Month: September 2023

President Emmanuel Macron was roundly booed as he took to the pitch of France’s national stadium for the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup on Friday.

In one of his most visible public appearances since his country was thrown into chaos over his controversial pension reforms and racially-inspired riots over a police shooting of an Algerian heritage teenager, President Macron did not receive a warm welcome from the French people at the Stade de Frace at the Rugby World Cup.

While the opening ceremony saw a myriad of French celebrities embraced by the crowd, this was not the case for the embattled globalist leader, whose appearance at the match sparked a wave of boos from the stands.

Appearing before a mock Eiffel Tower, Macron — who once promised to govern the French Republic like the Roman god Jupiter — appeared to be surprised by the backlash from the public.

Macron booed by an entire stadium. pic.twitter.com/ACCSesqGLt

— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) September 8, 2023

Although Mr Macron secured reelection last year, his popularity among the French people has cratered since then, with the country suffering under a cost of living crisis as a result of the Chinese coronavirus lockdowns and the war in Ukraine.

In what was seen as a slap in the face to the working class during a period of hardship, Macron’s government controversially pushed through a raise to the pension age in the National Assembly without a vote to supposedly sure up public finances. This sparked months of protests, strikes and riots throughout the country.

While Macron had begged the public to give him 100 days to turn the country around, “100 days of anger” was promised in return. Although the protests over the pension reform faded, they were soon replaced by race riots following the killing of an Algerian heritage teenager in a Paris suburb.

In response to the deep anger against his government, Macron has opted to minimise opportunities for the public to interact with him. For example, during the annual ceremony for Victory in Europe Day to mark the official end of World War II in May, Macron was forced to drive down a nearly empty Champs-Elysées with the public being barred from the famed avenue for fear of protests against the president.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/09/09/watch-french-president-macron-booed-by-entire-stadium-at-rugby-world-cup24916417/

On Wednesday (September 6), the ‘disinformation correspondent‘ of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Marianna Spring, came under scanner after it came to light that the supposed ‘fact checker’ lied on her CV to land a job in 2018.

The revelations were first made in an article published by a weekly newspaper, The New European. Titled ‘When the BBC’s disinformation correspondent lied on her CV’, the article exposed how Marianna Spring had fabricated her own Curriculum vitae. 

“…The high standard of integrity and honesty Spring today demands of others has not always been entirely consistent with her own behaviour,” it emphasised.

The fabricated CV was part of Spring’s application to Coda Story’s Editor-in-Chief, Natalia Antelava. “June 2018: Reported on International News during the World Cup, specifically the perception of Russia, with BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford,” the BBC disinformation correspondent claimed in her CV.

“This claim was, unfortunately, pure disinformation. In reality, she had merely met Rainsford in a couple of social situations. The claim was a lie. A simple check by Antelava with Rainsford resulted in the latter admonishing Spring for the embellishment in her CV,” The New European said in its article on September 6.

Marianna Spring downplays CV fraud as ‘awful misjudgment’

The BBC’s disinformation correspondent later downplayed her fraudulent behaviour in an apology email written to Sarah Rainsford. “Awful misjudgment,” she attempted to trivialise her dishonest behaviour.

“I’ve only bumped into Sarah whilst she’s working and chatted to her at various points, but nothing more. Everything else on my CV is entirely true…There’s absolute no excuse at all, and I’m really sorry again,” Marianna Spring conceded before boasting of her ‘brilliance’ as a reporter.

“Telling me you are a brilliant reporter who exercises integrity and honesty when you have literally demonstrated the opposite was a terrible idea…I am sure if you use this as a lesson, things will work out,” the Editor-in-Chief of Coda Story had cautioned.

Disinformation correspondent of BBC dubbed delta strain of Covid-19 as ‘Indian variant’

At a time when India was struggling with the second wave of the pandemic, Marianna Spring was busy targeting the Indian community over the ‘delta variant’ of the deadly COVID-19 virus.

