Thousands of protesters have marched across Spain demanding stronger tenant protections after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s minority government failed to pass emergency housing measures in parliament. Around 50 demonstrations were planned in cities including Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, where clashes were reported between some protesters and police. The protests intensified following the September eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal after a steep rent increase, prompting demands for lower rents, restrictions on evictions and limits on investment funds purchasing residential property. In Madrid, organisers claimed as many as 500,000 people participated, while government officials estimated 70,000. Parliament rejected two government decrees that included extending eviction protections for vulnerable tenants, prolonging some rental agreements, increasing taxes on tourist accommodation, restricting property purchases by investment funds and automatically renewing rental contracts. The parliamentary defeats have also increased speculation that Sánchez could call an early general election...

Saturday News

20261003-L3969

‘They knew about myocarditis in kids, yet…’:

Florida sues Pfizer over 'deceptive COVID Vaccine lies'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmx2eJ3Do2Q&t=13s

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has sued Pfizer and CEO Albert Bourla, alleging the company misled consumers about the safety and effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine. The lawsuit alleges Pfizer failed to disclose potential risks, including heart inflammation, while Florida is seeking fines and the return of profits. Pfizer rejects the allegations, saying its vaccine claims were accurate and science-based, as the legal battle now moves forward...

20261002-L3968

SINKEX: U.S. and UK Forces Sink Decommissioned Frigate at Atlantic Thunder 2026

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/09/sinkex-u-s-and-uk-forces-sink-decommissioned-frigate-at-atlantic-thunder-2026/

During the SINKEX, participating forces assigned to U.S. Commander, Task Force 65, U.S. Commander, Task Force 67, U.S. Commander, Task Force 68, U.S. Commander, Task Force 69 and U.S. Commander, Task Force 1060 alongside the U.K. Royal Navy and the U.S. Air Force sank the decommissioned guided-missile frigate ex-USS Klakring. The event developed combined proficiency in tactics, targeting, and live-firing against a surface target at sea. “Atlantic Thunder demonstrates the unmatched lethality and interoperability of the United States and United Kingdom,” said U.S. Capt. Kelechi Ndukwe, Commander, U.S. Task Force 65. “This sinking exercise not only validated the power behind U.S.-UK offensive weapons but delivers a clear message to adversaries that the U.S. Navy and Royal Navy remain a ready allied force.” The exercise strengthens the U.S.-UK alliance, warfighting credibility, and interoperability during long-range maritime sinking operations. During the SINKEX, the guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) successfully demonstrated maximum damage and range capability of an anti-surface variant of the Standard Missile 6 (SM 6). USS Massachusetts (SSN 798) successfully engaged the target with the Mk 48 Advanced Capability Torpedo, resulting in the final hit and ultimately sinking ex-USS Klakring...

20261002-L3967

AUF1 News, presented by Isabelle Janotka:

https://auf1.tv/nachrichten-auf1/nachrichten-auf1-vom-01-oktober-2026

· Despite fuel tax relief: Fuel prices rising again

· Chancellery halts Klingbeil’s sugar tax for now

· 2.5 billion euros: Luxury airport for Merz and Klingbeil

· Is Germany facing rule by constitutional judges?

· SPD draft: Are state constitutional courts to be stripped of power?

· AfD debate: Critics of NATO and EU labeled enemies of the constitution

· Federal government seeks to strip opposition figures of voting rights

· Party donations prior to appointment to the coronavirus expert council

· New study: US Covid deaths apparently significantly overcounted

· New role for August Wöginger following resignation as ÖVP parliamentary group leader

· Austria’s national debt rises by 20 billion euros in six months

· Accident risk? First robot taxis in Switzerland

· Neurobiologist Gerald Hüther: How dangerous stress is for body and soul

20261001-L3966

Saronic Awarded Production Contract for Marauder Under U.S. Navy’s MUSV Marketplace

