Incurable newborn can’t be transferred to Italy – UK judge

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A judge at the High Court in London has denied the parents of Indi Gregory, an eight-month-old English baby girl seriously ill with an incurable mitochondrial disease and hospitalised at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, the possibility of taking her to Italy to continue to keep her alive through the support of machines and avoid her being taken off life support according to the British doctors’ intention.
For Indi’s case, the Vatican run Bambino Gesù children’s hospital in Rome had come forward and offered to assist her, as it had done in the past for two other British children, but in that case, too, British justice had said ‘no’.
The girl’s parents voiced sorrow at the ruling.

Incurable newborn can’t be transferred to Italy – UK judge – English – ANSA.it

Foreigners convicted of nearly half of all rapes and murders in Switzerland last year

Foreign nationals were convicted of almost half of all rapes and homicides reported in Switzerland last year as federal government data reveals the drastic overrepresentation of migrants from predominantly Muslim countries in the country’s crime statistics.

A total of 93,693 people were convicted of crimes in Switzerland last year according to data published last month by the Federal Statistics Bureau. This related to a total of 103,156 crimes — with some people sentenced for multiple offenses — which represents an increase of 3 percent over the previous year.

Of those convicted, just 39,798 were Swiss nationals, meaning 57.5 percent of all solved crimes were committed by foreign nationals.

The data was analyzed by Marc Vanguard, a French-speaking statistician with a particular focus on immigration and security.

His breakdown showed that foreign nationals were convicted of 47 percent of all solved rapes and 44 percent of murders in the country in 2022. In addition, 45 percent of assaults and 41 percent of aggravated thefts with a known suspect were committed by foreigners.

The figures reveal a disproportionate number of migrants committing crimes in the country, given Switzerland’s foreign-born population is estimated at around 26 percent.

When categorized geographically, it showed that migrants from predominantly Muslim countries were more likely to be convicted of these serious crimes. Maghreb migrants — those originating from the North African Arab nations of Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria — were seven times more likely to have committed these crimes than a Swiss national.

Migrants from sub-Sahara Africa were five times more likely, Afghan and Pakistani nationals were three times more likely, and Romanian and Bulgarian nationals were two times more likely to be convicted of serious offenses.

There was no difference in the likelihood of these crimes being committed by a Swiss national when compared to foreign nationals from the rest of the European Union, or Russia and Ukraine, while Chinese nationals were less likely to commit these offenses than Swiss citizens.

According to Vanguard’s analysis, African migrants were also three times more likely to be convicted of drug offenses, and two-and-a-half times more often convicted of traffic offenses than the Swiss.

Switzerland has some of the strongest crime data in Europe. Vanguard explained how conviction rates are calculated by “dividing an exact number of convictions over an exact population,” with only Swiss residents in possession of a “renewable long-stay residence permit” being taken into account.

This means two things: The data is as transparent as is feasibly possible, but comes with the caveat that undocumented migrants living unlawfully in the country are excluded from it, inevitably distorting the figures on the proportion of crimes committed by foreign nationals to an extent.

The French statistician revealed that the same nationalities overrepresented in the Swiss crime data also top the lists in other European nations, citing Germany, Italy, Austria, and Denmark as examples.

“The comparison with German data shows a disturbing similarity,” he remarked.

“The link between immigration and insecurity is undeniable. It is time to disseminate these figures very widely to contribute to collective awareness,” he added.

https://rmx.news/migration/foreigners-convicted-of-nearly-half-of-all-rapes-and-murders-in-switzerland-last-year/

Austria to work with UK on Rwanda-style plan for migrants

Austria has signed an agreement with the UK to work more closely on migration. Vienna wants to deport asylum seekers to a third nation by implementing a treaty similar to the UK-Rwanda plan.

Austrian interior minister Gerhard Karner and UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman held talks about using “safe” third countries to reduce the impact of mass illegal migration.

Karner said: “The UK has a lot of experience when it comes to processing asylum applications outside of Europe in the future. That was an important theme in my meeting with the Home Secretary in Vienna because Austria can benefit from this experience.”

Both countries have now struck a “migration and security agreement” where they will work more closely together on the issues.

With this, Austria becomes the first European Union country to work with the UK on the deportation of asylum seekers. That is despite the original British plan being held up in a legal battle in the UK’s Supreme Court.

Denmark has also been working on similar plans and those are also held up, but the country has an opt-out on asylum and migration policy in the EU.

