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To save 200 million euros and correct imbalances in the rental market, the French government plans to reduce tax benefits related to furnished rentals starting in 2027, by imposing a fixed depreciation ceiling and limiting possible deductions. (translated)

Pour gommer les déséquilibres sur le marché et économiser 200 millions d'euros, le gouvernement veut raboter dès 2027 les avantages fiscaux de la location meublée

The Minister of Finance says that Petro increased the DIAN staff from 10,000 to 16,000 officials, but even so, revenue fell. Indeed, the revenue of the National Government fell from 17% of GDP to 16.2% over four years. A machine of inefficiency. (translated)

🔴 Here is the scene filmed by the video surveillance cameras of a bakery in Petit-Quevilly, in the suburbs of Rouen. The scene took place around 9 a.m. this Thursday morning, while the manager was in the back room and his employee was preparing sandwiches. Several hooded and masked youths burst into the store to steal... displays of lollipops and candies before fleeing. The bakery is located near the Élisa-Lemonnier high school, particularly affected by the riots of recent days. This Thursday morning, its principal was notably attacked in the neck with a metal bar and sprayed with gas. The brand new facade was also vandalized. Frustrated, the baker decided to publish the images on social media, accompanied by these words: 🗣️ “We, artisans, have been suffering for months from rising prices of our raw materials, ever-increasing taxes, and mind-boggling taxes. We do everything we can to get by and avoid impacting the purchasing power of our customers. And today, this gang of degenerates dared to enter OUR place. The goal? To steal!” Contacted by @Valeurs, he indicated that he intends to file a complaint. (translated)

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Meeting at Palazzo Chigi with Giorgia Meloni and the deputy prime ministers to discuss the public finance programmatic document, while Brussels responds to Italy regarding the request for greater economic flexibility highlighting that it has already granted margins, in a context of energy crisis and high inflation. (translated)

Manovra, vertice a Palazzo Chigi. Bruxelles risponde all'Italia: 'Abbiamo già dato flessibilità'
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George Osborne [the former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer] said that we should join the customs union. (translated)

Héros pour les uns, traître pour les autres, Andy Burnham n’exclut pas un second référendum sur le Brexit. “Nous devons regarder ce qui est faisable”
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ATTENTION: The debt, the drop in income, the low growth, and the message from the 1d1ota of Palenque are driving the peso to 18.40! Keep destroying the country! @Claudiashein (translated)

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The French government has presented a draft budget for social security aimed at reducing the deficit to 12.7 billion euros by 2027 through savings measures affecting retirees, sick leave, and businesses, while allowing the future government the option to amend these measures. (translated)

Le gouvernement français met la Sécurité sociale à la diète

The Swiss Council of States has approved a proposal that provides for an entry tax of up to 4,000 francs for immigrant workers from the European Union, linked to the activation of the safeguard clause in case of economic and social issues arising from immigration. (translated)

Svizzera, tassa d'ingresso per i lavoratori immigrati dall'Ue: chi, quanto e da quando dovrà pagare

Mario Draghi, during his lecture at the Swiss National Bank, emphasized the importance of supranational reforms for economic growth, warning that debt reduction cannot occur solely through cuts and taxes, but requires a detailed plan of reforms. (translated)

Draghi: «Risanare il debito ma non solo con tagli e tasse. Riforme sovranazionali leva più per crescita»

