Month: October 2026

HUGE ! Flávio Bolsonaro Has Fled Socialist Brazil– Is In the United States

Flávio Bolsonaro was the clear favorite of Brazil’s conservative movement going into the 2026 presidential election. Then, unfortunately, much like election results we’ve been witnessing across America, the final weeks of the “counting”  changed the outcome.

Flávio is the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, a close ally of Donald Trump who governed Brazil from 2019 to 2022 on a platform of tough-on-crime policies, free markets, and traditional values. After Jair was barred from running again and later convicted in connection with efforts to overturn his 2022 loss, he handpicked Flávio to carry the family name and the right-wing base forward.

Flávio, a longtime senator from Rio de Janeiro, has spent his career focused on public security and has worked closely with his father in Congress. Other family members have also built political careers: his brother Eduardo became a prominent Trump ally in the United States and faced legal trouble at home for lobbying American officials against Brazilian courts, while his brother Carlos and stepmother Michelle have held or sought elected office. The Bolsonaro name remains the dominant force on Brazil’s right.

After the first round, Flávio was well ahead of his Socialist opponent, President Lula da Silva, and citizens celebrated in the streets.

By the time the runoff ended on October 25, 2026, President Lula da Silva was curiously ahead by about 4.4 million votes. In those final three weeks, turnout jumped in the regions that most strongly support Lula, especially the Northeast. The government expanded cash payments to low-income families and issued an emergency order limiting online betting. On election day, voting hours were extended until 7 p.m. after a request from Lula’s side. Flávio’s campaign called it a last-minute change to the rules. Independent reviews of that extra window found that tens of thousands of ballots were cast then. The numbers shifted just enough, and in just the right places, to flip the result.

The Brazil election looks a lot like what happened in the United States in November 2020.

The nation’s enthusiasm was clearly on Bolsonaro’s side, as it was in 2020 for President Trump, who drew massive crowds in every state before the election, while the failing Joe Biden was kept hidden in his basement, far from any media scrutiny.

In the final weeks, officials made late changes to the rules. Turnout suddenly jumped in the areas that strongly support Lula. And last-minute decisions helped one side. Even so, Flávio Bolsonaro received more votes than his father did in 2022, and his party gained more seats in Congress. The right did not get weaker. It was passed in the final stretch by a mix of extra government spending, higher turnout in left-leaning regions, and an extended voting window whose timing and impact are still being questioned.

Flávio is not accepting the result.

Flávio is reportedly headed to Florida with his family after his Socialist opponent canceled his passport. Although it has not yet been confirmed, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is being credited with helping him gain asylum in the United States.

What followed the election has been more telling than the vote tally itself. Flávio refused to concede, as did his party, and said he would organize the opposition to resist the “chaos.” Multiple reports, including confirmation from a U.S. official cited by Reuters and earlier statements from Levy, indicate he left Brazil with his family and is headed to the United States. Brazilian authorities under Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes canceled his passports after he failed to surrender them. The move has been described as a protective operation. For Trump’s team, a high-profile Brazilian opposition figure operating from American soil changes the calculus.

According to Simon Levy– Washington is not treating Lula’s win as the end of the game. Levy’s assessment is that the administration is accelerating pressure on Venezuela, Cuba, and Mexico while tightening financial leverage on Brazil. In Venezuela, polling cited in the analysis shows María Corina Machado with a clear lead. In Cuba, economic projections remain dire. In Mexico, the expected departure of the current head of the National Electoral Institute (INE) is viewed as opening space ahead of the 2027 midterm elections, when 17 governorships and 500 congressional seats will be on the ballot. Together, Brazil and Mexico represent more than half the population and nearly 60% of Latin America and the Caribbean’s GDP. Losing one does not mean conceding the board.

While Flávio Bolsonaro lost the presidential runoff on October 25, 2026, other family members won their races in the first-round congressional elections on October 4: Michelle Bolsonaro was elected to the Senate from the Federal District.
Carlos Bolsonaro was elected to the Senate from Santa Catarina. Jair Renan Bolsonaro and Renato Bolsonaro also won seats in the lower house of Congress.

Lula won the Brazilian presidency, but the right expanded its congressional strength and retained key governorships. Flávio’s departure to the United States, combined with continued U.S. focus on Venezuela and Cuba, signals that the fight is shifting from the ballot box to sustained political and economic pressure. For those tracking election integrity and resistance to leftist consolidation across the region, the next several months will test whether opposition forces can operate effectively from outside their own countries while Washington applies pressure to the far-left Socialists where it hurts.

