Month: October 2024

A 12-year-old Syrian migrant has been interviewed by police in Vienna after reportedly threatening a 15-year-old Austrian student with a knife and later throwing an axe at him in a dispute fueled by jealousy over a girl.

The altercation, which occurred in the Austrian capital’s Liesing district on Sunday, turned violent after the perpetrator learned the 15-year-old boy had spent the night with a girl he liked.

According to OE24, the migrant confronted the boy outside the Draschestrasse High School where he was hanging out with friends. The attacker brandished a large kitchen knife and threatened to stab the group but was disarmed.

Witnesses reported that the 12-year-old Syrian returned shortly after armed with an axe and hurled it at the teenager shouting, “I’ll kill you, you faggot.” The axe only narrowly missed its target.

The would-be victim fled the scene with his friends and hid in the bushes along the Liesing river before calling the authorities who quickly responded and located the 12-year-old outside his home.

“Police officers caught the 12-year-old in front of his home shortly after the crime. After being questioned at the police station, the underage minor was handed over to his parents. The axe was confiscated. The twelve-year-old had hidden it in his father’s car,” read a police report.

The mother of the Austrian teenager, a teacher at the local school, told local media the Syrian boy had been a known troublemaker and had previously threatened other children with a machete and a replica firearm.

She explained how she had visited the attacker’s home to attempt to reason with his parents.

“I spoke to the father so that he could influence his son, but was only looked at with contempt. He said: ‘I don’t speak any German’ and walked away,” she told the Austrian news outlet.

The Vienna police are continuing their investigation into the incident.

At just 12 years of age, the boy has not yet reached the age of criminal responsibility in Austria. He therefore cannot face criminal charges under Austrian law, leading to raised concerns about juvenile violence, especially in the context of foreign-born minors.

https://rmx.news/article/austria-12-year-old-syrian-boy-threatens-teen-with-knife-and-axe-in-vienna/

On this week’s #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson are joined by Australian writer and lawyer Justin McGovern to discuss Australia’s mass immigration crisis and the corrosive effects of race politics.

Non-Western immigrants and their descendants are vastly overrepresented in Danish crime statistics.

Citing numbers from the Ministry of Justice, Berlingske reports that non-Western immigrants, who make up 8.4% of the Danish population, commit 14% of the country’s crimes of aggravated violence and 24.3% of the rapes, judging by number of convicted.

Maybe even more concerning are the figures for second-generation non-Western immigrants. Making up a mere 2.2% of the population, this demographic is responsible for 15.6% of the violent crimes and 8.1% of the rapes.

Put together, this means perpetrators of 29.6% of the country’s violent crimes and 32.4% of rapes are from a non-Western background, despite only making up 10.6% of the population. 

“These are deeply disturbing numbers. Therefore, we must take strong and decisive action against this behavior, which is completely unacceptable,” Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard told Berlingske.

“It makes me indescribably angry that individuals we have invited into our country repay us by committing rape and severe violence, which destroys other people’s lives here in Denmark,” he said. 

Researcher Lars Højsgaard Andersen with the Rockwool Foundation, who specializes in studying crime and minorities, says economic and social conditions are the culprit here: The young men who flee to Denmark have limited resources, are traumatized, and have a hard time entering the job market—which he says needs to be taken into consideration when comparing them with ethnic Danes.

“In societal terms,” Andersen said, “there is a challenge in that we have crime that increasingly has an ethnic face.” Culture, tradition, and the way children are raised also contribute to the discrepancy in criminality between different ethnic groups, he said.

“We actually don’t know what the concrete explanation is. But it is striking that it is almost always people from Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa as well as Pakistan and Turkey who fare worse when it comes to crime.”

Figures from the Danish Correctional Services show that 27.6% of the incarcerated in Denmark are first- or second-generation immigrants. Adding foreigners (a category that includes illegal immigrants, tourists, and others who don’t officially live in the country) to the count, over 31% of the Danish prison population is—not Danish. That is up from 26.8% ten years ago. Here, again, a troubling trend can be seen: While the number of incarcerated immigrants and foreigners has remained relatively stable, the number of second-generation immigrants in prisons has risen steadily since 2014.

