Month: December 2024

A new poll shows that nearly a majority of French people do not want any immigration at all, both legal and illegal.

The poll from CSA, which was conducted for Europe 1, CNews and the Journal du Dimanche, showed that 48 percent of French people want zero immigrants coming — that means not a single migrant entering French territory. That is a 7-point jump compared to the same poll conducted in October 2021. In that previous poll, only 41 percent of French said they were in favor of zero immigration.

Notably, the poll shows that young people and women — the two groups arguably most affected by mass immigration — are quickly turning against the idea of more immigrants. In fact, more women were in favor of zero migration than men, with 53 percent of women in favor versus 44 percent of men. In France, the professionals and white-collar class, designated as (CSP+), shows that 45 percent of this group wants zero immigration.

🇫🇷‼️ Sexual violence by migrants against women is out of control in France and the mainstream media doesn't want you to know about it.

Here are just some of the attacks across the country in the last few days:

CLERMONT-FERRAND: A Sudanese migrant with refugee status was… pic.twitter.com/rZPH5DtvFq

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) August 21, 2024

The highest percentage for zero immigration were 18-24 year-olds, with 55 percent of these French youth for zero immigration. Meanwhile, the lowest support was among the 65+ group, with 54 percent of this group being against the policy of zero migration.

The 25-34-year-old group was at 49 percent in favor of zero migration, 5-49-year-olds at 48 percent and, 50-64-year-olds at 51 percent.

As was seen in national elections earlier this year, it was the baby boomers that saved French President Emmanuel Macron from electoral defeat, with this group overwhelmingly voting for the pro-migration president. In turn, the anti-immigration Marine Le Pen over-performed with the youth. However, currently polling shows that she is the most popular candidate in the country and if elections were held today, she would be chosen as France’s new leader. She is, however, facing a criminal trial that could bar her from electoral politics — a move criticized as a disaster for democracy.

The poll also found that 82 percent of National Rally supporters want zero immigration, while for the left parties combined — PS, the Greens, and LFI — only 21 percent were for zero immigration and 79 percent were against.

Overall, a majority were against zero immigration, coming in at 51 percent, while only 1 percent were undecided. However, it is important to note that the poll only asks about zero immigration. There may be, for example, voters who are against the idea of zero immigration who are still in favor of strict immigration controls in France, the deportation of illegal migrant criminals, and other harsh measures against immigration while not necessarily supporting a complete stop to immigration. Notably, other polls have shown strong majorities in support of immigration restriction, above 70 percent in many cases.

The fact that nearly a majority support a complete and total halt to all immigration signals that French society is strongly anti-immigration, and there are even larger majorities for strict immigration controls and caps on migrant numbers. Some of those opposing a halt to all immigration may also be in favor of, for example, a complete cut to illegal immigration or even a halt to all non-EU immigrants.

https://rmx.news/article/48-of-french-people-want-zero-immigration-including-zero-legal-migrants/

Despite initially validating it, the Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) on Friday, December 6th, unanimously ruled to annul the first round of the country’s presidential elections—just two days before the final round between the two top candidates. The reason for the annulment is alleged Russian interference during the campaign period, claimed by reports that were declassified at the last minute by the country’s top intelligence agencies.

According to Romanian G4Media, which was the first to break the story, the CCR decision not only means that the first round will need to be repeated at an unspecified date picked by the incoming (and probably socialist-led) government, but also that each candidate will need to re-register and go through the validation process again. 

This is seen as one of the most problematic aspects, as the Constitutional Court has already prevented another nationalist candidate from entering the initial race due to alleged ties to Russia, so there’s no telling whether the poll favorite Călin Georgescu—whose campaign is suspected to have been propped up by Russia—will even get past validation. 

What’s more, in case it gets proven in court that Georgescu won the first round by intentionally employing illegal assistance from another state actor, he could get disqualified from running for office ever again. 

The dramatic turn of events came on Wednesday, two days after the court initially validated the first-round results following a recount that found no evidence of electoral fraud. This followed the declassification of five separate reports by intelligence agencies, which detailed suspected foreign interference and were released on the order of outgoing President Klaus Iohannis. The intelligence reports showed that Georgescu’s rise from obscurity to the first place was “not a natural outcome,” and alleged that it was the result of a coordinated social media campaign most likely orchestrated by a foreign “state actor,” i.e., Russia.

