Month: June 2022

Superfluous and politically correct statements by soccer players are not very popular in Hungary. The rainbow armband worn by the German team captain at the last European Championship was the subject of ridicule among Hungarian fans.

The British, too, could not refrain from making a woke political statement on the soccer pitch – and thereby also incurred the displeasure of the Hungarian audience. Before the kick-off of the international match against Hungary in Budapest, the British national team felt it was necessary to kneel down demonstratively as a “sign against racism”. The gesture had arisen a few years ago in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Hungarian audience acknowledged the visiting team taking a knee with sustained boos.

Among the British visitors – who were sent home after a resounding 2-1 defeat in Budapest – it caused anger and a great deal of incomprehension. “We do this to educate people around the world,” England coach Gareth Southgate said after the game. “I don’t understand why people choose to boo that gesture.”

Wolverhampton Wanderers defender Conor Coady was also clear after the Nations League opener: “It’s extremely disappointing. It’s important that people understand why we are doing this,” he explained. The boos were “not something we want to hear”. Already at the World Cup qualifier in Hungary in September 2021, England professionals Jude Bellingham and Raheem Sterling had been victims of alleged racist abuse. Even Prime Minister Boris Johnson had stepped in to harshly criticised Hungary afterwards.

On Tuesday, by the way, the indignant Brits were calmed down by the German national team in the Allianz Arena in red-green-ruled Munich – both teams celebrated in cosy unison with rainbow armbands and anti-racist genuflections.

The men's teams of Belgium and Germany will wear the jerseys of their respective women's teams in their upcoming UEFA Nations League match to promote the Women's EURO 2022 competition pic.twitter.com/6pF98KrbNP

— FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) June 7, 2022

The German team added an extra tidbit by running onto the pitch in the jerseys of the German women’s national soccer team – to promote the upcoming Women’s European Championship in England, they said. The Belgians will be joining them in this gesture.

Not only on the soccer field

Hungary has been angering other parties in Europe as well. Over the last few weeks, Budapest had already drawn some angry criticism from Kiev because it had refused to unconditionally support the EU’s oil embargo policy. Hungary was recently able to push through a special arrangement for further oil deliveries from Russia.

To add insult to injury, the Hungarian parliamentary speaker Laszlo Kever this week publicly wondered about the blatant way in which Ukraine, and especially its president Zelensky, approached its Western allies for aid. Zelensky has “psychological problems”, the Hungarian politician speculated.

Ukraine's 'unicorn' LGBTQ soldiers head for war https://t.co/Ll6aeQkg5b #LGTBQ #Ukraine @seta_ry

— Maria Mekri 🕊️ (@mekri) June 1, 2022

“Statements by the president of Ukraine are sometimes strange. Usually, those who need help ask for it politely persistently, but ask, not demand or threaten. One usually threatens enemies, not those they want to have as friends. There is a personal mental problem here,” Kever told Hungarian newspaper 444.hu. He added: “I don’t remember the leader of a country in need of help daring to speak out against anyone, as President Zelensky spoke not only against Hungary but also against the German chancellor.”

Ukrainian presidential adviser Podoljak immediately retaliated angrily, writing on Facebook, “The only ‘problem country’ in the European family, Mr. Laszlo Kever, is Hungary, which blocks any response to Russian atrocities in Ukraine.” Budapest should stop “boasting about its ‘cannibalistic’ attitude. Such statements will not earn you the best place in the history books,” he declared. Hungary, he said, was knowingly exchanging the souls of dead Ukrainian children for “oil gingerbread”.

Relations between Kiev and Budapest have been strained for some time. Because of the continuing discrimination against the Hungarian minority in Ukraine, the Hungarian government has already made several representations to Brussels. Most recently, the Ukrainian government blatantly threatened to blow up the – Russian – oil pipeline that currently still supplies Hungary.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/06/08/european-soccer-players-to-play-in-womens-jerseys/

“The terrorist attacks and intimidation will continue, but the postmodern technological societies will consider themselves so strong, their capacity for cultural absorption so extensive, that nothing will prevent them from believing that they can also assimilate the terrorist act as is already done with car accidents. and natural disasters. The most likely scenario will be one in which nothing happens and everything continues like this, with the internal fracture of the West, the birth of two parallel societies, the continuous debasement of culture, up to its irrelevance.

