Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Shadows Over Brasília: The Unseen Election Handlers | Eduardo Vasco

The counting of votes in the first round of Brazil's general elections was the subject of great controversy. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, was ahead of Lula in the official count, with 49.6%, against 42.2% for the president seeking re-election.

 » As long as I count the Votes, what are you going to do about it? « 
Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, October 7, 1871.

The Sixty-Minute Blackout
64.8% of the polling stations had been tallied up to that point. But the count was halted for more than an hour. Strangely, the votes for governor, senator and deputies continued to be counted normally. Only the presidential count was halted. The count was halted at 7:06 p.m. (Brasília time), with 64.8% of the ballots tallied. Only at 8:08 p.m. were the new results presented, already with 84.96% of the ballots tallied.

A Statistical Inversion
And, even more strangely, when the presidential count resumed, Flávio Bolsonaro's upward trend and Lula's downward trend were reversed. The opposition candidate's votes plummeted, while those of the current president rose. Flávio Bolsonaro was less than 0.5% away from the victory that would hand him the presidential sash. He lost more than 2%, ending with 47.03%, while Lula gained almost 3%, ending with 45.16%. It seemed that Flávio Bolsonaro would dethrone Lula right in the first round. But, after more than an hour of halted counting, Lula managed to recover and the race will only be decided in the second round.
 
Lula's disastrous tenure combined a globalist woke socialist agenda, incompetence, staggering
corruption and clientelism, surging crime, political censorship and persecution, and Global South
treason: vetoing Venezuela’s BRICS membership, empty populist anti-US propaganda, hollow
peacenik Ukraine/Gaza/Iran rhetoric, and cheating on the Russia and China alliances. 
He was Obama's and Biden's pet, and the CIA rigged elections for him.

The Infallibility Paradox
The official justification was given by the president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Kassio Nunes Marques, who is also a justice on the Supreme Federal Court (STF). "What happened was a data congestion. In every election, we are surprised by some incident, which is natural for those who deal with complex and highly varied systems," he said. "At first, it is not known whether this was derived from another problem. What our IT found was a flow [of data] above the normal level, and that congestion caused a delay," he added.

Servicing empire, genocide, oligarchy, deception and raw treason unveiled: Milei and
Bolsonaro, Latin America's ultimate Zionist golems and submissive Mossad-CIA stooges. 
Both are Trump's and Netanyahu's pets, and they rig elections for them.  
 
There is an aggressive propaganda campaign in Brazil, spearheaded by the Electoral Justice, to convince citizens that elections are 100% clean. The main focus of this propaganda is precisely the electronic voting machines. Judicial institutions and media outlets give wide dissemination to the Electoral Justice's claims about the total reliability of the electronic voting machines, even highlighting that they are tested before the election and then sealed so that no one can access them.

So why did the machines suffer a kind of breakdown, if they had been rigorously tested? Well, the oh-so-wise TSE has full knowledge of the number of eligible voters and of the number of votes that can be recorded in the machines, including in each polling station. The Electoral Justice's propaganda tells the public that the machines are fully prepared in advance to record and tally voters' votes perfectly.
The "New Left" abandoned class struggle and fighting the oligarchy for identity politics and climate protection, bankrolled and directed by the CIA, USAID, NED, IRI, NDI, CIPE, the Solidarity Center, Soros NGOs, and globalist oligarchs. While 'left-leaning' billionaires weaponized a horizontal culture war to turn the masses against each other, 'right-leaning' oligarchs and foundations—Koch Brothers, Musk, Atlas Network, The Madrid Forum, etcetera—engineered pro-US, pro-Israeli Zionist leaders, narcos, and sociopaths to secure control. Divide and rule. It works. Now enter the reapers.
No flow of data "above the normal level" that would lead to system congestion should occur, because the most varied data and statistics regarding vote recording are known and the calculations are perfectly feasible. The infallibility of the electronic voting machines requires that all possible outcomes be predictable and that, therefore, there be no anomaly whatsoever.

Jair Bolsonaro (Flavio's father) speaking in 2017 at the Brasília Masonic lodge
about governance problems, and the need for a non-obstructive president.
 
Flavio Bolsonaro campaigning in 2026 in English and invoking "God bless Israel"
 —a textbook case of the "New Right's" mental colonization and degeneracy.
 
» Lord, give me the opportunity to be president of Brazil, because I
believe it is Your project. Give me wisdom, courage, strength, and
health to do the best work for the Brazilian people. Heal our nation. «  
An Evangelical Zionist wannabe divine project manager’s TV prayer.
 
