Month: August 2022

A petition calling for the abolition of broadcasting fees and a fundamental reform of German public broadcasting has acquired 100,000 signatories in just a few days, the German news outlet, Junge Freiheit, who launched the petition has revealed.

Junge Freihert editor-in-chief Dieter Stein announced the milestone had been reached by noon on Tuesday, just five days since it was launched on Thursday of last week, and expressed his enthusiasm for the rapid pace at which the petition had progressed.

“100,000 signatures within a few days? Insanity! There is just a huge outrage about the public broadcasters. Especially now in times of crisis, when every normal citizen has to save, no one understands why ARD and ZDF are so generous with license fees. What knocks the bottom out is the outrageous political one-sidedness of the broadcasters. Basically, the €8.4 billion of the ÖRR could also be transferred to the election campaign coffers of the Greens and SPD,” Stein wrote.

The petition itself targets state governments responsible for the broadcasters, and all politicians from the parties represented in parliament. It insists on compulsory broadcasting fees being abolished and calls for “a new and simplified financing model” to take its place.

In addition, the massive budget of broadcasters, ARD and ZDF, should be reduced to a minimum, and the petition demands a “democratization of public service reporting and fair, non-ideological journalism that finally takes into account all social groups and parties, and puts an end to the left-green-red indoctrination.”

It explains that, according to a survey by the INSA Institute, 84 percent of Germans now demand the abolition of broadcasting fees and “no longer want to pay for the most expensive broadcasting system in the world.”

The issue has taken on special importance in recent times. For one, major corruption scandals are coming to light, including nepotism, which has led to the resignation of ARD Chairwoman and RBB Director Patricia Schlesinger. Schlesinger has been fingered in a corruption scandal in which prosecutors say she secured a lucrative job for her husband and billed taxpayers for her expensive taste in office furniture. There are also suspicions that she left taxpayers on the hook for a luxurious trip to London during her tenure at ARD and RBB. In response, the party leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Fredriech Merz, has called for radical reform of the German public broadcasting fee system.

It is understood that when the petition expires on the last day in August, the data including the names of all signatories will be sent to state governments and parliamentary groups to help propel the campaign forward.

https://rmx.news/germany/over-100000-sign-petition-against-germanys-broadcasting-fee-in-a-matter-of-days/

Over 50 countries are currently carrying out “activities to artificially change the weather”, explained the Spanish weather agency AEMET and speaks of “chemical contrails” or “chemtrails”.

Chemtrails are considered to be one of the most reviled conspiratorial theories of recent decades. Anyone who addresses this topic is immediately pushed into the corner of the really insane conspiracy theorists.

But the World Economic Forum has already admitted that techniques like “spraying aerosols into the upper atmosphere” were part of a science called geoengineering and touted as a “large-scale solution to climate change”.

It’s also no secret that tech billionaire and vaccination messiah Bill Gates believes in interventions in nature.

Why is the CIA interested in climate change experiments?

Alan Robock has sounded the alarm over CIA funding of a National Academy of Sciences report on different approaches to combating climate change, and the fact that the CIA has not yet explained its keen interest in an engineered “nuclear winter“.

Lawyer Aitor Guisasola meanwhile highlighted the legal situation on the subject of “artificial weather manipulation” in Spain. The climate in Spain can be influenced by geoengineering because these interventions have been regulated by law since July 27, 2001 by Royal Decree 1/2001.

In this decree, under Chapter 1, Article 3 , under the title “Modification of atmospheric conditions”, it reads: “The modification of the atmospheric conditions of the hydrological cycle may only be artificially modified by the state administration or its agents.”

Of course, this also means precipitation or the lack thereof, explained Guisasola. “The Royal Decree clearly states that they may do it. This is very clear, obvious and evident. They can do it and they do it. Because a government doesn’t make laws and then doesn’t apply them.”

Also on the official website of the state meteorological agency, AEMET, one can find information on geoengineering in Spain and other countries around the world.

Drought can be engineered

AEMET conceded that over 50 countries were currently conducting “artificial weather modification” activities. The expert committee of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is informed about their status in “regular reports”.

These modifications are aimed at increasing the amount of precipitation, the reduction of the associated damage and the size of the hail and to the dissipation of clouds. It is also claimed that dry spells are engineered only “in certain airports or important traffic routes”. These activities are based on “developing technologies” that may not yet have a “solid scientific base”, AEMET noted.

Why does geoengineering exist?

