World News shows the whole fight, alliances name an heir, the Desk folds and filters its reports, and rain crosses the map.

Der globale Ausbau digitaler Infrastrukturen im Zeichen der «Künstlichen Intelligenz» und ihrer vermeintlichen Effizienz schreitet in einem gewaltigen Tempo voran. Doch fehlt es häufig an…

HKFP reports on the forthcoming election for Hong Kong’s Election Committee, which it describes as… …the powerful electoral body that chooses both Hong Kong’s top leader and almost half of the…

Today, October 8, 2026, is Children's Environmental Health Day, when we recognize the importance of protecting the most vulnerable among us from environmental health threats. I would like to…

As part of my Art School activities, I’ve just carved this linocut and used it to hand-print a small edition of “Tank Boy”. Based on a real photo of a boy in Gaza confronting an Israeli tank, each of…

It was interesting that yesterday, when the Mayor of New York included sympathy for innocent Palestinians who have died during these last 3 years in his remembrance of those slain by Hamas in Israel…

Republicans are objectively disgusting. How does enabling men who rape children get a pass?

Disgusting. On the other hand, ISIS will use it as a recruiting video “US plans livestream of execution by firing squad…

Texto de Brivael Le Pogam Daqui a 50 anos, os livros de história dirão que Elon Musk ganhou uma guerra que ninguém sabia que estávamos perdendo. Uma guerra que começou há 100 anos, em uma cela de…

The Town Council meeting began with a minute’s silence during which members remembered former Abingdon Mayor Councillor Nigel Trippett. He served as Mayor from 1980–1981. To commemorate the 80th…

On: Chicago’s Morning Answer with Dan Proft Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University, joins Dan Proft to discuss his perspective on a new paradigm for big city…

Y ou know it's a close election when it's time to demonise the unemployed. On Wednesday, welfare campaigner Lindsay Mitchell pointed out that what's missing from this election campaign is any…

Submissions to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence closed on 14 September and Parliament has published 540 of them: 5,839 pages. The committee must report by 30 November. That gives…

October 8, 2026 Mon dieu! Quel bordel, as say the French. France, the home of reason and logic, is consumed by riots. How can a nation with such advanced education be in such a mess? Some two thirds…

We all see how we are becoming more polarized and isolated. We tend to think others are doing it and don’t notice when we do it ourselves. One way is to dehumanize people we disagree with. We…

Tomorrow we should hear who will be awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, Then we can all make fun of Trump for not getting it. Does anybody remember María Corina Machado, last year’s…

“In response, some Democratic candidates have moved closer to Republican positions on transgender participation in women’s sports and gender-affirming care for minors.”It’s worth calling your…

By Jo Nova On October 7th Marco Rubio made a speech for the ages in Athens, with the Parthenon as his backdrop. The West has lost its way, he says, and taught our children to be ashamed but Western…

Japanese Nuclear Scientists and Age PoliticsOn March 11th, 2011, an earthquake caused a tsunami on the East Coast of Japan, damaging the Fukishima nuclear reactor, eventually producing a partial…

President Donald Trump swung through Texas yesterday, and he had some choice words for the Democrat’s 2026 senate nominee. President Donald Trump rallied thousands of supporters Wednesday…

Thanks to a quick, gracious reply from the GIS Mapping team at County of Santa Clara – Registrar of Voters, I have a shapefile with the precincts for Santa Clara County. You can ask for it too.…

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2026 There's no known cure for this: Yesterday, the sitting president said it again--or did he? To see what he said, you can just click here . We'd transcribe it like this:…

Counterintelligence in Everyday Life James Jesus Angleton, the longtime head of counterintelligence at the CIA, had an unusual intellectual background for a man in his profession. As a student at…

Andy Burnham's Manchesterism, or the Productive State, is digital slavery and usury combined. anchesterism aims to install global governance across a network of city states. Read here to appreciate…

In their recent conference the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) ended their opposition to nuclear power. This should not be seen as a […] The post The Green Party’s Shift To…

My last post what is political? led not only to Shades of Purple deleting their post, but their entire blog which is such a shame. I always archive people’s posts before replying for the off-chance…

The Nazis Brash enactors of violent action, brutes who wield the strength of one powerful, perverse idea— that what’s evil is actually good. They’re so dedicated to destroying the world that they’re…

So, our dear regular, Fucko the Clown, had a question for me, in regards to the Palestinian Hebrews: And it’s a fair question. A lot [...]

