Month: May 2022

It is now clear – Finland will apply for NATO membership on Sunday. Sweden will submit an application on Monday according to information.

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced on Thursday that they believe that Finland must “apply” for NATO membership “as soon as possible”. This removes any remaining question marks about Finland’s decision on the issue of NATO membership.

“NATO membership would strengthen Finland’s security. As a member of NATO, Finland would strengthen the entire defense alliance. Finland must apply for NATO membership without delay “, Niinistö and Marin write in a joint press release .

Furthermore, they write that some national measures still required to make this decision will be taken urgently in the next few days.

They also noted that an important debate about NATO was held in the spring, something that happened after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, “an act of aggression” that has changed both the Finnish and Swedish perceptions of NATO membership. This is something that both countries have previously been negative about, as they had instead chosen to maintain a principle of neutrality and their own defense cooperation.

“Time has been needed to formulate a national position, both in the Riksdag and in society at large. Time has been needed for close international contacts with both NATO and its member states and with Sweden. We have wanted to give the debate the space it requires,” it stated in the press release.

On Saturday, the Finnish Social Democrats will announce their position on the issue, and on the same day all parties in the country’s Riksdag are expected to have done the same. A formal decision will then be made on Sunday in the Finnish Parliament. According to almost all political observers, it is clear that there is a large majority for Finnish NATO membership both among the population and among the political parties.

Sweden to submit the application on Monday

For Sweden, the Swedish Social Democrats will soon hold the last digital meeting on the NATO issue. In a couple of strongly criticized member meetings, the party has let the party leadership, all pro-NATO, discuss the issue without ordinary members being allowed to ask questions or comment.

The Social Democrats have long been opposed to Swedish membership in the defense alliance NATO, something that was expressed at the party’s congress in November where a majority voted to maintain the Swedish neutrality policy. The opposition of their own voters and party members was succinct when it came to NATO membership, but the party leadership has turned the issue around and also made a decision that allows the party leadership to ignore what the party members want.

On Friday, the security policy analysis group, where all parliamentary parties are represented, will be ready with its report which will be presented at a press conference. There will be no clear wording that Sweden should join NATO but the conclusion will be clear between the lines, according to several sources quoted in Swedish daily Expressen.

Among the Swedish parliamentary parties, only the Left Party and the Green Party are still opposed to NATO membership, and thus the way has been cleared, even though the Social Democrats will formally make a decision only on Sunday.

On Monday, there will be an extra parliamentary debate on the security policy analysis. According to Expressen’s sources, the Prime Minister will convene an extra government meeting later on Monday where the historic decision will be made. Immediately after the meeting, the application for NATO membership will be submitted, if nothing unforeseen occurs.

The next day, the Finnish president Sauli Niinistö is expected in Sweden for a two-day state visit to conduct “bilateral discussions” with Swedish premier Magdalena Andersson.

Former UN weapons inspector likens it to boarding the Titanic

Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector who uncovered the Bush administration’s lies about Iraq’s WMDs has expressed reservations about the decision by both countries to join NATO.

In a YouTube video [at 31:30] Ritter compares the move by Finland and Sweden as similar to wanting a seat on the Titanic. Neither has anything to gain by joining NATO and a lot to lose. According to Ritter, a former US Marine intelligence officer, it makes no sense to want to be part of an alliance which has no future while complicating relations with a neighboring country.

After the end of WWII, Finland had signed a treaty with Russia in which it had undertaken to remain neutral “in perpetuity”. Its plan to join NATO breaks this promise, said Ritter. Moreover, an essential element of Finland’s active neutrality policy was the concept of a Nordic Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone (Nordic NWFZ) introduced in 1963.

Ritter reminded the two countries that the US, as in the case of Ukraine, will not be committing troops to their security. Instead Finland and Sweden will be expected to put blood and treasure on the line. Sweden has thus far avoided military alliances for more than 200 years.

The EU put the latter verbatim in its press release: “A stronger and more capable EU in the field of security and defense will make a constructive contribution to global and transatlantic security and is complementary to NATO, which remains the bedrock of collective defense for its members. It will also give greater support to the rules-based world order centered on the United Nations.”  This happens to be the same UN that champions the globalist “Agenda 2030”.

