Month: April 2022
France: Historic cemetery cross cruelly sawn off
The incident led to various allegations on social networks, with some talking of a “gesture of submission” or an “Islamist” attack. The cross, which has adorned the gate of the cemetery of Saint-Thomas-de-Conac (Charente-Maritime) since 1871, disappeared in April, the weekly Haute Saintonge reported on Friday ( April 22). According to a resident of the municipality, who is a descendant of the mayor who was in office when the cemetery was founded, the municipality was the trigger for this move, but did not want to comment on it.
The mayor “informed me that the cross had to be removed because of the new law”, says Guillaume Boraud. However, this reasoning contradicts the jurisprudence of the Council of State in this area, Haute Saintonge reminds us. In 2017, it had confirmed that while it was no longer possible to put religious signs on public buildings, those that existed before the 1905 law on the separation of church and state did not have to be removed.
Both the measure and the municipality’s keeping quiet irritate part of the population. “For us, this is not a conspicuous religious sign. This is the identity of France,” Guillaume complains. He also deplores the fact that the cross was simply sawn off. He criticises the ” cruelty ” of this gesture.
Surge In Germans Migrating to South America to Escape Muslim Migrants at Home: BBC
Paraguay is seeing a surge in German migrants, fleeing Islamic migrants in their own country and onerous coronavirus restrictions.
“We have a problem in Germany with Muslims,” said one of the exiles, adding: “Islam and vaccinations are big, big problems in this world.”
The German, named as Michael Schwartz and said to have arrived in Paraguay in November 2021, told the BBC that he had avoided taking coronavirus vaccinations — which the German health minister wants to make compulsory, although there is resistance to the policy in the federal legislature — because there are “many questions” around them, suggesting that “many Paraguayans” share his stance.
Stephan Hausen, another German emigrée who arrived in Paraguay with his family in the same month as Schwartz, raised similar concerns, in particular about “continuous” lockdowns which had left him “dumbfounded”.
“That was the final straw,” he said — although like Schwartz he also expressed concerns about Islamic migration to Germany.
“I think we should have more regulated migration [to Germany],” said Hausen’s wife, Theresa, suggesting that Berlin should cap the number of migrants allowed into the country and plan accordingly.
“We need to have a say in this!” she continued, perhaps alluding to the fact that notionally conservative former chancellor Angela Merkel, who opened the proverbial floodgates in 2015, did not campaign on a platform of mass migration — indeed, she declared that multiculturalism had “utterly failed” in 2010.
“Paraguay, in our experience, is a very Christian country, and we come from a Christian culture,” added her husband.
“We’ve got to know a great many people here and we’re on the same wavelength. In Germany it can’t happen like this, because in general the Muslims act so provocatively,” he said.
A pensive-looking Theresa appeared to try and dissuade him from continuing in this vein with a nervous “my dear”, prompting Stephan to tell his BBC interviewer: “Maybe this shouldn’t be filmed. It sounds a bit too harsh. We don’t want that.”
The publicly-funded British broadcaster aired the comments regardless.
A woman given the pseudonym “Hana” who helps Germans settle in Paraguay was also hesitant to express herself openly, speaking to the BBC only on the condition that they did not show her face or use her real name.
She claimed that the emigrants “want to protect their children”, saying that, in Germany, girls now “get raped, openly harassed in public spaces, because they are not wearing the [Islamic] veil.”
“A German woman is worth nothing to them,” she alleged, prompting her BBC interviewer to ask if she had “any evidence” to back up her claims.
“No, these are just my people who tell me that,” Hana responded, denying that she was racist and saying the only thing that mattered to her was having respect for the mainstream culture.
Berlin municipality to ration drinking water
The slogan of the Greens in Germany [Grün wirkt!] can now be quite literally translated into exactly the opposite of what it promises: The increasing scarcity of resources and restrictions as a result of the self-inflicted energy crisis are casting their shadows on everyday life, as “Green works!”
With eco-conscious Berlin’s “Master Water Plan”, water consumption is now being rationed for the first time – even without a drought.
The future of Germany is taking shape in Berlin. This applies not only to the open border migration policy, the city’s complete over-indebtedness or the dominance of violent clan crime, but also to the coming climate dictatorship: Due to the water shortage, which has been foreseeable for some time, the Senate is planning measures to reduce water consumption in its “Water Master Plan”.
Accordingly, the new plan is to contain more than 30 measures to reduce water consumption in the capital.
Penalties for too much consumption
And that has consequences: The water association Strausberg-Erkner (WSE) has already started rationing supplies. Initially, the limitations only applied to newcomers to the region; for them, water consumption in newly built houses is limited to 105 liters per person per day. If the quota is exceeded, fines are automatically due. But from 2025, this rule will be extended to all residents of the catchment area.
Since the previous statistical daily consumption in the affected region is 175 liters per person – and the national average is at least 126 liters – this rationing means a considerable restriction. With doctrinaire slogans reminiscent of socialist mismanagement, such as “You decide: climate protection begins at your tap,” the WSE, in the spirit of its green pacemaker, is pushing for “conscious” water consumption and reminding citizens that “filling the swimming pool, washing the car in the garden, extensive lawn irrigation are not part of the necessary drinking water supply”.
