‘They did not speak French’ – French teen Constant finally speaks out after being kidnapped, robbed, and beaten into a 6-day coma

A French youth, 19-year-old Constant, was kidnapped, robbed, and beaten so badly by three suspects that he was left in a six-day coma in the hospital in 2025. Now, the case has come once more to the public’s attention after Constant described the attack on French television, including that his assailants were not speaking French when they nearly killed him.

Near dawn on April 12, 2025, 19-year-old Constant was on his way to work when three men changed his life forever. To this day, only one suspect has ever been arrested and convicted.

Constant was a hard-working French teenager, who had been an apprentice butcher since he was 15. Around 5:30 a.m., he left on his electric scooter for a 6:30 a.m. shift, traveling along Boulevard Jean-Jaurès in Petit-Quevilly, near Rouen. A car began following him, then cut him off and blocked the road. Occupants called for him to stop, appearing to need help or simply demanding that he approach. When a truck driver witnessed the scene and tried to intervene, the men threatened him. They forced Constant into the vehicle.

The suspects took him to Grand-Quevilly. Under threat of a knife, they demanded the PIN codes for his phone and bank card. After obtaining them, they beat him almost exclusively on his head. Family members later said the attackers “went after his head,” leaving a shoe tread mark across his face.

Once he was barely conscious, they abandoned him. In a state of shock, Constant managed to walk roughly two kilometers toward home before collapsing. His parents took him to the hospital, where he was also photographed with shoe tread marks across his face.

Constant was admitted to intensive care at CHU Rouen with a skull fracture and a subdural hematoma, then transferred to neurosurgery. Relatives described his head as massively swollen. Later accounts indicate he spent approximately six days in a coma. The attackers stole his e-scooter and phone and withdrew €1,170 from his account.

A witness had already called the police. Officers arrived at the initial scene and found no one. When family members tried to file a complaint the same day, they were told the adult victim would have to do it himself; police later opened an investigation and took his statement at the hospital.

Bank withdrawals allowed police to identify one of the three men. This suspect, who has not been named, was tried in court on Nov. 14, 2025, at the Rouen criminal court and sentenced to four years in prison with immediate detention. He was banned from contacting Constant and ordered to pay damages. He refused to name his two accomplices, who have not been arrested.

Months later, Constant appeared on France 2’s “Ça commence aujourd’hui” with Faustine Bollaert. In the clip that circulated widely in August 2026, he recounted being in the back of the car, being told not to look at the man on his right, and realizing the attackers were not speaking French.

As a result, it is clear that the attackers are not native French citizens, further highlighting the deteriorating security situation in the country due to mass immigration. Countless French youths have been the victim of foreigners over the last years, include Louis, Mégan, Thomas, Lola, and Théo, just to name a few of the victims.

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More Violence In Ceuta: Clashes With Residents, Ambush On Soldiers

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Ceuta has endured another night of violence, but this time the crisis has crossed a new threshold.

Tensions that have been building for almost a month have now resulted in physical clashes between groups of residents and invaders camped on the beaches and, hours later, in an attack on soldiers deployed to monitor the city.

More than 2,000 Ceuta residents took to the streets again on Wednesday to demand a solution to the crisis that began with the mass entry at the end of July. Some of the demonstrators later broke away from the march and headed towards El Trampolín, the beach where dozens of invaders remain despite previous evictions and the opening of temporary reception facilities.

Once there, they attempted to dismantle part of the encampments themselves. The Police Intervention Unit deployed a large number of officers and riot-control equipment to prevent a direct confrontation between the two groups.

The police intervention against residents has added another source of irritation in a city where a growing part of the population accuses the state of enforcing public order only when Ceuta residents themselves decide to take matters into their own hands.

The problem is not a complete absence of police action, but an increasingly reactive response to a crisis that continues to generate new outbreaks of violence.

The most serious incident came at around 5:30 a.m. in Benzú.

According to police sources, a group of between 30 and 40 immigrants surrounded a vehicle carrying four soldiers from the 54th Regulares Group towards a surveillance post and began attacking it with large stones. The soldiers were forced to abandon the vehicle and flee on foot towards Calamocarro while being chased and continuing to come under a barrage of stones. All four were injured.

