Month: April 2023

Governing Greens Support Collapse: Turns Out People Don’t Like Energy Poverty

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Support for Germany’s ruling green party has reportedly collapsed after the country rushed to shut down all remaining nuclear power plants, and ruled against gas central heating from next year.

Germany’s Greens are no longer one of the top three most popular political parties in Germany, with ongoing environmentalist-driven scandals over nuclear power and home heating pushing the party below 15 per cent support.

The deterioration of the party’s popularity stands in stark contrast to the populist Alternative for Germany, which has now risen to a near-all-time high of 16 per cent, making it the third most popular party in the country behind the traditional centre-left and centre-right offerings.

According to the data released by Bild, the Green party result is its worst in over a year, with the three ruling parties serving in the country’s Federal coalition government no longer holding a majority of the votes between them.

Such a collapse in support is likely down to the Greens’ latest pro-climate agenda pushes, which have seen the annihilation of nuclear power in Germany, as well as a plan to ban the installation of most new oil and gas home heating systems by next year.

This latter move has proven highly controversial within the country, with the net zero-inspired ban effectively forcing the country’s population to start investing in electric heat pumps, which are often significantly more expensive than gas boilers both in terms of up-front cost and monthly bills.

Overall, polling has suggested that 78 per cent of Germans are against the ban.

Regardless of the increased cost such a ban is likely to impose on the German public, questions have also been raised regarding the feasibility of moving large numbers of German households off of gas and onto heat pumps.

While the supply of natural gas has dwindled significantly both in the German and European market, the country’s electricity grid has also been put under significant strain over the last year, with the absence of Russian fossil fuels prompting fears last year that there could end up being rolling blackouts.

Though an unseasonably warm winter helped avoid such a scenario from coming to pass, experts are now worried that a rapid increase in electricity use coming from heat pumps and electric car chargers could destabilise Germany’s energy infrastructure.

In order to help combat such an overload, the government agency in charge of Germany’s national grid has announced a plan for authorities to be given remote control of every household’s heat pumps and car chargers so that they can enforce rationing if and when it becomes necessary.

In effect, while possibly helping to alleviate blackouts, the measure would effectively hand the government the power to decide whether or not citizens are able to fuel their cars, as well as heat their homes, and by how much.

While this has shocked many across the nation, the government agency has insisted that Germans must now accept “necessary comfort restrictions” in order to facilitate the green transition technologies.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/26/governing-greens-support-collapse-turns-out-people-dont-like-energy-poverty/

Iranian cleric Abbas-Ali Soleimani assassinated in Babolsar

Shiite cleric Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani shot dead (Image via Twitter)

On Wednesday, April 26, prominent Iranian cleric Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani was assassinated in an armed attack. According to the Iranian state media IRNA, Soleimani was gunned down this morning by an assailant inside a bank in the city of Babolsar in the northern province of Mazandaran. 

IRNA reported that the assailant was immediately arrested and interrogated by the security officials present there. Moreover, it has been reported that the motive behind the attack remains unclear. Three persons were also reported to have sustained injuries during the attack, however, there is no confirmation from the authorities yet.

Soleimani was a member of the 88-member Assembly of Experts, which selects and supervises Iran’s supreme leader. Additionally, he once served as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s personal delegate to the unrest-ridden Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran.

According to local media reports, the attacker snatched the guard’s gun and began firing as Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani was sitting in a bank.  According to some reports, the assailant was a bank guard there.

Soleimani was the Babolsar imam for Friday prayers and has been accused of taking part in the 1980s executions.

In his autobiography, he claimed that he was selected to lead Babolsar’s Friday prayers so that he could counteract the actions of opposition groups.

In 2020, Iran had unfurled a red flag on top of the iconic The Holy Dome of Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, which is an old Shi’ite tradition symbolizing bloody revenge. The words ‘Those who want to avenge the blood of Hussein’ were written across the war flag. As per Shi’ite tradition, red flags also symbolize ‘blood spilt unjustly’ and also serve as a call to avenge the person who is slain. The Jamkaran mosque is on the outskirts of the holy city of Qom, about 100 miles south of Tehran. 

This came after Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force head General Qasem Soleimani was killed in a drone strike by the US in 2020. He was murdered, along with several other officials from Iraqi militias backed by Tehran, after an American MQ-9 Reaper drone fired missiles at a convoy leaving the airport.

https://www.opindia.com/2023/04/iranian-cleric-abbas-ali-soleimani-assassinated-in-babolsar/

Huge majority of French regret Macron’s re-election, 69% think its been a ‘bad thing’ for France

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Almost 7 in 10 French citizens believe the re-election of Emmanuel Macron has been detrimental to France, a damning new poll has revealed.

According to a survey conducted by the Elabe Institute for BFM TV, a total of 69 percent of respondents consider Macron’s latest presidential term to have been a “bad thing,” a view which has increased by 14 percentage points from the latest survey of its kind a year ago.

By contrast, just 30 percent of French citizens consider Macron’s second term to be a “good thing,” while 1 percent did not know.

