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Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:40:00 +0000 Trump Administration Carried Out 980,000 Deportations In First 18 Months: Think Tank
Trump Administration Carried Out 980,000 Deportations In First 18 Months: Think Tank
Trump Administration Carried Out 980,000 Deportations In First 18 Months: Think Tank
Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times ,
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) conducted 980,000 deportations during the first 18 months of President Donald Trump's second administration, a report published by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) think tank said on Thursday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection security agents guide illegal immigrants onboard a C-17 Globemaster III for a removal flight at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Jan. 23, 2025. Dept. of Defense photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Nicholas De La Pena Trump has repeatedly said that deporting people who should not be in the United States is key to improving national security.
MPI's report, which it said was drawn from publicly available data, was authored by Marc Rosenblum, a former head of the DHS Office of Homeland Security Statistics, and covers Jan. 20, 2025, to July 31, 2026.
Rosenblum said 20 percent of all deportations in the period involved individuals with a criminal conviction.
The report also said that, on an annual basis, total deportations are up from the administration of former President Joe Biden and from Trump's first term.
Deportations From Interior Rising
The report also found that while two-thirds of deportations involved those who were initially intercepted at the border, there was also a rising number of actions resulting from arrests in the interior .
"The number of deportations of immigrants arrested in the country's interior has also increased, from 8,000 per month on average in the first three months of the administration to 19,000 per month on average between May and July 2026," the report said.
In the past year, raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in many cities have been met with community resistance.
Critics of the second Trump administration's approach have claimed that DHS and ICE are ignoring due process and the right to free speech, and have also claimed there is evidence of racial profiling.
The Trump administration has faced numerous legal challenges over deportations, but the vast majority have gone ahead without challenge.
On Tuesday, the State Department said the Trump administration had revoked more than 300,000 U.S. visas during its second term, due to criminal activity, fraud, or threats to national security.
Among those were a handful of people who were involved in demonstrating against Israel's actions in Gaza, or making social media comments about the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
"President Donald Trump made immigration enforcement a centerpiece of his re-election campaign, including a promise to focus on 'the worst of the worst,'" Rosenblum said in the report.
"Since taking office in January 2025, the administration has devoted unprecedented resources to the issue, securing $240 billion from Congress for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through fiscal year (FY) 2029."
The report said that despite encounters at the Mexican border being at a historically low level, 69 percent of deportations were of people stopped at the border .
The other 31 percent of deportations were of immigrants arrested in the interior, some of whom may have been residents of U.S. communities for years.
The Epoch Times reached out to DHS for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/24/2026 - 14:40 Close Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:50:00 +0000 Houthis Announce Massive Missile Attack On Saudi Territory, Including East-West Pipeline
Houthis Announce Massive Missile Attack On Saudi Territory, Including East-West Pipeline
Yeman's Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) have announced a major new Saturday operation against Saudi territory, claiming to have struck over a ha
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Houthis Announce Massive Missile Attack On Saudi Territory, Including East-West Pipeline
Yeman's Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) have announced a major new Saturday operation against Saudi territory, claiming to have struck over a half-dozen targets deep inside the kingdom, including against energy infrastructure and airports.
Within an hour of the announcement, Saudi air alerts were issued, with mid-evening (local time) Al Jazeera recording the following : "Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense warns of falling shrapnel from Houthi ballistic missiles fired towards the Mecca and Medina regions ."
Ballistic missiles are being intercepted and/or making it through to their targets. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree announced the attacks in a video statement.
"In response to the treacherous Saudi aggression against our country, which launched 100 airstrikes over the past 24 hours targeting civilian infrastructure in the capital Sana'a and the free governorates, leaving dozens of martyrs and wounded, bringing the total number of its aggressive airstrikes and missile attacks on our country since the escalation began to 3,123 airstrikes and missiles," he said.
Crucially, this includes another claimed strike on vital East-West crude pipeline pumping stations .
The targets listed by Saree include the following:
King Khalid Airport in Riyadh
Aramco facilities in Yanbu
Rabigh oil refinery
East-West crude pipeline pumping stations
King Fahd Airport in Dammam
Najran Airport
Khamis Mushait Air Base
Some of these have already been hit multiple times over the past several weeks, and commercial flights over broad swathes of Saudi territory have long been on hold as a result.
Reuters has also picked up on the announcement, noting that the Houthis see this as retaliation for earlier major Saudi bombings in Yemen :
Earlier on Saturday, Houthi-linked Saba News Agency reported that Yemen’s National Commission for Human Rights had condemned Saudi Arabia over strikes in the capital.
The group described a “massacre” in the Asr neighborhood of Sanaa and an attack on a cement factory in the Hamdan district of Sanaa Governorate.
