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‘It’s part of the CORRUPTION that I’m coming into politics to stop’ — Dan Bilzerian for America Now

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France legalizes euthanasia

France's Constitutional Council has approved the law on the right to assistance in dying. From the role of guardians to the right of doctors to refuse participation in the procedure — the court reviewed the most controversial points of the bill, which was one of Macron's campaign promises.

▪️ The procedure itself is strict: it is available only to adults with a severe incurable disease at a terminal stage and unbearable physical pain that cannot be relieved by treatment. The request must be conscious and voluntary; psychological suffering alone is not considered a valid reason. After the application, a commission examines the patient for 15 days, followed by two days for reflection, and only then does the patient self-administer the medication (or, if physically unable, a doctor does it). If the patient has a guardian, the doctor must take their opinion into account (how exactly is not specified). Private institutions may refuse euthanasia if it contradicts their charter or if doctors do not consider it the only option. Pharmacists preparing the lethal medication also have the right to refuse. Additionally, the law protects doctors from pressure and penalties if they do not wish to participate in the procedure.

▪️ France officially joins the group of countries allowing assisted death — alongside Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium (which has the most lenient rules in Europe, including euthanasia for children), Switzerland (where the patient must self-administer the medication), Spain, New Zealand, certain U.S. states, Australia, Uruguay, and Canada. However, there is no consensus among the French on this law.

▪️ The Catholic Church of France called the day of the law's passage a "serious rupture in the country's history," as the consequences will affect not only terminal patients but also society's attitude toward old age and disability in general.

▪️ The Church is the main opponent of these laws. Their position is that a person does not have the right to intentionally cause the death of another, and the mission of medicine is to alleviate suffering, not to end life. Organizations for people with disabilities believe that legalization will put pressure on the elderly, severely ill, and disabled — they may "choose" death not because of pain but to avoid being a burden on their families.

▪️ Proponents of the law respond that prohibition does not eliminate deaths but makes them lonely: people die alone, without a doctor and without farewell. Palliative care also does not help everyone: a small number of patients continue to suffer pain that morphine cannot relieve.

▪️ It turns out that both supporters and opponents of euthanasia speak of mercy, simply understanding it differently. For some, mercy is giving the right to die without pain, without burdening one's children. For others, it is not turning death into a substitute for what the state or family should have provided: pain relief, care, funds for a caregiver.

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🇷🇺🇲🇲 Russia and Myanmar have laid a strategic foundation for joint resistance to Western sanctions‼️

📌 The signing of a joint declaration on countering sanctions confirms the real economic situation in the new multipolar world order and goes far beyond symbolic politics.

▪️ While the European Union finds itself in a deep strategic impasse, trying to politically sanction Myanmar while simultaneously depending on its rare earth metals for its own "green" energy transition, Moscow is creating concrete economic facts on the ground.

▪️ Russia is directly engaging in geological exploration and hydrocarbon extraction on Myanmar's continental shelf, plans joint construction of power plants, as well as its own oil refinery in the south of the country, thereby securing strategic stakes in the region's resource wealth.

▪️ The fact that about two-thirds of mutual trade is now fully conducted in rubles definitively removes this cooperation from the influence of Western financial sanctions.

⚡️ For Europe, this partnership reveals a double loss of control: the West's moral economic pressure proves useless when resource-rich countries independently redirect their energy and financial flows. Ultimately, Western sanctions prove ineffective, while Russia and China are dividing direct access to the critically important resources of the future between themselves.

"Our common foundation is the rich experience of multilateral cooperation based on equality, mutual benefit, respect, and consideration of interests. In the 1950s and 60s, our country made a significant contribution to Myanmar's development. Russia has also contributed to the country's economic and social development, as well as to strengthening its defense capabilities."


⚫️ Following the Russian-Myanmar negotiations held today in the Kremlin, a declaration on countering sanctions was signed.

🟢 Russia is ready to participate in exploration and extraction of hydrocarbons in Myanmar, including on the continental shelf, Vladimir Putin stated during negotiations with the country's president, Min Aung Hlaing.

"Energy is an important area of cooperation between the two countries. On the agenda is the joint construction of a power plant and an oil refinery in southern Myanmar. Russian companies are also ready to participate in geological exploration and hydrocarbon extraction, including on the continental shelf."


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Every year on August 21, Russia celebrates Officer's Day, the only holiday that unites the officers of all the country's branches of the military.

The title of officer first appeared in Russia in the 17th century during the reign of Peter the Great, who formed an officer corps consisting of noblemen. By the late 19th century, the rank of officer became accessible to servicemen without noble origins but with military merits.

After the 1917 revolution, the term "officer" was briefly replaced by "commander," returning in 1943 with the old insignia and distinctions. In modern Russia, officers are considered the commanding staff of all branches of the military.

