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Planvasion EU – The Birth of the Ecumenical Nation-State

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By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you….

“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.” – Deuteronomy 28:45,47-48

ED. NOTE: We are working on a report on the Immigrant crisis in Europe which we hoped to have completed this week.

In the course of our research, we have discovered that the narratives around the three bellwether European countries we are using for this report are being buried by search engines that assure only progressive state media shows up in current news search results.

Even when prompting AI to present data outside of the progressive state press, not one major AI deployed could comply. Even when we provided them with a list of websites that we use for news aggregate analysis, the AI could still not produce research results outside of the progressive state press.

A couple of websites, like Breitbart and PJ Media, made it into the aggregation analysis process because they are some of the very few non-progressive sites that show up in current news searches.

Without AI, the research process is considerably more time-consuming than with it. In order for us to have a more complete picture of views on the planvasion, it will take us a lot more time than we previously thought, therefore we are offering here a scaled down version of what the final report will be.

We are in the process of building AI bots that will regularly search websites outside the progressive state press to assure we get current news research results not so overwhelmingly dominated by progressive talking points.

This discovery has expanded the scope of our research as we seek to understand how effective, through the use of progressive-controlled search engines and AI agents, the progressive state press is at protecting the narrative and creating violent responses to those outside the progressive orthodoxy.

INTRODUCTION

This report will effectively serve here as the introduction to the final comprehensive report to come.

This week, the planvasion of Europe is no doubt the bellwether story not just of this week, but of the month so far. So, we feel compelled to cover this story, at least in part, in this issue.

We believe the planvasion strategies of the progressives, in alignment with the bulk of their replacement partners, the Islamists, are intended to dismantle the notion of the local, individual nation-state in favor of the one ecumenical nation-state both ideologies believe they need in order to bring heaven on earth.

What we’ve seen this past month so far has only solidified that assumption.

This report is intended to give you a snapshot view of the most recent consequences of governments paying people opposed to western civilization rule of law to invade their country. These countries do this while passing laws criminalizing dissent not only of the planvasion, but of the violent Islamists they’re importing to do their self-sabotaging work.

This month’s MIA will be a special issue focused on the 2026 election, so we won’t be covering this planvasion then. The next issue, November 6, will feature our comprehensive report on the planvasion of Europe. This most likely will be a two-part report (published in the same issue), possibly three parts.

We will provide a comprehensive analysis of the 2026 Midterm election results in the November 13 issue of MIA. We will cover the basic results of the election in the November 6 issue.

By the time of the scheduled publishing of the comprehensive report, we will update the current status of our bellwether countries, the UK, France, and Spain.

We chose these three countries because all three were once Christian countries, and all three are now dominated by progressives, all of which have the same dream, of eliminating all nation-states but one, the ecumenical progressive state.

Their street fighters, their fighting aged men, ALSO want to eliminate all nation-states and create one ecumenical state, only their state is an Islamic caliphate. They both approve murder as a means of advancing their kingdoms. They both approve forcing conversion through violence, and killing, or at least imprisoning, those who refuse to convert.

But the Islamists are not progressives, they are theocrats who derive their “wisdom” from a received source, the Quran, the Tafsirs, and the approved Hadiths. They don’t develop wisdom from material and rational understanding, like the progressives claim they do; they develop an understanding of a wisdom sent to them from Allah.

That fact is making even some progressive hedge their bets on the street fighter army, with concerns they may be overcome themselves by the beast they brought in to finish off non-ecumenical nation-statism.

Here are the key events in our three bellwether countries that crystalize the phenomenon happening across Europe, in varying degrees, from Sweden to German, from Denmark to Italy.

A. THE BRITISH INVASION

We reported in June of this year: “If Northern Ireland is a bellwether of what’s to come in broader Britian, the ordered protests in front of police stations are about to be replaced with organized targeted assaults on migrant strongholds.”

This was referring to a series of violent actions by the native Irish targeting immigrant housing and government authority responsible for protecting and bringing in fighting aged men from countries that hate their culture and their ways.

Since then, lenient sentences against Islamist immigrants in contrast to draconian ones against British citizens have only pushed the perceived existential distance between the natives and the government-sponsored imports. While pedophile rapists get light sentences, British citizens are being arrested for denying that a man cannot “choose” to become a woman.

British citizens are now attempting to meet the boats of fighting aged men at the shores and preventing them from landing. The British police appear in numerous viral videos beating on the British natives while they escort the government-funded fighting aged men into their government-funded housing (which is often far better than what many British citizens have).

Heads of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are threatening to secede from the Union because of fears the “far right” may take the helm of 10 Downing Street. For these leaders, England is still too English, and they don’t want to be part of a nation that protects the English from being overrun by foreigners who hate their culture, their values, and their God.

Piddington, a small community in Oxfordshire, England, held a symbolic referendum to begin the process of seceding from a Union that wants to pay an invader army to overcome it with child rape and Islamist sectarian violence.

The recent handling of terrorist suspects attempting to bomb U.S. assets on a British air base may further embolden Islamist radicals from within, especially Iranian ones.

The bellwether event of the past month is the recent “protest” by Islamists in London on the 3rd anniversary of the October 7 slaughter of Israeli women and children by Hamas. The crowds waved Hamas flags and chanted death threat to the Jews and the Israeli state. This was not deemed hate speech by the progressive British government.

As these Islamists and their progressive supporters flooded the streets of the British Islamist capital, London, a man in Ireland was being arrested for refusing to call men women. The native  man will go to prison, the supporters of a genocidal death cult, Hamas, were feted by the progressive state press. None of them were arrested for hate speech violations.

B. FRENCH “STUDENTS”

We reported on October 3 of this year that multiple riots broke out across France, triggered by immigrants demanding more resources for the schools they don’t pay for. The Islamist immigrants have taken to the streets to burn churches, people, and businesses, as well as assault French women who are caught in the mob rush.

French progressives, aligned with Islamists, are assisting the insurrection. The Islamists are also demanding all calls to deport them be cancelled, or the beatings will continue.

As near as we can figure out, the movement began in Mid-September with peaceful protests mostly composed of French native youth. They were asking for better conditions and resources in the state’s public school system.

The protests quickly turned violent, being taken over by opportunist Islamists and progressives. Yet even as that shift occurred, the progressive state media continued to claim this was a student-led protest about school resources.

From October 5-6, the largest days of riots and protests occurred so far. This was coordinated between the original French student protest organizers, the radical anti-French progressives, and the Islamists. It was called the “National Day of Action.”

Let us remember “action” is a short term for “direct action,” and “direct action” is a dog whistle for direct violence.

French officials, including the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu , continued (and are continuing) to call this “Student protests,” despite numerous viral videos showing Islamists and Progressive adults engaging in violent action against French citizens and French businesses.

A school shooting by a 14-year-old that left his headmaster, and another teacher, injured has expanded the violent reach of the growing “movement.” The identity of the 14-year-old hasn’t been released as of the completion of this report.

