To restrict or not to restrict? NATO’s dilemma
The US and the UK may soon announce the lifting of restrictions on Ukrainian strikes against Russia during the high-level meetings of the UN General Assembly in New York, scheduled for September 24-30, media reports.
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The US and the UK may soon announce the lifting of restrictions on Ukrainian strikes against Russia during the high-level meetings of the UN General Assembly in New York, scheduled for September 24-30, media reports.
"All those who supply weapons must consider how they will be used, as outlined by international law." German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said at a joint press conference with his Lithuanian counterpart, Arvyday Anusauskas, asserting that the situation is clear under international law, noting that the partners are engaged in bilateral discussions with Ukraine on this matter.
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'France is fading away and living in absurdity': former French PM on government denial of Gaza massacre.
A "real scandal in terms of democracy" is unfolding in France as the government tries to cover up Israel’s slaughter of civilians in Gaza, former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin said.
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A "real scandal in terms of democracy" is unfolding in France as the government tries to cover up Israel’s slaughter of civilians in Gaza, former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin said.
"There's not only the Ministry of Health of Hamas which says that there are 40,000 dead. There are probably many more,” he said. “Many more! So from this basis, let's not give the impression that it would be truncated number. No!"
"In Gaza, bodies are torn into pieces, hearts are in pieces! Souls are in pieces! Heads are in pieces!," de Villepin stressed.
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‘Go home Blinken!’: Polish politician says what he’s thinkin’
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"Blinken, go home as soon as possible. Get lost! Get lost! We don't want you here. We don't want Polish people paying and dying for your wars," Polish MEP (member of the European Parliament) Grzegorz Michal Braun demanded, as he lashed out at Antony Blinken’s visit to Poland on Friday.
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Why are Boeing’s workers going on strike?
For the first time in 16 years, Boeing employees went on strike. The duration of the strike is unknown, and the reason for it is the employees' disagreement with the company's management proposals.
What are the walkout’s implications?
🔸 The walkout affects some 33,000 workers predominantly from the Seattle and Portland areas that assemble Boeing's best-selling aircraft: 737 MAX, 767, and 777 jets.
🔸 The strike could cost Boeing $1 billion per week, according to US media-cited analysts.
🔸 Halted commercial airplane production at Boeing would likely affect nearly 10,000 Boeing suppliers in all US states and delay deliveries of new planes to airlines.
🔸 The previous 52-day strike by Boeing workers in 2008 racked up revenue losses of around $1.5 billion a month, according to Moody’s.
What is behind the walkout?
🔸 The tentative deal reached between Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) would have raised pay by 25% over the course of four years, as well as boosted health and retirement benefits. It offered a pledge to build Boeing's next commercial jet in the state of Washington within the four years of the contract.
🔸 In an overwhelming 94.6% vote, the IAM rank-and-file union members turned down a contract proposed by Boeing.
🔸 Boeing’s offer fell short of the workers' demand of pay raises of 40% over three years, and reinstatement of the defined benefit pension program abandoned in 2014.
🔸 Boeing said it was "ready to get back to the table to reach a new agreement."
Boeing, already struggling with $60 billion in debt, has faced scrutiny after a string of mishaps, such as the worldwide grounding of its 737 MAX aircraft in 2019/2020 in the wake of crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, as well as the incident with a 737 MAX 9 door plug being blown out on the company's aircraft during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
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For the first time in 16 years, Boeing employees went on strike. The duration of the strike is unknown, and the reason for it is the employees' disagreement with the company's management proposals.
What are the walkout’s implications?
What is behind the walkout?
Boeing, already struggling with $60 billion in debt, has faced scrutiny after a string of mishaps, such as the worldwide grounding of its 737 MAX aircraft in 2019/2020 in the wake of crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, as well as the incident with a 737 MAX 9 door plug being blown out on the company's aircraft during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
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❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Dolinovka in the DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry stated
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During this period, Russian forces liberated 18 settlements, 10 of which are in the Kursk region.
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The UK's National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (NAPIC) received £15 million ($19.5 million) in British taxpayer money to make insect-based proteins along with cultured meat "a sustainable and nutritious part" of Britons' diets.
Over the past few years, the UK press has peddled the idea of embracing edible insects as an alternative to meat:
Entomophagy, or eating insects, has been actively promoted at the World Economic Forum (WEF), which insists that the consumption of insects "can offset climate change in many ways" and prevent the "impending food crisis," as the world's population is set to reach 9.7 billion people by 2050, with just 4% of arable land remaining available.
