Month: November 2023

Francis not totally to blame, Bishop Stricland says.

In news that shook the Catholic world, Globalist Pope Francis decided to resort to the exceptional move of personally removing Conservative Bishop Strickland from his position in the Tyler, Texas Diocese.

Strickland was not – mind you – involved in any brewing sex scandal as so many in the Vatican ranks, including people close to Francis.

Strickland’s only ‘transgression’ was being a ‘hardliner’. On the Jesus line, something that does not seem very appreciated in Francis’ orbit.

Principalities of Evil: Bishop Strickland Says ‘Forces’ Influence Globalist Pope Francis Into Making His Decisions via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/9NfXn0wP8r

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) November 14, 2023

After an express conversion to Islam, which he believed would help him to stop drinking, a resident of Senonches allegedly glorified terrorism on social networks.

According to the gendarmerie’s investigation, the 21-year-old resident of Senonches was easily identified by the IP address of his computer after he published posts on social networks that were categorised by the authorities as “glorification of terrorism via a communication medium”.

The posts welcomed the actions of Hamas and contained hate comments against Israelis and the Jewish people. As he appeared before the court in Chartres on direct appearance, he asked for time to prepare his defence. The judges therefore focused exclusively on his background and personality in order to decide whether he should await his future trial in prison or, on the contrary, be released.

He has been convicted of theft, domestic violence, rebellion and driving under the influence of alcohol in the past and admitted to the judges that he “had major alcohol problems”. It was these problems, as he confided to the personality researcher, that had prompted him to convert to Islam, among other things. In fact, alcohol is forbidden in the Muslim religion. (…) L’Yonne Républicaine

https://www.fdesouche.com/2023/11/14/senonches-28-converti-a-lislam-en-une-journee-pour-ne-plus-boire-il-est-juge-pour-apologie-du-terrorisme/

Former UK home secretary Suella Braverman published a scathing resignation letter after being sacked by British prime minister Rishi Sunak yesterday. Expressing pride at her record in the post, Suella Braverman wrote, “Despite you having been rejected by a majority of party members during the summer leadership contest and thus having no personal mandate to be prime minister, I agreed to support you because of the firm assurances you gave me on key policy priorities.”

These priorities were reducing illegal migration, measures to stop small boats crossing the channel, delivering the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Retained EU law legislation as they were a year ago, and issuing statutory guidance protecting biological sex.

But, “you have manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of these key policies,” she wrote accusing Rishi Sunak of a “betrayal of our agreement” and a “betrayal of your promise to the nation that you would do ‘whatever it takes’ to stop the boats”.

“Someone needs to be honest: your plan is not working, we have endured record election defeats, your resets have failed and we are running out of time,” she wrote.

Acknowledging that she “may not have always found the right words” to express her views, she has “always striven to give voice to the quiet majority that supported us in 2019”.

She added, “I will, of course, continue to support the government in pursuit of policies which align with an authentic conservative agenda.”

‘To be honest, you have failed’: Suella Braverman’s letter to ‘weak’ Rishi Sunak | World News – Hindustan Times

Just days before the Dutch electorate heads to the polls, the country’s immigration service has announced the backlog for unprocessed asylum seekers is continuing to grow at a rapid speed and is pessimistic about its ability to handle another wave of applications expected next year.

New figures from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) revealed that over 42,000 asylum seekers resident in the Netherlands are awaiting a decision on their asylum application, and the average waiting time for applications to be processed has exceeded a year.

“The Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) processes more applications than the organization is designed to handle, and the waiting time for applicants has been increasing for a long time. In the general asylum procedure, applicants now wait an average of more than a year for the IND to make a decision,” the service said alongside the figures.

On top of the current backlog, a further 30,000 first-time applications were filed this year up to Nov. 1, with a further 10,000 associated family member applications for consideration, making it impossible for the service to get up to speed.

The IND warned that the current asylum crisis is expected to worsen next year.

“For next year, the forecast for the total number of asylum applications and follow-up travelers is between 49,000 and 76,000. The IND expects to be able to process around 47,000 asylum and reunification applications in 2024. And so the pressure on the IND remains high, and the waiting time for applicants will continue to increase,” it said.

The service noted that a decision by the Dutch parliament to abolish written hearings for certain nationalities, such as Syrians, has contributed to the backlog. Previously, Syrian nationals were able to enjoy expedited proceedings based on a questionnaire and weren’t necessarily required to attend a full immigration hearing.

However, this was scrapped back in September over fears that such a move would entice more asylum seekers to choose the Netherlands over other EU member states where applications may be more extensive.

While waiting for a decision, asylum seekers are accommodated and cared for by the state at considerable expense to the taxpayer.

Successful applicants are often granted subsidized housing, while those rejected are, in theory, ordered to leave Dutch territory. However, this has proven to be far more difficult to enforce in practice.

The issue for any new Dutch government doesn’t just stop at the backlog. There is a critical housing crisis in the country. Thousands of approved asylum seekers thus remain housed in refugee centers, and because accommodation services are saturated, there is nowhere to move them to.

