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Morning Joe's ratings are where they belong
https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/morning-joes-ratings-are-now-in-the?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/marjorie-taylor-greene-just-made-the-matt-gaetz-scandal-even-uglier/58950/

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/trump-loves-the-uneducated/58940/

Where are the Blacks
https://open.substack.com/pub/meidastouch/p/no-black-people-in-trumps-cabinetnot?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

And we get a photo of the Wrecking Crew - with Joyce Vance
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/the-week-ahead-7e0?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Joyce Vance
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/work-day?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

When they come for him it will be bad enough
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/this-is-getting-worse-for-matt-gaetz/58922/

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/joe-biden-is-a-good-man/58890/

In effort to increase civilian casualties during their nightly drone attacks on the residentusl areas of Ukraine's cities, Russia has begun to arm their Shahed drones with thermobaric warheads which pose a much greater threat when attacking indoor environments.

Upon detonation, the thermobaric mixture, forms a fire cloud with a temperature of 2400-2600°C that spreads over the entire area and creates a shock wave that burns the lungs, olfactory senses and internal organs.

While Ukraine's allies restrict the striking of Russian targets, Russia is committing open genocide.

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Goodnight Resisters everywhere

Missionary for Satan

🤡 "Missionary" from the USA stated in Moscow that for two years he had been passing data on the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Russia from Ukraine: now he is asking to be granted Russian citizenship

According to Martindale, for two years he has been passing on the coordinates of Ukrainian military facilities to Moscow. There are currently no confirmations of this information from other sources, the Ukrainian command did not comment on it.

"For the past two years, I have done everything to save the lives of Russian soldiers and provide some kind of future for Russians in Ukraine. I would like to continue doing this," Russian media quoted the American as saying.

A press conference with Daniel Martindale was held at the press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group – he introduced himself as a citizen of the United States and said that he had been in Ukraine since February 11, 2022.

During the meeting with reporters, Daniel Martindale said that he had asked for Russian citizenship. He showed his current passport, saying that he had gone through the war with it. Martindale said he was not coerced.

Martindale stated that while in Ukraine, he made contact with pro-Russian forces via Telegram and relayed information to them from the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.

The U.S. Embassy in Russia has not yet commented on the information about Martindale, Reuters notes.

Seagal, 72, had a distinctly ballooned belly in a newly released Russian propaganda film — “In The Name of Justice”

The images are some of the latest of Seagal, who was granted Russian citizenship in 2016 and has been offloading his vast portfolio of American real estate ever since.

During the documentary, Seagal's bloated belly is so large his untucked shirt hung down from his waist, being pushed out by his massive midriff. 

The 30-minute documentary, publicly available on Russian website Smotrim. ru and operated by Russian state-run broadcaster VGTRK, was released on October 10.

It follows the portly Putin partisan wandering around Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, between drone shots of rubble and bombed-out buildings.

It looks like he has eaten all the russian army provisions and is in a very poor state for his martial arts performances.

Segal was raised in America, but his grandparents were Russian immigrants, he is banned from entering Ukraine.

Link to part of the propaganda video in which Segal speaks in English not Russian.
New York Post

🇺🇦@ukraine_report 🇺🇦

Not a real human

"When there is such a war in Ukraine, I cannot stand aside."

Britney, call sign "Captain," is a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces. She served as a crew chief of a Leopard tank.

When Canada donated the first Leopard tanks to Ukraine, Britney signed a contract to train the crews as an instructor. That's where she met the Ukrainian military.

"I was very impressed by the patriotic attitude of the Ukrainian tankers and their desire to learn. When I returned from the training, I was overwhelmed with emotions. And the decision to go to help Ukraine came naturally, because I clearly realized that there is a large-scale war going on there, and I simply cannot stay away. I am a professional military woman and I have to be where my knowledge and experience will help win peace," Britney said.

Now "Captain" speaks Ukrainian well enough to understand the commander and communicate with the crew.

Britney is a gunner, but she plans to study and learn from the experience of her comrades in order to fight our common enemy more effectively and grow in her career.

"I will do my best to be effective on the battlefield and help Ukraine be free and independent," the "Captain" added.

Source: Communications Department of 25th Separate Airborne "Sicheslav" Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces

In an outrageous move, UN Secretary-General Guterres will participate in the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia according to the head of the organization’s information center in Moscow.

The event will take place from October 22 to 24, with Russia presiding over the group this year.

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US announces reward of up to $10 million for information on Russian propagandists

The United States has announced a reward of up to $10 million for information about the Russian Rybar project.