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/09/saronic-awarded-production-contract-for-marauder-under-u-s-navys-musv-marketplace/

Saronic Technologies has been awarded a production Other Transaction (OT) under the U.S. Navy’s Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) Marketplace for Marauder, the company’s dual-use 180-foot autonomous ship. The Firm-Fixed Price award, executed under the authority of 10 U.S.C. § 4022(f), reflects a streamlined acquisition approach that enables the Navy to procure capabilities from non-traditional suppliers like Saronic with greater speed and flexibility. The MUSV Marketplace is a Navy acquisition initiative designed to rapidly field unmanned surface vessels by drawing on mature, commercial-ready technology rather than a traditional multi-year program of record. In June 2026, the Navy initially downselected Saronic as one of seven companies to advance Marauder to an at-sea testing phase, positioning the company to compete for a production award under the program...

20261001-L3965

AUF1 News, presented by Isabelle Janotka:

https://auf1.tv/nachrichten-auf1/nachrichten-auf1-vom-30-september-2026

· Seven years instead of eight: Court reduces sentence for "Hammer Gang" member

· Thuringia: First-ever expert hearing on AfD ban

· AfD Thuringia: Stephan Kramer is a fascist

· Deputy parliamentary group leader Haseloff: Domestic intelligence agency takes orders from the Interior Minister

· Attorney von Waldstein: Preparations for an AfD ban began as early as 2017

· Only two party bans in the history of the Federal Republic to date

· Government formation in Saxony-Anhalt: Siegmund drops demand for an absolute majority

· Fuel price cap: Stocker embarrasses himself with media campaign

· Court strengthens union rights: "Zentrum" union allowed to recruit members at VW

· AI threat from Gates: Only big players to remain

· Financial flows from Pfizer and the state: Were these Ramelow’s independent coronavirus experts?

· Shocking reports from the coronavirus era

· Digital euro – can only be implemented through coercion and the threat of force

20261001-L3964

Passengers subdue co-pilot after Israel-bound jet plunges in hijacking

https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/passengers-subdue-co-pilot-after-israel-bound-jet-plunges-in-hijacking/

More than 170 passengers have arrived safely in Israel after a FlyDubai flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia following an alleged cockpit attack that sent the aircraft into a dramatic plunge. The Boeing 737 was carrying 174 passengers, including 27 children, on a flight bound for Tel Aviv when an emergency unfolded roughly two hours into the journey. The aircraft transmitted distress signals, including a code associated with a possible hijacking, before rapidly losing around 4,500 metres of altitude in approximately one minute. The incident prompted Israel to scramble fighter aircraft while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened urgent security discussions. According to accounts given by passengers, the first officer allegedly attacked the captain with a knife before attempting to crash the aircraft. Three Israeli passengers reportedly entered the cockpit after the injured captain managed to open the door and then fought to restrain the co-pilot...

20261001-L3963

Dutch intelligence service warns not to hold secret talks in a modern car

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/09/dutch-intelligence-service-warns-not-to-hold-secret-talks-in-a-modern-car/

Microphones fitted for voice control and emergency calls can, in technical terms, be switched on from outside the vehicle. The General Intelligence and Security Service has told officials and company staff who handle sensitive material not to treat a connected car as a private room. In a notice and a three-page explainer published on Wednesday, The modern car as a possible spy, the AIVD says today’s vehicles collect data on occupants, on the car itself and on people and objects nearby. Those streams sit on systems that are online. State actors, it says, can ask manufacturers and other firms for the data or break in and take it. Microphones fitted for voice control and emergency calls can, in technical terms, be switched on from outside the vehicle. The service’s public advice is therefore not to hold confidential conversations in or near the car. The warning is aimed first at ministers, civil servants, executives and anyone else whose movements or remarks would interest a foreign service...

