After expanding domestic control over mining to pursue economic sovereignty, Burkina Faso has moved up the value chain with its first gold refinery, inaugurated by its president, Capt. Ibrahim Traoré, on September 28.

Most of the gold mined in the country was previously exported as unrefined dore to be processed abroad. Now, it will be processed, tested for purity, and certified domestically at the Raffinerie Nationale d’Or du Burkina Faso, built at a cost of USD 19 million on more than 12 acres in the capital, Ouagadougou.​

“From now on, gold … must not only be extracted in Burkina Faso, it must be processed, controlled, valued and certified in Burkina Faso,” Traoré said, inaugurating the new facility.​

Inviting the country’s youth “to learn to master the whole value chain,” he added, “Natural resources belong to the people. They must contribute to improve their living conditions.”​

In the struggle for sovereignty​

Burkina Faso has long been one of Africa’s largest gold producers. However, proceeds from its extraction were historically siphoned out of the country by foreign companies owning its mines. Burkinabe ownership was limited to only one mine, which a former mines minister owned privately.​

The state-owned mining company, Société de Participation Minière du Burkina Faso (SOPAMIB), served only as a dormant holder of 10% stakes in Burkina Faso’s foreign-owned mines.​

Changes began in 2022 with the ouster of then-president Roch Kaboré in a popularly supported military coup amid mass protests against the Burkinabe state’s subjugation to French neocolonialism.​

Subsequently, in 2023, Traoré’s transitional military government (backed by the trade unions, the anti-France protest movement, and wide sections of the civil society) consolidated mass support by expelling French troops from the country, asserting Burkina Faso’s sovereignty.​

Recognizing that control over its own economy and natural resources is a central pillar of sovereignty, his government launched sweeping reforms to the mining sector in mid-2024.

It revived the dormant SOPAMIB and began transferring foreign-owned mines to the state-owned mining company, nationalizing five key gold mining assets within a year.​

Following the nationalization of yet another gold mine later in September 2025, six of the country’s 15 industrial mines, accounting for 40% of the national mining operations, are domestically owned – three by the state, and three by Burkinabe private companies.​​

In the remaining foreign-owned mines, the reforms raised SOPAMIB’s free stake from 10% to 15%. It also enabled the state to buy an additional paid stake of 30%, either entirely through SOPAMIB or in partnership with domestic private investors, potentially raising the Burkinabe stake in foreign companies to 45%.​

Mining revenues finance national development

As state revenues grew from its expanded ownership, the government undertook major infrastructural projects. In 2025, it laid 500 kilometers of low-voltage lines and 165 kilometers of transmission lines, connecting almost 160,000 new households to the national grid and electrifying 131 rural localities.

​Its National Development Plan (NDP) for 2026–2030 is one of the largest economic programs ever rolled out in the Sahel. It is a 64-billion-dollar plan, two-thirds of which is to be funded domestically from state revenues generated and citizen shareholding programs.

​Read more: Burkina Faso launches Five-Year plan

​Further inspiring confidence in the viability of its five-year plan, the government expanded the 2026 annual budget by 7.58% mid-year, having already collected almost 57.5% of the projected annual revenue. This has boosted infrastructural spending without increasing the budget deficit.

​The government has also used its rising revenues to improve its fiscal position. Cashing in on the rally in gold prices in 2025, the government repaid USD 2.13 billion in domestic debt last year. To systematize the use of additional revenue generated from the cyclical movement of mineral prices, it established the Burkina Faso Sovereign Mining Investment Fund (FSMIB) in May 2026.​

Read more: Burkina Faso asserts financial independence from the West with mineral-backed sovereign fund​

Financed by surpluses generated when international mineral prices rise above the state-set benchmark, the FSMIB is not for easing short-term budgetary pressures. It is ring-fenced for long-term strategic infrastructural and industrial projects to reduce the need for external funding, on which such projects have historically depended.​

The mining reforms have not only reorganized the distribution of mining proceeds away from foreign extraction toward national economic development, but have also helped to massively increase production itself.  The 94-ton annual output in 2025 is the highest ever recorded in Burkina Faso – a nearly 47% increase from the 64 tons in 2024.​

Formalization of artisanal mining – a game changer​

Critical for this rise was the formalization of artisanal mining. In the absence of state procurement infrastructure, artisanal miners have historically sold the gold they mined to smugglers who paid the international spot price in cash. Tons of gold were thus extracted from Burkina Faso every year with no paper trail, no taxes, and no yield to the national economy, beyond sustaining the meager livelihoods of the artisanal miners.​​

A meager quarter to less than half a ton of the gold extracted by artisanal mining annually entered the official channels overseen by the National Agency for the Supervision of Artisanal and Semi-Mechanized Mining Operations (ANEEMAS). [See: years].

​In October 2023, the government reorganized ANEEMAS into the National Society of Precious Substances (SONASP), tasking it with developing infrastructure to procure metals from artisanal miners. The annual official artisanal production rose in 2024 to 7.13 tons, a 15-fold growth over the previous year.

​When the annual gold production in 2025 reached a historic high of 94 tons, roughly 42 of those came from artisanal miners. Rising from just over seven a year ago, artisanal production was nearing the industrial mines’ output of about 52 tons by 2025, as SONASP’s procurement infrastructure expanded.

​To further help SONASP expand coverage in a concentrated manner, the government established nine new cooperatives of artisanal miners in the first half of 2026. It also delineated four mining corridors exclusively for artisanal miners, de-escalating the historic conflict between artisanal and industrial miners.

​With this state support structure in place, artisanal miners had already supplied 29 tons to SONASP this year by June 30, exceeding the 26 tons produced by industrial mines in the first half of this year. In this period, the government completed the construction of four new power plants, adding 126.4 megawatts of generating capacity to the national grid.

​Due in part to the improved power supply, the industrial mining output rose in the first half of this year by 7.25% over the first half of 2025. Official artisanal output grew by 45%.

​“We want to master everything to the last detail”​

“Comrades, producing in quantity is no longer enough. Extracting is no longer enough. Exporting our resources is no longer enough,” Mines Minister Yacouba Zabré Gouba said on September 28 at the inauguration of the country’s first gold refinery with an initial annual capacity of 164 tons.​

“The revolution we have engaged in requires that each national resource be used by the nation,” processing it across all stages of the value chain. “Our gold will no longer be used” by foreign companies “to create added value” while “our people remain in need,” he added.

​”We start with gold,” said Traoré. But there are “many other metals … in our subsurface that we want to extract,” including manganese, copper and zinc. “We want to master everything to the last detail.”

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Um total de 70% dos parlamentares mapeados pela Agência Pública como integrantes ou aliados da “Bancada das Bets” segue com mandatos no Congresso Nacional até 2030. Dos 17 nomes identificados na investigação como parlamentares que contemplaram interesses das casas de apostas ou foram aliados importantes nas articulações desse mercado, 11 foram eleitos no último domingo (4). Um deles, Romário (PL-RJ), só enfrenta nova disputa por eleitores na próxima disputa para o Senado.

A bancada, que não existe formalmente no Congresso, reúne parlamentares que atuaram em pautas relacionadas à regulamentação, tributação e expansão do mercado de apostas online.

A influência do setor não se restringia à apresentação ou votação de projetos: passava também por conversas diretas com líderes partidários, articulações para alterar propostas em tramitação e encontros com representantes e empresários do mercado, como revelado no especial Jogo Perigoso: O Brasil das Bets.

Entre os 11 parlamentares classificados como nomes de base que, direta ou indiretamente, contemplaram interesses das casas de apostas, sete foram eleitos. Luiz Philippe de Orleans e Bragança, foi reeleito pelo PL em São Paulo. Kim Kataguiri, que mudou do União Brasil para o Missão, também conquistou uma vaga pelo estado. Em Minas Gerais, Weliton Prado foi reeleito pelo PSD com 129.366 votos.

Na Bahia, Adolfo Viana (PSDB) foi reeleito com 119.865 votos e João Bacelar (PL), com 107.232. O outro Bacelar da lista, João Carlos Bacelar Batista, concorreu pelo PV e ficou de fora dos vitoriosos, mesmo obtendo 102.654 votos. Em Roraima, Gabriel Mota (União-RR), conquistou vaga com 10.195 votos. Na Paraíba, Cabo Gilberto Silva (PL) e Hugo Motta (Republicanos), presidente da Câmara, também foram reeleitos.

