Month: May 2023

Lockdown Critic Conservative Andrew Bridgen is First MP for Laurence Fox’s Anti-Woke Reclaim Party

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“There is a huge chasm now between our Parliament… and the people”, says MP Andrew Bridgen as he announces he will not be returning to the Conservative Party and has joined the upstart Reclaim Party, founded by My Son Hunter star Lawrence Fox, instead.

A longstanding Conservative Member of Parliament, who was recently expelled for comments on Coronavirus vaccines and excess deaths, has announced he is joining the free speech-focussed Reclaim party, becoming their first representative in the UK’s House of Commons.

Speaking at a press event in London on Wednesday, Mr Bridgen said: “There is a huge chasm now between our Parliament and what goes on in Westminster and the people” and said it had become impossible for the establishment parties to be part of the solution to the nation’s troubles because they were the problem.

Andrew Bridgen (right) and Laurence Fox during a Reclaim Party press conference at One Great George Street in Westminster, London. The MP for North West Leicestershire will be first representative of Laurence Fox’s party in the House of Commons. Mr Bridgen was expelled from the Conservative Party for comparing vaccines to the Holocaust. Picture date: Wednesday May 10, 2023. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images)

Bridgen, who represents a historically working class, former coal mining area in England’s East Midlands county of Leicestershire focussed on freedom and freedom of speech in his speech, announcing that he was to “cross the floor” and become a Reclaim Party MP and criticised the influential power of the “pharmaceutical lobby”.

He said:

…there are many in parliament, in the country who said I’d do better to keep quiet, shut up, keep my head down. Lord knows I’ve been offered enough incentives to do so… we must ensure we do not repeat the mistakes of the past. We must have more scrutiny before they are administered to the public. People must not be coerced into taking medicines they do not require, and which may do them great harm.

…It is almost as if our parliament is working for another master because it is certainly not serving the people of this country. Parliament has also abdicated its duty to the electorate. It has become a uniparty, dissent is not tolerated, and there has been no real opposition for quite some time. It is no longer the politics of left and right in this country, it is the politics of right and wrong.

Reclaim party leader Laurence Fox, a well-known British actor with roles including Victoria, Inspector Lewis, The Professor and the Madman, and who starred as Hunter Biden in Breitbart’s My Son Hunter echoed Bridgen’s words, saying Westminster’s Conservative and Labour parties were two cheeks of the same arse.

Bridgen was suspended from the Conservative Party after he said the forcing of experimental vaccines on the global public was the worst abuse of human rights since the Holocaust. These comments have been called antisemitic, but Bridgen has strongly rejected that claim, and today announced he was launching a defamation claim against former UK health minister Matt Hancock over them.

The MP, who was seen wearing his now-customary paperclip on the lapel of his jacket — a historic symbol of resistance against fascism in Norway — said of his legal case: “Mr Hancock’s accusation of antisemitism is a false slur to deliberately try and shut down valid concerns raised by me on behalf of my constituents and thousands of others around the world about the safety and efficacy of the experimental Covid-19 injections… every elected representative should be allowed to challenge government policy without being shut down by malicious slurs.”

It was reported in January that Bridgen had been suspended, and was permanently expelled in April. At the time, Bridgen said he had been expelled to make an example of a prominent critic of vaccines and lockdowns.

The Reclaim Party, which was founded by Fox in 2020 and campaigns in opposition to the progressive obsessions of government bodies and protested against the lockdowns. While the party has yet to enjoy success at the ballot box, Fox and Bridgen said today this was the beginning of a targeted campaign to take on a limited number of seats at the next election, targeting specifically those held by woke politicians at odds with their own voters.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/10/lockdown-critic-conservative-andrew-bridgen-is-first-mp-for-laurence-foxs-anti-woke-reclaim-party/

The DHS is training Americans to spy on those who oppose leftism

A Paul Weber, Der Denunziant – 1961 (screen grab)

By Andrea Widburg

One of the constants about socialist governments, going back to Stalin and Hitler, is that ordinary people become spies against their neighbors. When East Germany fell, and people could finally see files from the Stasi (i.e., secret police), it turned out that almost 200,000 people were currently serving as informers, and everyone was encouraged to spy on family, friends, and neighbors to serve the cause. Biden’s DHS would like to see the same happen in America. A FOIA request revealed that it produced training documents teaching ordinary Americans to report on Americans opposed to Biden’s policies.

