Month: December 2023

Great. It’s time for another call for “peace” that will be achieved by giving up all our weapons.

Pope Francis on Monday blasted the weapons industry and its “instruments of death” that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world and in particular between Israel and the Palestinians…

“It should be talked about and written about, so as to bring to light the interests and the profits that move the puppet strings of war,” he said. “And how can we even speak of peace, when arms production, sales and trade are on the rise?”

If he’s going to give up weapons, maybe start with telling the Swiss Guard to give up its “instruments of death”?

“For their protection and guard functions, the guards are equipped with Glock 19 and 26 automatic pistols, SIG 550 assault rifle (Stgw 90 ) and SIG 552 assault rifle (Commando), both in 5.56 mm x 45 caliber, OC-Spray and destabilizing devices (Taser X2). modernization of the already aging Stgw 90 (which was donated by the Swiss Army at the time), currently B&T APC 556 assault rifles and B&T APC 9 submachine guns are used.”

Beyond these, the only reason Vatican City isn’t overrun by guys with machine guns mounted on pickup trucks howling, “Allahu Akbar” is because there still is an Italian military, under the Lateran Treaty, such as it is, armed with some of those “instruments of death”.

Beyond it there’s the larger European community, NATO and the United States and all their instruments of death which serve as a guarantor of the security of the Vatican.

This is not a theoretical question.

Jihadists are obsessed with the idea of invading and conquering Rome to fulfill some of the genocidal prophecies of their cult.

On January 17, 2020, a video was uploaded to the Internet of an event at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on the anniversary of the 1453 AD capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire. The event was held by Hizb ut-Tahrir. Palestinian preacher Nidhal “Abu Ibrahim” Siam spoke before the crowd and said that the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople brings tidings that Rome will be conquered in the near future.

Nidhal Siam: “Oh Muslims, the anniversary of the conquest of Constantinople brings tidings of things to come. It brings tiding that Rome will be conquered in the near future, Allah willing.

Samir Zaqout, the head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Political Bureau in Gaza, said in a June 8, 2023 show on Al-Quds Al-Youm TV (Palestinian Islamic Jihad – Gaza) the Muslims will conquer Rome and Europe as the Prophet Muhammad foretold in the Hadith.” He said that this will happen “at its destined time.”

In a Friday sermon that aired on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV on April 11, 2008, Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal said: “Very soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople was, as was prophesized by our Prophet Muhammad. Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam, and has planted the brothers of apes and pigs [i.e., the Jews] in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam – this capital of theirs will be an advance post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, and even Eastern Europe.

While Pope Francis encourages the Muslim migrants swarming into Europe to complete these genocidal “prophecies”, the only thing standing between Vatican City and an invasion are brave men armed with some of those “instruments of death.”

https://www.frontpagemag.com/pope-francis-wants-everyone-except-the-men-protecting-him-to-give-up-their-weapons/

A football club from Peru has captured the hearts of Polish fans due to its special connection to a man venerated by the Polish people.

Juan Pablo II College Chongoyape, a team from the small Peruvian city of Chongoyape with a population of around 19,000, has become a topic of excitement in Poland.

This surge of interest is not due to their athletic prowess in Peru’s lower football leagues, but because the team was created in tribute to Saint John Paul II, the Polish pope. The saint’s image is proudly displayed on the team’s shirts and club emblem.

Chongoyape, mainly an agricultural city focusing on rice, sugar cane, and corn cultivation, is a city that is in love with football, which is one of the primary forms of entertainment for local residents.

Although the Juan Pablo II College Chongoyape team has been relatively unknown globally, it has recently gained fame in Poland. The club’s name and emblem, directly connecting to the Polish pope, have struck a chord with Polish football enthusiasts.

In recent weeks, the team, affectionately nicknamed “Juanos Pablitos,” has recently fought to be promoted to the second division of Peruvian football. They reached the semifinals in cup competitions, a significant achievement for the team. Due to the team’s efforts, it has been confirmed that Juan Pablo II College Chongoyape will play in Peru’s professional second division next year.

