Month: July 2023
BREAKING: After France, now also rampages of Africans in Giessen,Germany – Germans are asked by the police not to enter the city area – Attacks against police officers and locals (Videos)
Citizens are told to avoid the city area, the police can hardly get the situation under control even with 1,000 officers: In Gießen, hundreds of Africans riot and attack police officers and citizens. Videos show the mass riots.
Violent riots at the Eritrea Festival in Giessen. Hundreds of migrants attacked police officers and fought street battles with security forces on Saturday. Videos on social media show rioting Africans roaming the streets.
According to the police, there were massive attacks on the police. Officials report stone and bottle throwing, fights and countless attempts to break through police barriers. Water cannons have also been used. At least 22 police officers have been injured so far. The background is apparently the civil war in Eritarea. The festival is organised by supporters of the government, opponents of the regime want to prevent it.
Israel slams Norway’s FM: ‘Encouraging incitement, extremism’
Following the IDF’s two-day raid in the PA city of Jenin, during which 12 terrorists were killed along with an IDF soldier who lost his life as troops were pulling out of the city, Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt tweeted: “In a call today with my Palestinian counterpart Dr. Riyad Malki, I expressed Norway’s solidarity with the people of Jenin. I condemned the high level of violence and all attacks against civilians. Any military measure must comply with international law. The cycle of violence must end.”
Today’s, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs blasted the minister’s remarks with a statement of their own.
“These kinds of statements do not contribute to calming the situation on the ground and encourage radicalization and incitement on the Palestinian side,” said the ministry, adding that “her remarks regarding the events, while ignoring the terrorist attack against Israelis in Tel Aviv or the rocket fire from Gaza, do not contribute to the dialogue between Israel and Norway.”
On Tuesday, as the army was continuing its raid of Jenin, a terrorist ran over two groups of pedestrians in Tel Aviv before getting out and continuing to stab onlookers with a knife. Armed civilians and a police officer intervened, killing the perpetrator. Eight people were injured in the attack; five of them seriously.
The terrorist was later identified as a 23-year-old resident of the Mount Hebron region.
The attack came a day after a teenage terrorist stabbed a Jewish man in the haredi city of Bnei Brak.
On Tuesday night, as Israeli troops were withdrawing from Jenin, five rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel.
The City of Sderot reported that the remains of one of the rockets hit a home in the city. There were no injuries, but damage was caused to a wall in the home. The family members were in a protected space at the time of the rocket attack.
In response to the attack, IDF fighter jets struck an underground weapons manufacturing facility used by the chemical department of the Hamas terrorist organization, as well as a raw materials manufacturing facility for rockets belonging to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“The IDF holds the Hamas terrorist organization responsible for all terror activities emanating from the Gaza Strip and will face the consequences of security violations against Israel,” it said in a statement.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres joined a chorus of international officials and Arab states expressing concern with the operation in Jenin this past Monday.
“The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about the developments in Jenin. He affirms that all military operations must be conducted with full respect for international humanitarian law,” said a spokesperson for Guterres in a statement.
Earlier, the White House stated that the Biden administration was watching the operation “with concern” and called on the Palestinian Authority not to follow through on its announcement that security cooperation with Israel would be stopped.
Israel slams Norway’s FM: ‘Encouraging incitement, extremism’ | ערוץ 7 (israelnationalnews.com)
BBC Arabic issues more than 100 corrections following complaints of anti-Israel bias
The BBC’s Arabic news channel has issued more than 130 corrections following complaints of bias and inaccuracy in reports about Israel and Jewish affairs since the beginning of 2021 — an average of more than one every week, the JC can reveal.
The sheer volume of corrections was a signal that recent attempts to “reform” BBC Arabic were a failure, according to a media watchdog, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) Arabic.
Over the course of just two months this year, April and May, the channel published 13 separate stories it later had to correct, including two that described the Second Temple destroyed by the Romans in 70CE as a “Jewish belief” and a “Jewish narrative”, rather than a historical fact supported by archaeological evidence.
The flood of corrections came despite an attempt by BBC management last year to improve editorial standards in its Arabic output.
As the JC first disclosed, Mohamed Yehia, the BBC’s Head of Multimedia Output, sent an email in October to BBC Arabic staff ordering them to observe BBC guidelines on accuracy and impartiality.
His instructions included reminders not to use the term “Wailing Wall”, which carries negative connotations in Arabic; not to refer to all Israeli citizens as “settlers”; and not to describe the entire Temple Mount as the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
But in April and May, BBC Arabic repeated all these errors and had to correct them multiple times.