Dos seis parlamentares identificados pela Pública como “líderes da Bancada das Bets”, além de Motta, outros três foram eleitos: Doutor Luizinho (PP-RJ), Isnaldo Bulhões (MDB-AL) e Felipe Carreras (PSB-PE), que renovaram seus mandatos na Câmara.

Seguem no Congresso

A atuação dos quatro foi destacada em diferentes momentos da investigação. Luizinho e Bulhões foram identificados como articuladores de iniciativas para impedir aumento da tributação das apostas. A dupla também participou das articulações que retiraram a Cide-bets, contribuição de 15% prevista no debate do PL Antifacção, do texto aprovado pela Câmara. Felipe Carreras, por sua vez, foi descrito por interlocutores ouvidos pela reportagem como um dos principais nomes procurados pelo setor, enquanto Hugo Motta foi citado nas negociações que levaram à retirada da Cide-bets.

Dois dos principais nomes ligados às casas de apostas online, no entanto, ficaram pelo caminho. Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI), que disputou a reeleição ao Senado, terminou em terceiro lugar, com 24,68% dos votos, atrás de Marcelo Castro (MDB) e Júlio César (PSD). O mesmo ocorreu com Ângelo Coronel (Republicanos-BA), que teve 2.898.885 votos, 20,11% dos válidos, e ficou atrás de Rui Costa e Jaques Wagner, ambos do PT baiano.

Além dos dois, três nomes da Bancada das Bets não chegaram a tentar uma renovação de mandato: Jorge Kajuru (PSB-GO), e Irajá (PSD-TO) ficaram fora das urnas e encerram o mandato nos próximos meses.

Saem do Congresso

Correndo por fora

Nomes importantes dos bastidores da costura desse setor na Câmara, que não compunham diretamente a bancada, mas influenciam nas suas conquistas também tiveram desempenho irregular no pleito de 2026. Arthur Lira (PP-AL) deixou a Câmara depois de mais de uma década e conquistou uma das duas vagas de Alagoas no Senado, com 946.970 votos, 28,87% dos válidos. Rogério Carvalho (PT-SE) foi reeleito senador por Sergipe, com 509.608 votos.

Enquanto isso, Efraim Filho tentou, sem sucesso, a cadeira do governo da Paraíba pelo PL. Já Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP) não chegou a ir às urnas, uma vez que seu mandato no Senado segue até 2030.

Outro lado

À época da publicação da reportagem sobre a Bancada das Bets, procurado pela Pública, Doutor Luizinho afirmou ser contrário aos aumentos de impostos e à extinção das plataformas de apostas online e negou ter recebido qualquer contrapartida de empresas do setor. Felipe Carreras defendeu a regulamentação e a arrecadação sobre as apostas, além da legalização de cassinos, e negou as acusações de que atuaria em favor de empresas do setor. Arthur Lira disse que, enquanto presidente da Câmara, manteve interlocução institucional com diferentes setores sobre a regulamentação das bets e que atuou no exercício regular de suas funções, sem vínculo particular com plataformas de apostas.

Rogério Carvalho, por sua vez, rejeitou a associação com interesses das casas de apostas e afirmou que seu histórico legislativo demonstra atuação em favor da regulamentação e do controle do setor. Ângelo Coronel disse continuar favorável às apostas legalizadas e defendeu a regulamentação como forma de arrecadar recursos para o tratamento de pessoas com problemas relacionados ao jogo. Os demais parlamentares não se manifestaram sobre o assunto.

by Carlo Domenico Cristofori

VERSIONE IN ITALIANO

We are approaching the anniversary of one of Mossad’s most meticulously organized plots: the October 7, 2023 attack on Israelis along the Gaza Strip border, carried out with the complicity of Hamas mercenary terrorists directed by Israel. We wrote about many investigations that we summarizez below…

According to intelligence experts, there is an intensifying risk of new false-flag operations such that terrorist operation aimed at legitimizing plans to depopulate the Gaza Strip; these plans have now extended to the West Bank and Lebanon, in line with the insane “Greater Israel” project of Israeli Zionist regime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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That is why serious consideration should be given to the CIA analysts and Iranian politicians who suggest that two suspected terrorist attacks—the one at the Royal Air Force base at Fairford and the incident involving the FlyDubai flight—were FALSE-FLAGE actions.

Let us start with a premise: for the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli Mossad, organizing actual terrorist attacks is easier than staging a “Hollywood-style production”—which is what many inexperienced bloggers believe the scuffle on the UAE flight was.

In fact, planning a terrorist plot requires only a few skilled secret agents and a handful of expendable victims, whereas a video production requires dozens of extras who are difficult to blackmail and control.

The Awful “Masterpieces” of False-Flag: from JFK Assasination to WTC Attacks

A “false flag” operation is one carefully premeditated over a long period by a foreign intelligence entity to implicate an enemy nation and discredit it in the eyes of global public opinion.

It is planned down to the finest detail, carrying the risk of causing actual casualties.

In fact, if unforeseen “collateral damage”—such as unexpected deaths beyond the planned injuries or killings—occurs during the operation, the orchestrators are even more pleased, as the resulting bloodshed lends greater credibility to the terrorist attack.

Historically, the CIA (US counter-intelligence) and Mossad (Israeli counter-intelligence) have been recognized masters of such plots, occasionally utilizing partners such as the secret services of other nations or terrorist groups.

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In many of these false flag operations, the recruited and trained perpetrators may be suicide attackers, as was the case with the September 11, 2001 attacks.

In other instances, they may be secret agents unaware that they have been marked for death—as happened to Lee Harvey Oswald regarding his involvement in the fatal assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, where other snipers fired the lethal shots.

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October, 7, 2023: the Biggest MOSSAD’s Plot

Now, we are approaching the anniversary of one of Mossad’s most meticulously organized plots: the October 7, 2023 attack on Israelis along the Gaza Strip border, carried out with the complicity of Hamas mercenary terrorists directed by Israel.

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“The revelation by the daily newspaper *Haaretz* regarding the October 7 massacre is making headlines worldwide and shaking Israel, which is caught between the war in the Gulf and the challenge of next month’s elections”—this is the report from RAI’s mainstream news service, which overlooks the investigations into the matter that were suppressed immediately after the 2023 attack…

“UAE leader Mohammed bin Zayed warned Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call that Hamas was preparing a major military operation in Gaza, but the Prime Minister did not inform intelligence or military officials.”

In a single day, 859 Israeli civilians, 278 soldiers, and 57 law enforcement officers were killed in towns, kibbutzim, and military bases surrounding the Gaza Strip. Hamas militants also attacked a music festival—the Nova festival—attended by approximately 3,000 young people, killing 364 participants and abducting 44. By the end of the attack, 251 people, including about 30 children, had been abducted and taken as hostages into the Strip.

Subsequent investigations—which were never adequately pursued by the Israeli judiciary due to opposition from the Zionist regime of Benjamin Netanyahu (who is on trial for corruption and other offenses)—have highlighted three pieces of unequivocal evidence regarding the plot:

UPDATED: Israel ADMITS that its Helicopters Opened Fire Killing Israeli Civilians during Hamas Attack On 7 October

• intelligence sources from Israel and Saudi Arabia warned Netanyahu, as well as Israel’s domestic intelligence agency (Shin Bet) and foreign intelligence agency (Mossad), about the imminent attack;
• survivors stated that Israel Defense Forces helicopters fired upon fleeing Israelis, significantly increasing the death toll;
• the Israeli government delayed for months by refusing to negotiate with Hamas for the release of hostages, indirectly causing the deaths of 85 of them, while 168 were eventually released after a long and traumatic captivity.

In the eyes of many Israelis, all of this legitimized Netanyahu’s plan for the depopulation of Gaza—a plan devised many months prior to the Hamas attack.

Carlo Domenico Cristofori

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O tempo é uma das ferramentas mais poderosas de perspectiva. Em apenas um segundo, as plataformas de apostas online ganharam mais dinheiro do que 33 milhões de brasileiros fizeram em um mês no ano passado. Literalmente. Por cada segundo de 2025, as famílias brasileiras perderam para as bets R$ 1.982, mais do que o salário mínimo atual, de R$ 1.621 – uma realidade, por exemplo, de três a cada cinco trabalhadores no Maranhão. 

