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America Remained the UN’s Largest Funder in 2025 Despite Deep Cuts | American Enterprise Institute– www.aei.org
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A lot of ink has been spilled and anguish expressed about President Trump abandoning the United Nations. Yet, despite deep cuts, America contributed $7.1 billion in 2025 to the UN system, far more than any other nation. This funding gives Washington substantial leverage. But the leverage is eroding. The administration must decide which organizations merit continued US engagement and clearly communicate the reforms required for continued support.

Two weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump initiated a review of all international organizations to provide recommendations on future US funding and participation. Although the review remains ongoing, the US announced decisions in 2025 and 2026 to withdraw from or cease providing funding to the Human Rights Council, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the World Health Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and an additional 66 international organizations, including 31 UN entities.

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

 

 

 

Ukraine ‘Turns on’ Trump — and Zelensky Just FAILED His Churchill Moment – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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Did you hear the one about the Ukrainian missile that blew up a Russian bot farm? Initially, the media reported widespread outages of pro-Russian, pro-Palestinian, and pro-Qatar accounts, crashing mentions of “genocide” and “Free Palestine” on social media — and killing engagement for some of your favorite podcasters:

It’s a fascinating theory. (And a comforting theory, too, if you oppose Tucker Carlson and company’s ideology.) And it’s even led to spinoff conspiracies — such as Elon Musk’s REAL motive in interfering with Ukrainian access to Starlink:

Of course! It was payback for Ukraine interfering with Elon Musk’s propaganda campaign in the closing days of the midterms!

In fact, maybe that’s why Fox News is badmouthing Ukraine:

France’s Violent Muslim Riots Spread to Belgium– gellerreport.com
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Thousands of Muslims are now rioting in Belgium.

Attacking Belgians, destroying buildings, and accosting police.

Europe Chose National Suicide—America’s Midterms Will Decide Whether We Follow

Watch and learn.

US missiles supplied to Ukraine sold on ‘open market’ – Trump — RT World News– rt-english.com
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The US president has accused Kiev of failing to account for billions of dollars in American military and financial aid

US President Donald Trump has claimed that American missiles supplied to Ukraine under his predecessor, Joe Biden, were sold on the “open market.” In an interview with Newsmax aired on Thursday, Trump questioned the whereabouts of billions of dollars in US military and financial aid to Kiev.

The president made the remarks after Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky said he felt betrayed by Trump’s unexpected decision to lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports in a bid to curb rising energy prices.

Asked by host Rob Finnerty about the Ukrainian leader’s decision to defy Trump’s demand to halt strikes on Russian energy facilities, Trump said, “Zelensky is not a good guy for us to deal with. Biden gave him billions and billions of dollars.”

Trump went on to argue that Zelensky was unwilling to resolve the conflict with Russia through diplomacy. “He says he wants to settle but he [doesn’t],” he said.

Video. Albania: Violent protests rock Tirana for third straight day– www.euronews.com
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Demonstrators hurled stones, firecrackers and other objects at riot police, who responded with tear gas and water cannon. Fires broke out in the city centre, engulfing trees and a roadside structure as firefighters worked to contain the flames.

Footage shows protesters racing through smoke-filled streets, tearing down police barriers and throwing tear-gas canisters back at officers. Shops and banks were damaged, some looted, while police reported vandalism targeting ATMs, cameras, vehicles and fencing. Burnt-out vehicles, smashed windows and wrecked offices were left behind across the Albanian capital, where residents and workers began clearing debris as demonstrations continued.

What began three days ago as student protests over the cost and quality of higher education has become a broader challenge to Prime Minister Edi Rama’s government. Students demanding better university conditions, financial support and job prospects have joined the Flamingo movement, which opposes a luxury resort project linked to Jared Kushner and is calling for Mr Rama’s resignation over corruption allegations.

Nearly half of Muslims and Jews would consider leaving France if Le Pen wins 2027 presidential election: poll– rmx.news
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Nearly half of Muslim and Jewish respondents in a major French poll say they would consider leaving the country if Marine Le Pen wins the 2027 presidential election, according to an exclusive Ifop survey for the magazine Marianne.

The poll found that 46 percent of respondents identifying as Muslim would contemplate “leaving France to settle in another country” under a Le Pen presidency. Of those, 20 percent said they would “certainly” take that step. By comparison, 21 percent of the overall population expressed a similar willingness to leave.