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REVEALED: the real cost of EU free movement to British taxpayers

Reform UK has set out the potential cost to taxpayers of reopening the borders to the European Union, with leader Nigel Farage calling it a “catastrophe” for Britain. 

Farage said a return to pre-Brexit levels of EU migration would add billions of pounds a year to the benefits bill and place further pressure on housing, schools and the NHS.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, Farage said: “Freedom of movement is stacks and stacks of cheap labour. But the overall cost to the economy is astonishing. There are three-quarters-of-a-million EU citizens with settled status currently on universal credit costing us nearly £8 billion a year.

“If we return to pre-Brexit migration levels from Europe that will be an extra £2.5 billion a year on benefits and several billion more on the infrastructure needed to support a bigger population.”

Reform UK’s analysis shows that a return to freedom of movement would impose a lasting burden on taxpayers through welfare payments and the cost of building infrastructure for a growing population.

The 744,679 people covered by the EU Settlement Scheme are already claiming Universal Credit, at a cost of £7.8 billion a year. Of that, £3.3 billion goes to people who are not in work.

Reform warns that those covered by the Withdrawal Agreement have lifelong access to the UK welfare system.

Before the Brexit referendum, net EU migration averaged 164,000 a year. If it returned to that level, figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility suggest an additional £3.3 billion would be needed every year in public infrastructure spending to keep capital stock per person constant.

That would amount to £33 billion over a decade, with the party also estimating that benefit payments could rise by up to £2.2 billion a year.

Reform points to previous surges in registrations for National Insurance numbers after migration rules were relaxed. Following EU enlargement in 2004, registrations from Eastern Europe rose from 17,000 to 236,000 in just two years. After restrictions on Romanians ended in 2014, registrations increased from 18,000 to 146,000.

The party also warns that the EU has changed since Britain voted to leave. Today, 46.7 million people living in the bloc were born outside it, including at least 16 million who now hold citizenship of an EU country.

Farage said: “The British people voted to take back control of our borders. Any return to free movement would not only be a betrayal but would spell catastrophe for Britain.

“It would mean higher taxes, masses more pressure on housing, schools and the NHS plus an open invitation for millions more people to come here and claim benefits. We will never accept it.”

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Transgender Sex Offender Caught Attempting to Register at Minnesota High School as a Teen Girl

A convicted sex offender who identifies as transgender was discovered attempting to enroll in a local high school under the pretense of being a 17-year-old girl. “Makayla” Alec Ray Craig, 29, was charged on October 22 with three counts of forgery for allegedly trying to register as a student at Maple Grove High School in Minnesota.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court, Craig presented himself as a homeless teen named Molly Lennox Fox. In a statement to police, Craig said he was planning to go to school in person to “get the full experience.” He is being held at the Hennepin County Jail on $50,000 bail.

Maple Grove police released a statement alerting the public of the incident: “On October 19, 2026, a school district employee became suspicious of a student enrollment application. The employee notified a Maple Grove school resource officer, who initiated an investigation. On October 20, 2026, Maple Grove officers located Craig in a public parking ramp. He was arrested on probable cause charges, booked at the Maple Grove Police Department, and later taken to the Hennepin County Jail. Officers also learned that Craig is a registered sex offender in Oregon.”

The statement continues: “Craig never completed enrollment with Maple Grove Senior High School, and he was never present on campus as a student or in any online classes. The Maple Grove Police Department credits the school district staff for their alertness with the incident, quick action to notify a school resource officer, and collaboration in the investigation. The case remains an active and ongoing investigation. Additional information will be released as appropriate.” 

This is not the first time the convicted sex offender has posed as a teenage girl and attempted to enroll at a high school.

Craig was arrested last December after an officer at South Albany High School in Oregon reported him for pretending to be a 15 year-old girl in order to register as a student. Craig told school administrators that his name was Madison and he provided them with a false date of birth. Upon his arrest, it was discovered that Craig was a registered sex offender.

“The person appeared to be an adult but was portraying themselves as a 15-year-old girl. After further investigation, the individual gave a false name and date of birth attempting to enroll in high school,” a statement from Albany Police Department read.

When announcing Craig’s arrest online, law enforcement turned off comments in response to what they regarded as “hate speech.”

