Month: May 2022
Germany’s Green FM preparing public for nuclear war
The German government is preparing for the use of nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war, according to Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens).
Baerbock told German news outlets Rheinische Post and the Bonn General-Anzeiger on Tuesday: “A nuclear power is waging a war of aggression on our doorstep, for that reason alone it is our responsibility as a government to take even the worst-case scenarios seriously. Russia’s nuclear sabre-rattling is irresponsible, especially in the current situation, even if we have heard similar tones from President Putin before.”
However, one cannot use nuclear weapons without harming oneself. The Russian president also knows this. At the same time, Baerbock threatened the ruler in the Kremlin with an indictment before the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.
The German minister, who appears to be uniquely under-qualified for her job, accused Russia of what Ukraine seems to be doing in the war theatre: Using civilians as human shields as they struggle to cope with Russian advances. “The Russian President is breaking with international law and international humanitarian law in the most brutal way. You don’t bomb mothers, fathers, children, the elderly or the sick. People who do this commit the most serious war crimes. These crimes must be brought to justice. We owe that to the victims,” screamed Baerbock as evidence of Ukrainian war crimes continue to circulate on social media.
The German Greens are leaving no stone unturned to make Germany a tactical nuclear target to coincide with the Pentagon official announcement on Friday that the US was training Ukrainian soldiers in Germany and other locations. US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby said at a press conference on Friday that training on German soil had already begun.
Kirby’s announcement came just three days after Defense Minister Lambrecht (SPD) announced at the US military base in Ramstein that “in the future, soldiers from Ukraine will be trained on artillery systems on German soil”. We are working “together with our American friends in training Ukrainian troops on artillery systems on German soil”.
A report by the Bundestag’s Scientific Service recently made it clear that the supply of arms to a warring party does not yet constitute “entry into the war” under international law, but “(…) if, in addition to the supply of weapons, there was also a question of instructing the conflict party or training them in such weapons, one would leave the secure area of non-warfare,” the report explained. This is undoubtedly the case with the training programs of the US trainers on German soil, which the federal government has allowed.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/05/03/germanys-green-fm-preparing-public-for-nuclear-war/
European Union’s Border-Protection System Now A Tourism Agency for Migrants
The pro-migrants lobby inside the European Union has won: Fabrice Leggeri, director-general of Frontex, the European agency tasked with guarding the EU’s borders, was forced to send a letter of resignation on April 28, 2022. His resignation was accepted by the board.
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, was created in 2004 to help EU member states and countries associated with the Schengen area — countries allowing passport-free movement between them — to protect the EU’s external borders.
In 2021, Frontex had a budget of 544 million euros (half a billion dollars) and employed 1,000 European officials. By 2027, their number (coast guards and border guards) will increase tenfold. There are also plans that the European coast guards will be armed.
Importantly, Frontex is not under the direct supervision of the European Commission. The head of Frontex reports to a board of directors, composed of the ministers of the interior of Europe’s 27 member states. However, the European Commission does have two representatives on the Frontex board.
The relative institutional independence of Frontex explains the nature of the means used to obtain the departure of a director general: his actions were perceived as hostile to the commission’s open borders policy.
Fabrice Leggeri, appointed in 2015 and reappointed in 2019, has, for the past two years, been the target of multiple, relentless attacks. The Swedish Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson (Social Democrat), numerous pro-migrant NGOs (Sea Watch, Front-Lex and Progress Lawyers Network, Greek Helsinki Monitor…), members of the European Parliament — all have accused Frontex and Leggeri of turning the European Union into a “fortress” and of undermining the human rights of migrants.
The intensity of the political conflicts surrounding the migration issues in Europe needs to be understood, as well as its link to the Second World War. Europeans have never recovered from having closed their borders to Jewish refugees persecuted by the Nazis. The European Union has therefore made it its duty to watch over the rights of “refugees” from all over the world; it does not matter if these “refugees” are actual refugees fleeing from persecution, or simply economic migrants looking for a more prosperous life. That European guilt is, unsurprisingly, often being exploited today by various political, economic and media lobbies. Defenders of multinationals corporations see mass immigration as a way to lower labor costs; self-declared “progressives”, numerous in the media, defend a compulsory multiculturalist model that considers any criticism of immigration an apology for racism.
It was a report by the German television channel ARD, filmed with a hidden camera, that set off this latest powder keg. In October 2021, journalists from ARD channel filmed a “push back”, the heavy-handed methods used by Greek border guards to turn back migrants, as well as the use of dogs to track them. Above all, media outlets — the British Guardian and the German ARD — criticized the way that Frontex had reportedly turned a blind eye to those abuses.