The National Police and Civil Guard subsequently launched an operation that resulted in the arrest of twelve Moroccan nationals. Some of those involved fled towards the sea. The investigation remains underway to locate the others involved.

The Union of Rank-and-File Military Personnel has denounced what it described as the “operational and legal helplessness” of the deployed troops and said it had previously warned of the existing risks.

Almost a month after an entry that the Interior Ministry estimates involved around 80,000 people on July 30 and 31, Ceuta is no longer facing a migration emergency only. It is simultaneously confronting a problem of security, social coexistence, and state authority.

Every night that passes without a solution narrows the room for restoring control without violence once again deciding who controls the streets.

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Piddington turns protest against asylum accommodation into ‘Battle for Britain’ anthem as village prepares for referendum

Piddington locals have released a music video in protest of plans to house migrants near their village | PIDDINGTON ROARS

Piddington’s protest against plans to house 1,250 asylum seekers at a military base has resulted in the release of an anthem as the village prepares to hold its second independence referendum.

The Oxfordshire village, which is home to just 314, held its first independence vote on July 4 in an attempt to prompt a response from the Labour Government.

An overwhelming majority of residents – 98 per cent – voted in favour of leaving the United Kingdom.

However, a second poll will now be held on September 15, with supporters of Piddington’s independence hoping Donald Trump will formally recognise the village’s vote.

The anthem, dubbed “Battle for Britain”, was created by one of the village’s supporters on social media.

In a two-and-a-half-minute music video, the village continuously switches from the 1940s to the modern day.

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Locals appear to walk around the leafy village, with Spitfires flying over the Oxfordshire skies.

Union Jacks also adorn the streets along with red, white and blue bunting.

The AI-generated video includes numerous polling stations across the village, with the ballot paper reading: “Should Piddington remain an independent village?”

The lyrics are dominated by the phrase “Piddington Roars” and frequent reminders that the vote will take place on September 15.

“September 15, Piddington rise,” the song opens.

The lyrics add: “When the sky was full of Spitfires and brave young men, a few against the many, and they turned the tide that day.

“Now every village and town has got something to say. From Bicester to Barnham to the fields of Crowborough Town. Linton lit the torch and word is travelling round.”

Tim McNally, Chairman of Piddington Parish Council, said: “This is not just a song. It is a rallying cry.

“It is the sound of neighbours standing shoulder to shoulder. The sound of a community refusing to be ignored.

“The sound of people demanding transparency, accountability and the right to have their voices heard.”

He added: “The track is dedicated to Piddington’s residents, campaign supporters and every community that has ever felt overlooked, controlled or silenced.

“It belongs to everyone who believes that ordinary people can make an extraordinary noise when they stand together.

“Now Piddington is calling on supporters across the country: listen, share, add it to your playlists and help make ‘Battle for Britain’ the song Britain cannot ignore.”

Residents in Piddington have attempted to catch Labour’s attention in several ways since the Home Office earmarked MoD Bicester to house 1,250 asylum seekers.

Children across the village penned a series of heartbreaking letters to Andy Burnham.

However, the Prime Minister has remained reluctant to consult residents in Piddington about Labour’s plan to place 1,250 asylum seekers at MoD Bicester.

Speaking to GB News, the Prime Minister said: “I do have to say we cannot have a situation where it’s only the poorest communities in the country that receive all of the dispersal of refugees and asylum seekers.

“We’re working at it, we understand people’s concerns, and I will look into the issues raised by the good people of Piddington.”

The song is now available to download on Spotify and other major music streaming services.

All proceeds generated will go towards Piddington’s campaign, legal advice, and community action against the proposed site.

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Crime Up 1000% in Ceuta After Invasion

And soon Muslim migrants from Ceuta will enter Europe.

When 80,000 Muslim migrants invaded the Spanish territory of Ceuta through Morocco, the Sanchez government refused to declare an emergency because mass migration wasn’t classified as an emergency. Three weeks later, PM Pedro Sanchez came back from vacation and announced that he will declare a national security crisis under a single command.

And by then it will be too late.

