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Trump heats up Iran attacks, Israel election shell game, South Korea & Canada join U.S. war$

 

• Iran’s top security deputy chief, Ali Bagheri, says Iran will no longer accept written promises from the US and demands concrete US actions before entering a new phase of diplomacy. He says the US has broken its commitments and derailed all 4 rounds of negotiations over the past 18 months.
• Iran has fired both interceptor missiles towards US aircraft as well as missiles/drones towards violating ships in the Strait of Hormoz. So far what’s been confirmed is that the US struck the port of Jask. 
• Yemen military: 200 killed or wounded—including women and children over the past 36 hours as a result of the Saudi-led aggression using military aircraft.

• Bahrain is set to put more than 60 Shia Muslim clerics on trial November 8. This would be one of the largest legal cases against Shia Muslims in the Arab world and the Persian Gulf region. Bahraini authorities have not disclosed the charges against the clerics. But everyone knows this is because Bahrain wants to suppress its Shia population and regularly links them to Iran on false and baseless accusations. 
• Failing at sea, US launches 'Task Force Iron Gate' to strangle Iran's overland corridors. US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the creation of a specialized initiative aimed at interdicting ground transit and maritime trade routes across Iran’s land borders and the Caspian Sea. Despite Washington's boasts regarding petroleum export restrictions, Iran continues to leverage overland transport corridors and non-western trade networks to sustain its domestic manufacturing and defense independence, bypassing US extraterritorial sanctions entirely. 
• Gadi Eisenkot, a former Israeli occupation army chief of staff and the leader of the opposition bloc against war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, is proposing a “national emergency government” open to any party or Knesset member who accepts four principles. ⭕️Recognition of Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state.” ⭕️Acceptance of the values of Israel’s Declaration of Independence. ⭕️A duty of service for all, military, national or civil. ⭕️Recognition of Hamas as a “terrorist organization.” Eisenkot said he will approach all Knesset factions and invite their members to become partners. He cannot form a majority without the Arab-led parties, and these conditions are, in effect, a message to them. All he is doing is opening a door for Bloody Bibi to walk through back into government.

• Mikey Weinstein's Statement: "Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been literally inundated with desperate client calls from active duty, reserve, and guard armed forces members requesting immediate assistance from the Foundation. The majority are terribly distraught and bereft of any reasonable alternative other than their tragic consideration of resigning their commissions or enlistments prior to receiving otherwise promised veterans and retirement benefits. They fear not just for their careers, but the future of their families and nation. It is not merely 'politicizing' the military by Hegseth, but his incalculable, wholly unconstitutional malfeasance in attempting to Christian nationalize the military which is ripping asunder the good order, morale, discipline, and unit cohesion of our once proud force. Indeed, Hegseth’s essentially mandatory, monthly 'Jesus Praise Services,' held in the Pentagon's largest auditorium during the duty day and in uniform and televised on internal Pentagon Channel Number 2, is a perfect example of this criminal's pervasive and pernicious pattern and practice of illicit, immoral and illegal fundamentalist Christian extremism, supremacy, and tyranny.” 

• Bill Astore: This week’s elections were obviously a cry for change by the American people. Angry at Trump for failing to keep his promises to put America first, voters dealt MAGA and the Republicans a severe rebuke. The only real choice Americans had to express that rebuke was to vote blue, and they did. And then I saw this tweet this AM: Yes, Democrats are choosing leaders with LOWER favorability than Trump: 🔴 DONALD TRUMP = 38.5 🔵 HAKEEM JEFFRIES = 28.0 🔵 CHUCK SCHUMER = 24.7. It’s not yet a done deal that Jeffries will be Speaker and Schumer will be Senate Majority Leader, but either or both will serve to block meaningful changes to help workers in America. (One bad sign: Trump says he’s looking forward to working with Schumer again.) 

• Protesters in Paraguay chant: “Milei, Santi Peña, all the same shit!” Paraguayan President Santiago Peña was impeached and placed under house arrest Friday after the collapse of a prominent US-owned bank with ties to Paraguay's government. The fallout has left millions across the country without access to their money. The free-market project has been a disaster everywhere and Latin Americans are rising up against it. Trump/Rubio puppets are falling like dominoes.

