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Month: July 2022
France: 3 people, including a 16-year-old minor, were killed by a Sudanese migrant with a knife. Firefighters were attacked by an “aggressive mob” when they tried to rescue the victims (VIDEOS)
A 32-year-old suspect was arrested and taken into police custody. According to a source familiar with the case, he was arrested some time after the attack and was carrying a bloody knife. According to concurring sources, he is a Sudanese national. He is also legally on French territory and unknown to the judiciary, explains the public prosecutor of Angers, Eric Bouillard.
(…) In fact, shortly before 3 a.m., the fire brigade was called for stabbings in the cœur de Maine district and asked the police for reinforcements. When the rescue workers arrived, the three victims were still alive. “They found a large and sometimes aggressive crowd throwing projectiles at the emergency services. Three persons, each of whom had been stabbed in the chest, were attended to by the rescuers as they had suffered cardiac arrest,” the prosecution adds. They died shortly afterwards. Le Parisien
According to initial statements made to TF1/LCI by the police and judicial services, the suspect was said to have been disturbed by the music being played by the small group of youths on the Esplanade Coeur de Maine. After apprising the group of the noise nuisance, a brawl broke out at around 1am. The suspect allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed several people. The altercation was broken up shortly before 3am. TF1
Three young men, including a teenager, were killed with stabbing weapons in the centre of Angers on Esplanade Coeur de Maine in Angers on Friday night, according to the public prosecutor’s office. The three victims were aged 16, 18 and 20, Angers prosecutor Éric Bouillard said.
Three others were more slightly injured, he said. A 32-year-old suspect was arrested and taken into police custody.France Bleu
A blow for Brussels: Hungarians are the most satisfied with their government
The EU keeps trying to challenge the democratic legitimacy of the Hungarian government. But there is little reason for that: not only was the Orban government in Budapest able to clinch a convincing victory in the most recent parliamentary elections, but the Hungarian population is also happier with their conservative government than voters in other EU countries.
This has now been revealed by a survey by the Hungarian Nézöpont Institute in twelve Central European countries. Accordingly, people in Hungary and Serbia are the most satisfied with the performance of their government.
The percentage of “satisfied” is 61 percent in Hungary and 60 percent in Serbia. In both countries, dissatisfaction was 33 percent. According to the researchers, the fact that satisfaction is higher than the extent of electoral victories indicates that political stability is perceived as an asset by voters, which is by no means self-evident from the examples of other countries.
Dissatisfaction is at 52 percent in Austria, 54 percent in Montenegro, 59 percent in the Czech Republic, 66 percent in Croatia, 67 percent in Poland, 71 percent in Bulgaria and 72 percent in Slovenia. The least satisfied countries included Romania (73 percent) and the region’s leader, Slovakia (74 percent), where only 24 percent of people were satisfied with the government. The survey took place in May and June.
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Carbon capture in Iceland – Oh, the irony!
By Anony Mee
Carbon, as we all know, is the central building block of organic life here on Earth. Carbon dioxide is an animal byproduct of the process of living: forming within cells during metabolism, moving via the bloodstream to the lungs, then being exhaled. Plants inhale CO2 to live and grow. What a wonderful symbiosis covering our world! Other sources of CO2 include volcanic eruptions and the byproducts of human communities—burning various fuels for heating, cooking, transport, and industry.
A little less than 0.03% (3 parts in 10,000) of the Earth’s atmosphere is made of CO2, classified as a trace gas. NOAA has this to say “…global average atmospheric carbon dioxide was 414.72 parts per million (‘ppm’ for short) in 2021, setting a new record high…” NOAA’s records only go back 60 years—or 3 parts in 225 million of the Earth’s 4.5 billion years. Perhaps our nation’s premiere atmospheric sciences institution can be forgiven for missing a few facts. But I don’t think they should be.
Evidence exists that CO2 in the atmosphere appears to have no correlation at all with global temperature, although rejiggering timescales can make it look that way. A clear chart shows that, at one time, there were 10,000 ppm (22 times today’s amount) and the Earth was colder than it is today. The climate changes mostly due to the sun and its various cycles and not because of carbon in the air.
