Month: July 2022
Mark Steyn reacts to world leaders catching Covid after campaigning for the jab
Germany: Eritrean slashes opponent’s throat
The public prosecutor’s office has brought charges against a 32-year-old man for allegedly slitting the throat of another man in an argument and thus killing him. The man from Rüdesheim will probably have to stand trial for manslaughter, said senior public prosecutor Nadja Niesen of the Frankfurt public prosecutor’s office on Friday.
The crime took place two and a half months ago. According to Niesen, at the beginning of May, the Eritrean and a 20-year-old fellow countryman got into an argument for unknown reasons. The victim was stabbed deep in the upper abdomen, and shortly afterwards his throat and carotid artery were cut. The man died at the scene.
The perpetrator turned himself in at a nearby consulate shortly afterwards and stated that he had killed someone. After that, he did not give any more information. There are no indications of alcohol or drug abuse so far, Niesen said. There was no scheduled date for the trial before the jury chamber of the regional court.
“Interpersonal conflicts”: Eritrean murders 25-year-old woman in Germany
A 31-year-old man allegedly murdered his wife in Titisee-Neustadt (district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald). The man from the East African country of Eritrea was remanded in custody, according to police and the public prosecutor’s office on Monday.
The body of the 25-year-old woman was detected in the couple’s flat on Friday. The woman had been killed with several knife wounds. The police searched for the suspected husband until they were able to arrest him on Sunday night.
Officials assume that interpersonal conflicts were at the root of the crime and that there was no danger to the public.
Southern Europe does not want to limit gas use to aid Germany
The dissent was present everywhere, but it was the Spanish who made it known.
“Unlike others we did not live beyond our means when it comes to energy imports, and we should not suffer the consequences because of it,” stated Teresa Ribera Rodríguez who is responsible for Spain’s energy policy.
Her remarks were in response to the European Commission’s proposed plan of reducing gas consumption in all EU countries by 15 percent, so that if Gazprom cuts off supplies for countries such as Germany or Italy, Europe can make up for the shortage.
On Tuesday, EU energy ministers are set to debate this proposal, but it is already known that it will not get the approval of 55 percent of the member states and 65 percent of EU’s population, the minimum requirement to fulfill the bloc’s qualified majority voting rules.
“It truly is a mission impossible. Not even Tom Cruise could handle this case,” said an EU diplomat involved in negotiations, reported by Politico.
The declaration by Rodríguez is a direct reference to the situation from 12 years ago when Germany referred to Europe’s South, claiming that “living beyond their means” is what got them into financial trouble.
However, today the south of Europe is in a much better situation than Germany thanks to access to gas from Algeria among others. Banking giant Goldman Sachs assessed that key branches of German manufacturing such as the chemical industry and cement production would collapse if Russia fully cut off Nord Stream 1 deliveries. The heating bill of an average EU family would increase by 65 percent to around €500 per month.
Brussels has proposed that gas consumption be limited from Aug. 1, 2022 to March 1, 2023 by 15 percent (45 billion cubic meters). At first, this initiative would be voluntary, but if the European Commission decided that the situation is critical, it would have the power to impose its stance on member countries.
The Czechs, presiding currently over the EU Council and realizing that there was no chance that such an arrangement would be approved, proposed a softened version. Specifically, it would be the EU Council, where capitals of member states are represented, that would have the final decision on whether belt-tightening was compulsory or not. It is already clear that the chances for this arrangement are slim, even though the decision will be made on Tuesday.
Other countries — Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, and Malta — were encouraged by Spain’s stance and rejected Brussels’ plan inspired by Germany.
Greek Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas pointed out that member states had not been consulted on the plans, and highlighted that the current president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, had been an important member of Angela Merkel’s government, which had pushed for increasing German dependency on Russian gas.
However, the most crucial was the support of Italy, where Mario Draghi’s government has collapsed, opening the way to an early election, which will most likely be won by a Eurosceptic coalition of populist parties, the Brothers of Italy and League, supported by Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative Forza Italia. Poland also shared doubts in a milder form, while France has not yet fully disclosed its stance.