The response from French authorities seems to be to blame the violence on misinformation online, not the invasion of the country by fighting aged men sponsored by your taxes. The authorities are indicating they intend on using this crisis to push for more censorship of dissent from the progressive orthodoxy.

Minister of National Education Édouard Geffray said “This unacceptable act bears witness once again to the spread of unbridled violence in our society, against which we must all mobilize. In words as in deeds.”

Now, Greta Thunberg has joined the fight against French identity. The riots have spread to Belgium, and even Macron has begun to acknowledge that “student protests” may have political elements exploiting their movement to their own ends.

C. CEUTA, SPAIN

In January 2026, Spain announced effective amnesty for anyone who entered the country before late 2025. They also had to show they were here for five months and in good standing with the authorities. The plan claimed it would create amnesty for only 500,000 people, but that quickly exploded to 1.2 million by the end of June.

In late June, Spain announced another change in its immigration policy. No immigrant would be admitted by sea unless they came through Ceuta or Melilla. People illegally entering the country by land would be “regularized,” while people who came by sea would have to do it “legally.”

On the last two days of June more than 50,000 people, mostly Moroccan Muslim “fighting age” men, came flooding into Ceuta, where battles between the natives and the fighting age men broke out. Spanish police mostly protected the fighting age men, though there was some pushback by the police against them.

Since that moment, the “right” in Spain has been gaining more on-the-ground power with protests continuing even as this report is being written. Fights between fighting aged men and natives have not let up, and the Spanish police continue to mostly protect the fighting aged men.

The upheaval has triggered a snap election from Spain’s Prime Minister. We wrote last week:

More and more Spaniards are joining the growing national protests against Spain’s policies of open borders and the state-financed invasion by Islamists intending to destroy their national identity. The pressure is mounting on the regime in power, the progressives under their current Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, who rule thanks to a coalition of leftists.

His own party fared worse than the pro-Spanish party in the last election (which finished first but was kept out of power by the far-left coalition). Now, Sanchez must call a Snap election before any hope of winning another election (if he even makes it to that point) dies as the resistance to his Spain-hating policies grows.

SUMMARY

It is clear and obvious at this point that the “replacement” conspiracy in white western countries is real. Outside of the diehard progressives and the Islamists benefiting from this planvasion, more and more regular citizens are being confronted with the violent reality of the planvasion.

With each raped daughter, with each arrested family member who dissented against the planvasion and its invaders, more and more non-politically active people are finding it increasingly difficult not to notice the replacement conspiracy at work in their daily lives.

I will grant you that the “replacement” conspiracy has been used by real ethnic fascistic nationalists, but that’s been to the help of the planvasion plotters, not to their detriment. It has always been obvious to anyone not wed to the notion that the strong should inherently suffer at the hands of the weak (social justice) that the strategy has always been about importing humans not formed by western, free speech values.

What they seek to import are street fighters and future citizens fully on board with murdering dissent. What they may be miscalculating is their ability to not become one of the murdered dissenters.

The progressives behind this don’t hate the white race; after all, most of them are white. What they hate are human beings that are formed by a sense of liberty entitlement. Western-raised humans grow up expecting limits on state power, especially when it comes to belief. Getting western peoples to voluntarily surrender this sense of entitlement is a lot more difficult than simply importing enough non-western raised peoples whose children would not inherit the traditions of the west.

In other words, they’ll be raised Islamist, not American or British, etc.

The white devil narrative, which is worldwide wherever progressives hold power, gives the progressive a justification for lying to their own white citizens while they knowingly import people intended to destroy their way of life. The white devil narrative is why progressive judges let child rapist immigrants go free.

If we were not so gradually inured to this white hate, we would never empower a people that hate their own white citizens to govern them. Yet, white progressives do this every day, worldwide, wherever and whenever they can.

For progressives and Islamists alike, lying to bring heaven on earth is justified by the belief it will bring heaven on earth.

To the progressive, the criminal who rapes is a righteous judgment on majority power. Let the majority power suffer the consequences of their own oppressive ways, the criminals they produce. To the progressive, all advantaged power that is not theirs is oppressive in and of itself.

The only way to free the white devil, the advantaged power, from his own tyrannical spirit is by allowing immigrants to murder and rape them. This is not hyperbole. This is how progressives regularly speak, especially in halls of academia, their base of power.

Rousseau may have justified chains to make you free, progressives of today justify murder to make you free.

If you rape a child, the right child, a white child, and you do it in the name of any god by Christ, you are a policeman inflicting righteous punishment on an unrighteous people. You go free.

If the child dies, the child dies. For the sake of heaven on earth here and now, who is not afraid to allow their neighbors to be raped and murdered by people better than yourselves?

To progressives and Islamists, to declare this is a planvasion intended to destroy nation-states, Christianity, and even parental rights, is a criminal act that should be violently enforced. The progressive in Europe (and America) would like to immediately execute you, but they haven’t fully killed the western sense of liberty entitlement just yet. Their Islamist allies have no such hesitation wherever they hold civic power. The penalty for dissent is death.

Thought is criminal, murder and theft of the white race is not.

In France, the UK, and Spain, the progressive state press has lost its hold on the minds of the man in the street, the native man in the street. The clear daily demonstrations of the replacement plan in action in their lives is no longer refutable, no matter how much the press equates clear evidence of a planvasion with dog whistles for white supremacists.

These three countries are the bellwethers for many other countries, including our own, that allow foreign non-tolerant ideologies to fester within them, ideologies like progressivism and Islamism, both of which existentially oppose the self-stewarded individual, the person who could openly, freely reject their god and still thrive in the public institutions of the land if their merit allows it.

Both ideologies want to kill the republic of letters, the western ideal, and reinstate the ancient ideal of absolute rule by god-like authority.

What happens over the next 6 months will go a long way in determining, at least in Europe, if the ecumenical nation-state model can finally overcome and vanquish the local nation-state model. Shall the west be one progressive state or continue to be many nation-states that do not empower the state to murder dissent? We are about to find out.

FURTHER RESOURCES

EMN Annual reports – European Commission

Chapter 3 Migration and Migrants: Regional Dimensions – UN Migration

Migration and asylum in Europe – Eurostat

 

 

 

Final Thought – Midterm Madness

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By Bill Collier, Publisher

“I see it all the time, that when Trump’s on the ballot, they win. When he’s out of the ballot, the people don’t go to vote, and I’m asking the people … to get out and vote. Pretend I’m on the ballot.” – Donald Trump on the Midterm Elections, August 27, 2026

In the U.S., mid-terms almost always go hard against the incumbent President’s party. To overcome that you have to do extraordinary things, and you genuinely have to appeal to a decent majority of voters.

In a country with a fairly even split by party affiliation, where party is sadly becoming part of people’s identity, that means mid-terms are hardly winnable for the party in power unless it does something spectacular.

What’s amazing is how neither party gets this.

They win everything with a strong Presidential election year victory then they essentially give lip service to their supporters and “phone it in.”

I wouldn’t accuse Trump of phoning it in, although I would argue he hasn’t mastered appealing to a solid majority of Americans. While the progressive state press has contributed greatly to his negative image, I believe he has plenty of blame to put directly on himself.

