Month: November 2023

by Giulio Meotti

What is this strange evil that afflicts the West and for which the war in Gaza is both a pretext and a revelation? Self-hatred? Fascination with collective suicide?

Hamas is an Islamo-Nazi sect that intended to destroy Israel and its people before attacking the West when the time comes. But it found million of helpers among Western people. Sorcerers’ apprentices, new converts and useful idiots…

Their brainwashing is effective. Newsweek polls say that among young Americans, 48 percent are with Hamas. More than half – 51 percent – believe that the October 7 pogrom in which 1,400 Israelis were massacred was somehow justified. If we did the same survey in Europe we would get the same results.

Of 67 million “Generation Z” Americans (those born after 1996), 52 percent want racial reparations for blacks, 60 percent believe systemic racism is “widespread” in society, 51 percent that the “gender binary” (male and female) is “obsolete”, 41 percent are in favor of censoring “hate speech” (unless it encourages destroying Israel), 66 percent are in favor of silencing speakers they consider “offensive” and 61 percent have positive views of socialism.

This is where support for Hamas originates: in the heart of darkness of Western consciousness in full decadence.

Meanwhile, from Al Azhar in Cairo – the “Vatican of Islam” – to the International Union of Muslim Scholars in Doha, the large Islamic organizations launch their fatwa against Israel: “There are no Israeli civilians, they are all targets”. And we talk about the institutions with which the West has a dialogue and with which the Vatican signed the document on “Human Brotherhood”.

On the London Review of Books – one of the most renowned literary magazines in the world – hundreds of writers attack… Israel. The intellectual James Lindsay in Le Point explains: “There is an intellectual complicity between them and they share the same objective: to inflict maximum damage on the West and Western values. I’m not saying that Hamas shares all the values of the North American and European left, but it uses the woke left to advance its agenda. The United States and Canada, due to woke infiltration at all levels, are experiencing a cultural revolution like that experienced by China in the 1960s.”

Fortunately, positive news is also arriving from America, such as the new organization Catholics against anti-Semitism.

A demagogic left, pacifist squares, corrupt universities and degenerated media meanwhile are playing with matches. And for the electoral reasons that we know, now we have this great left that has in its eyes, instead of stars, only veils, crescents, minarets.

An example of this sick left are the Belgian socialist leaders André Flahaut and Jean-Pascal Labille, who have just compared Israel to Nazism. André Flahaut is the former Minister of Defense and former President of the Chamber, among others, today a federal deputy of the Socialist Party. Jean-Pascal Labille, a former federal minister, shared a drawing allegedly showing Israeli soldiers firing on what represents Gaza, surrounded by a barrier on which a swastika appears in a Star of David.

“Since the end of the Cold War we have found ourselves, with the exception of the period following September 11, in a sort of end-of-history and permanent carnival atmosphere” American scholar Walter Russell Mead tells Le Figaro. “We were excited by the idea of all the possibilities, of a ‘win-win’ world. Debt also seemed insignificant as interest rates were at zero. We were living in an illusion. But the world does not allow this for a long time. Today we return to earth, we will see how quickly.”

Israel is fighting for its survival.

The question is whether Western civilization understands that this is a turning point and really wants to be saved, since its weak and nihilisticleaders seem to have concluded that it is inherently evil and not worth fighting for.

This week, Israeli President Isaac Herzog issued a warning to Europeans in an interview with Die Welt. “You have to understand: if Israel no longer exists, Europe will be next.”

Israel will win this battle – sadly, at a very high cost – because it is determined to survive. But there are more fans of Hamas and Jihad in the West than in Gaza. The barriers of Western civilization, such as Israel’s southern border, have to be defended and we can rely only on Israel’s determination to do so.

We in the West are in grave danger.

Israel will win. The West is over (israelnationalnews.com)

The 29-year-old man, who was known for his Islamist radicalisation, was arrested at the end of September after a loaded machine gun and a knife were found in his home.

It was a house search that ended up being successful. According to information from Actu17, a 29-year-old man, who was listed in the S file because of his Islamist radicalisation, was charged on September 26 by an investigating judge at the Paris anti-terrorism pole with “criminal association for the preparation of crimes against persons” and “violation of weapons law in connection with a terrorist enterprise”. He was subsequently remanded in custody. This information was confirmed to Actu17 by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT).

