Month: August 2022

Over the past decade the British government has registered over 50 illegal migrants over the age of 30 as children, according to a Freedom of Information request.

In an embarrassing revelation, Home Office figures show that border officials were either so inept or indifferent as to register 52 grown adults over the age of 30 years old as children over the last decade.

The Freedom of Information request from the Daily Telegraph also revealed that 2021 saw the highest number of alleged asylum seekers claiming to be children, a status which increases the odds of the government granting an asylum request. According to the figures, 1,500 people identified as adult migrants claimed that they were children last year, compared to 364 in the year prior.

Many more may have slipped through the system unrecorded due to inadequate vetting.

Between 2012 and 2020, an average of 355 illegals claimed to be minors but were exposed as adults by age tests per year.

The massive upswing in 2021 correlates with the record number of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel — 28,526 arrived last year, compared to 8,466 in 2020.

2022 is on pace to see at least 60,000 land, though some estimates suggest that as many as 100,000 illegals could reach British shores.

Commenting on the failure of the government to discern the true age of many migrants, Alp Mehmet, the chairman of the Migration Watch think tank, said: “These are astonishing figures that reveal a seriously worrying situation. There is absolutely no excuse for placing people much nearer middle-age than childhood among vulnerable minors.

“No individual, where doubts about age exist, should be allowed anywhere near vulnerable youngsters, in any setting. The safety of our children has to be paramount.”

The problem of asylum seekers posing as children has been a longstanding issue in Britain, with a particularly egregious example coming in 2016 when photos emerged of a man estimated to be 38 years old was imported from Calais as part of a scheme to receive child migrants from France.

At the time, pro-migration activists attempted to claim that he was not brought over on the basis that he was a child and that he was actually working as a language interpreter for other migrants, but this turned out to be false.

Another notable instance came in 2020 when parents were forced to object after a child migrant who “looked 40” joined a school in Coventry, England.

“He’s got a receding hairline for God’s sake,” one parent exclaimed.

Earlier this year, Home Secretary Priti Patel vowed to toughen up checks on migrant arrivals to prevent fraudulent claims of being children. This will supposedly include X-ray exams to determine the age of migrants by scanning their bones, as is done in the United States and in some European Union countries, but which the British authorities have resisted for years.

The state of border control was criticised as “inexcusably awful” and a threat to national security last month by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, David Neal, in a report that revealed that border officials are consistently failing to log biometric data such as fingerprints and even names for newly arrived boat migrants

The report went on to say that the age of migrants was being determined by officials simply holding up a piece of cardboard with the numbers 1 to 63 written on it and asking migrants to point to their age.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/08/19/border-farce-over-50-migrants-over-30-years-old-registered-as-children/

Six weeks after a fatal altercation in front of a student club on Nürnberger Straße, the suspected manslaughterer (20) has now been caught.

According to the police, the German-Turkish man had an altercation with a German man (34) in front of the student club (Stuk) at around 4.30 a.m. on July 6. The exchange of words turned into a “physical altercation”, according to police spokeswoman Mariele Koeckeritz. And further: “As a result, the 34-year-old fell to the ground and was taken to hospital by the emergency doctor in an unconscious state.”

For six days, doctors fought for the 34-year-old’s life. In vain! The man succumbed to his injuries already on the 12th of July.

The perpetrator had fled after the beating. However, the police were able to identify the suspect. Senior public prosecutor Ricardo Schulz: “At the request of the public prosecutor’s office, an arrest warrant was issued by the investigating judge at Leipzig District Court on urgent suspicion of bodily harm resulting in death, and the suspect was arrested on August 16, 2022.”

A judge remanded the suspected killer in custody. The CID is looking for witnesses from the night of the crime by calling 0341/9664 6666.

https://www.bild.de/regional/leipzig/leipzig-news/leipzig-mann-34-stirbt-nach-pruegelei-vor-club-verdaechtiger-gefasst-81041598.bild.html###wt_ref=https:/m.bild.de/

Local authorities in Germany are urging citizens who have free space to accommodate asylum seekers amid a shortage in social housing.

The Kulmbach district office in Bavaria has reportedly requested anyone who can provide living space, ideally a spare apartment or house, to contact the responsible authorities and arrange for prospective refugees to take residence in the properties, according to a report by the local broadcaster Radio Plassenburg.