Nevertheless, there are those who believe that atmospheric carbon will doom us all. Personally, I wouldn’t mind warmer weather, a greener landscape, expanding coral reefs, more diverse insect, plant, marine, and animal life, and faster-growing plants, which is what a warming Earth will bring us. Not to worry, though: The current Hallstatt/Bray cycle will peak at around the year 2600 and cyclical cooling will commence. So far, we’ve managed to live through 20 of these cycles since we expanded from our African homeland 50,000 years ago.
In any case, there are multiple projects around the world seeking to capture carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it underground. Recent news celebrated breaking ground for one such facility in Iceland. CNBC reported that the Swiss company Climeworks is building a facility designed to pull 36,000 tons of carbon annually from the atmosphere and sink it underground. That’s 0.0001% of the estimated 36 billion tons that human activity emitted last year. As human inputs account for an estimated 22% of atmospheric carbon, that’s not a lot of mitigation.
Iceland is one of the least vegetated countries in the world. Maybe it’s a good thing that it’s choosing to suck carbon out of the air there, several hundred miles from any mainland in any direction.
Iceland generates the electricity needed to operate this plant by geothermal and hydroelectric means, close to net zero after construction. However, the inputs for “Mammoth,” as the place is named, require ground preparation using massive earth-moving machines, shipping components over rough seas, and installation in harsh climatic conditions. It should be complete in a couple of years. Over the next 15 years or so, carbon removal costs are expected to decline from $500 per ton to $200. By then, the annual cost of operations may drop from $18 million to $7.2 million per year.
Big industrial plants like these have an average lifespan of 50-60 years. So, Mammoth could potentially scrub 1.8 billion to 2.2 billion tons of carbon from the air during its expected years of operation. Anybody remember the Icelandic volcano that disrupted air travel back in 2010? Eyjafjallajökull was active for 95 days, emitting 30,000 tons of CO2 each day for a total of 2.85 billion tons of atmospheric carbon. CO2 is a long-term tenant in the air, remaining there for 300 to 1,000 years.
Mammoth, over its lifetime, will not even suck up all the carbon emitted during a three-month period more than ten years ago by a nearby volcano. We’ve got 30 more years to go in the current Modern Grand Solar Minimum. Increased volcanism is a hallmark of GSMs and sweet little Iceland sits over a hotspot in the Earth’s crust and contains 32 active volcanic systems.
So why do this now? Follow the money. Microsoft just invested part of its $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund into Climeworks. Other large companies, as well as small investors, are following suit, substituting the efforts of others to extract carbon for their own responsibility, as they see it, to reduce carbon emissions. Greenies can’t seem to tell the difference. If they truly believe carbon emissions are such a bad thing, they should just stop. It’s the height of foolishness and juvenile behavior to think that something’s bad, but it’s okay if I do it because I plan to clean it up afterward. Hypocritical, childish fools.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/carbon_capture_in_iceland__oh_the_irony.html
Slovenia legalizes same-sex marriage even after citizens rejected measure in 3 national referendums
Slovenia has become the first former communist eastern bloc country to legalize same-sex marriage, but the decision was far from democratic. Despite Slovenian citizens rejecting same-sex marriage in three separate national referendums, the country’s Constitutional Court went ahead and legalized such marriages as well as authorizing adoptions from same-sex couples.
On July 8, six judges voted to legalize same-sex marriages and adoptions, while three voted against. The majority argued that a ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional. According to Radio France, the ruling came after two gay couples filed complaints that they could not marry or adopt children.
The judges write that their decision “does not diminish the importance of traditional marriage as a union of a man and a woman nor does it change the conditions under which people of the opposite sex can marry.” Previously, Slovenians had opposed universal marriage in three separate referendum votes, the last time in 2015, with 60 percent of citizens voting against the legalization. Pope Francis had also pleaded for a “no” vote, telling Slovenes to “support the family, the reference structure for life in society.” Those opposing same-sex marriage during the referendum were supported by conservative parties and the Catholic Church.