The term geoengineering is used to refer to a wide range of techniques, including more recent experiments in weaponizing the weather associated with “climate change“. The objective is to manipulate the climate to reduce mainly two aspects: the variations in solar radiation and the increase in CO2 and thus alleviate the increase in temperature. These techniques suggest theories aimed at reducing the solar radiation that reaches the earth’s surface by increasing the reflection capacity of the surface or the atmosphere. This second group of techniques have an impact on a regional and even global scale.

Various experiments have also been carried out in cities near the poles to provide light during the winter night, using satellites that reflect sunlight on the earth’s surface using sails.

Military interest in the weather is not new: Over North Vietnam, Laos and South Vietnam, the US military had secretly seeded clouds to increase and control the rainfall for military purposes.

Experiments that do not work

From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the Federal Government of the United States, experiments and financed campaigns began at the beginning of the 1960s, as was the case of the Stormfury project, which sought to attenuate the intensity of hurricanes. This project, despite criticism from countries like Cuba, was maintained for two more decades, until it was recognized that it did not influence the behavior of hurricanes. It was likely used as a cover for a military interest in a Cuban adversary.

In addition to protection against frost, traditionally through the use of fans or irrigation of crops, the most important project in Spain has been the one carried out in the Duero basin between 1979 and 1981, proposed and carried out by the WMO, with the name of “Project of Intensification of Precipitation” (PIP).

In this trial only the first phase was completed, the results were disappointing and impractical. The main conclusion was that it was necessary to deepen the knowledge of cloud physics and the structure of cloud systems before undertaking new research or operational projects.

The Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment in its latest report alluded to food security and curiously stated: “It should be kept in mind that the energy associated with weather systems is of such a magnitude that it is impossible to create cloud systems that drop precipitation, modify wind patterns to bring water vapor to a region, or completely eliminate extreme weather events. Artificial weather modification technologies that claim to achieve such large-scale or extraordinary effects lack a solid scientific basis (for example hail guns or ionization methods) and are not scientifically credible.”

Harmful substances

Some of the substances used, for example silver iodide, are certainly toxic and harmful to the environment, although the amounts used in artificial rainfall intensification programs are allegedly small, according to WMO reports.

In the absence of other nuclei, one gram of silver iodide supposedly widely distributed in the cloud could lead to a precipitation of 1 l/m2 in an area of ​​1000 km2. Annual worldwide cloud seeding has been estimated to account for 0.1 percent of the amount of silver iodide incorporated into the atmosphere by human activities in the United States.

In addition to the US, other leading countries for investments in operational weather modification programs are China, Thailand and India.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/08/18/spain-law-allows-geoengineering-experiments/

Witnesses called the police at dawn and reported that a man had fired shots with a shotgun. When the police officers intervened, the man fired in their direction without hitting them. The prosecutor’s office stated that the terrorist trace “has not been ruled out, but according to the state of affairs it is not a priority”.

The man’s life is in danger. The man, who according to initial investigations was not known to the judiciary or the intelligence services, is said to have shouted “Allahu akbar” at the moment of his shot. Le Parisien

https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/08/18/saint-quentin-02-un-homme-qui-tirait-avec-une-carabine-a-plomb-en-criant-allah-akhbar-neutralise-par-la-police/

An article in the Atlantic by Daniel Panneton claims that the rosary has become a symbol of the political right. He argues that this is connected to the warmongering and toxic masculinity inherent in the rosary beads.

“The rosary — in these hands — is anything but holy. But for millions of believers, the beads, which provide an aide-mémoire for a sequence of devotional prayers, are a widely recognized symbol of Catholicism and a source of strength. And many take genuine sustenance from Catholic theology’s concept of the Church Militant and the tradition of regarding the rosary as a weapon against Satan,” writes Panneton.

He further cites Pope Francis’s words on the rosary from a 2020 address to the faithful: “There is no path to holiness… without spiritual combat,” claiming that this means the pope has endorsed the rosary as a weapon.  

The author clearly does not possess elementary understanding of the Catholic doctrine and confuses spiritual with political realities. He argues that although Catholics are taught to love and forgive their enemies, they are also told to battle with Satan and that extremists interpret that as a permit to demonize opponents and sanctify the use of force against them.

He cites no example of this in terms of the Church’s preaching or practice — it is pure malevolent interpretation.

The text itself is interpreted by many as yet another stage in the waging of hate against Catholicism and its adherents. The editors of The Atlantic have themselves reacted nervously with regard to its publication.