The President of Croatia has however made it known that he will veto the planned extension as it is “a very dangerous adventure”. President Zoran Milanović would block the admission of Sweden and Finland, he said at the NATO summit in Madrid.

Ex-President Medvedev warns of nuclear war

Russia’s response to the two countries’ joint application to the Defense Alliance remains to be seen.

Finland shares a 1 300 km border with Russia. The Nordic country with its 5,5 million inhabitants has an army of 280 000 soldiers and currently has 600 000 reservists. In addition, the government announced in early April that it would increase military spending. According to the dpa news agency, more than 75 percent of Finns were in favor of NATO membership in recent polls. Scott Ritter underscored however that it would make more sense to have cordial relations with a very powerful neighbor instead of promoting conflict.

Russia has previously threatened consequences if its neighboring country joined NATO. Former Russian President and current number two on the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said the Kremlin could move hypersonic missiles and nuclear weapons to the border if necessary. According to him, the conflict harbors the risk of “ending in a full-scale nuclear war”.

The Kremlin has meanwhile reacted to Finland’s possible entry into NATO, describing it as a threat to Russia. “Another expansion of NATO will not make our continent more stable and secure,” government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday, according to the Interfax agency.

His country would analyze the consequences of Finland’s accession with a view to its own security. He criticized that NATO was continuously moving towards Russia. Everything now depends on how the further process of enlargement develops and which military infrastructure is transferred to the borders of Russia.

In a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Finland’s NATO membership, it noted that “joining NATO will also be a direct violation of the international legal obligations of Finland, primarily the Paris Peace Treaty of 1947, which provides for the obligation of the parties not to enter into alliances or participate in coalitions directed against one of them, as well as the 1992 Treaty between Russia and Finland on the basis of relations, which established that the parties will refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of the other party, will not use or allow the use of their territory for armed aggression against the other party. However, given the current indifferent attitude of the collective West to international law, such behavior has become the norm”.

During the year-long ratification process, NATO countries would increase their troop presence in the region and hold maneuvers in the Baltic Sea.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/05/13/finland-will-apply-for-nato-membership-sweden-will-follow-on-monday/

A British undercover journalist who had aimed to infiltrate a far-right political organization in the north of England for a Channel 4 documentary has been attacked by what is understood to have been a gang of anti-fascist activists.

The year-long undercover investigation aimed to expose what Channel 4 describes as the “concerning new tactics of Britain’s far-right,” focusing on a group named Patriotic Alternative (PA), who recently made headlines for distributing fake leaflets using the U.K. Conservative and Labour parties’ insignia in a bid to deter voters from supporting the mainstream political parties.

In a clip, promoted by U.S. conservative journalist Andy Ngô, the journalist can be seen discussing the political operations of the Patriotic Alternative with one of its activists as they distribute leaflets to homes on the outskirts of the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham.

As the journalist and the activist make their way through the houses on one residential street, a masked group can be seen via a hidden body-cam approaching the pair.

As the masked individuals confront the duo, the Channel 4 journalist tries to reason with them.

England: A @Channel4 journalist infiltrated & went undercover for a documentary about the right-wing and got jumped in an ambush by #Antifa. pic.twitter.com/7c1eVFNm5c

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) May 11, 2022

“Listen, listen, listen! I’m an undercover journalist. I’m an undercover journalist,” he pleads as he is assaulted by one hooded individual and knocked to the floor.

“Mate, listen to me! I’m being serious,” the journalist cries as he is repeatedly attacked on the floor.

The man manages to rise to his feet and takes off on foot, reportedly following the broadcaster’s protocols and making contact with a nearby back-up vehicle, confirming he had “been attacked” by “some guys with masks on, three of them.”

The documentary voice-over later suggests the group were “far-left anti-fascists.”

The Channel 4 investigation, titled The Enemy Within: The Far Right: Dispatches, was broadcast in the U.K. on Monday evening.

https://rmx.news/egyeb/video-undercover-british-journalist-attacked-by-far-left-antifa-in-street-ambush/

The British government has announced a new plan to fight illegal immigration by giving some migrants seeking asylum in the United Kingdom a one-way ticket to Rwanda to have their applications processed in the East African country.

The five-year pilot project, aimed at deterring migrants from crossing the English Channel, will initially focus on single males arriving illegally to the UK on boats or trucks.

