Brazil's largest left-wing parties all gained seats in the Chamber of Deputies:

Workers' Party: 14,793,128 votes (13%), 70 seats (+1)

Communist Party of Brazil: 1,306,368 votes, (1.15%), 11 seats (+5)

Socialism and Liberty Party: 5,312,161 votes (4.67%), 14 seats (+2)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Brazilian_general_election#Chamber_of_Deputies (CW: NATOpedia)

https://t.me/NO41bis/21255

Attack on the German Armed Forces

https://de.indymedia.org/node/864020

In the early morning hours of September 24, 2026, we attacked three German Army trucks in Barleben, Saxony-Anhalt, with a box of incendiary devices. On September 25, thousands of students were on strike and in the streets to demonstrate against conscription, militarism, and war. Naturally, we workers also want to contribute to this movement and have therefore launched this concrete disarmament initiative.
War on war!
Red Workers: Ulrike Meinhof Action Group 

I dont think I saw this shared here, just popped up somewhere I have notifications for, you dont normally see this stuff reported unless the cops are close to nicking them or looking for hints. They drop some small 'we have evidence' and hope someone gets sloppy and brags about it.

anyway, imperialism must be destroyed

https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/danriversitv/status/2107162522679713972

Scoop: I have heard from a source familiar with the RAF Fairford story that the US feared a drone a attack similar to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb last year which destroyed 10 Russian aircraft. They fear Iran might copy the tactics and that drones might even already be in UK, hence abrupt departure of B1s.

https://x.com/ripplebrain/status/2107191786670092672 (privated account)

Debasification is accelerating at geographic distances I failed to anticipate

The latest SouthFront map shows that Yemeni forces have encircled the Saudi proxies occupying the important city of Taiz:

https://s1.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/5october2026_Yemen_war_map-2.jpg

https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/BrettErickson28/status/2106866676788810002

Hidden in a Treasury press release of sanctions designations is a clear admission that Iran IS getting PAID by some countries and companies for transit: “Since June of this year, OFAC-designated Hormuz Safe Marine Services Authority has used BitBank to transfer payments it received to the Iranian regime.”

Link to the full September 17th Press Release from OFAC for those of you depraved enough to read: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0632/

Pakistan and Türkiye will immediately deploy troops and military capabilities to Saudi Arabia, the three countries said after an emergency meeting of their Makkah Alliance for Defense in Riyadh on Monday.

The joint statement says the alliance will move "immediately to the practical implementation of the collective defense commitments," with "rapid deployment" of the agreed forces to the kingdom.

The three also condemned the "attempted targeting of Makkah and Madinah." On Sept. 16, the Saudi coalition said it intercepted a drone headed for Mecca but released no evidence. Last week, it said a drone struck an electricity station in Medina, citing wreckage that has not been independently verified. Ansar Allah denied both, calling them "lies" and saying it targets only oil facilities and military bases.

https://nitter.perennialte.ch/DropSiteNews/status/2107192820465586319

money money money in the muslim wooooooorld.

Do you ever wonder how the people running the lobbying operation for factory farming in one of the world's most intensively cultivated countries actually communicate? Surely it must be slick, carefully crafted, professional messaging, right?

Below you will find a transcript of an actual interview with Jeppe Bloch, the chairman of the Danish Pig Producers’ Association, done by Danish-Iraqi journalist Adnan Al-Adhami in one of Bloch's pig barns for a satirical programme for state broadcaster DR.

J: I feel that we pig producers are being subjected to racism!

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A: Can I just say to you: You speak such beautiful Danish!

J: [Laughs] You do too, so there's not that much difference.

A: I'd say: I'm not a racist. I have friends who are farmers myself.

J: I'm the exact opposite of a racist, and—

[Pig squeals]

A: I'm not trying to be racist, but I think there's someone here protesting against you wanting to turn them into bacon.

J: Yes, but—

A: But could you just tell the viewers why it's you who's being discriminated against, and not your pigs?

J: Well, it's because I feel that we conventional pig producers are a minority. And that means that when we're specifically singled out, I feel that it's racist towards me as a pig producer.

A: Well, I know the feeling myself. Just because I'm brown, people assume I'm on welfare. It's exactly the same with you guys.

J: Yes, exactly the same.

A: Except that isn't actually a prejudice.

J: It absolutely is a huge prejudice because, as I said, we receive zero subsidies for pig production.