If anyone can overcome the progressive state press bullhorn, it’s the President of the United States. Presidents can bypass the bias against them, they have a bully pulpit, as they say.

The Thune-led GOP Senate has remained paralyzed by their own party leader, who continues to prevent critical Trump policies from passing, especially the SAVE America Act, which would gut progressive election power, even in the midterms had it been passed.

The GOP majority in the House is a slim majority, one that can be overcome with a few dissenting GOP House members. Yet even with that slim majority, Johnson was able to get the SAVE Act passed in the House. Nothing of existential substance has passed the Senate under Thune.

The progressives have been protected by Republican leadership to spite the man they hate more than they love America, Trump.

They also collude with Democrats against Trump because, in fact, the GOP’s shot-callers hate Trump and want to return to the Bush era.

The Democrats will sweep and claim a new mandate, as the Republicans did, and forget that they won, as did the Republicans, not because people positively supported them but because the other party screwed up again.

And the cycle continues, each one plumbing deeper depths of inanity, incompetence, and disregard for the People who elected them.

The Democrats will focus on whatever gives them power and seals their majority forever. This is their dream, to rule the Federal Government like they do the California, with no effective opposition and a perpetual super-majority in the legislature.

The GOP leadership doesn’t recognize the Democrats as the existential threat that they are to the republic, or they are in on it, or they would rather live in a Democrat-controlled state than an American-controlled one.

No matter the reason, the GOP leadership handed the Democrats majority control of the Federal legislature, and they did so with premeditation and malice of forethought.

The Bush GOP never tried to defeat the Democratic Party agenda in toto as the Democratic Party attempts to do to the GOP. The Bush GOP was for globalist corpostate systems which needed this dynamic of competition between the two parties as leverage over them both, in my estimation.

As should be obvious to you, I would never suggest the reason the GOP hasn’t attempted to existentially affect the DNC is because they are the better people; I would suggest to you that the reason they haven’t attempted to existentially affect the DNC is because they have far more in common with them than they do with George Washington.

The GOP leadership and the DNC are trying to consolidate power for a permanent globalist corpostate system that controls both parties, letting voters think they have a choice.

That scheme has been upended by the Frankenstein beast the DNC raised because it needed violent street fighters, the radical progressives and Islamists united through the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America).

Democrats are colluding with foreign powers (including the CCP and Islamists), to consolidate power at the Federal level in the similar manner they did in California. China, global Jihadism, and other wacko totalitarian groups, however, might be looking to replace their original “clients” with people more ideologically aligned and beholden to them than the current progressive leadership is.

All of these people, foreign and domestic, in this progressive state coalition are anathema to Judeo-Christian civilizations. The resistance (the GOP under current leadership), however, are effectively just as much of a threat to our civilization as the progressives are.

Outside of victories through executive orders, almost all that the republicans have delivered to America were viral congressional hearing videos showing republicans “owning” progressives. The “owned” progressives still either have the power they had before the hearing or are just one Presidential executive order from getting it back.

I will be voting GOP because the Democrats want to make the whole of America like California, which is a nightmare to me. They are abominable people whose anti-American work is writ large in the oppressed lives of its victims. This is a state that kidnaps children from their parents for not being allowed to have their breasts or penises cut off.

My vote doesn’t mean I think the GOP will govern better it they win. They will not. But having two competing parties at least prevents the USA from becoming a socialist Jihadist dream for international forces in Iran and China, while most Americans becomes impoverished slaves.

That is what the Democratic Party represents to me, and it is what it represents to anyone who holds to American Rule of Law, that we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, none of which can be usurped in the name of “social justice.”

I think the GOP will lose badly because they didn’t find a way to appeal to a solid majority and, despite Trump trying to drive his agenda forward, they phoned it in, as they always do. Even people who loath the Democrats will just stay home.

Low information voters with no awareness about the existential crisis our American republic’s Rule of Law is facing will vote against the party in power if their gas prices are too high. Republicans have done little to frame this election as the existential crisis to the republic that it represents. Not even JD Vance is calling the Democratic Party an illegal insurrectionist operation openly advocating for policies that are constitution killers, even though that is exactly what they are.

What Americans either don’t want to believe or just can’t see is that the Democrats who win in 2026 will not be ones with a little pinkie toe in America. These “Democrats” are openly anti-American and anxious to reboot the whole system for good. I hope and pray that if I am right about a big Democratic victory, I am wrong about who the leadership of that party will be.

If the Democrats win, we continue the road towards upheaval, as they have promised to use their power to persecute their opponents and engage in lawfare against them. Wherever they can, they will use state power to create the precedent that rejecting progressive beliefs, like “the white man invented evil,” is “treason” in and of itself. Reading Romans 1 out loud will be considered an act of terrorism against the state.

Expect less governance and more drama, more hatred and division, more violence, and more economic and lawfare warfare against your rights and your wealth, until they lose, if elections continue in any modicum of fairness, and the cycle repeats.

No person of means, with wealth, time, and influence is trying to break the cycle, run out the Bushites and defeat the Jihadist socialist agenda of the anti-American Democrats once and for all.

Would to God that blue collar Democrats rose up and rooted out all the foreign influence out of their party!

Would to God the Fettermans of the Democratic Party replaced the jihadist socialist vermin taking over.

It is for these reasons I will vote in this midterm election, and it is for these reasons that my only choice is to vote straight republican, come what may. At the very least I will be entering into history my opposition to the rise of the progressive state. I hope you join me in this effort.

Houthi Attacks Cannot be Contained

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The Houthis of Yemen are wreaking havoc on the Red Sea area, and major cities of Saudi Arabia as well. The latest Houthi missile assault struck the Yemeni presidential palace, killing five.

Saudi Arabia’s deputy foreign minister claimed, “Iran continues to arm, train and support the Houthi militia in violation of UN Security Council resolutions. We think that the escalation by the Houthis at this latest stage of the conflict is encouraged by Iran.”

Houthi missile attack on Yemeni presidential palace kills five, minister says– www.bbc.co.uk
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The Houthis have been launching missiles and drones at airports, oil and gas facilities, and military bases in Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the strikes on the territory that they control in western Yemen, including the capital Sanaa.

On Saturday, a Houthi missile strike killed 13 people at Riyadh’s international airport, which was the deadliest attack in Saudi Arabia in more than a decade.

Legal Showdown with California over Illegal Ballots

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The Department of Justice is suing the state of California and calling on 20,000 ballots to be frozen to determine whether U.S. citizens are behind the ballots.

Attorney General Todd Blanche announced, “State-facilitated voter fraud is unacceptable in the United States of America. If found responsible in a court of law, the State of California will have seriously undermined confidence in our electoral system and violated laws that protect our nation’s representative system of government.”

Justice Department sues California, claiming it’s mailing ballots to more than 20,000 noncitizens– www.cbsnews.com
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Washington — The Justice Department sued California on Thursday, alleging that the federal government has identified more than 20,000 noncitizens who are unlawfully registered to vote.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, came after Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter sent letters to counties earlier this week, including Los Angeles, ordering them to review a list of names of suspected noncitizens who he alleged received mail-in ballots for the upcoming midterm elections.