• Korea Update: The US-Israeli war on Iran has become a political graveyard—and the US election results underscore just how politically costly this war can be. So why is South Korea quietly playing with fire? South Korea has repeatedly been drawn into US wars, from Vietnam to other military interventions. This time should be no exception to that historical pattern. The timing, the hypocrisy, the intense pressure from Washington, National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac’s apparent prioritization of US interests over Korea’s sovereignty, and President Lee’s retreat from his own pledge not to involve South Korea in the war are deeply troubling. This is an insult to the Korean people and a betrayal of the president’s own promise. South Korea must not be dragged into another US war. The government just approved a revised motion to extend the Cheonghae Unit’s deployment, more than doubling its operational area to waters south of Oman. The plan also includes deploying P-8A maritime patrol aircraft, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team, and unmanned mine-clearing equipment. The Progressive Party strongly condemns this decision as a backdoor deployment into the US-Israeli war against Iran and demands its immediate withdrawal. The government’s claim that this does not constitute direct participation in the Strait of Hormuz operations is misleading. The Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz are directly connected, with no buffer zone between them. Expanding operations into Omani waters risks drawing South Korea into the conflict.

• Two thousand Canadian troops are currently participating in the largest ever NATO exercise on Latvia’s border with Russia. A total of 3,000 soldiers and 1,000 pieces of military equipment are part of Resolute Reforger that began October 26 and is scheduled to end November 8. For the first time the entire Canadian-led Multinational Brigade Latvia has moved from its base in the western part of the country to mere kilometers from Belarusian and Russian territory. An imbedded CTV reporter was with Canadian troops in Daugavpils, which is 30 km from the border of Belarus and 50 km from Russia. In that city and elsewhere in eastern Latvia, Russian is the dominant language and many Russian-speaking Latvians see NATO as a belligerent force. A Canadian soldier remarked on divided local opinion telling CTV, “some have shouted insults at us”.        

• Eric Arnow: Obama, Joe Biden and his Undersecretary of State for Eastern European Affairs, Victoria Nuland knowingly and willfully backed a CIA coup to overthrow the democratically elected government in Ukraine…and he has the gall to talk about ‘Ukrainians fighting for their freedom’! Half the population has fled, two million have been killed, and the coup regime is reduced to forcefully kidnapping men off the street to be sent to the front to die...for BlackRock, and the other Wall Street firms, who bought publicly owned assets of the people of Ukraine. Following the coup, Ukraine passed a law allowing the sale of their country. 

• Zelensky, after the loss of the American Republicans in the US congressional elections, changed his tune and stated the need to build relationships with the new Democratic majority. Kiev intends to secure the provision of the previously agreed but not yet received $16 billion in US aid. Zelensky called the acquisition of additional Patriot air defense missiles the main military priority. 

Broken mosque, broken hearts

The minaret of their mosque collapsed during demolition work to widen a road for a Hindu pilgrimage. 

Now, Indian Muslims in Ujjain are working to repair their centuries-old building.

Taking away corporations power to buy elections

How do you get money out of politics without overturning Citizens United? Montana and Hawaii have a solution.

The I-194 ballot initiative would stop artificial persons, including corporations, from contributing to campaigns and political parties.

It could change America as we know it.

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Europe Is Waking Up - The Oligarchs Are Panicking

Europe is on fire and according to the EU oligarchs it is all the fault of the Muslims!

Who would ever be surprised by that!

Richest place in the USA

Billionaires hide in plain sight in America’s richest county.

But the workers who keep the town running can no longer afford to live there. Half commute an hour through a canyon just to get to work.

Jackson Hole tells the story of wealth inequality playing out everywhere. 

Ukraine's cops losing public respect & support

By Marta Havryshko (Ukraine)

This is a police officer photographed during recent events outside a secret Azov facility in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, near Kyiv, where beaten men were reportedly discovered and protests erupted.

He has become a symbol of how ordinary Ukrainians increasingly see the police: as an institution serving the interests of Zelensky’s corrupt regime and enforcing its machinery of forced mobilization.

Police officers appear in almost every video of the notorious busification raids — Ukraine’s brutal practice of snatching men off the streets and dragging them into military vans. 