It was this passivity of Frontex agents that led to an investigation by OLAF (European Anti-Fraud Office), the European Union’s internal investigation service. The report drawn up by OLAF in February 2022 — 129 pages and 700 pages of appendices – mauled Leggeri. Three grievances were established against him: non-compliance with procedures, disloyalty to the European Union and poor staff management. A proposal to open disciplinary proceedings against him, however, was overwhelmingly rejected by 22 votes against, 5 in favor and one abstention.
The three grievances against Leggeri boil down to one: Frontex would have helped some EU member states to “push back” flows of migrants outside their borders. It is not that Leggeri adopted personal anti-migrant attitudes. In fact, his enemies refused to take into consideration that in certain instances, the migrants were instrumentalized by powers antagonistic to Europe, such as Turkey or Belarus.
In February-March 2020, for instance, Turkey pushed several thousand illegal migrants on Greece, a hostile gesture that even German Chancellor Angela Merkel considered “unacceptable.” “No one can blackmail the EU,” the European Commissioner for Migration Margaritis Schinas chimed in as well.
A year later, in November 2021, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, in revenge for Western sanctions, imported migrants from the Middle East and launched them against the borders of Poland and Lithuania.
OLAF investigators, sadly, did not take into account the political aspect of these migration flows and accused Leggeri of betraying his mission of “monitoring” Europe’s member states.
This accusation is at the heart of the conflict in the European Union: should EU member states keep their borders open at all times? And is it Frontex’s job to ensure that the borders of EU member states remain always open?
The OLAF report criticizes Leggeri for having dragged his feet in recruiting “twenty fundamental rights monitors” — political commissioners in charge of ensuring respect for migrants’ rights — and for having dragged his feet in creating a “fundamental rights” monitoring system.
Whenever the European Union talks about “fundamental rights”, it is the right of migrants to move freely that is being discussed. Never the rights of the host populations. In this context, a “pushback” is perceived as a capital crime.
These “monitors” in charge of fundamental rights do not report to the director general, so Frontex alone illustrates the European Union dilemma: to welcome refugees and turn back illegal migrants looking for economic opportunity, or to welcome all migrants for fear of turning back genuine refugees?
In his resignation letter, Leggeri wrote, “It seems that the mandate of Frontex on which I was elected and renewed in June 2019 has silently but effectively been modified.” It was a way of saying that the mission of Frontex is no longer the protection of borders but only the protection of the right of migrants to settle wherever they want. This view was confirmed by the Dutch MEP Tineke Strik, leader of the European Parliament’s working group on Frontex. In a mocking tweet, Strik explained that Frontex has never changed. The reality, she said, is that Leggeri “has never understood that Frontex must protect fundamental rights in all its actions”. She added: “The next director must make this a top priority.”
With the departure of Leggeri, Frontex officially becomes a tourism agency for migrants, not an agency to protect Europe’s borders.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18493/european-union-border-protection
69% of tested migrant minors are actually adults, according to Belgian government agency
In 2021, Belgium saw 3,351 young migrants arrive who declared themselves to be minors, but testing tells a different story.
The Guardianship Service of the FPS Justice carried out 2,515 age tests to verify these claims. In the end, 69 percent of those tested turned out to be adults, while only 31 percent proved to be minors. The arrival figure represents a considerable rise compared to 2019. The vast majority of these so-called unaccompanied minors (UMs) originated from Middle Eastern and North African countries (MENA).
The tests are sure to raise uncomfortable questions about not only Belgium’s migrant policy, but Europe’s as a whole. That is because the same results have been shown in a range of European countries. In France, up to 91.6 percent of all “migrant minors” could be adults, according to one report. Actual testing in France found that 78.7 percent of migrant minors were actually adults. In Sweden, the numbers were even starker, with 84 percent of “child migrants” tested by Swedish health authorities actually turning out to be adults aged 18 or older, according to a report from the BBC.
According to a study from Germany conducted by the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Münster, a large proportion of underage immigrants lie about their age. The university clinic’s forensic specialists examined around 600 so-called unaccompanied minor refugees on behalf of the courts where their age was questioned. The institute determined that around 40 percent of them were demonstrably 18 years of age or older.