Justice minister Hummelgaard wants tougher—and longer—sentences, particularly for serious violent crimes and rape. But Professor Andersen says the main advantage of longer sentences is that they keep perpetrators off the street. He does not believe there’s a significant deterrence factor in harsher punishments, but instead puts the focus on crime prevention and influencing imprisoned criminals “in a positive direction” so that they don’t go back to a life of crime following a prison sentence.

Crime prevention is also a part of Hummelgaard’s plan for criminal justice reform, as is expanding prisons and punishing less serious crimes in ways other than incarceration to create space in prisons.

To alleviate the space crisis in prisons, in 2021, Denmark contracted with Kosovo for 300 places in a detention center there. So far, no convicts from Denmark have been sent to the Kosovo prison. 

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/non-western-immigrants-commit-one-third-of-rapes-and-violent-crimes-in-denmark/

By Brian Sussman

Following two back-to-back hurricanes that severely pummeled the Southeastern United States, climate activists have swooped in like vultures, blaming political conservatives for the destruction wrought by Helene and Milton. At MSNBC, Chris Hayes spouts, “We have known for decades that our planet is warming and that we would start seeing the brutal effects. But conservatives remain so deep in their denial that they are flailing around for anyone or anything else to blame.”

While many attempt to falsely connect hurricanes to anthropogenic climate change, the truth is these monster storms are a natural and necessary function of our planet’s atmosphere. But that didn’t prevent CNN from posting a piece wildly declaring, “Helene was supercharged by ultra-warm water made up to 500 times more likely by global warming.”

Hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean traditionally begins on June 1, as the equatorial waters warm to near-80 degrees Fahrenheit, the minimum temperature required for a hurricane to form. Water temperature is often considered the fuel for a hurricane because as the warm water evaporates it subsequently condenses within the storm releasing latent heat. However, there are a multitude of other factors that must be present for hurricane formation including a storm’s distance from the equator, light winds blowing into the center of the storm, high humidity values, and something we refer to as the “saturated adiabatic lapse rate” which is basically the rate at which saturated air cools with altitude. When all of these ingredients are in perfect sync, a hurricane begins to form.

Dr. Neil Frank, longtime head of the National Hurricane Center, contends the total number of hurricanes each year ebbs and flows in sixty-year cycles. On the average, each year there are ten tropical storms (wind speeds less than 74-mph) that develop over the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. Six of these storms become hurricanes (wind speeds of 74-mph or more).  In an average three-year period, roughly five hurricanes strike the United States coastline, killing approximately 50 to 100 people anywhere from Texas to Maine. Of these, two are typically major hurricanes (winds greater than 110 mph).

The cover endorsement for my recent book, Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating Their War on Life, Liberty and Property, was written by Dr. Frank. He contends there is no evidence suggesting we are seeing more hurricanes than ever (over the past 170 years of records), and he insists the frequency and intensity of hurricanes has not changed over years.  Additionally, Dr. Frank reminds us that hurricanes are a beneficial component of the overall global atmosphere as they act as mechanisms which draw hot air from the earth’s equatorial regions into the jet stream which then transports the natural warmth to the colder latitudes. This allows for expansive and comfortable temperate zones, where most of us live.

But why do recent storms seem worse than ever?

The answer is threefold.

First, there is no doubt property damage, in terms of dollars, is on the rise. This trend is driven by the continued development of expensive property along the coasts putting more value at risk of wind and water damage. Also, flooding has increased due to residential and commercial properties edging right up to the water’s edge. Under these modern circumstances, any given hurricane would cause more damage than it would have in the past. Sadly, the same could be said for the number of lives lost during these storms.

Second is media coverage. Back when I was presenting the weather for both CBS-TV News and KPIX-TV in San Francisco, content producers knew severe weather gains eyeballs. It’s still true on TV today.

Third, there is the ad nauseam, agenda-driven propaganda put forth by activists attempting to pin their climate fiction hoax on deadly hurricanes.

But why is Florida seemingly often in the crosshairs?

