Month: November 2021

By Pete McArdle

The twitterverse is all abuzz over a #1 trending hashtag, #PoopypantsBiden, so at the risk of soiling my very soul, I perused Twitter’s website to see why.

The story starts with our president meeting the pope at the Vatican, presumably to discuss Jesus’s thoughts about climate change and whether one can claim to be a good Catholic while facilitating the dismemberment of unborn babies.

Three things stood out about the meeting.

One is that the Vatican canned the traditional live footage of the event, instead providing only still shots and small snippets of conversation between the two pale, frail old men.  In one snippet, Biden told the pope he (Pope Francis) was now talking to the only Catholic who’s never had a drink.  Although a devoted leftie himself, the pope undoubtedly did not appreciate the inference that his flock comprises alcoholics and must surely have wondered how deeply golden-fried a clearly senile Biden would be if he’d been a drinker.

Odd thing #2 is that the Biden meeting was much longer than the pope’s previous meetings with Orange Man Bad and the Lightbringer.  You can understand Pope Francis cutting short his meeting with The Donald — heck, Trump is the only American president ever to stand up for the unborn.  Socialist popes can’t have that — no, sir!

But why would the pope spend so much time with the addled husk of Jill Biden’s husband?  Was Biden that much more eloquent and interesting than St. Barry of Chi-town?  Unlikely.

The third strange item is Vatican photos that appear to show Biden wearing a blue suit and later, in the same meeting, wearing a black one.  Now, why would an old, feeble man need to change his pants?  As someone who’s arrived at old and is fast approaching feeble, I know the answer, and it rhymes with Descartes.  And should someone wearing a suit accidentally Descartes, it takes a good while to get out of all those clothes, clean up the affected area, and totally re-dress.

Now, photos can lie or be altered, so we can’t be sure of Biden’s suit change, nor can we prove that the live TV feed was cut and the meeting ran long simply because Scranton Joe schiffed his pants.  I would give #PoopypantsBiden three stars instead of four, meaning it’s highly likely but not definite that an old man in the throes of dementia had an accident.

Libs are absolutely losing their Schiff over the #1 hashtag on Twitter and have reliably come up with something phony and mendacious: a photo of The Donald golfing with an ominous stain on the seat of his white trousers.  I give this meme 0 stars, meaning it’s a bold-faced lie.  How do I know?

Because if Trump had ever suffered an accidental Descartes in public, the photo would have been on the front page of the N.Y. Times, led every news story on CNN for four years, and been a full-color poster on “Spud” Stelter’s wall.  Heck, the photographer who had captured the moment would have been awarded a Pulitzer Prize.  That’s how you know that the Trump photo on Twitter is a fake.

#Shartgate, on the other hand, sure seems genuine and, in time, may even replace #LetsGoBrandon!

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/bidens_accident.html

A series of incidents took place at the Saint-Lazare station in Paris. On Monday evening, November 1, a man armed with a knife threatened four railway security guards while shouting “Allah Akhbar. France is ruled by the Islamic State”. According to initial information from BFMTV, the guards had to use their weapons to neutralise the person. He was seriously injured by two shots to the chest. The suspect fell onto the tracks before being rescued and taken to hospital suffering from a life-threatening injury.

Initially, the officers had simply stopped the person because he was not wearing a mask, which is mandatory. The man then became aggressive and verbally assaulted the officers before pulling out a knife and invoking Islamic State. Identification papers were found in his belongings, which investigators are currently checking. The man is known to the police for violence, but has never been brought to justice by the intelligence services.

https://www.valeursactuelles.com/faits-divers/paris-un-homme-qui-criait-allah-akbar-avec-un-couteau-gravement-blesse-par-les-agents-de-la-surete-ferroviaire/

The results of the investigation are shocking: the man (30) from Witzenhausen, who drove a car into a group of schoolchildren on Friday morning, acted with intent, according to the public prosecutor’s office.

Little girl Imke (8) died, and two other 7- and 8-year-old girls were seriously injured.

Now a witness has come forward who was standing right next to the scene of the tragedy. According to the latest witness statements and the preliminary report of the expert, there is an urgent suspicion that “the 30-year-old made an active steering movement in the direction of the elementary school pupils and consequently intentionally caused the death of one child and the injury of several children,” according to the public prosecutor’s office.

Against this background, investigations were launched into homicide by malice aforethought, attempted murder, dangerous bodily harm and dangerous interference with road traffic.

