Top globalist, pro-immigration Eurocrat quits Brussels to run for Dutch leadership, and conservatives aren’t happy about it

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Frans Timmermans, the EU commissioner responsible for the European Green Deal, is to quit Brussels in order to run for the leadership of the combined Labor (PvdA) and Green Left (GL) parties in his native Netherlands ahead of a general election expected in November.

The 62-year-old Labour politician, who is returning to Dutch politics after ten years, has already informed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen of his decision, as reported by Dutch news portal Volksrant.

Timmermans is a former Dutch Labur Party (PvdA) MP and also served as foreign minister in the second government of Mark Rutte, who announced last week his intention to leave front-line politics after his latest coalition government collapsed over a disagreement on asylum and immigration reforms.

Timmermans was appointed EU commissioner in 2014 and vice-president of the European Commission, and from 2019 he was responsible for the implementation of the European Green Deal in Brussels.

Some conservatives are pointing to previous remarks from Timmermans to show how grave a threat he represents to the Netherlands if he comes to power. In regard to his stance on immigration, for example, Timmermans said in a speech while serving as. European Commissioner, he claimed that “diversity is humanity’s destiny,” and that “There will be no place, even in the remotest areas of this planet, that does not have diversity.

He also asserted that “Europe will be diverse, just like all the other parts of the world. The only question is how we deal with this diversity. And my answer to that is: By making sure that our values ​​dictate how we deal with diversity and not by sacrificing values ​​by refusing diversity. That will bring us to hell as a society. If we don’t get this right, I honestly believe that Europe will no longer be the Europe we built. Europe will no longer be a place of peace and freedom.”

Earlier this week, the PvdA and GL parties announced they will run on a joint ticket in the early Dutch parliamentary elections and Timmermans is considered the front-runner for both parties. A formal decision on the joint top candidate will be announced in August.

Timmermans’ main challengers will be Justice Minister Dilan Yesilgöz of the Free Democratic People’s Party (VVD) and Caroline van der Plas, leader of the fledgling Farmers and Citizens Movement (BBB) which stormed to victory in the regional elections earlier this year, riding the public backlash over controversial plans to impose radical agricultural reforms

Recent opinion polls see the VddA-GL alliance leading the way with 17 percent, closely followed by the VVD on 16 percent, and the BBB on 13 percent of the vote share.

The Eurocrat’s desire to return to front-line politics in the Netherlands has been met with criticism from conservatives both at home and abroad.

“Frans Timmermans is the worst thing that can happen to the Netherlands—Sigrid Kaag with a beard and then worse. For maximum climate and nitrogen madness, for more EU, for more diversity, woke and asylum. The total downfall of the Netherlands,” tweeted Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), on Thursday.

Will Frans Timmermans go into the benches if he does not govern? I can tell you: No. A candidate for his own agenda is the last thing the Netherlands needs,” tweeted Johan van Utrecht, head of the BBB’s European election program.

Meanwhile, Matteo Salvini, a coalition partner of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and former interior minister himself, said of Timmermans’ exit from Brussels: “He will not be missed. How much damage this gentleman has done, we count on the Dutch voters to treat him as he deserves.”

https://rmx.news/netherlands/major-globalist-pro-immigration-eurocrat-quits-brussels-to-run-for-dutch-leadership-and-conservatives-arent-happy-about-it/

Media Establishment Panic over ‘Far-Right’ Rise as Spanish Populist Vox Party Set to Enter Government

The Western media establishment has broken out into panic about the rise of the so-called “far-right” in Europe as the populist VOX party is widely predicted to join the next Spanish government.

Spaniards will head to the polls on Sunday for a snap election that was called early by socialist Minister Pedro Sánchez after his Socialist Workers’ Party suffered an embarrassing defeat in the local elections in May.

The failures of the leftist government to bring prosperity to the country and secure the nation’s borders have seen the rise of the centre-right Popular Party (PP) in the polls. However, according to most opinion surveys, the Popular Party will not secure enough support to hold an outright majority in the parliament, meaning that they will likely need to enter into a coalition government with the populist right-wing VOX party.

