5 Sep, 2025 16:09

Trump extends olive branch to Musk

The US president hailed the tech billionaire as a “super genius” but said that he should abandon the idea of creating his own political party

US President Donald Trump has said he still likes Elon Musk despite a major spat between the two earlier this year. Trump nonetheless warned that the Tesla CEO’s plans to create his own political party would prove fruitless.

“[Musk] is a good person,” Trump told Scott Jennings, the host of the Scott Jennings Show on Salem Radio, on Wednesday.He also referred to the US-based tycoon as a “good man” and a “man of common sense.”

Musk supported Trump in the 2024 election and temporarily served as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) before the two had a public falling-out over the president’s “Big Beautiful Bill” spending package.

According to the US president,the billionaire is “80% super genius and then 20% he's got some problems.” Trump also stated that he has “always” liked Musk and continues to think of him favorably. (Oh well, Musk will see the 20%, and he's probably fuming. Jennings has said before, he's convinced they will be friends again, Trump dashed that hope)

Trump nonetheless maintained that Musk’s ambition to create a new US political party would prove fruitless. “What's he going to do? He's going to go with the radical left lunatics? … I don't think he has a choice.” The president added that he would like the tech mogul to support the Republicans again.

After resigning from DOGE, the billionaire announced he would start his own political faction to challenge the two-party system and field candidates in the 2026 midterms. Last month, he doubled down on his plan, shooting down a Wall Street Journal piece claiming he had abandoned the idea.

He ventured at one point that his America Party would concentrate on the US Congress ahead of the 2026 midterms “but backing a candidate for president is not out of the question.”

Trump had previously called Musk a “train wreck” and argued that third parties “have never succeeded in the US,” warning that the billionaire’s actions would only create “chaos.”

Speaking about the falling-out with Musk on Wednesday, Trump said that the tech entrepreneur “went off the reservation, and he wished he didn't do it.” Musk has not commented yet on the president’s conciliatory words.

https://www.rt.com/news/624186-trump-olive-branch-musk/

(strange that RT used that pic, Musk looks sorta like Darth Vader or his energy is like that.)

5 Sep, 2025 15:25

Russia preparing for ‘full participation’ in LA Olympics – minister

The next Summer Games are set to begin in the US in July 2028

The Russian Olympic team is preparing for full participation in the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles, Russian Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyaryov told TASS on Thursday. The country’sathletes have gradually been returning to international competitionsafter years of Ukraine-related restrictions, following recommendations issued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) shortly after the escalation of the conflict in February 2022.

“We are preparing to take part in the 2028 Olympic Games with a full roster,” Degtyaryov told TASS at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. “We will hold the second summer ‘Spartakiad’ with the strongest athletes,” he added, explaining that “these are our domestic qualifying competitions for the Olympics.”

Degtyaryov said Russia “will start looking at all the candidates” for the 2028 Games at next year’s domestic event.

The minister has previously condemned what he described as“discrimination”against Russian athletes who have been forced to participate under a neutral flag andbarred from competing under their national colorsin numerous sports.

Last month,Russian swimmers took home 18 medals from the 2025 World Aquatics Championshipsin Singapore in their first chance to competesince 2016, due to IOC sanctions. Competing under a neutral flag, the team won six golds and placed fourth overall in the medals table.

IOC president Kirsty Coventry, who was elected earlier this year, has said shestands against banning countries from the Olympicsover conflicts.

“Ultimately I believe that it’s best for our movement to ensure that we have all athletes represented,” she told Sky News in March, adding that she will open a “discussion” on allowing Russians at the Games once again.

Moscow has repeatedly described the IOC sanctions as a perversion of the Olympic Charter, which is ostensibly intended to keep the Games free of politics.

https://www.rt.com/russia/624182-russia-preparing-full-participation-olympics/

(Even singers, and actors, and other things cultural, Russians were banned in the West, that’s how bad the EU and Ukraine wanted to and still wants to destroy the Russians in society. Russia is very proud of their athletes, and these creeps in Europe, are still trying to ban them from society and the world.)

4 Sep, 2025 21:49

Seven German opposition party candidates die weeks before elections

The “statistically conspicuous” deaths are “hard to explain,” AfD’s deputy head has said

Alternative for Germany (AfD) has reported what one of its senior members is calling a “statistically conspicuous” series of deaths among its candidates just weeks before local elections in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

A total of seven party members, includingfive main candidates and two “reserve” ones, have died over the past few weeks.

