On Saturday Yemen’s Houthis have once again pummeled Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport in Ryiadh with a volley of ballistic missiles. A major emergency response has ensued with dozens of ambulances at the scene, and a total evacuation of the major flight hub.

In this fresh instance, which comes after multiple attacks on the kingdom’s civilian aviation hubs stretching back at least a week, there appears to be mass casualties as a result.

Arrivals have been canceled across the board for much of Saturday, according to flight tracker Flightradar24, with passengers that were already in the air having been diverted to other cities.

“Terminal 3 of the King Khalid International Airport suffered a direct hit from missiles and has been evacuated, with at least some injuries, Saudi officials said,” reports The Wall Street Journal. Eyewitnesses reported hearing loud explosions rock the airport.

“Several ambulances and a few helicopters were sent to collect the wounded and take them to King Fahad hospital in Riyadh, one of the officials said,” the report continues. “A video the official said was authentic showed blood smeared on the floor.”

⚡️JUST IN: The Floor of Saudi Riyadh International Airport is covered in Blood following Houthi Missile Strikes Dozens of Ambulances are rushing toward the Airport https://t.co/Bh2SqXbQLZ

— Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) October 10, 2026

Various countries have increasingly warned their citizens against flying in and out of Riyadh, including the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Ireland, and others.

These travel alerts have especially increased in the wake of Thursday’s deadly missile attack on the airport, which saw one or more parked plane destroyed and three people killed, including a pilot. Mass casualties are being reported via Reuters/CNN:

Many people were wounded in a blast at Riyadh’s international airport on Saturday, according to two eyewitnesses and two people briefed on the matter, and travelers were evacuated from parts of the facility.

One of the eyewitnesses reported seeing an explosion and then seeing multiple people lying injured on the ground inside the airport. More than a dozen ambulances were seen rushing to the airport.

Saudi authorities have been slow to acknowledge or officially comment on these attacks, or give much in the way of details. Clearly, anti-air defenses are failing to intercept all inbound missiles from Yemen, and Thursday’s attack also saw missile debris fall on a medical center in the capital.

The WSJ report further underscores a major area of sensitivity for the royal family: “The continued missile attacks on airports in Riyadh and a number of southern Saudi cities threaten to choke off business travel and tourism just as the busy conference and travel season gets going,” it writes.

Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport being EVACUATED, following a reported Yemeni ATTACK earlier today — Clash Witnesses describing panic and injuries, as flights are diverted or canceled, with smoke visible near one of the terminals https://t.co/I7mAQHS1Hq

— RT (@RT_com) October 10, 2026

“A major test will come with the kingdom’s flagship Future Investment Initiative summit, which is expected to draw thousands of global executives and investors to Riyadh at the end of this month,” the publication also notes.

“Conference officials said before the Saturday attack that safety is their top priority and that comprehensive safety measures will be in place,” it adds.

No confirmed numbers yet, but Reuters is reporting “many” wounded at Riyadh’s int’l airport, according to eyewitnesses. @flightradar24 currently has King Khalid International Airport as the #2 most disrupted airport, showing 305 flights canceled and 226 flights delayed. https://t.co/aGuHX7Rigc

— Intel Doge (@IntelDoge) October 10, 2026

The conference which gathers leaders from across the world is set for October 26 to 29, 2026 at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh. So far there’s been no indication that authorities will either cancel or change the venue. The Houthis in neighboring Yemen are expected to keep up the pressure, also as Aramco sites get targeted, amid the ground war and fight for Red Sea coastal areas.

Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times,

President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Oct. 9 to revive his dismissed civil lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and others.

The president alleges they conspired to create and spread a false story that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.

Lower courts rejected the case and ordered Trump and one of his attorneys, Alina Habba, to pay almost $1 million in sanctions. The trial judge and the appeals court called the lawsuit “frivolous,” saying it had no legal merit and appeared aimed at political grievance rather than a valid claim.

Trump is now asking the nation’s highest court to review the appeals court’s decision upholding both the dismissal and the sanctions.

While he was out of office after losing the 2020 election, Trump initiated the lawsuit in federal court in Florida in March 2022, under a federal racketeering law known as civil RICO. That law allows private individuals to seek damages when they claim someone engaged in a pattern of illegal activities, such as fraud or conspiracy.

The lawsuit targeted Clinton, the DNC, former British spy Christopher Steele, former FBI Director James Comey, and more than two dozen other people. It centered on the so-called Steele dossier, which was opposition research funded by Clinton’s campaign that alleged the Russian government had compromising material on Trump.