Despite initial promises from the prime minister that all the migrants would be returned, many thousands of the invaders have remained behind. Some sources estimated the number of remaining invaders who have occupied beaches and overrun entire areas at only 8,000, but Spain’s Ministry of Health is sending 45,000 doses of vaccines to deal with the migrant outbreaks including 10,000 polio, chickenpox, and diphtheria-tetanus vaccines and 15,000 MMR vaccines suggesting that the true number may be between 10,000 and 15,000.

What the vaccine regime reveals even more than the numbers is the fact that they’re staying.

The fiction that the migrants will soon go back is falling apart. There would be no need for over 10,000 vaccine doses for the migrants if they were on the verge of being deported back home.

MMR vaccines with the second booster shot operate on a 4-week schedule. The chickenpox vaccine is spread out over 2 months, and the polio and diphtheria-tetanus vaccines operate across 6-12 months. The Spanish government expects thousands, and perhaps even a full ten thousand migrants, to stay for at least a year which means that they will probably never leave.

The new unified command is preparing to seize housing for the migrants for the rest of the year which means that the government expects the occupation to continue until at least then.

Meanwhile crime in the formerly quiet territory has soared. According to a police union spokesman, the number of calls regarding crimes being committed increased 1,000%.

“Normally, we get 20 or 30 calls a day to report crimes, and that number increases on weekends. But we’re registering more than 200 calls every day. What we’re experiencing is overwhelming.”

Women and girls in particular have become targets, but even law enforcement isn’t safe with an off-duty Civil Guard officer beaten and robbed by 5 Moroccans at a gas station. Officers are working 16-hour shifts, sleeping on base, and then going back to work, and it still isn’t enough.

“Ceuta cannot normalize robberies, brawls, sexual assaults, and attacks on members of the State Security Forces,” a police union spokesman complained. Unfortunately, it already has.

Prime Minister Sanchez, who famously wrote a New York Times op-ed titled, “I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants” to promote his policy of legalizing 500,000 illegal migrants, helping spur the invasion, has been running out the clock by offering meaningless reassurances and delaying any emergency intervention until now.

As Spain’s former head of immigration, Ramón Caudevila from Ceuta, pointed out, under the law “after 31 days from the application date, undocumented immigrants have the right to go to the Spanish mainland.” What that means is that in around a week, thousands of invading Ceuta migrants will enter Spain proper and then all of Europe will lie open before them.

No wonder they’re getting vaccinated.

And that is only the beginning. As the former official pointed out, “they’ll be granted residency and a work permit. And they can apply for family reunification: five people on average. But it doesn’t end there. His older sister, who is married, brings her family over too… from one minor, you can legalize 25 or 30 people in four or five years.”

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s reassurances that this will never happen and the defamation campaign against Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni were all based on lies. His claim that critics warning about an invasion of Europe out of Ceuta were “driven by prejudice, fake news, ignorance, or political interest” has turned around to show that his lies were the real fake news.

“No one will stay in Ceuta, no one will go to the mainland, no one will be granted legal status,” Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska had promised a few weeks ago. Now the Sanchez government has begun testing the waters by proposing to bring at least 500 female migrant minors from Ceuta to the Spanish mainland. (Migrants routinely claim to be minors. There is often no way to know whether that is true and fake migrant minors have been caught before.)

Sanchez’s Minister of Youth and Children, Sira Rego, blasted calls to return the migrants back home, claiming that it was “racist.” Disregarding her warnings, a large Ceuta protest rallied with calls to expel all the migrant invaders back to Morocco, chanting, “I don’t want invaders, I want my freedom” and calling for the resignation of the pro-migrant open borders Sanchez regime.

Elma Saiz, Spain’s Minister of Inclusion and Migration, insisted that migrant minors would not be deported. “That is not the kind of country we are; we have commitments to international law, and it is also a matter of values,” she protested, and, dismissing warnings about disease outbreaks, claimed that the problem isn’t sickness because “what is contagious is xenophobia.”

Meanwhile, the Sanchez government has continued insisting that the campaign that led 200,000 migrants to plan to invade Spain had nothing to do with the Moroccan government while appearing to blame Israel and Russia. A Spanish paper reprinted a bizarre claim from an Egyptian political scientist who said that China had told her that Israel was behind it all.

