As we stated yesterday, MINERVA ZEN (9410909) is NOT carrying Russian diesel. She is bringing in UAN (Urea Ammonium Nitrate); which is a liquid form of fertilizer. It is permitted under the otherwise hydrocarbon import ban which USA imposed in March 2022. The importing party in Wilmington, NC is EuroChem North America. You can see that they import from Russia. seair.co.in/us-import/i-euro…

Richard Nixon was once asked whether the Russians could be trusted. In response, he quoted the distinguished Italian diplomat Manlio Brosio, who had served for many years as Ambassador to Moscow and later as Secretary General of NATO. According to Nixon, Brosio said: “I know the Russians. They are liars. They are great actors. They are cheats. And they lie and play their roles because they believe it is their duty. They cannot be trusted.” But Nixon’s own words were even more telling: “We don't have to convince them that we're for peace. They know that. We have to convince them they cannot win a war. And once we do that, the basis is set for negotiation that will be responsible on both sides.” More than forty years have passed. Yet this approach remains as relevant as ever. Today, as the world seeks a path towards a just and lasting peace, Russia must receive a clear message: continuing its aggression will bring it no benefits. That is why the US decision to allow transactions involving Russian diesel fuel raises serious concerns. Every easing of economic pressure on Russia, without genuine steps towards ending its aggression, gives it additional opportunities to finance the war. I share the position of President of Ukraine @ZelenskyyUa: “Gifts to Putin will not bring peace or any benefit to the civilised world. Russia will “repay” the diesel with further terror and perfidy. Allowing Russia to sell petroleum products is an investment in a war that must be ended, not prolonged. What is needed is real de-escalation with Russia on a reciprocal basis.” I call on our American partners to reconsider the decision regarding Russian diesel. No barrels of Russian diesel are worth even a single gram of blood. Human blood. Ukrainian blood.

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Trump has been hiding his Russian diesel deal for over a month: the deal was announced yesterday, but it was likely agreed when Witkoff and Kushner visited the Kremlin on 5th September. While Trump was signing the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 on 18th September, a Greek tanker was loading sanctioned Russian diesel in St Petersburg’s Peterburgskiy Neftyanoy Terminal. It sailed for the US on September 23rd and will arrive to the East Coast in one week, likely the Port of Wilmington

毛泽东思想胜过毒品海洛因，谁吸上它，不会偷的变成偷儿，不会抢的变成强盗，不敢伤生的变成为杀人犯。因为它的核心本质是个“斗”字，终极目标是个“权”字。故他终生终世乐于与天斗、与地斗、与人斗。为了取得斗争的胜利，不惜用最残暴、最血腥、最奸诈的手段杀死对方；为了取得权的终极目标，根本不讲 善良、忠厚、情谊、孝道，纵犯上作乱，弑父杀兄也在所不惜，从不把人世间的传统道德，美丑善恶放在眼里，想怎么干就怎么干。试问：这么一个“思想”教育熏陶出来的人，还有好的吗？有的是六亲不认的“模范党员”，打砸抢烧的“革命英雄”，卖身求荣的“先进标兵”，弑父杀兄的“俊才良秀”，除此，还有什么呢？ 在“造反有理”、“横扫一切牛鬼蛇神”、“砸烂封资修”的“革命年代”，殃殃中华大地何处不是砍杀争斗的血腥？打倒“四人帮”后，中共经过两年七个月的调查，核实“文革”有关数字是：七百四十五万人受迫害，四百二十万人被关押审查，一百七十二万八千人自杀，单高级知识份子被逼跳楼、上吊、投河、服毒——死亡达二十万人。仅1970年，“一打三反”运动被“从重从快”判处死刑的“现行反革命”就有十三万五千余人，武斗死亡二十三万七千人，七百零三万人伤残，七万一千二百个家庭彻底被毁、斩尽杀绝，非正常死亡者至少七百七十三万人。据不完全统计，全国遭受到残酷迫害的人有一个亿（占全国总人数的九分之一），冤枉死亡的人数超过两千万，损失了国民经济八千亿人民币（见叶剑英在1978年12月13日中央工作会议闭幕式上的讲话）。“文革”初期，仅北京就有三万三千六百九十五户被抄家，有八万五千一百九十六人被赶出北京城，全国被遣返原籍种田的“城市阶级敌人”达四十多万。 ---他们胆敢如此攻击毛泽东 作者： 铁流

The first Russian diesel shipment is reaching the US East Coast barely 24 hours post announcement, indicating the pact preceded its public reveal as the tanker Minerva Zen departed St. Petersburg back on September 22.