Trump’s lawsuit touches on topics covered by two earlier government investigations. Former special counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report found no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. Former special counsel John Durham’s 2023 report criticized the FBI’s handling of its 2016 counterintelligence investigation – codenamed Crossfire Hurricane – into possible Trump campaign contacts with Russia. Durham said the FBI relied too much on uncorroborated tips, including material connected to the Clinton campaign.

Those government reports dealt with criminal and counterintelligence questions. By contrast, Trump’s civil lawsuit is a private damages case governed by different rules. The lower courts held that Trump waited too long to file it under the RICO Act’s time limit.

Dossier Source Scrutiny

Steele’s dossier included claims that the Russian government possessed a salacious video of Trump at a hotel in Moscow. His main source was later revealed to be Igor Danchenko, who was based in the United States and has been investigated by federal agents over possible ties to Russian intelligence.

Attorneys for Trump and Habba wrote in the new petition that Supreme Court review of the case is necessary to protect the institution of the presidency. They said that the decisions by the lower courts reflect “a deeply troubling trend of federal courts using sanctions and disciplinary threats to punish the president and his lawyers for legitimate legal positions that those courts (erroneously) reject.”

“Treating contested advocacy as misconduct corrodes our legal culture, deters representation of controversial clients, and makes constitutional adjudication depend on counsel’s willingness to risk personal liability,” they said.

They alleged in the lawsuit that in the months leading up to the 2016 election, Clinton conspired with allies to discredit him with a “false narrative” that he and his campaign engaged in collusion with Russia, according to the petition. The suit alleged several claims, including racketeering and a “conspiracy to commit injurious falsehood.”

Trump defeated Clinton in 2016 and went on to serve in the presidency from January 2017 to January 2021. Trump later regained the presidency by defeating Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, the sitting vice president, in 2024.

In September 2022, U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks threw out Trump’s lawsuit against Clinton on multiple grounds, including that Trump waited too long to pursue some of the claims. Middlebrooks compared Trump’s lawsuit to a “two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him.” The judge later imposed sanctions on Trump and Habba for filing a case he said was calculated “to dishonestly advance a political narrative,” and for misusing the courts.

In 2025, the 11th Circuit affirmed Middlebrooks, including the sanctions, saying that many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments “were indeed frivolous.”

In the new filing, the attorneys said the time limit for launching the suit should have been extended because Trump opted to delay filing during his first term of office so he could focus on executing his constitutional responsibilities as the nation’s chief executive.

The attorneys argue that the heavy demands of being president justify pausing the normal deadline for filing a private lawsuit while Trump is in office, so he should not have to choose between running the country and defending his own legal rights.

The attorneys also ask the Supreme Court to decide whether a lower court can fine a president and his lawyers close to $1 million merely for making that argument, even if the court rejects it in the end.

“This court’s intervention is necessary to protect the presidency, and to prevent judicial disagreement from becoming a license to punish its advocates,” the petition said.

It is unclear when the Supreme Court will take up the petition.

Vice President JD Vance seemed less enthusiastic and more ambivalent compared to other top officials in the US administration when asked about War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the Pentagon will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan.

A reporter asked Vance about the unusual development on Friday. Hegseth has been insistent that it will happen. Apparently having been approved by President Trump, the execution is set for December 3rd of this year.

“Well, first of all, I’ve seen these announcements. I don’t know that that’s actually going to happen. Let’s sort of see what – I think it’s going to happen in December when he’s executed,” Vance began.

JD Vance distances himself from Hegseth’s televised execution: “Look, if it’s ultimately livestreamed, I’m not going to be watching it” https://t.co/PnpmjfNTi0

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 9, 2026

Vance, who will himself likely run for president after Trump’s term, continued: “But what I try to remind people is, look, this is a guy who committed, in my view, the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of 9/11.”

“The people that he was meant to treat, the army soldiers that he was meant to treat for mental illness and other problems, he took them at their most vulnerable and gunned down these people where they live.”

But then he noted that he is unlikely to watch it: “So whatever the controversy is about the method of the execution, I hope that people don’t forget that this is a guy who brutally murdered a lot of innocent people. Now, that said, I mean, look, if it’s all through livestream, I’m not going to be watching it.”

Hegseth’s announcement has been controversial and received pushback not just among Democrats but Republicans as well. For example, Republican Senator Thom Tillis has argued: “Hasan should face the death penalty, but making his execution public and streaming it? Beyond disgusting.”

