41rd calendar week 2026
Note: Due to the current operation from changing locations, the extent
and depth of the reflections may temporarily deviate from the usual level.
Weekend news
20261011-L3983
⚛️India to send first ship along Arctic route next year
– official
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https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/world/india-to-send-first-ship-along-arctic-route-next-year-official/
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https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/the-arctic-shipping-route-no-one-s-talking-about
The Shipping
Ministry sees a ‘huge possibility’ in the Northern Sea Route, after a 70% jump
in cargo traffic via the Chennai-Vladivostok trade link. India is planning to
send its first cargo ship on the Arctic route running along Russia’s northern
coast next year, as it seeks to deepen trade with Moscow outside of Western
sanctions and without disruptions via the Suez Canal. The 5,600 km Arctic
route, or Northern Sea Route (NSR), runs off Russia’s Arctic coastline and is
the shortest shipping route between East Asia and Europe. Climate change and
receding sea ice open up the route seasonally – but conditions are harsh,
requiring specialized ice-breakers to keep channels open...
20261011-L3982
⚛️ Germany’s Rheinmetall Acquires Romania’s Mangalia
Shipyard
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https://maritime-executive.com/article/germany-s-rheinmetall-acquires-romania-s-mangalia-shipyard
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Note: Mangalia shipyard is a large shipyard located 45
km (28 mi) south of the Port of Constanța, in Mangalia, Romania.
The
long-running battle over the future of Romania’s Mangalia Shipyard was settled
with the court-appointed liquidator confirmed a deal to sell the yard, with the
goal of quickly resuming work. Germany’s Rheinmetall has agreed to acquire the
yard for €138 million ($154 million) as part of an effort to build four ships
for the Romanian Navy.
Once one of
the largest shipyards in Europe and a major employer in Romania, the yard of
late had been in a joint venture with the Damen Group. Reports said the yard
had, at its peak a decade ago, employed between 2,000 and 2,500 people.
Damen entered
into a joint venture with the Romanian government in 2018 to operate the yard
as part of its Eastern European operations in addition to the Gala?i shipyard,
which has been operating in Romania since 1999. Damen owned 49 percent of the
joint venture for Mangalia, with the government holding the other 51 percent.
However, according to media reports, the troubles began in 2023 when Romania
changed the rules for the management of private enterprises, and Damen asserted
it was a breach of contract for Mangalia.
Damen filed
in 2024 to put the yard into insolvency, citing the large loans it had made to
the joint venture for the modernization and operation of the yard. A plan to
reorganize the operations was rejected by the creditors, of which Damen is the
largest, and the courts declared the company bankrupt in April 2026.
The
court-appointed liquidator set the value of the assets at €84 million, and the
creditors agreed to a series of auctions starting at €184 million. By August,
it was reported that the first three auctions had received no bidders, and the
administrators were proposing to the court to begin lowering the price for the
subsequent auctions. Under the rules, there were to have been six auctions at
the full price, and then they were going to step down the price first to 75
percent and then potentially 50 percent. The yard was reported to have debts
totalling €190 million.
Rheinmetall
acquired the yard at 75 percent of the originally agreed auction price.
Romania’s former Minister of Economy and now the Minister of Defense called it
a major step forward in the promise to revitalize the operation and restore
employment at Mangalia. He asserted the ministry had been offered just €10
million for the yard when the process began, and he rejected it despite
criticism from opponents.
The German
company best known as an arms manufacturer entered shipbuilding with the
acquisition of Naval Vessels Lürssen (NVL) in Germany, completed in March 2026.
In May, it confirmed that it was exploring taking over Mangalia as part of its
effort to build four ships for the Romanian Navy. It was awarded a contract
valued at approximately €920 million in May 2026 under the European Union’s
Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program, which includes the naval vessels for
the Romanian Navy. It is to build two offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) and two
support vessels.
The Lürssen superyacht Azzam in Cádiz
20261008-L3981
Top 50: The world's
biggest superyachts
https://www.superyachttimes.com/yacht-news/worlds-largest-yachts
The largest
superyacht in the world measures 180.61-metres in length overall. More than 80
superyachts currently exceed 100 metres in length, with new launches and
projects continuing to add to the global fleet. SuperYacht Times has rounded up
a comprehensive list of the world's largest superyachts in operation...