They twist men’s arms behind their backs. They carry them by their hands and feet and throw them into vans like sacks of human cargo.

They hunt down soldiers who have gone AWOL and hold them in places like this shadowy facility in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka.

They lie to protesters and journalists about the whereabouts of detained men. They obstruct medical personnel trying to provide the care they are legally entitled to.

They fail to protect journalists and protesters from [Nazi] Azov’s baton-wielding "vigilantes" — thugs who attack civilians in the name of defending Azov’s supposedly spotless reputation.

This is the hideous face of Zelensky’s regime: a regime that, in its insatiable hunger for ever more power, is steadily devouring what remains of its own people's trust.

The more power it grabs, the more legitimacy it loses.

Read more about this issue here 

Elon Musk and corruption

The U.S. was supposed to spend $40 billion to build internet in rural America, then Elon Musk got a huge chunk of that money redirected to Starlink.

He made hundreds of millions, while countless people still don't have good internet.

We went to Louisiana where kids can't do their homework, schools can't support their students, and businesses struggle without a reliable connection.  

Remembering George Carlin

Beyond the comedy specials and the spotlight lies the true core of George Carlin’s work: a sharp, clinical examination of human hubris, institutional control, and the illusions of modern freedom.

"There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past."

— George Carlin  

Election sweeps out GOP, Musk worried, More EU craziness

• Newly elected Governor of Texas Gina Hinojosa is from Brownsville, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. Massive turnout from the Hispanic population ensured her victory against the very corrupt Republican political machine. She is the first elected Democrat Governor in Texas in many years.
• Newsweek: US Army soldiers are training to bury fellow troops in temporary graves en masse for the first time in decades, rehearsing how the US military would respond if it sustained a high number of casualties while fighting a still-blazing war. Soldiers with the 3rd Corps Sustainment Command and the 20th Engineer Brigade, based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as well as religious support personnel like military chaplains, used diggers and excavators to see how effectively they could be used to help preserve bodies intact until they could be identified and repatriated to the US. The US Army hasn't needed to do this on a large scale since the Korean War, the Army said in a statement. "This exercise allowed us to take a critical look at how we respect, honor, and systematically manage our fallen in a high-intensity conflict," Sergeant 1st Class Delbert Ruede, from the 3rd Corps Sustainment Command, said in a statement. 

• Fotros Resistance: The US military confirms they struck Qeshm Island and claim Iran first targeted a US fighter jet, which prompted the attack. Additionally, the Iranian Army spokesman has just issued a statement warning the US. Brig. General Akraminia says any renewed US aggression will be met with an immediate, devastating, and more extensive response than before. Should a new war break out, the geographical scope of the conflict will not remain confined to West Asia. In the event of renewed military adventurism, US facilities, equipment, personnel, and interests wherever they are within reach could become targets of retaliation.

• Iran’s top security chief Mohsen Rezaei says US response to Iran’s demands was unsatisfactory. He said: “The United States’ response to Iran’s rights and demands was not satisfactory. The US must fully and explicitly address all 7 of Iran’s conditions and comply with them. Only then will the Strait of Hormoz be reopened.”
• Trump: 'I am not looking to kill a large number of Iranian people, but if we have to, we’d have to.' Nearly three-quarters of Americans who voted in Tuesday’s midterm elections (74%) said that Trump’s illegal war of choice on Iran was a significant factor in their vote, a figure that opponents of US militarism said underscored the need for the Democrats to become a true anti-war party.

• Sovereignista: China possesses a system designed to interfere with Starlink satellites, operating on the same principle as Russia’s Volna-Kupol-Garant electronic warfare complex, Russian defense engineer Dmitry Kuzyakin tells Sputnik. “Starlink is an instrument of external influence that must be controlled,” Kuzyakin warned, adding that countries should be able to restrict satellite communications over their territory. The Russian system uses directed radio interference against Starlink satellites passing overhead, disrupting their connections with ground terminals within a designated area. Kuzyakin says China possesses a comparable capability, although its technical specifications remain undisclosed.
• “There is no way to sugarcoat that Democrats taking control especially over the Senate will create some major hurdles for AI and tech legislation in the Beltway over the next two years,” Elon Musk loyalist and tech analyst Dan Ives said in a note on Wednesday morning. A sulking Musk [who donated $458 million to the Republicans for the midterm elections] is already looking to move on from the humiliation, actively distancing himself from the major data center push. “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now,” he tweeted after many hours of uncharacteristic silence, referring to SpaceX’s plans to develop orbital data centers. “Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time,” he added in a separate post. 

