Month: May 2026

A new political brochure published by Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has right-wingers up in arms.

The 32-page booklet entitled Decline for Germany, not an Alternative launches a number of wild claims about the country’s main opposition party, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) – which became the largest opposition force in the Bundestag following the February 2025 federal election.

AfD cultural policy spokesman Götz Frömming called the brochure “outrageous” on May 20, 2026, and said the CDU was disseminating “long-debunked lies about AfD”.

Among other things, the brochure accuses AfD of “wanting a one-party state similar to the [Communist] German Democratic Republic or National Socialism”.

It claims AfD was “attacking the protective mechanisms of our democracy itself” because AfD representatives had voiced their frustration with the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) – which has long spearheaded a push to ban AfD altogether. The BfV classified AfD as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organisation in May 2025, a designation the party is currently challenging in court.

The Conservatives further claim that hatred for Jews was a “core part” of AfD ideology – arguing that the party was anti-Semitic because it positioned itself as making politics for the people and against out-of-touch elites.

The brochure uses a quote by AfD honorary chairman Alexander Gauland as evidence for this, in which Gauland speaks of a “globalised class” in companies, parties and NGOs which sets the pace “culturally and politically”.

Finally, the CDU publication accuses AfD of wanting to deport millions of German citizens whom they consider unworthy:

“All people are equal … but the AfD does not believe this. For them not all people are equal, not even all Germans. Leading AfD politicians openly say that a German passport is not enough. They speak of ‘passport Germans’ and ‘real’ and ‘better’ Germans. The AfD openly says it wants to deport millions of people, even German citizens.”

As news site Nius reported on May 20, 2026, this claim had already been ruled false by a German court in March 2026 – when it banned a left-wing NGO from disseminating similar accusations about the right-wingers.

With the new brochure – which can be ordered in bulk in the CDU’s online shop – the Conservatives have yet again cranked up the level of accusations and hysteria vis-à-vis their political contenders on the right.

Leading CDU representatives have also chosen even more escalatory rhetoric lately. On May 14, 2026, Conservative State prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Hendrik Wüst said in a speech at the German Catholics’ Day that a government takeover by AfD would be highly dangerous:

“In the case of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, too, many would have said that they would soon disappear once it became clear that they were out of their depth in government. Though, it was not the Nazis who disappeared, but freedom of speech and of the press, as well as an independent judiciary – and all within a matter of weeks.”

The escalatory rhetoric may be connected with the right-wingers’ recent rise in the polls. In two long-running surveys by pollsters Forsa and Insa, AfD recently reached all-time highs of 28 and 29 per cent of the vote – while CDU has fallen to just 22 per cent in both polls, six percentage points less than at the February 2025 general election.

Brussels Signal contacted CDU for comment but had not heard back at the time of writing.

German journalist Christoph Lemmer commented on the brochure:

“Whether the AfD stands for ‘Germany’s decline’ may or may not be the case. That remains to be proven. For the CDU and CSU, it has been the case ever since [former chancellor Angela] Merkel came to power.”

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Senior politicians from the German centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) are advocating for the party to continue its path further towards the Left just to avoid having to cooperate with the ‘far right’—as they like to call the right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).

Speaking on public TV station ARD on Wednesday, May 20th, Daniel Günther, the CDU’s prime minister in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, argued that the AfD represented a far greater threat than Die Linke, the successor to East Germany’s former Communist ruling party.

“You cannot lump the AfD and Die Linke together,” he said, insisting that any future government formation “must happen without the AfD.”

The comments come ahead of crucial elections in two eastern German states, Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in September, where polls show the AfD leading comfortably.

In both states, a government excluding the AfD may only be mathematically possible with support from Die Linke—despite a longstanding CDU party resolution formally ruling out cooperation with both parties.

Recently, André Schröder, a prominent CDU politician in Saxony-Anhalt, also suggested that the party’s resolution did not necessarily prevent practical cooperation with Die Linke.

