Month: March 2022
Germany: Lenient sentence passed on Syrian synagogue bomber
He had plotted a bomb attack on the Hagen synagogue. Now the Hagen assassin Oday J. (17 years old) from Syria was sentenced by the Hagen Regional Court. One year and nine months on probation according to juvenile criminal law.
In addition, the judges ordered him to be placed in a reform school. Another condition of the probation is the change of location!
The trial for preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state was held in camera due to the age of the accused and ended surprisingly on Monday.
Court spokesman Christian Potthast (43) told the newspaper BILD: “He admitted most of the charges and confessed.
The reasons why the primary school student had radicalised himself within a few weeks and was religiously obsessed could not be clearly clarified. “There was no specific time when he planned the attack – he wanted to be prepared and had chosen the synagogue as a target,” said the court spokesman.
The instructions for building the bomb and for his The reasons why the secondary school student had radicalised himself within a few weeks and was religiously blinded could not be clearly clarified. “There was no specific time when he intended to carry out the attack – he wanted to be prepared and had chosen the synagogue as a target,” said the court spokesman.
He had obtained the instructions for building the bomb and for his explosive belt from the ISIS bomb builder Abu Harb (“Father of War”) via the messenger service “Telegram”.
However, Oday said at the trial that he would only have carried out an attack “if Kabul was bombed or if civilians were killed in an attack by Western troops.
Defence lawyer Ihsan Tanyolu (45) told BILD: “As a result of the verdict, those involved in the proceedings agreed that placement in a reform school was appropriate and the most sensible thing to do.” The judgement is not yet final.
Budapest tarred by Kiev
Not only Germany, but also Hungary is being confronted with severe criticism from Kiev in the Ukraine conflict. Irina Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, said it was not far from describing official Hungarian rhetoric as “openly pro-Russian”.
âDoes Hungary want cheap Russian gas or annex Transcarpathia?â she wanted to know. âDo the Hungarians really want to take on the role of stabbing us in the back in these difficult times? Why? To get alms from the Russians?â The Hungarian government says no to almost everything and does not want to allow arms transports through Hungary for Ukraine, added the Ukrainian deputy head of government.
The government in Budapest reacted immediately and called the criticism âunjustified and insultingâ. The Hungarian embassy in Kiev firmly rejected the allegations. There is understanding that in the current âtragic situationâ an âelevated emotional moodâ prevails. However, this could not be a basis for âsenselessâ and âunfounded allegationsâ, it said.
Since the outbreak of conflict, more than 641 000 refugees have fled across the Hungarian border so far. Before the Ukraine conflict, around 150 000 members of the Hungarian minority lived in western Ukrainian Transcarpathia alone, which belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary until the end of the First World War.
Incidentally, the Hungarian minority has been harassed by Kiev in a similar way to the population of Russian origin in eastern Ukraine. Budapest has repeatedlymade representations to Brussels, among other things, because of the discriminatory Ukrainian school policy, which does not allow education for the Hungarian community.
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages was practically annulled by the Kiev junta since the Euromaidan coup, undermining the status of both Hungarian and Russian.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/03/28/budapest-tarred-by-kiev/
How many COVID booster shots will finally be enough?
By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
From the beginning of the COVID pandemic starting two years ago, we have heard conflicting and often nonsensical recommendations from those charged with knowing better and leading the country through the biggest public health crisis that most of us have ever experienced.
From â15 days to slow the spreadâ to mask mandates changing as fast as the weather, reality and science was whatever those in power declared it to be on any given day. First, we were told that masks were worthless in stopping viruses. Shortly thereafter we were told to wear one, then two, then one, now back to none.
Masks are unnecessary in a crowded mall, restaurant, or BLM protest, but life-saving in an elementary school, airport, or airplane which is constantly recirculating and disinfecting the air. Similarly, the vaccines, we were told, would stop transmission and infection with COVID until we learned that they did neither, only reducing the severity of illness and risk of death.
In the U.K. for example, last month 80-90 percent of COVID deaths were among the vaccinated, although the âfact checkersâ are eager to claim âmisinterpretationâ or âlack of context.â
Nothing is permitted to interfere with the preferred narrative.