Because the “Sunshine State” is a sitting duck. It’s a 500-mile long, 160-mile-wide peninsula extending into the warm waters of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico with 1,146 miles of coastline and an average elevation of a mere 100-feet. Given that the average hurricane is about 300-miles-wide, the Florida peninsula is a prime target for potential disaster. As a result, during this 2024 season, of the nine hurricanes formed to date, four have hit the United States with two terribly striking Florida.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/hurricane_facts_vs_climate_fiction.html

Far-left MP Hugo Prévost has resigned after being expelled from the La France Insoumise (LFI) parliamentary group amid serious sexual misconduct allegations.

The 25-year-old socialist MP for Isère, who had only been in office since July, stepped down on Wednesday following accusations of sexual behavior that could constitute criminal offenses. The allegations surfaced after an internal inquiry by the LFI’s Vigilance Committee against Sexist and Sexual Violence (CVSS).

Prévost, who was excluded from the socialist LFI-Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) group on Tuesday, announced his resignation via social media.

“I measure the seriousness of the accusations made against me,” Prévost stated in a post on X. “I have defended myself against them. I will not respond publicly. No personal destiny must hinder our collective tools,” he said, implying he was standing down for the greater good of the party.

“I never sought to harm the integrity of my comrades, and I want first of all to apologize to all those involved in the campaign for the shock they may have experienced in recent hours,” he added.

pic.twitter.com/B61EmLt2qG

— Hugo Prevost (@prevost_hugo) October 9, 2024

The allegations against Prévost, which date back to before his election, were first reported to the LFI group by the CVSS on Sept. 23. According to the CVSS, the claims involve “serious acts of a sexual nature” backed by multiple testimonies. On Oct. 2, Prévost was questioned by party officials, who concluded that the “seriousness of the alleged facts and their systemic nature” warranted his expulsion.

“Our decisions on matters of sexist and sexual violence are precautionary and protective,” read a statement from the LFI-NFP parliamentary group, noting that it is not a court of law and is not there to pass judgment on any criminal proceedings that may follow.

“The courts may be contacted if the persons concerned decide to do so and the CVSS is available to support them if necessary,” it added.

The scandal deepened with a public statement from the Student Union, which Prévost co-founded. The union condemned Prévost for “acts of moral and sexual harassment” and “patterns of predation,” alleging that these behaviors spanned from 2020 to 2024. In their statement, the organization accused Prévost of a “desire for sexual and political control over women” and called for his immediate resignation, further stating that the misconduct had been known to some for “several months or even several years.”

LFI, led by former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has faced intense scrutiny over its handling of sexual misconduct within its ranks, with critics questioning how the party can continue to claim to hold progressive and feminist values.

The party was rocked by a similar scandal in 2022 involving MP Adrien Quatennens, who returned to parliament after a domestic violence conviction.

The news of Prévost’s resignation comes just a week after an activist and former candidate for the far-left party in Nantes was indicted on charges of rape and torture of a disabled 4-year-old girl.

The 32-year-old former LFI member, Pierre-Alain Cottineau, was placed in pre-trial detention last week after admitting to the allegations during police custody.

Cottineau admitted to the rape during police questioning, also revealing that he has “pedophile inclinations.” He is facing charges of “rape with acts of torture or barbarism” and “sexual assault on a minor under 15 by a person in authority,” as well as the possession and distribution of child pornography.

Last month, Sophia Chikirou, a prominent MP for the left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI) and close ally of leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, was indicted for aggravated fraud and abuse of corporate assets in connection with the party leader’s 2017 presidential campaign accounts.

https://rmx.news/article/far-left-french-mp-hugo-prevost-resigns-after-expulsion-from-lfi-over-sexual-misconduct-allegations/

Britain’s state broadcaster the BBC caused alarm on Thursday morning when its weather service predicted hurricanes across the country, forcing them to issue hurried denials.

The BBC weather app and website predicted hurricanes across the country on Thursday morning, with apparently every British region and its outlying islands seeing users confronted with a ‘hurricane force winds’ warning in bold letters as their weather prediction.

