School Protests, October 21, 2026

ONLY VIDEOS FOR THIS POST YOU CAN CHECK ON THE SUBSTACK POST, SORRY

Managed to lose the post which maybe was lucky because I was working on it last Sunday after two beers and I was so angry that I took a new snus before the old one was finished with only two left in the can – really in a fit of rage.

In the reporting around the school protests in France, the media is holding back a lot and Twitter is full of Russian influence accounts, so you have to try to navigate as best you can.

I have some videos and screenshots that I believe represent what has happened, if it is pure psyops it is unintentional.

Anyway, the French government has now confirmed that it is the far left behind this and has also imposed a state of emergency in four cities (at the time of writing).

https://www.nytimes.com/article/france-student-protests-why.html

The protests are not a unified protest, as we wrote in the last post there are completely legitimate welfare protests and union protests also ongoing but there is a tail of several hundred thousand who are there to create chaos and the far left is coaching them.

There are videos where you see organizers who are the older ones overseeing the situation.

It will take a couple of weeks but rumors say that certain types of businesses and operations have been targeted and others spared. I want to wait for something official before discussing it because if so it points in a clear direction. There are also rumors that they had lists of businesses to be looted but we will have to wait for formal confirmation as right now a thousand rumors are spreading.

Yesterday came the first hints that they have now broken into private individuals’ apartments.

And also that protesters who are armed have now started to be encountered.

As I said, I don’t know what is psyops or not here but both are quite plausible.

The organizers need the masses with them and to attract to the “school protest” they have promised free looting. An organizer without the masses is like a pop concert without an audience – boring.

There are groups going from store to store breaking them open and then immediately moving on to the next, then the masses come and take care of the actual looting.

They have also targeted public, historical and religious buildings where they have either vandalized and graffitied them or simply burned them down.

Of course, our national icon is not giving up and stands giving her wholehearted support and wants revolution because it is needed. She has come out as a revolutionary and with her large platform it should be highlighted, I think. At least she hit the mark perfectly when she called for revolution and it became the country’s worst riots since 1968.

As usual, it is lots of small businesses that get their operations burned down, often those who pay the taxes that all these revolutionaries live on.

France has done completely right – now all agencies are mobilized and hundreds of investigators will try to find the instigators and Macron has demanded all parliamentary parties to condemn the protests. Mélenchon’s left party has so far said that he wants revolution and wholeheartedly supports the riots so we will see if he changes his mind before or after they lock him up and throw away the key.

As a popular politician with a 15% party, calling for revolution is not very classy.

Some churches have been burned along with one or a few vandalized synagogues.

These school protests have now spread to – the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Albania, Portugal, Spain and if they haven’t started yet they will soon in the UK, Germany and Ireland.

The problem is the following – we have only seen the beginning.

Step one is to get police violence going and for right-wing extremists to take to the streets, ultras in Europe have already in some places started manifesting themselves in demonstrations with placards saying that if it doesn’t end they will rise and meet the far left.

When police violence escalates, because it must, then quite a lot of media out of habit will latch on to it because it fits within their usual frames to scream outraged about.

When right-wing extremists take to the streets, Russian agents will start burning mosques and then in those marches some Qurans and some caricatures of Muhammad will be burned.

Suddenly we have a group of believers who got pissed off and also take to the streets – then everyone is in place for full street warfare.

These revolutionaries will go as far as they can and they only back down for strength so then the authorities must manifest strength, which Russian troll accounts will spread so even more get pissed off and take to the streets. A downward spiral.

France is a high-tax country which means those who work pay large amounts of pesetas in tax every month in benefits to those who now want revolution.

At some point, even they will have had enough and take to the streets over the high taxes that led to this maybe?

Revolution in a welfare state is as absurd as it sounds but that is where we are now, apparently there are 800,000 in France at the time of writing who believe they have the right to take what others have worked for.

This really stung, I had to take another snus when I saw it.

This is coordinated, there is a whole administrative structure in the lynch mobs and it is a multi-stage rocket so we have only seen the beginning so far.

The payout is obvious – economic damage, political damage, political deadlock, interest rates go up and you get hit harder in the coming financial crisis.

By the way, now we know why Europe didn’t believe there would be a war in 2022, Russia had too few deployed at the border with only 190,000, this came out recently.

The security services are idiots and apparently didn’t see the whole picture at all – Belarus and Hungary/Transnistria would close the UA land border to Europe as soon as the Russians took Kiev.

1,500 SOF were infiltrated and they dropped paratroopers over the presidential palace.