20261001-L3962

Ebola in DRC: The reality and the media hype

https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/ebola-in-drc-the-reality-and-the-media-hype/

We are to believe, according to some public health voices and media, that the Ebola outbreak in Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a threat to us all. This is a bit of a pattern, and it is a story full of obvious flaws. Hot on the heels of COVID-19, in which humans may have fiddled with a virus and then used the Nature Medicine journal to pretend otherwise, we have endured one existential threat after another. Mpox, avian flu, Marburg virus and Hantavirus between them have not totalled 1,000 deaths together over the entire period. Mpox is perhaps the worst, with about 500 deaths across two separate “public health emergencies of international concern”, mostly due to malnutrition in, once again, DRC. But DRC loses 70,000 children to malaria every year, so Mpox was really our problem rather than theirs. The narrative of polycrisis foisted on an ever-more sceptical public has wrecked the integrity of international public health. Under its current model, global health priorities are largely determined by a few very wealthy individuals with limited public health understanding, or corporations with direct vested interests in certain outcomes. Public health journals are financially beholden to these, as are mainstream media, and can only reflect the hype. The story is all about the necessity for more money to enable experts to rescue both ourselves and the people of affected regions. Highly paid consultants and pharmaceuticals from Western corporations become essential to save populations apparently helpless without our urgent largesse. This is historically ridiculous, it is ignorant, it is stupid and the note by Villa and co-authors of the Ituri Collective explains why in very clear and coherent terms...

20261001-L3961

Dutch intelligence service warns not to hold secret talks in a modern car

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/09/dutch-intelligence-service-warns-not-to-hold-secret-talks-in-a-modern-car/

20260930-L3960

US Navy Awards $5 Billion Contract for CVN 75 USS Harry S. Truman Aircraft Carrier Refueling and Overhaul Through 2031

https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4614270/contracts-for-sept-29-2026/

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News, Virginia, is awarded a $5,099,973,132 fixed-ceiling incentive contract for the accomplishment of the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) refueling and complex overhaul. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value to $5,183,380,744. Work will be performed in Newport News, Virginia and is expected to be completed by November 2031.Fiscal 2026 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $547,826,087 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. In accordance with 10 U.S. Code 3204(a)(1), this contract was not competitively procured. Only one responsible source, Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News, Virginia, has the knowledge, experience, and facilities required to accomplish this without an unacceptable disruption of Navy-wide overhaul and repair schedule. Portfolio Acquisition Executive Maritime, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-26-C-2175)...

20260930-L3959

US Navy Awards Contract for Mk 15 Close-In Weapon Systems Through 2030

https://www.deagel.com/news/n000028755

Raytheon Co., Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $247,089,895 firm-fixed-price contract for production, upgrades, conversions, and overhauls of MK 15 Close-In Weapon Systems, including Phalanx, Land-based Phalanx Weapon System, and SeaRAM configurations, as well as associated hardware, equipment, and spares in support of Navy and Army requirements. Work will be performed in Louisville, Kentucky (33%); Tucson, Arizona (7%); Mason, Ohio (5%); Colchester, Vermont (4%); Melbourne, Florida (4%); Ottobrunn, Germany (4%); Joplin, Missouri (3%); Hauppauge, New York (3%); Grand Rapids, Michigan (3%); Tempe, Arizona (2%); Exeter, New Hampshire (2%); Norcross, Georgia (1%); Pomona, California (1%); Palo Alto, California (1%); Radford, Virginia (1%); Miami, Florida (1%); Andover, Massachusetts (1%); Orchard Park, New York (1%); and various locations within the continental U.S. (23%), and is expected to be completed in September 2030. Fiscal 2026 other procurement (Army) funds in the amount of $83,000,000; fiscal 2026 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $51,400,000; fiscal 2026 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $50,240,130; fiscal 2026 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $27,363,903; fiscal 2026 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $21,169,293; and fiscal 2026 weapons procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $7,426,000, will be obligated at the time of award. This contract was not competitively procured. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N0001926C5406)...

