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November 28, 2025
Let's talk about Kelly, Hegseth, Trump, and not playing the game.... - Belle of the Ranch
November 28, 2025
Interview: Democrat Rob Sand poised to flip top office in Iowa.
Deep Red state suddenly in play for 2026 - Brian Tyler Cohen
Interview: Democrat Rob Sand poised to flip top office in Iowa.
November 28, 2025
Thanksgiving just fell apart as Canada pulled a brand new checkmate move. That's right, Donald Trump has very
little to be thankful for today.
Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that the decades long close relationship between the United States and Canada is officially over. Carney delivered the blow while announcing a slate of major economic protections for Canada's steel and lumber industries. Industries deeply intertwined with the United States for generations.
Carney said America's past strengths had now become vulnerabilities for Canada due to Trump's erratic leadership and economic unpredictability. And the fallout is immediate. Carney's new policies place strict limitations on foreign steel aimed partly at China. But the message to Washington is unmistakable. Canada is no longer relying on the United States as a stable economic partner.
That wasn't even the harshest part. New travel data reveals Canadians are abandoning the United States in massive numbers. The number of Canadians returning from US trips by car or by plane has collapsed by 1/3 compared to last year. Travel experts say Canadians now fear ICE crackdowns, rising costs, and an overall
sense that the US under Trump simply isn't safe.
So on a week when Donald Trump wanted to focus on political victories and his holiday messaging, Canada, America's longest, safest, most reliable ally, just hit him with a humiliating headline. The friendship is over. The
trust is gone. And Canadians are choosing the rest of the world over Trump's America. This is not just a
diplomatic shift--it is a public rejection and it landed right on Thanksgiving.
Canada Just Ruined Trump's Thanksgiving With Checkmate Move - Occupy Democrats
Thanksgiving just fell apart as Canada pulled a brand new checkmate move. That's right, Donald Trump has very
little to be thankful for today.
Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that the decades long close relationship between the United States and Canada is officially over. Carney delivered the blow while announcing a slate of major economic protections for Canada's steel and lumber industries. Industries deeply intertwined with the United States for generations.
Carney said America's past strengths had now become vulnerabilities for Canada due to Trump's erratic leadership and economic unpredictability. And the fallout is immediate. Carney's new policies place strict limitations on foreign steel aimed partly at China. But the message to Washington is unmistakable. Canada is no longer relying on the United States as a stable economic partner.
That wasn't even the harshest part. New travel data reveals Canadians are abandoning the United States in massive numbers. The number of Canadians returning from US trips by car or by plane has collapsed by 1/3 compared to last year. Travel experts say Canadians now fear ICE crackdowns, rising costs, and an overall
sense that the US under Trump simply isn't safe.
So on a week when Donald Trump wanted to focus on political victories and his holiday messaging, Canada, America's longest, safest, most reliable ally, just hit him with a humiliating headline. The friendship is over. The
trust is gone. And Canadians are choosing the rest of the world over Trump's America. This is not just a
diplomatic shift--it is a public rejection and it landed right on Thanksgiving.
November 28, 2025
Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is shifting into a phase defined not by military breakthroughs but by financial strain inside Russia itself. The country’s top banker, German Gref of Sberbank, has stated that the current ruble rate is far from its true level, identifying a fair range of roughly 100 to 105 rubles for one dollar. From today’s stronger rate, that implies a potential slide of about 34 percent. A decline of that scale functions as a hidden tax on Russian wages, pensions, and savings, allowing the state to redirect value toward sustaining the war effort.
This emerging currency crisis is linked directly to battlefield realities. Long-range Ukrainian strikes have hit refineries nearly 1,000 kilometers, about 620 miles, inside Russia. Damage to these facilities cuts into Moscow’s revenue stream and magnifies the fiscal pressure already visible in Russia’s public data.
At the same time, Russia’s economic dependence on China is deepening. Beijing purchases discounted Russian energy and supplies machinery and controlled goods at sharply higher prices. Research shows that Chinese-controlled exports to Russia have risen in price far more steeply than similar goods for other markets. A weaker ruble amplifies this imbalance and increases Russia’s reliance on a single dominant buyer, limiting its strategic options.
