EU summit: Zelensky brings begging bowl to Brussels under Trump cloud

from RT

Vladimir Zelensky has put the pressure on his European backers by joining the second day of an EU summit in Brussels, in the week he chose to lash out at US President Donald Trump, and as European leaders grapple with soaring energy bills and the prospect of a difficult winter.

The gathered EU leaders will unlikely welcome having been effectively cornered into backing Zelensky’s “forever war” policy while attempting to secure ongoing US support in a week that protests and national strikes over pay and public services intensified across the continent.

Democrats plot major escalation of Ukraine war after midterm election

from WSWS

The midterm elections in the United States, now less than three weeks away, are expected to deliver a repudiation of US President Donald Trump and his policies of war, dictatorship and social austerity. Trump’s approval rating is at a record low.

While appealing to working-class anger over the cost of living and social inequality, the Democrats are making clear that their central priority is a massive and catastrophic escalation of the war against Russia. The Democrats agree with Trump’s assault on social programs and the working class. Their conflict with Trump turns above all on what they claim is his insufficiently aggressive and consistent pursuit of the global interests of American imperialism.

Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, speaking for the party’s leadership at the Warsaw Security Forum on October 13, declared that a Democratic Congress “means that aid packages [to Ukraine] move not in nine months, but in nine days or nine weeks.” “If Democrats gain control on Capitol Hill, renewed Ukraine aid will be a priority,” the trade publication Breaking Defense wrote, reporting his remarks...

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Secret and ‘Illegal’ Trump Plan to Spin Off Federal Student Aid Office Sparks Outrage

from Common Dreams

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to remove the Federal Student Aid office from the Department of Education and establish a new independent agency tasked with managing roughly $1.6 trillion in debt owed by more than 40 million borrowers.

The plan, first reported by The Washington Sun on Thursday, comes as President Donald Trump works to illegally dismantle the Education Department without congressional authorization and assails student aid programs. Legally spinning off the Federal Student Aid office—the largest segment of the Education Department—would require an act of Congress, something that administration officials have “acknowledged internally,” according to the Sun.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, expressed outrage over the administration’s reported plan, noting that the Trump administration has already gutted the student aid office’s staff.

“Tens of millions of Americans are depending on government to actually work here,” Murray said in a statement. “This intentional sabotage only threatens to create true financial chaos in people’s lives.”...

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Would a Democratic Congress change US policy on Iran, Palestine?

from al Mayadeen English

With the November 3 US midterm elections approaching amid mounting economic pressure and growing public opposition to the US-Israeli war on Iran, the possibility of Democrats regaining control of Congress has prompted debate over whether an electoral shift could alter Washington's policies toward West Asia.

Since Washington and "Israel" launched their military aggression against Iran on February 28, 2026, the confrontation has evolved into a prolonged regional crisis, disrupting global energy supplies, straining American military resources, and exposing the costs of Washington's regional security commitments.

The repercussions have extended into US domestic politics, where rising fuel prices and dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump's handling of the war have provided Democrats with an opportunity to challenge Republican leadership...

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Trump Cancels Planned Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution

(A couple ways to look at this. First, the pending False Flag op wasn't fully sanctioned so they put it on hold or maybe they figured they didn't need them anymore to gin up support for a full on war on Iran. Second, and I believe more probable, they understood (from posts like my previous ones) that there was a serious flaw in their design. The illegal (according to military code) broadcast of an execution to the public all of a sudden and out of the blue (Hasan supposedly did it 17 years ago) would be so out of place and off the wall it would be obvious they were trying to bait a violent response from some 'sleeper cell' they make up. In short, it would be an obvious pretext to their false flag(s?)... so now what? It could be nothing or it could be the video is released by someone and they get Max Blumenthal to write up another bullshit story about how it got out and triggered the 'Islamists'  This is a better narrative because it doesn't appear so contrived nor will it open the DoD to pending lawsuits.) 

from the NYT

President Trump on Thursday canceled the Pentagon’s planned livestream of the execution of the Army officer who was convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting.

Pentagon officials said last week that the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood, Texas, would be broadcast via livestream, a decision Mr. Trump initially said he supported.