In a tweet on May 18, 2021, she had claimed, “Concerns over vaccine hesitancy leading to hospitalisations in Bolton – where the India variant has spiked – have raised questions about the impact of online anti-vaccine content.“

Despite being well aware that dubbing the delta strain as ‘Indian variant’ can encourage prejudice against the Indian community, the BBC’s disinformation correspondent was unabashed in its usage.

It is interesting to note that the left-liberal ecosystem opposed the labelling of COVID-19 as ‘Chinese virus’, despite the fact that the pathogen originated in the Wuhan province of China. But somehow, it is acceptable for the same coterie to dub the delta strain of the same virus as the ‘Indian variant.’

BBC downplays allegations against Marianna Spring, The Guardian hails her

Despite her checkered past, Marianna Spring was hailed by the leftist British newspaper ‘The Guardian‘ as a supposed crusader of ‘disinformation and hate’ on social media.

I chatted to Zoe Williams and the Guardian about exposing the consequences of social media, disinformation and hate.

Brilliant Radio 4’s Marianna in Conspiracyland has been a hit! Trolls are the price. Investigation on TikTok frenzies & more pods soon. https://t.co/8apKuHmERl pic.twitter.com/BVajxxrb0I

— Marianna Spring (@mariannaspring) September 4, 2023

The British Broadcasting Corporation has so far not commented on the development. Interestingly, the Head of Communications for BBC Radio, Philly Spurr, was seen defending Marianna Spring.

You've sent 5 consecutive tweets saying this now. How is 'Be kind to each other!' on your profile working out for you?

— Philly (@Philly_Spurr) September 8, 2023

“Thank you for being an absolutely lying hypocrite with ZERO credibility. Sack NOW! @BBCNews,” remarked an X user. Instead of admonishing her colleague, Spurr came to the rescue of Springs, who is now accused of CV manipulation.

“You’ve sent 5 consecutive tweets saying this now. How is ‘Be kind to each other!’ on your profile working out for you?” the BBC employee resorted to whataboutery.

https://www.opindia.com/2023/09/bbc-fact-checker-marianna-spring-lied-cv-called-delta-strain-coronavirus-indian-variant/

On September 8, some unidentified gunmen opened fire inside the Al-Qudus mosque in Rawalkot, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and killed a top terrorist leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). The terrorist Riyaz Ahmad alias Abu Qasim was going for Fajr prayers at the mosque..

Riyaz Ahmed was one of the main architects of the terror incident in Rajouri district’s Dhangri on January 1 that killed seven people and left 13 more injured. The village was attacked by terrorists who opened fire indiscriminately. Furthermore, they had placed an improvised explosive device (IED) which detonated the following morning.

The authorities stated that the terrorist was from the Jammu region and reached Pakistan in 1999. They disclosed that he was responsible for the resurgence of terrorism in the border areas of Poonch and Rajouri. He operated from the Lashkar-e-Taiba base camp in Muridke but had recently shifted to Rawalakot.

The officials mentioned that Riyaz Ahmad was shot dead by unidentified shooters inside the Al-Qudus mosque in the Rawalakot region during pre-dawn prayers, citing reports from Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK).

They further added, “Ahmad mostly operated from the Lashkar-e-Taiba base camp in Muridke but had recently shifted to Rawalakot. He was a close associate of Sajjad Jaat, the Lashkar-e-Taiba’s chief commander, and also looked after the outfit’s finances.”

The terrorist’s murder made him the fourth commander of a dreaded terror organisation functioning out of Pakistan to be assassinated this year. Earlier, some unknown perpetrators shot and killed a senior commander of the outlawed Hizbul Mujahideen in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in March. Bashir Ahmad Peer, also known as Imtiyaz Alam, was a Pakistani national who had lived in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara area for more than 15 years.

Syed Khalid Raza, former Al-Badr Mujahideen commander was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the port city of Karachi in February.

