🇨🇳 Russia has increased oil discounts for China to a record $35 per barrel.
Russian oil companies are forced to sharply increase oil discounts for customers in China in order to sell batches that Indian refineries have started to reject, Reuters reports.
⚡️🇬🇧 NEW - Keir Starmer has said he would “absolutely” challenge anyone who spoke to his daughter the way Trump did when he called a female reporter “piggy.”
“I absolutely wouldn't... I would call it out.”
https://blossom.primal.net/aef86c225942a77256613fbb5d82281c8d965069bdb136c1587c63bf6788b0cb.mp4
Any real man would do...
People who are being lobbied by the Russian Orthodox Church about "protection of #Christianity in #Ukraine" should probably keep in mind what _actually_ Russians are doing to Christians in Ukraine.
In 2014 Russian troops murdered four Pentacostal priests in Slovyansk.
In 2022 when #Russia troops occupied Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv , they threw dozens of #Bible into the street and burned them – because they were written in Ukrainian.
It's not about "protection of Christians", it's about protection of one very specific FSB branch called "Russian Orthodox Church".
⚡️🇭🇺 NEW - Viktor Orban: Confiscating Russian assets to fund Ukraine? A declaration of war. Taking the money of one side and giving it to the other would drag the EU into the conflict. This must not happen. Thankfully, I am not the only one who sees it this way.
https://blossom.primal.net/3f431c758bd7bf03f8ac503189ae72d002659fbded11771445a18f3c63cafdeb.mp4
What a moron, Russia had been confiscating up to 95% of assets of Western companies in Russia merely for wanting to leave their market...
Note Putin himself just mentioned "collapse of Russia" yesterday when he lashed out on EU freezing Russian funds - not sure if was Freudian but doesn't sound very confident ☺️
> And the European piglets immediately joined in this work, ahead of the American administration, hoping to profit from the collapse of our country.
Russian-speaking diaspora in Europe trolling Maria Zakharova about "Christmas blackouts"
⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Ben Shapiro says Tucker Carlson should be pushed out of the conservative movement, warning that his rhetoric has become too dangerous.
He says Carlson’s language could push Americans toward a real revolution and lead conservatives to “lose control.”
Shapiro says Carlson is telling Americans they’ve lost control of their lives, that foreign powers have hijacked the U.S. government, and that their votes no longer matter.
https://blossom.primal.net/bcdaede749d3e5d9fa9e71247bce6083795a209b769d3014a3ce91644384c007.mp4
The Lenin of our times. Lenin got money from Germany and went to Russia, Carlson gets money from Russia and goes to USA.
That the draft in Germany will be unconditional and mandatory for everyone. There's still constitutional clause of consciousness refusal of military service that nobody is removing.
By the way, as Russia Today builds the traditional anti-war sentiment in Germany, Russian in nationalists in #Russia are driving around cars with banners like "GO TO BERLIN, TO [FUCK] GERMAN GIRLS". I see a certain asymmetry of narratives here...
#Putin today made a very weird remark about 'piglets', clearly agitated about EU decision to indefinitely freeze #Russia assets it moronically kept in Europe when it started the war against Europe. Putin literally said:
> And the European piglets immediately joined in this work, ahead of the American administration, hoping to profit from the collapse of our country.
Apart from the infantile insult, it's interesting to see Putin mentioning the 'collapse' of his country, which, from his previous words was as stable as a rock and ready to wage war for another thousand of years...
Yes, if he's so concerned about moving West why doesn't he just move back to East?
⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Putin: "After the Soviet Union collapsed, we believed we would quickly join the civilized Western world.
Today, it seems there is no civilization there, only degradation."
https://blossom.primal.net/98dd741784e7763bdf5ed6174a065d1b9bbdfe171194d36008af632ed3a8516e.mp4
⚡️🚨🇩🇪 ALERT - German Chancellor Metz announces FORCED mobilization if Germany fails to gather volunteers for the military to counter Russia
https://blossom.primal.net/a91699186b7b6912cec66fa027e09c1830c42724fa6577987da496143d8cedd7.mp4
This is bullshit, RT completely misrepresents what he says
US can "facilitate transfer" of its own territories only, I'm afraid
⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: “The United States promised Russia not to accept Ukraine into NATO and to facilitate the transfer of territories.”
https://blossom.primal.net/9c5351fbde7b14bf6cf3f086fbba445c7c20cbeb54aaeb6b8520b73b4683436c.mp4
So this means US will transfer Alaska in exchange for what from Russia exactly?
Well, I do see a very simple benefit of CBDC - for example, I would be finally able to do Zaps on Nostr without relying on some shitty Alby app at $9.99/month using interface similar to MetaMask ☺️ Or donate to a PeerTube channel, or pay an article subscription, all without a whole chain of global payment processors but as directly, as you pay with physical cash
Same as saying "when cash is created by a central bank, it gives total control to the central bank". Except by definition all cash was created by the central banks since it was invented, that is the very idea of state-issued money.
Grok compare the freedom of speech index of the EU and the US
Based on 2025 data:
- Human Freedom Index (Cato): US ranks ~20th (score ~8.3/10). EU averages higher; top include Switzerland (1st, 9.1), Denmark (4th), Ireland (5th).
- Freedom House: US scores 83/100 (Free). Most EU nations 90-100 (e.g., Finland 100, Germany 94).
- Press Freedom Index (RSF): US 57th. EU tops list (Norway 1st, Denmark 2nd).
EU countries generally rank higher in civil liberties and press freedom; US stronger in economic aspects but declining overall. Sources: Cato, Freedom House, RSF.
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#freespeech #censorship #europe #usa