Month: November 2022

It appears that EU sanctions, which increasingly boomerang against Europeans, have not been not set in stone. While some politicians make a dogma out of it, other EU countries counteract the Brussels edicts.

The Dutch government, it has now been leaked, officially supports the sanctions – but makes numerous exceptions. It confirmed a total of 91 exemptions from the sanctions regime, thereby benefiting Dutch companies. The Dutch television news service RTL Nieuws researched this after talks with the various ministries.

The exceptions relate to numerous domestic companies, whose names the ministries keep secret. They also remain silent about the value of transactions exempt from sanctions and which sectors of the economy are affected.

The ministries can grant exemptions from the sanctions to “allow some flexibility in certain cases,” said the spokesman for the foreign ministry. The list of Dutch special regulations is long. In April, the EU banned Russian-flagged ships from calling at European ports. However, the Ministry of Infrastructure granted 34 ships an exemption to call at Dutch ports, for example, because they were transporting important goods such as aluminum and food.

“Diplomatic ties” were given as the reason for the State Department granting an exemption, the channel reports. In individual cases, transactions involving Russian banks majority-owned by the state were approved. The Ministry of Finance also granted 13 exemptions related to frozen assets or goods falling under the sanctions regime.

The Ministry of Climate and Energy, which is part of the Ministry of Economy, granted a further 25 exemptions to Dutch organizations, which as a result continue to source energy from Russia.

The exemptions will benefit 150 businesses and organizations, including communities, schools and water boards, the ministry told the broadcaster. The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, which reports to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, granted 18 exemptions for EU-Russia cooperation on “purely civilian matters” to 13 organizations on “humanitarian grounds”.

Pushback in Poland

Even in Poland, despite the Ukraine war, some groups have not lost sight of the obvious. The new leader of the right-wing KORWiN party, Sławomir Mentzen, has now called for an end to the embargo on Russian coal supplies. It doesn’t matter to consumers where the coal comes from.

In March, the PiS government imposed a ban on Russian coal imports as part of the sanctions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which Mentzen has now criticized as a wrong step. “Just ask an old woman who has to freeze in winter whether she would heat with Russian coal or not. For this old lady who would be freezing in her small apartment, the origin of the coal would not make any difference,” said Mentzen.

If he had his way, he would not block coal imports into Poland “from anywhere”, including from Russia. Poland cannot wait for regulations to be passed at EU level. Until last spring, Russia was the largest exporter of coal to Poland. However, Poland is currently struggling with coal shortages and high prices as a result of the import embargo.

The KORWiN party was founded in 2015 by a group of right-wing, Eurosceptic Polish politicians. It was named after former MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke, who was one of the founders of the party and repeatedly made headlines in the EU Parliament with his interventions. Mentzen was elected the party’s new leader on Monday, replacing Korwin-Mikke.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/11/04/pragmatic-patriots-push-back-on-eu-sanctions/

A 19-year-old girl was smothered with a pillow by her brothers Tohid and Danish for reportedly having a love affair with a youth whom the latter did not approve of. The purported honour killing happened in the wee hours of Thursday, November 3 in the Islam Nagar locality of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.

Based on a complaint filed by the deceased’s boyfriend, the police filed an FIR under section 302 of the IPC and detained the brothers and their mother for questioning. The brothers Tohid and Danish reportedly confessed to their crime. The police have also arrested the mother named Samsidha.

Notably, the perpetrators were identified as Tauheed and Moheed in a report by the Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar. According to the report, the brothers learned that the victim was planning to elope with her boyfriend and marry him in court. They were infuriated over this and killed her in the early hours of Thursday.