This sounds too far-fetched to be believable, but it’s true. The Foundation for Freedom Online reviewed documents that America First Legal obtained from the DHS via a Freedom of Information Act request. It showed that the DHS is planning to train ordinary Americans to intervene when they see “radicalization” among their peers.

At this point, you might think, “Well, having learned about the convert to Islam in Florida who just killed his two roommates for insulting his faith, I’d probably want to know what the signs are that an Islamist is preparing to kill.” Or maybe you’d be worried if someone was speaking longingly of the Bader-Meinhoff gang or the KKK. You might even worry about transgender activists.

However, in Biden’s America, it’s not those people who are the problems. Instead, the problem is you. And that’s not because you have committed violent acts and neither have those who share your beliefs. It’s just that the Biden Administration and the Deep State are worried about “suburban moms” who are pro-life or old friends who believe that the COVID vaccine doesn’t work, masks were a failure, the lockdowns destroyed lives, the border is essentially erased, or any of a number of other “conspiracy theories” that have proven to be true.

Here’s how Mike Benz describes what the DHS documents reveal:

Apparently not content with setting up a Ministry of Truth, an Internet censorship directorate, and even a program for controlling speech in video games, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has devised yet another dystopian program for domestic thought control: pushing citizens to monitor each others’ political beliefs under the guise of “deradicalization.”

So reveal new documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The FOIA files show DHS’s Office of Terrorism and Violence Prevention (“OTVTP,” now known as “CP3”) using taxpayer dollars in January 2021 to screenwrite an online “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style video series to “deradicalize” friends and family.

DHS’s “radicalization suspects” in the video screenplays are not violent terrorists or extremists. They are typical everyday Americans with typical everyday American opinions.

For example, DHS constructs a detailed profile for “Ann,” a “middle-aged pro-life advocate” — she is a “suburban Mom” surrounded by stock footage of “laundry” and “Minivan” who “has become increasingly more concerned about the welfare of other children:”

Having defined Ann, ostensibly the quintessential good citizen, the DHS walks its new Stasi spies through a variety of scenarios, such as her being heard using the phrase “baby killer” or talking to her hairdresser about her pro-life stance. Armed with information about what this dangerous radical looks like, Stasi trainees are given advice about calling the law on Ann, trying to destroy her at work, or digging deeper into pro-life groups.

It does the same thing for “Courtney,” an old friend, who is a “budding conspiracy theorist.” Her particular conspiracy theory is that the government is connected to child abuse and trafficking. Given the child abuse and trafficking the government is facilitating by opening our border, one can be forgiven for suspecting its motives, but in Courtney’s case, Stasi wannabes are told to monitor her social media activity, contact her ex-husband, or snoop into her life—although there’s a good case to be made here that the DHS, by turning citizens into arms of the state, has made them subject to the Fourth Amendment’s proscriptions against unreasonable searches.

Here are all the documents America First Legal received:

DHS Domestic Terrorism Scen… by FoundationForFreedomOnline

It’s one thing to urge citizens to be vigilant about packages that could be bombs or to be aware of someone sweating, mumbling prayers to himself, and smelling of rosewater at fairs or other crowded venues. It’s another thing entirely for the Department of Homeland Security to define the Democrat party’s political opponents as incipient terrorists.

This means we no longer live in a free, two-party representative democracy. Instead, we live in a budding socialist, totalitarian state, complete with a secret police that deputizes citizen fanatics to engage in unlawful searches for crimes. Just as the Deep State used social media to circumvent both the First and Fourth Amendments, it’s doing the same with a generation of citizen spies.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/the_dhs_is_training_americans_to_spy_on_those_who_oppose_leftism.html

UK Dumps 400 ‘Migrants’ on Town of 1500

Philip Halling / The Northop Hall Hotel / CC BY-SA 2.0

A tiny village with a population just 1,500 is fighting plans to house 400 asylum seekers in a country hotel.

