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Banks continue to raise mortgage rates, despite the fact that the base rate of the Czech National Bank is not increasing. Finance Minister Alena Schillerová certainly raised eyebrows among more than one banker and economist last week when she wrote on social media X that "banks continue to raise mortgage rates, despite the fact that the base rate of the Czech National Bank is not increasing." #hypotéky #finančnítrhy #úrokovéhradby (translated)

The chief legal adviser of the Israeli army, military prosecutor Itai Offir, noted in the Haaretz newspaper that there would be no legal basis for prosecution if the participants had not violated information security regulations or disclosed classified materials. #Izrael #filmNaza #vojenskáetika (translated)

President Pavel warned that as the power of technology grows, risks emerge that we are not yet able to control, and he emphasized the responsibility to ensure that their development respects democratic oversight and fundamental rights. #technologie #lidskápráva #Ukrajina (translated)

American Judge Jennifer Rochon ordered to halt the airing of taxpayer-funded political ads that celebrate President Donald Trump, based on a lawsuit from a nonpartisan citizens' initiative that claims the ads represent political propaganda and do not serve the public interest. #Trump #politickéreklamy #volby2023 (translated)

The boycott of Babiš's products stated that the election results confirmed the warnings of experts, analysts, and political scientists. He claimed that after entering the governing coalition, the preferences of SPD began to decline and that Tomio Okamura's party suffered a significant defeat. According to the author, no SPD candidate advanced to the second round of the senatorial elections. In the municipal elections, the party only defended 166 of the original 492 council seats, losing 326. He added that SPD was also losing support in poorer areas where it previously thrived, and he claimed that even Okamura's own voters were beginning to lose faith in him. He concluded the post with a wish for the downfall of political opponents, whom he derogatorily labeled. https://t.co/39epAeaGiZ #volby #politika #SPD (translated)

Motorists, after their failure in the municipal elections, where they received barely three percent of the votes and did not get into the Prague council, are contemplating the need to strengthen local foundations and find conservative themes for large cities, while in Ostrava, where they exceeded seven and a half percent, they achieved success thanks to locally well-known candidates. #Motoristé #komunálnívolby #Praha (translated)

The article analyzes the results of the municipal elections and the first round of Senate elections, which took place on October 9 and 10, and examines what coalitions could arise in regional cities based on these results. #KomunálníVolby #VolebníAnalýza #ČeskáPolitika (translated)

Vojtěch Gibiš wrote that Vladimir Putin has never fulfilled any of what he promised to Donald Trump. He stated that Trump still pushed for an agreement, while he identified Putin's non-compliance with agreements as the main issue. Gibiš also noted that Trump blamed Volodymyr Zelensky for this and described Putin as the leader of a terrorist regime. #politika #Trump #Putin (translated)

The author ironically described the acquisition of one representative mandate by Motorists for themselves in Černouček as a historic breakthrough and wrote that the surrounding municipalities had remained calm for now. He linked the success to Thursday's visit by Petr Macinka, who he claimed usually fears the president but took advantage of his absence in the municipality until Friday. Filip Turek, according to the author, celebrated and watched the emissions of the president's plane, which the author compared to his passion for fast cars. The author further stated that Motorists, according to ongoing numbers, remained below the five percent threshold in Prague. He compared their political ride to Turk's passage through the I.P. Pavlova intersection and mentioned that the celebration of the Černouček mandate was accompanied by two glasses of champagne and a press presentation, which he likened to the conquest of the Chamber of Deputies. According to him, further extraordinary news would come only when the Motorists acquired a second councilor. #politika #Českárepublika #historie (translated)

Climate models are complex computer simulations that predict the future of the climate based on physical equations and various emission scenarios, but their results show a wide range due to the uncertainty of the precise development of factors influencing the climate and the internal variability of the climate system. #klimatickémodely #klima #věda (translated)

The police in India detained hundreds of protesters in New Delhi who are demanding the resignation of the chairman of the election commission and electoral reform, among those detained is the founder of the Ant-Lok Sabha Party, Abhijeet Dipke. #Protesty #Demokracie #Indie (translated)

Marie Bastlová shared a statement by Radka Denemarková about the current government. According to her, Denemarková stated that Oto Klempíř would report under any regime and that he misses such a system. She referred to the government as "soldateska," which, according to her, has discarded decency and morality and believes that it is not subject to oversight or laws. https://t.co/Rk4Xd7uGit #politika #morálka #společnost (translated)

Vláďa Foltán labeled Donald Trump's post about the Nobel Peace Prize as bizarre and wrote that Trump criticized again for not having won the prize. According to Foltán, Trump claimed that he deserved eight Nobel Peace Prizes for resolving eight wars: between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Israel and Hamas. According to Foltán, Trump also stated that he prevented Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, helped bring home all Israeli hostages including the last 28, both living and deceased, and negotiated the release of over 900 political prisoners from Eastern Europe. He also claimed that he brought home 196 hostages without ransom, forced NATO countries to increase defense spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, and removed Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela. The other two wars, in Iran and between Russia and Ukraine, he claimed were still in the planning stages for resolution or victory. Foltán stated that Trump questioned the merits of the woman in the photo he shared in his post and criticized the Nobel Prize as well as Norway. According to him, Trump claimed that the prize should have been awarded to the United States and labeled its awarding as a discredit to the accolade. #Trump #NobelovaCenaMíru #Politika (translated)