20261008-L3980
France
Conducts First Submarine Test Launch of Upgraded M51.3 Nuclear Missile
France fired
its new nuclear-capable missile M51.3 from a submarine off Brittany, weeks
after Macron promised to answer Russia’s hybrid attacks. France has tested its
new ballistic missile M51.3 from a nuclear submarine on Tuesday; the upgraded
weapon has been launched from underwater. Emmanuel Macron, the French
President, says the test shows the country’s nuclear deterrent can still be
trusted. The French Armed Forces Ministry said the missile left the submarine
named Le Vigilant off the coast of Finistère, in Brittany, on October 6. The
submarine had just come out of a major overhaul period. There was no warhead on
board, only a dummy payload, which came down in the North Atlantic hundreds of
kilometers from any coastline. “This technical success proves the ongoing
credibility of our strategic deterrent,” he said. “To safeguard our freedom
over the long term, we must maintain an unquestioned defence capability...
20261008-L3979
11 Indian
Seafarers Injured After Attack On Commercial Tanker In Strait of Hormuz
On October 6,
2026, MT On Peace, the Panama-flagged tanker, was struck by an unverified
projectile out at sea near Oman. The attacked vessel carried a 19-member crew,
which included 17 Indian nationals. Twelve crew members were injured in the
strike, 11 of whom are Indian. Omani authorities and the local emergency
services stepped in to assist the vessel after the attack in the rescue and
evacuation process of all the injured sailors to Khasab and Oman, where they
are receiving medical treatment. The Spokesperson for the Indian Ministry of
External Affairs, Randhir Jaiswal, expressed gratitude towards the swift
response of Omani authorities and reiterated New Delhi’s concerns over the
recurring maritime attacks in the region. The MEA has also condemned the attack
on the commercial vessel, as the consequences were faced by the bystanding crew
members...
20261008-L3978
AUF1 News,
presented by Stefan Pollak:
https://auf1.tv/nachrichten-auf1/nachrichten-auf1-vom-07-oktober-2026
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Thuringia: State parliament rejects early elections
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Pneumonic plague outbreak simulated in 2019 exercise
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Stefan Magnet: Striking resemblance to the coronavirus
playbook
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Polish Radio: NATO planning war with Russia using
drones and AI
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Saxony-Anhalt: Four votes as a test run for the
Minister-President election?
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BSW sticks to abstention: AfD must find majorities
elsewhere
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Will Siegmund stick to the plan? Candidacy announced
only for the first ballot
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Tillschneider election: Where did the five extra votes
come from?
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SPD seeks more funding for NGOs and the fight against
"disinformation"
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Queer strip clubs, Afghan festivals: Vienna’s jungle
of subsidies
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AGILE program: EU lawmakers greenlight drone armament
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Espionage allegations against former BND chief: Was a
government critic neutralized?
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Extension of military service: FPÖ suddenly says no
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After VW: Is a wave of mass layoffs looming?
20261007-L3977
Anduril and
the US Navy are planning a $6.6 billion shipyard
to produce
critical submarine parts
The US Navy
and Anduril Industries are teaming up to build a new shipyard to produce
critical parts for Virginia-class submarines. Both the defense company,
co-founded by Palmer Luckey, and the Navy will invest billions of dollars to
construct the facility in Maryland, with plans to launch initial operations in
2030. The shipyard is the latest step to address gaps in the Navy's submarine
industrial base and supply chain, which have contributed to delays in the
delivery of Virginia-class submarines and other vessels. On Tuesday, Anduril
and the White House announced the new facility, named Arsenal-2, in Baltimore
County, Maryland. It comes with a $6.6 billion investment, $3.7 billion of
which is private capital. The remaining $2.9 billion will come from the Navy.
Anduril expects the shipyard will create over 3,000 direct jobs and support
more than 11,000 jobs...
20261007-L3976
But there is
little hope, for chaos is their goal!
