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01 November 2025 22:35

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Gulyaipole-Pokrovskoye direction, Russian troops captured all towns and villages east of the Yanchur river and captured all but two settlements on the other side.

To the north, Russian troops entered the villages of Alexeevka and Novoalexandrovka.

With the fall of Novoalexandrovka, this puts the Russian Army 6.2 miles (10 km) away from Pokrovskoye, a major supply hub which, up until two months ago, was deep in Ukraine's rear and critical for the city of Gulyaipole to the south and the south-Donetsk sector which was conquered.

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01 November 2025 21:59

🇺🇸❌🇳🇬 Trump threatens to halt aid to Nigeria and invade it if it doesn't begin tackling the rampant islamic terror attacks on Christians in the country.

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01 November 2025 20:21

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 The USS San Antonio (LPD-17) was spotted at dock on the island St. Croix, US Virgin Islands on October 30th on the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellite imagery.

The USS San Antonio (LPD-17) amphibious transport dock was seen docked in Frederiksted, St. Croix, today, November 1st.

🔗 SA Defensa

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01 November 2025 19:35

🇺🇸 Warren Buffett’s cash pile is now larger than the market cap of all but 30 public companies in the world.

What is Buffett waiting for?

🔗 Kobeissi Letter

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01 November 2025 18:04

— 🇮🇱 NEW: Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who has an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, says that during his tenure, he ordered an investigation into the leak of the video of Israeli soldiers raping prisoners in Sde Teiman and to bring the leaker 'to justice'

He criticizes the IDF's chief lawyer, who submitted a resignation letter over the investigation into the video.

So far, the outrage in the Israeli political class and society is not due to the fact that IDF soldiers sexually assault prisoners, but rather the fact that a video of them doing so has leaked.

High-profile cases of rape, including the rape of children, are prevalent in Israel. In June, there was a scandal involving top rabbis and Knesset members who had engaged in the sexual abuse of children.

In 2011, a study revealed that 61% of Israeli men do not consider forced sex with an acquaintance to be rape.

A few years ago, it was reported that out of 654 Thai foreign workers in Israel who were questioned, every single one, meaning 100% of them, reported that they had been sexually abused by Israelis.

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01 November 2025 18:02

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 53% of Latin Americans say they would support a U.S. military intervention “to depose Nicolás Maduro and his government.” Among the Venezuelan diaspora surveyed, 64% back the action.

🔗 Atlas Intel

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01 November 2025 17:57

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 The planned limited and surgical bombing campaign of Venezuela will be the most powerful U.S. bombing campaign since the 1998 bombing of Iraq!

Even without the USS Gerald Ford Carrier Strike Group present, there are more Tomahawk cruise missiles in the Caribbean than the missiles used against the Houthis in the past year.

When the USS Gerald Ford and its escorts arrive in the Caribbean though, the firepower will overshadow the intervention in Libya however, this firepower will still fall short of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

The 1999 NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia's impact on the decision of Slobodan Milošević's decision to withdraw from Kosovo and sign the Kumanovo Agreement is debatable. Milošević signed the agreement only after the Russian envoy, Viktor Chernomyrdin, gave him guarantees that Kosovo would not declare independence for at least 3 years and that Russian peacekeepers will be deployed in Prishtina.

The bombing although "surgical" still left a lot of Serbian civilians dead and some bombings might even be considered war crimes, such as the Grdelica train bombing, NATO bombing of Albanian refugees near Đakovica, NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters and The bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

Despite much of Yugoslavia's infrastructure being destroyed in the bombing, Milošević and the Yugoslav Army were determined to continue the war until the Kumanovo Agreement with guarantees from Russia. Milošević lasted one more year in power after that until he lost the 2000 presidential elections which he gave up on because the Yugoslav Army hinted that they would stand aside and allow the transfer of power.

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01 November 2025 15:04

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Why is Ukraine doing a last stand in Pokrovsk-Myrnograd?