Carol Kirkwood, BBC morning television weather presenter explained the weather readouts were due to a technical glitch. She said: “we’re having a technical glitch at the moment, it’s showing wind speeds far too fast, in fact hurricane strength, and of course that is not the case at all so please do not be alarmed by that. And we are as you say well aware of it and we are on it, we’re trying to fix it right now, so hopefully that will sort itself”.

Even several hours after the fault first emerged, the BBC was still predicting hurricanes through its digital outlets.

Oops, don’t be alarmed by some of our @bbcweather app data this morning.

Be assured there won’t be 14408mph winds, hurricane force winds or overnight temperatures of 404°C. 🤦‍♂️

It is being looked at and hopefully sorted asap 🤞 pic.twitter.com/Fjgw15s8ej

— Simon King (@SimonOKing) October 10, 2024

The glitch may have been obvious at first glance to some when inspecting the speeds involved. In parts of the country normally prone to high wind anyway, such as the South West and the Irish Sea, windspeeds were predicted to reach over 16,000 miles per hour. Inland areas and the east still were due to get an alleged battering at 14,000 miles per hour.

This is considerably faster than not only normal hurricanes, which see winds of up to 200 miles per hour, but is faster than the speed of sound at 767 miles per hour, and even the speed of the 1,500 mile per hour storms on Neptune, the solar system’s windiest planet.

Yet while the UK is not particularly prone to hurricanes, given the broader news picture the weather alert may not have seen so immediately far-fetched to others. The top news story from the BBC on Thursday morning was, of course, the very real hurricane Milton which has made landfall in Florida, and just days before the British media was alive with reports of hurricane Kirk, travelling across the Atlantic to Western Europe.

On Monday it had been reported that the remains of hurricane Kirk would pass over southern Britain and north-Western Europe on Thursday morning — just as the BBC’s weather service glitch happened — and could cause 50 mile per hour winds. The storm was not without consequence though, with one sailor killed in France as his yacht was capsized, reports Le Monde.

You may have noticed some data issues on our app and website. We are working hard to fix it quickly. Sorry – please bear with us.

In the meantime here are Thursday's weather headlines:

-Colder, clearer air moving in
-Rain and drizzle in south
-Blustery showers near east coast pic.twitter.com/xwW1FQ4TsD

— BBC Weather (@bbcweather) October 10, 2024

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/10/10/hurricane-fake-britons-wake-up-to-16000-miles-per-hour-wind-warnings

Old Papal Sourpuss – aka Pope Francis – strikes again. This time he fired off comments while traveling in the papal plane from Asia to Rome. Air travel, apparently, inspires this pontiff to unleash confusing and ambiguous statements that have many Catholics and others scratching their heads.

At 10,000 feet he weighed in on Americans’ upcoming choice between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. He categorized both candidates as “against life” and urged Catholic voters to choose the “lesser of two evils.”

“One must choose the lesser of two evils. Who is the lesser of two evils? That lady or that gentleman? I don’t know,” Francis told reporters.

“To send migrants away, to leave them wherever you want, to leave them… it’s something terrible, there is evil there,” he elaborated. “To send away a child from the womb of the mother is an assassination, because there is life. We must speak about these things clearly.”

Francis, a globalist who equates open borders with the outstretched welcoming arms of Christ as depicted in the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, believes there should be no limit to the numbers of migrants entering a country even if an overload threatens to destroy it.

The pro-open borders pope criticized President Trump in 2016 when the latter promised to build a wall at the southwestern border: “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not the gospel.”

In the past, Francis has equated abortion with murder. And yet in his evaluation of Trump and Harris, he puts murder on an equal footing with common sense border control policies and the deportation of illegal aliens.

Is murder really equivalent to turning away migrants leaving their home countries not because of persecution but because they want better jobs and more income? Or because many of them are being sent by enemies with a malicious intent to hurt the country and its citizens?

Francis calls immigration controls “cruel,” but ironically, he’s ignoring the horrors of open border migration that – by necessity – includes dangerous journeys across the southwestern desert terrain. People and children die during these long treks, many are robbed, and women and children are raped, with many sold into prostitution. All of this happens because migrants know the border is open, so they embark on the journey and take their chances.

