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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius

"EU Sanctions against the block's own citizens and residents are a horrible development toward a totalitarian future. Their extralegal nature is what gives them their force. An explanation attempt."

https://pascallottaz.substack.com/p/what-goes-around-the-eus-extralegal

"They say they want the kingdom, but they don't want God in it"

Johnny Cash feat. U2 - The Wanderer

https://video.nostr.build/0d77b54dfee7a0a9365892f3584bb6d8109fbbc603c9067cc6ae190ccd1a9c7c.mp4

Maduro Declines To Comment on Reports of US Attack, Netanyahu and Trump Celebrate New Year, and More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEjWfW4RHfM

"Sberbank issued Russia's first bitcoin-backed loan to a major bitcoin miner, marking a pilot transaction with potential for future expansion."

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/29/sberbank-issues-russia-s-first-crypto-backed-loan-to-bitcoin-miner-intelion-data

"If you listen to American presidential announcements and accept them at face value, you would get the impression that many great things are being done. But it doesn't take much digging to discover that the grand plans are all works of fiction. And if you look really hard for an area of endeavor in which the United States is still the best in the world it turns out to be just this: suspension of disbelief."

https://forumgeopolitica.com/article/trumps-puffery

Today in 1983, 43 years ago: The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.

"In its bid to continue the genocide in Gaza, Israel has banned 37 international aid organizations from entering the decimated, militarily occupied coastal enclave. This leaves only five humanitarian groups still able to operate inside Gaza.

At the same time, one of the US mercenary firms responsible for securing the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites which were present during the worst periods of famine in Gaza, when at least 3000 Palestinian civilians were gunned down while seeking aid, has posted an ad soliciting former special forces soldiers for offensive operations."

https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/as-israel-bans-aid-orgs-in-gaza-notorious

"The censorship industrial complex has gone into overdrive as western governments look for ways to suppress dissenting opinions, and our rulers have now figured out the best approach: sanctions.

Westerners are being sanctioned for expressing the wrong opinions, cutting them off from their own money, preventing them from gaining employment without a potential employer first obtaining a licence, and banning them from flying."

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-west-has-found-a-way-to-legally

New Year address by one of Nostr's favorites, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin:

Citizens of Russia, friends,

At this moment, as we stand on the threshold of the New Year, we all feel the passage of time. Before us lies the future, and what it holds largely depends on us.

We draw strength from within ourselves and from those who stand beside us – those who are dear and close to our hearts – and we are always ready to lend our shoulder in return. This mutual support gives us confidence that all our aspirations, hopes, and plans will definitely be realised.

Naturally, each of us has personal, unique dreams, very special in their own way. Yet they are inseparable from the destiny of our Motherland and from the sincere desire to be of service to it.

For we are united – the people of Russia. The labour, achievements, and successes of each of us add new chapters to its thousand-year history, while the strength of our unity determines the sovereignty and security of our Fatherland, its development, and its future.

The New Year is, above all, a time when we hope for the best, for goodness and good luck. It is a special and magical holiday, when we open our hearts to love, friendship, and compassion, to sympathy and generosity.

We strive to bring joy and warmth through our care for those in need of support and, of course, to stand by our heroes – the participants in the special military operation – in both word and deed.

You have taken upon yourselves the duty of fighting for our native land, for truth and for justice. On this New Year’s Eve, millions of people across Russia, I assure you, are with you: they think of you, share your feelings, and place their hopes in you. We are united by a sincere, selfless, and devoted love for Russia.

I wish all our soldiers and commanders a happy New Year! We believe in you and in our victory.

Friends,

In just a few moments, we will hear the chimes of the Kremlin clock, and the New Year will begin. We welcome it together with the nearest and dearest: our children, parents, friends, and comrades-in-arms. Even those who are far away – you are still with us in spirit.

I wish you all good health and happiness, understanding and prosperity. And, above all, love which inspires us. May our traditions, faith, and memory bind all generations together, supporting us always and in everything.

We are one – a great, strong, and united family, and that is why we will continue to work and to create, to achieve our goals, moving only forward for the benefit of our children and grandchildren, for the benefit of our great Russia.

Happy New Year, friends!

Happy 2026!

⚠️Satire Alert⚠️

"Happy new year, everyone! I hope your 2025 was as at least as brilliant as mine! That is probably the lowest possible bar, but I’m sure most of you couldn’t get over it…"

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/happy-new-year

Replying to Avatar ivy lumi

As life is always layered, the roots are always much deeper.

The world becomes more complicated than ever - where every intention is observed. It made everyone mean. Yet, somehow it also became simpler.