Interestingly, the Peruvian club enjoys the support of numerous fans who wave flags featuring John Paul II. The pope himself was a great football fan, particularly of the club Cracovia from Kraków, and famously stated that “of all the unimportant things, football is the most important.” This connection has resonated deeply with Polish fans, bridging a unique bond between a small Peruvian town and the football community in Poland.

https://rmx.news/poland/polish-fans-rally-around-peruvian-football-club-honoring-saint-john-paul-ii/

On Christmas Day, Bishop Ivo Muser celebrated the Christmas service with the faithful in Bolzano Cathedral. Before the sermon, however, there was a disturbing and provocative incident.

According to the South Tyrolean media, the incident took place on Christmas Day in Bolzano Cathedral. Pro-Palestinian supporters suddenly disrupted the peaceful and contemplative mass. Shouting loudly, they positioned themselves in front of the faithful and put up a poster. It read: “There is genocide in Gaza…Christmas is cancelled…for a free Palestine.”

The police have since begun an investigation. They did not intervene during the mass. Bishop Muser had prayed a prayer for peace for Ukraine, the Holy Land and all war zones during the Christmas mass.

Bozen: Aktivisten stören Weihnachtsgottesdienst – UnserTirol24

The Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) has been forced to drop their new regulations on men who want to participate in women’s competitions after being sued by a trans-identified male player. The lawsuit was launched earlier this year by Natalie Ryan, who had been dominating women’s competitions prior to the PDGA attempting to rein in male competitors.

Ryan first filed a suit against the PDGA in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California this past February. In his complaint, he argued that a recently-adopted PDGA policy prohibiting trans-identified males from competing with women if they had undergone a “male puberty” violated his civil rights and California laws against discrimination.

“The policy adopted by the PDGA and [Disc Golf Pro Tour] is arbitrary and capricious and in violation of Plaintiff’s right to be free from discrimination based on her gender,” the suit said, arguing that policies restricting widespread male participation in women’s sport “denied [Ryan] and other transgender women, who in the eyes of California law are women, full and equal access to the accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, and/or services of [PDGA] organizations.”

Yesterday, a settlement between Ryan and PDGA was announced. While the full terms are not available for public consumption, part of the agreement included PDGA dropping the policy which banned males from competing with women unless they had begun transitioning prior to puberty. This change means that all males who had undergone at least two years of hormone therapy are able to compete with women once again.

In a statement, PDGA revealed that a lack of funds was part of the reason why they were unable to fight against Ryan’s litigation onslaught, with Ryan having filed suits against them in two separate states.

“The PDGA is not financially or logistically in a position to take the lead in multi-state litigation on this topic,” wrote the organization in their statement. “For the first time in recent memory, the PDGA will end the year with a net operating loss, and it is not in the best interest of our members to continue to allocate resources to further litigation.”

The rule revision is set to go into effect on January 1, 2024, and will be in place through at least the end of the 2025 season.

Following the settlement agreement, Ryan boasted of his victory on Instagram.

“All trans women will be equals at the elite level again. This is my victory. I had to be ruthless to get them to listen. I’m glad I can put that side of myself away,” he said.

Sieh dir diesen Beitrag auf Instagram an

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Natalie Ryan (@natalieryan114560)

Ryan has already signed up for a 2024 Tour Card and intends to play at most Disc Golf Pro Tour and Major events. 

The now-quashed PDGA policy is widely believed to have been proposed in response to Ryan’s performance in the female category, with the male athlete rapidly rising through the ranks and beating out elite female competitors.

In September of 2022 at the Disc Golf Pro Tour, Ryan easily defeated the world’s number 1 ranked female competitor, Kristin Tattar, taking home $9,000 in prize money. Months prior, at the Great Lakes Open in Milford, Michigan, Ryan walked away with $6,000 for a first-place performance, beating out the world’s current number 2 ranked female player.