My stupid recipe, Doctor Restrepo, achieved the highest employment rate, the lowest rates of hunger and poverty of the 21st century, and some of the highest levels of per capita income in the last quarter of my government in the entire history of Colombia. You and Abelardo today, just as you did in Duque's government during the first month of his administration, shot up unemployment almost to the double-digit figures that you handed over to my government. That's called a step back! It's unfortunate that a part of the Colombian electorate believes that Colombia's destiny is to go backward. Again the IMF, again over-indebtedness that you promoted, Dr. Restrepo, by giving subsidies to the rich and imposing a gasoline subsidy paid with the budget. These days, that is called economic ignorance and anachronism. I propose my support from the opposition to make a great agreement for the equitable progress of Colombia. What allowed us to have the best social economic figures of the century was: 1. Leaving hydrocarbon extraction and moving to real production in industry, commerce, and tourism. Prioritizing production, that is, the transformation of materials to make other materials for a good life for people, automatically raises employment levels and overall productivity. 2. Raising the minimum wage every year to the level of the vital basket for a family. This was demanded by the social doctrine of the Catholic Church in the encyclical "Rerum Novarum" by Leo XIII, and you, as a fervent Catholic, should apply it. In that encyclical and in that of Francis I about the "common home," and in that of Leo XIV about "a dignified Humanity," you would find a comprehensive agreement with the progressivism I lead. 3. A leading role of the state in the economy in strategic matters such as tariffs for industrialization, abundant and cheap credit for small and medium-sized industries, cheap credit for industry, food production, exports, and zero-interest credit for any national industry that produces an increase in Colombia’s computational capacity, energy, and railroads. 4. Leading the decarbonization of the economy through a 100% clean electricity generation matrix, replacing the prohibitively expensive gas with extremely cheap and abundant solar energy in Colombia. Remember that in my government I managed to increase growth in the four years by 500% in the naval industry and 200% in the electric automotive industry. 5. Redistributing another million hectares among farmers and doubling food production in the country to lower the prices of the family basket and increase real wages. You and we can lower the interest rate set by the Board of the Bank of the Republic by configuring another majority in the board that is friendly to production and work. 5. And if you don’t want, Mr. Restrepo, to reach agreements given the mind-numbing sectarianism that predominates, then just remember my advice: work and nature are the sources of wealth, and in Colombia, the real wage as an expression of the value of work allows the expansion of the internal market, both formal and informal, and increases the number of companies and workforce. When the country decides to return to legitimate institutions, it might be too late for you, but these will be the economic bases already experienced with positive data for a national agreement. (translated)

If I were Flávio Bolsonaro, passing to the second round, I would call Caiado, Zema, Renan, and Cury and commit to: 1. Including 1-2 proposals from each (in security, economy, health, etc.) as the official government plan 2. Not attempting re-election 3. Putting them on the transition team (translated)

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The Medef expresses its despair at the increase in taxes on companies in the 2027 budget proposal, estimating their impact at nearly 20 billion euros, which they consider a direct threat to employment and the economic competitiveness of the country. (translated)

"Menace directe sur l'emploi", "non-sens économique": le patronat désespéré par "la multiplication de taxes" sur les entreprises qu'il estime à 20 milliards d'euros dans le budget 2027
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The article explores the reasons why an increasing number of young Algerians are choosing to emigrate illegally to Spain, highlighting a deep sense of unease, a lack of future prospects, and the socio-economic challenges in their home country. (translated)

« Un pays qui ne leur propose pas d’avenir »… Pourquoi les Algériens sont-ils parmi les plus nombreux à émigrer ?