Energy markets will have a close eye on whether confirmation of a hit on the East-West pipeline emerges, amid the ongoing escalation in the Strait of Hormuz
The last days have seen the US State Dept. initiate evacuations of more American diplomats and their families from the embassy in Riyadh and consulates in the region.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/24/2026 - 13:50 Close Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:30:00 +0000 Roswell UFO Witness Describes Alien Bodies, Egg-Shaped Craft In Newly Released Files
Roswell UFO Witness Describes Alien Bodies, Egg-Shaped Craft In Newly Released Files
Roswell UFO Witness Describes Alien Bodies, Egg-Shaped Craft In Newly Released Files
Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times ,
The Pentagon released its seventh batch of newly declassified UFO files including an eyewitness account of the 1947 Roswell suspected UFO crash describing alien bodies and an egg-shaped craft.
Building 84, storage site for purported UFO crash debris from the ”1947 Roswell incident,“ remains in use for aviation businesses in Roswell, N.M., on Oct. 7, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
The tranche of documents also contains a report on the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah with more than two dozen sightings of dog-like creatures, trolls, and other phenomena.
The files are part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Encounters, called PURSUE.
"These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation - and it's time the American people see it for themselves," Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said in a statement.
Among the documents was an affidavit from 2002 believed to be provided by former Roswell Air Base Public Information Officer Walter Haut. In it, Haut describes a staff meeting on July 8, 1947, where officials discussed wreckage collected from a ranch 40 miles from Roswell.
"I am convinced that what I personally observed was some type of craft and its crew from outer space," Haut said in the affidavit.
Haut describes two debris fields in Lincoln County where he said the crash debris was collected. He also said he and others held samples of wreckage debris and passed it around while sitting at a table.
"It was unlike any material I had or have ever seen in my life," Haut said. "Pieces which resembled metal foil, paper thin yet extremely strong, and pieces with unusual markings along their length were handled from man to man, each voicing their opinion. No one was able to identify the crash debris."
The group discussed whether to go public with the discovery, he said. Famously, the first account of the crash made it into the local Roswell Daily Record, which ran the headline "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region." The military later changed the explanation, saying it was a weather balloon.
Names of Haut's supervisors in the affidavit were redacted in Friday's release.
Haut said before he left the base, someone, whose name has been withheld by the Pentagon, took him to Building 84, a hangar on the east side of the tarmac at the Roswell Army Airfield, now known as the Roswell Air Center. Building 84 is now used at the air center for commercial aircraft maintenance.
The building was under heavy guard, he said. Once inside, he was allowed to observe an object just recovered north of town, he said. The object was about 12 to 15 feet long, not quite as wide, and about 6 feet high, with an "egg shape," he described. Haut also said the surface of the object was metallic-looking with no windows, portholes, wings, tail section, or landing gear.
Tourists view headlines at the International UFO Museum of Roswell, N.M., on Oct. 7, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
"Also from a distance, I was able to see a couple of bodies under a canvas tarpaulin," Haut stated. "Only the heads extended beyond the covering, and I was not able to make out any features. The heads did appear larger than normal and the contour of the canvas suggested the size of a 10-year-old child."
Haut said he was told a temporary morgue had been set up to accommodate the bodies.
Roswell UFO Tour operator and researcher Paul Semones said he wasn't surprised by the information released Friday.
"That's not new," Semones told The Epoch Times. "This is stuff that we've been arguing about literally for decades."
The affidavit was first published in 2007 and was intended to be released after Haut's death in 2005, according to Semones. The document has been published in at least three books on Roswell's UFO incident.
The Pentagon's version released Friday redacted several names, but the originally released copy included the names, Semones said.
"The lesson to be learned here is that we have a whole bunch of news media who are encountering it for the first time because the news media isn't paying attention to what's going on in the UFO research community," Semones said. "The world has ignored it but it's been there."
The government's latest release also included reports describing "dog-like bipedal creatures" and "little people" at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah.
Several people have reported seeing dog-like creatures near Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, a declassified report by the Pentagon revealed Oct. 23, 2026. Department of War
The Skinwalker Ranch investigation, conducted in the spring of 2010 by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), a government contractor, documents interviews with over 25 local residents, law enforcement officers, ranchers, business owners, the tribe, and a shaman about strange events in the area.
"All of the people interviewed have had firsthand encounters," the company said in its report.
Ages of the witnesses ranged from 15 to 77.
Investigators used handheld sensors to collect measurements from the environment. They also sampled the soil and plants, and took photos and other measurements, according to the report.
"Witnesses have reported unidentified balls of light at close range, daytime sightings of 'dog-like' creatures running on two legs, unnatural animalistic howling/screaming, 'little people,' prehistoric-like birds and a maggot which measured about 8-feet long and 2 to 3 feet in diameter," the company reported.
Eleven witnesses reported seeing the dog-like creature and orbs of light at different times and locations near the ranch property, BAASS reported.
Several witnesses who described the large "dog" or "wolf" creature told investigators it could walk and run on two legs and was 6 to 7 feet tall when standing on two legs.
"From these interviews, there may be at least three separate types of creatures," investigators reported.
