Month: December 2022
Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan performs Umrah in Mecca, Muslims call him a ‘sinner’ for keeping idols in his house, being married to a Hindu
Is a manmade global famine in the works from the UN and WEF?
By Monica Showalter
So did World Economic Forum arch-villain Klaus Schwab mean “peace of the grave” in his masterplan for a global “reset” when he declared: “You will own nothing and be happy”?
Sure looks like it, given the facts painstakingly assembled by the Issues & Insights editorial team, hypothesizing that the great resetters like Schwab and all his greenie allies might just have creating a global famine in mind as their actual goal.
In a lead editorial titled “The Elites’ War on Food,” which asks in its subhed: “Are we in the early stages of a man-made global famine? — the gist of the argument is that the various measures being taken around the world to assuage global warming all have the funny effect of lowering food production, intended or not, and with so much evidence piling up that these are known effects, the ‘intentional’ aspect of this cannot be dismissed.
Most by now have seen reports that Dutch officials are closing as many as 3,000 farms in the Netherlands, the world’s second-largest exporter of agricultural products by value even though it’s only slightly larger than Maryland, to comply with crackpot European Union carbon dioxide emissions rules. It’s possible that eventually more than 11,000 farms will be shut down, and 17,600 forced to sharply cut their livestock numbers.
On our side of the Atlantic, the malefactors are also busy. Just the News is reporting that the Environmental Protection Agency is quietly quadrupling the regulatory cost of carbon emissions in a new war on fossil fuels, which is, of course, also a war on the food supply.
“If you think about the fact that they would impose this damage factor, let’s say on farmers, because it applies to fertilizer,” Louisiana Solicitor General Liz Murill said on the John Solomon Reports podcast. “Fertilizer emits nitrous oxide. So fertilizer is a big contributor. If every family farmer now is going to have to pay more to obtain fertilizer to fertilize crops that feed us, well, what’s that going to do to the price of food?”
Or, for that matter, the production of food.
The editorial lists seven disturbing activities and reactions to Western government actions affecting food supplies taken in the name of halting global warming — from soaring energy prices, which hits food production, as well as food prices, hard; to the new movement to force consumers to eat bugs, an unnatural and repellent food which early evidence suggests may be actually toxic for humans. They’re turning productive farmland into ecologically protected conservation areas in the states, and initiating intricate rules for farms in the E.U. and Canada which will decimate farming itself in those countries.
Issues & Insights notes that all of these lunacies are happening at the same time, with some think tank observers wondering if these acts are being coordinated by the United Nations and Schwab’s WEF.
Remember that wave of billionaires buying up U.S. farmland? Funny how that’s happening.
The editorial lists seven disturbing activities and reactions to Western government actions affecting food supplies taken in the name of halting global warming — from soaring energy prices, which hits food production, as well as food prices, hard; to the new movement to force consumers to eat bugs, an unnatural and repellent food which early evidence suggests may be actually toxic for humans. They’re turning productive farmland into ecologically protected conservation areas in the states, and initiating intricate rules for farms in the E.U. and Canada which will decimate farming itself in those countries.
Issues & Insights notes that all of these lunacies are happening at the same time, with some think tank observers wondering if these acts are being coordinated by the United Nations and Schwab’s WEF.
Remember that wave of billionaires buying up U.S. farmland? Funny how that’s happening.
Which must tickle the innards of the coat-and-tie savages at the World Economic Forum, a truly vile organization that has made no secret of its concerns over a growing global population, and issued a warning earlier this year that “degrowth,” the shrinking rather than growing of economies, “might mean people in rich countries changing their diets, living in smaller houses and driving and traveling less.”
If only the WEF were some fringe group that had no influence. But it’s not – it’s a well-funded syndicate with an axis of powerful followers.
That’s the problem, and the weirdos out there taking in grant money from the billionaire-fed foundations intent on ending the human race are proliferating. Last night on Fox News, a freak named Les Knight was featured as a silky smooth “gentle” operator whose straight-face agenda was ending the human race to save the planet. Fox host Laura Ingraham had a good segment on that, viewable here. Also, The Atlantic laid out another zoo full of leftists with the same greenie agenda, plus the transhumanist wackjobs in the mix. We are seeing human achievement erased in the name of defending the planet as greenie vandals desecrate priceless artworks with soup and potatos and the like, a war on food combined with a war on human excellence, and ultimately, a war on human existence.
