Month: March 2023
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France: Three Muslim migrants arrested as police intercept large weapons delivery
The Looming Reckoning for COVID Tyrants
By William Sullivan
Many of the tyrants who promoted the COVID madness have been begging for amnesty for some time, and we should only expect that their numbers will grow as more evidence surfaces.
But we should make no mistake — there needs to be a reckoning in the West when it comes to COVID.
I used to wonder as a child how extreme fanaticism, such as Nazism, could gain footing among any educated population. I am now convinced that the internationally coordinated propaganda campaign around COVID that we all recently witnessed for nearly three years makes the Nazis look like amateurs.
Please don’t take this as a typical “this thing I don’t like is Nazism” kind of comparison, but rather, think honestly about this for a moment. It took decades of propaganda to inflame the German people’s hatred of European Jews such that they’d become second-class citizens unworthy of the simplest of rights, such as dining in a public restaurant, and eventually unworthy of even receiving medical care.
In a matter of only two years in the supposedly free West, we had mass swathes of people (or, at least the appearance of mass swathes of people on social media) openly wishing hardship and death upon their countrymen that simply chose not to inject a new, frantically concocted, unproven drug into their bodies to offset a risk that was and is, for the vast majority of people, scarcely more dangerous than the common cold or flu. Not only did restaurants refuse service to these people as a matter of policy in places like New York City, but these people were fired from their jobs, and hospitals in some places began openly refusing life-saving services to patients if a particular individual had the audacity to not have goosestepped to the local pharmacy for not eins, but swei doses of the new drug.
As with the Nazis, it doesn’t matter whether the majority of the population actually agreed with any of that, or whether the incredible visibility of an endless sea of propaganda posters and pamphlet circulars (the modern equivalent of which is Twitter and Facebook’s algorithmic bias) was just falsely presenting to the public that this was the case. What matters is that the government, media, and corporate powers, in both cases, all acted as one symbiotic organ with a clear purpose and message designed to demonize anyone guilty of wrongthink and punish them for a lack of fealty to the ideological imperative.
The truth has only begun coming to light, and already it has all but buried the COVID narrative as it once stood, though a few remaining werewolves are still demanding that we mask up in supermarkets, and there are a few remaining policies which cling to the madness of the past, such as America’s refusing the top tennis player in the world entry into the country based upon his having not been injected with the COVID cartel’s preferred drug.
But those in charge, particularly those who knowingly misled the public to generate unfounded fear and orchestrated what was arguably the greatest and most widespread policymaking calamity in human history, must be held accountable in the biggest, boldest, and most symbolic manner imaginable to assure the world that this will never happen again in the West.
What we need in order to assure that outcome is something to rival the Nuremberg Trials in scope and sensationalism. Nuremberg was selected as the location for those trials because it was there where annual propaganda rallies were held and the sickness of Nazism began. It was symbolic to have Nazism’s end take place at the site of its beginning.
I’m hopeful that we will one day have the similarly symbolic Milan Trials to prosecute those government officials who orchestrated the lockdowns, school closures, and general human suffering that the West endured after the Lombardy region of Italy, where the city of Milan is located, followed China’s lockdown protocol without the slightest historical precedent suggesting any efficacy of the practice, and the rest of the West simply followed suit (for reasons that the Milan Trials might hopefully reveal).
Though China is likely the primary culprit in unleashing COVID upon the world, and it might be perhaps more appropriate to have these trials in Wuhan, it is difficult to imagine ways in which China’s ruling Communist Party can be held to account for their obvious role in all of this, outside of an armed conflict in which we are victorious. The Chinese clearly do not respect the international authority of the United States or other Western powers any more than they respect their own innocent and healthy citizens whom they are willing to incarcerate in their homes en masse by welding the doors to their homes shut, and they are clearly withdrawing from the international dialogue while signaling alliances with the West’s adversaries. This withdrawal may be occurring less dramatically than Japan’s storming away from the League of Nations in 1933 when the League attempted to hold it accountable for invading Manchuria, but efforts to hold China accountable for the Wuhan virus have been similarly met with Chinese disregard.