According to the newspaper BILD, the 30-year-old Turkish national is said to have worked for a while in his brother’s kebab store, to have had a German girlfriend and to have had his driver’s license taken away once. He is currently said to be unemployed.

The 30-year-old was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

https://www.bild.de/regional/frankfurt/news/hessen-todesfahrer-von-witzenhausen-fuhr-offenbar-absichtlich-in-kindergruppe-78119650.bild.html###wt_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fm.bild.de%2F&wt_t=1635847647877

Members of European Parliament (MEPs) from four countries have spoken out in opposition to violations of “basic human rights” in the EU. Romanian MEP Cristian Terheş also spoke at the press conference in Brussels against vaccine mandates.

Terheş condemned EU officials who claim to represent the “most democratic institution” while shunning “fundamental rights” and transparency. “The question I address not only to you in the Parliament, but to every European citizen, to ask your own governments: Were you properly informed about what is going on?” Terheş asked. “Because we had many debates at the beginning of this year in Parliament, where we demanded full access to contracts signed between these companies that produce the vaccines and the European Union.”

He held up heavily-redacted copies of government contracts with Big Pharma. “So you’re imposing a medical product upon European citizens without them knowing what’s in these contracts? Not only do they not know, but we [MEPs] don’t know.

“I want to show you some of those pages and you tell me if it’s okay for European citizens to be exposed to this situation where they can’t go to work, can’t go into a store, can’t take their kids to school, cannot travel freely from one country to another, unless if one is vaccinated with one of these products.

“As a former US president said, ‘Freedom and liberty is only one generation away from extinction.’ We are living in that type of time right now, and it is our duty and our call to fight for liberty,” Terheş concluded.

MEP Christine Anderson of Germany also spoke at the briefing. “I will not be reduced to a mere guinea pig by getting vaccinated with an experimental drug. And I will most assuredly not get vaccinated because my government tells me to, and promises, in return, I will be granted freedom,” she said.

“Let’s be clear about one thing: No one grants me freedom, for I am a free person. So I dare the European Commission and the German government to throw me in jail. Lock me up and throw away the key for all I care, but you will never be able to coerce me into being vaccinated if I, the free citizen that I am, choose not to be vaccinated.”

Anderson said health passports were actually similar to the “insufferable Chinese social credit system”.

Italian MEP Francesca Donato said compulsory health passports for work, travel, shop, or simply to exist as a free person, were incompatible with basic human rights.

MEP Ivan Sinčić of Croatia also defended medical freedom and called for refunds for all citizens who have been fined in connection with arbitrary Covid “violations”.

“They are not going to stop, my friends, but they must be stopped. This is not going to stop by itself. It will spread. It will come to your door. It will blackmail your life, every piece of your life,” Sinčić warned.

“I call upon all the free people of Europe to resist the Digital Green Certificate wherever you can. Fight for your rights.”

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/11/02/meps-push-back-against-mandatory-health-pass/

A knife in his hand and he shouts to her “Allah Akbar”. An Egyptian national who was chased by police on the night of October 31 in the historic center of Piacenza sowed fear and panic on Halloween night. When he reached Piazza Cavalli, the man who felt chased allegedly took a 53-year-old Geocart operator hostage, who was working as a night sweeper with a colleague. From a first reconstruction, from a side street to the square, the foreign citizen appeared, waving a knife and shouting Allah Akbar. The man, who was chased by police, would have caught the operator of Geocart trying to protect himself from the agents, and with a knife he would have wounded the victim in the buttocks. Fortunately, the victim kept his purse in his trouser pocket, an item that would have mitigated the plug. In the agitated phases, the operator would have fallen to the ground, including a wound in his hand and a cracked rib. Even before that, the Egyptian citizen, a 34-year-old criminal and illegal immigrant, allegedly injured a police officer. The assailant was arrested on charges of attempted murder. Carabinieri also intervened on the spot.

https://medforth.org/italien-ausreisepflichtiger-agypter-sticht-allahu-akbar-schreiend-auf-polizisten-und-mullmanner-ein/

Belarusians are starting to complain about the accumulation of Middle Eastern migrants on the streets of the country’s capital city of Minsk. As a result, the crisis, which is being used by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to pressure Poland and other European countries opposed to his rule, may be starting to backfire.