Does Francis really believe it is okay to subject children to these perils?

Open borders – which breed danger and possibly death for migrants, not to mention the threat they represent to the citizens of the country being invaded – is a Godly concept in Francis’ view, while controlled immigration – where people follow a process, obey the law, enter a country safely but are sent back if they botch the rules – is condemned by the gospel?

If we were to ask what kind of pope would hold such views, the answer would be: one too political to be right for the office.

Consider, for a moment, the Vatican and its huge wall. For anyone who has ever walked through the city of Rome and then encountered the Vatican wall, the immediate impression is one of sky-high immensity. This large and garish Brutish albatross is much like encountering an overdone medieval fortress.

Architecturally, it is really an assault on the senses and bespeaks the isolation and protection of a privileged class.

If walls are not of the gospel (God) why hasn’t this wall been removed, and why isn’t the Vatican housing more immigrants? Why isn’t the Vatican letting immigrants occupy the many residential properties they own in Rome and elsewhere in the world?

Why isn’t Francis sharing his apartment with fentanyl-laden cartel thugs?

As an Argentine friend of mine recently asked, “Why isn’t the Vatican nunciature in Buenos Aires – a splendid mansion in the most expensive part of town – not being used for refugees from Venezuela who have settled in Argentina by the thousands?”

Francis has exasperated the goodwill of many Catholics. Many are beyond being shocked at the things he says and does but have resigned themselves that this pontificate is like a chronic health condition that will never improve.

In telling American Catholics to choose “the lesser of two evils” when it comes to the 2024 election, Francis is mirroring a political globalist agenda by elevating immigration controls to match the serious sin of abortion.

Part Church leader, part radical revolutionary, Francis is all over the map. This explains why so many Catholics pray he is converted and changes his ways or is somehow thwarted in continuing the dangerous arc of his papacy.

Additionally, by castigating leaders like President Trump when he calls the latter’s promise to deport illegal aliens “not of the gospel,” Francis is showing another form of hypocrisy.

Why does Francis even care about the gospel when in so many of his statements and references he has indicated all religions are more or less equal? He reiterated this belief recently in Singapore when he told a gathering of different faith leaders that these different paths might be compared to “different languages in order to arrive at God.”

“But God is God for all. And if God is God for all, we are all sons and daughters of God,” he said.

“There is only one God,” he concluded, “and each of us has a language, so to speak, in order to arrive at God: Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christian. There are different paths. Understand?”

If this is true then what was the point of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles and gave them the gift of tongues (languages) so they could go to the far corners of the known world and evangelize the gospel?

Why preach to pagans or idol worshippers if all religions lead to God? What would be the point? If all religions lead to God, leave the idol worshipers alone and let them seek God in their own way. Why trouble them? Why upset the balance? Why say, “My God is more important than your God?” Because, really, that’s what evangelizers are doing; they are saying “We have a better way. We have the answer.”

Francis is saying: “There is no answer outside of your own tradition. You can stay put and be OK.”

What about Jesus’ directive, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me?” (John 14:6, ESV)

Is what Jesus said just hubris? As C.S. Lewis once wrote, “Either this claim is true or Jesus is a lunatic or a liar.”

So what is Pope Francis really saying about Jesus?

https://www.frontpagemag.com/pope-francis-globalist-superhero/

A transgender sports coach has quietly resigned from a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania high school, leaving some members of the community scrambling for answers. Reduxx has now learned that Sasha Yates was found starring in pornography while smoking methamphetamine, and has now been reported to the statewide child protective services program for undressing in front of teen girls in their locker room.

As previously reported by Reduxx last year, Yates had initially been hired by Gettysburg Area School District in 2018 while still identifying as a male, but in 2022, he began using the name Sasha after he declared that he was transgender. Yates has three children, two of which appear to live in the United Kingdom with their mother, and one young daughter who lives with him in Pennsylvania.

In the fall of 2022, shortly after Yates began “identifying” as female and using women’s facilities, he stripped down to “a bra and panties” in the girls’ locker room where the teen soccer team was changing.

