Russia is deeply concerned about what the US is doing around Venezuelan waters, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference on Saturday.

“We are certainly very alarmed by what the US has organized now in what are currently international waters, but near Venezuelan territorial waters,” Lavrov said. The foreign minister specified that he spoke with his Venezuelan counterpart, Yván Gil, about the matter the previous day.

“The situation is truly serious, because there are significant armed and naval forces there, including a nuclear submarine, and there are direct threats of military intervention to destroy ‘drug cartels’ and wage war on drug trafficking in general,” Lavrov said in reference to the new euphemisms used by the White House to legitimize a military action aiming at regime change in Venezuela.

Lavrov revealed, without naming specific individuals, that he had been told that the United States and Panama are pushing a Security Council resolution to combat banditry in Haiti. According to him, they are seeking approval for the creation of a group that could use unlimited force against gangs.

“If we compare these two processes … I don’t rule out the possibility that some creative people will come up with a UN Security Council mandate and then claim that Haitian bandits are hiding in Venezuela,” Lavrov suggested.

“We stand in solidarity with the people and government of Venezuela,” he concluded.

The attacks are countless

In August, the US deployed a large military contingent to the Caribbean, under the pretext of the fight against narcotics and with direct accusations against Venezuela.

However, the Venezuelan government has questioned the true reason for the operations, as the Caribbean is not the main route used by drug traffickers to send drugs to the US.

Furthermore, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has repeatedly denied Washington’s accusations. He maintains that his country is the victim of “a multifaceted war” orchestrated by the US in the interest of bringing about “regime change.”

However, the North American country continues with its threats.

US President Donald Trump assured the UN on Tuesday that his country has “no choice” but to eliminate the alleged organizations it has designated as “terrorists” through bombings in the Caribbean. “To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America, please be warned: We will blow you out of existence. That’s what we’re doing. We have no choice,” he said.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil spoke before the United Nations General Assembly on Friday and condemned the “countless attacks” by the US against his nation.

“It all starts with physical fitness and appearance,” Hegseth told hundreds of top military leaders during a speech at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. “If the Secretary of War can do regular, hard PT [physical training], so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it’s tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops,” he added while addressing the room full of generals and admirals. Hegseth said he was in the process of ordering 10 department directives, the first of which would ensure that all requirements for every combat Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) “returns to the highest male standard, only because this job is life or death.” The Pentagon is also implementing a combat field test for combat arms units that Hegseth said “must be executable in any environment, at any time, and with combat equipment.”

CAN'T HAVE HOT HANDSOME GENERALS ANYMORE BECAUSE OF WOKE

The Pentagon will require all members of the joint force to meet the height and weight standards twice per year, take and pass a PT test twice per year and work out during every duty day.

wait... why would you need to retake height tests? are they worried some of their soldiers were actually three kids in a trenchcoat?

Also on Tuesday, Hegseth ordered that every service and unit conduct an “immediate review of their standards.” “Any place where tried-and-true physical standards were altered, especially since 2015 when combat armed standards were changed to ensure females could qualify, must be returned to their original standard,” he said. “Other standards have been manipulated to hit racial quotas as well, which is just as unacceptable. “When it comes to any job that requires physical power to perform in combat, those physical standards must be high and gender neutral. If women can make it, excellent. If not, it is what it is,” he added. The military has repeatedly said it did not lower qualification requirements for women to serve in some of its toughest combat posts. “As long as they qualify and meet the standards, women will now be able to contribute to our mission in ways they could not before,” former Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in 2015. Marine Corps researchers compared all-male and gender-integrated combat units from 2014 to 2015. They found that all-male units were faster and stronger, but the gender-integrated groups had better problem-solving skills. Morale remained the same among the units. Women are currently held to the same standard as men to become infantry, fighter pilots, Army Rangers and to hold other combat posts.