The most popular words to describe the French presidency over the past year have negative connotations. “Disagreement” was the most commonly used by 44 percent of respondents, closely followed by “disappointment” with 42 percent. “Anger” and “hostility” followed with 39 percent and 26 percent, respectively.

On the contrary, positive terms including “respect,” “support,” and “sympathy” were used by 13 percent, 10 percent, and 7 percent of respondents, respectively.

Almost one-quarter of French voters who supported Macron in the first round of the presidential election, and 40 percent of those who voted for him in the run-off against Marine Le Pen, consider his presidency to be “disappointing” to date.

The French president’s second term has been marred in controversy with particular public outrage over his administration’s decision to bypass a parliamentary vote on his hugely unpopular pension reform, which would see the French retirement age gradually increase over the next seven years, eventually rising by two years from 62 to 64.

Macron secured a second term by defeating Le Pen in April last year, securing 58.5 percent of the vote to Le Pen’s 41.5 percent. Another recent survey from Elabe, however, revealed the French president would lose comfortably to Le Pen should there be a re-run of the election today. The survey predicts the National Rally leader would win with 55 percent of the vote versus 45 percent for Macron.

“The blocking vote (against Le Pen) would be much lower,” and her “spectacular” gains would see her “progress in all electoral categories,” Bernard Sananes, head of Elabe, told BFMTV.

https://rmx.news/france/huge-majority-of-french-regret-macrons-re-election-69-think-its-been-a-bad-thing-for-france/

WHO warns of ‘huge biological risk’ after fighters in conflict-torn Sudan occupy laboratory storing samples of diseases like polio and measles

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Amid mounting fears that the ongoing power struggle between the country’s army and its primary paramilitary organisation will devolve into a devastating civil war, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday that fighters have taken a national public laboratory in the capital city of Khartoum in Sudan storing samples of various pathogen such as polio and measles.

Calling it an “extremely, extremely dangerous” situation, Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO’s representative in Sudan warned there is a “huge biological risk associated with the occupation.”

“There is a huge biological risk associated with the occupation of the central public health lab… by one of the fighting parties,” Nima Saeed Abid, told reporters in Geneva.

Without taking names, Abid said that fighters “kicked out all the technicians from the lab… which is completely under the control of one of the fighting parties as a military base.” It is unclear if the occupying fighters belong to the Sudanese armed forces or the rival Rapid Support Force (RSF) paramilitary group.

Abid claimed he received a call from the head of Sudan’s national laboratory in Khartoum on Monday, a day before a 72-hour truce arranged by the US between Sudan’s warring generals went into effect after 10 days of urban battle.

The UN health agency also documented 14 strikes on healthcare facilities throughout the war, killing eight people and wounding two.

It also cautioned that “depleting stocks of blood bags risk spoiling due to a lack of power.”

“In addition to chemical hazards, bio-risk hazards are also very high due to the lack of functioning generators,” stated Nima Abid.

Sudan crisis

More than 400 people have died in clashes between Sudan’s military and its main paramilitary force and control of Khartoum’s presidential palace and airport is now questionable following disputed claims from both sides. The fighting poses a threat to the stability of Sudan and the wider region.

An apparent power struggle between the two main factions of Sudan’s military dictatorship led to the outbreak of violence.

The WHO retweeted a post from Sudan’s Health Ministry on Sunday saying at least 420 people had been killed and 3,700 injured in the fighting so far. 

As war rages intensified in Sudan, countries scrambled to evacuate their diplomats and citizens from the Sudanese capital on Saturday and Sunday. France on Monday evacuated 388 people from 28 countries, including Indian nationals. 

https://www.opindia.com/2023/04/who-warns-of-huge-biological-risk-after-fighters-sudan-occupy-lab-storing-samples-of-diseases-polio-measles/

Study: Mothers of Trans Kids Have Mental Problems

Devaluation in Edvard Munch‘s Salome (1903). Idealization and devaluation of others in personal relations is a common trait in BPD. The painter Edvard Munch depicted his new friend, the violinist Eva Mudocci, in both ways within days. First as “a woman seen by a man in love”, then as “a bloodthirsty and cannibalisticSalome“.[199] In modern times, Munch has been diagnosed as having had BPD. Christie’s, PD-old-75-expired, Wikimedia Commons 

The phenomenon of transsexual children is usually correctly ascribed to Munchausen syndrome by proxy, by which the psychologically disordered project hypochondria onto those under their care. Confirmation is provided by a study making the unsurprising finding that mothers of supposedly transsexual children tend to have mental issues:

The study (full text can be found here), “Mothers of boys with gender identity disorder: a comparison of matched controls,” was performed by researchers Sonia Marantz and Susan Coates, both of whom are Ph.D.s.

