Houthis close Saudi airports by missile. Abha closed and flights diverted after a claimed ballistic-missile hit. Ansarallah warned "all global airlines" out of Saudi airspace, with the airspace over Mecca and Medina excepted. Jeddah stopped functioning for ~1.5 hours late Tuesday amid heavy GPS jamming, with most flights diverted to Medina. Riyadh still denies being hit. Sentinel-2 imagery shows a damaged AESSCO defence-firm building at the airport.
UKMTO logged another tanker struck on Oct 5 in the southern corridor.
Black Sea: drones sink a ship in a NATO member's waters. Bulgarian PM Radev says sea and aerial drones hit two merchant ships in Bulgaria's EEZ. A Togo-flagged ship sank with its crew still missing; a Palau-flagged ship burned and its 18 crew were rescued. Von der Leyen: "Attacks on civilian shipping are unacceptable". lol this bitch with her meaningless pronouncements…
Russia’s latest overnight salvo saw very few interceptions. Ukrainian Kremenchuk hydroelectric plant was struck, along with the Trypillya thermal power plant. Bridge attacks continue, abd Moscow also says it hit multiple munitions facilities. Even pro-Ukrainian sources say Ukrainian air defense is faltering catastrophically. The winning continues…
An executive order now lets off-road dyed diesel be used on highways. Will the liberal judges pass up a chance to hurt people that work for a living?
On suspending the federal gas tax, Trump is "thinking about it". NARRATOR: “He was not, in fact, actually thinking about it…”
EIA sees heating-oil bills +21% this winter. Trump’s Golden Age continues unabated.
The S&P closed at an all-time high, its first since August. The Nasdaq 100 has risen six days in a row. Micron and Nvidia continue to make up the lion’s share.
NY Fed is questioning JPM, Wells, Barclays and Morgan Stanley about their private-credit loans. Wolves and foxes having a conference call to discuss henhouse security…
Bank repossessions are +42% YoY while consumer confidence is the lowest since 2014.
US bonds just posted their worst rolling 10-year return on record.
The WSJ's Bessent profile describes his temper, staff turnover and growing concentration of power. Apparently no mention of his penchant for torrid bungholery…
The interior ministry counted 250,000+ at the school protests; organisers claim 450,000. Reuters calls it the biggest day of the nationwide student demonstrations. Calling invading browns “students” is a peak clown-world euphemism.
Tehran summoned France's ambassador over the "violent crackdown" on student protesters in France. “lol the west getting held to their own “standards”*
Germany: Former BND chief August Hanning was arrested on suspicion of treason and selling secrets to a foreign power. Hanning sits on UANI (United Against Nuclear Iran) advisory board and the board of an Israeli cyber firm. Story highlights that the “foreign power” wasn’t Russia. OTOH I thought treason was a job requirement for all globohomo government employees.
Merz says Germany is at war with Russia. Gayest war ever.
Spain: the decree dissolving parliament has been published, and the general election is set for Sunday 29 November. Eurobros please poast details about this in the comments.
Russia: one suspected plague death in Irkutsk brings a US health alert and a Trump-Putin call; Moscow tells WHO there is no case. That’s all I’ve got to say about that.
We wrap up today’s headlines with a story especially for Still French (nprofile…4pqm)
