Month: April 2022

NATO is laying important groundwork for a dangerous escalation in the Ukraine conflict: Secretary General Stoltenberg announced that the Western military alliance would continue to support Ukraine in the fight against Russia with arms deliveries and a supply of heavy weapons.

In this case, Russian President Putin announced that the transporting trains would become the target of Russian military strikes as soon as they reached Ukrainian territory.

Immediately after the start of the military operation in Ukraine, the Kremlin chief had pointed out several times that any outside interference would result in massive Russian reactions and on a scale “unlike you have experienced before in your history”.

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg remains deaf to these warnings. He took a further step in the direction of escalation on Wednesday when, at the start of a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels, he promised Sweden and Finland an accelerated admission procedure if they applied to join NATO.

So far, the two countries have been neutral. Above all, Finland joining NATO would be problematic because the country borders directly on Russia. The prospect of Ukraine joining NATO and the stationing of Western military equipment, including nuclear missiles, was one of the main reasons for the Russian military action in the neighboring country.

Stoltenberg also promised that the EU would deploy a permanent full-scale military force on the eastern flank to deter Russia. In an interview published by The Telegraph he said that the “new reality” in Europe should be acknowledged.

“We have now asked our military commanders to provide options for what we call a reset, a more longer-term adaptation of NATO,” at the bloc’s summit in Madrid, Spain in June.

Stoltenberg said the 40 000 troops “under direct command” of NATO, were mostly massed in Eastern Europe while individual member states were supplying Kiev with anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile systems, tanks and armored fighting vehicles even as Moscow has repeatedly stated that NATO’s expansion eastward was a threat to its security.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/04/11/upping-the-ante-stoltenberg-wants-sweden-and-finland-to-join-nato/

On Monday, the Hamburg District Court sentenced an Islamist to six months in prison without probation for two counts of threatening behaviour. According to the court’s conviction, the 29-year-old threatened a fellow inmate in the remand prison with death, as a court spokesperson said.

According to the information, the accused had overheard a conversation of other prisoners at his cell window on September 6 last year, which was about the takeover of the Taliban in Afghanistan and about Salafists. When the accused intervened in the conversation, a fellow inmate shouted to him that no one had insulted his God. The accused then threatened to “cut off the head” of the other prisoner and “slaughter” him.

The prison administration had tried to avoid a encounter between the accused and the threatened fellow inmate, who worked as a domestic worker. Nevertheless, they met three weeks later during a day parole, the spokesman said. The accused had again threatened to kill and “slaughter” the fellow prisoner. The threats were in line with the diction of the terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS), the judge stated.

At the time of the crime, the accused was on trial for promoting a terrorist organisation abroad. He was accused of promoting the IS in social media and spreading calls by the terrorist organisation to fight against people of other faiths. The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court sentenced him to three and a half years in prison for this on December 3, 2021. An earlier sentence by the St. Georg Local Court was included in this sentence.

The district court had already sentenced the defendant to one year and four months imprisonment for dangerous bodily harm on March 25, 2021. He and two accomplices had prayed in the driveway of an apartment building on October 9, 2020. When a car driver tried to drive through, they beat him up.

According to the court spokesman, the accused had a “troubled” childhood. He had already been convicted of assault in 2016 and had served some time in prison. Afterwards, he had converted and radicalised himself.

The judgement of the Higher Regional Court is legally binding. If the new judgement of the local court is upheld, the 29-year-old would have to serve a total of four years in prison.

https://www.welt.de/regionales/hamburg/article238112753/Hamburg-Todesdrohungen-Gericht-verurteilt-Islamisten-zum-dritten-Mal.html

In the US, the privileging of sexual minorities compared to the “normal” rest of the population is making great strides. Being “non-binary” is a now also a lucrative choice: An amount of $1000 will be paid every month to each individual who identify as a transgender American.

Plans are currently on the table in Palm Springs, California, among others, that would allow transgender and other “non-binary” residents to receive a universal basic income if they fall below a certain poverty line.

“Transgender residents in Palm Springs, Calif., can receive a basic income of up to $900 a month just for identifying as transgender or nonbinary — with no strings attached,” Fox News reported. A $200 000 budget will be set aside for the new pilot program following a unanimous vote by the Palm Springs City Council earlier.