आज समय करीब 10.15 बजे थाना कोतवाली नगर पुलिस को सूचना प्राप्त हुई कि एक युवती का शव उसके स्वयं के मकान में पडा हुआ है। स्थानीय पुलिस द्वारा शव को कब्जे में लेकर पंचनामा भर पोस्टमार्टम हेतु भेजा गया है। आवश्यक विधिक कार्यवाही की जा रही है।
वीडियो बाइट – SP City 1@Uppolice pic.twitter.com/25A3h15GGJ

— GHAZIABAD POLICE (@ghaziabadpolice) November 3, 2022

Audio clips wherein a deceased woman seeks help goes viral

Meanwhile, two audio clips, allegedly recorded by the woman before her death, are also being widely shared on social media since Wednesday. In one of those clips, the woman is heard repeatedly seeking help from her male friend and telling him that the family members “have brought an injection”.

“I am repeatedly seeking help from you. He has brought an injection for me… you have to finalize the matter; things are getting complicated. I will not be able to call you further…,” the woman is heard saying in the audio clip.

The other audio clip depicts a ruckus in the house and a woman crying and asking her brother to leave her alone. Another woman’s voice can be heard warning the woman that she has brought dishonour to the family and threatening to choke her.

According to Nipun Agarwal, superintendent of police (city 1) quoted by TOI, “the police received information about the death of the woman on Thursday morning and a team reached her house. She is aged 19 years as per identification documents. The family was preparing to perform her last rites but we sent the body for a post-mortem examination, which was in progress till Thursday evening. This entire procedure is being videographed. The sister of the deceased woman told us that her brothers killed the woman.”

“The two older brothers of the deceased woman were picked up for questioning and they admitted that they suffocated her with a pillow. We have called the friend of the deceased, a 24-year-old man and resident of Dasna Gate in Ghaziabad, for questioning. The audio clips getting circulated on social media will also be investigated in due course. We are awaiting the autopsy report and will ask the woman’s friend to submit a police complaint,” the SP added.

Ghaziabad woman suffocated to death by her brother after mother overhears that she is planning to elope

As per the police, the victim girl was in a relationship with a youth from Dasna. The boy detailed the events leading up to her suspected murder in his complaint. He told cops that at about 9 pm on Wednesday, he received a phone call from the girl pleading for help. “She asked me to rescue her from the house as her brothers and mother would kill her. I thought, how can a mother kill her daughter? But at 3.19 am on Thursday, she again called me and said her brother and mother are coming upstairs and they will kill her. She also said they were beating her for the last three days. At 3.31 am, her family members killed her,” the youth said in his complaint.

According to a senior police officer who is part of the investigating team, the victim had a basic feature phone. “Between 8.30 pm and 9 pm on Wednesday, she was talking to her male friend and her mother overheard that they were planning to elope on Thursday night. Samsidha told her sons. After that, they told her to break up with the boy and not talk to him again. She refused.”

It was a family of 7 that lived in the Kaila Bhatta house. The victim’s father Nanne Khan, a former contractor in the construction sector has been paralysed for the last two years. Her younger sister was at home at the time of the incident, police sources said.

The family pretended that the girl died after an illness

According to the police, the family at first tried to pass off the death as a natural one. They told the cops that the girl died due to a ‘throat infection.’ Though the family of the victim had tried to pass off the death as a result of a mysterious throat infection, their claims were soon busted. The police stopped the family from rushing the last rites and sent the body for postmortem examination. The case of suspected honour killing is now under investigation.

https://www.opindia.com/2022/11/honor-killing-up-gulfaas-murdered-by-brothers-tohid-and-danish-mother-over-love-affair-audio-clip-goes-viral/

By Russ White

I was banned from eBay this week.

Don’t ask me why because I don’t know. And eBay won’t tell me.

I believe my account was locked because my daughter bought a Halloween costume they somehow considered suspect. When I tried to contact customer support, Their customer service rep asked for a phone number, but the number they apparently have on record was one I’ve never used (I’ve had the same phone number since the mid-1990s). The customer service rep suggested I open a new account, which I did, but this apparently triggered a lifetime ban.

What is galling about the experience is that eBay refuses to tell me why. They somehow believe that telling me would allow scammers to learn how to circumvent their “system” and make the community “unsafe.”

