Your election recovery song

By Jesse Welles 

"Whirlwind"

It's a democratic hoax, folks

Have you even seen the DOW?

People wanna talk about this Jeffrey

Ain't he dead now, anyhow?

They're saying the 401ks are slaying

Okay then, none of us even have 'em

Enjoy the last dregs of a nation

While the future lays abandoned

Is the S&P 500 a race?

I'm sure the NASDAQ's just fantastic

I'm gonna need a bag for all this bullshit

Gimme paper

Gimme plastic

The rules are elastic

I'll have what they're having

While they're wreaking havoc

A Floridian Lobotomy

Hey Marco, Susie, Waltz, Dr. Oz and Pam Bondi

No one has each other's backs

Like the parasitic class

You gotta admire the fire, the passion they have

To cover each others' ass

Closer and closer to non-disclosure disclosure

The law is just a fence

For the elite to jump over

No one said that life was fair

But does it have to be this evil?

Diabolical, illogical

It'll leave you feeling feeble

It ain't five-dimensional chess

It's dementia doing its best

Ring a ding-ding

You got the mad king

And he's mean when he's depressed

Lame duck run amok

Things ain't looking up

Spend the rest of the term

Tryna make a buck

He'll be in Qatar in no time

Sublime with no tie

Just ties to Russia, Kompromat, and Salt Life

And pushing it to Kushner

New Gaza's on the desk

If you wanna make everything great again

You've gotta pave over the dead

Here lies no one

Here lies something to forget

Cosmic justice is a whirlwind

It's a promise, not a threat

Closer and closer to non-disclosure disclosure

The law's just a fence

For the elite to jump over

No one said that life was fair

But does it have to be this evil?

Diabolical, illogical

It'll leave you feeling feeble

Space missile defense has a big problem

Is a space-based missile defense system possible? The Trump administration has committed billions to build one. Experts speak to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about the only proposal made public.

Read Lisbeth Gronlund and David Wright's full breakdown of "Brilliant Swarms" on the Bulletin's website.

Truckers in Southern Italy desperate and blocking roads

In Southern Italy, thousands of truck drivers and farmers took to the streets to protest high diesel prices, causing transport bottlenecks and supply bottlenecks.

Behind the protests are the war in Iran, the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, the burden of excise taxes, and the economic difficulties of Southern Italian businesses.

But why does diesel cost so much? And above all, why did Southern Italy come to a standstill?

How long can the Italian government continue to help fund US & Israeli war$ instead of taking care of their own people?

It's a fascinating video study of how the current global fossil fuel crisis is having major impact on the Southern Italy region.

Bangladesh garment workers protest for higher wages as hundreds of factories shut

Thousands of garment workers have taken to the streets in Dhaka, Bangladesh, demanding higher wages as rising inflation puts pressure on household budgets.

Protests have led to clashes with police, the deployment of border guards and the temporary shutdown of more than 500 factories.

In a live report from Dhaka, Al Jazeera correspondent Tanvir Chowdhury describes the unrest. Human rights lawyer Taqbir Huda discusses why workers say the government's wage board has failed to account for rising living costs, and examines the role of Western fast-fashion brands in driving down production prices and putting pressure on workers.

Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury reports from Dhaka.

Trump on AI and 'lots of jobs'

Does MAGA really believe in the AI boom, or is Trump just majorly invested in it?  

Trump's war on fishing boats in the Caribbean & East Pacific

Since September 2025, the US military has carried out more than 60 strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, killing more than 220 people.

In a military campaign called Operation Southern Spear, President Donald Trump's administration has claimed to wage war against “narcoterrorism”. Yet the government has released little information about who was killed, the evidence against them or how targets were selected.

In Killing at Sea, Fault Lines investigates the administration's claims about Operation Southern Spear by uncovering the stories of those targeted and the evidence used to justify lethal military force.

Through the stories of families left searching for answers, alongside witness accounts, physical evidence and interviews with legal experts, Fault Lines asks whether the strikes are lawful, whether they have disrupted the drug trade and what accountability exists for those killed.

From fishing communities in the Caribbean to Washington, DC, Killing at Sea examines a military campaign conducted largely beyond public view—and asks who is being killed in the US’s new war at sea, and why.  

