43rd 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.
Meridian News on Sunday
Caricature against the king Louis-Philippe
20261025-L4038
“The state
does not create prosperity; it consumes it”:
Europe’s
socialist model is heading for a crash
https://legitim.ch/der-staat-schafft-keinen-wohlstand-er-verbraucht-ihn-europas-sozialistisches-modell-faehrt-gegen-die-wand/
Decades of
bloated state apparatuses, social welfare benefits, subsidies, and mass
immigration have destroyed Europe’s competitiveness and growth—all financed
through ever-increasing taxes and mounting debt. Furthermore, these policies
have fueled profound social discontent. Taxpayers are exhausted, while those
who rely on subsidies are looting and wreaking havoc in the streets. The flames
in French cities are the bill finally coming due. On Saturday, October 17,
France was once again in flames. What began as demonstrations against the high
cost of living and the state of public schools escalated into the worst rioting
the country has seen in decades. According to the French government, 550,000
people took to the streets; 1,200 were arrested, and 150 police officers were
injured…
20261025-L4037
Hundreds of
Thousands Protest Across France as Clashes Erupt in Paris
PARIS—Hundreds
of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Saturday for a
second consecutive weekend of protests against the cost of living—with clashes
erupting between police and masked groups in Paris and other cities. The
demonstrations come despite a massive security deployment aimed at preventing a
repeat of last week’s rioting and looting...
20261025-L4036
Military
Shuts Down Bill Gates Genetically Modified Mosquito Project in West Africa
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/military-shuts-down-bill-gates-genetically
Local
villages complained that they had "not been sufficiently informed or
consulted before the experiments took place." Last month, the military
government of Burkina Faso has done what no Western regulator dared to do: it
ordered the immediate termination of Bill Gates’ genetically modified mosquito
project—‘Target Malaria’—and the destruction of all bioengineered insect
samples inside the country. This wasn’t a health agency issuing a polite memo.
It was a military crackdown on a Gates-funded scheme that released engineered
mosquitoes into villages without real informed consent from the people forced
to live with the consequences...
Meridian Saturday News
20261024-L4035
⚛️More Than 18,000
Children Injected with Vaccines Under Anesthesia or Sedation at Colorado
Hospital Since 2020, Including Neurologically Vulnerable Kids
But it’s not
just the CHOP!
·
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/more-than-18000-children-injected
·
https://www.meridian-top-20.tv/time_vault/CHOP_vergreift_sich_an_Kinder.htm
Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia Injected 2,054 Children With Flu Vaccines Under
Anesthesia—Now Eyes COVID Shots. CHOP uses the time pressures of pediatric
surgery to excuse curtailed informed-consent discussions, as one-third of
participating families said their children otherwise would have gone
unvaccinated.
Under
anesthesia, “[a]dditional vaccinations are administered ... particularly for
children with neurocognitive conditions who are unable to tolerate vaccination
without sedation.” A March 2026 publication by The American Academy of
Pediatrics (AAP) confirms that Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO) has injected
“more than 18,000” pediatric patients under “deep sedation or general anesthesia”
who were undergoing surgery or other medical procedures. The revelation comes
after this website reported yesterday that Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
has injected 2,054 children with flu vaccines under anesthesia…
With Thanks
to Ariadne
20261023-L4034
Fake
pollsters fool US media with made-up election surveys
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/world/fake-pollsters-fool-us-media-with-made-up-election-surveys/
Wedgewood
Polls called the deception a “social experiment” after investigators exposed
its fabricated data. Major US news outlets amplified fabricated election polls
showing gains by Democrats, giving a bogus months-old polling operation
national credibility before investigators exposed its invented data. Wedgewood
Polls, which appeared in June, secured coverage from publications including
Newsweek, the Daily Beast, and The Hill. Its surveys also entered polling
databases maintained by the New York Times, election analyst Nate Silver, and
other prominent aggregators. On Tuesday, however, after researchers at election
analysis website FiftyPlusOne confronted it, Wedgewood admitted that almost all
its surveys were fake. It described the deception as an experiment testing how
easily a fictitious firm could gain recognition...