Many replies expressed frustration that the authorities had not included a photo of the sex offender, who was convicted of sexually abusing a minor in 2023. Details regarding his prior conviction were also noticeably absent.

Craig appeared before Linn County Court on April 4, where prosecutors requested a jail sentence of 40 days. “She, as a registered sex offender, is trying to pretend that she is a juvenile… to become- to be involved with other juveniles in the high school system,” said prosecutor Coleen Cerda.

However, Craig’s defense counsel argued that this period of time in jail would not “serve the purpose that we want” and proposed that community service would be sufficient.

“I don’t know that jail really serves the purpose that perhaps we want,” defense attorney Erik Moeller countered. “And compensatory service, or community service, would better serve the community.”

Craig was ultimately sentenced to 20 days in jail, two years’ probation and was ordered to stay at least 500 feet away from schools.

On social media, Craig uses various terms associated with online fetish communities to describe himself. He has referred to himself as a “femboi,” a label synonymous with the transgender community, as well as a “furry” and a “therian,” indicating that he identifies as a non-human animal. In June 2022, Craig posted a “transfeline Pride” flag to his account, indicating that he also identifies as a cat.

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AfD politician fined €11,600 over campaign poster gesture

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Germany’s Federal Court of Justice has upheld a criminal conviction and an €11,600 fine against an Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician over an election poster (Picture above, middle poster) that judges ruled depicted a gesture unlawfully resembling the Nazi salute.

This decision, first reported by Legal Tribune Online (LTO), finalises an earlier ruling by the Regional Court in Frankfurt (Oder), eastern Germany, on the Polish border, against Wilko Möller, a member of the state parliament in Brandenburg.

The court’s Third Criminal Senate, which deals with State-security cases, rejected Möller’s appeal on October 13, 2026, finding no legal error in the regional court judgment of February 17, 2026.

The court found that Möller had violated Section 86a of the German Criminal Code, which prohibits the public display or dissemination of symbols and gestures associated with unconstitutional and terrorist organisations, including gestures confusingly similar to them. The offence carries up to three years in prison or a fine.

The case centred on an election campaign poster used during the Brandenburg state elections in the summer of 2024, ahead of the vote on September 22 that year.

Anja Kreisel, then district chairwoman of Die Linke (The Left) in Frankfurt (Oder), reported it to prosecutors in late July 2024, and the police and fire department took down the posters in the first week of August. Möller himself removed several of them at the request of officers.

The graphic, which used a digitally modified stock photograph, depicted a man and a woman raising their outstretched arms above three seated children to form a protective “roof”.

The poster bore the AfD party logo alongside the campaign slogan: “Wir schützen Eure Kinder” (“We protect your children”).

Möller was able to win his constituency with 33.6 per cent, ahead of the Social Democrat candidate on 32.5 per cent. His party took 29.2 per cent across Brandenburg, finishing second behind the Social Democrats.

Prosecutors argued that because the image had been horizontally mirrored during design, the adult male figure on the left appeared to extend his right arm upwards at an angle that closely resembled the banned Hitler salute. In the original stock image the man raises his left arm.

During the initial trial, the defence rejected any deliberate extremist messaging, maintaining that the imagery simply illustrated traditional family protection. Möller said at the time of the complaint that the photograph had been bought through the advertising agency that produced the posters and that any association with the Hitler salute was absurd.

Similar motifs of adults shielding children beneath arched arms have historically appeared on informational material and political posters across various European parties.

The regional court determined, though, that Möller had noticed the visual similarity prior to distribution but proceeded to authorise the printing and public display of roughly 50 copies across the border city of Frankfurt (Oder).

Under German statute, criminal liability attaches not only to the use of genuine National Socialist emblems, but also to modified imagery that carries clear potential for public conflation.

Möller received a fine comprising 100 daily penalty units of €116, a threshold that, under German legal procedures, enters his official record as a formal criminal conviction. Fines above 90 daily units appear on the certificate of conduct that German employers may request.

The AfD’s leadership in Brandenburg criticised the ruling, describing the prosecution as politically motivated.

The party’s state chairman René Springer questioned the neutrality of the legal proceedings, arguing that the judicial focus was targeted at the AfD rather than genuine extremist displays. He said the case was not about a poster but about his party.

Conservative media in Germany reported that other political parties have used similar election posters, where parents are raising their arms to create a depiction of a house over the head of their children.

One such poster was used by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Datteln, western Germany, in 2021. No charges were brought in that case (Picture above, poster on the right).