Despite having only participated in women’s Disc Golf for a short few years, Ryan is currently ranked amongst the best “female” players in the world. Last year, after topping the Disc Golf Pro Tour, Ryan ranked into the top 5. Despite not participating in some major events this year due to his lawsuit, Ryan still ranks in the top 15.

Last year, two anonymous female disc golf players spoke with Quillette‘s Jon Kay and stated that Ryan’s biological sex was undoubtedly bolstering his success in the sport.

“I would say that one of the biggest advantages of the [male-bodied] players is their ability to scramble in tight situations when a disc goes off the fairway, to just stand there and blast a shot through the woods,” one of the women said. “I’ve seen both [trans player] Chloe [Alice] and Natalie [Ryan] do this. They’re just standing still and throw the kind of [forehand shot] that I’ve never seen a female throw even under perfect conditions.”

The other female player added: “What makes it worse is that Ryan’s form isn’t even that good. If it were, [he’d] be out-throwing us by even more. So while the rest of us spend years refining our form, trying to keep up and get more distance, [he’s] been in the sport only—what?—three years or something.”

Another female disc golf player, Jennifer Castro, revealed that she was aware of female athletes refusing to join tournaments where transgender players were enrolled due to the stark performance advantage.

“I personally know of women who refuse to sign up for events if a transgender is playing, not because we hate them but because we feel we have zero chance, so what is the point of wasting our money on registration fees?”

Speaking to Reduxx, Marshi Smith of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) condemned the PDGA and DGPT for buckling under pressure.

“Rest assured the DGPT has not seen their last courtroom. We will fight back on this. Men like Ryan cannot threaten sports bodies with financial ruin so they capitulate to misogynistic entitled demands tossing women aside,” Smith said.

ICONS had previously thrown their support behind protecting women’s disc golf, and the organization had held an emergency press conference following the initial news of Ryan’s lawsuits last year.

A number of female disc golfers participated in the Save Female Disc Golf campaign, slamming a Minnesota court judge who ordered PDGA to allow Ryan to participate in a tournament he had been barred from.

“Organizations must have a backbone and stand on fairness and integrity for their athletes – women included,” Smith added, revealing that ICONS has now launched a fund with the intention of supporting female athletes who wish to challenge male-inclusive policies in court.

“Men like Ryan have the backing of activist pro bono lawyers but we are building our own war chest for female athletes now. We refuse to surrender the hard-earned achievements of women and are prepared to stand firm.”

https://reduxx.info/transgender-disc-golfer-wins-settlement-forcing-professional-association-to-drop-new-restrictions-on-male-participation-in-womens-categories/

By Olivia Murray

Since mutilating and disfiguring the genitals of minors, chopping off children’s healthy body parts in Mengele-type experimental surgeries, and injecting human beings with synthetic cross-sex hormones to affirm a debilitating mental delusion apparently weren’t enough to compel the left to drop the “gender”-bending madness, I doubt the findings of a new study from Denmark will be either—although they should. According to a new article out at Slay News by David Lindfield:

The risk of heart disease is soaring among the growing number of transgenders being prescribed life-altering hormone drugs.

…

A new study published in the peer-reviewed European Journal of Endocrinology revealed that male transvestites taking feminizing hormones are 93% more likely to suffer heart disease than other men.

Female transgenders taking male testosterone are also 63% more likely to suffer heart disease than other women.

The study was published in September by the peer-reviewed European Journal of Endocrinology, and aside from the mental damage done by taking pharmaceuticals to interfere with natural sexual development and characteristics, the physical damage is seemingly undeniable—when will enough be enough for the left? If a patient comes in seeking help for suicidal ideations, are healthcare professionals supposed to advise that he or she to act on such harmful thoughts? No! Of course not!

But, as medicine shifts further left under the banner of “universal healthcare” or “socialized medicine,” self-harm is encouraged, and destruction of the human body and person becomes a celebrated “treatment.” Just take a look at Canada and its promotion of euthanasia as a panacea… even for individuals suffering from depression, who want to live.

