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Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/October 25, 2026. The President voted early in Florida on Saturday, then told reporters the United States was "thinking about" striking Iran again, "and maybe tomorrow," while in the same breath holding out a "nice, big, beautiful agreement." His own White House said earlier this month there would be no attack before the November 3 midterms. Nobody has reconciled the two. Brazil, Serbia and Bulgaria all voted today, Hebron was sealed, and the dead at a church in Karak are still counted differently by different people.Tonight's report:• "We're thinking about doing it, and maybe tomorrow" - the words in West Palm Beach, against a written pledge not to strike before November 3• The Strait of Hormuz by the numbers: CENTCOM says 400 ships a week, UKMTO counted 254 transits, the pre-war baseline is 138 vessels a day• Houthi missiles on Aden airport and Riyadh, and two unverified casualty claims pointing opposite ways• Brazil's runoff: Bolsonaro 47.03 per cent to Lula's 45.16 in the first round, a gap of 2,224,965 votes• Serbia votes on fourteen years of SNS rule, with a student list as the challenger• Bulgaria's presidential first round, where low turnout forces a runoff on November 1• Israel votes Tuesday, after thousands filled Hostages Square demanding a commission of inquiry• Hebron sealed: "about 2,000" displaced per Israel's defence minister, 2,200 per the city's mayor• The church at Hammoud: nine dead and 34 injured per ABC News, eight dead and about 40 per Al Jazeera• Binnari, Nigeria: 10 dead per police, at least 20 per survivors, at least 40 per Amnesty• France counts 410,000 marchers and nearly 1,000 arrests; the CGT calls that half the truth• Russia, Ukraine and the United States to meet in Abu Dhabi in the first half of November• A ceasefire for one occupied city, Oleshky, announced by the White House and by nobody else• Keen Sword puts American anti-ship missiles on Yonaguni, 110km from Taiwan, for the first time• The Archdiocese of New York agrees to pay $800 million to about 1,300 abuse survivors• The ledger: Brent settled at $116.72, the Dow closed down 652.82Full written dispatch, every figure and every contradiction we left unresolved: https://winradradio.substack.com/SOURCES:Samaa TV, on the President's Saturday remarks: https://www.samaa.tv/2087359079-trump-says-us-could-strike-iran-as-soon-as-sundayAl Jazeera, on the Strait of Hormuz, with CENTCOM, UKMTO and Kpler figures: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/17/us-and-iran-both-claim-control-of-strait-of-hormuz-amid-attacks-on-vesselsAl Jazeera, on the Houthi attacks: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/24/houthis-launch-attacks-on-saudi-arabia-and-yemens-adenRio Times, on the Brazilian runoff and the oil settlements: https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-runoff-october-25-2026-flavio-bolsonaro-lula/ABC News, on the Karak death toll: https://abcnews.com/International/death-toll-rises-9-after-gunmen-open-fire/story?id=137538843Arab News, carrying Reuters and Amnesty, on Binnari: https://www.arabnews.com/world/gunmen-kill-at-least-40-people-in-northeastern-nigeria-amnesty-international-says-3008099Associated Press close table for Friday, October 23: https://krmg.com/2026/10/23/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-friday-10-23-2026/The White House, on the Oleshky ceasefire: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/10/first-lady-melania-trump-secures-ceasefire-between-russia-and-ukraine-localized-to-oleshky/Also drawn on, with the full list in the written dispatch: Al Jazeera on the Serbian and Bulgarian votes and on Hebron, CBS News, the Kyiv Independent and Mediazona, NPR, AEI, and American Cookery of November 1921 via Project Gutenberg.All voices are AI-generated. The Winrad Broadcasting Service is a fictional 1930s-40s golden age radio network covering real current events. No affiliation with any news organization is intended.