The Kulmbach district office reportedly told citizens that apartments that were furnished and ready to move into would be preferable, but insisted this is “not a must.”

Asylum seekers are currently being housed in a processing center in nearby Bamberg, as they await decisions on their asylum applications. Following the granting of asylum status, refugees will then be dispersed across multiple districts.

Asylum applications soared across Germany in the first half of this year, increasing by a total of 44 percent between January and June compared to the same period last year, according to data published by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).

A total of 84,583 applications were submitted by individuals originating from predominantly Islamic countries, including Syria (24,492), Afghanistan (15,093), and Iraq (7,512).

https://rmx.news/article/german-residents-asked-to-make-empty-housing-available-for-asylum-seekers/

While Western politicians are still cultivating the notion of Russia’s foreign policy “isolation” after the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, a glance at the map shows that not even a quarter of the countries of the world have been following along obediently.

Faced with reality, Western diplomats often have to admit this fact to themselves, for example at a reception at the Russian UN mission in New York in June. Dozens of UN ambassadors from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia accepted the Russian invitation – not a trace of isolation. “We thank you all for your support and your principled attitude against the so-called anti-Russian crusade,” said the Russian UN ambassador, Vasily Nebenzia, thanking the numerous guests.

Concerned that the war was drawing too much attention after almost six months with no prospect of an end, Western diplomats are now frankly admitting that they have limited ability to press Russia beyond official meetings. “The longer the war drags on, the more difficult it becomes to find meaningful ways to sanction Russia,” said Richard Gowan, UN director at the independent International Crisis Group.

In some cases, Western countries are also hesitant to take certain measures, aware of the lack of support from the rest of the world. From the point of view of diplomats and observers, the increasing number of abstentions signals a growing unwillingness to publicly oppose Moscow.

According to diplomats, in June the EU was still considering appointing a UN expert to investigate human rights violations in Russia. But the idea was quickly shelved amid fears that nearly half of the 47-member UN Human Rights Council in Geneva would oppose it.

Olaf Wientzek, head of the Geneva office of Germany’s Konrad Adenauer Foundation, admitted: “Countries are asking themselves: ‘Is it really that wise to be among those who oppose Russia?’”

For its part, the Russian mission to the United Nations in Geneva said that Western states “know only too well that it is impossible to isolate Russia because it is a world power.”

The diplomatic isolation did not extend, for example, to a secret ballot in Geneva to choose the best “national dress” at a reception in June. Ironically, a Russian diplomat won. A video showed her being awarded a box of chocolates. The Ukrainian delegation stormed out of the room disgruntled.

Russia not only has veto power but general support

As a veto power in the 15-strong UN Security Council, Russia can protect itself from substantial measures such as sanctions. But Moscow has also found other ways to limit support for Western diplomatic moves in other areas. For example, ahead of an April vote by the 193-member UN General Assembly to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council, Moscow warned that a yes or an abstention would be considered “unfriendly,” with consequences for relations with those countries.

Within a week of the February 24 invasion, nearly three-fourths of the General Assembly voted to censure Russia and demand the withdrawal of her troops. But: “Support will wane because the March resolutions are at a peak and there is no appetite for further action until red lines are crossed,” predicted a senior Asian diplomat, who asked to remain anonymous.

Ukraine has requested Russia’s expulsion from the United Nations. However, this unprecedented move requires a recommendation from the Security Council – which Russia can block – and a subsequent vote by the General Assembly.

Another possibility would be to withdraw the credentials of the representatives of Russian President Putin. However, all of these measures would require majorities at least in the United Nations General Assembly. More than half a year after the start of the war in the Ukraine and in view of the all-round failure of Russia’s “isolation” this is no longer feasible.

US views on Zelensky are shifting

In the public debate in the US, a departure in American politics from the official pro-Ukraine course has been subtly orchestrated for months. High-ranking politicians, experts and former diplomats such as former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have criticized the current course of the White House.

Former adviser to ex-President Donald Trump, Steve Cortes,  in a guest article for Newsweek magazine criticized Washington’s foreign policy fixation on current Ukrainian President Zelensky and the one-sided support for Ukraine in the country’s Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Zelensky, he comments, is increasingly showing his true colors, namely that of a “corrupt autocrat” who is also playing his own game against China, thereby stabbing US interests in the back. The former is shown by the fact that all opposition media in Ukraine were shut down even before the Russian intervention began, and almost all opposition parties are now banned.