The second thing that ought to raise flags is that we already know what greenie policies do — in test-case countries such as Sri Lanka, which banned synthetic fertilizer for food production in the name of going green and organic, saw food prices shoot through the roof, saw farm production collapse, and suddenly the capital was on fire and the president was fleeing to another country. The country was decimated by greenie policies, imposed from the multilaterals. That’s what greenie policies do and there are several other candidates for this Sri Lanka famine effect in the pipeline which may see similar results — including Pakistan, and others. One wonders what Joe Biden’s meddling in Indonesia’s coal production based on a recent G-20 meeting, pledging billions in an attempt to shut it down, will do to that country’s food supply — Indonesians tend to react badly when their energy costs go up, I saw that in 1997-1998 in Jakarta, when the cooking oil prices shot up, and suddenly the capital was on fire and the dictator ousted – I still have the souvenir telephone pole fliers from it. And big chunks of cash have a way of disappearing in Indonesia. Just ask James Riady.
Having been to Sri Lanka, I saw the poorest people I’ve ever seen anywhere on earth on those tea plantations, and their poverty in good times was frankly terrifying, so imagine what it became after Big Green took over.
Countries collapse on these green policies, and we know that and the naivos among us can learn that. But not the United Nations, nor the WEF. They are bulling full speed ahead, pressing Canada, the U.S. and Europe to adopt the same kinds of policies that turned Sri Lanka into a failed state. The locals do indeed have nothing, but they sure as heck were not happy about it. We can’t speak for the starved and dead of course, but that seems to be what Schwab has in mind.
Read the whole thing here.
Germany: A soldier of Arab origin rapes a German female soldier in the barracks
Serious accusations originating from the Army Officers’ School in Dresden!
German soldier Khaled E. (24) – from Düsseldorf – has been on trial for rape at the district court since Monday. He is alleged to have assaulted his comrade Esther K. (24) – also from North Rhine-Westphalia.
According to the indictment, the crime took place in February 2020 at around 5.20 a.m. in the soldier’s room in the Graf-Stauffenberg barracks. At first, the two are said to have kissed each other consensually. Then he tried to undress her, which she did not want. She rejected him and kept pushing him away.
Nevertheless, he allegedly penetrated her with “at least” one finger and also asked her to perform oral sex. Since the female soldier strongly resisted, he later let her go.
Judge Petra Heinze (53) questioned the accused, who is now studying law, and the victim in camera. The trial will be continued.
Conservative lawmakers in Britain flee the Tory sinking ship
Conservative party heavyweight Sajid Javid became on Friday the thirteenth Tory MP to announce they will not be contesting the next general election, as many Conservative lawmakers are being accused of jumping before they are pushed in the face of current polling projections.
Javid, who held two of the great offices of state — Home Secretary from 2018-2019, and Chancellor from 2019-2020 — revealed he had informed the chair of his constituency party in Bromsgrove of his intention not to stand for what would be his fifth election, and called being the local MP and serving in government “the privilege of (his) life.”
“I always sought to make decisions in the national interest and in line with my values, and I can only hope my best was sufficient,” he added.
Javid is the latest in a growing list of Conservative lawmakers choosing to call it a day at the end of this parliament, following announcements from Dehenna Davison (Bishop Auckland), William Wragg (Hazel Grove), Chris Skidmore (Kingswood), Sir Gary Streeter (South West Devon), Chloe Smith (Norwich North), Douglas Ross (Moray), Sir Charles Walker (Broxbourne), Nigel Adams (Selby and Ainsty), Crispin Blunt (Reigate), Sir Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead), Adam Afriyie (Windsor), and Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole)
Conservative MPs are understood to have been given a deadline of Dec. 5 to inform Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) whether or not they intend to contest their seats at the next election, which in light of currently less than favorable polling results for the governing party, is unlikely to be long before the latest date allowed, January 2025.
So let’s take a look at that polling data. The Conservative parliamentary party may have hoped that doing away with Liz Truss and coronating Rishi Sunak may have eased the sizable decline in popularity the party has suffered in the eyes of the electorate during this parliamentary term.