Fresh off a meeting with genocide high priest Netanyahu, young Flávio—the "God, family, and fatherland" crusader out to "crush socialism in Brazil"—was baptized in the Jordan River earlier this year. A joyful part of the Evangelical's hastening Armageddon cult, obviously.
So how is it possible, then, that such a perfect system—as it is portrayed by the institutions of the Brazilian State—suffers a failure which, once supposedly resolved, so radically changed the trend of the presidential votes?

The High Priests of the Algorithm
It may be a coincidence that Flávio Bolsonaro plummeted and Lula rose after the voting machines failed. But who knows? The TSE president acknowledged that the electronic voting system is "complex." Only highly qualified specialists, from the TSE itself and from technology companies, can access it and understand it, according to the Electoral Justice. Thus, the fate of an entire country for the next four years rests in the hands of these specialists—150 technicians unknown to the public. The tally of votes from the machines is fully automated; it passes through no human being. An even more select number of 22 employees access the automated vote totalization.

» Washington think tanks still consider Brazil a "swing state," and controlling the policies of South
America's industrial giant remains central to US efforts to limit and sabotage BRICS in the region. « 

This means that 214 million Brazilians need to trust those 150 or 22 Egyptian priests to interpret that occult science. They must be the most enlightened beings on planet Earth—100% honest, upright, immaculate and virginal. Even the STF justices, who over the past 15 years have been presented as impeccable, virtuous and chaste individuals, now appear embroiled in the biggest corruption scandal in Brazil's recent history, yet those anonymous specialists deserve citizens' most absolute trust.

Lessons from Karlsruhe
It was for reasons such as these that the Supreme Court of Germany declared electronic voting unconstitutional: 
"Every citizen must be able to understand and verify the central stages of elections in a reliable manner and without any prior specialized technical knowledge."
The verdict, dated 2009, concludes:
"An electoral procedure in which the voter cannot reliably understand whether his or her vote was recorded in an unfalsifiable manner and included in the tally of the election result, and how the total of votes cast is assigned and counted, excludes central elements of the electoral procedure from public scrutiny and therefore fails to meet constitutional requirements."
Judicial Partisanship and the Spectacle of Choice
The Brazilian judicial system is mired in its greatest crisis in history and is living through a true Wild West, with partisan feuds interfering in the functioning of its work. Partisanship, in fact, has contaminated most of the judiciary, including the TSE. In the final stretch of these elections, decisions by the Electoral Justice, backed by the dominant wing of the STF, favored Lula.

John Kiriakou: » Credible evidence that the CIA is involved. « 
 
It is evident that this dominant wing (represented by justices Alexandre de Moraes, Gilmar Mendes and Flávio Dino) does not want a victory of Bolsonarismo, for it is their declared political enemy. These justices have acted, in recent years, as true vigilantes against Bolsonarismo. Now that they themselves have been caught in extremely promiscuous dealings with a banker who corrupted countless high-ranking state officials, their bureaucratic careers are threatened. 
 
Brazil? » We have a lot to do there. « 

Lula's continuity is a hope of salvation for these gentlemen, for the president is beholden to them and cannot break that commitment without risking his own neck, given the level of dependence Lula has contracted toward the STF's top brass. Meanwhile, a Flávio Bolsonaro victory would tend to lead to a clash with the heads of these institutions—although the opposition candidate himself has shown little willingness to confront them, because those who control elections in Brazil (international financial capital) demand moderation and pacification, otherwise they will make life difficult for anyone elected president.

And the people are treated like cattle, victims of a system they cannot understand, so that their exploitation may be perpetuated through the staging of the "festival of democracy."

 
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Friday, October 2, 2026

The Great Harmony Society in Chinese Thought

The Great Harmony (大同, Datong) is an ideal social order envisioned by classical Chinese Confucianism in the 6th century BCE. Receiving its first systematic exposition in The Book of Rites (禮記, Liji), specifically within the chapter 'The Conveyance of Rites,' its core philosophical bedrock is the principle that 'The World Belongs to the Public' (天下爲公, Tianxia Wei Gong).
 
» When the World Belongs to the Public. « 
Central 天下為公 passage from The Book of Rites.

This concept advocates for the public ownership of power, rejects hereditary systems (世袭, Shixi), and promotes a strict meritocracy by selecting the "worthy and capable" (選賢與能, Xuǎn). Economically, it advocates the public ownership of goods and wealth, emphasizes that all members of society fulfill their respective duties, ensures that the elderly, the weak, orphans, and widows are cared for, and aims to construct a public order characterized by equality and mutual assistance for all.
 
