The 26-year-old teacher of a preparatory course was caught by the secret services. He was taken into custody a few days ago after his audio recordings were analysed.
He emphasised his profession as a primary school teacher throughout his pre-trial detention. Him, a jihadist? That can’t be. That would be against the values of the French Republic, which he says are very important to him. It would also be against secularism, of which he is a representative at his school, as he told the police, but this is denied by the headmaster’s office. This speech by a “black hussar” had the potential to undermine the investigators’ confidence. But when they listened to Sofiane O., the officers of the criminal investigation department undoubtedly heard different kind of music. And it was anything but republican.
The 26-year-old teacher is suspected of having performed at least five nasheed, i.e. religious Muslim songs that glorify Islamic State fighters in the French language. Le Parisien
Angry farmers stormed Paris’s annual agricultural fair during President Emmanuel Macron’s visit February 24.
Several hundred protestors succeeded in forcing their way in to the fair’s main hall as Macron arrived at 8 am to speak to leaders of France’s farming unions.
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A tense atmosphere saw crowds raising their middle fingers, chanting, and whistling for the president’s resignation, as police moved in with heavy riot gear and brawls broke out.
The police, in heavy riot gear, was forced to move in while never seen before chaos ensued.
Rassemblement National leader Jordan Bardella, who took over from Marine Le Pen in 2022, received a much different reception as crowds queued up to take selfies with him.
Bardella may have had reason to be confident. Polls place his party in first place ahead of June’s European Parliament elections, in which he stands to receive as much as a third of the vote, 10 points ahead of Macron’s coalition.
Macron, unbowed, said he would meet again with farmers in three weeks.
He spoke for several hours with farming sector representatives, about consequences for farmers of the war in Ukraine, overregulation, and the rise of organic farming.
Farmers asked to hear his vision for their future, saying they say their livelihoods threatened by French and European policies that, in their view, are destroying their profession.
A difficult conversation concerned the suicide rate in the farming sector.
One farmer, who said he had worked 100-hour weeks for years, told President Macron that he had “almost done it” in August. A woman noted that the government does a lot for animal welfare, but nothing for the welfare of farmers.
The president announced that in three weeks he would bring together “all the trade unions, all the agricultural sectors” at the Élysée Palace to respond to farmers’ concerns.
He also told media that he intended for food and agriculture to have legal recognition as a French national interest, with each sector’s cost of production to “serve as a minimum price.”
“We will launch a census in each region of the farms that are in the greatest cash flow difficulties to be able to support them,” he added.
Bain de foule pour Jordan Bardella, président du Rassemblement national, au Salon de l'agriculture pic.twitter.com/EyIkaf07TG
The atmosphere in the Salon International de l’Agriculture was much more calm and pleasant for Bardella, who was able to work round the stands and talk with the fair’s attendants.
Speaking to the press, the RN leader said he was campaigning for economic patriotism and exiting[European] free trade agreements, which appeared music to the ears of many farmers.
During his visit, some of those attending began to sing La Marsellaise and chant “Jordan for President”.
“Our farmers today have a knife to their throat and say they can’t make a living from their work and depend on aid,” said Bardella, adding he understood their “anger”.
Speaking of Macron, he said “no doubt he doesn’t realise the pain and the way he’s running the country anymore.”
Bardella will be leading the National Rally list in upcoming European elections in June.
11:55—Farmers plan to block EU Agricultural Ministers currently meeting at Council building in a coordinated effort around the Schumann area.
11:30—The smell of burning tires is in the air just metres from the EU headquarters in Brussels on Monday morning, as a coalition of Belgian, Dutch, Italian, and French farmers successfully brought the city centre to a standstill. Protestors oppose the impact of the EU’s Green Deal on their livelihoods.
Farmers began pouring into Brussels from around 1:00 a.m. last night, before effectively controlling access to the European Parliament, Council and Commission buildings by forming strategic blockades. EU staff were ordered to work from home in an emergency email circulated over the weekend.