The broader picture for Western observers is clear. Combined economic pressure and Ukrainian strikes are straining the financial foundations of the Kremlin’s war. Russia’s currency and budget are now central to understanding how the conflict moves forward.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:12 - Support Ukraine's Frontline: Drones for the Fight in Sumy
02:46 - Critical Blow: Ukraine's Drone Strikes on Russia's Oil Refineries
03:30 - The Ruble Crisis: Top Banker German Gref Tells the Truth
05:06 - Putin's Impossible Choice: War Survival vs. a Strong Ruble
07:12 - Sanctions, Oil, and War: Russia's Economic Collapse
09:23 - Putin's Costly Ally: China's Massive Markup on War Goods
10:38 - The Looming Banking Crisis: Cascading Defaults Warning
13:06 - Outro
How Putin's War Ends: Ruble Collapse - Jason Jay Smart
Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is shifting into a phase defined not by military breakthroughs but by financial strain inside Russia itself. The country’s top banker, German Gref of Sberbank, has stated that the current ruble rate is far from its true level, identifying a fair range of roughly 100 to 105 rubles for one dollar. From today’s stronger rate, that implies a potential slide of about 34 percent. A decline of that scale functions as a hidden tax on Russian wages, pensions, and savings, allowing the state to redirect value toward sustaining the war effort.
This emerging currency crisis is linked directly to battlefield realities. Long-range Ukrainian strikes have hit refineries nearly 1,000 kilometers, about 620 miles, inside Russia. Damage to these facilities cuts into Moscow’s revenue stream and magnifies the fiscal pressure already visible in Russia’s public data.
At the same time, Russia’s economic dependence on China is deepening. Beijing purchases discounted Russian energy and supplies machinery and controlled goods at sharply higher prices. Research shows that Chinese-controlled exports to Russia have risen in price far more steeply than similar goods for other markets. A weaker ruble amplifies this imbalance and increases Russia’s reliance on a single dominant buyer, limiting its strategic options.
The broader picture for Western observers is clear. Combined economic pressure and Ukrainian strikes are straining the financial foundations of the Kremlin’s war. Russia’s currency and budget are now central to understanding how the conflict moves forward.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:12 - Support Ukraine's Frontline: Drones for the Fight in Sumy
02:46 - Critical Blow: Ukraine's Drone Strikes on Russia's Oil Refineries
03:30 - The Ruble Crisis: Top Banker German Gref Tells the Truth
05:06 - Putin's Impossible Choice: War Survival vs. a Strong Ruble
07:12 - Sanctions, Oil, and War: Russia's Economic Collapse
09:23 - Putin's Costly Ally: China's Massive Markup on War Goods
10:38 - The Looming Banking Crisis: Cascading Defaults Warning
13:06 - Outro
November 27, 2025
Today, there are important updates from the Russian Federation.
Here, the lack of volunteers even in the harshest Russian prisons has forced officials to find a new solution to force convicts to the front. Being forced to the wall without real choice, many have decided to try their luck, looking for an unexpected solution, killing their captors, and running free.
The latest incident occurred in Russia’s Leningrad region, where nine convict volunteers murdered their escort and escaped while being transported to the front. According to Russian reports, the group killed the convoy driver and fled into nearby forests and villages, triggering a large manhunt. These men had been taken straight from prison under military contracts, part of Russia’s shrinking pool of penal recruits intended to replace catastrophic frontline losses. It is important to note that this is not the first such bloody escape, involving prisoners breaking out before deployment, aware that their transfer to the front means a likely death sentence.
When Wagner introduced prison recruitment in 2022, tens of thousands volunteered for a chance at pardon and cash compensation, nearly 21,000 US dollars for six months at the front. By late 2024, however, casualty rates had become so extreme that enthusiasm collapsed, and Russia had run out of willing convicts. Between 140,000 and 180,000 inmates were released to fight in Ukraine, but most of them died in meat assaults from Bakhmut to Avdiivka, and the rest saw enough to understand that survival was unlikely. By 2025, monthly recruitment dropped to the low hundreds. Signing bonuses disappeared, salaries were slashed, and stories of executions for refusal spread widely. Most remaining prisoners chose to serve their sentences rather than face certain death, and when recruitment dried up, Russia began shuttering prisons and turning to more coercive tactics inside its penal system.
