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The author argued that in Korea banks granted businesses credit equal to 110% of GDP, double that of Italy, where he claimed it was at 55% of GDP and had been stagnant since 2006. He pointed to bank credit to businesses as the main factor for economic growth. #Economia #Banche #Imprese #KR #IT (translated)

Julio Schneider stated that the PT governed almost 17 of the 23 years of Eduarda Campopiano's life, but still lost the youth for her. He attributed this rejection to the offer of easy credit and diplomas without jobs, and to the priority given to identity politics, instead of housing, income, and future prospects. Schneider said that Generation Z grew up under lulopetismo and began to reject it, labeling the PT as a criminal organization. #PT #Juventude #GeraçãoZ (translated)

Sabrina F. claimed that Volodymyr Zelensky was contacting his European allies after Donald Trump suggested he change jobs. She joked about the possibility that he might even call deceased relatives. According to her account, one of the calls was directed to London and the interlocutor was Andy Burnham, whom she referred to as the British Prime Minister. She reported that they would discuss support for Kiev, sanctions against Moscow, and an upcoming meeting, which in her opinion would primarily serve for a photograph, without guarantees on funding. Sabrina F. criticized the European Union, arguing that it promised support in words while the bill would fall on the citizens, and contrasted European statements with American pragmatism. She described Zelensky's phone calls as an attempt to keep a failed project alive. Among the sources she cited were a communiqué from the British government dated October 10, 2026, one from the Ukrainian presidency of the same date, and the Associated Press, also dated October 10, 2026. #Zelensky #Ucraina #PoliticaInternazionale (translated)

Fede Sturzenegger stated that a tweet from Flor Carignano about DNU 70/23 showed, in his opinion, that Kirchnerism was against the benefits that the norm had granted to Argentines. He described it as a force protecting the "elite" and claimed that its proposals would lead to stagnation and poverty. In defending the decree, Sturzenegger said that after the repeal of the Rental Law, four times more apartments were being published and that prices had dropped by more than 30% in real terms. He also stated that, since the DNU, the prices of medications had fallen by 20% in real terms; domestic tickets by 51%; and tourist packages by 40%. He added that in 2025 there were 33 million passengers and that international connections from cities in the interior increased by 70%. Regarding foreign trade, he attributed part of the 63% drop in appliance prices and the 43% drop in textiles to the changes in the decree. He also said that more than 750,000 satellite internet connections allowed access for almost 3 million people in the interior, and that tourism reforms had increased the number of agencies by almost 40% and employment in the sector by more than 10%. Sturzenegger pointed out that some labor and land provisions had been taken to Congress, while others had been challenged in court. He stated that the DNU had removed trade restrictions, reduced paperwork, and allowed contracts in the chosen currency, among other changes. He concluded that the debate about the decree should be kept in mind in the elections of the following year. #DNU70 #Kirchnerismo #Argentina (translated)

SCCP News reported that Clarence Seedorf took over as the technical commander of Corinthians and said he considered it an honor and a great responsibility to face the challenge. According to the publication, the coach stated that he would give his best to form a team willing to fight for every ball, minute, and victory. #Corinthians #Seedorf #Futebol (translated)

Rosario Aitala, deputy president of the International Criminal Court, told Corriere della Sera that the sanctions announced by the United States were preventing judges from carrying out both public and private activities, and that for many of them, the effects were already in place. He reported that they were subjected to measures similar to those reserved for terrorists: revoked credit cards, closed bank accounts, and canceled insurance contracts, with some companies refusing to reimburse medical expenses. According to Aitala, many apps on their phones had stopped working and it was forbidden to book hotels or flights through platforms. As an example, he recounted that Alexa no longer responded to a colleague after he asked her to play blues music. Another European colleague, he added, had booked a room in his own country through a European platform and, after half an hour, received an email ordering him not to try again. #Giustizia #Sanzioni #DirittiUmani (translated)

The author noted that Pedro Passos Coelho would give an interview to Maria João Avillez on SIC Notícias, between 9 PM and 10 PM, and argued that his governance should be reassessed in light of the financial conditions he encountered. According to the author, Portugal had already requested external assistance when Passos Coelho arrived at the Government in 2011, and the adjustment program of 78 billion euros had been negotiated before he took office. He maintained that during the legislature, exports rose from about one-third of GDP to nearly 40% in 2015, including tourism, and that the tourism sector gained strategic momentum. Regarding privatizations, he acknowledged that some operations were questionable and warranted scrutiny but argued that they allowed the collection of billions of euros, the amortization of public debt, and reduce financing needs and interest burdens. He also considered that cuts in the public sector were painful but questioned what the alternatives would have been when the State could no longer finance itself normally. The author further highlighted that Portugal completed the financial assistance program in 2014 and returned to market financing without a precautionary program, recovering, in his view, decision-making leeway. He stated that Passos Coelho was the most relevant politician of the century in Portugal for having made unpopular decisions and contributed to an economic change whose effects surpassed his Government. #Portugal #Política #Economia (translated)