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/October 24, 2026. The President told a crowd in Florida that another operation against Iran may be coming and that something would happen soon. His own ambassador to the United Nations told the Financial Times the standoff could run another year. Eight foreign ministers met in Istanbul to talk about a war whose two belligerents were not in the room. In occupied Kherson a ceasefire was announced for one small town, and the three governments announcing it gave two different start dates. Where our sources disagree tonight, we read you both figures and resolve neither.Tonight's report:• Trump floats "another little Epic Fury" against Iran while Ambassador Waltz says the standoff could last another year• Iran's armed forces chief says American warships will not enter the Persian Gulf, a claim nobody has verified• The US thins its diplomatic presence in Lebanon, the UAE, Qatar and Jordan• Turkey's Istanbul meeting grows to eight nations as Italy joins, with neither Washington nor Tehran at the table• Brent settles at $116.72, its highest close since April 29, while the Dow drops 652 points• Cluster warheads over Kyiv, and four different casualty counts for one night• Mass blackouts across occupied Crimea after damage at the Taman substation, verified by nobody• Secretary Rubio: "People keep talking about it's a war in Ukraine. It's about one region of the country."• A ceasefire for Oleshky with two different start dates from three governments• Hebron closed and the West Bank raided after a shooting that killed two Israeli soldiers• Gaza's food rations halved as the World Food Programme cuts assistance by a third• Seven dead at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, with no claim of responsibility and no arrests• The Saudi-led coalition's October ledger: 24 killed, more than 374 injured• Typhoon Champi kills one in Taiwan, and the injured count is published as 94, as 500, and as 527• Twenty-seven Chinese military aircraft near Taiwan on Tuesday• Imperial College London estimates 50,391 European heat deaths this summer, caveats included• From the Homefront: Dorothy on Parker House rolls from Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book, 1920Cut from tonight's broadcast and explained in the written dispatch: Ukraine's General Staff tally of Russian losses, an unverified IRGC Navy claim about Hormuz shipping, and Friday's gold price, which no source we read labelled a settle.SOURCES:The White House statement on the Oleshky ceasefire — https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/10/first-lady-melania-trump-secures-ceasefire-between-russia-and-ukraine-localized-to-oleshky/Kyiv Independent on the Crimea blackouts — https://kyivindependent.com/mass-blackouts-reported-across-occupied-crimea/Al Jazeera on the Karak church attack — https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/23/at-least-seven-killed-after-gunmen-open-fire-at-church-in-jordanFocus Taiwan on the official Champi casualty count — https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202610230005Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book, 1920, via Project Gutenberg — https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17438/17438-h/17438-h.htmAlso read: Kyiv Independent, PBS NewsHour, the Associated Press, Arab News, Times of Israel, Al Jazeera, OPB, FinanceFeeds and TokenPost for the crude settles, Yahoo Finance for index closes, CNN, Axios, Iran International, The Levant Files, TaiwanPlus and Rio Times.Golden Age Radio, Breaking World News, 1930s Radio News, Iran War, Ukraine War, Oleshky Ceasefire, Crimea Blackout, Brent Crude, West Bank Closure, Gaza Famine, Jordan Church Attack, Typhoon Champi, Taiwan Strait, Houthi Missiles, Istanbul Talks, Marco Rubio, Ebola Outbreak, European Heat Deaths, World News October 2026, Vintage Radio Broadcast, Winrad Broadcasting Service

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/October 23, 2026. Two governments spent Thursday describing the same stretch of water and agreed on almost nothing in it. Iran's Revolutionary Guard counted seven oil tankers struck in the Strait of Hormuz in a single day, three disabled by mines. A US Central Command spokesman, who would not be named, called the mine claim incorrect and said ninety-five per cent of vessels still get through. In Hebron a checkpoint shooting put the occupied West Bank under lockdown four days before Israelis vote. Where our sources conflict tonight, we give both accounts and resolve neither.Tonight's report:• Trump signals further strikes on Iran; no White House transcript has appeared• Seven foreign ministers meet in Istanbul on Hormuz, Yemen and Ukraine• Iran reports seven tankers hit; CENTCOM disputes the mine claim• Brent settles at $113.17, up 4%, highest close since May 4; WTI settles at $99.47• Saudi Aramco empties its Dhahran headquarters and gives no reason• Nasdaq closes down 2.6% as Meta lifts capex to $135-145bn and misses on profit• IMF marks the Middle East and Central Asia down to a 0.3% contraction• Netanyahu orders a full West Bank lockdown after a gun battle near Hebron• Ukrainian troops move 15km through gas pipelines to the Russian rear at Kupiansk• Rosneft privately warns refinery repair costs have become unsustainable• Brussels puts 117 draft sanctions listings to ambassadors• Finland pledges over $336m; ICEYE and Nokia to build Ukraine its own satellites• Taiwan reports sixteen Chinese vessels harassing its ships at once• Magnitude 7 earthquake in Tibet kills at least sixteen; injury counts conflict• Thousands march in Venezuela, the first nationwide opposition protest in two years• Canada's army blames a live-grenade exercise for the Wainwright fire that killed four• Pennsylvania passes 1,200 measles cases across 42 counties• From the Homefront: Philadelphia scrapple, from the