A major difference between the UK plan and the Austrian version is that the latter will allow successful applicants to come to Austria, while those rejected will be returned to their home country.

The UK plan aims to keep successful applicants in Rwanda unless they would be at risk of “serious and irreversible harm”.

London has been encouraging its European allies to update international agreements relating to asylum, such as the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the UN Refugee Convention.

Britain, as with many countries in the EU, is reeling under the pressure of mass migration, which is causing societal problems and raising political tensions.

Karner said: “We will continue to make a consistent effort for the EU Commission to advance and enable such procedures outside of Europe.”

Austria has been tougher on migration than many other European countries, employing a strict asylum policy.

It now wants to enact new legislation to expedite the deportation of immigrants to “safe countries of origin”.

Karner also suggested “a pilot project for rapid asylum procedures at the EU’s external borders”.

Brussels also seems to open up to such plans as it tries to come to terms with problems regarding Tunisia over migration, while record numbers of arrivals to the EU come in via Spain and Italy.

Although there are a host of difficulties on this front, Europe does intend to do more such deals with other countries.

The idea for keeping borders tightly closed and using third countries to shelter asylum seekers originated in Australia.

That country overhauled its migration policy when it was facing a major immigration crisis and as many refugees died while trying to reach its shores.

Stricter rules and tight border controls were implemented, with no chance for illegal migrants to stay in the country.

The effects have seen attempts to illegally reach Australia virtually ended and the number of migrants dying at sea has dropped close to zero.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2023/11/austria-to-work-with-uk-on-rwanda-style-plan-for-migrants/

UK Tories Made Interns Complete ‘Privilege Walks’

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A British political party has asked its interns to complete ‘privilege walks’ to draw attention to their white, middle-class advantages. Not Labour, but the Conservatives.

The Daily Telegraph this week reported that Tory interns have been quizzed on their race, gender, sexuality, and disability “to help staff identify whether they are more fortunate than their colleagues.” The paper noted:

If a participant answered “yes” to a question, they had to take a step forward. The person who travelled the furthest during the exercise was deemed the “most privileged.”

The ‘training,’ said writer Wanjiru Njoya, is evidence that the Tories are “woke-captured.” The Spectator Australia correspondent Mark Higgie added: “Who would have thought that the party of Thatcher and Churchill would be one of Britain’s institutions captured not just a bit but comprehensively by the Left?” In fact, the training occurs not only in “the party of Thatcher,” as Higgie puts it, but “outside the Margaret Thatcher boardroom at the Conservative Campaign headquarters in London,” according to the Telegraph.

The ‘privilege walk’ forms part of a workshop led by the Patchwork Foundation charity, which is supported by Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish Nationalist Party, and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan—as well as the Tories.

Party officials tried to distance themselves from the activity, stating: “Patchwork Foundation development days are run alongside, but are separate to, the CCHQ [Conservative Campaign Headquarters] internship. These meetings are run solely by the Patchwork Foundation and are not influenced by CCHQ.” Not influenced by, but still supported and adopted by CCHQ.

Commenting on this organisational branch of the Conservative Party, Bow Group Chairman Ben Harris-Quinney told The European Conservative:

Many people puzzle over how the Conservative Party can have got to the state it’s in, but it can arguably be answered in 4 letters: CCHQ.

It is the civil service of the Conservative Party that decides who all the candidates will be, whether the membership likes it or not. It is from here that [former Tory leader David] Cameron’s master plan to turn the Conservative Party into ‘New Labour’ was carried out. That is how we have ended up with a Parliament half-full of progressive liberals posing as conservatives, perfectly balanced by the other half of progressive liberals posing as socialists.

Every now and then, we get a glimpse of what an even more horrific future looks like when news emerges of the latest CCHQ plot to eradicate any remaining straight white males from public life, unless they went to Eton. With young interns newly trained to loathe their prospective voter base, the conclusion must be that the Conservative Party is far from its end, and has a bright long future of self-destruction ahead of it.

The Telegraph noted that interns could not refuse to attend this training when the programme was launched in 2021, but that the 2023 cohort was spared the ‘privilege walks.’”’

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/uk-tories-made-interns-complete-privilege-walks/

Missing Sara ( aged 16) from Tyrol: Captured by Islamists in a Sharia cellar?

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Schoolgirl Sara (16) from Innsbruck has been missing since August 2022. The police believe that the girl was forced into a marriage under Islamic law. The mother has since received information about an alleged “Sharia cellar” in Berlin. Sara is said to have been forced into prostitution there.