Sun Yat-sen, Three Principles of the People.
 
Pre-Qin Confucians (before 221 BCE) regarded it as an institutional design opposing monarchical power and advocating that power be chosen by the people. Han Confucians (202 BCE to 220 CE) cited the Abdication of Yao and Shun as examples but still did not depart from the framework of monarchical designation. During the Sui and Tang dynasties (581 to 907 CE), the principle of "selecting the worthy and capable" gradually evolved into the Imperial Examination System, deviating from the initial concept of popular election. Neo-Confucianism elevated its ethical principles into the philosophical concept of "The Unity of All Things." 
 
» Guide them by virtue, keep them in line by ritual, and they will have a sense of shame
and align themselves with good. Guide them by law, keep them in line by punishment,
and they will avoid wrongdoing, but have no sense of shame. « — The Analects 2.3

»  Of the people, by the people, for the people. «
Sun Yat-sen, quoting Abraham Lincoln's famous formula to
express the core of his "Three Principles of the People" to Westerners.
 
In modern times, Kang Youwei reinterpreted the traditional ideal of datong as a vision of an egalitarian future society in his Book of Great Harmony (Datong shu), which he began developing in the 1880s and revised over the following decades. In 1906, Sun Yat-sen integrated datong into his political thought and the Three Principles of the People, particularly his Principle of Livelihood, which he associated with socialism, communism, and the realization of a society based on social equality and common welfare. 
 
» Promote the upright and place them above the crooked, and the people will submit. Promote the
crooked and place them above the upright, and the people will not submit. « — 
The Analects 2.19
 
However, this intellectual journey did not proceed directly from Kang's reformism to Chinese socialism. Rather, elements of the traditions were repeatedly reinterpreted by successive generations and reconciled with nationalism, Marxism, socialism, and the requirements of modernization. After the Mao era, this increasingly involved recovering traditional culture as a resource compatible with socialist modernization. 
 
September 28, 2026, Qufu, Shandong Province: China
commemorates the 2,577th anniversary of Confucius' birth.
 
Deng Xiaoping's formulation of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics (SWCC) in the early 1980s established the basis for pursuing socialism according to China's particular conditions, preferences, and priorities. Under later leaders, especially Xi Jinping, this approach increasingly drew on historical and cultural traditions alongside Marxist principles, and Confucian ideals of social harmony, moral cultivation, collective responsibility, and datong became explicit components of the Communist Party's doctrine.
  
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Thursday, October 1, 2026

My Forecast for the Rest of 2026 | Larry Williams

US equities face near-term downside pressure and range-bound volatility amid poor breadth. Deteriorating internals—seen in the divergence between a strong NASDAQ, moderately strong S&P 500, and weak Dow and Russell 2000—suggest capital is rotating from quality blue chips into speculation, a pattern that has historically preceded broader sell-offs.


A major synchronized cyclical low and buying opportunity across the S&P 500, NASDAQ, Dow, and Russell is projected around Tuesday, October 27, ahead of the US presidential election. At the trough, focus capital on the index showing the strongest relative strength and greatest resistance to selling pressure during the decline.

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S&P 500 October Performance in Midterm Election Years.
Oct 27 (Tue) opens the midterm stretch that runs through Nov 10 (Tue), 2026, up in 22 of 24
midterm years (91.67%, avg. +2.6%, med. +3.2%). Misses: 1930 (−12.6%) and 1994 (−0.3%).  

 DJIA.

Russell 2000. 
 
 NASDAQ.
Detrended seasonal cycles isolate short-term periodic signals by removing longer-term trends, preventing distortion and enabling precise measurement of amplitude and timing.
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Why the Best Part of the Presidential Cycle Starts Now | Jeff Hirsch

On the Full Signal podcast from October 1, 2026, Jeff Hirsch spoke about historical market cycles, midterm positioning, structural AI drivers, and actionable portfolio strategies.

Presidential Cycle 2025–2028: Midterm Sweet Spot expected rally target window: 
September 30, 2026 – July 19, 2027.
 
Presidential Cycles & The Midterm Sweet Spot
Midterm election years historically rank as the presidential cycle's weakest due to early-term policy friction and political uncertainty that drive a Q2–Q3 soft patch. By early October, markets transition into the cycle's most bullish window: the "midterm sweet spot" running from Q4 through pre-election Q2. Since 1949, this three-quarter stretch averages gains of +19% for the Dow, +20% for the S&P 500, and +29–30% for the Nasdaq, with midterm Octobers frequently marking the exact pivot bottom.