Four independent eyewitnesses also described seeing a small, hairy, 3-foot-tall "troll" creature with long arms that appeared to run like a chimpanzee or orangutan, according to the report.
Several people also reported seeing large "worm" creatures, a prehistoric "pterodactyl"-like creatures, "little people," and other anomalies, investigators reported.
Samples were taken of fur found around the ranch, which matched fur from domestic dogs, according to the report.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/24/2026 - 13:30 Close Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000 AOC Goes Full Woke On 'Trans Rights' Because She's A 'Girl's Girl'
AOC Goes Full Woke On 'Trans Rights' Because She's A 'Girl's Girl'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said at a Maine town hall Thursday that she defends transgender rights because she is a "girl's girl," telling
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AOC Goes Full Woke On 'Trans Rights' Because She's A 'Girl's Girl'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said at a Maine town hall Thursday that she defends transgender rights because she is a "girl's girl," telling the crowd she does not support trans rights just to protect her own, but supports "the rights of trans women because I'm a girl's girl. " She added that compromising one trans person's rights compromises every citizen's.
AOC, D-N.Y., joins Troy Jackson on Thursday for a More Perfect University "Students vs. Billionaires" town hall at the State Theatre in Portland. (Derek Davis/Staff Photographer via Press Herald) The event was a "Students vs. Billionaires" town hall at the State Theatre in Portland on Oct. 22, hosted by the group More Perfect University, where she appeared with Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson, the Bangor Daily News reported. Newsweek said students asked about healthcare, transgender rights and foreign policy; its account does not say what she answered on the last one.
Asked by a transgender-identifying college student why many Democrats are backing away from the issue, Ocasio-Cortez said "They're wrong." She said she was ashamed of people who "scare so easily after an election," the Daily Wire reports . She then accused the Trump administration of using the issue to go after Title IX, the federal ban on sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding.
She tied the sports fight to sexual assault, saying it attacks "all women's ability to stand up against their abusers." The remark was about campuses. The Daily Wire is the only outlet found so far that reports her answers on the issue, so the wording above is its transcription.
The Democrats she was rebuking are mostly in competitive races. Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, in an ad covered by the Nationl News Desk on Oct. 8, says she "voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools". North Carolina Rep. Don Davis's ad says "states should decide what's right for protecting women and girls." New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, who co-chairs Equality PAC, called such ads "deeply offensive," according to that report, which cites Axios.
In Iowa, state senator Sarah Trone Garriott released a spot saying she opposes "letting men in women's locker rooms." The Washington Examiner reported in August that she had voted as a state senator against bills restricting trans students in girls' sports and locker rooms, and that Republican Rep. Zach Nunn's campaign was running ads on the vote.
Maine is where Ocasio-Cortez's pitch is being tested. The Senate race is a toss-up, and three October polls reported by Newsweek have Jackson ahead of Republican Sen. Susan Collins : Suffolk University 49% to 47%, InsiderAdvantage 49% to 47%, and a Washington Post/George Mason University poll 50% to 46%. Newsweek noted that polls underestimated Collins in 2020, when she won with more than 50% after trailing in surveys.
At the event, Ocasio-Cortez urged Maine women to back Jackson and faulted Collins for her vote to advance the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. Collins spokesman Blake Kernen answered that Jackson spends time with "far-left progressive office holders," the Bangor Daily News reported. The Daily Wire noted that Ocasio-Cortez is reportedly considering a 2028 presidential run.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/24/2026 - 13:00 Close Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:35:00 +0000 The Early Signs Of A Massive Market Rotation
The Early Signs Of A Massive Market Rotation
The Early Signs Of A Massive Market Rotation
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
I wanted to take a moment after this week, as the market continues to show signs of weakness, to revisit what is increasingly coming into focus as a potential strategy heading into next year.
Most of my regular readers know that roughly two months ago, I laid out my expectation that the AI bubble could begin to unravel within the following six to ten months . Since then, we’ve started to see some meaningful cracks emerge, with selling pressure spreading across some of the market’s most speculative and heavily favored names. I’ve supplemented that prediction along the way in pieces like Two Decades Of Mass Financial Delusion Ends Now and The Easy Money Fairy Tale Is About To End Violently .
In my market dashboard review heading into Q4, I also began outlining how I might position myself heading into 2027 , assuming the market continues along its current trajectory
In that piece, and in a subsequent article focused specifically on old-school blue chips , I argued that we could be approaching a meaningful rotation away from speculative growth and technology stocks and back toward defensive, established businesses with reliable cash flows, reasonable valuations, and, in many cases, attractive dividends. Boring shit, right? That’s how it goes sometimes…
My thinking was that as investors begin to reassess risk, particularly if the AI trade continues to unwind, capital could increasingly seek refuge in the types of boring, dependable businesses that have spent much of the last several years being overlooked.
