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BELGIUM NARCO-DYSTOPIA: Prosecutor in Capital Brussels Is Lashing Out at the Lack of Resources to Fight Violent Drug Gangs

Capital of Belgium and the European Union, home of NATO headquarters, Brussels has a festering drug problem.

We have been reporting here on TGP how Belgium has slowly become a narco-state.

And Brussels’ top prosecutor is hitting out at the unsustainable situation.

Julien Moinil says ‘he demanded more resources’ to battle drug-related issues that have become a scourge in the Belgian capital.

He complained today that his demands were ignored.

As he addressed a new series of shootings, he ranted: ‘I don’t see a reaction — no concrete help’.

Politico reported:

“The Belgian capital witnessed a recent wave of violence across various municipalities, including an attack on a police station in Anderlecht and multiple shootings in Molenbeek and Saint-Gilles.

‘As you can see, this hellish streak, which has been going on for several years, continues’, Moinil said, adding that Brussels has already seen 69 gun-related incidents in 2026, against the 102 that took place in 2025.

The incidents reported in Saint-Gilles were linked to a fight between two drug-trafficking gangs. Still, innocent citizens were caught in the crossfire, the prosecutor said: In one attack, clients of a pizzeria had to seek cover from the flying bullets.”

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US Military Shoots Down 3 Mexican Cartel Drones With Laser

A laser system was used to shoot down three drug cartel drones in southern Texas, close to the Mexican border, the U.S. military said on Aug. 27.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, in a joint statement, said an Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser (AMP-HEL) was used overnight on Aug. 25-26 in the Rio Grande Valley.

The Joint Task Force-Southern Border (JTF-SB) deemed the three drones to be hostile and posing a physical threat to U.S. military personnel and their partners in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Maj. Gen. Curtis Taylor, commander of JTF-SB, said the successful operation against the drones was a testament to the readiness, vigilance, and technological edge of his force.

US Will ‘Not Tolerate Hostile Surveillance’

“Cartel networks are increasingly employing unmanned aircraft systems to facilitate illicit human-smuggling and actively spy on our personnel and law enforcement partners,” Taylor said. “By integrating layered countermeasures alongside advanced directed-energy capabilities like this laser system, we have made it clear that we will not tolerate hostile surveillance.”

Ammon Blair, a former U.S.Border Patrol agent and senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Secure & Sovereign Texas Initiative, told The Epoch Times in March 2025 that he recalled hearing cartel-operated drones overhead while working along the Texas border.

“You’d be running, and you’d have a drone right above your head and tracking every move you made,” Blair said at the time.

In February, the airspace around El Paso International Airport was closed for 7 hours for “special security reasons.”

The White House told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement at the time that Mexican cartel-operated drones had breached U.S. airspace and that the Department of War took action to disable them.

In other parts of Mexico, cartels have used drones to drop explosives in deadly attacks, but there is no suggestion the drones in the Texas incident were armed.

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Man Sets Himself on Fire Inside Lobby of Manhattan Building That Houses Google Offices and NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau

A 63-year-old man set himself on fire in the lobby of a Manhattan building that houses Google offices and the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau on Friday afternoon.

The incident occurred just before 3 p.m. in the Hudson Square building, according to the NYPD and FDNY.

The man reportedly walked into the lobby wearing a backpack and was suddenly engulfed in flames.

Witnesses placed multiple 911 calls, and first responders quickly arrived at the scene.

“At first I thought they were shooting a film or something,” a building worker who witnessed the incident told the NY Daily News. “I saw the flames in the lobby. Then the flames were running around the lobby, and security was trying to put him out.”

“One of the security guards came out of the building with the burning backpack and threw it into the street,” the building worker added. “The others inside put him out with fire extinguishers. When they brought him out, he was terribly burned, all wrapped in bandages. I don’t know if you want to live that way. It was terrible.”

The man was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he is reportedly in stable condition. Witnesses described severe burns on his arms, face, and upper body.

No injuries to any bystanders were reported.

Law enforcement has not publicly identified the man or announced a motive.

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How Endless Injunctions Are Manufacturing Election Chaos

SCOTUS dragged its feet on an emergency motion, finally clearing the way on August 24 (Trump v. California) by staying an injunction against EO 14399 on technical standing grounds and ‘ripeness’. Everyone thought the fight was over – now the next battle has unfolded.

While the Supreme Court focused on docket No. 26A124, a separate, standing injunction was sitting in League of Women Voters v. Trump. Here is what actually went down after August 24:

· Aug 24 (Emergency Motion to Reconsider): The federal government rushed to District Judge Indira Talwani, using SCOTUS’s brand-new ruling to vacate the second injunction.