20261023-L4033
Kim Jong Un’s
megayacht seen by satellite: 80 metres and a 50-metre pool
https://www.dailynautica.com/en/mega-yacht-en/kim-jong-un-yacht-80-metres-wonsan/204769/
...Off
Wonsan, on the east coast of North Korea, satellites have repeatedly
photographed an 80-metre yacht between July and mid-October, with an
Olympic-sized pool and a cluster of
water slides at one end of the deck. It is the largest of four pleasure vessels
moving around Kim Jong Un’s summer villa, according to the BBC, which published
an investigation based on satellite imagery in recent days. Pyongyang has never
said who owns them, but former officials, defectors and experts all agree: in
North Korea nobody outside the top of the regime could own or freely use
vessels of that size. Satellite images from Vantor, a company spun out of Maxar
Intelligence, show the ship lying for months in the port’s maintenance basin
and then, from the beginning of July, at anchor off the Kalma peninsula, a spit
of land a few kilometres from the residence. It has not moved since...
20261023-L4032
Brussel
Signal Headlines today
·
Hungary open to replacing Russia’s Rosatom in nuclear
plans
·
AfD and ESN set out plan to strip Brussels of its
powers
·
Italy and Spain lift border controls imposed after
Ceuta migrant rush
·
Norway’s wealth fund posts €26.4 billion investment
loss
·
German Left leader calls for French-style protest
front in Germany
·
European Parliament awards Sakharov Prize to
International Criminal Court
·
Moroccan asylum seekers in Ceuta increasingly invoke
sexual orientation
·
Tusk puts Polish President Nawrocki on the spot over
liberalising abortion
·
Airbus expects the world freighter fleet to grow by
almost half by 2045
·
Lviv honours Volhynia massacre commander as Poland
demands Kyiv disavow it
20261023-L4031
Brussel
Signal today
Soros
foundations fund groups at the centre of French unrest
Spanish
reporting has linked seven organisations active in France's October unrest to
George Soros's foundations, as activists prepare a Europe-wide youth strike for
November 20. Questions over who funds France’s protest movement have reached
George Soros’s philanthropic network, after the Spanish daily La Gaceta reported
that seven organisations active in the October demonstrations had received
money from, or kept links to, his foundations. The report followed a Fox News
Digital investigation that identified 101 organisations across 13 countries
coordinating, organising or amplifying the unrest, up from 54 three days
earlier. That investigation named no funder and made no reference to Soros.
Open Society’s own public grants register records three payments to the Ligue
des droits de l’Homme, one of the French groups named on that list. The
Paris-based civil liberties body received $82,538 in 2016 and a further
$300,184 across two grants in 2017. The money was awarded for action against
police practices in Paris, for a campaign to end France’s state of emergency
and for work on discrimination and access to rights. The Ligue has defended the
protesting students and criticised police conduct during the demonstrations.
Open Society has rejected comparable allegations elsewhere, saying it neither
supports nor funds violent protest. Its French fact sheet lists the Ligue among
the organisations it has backed since beginning work in the country in the
early 2000s. The funding question has surfaced as France counts the cost of its
worst rioting in years. Nearly 2,400 people were arrested and close to 1,000
police officers and gendarmes injured on October 17, when about 550,000 people
took to the streets over living costs, fuel prices and school funding. The
historic town hall in Limoges, west-central France, was gutted by fire and a
left-wing activist has since been arrested over the blaze. Curfews have been
imposed in several cities and the French Government said it would cut welfare
payments to those convicted of looting. Organisers are not finished. A second
day of action billed as “Acte II” was called for October 24, with 212
mobilisations planned, and a third for October 31. The wider ambition is
European. Student and socialist groups in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Ireland,
Spain and the United Kingdom have signed up to an International Youth Strike on
November 20, calling for walkouts, blockades and occupations. Its manifesto
describes war and climate breakdown as the “essence of capitalism” and says
NATO should be dissolved. Italy’s CGIL labour confederation has called a general
strike for the same date, converging with the student mobilisation. France is
not the only member state affected. Protests have already spilled into Belgium,
Italy, Portugal and Albania, and Austria has blamed migration for the violence
in France and Italy…
20261023-L4030
Soros
foundations fund groups at the centre of French unrest
https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/10/soros-foundations-fund-groups-at-the-centre-of-french-unrest/
Spanish
reporting has linked seven organisations active in France's October unrest to
George Soros's foundations, as activists prepare a Europe-wide youth strike for
November 20. Questions over who funds France’s protest movement have reached
George Soros’s philanthropic network, after the Spanish daily La Gaceta
reported that seven organisations active in the October demonstrations had
received money from, or kept links to, his foundations. The report followed a
Fox News Digital investigation that identified 101 organisations across 13
countries coordinating, organising or amplifying the unrest, up from 54 three
days earlier. That investigation named no funder and made no reference to
Soros. Open Society’s own public grants register records three payments to the
Ligue des droits de l’Homme, one of the French groups named on that list. The
Paris-based civil liberties body received $82,538 in 2016 and a further
$300,184 across two grants in 2017. The money was awarded for action against
police practices in Paris, for a campaign to end France’s state of emergency
and for work on discrimination and access to rights...