“We will entrench ourselves even further behind our illusory Maginot lines, distracting ourselves with the psychodramas of America’s racism in Ferguson, the correct spelling in gender identity documents, bathrooms for transsexuals and celebrity gossip. Radical Islam knows that as long as it avoids another great massacre such as 9/11, it can continue to take away some human lives and undermine the West without waking it from sleep”.

Four years ago, this is how I ended my book, “The Suicide of Western Culture”. I thought about these words when I read the recent news from France.

What would have happened if, in France, a Muslim doctor, in front of his children’s school, had been stabbed to death by a Christian shouting “Jesus is great”? We can imagine the political class, the newspapers and the so-called “intellectuals”. In a reversal of roles, it has happened, but the political class, the newspapers and the so-called “intellectuals” have not talked at all about this item of news.

“The death of Alban Gervaise relegated to the pages of various news outlets”. Thus the Causeur magazine summarizes the ghastly story from Marseille. Military doctor Alban Gervaise was stabbed in the throat a dozen times while his murderer cried “Allahu Akbar” as the doctor went to bring his 3 and 7-year-old children to their Catholic school. The attacker’s name is Mohammed.

Why so much silence? “Rejection. Cowardice. Complicity. Collaborationism”. So writes Sarah Cattan in La Tribune de Juive. “Why did the death of Alban Gervaise, slaughtered in front of the school where he had just taken his two children aged 3 and 7, remain in the information substrate?”

L’Union wondered:

“Alban Gervaise, a name that does not and will not tell you anything. It seems established that, from now on, no one will be offended that a father of a family can be stabbed ‘in the name of Allah’.

“The fear of being accused of acute Islamophobia or worse, of belonging to the Zemmourian fasciosphere, suffocates collective indignation. The age we live in is not very glorious. In a few days Alban Gervaise will go from indifference to oblivion. Except for his wife and her children”.

The historian and essayist Maxime Tandonnet says a lot, if not all: “Has France called ‘from above’, through politics and media, mobilized by mutual tacit agreement to erase the terrible tragedy as much as possible? Dominant or influential circles like to wage fake wars against viruses to keep people at bay . But the real war on the territory, the one that continues its massacres, with or without madness, we prefer to deny in cowardly fashion, to hide the collapse it reveals and the dark hours it announces.”

Nicholas Sarkozy’s former special adviser, Henri Guaino, even said that “civil war can come to France.”

We saw the silence on Alban Gervaise just 72 hours earlier in the killing of René Hadjadj, an elderly Jew thrown from the 17th floor of his building by his Muslim neighbor. Now the hypothesis of an anti-Semitic matrix in the killing of Hadjadj is no longer excluded.

It is the same silence that has been heard for years over the burning churches. “Most of the time they don’t even arouse emotion”, writes the famous historian Marc Knobel in an extraordinary investigation published by La regle du jeu. “The facts are reported very soberly by the local press, more rarely by regional newspapers. In most cases, the articles are published in the ‘various news’ sections. Short articles, sprinkled with a few quotes, a mayor, a priest, a police officer, a faithful. 750 churches vandalized and desecrated in one year. An average of two churches a day”.

The French philosopher Julien Freund had a professor, Jean Hyppolite, who told him that he did not want to read a dissertation that defended the idea that there can be no politics without an enemy. “If he’s really right – Hyppolite told Freund – I just have to cultivate my garden”.

Freund replied: “Listen, Hyppolite, you are making a mistake, because you think you are the one designating the enemy and that as long as we don’t want enemies we won’t have them. But it is the enemy who designates us. And if it wants you to be the enemy, you can offer the best friendship there is to offer, but as long as it wants you to be the enemy, you will be. And that enemy will also prevent you from cultivating the garden.”