Home Office officials want to use the former wedding venue as base for refugees with 150 men inside the hotel itself and 250 more in temporary accommodation in the car park.

Owners of the restored Victorian mansion – which features stained glass windows, a Canadian pine staircase, panelled walls and period fireplaces – are set to apply for permission for its change of use.

But villagers in the picturesque Northop Hall, near Mold, North Wales, are united in their opposition against the move – and say it is the ‘wrong plan’ in the ‘wrong place’.

Chairman of Northop Hall Community Council, John Gollege, said he was in ‘total shock’ when he heard about the plans.

He said: ‘400 single males will increase the total population of the village by 25 per cent. I can’t believe there will not be a drain on community facilities which are already over extended.’

He said people would have ‘nowhere to go’ as there were only three bus services to the village each day.

Neighbouring businesswoman Gill Davies said the idea of 400 men in the village was ‘nerve-racking’.

Gill, who runs a cattery, said if the plans were approved ‘life would change completely’.

‘It would be quite nerve-racking walking around. 400 men is quite a big number to think about.’

Kate Banjo says the hotel would not be big enough to hold 150 people in the hotel’s 77 rooms.

She said: ‘My concern is there would be people… 400 men who we don’t know.. They could be from the local town, they could be from Mold, it doesn’t matter.’

She said she was also worried about the mental health of the would-be residents living in a small area where ‘there’s nothing here.’

The Welsh Refugee Council also opposed the plans saying the hotel was not a fit site for the asylum seekers.

It said the residents ‘fleeing war and persecution and must be treated with dignity and respect while their asylum claims are processed’.

The organisation added: ‘Squeezing people into bad accommodation is negligent and produces poor health outcomes, as seen in Penally Barracks and Manston.

‘We are also concerned about the location, far away from any services and transport links, which is a further barrier to people rebuilding their lives in Wales. Asylum seekers deserve the right to adequate and suitable housing.’

Local independent MP Rob Roberts has written to Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick asking for the site to be ruled out and raised the issue in the House of Commons.

The hotel closed its doors during the first lockdown in 2020 and was sold last year to Paymán Holdings 3 Ltd.

A pre-application consultation on the hotel plans has been re-opened until 17 May after which the company intends to submit a formal planning application to Flintshire council.

The Home Office said: ‘These accommodation sites will house asylum seekers in basic, safe and secure accommodation as they await a decision on their claim.

‘We understand the concerns of local communities and will work closely with councils and key partners to manage the impact of using these sites, including liaising with local police to make sure appropriate arrangements are in place.’

Flintshire council said pre-application consultations were run and managed by applicants and it had not received a formal planning application.

Before it closed the hotel had a four star review on review site TripAdvisor where a description read: ‘Welcome to the Northop Hall Country House Hotel, nestled in nine acres of private woodland and secluded gardens.

Northop Hall Country House Hotel is a beautifully restored Victorian mansion in the heart of North Wales.

‘Built-in 1872 by the Watkinson family, the property retains many of its original features including exquisite stained glass windows, a sweeping Canadian pine staircase, intricately panelled walls and grand period fireplaces.

‘With an abundance of natural wildlife, in an area of rural tranquillity, Northop Hall is the perfect countryside retreat for those looking for a home-from-home welcome.’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12065147/Locals-vow-fight-plans-house-400-asylum-seekers-restored-Victorian-hotel.html

Shocking study on teaching in mosques in Austria: “Islam is the only true religion”

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“Teaching in Mosques in Upper Austria” is the name of a study that was presented today, Wednesday, in Linz. These curricula should sound the alarm in political parties, authorities and the media.

Muslim children should only have Muslim friends

Hard to believe: According to the teaching materials used in mosques in Upper Austria, only Islam is the only true religion. Other religions are not valid. Moreover, it is taught that Muslim children should only have Muslim friends and that believers who question the contents of the Quran will be punished. Moreover, it is never explained why girls have to wear a headscarf at all.