Romania’s top intelligence agency, SRI, found an influence network of over 25,000 accounts on TikTok that was initially set up in 2016 but lay dormant until it was suddenly activated two weeks before the first round of the presidential elections to promote Georgescu.

Additionally, over a hundred real influencers (with a combined reach of eight million followers) were recruited to do the same, with a single Romanian entrepreneur paying nearly €1 million alone for their content, up to €950 per post.

Earlier this week, TikTok executives were summoned before the European Parliament to testify about the election, and while they admitted to having identified several networks aiming to influence the Romanian elections, they said these were “very small” operations with only a few dozen fake accounts. However, they were able to track about €360,000 worth of illegal payments sent to influencers for content promotion. 

The now-annulled second round was supposed to be the race between the “radical populist” Georgescu and the liberal USR’s (Renew) Elena Lasconi, who only barely beat the socialist PM Marcel Ciolacu (PSD) for second place by less than three thousand votes. 

This is why many observers regard the socialist-leaning court’s order to recount and then annul the vote as a scheme to give another chance for PSD and Ciolacu to stay in the race, even if the alleged Russian involvement in the campaign is true. 

Romania is a key NATO member located in a strategic position next to neighboring Ukraine and Moldova. It not only houses one of two main bases of NATO’s ballistic missile shield that protects it from the east, but the alliance is currently building its largest-ever European base on its territory, close to the coveted Black Sea. With Georgescu repeatedly stating that he wished to close these NATO facilities, it’s not hard to imagine which candidate Russia would have an interest in supporting.

Now, regardless of what Russia did or didn’t do, the question of how to move forward is an incredibly hard one as both camps feel cheated by the court and the outgoing socialist government.

Despite being the “pro-West” candidate and polls showing that she would lose to the right-wing Georgescu, the liberal Lasconi strongly criticized the decision in a dramatic address on Friday—primarily because chances are she won’t get another chance to qualify for the runoffs.

“God, the people, the truth, and the law will prevail, and will find those guilty for destroying our democracy,” Lasconi said, warning that the CCR decision throws the country into “anarchy” and calling for the elections to resume on the scheduled day to “respect the will of the people.”

🚩Statul român a eșuat să apere democrația! pic.twitter.com/lkMVBHDq0s

— Elena Lasconi (@ElenaLasconi) December 6, 2024

Right-wing parties that since endorsed Georgescu also criticized the move, seeing it not only as an attempt by the socialist’s PSD attempt to cling to power but as a maneuver by the establishment as a whole. George Simion, the leader of the largest nationalist party AUR—which threw out Georgescu two years ago for being too “extreme,” ironically—called the CCR decision a “coup d’etat” but urged his followers not to take the streets in protest. “The system must fall democratically,” he wrote on X.

Constitutional Court 🇷🇴 just annulled the entire electoral process for the presidential elections, i.e. both rounds.

SHAMEFUL!!!
Coup d’etat in full force!
We are not taking to the streets,
we will not be challenged,
this system must fall democratically!

God bless Romania!

— 🇷🇴 George Simion 🇲🇩 (@georgesimion) December 6, 2024

Nonetheless, large-scale social unrest is all but guaranteed at this point. According to polls, Georgescu is favored over Lasconi by nearly 58% of the voters, including two-thirds of the socialist PSD (S&D) voters and a third of the centrist PNL (EPP) supporters.

There’s no guessing how much time the country will have to survive in this chaotic state until the new elections either, as picking the date will be the task of the new government that’s still subject to ongoing coalition talks after the recent parliamentary elections that left the Romanian parliament in an unusually fragmented state.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/coup-detat-romanian-top-court-annuls-presidential-elections-two-days-before-second-round/

Outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has faced strong criticism from abuse survivors after making a light-hearted resignation speech in the House of Lords yesterday.

Welby, who announced his resignation last month following the Church of England abuse scandal, drew condemnation for his “frivolous” tone and jokes while discussing safeguarding failures.