Myrtle Reed Cook Book of 1916Cut tonight, and why: Ukraine's General Staff tally of Russian losses, and the Khartiia Corps claim of Russian dead and captured in Operation Veles, because one army's count of the other army's dead is not verified. Brent above $114.20 Friday morning, and Brent at $111.88 with the Saudi TASI down 2.5%, because none of those is called a close or a settle. The Thursday settle of $113.17 is in the report instead.SOURCES:Al Jazeera - Iran, Hormuz and CENTCOM, Tibet, Venezuela, West Bank, Hebron, Wainwright, measles, IMFhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/22/iran-says-seven-ships-hit-in-hormuz-strait-warns-us-of-wider-responseKuwait Times - Istanbul ministers, Fidan and Milibandhttps://kuwaittimes.com/article/52189/world/european-mideast-ministers-meet-in-istanbul-on-hormuz-regional-crises/Business Recorder, carrying Reuters - Brent and WTI settlementshttps://www.brecorder.com/news/40445552/oil-prices-hit-five-month-highAl-Monitor, carrying Reuters - Aramco Dhahran, Dammam, SareeAssociated Press via Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Reuters via GV Wire - the two conflicting index setsYahoo Finance - Meta closeKyiv Independent - Veles, Zhytomyr, Rosneft via Bloomberg, EU listings, Finnish aid, ICEYE and Nokia, Starlinkhttps://kyivindependent.com/eu-responds-to-trump-diesel-deal-with-new-russia-energy-sanctions/American Enterprise Institute - Taiwan coast guard, cutoff October 19https://www.aei.org/commentary/china-taiwan-update-october-20-2026/Amnesty International - El Fasher testimony, published October 23The Myrtle Reed Cook Book, 1916, via Project Gutenberg - Philadelphia scrapplehttps://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/37680/pg37680-images.htmlThe Winrad Broadcasting Service is a fictional 1930s-40s golden age radio network covering real current events. All voices are AI-generated. No affiliation with any news organization is intended.

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/October 22, 2026Russia agreed on Wednesday to discuss ending its war, and then spent the night bombing Ukraine. Steve Witkoff sat with Vladimir Putin for three hours in Saint Petersburg and came away with agreement in principle to resume three-way talks around November 10. Hours later, missiles and 210 drones hit 32 locations across Ukraine. Walter Hartley opens with both facts in the same breath. Edward James Whitmore has the order setting aside a sanctions law the Senate passed 86-11, the September price index, and two PHP flaws that took government websites offline across Europe. Theodore Charles Bennett has day 235 in the Strait of Hormuz, Gaza, the Israeli ballot, Taiwan, the Korean border and France. Dorothy Wilson closes with a plain pumpkin pie from 1915.Tonight's report:• Putin and Witkoff meet three hours; Moscow ready in principle for trilateral talks around November 10• American Stephen Hubbard freed after four years; Witkoff calls Putin "a humanitarian" and draws Republican criticism• Overnight attack kills at least 9 across Ukraine; one report's own headline and body disagree• Trump waives the Graham Act Russia sanctions two days before they take effect• Treasury licenses Russian diesel imports through April; the first shipment left Wednesday• September CPI at 3.7 per cent; the Fed meets October 27 and 28 after September's first hike in three years• Two PHP flaws rated 9.2 of 10 send government sites dark in Germany, Finland and the Netherlands• Day 235 in Hormuz: four transits recorded October 18 against three competing baselines• Qatar and France call jointly for the strait reopened without constraints or fees• Seven killed in Gaza strikes on Tuesday under a ceasefire now a year old• Israeli polls deadlocked at 51 and 51 before the October 27 vote• Taiwan drives off sixteen Chinese vessels; a US warship draws a response at Sabina Shoal• Kim Yo-jong says border loudspeakers will be running within October• Nearly 2,400 arrested in France after the worst urban violence in years• From the Homefront: plain pumpkin pie, Edith M. Thomas, 1915SOURCES:Kyiv Independent, the overnight attack: https://kyivindependent.com/russian-attacks-kill-at-least-9-injure-57-across-ukraine-as-kyiv-hit-by-mass-missile-drone-attack/Axios, the Putin-Witkoff meeting: https://www.axios.com/2026/10/21/russia-ukraine-putin-witkoff-peaceABC News, the Graham Act waiver: https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-signs-order-waiving-graham-act-sanctions-russia/story?id=137341529Bureau of Labor Statistics, September CPI: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htmInvestrade, Wednesday's closes and settlements: https://investrade.com/market-review-october-21-2026/The PC Enthusiast, PHP2Shell: https://thepcenthusiast.com/php-vulnerability-2026-php2shell-patches/Straits Daily Brief, Hormuz day 235: https://straits.live/briefs/2026-10-22Al Jazeera, Qatar and France on Hormuz and Gaza: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/22/qatar-france-call-for-opening-of-hormuz-and-gaza-ceasefire-implementationMalay Mail and AFP, the Gaza strikes: https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2026/10/21/seven-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-strikes-across-gaza-despite-ceasefire/239964Al Jazeera, Taiwan and sixteen Chinese vessels: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/18/taiwan-drives-away-16-chinese-ships-accused-of-maritime-harassmentProject Gutenberg, Mary at the Farm, 1915: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13545Also read: CBS News, The New Arab, Korea Times and Yonhap, Iran International, Daily Caller, euronews, SBS, National Hurricane Center.The Winrad Broadcasting Service is a fictional 1930s-40s golden age radio network covering real current events. All voices are AI-generated. No affiliation with any actual news organization is intended.