A: Okay, you don't receive anything whatsoever that could be considered public subsidy?

J: I receive zero public subsidies for my pig production.

A: Do you receive anything else?

J: Not for my pig production.

A: Do you receive anything else?

J: I receive EU subsidies for my crop production.

A: So you're on part-time welfare?

J: Yes, I'm on welfare to the extent that I have to ensure cheap food for Europeans.

A: I've just noticed one thing, and that's that all your pigs are skin-colored.

J: Yes, but some of them have tried, for today's occasion, to make themselves a little dirty, so that you wouldn't feel completely left out.

A: Make themselves a little dirty? What does that mean?

J: They've rolled around in a bit of shit and some straw.

A: What does that have to do with me?

[Awkward silence]

A: What?

J: I don't know.

A: You're just saying that they've made an effort for me by rolling around in some shit. Try to explain that.

J: So that we wouldn't feel left out.

A: We?

J: We.

J: I mean, I have both employees and sows...

A: Who stink of shit?

J: Uh, uh... no, they're not in shit...

A: For today's occasion?

J: Not... not the employees.

A: [Points at pigs] Do you actually think these guys are happy with you?

J: I'm absolutely certain they are.

A: I think they're happier to see me, because I don't turn them into bacon. I don't eat them either.

J: That's obviously true.

A: I can see on some of your pigs that you practice circumcision.

J: Those are some of the ones who've had the tip of their tails docked, yes.

A: Is it religious, or is there a reason for it?

J: If you ask me, it's a necessary evil in order to maintain good animal welfare.

A: As someone who is circumcised myself, I'd just like to say: It doesn't do you any harm. Come on.

J: Yes, but then I just have to point out that there are some politicians on the one—

A: You should try it!

J: Yeah...

A: It doesn't hurt.

A: But one of the things I think is the most racist about all of this is that if you regulate your industry too heavily, there are people who will lose their jobs, and those people are Eastern Europeans and Africans.

J: That's racist.

A: So your employees are...

J: ...not Danish either. No.

J: I also have employees who are dark-skinned.

A: How dark?

J: If the lights go out, they have to remember to smile.

A: I wouldn't say that's racist.

J: Exactly.

A: Because you're the one who's being subjected to racism.

J: Exactly.

:::

Bloch has later felt controlled to issue a public apology for his racist statements to Al-Adhami.

To normal people Bloch is an absolute moron with reprehensible opinions who is only hurting the already quickly deteriorating reputation of Danish pig factory farming. But ordinary people are not his primary audience.

For generations the Danish pork industry had an almost untouchable status and controlled both regulators and the political right. Following the 2008 financial crash, the right-wing regime slashed environmental protections as well as regulations on farm size and ownership, creating the conditions for farm ownership to concentrate in the hands of a few thousand large land owners who made bank. 

But producing cheap bulk pork is not a profitable business and hasn't been so for ages. The large pig producers are only turning profits because of massive subsidies and lax regulations. The pork export industry is simply a net expense for the Danish economy. On top of that pollution of the air and coastal waters is making the factory farms a major nuisance for people. The reputation of the industry entered freefall last year when a series of TV documentaries exposed massive animal cruelty on farms belonging to top lobbyists and caused widespread public demands for regulation of the industry.

The political system is moving to pass some kind of regulation and the farm owners who used to profit are as pissed off as only members of the bourgeoisie whose privileges have been slighted can be. It is those people Bloch is talking to, convincing then that they should support him and his organisation.

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/battleground-brazil

soy-bad?

pithy comments aside, amazon might be even more fucked than i thought, if agrobusiness is that important to bagman

Looks like young French people are really inspired by the protests of '68. Kinda glad to weirdly see a Maoist return.

Dropsitenews: "CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse"

::: spoiler Article Israel is at risk of civil war or state collapse, a classified CIA assessment warns, as years of genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon and Iran deepen political, economic, and social fractures within the country.

The August report, titled “Fracture From Within,” was compiled by experts in the CIA’s Red Cell, according to two U.S. sources who described the contents of the report to Drop Site News. The Red Cell, which is the unit responsible for providing “alternative analysis” within the agency, produced the assessment through a combination of open source information and U.S. intelligence. The assessment appears to refer only to Israel’s Jewish citizens and does not consider its Palestinian citizens, who make up approximately 20% of Israel’s population and who live under various forms of discrimination that Amnesty International and other human rights groups have labelled as part of a broader system of apartheid. The CIA did not respond to a request for comment.