According to Ukrainian Telegram channel affiliated with the Ukrainian military, Kyianyn the fall of Pokrovsk and Myrnograd "opens the road" to the city of Pavlograd and would "seal the fate" of the Donbas. In the same post, they call for the immediate replacement of the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, Alexander Syrsky, holding him responsible for the disaster unfolding in Ukraine's east.

Pokrovsk sits in western Donbass on the M30/E50 corridor. Although the Donbass is often reduced to Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts, the Donets Coal Basin runs westward toward Pavlograd in Dnepropetrovsk oblast. The M30 links Donetsk–Pokrovsk–Pavlograd–Dnepropetrovsk and has also been the main Kiev–Donetsk route. Together with the secondary M03 from Kharkov, this corridor fed the entire AFU grouping across the Donbass.

When Pokrovsk lay well behind the line it served as an excellent operational rear for Ukrainian forces around Donetsk, Gorlovka and Artemovsk/Bakhmut, tied directly by road and rail to Pavlograd (the strategic rear, and site of repeated Russian strikes on rail infrastructure since 2023; ongoing). The role of Pokrovsk shifted from operational rear, to tactical rear, to contested battlespace. In the coming months, the city is going to turn into Russia's tactical rear, and then Russia's operational rear.

West of Pokrovsk lies a long stretch of open steppe before Pavlograd to the northwest and Zaporozhye further south-west. The city's capture opens operational depth for the "Center" army group, enabling either continuation along the M30 toward Pavlograd or lateral maneuvers north/south across western Donbass, with shorter interior lines from Donetsk.

Crucially, Pokrovsk is a major rail node, one of the two arteries that historically supplied the Slavyansk–Kramatorsk agglomeration. Once secured, cleared, and repaired, control of the Pokrovsk junction unlocks the entire Donbass railway web for Russia.

After full capture, Pokrovsk becomes a natural logistics hub for Russia: a forward distribution point on the M30/E50, a marshalling and repair base on the Donbass rail grid, and a staging area that shortens supply lines for further advances. Its industry can likewise be repurposed for fuel storage, ammunition handling, vehicle repair, and medical evacuation nodes.

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30 October 2025 20:46

🇨🇳🇺🇸 U.S. and China Suspend Tit-for-Tat Port Fees By One Year

The US and China have agreed to suspend tit-for-tat shipping levies on vessels linked to the other for one year, according to Beijing, deescalating a dispute that has become a sticking point in their wider trade war.

📝Tom Shugart: Given that there are very few U.S.-built/-owned ships going to PRC ports anyway, & that the whole point of the USTR investigation was to counter PRC shipping dominance, this is hardly a tit-for-tat U.S. concession—it's de facto unilateral, and an acceptance of that dominance.

🔗 https://gcaptain.com/u-s-and-china-suspend-tit-for-tat-port-fees-by-one-year/

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30 October 2025 20:11

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "It is likely Israel will launch a preventive attack against Hezbollah, which is growing stronger and has begun to pump weapons into wide areas of southern Lebanon," - Yossi Eliazer, Israeli journalist for 301.

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30 October 2025 20:05

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel has informed the United States that the pace of Israeli strikes on Lebanon will increase," - Israeli Channel 11.

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30 October 2025 20:00

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China’s rare earth exports to the U.S. have collapsed.

Just 5,552 metric tonnes so far this year, down 26% from last year’s 7,446. That’s the lowest in five years. Beijing’s using rare earths as leverage, and they know exactly what they’re doing.

China controls 92% of global refining and 98% of magnet production. Analysts say it would take the West ten years to even challenge that dominance.

Deng Xiaoping saw it coming in 1992 when he said, “The Middle East has its oil, China has rare earths.” He wasn’t joking.

China mines most of it, processes most of it, and makes nearly all the magnets that power jets, missiles, and smartphones.

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30 October 2025 19:15

🇺🇸 The ratio of the equal-weighted S&P 500 to the S&P 500 index has dropped to 1.11, the lowest since May 2003.

It now sits well below the 2008 Financial Crisis low of ~1.18.