In fact, in Germany, 400,000 migrants have their birthdate listed as Jan. 1 on official documents, which is the birthdate provided to migrants when the state is unsure of what day and year they were actually born. There is a reason behind the strange phenomenon, as many migrants threw away identification and documentation on their journey to Europe. Many who were not Syrian knew that they would not receive asylum, and nearly all of them were aware, including the Syrians, that migrants under 18 receive special protection from deportation and improved social benefits, which is the norm across Europe. Migrants under 18 also receive special privileges in criminal trials, which as countries like Sweden have proven, can be an enormous benefit should a migrant run afoul of the law. Therefore, there was and continues to be incredible strong incentives for migrants to lie about their age.
France: Leftists set fire to busy bridge
The Brignoud bridge between Grenoble and Chambery was deliberately set on fire at the beginning of April. It has not been reopened to car traffic until today, so that the inhabitants of the Grésivaudan valley have to take long detours to cross the river Isère. Only pedestrians and cyclists are allowed to use the Brignoud bridge again. The 27,000 motorists who use the structure every day will now have to find other routes. The public prosecutor’s office in Grenoble blamed ultra-left activists for the attack.
“The closure of the Brignoud bridge to traffic is a disaster, business has dropped by 30%,” sighed Alain Jolly, president of the trade association of Crolles, a town of 8000 inhabitants in the Isère department, who himself runs a restaurant. The situation has been going on since April 5, after an arson attack damaged the structure built in 1934 across the Isère between Grenoble and Chambéry in the Grésivaudan valley, which is the link between Crolles, which is connected to the motorway, and Brignoud. […]
The Grenoble prosecutor’s office assumes that the perpetrators are an ultra-left libertarian group. The fire may have been directed against the high-tech company STMicroelectronics, whose power supply runs through this bridge. […]Le Parisien
Germany transfers child benefits worth €459 million to foreign countries
As Germany’s foreign population grows, so does the transfer of social benefits outside the country., including nearly half a billion in child benefit payments.
In 2021, a record amount of such payments flowed out of the country, with €459 million paid from Germany out to foreign accounts to those entitled to child benefits, according to data from the Federal Employment Agency.
The information was only made public once the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party requested it, according to German newspaper Junge Freiheit.
In 2020, German authorities transferred almost €430 million euros in child benefits abroad. In 2015, only €261 million was sent abroad. Data from previous years is not available.
In March 2022, according to the data, child benefits were paid to 328,985 children abroad. Twelve years ago, the number of children was 95,093. The number of children living abroad who receive child benefits from Germany has risen by around 345 percent since 2010.
Germany’s foreign population has reached record levels, and one out of every eight people is now a foreigner, and the country’s new left-wing government is calling for even more immigration to feed the needs of big business. The country’s kindergartens and housing market are currently stretched to the limits, but taxpayers must continue to foot the enormous bill for integration, including social benefits, education, and healthcare costs, to support the country’s rapidly growing foreign population. Ongoing food and energy inflation has also placed a huge burden on Germany’s poorest citizens.
“In some Eastern European countries, child benefits for two children already equals a monthly salary. The German taxpayer, who can hardly pay his rent in his home country due to inflation, no longer understands it,” criticizes AfD politician Renate Springer in an interview with the news outlet.
“That’s why we, as the AfD parliamentary group, are calling on the federal government to reduce child benefits and the planned child bonus on local living costs,” the politician added.
Benefits such as the 2020 child bonus (€300 per child), the 2021 child bonus (€150 per child), and the 2022 child bonus (€100 per child) are also provided abroad based on the existing EU Regulation No. 883/2004.
For the 2020 child bonus alone, the federal government assumed that €90 million would flow abroad. In Germany, 18.2 percent of all those entitled to child benefits are now foreign nationals, and 20.5 percent of all children who receive a child benefit do not have a German passport. Around 2 percent of all children for whom German authorities make payments do not live in Germany.
https://rmx.news/article/germany-transfers-child-benefits-worth-e459-million-to-foreign-countries/
France: Antifa vandalises church and attacks parishioners
On Sunday May 1st, the traditional trade union demonstrations took place in several French cities. In connection with this march, RCF (Radio Chrétienne Francophone) reported that the church of Notre-Dame des Victoires in Angers in the department of Maine-et-Loire had been damaged and parishioners deliberately attacked. The latter had eggs and paint thrown in their faces by militant left-wing extremists as they were on their way to Sunday mass.