Victims said they were “dismayed” and “disgusted” by the speech, which they claim showed no remorse for survivors.

The controversy centres on comments made during a debate where the Archbishop appeared to distance himself from personal responsibility in handling the John Smyth abuse case.

Speaking in the Lords, Welby said: “The reality is that there comes a time if you are technically leading a particular institution or area of responsibility where the shame of what has gone wrong whether one is personally responsible or not must require a head to roll.”

He added: “And there is only, in this case, one head that rolls well enough.”

The Archbishop made light-hearted references to a 14th century predecessor who had been beheaded, adding: “I hope not literally.”

He began by joking about his diary secretary who had worked hard arranging his schedule before his resignation announcement.

Welby claimed that safeguarding in the Church of England was now “a completely different picture to the past”.

Mark Stibbe, who was groomed and beaten by Smyth in the 1970s, condemned the Archbishop’s remarks.

He said: “I object to the use of such a frivolous tone in such a serious matter – a matter that has been, and continues to be, a matter of life and death to some.”

Another victim, identified as Graham Jones in the Makin report, told the BBC he was “disgusted by the speech”.

“It did not appear to be one of sorrow which is what was required,” Jones added.

He criticised Welby for talking “frivolously about a matter that has led to suicide attempts by victims” instead of using the opportunity to apologise.

Jones also took issue with the Archbishop’s comments about his diary secretary, arguing: “He said he pitied his diary secretary without a word of pity for the victims of abuse.”

Smyth, a barrister and lay preacher, is believed to have abused more than 100 boys and young men at Christian summer camps in England during the 1970s and 1980s.

He continued his abuse in South Africa and Zimbabwe until his death in Cape Town in 2018, aged 75.

The independent Makin review found Church officials, including Welby, “could and should” have reported Smyth to police in 2013.

The review stated Welby had a “personal and moral responsibility” to do more to prevent further abuse in South Africa.

In his resignation statement last month, Welby said he “must take personal and institutional responsibility” for his response when first informed about the abuse.

The Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley added her voice to the criticism, saying she was “deeply disturbed” by the Archbishop’s language.

“To make light of serious matters of safeguarding failures in this way yet again treats victims and survivors of church abuse without proper respect or regard,” she said.

Hartley expressed disappointment at seeing other bishops in the House of Lords laughing at the jokes.

The Bishop of Newcastle, who was the most senior member of the clergy to call for Welby’s resignation after the Makin report, has reportedly been “frozen out” by her Church of England colleagues following her remarks.

Welby is due to step down from Lambeth Palace on January 6, with Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell taking temporary charge until a permanent replacement is found.

The search for a successor is expected to take around six months.

Lambeth Palace confirmed this week that Welby will not deliver the traditional Christmas Day sermon at Canterbury Cathedral.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/archbishop-canterbury-justin-welby-lords-speech

By Andrea Widburg

Once, Great Britain was a colossus astride the world. The joke was that the sun never set on the British empire. However, the sun is now setting on Britain itself, or at least the Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman Britain that rose to greatness, shaped the West, and gave birth to America. The “tell” about Great Britain’s imminent demise is the name that dominates the list of popular boys’ names in England and Wales: Muhammad. The future belongs to those who show up, and the native Brits can’t be bothered.

Writes the Daily Mail:

Muhammad is now the most popular name for baby boys in England and Wales, toppling Noah in the official rankings.

More than 4,600 boys were given the specific spelling of Muhammad in 2023, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This was almost 500 more than in 2022.

The number of Noahs, meanwhile, slid from 4,586 to 4,382. Oliver, which ranked third, also saw a slight drop in prevalence.

It’s actually worse than the above analysis shows. In the very next paragraph, we hear what’s really going on:

It marks the first time just one spelling of the Islamic name has topped the charts, although when all thirty-plus iterations are grouped together it has been the most common for over a decade, MailOnline analysis suggests.

Great Britain’s Muslim population is already so sizable that the nation is just a few years away from a full Muslim takeover. As I wrote in a post about a jihad in Leeds, which was a very English city when I lived there more than 40 years ago,

In the year from 2022 to 2023, England and Wales added over 600,000 people. In 2021, before those additions, almost 15% of the UK’s population consisted of immigrants—and they’re mostly young and enthusiastic about having children. India and Pakistan accounted for 15% of the migrants. We can guess that all the Pakistani migrants are Muslim, while we don’t know how many of the Indian ones have been. Call it “The Empire Strikes Back.”

