Month: September 2024

Germany’s ruling Social Democrats (SPD) managed to narrowly win the regional elections in the eastern state of Brandenburg on Sunday, September 22nd, but the result once again highlights the decline of the mainstream parties, and the rise of right-wing and left-wing populists who are growing in popularity all across the country due to the government’s incompetent handling of the migration and cost-of-living crisis.

According to the latest count the Social Democrats, who have governed Brandenburg since the end of communist rule in East Germany in 1990, received 30.9% of the votes, a 4.5-point increase compared to their result five years ago.

The right-wing anti-globalist AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) are runners-up with 29.2%, rising from 23.5% in 2019. This is another electoral success for the party which only three weeks ago won its first ever election, the state election in Thuringia, and came a close second in another eastern state, Saxony. Co-leader of the party Alice Weidel was “extremely satisfied” with the result, saying “we are the strongest force in the East.”

In Brandenburg, the newly formed left-wing nationalist Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) got 13.5%—a third third-place in a row following a strong showing in both Thuringia and Saxony. The party has been able to capitalise on the collapse of the far-left Die Linke party which it split from last year. The deputy chairman of BSW, Amid Rabieh called the result a success, adding that “there is a great need for a political force that will once again focus on the needs and wishes of the people.”

Die Linke, which used to be a popular party in the eastern regions of Germany, has lost the trust of its voters with its pro-migration and radical green agenda, and is currently on course to drop out of the parliament with its result of 3%.

The centre-right CDU, which has been in a regional coalition with the SPD, dipped to 12.1% to finish fourth—their worst result ever in the state.

The third coalition partner, the Greens are likely to drop out of the state parliament with an abysmal 4.2%. The party—which is a member of the federal government, together with the SPD and the liberal FDP—is being pulverised all across the nation for pushing through radical green policies, tax hikes, and a woke agenda that German citizens have had enough of, especially in the East.

The results are a clear signal that voters want a change, and with federal elections set to take place next year, the left-liberal government will be wise to listen to their concerns. The huge turnout, which rose to a staggering 72.9% from 61% in 2019, only reinforces the argument that there is a desire for a drastic U-turn in government policy.

Another warning signal for the coalition parties in Berlin is the share of votes the AfD and BSW received from younger voters: 32% of 16 to 24 year olds voted for the right-wing party, and 13% for the left-wing nationalists. The Social Democrats managed to get only 18%, while CDU garnered only 9%.

Germany, Brandenburg regional parliament election:

Results for 16-24 year olds (Infratest dimap exit poll)

AfD-ESN: 32% (+14)
SPD-S&D: 18% (+6)
BSW-NI: 13% (new)
CDU-EPP: 9%
LINKE-LEFT: 7% (-4)
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 7% (-20)
BVB/FW~RE: 2% (-2)
FDP-RE: 2% (-4)

+/- vs. 2019 exit poll… pic.twitter.com/7MVe2NNGGw

— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) September 22, 2024

Blue-collar workers also turned out in large numbers for the AfD: 46% of the group voted for the party. In comparison: SPD got 24%, BSW 12%, CDU 7%.

The results also mean that only four parties will be represented in the state parliament, and the mainstream forces face the same dilemma as in Thuringia and Saxony: what to do with the AfD and the BSW?

The right-wing AfD, which has been stigmatised for its tough stance on immigration, is being blocked from the possibility of forming a government in Thuringia and being part of a coalition elsewhere due to the so-called “firewall,” a cordon sanitaire imposed by other parties. In Thuringia, the CDU, for whom the AfD would be a natural ally, is looking to cooperate with the far-left instead.

According to Süddeutsche Zeitung, SPD and CDU will probably have 44 seats in the 88-seat Brandenburg parliament, not enough for a majority, so the two parties will need the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht—either in a minority government or as a coalition partner.  

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/huge-success-for-populist-parties-in-brandenburg/

A 36-year-old mother without brain activity woke up after hearing the voice of her one-year-old daughter, one of many incidents that calls into question the long-held medical understanding of so-called “brain death.”