The program, conducted in partnership with DAP Health and Queer Works, fundamentally views transgender and “non-binary” people as “particularly vulnerable to unemployment, homelessness, assault and discrimination”.

The Palm Beach pilot program is expected to be replicated in other cities including Stockton, Los Angeles and San Francisco. There, too, residents who are particularly “at risk” are to be offered an additional income. The beneficiaries will receive $1000 every month for three years – lifting the prospects of a compliant LGBTQ clientele.

American citizens will also be able to select X as their gender marker on their passport starting on Monday April 11 in honor of “Transgender Day of Visibility”. The US Justice Department meanwhile warned Republican-controlled states against passing legislation that would limit access for youths seeking “gender-affirming treatments”. But the Democrats are fighting an uphill battle, defending an unpopular issue.

Republicans legislatures bank on dissent

Republican legislators have proposed at least 325 bills so far this year, with about 130 targeting transgender rights specifically. Last year, 268 were introduced, a previous record. A total of 27 made it into law in 2021.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the state’s Department of Family Protective Services (DFPS) to investigate parents who allow their children to have gender-altering treatments, saying that providing such treatment amounted to abuse.

In Florida, the House of Representatives passed a bill in February to prohibit “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity” in the state’s primary schools. In addition to the very popular “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida, 15 other bills in eight US states that would limit speech about LGBTQ identities in classrooms are being considered.native advertising

At least three states (Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio) passed similar bills last year — commonly referred to as “no promo homo” laws which allow parents to refuse lessons that mentions sexual orientation or gender identity.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law bills blocking transgender youth from gender-affirming medical treatment as well as from participating on sports teams or using school restrooms that don’t match their assigned sex at birth.

Trump backs woke candidate for Senate race

Former President Donald Trump, supposedly a conservative, has meanwhile endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s Senate race. But the celebrity TV doctor regularly promotes the left’s woke transgender agenda, also for small children.

Trump said his endorsement of Oz is “all about winning elections in order to stop the Radical Left maniacs from destroying our country”.

Trump noted in a statement: “The Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has a tremendous opportunity to Save America by electing the brilliant and well-known Dr. Mehmet Oz for the United States Senate. I have known Dr. Oz for many years, as have many others, even if only through his very successful television show.”

He added: “Women, in particular, are drawn to Dr. Oz for his advice and counsel. I have seen this many times over the years. They know him, believe in him, and trust him.”

Trump concluded. “Good luck, Dr. Oz. our country needs you!”

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/04/11/being-non-binary-has-become-a-gainful-choice/

Nothing has happened for almost a year. The Ministry of Higher Education is said to have made no more progress in carrying out an investigation on “Islamo-Left radicalism in the universities”. And as the Journal du Dimanche reported on April 10, the judges are losing patience and are asking in vain for the judicial procedures to continue.

It all began on February 14 of this year. The Minister of Higher Education, Frédérique Vidal, had announced that she would ask “in particular the CNRS” to carry out an investigation into “all research directions” linked to “left-wing Islamism” in universities. This request has since been rejected by the CNRS and Athéna, the national alliance of French public research in the humanities and social sciences. Four months after Frédérique Vidal’s announcement, Le Monde revealed that six teachers and researchers were suing the minister for “exceeding her powers”.

The civil servants and their two lawyers, William Bourdon and Vincent Brengarth, had therefore filed a complaint with the Council of State on April 13, 2021. On July 13, the complaint was then forwarded to the administrative court in Paris. Since then there has been no news. A situation that Vincent Brengarth described to the Journal JDD on Sunday April 10 as ” absurd “: ” So why let the administrative court work after the Council of State with a report that does not exist?”

In his complaint last year, he wrote, among other things: “A decision to launch an investigation has been taken as it is inconceivable that the minister would announce to the French and the national parliament the opening of an investigation when this decision has not been taken before”. The JDD newspaper asked the Ministry of Higher Education twice – in December and in April – for a statement.

https://www.valeursactuelles.com/societe/islamo-gauchisme-a-luniversite-le-rapport-demande-par-frederique-vidal-traine-les-magistrats-simpatientent/

A psychiatric report found the 47-year-old accused to have ” decreased responsibility “, but he ” remains criminally responsible for his acts “, the prosecutor’s office stressed.