The plan to outsource the processing of asylum applications overseas — if it survives legal challenges that are certain to come from human rights groups and the European Court of Human Rights — could become a model for other European countries seeking to crack down on illegal immigration.

Denmark, frustrated by the European Union’s dysfunctional migration and asylum system, recently announced that it, too, is seeking to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda.

On April 14, the United Kingdom and Rwanda announced the so-called Asylum Partnership Arrangement in which Rwanda commits to receive asylum seekers from the United Kingdom and to process their claims for asylum through the Rwanda domestic asylum system.

If, at the end of that process, Rwanda decides to grant asylum, migrants would have long-term accommodation in Rwanda, where they would be entitled to full protection under Rwandan law, equal access to employment and enrollment in healthcare and social welfare. Those who are not granted asylum in Rwanda would be deported back to their country of origin.

The legal basis for the plan is enshrined in a new Nationality and Borders Act 2022approved by Parliament on April 28. The new law, which integrates changes to British immigration law, includes offshoring asylum — processing claims at overseas facilities — and making it a criminal offense to knowingly arrive in the UK illegally.

The British government’s “New Plan for Immigration,” published on March 29, states that the overall objective is to deter illegal entry into the UK by quickly deporting those who have no right to be there:

“Access to the UK’s asylum system should be based on need, not on the ability to pay people smugglers.

“If you illegally enter the UK via a safe country in which you could have claimed asylum, you are not seeking refuge from imminent peril — as is the intended purpose of the asylum system — but are picking the UK as a preferred destination over others.”

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in an April 14 speech, said that the £120 million (€140 million; $150 million) project would “save countless lives” from human trafficking:

“Since 2015 we have offered a place to over 185,000 men, women and children seeking refuge, more than the entire population of Sunderland and more than any other similar resettlement schemes in Europe.

“This includes almost 100,000 British Nationals Overseas threatened by draconian security laws in Hong Kong, 20,000 through our Syrian scheme, 13,000 from Afghanistan and to whom we owe debts of honor, and around 50,000 Ukrainians….

“It is controlled immigration, through safe and legal routes, which enables us to make generous offers of sanctuary while managing the inevitable pressures on our public services such that we can give all those who come here the support they need to rebuild their lives, to integrate and to thrive.

“But the quid pro quo for this generosity is that we cannot sustain a parallel illegal system.

“Our compassion may be infinite, but our capacity to help people is not.

“We can’t ask the British taxpayer to write a blank cheque to cover the costs of anyone who might want to come and live here.

“Uncontrolled immigration creates unmanageable demands on our NHS and our welfare state, it overstretches our local schools, our housing and public transport, and creates unsustainable pressure to build on precious green spaces.

“Nor is it fair on those who are seeking to come here legally, if others can just bypass the system.

“It’s a striking fact that around seven out of ten of those arriving in small boats last year were men under 40, paying people smugglers to queue jump and taking up our capacity to help genuine women and child refugees.

“This is particularly perverse as those attempting crossings, are not directly fleeing imminent peril as is the intended purpose of our asylum system.

“They have passed through manifestly safe countries, including many in Europe, where they could — and should — have claimed asylum.

“It is this rank unfairness of a system that can be exploited by gangs, which risks eroding public support for the whole concept of asylum.

“The British people voted several times to control our borders, not to close them, but to control them….

“So from today, our new Migration and Economic Development Partnership will mean that anyone entering the UK illegally — as well as those who have arrived illegally since January 1st — may now be relocated to Rwanda.

“This innovative approach — driven by our shared humanitarian impulse and made possible by Brexit freedoms — will provide safe and legal routes for asylum, while disrupting the business model of the gangs, because it means that economic migrants taking advantage of the asylum system will not get to stay in the UK, while those in genuine need will be properly protected, including with access to legal services on arrival in Rwanda, and given the opportunity to build a new life in that dynamic country, supported by the funding we are providing.

“The deal we have done is uncapped and Rwanda will have the capacity to resettle tens of thousands of people in the years ahead.

“And let’s be clear, Rwanda is one of the safest countries in the world, globally recognized for its record on welcoming and integrating migrants….

“There are currently 80 million displaced people in the world, many in failed states where governments can’t meet their aspirations….

“The answer cannot be for the UK to become the haven for all of them.

“That is a call for open borders by the back door, a political argument masquerading as a humanitarian policy….