 

Scientists vote to end leap seconds, redefining how the world keeps time– www.scientificamerican.com

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Scientists vote to end leap seconds, redefining how the world keeps time– www.scientificamerican.com
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Today an international group of scientists, diplomats and timekeepers voted to end the leap second, which has been keeping Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) aligned with the time according to Earth’s rotation (UT1) within one second of difference. The length of a day according to UTC is close to that of UT1 but not exactly the same because our planet’s rotation is irregular. We add a leap second every few years to keep them from drifting too far apart.

But soon the leap second will be replaced with a leap hour, added much more infrequently, which will extend the allowed difference between UT1 and UTC to an hour, or 3,600 seconds.

“After 30 years of debates, we are ready,” said Noël Dimarcq, a senior scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and president of International Bureau of Weights and Measures’ (BIPM’s) Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency, just before the vote, which took place at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in Versailles, France.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says US is trying to break Canada as Alberta votes on separation path– abcnews.com

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Prime Minister Mark Carney says US is trying to break Canada as Alberta votes on separation path– abcnews.com
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CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Thursday that the United States is trying to break Canada so it can “own us” as he urged oil-rich Alberta not to begin a process toward separation in Monday’s referendum.

The vote is not a direct referendum on independence. Alberta, which has the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves, will decide whether to remain a province or instruct the government to begin the legal process toward a future referendum on separation.

“This referendum comes at the worst possible time,” Carney told a large pro-Canada rally in Calgary. “The world has become more dangerous and divided. Some outside our borders are working to break us so they can own us.”

He did not directly mention the U.S. or its President Donald Trump in that passage, but has done so in similar past speeches. Carney’s warning came as U.S. President Donald Trump wages a trade war with Canada and after his repeated threats to make Canada the 51st U.S. state. Carney has argued that Canada needs to become more economically resilient and less dependent on the United States.

Carney urged Albertans not to use the vote simply to send Ottawa a message, saying a decisive result could settle the separation question.

“Don’t be fooled by the idea you can ‘send a message’ with your vote,” Carney said. “This is not poker. A vote against Canada is a dangerous bluff that will lead to years of deep division and great uncertainty.”

Blue States Show What’s at Stake in the 2026 Elections

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While polls continue to show Democrats to be the favorites to win the midterm elections, blue states are showing what progressive rule looks like. Religious liberty is being interpreted in blue states as only being a freedom to worship, not a freedom to outwardly, publicly live out your faith.

From Illinois to New York to California, laws are being passed that are forcing people of faith to participate in abortions, euthanasia, and affirm LGBTQ lifestyles. While “affordability” still appears to be the top issue in this election, “government trust” is a rising issue.

Blue States Are Redefining Religious Freedom– thefederalist.com
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A dangerous theory is taking hold that religious freedom applies only to the right to worship.

Illinois’ assisted suicide law took effect in September. Cardinal Blase Cupich and Bishop Thomas Paprocki have both sued to keep the state from compelling Catholic hospitals and doctors to take part. A group of Muslim doctors similarly have sought protection from the state mandate. The state has yielded temporarily. In July, a federal judge shielded the Little Sisters of the Poor from New York’s version. The message from the state in each case is the same: you may care for the dying, but you must also be ready to help kill them.

The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Nov. 3 in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy. Colorado’s universal preschool program requires participating schools to agree to operate at odds with Catholic teaching on marriage and sexuality. Parishes in the archdiocese of Denver could not agree to state requirements, so the state shut them out of the preschool program paying $6,000 per eligible child, along with the families who wanted their children taught there. Colorado says it has no problem with the preschools being Catholic, it just doesn’t want them to operate as if they are.

Catholicism is just one example of a religion whose exercise does not end at the sanctuary door. Catholics pray at Mass and live that prayer in the works of mercy: feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, visiting the sick, burying the dead, and instructing the ignorant. Faith asks to be lived coherently, in belief and in service to one another. Jews, Muslims, and Protestants would recognize the pattern in their own traditions. No one is free if he must split himself into a Sunday self and a Monday self, and no community is free that must do the same.

Far-left Philly DA Larry Krasner says accused anti-white cop killer Eric Lewis was acquitted of previous murder charges due to police misconduct during investigation | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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Far-left Philly DA Larry Krasner says accused anti-white cop killer Eric Lewis was acquitted of previous murder charges due to police misconduct during investigation | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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Krasner said that Lewis had been out of custody “because a balanced, good, and fair judge did what he had to do.”

A scheduled press conference in which Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner was set to talk about the criminal history of a suspect charged with killing one officer and injuring another in a shooting was canceled and Krasner instead released a video. Krasner said the judge in a prior case “did what he had to do” because of misconduct in the case, leading to the suspect being acquitted.

Per Fox News’ CB Cotton, the press conference had been scheduled to take place at 11 am, and in its place, a news release was issued. Krasner had been set to talk about Eric Lewis, who has been charged in the weekend ambush shooting of two police officers. Lewis, a city employee, has been charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with an ambush shooting that took place over the weekend. Officer Shane Seiber was killed in the shooting. Lewis allegedly told authorities that he shot the two cops because they were white.

The press release stated that Krasner’s office was “aware of several reports of 911 calls and other potential complaints of violence (including domestic violence) involving this defendant.” Krasner said Lewis had been charged in 2019 with murder, aggravated assault, and other offenses in relation to a “road rage” double shooting.

Krasner said in a video alongside the press release that Lewis had been out of custody “because a balanced, good, and fair judge did what he had to do. Because two absolutely excellent prosecutors did everything humanly possible with a case and an investigation that was so deeply flawed, it was not just full of errors and mistakes—very serious ones, but some of the conduct involving one police officer and one detective is arguably criminal.”

Trump wants more Afrikaner refugees while others are stuck due to his ‘cruel’ policies | US immigration– www.theguardian.com

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Trump wants more Afrikaner refugees while others are stuck due to his ‘cruel’ policies | US immigration– www.theguardian.com
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Donald Trump plans to once more severely restrict the number of refugees admitted to the US, announcing a limit of just 17,500 people in fiscal year 2027 – and that, again, those let in will be “primarily” white South Africans.

Refugee rights groups are alarmed and infuriated at the decision last month by the US president to exclude almost every other demographic.

They claim the decision will continue to leave thousands of refugees stuck in dangerous situations around the globe, many of whom were already vetted and approved for entry, in favor of a very small quota dominated by Afrikaners, an Afrikaans-speaking white ethnic group descended from Dutch and French colonial settlers to South Africa.

This despite low take-up of US refugee slots by Afrikaners, prompting extraordinary measures from the government to attract them even in the face of apparent disinterest, the Guardian revealed this week, and the greatness of need in other countries.

During his first and second terms, Trump has signed various executive orders and his administration made significant policy decisions to halt nearly all refugee admissions, except for white South Africans. The refugee cap determination, published on 25 September, is just the latest move in undermining legal migration while also changing the demographics of who can come into the country.