That, however, has not been the case. The latest YouGov polling published on Thursday shows the opposition Labour party taking almost half of the vote share at 47 percent, while the governing Conservatives languish at just 22 percent, even down three percentage points from a week ago.
And what has changed in the past week? Well, the record-high net immigration figures of 504,000 might have something to do with the Conservatives falling even further down the electoral ladder, on top of the census data published this week showing a dramatic decline in Christianity across England and Wales, as well as showing that Birmingham and Leicester are now “minority majority” cities.
This would explain why the anti-mass migration Reform UK party, formerly headed by Brexit stalwart Nigel Farage, reached its highest polling figures since its inception with 9 percent, up 4 points over the week prior.
It is almost inconceivable that a party that enjoyed its largest electoral landslide in decades in 2019 under Boris Johnson’s leadership could now be this unpopular with the electorate. It’s almost as if abandoning your conservative principles to hike taxes and open up your country’s borders against the wishes of the electorate isn’t an election-winning strategy.
And indeed, 22 percent is exactly what Sunak’s Conservative party achieved in Thursday’s City of Chester by-election, a record low result for the Tories which saw Labour hold the parliamentary seat with an increased majority.
Could this be a sign of things to come for the Conservatives, and does it explain why so many incumbent lawmakers are seemingly jumping before they are pushed?
“It’s just beginning,” Farage tweeted about Reform UK’s favorable polling results on Thursday as evidence begins to seep through showing Tory loyalists abandoning the party for new pastures.
Among the electorate’s main concerns regarding the governance of the country, one topic finds itself near the top of the order time and time again: immigration.
With a People Polling survey now revealing that more than half of Britain’s 17.4 million Brexit voters in 2016 agree that a new party must be formed to campaign for lower immigration, and a third of all voters also holding this view, it is clear that the next general election could see a seismic shift against the longevity of Britain’s two-party system.
It’s no surprise that current members of the Conservative party responsible for the electorate’s dissatisfaction don’t want to be around for the backlash.
https://rmx.news/commentary/conservative-lawmakers-in-britain-flee-the-tory-sinking-ship/
Parallel society: Ukrainian children in German schools
Around one million Ukrainians have left their homeland due to the war in recent months and sought refuge in Germany. Among the refugees are tens of thousands of children who are now going to school in Germany. But there are simply too many and the problems are mounting.
Educators responsible for foreign children have given up telling the success story of an integration that doesn’t exist.
So-called “bridging classes” have been set up everywhere for Ukrainian schoolchildren, in which German language skills are taught more intensively. But to no avail – further support and integration have overwhelmed German teaching staff, the chairman of the Bavarian Philologists’ Association, Michael Schwägerl, had to admit.
“We are experts in our subjects. As a rule, however, we are not interpreters for Ukrainian or Russian, we are not trauma experts either, and our time allotment does not allow us to provide psychosocial support in individual cases.” They need additional staff for practically everything.
And there are massive problems: “The bridging classes are not normal German learning classes,” emphasized Dorothee Missy, who is a bridging class teacher at the grammar school in Mering near Augsburg. Lack of motivation, demarcation, aggression, disrespect, breaking the rules and other discipline problems as a reaction to the stressful situation are commonplace. “We also have a great deal of heterogeneity in terms of performance, motivation and willingness to perform.”
In addition, the refugees often keep to themselves even months later. More than half of the teachers (54 percent) rate the integration of the Ukrainian children and young people in the respective school as rather bad, 22 percent even as clearly bad. In addition, four-fifths of the refugees also take part, at least in part, in Ukrainian online courses which not conducive to integration into a German environment.
The goal is to prepare the Ukrainian students for regular German schooling. But they are still a world away from achieving their goal.
Philologist boss Schwägerl said there was very little hope that it would happen on a large scale by the end of the current school year as planned. He expected that only a low single-digit percentage would switch to the Bavarian regular school system in the fall. Ukrainian parallel societies will therefore also remain in schools for the time being.
No hope of affording integration
Germany’s decline, which was heralded by the red-green “traffic-light” coalition, is now reflected not only in fresh bad news every day, but also in sober economic indicators that the Federal Statistical Office can no longer hide.