Many on the Right have not been impressed with the whole bizarre livestream aspect…

OMG so based, public execution. Grow the fuck up

— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) October 9, 2026

In 2009, former US Army Major and psychiatrist Nidal Hasan opened fire inside a crowded Readiness Center at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 soldiers and one civilian, as well as an unborn child. In the jihadist-inspired terror attack he also wounded 32 others, before being shot by military police and permanently disabled.

Hegseth had boasted to TV outlet Real America’s Voice on Wednesday that “We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public.“

The tiny handful of countries known for carrying out public executions over the years are Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Afghanistan. The last public execution in the US happened in 1936 in Kentucky, when a convicted murder and rapist was hanged amid onlookers.

Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times,

The Department of War announced $350 million in quantum computing initiatives on Oct. 8 intended to strengthen America’s leadership in quantum computing capabilities and support national security.

The initiatives, announced by the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, are part of the Trump administration’s effort to boost quantum computing, which uses the principles of quantum mechanics to solve advanced problems much faster than traditional computers.

President Donald Trump previously issued a pair of executive orders on June 22 that set new development goals for the quantum computing industry to maintain U.S. dominance in the field. The goals included the development of the world’s first quantum computer capable of powering advanced scientific research by 2028.

“Dominance in quantum information science is a critical priority for both President Trump and the Department of War,” Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael said in a statement on Thursday. “Maintaining American leadership in this field is essential to preserving our technological edge, and R&E (Research and Engineering) is uniquely positioned to drive the innovation needed across academia and industry.”

Under the new initiatives, the Pentagon will identify mission-relevant applications of quantum computing as the computers become available. The department said it expects the use of quantum computing in physics, chemistry, and materials science will support the development of next-generation weapons, platforms, and other cost-effective and lethal capabilities.

Additionally, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will coordinate with other agencies to host a series of application workshops giving experts and end users the opportunity to enhance national defense, develop economic opportunities, and boost quantum advantage. The workshops will start before January 2027, the Pentagon said.

On Oct. 7, the agency announced that four companies had been selected to advance to the final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, representing about $200 million in new funding. The initiative aims to determine whether any quantum computing approach’s value can exceed its cost by 2033.

The Pentagon said its initiatives will complement other initiatives recently announced by the Department of Energy, such as the Quantum Genesis Priority Applications and the Quantum Genesis Q Competition, as well as initiatives led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.

The Pentagon said Thursday that developing a strong quantum industrial base was essential for the United States to maintain its leadership in the field, and that winning the quantum leadership race was critical for national security.

In a separate announcement on Thursday, the War Department’s Office of Strategic Capital unveiled a roughly $150 million conditional loan commitment to enhance PsiQuantum’s advanced prototyping and manufacturing capabilities in the United States.

David Lorch, director of the Office of Strategic Capital, said the proposed loan commitment to the Palo Alto, California-based company directly aligned with the president’s mandate to boost quantum computing development and commercialization. Lorch said quantum computing will lead to “transformational capabilities.”

“Funding the development of fault-tolerant quantum computing is a national security imperative,” Peter B. Zuckerman, senior managing director at the War Department’s Office of Strategic Capital, said in a statement.

“We must scale this critical technology to secure our technological edge and deny adversaries a decisive strategic advantage.”

Michael said the Pentagon is “moving at breakneck speed” in response to Trump’s orders.

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission published a report last year concluding that while the United States led the world in most quantum research, China had deployed centralized coordination and industrial-scale funding to “seize dominance” in quantum technology.

In March, China included the development of quantum technologies as one of the strategic priorities listed in its 15th Five-Year Plan.

Authored by – Remix News Staff – via Remix News,

More than 148,000 people remain subject to outstanding arrest warrants in Germany, and only 11.2 percent of them hold exclusively German citizenship, and overall, 87 percent of arrest warrant suspects are foreigners, according to figures the Federal Ministry of the Interior provided in response to a parliamentary inquiry.

Foreign nationals account for 87.3 percent of the total of suspects wanted for arrests, while another 1.5 percent are German citizens who also hold a second nationality. The data is already adding to the debate about mass immigration and criminality, especially in a country where the amount of violence, rape, and serious offenses are disproportionately committed by its foreign population.

Welt newspaper obtained the ministry’s reply to a question from Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmaker Sebastian Münzenmaier.

Münzenmaier told Welt am Sonntag: “The figures speak for themselves: The overwhelming majority of criminals wanted on arrest warrants do not have a German passport.” He called for a “rigorous change of course” that would include permanent and complete border controls, the immediate termination of the stay of foreign criminals, and the enforcement of prison sentences in the country of origin.