(…) According to our information, the investigators of the criminal investigation department of Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), who were in charge of carrying out the house search, discovered a submachine gun and 9mm calibre ammunition in the house of the man who had been under surveillance by the secret services for several years. A knife, a balaclava, three mobile phones and two computers were also confiscated from his house.

(…) The man had come to the attention of the intelligence services in 2017-2018 in connection with plans to leave the country for the Iraqi-Syrian zone. Actu 17 / Le Cannet (06) : un islamiste fiché S, âgé de 29 ans, soupçonné de préparer un attentat, écroué ; un pistolet-mitrailleur retrouvé à son domicile – Fdesouche

An illegal Tunisian migrant was arrested at around 0.20am on Tuesday morning on the Boulevard des Lices in Castres in the Tarn department after harassing two young girls and calling them “dirty whores”, we reported.

The intoxicated attacker also threw a beer bottle at the police officers, which broke on the ground, and then walked over to the broken glass in a threatening manner, shouting “Allah Akbar and now it’s your turn”, a police source said.

37-year-old Mouahmed Z., who is known in the ” criminal record ” (Traitement d’antécédents judiciaires – TAJ) and who is under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) subject to house arrest, was taken into police custody. There were no injuries.

 Valeurs / Castres (81) : un migrant clandestin tunisien, sous OQTF, agresse deux jeunes filles en pleine rue, après les avoir traitées de “sale pu…”, puis menace des policiers en criant “Allah Akbar” – Fdesouche

The Singapore government is reportedly warning citizens against any display of emblems and symbols linked to the Israel-Hamas war. Anyone in Singapore displaying or wearing such symbols could face jail, the government said, adding that the conflict was an “emotive issue” that could disrupt national peace. The warning also applies to travellers seeking to enter Singapore.

A press release by the Ministry of Home Affairs cited the Foreign National Emblems (Control of Display) Act 1949 which criminalises the public display of foreign national emblems without a permit. “If convicted, the individual may be liable to a fine of up to $500 or imprisonment for a term of up to six months, or both,” the MHA stated.

It further added, “The ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict is an emotive issue. We would like to advise against the public display and wearing of articles in relation to the conflict, given the heightened sensitivities. All travellers using our checkpoints are also advised not to display or wear such articles. The authorities will take firm action against those who refuse to comply, including denying their entry into Singapore.”

The government categorically stated that promoting or supporting terrorist groups like Hamas or its military wing A-Qassam Brigades will not be accepted. “Promoting or supporting terrorism through the display of apparel or paraphernalia that carry logos of terrorist or militant groups, such as HAMAS or its military wing Al-Qassam Brigades, will not be condoned.”

In no uncertain terms, the Southeast Asian country stated that events happening externally should not be allowed to affect peace and harmony in Singapore.

The advisory by the Singaporean government comes amid rising pro-Palestinian sentiments displayed through demonstrations across countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and even India.

These protests saw blatant displays of anti-semitism, open calls for the murder of Jews and eradication of Israel, and a resurgence of Nazi symbols. College campuses particularly in the West showed how young students made anti-semitic calls and even tore leaflets that contained details of missing Israeli children abducted by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

On 5th November, a 65-year-old Jewish man was killed after an anti-Israeli protestor hit him on the head with a megaphone. The incident took place at a pro-Palestine rally in Westlake Village neighborhood in North Los Angeles city in the United States.

https://www.opindia.com/2023/11/singapore-bans-symbols-israel-hamas-war/

Editor’s Note: Reduxx has submitted a detailed report on the subject of this article to CyberTip, a leading digital child protective authority which connects reports with local law enforcement. In accordance with our ethical standards, CyberTip was contacted PRIOR to the writing of this article.

A trans-identified male who promotes nudism has been reported to child protective authorities following a disturbing video beginning to circulate on social media showing him exposing his genitals and breasts in the presence of a small child.

The video first began to circulate on November 5. Reduxx is withholding the direct link to the video as the child’s face is not censored.