20261023-L4029
The Expose
Headlines Today
·
Macron’s address was actually a renewed offer of
alliance with the rioters
·
Vaccines are faith-based medicine
·
When you’re not getting what you want, shout rape. Is
this what Arizona’s Democratic candidate has done?
·
Dr. Sarah Myhill challenges Chris Whitty to sue her
for libel or resign
·
Was Burnham appointed to destroy Britain?
·
UK government’s manual for manipulation and control
·
New book lays out evidence that Net Zero lunacy is
unscientific and destructive
·
Australia: Punitive taxes on tobacco have started a
criminal turf war
·
NHS nurse denied state vaccine injury payout because
she was assessed as less than 60% disabled by AstraZeneca’s covid vaccine
·
Burnham’s Brexit con: The British version of the
Russian Collusion Hoax
·
Soros’ puppet files lawsuit against CDC for not
recommending childhood vaccines
·
Scary and astonishing truths about the toxic covid
vaccine
·
Cancer: Signs and causes
·
Folic acid: The UK government is medicating the entire
population when only a tiny minority might need it
·
Cancer: Signs and causes
·
Folic acid: The UK government is medicating the entire
population when only a tiny minority might need it
·
Canada is a carbon sink but climate change fanatics
want to decarbonise Canada to make it “net zero”; how does this make any sense?
·
The statin industry’s propaganda, bribery and
dismissal of harms
·
NIH has completely merged with the Gates Foundation
·
Covid patients were murdered by stupid doctors
·
Are gnostic beliefs driving the global agenda?
·
Food shortages are coming. Prices will soar. Hundreds
of millions will die. Here’s why
·
Jacob Nordangård: Entering the UK is like a dystopian
vision of the future
·
BBC publishes an article claiming that white women who
don’t paint their nails are racists
·
The radical left is behind France’s school protests
·
While a debate rages on about the humaneness of lethal
injections, Canada announces a delay in expanding its MAiD programme to include
mental illness
·
CDC goes against FDA approvals and reinstates
recommendations to inject healthy children with covid vaccines
·
CFACT: António Guterres’ claim about rising sea levels
is demonstrably false
·
Roger Harmer refused calls for an inquiry into Muslim
rape gangs in Birmingham; now he’s trying to control what the inquiry
investigates
·
While Western populations live in fear of being
accused of racism, Thais are not socially ready to adopt the communist DEI
programme
·
White fibrous clots found by embalmers: What’s in
them?
·
There is a rapidly growing pro-life community among
young Australian women
·
‘Cries for Help’: The stories in V-Safe they tried to
keep hidden from public view
·
Nigel Farage: Burnham wants to rejoin the EU; bring it
on
·
During a training course for police officers on
Islamophobia, Abbas Najib said Nigel Farage should be locked up – who’s funding
Najib?
20261022-L4028
"It will
affect us all!"
Winston Peters
warns that social media bans won’t stop with children!
Winston
Peters, leader of the "NZ First" party, has spoken out in favor of
preserving cash, criticized online safety legislation, and warned that
restrictions on social media could grant the state too much control. In a
conversation with Paul Brennan of RCR, Peters also condemned the handling of
the Covid pandemic, called for stricter immigration controls, and described the
Labour Party’s proposal to ban those under 16 from social media as
"simplistic and extreme." "It won’t stop at an age limit of 16.
It will affect us all," he said. Peters stated that the Australian
approach had failed "dismally" and warned that the public was being
kept in the dark about a potentially "Orwellian" system. He also
expressed skepticism regarding the "online duty of care" legislation
proposed by the Labour Party, which would require social media platforms to
take action against harmful content and addictive design features. "I want
to know what safeguards and guarantees are in place to ensure that the freedoms
of the democracy in which we live are preserved for the people of this
country," he said. On the subject of cash, Peters supported his party’s
demand to mandate that businesses accept physical cash as a form of payment; he
criticized banks for scaling back their cash-related services. “When did they
ever consult the public or their customers about this? They simply went ahead
and did it,” he remarked. Peters also dismissed criticism regarding the
so-called “overhang mandate” mechanism (MMP overhang). He argued that this has
always been a part of the electoral system and can help maintain local
representation. “It’s been this way for 33 years: you have the electorate vote
and the party vote,” he said. Regarding immigration, Peters pointed to unrest
among migrants across Europe—a reason, in his view, why New Zealand should
adopt a more targeted approach to its immigration policy…
20261022-L4027
⚛️NZ warship
rushes to rescue after mayday call near Hawaii
A Royal New
Zealand Navy warship taking part in the world’s largest maritime exercise has
rescued six people after an outrigger canoe got into difficulty off Hawaii. The
New Zealand Defence Force said HMNZS Te Mana responded to a mayday call over
the weekend while participating in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise.
