Month: April 2022

There is a small pilgrimage church in the Praterauen in Vienna – the “Maria Grün” church. As in all churches in Austria, the resurrection of Jesus Christ should be celebrated there on Easter Sunday. But this year the church remained closed. A note on the church door read:

During the night from Friday to Saturday there was a break-in and vandalism, therefore no service on Saturday and Sunday.

In the ” diverse, progressive” and above all “safe” federal capital, a Catholic church is vandalised on Easter weekend. It’s bad enough that there is no respect for our places of worship in this country any more. And bad that such an incident should be kept from the public. Because nothing was to be found about the burglary in the press releases of the Vienna Provincial Police Headquarters. Was there so much more important to report, or was it not allowed to make it public?

What “spectacular” things did the police tell the press about on Holy Saturday, for example? About a burglary in a caravan, about a speeding action and not to forget – “Alcoholic demolishes bank branch”. But you look in vain for a report of “burglary and act of vandalism in church” in the police press releases. What nobody knows, nobody cares about.

Only when specifically asked by the medium heute.at did the police confirm that there had been a break-in at the church and that the offertory box had been looted.

Imagine that on Yom Kippur, the highest Jewish holiday, a synagogue in Vienna was looted and desecrated. All the newspapers would print a huge story, politicians from the Federal President downwards would express their consternation and the State Security Service would investigate.

Or imagine that on the Feast of the Sacrifice, the most important Islamic holiday, a mosque in Vienna was broken into and vandalised. The State Security Service would investigate, all the newspapers would report and in the district of Favoriten there would probably be civil war-like riots by outraged Muslims.

Imagine that on Easter weekend, the most important Christian holiday, a church in Vienna is broken into and vandalised. A cloak of silence covers the city.

https://www.unzensuriert.at/content/146682-in-wien-wird-katholische-kirche-verwuestet-und-fast-keinen-interessierts/

The democratically voted congress decision of the Social Democrats to reject NATO, taken in November 2021, is no longer valid. This is stated by the party in a press release. It will now hold member meetings across the country on security policy to anchor the new line – but the party board reserves the right to decide and completely embrace the issue of NATO membership, against the will of its members.

The Social Democrats have long been opposed to Swedish membership of the NATO military alliance, as was evident at the party’s congress in November, where a majority voted to maintain the Swedish policy of neutrality. According to Swedish daily Aftonbladet, which has long had a good insight into the inner workings of the Social Democrats, a decision was taken on April 8 during a meeting of the party’s executive committee to change its policy direction.

“The rapid developments in Finland will of course affect Sweden’s position, and this may go faster than one would perhaps like in order to keep up. As we see it, this could happen very quickly,” a high-level source in the Social Democrats told Aftonbladet.

Everything now indicates that the decision has in fact already been made. In a press release on April 11, the Social Democrats announced that they woud hold membership meetings across the country to discuss security policy – implicitly on the issue of NATO membership. But regardless of what the members come up with, the party leadership has given itself the sole right to decide the party’s – and thus Sweden’s – position on NATO.

Going against its voters

On democratic grounds, the party congress in November decided that Sweden should not join NATO. Opposition from the party’s own voters and members was considerable, and has long been so within the party, which has held firm to the principle of neutrality in Swedish foreign policy for decades. But now the party leadership believes that conditions have changed following the Russian operation in Ukraine.

“The analyses underlying the Social Democratic Congress’ security policy positions are based on a reality that does not exist after Russia’s illegal war. There is a clear before and after 24 February 2022,” the press release stated.

As part of this, it will completely disregard the decision taken during the party congress by a broad majority of delegates.

“In our party, NATO can be a red flag, especially if you belong to the older generation. But we must not forget that even in our party there are new generations who have grown up with EU membership and then NATO is not as frightening,” said a senior source to Aftonbladet about the generational change that prevails within the party.

The solution for the Social Democrats’ party leadership is simple: If party members do not follow the party line, they can simply be ignored and the decision made without their support.native advertising

“If, in the course of the dialogue, a need arises to make a change in the security policy path, it is up to the party board as the party’s highest decision-making body between congress sessions to take such a decision,” it further noted.

