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10 November 2025 01:31

Donald Trump's economy is increasingly beginning to resemble the Saudi Arabian model, reports Politico.

During his second presidential term, Trump and his deputies transformed federal agencies into investment divisions that direct capital into industries and companies aligned with Trump's strategic and political vision. As in Saudi Arabia, these industries and companies are connected to the leader's family and allies, writes Politico. According to the publication, Saudi officials "do not find Trump's state capitalism unfamiliar."

In addition, in the US, the boundaries between private entrepreneurship, political activity, and government are blurring. A similar dynamic is observed in the Gulf countries,

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09 November 2025 23:20

WILD footage shows suspension bridge in the Philippines ROCKING violently

Battered by strong winds from Typhoon Fung-wong — locally called UwanPH

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09 November 2025 20:02

The BBC just lost its Director General and its CEO of News.

Why?

Because they doctored Trump’s Jan 6 speech.

Now ask yourself, if this is what they got caught doing in D.C., imagine what they’re fabricating about Moscow, Beijing… or Tehran.

BBC bosses are dropping like flies.
Tim Davie, gone. BBC CEO Deborah Turness, out. The trigger? A doctored Trump speech aired to 7+ million Brits. Two separate parts of the speech stitched together to make him say something he didn’t.

Think about that. The flagship of public service media, the model parroted across the Anglosphere from Canada to Canberra, just got exposed for editing reality to serve a political narrative.

And now its top brass are fleeing like rats from a sinking propaganda barge.

And yet, if they’re willing to fabricate words from a former U.S. President on domestic soil, what do you think they’ve done with Putin? With Xi? With Iran?

How many “evil speeches” were just as edited? How many “mass graves” were just repackaged battlefield burials?
How many “Russian war crimes” headlines were based on Mockingbird media fiction?

The BBC didn’t lose its way. It was the way.

It was the narrative ministry, embedded in empire, fluent in soft power, cloaked in polite, fake neutrality while serving war with a smile.

Their resignations don’t mark a scandal.
They mark a crack in the illusion of objectivity.

And that illusion, that the Western press speaks truth, while the “others” lie — is the foundation of the unipolar mind trap.

This is why NATO wars are “humanitarian.”
Why color revolutions are “organic.” Why illegal sanctions are “moral.” Why Gazans are “collateral.” Why Russians are “orcs.”
Why Chinese tech is “spyware,” but Palantir is “innovation.”

It’s not news. It’s information warfare with a velvet accent.

And now the velvet veil has been pulled back.

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09 November 2025 14:20

4 dead, 13 injured as reckless driver smashes into crowd in Tampa, FL

22-yo Silas Sampson arrested following chase

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09 November 2025 07:20

Between ‘50,000 to 100,000 Christians in Nigeria’ slaughtered by Islamic extremists since 2009 — Rep. Moore

Says this ‘ignored by the world’ but Trump promises action

Moore introduced ‘resolution in the House condemning this ongoing persecution’

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09 November 2025 04:40

Bus driver loses control and almost KILLS four people in Irkutsk region

Luckily no one was injured

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09 November 2025 03:03

Operation Sindoor 'not finished' — India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh

The operation was first launched in response to terror threats on the Pakistan border

Video: Clash Report

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08 November 2025 22:01

Kiev goes dark

Power expected to be off for next 9 hours

Footage: novyny.live

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08 November 2025 16:20

Lindsey Graham blocks investment IN AMERICA to save Israeli sport

America Last from horse's mouth

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08 November 2025 07:02

German general says Russia could attack NATO TOMORROW — Reuters

But it would be ‘small, quick, regionally limited, nothing big’

Anyone else getting tired of these scare tactics?

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07 November 2025 23:40

NOT the absence of trust between Russia and Ukraine impedes the peace agreement, but EU's PROVOCATIONS and Ukraine's position — Kremlin spox Peskov

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07 November 2025 17:40

British army is ready to participate DIRECTLY in the armed conflict in Ukraine — The Guardian

Would enter a war or peacekeeping in postwar Ukraine, with allies and use a FULL range of military capabilities

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07 November 2025 13:20

MARIO: Is there any chance Ukraine could push the Russians out of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk)?