Iran’s cognitive warfare – when AI becomes the operating layer of state propaganda Iranian state-linked influence operators were not using artificial intelligence simply to write faster social-media posts. According to Anthropic’s September 2026 threat intelligence report, three separate operations connected to Iranian propaganda institutions were using Claude to help construct the machinery behind what the operators themselves called “soft war” and “cognitive warfare” – non-military efforts intended to shape public opinion inside Iran and abroad. Anthropic linked the activity to the Islamic Culture and Communications Organization (ICCO), which operates under Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance; the Islamic Propaganda Office of Khorasan Razavi; and the Bina Cultural Observatory, part of the Islamic Propaganda Organization. The company said each operation was run by someone working within or on behalf of the named institution. The attribution was based on a combination of account telemetry, institutional references disclosed during conversations, branded documents and open-source corroboration. Anthropic subsequently removed the accounts. AI as an operational headquarters The most significant feature of the operation was the role assigned to AI. Claude was used to develop campaign plans, doctrine manuals, coded project portfolios, persona systems, target databases, early-warning protocols, amplification schedules and ministerial planning documents. Anthropic described the model as the principal administrative and operational layer supporting the three campaigns, allowing relatively small groups of operators to create organisational structures and planning material that would otherwise have required a much larger staff. This distinction matters. The reported use of AI went considerably beyond content generation. Operators were using the model to help organise how influence activity should function: which audiences to target, which identities should deliver particular narratives, how official material should be repackaged and when amplification should take place. Human operators still determined objectives and supplied the underlying political doctrine; AI helped translate those decisions into an operational system. Anthropic found that all three operations explicitly connected their activity to Jihad al-Tabyin, often translated as “explanatory jihad”, a concept used within the Iranian state system to frame information activity as both a strategic and ideological responsibility. In internal planning material examined by the company, this doctrine was not merely rhetorical: it informed manuals and campaign structures used by the operators. ‘Not the narrator, but the director’ One sentence contained in the ICCO material captures the model particularly clearly. According to Anthropic, an operator described the role of Iranian cultural attachés as being “not to be the narrator, but the director” of the narrative. The distinction reveals the logic of attribution laundering. Instead of publishing an overt state message and asking foreign audiences to believe it, the operator attempts to create the appearance that the same narrative emerged independently from journalists, activists, foreign writers or ordinary citizens. Anthropic found that Claude was used specifically to make content appear to come from foreign authors or independent media organisations and to design hashtag campaigns that looked grassroots rather than centrally organised. The ICCO operation reportedly used the organisation’s international cultural network as part of this structure. Anthropic found ministerial-level documents carrying official ICCO branding, including a nine-part international influence portfolio. This makes the operation particularly significant because the infrastructure was not limited to anonymous social-media accounts; it intersected with formal state institutions and an existing network of cultural representation abroad. A multilingual content factory A second operation was associated with the Islamic Propaganda Office of Khorasan Razavi and what Anthropic described as a “cognitive warfare command room” operating from a seminary in Mashhad. Its organisers ran a multi-province content production system known internally as Manjanegh, or “Catapult”. According to Anthropic, dozens of activists were involved in repackaging publicly available reporting from Iranian security institutions under different personas so that the material no longer appeared directly connected to those institutions. The network used Claude to transform official government intelligence bulletins into customised material in Farsi, Arabic, Urdu, Malay, Spanish and English, while planning expansion into a total of 20 languages. Distribution extended across Iranian platforms such as Eitaa, Bale and Rubika and international services including X, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok and YouTube. Anthropic also documented paid amplification across more than 100 Iranian channels, including channels associated with IRGC narratives. The scale should nevertheless be interpreted carefully. Anthropic documented production infrastructure and some real-world dissemination, but it did not demonstrate that all planned campaigns were fully deployed or that they meaningfully changed public opinion. The company placed the operation in Category Three of its Breakout Scale, indicating multi-platform activity with content observed in external distribution channels, rather than evidence of strategic impact on entire populations. From security bulletins to apparently independent voices The Bina Cultural Observatory operation provides another example of the same architecture. Anthropic linked a director-level official at Bina to activity in which Claude generated messaging in the voice of an IRGC spokesperson. During the 2026 US–Israel–Iran war, the network also attributed false claims to Western institutions including CSIS, Brookings and RAND. The apparent objective was to make Iranian state-aligned claims look as though they had been independently validated by respected foreign research organisations. That technique is more sophisticated than simply publishing propaganda under a false name. It attempts to manufacture a chain of external validation: official information is transformed into apparently independent commentary, which can then be recirculated as evidence that outside observers have reached the same conclusion. Anthropic also found target databases naming international officials and Iranian opposition figures, as well as aggressive counter-narrative material directed against the Bahá’í community. These findings show that the infrastructure was designed not only for broad messaging but also for targeted influence activity against specific groups and individuals. What AI changed The Iranian operations described by Anthropic did not create a new doctrine of influence. Iran has used cultural institutions, official media, aligned organisations and covert or semi-covert online networks for years. What AI changed was the economics and organisational capacity of that model. A relatively small team could use the system to draft doctrine, create personas, translate material, structure target databases, produce campaign calendars and generate multiple versions of the same message for different audiences. The operator remained responsible for intent, political direction and selection of targets. AI reduced the amount of human labour required to turn those decisions into a functioning influence operation. The most revealing part of the case is therefore not that an Iranian propaganda network used a chatbot. It is that AI was being treated as part of the back office of information warfare – a system for converting state doctrine into apparently decentralised, multilingual and plausibly independent voices. Sources Anthropic — Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026 Iran International — Iran state-aligned accounts used Claude to push IRGC narratives https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609105561 BNE IntelliNews — Yemen missile cell used AI to write guidance software, Anthropic says https://new.intellinews.com/articles/yemen-missile-cell-used-ai-to-write-guidance-software-anthropic-says-467296 This is Beirut — Anthropic report details Iranian propaganda operations https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/news/politics/anthropic-report-details-iranian-propaganda-operations-and-yemen-missile-development-using-claude Anthropic report — PDF mirror https://static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2026/09/anthropic-detecting-and-countering-091026-1.pdf Keywords #DISINFORMED #Episode11 #Iran #IranianInfluence #IranianPropaganda #CognitiveWarfare #SoftWar #JihadAlTabyin #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #ForeignInterference #FIMI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIPropaganda #GenerativeAI #ClaudeAI #Anthropic #SyntheticMedia #NarrativeManipulation #NarrativeLaundering #AttributionLaundering #PersonaNetworks #Astroturfing #SocialMediaManipulation #DigitalInfluence #StatePropaganda #IslamicCultureAndCommunicationsOrganization #ICCO #IslamicPropagandaOrganization #KhorasanRazavi #IRGC #MultilingualInfluence #Targeting #Amplification #OSINT #WRLD