In the video, an adult post-operative transgender male is seen lounging nude in what appears to be a family residence. The man spreads his legs repeatedly, exposing his surgically-constructed vagina, while a young boy is sitting a few feet in front of him. He then stands to retrieve a trans-pride flag which he holds in front of his body.

Reduxx has identified the male in the video as Marie Willa Bobo-Smith, a nudist activist who resides in Fort Bragg, California.

Bobo-Smith, formerly known as Maurice Smith, has been a pro-nudist activist for a number of years, maintaining a strong presence in the nudist community since 2012.

Bobo-Smith has maintained a blog titled Simple Naturist for 13 years, regularly posting lengthy diatribes about his belief that public nudity should be made legal and protected by the law.

“As Americans, we live in an insane world, where you can legally carry and conceal a gun, but risk imprisonment should anyone see your genitals,” Bobo-Smith wrote in December of 2012. “We live in a world where children entertain fantasies of killing innocents in video games, but the sight of a nipple is unacceptable and psychologically damaging.”

Bobo-Smith began transitioning in 2018, beginning a hormone regimen. The next year, he launched a GoFundMe campaign requesting donations to help him afford the “gender confirmation surgery” he wanted to undergo with Dr. Marci Bowers in the Bay Area.

Bowers, a trans-identified male, is the current President of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, and has become controversial for his role in promoting the medical transitioning of children.

An old Vimeo account belonging to Bobo-Smith pre-transition featured videos of the man doing a number of tasks while nude, including cooking, washing his dogs, and cleaning.

But in some of the videos he is in public, such as in one where he is naked while driving, and another while he is pumping gas at a service station.

In 2021, Bobo-Smith participated in a nudist rally in Fort Bragg, giving a speech at the event in which he condemned the stigma surrounding nudity and relating it to an experience he had walking topless following the hormone-induced growth of his breasts.

“Imagine: that as a transgender woman I am the living embodiment of a sexual double standard. Men can walk around top free and post photos of themselves on the internet and when a woman does it, she then becomes a slut, a whore and illegal,” he declared.

Bobo-Smith has been married since 1993, with his wife remaining with him throughout his transition. According to his social media history, he has children and grandchildren.

Over the years, Bobo-Smith has admitted to exposing his children to his genitalia, slamming critics of the practice as close-minded puritans. He insists there are no sinister motives to the practice, and advocates for nudism as a “lifestyle.”

In one post recently shared to his Instagram, Bobo-Smith uploaded a photo of a child’s doll representing a little girl with a penis. Bobo-Smith describes keeping a stuffed animals in his bedroom, along with a child’s doll intended to resemble a little girl with a penis.

“I got to have a great conversation with my grandson [name redacted] this morning. He’s six years old. He finally saw this naked doll sitting amongst our stuffed animals in mine and Marge’s bedroom,” Bobo-Smith describes. “When he saw it, he shockingly exclaimed ‘meemaw!’”

Bobo-Smith then describes a short exchange in which the child says “boys have penises,” to which he responds: “some boys have a penis and some boys have a vulva.”

On TikTok, Bobo-Smith has claimed he also has fostered children, with other “nudists” curiously asking him how he managed to get approval to become a foster parent despite his open nudism.

In the comments from a TikTok video uploaded in May, Bobo-Smith advised another nudist aspiring to be a foster parent that his nudism had been “addressed and resolved” at one point during the fostering process.

While Bobo-Smith has now deleted his TikTok account, Reduxx was able to archive multiple videos Bobo-Smith published following the initial outburst of concern prompted by the footage of him exposing himself to a child.

“People on the bird app formerly known as Twitter seem really shocked by a recent post of mine and asked ‘you mean your family and your friends have all seen you naked?’ Well, yeah. Everyone I know has seen me naked,” Bobo-Smith says. “I see nudity as normal and I do my utmost to show other people that nudity is a normal thing.”

https://reduxx.info/transgender-nudist-reported-to-child-protective-authorities-after-disturbing-video-sparks-outrage/

The regional branch of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the state of Saxony-Anhalt has been classified as an extremist organization by the state’s domestic intelligence agency, just days after the party achieved first place in a state-wide poll.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, claimed to have gathered sufficient evidence to prove several of its members and elected officials are right-wing extremists.