20260930-L3958

Strikes paralyse France as Macron’s popularity flatlines

https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/world/strikes-paralyse-france-as-macrons-popularity-flatlines-video/

The embattled French president is facing two overlapping protest movements and an approval rating of less than 20%. A series of mass protests has gripped France ahead of the French government’s plans to slash some €56 billion from its social spending. Firefighters, healthcare workers, transport staff and other civil servants took part in a nationwide strike on Tuesday, backed by all of the country’s major public-sector unions. More than 170 marches were planned across France, with demonstrators blocking roads and scuffling with police in Paris, and firefighters setting flares alight atop the iconic July Column at the Place de la Bastille – built to commemorate the overthrow of King Charles X in 1830. French students also clashed with police outside schools across the country...

20260930-L3957

US oil reserve dwindles as Hormuz disruption continues

https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/us-oil-reserve-dwindles-as-hormuz-disruption-continues/

US Strategic Petroleum Reserve stocks have fallen to their lowest level since October 1982, dropping to 283.8 million barrels. The decline followed an authorisation in March of a 172 million-barrel release as part of a coordinated international effort to contain oil prices. About 133 million barrels were released through swaps with Shell, Vitol and Trafigura, which were contracted to return 1.25 barrels for every barrel received, with deliveries scheduled to begin next year. A range of 250–300 million-barrel is generally considered necessary for efficient operations...

20260930-L3956

AUF1 News, presented by Bernhard Riegler:

https://auf1.tv/nachrichten-auf1/nachrichten-auf1-vom-29-september-2026

· Klöckner loses her cool: Bundestag President wants to eject the opposition

· Thuringia’s coronavirus advisory board: State Chancellery refused to acknowledge conflicts of interest

· Final warning: Far-left alliance "Widersetzen" threatens the BSW

· After election defeats: CDU politicians suddenly want to discuss the cityscape

· Everything kept secret: CDU-led state government withholds costs for asylum accommodation

· Attorney Thor von Waldstein: Constitutional Court pursuing an agenda regarding migration

· Horror in Ceuta: 17-year-old nearly dies after rape

· Because of migrants? Danger Dan wins legal battle to transfer daughter to a different school

· BioNTech closing German sites and focusing on mRNA cancer vaccine

· Daniel Haseloff: Many internationally are asking whether Germany is still a democracy

· AI confusion: Tech giants warn of the dangers of artificial intelligence

· Austria: Fuel price cap serves only to protect the government

· Challenging the US dollar: BRICS nations emerge as a new economic power

📯Pipeline politics is back! 🇵🇦Panama wants a Transoceanic LPG pipeline ...

20260929-L3955

Panama Canal Authority Launches Pipeline Project

With ExxonMobil, Shell, Mitsubishi in the Mix

· https://www.latintimes.com/panama-canal-authority-launches-pipeline-project-exxonmobil-shell-mitsubishi-mix-589754

· https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7306283066317012993/

PANAMA CITY — The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) on Sept. 18 launched an international selection process to grant a concession for the design, construction and operation of a 76-kilometer pipeline across the isthmus, capable of transporting up to 2.5 million barrels of energy products. The initiative, described by ACP officials as a central part of its "Interoceanic Energy Corridor" plan, would include a pipeline that bypasses the locks as well as new maritime terminals on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. ACP Administrator Ricaurte Vásquez outlined the project as part of a ten-year strategic plan prioritizing water sustainability after drought conditions in 2023–2024 disrupted canal operations...

20260929-L3954

AUF1 News, presented by Bernhard Riegler:

https://auf1.tv/nachrichten-auf1/nachrichten-auf1-vom-28-september-2026

· Total surveillance: State media authorities to spy on political opinions

· Fall of former Covid Minister Spahn: Now loses Budget Committee seat too

· Wadephul meets Lavrov: Cautious dialogue or planned failure?

