Vendetta

This Halloween episode of Razor Wire News, Fitz, McShane, and Jefe discuss escalating global instability, contrasting widespread European unrest with a quiet U.S., while citing market crashes, major crypto thefts, cyberattacks, and new taxes and restrictions taking place in the UK. They focus on Poland’s unfolding constitutional crisis, brought about by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s coup challenging the election and moving to storm Polands Constitutional Tribunal forcing President Nowacki to fly home while flying to Senegal. Thus fueling long-running tensions between national sovereignty for Poland and the encrouching European Union. They discuss protests across multiple countries and warn of growing authoritarianism, highlighting whlle pointing directly at the UK’s new “respect orders” and comparing the trajectory to V for Vendetta. The show also includes beer reviews, Jefe’s “farm report” about birds “anting,” and speculation about election integrity and future grid-down scenarios after America’s midterm elections.

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Apple

Spreaker

Beers

Fitz

• Drekkar Chonk Pineapple Whip

• Bloc 15 Super Nebula Valhalla

McShane

• Trillium Brewing Underneath the Stairs Boston Stout

• Dowdle Dart by Humble Forager

World

• Japan/UK/Switzerland/Germany urge stockpiling — Pacific Wire · Clip: No

• Poland

  • Tarczyński says globalists are behind the coup in Poland, which they hate for thriving while opposing their agenda — Inevitable West · Clip: Yes (~39s)

  • Tusk sends police into Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw overnight while President Nawrocki abroad; claims of coup — Mario ZNA · Clip: Yes (~34s)

  • Nawrocki turns plane back from Senegal as police enter Constitutional Tribunal and court chief Swieczkowski is suspended — The Straits Times · Clip: No

  • Police say officers only secured area outside Constitutional Tribunal after objects thrown, 3 detained, not intervening inside — Polska Policja · Clip: No

  • Tusk ordered raid on Constitutional Tribunal offices, prompting Nawrocki to turn plane around mid-flight — Europa.com · Clip: No

  • Locksmith cuts police barricade at Constitutional Tribunal on orders of court chief Święczkowski — Pan_komentator · Clip: Yes (~15s)

  • EU lawmaker says ‘a coup d’état is underway in Poland’ as police deploy at top court — NewsWire · Clip: Yes (~34s)

  • Explainer: Judge Korwin-Piotrowska suspends Constitutional Tribunal chief Święczkowski, sparking standoff, police clashes and Nawrocki’s return — GeoInsider · Clip: No

  • Storming Poland’s top court fits pattern of EU-backed governments sidelining opponents, from Romania to France — Jacob Reynolds · Clip: No

  • Mock order ‘suspends’ PM Tusk and his control of police and security services, mirroring Korwin-Piotrowska’s tribunal order — Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik · Clip: No

  • Coup allegations erupt as Poland’s top court chief is suspended; Tusk says he’s ‘restoring the rule of law’ — Fox News · Clip: Yes (~34s)

  • Polish President Nawrocki forces his way into Constitutional Court after police attempt to block him — BRICS News · Clip: Yes (~16s)

  • Nawrocki confronts judges inside Constitutional Court: ‘You are not judges of this Tribunal!’ — Ryan Fournier · Clip: Yes (~20s)

  • Same globalists who backed Lula’s ‘stolen election’ in Brazil are orchestrating Poland coup — Gina Milan · Clip: No

  • Poland presidential powers vs prime minister breakdown — Grok · Clip: No

  • Polish MEP Tarczyński calls tribunal takeover a coup to force euro, move gold reserves and open borders — I Meme Therefore I Am · Clip: Yes (~110s) · Credit: Lisa found it

  • 13th-century Christian anthem sung by Polish knights before battle — Alek Wierzejski · Clip: Yes (~66s)

  • The Greater Implications to all this - how we got here and what it means…

• Protests

  • France: UN experts appalled by crackdown on student protests — UN Special Procedures · Clip: No

  • Two weeks of global unrest: riots and protests in 15 countries from France to Brazil, with midterms next week — McShane of Razor Wire News · Clip: No

  • Armored vehicles arrive outside Macron’s presidential palace in Paris to protect him during today’s protests — Visegrád 24 · Clip: Yes (~13s)

