Friday, October 16, 2026

Zelenskyy Resumes Refinery Strikes as Russian Diesel Deal Divides Europe

 


Zelenskyy Resumes Refinery Strikes as Russian Diesel Deal Divides Europe

 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that Ukraine would resume attacks on Russian refineries after a three-day pause requested by the Trump administration. Zelenskyy also alleged that Washington had cut intelligence sharing and restricted satellite service. Trump denied cutting intelligence sharing, while Zelenskyy’s office said the satellite speed restrictions had been lifted.

The dispute comes as President Donald Trump’s diesel agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin divides European leaders. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev endorsed the deal Thursday, saying lower fuel prices would help European competitiveness. He opposed attacks on both Russian refineries and Ukrainian power plants. Other European leaders criticized the agreement, with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson warning that additional Russian revenue would help finance the war.

Separately, a German trial over the September 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage began Wednesday. Prosecutors accuse former Ukrainian military officer Serhii Kuznetsov of coordinating the operation and allege the perpetrators acted on behalf of Ukrainian state authorities. Kuznetsov maintains his innocence, and Kyiv denies involvement.

Meanwhile, MS NOW corrected its report, attributed to two unnamed sources, that FBI Director Kash Patel had arrived in Russia. Patel was attending a law enforcement event at Liberty University in Virginia. Correspondent Ken Dilanian acknowledged the error and said the timing of any potential Russia trip remained unclear.

Burning Bright: Well, we’ve been rugged before ... but this time, I think we actually may be heading toward the final winter of engineered discontent between the Russian Federation and the Nazi ... err ... the Ukrainian Proxy State on its borders.

And since we’ve probably encouraged both the autistic and the not-so-autistic among you to be more autistic than whatever baseline level of autism you already had over the last few years, let’s tap into a touch of said tism’ to see how Cascade thinking and Narrative mapping works by running down a series of headlines, and how they tell the direction of the story being (re)programmed into the Collective Mind.

1) ‘Defiant Zelenskyy Resumes Russian Refinery Drone Strikes’

This is a good table-setter.

Zelenskyy (Our Boy Z, for those who know,) continues to play his part to perfection, almost cartoonishly escalating against the Russian Federation at the very moment the Trump Administration is calling for him to do the opposite, and at the very geopolitical moment when Europe can least afford the optics.

2) ‘Bulgarian PM breaks ranks with EU leaders to back Trump-Putin diesel deal’

Which leads us to the second header, wherein we are seeing core EU member states begin to publicly break ranks with the rest of the Collectorate as their respective populations feel the pressure of heightened energy prices that are spiking before the ultimate winter of discontent on the European continent.

As I have been saying for months, if you think Americans are experiencing some pain at the pump, take a look at EU Nat Gas and heating prices on a relative basis.

And now, consider who said Europeans are going to hold responsible for their pain in light of the very public and very performative spat over Russian refinery strikes between Trump and Zelenskyy.

3) ‘Nord Stream Sabotage Trial Begins With Explosive Allegations Against Ukraine’

My, my.

I’m old enough to remember when some of us immediately called out the Nord Stream 2 sabotage as a Ukrainian (with EU assist) false flag operation designed to inflict pain on the European Continent in order to force them and their populations into a war footing against the Russian Federation.

Now, amidst the wash of Ukrainian escalations and Trumpian appeasements, we get a show trial about the Ukrainian saboteurs?

I wonder what sort of revelations said saboteurs are going to have in the offing, up to and including who approved, planned and ultimately covered up an operation those implicated are already admitting to be ‘state-run.’

4) ‘Trump Admin Floats Unfreezing Russian Assets In Big Move To Restart Talks’

Donald Trump operates on public mandate.

In the US, he has had broad public mandate to break from the warmongers for some time.

Now, I believe he’s using that renewed mandate to use Ukraine’s escalations as Narrative cover for a full scale pivot toward the Russian Federation under the guise of pragmatic appeasement and deal-making.

I have been saying since March 2022 that I believe the deals are already done, and this deal has long been at the top of my list.

I have also argued that the deal that will have already been done will be virtually (or entirely) identical to the original deal the Russian Federation proposed to Ukraine in March 2022, which we are told Zelenskyy agreed to in principle and that the EU, especially the UK under Trumpian ripoff Boris Johnson stepped in to thwart at the time.

Let’s see how that particular take ages.

5) ‘MS NOW Walks Back Report That FBI Director Kash Patel Landed In Russia’

Finally, in the midst of the engineered chaos, the MSM (including outlets that Trump recently banned for publishing damaging Fake News with National Security implications) falsely reports that FBI Director Kash Patel is in Moscow as we speak.

SPOILER ALERT!

Kash Patel was not and is not in Moscow as of this writing, forcing MS NOW into an awkward and immediate retraction and apology tour, while drawing attention to their (perhaps imaginary, perhaps real and clandestine) unnamed sources close to the situation.

This tells us two things:

The Fake News remains the enemy of the people and are engaged in an active subversion campaign against Trump’s peace efforts with Russia ...

And ...