The deaths were reported by the right-wing opposition partybetween August 19 and September 3 – all before the local elections scheduled for September 14. The list included local AfD politicians aged between 42 and 80 in several municipalities across the region, according to the media. (Not sketchy at all==, AfD loses 7 candidates, just before the election.)

The party’s deputy regional chairman, Kay Gottschalk, told Die Welt TV that there was “no indication” of “murder or anything similar.” The police also said they had found no indication of any foul play, according to broadcaster ARD. The news has still prompted speculation on the internet. (The police and coroner, work for the current government/state, they can't be ruled out.)

The regional election committee has stated that it cannot find anything out of the ordinary.The committee is aware of a total of 16 deaths of candidatesfor the local elections, including members of a dozen political parties and associations, it said, adding that thenumbers had “not significantly increased”in comparison to other election cycles. (WTF, sounds kind of Nazi like.)

AfD candidates stillaccount for some 43% of all deathsreported by the committee, with all other affected political groups, eachconfirming just one candidate death.

An AfD deputy head and a Bundestag MP, Stephan Brandner, called the numbers “statistically conspicuous,” adding that they are “hard to explain.”

Some 20,000 seats will be up for grabs in the upcoming elections, according to Die Welt. The AfD party has steadily been gaining popularity in Germany. A poll conducted in mid-August suggested thatit had overtakenChancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc to become the country’s most popular.

The German domestic security service designated it a “confirmed far-right extremist” group in May, prompting the AfD to challenge the label in court. The country’s justice minister considered banning the party altogether later the same month.

https://www.rt.com/news/624145-opposition-candidates-die-elections-german/

German Regional Election Committees

Germany does not have a single, centralized "regional election committee" with nationwide authority over all regional elections. Instead, election administration is decentralized and managed at the state (Land) and local levels according to each state's electoral laws.

(Sounds like Regional Election Committees are being bribed or threatened to say it’s all normal that 43% of the deaths were in AfD, and other political parties only one each)

https://search.brave.com/search?q=Who+are+the+regional+election+committe+inGermany%3F&source=desktop&summary=1&conversation=f4b087182cdd0552b43ed7

5 Sep, 2025 17:05

Zelensky refuses EU states Russian oil and gas

Kiev is ready to work with Bratislava on any alternatives as long as they do not involve Moscow, the Ukrainian leader has said

Ukraine will not provide oil and gas to Slovakia if it comes from Russia, Vladimir Zelensky has told journalists following a meeting with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Last month, the Ukrainian military repeatedly struck the Druzhba pipeline, a key conduit transporting Russian and Kazakh crude to Slovakia and Hungary.Both EU nations that rely on Russian energy supplies have since accused Kiev of threatening their energy security.

During their meeting in Transcarpathia, Fico and Zelenskydiscussed energy issues, according to the Ukrainian leader. “We are ready to supply gas and oil to Slovakiaif it is not Russian gas and not Russian oil. Because we have a war. Period,” Zelensky told journalists after the talks on Friday.

Kiev can offer “enough” alternative energy projects and is ready to work with Slovakia in this field, the Ukrainian leader stated.

Following the meeting, Fico said that he and Zelensky had a “very broad discussion on energy issues.” Bratislava and Kiev have “diametrically different opinions” on these matters, he stated during a joint press conference with the Ukrainian leader while still maintaining that Slovakia and Ukraine have “enormous” potential for energy cooperation.

Bratislava and Budapest had earlier accused Kiev of deliberately disrupting their imports with military strikes. Fico also raised the issue during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing this week.

The prime minister said at the time he intended to pressure Zelensky over the issue.Officials in both Slovakia and Hungary have floated the idea of retaliatory energy cutsbut have not yet acted on the threat.

Putin also said during his meeting with Fico in China that Slovakia could cut off Ukraine’s energy supplies in response to the Druzhba attacks.

Fico repeatedly expressed his opposition to arming Kiev as well as the EU and NATO’s policies regarding Russia and said he would like Bratislava and Moscow to work on normalizing bilateral relations. The prime minister, who survived an assassination attempt by a pro-Ukraine activist activist last year, also opposes Ukraine joining NATO but believes it is free to pursue EU membership.

https://www.rt.com/news/624188-zelensky-russian-gas-oil-eu/