🇨🇳🚫🧪➡️🗺🇺🇸 — 📰 ZeroHedge | China Bristles As Rare Earths 'Retaliatory' Curbs Foment G7 Backlash: 'US Stirring Up Panic' | October 16, 2025:

"China's major expansion control measures on its rare earth minerals appear to be backfiring, as on Thursday Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato called for the Group of Seven nations to "unite and respond" to China's actions from last week. This after the Trump administration slammed the "global power grab" efforts by China as it seeks to have a "chokehold on the world of rare earth and rare earth materials."

Germany’s finance minister has as a result signaled that a coordinated response from the bloc is likely coming, and Australia’s Prime Minister is expected to hammer out an agreement on critical mineral supply chains during an upcoming trip to Washington. China's 'retaliation' is fast alienating those Beijing thought it could rally to its corner after Trump first unveiled steep tariffs, marking a sharp reversal from the global mood of six months ago.

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Commerce Ministry spokesperson He Yongqian told a press conference: "The U.S.' interpretation seriously distorts and exaggerates China's (rare earths export control) measures, deliberately stirring up unnecessary misunderstanding and panic."

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🇨🇳🧪‼️🇪🇺🇩🇪👷‍♂️ — 📰 ZeroHedge | Europe In The Rare Earth Trap: Up To 4 Million German Jobs At Risk As Beijing Tightens | October 16, 2025:

"Rare earth elements have become geopolitical dynamite. According to a new analysis by consultancy McKinsey & Company, up to four million jobs in Germany are on the line if top supplier China imposes a permanent export ban.

These critical minerals are indispensable to Germany’s high-tech economy: they’re used in precision sensors, specialized magnets, and control systems essential to engineering, defense, communications, and aerospace. Without them, a significant share of the country’s industrial value creation would grind to a halt.

McKinsey’s analysis, cited by Handelsblatt, puts the risk in stark numbers: one million jobs in core technology sectors could be directly threatened if supply lines collapse. These industries generate about €150 billion in annual value added — the beating heart of German innovation and manufacturing."

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🇨🇳😎❌🇬🇧 — 📰 ZeroHedge | China Caught In 'Large Scale Espionage' Against UK... Yet Case Collapses Over Beijing Appeasement: Officials | October 17, 2025:

"China's intelligence service conducted "large scale espionage operations" against the UK - accessing classified government computer systems for over a decade - a senior British government official told prosecutors in a case against two Brits allegedly involved - which collapsed in court.

And why did said case collapse? Because the left-wing Labour government failed to refer to China as a threat to national security, so prosecutors could not produce evidence to bolster that claim, the UK's director of public prosecutions - as well as opposition conservatives who say Labour has been "too weak to stand up to Beijing on a crucial matter of national security."

Starmer has been criticized by conservative politicians for pursuing a thaw in relations with Beijing, despite a mountain of evidence that China is behind various cyber-attacks and espionage attacks in the UK. He also faces pressure from members of his own cabinet not to approve China's new mega-embassy in London."

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🇨🇳❌🏠🔫 — 📰 ZeroHedge | China Expels 9 Top Generals, Including Two From Communist Party Leadership, In Sweeping Purge | October 18, 2025:

"In another major purge likely based on loyalty, China's President Xi Jinping has embarked on another significant series of top level military firings, with the Communist Party having expelled nine senior generals in one of the most sweeping such moves in decades.

A Defense Ministry statement indicated the nine officers are under investigation for "serious financial misconduct." Also unusual is that most of them were three-star generals and formed part of the party's powerful Central Committee."

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🇨🇴❌🇺🇸 — In an interview, Colombian President Gustavo Petro once again blamed Donald Trump for the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, ignoring Nicolás Maduro’s regime as the cause of the mass exodus.

🇻🇪 Petro harshly condemned the idea of using Colombian troops to invade Venezuela, calling anyone who supports attacking their own people “stupid”: “Trump doesn’t like free men because he wants to be king; he wants servants, not free people.”

“Trump said: ‘Colombia is out of control.’ Of course, it’s out of *his* control! In a democracy, a government is under the control of the people, not Trump. He’s no king in Colombia. Here, we don’t accept kings, period. [...] He can talk to me, but as equals, between true republicans, and there’s no problem. I spoke with Biden four times. But to give us orders—no, sir. He doesn’t enter here!”

🇨🇴🤝🇻🇪🇻🇪 — The leftist president Gustavo Petro, in an interview, also defended the Venezuelan Chavista regime, refuses to accept that Nicolás Maduro stole the elections, and said that María Corina is a despicable person. He also said he is willing to sacrifice Colombia to defeat Donald Trump.