· After New York meeting: Communiqué makes no mention of failure

· Wadephul names no conditions for negotiations

· Reactions in Germany: Outcry from warmongers

· Martin Müller-Mertens: Arrogant Lavrov, dangerous Kiesewetter

· Switzerland: Neutrality initiative rejected by 70 percent

· Red Storm Charlie: Bundeswehr practices suppressing civil protests

· Psychiatric detention for quarantine refusers: Köpping under pressure to explain

· Potential AfD ban: US politician threatens sanctions

· Threat of a ban: Russia also shows solidarity with the AfD

· Bilderberg, Bertelsmann, ORF: Who is Gerhard Zeiler?

· Professor Burkel: High-voltage power line serves profit, not Carinthia

20260929-L3953

Le Pen hails ‘Historic Victory’ as National Rally breaks into French Senate

https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/world/le-pen-hails-historic-victory-as-national-rally-breaks-into-french-senate/

Marine Le Pen has hailed a “historic victory” after her National Rally (RN) and its ally secured enough seats to establish a parliamentary group in the French Senate for the first time. Following Sunday’s vote, RN and the Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) will together control at least 15 seats in the 348-member upper house. Only ten senators are required to establish a formal group, giving its members an expanded role in Senate committees responsible for examining legislation.“This is a historic victory, and a major milestone with the formation for the first time of a group in the Senate,” Le Pen wrote on X. She said the breakthrough reflected growing support for her party across France and would allow its senators to bring local concerns into the forthcoming presidential campaign...

20260929-L3952

Prepping for a Cashless Control Grid: How Digital Currency Becomes Digital Control

https://preppgroup.home.blog/2026/09/26/prepping-for-a-cashless-control-grid-how-digital-currency-becomes-digital-control/

When Money Stops Being Money. Something fundamental is vanishing, and most people will not notice until it is already gone. Not with a declaration. Not with a law passed in the dead of night. Simply, gradually, the option to buy something without creating a permanent record will disappear. The ability to save purchasing power outside of a system that can freeze it, monitor it, or program it will become a memory that seems almost fictional to those who never experienced it. I have watched this unfold over years of observing payment systems, reading central bank white papers that few citizens bother to examine, and noticing how my own transactions leave increasingly detailed trails. The pattern is consistent across nations: convenience precedes surveillance, and surveillance precedes control. We are not approaching a cashless society. We are sleepwalking into it. And for anyone who values independence, privacy, or the basic human right to conduct commerce without surveillance, this represents not progress but regression toward a form of control that previous generations would have recognized immediately and resisted forcefully. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are the mechanism of this transformation. The digital euro, the potential digital dollar, the digital yuan already operational in China—these are not simply modernizations of payment systems. They are structural changes to the relationship between the individual and the state, between commerce and surveillance, between freedom and permission. Once fully implemented, they would create a financial infrastructure where every transaction is visible, every purchase is logged, and every economic decision requires implicit or explicit approval from authorities...

20260929-L3951

Outage—Are Your Real Survival Crisis When the Lights Go Out for More Than a Week

https://preppgroup.home.blog/2026/08/25/seven-days-in-the-dark-how-i-watched-my-neighbors-turn-into-thieves-my-home-become-a-fortress-and-the-brutal-truth-that-people-not-the-power-outage-are-your-real-survival-crisis-whe/

