With some re-editing:
[On the Maoist Naxalites in India – diario-octubre.com/2026/08/30/india-siguen-los-asesinatos-y-detenciones-de-guerrilleros-naxalitas-aun-de-darlos-repetidamente-por-acabados/ ]
[On the voter roll purge protests in India – otheraspect.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/on-ongoing-protest/ ]
[ www.rt.com/news/646978-bangladesh-russia-nuclear-plant/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2026/09/01/crece-la-tension-militar-en-el-norte-de-africa/ ]
[ www.rt.com/africa/587851-anti-french-coups-africa/ ]
[ www.rt.com/africa/646928-african-union-launches-africa-credit-rating-agency/ ]
[ www.rt.com/africa/589272-dutch-colonialism-south-africa/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2026/09/02/el-primer-genocidio-aleman-que-occidente-eligio-olvidar/ and LRB ]
[ www.rt.com/africa/590523-reparations-africa-herero-namaqua-genocide/ ]
[ www.rt.com/africa/588489-neocolonialism-france-russia-china/ ]
[ www.rt.com/africa/592354-burkina-faso-mali-niger-exit-ecowas/ ]
[ ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/reflections-from-the-heart-of-empire ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2026/09/02/google-obedece-a-donald-trump-y-cambia-el-nombre-del-lago-ontario/ ]
[ www.rt.com/news/645771-us-democracy-lowest-trump/ ]
[ www.nlg.org/know-your-rights-responding-to-government-intimidation-of-the-cuba-solidarity-movement/ ]
[ www.moonofalabama.org/2026/09/centcom-lost-hundreds-space-weapons-west-causing-its-own-downfall.html ]
[ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/october/among-schoolchildren
[ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/september/ozempic-in-iran
[The Draconid meteor shower – around October 8-9th – spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=08&month=10&year=2026 , www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/2020-meteor-shower-list/ and www.amsmeteors.org/calendar/
[I happened to see a slow (?) meteor of some kind falling between Aquila and Aquarius to the south early on the evening of the 7th (around 8-9:30pm?).]
[Che Guevara was killed October 9, 1967 n La Higuera, Santa Cruz, Bolivia – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara ]
[National Curious Events Day was October 9th – National Day Calendar.]
[October 9-11th – flushfest.org (?)]
[Diwali (the Festival of Lights) in Cary, NC – The 26th annual Hum Sub Diwali is Saturday, October 10th, from 9am, at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre. There will be a Diwali Celebration Monday, October 26th, 6:30-8pm at the Great Lawn Pavilion in Downtown Cary Park.]
[The Carolina Classic Fair ( carolinaclassicfair.com/ ) was October 3rd-12th in 2024 (?) in Winston-Salem, and can include political tabling.]
[30 Years of Art in the New Hanover County Arboretum – October 10-11th 10am-4pm,]
[The UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens' 2026 Fall Plant Sale is October 8-10th in Lot 5 on Martin Village Road.]
[Australian anti-war journalist John Pilger passed away December 31, 2023. He was born October 9, 1939 in Bondi, New South Wales, near Sydney. His website: johnpilger.com/ ]
[Demonstrations for Palestine October 10th in London at 12pm from the Victoria Embankment and in Berlin from the Brandenburger Tor at 3pm; more education-related demonstrations in France?]
[October 10th – www.peoplestribunalusgaza.org/ ] [Watch at the United Church of Chapel Hill during the afternoon .]
["Freedom of navigation" and the wars – www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/laleh-khalili/ghost-fleets
[On "AI" – www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/paul-taylor/free-agents
[ www.rt.com/news/645587-israel-used-ai-kill-palestinians/
[ www.rt.com/news/646990-thiel-pope-ai-pr-stunt/ ]
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/pablo-scheffer/frightened-chicks [On early British/English history]
[ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/malcolm-gaskill/squawking-at-the-gate [menagerie]
[ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/october/among-schoolchildren
[ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/september/ozempic-in-iran
[On mid-19th century France – www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/david-todd/be-careful-of-the-buffoon ]
[The 2026 SC Korean Festival is coming up soon (see their Facebook page)??] [2026 Columbia Korean Festival October 31st, 10am-5pm, on Richland Street – www.facebook.com/SCKoreanFestival ]
[Born October 12, 1949 – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal ]
[Mercury's greatest eastern elongation (about 25 degrees) will be around 6am EDT on the 12th, but the 'elusive' planet still won't be very visible from the Northern Hemisphere.]
[From The Blake Society –
"'Full of Fairy Elves' – Supernatural Belief in the 18th Century" – "Dr Simon Young sets out the supernatural beliefs of Britain in the mid to late 18th century.
Monday 12 October 2026, 19:30 - 21:00
Free, Online"]
[Asteroid Vesta will reach opposition October 13th (around 2am).]
[The Moon will be in the constellation Scorpius, between Antares and tau Scorpii [(Fang? Paikauhale, they say: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Scorpii )] [October 14th]; the Moon occulted tau Scorpii as seen from Eastern Europe, not to be repeated before 2043.]
[Raleigh's 2026 Tree of the Year – nominations October 1st-14th.]
[Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900.] [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche ]
["The 21st Annual West End Poetry Festival returns to Carrboro Oct. 15-17, 2026. ... The theme this year is “Kinship, Community and Belonging.” http://www.carrboronc.gov//m/NewsFlash/home/detail/3317 "]
[October 15-25th – www.ncagr.gov/divisions/nc-state-fair/plan-your-visit/hours-operation ]
This is the post 1,009 on DS, unintended, and there are other duplicate posts ( durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/02/machine-censored-posts-2.html , etc.
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