The move was confirmed by Jochen Hollmann, the head of the agency’s regional division in Saxony-Anhalt, on Tuesday.

He explained that the AfD’s regional association in the state had been under investigation for alleged extremism since 2021, but the federal intelligence agency has now received new information to show the party is “not compatible with human dignity, democracy, and the rule of law.”

Saxony-Anhalt is the second state where the AfD’s regional party has been denounced as an extremist organization following findings in Thuringia back in 2021.

The classification provides federal intelligence agents with greater powers to monitor the communications of party officials and members, raising serious questions about civil liberties and democratic norms in Germany.

Such surveillance includes but is not limited to the recruitment and use of informants, the tracking of financial flows, as well as wiretapping, reading, and monitoring the private communications of German citizens.

In an exclusive interview with Remix News back in September, German MEP Maximilian Krah, who is preparing to lead the AfD’s 2024 European Parliament election campaign, claimed that Germany has a history of using an extensive surveillance regime that has long targeted the opposition.

“I suspect that even this call we are now having is being surveilled,” he told us.

“In other democratic countries, it would be unbelievable to have a government agency surveilling the opposition the way they surveil us.

“There is something new, however: The public and the voters don’t care about it anymore. Although they surveil us, although they write in the newspapers that they consider us to be a threat to public order, people just don’t care. They continue to vote for us. They join our ranks,” he added.

On Tuesday, Nikolaus Kramer, chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, described the move by the intelligence agency as “transparent and a pitiful attempt at denunciation.”

The move comes just days after a poll conducted by INSA for the German tabloid newspaper Bild showed the AfD storming to first place in the state of Saxony-Anhalt with 33 percent of the vote.

The right-wing populist party, which campaigns against mass immigration, opposes the provision of arms to Ukraine, and is inherently Eurosceptic, tops the polls following a surge in popularity of 7 percentage points since the last polling in April.

The state of Saxony-Anhalt is currently governed by a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), widely considered to be the political mainstream under threat from a considerable rise in populism across the country.

Support for the AfD, which has typically been reserved for states previously located in the former East Germany, has grown exponentially across the country, and the German electorate is far more welcoming of the party being involved in government than officials within mainstream politics.

A poll by Civey for Spiegel magazine found that 47 percent of Germans would find it acceptable if parties entered a coalition with the AfD at the state level, a figure that rises to 55 percent in eastern states.

Nationally, the party is hot on the heels of the opposition CDU, regularly polling in second place and comfortably ahead of the parties involved in the federal liberal coalition.

https://rmx.news/germany/afd-classified-as-extremist-in-saxony-anhalt-enabling-greater-powers-of-state-surveillance-just-days-after-party-tops-state-poll/

The gruesome plans of three young Islamists to kill dozens of young women and men at the Pride parade in Vienna are now known: Chats show that the terrorists and their leader (15) planned a car rampage into the crowd on June 17 – and also wanted to murder people by stabbing them.

He is said to have stated that he wanted to run over participants at the event with a car or attack them with knives, according to a joint investigation by the news programme Puls 24, and the newspaper Der Standard and the Austrian Press Agency APA. This is the first concrete indication of a planned attack in the investigations against the 15-year-old Viennese and the 18- and 20-year-old brothers from St. Pölten. So far, IS propaganda has been found on the mobile phones of the three, the youngest is also said to have made it himself, founded a “terror channel” and had several bomb-making instructions.

The suspected Islamist living abroad, whose mobile phone has now revealed further details, is said to have been in contact with the St. Pölten brothers via various social media platforms. In spring 2023, communication with the foreign suspected jihadist about a planned attack in Vienna, specifically at a “gay parade”, is said to have taken place.

The 18-year-old brother chatted with at least two suspected IS supporters outside Austria, discussing plans to attack the Vienna Pride Parade and holding out the prospect of acquiring an AK-47 automatic rifle and a large knife for a terrorist attack in the Czech Republic. His older brother is said to have given him “at least psychological support”.

A report by the deradicalisation centre “Derad” from mid-October states that the brothers were “trying to do everything right”. In the case of the younger of the two, “a genuine radicalisation in the sense of solidified extremist views or patterns of behaviour could not be established on the basis of previous conversations”.