A breakdown in the German economy would lead to a serious crisis in Poland, a key partner of Europe’s biggest economy.
https://rmx.news/poland/southern-europe-does-not-want-to-limit-gas-use-to-aid-germany/
US city decriminalizes public defecation
In Kalamazoo, Michigan, a city with around 75 000 inhabitants and a growing homeless population, its leaders on Thursday voted to make “equitable changes” in city laws resulting in the decriminalization of littering and public defecation and urination.
City commissioners voted to be more lenient on public defecation, public urination and littering. They will be changed from misdemeanors to civil infractions on Monday, Fox17Online reported. Residents protested against change.
“One day, we smell something in the bathroom of the store and I open up the door and there was human feces, and of course, called the landlord and they — nobody would do anything about it,” the owner of a coffee shop, told Fox host Todd Piro.
The owners of another shop at the Kalamazoo Mall, told Fox about an increase of feces in the area near the store. The city also spent $100 000 on a public restroom near the mall, but at times the facilities were locked, possibly due to a drug problem.
“I’m kind of a little ways from the main part of the mall, but my neighbor has had human feces outside of his door,” the owner explained. He said there was litter everywhere and even though it is supposed to be cleaned regularly “it’s still out there and just crazy”.
American cities are facing a rising drug problem
Four years ago, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz made the decision to open Starbucks’ bathrooms to the public. The company’s open bathroom policy quickly degenerated with drug addicts turning their restrooms into feces-infested heroin dens.
The decision to open restrooms was taken after two black men were arrested at a store in Philadelphia for demanding to use the bathroom without making a purchase and then refusing to leave in protest.
“We don’t want to become a public bathroom, but we’re going to make the right decision a hundred percent of the time and give people the key,” Schultz said at the time, “because we don’t want anyone at Starbucks to feel as if we are not giving access to you to the bathroom because you are less than.”
Schultz even ordered employees to attend “racial sensitivity” training and forced Starbucks employees to watch “video after video” of white cops attacking black people.
“At one point, a girl at my table actually had to get up and leave because video after video they showed black people being assaulted by police or black people being verbally assaulted and white people being racially biased toward people of color,” one Starbucks employee reported. “It offended her. She left after that.”
Other employees expressed similar surprise at conflating restroom policy with police brutality.
Starbucks has now announced that they were closing 16 stores as a result of “incidents related to drug use and other disruptions,” the Wall Street Journalreported. Ironically, Schultz has since decided to blame none other than the much-maligned police for not enforcing laws.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/07/26/us-city-decriminalizes-public-defecation/
Orban: Future Hungary Will Take Christian Refugees from Multiculti West, Then Shut Border
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has predicted that the next generation in his country will have to accommodate Christian refugees fleeing multicultural Western Europe, before ultimately shutting their border to it.
In a wide-ranging and highly-charged speech to an annual summer camp in an area of Romania with a large Hungarian minority, a transcript of which has been seen by Breitbart London, Prime Minister Orbán compared his government’s struggle to hold back mass migration from, in particular, the world of “Islamic civilisation”, to Hungary’s resistance to Turkish invaders at the Siege of Belgrade/Nándorfehérvár in the 1400s, or Charles Martel’s defeat of an Arab invasion force at Poitiers in 732.
Notably, Orbán argued that those Western countries which have embraced mass migration and multiculturalism should now by understood as “post-Western”, with the true West having “moved to Central Europe: the West is here, and what is left over there is merely the post-West.”
He further argued that Central Europe’s “offer to the post-Westerners… [to leave] one another in peace, allowing each to decide for themselves whom they want to live alongside” had been “rejected”, with multicultural societies bent on “making us like them.”
“Brussels, reinforced with [Geroge] Soros-affiliated troops, simply wants to force migrants on us,” he said, going on to hint as strongly as he ever had that, despite his government officially in favour of remaining in the European Union, he sees Hungary’s time in the bloc as limited, as it will eventually become necessary to prevent migration from multicultural Western Europe.
“This might not yet be a very important task for us, but it will be for our children, who will need to defend themselves not only from the South, but also from the West. The time will come when we have to somehow accept Christians coming to us from there and integrate them into our lives. This has happened before; and those whom we do not want to let in will have to be stopped at our western borders – Schengen or no Schengen,” he said, referring to the passport-free, effectively borderless zone which covers much of the European Union.