Russian authorities shifted to a new approach of fabricating crimes until prisoners break and sign military contracts, removing the incentive to wait out their sentence, because they would be waiting until their death in a cell. This was recently confirmed by a captured 19-year-old soldier taken in the Vovchansk sector. During interrogation, he explained that he had eleven months left on his sentence when investigators inside the prison suddenly charged him with additional offenses that he insists he did not commit. Faced with years of extra prison time and no legal defense, he signed a military contract to avoid further punishment. His story aligns with reports from Ukraine’s intelligence services, which note that Russia increasingly uses fabricated charges such as discrediting the army, spreading fake news, or justifying terrorism to pressure detainees. These charges often come from staged conversations recorded by planted informants seeking perks.
In the first half of 2025 alone, over 100 such sentences were documented. Additional unethical measures, such as various forms of harassment and harsh deprivation, including limiting water to three liters per week, are frequently used to coerce signatures. Since a March 2024 law allows Russian prosecutors to suspend criminal cases if a prisoner enlists in the army, with inmates effectively told refusal means isolation, violence, and decades added to a sentence, while in contrast, signing up as a volunteer at least offers a theoretical chance of survival.
This desperation has created a third path that an increasing number of convicts now attempt: sign up, get transferred, and escape at the first opportunity, even if it requires killing guards. Many inmates recognize that while the front is likely deadly, remaining in custody under fabricated charges is a guarantee to die behind bars. Running offers a reprieve from both humiliation in prison and the brutality of frontline commanders, who are known to execute those who hesitate, retreat, or refuse orders.
Overall, Russia’s practice of replenishing its ranks with prisoners is collapsing, and officials are improvising increasingly coercive measures to sustain the flow. This accelerates the breakdown of discipline inside penal colonies, pushing inmates toward violent rebellion and escape attempts. As prisoners realize there is a higher chance of surviving on the run than on the Ukrainian front and especially in prison, incidents like the killing of escorts and mass breakouts...
This was the last straw! Russian convict soldiers uprise! Army convoy ambushed and killed! - RFU News
Today, there are important updates from the Russian Federation.
Here, the lack of volunteers even in the harshest Russian prisons has forced officials to find a new solution to force convicts to the front. Being forced to the wall without real choice, many have decided to try their luck, looking for an unexpected solution, killing their captors, and running free.
The latest incident occurred in Russia’s Leningrad region, where nine convict volunteers murdered their escort and escaped while being transported to the front. According to Russian reports, the group killed the convoy driver and fled into nearby forests and villages, triggering a large manhunt. These men had been taken straight from prison under military contracts, part of Russia’s shrinking pool of penal recruits intended to replace catastrophic frontline losses. It is important to note that this is not the first such bloody escape, involving prisoners breaking out before deployment, aware that their transfer to the front means a likely death sentence.
When Wagner introduced prison recruitment in 2022, tens of thousands volunteered for a chance at pardon and cash compensation, nearly 21,000 US dollars for six months at the front. By late 2024, however, casualty rates had become so extreme that enthusiasm collapsed, and Russia had run out of willing convicts. Between 140,000 and 180,000 inmates were released to fight in Ukraine, but most of them died in meat assaults from Bakhmut to Avdiivka, and the rest saw enough to understand that survival was unlikely. By 2025, monthly recruitment dropped to the low hundreds. Signing bonuses disappeared, salaries were slashed, and stories of executions for refusal spread widely. Most remaining prisoners chose to serve their sentences rather than face certain death, and when recruitment dried up, Russia began shuttering prisons and turning to more coercive tactics inside its penal system.