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

A study by PATE warns that, despite the rise of audiovisual production in Spain and the massive investment from platforms, local producers are losing control of the exploitation rights of their works, which jeopardizes their economic future. (translated)

España se convierte en plató de Europa mientras pierde la propiedad de sus contenidos
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Former ECB President Mario Draghi warns the European Union that only through growth, integration, and reforms can economic stability be guaranteed, emphasizing the need for a supranational strategy to address the decline and unsustainability of public finances. (translated)

Il monito di Draghi all'Ue: “Crescita, integrazione e riforme sono l'unica via per la stabilità”

🚨 URGENT 🚨 Daniela Lima has brought a bombshell on Pulso Político. Everyone needs to share it. The tone around Flávio is no longer campaigning. It is a threat. Flávio claims to be moderate. Yesterday he presented Pablo Marçal as an active part of the campaign. In the live stream with Daniela Marques, his economic guru, the title was holy war. Catholics and evangelicals against each other. Macumba and satanism in the middle of the sentence. Fear as a method. If you thought it was heavy, it gets worse. Allan dos Santos, a fugitive in the United States, convicted of threats, defamation, and slander, attacked a bishop of the Catholic Church. The bishop had asked for mercy from Our Lady Aparecida in the face of gunfire at the CNBB. The response was insults. The Church is already monitoring the attacks on bishops on social media. This is the group. This is the tone. With Flávio's victory, the message goes from live stream to government. Persecution of the Christian faith is not a theory. It’s already in the video. No coup ever again is trending. Lula 1 and 2 is trending too. Three more to go. The weakness is thinking this stops at the election. Don't watch the debate and pretend you didn't see it. Globo goes unnoticed. Flow too. Cármen Lúcia and Merval occupy the scroll. The play is different. Share it. The Brazilian people need to hear this before voting. (translated)

Elon Musk will hold a senior position in a new Pentagon project that will examine the future of warfare, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday at a military base in Virginia. (translated)

Les États-Unis avertissent qu'il est "dans l'intérêt de l'Europe" de coopérer avec eux
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President Donald Trump had briefly expressed support for a temporary ban on American diesel exports, called for by some lawmakers, but the idea does not appear to be favored today. (translated)

Les États-Unis avertissent qu'il est "dans l'intérêt de l'Europe" de coopérer avec eux
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"You will soon hear announcements from our European friends about new quantities of diesel that will be arriving on the market and will significantly lower prices," assured U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Wednesday at the White House. (translated)

Les États-Unis avertissent qu'il est "dans l'intérêt de l'Europe" de coopérer avec eux
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