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While Europe is distracted by disorders in France, revolving-door governments in Great Britain and the disintegration of the German coalition, a major shift is underway in Latin America. Flavio Bolsonaro’s first-round victory over the three-term president and seven-time candidate Lula da Silva is another decisive turn to the responsible right. A series of conservative victories in Argentina, Paraguay, Honduras, El Salvador, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia has already constituted a tidal wave of support for a Pan-American and pro-American hemispheric shift. The addition of Brazil would complete an almost full sweep of the entire hemisphere, except to a limited extent Mexico. The juntas have gone, and the old Peronist formula of blaming everything on the United States has given way to popular electoral forces emulating the United States. Not since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor policy of ninety years ago has America exercised such positive leadership in its hemisphere, as the final detritus of the ghastly Castro experiment in Cuba flounders dismally to its end.

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Kelvinator’s 1956 Foodarama combined a refrigerator and an upright freezer side by side in a single cabinet, with dedicated storage for different foods. Pull-out trays and a roll-out fruit basket made items easier to reach. A “breakfast bar” kept eggs, butter and juice together, while a special ice cream compartment was designed to keep it soft enough to scoop. Beneath the freezer was an unusual feature: an unrefrigerated banana bin. It provided a place to store bananas inside the appliance without chilling them.

Today, at President Trump’s direction, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is immediately issuing a temporary general license to allow the supply of Russian diesel to the global market.

Surprise! The EU and China have clinched a trade deal to: - Cut China's exports of hybrids and plug-in hybrids by more than half - Improve access to the Chinese market for €4 billion of EU products - Facilitate China's export licensing for rare earths and permanent magnets

Zelensky says Russia's strikes on the internet, bridges and logistics show Putin isn't ready to end the war. He says Putin pulled air defense into Moscow and left his other regions exposed. He adds that "very strange signals and documents" suggest Putin ordered strikes on everything. "This is not the face of an ending," Zelensky says of those who claim Putin is ready for peace. He warns that if Ukraine's bridges fall, Ukraine will get through it, but "his people will feel it too."