NATO membership increasingly likely

There are already several signs that Sweden is preparing to apply for membership of NATO, an application that will be approved with all haste, according to all experts. The adaptation of the army to NATO standards in technology and communications has been going on for many years, changing even basic things like command structure and even the Swedish alphabet.

The Swedish Armed Forces announced in a proposal to the government on April 11 that they could upgrade Sweden’s defence to the equivalent of two percent of GDP, which is the official but rarely followed requirement for NATO membership. Following Russia’s operation in Ukraine, there is now broad support in the Swedish parliament for the defence budget to grow to two percent of GDP and a major upgrade of the Swedish total defence is thus to be expected.

However, it has not been decided when the goal will be achieved. According to the Swedish Armed Forces, it is estimated that it will be possible to achieve the set rearmament targets by 2028. At 2022 prices, this means a defence budget of SEK 127 billion in 2028, compared to the SEK 90,3 billion planned for the same year, before the war in Ukraine broke out. In current prices, this means a defence budget of SEK 143 billion in 2028.

In addition, there is already a majority in the Riksdag in favour of a NATO option, i.e. the possibility of potential membership if necessary. An application to join NATO can be submitted by the government without the support of the Riksdag, but a three-quarters majority in the Riksdag is required for membership to be approved. This requires that in addition to the pro-NATO parties, the conservative parties such as the Sweden Democrats also accept NATO membership.

Both the Social Democrats and the Sweden Democrats are apparently changing their views on Swedish membership of NATO, and only one of the parties needs to change its position for membership to become a reality.

In an interview with Svenska Dagbladet on 9 April, Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson said that his personal ambition is to change the party’s approach to NATO membership. If Finland joins NATO, he will try to influence the SD’s party board to allow Sweden to join as well.

“I have that view. Then my ambition is to go to the party board with a request that we change our minds.”

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/04/19/sweden-social-democrats-ignore-their-voters-and-turn-to-nato/

It is a very revealing interview that the new Chairman of the Tyrolean Medical Association, Stefan Kastner, gave to the Austrian Press Agency (APA).

In it, the 51-year-old surgeon from Innsbruck took a very clear position against tightening the existing Corona vaccination requirement. Kastner had been elected head of the Tyrolean Medical Chamber only a month ago.

In November, only three months before, all medical chambers had spoken out in favour of introducing the Corona vaccination obligation. However, shortly before the chamber election in Tyrol, Kastner’s predecessor, long-term president Artur Wechselberger, had demanded the suspension of the mandatory vaccination, which had already been decided at that time. The “Free Doctors Tyrol” were pressing him, and thanks to their anti-vaccination programme they won three of the 49 mandates at the first attempt.

In any case, Kastner sees no need, neither for mandatory vaccination, nor for quarantine rules. He pleads for a unemotional view of Corona, to treat it like a flu and to ” abandon crisis mode”. Something that critics of the black-green Corona policy have long been calling for.

But then the interview gets really exciting. Because Kastner notes two important facts: Despite all the understanding for vaccination in the wave of Omikron, one had to realise that “this will not get us out of trouble”.

Omicron was already the dominant Corona variant by the end of 2021, and the government reacted by pushing Corona vaccinations. Compulsory vaccination itself was then decided on 20 January.

This raises the crucial question: when did the doctors know that vaccination would “not bail them out”? This is important, especially since vaccination is an intervention in the very essence of the human being and – as has now also become apparent in the mainstream media – is accompanied by considerable, sometimes fatal side effects.

Moreover, Kastner exposes the entire Corona policy. As the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) reports, “he sometimes got the impression that at times it was also politically intended to keep the issue in the media in order to distract attention from other things”.

We note that the Corona policy, which focused on compulsory vaccination, was intended to cover up other things, i.e. it was a means to an end?