The canoe, carrying six people, ran into trouble in the Kaiwi Channel between
Oahu and Molokai in heavy seas and 35-knot winds after suffering broken mast
fittings and taking on water. Te Mana, which was exercising about four miles
away, acknowledged the distress call and immediately headed to the scene.
20261022-L4026
Brussel Signal
today
·
French MP proposes dropping English for Arabic and
Wolof to accelerate ‘créolisation’
·
Four years after promising to leave Russia, AB InBev
explicitly tells Moscow it plans to stay
·
Illegal immigration into Spain rises as the rest of
the EU records sharp falls
·
Euthanasia doubles its share of deaths in Belgium
·
Australian MP has both legs amputated after attack
·
Romanian MPs back minority government, ending
six-month deadlock
·
Milei calls Sánchez a ‘dictator’ in Madrid
·
Carrefour takes up to €200 million hit from French
riots and looting
·
Crosetto says most Italians oppose Ukraine aid as Rome
prepares new military package
20261022-L4025
Stand up for
the Iranian people!
Former MEP
and director of the Brussels-based NGO ARCHumankind, is a member of the board
of the Brussels-based International Committee in Search of Justice (ISJ) - For
decades, Western policy towards the Iranian theocracy has been driven by the
illusion that time and circumstance would moderate the fanatic leadership of
the country into a sensible and constructive partner in the region. For nearly
as long, reality has repeatedly unmasked the illusion as nothing more than the
result of appeasement. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) built a proxy
network of armed groups, a terror network operating all over the globe, and
captured actors and institutions for its domination designs. It continued a
programme of long-range missiles and nuclear warheads unrelentingly,
circumventing all international attempts to stop it. The last European attempt
to stop the nuclear programme — by imposing automatic sanctions as a
consequence of Iran’s non-fulfilment of its Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
(JCPOA) obligations, the so-called “snapback mechanism” — finally floundered in
September 2025, proving how erroneous the European policy has been. France,
Germany and the United Kingdom triggered the mechanism on August 28, 2025, and
United Nations sanctions were reimposed a month later, on September 27...
20261022-L4024
The Fall of
Saudi Arabia?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/10/ron-unz/the-fall-of-saudi-arabia/
Prior to the
disruptions of the current Iran War, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) had
spent more than a half-century as the world’s leading oil exporter. That
crucial economic role and the vast gusher of wealth thus generated had
established KSA as one of the most important countries in the world. The Middle
East is a dangerous neighborhood, and the Saudis had long recognized that fact.
In recent years, their annual defense budget had been the eighth largest on
earth, far ahead of what was spent by France or Japan and approaching that of
India. Over the last dozen years their military expenditures totaled around a
trillion dollars, and much of that had been invested in some of America’s most
advanced and expensive weapons systems. The Saudis deployed hundreds of
advanced combat aircraft, so that on paper they possessed nearly twice the
striking power of Israel’s very formidable air force...
20261021-L4023
Union Vega
Offshore Orders Two Breeze-Designed PSVs, Options Four More
https://www.marinelink.com/news/union-vega-offshore-orders-two-543786
Union Vega Offshore
has ordered two battery-hybrid platform supply vessels (PSVs) from Fujian Mawei
Shipyard, with options for four additional vessels, under a design contract
awarded to Breeze Ship Design. The vessels will be based on Breeze Ship
Design's next-generation Z 4409 PSV design, with delivery of the first vessel
scheduled for 2028. Each vessel will measure 84 meters in length and feature
900 square meters of deck space, battery-hybrid propulsion, a moonpool and
accommodation for up to 44 personnel. The design also allows for the future
installation of a 50-tonne active heave compensated (AHC) crane, expanding the
vessels' potential offshore capabilities. In addition to conventional platform
supply operations, the Z 4409 design is intended to support light offshore
construction, geophysical surveys and seismic support activities. Breeze Ship
Design said the contract builds on its existing relationship with Fujian Mawei
Shipyard and will involve cooperation with Union Vega Offshore on the
newbuilding program. The order covers two firm vessels, while the four
additional PSVs remain optional…
20261021-L4022
Musk Ordered
Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine
https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-starlink-elon-musk-trump-dbc49193?mod=hp_lead_pos1
The SpaceX
founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the
president has denied ordering the restrictions. Elon Musk ordered the slowdown
of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that
sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration, U.S.