As seen in many countries, the courts bypassed the will of the people on this particular social issue. Now, the Slovenian Parliament has six months to act, but they will likely legalize same-sex marraiges much sooner. Prime Minister Robert Golob is preparing to launch a new law within two weeks to ensure same-sex marriage rules comply with the top court’s ruling.
“The Constitutional Court orders us to lift this unconstitutionality. We will do so as soon as possible, we are already preparing the law,” affirmed Luka Mesec, Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities.
Now, Slovenia joins France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, and Portugal, becoming the eighteenth country in Europe to legalize universal marriage. Civil union remains the only legal status for same-sex couples in Hungary, Croatia, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, and the Czech Republic. On the other hand, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria, recognize no form of union for same-sex couples.
In Romania, for example, the last referendum organized in 2018 was invalidated due to too many abstentions. In Hungary, Viktor Orbán has fought to ensure marriage is defined as between a man and a woman. In 2020, Hungary’s constitution was changed and now it defines the family as “based on marriage and the parent-child relationship”,where “the mother is a woman, the father is a man.”
In June 2021, the Hungarian parliament also adopted a text prohibiting the teaching of LGBT ideology to minors in a school setting, including sex education lessons if they “aim to promote gender non-conformity, sex reassignment or homosexuality.”
Germany: A basic biology course protected by police
At Humboldt University in Berlin, police officers sat in squad cars in front of the large entrance on Dorotheenstraße. Invitees waited patiently to have their bags checked by university staff inside the building. A doctoral student who is actually researching fish, got entangled in the gender debate.
Dangerous objects, bottles and large backpacks were prohibited. Only after passing a security check were those who had previously registered via the internet allowed into the lecture hall on the third floor. The reason: a biology lecture.
Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, a doctoral student in the subject, made it clear from the start that she would not answer any questions from either the audience or the press. Vollbrecht’s central thesis is that in humans there are only two sexes and its remains so for life.
Already on 2 July, Vollbrecht gave a lecture with the title: “Geschlecht ist nicht (Ge)schlecht: “Sex, Gender und warum es zwei Geschlechter gibt in der Biologie” [Gender is not bad: Sex, Gender and why there are two genders in biology]. But the radical left-wing group “Arbeitskreis kritischer Jurist*innen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin” agitated to have the lecture cancelled claiming that “queer and trans*-hostile ideologies” should not be offered a stage at the institution.
The university immediately stepped in and cancelled the lecture. “We very much regret that Ms Vollbrecht cannot give the lecture,” Birgit Mangelsdorf, the university’s head of communications, told Welt am Sonntag a fortnight ago. She added that the decision was purely for security reasons.
One-sided panel
But this cancellation caused enormous outrage. The accusation of transphobia was not justified at all, it was said, for example, in a statement by the Network for Academic Freedom. Bodies like the student councils openly try to “expel academics and end their careers because of their views”.
The terror campaign organised by left-wing radicals, queers and trans activists with the aim of silencing Vollbrecht, however backfired. Vollbrecht gave her lecture after all – on YouTube. It can still be viewed and so far it has been viewed more than 120 000 times, whereas maybe only a 100 people would have been present to listen to her lecture in person.
The university then back-peddled: instead of cancelling the lecture, it rescheduled it for this week, but there was a small catch. After the lecture, they had organised a panel discussion. The panel included an economist, the Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger, HU President Prof. Dr. Peter Frensch who is a psychologist, Prof. Dr. Martin Heger who is a lawyer and Professor Dr. Kerstin Palm who is a biologist specialising in “gender” and “science”. Stark-Watzinger expressed concern about Vollbrecht endangering “the freedom of science”.
She clearly missed the opportunity to speak out for freedom of speech and oppose “cancel culture” in science.
Because Vollbrecht maintains that biologically there are only two genders, that was “transphobic” and the university should not offer such “alleged facts” a platform, her detractors said. They added: “There are mushrooms that have hundreds of genders, the shaggy Tintling has a thousand genders.” But someone in the audience at the panel discussion responded: “People are not mushrooms!”