Then everything came at once in a chain of bad luck – China asked Putin to wait so the frost would thaw in the ground and on the few advance routes it naturally stopped and the ground around was not drivable.

The soldiers had been waiting so long at the border that they sold all fuel for alcohol and then it was cold so they idled the vehicles when it stopped until the gas was gone – the big fuel shortage that took the lead to solve for a while.

Ukrainian civilians broke into the barracks, armed themselves and took the fight. The few units that existed were wiped out but stopped the advance and then the miracle at Hostomel.

Zalizhny and Sirsky broke orders around the Kiev area and had secretly mobilized and moved the few units that existed.

The buddies who betrayed them were waiting for Kiev to fall which it never did, so they never had to do their part in the plan.

FSB, which was supposed to pay 5 billion USD in bribes, stole most of the money but in southern Ukraine the Russians advanced undisturbed the first days when no one stopped them. The few bridges that existed were never blown up and mobilization orders were delayed – that’s where the bribes had probably been paid.

Russia failed because of Xi Jinping, the weather, bad luck, friends who always betray, the Ukrainian national spirit, and the corrupt FSB.

Now the security services are making the same mistake: “there are no units against the Baltics, so no danger.”

“Russia has no reserves.”

“Russia has no equipment.”

They haven’t read Johan No.1.

First of all, there were apparently 45,000 in an exercise recently – I’ve heard exactly zero about it.

Besides those, there are 450,000 in the Rosgvardia, FSB, GRU, and other elite units that have not set foot in Ukraine.

Then there are two army corps at the northern border with Ukraine, with North Korea’s 11th AC behind them on standby, which can take over border security if they are redeployed.

There will never be a buildup against the Baltics; the warning if something happens is that units in Kursk and Belgorod oblast start moving, then it hits two days later.

As is well known, I would never have left that decision to Putin without also introducing a tripwire worthy of the name, but the Baltics will have to solve that themselves perhaps; they have a quite formidable mobilizable reserve, but it works buried behind mines, not on highways right in the middle of the Russian drone weapon.

What it will do to the euro area in the middle of a financial crisis is clear; the light-footed finance sector rarely likes war, and since it is the EU and EUR, you only need to stand in one area and hold on for it to become a full-scale crisis in all EU finance.

So reads the text today, amen.


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60 thoughts on “School Protests, October 21, 2026”

    1. Now we are just waiting for the Tractor train to arrive in Paris and dump manure and waste outside public buildings as the icing on the cake. The farmers in France certainly have a flair for drama.

      1. I expect a bit more spectacular things, like them coming with manure spreaders and spraying down the entire facade, including any open windows. Or releasing a couple of trucks with pigs.

        1. I think there are other things the French farmers would rather spray pig manure on right now.
          Burning churches, the extreme left, and Muslims are not particularly popular among the rural population (both rich and poor I have met outside the cities).

  1. WARNING ⚠️
    I have tried to think again.

    Previously, I have made posts about this with strong backlash.
    Throughout history, I have noticed that what created an empire is what brings it down.
    If we see the West as an empire, it has been created with freedom, equality, and democracy. Equal rights for all. Values I stand for.
    What is happening now is that the West is collapsing because all evil forces are exploiting this. It can be immigrant flows, election interference, hybrid warfare, paid criminal gangs, hijacked social media, etc., and all democracies are helpless in the face of this.
    The USA is now practically becoming a dictatorship that actively supports Russia and curries favor with China and North Korea.
    Europe is faltering without countermeasures.
    Some countries still support Ukraine, thank you for that.
    But, to a breaking point. Our strengths are bringing us down, we are faltering.

    1. Leads well to a classic contradiction:
      1. We have freedom of speech
      2. Someone is against freedom of speech, so someone expresses that and argues against it. “You can’t say X, you understand?”
      3. The arguments gain ground and freedom of speech is diminished
      4. Repeat

      Solution, ban speech against freedom of speech. Or damn, that’s not possible…

      Twitter->X introduced total freedom of speech, right? The consequence was that Bluesky started, so now we have a platform for free freedom of speech from the right and the left respectively.

      1. Well thought out, that’s how it works. 

        At the same time, freedom of speech is exploited by malicious people to offend.

        And then there are those who want to limit freedom of speech because they are easily offended.

        You can’t please everyone, but the choices we have every four years ensure that we stay on some kind of  middle ground.