The Antifa in the demonstration then attacked the church building. They smeared the church with red paint and wrote Christianophobic slogans on the walls of the building. The union activists also demonstrated in front of the church forecourt and unfurled a banner reading “We are here to challenge those who spend their time deifying themselves”. Police then intervened at the site to disperse the demonstrators who had followed the call of the Réseau Angevin Anti Fasciste (RAAF) and to allow parishioners to leave the site in safety.
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France: Left-wing politicians refuse to participate in Christian events for reasons of secularism, but do not shy away from participating in the Muslim feast of breaking the fast
The month of Ramadan ended on Sunday, May 1st. On Monday, Muslims will celebrate the festival of Eid-el-Fitr. There were a number of disputes during this period. These were about the presence of MPs at fast-breaking ceremonies, as reported in detail by La Croix. One question in particular arose: Does an MP violate secularism by attending such an event? The mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, attended such a dinner on April 27 at the Institut français de civilisation musulmane. The Green city councillor was accompanied on this occasion by the prefect and the corps constitués (“constitutional bodies”).
Although the MP described the dinner as a “cordial moment to which non-believing and believing guests of all faiths were invited”, it was also an opportunity for him to assure his “fellow Muslims who are affected by political measures” of his “support”, as reported by the newspaper quoting his words. On social media, his dissenting approach to the religious ceremony of the vows of the jurors was highlighted by some.
Because of his respect for secularism, Grégory Doucet had decided on September 8 not to take part in the Virgin Mary ceremony for the renewal of the vows of the jurors. “In my interpretation of the rules of secularism,” he had confided to BFM Lyon, “I leave it to the faithful to perform this ceremony.” However, he had given a speech on the forecourt of the basilica in which he assured his “total commitment to the defence of secularism, which guarantees to all and sundry the freedom to have religious faith and not to have religious faith”.
However, the mayor of Lyon is not the only elected representative who has attended evenings to celebrate the breaking of the fast. Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, visited the Grand Mosque of Paris on April 25 to break the fast. Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, also attended such an event in Savigny-le-Temple (Seine-et-Marne), La Croix reports. Elsewhere, in the Rhône department, a controversy arose at one of these evenings because La France insoumise had cancelled an “iftar evening” planned for April 29 in Villeurbanne.
The event, announced on the Facebook page of the Union Populaire and with leaflets, proposed “a meal together after breaking the fast […] to talk about the challenges of the neighbourhood and the current national situation”. In the end, after admitting a “semantic clumsiness”, the dinner was cancelled, “in agreement with the Union Populaire at the national level, for fear of the appearance of the extreme right”, as an LFI deputy was quoted in the newspaper. The mayor of the Socialist Party of Villeurbanne, Cédric Van Styvendael, reacted to Le Progrès: “In no case can you use a religious festival for a political event. There is a mixing of the different areas that I cannot approve of”.
Germany is out of its mind: Refusal of fireworks because of “traumatised” war refugees
Even with the greatest possible creativity and ingenuity, it is impossible to imagine what pathological, velvet-gloved do-gooders will come up with in order to satisfy Germany’s apparently only remaining raison d’être, even down to the last niches and subtleties – the care, pampering and mothering of migrants. Two years after Corona and the resulting renunciation of festivals, music, celebrations and occasional fireworks, the main concern of some organisers and local politicians is that all the noise could disturb the “traumatised” war refugees.
For the left-wing radical newspaper “taz”, the case is already clear. The paper says: “Fireworks often have a frightening or even re-traumatising effect on refugees. Should we therefore refrain? In a way, yes.” Already, “in many cities” in Germany, there is discussion about whether fireworks are justifiable in the face of “cities crowded with people who have fled the Ukraine war and for whom nightly banging and flying sparks in the sky mean death, pain and despair”. Hamburg has already announced that it is taking action – and has indeed cancelled its fireworks displays. In other cities, such as Hanover, organisers are “informing” the potentially disturbed refugees about the planned fireworks.
After New Year’s Eve was first banned regionally for ecological reasons, then last year for the first time nationwide under the idiotic excuse of “Corona” or “protection against infection”, and the traditional large fireworks displays were effectively abolished throughout the country, the pyrotechnical spectacles elsewhere are now also to be cancelled. Instead of presenting them as an expression of splendid illumination art and as a peaceful manifestation of noise and light, especially to the war refugees, Germany thinks it has to display a new form of solidarity. The phantom pain of left-wing saviours and advocates of humanity, but never of the Germans, is reaching unimagined proportions.
https://ansage.org/nicht-mehr-ganz-dicht-feuerwerksverzicht-wegen-fluechtings-retraumatisierung/