And we’re already beginning to see some evidence of that. Across several recent articles, I highlighted individual names that I believed could hold up relatively well in a more difficult market environment . Over the last couple of weeks, a number of those stocks have already begun materially outperforming the broader market as selling pressure has intensified elsewhere.
While a couple of weeks certainly doesn’t establish a lasting trend, the early relative strength is consistent with the broader rotation I’ve been anticipating heading into the new year.
I think it’s worth revisiting some of those names and sectors individually and considering what their recent price action might be telling us about where capital is beginning to move.
In my October 9 article, “Hated In 2026, But Worth Watching In 2027 ,” I highlighted Verizon (VZ) and AT&T (T) as potential defensive opportunities heading into next year, arguing that their depressed valuations, substantial free cash flow, recurring subscription revenues and attractive dividend yields could make them beneficiaries of a broader rotation away from speculative growth and AI stocks.
Both companies provide essential services with relatively predictable demand, and I argued that investors may be underestimating their ability to generate respectable returns even with modest growth. I also suggested that the market was overreacting to the competitive threat posed by SpaceX, potentially creating an opportunity to buy established, cash-generating businesses at attractive valuations, particularly if interest rates stabilize or decline. Since then, they have ducked the S&P’s decline:
While this could change before the end of the year, as I noted days ago I’m increasingly inclined to position myself more defensively heading into 2027 , emphasizing valuation, free cash flow, dividends, strong balance sheets and businesses that don’t require speculative growth assumptions to justify their share prices.
While some of the sectors I remain bullish on over the long term, such as nuclear energy, have pulled back alongside the broader market, several of the more defensive themes and established blue-chip names I’ve highlighted have largely outperformed.
Other “boring” ideas I highlighted here have generally sidestepped the tech selloff over the last month, consistent with my broader thesis that investors may be beginning to rotate away from speculative growth and toward more established businesses, dependable cash flows and defensive assets. Even cybersecurity as a niche is outperforming tech, as I wrote about a couple weeks ago , noting it had underperformed tech over the last 3 years.
I suggested then that cybersecurity could be poised for a longer-term period of outperformance as investors begin to recognize that it is evolving from a traditional technology expense into a critical component of national security infrastructure. With the Pentagon increasingly looking to enlist private cybersecurity companies in offensive cyber operations, and AI making digital threats more sophisticated, I argued that these businesses could eventually become as strategically important as traditional defense contractors.
While I acknowledged that cybersecurity stocks would likely get caught up in any broader technology selloff, I also suggested that such a pullback could create an attractive opportunity to accumulate exposure to an industry whose importance, government involvement and long-term spending needs are likely to grow substantially regardless of how quickly the AI boom comes to fruition.
I continue to believe the AI trade is vulnerable to a significant unwind, potentially exacerbated by rising borrowing costs, credit market stress and a broader reassessment of equity valuations. Against that backdrop, I’m becoming more interested in “boring” stocks like telecommunications, consumer staples, tangible assets, select international equities and bonds, while remaining bullish over the longer term on precious metals, gold miners, biotechnology, nuclear energy and emerging markets.
Ultimately, I suspect 2027 could reward patience, discipline, income and fundamental value far more than the speculative momentum that has dominated markets in recent years. And if a serious selloff eventually forces another round of monetary intervention, I want to be positioned to capitalize on that opportunity as well.
To me, the important development isn’t simply that a handful of defensive stocks are outperforming technology. It’s that investors may finally be reconsidering what they’re willing to pay for growth versus actual earnings and cash flow.
Consider the disparity: when I highlighted Verizon earlier this month, it was trading at roughly 9x forward earnings, yielding more than 6%, and guiding toward approximately $22 billion in annual free cash flow. AT&T was projecting at least $18 billion. Compare that with an AI infrastructure boom increasingly dependent on enormous capital expenditures, borrowed money and profits that may not materialize for years.
With the 10-year Treasury yield recently above 5%, the cost of capital is becoming impossible to ignore, as I noted about 20 days ago the recent TLT bottom around $77: You Have To Like Bonds Here...Right?
The distinction between companies generating billions in cash and those consuming billions in pursuit of speculative growth could become one of the defining investment themes of 2027.
And the broader market has already been showing signs of deterioration beneath the surface. As Reuters reported on October 12, more than 40% of S&P 500 constituents were down for the year despite the index gaining roughly 14%. The median stock was up just 4%, and fewer than half of the index’s constituents were trading above their 200-day moving averages.
That’s hardly the picture of a healthy, broad-based bull market. None of this guarantees that the AI bubble bursts on my timetable, or that defensive stocks won’t get dragged lower in a genuine liquidation. But it reinforces why I’m increasingly favoring valuation, dividends, liquidity and strong balance sheets over speculative promises. If 2027 brings the reckoning I suspect it might, I want to own businesses that can survive it, have the cash to take advantage of it, and be ready to buy quality assets when everyone else is running for the exits.