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/October 21, 2026. A drone struck the Amiet market in the disputed district of Abyei on Monday afternoon. Abyei's caretaker information minister, Yohana Akol Ngor, says 153 people were killed and expects the figure to rise. South Sudan blames Sudan and has summoned its ambassador. Sudan's army has not answered. The Rapid Support Forces have not answered. Nobody has claimed the strike and no independent body has established who flew the aircraft. Tonight's bulletin carries that toll with the silences attached to it.Tonight's report:• 153 dead at the Amiet market in Abyei, on one official's word, with no claim of responsibility from any party• An $8 billion Harvest Fuel Relief Program, with diesel at $6.276 a gallon, up $2.656 on the year• The Dow closes at 52,495.88, up 529.85, as WTI settles at $101.79 and Brent at $108.79• Steve Witkoff lands in Saint Petersburg to meet Putin after Oslo talks with Zelenskyy• Three incompatible accounts of who slowed Starshield, and Patriots allies paid for and have not received• Russian drones kill a woman of 81 and a man of 83 in Korotych, Kharkiv Oblast• NATO sends patrol aircraft, radar and drones to the Black Sea after two shipping attacks• A supertanker with over 2 million barrels burns south of Hormuz, on the IRGC's account alone, with no name or flag given• The Financial Times reports Israel prepared strikes on Iran for October 10, and Trump did not want fighting before the midterms• Tehran repeats its terms: no talks until Washington builds trust, and no enriched material leaves Iran• Three different death tolls from the Houthi missile attack on a Shabwa training camp: 73, 58 and 53• Israel says it dismantled over 540 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon as delegations meet in Tampa• Four Palestinians killed in Gaza as 100 organisations call the ceasefire one in name only• Taiwan logs PLA aircraft 115 times and ships 208 times this month• Invest 93L floods the coast from North Carolina to South Jersey• From the Homefront: floating island, from Olive Hyde Foster, 1910SOURCES:Abyei, 153 dead: Reuters and AP via ABC Australia - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-21/deadly-sudanese-drone-attack-amiet-market-abyei/107291466Harvest Fuel Relief, $8bn: Farm Progress - https://www.farmprogress.com/farm-policy/trump-announces-8-billion-for-farm-diesel-reliefWitkoff, Oslo, Gaza: Al Jazeera - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/21/witkoff-in-russia-for-putin-meeting-after-positive-talks-with-zelenskyyRecipe, 1910 text: Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37444/37444-h/37444-h.htmFuel prices: EIA weekly series via IndexBox. Closes and NYMEX/ICE settles: The Asia Business Daily; conflicting late-afternoon crude prices from a Yahoo Finance markets wrap. Ukraine strikes, Patriots, Starshield: The Kyiv Independent and Just Security, with the WSJ and Washington Post as cited there. NATO Black Sea: Reuters via The New Voice of Ukraine. Hormuz tanker and Iranian statements: Gulf News and CBS News; transit data from IMF PortWatch. Prepared Israeli strikes: Financial Times via ProtoThema. Shabwa tolls 73, 58 and 53: Al-Monitor, Just Security, South China Morning Post. Southern Lebanon: L'Orient Today and Xinhua. Taiwan Strait: Taiwan News and AEI. French curfews: ABC News. Invest 93L: Fox Weather. Pentagon casualty figures: The Intercept.The Winrad Broadcasting Service is a fictional 1930s-40s golden age radio network reporting real current events. Voices are AI-generated.Breaking World News, World News Today, Abyei Drone Strike, Sudan War, Diesel Prices, Stock Market Close, Witkoff Putin, Ukraine War, Starshield, NATO Black Sea, Strait Of Hormuz, Supertanker Fire, Iran War, Netanyahu, Yemen Houthi Attack, Southern Lebanon, Gaza Ceasefire, Taiwan Strait, France Curfews, Invest 93L, 1930s Radio, Golden Age Radio, Old Time Radio, Radio News Bulletin, Floating Island Recipe, October 21 2026