Os dados são do Comitê Nacional de Secretários de Fazenda dos Estados e do Distrito Federal (Comsefaz), que, em agosto deste ano, estimou o esvaziamento do orçamento das famílias em R$ 62,5 bilhões em 2025 – um mercado cuja hora de “trabalho” ficou acima dos R$ 7 milhões. Na política, é justamente o tempo que muitas vezes dita urgência, relativização ou esquecimento.

Por quase uma hora, uma mulher se mantinha encolhida em um sofá na sala do apartamento da família em Uberlândia (MG). Era 25 de setembro. Em silêncio absoluto, cortado apenas por um respiro ansiosamente pesado. O som da TV preenchia o ambiente embalando a mulher, seu marido e sua filha mais velha. Evitavam falar, talvez até se mexer. As próprias vidas em suspenso.

O relógio marcava exatamente 19h07 quando um misto de riso, lágrimas e alívio tomou conta de seu semblante. Na tela, o presidente da República assinava a Medida Provisória (MP) 1.394/25, que proibia não apenas a propaganda, mas o funcionamento das plataformas de apostas em todo o território nacional. 

Ao longo dos sete minutos seguintes, viu Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, com quem havia se encontrado dias antes em Brasília, endossar o discurso que ela ajudou a popularizar, ao comparar a jogatina ao crack, e classificar a ludopatia por jogos online como um risco ainda mais invasivo. “O país trouxe o jogo para dentro de casa. O cassino está na sala, o cassino está na cozinha”, disse antes de citá-la “eu conversei com a ‘mãe que perdeu o filho de 26 anos’”. E ela sorriu, sem se incomodar com a alcunha.

“Foi uma sensação de dever cumprido”, resumiu a professora Vânia Borges do Amaral, de 54 anos, emocionada, ao ver sentido em compartilhar o luto de seu filho, Rafael Borges do Amaral, que tirou a própria vida após perder todas as economias acumuladas para as bets. É o mais recente marco na linha do tempo interrompida pela última aposta que o rapaz fez, à 1h48 de 23 de março de 2024 – um novo capítulo de sua história, agora provido de sentido.

A MP das bets determinou o fim da oferta dos jogos online, tanto em ambientes físicos quanto virtuais, abrangendo concessões federais e estaduais. Loterias tradicionais não foram atingidas pela mudança. Na prática, os sites e aplicativos das empresas devem ser retirados do ar nesta terça-feira (6) e as publicidades, mesmo em outdoors e outros meios físicos devem ser removidos. As multas pelo descumprimento da regra podem chegar a R$ 2 bilhões.

Não há previsão de indenização para as empresas detentoras das 85 outorgas para explorar a atividade legalmente desde 2023 no país. Cada outorga custou cerca de R$ 30 milhões, o que significa um investimento de R$ 2,55 bilhões por parte das companhias para ofertar plataformas reguladas no Brasil – valor quase 25 vezes inferior ao montante gasto pelas famílias em bets apenas em 2025. Estudo da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) estima que as plataformas retiraram R$ 141 bilhões do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) nacional, enquanto renderam R$ 9,9 bilhões em tributos em contrapartida.

“Eu não imaginava que chegaria a esse ponto, porque quando eu comecei essa luta, eu fui recebida com muito descaso. Primeiro pela Polícia Civil, depois pelo Ministério Público. Eu dei entrada, mas tudo foi demorando tanto… e eu sempre buscando uma resposta que nunca vinha. Eu vi ser instaurada a CPI das Bets e acabar naquela farra. Me gerou muita frustração, muita tristeza. Eu tive a impressão de estar abandonada”, pontuou Vânia sobre testemunhar a proibição, com a qual vinha sonhando há meses. “Eu me senti ouvida”, resumiu.

A história de Vânia e Rafael foi apresentada originalmente pela Agência Pública, que identificou uma carta que ela enviou ao Senado durante a CPI das Bets, em que narra a tragédia familiar. Os impactos da reportagem noticiados até fora do Brasil fizeram parte do especial Jogo Perigoso: O Brasil das Bets, publicado entre maio e julho de 2026 e incluíram dois projetos de lei protocolados na Câmara dos Deputados e o convite da presidência da República para que ela fosse ouvida sobre sua experiência familiar com as apostas online.

A MP 1.394 deve ser apreciada no Congresso Nacional dentro de 120 dias. Enquanto isso, o cronograma previsto na publicação se impõe para as empresas – e para um a cada três brasileiros que faziam apostas regulares nas plataformas. Às 23h59 desta segunda-feira (5), se encerra o prazo para que apostadores retirem os saldos mantidos em suas contas em todos os sites de bets, que saem do ar à meia-noite. Ainda não há certeza se o fim das apostas online será definitivo ou temporário. O futuro, mais uma vez, o tempo há de dizer.

Clandestinidade e Justiça: os desafios além da canetada

Mais de mil plataformas ilegais foram detectadas desde o dia 21 de setembro pela plataforma bet legal, a partir do momento em que a possibilidade de proibição das bets formais ganhou força na imprensa – mais de 700 desde a assinatura da MP 1.394. Mas o campo da ilegalidade, que até então movimentava metade da fatia financeira desse mercado no Brasil, não é o único grande entrave para uma realidade sem apostas online no país.

No Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) uma grande frente de defesa da atividade de apostas online se formou rapidamente após a proibição das bets pelo governo federal. A Associação Nacional de Jogos e Loterias (CNJL) e o Instituto Brasileiro de Jogo Responsável (IBJR), que representam a maioria das empresas que detinham 85 concessões legais para operar no Brasil, entraram com pedido de suspensão da medida ainda no dia 28 de setembro. Dois dias depois, a Associação de Emissoras de Rádio e Televisão (Abert) fez o mesmo, alegando entre os argumentos “perdas de receita”. 

As associações receberam um reforço massivo. Ao menos 20 clubes de futebol entraram unidos para tentar influenciar a decisão do STF. Flamengo e Botafogo pediram para integrar o processo como amicus curiae, uma espécie de consultoria para auxiliar as decisões da Corte com informações e perspectivas a serem consideradas, o que, no caso do Flamengo, já foi aceito. 

São Paulo, Guarani, Ponte Preta, Portuguesa e Vitória, por sua vez, pedem um prazo de transição de pelo menos um ano para que a suspensão tenha validade em território nacional, citando a possibilidade de inviabilidade da continuação do Campeonato Brasileiro – cujo nome oficial após acordo de naming rights atualmente é “Brasileirão Betano”, em menção a uma das maiores plataformas de apostas online até então em atividade, o que foi deixado de fora da peça judicial. 

Por fim, em outro processo, América, Athletic Club, Atletico Goianiense, Botafogo, Ceará, Chapeconse, Criciúma, CRB, Cruzeiro, Fluminense, Goiás, Juventude, Mirassol, Grêmio e Vila Nova pedem para que a suspensão da MP requerida pelas associações seja deferida e também solicitam que sejam ouvidos no processo. Os clubes brasileiros já haviam emitido publicação conjunta antes da publicação da MP decretando o possível “fim do futebol” em caso de proibição das apostas online.

Segundo levantamento da Bites publicado por O Globo, a publicação conjunta dos clubes provocou uma rejeição de cerca de 90% do público, incluindo de seus torcedores. De acordo com a CNN, os patrocínios dos clubes da Série A variam de R$ 12 milhões a R$ 268,5 milhões. À luz da polêmica, o Senado Federal abriu consulta popular em seu site e até o início desta segunda-feira, 85% dos votantes concordavam com a MP (481 mil votos contra 80,6 mil).

A judicialização do caso das bets está sob relatoria do ministro do STF Luiz Fux, que já tratava do Marco Regulatório das Apostas de Quota Fixa. Por isso, as ações diretas de inconstitucionalidade movidas pelas partes interessadas na volta das bets coube ao magistrado. Caberá a ele não apenas julgar a MP, mas também se havia urgência suficiente para que uma medida provisória fosse editada, já que há prazos e cenários previstos em lei para o uso desse tipo de recurso. No sábado (3), o magistrado deu um prazo de 72 horas para que o governo federal justifique a necessidade da MP.

O ministro Luiz Fux já tem um histórico de posicionamentos quanto às questões dos jogos. Foi ele, por exemplo, que, em dezembro de 2025, mandou suspender parte da norma do Ministério da Fazenda que proibia que beneficiários do Bolsa Família apostassem nas plataformas das bets – o que apenas posteriormente foi confirmado para todos os benefícios sociais. Por outro lado, em agosto deste ano, também foi o ministro que votou para manter os demais jogos de azar como contravenção penal, como a legislação prevê com base em texto legal de 1941 – na ocasião, inclusive, correlacionando as perdas nesses jogos a episódios recorrentes de violência doméstica.