The man suspected of planting a homemade explosive device in Saint-Etienne Cathedral in Toulouse on Friday was charged and detained on Saturday. There were no casualties in the incident and the anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office was not called in.

The 47-year-old man “was charged and remanded in custody for violence with intent not resulting in permanent disability”, the Toulouse prosecutor’s office stressed, recalling that the suspect already had a criminal record. “In particular, he had been convicted of threatening people armed with a weapon, which did not sentence him to life imprisonment,” he explained.

According to a source familiar with the case, the suspected man was also involved in a case about a suspicious package in a Toulouse metro station on March 23. […]Le Dauphiné

https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/04/10/toulouse-le-pretre-de-la-cathedrale-st-etienne-agresse-par-un-individu-qui-venait-de-deposer-un-colis-suspect-devant-lautel-en-hurlant-des-propos-incomprehensibles-le-secteur-boucle-des-demi/

A police unit from the Rouen police in northern France was violently attacked by around 15 individuals during an arrest on Tuesday evening, according to video footage and media reports.

Several amateur videos showing the attack were posted on social media and viewed tens of thousands of times. A suspect, just arrested by the police, managed to flee in handcuffs after youths attacked the officers, Actu17 reports.

🇫🇷 Canteleu : Trois policiers attaqués par une quinzaine d'individus lors d'une interpellation
►Les policiers étaient en train d'arrêter un homme de 19 ans soupçonné d'en avoir agressé un autre à coups de batte de baseball peu avanthttps://t.co/893sPImZxM pic.twitter.com/KvQkYa8cOl

— Actu17 (@Actu17) April 6, 2022

The incident started around 7 p.m., shortly after emergency calls reported a man was violently beaten with a baseball bat in Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville in the Rouen arrondissement. Local police were further notified that a 37-year-old victim was taken to hospital after sustaining serious injuries to his face, and the three attackers were traveling in a white Citroën C3. The license plate of the suspects’ vehicle was also provided.

Three UCL police officers on patrol recognized the vehicle description from a traffic stop the previous night in Canteleu around 1 a.m.

“There were four young men inside, aged 17, 19, and 24. One was fined for possession of narcotics,” the Actu17 source said, referring to the police stop from the previous day.

The officers began searching for the same white vehicle, eventually spotting it around 7:20 p.m. on Avenue Georges-Bizet. The police observed the driver park in a parking lot of a residential building before exiting the vehicle. He was also wearing a similar blue tracksuit described by the victim, which further confirmed to the police they had identified the right suspect in the assault.

The police approached and checked the suspect. He was 19-years-old, and it was the same individual they had fined the previous night. This time, he handed over a small amount of cannabis to officers.

“In addition to the blue tracksuit that matched his description, he had traces of blood on one of his shoes,” the source added.

The police arrested him but the young man resisted. The situation escalated, and the suspect punched one of the officers in the face, before being tackled to the ground and handcuffed. Several other individuals approached, and the police quickly found themselves surrounded. Another individual retrieved the suspect’s bag and disappeared.

About 15 attackers showed up on scene, many of which had their faces concealed, and they began screaming at the officers. The police were then targeted by projectiles, including stones, after they had just succeeded in handcuffing the man in the blue tracksuit. One of the assailants took the opportunity to kick one of the officials on the ground, prompting the police to radio in for reinforcements. One of the two police dogs had already been deployed to push back the aggressors, but that was not enough.

The youths then began destroying the police vehicle. A rear window was kicked in, and one of the attackers tried to steal equipment from the passenger compartment.

The situation spiraled out of control, and the suspect managed to escape while still wearing handcuffs. One of the three policemen pulled out his weapon to deter the numerous attackers. Thanks to the arrival of reinforcements, calm was restored. Two of the three police officers were injured during the incident.

Inside the Citroën C3, the police discovered a baseball bat which could be the one used to assault the 37-year-old victim. An investigation has been opened. The 19-year-old suspect who managed to flee has not yet been apprehended.