After one too many honest conversations with ourselves, we find peace. And of course, those conversations are continuous. But that’s not even the hardest part. The harder part is to pursue it - the leap of faith.

I can’t help but realize this year’s journey was about the relationship between love and truth. What comes first? What’s more important? What’s left when one is absent? And what does it feel like when truth and love coexist without much friction?

When death is in sight, which matters more - truth or love? What would you let go of last?

What happens when someone doesn’t realize they’re being abusive? How long do you tolerate before standing up and walking away? How much is enough? How much is too much? I’ve been doing this math my whole life. A delicate dance indeed.

My New Year’s resolution is to know when to slow down, to release the excessive energy that can't be directed towards love and healing. To know when it’s too much - that's to know how to truly live with low time preference. A challenge, as always.

Have been watching Pluribus - apparently one of the most watched shows on Apple TV? LOL - see how much people are starving for peace and love? And how much rejection we’re willing to endure when it comes to unconditional love, all because of fear and trauma. It’s heartbreaking, all the grief that comes with it.

I’m grateful for everything that lined up exactly as it did, so a delicate piece of consciousness like me gets to witness it all.

Would you do nothing when you could have done anything? What would you do? Maybe that should be our New Year’s resolution.

Cheers to peace. Love is the cure.

Happy New Year 🥂✨

I wish you a Happy New Year and the power to stay on the path to fulfill your New Year’s resolution. Peace, love and harmony.

Replying to Avatar ivy lumi

As life is always layered, the roots are always much deeper.

The world becomes more complicated than ever - where every intention is observed. It made everyone mean. Yet, somehow it also became simpler.

After one too many honest conversations with ourselves, we find peace. And of course, those conversations are continuous. But that’s not even the hardest part. The harder part is to pursue it - the leap of faith.

I can’t help but realize this year’s journey was about the relationship between love and truth. What comes first? What’s more important? What’s left when one is absent? And what does it feel like when truth and love coexist without much friction?

When death is in sight, which matters more - truth or love? What would you let go of last?

What happens when someone doesn’t realize they’re being abusive? How long do you tolerate before standing up and walking away? How much is enough? How much is too much? I’ve been doing this math my whole life. A delicate dance indeed.

My New Year’s resolution is to know when to slow down, to release the excessive energy that can't be directed towards love and healing. To know when it’s too much - that's to know how to truly live with low time preference. A challenge, as always.

Have been watching Pluribus - apparently one of the most watched shows on Apple TV? LOL - see how much people are starving for peace and love? And how much rejection we’re willing to endure when it comes to unconditional love, all because of fear and trauma. It’s heartbreaking, all the grief that comes with it.

I’m grateful for everything that lined up exactly as it did, so a delicate piece of consciousness like me gets to witness it all.

Would you do nothing when you could have done anything? What would you do? Maybe that should be our New Year’s resolution.

Cheers to peace. Love is the cure.

Happy New Year 🥂✨

Happy New Year 2026.

Remember Confucius:

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"Gaza City is home to landmarks such as the Church of Saint Porphyrius, the Great Mosque and Gaza’s al-Zawiya and gold markets.

These landmarks testify to Gaza’s archaeological history, religious significance and commercial heritage.

But throughout its genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israel has wreaked havoc on these places."

https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-wreaked-havoc-gaza-landmarks/51138

Israel Bans Dozens of Aid Groups From Gaza, Zelensky: US Mulls Sending Troops to Ukraine, and More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5IugwTQav8

"Zinedine Zidane, Kylian Mbappé, and Riyad Mahrez walking into the same stadium sounds like the opening line of a bad joke, yet it is exactly what the Africa Cup of Nations is bracing for on Sunday night, when Algeria face Burkina Faso at the Stade Moulay Hassan."

https://savageminds.substack.com/p/three-footballers-walk-into-a-stadium

Trump To Back Israeli Attack on Iran, Report Claims CIA Conducted Venezuela Drone Strike, and More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLpFa41Qg8M

"Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a searing indictment of Western liberalism. It especially exposes corporate journalism’s distortions, lies and incitement of a genocide – even while that genocide is being livestreamed to millions of people around the world for all to bear witness."

https://electronicintifada.net/content/bearing-witness-gruesome-end-western-liberalism/51136

US Bombs Nigeria and Somalia on Christmas, Trump: Ukraine Territorial Issues Not Settled, and More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMd2ICWaIuY

Interesting. For the record. 🧐

The official record of three conversations President Vladimir Putin had with President George W. Bush in 2001, 2005, and 2008 has just been released in Washington.

https://johnhelmer.net/the-putin-bush-conversations-what-was-left-unsaid/

That's so kind of you. I'm sure he left you a nice present. And yes, I hope he'll hang out here for a little bit...😁🎉🖖

Another fantastic project added to the nostrverse 🤩 nostr:note1pwwwu0y9ty5yxq2exyq4smpjsd5grxs5fhyufh2ycmqhasqh4d2srgwpry

Essential training. Frisbee was the first sport I played with my daughter when she was little. Then football.