Sánchez
dissolves parliament and calls a November election
The Prime
Minister has cut short a legislature with no budget and a run of judicial
inquiries around him, blaming a parliamentary defeat his own party had spent
the weekend urging him to use. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called
a general election for November 29, nine months early and three years after the
last budget he managed to pass. He announced the decision in an institutional
statement at the Moncloa palace on October 5, after informing King Felipe VI,
who left the same day for a state visit to Finland. The dissolution decree is
due in the official gazette on October 6, starting the 54 days that Spanish
electoral law requires before a vote. Sánchez pointed to the defeat of two
emergency housing decrees in the Congress of Deputies on October 2. His
ministers and the PSOE leadership had been pressing him since Friday to go to
the polls while a tenants’ protest movement was still filling city squares. The
decrees had been approved three days before the vote without the parliamentary
arithmetic to survive it, and lasted barely a day in force. Socialist ministers
now want a fresh housing decree validated by the Diputación Permanente, the
standing committee that sits once the chambers are dissolved and where the
government’s allies hold 35 of 69 seats...
20261007-L3975
AUF1 News,
presented by Stefan Pollak:
https://auf1.tv/nachrichten-auf1/nachrichten-auf1-vom-06-oktober-2026
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First AfD State Parliament President: The day’s events
in Magdeburg
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Claudia Wittig (BSW): We want to make use of the
coming weeks
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Outside the state parliament: Antifa protest draws a
poor turnout
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"Billion-euro investment": Pistorius plans
new naval base on the North Sea
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Record high: Applications for conscientious objection
surging
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IFR founder Martin Sellner: We are visualizing
remigration scenarios
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Media panic over alleged case of pneumonic plague
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mRNA shot against pneumonic plague developed a year
ago
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Bestseller book describes pneumonic plague in Siberia
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1.7 million doses: Austria aims for comprehensive flu
vaccination
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Exclusive interview: State Parliament President Tobias
Rausch on AUF1
20261007-L3974
The dairy
dogma shift: 25-year study suggests high-fat cheese may guard against dementia
https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-10-04-high-fat-cheese-may-guard-against-dementia.html
A 25-year
study of 28,000 adults challenges the advice to avoid high-fat dairy, finding a
link between full-fat cheese/cream and a modestly lower long-term risk of
dementia.
Consuming about
two slices of high-fat cheese daily was associated with a 13% lower risk of
all-cause dementia and a 29% lower risk of vascular dementia.
Researchers
propose the "food matrix" concept explains this: in cheese, fat is
slowly released during digestion due to its complex structure, which may be
gentler on brain blood vessels than isolated fats.
The study
found low-fat dairy offered no protective link, as removing fat can reduce
beneficial nutrients and alter how the food is processed by the body.
Experts
caution this is an association, not proof of causation and stress context is
key—the benefit is tied to cheese eaten in moderation as part of a balanced
diet, not in processed, high-calorie foods.
For a
generation, the message from health authorities has been clear: limit saturated
fat, often exemplified by cutting back on high-fat dairy like cheese and cream.
But a groundbreaking, quarter-century study of nearly 28,000 adults is
challenging that orthodoxy, suggesting that these very foods may be linked to a
modestly lower risk of developing dementia. The research indicates that the
long-standing nutritional advice to favor low-fat dairy may be overly
simplistic when it comes to protecting the aging brain...
20261006-L3973
Iran, Israel,
and the Coming Global Shock:
A War
Designed to Break the World for One State’s Ambition
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https://angelogiuliano.substack.com/p/iran-israel-and-the-coming-global?r=4v2k3&utm_medium=ios
The
confrontation between Israel and Iran is no longer a contained dispute between
two regional powers. It has become the center of a much larger struggle that
draws in the United States, Russia, China, and Europe. Energy routes, military
alliances, financial pressure, and political influence all meet in the same
place. What looks at first like another Middle Eastern crisis is, in reality, a
mechanism that can reshape the global order. The costs would fall on many
countries. The strategic gain would concentrate in one place. A worldwide shock
of this scale would serve Israeli interests first.
A Crisis That Reaches Far Beyond the Middle East
The pattern is
not new. For years, American policy has tried to contain Russia in Europe and
China in Asia at the same time. A war around Iran would allow Washington to
strike several targets with one crisis. Iran is a regional power with missiles,
proxies, and influence from the Levant to the Gulf. It is also an ally of
Moscow and a partner of Beijing. If Iran is weakened, Russia loses a useful
partner in the Middle East. China loses a reliable source of energy and a node
in the trade networks that run through the Persian Gulf.