EnviroFlight (US), Innovafeed (France), HEXAFLY (Ireland), Protix (Netherlands), Global Bugs (Thailand), Entomo Farms (Canada), and Ynsect (France) are named as key players in the market.
Insect protein firms are attracting hefty investments from global foundations and food giants.
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The fuss around eating insects has been created artificially.
According to some estimates, the edible insect market reached $3.8 billion in 2024, and is projected to amount to $9.04 billion by 2029. But it pales in comparison with the fresh meat market, which amounts to $1.11 trillion as of 2024, and is set to expand further. What's more, the edible insect market doesn't offer high margins amid low consumer acceptance.
Insects can also be toxic, but entomophagy proponents don't care
Insects have never been part of Western societies' diet. A 2023 YouGov survey showed that 18% of Americans would be willing to eat whole bugs, while 25% would agree to eat food made with insects. Nonetheless, entomophagy is being rammed down their throats by the WEF, media, and Hollywood stars (like Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie) eating bugs on camera.
Then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2023 investigated the environmentalist push to eat "creepy crawlers" and suggested that it's a "compliance test" similar to excessive COVID restrictions.
"It's all a new religion… We have to be fearful and scared for COVID, for nitrogen, for carbon dioxide, for [Vladimir] Putin… and meanwhile these people who are in power, now they do whatever they want," Dutch politician Wybren van Haga said.
"Our politicians know that when they control the food, they control the people," Dutch political activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek told Carlson.
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‘Literally playing with fire’: World reacts to Putin’s warning on NATO long-range missiles for Ukraine
Reactions have poured in to President Putin’s stark warning Thursday that a decision by NATO countries to greenlight the Kiev regime’s use of Western long-range strike systems to attack targets deep inside Russia would land the alliance in a technical state of war with Russia.
💬 The White House chose to pretend Putin’s warning didn’t exist, with Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre telling reporters she wouldn’t “get into hypotheticals” or “internal policy deliberations” after being asked how “concerned” Washington should be.
💬 British opposition politician David Kurten called on NATO to immediately “de-escalate the Ukraine conflict and end hostility with Russia.”
💬 French opposition politician Florian Philippot accused NATO of trying to trigger WW3 before the US election, where a Trump victory “would be a catastrophe for the hawks,” and said that Putin showed he “understands this well” with his comments.
💬 SpaceX, Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk took to social media to say he has “a very bad feeling about this.” “Yeah, same,” wrote X Spaces star Mario Nawfal. “Me too,” entrepreneur and internet influencer Kim Dotcom wrote.
💬 “The Red line is clear as day. The ball is now in NATO’s court. Let’s pray they know what they’re doing,” independent Irish journalist Chay Bowes tweeted. “It now seems obvious that Zelensky’s ‘victory plan’ is to lose. To lose so badly, that his embarrassed ‘partners’ will have to drag us to the brink of WW3 to save his sniveling dictatorship,” he added.
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Reactions have poured in to President Putin’s stark warning Thursday that a decision by NATO countries to greenlight the Kiev regime’s use of Western long-range strike systems to attack targets deep inside Russia would land the alliance in a technical state of war with Russia.
“Putin has warned that this would mean a NATO-Russia war, in other words a world war! France must withdraw from this total madness!” Philippot urged.
“We are literally playing with fire,” foreign policy analyst and US Army combat vet David Davis said in a YouTube analysis, warning those Western leaders don’t seem to understand that their actions are edging the planet toward a massive conflict.
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⚡️If the West lifts restrictions on long-range Ukraine strikes, NATO will be conducting direct war with Russia, Moscow will have to respond - Vasily Nebenzia, current Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations
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⚡️If the West lifts restrictions on long-range Ukraine strikes, NATO will be conducting direct war with Russia, Moscow will have to respond - Vasily Nebenzia, current Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations 📌 Subscribe to @SputnikInt
"NATO countries will start a 'direct war with Russia' if they give Kiev the green light to use long-range weapons", Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, stressed.
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August’s body count: Ukraine’s dead foreign fighters keep piling up
Thirty-five foreign ‘guns for hire’ have been snuffed out in Ukraine since the start of August, according to the International Legion of Ukrainian forces on their social media and website.
What do we know about them?