This study is just one more reminder that leftists and their beliefs—in this case “gender-affirming healthcare”—are completely incompatible with the Judeo-Christian culture with its accompanying tenets of unalienable rights like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/danish_study_finds_that_crosssex_hormones_cause_heart_disease_rates_to_soar__but_especially_in_males.html

Pakistan? Iraq? Turkey? Might as well be, these days it’s Vienna.

The police presence around St. Stephen’s Cathedral is all the greater on Christmas Eve. Heavily armed police with submachine guns watch over anyone who enters the Vienna landmark. Occasionally individuals are fished out. Eleven police buses, including a Cobra vehicle and a bus with extended surveillance cameras, are parked on the forecourt; each vehicle has space for six security officers. From this point of view, dozens of police officers – most of them with protective vests and long guns – are guarding the area. An explosives dog is waiting to be deployed.

A police helicopter circles over the city center. There is no further progress at the Christmas market on Rathausplatz…

In the afternoon and evening hours, when the children’s mass and later the Christmas mass take place in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, entrance controls should be increased even further.

A number of Muslims were arrested for reportedly planning attacks on churches.

A swarm of migrants from the Muslim world flooded Europe and this is now the new normal and not just in Vienna.

The threat of terrorism is higher than it has been for a long time, says North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul. Nevertheless, one should not give up going to church at Christmas out of fear. The CDU politician appeals: “Celebrate Christmas.”

North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul appealed to people not to forego visiting church at Christmas for fear of an attack. “Caution is the order of the day. We know: The threat of terrorism is higher than it has been for a long time and our Christian holiday rituals are of course also a target for Islamist terrorists,” the CDU politician told the German Press Agency in Düsseldorf on Sunday.

“But we are not defenseless. Our authorities use all their findings to protect us as best as possible. The measures in Cologne now show this,” emphasized Reul and added: “My appeal: go to church, celebrate Christmas. Fear is the currency of terrorists. We mustn’t add value to them.”

Fear is the currency of terrorists, but it’s not an unreasonable fear. The only way to deal with it is to do something about it. The alternative is to live with terror.

After all the security measures around Cologne Cathedral, Christmas mass with Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki took place on Christmas Eve

The 67-year-old thanked the security forces for their special and unexpected commitment over Christmas.

In the past two days, the police officers had “turned the cathedral upside down,” so to speak, making church services possible there, he said at the start of Christmas mass after midnight in the cathedral.

Those attending church services will continue to be screened before entering the church in the next few days

People don’t have to live this way. It’s a choice.

After the worrying news that there were arrests in Vienna due to planned attacks at Christmas, the Vienna FPÖ state party leader Dominik Nepp spoke out.

Nepp calls for an immediate change of course in migration policy. “We need to take tough action against Islamists and 2024 must be the year of mass deportation of illegal and criminal migrants. The left-wing politics of false tolerance is a danger to the life and limb of the peaceful population. People have the right to live here in security and peace.”

This is Christmas. This is Christmas under the shadow of Islam.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/officials-urge-europeans-to-go-to-church-despite-islamic-terror-threats/

On Sunday (24th December), the Maldives Police issued a statement advising the public not to hold any Christmas celebrations on any inhabited island in the Maldives. It must be mentioned that Maldives is one of the neighbouring countries of India, housing 98% of the Muslim population.

The advisory by the Police stated that Christmas was a Christian holiday celebrated in connection with the New Year and that such activities are prohibited by the laws and regulations of the Maldives.

“Such activities are prohibited by the laws and regulations of the Maldives. Therefore, no activities should be held in any of the islands to celebrate Christmas and action will be taken within the legal framework against those who conduct such activities,” the official statement by the Maldives Police read.

Maldives Police issues a statement advising against the celebration of Christmas on any inhabited islands. This doesn't include resort islands tho. pic.twitter.com/S3dQNDEazb

— Sidhant Sibal (@sidhant) December 24, 2023

The Police advisory mentions that anyone celebrating Christmas or any such related activity on the islands will have to face legal action.

