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quantumroam@quantumroam

October 01, 2023

Alexey Reznikov, a former defense minister of Ukraine, spent $7 million buying a villa in Cannes for his daughter.

At the same time, Ukrainian POWs report the shortage of everything: food, outfit, munition.
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The Duran@theduran

May 04, 2021

Macron panics as Le Pen WINS hate speech court case

The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
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France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted of Hate Speech Charges for Posting Photos of Daesh Atrocities

The National Rally leader and 2022 presidential candidate was charged with hate speech after posting photos of murders carried out by jihadists back in 2015.

alexmercouris@alexmercouris

11 hours ago

Join Alexander Mercouris Live Stream Today 12th August 2026 at 14:00 EDT, 19:00 London time

It seems to me that we are now in a long term standoff in the Persian Gulf with the Iranians keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed they say until the US makes concessions which I cannot imagine it will ever make. Whilst this is debilitating for the global economy, from an Iranian point of view this strategy carries risks and as I have discussed in various programmes Alex and I have done together, I am far from sure that long term it is the right approach. for Iran to take. Strengthening relations with the key BRICS states, ie. China and Russia, makes better sense to me.

The key point however is that it is unlikely that the Strait of Hormuz is going to reopen any time soon, and this is intensifying the steadily growing energy crisis, especially in Europe. With gas reserves at very low levels and uncertain supplies of oil and gas, Europe on top of all its many other problems must now look forward to a very hard winter.

Meanwhile with every day that passes Ukraine is getting more and ...

PurpleMountain52@PurpleMountain52

1 hour ago

PUTIN-BACKED BRICS GRAIN EXCHANGE EXPECTED TO EXCEED $ 1 TRILLION TURNOVER
-Russia told the group’s trade ministers in India that the exchange will be a digital trading platform and remove external intermediaries
-BRICS countries are working on setting up a grain exchange, backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, that could challenge the hegemony of Western commodity exchanges over global agricultural trading and prices.
-Russia presented the framework of the BRICS Grain Exchange at a meeting last week of the bloc’s economy and trade ministers in Jaipur, India, touting it as a “unified digital trading platform where producers and buyers of agricultural crops could deal with one another directly.”
SEE: Putin-backed BRICS grain exchange expected to exceed $1 trillion turnover — RT India

JJHW@JJHW

3 hours ago

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/uss-abraham-lincoln-overboard-extended-deployment

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USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports

Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land

Zarael@Zarael

June 17, 2024

A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"

I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad !

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

Hope to see you all asap.

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The Duran@theduran

September 29, 2023

Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message.

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

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