“I was walking around today – the Arabs were everywhere. Groups of about 20 people with luggage walk around. There are fewer locals than foreigners,” comments the author of a video in which a group of people from the Middle East sit at a shopping center in Minsk.

Images of migrants stuck in Belarus have been multiplying on social media in recent days. They point out the fact that Alexander Lukashenko’s government is in real danger of falling into its trap. Lukashenko’s artificially induced crisis did not live up to the regime’s fundamental expectations, which is to force the European Union to lift at least some of the painful sanctions.

According to locals, groups of migrants sit every day in busy places and the center of Minsk, and footage of people sleeping in the subway or a crowded airport was posted online. Most of the migrants are provided with hotels by smugglers after arrival, but according to the inhabitants of the capital, the number of migrants sleeping in the streets is increasing. At the same time, people point out that such groups are not only in Minsk but also close to cities near borders. For example, the Belsat news portal recently published on its Telegram profile photos of a group of migrants who, according to the author, are camping near a children’s camp in the village of Vysokaje, only about 25 kilometers from the Polish border.

The migration crisis on the borders of Belarus and its neighbors was unleashed by the Belarusian government this spring in response to European sanctions adopted in connection with the hijacking of a plane with Belarusian opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich on board. At that time, Belarusian travel agencies began transporting migrants from the Middle East and Africa to the country on tourist visas, and smugglers transported them from the Minsk airport to the borders with Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland. However, the unexpectedly harsh reaction of the neighbors and the uncompromising attitude of the European Union have suddenly shown that migrants stranded at the borders can also be a problem for Minsk.

According to Belarusian experts, the regime is probably beginning to realize the danger of a boomerang effect. Travel agencies reported in mid-October that the government had suddenly tightened visa conditions for citizens of Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iran, Egypt, and Nigeria. They will no longer be able to apply for Belarusian visas when they arrive at the airport in Minsk but must arrange them in advance in their home country. Although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs declined to comment on the report, the measure is aimed at alleviating the sudden uncontrollable “tourist fever” among the citizens of the mentioned states.

“Statistics are not available, but there seems to be an accumulation of migrants in Belarus. These people will need to be accommodated somewhere and provided with medical care. In addition, there may be not entirely harmless individuals among them, including terrorists. Where are the guarantees that they will not start operating in Belarus?” analyst Aljaksandr Klaskouski told the Belarusian Zerkalo website.

According to him, Minsk was unpleasantly surprised by the harsh reactions and the uncompromising return of migrants from Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia.

Even so, according to the Belarusian media, new migrants continue to arrive in the country, hoping that through Belarus, they will reach mainly Germany. They travel, for example, through a third country — from Istanbul in Turkey through Damascus in Syria to Dubai. Visa-free travel with Belarus now applies to Egypt, Iran, and Pakistan, but the condition is a valid visa to EU or Schengen countries and a return ticket from Belarus.

In a weekend interview with the Elta news agency, Lithuanian Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė estimated that there were currently 6,000 to 7,000 migrants in Belarus who wanted to enter the EU.

https://rmx.news/article/lukashenko-trapped-in-his-schemes-as-migrants-pile-up-in-belarus/

The pollster Sabine B. and her institute Reserach Affairs are at the centre of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) scandal. In addition to B., ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his closest colleagues and ex-Family Minister Sophie Karmasin (all ÖVP), who is also working in the polling business, are listed as defendants. Her co-accused are afraid of B., especially since she may have turned state witness – apparently during her short-term imprisonment because of the danger of collusion.

For years, there was a remarkable consonance between B.’s polls and the ideas of the People’s Party. Whatever the ÖVP proposed was enthusiastically supported by the citizens in B.’s polls. And if not, then the figures were fudged, the public prosecutor’s office claims. And according to investigations, the taxpayer was allowed to pay for this charade, because the Ministry of Finance is said to have paid the invoices, which were also rigged.

But Sabine B. not only worked for the Ministry of Finance and for the Austria Media Group, for which she regularly conducted election polls, but also carried out her own studies. For example, in January 2020, when the coronavirus was known to Austrians from media reports, but had by no means been in evidence in Austria.

The results of this study are groundbreaking for the hysteria that Sebastian Kurz in particular, who is now accused together with B., stirred up at the latest from mid-March – the time of the first lockdown. And this despite the fact that they are extremely meaningless and were only conducted with a very small sample of people ( 500 people between the ages of 16 and 69), exclusively online. However, B. himself commented on them in a press release with the meaningful sentence:

The survey shows that this issue is very concerning to the population.