The figure is part of a broader set of findings on identity, secularism, and anticipated reactions to a National Rally (RN) victory. Eighty-one percent of Muslim respondents believed a Le Pen win would lead to a rise in discrimination against their community. Twenty-seven percent said they would consider concealing their religious identity in daily life, including 18 percent who would stop wearing the veil in public.

Similar sentiments appeared in other groups polled.

EU and Canada seek closer ties: Will Canada become the EU’s first associate member? – Talking Europe– www.france24.com
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As the international context becomes more challenging for the European Union, the bloc is looking to boost its ties with like-minded allies. Canada is part of that architecture that the EU says it wants to build. The big news of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech in September was that Canada could become an associate member – an arrangement that does not exist for the EU’s partners at the moment.

The EU–Canada summit, set to take place at the end of October in Montreal, might provide some clues as to what this enhanced relationship will look like. We delve into the topic with two MEPs.

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.

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.

Ukraine and Russia’s grain harvest under threat amid Black sea attacks– www.cnbc.com
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A combine harvester loads mustard seeds into a tractor trailer on an agricultural field on August 25, 2026 in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. Farmers of Sumy region continue to work in the border area, despite massive shelling from Russia.

Global Images Ukraine | Global Images Ukraine | Getty Images

Ukraine’s harvest season is moving from wheat and barley into corn, soybeans and sunflower, and farmer Oleksandr Chumak has had a strong yield so far. That should be good news.

Instead, after 11 years of growing a range of crops in the Odesa region of southern Ukraine, Chumak has had enough.

Storage facilities across both Ukraine and Russia are filled with millions of tons of produce that would normally be sent to Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa — but are instead trapped in the warring countries.

Russian drone and missile hits on Black Sea targets intensified over the summer and into fall, making it impossible to insure commercial ships. Kyiv’s retaliatory attacks mean Russian exports are now also stuck, further squeezing global supply.

MS NOW Implores Americans to Protest, Like France, Over Economy– www.newsbusters.org
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On Thursday, MS NOW’s Money, Power, Politics with Stephanie Ruhle actually discussed the “student protests” in France that have turned violent and made it about the state of the economy around the world. MS NOW analyst Ayman Mohyeldin, who no longer has a show on the network, took the discussion of the French protests to implore Americans to protest like the French, which he said they have “unfortunately” not done.

Ruhle was the first to connect French protests to economic problems, as she said, “Like, you can tie all of this together. Enormous economic frustrations that people are feeling.” She added, “We are seeing country after country start to say, this system just don’t work anymore.”

Ruhle tied to the thought to frequent panelist Eddie Glaude: “And it’s actually Eddie who’s been saying to me for years, ‘No, people want to break the system’. And I’m like, ‘No, Eddie, everything is fine.’ And I’m saying that from a very privileged seat. As we’re watching, scores of voters say no to the system, to both parties.”

‘We’re Done’: Zelenskyy Publicly Defies Trump with New Strikes, Then Insults Him– www.westernjournal.com
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Burning bridges and Russian oil refineries alike, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a new interview that he will no longer accept President Donald Trump’s demand that Ukraine refrain from attacking Russia’s energy sector.

On Saturday, Trump vented his anger at Ukraine’s leader for attacking Russian refineries, as well as for his criticism of a deal between the U.S. and Russia to allow Russia to sell diesel fuel.

“I suggest they get a new leader,” Trump said.

Trans-Identifying Muslim Migrant Who Murdered His Children Accused of Sexually Harassing Female Inmates in Swedish Women’s Prison– gellerreport.com
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This horror story checks every box for the left’s identity politics. Try to keep up. Murdered children. Women sexually harassed in prison. But who will get the sympathy? The killer. The left’s elites and their lapdog media turn him into a cause while burying the people he victimized.

Surely,historians will refer to this era of Western civilization as the age of insanity.

Court documents and subsequent reporting state that prosecutors determined Abdelshahed had placed bags over each child’s head and pumped helium into the bags through a hose, depriving them of oxygen. The prosecution described the killings as intentional, carefully planned, and particularly ruthless. Investigators recovered items from the home consistent with this method, including bags, tape, and gas-related equipment.