Good morning from Brussels where farmers have once again taken to the streets to protest on the back of a meeting of EU agriculture ministers who are discussing ways to lighten farmers’ administrative load pic.twitter.com/B1dBljdIkz
“Our number one demand … is to guarantee a dignified income for farmers,” declared one farmer in an interview with Belgian media.
Farmers have organised their protest to coincide with a meeting of EU agricultural ministers, building on the success of over a thousand tractors shutting down the city earlier this month during an EU Council meeting.
Farmers have already dismissed earlier concessions made by Brussels on climate policy. Now MEPs are expected to vote on a hotly contested rewilding bill on Tuesday—one which farmers say would make large tracts of the EU economically unfarmable.
An autopsy report suggested the attack occurred before the restaurant had opened for the day, and police are investigating whether it was a random attack or a personal vendetta against the woman.
The victim’s vehicle remained parked outside the property on Sunday as police searched the premises. Her car’s trunk was full of food and drinks, which suggested she had probably arrived at the restaurant shortly after shopping for the day’s groceries. Police believe the attacker could have seen her pull up and enter the premises alone before following her in at the side entrance.
The CCTV footage within the property was disconnected with the cables hanging loose, suggesting that the perpetrator either noticed the surveillance equipment on the spot before the attack and deactivated it, or had known ahead of time the property had security footage and sabotaged the equipment.
Mourners in the town left flowers outside the crime scene on Sunday, and a handwritten note from the victim’s grieving family was left on the shop door which read: “For family reasons, our snack bar remains closed. We thank you for your understanding.”
Despite unconfirmed reports from Germany that the attacker was of Arab appearance, a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office said on Sunday that they would not be providing any information about possible suspects at this time.
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By Eric Utter
OMG. And that’s an understatement.
Reports indicate that scientists will soon begin implementing a plan, promoted by Bill Gates and George Soros, to spew chalk dust and certain chemicals into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from the Earth’s surface. The creation of manmade white clouds would be an attempt to lower Earth’s temperature and reverse global warming.
Scientists plan to begin pumping chemicals into the sky over the next few weeks and months from several countries around the globe, including the U.S., Australia and Israel.
The idea, promoted by Gates and leftist billionaire George Soros, involves pumping manmade white clouds containing chalk dust and other chemicals into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from the Earth’s surface.
Blocking the sun’s light would allegedly lower the planet’s temperature enough to reverse global warming.
Never mind that fruit trees and vegetables require sunlight in order to grow and produce food for the masses. Not to mention, sunlight is the primary source of critical Vitamin D, an essential nutrient for human immunity. Gates, a known eugenicist who goes around giving talks about how we need to reduce the global population, likely sees these dark possibilities as exciting side effects of the nefarious sun-blocking plan.
This extraordinary experimental action is set to occur over the next few months, with dust and chemicals being hurled into the atmosphere from various countries, including Australia, Israel, and the United States.
Is blocking sunlight really a good idea? And we know this how? Nothing on this scale has ever been done before. As with the COVID mRNA vaccines, we really don’t know how this will turn out. Fingers crossed. And this roll of the dice is on a cosmic scale! To the extent that it has an effect, it will be the first instance in history of verifiable manmade climate change on a global scale, for better or worse. Kind of ironic if you ask me.
But how can this be? Who authorized this assault on the atmosphere? Surely Bill Gates and George Soros can’t simply, unilaterally impose actions intended to affect weather and climate around the globe. Did I miss something? Did the world’s citizens vote on this? Was the global community consulted? Did each and every nation have a say? Farmers and botanists, the elderly and infirm?
Is there a back-up plan should this attempted nullification of the sun backfire and plant life be adversely affected? Or if we are thrown into a new Ice Age, or even a Little Ice Age? What if the plan bears fruit…and the planet no longer does as it used to ?
And why is this not the biggest news story around the globe? The elites are literally gambling with the health of the planet– and the lives and livelihood of everyone on it—without input or approval from anyone else.
Oh, well, the sun will come out tomorrow. Or will it?