With the Federal Court of Justice finding no procedural or legal errors in the regional court’s judgment, all regular domestic avenues of appeal have now been exhausted. A constitutional complaint to the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe remains available.

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‘Blatant Disinformation’: French Newspaper Falsely Reported ‘Terror Gunman’ Had Le Pen Leaflets

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Marine Le Pen blasted “blatant disinformation” after a French newspaper published, and then deleted, a claim that an alleged terrorist had literature from her party in his car at the time of Friday’s deadly attack.

Figures close to French sovereigntist leader Marine Le Pen of the National Rally (RN) party have demanded public apologies after left-wing actors ran with a mainstream media report claiming the alleged terror gunman of the Trappes attack on Friday had RN leaflets in his car.

The claim was only published by French newspaper Le Monde for a few hours before the national counter-terror prosecutor, who is leading the investigation into the attack, pointedly denied the paper’s report, but it had already been picked up by a series of politicians to criticise Le Pen, and even accuse her of having “blood on her hands”.

On Monday Le Monde reported: “A source close to the investigation stated that leaflets from the National Rally (RN) had been discovered in the individual’s car… [a second source] did not specify the nature of the documents, nor did they dispute that they were linked to the RN”.

Yet, as Le Figaro reported, at a mid-afternoon press conference, prosecutor Olivier Christen said: “I would like to clarify that no leaflets from any political party were found in his vehicle”. Le Monde later deleted the reference to the leaflets.

Regardless, the flood of condemnation of the National Rally and its leader Marine Le Pen for having allegedly inspired a right-wing terror attack rolled in. Many were quickly deleted after the prosecutor spoke, but others stood by their accusations.

Manon Aubry, a French Member of the European Parliament for Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s hard-left LFI party, accused Le Pen of having “blood on her hands”, claiming “if she takes power, millions of fellow citizens will be in mortal danger”.

Socialist lawmaker Olivier Faure, on the other hand, deleted his accusations but doubled down in his clarification, insisting he’d been spiritually correct in the first place. Starting with “RN leaflets were found in the car of the Trappes terrorist. What a curious coincidence”, Faure went on to add that he’d “deleted my tweet relaying information from Le Monde that turned out to be inaccurate. What remains, however, are the statements from RN leaders which, through repeated stigmatization, lead weak minds to take action.”

Faure decried RN lawmakers for having historically described the Trappes Parisian suburb — where dozens of young men left France to join the Islamic State ten years ago — as a “miniature Islamic Republic” inside France and as a “European capital of jihad”. He accused the RN of putting targets on the backs of Muslims in France by identifying them as a “fifth column of terrorism”.

Marine Le Pen herself decided not to focus on the attacks from her political opponents, but on what she called Le Monde’s nakedly partisan decision to publish unverified information, accusing the paper of becoming a supporter of the “militant” effort to destroy her Presidential campaign. She said:

By disseminating unfounded, false, and tonight refuted information from the public prosecutor, the newspaper Le Monde has once again lent itself to a militant operation aimed at tarnishing the National Rally.

This blatant disinformation manoeuvre raises questions among the French about the essential issue of the objectivity and professional rigor that one is entitled to expect from the media during a presidential campaign.

Her deputy and likely political heir, Jordan Bardella, said the party was now awaiting a “mea culpa” and public apologies from Le Monde, which he sardonically called the “newspaper of record”, a cutting nod to the paper’s once-towering but now tarnished reputation for quality.

RN Lawmaker Manon Bouquin was more direct, saying left-wing actors who tried to smear her party with accusations should face pushback. As the prosecutor spoke, she said in a statement: “Le Monde is so eager to spew bile on us, it rushed headlong into fake news… they’ve just quietly changed the article on the sly.”

She later went on: “Don’t let up on the fake news from Le Monde about the RN leaflets and its relays”. Those who spread fake news about the RN, Bouquin said, are the same political activists who preach media censorship and who tell the public “that what you see and witness with your own eyes isn’t real. Rub their noses in their lies!”

Warning party supporters to be wary about what they read in the news in the run-up to the 2027 Presidential Election, Bouquin said: “That’s going to be the daily grind of news for the next 6 months. Don’t let yourselves get duped.”

The RN said in a statement Tuesday morning that they would sue Le Monde for defamation.

Meanwhile, the investigation into the Trappes attack continues. While the suspect, 39-year-old Kevin T, was briefly taken out of police custody and transferred to psychiatric care on the suggestion that he may be mentally ill and unfit for trial, this has now been reversed, and his police interrogation continues.

