It has just been discovered that the Facebook Covid vaccine Fat-Checkers are funded by vaccine companies.

Europe closed refineries for years. Now it depends on Asia, the Gulf and the U.S. for diesel. Europe has zero of the world’s 15 biggest oil refineries

  Europe has zero of the world’s 15 biggest refineries.

In a diesel crisis, that leaves it with no bargaining power.

India’s Jamnagar (Reliance) leads at 1.36M b/d.

9 of the top 15 are in Asia and the Gulf, and 3 of those are in South Korea.

US has 4.

Venezuela has 1.

Nigeria has 1 (Dangote).

Europe has none….

Refining capacity decides who exports diesel and jet fuel, and who has to buy them.

In the past few weeks, the exporters have used that power.

 https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/europe-closed-refineries-for-years-now-it-depends-on-asia-the-gulf-and-the-u-s-for-diesel-europe-has-zero-of-the-worlds-15-biggest-oil-refineries/

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Crypto Super PAC starts throwing around millions to House candidates — here’s the list.

 The full list of candidates the group is backing is below:

Republicans

Ben Cline, VA-06

Troy Downing, MT-02

Tom Emmer, MN-06

Michelle Fischbach, MN-07

Scott Fitzgerald, WI-05

Mike Haridopolos, FL-08

Pat Harrigan, NC-10

French Hill, AR-02

Bill Huizenga, MI-04

Brian Jack, GA-03

Frank Lucas, OK-03

Lisa McClain, MI-09

August Pfluger, TX-11

Guy Reschenthaler, PA-14

David Rouzer, NC-07

Austin Scott, GA-08

Jason Smith, MO-08

Bryan Steil, WI-01

G.T. Thompson, PA-15

Democrats

 Pete Aguilar, CA-33

Brendan Boyle, PA-02

Janelle Bynum, OR-05

Josh Gottheimer, NJ-05

Steven Horsford, NV-04

Jonathan Jackson, IL-01

Lucy McBath, GA-06

Sarah McBride, DE-AL

Jimmy Panetta, CA-19

Hillary Scholten, MI-03

Terri Sewell, AL-07

Suhas Subramanyam, VA-10

Derek Tran, CA-45

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/10/05/congress/fairshake-crypto-pac-house-races-01106711

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What's happening in Irkutsk? According to one of my friends in Ufa: not much. So let's take a closer look at who launched the website to "monitor" the infection situation in Irkutsk, and why?

 What's happening in Irkutsk? According to one of my friends in Ufa: not much. So let's take a closer look at who launched the website to "monitor" the infection situation in Irkutsk, and why?

First came an official statement from Rospotrebnadzor, which was spread in Russian media on October 4: an employee at an institute for combating plague in the Irkutsk region has been diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown origin. So far so good. It happens relatively often in the region bordering Eastern anthrax Mongolia.

However: On October 3, the website IrkutskLive appeared online; it is promoted as a resource for monitoring the situation in the Irkutsk region, where a death due to pulmonary plague was claimed to have occurred. The new website uses the narrative "the authorities are hiding something" and asserts without basis that the woman has died. Probably to spread anxiety among people in Russia and the rest of the world.

Its working method is characterized by maximum sensationalism and minimal objectivity. So who are these "journalists"?

🔸The website is written in English with automatic translation to Russian, hardly necessary for Russian-speaking users.

🔸As the contact party is listed FirstStrike News Ltd, but there is no information about this organization.

🔸According to data on registration of websites in the .com domain, the site was launched on October 3.

🔸It is not operated from Russia; on the website itself, Australia is mentioned in connection with the time zone where the information monitoring began and the legal framework within which the site operates.

🔸At the same time, a profile with the same name appeared on X. This account was also registered from Australia, however already in May 2026, and changed its name in October.

🔸The website reports in alarmist terms about the risk of the plague spreading from Russia to the rest of the world. It refers to articles in foreign media and Russian media classified as our Western influence organs, for example The Insider, as well as to information from WHO, the US CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and Mayo Clinic (Minnesota, USA).

🔸It tracks the number of known cases—there is still only one—and which people have been in contact with the infected; even these figures are known and unchanged; a diagram has been produced showing flight departures from Irkutsk over the past few days.

The service snaps up all mentions of the event. An example is reports in local media that mask requirements were introduced at IrkAZ "due to a suspected infection in the Irkutsk region"; the factory management acted cautiously and took measures for safety's sake, but the information was immediately spread further via various channels.