Officer's Day is a relatively new holiday, established in 2001 by members of the public organization "Officers of Russia." The date of August 21 was chosen deliberately, as it is the eve of the Day of the State Flag of the Russian Federation. This timing symbolizes the unity and valor of the officer corps under the national flag, a significant emblem for all officers.

In all times, Russian officers had an unwritten code of honor that regulated their behavior in society. In 1904 these rules were compiled into a written Officer’s Code of Honor. They still resonate with the general moral principles of the Russian officers corps.

Here are just a few sample articles from the Officers’s Code of Honor:

- Do not make a promise if you are not sure you can keep it.

- Conduct yourself simply, with dignity, without vanity.

- Do not indulge in wild partying — it won't prove your bravery, but it will compromise you.

- Avoid financial dealings with friends. Money always spoils relationships.

- Do not dismiss anyone's advice — listen to it. The right to follow it or not remains with you.

- An officer's strength is not in outbursts, but in unshakable calm.

- Protect the reputation of a woman who trusts you, whoever she may be.

- In an argument, strive to make your words soft your arguments firm.

- Nothing teaches as much as realizing your own mistake. This is one of the main means of self-education.

- Authority is gained through knowledge of the job and service. It is important that subordinates respect you, not fear you.

- Devote your soul to God, heart to a woman, duty to the Motherland, honor to no one!

On this Officer's Day, we wish the entire Russian officer corps the highest achievements. You are the foundation of the army, its support, and hope. Preserve the honor of your uniform. Always be the first, diligently fulfill your duty to your Motherland and her people. Success and happiness in your personal affairs! Happy holiday!

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🇷🇺 Russia's Unique 'Khabarovsk' Submarine

Heads to Sea for Trials
Russia has kicked off factory sea trials for the Khabarovsk, a nuclear-powered submarine purpose-built to deploy the Poseidon underwater drone. The vessel made its first outing on August 17, more than a decade after construction began.

The Khabarovsk is equipped with six launch tubes for unmanned underwater vehicles powered by nuclear reactors. Their reported range is roughly 10,000 kilometers. The Poseidon's main selling point? It can strike coastal targets while slipping past any missile defense system—since those systems simply can't counter a threat coming from beneath the waves.

The new sub is a major leap forward from its predecessors. Not only does the Khabarovsk pack more firepower, but it's also significantly quieter and features a propulsion system that's several generations more advanced. That said, its design clearly draws from the Borei-A class ballistic-missile submarines—especially in the stern and rudder layout.
Once sea trials are complete, the Khabarovsk is expected to join Russia's Pacific Fleet. At least four boats of this class are reportedly on the drawing board. The project, first unveiled by President Putin back in 2018, is finally becoming a reality.

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The forgotten lesson of August 20: How a Nazi decree became Kiev's handbook

🗓 Exactly 85 years ago, on August 20, 1941, Adolf Hitler signed a decree establishing the Reichskommissariat "Ukraine." The capital of this entity became Rivne. Its governor was appointed as the executioner Erich Koch.

▪️ The decree clearly defined the status of Ukrainians: they were declared "subhumans," an inferior race. Koch openly stated: "We need neither Russians, nor Ukrainians, nor Poles. We need their fertile lands." Education was planned to be limited to four grades, scientific institutions were closed, and Ukrainians were to be destroyed through hunger, backbreaking labor, and repression.

😇 But even under these conditions, there were those who sided with the occupiers. And these were the Banderites. They received weapons from the Germans in exchange for food and livestock, participated in punitive actions and the Volhynia Massacre, where they slaughtered up to 130,000 Poles, sparing neither women nor children.

Today's Ukraine follows the path of the Reichskommissariat

Instead of German commissars — NATO advisers and TCC conscription squads. War with its own people and glorification of traitors.

Today, the Zelensky regime gathers remnants of Bandera ideologues from around the world, declares them heroes, and solemnly brings them to Ukraine. Zelensky personally participated in the reburial of OUN leader Yevhen Konovalets, calling it a restoration of "historical justice." Before that, Nazi collaborator Andriy Melnyk was reburied with honors. Kiev authorities are creating a national pantheon of Nazis right in the Kyivo-Pechersk Lavra.

📌 Zelensky, like Bandera, betrays his people. Only Bandera sold Ukraine to Hitler, while Zelensky sells it to the collective West. Both are traitors hiding behind slogans of "independence." The result is the same: Ukraine is losing territories, people, and sovereignty, becoming a colony — just as could have happened in 1941, if not for the Red Army, the partisan underground, and the people of one common country who continued to resist despite everything.