It is reported the doctor found the suspected terrorist did not show “any direct or indirect signs of hallucinatory or delusional activity”. Police say while he admits the facts of the attack, he denies there was any racial motivation.

As well as dismissing the media’s claim that the suspect had political literature in his car, the prosecutor’s press conference on Monday also made no reference to his having had political and religious books in his home, with earlier French media reports claiming police had found a Bible, Quran, and Adolf Hitler’s autobiography-manifesto Mein Kampf.

It is stated Kevin T. was unknown to the French intelligence services before Friday, and that while he had a criminal record, it involved common-law offences dating back 15 years. No link between the suspect and the far-right scene has been conclusively established.

Some public attention has focussed on allegations that Kevin T., far from being associated with the hard right, has alleged historic connections to the left and the pro-Palestine movement. French newspaper Le Figaro states it has investigated some historic photographs of pro-Palestine and left-wing events where a man who has been identified by some as suspect Kevin T with former left-wing lawmaker Olivier Pareja.

One-time green parliamentarian Pareja told the newspaper he remembered the man, whose name was Kevin, but couldn’t positively say it was the same Kevin who had been arrested on suspicion of a terror attack. Pareja said: “After reconstructing the events with several members of the association, we clearly remember a certain Kevin from that time… I can’t confirm that it’s the same Kevin… The one we knew was a loner, someone who sought contact. He wanted to meet people, but he wasn’t a very involved activist. He didn’t even donate a penny!”

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Muslims in Europe have more than doubled in the last 25 years, and forecasts see more growth to come

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Conservative voices have long raised concerns over the demographic shift arising from high sustained migration from the Middle East and Africa, and new data confirms these fears.

According to data published by La Razón, cited by La Gaceta, the number of Muslims in Europe has jumped from roughly 15 million around the year 2000 to approximately 32.5 million today (excluding Russia and Turkey). 

Statistics from the Pew Research Center aligns with this upward trajectory, reporting that Europe’s broader Muslim population—including Russia—climbed to 46 million in 2020, a 16 percent increase from 2010. 

Spain has experienced a pronounced increase in its Muslim demographic. Data from the CEU-CEFAS Demographic Observatory shows that Spain’s Muslim population reached between 2.4 and 2.5 million by early 2025, accounting for roughly 5 percent of the total population. Within this group, an estimated 1.79 million are first-generation immigrants, while 680,000 were born in Spain to at least one Muslim parent. 

But Spain is not alone. Italy’s Muslim population has reached about 2.7 million. In Sweden, Muslim residents doubled from roughly 4 percent to 8 percent between 2010 and 2020, while Germany saw this demographic hit 7 percent of its overall population by 2020. In the U.K., census data for England and Wales saw the number of Muslims increased  from 2.7 million in 2011 to 3.9 million in 2021.

Even without any further migration, Muslims are expected to increase their share of populations across Europe simply because they have higher birth rates than native ethnicities. 

Data from Pew Research previously cited by Remix News estimated there could triple to 75 million Muslims in Europe by 2050 if they manage to maintain a high birth rate and immigration rates continue their pace. Some are actively cheering on such an expansion, with Muslim influencer Mohammed Hijab even stating in a reply to Elon Musk on X: “Muslims of the West, get married and have many kids try and aim for 5 minimum that is what these fragile far-right anti-Muslims hate the most.”

Meanwhile, birthrates are plummeting for local populations. Thilo Sarrazin, the former Bundesbank board member who authored the 2010 book “Deutschland schafft sich ab” (“Germany Is Abolishing Itself”) now predicts that by 2070, 80 percent of births will be to non-German mothers.

Poland has been grappling with its own demographic crisis, while France recorded a negative natural population balance in 2025 for the first time since the end of the Second World War. Already back in 2020, over 21 percent of newborns in France were given Arab-Muslim first names.

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German Left Demands Audi CEO Resign after Joining ‘Autocrat’ Trump at Georgia Rally

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German Social Democrats, trade unions and Volkswagen employee representatives have launched a fierce backlash against Audi CEO Gernot Döllner after he joined US President Donald Trump at a Republican campaign rally to announce a multibillion-dollar American factory, a major investment in US manufacturing amid Germany’s deepening automotive crisis.