· Aug 25/26 (Injunction Lifted): Judge Talwani agreed with SCOTUS’s logic, vacating the August 11 preliminary injunction because challenging the order before official rules were published was deemed “premature”.

· Aug 26 (The Rule Drops): With the court barriers down, the USPS immediately published its Final Rule in the Federal Register. In response, the League of Women Voters and state AGs instantly filed supplemental complaints and NEW emergency motions for a TRO against the finalized rule.

· Sept 3 (The Next Showdown): Judge Talwani scheduled a hearing for September 3, 2026, to rule on these new TRO motions against the USPS.

SCOTUS didn’t end the fight – it triggered a lightning-fast procedural reset. The administration published the rule, and the plaintiffs filed new emergency filings targeting the finalized regulation.

While the plaintiffs argue that the timing and magnitude of these executive requests will adversely affect election administration, the plaintiffs themselves are directly contributing to the timing issues, confusion, and chaos.

By continually dragging these measures through endless litigation, they keep the entire country in a perpetual state of limbo – leaving voters, election workers, and government agencies trapped in a web of uncertainty over whether rules will stand or if another TRO will drop.

The judicial process was designed for checks and balances, not perpetual obstruction that turns the rule of law into a chaotic mess.

Unite4Freedom has consistently used existing state and federal laws as the bedrock for their arguments and efforts to achieve valid, transparent, and auditable elections.

While the administration is stepping up to implement common-sense measures necessary to bolster election security and verify voter integrity, certain individuals, political parties, and special interest organizations appear to have an extreme aversion to any meaningful improvement in election administration, security, or validity

…we have to ask ourselves why.

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A Trillion Dollar Budget But Military Can’t ‘Afford’ To Attack Mold On Bases?

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finds that the maintenance backlog for military installations has ballooned to more than $285 billion – leaving many facilities in disrepair, while risking readiness and service members’ quality of life.

This figure is a jump up from 2022, when the maintenance backlog was about $137 billion. But the backlog continues to grow, because the services only request about 80% of the funds they need for installation repairs and maintenance.

“By requesting less funding for installation maintenance and improvement projects than its models and experts recommend, DOD has chosen to accept some degree of risk that mission or quality of life will be negatively affected,” the report, released Friday, found.

Indeed, service members face a range of issues at the facilities where they work and live. Barracks at Naval Station Norfolk, for example, have had suspected mold since 2023. But the installation office declined requests to test the growth observed there “due to the cost of testing and potential remediation.”

Another highly used facility at that Naval station had evidence of asbestos and significant water damage, GAO found. While all the station’s piers require renovation, the Navy was “actively improving” only one – leaving the rest to operate in a “degraded condition.”

At one Naval Base Guam facility, GAO observed, rust build-up and algae on an emergency door’s lock could “affect the door’s functionality during an emergency.” The base’s facilities have also been prone to HVAC failures and roof leaks, GAO found, leading to suspected mold.

Beyond physical hazards and operational risks, other issues undercut service members’ overall quality of life.

About 3,000 soldiers live at Fort Wainwright, for example, yet the army installation’s dining facility was only built to serve 800.

“The dining facility is not able to serve soldiers in a timely manner, so many opt to eat less-healthy food in their living spaces at their own expense, especially in the winter when it is too cold to wait in line outside,” GAO found. Officials have repeatedly advocated for expanding the dining facility, but the installation has not yet received the funding needed to do so.

The maintenance backlog continues to swell despite the Pentagon’s rapidly expanding budget. The White House requested a record $1.5 trillion defense budget for FY 2027.

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Judge Throws Out 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Confession Days Before 25th Anniversary of September 11 Terror Attacks

A judge threw out a key confession made by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohmmed just two weeks before the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.

This is the latest blow to the federal government.

Recall that in July 2024, under the Biden Regime, three September 11 masterminds reached plea deals with the US government, the Department of Defense said.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and his co-conspirators Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawhi will avoid the death penalty in a pre-trial plea deal reached.

An appeals court later canceled that agreement, so the death penalty is back on the table.

3,000 Americans were killed in the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon, and a downed plane in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

On Friday, the New York Post reported that a military judge tossed out a confession by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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THE CEUTA CROSSING: Anatomy of a Manufactured Crisis

On the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, a narrow border separates Morocco from a piece of Spain. On the night of July 29, that border gave way. Tens of thousands of young men surged into Ceuta by land and sea, following online claims that the crossing had been opened. By morning, bodies were being pulled from the water and collected from the fence.

It looked like chaos, but it did not come without warning. For years, Israeli and American political figures had threatened Spain over Gaza, questioned its sovereignty in North Africa and presented Ceuta as a pressure point. Months before the crossing, a former Pentagon adviser published the method almost exactly as it later unfolded, calling on Morocco to send an unarmed mass march into the city while NATO stood aside.