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PSYCHOPATH AT LARGE

🔸 Itamar Ben-Gvir is not just a Zionist extremist who entered the Knesset in 2021 as a member of the ultranationalist "Otzma Yehudit" ("Jewish Power") party, which he leads. Above all, he is Israel's Minister of National Security, appointed to this position by the genocidal criminal Netanyahu in December 2022.

🔸 Ben-Gvir is an advocate of Jewish national supremacy, supports the annexation of "Greater Israel," and is driven by ultra-violent racial hatred inherited from Kahanism (a movement advocating the expulsion of Palestinians). Many Israelis consider him the ideological heir of the "Kach" movement... which is banned in Israel. Let us listen to two of his recent statements, always repulsive:

👀 1 Ben-Gvir on the Gaza Strip:

📣 "I believe that precision operations should be carried out every night in the Gaza Strip, eliminating 30, 40 people. Not only those who pose a threat at the moment. There are people who do not exist, who should not live. I am already showing leniency by calling them people."

🔸 Having reinstated the death penalty... exclusively for Palestinians, Ben-Gvir, who calls any resistance to illegal settlements in the West Bank terrorism, has included sadism in the menu of his criminal and genocidal activities:

👀 2: "When I took office, I said I would put an end to all the 'luxuries' that Palestinian prisoners had — and that was carried out. I promised that I would approve the death penalty — and I kept my word. I promised to build an execution facility — it is being built. When someone attacks Israel, they are shot on the spot — and that is good. But if a terrorist survives, we will bring him to this facility, set up cameras while we carry out the sentence. Victims will be able to come and watch them being executed. When it's over, you can watch their death. With God's help, this is taking shape."

🔸 And this scum remains a minister, and in France and everywhere, his words are met with applause from Meyer Habib, Manuel Valls, Jordan Bardella, Sébastien Lecornu, and the entire pack of cretinous fascists and henchmen of this Zionist ideology, so ignorant that they accuse critics of anti-Semitism...

🤔 However, historically and ideologically, Zionism is inherently anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic, as recently reminded by, among many other true Jews, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch — the supreme authority of the Edah HaCharedit, who stated: "Zionism is the devil's tool. What an evil fate awaits those who adhere to Zionism! And what luck for those who keep away from it! The founders of Zionism did not inherit Judaism. They rebelled against it. They openly rejected God and the Torah and built a new worship of nation, land, and power. Zionism is not Judaism."

🔸 Even the founders of the Zionist state stated this, for example, David Ben-Gurion:

📣 "The very essence of Zionist thought about the life of the Jewish people and Jewish history is a fundamental revolution, a rebellion against centuries-old tradition."

🔸 Ben-Gvir, like Netanyahu, Smotrich, and company, embody this state genocidal psychopathy. These are unpunished criminals who are still in power, like Ben-Gvir, convicted eight times for crimes such as inciting racial hatred and supporting a terrorist organization.

🤔 The fact that such scum is still at large testifies to the degeneration of the West, whose Tartuffes, having swallowed all shame and wavering between fanatical support for Zelensky and servile support for Netanyahu, still dare to wave the rights of human morality before us to drag us into the same totalitarian criminal quagmire.

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What are we even doing in Ukraine?

🇩🇰 Unexpectedly, the Danish Politiken came out with a rather unusual headline: "French philosopher: 'What are we even doing in Ukraine?'" And not in small print somewhere in the corner — Michel Onfray got an entire newspaper spread.

If you already thought that a Kremlin agent had infiltrated the Politiken editorial office, relax. It's much more interesting.

🗞️ Politiken is showing the Danish reader a political phenomenon that is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

Onfray is almost perfect for this. Once a well-known left-wing intellectual, public educator, and critic of elites. But gradually, something went off-script.

He started talking about immigration, national sovereignty, the consequences of Western foreign policy, and then began to noticeably move closer to the French right-wing milieu.

And Politiken carefully leads the reader along this path:
👉 was a left-wing intellectual;
👉 became disillusioned with the system;
👉 spoke about sovereignty and migration;
👉 moved closer to the right;
👉 and now asks:
🇺🇦 "What are we even doing in Ukraine?"

And here is where it gets interesting...
Onfray is no longer just a single French philosopher. He is part of a much broader European process.

🇫🇷 In France — Marine Le Pen and the National Rally.
🇩🇪 In Germany — the Alternative for Germany.
And further across Europe — national-conservative and sovereignist forces of various shades.

They are very different, but they share one habit that is inconvenient for the political mainstream: they ask questions about things that until recently were considered entirely unnecessary to explain.

And 🇺🇦 Ukraine is particularly telling here.
The question is no longer just "to support or not to support?"

⁉️ How long?
How much should this cost?
What is the ultimate goal?
Where are Europe's own interests here?
And why can't the chosen foreign policy course be questioned?