Em uma frente contrária à tentativa de intervenção judicial, que só deve entrar na pauta do Congresso Nacional após o período eleitoral, deve entrar em pauta o Projeto de Lei 5.477/26, proposta pelo governo federal logo após a publicação da medida provisória. O PL criminaliza as atividades de apostas online prevendo multa e de 2 a 4 anos de reclusão para divulgação, oferta de meios de pagamento, captação de usuários e até o desenvolvimento de aplicativos para as bets, além de 4 a 6 anos de reclusão para quem de fato explore as apostas de quota fixa no país. 

As penas ainda podem ser agravadas em caso de uso por crianças e adolescentes ou quando o usuário conseguir burlar mecanismos de verificação de idade ou localização. O projeto será avaliado na Câmara e tem que passar pelo Senado antes de ser sancionado.

“Naquela mesa tá faltando ele”

“Você tá ganhando quanto para fazer tudo isso?”, perguntou uma colega à professora Vânia Borges do Amaral, na semana da publicação da medida provisória que suspendeu as bets. A pergunta foi recebida como uma pancada. “Eu defendo uma causa”, conseguiu responder, sem se alongar. 

“Uma colega bolsonarista, né?”, diz Vânia em entrevista à Pública. “Acho que ficou ofendida porque Lula subiu nas pesquisas depois disso [anúncio da MP]”, brinca, ainda magoada. Questionada se não se incomodava em estar sendo usada politicamente, já que sua história foi parar até no guia eleitoral do presidente petista, é categórica: “Eu provavelmente faria o mesmo. Mas tenho confiança de que ele vai ser coerente [e continuar lutando pela proibição]”. O petista avançou para o segundo turno das eleições, marcado para 25 de outubro, em busca de um quarto mandato frente à Presidência da República. 

Para lidar com as culpabilizações e ataques nas redes sociais que passou a sofrer desde que sua história ficou conhecida no Brasil e fora dele – e foram muitos –, Vânia teve que reaprender a lógica da audição seletiva, agora do outro lado da equação. Ao longo de três décadas de ensino, a professora enfrentou greves nas redes municipal e estadual de ensino, em Uberlândia, e, longe do papel de protagonismo, convivia com ganhos eventuais e uma tradicional surdez de agentes políticos. Não ser “ouvida” não seria exatamente uma novidade. Colher frutos em escala nacional, isso sim, foge de qualquer histórico.

“A gente nota a diferença, né? Mais confiante, mais positiva…”, comenta a filha, a nutricionista Aline Borges Amaral, 33. “Repercutiu muito a história da minha mãe, então a luta dela não está sendo em vão. Fico muito feliz de ver ela indo à luta, procurando, não abaixando a cabeça, porque a gente sabe que não vai ser fácil essa medida se tornar definitiva”, pontua. A segunda filha, Amanda Borges Amaral, 31, completa: “A Vânia que a gente conhece desde criança é extremamente protetora, não foge de nada e direciona, abre caminhos. E depois de tudo que aconteceu, ela foi perdendo a vontade de viver. E ela foi se recuperando, né?”

As duas irmãs de Rafael fazem aniversário no dia 23 de março, o mesmo dia em que ele faleceu. E esse é um lembrete que não passa batido na longa lista de perdas que a família contabiliza desde 2024. 

Rafael, segundo a família, não deixou dívidas para os parentes. O caçula vendeu uma moto de R$ 8 mil, se desfez de todas as economias e, nos seus últimos meses, saiu de casa para fugir das tentativas da mãe de salvá-lo, o que incluíam alertas e cobranças recorrentes, “chatices” daquelas que todo jovem rejeita por “saber mais que os pais”. Vânia insistiu o quanto pôde, conjugando todas as vozes e tempos de quem é mãe.

E fez-se verbo

A professora Vânia é formada em direito e advogou por muitos anos, antes de se dedicar a ensinar português. A luta que encampa vai além da proibição do setor. “Eu tenho provas concretas do porquê Rafael fez isso, tenho gravação, áudio, testemunha, cópias de email, tenho tudo que comprova que ele cometeu suicídio por causa das bets, eu não vou deixar isso assim. Quero que quem provocou essa morte seja responsabilizado”, pontua, devagar, com a calma de quem se acostumou a esperar. 

Ela lembra que muitos enriqueceram com o lucrativo negócio que a fez perder o filho, de políticos a influenciadores. “Isso tudo foi construído à custa do sangue de muito inocente”, conclui, a professora e advogada, que promete brigar para levar o caso à esfera criminal e buscar reparação cível pelos danos causados à sua família, uma realidade que os números provam que passam longe de isolada. 

O Ministério da Saúde reconhece um crescimento dos atendimentos relacionados a jogo patológico da ordem de 140% entre 2018 e 2025 e estimava que a marca seguisse crescendo mais 104% até 2028, caso a proibição não fosse feita. Segundo o Instituto de Estados para Política de Saúde, os custos anuais associados aos jogos são de R$ 38,8 bilhões, dos quais R$ 30,6 bilhões são apenas para gastos com saúde, incluindo suicídios e tratamentos de depressão.

Até agosto de 2026, 5 milhões de brasileiros estavam impedidos de acessar as plataformas de apostas online, 1,2 milhão por iniciativa própria na plataforma de autoexclusão, 800 mil por renegociarem dívidas no programa Desenrola, que tem uma edição 3.0 para lidar com as consequências das bets a partir da proibição, e outros 3 milhões por receberem benefícios sociais.

No horizonte da família de Vânia, há planos de transformar a luta num livro sobre a morte e vida de Rafael. “Falar sobre um caso assim poderia gerar ataques, chacotas pela situação… a gente sabia disso, porque a pessoa com vício é vista como uma pessoa fraca e não como uma pessoa doente, né?”, resume a filha Amanda. 

“A gente falou: ‘mãe, o nosso Rafael infelizmente não volta, mas existem outros Rafaéis’. Não dá pra se calar, né? É um dever com a sociedade que a gente abra a boca e que mostre o grande problema que está todo mundo vivendo e ao mesmo tempo todo mundo com vergonha, pelo julgamento”, completou.

Falar sobre o caso abriu as comportas para uma avalanche de mensagens à família com relatos diários de dificuldades semelhantes enfrentadas em lares brasileiros. Mães, parceiras, irmãs, que se inspiram na luta da professora de Uberlândia para tentar encontrar desfechos outros. E, sem querer, Vânia virou verbo: não se calar para proteger até quem nem se conhece. Vaniemos.

This story originally appeared in Panamerican Dispatch on Oct. 05, 2026, and is shared here with permission.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spoke on Sunday, after the release of the results of the first round of the 2026 elections. He said his campaign for a second round of the presidential race begins this Monday, October 5.

Lula will face Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the runoff, scheduled for October 25.

In his speech, Lula stated that he intends to present to voters the differences between the two candidates’ platforms.

“Starting tomorrow, we begin a new campaign,” he said. “We will be able to show the difference between the proposals that exist for Brazil. The Brazilian people will have no doubt about choosing who will win the election.”

Lula also launched direct attacks on Flávio Bolsonaro’s political track record and cited the candidate’s past.

“He has a dark history,” Lula said. “With dark connections, with extremely serious suspicions, with ties to militia members and organized crime. All of this will become clear.”

The president mentioned Banco Master. He claimed that Flávio had a hand in the institution’s creation.

“Banco Master resulted in the greatest corruption scandal in this country and the biggest free-for-all involving politicians,” he said.

The accusations raised by Lula are part of his runoff campaign rhetoric and are expected to be a key point of contention between the two candidates in the coming weeks.

The president also argued that the race should be framed as a choice over the country’s future. He stated that his candidacy represents an opportunity to drive change in the Brazilian economy.

“We will show what has been done and what society expects to be done,” he said. “No one is better positioned than us to offer a future to Brazilian society.”

Lula further stated that Brazil needs to take a “qualitative leap” to become internationally competitive.

“I’m very good at the knockout stage”

Commenting on the first-round results, Lula referred to the fact that he had won the second Rond vote in previous presidential elections.