But the European political class and our dear media are under the illusion of being able to cultivate the garden. At least while they manage to hide the weeds.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/354525

By Matt Dean

After Americans survived 30 months of having our lives upended with unfair and unpredictable pandemic restrictions, we should be skeptical as monkeypox is irresponsibly pitched as the “new COVID-19” by the media, and some in the medical-industrial complex headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci.

In a recent interview with CNN’s Major Garrett, Dr. Fauci’s initial reassurance that monkeypox was less transmissible than COVID-19 quickly transitioned to concern for a monkeypox virus, as Fauci chose to describe it, “characterized by pustules.” Fauci then pivoted to stockpiled smallpox vaccines and antiviral drugs to treat a potential national epidemic of monkeypox. Adding fuel to the fearmongering fire, President Biden recently said that monkeypox “is something everyone should be concerned about.” 

The New York Times warns of two high-risk groups with monkeypox. “One comprises infants younger than six months” and the other, “many older adults, the group most likely to succumb to the monkeypox virus, are at least somewhat protected by decades-old smallpox vaccinations.” The author adds Fauci’s troubling admonition, “We can’t guarantee that a person who was vaccinated against smallpox is still going to be protected against monkeypox.”

A spreading virus lethal to old people and vulnerable infants, requiring a vaccine that might not last, sounds very much like COVID-19. But it isn’t. Monkeypox is zoonotic virus, first identified in 1958. It is rare, extremely difficult to catch, and the prognosis for complete recovery is excellent, with a mortality rate of 1 percent in Africa and virtually zero in the developed world.

The World Health Organization and the CDC have been reassuring about monkeypox. Dr. David Heymann, the former head of the WHO’s emergency department, said in an interview with the Associated Press that the spread was most likely linked to close, intimate contact between men at two rave parties held in Spain and Belgium, and that the outbreak was “unlikely to trigger widespread transmission.” All cases in the United States have been in men who traveled outside of the country. The Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Gregory Poland concludes “The average person should have near zero concern.”

How difficult would it be for Fauci to just say the plain truth rather than stoking the fears of justifiably terrified Americans with his confusing gobbledygook?

Horribly inaccurate modeling needlessly shuttered hospitals throughout the early days of COVID. This, together with the inability of vaccines to prevent people from catching COVID-19, left Fauci limping into the spring of 2022 with merely 31 percent of the country able to say they trust his advice.

Failed policies of the pandemic placed COVID-19-contagious patients in nursing homes, where 200,000 Americans lost their lives, while locking down, vaccinating and masking healthy and virtually immune young people. Those decisions may have helped to create a mental health epidemic that claimed 107,000 lives through overdose in 2021 alone.

This or any future administration will need to regain the trust of the public before asking for the sacrifices necessary to rise to the challenge of the next pandemic. Thankfully, monkeypox is not that threat.

Fauci, now 81 years old, has served under seven presidents since he was hired for his current job thirty-eight years ago. Perhaps it is time for some fresh leadership when it comes to the nation’s top medical adviser.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/06/monkeypox_is_not_the_next_covid19.html

At Germany’s match with England on Tuesday, the German team not only kneeled for Black Lives Matter, but also wore the women’s jersey of the German national football team.

The move comes shortly after England’s team was booed by young Hungarian fans for kneeling during a match in Budapest that England lost 1-0.

The German football team said they made the gesture of wearing women’s jerseys during the match in order to advertise the upcoming European Women’s Championship in England,

The spokeswoman for the German women, Annette Seitz, praised the move.

“This is a little greeting from our men’s team to all of us that we support each other,” she explained.

Both the German men and their English opponents kneeled on the field before kick-off in Munich, saying they wanted to send a message against racism. Both teams had also kneeled in a similar manner at last year’s European Championship, according to the news outlet Junge Freiheit.