“We simply cannot have a policy of saying anyone who wants to live here can do so.

“We’ve got to be able to control who comes into this country and the terms on which they remain.”

Home Secretary Priti Patel added:

“We have agreed that people who enter the UK illegally will be considered for relocation to Rwanda to have their asylum claim decided.

“And those who are resettled will be given support, including up to five years of training to help with integration, accommodation, and healthcare, so that they can resettle and thrive.

“This agreement fully complies with all international and national law, and as part of this ground-breaking agreement, the UK is making a substantial investment in the economic development of Rwanda….

“This agreement illustrates that we can no longer accept the status quo. People are dying and the global migration crisis requires new ways to find new partnerships and to find new solutions.”

The move comes amid a surge in illegal immigration to the UK. In 2021, 28,526 migrants were known to have arrived in the UK via small boats, according to Home Office statistics. This was up from 8,466 in 2020, 1,843 in 2019 and 299 in 2018.

More than 7,000 migrants have arrived in the UK on small boats during the first four months of 2022. With warmer spring and summer temperatures, British authorities are expecting the arrival of more than 1,000 migrants a day in coming weeks and months.

Human rights groups have criticized the agreement with Rwanda. British Red Cross executive director Zoe Abrams said she was “profoundly concerned” about the scheme and cautioned that “the financial and human cost will be considerable.” Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, describedthe government’s plan as “cruel and nasty” and said it would “do little” to deter people from coming to the UK.

Johnson said his government was expecting legal challenges to the plan:

“We are confident that our new Migration Partnership is fully compliant with our international legal obligations, but nevertheless we expect this will be challenged in the courts, and if this country is seen as a soft touch for illegal migration by some of our partners, it is precisely because we have such a formidable army of politically motivated lawyers who for years who have made it their business to thwart removals and frustrate the government.”

Meanwhile, the Danish government is also in talks to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda. In an April 20 interview with Reuters, Danish Immigration Minister Mattias Tesfaye said a deal would aim to “ensure a more dignified approach than the criminal network of human traffickers that characterizes migration across the Mediterranean today.”

A deal with Rwanda would make Denmark the first European Union member state to outsource asylum processing to third countries. European officials have said that relocating migrants outside Europe is “not possible” under EU law, but Denmark, due to an opt-out, is exempt from some EU rules, including asylum standards.

In June 2021, the Danish Parliament passed a new law that would allow the government to deport asylum seekers to countries outside of the European Union to have their cases considered abroad. The legislation was widely seen as a first step toward moving the country’s asylum screening process beyond Danish borders.

In April 2021, Tesfaye, a Social Democrat and the son of an Ethiopian immigrant, signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” with Rwanda regarding cooperation on asylum and migration issues. The document raised speculation that Denmark wants to transfer migrants to the East African country, which has a tradition of hosting refugees. The memorandum spelled out the Danish government’s long-term objective:

“Denmark is committed to finding new and sustainable solutions to the present migration and refugee challenges that affect countries of origin, transit and destination. The current asylum system is unfair and unethical by incentivizing children, women and men to embark on dangerous journeys along the migratory routes, while human traffickers earn fortunes.

“There is a need to finding new ways of addressing the migration challenges by promoting a fairer and more humane asylum system based on a comprehensive approach. This includes addressing the root causes of irregular migration, providing more and better protection of refugees in the regions of conflict and increasing assistance to host nations, countries of origin and transit — along the migratory routes — in order to improve border management, strengthen asylum systems and fight human smuggling.

“It is also the vision of the Danish Government that the processing of asylum applications should take place outside of the EU in order to break the negative incentive structure of the present asylum system.”

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said that she is determined to reduce the number of asylum approvals:

“Our goal is zero asylum seekers. We cannot promise zero asylum seekers, but we can establish the vision for a new asylum system, and then do what we can to implement it. We must be careful that not too many people come to our country, otherwise our social cohesion cannot exist. It is already being challenged.”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18529/britain-illegal-immigration

Pepijn van Houwelingen this week, was present as the Dutch House of Representatives debated the European Corona recovery fund. The FVD MP wanted to know what Corona had to do with this fund.