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Tyler Durden Sat, 10/24/2026 - 12:35 Close Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:47:00 +0000 Riots Erupt In France As Far-Left Fuels Unrest For Second Weekend
Riots Erupt In France As Far-Left Fuels Unrest For Second Weekend
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Despite France Deploying Extra Police, Riots Continue EU's Far-Left Uprising Is a Secu
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Riots Erupt In France As Far-Left Fuels Unrest For Second Weekend
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Despite France Deploying Extra Police, Riots Continue EU's Far-Left Uprising Is a Security Concern Riots Begin In France , Spread To Brussels France Deploys 70,000 Police As Cities Brace For Far-Left Chaos French Riots Begin
By late afternoon, riots had spread to multiple cities , and France had deployed 70,000 police officers across major metro areas nationwide.
Here's where police are deployed to counter far-left groups trying to overthrow capitalism and the government while sparking chaos across the West.
The New York Times cited Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, who estimated turnout at 35,000 by midday nationwide, well below the level recorded at the same point last Saturday. More than half a million people had demonstrated by the end of that day.
Footage from this afternoon:
Far-left riots spreading to Brussels:
Europe has a far-left extremism crisis
The riots are embarrassing for the European progressive experiment, as lefty corporate media outlets run cover for the left. BBC News described the riots as "mostly peaceful " last week, while other left-wing outlets downplayed the chaos.
One has to wonder why this surge of highly coordinated unrest by far-left groups has accelerated now and whether it reflects a pressure campaign toward the rising right wing, from Germany to France, where Le Pen leads the polls. Nomura analysts also anticipate a rightward shift during Europe's election cycle over the next year and a half.
France Deploys 70,000 Police As Cities Brace For Far-Left Chaos
France deployed as many as 70,000 police officers across major metro areas on Saturday morning to prevent another far-left uprising, as the Macron government is plagued by a growing list of crises, including social unrest, financial turmoil and unfettered mass migration.
The deployment, reinforced by military troops, armored vehicles, drones and helicopters, is centered on Paris, Marseille, Lyon and other cities. Several municipalities banned downtown protests, and authorities maintained curfews into the weekend.
Rioting last week resulted in more than 2,500 arrests, nearly 1,000 injured police officers and over 3,000 looted stores. The unrest has disrupted business activity and prompted Paris retailers to board up their storefronts.
Self-described anti-communist analyst Karlyn Borysenko provided her analysis of the highly coordinated uprisings by the far left:
The riots in France started as a student uprising. There were certainly students from immigrant communities involved in the uprising. The uprising was facilitated by by their teachers, just like what happens in the United States. It was caused by leftist indoctrination in schools, with teachers training the students to be activists - that is the cause.
Following the start of the student movement, it expanded to include teachers, university students, the major labor unions and the antifa/anti-capitalist groups. All of it is grounded in far-left ideology. They are explicitly calling for the communist overthrow of the government and now it is bleeding into other countries in the region. That is what all the evidence says. And I've collected primary source evidence from multiple groups, including recordings you refuse to look at.
Earlier in the week, Fox News' Asra Nomani released a report that identified the dozens of groups behind the unrest, in which her team found:
Of the 54 organizations identified in the October protest ecosystem, 16 — or only about one in three — are student or youth organizations, including communist youth groups and a Muslim student association. The remaining 38 include adult-led communist groups, labor unions, political parties, revolutionary-left organizations, advocacy groups and international propaganda outlets.
Footage from Saturday morning shows some of the protests are already turning violent.
Nomani highlighted the spread of protests and riots across multiple countries. One possible view is that far-left groups are attempting to turn local grievances into a broader revolutionary campaign.
Beyond weeks of social unrest in France and the Macron government still struggling to squash this movement, Moody's on Friday spared the country from a credit ratings downgrade.
"The Aa3 rating assumes that a deficit-reducing budget for 2027 will be adopted, while financing costs and social tensions will abate somewhat in the next few months," Moody's said in a statement.
France's OAT-Bund spread closed around 167.4 bps on Friday, approaching levels seen at the height of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.
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Lefty corporate media has run cover for the far left, with the BBC calling riots "mostly peaceful." One assessment is that the far left views sustained disruption as a way to get concessions as the government discusses reducing the budget deficit, which would certainly impact handouts. These groups are also resisting a potential Le Pen presidency.
And of course, these groups also have anti-capitalist ambitions and aim to destroy the Western world. One immediate risk is that instability could drag on into the months ahead.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/24/2026 - 11:47 Close Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:45:00 +0000 58% Of Americans Get Their News From Four Left-Leaning Aggregators; Study Finds
58% Of Americans Get Their News From Four Left-Leaning Aggregators; Study Finds
58% Of Americans Get Their News From Four Left-Leaning Aggregators; Study Finds
Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness ,
A new study from a conservative media watchdog group has found that nearly 60 percent of Americans get their news from at least one of the Big Four news aggregators: Apple News, Google News, Yahoo News and Microsoft's MSN .
