Glenn Greenwald on X:

"A lot of western leftists look at Brazil (and other places) and see it as some abstract fun ideological laboratory, relevant solely through the prism of the issues they prioritize from a distance (US imperialism, Israel, the viability socialism in Latin America, etc. etc.).In reality, tens of millions of poor people, black people, working-class Brazilians, etc. voted for Bolsonaro again(just as their American counterparts voted for Trump). If you talk to random apolitical people, what they worry about is not what the David Adlers worry about when jetting into Brazil, but rather what plagues their daily lives: extreme levels of street violence, drug gangs, economic misery, lack of good education and health care for their kids, etc. You can lecture them all they want that Lula is better for them but they've been hearing that forever. Lula and his party have been in the presidency in Brazil for 20 of the last 26 years. Younger people don't know and don't care about the inspiring mythology and iconography of Lula. They just don't think the government cares about their lives and so blame those in power: same story throughout the democratic world. It's not ultimately all that complicated."

@ggreenwald

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

A lot of western leftists look at Brazil (and other places) and see it as some abstract fun ideological laboratory, relevant solely through the prism of the issues they prioritize from a distance (US imperialism, Israel, the viability socialism in Latin America, etc. etc.).

In reality, tens of millions of poor people, black people, working-class Brazilians, etc. voted for Bolsonaro again (just as their American counterparts voted for Trump). If you talk to random apolitical people, what they worry about is not what the David Adlers worry about when jetting into Brazil, but rather what plagues their daily lives: extreme levels of street violence, drug gangs, economic misery, lack of good education and health care for their kids, etc.

You can lecture them all they want that Lula is better for them but they've been hearing that forever. Lula and his party have been in the presidency in Brazil for 20 of the last 26 years. Younger people don't know and don't care about the inspiring mythology and iconography of Lula.

They just don't think the government cares about their lives and so blame those in power: same story throughout the democratic world. It's not ultimately all that complicated.

@barbarismcrit

barbarism critic

@barbarismcrit 4h

The Lula situation is pretty much what will happen if there’s a president AOC. Some tepid reforms that don’t deliver enough to the working class and we’ll swing back to an even worse Trump type in 2032. I wish reformism could work but being hemmed by the bourgeois state will Show more

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@DamoWhelan

Damo W 🇮🇪🇨🇴🇵🇸

@DamoWhelan 4h

And like Trump, Baby Bolsonaro will pillage their country, and their lives will be measurably worse.

General day to day crime will possibly reduce due to more brutal police action and powers, but health and education will deteriorate, the economy will falter, á la Argentina.

@Proto_Jtattoos

CornSweat

@Proto_Jtattoos 3h

The message about the dissolution of USAID and the not so coincidental fall of European/ South American Socialism should be a message broadcast everywhere! The American taxpayers have been subsidizing communism - socialism and the Democratic Party this entire time!

@RWMaloneMD

Robert W Malone, MD

@RWMaloneMD 55m

Let's be honest here.

Lula himself has a decidedly checkered political past. His Workers’ Party was engulfed first by the Mensalão scandal, a massive vote-buying and political-payments affair that sent senior party officials to prison, and later by Operation Car Wash, which Show more

https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2107107795266924828

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Glenn Greenwald on X: "In the wake of their devastating, nationwide, unexpectedly crushing defeat,The Brazilian Left just like the Democratic Party does after they lose is now attacking the voters themselves, saying they're too stupid to realize how much Lula did for them. Some, of course, are saying they lost because Brazilian voters are racists and Nazis, but most are going with the "stupidity" excuse. Maybe some self-reflection would be better?"

@ggreenwald

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

In the wake of their devastating, nationwide, unexpectedly crushing defeat, The Brazilian Left just like the Democratic Party does after they lose is now attacking the voters themselves, saying they're too stupid to realize how much Lula did for them. Some, of course, are saying they lost because Brazilian voters are racists and Nazis, but most are going with the "stupidity" excuse.

Maybe some self-reflection would be better?

https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2107088684864475404

Processed meat may be causing rise in bowel cancer

The Telegraph

Cameron Henderson

Mon, October 5, 2026 at 5:12 AM EDT

Eating processed meat may be to blame for a boom in bowel cancer, according to a scientist.

Prof Chris Elliott, founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast, said that chemicals found in bacon and ham are “one of the main suspects” for increased cases of the disease.

Early-onset bowel cancer has increased substantially in adults under 50 across the world since 1990.

Studies suggest the UK has one of the fastest-rising rates, with estimates putting the increase at around 60 per cent.

Speaking to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, Prof Elliott said the increase was “down to our environment, what we eat, what we drink”.

“One of the main suspects that I’ve been pursuing for about 10 years is the use of a particular class of chemicals in the processing of meats, particularly in bacon and ham, called nitrates or nitrites,” he said.