For what purpose? What was the purpose to “divert attention” from? From the corruption swamp of the black-green government? Once again – at the expense of the physical integrity and the liberties of Austrians? This raises the question of political value: What is the Austrian worth to the black-green government? Obviously not very much, if one willingly sacrifices one’s health and freedom in exchange for political peanuts.

https://www.unzensuriert.at/content/146658-tiroler-aerztekammerchef-corona-radikalmassnahmen-um-von-anderen-dingen-abzulenken/

As Europe turns from its masochistic energy dependence on Russia, and the potential blackmail that came with it, will it now fall into the open arms of other dictatorships that stand ready to pump gas into its markets, such as such as Algeria? Even more dangerous might be a new partnership formed between Germany and Qatar. They have just agreed on a huge long-term energy partnership to reduce dependence on Russian gas, according to German Economy Minister Robert Habeck, who last month visited the Persian Gulf and met with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. Italy was the first to negotiate with Qatar, a country that, according to Freedom House, numbers 25 out of 100 on its the freedom score, only slightly above Russia, at 19.

Qatar is now saying that it stands “in solidarity” with Europe.

Solidarity?

Qatar is an Islamist state where “Islam is the official religion… and Sharia is the main source of legislation”, claims its constitution. Qatar is governed as an absolute monarchy. Political parties are banned and elections are sham, and it is illegal to be homosexual. According to Open Doors, there are only 18 states in the world where a Christian is worse off than in Qatar. As for the billion euros that Qatar has spent on building mosques and Koranic schools in Europe, perhaps the champions of “progressivism” feel expansively “diverse” with that. However, even the newspaper of the French left, Libération, has referred to “Qatar, financier of European Islam”.

“Qatar and Turkey are the two main supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood ideology in the world,” Elie Chouraqui told i24NEWS.

“They presented themselves well and proclaimed themselves privileged interlocutors of the political world which welcomed them with open arms to the point of entrusting them with the training of imams of France”.

At the same time as the economy minister of Germany went to the sheikh to implore him for more gas, in France the ambassador of Qatar was receiving an award from the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi.

Qatar has been extremely active in France. The emirate graciously financed the Islamic Center of Villeneuve-d’Ascq and France’s first state-funded Muslim faith school, the Lycée-Collège Averroès. Unfortunately, the Lycée Averroès soon became the center of a scandal. One of its teachers resigned after writing that the school was “a hotbed of anti-Semitism and ‘promoting Islamism’ to pupils”. Qatar, meanwhile, has financed many mosques in France, including the Great Mosque of Poitiers, which sits in the vicinity of the site of the Battle of Tours (also known as the Battle of Poitiers), where Charles Martel, ruler of the Franks, stopped the advancing Muslim army of Abdul al-Rahman in the year 732.

The Assalam mosque in Nantes and the Grand Mosque of Paris are other examples of Qatari generosity. Qatar, in fact, has been funding many mega-mosques across Europe. One might even be forgiven for thinking that Qatar’s ultimate goal was to Islamize Europe. In the words of a television documentary, it is Qatar’s “war of influence“.

“Woman’s month for the city of Nantes, a veiled woman on the streets of the city. Unacceptable complacency towards Islamism! This is the real threat that hangs over France!” is how Eric Ciotti, a senior leader of the Les Republicans party, described the municipal billboards in a large city that he sees as lost to Islamization.

Nantes is the city of the Dukes of Brittany, steeped in history on the Loire estuary. Its story is emblematic of how Europe is sinking. Ivan Rioufol wrote in Le Figaro:

“Having been a journalist in Nantes for a long time, I know this city where I was born very well. When I left Nantes in 1984, it was tranquility itself, even in the traditionally more working-class neighborhoods… Immigrants were a minority… Today Nantes has become Lebanonized. And its history is that of France…

“The Malakoff mosque… seats 1,200 and has erected a 17-meter minaret. In addition to this ‘cathedral mosque’ there are four other mosques in the city, not to mention those in neighboring communities. This influence of Islam accompanied the new settlement of the working-class neighborhoods, under the encouragement of the socialist municipalities”.

Today, in Nantes alone, there are ten mosques.

The Assalam Mosque was constructed with Qatari money — but not only. The Assalam mosque,” Le Figaro recounts, “was built on land sold by the municipality, benefiting from a ‘cultural’ contribution of 200,000 euros and a loan guarantee of 346,800 euros”. The city financed its own self-conquest. And who was the mayor of the city at the time of the financing and the agreement with Qatar? Jean-Marc Ayrault, mayor of Nantes from 1989 to 2012 and socialist prime minister of France from 2021 to 2014 …

Pierre Vermeren , in his book Déni français (French Denial), noted:

“In Nantes, Jean-Marc Ayrault practiced a patronage that led to the construction of three, four, community mosques distributed among the Muslim Brotherhood, Morocco and Turkey, as well as a Salafi mosque on the outskirts of his city. He is accused, like the former mayor of Paris, of violating the religious funding law. In Bordeaux, Alain Juppé (former prime minister) canceled the Great Mosque project when it was discovered that the funds came from Qatar and Azerbaijan…”

The magazine L’Incorrect explains how Qatari money is changing the French landscape.