Russian authorities shifted to a new approach of fabricating crimes until prisoners break and sign military contracts, removing the incentive to wait out their sentence, because they would be waiting until their death in a cell. This was recently confirmed by a captured 19-year-old soldier taken in the Vovchansk sector. During interrogation, he explained that he had eleven months left on his sentence when investigators inside the prison suddenly charged him with additional offenses that he insists he did not commit. Faced with years of extra prison time and no legal defense, he signed a military contract to avoid further punishment. His story aligns with reports from Ukraine’s intelligence services, which note that Russia increasingly uses fabricated charges such as discrediting the army, spreading fake news, or justifying terrorism to pressure detainees. These charges often come from staged conversations recorded by planted informants seeking perks.
In the first half of 2025 alone, over 100 such sentences were documented. Additional unethical measures, such as various forms of harassment and harsh deprivation, including limiting water to three liters per week, are frequently used to coerce signatures. Since a March 2024 law allows Russian prosecutors to suspend criminal cases if a prisoner enlists in the army, with inmates effectively told refusal means isolation, violence, and decades added to a sentence, while in contrast, signing up as a volunteer at least offers a theoretical chance of survival.
This desperation has created a third path that an increasing number of convicts now attempt: sign up, get transferred, and escape at the first opportunity, even if it requires killing guards. Many inmates recognize that while the front is likely deadly, remaining in custody under fabricated charges is a guarantee to die behind bars. Running offers a reprieve from both humiliation in prison and the brutality of frontline commanders, who are known to execute those who hesitate, retreat, or refuse orders.
Overall, Russia’s practice of replenishing its ranks with prisoners is collapsing, and officials are improvising increasingly coercive measures to sustain the flow. This accelerates the breakdown of discipline inside penal colonies, pushing inmates toward violent rebellion and escape attempts. As prisoners realize there is a higher chance of surviving on the run than on the Ukrainian front and especially in prison, incidents like the killing of escorts and mass breakouts...
November 27, 2025
The UK has just announced its latest Budget — but instead of fixing Britain’s economic problems, the numbers reveal an economy sliding deeper into trouble. In today’s video I break down the major tax changes in the Budget, explain how they will impact workers, homeowners, landlords and businesses, and expose what wasn’t included in the Budget that the Government doesn’t want to talk about.
We’ll look at the new stealth tax rises, higher taxes on savings and investments, the freeze on income-tax thresholds, the squeeze on pension benefits, and why the UK tax burden is heading for the highest level since World War Two. But just as important is what the Budget left out: no support for mortgage holders, no plan for growth, no productivity strategy, no help for the housing market, and no major investment in public services.
With inflation still sticky, interest rates expected to stay high, growth flatlining and government debt near record levels, the UK is now facing the real risk of a prolonged period of stagnation — or even stagflation.
Is Britain heading toward a deeper economic crisis? Let’s take a closer look.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:54 GDP
3:20 DEBT
5:24 UNEMPLOYMENT
5:45 INFLATION
6:51 INTEREST RATES
8:17 BUDGET
12:20 SUMMARY & CONCLUSION
UK in Trouble Joe Blogs
The UK has just announced its latest Budget — but instead of fixing Britain’s economic problems, the numbers reveal an economy sliding deeper into trouble. In today’s video I break down the major tax changes in the Budget, explain how they will impact workers, homeowners, landlords and businesses, and expose what wasn’t included in the Budget that the Government doesn’t want to talk about.
We’ll look at the new stealth tax rises, higher taxes on savings and investments, the freeze on income-tax thresholds, the squeeze on pension benefits, and why the UK tax burden is heading for the highest level since World War Two. But just as important is what the Budget left out: no support for mortgage holders, no plan for growth, no productivity strategy, no help for the housing market, and no major investment in public services.
With inflation still sticky, interest rates expected to stay high, growth flatlining and government debt near record levels, the UK is now facing the real risk of a prolonged period of stagnation — or even stagflation.
Is Britain heading toward a deeper economic crisis? Let’s take a closer look.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:54 GDP
3:20 DEBT
5:24 UNEMPLOYMENT
5:45 INFLATION
6:51 INTEREST RATES
8:17 BUDGET
12:20 SUMMARY & CONCLUSION
November 27, 2025
Trump is suing the BBC for $5 billion claiming that he was harmed by their cheating.
