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Since 2017, the budget of the Ministry of the French Armed Forces has almost doubled, increasing from 32.7 billion euros to 57.1 billion euros.In early 2026 the draft budget law (PLF) was adopted. For 2026, the funding for the "Defense" program was expected to increase by 6.7 billion euros:

* 3.2 billion euros already planned by the military programming law (LPM) for 2024-2030;
* An additional 3.5 billion euros proposed in the 2026 draft budget law.

France's Budget for 2026: "Military spending" was the only area with in increase, at the expense of #education, #healthcare, and other essential services.

#France #Budet #Ukraine

🔥While France was on fire Rothschild puppet and tranny Brigitte were at Céline's Dion concert.

reminder :

"In response to the "Yellow Vests" movement between 2018 and 2020, the authorities chose the use of force, often in a disproportionate manner. The massive use of military-grade weapons such as the LBD 40 and GLI-F4 tear gas grenades, as well as riot control measures, caused permanent injuries to dozens of protesters. Hundreds were injured, thousands arrested. This represents a shift in law enforcement strategies, characterized by "confrontational" and repressive practices that are disproportionate to the disturbances cited: trapping peaceful protesters, searching and confiscating first aid equipment, violence against journalists and citizens filming the police violences.

During the first month of the "#YellowVests" movement, 1,407 protesters were injured, including 46 seriously mostly mutilated."

mutilated YV : Les Mutilés pour l'exemple – Association de blessés lors du mouvement des Gilets Jaunes

Dockworkers have decided to join forces again and strike against rearmament, the war economy, and genocide in Palestine. From Italy to Spain, by way of Greece, Morocco, Turkey, and France, more than 40 ports will mobilize on October 30, building on the protest held in February. In Italy, the international dockworkers’ strike is being organized by the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB, a grassroots rank-and-file union confederation), which has been joined by ORSA (another independent union). Workers will walk off the job at a time already marked by strong demands across Europe, which have forcefully put back on the political agenda issues sacrificed for years: housing, wages, education. What now ties their underfunding together is the race to rearm, which the dockworkers oppose, arguing that “public resources must be allocated to people’s needs and not to financing war.”

Joining the Italian unions in the international day of action will be CGT Ports and Docks (France), ENEDEP (Greece), LAB (Basque Country), ODT (Morocco), and Liman-İş (Turkey). It was in Istanbul that union delegates had met, three months after the February strike, which mobilized more than 20 ports against rearmament.

In Turkey, they decided to follow up on that protest and expand it. The numbers have thus doubled. On October 30, demonstrations and blockades are expected in at least 40 ports stretching from the Cantabrian Sea (the stretch of the Atlantic off Spain’s northern coast) to the Mediterranean, including Genoa and Gioia Tauro (a major container port in the southern Italian region of Calabria). Coordinated stoppages across more than 40 ports in six countries could disrupt shipping along key Mediterranean and Atlantic trade routes. In Istanbul, the unions also adopted a Declaration that effectively serves as the manifesto of their cross-border struggle.

As their first point, the dockworkers are demanding “an immediate end to the genocide of the Palestinian people and the recognition of an independent Palestinian State recognized by the international community within the 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital.” The position is consistent with the stance dockworkers have taken over the past three years, which has put them on the front lines of demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian people, including taking part in the most recent Flotilla bound for Gaza, which Israel illegally stormed in international waters.

Inextricably linked to the Palestinian genocide are the interests of the war economy, which profits from it, as UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has denounced. It is no coincidence that the dockworkers are demanding a “no to the war economy, to governments’ rearmament plans, and to the militarization of ports and strategic infrastructure.” Instead, they are calling for public resources to be “allocated to people’s needs” and for collective bargaining agreements to guarantee “real wage increases, stable employment, reduced working hours, and a decent pension system.” The mobilization at the ports thus ties into the general strike that USB has called for that same day, October 30, with an appeal to all public- and private-sector workers to turn it into a widespread day of protest.

“What is at stake is the surge in prices, starting with fuel, which weighs heavily on the meager wages of millions of working men and women who can no longer even keep up with inflation, and, on the other side, the inadequacy of the measures taken by the [Prime Minister Giorgia] Meloni government, which has openly sided with the oil companies and the banks.” In southern Italy, farmers and truckers have for days been joining forces against soaring fuel costs, which are pushing thousands of workers and businesses into crisis.

Weighing further on the employment outlook is the closure of the former Ilva steelworks (Italy’s largest steel group, centered on its giant plant in Taranto, in the southern region of Apulia) and the absence of any plans to reemploy its workers, which has triggered open-ended protests in Genoa and Taranto. School occupations (a long-standing form of Italian student protest in which students take over school buildings) are multiplying, with students denouncing unaffordable rents and shortfalls in the “right to study” (Italy’s system of grants, housing, and services meant to guarantee access to education), joining the wave of protest in Spain and France.

The common thread is a challenge to the priorities of policymakers, which have collapsed into cuts to public spending, with the sole exception of military spending.

[L’Indipendente, October 15, 2026, Salvatore Toscano]

In Paris sporadic incidents continue to occur in the streets adjacent to the Place de la République, where law enforcement is intervening to disperse small mobile groups, following a spontaneous gathering this Sunday, October 18th.

#France #ACAB

Russian military satellite shadows a US spy satellite feeding Kiev

Kosmos 2612 is flying in formation with ICEYE-X36, a US-registered radar imaging satellite built by Finnish firm ICEYE, just a few kilometers apart.

Swiss tracking firm s2a systems filmed the pair over South America this morning, putting the separation at about 4.9 km.

ICEYE has supplied radar imagery to Ukraine since 2022, and X36 has been widely reported as one of the key satellites providing Kiev with targeting data. Its radar sees through clouds and darkness at a resolution of around 25 cm.

Kosmos 2612 is one of six Russian military satellites launched from Plesetsk in April. In May, four of them changed their orbits to match ICEYE-X36's exactly and have been shadowing it ever since. Some trackers claim recent passes came within a few hundred meters.

What Moscow intends to do is anyone's guess, but the satellites helping Kiev hunt Russian targets are being watched up close.

@DDGeopolitics
#Russia #Ukraine

An Al Jazeera investigation uncovers how Israeli spyware companies infiltrated Al Jazeera devices in 2024 through a previously undisclosed technique. The method enables so-called zero-click attacks, allowing hackers to compromise phones and computers simply by having users scroll past an online advertisement.

Al Jazeera's Mohamed Hassan explains.

@QudsNen
#Candiru #DiscoverTech #AdFection

🇵🇸I’m a journalist. Israel detained me for documenting the olive harvest in the West Bank. | Mondoweiss

Israel is detaining international observers for one simple reason: to prevent us from reporting on its ethnic cleansing project in Palestine.

@mondoweissgram
#Palestine #WestBank #EthnicCleansing #SettlerViolence #Journalist #Agriculture #Olives

🔥17th October 2026 Paris - #France #ACAB

Dozens of police forces in France catch a protester and beat him brutally.

@PressTV
#ACAB #France

"It's absolutely crucial to ​get the deal in the next few weeks. Otherwise, we will miss the planting season."

The UN's Under-Secretary-General Jorge Moreira has announced that failure to activate a UN-backed plan for limited fertilizer vessel passage through Hormuz “within weeks” risks missing planting seasons and a food security crisis, with some estimates projecting commodity price spikes (cereals up to ~81%, oil crops 66%, animal products 30%) if disruption continues.

This is that worst case scenario from the Atlantic Council's report materializing, described as "global food crisis causing political collapse."

(reuters)