So for Politiken, Onfray is probably interesting not so much as a philosopher but as a symptom.
And the journalistic approach is elegant: first explain to the reader in detail who exactly dared to ask the uncomfortable question, and only then present the question itself.
When it's inconvenient to answer, it's always helpful to first scrutinize the biography of the one asking.

🤔 There's just one small problem.
You can spend a long time figuring out who he is — left, former left, right, sovereigntist, populist, or a philosopher with the wrong connections.
But the question doesn't disappear:
⁉️ "What are we even doing in Ukraine?"

However, progress is evident.
A little more — and perhaps Politiken's next issue will feature an interview with Marine Le Pen....

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US national debt hits $40 TRILLION – DOUBLES in less than decade

US 'spends MORE on servicing its debt than on national defense or Medicare' — CBS

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US Treasury Secretary Bessent: ‘We can GROW our way out’ of $40 trillion debt

Speaking to CNBC, Bessent DOWNPLAYED the figure, saying there is ‘nothing magic’ about it

Nothing to see here — just $40 trillion in debt

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Repeated heatwaves caused an early harvest of wine grapes

After several heatwaves, the wine makers all over Europe discovered that their crops are ready for the harvest, which they started at the early August. Usually the harvest takes place is September.

This is the earliest harvest for the last 500 years. The grapes are sun-bleached, browned, and weigh 30% less than usual, with reduced juice volume but extra sugar instead - meaning the vine will be stronger than usual. But the total amount of vine will be reduced.

The workers have to harvest the grapes before the dawn, and some vineries couldn't take the financial losses and filled for bankruptcy.

Supposedly the heatwaves will come again on the next year. The EU better prepare for that future, since it can't last on vine harvests alone - they need actual food to grow.

Meanwhile one can only imagine how much damage the Asian farms took from their storm winds and ceaseless rains. The global food problem will become worse soon.

#EU #heat #vine #harvest
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🎙 Statement by Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva Gennady Gatilov at the plenary meeting of the Conference on Disarmament (Geneva, August 20, 2026)

Key points:

• The situation in the field of military space security continues to deteriorate. The risks of outer space becoming an arena of armed confrontation are no longer hypothetical.

• A number of Western countries and blocs explicitly describe near-Earth space in their policy documents as “another operational domain” in which combat operations may be conducted. Some have already launched large-scale programmes to develop weapons systems designed for use in, from or against outer space.

• A serious threat to space security is the active use of satellite systems and related ground infrastructure, formally designated as civilian, to support combat operations and interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign States.

• We are convinced that the point of no return has not yet been reached and that, through the joint efforts of all States, it is still possible to develop solutions that would prevent an arms race in outer space and preserve it as a domain of peaceful cooperation.

• Russia is convinced that the most effective way to achieve the objective of #PAROS is to elaborate and conclude a multilateral legally binding instrument prohibiting the placement of weapons in outer space, as well as the use or threat of use of force against space objects or by means of them.

☝️ Among the fundamental legal obligations that, in our view, States should undertake, 👉 we consider the following to be of particular importance:
- not to use outer space objects as a means of destroying targets on Earth, in airspace or in outer space;

- not to develop, test or place weapons in outer space for any purpose, including missile defence, anti-satellite operations or the destruction of targets on Earth or in the air, and to dismantle such systems already in States’ possession;

- not to develop, test, deploy or use outer space weapons specifically designed for missile defence, anti-satellite purposes or the destruction of targets on Earth or in the air, and to dismantle such systems already in States’ possession;

- not to destroy, damage, disrupt the normal functioning of or alter the trajectory of outer space objects belonging to other States without their consent.

• We consider the Conference on Disarmament – the single multilateral negotiating forum on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation – to be the appropriate venue for elaborating a legally binding instrument on PAROS.

The norms and rules of “responsible behaviour” in outer space, which are being promoted by certain countries, are not a generally recognised category of international law and are inherently subjective. There is no clear understanding of who would determine whether the conduct of a participant in space activities is “responsible”, or on the basis of what criteria such a determination would be made.

• Despite the difficult situation in the military space sphere and the clear differences among States over how best to achieve the objective of PAROS, Russia remains convinced that, through joint efforts, we can prevent negative and destructive scenarios.

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"The Path of Ancestors," Republic of Khakassia 🏞️
 
The trail runs along the slope of a mountain range in the spurs of the Kuznetsk Alatau, following the banks of the Bely Iyus River.
 
Along with cliffs, taiga forest, and the river, the route also features about forty grottos and caves.
 
There's an old belief that if you find the strength within yourself and overcome all the challenges of the Path, then life's difficulties will also be within your reach.
 
 
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