Sanctioned Russia-Bound Oil Tanker At Risk Of Sinking After Mine Strike
Sanctioned Russia-Bound Oil Tanker At Risk Of Sinking After Mine Strike
Two tankers which were traversing waters north of Turkey's Black Sea coast are believed to have suffered damaged from sea mines placed in regional waters related to the Ukraine war.
A suezmax and an aframax tanker sanctioned by the West for trading in Russia both caught fire nearly simultaneously on Friday, according to Bloomberg and regional outlets.
At least one of the tankers is on fire after the apparent blasts occurred about 30 nautical miles north of Turkey’s Black Sea coast.
Crewmembers have been cited in maritime reports saying an "external impact" was observed, as related by Turkish authorities.
Specifically a fire was observed aboard the Kairos tanker in the Black Sea near the Turkish coast. The vessel was reportedly en route to the Black Sea port of Novorssiysk when the incident occurred.
Turkey's Daily Sabah said the blaze triggered a large-scale recue response, and all crew members 
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A fire broke out Thursday aboard a Russian-bound tanker off the coast of Kandıra district in Türkiye's Kocaeli province, prompting an emergency rescue operation for the vessel’s 25 crew members, authorities said.
The tanker KAIROS, sailing empty toward Russia’s Novorossiysk port, reported a fire about 28 miles off Türkiye’s Black Sea shores, the Directorate General of Maritime Affairs said in a statement. Officials noted the blaze was believed to have been triggered by an “external impact,” though the cause has not yet been confirmed.
“All 25 personnel onboard are in good condition,” the agency said, adding that rescue units were dispatched to evacuate the crew and monitor the situation.
The Kairos , which was sailing under the Gambian flag, is reportedly in danger of sinking - with Turkish coast guard vessels and tugboats currently assisting at the scene.
🇹🇷A tanker from Russia’s shadow fleet has exploded — right off the coast of Turkey
Judging by the video and the dramatic column of smoke, the blast was pretty powerful.
According to Bloomberg, the vessel in question is the Kairos. At the moment of the incident, it was located… 
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While all initial reports have pointed to a sea mine explosion, there remains the possibility that a drone could have caused the explosion and damage. A rapid plume of smoke just after the strike could be observed all the way from eyewitnesses on the Turkish coast.
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At least one of the tankers is on fire after the apparent blasts occurred about 30 nautical miles north of Turkey’s Black Sea coast.
Crewmembers have been cited in maritime reports saying an "external impact" was observed, as related by Turkish authorities.
Specifically a fire was observed aboard the Kairos tanker in the Black Sea near the Turkish coast. The vessel was reportedly en route to the Black Sea port of Novorssiysk when the incident occurred.
Turkey's Daily Sabah said the blaze triggered a large-scale recue response, and all crew members Daily Sabah
Fire erupts on Russia-bound tanker off Türkiye’s Kocaeli coast
A fire broke out Thursday aboard a Russian-bound tanker off the coast of Kandıra district in Türkiye's Kocaeli province, prompting an emerge...
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🇹🇷A tanker from Russia’s shadow fleet has exploded — right off the coast of Turkey
Judging by the video and the dramatic column of smoke...
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🇹🇷A tanker from Russia’s shadow fleet has exploded — right off the coast of Turkey
Judging by the video and the dramatic column of smoke...
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The U.S. benchmark, 
It all unspooled this Thanksgiving week, which is always a kind of a time-out from the urgent realities of the moment. And yet, while you basted your turkey (not a good practice by the way, but that’s another matter), rumors of a mysterious coup (as in coup d’é·tat) were flying all over alt media and social media.
Something or someone (a bunch of someones) have got a very dark op underway, the rumor goes. . . fault lines are opening in the US government. . . we’re in a danger zone.
This supposedly was behind last week’s “Seditionist Six” prank, the slickly produced video arranged by Senator (former CIA official) Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and sidekick Sen. Mark (“the Astronaut”) Kelly (D-AZ) advising US military personnel about the option to disobey “illegal orders” from the command structure (that is, from President Trump on down). What illegal orders? They did not specify. . . suggesting, perhaps, orders that had not yet been issued, for an emergency as yet also unspecified.
Accept, for now, the uncomfortable fact that our country has entered a miasma of uncertainty.
That is, you don’t know what’s going on. . . but something surely is going on, and it seems sort of, I dunno, momentous. . . something with the odor and flavor of a. . .“color revolution.”