While German citizens form the single largest group, at 16,671, Germany also features a population where 81 percent of people hold exclusively German citizenship. Romanian nationals follow closely with 16,123, then Polish nationals with 12,721, Georgian nationals with 6,869 and Turkish nationals with 6,696.

Alexander Throm, the domestic-policy spokesman for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) parliamentary group, said: “Every open arrest warrant poses a security risk.”

He added that “the high proportion of foreign offenders, including many from other EU countries, shows that action must be taken.”

Throm also noted that border controls introduced in September 2024 have done more than limit illegal migration: “They have not only curbed illegal migration. Since their start in September 2024, over 17,500 people have also been apprehended at our borders with outstanding arrest warrants.”

Heiko Teggatz, chairman of the German Police Union, called the total worrying and said it “of course, represents a security policy problem.” State police forces, he told the paper, rarely have the staffing to mount dedicated searches; most arrests occur as a “chance hit or bycatch.” The union has long cited personnel shortages as a central obstacle to improved public safety.

Marcel Emmerich, the Greens’ domestic-policy spokesman, agreed that the volume of open warrants constitutes a serious problem, “especially when it comes to dangerous persons, extremists, violent or sex offenders.”

However, Emmerich rejected broader border checks, noting: “Instead of hoping for random hits at border controls, targeted searches are needed, especially for dangerous perpetrators of violence, threats and people from the field of politically motivated crime.”

Sebastian Fiedler, the Social Democratic Party’s domestic-policy spokesman in the Bundestag, cautioned against reading the aggregate figure as evidence of 148,000 undetected dangerous offenders still inside the country. “A significant portion of this is due to substitute prison sentences for unpaid fines. In North Rhine-Westphalia, more than half of all outstanding arrest warrants in total were such cases, he said. Warrants can also remain active against people who have already left Germany or been deported, so that any remaining sentence can be enforced if they return.

“For example, they will continue to be put out to tender for a search so that if they re-enter the country, a remaining prison sentence can be enforced,” Fiedler said.

While the crimes may include many petty offenses, the totals are stark. German nationals represent a minuscule share of the open arrest warrants in a country where 81 percent of the country is made up of German nationals.

Overnight reports say that Ukraine struck a major Russian petroleum-products export terminal. The news emerged just hours after President Trump announced a diesel supply deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Ukrainian attack drones struck the NZNP Rostovsky oil export terminal in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, setting the facility ablaze just hours after the U.S. eased sanctions on Russian fuel exports.

— First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) October 10, 2026

OSINT accounts on X published unverified footage appearing to show Russia’s NZNP Rostovsky, a major petroleum-products storage and export terminal in southwestern Russia, ablaze.

Just hours after the U.S. eased sanctions on Russian fuel exports, Ukrainian attack drones struck the NZNP Rostovsky oil products export terminal in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. The Russian fuel export terminal was set ablaze. https://t.co/AaHzazyjS9

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 10, 2026

Russia’s NZNP Rostovsky oil products export terminal, ablaze tonight in the city of Rostov-on-Don after a Ukrainian drone attack. https://t.co/Khgs35Uwf0

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 10, 2026

Se confirma. La terminal de exportación de productos petrolíferos NZNP Rostovsky 🇷🇺 ha sido atacada por múltiples drones ucranianos 🇺🇦. La terminal de transbordo de la refinería de petróleo de Novoshakhtinsk 🇷🇺(NZNP) es una pieza fundamental de la infraestructura logística y de exportación de energía del sur de Rusia 🇷🇺. Esta instalación sirve como el principal canal de salida de los productos refinados por vía acuática. El crudo llega a la refinería a través del sistema nacional de oleoductos de Transneft 🇷🇺 y, una vez procesado (diésel, fueloil y gasóleo marino), una parte importante se envía a esta terminal para su distribución internacional o regional. Se cree que está terminal rusa 🇷🇺 tiene una capacidad para movilizar hasta 7.5 millones de toneladas de productos petrolíferos al año.

— SergioLR🪖 (@CasetaBosque) October 10, 2026

NZNP Rostovsky is significant because it is a major petroleum-products export facility with receiving and loading capacity of 3.5 million metric tons annually. It is one of the most critical facilities of its kind in southern Russia.

Late in the US cash trading session on Friday, Trump announced on Truth Social that Russia would immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel to global markets, followed by 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons “immediately thereafter.”