Integration is prevented and undesirable

This problematic result of the study, which was conducted for the first time in Austria and in cooperation with the Islamic Religious Community, can be read between the lines, said Deputy Governor Manfred Haimbuchner and Member of the Provincial Parliament Michael Gruber (both from the Austrian Freedom Party) at the Press Club in Linz today. One could even come to the conclusion, Haimbuchner said, that integration is apparently undesirable and that integration is actively prevented by teaching in mosques. Haimbuchner said literally:

We stand for the practice of religion within the framework of religious freedom.
However, if an ideology is spread under the guise of religious freedom that is not compatible with the values of Austrian society, the state must take action.

Teaching content is tacitly tolerated

Apparently, Haimbuchner said, there is a need for action when religions do not tolerate other religions or simply negate them. In Austria, children’s books and street names were banned because they were allegedly racist. However, the content in mosques is tacitly tolerated. If integration is systematically thwarted, it is doomed to failure. Therefore, in reality, no one should be surprised if integration does not work and there are noticeable parallel societies. The fact that other parties deliberately ignore these problems is dangerous, warned the Deputy Governor of Upper Austria. And to the Federal President, he said:

So Muslims should only be friends with Muslims. That is what is taught in the Upper Austrian mosques. What does Van der Bellen say about this now? What is the opinion of the Federal President on this fact?

Not in line with the idea of a free society

The provincial party secretary of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), Michael Gruber, a member of the provincial parliament, called for promises and actions “that the Islamic faith community in Austria sees itself as an open religion. In any case, the contents of the teachings that have become known are not in line with the Austrian ideas of a free society”.

Specifically, the Austrian Freedom Party of Upper Austria demands a nationwide follow-up study on “Islam in Austria”, teaching exclusively within the framework of the Austrian system of values, and the German language as a creed of integration.

https://unzensuriert.at/177994-erschreckende-studie-ueber-moschee-unterricht-islam-ist-einzig-wahre-religion/

‘The multicultural hell’ – 10 vs. 1 video showing group of males beating lone youth and pushing him onto train tracks shocks the Netherlands

A viral video from the Netherlands shows a lone male victim being kicked, punched, and pushed onto the tracks at Amsterdam’s Bijlmer ArenA station by a large group of males, with the incident garnering attention from the Dutch political sphere.

Police are searching for both the victim, whose condition remains unknown, as well as the perpetrators.

The viciousness of the beating caught the attention of many across the Netherlands, including Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who leads the Party for Freedom (PVV) and commented on the graphic video.

In response to the video, he simply wrote: “The multicultural hell.”

The assault was reported on May 6 at 9:25 p.m. and the video of the assault appeared nearly immediately afterward, according to Dutch newspaper Telegraaf. At least 10 people are seen in the footage beating the young man, including hitting him with blows to the head. A very young boy is also seen participating in the beating.

The video, which has over half a million views on Twitter, also garnered a number of critical responses.

Faisal Khan, for instance, wrote: “Am I seeing correctly? Does a toddler also intervene to kick someone senseless? What a rude, uneducated, hopeless scum that is.”

Police are unsure what led to the incident.

During the beating, other young people are seen applauding and shouting. When the victim manages to get up, one of the perpetrators pushes the victim onto the tracks, where he remains lying between the rails. According to police, the victim is lucky to be alive, considering trains run every few minutes over the tracks.

The police say they are actively searching for the victim.

“We are looking for him urgently for two reasons,” said a police spokeswoman.

“We want to hear his story because we want to find the perpetrators of the attack. But we are also worried: He was kicked in the head, among other things, and it is therefore very important that he be examined by a doctor.”

Dutch newspaper NOH sent a reporter to the scene of the attack, where he found a boy at the station who said he was present for the beating. He also showed the reporter a film he made of the attack. The witness said he knows some of the men who participated in the attack but would not say more, saying: “I don’t want to get into trouble.”

Another boy who entered the station spoke to the reporter, saying he knows who was involved, but said he would not “snitch” and go to the police with any information about who perpetrated the attack.

