On today’s #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellows Dr. Philip Kiszely and Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Amy Gallagher of Stand Up To Woke discuss: * Sadiq Khan says newly released prisoners should be given priority for social housing. * Germany closes its land borders – is this the end of Schengen? Sweden opts for voluntary repatriation not only of asylum seekers, but of naturalised citizens too. * New report says NHS is in crisis. Is Labour brave enough to undertake the necessary reforms?
Month: September 2024
Musk warns against population exchange
US billionaire and Tesla founder Elon Musk has once again spoken out clearly in favour of Donald Trump in the US election campaign and warned against a Democrat election victory. In this case, a deluge of migrants would turn future US elections into a farce.
On X, Musk wrote: “The publicly-stated goal by almost all leaders of the Democratic Party is to legalize the ~15 million illegal migrants as soon as possible, as well as bring in tens of millions more.
That would immediately make all swing states deep blue, just like happened in California with the 1986 amnesty, turning America into a permanent one-party state.
This is the last real election if Trump loses.”
Elon Musk has long made no secret of the fact that he thinks Donald Trump is the better choice. Trump retaliated by hinting in August that he wanted Musk on his team, for example as an advisor on AI issues. At the beginning of September, he returned to the issue and spoke about setting up a special commission to examine government programs together with Musk. The latter said he looked forward to his appointment.
Moroccan migrant rapes social worker in Belgian prison days before his scheduled release
A Moroccan migrant who was jailed for burglary just days after arriving illegally in Belgium has been charged with raping a social worker in his prison cell during a visit to discuss his scheduled release.
Younes. I., 25, had only been in Belgium for ten days when he was arrested back in February for robbery and aggravated theft in Antwerp.
He was jailed after being found in possession of stolen goods including a watch and jewelry, as well as carrying a screwdriver. He was found to have been part of a gang targeting a residential street in the Belgian port city.
During his sentencing hearing, the court learned the suspect had been staying in Belgium illegally, but instead of enforcing a deportation order, the judge sentenced Younes I. to ten months in prison and a fine of €800.
The convict had been due for release in a few weeks and on Sept. 2, a social worker was assigned to his case to visit him in prison and discuss his future plans.
However, once alone with the social worker in his prison cell, Younes I. took the opportunity to rape her for several minutes before any reinforcements arrived to restrain him.
French media reported that a sheet of paper marked “aggressive” had been hanging in his cell — a warning that was not heeded.
The convict was rearrested and transferred to Oudenaarde maximum-security prison.
He attended a court hearing in Antwerp on Thursday, where the investigating judge formalized the arrest warrant.
He is expected to be indicted for rape and sexual assault.
Swedish Academic Who Wrote “Masturbation” Research Paper Releases Book About “Cute Boys” in Cartoon Child Porn
A Swedish academic who triggered severe public backlash after writing his PhD thesis about masturbating to fantasy child sexual abuse material for three months has now released a book on the topic. Karl Andersson, previously a PhD student at the University of Manchester in the Japanese studies department, announced the publication of his new book, Impossibly Cute Boys: The Healing Power of Shota Comics in Japan, in a recent YouTube video where he states that the text incorporates his “philosophy of boy worship.”
Shota, a shortened version of shōtarō complex, refers to comics, cartoons, and other forms of visual media which focus on young boys in erotic and sexualized situations. The boys are primarily depicted as prepubescent, often having hairless bodies and very small features.
The medium is largely regarded as a form of fantasy child sexual abuse material, and is illegal in many countries including Canada and Australia as a result. It is also illegal in the United Kingdom, where Andersson’s PhD program was based.
In the YouTube video where Andersson introduces his book, he explains, “It is my research, basically. I have studied shota for over ten years, but most recently in the form of a PhD, and in the form of field work I conducted in Japan in 2023. So basically I associated with a lot of people who like shota,” he says.
Andersson neglects to mention that two years ago, following intense public scrutiny, Manchester University launched an inquiry into the circumstances of his PhD research and its publication. The paper, published in April 2022 in the academic journal Qualitative Research, sees Andersson admitting to masturbating to fantasy child sexual abuse material for three months as his chosen method of “research.” In the 4,000-word article, titled “I am not alone — we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan,” Andersson details undertaking his “experimental method” of masturbating to shota pornography.