This is evidenced by the fact that the first title, “How the rosary became a symbol of extremism with the rosary portrayed in a photo of a shape of a bullet,” was later changed to “How the gun culture hijacked the rosary,” and then yet again to “How extremist gun culture is trying to co-opt the rosary.”

According to conservative commentator, Rod Dreher, the article is hysterical and gives a clarion call for persecution against Catholics. “The enemy knows what’s what. They fear the rosary. Pray for the forces of good in the spiritual struggle around us to be strengthened to prevail,” he responded.

https://rmx.news/crime/the-atlantic-magazine-labels-rosary-beads-as-extremist/ – WPOLITYCE.PL

By Eric Utter

A new study purports to have found that warming global temperatures, fueled by man-caused climate change, are making children less physically fit and more obese than ever before. Which, in turn, makes them less able to tolerate higher temperatures.

The aptly named journal “Temperature” recently published the study results, which claimed that higher temperatures cause children to be less active, putting them at greater risk of suffering from heat-related health problems, including dehydration, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. (Well, actually, in the short-term, kids are less at risk of suffering those maladies if they are less active during exceedingly high temperatures. But I digress.)

Shawnda Morrison, an “environmental exercise physiologist” at Slovenia’s University of Ljubljana, is the author of the study. She stated, “As the world warms, children are the least fit they have ever been,” adding, “It is imperative that children are encouraged to do daily physical activity to build up, and maintain, their fitness, so that they enjoy moving their bodies and it doesn’t feel like ‘work’ or ‘a chore’ to them.”

Morrison noted previous research indicating that emergency departments at children’s hospitals in the U.S. were busier than normal on hotter days. Yes, and I’m sure they are busier during dangerously cold days, too, than they typically would be on, say, a partly cloudy day with moderate temperatures. Duh. Did we really need a study to “discover” that?

Morrison says that, as temperatures rise around the planet, parents may increasingly decide that it’s “too hot to play” outside. And in many cities in the northern climes, it is too cold for kids to play outside in the winter. Schools close because they don’t want kids to have to wait outside for a bus, lest they get frostbite…or worse. But Morrison thinks rising temperatures may explain why she found that children’s aerobic fitness is 30 percent lower than that of their parents at the same age.

Really? Could there be other factors, like, say, the fact that kids are glued to their smartphones, computer screens, and video game consoles for many hours each day now, in addition to television sets? And perhaps the fact that many neighborhoods, especially in urban areas, are far less safe than they used to be even a few short years ago? (I’m sure “marginalized peoples” and communities of color are most affected by the decline in childhood fitness.)

The study did find that there was less physical activity during the coronavirus pandemic. You think? When experts and rulers shut down schools, closed playgrounds and fitness centers, and locked everyone in their houses for nearly two straight years?

In light of all this, experts still have the nerve to tell us man-caused global warming/climate change is responsible for kids’ declining physical (and mental) health?!

I am sick and damn tired of experts telling us that the COVID-1984 vaccines are safe and effective. And mandatory. I am sick and damn tired of being told that all white people are (inherently!) racist, that men can be women and vice-versa, and that “abortion is health care.” Or “love.” And that I am a “domestic terrorist” simply for holding these views.

And I am sick and damn tired of being told that—in addition to floods, droughts, extreme heat, and extreme cold—man-caused climate change/global warming is demonstrably responsible for: the coronavirus, Monkeypox, cedar apple rust, inflation, Russia invading Ukraine, the sudden rise in polio cases, distrust of our institutions, Jan. 6, supply chain issues, food shortages, Liz Cheney’s defeat, falling spermatozoa levels in males in Western nations, Chinese aggression, stock market volatility, homelessness, painful rectal itch, loneliness, the opioid crisis, the decline in the popularity of Major League Baseball (MLB), Lyme disease, solar flares, and acid reflux.

Is climate change also to blame for Joy Behar, Jerry Nadler, MSNBC, the Impossible Whopper®, and Nicki Minaj?

And for…studies like this one?

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

The German Ministry of Defense announced a reorganization of its management structure. With combined leadership, the Bundeswehr should be able to react more quickly. Critics fear the increased assumption of police tasks, even domestic counterinsurgency.

The motto of the Bundeswehr “We. Serve. Germany.” could have a completely different meaning for critical citizens in the future. As early as June 13, the Federal Ministry of Defense provided information on its website about an adjustment to the command organization of the German armed forces.

As can be seen from the communication, the territorial management tasks will be integrated from October 1. The aim of the measure is to increase the reaction speed of the Bundeswehr.