More color here: 

• Payback: Trump Cut Putin Diesel Deal After Zelensky Ignored Six Pleas To Stop Refinery Strikes

Trump’s announcement comes as persistent Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure this year, and Moscow’s decision to extend its diesel export ban have collided with disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, culminating in what Goldman energy analyst Nikhil Bhandari has described as a nightmare scenario for global refining markets.

As we pointed out yesterday, Trump’s approval rating is trending at all-time lows, largely due to skyrocketing gasoline and especially diesel prices at the pump.

The Trump administration has pushed forward this week with broader use of tax-exempt dyed diesel, otherwise known as off-road diesel, to alleviate costs and has even touted the prospect of a diesel export ban. Europe has also jumped on board to suppress the global refining crisis, with G7 members planning to dump emergency stockpiles of diesel and crude into global markets to alleviate the supply crunch as winter in the Northern Hemisphere quickly approaches.

Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian,

The cold season is here, which means people getting sniffles, which means those few deluded people still living in 2020 are running out to test themselves for Covid the moment they – or, indeed, someone they happen to know – sneezes.

This means Covid cases are SURGING…

…from 0.5 in 100000 to 2 in 100000.

Or less than one third of the 6 in 100000 during the devastating autumn of 2025, which I trust we lucky survivors all remember with chilling clarity.

Most of these “cases” are due to the latest scary variant XFG – or “American Covid”. I have no idea why they’ve called it that (maybe it’s some kind of othering propaganda, the same way the French call syphilis “the English disease”, while the English call it “the French disease”).

The symptoms of this new variant are the same as the old variant – ALL the old variants. Headaches, coughs, nausea, aches…you know the drill. But there is one thing apparently marking “American Covid” out, that’s what Dr Kaywaan Khan told The Mirror, anyway:

“You can still get some of the same features as with the common cold, like a cough or runny nose, but we are seeing a lot more hoarseness of voice.”

So, hoarse voice. That means you have “American Covid”…maybe:

“It’s not a defining feature, you can experience this with the common cold too, but with Covid, you can get a bit of laryngitis and this hoarse voice.”

To sum up: the symptoms of this covid variant are very similar to that of the common cold, except for the hoarse voice…which you can sometimes get with a common cold.

Pretty terrifying stuff.

But there is good news, according to the Independent:

This winter’s vaccine is specifically designed to protect against this strain and its variants.

Just in case you thought this wasn’t just an advertising campaign for the latest booster – it is.

I can already hear the readers muttering. New variant. Same flu-like symptoms. Exaggerated statistics. Pointless vaccine booster. What is this, 2021?

And I agree, this isn’t news worth mentioning yet, except I saw this in that Independent article, and it made me laugh:

But in most cases those who show symptoms do not need to take a lateral flow test, the NHS said.

Allow me to translate:

“Please, please DO NOT test yourselves just because you have cold symptoms! Because the tests just randomly return positive results, and too many people using them will make it look like the previous 12 covid vaccines didn’t work.”

It amuses me because it lays bare the architecture of the pandemic lie. It was always about testing.

They encouraged testing to create the pandemic, discouraged it again to end it, and the only way they can maintain their untested and potentially toxic vaccines did anything at all is by trying to stop people testing themselves.

That’s just funny to me.

Authored by Pawel Styrna via American Thinker,

The anti-mass-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won the election to the provincial parliaments in the states of Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The AfD’s rising trajectory demonstrates that – like throughout the rest of the West – voters increasingly want an end to unchecked mass migration and its many cultural, economic, and security problems. It also shows that the globalist, pro-mass-migration political and media establishment continues to ignore and demonize the voters and pretend there is no problem.

Although the AfD did not capture a majority of the seats in the Saxony-Anhalt parliament (Landtag), it came within striking distance. Winning 44 percent of the vote, the AfD nevertheless doubled its share from the previous (2021) election and secured its best showing ever. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, it more than doubled its vote share.

The biggest losers were the Christian Democrats – the party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz and former Chancellor Angela Merkel – which plummeted from 37 percent five years ago to 17 percent in Saxony-Anhalt. Overall, Merz’s policies, including on immigration, had even lower approval there: a devastating 9 percent. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the CDU got less than 5 percent and didn’t even make it into the Landtag.