There are many problems with this argument, of course. It’s a classic example of security by obscurity—if I don’t tell you how the encryption algorithm works, you can’t circumvent it. Asking me for publicly available information to “verify my identity” is pure security theatre (just like asking for the last four digits of my social security number can violate my privacy).

Whatever their justification for using this particular process, scams still proliferate on eBay. I was trying to sell some old Disney “fine art” limited edition prints I’d purchased years ago. While trying to estimate the value of these prints, I searched for similar items on eBay—and discovered thousands of unlicensed, even pornographic, prints using Disney characters. These are sold for a few dollars as electronic downloads or printed and shipped, with the actual cost of the item built into the shipping.

These are scams, and eBay does nothing to control them, probably because they most often originate out of China. One rule of thumb in Silicon Valley seems to be that you are not allowed to do anything that might result in action by the Chinese government. Ever.

Whatever the merits (or lack of merits) of their “system,” however, eBay’s attitude and double standards expose one of the ugliest secrets of these large information companies. Any time there is an apparent double standard, there is some single underlying standard the standard-maker doesn’t want to discuss.

The single standard is this: If the service is free, you are the product.

When a company like eBay says, “you are threatening our community,” you should emphasize the word our. They own the community and use their ownership of the “community” to increase their power and profit. If you, as a user, are not increasing their power or profit, then you are not worth “doing business with,” and you will be banned. Permanently.

It’s not a “community” in the traditional sense but more of a closed sports bar where the owner controls what’s on the television screens, who may talk to whom, and what may be said.

Returning to “you are the product”—if a company charges less for a service than it costs them to deliver it, they must make money in some other way. In the world of social media, this means selling access to the individual user.

But what does it mean to sell access to individual users?

The most benign take on this is these companies sell your attention. The more engaged you are in the eBay “community,” the more likely you are to buy or sell, and hence the more valuable you are as a “member of the community.” The more engaged you are on Facebook, the more likely you react to advertising on the platform and hence the more likely to make money for Facebook.

This benign take, however, is naïve because it takes influence through advertising to be fairly harmless to the human person. We should seriously question this assertion, particularly in the case of intensely targeted advertising based on personal profiles built up through surveillance.

The more malevolent take is making more money is just the tip of the iceberg. Once a specific penetration rate has been achieved through advertising, social media services necessarily move towards controlling their users by managing the information they see—again, using the deeply researched profiles of each user developed through surveillance—to support the worldview of the services’ owners and operators.

These two goals—benign and malevolent—are not easy to separate; increasing control results in increasing profits, and increasing profits results in increasing control.

Ultimately, when we say, “you are the product,” we mean something like this: “the ability to consume your attention, predict and change your decisions, and change what you believe.” We don’t often think about it in these terms but making people the product is or should be against every instinct we have as humans and against the founding ideals of Western thought.

Returning to eBay, I don’t engage with their service enough to be profitable. They’ve attempted, of course, to pull me into their ecosystem, just like all other social media networks, but I’ve resisted. They’d prefer not to have users who consume value without giving them value back, so I’m not much of a loss to their “community” (unlike those sellers of knockoff copyrighted works in China would be).

Further, I’m a little suspicious because I won’t be “pulled in.” I’m a bit of an outsider, so anything I do that might look a little “off,” like my daughter buying a Halloween costume from South Korea, is going to ring alarm bells in their algorithm.

They don’t need to bother telling me any of this because they aren’t required to be transparent. Social media has skirted the laws and social contracts that apply to other businesses by being large enough not to care about any individual customer. They are protected in their censorship (promoting their worldview) through section 230 and claiming they are a “person” with First Amendment rights. They are protected in their lack of censorship through the claim in section 230 that they are a common carrier.

Social media companies are a “special case” in the law. They are allowed to be large enough to kill off all competition, they are allowed to push a single viewpoint, and they are allowed to treat users as malleable information sources and influence targets.