The AI Super Boom & Market Fundamentals
This cyclical tailwind merges with a secular "AI super boom" comparable to post-war industrialization or the early internet era. Driven by massive hyperscaler capital expenditure and robust semiconductor earnings, this fundamental expansion supports high valuations into 2027 and overrides traditional cyclical drags. Historical super booms prove that staying invested through temporary volatility is essential when liquidity and structural drivers hold, despite short-term risks from extreme mega-cap tech concentration.
 
 
Macro Strategy: Yields, Politics & Small Caps
Near 5% bond yields increase equity opportunity costs, but strong AI earnings power and presidential cycle tailwinds dominate asset allocation. Hirsch is rotating from fixed income into lagging small caps, which offer relative value, broadening market participation into 2027, and seasonal drivers like the January Effect. Preferred sectors include transports, selective industrials, stabilizing financials, and core AI infrastructure, while post-midterm political gridlock adds market-friendly policy stability.

Technical Timing & Seasonality Execution
Rather than relying on strict calendar dates, seasonal strategies require technical filters. For the "Best Six Months" strategy (November–April for broad markets; extended through June for Nasdaq), a confirmed positive MACD crossover on major averages on or after early October triggers the buy signal, while negative April/June crossovers signal exits. Institutional tax cycles, calendar flows, and psychology maintain seasonal edges, but MACD confirmation prevents false starts.
Jeff Hirsch uses MACD crossovers as a technical filter to execute the "Best Six Months" strategy. By combining technical momentum with the calendar, he avoids buying into falling markets or exiting strong spring rallies prematurely.
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Timing Windows: The "Best Six Months" run Nov 1–Apr 30 for the Dow/S&P 500, extending through June for Nasdaq. Daily monitoring begins October 1 for buys and April 1 (June 1 for Nasdaq) for exits.   
► Indicator Setup: Daily charts with 12-day fast EMA, 26-day slow EMA, and a 9-day signal line.Buy Signal: On/after Oct 1, a positive MACD crossover (12-day EMA crosses above 26-day EMA) triggers the Seasonal Buy Signal, confirming downside momentum has ended before entering equities.
► Sell Signal: On/after Apr 1 (or Jun 1 for Nasdaq), a negative MACD crossover triggers the Seasonal Sell Signal, shifting exposure to cash or defensive sectors.
► Why It Works: It eliminates buying into October market crashes, captures extended spring upside, and reduces drawdowns compared to strict calendar dates or buy-and-hold strategies. 
Bearish Risks & Defensive Rules
Key risks to the base case include policy missteps, re-accelerating inflation, labor deterioration, geopolitical shocks, or an AI earnings reset. Shifting bearish entails tactical risk management—tightening stops and trimming laggards—rather than full liquidation, maintaining flexibility if macro trends or technicals break down.
 

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EU/NATO-Russia War Inevitable: But Is Russia Our Enemy? | Alex Krainer

An all-out war between European NATO member nations and Russia is increasingly regarded as inevitable by many analysts on both sides of the divide, as the former CIA analyst Larry Johnson conveyed in an interview on Prof. Glenn Diesen's podcast published just yesterday. Johnson spent a few days in Moscow and spoke with a number of Russian officials and military generals who now believe that, "the combination of European rhetoric and European actions is making it inevitable that there's going to be a war."

» Russia is not my enemy. «
According to Grok's estimate, there have been at least 20,000 original
"Russia is not my enemy" posts, seen and liked by millions. 
 
As the American analyst Chris Helali put it, 
"Neither Americans, nor Europeans, and especially Ukrainians, have made any effort to reach a peace agreement. They don't want peace. They want to continue operating in a military mode. Their goal is not even the strategic defeat of Russia. Their goal is the Balkanization of Russia." 
Bulgaria's MEP Peter Volgin noted that, 
"The main activities of the European Commission and the European Parliament are aimed at convincing EU citizens that their main enemy is Russia, and that they will eventually have to fight against that enemy."
Of course, the idea that war is inevitable could be an exaggeration—the officials' job is to be prepared for the worst—and this may shape their mindset. It is true, however that among the European leaders, the rhetoric has escalated to the point where it feels as though the decision to go to war has already been made and that now the actions are focused on engineering the population's consent for war and willingness to fight. In an attempt to stem the march to war, on 29 September, Embassy of Russia in Ireland issued an official statement:
"There has been an abundance of talk, recently, from the European political circles that Russia somehow is planning to launch a military invasion of Europe, escalate its alleged hybrid campaign against European countries, or both. The slogan of ‘Russian threat' is being recycled in the Western media on a daily basis. … The current governments in Europe would like everybody to believe that they are the victims of Russia's alleged hostility or objects of the imminent ‘Russian invasion'. There is nothing to support such a claim. … we have no plans, no reasons and, most importantly, no real motives for aggravating situation with Europe."

