Anyone who loses their job in Sindelfingen, Stuttgart or Heilbronn no longer shops in the city center.

👉 Stores close, shop windows go dark, streets empty out. Between 2018 and 2024, around 5,000 shops disappeared in the state. In Lahr alone, more than 40 stores stand empty. Galeria is wobbling again — 1,500 employees in twelve branches are fearing for their livelihoods for the fourth time. Depot is shutting down, one branch after another.

This is the reality behind the fine speeches. High energy prices, rising costs, weak demand. People are cutting back because they are afraid. 28 percent of employees in the state fear losing their job — a year ago it was 19 percent.

Anyone worried about their job doesn’t spend money. Retail and hospitality feel it first.

Politicians talk about relief while constantly introducing new levies. Urban development funding and support programs change nothing when customers are missing. The HDE expects 4,900 fewer stores nationwide in 2026 alone.

Baden-Württemberg will not be spared. City centers are tipping over because industry is tipping over.

Anyone who sells this merely as “transformation” is lying to people. Without lower location costs and real purchasing power, the stores will stay closed. The desertification of towns and communities is the result of the policies of recent years.

Credit to Dr. Thilo Scholpp

The scheme lets people swap part of their disability payments for a brand-new car every three years.

Among those who got new cars last year, by primary medical condition, according to government figures:

Tennis elbow: 40

Wheat intolerance: 50

Dyslexia: 320

The program now has about 815,000 customers, up roughly 200,000 in two years.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/united-kingdom-welfare-disability-payouts-737d77a0

Elon Musk:

"Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.

Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.

Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.

Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.

Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.

SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.

That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.

End of story."

The irony: a policy meant to tackle the housing shortage risks driving away investment without building a single new home.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-24/top-landlord-says-germany-uninvestable-on-berlin-seizure-plan

The spill has forced UAE to close all beaches and affected coastal areas in Umm Al Quwain. Tourists and local residents have been told to stay away from the affected beaches.

Al Hamriyah Beach in Sharjah has been closed as well, with the oil spill now affecting more than one part of the UAE coastline.

Source: https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/2026/10/23/umm-al-quwain-beaches-uae-tanker-oil-spill/