While Andersson does not reveal the ages of the youth in the sexual comics he masturbated to, he does refer to them as “young boys.” Later in the paper, Andersson writes that “very young boy characters would greedily jump over the first cock that presented itself” in a description of some of the comics he read.
Last summer, a University of Manchester spokesperson told the press: “The recent publication in Qualitative Research of the work of a student, now registered for a PhD, has raised significant concerns and complaints which we are taking very seriously. We are currently undertaking a detailed investigation into all aspects of their work, the processes around it and other questions raised. It is very important that we look at the issues in-depth.”
Andersson was soon expelled from the PhD program, with the University of Manchester ruling that his work had caused “significant reputational harm” to the university. Sage, the publisher of Qualitative Research, retracted Andersson’s paper, and a representative explained that the decision was made “after an investigation determined that there was a lack of institutional ethical oversight and a lack of adequate and appropriate ethical review ahead of publication.”
Yet in his new book, Andersson claims to have received only praise for his paper from his academic peers prior to its publication.
His own academic supervisor, Andersson claims, complimented the paper as “pretty damn good” and described it as his “best piece of writing”. Additionally, one reviewer for the academic publication Qualitative Research emphasized that the rationale behind using masturbation as a research method was “well justified”, and said of the shota-obsessed academic: “The author has conducted provocative research by use of a highly bold and innovative application of autoethnography. Best of all, the author has done this extremely well.”
According to him, the unnamed convener of a PhD course in “queer autoethnography” where the paper was drafted celebrated the child pornography research as a “wonderfully written, reflective, analytical and intriguing essay on masturbation ‘in the field’”, and added: “This is already very publishable, should you so desire. Bravo.”
This remark appears to describe a reaction from Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen, who is a professor of gender studies affiliated with the University of Stavanger, in Norway. In his PhD paper, Andersson explicitly thanked Prof. Engebretsen “for commenting on an early version of this article.”
Curiously, Engebretsen has published questionable “research” herself, having authored an academic paper about “anti-gender campaigns on social media” which specifically named and vilified women critical of gender ideology as “trans-exclusionary feminists.”
However, Engebretsen has denied any involvement with Andersson’s work, saying, “I have given feedback on an essay written for a PhD course I taught. I had nothing to do with the research project itself or the peer review of the article that was published.”
As news of Andersson’s PhD paper began to circulate in 2022, it also came to light that he was responsible for two disturbing visual media projects which focused on the sexualization of young boys: Destroyer Magazine and Breaking Boy News.
Andersson created Destroyer Magazine while living in Prague and published the graphic magazine out of the Czech Republic, just after he graduated from Stockholm University. The erotic publication billed itself as “the leading international teenage boy magazine!” While Destroyer was derided in Sweden for its disturbing content, Andersson was sympathetically covered by Out, an international gay news outlet, in 2012.
While not explicitly pornographic, Andersson’s magazines revolved around eroticizing young boys and their behavior. Breaking Boy News focused on even younger teens and more gruesome content, with the stories eagerly highlighting young boys committing violence against animals, females, and each other, with a particular emphasis on pain and degeneracy.
During a 2012 interview with the now-defunct outlet Vice, Andersson doesn’t shy away from the label “boy lover,” and describes his attraction to minors.
“The boy is the one who does all the things we learn later in life not to do. He discovers things, tests limits, helps people, but he also robs, rapes or even murders. And they’re cute, of course. Boys are like kittens, it’s hard to take your eyes off them.”
Andersson’s Destroyer magazine received praise from pro-pedophile academic Jacob Breslow, who resigned from his post as an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics in late 2022. Breslow, who was a trustee for UK-based trans activist organization Mermaids, which advocates the halting of children’s puberty, described Destroyer as “a magazine dedicated to the beauty of the boy” and approved of Andersson’s “academic(ish) critique and aesthetic appreciation of boyhood, deviance, and the LGBT community.”
Notably, Breslow had previously spoken at a conference hosted by the pedophile advocacy organization B4U-Act, in a bid to lobby the American Psychiatric Association for changes to the diagnostic definition of pedophilia in order to “reduce stigma” against “minor-attracted people” (MAPs).
France: High school student arrested after death threats against teacher; two knives and a flag of the Islamic State group found in his flat
A pupil from the Jean-Perrin school in Rezé (Loire-Atlantique, photo) was arrested on Thursday morning in the Nantes region and taken into police custody. This was reported by BFMTV and confirmed by a police source to the newspaper Le Parisien.
