Month: October 2026
Irish gov’t demonizes mothers by going after ‘tradwife influencers’
The Irish government is waging a quiet war on traditional wives and mothers, dressed up as a campaign for women’s “equality.”
The Journal claimed that this has been “debunked,” but the Irish government’s strategy is transparent enough to those who read its documents. They don’t want Irish women so much as listening to “tradwives” who promote the traditional lifestyle of staying at home to care for one’s children, home and husband.
How do we know this? The government’s admission is in their recently issued three-year Action Plan designed to implement last year’s National Strategy for Women and Girls 2025-2030, which aims to achieve “gender equality” for women.
That National Strategy decries “tradwife influencers” who “seek to promote restrictive, stereotypical roles for women and girls.” It also disparages “patriarchal norms, often focused on men as decision-makers and breadwinners and on women as carers.” (Read: mothers)
It claims these norms “uphold harmful stereotypes and limit life opportunities, preventing women from pursuing particular career paths and economic opportunities and inhibiting men’s likelihood of engaging in caring roles for their children or Dependants.”
It is clear here that the government views the promotion of the role of stay-at-home mother and wife as harmful.
Accordingly, its 2026-2028 Action Plan for its National Strategy for Women and Girls states that one national goal is to “Reduce people’s exposure to harmful gender norms and stereotypes, including in online spaces.”
Even to a disinterested observer, such an aim should seem strange. If the government truly cared about women and respected their autonomy and judgment, it would allow women to hear different points of view and make up their own mind about whether they want to devote themselves full time to motherhood or not.
The Irish government’s goals, like those of so many institutions that are falling in lockstep with the globalist agenda, reveal an ideological bias that clearly does not regard staying at home to mother one’s children and entering the workforce as two equally valuable choices.
Whether its proponents recognize it or not, this agenda seeks to weaken and undermine motherhood as well as the family.
It is, in fact, a poisonous agenda. It seeks to perpetuate one root cause of so many of today’s societal ills — women’s neglect of the care of their children in favor of focusing on their career.
This does not mean women are intentionally or consciously neglecting their children, or even that they want to be in the workforce instead of at home, because many women feel they are financially forced to take on a job outside the home. Or is working at home while caring for one’s children equivalent to taking a job outside the home and putting kids in daycare.
Children’s separation from their mothers has a more profound negative impact than many realize. A prominent psychoanalyst has warned in recent years, for example, that daycare is “absolutely terrible” for children age three and younger due to their spike in stress levels resulting from separation from their mother.
“(S)tudies show that babies who are put in daycare have very, very high salivary cortisol levels,” Dr. Erica Komisar pointed out, referring to the main human stress hormone. These cortisol levels are “through the roof in babies who are separated from their mothers or primary attachment figures under the age of three.”
“And so when you raise those levels of stress hormones in the brain, it actually doesn’t allow the brain to develop in a normal way. It ends up forcing the brain to develop in a pathologically adaptive, neurologically compromised way,” Komisar warned.
For this reason alone, the government should be encouraging women to stay at home with their children, not discouraging it by seeking to suppress, censor, and hide the voices of tradwife influencers.
It is not only the healthy psychological development of its future citizens at stake but the well-being of the very women it claims to serve and the happiness of its families.
As CNBC has reported, based on Gallup research, “Women have reported higher levels of burnout than men for years, a gap that has more than doubled since 2019.”
The agenda of suppressing the traditional role of wife and mother in fact suggests an anti-woman, anti-feminine bias according to which women have greater value if they have a career, taking on the traditionally masculine role of breadwinner.
The idea that women need to be “protected” from “tradwife” ideas further suggests that women are like children, whose intellects are too undeveloped to assess their own lifestyle options.
This crusade against traditional motherhood should make Irish women stop and think: Is this really about women’s empowerment, or something else?
Latest poll in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt: AfD at 47 per cent! CDU in single figures at just 8 per cent
If an election were to be held in Saxony-Anhalt next Sunday, the AfD could achieve a record result of around 47 per cent. This is according to the latest poll by Prognos.
The people of Saxony-Anhalt continue to support the AfD. In the latest Prognos poll, the AfD achieved a record result of 47 per cent. This makes the AfD THE people’s party in the state compared to the other parties. Not even the CSU in Bavaria can boast such figures.
The BSW would once again clear the five per cent threshold. Should the BSW and the AfD enter into a tacit alliance, this would secure an absolute majority in the state parliament in Magdeburg.