Ultimately, though, the question comes down to this: what can we do about it? There aren’t many legal remedies that have a chance of passing muster. There is no way to take other legal action against the companies—they are essentially off-limits as targets of lawsuits because of their protections under section 230.

We can all lessen their power by just not giving them so much of our attention in the first place (I outline some specific strategies in my latest book, Unfriending Dystopia).

In the meantime, I’m going to find another place to sell this limited-edition Disney art. Or, if not, maybe I’ll just drop it in the trash can, a symbol of my sacrifice against yet another company—essentially another social media company—that has grown too big for the good of our society.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/banned_by_ebay.html

A 28-year-old Bangladeshi national has been arrested in Italy after viciously assaulting two female police officers outside a police station in Catania in Italy.

The migrant, who is understood to be homeless, reportedly became aggressive towards two female officers who left the station to engage the visibly distressed male after he struggled to make himself understood through the station’s intercom.

The attack occurred at around 3.30 p.m. when the assailant “hurled himself against [the officers], hitting one with punches in the face and shoulder and reacting violently against the other colleague,” according to Giuseppe Sottile, provincial secretary of the Catania police union.

Two officers intervened to apprehend the male and prevent further injuries from being sustained.

One policewoman was hospitalized due to the severity of her injuries to various parts of her body but remains in a stable condition. Doctors expect her injuries to heal within ten days.

“The attacker is a 28-year-old homeless man from Bangladesh with various precedents for resistance and crimes against the person, and said he attacked his colleagues because he wanted to talk to a man and not with a woman,” said Sottile, who added that the local trade union was “genuinely fed up” with the treatment towards police officers in the port city.

He called on the new interior minister in the right-wing coalition recently formed by Giorgia Meloni to impose harsher penalties on those who attack police officers.

“We express our total solidarity with the two colleagues who, yesterday, were brutally attacked in Catania by a man who made one end up in the hospital after beating her with his fists, because he wanted to talk to a man and not a woman,” said Valter Mazzetti, general secretary of the FSP State Police.

“These episodes demonstrate how absurd and unthinkable the dangers cops continually face, who must be enabled to operate with the necessary guarantees, and above all certain that any aggressive and violent attitude aimed at questioning their function, dignity and safety is treated with the severity it deserves,” Mazzetti added, insisting: “It is time to say enough to a climate of laxity and superficiality that has serious repercussions on the safety of the operators.”

https://rmx.news/crime/italy-two-female-police-officers-attacked-by-bengali-migrant-who-demanded-to-speak-with-a-man/

The Finnish government’s bill on membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization does not contain restrictions on bringing nuclear weapons into Finland or establishing NATO bases.

The F-35A fighters that Finland also acquired can be equipped with tactical nuclear weapons if necessary.

Foreign and security policy sources told Finnish news outlet Iltalehti that the government’s bill allowed the Atlantic defense alliance to deploy nuclear weapons to Finnish territory.

The bill on Finland’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is practically ready. It will be submitted to the opinion round soon.

The draft law also does not set any restrictions on the establishment of NATO bases in the territory of the Finnish state, nor does it limit the presence of forces from the member countries of the defense alliance.

The possibility of bringing nuclear weapons into the territory of Finland is important because, ultimately, NATO’s preventive deterrence against Russia relies on the nuclear weapons of the United States and Britain.

“It would be stupid to set thresholds for yourself, which in reality could make it difficult to defend Finland,” emphasized one of the sources.

A promise to NATO

According to sources, Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) and Defense Minister Antti Kaikkonen (Centre) gave a commitment in the membership talks with NATO in July that Finland would not make restrictions or national reservations about its NATO membership in its accession agreement.

Finland is willing to join NATO without restrictions with all rights and obligations, the ministers emphasized in the membership discussions.

Recently, American B-52 bombers flew in NATO’s annual nuclear weapons exercises somewhere in the alliance’s airspace, probably over the North Sea and near the Arctic regions. Russia’s nuclear arsenal can be found, for example, in the north, in the Murmansk marshes.