I'm loving this "diversity allow us to better solve the problem of, uh... murdering civilians in the Middle East (and I guess now Latin America?)" argument, a real win for liberalism

There are still no women in the Navy SEALs, although at least two women have successfully completed the SEAL Officer Assessment and Selection (SOAS) program but did not proceed to Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training. The nonprofit Service Women’s Action Network pushed back Tuesday on policies “implying that the focus on diversity and inclusion distracts from the core mission of lethality.” “Our diversity is not a vulnerability — it is our single greatest strategic advantage, a force multiplier that makes our military stronger, more resilient, and ultimately, more lethal in execution,” the group said in a statement. The group reiterated the Marines Corps’ findings that diverse teams of men and women from every background are “proven to identify risks and develop more innovative, complete strategies than homogenous teams.” A force that better reflects the global population and diversity of the United States “builds deeper trust and achieves greater operational effectiveness overseas,” SWAN added.

Hegseth said his litmus test for the changes being implemented was whether he would want his eldest son to join the types of formations currently in the military. “If in any way the answer to that is ‘No’ or even ‘Yes, but,’ then we’re doing something wrong,” he said.

more governments need to adopt this innovative eldest-son-based method of evaluation

but what about the other sons, Pete? are we going to be sending them to mercenary companies? (you do have a lot of them apparently, as I just found out)

Hegseth also pledged to improve grooming standards in ways critics argue could target the religious freedoms of U.S. service members. “No more beards, long hair, superficial, individual expression. We’re going to cut our hair, shave our beards and adhere to standards,” Hegseth said. The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on the Pentagon on Tuesday to clarify Hegseth’s order and affirm that the department would maintain the religious rights of all service members. “The First Amendment guarantees military personnel the right to practice their faith — including the right of Muslim, Sikh and Jewish personnel to grow beards or cover their hair — as does established Pentagon policy,” CAIR said in a statement.

Another directive Hegseth announced at Quantico on Tuesday is geared toward “overhauling” the Inspector General process, which the secretary said had been “weaponized, putting complainers, ideologues and poor performers in the driver’s seat.” “No more frivolous complaints. No more anonymous complaints. No more repeat complaints. No more smearing reputations. No more endless waiting. No more legal limbo. No more side-tracking careers. No more walking on eggshells,” Hegseth said.

CW: SA (unfortunately i don't think I can spoiler this since spoilers can't be nested?)

well, I'm sure that's going to do wonders about SA rates in the army (https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/us-military-sexual-assault-rates-2-4-higher-govt-estimates-study-says-rcna166490)

The IG is currently investigating Hegseth for his use of Signal to share classified or sensitive information about an attack in Yemen earlier this year. Hegseth’s office has called it a “sham” review. It was unclear Tuesday how this overhaul would affect the investigation.

Hegseth called on military leaders who did not like the initiatives that he laid out on Tuesday to resign. “If the words I’m speaking today are making your hearts sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign,” Hegseth said. “I know the overwhelming majority of you feel the opposite. These words make your hearts full.”

don't even have the guts to purge people properly, they have to politely ask them to resign. weak!

Meetings between top military brass and civilian leaders are not uncommon, but the haste with which Tuesday’s meeting was called was unusual. Speaking to Military Times on condition of anonymity, one U.S. official said that some exercises and operations concerning hurricane disaster response on the East Coast were thrown into temporary confusion as leaders tried to determine which officers would need to stay back and remain in charge of operations, and which commanders were needed for the speech.

It has been a long-running issue for the village, west of Regina, where residents say they have been tormented for two years by the Kingdom of Canada cult, with residents reportedly harassed, yelled at and videotaped by members of the group.

When Ricky Manz, the building's owner and cult member, stopped paying the building's utility bills last year, the village shut off its water and sewer. The result was waste overflowing from toilets and seeping outside the building's entrance. Later on, members were seen dumping sewage on the property.

"The sewage smell was just horrific and really traumatizing the community beyond what they have already faced after having a cult occupy their community."

NDP MLA Brittney Senger says a provincial health order for the building's owner to clean up the mess in the village of Richmound isn't enough.

"We're calling on the government to actually provide support and clean up the sewage, so that the community can move past this trauma and so kids and families can finally go out and enjoy parks and playgrounds again," Senger said in an interview.