officials and people familiar with the matter said. Both Musk and President
Trump have expressed anger at Ukraine for attacking Russian diesel refineries
in recent weeks, which the president blames for high energy prices. Last week,
Musk capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the
satellite-based network, the people said, rendering some offensive drones and
interceptor drones...
20261021-L4021
Brussel
Signal Today
France is
burning, and Europe is feeling the heat
The bell
tower of the Limoges town hall had stood over that city in central France since
1883, and it came down in the fire that rioters set in the building beneath it.
Masonry can be replaced and the insurers will do their sums, though what burned
in that square was the simpler proposition that the French State still holds
its own streets.
Marches
called against the cost of living and the condition of the schools drew about
550,000 people by the interior ministry’s count, and within hours they had been
overtaken, city after city, by looting, arson and attacks on police. Close to
1,000 officers, gendarmes and firefighters were injured, almost 2,400 people were
arrested and some 1,500 businesses were wrecked, before looters returned to
central Paris for a second night.
Interior
minister Laurent Nuñez has since conceded that the police lost control in
several major cities, having under-estimated the turnout by a factor of two and
a half, and he offered his resignation accordingly. President Emmanuel Macron
refused the offer and spoke to the nation of anger and shame and of failures of
intelligence and anticipation, announcing neither a state of emergency nor a curfew.
National
Rally president Jordan Bardella dismissed the televised address as cowardly,
saying the French Government had nothing left to propose to the French and no
strength left to protect them. The National Assembly is to open an inquiry into
the policing of the marches, the largest unions have called a general strike
for November 5 and a minority government must now carry a budget through a
chamber in which it commands nothing.
Every other European
capital is reading the French ledger as a French problem, a question of
culprits rather than of capacity, and that is the comfortable reading. It is an
arithmetic any of them could fail, because a government that cannot count the
crowd in front of it will not long govern the country behind it.
20261021-L4020
AUF1 News,
presented by Bernhard Riegler:
https://auf1.tv/nachrichten-auf1/nachrichten-auf1-vom-20-oktober-2026
·
Ceuta: Are the majority of migrants suddenly
“homosexual”?
·
Massive hacker attack on the AfD; Alice Weidel
affected
·
Is a state of emergency looming? France imposes
curfews
·
Expanded government powers? Milan deploys the
military!
·
Rioters issue death threats live on camera
·
Trump signals potential U.S. withdrawal from Europe
for the first time
·
Even Interior Minister Dobrindt speaks of left-wing
extremism and migrant-perpetrated violence
·
Warnings: Violence could spill over into our own
country
·
COVID investigative committee confirmed in
Saxony-Anhalt: No procedural loopholes allowed
·
15-year-old dies following COVID jab: BioNTech must
now provide answers!
·
12 billion euros: German government assumes liability
for African banks—using taxpayer money!
·
Supporters of the “Hammer Gang” (Hammerbande)
permitted to speak at the University of Jena
·
“Neutrality is harmful”: War fever at the ORF
·
No presumption of innocence? Lawyer Kohlmann discusses
the scandalous trial of the “Saxon Separatists”
20261021-L4019
Unrest in
France spreads to Italy –
Looters break
into private homes
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/french-riots-spread-to-italy-as-looters-break-into-private-homes/
According to
reports, the unrest in France—which originated among students—has spread to Italy;
in Milan, Bologna, and Turin, looters are clashing with the police. Local
residents are throwing objects at the looters in an effort to defend their
cities, while fires have been set in front of the Milan Cathedral. Austrian
activist Martin Sellner reported that gangs of migrants have broken into
private homes, while security forces have remained inactive. Former French
presidential candidate Éric Zemmour described the unrest in France as "the
true face of the Great Replacement," referring to a "horde of
Maghrebian and African barbarians invading the cities." In some areas,
there are now calls for curfews...