Here’s what is now supported by evidence as the likeliest series of events leading into the Western lockdowns, though only a year ago these would have been the ravings of a conspiracy theorist.
The Chinese government conducted gain-of-function experimentation with bat coronaviruses in an American-funded lab in Wuhan, and this mutated virus either escaped or was purposefully released. The communist Chinese government subsequently locked down areas affected by the outbreak while hiding the actual ravages of the virus and presented to the world the efficacy of lockdowns and the destruction of one’s own national economy in the interest of public health.
That the communist Chinese would do all of this out of desperation in order to jockey for a better economic position on the world stage would have shocked no one, even in early 2020. But, prior to 2020, we in the West imagined ourselves to be citizens of nations freer than that.
That fantasy crumbled in March of 2020, and Milan, Italy, was where it began.
Milan, a city of 1.2 million people, was the European ground zero for COVID lockdowns. On March 8, 2020, the streets were silent in Milan. Residents “woke up [that] Sunday to the news that it had been locked down by the Italian government in a bid to contain the coronavirus outbreak.”
Initially, it was just 16 million supposedly free citizens on lockdown in the Lombardy region of Italy. By March 10, it was expanded to all 60 million Italians, becoming the “first democratic nation since World War II to announce a nationwide lockdown.”
By March 14th, Spain was nationally locked down. By the 17th, so was France. By the 23rd of March, both the U.K. and Germany were under national lockdown. By April 1st, the majority of European countries were under national lockdown. And, as we all know, the United States had already begun instituting localized lockdowns (based upon national guidance) so widely that, by mid-April, 300 million Americans (more than 90%) were living under some form of lockdown.
What too few know, however, is that the West had flung its citizens into liberty-strangling lockdowns far more readily than even Asia, despite the fact that there had never been any modern evidence that such interventions as lockdowns could contain a respiratory viral outbreak.
For example, some very early, more reliable data emerged from South Korea. By March 27, the Center for Strategic International Studies was heralding its response, which included much coordination of health agencies and ample availability of testing, but the term “lockdown” which was being bandied about with increasing regularity in Western media didn’t appear. Indeed, as the West was instituting nationalized lockdowns at breakneck speed, South Korea never did more than issuing national recommendations, much like Sweden did at the time, and as did Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In fact, few morethan a handful of Asian nations had instituted national lockdowns by April 1, 2020. By that same date, more than three in four European nations had indiscriminately locked down their entire nations.
This South Korea data was discussed by Dr. David Katz in the New York Timeson March 20 of 2020 as an appeal to not commit to lockdowns in the United States. He recognized that reports from South Korea showed that deaths were “mainly clustered among the elderly, those with significant chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease, and those in both groups.” Prophetically, he warned our nation of the dangers that laid ahead if we remained committed to the lockdown strategy in order to “flatten the curve” as had already, by that time, been prescribed by Dr. Anthony Fauci:
A pivot right now from trying to protect all people to focusing on the most vulnerable remains entirely plausible. With each passing day, however, it becomes more difficult. The path we are on may well lead to uncontained viral contagion and monumental collateral damage to our society and economy.
Indeed, monumental collateral damage has been inflicted upon society and the economy in these past three years, along with the effects of uncontained viral contagion. Thankfully, we’ve reached a point where the former is discussed more commonly than the latter.
Lockdowns have been a disaster on a global scale, but there has never been any convincing evidence to substantiate their efficacy in the first place. The sober, rational people who were saying that at the time were heavily censored by early April 2020, if not erased totally in the interest of promoting preferred digital propaganda of the government, media, and corporate interests.
Why did Western nations commit to this unproven non-pharmaceutical intervention which stole irreplaceable time and experience from our children, destroyed countless small businesses while propping up corporate empires, commanded unprecedented powers for the government while stirring social unrest, and reshaped the balance of power between the citizen and the political class? Why did they silence people who were speaking the truth? Did they mean well and just get it wrong, or was there something more nefarious involved?
