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China's Ministry of Transport: starting October 14, 2025, special port charges will be imposed on vessels owned by U.S. companies, organizations, or individuals. Special port charges to be levied on vessels operated by U.S. entities, vessels owned or operated by entities with 25%+ U.S. equity or control, vessels flying the U.S. flag, and vessels built in the U.S.

Source: China's Ministry of Transport

Venezuela calls for urgent UN Security Council meeting, citing imminent US attack. Colombian President Gustavo Petro claims that a boat blown up by the US off the coast of Venezuela was carrying Colombian citizens and says that Trump has created a war scenario. The White House denies this and says that Petro should apologize publicly to preserve relations with Washington.

Venezuela claims that the United States has positioned a nuclear submarine off the country's coast. US troops in the Caribbean begin to move. The United States requests authorization to send radars and troops to Maurice Bishop International Airport on the island nation of Grenada, near Venezuela. The Grenadian government says it is evaluating the request based on the “sovereignty of the country.” The Cuban government calls for international mobilization to prevent a US war against Venezuela.

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Trump - Xi is a big meanie

“Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would “clog” the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “Magnets” and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW! The letter they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every Element that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all. I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World. I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so. The Chinese letters were especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I wonder if that timing was coincidental? Dependent on what China says about the hostile “order” that they have just put out, I will be forced, as President of the United States of America, to financially counter their move. For every Element that they have been able to monopolize, we have two. I never thought it would come to this but perhaps, as with all things, the time has come. Ultimately, though potentially painful, it will be a very good thing, in the end, for the U.S.A. One of the Policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America. There are many other countermeasures that are, likewise, under serious consideration. Thank you for your attention to this matter!   DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”

This year's Nobel Peace prize is about ignoring Gaza and openly endorsing any and all upcoming Trump regime crimes in Venezuela.

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2025 Nobel Prize Winner Maria Corina Machado once wrote to Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and asked him for help to overthrow Venezuela’s🇻🇪 President Nicolas Maduro

Qatar to build air force facility in Idaho, US says - BBC

The US has finalised an agreement that will allow Qatar to build an air force facility in Idaho, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced.

He said the facility - where pilots from the Gulf state would be trained to fly F-15 fighter jets - would be established at the Mountain Home Airbase in the north-western US state.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c0e9lyypedjt

#smokebreak #workplace #chillax #genderreveal

"Italy’s Meloni says ICC complaint accuses her of Gaza genocide complicity"

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/8/italys-meloni-says-icc-complaint-accuses-her-of-gaza-genocide-complicity

Has this been covered here yet? A pretty big story

US anti-fascism expert leaves country a day after blocked from flying to Spain. The is Rutgers University history professor Mark Bray. He's moving with his family to Spain for the next year and planning to teach remotely due to death threats.

I recently heard that the current wave of crisis/revolutionary wave is having a significant impact on Ecuador, with even the mainstream outlets discussing the possibility of a government collapse (as happened in Peru) or a military coup (like the left-wing military coup in Ecuador in 2000). Daniel Noboa is very unpopular, he is basically a puppet of the US, and many Ecuadorians do not see him as "one of their own", or even as Latin American, since Noboa was born in Miami, US, in 1987. For this reason, most people say that he has no connection to the working class, or even to the middle or upper classes of Ecuadorian society. He hardly ever stays in the country, and most of his policies have been a huge failure, causing embarrassing situations at the international level, such as his crises with Mexico and Venezuela.

We will see if his government collapses or adopts a more authoritarian stance. Basically, they have no regional allies, Argentina can barely sustain itself, and Peru is too unstable to help Ecuador (besides, Peru fucking hates Ecuador, they have been at war over the border since the late 19th century, and their last war was in 1995).

Will Maduro end up being the 21st century Ho Chi Minh?

Israeli Ynet journalist Yossi Yehoshua:

"The Palestinian Authority is making significant efforts through a Gulf state to prevent the release of prisoner Marwan Barghouti as part of the exchange deal."

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/43939

Hmm I wonder which gulf state