    2. It is because freedom without responsibility does not work. Classical liberal ideology is that your freedom ends where others’ begins. A framework and accountability are needed. My dream is that politicians, like corporate boards, can be held accountable. Not so that we get more cowardly politicians, but to get braver politicians. If everything points to Russia rearming, then you must not cut defense spending unless you have a damn good footing.

      1. I agree that freedom without responsibility is anarchy.
        However, our democracy is based on holding our elected representatives accountable at the election.
        I think we get the politicians we deserve.

    3. You are probably right in your thought. Those who are kind always risk being exploited.

      We in the Western world have indeed been exploited, but we have also built a good society for ourselves, and also for many others who have come here seeking a better life. Unfortunately, many who have come have exploited us, and we should be tough enough to ensure that they do not get away with destabilizing the society we have built for ourselves and our children.

      Trump and his supporters believe that everything that has gone wrong in the USA in the last 50 years is because they have been too kind to “the others,” and are now trying to correct this by being mean to everyone who is kind. We must fight not to become the same.

      Bamse usually says that if you are strong, you must be kind, but the reverse also applies. If you are kind, you must be strong.

  2. A completely headless immigration policy has led to the riots in France. What thou soweth thou also reapeth. The media try to cover it up as best they can. Media that, in a progressive spirit, want to meet certain groups with understanding and others with mistrust. Western Europe is in crisis. It is also expensive to import people. It puts upward pressure on taxes that cannot be lowered. The UK is now also a high-tax country. There are too many of working age who do not work and must be supported by the public. I wonder if this is not also the case in Sweden.

    1. Elan Tedronai

      You are probably completely right.
      I still don’t understand why a model at least similar to Canada is not introduced, where those who want to live in the country are evaluated based on a number of aspects before they are granted a residence permit.
      Furthermore, one should be deported outside the border if they commit serious crimes without being a citizen.

      1. Well thought out. An entrance exam would be appropriate. There must be knowledge other than what they receive at the Friday prayer to fit into our society. For women and children, it should be easier, as they are often vulnerable in the countries they come from.

        And yes, serious crimes or repeated minor offenses should lead to deportation.

  3. Yes, our enemies exploit the unprotected parts of democracy. What frustrates me is that this is enabled by people who are completely driven by emotions. Believing that they stand for what is good, open, and free, they act in a way that has the opposite effect. They do not understand this, which is tragic, and it is a threat to people’s lives and security.

    The groups that do not wish Europe well want to divide us through internal and external threats, knowing that it will be difficult for Europe to handle. We must not allow ourselves to be divided! I therefore believe that we must try to freeze the internal threat before it escalates. One way could be to make this visible to the general public, but the media must then be on board and not spread disinformation in any direction.
    We must concentrate on stepping up our measures and signals against our external enemies.

  4. Thank you for yet another interesting post, Johan.
    Exciting times in a way one would not want to have to experience, and as mentioned, it can get worse.

  5. The property developer has landed in Moscow.
    Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff was just in Oslo for an urgent mediation meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Nordic leaders Jonas Gahr Støre and Alexander Stubb, as well as representatives from the EU and NATO.

    On Wednesday, he traveled on to Russia, Reuters reports. Colleague and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is reportedly ill and participating via link.

    In Saint Petersburg, Witkoff is to present an “updated” peace proposal to Putin, according to sources to Axios.

    Thanking Putin
    Putin and his envoy received him at the Konstantin Palace, founded by Peter the Great in the 18th century, AP reports.

    According to Russian state-controlled media, Witkoff began by thanking for the diesel agreement that Russia has entered into with the USA.

    Witkoff is also said to have urged Russia to resume peace talks with Ukraine. After the meeting in Oslo, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the talks with Ukraine as “positive.”

    – Now he (Witkoff, editor’s note) will take those ideas to Saint Petersburg and share them with the Russian side, and then we will see if there is any progress, Rubio said after the meeting.

    After the meeting in Saint Petersburg, Witkoff returns to Oslo for new talks, the Norwegian Prime Minister Støre told NRK.

    Wants to arrange a tripartite meeting
    Zelenskyy wants to arrange a tripartite meeting with Russia, something he made clear during the meeting in Oslo.

    The hope from the White House is that Putin will now be more willing to compromise after the US lifted sanctions on diesel and entered into an energy agreement with Russia.

    They hope to “create a path towards trilateral and broader multilateral negotiations,” a US official told Axios.

    Russia has so far dismissed such negotiations.

    Frosty relationship
    After the meeting in Oslo, Stubb said that “the peace process is back on track.” At the same time, the relationship between Ukraine and the US has been frosty recently.