By the way, everybody’s attention got focused instantly the night before Thanksgiving when one Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan brought to to the US with the 2021 Afghanistan evacuation under Operation Allies Welcome, ambushed two National Guard troops a few blocks from the White House. Specialist Sarah M. Beckstrom, age 24, died from a head wound and Staff Sgt. Andrew J. Wolfe, age 31, remains hospitalized. There was nothing else on the TV news that night except the shooting.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, turns out, had worked for nine years as a GPS tracker specialist in Unit 03 of the Kandahar Strike Force (aka “Scorpion Forces”), initially under CIA oversight via its Special Activities Division, with some JSOC training, before transitioning to Afghan intelligence. In other words, he was not just some mook with a donkey. He had lately been taken in by a sympathetic American family in Bellingham, WA — a roughly three-thousand-mile journey to Washington DC — where he did his deed. If he flew on an airplane to get there, just how did he manage to smuggle a handgun through airport security? Or did someone, maybe, give him one on arrival in DC? Was he still, one way or another, in the employ of the CIA? I guess we’ll find out.
Now, with the nation’s attention split this week between the DC ambush story and the culinary difficulties of Thanksgiving, the election fraud story unspooled in alt media.
Surprise, surprise! Turns out to be our auld acquaintance, the Kraken? Remember that monster? Eminent DC attorney Sidney Powell, had conniptions over the Kraken in the months after the 2020 election that ushered senile (let’s just say it) “Joe Biden” into the Oval Office for four disastrous years. (After which, Sidney Powell was methodically defamed and prosecuted by mysterious forces.)
Ms. Powell threatened to “release the Kraken,” meaning: a malign combine out of Venezuela had managed to foist Dominion vote tabulation machines all over the USA, but especially in swing vote states, along with Smartmatic software. And all this janky machinery was connected by the Internet through Serbia to the CCP, or something like that. And that this machinery, plus massive voter fraud operations run by Lawfare ninjas Norm Eisen, Marc Elias, and Mary McCord, with help from Mark Zuckerberg’s $400-million Center for Tech and Civic Life org, prestidigitated millions of extra votes needed to push “Joe Biden” into the winner’s circle.
Those of you who stayed up late the November night in 2020 also probably witnessed some impressive magic tricks in the election returns — for instance, the mom-and-daughter team of Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss pulling a switcheroo in the Fulton County (Atlanta) election HQ, captured on closed-circuit TV, while vote-counting was shut down for several hours due to a “broken toilet”...
Fulton County, GA, Election HQ, Nov 3, 2020 — the Night of the Broken Toilet.
...and the wondrous vote flipperooski in Michigan...
Michigan Vote Flipperooski, Election Night, 2020
...and the panel trucks delivering bales of extra ballots in the wee hours of morning to the main Philadelphia election HQ...
...and presto-change-o, you got a senile president.
This voter fraud business is evidently a global operation, involving elections in many other countries over several election cycles, carried out by a broad network of NGOs and government agencies, such as the now dismantled USAID, which acted as a money-laundering service for all these ops. A good place to start your own research is independent reporter 
Nov. 20 offered a fresh reminder of the chaos. As The Wall Street Journal noted, “Stocks surrendered gains and closed sharply lower after a whirlwind day of trading that began after Nvidia posted strong results. The Nasdaq composite led indexes lower after being up on the day more than 2 percent. It closed 2.2 percent lower. Nvidia gave up an even bigger gain and finished the day down 3.2 percent.”
Why the reversal? Because investors suspect there is, in fact, an artificial intelligence bubble.
It’s not an unreasonable fear.
History shows that every transformative technology—from automobiles to the internet—inspires waves of speculation. The presence of a bubble doesn’t mean the technology isn’t revolutionary; it simply means that early hype tends to sweep up both the winners and the doomed. For every Henry Ford, there were dozens of forgotten carmakers. The same was true of the dot-com era: Pets.com vanished, but the internet went on to reorganize modern life.
Artificial intelligence is inspiring the same mix of excitement and dread.
Some companies may never produce the margins to justify today’s investment frenzy. OpenAI, though not publicly traded, sits at the center of countless partnerships with massive firms like Oracle and Nvidia. If it stumbles, the shock could reverberate across the market.