The Christian Democratic Union, by contrast, is in single figures. The left-wing bloc (the Greens, the SPD and The Left) would together account for 34 per cent, which is still significantly weaker than the AfD on its own.
Here are the latest poll results from Prognos dated October 21, 2026:
Germany plans to force social media platforms to fill 20% of algorithmic recommendations with ‘state-approved’ content
Germany’s federal states are proposing that social media platforms reserve at least 20 percent of algorithmic recommendations for content from a pool of approved media outlets deemed important for opinion diversity, according to a draft under public consultation. The proposed measure is already being slammed as a state-mandated propaganda effort that would force German citizens to view content friendly to the ruling establishment parties.
The measure is part of the second stage of a planned Digital Media State Treaty developed by the Broadcasting Commission of the Federal States. Under the draft, public broadcasters such as ARD, ZDF and Deutschland Radio would automatically qualify for certain offerings.
Meanwhile, private outlets would generally need to apply and demonstrate that they meet criteria including news and political reporting, information and educational content, documentaries, local or regional coverage, original journalistic production, editorial staffing and accessibility standards. Approvals would be decided by the 14 state media authorities.
In other words, the state wants to control what people are seeing in their feeds.
As the Berliner Zeitung reports, the media law involves “media quotas with an advantage for ARD and ZDF,” which are two state broadcasters that already have a massive advantage over private competitors. Both outlets, which are notoriously in favor of mass migration and known for their anti-AfD bias, and which employ virtually all left-wing journalists, are already known for not playing on a level playing field.
Austrian remigration activist Martin Sellner, along with other right-leaning accounts, already are warning about the new plans.
The rule would apply to algorithmic recommendations shown to users, such as in feeds or under videos on platforms including Instagram and X. Content drawn from the approved pool would still be selected according to the platforms’ algorithms and user interests. Officials have framed the quota as a way to protect journalistic content from being sidelined by engagement-driven material.
However, skepticism is obviously abundant.
“And who gets this golden seal of quality for preferential playback completely automatically? Of course, the public broadcasters. Private publishers, on the other hand, get to play the supplicants and politely apply for the status at the so-called “state-independent” media authorities. A rogue mind thinks evil of it,” wrote commentator Bernd Kaiser.
“If you want to exchange views on X in the future, the algorithm will soon forcibly serve you the curated explainer journalism from Tagesschau — right between your friends’ posts. They’re selling us this unprecedented market intervention as ‘Public Value,’ but it’s a blatant attempt to secure air superiority over online discourse,” he added.
The draft was released for public comment in late September 2026, with submissions accepted until Nov. 13. It builds on an existing “public value” system that already grants preferential placement to certain media apps in app stores and on smart-TV interfaces. Some private broadcasters, such as those already holding “public-value” status, would also be eligible for the pool.
The Berliner Zeitung, a private newspaper, noted that state-funded broadcasters could expand their visibility relative to private competitors that rely on advertising or subscriptions. Critics have also pointed out that the criteria emphasize structural and production features of outlets rather than the range of viewpoints in individual posts, and that there is limited evidence the specific 20 percent threshold would increase actual diversity of perspectives
The Digital Media State Treaty is being prepared in two parts. The first, focused largely on implementing European Union rules including aspects of the AI Act, has already advanced. Part two remains a discussion draft and would require agreement by the governments and subsequent ratification by the parliaments of all 16 German states before it could take effect.
Media regulation in Germany is primarily a responsibility of the states under the country’s dual public-private broadcasting system.
French counter-protestors march to take back streets from leftist rioters
Videos spreading across social media appear to show counter-protestors taking to the streets of France, described as affiliated with “right-wing” groups, in an attempt to dispel leftist rioting that has overtaken cities.
The New York Post reports that more than half a million people “flooded” French streets over the weekend across 140 distinct protests, with looting, arson, vandalism, and clashes with overwhelmed police, ostensibly to demand “major spending concessions in the cost of living, as well as in higher education, teacher salaries, rising living costs, and to protect pensions and public services from budget cuts.” Cars, city halls, schools, and more have all been targets.
The spectacle was an escalation of protests that began earlier this month and quickly turned violent, forcing the closure of hundreds of schools as rioters set buildings on fire and desecrated religious and historical monuments.
