🇫🇷 The popularity of Emmanuel Macron sinks to a new low

The Verian Group survey, which polled 1,000 people and was published in the conservative daily Le Figaro, shows Macron’s approval rating at a staggering 11 percent — tying the lowest figure ever recorded by the firm. The previous record-holder was Macron’s direct predecessor and former boss, François Hollande, who hit 11 percent in late 2016, shortly before announcing that he would not seek a second presidential term.

By Verian’s measure, Macron and Hollande now share the crown of France’s least popular president since the early 1970s, when the pollster and its predecessors began conducting this monthly survey for Le Figaro.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-approval-rating-drops-historic-low/

🇫🇷❌🇩🇿 The French Parliament denounced the 1968 Franco-Algerian Migrant Pact which made it very easy for Algerian citizens to obtain a residency permit in France!

The bill was proposed by Rassemblent National (RN) of Marine Le Pen and passed with the help of the center-right, Les Republicains (LR) of Bruno Retailleau and Horizons group (HOR), a center-right coalition supporting Macron's government.

The vote was close. The resolution passed with 185 votes for and 184 against. This is the first bill promoted by the RN that is passed by the French Parliament. The firewall against the rightwing parties in France is breaking down.

Leftist and liberals parties opposed the bill but they did not have enough MPs present to stop it.

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🇹🇼🤝🇮🇱 Pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC sent its first-ever delegation to Taiwan.

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te hosted the group, likening Taiwan’s struggle against China to David vs. Goliath.

Officials like Joseph Wu and Hsiao Bi-khim highlighted "shared democratic values despite Israel’s formal ties with China."

📝Sean Padraig McCarthy: ZOG isn’t real. It’s just when the Venezuelan opposition leader needs Maduro overthrown she calls Benjamin Netanyahu and lobbies him instead of the US. And when Taiwan is worried the US won’t come to their aid they call AIPAC and lobby them instead of the US

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🇺🇸 Currently, ~82% of the US population lives in regions experiencing an economic recession, the highest share since 2020.

The analysis uses the Fed Beige Book, a report published 8 times a year based on anecdotal information gathered from businesses, economists, and market contacts from the 12 Fed districts.

The percentage has DOUBLED since the start of 2025.

Over the last 20 years, only 2008 and 2020 saw such a large share of the country in recession.

Meanwhile, the latest Atlanta Fed estimate for real US GDP growth in Q3 2025 is +3.9%.

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🇪🇺 European Commission will unveil a plan in November to rapidly move heavy military equipment across the EU in case of war with Russia.

The initiative aims to speed up the transport of tanks and artillery by improving infrastructure and simplifying customs procedures between member states.

The plan is being developed in coordination with NATO amid growing concerns over potential Russian military aggression beyond Ukraine.

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🇮🇱📱📱 BIG: Leaked documents reveal that Amazon and Google, under Israel’s Nimbus cloud contract, agreed to secretly notify Israel whenever they hand over data to foreign governments — even when gag orders prevent disclosure.

They use a coded “winking mechanism”: each request triggers a symbolic payment to Israel matching the foreign country’s dialing code (e.g. ₦IS 1,000 for the U.S., ₦IS 3,900 for Italy).

If disclosure is legally forbidden, the firms must pay ₦IS 100,000 within 24 hours.

The Guardian and +972 Magazine say this arrangement bypasses U.S. and EU laws that forbid third-party notification.

Unlike Microsoft— which ended a contract with Israel’s Unit 8200 over surveillance concerns — Amazon and Google agreed not to suspend Israel’s access even if terms are breached.

Both companies also reportedly fired employees who opposed their Israel work.

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🌱 Bill Gates thinks climate change is still a serious problem, but says it's time to focus on fighting poverty and preventing disease.

📝It’s amazing how AI came along with its massive energy needs and in a blink they just dropped the ‘climate' grift and instead of wind and solar, are now pursuing nuclear energy, which they were fighting to ban just 5 years ago.

Climate was a massive money grab by creating fake demand for an "energy transition".

Turns out China already cornered the supply of clean energy tech and AI capex follows real demand so might as well grift off that instead.

🔗 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/bill-gates-calls-climate-fight-shift-focus-curbing-126924351?cid=social_twitter_abcn

🚨🇵🇰🚀 - Pakistan successfully conducted hypersonic missile test earlier today in Baluchistan.

Early-morning missile test activity over Pakistan produced bright spiral formations visible across southern and central regions. The launch appeared to involve a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) or medium/long-range missile test.

🇺🇸 USAF RC-135S Cobra Ball (61-2662) was airborne over the North Arabian Sea during the event. ✈️

Pakistan issued NOTAMs few days ago for missile tests.