“We are two nations with many people from different countries. That’s an important sign,” said the English manager Gareth Southgate during a press conference.

At the same time, Southgate praised the German national team for their support for the LGBTQ community when they played in Hungary last year. During that match, German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer wore a captain’s armband in rainbow colors, a symbol for sexual minorities.

Now, the issue has once again come to the forefront after England played the Hungarian national team in Budapest last weekend and lost 1-0, with young home fans booing the English for kneeling.

Hungary Vs England

Fans were booing "taking the knee" – they're sick of the SJW politicizing of the sport pic.twitter.com/CZ9QcaXxWl

— BombayBunny (@Borbet3) June 5, 2022

Hungary, a country known for its conservative family and social policies, has taken a stand against LGBTQ ideology being taught in the classroom, while at the same time, Germany increasingly promotes gender transitioning to young children through a range of programs broadcast by public media. Hungary’s conservative stance on the issue has drawn the ire of Western European liberals and the left-leaning European Union, with Brussels threatening to cut EU funds to the country.

Last year, when the controversy first arose, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said pressure on athletes to kneel was a “provocation,” and he condemned the English team for kneeling.

“If you’re a guest in a country, then understand its culture and do not provoke it,” Orbán said. “Do not provoke the host… We can only see this gesture from our cultural vantage point as unintelligible, as a provocation.”

“The fans reacted the way those who are provoked usually react to provocation. They do not always choose the most elegant form [of reaction], but we have to understand their reasons… I agree with the fans.”

After the latest incident in Budapest this week, Hungarian Secretary of State for International Communication and Relations Zoltan Kovacs defended the booing by Budapest fans on Twitter.

Anyone who thinks that children attending a football match in Budapest can be blamed for any kind of political statement is truly an idiot.

Congratulations to our national team, applause for the 35,000 kids.@Tom_Morgs @philmcnulty @NickAmes82 @squiresexpress @johncrossmirror pic.twitter.com/AMQ80WOZJW

— Zoltan Kovacs (@zoltanspox) June 5, 2022

https://rmx.news/article/german-national-football-team-wears-womens-jerseys-and-kneels-for-blm/

The number of working senior citizens has increased significantly in a ten-year comparison. This is shown by statistics from the employment agency. Social organisations observe this development with concern.

Retirees deliver newspapers, give private lessons, work as drivers or clean: In Schleswig-Holstein, more and more people of retirement age are forced to work. The NDR has analysed figures from the Federal Employment Agency with the most recent data from September 2021, when there were around 39 000 employees in Schleswig-Holstein who were at least 67 years old.

In September 2011, the number was still around 27 000. In a ten-year comparison, the number of working seniors has thus gone up significantly.

In 2020, the average pension of a woman in Schleswig-Holstein was 767 euros per month. Men received significantly more: their average pension was 1269 euros. This is according to statistics from the German Pension Insurance. Accordingly, senior women are more often affected by old-age poverty than senior men.

According to the Northern Statistical Office, more older people live in Schleswig-Holstein today than ten years ago. But at the same time, the proportion of those who earn extra money has risen from 4,9 to 6,3 percent, according to NDR calculations.

What also emerges from the figures of the employment agency in Schleswig-Holstein is that most of the working seniors are marginally employed, i.e. have a mini-job. Only about one in five pensioners who earned extra money in September 2021 was in employment subject to social insurance contributions.

For social associations, this development is fundamentally a cause for concern. “Most of these people see themselves forced to earn extra money,” says Ronald Manzke, managing director at VdK Nord. Admittedly, there are pensioners who want to continue working for fun. “But many actually need it for their livelihood. That they can buy food and medicine at all. That they can afford their flat,” Manzke explained.

According to VdK Nord, when older people have to continue working out of financial necessity, it is often at the expense of their health. The association demanded that the pension level be raised to well over 50 percent. At the same time, however, the standard retirement age should not be raised.