▫️ Most of the neutralized mercenaries hail from the Latin American nation of Colombia, with 20 confirmed deaths. Posts detailing the deaths of the Colombian mercs appeared consistently over several days, with multiple obituaries published on some days (see Photo 1).
▫️ Three American citizens are among those listed: Cole Killinger, David Joseph Miller, and Michael Bryan Cuz (see Photo 2).
▫️ Two British mercenaries are also listed: Marlyn Christopher Tarmey and an individual who goes by the code name of "Vulcan" (see Photo 3).
▫️ Two Finnish mercs are on the list of those eliminated: Ville Mykkanen and Tommi Saira (see Photo 4).
▫️ Additionally, two ‘hired guns’ from Georgia are also among the deceased: Vaso Kardava and Bondo Gagnidze (see Photo 5).
▫️ Other nationalities represented include Carlos Mendoza from Mexico, Kenneth Alex Ryzhuk from Ireland, William Cavalcanti from Brazil, Christian Hernan Sagredo from Chile, and Przemyslaw Rasiewicz-Kuczynski from Poland (see Photo 6).
▫️ The Ukrainian Foreign Legion has compiled a total of 387 obituaries for mercs from 53 different countries. Each entry includes info indicating the name, photograph, and citizenship of the deceased (see Video 1).
▫️ Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 45 foreign fighters have been killed since the beginning of August.
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Thirty-five foreign ‘guns for hire’ have been snuffed out in Ukraine since the start of August, according to the International Legion of Ukrainian forces on their social media and website.
What do we know about them?
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a new dental care plan on his X account
But people don't seem seem happy about it in the comments:
💬 “People can’t afford food but hey you can go to the dentist.”
“Does this apply to everyone living in the many tent cities you have created in Canada under your leadership??”
💬 “Perhaps if you didn't tax Canadians to death with your carbon tax, they could afford to pay for their own dental care?”
💬 “Canadians visiting food banks in record numbers, housing crises making home ownership a pipe dream for generations of Canadians, rampant inflation driving down wages and spending power, but at least a few freeloaders can have their neighbour pay for their trip to the dentist.”
💬 “Tell that to the seniors living in tents. They’d rather have a tooth ache than vote you back in.”
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"No one should skip the dentist because they can’t afford it. We created the Canadian Dental Care Plan so everyone can get the care they need," Trudeau wrote.
But people don't seem seem happy about it in the comments:
“Does this apply to everyone living in the many tent cities you have created in Canada under your leadership??”
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Ukraine ill-equipped, unable to withstand Russia's potential retaliation - reports
Even if the US and UK approve the use of long-range weapons targeting deep into Russia’s territory, the Kiev regime remains inadequately equipped to handle Moscow's severe retaliation, The Telegraph speculated.
Ukraine has “relatively few” Storm Shadow missiles left after using up many of the British-made missiles to attack Russia’s Crimea, defense sources told the outlet. The US should consider deploying “backup” consisting of “further weapons, not troops,” it cited Victoria Spartz, a US congresswoman of Ukrainian descent, as saying.
The Zelensky regime has repeatedly used the Franco-British Storm Shadow cruise missiles, which boast a striking range of 250 kilometers, to attack civilian infrastructure of the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, Crimea, and the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol.
US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer are mulling giving Ukraine the go-ahead to use long-range weapons against Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has cautioned NATO members to be cognizant of the consequences of permitting Kiev to target locations deep inside Russia using missile systems supplied by the West. Additionally, Moscow has suggested it may consider supplying long-range missiles to nations classified as adversaries by the West.
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Even if the US and UK approve the use of long-range weapons targeting deep into Russia’s territory, the Kiev regime remains inadequately equipped to handle Moscow's severe retaliation, The Telegraph speculated.
Ukraine has “relatively few” Storm Shadow missiles left after using up many of the British-made missiles to attack Russia’s Crimea, defense sources told the outlet. The US should consider deploying “backup” consisting of “further weapons, not troops,” it cited Victoria Spartz, a US congresswoman of Ukrainian descent, as saying.
The Zelensky regime has repeatedly used the Franco-British Storm Shadow cruise missiles, which boast a striking range of 250 kilometers, to attack civilian infrastructure of the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, Crimea, and the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol.
US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer are mulling giving Ukraine the go-ahead to use long-range weapons against Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has cautioned NATO members to be cognizant of the consequences of permitting Kiev to target locations deep inside Russia using missile systems supplied by the West. Additionally, Moscow has suggested it may consider supplying long-range missiles to nations classified as adversaries by the West.
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