So, when are vaccinations no longer necessary? When has a country or region reached a sufficient level of herd immunity that life can return to some semblance of normal? Never mind the businesses, families, and lives destroyed by closures and mandates, whose only view of normal is in their rear-view mirrors. Life will never be normal again just as it isnât for residents of a town devastated by a hurricane or tornado.
Several weeks ago, the New York Times asked: âWho should get a fourth Covid shot?â In other words, not one but two booster shots. The article acknowledges what many would agree with: âSeveral studies have found that while mRNA booster shots have been successful at preventing hospitalization and death, their effectiveness against infections is waning.â
Vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna are all in for more boosters as more shots translate into more billions to the company and more C-Suite billionaires. Both vaccine makers have asked the FDA for emergency use authorization for second boosters, for adults age 65 years and older in the case of Pfizer and for all adults for Moderna. How soon until they are seeking authorization for a third or fourth booster? When does it all end?
Who actually needs a booster injection, much less a second booster? Vaccine immunity rapidly diminishes, hence the push for boosters. Forbes notes: âMore evidence has emerged that immunity to Covid-19 is quick to fadeâin people of all ages, but more so for the old than the young.â A recently published British study, discovered that the prevalence of COVID antibodies across England dropped more than 26 percent in three months.
Whatâs missing from this discussion is the well-known concept of natural immunity, where exposure to an infectious agent causes the immune system of the affected individual to acquire both humoral and cellular immunity, which is often long lasting, perhaps an entire lifetime.
Individuals afflicted with the SARS infection in 2003 still have antibodies in their systems, now almost 20 years later. Itâs safe to assume a comparable long-lasting immune response to those infected with COVID, as it is a similar virus. Acting FDA commissioner Dr Janet Woodcock says: âMost Americans will be exposed to the virusâ with resulting natural immunity, which is why COVID will end as a pandemic, and become endemic like the seasonal flu.
Do these individuals need one, two, or more boosters on top of natural immunity? Do the benefits of boosters, on top of natural immunity, outweigh the risks of a vaccine-induced adverse event? Is this even being considered or discussed?
Natural immunity, acquired through a respiratory infection, also provides mucosal immunity. Vaccine immunity, the vaccine being administered into the body, results in blood circulating antibodies which are not triggered until someone has COVID infection within their body. Mucosal immunity can step in upon exposure to the virus, a first line of defense, preventing systemic infection.
Think of protecting a building on a large property. Blood-based immunity protects the building only, but mucosal immunity protects the property, stopping invaders long before they even reach the building.
I must add the standard and necessary disclaimer that I am not anti-vaccine, having been personally fully vaccinated. Nor am I offering medical advice, only an analysis of this recent news item. Any vaccine decisions should be between you and your physician based on a thoughtful analysis of risks and benefits, as is standard for any medical intervention.
As this paper in Clinical Microbiology and Infection explains: âThe rationale for the early mucosal immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 starts with its entry and early replication in upper airway mucosal surfaces, especially the nasopharynx.â In other words, a robust first line of defense.
This means that vaccine protection kicks in once one is already infected, rather than stopping the virus in the respiratory tract, preventing it from entering the blood stream and causing infection. As the above mentioned article states, âAccording to a classic dogma, parenterally administered vaccines against mucosal pathogens induce primarily serum antibodies, but are poorly capable of generating protective mucosal immunity, at the pathogen entry site.â
Who should then receive a booster injection? Everyone or only those at higher risk of infection, hospitalization, and death, where the added protection outweighs the risk of a vaccine induced adverse event such as a blood clot or stroke.
As the NY Times article notes:
One reason older adults may benefit from an additional booster shot is because as the immune system ages, it tends to weaken and does not produce the same quantity or quality of antibodies as it did when it was younger. On top of that, older adults often have other medical conditions that take up the bodyâs attention, putting them at higher risk of severe disease.
In other words, protect the vulnerable, don’t simply vaccinate everyone. Shingles and pneumococcus vaccines are available for older individuals but are not recommended for the young and healthy, including children, as their risk of infection is extremely low.
Otherwise, we are simply treating antibody levels, without providing much actual benefit to the vaccinated individual. A New England Journal of Medicine studylooked at Israeli health care workers of all ages and found that both Pfizerâs and Modernaâs fourth shots bolstered antibody levels, though they were not very good at preventing infection. Are we treating a lab result or a person?