Aijaz Ahmad Ahangar, a Kashmiri terrorist who served as a high commander of the international terrorist organisation Islamic State was discovered dead earlier this year in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province. He was reportedly executed by the Taliban.

https://www.opindia.com/2023/09/top-lashkar-terrorist-shot-dead-unknown-gunmen-mosque-in-pok/

On today’s episode of #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle & Senior Fellows Dr. Philip Kiszely and Rafe Heydel-Mankoo discuss: * How is the Monarchy faring a year after The Queen’s Death? * A Year after Liz Truss’s Departure: Are things better or worse without her? Or are she and Sunak equally bad? * Last Night of the Proms

Prominent Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and award-winning filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel have defended the lack of diversity in their latest film, with the latter claiming it would “be a bit weird” to have included ethnic minority actors in a production set in 18th century Denmark.

The star and director of “The Promised Land” were responding to questions fielded during a press conference at the Venice Film Festival where the film premiered earlier this month.

The historical drama follows soldier Ludvig Kahlen, played by Mikkelsen, who seeks to cultivate the barren land of Jutland, Denmark in 1755, but faces hostility from the landowner, Frederik De Schinkel, who does not welcome Kahlen’s presence.

An unnamed Danish journalist asked the pair for their thoughts on the lack of diversity in the film, given the entirely Nordic cast, and whether they were concerned that the film would struggle to meet the new inclusion standards introduced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to make it eligible for the Academy Awards category of Best Picture.

“If it’s not because of artistic reasons, but because of a lack of diversity this film cannot compete in that competition. Are you worried about that?” the journalist asked, to which Mikkelsen swiftly replied: “Are you?”

“You’re putting us on the spot so you answer the question,” he added, visibly amused by the line of questioning.

The journalist cited “Parasite,” a South Korean film that became the first foreign language film ever to win the Best Picture award in 2020, as an example of another film that lacked diversity but was considered eligible for the category because of its South Korean origin; he then asked for their thoughts on the “conundrum” that an all-Nordic cast would not be eligible.

Tackling the first question, director Nikolaj Arcel insisted the film had focused on authenticity over diversity.

“First of all, the film takes place in Denmark in the 1750s,” Arcel said. “We do have a big plot line about a girl of color who is being subjected to racism. It was very rare to have people of color in Denmark in the 1700s, almost nobody. She was probably at the time the only one in the entire country of Denmark,” he added.

The filmmaker said that meeting the new diversity guidelines set by Hollywood had not been a consideration.

“It wasn’t a thought in our mind. I think it would be a little weird. It’s just historical and how it was in the 1750s,” he explained.

https://rmx.news/denmark/it-would-be-a-little-weird-danish-director-dismisses-concerns-over-all-nordic-cast-and-lack-of-diversity-in-latest-film-set-in-1750s-denmark/

A series of fires hit railway infrastructure in the German city of Hamburg overnight, causing widespread disruption to trains between Hamburg and Berlin and between the port city and the Baltic Sea coast. Police said they suspect that the damage was politically motivated.

Railway operator Deutsche Bahn said that trains on the main high-speed route between Hamburg and Berlin were canceled because of vandalism. It said it was running some trains on an alternative route that takes up to an hour longer.

Long-distance trains between Hamburg and Rostock also were canceled. Deutsche Bahn said it likely would be able to restore service on the main Hamburg-Berlin line only on Saturday morning.

Hamburg police said that cable ducts next to railway lines were set on fire at three locations in the city between 2:30 and 4 a.m.

They said in a statement that they suspect “a political motive as the background” and are seeking witnesses, but gave no further details of the reasons for their suspicions. The fires were all extinguished.

A claim of responsibility that appeared on a left-wing website said that “transport arteries of the capitalist infrastructure” had been “sabotaged,” but referred to lines used for freight rather than passenger traffic, German news agency dpa reported. Police said they were aware of the claim and it was part of their investigation. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the claim was authentic.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/09/08/infrastructure-underpinning-modern-world-again-sabotaged-in-germany-police-suspect-political-motive/

Another week, another Prince Andrew controversy – the disgraced Royal can’t catch a break.

