🇲🇬 Madagascar is the latest country to collapse after a wave of Gen Z protests!

President Andry Rajoelina has fled the country after the army sided with mass protests.

According to Reuters, he departed on a French military aircraft after the elite CAPSAT unit and parts of the gendarmerie joined the demonstrators.

The day before, Rajoelina flew by helicopter to Saint Marie Island on Madagascar’s east coast, then boarded a plane to the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, from where he and his family reportedly flew on to Mauritius or the UAE.

Radio RFI, citing informed sources, reported that the evacuation of the Malagasy president was authorized by French leader Emmanuel Macron to ensure a peaceful transition.

The protests began on September 25 over water and electricity shortages but quickly escalated into an uprising against corruption and poverty. Rajoelina, who came to power after the 2009 coup, had rapidly lost the support of the security forces in recent weeks.

The likely interim leader of Madagascar will be Major General Demosphen Picolas, commander of the elite CAPSAT unit.

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🇬🇧 British Army veteran commits suicide after he was refused social housing by a local council while migrants were given hotel rooms paid for by the taxpayer!

Rob Homans always wanted to be a soldier. A promising footballer as a youngster, he turned down scouts from Birmingham City so he could join the forces.

By the time he was 19, he was off for his first tour of Afghanistan. At 21, he went on his second Afghanistan tour.

Last August Rob Homans committed suicide after the Worcester City Council refused to give him housing and help him get back on his feet after a messy divorce.

Before he committed suicide, Rob Homans told his mother after being offered social housing in a drug-infested area:

'The system is just broke mum, look.' And he pointed over to these two guys that were sleeping in the doorway, and they were veterans too.

'I've got nothing against any section of the community. All I'm asking for is fairness. That hotel over there is full of refugees. Why can't I have that? If they can house them, why can't they house me temporarily till I get on my feet? I fought for this country and it means nothing.'

🔗 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15158351/Homeless-veteran-refused-house-council.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline

🇪🇺🇵🇱 Poland will receive an exemption from the EU migration pact: the country will not have to accept migrants or pay the “migration tax.”

According to the Interior Ministry (MSWiA), Warsaw secured a special status that frees it from the obligation to host migrants or pay €20,000 for each person it refuses to take in.

The EU took into account Poland’s arguments about hosting millions of Ukrainian refugees and dealing with the crisis on the Belarusian border.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed the agreement: “There will be no relocation of migrants — none at all!”

According to TVN24, the special status will remain in effect for at least a year but may be extended due to ongoing migration pressure and Poland’s continued support for Ukraine.

While Poland is allowed to withdraw from the Migration Pact, in a desperate way to placate Polish nationalists who do not want their country to become the next France or UK, the EU is more than happy to economically cripple the economies of other dissenters like Slovakia and Hungary.

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🇫🇷 France contemplates the end of the Fifth Republic

On Friday night, Mr Macron stunned Paris by re-appointing Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister – just four days after Mr Lecornu had resigned, with his first government collapsing in record time.

For decades, the French presidency has relied on what political scientists call the fait majoritaire – the automatic parliamentary majority that traditionally followed a newly elected head of state.

That era is over.

Since Mr Macron lost his absolute majority in 2022, France has entered what historian Nicolas Roussellier calls “an age of tri-polarisation”.

Three irreconcilable blocs – a socialist and environmentalist Left, a pro-European liberal centre, and a sovereigntist far-Right – now dominate the National Assembly. None can command a majority.

As a result, asserted Mr Duhamel: “France has now moved beyond a political crisis. I think it’s a regime crisis.”

Even loyal centrists whisper the same fear: that the Fifth Republic, born amid the Algerian war and designed to end chronic instability, no longer fits a fragmented nation.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/13/death-of-macronism/

🇺🇸🪖 See before you're seen.

EagleEye enhances the warfighter’s perception by overlaying digital information onto the real world, delivering vital real-time insights.

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🇨🇳 Should be the first time we have footage on the ground (or water) that shows one of the PLAN amphibious landing rigs underway. This is the largest variant, with eight "legs" and the stern transfer ramp, at overall length of 185 metres.

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🇺🇸💸 JPMorganChase will invest $1.5 TRILLION into 27 "critical industries" in America.

Here's the list:

‣ Advanced Bulk Materials
‣ Advanced Manufacturing
‣ Artificial Intelligence
‣ Autonomous Mobile Robots
‣ Battery Storage
‣ Command & Control Tech
‣ Critical Components
‣ Critical Minerals Mining & Processing
‣ Cybersecurity
‣ Distributed Energy
‣ Edge Computing
‣ Grid Resilience
‣ Mesh Networks
‣ Mission Critical Real Estate
‣ Munitions, Missiles & Hypersonics
‣ Nanomaterials and Microelectronics
‣ Nuclear Energy
‣ Pharmaceutical Precursors
‣ Quantum Computing
‣ Secure Communication
‣ Sensor Hardware
‣ Shipbuilding
‣ Solar
‣ Space Launch
‣ Spacecraft
‣ Unmanned Systems
‣ 6G

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🇩🇪🗳 Robin Brooks on X: "There's now a string of German polls showing AfD overtaking CDU as Germany's lead party. AfD is riding popular discontent on immigration and will keep growing unless the political center finally confronts this issue. If the center is "too posh" to do that, AfD will keep rising."

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🇵🇱🇩🇪 Poland asked Germany to stop the criminal investigation into the Nordstream II sabotage.

This comes after the Polish government refused to extradite an Ukrainian citizen suspected of being involved in the act of sabotage which destroyed the Nordstream II pipeline.

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🇩🇪 Auto Supplier ZF Slashes 7,600 Jobs in Cost-Cutting Push

ZF Friedrichshafen AG is cutting 7,600 positions at its electrified drivetrain division as the German car-parts maker steps up its restructuring efforts to deal with poor demand.

Labor leaders have signed off on the reductions, which are part of a previously announced plan to let go as many as 14,000 workers this decade. Additional savings measures include delaying wage increases and reducing working hours in Germany, ZF said Wednesday. They’re expected to slash more than €500 million ($588 million) in costs by 2027.

The measures underscore the pressures on the German auto industry, which is reeling from sluggish demand in Europe, the cost of tariffs and rising competition from Chinese manufacturers. Robert Bosch GmbH said last week it will cut some 13,000 additional jobs, or about 3% of its global workforce, following similar savings measures from Continental AG and Schaeffler AG. Automakers including Volkswagen AG are dialing back production.

German Auto Industry to Eliminate Nearly 100,000 Jobs By 2030.

🔗 https://archive.ph/so45a