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Paweł Żuchowski wrote that Volodymyr Zelensky was surprised by Donald Trump's announcement of an "energetic ceasefire" under which Russia and Ukraine would halt attacks on energy infrastructure. He added that, according to his reports, the authorities in Kyiv were not aware of the agreement when Trump informed that both sides had agreed to it. Żuchowski also quoted a statement from Zelensky conveyed on platform X by Axios reporter Barak Ravid. The Ukrainian president reportedly said that the announcement of the truce was new to him, but Ukraine would agree to it if it was accepted by Russia. He also asked Trump to indicate when the truce would begin if it was agreed upon with Vladimir Putin. #Ukraina #Trump #rosyjskaagresja (translated)

Recitales in Argentina reported that Lollapalooza had announced the lineup of artists for its 12th edition in the country. According to the publication, Queens Of The Stone Age, Charli xcx, The Killers, Travis Scott, TINI, David Guetta, The Neighbourhood, Rawayana, Fontaines DC, and Sombr were headlining, along with dozens of local and international artists. The festival would take place on March 12, 13, and 14 at the Hipódromo de San Isidro, and there were passes available in Presale 3. https://t.co/K9GpUlGwZT #Lollapalooza #Festival #Música (translated)

The author wrote that many people believed the United States had maintained its post-Cold War hegemony through military force alone, but argued that it had instead combined strategically deployed military power with media. They said the “Military Simulation” was now entering a terminal crisis. https://t.co/zBbaOjcfVP #Geopolitics #MilitaryStrategy #MediaInfluence #US

Cassiopeia referred to the statements made by Anna Bikont, who — as she quoted — claimed that before the war there was not such murderous anti-Semitism as after it, when at least 1,080 Jews died and three pogroms occurred: in Rzeszów, Kraków, and Kielce. She addressed Dominika Wielowieyska asking her to inquire with her colleague from "Gazeta Wyborcza" about the roles of the individuals she mentioned in the structures of the MBP, UB, the Main Military Information Office, and KBW. Among them, she pointed out Stefan Kuhl, Józef Goldberg (Różański), Anatol Fejgin, Izydor Kurc (Czaplicki), Maks Lifsches (Lityński), Józef Feldman, Mojżesz Bobrowicki (Mietkowski), Dawid Szwarc (Hübner), Adam Umer (Humera), Izaak Fleischfarb (Światło), Leon Ajzef (Andrzejewski), Jan Wołkow, Julia Brystiger, Eliasz Koton, Józef Jungman (Jurkowski), Feliks Rosenbaum, and Bolesław Heller (Halewski). Cassiopeia also asked why — as she wrote — thousands of Polish patriots died in prisons and camps, whose commanders or chiefs were supposed to be Salomon Morel, Kopel Klejman, Saul Wajntraub, Oskar Rozenberg, Sewer Rosen, Mosiek Flaum, Beniamin Glatter, Efroim Klitenik, and Henryk Markowicz. She separately described the punitive-investigative prison No. III in Warsaw, referred to as "Toledo." She claimed that about 1,000 people died there a martyr's death, and to this day, 30 of them have been found. According to her account, Kopel Klejman, whom she also referred to as Kazimierz Szymonowicz, son of Joel and Rachel, managed the prison, tortured, and murdered the inmates. Cassiopeia wrote that he built a bunker there where he hung victims on hooks, and his favorite methods of killing were shooting in the nape of the neck and hanging convicts from trees. She added that children were also tortured there. According to her cited account, when a 13-year-old boy asked for a priest before his death, Klejman responded with a vulgar insult, said he would be the priest himself, and ordered him to be shot. Cassiopeia also claimed that the bodies of victims were mixed with garbage and buried in lime pits, and that insurgents from WiN attempted several times to kill Klejman; he was said to have been wounded in one of the attacks. According to her entry, the MBP then transferred him to Rawicz, and later to Goleniów. She wrote that in the 1960s he worked at NBP, and later at the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She added that it is unknown what happened to him: some said it was suicide, others claimed it was poisoning, and still others said they saw him in the 1980s. Finally, Cassiopeia wrote that she learned that the most important politicians in Poland do not support "the lady from history" nor share her lessons because they are afraid for their mortgages. She asked her followers if they were also afraid. #historia #Polska #antysemityzm (translated)