And as for Morocco? Minister Saiz claimed that Morocco was a “reliable partner” and insisted, “they didn’t know, just as we didn’t.”

The one thing that everyone has avoided discussing is the Islamic motive for the invasion.

Then the Moroccan Minister of Islamic Affairs cited the “sacred struggle to liberate the occupied cities along the Atlantic Ocean” while referencing the Islamic history of Ceuta and its connections to Mohammed. This was never simply about migration: it was about jihad.

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Polish bishops fight back as gov’t cuts religion classes, pushes contraception

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Poland’s Catholic bishops have criticized the government for restricting religious education in schools while introducing a “Health Education” subject that promotes contraception to children.

In a statement published on August 24 by the Polish Episcopal Conference, the Catholic bishops expressed their discontent with the current government’s decision to cut religious education classes to one hour per week in public schools.

“We wish to make it clear that religion classes are not a privilege of the Church,” the statement reads. “They are a constitutional right of students and parents, stemming from the principle of freedom of conscience and religion, as well as the right of parents to raise their children in accordance with their own beliefs. Religious education classes help shape one’s conscience, teach responsibility, and build a hierarchy of values. They do not serve solely the personal formation of believers. They allow students to gain a deeper understanding of the history of Poland and Europe, literature, art, social ethics, and many other areas of culture. They also help students better understand themselves, find meaning in life, and deepen their understanding of their faith. They bring something unique to school education: an answer to the deepest questions about the meaning, value, and purpose of human life.”

“For many students, especially in times of crisis, it is precisely what they learn in religion classes that serves as a guidepost, preventing them from losing their way,” the statement emphasized.

“In this context, with concern for future generations, we are closely monitoring the actions of the Ministry of National Education,” the bishops stated. “The mandate to schedule religion classes before or after other school classes, the reduction of instruction to one hour per week, the possibility of combining classes, and the exclusion of religion grades from the overall grade average are leading to the marginalization of religion in Polish schools.

“We therefore call for the immediate restoration of the proper place for these classes and for the initiation of a genuine dialogue with representatives of religious communities,” they wrote.

However, the Polish bishops also noted that they support the initiative allowing students to choose between religion and ethics classes.

Regarding the new subject of “Health Education” in schools, which will be mandatory starting on September 1, the bishops said they “recognize the need for health education in schools and acknowledge its importance for disease prevention, mental health, and responsible social attitudes.”

“However, our concerns relate to the vision of the human person, marriage, and the family that emerges from the curriculum guidelines and published textbooks,” the statement continues.

The subject is also meant to “educate” students about “methods of contraception, the mechanism of their action, and the criteria for choosing an appropriate method contraception” and “methods of treatment” for infertility, which could include IVF. Both IVF and contraception are immoral and sinful according to the teaching of the Catholic Church. The sexual education aspect of the course will be optional.

“Another cause for concern is the lack of a clear stance that marriage is a union between a man and a woman,” the bishops warned.

“Sexuality should be presented within the context of marital and family relationships, because it is in this context that it serves the authentic good of the human person.”

They noted that “keeping the module on sexuality optional does not solve the problem.”

“We also note that, in developing the curriculum guidelines, there was a lack of broad dialogue with communities responsible for children’s upbringing. The proposals and requests of the Roman Catholic Church were not taken into account.”

“We therefore ask parents to remain vigilant in overseeing their children’s education in this important and sensitive area of life,” the bishops stressed.

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AfD on Course for Historic Breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt

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The German right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is heading into the final days of the Saxony-Anhalt election campaign with a commanding lead, as its candidate for prime minister Ulrich Siegmund seeks to form the party’s first ever state government.

A new poll puts the AfD at 42%, while the centre-right governing CDU of Prime Minister Sven Schulze is at 22%. The far-left Die Linke stands at 11%, the Social Democrats (SPD) at 8%, and the Greens at 6%. Other parties would currently fail to clear the 5% threshold.

The election takes place next Sunday, September 6th.

The Saxony-Anhalt figures reflect a general disillusionment with establishment parties across eastern Germany.

According to a new survey, seen by Junge Freiheit, the AfD would receive 43% in the eastern states excluding Berlin if a federal election were held today. Die Linke follows with 16%, ahead of the CDU, polling at just 13%. The SPD and Greens are both at 9%.