    In addition to the recently signed energy agreement, Trump has repeatedly reprimanded Zelenskyy and said the country should vote for a new president.

    Trump has also said that Moscow has “behaved well” regarding Ukraine, according to Reuters. On Tuesday, he urged Ukraine to enter into an agreement.

    – Ukraine must want to end this war, he told reporters.

    https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/varlden/steve-witkoff-har-landat-i-ryssland-uppges-mota-putin/

    1. It was good that Europe was quick to arrange a meeting with Ukraine and the USA, not that I think Trump gives a damn about what we say, but if Witkoff now dares to present Europe’s views to Putin, then that is good.

  6. SVD on the Summit between Xi, Putin, and Krasnov that could become Europe’s nightmare.
    In Oslo on Tuesday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met, together with, among others, Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Finland’s President Alexander Stubb.
    Both Nordic leaders emphasized that Europe must be involved in peace talks about Ukraine. But Europe is not included in the plans for another summit, which is now being discussed on Russian initiative.

    Vladimir Putin has proposed a meeting about the war in Ukraine, with US President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping. The world’s three largest nuclear powers would discuss how to end the war – but Ukraine and Europe would not be at the table.

    The Wall Street Journal was first to report on the Russian plans, which were confirmed by Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov:
    “There is still no clarity about the meeting itself or what could be on the agenda, although all three parties admit that such a meeting could hypothetically take place.”

    And Donald Trump himself commented on the proposal on Monday:

    “I would do it. Not so much for Ukraine’s sake, because Russia, honestly, has behaved itself regarding Ukraine. They haven’t done very much. And the same goes for China. We would have the meeting to discuss nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament.”

    So far, these are fairly loose plans for a historic summit among the trio USA, China, and Russia. Such a meeting has never taken place before.

    “If President Xi wants such a meeting, I am happy to participate. I am sure we will also talk about other things, like trade. But yes, I would absolutely do it,” said Trump.

    The trio could meet in connection with the APEC meeting in Shenzhen, China, in November – when all three leaders will be present. The three have interests worldwide, and of course, there are “other things” to talk about – Russia’s and China’s support for Iran, to name just one example. For a dealmaker like Donald Trump, a meeting would mean lots of opportunities.

    Met in Alaska 2025.
    Met in Alaska 2025. Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP
    And for Vladimir Putin, regardless of what is on the agenda, it could be seen as a long-awaited status boost – Russia would seemingly regain some of its former great power status.
    If the meeting takes place, and also includes the Ukraine issue, it resembles a nightmare that has haunted Europe since Donald Trump’s comeback to the White House. Namely, that the USA will join the Russian and Chinese plans to establish a new world order, where great power interests are more important than principles and international law.

    This has been a recurring concern in Swedish security policy in recent years: “For Sweden’s security and the stability of the world, it is crucial that the rules-based world order, international law, and respect for the UN Charter are upheld.”
    In plain Swedish, this roughly means: It is important that Trump and the USA do not side with Russia and make deals with Putin over the heads of Ukraine and Europe.

    Because in the new world order, which many countries in Europe fear is on its way, the great powers divide the world into spheres of interest and let each other act as they wish in their own neighborhoods.

    Concerns that the USA under Trump is heading in that direction have been fueled by a series of events. One is that the USA has reinstated the so-called Monroe Doctrine, which concerns Latin America and the Western Hemisphere.

    “With our new national security strategy, American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never again be questioned,” said Trump when the USA had captured Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro in January.

    Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller then expressed, in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, a view of the world that seemed to confirm that now might makes right:

    “We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, governed by violence, and governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world, which have applied since the beginning of time…”

    The threats to Greenland, the war against Iran, and the recurring conflicts with Europe and Ukraine have not lessened Europeans’ worries about where Trump is headed.

    The same applies to Trump’s new attacks on Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “He does not want to end this war, and probably never has.” As well as the recent decisions to import diesel from Russia, and to postpone new sanctions that were supposed to take effect on Sunday.

    And a meeting where the trio Trump-Putin-Xi Jinping discuss Ukraine’s fate would, from a European perspective, be yet another step towards a regime where the great powers dictate the terms. Then the new world order would be sitting around the negotiating table.

    https://www.svd.se/a/ylpbdK/donald-trump-oppnar-for-toppmote-med-putin-och-xi

  7. Now we know why the RU front maps are completely unrealistic, about 20km off.

    The peace agreement is a freezing of the fronts and Putin will run his map 😀

    That’s why they do the rounds, we laugh but there is a plan

  8. Now it is a critical moment.

    If Europe folds now with ceasefires and frozen fronts, we will bring misfortune upon ourselves.