On Sunday February 25, at around 6 a.m., law enforcement officers arrested an 11-year-old boy as part of a preliminary investigation following an alert for glorification of terrorism and death threats against a person working for the state, a police source told Valeurs actuelles. The offences consisted of the distribution of threatening videos against his history and geography teacher, in which the child is also alleged to have glorified a terrorist organisation. During the house search, a mobile phone was confiscated and the parents were summoned to a hearing. It was decided to bring the young suspect before the juvenile court judge on Monday the 26th of February.
When you’ve got to make the greatest advertising pitch ever, which trusted telly figure do you call in to convince the proles that they’ve got to give up their cars, home heating and food to save the planet for the private jet class?
UK’s PM Rishi Sunak, when he’s not pandering to Islamists, is busy figuring out how to convince his own voting base to lay down and die.
Rishi Sunak needs all the help he can get selling his green vision to the British public… The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has tapped up a consumer insights firm to identify “trusted messengers” to carry Sunak’s green message to voters.
Researchers on the contract, worth around £80,000, will be asked to establish exactly who can be trusted to make the case for the contentious issues at the heart of the U.K.’s green overhaul.
Veteran environmentalist David Attenborough is the most trusted figure with the public to discuss climate change, according to 2021 polling by the organization Climate Outreach, followed by fellow TV conservationist Chris Packham — then Prince William.
Considering Dave’s 97 years old, they better hurry and sign him to a lifetime contract to explain in his sonorous voice why everyone has to be deported to gulags to save the planet.
And yes, there’s Prince William. Who better than a guy with not just private jets, but castles, to explain to the peasants why they should live in a single room of a collective apartment and eat gruel. “Please sir, may I have some more green gruel?”
Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho previously told POLITICO politicians must brace for “difficult” conversations with voters about the changes brought with the green switch.
What about the levy Gary Smith, GMB union chief, calls the energy poll tax – a £170 surcharge on all energy bills, irrespective of wealth? ‘We want to protect poorer families. We do, through things like the welfare system. But there are only certain mechanisms where you can raise money which we then spend, for example, on renewables. Ultimately, the whole way we have got to do it is progress, make sure we have got enough clean power but also protect families. With the two policies that we changed, there was no way round it for all those families. They would have to spend thousands of pounds – whether on their boilers or a car. There was no mechanism for us to help them with that.’
At this weekend’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Prince William marked the occasion by lecturing his grandmother’s subjects on the ‘pressing need to protect and restore our planet’…
Clearly, Prince William does not intend to make many sacrifices of his own to reduce humanity’s impact on the climate. He arrived at the Jubilee party, as the royals often do, in a helicopter.
Environmentalism is a romantic anti-industrial movement wearing the borrowed cloak of science whose mission is to bring back feudalism and destroy technological progress. Who better to make a case for feudalism than a prince?
Ebadullah A., who was arrested after the gruesome murder of three sex workers in a Viennese brothel, could turn out to be a sinister guardian of public morals.
Vienna. As the investigators announced on Sunday, the 27-year-old Afghan is “basically confessing” – but only when it comes to the course of the crime. The asylum seeker can hardly deny this, as he was confronted by members of the Austrian police force (WEGA) near the scene of the crime immediately after the brutal crime in “Studio 126a”. He still had the murder weapon – a knife that he had probably bought especially for the attack – in his hand and threatened the police officers with it. He could only be overpowered and arrested with a taser.
The motivation for the triple murder of the three Chinese women is still unclear. However, there are indications that Ebadullah A. may have acted as a self-appointed ” guardian of public morals”. Initial questioning revealed that the Afghan was fundamentally full of hatred towards women. This may be why he considered the activities of sex workers in the red light district to be particularly “immoral”. He has so far refused legal assistance.
The cruel attack in the brothel had also been commanded by voices he had heard. According to the police, there has so far been no evidence of a personal relationship between the asylum seeker and his victims.