“When you think of Alsace, you imagine a thousand small flowered villages lost in the vineyards on the side of the Vosges mountains, whose names give you a headache. We are (for the moment) in Christian land, as evidenced by the chapels that line roads and paths. But mosques sprout like mushrooms after the rain, even in villages with a few thousand inhabitants. This phenomenon reveals a slow but sure Islamization of this region”.

We are in the region where the other capital of the EU, Strasbourg, is located.

“The European capital has among its buildings the most important mosque in Europe, the center of An-Nour. The largest building of its kind in France, this center is not just a place of worship, but a cultural and political one, funded by Qatar”.

This is happening not only in France. The Great Mosque of Copenhagen received a donation of 30 million euros from Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, former Emir of Qatar, who is also a leading supporter of the Muslims in Belgium. Europe’s Parliament was also asked to investigate Qatari mosques in Kosovo.

Russian gas is not free; Qatari gas as well.

The German website Tichys Einblick comments that “instead of Putin’s war, we will finance Islamic terrorism”. The unconditional will to shine morally has harmful consequences — all because nuclear power is “haram” (forbidden).

Former German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel provided a glimpse of the relativism that dominates our ruling classes:

“Qatar does not threaten anyone, does not finance terrorist organizations, but hosts Hamas and the Taliban at the request of the USA (!) in order to be able to negotiate with them in Doha. Qatar is simply a reliable partner of the West.”.

Shortly before his death, Christophe de Margerie, the late head of French oil giant Total, said: “Anything can be bought, including men, it’s just a question of price”.

What is Europe’s price?

“This tiny Persian Gulf kingdom is emerging as one of Europe’s best hopes for weaning itself off Russian natural gas, in another sign of how the war in Ukraine is changing the world’s energy relationships”, The Wall Street Journal reported. “Germany, France, Belgium and Italy are in talks with Qatar to buy liquefied natural gas on a long-term basis, said Qatari and European officials”. The EU last month dropped antitrust investigations into Qatar Petroleum, the state energy company, clearing the way for the country to pursue more long-term contracts with Europe.

Le Figaro tells one of these extraordinary evenings in which Qatar supported the French cultural élite:

“Dozens of guests flocked to Place de l’Étoile… home to the Qatari embassy. In the rooms with gilded panels with mosaics and frescoes of languid nymphs, His Excellency Mohamed al-Kuwari awarded cartoonist Jean Plantu and Amirouche Laïdi, president of the Averroes Club, with the ‘Doha Arab Cultural Capital’ award. The ambassador awarded André Miquel (famous Arabist from the Collège de France), Dominique Baudis (writer), Bernard Noël (art critic) and the poet Adonis. From former Culture Minister Jack Lang to Nouvel Observateur founder Jean Daniel, a total of 66 French cultural figures have been decorated by Qatar”.

Making fun of the deal with Qatar, the German newspaper Die Welt ironically proclaimed:

“The relief in Germany is enormous. They are finally no longer dependent on gas supplies from an autocratically-ruled country that makes life difficult for homosexuals and does not always take human rights very seriously.”

Before the suspicion arises however, that German environmentalist-progressive-woke circles are throwing their noble principles overboard, it must be said that Qatar is willing to make major concessions to the German “Greens”. The emirate has promised to install wind turbines in the desert and to host the next COP26 conference about how to create a “sustainable world”.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18421/europe-energy-cost

The situation for Europe’s farmers is getting worse. Prices are rising and feed stocks are starting to run out. Animal breeders around Europe are deeply concerned. At the same time, the EU and the governments of some countries in various ways prevent farmers from maintaining or increasing their production. This is in addition to the already alarming shortage of seeds and fertilizers.