WSE association leader André Bähler identified the poor Berlin allotment garden owners as the main culprits. Although these are not registered in the association area, watering their gardens drives up consumption. The increase in water consumption in summer is not due to households, but to people trying to grow their own food.
Water use by Musk factory?
However, some also blame Tesla’s newly built Giga factory, which is located in the catchment area of the WSE, for its extreme water consumption. For these, however, well, the permissible funding amounts have already been increased by the red-green state government. Different standards apply to “global player” Musk and the sacred cow e-mobility.
Musk is said to have already invested around five billion euros in the factory, a sum that the Brandenburg Ministry of Economic Affairs confirmed, even if Tesla did not want to provide any information.native advertising
However, WSE spokeswoman Sandra Ponesky sees the new regulation for consumers as at best an intensification of a long-standing basic problem: The fact that the drinking water supply has to be guaranteed by small associations is fundamentally “too small-scale”. These issues need to be resolved at the federal and state levels. In plain language: its water centralism instead of regional solutions and competition.
The WSE is currently not allowed to pump more than 15 million cubic metres of water out of the ground per year. While this would allow it to supply the current population in the region and the Tesla factory at its currently planned scale, it also raises fears that the amount available will be far from sufficient in the near future.
Green enthusiasm meets reality
The Tesla factory is being built in an area rich in forests and lakes and in a water protection area. According to an EU directive – the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive – large investment projects require investments to be made with the least environmental impact. This test was not performed for the Tesla factory. So much for “green” concerns.
It is expected that “in the wake of Tesla” more companies will settle in the region, and with them significantly more people. In addition, the Bundeswehr data centre planned in Barnim and the Altlandsberg industrial estate will also need water in the future. The WSE therefore expects that its annual water quota of 15 million cubic metres will only last until the end of 2022. The association is now asking the state authorities for permission to pump an additional three million cubic metres per year. However, permission has not yet been granted.
There is also the question of whether Tesla plans to expand the factory further in the future. According to the latest plans, the Giga factory will be somewhat smaller than originally planned and there will also be no in-house battery production at the Grünheide site for the time being. However, there is still uncertainty about plans for future expansions of the factory. If Tesla plans to do so and the factory thus needs more water than the maximum 1,5 million cubic metres per year currently applied for, the situation is likely to get worse.
Because expanding the factory would need more water, Tesla did not want to contractually commit to the quantities currently under discussion initially.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/04/23/berlin-municipality-to-ration-drinking-water/
Germany: Tunisian murders pregnant German girlfriend because his web of lies was about to collapse
A 38-year-old man stabbed his pregnant partner to death because his web of lies was in danger of collapsing. The Regional Court in Lüneburg is convinced of this and sentenced the Tunisian to life imprisonment on Thursday.
This was in line with the prosecution’s demand, which had pleaded for malice murder and termination of pregnancy. “One thing is certain, the accused killed the woman,” said presiding judge Franz Kompisch. He spoke of a “completely senseless act” and called the man a “liar and impostor”.
It had been his plan to live at her expense through a web of lies. When her social welfare benefits were about to be reduced and he was supposed to present his documents as the father of the unborn child, he had decided to commit the cruel act, which he did not want to confess in the trial. The verdict is not yet final.
The man had moved to Germany to be with his girlfriend, whom he had known in his youth and later rediscovered via Facebook.
According to the court, he killed the 36-year-old woman with a kitchen knife. She had resisted. Under the victim’s fingernails, only the 38-year-old’s DNA traces were found.
The man had pretended to have a job at VW, but never was paid. A psychiatric expert could not find any impairment of the accused’s ability to control.
A medical report showed that he was the father of the unborn child. The lawyer demanded an acquittal. “A lot is unclear,” she said.
British daily calling for sanctions against Germany
One of the most important daily newspapers in the UK is not impressed by Germany’s resolve to punish Russia. They want to increase the pressure on Germany to “finally” impose an import ban on Russian gas. Otherwise, Germany itself should expect sanctions.
The British Telegraph is on a post-Brexit mission: The commentary in question comes from “finance columnist” Matthew Lynn, to whom the Telegraph already gave a platform to admonish Germany at the end of March.
There, too, Lynn claimed that Germany could easily afford to stop importing Russian gas and should start doing so without further delay.
Matthew Lynn thinks Germany’s concerns about their economy shrinking by 5 percent should be ignored. At any rate, he does not accept Germany’s argument that it wants to maintain social peace and only gradually become independent of Russian energy. According to Lynn, Germany is rich enough and should not make such a fuss about sanctions. Otherwise it should be punished with sanctions itself. Because anyone who buys German goods is deliberately supporting Vladimir Putin, Lynn contended.
It is almost as if Lynn and his sponsors have a vested interest in destroying Germany’s economy.
Sanctions would have a massive impact on the German population. Even essential areas such as the food supply would be affected. It is the fourth largest branch of industry in Germany, but has the second highest gas consumption after the chemical industry. Fear is now growing in the industry. Industry representatives warn urgently of the consequences of an energy embargo, but also of longer-term supply failures, for example with sunflower oil.