The main news headlines are adorned with a portrait of Vladimir Putin, a symbol of biological danger, and an image of "bacilli." The entire layout is in yellow and black, colors that heighten anxiety among people who remember the covid-19 "pandemic."

"Analysis material," probably produced with the help of AI, examines reports of an infection in the Irkutsk region; reports that are claimed to have been published and then deleted in order to hide important information from the public.

This suggests that someone in the West is actively exploiting the event and inflating the hysteria around a single, isolated case to create panic among the public, including foreign news consumers, and thereby undermining Russian citizens' trust in the authorities. Hybrid influence.

 https://x.com/mazzenilsson/status/2107159650768445712

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Why Might Putin Finally Decide To Bring Ukraine To Its Knees After Nearly Five Years

 Posted by Tyler Durden;  Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,

Regardless of why Putin might have held off on this for so long, he's now arguably motivated at least in part by the tantalizing possibility of reaching big-ticket resource deals with the US after the conflict ends, the details of which his and Trump's envoys have been negotiating for over a year already.

The New York Times cited allegedly intercepted Russian communications to report that Russia plans to obliterate Ukraine's power, heating, and water systems this winter. While their claim can't be confirmed, it aligns with Putin mildly "escalating to de-escalate" over the summer in response to Zelensky's strike campaign, which has taken the form of ramping up attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure. If the report is true, then Russia doesn't just aim to sever Ukraine's military logistics, but to bring Ukraine to its knees.

Putin has thus far eschewed this arguably due to his belief that Russians and Ukrainians are kindred people. Some have suggested that Russia might not have had the drone and/or missile capacity to do so earlier, however, whether due to low production till now and/or to hedge against the scenario of a hot war with NATO. In any case, Putin now seems to have made peace with the humanitarian consequences of ending the war on Russia's terms sooner rather than later, or at least on as many of them as possible.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-might-putin-finally-decide-bring-ukraine-its-knees-after-nearly-five-years

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70% of divorces are initiated by women; that jumps to 90% for college educated women

Michael Rosenfeld, a sociologist at Stanford University, found that women initiated 69% of all divorces, compared to 31% for men, using data from the How Couples Meet and Stay Together survey. Among college-educated women, that figure climbs to about 90%.

 At the same time, researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics estimate that 78% of college-educated women who married for the first time between 2006 and 2010 could expect their marriages to last at least 20 years. Among women with a high school education or less, the share is only 40%, according to the Pew Research Center. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirm an inverse correlation between education and divorce: Among college graduates, 30% of marriages ended in divorce, compared with more than half among those without a high school diploma, according to a BLS analysis of longitudinal data.

 https://qz.com/college-educated-women-divorce-paradox-initiation-051526

More women are becoming the primary breadwinner

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/10/06/more-women-are-becoming-breadwinners-what-does-that-mean-home/

College women are increasingly marrying economically successful non-college men

https://www.nber.org/digest/202607/evolving-gender-disparities-college-enrollment-and-marriage-patterns

A new NBER analysis found the share of marriages between college-educated women and non-college men quadrupled from 2.3% among the 1930 birth cohort to 9.6% among the 1980 cohort.

At the same time, the marriage rate for non-college women fell from 78.7% to 52.4% across those cohorts.

Married-couple households fall below half of U.S. households

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/families-and-living-arrangements.html

Only 47% of U.S. households were married-couple households in 2025, down from 66% in 1975.

At the same time, 39.7 million households were one-person households, or 29% of all households. The median first-marriage age reached 30.8 for men and 28.4 for women.

  CDC updates its national divorce-rate data

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/more-maps/divorce.html

The CDC’s updated divorce database shows the government is still tracking substantial state-level differences in divorce rates, although the national refined divorce rate has fallen substantially from its 1980 peak. Pew’s analysis of 2023 data put the refined U.S. divorce rate at 14.4 divorces per 1,000 married women, versus 22.6 in 1980.

 https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/70-of-divorces-are-initiated-by-women-that-jumps-to-90-for-college-educated-women/

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Junk bonds have gone from under 13% to over 17% within 3 years for only the fourth time ever

 https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/junk-bonds-have-gone-from-under-13-to-over-17-within-3-years-for-only-the-fourth-time-ever/

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 They are lying to you about what is happening in France

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