“There is a growing body of evidence that the presence of these in the meats that we will consume are a contributory factor to the onset of colon cancer.”

Consuming large amounts of red meat has previously been associated with an increased risk of cancer.

However, Prof Elliott said he believed that eating red meat is “actually good for us [if] consumed in the right amount”.

Instead, he warned that chemicals added to ham and bacon to give them their pink colour and increase shelf life were to blame and called on the food safety watchdog to take action by placing warning labels on certain food packaging, following similar legislation in France.

“We have to point the finger at the regulator here, the Food Standards Agency (FSA), for basically sitting on their hands,” he said.

“Other parts of the world, particularly Europe, are taking this much more seriously.”

Figures from Cancer Research UK record around 48,200 new bowel cancer cases in the UK every year, including around 2,900 in people aged 25-49.

Experts at King’s College London and health science company Zoe plan to recruit 250,000 adults to complete online surveys on their diet, lifestyle, environment, and health in an attempt to discover why rates have been rising among the young.

The trial, known as Prospect-UK, will ask a smaller group to complete more detailed diet diaries, and to provide blood and stool samples.

Prof Sarah Berry, chief investigator of the trial and professor of nutritional sciences at King’s College London, said “large-scale, long-term data” was urgently needed.

“Over just a few generations our lifestyles, diets and environments have changed dramatically,” she added.

“But we don’t know which of these changes are increasing people’s risk of bowel cancer or which ones could help reduce it.”

https://www.aol.com/articles/processed-meat-may-causing-rise-091249000.html

One of the reasons I don't trust AI and the companies and people pushing it!

The race our nation can’t afford to lose, plus a new commitment from us and a fresh set of community investments

Written by Matt Garman, CEO ofAmazonWeb Services

Published:October 02, 2026

One of the big lessons that the United States took from World War II was the need for national transportation infrastructure back at home. A system of interconnected highways, bridges, and roads was critical for national defense and would also provide much needed economic prosperity following the war. In 1956, the government began to build the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, an infrastructure project larger than anything the country had seen since the railroads a century earlier—and paid for entirely with taxpayer money.

The buildout of America’s modern transportation system transformed the U.S. economy and way of life, creating countless new businesses and jobs, and connecting communities in ways that reshaped how Americans lived and worked. Seventy years later, we’re in the midst of the largest infrastructure buildout since the highways—our digital infrastructure. The rapid adoption of the Internet starting in the late 1990s, and then cloud computing in the mid-2000s, changed the way we interact with information and services, and substantially lowered barriers for entrepreneurs, companies, and governments to provide new customer experiences. Today, virtually everything we do each day—shopping, banking, stock trading, ride hailing, booking travel, receiving healthcare, streaming entertainment, as well as critical research in everything from preventing and curing disease to finding ways to use less energy and natural resources—is digitally driven and enabled by data centers, which manage the computing, storage, and access necessary for these activities. In the last few years, there’s been a rapid acceleration of data center construction across the country with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

It’s still very early, yet AI is already transforming businesses, industries, and customer experiences in ways we couldn’t have imagined just a few years ago. AI will power the next generation of businesses, hospitals, schools, and other critical public services, as well as critical defense systems, intelligence analysis, cyber defense, and satellite operations—and new kinds of skilled jobs will be created to help make it all possible. Just like the national highway system, our country’s economy, national security, and everyday lives stand to benefit immensely. And, unlike the railroads and highways, this buildout is being financed without taxpayer money because private industry is picking up the tab.

There is urgency to this data center buildout because we aren’t the only country that sees the benefits of AI for the economy and national security, and the countries that lead in AI will shape it and get the most from it in the short and long run. The choices we make today will determine that outcome, and a lapse in our nation’s focus or resolve could put us behind, and potentially irreparably so.

With any change, there will be important questions raised, but there will also be misinformation and outright lies, and in the age of social media and 24/7 news, myths take hold faster than ever before. In fact, this build out is so important geopolitically that there are widespread reports of various countries intentionally seeding misinformation in the U.S. about data centers to trick us into slowing down. Right now there are over 100 data center moratoriums being considered across the country. If these measures are enacted, the U.S. could be writing its own losing ticket to this race, and the consequences would last generations. As a country, we can’t afford to find ourselves in that position.

There are clearly areas in which the technology and energy industries can be doing better (along with their government partners) but just like in the past when the country has banded together to accomplish something that’s critical for our national security and economic prosperity—we should approach this as a long-term mission that the private and public sectors pursue together.

Let’s start with some of the myths floating around, and then I’ll share a new commitment to build responsibly, and a new set of programs to benefit our data center communities.

Myths vs Facts

(can't post the link, from Amazon)