CIA experts pointed to a volatile mix of pressures converging ahead of Israel’s elections on October 27: economic crisis and soaring military spending; heavily armed veterans returning from prolonged combat, many carrying serious psychological trauma; growing fury over ultra-Orthodox men who are exempt from military service; escalating settler violence in the occupied West Bank; and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fighting to hold onto power and igniting a constitutional crisis.

The CIA’s “red teams” are tasked with developing analysis and ideas that challenge prevailing assumptions and expose groupthink or blind spots that can take hold within the intelligence apparatus. “The writers of this are Israel experts,” a source in the intelligence community noted, “this isn’t a fantastical what if—with the upcoming election and the fissures in Israel we should take seriously their conclusion that Israel is one spark away from real internal conflict.”

One of the deepest fractures in Israeli politics has emerged not over opposition to the country’s war crimes—but over who is expected to fight and who is exempt. Ultra-Orthodox men have historically received broad exemptions from military service while continuing to receive state benefits, an arrangement that has become increasingly contentious amid repeated reserve mobilizations. Their collective refusal to serve is not rooted in opposition to Israel’s wars, as ultra-Orthodox leaders argue that military service threatens religious life and their obligation to Torah study. But after years in which reservists have been repeatedly called away from their jobs and families, the exemption has become a potent source of resentment in Israeli society. Households have also been absorbing the costs of Israel’s belligerent policies. Food prices have reached record highs, with the cost of food—including fresh fruit and vegetables—rising 9.5 percent over the past two years, deepening an already severe cost-of-living crisis after years of war.

Yet much of the opposition to Netanyahu is not opposition to Israel’s brutality against Palestinians, but anger over how he has managed it. The major anti-Netanyahu Zionist parties are themselves divided over leadership and coalition strategy, while a central line of attack against Netanyahu has been his responsibility for the October 7 security failure. Recent polling has shown both the Netanyahu and anti-Netanyahu blocs struggling to reach the 61 seats required to govern.

The sources warned that the combination of political fracture and a growing population of heavily armed, traumatized veterans has historical precedents. “Famously the Freikorps of Germany were PTSD-addled veterans with weapons and bloodthirst,” he said. “I’m not saying Israel post Gaza is Germany post-WWI but there are certainly aspects of this that ring similar to me.”

Israel is also confronting growing isolation abroad, including an erosion of support in the United States that Israeli officials themselves have privately treated as a long-term threat. The August report pointed to Israel increasingly becoming a pariah state as a factor that could lead to state breakdown.

According to another CIA assessment Capital & Empire reported in July, Israeli officials believe the American political consensus underpinning the alliance is breaking down and that continued reliance on billions of dollars in direct U.S. military aid may eventually become politically untenable. Their response has been to seek deeper integration into the American military, intelligence, and defense establishment—ties that would be harder for future governments to unwind. By this spring, 60% of Americans viewed Israel unfavorably, up from 53% a year earlier, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

That deterioration of support is increasingly visible inside the U.S. national security establishment, as well. “The intelligence community, like America, like the military, like everywhere, is growing frustrated with the real and political capital that’s spent on propping up Israel,” the source said. “As we’re moving forward with further integrating our military-industrial capacity with them, there’s deep frustration that we’re doing this for a country that dragged us into a war we’re losing, a country that spies on us.”

The CIA report also tried to game out how these pressures could interact if Israel’s internal crisis deepened—how a single spark could turn political fracture into open civil conflict, and what would follow from there. Among the scenarios raised were foreign technology and artificial-intelligence companies pulling investment or personnel from Israel, further eroding an already strained economy, regional governments reconsidering the political and strategic value of deeper normalizing relations with Israel, and Hamas or Hezbollah exploiting a period of domestic weakness. The report specifically used the term “civil conflict,” according to the sources.

For decades, Israel’s power depended not only on weapons and American backing, but on the projection that its military dominance, intelligence superiority, and internal cohesion made the state effectively unbreakable. But as the assessment warned, beneath that projection of overwhelming force, Israel is accumulating economic, political, and social contradictions that military might alone may not be able to contain. :::

new yemeni fpv footage. first i’ve seen of the hezbollah/russia type rather than the grenade droppers

https://streamable.com/deomdo

https://t.me/MilitaryMediaY/46909

Kill Israel

Does anybody know anything about the The Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System? It certainly makes for good PR for the US and for Trump. I'm surprised Trump didn't boast on Truth Social with a term like "killer missiles".

