Saudis & Ukraine losing wars, EU broke, NATO confused, No Nobel Prize 4 Trump

• Language discrimination in Ukraine: In Kiev a group of Nazis patrolled the book market and seized books in Russian, humiliating and threatening the booksellers for speaking and reading on the "wrong" language. 

• Kharkov, Ukraine: No clothes, no worries. Zelensky’s meat hunters tear the ‘Ukrainian patriot’s’ clothes off and then ship him off to die for Zelensky. Such western values are strong in ‘free’ and ‘democratic’ Ukraine. 

• 'If attacked, we are ready to fight tonight': General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, is trying to find a justification for the 'alliance' to exist. Fight against who? Well, the Russians of course - the same Russians Trump says he is buying diesel fuel from!

• The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant continues to face difficulties in restoring external power supply. The head of Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev, stated that ongoing attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces are hindering the repair of equipment on the "Ferrosplavnaya" and "Dnepro" power lines. 

• Oh boy .. the man wants his Nobel – any prize will do. 'My diesel deal with Russia is not really a deal for me. It’s a deal FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD’ claims Trump'. 

• Kit Klarenberg: Absolute clown shit. Israel and Saudi Arabia have openly been conjoined at the hip for a decade.  But the CIA-riddled Pakistani military that coups anyone the West doesn’t like [including Imran Kahn] was shocked I tell you! No serious person could possibly believe this rubbish. Pakistani military officers were shocked when they traveled to Saudi Arabia to find Israeli advisors taking part in intelligence meetings under CENTCOM.

• Simplicius: For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space. That journey costs about $80 million, compared with $74 million for a standard SpaceX Falcon 9 launch, shipbroker Gibson said this week. The same amount of money could have bought a near-identical tanker outright earlier this year. The eye-watering prices are the result of a global tanker shortage that is getting worse with every additional barrel of oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.

• Yves Engler: According to a recent official lobbying report, B’nai Brith is pressing Public Safety Canada to “conduct a national security review of organizations, networks, and entities that promote, finance, facilitate, or legitimize extremist ideologies.” They’ve held formal meetings with government officials to promote their authoritarian position. In fact, hundreds of Jewish entities and organizations “promote, finance, facilitate, or legitimize” the extremist ideology of genocidal Jewish supremacist colonialism.
• Fotros Resistance: Days ago the Baku government announced it is not allowing female teachers to wear hijab at school. The Azerbaijani government is now demanding girls to also remove their hijabs. All hijabi women and girls have been kicked out from school, both students and teachers. Many men and women have already been arrested. The Baku government is oppressing Muslims even though the majority are Muslim. 

• Crowds flood Bangkok’s streets to protest World Bank and IMF: The rally drew over a thousand people. It coincides with the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group, being held in the Thailand capital from October 12-18. The demonstrators accuse the international financial institutions of deepening the country’s debt dependence, widening social inequality, and backing environmentally harmful projects. “Stop capital that is destroying the world! The people determine their own future! No to the World Bank and the IMF!” reads the demonstrators’ slogans. Police have blocked the demonstrators’ route to the meeting venue, yet organizers vow that the protests will continue. 

• Saudi Arabia called literally every country in the world (this is not an overstatement) to try and find support of any kind for their 12-year war against Yemen and Ansarallah. They even begged the Iranians to intervene with Ansarallah and parley for a one month ceasefire. Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi said absolutely not. The Yemenis are only interested in Saudi stopping their war on Yemen and the blockade lifted and a lasting peace agreement. (Does this make you think that they may have taken some advice from Russia? Yemen sourced comments say they are carrying out a SMO in Saudi Arabia). 

• Politico reports that Zelensky is now fighting to regain attention from a Europe that has become fatigued with pulling the stiffening corpse of the Ukrainian state along the muddy road of its own future. Zelensky says to EU "The war will cost €155 billion next year. And we need at least another €70 billion from you for defense, weapons and our resilience. This is a realistic amount. And I ask you to find this support. It will help us deter Russia."