“It didn’t work out [this time],” he said. “You know why? Because the people like seeing me compete in the runoff.”

In a lighthearted tone, he added, “I’m very good at the knockout stage.”

The runoff will be a head-to-head contest between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, after neither candidate secured more than 50% of the valid votes in the first round. The vote will take place on October 25.

“More than 20 million people didn’t turn out to vote,” he said. “We are going to make an appeal: at this historic moment for Brazil. Voting is essential to determine the country’s future.”

“Bolsonaro supporters had better get ready,” he said. “Because we are going to defeat them.”

You can watch Lula’s speech below.

This article was originally published by Revista Forum. You can read the original in Portuguese, here.

Par Vincent Clairmont

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Reprenons depuis le texte, parce que la confusion est générale et qu'elle coûte du rendement à beaucoup de lecteurs. Et commençons par traduire les quatre sigles qui encombrent ce sujet, car on ne peut pas raisonner sur ce qu'on ne nomme pas.

Un T-bill, ou Treasury bill, est un bon du Trésor américain de moins d'un an. C'est l'équivalent de nos bons du Trésor à taux fixe : une reconnaissance de dette de l'État fédéral, sans coupon, achetée en dessous de sa valeur de remboursement.

Un ETF, ou exchange-traded fund, est un fonds indiciel coté en Bourse : un panier de titres qu'on achète et vend d'un clic, comme une action.

UCITS — en français OPCVM, organisme de placement collectif en valeurs mobilières — est la norme européenne des fonds destinés au grand public. Un fonds qui porte ce label est agréé pour être vendu à un particulier dans toute l'Union. Un fonds américain ne porte pas ce label, et ne peut donc pas vous être vendu ici.

PRIIPS, enfin, est le règlement européen qui organise cette fermeture. Il impose à tout « produit d'investissement packagé destiné aux particuliers » de remettre à l'acheteur, avant la vente, une notice standardisée de quelques pages dite document d'information clé. Les fonds américains n'en produisent pas, parce qu'aucune loi américaine ne les y oblige. C'est pour cette raison, et pour celle-là seule, que les grands fonds de bons du Trésor cotés à New York — SGOV, BIL, SHV — sont inaccessibles depuis un compte européen. Le blocage est réel, il est documenté, et il explique très probablement ce qu'Olivier a rencontré.

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Voilà le point qui change tout : un bon du Trésor n'est pas un produit packagé. C'est un titre de créance émis directement par un État, au même titre qu'une obligation assimilable du Trésor française ou qu'un Bund allemand. Il n'y a rien à emballer, donc rien à documenter, donc aucune notice à fournir. Le règlement ne s'y applique pas, et aucune interdiction ne pèse sur son achat par un résident français.

La distinction tient en une phrase : le règlement encadre l'emballage, pas le titre qui se trouve dedans. Olivier a pris la fermeture de l'emballage pour une interdiction du contenu.

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‘End Times Fascism: “We have to find our places of love and fight like hell”. ~ Naomi Klein

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Most meaningful conversations questioning what drives the malign forces controlling our planet, do not examine the degree to which political, military and religious leadership has chosen to turn to Satanic forces [or satanic strategies] in their craving for absolute power, prestige and wealth.

After saturation of the ‘official’ version of the events of 9/11 carried by mainstream media to commemorate the 25^th anniversary of the destruction of the twin towers, one can testify to the extent of the globally coordinated grand deception that was put together to try to befool us into accepting the mainstream reporting of this event.  

What becomes increasingly clear is the degree to which the majority of the population are prepared to live the lie – and that this lie covers the full spectrum of mechanisms governing our daily lives: 21^st century civilisation.  

For those who know the truth, this anniversary day each year serves as a reminder that the official lie still stands because the masses choose to live in denial and the traitor perpetrators who carried out these false flag events have not been brought to justice; pathetic.

For those just learning the truth, the events on this day show government complicity in a self inflicted deadly false flag attack on its own people, and should spark you to question all government actions and narratives.

For both, the status of the narrative lie, is and will continue to be, a barometer showing the current state of the nation. ~ Dylan Eleven | Truth11.com

What do I mean by this?

I mean, that the deception that underlies the ‘official version’ of 9/11 events and the subsequent inception of ‘the war on terror’, penetrates all aspects of contemporary top down governance and therefore colours every aspect of our lives. And since life is a dynamic event, nothing remains static. So unless a wave of consciousness raises our awareness and enables us to seriously influence the status quo, everything gets worse.    

This calculated life distortion incorporates a paranormal level. A Masonic activation.   

To illustrate the point, two aspects of 9/11 provide the irrefutable evidence of the grand deception built into the event and the way it was reported. 

Firstly we witnessed live coverage of a BBC announcer describing the collapse of the third building while it is plainly visible, untouched in the background, as seen through the glass window of the studio. The news reader simply got out of sink with her script and the not yet detonated third building was still standing, unscathed, as she announced its collapse.    

The second example – and there are many more others will remember – is that the towers came down in just 7 seconds. Expert engineers testified that this could only be achieved by a professionally executed controlled demolition. 

The macabre series of events of 11 September (11 = twin towers) 2001 extend into every aspect of the genocide. Film crews were perfectly in place to record what looks to be a plane flying into the second tower. [Or playing a part as no planes hit any tower on that day] I remember the calm voice of the BBC newsreader announcing “And now we see a plane is hitting the second tower”. 

All this has strongly occult overtones. The event was, I believe, prepared and performed with the aid of paranormal forces working in tandem with a Masonic priesthood, made up of those in high positions of government and the military. [Or simply following satanic strategies that do not take into consideration life and liberty]

George Bush’s completely unperturbed ‘non reaction’ on receiving the news while addressing a group of school children, reveals a key piece of evidence concerning the role played by non sentient, psychopathic individuals within the masterminding of such incidences.

Demons are real. Very real. They are not human, but can be induced to enter humans via high ritual Masonic practices and other such enticements of Satanic forces in secretive centres of dark worship. [They may be real and/or it could also be that these people are just evil]

Masons have access to a huge number of ‘lodges’ particularly in North America and Europe. They appear, on the surface, to be benign, even socially engaged, establishments. Many participants of the lower order have no idea what goes on at the top and strongly deny any wrong doing.

Now enlarge that general level of ignorance into the workings of society as a whole and you will see that this is how the majority see those who imprison them, politically, militarily and psychologically. It’s the same theater in both cases.

‘The war on terror’ announced by George Bush in the aftermath of 9/11 should more aptly be named ‘the war of terror’, for that is how the ‘elite’/occult partnership achieves its ambitions. Everything is turned into an inversion of its true self, spreading fear as the underlying emotional factor.

Witness how Saddam Hussein was falsely accused of being in direct possession of weapons of mass destruction when in reality there were no such weapons and much of his reign involved supporting his people in food and water restoration projects, not posing any direct threat to the West.

Witness how Russia was turned into the chief villain of our times by fabricated stories of its hegemonic interests and then the deliberate taunting by NATO, overtly breaking its stated pledge to never move further East that the line of the Berlin wall.

Witness the World Health Organisation declaring a global pandemic and mass lockdown on zero empirical evidence of a deadly ‘corona virus’. 

Caste your mind back to the Netanyahu decree that only the obliteration of Gaza and the eradication of the Palestinian people would atone for the break-out and resulting killings of October 7^th 2023. Recall that Netanyahu declared ‘it is God’s will’ for such a vast genocide of innocent men, women and children to be perpetrated.

Witness how Trump’s plans to create peace in Gaza, turned out to be plans to turn it into a property development racket with not a Palestinian in site.

These examples are just the tip of the iceberg of recent overt reversals of our innate human aspiration for justice, peace and love – proclaiming instead the complete inversion of these, including the inversion of the pursuit of truth.

Most meaningful conversations questioning what drives the malign forces controlling our planet, do not examine the degree to which political, military and religious ‘leadership’ has chosen to turn to Satanic forces [or strategies] in their craving for absolute power, prestige and wealth.

The cowardly and completely irrational ‘fear of Israel’ which – amongst other things – causes no  serious action to be taken by wealthy Western nations to block the radical Zionist inspired bloodbath of Gaza and the forced evacuation of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank, is an expression of how far a subconscious acceptance of evil has penetrated political institutions, banking, military and technocratic state authorities. Ultimately finding its way into the feeble minds of ordinary citizens.