At Saturday’s rally in Perry, Georgia, ten days before the US midterm elections, Trump unveiled plans for Audi’s first US production plant, a roughly $4 billion investment expected to create 4,500 jobs. Located near Macon, the facility would manufacture up to 200,000 premium SUVs annually, with construction scheduled to begin in 2027 and production in the early 2030s. Döllner briefly appeared on stage and thanked Trump for his support.

The announcement, and particularly Döllner’s appearance alongside Trump, unsurprisingly provoked outrage among German politicians and trade unions. Social Democratic Party (SPD) transport policy spokesperson Isabel Cademartori accused Döllner of campaigning for an ‘autocrat’, describing his appearance as a ‘new low’ for Volkswagen, Audi’s parent company. The choice of words is particularly striking given that Volkswagen itself was founded by the Nazis in 1937 and employed forced labour during the Second World War—a considerably darker chapter in the company’s history.

SPD general secretary Tim Klüssendorf similarly described the episode as a ‘scandal’ and demanded consequences, arguing that Audi was rewarding Trump’s tariffs while the German group was cutting jobs at home.

IG Metall president Christiane Benner called the appearance ‘deeply embarrassing’ and accused Döllner of breaching Audi’s political neutrality rules. Volkswagen works council chief Daniela Cavallo accused Döllner of allowing himself to become a ‘puppet in Trump’s propaganda show’.

CDU MEP Dennis Radtke likewise called the campaign appearance ‘disturbing and pathetic’, while Lower Saxony’s SPD premier Olaf Lies said an election rally was the wrong venue for an investment announcement. Far-left Die Linke politician Luigi Pantisano went further, demanding Döllner’s resignation.

Audi rejected suggestions that the appearance represented a political endorsement. It said executives had travelled to Georgia for negotiations and accepted an invitation to present the project alongside the president solely in the company’s interests. Reuters reported that Audi’s management board had approved an exception to its neutrality rules in advance. The factory still requires approval from Volkswagen’s supervisory board, where labour representatives hold considerable influence.

The investment represents a significant result for Trump’s effort to use tariffs to bring industrial production and jobs back to the United States after decades of offshoring production to lower-wage regions. Audi has no dedicated American manufacturing base, and US import duties cost it approximately €1.2 billion in 2025. The company says its American business is currently unprofitable and that local manufacturing would reduce trade risks and improve competitiveness in the world’s second-largest premium car market.

‘According to Germany’s Federal Employment Agency, the country’s motor vehicle and parts manufacturing sector lost 52,000 jobs in 2025’

Meanwhile, Germany’s once-dominant automotive industry is struggling with declining competitiveness, high energy and labour costs, and the expensive transition to electric vehicles. German carmakers have lost significant market share in China to domestic manufacturers, while weak European demand has left factories operating below capacity. Trump’s tariffs have further compounded these, raising the cost of German car exports to the US, squeezing manufacturers’ profits and accelerating efforts to relocate production to America.

The mounting pressure has forced major manufacturers into sweeping restructuring programmes, with Audi planning to eliminate 7,500 German jobs by 2029 and its Neckarsulm plant facing possible closure after 2030. According to Germany’s Federal Employment Agency, the country’s motor vehicle and parts manufacturing sector lost 52,000 jobs in 2025, underscoring the industrial decline that has made Trump’s efforts to attract automotive investment to the United States particularly consequential.

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The students go French in Spain

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The so-called students are busy in Spain. What started over “school supplies” in Paris has now gone continental — Europe, that is. Over the weekend, we saw Paris in Barcelona — radical demonstrations, that is. Let’s check out the latest from Spain:

Riots and looting spread to Barcelona, Spain, on Saturday evening as local youths sought to imitate the unrest seen in France and other European nations in recent weeks, apparently motivated by little more than a desire to cause destruction and loot stores.

Hundreds of mostly young, hooded teenagers dressed in black descended upon the city centre of Barcelona on Saturday afternoon, destroying street furniture, clashing with police, and looting shops, the local Vanguardia newspaper reported.

Hooded teenagers dressed in black clashing with police? That’s sweet.

My first question, who is paying for this? Who is feeding them? Who bought the face masks and so on? It’s clear to me that someone is paying for all of this. 

Another issue driving these protests in Spain could be youth unemployment, one of the unintended consequences of misguided labor policies. This is huge:

Spain’s youth unemployment rate is 22.7% as of August 2026, from official Eurostat data. It fell from 22.8% the previous month. Over the period shown it has ranged from 22.7% to 43.3%. That is 7.7 percentage points above the euro-area average of 15.0% — the 3rd of 21 member states that report it.