“Let them come and get me!” French president Emmanuel Macron has reportedly declared in response. “There is no place for violence in the Republic. Those who broke, attacked and looted will be brought to justice and punished. To the law enforcement authorities, who enable the right to protest, I express the nation’s support. We will stand united against those who sow chaos.”
Over the weekend, videos have begun to spread across X of another faction: counter-protesters, marching in cities such as Lyon and Rouen, to confront the protestors with defiant chants of “this is our home” and “the street belongs to us,” singing of the French national anthem, and at least one rally in support of small businesses devastated by the violence. At least one video shows violence breaking out between the two sides.
It is not yet clear who all is participating or what level of organization is behind the response, but one symbol that can be spotted in the footage is a flag bearing a Celtic cross, commonly used by several “ultra-nationalist” French movements. The Guardian reports that “far-right” leaders such as Marine Le Pen have blamed the chaos on ineffective left-wing governance and the consequences of uncontrolled mass migration.
Fox News reports that, contrary to sympathetic framing of the initial leftist protests as a student uprising, it has identified “101 organizations across 9 countries – including the U.S. – that are coordinating, organizing or amplifying protests in Europe,” more than two-thirds of which are led by adults rather than students.
Further, the organizers “represent a nexus of the ‘red-green’ alliance, merging Islamist organizations that are symbolized by the color green, and far-left, communist and socialist groups represented by the color red,” including several groups that embrace the “Antifa” label, such as Action AntiFa16.
The Associated Press reports that Paris saw a night of calm on Tuesday after the arrests of more than 2,000 people and the imposition of curfews, though it remains to be seen how long the lull will last. The French National Assembly is opening an investigation into the outbreak and police response.
UK: Asylum seeker jailed for just 15 weeks after sexually assaulting teenage girl in Cheshire
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Cheshire Police said they arrested him within 10 minutes of the incident.
Derwish was jailed for 15 weeks at Chester Crown Court on October 12 after previously pleading guilty to sexual assault.
When Derwish first appeared in court in September 2025, magistrates heard he was appealing a refused asylum application.
Cheshire Police said they arrested him within 10 minutes of the incident.
Derwish was jailed for 15 weeks at Chester Crown Court on October 12 after previously pleading guilty to sexual assault.
When Derwish first appeared in court in September 2025, magistrates heard he was appealing a refused asylum application.
Chester Magistrates Court heard Derwish had been staying at an asylum hotel in Crewe.
Detective Sergeant George Booth said: “Firstly, I would like to commend the girls involved in this incident, who were understandably left shaken and upset by Derwish’s actions.
“They trusted their instincts, recognised that his behaviour was completely unacceptable, and contacted police immediately. Their swift actions allowed officers to attend the scene and arrest Derwish within minutes of receiving the call.
“I hope this result reassures them that they did the right thing by coming forward and that reports of this nature are always taken seriously.
“Women and girls should be free to go about their daily lives without fearing for their safety.
“Let me be clear, this behaviour has no place in our communities, and anyone who causes others to fear violence or intimidation can expect to be dealt with swiftly and robustly.”
Wedgewood Admits Fabricating Polls, Many Boosting Dems in GOP States
An American polling organization has admitted fabricating the vast majority of its election surveys, exposing how invented figures entered major polling averages and national media coverage just two weeks before the November midterms. Wedgewood Polling made the unexpected admission on Tuesday, 20 October, after investigators confronted it with evidence that its supposed voter interviews were fake.
In a public statement, Wedgewood described the operation as a ‘social experiment’ intended to expose weak oversight in the political polling industry. Its organizers said they wanted to discover how easily a fictitious polling firm could gain credibility. ‘Far too easy,’ they concluded, claiming their data had been picked up by The New York Times, FiftyPlusOne, VoteHub and other major aggregators despite lacking genuine underlying surveys.
According to Wedgewood, the team, which consists of senior professionals from the polling industry, conducted only one genuine survey, in Nebraska, as a baseline for the alleged experiment.
How Wedgewood Has Influenced the Midterms So Far
The confession followed an investigation by FiftyPlusOne, a polling and forecasting organization that had been suspicious of Wedgewood’s data for months. After receiving evidence of possible fabrication, researchers obtained Wedgewood’s raw data from a Mississippi Senate survey and compared its respondent identifiers with genuine records from Pollfish, the platform Wedgewood claimed to use. The identifiers and transaction timestamps displayed patterns incompatible with authentic interviews. When confronted, Wedgewood issued its confession rather than explaining the anomalies.