According to Cortes, the American press is increasingly breaking its silence on corruption, which is also an important issue in Ukraine with regard to American financial and military aid.

The former presidential adviser sees the financial and military aid to Ukraine as particularly questionable. “So American taxpayers are borrowing tens of billions of dollars that their country doesn’t have to bestow a fortune on the unaccountable leader of a corrupt country to escalate a war in which America has no vital national interest,” Cortes said.

He said the fight “between Putin and Zelenski” does not affect any essential national interest of the US. Worse still, “Biden’s interference hurts America and worsens the plight of the Ukrainian people, who have become the pawn in a battle by the Black Sea oligarchs.”

America should now insist on dialogue, negotiation and de-escalation. If the warring factions refuse, then it is time for an American approach of realism and restraint, because “this is simply not our fight, and Zelensky is certainly not our fighter,” Cortes concluded.

In the US, Cortes is known as a TV presenter and political commentator who has worked for CNBC and CNN, among others. In 2016 he was involved in Donald Trump’s election campaign as an advisor and manager. After Trump took office, he returned to journalism and the world of finance, but has remained an “informal advisor” on economic and foreign policy issues, among other things.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/08/19/international-support-for-russian-isolation-dwindles/

By Guy K. Mitchell, Jr.

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be” ~ Albert Einstein

In 1912, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man, known as “The Piltdown Man.” He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown village in Sussex, England. Dawson submitted the find to Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum. Smith Woodward made a reconstruction of skull fragments, and the archaeologists hypothesized that the find indicated evidence of a human ancestor living 500,000 years ago. They announced their discovery at a Geological Society meeting in 1912. For the most part, their story was accepted as fact. However, subsequent chemical testing showed that the skull and jaw fragments actually came from two different species, a human and an ape—the conclusion: Piltdown Man was an audacious fake and sophisticated scientific fraud. Forty-one years elapsed between the discovery of the “Piltdown Man” and the determination that it was a fraud.

In 1988, the United Nations formed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“UN IPCC”). In its seminal report in 1990, the UN IPCC stated that “at the then current rate of world emissions of CO2, the global mean temperature would likely increase by 1 °C by 2025.” This statement formed the basis for the hypothesis that anthropogenic (man-made) global warming resulted from the increased concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s lower atmosphere resulting from man-made activities. Central to the hypothesis was that the temperature of the lower troposphere would increase as the concentration of CO2 in the troposphere increased. Therefore, in its 1990 report, the UN IPCC established a direct linkage between the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and the temperature of the lower troposphere.

The Scientific Method of Inquiry has guided scientific research and investigation for over 400 years. In summary, the scientific method requires that a researcher observe a phenomenon, postulate a hypothesis for the cause of the phenomenon, and then conduct experiments or scientific investigations in an effort to falsify the hypothesis.

In adherence to the Scientific Method, a climate scientist who thinks that man has caused global warming should develop a complex hypothesis as follows:

1. Global warming has occurred; that is, the temperature of the world’s oceans, land mass, and relevant atmosphere has risen during the period under investigation by a statistically significant amount.
2. Man’s activities are responsible for the global warming that has occurred.
3. The extent to which global warming has occurred, or is reasonably projected to occur in the future, will adversely affect life on Earth.

If any of the conjectures in the complex hypothesis above are found to be invalid, the complex hypothesis is determined to be falsified and either discarded or modified.

In 1978, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”) began to launch a series of satellites to polar-circumnavigate the globe using microwave sounding technology to measure the temperature of the lower troposphere (first 8 km. of the Earth’s atmosphere). The results show that during  the period 1979-1998, the average monthly temperature anomaly of the lower troposphere decreased approximately  0.3° C  each year, while the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increased from 335 ppm to 370 ppm.

Sometime during the period 1979-1998, an unbiased climate scientist at the UN IPCC should have observed that the temperature of the troposphere had significantly cooled while the concentration of CO2 had increased, contradicting the fundamental precept of the global warming hypothesis. A committee should have been assembled to verify the accuracy of the temperature and CO2 concentration data. The man-made global warming hypothesis should have been declared falsified if the data were accurate. No such action occurred.

