked for controversial Israeli spyware company NSO Group."

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🇺🇸🌾📉‼️🇨🇳🤝🇧🇷 — 📰 Financial Times | US soyabean farmers squeezed as China blocks imports and stockpiles rise | Overseas sales of top US export crop plummet as trade talks between Washington and Beijing stall | September 27, 2025:

"Overseas sales of the US’s top farm export have plummeted as China shuns American soyabeans in a “devastating” blow to the country’s farmers.

The new export season for soyabeans has opened with no sales or shipments to China, government data shows — a sharp break from a year ago, when it had already booked 6.5mn tons. Meanwhile, inventories have begun to pile up with the onset of the fall US harvest season.

For decades, more than half of all US soyabeans went to China, the world’s biggest buyer. But this year, as trade talks between Washington and Beijing stall, not a single American soyabean has headed east, leaving farmers struggling to stay afloat as bins fill and prices sag while China turns to record supplies from Brazil."

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🇭🇺❌🇺🇦🇪🇺 'No membership at all,' Hungary's Orbán says as he continues to block Ukraine's accession talks

Arriving at the Copenhagen summit, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said that Budapest remained opposed to the idea of accepting Ukraine as a member of the European Union.

“The Hungarians would not like to belong to the same integration format, even a military one like Nato, [or] a political economic one like European Union, with the Ukrainians. So my proposal, the Hungarian proposal is to have [a] strategic agreement [with Ukraine], not [a] membership,” he said.

“Ukraine is a heroic country. We have to support them. No question of that. The question is the form how we do that. Membership is too much,” he said.

Orbán stressed that it wasn’t his view, but “a decision of the Hungarian people.”

Repeatedly asked about his opposition, he insisted his view was there should be “no membership at all.”

“Nobody knows what will happen in 100 years … but today is obviously no, no membership, … [it] would mean, first, that war would come into the European Union; second, the money from European Union would go to Ukraine. Both [would be] bad,” he said.

He also dismissed suggestions that the bloc could change its rules on opening negotiations with new member states to circumvent the Hungarian veto.

“There is a legal, strictly settled procedure how to do it. We have to stick to that. It means unanimous decision,” he stressed.

Orbán also defended his earlier comments, in which he argued that Ukraine is no longer a sovereign country.

He said:

“They don’t have money to maintain themselves. We pay the army, we pay the public bureaucracy, we pay the pension, we pay everything. If you are paid [for] by somebody else, you’re not a sovereign country. It’s not a moral statement, it’s just a financial fact.”

The Hungarian PM also offered a bit of advice to Denmark over recent drone incursions, saying his advice would be to “shoot them down.”

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/01/mette-frederiksen-denmark-europe-russia-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-hybrid-war-security-europe-live-news

🇮🇷⚠️❗️ — Reports that a M5.1 earthquake occurred 79 km NE of Ardestān, central Iran

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🇲🇽💊❌🇩🇴 — Dominican kidnapped in Mexico was forced to dig his own grave before being executed by Mexican cartels

➡️ Mr. Daniel Cabreja, originally from Monte Plata province, Dominican Republic, was killed in Mexico after being held hostage for two months.

💀 According to family members, the kidnappers demanded $100,000 for his release; when the payment was not made, Cabreja was forced to dig his own grave and later died from a gunshot.

➡️ Before traveling, Cabreja worked as a chauffeur for a tour guide company in Verón, Punta Cana, and moved to Mexico with the intention of continuing on to the United States, where his mother and siblings reside.

📝 The case has generated concern in Monte Plata and the Dominican community abroad, while family members and friends have requested clarification of the circumstances surrounding the incident.

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