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As of 2021, Islam was the second-largest religion in the UK, at 6.5% of the total population (and note that this was before the past three years of mass immigration. Also in 2021, Muslims were 15% of London’s population and 8% of Yorkshire’s population. Those percentages have surely grown.

In the most recent elections, Muslims won political offices across the UK, especially in Yorkshire. One of the first things the new Labour government has done is to re-fund UNRWA, which is Hamas.

The increasing growth of Islam in England (because the Muslims are the ones having babies), combined with a Labour government, drives the remarkably antisemitic politics that have been coming out of England lately. In a must-read Substack essay, Melanie Phillips describes how virulently antisemitic the current British government is. Meanwhile, King Charles happily sold out to Qatar, Hamas’s banker and, until recently, a hideaway home for Hamas’s blood-soaked leaders.

But honestly, when you look at 20th-century British history, this support for Islam isn’t new. When the Ottoman Empire, which sided with Germany during WWI, collapsed, Britain inherited the lands that are now Israel and Jordan.

Under Ottoman rule, for around 150 years, the flotsam and jetsam of the Ottoman empire had been drifting into the land denominated as Palestine (the historic nation of Israel and continuous home to the Jews for over 3,500 years). These were refugees from Algeria, Tunisia, etc. They didn’t own the land—Ottoman potentates who were resident in London, Paris, and Istanbul did—but they squatted there, living in unutterable, unrelieved squalor.

When Jews from Europe started pouring into this barren land (and they lived only on land they purchased), the local Arabs were delighted. The Jews brought energy, modern food production techniques, medicine, and compassion, and they promptly tried to help out their pathetic Arab neighbors.

As Pierre van Paassen’s 1943 book, The Forgotten Ally, explains, it was British bureaucrats, the second tier from India who got to be the first tier in British-mandate Palestine, who saw the Jews as a threat and stirred up enmity among the Arabs. In other words, 100 years ago, the British bureaucracy was just as vile as it is now.

This enmity and the need for Arab oil saw the British refuse to allow Hitler’s refugees into the mandate before WWII and then refuse them entry after WWII when Holocaust survivors were endlessly trapped in refugee camps. The first half of Leon Uris’s masterful (and sadly out-of-print) Exodus covers this story well and accurately. (Uris was an old-fashioned, honest journalist as well as a novelist).

In other words, when it mattered most, whether in the 20th century or today, England was and has been hideous, hateful, and horrible to the Jews.

This will end in one of two ways: Either Britain will soon be an Islamic country, or there will be a bloody civil war. Either way, for the native Brits who can’t even be bothered to reproduce, it’s going to be very painful. In Genesis 12:3, God tells Abraham, “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee…” As the UK gets a taste of Islamic rule, it’s going to discover that, as always, God spoke the truth.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/the_most_popular_boys_name_in_england_and_wales_sounds_the_uk_s_death_knell.html

In the wake of the trial for the murder of Samuel Paty, some internet users are not shying away from continuing to target the teacher and the school community. As Le Point reported on Thursday December 5, the sister of the teacher, who was killed by an Islamist terrorist on October 16, 2020, has filed a lawsuit for glorification of terrorism together with the association Défense des Serviteurs de la République (Defence of the Servants of the Republic). Mickaëlle Paty’s complaint is aimed directly at an internet user of the social network X.

This doctoral student at the Sorbonne, who describes himself as a professor in his profile, justified the murder of Samuel Paty with the accusation of ‘Islamophobia’: ‘Without Islamophobia, this disaster would never have happened. Patty (sic) was probably a secular Islamophobe, but if a Muslim said that, you’d be talking about an apologia for terrorism.’ He also made reference to Brahim Chnina, the teenager’s father, who had written hate messages against the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine teacher by lying when he asserted that Muslim pupils had been excluded from Samuel Paty’s classes: ‘The Muslim father of the family makes the ideal culprit and this trial will further fuel Islamophobia.’ His message and his X account have since been deleted, reports Le Point.