There is a reluctance of many ‘down the rabbit hole’ activists to see that the transhuman ideal promoted by the World Economic Forum (Yuval Noah Harari) and the recent explosion of AI robotics have their source in the same anti life cult that conceived and executed the 9/11 monster.

Here one has to be open to recognising the existence of an otherworldly dimension of inverted and twisted values that are used to deliberately distort the wave patterns of natural human communication and then present the distorted outcomes as ‘the reality’. To the extent that society as a whole now operates according to a fake version of what we term ‘real’ or ‘true life’.

The New World Order, Great Reset, Agenda 2030, Net Zero agendas are all based upon a collaboration with these same other dimensional, sycophantic, insentient, anti-life entities.

A negative energy which has been explicitly invited to operate through the medium of individual earthbound humans. Those who call upon such entities to give them power over sentient, empathetic members of the human race, and to thereby control the destiny of the planet.

The great majority of mankind has utterly failed to recognise and counteract this highly destructive practice. That is why things are as bad as they are. 

Since Donald Trump became president of the United States we have become accustomed to witnessing the resulting megalomania at first hand. Trump’s pick of hard nosed, ruthless billionaires  given executive positions in his cabinet, has pushed such megalomania ever further into our midst.

This is not to ignore Elon Musk’s claim to rule the world along with Bill Gates, Black Rock, the City of London and that clique of Silicon Valley super egos who coolly create their toxic soup of binary digital abstractions and seductively smart ‘bots’.

None of this expresses Life, in the genuinely human understanding of this word. It is an imposed Matrix devised by sub human entities devoid of an emotional flow and with hearts of stone. 

We sentient, warm empathetic humans are the last true representatives of the life gifted us by a benign universal power. We chose to nurture our powers of discernment, responsibility and love and not to sell our souls to the materialistic/hedonistic enticements on sale in every corner of the world.

We are therefore keepers of an irreplaceable gift which gives us the power to fight for the redemption and expansion of the very uncorrupted and omnipotent life force which the demonic entities wish to drive into extinction and replace on this planet with soulless tech-infused human replicas: ‘transhumans’.

They worship advanced technology as their god, their master. [Because they think it can help them achieve their technocratic society] It is the weapon of choice for the take-over of our living, breathing, radiant planet. We sentient empathetic humans are its one line of resistance. They know our powers are greater than theirs, but count on convincing us that this is not the case. [Good people also outnumber evil]

Their most dangerous weapon is the perpetual ‘provocation of fear’, followed by the enticement of humans into a seductive and energy sapping fascination/addiction to convenience and comfort: ‘Smart Syndrome’ as symbolised by the all singing dancing Smart Phone.  Just consider how much easier it has made ‘getting on with life as usual’ in the status quo.

The combination of these has proved a near lethal cocktail for check-mating the dynamic of human evolution.

But here we are, and everyday we are made increasingly aware of the existence of a self imposed and externally imposed dilemma – as well as of our latent power to exercise a dynamic that puts us back in touch with our universal spiritual origins and upwardly rising evolutionary instincts, of which love and deep respect for life are paramount.

We are the red line beyond which the vampiric stealers of our energy will not pass. Be fully prepared to stand firm and to be the vanguard of the new resistance. This is our prerogative, our responsibility, our imperative – and by acting together, we can be confident of a great victory.

Naomi Klein put it very simply in a recent interview about her and Astra Taylor’s latest book ‘End Times Fascism: “We have to find our places of love and fight like hell”.

I call on all of us to join the resistance – because its nothing less than a fight to save the glorious, multifarious and vibrant expressions of Life on Earth. 

This struggle for Life is what defines humanity from inhumanity and always will. Let no one stand passively on the sidelines while evolution itself is being put into reverse.

Source: https://www.truth11.com/9-11-2001/ [Quote added by Truth11.com editor]

Original Article: https://www.globalresearch.ca/resisting-rise-masonic-world-order/5942609

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Canicules et incendies ont coûté 80 millions d’euros à la SNCF en juillet et août 2026, portant la facture à 180 millions depuis janvier. Pour faire face aux perturbations, l’entreprise a distribué à ses clients 1,5 million de bouteilles d’eau, 168 000 paniers-repas et financé des milliers de nuits d’hôtel et de trajets en taxi. La SNCF chiffre ses dégâts, et le voyageur paiera.

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Les perturbations ont entraîné suppressions de trains, retards et prises en charge de voyageurs. La SNCF comptabilise ainsi 19 300 nuits d’hôtel, 6 800 taxis, 168 000 paniers-repas et 1,5 million de bouteilles d’eau distribuées aux passagers.

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Face à cette situation, la SNCF annonce des travaux de renforcement des voies et des interventions sur les systèmes de climatisation avant l’été 2027. La difficulté n’est pas seulement technique. Elle est financière et institutionnelle. Les voyageurs paient leurs billets, les contribuables financent une partie considérable de l’écosystème ferroviaire, tandis que les dirigeants doivent désormais justifier une facture de 180 millions d’euros en moins d’une année.

L'annonce d'un renforcement des voies et des climatisations avant l'été 2027 appelle deux questions que personne n'a posées. Combien coûtera ce programme ? Qui le financera ? Aucun chiffre n'accompagne la promesse. Tant que ceux qui décident ne supportent pas le coût de leurs choix, la prochaine canicule produira le même résultat : des taxis, des hôtels et des bouteilles d'eau.

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Il Ministero degli Esteri russo ha confermato che la ripresa dei voli diretti verso Cuba rimane una priorità nell'agenda bilaterale. La conferma è giunta da Alexander Shchetinin, Direttore del Dipartimento per l'America Latina del Ministero degli Esteri russo.

Il funzionario ha sottolineato che la riattivazione dei collegamenti aerei dipende dal ripristino delle condizioni tecniche e logistiche sull'isola; senza questo prerequisito, non è possibile riaprire le tratte.

Queste capacità sono state fortemente influenzate dall’intensificazione delle misure coercitive unilaterali promosse da Washington. L'interruzione temporanea delle rotte dirette risponde alla grave carenza di carburante per l'aviazione del Jet A-1, l'input da cui dipende ogni decollo.

?? Rusia mantiene en agenda la reanudación de los vuelos directos con Cuba, según la Cancillería rusa. El diplomático Alexandr Schetinin confirmó que evalúan las condiciones para retomar las conexiones aéreas. #teleSUR #Rusia #Cuba https://t.co/BsLn5xIEfZ

— teleSUR TV (@teleSURtv) October 5, 2026

La carenza è stata causata dalle sanzioni finanziarie ed energetiche coercitive firmate dall’amministrazione statunitense. Queste azioni mirano a ostacolare l’approvvigionamento di idrocarburi all’isola e colpiscono l’intero apparato di approvvigionamento.

L'Ufficio Nazionale di Statistica e Informazione (ONEI) ha registrato un calo del 48% negli arrivi di visitatori internazionali. Il totale si è attestato a sole 298.057 unità rispetto allo stesso periodo dell'anno precedente: una flessione che ha più che dimezzato l'afflusso di viaggiatori nel Paese.

La crisi dell'approvvigionamento energetico si è aggravata dopo che la Casa Bianca ha imposto dazi e attuato misure intimidatorie nei confronti delle compagnie di navigazione e delle aziende energetiche che forniscono petrolio all'isola. L'impatto si estende ai trasporti, alla sanità, alla produzione alimentare e all'aviazione civile.

Il blocco economico ha trasformato la carenza di carburante in un problema strutturale. L'isola dipende dalle importazioni di greggio per alimentare aeromobili, ospedali e sistemi di trasporto. Per Mosca, la ripresa dei voli richiede condizioni operative specifiche; le operazioni sono subordinate a concrete garanzie logistiche.

Il ripristino dei voli diretti tra le due capitali richiede l'implementazione di procedure sicure per il rifornimento degli aerei russi presso gli aeroporti cubani o in scali intermedi. Questa sfida operativa è al centro della cooperazione strategica bilaterale.

La possibilità di effettuare rifornimenti durante scali intermedi è tra le alternative al vaglio di entrambe le parti. L'obiettivo è garantire che gli aeromobili non dipendano da un unico punto di rifornimento.

Austrian remigration activist and CEO of the Institute for Remigration Martin Sellner stated on Sunday that a rap video circulating on Instagram calls for him to be hunted. He contrasted the clip’s availability online with restrictions he says platforms have placed on the accounts of those on the anti-immigration right.