"When Malcolm X and Fidel Castro met there 65 years ago, Harlem itself was transformed into a crossroads of revolutionary fervor. The rendezvous would leave an indelible mark not only on New York City but on the entire world, becoming a watershed moment that helped shape the conscience of generations of freedom fighters and sped the rhythm for the struggle for liberation in the United States and across the globe."

https://savageminds.substack.com/p/a-meeting-in-harlem

Antiwar News for 9/16/25: US Bombs Another Boat Near Venezuela, Rubio Says Gaza Diplomacy May Not Be Possible, and More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM4tap__4t8

All 8 of these young players from Al Hilal Gaza football academy have been killed by Israel.

An entire generation of footballers, an entire childhood, wiped out before our eyes as FIFA stays silent.

Their names:

First row (from right): Mohammed Abu Dan*, Atef Dabbour, Omar Al-Jamasi, Mahmoud Abu Dan*

Bottom row (from right): Yazan Hamdouna, Mohammed Al-Sultan, Malik Abu Amaren, Karim Abu Shmala.

*Mohammed and Mahmoud were brothers.

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Will you get one and how long do you work for it? #asknostr

Working days needed to buy the new iPhone 17 Pro (128 GB):

🇱🇺 Luxembourg: 3

🇨🇭 Switzerland: 3

🇺🇸 United States: 4

🇧🇪 Belgium: 4

🇩🇰 Denmark: 4

🇳🇱 Netherlands: 4

🇳🇴 Norway: 4

🇦🇺 Australia: 5

🇦🇹 Austria: 5

🇫🇮 Finland: 5

🇮🇪 Ireland: 5

🇩🇪 Germany: 5

🇨🇦 Canada: 5

🇫🇷 France: 6

🇸🇪 Sweden: 6

🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 7

🇳🇿 New Zealand: 7

🇸🇬 Singapore: 8

🇮🇹 Italy: 8

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates: 8

🇪🇸 Spain: 9

🇨🇿 Czechia: 12

🇵🇱 Poland: 17

🇵🇹 Portugal: 24

🇭🇺 Hungary: 27

🇨🇱 Chile: 32

🇲🇾 Malaysia: 45

🇹🇭 Thailand: 61

🇧🇷 Brazil: 77

🇹🇷 Türkiye: 89

🇻🇳 Vietnam: 99

🇵🇭 Philippines: 101

🇮🇳 India: 160

The iPhone Affordability Index shows how many full workdays, based on 8-hour shifts, the average person in 33 countries needs to buy the phone.

(Source World of Statistics on X)

Rejoice 🤩🥳😳. A former Israeli soldier has recreated the destruction in Gaza in a video game which will be released on October 7. Soon you cannot only watch a genocide but you can be part of it virtually. If that's not enough you still can enlist in the real world, of course.

https://video.nostr.build/41625cbb7d2406d44435ed5f4c8ad515bc2e0baf2e509a491aeb9a954b796935.mp4

"It’s all part of a stratagem, bleak and brutal. With Palestinian recognition being promised by France, the UK, Canada and Australia at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli aggression is becoming more brazen and panicked. Time must be bought on one vital front: creating a Greater Israel, involving the annexation of Gaza and extinguishing, as far as possible, the power of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. What follows from this is the termination of Palestinian statehood altogether, including its political representatives."

https://savageminds.substack.com/p/buying-time

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal, Oscar Leon and Venezuelan analyst Diego Sequera discuss the shocking drug trafficking history of Ecuador's Miami-born President Daniel Noboa, who is being positioned as the key US regional ally by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8wRYHpbHWw

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Replying to Avatar deeznuts

Rock on 🤘

Good morning 🌄 #nostr

New footage shows the moment an Israeli drone struck the Gaza Flotilla’s largest ship. This is the second attack.

Are the dockworkers in Genoa already on strike? #asknostr

https://video.nostr.build/ca6191d947071ea234ae2ba5fd519c7361b4339249df974eae613bef110624aa.mp4 nostr:note1d0gry6lkjnushp4fr0uyrlsvtsynn2689uau4cg4uk26l27g4hkqanp37y

Happens regularly where the CIA has an office and the ultimate say in your foreign ministry.