I’m not saying that they are throwing bricks at store windows because they’re uinemployed. At the same time, one cannot deny that such high unemployment is going to make a lot of people miserable. They may listen to the socialists lie about capitalism if the economy is not employing them.

Another weekend in Europe, and I don’t mean touring historic sites.

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Europe: The New Totalitarians

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Germany’s governing coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD), increasingly desperate to cling to power as the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) continues to hammer them in the polls, is turning ever more totalitarian.

For a start, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has made it clear that he wants to end anonymity on the internet.

“I want to see real names on the internet. I want to know who is speaking,” Merz said back in February. “In politics, we engage in debates in our society using our real names and without visors.”

In other words, Merz wants the government, and the big tech companies, to know exactly who is behind every single comment, tweet, and meme on the internet.

Internet anonymity makes it harder to arrest people for inconvenient speech — “hate speech” and “insults” — and Germany’s police have been raiding the homes of such internet participants for years. Merz himself has filed hundreds of criminal complaints against ordinary German citizens perceived to have insulted him online, including against a 71-year-old pensioner who committed the unconscionable crime of calling him “Pinocchio” on Facebook, and others who called him “Lügenfritz” (“Lying Fritz”) and “Lackaffe” (a poseur or slick monkey).

Insulting a politician is considered an especially monstrous crime in Germany – it carries a sentence of up to three years in prison or a fine. German police have entire specific departments, whose task it is to comb through the internet to detect people who dare to insult the Great German Leader or engage in other incommodious speech.

It appears that the end of internet anonymity in Germany may be fast approaching. On October 14, the government officially approved a policy framework establishing a roadmap to block children under 13 from major social media networks. This ban, however, would most likely to make it impossible for anyone to access social media without first identifying themselves. The most logical outcome will be identification taking place by means of a “Digital ID,” which the European Union has demanded that every member country implement by the end of 2026.

The desire to see an end to internet anonymity is rife among European governments. The European Commission itself is currently working on a bill, known as the EU KIDS Act, that will ban social media for teenagers under a certain age, “to restrict social media platforms’ access to children in the EU.” Paired with the Digital ID, it is the easiest road to end anonymity on the internet. It may not happen immediately, but the EU train is barreling towards that goal.

Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, the totalitarian strain has become just as strong, if not worse. The government has been making examples of citizens who protest the mass migration, which has been continuing across the UK’s open borders. Most recently, Daniel Thomas, known as Danny Tommo, was arrested for criminal damage after he slashed an inflatable dinghy at sea, the kind of boat in which illegal migrants arrive. The government did not simply arrest him, but locked him in prison and refused to release him bail until his trial 17 months from now — in March 2027.

By contrast, the men who were arrested on September 27 for what is believed to have been an Iranian-orchestrated attempted attack on England’s RAF Fairford air base, used by U.S. warplanes to carry out strikes on Iran, were all released on bail the next day. Then again, the UK government has released more than 70,000 criminals early since 2024 under the Labour government’s plan to “combat jail overcrowding.” So far, since their release, a third of those released have committed new crimes. One man sexually assaulted a woman the day he was freed. Some of the victims of the criminals released early have fled the country.

“The early release scheme is necessary because without it prisons would get so full that police would not be able to make arrests” stated Jake Richards, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for sentencing. “Without intervention we risk running out of prison places, leaving courts unable to sentence offenders and police unable to make arrests.”

The room they are eager to make in prisons seems to be for ordinary citizens fed up with how their country is run and had the gall to state it. That is how it works in totalitarian systems. Criminals are freed so that dissidents can take their places. In addition to Tommo, a man was recently arrested who protested against the arrival of a large dinghy carrying illegal immigrants by throwing a small empty plastic bottle into the air at a police line and then shouted “f–k off” at them. For this outrage he was arrested; his case was processed through the justice system at record speed, and he was sentenced to an unconditional two years in prison.

“Throwing a plastic bottle is simply about inflaming the actions of others. He lobbed it in that general direction. He is chucking something,” the judge ruled.

“It is important to distinguish the right to peaceful protests and offences when people cease to protest peacefully. Many of those were wearing face coverings adding to the air of intimidation. The community impact of that night’s violence has been profound…. this offence is so serious that the only punishment can be immediate imprisonment.”

You don’t say.