The fake polls had infiltrated some of the United States’ most prominent polling databases and election forecasting platforms, including The New York Times, Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin, FiftyPlusOne, VoteHub, Decision Desk HQ and 270toWin. While some merely listed Wedgewood’s surveys, others incorporated the fabricated figures into their weighted polling averages and election forecasts.
Following the scandal, Decision Desk HQ removed 17 surveys and recalculated its forecasts, although it said the correction did not change its projected congressional seat totals or probabilities of party control. FiftyPlusOne similarly deleted Wedgewood’s surveys and permanently barred future submissions from its identified operators, while disputing the firm’s accusation that aggregators had conducted no vetting. Investigators also revealed that Wedgewood had collected donations to finance its supposedly legitimate surveys.
The real-world implications of the fake numbers now look particularly awkward in hindsight. In Mississippi, Wedgewood reported Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith leading Democratic challenger Scott Colom by just 52 to 48 per cent in a state Donald Trump carried comfortably in 2024. Colom’s campaign immediately seized on the survey and promoted it as evidence of a virtually tied race, while Newsweek wrote a full report around it, arguing that a historic Democratic upset in the state could be possible in November.
In Michigan, former Democratic Senate contender Mallory McMorrow said a Wedgewood survey showing her plunging into single-digit support helped devastate fundraising and volunteer morale. Journalists pressed her about abandoning her campaign, she recalled, after the Wedgewood poll contradicted her internal numbers. McMorrow subsequently withdrew from the primary.
The organization also published a fictitious October Michigan Senate poll showing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed ahead of Trump-backed Republican Mike Rogers by 53 to 47 per cent. Other invented surveys showed Democrats competitive in Republican-held states, including Kansas, Ohio and Texas.
‘Other invented surveys showed Democrats competitive in Republican-held states, including Kansas, Ohio and Texas’
The two political camps drew different conclusions from the still-evolving scandal. For Republicans, it reinforces long-standing complaints that the polling and media establishment can amplify misleadingly favourable Democratic narratives, thereby dragging down conservative campaigns. Democrats have a separate grievance: McMorrow’s experience shows that fabricated numbers can damage candidates within their own party. In that particular case, it helped a radical democratic socialist candidate defeat the moderate one.
With or without Wedgewood, the American polling industry’s record offers substantial grounds for scepticism. In three consecutive presidential elections, major pollsters systematically overstated Democratic support, inflating Hillary Clinton’s advantage over Donald Trump in 2016, exaggerating Joe Biden’s lead in 2020 and once again overestimating Kamala Harris’s performance in 2024. According to the American Association for Public Opinion Research, polls overstated Democratic margins by an average of 3.1 percentage points in 2016, 4.6 points in 2020 and 2.7 points in 2024 across electoral contests.
London: Man charged with assaulting three Jewish women, including young mother
A 33-year-old man has been charged with assaulting three Orthodox Jewish women in London’s Stamford Hill neighborhood, including a mother who was pushing her baby daughter in a stroller when she was allegedly attacked.
Abdisamad Siad, who has no permanent address, appeared before Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court, where he denied three charges of assault by beating. He was ordered to remain in custody.
🚨 Hate Crime; Jewish ladies viciously assaulted 🎥 CCTV shows 2nd attack 📞 Shomrim received a call from a visibly Jewish lady, reported being punched in the face by a middle-aged male on Clapton Common, E5. 👊 Shomrim volunteers arrived on scene 30 seconds later to witness a 2nd vicious assault on another Jewish lady. She was punched twice in the face, leaving significant bruising. 🚔 @MPSHackney arrested the male for racially & religiously aggravated GBH, as well as for outstanding warrants. ✡️ The victims told Shomrim that they believe they were assaulted because they were Jewish, as the offender only targeted Jewish ladies. 📢 Appeal: Further assaults have been reported to Shomrim, with additional victims yet to come forward. Shomrim are appealing for any witnesses or indeed any further victims to come forward. ☎️ Contact @Shomrim or @MetCC quoting CAD 3400 19/10/26. #ViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls #VAWG #HateCrime #Antisemitism #GBH
— Shomrim (London North & East) (@Shomrim) October 19, 2026
According to the account presented in court, the first victim was struck across the face at approximately 1:30 p.m. on Monday on Clapton Common in Hackney. Six minutes later, another Jewish woman, accompanied by her infant daughter in a stroller, was allegedly punched twice in the face.