The Strait of Hormuz as a Global Lever
The Strait of
Hormuz is the key. A large share of the world’s oil still passes through that
narrow waterway. Any serious disruption there would send prices soaring, shake
financial markets, and force governments to scramble for fuel. Europe and
France, already strained by the war in Ukraine and by years of expensive energy
policy, would feel the blow immediately. A local war would become a worldwide
economic event within days.
Why Israel Stands to Gain the Most
Israel stands
at the center of this calculation. Iran is the last major regional state that
still resists Israeli military and political dominance. Removing or crippling
that obstacle would change the balance of the Middle East. It would reduce the
threat from missiles, militias, and diplomatic isolation. It would also open
space for a broader territorial and political project. That is why the pressure
on Washington never really stops.
American Politics and a Shared Elite
The usual
story presents the United States and Israel as two separate states bargaining
with each other. That picture is incomplete. At the highest level, the same
financial, political, and media elites move between Washington and Tel Aviv.
They sit on the same boards, fund the same campaigns, own the same networks,
and treat the two countries as parts of one strategic system. Some of these
elites put American power first. Others put Israel first. The difference is one
of emphasis, not of class. Policy is not made by two rival nations so much as
by a shared circle that can shift resources, wars, and public narratives from
one capital to the other.
The
pro-Israel lobby in the United States is the most visible face of that
arrangement. It funds campaigns, shapes media coverage, and keeps certain
options off the table. Donald Trump is often presented as a man who follows
only American interests. In practice he is caught between two forces inside the
same elite world. One is the “America First” electorate that wants fewer
foreign wars. The other is the money, networks, and expectations of those who
favor Israel more openly. Policy toward Iran is made inside that tension. The
result is a United States that can talk about restraint while still moving
toward confrontation.
Iran Has Become a Fortress
Iran has
stopped behaving like a country waiting to be isolated and sanctioned into
submission. It has turned itself into a fortress. Its geography, its missile
program, its alliances, and its internal cohesion all work together. Russia and
China give it diplomatic cover and material support. Membership in a wider
non-Western bloc, including the BRICS, gives it alternatives to Western finance
and trade.
Religion, Martyrdom, and National Endurance
Inside the
country, religion and politics are tightly bound. Shiism and the culture of
martyrdom are not decorations. They are sources of endurance. They tell people
that sacrifice has meaning and that retreat is dishonor. That makes a political
surrender far harder than outsiders often assume. Tehran can absorb pain. It
can wait. It can also strike back in ways that would close the Strait of Hormuz
or set fire to energy markets.
Europe Unprepared for the Shock
Europe is poorly
prepared for that kind of shock. NATO can talk about unity, but unity does not
produce oil or gas. A long energy crisis would raise prices, feed inflation,
and weaken already fragile public finances. The dollar’s role as the world’s
reserve currency would come under more pressure as countries look for other
ways to trade. A multipolar system is already visible. China, Russia, and their
partners are building payment systems, energy deals, and political clubs that
do not run through Washington.
A Multipolar World Accelerated by War
Every month
of high energy prices and military tension speeds that process up. European
governments that chose costly energy transitions and open-ended support for
Ukraine would face even harder choices. Households would pay more. Industry
would lose ground. Political anger would rise. The war would not stay on maps
of the Gulf. It would enter daily life.
The Vision of Greater Israel
Behind the
maps and the missiles sits a deeper idea. Some currents in Israeli politics do not
see the present conflict as a limited security problem. They see it as part of
a larger historical mission. The language of Greater Israel is not only about
borders on a map. It is tied to religious and messianic expectations. In that
vision, great wars and disasters are not only dangers. They can be stages on
the way to a promised transformation.
Catastrophe as a Political Horizon
Ancient texts
speak of immense battles and of a world remade through catastrophe. When those
ideas enter the rooms where strategy is decided, the meaning of risk changes. A
war with Iran is no longer only a gamble about missiles and oil. It becomes a
possible gateway to a different age. That is why the conflict cannot be
understood through military balance sheets alone.
Information Warfare and Social Fracture
Information
warfare runs alongside the military campaign. Narratives are built to justify
escalation, to hide costs, and to brand opposition as moral failure. Those
narratives travel easily because the same elite networks control much of the
media on both sides of the Atlantic. In France and across Europe, the social
effects would not stay abstract. Higher fuel prices, inflation, and a sense
that distant wars are being paid for at home would deepen existing political divides.
Trust in institutions would fall further. Parties that promise protection and
rupture would gain ground.