3 children, 1 teacher dead after shooting at Oregon elementary school, police say– www.cbc.ca

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3 children, 1 teacher dead after shooting at Oregon elementary school, police say– www.cbc.ca
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A 16-year-old shooter opened fire on Thursday at an elementary school in Bend, Ore., killing four people, including three children, before being killed by an armed person ​who had pursued the assailant into the school, ​police said.

The shooter entered the school by shooting through locked doors, police said, without offering any details beyond the shooter’s age.

The dead were children aged five, ​eight and 11, and a teacher. A seven-year-old student and ⁠a 54-year-old teacher were also taken ⁠to hospital with critical injuries, Bend ‌police Chief Mike Krantz told a news conference.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, appearing at the same briefing, thanked the community member who “heroically intervened to stop further loss of life.”

Pollsters Warn: Polling Numbers Exaggerate Democrat Support– gellerreport.com

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Pollsters Warn: Polling Numbers Exaggerate Democrat Support– gellerreport.com
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As if we didn’t know. Their objective: demoralize Republicans into staying home on Election Day—and lay the groundwork to make a rigged result look legitimate.

Nothing that comes out of any of the institutions hijacked by the left have any credibility anymore.

For a recent exhibit in polling gone bad:

In the Michigan primary, the polling had El-Sayed up by 13 points. He won by 1 point (GelliotMorris). Rob Crilly at the Washington Examiner: In 2024, a rash of cheap online polls skewed forecasts, underestimating Donald Trump’s eventual margin of victory. This time around, a handful of pollsters have spotted another possible error in a type of survey that finds participants by sending out SMS messages, called text-to-web polling. They say it is returning a disproportionate number of disenchanted Trump voters who have switched sides. And it could mean that forecasts predicting a blue tidal wave, such as Nate Silver’s much-quoted model, with Democrats’ chances of winning the Senate at over 73%, are overestimating their chances…. The phenomenon was first spotted by James Johnson, co-founder of J.L. Partners, another Republican leaning firm. He ran an experiment to quantify what he was seeing with a poll in Iowa. Online polling showed Democrats ahead by a single point. Live call polling also had Democrats ahead by a single point. Yet the SMS-to-web portion showed Democrats up by 12 points (Washington Examiner).

New Penn AI platform allows patients to communicate directly with their medical devices

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Penn researchers recently unveiled an artificial intelligence platform that allows patients with epilepsy to communicate directly with their medical devices.

The platform, released in an Oct. 13 study, will enable patients to receive real-time information about their brain activity and potential oncoming seizures. Bioengineering professor Brian Litt worked with a team to develop the program, which aims to shift health monitoring capabilities to patients rather than solely their physicians.

The platform addresses a limitation of existing medical devices by improving the communication between the medical data collected and the patients themselves, according to Litt.

Through a mobile application, patients can exchange messages with an AI assistant that analyzes their neurological data. The system notifies patients of potential seizures, provides information about their brain activity, and asks questions about symptoms or behaviors that may affect their health.

“Your medical device might text you and say, ‘What did you do? Your probability of having a seizure just went up by 60%,’” Litt said in a January interview. “And you might have had a beer, or taken a new antibiotic or something like that.”

US extends sanctions waiver for Russian oil giant Lukoil until 2027– www.euronews.com

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US extends sanctions waiver for Russian oil giant Lukoil until 2027– www.euronews.com
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The US Treasury Department on Thursday extended a sanctions waiver for Russian oil giant Lukoil, allowing its service stations outside Russia to continue operating until April 2027.

The extension allows Lukoil-branded petrol stations in countries including the United States to continue serving customers until 24 April 2027, replacing an earlier licence due to expire later this month.

However, the latest licence maintains restrictions on the “transfer of funds to any person or account located in the Russian Federation”.

The decision comes a week after US President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Russia to supply diesel to US and global markets, prompting the Treasury to issue a temporary licence to facilitate deliveries.

The deal, as announced by Trump on social media, envisages that Moscow will release 300,000 tonnes of diesel to the US and global markets immediately, with an additional 500,000 tonnes in November and one million more after that.

The Trump-Putin diesel deal has been badly received by EU foreign ministers, who say it undermines transatlantic unity at a time when Russia intensifies its attacks on Ukraine.

Child Gender” Therapists Continue Shut-Down Operations under New Names

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When child transgender therapists and operations are shut down from organizations relying on Federal tax dollars, they turn to independent trans zealots to both fund and protect them. The Trump administration is working on identifying shut down operations and following them when they go “independent.”

Sex-Rejecting Facilities For Kids Are Re-Opening Under New Names– thefederalist.com
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As the Trump administration forces pediatric transgender facilities to close, a new reality is becoming clear: It’s a game of whack-a-mole.

In Pasadena, California, an infamous pediatrician named Johanna Olson-Kennedy who provides transgender intervention procedures for children was forced to close her medical office at the end of September (as The Federalist reported), after a pro-trans parent corporation read the political climate and switched to an adults-only operation. It was the second time in two years Olson-Kennedy was driven out of business, as Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles closed her first practice in 2025.

The Pasadena office reopened a few days later, at the same address, with a new sign on the very same front door. (If you need to use the bathroom, that patients-only sign about using the key has yet to reappear.)

This development comes at an unusually important moment, as California just changed the way it funds sex-rejecting procedures for minors, as of October 13. You can read a detailed discussion of those changes here, on the website of the California Department of Health Care Access and Information. Following recent federal guidance, California will no longer pay for pediatric gender mutilation through Medi-Cal, the state’s version of the federally funded but state-administered Medicaid and CHIP.

Ending federally funded sex-rejecting procedures, California is switching to a more limited grant program funded only with state dollars. The state legislature has budgeted three pools of money, totaling $66 million, that can be used to pay for sex-rejecting procedures, with $10 million specifically designated for doctors who butcher children.

Trump says Nidal Hasan execution won’t be livestreamed– www.cnbc.com

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Nidal Hasan, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 in a November 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, is pictured in an undated Bell County Sheriff’s Office photograph.

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President Donald Trump said Thursday that the planned execution by firing squad of convicted Fort Hood mass killer Nidal Hasan would not be livestreamed, canceling the Pentagon‘s plans to do so.

Trump’s announcement came after growing backlash against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s effort to show the former U.S. Army major’s execution live online, with concern that the footage would become a recruiting tool for terrorists.

Hasan, who is paralyzed from the waist down, is scheduled to be executed Dec. 3 by an Army firing squad at 1 p.m. Central Time in Fort Hood, which is located in Killeen, Texas.

Terrorists could use AI to target UK with drones and bioweapons, MI5 chief warns– www.independent.co.uk

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Terrorists could use AI to target UK with drones and bioweapons, MI5 chief warns– www.independent.co.uk
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Terrorists could exploit artificial intelligence to target Britain with drones or biological weapons, the head of MI5 has warned.

Speaking after his annual speech at MI5 headquarters in London, Sir Ken McCallum said the UK had entered a “new era of national security” and the security service was directing more resources to keeping Britain safe now than in the Cold War, warning that essential services such as banking, flights, and healthcare were at risk of being disrupted by adversaries, including Iran and Russia.