舊時香港：【虐兒個案】「郭亞女事件」震撼社會 屯門富泰邨女童背著破書包、卻手挽兩大袋啤酒，跟著父親及弟妺走在街上，儘管途人側目又質疑，但父親態度冷漠，影片在社會一石激起千層浪。警方經調查後，以涉嫌「對所看管兒童或少年人虐待或忽略」拘捕女童的三十八歲繼父、以及三十二歲親母，之後獲准保釋。而涉事女童與其弟妹則送院接受身體檢查。 香港過去也曾發生多宗震撼社會的虐兒案，其中包括一九八六年的「郭亞女事件」。 事件主角郭亞女當年僅六歲，長期與患有精神疾病的母親黃婉韶居於葵涌葵興邨單位內，甚少與外界接觸。早在八五年十一月，社會福利署葵涌家庭服務中心已接獲相關報告，並且介入跟進，但負責社工多次嘗試探訪均遭拒諸門外，未能直接了解母女狀況。 事件經傳媒廣泛報道後，迅速引起社會關注，大批記者連日守候單位外採訪。社會福利署評估後認為，持續的傳媒壓力可能刺激母親情緒，對女童安全構成風險，亦考慮到此前的探訪中，社工在門外聞到臭味，對女童生活環境是否健康有疑慮。至八六年五月八日，時任社會福利署署長的陳方安生批准下，當局引用《保護婦孺條例》，聯同警方、消防處、政務處及房屋署採取行動，強行進入單位，將郭亞女帶離住所。 **尤德：社署沒有做錯 其後，女童被安排入住竹園兒童院接受照顧，而黃婉韶則被送往葵涌醫院接受精神科治療；由於當局懷疑事件涉及虐待兒童，初期更限制母女接觸，直至後來才准許她們每周會面兩次。 事件曝光後，社會各界對政府處理手法展開激烈辯論。一方面有人認為當局有責任保障兒童福祉，在情況未明下及早介入實屬必要，港督尤德（Edward Youde）表態說，事件中社署沒有做錯；另一方面亦有不少聲音批評社會福利署權力運用過當，質疑破門入屋及強行分開母女是否屬最後手段。 當然，作為負責任政府，當年事後是有審視過事件，檢討過箇中程序，並發表了《郭亞女事件報告書》，令個案成為本港兒童福利、社會工作史上的重要參考。 事件還有後續，一九八八年四月，法庭檢視最新情況後，批准母女團聚；但此時，郭女的母稱要工作無暇照顧女兒，主動提出把女兒交予兒童院託管。二零零一年，陳方安生從政務司長之位退下時，接受媒體訪問，回憶此事時說過，她一直仍與郭亞女有聯絡，看到郭亞女正常地成長，心感安慰。 **知識庫：虐兒的定義 根據香港相關法律，保護兒童指引把虐兒分為四類：（一）「身體虐待」指非意外地使兒童受傷或痛苦；（二）「性侵犯」；（三）「心理虐待」指透過反覆羞辱、恐嚇等行為，或極端事件，損害兒童身心健康及發展；（四）「疏忽照顧」則指嚴重或反覆忽視兒童的基本需要，令其健康或發展受到危害。 這四類屬保護兒童工作的分類，並非四項獨立罪名，具體行為是否構成犯罪，須按相關證據判斷；法律亦設有保護令及強制舉報制度，以便及早介入。

医疗人类学家：中国的“政治性抑郁”由来已久 精神病学家兼人类学家阿瑟·克莱曼（Arthur Kleinman）1980年和1983年在湖南开展研究时，发现当地常见的诊断并非抑郁症，而是当时在西方已逐渐式微的“神经衰弱”。 克莱曼的湖南研究后来形成《社会起源：现代中国的抑郁、神经衰弱与疼痛》（Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China）一书，该书通过患者的生命经历，呈现了文化大革命期间的审讯、酷刑、公开羞辱、下乡经历以及家庭分离等政治创伤。 克莱曼认为，个人在家庭、工作单位和人际关系中承受的长期压力固然重要，但文化大革命造成的宏观社会创伤具有更深刻的影响。神经衰弱的身体症状因而不仅是疾病表现，也可能承载社会记忆，成为人们在压抑环境中表达痛苦、间接批评现实的方式。 中国的“政治性抑郁”是怎么回事？来自台湾的医疗人类学家这么解释…… 详见本文编译：chinademocrats.org/?p=7397

唐生：《畢竟是》 以色列與約旦交界的阿倫比橋口岸發生一宗大規模行使假證件闖關事件。本周二（10月6日）早上，合共33名中國籍旅客抵達口岸企圖進入以色列，眾人向邊防人員出示日本護照，惟當場被以色列人口與移民局人員識破為偽造證件，最終全體被拒入境。 據以色列傳媒引述以色列人口與移民局消息指，涉事旅行團包括27名男子及6名女子。調查顯示，這批旅客在進出約旦境內時，均使用合法有效的中國護照辦理出入境手續；然而在抵達以色列邊境檢查站準備過關時，卻換成整批假日本護照企圖瞞天過海。 現場邊防督察在初步核查時察覺證件有異，隨即將整批旅客轉交專業人員作深入審查。經專業儀器及專家詳細檢驗後，證實全部日本護照均屬偽造。涉案的33名中國公民隨後被正式拒絕入境，相關偽造護照已被以色列當局全數扣查作進一步跟進。 以色列人口與移民局其後指出，今次成功攔截涉案人士，充分體現邊檢人員的專業警覺性，以及口岸防偽偵測系統的效能，透過科技成功鎖定可疑假證件並阻止非法入境。