Over three years of pro-Hamas protests inciting violence in the form of calling for a “global intifada” and “intifada revolution is the only solution” on the streets of Britain, not a single protester even came close to that kind of sentencing, even though Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organization in the UK. Protesters who wore the Hamas paraglider symbol or the Hamas headband were convicted of terrorism offenses but discharged by friendly judges and never served any time in prison.

Judge Tan Ikram told the three women who used the paraglider symbols:

“You crossed the line, but it would have been fair to say that emotions ran very high on this issue. Your lesson has been well learned. I do not find you were seeking to show any support for Hamas.”

It is evidently all right to be carried away by emotion in favor of Hamas’ mass slaughter, dismemberment and rape of Jews. The judge even seems to be saying that their view is understandable, not a sign of support for terror. When it comes to trying to protect your family from predatory third-world illegal male migrants arriving by the thousands on the shores of your country, that is not all right.

“The offence here was Mr Hajsaad wearing a bandana at a demonstration,” Judge Nina Tempia ruled in a Hamas headband case.

“In respect to harm, I agree with the prosecution that there was harm as the conduct linked to support of a proscribed organization. The offence was committed after (the October 7 attacks). Not days or weeks later, but seven weeks later. I would not classify the harm as serious.” The terrorist supporter was spared both prison and fines “on account of his ‘extremely limited budget’ of £49 per week used for food and travel.”

This seems to be how the UK “justice” system works. If you support Hamas, a terrorist organization, it is considered either not really support at all, or not to cause “serious harm.” Instead, protesting illegal immigration must immediately be punished with unconditional prison sentences. If this is not an example of the state emboldening terrorism, it would be hard to say what is.

When ordinary citizens are imprisoned for standing up for the safety of their families and their country, while terrorist supporters are coddled, you know that your country is being ruled by what the late Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Łobaczewski, in his book Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism, labeled them: “psychopaths.”

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UK: Iraqi migrant will not be deported amid claims he faces death threats after sleeping with another man’s wife

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An Iraqi migrant has won an asylum appeal after a judge accepted he had faced “death threats” after his affair with another man’s wife was exposed.

The man, known only as HI and aged in his twenties, escaped a confrontation with the husband after his lover was shot.

Home Office officials had challenged HI’s story as inconsistent and implausible, but Judge C R Cole found that sending the migrant back to Iraq would put him “at risk of serious harm” from the woman’s husband and family.

The husband was said to be a “well-connected and powerful” man within the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

HI arrived in the UK in November 2021 and his asylum and human rights claims were rejected in August 2024.

The First-tier Tribunal for the appeal in Manchester heard that HI’s relationship with the woman began “before she was married”.

Her father then arranged for her to marry another man, but the affair continued, with the pair meeting at her home before they were discovered by her husband.

Describing HI’s account of the confrontation, Judge Cole said: “He gave significant detail about exactly who was where, what lights were on, how the husband reacted and then how he was able to escape, but unfortunately his partner was shot.

“This was a surprising and emotion-filled event that was understandably chaotic and frightening. In my judgment the appellant’s account is plausible.

“I find that it is an account that, when considering all the circumstances, is sufficiently detailed and consistent to be accepted.”

HI fled to a friend’s house and later learnt that death threats had been made against him at his family home, according to the account accepted by the tribunal.

HI had also travelled through France without claiming asylum, which Judge Cole said he “did have an opportunity” to claim asylum there.

He told the Tribunal: “His account for not claiming asylum in France is not objectively reasonable. The appellant did have the opportunity to claim asylum in a safe country.”

However, he concluded that this factor only undermined HI’s credibility “to a limited extent” and still accepted that what happened in Iraq was likely to be true.

The Judge said said: “I find that it is reasonably likely that the appellant will be subjected to serious harm on return to Iraq from his partner’s husband and family due to the appellant’s relationship with her.”

The Home Office accepted that, if HI’s account was believed, he would not have sufficient protection in Iraq and could not safely move elsewhere in the country.

HI also succeeded on a separate ground after the judge accepted that he risked persecution for his political opposition to the authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Home Office suggested that his activism was an attempt to “bolster a weak asylum claim”, but Judge Cole accepted his beliefs as “genuine”.

Instead, he found that HI would face “serious harm” if he expressed his political views in Iraqi Kurdistan in the same way as he had in the UK.

His appeal was allowed on asylum and human rights grounds in a decision signed on October 24, following a hearing on October 20.

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