“It’s very difficult for us to say what preceded this case,” a police spokeswoman said.

https://rmx.news/crime/the-multicultural-hell-10-vs-1-video-showing-group-of-males-beating-lone-youth-and-pushing-him-onto-train-tracks-shocks-the-netherlands/

France: Muslim migrant murders his girlfriend and sister-in-law after his wife files for separation

https://www.fdesouche.com/2023/05/09/double-meurtre-dans-le-gard-deux-femmes-appartenant-a-la-meme-famille-tuees-au-couteau-a-leur-domicile-lauteur-presume-est-un-migrant-ex-fiche-s-qui-etait-sous-le-coup-dune-oqtf/

Europe celebrates with dictators, but boycotts democratic Israel

Wikimedia Commons, Francois Schnell, CC-BY-2.0

by Giulio Meotti

“The ambassadors of the European Union member states present in Qatar are pleased to invite you to a special event to celebrate Europe Day in Qatar”. And again: “Every year, on May 9, we celebrate the Schuman declaration. The EU ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Patrick Simonnet, has organized a lunch to celebrate Europe Day in Riyadh”. Same invitation in Türkiye.

Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, three countries that in Freedom House reports range from dictatorship to autocracy. None of them, to varying degrees, has a free press, respects civil and religious rights. None of them comes close, not even remotely, to Israeli pluralist democracy, where unlike Saudi Arabia which forbids Jews and Christians from entering Mecca, Jerusalem has made itself the capital of the three faiths.

The EU was unashamed to cancel the May 9 event in Tel Aviv this year, due to the presence of Minister Itamar Ben Gvir in the Israeli delegation. The EU did not hesitate to cancel the event in Israel, but it did not even remotely think of eliminating the festivities in Qatar (where “apostates” are liable to the death penalty according to the “constitution”) or in Saudi Arabia, which holds the world record for executions per capita.

In the same hours in which it canceled the evening in Tel Aviv, the EU celebrated the “freedom of the press” in Jordan. Oh, really?

Europe does not have the right to apply a double standard to Israel. We’ve seen it before on goods from Judea and Samaria: punitive treatment for Israeli companies, nothing done about goods from Turkish-occupied Cyprus or Moroccan-held Western Sahara.

Given the history of European Jewry filled with ghosts, gas chambers and shadows, Brussels would be wise to be more cautious in pointing out the Jewish State to public ridicule. But I fear that European decadence has reached the point where it likes to boycott Jews and join forces with Islam.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/371217

WATCH: Irish MP Tells Voter to ‘F*ck Off’ Over Question on Immigration

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Video has emerged of an Irish MP telling a voter to “f*ck off” after they asked him a question on immigration.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD, a serving member of the Irish parliament, has been filmed telling a voter to “fuck off” after they quizzed him on the issue of immigration.

Ó Snodaigh is a member of the left-wing Sinn Féin, a party that — while supporting a variety of far-left causes such as transgenderism and mass migration — receives a sizable amount of its support from right-leaning voters for historic reasons.

One of these reasons is the party’s links to the provisional IRA, a terrorist group active from the late 60s to the turn of the 21st century which aimed to undermine British control of Northern Ireland. The contested six-county region remains part of the United Kingdom to this day, while the southern part of the island is an independent nation-state.

Warning: The below footage contains strong language.

According to a report by Gript Media, the voter can be heard in the footage interrogating Ó Snodaigh on how the party treats the legacy of Bobby Sands — an IRA martyr who died on hunger strike in a British prison — before asking him about how he could push for more immigration at a time of record homelessness.

“Shame on the lot of ye,” he went on to say.

“You get to shake hands all over the world because of what Bobby Sands done for this county,” the voter said. “And what are you doing now, you’re selling it out. Why don’t you worry about the Irish homeless first?”

This provoked a harsh response from the Sinn Féin parliamentarian, who swore at the voter, telling him to go away.

“Why don’t you worry about them and fuck off,” Ó Snodaigh replied.

The member of the public recording responded by swearing that, while he had previously always voted for Sinn Féin, he would never do so again, and that there were many others like him who felt the same way.

“Why is there 11,000 Irish homeless on the streets right now?” he asked. “Why are you doing nothing about it? Why are you all encouraging people to come from Ukraine, Pakistan, Somalia, everywhere? You are housing them before the Irish people.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/10/watch-mp-tells-voter-to-fck-off-over-question-on-immigration/

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