While in the locker room, Yates questioned the young girls on their menstrual cycles and “what type of panties they like to wear.” The girls later reported that they were able to see that Yates was still intact, indicating his penis was visible.

The incident first came to public attention after Gettysburg Area School District board member Michelle Smyers reviewed internal documents related to Yates’ use of the girls’ restrooms and locker rooms.

In response to the public outcry, the district quietly hired an attorney to do an investigation into the allegations that Yates had exposed himself to the female students. The attorney, Christopher Harris, determined that the allegations were unsubstantiated despite never interviewing the girls who had reported seeing Yates’ genitals. In a bizarre twist of events, Harris was recently arrested on child pornography charges.

The initial reports on Yates’ conduct came just as his contract with the district was up for renewal. And though two of the young girls who had been exposed to Yates’ inappropriate behavior were daughters of school board members, the District voted to renew his contract.

But on October 1, local Gettysburg news reported that that Yates had stepped down citing “ongoing health reasons.”

Reduxx can now reveal that Yates’ resignation appears to have come after starring in home-made pornography, including in a video showing him smoking methamphetamine from a glass pipe.

Speaking to Reduxx, board member Michelle Smyers explained that on the evening of September 29, she received an email from a “concerned parent” featuring two attachments. Both were home-made pornography videos of Yates engaged in disturbing sexual conduct.

“One video is [Yates] sitting there with some tight woman’s shirt on, but nothing on his bottom, smoking what I thought was a crack pipe. But it was meth. How do I know that? Because he says, ‘Am I a good meth whore?’ in the video,” Smyers explains. “After seeing that, I opened the next video. And there he was, wearing a bra, bent over a sink or something, with a black male wearing a full hood over his head behind him performing anal sex on him… He was looking directly at the camera the whole time.”

Horrified, Smyers immediately contacted the school district’s Police Chief and reported having received the videos. She then called the school board president, who assured her that Yates would be “gone” the next day.

Disturbingly, Yates appears to have known that Smyers received the videos, and contacted her via text message the next day to assure her that he would tender his resignation. Smyers says she believed this was a gesture intended to get her to “keep quiet” on the videos.

But Smyers instead escalated her concerns, filing a formal complaint with Pennsylvania’s Child Line, the state’s child protective authorities.

“I told them who I am and who I was reporting and gave them a whole history, including the locker room and restroom incidents they should have gotten a report on two years ago but never did,” Smyers says, referring to the incidents involving Yates undressing in front of teen girls in the locker rooms. “I do not believe anyone from my district ever made that call, even though they are mandated reporters, so I did.”

Smyers says Child Line followed up on the report yesterday, and asked her to forward them the videos of Yates smoking methamphetamine. “I actually had the woman promise I wouldn’t get into trouble for forwarding them because it’s essentially disseminating pornography,” she says.

Smyers, who has been advocating against Yates’ employment with the district for a number of years, says the situation is “somewhat” vindicating.

“Really the vindication belongs to those girls. The ones no one listened to or cared enough about to believe them or feel like they mattered,” Smyers says.

“I did say all along he was not the person people were defending him as being,” she continues. “This man knew what he was doing in those locker rooms. He supposedly made comments about being a lesbian. He sat at the sidelines of the soccer games looking at kids. He showed up at plays and musicals and tried to get his mug in the photos with the casts. I know that because my kid was in the plays and musicals. There was always something way off. But yet I was the bigot.”

Despite the school district now being aware of Yates’ conduct, Smyers does not believe they will offer an apology.

“No, they won’t say a word. They are probably hoping I don’t say a word, and if I do they will chastise me and say this is a personnel issue and I shouldn’t talk about it. Well I didn’t ask for those videos to be sent to me either, but there they were. So as far as I’m concerned, this is now MY story to tell.”