Only this autumn will the catastrophic impact be witnessed due to a sharp reduction in grain production. Moreover, meat and milk producers could see large parts of their businesses eliminated long before that. Western leaders have issued warnings about food shortages, but have offered no solutions.

The news agency Reuters recently interviewed the Italian farmer Carlo Vittorio Ferrari, who runs a farm with his brother near the town of Cremona in northern Italy. Among other things, they have about two thousand pigs, which it is now becoming unsustainably expensive to raise. He fears that their fourth-generation family business will be lost due to the conflict in Ukraine, which more and more people believe could be the death knell for global food security. This is because war-ravaged Ukraine and sanctioned Russia, in addition to being major exporters of wheat, maize and fertilizers, were also major suppliers of animal feed globally. Europe’s import-dependent feed stocks have recently declined rapidly and are likely to run out soon.

Michele Liverini, vice president of the Italian feed producer Mangimi Liverini SPA, said that the combination of all negative factors and most recently the war in Ukraine has created a “perfect storm”. Liverini is also sounding the alarm that soon their supply of animal feed will run out.

“In the Italian ports where ships from these countries [Russia and Ukraine] arrived every week, there is now only the equivalent of 25 days of consumption left,” warned the large feed producer.

Meanwhile millions of chickens are being killed in Europe and around the world. Not because there is a lack of food, but to stop an alleged outbreak of bird flu. In the UK, it has not been possible to buy eggs from free-range hens since 19 March, as these have been banned. It looks the same in many other countries, but the establishment media has ignored it.

Worse now than during World War II

European farmers are under a lot of pressure and many see the current situation, which is also rapidly deteriorating, so unsustainable that they do not think they can continue to produce food for long. That fear is also expressed by the pig breeder Ferrari.

“This is a family business. My grandfather kept it going during two world wars, my father saw a [war], but I do not know if we will make it through this,” the owner said.

Italy has the fourth largest livestock herd in the European Union with about 22,5 million animals and Spain has the largest of about 58,8 million. This according to EU statistics for 2021 which include pigs, cows, sheep and goats.native advertising

London-based Reuters has not yet reported on the cooler weather at all, with cold snaps and shorter growing seasons in many important growing areas, which since at least 2018 has gradually reduced global food production. To this must be added the devastating Corona restrictions, which since March 2020 have destroyed the global supply chain and severely damaged agriculture in countless ways.

Farmers around the world were forced in 2020-2021 to leave millions of tonnes of vegetables and other things in the fields to rot, as the necessary labor could not or was not allowed to harvest crops. Millions of liters of milk had to be poured out when it could not be processed in time, and millions of eggs were discarded when the factories that produce egg cartons were forced to close down.

Worst of all were probably the millions of animals that had to be killed and buried, when slaughterhouses (which for some reason were the workplaces in the United States which were by far the most affected by alleged Corona outbreaks) were forced to close and could not process the animals. Farmers could not continue to feed their cattle either, as they had become too many and also too old for the required meat quality. It was not so much noticed then, but everything from herds and food stores to the production of frozen and canned food started to run out. Food for hundreds of millions of people no longer exist when it is needed.

‘Green /… / madness before human life’

Individual countries that want to make things easier for their farmers are stopped by the EU. Italy, for example, has asked Brussels to repeal EU rules restricting state aid to agriculture, but was flatly refused. The governments of many countries also prevent farmers from being able to adjust their production so that food security can be ensured. Farmers in North America who want their grain to be food and not biofuels for ethanol are hindered by the Biden administration and farmers in Europe who want to reactivate land set aside with various EU subsidies are also prevented. Farmers are forced to set aside a certain proportion of their agricultural land, as taxes, fees and various governing EU subsidies otherwise make further operations economically unsustainable.

Germany’s agriculture minister, Cem Özdemir, confirmed in March that the EU’s anti-agricultural reforms would remain in force in Germany despite German farmers no longer being able to obtain enough seeds for sowing, fertilizers and animal feed. This infuriated German farmers. One of these, Christian Lohmeyer, pointed out indignantly in a video that “in the midst of a catastrophe like this, green eco-fanaticism – ecological madness is put before human life”.