He warned about the growing threat of AI provoking real fear that terrorists could use the technology for warfare, saying “we’ve caught terrorists seeking to exploit AI to improve their reconnaissance and attack methodologies”.

He said the possibility of AI-enabled drones added “a new twist” for bad actors and warned the greatest concern is “AI’s potential to change the stakes on existing or even new bioweapons”.

“These risks are real. The UK Intelligence Community – MI5, GCHQ, MI6 – is working closely with the UK’s globally respected AI security institute to take them on. Part of that means retaining the capability edge against those who mean the UK harm. As they seek to harness AI, we must stay ahead, so these powerful technologies bolster rather than undermine our shared security,” he said.

Mysterious brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness– www.sciencedaily.com

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Mysterious brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness– www.sciencedaily.com
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Even when a person is fully unconscious under general anesthesia, their brain may still be doing something remarkable: processing language, recognizing patterns, and even anticipating which words will come next.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered that the brain retains surprisingly sophisticated abilities during anesthesia, despite the absence of conscious awareness. The findings, published in the journal Nature, challenge traditional assumptions about the relationship between consciousness and thinking. They could also provide new insights into how the brain processes memories and language, potentially leading to advances in technologies that help people communicate after neurological injuries.

“Our findings show that the brain is far more active and capable during unconsciousness than previously thought,” said Dr. Sameer Sheth, professor and Cullen Foundation Endowed chair of neurosurgery and a McNair Scholar at Baylor. “Even when patients are fully anesthetized, their brains continue to analyze the world around them.”

Climate change pushed Earth to its limits in 2026 as certain “vital signs” reach record extremes, report says– www.cbsnews.com

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Climate change pushed Earth to its limits in 2026 as certain “vital signs” reach record extremes, report says– www.cbsnews.com
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Climate change pushed the Earth’s environmental system to, and perhaps beyond, its limits in 2026, as several of its “vital signs” reached record extremes, researchers said in a new report on the state of the global climate.

Of the 16 climate markers that researchers consider integral measures of how the Earth is doing, seven are currently at record extremes, while multiple others show evidence of accelerating or abruptly shifting, the report published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal BioScience said.

The markers include greenhouse gases, temperature, glacier mass, oceans, wildfires and the planet’s energy imbalance, which refers to the difference between the amount of energy the Earth absorbs and the amount it radiates back out into the atmosphere.

Researchers warned in the report that the planet’s climate “is moving deeper into uncharted territory.”

“Earth’s life-support systems are being pushed beyond stable limits, with changes unfolding faster than our ability to respond,” the report said. “Across the globe, extreme heat, floods, droughts, storms, and wildfires are no longer rare events but defining features of a changing planet.”

Scientists recreate a bizarre quantum effect that stops a particle cold– www.sciencedaily.com

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Scientists recreate a bizarre quantum effect that stops a particle cold– www.sciencedaily.com
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A particle does not have to pass through a magnetic field to be influenced by it. That surprising feature of quantum physics has now been recreated by researchers at the University of Oxford, who used a hybrid quantum computer to demonstrate how an invisible magnetic influence can bring a simulated particle’s movement to a complete stop.

The experiment reproduced a phenomenon known as the Aharonov-Bohm effect, in which a charged particle traveling around a region containing magnetic flux experiences a measurable change in its quantum state, even though its path never takes it through the magnetic field itself.

The Oxford team achieved this using a quantum system that combines qubits, the basic units of quantum information, with quantum oscillators, which represent vibrating motion. Their findings, published in Nature Physics, demonstrate how this combination could help scientists investigate fundamental interactions between matter and fields that are increasingly difficult to simulate using conventional computers.

A Strange Quantum Effect Predicted in 1959

In everyday physics, a charged particle responds to the electric and magnetic fields it encounters. Quantum mechanics, however, reveals that particles can behave in ways that have no straightforward counterpart in our ordinary experience.

Live Updates: Houthis threaten U.S. with “swift and painful” response if it joins Saudi Arabia’s strikes on Iran-backed group– www.cbsnews.com

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Live Updates: Houthis threaten U.S. with “swift and painful” response if it joins Saudi Arabia’s strikes on Iran-backed group– www.cbsnews.com
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The foreign ministers of the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Canada and 23 other countries, many in Europe, have released a joint statement condemning hostile activities by Iran on foreign soil.

The statement came on the heels of British Prime Minister Andy Burnham saying a recent security incident at England’s RAF Fairford air base, which was until recently home to U.S. long-range bombers, was “almost certainly directed” by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

The countries said Monday that they “condemn in the strongest terms Iran’s use of violent attacks, including the acts of lethal plotting, arson, sabotage, cyber-attacks, and other hybrid activities against us and our partners.”

Linking the RAF Fairford incident to other recent attacks in Europe “targeting Jewish communities, Iranian journalists, and U.S. interests,” the countries said: “Any attempt by Iran to threaten, silence, intimidate, harass, harm, or coerce people on our territories through proxies or any other means is unacceptable.”

“Anyone who conducts hostile activities on behalf of Iran, or any other state, should know that we will take action to identify, investigate, disrupt, and prosecute these acts.”

Burnham Blames Russia for Brexit

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has telegraphed his next major move, setting up an election with Brexit on the chopping block. He is leading an international effort to paint Britain’s choice to leave the EU as a Russian-manipulated outcome, justifying a revisiting of the question. He accused Russia of meddling not only with the 2026 vote, but with other European elections as well.

UK and EU confirm date of summit after Burnham says Russian meddling shows the need for closer ties– abcnews.com
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LONDON — Russia’s attempts to meddle in European politics show why Britain must forge a closer relationship with the European Union, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday, arguing that “the status quo is not good enough.”

Burnham said that attempts by Russia to interfere in democratic votes across Europe, including Britain’s 2016 EU membership referendum, highlight the importance of strengthening the U.K.’s links with its neighbors, years after they were weakened by Brexit.

He told lawmakers in the House of Commons that it would be “a dereliction of duty” not to seek stronger ties with the 27-nation bloc that the U.K. left in 2020.

The statement comes after Burnham told the Labour Party’s annual conference last month that “Brexit has done more harm than good” and that the bare-bones trade deal Britain has with the EU is holding the country back. He said he will seek political consensus on a new relationship, with future options including rejoining the bloc.

China Adds Air Base to “Training” in Laos

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China has extended its presence in Laos following reports it had set up a training camp inside the country. Now, China appears to have built an air base within Laos as well. Satellite imagery showed Chinese military aircraft leaving from and landing in the region identified as the new air base. Beijing has now claimed the base is to train Laotian pilots to fly Chinese fighters.

Are Chinese military aircraft already using a new joint air facility in Laos? – South China Morning Post
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Chinese military aircraft may already be using a new joint aviation facility in Laos, with satellite imagery showing twice as many K-8/JL-8-family trainer aircraft there as the Laotian air force is assessed to possess.