20261021-L4018
Brussel
Signal today
·
European Parliament strikes deal to soften 2035
combustion engine phase-out
·
Police arrest left-wing activist over Limoges town
hall arson attack
·
European airfares could rise by up to 20 per cent,
Ryanair boss warns
·
France moves to cut welfare benefits for convicted
looters and rioters
·
Alberta votes to stay in Canada as independence push
fails
·
AfD confirms cyberattack as 421,000 internal emails
appear online
·
Portugal moves to charge non-resident foreigners for
public healthcare
·
Vance says Ukraine is not an ally and should stay out
of NATO
·
France extends city curfews after first calm night
since riots
·
Italy sends soldiers into Milan as ministers prepare
emergency riot decree
20261021-L4017
Bukele claims
France could restore order in ‘one week’
About 90,000
people have been arrested under the measure, renewed by parliament every month
since. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has waded into European politics
once again, asserting that France could resolve its recurring domestic security
crises and street violence in seven days if the French Government adopted his
uncompromising approach to law enforcement. Posting on social media in French
on October 18, Bukele pushed back against narratives declaring France beyond
saving: “I have heard people say that France is finished, that it is too late
to save it [ … ] We overcame a problem a hundred times more serious in one
year, without having the resources available to France. France could achieve it
in a week.” The Salvadoran President’s intervention comes as European nations
grapple with civil unrest, urban violence, and rising crime rates, placing
Bukele’s law-and-order governance model at the centre of an escalating debate
between conservative reformers and international human rights watchdogs...
20261021-L4016
French cops accused
of staging false flag operation during Metz protest
Allegations
of a police-orchestrated false flag operation have emerged following the
circulation of social media footage reportedly filmed during a protest in Metz,
France. Individuals dressed as demonstrators were allegedly undercover police
officers who threw grenades into the street before signalling to uniformed
officers and leaving the scene alongside them. The allegations have prompted
questions about the use of undercover officers to manufacture disorder during public
demonstrations...
20261020-L4015
NZ First
promises rail revival, BNZ buyback and supermarket crackdown
NZ First is
promising a 12-month Canterbury commuter rail trial and the return of the
Southerner passenger service linking Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill.
Leader Winston Peters outlined the plans at Christchurch’s James Hay Theatre on
Sunday, telling a standing-room-only meeting that reportedly had more than 1000
people in attendance. He said the trains could carry passengers from Rolleston
into central Christchurch in about 20 minutes, with services from Rangiora also
proposed. Passenger demand would help determine whether commuter trains became
permanent. “We are proposing to put the trains on and find out,” Peters said.
Peters also restated his pledge to return BNZ to New Zealand ownership and
promised stronger Commerce Commission powers to tackle supermarkets. He ruled
out working with Opportunity, opposed lowering the voting age and said teachers
unwilling to follow a curriculum stripped of what he called “Leftist
indoctrination” could find another job. During questions, Peters said
politicians and bureaucrats who ignored medical advice about young people and
Covid vaccination should be imprisoned. He also backed completing Christchurch
Cathedral...
20261020-L4014
AUF1 News,
presented by Bernhard Riegler:
https://auf1.tv/nachrichten-auf1/nachrichten-auf1-vom-19-oktober-2026
·
Hesse’s Minister-President seeks to cut off funding
for unwelcome political parties
·
Excluding the EU: Putin aims to negotiate peace in
Ukraine with Trump and Xi Jinping
·
Severe unrest in France, Brussels, and Milan
·
Macron: Are bans on demonstrations on the horizon?
·
Le Pen: The government has lost control
·
Riots: Is there a risk for Germany, too?
·
Weidel: “An alarm signal for all of Europe” – the root
cause is mass migration
·
British Army Chief: Citizens must make sacrifices for
the war
·
AfD parliamentary group leader Kirchner: “We have
significant common ground with the BSW”
·
Following an open letter: Authorities remain silent on
the conditions of Fuellmich’s detention
·
To recruit more conscripts: Tanner proposes extending
civilian service
·
Kennedy advisor: The pharmaceutical industry and
left-wing politicians control the German judiciary
20261020-L4013
Brussel Signal
today
·
French prime minister orders localised curfews as
state of emergency stays on the table
·
Tusk’s hard line on migration contradicted by retreat
from penalising aid to illegal migrants
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Irregular EU border crossings drop nearly one-third in
first nine months of 2026
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Prominent SPD MPs reject proposed Berlin coalition
with Die Linke
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Volkswagen plans global pay freeze until 2030
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Trump says Zelensky never wanted to end the Ukraine
war
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Bukele claims France could restore order in ‘one week’
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State funding for Spanish unions nearly quadruples as
membership falls to record low
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French interior minister offers to resign over riots,
Macron refuses
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Albanian Government refuses to resign and says EU
accession depends on it
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Brussels
Signal News Today
How nice it
is to get along
Rarely has there
been so much goodwill about. Washington is talking to Moscow, Moscow is
answering warmly, Frankfurt has its eye on Davos — and the only relationships
turning sour are the ones that run through Europe.