Against this backdrop, Ulrich Siegmund used an MDR television debate on the evening of Wednesday, August 26th to present himself as the candidate of political change.

He said the AfD was “on the right track” and promised to “reorganise” migration if elected. He argued that reducing spending on asylum and non-governmental organisations could free up €300-500 million for schools and hospitals.

Siegmund accused the CDU of having an “out-of-touch perspective” after 24 years in government in Saxony-Anhalt.

Asked about his priorities, he said he wanted to do what was right for “our own country and our own people.”

Siegmund said he would not seek support from other parties and declared that an AfD victory would be “the beginning of a political change” across Germany.

Even with 42%, however, the AfD could fall short of an outright majority. This means the CDU would most likely team up with all the leftist parties just to avoid having to cooperate with the AfD.

This would mean disregarding the wishes of a significant proportion of voters who are calling for change, including stricter migration policies and a less radical approach to green policies.

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Catholic priest says he doesn’t like the word ‘God’

Salt that has lost its savor. Any question as to why Europe has grown irreligious?
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What is the Catholic Church coming to?

According to a LifeSite News report:

In an August 12 interview with Slovak television personality Adela Vinczeová, Father Adam Štefanec said he avoids the word “God” because it “no longer says anything to anyone,” rejects the traditional greeting “Jesus Christ be praised,” questions the divine nature of Jesus, and seeks language that can be used equally by believers and non-believers.

God “no longer says anything to anyone?”

Does he have laryngitis or are we just not listening anymore? And what does he mean by “language that can be used equally by believers and non-believers?”

That seems silly.

“I’d like a Big Mac, large fries, and a Diet Coke?”

Štefanec, a big proponent of the LGBTQ community, also flatly stated, “I don’t like the word ‘God.’

If he doesn’t like the word “God,” is it likely he likes the Word of God? Probably not.

He added that, “If God exists,” there must be some “universal word” that connects all human beings, “not just active churchgoers or believers,” and trotted out “humanity” as one such possibility.

Wow. “Humanity.” That’s a new one. Deep thinker.

Furthermore, when asked what it means to live according to what Christ wants, Štefanec answered that “the answer is different for each person and different in every period of history. It is constantly changing.” Continuing, he argued that God’s will is about “being faithful to yourself and living in harmony with yourself,” which he defined as “being authentic, and being human.”

What Jesus wants is “different for each person” and “constantly changing?”

God’s will is about “being faithful to yourself and living in harmony with yourself?!”

There is no immutable reality? There are no absolute truths? I just have to live according to “my” truths” and be faithful to myself and do whatever I want to do in order to make myself feel good? In other words, I am my own God and can worship myself? This is fantastic news!

But is this the faith early Christians went to the lions for?

Or is it the priesthood of what St. Thérèse of Lisieux called “salt that has lost its savor”?

It helps explain the domestic collapse of Christianity and the concurrent rise of socialism, which where the state becomes the god, especially among the young.

It probably shouldn’t surprise anyone that only 10 percent of the Czech Republic, a traditionally Catholic country, actually practices Catholicism. The rest of the country is 70 percent non-religious, and 40 percent of those are fully atheist.

God help us. Hope I didn’t offend you. Oh wait, I forgot, Father Štefanec says “God” no longer “says anything to anyone.” So, we’re good … right?

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Nearly three-quarters of Britons oppose entry for men from countries where women lack equal rights

Nearly three-quarters of British adults have said they would vote against allowing men from countries where rape, child abuse and domestic violence are widespread to enter the United Kingdom.

The finding comes from polling by Whitestone Insight, commissioned by the London think tank the Women’s Policy Centre and published on August 25.

Some 73 per cent said they would vote against admitting men from such countries, where women are also not regarded as equal to men. That compared with 13 per cent who would vote in favour, a margin of close to six to one.

Opposition was firm rather than tentative. A total of 58 per cent said they would “definitely” vote against, more than four times the number backing entry in any form, while 14 per cent did not know.

The same survey found 66 per cent of Britons think immigration from countries where women have fewer legal or social rights than in the UK has contributed to the rise in reported sexual offences.