VOX, led by outspoken Basque country politician Santiago Abascal, has so far never entered into government since its foundation in 2013. While the PP initially cast doubt on forming a government with VOX, if the polling bears true, it appears that it may be their only choice. Despite their apparent reticence to form a coalition, the PP has already entered into governing partnerships with VOX at the local level in around 140 cities and towns following the May elections.

The prospect of VOX entering into government has sent shivers down the spines of the establishment media, which has attempted to cast the populist party as the return of fascism to Spain, with outlets such as the Washington Post claiming that so-called climate denial, a rejection of LGBT ideology, and anti-feminism are somehow signifiers of the party being “far-right”. Others, such as the BBC, CNN, and The Guardian have attempted to compare the party to the military dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

Santiago Abascal has maintained that his party is not of the far-right, but rather “antifascist, anti-Nazi and anticommunist” in nature.

For VOX to be branded as “far-right” perhaps demonstrates how far left the Overton Window has shifted in Western society on issues of immigration, climate change, and gender. Understood through this lens it is not surprising that populist parties on the right are picking up steam across Europe, even in traditionally liberal countries such as Finland and Sweden.

It comes amid a wider move to the right across Europe following a decade-plus of open borders and green agenda spearheaded by Berlin and Brussels that has left the bloc vulnerable to the impacts of the Ukraine war, with waves of refugees straining the already maxed-out asylum facilities in Europe and the lack of domestic sources of reliable energy seeing threats of shortages become the new normal.

Laying out its immigration agenda, VOX said in its election manifesto: “Spain must immediately take the necessary measures so that our cities do not follow the model of societies multicultural that has proven to be unsuccessful in countries like Belgium, France or the United Kingdom.”

The populist party has called for a national referendum to be held on immigration and deportation policies. VOX has also called for a naval blockade to be put in place in the Mediterranean to prevent illegal boat migrants from crossing from Africa often in extreme danger.

“Pedro Sánchez and his government have been allies and promoters of all globalist policies and multiculturalism that bet on the disorderly arrival of millions of illegal immigrants. The consequences have not been suffered by those who have imposed these policies from their offices and mansions with private security, but by Spanish families who suffer insecurity and degradation in their neighbourhoods,” the party has argued.

Other supposedly far-right policies from VOX include harsher penalties for rapists and sexual offenders, as well as stepping up enforcement measures against paedophilia and child pornography.

The party has also called for the “elimination of all” legislation that establishes differences between Spaniards based on their sex, orientation, sexual identity and race in terms of hiring practices, such as affirmative action-style quotas. On transgenderism, VOX has called for policies to prevent “men who perceive themselves as women” from competing in female sporting competitions.

Like their populist allies in Poland and Hungary, the Spanish party has vowed to push for pro-family policies, such as the elimination of income tax for families who earn less than €70,000 per year with four or more children. They have also called for the reduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT) for families seeking to purchase their first home.

Some have criticised the party for failing to provide fiscal impacts of their policy agenda, however, the potential role of VOX in the Spanish government will not be to be the principal governing party but rather a coalition partner that can force the centrist-conservative Popular Party to the right politically.

According to the latest study of polls from El Pais, the Popular Party is projected to earn around 142 seats in the parliament on Sunday’s election, short of the 176 needed for an outright majority. VOX is projected, however, to pick up 35 seats, meaning that the two parties could secure a majority through a coalition government.

Meanwhile, Sánchez’s socialist party is on pace to maintain 108 seats and the Sumar bloc of smaller leftist parties is expected to pick up 34 seats. Yet, with many voters left undecided and a large number of Spaniards on summer vacation out of the country, postal votes and undecideds could swing the results away from the projections.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/07/22/media-establishment-panics-over-far-right-rise-in-europe-as-spanish-populist-vox-party-set-to-enter-government/

After Sweden, now Quran burnt in front of the Iraqi embassy in Denmark’s Copenhagen, protests erupt at Swedish and Danish embassies in Baghdad

Protestors in Denmark burnt the Quran. Image Source: Twitter handle of Zoom News

On Friday, 21st July 2023, the Danske Patrioter group in Denmark burnt Quran in front of Iraq’s embassy in Copenhagen. The protesters also threw the Iraqi flag on the ground and stomped on it. The Danske Patrioter group (meaning – Danish Patriots) said that this Quran-burning activity was a part of their protest against the attack on the Swedish embassy in Baghdad.