Who Pays and Who Benefits
The coming
disruption therefore looks less like an accident and more like a convergence.
American power wants to slow Russia and China. Israeli strategy wants to break
Iran. The same elites manage both priorities, even when they argue over which
one should come first. Religious and political visions give the confrontation a
meaning larger than ordinary statecraft. Energy markets, the dollar, NATO, and
European societies are the terrain on which the costs would be paid. A global
catastrophe of this kind would not fall equally on everyone. It would serve the
country that has the most to gain from the destruction of its last major
regional rival, and it would serve the shared elite that treats Israeli and
American power as two instruments of the same project.
20261005-L3972
Fedorov:
Humanoid robot set to kill the first Russian soldier within six months
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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kampfroboter+entwicklungsstand
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https://overton-magazin.de/top-story/sind-schon-autonome-kampfdrohnen-im-ukraine-krieg-im-einsatz/
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https://www.facebook.com/reel/1513735244104890
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https://thearmyofrobots.com/
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R.U.R. – 100
Jahre mit Robotern
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Der große Austausch und der blinde Fleck der Rechten: JD
Vance über Migranten und Roboter
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Selenskijs Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung schrumpft
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Ukraine-Krieg: Testfeld für Luft-und Wasserdrohnen und jetzt
auch für Bodenroboter?
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Erste Demonstration von humanoiden Robotern
Wars and
preparations for war—whether for offense or deterrence—can squander immense
resources, not least of which is human life. Production is dedicated solely to
destruction and to protection against destruction by the enemy. Because the
ultimate stake is supposedly the survival of social, national, or state
entities—as those with an interest in war or war preparations convince the
public—ethical constraints on behavior and technological development are cast
aside. When it comes to life or death, self-preservation and the annihilation
of the adversary become paramount.
While it is
individuals who fight, kill, and die, the conflict is not between individuals,
but between groups and states. The paradox lies in the fact that the soldier or
fighter—who seeks to kill his opponent using every available technological
weapon, disregarding the fundamental ethical principles that make coexistence
possible—harbors no personal animosity toward the man in his sights. That
opponent is merely a representative of an enemy that manifests itself as a vast
machine.
The term
"representative" might imply a human being with the power to make
independent choices; in reality, however, he is a cog in the machine—or, in the
age of AI, one might call him an agent of the war machine. This machine
functions only because normal laws are suspended and the individual forfeits
his freedom through coercion or financial incentive (high pay). This explains
why, for instance, men in Ukraine who refuse to be bought into military service
are hunted down on the streets and forcibly conscripted—all in the name of a freedom
that supposedly must be defended, yet remains merely an abstract concept for
the individual at the front...
20261005-L3971
Wired for War:
German media giant Axel Springer awards Palantir’s Thiel
Politico’s
parent company has bestowed its “highest honor” on the techno-capitalist who
serves the same globalist agenda. Germany’s Axel Springer media monolith has
awarded its highest honor to Palantir founder Peter Thiel, in a ceremony
illustrating the incestuous relationship between the mainstream media, the
defense tech industry, and the US-Israeli order. Thiel received the ‘2026 Axel
Springer Award’ at a ceremony in Berlin on Thursday. According to Axel Springer
CEO Mathias Dopfner, Thiel “is one of the rare entrepreneurs who does not
merely found or finance companies but helps determine the direction of
technological development…he reminds us that progress requires courage and
nonconformism...
Sunday News
20261004-L3970
Thousands
march across Spain as housing crisis fuels anger over rents and evictions
https://x.com/ProudSocialist/status/2106466972099637391
https://www.foxnews.com/world/tens-thousands-flood-streets-protest-spain-border-crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/spain-housing-protest
https://www.dw.com/en/spain-thousands-protest-in-madrid-against-housing-crisis/a-79446662
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-27/spain-housing-protest/107200740
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzKqC2ck29Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEu2hVRm7Qo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyKAFpGondI
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2kej47095no
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/know-spains-housing-protests-sparked-135735917.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026\_Spanish\_housing\_protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2026\_Spanish\_housing\_protests&oldid=1378292933
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd-k3nciPhl/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd\_1F1tlVhh/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f11LXpYYso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xle7d8vrVUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guv5hZVtS5c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qtmVUWvEB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmx0VYzi1JA
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...
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