The Fake News is absolutely terrified of the final convergence of Trump and Putin in the central narrative because of what that might suggest about the endgame of the Sovereign Alliance, which includes a rapid crisis cascade against the Globalist System of Systems.

The Russia-Ukraine conflict marked my entry into the Info War as Burning Bright.

It will also mark the biggest inflection point on the world stage whose resolution represents the event horizon between the Unipolar World Order and the Multipolar World being constructed from its bones.


Singapore takes legal action against 7 Indonesian firms over haze

 


Singapore takes legal action against 7 Indonesian firms over haze

Singapore takes legal action against 7 Indonesian firms over haze

The environment agency will issue notices to the firms to extinguish fires on land owned or occupied by them and prevent the fires from spreading.

Air quality continued to deteriorate in Singapore this evening, with three regions recording very unhealthy air quality level of 225 in the central region, 202 in the west, 201 in the east, 183 in the south and 161 in the north. (EPA Images pic)
SINGAPORE:
Seven Indonesian companies are to be sent notices by the Singapore environment agency to put out forest fires that have contributed to worsening air quality caused by smoke pollution from transboundary haze.

The island republic’s environment minister, Grace Fu, said the notices would be issued following investigations into errant companies found responsible for causing transboundary haze in Singapore.

“Our investigation so far suggested that some of the haze experienced in Singapore originated from fires on the lands of seven companies in Indonesia. Where warranted, we will take further action under the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act based on the information and evidence available,” she said at a press conference today.

Fu said the notices seek the companies to deploy firefighting personnel to extinguish fires on land owned or occupied by them and prevent the fires from spreading. They are also required to discontinue or not commence any burning activities and submit action plans detailing measures to extinguish fires on their land and prevent their recurrence.

The minister said the haze conditions in Singapore were expected to persist for some time with air quality likely to fluctuate and potentially reach hazardous levels.

“However, as we transition to the inter-monsoon period towards the end of October or early November, we expect the situation to improve and that is another three to four weeks away. We expect winds around Singapore to become lighter then and more variable in direction, so it is less likely to bring haze from Sumatra or Kalimantan to Singapore,” she added.

As of 7pm on Friday, the 24-hour rolling average air pollution index continued to deteriorate with three regions recording very unhealthy air quality at 225 in the central region, 202 in the west, 201 in the east, 183 in the south and 161 in the north.

A heat map by Accuweather showing air quality levels across southern Southeast Asia today.

Fu said the distribution of N95 masks to vulnerable Singaporeans through 37 vending machines will be fully deployed across the island tonight. Sufficient stocks were available at retailers’ warehouses and in government stockpiles, she said.

The Asean haze monitoring centre said scattered hotspots were detected in Kalimantan and southern Sumatra, while few isolated hotspots were detected elsewhere.

Moderate to dense smoke haze was observed over parts of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Kalimantan, Sumatra, and western Sarawak. Moderate to dense smoke haze was also observed over Papua, Sulawesi, the Maluku Islands and the eastern parts of Sabah.

Air quality stations in Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia recorded unhealthy to very unhealthy levels, while air quality stations in Borneo and Sumatra reported unhealthy to hazardous levels.

Bar questions status of Negeri Sembilan govt after exco sackings

 


Bar questions status of Negeri Sembilan govt after exco sackings

Bar questions status of Negeri Sembilan govt after exco sackings

Bar Council president Anand Raj says the matter requires clarification following the revocation of the appointment of the state executive council.

Bar Council president Anand Raj said if ordinary citizens are constitutionally protected from unlawful removal from office without a fair hearing, a state ruler is entitled to no less protection.
KUALA LUMPUR:
The Bar Council has questioned on what basis the Negeri Sembilan state government continues to operate after the appointments of all state executive council members was revoked by the state ruler.

Bar Council president Anand Raj said the matter required clarification, given the revocation of the executive councillors’ appointments by the Yang Dipertuan Besar, Tuanku Muhriz Tuanku Munawir, amid a dispute over a purported proclamation to remove him.

Anand said the proclamation on April 19, which the Attorney-General’s Chambers had rejected as invalid, failed to meet a requirement under the state constitution for a full enquiry by the undangs (traditional territorial chiefs) before they can call upon the ruler to withdraw from his functions or abdicate.

“No contemporaneous record has been published to show that any such enquiry was ever held, nor that His Royal Highness was ever given an opportunity to rebut the allegations made against him,” Anand said in a statement today.

He said the right to be heard was a fundamental principle of natural justice which applied to everyone, including the head of state. Citing a Privy Council decision in a 1962 suit against the Federation of Malaya, he said: “If ordinary citizens are constitutionally protected from unlawful removal from office without a fair hearing, His Royal Highness is entitled to no less protection.”

Anand also said several unanswered questions remained over the handling of the crisis, including the claim by menteri besar Ismail Lazim that he had signed under duress a proclamation to remove Tuanku Muhriz.

“The public is entitled to know by whom, how and why, and why he lodged the police report only on Sept 8, some five weeks after the purported proclamation” and also why the menteri besar subsequently endorsed the proclamation, Anand said.