It is notable that several protesters stormed the Swedish embassy early on 20th July and set it ablaze in a violent response to another planned burning of the Quran. This came following a report from a Swedish news agency saying that the Swedish police had approved a Quran and Iraqi flag-burning protest outside the Iraqi Embassy in Stockholm.

On Friday, 21st July 2023, the members of the group Danske Patrioter gathered in front of the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen and raised slogans against Islam. They also waved banners against Islam. They also live-streamed a video of the burning Quran on their Facebook page as a part of this protest.

The Danske Patrioter group said it carried out this activity in protest against the attack on the Swedish embassy in Baghdad. The group staged this protest amid strict security measures taken by the police. It is the same group that burnt the Quran and the Turkish flag in front of the Turkish embassy and a mosque in Copenhagen in January 2023.

In the video, it can be seen that the protesters put the Quran on a steel tray on the ground and set it on fire. They then laid the Iraqi flag on the ground and stomped on it.

Following the event, a large mob tried to storm into the Danish Embassy in Iraq, located in the Green Zone in Baghdad. Hundreds of protestors tried to enter the heavily fortified Green Zone, but the security forces were able to hold them back by blocking a bridge.

On Thursday, 20th July 2023, ex-Muslim Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika residing in Sweden kicked and damaged the Quran and Iraq’s flag in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Stockholm. While the original plan was to burn it, it was not done, but the holy book was desecrated.

Its reaction was immediately seen in Iraq as Islamists attacked the Swedish embassy in Baghdad. The protesters entered the embassy and set it on fire. Iraqi riot police used water cannons to disperse hundreds of protesters who breached the walls of the Swedish consulate in central Baghdad. Security forces equipped with electric batons attempted to chase away the protesters from the embassy.

The protests were reportedly called by supporters of the influential Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr who is known to have given calls to his supporters in the past to take to the streets in protest.

It is the second time that Salwan Momika has desecrated the Quran. Earlier, on 28th June 2023, he lit several pages of the Quran on fire in front of a mosque in Stockholm. This Quran-burning event also had repercussions in Iraq as hundreds of Moqtada Sadr’s followers broke into the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on the next day. After about 15 minutes of heated protests, the gathering of Muslims started to disperse as tight security was put in place.

Following the attacks on the embassy in Iraq, Sweden has temporarily shifted the embassy to Stockholm. It is notable that Iraq has already expelled the Swedish ambassador to Iraq in protest against permitting the burning of the Quran and the Iraqi flag. An Iraqi government statement said Baghdad had also recalled its charge d’affaires in Sweden. Moreover, the Iraqi govt has also suspended the work permit given to Swedish MNC Ericsson. Iraq has also threatened to cut all diplomatic relations with Sweden over the issue.

Other Islamic countries have also condemned the repeated burning of the Quran in Sweden, including Iran, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, Lebanon, Palestine etc. Sweden’s ambassadors were also summoned by several countries to objections to the event.

https://www.opindia.com/2023/07/denmark-quran-burnt-outside-iraqs-embassy-in-copenhagen/

Germany: Suspected lioness on the loose in Berlin causes panic among residents, authorities claim it is a wild boar amidst ongoing search ops

Suspected lioness in Berlin creates a flutter among residents (Image Source: Sky News)

On Thursday, authorities in the Potsdam region, located on the outskirts of Berlin, reported the sighting of a “loose, dangerous animal,” suspected to be an escaped large cat. In response, police have initiated a search operation using helicopters to track what they believe to be a female lion, and they have issued a precautionary advisory for residents to stay indoors during the search.

As per reports, the suspected cat is still at large, more than 24 hours since it was first sighted, causing panic among the residents. As of Friday afternoon (local time), the search operation is still underway to locate the carnivore. The suspected cat was reportedly first sighted on Thursday morning. The authorities issued a warning, asking residents in a region south of the German capital to stay indoors until the whereabouts of the alleged cat is known.