There were plans announced to reform car taxes, talk about energy taxes, about the reorganization of pig farms and about CO2 taxes. It will come as no surprise to the people who have been following the debate about a planned economic demolition for some time: The Corona recovery fund is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It is an economically red Marxist plan in a green climate jacket.

The Great Reset has been sold as a dire necessity to “restore” our economy, said Van Houwelingen. “Reform of energy taxes, we read. That means more tax on gas and less on electricity. Everyone with a central heating boiler is therefore the loser. In other words, the ordinary Dutchman,” said the MP.

“Another measure is the introduction and tightening up of the CO2 tax industry, it states. That means that the industry would have to pay more money for every ton of CO2. That is of course passed on to the Dutch citizen, in other words to all of us. Finally, the subsidy scheme for the remediation of pig farms. That means reducing the livestock, because you have to eat less meat.

“What the hell do these kinds of measures have to do with Corona? Do you see what’s happening? The so-called Corona crisis is being used to permanently and thoroughly change our way of life,” emphasized Van Houwelingen.

“In other words, this fund is – unsurprisingly – being misused by the European Union to achieve globalist objectives. Because as the Netherlands, we have to jump through all kinds of hoops to be able to claim this fund, a fund that is filled with Dutch tax money. How absurd is this?

“They are obstacles and demands that have nothing, absolutely nothing to do with economic recovery. For example, in the letter that the cabinet sent to the House on March 28, we read the following: ‘For example, 37 percent of expenditure must be climate-related and 20 percent of expenditure must be aimed at the digital transition’.”

The creators of the European Corona recovery fund have come up with six pillars to save the economy in the EU. “These are six requirements that are imposed on the Dutch Corona recovery plan that must be submitted in Brussels in order to be able to claim our own tax money, six hoops through which the cabinet and the House have to jump. Green transition, digital transformation, smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, social and territorial cohesion, health and economic, social and institutional resilience and finally policies for the next generations. In other words, an implementation of the globalist Sustainable Development Goals. Thus the Great Reset, a total transformation of our way of life. That is the true nature of this so-called Corona recovery fund.

“It’s no longer about Corona or lockdowns or masks, it’s about the bigger picture. It is about control over every aspect of life. Again and again new symptoms, new manifestations and materializations of the same underlying trend: the ever-increasing control of an ever more powerful State, towering over the permanently small and vulnerable individual with each step. This so-called Recovery and Resilience Plan also fits into this picture. It’s about the transfer of power and control from the individual to the State,” concluded Van Houwelingen.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/05/13/dutch-mp-bemoans-true-nature-of-red-eu-corona-recovery-fund/

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On Thursday at around 6.30pm, a person was attacked in the Confluence shopping centre in Lyon’s 2nd arrondissement. The 23-year-old victim denounced the homophobic attack in a video posted on Twitter in the evening. www.lyonmag.com

https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/05/13/je-vais-tenterrer-sale-pede-une-agression-homophobe-au-coeur-de-confluence-a-lyon/

A wedding is supposed to be one of the best days of your life. However, as with so many other family celebrations, tensions and arguments can arise. In December 2021, however, it escalated completely at a wedding in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. A guest broke with “traditions” and was attacked with a knife.

The 22-year-old Gladbeck man, Muhammed (name altered by the ed.), now had to answer for attempted manslaughter and dangerous bodily harm before the Essen Regional Court. The reason was what happened at a wedding in Bottrop in December last year. At the celebration with about 300 guests, the 28-year-old Mustafa (name altered by the editor) refused to dance with the groom, as tradition requires of every male guest.

The accused’s brother then tried to push the 28-year-old onto the dance floor. However, the latter resisted and a scuffle and a rather abrupt exchange of words ensued. Then the 22-year-old accused joined in and stabbed the person who had refused to follow customs six times in the back, arm and shoulder with a knife.

For the hairdresser, who was unwilling to dance, the celebration was now over. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and had to undergo emergency surgery. According to the public prosecutor’s office, it was only thanks to other wedding guests who intervened that the 22-year-old Gladbeck man could be restrained. The victim still suffers from the injuries of the attack. In court, the perpetrator explained that he had felt threatened. He now faces up to 15 years in prison. More days of trial are scheduled. The verdict is expected in mid-June.

https://www.wochenblick.at/migrationskrise/verstoss-gegen-tuerkische-tradition-messerstiche-weil-gast-nicht-tanzen-wollte/