CBS News - U.S. approves $1 billion arms sale to UAE. The U.S. on Monday announced the approval of a $1 billion sale to the United Arab Emirates of up to 10,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System guidance sections for rockets. "The proposed sale will improve the United Arab Emirates' capability to meet current and future threats by developing and maintaining a strong and ready self-defense capability and improving interoperability with U.S. forces," the State Department said in a statement.

It "will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of a major defense partner," the statement added. The Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System converts unguided rockets into precision munitions that can be employed for purposes including shooting down drones, thereby avoiding the use of costly missiles to shoot down comparatively cheap aircraft.

The UAE and other U.S.-allied Gulf countries – many of which are home to American bases – have been hard hit by the Iran war, during which Tehran's forces have repeatedly targeted them with both drones and missiles. The State Department also announced on Monday the approval of a $400 million sale to Kuwait – another Gulf state – of "repair and return services" for Patriot missiles, which have played a key role in countering Iranian attacks in the region.

"Kuwait will use the enhanced capability to strengthen its homeland defense" and "will have no difficulty absorbing these articles and services into its armed forces," the department said in a statement.

Saudi bastards bombing residential areas in Sana'a

European rearmament going well, I see... https://archive.ph/vevEn

Germany's Tomahawk-Typhon Budget Balloons From €1.37B to €3.4B, But Won't Buy a Single Extra Missile or Launcher

Hartpunkt analysis shows initial €220M launcher estimate was half real cost while fire control and maintenance add €1.2B, leaving 400-440 Tomahawks at best

::: spoiler more

In 2025 Germany allocated €1.37 billion for future procurement from U.S. of 400 ground-based Tomahawk Block Vb cruise missiles and three Typhon launcher batteries. Now Germans are ready to spend €3.4 billion on procuring these cruise missiles and launchers, already budgeted for 2027. With high probability the deal between Germany and U.S. on Tomahawks will go through, but this by no means signifies delivery of greater quantity of Typhon and Tomahawk. As Hartpunkt portal authors estimate, for the above-mentioned €3.4 billion Germany will not be able to buy a greater quantity of Typhon launchers and Tomahawk cruise missiles than originally planned. The entire matter lies in the German side likely not fully accurately estimating the possible expenditure level at the beginning of this story.

More specifically, for procuring three Typhon batteries comprising 12 launchers, three command vehicles and associated equipment, initially only €220 million was allocated. However more realistically here a figure of €440 million should be taken, meaning twice as much. Additionally, fire control system and technical maintenance costs apparently need to be added here.

what is it with European countries and forgetting to take into account maintenance costs? are they operating on such high levels of end-of-history-ism that they can't even conceptualize of things decaying with use anymore?

Adjusting for experience of analogous procurements by Japan and Netherlands (which however purchased naval-based Tomahawks), for Germany this expenditure should be approximately €1.2 billion. The remaining amount of €1.76 billion at current domestic and export Tomahawk prices is sufficient to purchase from 400 to 440 cruise missiles of indicated type. Defense Express emphasizes — if Hartpunkt authors' calculations are correct, then an interesting paradox emerges where Germany will have to sharply increase expected expenditures on strategically important weapons procurement not even due to inflation but initial budget miscalculations. :::

Russian Plague Lab researcher dies of mystery illness.

200 workers under observation. Suspected plague but not known at this time.

Gas update (using AAA US national average)

Regular Current - 4.36

Regular Highest Recorded (6/15/22) - 5.02

Diesel Current - 6.32

Diesel Highest Recorded (9/22/26) - 6.52

https://gasprices.aaa.com/

::: spoiler video :::

Interesting Russian innovation to counter strategic drone strikes: aerostat balloons that suspend a "wall" of kevlar cords between them. If the drones try to fly over instead of through, they will be easier to shoot down.

We just got some more late UKMTO reports about "incidents" in the SoH. It looks like Iran hit at least 11 ships in the last week. The most interesting report was the 12th one, where a tanker got a call from the IRGC and told to turn around or be targeted and they did.

there were some column advancement nearly to bab el mandeb strait by saudis, not mined the roads awards:

(allegedly, there are videos of them killing some dozen prisoners of war as well)

News about Brazil right now is like:

Good thing: A lot of actual communists got elected with a good number of votes.