On Wednesday, a teacher had caught the 17-year-old simulating a gunshot in his high school as he was about to hand in a homework assignment that had Arabic writing on it, according to reports. That same evening, the teenager posted messages on Telegram under the pseudonym Islamic Warrior with death threats and said he wanted to stab his teacher.
The pupil was arrested at his home on Thursday morning and taken into police custody. During a house search, two knives and a flag of the Islamic State group were found. His computer equipment was confiscated. Le Parisien
Dresden bridge collapse highlights Germany’s crumbling infrastructure
The collapse of a major bridge in Germany has shone a spotlight on the dismal state of the country’s public infrastructure.
At around 3am on September 11, inhabitants near the Carola Bridge (Carolabrücke) in Dresden, the capital of the German State of Saxony, were awakened by a loud rumbling noise. A span of the bridge, a main road and tram crossing over the river Elbe, had collapsed under its own weight into the waters below.
There were no casualties – the last tram of the day had driven over the section less than 20 minutes before it failed, according to the Dresden public transit operator.
In the wake of the accident, a storm of criticism has hit the city official in charge of public works, Stephan Kühn.
Kühn is a sociologist by education and a politician from The Greens party. He has been Dresden’s so-called “mayor of construction” since 2020.
Critics have for years been lamenting the poor state of the city’s bridges, many of which – including the Carola bridge – were erected under the German Democratic Republic between 1949 and 1990 using sub-par construction material. Kühn had referred to such criticism as being “bare of any factual basis” in a recently deleted 2023 post on X.
A representative of the Dresden city engineering department said the collapse had not been foreseeable. “You cannot look inside such an edifice”, city clerk Holger Kalbe continued.
City engineers will now assess the damage to the surrounding structures and try to find a way to lift the fallen concrete span from the river – which will be a difficult process, according to Kalbe.
The collapse of the Carola bridge is a dire reminder of the bad state of much of Germany’s public infrastructure. Around 8,000 motorway bridges are in need of renovation, according to a 2023 study by a German environmental NGO, as are a further 3,000 bridges on other long-distance roads.
Out of the 60,000 bridges for which German municipalities are responsible, around 50 per cent are in bad condition, according to André Berghegger, director of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities.
It is not only Germany’s bridges that are crumbling – so are roads, railways, schools and other public infrastructure. The German State development bank KfW has put the infrastructure investment shortfall at €186 billion.
In July 2024, German infrastructure minister Volker Wissing announced he wanted to cut his ministry’s expenses by €5.2 billion over the coming year – among other things by reducing maintenance spending on motorways.
While the German Government led by Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals, has been frugal at home, funds for what many see as questionable development projects abroad seem easily available.
In one instance, in 2022, the Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development, under minister Svenja Schulze, promised €24 million to extend the bike-path network in Peru.
Dresden bridge collapse highlights Germany’s crumbling infrastructure – Brussels Signal
France at War with Itself
Since the results were announced of France’s July 2024 legislative elections, President Emmanuel Macron has been unable to build a majority in the National Assembly, which appears more divided than at any time in the history of what the French call “the Fifth Republic”.
The elections produced three blocs, all of which appear to hate each other: the left, coalescing around Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left La France Insoumise (“France Unbowed”), Macron’s centrist Renaissance party, and Marine Le Pen’s right-wing Rassemblement National (National Rally).
Three factors seem to favor France’s slide towards an open or latent form of even greater internal conflict.
1. Non-democratic Republic
The purpose of any democratic or republican form of government is to keep its citizens secure from threats foreign and domestic, and to oversee the peaceful transfer of power. In France, the question is whether it is still possible to change the government peacefully through the ballot box.
By having many of his party’s candidates stand down in favor of candidates from the New Popular Front (the hastily assembled coalition of left and far left parties led by Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise) in the elections, Macron and part of the center-right held in check the democratic will of the French people to transfer legislative power to the forces of the right, which have a majority in the country.
The French people, the plurality of whom voted “right-wing” in the first round, were astonished to discover, after the second round, a “left-of-center” National Assembly, a parliament that seemingly does not represent the real country.
Between the two rounds of voting, we actually witnessed the surreal spectacle of “right-wing” candidates (including former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe) calling on people to vote for communists in order to “block” the “extreme right”. Only in France!