Of those, 40 per cent said it had done so “a great deal”. Just 16 per cent said such migration had had little or no effect.

The Women’s Policy Centre said the results reflected experience rather than hostility. “This is not prejudice, it is common sense,” it said in a statement accompanying the figures.

The think tank called on parties of all stripes to treat women’s safety as a first-order consideration in immigration policy, rather than a subject avoided for fear of causing offence.

The polling builds on the centre’s December 2025 report, Illegal Migration Puts Women at Risk. A YouGov survey commissioned for that study found 93 per cent of respondents supported deporting illegal migrants convicted of rape or other violent crimes.

The new figures land as the British Government pushes its Immigration and Asylum Bill through parliament. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said the legislation would narrow the use of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights in deportation cases.

They also follow the publication on August 19 of Home Office guidance telling asylum seekers that sex without consent is rape and that children under 16 cannot consent to sex.

That guidance drew criticism from Reform UK and from the Conservative front bench, both of which argued that deportation, rather than instruction, was the appropriate response.

Whitestone Insight surveyed 2,093 UK adults online on August 21-23, with the data weighted to be representative of all adults. The company is a member of the British Polling Council.

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Germany: 3 Afghan men gang filmed themselves laughing as they gang raped a young girl

A young German woman from the feminist group Lukreta has posted a video decrying yet another gang rape by foreigners in her country, this time involving three Afghan suspects who are accused of gang raping a 17-year-old girl in Dortmund, filming the rape, and then laughing as they traumatized the victim.

The three men – 20-year-old Quais W., 19-year-old Burhanulla N., and 25-year-old Kambiz H. – are currently on trial in Dortmund Regional Court involving a range of serious charges, including rape and the filming of a pornographic video of a minor.

The three men reportedly lured the girl to their apartment in September 2024 in the city of Dortmund under a false pretext. However, once in the apartment, the suspects got the girl so intoxicated with alcohol that she lost consciousness.

“During the night, the witness lost consciousness as a result of alcohol consumption. The accused then took advantage of this situation,” said prosecutor Fabian Weishaupt.

The three men then systematically raped the girl and filmed themselves laughing. One of them even opened the unconscious girl’s eyes with his finger.

According to Bild, the three suspects all have extensive criminal records, including robbery, attacks against law enforcement, drug trafficking, assault, and other offenses.

As for the Lukreta feminist group, one of their members stated that the case was “covered neither by public broadcasters nor by the political Left even though it can hardly be surpassed in terms of abnormality and misogyny.”

“The reason, of course, is that the three perpetrators are all of Afghan origin and known to the police,” she said.

In other words, the media and left-wing feminist groups are very careful when perpetrators of such attacks are foreigners, but only because such cases are rapidly fueling the rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The data is also clear. Remix News reported that last year, a record-high number of suspects involved in gang rape were foreigners, reaching 53 percent for the first time.

The young woman from Lukreta also has little faith in the German justice system and questions whether the Afghan men will be deported if convicted, stating: “Whether the three Afghans will even be justly convicted is questionable. What is certain, however, is that in the event of deportation, far-left Antifa activists will be at the airport to prevent the flight of the rapists.”

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Fertilizer, El Niño and a Plan for Four Billion Fewer People

El Niño: The carcasses of animals which have perished in the drought are strewn across the desert in East Africa, 2011. Wikipedia CC BY 2.0

When JPMorgan puts out a research note, it isn’t trying to scare anyone. It’s trying to tell paying clients where the next shock is going to land.

So when the bank’s own economists, in a report published in August 2026, titled their outlook on the global food system something as blunt as a compounding storm, that word choice deserves attention. Banks don’t reach for drama. They supply warnings their clients can trade on.

The mechanics behind that warning are not complicated, even if they sound abstract. The 2026 conflict over the Strait of Hormuz has done more than rattle oil markets — it has choked off a huge share of the fertilizer supply chain.

In August 2026 a team led by London economist Nora Szentivanyi published Food Security Is National Security: A Compounding Storm. The International Business Times and many other outlets carried the same warning: fertilizer disrupted by the fight over the Strait of Hormuz, plus a super El Niño, could keep food inflation high into mid-2027.