But in private, Mr. Trump quickly began to deliberate with his advisers amid widespread criticism of the decision, and learned after the announcement that Mr. Hasan is paralyzed, according to several people familiar with his thinking. The president’s main concern was whether broadcasting the execution would deter other mass shootings, according to a White House official who was granted anonymity to discuss his thinking.

In a social media post on Thursday, Mr. Trump said he still believed that a televised execution would be a “strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with terrorists and SCUM,” but that “many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device.”...

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Russia to Respond to Ukraine's Attacks on Oil Refineries, Logistics, Energy Facilities - Putin

(Zelensky has done this from the start. He never accepts any kind of easing of tensions preferring to jack up the violence against Russia in order to keep the conflict going at any cost. And why not? He's pocketing millions of dollars along the way making himself filthy rich while throwing Ukrainians into a meat grinder... all for the benefit of the Epstein class across the world.) 

from Sputnik News

Russia will respond to Ukraine's attacks on its oil refineries, logistics and energy facilities, there was no need for Ukraine to start them in the first place, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

 

"Yesterday they tried to strike some oil refineries. Now they’ve hit a few places there. Nothing particularly significant, but they keep going. It is the same with e-commerce platforms - they have taken the first step, we have started responding now, and they are already weeping about energy, including military installations, data centers, and so on. They started, they should not have started in the first place," Putin said at the forum-congress of the all-Russian public organisation Business Russia. 

 

Ukraine is asking its sponsors to put pressure on Russia to stop retaliatory strikes in response to the steps it has taken, Putin added...

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Defying Trump, Zelensky Says Ukraine Will Resume Russian Refinery Strikes

from the New York Times

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s anger at the Trump administration burst into view on Thursday when he said he would no longer abide by President Trump’s demand to stop striking Russian oil refineries.

It was a remarkably vocal expression by the Ukrainian leader of frustration with the United States, as Kyiv grapples with what it sees as a betrayal by Washington.

Mr. Zelensky’s remarks, in an interview with The Financial Times published on Thursday, brought to a head days of mounting tensions with the Trump administration. It drew expressions of support from European allies in Brussels, but could be a risky move for a country that has depended heavily on U.S. support.

In the interview, Mr. Zelensky appeared baffled by Mr. Trump’s decisions, criticizing Mr. Trump for making deals with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and for openly admiring dictators who have clung to power. Mr. Putin, the Ukrainian leader said, is “real evil.”...

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Elon Musk is top 2026 midterm donor with $366 mln in spending

(A junkie Nazi throwing around nearly half a billion dollars to keep an ignorant flatulent malignant narcissist pedophile in office so he can continue to tear the country apart... this is where we are today.)

from al Mayadeen English

Tech mogul Elon Musk has become the largest donor of the 2026 US midterm cycle, putting about $366 million into Republican groups and conservative causes, according to figures due in a federal filing on Thursday.

More than $276 million of that total has come since July, which makes it one of the fastest bursts of political spending in US history, The Guardian reported. The New York Times first published the numbers, which Musk’s representatives shared ahead of the filing deadline. The cycle total already exceeds the more than $290 million he spent in the 2024 election, according to OpenSecrets.

Musk’s biggest single contribution was $158 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC working to keep Republican control of the Senate. No individual had given the group more in a single quarter, and the sum alone was larger than everything its Democratic counterpart raised over the same period, NYT reported...

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MAGA: A 'Special' Kind of Brownshirt (video)

MAGA A 'Special' Kind of Brownshirt  https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/10/maga-special-kind-of-brownshirt.html

Aletho News article  https://alethonews.com/2026/10/15/leading-israeli-think-tank-publishes-psychotic-israeli-national-security-doctrine/

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MAGA: A 'Special' Kind of Brownshirt

by Scott Creighton

 

The other day at a Trump vanity rally in Ohio, after he danced his two-dick dance to a gay anthem, TrumpyBear came out to his dwindling crowd of sub-80s (IQ) and gave them what they came for: a large dose of 'you're special' and Two Minutes Hate.

 

In the crowd, seated, being yelled at and bullied by America's Finest Brownshirts, there sat a lone woman wearing a shirt that read 'Release the Epstein Files' (like he promised and like those same sub-80s voted for not that long ago)

Why the anger? Why the rage? Well that's up to the viewer to decide but it may have something to do with this: