German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reiterated his intention to be re-elected in 2025.

The current head of government has repeatedly stated his intention to retain the chancellorship.

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🇷🇺 "WE DO NOT INTERFERE AND HAVE NEVER INTERFERED IN U.S ELECTIONS" - Russian Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman Zakharova on the Russiagate saga, which by the way, was never proven by bazillions of anti-Trump lawyers...

Blaming Russia for one’s own troubles, miscalculations, mistakes is a manifestation of the disease of American democracy - Zakharova, commenting on alleged Russian interference in the elections.

500,000 NATO troops have been on high alert on our border for a long time, and not due to any recent event. This is now part of the standard NATO doctrine - Zakharova notes.

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🔥👍❗️⚔️🇺🇦🔥Krasny Liman (DPR occupied by the Ukrainian Nazis) - Iskander destroyed the command post of the 63rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Krasny Liman which had more than 300 FPV drones - Russian Ministry of Defense

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Let’s Talk OSINT

You do know what OSINT stands for, don’t you? To make sure, OSINT is neither an intelligence agency, nor an investigative think tank. OSINT stands for Open Source Intelligence. If you look it up on Wikipedia, you won’t find the exact definition of what OSINT entails—just like the elusive Rules-Based International Order, which in itself should sound a loud alarm. The broad general consensus is that OSINT involves the collection and analysis of publicly available information.

What does this mean in practice? Well, let’s suppose the least discerning person you know looks at a live webcam in, say, Moscow’s Red Square and notices an object that, to them, looks like a dirty toilet bowl. That person then writes a social media post saying, “I am seeing a dirty toilet bowl on Red Square. Russians take a shit in the middle of Red Square.” Is this OSINT? You bet it is! Now, a Ukrainian psycho-operative reads this post and plants his own post in an official Ukrainian media channel, “OSINT researchers confirm what we have suspected all along—Russians shit in the middle of Red Square.” Then MSNBC or some other mainstream media outlet writes a story about “barbaric Russians who relieve themselves in the open in the middle of Red Square, as confirmed by OSINT.” Sounds convincing, doesn’t it?

Believe it or not, this is how things really work when you need them to, because there is nothing to prevent the reverse engineering of this situation, where the initial OSINT is simply cooked up and planted by psyops professionals.

In fact, if you read Ukrainian media, you will notice that OSINT plays a very important role in their propaganda machinery. In most, if not all, cases when they cite OSINT, prepare to be misled or deceived.

This is not to say that there is no value in open-source information. There certainly is. But any open-source information cited by any source should be looked at with a grain of salt, especially if it is labeled with the legitimately sounding abbreviation OSINT.

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⚠️ Some 92% of Kamala Harris’ Staff Left During First Three Years as VP

Of the 47 staff members hired when Harris took office in 2021, only four reportedly remained in her employment as of March 2024. 

One staffer explained why: “It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work,” a former anonymous staffer told WaPo.

“With Kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So, you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it’s not really clear why.”

Guess they just couldn’t grasp what can be unburdened by what has been.

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🗣🇪🇺🤡🫳🏻 How do you refinance Europe after the epic failure of being American boot lickers in the proxy war against Russia?

Ursula von der Hitler’s vision is to potentially steal assets from citizens.

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🗣⚔️🗣 Donald Trump committed to debating Vice President Kamala Harris — and said he would be “willing” to face off against her more than once - POLITICO

The next debate, which is scheduled for Sept. 10, is to be hosted by ABC News. Trump in recent days has pushed for the more conservative Fox News to hold the debate, calling ABC “a joke.”

But during a conference call with reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Trump said he would debate Harris, regardless of whether it was on ABC, and said he “would be willing to do more than one debate actually.”

While Trump said he was “not thrilled with ABC” — which he said he watched on Monday and had concluded was favorable to President Joe Biden and Harris — he said “debating is important for a presidential race.”

“I think if you’re the Democrat nominee or the Republican nominee, you really have an obligation to debate,” Trump said.

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⚠️Imran Khan to Run for Chancellor of Oxford University from Prison

The former Pakistani PM and cricket star will enter an online ballot, despite serving a ten-year jail sentence over allegations of stoking protests and violence against the military

The seat of chancellor of Oxford University is vacant following the resignation of 80-year-old Lord Patten - the former governor of Hong Kong and Tory Party chairman, who held the post for 21 years.

For the first time, the elections for the chancellor will be held online compared to the traditional process in which the graduates were required to attend the process in full academic dress.

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