Faust wrote on Twitter that experts on Yersinia pestis and various forms of the plague surprisingly often appeared there. As a pathologist, he appreciated how quickly users were able to specialize, and added that his colleague-infectologist would certainly appreciate it too. https://t.co/ydUaAaBPOT #Yersinia #mor #patologie (translated)

Africa Daily Report — 5 October 2026 Main developments reported during the previous 24 hours. 1. Ethiopia — Federal forces take control of Mekelle after TPLF withdrawal Ethiopian federal forces and allied fighters took control of Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, after the Tigray People's Liberation Front said it had withdrawn and temporarily relocated the regional administration. The renewed fighting, which began on 23 September, is the most serious breakdown since the 2022 peace agreement and has revived concern about a wider Horn of Africa conflict, particularly after Ethiopia and Eritrea severed diplomatic ties. Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/government-forces-seize-capital-ethiopias-tigray-region-rebels-2026-10-04/ 2. Horn of Africa — Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan issue joint declaration The leaders of Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan met in New Alamein on 4 October and called for peaceful political solutions to regional conflicts, respect for sovereignty and non-interference. The summit took place amid Ethiopia's renewed Tigray war and escalating diplomatic tensions with Eritrea. The four leaders also called for a political solution to Sudan's civil war. Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/four-african-leaders-issue-joint-declaration-as-ethiopia-war-escalates 3. Sudan — WFP aid trucks attacked in South Kordofan Importance: 10/10 — Critical An aerial attack hit two clearly marked trucks carrying World Food Programme food supplies from Dilling to Kadugli, killing one driver. WFP called for a prompt and impartial investigation and stressed that humanitarian personnel and cargo must be protected. The incident followed another WFP truck striking an explosive device in Dilling one day earlier. Source: https://wfpusa.org/news/wfp-strongly-condemns-attack-trucks-south-kordofan/ 4. Sudan — 32 WFP aid trucks reportedly seized in North Darfur Importance: 10/10 — Critical A Darfur regional humanitarian official accused the Rapid Support Forces of continuing to hold 32 trucks from a WFP convoy carrying relief for famine-threatened communities in North Darfur. The official said a 60-truck convoy entered from Chad through Tina and that dozens of vehicles were diverted. The RSF had not immediately commented on the accusation. Source: https://sudantribune.com/article/319630 5. Kenya — Highway crash kills at least 17, mostly Catholic pilgrims Importance: 9/10 — Very High At least 17 people were killed in a multi-vehicle collision on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway in the Salama area. Most victims were Catholic pilgrims travelling to a prayer site in Nakuru County. Kenya's road-safety authority described the location as a known accident black spot and urged motorists to exercise additional caution. Source: https://apnews.com/article/d2f788a5ab157acec3b5caa3afd5330f 6. Somalia — 366 Shabelle River breach points raise flood risk Importance: 8/10 — High Somalia's Disaster Management Agency warned that the Shabelle River has breached or is vulnerable at 366 major high-risk points. Authorities say the condition of the river is making flood prevention more difficult, raising risks to low-lying communities, farmland, homes and infrastructure along the river system. Source: https://www.dawan.africa/news/shabelle-river-breaches-at-366-points-raising-flood-risk-sodma-warns 7. African Union — Leaders focus on continental integration and value-added production African leaders met in New Alamein for the 8th African Union Mid-Year Coordination Meeting. A major economic theme was the need to move African economies from exporting raw materials toward processing and higher-value production, while improving regional integration and access to development finance. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa participated in his capacity as SADC chair. Source: https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/africa-must-shift-from-raw-exports-to-value-added-products-sisi/ 8. Mozambique — Central bank holds benchmark interest rate at 9.25% Importance: 7/10 — High The Bank of Mozambique kept its MIMO policy rate at 9.25%, while also changing the reserve-requirement framework for banks. The central bank said its decision reflected prevailing risks to the inflation and macroeconomic outlook. Source: https://southafricatoday.net/africa-news/southern-africa/mozambique/mozambique-bank-of-mozambique-holds-interest-rate-at-9-25-percent/ 9. Nigeria — Telecom regulator launches free educational data pilot Importance: 7/10 — High Nigeria's Communications Commission has launched a pilot initiative giving eligible learners up to 100 MB of free daily data for approved educational platforms. The initial phase targets 5,000 learners and involves telecom operators and technology-sector partners. The programme is intended to test whether subsidised connectivity can measurably improve digital-learning access and outcomes. Source: https://brandspurng.com/2026/10/04/ncc-introduces-free-100mb-daily-data-for-mtn-airtel-and-glo-users-under-education-scheme/ 10. Eswatini — Laotian deportee released after more than a year in detention A Laotian national who had been deported from the United States to Eswatini and held there for more than a year has been released, according to Associated Press reporting. The case forms part of continuing scrutiny of arrangements under which migrants removed by the United States have been transferred to third countries in Africa. Source: https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/immigrant-deported-us-held-african-prison-year-released-136989610 #Africa #AfricaNews #TopNewsOfAfrica #HornOfAfrica #Egypt #Eritrea #Somalia #Sudan #Diplomacy #RegionalCooperation #Sovereignty #NonInterference #AfricanUnion #AU #RegionalIntegration #ValueAddedProduction #Industrialisation #DevelopmentFinance #AfricanEconomy #Ethiopia #Tigray #Mekelle #TPLF #FederalForces #PretoriaPeaceAgreement #RegionalConflict #AfricanSecurity #Geopolitics #AfricaToday #wrldorg