According to the Defense Ministry, the restructuring was made necessary by Russia’s operation in Ukraine. The new command should not only perform purely military tasks, but also provide support in the civilian area. One of the plans is to quickly set up a national crisis management team in the event of natural disasters or to provide support during the “Covid-19 pandemic“.

In addition to the relocation of Allied forces as part of national and alliance defense, the Territorial Command and Control Command of the Bundeswehr (TerrFüKdoBw) will primarily be responsible for homeland security, civil-military cooperation and administrative and disaster relief from October.

The journalist Norbert Häring fears that the new unit created in this way, which reports directly to the Minister of Defense, could be used to counter insurgency and enforce coercive measures as part of the fight against the “pandemic”.

In his opinion, the defense minister used the media focus on the war in Ukraine in order to be able to covertly deploy the Bundeswehr internally and then explicitly to act in the civil sphere.

Originally, the Bundeswehr was not allowed to be deployed inside the country. This principle was increasingly dissolved after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center.

The orientation of the newly created leadership command points to an increasing mix of military and police tasks in the Bundeswehr.

Häring sees a connection with the current fear of popular uprisings expressed by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. He suspected that behind the defense minister’s decision was the establishment of an increasingly repressive apparatus to suppress valid protests.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/08/18/reorganization-of-german-bundeswehr-indicates-increased-focus-on-police-tasks/

The engine of Holocaust denial is a desire to kill Jews. Otherwise why bother?

There’s a fringe of conspirazoids, the sorts of people who believe that the moon landing was faked, that UFOs can be found in your backyard, and that 9/11 was carried out by the NYPD, and that Bigfoot killed JFK who are attracted to Holocaust denial among the many other conspiracy theory options. But the big leagues of Holocaust denials are associated with Nazism and Communism because they both specialized in the extermination of Jews.

The “Palestinian” cause is a toxic inbreeding of Nazis and Communists.

The Muslim Brotherhood, key players in the Arab Revolt, got a lot of their techniques from the Nazis. And the Nazi influence was felt most strongly in Egypt. But the “Palestinian” cause was manufactured by the Soviet Union.

Mahmoud Abbas, the current dictator-for-life of the PLO, got his Holocaust denial trainingfrom the USSR. Abbas wrote it as a “student” in the Soviet Union as part of the Palestinian-Soviet Friendship Foundation which was itself crossbred with Nazi propaganda.

 PA President Mahmoud Abbas is profoundly fascinated by Nazi propaganda and has employed it in his own writings, particularly in his doctoral dissertation on the subject of the Holocaust, “The Other Face: The Secret Connections Between Nazism and the Leadership of the Zionist Movement,” which he wrote in Moscow in 1982. Two years later, Abbas published a book based on his dissertation. It is written in Arabic and, tellingly, has never been translated into any other language.

There is a reason for this: The book is inspired by and based on the work of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust. While he was a fugitive in Argentina, Eichmann formulated and disseminated Nazi propaganda according to which the Holocaust was a Jewish-Nazi conspiracy that sacrificed Jewish lives in order to create a Jewish state in Palestine. 

So what did the Germans really expect when they invited the head of a terror group responsible for the Munich Massacre?

At a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Abbas was asked by a reporter whether he plans to apologize to Israel and Germany for the 1972 Munich massacre, ahead of its 50th anniversary. Eleven members of the Israeli delegation and a German police officer were murdered after members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, which was linked to Abbas’s Fatah party, took hostages at the Olympic Village on September 5, 1972. 

“If we want to go over the past, go ahead,” Abbas responded in Arabic. “I have 50 slaughters that Israel committed… 50 massacres, 50 slaughters, 50 holocausts,” saying the last word in English.

While Scholz could be seen wincing at Abbas’s Holocaust reference, he did not immediately rebuke the Palestinian president, although he had earlier rejected his use of the word “apartheid” to describe Israeli policies.

Scholtz has since tepidly condemned Abbas’ Holocaust denial.

The debate about Holocaust denial is less important than the motive for it. Abbas responded to his role in the massacre of Jews with Holocaust denial. That’s typical. It’s the essence of the purpose that Holocaust denial is meant to serve.

The “Palestinian” cause is about finishing the work that the Nazis began. It’s why Hitler is so widely admired in the Palestinian Authority. “Palestinian” Holocaust denial, like most kinds, is about paving the way for justifying the future murder of Jews.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2022/08/abbas-holocaust-denial-tour-hits-germany-daniel-greenfield/