It also needs to be clarified what actually caused Ebadullah A. to come to Vienna. The 27-year-old actually applied for asylum in Carinthia two years ago. This means that he was officially prohibited from leaving the province. After leaving Kabul in 2022, the immigrant presented himself on his social media accounts as full of confidence and used positive smileys.
How the completely harmless and well-groomed-looking young man, for whom the presumption of innocence applies, was able to mutate into a triple killer in the meantime remains a mystery for the time being.
Lee Anderson was given the opportunity to apologise for his commentsParliament TV
Lee Anderson has been on a journey that would make Phileas Fogg look like a home bod.
Born in Nottinghamshire, in his youth he was a member of Arthur Scargill’s national union of Mineworkers and campaigned for the Labour Party under Michael Foot – the most left-wing labour leader in a generation – at the 1983 general election.
He cites Scargill, and old school socialists Dennis Skinner and Tony Benn, as important influences in his early political beliefs.
He worked as a coal miner for 10 years, just like his father, after which he worked for the citizens advice bureau and latterly in hostels supporting the homeless.
A life long member of the party, he was elected as a Labour councillor in 2015 in Ashfield.
But in 2018, he defected to the Conservatives in response to Labour’s position on Brexit and what he called the takeover of the Labour Party by the hard left – hardly a controversial view, given that the momentum backed Jeremy Corbyn was their leader.
He was elected a Conservative councillor in Mansfield in 2019, and the rest is history.
And now his career with the Conservatives looks to be history too after a poorly judged set of remarks about the London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Speaking on this very channel, Lee Anderson, who is a good friend of mine and remains so, said that Islamists had Mayor Khan in their pocket. He said:
“I don’t actually believe that these Islamists have got control of our country, but what I do believe is that they’ve got control of Khan, they’ve got control of London. He’s actually given our capital city away to his mates”.
Now I think it was wrong to label Khan in this way. Lee Anderson was given the opportunity to apologise, and if he had done, he would have remained a Conservative member of Parliament. It’s unfortunate that he has not.
What’s not unfortunate is that he has rightly sparked a debate about the threat of Islamism, or Islamic extremism, to our very democracy, to the rule of law, and to the British way of life.
It’s misleading for Sir Keir Starmer to label these remarks as racist and xenophobic, or even Islamophobic. Anderson is calling out extremism – people on the so-called peace marches, chanting antisemitic slogans, and just this week projecting anti-Jewish hate speech onto Big Ben – as glaring an assault on our values as you can imagine, short of blowing the whole building up.
I’ve had people on the show saying “from the river to the sea” is not antisemitic.
Well, the words by definition imply the disappearance of Israel from the map. Sounds pretty antisemitic for me. I’ve done a few gigs at bar mitzvahs and Jewish weddings, and let me assure you, “from the river to the sea” would not be my opening line.
The vast majority of British Muslims make a huge contribution to British life, and are peace loving. But to vilify Lee Anderson for voicing concerns about dangerous extremists is to ignore a deeply sinister and growing problem for our country, and one which as we saw in parliament this week strikes at the heart of our very democracy.
It was the leader of the opposition himself, Sir Keir Starmer who pressurised the common speaker Lindsay Hoyle into accepting a Labour amendment, which meant Labour MPs did not have to vote on an immediate ceasefire.
He made it clear to Lindsay Hoyle that if Labour MPs had not supported an immediate ceasefire, they would have faced threats of violence and possibly even murder when they left the chamber.
Is that not worthy of comment on the part of Lee Anderson or any other member of Parliament?
Do Mayor Khan and the Met police not have a case to answer for the amount of anti-Jewish rhetoric displayed at those pro-palestine marches? I think the political commentator and author Douglas Murray put it well on Twitter this weekend when he said:
“It’s become a great tradition in UK public life to not confront Islamic extremism. Instead, each time there’s an attack or threat we sacrifice someone who said something about the threat. I see this season Lee Anderson is the votive offering. Brilliant. That’ll solve everything.”
Here’s the lesson of the story – Lee Anderson has now gone, but the problem facing our country remains.