We need answers. And we demand justice, which can only come from identifying and adequately punishing those involved. That is the only way to ensure that nothing like the COVID madness we witnessed in 2020-2022 is ever inflicted upon the world again.
Next Bank to Fail? Shares in Credit Suisse Fall to All-Time Low After Bank Admits ‘Material Weakness’
Warnings have emerged of a wider banking collapse on the backs of the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank, with a financial expert who predicted the 2008 financial crisis warning that Credit Suisse may be the next to fall after the Swiss bank’s shares fell to an all-time low on Tuesday.
Switzerland’s second-largest bank, Credit Suisse, saw its shares fall by five per cent in early trading on Tuesday to a record low for the company after confirming some $8 billion (£6.6 billion) in losses in 2022 and admitting that there was “material weakness” in its accounting system for financial reports.
The bank’s books were thrown into question last week after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) contacted Credit Suisse to warn that it was in jeopardy of providing a misstatement over the accounting of cashflows in 2019 and 2020, forcing the bank to delay its annual report until this week, The Times of London reported.
On Tuesday, Credit Suisse claimed that the “weakness” in its books resulted from a “failure to design and maintain an effective risk assessment process to identify and analyze the risk of material misstatements”.
Credit Suisse CEO Ulrich Koerner said that the troubles facing the bank were unrelated to the collapse of the failed Silicon Valley Bank, telling Bloomberg that “SVB credit exposure is not material,” and adding: “It’s a very different situation, we are following materially different and higher standards when it comes to capital funding, liquidity and so on.”
However, there are growing concerns that the Swiss bank being could the second shoe to drop in a potential wider banking collapse. In comments provided to Breitbart London, Irish macroeconomist Philip Pilkington said that it “looks increasingly like a possible general meltdown of banks. Losses on bonds and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are huge. Credit Suisse may just be amongst the weaker members of the pack.”
American entrepreneur and author Robert Kiyosaki, who correctly predicted the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, which sparked a global financial crisis, has also raised alarm bells over Credit Suisse’s situation.
“The problem is the bond market, and my prediction, I called Lehman Brothers years ago, and I think the next bank to go is Credit Suisse because the bond market is crashing,” Kiyosaki told Fox Business on Monday. “The bond market is much bigger than the stock market. The Fed is up and they’re the firemen and the arson.”
“The US dollar is losing its hegemony in the world right now. So they’re going to print more and more and more of this… trying to keep this thing from sinking.”
“The [Federal Reserve] and the [Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation] are signalling hyperinflation which makes gold and silver even better because [the dollar] is trash. They are going to print more and more of this fake money. This is what the Fed and the FDIC are signalling, that we are going to print as much of this as possible to keep the crash from accelerating, but they are the guys causing it,” Kiyosaki added.
In an emergency move to shore up the U.S. banking system over the weekend, the U.S. government announced it would guarantee all deposits at SVB and Signature Bank, including those that exceed the $250,000 limit on deposit insurance. Over 90 percent of deposits at SVB were larger than the insured deposit cap.
The government is also trying to find a buyer for SVB’s deposits, likely one of the major U.S. banks, yet so far a buyer has not been found.
German health minister admits serious side effects from Covid-19 vaccines after earlier claiming the vaccines were ‘free from side effects’
The official German government data shows that more than 330,000 people in Germany have reported damage from Covid-19 vaccines, and many of them, including young people, suffered serious side effects. Now, controversial Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD), known for his aggressive promotion of mass vaccination and draconian lockdown policies, acknowledges the occurrence of serious side effects even after denying they existed at all in the summer of 2021.
“That’s right: 1 in 10,000. That is the frequency of serious side effects,” Lauterbach said in an interview with public service broadcaster ZDF’s “Today Journal” on Sunday.
