⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ The people of the Middle East and North Africa had to pay for Monica Lewinsky’s dress, Maria Zakharova told us.

“The American armed campaign against Iraq during the Clinton period was needed to divert public views away from this unsightly story,” recalled the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

She added that the international factor in the American elections will be very large.

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More than 150 UN staff have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. This was announced by the Secretary General of the world organization, Antonio Guterres, at an open debate in the UN Security Council.

Guterres emphasized that his colleagues provide the population of the enclave with medical services and goods.

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Zin Note: Yes, this is hypocrisy bingo, but can you imagine if Russia killed 150 UN staffers?

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Lavrov at the United Nations Security Council on the Middle East on the Palestinian question: So far our Council has been unable to give an adequate response to this truly momentous challenge. The reason is well known - it lies in the position of the United States, which is blocking all efforts and initiatives to stop the bloodshed in the occupied territories. It is astonishing to see the disingenuousness of American diplomacy, from vetoing ceasefire resolutions to calling for a "de-intensification" of the fighting in Gaza. Clearly, this gives carte blanche to continue the collective punishment of the Palestinians. The humanitarian consequences of this policy are terrible. Nearly 30,000 civilians have died, including a huge number of women and children. The north of Gaza is almost completely destroyed and uninhabitable. 80% of the Strip's entire population is internally displaced. A true human tragedy with no end in sight.

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"Last year we expressed great concern by moving the clocks 90 seconds to midnight, closer than ever to global catastrophe. Last year's risk continues with unrelenting fury, it will continue to take shape this year. Today we are once again winding up the Doomsday Clock to show a constant and unprecedented level of risk. We leave the hands at 90 seconds to midnight": the Doomsday Clock remained at a record close to midnight.
Note: well, yeah, when the man with the nuclear suitcase is a little out of sorts....

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You can bomb the people of Yemen but they get back up and continue the fight.

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> German steel industry leader Umeta Hermann Ulrichskötter Metallwarenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG is bankrupt.

A little short of the centennial.
Few industrialists will survive the Sholtsev liquidation "Perestroika".

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Trade union activists in France held a protest in front of the Paris City Hall to the sound of the USSR anthem.

The unions demand catering, hiring additional workers and payment of annual bonuses in connection with the Olympics.

The USSR anthem is certainly interesting.

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Journalists asked why Robert Fico, the Slovakian Prime Minister, is meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart right at the border and not in Kiev, "where the rockets are flying"

Fico replied "Do you really think there is a war in Kiev? You’re not serious, I hope... Life is absolutely normal there"

His assessment is correct. Apart from one or another odd attack on military facilities and now the TCC kidnapping people, life is normal. We posted many times here videos of restaurants, clubs, parties.

He also added that it was the Ukrainians who requested the meeting to be in Uzhgorod.

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The UAE hired US mercenaries in a secret assassination programme in Southern Yemen which killed scores of people with no association with terrorist groups.

Our investigation with the BBC poses tough questions for US authorities, says Reprieve’s Baraa Shiban.

Reprieve investigators and BBC reporters uncovered that the UAE paid Spear Operations Group millions of dollars to carry out assassinations and train ‘counter-terrorism forces’ operated by the UAE’s proxy in southern Yemen, the Southern Transitional Council.

In the documentary, two members of Spear speak openly about their role in the assassinations programme - including the attempted assassination of politician Ansaf Ali Mayo, who narrowly escaped being killed.

Watching this right now and it's pretty shocking, like they are straight up murdering politicians and human rights lawyers then claiming it's terrorists...

Full Documentary

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An investigation into a rocket explosion in eastern Poland has been completed.

This is about an incident that took place in late 2022, when a missile exploded in a village in Lublin bordering Ukraine, killing two men. According to Polish investigators, it was a Ukrainian air defense missile fired during a massive Russian missile strike.

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Hamas releases video of Gaza Rambo in action:

Hamas military wing released documentation depicting a single fighter ambushing an entire Israeli military company in Maghazi RC yesterday. This ambush resulted in 21 Israeli soldiers killed & many injured. The lone fighter used two locally-made tandem shells & safely withdrew

The fighter fired at the house were tens of soldiers were stationed inside along with huge amount of explosives stored. 19 killed from the first RPG. Then the fighter rushes to the Merkavah Tank and hits it before they realize the incident. 2 soldiers were killed in the tank.

Is this exactly how it went down, is this info war, or bit of luck, or is this Gaza Rambo? Building certainly did detonate killing a lot of IDF.

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Sergeant Tymoshchuk of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine notes:

- People are no longer volunteering out of a sense of patriotic duty, they are being forced into military.

- Notes that assault forces require a man with particular mental and physical attributes, where he could select 40-45 for one selection he can only get 6-8.

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#pmi

PMI heat map

Let me remind you, PMI is an index of manufacturing activity. Below 50 is bad, above 50 is normal. I.e. when it is above 50, it means that industry is growing compared to last month.

Accordingly, on the heat map, the red shades are PMI readings below 50. And green shades are above.

Again, the question arises - who were sanctions imposed against?

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Okay, why is this happening? And it's a consequence of market de-globalization. Conventionally speaking, German industry needs 2 things: cheap energy and industrial manpower. The system used to work like this. Russians give Germans cheap energy, Germans take industrial personnel in the European Union and make various interesting things, which they sell to Russia, for example. And in Russia they create other things out of these things.
I'm very much simplifying. But the system is breaking down. What do the Russians do? Well, they shrug their shoulders and say: okay, now we'll make these things ourselves. And just like that, the international system of division of labor suddenly breaks down into macroeconomic zones.
But there's a problem. Sustainable industrial growth requires skilled people. Human capital.
But not gender or climate experts.

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🇺🇸#surveys

Is your personal financial situation getting better or worse?
Americans are asked.

46% report that their finances are getting worse. It's worth noting that the percentage who believe the situation is getting worse has prevailed over the rest of the population for more than two years. In numbers, though, the percentage is down from its peaks.


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"11,000 children in 109 days": Turkish media counted how many children died in different military conflicts - Israeli bombardment of Gaza Strip is nothing to even compare to.

Note: Mehmetchik should have already decided which chair to sit in.

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British Permanent Representative James Kariuki - at the UN Security Council on the "collapse of Russian industry": Russian military modernization has been set back 18 years. Now the Russian defense industry is dismantling refrigerators for parts and ordering weapons from DPRK.

Catch the junkie!

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