The sources emphasize that it would be difficult to draw up Finland’s new defense plan in NATO, if nuclear weapons could not be brought into Finland’s airspace, for example.

“The world and nuclear weapons are very different than in 1949, when NATO was founded and Norway declared nationally that there would be no nuclear weapons on its territory. Today, there are many tactical nuclear weapons that can also be carried by F-35 fighters,” one foreign and security policy source points out.

F-35 fighters have nuclear weapon readiness

Finland is acquiring F-35 fighters, the first of which will be deployed in Lapland’s air force in 2026. Full operational performance with F-35A aircraft will be achieved in 2030, when all 64 aircraft will be in service.

If the Finnish government decides so, the Air Force’s next fighters can carry, for example, US tactical B61-12 nuclear weapons, with which the F-35A fighters can be equipped in real-world situations. This would require Finnish pilots to be trained in their use.

It can be considered certain that in the future Finnish F-35 fighters will practice protecting American strategic bombers in the north. These bombers can carry nuclear weapons. Norwegian and Swedish fighters have already participated in such exercises.

When Finland becomes a full member of NATO, Finns will be able to join NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group. Only at this stage is Finland’s new defense plan completed, which is secret.

Of the member states, only France does not participate in the planning of NATO’s joint nuclear defense.

Finnish foreign and security policy sources say that, according to their information, Sweden also does not impose restrictions on the content of its membership. Therefore, it would also be possible to import nuclear weapons into Sweden’s territory if necessary.

In Finland, the government proposal is written in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to IL’s information, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior and the Office of the President of the Republic participated in its preparation.

Nuclear-free NATO?

Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) and Defense Minister Antti Kaikkonen (Center) talked about the draft outlining Finland’s NATO membership at a press conference last week, while Turkey and Hungary’s membership ratifications are still awaited.

According to Haavisto, Finland’s NATO membership supports the alliance’s defense and simplifies it, for example, in the Baltic Sea region.

According to Defense Minister Kaikkonen, Finland was already very compatible with NATO before membership. According to him, that is illustrated by the fact that the membership negotiations were completed in one day.

The draft expressly states that nuclear weapons are a key part of NATO’s deterrence alongside conventional weapons and missile defense capabilities.

Walking back nuclear deployment

At the press briefing, Iltalehti editor Kreeta Karvala asked the ministers for a more precise position on Finland’s nuclear weapons policy in NATO and especially in crisis situations.

Foreign Minister Haavisto stated that Finland has no goal of getting nuclear weapons to Finland.

“We do not aim to get nuclear weapons here. NATO has permanent structures in these matters, and according to my information, the United States has no intention of increasing the number of nuclear weapons in Europe,” Haavisto said at the press conference.

The foreign minister also emphasized that NATO’s goal was a “nuclear-weapon-free Europe”. According to him, “NATO’s goal is a world without nuclear weapons, and it should be reached through a negotiation process where everyone is involved”.

For now, the Nuclear Energy Act and the Criminal Code allegedly limit the deployment of nuclear weapons in Finland.

Currently, for example, according to the Nuclear Energy Act, “the importation of nuclear explosives as well as their manufacture, possession and detonation in Finland is prohibited.” However, according to Haavisto, the laws can be changed later if there is a need.

Kaikkonen emphasized in his answer that Finland accepted NATO’s nuclear weapons policy, but at this stage the defense minister did not want to take a position on, for example, possible NATO nuclear weapons training on Finnish soil.

“The reality is that nuclear weapons are not being forced into Finland and Sweden,” Kaikkonen claimed.

The annual costs of NATO membership and joining its administrative bodies and command structure are estimated to be around 70–100 million euros for Finland.

The draft outlines that Finland’s NATO membership can be approved in the parliament with a simple majority, i.e. more than half of the MPs would be enough. Parliament can also start processing the proposal even before all member countries, i.e. Hungary and Turkey, have ratified Finland’s membership.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/11/04/finland-on-nato-membership-no-restrictions-on-nuclear-deployment/

Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist”, Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” all have one publisher in common.