Spain has taken steps to enable emergency purchases of maize from Argentina and Brazil, but this is not a long-term solution, as the major food-producing countries in South America have already had large parts of their harvest wiped out by either cold or exceptional drought. In Brazil, the severe and prolonged drought in some places has knocked out 90 percent of the expected harvests this season (It is currently harvest time in the southern hemisphere). Neighboring Paraguay has also seen 60 percent of all the country’s soybeans decimated by drought. Soybeans and corn are widely used in animal feed.

The countries of South America are also beginning to secure food supplies for their populations in various ways, which further reduces export capacity even though no export bans have yet been introduced.

Millions of animals could be killed

The situation of European farmers, as Carlo Vittorio Ferrari in Italy explained, is also exacerbated by the fact that countries such as Hungary, Serbia and Moldova have banned the export of various agricultural products because they also want to strengthen their own food security. Initially, this means a shortage and skyrocketing prices for what is left, but soon both fertilizer and animal feed may run out.

Shortages or excessive fertilizer costs force farmers to cultivate a smaller area, as the yield without fertilizer is so low that it becomes unprofitable, especially now with high fuel prices. Just like hauliers, farmers consume a lot of diesel. They also need large amounts of oil, lubricants and other petroleum products for their tractors and not least extremely maintenance-intensive harvesting machines.

Dwindling animal feed stocks mean that cows, pigs and other animals end up being slaughtered.

“It’s not just corn, it’s also soy and many by-products that are difficult to find. It is a huge struggle just to get hold of what is available,” said another Italian farmer Elisabetta Quaini. She keeps around 1 300 cows for beef and milk production on her farm in Lombardy, northern Italy, the first European epicenter for Covid and therefore already in February 2020 hard hit by Corona restrictions. Quaini, who is also vice chairman of Cremona’s independent agricultural association, added that many colleagues had given up and are starting to downsize their herds.

“I hear more and more reports about farmers slaughtering their animals, but I want to avoid it,” said the dairy farmer. It can take up to eight years to restore a milk producing herd. To achieve the same quality today, it will take even longer, as proper breeding animals can take decades – if at all – to raise.

Europe’s populations will be hit very hard if soon millions of animals, which produce meat and dairy products, have to be killed. There will not be enough protein, as chicken and egg production have already been significantly decimated in Europe and increased fishing or fish farming cannot cover the huge losses. Europe’s food security is under threat for the first time in modern times.

The Prime Minister of Canada who has made a name for himself with his outlandish and draconian Corona restrictions, vaccine coercion and relocating people from 30 percent of Canada’s land area, has been issuing the same warnings as US President Joe Biden: Food shortages and “difficult times” are coming – without offering any suggestions for solutions.

“We’ve seen… disruptions of supply chains around the world, which is resulting in higher prices for consumers and democracies, like ours, and resulting in significant shortages and projected shortages of food in places around the world. This is going to be a difficult time because of the war, because of the recovery from the pandemic,” Justin Trudeau told reporters in Vancouver.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/04/18/european-feed-stocks-expected-to-run-out-soon/

Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has approved the hoisting of the rainbow flag in front of federal government buildings, the Junge Freiheit news outlet reports.

The well-known flag of the gay movement has been hung out in many federal states on various occasions in front of public buildings for several years. However, until today there has been no unified regulation. In particular, it was unclear how the hoisting of the flag could be integrated with the state’s neutrality requirement.

“We are a modern and diverse country. It is high time that we show this more clearly as state institutions,” the social democrat politician explained on Twitter. “We want discrimination against people based on their sexual identity to end in all areas of society,” she added.

The rainbow flag may now be displayed as required “on flagpoles and flagstaffs in the official buildings of all federal authorities and agencies,” as well as facilities “that are subject to the supervision of federal authorities.” In addition, “the rainbow flag is allowed, for example, in entrance areas and inner courtyards and on facades.”

In 2008, for example, the then Berlin police president Dieter Glietsch had the rainbow flag hoisted in front of the police headquarters. Shortly before this, he had forbidden police officers, by way of instructions and regarding the neutrality requirement, to put German flags on their patrol cars to mark their support for the country’s national football team during the European Football Championship.

https://rmx.news/article/german-interior-ministry-permits-display-of-rainbow-flags-on-federal-buildings/