Now, it arises that the records regarding the Duke of York’s work as UK Trade Envoy are sealed until 2065. Yes, you read it right.

A basic tenet of History is: ‘If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday’. And that’s what British biographer Andrew Lownie tried to do.

Author of ‘The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves’, and ‘Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’, Lownie is now working in a biography of Prince Andrew that is sending shivers up the spine of ‘the Firm’ (how the Royal Family calls itself).

A Culture of Secrecy: Outrage Grows as Prince Andrew’s Record as UK Trade Envoy Are Sealed Until He Turns 105 Years Old via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/DLjjtNZpMr

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) September 8, 2023

Our Director Peter Whittle had a fiery debate on GB News as he debated the issue of visas for Indians and Indian students. This comes as PM Rishi Sunak is attending a G20 Summit in India, with Indian politicians putting pressure on Britain to offer visas to more Indians in exchange for a trade deal.

By Guy K. Mitchell, Jr.

Frequently, I read where a politician like John Kerry; Al Gore; Joe Biden; or António Guterres, the secretary general of the U.N., has stated: “We must keep the increase of the average temperature of the Earth to 1.5°C or less; it has already risen 1.1°C since the beginning of the industrial age.”  The implication of such a statement is that the Earth is on a path to thermal destruction if we humans don’t take action to save the planet.  Aside from exhibiting the height of man’s hubris to think that we could control any basic aspect of nature; such a statement demonstrates either a profound ignorance about fundamental physics or an intent to deceive.  I suspect that it is both.

The concept of an average temperature of the Earth is a figment of the climate scientist’s imagination, conjured up to try to prove a fraudulent hypothesis.  The Earth has no average temperature; the temperature of the Earth is different at every point in time and space.  The Earth is never in thermal equilibrium.  It should be apparent to anyone that if you add two temperatures together and average them, you get a meaningless number.  A calculation of similar value would be to determine the average ZIP code in the United States to locate the average American city (49663 — Manton, Mich., pop. 1,324).

Thermodynamics, the branch of physics that deals with the movement of heat, defines temperature as a proxy for the average kinetic energy of the molecules in a system.  It is related to the quantity of thermal energy present in the system.  The concept of temperature as a proxy for the kinetic energy of the molecules in a system is derived from the “Kinetic Theory of Gases,” which was developed in the 1850s and proven by experimentation in 1947.

This concept is what is known as a first principle of science.  An understanding of the scientific definition of temperature is important to an understanding of the fraudulent claims of politicians and climate scientists who promote the man-made global warming hypothesis.

Kinetic energy is the energy associated with the motion of an object, such as a golf ball, a moving car, an airplane, or a molecule of air.  A system is a volume that has a boundary.  Any object in motion has kinetic energy, and it can be calculated using the formula K.E. = 1/2 m v², where m=mass and v=velocity of the object.

How are thermal energy, temperature, and kinetic energy related?  When a system gains or loses thermal energy from its surroundings through the transfer of thermal (heat) energy, its temperature increases or decreases.  The thermal energy absorbed or lost increases or decreases the kinetic energy of the molecules in the system, causing them to move faster or slower.  As a result, the average kinetic energy of the molecules in the system changes, and we read that change with a thermometer.  

If the temperature of the air in a system represents the average kinetic energy of the air molecules in a system, ask yourself this simple question: “How can the kinetic energy of the air molecules in my room affect the kinetic energy of the air molecules in a room halfway around the world?  The answer is that it can’t!  The system that constitutes your room or the atmosphere that surrounds your city is not adjacent to a system halfway around the world!  The air molecules in your room or in your city cannot interact with air molecules in a city halfway around the world and affect the kinetic energy (temperature) of those distant molecules!

