While Zelenskyy is in Berlin firming up support from Germany, France the U.K and EU allies around the concept of expanded conflict with Russia, while Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shares his support from the sidelines of the Commonwealth in the Caribbean, the Kremlin has announced their representative for upcoming talks in Abu Dhabi.

In a slight change from previous discussions, President Vladimir Putin’s primary aide Vladimir ​Medinsky will serve ⁠as Moscow’s chief negotiator ​at the organized talks in Abu Dhabi Nov. 10-11.

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There is something different about this round of talks considering the successful 6-day ceasefire in Oleshky, Ukraine, which was led by the outreach of First Lady Melania Trump toward representatives of both Russia and Ukraine.

Additionally, and likely much to the annoyance of those European figures who control the Ukrainian narrative, Melania Trump has announced there will be a meeting at the White House between representatives of both Russia and Ukraine later this week.  Mrs. Trump is going to make public remarks Thursday, November 5th.

WHITE HOUSE – First Lady Melania Trump will personally bring representatives of Russia and Ukraine, two nations actively at war, together at the White House. This event represents an extraordinary moment in American history.

[…] First Lady Melania Trump will deliver remarks on the ceasefire in Oleshky at 11:00 am ET on Thursday, November 5, 2026, at the White House. (source)

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Many people are looking for alternative livestream video feeds for information on the election results that are not part of the manipulative MSM gaslighting.  RSBN has various pundits and reporters on the ground and will be providing information for positive discussion.

As the night unfolds, I will stick this video newsfeed to the top of the page as an open discussion for election results as they roll in.   Additional CTH outlines and information will continue throughout.

AP Election Results Link

NYT Election Results SENATE – Results HOUSE

CNN Election Results Link – Fox News Election Results Link

Additional C-SPAN livestream below:

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In what will be remembered for a remarkable set of geopolitical statements that cover roughly four-minutes, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy decrees the administration of President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio no longer represents a nation who believe in the advancement of global protection and the responsibility to protect smaller nations.

Whoever inside the Zelensky administration is writing these speeches, is purposefully antagonizing the United States and trying to create further division internally.  These are very strategically written works of snark from a very particular psychology.  I strongly urge everyone to listen to these remarks as they highlight the disturbing intent of a Machiavellian deceiver.  [Video and Transcript Below]

Zelenskyy, framing himself as the global judge of all things virtuous and victimized, notes the importance of the American mid-term election happening today, then uses that American context to cast aspersions toward statements made by President Trump, JD Vance (Berlin security conference ’25) and Marco Rubio (Acropolis in Athens). Zelenskyy then states vision behind the Statue of Liberty -which he cites- is no longer available as a guiding light of optimism to the world.

[Transcript 03:13] – “Today, November 3rd, the world will be watching one country: America. Elections are taking place there today, and they will shape the future of the United States Congress, the future of American policy, and the future of those who are used to the United States always being somewhere nearby.

People still have this strong memory of an America they could count on with confidence, without even having to think about it, almost like air. And many still remember the United States that they never had to fear would suddenly disappear from the security map—a map where dozens of countries at different times searched for their place and found it. They were searching because they lacked this very resource, security, and they knew that America was not just a source of freedom.”

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Today is election day in America.  Depending on who you talk to, follow or review, opinions & predictions are all over the place.  What really matters is what YOU DO and ultimately the scale of voter turnout.

After years of watching UniParty politics, back in 2015 I said it really didn’t matter to me what Donald Trump did in the first primary debate, he had my support.  The reason was simple; all other candidates represented the status quo in one form or another.  Two wings of the same bird that had been delivering the same economic policy outcomes that created the rustbelt, destroyed the American middle-class and usurped our constitutional intents for partisan purposes.

Professional Democrats organize to gain power; professional Republicans organize to gain money. The business model within Washington DC works both wings of the UniParty vulture this way.  That’s why I said 11 years ago, it doesn’t matter to me if Donald Trump shows up to that first debate in five-inch stiletto heels and a Carmen Miranda hat to start twerking at the podium of Jeb Bush…. The only non-UniParty member has my full support.

The Tea Party assembly already knew the duplicity of the GOP, the entrenched dangers behind the ruse of the Obama coalition and the conniving manipulations inside the unelected federal administrative state.  We had already been targeted by the DOJ and IRS long before the term “weaponization of government” became a catch phrase.

In 2012, we watched what is now labeled as the Democrat Socialists of America, assemble in Charlotte North Carolina at the DNC convention and THRICE they denied God!