Eight of the two-seat trainer and light-attack aircraft were visible at Ban Keun Airport in commercial satellite imagery taken on September 30, according to Reuters, which first reported the images. More than two dozen military and support vehicles were also visible.

The image was taken a day after the China-Laos Joint Support and Training Centre and the China-Laos Friendship Aviation Academy formally began operations at the airport, with a People’s Liberation Army delegation attending the inauguration.

Beijing says the jointly maintained and operated centre is intended to strengthen training for Laotian air force pilots.

Drones hit ships in Black Sea, sinking 1, prompting rescue operations, Bulgaria says– abcnews.com

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SOFIA, Bulgaria — Drones struck two ships in the Black Sea off Bulgaria on Tuesday, sinking one and prompting emergency rescue operations, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said.

Rescuers evacuated all 15 crew members from one ship, the Maltese-flagged Chelsea 3, with five receiving treatment for minor injuries, Radev said in a video posted to social media.

The crew, which included seven Ukrainian citizens and eight Azerbaijan citizens, reported the ship’s deck and hull were hit by three aerial drones.

One crew member from the sunken vessel was rescued, Radev added, without providing details about the others aboard. The strikes on the two ships occurred 18 and 17 miles (29 and 27.5 kilometers) from the Bulgarian coast.

During an emergency meeting of Bulgaria’s Security Council on Tuesday, Radev called the attacks “absolutely unacceptable” and said Bulgaria was seeking NATO and European Union assistance.

While authorities do not possess clear evidence on who was responsible for the drone attacks, “logic, as I have already stated, indicates that the result is in favor of the Russian Federation,” Radev said.

The attacks come exactly a week after sea and aerial drones attacked two other commercial vessels in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea. A Togo-flagged ship sank, while a Bulgarian ferry evacuated the 18-member crew from a Pulau-flagged vessel.

Ukraine’s military did not conduct any operations near the locations of last week’s drone strikes, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who pointed the finger at Russia.

A day earlier, a Turkish-owned cargo ship carrying corn caught fire following a drone attack and later sank in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania. Two people died and 11 crew members were rescued, Romanian authorities said.

Russia did not immediately comment on Tuesday’s incident.

Radev said he would summon the Russian ambassador to Bulgaria, Eleonora Mitrofanova, for a conversation Tuesday.

 

Mass stabbing at South Korean supermarket as cops swarm and multiple shoppers injured– www.mirror.co.uk

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Mass stabbing at South Korean supermarket as cops swarm and multiple shoppers injured– www.mirror.co.uk
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A mass stabbing at a discount supermarket in South Korea has prompted a huge emergency services response with police arresting the suspected attacker.

At approximately 1:49pm today (5.49am BST), an emergency report was filed stating that a stabbing had taken place at the Homeplus Guwol branch in Namdong-gu, Incheon.

Police rushed to the scene and arrested a man, they are referring to as A, who allegedly carried out the stabbing.

Police estimate that 6 to 8 Homeplus customers were injured in the attack. However, the exact number of casualties has not yet been confirmed.

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German police ‘arrest’ child-groping robot (VIDEOS) — RT World News– rt-english.com

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German police ‘arrest’ child-groping robot (VIDEOS) — RT World News– rt-english.com
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German police have seized a humanoid robot that allegedly groped a 16-year-old girl on the streets of Cologne, and are investigating its owner for sexual harassment.

Officers seized the robot in the early hours of Sunday morning after it “allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl’s buttocks and made thrusting motions against her,” according to a statement from Cologne Police.

The teenage girl was standing outside a fast food restaurant with her friends when the robot approached her from behind and made obscene motions, the statement continued. Shortly afterwards, officers found the robot in the trunk of a nearby car and confiscated it, along with the mobile phones of its 16-year-old owner and his 19-year-old accomplice.

The red and gold robot, modeled on Marvel’s ‘Iron Man’, was seen in an evidence photo clad in a white vest, a gold chain, and a stick-on mustache.

Police are now “examining how the robot was functioning at the time of the incident and whether someone was deliberately controlling its movements.” The two teenagers operating the droid – who live-streamed the incident online – are being investigated on suspicion of sexual harassment.

Video footage shared on TikTok showed the sex-pest robot, named ‘Ahmed’ by his owner and accomplice, harassing multiple women. The droid made masturbatory hand gestures and thrusting motions at several women as his alleged operators laughed, and approached one woman from behind, causing her to scream. It is unclear if this is the incident that triggered the investigation.

According to Germany’s criminal code, sexual assault requires contact between perpetrator and victim. Acts “carried out by machines or by third parties” do not rise to the level of assault, The German Federal Court of Justice ruled in 2021. If found guilty of sexual harassment, however, the suspects could face a fine or up to two years in prison.

 

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As AI mass-produces historical dramas in China, where are the boundaries? · TechNode– technode.com

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In 2026, AI is changing how historical dramas are produced in China. In the past, dramas featuring ancient battles, palace architecture and elaborate costumes often required large budgets and professional production teams.

Today, AI generation and virtual compositing tools are making it possible for smaller teams and even individual creators to produce historical scenes that were once difficult to realize. As production barriers fall, the volume of content is growing rapidly.

But as AI makes it possible to generate historical figures, battle scenes and depictions of ancient societies at scale, an important question emerges: when seemingly realistic historical narratives can be produced at low cost and in large quantities, how do we distinguish artistic interpretation from historical distortion?

The AI short drama boom raises questions about content quality

According to the 2026 H1 AI Drama and Animation Data Report released by industry research firm DataEye, China’s AI drama and animation market exceeded RMB 22 billion ($3.29 billion) in the first five months of 2026.

The market is projected to reach RMB 40 billion ($5.98 billion) for the full year, representing year-on-year growth of 138%. The audience base has also expanded rapidly, with the number of AI short-drama users in China surpassing 600 million in the first half of the year.

From January to June, 221,900 new AI short dramas were released, of which 1,055 surpassed 100 million views. These titles generated a combined 515.738 billion views. Monthly incremental views rose to 155.78 billion in June, the highest monthly figure in the first half of the year.

AI-generated historical content is also beginning to reach longer formats. The AI series Wielding Weapons in the Song Dynasty has reportedly maintained popularity scores above 46 million across multiple seasons.

Meanwhile, The Later Journey to the West, an AI-generated series, aired during Hunan Satellite TV’s prime-time slot, ranking first among provincial satellite channels in the same time slot during its broadcast.

For historical dramas, AI is lowering not only production costs but also the technical barriers to creating complex scenes. Ancient cities, palaces and large-scale battlefields can now be designed and composited with generative tools, giving smaller production teams more opportunities to explore historical storytelling.

However, an increase in output does not necessarily translate into better content. AI can generate convincing characters, costumes and architecture, but that does not mean these details are historically accurate. As images become increasingly realistic, audiences may find it easier to mistake visual authenticity for historical accuracy.

Historical dramas can take creative liberties, but fact and fiction should not be confused

Historical dramas are not the same as documentaries. Time travel, alternate histories and fictionalized retellings have long been part of screen storytelling. Artistic interpretation should not automatically be treated as a problem. The real question is how productions handle the boundary between historical fact and fiction.