The first
rule of getting along is choosing the right company. US President Donald Trump
has ruled out any Ukraine settlement reached with the country’s president, whom
he described as harder to deal with than Vladimir Putin and accused of ruining
his own country, a judgement delivered days after the US President agreed terms
for Russian diesel to return to global markets. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia
Meloni has warned the arrangement risks legitimising Moscow, which is as near
as any European leader has come to being consulted about it.
The good feeling
extends to the weapons. Washington says it is in talks with Moscow and Beijing
about reducing the world’s largest nuclear arsenals, roughly eight months after
the treaty capping American and Russian deployed warheads lapsed with nothing
agreed to replace it. Moscow has graciously undertaken to observe the old
ceilings for as long as Washington does, a gentlemen’s understanding between
two capitals with no European government in the room, concerning warheads whose
flight paths cross European skies.
Europe
manages a cordiality of its own, though it points inward. European Central Bank
policymakers have grown impatient with Christine Lagarde’s refusal to say
whether she will leave before her mandate expires, as she weighs the
chairmanship of the World Economic Forum and prepares to publish her memoirs.
Three seats on the bank’s executive board are expected to be bundled into a
single package and shared out agreeably among national capitals, with Madrid
and The Hague already advancing names.
Nothing can
be said against goodwill, and not one of the arrangements being settled over
the continent’s head is in any way unfriendly. That is precisely what ought to
trouble Europe: Charm is spent on those who can still withhold something, and
nobody wastes it on a party certain to agree in the end.
20261020-L4011
Trump says US
is talking to Russia and China about denuclearisation
US President
Donald Trump has said Washington is holding talks with Moscow and Beijing aimed
at reducing the nuclear arsenals of the countries with the largest stockpiles.
Speaking in an interview with Newsmax broadcast on October 15, Trump said: “The
whole thing is a shame, because I’d love to denuclearise if possible, but we’re
actually talking to Russia about that, and we’re talking to China about that
denuclearisation.” He added that he expects China to “catch up” with the United
States within the next five years, though he said Beijing remained
“substantially behind” and was “probably less inclined” to negotiate because its
arsenal is smaller...
20261020-L4010
Australian MP
critically injured in deliberate attack
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/australian-mp-critically-injured-in-deliberate-attack/
Independent
Australian MP Helen Haines is fighting for her life in a Melbourne hospital after
being struck by a vehicle outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, regional
Victoria. The 65-year-old politician was airlifted to The Alfred hospital
following Monday afternoon’s incident, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
described as a deliberate attack rather than an accident. Police arrested a
43-year-old man from Tarrawingee and reportedly discovered a knife inside the
vehicle. A joint investigation involving Victoria Police, the Australian
Federal Police and ASIO is underway, with counterterrorism authorities
examining the circumstances and possible motive. Local residents were praised
for intervening and detaining the suspect before police arrived. Political
leaders across Australia condemned the violence, amid growing concerns about threats
against public officials. Ms Haines’s family thanked emergency responders and
members of the public for their assistance while requesting privacy as she
receives critical medical treatment...
20261020-L4009
⚛️Japan
Launches Historic Round-Trip Mission to Mars’ Moons
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https://anr.news/world-news/japan-to-launch-historic-round-trip-mission-to-mars-moon/
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I3JPvlI2QN8?feature=share
Japanese
scientists are preparing a mission to the moons of Mars to collect samples that
could shed light on the origins of the solar system and life on Earth. This
marks the first-ever endeavor to include a round trip to the Martian region.
The unmanned "Martian Moons eXploration" (MMX) probe—a joint project
involving U.S. and European space agencies, as well as numerous universities
and technology companies—could also lay the groundwork for future crewed exploration.
According to the Japanese space agency JAXA, the H3 launch vehicle, carrying
the MMX probe, is scheduled to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Center on
Tuesday at 04:41 (Monday, 19:41 GMT). "Being involved in such a
magnificent mission is incredibly exciting," said Makoto Arita, project
manager for JAXA’s H3 rocket team, speaking to journalists two days before the
launch. The spacecraft is expected to reach the vicinity of Mars in August of
next year. Once there, it will first orbit one of the Martian moons, Phobos,
before landing on its surface. During its three-year operation in the Martian
environment, the plan is to collect at least 10 grams of material from the
surface...