Father Michael Orsi, who has heard the play-by-play of the remarkable episode from one of the nurse anesthesiologists involved, told LifeSiteNews that the woman recently went to the hospital for a double endoscopy. While patients normally wake within five to 10 minutes of the end of the procedure, the mother did not wake up – hospital staff found her heart had stopped.

She received CPR, and soon her heart was beating on its own again. Believing she had suffered a stroke, they sent the mother to receive an MRI and found she had no brain waves. She was then transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) and put on a respirator to help her breathe. 

After two days in ICU, the husband told the nurse on duty that if his wife could only hear the voice of her one-year-old daughter she would be OK. Amazingly, when he prompted his daughter to speak over his cell phone to her mother, she woke up. She was “in perfect condition,” according to Orsi.

The priest has verified the details of the chain of events with the woman’s doctor, Omar Hussein, who has also confirmed to LifeSiteNews that the mother woke up upon hearing the voice of her daughter. Hussein has said there is no way he can scientifically explain what happened.

However, the longtime medical “consensus” on brain death in the U.S. has been contested by various doctors, some of whom point out that patients can indeed go on to recover consciousness after meeting what has been considered official criteria for brain death. 

Dr. Heidi Klessig recently explained that such cases of recovery after flatline EEGs (no brainwaves) can likely be attributed to a condition called Global Ischemic Penumbra, or GIP:

Woman without brainwave activity wakes up after hearing her daughter’s voice

Like every other organ, the brain shuts down its function when its blood flow is reduced in order to conserve energy. At 70 percent of normal blood flow, the brain’s neurological functioning is reduced, and at a 50 percent reduction the EEG becomes flatline. But tissue damage doesn’t begin until blood flow to the brain drops below 20 percent of normal for several hours. GIP is a term doctors use to refer to that interval when the brain’s blood flow is between 20 percent and 50 percent of normal. 

During GIP, the brain will not respond to neurological testing and has no electrical activity on EEG but still has enough blood flow to maintain tissue viability – meaning that recovery is still possible. During GIP, a person will appear “brain dead” using the current medical guidelines and testing but with continuing care they could potentially improve.

Just last month, the New York Times shared the results of a large study that found at least a quarter of unresponsive patients (those diagnosed with a coma, vegetative state, or minimally conscious state) have some awareness.

During the study, teams of neurologists asked 241 such unresponsive patients to do “complex cognitive tasks,” such as imagining themselves playing tennis. Remarkably, 25 percent of the patients exhibited the “same patterns of brain activity seen in healthy people.”

“It’s not OK to know this and do nothing,” remarked Dr. Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, the Times reported.

“This puts a whole new light on the Terri Schiavo case,” Fr. Orsi told LifeSiteNews, referring to a court’s decision to allow the husband of a cognitively disabled woman in a persistent vegetative state to have her refused nutrition and water so that she would die a slow and painful death of dehydration.

The priest pointed to the implications these findings have for the care of unresponsive patients, including in response to their capacity for mental distress.

“Imagine the terror of that, listening to what they’re going to do,” he said regarding times when the decision is made to pull the plug on an unresponsive patient. “Or hearing how it’s time to call in the organ transplant team. This is horrible.”

“Brain death” guidelines in the U.S. were revised this year to state that it occurs in individuals with catastrophic brain injury, and no evidence of function of the “brain as a whole,” a condition that must be “permanent.” Klessig has pointed out that “under the ‘brain as a whole’ formulation, people can be declared dead while parts of the brain are still working, as evidenced by electrical activity on EEG.”

Klessig has also highlighted the fact that, according to the new guideline, “(t)he panel chose to use the term permanent to mean function was lost and (1) will not resume spontaneously, and (2) medical interventions will not be used to attempt restoration of function.” 

“The fact that medical interventions ‘will not be used’ implies that they might have been used and might have been successful if used. This fact alone reveals that these people are not dead, since there exists a possibility of resuscitation!” she wrote.