The blanket approach of vaccinating everyone, regardless of age and health status, is a one size fits all approach that runs contrary to modern medical care. The FDA describes, âpersonalized medicineâ as: âDecisions about who should get certain kinds of therapies or specific doses of a given therapy, or who should be monitored more carefully because they’re predisposed to a particular safety issue.â
Why is COVID being treated differently? From the beginning, an alternative approach could have been to protect and isolate those at high risk, offering therapeutics, even if not validated by lengthy randomized prospective clinical trials, to others, allowing natural immunity to grow and eventually protect most of population.
This is how we approach other infectious diseases, yet with COVID the old rules went out the window, replaced by draconian lockdowns, business closures, and mandates. Now we are learning, as Johns Hopkins University researchers reported,
Lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.
How soon until we learn the same about the endless stream of vaccine boosters, particularly for those at low-risk? The blatant disregard of past infectious disease policy suggests that these measures were more about control than actually protecting people, leaving a stain on those entrusted to protect our public health.
Football player Eran Zahavi urges: ‘Clean out weapons circulating in streets, use collective punishment for locations which produce terrorists’
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Israeli football star Eran Zahavi (photo), who plays as a forward for Eredivisie club PSV Eindhoven and Israel’s national team, has called the Arabs who perpetrated a shooting attack, “animals.”
“Maybe we can wake up already?” he asked. “Maybe we can increase the severity of the punishments for terrorists? Maybe we can clean out the weapons circulating in the streets? Maybe we can give collective punishments to those places which produce terrorists?”
“Things can’t continue this way,” he insisted. “Animals!”
On Instagram, he wrote, “They make sure to remind us, again and again, that these terrorists were ISIS members and blah blah blah.”
“People, wake up. Don’t try to pretty things up. These are Arab Israelis from Umm al-Fahm! Please, stop trying to mislead the public.”
Zemmourâs concept of remigration explained by a political scientist
If elected the president, Ăric Zemmour proposes to create a ministry of âremigrationâ to manage the problems of migration, clandestine business, and the expulsion of foreigners. But what does this concept mean? Political scientist Jean-Yves Camus explained Zemmourâs vision in an interview with the Ouest-France news outlet.
Camus clarified that the concept of âremigrationâ means the return of migrants to the âcountry of origin.â It concerns people of non-European origin staying in France. However, according to Camus, this does not concern people from countries such as the United States and Canada, but mainly those of African origin.
âIt should be borne in mind that the concept of remigration is the logical consequence of the concept of Great Replacement. They are intimately linked. The concept of the great replacement says that the French people are now a minority in their territory, in their own country,â Camus noted.
Closing the borders is not an answer to the great replacement
However, he pointed out that the idea of ââclosing the borders to all new immigration, dear to Marine Le Pen, does not resonate with people who believe in the Great Replacement. Essentially, closing the borders to all new migration still means there are migrants already in the country. Proponents of the Great Replacement want to return to the ethnic composition of the French population that excludes anyone who is not of European origin.
âRemigration is the act of âre-migrating,â which means that you have migrated to France and you will remigrate when you go back to âyourâ country. The problem is that, obviously, many people no longer consider their country of origin to be their country,â said Camus.
When asked whether this policy of remigration can be implemented in practice if Zemmour is elected the president, Camus mentioned the words of Antoine Diers, the assistant director of campaign strategy fo Zemmour. Diers recently said they intend to make about 400,000 people leave in a year.
âI would like someone to explain to me how this is possible, not only in terms of logistics but above all who are we sending away?â Camus asked.
Remigration supporters believe in the âright of bloodâ
According to him, though, this policy should not be called uninhibited racism.
âI wouldnât use that term. For me, it is ethno-differentialism, an idea that everyone must live in their own country, not taking into account the right of the land. It is important to remember that the defenders of the theory of the Great Replacement and remigration incline to believe in the right of blood,â Camus explained.
Camus thinks that Zemmour fundamentally believes in the concept of remigration but decided to announce his intentions only after he saw the decline in the latest pre-election polls. Thus, he presented a truly different political idea, and this strategy could work.
