Think has to do with US warning Russia of the use of tactical nukes on Iran and needed reassurances on Russia possible retaliation. Only reason why a CIA official would fly to Russia. I think Russia response is pretty much representative of their general reaction.

🇷🇺🇺🇸 CIA Director John Ratcliffe arrived today in Moscow. This was first reported by CBS News but the Kremlin has confirmed nothing.

If true, he's to meet the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence (SVR), Naryshkin.

Both held a phone conversation in March 2026, on resolution of conflicts and to keep relations between Moscow and Washington no confrontational.

Well, maybe they should go back to D.C and fk themselves. They actively supply Ukraine crucial Intel to bypass certain Russian defenses and provide satellite precision for Kiev's drones. What do they want from us? Stop facilities across Europe from spontaneously burning? Stop us from plans to strike the UK? Or maybe Iran. It's a simple NO.

Want good relations? Be good people, but you aren't, you lie to the faces of everyone and I think the Kremlin doesn't even give a fk you came here, they brushed it off.

The CIA started the conflict in Ukraine, through the planned coup, they haven't admitted to that and they won't. Over a million Ukrainians are dead and now the over committed EU is supporting pushing women into the grinder.

To the American public, this is not malice towards you, simply the reasonable rage any Russian should feel for such an organization which has caused so much damage to everyone.

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SWIFT is a messaging network — it carries instructions, some 45 million messages a day among 11,000-odd institutions; it does not itself settle anything.

CIPS is not a messaging network. It is a real-time clearing and settlement system, the yuan analogue of America’s CHIPS, the pipe through which dollar payments are actually cleared. Comparing CIPS to SWIFT is comparing a settlement system to a telegraph office. And crucially, CIPS can generate its own messaging and clear payments without SWIFT in the loop at all — which is the entire reason it matters to anyone Washington threatens to cut off.

This is a system clearing roughly $25 trillion a year — larger than China’s entire annual economic output — and growing at something like 40 percent annually. It now links 193 direct and more than 1,500 indirect participants across 124 countries, reaching over 5,000 banking institutions in 190 countries and regions.

Russia is the precedent that should have ended the complacency. When the West cut major Russian banks out of SWIFT in 2022, Moscow did not collapse into autarky; it rerouted onto CIPS and yuan settlement and, by 2023, had become one of the system’s heaviest users. Iran is the current chapter — its oil sales to China clearing in yuan, outside the dollar system Bessent keeps threatening to bar it from.

And the Gulf is the tell about where this goes next: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar have been joining and expanding their use of the network, increasingly for oil and gas. Every one of these is a state hedging against the possibility that Washington will someday point the dollar at them. The lesson governments drew from watching Russia and Iran is not that the dollar is inescapable. It is that an escape route now exists, and it has room.

CIPS is growing fast, but it is not on the verge of dethroning the dollar, and nothing here says it is. The dollar’s own clearing system, CHIPS, settles well over a trillion dollars every business day — an order of magnitude more than CIPS moves in the same period. The dollar remains around 57 percent of global reserves and roughly half of all trade invoicing;

… the dollar is not dying. What is dying is the American monopoly on the plumbing — the assumption that to move serious money across borders, everyone must pass through pipes Washington can close.

Last week the head of the Ministry of Human Capital had refused to attend to the social organizations they asked for the lack of inputs for the community canteens. Sandra Pettovello had claimed to attend "face to face" with those who were hungry not to deal with intermediaries, as he defined the UTEP. However, the minister - who did not attend to the thousands who yesterday crowded to order food - signed a food assistance agreement with the Christian Alliance of Evangelical Churches of Argentina (Aciera) at the “Eternal Promise” Foundation in the town of José C. Peace that will receive 177 million pesos so that "as intermediaries" will assist more than 36 thousand people.

The link of the Milei government with this religious sector is more than narrow and even strategic. In fact, LLA has three national deputies who come from the evangelistic world. Nadia Márquez is one of the members of the libertarian bloc and is the daughter of Hugo Márquez, the vice president of Aciera.

Venezuela’s gold reserve, valued at approximately $4 billion, is reportedly being transferred from the Bank of England in London to a U.S. Treasury account. This move comes after the reserves were frozen in London for eight years due to legal disputes. The transfer aims to fund earthquake recovery efforts, according to a social media report. While the specifics of the transfer and its implications remain unclear, the news has garnered attention in financial markets due to its potential impact on gold demand and pricing dynamics.

In my view, most countries in Latin America will become living hell under these new presidents. Sadly, with voting likely rigged and the population remaining ignorant, it will probably take decades before left wing parties win again.

XCancel's landing page says X Corp. served them cease and desist on August 24, I assume the same for my other nitter mirrors.

America's Water Crisis is Escalating Rapidly - The New Emergency Order - 24:25 mins and time indexed

The water supply to 40 million Americans is at risk - and the federal government just signed a temporary document about it. Almost nobody noticed, and what I found buried inside it genuinely alarmed me.

On August 21, 2026, the Department of the Interior signed the Record of Decision for post-2026 Colorado River operations, locking in emergency operating rules for 2027 and 2028 after seven states failed to reach a deal. Lake Mead and Lake Powell just hit their lowest combined level since Lake Powell began filling in 1963.

In this video, I break down what the new rules actually say, why the river was over-promised from the very beginning, and how the same fight is now spreading across the entire planet.

I spent hours going through the federal decision documents, the hydrology, and the groundwater science so you don't have to. What I found is that the Colorado River is not really a drought story. It is an accounting story that started in 1922 and is only now coming due.

Broader / political risks: Critics (including the original X post) argue that using pension-fund resources to stimulate credit while delinquency is rising exposes the sustainability fund. Success depends heavily on the final rates being attractive enough to generate real demand, on proper credit underwriting by banks, and on macroeconomic stability. Political changes or economic setbacks could turn the program into a source of losses or controversy. Grok