Bertelsmann, the German giant, which formerly used to put out “The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth”, has become the leading publisher and distributor of some of the most famous and influential racist woke books.

Americans are unaware of the role that the Ex-Nazi company plays in poisoning our discourse with racism and wokeness because it operates under the cover of the names of the American and English book publishers that it gobbled up.

Americans don’t see the Bertelsmann brand, instead they see Random House, whose current state would make Bennett Cerf turn in his grave, and Penguin Books, along with other familiar names like Doubleday, Ballantine, Knopf, Schocken, now tragically owned by an ex-Nazi company, Crown, Viking, Putnam, Bantam, Del Rey, Golden Books and so many others.

Bertelsmann has conquered and gutted American publishing’s crown jewels. The  book spines beloved to generations of readers are now just assets to a corporate office in Westphalia which uses them to distribute racist hate across America.

That includes promoting Ta-Nehisi Coates’s claim in “Between the World and Me” that the 9/11 firefighters and police officers were “menaces of nature” and “not human to me” to 9th graders and Robin DiAngelo’s racist “White Fragility” whose message, as CNN summed up, is that “if you’re a white person… you’re a racist.”

Not satisfied with pushing racism, Bertelsmann has also been involved in the  controversy over sexualizing children.

“Beyond Magenta”, which describes 8-year-olds having sex and contains the sentence, “from six and up, I used to kiss other guys in my neighborhood, make out with them, and perform oral sex on them”, has been protested by parents.

And it’s being promoted by Penguin Random House to teens and young adults.

Earlier this year, Markus Dohle, the German CEO appointed by Bertelsmann to head up Penguin Random House, declared war on parental rights advocates by setting up a $500,000 Dohle Book Defense Fund to “advocate against censorship, track and expose the egregious assaults on books and ideas playing out in classrooms, state legislatures and other arenas.”

But Bertelsmann isn’t done consuming and destroying American publishing and culture. It’s determined to take over Simon & Schuster. That would add notable names such as Scribner, Pocket Books, Baen, the Folger Shakespeare Library and Washington Square Press to its hoard.

Penguin Random House, (no. 1), and Simon & Schuster (no. 3), are two of the big five publishers who control 80% of the trade book market. Penguin Random House, under Bertelsmann, accounts for around 40% of hardcover sales and between a fifth to a quarter of paperback book sales.

No single book publisher comes close to that level of dominance.

With the addition of Simon & Schuster, the new Bertelsmann monster could command half of the hardcover book market making it bigger than all the other publishers combined.

What’s even worse is that of the ‘Big 5’ book publishers in the United States, Macmillan is already owned by Germany’s Holtzbrinck, and Hachette, which ate Time Warner’s book publishing arm including Little, Brown, is a French company.

That would, at best, leave HarperCollins, owned by News Corp, as the closest thing to an American publisher among the country’s dominant publishers.

Foreign companies would control 77% of the American hardcover book market and between 50% to 73% of our paperback market. In an environment where the big publishers only keep getting bigger, those numbers will get worse, not better.

And as we have already seen with Bertelsmann and Hachette, which shamefully published “In Defense of Looting”, foreign publishers have no problem exploiting and monetizing our social problems while tearing apart our country.

The damage that Bertelsmann and Hachette have already done to our society and our children is a warning against allowing foreign companies to control the lifeblood of our culture. Aside from being a blatant antitrust violation, the Bertelsmann seizure of Simon & Schuster is a national security threat.

In an initial first step, the takeover was blocked by a federal judge.

The ruling came after an extended trial whose evidence included an “internal company document” proposing the purchase of Simon & Schuster which described the big five as an “oligopoly”. That was quite an admission.

While the ruling is a rare victory for antitrust, Bertelsmann is moving to appeal.

Even if the ex-Nazi publisher fails in its bid to totally dominate publishing, it’s still causing immeasurable damage due to its current dominance. And it may be time for a future White House and Congress to revisit the question of whether foreign companies dominating our cultural industries is good or bad for America.