The decline has accelerated as the equal-weighted S&P 500 has underperformed the cap-weighted index for 5 consecutive trading sessions.

The ratio has been falling rapidly since the 2022 bear market bottomed, with this ratio at ~1.50.

A similar underperformance was seen during the late 1990s.

Large-cap tech is everything.

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30 October 2025 18:25

🇺🇸🇵🇱 The U.S. will not be reducing its military presence in Poland, as told by the Polish defense minister, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz who received assurances from War Secretary, Pete Hegseth.

Rumours of a bigger American troop withdrawal from Europe were spreading on social media yesterday after the U.S. and Romanian officials announced that the U.S. would halve its garrison in Romania.

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30 October 2025 18:12

🇺🇸 The American home price-to-income ratio reaches a record 4.4x, surpassing even the 2006 bubble peak of 4.1x. This is now the highest ratio recorded.

🔗 EUROPA

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01 November 2025 22:27

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Volchansk sector, Russian troops resumed assaults three weeks ago and have finished conquering the ruins of the city's western districts and broke into the village of Synelnykove.

Capturing Volchansk will permit the Russian army to advance towards the town of Beliy Kolodez and Stariy Saltov.

Russian troops are also attacking across the Oskol river near the town of Dvurichnaya towards the town of Veliky Burluk.

These offensives threaten Ukrainian control over the northeast corner of the Kharkov oblast and have the potential to undo the September-October 2022 Ukrainian counteroffensive which saw most Russian troops abandon their positions in Kharkov Oblast.

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01 November 2025 20:39

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 USS Gerald R. Ford's escorts, USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79), USS Bulkeley (DDG 84), USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117), USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51), and USS Winston Churchill (DDG 81) were seen at the Naval Station Rota, Cádiz Province Spain. Oct 31, 2025

While the USS Gerald R. Ford will not be able to make it in time for an operation targeting Venezuela, the aircraft carrier's escorts can make it in time to the Caribbean.

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01 November 2025 20:04

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 New satellite images reveal that the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (CSG-12) is now moving west, currently located south of Sicily and about 56 miles (90km) northeast of Malta.

The USS Gerald R. Ford will thus not take part in the bombing campaign against Venezuela. This means that the U.S. will have only 115 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the ready to throw against Nicolas Maduro, which is 35 less than what the U.S. threw at Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

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01 November 2025 18:55

⚡️🇩🇰🇪🇬 Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum’s opening. Look how happy he is.

Men are simple indeed.

@medmannews

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01 November 2025 18:04

— 🇺🇸/🇸🇾 NEW: U.S. Envoy Tom Barrack says Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa will visit Washington D.C. soon

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01 November 2025 18:01

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 Map shows USS Iwo Jima off the coast of Venezuela - Sky News

🔗 Conflict Radar

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01 November 2025 15:22

🇺🇸 Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reports a record high cash balance of $381.7 billion.

Buffett sold a net -$6.1 billion worth of stock last quarter.

For the 5th-straight quarter, Berkshire has HALTED stock buybacks.

📝: What happens when the world's richest sells stocks and don't buy other ones back?

🔗 Kobeissi Letter

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01 November 2025 14:17

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In a desperate attempt to halt the Russian advance in Pokrovsk, Kiev sent a detachment of GUR special forces to the city.

They were dropped off by two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters on the city's northwestern outskirts but as soon as the helicopters left, Russian drones began picking off each GUR fighter one by one.

The counterattack failed and will have no impact on Russia's advances in this sector.

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30 October 2025 20:11

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Hezbollah is repairing its defensive and offensive capabilities and has managed to obtain short-range missiles," - Israeli Channel 11.

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30 October 2025 20:08

🇨🇳🇺🇸 The results of the U.S. — China negotiations:

1. US cancelled 10% fentanyl tariff, China will adjust countermeasures (likely meant US agricultural product tariff)

2. US suspended BIS 50% rule for 1 year, China suspended Rare Earth Export Control for 1 year

3. US suspended 301 investigation on maritime logistics (port fee) for 1 year, China suspended countermeasures (port fee) for 1 year

🔗 David Lee

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30 October 2025 20:05

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israel is considering escalating its military operation in Lebanon, Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reports.