Until the advent of the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis, the Piltdown Man was the most remarkable scientific fraud in history. The anthropogenic global warming hypothesis has now assumed that title.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/global_warming_is_the_greatest_scientific_fraud_in_history.html

The Kiel Institute for the World Economy reported this week that aid commitments from the six largest European countries for Ukraine fell to almost zero in July.

The Kiel Institute for the World Economy reported this week that aid commitments from the six largest European countries for Ukraine fell to almost zero in July.

Data for July shows that Ukraine’s six largest European countries have not made any further commitments. Only Norway has promised Ukraine further support in the form of financial aid of one billion euros.

However, the decline is in line with the trend: the promised support services had already fallen significantly in June. On the other hand, the data also showed that aid actually provided was increasing slightly. This means that the gap between promised aid and aid actually provided has been somewhat reduced.

Christoph Trebesch, head of the team compiling the Ukraine Support Tracker, pointed out that while Germany, for example, did not pledge any new weapons in July, it did deliver some of the weapons it had previously pledged in that month.

So far, according to the data, the US and Great Britain in particular have proven to be very reliable supporters of Ukraine. Germany ranks third with Canada and Poland. This also corresponds to the thesis that the US in particular has an interest in a war that lasts as long as possible.

The Kiel Institute noted that the EU Commission regularly verbally supports large support packages. But then there are often delays at state level. This unreliability is problematic for Ukraine. It said nothing about whether the declining support commitments also indicated that the West expected the war to end soon, or is perhaps even working towards trying to end it.

In July, the six largest EU countries, including Germany and France, made no new promises to Kyiv at all. This is the first time since the beginning of the special operation that such a situation has arisen, according to Politico. Last week in Copenhagen, Western allies decided to give Kyiv $1,5 billion. But, as the article stated, this is a “minor” sum compared to what had previously been promised to Ukraine.

According to data from the Kiel Institute, the volume of military aid to Ukraine from European countries has been on a downward trend since April.

The Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Institut für Weltwirtschaft, or IfW) is an independent, non-profit economic research institute and think tank based in Kiel, Germany. In 2017, it was ranked as one of the top 50 most influential think tanks in the world and was also ranked in the top 15 in the world for economic policy specifically. German business newspaper, Handelsblatt, referred to the Institute as “Germany’s most influential economic think tank”, while Die Welt, stated that “The best economists in the world are in Kiel”.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/08/19/european-aid-to-ukraine-grinds-to-a-halt/

German police have opened an investigation into Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, following Abbas’ statement that Israel commits “holocausts” against Palestinian Authority (PA) Arabs.

According to the report, Abbas is now being investigated on suspicion of Holocaust denial.

The investigation is still in its initial stages, and Berlin police are examining whether Abbas incited to hatred when he accused Israel of committing “50 holocausts” against PA Arabs.

Holocaust denial is a criminal offense in Germany.

Germany’s Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, has clarified that Abbas cannot be tried in court, since he visited Germany in an official role.

Abbas made his statements during a Tuesday speech in Berlin, alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who condemned the statements.

Responding to a question regarding the Munich Massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic games by Palestinian Arab terrorists, Abbas dismissed a question over whether he would apologize for the massacre, saying: “I have 50 slaughters that Israel committed….50 massacres, 50 slaughters, 50 holocausts.”

Scholz scowled, visibly upset at Abbas’ remarks. He did not respond at the time, but later said that hearing the word from Abbas was “unbearable.”

A spokesman for Scholz told BILD: “Before the Chancellor could contradict this outrageous sentence, the government spokesman had already moderated the press conference — as usual after the last question/answer block — which visibly annoyed Scholz.”

“The government spokesman then told the journalists who were still present, who could not help noticing the Chancellor’s annoyance, how outraged the Chancellor was about the statement and also that he had not had the opportunity to openly contradict Abbas.”

Scholz himself went on to tell BILD: “Especially for us Germans, any relativization of the Holocaust is unbearable and unacceptable.”

During their meeting, Scholz also contradicted Abbas after the latter accused Israel of apartheid.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358423

Green energy leads to sex trafficking, terrorism, drugs and deforestation

New York, along with other states, is moving forward with massive wind turbine projects.

The push for “9,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy” comes at a high price, not only for families who are left dependent on expensive and unreliable energy, but for the planet.

