✔️ Spanish pensioners gathered in Madrid to protest

Today they took to the streets of the Spanish capital, speaking out against the decline in living standards and demanding that the authorities recalculate pensions, decent wages and reduce gender inequality in pension payments.

"We are in danger of an organized robbery!" is one of the main theses of the protest.
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To the people crying about 9 Russian war bloggers and correspondents being investigated.

It's literally fake news, please stop and get some help

Esha Krishnaswamy from Grayzone confirmed she's not under investigation, for example.

🚀 On October 15 Russian Aerospace Forces successfully launch Angara1.2 spacecraft from Plesetsk cosmodrome

A light carrier rocket was launched with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry on board. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the defense department.

◽️ In 2 minutes after the launch, the vehicle was taken under control by ground-based facilities.

◽️ The spacecraft received the ordinal number Kosmos-2560.

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Russia’s nuclear fuel industry remains conspicuously untouched by European sanctions more than seven months into the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine — much to the dismay of Kyiv officials and environmental campaigners.

Despite eight rounds of sanctions, targeted measures against energy exports and calls from Ukraine to impose a full embargo on nuclear trade, shipments of nuclear fuel to EU member states continue to make their way from Russia. Read more.

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NATO, apart from being a fake defense alliance and collective security system, is not only a company in the business of wars and arms sales.

More than anything else, #NATO is a tool of #GlobalTerror, military pressure, coercion, and #Blackmail and as such, sooner or later it had to cross lines that can only be crossed once. Like an arrow that has been irreversibly shot and is flying toward #Russia, NATO has shown that it does not have mechanisms for maneuvering, retreating, and stopping. In short, one gets the impression that there is no longer any moral or at least rational control over NATO, that is, that it is really brain-dead and therefore very dangerous for the survival of civilization and humanity itself. According to the official version of the interpretation of the global political reality, the democratically elected political leadership of NATO members is the one that manages this military alliance and makes decisions that are an expression of the collective will, based on the principle of consensus. Read more.

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🇫🇷A demonstration against #PriceIncreases is taking place in #Paris. Among the demands of the participants are salary increases, freezing prices for electricity, food, and investing in environmental projects.
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🇲🇫Oil workers’ strikes in France have led to disruption at oil facilities and long lines at petrol pumps since last week, particularly in the Paris region and in the north of France. While things have yet to go back to normal despite agreements with some leading unions, the movement risks spreading further, with ongoing calls for strikes in other sectors.

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🇫🇷The police in Paris applied against the protesters tear gas.

The number of victims is still unknown. People took to the streets today to speak out against the rising cost of living in the country and the inaction of the authorities.
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THIS IS HOW MUCH NATO COUNTRIES SPEND ON "DEFENSE"

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (#NATO) exists for the sole purpose of facilitating a political and #military alliance between almost 30 countries.

All are obligated to one another in times of war, but some countries have much stronger militaries and defense systems than others.

Using data from #NATO, this map reveals what each #NATO member country spends on its own national defense.

Obviously the US spends more on defense than any other NATO country.

According to the 2021 estimates, US defense spending will be close to $811 billion this year.

On the other hand, the defense spending of all other NATO countries combined is projected to be $363 billion, meaning the U.S. will outspend all other countries by a whopping $448 billion.

If you are interested in the history of Russia and Chechen relationship and the recent war, there is an article from Mediterranean Man. Today we are reposting the first part ⬇️

The Chechen Wars.

Well, a subscriber has asked me to talk about the Chechen wars.

He did not ask me to talk about the wars in the 18th or 19th century, or not even the short lived fighting during the aftermath of the Russian civil war, but the most recent conflicts -  the Caucasian war, and the first and second Chechen wars.

Now, I don't think telling you the very long story of Russian territorial ambitions in the North Caucasus that started since the days of Ivan the Terrible, or the wars and the princes would fit in this topic, as they probably deserve their own, but just know, Chechens tended to fight with the government in Moscow alot, and by alot I mean alot, a mix of Russian territorial expansion, deals with Ossetia, and usual Tsarist policies started wars that went for at least 60 years with different Chechen figures - Sheikh Mansur and Imam Shamil for example, and I will not be afraid to state this, they have done nothing wrong and have rightfully enacted Jihad against a state that was hostile to them, now I understand a Russian reading this post may not like it, but it's true, there is no perfect "Empire" or state, and we tend to view each of ours as morally righteous, but I say, these men did their duty according to our faith and their culture, and it was not written that they were to win the end, and you know that's alright, now that was just a page in Russian history.