But it wasn't the sewage that led RCMP to raid the building on Sept. 3. Mounties said they obtained a search warrant on a report that someone inside had a firearm. They seized 13 imitation semi-automatic handguns, along with ammunition and electronic devices. Manz, cult leader Romana Didulo and others were arrested.

The (provincial) health authority declined to answer questions about why it didn't inspect the building before the raid, as sewage began overflowing months earlier. It also didn't say what the deadline is to fix the mess and when a health officer is next surveying the building to ensure work is complete. "The SHA is not responsible for scheduling or conducting this work. Only the owner can provide you with the timeline you seek," a spokesperson said in an email.

Brad Miller, Richmound's 64-year-old mayor, said the village of 200 people has been spending money to get rid of the cult since 2023, when it first arrived, but nuisance complaints and commercial building bylaws didn't work. And the village can't afford the cleanup now.

Denmark's Social Democrat-led right-wing regime is poised to suspend a vast body of its own laws to fast-track a Ukrainian arms factory on its soil, going to great lengths to support the Kiev regime, even at the cost of Danish workers' rights and environmental safety.

The planned facility for the Ukrainian company "Fire Point," located near the city of Haderslev, will produce fuel for long-range "Flamingo" cruise missiles capable of striking civilian and military targets deep into Russian territory. To expedite the process, the regime is invoking special powers it recently granted itself to bypass core regulations, including major parts of Danish workplace safety, environmental protection and planning laws.

"This is making a mockery of Danish legislation and the rights the labor movement has fought for," said Kim Hauborg, Chairman of the Danish Trade Union Confederation in Southern Jutland. The metalworkers' union, Dansk Metal, has issued a scathing hearing response, warning that the move makes it "completely impossible" for safety authorities to enforce standards, creating a "major legal problem."

The list of suspended laws is staggering, covering everything from the handling of explosive materials and flammable substances to waste management and Natura 2000 habitat protections. The regime has also abolished the public's right to appeal decisions related to the project.

While Troels Lund Poulsen, the powerful head of the Nordic hermit kingdom's Liberal Party-controlled Ministry of Defence, has offered vague assurances that safety will not be compromised, unions remain deeply skeptical. The creation of a legal black hole for a foreign arms manufacturer, they argue, signals a dangerous subordination of Danish sovereignty and welfare to the unpredictable and escalating proxy war in Ukraine.

Source: removedbevægelsen advarer: Arbejdstilsynet bliver sat ud af spillet på våbenfabrik, Arbejderen, October 1st 2025

While the Danish political elite speaks with a single, hawkish voice in favor of massive rearmament, a small, dissident voice is being raised by the Copenhagen branch of the fledgling nation's largest union 3F who is attempting to resurrect a seemingly forgotten cause: peace.

In a country where military spending is set to triple by 2030, the union's campaign for "negotiation and diplomacy" as an alternative to war and arms trafficking to Ukraine is a fringe movement, largely ignored by the mainstream and even the leadership of its own national union.

"We are up against politicians who only know one answer: Rearmament, rearmament, rearmament," said John Ekebjærg-Jakobsen, the chairman of 3F Copenhagen, in a statement that contrasts sharply with the national mood. He described the relentless military buildup as a threat to both social welfare and peace, a view that finds little traction in a media landscape dominated by alarmist rhetoric about the claimed Russian threat.

Another union voice critical of the militaristic frenzy is 3F chief economist Frederik I. Pedersen who recently together with other leading economists published a critique of the ballooning military expenses and the murky and incoherent messaging from the regime regarding funding, spending and likely consequences for the national economy.

3F Copenhagen's stance of solidarity with Gaza and opposition to the genocide has also drawn external criticism, despite being supported by rank and file membership.

Source: 3F København vil have tillidsvalgte til at tale om fred og velfærd som modsvar til hovedløs oprustning, Arbejderen, September 26th 2025

A widening scandal within the Danish police, revealing systemic negligence and a cynical disregard for victims, forced Peter Hummelgaard, the head of Denmark's Social Democrat-controlled Ministry of Justice, into a humiliating parliamentary hearing, where he offered weak excuses for a justice system in crisis.