Wind turbines require massive amounts of rare earths for their generators and motors. A single wind turbine eats up tons of rare earth metals. Rare earth mining carried out in China is horrifyingly destructive to people and the environment. One story described radioactive lakes, high cancer rates and villagers whose “teeth began to fall out” and “hair turned white at unusually young ages”. “Children were born with soft bones and cancer rates rocketed.”

A recent Associated Press story about rare earth mining operations in Burma told of a world where “birds no longer sing, and the herbs no longer grow. The fish no longer swim in rivers that have turned a murky brown.”

An offshore wind turbine can produce somewhere between 9 and 14 megawatts depending on its size. New York’s goal would require a thousand offshore wind turbines. Fiberglass wind turbine blades can’t be recycled and end up in massive landfills where they remain, according to one executive, “forever”. But within the fiberglass sheath is balsa wood that can be recycled.

Balsa wood is light, airy and popular for everything from model airplanes to planes. The obsession with green energy has created a massive demand for balsa wood to use in wind turbines. While a story from 2020 about how 14 million trees had been cut down in Scotland to make way for wind farms recently went viral, far more trees are cut down to make turbines.

Billions of trees.

One wind turbine blade can require as much as 5,300 cubic feet of balsa wood.

The price of balsa wood shot up, driven by demand from Communist China. While the Chinese have tried to grow their own balsa with limited success, they have turned to deforesting the Amazon. The Amazon, the world’s largest carbon sink, is being destroyed to reduce carbon.

Environmentalists are destroying the planet to save the planet.

Even while they were profiting from an artificial “green boom” fed by western green special interests, astroturf activists, fraudulent science, and pop culture crisis, Chinese companies were wiping out millions of trees in the name of saving the planet from a manufactured emergency.

Companies answering to Chinese interests found isolated tribes, traded them drugs and alcohol for slave labor, encouraged violence against those who would not comply, and the results were hailed by western environmentalists. The costs of China’s “wind power boom” were ignored.

China is working to build 18 megawatt wind turbines and dominate wind energy in Europe. The path of its poisonous silk road runs through the Amazon and to western environmentalists who believe that wind is clean and therefore wind turbines are a pure source of energy.

Balsa is an ideal forestry crop. It grows quickly and must be harvested before it ages too much. The rising price of balsa wood has also expanded growing operations, taking over farms and plantations leading to hunger and disease. 

“These paradoxes of the so-called ‘green economy’ ruin the natural stability of the forests and the jungle,” a World Rainforest Movement report warned.

While wind turbines, when in operation, already kill as much as three-quarters of a million birds a year, turbine deforestation kills countless more birds by destroying their habitats.

Green eco-business and its allied leftist politicians remain obsessed with carbon, but the Amazon rainforests have been described as the “lungs” of the planet. And environmentalists themselves argue that the Amazon is a “carbon storage sink”. Destroying the Amazon to build wind turbines to reduce carbon would wreck the planetary ecosystem leading to the natural disasters that green energy proponents claim that they want to stop.

If astroturf environmental activists really wanted to save the planet, they would start chaining themselves to wind turbines, instead of vandalizing classical museum paintings.

The obsession with ‘carbon neutrality’ will only make matters worse. Eco-industries calculate the ‘carbon footprint’ of wind turbine emissions based mostly on their construction. Those emissions are assessed against the mining operations, concrete, rare earths and fiberglass, that go into making them. In order to lower their carbon metrics, eco-industries are now promoting wind turbines made out of wood which would lead to the destruction of more forests while increasing the price of housing even further to put it out of the reach of millions of people.

Saving the planet has now come to mean cutting down even more trees.

In Latin America, green energy has destroyed forests, spread drugs and also led to the kidnapping and sex trafficking of young girls. Logging mining camps, especially illegal ones, depend on a steady supply of male workers. The abduction and rape of underage girls has been traced back to the system feeding balsa wood to the wind turbines of China and Europe.

That is what green energy actually looks like.

One reported noted that, “Young girls are encouraged by mothers and aunts to exchange sex for diesel so they can watch their favorite soap operas each night and escape the harshness of their lives for a few hours.”

So much for saving the planet.

The black market in balsa wood has attracted the attention of socialist narcoterrorists in South America and Islamic terrorists in Africa. Wind turbines are becoming another profit center for drug cartels and Jihadists, spreading ruin and destruction around the world.

Wind turbines were billed as saving the planet. They’re destroying it instead.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/wind-turbines-are-destroying-planet-daniel-greenfield/