France has suffered from a rising crime rate, lawless migrant areas where police fear to go, and the recent death of Jeremey Cohen, who was hit by a tram after fleeing an assault from a large group of youths in Paris. The case of Cohen has gripped France and become a major topic during the country’s elections.

https://rmx.news/article/video-3-french-police-officers-beaten-by-15-youths-during-arrest/

EU President Ursula von der Leyen paid a visit to embattled President Zelensky in Kiev. She handed him the first documents with which his warring country can become a candidate for EU membership. Ukraine may join the EU sooner than usual, she has said.

In addition, she was the first Western “leader” (the global elite’s designation for an unelected bureaucrat) to visit Bucha, where hundreds of bodies of Ukrainian citizens were discovered. She looked at 20 exhumed bodies from a mass grave and lit candles in a church for the victims.

These locations are highly problematic in themselves since US intelligence has admitted that the purpose of information on Ukraine is designed to deceive the Americans and the world public about the reality of conflict.

Three US officials told NBC News this week there was no evidence for example that Russia had used chemical weapons in Ukraine. They confirmed that the US had released fake information. This may include assertions about the alleged “massacre” in Bucha as well as the bombing of a train station Kramatorsk.

Von der Leyen’s presence in Bucha is part of a journey she is on with EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell “to strengthen support for Ukraine“.

Her dismal performance has attracted a lot of criticism. For example, Dutch neurologist Jan Bonte commented: “Can someone transport Von der Leyen to an asylum? Forced admission with indefinite confinement in an isolation room? This person is crazy. Dangerously crazy.”

Lawyer and philosopher Raisa Blommestijn added: “On what does Ursula von der Leyen base the idea that she has a mandate to decide whether or not Ukraine should be allowed to join the EU? In 2016, the Dutch population spoke out against an Association Agreement with Ukraine.”

In 2016, two-thirds of Dutch voters had opposed any political, trade and defence treaty, showing the depth of antipathy in the Netherlands towards the enlargement of the EU and especially Ukraine. GeenPeil, a cooperation between the website GeenStijl and the organisations Burgercomité EU and Forum voor Democratie, organised the campaign to collect the required signatures. They successfully deployed a web application to collect, print and deliver the required signatures to the Dutch Electoral Council (Kiesraad).

“That the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement would be a first step towards EU membership has been called a silly conspiracy theory. It was supposed to be ‘just a trade deal’. EU expansion is unstoppable, so that’s why [we need] Nexit!” said FvD Member of Parliament Martin Bos.

Freelance journalist Arno Wellens responded: “What is it with those Germans? Ignoring local democracy and building a European super state, under German leadership, against the Russians. The last three times it also ended in misery, this time it will be no different.”

Terugblik. pic.twitter.com/hnEj0JJ4Fd

— Gerard de Boer ⚓🚢 🇳🇱 (@Gerard1945X) April 9, 2022

Ukraine may now join the European Union sooner than later. The president of the European Commission promised Ukrainian President Zelensky speedy admission on Friday. Visiting the president, she said forming an opinion on Ukraine’s accession would only take weeks, something that could normally take years.

Von der Leyen handed Zelensky a questionnaire as the starting point for the EU to decide on membership. Ultimately, it is up to the 27 member states to decide whether or not to admit Ukraine. All countries must agree on this.

Zelensky said he would come up with the answers in a week. He also called for more sanctions against Russia, in order to persuade Moscow to stop its operation in Ukraine.

Von der Leyen underlined the importance of the sanctions. “Russia will fall into economic, financial and technological decline, while Ukraine is moving towards the European future, this is what I see.”

At the end of February, Ursula von der Leyen had already spoken out in favor of Ukraine joining the European Union. Her comments were curious, because Ukraine had not yet qualified as a candidate country – it was also before the Russian operation. The Ukrainian parliament had its wish to join the EU included in the constitution in early 2019. The country’s goal was to apply for a formal membership application by 2024 with the view of joining by 2030.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/04/10/eu-president-von-der-leyen-is-crazy-dangerously-crazy/