20261019-L4008
Nuclear
Propulsion: Could Superyachts Take the Plunge?
https://www.boatindustry.com/news/52759/nuclear-propulsion-could-superyachts-take-the-plunge
Nuclear
propulsion is back in the spotlight as discussions about the future of
superyachts continue. The topic will be addressed at METSTRADE 2026 in
Amsterdam. However, several civilian vessels have already sailed using an
onboard reactor. Their history shows why the issue goes far beyond mere
technology. The merchant marine has
already experimented with nuclear propulsion
The use of a
nuclear reactor to power a civilian ship is nothing new. As early as 1962, the
United States commissioned the NS Savannah , a combined passenger and cargo
ship designed to demonstrate the feasibility of this technology. Despite
satisfactory technical results, its operation ceased in 1970 due to a lack of
commercial viability.
Germany is
conducting a similar experiment with the tanker Otto Hahn , which entered
service in 1968. After more than ten years of operation, its nuclear propulsion
system was decommissioned in 1979, prior to its conversion to a conventional
propulsion system.
In Japan, the
Mutsu , launched in 1969, faced difficulties of a different nature: a flaw in
radiation protection uncovered during the 1974 tests led to a lengthy
suspension of the program, which resumed only in the early 1990s before being
abandoned...
20261019-L4007
Iran offers
US deal to reopen Hormuz within a week
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/iran-offers-us-deal-to-reopen-hormuz-within-a-week/
Tehran says
normal shipping through the vital oil route could resume within seven days if
Washington accepts its peace terms. Iran could restore normal shipping through
the Strait of Hormuz within a week if Washington accepts a peace plan proposed
by Tehran last month, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said. The
terms were previously rejected by US President Donald Trump. The Islamic
Republic remains “committed to safe and secure navigation in the Strait of
Hormuz,” Araghchi told a ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation on Saturday, blaming disruptions to shipping through the key
waterway on the “aggressive actions” of the US and Israel…
20261019-L4006
A cold shower
for climate alarmists:
The South
Pacific is cooling down to a depth of 1,500 meters!
https://report24.news/kalte-dusche-fuer-klimapaniker-suedpazifik-kuehlt-bis-in-1-500-meter-tiefe-ab/
While climate
zealots tirelessly warn of the world’s oceans overheating, researchers from
China have provided new data indicating a cooling trend in the South Pacific.
Between 2005 and 2019, water temperatures in certain regions there dropped by
as much as 0.4 degrees Celsius per decade. This decline in temperature can even
be detected at a depth of 1,500 meters. The new study illustrates the immense
quantities of heat shifted by winds and ocean currents—and highlights just how
poorly the "climate hysteria" narrative accounts for the complexity
of our world’s oceans...
20261019-L4005
⚛️The Scary
Truth Of The Transhumanism Agenda
·
https://www.cancerwisdom.net/the-transhumanism-agenda/
Governments
worldwide push for the transhumanism agenda. Find out why they want to remove
genders and create synthetic humans. Discover how COVID-19 vaccines, artificial
intelligence, and 5G relate to transhumanism and how to stop it. The
Transhumanism Agenda - The pharmaceutical industry is an evil and corrupt
institution. Every year people die of their toxic drugs and cancer treatments.
The only thing these companies care about is money. If you thought that killing
people for profit was terrible, their next big project is even worse than that.
It's called transhumanism. The English biologist and philosopher Julian Huxley
coined the term in 1957. Transhumanism is a movement that wants to"
improve" the human body with technologies. Ways to achieve this goal
include...
Sunday
News
20261018-L4004
Tear gas
fired as protests erupt across France
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/tear-gas-fired-as-protests-erupt-across-france-video/
Rallies
decrying rising living costs and calling for greater education spending have
been sweeping the country for weeks. French riot police have fired tear gas and
clashed with crowds of protesters as tens of thousands took to the streets of
cities across the country to rally against the cost-of-living crisis. Students
also joined Saturday’s nationwide protests, calling for education reform,
better classroom facilities and greater access to resources. The demonstrations
have grown from student-led protests that began last month at a high school in
Creteil, near Paris, over teacher shortages and deteriorating school
facilities. The movement has since broadened to reflect wider discontent over inequality
and the cost of living, coinciding with labor union rallies against the
government’s proposed 2027 budget and its deficit reduction measures…
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