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The municipal council of Katwijk has approved the permit application for the construction of a billion-dollar factory by the American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, where diabetes and weight loss pills will be produced and approximately 500 people will be employed, despite residents' concerns about environmental impact and safety. (translated)

Katwijk stemt in met komst miljardenfabriek Amerikaanse farmaceut Eli Lilly

The Burkina Faso national team 🇧🇫 is still stuck in Morocco and has not yet joined Argentina 🇦🇷 while the match is scheduled for this weekend... On two occasions in recent days, the players were ready to leave the hotel with their luggage, but there has always been an issue related to the flight. As was the case against Mauritania last March, the Argentine Federation has hired a company (Eurodata Sport Ltd) managed by Jairo Pachon, a FIFA match agent, to handle the matches - the AFA paying the costs and travel but not giving any participation bonus or a share of the revenue generated by the match to its opponent. The proposed travel conditions are simple: a commercial flight (the cheapest possible). However, Mauritania had refused given the number of travel hours and had taken a private flight at its own expense. For Burkina Faso, uncertainty remains as the players have not trained while coach Amir Abdou wished for it. Time is now pressing to reach Buenos Aires... (translated)

G. Bartzokas: "It's like we came to a showcase game." (translated)

After a violent incident aboard a Flydubai plane, in which passengers subdued the alleged attacker and prevented a catastrophe, the helpers in Israel are being celebrated as heroes, while President Isaac Herzog plans to award them as investigations into the background of the incident are still ongoing. (translated)

Viel Anerkennung für Helfer

Germany reaches the highest state quota since 1960 under Schwarz-Rot and is still above the level during the Corona period. According to BMF, the tax quota is at 39.4% at record level. So higher than under the traffic light or red-green. Those who want socialist policies don't need to. (translated)

Man climbs and hits the Virgin Mary. Will there be an outcry? Will the mainstream media report it? Good that there is X. Thank you, Elon Musk. (translated)

🔴 𝗘𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘁𝘇𝘁𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗶𝗸 Neue Einsatzmittel stärken die Feuerwehr Dresden Die Feuerwehr Dresden modernisiert ihren Fahrzeug- und Technikbestand weiter. Am Mittwoch, 30. September 2026, wurden drei neue Rettungsboote, zwei Drehleitern und zwei Tanklöschfahrzeuge offiziell an ihre künftigen Standorte übergeben. Insgesamt investiert {{weiterlesen}} https://schau.jetzt/6jvde Foto: Feuerwehr Dresden Reaktionen gelten der @Feuerwehr_Dresden #FeuerwehrenORG #feuerwehr #drehleiter #dresden #boot

Neue Einsatzmittel stärken die Feuerwehr Dresden

Minister Andrzej Domański announced that starting from the weekend, fuel prices at stations may drop by about 1.2-1.3 PLN per liter. (translated)

Obniżka cen paliw możliwa w weekend. Ministerstwa przygotowują rozporządzenia
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If I'm not mistaken, most military vehicles also run on diesel. If you want to fight a nice war with Russia as @SecGenNATO, the fuel is out. And then? Solar panels on the tanks? Sails? No? Can't be done? Then push? Can @jpaternotte, @rubenbrekelmans, and @RobJetten do that? Jan shouldn't nibble too much on the Ozempic or else he will blow away. And then with @DefensieMin as a siren on the bow? No? Can't do that? So electric then? With the engineers who install the charging stations? Although, for that, we don't have enough natural gas again. And if I'm not mistaken, the scarcity in diesel is closely related to the scarcity in kerosene. If you want to bomb Russia with your mighty F35s, your tank is already empty above Germany. You have to go the rest flying. Do we maybe still have the F35PG* variant in our collection? Can we fly that towards Russia from the Vaalserberg with favorable winds? Can that be done with all the bombs and grenades? We don't have the latter either? Jesus... Or can we let that F35 fly on LPG? That would be nice. The price of LPG usually doesn’t go up that fast. There is another problem: you can only bomb during the day if you want to refuel everywhere. At night, that’s only possible along the highway. But then you do have a runway. But even this isn't without problems: I have a Mercedes R500L, an eight-cylinder. With a small LPG tank. In no time, you find yourself at the pump with that thing. And you get cramps in your thumb because you have to hold that button for so long. With such an F35, you would have to land and take off about 20 times quickly to get to Russia. The return journey is less problematic. #Putin has enough gas. Although, I’m not sure he has the right tank connection. And I think you have to press the installation button for a very long time before the tank of such an F35 is full. Who is going to do that? @DefensieStas? He can probably handle it. Then he can still press his mustache somewhere (against something). Can we maybe send the navy? We still have a few frigates, right? What do you say? Cannon broken? You don't need that at all: you can't hit anything with it anyway. Just ask the Americans. They have experience with that by now. Well. All quite tricky. But our leaders will surely find a solution. One of the recurring themes in the decline of superpowers throughout history is that the powers that be increasingly disconnected from reality in the (dozens of) years leading up to it and then suddenly realized that the (military) power they thought they had was no longer there at all. Does that seem familiar to you? I think #Putin is pouring himself an extra glass of vodka tonight. And that Xi Jin Ping is having a lavish dinner tonight with Peking duck, babi pang pang, and Bam Goreng. *Paraglider. (translated)