The corrections were made in response to complaints by CAMERA Arabic.
A spokesman for the group said: “The fact that such lapses do not occur anywhere near as frequently in the BBC’s English language content means it is difficult to take seriously the BBC’s recurrent claim that the same editorial standards of accuracy and impartiality are applied equally to its services in all languages.”
CAMERA Arabic has made more than 50 separate complaints since the start of, some of which demanded more than one correction.
Only three have been rejected. Of these, one concerned a website headline on a story about the deaths of the Palestinian killers of Lucy, Rina and Maia Dee, which said the gunmen had been “accused” of their murders.
In fact, as the body of the article stated, the Hamas terror group to which they belonged had admitted responsibility.
Asked about the complaints and corrections by the JC, a BBC spokesperson said: “BBC News Arabic offers independent and impartial news and information produced by experienced editors, journalists and programme-makers.
“As with all content produced by the BBC, their output is subject to the BBC’s rigorous editorial guidelines.
“Where mistakes are occasionally made, we acknowledge and rectify them as appropriate. We do not accept they represent a wider issue with the service’s 24-hour, multi-platform output.”
Declare war on Sweden to end blasphemy: Muslim party leader wants Pakistan to go to war with Sweden over Quran burning incident
The protests in Pakistan against Sweden over the Quran burning incident on Eid are still continuing. On Friday, Juy 7, Pakistan observed a day of protests over the incident. On the same day, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) leader Saad Hussein Rizvi said that Pakistan should declare war against Sweden in order to stop blasphemy against Islam.
Pakistan staged nationwide protests against Sweden post-Friday prayers days after a man tore up and burned a Quran outside Stockholm’s central mosque on 28th June. The act led to massive anger among Muslim nations against Sweden even as the NATO secretary general defended it saying that the incident was offensive and objectionable, but not illegal.
Saad Hussein Rizvi said that the Pakistani PM along with its Navy, Army, and Air Force chiefs should summon the ambassador of Sweden to tell the latter that Pakistan is formed in the name of Islam and “you have insulted our Quran so we declare Ailan-e-Jung (war) against you”. He said that by doing so, blasphemy across the world would end in one minute.
The protests in Pakistan were called by Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif. He wrote, “In order to express our feelings and emotions about the desecration of the Holy Quran at the hands of an unlucky person, we will all protest nationwide today under the title of Holy Quran Day and after Friday prayers all Pakistani Muslims Tabaqat will raise the flag of the Holy Quran and record their peaceful protest.”
Sharif on Friday passed a resolution in the Pakistan parliament urging Sweden to take “appropriate steps” against Quran desecration. Meanwhile, protesters staged a protest outside the Pakistan Supreme Court demanding severance of all diplomatic ties with Sweden.
Last week, a Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) threatened attacks on Christian minorities and churches in Pakistan in retaliation for the Quran-burning incident in Sweden.
Meanwhile in India, a former Mayor of Aligarh, Mohammad Furkan, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting strict action against those behind burning Quran in Sweden.
In what appears as retaliation, police in Stockholm had received three new applications to burn a Torah scroll and the Bible in front of the Israeli embassy in the country.
Similar incidents in the past
A Danish far-right politician burnt a copy of the Quran next to the Turkish embassy in the country’s capital prompting Turkey to halt discussions with Sweden about its NATO membership in late January.
Two other requests, one by a private citizen and the other by an organisation, for similar activities that include Quran burning were turned down by police in February outside the Turkish and Iraqi embassies in Stockholm. The appeals court concluded in June that the protests should have been permitted. It ruled, “The order and security problems that the police had cited had not been clearly connected to the planned event or its immediate vicinity.”
Sweden is now reportedly mulling over amending the law to prevent a repeat of such incidents.
Macron Compared to Dictators over Call to ‘Cut Off’ Social Media
French President Emmanuel Macron has faced comparisons to communist dictators after he called for social media networks to be “cut off” during the violent riots that have swept across the nation.
In a meeting with 300 mayors at the Élysée Palace in Paris earlier this week, embattled President Emmanuel Macron suggested that the government could implement a blackout to “cut off social networks” when “things get carried away” during riots, according to Le Figaro.