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30 October 2025 19:52

🇺🇸🤝✡️ Here's the video of Texas DPS and Bell County Sheriff's Office showing up at my front door all because I make anti-Israel posts.

Is it free speech when Israel can just send your local cops to your door when you make posts they don't like?

📝: Knowing how heavily armed American cops are, there is a real possibility of someone being accidentally killed during one of these visits, just because they were critical of Israel or Jews in general

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30 October 2025 19:03

🇮🇳 Indian citizen, Bankim Brahmbhatt scammed BlackRock and BNP Paribas out of 552.6 million $ to fund a fake private equity fund, Carriox Capital

Brahmbhatt ran Carriox Capital, a New York telecom financing outfit that convinced BlackRock's HPS Investment Partners and BNP Paribas to lend him $552.6 million. The entire deal was built on one claim: he had legitimate receivables from T-Mobile, Telstra, BICS, Telecom Italia Sparkle, and Taiwan Mobile backing the loans.​

None of it was real. Brahmbhatt forged contracts that appeared to be signed by representatives from these carriers. He created fake invoices supposedly issued by these companies claiming they owed Carriox money. Then he spoofed email addresses mimicking these carriers' real domains and sent fake verification emails to make the receivables look legitimate. By stacking these fabricated invoices on top of each other, he created what looked like $500+ million in collateral. The lenders saw assets and funded the deal without catching any of it.​​

Here's where it gets embarrassing. When HPS and BNP Paribas finally tried to verify these receivables by actually calling T-Mobile, the carrier said they had no idea what Carriox was talking about. No contracts. No invoices. Nothing existed. One phone call would have instantly revealed the entire fraud. These are supposed to be institutional-grade lenders with world-class risk management. Yet somehow they missed basic due diligence.​

While all this was happening, Brahmbhatt's people were also stealing cash. Whenever payments came through the lender-controlled collection accounts, instead of applying those funds to the debt, they diverted the money offshore. So he wasn't just fabricating collateral. He was stealing actual cash flows in real time.​

Lenders sued in August 2025 and froze all assets. Carriox filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with $500 million to $1 billion in liabilities and basically zero assets remaining. HPS is sitting on $552.6 million in losses with nothing to recover against.​

The kicker is BlackRock acquired HPS for $12 billion in July 2025 specifically to expand into private credit and get access to its $148 billion platform. Within 90 days of closing that deal, they're holding a half-billion dollar fraud loss on receivables that HPS supposedly vetted and monitored.​

That's not just a bad deal. That's a massive question mark about whether one of the world's largest asset managers actually has the infrastructure to verify complex collateral in modern lending markets. If BlackRock's $12 trillion asset management machine can miss $500+ million in forged documents and fake invoices, what else are they missing? This is the systemic risk that should concern everyone.

🔗 Stock Market News

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30 October 2025 18:13

🇺🇸🇬🇧 Surveys find British right wing voters are more ethnocentric than their American counterparts.

Comparison between the 2025 NatCen Summer and Pew 2024 surveys also found that British left wing voters are more anti-immigration than their American peers.

🔗 EUROPA

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30 October 2025 17:55

🌱 Bill Gates thinks climate change is still a serious problem, but says it's time to focus on fighting poverty and preventing disease.

📝It’s amazing how AI came along with its massive energy needs and in a blink they just dropped the ‘climate' grift and instead of wind and solar, are now pursuing nuclear energy, which they were fighting to ban just 5 years ago.

Climate was a massive money grab by creating fake demand for an "energy transition".

Turns out China already cornered the supply of clean energy tech and AI capex follows real demand so might as well grift off that instead.

🔗 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/bill-gates-calls-climate-fight-shift-focus-curbing-126924351?cid=social_twitter_abcn