This fact demonstrates an important concept about heat transfer in a fluid or gas like air.  For thermal energy (heat energy) to pass from one system to another, the systems must be adjacent to each other — that is, they must share a thermal boundary permeable to heat.  That is a fundamental law of thermodynamics.  Climate scientists at the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change may develop complicated computer models that employ coupled partial differential equations to simulate the movement of thermal energy from one place to another around the globe to calculate an average temperature of the Earth, but this is pseudoscience!  These models use incomplete data and infer heat transfer interactions that are impossible to predict.  Adding the temperature of Moscow (20°F) to Miami (74°F) in January yields an average of 47°F.  Does anyone think that number has any practical value?  It certainly has no scientific value.

In my book titled Global Warming: The Great Deception-The Triumph of Dollars and Politics Over Science and Why You Should Care, I cite published, peer-reviewed scientific research, employing the first principles of the relevant scientific fields of thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, atmospheric physics, and spectroscopy, to prove that CO2 does not cause global warming.  I use publicly available data from the world’s temperature databases to prove that there has been no significant global warming of the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans or land mass as the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increased, thereby falsifying the global warming hypothesis.  I use publicly available information to demonstrate that the motivation of the U.N. IPCC, certain world politicians, and global investment firms is to gain financially by promoting the fraudulent hypothesis.  It is all about the money and political power.  Science has been sacrificed on the altar of political opportunism for economic and political gain.

I was born and raised in the southern part of the U.S. and have hunted and fished all my life.  One thing I learned is that if you want to kill a snake, you must cut off its head.  The head of the global warming snake is pseudoscience, and its body is money.  The concept of an average temperature of the Earth is based on pseudoscience.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/the_earth_has_no_average_temperature.html

Italian authorities are searching for six residents from the Roma district of Quarticciolo after viral footage published on social media showed a spontaneous group of vigilantes beat an Indian migrant suspected of mugging an elderly lady on Thursday.

In the video, filmed by a fellow resident, a group of around six individuals can be seen detaining a 26-year-old Indian national on a run-down street in the Italian capital, before proceeding to punch and kick the man as he lay defenseless on the road.

At one point, one of the vigilante attackers can be seen picking up a motorcycle helmet and using it as a weapon to strike the suspected mugger on the head.

“He mugged an old lady,” claims the woman filming from her balcony, as cited by Italian news outlet Virgilio Notizie, while one of the attackers shouts, “You piece of shit, I’ll kill you.”

Multiple bystanders watch on as the assault lasts for around two minutes before the man manages to flee the scene.

Zingaro tenta uno scippo ai danni di una vecchietta e viene linciato dagli abitanti di Quarticciolo.#Roma #violenza #giustizia pic.twitter.com/UtmPiA1TeH

— The Cabinet (Son of Mary) 🇮🇹 (@TheCabinet4) September 8, 2023

According to the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, the migrant was subsequently arrested by Roma authorities on suspicion of robbery. He is accused of dragging a 90-year-old woman to the ground and mugging her on via Manfredonia moments before the attack.

The suspect was taken to the Tor Vergata hospital for treatment. He suffered a fractured nose among other injuries and is expected to heal within 30 days.

Local police, however, are also understood to be trailing the vigilante attackers responsible for the attack on the suspect.

The Quarticciolo has long been a center of criminal activity, much of which has been fuelled by an increase in drug dealing in the area. However, the migrant is understood to have broken an unwritten rule of the neighborhood not to lay hands on the elderly, sparking the vigilante revenge.

The attack has faced divided opinion on social media, but the “Welcome to favelas” group, which highlights ongoing degradation across Italy, showed that 87 percent of respondents in a survey supported the vigilante group, according to Italian newspaper Il Giornale.

https://rmx.news/italy/local-residents-sought-by-police-after-delivering-vigilante-justice-on-suspected-migrant-mugger-of-elderly-lady-in-rome/