Related: Egyptian Migrant Who Murdered His Two Young Children Has Been Transferred To A Women’s Prison After Changing Legal Sex Marker To “Female”

SWEDEN: Trans-Identifying Egyptian Migrant Who Murdered His Children Accused of Sexually Harassing Female Inmates in Women’s Prison

By: Genevieve Gluck, Reduxx, October 12, 2026

A father who murdered his two young children and was transferred to a women’s prison after beginning to identify as transgender has been accused of sexually harassing female inmates while authorities look the other way. Paulus Said Foukaih Abdelshahed, an Egyptian national, was transferred to a women’s prison after changing his name to “Lily,” where he is serving a life sentence for the killings.

On April 23, 2024, police and ambulances services were dispatched to Abdelshahed’s residence in response to a call that he had made. Abdelshahed told emergency services that his two children – a boy and a girl, both under the age of 10 – were not breathing, according to a criminal indictment lodged in November that year.

EU Weighs Schengen Visa Restrictions for Russians Amid Sabotage Fears– www.themoscowtimes.com
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EU officials are weighing tighter visa restrictions for Russians amid growing fears of hybrid attacks and sabotage across the bloc.

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday called on Brussels to press ahead with targeted restrictions while stepping up support for Ukraine.

“We must also increase pressure on Russia, notably by making progress on targeted visa restrictions,” Metsola said at a press conference following a summit of EU leaders.

The EU executive is expected to propose “planning” targeted visa restrictions in early 2027, according to the news outlet Rapporteur. The plans are being spearheaded by Poland, Sweden and Estonia, according to Politico Europe.

China says rare earth exports to Europe will continue past U.S. trade deadline– www.cnbc.com
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European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 1, 2023

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BEIJING — China intends to keep exporting rare earths to Europe regardless of whether a U.S. trade deal with Beijing gets extended past January.

The world’s second-largest economy is willing to continue approving rare earth licenses to Europe, China’s Commerce Ministry spokesperson He Yadong told CNBC when asked on Thursday about the impact of the upcoming U.S. deadline.

Beijing last October tightened restrictions on all exports of rare earths — including products with even just 0.1% of China-sourced rare earths. The move followed a new U.S. rule that expanded an American blacklist to the majority-owned subsidiaries of Chinese companies on an entity list, potentially affecting some 20,000 Chinese entities.

France ‘can no longer finance’ Ukraine, far-right presidential frontrunner Le Pen says– www.france24.com
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France cannot keep financing Ukraine due to the “perilous” state of the euro zone’s second-biggest economy, far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday.

“We can no longer finance Ukraine,” Le Pen told reporters in Brussels.

Read moreEU leaders head into high-stakes budget battle as elections loom

“France today is in an extremely perilous situation,” she added, referring to the country’s high deficit and weak economic growth.

Current polls predict Le Pen winning next year’s presidential vote.

Bulgarian PM summons Russian ambassador after ship sinks in Black Sea drone attack– www.bbc.co.uk
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Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev has summoned the Russian ambassador after two merchant ships were struck by drones off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast and one of them sank.

Six crew members on the Guinea-Bissau-flagged HS Dignity were rescued and 10 others are missing, according to Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov, after it went down 17 nautical miles (31km) east of the village of Krapets having sent a distress signal.

The other ship, the Ukrainian owned Chelsea-3, was hit by drones 18 nautical miles from the town of Byala and all 15 crew were rescued.

The attacks come a week after two other commercial ships were hit by sea and aerial drones in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone.

One of the ships, the Alfa Watan, sank and all 10 crew, including nine Syrians, are presumed dead.

Germany: AfD reaches record high 40% in Brandenburg as party continues to dominate in the east– rmx.news
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The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has reached 40 percent support in Brandenburg for the first time in a new poll, twice the level of the governing Social Democrats (SPD) and enough to make any coalition without the party or its potential partners extremely difficult.

The Insa survey, conducted for the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, Märkische Oderzeitung and Lausitzer Rundschau and published this week, put the AfD at 40 percent, up 6 points from the institute’s previous Brandenburg poll in March.

Trump says Russian diesel deal isn’t for the US: ‘That’s a world deal’– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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President Donald Trump repeatedly suggested Tuesday that his recently brokered agreement to procure Russian diesel fuel is not meant for the United States, but for the benefit of the global market.

On Friday, Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin before announcing the deal, which would, according to Trump’s statement, “supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter.”

UK Gov’t Funnelled Taxpayer Money to Activists Seeking to Block Farage– www.breitbart.com
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The Labour Party-run British government reportedly provided funding used to train leftist activists to prevent Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party or the Conservatives from coming to power and to stifle the public’s concerns over mass migration.