But the investigators also found a number of things on the mobile phone of the young man, who was only 14 years old at the time of the Vienna Pride parade, that pointed to his radicalisation. He is said to have created and edited propaganda material promoting terrorism, used a chat group to fundraise for weapons purchases for the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) and stated that he wanted to join the ISKP in Afghanistan as soon as he reached the age of majority.

Kripo deckt auf: So wollten Islamisten bei Wiens Pride-Parade morden | Exxpress

Portugal’s Prime Minister António Costa resigned Tuesday amid a police probe into suspected nepotism and corruption.

Police arrested the PM’s chief of staff Vítor Escária, along with Lacerda Machado, a businessman close to Costa, and at least three others.

A team of 140 detectives continued to search the Socialist Party PM’s official residence, along with the infrastructure and environment ministries.

These raids formed part of a four-year investigation by Portuguese prosecutors into alleged wrongdoing in the hydrogen and lithium industries.

Costa may have been involved in granting operating rights and contracts for green hydrogen and lithium mining projects. Portugal has Europe’s largest supply of lithium. A critical raw material, it is used in a range of technologies, including electric car batteries.

Costa said he was caught by surprise by the corruption investigation but promised to collaborate.

“As always, I have full confidence in justice and its functioning,” he said on Tuesday.

“However, I understand that the dignity of the office of prime minister is not compatible with any suspicion regarding integrity, good conduct and, even less, with the suspicion of any criminal act,” Costa added.

Prosecutors are investigating how lithium concessions were awarded by the government in the Romano (Montalegre) and Barroso (Boticas) mines. They are also exploring a hydrogen-based power plant project in Sines, and a data centre in the Sines industrial zone.

The attorney general’s office said it was also investigating João Galamba, the minister for infrastructure, and Nuno Lacasta, chairman of the board of the Portuguese Environment.

The two were being investigated for alleged influence peddling, malfeasance, and active and passive corruption by a political office holder, said the public prosecutor’s office.

The European Union calls lithium a pivotal element in Europe’s transition towards digital, energy-efficient, and climate-neutral economies. The mineral is key to achieving Paris Agreement goals.

The European Commission has distributed billions of euros of subsidies to the lithium industry in Europe.

Breaking: Portugal's government is about to fall because of a widening Green Hydrogen scandal.

Wild!

I thought they'd figured out a way to get around the laws of thermodynamics that show Green H2 is awful, but you're telling me this whole time it was just old school corruption? pic.twitter.com/hiGIaFgMBj

— Mark Nelson (@energybants) November 7, 2023

https://brusselssignal.eu/2023/11/portuguese-pm-antonio-costa-resigns-over-corruption-allegations/

Our Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo told Times Radio & Talk TV that hateful elements in recent protests are abusing our freedoms. They loathe Britain & the West, yet they use our hard-won liberties to undermine our culture and civilisation. World War Two veterans still alive will be forgiven for wondering: Is this the Britain we fought to defend?

Ten secondary schools were evacuated on Tuesday following bomb threats. All of them are located in the Grenoble area.

These were the lycées Stendhal, Champollion, Louise-Michel, Vaucanson, des Eaux-Claires, André-Argouges and Emmanuel-Mounier in Grenoble as well as the lycée Marie-Curie in Échirolles, Porte de l’Oisans in Vizille and Jacques-Prévert in Fontaine. At the lycées Porte de l’Oisans in Vizille and Jacques-Prévert in Fontaine, security concerns were allayed in the late morning. The Marie-Curie and Vaucanson high schools had already been evacuated on Monday.

On Monday evening, the public prosecutor of Grenoble declared that “the Lycée Vaucanson in Grenoble and the Lycée Marie-Curie in Échirolles have received the same message about an Islamist-motivated bomb threat. It is of course impossible to know at this stage whether the author of this e-mail is an actual criminal acting in the name of Islam or not”. (…) Le Progrès / Alertes à la bombe : dix lycées évacués dans l’agglomération de Grenoble ; le procureur évoque “le même message d’alerte à la bombe à connotation islamiste” – Fdesouche