Just the News reports that, according to MRC's tracking and research data, these four applications sit on nearly every smartphone in America and serve as a dominant news window for an estimated 58 percent of Americans.
According to the MRC's special report , released earlier this month, all four aggregators exhibit a heavy left-wing bias by overwhelmingly surfacing mainstream and left-leaning publications while filtering out conservative outlets.
Out of 487 top stories last February on Google News, the MRC reports that only 11, or 2.2 percent, were right-leaning ; 314, or 64.5 percent, were left-leaning and 162, or 33.3 percent, were in the center.
David Bozell, who leads the Media Research Center, reported that after analyzing one month of stories on Apple News, his group found that of 620 stories that Apple had promoted on its top feeds, "not a single one of those stories was from a right-wing news source. Not one. Zero."
According to the MRC, out of the 620 top stories on Apple News last January, there were zero right-leaning ones and 440 left-leaning .
Meanwhile, articles on popular websites such as Fox News and the New York Post were never promoted.
A more in-depth "Big Four" analysis in April showed the apps promoted 92 percent left-leaning outlets and only 17 percent of right-leaning ones, according to Just the News.
"NPR was linked by Apple 155 times in six months," Bozell told Full Measure. "It was linked by Google 121 times in six months. ... How is that? NPR, National Public Radio, [is] the 20th most-popular news website in America today, whereas the New York Post is in the top 10 and Breitbart is in the top 35." Right-leaning news "gets no love from these guys."
According to Just the News, Bozell says the audience is left with little choice because, for example, Apple News is preloaded on iPhones while Google News is preloaded on Androids.
Bozell called for news consumers speak up and demand a more diverse mix of information from the Big Four news apps.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/24/2026 - 11:45 Close Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:20:00 +0000 Netanyahu Locks Down West Bank, Launches Massive Operation After Two IDF Soldiers Killed
Netanyahu Locks Down West Bank, Launches Massive Operation After Two IDF Soldiers Killed
Just a few days away from Israel's national elections, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a major new military and security oper
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Netanyahu Locks Down West Bank, Launches Massive Operation After Two IDF Soldiers Killed
Just a few days away from Israel's national elections, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a major new military and security operation in the occupied West Bank late Friday into Saturday. It is expected to continue through next week, when Israelis head to the polls.
Mass arrests are being carried out, as well as home and neighborhood demolition s. The action follows a Friday incident where two Palestinian gunmen shot and killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Hebron .
Getty Images The suspected gunmen were shot dead in the immediate security response, and the West Bank was immediately put on full lock-down, amid Israeli house-to-house searches in the neighborhood where the attackers were believed to be from. The attackers had each reportedly been armed with an M16 rifle and a handgun .
"We will act to destroy this place, ?to change it completely," Netanyahu said. Already there are reports that family members and relatives of the two shooters have had their homes demolished , with area residents forcibly displaced.
The prime minister said further, "When we win the election, we’ll finish the job . We’ve completed 90 percent; we need to take it all the way, that means bringing down the Iranian regime and finishing off Hamas and Hezbollah."
And so the timing of the decision to lock down the whole of the West Bank is obviously politically driven to a large degree, in order to signal Israel domestically.
Al Jazeera reports that already some 2,200 local Palestinians have been expelled from their homes :
Hebron Mayor Yousef al-Ja’bari tells Al Jazeera around 2,200 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes in the city’s al-Jalda and Ein Deir Bahha neighbourhoods, as Israeli forces continue military operation in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces arrest scores of Palestinians across the West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club rights group says, with raids reported in 15 areas, including Ramallah, Jenin, Nablus, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Al-Bireh and Birzeit. Tensions were already soaring even more this latest attack on an Israeli checkpoint, and so this new large-scale operation could bring more such incidents, given Palestinians perceive that the likely end goal of Israeli forces is to eradicate their existence from the land.
Reports of large iron gates erected around Hebron:
Israeli rights group B’Tselem has condemned the action, warning against "collective punishment and acts that could constitute war crimes."
The IDF military has responded to mounting criticism by saying it is allowing Hebron and other residents viable exit points.
"The forces have begun conducting precise, targeted and thorough searches throughout the area to locate and dismantle terrorist infrastructure and weapons, while questioning suspects," the IDF and Shin Bet announced in the statement.
"The operation is targeted and limited to the area from which the terrorists operated, and is expected to continue for several days ," it added. "Residents living in the area will be able to exit through three designated checkpoints after questioning," the statement indicated further.
The military would also be "demolishing illegal structures that could pose a security threat at the site of the encounter," it said. But some international monitors have pointed to another operation that paves the way for a land grab and Jewish settler expansion under the guise of a counter-terror operation.