  • Far-left riots break out in German cities of Hamburg, Cologne and Stuttgart — Visegrád 24 · Clip: No

  • Looting of stores starts in Frankfurt, Germany, with young migrants attacking shops — Visegrád 24 · Clip: Yes (~17s)

  • Molotov cocktails thrown at Paris police, officer seen engulfed in flames — Visegrád 24 · Clip: Yes (~34s)

  • France deploys 70,000 police as protesters hit Paris streets in new nationwide demonstrations against Macron’s government — Fox News · Clip: Yes (~23s)

• UK

  • Tommy Robinson found guilty of harassing two journalists — Sky News · Clip: Yes (~32s)

  • Respect Orders live — PoliticsUK · Clip: No

  • Curfews and bans — UK Home Office · Clip: No

  • Tougher action from today — Shabana Mahmood · Clip: No

  • “Harassment, alarm, or distress” — Preston Byrne · Clip: No

• Israel

  • Eizenkot projected over Netanyahu (Polymarket) — RAWS · Clip: No

  • Kan 11 updates exit poll, pro-Netanyahu bloc pulls even with opposition — Times of Israel · Clip: No

• Brazil

  • TSE / Lula requested extension — emd_worldwide · Clip: No

  • Judge was Lula’s former lawyer — Benny Johnson · Clip: Yes (~341s)

  • 5 p.m. machine-lock timing — Geiger Capital · Clip: No

  • NYT: election could be annulled — Collin Rugg · Clip: No

  • $200B wiped from Brazil market — WatcherGuru · Clip: No

  • Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil for US — KobeissiLetter · Clip: No

• South Africa

  • Johannesburg water crisis pushes South Africa’s biggest city toward ‘total collapse’ ahead of Nov 4 local elections — BusinessTech · Clip: No

• 500M Europeans expect 300M Americans to protect them from 120M Russians who can’t beat 40M Ukrainians — Ernest Bledsoe · Clip: No

• Today’s chaos roundup: Poland coup, French internet tax, Altman on RAM, Iran War 2 talk, market bloodbath, Reddit down 30% — Autism Capital · Clip: No

US Government

• Comey charged with leaking NDI — SpectatorIndex · Clip: No

• Anti-ICE activist pleaded guilty in smuggling case — GuntherEagleman · Clip: No

• FEC website / filing system hack

  • Hacker forces FEC web services shutdown — Reuters · Clip: No

  • Hackers target FEC system, disrupting campaign finance disclosures — NBC News · Clip: No

• Elections

  • GOP eyes oath-of-office challenge to block DSA members from being sworn into House — Fox News Politics · Clip: No

  • Democrats admit top priority is illegal aliens, not ‘affordability’ — Rapid Response 47 · Clip: No

  • Arizona US Attorney opens case, refers to FBI reports of three nonprofits registering non-citizens to vote — US Attorney Arizona · Clip: No

• ‘Radiological release’ triggers emergency response at SRS — WRDW · Clip: No

Military Moves

• Hegseth fires Pentagon’s top military planner over alleged leaks — CBS News · Clip: No

• North Korea artillery near South Korean border — Breaking911 · Clip: Yes (~31s)

• US military plans for 90 days without power grid — zerohedge · Clip: No

• Iran war

  • US warns Gulf of post-midterm military campaign — KobeissiLetter · Clip: No

  • Iran war has cost $47 billion, U.S. military says — CBS News · Clip: No

  • Rubio questions NATO’s value, says alliance is a ‘one-way street’ if US can’t use European bases — Sean Hannity · Clip: Yes (~69s)

• UK nuclear submarines at sea

  • Britain puts 3 of 4 nuclear subs to sea — Mario Nawfal · Clip: No

  • Three of UK’s four nuclear submarines out at sea — Sky News · Clip: No

• Ukraine war

  • Ukrainian drones hit Novokuibyshevsk refinery in Samara; 1,000+ drones strike Russia overnight — Visegrád 24 · Clip: Yes (~16s)

Science and Weather

• Super El Niño map of projected heat deaths — NY Post · Clip: No

• Retatrutide ends sleep apnea for 1 in 4 non-diabetics — Fox News Health · Clip: No