Reduxx reached out to the Gettysburg Area School District for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.

https://reduxx.info/exclusive-transgender-coach-at-pennsylvania-high-school-who-was-previously-accused-of-undressing-in-front-of-teen-girls-resigns-after-starring-in-porn-while-smoking-meth/

It is a circular that appalls. Hamburg teachers have been asked to refrain from holding a minute’s silence with their pupils on October 7 in memory of the victims of Hamas terror, preferring instead to make cranes out of paper. ‘A scandal,’ says Hamburg’s CDU boss Dennis Thering (40).

‘Do without grand gestures such as minutes of silence, calls for mourning or empathy. Also refrain from watching reports together next week,’ reads a letter to all teachers in Hamburg on October 7. It originates from the ‘State Institute for Teacher Training and School Development’, for which the education authority of SPD Senator Ksenija Bekeris (46) is responsible.To put it in context: For months, politicians in Germany have been swearing that they stand ‘firmly on Israel’s side’. And now this embarrassing letter from a Hamburg authority. It should ‘not be about factual information’, it says. Rather, it should ‘give space to consternation.’ The reason behind this is apparently the fear that it could otherwise lead to conflicts with pupils from the Muslim community.

Dennis Thering, mayoral candidate and chairman of the CDU parliamentary group, is outraged: ‘The fact that the Hamburg education authority has asked Hamburg’s teachers not to hold a minute’s silence to remember the horrific attacks carried out by Hamas in Israel a year ago is a real scandal. Where, if not at school, should space be given to dealing with grief?’

The Hamburg Lord Mayor always talks about anti-Semitism having no place in Hamburg and about solidarity with Jews, but this no longer seems to apply in schools and in his Senate.
Thering continued: ‘A topic is being avoided here in anticipatory obedience because it could harbour potential for conflict. What conditions are we living in now? What is going on in the schools, what is going on in the education authority? If the school senator really is as clueless as she is pretending to be, it is frightening and shows that she does not have her authority under control. A tragedy!”In fact, the school authorities initially stated that they had no knowledge of the letter addressed to more than 20,000 teachers.

Authority spokesman Peter Albrecht told the newspaper BILD: ‘The content and form of this newsletter is now being analysed and evaluated in terms of service law and supervision. The concrete consequences will be drawn as part of the investigation.’

Behörde verhindert Israel-Gedenken – CDU-Boss Thering: „Ein Skandal“ | Regional | BILD.de

41% of Spaniards—16 points more than a year ago—view immigration with “a lot of concern,”  according to a survey conducted by the 40dB Institute for El País. This survey follows a report from the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS), which also found that immigration has become the top concern for Spaniards.

The percentage of Spanish people who believe there are “too many” immigrants in the country has increased to 57.2%. Among VOX voters, this sentiment is even higher, with 86.1% agreeing. A significant portion of PP and PSOE voters share this view, as well as 27.7% of Sumar voters and 24.2% of Podemos voters. Meanwhile, only 4.1% of the respondents think there are “too few” immigrants in the country.

Nearly three out of four of the polled (74.8%) associate immigration with issues like insecurity (29.5%), strain on public services and resources (27.2%), social conflict (21.2%), crime (19.2%), unemployment (16.7%), or a “loss of cultural identity” (7.6%).

Concern about immigration differs based on political affiliation. Among VOX voters, 73% are “very concerned,” compared to 46.4% of PP voters, 29.2% of PSOE voters, 24.1% of Sumar voters, and 15.4% of Podemos voters.

When asked which party is most capable of handling immigration, 20.5% of the general population chose PSOE as the top choice, followed by VOX at 17.7% and PP at 16.2%. Sumar and Podemos received less than 6% each. Additionally, 17.2% selected “none,” while another 15% were unsure which party to choose.

Among the general population, nearly one in four Spaniards (24%) would veto the arrival of people from the Maghreb. 60% think their entry should be allowed but with restrictions, while 11% believe it should be permitted without limitations. Regarding sub-Saharan immigration, 17% would prohibit it, 64% support limited entry, and 13% think it should be unrestricted. In both cases, 5% responded, “I don’t know.” 

Additionally, two-thirds (66%) feel that immigrants receive too much public aid, with 35% agreeing “quite a lot” and 31% agreeing “very much.”

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/almost-60-of-spaniards-believe-there-are-too-many-foreigners-in-spain/