A third woman was reportedly hit between three and four times before the attacker fled the scene. All three complainants belong to the local Orthodox Jewish community.
As previously reported, the Jewish neighborhood security organization Shomrim responded to the initial attack and witnessed another assault shortly afterward. The organization subsequently released security camera footage appearing to show a man approaching a woman and striking her twice.
Shomrim previously stated that the victims believed they had been deliberately targeted because of their Jewish identity.
In addition to the three assault charges, Siad faces a separate charge of grievous bodily harm with intent in connection with an unrelated incident involving another woman.
The court scheduled a provisional trial for December 11 at Stratford Magistrates’ Court.
Following Monday’s attacks, the Metropolitan Police deployed additional patrols in the area and began coordinating with Jewish community representatives to address residents’ security concerns.
Austria: Police cadet suspected of recruiting for Islamic State
Shortly before completing her training at the Graz Police Academy, a 27-year-old police cadet was dismissed from the force and came under the scrutiny of the Provincial Office for State Security and Countering Extremism (LSE). As reported by the newspaper Kronen Zeitung, the authority carried out a raid on behalf of the Graz Public Prosecutor’s Office. The woman is suspected of being a member of a terrorist organisation.
According to the investigation, the officer in question is alleged to have repeatedly drawn attention to herself during the training course through remarks that run counter to the core values of the police force. Among other things, she is accused of having attempted, during lessons, to recruit people for the terrorist organisation IS. Furthermore, she is alleged to have stated that she would not enforce certain legal requirements whilst on duty and that she did not wish to work with male colleagues outdoors in the future. According to the report, the accused herself described the incidents as “light-hearted banter”.
The incident quickly triggered political reactions. FPÖ security spokesman Gernot Darmann sharply criticised the conditions under which these individuals were recruited:
Anyone who squanders citizenship and turns a blind eye to police recruitment out of misguided tolerance is fostering a security risk in uniform.
Federal Police Director Michael Takàcs emphasised to the newspaper Krone that the police pursue a clear zero-tolerance policy towards anti-democratic attitudes. Behaviour that contradicts fundamental principles such as equality and the separation of faith and profession will not be tolerated. The data storage devices analysed following the house search are now in the hands of the judicial authorities.
Milei calls Sánchez a ‘dictator’ in Madrid
Argentine President Javier Milei has accused the Spanish Government of deliberately encouraging the invasion of Ceuta, telling an audience in Madrid that socialists count every migrant as a vote. He opened his remarks by describing Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez as an unpresentable dictator.
Milei was speaking on October 21 at a breakfast forum organised by Nueva Economía Fórum. The trip is his seventh to Spain since taking office and he had no meetings scheduled with Sánchez or with any member of the Government.
He said socialists would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven and were willing to turn any heaven into hell in order to do so. What happened in Ceuta at the end of July was neither an accident nor a coincidence, he argued, and the ruin of the country was a price they were ready to pay.
The Argentine President also claimed the economic case for unrestricted immigration had collapsed. Economies that took in the most migrants remained as stagnant as before, he said, because migrants generated more in public spending than they produced and forced higher taxes on productive workers.
Questioned afterwards by journalists, he called Sánchez a delinquent and a thief as well as a liberticide. Spain was the cradle of liberalism, he told the audience, and owed itself a debt of honour to kick the socialists out of power.
More than 70,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish city of Ceuta on July 30 and 31, an invasion that the United States State Department later blamed on Sánchez and that left 141 dead by the Government’s own count. The crossings triggered an emergency meeting of European Union interior ministers and a Spanish request for support from Frontex, the bloc’s border agency.
Sánchez told parliament on September 3 that there was no solid evidence Morocco had organised the arrivals, a line he held to as Moroccan ministers renewed their claim to Ceuta and Melilla. His Government approved an emergency package of €309 million for the city.
Milei’s intervention lands in the middle of a Spanish election campaign. Sánchez announced on October 5 that he would dissolve parliament and call an early general election for November 29, after two housing decrees were defeated in Congress.
Later the same day the Argentine President was due to open the tenth Madrid Conference on Austrian Economics at the Rey Juan Carlos University, alongside the economist Jesús Huerta de Soto. The governing Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) marked his visit with a banner at its Madrid headquarters.