Notably, this comes a month after pro-China Mohammad Moizzu has taken over as the new President of the country. The president-elect is widely regarded as sympathetic to China’s interests in the country and less so to India, Maldives’ giant neighbour and traditional security and economic partner.

Mohammad Moizzu, who believes in the anti-India agenda, first paid a visit to Turkey after becoming the President, whereas till now the tradition has been that after taking oath in Maldives, the President first visits India.

Maldives is an island country whose economy is based on tourism and people of different religions and communities from different countries around the world visit Maldives. Amid this, it sounds a bit strange to issue a public advisory against a particular religion in such a country.

Dramatic visuals from Maldives as group of extremists disrupt Yoga Day celebrations organised in capital Male pic.twitter.com/es9q3y5g2o

— Sidhant Sibal (@sidhant) June 21, 2022

It is to be noted that, the Islamists in June 2022 had also disrupted Yoga Day celebrations in the Maldives. Islamists entered the Galolhu stadium where people were performing Yoga on the eighth International Yoga Day. They uprooted the flags in the stadium and used them to attack the participants of the celebrations.

As reported earlier, the event was organized by the Indian Mission in the Maldives in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Community Development. Diplomats, government officials, and Maldives ministers were present at the event when the Islamist extremists barged into the stadium.

https://www.opindia.com/2023/12/maldives-police-bar-christmas-celebrations-on-inhabited-islands/

A Turkish national who had been living in Switzerland for over 40 years has been expelled from the country and ordered to return home after the Swiss Federal Court ruled she had failed to integrate and lived off social welfare benefits for nearly two decades.

The woman had moved to Switzerland in 1983 at the age of 19 with her then-husband and started a family in the country. She had been subject to a settlement permit that was to be applied for and extended every five years, according to Solothurner Zeitung.

After separating from her husband in 2006, she lived on taxpayer-funded benefits for nearly 17 years from March 2006 until August 2022, receiving a total handout of over €373,000 in social welfare during that time.

After initially caring for her children, the woman never sought employment after they grew up, instead opting to continue living off the state.

When it came to applying for the latest extension to her settlement permit in July 2020, the Migration Office of the Canton of Solothurn refused her application, a decision she appealed to the Solothurn administrative court.

This appeal was rejected in May this year and the complainant further appealed to the Federal Court.

In its judgment, federal judges sided with the lower court’s decision, citing the complainant’s unwillingness to integrate as a primary factor.

“One cannot speak of successful integration into the local conditions,” the court ruled, highlighting that for nearly 17 years the woman had never made any attempts to find a job or to break away from her reliance on the state.

The Federal Court said that immigration officials had “rightly assumed that there was an important public interest in revoking the settlement permit” and noted that the complainant had “already received a large sum of social assistance money” and should not be entitled to further handouts moving forward.

“After living in Switzerland for 40 years, it will certainly not be easy for the complainant to reintegrate into her home country,” the Federal Court admitted but noted that the woman still had several ties to Turkey.

She had lived there until she was an adult and returned every year on holiday, it stated, indicating that this showed she “still connected to her home country from a linguistic and cultural perspective”.

It added that the woman was still welcome to visit Switzerland to see her children and grandchildren with ordinary tourist visas.

https://rmx.news/migration/turkish-grandmother-expelled-from-switzerland-after-40-years-for-failing-to-integrate-and-racking-up-e373000-in-social-benefits/

Neil Oliver explains why the nativity story has strong parallels to modern life.

The Nigel Farage-founded Reform UK party has confirmed its intentions to put forward candidates in every parliamentary constituency in the next general election, which will likely cement the widely predicted defeat of Rishi Sunak’s Tory Party at the ballot box.