#Garlasco if the news circulated yesterday about an alleged file registered for the omission of the delivery of raw data to the Prosecutor is true, the hypotheses of crime could be different and much more serious than those that could have been ascribed in 2007. #serenamente #Giustizia #Fascicolo #RawData (translated)

The author argued that Europe should take a less naïve approach to China and defend its own interests. They called for stronger trade-defence measures, more diverse critical supply chains, lower dependence on raw materials, ratification of trade agreements and improved competitiveness within Europe. https://t.co/q7KXLiT74w #Europa #Comercio #InteresesEuropeos #CN #EU

Influencers and various criminologists should carefully reread this part of the press release from the Public Prosecutor's Office of Pavia: A consultancy from the experts appointed by the defense of Alberto Stasi, Dr. Ugo Ricci and Pasquale Linarello, regarding the Raw Data delivered to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Pavia by the RIS of Parma on 11/06/2025 in the context of the current proceedings has been acquired. In the Raw Data, these consultants detected the presence of counter-analysis (two electrophoresis runs dated 09/20/2007) of the sample bu_p, the same sample that revealed the presence of the victim's DNA on the pedals of Umberto Dei's bike and led to Stasi's arrest, which were completely negative. According to the consultants, these counter-analyses were suitable to exonerate Alberto Stasi 19 years ago, but they do not exist in the file of the criminal proceedings 2025/2007 R.G.N.R. (Public Prosecutor's Office of Vigevano). In other words, the genetic profile determined just the day before (09/19/2007) from the only available extract obtained from the pedals of the bicycle (evidence bu_p) and attributed by the technical consultant of the P.M. of the time "beyond any reasonable doubt" to the victim, was found to be completely negative the following day (09/20/2007), when the same consultant had conducted new analyses. There is no trace of these two electrophoresis runs from 09/20/2007 and the related completely negative profiles in any document of the proceedings/trial held against Alberto Stasi. #Giustizia #Criminologia #DNA (translated)

The omission of the production of negative raw data on the presumed DNA undermines the reconstruction of Frau's fingerprints at the crime scene, given that the alleged contamination of the pedals would have been the result of the killer's walk. Non-existent DNA and blood = invalid also Testi. #giustizia #DNA #criminologia (translated)