The police in Tyrol are now following up information provided by Sara’s mother, Yasmin S.. She had come across a young woman via TikTok who was said to know Sara. Both were allegedly members of a WhatsApp group where young girls receive information on how to get to Berlin. Men who claim to be part of the group around the “Sharia basement” are also posting on social networks. The Innsbruck criminal investigation department, which is in contact with the German police, confirms that “tips are coming in all the time”. The police are not yet in a position to judge whether these tips are serious.

Sara began to radicalise at the age of 14
The “Sharia cellar” is said to consist of several rooms that are allegedly run by a sect in the German capital. They are said to have been rented by radical Islamists to force young women into prostitution. There is no official confirmation of this, but Sara’s mother is certain that her daughter is in Berlin.

The missing schoolgirl from Tyrol began to radicalise at the age of 14. The teenager developed into a strict Muslim, who from then on veiled herself with a niqab and dreamed of marrying according to Islamic custom. She is said to have left Austria on August 22,2022 with an older man she had met online. Since then, there has been no trace of Sara and her mother has never heard from her daughter again.

https://exxpress.at/vermisste-sara-16-aus-tirol-gefangen-von-islamisten-in-scharia-keller/

River clean-up campaign removes 280,000 pounds of trash… thanks to diesel machinery

By Olivia Murray

Which way Western greenie? Campaigns of environmental restoration and conservation that require heavy machinery to get the job done, or the “green” agenda propelling the destruction of the petroleum industry for the sake of saving face against those obnoxious “told ya so” conservatives? (Given what I know about their “character” and “intellect” I suspect the latter.)

A non-profit organization based in the Netherlands and known as The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) is on a mission to “rid the oceans of plastic” and naturally, that means cleanup campaigns also target bodies of water that flow into the oceans; a few weeks ago, OC shared a pretty incredible time-lapse video of their efforts on X, which you can watch below:

280,000 pounds of trash and plastic debris removed from the planet’s waterways… largely thanks to the power of diesel machinery. From an excavator and into the back of a big truck, diesel fuel powered this massive and successful cleanup. Now without being able to offer really any intelligent analysis on heavy machinery and what it takes to run these things, I am capable of conducting a simple internet search to look up “excavator fuel consumption”—I found that it only takes between 4 and 5 gallons of diesel to run a machine like this each hour.

Now, take a look at this figure, from the Manhattan Institute:

[A] single electric car battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials.

Obviously the “materials” is earth, which is moved by heavy equipment during the mining process for the minerals needed in the battery—and remember, the excavator “extracting” and “processing” the plastic trash only moved 280,000 pounds. Ergo, we can assume that diesel-powered machinery is roughly in use for almost double the time to procure the materials needed for a single E.V. battery, than it is to run a huge river cleanup project. Considering the magnitude of the impact of a drastically cleaner tributary, it seems like a more worthwhile use of diesel fuel than moving 250 tons of dirt just to make one E.V. car battery, and if the greenies want to cut back on “emissions” it seems like eliminating the juice-isn’t-worth-the-squeeze mining process for rechargeable car batteries is the best place to start.

I can already anticipate some greenie saying to me (if they were actually clever enough to make the connection), “well, if it weren’t for the petroleum industry, there wouldn’t be plastic pollution!” Yes that’s true, but plastic already exists and people use it, and if the greenies really want to see a change to a less toxic environment (like I do), I’d appeal to them to stop shoring up crony capitalism and government intervention in the free market with their votes and their apathy, since that is the root of all kinds of plastic evil.

What’s funny though, is the inconvenient realities don’t stop with the necessity of diesel fuel to run real projects of environmental restoration. I also see a floating barricade, a technology which required ingenuity, and a dedicated team of workers—someone had to take the initiative and get up and go to work to run that excavator and drive that truck. These are values born out of a Judeo-Christian culture as it encourages resilience, tenacity, individual responsibility, entrepreneurialism, good stewardship, etc. 

The “greenies” have a dilemma: environmentalism with an observed and positive impact which is what they claim to want, or keep on promoting leftist “climate alarmism” for the sake of saving face and some pseudo-virtue points?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/river_cleanup_campaign_removes_280000_pounds_of_trash_thanks_to_diesel_machinery.html

Syrian man stabbed in German gym: “Wanted to kill enemies of Islam”

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In April, eXXpress reported extensively on a Syrian who carried out knife attacks against passers-by in a fitness centre and on the street in the German city of Duisburg. In court, the 27-year-old Islamist proudly admitted to the offences. He wanted to fulfil the demand of the terror militia IS and “kill all enemies”.