When Obama/Biden weaponized the system to target the threat Donald Trump represented, which is to say his targeting was genuinely to take all the fire they could not easily deploy against our larger mass, we watched what we knew.  Yes, “we been knew” and not much of it came as a surprise.

Fast forward a decade later and where are we?  Still right here, fighting, scrapping and highlighting the same conniving, corrupt and manipulative interests who tried to tear us down in the decade before Trump’s arrival.  They haven’t quit and neither will we.  The difference now is THE GREAT AWAKENING.

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In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and Presidency.

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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War is hell.  Forced war upon the innocents is even worse and this story is very disturbing.

Ukraine has forced conscription. Essentially a radical forced draft where the government pays private contractors to locate Ukrainian men, drag them off the streets, put them into military training and force them to fight in the war.  Inside Ukraine this process has become more and more aggressive as the population of available fighting-age males has declined.

The process is also fraught with corruption.  The private contractors, “draft enforcers” ie. “headhunters”, are paid to find the men who refuse to fight.  Financial support given to Ukraine by Europe and the USA funds these headhunting operations. However, the headhunters also take bribes and payments by Ukraine families who want to keep their sons, brothers and husbands alive and away from the eastern Ukraine meat grinder.

The headhunters are paid a bounty by the government for every Ukraine conscript they produce. The headhunters will let the conscripts avoid service if a bribe is paid by the family.  To say the headhunters are hated by the Ukrainian people would be an understatement.  This has created a powder-keg of anger inside the population of Ukraine and is the #1 reason why President Zelenskyy will not permit an election.  Zelenskyy would be crushed.

When the headhunters capture the conscript, they turn the man over to the Ukrainian Azov Battalion who are responsible for getting the unwilling soldiers prepared to fight and die.  Azov uses physical and psychological pressure to break the resistance of the conscript and get him trained for the front lines.   You can easily imagine what horrors happen in this process until the conscript finally breaks and agrees to go fight.

We have watched this unfold for several years.  Everything about this forced military service is horrific. That horror is compounded when you realize the ideological mindset of the Nazi Azov Battalion and the unlimited brutality they are willing to execute to succeed in the objective.

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This is a very timely and well presented video connecting multiple points of interest that have surfaced in the past several days. As a former ¹CIA operative, Senator Elissa Slotkin (Mich) sits at the center of the operation.

In addition to highlighting Slotkin’s intelligence efforts to formulate a ‘color revolution’ inside the United States, Kokinda correctly emphasizes Slotkin’s relationship to Poland, Anne Applebaum and her husband Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski.  This is an important video!

On the eve of the midterms, Susan Kokinda sets President Trump’s final message to Republicans, given to Benny Johnson (“be smart, be strong, love your country”), against Senator Elissa Slotkin’s September 30 speech at the Carnegie Endowment, where she called Trump’s America “the Titanic”, and her stage partner Anne Applebaum’s praise for the January 6 hearings as “constructed for television”.

Slotkin’s undercover-video remarks of October 29 show what her post-midterm “signature cases” would be: the White House ballroom and the Reflecting Pool. The episode then follows the playbook to Poland: Slotkin’s visit to Poland and Hungary and the “Iron Broom”, Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s move against the Constitutional Tribunal, President Karol Nawrocki’s return to Warsaw, U.S. Ambassador Tom Rose’s statement, and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski’s defence of the government, with a look at Sikorski’s and Applebaum’s British ties and the Integrity Initiative, funded by the British Foreign Office.

Kokinda’s review closes in Michigan, where Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers for the Senate, and sets Slotkin’s “corruption” narrative against the President’s moves on electricity for data centers, health care and drug prices, October’s new factories, and child and Hispanic poverty at record lows.

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A tale of two economic models.

Today the ‌S&P Global Canada Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 49.6 in October from 51.5 in September.  A reading above a 50.0 is expanding; while anything below a 50.0 indicates contraction or lower manufacturing.

To assemble the PMI approximately 400 companies report, New Orders (30% weight), Production (25% weight), Employment (20% weight), Supplier Deliveries (15% weight) and Inventories (10% weight). Combined those metrics formulate the PMI index to highlight growth (expanded manufacturing), or contraction (declining manufacturing).

TORONTO, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Canada’s manufacturing sector contracted in October for the first time this year as tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty weighed on activity, and after inflation pressures intensified.

The ‌S&P Global Canada Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 49.6 last month from 51.5 in September, marking the first move below the 50 threshold since December. A reading below 50 indicates contraction in the sector.

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President Donald Trump delivers remarks on midterm elections at the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C.  Livestream Links Below:

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