2. The most anti-Western political “left” in the world
By maneuvering to save part of his parliamentary group, Macron offered a (relative) victory to the most anti-Western forces on the European political spectrum, the extreme left of La France Insoumise. The antithesis of a governing party, La France Insoumise is part of the Marxist tradition in the strict sense, which envisages violence as a means of acquiring power and as a technique of government.
Not a day goes by without La France Insoumise demanding to govern, demanding the appointment of this or that Prime Minister — a prerogative of the president alone, according to the Constitution – calling for the impeachment of Macron and threatening to “march on the Elysée” if its multiple demands are not met. These extortionist demands seem to be more like those of insurrectionists attempting a coup d’état.
Mélenchon has been courting radical Muslim voters first and foremost, and is multiplying incendiary declarations in favor of Palestine, and hateful verbal arabesques about Jews. Le Monde, a left-leaning newspaper, wrote:
“Over the past ten years, the founder of La France Insoumise has made a series of remarks that borrow from anti-Semitic stereotypes. To the point of arousing incomprehension even in his own camp and, for the past three months, causing a large part of public opinion to tense up.”
The message seems to be the all-too-familiar Marxist concept of Volksrache (“the people’s revenge”): arousing hatreds in order to channel them towards the “enemies of the regime”, and, in the end, liquidate them. The murder of a policeman, the burning of a synagogue, the death of a delinquent, a war in the Middle East, elections, no elections: everything is used as a pretext for the hate-filled, agitprop vituperation of the minions of La France Insoumise, who, by stirring up hostilities and resentments, particularly anti-Semitic ones, appear to be whipping up violent — even terrorist — militancy, in the tradition of France’s 18th-century terreur. The demonstrators look as if they are trying to incite violence against the non-submissive segments of the population: Jews, Christians, secularists, secular and moderate Muslims, the “right,” the so-called “far right”, the “center,” the “center-left,” and the “bourgeoisie”.
3. Is France presently ungovernable?
Through his maneuvers between the two electoral rounds, Macron may well have succeeded in making France ungovernable. While he did indeed block the popular will, he was unable to give the left enough of a majority to get anything accomplished. While countries with a federal system, such as Belgium, are able to survive and function without a central government, this is less true of France.
The problem is not so much the historically frequent divergence between the presidency and the National Assembly, as the parliament’s inability to form a majority within itself. It is difficult to form a coalition government when the far-left and the center appear to hate each other, and the center and a part of the right label the right-wing National Rally as diabolical. Without a majority coalition, the National Assembly cannot function, and the French state apparatus becomes necrotic.
For these three reasons — an inability to change the government through the ballot box, the over-representation offered by Macron to the most extreme party in Europe, and the inability to find a parliamentary majority — France appears to be sliding, slowly but surely, towards a version of chaos — the ancestral breeding ground for the violence that would be the victory, the horizon and the ultimate goal not only of Mélenchon’s phalanx, but of all those trying to take down the West.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20924/france-at-war-with-itself
German CDU Turns to Radical Left Rather Than AfD
Plans for negotiations are shaping up in Germany’s eastern state of Thuringia to determine who gets to participate in the next government. It may come as no surprise to the citizens of Germany that despite the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)’s victory in the elections on September 1st, where they received a third of all votes, the party will be excluded from the talks as the other parties impose their ‘firewall’—or cordon sanitaire.
German media reported that the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which came second with 24%, is even negotiating with the ideologically distant radical Left Die Linke party, the successor of the East German communist party, just so it doesn’t have to govern with the AfD.
According to Bild, CDU Thuringia leader Mario Voigt held talks with representatives of Die Linke on Wednesday, September 12th, to negotiate ways of cooperating.
Following the elections, the AfD has the most seats—32—in the 88-seat state parliament and would easily be able to establish a majority with the CDU, which has 23 seats. The anti-immigration right-wing party has no chance of forming a government, as all the other four parties that got elected reject collaborating with them. The party does, however, have a crucial one-third of the seats, meaning it can block decisions, such as the appointment of judges, that require a two-thirds majority.
This leaves the centre-right CDU with the task of trying to form a government, but it will have to get the support of not only the centre-left Social Democrats (6 seats) but also Die Linke (12) and the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (15), a party that split from Die Linke last year.
Before the elections, CDU leader Friedrich Merz said he would not cooperate with “right-wing extremist and left-wing extremist parties,” calling the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) “right-wing extremist in some issues, left-wing extremist in others.”