However, later on Friday, after extensive searches on the outskirts of Berlin for a lioness, the officers now hold the belief that the enigmatic animal is, in fact, a wild boar. The search effort involved the use of heat-seeking equipment, yet no evidence supporting the presence of a big cat has been discovered.

The search effort has been bolstered by security forces, who have employed a diverse range of cutting-edge tools, as reported by the German tabloid BILD. These include an armored vehicle, drones, and infrared cameras. In addition, the operation has been strengthened by the involvement of veterinary specialists and seasoned hunters, all working together to track down the elusive animal.

With the aim of expediting the search process and ensuring thorough coverage of large areas, the police have incorporated the use of drones. This approach helps bypass the time-consuming task of manually combing through forested regions on foot, enabling them to survey extensive areas more efficiently.

As of Thursday evening, approximately 220 officers were actively searching the wooded areas near the municipalities of Kleinmachnow, Teltow, and Stahnsdorf, situated at the southern periphery of Berlin. The operation is set to continue throughout the night, aided by night vision devices to enhance visibility in the dark.

A police spokesperson asserted their commitment to the search, stating that they would persevere until the animal is located. Late on Thursday, they issued renewed warnings, urging people to steer clear of forested areas around the southern edges of Berlin.

The search efforts are set to carry on the following day, with an intensified focus on Friday. Professional animal trackers are extensively scouring the forested regions to increase the chances of finding the elusive creature.

Earlier, residents in the area received cautionary messages through warning apps, advising them on various safety measures. Specifically, they were urged not to venture into the woods for walks and to immediately seek shelter in their houses or vehicles if they happen to spot the animal.

Officers have been utilizing loudspeakers to issue warnings to residents in the regions of Kleinmachnow, Teltow, and Stahnsdorf.

https://www.opindia.com/2023/07/germany-suspected-lioness-on-loose-berlin-search-operation-underway/

London Church in Shock After Wooden Cross Burnt in Graveyard Following Threats to Burn Down Church

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A Church of England vicar has been left asking whether it’s safe to open his church for worship after a recent threat to “burn down the church” has apparently been followed up by a cross burnt in the churchyard this week.

A church in East London that was recently the subject of a threat to burn down its 19th-century building has now had a cross burnt in its churchyard, in an incident which has chilled parishioners and left the priest concerned that his repeated warnings of rising aggression in the area have not been heeded.

A large wooden cross was burnt in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Great Ilford in East London on Wednesday evening, Father Gareth Jones said. He told Breitbart London that: “…we found a charred cross propped up against the wall of the church, still warm from where it had been set alight… we’ve always had antisocial behaviour in the area, but this is an escalation following on from a threat to burn down the church a few weeks ago”.

He continued: “I don’t know how to protect my flock and I am seriously considering whether it is safe to open for worship.”

Fr. Jones said while he had tried not to alarm parishioners, his churchgoers were nevertheless shocked and concerned about the lack of support the church and community had received from the local government until this point. The Church of England vicar said he had raised concerns several times before but every time had “been ignored and dismissed”.

Only after the charred cross was discovered did Fr. Jones say he felt progress was being made, with a meeting on Friday with senior local police officers and local government officials. They, he said, “promised immediate and substantive action”.

Reflecting on the local situation which has contributed to the rise in aggression, Fr. Jones said he and the church had traditionally had a very good relationship with local rough sleepers, and had “expended a lot of time and resources on working alongside them”, including providing a place to sleep, clothing, and meals.

But the nature of the local community has changed noticeably in the past year, with the priest saying it is no longer “the same people” and that there has been an “escalation” in aggression, despite his best efforts. Staff from the local government authority who are tasked with maintaining the graveyard now treat the area as a “no-go area”, he said, refusing to go there after “how they were treated by rough sleepers” in the past and in light of the cross burning.

Despite the threat to burn down the church by a rough sleeper and the subsequent cross burning — whether these are linked is not yet known but the police are now involved — Fr. Jones said a major concern is there is simply a lack of support for vulnerable rough sleepers themselves, and he hoped this incident would be “the catalyst for change and real long term solutions”.