🇮🇳 Indian citizen, Bankim Brahmbhatt scammed BlackRock and BNP Paribas out of 552.6 million $ to fund a fake private equity fund, Carriox Capital

Brahmbhatt ran Carriox Capital, a New York telecom financing outfit that convinced BlackRock's HPS Investment Partners and BNP Paribas to lend him $552.6 million. The entire deal was built on one claim: he had legitimate receivables from T-Mobile, Telstra, BICS, Telecom Italia Sparkle, and Taiwan Mobile backing the loans.​

None of it was real. Brahmbhatt forged contracts that appeared to be signed by representatives from these carriers. He created fake invoices supposedly issued by these companies claiming they owed Carriox money. Then he spoofed email addresses mimicking these carriers' real domains and sent fake verification emails to make the receivables look legitimate. By stacking these fabricated invoices on top of each other, he created what looked like $500+ million in collateral. The lenders saw assets and funded the deal without catching any of it.​​

Here's where it gets embarrassing. When HPS and BNP Paribas finally tried to verify these receivables by actually calling T-Mobile, the carrier said they had no idea what Carriox was talking about. No contracts. No invoices. Nothing existed. One phone call would have instantly revealed the entire fraud. These are supposed to be institutional-grade lenders with world-class risk management. Yet somehow they missed basic due diligence.​

While all this was happening, Brahmbhatt's people were also stealing cash. Whenever payments came through the lender-controlled collection accounts, instead of applying those funds to the debt, they diverted the money offshore. So he wasn't just fabricating collateral. He was stealing actual cash flows in real time.​

Lenders sued in August 2025 and froze all assets. Carriox filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with $500 million to $1 billion in liabilities and basically zero assets remaining. HPS is sitting on $552.6 million in losses with nothing to recover against.​

The kicker is BlackRock acquired HPS for $12 billion in July 2025 specifically to expand into private credit and get access to its $148 billion platform. Within 90 days of closing that deal, they're holding a half-billion dollar fraud loss on receivables that HPS supposedly vetted and monitored.​

That's not just a bad deal. That's a massive question mark about whether one of the world's largest asset managers actually has the infrastructure to verify complex collateral in modern lending markets. If BlackRock's $12 trillion asset management machine can miss $500+ million in forged documents and fake invoices, what else are they missing? This is the systemic risk that should concern everyone.

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🇺🇸🌎❌🏴💊 — On October 29, 2025, US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth announced US SOUTHCOM conducted strikes against a Narcoterrorist organization's vessels in Eastern Pacific, eliminating 4x sicarios at once:

Earlier today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on yet another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Eastern Pacific.

This vessel, like all the others, was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics. Four male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel—and killed—during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. No U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.

The Western Hemisphere is no longer a safe haven for narco-terrorists bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans. The Department of War will continue to hunt them down and eliminate them wherever they operate.

🔗 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar)

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian troops have conquered all of Pokrovsk city south of the railway line and have infiltrated all of the neighbourhoods north of the railway line.

The first Russian DRGs have reached the town of Gryshino to the northwest.

The Russian troops at Pokrovsk’s outskirts are less than a kilometer (<0.8 miles) from closing the pocket and trapping somewhere between 500 to 3000 Ukrainian troops.

Zelensky and Syrsky could have made a gradual withdrawal in September from the cities and save the lives of their soldiers but they didn’t want Western newspapers reporting on the fall of Pokrovsk and Myrnograd which would have lowered faith from Western investors.

Even with the catastrophic shortages of manpower, Zelensky and Syrsky still treat their men as expendable and sabotage any and all initiatives of peace negotiations.

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🇺🇸❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — One minute before midnight? The Wall Street Journal reports that the United States government is now considering striking Venezuelan military targets used for drug trafficking, especially the divisions of CEOFANB.

➡️ WSJ reports that the Trump administration has identified targets in Venezuela that include military facilities used to smuggle drugs, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. If President Trump decides to move forward with airstrikes, they said, the targets would send a clear message to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro that it is time to step down.

📝 While the president hasn’t made a final decision on ordering land strikes, the officials said a potential air campaign would focus on targets that sit at the nexus of the drug gangs and the Maduro regime. Trump and his senior aides have been particularly focused on unsettling Maduro as the U.S. military has attacked boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean.

🪖 The potential targets under consideration include ports and airports controlled by the military that are allegedly used to traffic drugs, including naval facilities and airstrips, according to one of the officials.

➡️ Air attacks on targets inside Venezuela would mark a significant escalation of the campaign, which has until now been limited to airstrikes on alleged drug boats.

🔗 Source: Wall Street Journal
https://archive.is/9zIKc

🇹🇹🇻🇪🛰❗️ — GPS Jamming spotted over Trinidad y Tobago as well over Sucre State of Venezuela