“43% of Austrians worry about being infected by the coronavirus”, is one of the striking conclusions drawn by B.. In reality, only 7 per cent were strongly worried, another 36 per cent only “somewhat worried”.

“The (sic!) coronavirus influences the behaviour of Austrians. Politicians are expected to take clear measures,” is another conclusion, although only a few respondents actually said they avoided crowds or public transport because of the media reports.

The only high level of agreement was the statement that people follow reports about Corona in the media and the rather generally formulated call to politicians to protect Austria. “I expect politicians to take swift measures to protect Austria from the corona virus.” – This banal sentence was agreed with by 41 percent very much and another 41 percent somewhat.No wonder: who expects politics to be inactive in the face of possible threats?

For the People’s Party and its Green coalition partner, this survey, which was widely reported in the media, should be reason enough to take the whole country hostage – starting with a hard lockdown that is unconstitutional in many parts – in a Corona hostage situation that is reaching a new low today with the 3G compulsion at the workplace.

That these were the “swift measures” that the citizens interviewed by Sabine B. in January 2020 wanted may be doubted.

https://www.unzensuriert.at/content/136881-so-heizte-die-oevp-nahe-meinungsforscherin-b-die-corona-hysterie-der-regierung-an/

Bible verses adorn the dome of the Berlin City Palace. The Palace Foundation considers this unacceptable. They fear that people of other religions might feel oppressed by this Christian message. That is why they want to put up a separate plaque next to the dome.

The Berlin City Palace was rebuilt from 2013 and inaugurated in December 2020. The real palace had been almost completely bombed in 1945, finally blown up by the GDR rulers in 1950 and replaced by the Palace of the Republic (in GDR jargon “Palazzo Prozzo” or “Erich’s Lamp Shop”) from 1971.

Now, as has been the case for more than a century and a half, a biblical phrase also adorns the dome of the newly built palace. In 1844, the Prussian King Frederick William IV had chosen the word: “There is salvation in no other, (…) but in the name of Jesus, to the glory of God the Father. That in the name of Jesus all the knees of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth should bow” (Acts IV, 12 and Philippians II, 10).

But now this: The Palace Foundation considers these sentences to be an unreasonable “claim to dominance by Christianity” and wants to point this out with its own text panel. They fear that people of other religions might feel oppressed by this Christian message. That is why they want to put up a special plaque next to the cupola. It will read: “All institutions in the Humboldt Forum expressly distance themselves from Christianity’s claim to sole validity and dominance, which is expressed in the inscription.

Could there be any more self-denial? Could it be any more stupid and cowardly? The Humboldt Forum obviously doesn’t even know its own namesake. Otherwise it would have taken note of the following sentence and put the brakes on itself. Wilhelm von Humboldt wrote in his “Letters to a Friend” on April 25, 1823: “Nowhere is this fatherly care of God for each individual’s happiness so truly expressed as in Christianity and the New Testament.”

Once again, the politically oh-so-correct, retroactive exorcists puff themselves up. That they don’t know “their” Humboldt would actually be enough. But the fact that they implicitly deny that the civil and human rights of the modern world are inconceivable without the Enlightenment and without Christianity (!) and Judaism does cast doubt on this institution. However, the clamour about the Bible sentences also suits the Humboldt Forum in other respects: It presents the Ethnological Museum as an apology for colonialism. Kowtow over kowtow to one’s own sin and vanity!

Well, how would you like it, you pseudo-Humboldtians? Perhaps a city palace with minarets and daily calls of the muezzin – as they are now allowed to resound on Fridays from up to 41 Cologne mosques? Will that satisfy you? Of course, Islam has nothing whatsoever to do with a claim to power.

Or do you have other role models? For example, the “culturally sensitive” renaming of kindergarten parades on St. Martin’s Day ( November 11) to “lantern parades”? Or the equally “culturally sensitive” renaming of Christmas markets to “light and star markets”? Or is a Bavarian tourism association a model for you? It had removed the crosses from the summits on brochures advertising a tour of the Alps in Arabic.

No, friends, what you are doing here is worshipping a hypocritical relativism, denying what makes up Germany, Europe and the entire West.

https://www.freethewords.com/2021/10/26/geschichtsklitterung-und-hohler-relativismus-am-berliner-stadtschloss/