The "Gallant Boar"?

The Russian embassy's statement also enumerates some of European nations' actions that are exacerbating the risk of breakout of a military conflict:
"Only in recent months, from June to September 2026, there have been almost incessant NATO military exercises with the anti-Russian scenarios in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Finland, as well as in the Baltic Sea. Finland and Baltic states, aside from being NATO members integrated into the Alliance's nuclear planning, either joined or are planning to join the initiative of President Macron of France of the so-called ‘forward deterrence', which provides for deployment of the French nuclear weapons on their territory (that is, on the Russia's doorstep).
Among all that, the joint Lithuanian, Polish, French military exercise ‘Gallant Boar 2026' stands out as specifically aimed at the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad at the coast of the Baltic Sea. There has been information that NATO is preparing air and naval blockade of Kaliningrad and Kaliningrad region. This is not fiction, but matter of grave concern to Russia. The irresponsible and shortsighted European political elite is playing a dangerous game.

As the Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said recently, if the West attacks us, we will respond and it would be completely different war and a very brief one. There should be no mistake – Russia would be ready to use all its arsenal, including nuclear weapons, to defend its territory if NATO countries try to isolate Kaliningrad region from the rest of the country.

Under such scenario the risk of armed confrontation is high with the likelihood of Russia using preemptive strikes against centers of decision-making in the Alliance countries already at the early stage of the conflict. It is a matter of utmost seriousness and should be treated by Europe as such."
 » All three war cycles show rising phase conditions. A convergence appears around 2027-2032. «
  
Where's Your Proof, Rutte?
Thus, it seems that the European military organizations are actively training for war, while their public officials and the media are warning that, the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming… At the same time, the Russians themselves say that, "there's nothing to support such a claim…" It would appear that someone's lying to the public, and according to the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, it's the Europeans.

In a fairly spectacular exchange at a recent press conference, the Prime Minister of Lithuania, Mindaugas Sinkevičius spilled the beans in a fairly spectacular manner and revealed that there's no evidence that Russia was preparing an invasion of Europe: 
"I was addressing Secretary General, is there any proof—real proof—intelligence services providing something on the table that Russia is getting ready for something, and there's actually none…"
One might ask, if there's no evidence that Russia is preparing to invade Europe, then why is the hysteria being whipped up in the first place? This is quite an obvious question, but we're not supposed to ask questions—we're supposed to believe and go along with the program, whether the threat is real or invented.
 
Killer answer.
Putin's 2026 Valdai Q&A / plenary session, October 1, 2026.
 
Lock Up the Unbelievers!
This is why those who need us to believe—like UK Labour's adviser Paul Richards—recommend locking up those who question the narrative:
"…the British would rise to greatness against Russia. We would have to lock a few people up, by the way, some of the pro-Russian voices, people who say there isn't a threat, don't fight for your country, that don't go to war for Burnham—we'd have to lock them up!"
If you have no evidence, and your impulse is to lock up those who question your narrative, you have a very serious credibility issue and, as it turns out, a large proportion of European people—at least those who are paying attention to these developments—are more inclined to believe the Russians than their own, deeply unpopular leaders.


Russia Is Not My Enemy

One of the symptoms of this credibility deficit has been a viral appearance of anti-war memes in social media stating simply that, "Russia is not my enemy," or something to that effect. Above is a small sample of tens of thousands of posts that have appeared on X over the recent days: According to Grok's estimate, there have been at least 20,000 original "Russia is not my enemy" posts, seen and liked by millions. Many of them went a step further, stating that the EU, NATO, Ursula von der Leyen, Volodymyr Zelensky or other Western officials are the real enemy. The same sentiment has driven student protests against war and conscription across German cities, attended by hundreds of thousands of young people, firmly rejecting the idea that war is necessary. Thousands of them publicly burned or ripped up their draft notices.

If it were up to Paul Richards, they should all be locked up along with Lithuania's Prime Minister, but at the moment, at least, the public sentiment is bitterly opposed to war. For the first time in human history, we have the Internet and social media, which could change the social engineering formulas in ways that we can't account for. In the meantime, we all should take advantage of these outlets to make our voices heard and hope and pray that the war drive by Europe's degenerate elites can be stemmed. As Abraham Lincoln put it, the best way to destroy an enemy is to make them a friend. Wouldn't that be nice?
 
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