His confession does not resonate with remorse, according to trial observers. In the knife attacks in April, a man was killed in the street and four people were injured in a gym. For the perpetrator, a Syrian who had arrived in Germany as a “refugee” in 2016, this was revenge for all crimes against Muslims worldwide. He wanted to kill as many people as possible.

The Syrian accused of murder and attempted murder also admitted to posting an IS article on Facebook on the 9th of April. It stated that the Islamic State would remain and its soldiers would expand the battle fronts “until the whole earth becomes a single jihad”, the newspaper “Welt” quotes the Islamist’s abhorrent world view.

Syrer stach in Fitnessstudio zu: “Wollte Feinde des Islams töten” | Exxpress

Male Cyclist Takes Home 10th Women’s Cycling Medal During Campton Cross 2023

A male athlete who has dominated the women’s category of cycling competitions across the United States took home two first-place medals over the weekend, bringing his tally of women’s gold medals up to 10 since December of 2022.

On October 29, the Chicago CycloCross Cup held the fourth race of its eight-race event at Anderson Park in Campton Township, Illinois. As part of the race, over one dozen different categories for men, women, and juniors were offered. But the event is once again under fire after a trans-identified male racer took home not one, but two women’s medals.

Tessa Johnson, a male who self-identifies as a woman, took the top spots in both the Women’s SingleSpeed and Category 1/2 races, with the latter also coming with $150 in prize money.

During the races, which fell on the weekend before Halloween, Johnson was dressed as Barbie as part of the optional costume competition.

But this is not Johnson’s first time taking home awards intended for women in the Chicago CycloCross Cup.

As previously reported by Reduxx, Johnson also took first place in the Women’s SingleSpeed and Category 1/2 races at the Chicago CycloCross Cup during its event at Jackson Park in Chicago, Illinois, earlier this month. During the race, another trans-identified male, Evelyn Williamson, took silver during the SingleSpeed, leaving only one biological female on the podium.

According to the Chicago CycloCross Cup’s website, the competition prides itself on “first and foremost fostering a positive & supportive community built around competitive cyclocross racing,” continuing: “That means welcoming and challenging everyone who wants to contribute to the series and make it better in that regard.”

In its official FAQ on the topic of transgender cyclists, the Cup notes that “discrimination or harassment of any kind on the basis of race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, or any other stupid idea someone comes up with to belittle another racer will not be tolerated at [our] events and may result in disqualification.”

News of Johnson’s victory this weekend was first brought to light by X user @i_heart__bikes, an anonymous female cyclist who frequently calls out males self-identifying as “women” in the sport. The post quickly prompted outrage amongst sports enthusiasts and women’s rights advocates.

“The selfishness of these males knows no limits,” one user replied.

“Women need to start boycotting these events. He’s a guy with all the physical benefits. USA Cycling needs to adopt the UCI standards and force these faux female riders to compete with the men,” another remarked.

Earlier this month, USA Cycling (USAC) announced it would be updating its transgender athlete participation policy, and aim to establish new categories for transgender athletes to compete across domestic races like the Chicago CycloCross Cup within the United States.

Beginning January 1, 2024, transgender athletes seeking to compete at USAC-sanctioned events will be categorized as either Group A or Group B athletes, depending on their discipline and race category, according to a press release from USA Cycling on October 19.

Group A athletes are those seeking to compete at the elite level, and must complete an “elite athlete fairness evaluation application” for review by an independent medical panel. This process includes the submission of medical documentation demonstrating that the athlete’s total testosterone level had been reduced for at least 24 months and must be completed 90 days prior to the first day of the race in which the athlete seeks to compete.

Group B athletes, those seeking to compete in domestic, non-elite competitions, would simply have to complete a “self-identity verification request” for review by the USA Cycling technical director. This process is a simple assessment to ensure that the athlete has completed a legal change in gender identity.