These developments follow reports in the national press on the rising issue of homelessness and rough sleeping in the United Kingdom. As reported by The Guardian last month, rough sleeping is up 21 per cent in London in just a year, with Mayor Sadiq Khan revealing that rough sleeping is rising most quickly among “people who are from outside of Europe”.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/07/22/church-in-shock-after-wooden-cross-burnt-in-graveyard-threats-made/

German birth rate falls to 10-year low

The number of births registered across Germany last year was the lowest in 10 years, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Friday.

Registrations of newborns dropped in every federal state in the country, according to the Federal Statistical Office. Its data showed there were 738,819 registered births last year, down 7 percent versus 2021.

Germans are now only having 1.46 children on average, an 8 percent decrease from the 1.58 average recorded in 2021 and the lowest figure reported since 2013.

The birth rate “fell particularly sharply in Hamburg and Berlin,” noted the Federal Office, revealing it dropped by 10 percent in both regions.

The northwest city of Bremen recorded a weaker decline of 4 percent, while the average number of children among women in western Germany was slightly higher than eastern German states at 1.48 to 1.43 children, respectively.

The capital of Berlin has the lowest birth rate across the whole country with women bearing just 1.25 children on average, down considerably from 1.39 in 2021.

The average age of mothers with their first child dropped slightly from 30.5 years to 30.4 years, while first-time fathers are on average aged 33.3 which remained unchanged.

The birth deficit has been a considerable longstanding issue in Germany, which has experienced fewer births than deaths for 50 consecutive years. Rather than focusing on policies to promote the family unit, like countries such as Hungary, which provides fiscal incentives for mothers and large families, Germany’s federal government has sought to solve the problem with mass immigration.

Despite the birth deficit, Germany’s population has continued to soar due to large numbers of new arrivals. Its population increased by 1 percent in the first half of 2022, the largest increase since reunification, surpassing 84 million people for the first time.

The knock-on effect of a labor shortage has been countered by migrant workers, a policy advocated by all members of Germany’s traffic light coalition and by Germany’s CDU party under its former leadership of Angela Merkel.

Earlier this month, German economist Monika Schnitzer, who heads the influential German government’s Council of Experts, claimed the country needs 1.5 million immigrants every year to address the imbalance in its labor force.

Germany isn’t alone with the decline in its fertility rate. Comparable data from other northern European countries showed a 10 percent drop in the Danish birth rate, while Norway and Sweden also recorded 9 percent drops in their birth rates last year, according to Die Welt.

https://rmx.news/germany/german-birth-rate-falls-to-10-year-low/

Get Used to Living With ‘Blackouts’ to Save the Planet – What’s more important: Keeping the lights on or solving the climate crisis?

Naive conservatives point to the leftist obsession with electric cars even while the grid is being moved away from reliable energy sources like oil, coal and gas, to fundamentally unreliable ones like wind and solar, and then point to the blackouts in California.

“How is this going to work?” they argue, thinking that they’ve made a convincing point, while fundamentally misunderstanding (as conservatives often do) that they haven’t found a logical weakness, they’ve uncovered the enemy’s plan.

Shoving everything into an unreliable power grid, especially personal transportation, isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. That’s the whole point of electric cars, and the proliferation of always online vehicles that require a power grid and can be remotely shut down. All of this is Cloward-Piven for energy. Failure isn’t just inevitable, it’s the goal.

As the blackouts grow, they will tell you, as I predicted, to shut up and take it for the good of the planet.

A few weeks ago I was at the home of a gentleman who had moved here from South Africa, and he was telling me about how his family had gotten used to blackouts as the normal order of business. Given leftists a chance and we’ll have to “get used to them too”. We’ll know not to bother cooking around 5 PM (don’t bother about gas stoves, they’re being banned as we speak) and not to drive at certain times or go out of the house. Cities will grow dark and criminals will rampage even more lawlessly than usual. Enjoy utopia.

And know, that while Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Pierre Omidyar and other great environmental philanthropists are on their mega-yachts and mansions, you’re sacrificing for the planet.

What’s more important: Keeping the lights on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, or solving the climate crisis?

First, it’ll be 23 hours a day of power and then 22. The media will compare it to living during the Blitz. We’ll be told to learn to live with it like masks and no bags in supermarkets.