Of the 32,000 migrants issued with residency permits so far this year, just 10,000 have been relocated to private housing, with the remainder still living in state-run asylum centers.

The Dutch state is expected to have to find homes for a further 18,000 in the first half of 2024, creating a significant problem for the new administration.

Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s government collapsed due to disagreements over asylum and immigration policy as coalition parties drew red lines on how to handle the ongoing crisis.

On the basis of these figures by the IND, it would appear the next Dutch leader could also struggle to reach a consensus on how to move forward in a sensible and sustainable fashion.

https://rmx.news/netherlands/dutch-immigration-service-sounds-alarm-on-rapidly-rising-asylum-backlog-days-before-election/

German Bundestag parties are looking for seemingly undemocratic methods to stop the national-conservative AfD, which has been rising in the polls, made big gains in recent state elections, and is currently the second strongest party in Germany with 23% of the support. While every party represented in the Bundestag has so far ruled out governing with the AfD, nearly half of the German population supports the party participating in government, according to a recent opinion poll.

We recently reported about a proposal by a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to ban the AfD outright. Marco Wanderwitz says “we are dealing with a party that seriously endangers our free democratic basic order and the state as a whole.” Two AfD state associations, in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, have been categorised by the domestic intelligence agency as “confirmed right-wing extremist,” and the AfD as a whole is considered a suspected right-wing extremist organisation. Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) last week said it had gathered extensive information that showed AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt branch values were “incompatible with human dignity, democracy, and the rule of law.”

In a more recent development, the Bundestag passed a law last Friday that clearly disadvantages the AfD. The law stipulates that a party foundation can only receive federal funding if the party it is associated with has been represented in the Bundestag at least three times in a row. AfD first entered the Bundestag in 2017, and did so for the second time in 2021, therefore its affiliated foundation, the Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung is not entitled to the hundreds of millions of euros that other party-affiliated foundations are. To make matters worse for the AfD, the law states that foundations must guarantee they actively support the free democratic basic order and the idea of international understanding. If the above-mentioned labelling of the party is to be taken seriously, the mainstream parties will surely not allow the funding of the Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung even after the 2025 federal elections.

Erika Steinbach, chairwoman of the foundation said the Bundestag had “quite openly demonstrated an oppressive contempt for democracy that would do credit to any authoritarian country.”

AfD MP Mariana Harder-Kühnel said, “establishing an instrument to weaken the opposition could become a problem in a free, democratic constitutional state.”

Government parties seem to be happy with the Bundestag’s decision. Johannes Fechner, a Social Democrat said “the most important regulation is quite clear: no money for enemies of the constitution.” Konstantin von Notz of the Greens said “Anyone who deliberately rallies extremists behind themselves and becomes their mouthpiece must not receive state funding.”

As we previously reported, German leftist politician Sahra Wagenknecht in an interview on Monday, November 13th, denounced a proposal to ban the party, saying an unconstitutional ban of a political competitor is “incompatible with democratic aspirations.”

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/mainstream-parties-finding-new-ways-to-shut-down-afd/

The bomb threat was triggered on Monday after three consecutive calls. In one of the calls, the caller stated that he wanted to “blow up everything”.

One day follows another with a series of fake bomb threats. This Monday, an emergency alarm was triggered at a high school in Deuil-la-Barre (Val d’Oise) on November 13 after death threats were made by telephone, according to Le Figaro’s sources.

(…) A total of 750 pupils and 60 staff from the Lycée Camille Saint-Saëns were evacuated from the site (…).

One of the calls was answered in the school’s porter’s lodge. The person at the other end of the phone then declared: “Allah Akbar. I have placed bombs. I’m going to blow up everything. The connection was then suddenly cut off before another call was received by the school administration office, the police reported. This time, the person on the phone said, “I’m calling to tell you that something is going to happen,” before hanging up. The person or persons making these phone calls have not yet been identified. Le Figaro

Spanish Socialists discreetly try to trick their way into retaining power, but Tucker will show it to the world.

Spain is living a season of political turmoil, in which the Patriotic forces are trying to derail Socialist PM Sánchez’s dirty tricks to remain in power by offering amnesty to Catalan separatists.

This Monday )13_ was the eleventh day of mass mobilization but, unless you read the Gateway Pundit or some other conservative medium, you may not even have heard a thing about it.

Tucker Carlson Goes to Spain, Shines the Light on Socialist Coup and the Mass Mobilization of Conservatives via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/UyG8pi4HEi

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) November 13, 2023

“David Cameron killed traditional conservatism in 2010. Ever since, the Tory Party has been a Zombie, like one of those insects with a parasite in its head telling it what to do. Except, in this case, the parasite is New Labour ideology. …Cameron is the Grim Reaper of traditional conservatism. And with Suella Braverman now gone it’s as if he’s come back to kill off any hope of a revival of true conservatism.” That’s the view of our Senior Fellow, Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, in this panel discussion on Talk TV along with Laura Dodsworth & host Mike Graham (both of whom have appeared on the New Culture Forum channel). Rafe, Laura and Mike discuss the Cameron’s record and the implications of his appointment. They also discuss an IEA report that finds that British tax payers’ money sent to French Border Force to stop boats crossing the Channel has been spent on items ranging from horse riding boots & helmets, to microwaves, vacuum cleaners and charging adapters for cars, as well as printers and vehicles for the border force on the French-Italian border.