Orbán did add that this was “not the task of the moment” or even “our lifetime”, but he stressed that it was important “to prepare our children to be able to do this.”
He said that, in particular, it was important to heed the warnings of the Speaker of the Hungarian parliament, László Kövér, that the government should strive to ensure that, while improving the people’s economic lot, “that good times do not create weak men, and that those weak men do not bring hard times upon our people.”
Orbán has spoken before of taking in “true refugees” — the “Germans, Dutch, French and Italians, terrified politicians and journalists who here in Hungary want to find the Europe they have lost in their homelands” — from Western Europe during clashes with the EU establishment on mass migration and multiculturalism, arguing as long ago as 2017 that “the lords of globalist politics” who believe “the people are a danger to democracy” were trying to enforce their values as universal norms, regardless of public opinion on immigration.
German and Austrian Islamists are networked
There are connections between German and Austrian Islamists. However, these are individual cases rather than transnational network structures. This is the result of an answer by the Federal Government to a parliamentary question by the parliamentary group Die Linke.
The reason for the parliamentary question was the investigation of a suspected cell of the terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS) in Austria by local security authorities. The group is said to have worked on attacks at major events in Europe. According to the Federal Government, the Austrian organisation “IMAN” is of transnational importance for the German Salafist scene. Several persons from the Islamist spectrum living in Germany were involved with this group as well as with “IMAN TV”.
The German and Austrian offshoots of the “Muslim Brotherhood” – “Deutsche Muslimische Gemeinschaft e. V.” in Germany and “Liga Kultur” in Austria – are influenced by the European umbrella organisation “Council of European Muslims” (CEM). The Muslim Brotherhood refers to the umbrella organisation as its “European wing”. German and Austrian representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood are also networked through the CEM. Hizb ut-Tahrir”, which has been banned from operating in Germany since 2003, considers the German-speaking region – Germany, Austria and Switzerland – as a coherent area (“Wilayah”).
https://www.idea.de/artikel/zwischen-deutschen-und-oesterreichischen-islamisten-besteht-kontakt
A Kennedy-like assassination shakes Japan
The murder Japan’s ‘shadow shogun’ Shinzo Abe raises many questions. Japan’s strongman and longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated on July 8. Before stepping down as prime minister for a second time in 2020, after a total of nearly nine years in power, Abe was instrumental in pulling Japan out of the country’s dire economic crisis. He did it with his own economic policy, “Abenomics”.
A nationalist and political balancer, Abe also wanted to strengthen Japan’s military power after decades of pacifism imposed on the country after its stinging defeat in World War II. A closer look at the anomalies regarding the assassination of Abe, showed that he was perceived in the West as a globalist, but in fact, the Japanese, on the contrary, saw Abe as the country’s protector against the globalists.
On a hot and humid Friday in Nara, the ancient capital of Japan in the 7th century, which is located near Osaka in western Japan, Abe, who served as prime minister until September 14, 2020, was there to support Kei Satō, a local election candidate and party colleague in Japan’s largest party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). During the speech, which was held in the middle of a road crossing outside the Yamato-Saidaiji railway station in one of the city’s northern suburbs, there was suddenly a loud bang… followed by another. Abe fell to the ground.
Shinzo Abe received first aid at the scene before being taken unconscious to hospital. Immediately after the shots, the assailant, 41-year-old Yamagami Toruya, who previously belonged to Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Forces (the navy of Japan once demilitarized by the United States), was arrested. The ex-military man, who used an improvised weapon, was said to have harbored “personal anger” against Abe for unknown reasons.
The hospital where Abe was taken announced that the politician showed no “signs of life” and it then took over five hours before it was finally confirmed that Abe had died. That was the time needed for Japan, where violence is uncommon and shootings are almost non-existent, to be able to absorb the incident. The national trauma the assassination created in Japan can be compared to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 in the United States. The most important era in Japanese post-war politics died together with Abe.
Protected Japan’s sovereignty
The fact-checkers of the globalist establishment quickly mobilized and declared that the infamous globalist organization World Economic Forum (WEF) was not behind the attack. According to Reuters, there was allegedly “no evidence” that Shinzo Abe was killed for disobeying WEF orders.