The chairman of the Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten (NGG) trade union, Guido Zeitler, told the Handelsblatt that he had spoken with companies about stopping Russian gas deliveries: “Many of them told me that if that really happened, then the lights go out for us”.
The production and processing of food, both animal and vegetable, is very energy-intensive. This is already linked to a price explosion, for example in agriculture, where farmers are suddenly confronted with drastically rising petrol and fertilizer prices. The food industry, which employs around 614 000 people, is now worried that companies will no longer be supplied with Russian gas after an import ban.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/04/23/british-daily-calling-for-sanctions-against-germany/
Patrick Christys: If you’re not happy in the UK you know where the nearest airport is
COVID-19 is becoming milder, but the left stays toxic as ever
By C.J. Baker
Just this morning (Tuesday, April 22, 2022), in the New York Times’ “the Morning” online report, a guy named David Leonhardt writes with apparent amazement that “Coronavirus cases have risen in major cities. Hospitalizations have not.” Imagine that.
Leonhardt goes on to note that despite the long list of members of Congress and other public servants recently diagnosed with COVID-19, none of them, even our superannuated speaker of the House, appears to have got very sick from it. To his credit, he supplements this observation with some charts that clearly show the disconnect between current cases (which are rising) and hospitalizations (which remain flat).
So far, so good. But then he gives his explanation for this trend. That’s where the spin and outright dishonesty of the COVID-forever left — led by the Times — continue apace.
To what does David the Lionhearted, the Gray Lady’s intrepid knight of the keyboard du jour, attribute these positive trends? He reports what (supposedly) “many experts believe”:
- Vaccines and booster shots are effective and universally available to Americans who are at least 12. (Covid [sic] continues to be overwhelmingly mild among children).
- Treatments — like Evusheld for the immunocompromised and Paxlovid for vulnerable people who get infected — are increasingly available.
- Tens of millions of Americans have already been infected with the virus, providing them with at least some immunity.
Two key points should be drawn from this list of explanations.
First, an absolutely central reason for the good news about COVID-19 has been deliberately omitted. Second, several systematic lies are embedded in the three explanations that are given.
As any truly knowledgeable and honest doctor or virologist — provided you can find one these days — will tell you, viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 mutate like crazy and evolve rapidly and in a predictable manner. In short, these viruses consistently mutate to become more transmissible and less virulent. Why do they evolve in this way? For the same reason all organisms evolve: to benefit their own propagation and survival.
When a new virus is first introduced to a host species, the initial interaction is often not pretty. The virus may struggle to spread between individuals, endangering its survival, and it may invoke severe illness in its host, even killing it, thereby endangering both species’ survival.
Moving slowly and painstakingly from one home to another, while burning down the one in which you currently reside, is no way to survive. So the virus mutates and evolves into a milder form that spreads more readily yet sickens the host less.
In essence, the perfect respiratory virus is the common cold. It infects its host but makes the host sick enough only to sneeze the virus’s progeny at everyone around. It spreads like wildfire, but it doesn’t burn down its own house in the process.
Not for nothing, but what do the other coronaviruses in general circulation among humans cause? That’s right: symptoms of the common cold. This is almost certainly the final common pathway for SARS-CoV-2.
As a practicing physician, trained before schools of public health veered to the left of gender studies departments, I have been saying this since the summer of 2020.
Meanwhile, panic pornographers ranging from Anthony Fauci to Times newsboy Leonhardt’s “experts” have latched onto that first trait of viral evolution (increased transmissibility) while deliberately downplaying, or even denying the second (reduced virulence). Why? Because they want to foment all the fear that increased transmissibility promotes, yet allow none of the hope and perspective about the virus that acknowledging reduced virulence would bring.
The second lesson to take from Leonhardt’s list is this: as the facts become too obvious to support their false narrative, leftists perform the propagandistic equivalent of a “tactical retreat,” covering their tracks with false and misleading explanations.
Leonhardt writes that “vaccines are effective and readily available.” Effective at what? At stopping the virus in its tracks, as the Times and Fauci claimed for months? Nope. At preventing persons from contracting COVID-19, as they also claimed? Well, obviously not, since every one of those politicians has been vaccinated and boosted to the hilt. At reducing severity of disease? Well, then what happened to the vaunted “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? Based on the data curves Leonhardt provides, the unvaccinated aren’t going to the ICU these days, either.
Leonhardt touts Evusheld and Paxlovid as “increasingly available,” a total non sequitur in the absence of any data supporting their role in the current trends, which he does not provide. He completely ignores any cheap, repurposed early treatments, despite — or more likely because of — the growing mountains of data supporting their effectiveness.
Finally, Leonhardt blatantly understates the effect of natural immunity, both by lowballing the number of previously infected Americans (it’s in the hundreds of millions, Dave, not tens) and by the deeply misleading statement that prior infection produces “at least some immunity” (Natural immunity is far superior to vaccine-related immunity.)
Here is the reality, the plain fact that Fauci and Leonhardt’s “many experts” will never admit: SARS-CoV-2 is evolving and adapting to coexist with us. The COVID-forever left remains as toxic and destructive as ever.