Leandro Ruschel stated that a reporter from Veja considered that the attention given to the recording published by the magazine would be diverting focus from more serious allegations based on messages found on Daniel Vorcaro's cell phone. According to Ruschel, the reporter said that messages from 2024 and 2025 would indicate a collusion with executives from the pension funds of Banco do Brasil, Caixa, Petrobras, and Correios to raise R$ 10 billion, of which R$ 1 billion would be destined to the PT as a bribe. The account also mentioned more than 450 messages with an operator linked to the office of Minister Alexandre Padilha. Ruschel said that, according to the report, Banco Master entered in May 2024 a government list that would allow it to receive investments from the funds, despite having low credit ratings and being under investigation for fraud. During the same period, the bank reportedly negotiated R$ 500 million in credit letters with Caixa; the operation retreated after O Globo reported, in July 2024, the removal of two managers who had issued a negative opinion. The report also claimed that Padilha had said, in a meeting at the Palácio do Planalto, that agreements made with Olavo Noleto would count as agreements with the minister himself, and that, after dinner at Vorcaro's house in October 2024, the banker received a message saying that Lula would meet him and had liked the conversation. According to Ruschel, the reporter stated that Lula received Vorcaro in December and that messages from lawyer Walfrido Warde suggested pressure on the Central Bank to save Master. He added that Vorcaro would have presented the account to the Attorney General's Office (PGR), which had refused to receive the material, and that there would be evidence involving PGR members who had contact with the defense. Ruschel said that the reporter argued that Vorcaro should be heard and warned of the risk of diverting workers' resources to save the bank. #Corrupção #Política #Justiça (translated)

I returned home and Alexa no longer spoke to me. Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, affected by sanctions in August 2025, recounted in an interview with the U.S. radio station NPR that she suddenly lost access to several services that were part of her daily life, from credit cards to cloud accounts. #CortePenaleInternazionale #SanzioniUSA #GiustiziaInternazionale (translated)

Felipe Moura Brasil shared the transcription of a reporter from Veja who defended a report amid the reactions to the publication of a recording. The journalist stated that, in addition to the audio, the article was based on messages found on Daniel Vorcaro's cell phone before he formalized a plea deal proposal. According to the reporter, Vorcaro had already presented a third proposal to the PGR, but the agency did not want to listen to him. In the transcription, the reporter claimed that messages from 2024 and 2025 indicated that Vorcaro had intermediaries at the Palácio do Planalto who were working with executives from the pension funds of Banco do Brasil, Caixa Econômica, Petrobras, and Correios. He asserted that the objective was to raise 10 billion reais from these funds, with 1 billion reais earmarked for bribes to the PT, as part of an agreement to save Banco Master. He also said that an operator linked to the office of Minister Alexandre Padilha sought fund executives and that meetings had been organized to facilitate the bank's operations. The reporter further stated that, in May 2024, Banco Master entered the so-called "exhaustive list," which, according to him, allowed the funds to invest in the institution. At the same time, he said, the bank was negotiating credit letters worth 500 million reais with Caixa Econômica. According to the journalist, the operation did not progress after the newspaper O Globo reported, in July 2024, that two managers from Caixa had been removed for issuing a negative opinion. He added that Vorcaro had reported, in a plea deal proposal to which the report had access, that Padilha and other PT members backed down after the case was disclosed. #Lula #Corrupção #Política (translated)

Miriam González reported that a post of hers about the limits of artificial intelligence reached people at Anthropic, who quickly got in touch with her. She thanked them for the promotion and said she had requested to participate in the company's AI for Science program. During the early morning, she received acceptance of her project, and the usage credits for Claude appeared in her account. She added that she would continue to develop it and share updates. #IA #Ciencia #Éxito (translated)

"The global economy is caught between a negative energy supply shock and a positive demand impact linked to artificial intelligence. The combined impact of these two forces is very uneven," Georgieva summarized. "To harness the transformational power of AI, it is crucial that access to it becomes widespread around the world. In a world as interconnected as ours, countries collaborate not out of charity but out of their own interest," Georgieva emphasized. "We have gone through a series of shocks: the COVID pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the inflation shock, a brutal rise in interest rates, and now, the energy shock. Each time, governments have come to the aid of households and businesses by resorting to credit and deepening the deficit," Georgieva recalled. #InteligenciaArtificial #FMI #CooperaciónInternacional (translated)

Renato Rovai said he would sleep happily for having denounced, before the publication of an article, what he called another media coup that could help Brazil continue to be democratic. He stated that this was not unprecedented in his journey nor in the history of Fórum and that he did not care about the lack of credit, as his fight was for Brazil, a country he said he loved deeply. #Democracia #Jornalismo #Brasil (translated)

Renato Rovai stated that he was not seeking personal recognition and said that his struggle was for democracy. He claimed that his followers knew he had been the first to denounce the case. According to him, information from DCM indicated that the agreement even involved negotiations about a television channel. In the name of the progressive media, he thanked those who gave him credit. #democracia #mídia #justiça (translated)

David Ágape wrote that a security report from OpenAI identified two clandestine influence operations, one Russian and the other Iranian, that allegedly used the company's artificial intelligence to insert content into media outlets. In Brazil, according to him, the document attributed to the Russian operation a comparison between the governments of Jair Bolsonaro and Lula, published by the Social Research Center (SRC) under the guise of research. The article associated Bolsonaro with institutional wear and Lula with the recovery of the country's credibility. Ágape also stated that operators attempted to claim authorship of a report from Poder360. https://t.co/9YgGIZ65w7 #ChatGPT #SegurançaDigital #Desinformação (translated)

The Geoscientific Network of Chile reported that a flood was descending through the San Carlos de Apoquindo sector in the municipality of Las Condes. It also shared a link and stated that the credits belonged to their respective authors. https://t.co/svs0iGXd2q #Aluvión #LasCondes #Emergencia (translated)

The American ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, is involved in a corruption scandal after asking a Maga donor for $100,000 to settle a debt on her credit card, causing embarrassment in Washington and pressure for her resignation. #KimberlyGuilfoyle #DonaldTrump #corruzione (translated)