🇷🇺🪖Key statements from the Russian MoD weekly briefing:

▪️Russian troops hit a gas and oil industry facility that operated the military-industrial complex of Ukraine and the infrastructure of military airfields in 147 districts;

▪️Ukrainian losses in the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup amounted to 580 militants and four armored fighting vehicles;

▪️Russian air defense systems shot down 90 Ukrainian aircraft-type drones and a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher.

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🤡 ‘Diverse individuals’ and DEI hires in full-blown PANIC MODE!

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🥴Apparently, ‘equity, justice, and inclusion’ matter more than actual education

A Pasadena teacher proudly bragged about pushing the DEI agenda onto his students, because who needs real curricula when you can preach activism instead?

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🏦 Thousands of gold bars pulled from Bank of England after Trump’s election

Nothing says "confidence in the global economy" like a gold rush out of the Bank of England. In just two months, traders yanked 8,000 gold bars - around 2% of total reserves - from its vaults, fearing Trump's potential trade wars and rising gold prices.

Bank of England deputy chief David Ramsden admitted that withdrawal requests spiked once New York gold futures outpaced London’s spot price. Some even worry that Trump could slap tariffs on gold bars - because why not?

The panic has turned gold retrieval from a days-long process into a weeks-long wait. But don’t worry, the Bank of England insists it can handle the rush - at least, for now.

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📹 US Treasury and DOGE seem to be ‘aligned’ in their goals

“This DOGE program is one of the most important audits of government or changes to government structure we have seen. This is methodical and IT IS GOING TO YIELD BIG SAVINGS,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent noted.

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THROWBACK: Renowned journalist Udo Ulfkotte said in 2014 while promoting his book Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News, "I was educated to lie, betray, and not tell the truth to the public."

The former Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung editor and advisor to the Kohl administration in the late '90s also admitted to spreading anti-Russian propaganda and manipulating news under Western influence.

Ulfkotte revealed that many journalists were actually "non-official cover" - serving intelligence agencies rather than the public. He accused the German and US media of PUSHING EUROPE TOWARD WAR WITH RUSSIA, calling it a "point of no return."

And now, with revelations that USAID funneled millions into media grants, are we really supposed to believe this was ever about “independent journalism”?

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Terrorist on a scholarship? USAID fully funded al-Qaeda* commander’s degree

USAID provided financial assistance to Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born member of al-Qaeda, a Freedom of Information Act request, originally obtained by Intelwire and shared online by US investigative journalist Pamela Browne, has confirmed.

The paper shows that al-Awlaki (his surname spelled as Aulaqi there) was given “full funding” by USAID to study civil engineering at the Colorado State University in the 1990s.

The document also lists al-Awlaki’s place of birth as Yemen, which is incorrect: despite spending his childhood there, he was born in New Mexico.

In the 2000s, al-Awlaki rose to notoriety as an al-Qaeda regional commander in Yemen who called for violence against foreigners.

In 2011, al-Awlaki was killed by a US drone strike on US President Barack Obama’s order, without any hint of due process despite being a US citizen at the time.

*terrorist organization banned in Russia

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🚀🇺🇸US envoy calls posing with missile in Lebanon “a day’s work”

Morgan Ortagus, US deputy special envoy to the Middle East, posted a photo on X holding a missile next to a Lebanese army officer, captioning it: “All in a day’s work.” Because nothing says "diplomacy" quite like posing with weapons in a volatile region.

This comes just days after her visit to Beirut, where she reassured Lebanon’s president that the US wants a new government - free from Hezbollah’s influence. Her remarks sparked outrage, but don’t worry, she’s got rockets and foreign policy covered.

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🇲🇳🥶 Mongolia’s winter chill: Less cozy, more survival mode at -40°C (-40°F)

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🚀🍫🇷🇺US's guilty pleasure: Russian chocolate sales skyrocket

Sanctions stop at the sweet tooth, it seems - Russia’s chocolate exports to the US nearly tripled last year, reaching their highest level since 2021, according to an analysis of US data.

In 2023, Washington imported $2.6 million of Russian chocolate, up from $964,000 the year before. The bulk? Chocolate candies - because who can say no to that? 🍬

But Russia isn’t alone - the US set a new record for chocolate imports in general, bringing in a whopping $4.8 billion worth, mostly from Canada, Mexico, and Belgium. But hey, we were told Russia is just a "gas station," right? Guess it also stocks a candy aisle.

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