In the wake of the 2024 Southport Riots, which broke out after a second-generation Rwandan teen went on a mass stabbing at a children’s dance party, leaving three dead and ten others injured, then-Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announced a £15 million ($20m) “community cohesion” fund supposedly intended to prevent more disorder.

“In the immediate aftermath of the unrest, I was heartened to see the extent to which communities so quickly came together to support one another and their local areas, she said at the time. “This new Community Recovery Fund will support the work that is already under way and ensure that communities have the resources they need to rebuild.”

However, according to a report from London’s Daily Telegraph, some of the money from the fund was channeled through Labour-run city councils into left-wing political projects, including the training of activists by groups such as the School of Organising, which was reportedly founded by former members of the far-left cancel culture Hope Not Hate group.

The broadsheet reported that materials produced for the training sessions included instructions on how to convince voters to reject Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and the “Tory-Right”, while coaching activists up on strategies to shift working-class communities away from voting for right-wing parties.

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.

🇪🇸 Spain’s National Day TURNED TENSE in Madrid as flag-waving demonstrators CONFRONTED housing protesters camped at Puerta del Sol. The encampment is protesting soaring housing costs and evictions. Video shows teenage girls taunting campers – X
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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.

 

Second wave of early prison releases under way in England and Wales | Prisons and probation– www.theguardian.com
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The second wave of early prison releases takes place throughout Tuesday, with hundreds of offenders walking out across England and Wales under the government’s controversial plan to ease overcrowding.

About 2,000 criminals, including domestic abusers and violent offenders, are being freed this month, with another 3,000 to follow in stages over the next year. The total was reduced from 6,000 after an intervention by Andy Burnham.

Prisoners who were convicted of manslaughter are excluded, meaning the killers of PC Andrew Harper, who died in the line of duty in 2019, will not be eligible.

The second tranche of early releases comes as members of the probation union, Napo, hold a pre-ballot meeting on taking strike action over pay and workloads.

Pay negotiations with probation officers ended with a “best and final” conditional pay offer worth 5%, which the union’s negotiating committee rejected. Members will be asked to vote for industrial action on pay, along with a question on workloads, in a formal ballot on industrial action to launch on 19 October.

The union says probation has been asked to take on huge amounts of additional work due to tens of thousands of prisoners released early from prisons since 2022.

The number of people behind bars has jumped by more than 1,700 in the past three months. The prison population in England and Wales was at 87,499 on Monday, according to Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data, up from 85,761 on 29 June, a rise of 2%.

The MoJ said released offenders would be monitored under the “toughest supervision in British history”. New restriction zones designed to control the movements of the highest-risk sexual and violent offenders should confine released prisoners to areas a few miles wide, in an effort to reassure victims of their crimes.

The MoJ also announced an expansion of electronic monitoring, with a new presumption that offenders will be electronically tagged and monitored when they leave prison. Technology rolling out this year is said to give probation near-live access to tagging data, helping staff spot breaches when offenders step out of line.

However, this month the victims’ commissioner, Claire Waxman, said the government’s confidence in the plan “is not yet matched by the reality on the ground”.

 

France braces for fresh nationwide student demonstrations– www.channelnewsasia.com
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“AREN’T BEING HEARD”

While most of the protests have been peaceful, students say they are determined to press the government to address the problems of too many absent teachers, dilapidated buildings, overcrowded class schedules and other grievances.

“Students aren’t being heard enough… not their proposals to authorities and elected officials,” a 19-year-old graphic design student in Paris, Leo, said.

He added that the protesters – many of whom were minors – were “disturbed by the level of repression never before seen for a student movement”.

One young protester lost a hand from a police stun grenade earlier in the protests, another lost many of his teeth from a tear-gas canister fired in his face at close range, and another lost an eye.

Rights groups and students have accused the police of a disproportionate use of force.

Several police officers and teachers have also been hurt, and on Monday authorities said fireworks fired through a tube injured two school workers in Reims, one school worker in a Paris suburb and a police officer outside a school in Marseille.

Tuesday’s demonstrations supporting the students were to be followed on Saturday by wider public rallies against the rising cost of living.

Naila, a 17-year-old student in the city of Rennes who said she would participate in Tuesday’s demonstration, hoped it would “converge” with the wider one on Saturday.

President Emmanuel Macron, speaking to reporters on Monday, said the pupils’ grievances would take time to address and urged restraint from protesters.

“These are issues that deserve time, consultations, discussion and respect,” Macron said.

 

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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