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/24/2026 - 11:20 Close Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:55:00 +0000 "A Nation Ceases To Be A Nation If It Can't Protect Its Borders": Fifth Circuit Backs Trump's Mandatory Detention Policy
"A Nation Ceases To Be A Nation If It Can't Protect Its Borders": Fifth Circuit Backs Trump's Mandatory Detention Policy
"A Nation Ceases To Be A Nation If It Can't Protect Its Borders": Fifth Circuit Backs Trump's Mandatory Detention Policy
Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness ,
A federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump's administration a significant immigration enforcement victory Friday, ruling that illegal immigrants detained within the United States have no constitutional right to a bond hearing , regardless of how long they have lived in the country.
In a 10-7 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld the administration's detention policy , reversing an earlier panel ruling and limiting legal challenges that had allowed detained migrants to seek release.
The decision affects immigration cases in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, strengthening the administration's authority to detain illegal immigrants while deportation proceedings are underway.
Writing for the majority, Trump-appointed Judge Cory Wilson determined that migrants who entered the country illegally remain legally classified as seeking admission and are not constitutionally entitled to bond hearings .
Wilson also noted that the individuals challenging their detention could end their confinement "at any moment by agreeing to leave the country."
The case involved three illegal immigrants from Mexico and Honduras who were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following traffic stops. All three have American-born children, and one had lived in the United States for more than 22 years .
In a concurring opinion, Judge James Ho emphasized the importance of national sovereignty and border enforcement.
"A nation ceases to be a nation if it can't protect its borders," Ho wrote.
Ho also argued that the dissenting judges' interpretation would create incentives for illegal immigrants to remain in the country unlawfully.
The seven dissenting judges maintained that the majority's ruling improperly denied constitutional due-process protections to longtime residents.
Department of Homeland Security General Counsel James Percival celebrated the decision, calling it a "big win" for the administration.
The ruling reinforces a Trump administration policy implemented last year allowing federal authorities to hold illegal immigrants arrested inside the country until their immigration proceedings conclude , without automatically providing bond hearings.
The decision comes as the Supreme Court prepares to consider a related challenge involving whether federal immigration law requires such hearings. Unlike the Fifth Circuit case, the Supreme Court's pending review focuses on statutory requirements rather than
Tyler Durden Sat, 10/24/2026 - 10:55 Close Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:05:00 +0000 Could France's Crisis Happen In America?
Could France's Crisis Happen In America?
Could France's Crisis Happen In America?
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Daily Signal ,
This is a lightly edited transcript of an Oct. 19 segment of the "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words" podcast.
In the news right now, it's rioting in France, rioting in Belgium, rioting in Italy, rioting in Albania, with other countries experiencing threats to riot. Who are these people? Well, they're supposedly students that are angry that their classrooms or their education is not competitive or it's subpar.
They're socialists that are driving the unrest, but especially they're immigrants. And let me just say at the outset, it's very common among the Left in the West, in Europe, Canada, the United States to immediately bash anybody who criticizes immigration. But the Left is the party that created this problem because most people who are centrist or independents or on the right approve of immigration with a qualifier.
It has to be legal. It has to be diverse from all over the world, not just from Africa or south of the border or Asia. It has to be measured so, in some fashion, the people coming in are not a million, 2 million, 3 million a year. They have to be in the thousands that can be acculturated, assimilated and integrated, because if they're not, then what's over there comes here - and not what over there comes here and becomes West; it brings that culture into the West.
Now, another thing to remember is it has to be meritocratic. Everybody wants to come to the West, and to the degree that Western nations say to those in Africa and Asia and the Western Hemisphere, "We can't accommodate everybody. We have a few for refugees. We have a few from family reconciliation. We have a few from people that have outstanding talent, but we have to have the majority speaking the native language, willing to acculturate, and most importantly, have skills and be self-supporting so they don't burden the social welfare system at the expense of U.S. citizens."
That's not happening in Europe right now.
It's not happening. The historic Limoges Town Hall in Limoges, France, is burned down. It's toppling. If you go to Marseille, you often see the historic statue of Marianne. She's the symbol of the French Republic, a statue.
It's been defaced and is threatened with destruction. At Lyon, they destroyed a 175-year-old town hall. One of the most impressive Gothic churches in all of Europe is the Duomo, the Duomo in Milan, and they're right outside burning and rioting, right outside.
So, what is driving this coalition? Who's doing this?
Why are they angry? Well, we have a very strange phenomenon happening. In Western countries over the last two decades especially, about 15 percent, up to 20 percent, are first-generation immigrants. I mean, they are first-generation, and they do not come from European countries. Some of them come from one country to another, but most of them are from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere.
And what's happening is they come at a time where the West is in crisis, and it does not believe that its culture and civilization is superior to the alternative. So, there's no state effort to assimilate, to acculturate, to integrate, to teach people about Greece and Rome, or the medieval period, or the Renaissance, or the Enlightenment, or the Founding Fathers here in the United States.
Or whether you're left or right, Rousseau or Voltaire, or Shakespeare or Plato, none of that.
In fact, it's just the opposite: that people are coming because they have rejected with their feet their own culture, and yet they are praised as the other, as if their cultures, which are failed and which have driven them out, are somehow superior.