“These fates are absolutely disturbing. To be honest, I feel very sorry for the people. Some of the vaccine damage is likely permanent. However, the drugs for treating ‘post-vac’ are not yet available and the health insurance companies’ claims for coverage are very limited. So I understand the people who complain,” he said.
However, Lauterbach was immediately questioned about a claim he made in a tweet in 2021, where he said that vaccination was “free of side effects.” Lauterbach grew evasive, saying, “That was an exaggeration I once made in an unfortunate tweet.”
Lauterbach is known for his stance pushing mass vaccination during the pandemic, but the health minister stated during his interview last week that he did not see any failure on the part of the Ministry of Health. He also stated that severe side effects are rare.
“So, that no false impression sticks: Severe vaccination damage, based on data from the Paul Ehrlich Institute or the European licensing authority, is on the order of less than 1 in 10,000 vaccinations. So it’s not that vaccine damage is that common,” said the health minister.
German users on social media were quick to criticize Lauterbach, with professor Stefan Homburg referencing a Weltwoche article in his post: “Pharma, authorities and Lauterbach knew it beforehand: heart damage in children, thrombosis, cerebral hemorrhage, damage to reproductive ability. After Pfizer was sued, the public now has the evidence.
Homburg, who works at the University of Hanover, continued by writing, “Yesterday, Karl Lauterbach confirmed in an interview that he was ‘all aware’ of the registered vaccination damage. Nevertheless, he denied them and even wanted to push through a general obligation to vaccinate.”
Recently, Welt newspaper highlighted the cases of some of those people severely affected by Covid-19 vaccines who are now organizing together to sue vaccine manufacturers, seen as a difficult task given legal protections these manufacturers enjoy. Many of those affected, such as 20-year-old Alina Adams, were perfectly healthy before her Covid-19 vaccine booster. Adams became ill a day after taking the vaccine, is now mostly confined to a wheelchair, and has been diagnosed with “post-vac syndrome.”
Professor Homburg also challenged the official figures from Lauterbach, which he put at one severe case in 10,000.
“At 1:10,000 Lauterbach downplays the risk of serious vaccine damage. His own ministry assumes 1:5,000 without unreported cases, which makes 1:1,250 with four doses,” wrote Homburg.
There are now calls for vaccine manufacturers to shoulder some of the financial burden seen among those who suffered severe side effects.
Lauterbach said during Sunday’s interview that he is calling for pharmaceutical companies to share in any compensation payments. “The profits of the pharmaceutical companies have been exorbitant, so that would be more than just a good gesture,” he said.
The Paul Ehrlich Institute has been notified of 333,492 suspected cases of adverse reactions and 50,833 suspected cases of severe adverse reactions “after basic immunization plus booster vaccinations” through December 2022. Although doctors are required to report cases, many have complained about an extraordinary amount of paperwork associated with such filings and no compensation for the time required to fill it out, which leaves them with a disincentive to report on the issue.
Severe side effects associated with Covid-19 vaccines include paralysis, heart inflammation and neurological damage.
India: Koran school teacher 53 years in jail for sodomy
Kunnamkulam Fast Track Special POCSO Court Judge Lisha S has announced a rare verdict. She sentenced a Madrassa teacher who molested a minor boy to 53 years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 60,000 in Thrissur, Kerala. Madrassa Ustad Siddique Bakavi sexually abused the victim since January 2019 until he was caught.
The court considered the case as the rarest of the rare since the minor boy was used for persistent unnatural sexual purposes. Bakavi sodomized the victim at Pazhunnana, where he lived, and at Pannithadam mosque cum madrassa, where he taught. The court heard how 43-year-old ustad subjected the child to unnatural sex and his actions damaged the child’s mental state.
While imposing the punishment, the court reminded the accused that he had indulged in the gravest of crimes. Teachers should act as children’s guardians in schools and religious learning centers.
Judge Lisha said that such acts of teachers should shock the public conscience and be questioned. If the court frees the accused quickly, he will become a threat to other children. The judge announced the punishment by clarifying that this situation should not happen to any other child.