The “fact-checking” panic ensued after rumors began to spread in Japan that the official narrative of a lone embittered military man was not true. This had started to spread further outside the country, not least via social media. Some comments were pure speculation, but others were based on confirmed oddities in the attack.
The London-based news agency Reuters as well as other mainstream news sources responded to a certain tweet in an effort to quell rising doubts: “No evidence that Shinzo Abe was killed because he did not follow WEF orders.” The tweet in question reads: “The assassinated Japanese prime minister did not follow the orders of the WEF. He didn’t mandate [Covid] vaccines, sent back 1.6 million doses and gave citizens Ivermectin. Is it [the murder] understandable now?”
The fact-checkers however were unable to offer any evidence for their conclusion and rather confirmed that the tweet was correct regarding 1,6 million Moderna doses being returned, as they were deemed neither “safe” nor “effective”. Japan under Abe never called for mandatory vaccination, as in so many other countries.
Our Japanese sources have meanwhile confirmed that there were persistent rumors circulating in the country that the murder was a hit job because Abe went against the globalists’ agenda on several points. They explained that outside Japan Abe was perceived as a errand boy for the globalists, but that from a Japanese perspective it was just the opposite. They explained that he had always acted to protect Japan’s sovereignty.
Our sources told us that the WEF and other globalist actors, who send selected Japanese men or women to exclusive universities or elite societies such as the WEF’s Young Global Leaders, have since failed to get them elected into leadership positions. This is because Japan has an old tradition of the country’s leaders going to domestic universities.
Japan, which is one of the world’s most high-tech countries, under Abe also never allowed the globalists’ US-based Big Tech to infiltrate their institutions, which meant that they could not monitor and control the flow of information in the country. The Japanese also prefer their own language, which creates a “protective barrier”. So even if English-language social media exists in the country, it is used to a small extent only. Abe took advantage of the Corona hysteria to strengthen the country’s borders, but at the same time imposed almost no domestic restrictions.
Abe played with the globalists when it benefited him and the country, but made sure to shut them out of Japan’s IT and media world, education and banking. Taken together, these are the globalists’ main avenues for undermining the nation-state, something Abe, to their growing annoyance, had refused them.
‘Abenomics’
Shinzo Abe had developed his own theory on how to fix the country’s economy. Japan had long been the world’s second largest economy after the US, but was overtaken by China a few years ago. For several decades, Japan’s economy has been in decline and marked by recession after the economic bubble burst in the early 1990s. Japan also has an extremely large and rapidly growing national debt – a whopping 254 percent of GDP in 2022.
Abe’s economic theory, commonly called “Abenomics”, was launched in 2012, when he assumed the prime ministership for the second time. It is a model for being able to build a sustainable growth strategy while maintaining strong Japanese culture in opening up Japanese society to more international cooperation on various levels. He sought to re-establish Japan as an economic power, and he was well on his way. The negative trend had been broken.
Abe also got involved in another matter which proved to be fateful. He wanted to reverse Japan’s demographic problem with an aging population and turn it to an advantage, by, among other things, getting both women and the elderly to work more. He further wanted to take advantage of the country’s high-tech lead by starting to use digital platforms more in all parts of Japanese society. He called his vision “Society 5.0 – Japan’s vision for the next step in human evolution”. Critics perceived the latter as part of the globalists’ agenda of digitization (WEF uses the name Fourth Industrial Revolution) and thus increased control in all areas. However, the proponents believe that these are essentially different and that in Japan it happened on its own terms and for the benefit of the people.
He is known for this quote: “My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century in which there will be no violation of human rights, and to this end Japan will do its utmost.”
The essence of Abenomics can be summarized in five main points (reproduced very briefly here):
1. An innovative social structure: “We promote a society that is smarter and innovates to raise productivity and solve the problem of a declining population”.
2. “The goal is a society that welcomes different ways of working and that gives everyone equal opportunities, including pensioners, women and foreign professionals. Among other things, it involves getting women and the elderly to work more, preferably from home and connected”.
3. Smart laws and regulations. “As markets evolve to reflect changing social needs, we should act quickly and with an open mind to help create new businesses and new demand.”