The ministry announced that fuel prices may decrease by about 1.2-1.3 PLN per liter over the upcoming weekend, after signing a law introducing a tax on the excess profits of fuel companies, but this requires the preparation of the appropriate regulations. (translated)

Obniżka cen paliw możliwa w weekend. Ministerstwa przygotowują rozporządzenia

Florida sues Pfizer: pregnant women and teenagers paid the price I am genuinely very curious how this will turn out. That #Pfizer is a gang of crooks, everyone who has a bit of medical knowledge knows. The company has a reputation in this area: they haven't choked on their first lie and they have had more dubious dealings for which they had to account. But this is much bigger, and now the big players are going to get involved. Pfizer is powerful and will pull out all the stops to combat such initiatives. As a lonely citizen, you usually achieve nothing and should be glad to get away without any harm. But I think Pfizer has overplayed its hand in this case. #mRNAvaccines #Covid19 (translated)

Klopp completely substitutes the German national team. You can see here that "Germany" is playing. 🇩🇪 Result: Germany wins 2:0 against Serbia. I think that says it all. (translated)

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I found Treu very good against Holland and today he has again convinced very much. I will never understand why Nagelsmann permanently refused to simply put a nominal right-back on the field and continued to make experiments. In any case, Treu is one of the winners of the LSP. (translated)

The question of banning the AfD now belongs before the Federal Constitutional Court. Germany is a resilient democracy. Article 21, paragraph 2 of the Basic Law allows for a party ban if a party actively and deliberately seeks to undermine the free and democratic basic order or to... (translated)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that the complete acquisition of the Ukrainian Donbass region will take place in less than one and a half years, while accusing Kyiv of unnecessarily sacrificing lives for the fight over this territory. (translated)

Putin will Donbass in weniger als eineinhalb Jahren erobern

Interventions in Brazilian institutions "must not be tolerated," wrote Messias today on the online platform X. (translated)

Brasilien: Ruf nach Ermittlungen zu möglicher US-Einmischung
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The Federal Court of Auditors warns that by the end of the 2030s, up to 46 percent of federal tax revenues could be spent on statutory pension insurance, representing a significant financial burden for the state. (translated)

Warnung vom Rechnungshof - Bald fließt jeder zweiter Steuer-Euro in die Rente
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All debates are over. Thankfully. I was actually done with it. Both with the coalition and the opposition. I will do other things for the next three days, and on Monday, I will start again with renewed optimism. Thank you for following and see you again next week! (translated)

Rob, I'm just jumping in. Team Netherlands, red-white-blue, the same freedom. Beautiful imagery, you surely have a premium ChatGPT account? But may I remind you that just four days ago you were at the D66 congress proclaiming that you were going to ‘hit certain people hard.’ And now suddenly it’s one big warm nest? Pressing question, if we all count, what about the members of parliament who just walked out during @biemyati's maiden speech instead of listening to her argument? Or don't @fvdemocratie members of parliament belong to Team Netherlands? Or am I misunderstanding, and does ‘we are all different’ only apply if the other has a different skin color or sexual preference, but is a member of @D66? You are the prime minister of the whole country, @RobJetten, not just of the people who applaud when you use aggressive language about ‘well-organized organizations’ that undermine our democracy. Show us that you are truly the prime minister of everyone, including the Dutch people you want to ‘hit hard,’ because indeed all Dutch people are different, but all deserve the same freedom, dignity, and the right to be heard, even if their political beliefs don’t agree with yours. Right? (translated)

20 YEARS AGO, THE VILLAGES WERE LIQUIDATED. And then the war broke out over what the report revealed. ITI. Walter. Wejchert. FOZZ. Military intelligence of the Polish People's Republic. Media. Russian influences. People trained in Moscow. Antoni Macierewicz spoke about the mechanism described in the report and the testimony of Grzegorz Żemek. They poured out. (translated)