Mickaëlle Paty’s lawyer, Carine Chaix, was outraged by such statements, which ‘deliberately sully the memory of Samuel Paty by labelling him an Islamophobe who did well by what happened to him and aim to justify his beheading because of his alleged Islamophobia,’ she wrote in a statement, announcing the filing of a lawsuit by her client. The man ‘dares to claim that the Islamophobia of society and many secular teachers is at the root of terrorism.’ Such a discourse is usually ‘led by the most fundamentalist Islamists who are involved in the terrorist threat in our country and the climate of fear that prevails in schools,’ the lawyer pointed out. Finally, she demanded: ‘The hate propaganda that ideologically arms those who take action must stop.’

Samuel Paty accusé d’islamophobie : sa sœur porte plainte contre un doctorant à la Sorbonne – Valeurs actuelles

‘Foreigners get out’ could be read in the ruined fire. The allegedly racially motivated arson attack on a Pakistani family in Wächtersbach made headlines across Germany at the end of last year. Almost a year later, that family will have to answer to the Hanau district court from Monday (9.00 am). The charges are insurance fraud and arson.

The public prosecutor’s office accuses the family of setting fire to their own house in the Main-Kinzig district and faking a right-wing extremist attack. The motive is said to have been to collect the insurance sum of around 350,000 euros.
On the night of Christmas Day 2023, the house fire caused a national stir because racist slogans were found on the walls of twelve parts of the building after the fire was extinguished. Initially, police state security investigated a political crime.

According to the Hanau public prosecutor’s office, however, the accused sprayed these slogans themselves in order to create a false trail and divert attention from their own offences. In March, the police and public prosecutor’s office announced the turnaround in the investigation. As a result, all five defendants were initially remanded in custody.
The main accused are the 48-year-old owner of the house and his 35-year-old brother-in-law. Both are alleged to have set fire to the house. The wife of the accused, the couple’s 19-year-old son and a 56-year-old friend of the family are suspected of complicity.
The accused homeowner is said to have suffered burns during the arson. The family friend is said to have deliberately lied to the investigators and claimed that the burns were caused by an alleged accident in the kitchen. According to the indictment, further investigations revealed that the family had already offered numerous furnishings for sale on the internet beforehand and had allegedly removed valuables from the house and secured them.

As one of the defendants is an adolescent, the trial will take place before the juvenile chamber of the district court. According to the court’s plans, it could be a long hearing of evidence, as the chamber has already scheduled 14 trial days until the end of February 2025.

https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/panorama/falsche-faehrte-gelegt-brandanschlag-vorgetaeuscht-prozess-gegen-familie-beginnt-103695186

German authorities foiled a potential terror attack on a Christmas market in Bavaria after a tip-off from a foreign intelligence agency.

The 37-year-old suspect from Iraq was arrested on Wednesday evening in shared accommodation for asylum-seekers in Augsburg, German newspaper Welt reported. A spokesperson for the Bavarian police confirmed the arrest Friday morning.

Welt, a sister publication of POLITICO in the Axel Springer Group, cited sources saying the suspect had disseminated posts on social media glorifying Islamic State (IS) and photographed the Christmas market in Augsburg. He allegedly talked about wanting to drive a car through the market, according to the report.

German authorities were alerted about the suspect’s online activities by a foreign intelligence agency, Welt reported. After his arrest he was detained awaiting deportation.

A Christmas market in Berlin was targeted in a terror attack in 2016, with a man who pledged allegiance to IS driving a truck through the crowd, killing 13 people. Strasbourg’s Christmas market was the scene of another deadly attack by an IS-linked extremist in 2018 that killed five people.

https://www.politico.eu/article/terror-attack-bavaria-christmas-market-foiled-terrorism-isis-islamic-state-extremism-far-right-police

On today’s #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt & Connor Tomlinson are joined by stand up comedian Simon Evans, presenter of GB News’s “Headlines” programme and occasional host and panelist on BBC Radio 4’s News Quiz.

