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[Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman]

Apparent explosion at a major Canadian military base in Alberta. Early reports that it’s a mass casualty incident.

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

France will not recover; this is the end. The nation has lost the cultural war. The demographic structure has shifted forever.

People who find it easy to spray graffiti on the magnificent architecture of French cities and burn Paris are the new French people.

All class and decorum are gone.

Arrivals from failed third-world states are not coming to assimilate or to be French; they are coming to live the third-world way.

The unfolding civil unrest in France is not fundamentally about student grievances or dilapidated classrooms.

The chaos is the inevitable result of an unholy, anti-white alliance that has turned parts of major French cities into dangerous enclaves where state authority has completely surrendered.

The Emmanuel Macron administration has completely lost control.

The political elite have spent years hiding the true demographic shifts, pretending that multicultural integration works while the traditional French way of life is hollowed out.
The French state is broke and paralyzed because it has spent decades funding its own demographic replacement.

The areas burning today are heavily linked to enclaves where the police rarely dare to venture, zones where Western legal norms have been replaced by radical, sectarian influences.

While the mainstream media tries to fact-check the footage by calling it old or out of context, the raw video on the ground shows a society reaching a violent tipping point.

This unrest is a warning sign for the entire Western world.

A country that refuses to defend its borders, its history, and its culture will eventually face the progressive implosion of social trust.

Once you surrender your borders and sacrifice your national identity to accommodate diasporas with totally different cultural backgrounds, you do not get a richer society; you get a war zone.

France has completely failed its own people.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.

I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.

And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.

[GFrei.News @GFreiNews]

Das ist das erste Mal in der Geschichte der Menschheit, dass Länder fremde Armeen freiwillig ins Land lassen.

Diese diese dann verköstigen, ihnen Unterkunft geben und finanzieren. Wenn diese beginnen, Kriege gegen die Bevölkerung zu führen, bei denen geplündert, geraubt, gebrandschatzt, getötet und vergewaltigt wird, einfach nur zusehen.

Das gab es in der Geschichte der Menschheit noch nie.

Für solch ein Ausmaß an Landesverrat gibt es noch nicht einmal einen Begriff. Das konnte sich bisher keiner vorstellen.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

These are just frustrated high school students fighting for their pedagogic rights. Let's not succumb to Islamophobia. - @JessicaTarlov

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The number of restaurants in New York dropped ~2,000 YoY in Q1 2026, posting its largest YoY decline in at least 36 years.

This surpasses even the worst contraction recorded in any quarter during the 2020 pandemic.

The number of eating and drinking places in New York State has now declined YoY for 4 consecutive quarters, its longest streak since 2021.

This comes as restaurants are facing surging operating expenses, including insurance premiums, wages, interest rates, utilities, and health coverage, with overall costs rising faster than national averages.

Last year, employee health insurance costs jumped +12.9% for New York-area service firms, business insurance rose +7.0%, while utility costs surged +8.5%, according to the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.

Skyrocketing costs are crushing New York restaurants.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Riots across France today.

Looting, fires, vandalism and attacks against policemen and firefighters reported from cities across the country.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: France's historic Limoges town hall (143 years old) COLLAPSES after leftist-Islamist aligned rioters set it on fire, and POLICE DO NOTHING

WHERE IS MACRON?

FRANCE IS FALLING. This is symbolic.

It opened in 1883, and it's stood for 143 years.

France is burning its own history down because of FECKLESS leaders unwilling to preserve the West 🇺🇸🇫🇷

Wake up or this is America next.

[Maxime Thiébaut @MaximeThiebaut]

J’ai la nausée ce soir.

J’ai traversé Paris à vélo. Des quartiers entiers livrés aux pillards. Des jeunes les bras chargés d’objets volés. Des familles terrorisées. Du mobilier urbain saccagé.

Voir notre capitale ainsi défigurée me fend le cœur.

Pauvre Paris. Pauvre France.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 Ilhan Omar is NOT the only one. There are 19 NATURALIZED immigrants sitting in Congress right now.

Not one of them had to pass an FBI background check to see classified information.

That's because members of Congress get access just by winning an election. NO security clearance required.

They don't have to disclose whether they hold DUAL CITIZENSHIP either.

Your average Army private gets more vetting than the people writing our national security laws.

Read that again.

This needs to change NOW.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Holy shit.

They just broke through and stormed City Hall in Marseille

“We’re going to take the Bastille” they scream with a battering ram ay the doors

Notice the Palestine flag? This has always been an Anti-West Trojan horse

Macron is silent. Why?

[Luc Auffret @LucAuffret]

Des milliers de projectiles ont été lancés contre les forces de l'ordre Place de la République à Paris.

#17octobre #Paris

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: FRANCE LOOKS LIKE A 3RD WORLD HELLSCAPE.

What the fake news calls "student" protests are erupting as 3RD WORLD RIOTS — fires, smoke, destruction, violence, trash everywhere, looting, businesses destroyed, LAW AND ORDER NOWHERE TO BE SEEN

Even the FIREFIGHTERS now require protection from the police because these savages are so violent

Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world.

Elect Marine Le Pen, France! 🇺🇸🇫🇷

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Over the last two days I went on Fox News and Newsmax to warn Americans about what's happening in France. Today, the images speak for themselves.