The use of the concept of remigration should help Zemmour to outflank Valérie Pécresse and Marine Le Pen on the right. In fact, for Zemmour, remigration is a logical response to the Great Replacement phenonenom that he presents in his statements.
The policy of remigration is a new step, says Camus, who would not call this a trivialization of right-wing theories and concepts. It is a concept similar to those defended a few years ago by the marginal political movements.
âIt reflects the existence of a margin of voters with very radical ideas on questions of identity. They are either disappointed with Marine Le Pen or people from the traditional right,â concluded Camus.
https://rmx.news/article/zemmours-concept-of-remigration-explained-by-a-political-scientist/
In March three top cyclists suffer heart attacks, two die
March has not been a good month for vaccinated cyclists.
Belgian cyclist CĂ©dric Baekeland died of a heart attack during a training camp in Mallorca, Spain. Baekeland had been on the Mediterranean island since March 12 for the March 26 start of the season in Slypskapelle, Belgium.
The cyclist from the Belgian city of Roeselare, on March 14, suffered a heart attack. He only managed to alert his sleeping roommate before he collapsed. All efforts to resuscitate Baekeland were in vain.
âHe had recently been examined, the test showed that he was perfectly healthy,â his team said.
The young cyclist only recently took up the sport after playing football for both KSV Roeselare and Club Roeselare. An injury cut short his budding soccer career and he turned to cycling. This season he would have been a full member of the elite cycling squad.
At the request of the family, the cycling team declined media interviews in Mallorca for the time being, Nieuwsblad reported. All the cyclists on the team had reportedly been vaccinated. Ronny Vanmarcke (73) the former coach of the National Youth Cycling and the oldest face of the jab campaign, had boasted about the high jab rate of older cyclists generally. In October last year, he urged the youth to get the shot too.
âThe pros have already been able to ride competitions, but the youth is longing to be able to cycle again. At the first youth cycling races I will certainly be cheering at the finish. With my participation in this campaign, I hope to convince the doubters to get vaccinated so that we can quickly resume normal life.â
It appears that a ânormal lifeâ now includes the possibility of healthy young men dying of heart failure.
The news of Baekelandâs death comes in the wake of the sudden demise of another 28-year-old rider, Scotlandâs Commonwealth Games cyclist John Paul. On March 9, Paul also passed away and the cause of his sudden death was not made public, leading to speculation that he had died as a result of the Covid-19 vaccine.native advertising
On March 21, during the Volta a Catalunya cycling race in Catalonia, Italian cyclist Sonny Colbrelli collapsed crossing the finishing line with initial reports suggesting that he suffered a cardiac arrest. He was however resuscitated and diagnosed with one of the known side-effects of the jab, namely âcardiac arrhythmiaâ.
Colbrelliâs team issued an official statement on March 22: âOur medical team can confirm that Sonny Colbrelli suffered from a cardiac arrest that required defibrillation. The cause is still to be determined, and the Italian rider will undergo further tests tomorrow at the Hospital Universitari de Girona.â The cause was not made public however.
Last year, no less than three young Belgian cyclists from Kempen developed heart problems after a race. Junior Joppe Erpels from Arendonk ended up in intensive care, Xander Verhagen from Geel had problems during training and newcomer Yarno Van Herck said he suddenly felt a stab in his chest during the race.
France, the epicentre of global cycling, voted a law last year requiring all participants in cycling events (athletes, support staff and most spectators) to be vaccinated for the Tour de France.
As in international tennis, a negative Covid test is no longer sufficient for freedom of movement and access to venues in France. Cyclists, team members and fans at cycling events, have to be fully compliant with vaccine pass rules. And Belgian cyclists have adhered to these dictates.
Meanwhile, the only defining issue for this male age groupâs spiking death rate has been mass vaccination.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/03/28/in-march-three-cyclists-suffer-heart-attacks-two-die/
France: Idriss Sihamedi, founder of Barakacity, proposes to Eric Zemmour to organise the departure of Muslims from France himself if the latter is elected
If he agrees, I will organise the most amazing departures.