Klessig noted that the diagnosis of brain death becomes “a self-fulfilling prophecy: most people diagnosed with BD/DNC very quickly have their support withdrawn or become organ donors.” She is calling for AAN guidelines to be scrapped in favor of “the traditional definition of death: cessation of cardiopulmonary function.”

“Brain death is a legal fiction that removes civil rights from vulnerable brain-injured people, who, under the United States Constitution, possess an ‘inalienable right to life,’ deserve protection, and should be treated as mentally disabled persons,” Klessig maintains.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/woman-with-no-brainwave-activity-wakes-up-after-hearing-her-daughters-voice/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=usa

On Friday afternoon ( September 20), there was a physical altercation between visitors and staff at a hospital in Klara-Kopp-Weg. At least six employees were injured. A 41-year-old suspect was arrested. The police are investigating.

At around 3.10 pm, the police control centre was alerted to an altercation at a hospital in Klara-Kopp-Weg. When the officers arrived at the scene, the situation had already calmed down.

Several hospital staff reported that they had been attacked by relatives of a patient. A 23-year-old woman was seriously injured and five other employees were injured. A 41-year-old suspect (Turkish-Lebanese) was arrested.

The police are investigating on suspicion of dangerous bodily harm and damage to property and are investigating whether there could be links to clan crime.

POL-E: Essen: Besucher greifen Krankenhaus-Mitarbeiter an – 41-Jähriger festgenommen | Presseportal

Hospitals in London are prioritising patients who don’t speak English for care while sending native or fluent speakers to the back of the queue, a report has found.

According to the Mail on Sunday, the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which has five hospitals in north-west London under its remit, has begun to push patients who require a language translator to the front of the line.

The policy is supposedly intended to cut costs for interpreters by reducing the number of hours worked. However, this results in English speakers being deliberately passed over.

The policy even reportedly applies in clinics that have a ticketing system for determining the order of patients seen.

One patient told the MoS: “It’s a clinic, so you go in expecting to wait a while, but when someone behind me in the queue was let into see the doctor before me I asked the receptionist why and was told that the people with interpreters are prioritised because they can’t wait for more than an hour.”

London, which has become a minority English city, has the largest proportion of migrants of any region of the UK, with more than 40 per cent of its residents being foreigners.

It is currently unclear if the policy of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is being adopted by hospitals in other areas of the country.

However, the decision to prioritise non-English speakers by a branch of the state-run healthcare system was criticised by former immigration minister and Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick.

“Brits are already waiting too long for treatment. The last thing they should be subjected to is the indignity of being pushed to the back of the queue,” Jenrick said.

“This is yet more evidence of the pressure mass migration places on our public services and the difficulties integrating such unprecedented numbers… Non-English speakers shouldn’t be given a queue pass.”

Responding to the report, a spokesman for the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust said: “We are committed to responding to the specific needs raised by any of our patients – and every patient has the right to a professional interpreter.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/09/22/hospitals-in-london-pushing-non-english-speaker-patients-to-front-of-line-report

By Eric Utter

Recently, while addressing an inter-religious meeting of young people in Singapore, Pope Francis stated that “every religion is a way to arrive at God.”

Francis, who apparently deviated from his prepared speech and spoke extemporaneously, said that no religion should be given priority and that individuals should instead focus on parity between beliefs.

The preposterously progressive pontiff said, “Every religion is a way to arrive at God. There are different languages to arrive at God, but God is God for all. And how is God God for all? We are all sons and daughters of God. But my god is more important than your god, is that true?” He added, “There is only one God and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, they are different paths.” Huh?

Is the Hindu god Brahma the same as Sikhism’s Waheguru, and Islam’s Allah? What about Buddhism, which doesn’t really have a God? Are all these gods, and the non-god truly somehow the same? Is Christianity really no better than frisbeetarianism? Are Rastafarians truly on par with Jewish people? Should we take the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as seriously as we take, say, Islam? Is Raelism simply a “different path” to the same God? The Church of Maradona worships soccer star Diego Maradona as if he were a god. This is obviously a different path to a different god. Should it be held in precisely the same regard and esteem as the mainline religions? Is a religion promising men the reward of 72 servile virgins in paradise for “martyring” themselves against innocent people no different than one that does not?