The changes were slammed by women’s sports advocates as wholly inadequate, with the International Council on Women’s Sports noting that both “groups” provide male athletes a pathway to compete in women’s categories.

https://reduxx.info/male-cyclist-takes-home-10th-womens-cycling-medal-during-campton-cross-2023/

Leftist Takeover of South America: Chilean Conservative Kast Throws in with Globalists

The globalist takeover of South America was nearly completed with the ouster of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil 2022. In 2021, Chilean conservative presidential candidate José Antonio Kast narrowly lost to socialist Israel hater Gabriel Boric. Now Kast has been co-opted by the globalist left to support a new globalist Chilean constitution, writes commentator Sven von Storch:

Hello, I’m Sven von Storch, writing from Berlin, Germany.

Today I would like to publicly apologize for supporting José Antonio Kast in the past.

Today I would also like to publicly withdraw my support from him.

The truth is that I am ashamed to have supported him after observing his positions and comments in recent weeks and months.

José Antonio Kast not only betrayed his voters, but also committed political fraud against all Chileans by refraining from defending the Chilean constitution and now supporting a new fake constitution.

In doing so, he not only broke his political promise, but also lost his credibility as a politician for me.

José Antonio Kast has changed sides.

In doing so, he has given up defending the deepest interests of the Chileans.

Migrant majority in Germany is ‘only a matter of time,’ warns Bild’s ex-chief political correspondent

The “Migrant Manifesto” recently published by German newspaper Bild that warns new arrivals to respect Western culture is a “pack of lies” as, in reality, migrants have long appropriated Germany for their own and will soon be in the majority, Ralf Schulerthe tabloid’s former chief political correspondent, has claimed.

In an interview published by the Hungarian newspaper Magyar Hírlap, Schuler said the first migratory wave of 2015 changed Germany indefinitely, and yet members of the commentariat and political elite continue to bury their heads in the sand as to the consequences.

“The truth is that the uncontrolled migration wave of 2015 and the subsequent attacks, such as the ax and knife atrocities against women on the trains in Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz, the gang rapes, were seen by anyone who wanted to see them,” he said.

The former Bild political correspondent said his former employer had adopted an “initial, migration-friendly” attitude towards the influx of new arrivals at the time, but had since shifted towards a “more realistic approach.”

“Nowadays, we can hardly close our eyes to the consequences of daily attacks, violent demonstrations, and illegal migration,” he added.

Germany’s best-selling tabloid newspaper published its 50-point migrant manifesto last week which it claimed was a guide for new arrivals into Germany to adhere to.

The publication urged anyone who considers the German constitution or its legal system to be a collection of non-binding advice to “leave Germany as quickly as possible,” and told new arrivals to learn German, insisting “only if we speak the same language will we understand each other.”

It further reminded new arrivals that “non-believers” don’t exist in Germany, and urged migrants not to marry children or stone women for adultery.

Schuler told Maygar Hírlap that while the document may have been well-intentioned, it is simply not borne out of reality, as Germany’s ever-growing migrant population has been free to install its own culture in the country with little resistance.

“It’s a big dose of lies,” Schuler said to expect that migrants will conform to the rules of German culture. He cited the vast numbers of “militant Muslims who march through Berlin every year on the so-called Al-Quds Day” as an example of Muslim disintegration in the country.

“A point in the Bild manifesto says that people shake hands in Germany. Orthodox Muslims have never done this — especially not with women — and will not do so in the future.

“It is simply logical that the more Muslims immigrate, the more Muslim a country becomes,” he added.

The German journalist highlighted the growing percentage of those aged under 16 being foreign-born in the country and warned that “at best, the awakening has only just begun.”

“It’s only a matter of time before the first generation grows up as majority migrants. So an exciting question is who integrates whom?” he asked.

Schuler criticized the German Green Party, which he claimed remains opposed to immigration restrictions and is committed to labeling anyone who disagrees with its liberal agenda as racist.

“The Green Party, which is part of the government coalition, is still unwilling to face reality. They see the difficulties of illegal immigration as simply a problem of infrastructure and costs but refuse to limit illegal migration itself,” he said.

“The left and the Green camp are quick to classify those who raise the issue of the presence of illegal migrants in Germany as right-wing extremists and accuse them of anti-Muslim racism, or even general xenophobia.”

He added that Germany’s “naive and self-destructive Willkommenskultur (welcome culture)” — which has its roots in the civilizational rupture borne from Germany’s problematic history — is starting to be challenged once again by the voters.

“This is reflected, among other things, in the growing number of votes for the Alternative for Germany (AfD),” he added.

https://rmx.news/germany/migrant-majority-in-germany-is-only-a-matter-of-time-warns-bilds-ex-chief-political-correspondent/