• Arizona wettest state by volume with 3.2 trillion gallons of rain over 3 days; Phoenix flood risk — Ryan Maue · Clip: No

• 1960 study says world ends in two weeks, humanity ‘squeezed to death’ — NY Post · Clip: No

• Super El Niño triggers unprecedented early-November stratospheric warming event and wind reversal — Ryan Maue · Clip: No

Artificial Intelligence

• SpaceX–Anthropic $3.1B/month compute claim — ns123abc · Clip: No

• Microsoft buyouts for 60,000 workers — KobeissiLetter · Clip: No

• Claude accessed Georgia voter data — FirstSquawk · Clip: No

• AI data-center debt freeze; SpaceX $40B GPU debt — Elon Musk · Clip: No

• Anthropic expected to get ‘high junk’ credit rating after IPO, per FT — KobeissiLetter · Clip: No

• Sam Altman says it’s ‘quite terrible’ that everyone’s personal computers hoard the world’s limited DRAM supply — More Perfect Union · Clip: Yes (~45s)

Technology

• Crypto exchange hacks

  • CZ says Binance appears to have been hacked; expects user funds fully covered — Kobeissi Letter · Clip: No

  • Exchanges hacked today: Binance $3.5B, Bybit $1B, Bitget $1B, Swyftx $10M, KuCoin — DelCrxpto · Clip: No

  • North Korean hackers steal $6.3B from Binance in ‘largest bank heist in human history’ — NY Post · Clip: No

• Japan cyberattacks

  • GMO Internet midday cyberattack warning — FirstSquawk · Clip: No

  • Japan hit by wave of AI-powered cyberattacks; government energy site and currency trading platform breached (Bloomberg) — Insider Paper · Clip: No

• Engineers’ 72-hour hackathon with speech restoration participant to build thought-to-speech features — Neuralink · Clip: Yes (~7s)

• French lawmakers vote 11-10 to tax internet data at 5.5 cents per GB, hitting Netflix, YouTube and Meta — Bull Theory · Clip: No

Economy and Stocks

• Almost $1 trillion wiped from US stocks at open as S&P 500 drops 1.11% — Bull Theory · Clip: No

• 21 tech stocks in bear market territory; Nasdaq 100 down nearly $5T since Oct 6 — Kobeissi Letter · Clip: No

• Over 60% of S&P 500 stocks in bear market territory; 4 of Magnificent 7 down 20%+, $4T erased — Kobeissi Letter · Clip: No

• Gold crashes below $3,940, lowest in nearly a year; $15.5T wiped from gold and silver since January highs — Bull Theory · Clip: No

• US government down $33B on Intel stake as INTC falls 54% from high; $11.3B lost today after weak Q4 forecast — Bull Theory · Clip: No

• AI stocks crash over 48 hours (INTC -32.9%, GOOGL -14.5%, AMZN -10%, SNDK -15.8%) on AI spending fears — Bull Theory · Clip: No

• Chinese stock market on track for 12 straight red weeks, longest losing streak in history — Barchart · Clip: No

• Silver trading furthest below its 200-day moving average since Covid — Barchart · Clip: No

• Nasdaq 100 down 4.2% on the day, $1.7 trillion in market cap erased — KobeissiLetter · Clip: No

Sports

• NFL — Rodgers / Skattebo on safety vs. monetized hits

  • Monetizing hits then fining — DesireeAmerica4 · Clip: Yes (~31s)

  • Rodgers on safety vs. schedule — DesireeAmerica4 · Clip: Yes (~95s)

Other

• LA moves to put karaoke rooms on ice with emergency ban, police crackdown — NY Post · Clip: No

• Cobb County Native American honor features African American man in tribal attire as “indigenous person” — End Wokeness · Clip: Yes (~72s)

• 3 customers suffer chemical burns after drinking margaritas at Chili’s in North Carolina — WLOS · Clip: No

• NC Libertarian Senate candidate in armed chase — JohnWakefield · Clip: No

• Turturro on Jesus Quintana / Big Lebowski — eMTBrides · Clip: Yes (~176s)

• Castle lit green for Dwarfism Awareness Day — Cardiff Council · Clip: No