I don’t know if you’ve ever lived through a major power outage, but I have. I live in a hurricane zone, so I suppose it was inevitable that I would eventually face the full wrath of nature’s fury. The storm that hit us wasn’t one of those headline-grabbing monsters that brings FEMA agents swarming in with cameras rolling and politicians posing for photo ops. It was what meteorologists call a “moderate” event—just strong enough to knock out infrastructure, just weak enough to be forgotten by the national media within 48 hours. But it took seven days for our power to return. Seven days. One hundred and sixty-eight hours. Ten thousand and eighty minutes of living in a world that suddenly resembled something from another century—or another dimension entirely. You don’t truly realize how much you need electric power until you’re left without it. As a society, we are addicted to electricity in ways that would horrify our great-grandparents and confuse our ancestors. Pretty much everything we do uses electricity in one way or another, even activities we think of as analog, unplugged, or “natural.” The water flowing from your tap? Electric pumps. The gas at the station? Electric pumps. The food in your refrigerator? Electric cooling. The money in your bank account? Electronic records. The safety of your neighborhood? Electric streetlights and surveillance systems. When the power goes out, you notice immediately. The sudden silence of a house without humming appliances is disorienting. The stillness feels like a presence, a weight. And the uncertainty—will it be hours? days? weeks?—creates a low-grade anxiety that simmers beneath every decision...

20260928-L3950

Transhumanist games against Javier Milei??

UK issues Falklands defense warning

https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/uk-issues-falklands-defense-warning/

Argentine President Javier Milei has claimed he could take “matters into our own hands” over the ongoing sovereignty dispute. Britain is fully capable of defending the Falkland Islands if Argentina attempts to invade and take control of the territory, UK Defense Secretary Wes Streeting has warned. The UK has administered the South Atlantic archipelago, known in Argentina as the Malvinas, since 1833. Buenos Aires maintains that the islands are part of its own territory. The two countries fought a war over the islands in 1982 after Argentine forces seized them and Britain sent a naval task force to retake them. Residents overwhelmingly voted to remain British territory in a 2013 referendum, which Argentina disputes. The renewed tensions come as US President Donald Trump has cast doubt on whether America would come to Britain’s aid in another conflict over the territory. Milei raised the issue at the UN General Assembly in New York this week, pointing to the Sea Lion offshore oil project and warning that Argentina could “take matters into our own hands” if the UN fails to act. In an interview with The Sun on Sunday published on Saturday, Streeting dismissed Milei’s position as the “same old bogus propaganda,” arguing that “the Argentinians lack the ability” to seize the archipelago...

20260928-L3949

Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran ready for ‘doomsday’ war with U.S.,

but leaves diplomacy on the table

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/27/iran-foreign-minister-keeps-indirect-talks-with-us-open-state-media.html

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that his country is ready for a “doomsday” war with the U.S., but that he is leaving diplomacy on the table so as not to “miss any chance for peace.” Araghchi made the comments during an appearance on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” following last week’s United Nations General Assembly. The U.S. and Iran have been locked in an on-again, off-again war since Feb. 28, which has caused a global oil shock that has spiked gas prices and fanned the flames of inflation. “If you ask us, there is no reason why we should go back to diplomacy, but I am still trying diplomacy because I think we shouldn’t miss any chance for peace,” Araghchi said. “We are ready to negotiate as much as we are ready to face any challenge ... We stand firm in the face of any aggression against us, even if it comes to a doomsday war.”...

20260928-L3948

Fiji declares national crisis as HIV epidemic escalates

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/fiji-declares-national-crisis-hiv-050000956.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD6qOhrEowGagdm8wnX51K27qZnsXNgt43weoOewHXSkqoF47JeZk5VD3n06IGN78eNyJ87H417eVq_YxUn2-FBVZmsiBf016TSSZr_kl77BTOjvSM78lK39z56nOFMy-yu9bPlEyV0Wne9l3y9IHLxJxUj6DVv3BoQdC7jRAdn9