Bidenâs brain broke again, this time with a dangerous remark about Putin
By Andrea Widburg
When leftists used to say George W. Bush was loose-cannon cowboy, the defense was that, if true, it kept the worldâs bad guys off balance. In 2022, we must ask whether Joe Bidenâs dementia persona does the same thing. Is he lost in the dim recesses of his own mind, leaking secret plans, or just bloviating? That question came to the fore in Poland, when Biden threatened Putin. The instant White House walk-back must still have left Putin wondering.
The occasion for this outburst was a speech that Biden gave at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland. The speech got off to a good start, with the speechwriter cleverly using the Warsaw venue to quote Pope John Paul II and his statement, âBe not afraidâ and laud Solidarityâs and Lech Walesaâs role in ending the Soviet Union. Then it got silly when Biden said, âIt reminds me of that phrase of philosopher Kierkegaard: â[F]aith sees best in the dark.ââ No one believes that Biden has ever thought about Kierkegaard.
Days after warning of food shortages, Biden explained, âThis battle will not be won in days or months either. We need to steel ourselves for the long fight ahead.â Joe Bidenâprophet of doom.
Laughably, Biden said that, despite the Cold Warâs end, the battle continues against âthe forces of autocracyâ: âIts hallmarks are familiar ones: contempt for the rule of law, contempt for democratic freedom, contempt for the truth itself.â Strange words from the most corrupt man ever to occupy the office, a compulsive liar, and the president under whom the January 6 detainees have languished for over a year in jail, without bail or functional access to attorneys.
Biden spoke of Zelenskyâs Jewishness. However, Zelensky, while his grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and he lost ancestors to the Holocaust, is genetically Jewish only. He admits that his upbringing was not Jewish, he married a non-Jewish woman, and his children are Christian. Nothing wrong with any of that but thereâs strong evidence heâs no friend to Jews or Israel, so letâs not pretend. Ukraine’s protection does not depend on Zelensky’s faux-Jewish identity.
The speech went on and on, with Cold War platitudes, half-truths, self-aggrandizement, and boasts about destroying Russiaâs economy and stealing the private wealth of Russian citizens, even though America is not at war with Russia. âAs a result of these unprecedented sanctions, the ruble almost is immediately reduced to rubble.â
There was the creepy echo of Bidenâs story about the kids playing with his hairy legs: âI didnât have to speak the language or understand the language to feel the emotion in their eyes, the way they gripped my hand, and little kids hung on to my leg….â
And of course, he yelled, mumbled, and stumbled. Grandpa Simpson was on full display.
Biden wrapped up the speech by touting clean energy, ignoring (a) that Biden has been begging Iran, Venezuela, and the Saudis for their dirty energy and (b) that there will never be enough clean energy to go around as long as leftists reject nuclear energy.
Then, just when he seemed finally to be done speaking, Biden casually threw in a spontaneous threat to overthrow or even assassinate Putin: âFor Godâs sake, this man cannot remain in power.â
Germany will prosecute anyone using the letter âZâ in public
Two German states on Saturday said they have outlawed public displays of the âZâ symbol used by the Russian army in their invasion of Ukraine.
Anyone who brandishes the symbol at demonstrations or paints it on cars or buildings in a show of support for Vladimir Putinâs war could risk up to three years in jail or a fine in Lower Saxony or Bavaria.
âIt is incomprehensible to me how this symbol âZâ could be used in our country to condone this crime,â said Lower Saxonyâs interior minister Boris Pistorius.
âZâ, a letter that features in the Latin alphabet but not in Cyrillic, first appeared on military vehicles rolling towards Ukraine, possibly to distinguish them from Ukrainian forces and avoid friendly fire.
But the sign has since become ubiquitous on cars on the streets of Moscow, clothing and across social media profiles on the Russian internet â a trend the Russian authorities are eager to encourage.
In the German state of Lower Saxony too, there had been examples of such displays, said the stateâs interior ministry.
Bavariaâs Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich noted that freedom of opinion is a âgreat assetâ but it âends where criminal law beginsâ.
âSympathisers who use the symbol âZâ of Russian forces in Bavaria must know that they may be liable to prosecution for approving criminal acts,â he said.
âWe will not allow violations of international law to be condoned,â he said.
Germanyâs federal prosecutor has opened a probe into suspected war crimes by Russian troops since the invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.thelocal.de/20220326/german-states-outlaw-display-of-russias-z-war-symbol/