 Should one’s own religion not be given priority over all others, in any case?

If not, what does that say about that religion and that “believer?”

Is Pope Francis a heretic?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/pope_francis_implies_all_religions_are_equivalent.html

A woman has allegedly been raped outside a Poundland in a horror early morning attack in West Sussex.

Officers said two men have been arrested on suspicion of rape.

Sussex Police received a report that a woman had been raped in Crawley shortly after 4am this morning.

The victim is being supported by specialist police officers.

The two male suspects, aged 30 and 31, remain in custody.

Officers are asking anyone with information about the incident, including any CCTV, mobile or dash cam footage, to report it.

Sussex Police can be contacted on 101 quoting serial 215 of 21/09 or report the information online.

A spokesman for Sussex Police said: “Police responded to a report of a rape of a woman in the vicinity of Broadfield Barton, Crawley, shortly after 4am on Saturday, September 21.

“The victim was safely located and is being supported by specialist officers at this time.

“Two men, aged 30 and 31, have been arrested on suspicion of rape.

“They remain in custody as our enquiries continue.”

A police cordon remained in place this morning following the incident.

It comes after police appealed for information following a rape and sexual assault on Brighton beach.

Police received a report of a teenage girl being raped and a woman being sexually assaulted at around 6am on Sunday, September 8 in an area of the beach between the two piers.

Officers say the two females are known to each other.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/woman-raped-poundland-attack-crawley-west-sussex

Amid the rising crimes in European nations including the UK, it has come to the fore that in London, a rape case is reported every hour. On average, 24 such incidents were reported in a day to the Metropolitan Police with a total of 8,800 cases in 2023. According to the Met Police, the charges of sexual abuse have doubled since 2022, as reported by BBC.

As per the official data, 20,000 sexual crimes were reported in London alone last year while the exact figures stood at 8,852 rape cases and 10,991 other sexual violence. While these numbers are alarming the actual number of cases is obviously much higher than documented. This is better understood from a Rape Crisis report, which states that only one in every six women who are raped reports the crime, compared to one in every five male victims, and only one in every four report other forms of sexual assault. 40% of the survivors don’t approach the police due to “embarrassment”, 38% don’t tell the police since they opine the police will not be able to help them and 34% think that seeking police help would be “humiliating”. Another disturbing aspect is that 1 in 2 adult rape survivors have been raped more than once.

Last year, the police received 11,000 reports of various sexual crimes, with over a quarter coming from youngsters under the age of 18. The BBC report says that the figures represent the number of reports issued from 2018 to 2023, “but do not necessarily mean all the crimes happened within that time period.”

One dataset focused solely on reported cases of rape, while the other included cases of sexual assault, assault by penetration, and attempted rape. From 2018 to 2023, the overall number of reported offences surged by 14%, reaching nearly 20,000. Precisely, the Metropolitan Police received a report of sexual violence or rape every 26 and a half minutes.

The alarming numbers revealed in the official data warrant discussing the existence of Muslim grooming gangs in the United Kingdom. Grooming gangs, particularly in towns and cities such as Telford, Rotherham and Rochdale, have gone unchecked for many years. Much later it was revealed that organised grooming gangs systematically sexually abused young girls. These crimes were sometimes overlooked or downplayed by authorities. The media also contributed to its downplaying by often presenting Muslim grooming gangs mostly involving Pakistani and Afghan origin, targeting white non-Muslim girls “Asian gangs”.

While the perpetrators in the Telford, Rotherham and Rochdale grooming cases were mostly Muslims, a section of the media covered up the religious and racial motivation behind the crime. Notably, drugs and alcohol were commonly used to render victims unconscious or entrap them in a cycle of abuse which went on as threats and blackmailing continued.