The Met Police has apologised after a picture surfaced of two officers posing with a child holding a Palestine placard.

The photograph was taken at a pro-Palestinian march on Saturday in London and features a child holding a sign with the flag of Palestine and the words “Save Our Children!”.

The child, who is wearing a red and white scarf known as a keffiyeh, can be seen posing with a smiling male and female police officer.

The image rapidly spread across social media, with users questioning the officers’ impartiality.

The force has admitted that it was “not advisable” for the two officers to pose with the child at the rally.

Writing on social media, Scotland Yard said: “We always encourage our officers to be engaging and friendly with the public.

“However, in the context of a protest about such a contentious issue we acknowledge that it was not advisable for the officer to agree to pose for the photograph.

“No action will be taken against the officer who we have no reason to think was doing anything other than trying to positively engage.”

Daniel Sugarman, director of public affairs at the Board of Deputies of British Jews said: “I’m just wondering what on earth these officers were thinking.”

Users on social media expressed their outrage at the image.

One said the force had “Totally lost the plot”, whilst others criticised them for “two-tier policing”.

A third commented: “Your officers could use retraining in how to engage with the public on contentious issues. At least. To dismiss the alarm people feel seeing this as nothing to be taken action on is not acceptable. Police impartiality is vital and you must uphold the highest standard.”

Around 300,000 pro-Palestinian protestors marched over Armistice weekend, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

It was the biggest UK rally since the Israel-Gaza war began.

Officers made 145 arrests during the Pro-Palestinian demonstration and counter protest for offences including assault, possession of weapons, criminal damage, public order, inciting racial hatred and possession of drugs.

Seven people have been charged as investigations continue into disorder in central London, Met Police have confirmed.

Investigations continue into a number of other incidents.

Palestine protest apology issued by Met Police after officers posed with child holding placard (gbnews.com) / https://thereligionofpeace.com/

The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has found an unlikely defender in Sahra Wagenknecht, the hard-left firebrand nationalist who called moves by establishment politicians to ban the increasingly popular party “completely wrong” and dangerous for democracy.

In an interview published on Sunday with the ARD broadcaster, Wagenknecht insisted that attempts to suppress political adversaries with unconstitutional bans are contradictory to Germany’s democratic principles.

“I think the call for a ban on the AfD is completely wrong, and I find the discussion about it dangerous. Banning unpopular parties because they are becoming too strong is incompatible with a free society,” she told viewers.

The former Die Linke leader, who recently split from her old left-wing party to form a new political group, BSW — For Reason and Justice, called for unsavory parties to be beaten on the political battlefield and their ideas challenged, rather than martyring them and creating further civil unrest among an increasingly disillusioned electorate.

Wagenknecht added that she hoped her new party could win around voters thinking of supporting the AfD based on its policies, instead of simply eradicating the opposition.

“I will be happy if AfD voters choose us in the future because they find our offer more serious and convincing,” she told the broadcaster.

Wagenknecht’s new political outfit shares the same view as the AfD when it comes to uncontrolled mass migration and calls for greater restrictions on newcomers to the country. The left-wing politician even praised her political competition for bringing the issue of mass migration to the forefront of the political debate in Germany.

“Because (the AfD) has become stronger, the question of ‘How do we reduce uncontrolled migration’ has finally arrived in politics,” she said.

Wagenknecht revealed her belief that the longstanding pro-migration policies of her previous party, Die Linke, would struggle to resonate with an electorate becoming increasingly more socially conservative on the issue, and expressed her desire for the party to change course and “find itself” once more.

There is no political desire for a party that advocates “open borders, the right to stay for everyone, and radical climate activism,” she claimed.

On this point, the former communist reserved unlikely praise for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who she claimed was right to stand up for the interests of his own citizens, even if she disagrees with him politically.

“I don’t have to like Orbán to say that what he’s doing is wiser in terms of the interests of his country,” she said.

Orbán has been a staunch opponent of Brussels’ proposed migration pact, which would see EU member states obliged to receive migrant quotas or face financial penalties for non-compliance. He has remained opposed to the continuous funding of the Ukraine war and is a long-standing advocate for peace in the region.

His administration has continued to import Russian gas and oil despite protestations from Brussels and recently became the first EU leader to shake hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin since Moscow’s invasion of eastern Ukraine in February last year as he attempts to navigate a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict.

https://rmx.news/germany/banning-the-afd-would-be-dangerous-for-democracy-says-hard-left-firebrand-wagenknecht/