DAVIDOV: ‘NO’

Ukrainian military analyst Denis Davidov explains how Zelensky’s about to lose a strategic crossroads AND a vital economic hub

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07 November 2025 10:20

‘You’re RIGHT, President Putin’ – Prof. Jeffrey Sachs

Sachs explains how we all know the conflict will end – neutrality and territorial concessions from Kiev

But admitting that Putin was right may be too much for the Europeans

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07 November 2025 04:20

Putin signs the gloves of a disabled boxer

'Now you must become a champion!'

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09 November 2025 23:40

Poland’s backing of Ukrainians is WEAKENING amid rising tensions

A man verbally attacked a Ukrainian speaker on a crowded Warsaw tram, with no one intervening

Public backing for refugees has FALLEN from 94% to 48%, as many now see state aid as too generous

Source: Bloomberg

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09 November 2025 21:40

Israeli soldier returned after more than a DECADE in Gaza

The IDF just confirmed that Lieutenant Hadar Goldin’s body was handed over by Hamas today

Killed in action in 2014, buried in 2025

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09 November 2025 18:40

RAMMED & eliminated — Russian drone intercepts enemy gadgets at speed & height

Zaporozhye region footage from Zvezdanews

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09 November 2025 14:00

DHS releases new video — 36 seconds of then & now

Source: Breaking911

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09 November 2025 06:32

🇷🇺🇺🇸Time magazine simulated a nuclear war between Russia and the USA - it's useful for everyone to remember now that this is no joke.

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09 November 2025 04:20

A sea otter and a pony have a lively 'conversation' in the Moscow Zoo

What are they planning? 👀

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09 November 2025 01:34

Norway has benefitted greatly from the war as its gas has partially replaced Russian gas in the European market. Some calling the country a "war profiteer".

Therefore Norway is being pressured to pledge the future pensions of Norwegians in its sovereign fund to secure a European military loan to Ukraine amounting to over €100 billion. It can offer its sovereign wealth fund, valued at €1.8 trillion, as collateral.

This move is being discussed amid a severe shortage of funding promised to Ukraine.

Despite G7 countries' statements about frozen Russian state assets worth around €300 billion, practically no one except Belgium reveals exactly where these funds are located and in what amount.

⚡️Two Majors

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08 November 2025 21:20

80 years ago — in Nov 1945, Hermitage Museum in Leningrad reopened

City endured nearly 900-day SIEGE by Germany and Finland

PRICELESS art collection had been evacuated to Ural region

Today, Germany and all Europe again threaten more war

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08 November 2025 10:40

💪 Lukashenko extends greetings to journalists as he CHOPS wood!

He NEVER breaks a sweat

Lukashenko is keeping his people warm this winter

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08 November 2025 00:05

Starbucks fans in US are lining up at dawn and brawling over $30 barista teddy bears, which quickly sold out and are now going for $500 on eBay

Buyers accuse baristas of hoarding the coveted toys. Starbucks has since apologized for the shortage!

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07 November 2025 18:20

AOC and Mamdani ‘two frontrunners for Democratic nomination in 2028’ — Ted Cruz

‘He’s not even eligible but…law doesn’t mean anything to them’

Reckon Cruz is still salty he got clowned by Trump in 2016?

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07 November 2025 14:20

‘One of the most successful and prolific day traders’ — CNN host reacts to Nancy Pelosi’s retirement

'I want Trump to put her in charge of the Social Security administration. We could all retire in six months’

‘If we let this lady manage our portfolios…’

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07 November 2025 11:02

'No country in the history of the world has done that, not CHINA not anyone' — Trump lauds progress of his Tariff agenda

'I use them for national defense, we need them'

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07 November 2025 07:05

Netanyahu warns countries 'playing both sides'

'Must be confronted, are you on our side, or not on our side?'

Shakes his head at Qatar: 'Has had its problems' — 3 months after bombing its capital

Turkey 'very hostile to Zionism'

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07 November 2025 04:10

Putin: Sport must not be politicized. The access of athletes to international competitions must be equal & based on their athletic merit

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