4. Attractive international opportunities, which is mainly about increasing Japan’s exports of goods and services and opening up society to more international cooperation in various respects.
5. More competitive industry and enterprise. Among other things, the corporate tax was lowered from 37 percent to just under 30 percent, which aimed to make the Japanese corporate tax more internationally viable and promote growth. It also reduced bureaucracy and made it easier for foreign investors to establish themselves in Japan. Abe also invested heavily in strengthening Japan’s infrastructure.
Nationalist and militarist
Shinzo Abe was often described as conservative and nationalist – “ultranationalist” in the West’s mainstream media – which took on a variety of expressions. One of these occurred in 2015 when Abe’s government, despite strong pressure from the West, stubbornly refused to accept migrants from the Middle East and Africa. Abe declared that Japan must solve its own problems before accepting any immigrants. Abe chose instead to favor short-term work visas for migrant workers, such as Filipino nurses, so that they could “work and earn income for a limited time and then return home”.
Abe also had a clear agenda for developing the Japanese military, with the aim of better asserting Japan’s interests. Among other things, it was decided in 2018 to invest heavily in “rebuilding” two helicopter carriers into full-scale aircraft carriers with combat aircraft. This was, on the surface, the most internationally controversial part of Abe’s political agenda. Japan’s ability to act as a military power was tightly regulated after World War II. Abe wanted to break this deadlock. After a period of frosty relations, Abe made major diplomatic efforts to strengthen the relationship with the United States and was quite successful in doing so. As the conflict with China escalated, the US has increasingly wanted to see its East Asian allies arm themselves.
On Friday, July 22, two weeks after the assassination of Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, also party leader of the LDP, decided to change Japan’s “peace constitution” and begin to strengthen Japan’s military.
Thus Japanese militarism is increasing at precisely the moment globalist forces are working for a greater confrontation with Russia and China. Japan, which is the Western powers’ main ally outside their own sphere, is absolutely crucial to being able to challenge China in the immediate area. Tokyo’s ambitions to once again become a military power are no longer taboo. But Kishida has sacrificed the country’s sovereignty in doing so.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/07/26/a-kennedy-like-assassination-shakes-japan/
Time for the Royal Family to take off the velvet gloves
Prince Harry used to be thought of as the jolly good royal, a “game” guy who never let his quest for adventure get in the way of family loyalty. The ginger prince had no fear about leaving the palace and engaging in edgy military endeavors — even if he occasionally slipped into occasional ‘bad boy’ behavior.
The UK public easily forgave him these slips of impropriety, never forgetting perhaps that he was left motherless as a young boy and that perhaps his bad behavior was due to emotional scars.
While many then might have questioned Prince Harry’s maturity, there was never a question about his sanity — until he met Meghan Markle, an obscure Hollywood actress who at some point in her career had sold her soul to woke forces and who then set about transforming Harry into a kind of leftist (but castrated) Chuckie Doll to do her political bidding.
In 2022, Prince Harry is a very different kind of bad boy.
He’s on a mission to save the world and that has caused the once happy grandson of Queen Elizabeth to believe he’s some kind of Messiah.
Pride and narcissism often come with a Messiah complex, as does a personality change. In Harry’s case, he’s become unhappy and grumpy as his woke wife pushes him further and further into political black holes.
Markle, of course, has made no secret of her desire to be the most famous woman in the world. To meet this goal, she’s even employed a public relations agency, Hollywood’s Sunshine Sachs, to see that she’s constantly in the public eye.
“Positive publicity never gives sufficient column-inches to fame-hungry people. The only thing that keeps the flame of fame flickering brightly is variability. The narrative has to have twists and turns, negativity and positivity,” Lady Colin Campbell wrote of Markle’s quest for fame in her book, Meghan and Harry, The Real Story.
It’s obvious that the change in Prince Harry since his marriage can no longer be laughed off as if it was a Bill Maher joke on woke inanities.
In fact, the time has come for the Royal Family to immediately apply full breaks on Harry by eliminating all of his titles and categorizing him as a former royal. The time for indecision and waiting is over, as evidenced by Harry’s address at the United Nations on Nelson Mandela International Day.