Bad thing: Hitler do not have an absurd number of votes because he was not in the ballot.

Seems to me that Germany is tempting fate in Ukraine right now. After Friedrick "Freddy Fucknuts" Merz took the train to Kiev just yesterday, today Germany's minister for education Karin Prien did the same, allegedly to "signal continuing support" for Ukraine ahead of a presumably very bleak winter. Now, how exactly any "signal for support" helps with daily Russian drone and rocket barrages I don't know, but Ukraine watchers will certainly have noticed that the Russian administration has consistently proclaimed that Western diplomats and personnel should leave Kiev ASAP for weeks if not months now, since they plan on stepping up attacks and cannot guarantee not hitting EU/NATO housings any longer. I'm not a daily Mercouris watcher/listenerr, but every program I listened to lately featured some variation of this. Two days ago he mentioned a Russian FM report or something that said "belatedly, we observe that Western politicians still heed none of our dire warnings of bodily harm... oh well, we keep warning you!"

::: spoiler Tagesschau translated text of article, boring and very skippable https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/prien-besuch-ukraine-100.html

Education and Family Minister Karin Prien arrived in Kyiv this morning. Chancellor Friedrich Merz had only visited Ukraine on Sunday to reaffirm Germany's support for the country, which is under attack from Russia."As the Federal Republic of Germany, as the Federal Government, we stand firmly by Ukraine," Prien emphasized at the Kyiv train station. She said her visit was primarily intended to draw attention to the plight of children and young people, as well as to the support being given to civil society.The trip was also overshadowed by the threat situation: Russia had announced it would intensify attacks on the civilian population, diplomats, and guests. "But it is important, especially at this moment, not to back down, not to show fear, but to be very clear on this point," Prien said.

This message was also conveyed by Merz during his visit yesterday, said Norbert Röttgen, deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, on ARD's morning news program . Merz's visit was "a demonstration against the policy of intimidation that Putin is currently pursuing, especially against the German population." Merz made it clear that the goal "of ensuring the failure of this war is in the interest of Ukraine, but equally in the interest of Germany and Europe." Therefore, Röttgen also considers further aid to be sensible. The fact that Ukraine is still in its current state after more than four years of war "is inconceivable without our help. And it is necessary for this war to fail." That is why the German government is spending the money "also for German economic interests, but above all for German security." Merz announced "very concrete aid" for Ukraine yesterday. Among the military aid of around one billion euros are funds for defense against fast Russian jet drones, as well as for satellite technology and anti-missile systems. A further 350 million euros are earmarked for infrastructure and energy.

:::

Now these German visits apparently happen sort of in spite of that, to prove that "we are not intimidated by Putler's orcish threats!" - typical EU clown bravado, it would seem. It's understandable that Russia won't attack a train carrying the German chancellor, but this education minister lady - she is a gifted person. A real EU Karen through and through, with a face quite reminiscent of Kaja Kallas (and extremely correlated political views), she is mostly remembered for being in the news here last year saying that, if the despised AfD would win a major election, she would emigrate to Israel - because AfD Nazis are just like Hitler and she wants to be with the Jews then, you know, because everything is always 1933 or 1939 or 1945 in Germany.

Makes perfect sense! Especially when we finance Ukraine nazis or enable a genocide in Palestine. Other than that, the department of education she leads currently tried to do even more austerity to crumbling schools and universities. Germany just had the worst PISA result in its history (intra-OECD school rankings, probably very lib but also a usable indicator of how schooling is going in general in any given country, since China usually comes out on top). She said it's fine and German kids need to make do with less money because re-arming the military is more important. You know, stuff that would have absolutely mattered for German Jews in 1933!

If only Putler would finally harden his heart and att... - well, let's just say I'd donate blood to the Donezk people's militia for the rest of my live or something. As always, thanks for reading my rants, comrades.

Can't say this enough: death to America and its external zionist tumor, death to all Latin American compradors

@Keld@hexbear.net

"Cury could go for Lula, no? Avante did before. I mean Santos will definitely break for Bolsonaro, and the "social democrats" went for Bolsonaro before. So it won't make much of a difference."

Cury could declare his vote for Lula, but that doesn't mean his voters will vote for Lula. Truth us the situation in the senate and congress is impossible for Lula to govern. If Flávio wins, he is barely going to govern anything specially when Trump is gone eventually.