Sellner posted the roughly 26-second clip on X. In the video, several migrant men stand in a graffiti-marked underpass under colored lights and make a number of threats and statements opposed to Germany

Mystery meat migrant rappers are calling to hunt me.

This song is not censored, while we are deplatformed everywhere.

The only thing more embarrassing than their "rap" is, that their corny radical chic is platformed by all media and indirectly funded by state money.

— Martin Sellner (@MartinSellner_) October 4, 2026

English text overlaid on the rap video includes, “Martin Sellner is in danger from today,” “We are shootin’ with AKs” and “I am hunting Martin Sellner.”

In addition, the rappers claim that “Germany has no right to exist,” 

Other on-screen text refers to streets burning and to bombs “like in Dresden ’45.” Dresden was firebombed by the Allies at the end of the Second World War, resulting in at least 25,000 German civilians losing their lives.

In response to the video, Sellner wrote: “Mystery meat migrant rappers are calling to hunt me. This song is not censored, while we are deplatformed everywhere. The only thing more embarrassing than their ‘rap’ is that their corny radical chic is platformed by all media and indirectly funded by state money.”

German criminal law treats certain public threats as offenses independent of whether they are carried out. Artistic freedom may not serve as a defense in this case when the threats are specific, directed at an individual, and describe violent acts.

Section 241 of the German criminal code related to threats penalizes threatening a person with a crime against sexual self-determination, bodily integrity, personal freedom or property of significant value. The penalty rises if the threatened act is a felony or if the threat is made publicly or by distributing content, with maximum terms reaching three years in the aggravated public cases. 

Section 126 penalizes threatening specified serious crimes, including murder, aggravated assault or certain explosives offenses, in a manner capable of disturbing the public peace, with a maximum of three years’ imprisonment.

Austrian law contains a parallel offense of dangerous threat under Section 107 of the Austrian Criminal Code when a person is menaced with death, serious injury or other grave harm in a way that is capable of causing reasonable fear.

In recent years, German public figures and politicians have brought thousands of Germans into court for various statements online that were not direct threats, but instead mere insults. In some cases, these social media users only sharply criticized these politicians. 

Sellner, 37, led the Identitarian Movement of Austria for years and has promoted large-scale returns of migrants. Most recently, he founded the Institute for Remigration. Germany and Switzerland have at times imposed entry bans on him tied to public-order concerns. Some of those measures were later limited or overturned by courts. 

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Masked attackers set fires at the doors of a Paris vocational high school Monday, confining about 100 students and staff inside, as nationwide student protests over school conditions entered another week with thousands already arrested and hundreds reported injured.

At the Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin High School in the 13th arrondissement, Principal Carole Zerbib said a group of about 10 people in hoods, masks and black clothing arrived around 7:50 a.m. as students were arriving. She told BFMTV they looked “very determined, very fast,” and that staff “immediately understood that we were not going to be able to talk with them.”

Zerbib said the group threw full trash bins and other flammable material in front of the entrance, brought a sofa and bicycles to barricade the door, smashed glass with a pair of crutches, and set fires outside using a flammable liquid. A staff member was struck in the face by a shard of glass, BFMTV reported. Firefighters and police were met with mortar fire. Courses were canceled for the day.

A video team from BFMTV recorded flames at the entrance and described staff being blocked as they tried to use an extinguisher, with the principal heard telling confined students to move up to the first floor.

BREAKING: Rioters set fire to the entrance of Vauquelin High School in Paris and blocked the exits when staff tried to put the fire out.

A film crew recorded the terrifying attempted murder.

“The school staff was unable to put out the fire. The rioters blocked them just as the extinguisher nozzle came out; they blocked the exit.”

“The fire continues. You see all the silhouettes moving behind it; they continue to feed this fire, making it stronger and stronger. The school staff is not even going to try to put it out anymore; they can’t manage it. We can hear the principal here asking the hundred confined students to step back and move up to the first floor.”

The building was full of staff, students, and journalists, but these rioters appear ready to kill anyone still inside the vocational chemistry school.

Follow: @RMXnews

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) October 5, 2026

In the video sequence, a BFMTV host stated: “The school staff was unable to put out the fire. The rioters blocked them just as the extinguisher nozzle came out; they blocked the exit.” The staff speaking from inside the building confirmed they were “under siege.”

Principal Carole Zerbib said, “It was terrible for the students and the staff, who witnessed an outburst of violence…I think we had rarely seen violence this strong in front of us.”

She said the attackers “were quite organized and had prepared their move,” and that she had been warned by students and teachers of calls on social media to burn the school. “These aren’t my students. These are groups.”

Junior Interior Minister Jean-Didier Berger, speaking on BFMTV after the fires were put out and the school evacuated, called the images “particularly shocking” and said, “These are criminal acts that fall under the law and must be repressed in the harshest way.”

Outside the damaged school, Zerbib took questions from reporters, then stopped when she saw a CNews microphone.

“Which outlet is that?” she asked. When she was told it was CNews, she said, “Oh no, I had said no.” When the journalist replied that it was the press, she said: “I don’t agree. Because I don’t agree with CNews’s editorial line. I think you don’t do any good. You don’t do any good for young people.”

BREAKING: Another major school arson attack at Blaise Pascal High School in the French city of Rouen. The entire entrance is currently in flames. School staff can only stand and watch it burn. Follow: @RMXnews https://t.co/CZ8h1aDO3U

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) October 1, 2026

She had earlier told other reporters that as long as police remained outside, “I tell myself it will be all right,” while adding it was “not impossible that they come back, since they want to strike at the symbols of the state.”

The clash came as Education Minister Édouard Geffray said classes would be fully or partly suspended Monday at 400 to 500 of France’s roughly 3,700 high schools because safety conditions were not met. He said 24 schools had been burned or ransacked since the protests spread from the Paris region in mid-September. Organizers have called a further day of action Tuesday, which student unions have labeled “act III.”

Geffray said Sunday that 78 education staff members had been injured since the unrest began, including “some of them by high schoolers.” In addition, 170 students had been hurt. He said far-left activists had “hijacked” the movement. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has said more than 5,000 people have been arrested since last Monday, about 85 percent of them minors, and that more than 300 officers and gendarmes have been injured. Police recorded 1,747 arrests on Friday alone, he told TF1.

Among the cases already opened include a 17-year-old was arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide after a police officer was beaten in Belfort, and a 16-year-old was detained Sunday over the assault of a 59-year-old teacher in La Ciotat who was struck and doused with gasoline.

In Tours, prosecutors said a young protester lost sight in one eye while battling with police.

Students and the Union syndicale lycéenne say they are protesting against reduced teaching staff, overcrowded classes, long schedules, the Parcoursup admissions system and buildings in disrepair. The government has called some of those complaints legitimate while condemning what Nuñez has described as a slide into “riot and urban violence.”

BREAKING: A French physics teacher was doused with gasoline today (Oct. 2) while trying to put out a fire students had lit near a tree in La Ciotat. The teacher was reportedly temporarily blinded, according to French news reports, when the gasoline was thrown into his eyes. Youths then began kicking the physics teacher. The main suspect was reportedly arrested. Yesterday in Marseille, youths are being investigated for attempted murder after dousing a principal and a vice-principal with gasoline during an attempted arson outside a high school administrative office. Follow: @RMXnews

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) October 2, 2026

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An MP from Germany’s Left Party posted a controversial video on Instagram over the weekend in which she uses profanity against Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump, mainstream media, and people who disagree with her.

“Fuck the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. Free the occupied lands of Palestine. Fuck the war criminals Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump. Fuck the mainstream media and anyone who disagrees with us,” said 33-year-old Cansın Köktürk, a Bundestag lawmaker from North Rhine-Westphalia and the Left Party’s social-policy spokesperson.

“It’s free Palestine until our very last breath or until Palestine is free, whichever one comes first,” she added before ending with, “Assalamu alaikum.”

During the video, she is shown walking through Bochum.

The post appeared as the Left Party, the Social Democrats and the Greens hold exploratory talks on a possible coalition in Berlin after the Sept. 20 state election.

Handling of antisemitism and Israel policy has been a point of friction in those discussions, according to reports from German newspaper Tagesspiegel. Several Left Party members of the Berlin state legislature have been associated with sharp anti-Israel positions.