This investigation follows the trail that preceded the crowd, through Israeli threats, Washington pressure, Moroccan lobbying, military agreements and a digital mobilisation that delivered tens of thousands of people to one of Spain’s most exposed borders. The fence gave way only after powerful interests had spent years explaining exactly what Spain’s loss of control over Ceuta could achieve.

On the night of July 29, 2026, an estimated 70,000 people, mostly young men, crossed from Morocco into the Spanish city of Ceuta in under forty-eight hours. At least 88 people died at the border fence, and in the water; a toll Spanish authorities and news organisations repeatedly revised upwards in the days that followed. Morocco’s Interior Ministry put the figure at 11, while the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) estimated that nearly 130 people had died. More than a thousand required medical treatment, yet days later there was still no agreed account of how many lives the crossing had taken.

Moroccan police were present along the route in visible numbers. Videos circulating within hours showed officers watching the crowds pass and, in some cases, appearing to direct people towards crossing points rather than stopping them. By the weekend, testimony published by international news organisations had made those images harder to dismiss. Several people who reached Ceuta said Moroccan officers had told them, “Go that way” or “Come to Spain.” The force capable of stopping the movement was not absent. It was there, along the route, as tens of thousands advanced towards the border. That shifts the investigation away from how Morocco lost control of the crossing and towards the evidence that, for the crucial hours in which it gathered momentum, control was deliberately withheld.

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80-Page Report Reveals New Details About Pharmacy Technicians Involved in Drug Mix-Up That Left Patients Paralyzed at Nashville Hospital

An 80-page report revealed more details about a ‘pharmacy error’ that sent multiple patients into cardiac arrest at a Nashville hospital.

At least two patients are paralyzed, and one was put on a ventilator at Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital on August 14 after they were given the wrong medication prior to surgery.

The four patients were reportedly given potassium instead of an anesthetic. The dangerous mix-up happened at the hospital’s in-house pharmacy.

Too much potassium administered too quickly can stop a person’s heart, CBS reported.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations is now involved in the case.

The hospital said they were “sorry” for injecting the patients with too much potassium.

“Our hearts remain entirely with the four patients and families impacted by the recent event at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown,” the hospital said. “On behalf of our leadership and care teams, we extend our deepest apologies for the harm caused.”

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Flock CEO Garrett Langley Targeted as Address Shared Online

Critics of Flock Safety are circulating an address they say belongs to company founder and CEO Garrett Langley, marking an escalation in the widespread backlash the surveillance technology company is facing amid concerns over privacy and potential police misuse.

Numerous posts sharing an address purportedly belonging to Langley have circulated on X, with many users responding to a viral post that quoted Langley as saying Americans must “compromise” on their privacy.

Some shared what they said was a blurred image of Langley’s home on Google Street View, with one X user saying the “compromise apparently doesn’t apply to him.”

Newsweek has not verified the address and is not publishing or linking to it. Newsweek has contacted Langley for comment via an email to Flock Safety.

The renewed attention came after Langley recently appeared on Fox News’ Saturday in America, where he called for a “compromise” between public safety and privacy.

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Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent Schools Elizabeth Warren – Offers Her ‘Foreign Exchange for Dummies’

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently smacked down Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and it was a thing of beauty.

Apparently, Warren sent Bessent a letter a few weeks ago claiming that she had ‘serious questions’ about foreign exchanges happening under Trump.

From Warren’s letter:

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent pressing for more information regarding the Trump Administration’s decision to deploy its Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) to boost financial markets and inflate the Japanese yen after it rapidly dropped to a 40-year low. Warren noted that the Administration has yet to provide a detailed justification for its intervention, nor has it officially disclosed how much taxpayer-linked funds were spent purchasing yen.

“The mechanisms through which Treasury executed the yen purchase raise serious questions regarding the costs to American taxpayers,” wrote Ranking Member Warren.

Bessent’s response was EPIC. He posted it on Twitter/X. Here it is in full:

In her latest sciolistic letter to me, @SenWarren made it clear that she knows even less about foreign exchange markets than she does about banking.

What is equally shocking, but not surprising: not a single member of the media mob has a rudimentary-enough level of financial market literacy to spot her remedial error.

To reiterate: under @POTUS, the United States delivers for America’s trusted partners.

For a fuller explanation, I recommend Senator Warren take any entry level course in international finance for her and her staff, or I can personally give her a tutorial on Foreign Exchange for Dummies. Although I am not holding my breath, I hope her next letter will demonstrate that she has learned the difference between a currency purchase and a swap or a loan.

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