Durham Spark - Durham, North Carolina, USA: More late summer

With some re-editing:

[See also: nepajac.org/futureactions.htm ]

[The 2026 Parkwood Fall Flea Market in southern Durham (by the intersection of Revere Road and Seaton, 5122 Revere Road) will be the morning of Saturday October 3rd. Parkwood Fall Fest will be 11am-3pm November 14th or 21st, at the Parkwood Ballfield (5124 Revere Road).]

[The 2026 American Craft Week is October 3rd-11th; the 19th Annual Celebration of Seagrove Potters Show and Studio Tour will be Friday, November 20, 2026 | Saturday, November 21, 2026 | Sunday, November 22, 2026 – ]

[From nextsystem.org –

David Keith Cobb Presente!

Saturday, October 3

2:00 PM PT

In-person: Arcata Playhouse, 1251 9th St, Arcata, CA

Virtual: via Memorial site ]

[The Moon, the star Pollux, Mars, and Jupiter will be together in the eastern sky near dawn October 4th.]

[Saturn will reach opposition October 4th (at about 8am EDT); due to the IAU (1922-1930; not due to astrology), etc. Saturn was in the southern [(or equinoctial)] [correction – equatorial, though it is near the equinoctial point/in Pisces, south of the star omega Piscium] sea monster Cetus April 10th-June 3rd and will be again September 5th-February 22, 2027 (a retrograde motion out of Pisces, etc. and back again). Regarding Cetus see: penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/gazetteer/topics/astronomy/_texts/secondary/allsta/home.html ]

[Banned Books Week 2026 began October 4th? The CHPL's great hypocrisy.]

[Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard ]

[Scholar Hertha von Dechend was born October 5, 1915, in Heidelberg, Germany, and passed away April 23, 2001.]

[The Moon and Mars will be about one degrees apart October 5th (an occultation will be visible from Arctic Alaska and Canada) and the Moon will be in the Beehive star cluster (M44) in the constellation Cancer, both dim, later that night. Mars will be in the star cluster October 11-12th.]

[The next occultation of Jupiter by the Moon [(from Canada the USA, México, Cuba, the Greater Antilles, South Caicos Island, Inagua, Turks, etc.)] will be early on October 6th, this time at night [(. 4:20-5:24 in DC 4:15-5:16 in Atlanta, 3:14-4:11 in New Orleans, etc.)]] [Moonrise will be around 2:30am.] [See: spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=05&month=10&year=2026 , tinyurl.com/Graze2026 , and tinyurl.com/IOTAjupiter ; for weather: zoom.earth , windy.com , and astrospheric.com ] [September 28, 2034 again; November 27th and December 24th in 2037 in Portland, Oregon ; September 3, 1889, December 7, 2004, and November 27, 2037 (?) in NYC.]

[From smartchatham.org – Chatham County Planning Board meeting – October 6th 6:30pm – Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center – shorter (?) no public comment period, wear green.]

[Asteroid Pallas will reach opposition October 6th [(at about 7pm EDT).]

[September 30th – www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/iran-has-driven-the-us-out-of-iraq

[ www.moonofalabama.org/2026/09/iraq-is-not-yet-sovereign.html ]

www.rt.com/news/646510-iraqi-militias-celebrating-us-defeat/

www.rt.com/news/646468-rt-examines-human-cost-us-intervention-iraq/

www.rt.com/news/646601-us-iraq-project-failure/

www.rt.com/news/646554-iran-us-irag-irgc/

www.rt.com/news/644839-iraq-committed-full-us-withdrawal/

www.rt.com/news/646386-iranian-women-undergoing-military-training-en-masse/

[ robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-includes-5fc ]

www.rt.com/news/646704-wikileaks-20-anniversary-assange-videos/

www.rt.com/news/645939-wikileaks-assange-return-announcement/ ]

[The 1973 War was October 6-25 – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War ]

[ diario-octubre.com/2026/10/06/medio-siglo-despues-cuba-mantiene-viva-memoria-del-crimen-barbados/

October 6, 1987 – 39 Years of the IJ Movement in Palestine: Khaled Barakat on Resistance, Unity and Liberation – masarbadil.org/en/2026/10/8556/ ]

[ samidoun.net/2026/10/39-years-of-resistance-islamic-jihad-and-the-palestinian-prisoners-movement/ ]

[October 7, 1780 – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kings_Mountain

Born October 7, 1952 – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin (and the Venezuelan Machado was born October 7th).

The USA, etc. invaded Afghanistan October 7, 2001.]

[The occupiers, the compradors (or collaborators), and the imperialists of NATO were hit by a great Flood October 7, 2023 and they are still swamped in 2026.]

[See The Dissident – the307.substack.com/p/israel-collected-and-deleted-footage , etc.]

[ the307.substack.com/p/three-years-of-the-hannibal-directive ]

[ the307.substack.com/p/haaretz-editorial-board-acknowledges ]

[ www.defenddemocracy.press/troisieme-anniversaire-du-deluge-dal-aqsa-les-communiques-de-laxe-de-la-resistance/ ]

["Masar Badil on the Anniversary of 7 October: Toward a Palestinian-Arab-Internationalist Front on the Path of Liberation and Return" – masarbadil.org/en/2026/10/8569/

"Three Years of Al-Aqsa Flood: Resistance, Revolution and the Struggle for Liberation" – samidoun.net/2026/10/three-years-of-al-aqsa-flood-resistance-revolution-and-the-struggle-for-liberation/

samidoun.net/2026/10/full-video-and-transcript-liberated-prisoner-jaser-barghouti-speaks-in-madrid-on-al-aqsa-flood-and-the-palestinian-cause/ ]

[ theworker.news/2026/10/06/commemorate-the-third-anniversary-of-al-aqsa-flood/ ]

[ palestinewillbefree.substack.com/ and zanzibar.substack.com/p/trois-ans-de-genocide

[On RT and www.tarikcyrilamar.com/p/a-revelation-of-evil/ (Israel's actions)]

[ theleftberlin.com/7-october-2023-palestinian-militants-break-out-of-gaza/ ]

[ www.nlg.org/national-lawyers-guild-says-free-palestine/ ]

[On Tufan Al-Aqsa – indi.ca/three-years-of-october-7th/ ]

[ caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/10/07/no-one-gives-a-fuck-about-october-7/ (the Israeli version)]

[ alainmarshal.org/2026/10/07/norman-finkelstein-sur-le-7-octobre-je-crache-sur-tous-ceux-qui-condamnent-la-revolte-du-camp-de-concentration-de-gaza/

[ lecridespeuples.substack.com/p/troisieme-anniversaire-du-deluge 5

[ diario-octubre.com/2026/08/30/stos-son-lo-principales-puntos-publicados-por-el-fplp-para-el-rescate-nacional/