By the war, Russian authorities were very impressed by Shamil, one source noted him as a " man of great tact and a subtle politician.", And Tsar Alexander II requested to meet Shamil, where sources noted that the Tsar was pleased with the moral and intellectual quality of Shamil, which is why Shamil was given a mansion in Kiev, and was even let go to do the Hajj.

Anyway, back to our modern day of what the Chechen wars were all about.

Russia is a federal country, where each region has the right to run its own internal affairs, consider it like America and their 50 states, now when before the whole thing started there was a Federation Treaty between the central government in Moscow and all 88 regions of the Russian federation, 86 only signed, with Tatarstan and Chechnya not signing, Tatarstan later signed it after it's demands were accepted by the Moscow government, thus making it 87 out of 88.

Now you may be asking, why didn't Chechnya sign it? Well, you see, in '91 there was.. somewhat of a coup, Dudayev stormed a session of then-still functioning local communist government, and took power for himself, later there were elections, I don't know how legitimate they were, and he was elected president.

O.K, so let's review this step-by-step.

Muslims in the then-USSR were allowed to practice their faith, the Soviet authorities knew that the sole reason the Muslim population was not at a constant state of Jihad against the central government was because Moscow was not as rough in it's policies about religion as Stalin or the old guard were, and that praying and mosques were not deemed illegal, one of the reasons we can start a Jihad is if a Tyrant is trying to eradicate Islam and does not let us pray, the situation in 1991, in my opinion, does not fulfil this main condition.

By the way, it's not like Russians are allergic to Shariah, Chechnya is literally today run by Shariah, one of the few regions to totally implement it, the only other type of law that exists is the federal law, and Moscow doesn't give a shit really.

Also, Nationalism and being proud of your country more than Islam is a sin.. Chechens and Bosnians during the 90s tended to be more ethnic centered than religious, which is why I personally view this whole affair in an unfavorable lens.

Back to point, Chechnya descended into a civil war, it was not a functioning state, Dudayev faced like 4 coup attempts, and the state of Chechnya was overall in a sorry state, he then unilaterally declared independence instead of trying to seek a peaceful negotiation like Tatarstan did, and was overall a headache, so it was no wonder that the Russians were intent on preserving.. (1/2)

Developed countries bought more than 80 percent of Ukrainian grain
In June-July 2022, developed countries accounted for 81% of all grain supplies from Ukraine

MOSCOW, October 17 - RIA Novosti. Countries with developed economies in June-July this year became the main buyers of Ukrainian grain, they accounted for 81% of all deliveries, according to RIA Novosti calculations based on data from the UN Comtrade platform.
Deliveries during this period decreased by 43%: products worth $771 million were exported to the markets against $1.3 billion a year earlier.
Despite the reduction in total supplies in the first two summer months, Western countries increased their purchases, purchasing grain from Ukraine for $625 million compared to $380 million a year earlier. At the same time, the rest of the world reduced purchases by almost seven times - to $146 million from $967 million.
Thus, if in 2021 Western countries accounted for only 28% of Ukraine's grain supplies, then in 2022 their share jumped to 81%.

Romania became the main buyer of grain, which increased purchases from 213.4 thousand dollars in June-July 2021 by 1500 times to 314 million dollars in the same period of the current year. The second place in terms of purchases of cereals was taken by Poland, which increased them by 29 times over the two summer months - up to 122.6 million dollars. Turkey is in third place - it increased imports by 33%, up to $90 million.

Fourth place went to Hungary, which bought grain for $69 million against $137,000 a year earlier. Egypt is in fifth place with $25.6 million, almost five times less than last year's figures. The top 10 leaders in Ukrainian grain purchases this summer also included Slovakia, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain.

The top ten largest recipients of Ukrainian grain last year included China, the Netherlands, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Turkey, Libya, Israel, Belgium and Spain.
In Istanbul on July 22, two interconnected documents were signed to address the problems of supplying food and fertilizers to world markets. Documents are a single package. The first one, the memorandum, assumes the obligation of the UN to remove various restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers to world markets. The second defines the algorithm for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products from the Black Sea ports controlled by Ukraine.
However, as Moscow points out, in terms of exports from Russia, the deal does not yet work. The agreement expires on November 19 this year, but the prospects for its extension are still unclear.

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