German exports to non-EU countries fell by 1,6 percent in October compared to the previous month, hospitality sales in September fell by 0,9 percent compared to the previous month, and building permits fell by a significant 8,1 percent compared to the same month last year. The number of corporate bankruptcies rose by a massive 34 percent in September compared to the same month last year, while 40 percent are expected for November.
Only one parameter is constantly increasing: the producer prices in October were a gigantic 34,5 percent higher than in the same month last year. Because companies are only passing the price explosion on to consumers in bits and pieces, the big surprise is yet to come in supermarkets.
Officially, the inflation rate is 10,4 percent, which sounds moderate, but it is also due to the so-called “shopping basket” used to calculate inflation. The “shopping basket” is full of products and services that do not reflect the real life of ordinary people.
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/12/02/parallel-society-ukrainian-children-in-german-schools-2/
Italy: Egyptian man arrested for assaulting girl on Rome metro
A homeless 22-year-old Egyptian man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in a lift on Rome’s metro system at the beginning of last month, police sources said.
The man, who does not have a criminal record, allegedly attacked the girl at the Centocelle station on Metro LIne C.
The girl told police the man had taken advantage of the crowded elevator to molest her.
India: 14-year-old Hindu girl abducted by Muslim tuition teacher in Bihar’s Begusarai recovered from Tamil Nadu
Bihar’s Begusarai police have recovered the 14-year-old Hindu girl, who was kidnapped by her tuition teacher Mohammad Aamir on November 21, 2022. The girl was found in Tamil Nadu. The accused had brainwashed the minor girl who studied in his coaching centre for the last four years, i.e since the age of 10. On November 21, he enticed her into fleeing with him under the guise of marriage.
Popular Twitter user Ashwini Srivastava shared information about the girl’s recovery on December 1, 2022.
Notably, ten days after the girl went missing, on December 1, 2022, the Bihar police released a press note confirming that a team led by Tegra district’s Sub-Divisional Police Officer Ravindra Mohan Prasad used intelligence gathering, technological and scientific research to arrest Mohammad Aamir from Tamil Nadu’s T Nagar area. The minor was recovered and sent back to her parents.
The Begusarai police initiated a search operation after the girl’s family filed a complaint with the district’s Phulwaria police station, expressing concern that she may become a victim of grooming jihad. They were also concerned that their daughter would suffer the same fate as Sharddha Walker, who was mercilessly strangled and butchered by her live-in partner Aftab Amin Poonawala in Delhi’s Mehrauli neighbourhood.
According to the FIR, registered under IPC 366A (procuration of minor girl), the family had discovered a few days ago that Aamir had given the minor girl a mobile phone. For several days, the girl appeared terrified, and her parents said they were certain that Aamir was blackmailing her. They quickly stopped her coaching and shifted her classes to a different place.
The girl left home on November 21, 2022, saying she was going to study, but she never returned. Aamir’s coaching centre was discovered to be closed since then. Aamir, according to the family, lured the girl away.
The mother of the victim told the police that when they went to Aamir’s house to enquire about his whereabouts, his father abused, humiliated and chased them away.
“When I reached Aamir’s house to complain about it, his father misbehaved with me and chased me away by abusing me,” said the girl’s mother.
“I went to the house of Mohammad Aamir but his father misbehaved with me. He also levelled the allegation that my minor daughter took away his son who is more than 20 years old, apart from Rs 1 lakh from the house,” she said.
“A large number of Hindu-Muslim cases are appearing before us. The life of my daughter is in danger. She might be killed like Shraddha was killed in Delhi,” the distressed mother had added.
Speaking about the incident, Navin Kumar, the SHO of Phulwaria police station had said, “We have registered an FIR against Mohammad Aamir and an investigation is underway. His mobile phone is under surveillance. The accused will be arrested soon.”
The police claimed they are ‘holding raids’ to find the minor Hindu student, but the girl’s parents had then said that the Bihar police response has been unsatisfactory.
A new ‘racism’ controversy at Buckingham Palace
By Rajan Laad
A few days back, the Queen Consort of the United Kingdom, Camilla, held an event at Buckingham Palace to support her campaign against domestic violence.