And therefore, they can retain their own cultural identity within a Western nation, with the caveat that they also will be protected by Western security, given Western freedom and have Western economic prosperity that they didn't have in their own country.
This is not sustainable. It's not sustainable. This new alliance between socialist immigrants and Islamists. We're seeing it in the United States as well. We see all of these candidates that are running for Congress, for state office, for Senate, mayor of New York, and they have nothing good to say about the United States.
They have a lot of good to say about the countries that are illiberal, from which they came and to which they under no circumstances want to go back.
The iconic moment in the United States was the protesters in Los Angeles who were here illegally, and they were waving the flag of the country under no circumstances they wanted to go back to and burning the flag of the country under every circumstance they wanted to stay in.
Now, there are geostrategic implications of this. We are becoming estranged from Europe. Europe is becoming estranged from Europe. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Italy just unleashed a diatribe against the French president, Emmanuel Macron. And she said he was responsible for opening the borders of Europe and beginning this suicide pact in which European countries now have 15 percent to 20 percent to 25 percent first-generation immigrants.
But the key number is first- and second-generation, because unlike past immigration waves, the second generation, those born to immigrants, are not acculturating very well. And that's the key indicator.
In Canada, it's 45 percent first- and second-generation. In Australia, it's nearly 50 percent. And across Europe, it averages about 25 percent to 35 percent of the entire population is either first- or second-generation immigrants.
And as we see now, it's an unsustainable proposition because they do not want to accept the culture in which they fled to. They want its benefits, but they want to take it over culturally or socially or politically. And when I say it's not sustainable, the welfare cost of European nations, especially Northern and Western European nations, is about 40 percent of their entire budget.
It's over 30 percent in many countries of their total GDP, and that is money that is given to people who are not able to support themselves in this socialist utopia.
But it's even worse than that: it's not sustainable for the taxpayer, but it fuels the resentment of the taxpayer. In other words, it's this strange phenomenon of human nature.
The more you give someone, the more they interpret that as weakness to be exploited and not magnanimity to be reciprocated in kindness. That's part of the root of the entire problem. But, as I said, it has geostrategic problems because Europe's energy program is in shambles. The UK and Germany have wrecked their economies by warring on nuclear power and fossil fuels. Wind and solar are not compatible with a dynamic economy as the primary sources of energy. Energy costs in Germany or the UK are double, triple, and, in some parts, quadruple ours.
Fertility is 1.35 across Europe on average. Only Donald Trump's anger and bombast and barrages of rhetoric have allowed Europe to spend 2 percent, a measly 2 percent of GDP, on defense. But they have promised to go to 5 percent. It will be impossible for them to go to 5 percent with the energy policies they have, with the fertility rates that are so low, with an indigenous population that is aging and shrinking, and borders that are not secure, and immigrants who see them as decadent and weak and ripe for exploitation. You can see the geostrategic ramifications in the war in Ukraine and Iran.
Why did the UK let out terrorists who were scouting a Royal Air Force NATO base where we had 11 B-1s? And they were essentially conducting a milk run or a dry run on how to destroy three and a half billion dollars of U.S. bombers. And what did the UK do? They let these people out on bail.
Why is it that in so many Northern European and Western European countries, when immigrants commit crimes, they do not face the same level of punishment as indigenous people? In the UK as well, why is it that these countries would not allow the United States to use their airspaces or their bases when we wanted to hit the nuclear facilities in Iran?
And the answer to all these questions is they are terrified, not just that they have 15 percent to 25 percent immigrant populations, not just that they have 30 percent to 40 percent first- and second-generation immigrant populations, but because they have immigrant populations that don't like them and don't want to integrate and feel that Islam or the autocratic method is superior.
And I'll end on two notes.
The West is unique. It's so self-critical, and it's so hospitable to immigrants that no other country follows this pattern. China has 1.4 billion. They don't let people into their country. Japan is 99 percent indigenous population. Russia would not hear of this. Some of our closest allies, South Korea or Taiwan, they don't do this.
We in the West are unique, and yet we suffer the wage of being unkind to immigrants from the very countries that would never allow it, for the very reasons that they're seeing what's happening in the West.
Second and last, we're not far behind. We have 16 percent to 17 percent first-generation, and we have about 25 percent first- and second-generation.
About 70 million people have either not been born in the United States or their parents weren't born here. And we are not integrating and assimilating them and using the melting pot, partly because of the Left's cultural revolution that they've taken over in institutions, and they are ashamed of their very culture, and they've used the word "cultural appropriation," et cetera, and partly because the immigrants themselves refuse to give up their religion.
I'm not talking about their religion in the sense of private worship, but I'm talking about their religion as a state religion imposed on entire communities. That is a goal of many of the immigrants.
It's not going to end well in the United States unless we take a look at what's happening right now in Europe, and there's no better time to take a look than before the midterm elections that are upon us in less than three weeks.
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