Call the war what it is. This is not a replay of Iran and Iraq in the 1980s. It is the 2026 Iran conflict and a blocked chokepoint that carries a huge share of the world’s seaborne fertilizer and the gas used to make it. The Middle East supplies about 42 percent of traded urea and 27 percent of ammonia. Nitrogen has to be available in the field at planting. Miss the window and the crop is smaller for the whole season.

War hits Energy

In turn, energy hits fertilizer, farmers cut back and harvests diminish months later. Prices predictably skyrocket. The bank’s arithmetic is stark. Food inflation will climb from roughly 2.8 percent in the first half of 2026 toward a 5 percent annualized rate in the first half of 2027. A strong El Niño by itself has historically added about 0.7 points to global food prices. Stack this year’s energy shock on top and JPMorgan puts the combined lift at 1.3 to 1.5 points—enough to add about 0.6 points to headline inflation and delay the “cooling” politicians keep advertising.

Rice, sugar, coffee and cocoa take the first punch. India, Indonesia, Brazil, Colombia and other food-heavy emerging markets take the next.

That is not a flashy headline kind of famine forecast. It is worse in a quieter way. It describes a food system with no real fertilizer reserve, timed to a war and a weather event, and then assumes that households will pay. The FAO has already said a severe price crisis can form within months if Hormuz stays shut. Modern farming is industrial chemistry. We built a grain machine that runs on nitrogen cooked from gas and shipped through a few narrow waters, then acted stunned when a Gulf war threatened dinner.

Not a New Prediction

People who live outside bank research notes have been saying this for months. In April, economist Ernst Wolff talked about rising food prices and did not rule out famine. He named the obvious beneficiaries: billionaires, giant U.S. corporations, BlackRock, Vanguard. In May, Mike Adams from Natural News warned that a lasting Hormuz blockade could leave millions starving by 2027 and called hunger “the perfect weapon.”

It’s easy to notice the pattern. When food gets scarce, the people who own the land, the ships, the funds and the futures contracts do not go hungry. They mark to market.

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That should always raise a flag. The people least likely to miss a meal are the first to treat population as a dial.

Bill Gates’s 2010 TED line is still exhibit A. “There are 6.8 billion people in the world today. That’s going to rise to nine billion. If we do a really good job with new vaccines, healthcare, and family planning, we might be able to reduce that number by 10 or 15 percent.”

The official cleanup job is that he meant slower growth, not a body count. Read it again anyway. The man now sold as a global health statesman put vaccines, healthcare and family planning in one sentence with a smaller future population, on a stage for “visionaries,” a decade before the pandemic years turned him into the planet’s most famous vaccine lobbyist.

You are not a crank for finding that sentence curious. Gates has company. In July 2026, an international group in Bangkok published Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200 in Sustainable Development. They treat the rise from under two billion people a century ago to about 8.3 billion now as a master cause of resource burn.

CO₂ up more than population, energy use tripled and biodiversity was cut by more than half while minerals and pesticides increased more than fourfold. Some forecasts still point to 11.4 billion by 2100; Flinders University work has talked about peaks near 12.4 billion.

The authors want the human herd eased down to four billion over the next 175 years because, they say, per-capita consumption has not fallen fast enough. A smaller population means fewer jobs, they note, and therefore less environmental damage. How four billion people disappear from the ledger is left to fertility charts and “voluntary” planning. The paper does not say who goes without grandchildren.

Put those two stories together and the point is simple. One report says fertilizer shortages and bad weather will make food more expensive through 2027. Another says the long-term fix is a world with four billion fewer people. Officials will call the first a market forecast and the second an environmental study. Ordinary readers hear the same message twice: there is not enough, and there are too many of you.

The practical answer is also simple. Build fertilizer plants that do not depend on one strait. Keep grain and nitrogen in reserve before the shortage, not after. Keep shipping lanes open. Get seed, fuel and fertilizer to farmers in time for planting. That is how you prevent a price shock from becoming empty shelves.

What should not happen is the other sequence: let a war choke fertilizer, let food prices rise, let large funds collect the gain, and then treat a shrinking population as the civilized solution. You do not need a secret plan for hunger to do damage. You only need a system that protects the supply of money better than it protects the supply of food.

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