Initially, the child did not report the abuse to the school teachers. Shocking information emerged when the teachers noticed the child regularly slept during class. This was when the school’s teachers discovered the minor boy was sexually abused.
The victim informed his teachers that the ustad forced him for sexual purposes most days. The pedophile did not leave the minor boy even at night. He said he could not sleep because of the madrasah teacher’s harassment. That was why he slept while attending classes.
The teachers who came to know the information informed the child’s parents. The family came to know about the harassment of the madrassa teacher only when the school teachers told them about it. Then, on the school’s instruction, the child and his parents approached Kunnamkulam police station and filed a complaint.
Local police took a case and investigated. They were convinced that the child’s statement was true. The latest court verdict comes from several POCSO cases involving minor boys and girls being abused by the madrassa teachers being reported from all over Kerala.
Madrassas and mosques have become dens for sexual atrocities against minors. As usual, mainstream media refused to carry the news about the pedophile madrassa ustad. How long will they hide the truth?
https://hindupost.in/crime/53-years-in-jail-for-sodomy-kerala-pocso-madrassa-ustad-sentenced/
The left and Islam: A match made in hell
By Raymond Ibrahim
What’s worse: physical evil from an open enemy or clandestine evil from a supposed friend?
One need look no farther than to Islam and the so-called “left” — in this case, the U.S. Department of Education — to appreciate the distinction.
First, consider the Islamic institution of slave-soldiery. For many centuries in those southeastern European regions that were subjugated by Islam, especially in the Balkans, the Turks compelled Christian families to make an annual blood tribute of their own sons.
The Muslims would select the strongest, healthiest, and most talented young European boys and then march them off to the Ottoman heartland. There, the youths would be forcibly converted to Islam, indoctrinated in the teachings of jihad, and trained to be — and rewarded for being — warriors par excellence. The Turks would then set loose these janissaries — meaning “new soldiers” — on their former Christian kin, thereby perpetuating the cycle of conquest, enslavement, and conversion, always to Islam’s demographic gain and Christendom’s demographic loss.
As the author of Balkan Wars explains,
[d]espite their Christian upbringing, they [janissaries] became fanatical Muslims and earnestly maintained their faith as warriors of Islam. This cruel practice of what today can be defined as the “brain cleansing” of the Christian populations of the Ottoman Empire is perhaps the most inhuman Turkish legacy.
As bad as all this sounds, in his recent review of Defenders of the West, William Kilpatrick made some interesting observations:
Thus indoctrinated, the youngsters [Christians-turned-jihadists, or janissaries] often developed a slavish devotion to Islam and their Islamic masters, and a deep hostility toward Christians. Although the institution of the janissaries was novel at the time, we have seen several similar examples in the modern era. Both the Hitler Youth and the Soviet-era Young Pioneers aimed to inculcate youngsters with beliefs and values that were often in opposition to those of their parents. Moreover, children who betrayed their parents to the authorities were held up as models for other youth to emulate.
The most recent example of an organized attempt to separate children from their families and from the faith of their families can be found no further away than your neighborhood school. All across the country, children are being indoctrinated to believe that gay is okay, that boys have the right to use the girls’ locker room, and that children can choose their own gender.
Some teachers and counselors even encourage children to believe that they have been assigned the wrong gender and offer to assist them in transitioning to their “true” identity. In the meantime, they advise the children not to inform their parents.
And why should parents be informed? Like the Ottoman rulers of old, many education “professionals” have convinced themselves that the children belong to the state, not to their parents. Never mind what parents believe, teachers know best. And, indeed, it is now common knowledge that a K-through-college education often has the effect of turning children away from the values of their parents.