The Schleswig-Holstein Social Association in Germany (SoVD) also criticised the government. “If a 70-year-old still has to deliver newspapers out of economic hardship or a 70-year-old ‘collects’ shopping trolleys in discounters, there is something wrong in our society,” the regional chairman Alfred Bornhalm said in response to a question from NDR Schleswig-Holstein.

Some seniors, he explained, continue to work out of shame in order not to have to apply for basic security on top of their meagre pensions. “This is still seen as a stigma among pensioners.”

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/06/08/more-and-more-german-pensioners-forced-to-work/

A vehicle hit a crowd of people in the western part of Berlin’s city centre. According to initial police reports, the incident occurred on Wednesday morning near the Memorial Church and Ku’damm.

“Whether it was an accident or deliberate action is not yet known. Emergency services are holding the man who is believed to have been driving at the scene,” Berlin police announced on Twitter. The incident occurred at around 10.30am on Tauentzienstrasse, near the Memorial Church and Ku’damm. The car allegedly drove onto a pavement and into a group of people and a shop. According to the “Bild” newspaper, the car was a silver Renault Twingo. The driver of the small car was arrested. Several heavily armed police officers are at the scene, the fire brigade is on the scene with 60 emergency personnel.

https://exxpress.at/mit-auto-in-menschenmenge-gerast-ein-toter-viele-verletzte-in-berlin/

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel experts recommended authorizing Novavax Covid-19 vaccine during a federal advisory committee on Tuesday.

FDA advisers ignored the previous assessment released by the agency. The FDA released a report on Friday regarding the causal relationship between the Novavax vaccine and heart inflammation or myocarditis.

In the FDA documents, the agency said that multiple events of myocarditis/pericarditis were reported after the administration of the Novavax vaccine. Thus, raising concern about a possible risk of heart inflammation from the vaccine.

“Multiple events of myocarditis/ pericarditis were reported in temporal relationship to NVX-CoV2373 administration, similar to myocarditis following mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and raising concern for a causal relationship to NVX-CoV2373. Events of lymphadenopathy were infrequent but reported by a higher proportion of participants in the NVX arm, with the highest rate observed after Dose 2 (0.2%). Review of the data also identified small imbalances in certain thromboembolic events, including cardiac and neurovascular events, hypersensitivity events, cholecystitis, uveitis, cardiac failure, and cardiomyopathy,” according to the documents.

“Data from passive surveillance during post-authorization use in other countries also indicate a higher-than-expected rate of myocarditis and pericarditis (mainly pericarditis) associated with the vaccine,” the documents stated.

After an all-day public meeting on Tuesday, the FDA’s panel experts voted 21 to 0 to authorize the shot for use in adults 18 and above in the U.S. The committee voted that the benefits of the two-dose vaccine outweigh the risks of developing myocarditis.

CNBC reported:

The FDA’s committee of independent vaccine experts voted 21 to 0 with one abstention to recommend authorization of the shot for use in the U.S. after an all-day public meeting in which they weighed safety and effectiveness data. The FDA usually follows the committee’s recommendations, though it is not obligated to do so. The agency could clear Novavax’s vaccine for distribution in the U.S. as soon as this week.

The Centers for Disease Control Prevention would still need to sign off on the shots before pharmacies and other health-care providers can start administering them to people.

Novavax’s shot would be the fourth Covid vaccine authorized for use in the U.S. The Maryland biotech company’s shots are based on protein technology that’s been in use for decades in vaccines against hepatitis B and HPV. The technology differs from Pfizer and Moderna’s shots, which were the first ones using messenger RNA technology to receive FDA approval.

Dr. Peter Marks, who leads the FDA office responsible for reviewing vaccine safety and effectiveness, said Novavax’s vaccine would potentially appeal to people who have not gotten immunized yet because they would rather receive a shot that is not based on the mRNA technology used by Pfizer and Moderna. Though Johnson & Johnson’s shot is also available, the CDC has restricted its use due to a risk of blood clots primarily in women.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/just-fda-advisers-recommend-authorizing-novavax-covid-vaccine-despite-risks-myocarditis/