AI introduces a new challenge because it can generate large amounts of detail in a short time. When information is incomplete, models may produce claims that sound plausible but lack historical evidence. Errors can involve people’s lives, clothing styles, the uses of artifacts and even the timelines of historical events.

A meticulously rendered ancient palace is not necessarily an accurate representation of architecture from that period. Likewise, a convincing dialogue attributed to a historical figure does not mean that the exchange is supported by historical records. If unverified details are presented as fact and repeated across large volumes of content, they may distort audiences’ understanding of history.

AI can therefore assist with historical research, scene design and image generation, but it cannot replace historical verification. For productions based on real historical events and figures, checking primary sources and consulting qualified experts remain essential.

How can content oversight protect both accuracy and creative freedom?

Rules governing short-form dramas are also evolving. The National Radio and Television Administration’s Measures for the Administration of Micro-Dramas, which took effect on September 1, 2026, introduced a classification-based management framework and set out requirements covering filing, review, distribution and disclosure labels for AI-generated content.

However, stronger content oversight does not mean that all AI historical dramas should face the same restrictions. Clearly identified alternate-history stories differ in their potential risks from productions based on real historical events that audiences may mistake for fact. The focus should not simply be on whether a work matches historical records in every detail, but also on whether it misleads audiences, violates applicable content rules or fails to meet reasonable standards of verification.

Platforms also need to look beyond views and engagement. As AI-generated content expands, stronger review processes, timely action against violations and appropriate disclosures about how content was produced will become increasingly important.

AI labels can tell audiences how a work was made, but they cannot replace fact-checking or exempt a production from other content requirements.

When generation becomes easy, what is the real barrier to entry?

AI historical dramas are giving more creators the opportunity to tell historical stories and bringing previously difficult creative ideas within reach. That is a meaningful change.

Yet as generating images becomes easier, the scarce skill may no longer be the ability to create an ancient palace, but knowing what that palace should have looked like in its historical context. It may no longer be the ability to generate a historical figure, but understanding that person’s era, background and documented experiences.

The challenge for AI historical dramas is therefore not simply how to increase production efficiency. It is how to balance artistic expression, historical accuracy and responsible distribution.

AI can certainly offer new ways to tell stories about the past, but the ability to generate a historical narrative does not justify disregarding historical facts. Technology can lower the barriers to creation, but creators’ understanding of history, their judgment about the boundaries of fiction, and platforms’ responsibility for the content they distribute will ultimately shape the results of this transformation.

 

Archbishop tells Catholic soldiers not to take part in military execution– www.foxnews.com

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Archbishop tells Catholic soldiers not to take part in military execution– www.foxnews.com
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Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin examines the history and use of firing squads in the United States and discusses the debate over plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. She also looks at Vice President JD Vance’s concerns about live-streaming the execution on ‘Special Report.’

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Catholics serving in the Army should request to be excused from participating in the planned firing squad execution of a convicted Fort Hood mass shooter, which the Pentagon has proposed livestreaming, a prominent U.S. archbishop who oversees Catholic pastoral services for the military said on Monday.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio raised several objections to the Pentagon’s unprecedented plan to broadcast the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist who was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 shooting at the Fort Hood military base. Hasan, now 56, uses a wheelchair, after being shot by responding officers during the attack.

Hasan is set to be executed at Fort Hood on Dec. 3, at 1 p.m. CST, according to the U.S. Army, which would make him the first person to be executed by firing squad by the U.S. military since 1945. It would also mark the first U.S. military execution by any method since 1961. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said he wanted soldiers to execute Hasan at the time, day of the week and location of the shooting and has argued that making the execution public would help serve as a deterrent.

Broglio recalled presiding over the funeral of one of Hasan’s victims, Michael Grant Cahill, the only civilian killed in that attack, and expressed sorrow over the deadly shooting. But the archbishop questioned whether the U.S. government wanted to “imitate the terrorists of this world and make a public spectacle of barbarically killing our adversaries.”

POPE LEO DENOUNCES DEATH PENALTY AS ‘INADMISSIBLE’ AHEAD OF PENTAGON’S PLANNED LIVESTREAMED EXECUTION

Archbishop Timothy Broglio raised several objections to the Pentagon’s unprecedented plan to broadcast the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Hasan’s crime “was heinous, but does exposing the public to his execution serve any purpose?” Broglio asked in a statement.

“I oblige any Catholics assigned to the firing squad to request to be excused from this action contrary to the teaching of the Church,” he continued.

Army regulations permit soldiers to seek religious exemptions or accommodations.

It is unclear how the military intends to select members for the firing squad.

“The U.S. military generally enjoys a good reputation in the world,” Broglio said. “Is there really a value to throwing them in the same boat with terrorists by broadcasting the image of the execution of a man in a wheelchair to the whole world?”

A U.S. government execution has never been broadcast to the public, making it an unprecedented plan that has drawn backlash from political and religious leaders.

Broglio joins other Catholic leaders in criticizing the Pentagon’s plans to livestream the execution.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan is set to be executed at Fort Hood on Dec. 3, which would make him the first person to be executed by firing squad by the U.S. military since 1945. (REUTERS/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences/Handout)

The head of the U.S. bishops conference, Archbishop Paul Coakley, expressed “shock” and “great sorrow” about the public execution plan and urged the U.S. to reconsider.

“In no way can Hasan’s actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered,” he said in a statement on Friday. “The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.”

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, called the proposed broadcast “truly incomprehensible” and warned that it was “unacceptable to turn death into a spectacle.”

“The Church’s position is one of total opposition to the death penalty; it is incompatible with human dignity and serves as no deterrent,” Parolin told reporters on Friday.

According to the English translation published by Vatican News, Parolin said, “It is truly incomprehensible that anyone would want to use this method in this day and age. I do not know for what purpose. It is certainly unacceptable to turn death into a spectacle. However guilty the person may be, there are other ways.”

Parolin added that the death penalty “is incompatible with human dignity and does not serve as a deterrent.”

Pope Leo XIV reiterated the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty as “inadmissible” in a social media post on Saturday marking World Day Against the Death Penalty.

Citing Catholic doctrine revised under his predecessor, Pope Francis, Leo emphasized that the death penalty violates human dignity.

“The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption,” Leo, the first American pope, wrote on X without specifically mentioning the Pentagon’s execution plan for Hasan.

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A U.S. government execution has never been broadcast to the general public, making it an unprecedented plan that has drawn backlash from political and religious leaders. (Aaron Schwartz / AFP via Getty Images)

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President Donald Trump said Saturday he had not yet decided whether to allow the livestream plan to move forward, although he has reportedly expressed doubts in private about broadcasting the execution.

Vice President JD Vance, who is a Catholic, expressed skepticism about whether the Pentagon would proceed with a public execution. He said he would not watch the livestream if it were carried out.

Several lawmakers, including Republicans, have spoken out against plans to broadcast the execution.

“Public executions are what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said on Thursday. “It should not be happening in America.”

Reuters contributed to this report.