Jeremiah Johnson: “We have to give up the fantasy of being fitter than the fascists,” Adler-Bolton told attendees. “Fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism.” The left, she…

On Wednesday, October 7, 2026, on MS NOW’s Deadline: White House, Nicolle Wallace’s discussion of election security turned into another warning that President Trump could overturn an election—with…

A shift in my personal political thinking, of late: Rather than try to directly change the minds of culturally entrenched right-wing voters, it may be a wiser expenditure of energy and attention to…

The Trump administration has extended an invitation to Putin to attend the G20 summit in Miami. There are several things to watch for, so let’s break it down. First, Putin has to decide if…

At the end of the last Council term I wrote an article called Have Tasmanian Local Council Attrition Rates Increased? The point of this article was to assess whether Tasmanian councillors had become…

In my opinion, the BEAD grant program has been a rolling disaster since it was introduced. We saw how a good grant program works when the Capital Project Fund program operated by Treasury quickly…

Nasser Mashni denies celebrating October 7. Unfortunately for him, his social media activity from that very day left behind some receipts. Continue reading Nasser Mashni Denies Celebrating October 7-…

Democracy Now! has a video podcast, and has had one for the last 15 years, at least. This means you can experience the show in either audio or video.

Somehow, this seems more germane today than when it first ran 55 years ago. If you want to piss me off--not that it's not easy to do--call me a "wordsmith." I hate that locution almost as much as I…

A ce point ci, je pense que l'idée de voter blanc parmi une partie de la gauche était une psyop. C'est comme ca que les gens non révolutionnaires puissent se sentir révolutionnaires pendant une…

Trump wants to permanently fence off Lafayette Park, DC’s iconic protest place Lafayette Park is a city park, across the street from the White house. It’s a place for picnics and midday…

So... Elon's telling anyone that'll listen (with Donnie POTUS at his side) that Artificial Intelligence, pardon- Super Intelligence is gonna give us all, Universal Basic... make that- "Universal High…

Thugs in Khaki Lying, rape, looting, and the stealing of a vote: the method of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Oct 8, 2026 In April the electoral rolls for West Bengal came back from revision with…

It's a 3-day weekend for Taiwan's National Day holiday. For the past few weeks, Taipei has had the country's flags decorated all over. It really is a beautiful flag, I love seeing it adding its…

Author Eric Peterson Updated Oct 8th, 2026 Status Mitigation in progress Impact Over 100,000 pending citizenship applicants assessed under…

It‘s really terrible what‘s happening in France with all the school kids rioting. Protesting injustices isn't the issue, that should happen, but the tricky thing is that in this case the fact…

* We are now less than a month out from the mid-term elections, and the single biggest theme that the Democrats have chosen to run on appears to be “affordability.” * How can this possibly be? We…

Meity has issued a Gazette Notification on some minor corrections in DPDPA 2026. The notification is available here. The corrections are as follows: 1. Short title and commencement.— (1) This Order…

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Sen. Dan Sullivan has swallowed the fantasy that Donald Trump has the power to order South Korea to cough up $54 billion for the Alaska gas pipeline. Sullivan told reporters Monday night that the…

Homeland Security Investigations announced today that the U.S. government had seized at Port Everglades and Port Houston 615,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel worth $2.8 million and destined for Cuba. At…

All of a sudden the idea that our bombs are killing people in the middle east was no longer a vague abstraction sitting in the periphery of our awareness. It was a reality hitting us right in the…