• The US & its Arab proxy countries have installed additional air defense systems since the last war, in preparation for the new war with Iran. 3 Patriot air defense batteries have been installed in Kuwait. 3 Patriot air defense batteries have been deployed in the UAE. Iran shot down its 56th MQ-9 drone over the Strait of Hormoz at 4:30 AM.  Iran’s air defenses also shot down its 15th American MQ-1 drone above Qeshm Island by a new, advanced air defense system, says the IRGC. 
• An alliance of leftwing European political parties, co-founded by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, has lost access to its bank account. The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) said on Tuesday that its account was “closed suddenly and without warning” on 8 October, and the group has lost access to tens of thousands of euros. The organisation has not named the bank, citing legal reasons, but spokesperson Erik Edman said the account was held in Belgium. This is 'democracy' in the EU? 
• Simplicius: The fact is, Trump’s undoing came from the classic folly of ignoring his electorate while switching to the biddings of his globalist donor class. This class’s only role is to push war, as war is the eternal tool of survival for the bankster cartel. And thus, the wisdom of the crowd was replaced with the behest of the bagmen. This has been a growing trend in political leaders across the world. Last week, Italian defense minister Guido Crosetto shocked audiences when he told an interviewer that he doesn’t care if the public disagrees with Italy’s military support for Ukraine, as their opinion doesn’t matter. Not long after, Germany’s reviled Chancellor Merz likewise explained that his historically low approval rating is owed to the fact that he doesn’t care what the German public thinks of him, an odd remark for someone allegedly elected to represent the public mandate. Merz says, “If I weren’t involved in this conflict, my personal approval ratings would be better. But I have no intention of becoming the nation’s darling.” The most important remaining questions revolve around what will the new Democrat control mean for the Ukraine war. Will the Dems now sabotage Trump’s peace efforts and attempt at rapprochement with Russia, funneling renewed money and support to a fatally-wounded Ukraine?

• Michael Salla: President Trump yesterday issued a Proclamation that declares  America is destined to lead humanity to the farthest reaches of outer space and "forging an interplanetary civilization." Amid great uncertainty about when and how much will be disclosed about UFOs and extraterrestrial life, one thing is certain. Humanity is now on track to become an interplanetary civilization through Trump's space initiatives such as US Space Force, US Space Command, the Artemis Accords, and Operation Olympic Defender. Pax Americana wishes to move 4th Reich tyranny into our solar system and beyond. 

• Yves Engler: The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Russia must be reinstated to international hockey competitions. The court overturned a ban imposed following Russia’s [military operation into] Ukraine in 2022. The Russian Ice hockey federation said they plan to participate in the World Junior Hockey tournament in Alberta, which begins in six weeks. On Tuesday Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada will ignore the court ruling and deny entry to Russian and Belarusian athletes so long as there’s a war in Ukraine. Yet Canada opposes Israel’s exclusion from sports or song competitions. Amidst the genocide IOF veterans have competed in the Invictus Games in Vancouver, Canada played Israel in tennis in Halifax and the Israel Premier Tech cycling team competed at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal. Additionally, notes Ben Thompson, Israelis competed at Skate Canada International, World Skydiving Championships, Artistic Swimming World Cup and Maccabi Games in Canada. A former IOF soldier also played an MLS match in Montreal.

• Deb Haaland was elected as Governor of New Mexico. She is the first Native American to ever become a state governor. She served as US Secretary of the Interior from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the US representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 2019 to 2021. Haaland is a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe. 

Bangladesh workers need fair wages

After days of protests, garment workers in Bangladesh have won a timeline for a wage review. But they still don't know how much their pay will increase.

These workers make clothes for global brands like Zara, H&M and Walmart. Yet garment workers in Bangladesh earn some of the lowest wages in the industry.

Will it be enough to satisfy rising costs of living?