Among the 300 guests in attendance was Ngozi Fulani, representing Sistah Space, an organization, a ‘community-based non-profit initiative created to bridge the gap in domestic abuse services for African-heritage women and girls.’
Also in attendance was Lady Susan Hussey, the godmother of Prince William and the late Queen Elizabeth’s lady-in-waiting i.e. executive secretary for more than 60 years.
This was a regular event at the palace yet it made headlines.
Fulani claimed Hussey moved her hair to see her name badge and repeatedly asked Fulani where she came from refusing to accept that she was from the UK.
Fulani’s version of the exchange is in the following Tweet.
Fulani claimed to be traumatized by the exchange.
In an interview with the Independent, Fulani called it “institutional racism.”
This is ironic considering she runs a charity that is also institutionally racist, it only helps women of African heritage who are victims of domestic violence.
She also claimed to not want to reveal the identity of Lady Susan Hussey. Yet the initials in her transcript made it perfectly obvious who she was referring to.
Fulani said the exchange felt “like an interrogation” and “abuse” and that Hussey was trying to make her denounce her British citizenship.
Fulani says she hasn’t been contacted by Buckingham Palace following her interaction.
That claim was contradicted in the following statement made by Buckingham Palace:
“We take this incident extremely seriously and have investigated immediately to establish the full details.
“In this instance, unacceptable and deeply regrettable comments have been made. We have reached out to Ngozi Fulani on this matter, and are inviting her to discuss all elements of her experience in person if she wishes.
“The individual concerned would like to express her profound apologies for the hurt caused and has stepped aside from her honorary role with immediate effect.
“All members of the household are being reminded of the diversity and inclusivity policies which they are required to uphold at all times.”
A spokesperson for Prince William said, “racism has no place in our society.”
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak didn’t address the allegations, but made a general statement that while the country has made “progress in tackling racism,” racism “must still be confronted.”
Since Fulani’s allegations, new details have emerged about her organization Sistah Space.
Sistah Space has ties with Black Lives Matter, an organization that has made race their business model.
Back in 2020, BLM UK donated £10,000 to Sistah Space, to “help fund research into African- and Caribbean-heritage women’s experiences of abuse as well as the level of support and services available to Black women and children in the U.K.”
Reacting to BLM’s donation, a grateful Fulani said the following:
“We are the first Black group to be funded by a Black group, supported by an entire community of beautiful people who know that Black lives matter.”
That is the very definition of institutionalized and systemic racism.
This isn’t the only time Fulani has made outlandish accusations.
Fulani previously accused the Royal Family of domestic violence against the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, when Markle claimed in her interview with Oprah Winfrey about her requests for mental health treatment being refused by palace officials and that a member of the royal family questioned the color of their then-unborn child.
Fulani also claimed that black women did not report their abusers because they did ‘not want to risk their abusers being hurt or murdered. She said: ‘Women want the abuse to stop but we know what happens to black men in police custody.”
It would appear that Fulani is following the BLM model.
Allege racism, play victim, seek publicity, and raise money.
Doubtlessly, this recent publicity must have caused donations of Sistah Space to go through the roof.
It, therefore, makes it difficult to trust the specifics of the conversation.
Did Hussey relentlessly probe Fulani about her origins as claimed by Fulani in the transcript or did Hussey ask just a few questions?
Unless Fulani has an outstanding memory or she recorded the conversation, it is impossible to recall the exchange in such detail. Yet she claims to have done so.
At times a transcript of an exchange doesn’t fairly cover a conversation because the tone is missing. Perhaps Hussey was smiling and had a friendly tone.
Now for the question itself?
Is asking someone where they are from amount to the equivalent of racism?
For that, we travel to India and focus on the late Tom Alter.
Alter was born in India to American Presbyterian missionaries. Alter chose to make India his home. He spoke Hindi fluently and starred in many Hindi films, stage plays, and TV series. Being Caucasian, he was occasionally asked to blacken his hair in order to play characters of Indian origin.
Despite living in India for all his life, Alter revealed he was frequently asked where he was from and how he spoke Hindi so well.
Was Alter racially attacked?
No, in India, 99 percent of the people are brown-skinned. When people see a Caucasian man, the assumption is automatic that he must be a foreigner.