However, following the elections, and facing the prospect of tough coalition negotiations, Merz seems to have changed his tune by stating that the BSW is “a largely unknown quantity” for his party. Sure enough: Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht does have some policies, such as a tough stance on migration, that could make it acceptable for some in the CDU. Die Linke not so much: it is a far-left party that espouses identity politics and radical climate and pro-migration policies.
As the conservative publication Apollo News writes:
For the CDU, any form of cooperation with Die Linke is extremely dangerous—even the cooperation with the BSW is not to the liking of many of the party’s supporters. However, a coalition with Die Linke, the direct successors of the East German communists, would be an even greater disaster for the CDU.
According to a survey published in August, 68% of eastern German members of the CDU said their party should not categorically rule out cooperation with the AfD.
Former CDU member of the state legislature Michael Heym said that his party should reconsider its stance on the AfD in light of the election results. He argued that if the AfD was actually anti-constitutional, as its political opponents have declared, then it should have been excluded from participating in the state elections altogether. Since this has not happened, and since the party has such strong support among the electorate, it must also be considered as a possible coalition partner.
Nevertheless, it is Die Linke that is being approached, with the CDU opting to avoid being labelled a racist party by the liberal elites instead of choosing to respect the will of the people in Thuringia and form a strong right-wing government with the AfD.
According to an analysis by the daily Thüringer Allgemeine, ultimately, a minority government may have to be formed, possibly by the three left-wing parties, and with the outside support of the CDU. This would not be unheard of as the centre-right party supported the previous minority government of Bodo Ramelow, a coalition of Die Linke, the Social Democrats, and the Greens (the latter failed to gain entry into the new parliament).
The problem with this scenario is that the coalition’s stability is strongly dependent on the willingness of the CDU to cooperate. Towards the end of the last legislature, for example, the CDU collaborated less and less with the minority government and instead passed laws together with the liberal FDP and AfD.
Whatever happens, the current headache of Thuringia will be followed by another one. The next big test for the establishment parties will be the elections on September 22nd in the eastern state of Brandenburg, where the AfD is also set to receive around a third of the votes.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/german-cdu-turns-to-radical-left-rather-than-afd/
France: He shouts ‘Allah Akbar’ and threatens to ‘blow up the high school’
On Wednesday September 11, at around 4pm, a patrol from the Mont-Saint-Martin police station intervened in Longwy, Avenue de l’Aviation.
A man was located between the vocational section of the Lycée Alfred-Mézières and the cemetery. For almost half an hour, the 40-year-old shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ and threatened to ‘blow up the school’.
When he was stopped by the national police, this man from the Pays-Haut area was taken into police custody. There he is said to have admitted to the offence and to having talked nonsense. The man was not armed.
He will have to answer for his actions and statements in court.
Deported Moroccan serial offender threatens: ‘I’ll come back and blow up a police station in Germany’
Just one week after his deportation, Moroccan serial offender Tarik J. announces his return to Germany and threatens to attack a police station.
Within just three months, the 42-year-old Moroccan has committed 25 criminal offences. For ten years, the migrant with a police record has been living in the small Thuringian town of Apolda at the taxpayer’s expense, making headlines across Germany as neither the town nor the district were able to get rid of him due to an ill migration policy. On September 5, the Free State of Thuringia finally deported him to Morocco. But J. is apparently not intending to stay in Morocco.
J. published a video on his TikTok channel showing a police operation in front of an asylum centre in Apolda at the end of July 2023. In the video, he threatens in flawed German: ‘I’m coming back. I’ll f… any of you … I won’t blow up an ATM, but I’ll only blow up a police station.’
According to the Bild newspaper, proceedings against the Moroccan were underway at Weimar district court in August – including for attempted grievous bodily harm. The verdict was due to be handed down on September 6, but the proceedings were temporarily suspended due to the deportation. On September 5, J. boarded a Royal Air Maroc flight from Frankfurt/Main to Casablanca, accompanied by German and Moroccan security personnel. During his deportation, J. claimed that he would stay in Morocco.
Tarik J. has already served several prison sentences for insults, receiving stolen goods, resisting law enforcement officers and assault. Despite being banned from approaching his former partner – a German woman – he allegedly wants to return to Germany to see his five-year-old daughter Mina. The imminent risk of being arrested again does not seem to deter the felon. Why should it?