#garlasco gli affannosi tentativi che leggo di smontare la faccenda del #Rawgate da parte dei soliti noti sono semplicemente patetici. Questi, nel tentativo di mantenere la propria credibilità, presso i propri sostenitori, sembrano il Titanic che naviga spedito verso il disastro #Garlasco #Rawgate #Politica

Rey Fénix anuncia con Jackie Redmond que tiene permiso para defender su Campeonato Crucero de AAA... en TODAS las marcas, lo que hace que pueda defenderlo en RAW. Y ahí aparecen Chad Gable y Ethan Page QUÉ MARAVILLA DE REINADO JOOJOJOJOJO #WWERAW https://t.co/9mb5ermJ0S #AAA #LuchaLibre #WWERAW

Terremoto su #Garlasco, #Stasi “incastrato” per l’omicidio di Chiara Poggi: non c’era Dna sui pedali Secondo le nuove consulenze, i test del settembre 2007 avrebbero già mostrato l’anomalia. I raw data, mai forniti alla difesa in tutti questi anni, sono ora al centro dell’inchiesta di Pavia @ilgiornale https://t.co/v0cEy39QXt #Giustizia #Mafia #Crimine

The Return to Feudalism in 21st Century Garb A simple observer's viewpoint, with no claim to hold any absolute truth. The Veneer Cracks There is something strangely archaic about the world unfolding before our eyes, despite its satellites, artificial intelligence, and promises of infinite progress. Here and there, we witness heads of state behaving like feudal lords of another age, patiently nibbling away at the neighboring territory, redrawing borders through force rather than law, as if governing a nation mattered less than expanding one's fiefdom. No names need be mentioned here: current events provide plenty of illustration, and each reader will recognize, according to their own geography and moment of reading, the faces that embody this observation. But this return to the archaic is not confined to grand geopolitical stages. It also permeates the most ordinary daily life—that of social media, where anyone can pour out venom against another without filter, without form, and often without the slightest argument. The verbal jousting of yesteryear, with its codes, its rhetoric, its tacit limits, has given way to raw invective, snap judgment, instant condemnation. We no longer debate: we execute, verbally—and sometimes it doesn't stop at words. The Vanished Inhibition What strikes one, in this dual observation—macro-political and micro-social—is the lifting of an inhibition we thought firmly anchored. Centuries of cultural construction, education, philosophy, sometimes religion, had patiently shaped mechanisms of restraint: politeness as social ritual, argumentation as a mode of resolving disagreement, respect for one's opponent as the very foundation of democratic debate. This civilizational veneer, however fragile it always was, seemed to hold. Today it is cracking, and the question—which for me remains a simple hypothesis, not a certainty—is why. A convenient explanation would blame social media: anonymity, the distance of the screen, the instantaneousness of publication would favor verbal acting-out without the usual mediation of reflection. This is probably true, but likely insufficient. For technology here is only an accelerant, an amplifier—not necessarily a root cause. A Poorly Formatted Neocortex? The more unsettling hypothesis—and I frame it explicitly as hypothesis, not scientifically established fact—is that of a failure in the formation of moral judgment and tolerance toward otherness. The human brain possesses the neural structures enabling empathy, the distancing of impulsive reaction, the acceptance of difference—but these capacities are not innate in their full exercise: they must be built, educated, cultivated, like a muscle that needs patient training from childhood onward. If this education in otherness, nuance, and tolerance of disagreement erodes—for multiple and undoubtedly complex reasons that are not mine to settle here—then older reflexes resurface: instinctive distrust of the stranger outside the clan, the law of the strongest, the logic of territorial or symbolic predation. The other ceases to be a possible interlocutor and becomes once again a potential threat, unless they belong to my tribe, my clan, my party, my digital bubble. Two Scales, One Logic What is striking, in this deliberately provocative reading, is the structural similarity between these two scales. The leader who invades a neighbor in the name of a rediscovered greatness or a reinvented historical right, and the anonymous internet user who insults a stranger in the name of an unnegotiable conviction, may obey the same underlying grammar: that of territory to defend, clan to protect, the other to subdue or exclude rather than understand. The form has changed—satellites instead of horses, tweets instead of heralds—but the substance, in this reading that remains mine alone and commits no one else, seems strangely identical to that of feudal rivalries: the absence of a recognized third party, of an accepted common rule, of a respected arbitrating authority. Everyone becomes judge and party, lord of their own digital or territorial fiefdom. A Civilization on a Knife's Edge Norbert Elias, in his Civilizing Process, showed how Western societies had historically built, with remarkable slowness, an increasing control over impulses and direct violence, in favor of more sublimated forms of social regulation. What we may be observing today—and I stress again the conditional—is a form of regression in this process, or at least a fragilization of the veneer it had patiently laid down. Should we see this as an effect of great technological accelerations, which shake up our cognitive rhythms without leaving education time to adapt? A deeper crisis of the institutions tasked with transmitting these values of tolerance—school, family, religion, the rule of law? Or simply a cyclical movement of human history, where phases of policed civilization alternate with darker backlashes? I have no certain answer, and I would be wary of anyone claiming to hold one. In Conclusion, a Shared Concern This text is only a viewpoint, necessarily partial and subjective, on a world that sometimes seems to replay ancient logics in new clothing. Perhaps I am wrong to perceive a continuity between the feudal lord and the contemporary dictator, between the anonymous online insult and the absence of education in nuance. Perhaps these phenomena are unrelated, or too complex to be thus summarized. But if this reading, even partially, hits the mark, then the question that arises is less one of technological regulation—though necessary—than the far more arduous question of how to rebuild, generation after generation, this capacity to accept the other in their difference, to debate without destroying, to coexist without necessarily dominating. This undertaking, if it exists, will not be resolved by an algorithm nor by an international treaty. It plays out, patiently, in the most elementary education—the one that teaches a child that the other is not a threat, but a possibility. Bibliography Elias, N. (1939). Über den Prozess der Zivilisation [The Civilizing Process]. Oxford: Blackwell (Eng. trans. 1978-1982). Lorenz, K. (1963). Das sogenannte Böse [On Aggression]. London: Methuen (Eng. trans. 1966). Arendt, H. (1970). On Violence. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. Han, B.-C. (2013). Im Schwarm [In the Swarm: Digital Prospects]. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (Eng. trans. 2017).

