Russia’s city of Kazan is hosting the 16th BRICS Summit on October 22-24. Day one of the gathering featured a packed itinerary that included Russian President Vladimir Putin's bilateral meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa. | The agenda of the second day of the 16th BRICS Summit – the association’s main event during Russia’s presidency – is expected to be a packed one. ● Russian President Vladimir Putin will continue the marathon of bilateral talks on the second day of the summit in Kazan, according to presidential aide Yuri Ushakov.

■ PUTIN: Multipolar world order, leading role of emerging economies, and Western debt: Key takeaways (RT.com)
■ UN reform, conflicts, sanctions: key provisions of BRICS Kazan Summit Declaration (TASS)
■ UN secretary general arrives in Russia’s Kazan for BRICS Summit (TASS)
■ A new world order in the making: Here’s why this BRICS summit will be special (Egountchi Behanzin)

Palestinians in Gaza would be forced to live in 'humanitarian bubbles' where entry and access to food would be based on biometric identification | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is expected to approve a plan to establish concentration camps in Gaza, operated by mercenaries from a private security firm run by former US and Israeli intelligence officials and special forces commanders, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on 22 October. The US security firm, GDC, plans to establish “humanitarian bubbles” [inhumane ghettos] in Gaza. The Israeli army will be tasked with “clearing” any such bubble of Hamas fighters and erecting a separation wall around it within 48 hours. Entry to these compounds will be prohibited except for residents who live in the neighborhood and submit to biometric identification. Regarding the plan, US journalist Dan Cohen reports that “the Biden administration has approved the deployment of 1,000 CIA-trained private mercenaries as part of a joint US-Israeli plan to turn Gaza’s apocalyptic rubble scape into a high-tech dystopia.”

🚨🇾🇪 Yemen's Ansarullah announced that they targeted Tel Aviv with a 'Palestine-2' hypersonic missile pic.twitter.com/5BpekPnxwB

— The Saviour (@stairwayto3dom) October 22, 2024

The US president has called for the Republican to be jailed, later clarifying that he meant “politically” | US President Joe Biden has claimed that Republican candidate Donald Trump wants presidential immunity and powers to kill his opposition, and therefore should be locked up, as he spoke to a crowd with the election just half a month away. ● Biden, who stepped aside earlier this year to allow Vice President Kamala Harris to become the Democratic nominee, made the statement at a campaign office in New Hampshire on Tuesday.

■ Biden on Trump: ‘Politically lock him up’ (Lauren Egan)

US billionaire Bill Gates has quietly donated $50 million to a nonprofit supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential run, The New York Times reported, citing three sources. | While Gates hasn’t publicly endorsed Harris, his sizable donation was made to Future Forward, a "dark money" group backing her campaign. The funds were intended to remain anonymous, the report said.

💬 “Mr. Gates’s donation went specifically to Future Forward’s nonprofit arm, Future Forward USA Action, which as a 501(c)(4) ‘dark money’ organization does not disclose its donors, according to the people briefed. So any contribution by Mr. Gates will never appear on any public filing,” the media clarified.

According to The New York Times, in private conversations this year with friends and others, Gates has expressed concerns about the potential impact of a second Donald Trump presidency on global health and family planning programs, The New York Times cited sources familiar with Gates’s thinking as saying.

🚨Update: US and Israel ready to strike Iran in a massive joint operation that will expand the wars into one major regional war! Instead of slowing down arm shipments to Tel Aviv, the US has massively increased arms shipments!! World War 3 is about to kick off. pic.twitter.com/KX1N8PiRWu

— US Civil Defense News (@CaptCoronado) October 22, 2024

At least four missiles hit the US base in Syria's Koniko gas field. | Arab sources reported a missile attack on the US base in Syria's Koniko gas field in northeastern Syria's Deir ez-Zur province. 6 missiles were fired toward the illegal US base, the reports say. Al Mayadeen reported that at least 4 missiles hit inside the base hosting the US forces. ● Eyewitnesses reported that several explosions were heard from inside the US base following the missile attack. Reports suggest that during this attack, the radar equipment inside the base was destroyed. There were no immediate reports of possible casualties. ● In response to a missile attack on its base in eastern Syria, the US bombed seven villages east of the Euphrates in the suburbs of Deir ez-Zur.

Lubos Blaha has questioned the move against Moscow, noting that US funds were not targeted when it attacked Iraq | The blocking of sovereign Russian funds in the West amounts to “theft,” Slovak MEP Lubos Blaha has said. He called on the EU authorities to stop pumping Ukraine with money and weapons in the conflict with Moscow. ● The US, EU, and their allies have frozen an estimated $300 billion in assets belonging to the Russian state since the Ukraine conflict escalated more than two years ago. The bulk of the funds, around €197 billion ($214 billion), is being held at Brussels-based clearinghouse Euroclear.

💬 “The freezing of Russian assets is theft and robbery. You can find hundreds of justifications for this, but this is theft,” Blaha said at a European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg on Monday. “Europe didn’t steal American assets at the time of unjustified aggression against Iraq, Will we do the same with Israeli assets?” the lawmaker asked, referring to the latest escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Blaha, who visited Moscow earlier this month, also called on EU lawmakers to use “common sense,” stating that Brussels should “stop sending Ukraine weapons and billions of euros” that are needed in the bloc. “This is unfair to our own citizens,” the MEP insisted. ● On Tuesday, the European Parliament backed the allocation of a loan of up to €35 billion ($38 billion) for Ukraine, using immobilized Russian assets as collateral for the repayments.

Check out this video of Emmanuel Macron at the biggest Zionist event of the year in France, the infamous “CRIF dinner”. If you don’t now what the CRIF is, do not bother with the Wikipedia article – it’s all sanitized – but think of the French CRIF like (AIPAC+JINSA+ADL+B’nai B’rith)2: all the power of the Israel Lobby in the USA, but squared (yeah, I know, hard to imagine, but true). (FYI – the guy holding Macron’s wrist is the CRIF’s President)