The conservative populist Reform UK party has already recruited some 440 candidates to stand for parliament in the next general election — which is expected to take place in the UK next year — and plans to have the other 190 candidates confirmed by the end of February so that the party can challenge in all 630 constituencies in England, Scotland and Wales, with the party opting not to compete in Northern Ireland, which is dominated by local parties.

Although the Farage-founded party has long stated its commitment to draft a full slate of candidates, Reform UK leader Richard Tice has written to top party members to give his “cast-iron guarantee” that there will be no scenario under which they will stand down to help the Tories defeat the resurgent Labour Party.

“In the 2024 election year, we will be ready whenever it comes, spring, summer or autumn. We will be standing in seats everywhere in England, Scotland and Wales. Many, including Tory MPs and commentators, still don’t believe us, but I have news for them: you are seriously underestimating our intent to have a massive impact in this coming election,” Tice told the Sunday Times.

The firm commitment from the Reform leader will serve to ameliorate concerns of a repeat of the 2019 general election, in which Reform UK, then known as the Brexit Party, stood down in key races under Nigel Farage to ensure a strong majority for Boris Johnson so that the Conservatives could finally complete the formal withdrawal from the European Union after years of delays.

While many within Reform and on the right more broadly believe that the Tories have failed to deliver on the promises of Brexit, there is a consensus that even if the anti-Brexit Labour Party were to secure victory in the next general election — as all current polling suggests — that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will not attempt to overturn the referendum and seek to re-enter into the EU.

Therefore, there is little motivation for the populist party to help the Conservatives avoid their expected defeat. Top Reform UK politician Ann Widdecombe said: “The situation is completely different now. In 2019 if we had not stood down Labour could have won and there was a real chance that Brexit could have been overturned. This time Brexit has been done — at least legally. Yes, Starmer will do some things that we don’t like, but the Conservatives are doing that anyway.”

'We will stand everywhere for every seat. We have got 430 candidates lined up, as well conferences. We can't wait!'

Leader of Reform UK, @TiceRichard, discusses the preparations to take on the tories in the next general election. pic.twitter.com/iY7s7LP0np

— GB News (@GBNEWS) December 24, 2023

Although it has taken some time for Reform UK to recover in the polls after it rebranded itself from the Brexit Party, it is now cracking double digits in multiple polls and has overtaken the Liberal Democrats as the third-largest party in the country.

Due to the United Kingdom’s anti-third party first-past-the-post voting system, in which seats in the parliament are not allocated upon the total number of votes won in the country — as is typical in many other European nations — but instead, on the performance of an individual candidate in a given race, it is expected that even with its strong base of support, Reform would not likely secure meaningful representation in the House of Commons.

Yet, having a challenger to the right will likely ensure defeat for the Tories in many Brexit-backing constituencies and the election as a whole. Projections from the More in Common polling firm predicted that by merely being on the ballot, Reform could cost the Conservatives 35 seats in the parliament.

However, such projections are made under the assumption that former party leader and Brexit hero Nigel Farage remains on the sidelines for the next election. Farage, who still serves as the honorary president of Reform, stepped back from frontline politics in 2020 after his decades-long campaign to see the UK leave the EU came to fruition.

With the Tories failing to deliver on key Brexit promises, principally on “taking back control” of the nation’s borders by lowering immigration, but also failing to take the opportunities independence afforded their government to lower taxes and regulations, there have been growing rumours surround a potential political comeback for Farage. Reform party insiders believe that a return of Farage would instantly increase their vote share by over 50 per cent and thereby ensure a massive defeat for the Tories.

There have also been suggestions that Farage could wait in the wings until after the Conservatives are crushed in the election and then present himself as a viable solution to revive the party and reconstitute it as a small-c conservative force in British politics, scuppering the past two decades of neo-liberalism in favour of a return to Thatcherite governance.

When pressed on Saturday as to whether he had any inside knowledge about a Farage comeback, Reform UK leader Richard Tice coyly stated: “Patience is a virtue”.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/12/24/farage-founded-reform-uk-party-to-challenge-tories-every-seat-in-next-election/