Rape and sexual abuse offences in the United Kingdom have frequently gone unchecked or underreported, owing to a mix of systemic failures, societal stigmas, and law enforcement challenges. The above discussion and the UK media reports suggest that victim blaming and fear of stigmatisation, Lack of Trust in Authorities coupled with the fears of being labelled “racist” or “Islamophobic” has been major reasons for the sexual abuse cases being underreported. The incidents of grooming gangs exploiting women, particularly the Telford case, demonstrated how police inaction emboldened the offenders and allowed the abuse of thousands of vulnerable girls and women to continue for years. It took three major grooming gang scandals for the Grooming Gang Taskforce leading to hundreds of arrests, the UK authorities

As crimes surge across Europe, one rape incident reported every hour in London (opindia.com)

On today’s #NCFWhittle we are joined by Paul Thorpe of Unite UK, a peaceful, patriotic movement that aims to unite ‘everyone’ who shares a love for traditional British values and British culture. Unite UK does not see colour, race or religion, only kindness, togetherness and tolerance. It rejects all extremism and seeks to oppose those who would see our way of life and our laws eradicated. The Pledge: We aim to build a community of people who are committed to our nation. We believe in the power of the people to influence those elected to serve us. Paul Thorpe was one of the UK’s leading and most established independent watch dealers. He is now a Journalist / Social Media Influencer / Crime fighter and Campaigner for social justice. Paul Spent 4 years in the World of Professional Boxing and 4 years working at a Premier League Football Club. He has worked closely with Mohamed Al Fayed meeting many famous people on his journey.

There was a knife attack at a public viewing event in the supporters’ area in Stuttgart this summer. A Syrian stabbed three football fans with a knife. Research proves it: The perpetrator chose his victims at random and had previously attracted attention for being strictly religious. it was June 26 – the last group game of the European Football Championship (Turkey vs. the Czech Republic) was just before the final whistle. Saleh Al H. stabbed indiscriminately in Stuttgart’s European Championship supporters’ area, injuring three people, some of them seriously. ‘Limit immigration’ was the demand of CDU state leader Manuel Hagel. But the debate about security at the European Football Championships failed to materialise.
New research by the newspaper ‘Welt’ proves this: The authorities communicated about the suspected Islamist terror only to a limited extent; initial police reports even only mentioned an ‘altercation’ which was said to have escalated. Today, however, the case is quite different. Saleh Al H. stabbed suddenly and without prior communication.

The Ministry of the Interior was keen to prevent the attack from making headlines. They did not want to cover it up, but kept a low profile, according to security sources.

‘There are currently no indications of an Islamist motive for the offence,’ the responsible public prosecutor’s office told the newspaper. ‘The accused has not previously made any criminal offences. But that is not true. In his former place of residence, Besigheim near Stuttgart, Al H. attacked people several times.

Al H. lived in refugee accommodation on the outskirts of the town. Former flatmates told the newspaper Die Welt that he withdrew several times a day to pray. And he had often snapped and even grabbed a knife. After an attack on his room neighbour – he beat him up with a coffee maker – Al H. was moved to another building within the accommodation. Witnesses reported that the perpetrator believed his roommate wanted to turn away from Islam.

At Besigheim railway station, Al H. threatened the owner of a snack bar with a knife after he demanded money from him for goods he had ordered. All these incidents were known to the police, but Saleh Al H. remained at large.

Syrer stach drei Fans in Stuttgart nieder – wollten die Behörden islamistischen Terror während der EM vertuschen? | Exxpress

Rotterdam (Pays-Bas) : un homme armé de deux longs couteaux tue une personne au hasard au cri d'”Allah akbar”, et en blesse une autre (MàJ : vidéo de l'attaque) https://t.co/gttoKhsKG9 pic.twitter.com/l4L7gtjx2T

— Fdesouche.com est une revue de presse (@F_Desouche) September 21, 2024

Netherlands: Muslim screaming 'Allahu akbar' stabs two people, killing one, cops search for motive –
https://t.co/8dMy8pwjQE

— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) September 20, 2024