The country, which is somewhat accustomed to people rioting in the streets has faced the most destructive mayhem in recent memory following the police shooting of an Algerian teen after he sped away from a traffic stop in the Nanterre suburb of Paris last Tuesday. During the ensuing riots, over 5,000 vehicles have been destroyed and some 1,000 buildings were set on fire. So far, over 3,000 people, mostly teenagers, have been arrested.
Nevertheless, Macron’s call for censorship of social media to combat the violent riots — a measure typically only deployed in war zones or in despotic regimes — has prompted a fierce backlash, with many comparing his inclinations to those of communist dictators.
President of the centre-right Les Républicains group in the National Assembly, Olivier Marleix wrote on Twitter: “Cut social media? Like China, Iran, North Korea? Even if it is a provocation to divert attention, it is in very bad taste.”
Green Party MP Cyrielle Châtelain echoed the sentiment, questioning: “ We are going to manage social networks like in Russia or China?”
Even the head of the leftist La France Insoumise group in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot mocked Macron, responding to the proposal by merely writing: “OK Kim Jung-Un”, in reference to the North Korean dictator.
Ironically, one of the few national leaders to refrain from criticising the president for his call for censorship was Fabien Roussel, the national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF), who called for similar censorship measures to be imposed in response to the riots.
Attempting to quell the outrage, the government later tried to clarify the remarks from Macron, with Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion Christophe Béchu noting that it was “not the announcement of a censorship law, in any way”.
However, it does appear that the government is still intent on pursuing options in terms of social media censorship, with Government spokesman Olivier Véran calling for a “bi-partisan” group of parliamentarians to discuss the matter. He said that the government could look to impose restrictions on geolocation services in social media apps, which he claimed allows rioters to organise and find each other during the chaos.
Macron Compared to Dictators over Call to ‘Cut Off’ Social Media (breitbart.com)
Youth gather in Poland for Christian Festival of Life
Hundreds of people from across Poland and wider Europe have arrived in Kokotek in southern Poland to take part in the Christian Festival of Life.
A steady stream of young people with backpacks, suitcases, and tents poured into Kokotek this week. Notably, a group of several dozen people from a Polish parish in Brussels embarked on a nearly day-long journey to attend the festival.
“I’m here for the fourth time; this is the best week of the year,” said Karolina, a young Polish woman living in the Belgian capital. “The atmosphere is great, there are so many young people, all sleeping in tents. At the Festival of Life, you can simply feel the power of God,” she added.
“I’m most looking forward to the worship concert, all the other concerts, masses, and workshops,” said Monika, also from Brussels, who is attending the festival for the third time. “Every year I meet new people here, I still talk to some of them, and we immediately greet each other when we meet here, on the spot.”
The Festival of Life is an opportunity for young people to discover themselves and grow closer to religion so they can live their lives beautifully and gratefully when they return home to their day-to-day lives after the festival.
“I’m delighted that there are more of us every year. We are happy that during this week, we will create a young, vibrant and energetic Church,” said Father Tomasz Maniura, the organizer of the Festival of Life.
Bishop Grzegorz Suchodolski, the chairman of the Youth Ministry Council of the Polish Episcopal Conference, presided over the opening mass and later mingled with the youth near the stage.
Father Mieczysław Hałaszko read Pope Francis’ message addressed to the young people gathered at the Festival of Life in Kokotek.
“The Holy Father appreciates the rich and diverse program of the Festival of Life, which includes concerts, entertainment, fun, and sports activities, as well as religious and prayerful gatherings. At the same time, he shares the organizers’ hope that it will be a time of active summer recreation for the young people, as well as an opportunity for reflection, better self-knowledge, and the experience of a young and vibrant Church, sharing the spirit of faith, hope, and love with others,” read a letter sent from the Apostolic See.
https://rmx.news/poland/youth-gather-in-poland-for-christian-festival-of-life/
Climate Maps Manipulated to Mislead the Public
The US state science organization NOAA released in May very revealing climate maps that show the average temperature across the world in April compared to the climate normal. Not only do they markedly deviate from countless countries’ official temperature data for April, showing the spring month was cooler than normal, but they also contradict each other even though they originate from exactly the same measurement data. The New Times here reveal how the figures are distorted and that there are two parallel maps, one for scientists and one grossly deceptive one shown to the public.
Cold and snow records have been set worldwide both this winter season and during the spring. All continents have experienced cold and precipitation that significantly deviate from the so-called climate normal, which is the average of the same measurement data over three decades. New Times has reported on this repeatedly. We also recently examined in detail temperature, snow, and ice data for the months of April and May from around the world and found several very interesting deviations. Among other things, this winter season’s snow mass and its bound water quantity in the northern hemisphere were far above normal.