It’s part of a larger conversation about how much blackout risk we consider acceptable in modern society — and whether our expectations should evolve in the name of preventing climate catastrophe.

Again and again, I’ve found myself asking: Would it be easier and less expensive to limit climate change — and its deadly combination of worsening heat, fire and drought and flood — if we were willing to live with the occasional blackout?

Could we get started ditching gas sooner — and save some money — by accepting a few more blackouts for the next few years?

Does that mean we should be willing to accept even a few more hours of blackouts, if it means burning less gas?

After reporting on clean energy for most of the last decade, I’ve increasingly come to the conclusion that solving climate change will require sacrifices — even if only small ones — for the sake of the greater good. Those might include lifestyle changes such as driving less or eating less meat. They might also include accepting that large-scale solar farms will destroy some wildlife habitat, and that rooftop solar panels — despite their higher costs — have an important role to play in cleaning up the grid.

Maybe learning to live with more power outages shouldn’t be one of those sacrifices.

But at the same time, we might not have a choice.

We might not have a choice because the anti-technology luddite left doesn’t intend to give us a choice. They’re forcing us into an unreliable and unworkable ‘clean energy’ grid that they’re now admitting will go down on a regular basis. And from stoves to cars, they’re forcing us to live our entire lives around that grid.

It’s a water empire meant to reduce us to feudalism.

The idea of accepting a less dependable electric grid “is uncomfortable for a lot of people, because they correctly point out you may end up in situations where the wealthier you are, the more you’re able to buy your way out of that reliability problem,” Grubert said. Think rooftop solar panels paired with a battery in the garage, or a backup diesel generator.

That’s why it’s crucial, Grubert said, for government to be ready to protect society’s most vulnerable when it’s hot and the power goes out. That could include investing in a wider network of cooling centers, with transportation to help people get there.

Cooling centers are how the French and other Euros live because they won’t get air conditioning since it’s bad for the planet. Instead, thousands of people die during the summer while public places that are air conditioned open ‘cooling centers’.

This is what the Left wants for us. This is what environmentalism means.

Is it realistic to think that shifting our expectations for “reliability” could help us tackle the climate crisis?

“Reliability”. Shortly it’ll be explained that when the green lefties promised a reliable power grid, they have their own definition of reliable. We need to change our expectations of having the power on.

Families comfortable with 81-degree indoor temperatures, for instance, could get paid to turn up the thermostat a few degrees on the hottest evenings. People with electric cars could be incentivized to charge at a lower cost overnight. Big factories could be required to cut back during stressful moments on the grid.

You may not live in South Africa, but it’s coming to where you live. Here’s a preview of a green clean tomorrow.

The blackouts can strike at any time and then lights, hot water and even major industries vanish into the darkness.

Storing perishable food in the fridge has become a gamble. The meat you buy today may be inedible tomorrow if the rolling blackout arrives and lasts long enough to destroy all the food you cooked.

With rolling blackouts that can last for as long as twelve hours, South Africans have grown used to eating by candlelight and heating water the old-fashioned way. Those who can afford it have been stocking up on generators. But the demand is so high that it can take a month to even obtain a generator.

It’s not just homes and small businesses. Factories and mines are struggling to maintain the country’s industrial base when power can vanish for the entire workday. Traffic lights run off the same power grid and when it goes into ‘load-shedding’ mode, the roads become a snarled maze of honking cars.

This is the ‘green’ future that’s coming if we let leftists run our power.

Car crashes, opportunistic criminals, rotting food, decomposing bodies, bankrupt businesses, and water shortages. Welcome to life under South Africa’s power blackouts.

Last week the grim extent of the outages was laid bare when South Africans were advised to bury dead loved ones within four days.

n a public statement, the South African Funeral Practitioners Association warned that bodies in mortuaries were rapidly decomposing because of the unrelenting electricity outages, putting huge pressure on funeral parlors struggling to process corpses.

Before she died in October 2022, Lis Van Os needed oxygen for 17 hours a day. Her stationary oxygen machine required mains power, making periods of loadshedding extremely stressful, particularly when power did not return as scheduled, her family said.