(…) On April 16, 2024, the defendant disregarded the right of way. Nevertheless, he got out of his Peugeot 206 to approach the driver, who had to stop to avoid him… and who had just unfortunately used her horn. When the driver of a minibus saw this, he tried to intervene. Without getting out of the car, he asked the driver to stop harassing the woman.

The angry driver followed the minibus for several kilometres. When he arrived at her level and opened the window, he made wild gestures and shouted racist insults: ‘Pull over, you dirty white man, you dirty Frenchman’ (…) He admitted the insults, but not that he had said: ‘I’m here to collect your welfare and fuck your women’. The driver of the minibus, who is present at the hearing, is certain that he heard these remarks.

(…) The very next day, he threatened to kill two employees of the Leclerc department stores’ in Paramé. This time it was because the shop staff had failed to activate his Google Card. He shouted insults and death threats: ‘I will kill you … I will cut your throat by the Quran, I will smash your head in with a spanner. (…)

He admits that he is impulsive, which is also reflected in his criminal record with eight criminal records.

Laurent-Callame, the defence lawyer, said she was ‘blindsided’ (…) She also pointed out the ‘improbability of this case’: ‘My client is as French as you and I, he was born in France, his father and mother are French. These insults are as if he had said: ‘I hate myself because I am French’’. (…) Actu.fr

(…) She recounts his childhood in Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise), surrounded by violence at home and on the street. ‘He was able to survive this thanks to a certain ability to react,’ she emphasises, in order to curb his impulsiveness.

The man concludes by apologising to the people he has ‘wronged’. He is convicted of death threats and public insult based on origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion. He receives a six-month suspended prison sentence, which obliges him to undergo medical treatment and to start looking for a job. The public prosecutor’s office had applied for a further two months probation. He must pay a total of €950 to the three co-plaintiffs. (…) Ouest France

« Sale Blanc sale Français », « Sur le Coran je vais vous tuer » : sursis pour un homme multi-condamné qui a injurié et menacé des gens à Saint-Malo (35). Pour son avocate de 80 ans… « ce dossier est invraisemblable, il est aussi français que vous et moi » – Fdesouche

By Olivia Murray

“Climate” science is almost always junk science—forecasts from human-programmed computer-based guesses, endless doomsday predictions that never manifest, and an ever-changing narrative, oscillating between global warming and global cooling.

But when junk science comes out and completely undermines progressive policy initiatives by showing how utterly irrelevant and worthless such initiatives are? It’s a silver lining, and pretty tasty schadenfreude.

According to a new article out on Tuesday from Anthropocene Magazine, new “scientific” findings suggest that all the “climate change” ideas and schemes the left foists onto taxpayers to avoid this strikingly vague “existential crisis” don’t mean anything unless they can sequester an unidentified level of carbon from the air and store it for at least a millennium.

The item’s author, Sarah DeWeerdt, reports on a study conducted in part by “climate scientist” Cyril Brunner of the Zurich-based ETH Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, writing this:

But the time scale of carbon sequestration matters a lot, Brunner and his colleagues demonstrate.

The researchers used a simplified climate model to find out how different durations of carbon storage would affect total warming. Only 1,000-year carbon storage strategies will avoid further warming from residual carbon emissions, the researchers report in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

This only works if you store it until 3024? This is hilariously ludicrous… but it gets even more absurd:

Shorter-term strategies that only hold carbon for 100 years will result in the re-release of that carbon long before the emissions that are being offset would leave the atmosphere naturally. The result of these short-term strategies: excess, unaccounted-for emissions, and more warming.

All those “shorter-term” schemes they’ve been peddling have, according to them, been making things worse! Now, I personally don’t see a lot of evidence that humans really have any impact on the climate—except perhaps, the “cloud-seeding” and spraying of chemicals across the skies—but nonetheless, this is what they’re claiming… so thanks a lot you jack***es!

The sad reality about this is that although this is a great example of how asinine and unrealistic the agenda and vision of the progressive left climate fantasists are, it won’t sober them up—as one would reasonably expect—and it’ll become the basis for even more maniacal “climate change mitigation” plans.

Heaven help us.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/new_study_to_avert_greater_than_expected_degree_of_warming_carbon_must_be_stored_a_minimum_of_one_millennium.html