The information was published on the website of the Rewards For Justice program of the US Department of State.

According to the US authorities, the Russian project tried to interfere in the US presidential election.

“The “Rybar” relies on connections and funding from Rostec to strengthen Russia’s military capabilities and promote pro-Russian and anti-Western ideological attitudes,” the report states.

According to the United States, Rybar operates the propaganda media channels HOLDTHELINE and STANDWTHTEXAS to promote the political interests of the Russian government in the United States.

Both projects are used by supporters of pro-Republican voting in the United States, and the first of them appeared in accounts with an audience of more than a million people.

Also, according to the US, Rybar created the TEXASvsUSA account on X to exploit the issue of illegal immigrants crossing the Texas border.

This account was suspended for violating the social network’s rules. Using this account, the US authorities believe that Rybar tried to “sow discord, promote social divisions, incite partisan and racial hatred, and call for hatred and violence in the United States.”

The Rewards for Justice program offers a reward for information leading to the location of Rybar project employees who “knowingly participated or are participating in interference in the U.S. election,” as well as for information that will prevent foreign interference in the election.

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Rest in Peace Nick

An American volunteer medic, Nick Duckworth, was killed in the Pokrovsk sector

Nick started volunteering in Ukraine in early 2022. He began by evacuating civilians from contested areas, totaling nearly 3000 evacuations. He joined the 16th brigade of the Ukrainian army in late 2023 as a combat medic and was defending the Pokrovsk direction.

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Goodnight Resisters everywhere

The numerical superiority of Russian forces over Ukraine on the battlefield will likely begin to decrease by the end of this year, according to American military analyst Michael Kofman.

Kofman believes that while the Kremlin continues to pressure Ukraine, suffering high levels of attrition, it is now beginning to struggle under “very significant constraints.”

“Battlefield advantage is likely to diminish as we enter this winter and look toward 2025,” said Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

However, he cautioned against expecting Russia to run out of equipment or personnel soon. Still, he believes Moscow will not be able to sustain its current pace of attack for long.

Kofman’s first explanation is that Moscow is replacing significant losses of equipment with Soviet-era weapons, but even these reserve stocks will not last indefinitely.

“Russia is depleting its Soviet-era assets, and the production rate of new equipment is quite low compared to the battlefield losses. This means that the Russian military is increasingly forced to adapt tactics to minimize losses, which also reduces their ability to achieve any operationally significant breakthroughs,” says the expert.

High payments to contract soldiers in Russia indicate that recruitment efforts are under pressure, he points out. Kofman believes that the Russian government will struggle to maintain the surge in bonuses and benefits it offers to new recruits.

“It’s clear that, at this rate of losses, Russia’s contract recruitment campaign will not be sustainable. This doesn’t necessarily mean that Russia will face a manpower shortage soon, but it’s evident they are encountering difficulties,” Business Insider quotes Kofman.

For instance, the British Ministry of Defense has estimated that the Kremlin will lose 1,000 soldiers daily during the coming winter, after suffering record daily losses in May and September.

The slow and costly pace of hostilities has consequences not only for the front lines in Ukraine but also for Russia’s wartime economy. It remains unclear how long Moscow can continue increasing its war budget.

Russian Lukoil Adds 25 Old Tankers to Its Shadow Fleet — Financial Times

Journalists discovered that each of these tankers was purchased by a separate offshore company, which was linked to one or even several other firms.

The ships were operated by Dubai-based companies owned by a Pakistani shipping entrepreneur who is currently facing prosecution in British courts for defrauding investors.

All purchases were financed by Dubai’s Eiger Shipping DMCC, which belongs to Litasco Middle East DMCC, the Middle Eastern branch of Lukoil’s oil trading division. Eiger provided upfront funding by pre-chartering the vessels being prepared for acquisition.

Journalists estimated that Lukoil spent over $700 million on these tankers.

Since their purchase, the vessels have been used almost exclusively to transport Russian oil, with 82% of the shipments being Lukoil oil, totaling around 119 million barrels. At $60 per barrel, this amounts to nearly $7.2 billion.

A key figure in this scheme was British accountant John Ormerod. His firm, Ormerod Allen & Co., has provided financial services to the shipping industry since 1990.

In total, Russia’s shadow fleet consists of more than 400 tankers. Despite increasing efforts by Western countries to target individual vessels through sanctions, oil companies shield them behind so many shell firms that it is extremely difficult to prove their connection to Russia.