Heiner Schulze, who is from the “Gay Museum” in Berlin, Jenny Wilken from the German Society for Transidentity and Intersexuality, were also invited and the moderator was Jan-Martin Wiarda, science journalist for the far-left rags Tagesspiegel and Die Zeit. “It’s not the case that Marie-Luise Vollbrecht is an innocent scientist,” Schulze complained since her thesis was based on “old, right-wing, right-wing extremist narratives”.
It became quite clear why Vollbrecht was not interested in a “debate” which would have resulted in a public mobbing. She justified her cancellation as follows: “The panel is unbalanced in its composition.” Moreover, with so many participants, not everyone would get enough time to express themselves.
The biologist came up with a better idea. Vollbrecht instead decided to discuss the topics of gender and “cancel culture” with informed guests on social media.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/07/16/a-basic-biology-course-protected-by-police/
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Labour Party Blocks Public Inquiry Into Child Rape Grooming Gangs and Local Failures to Protect Girls
The local Labour Party-run council in Oldham rejected a motion to launch a public inquiry into the grooming gang sexual exploitation of children and the failures of local officials and police to protect them.
Following the release of a report on child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Oldham last month, which found that girls were failed by the very social services meant to protect them and failings among the local police and council, the Failsworth Independent Group (FIP) of local councillors introduced a motion to petition the government to establish an independent public inquiry into the failings.
The left-wing Labour Party introduced an amendment to strip the call for a public inquiry, neutering the motion, sparking fury from local observers of the town hall meeting, some of whom shouted “paedophile protesters” at the councillors, according to footage posted on social media. Due to the overwhelming majority they hold on the body, Labour was able to pass the amendment despite all members of the Failsworth Independents, Conservatives, and Liberal Democrats voting in opposition, the Manchester Evening News reported.
Conservative councillor Robert Barnes called the move a “travesty” and that it was “the night that democracy died in Oldham”.
Councillor Brian Hobin, from Failsworth Independents, said: “We can’t move on. Multiple failings have happened – general apologies; no good.
“We need a public inquiry, an independent one to tell us who failed and why, to tell us who knew and why and who did nothing about it and why.”
The Labour Party argue that instead of establishing an independent inquiry, funds should be directed to the ongoing police investigation into historical child sex abuse, Operation Sherwood.
The demands for an independent inquiry follow a report last month that found that a 12-year-old girl was raped multiple times by multiple men, yet was local authorities and police missed various opportunities to protect her from her abusers. The report went on to note that police had failed to inform the local council leaders that it had employed Rochdale grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed as a welfare officer for a year, despite having knowledge of allegations of sexual abuse against him.
The local council was also accused of enabling the grooming gangs through the issuance of taxi driver’s licenses to men convicted of sexual crimes against women and children. Taxis have repeatedly been identified as a means by which Asian grooming gangs abused young girls, as they allowed them to lure the girls away from sight.
Oldham council leader Amanda Chadderton, who introduced the amendment to block a public inquiry, argued that she did so “not because we don’t understand the level of concern Oldhamers feel about this issue, but it is because we want to take action.
“We want to see improvements for children and young people and see the people that committed these disgusting crimes brought to justice,” she added, saying that Labour has called for additional funding for victims of grooming gangs.
“The original motion doesn’t explain what benefit at all a public inquiry would have, either providing improvements to our assurance for today’s children and young people or seeking justice for historic victims of abuse,” Chadderton said.
In February of this year, an Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) foundthat many local authorities are continuing to “victim blame” rather than taking responsibility in order to ensure their area is “not another Rochdale or Rotherham’, rather than being determined to find and root out child sexual exploitation in their area and expose its scale.”
This is despite the fact that the main source of public outrage over the grooming scandals in Rochdale and Rotherham was over the institutional cowardice in confronting the scourge of mostly Pakistani grooming gangs over a fear of being labelled as racists or inflaming “racial tensions” in the area.
Indeed, just this week, a public inquiry into grooming gangs in Telford found once again that police “turned a blind eye” to Asian grooming gangs abusing children over similar politically correct concerns.