As a sample, consider some of the books that Penguin Random House is currently promoting, including “Democracy in Black”, which claims that America’s “democratic principles do not exist in a space apart from [its] national commitment to white supremacy.”  Alongside it are “Forty Million Dollar Slaves” about black atheletes, and Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist”.

Getting Bertelsmann’s claws out of our culture won’t immediately fix wokeness, but it will create more actual diversity in the publishing market and scale back some of the poison that is being poured into our veins by its million dollar racists.

Bertelsmann claims that it wants to help Americans. That’s as trustworthy as the lies that it used to spread falsely claiming that it resisted the Nazis and that the regime had shut it down when in actuality it was in bed with the Nazis.

Under Hitler, Heinrich Mohn, the head of the family business, was a member of the SS Sponsors Circle, and Bertelsmann became the largest supplier of books to the German Army. (The company is now headed by his grandson, Christoph Mohn.) Printers churning out its books used Jewish slave labor from the ghetto.

After the war, the Mohns lied and claimed that the company had been persecuted by the Nazis to convince the Allies to allow them to stay in business.

Even in 1998, one of its executives claimed that “the Carl Bertelsmann publishing house, was one of the few non-Jewish media companies closed down by the Nazi regime” because they “had been publishing books that were banned by the Third Reich as subversive. Bertelsmann’s continuing existence was a threat to the Nazi attempt to control freedom of expression.”

What they were actually publishing was “The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth”.

In 1984, Bertelsmann brought in a former Nazi propgandist who had been churning out Hitler poems during the war and published a book which claimed that WWII had been caused by America, not Germany, and that Jews “controlled most of the media”, to write its official fake history of resistance to the Nazis.

It was a son of Holocaust survivors who exposed the lie and showed that the Nazi publisher was actually churning out horrors like “Sterilization and Euthanasia — a Contribution to Applied Christian Ethics” and “With Bombs and Machine Guns Over Poland”. Bertelsmann reacted by warning a public broadcaster to stop the “sinister and dangerous” reporting on the story.

The expose came as the ADL was about to honor the Bertelsmann Foundation.

It included the revelation that Nazi propogandist Joseph Goebbels had intervened to aid Bertelsmann employees.

But Bertelsmann needn’t have bothered lying and covering up its past. As Goebbels might have predicted, no one cared.

And now, as Bertelsmann is on the verge of dominating American book publishing even while pumping out more racist books, no one still cares.

Having failed to learn from history, we are repeating it.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-ex-nazi-corp-behind-anti-racism-is-buying-up-book-publishing/

The G7 foreign ministers are currently meeting in the historic Peace Hall of Münster City Hall. Beforehand, the office of Minister Annalena Baerbock ( The Greens) had a historic cross from 1540 removed from the wall. In order to take “religious backgrounds” into account.

The G in G7 apparently does not stand for “God”. The Ministry of the Green Foreign Minister justifies this by saying that it wants to take into account the different religious backgrounds of the participants when asked by German journalists. It remains unclear exactly whose feelings one wanted to watch out for. Whether France, Great Britain, Italy, the USA, Canada or Japan had a problem with a Christian symbol? Questionable …

That leaves the two participants from Africa. Ghana and Kenya are also predominantly Christian countries. Such a request has never been made to the municipality before, according to the administration. The cross dates back to 1540 and is thus about as old as the wooden wall unit in front of which it stands. All new councillors were sworn in before this cross.

https://exxpress.at/aus-ruecksicht-auf-andere-religionen-baerbock-laesst-kreuz-bei-g7-treffen-entfernen/

Biden’s Rhetoric is a Threat to the Republic https://t.co/GxLhgvXSKq pic.twitter.com/IFyHzygRqY

— Robert Spencer روبرت سبنسر रॉबर्ट स्पेंसर 🇺🇸 (@jihadwatchRS) November 3, 2022