What the former prince has become was on full display in that nearly empty UN room as he began to pontificate, albeit in a rather clunky way, his views on climate change, the pandemic, the Ukraine war, and — what was most unsettling to him — the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe vs Wade, which he termed a grave threat to democracy and a misreading of the Constitution.
In that UN speech, Harry broke a cardinal rule for royals that they must never comment publicly on geopolitical decisions.
Then again, Harry wants to exist in both worlds, the royal one (when he desires a speaking platform), and the non-royal one, when he wants to be a Californian while working as an activist revolutionary to align the world with the New Agenda we see being promoted 24/7 in school boards, television advertisements, churches, the legacy media, Pre-K classrooms, universities, corporations, and even in local neighborhood associations.
You cannot serve two masters, however, without cutting off the arms and legs of one, which in Harry’s case means that in his mind the Royal Family is on the chopping block.
He made his choice clearly known during his 20-minute UN speech in which he mentioned “weaponizing lies and disinformation at the expense of the man,” a vague leftwing cult phrase that dubs any fact or narrative outside the woke narrative as false.
When he referenced, “Africa being mired in poverty” — a phrase that anyone can say to prove any point whatsoever — he showed a schoolboy intellectual shallowness, as if Africa being mired in poverty was somehow the world’s fault and that solutions could be found if only we — with the UN’s help — invest in the Biden WH brain trust to “end poverty.”
One is reminded of an 8th grade teacher reading essay submissions from students in which a quarter of the class says that their goal for the world is “to end poverty.”
Since it was Nelson Mandela International Day, it was of course Harry’s “duty” to mention Africa, in conjunction with the photograph he was referencing of his mother, Princess Diana, posing with Mandela, a special gift to him by none other than Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
This icon was the Holy Grail, his blessing from Heaven as it were to continue where he thinks his mother left off in her various social justice crusades before her death.
The Spectator aptly noted that the zeitgeist of Harry’s speech had its roots in the fact that the speaker was “clothed in the enduring righteousness of Mandela,” that gave it “an importance that, based on its contents, it once again doesn’t deserve.”
Especially galling was hearing the woke prince expound on diminishing freedoms in the United States because of the Court’s Roe v Wade decision, while completely ignoring any mention of the UK’s draconian laws on free speech whereby one can be imprisoned or questioned by the police for seeming to say something that might be interpreted by someone as possibly inciting feelings of hate or discrimination.
In 2019, the crackdown on free speech throughout the UK was so widespread that the head of the National Police Chief’s Council there warned that the focus on investigating hate crimes was putting a strain on police resources at a time when the country was dealing with rising levels of violence.
And yet here was Harry, his hair thicker and curlier than it appeared in former photos, his beard a lot scruffier while he also seemed to be sporting a significant weight gain — the privileged life of an activist ex-Royal — pretending to know more about the U.S. Constitution than the average U.S. citizen.
Tom Bower, in his book on Harry and Meghan Markle, Revenge, agrees with nearly every other Royal watcher that much of the blame for Harry’s “transition” can be laid at the feet of Meghan Markle.
Bower describes Markle as “scheming and clever,” and states quite bluntly, “This woman is doing something dreadful to Britain,” and that she poses “a real threat to the Royal Family.”
This is an understatement, to say the least.
Bower, for instance, recalls an incident when Harry got together with his old school chums when the group was severely reprimanded by Markle when she overheard them “making fun” of trans people and feminists.
Markle, despite her pious virtue signaling, has destroyed the unity in her own family by perpetuating schisms among relatives and then walking away without attempting any sort of reconciliation or redemption.
The ex-Hollywood actress apparently cannot help herself as she chips away at the unity of the royal family via manipulations of Harry, while her own family smolders in ruins.
To that end, she continues to ignore pleas for reconciliation from her father, Thomas, who lives alone in Mexico, and continues to ignore her sister Samantha, who once said of Markle: “She broke up one family; she’ll break up the Royal family.”
What to do?
The Royal Family needs to finally take off the velvet gloves and give this woke couple their due: excommunication, Pennsylvania Amish-style.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/time-royal-family-take-velvet-gloves-thom-nickels/