Not only is all of this true, but it highlights the two primary forms of evil, as well described in Dante’s masterpiece The Divine Comedy. The first part, Inferno, describes the nine circles, or levels, of hell. Broadly speaking, its denizens can be categorized as having committed one of two sins — sins of force or sins of fraud. As author Ron Tobias summarizes:
In Dante’s Inferno there are only two basic sins in all the levels of hell. One is called forza, crimes of violence and force. The other basic sin is called forda, Italian for fraud. Force and fraud. The damned who have been sent to Hell for crimes of violence weren’t at the lowest circles of Hell; those were reserved for people who committed fraud. … In Dante’s mind, anyway, crimes of the mind were far worse than crimes of violence [italics added].
Another author describes the divisions as follows:
Each successive circle [of hell] represents progressively more heinous sins. … The eighth circle of hell is reserved for those guilty of … various types of fraud: seducers, flatterers, simonists, sorcerers, unscrupulous politicians, hypocrites, thieves, deceivers, schismatics and falsifiers.
Although the Inferno is a product of fourteenth-century Italy, surely some of these categories — unscrupulous politicians, hypocrites, deceivers, seducers, and falsifiers — ring in a bell.
In short, when it comes to indoctrinating children into hating their parents and heritage, the U.S. Department of Education is not as bad as the Muslims who forcibly, but at least openly, enslaved and indoctrinated Christian children into hating their parents and heritage. It’s worse, because it’s a hidden deception — a damnable fraud being committed by those who call themselves and are trusted as “friends.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/the_left_and_islam_a_match_made_in_hell.html
Mediterranean migrant crossings more than double in the first two months of 2023
The number of illegal border crossings from North Africa into Italy more than doubled in the first two months of the year, compared to the same period in 2022.
A total of 11,951 crossings via the Central Mediterranean migratory route were detected in January and February, up 118 percent over the same period last year and accounting for two of every five irregular border crossings into the European Union so far this year.
According to the European Union’s border agency, Frontex, the top three nations of origin for migrants arriving via the Mediterranean are Ivory Coast, Guinea, and Pakistan.
In total, 28,130 border crossings have been detected into the European Union so far for 2023, a figure Frontex says is “roughly in line with the same period last year.” The 13,800 new arrivals in February alone is a slight increase over the same month in 2022.
The Western Balkan route, which was reported as being the most frequently used by migrants into Europe last year, has seen the number of new arrivals drop by 28 percent over the same period last year, while migrant landings on the Spanish Canary Islands and mainland Spain have also decreased by 68 percent and 38 percent, respectively.
Irregular border crossings from Belarus into Poland, Lithuania and to a lesser extent Latvia have increased the most percentage-wise, with 856 crossings so far this year, up 145 percent.
Meanwhile, the number of migrants leaving the European mainland to reach Britain is also up 82 percent, with 5,622 irregular border crossings detected across the English Channel in the first two months of 2023. The British government recently introduced new legislation vowing to detain and deport anyone who enters the country illegally using this route.
The increased frequency in the use of the Central Mediterranean route will place further pressure on Giorgia Meloni’s administration in Rome, which is attempting to implement a policy to crack down on people smugglers and deter migrants from making the journey.
The Italian government announced last week harsher penalties for convicted people smugglers, who could now serve up to 30 years in prison if small-boat migrants die on their watch. The new legislation comes after last month’s tragedy in the Ionian Sea, which saw dozens of migrants die in rough waters.
A recent Italian intelligence report suggested the presence of NGO search-and-rescue vessels in the Mediterranean is encouraging more migrants to make the journey to Europe, knowing they only need to effectively get halfway across until they are likely picked up and escorted to shore.
The report accused NGOs of providing “a logistical advantage for the criminal organizations that manage migrant trafficking, allowing them to adapt their modus operandi according to the possibility of reducing the quality of the vessels used, correspondingly increasing illicit profits, and exposing the people on board to a more concrete risk of shipwreck.”
The data, published by Frontex on Friday, shows a likelihood of illegal immigration continuing to remain at high levels for this year, running at a similar rate to 2022 when 330,000 irregular border crossings were detected, the highest figure since the migration crisis of 2016.
This, however, only tells part of the story, with almost 1 million asylum applications being made across the European Union in 2022, a figure that excludes almost 5 million Ukrainian refugees.