According to Canadian climate authority Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), their own statistics showed that the amount of water tied up in the northern hemisphere’s snow mass at the end of April this year amounted to about 2,600 cubic kilometers of water, compared with the norm of about 1,600 cubic kilometers. This means that this winter was over 60 percent more snow-rich than the norm for the years 1998–2011 (see “Record Cold and Snowy Spring Worldwide – Cold-hardened Mongolians Seek Help” in Nya Tider). This was very evident, among other things, in the snow cover rate in the USA. In at least 13 American states, several of which are located in the southern USA, the snow covered twice to 4.5 times as large areas as normal. This has led to state budgets for snow clearing being inadequate. Weather stations several meters high had to be dug out by shocked meteorologists in the state of Utah (see “Spring has begun with record cold – USA buried under gigantic snow masses” in Nya Tider). In California, the situation was so extreme that houses were completely buried under snow after a total of more than 20 meters of snowfall during the winter. The houses only began to emerge from the snow masses in May, with milder temperatures and melting. The California authorities have not even managed to clear all highways, as those at higher altitudes continue to be under about three meters of hard-packed snow, even though we are now entering the summer. For example, Route 120 is not expected to be cleared of snow and passable until July (see “Snow chaos in the USA: California’s roads remain impassable” in Nya Tider).
Unusually Cold April
New Times found when examining temperature data from authorities and research organizations from a number of different countries that April was unusually cold in many parts of the world. Numerous cold records were set in April. In North America and the continental USA, several cold records were also set since measurements began. Alaska saw one of the coldest April months since measurements began nearly a hundred years ago.
Europe looked similar with unusual cold and precipitation primarily in Central and Eastern Europe. Cold and spring snow caused the Alps’ glaciers to grow, and ski resorts that had closed for the season could reopen and continue skiing into the summer. We reported that the ice cover in the Arctic during the second half of April was about 20,000 square kilometers larger than the average for the years 2011 to 2020.
Central Asia and India set a multitude of cold records week after week in April, which continued even into May. In India’s case, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) confirmed that this was a trend over time and not an anomaly this spring.
The southern hemisphere also experienced a cold April, which is an autumn month there. In Australia and many other countries, temperatures were below the 30-year so-called climate normal.
Deceptive Maps
In May, the American governmental science organization National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a world map showing temperatures for April… or rather, two global temperature maps – one for researchers and one for the general public. The first map shows land and sea temperature deviations from the average in April, where the average is calculated based on the 30-year climate norm, which in this case are the years 1991–2020. It is color-graded on a scale with 0.5-degree accuracy, showing colder deviations in blue shades, neutral in white, and warmer deviations in red shades. This is the map that climate researchers themselves use.
At the same time, NOAA published on its website National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) another map, and it’s this one that mainstream media reproduce for the public. It shows what’s called “Temperature percentiles for land and sea, April 2023.” So it’s not about deviations in degrees Celsius or percent, as the uninitiated might believe. We ask the politically correct tech giant Google what percentile means. We choose Google, as they are known for strictly controlling search results and ensuring compliance with the climate narrative as prescribed by the establishment and their media. The answer we get is as follows:
“In statistics, a percentile is a term that describes how a unit of value compares to other units of value from the same [data] set. Although there is no universal definition of percentile, it is usually expressed as the percentage of values in a set of data results that fall below a given value.”
We can conclude that such a vague description opens up for the creation of “creative statistics.” Percentiles are normally used in statistics to show distributions such as different age groups within a population, where it clearly shows how many percent each group constitutes. The problem with NOAA’s “media-adapted” map is that it does not state temperatures, percentages, or any real value. Instead, unspecified temperatures are compared to an average, which is also not clearly defined, unlike the “researcher version” of the map.
Unlike the temperature map provided to researchers, the temperature map that mainstream media presents to the public is almost entirely red. Moreover, the weaker blue shades are very grayish, creating the illusion that everything seems warmer and nothing cooler. All together, it creates a deceptive impression that April was warmer than normal even in parts of the world where we have official data that not only show the opposite, but in several cases, these are the lowest recorded temperatures ever. If you look at it without knowing that it is grossly misleading, it creates the false illusion that it confirms a purported global warming.