Trump endures the ultimate public humiliation - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen
Trump is suing the BBC for $5 billion claiming that he was harmed by their cheating.
November 27, 2025
Let's talk about the GOP changing the calendar because they're doing bad.... - Belle of the Ranch
November 27, 2025
Russia’s energy sector is collapsing under the pressure of a war it can no longer control. As Ukrainian strikes hit Belgorod, Kursk, Stary Oskol, Bryansk, and other border regions, entire cities plunge into darkness, water systems fail, and heat plants shut down. These aren’t isolated incidents—they are the result of a power grid that was already decaying from decades of corruption, neglect, and impossible wartime demands.
The Kremlin once mocked Ukraine’s blackouts while launching massive attacks on civilian infrastructure, but now those same tactics are coming home as the biggest threat to Russia’s internal stability. Substations, oil depots, and heat plants across Russia are in critical condition, overwhelmed by drone strikes and structural collapse. Propaganda tries to spin the outages as “patriotic endurance,” but the truth is simple: Russia’s power grid is falling apart because Putin refuses to end the war. Every blackout, every failed transformer, every regional shutdown is the direct consequence of policies that targeted Ukraine’s energy system and ignored Russia’s own.
The only way to stop the blackouts and prevent a national energy disaster is to end the war—but the Kremlin continues digging deeper, sacrificing Russia’s future to preserve the present. This unfolding crisis exposes the real cost of Putin’s strategy and reveals why the energy sector has become the most dangerous vulnerability inside Russia today.
Russia's Energy Sector is in Critical Condition Right Before Winter. - The Russian Dude
Russia’s energy sector is collapsing under the pressure of a war it can no longer control. As Ukrainian strikes hit Belgorod, Kursk, Stary Oskol, Bryansk, and other border regions, entire cities plunge into darkness, water systems fail, and heat plants shut down. These aren’t isolated incidents—they are the result of a power grid that was already decaying from decades of corruption, neglect, and impossible wartime demands.
The Kremlin once mocked Ukraine’s blackouts while launching massive attacks on civilian infrastructure, but now those same tactics are coming home as the biggest threat to Russia’s internal stability. Substations, oil depots, and heat plants across Russia are in critical condition, overwhelmed by drone strikes and structural collapse. Propaganda tries to spin the outages as “patriotic endurance,” but the truth is simple: Russia’s power grid is falling apart because Putin refuses to end the war. Every blackout, every failed transformer, every regional shutdown is the direct consequence of policies that targeted Ukraine’s energy system and ignored Russia’s own.
The only way to stop the blackouts and prevent a national energy disaster is to end the war—but the Kremlin continues digging deeper, sacrificing Russia’s future to preserve the present. This unfolding crisis exposes the real cost of Putin’s strategy and reveals why the energy sector has become the most dangerous vulnerability inside Russia today.
November 27, 2025
The Trump administration is stepping up its efforts to negotiate an end to Russia's war against Ukraine. The president's envoy, Steve Witkoff, is set to travel to Moscow next week for potential talks with Vladimir Putin. It is not yet clear what deal will be discussed. President Trump has described the meeting as an opportunity to finalise the revised version of a peace plan that was previously rejected by Ukraine and its European allies.
Chapters:
0:00 Trump envoy Witkoff to meet Putin in Moscow
0:32 Michael McFaul, Former US Ambassador to Russia
What are the concessions Moscow is pushing hardest to extract? - DW News
The Trump administration is stepping up its efforts to negotiate an end to Russia's war against Ukraine. The president's envoy, Steve Witkoff, is set to travel to Moscow next week for potential talks with Vladimir Putin. It is not yet clear what deal will be discussed. President Trump has described the meeting as an opportunity to finalise the revised version of a peace plan that was previously rejected by Ukraine and its European allies.
Chapters:
0:00 Trump envoy Witkoff to meet Putin in Moscow
0:32 Michael McFaul, Former US Ambassador to Russia
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