Her daughter Karin McDonald was forced to explore backup options such as inverters and a back up oxygen mobile tank, which only lasted short periods.

Maneo Motsamai, a domestic worker in Johannesburg, says the outages prevents her from simple tasks such as cooking.

“I boil water to cook mealie meal (maize porridge) and the power goes. I can’t eat, it’s a waste. I can’t cope like that,” Motsamai told CNN.

South Africa is notorious for high crime rates, and loadshedding is making it worse as home security systems fail when the power goes out, giving criminals a field day inside unsecured properties.

Policing also becomes harder, with officers unable to reach crime scenes fast enough due to congestion when traffic lights are off.

Tumelo Mogodiseng, General Secretary of the South African Policing Union (SAPU), describes the load-shedding as “a pandemic.”

He says his members’ lives are now more at risk, with officers unable to see potentially dangerous situations in the darkness, and police stations, many of which don’t have backup power systems, at risk of attack from criminals during blackouts.

Don’t worry folks, every person who dies or lives in the dark is helping to ‘save the planet’.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/get-used-to-living-with-blackouts-to-save-the-planet/

Egyptian attacked mothers holding prams in Bautzen, Germany

Bautzen Regional Court, Stephan M. Höhne, CC-BY-SA-2.5,2.0,1.0

It was only a few days in October 2022, but they were enough to terrify the entire region of Bautzen. The Egyptian asylum seeker Ahmed H. (30) attacked two couples with prams in Doberschug-Gaußig on October 14 and 15, tried to stone police officers and threatened passers-by. On Thursday, he stood trial for this at the Bautzen Regional Court.

Bakehouse helper Kerstin L. (39): “I was out for a walk with my husband, he ran after us, kept shouting ‘stupid stupid’, then he clung to the pram, tore at the tarpaulin. He wanted to kidnap my child, said, “You are not the child’s mother.”

The day before, he had threatened a Ukrainian couple holding a pram, snatched the woman’s mobile phone and broke the man’s little finger. Still on October 15, Ahmed H. threatened a man in Demitz-Thumitz, saying, according to the indictment, “You’re dead, wife dead, child dead.”

One day later, he escaped from a police checkpoint and, according to the indictment, threw ten fist-sized stones at the officers. On the same day, he threatens a young couple, this time not having a child, in Radeberg, with a broken bottle, the man kicks him several times in the legs, the Egyptian flees.

A short time later Ahmed H. was arrested by the police. In court he admitted the assaults: “Jesus told me to do it. The children did not belong to the parents. Jesus told me to hold the pram.” (Jesus, the son of Mary, is also known in Islam, but only as a prophet).

The Egyptian has been living in Europe for years and has already been convicted half a dozen times in Germany. Among other things, for dangerous bodily harm and fraud. For example, he attacked a tram inspector and threw stones at employees of the social welfare office several times. Until now, he was considered to be of diminished responsibility due to post-traumatic stress disorder and reduced intelligence. According to his own statement, Jesus appeared to him for the first time in prison.

Since the last attacks, Ahmed H. has been kept in a closed psychiatric ward in Arnsdorf. According to the prosecution, he is not criminally responsible and suffers from hallucinatory schizophrenia.

The trial will be continued.

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Italy: Green climate idiot MP claims “criminalize climate denial”

That’s right, they are Nazis, the Green and Woke Communists. Here is the proof:

Green Europe co-leader and MP Angelo Bonelli said Thursday that he would present a bill to criminalize climate change denial, adding that he considers the Italian government guilty of it.
“Italy has become a climate hotspot with a growing series of extreme weather events that have caused major damage all over the country,” Bonelli said.
“Violent storms with the hail the size of tennis balls destroyed houses, cars and crops in Veneto and Trentino, injuring 110 people, while in southern and central Italy temperatures have hit records of over 40°”.
He said “this denialist, couldn’t-care-about-climate” government should reflect on the 10 billion euros in damage caused by extreme climate events in Italy this year, on top of the 5.6 billion the agriculture sector lost last year due to flooding and drought.

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2023/07/20/criminalize-climate-denial-says-green-mp_acd8c340-1873-433f-9118-6ce7f406694b.html