The abstract:

This pilot study compared mothers of boys with gender identity disorder (GID) with mothers of normal boys to determine whether differences in psychopathology and child-rearing attitudes and practices could be identified. Results of the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines and the Beck Depression Inventory revealed that mothers of boys with GID had more symptoms of depression and more often met the criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder than the controls. Fifty-three percent of the mothers of boys with GID compared with only 6% of controls met the diagnosis for Borderline Personality Disorder on the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines or had symptoms of depression on the Beck Depression Inventory. Results of the Summers and Walsh Symbiosis Scale suggested that mothers of probands had child-rearing attitudes and practices that encouraged symbiosis and discouraged the development of autonomy.

There really is such an illness as child gender identity disorder, but the children are not necessarily the sick ones; more often, the parents are. The kids are collateral damage.

People with borderline personality disorder are not easy to live with:

Needless to say, women who suffer with this difficult diagnosis and don’t or can’t control their symptoms seldom keep their son’s father in the picture. The effects on a helpless child being raised by such a person must be incredibly damaging.

Horrific chemical and surgical disfigurement are only the climax of the damage inflicted on these kids.

The study was published by the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry back in 1991. Any researcher not scrupulously avoiding these findings would find their career canceled nowadays.

https://moonbattery.com/study-mothers-of-trans-kids-have-mental-problems/

Sweden Democrats threaten to collapse government if Sweden approves EU Migration Pact

MEP Charlie Weimers and his party the Sweden Democrats are threatening to collapse the Swedish government.

French National Rally parliamentary leader Marine Le Pen has called the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum the “suicide of Europe,” and warned already in 2020 that it would mean 75 million more migrants for Europe. The controversial pact is now moving closer to becoming a reality, and various conservative and populist parties across Europe are scrambling to use any political means possible to block it from passing, including the Sweden Democrats.

The EU’s Migration Pact passed with a clear majority in the European Parliament last week with 420 votes to 130. SD politician MEP Charlie Weimers warned that the pact may force member states to accept migrants against their will; this is especially relevant for countries like Hungary, Czechia and Poland, which have all rejected mandatory migrant quotas.

“This pact’s solution is to force member states to accept migrants against their will,” said Weimers.

The Sweden Democrats are now threatening to withdraw their support from the conservative coalition government if Sweden votes for the migration pact. Although the Sweden Democrats are not officially a part of the coalition, the government relies on their votes to pass legislation — making the party essential to keeping the conservatives in power. Sweden, like every other country in the EU, is likely going to be tasked with voting for the pact in the European Council after the European Parliament vote.

“The government must stop the ‘Migrant Pact’ drafted by Swedish Moderate Tomas Tobé in the European Parliament. If not, I find it difficult to see how the basis for our cooperation can be maintained,” Karlsson tweeted on Friday, April 21.

SD party leader Jimmie Åkesson also wrote that his party “stands for an independent and very strict Swedish migration policy.” He added that “the EU’s ‘migrant pact’ means the opposite in practice. We will not accept that Swedish voters’ power over migration policy is given away to other countries’ politicians and bureaucrats in Brussels. Period,”

The European Parliament does not have the final say on the controversial new law. In addition to the European Parliament, the European Commission and European Council must also approve the pact, but the EU commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, already signaled that the commission is likely to approve the pact.

That leaves the European Council as the best hope for both those on the right and the left looking to stop the pact from becoming law. In the council, it will take a qualified majority of member states to pass In the past, it was enough for just one member state to veto, such as Hungary or Poland, but that veto will no longer be enough.

Countries like Hungary and Poland are virtually guaranteed to vote against the pact, and Hungarian politicians have already signaled their unhappiness with it. At the same time, countries like Germany, France and Spain are expected to vote for the pact. If it passes, European countries opposed to mass immigration may have little recourse when it comes to mandatory migrant quotas, which means former strongholds against the Great Replacement, such as Hungary, could soon be saddled with thousands of migrants the country has no desire to take in.

https://rmx.news/article/sweden-democrats-threaten-to-collapse-government-if-sweden-approves-eu-migration-pact/

Syrian tried to kill in gym: indications of Islamist terror in Duisburg, Germany

One week after the knife attack in a gym in Duisburg, investigators have indications of an Islamist motive of the suspect (26). This is the result of an analysis of the mobile phone of the Syrian national.

The Syrian national allegedly stabbed four men aged 21, 24 and 32 with a cutting and stabbing weapon in a gym in Duisburg’s Altstadt district on Tuesday evening last week. The younger man’s life is in danger. The investigators had initially spoken of a targeted attack. Now they are investigating whether the suspect might be mentally ill.

BREAKING: Knife attacks in Duisburg, Germany – At least 4 men stabbed in gym – Allah's Willing Executioners

After the bloody deed, the identity of the perpetrator was unknown for days. It was only after the police published photos from surveillance cameras showing the suspect on Friday that the 26-year-old Syrian came into the focus of the investigators. Witnesses recognised the man and contacted the officers. The witnesses apparently came from the neighbourhood of the suspect. The suspect’s flat is located near the fitness studio.

On Sunday night, the man was arrested in his flat by special police forces. Two knives were found there, which could be possible weapons of the crime. The investigation continued.

https://exxpress.at/syrer-wollte-im-fitnessstudio-toeten-hinweise-auf-islamistischen-terror/