Back to Fulani.
Fulani was dressed in a leopard-skin print dress and wore what appeared to be a traditional African necklace and headdress.
In a room full of people who were mostly dressed in Western attire, she clearly stood out, perhaps causing Hussey to be intrigued by Fulani.
Some have said that Fulani who seems sympathetic to Meghan Markle was doing so for other reasons.
The first was to draw attention to Harry and Meghan’s documentary series which is due for release in a week. The second to overshadow the Prince and Princess of Wales’s current visit to the U.S.
Now a bit about Hussey.
Hussey is in her 80s, that generation isn’t always acquainted with politically correct terms and hence expressed her curiosity in the open. Others would probably have remained silent, Googled her name later, or asked about Fulani in private.
I recently met someone from Hussey’s generation who asked several probing questions about the practice of working from home. Despite my answers, he wasn’t convinced work could be done without physically going to the office. The questioning was slightly annoying, but nothing beyond that.
Even if we trust, Fulani’s version, Hussey’s questioning at best could be called irritating or inappropriate. Different people have different boundaries, and asking anyone any question they are uncomfortable with is inappropriate. Hussey should have stopped after the second question.
Why should we go out of our way to give Hussey the benefit of doubt?
The presumption of innocence which applies in courts must apply here.
Racism has caused many dark chapters in human history.
Groups such as BLM, which Fulani seems sympathetic to, have trivialized racism to blackmail people and organizations into donating generously. This money isn’t used for the welfare of the suffering, but instead for personal luxuries.
The race hustlers may have built themselves sprawling mansions on the graves of societal unity.
They must be rejected.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/a_new_racism_controversy_at_buckingham_palace.html
Police stations on standby to house inmates in local lock-ups as UK’s prison population soars
The British government has requested to temporarily use lock-ups at police stations to house inmates as it seeks to ease the burden on overcrowded prisons.
More than 1,000 new offenders have entered the U.K. penal system in the last two months after a surge in court hearings as criminal barristers returned to work following an industrial action over legal aid fees.
Justice Minister Damian Hinds told lawmakers on Wednesday: “In recent months, we have experienced an acute and sudden increase in the prison population, in part due to the aftermath of the Criminal Bar Association strike action over the summer, which led to a significantly higher number of offenders on remand.
“With court hearings resuming, we are seeing a surge in offenders coming through the criminal justice system, placing capacity pressure on adult male prisons in particular.
“I’m announcing today that we’ve written to the National Police Chiefs Council to request the temporary use of up to 400 police cells through an established protocol known as Operation Safeguard,” he added.
However, as police stations are put on standby to take in more inmates, the longer-term trend of a growing prison population and fewer prison officers is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.
The latest Ministry of Justice data puts the current prison population in the U.K. at 82,839 as of Nov. 25. However, government projections estimate this figure will increase to 98,500 by March 2026.
The U.K.’s current usable operational capacity across its prisons is 84,035, with the Ministry of Justice recently revealing it plans to open “three new prisons over the course of the next few years” and build “on existing sites to offer places for another 7,700 inmates.” However, this increase still falls significantly short of the department’s own population projections.
Add to this a growing trend of prison officers leaving the profession over work conditions and pay, and it is clear a storm is brewing on the horizon.
According to Ministry of Justice figures, one in seven prison officers left their roles within the last year alone, and more than half of existing staff have only been in the job for less than three years.
A problem with retention and a less experienced workforce could see Britain’s prisons become unfit for purpose.
“You can’t increase a prison population when you can’t staff the prison population,” Prison Governors Association President Andrea Albutt recently said on the growing problem. Prison Reform Trust Director Peter Dawson expressed his concern over the effect that understaffing and overcrowding in U.K. prisons will have on the criminal justice system moving forward.
“Overcrowding makes for a very dysfunctional system, and it increases the risk to all of us because people are coming out without having had the help they should have without preparation for their release, and also, frankly, very disillusioned by a system which locked them up, but then treated them without justice once they were in prison.”
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson assured that plans are afoot to increase capacity and staff personnel, insisting that “pay has increased by more than £6,000 a year for trained officers” and the department plans to “recruit an additional 5,000 by the mid 2020s.”