Garbage in, garbage out
What makes it even worse is that already the “researcher version” of the temperature map is misleading, as it too reports warmer temperatures than the real ones. This is achieved, among other things, by using measurement stations placed in aberrantly warm conditions and not least in cities, which create so-called heat islands. Cities are warmer than the countryside due to the so-called urban heat island effect. This is because the city’s often unnatural materials replace natural surfaces, and shading vegetation is replaced with dense concentrations of asphalt, buildings, and other surfaces that absorb and retain heat. If a large majority of all temperature measurement sites are located in cities, which can be several degrees warmer than surrounding less densely populated areas, the measured temperatures will also be several degrees higher than the actual ones.
New Times was the first Swedish newspaper to report in August 2022 that no less than 96 percent of NOAA’s American measurement stations in an old network have indicated too high temperatures. We could also show that NOAA and other American authorities were aware of this, but still used this misleading measurement data – despite a new network that delivers accurate measurement data being available (see “Misleading high temperatures from over 19 out of 20 weather stations in the USA – Measurement stations with correct data are deliberately ignored” in Nya Tider).
NOAA’s temperature map with percentiles – which mainstream media like to reproduce – is therefore grossly deceptive in a double sense. It shows countries and areas that were actually cooler or much cooler than normal in April, with temperatures “Near average” in white color, “Above average” in light red, or even “Much above average” in red.
What makes this temperature fraud so serious is that it is used to prove an alleged man-made global warming, a narrative that globalists then use to impose on the world’s governments and populations a total restructuring of society and our lives. These mandates have already seriously damaged energy and food security, eroding Western treasuries and private economies, and taking away a large part of our freedom and quality of life.
https://freewestmedia.com/2023/07/07/climate-maps-manipulated-to-mislead-the-public/
After Ben & Jerry’s Demands U.S. Return Land to Indians, Indian Chief Asks for its HQ – “The US was founded on stolen Indigenous land”
Ben & Jerry’s, makers of overpriced stale ice cream that, no matter the flavor, always smells a little like cleaning fluid, keeps bouncing from one dumb controversy to another. First, under the influence of its pro-Hezbollah equity person decided to boycott Israel, leading to counter-boycotts and an eventual surrender, then it got caught using child labor, and now it decided to use July 4th to demand the dismantling of America.
“This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it,” the ice cream brand tweeted on the national holiday.
The company went further on its website, saying traditional Independence Day celebrations can “distract” from “an essential truth.”
“Ah, the Fourth of July. Who doesn’t love a good parade, some tasty barbecue, and a stirring fireworks display,” the Vermont-based company said. “The only problem with all that, though, is that it can distract from an essential truth about this nation’s birth: The US was founded on stolen Indigenous land.”
Ben & Jerry’s, which is in Vermont, then demanded that America turn over Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills to the Indians, where the company conveniently has no facilities.
But if we’re turning over land to the Indians, why not start with the land that the child labor social justice ice cream place is located on?
An Indigenous tribe descended from the Native American nation that originally controlled the land in Vermont the Ben & Jerry’s headquarters is located on would be interested in taking it back, its chief has said, after the company publicly called for “stolen” lands to be returned.
Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation—one of four descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont—told Newsweek it was “always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands,” but that the company had yet to approach them.
Maps show that the Abenaki—a confederacy of several tribes who united against encroachment from a rival tribal confederacy—controlled an area that stretched from the northern border of Massachusetts in the south to New Brunswick, Canada, in the north, and from the St. Lawrence River in the west to the East Coast.
This would put Ben & Jerry’s headquarters, located in a business park in southern Burlington, within the western portion of this historic territory—though it does not sit in any modern-day tribal lands.
“We are always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands throughout our traditional territories and providing opportunities to uplift our communities,” Stevens said when asked about whether the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe would want to see the property handed over to Indigenous people.
While the chief said that the tribe “has not been approached in regards to any land back opportunities from Ben & Jerry’s,” he added: “If and when we are approached, many conversations and discussions will need to take place to determine the best path forward for all involved.”
And then there are the homes of Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. Jerry appears to have an 11-acre property in Williston, VT, as well as a property in Florida’s Pompano Beach. Ben appears to have a good deal more properties. It’s time to return this “stolen land” to the Indians.
Also set all the child laborers free too.
Muslim Immigrants in France View Migration as ‘Recolonization’ in Response to Historical French Colonialism: “We Will Colonize Them for Life, Until Death, Until the End of Time” (VIDEO)