🇻🇪🇻🇪🤝 🇨🇴— The leader of the Venezuelan regime, Nicolás Maduro, claims that if Venezuela falls, Colombia will fall as well, referring to the cultural and social unity between the two countries, something frequently mentioned by Colombian President Gustavo Petro:

“Colombia knows that we are one, Siamese twins, and whatever happens to Colombia happens to Venezuela, and whatever happens to Venezuela happens to Colombia. As a Colombian military officer wrote to me two weeks ago: if you touch Venezuela, you touch Colombia. We are one homeland, and we don’t say this just for the sake of it. I know what I’m saying.”

🇨🇴❌🇺🇸 — During an interview with Univision Noticias, the interviewer pleaded with President Gustavo Petro to be pragmatic with Donald Trump for the sake of millions of Colombians:

“Your mission is not to change Trump, but to seek the best possible negotiation for millions of Colombians who depend on those jobs.”

🌹 However, Petro responded and reaffirmed:

“There is another alternative first, which is to overthrow Trump.”

🇺🇸📞🇮🇱 — Vice-President JD Vance on the deceased hostages in Gaza:

"It is a focus of everybody here to get those bodies back home to their families so that they can have a proper burial... this is going to take a little bit of time."

🇮🇪 “Well over a thousand protestors” at the Citywest hotel reports journalist Keith Woods.

A 10 year old Irish girl was sexually assaulted near the hotel by an African asylum seeker this week.

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🇮🇪 The absolute degeneracy of the modern West captured in a single scene.

An Afghan invader, scheduled for deportation months ago, sexually assaults a young Irish girl while living in luxury at public expense.

The so-called “refugee center” where he is housed is in truth a commandeered hotel in the heart of Dublin, packed with over two thousand foreign men of fighting age, fed, clothed, and sheltered by the very people they are displacing.

The state imports these men, parades their “diversity” as virtue, and compels the native population to fund its own subjugation through colonization and slow demographic extinction.

The parasite contributes nothing, produces nothing, yet is held up as a symbol of progress while the native Irish are told that resistance is not only hateful but illegal.

Outside, the people finally rise, and the police, funded by those they oppress, form a cordon around the invader’s quarters, defending not Ireland but the treachery committed against it.

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🇪🇺 The European Commission just launched consultations for EU-wide house & apartment price and rent controls!

The Climate Action Network NGO is lobbying hard for the EU to enshrine the "right to affordable housing" noting that since 2015, on average, home prices rose by 53% across the EU, in some countries by more than double of the EU average.

Of course, the CAN NGO blames real-estate developers and landlords for the lack of affordable housing and soaring rents and ask the Commission to force real-estate companies to allocate 5-10% of the new homes they build to "social housing programs" and empower local governments to deny property rights in order to make use of vacant and dilapidated housing.

Despite the growing pressure on EU authorities to fix the housing bubble plaguing many of the union's cities, a few days ago, the EU announced 42 billion EURs for the student-exchange Erasmus program specifically meant to bring in more "students" from Africa and the Middle East.

Truth is, the only solution to soaring rents and unaffordable housing is #remigration. The housing bubble in European cities is a direct result of the uncontrolled levels of legal immigration. Illegal immigration can play a role too but it has much less of an impact than legal immigration as legal immigrants can rent houses without fear of being deported.

If the European Commission was interested in offering a real solution to the housing problem they would implement #remigration right away but instead, their solution as presented on their website, is empowering national governments to give state subsidies and other forms of public compensation to households who "are not able, due to market outcomes and notably market failures, to access housing at affordable conditions".

It is not the fault of the market that some people, young people especially, cannot find cheap rents or buy a home early in their adulthood. It is the fault of bad immigration policies enforced and defended at all costs by leftist and center-right governments across the EU.

This is the EU cycle 🔄: the EU breaks something ➡️ people get upset and demand change ➡️ the EU through national and local govs pays them a token financial compensation to get them to shut up and the problem remains and worsens over time which necessitates even more compensation & so on and so forth.

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🇺🇸🚫🛫🇭🇺🤝🗣 — 🇬🇧 The Telegraph | Trump’s meeting with Putin in Hungary called off | Phone call between negotiators from both countries to prepare for peace talks turns sour | October 21, 2025:

"Donald Trump no longer plans to meet Vladimir Putin in Hungary, the White House confirmed.

The US president will not meet the Russian leader in the “immediate future” after a phone call between negotiators to prepare for peace talks turned sour.

On Thursday, Mr Trump announced he would hold a second summit with Putin in Budapest after a two-hour phone call with the Russian yielded “great progress”.

However, preparations for a summit between the two leaders stalled when Moscow cancelled an in-person preparatory meeting between Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, and Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state.

Mr Trump wanted officials from each side to convene in Hungary to prepare for his summit with Putin.

Mr Lavrov and Mr Rubio spoke by phone on Monday. According to reports, the call did not go well.

Mr Lavrov is believed to have told Mr Rubio that Russia would not accept freezing the frontline in Ukraine in the tense phone call."

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