The reaction of the political establishment and the media was pretty much the same as in the U.S. following Donald Trump’s presidential victories, or in Britain following Brexit. It was a toxic combination of condescension, finger-wagging moralizing, pearl-clutching shock, and shrill fearmongering. Like the boy who cried wolf, pro-mass-migration voices, both in Germany and elsewhere, labelled the AfD “far right” (while hardly ever using the term far left) and even “fascist,” hoping to terrify whoever would listen with the specter of a resurgent Fourth Reich.

Chancellor Merz, who apparently does not follow the news from his own homeland, claimed to be “deeply shocked” by the Saxony-Anhalt election results. Angela Merkel – the single greatest contributor to Germany’s current problems with mass migration – declared, with a “bleeding heart,” that the AfD win was “deeply shocking.” These statements show just how out of touch with reality the political establishment in Berlin is.

In fact, the most shocking thing is the absolute complacency of mainstream German politicians as unchecked mass migration undermines their country.

Rapes, stabbings, and other crimes by migrants – often rejected asylum applicants who weren’t deported – have become a “new normal.”

German women feel unsafe. In late July, a Lebanese Islamist perpetrated a terrorist attack in Berlin, killing one woman (a tourist visiting from Poland) and injuring 29 more with his vehicle. Meanwhile, Islamist migrants taunt Germans with promises of an “Islamic Republic of Germany” as the already highly-taxed German taxpayers are forced to support large immigrant families, such as a Syrian with three wives, 32 children, and 25 grandchildren.

Images of the migrant incursion into Ceuta – viewed all over the world thanks to social media – no doubt also made an impression on German voters. Recognizing the extent of the constant pressure on Europe’s borders, Germans had legitimate grounds to fear that the migrant wave would eventually make its way to Germany and had little stomach for a repeat of Angela Merkel’s 2015 red carpet for hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants.

Image: Maximilian Dörrbecker, with use of official sources, via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0 Deed

An increasing number of Germans have had enough. So, when Alice Weidel and other AfD leaders pledge to “close the borders,” remove migrants from the welfare rolls, and mass deportations (remigration), the message increasingly resonates, even with German voters with immigrant backgrounds. That’s because – as in the U.S. – just because you’re an immigrant doesn’t mean you want higher crime, terror attacks, and seeing your hard-earned money fund huge polygamous migrant families that turned welfare dependency into a competitive sport.

What further drives AfD support is how the mainstream elites respond to these completely legitimate voter concerns. Sometimes, they begrudgingly acknowledge them and attempt to show that they are doing something about the crisis. However, voters can see that Merz’s supposedly “tougher” migration policies are really just nibbling around the edges (often with paradoxical results, such as dumping illegal migrants onto Poland). Overall, however, the voters are talked down to and told that they are dumb, misinformed, unsophisticated, mean-spirited, unwelcoming, and, perhaps even racists and Nazis. Establishment figures then conclude their lectures by proclaiming utter “shock” that the voters are rejecting them.

Herr Merz showed just how deeply committed he is to the mass migration agenda (in spite of some tactical concessions) by channeling the most radical “abolish ICE” activists and attacking mass removals (remigration) as “ethnic cleansing” on the floor of the Bundestag. (Of course, unchecked mass migration rapidly changing Western societies culturally beyond recognition is apparently not “ethnic cleansing.”) Like much of the Western political establishment, Chancellor Merz has learned nothing. The voters, however, are refusing to put up with it.

Pawel Styrna is director of international relations at the Federation for American Immigration Reform. He is a legal immigrant and holds a Ph.D. in history from American University in Washington, D.C.

Hurricane Isaias knocked out power to about 830,000 homes and businesses across Florida, Alabama, and Georgia and disrupted oil and natural gas operations in the Gulf of America, but the good news: it narrowly missed major refineries.

The Category 2 hurricane made landfall near Destin, Florida, at 8:30 local time, with sustained winds of 105 miles per hour before weakening into what the National Hurricane Center calls a “post-tropical cyclone.” Strong winds damaged roofs, toppled trees and downed power lines, while flooding was reported across Florida and Alabama.

Gulf oil production fell sharply late in the week as Isaias forced offshore platform evacuations and drilling rig relocations. A slight eastward shift in the storm’s track spared Chevron’s Pascagoula refinery in Mississippi, reducing the risk of a major refining disruption. The focus today now shifts to damaged infrastructure assessments and the pace of offshore production restarts. 

According to the utility tracker website PowerOutage, 430,000 customers in Florida are without power, 300,000 in Alabama, and another 106,000 in Georgia.

Torrential rain and tropical storm conditions were expected to persist Saturday as the storm moved north through Alabama toward the Tennessee and Ohio valleys.