German youth protest against war, Ukie troop levels fall, EU crash

• Germany’s students are taking to the streets as protesters flood Hamburg to oppose the country’s new military-service system and warn that it could eventually pave the way for a return of conscription. The demonstration took place as the Bundeswehr conducted its major “Red Storm Charlie” civil-military exercise across Hamburg, creating a striking contrast between military preparations and growing opposition among young people. Protesters carried banners reading “Russia is not our enemy,” “Win the peace, not the war,” and “You won’t fight your war on our backs.”
• Yemen military: The Saudi warplanes carried out 75 airstrikes and missile attacks over the past 24 hours, targeting civilian sites in the governorates of Saada, Taiz, Amran, Ibb, Dhamar, Lahj, Al Hudaydah, and Al Jawf, using F-15 and Typhoon aircraft that took off from the Khamis Mushait and Taif airbases, while the missile aggression was launched from Jizan. The attacks resulted in civilian deaths and injuries. This brings the total number of Saudi aggression airstrikes and missile attacks against our country since the beginning of the escalation to 3,830.

• “Tech billionaires are not your constituents.” Lexington, Kentucky resident delivers brilliant warning to City Council. 

• According to an Iraqi media outlet, a network of oil smugglers, with connections to influential parties in northern Iraq (Kurds), Syrian armed groups, and international intermediaries, is transferring Iraqi and Syrian oil through Turkish territory to Israel. 
• The Pentagon has raised the official US death toll from the Iran war from 21 to 23, bringing total American casualties to 888: 23 killed and 865 wounded. Slowly the numbers continue to creep up. Will more casualties come soon?

• Iran’s top security chief, Mohsen Rezaei: [Regarding negotiations with the US & Vance letter] "No new decision has been made at the government level. Of course, there is currently a debate over whether, if war breaks out again, we should maintain our previous doctrine or change it. However, no new decision has been officially adopted by the government. But the Iranian people have demands and are looking for a logical explanation. After all, they see that the enemy has attacked all our nuclear facilities. On what grounds did they do so? We cooperated fully with all IAEA inspections. We responded positively to their requests and helped them carry out inspections. They had cameras at all our sites. So, naturally, when people see all of this, their question to us is: Why do you want to continue down the same path?”

• Simplicius: Panic erupted in Poland on Oct 30 as a judicial “coup” was declared after the Constitutional Tribunal building was blocked off by police while the Tusk-aligned senior judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska proceeded to unlawfully suspend the Nawrocki-aligned Tribunal president Bogdan Swieczkowski. The entire saga centers on the struggle between the Brussels-aligned Tusk government and President Nawrocki’s nationalist opposition party, which is hated by the globalists because it seeks to preserve Polish sovereignty in the face of the totalitarian EU system attempting to subvert it. Recall that the key issue underlying this entire conflict between the globalist and nationalist factions is that the Brussels mafia-aligned globalists believe that EU law supersedes Polish law. The nationalist opposition faction, on the other hand, believes that the Polish constitution is supreme to that of EU law, as any normal person would agree should be the case. The entire struggle comes down to this one critical and existential juncture. The EU-NATO plan to drag Poland into the war on Russia now that Ukraine has been defeated. Former president of Poland Andrzej Duda put it best in comparing Tusk’s actions to what is now commonly regarded as the “European” way. 

• Alastair Crooke: Fiscal pressures are apparent everywhere, in Europe and beyond, eating deep into other forms of public expenditure, such as education and medical provision. At the same time, great swathes of Europe’s industrial heartlands have been laid waste. Unemployment, particularly among the young, has exploded. Germany alone has shed close to half a million industrial jobs in the past six years. Neither Europe, nor the US, is today generally price competitive. Energy inflation has put many global export markets beyond reach. The political class throughout the western world have legitimacy poll numbers circling the drain. Popular despair and anger are growing. Resentment seethes. It has exploded first in France, but others will experience it next. The crisis is coming to late fruition. Iran and AnsarAllah have snapped shut their energy trap on Trump. There are no easy or obvious exits to this. In fact, if mishandled through US or Israeli military escalation, war will compound the western economic crisis dramatically, as Iran retaliates against Gulf energy infrastructure. And given the long timelines involved in any re-building of highly complex oil infrastructure, it is certain that a structural fuel shortfall will ratchet into escalating damage to global supply lines. The same applies for AnsarAllah’s attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure. Equally, there is no way western liberal welfare economies can survive prolonged war on Iran and the Houthis. Europeans are staring at the economic abyss. Is the West ready to compound the risk of violent revolution simply to escape having to capitulate to Iran or Russia?  Trump’s War Overreach may be the Straw that Breaks the Back of the West’s Financialised Architecture.     