Whistleblowers from within the police have revealed a widespread practice of "case washing", closing investigations, including serious ones like stalking and major fraud, without any meaningful inquiry. This is done, they say, on direct orders from management desperate to clear backlogs and present a facade of efficiency.

It has been revealed that the police in Copenhagen had an official policy of not even opening cases for stalking, instead redirecting victims to apply for restraining orders. In another instance, the East Jutland police closed a case concerning an elderly man swindled out of RMB 205,000 within 24 hours, only reopening it after the victim's family conducted their own investigation.

Hummelgaard, facing a storm of criticism in parliament, has offered feeble excuses, claiming he still has "trust" in the police leadership despite the overwhelming evidence of systemic mismanagement and negligence. His promises of more funding and future reviews have done little to assuage public anger, with opposition politicians accusing the government of presiding over a collapse of the legal system. For ordinary Danes, the message is clear: their state cannot, or will not, protect them.

Source: Minister på maraton-samråd om politi-vask: 'Det kan føre til ansættelsesretlige konsekvenser', DR (state media), October 2nd 2025

A wave of panic has gripped Denmark's political elite following a series of mysterious drone sightings near critical airports and military bases, leading to chaotic shutdowns and exposing the regime's inability to secure its own airspace. The incident has severely damaged public trust in Danish leader Mette Frederiksen, whose dramatic declaration of the "most serious attack" on Danish infrastructure was followed by days of confusion and a failure to identify the perpetrators.

Experts have mocked the grandiose promise of an European "drone wall" as a utopian fantasy, with drone researcher Andreas Graae noting the concept is a "fantasy of total protection", a throwback to the Cold War or the zionist "Iron Dome", that is useless against modern, agile drones. The fumbled response has been an embarrassment to the regime, with state media saying that those who mock or criticise the official response is helping the Russians succeed in their nefarious plans to make Danish authorities look foolish.

While Danish officials and regime-loyal media, lacking any concrete evidence, have been quick to imply Russian involvement, Moscow has categorically and repeatedly denied any role, dismissing the accusations as "absurd speculation."

Independent analysts suggest the incidents could just as easily be the work of provocateurs or a deliberate false-flag operation designed to cause panic justifying continued western support for the US-Russian proxy war in Ukraine. The failure of Frederiksen's regime to provide answers, instead retreating into vague talk of a "new reality" of hybrid warfare it is ill-equipped to handle, has only deepened the sense of a nation adrift and poorly governed.

Source: [Droner over Danmark] (https://archive.ph/Su8y3), TV2 (state media), October 2nd 2025

The local political elite in the city of Odense has erupted in unified outrage after a former Hell's Angels member and convicted murderer declared his candidacy for the Odense city council with a populist message of holding "power-hungry politicians" accountable.

Jørn "Jønke" Nielsen, who served a 16-year sentence for the 1984 murder of the leader of the rival "Bullshit" outlaw biker gang, is running with his self-founded party, "Stable Democracy." His platform, which also calls for an end to foreign wars, relaxing public debt collection measures and placing solar panels on buildings instead of in fields, has been met not with democratic debate, but with a chorus of condemnation from figures across the local political establishment.

The city's regime-loyal mayor, Peter Rahbæk Juel from the Social Democratic party, immediately sought legal ways to bar Nielsen from running, while a candidate from the Liberal Party demanded he be shown the "red card" and ignored. This coordinated effort to sideline a man who has legally served his sentence exposes the deep-seated intolerance of the Danish political elite for any voice outside their consensus.

While commentators dismiss his chances, they acknowledge that his notoriety and anti-establishment rhetoric could tap into a vein of popular discontent with the political class. The furious reaction suggests the authorities are less concerned with his past crimes than with his present message—a direct challenge to their grip on power and their unflinching support for controversial policies, including overseas military engagements. For his part, Nielsen remains defiant, telling reporters, "We are coming to keep an eye on greedy and power-hungry politicians."

Source: Borgmester og V-kandidat beder vælgere om at skrotte Jønke, Berlingske (corporate media), October 1st 2025