October 17, 2026. In Marseille, France's second-largest city, a mob smashed through the doors of City Hall and stormed the lobby chanting "It's the revolution, we're taking the Bastille." Shortly before, rioters had trashed a municipal police station, breaking windows and throwing smoke bombs inside. Shops on the main avenue were vandalized and barricades were set on fire. In Paris, masked black bloc crews fired mortar fireworks at police at Place de la République while tear gas filled the square. There were 166 arrests nationwide by midday and more than 600 protests across the country, after weeks of blockaded high schools. The Yellow Vests are back.

Now here's what every American needs to understand. What are these people demanding? More: higher wages, higher pensions, more public spending, more state. That's in a country where the government already spends more than half of everything the economy produces.

This isn't an accident. It's where 45 years of socialism lead. Since 1981, left or right, every French government has grown the state. Macron is just the final, most polished version of the same system.

Socialism doesn't create prosperity. It creates dependency. When people rely on the state for everything, every disappointment turns into anger at the state. And the state cannot allocate capital. It doesn't risk its own money, and it never goes bankrupt when it's wrong. It just borrows more and taxes more. Productivity stalls, wages stagnate and prices rise. Then people take to the streets demanding even more state. The loop feeds itself until it breaks.

America, watch closely. If the Democrats fully embrace socialism, this is the trailer for what comes next. History is accelerating. It took France decades to get here. It won't take you nearly as long.

Vote for less government, never more.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@VP: "We didn't just talk about closing the border — we actually did it. We didn't just talk about getting opioid overdose deaths down — we actually did it. We didn't just talk about bringing trillions of dollars of new investment into the country — we actually did it.

I do think you have to raise the flag and celebrate your accomplishments a little bit, but I do fundamentally think you have to make a promise to the American voter — a believable promise — that you can continue to work on the things that they care about today."

[Svetlana Lokhova @RealSLokhova]

OBAMA MEETS UK PRIME MINISTER IN MANCHESTER

Manchester, UK, same day: Obama photographed leaving the Stock Exchange Hotel on 15 October.

The Manchester Evening News reports he met UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham in the hotel's Sterling Bar.

This was ahead of his Co-op Live show.

[Photo: Manchester Evening News]

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

"That's not democracy. That's a purchase order." Cute line, Elizabeth. Let's read the Democratic purchase orders out loud.

Start with yours. 2020, your presidential campaign is collapsing after Iowa and New Hampshire. A super PAC called Persist PAC shows up to rescue you. 96% of its money came from one Silicon Valley megadonor. One check. $14.6 million. Donors hidden until after Super Tuesday. You'd spent the whole primary telling everyone super PACs were corruption. Then you took the purchase order.

Now the rest of the catalog.

George and Alex Soros: $103.7 million this cycle alone, $102 million of it dumped into a single Democratic super PAC.

Majority Forward, the dark money nonprofit tied to your own Senate leader Chuck Schumer: $102 million. Donors? Secret.

House Majority Forward: $61.7 million. Donors? Also secret.

Michael Bloomberg: around $1 billion on his own 2020 primary, $100 million for Biden in Florida, and still writing eight-figure checks in 2026.

Reid Hoffman: $11.5 million into one super PAC for one Texas Senate race.

Bill Gates: reportedly around $50 million to a pro-Harris group in 2024.

Pritzker, Moskovitz, Steyer, Hastings: millions upon millions, cycle after cycle.

Kamala Harris: over $1 billion raised in under three months. Lost anyway.

Musk's money is disclosed, public, and on the front page of the New York Times article you just linked. Which, by the way, says $276 million, not "nearly $300 million." Schumer's money sits in an anonymous nonprofit nobody can see inside.

So which one is the purchase order, Elizabeth?

For twenty years, billionaire money was "saving democracy." Now it's "buying Congress." The only thing that changed is whose name is on the check.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

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[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

This isn't being reported in the news in the UK.

Italy is also protesting. Entire supply chains have broken down and supermarkets are beginning to run out of food now. Southern Italy is being brought to a standstill as workers, farmers and truckers take to the streets.

It seems in Italy everyone is revolting over government policies.

▪Steel workers – have blockaded the a refinery in Taranto over the future of the steelworks, jobs and employment.

▪Truckers – are protesting diesel prices of €2.25–€2.50 per litre, meaning massive rises in costs and government financial support that they say hasn't arrived. They say they can no longer afford to operate.

▪Farmers – including olive farmers, have joined road protests over rising fuel and agricultural costs and restrictions.

So, petrols stations are closed, 500 lorry convoy protests, major roads and motorway junctions and ports closed off. With threats of an entire country national protest unless the government does something.

Er... what can Meloni do? not much, they are funding a war and propping up a globalist ideology that has never worked and never will... Handy that EU digital ID and tracker is ready isn't it.

[Military Analysis, Strategy & GeoPolictics @CostaLefty65147]

The IRGC is in a very precarious position. They are now fighting a 2 front battle inside Iran to maintain control. The Baloch insurgents in the south. And now the Kurds in the north have begun anti-regime operations. To top it all off, the Ayatollahs have run out of money to pay their Afghan Shia mercs, but also their very own IRGC personnel. And 1 thing never has changed in the history of warfare. Mercenaries don't work for free.