Fiji has declared a national HIV emergency as it struggles to contain an escalating epidemic linked to a spike in methamphetamine use. Children as young as 10 have contracted the virus from injecting drugs as it rips through a country caught off guard. Now, the island paradise has the world's fastest-growing HIV outbreak: there were 2,016 new diagnoses last year, compared to just 147 in 2020. "This decision recognises the seriousness of the epidemic, and the urgent coordinated response our country now needs," Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu, the Health and Medical Services Minister, said as he declared a crisis this week. "The Ministry of Health cannot meet those challenges on its own." He added that one in every 60 adults are now living with the disease, up from one in 167 people just five years ago, while two per cent of pregnant women are infected. In 2025 alone, 59 babies were born with HIV, with 18 dying before their first birthday. The crisis has its roots in drugs. The archipelago has long been a strategic stop-off point on the "drugs superhighway" from the Americas and Southeast Asia to Australia and New Zealand, but methamphetamines are increasingly spilling into a domestic market. This has driven an HIV crisis because of the way these drugs are being used: the widespread sharing of blood, needles and syringes has transformed a small, background epidemic spreading via unprotected sex into an explosive outbreak. "It's a clash of two epidemics," Eamonn Murphy, the Asia-Pacific director at UNAIDS, told the Telegraph. "[Methamphetamines] fuelled the flames. Fiji had a small fire, but throw injecting drug use on it and see where we get: a 12-fold increase in just 12 years...

Meridian Sunday News

20260927-L3947

⚛️Tensions rising in Ceuta: "There will be an uprising"

· https://www.epochtimes.de/politik/ausland/spannungen-in-ceuta-steigen-es-wird-einen-aufstand-geben-a5619587.html

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE9t0im_sqI

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcTlvfc7JTg

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsvGXSjR_xw&pp=ygULY2V1dGEgcmlvdHM%3D

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uRJF7ndW0M&pp=ygULY2V1dGEgcmlvdHM%3D

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCj0przaZEc&pp=ygULY2V1dGEgcmlvdHM%3D

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mion6m3oc2U&pp=ygULY2V1dGEgcmlvdHM%3D

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fG44y-XjWs&pp=ygULY2V1dGEgcmlvdHPSBwkJLwwBhyohjO8%3D

Discontent is growing in Ceuta: the city of approximately 83,000 inhabitants is now home to at least 13,000 migrants, while the number of incidents recorded by the 112 emergency service has surged by more than 530 percent. Madrid speaks of a "subjective" fear, whereas residents of the enclave warn of an uprising. Leading a march to the Tarajal border crossing in Ceuta, Spain, on September 20, 2026, residents carried a banner reading "Ceuta invadida" ("SOS – Invasion in Ceuta"). On September 20, more than 1,000 demonstrators marched toward the Moroccan border behind a large banner bearing the slogan "SOS – Invasion in Ceuta." They demanded the repatriation of the migrants currently living on the beaches, streets, and in public spaces of the Spanish enclave. Spanish and Ceuta flags waved over the crowd as it moved through the city. Demonstrators chanted slogans such as "Ceuta is Spanish" and "Intruders, get out!" and directed much of their anger at Spain's Socialist Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. The march was organized by the local association of neighborhood groups. It took place more than seven weeks after a mass border crossing in which around 70,000 people—predominantly young men—made their way from Morocco to Ceuta over the course of two days. Most returned to Morocco within a few days, but thousands remained. In this city of roughly 83,000 people on the North African coast, the continued presence of the migrants has significantly increased the strain on housing, public spaces, and other local resources. Many residents are therefore increasingly angry, saying their daily lives have changed fundamentally. "Our own government is betraying us." "I am here because our government isn't standing by us," said Ramón, a 56-year-old civil servant, speaking to the English-language edition of *The Epoch Times* as he joined the march. "Our streets are no longer safe, and our children are stuck inside their homes." Among the protesters heading toward the border was 16-year-old Daniel, who said the situation made him feel as though he could no longer "do anything" due to the lack of public safety. His mother, Ana Belén, a 43-year-old healthcare worker, directed her anger at the government in Madrid. "Our own government is betraying us," she told *The Epoch Times*. "Their primary duty is to defend the homeland, not to prioritize the rights of intruders over our safety and civil rights. We pay our taxes, and that is what they are for. In a normal world, members of this government would be put on trial for high treason." Sánchez’s office did not respond to a request for comment. Here and there in the crowd, protesters carried the blue-and-gold flag of the European Union...

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