    Zelensky and UA are doing everything they can, but EU membership is very important to them.

    In that case, it will be our 1938.

  9. Trump has completely lost it regarding Ukraine.

    Does he see something in the American voters that we don’t?

    There’s supposed to be a majority in favor of Ukraine there.

    I understand that he wants to proclaim peace in our time until the election – and he probably will anyway.

    But the rhetoric is completely off the wall.

    The unrest in Europe might actually help in the US – leftists in the streets.

    1. There are no contradictions. 

      1: There is a clear majority that is pro-Ukraine. 

      2: There is also a large majority of Americans who hardly care about the outside world and can throw Ukraine under the bus if it means some form of (imaginary or real) aid or tax cut.

    2. Don’t think it’s only around Ukraine that he has lost it.

      His reality is a mix of his fantasies and Putin’s intelligence. Anyone who says something different he ignores or bullies out.

  10. You usually laugh heartily when I write that the USA, China, and Russia have a multi-step plan they are working on, but I think it’s starting to become clear.

    The revolutionaries must have been working on this for over a year, for example, and we are beginning to navigate toward a point where Ukraine is forced to a ceasefire because Europe agrees to it.

    Not over until it’s over, of course, and fully possible that enough people simply say no – which we all want.

    But the plan behind it has been underway quietly.

  11. Latvia is a role model
    Dr Alban is banned from performing in Latvia.

    The artist has been blacklisted in the country following reports of his connections to the Russian concert scene, according to The Baltic Times.

    – This is news to me, he says.

    Dr Alban, or Alban Uzoma Nwapa as he is actually called, was supposed to perform at the event “1990s Disco Show” in November in Riga, Latvia.

    But according to The Baltic Times, he has been placed on the list of undesirable persons in Latvia, and is stopped by the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from performing in the country.

    It was when the news portal Delfi reported that Dr Alban has connections to the Russian concert scene and has previously performed in Russia that the venue cancelled him, according to the site.

    However, this is something Dr Alban himself has not heard about, he says when Expressen calls him.

    – I cannot comment on anything at the moment because I have not received any information. This is news to me.

    Why Dr. Alban is banned in Latvia

    According to The Baltic Times, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers it important to ensure that artists who are booked have not in any way supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine through their statements or actions.
    They emphasize that artists should not be allowed to enter Latvia if they directly or indirectly express “a hostile attitude towards Latvia, support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or Kremlin’s policy towards Ukraine, or act in a way that undermines Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.”

    In January 2020, Dr Alban performed on the Crimean Peninsula. The Latvian site Delfi writes that he is also said to have performed for a Russian audience during a cruise in 2023, where he reportedly said that he loves Russia.

    The artists Haddaway and LayZee are also banned from performing at the concert and entering Latvia due to similar connections.

    “In light of the situation, changes will be made to the event’s artist lineup. The above-mentioned artists will be replaced by other, equally well-known stars from the 1990s music scene,” writes the concert organizer on their website.

    https://www.expressen.se/noje/musik/dr-alban-svartlistas-i-lettland-stoppas-fran-konsert-/

  12. Hmm. A thought. The advantage of this Witkoff track is that Putin can sell a ceasefire to the Russian people by saying “we have come to an agreement with the USA, China, and possibly Europe as well that…..” yes, Russia ends up on the world stage.

  13. The best thing I have read about the situation in France is an almost 25-year-old text. It does not address Russian influence operations (such were not in vogue then), but it describes crystal clearly exactly what kind of breeding ground such operations have to work with, how around every major French city there is a ring of ghettos whose inhabitants are not at all part of the nation but hate France and everything it stands for.

    https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-barbarians-at-the-gates-of-paris

    1. Knew a Swedish-French political scientist who about 25 years ago said that in Marseille no teacher dared to bring up Darwinism in teaching anymore.
      The teacher who did so was ostracized, threatened, and in some cases even assaulted.
      There could also be comments from someone in the class like “We don’t come from apes, only Jews do,” upon which the whole class burst out laughing.

      Now some quiet teachers are talking about similar problems in schools in Malmö.

    1. I agree.
      However, we have been here before and the Russian bastards have never previously agreed to a freeze, constantly demanding the entire Donbas.
      High stakes, but I believe that is how the Ukrainian team is reasoning now.

  14. Borjesson,

    since we live in welfare societies where everyone is better off than in 90% of the world’s countries, it is probably more the radicalization that has occurred over time that we have not cracked down on enough.