Köktürk was fined €2,000 in September after repeated interruptions in the Bundestag. During a speech by Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmaker René Springer, she shouted, “That is racist shit.” After Vice President Andrea Lindholz of the Christian Social Union (CSU) called her to order, Köktürk said, “Now you are protecting the fascists.”

Lindholz issued further calls to order; the fine followed because Köktürk had accumulated three within three sitting weeks.

Köktürk later wrote on Instagram that she was resisting “the normalization of racist and misanthropic content of the AfD in the German parliament” and that “no one can intimidate me or silence me with capitalist threats of fines.” She said she was collecting the penalties “as a migrant woman” and launched a fundraiser, with proceeds directed to the rescue group Sea-Watch.

Köktürk, a social worker born in Hattingen to Turkish parents, entered the Bundestag in 2025 via the Left Party’s North Rhine-Westphalia list after earlier membership in the Greens.

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The White House is monitoring reports of a suspected plague case and related quarantine measures in Russia’s Irkutsk region and is assessing possible options, a Trump administration official said.

“The administration is aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options,” the official told Axios.

A State Department spokesperson separately said the United States is aware of reports of a fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague in Irkutsk Oblast and is tracking developments with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies. 

“Many details have not been confirmed. We encourage Russian authorities to share accurate information quickly and openly,” a spokesperson said.

The reports center on the death of 28-year-old Darya Shipilova, a laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East. Independent Russian outlet Lyudi Baikala reported that she broke a test tube containing the bacterium that causes pneumonic plague on Sept. 25. She was hospitalized in Shelekhov on Sept. 29 with severe pneumonia and died overnight between Oct. 1 and Oct. 2, according to local accounts.

Russian authorities have not confirmed that Shipilova had plague. Rospotrebnadzor, the federal public health agency, said she was diagnosed with “pneumonia of unknown etiology” and that expanded testing found no microorganisms linked to her work. The agency said a review found no laboratory accident involving pathogenic microorganisms at the institute and that the sanitary and epidemiological situation in Irkutsk, Shelekhov and the wider region remained stable.

Alexei Tsydenov, head of the neighboring republic of Buryatia, said earlier on Telegram that the woman “died, maybe of the plague,” while adding that there were no plague outbreaks in Buryatia.

After the death, authorities placed nearly 200 people who had contact with Shipilova under medical observation, with most hospitalized for monitoring, Russian media reported. Irkutsk Gov. Igor Kobzev said those under observation showed no signs of illness and that laboratory tests were negative. 

“All identified contact persons have been placed under medical observation. As of today, the contacts show no signs of illness, and their laboratory test results are negative,” Kobzev wrote on Telegram, according to The Moscow Times.

Several hospitals in the region imposed temporary restrictions or quarantines, and the director of an aluminum plant in Shelekhov ordered employees to wear masks, local reports said.

Pneumonic plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, can spread person to person through respiratory droplets and is the most severe form of the disease. The CDC says plague is potentially life-threatening but can be treated effectively with antibiotics if diagnosed and treated promptly. Natural plague foci outbreaks still exist in parts of Siberia, Mongolia and Central Asia, and Russia maintains specialized anti-plague institutes to monitor them.

No additional U.S. travel restrictions have been announced. There are currently no direct commercial flights between the United States and Russia.

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À Mayotte, deux figures politiques de premier plan viennent de voir leurs condamnations confirmées pour des faits mêlant intérêts publics, entourage et emplois fictifs. Le 1er octobre 2026, la cour d’appel a maintenu l’essentiel des peines prononcées en première instance contre Rachadi Saindou et Salime M’Déré, avec prison exécutée sous bracelet électronique, amendes et inéligibilité.

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L’affaire est d’autant plus sensible que les deux hommes occupent des positions institutionnelles majeures : Saindou préside la communauté d’agglomération de Dembéni-Mamoudzou (CADEMA), tandis que M’Déré est premier vice-président du conseil départemental de Mayotte.

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Des condamnations largement confirmées

La cour d’appel a condamné Rachadi Saindou à deux ans de prison, dont un avec sursis, la partie ferme devant être exécutée sous bracelet électronique à domicile. Son amende a été ramenée de 50 000 à 25 000 euros. Il est également frappé de quatre ans d’inéligibilité et de quatre ans d’interdiction d’exercer une fonction publique, avec exécution provisoire.

Salime M’Déré écope pour sa part d’un an de prison, dont six mois avec sursis, également sous bracelet électronique, de 25 000 euros d’amende et de deux ans d’inéligibilité et d’interdiction d’exercer une fonction publique. Là encore, l’exécution provisoire s’applique.

Les poursuites portaient notamment sur des faits de prise illégale d’intérêts et d’emplois fictifs. L’avocat de Rachadi Saindou a indiqué étudier un pourvoi en cassation.

Quand la fonction publique devient une affaire d’entourage

L'appel n'étant pas suspensif, Rachadi Saindou a été écarté de ses fonctions dès la première condamnation. Il a contesté sa démission d'office. La même question de constitutionnalité que celle posée par Marine Le Pen est alors montée jusqu'au Conseil constitutionnel. Fin mars 2025, les juges ont validé son éviction. Selon eux, un élu local ne se trouve pas dans la situation d'un parlementaire européen : l'atteinte au droit d'éligibilité n'était pas disproportionnée. La défense s'est dite « surprise » à la sortie d'audience. Me Fatima Ousseni examinera la motivation de l'arrêt, pas encore communiquée, avant d'envisager un pourvoi en cassation.

Plus de deux ans se sont écoulés entre le jugement de première instance et la confirmation en appel. Pendant ce temps, les deniers publics continuaient de circuler dans un territoire où les ressources restent limitées et les besoins criants. L’affaire révèle la porosité entre mandats électifs, recrutements internes et marchés publics.

Ces condamnations rappellent que la frontière entre service public et clientélisme reste fragile. Quand des élus au sommet d’une agglomération et d’un département transforment un poste en rente pour un proche, c’est le contribuable qui règle l’addition.

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Flávio Bolsonaro surprisingly topped the polls in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday (4 October), making him the favourite to topple President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the run-off in three weeks.

The result is the latest in a series of strong performances by far-right candidates in Latin America. US president Donald Trump has been particularly invested in Brazil.

Despite lagging behind in most pre-election polls, senator Flávio Bolsonaro (45), the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, won around 47 percent of the vote, with votes from more than 99.9 percent of districts counted. Bolsonaro was strongest in the country’s southern states.

President Lula took 45 percent, after performing strongest in Brazil’s north-east, and advanced to the second round, to be held on 25 October.

Latin American experts believe that Bolsonaro will likely win the second round as most of the candidates who failed to reach the runoff are ideologically closer to him than Lula.

Although voting is compulsory in Brazil, one in five of eligible voters did not take part in the first round.

This year’s election has been widely described as one of the most significant in modern Brazilian history, its outcome exceptionally important for the United States and Europe. It is also key for the rest of the planet, given the global impact of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

Conservative forces aligned with Bolsonaro also made gains in the elections to Congress. Jair Bolsonaro’s wife Michelle won a senate seat. She had previously fallen out with Flávio but the two have since publicly reconciled. And the former president’s son Carlos Bolsonaro also won a seat, while another son, Jair Renan, was elected to the lower house of congress.

Trump’s stake in Brazil

Though the campaign focused primarily on domestic issues, particularly the economy, security and corruption, Trump’s influence loomed large.

Trump criticised Brazil’s judiciary when Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years following an unsuccessful attempted coup after he narrowly lost the 2022 election to Lula. The former Brazilian president is under house arrest due to health problems, and a court ruled he could not stand.

The US president described the trial of Bolsonaro as a “witch hunt”. Although Trump did not openly endorse Flávio Bolsonaro, Bolsonaro played up his ideological proximity to him.

In contrast, Lula sharply criticised Trump and built a reputation as a leader unafraid to stand up to Trump. Americas Quarterly editor Brian Winter said some in Brazil joke that Lula’s most effective surrogate is Trump.

Lula is known for his multipolar foreign policy. He seeks “pragmatic relations” with the US, China, Russia and others. Lula maintains friendly relations with Vladimir Putin, although he recently spoke out against the invasion of Ukraine.

If Bolsonaro were to win the second round, Brazil would probably join a coalition of countries conducting military operations against drug cartels alongside the Pentagon. It is a controversial initiative, and like other left leaders in the region, Lula has rejected it.

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