The numbers fueling today’s optimism are staggering. As The New York Times reported, “It would not be a stretch to describe this period of hyperactive growth in the tech industry as a historic moment. Nvidia, which makes computer chips that are essential to building artificial intelligence, said on Wednesday that its quarterly profit had jumped to nearly $32 billion, up 65 percent from a year earlier and 245 percent from the year before that. Just three weeks ago, Nvidia became the first publicly traded company to be worth $5 trillion.” That’s more than Germany’s entire economy.
But even this explosion of wealth comes with a caveat. Much of the demand for Nvidia’s chips doesn’t mean consumers want AI right now—it means companies are racing to build massive AI systems in the hope that demand will materialize later. To some insiders, it looks less like a revolution and more like a house of cards.
This is the central question: At what point will AI’s promised productivity gains begin to match the scale of the investment poured into it? Until there’s clarity, markets will continue to swing wildly—and so will public confidence.
Workers, meanwhile, face their own concerns. Even if AI succeeds, technological progress has always brought job dislocation. Old roles disappear, new industries emerge, and the economy ultimately becomes more productive. People enjoy better goods at lower costs and work fewer hours than their grandparents did. But the transition is rarely painless.
Both truths can coexist: The United States may be on the cusp of a remarkable economic transformation, and the anxiety surrounding it may be entirely justified.
For now, Americans are left watching markets fluctuate, industries reorganize, and fortunes rise and fall... all while wondering what exactly the future will bring.
And no government policy can fully soothe that uncertainty.
It’s there in budgets too. Brussels just rebuked Finland for breaching EU budget rules: if even the Scandies are naughty, as they rearm aggressively, then who isn’t? The UK saw what the Telegraph calls ‘A Budget of chaos, contradiction and falsehoods’, as the Guardian noted “Rachel Reeves targets UK’s wealthiest in £26bn tax-raising budget”, and the FT said it ”raises the UK tax take to an all-time high.” Our 
Floyd argued that the public deserves clarity about who is behind these crimes, even as investigations themselves are not driven by immigration status. As he told Rantz, “It’s fair for the public to know… the Trump administration is not wrong about the fact that many of the people that are here illegally are committing crimes, and very serious crimes.”
The Ecuador-linked Gutama Escandon network pushing fentanyl and meth across the Puget Sound region, and the Mexico-connected ring in rural Lewis County tied to 105,000 fentanyl pills and 34 kilograms of powder—amounts the DEA equates to more than 3 million potentially deadly doses, 
Earlier The Associated Post reported Friday. "Anti-corruption units have raided the home, and reportedly also the office, of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andrii Yermak." Zelensky now says he will hold consultations on replacing Yermak.
This is a huge and very high level development in the country's ongoing graft investigation scandal as Yermak is essentially the closest one can get to Zelensky, given the top presidential aide was made by Zelensky chief negotiator in talks with the United States. Some speculate this was done precisely to protect him from criminal charges.
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies, NABU and SAP, confirmed they had officially sanctioned searches at the office of President Zelensky's top aide, again emphasizing the probe has extended all the way to the top. Could this be the beginning of the end for Zelensky himself?
The $100 million energy sector corruption scandal has already embroiled and resulted in the dismissals of several top ministers and officials.
Yermak had earlier deneid wrongdoing, and is vowing personal transparency as the investigation unfolds. "The investigators are facing no obstacles," Yermak wrote on Telegram. He said his lawyers were present for the searches, and that he's cooperating fully.
Zelensky makes the televised, 'shocking' announcement of Yermak being ousted dismissed:
Breaking news: Andriy Yermak has resigned from his longtime post of head of the Ukrainian presidential office, President Zelenskyy says in a statement. 
The office sent a 25-page 
Putin speaking to journalists in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 27, 2025 (Kremlin photo)
Putin said that it was clear the US was taking some Russian positions “into account” but that more discussions were needed.
“There are, unquestionably, areas where we need to sit down and engage in serious discussions on specific points, and all such matters must be framed in proper diplomatic language,” he said.
The Russian leader also said it was “ridiculous” that Russia was being asked to commit to not attacking Europe since it has no plans to do so.
“We never had any such intentions. But if they want to have it formalized, let’s do it, no problem,” he said.
While speaking positively about the US proposal, Putin also said it was pointless to sign agreements with the Ukrainian government, which he said was not legitimate because of the lack of elections in Ukraine. The initial US plan called for elections 