    Then a low-effect response with no punishments does not make things better either.

    The number of people who misbehave because there are no consequences is higher.

    The French school is above average in the EU in funding, and in the world probably in the top 10.

    But the prevailing explanatory model is always that we must allocate more money so everything will be solved.

    I think there is a discrepancy – the right is always the threat but who are the ones now wanting to make a revolution?

    Aren’t they the ones who are the threat?

     

     

    1. Can more money be given back to the taxpayers, i.e., lower the tax? Is that a solution?

      I get so tired when it always requires more money, without considering where it comes from. Of course, we should have taxes, but there should be a moral limit at 50%; anything above that I find hard to justify.

    2. It seems that if you have it good for too long, there will always be some group that starts complaining about things they would never complain about if they lived in countries with a lower standard of living. People usually talk about first-world problems.

      From what I have seen, there are actually problems in the French schools, even though they receive a lot of money; it can well happen that a lot of it is used incorrectly or just slips through the cracks.

      Now it started as school protests, and then it escalated. The left wants a revolution, they say. I don’t understand how they think this vandalism and robbery will benefit the left; it will go exactly the opposite way, it doesn’t feel like they have a motive.

      Revolution worked in the 18th century, it worked in Russia in 1917, it worked in Cuba in the 1950s, it worked in China in the 60s-70s, and it worked in Iran in ’79. It worked there because they beheaded or shot enough of the opposition and they had a fairly large portion of the poor population longing to share in others’ money.

      What has happened now in France is that something that started quite peacefully, probably together with left-wing supporters, was exploited and escalated by malicious groups. That the extreme left is so stupid that they take responsibility for the vandalism and believe that it would be possible to make a revolution in France in 2026 will probably reduce their support, except among the most extreme mythomaniacs.

      Nowadays, protests are like house parties; suddenly you are surrounded by a bunch of unknown people who steal the party, poop on the floor, and run off with valuables, and you are left alone to clean up before the parents come home.

       

  15. Off-Topic.

    If you are wondering why I have been absent today:

    “The American NSA urges, like cybersecurity authorities in other countries, all organizations using the programming language PHP to immediately update their systems.

    ‘These security vulnerabilities often give attackers direct access to the server’s file system or database,’ writes the NSA.

    The background is that two critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the programming language. PHP released an update at 4 PM this afternoon. According to NBC News, PHP is used on 69 percent of the world’s websites.

    Several authorities, for example in Finland, Denmark, and the Netherlands, have taken down their websites pending the updates taking effect. Even large international sites like 4chan are down.”

    https://omni.se/anvands-pa-69-procent-av-alla-webbsidor-nsa-larmar/a/0BxvoG

    1. “The Security Service and the National Cyber Security Center, part of FRA, have been informed about the serious security vulnerability believed to threaten millions of sites worldwide. This is reported by Aftonbladet.

      – Cybersecurity in our time is an area where quite a few serious incidents happen quite often. This one is among the more serious, says John Ahlmark, communicator at FRA.

      The problem is related to the programming language PHP, and a security update to fix the issue was released at 16:00, Swedish time.

      ”PHP is everywhere. It quietly powers WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and Magento sites, shared hosting platforms, control panels, and an enormous amount of software that doesn’t even advertise that it runs PHP under the hood,” writes the cybersecurity company Huntress in a blog post.”

      https://omni.se/sapo-och-fra-informerade-hor-till-de-mer-allvarliga/a/kvOEbk

    2. “Security researchers have issued two warnings related to the programming language PHP, which forms a kind of foundation for the internet. The security vulnerabilities make it possible for an attacker to target sites, according to Reuters and Bloomberg.

      – This flaw is so critical that someone can run commands on a server without having a username or password or anything else, says IT security expert David Jacoby to Aftonbladet.

      An update was released at 4 PM and the National Cybersecurity Center in Sweden urges all organizations to update their systems immediately – or otherwise disconnect them from the internet.

      Several countries, including Finland and the Netherlands, have acted during the afternoon by shutting down several of their government agencies’ sites.”

      https://omni.se/miljontals-sajter-kan-slas-ut-av-sakerhetshal/a/d78o5w

    1. Giving Putin advantages that Trump has been pursuing lately only makes Putin demand more. Trump knows this because he is the same himself.

      Trump doesn’t care about the midterm elections; either he imagines that he will win, or he simply doesn’t care. He will not accept any result where he does not win and will rule by decree until someone stops him.

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