• Dmitry Medvedev: "The Russia-Africa Summit concluded. Regardless of the barking from Western media and various Russophobic commentators, it was a perfectly orchestrated symphony of relations between the two continents. After all, our country is, in essence, an entire continent. All the meetings with African colleagues – both those of our Head of State and my own – demonstrated their sincere desire to develop ties with Russia, which, unlike Europe, has never engaged in the colonization of African countries. Therefore, the malice of Western degenerates is understandable: according to experts, Europe owes African countries 15 quadrillion (yes, 1.5 × 10¹⁶!) dollars for years of colonial genocide and plunder." 

• NBC News: Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., was hospitalized Saturday after a stroke, a spokesperson for the senator said Sunday. Murphy, an outspoken critic of President  Trump, said Thursday at an event in Washington for the Middle East Institute that Trump’s plan to possibly resume the war with Iran after the midterms is “insane.” Earlier this fall, Murphy was one of over a dozen lawmakers whose offices received letters containing suspicious substances.
• SouthFront: Ukraine’s leadership is wrestling with a problem that no speech or summit can solve: finding enough soldiers. The issue surfaces in the news at irregular intervals, but it never goes away, and the latest government proposal suggests that the search for a solution is becoming more desperate. 

• Tucker Carlson: Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Jeju Island (South Korea) Space Week event

Space Industry and AI, the so-called ‘Future Growth Engines’ are Drying Up and Killing Our Planet!

By Choi Sung-hee

During the daily human chain, on October 7, 2026, residents and activists of Gangjeong Village, and allies gathered in front of the Jeju Naval Base to remember the "Keep Space for Week." 

On that same day, South Korea launched a Nuri rocket from Goheung, placing 14 satellites—including a constellation of five microsatellites—into low Earth orbit. 

President Lee Jae-myung celebrated the achievement, declaring that South Korea had moved closer to "space sovereignty." In response, the group, ‘People Opposing Space Militarization and Rocket Launches’ based on South Korea issued a statement emphasizing that space cannot be subject to national sovereignty and must remain a peaceful domain for all of humanity. They further pointed out that Hanwha—a corporation involved in the production of weapons of war—was behind the successful rocket launch.

In South Korea, as in the United States, the space development sector is being rapidly driven primarily by private corporations. A prime example is Hanwha—a company that contributes to the massacre of Palestinians through its partnerships with Israeli arms manufacturers. Hanwha has built a satellite production facility close to Gangjeong, in a groundwater-protected zone in the mid-mountainous region of Jeju Island. The company aims to transform Jeju into an "outpost for the space industry," encompassing the entire lifecycle of space operations: AI-driven satellite production, rocket launch, data collection, analysis, and distribution.

Furthermore, in collaboration with the military, Hanwha is preparing to conduct a fourth test launch of a solid-propellant space launch vehicle near the waters of Gangjeong later this year. We, however, view this as both a satellite launch test and a missile launch test.

From October 8th to 10th, People Opposing Space Militarization and Rocket Launches —in collaboration with the International Strategy Center, Climate Justice All Over the Neighborhood(Daejeon), Jeju Green Party, and Palestine Cultural Solidarity—held the second National Forum on Space Peace in Daejeon. 

On the first day, participants toured some space/military industry related facilities in Daejeon, a city changing its title from a hub of science into a center for ‘national defense’ science. Over the second and third days, people held a forum titled "AI and the Space Industry: A 'Different' Kind of War and a 'Different' Kind of Empire—Who Is Driven to Death, and Who Reaps All the Gains?" Approximately 30 people took part, engaging in serious and passionate discussions.

During this national forum, a collection of excellent protest placards created by activist Kim Eun-sil from Daejeon was put on display. 

For the 2026 "Keep Space Peace Week," People Opposing Space Militarization and Rocket Launches produced its own web poster and banner, titled, "Space Industry and AI, the so-called ‘Future Growth Engines’ are Drying Up and Killing Our Planet." The poster features an illustration by Kim Eun-sil, which depicts a distressing scene: Along with AI, runaway rockets, satellites, radar systems, antennas, and space debris—linked to companies like Hanwha and SpaceX—threatening both our one and only Earth and the space itself. 

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