𝟐𝟎 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟕 Ten noorden van Deh Rawod, #Uruzgan, is een Nederlandse eenheid bezig informatie te verzamelen over een mogelijke locatie van een bermbom. In de ochtend spreken de militairen met de plaatselijke bevolking. Wanneer zij later die dag hun verkenning voortzetten, worden ze onverwacht onder vuur genomen door Talibanstrijders. Er ontstaat een hevig vuurgevecht. 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐚𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝐞 𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 (𝟐𝟎) wordt daarbij dodelijk getroffen. Door de hevigheid van het gevecht kan zijn lichaam aanvankelijk niet worden geborgen. Uiteindelijk weten zijn kameraden hem onder zwaar vijandelijk vuur terug te halen en naar het Nederlandse kamp over te brengen. Tim woonde in Vroomshoop en diende bij het Regiment Stoottroepen Prins Bernhard. Zijn contract bij Defensie liep af, waardoor hij aanvankelijk niet voor uitzending in aanmerking kwam. Maar zijn kameraden gingen naar Afghanistan en Tim wilde niet achterblijven. "Samen aan gewerkt, samen afmaken." Dat was zijn credo. Op 20-jarige leeftijd werd Tim de eerste Nederlandse militair die tijdens de missie in Uruzgan door vijandelijk vuur sneuvelde. Zijn naam leeft voort. In 2024 werd bij Vroomshoop een viaduct naar hem vernoemd, in aanwezigheid van zijn familie en Stoters die samen met hem in Afghanistan hadden gediend. Vandaag staan we stil bij Tim. Bij de jonge man achter het uniform, zijn kameraadschap en zijn keuze om samen met zijn maten naar Afghanistan te gaan. 𝐖𝐢𝐣 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐭. Rust zacht, Tim. #LestWeForget 🥀 | #TimHoogland 🪖 | #Veteranen 🎖️ #LestWeForget #Veteranen #Afghanistan