Both these remarks confirm that the CDU has abandoned conservative principles in favour of a broad anti-AfD alliance stretching from the centre-right to the far left.

The party would now rather cooperate with the heirs of East Germany’s communist establishment than acknowledge the growing electoral appeal of the AfD, which campaigns primarily on opposition to mass migration, EU centralisation, and radical green policies.

In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD has surged to 42%, which means it could potentially secure an outright majority of seats in the state parliament. Die Linke polls at 12.6% here. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party is in the lead with 36%—an almost 20-point increase compared to their result in 2021, way ahead of Die Linke at 12.8%

The AfD has also skyrocketed to 42%—double the CDU’s support—in another eastern German state, Saxony, according to a new INSA poll. Compare that with Die Linke’s 10%. AfD co-leader Alice Weidel reacted on X by accusing establishment parties of attacking ordinary citizens instead of addressing Germany’s problems.

Neue INSA-Umfrage: Die AfD in Sachsen ist mit 42 % inzwischen doppelt so stark wie die CDU! Wer linke Kampfschriften gegen die AfD verfasst und das Ehrenamt und große Teile der Bevölkerung verunglimpft, statt die Probleme dieses Landes zu lösen, der muss sich über solche… pic.twitter.com/fk89zpvdze

— Alice Weidel (@Alice_Weidel) May 21, 2026

Meanwhile, in Günther’s home state of Schleswig-Holstein, the CDU’s support fell sharply to 27.6% at last year’s federal election, compared to the 43.4% it received in the 2022 state election. Die Linke stands at a mere 6% currently, compared with AfD’s 15%.

Instead of self-reflection and seeking ways to engage with the public, Günther has doubled down on calls for tougher action against the AfD and its online supporters.

Speaking at a conference in Berlin, he reiterated his desire for greater regulation of social media, public algorithms, and even a “real-name requirement” online to combat what he described as “hate and incitement.”

Unsurprisingly, he also backed a procedure to ban the AfD and urged stronger mobilisation against the party.

Such comments only justify the narrative that the establishment parties, worried about their loss of support, are increasingly willing to silence opposition voices while calling a democratic opposition party a “danger” to the state.

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Last year the globalist left targeted AfD member Petr Bystron before elections alleging he was a Russian agent. The allegations were as fake as the Trump-Russia allegations pushed by Barack Obama and Democrats for years.

Bystron is a member of the conservative, anti-open border party AfD that continues to gain prominence in Germany politics.

As TGP reported last year:

After days of agitation in the European mainstream media, the popular AfD politician Petr Bystron has now become the target of a death threat combined with blackmail. As BILD reports, Bystron’s Bundestag office in Berlin received an anonymous letter with the text: “…if you value your life, then you quickly collect €100,000 and call here…”

The blackmailer insulted the AfD foreign politician as an “asshole” and added a collage with Bystron’s photo with a painted Hitler beard. The Bundestag police are taking the matter seriously and have started investigations (file number Vg/949/2024). The AfD politician said to the German Newspaper BILD of the death threat: “These are the fruits of the smear campaign of the last few days. I ask Czech Prime Minister Fiala: ‘Is this what you wanted to achieve?’”

Several insider authorities in Prague are accusing Czech Prime Minister Fiala of being personally responsible for mentioning Bystron’s name in connection with an affair surrounding the news portal “Voice of Europe.” At the beginning of last week, the Czech secret service made it public that it suspected two Ukrainians of covert propaganda for Russia. The accusations of collaborating with the portal and even taking money were directed against six European parties, all of which are against the war in Ukraine.

Bystron told the Czech newspaper BLESK that this was revenge for his appearances at the anti-government demonstrations in Prague, such as the demonstration on Wenceslas Square last year, where hundreds of thousands of Czechs cheered the AfD politician and at the same time loudly demanded the resignation of the hated Fiala government. According to the latest surveys, only 2% of its own citizens trust the Czech government.

On Wednesday, Petr Bystron’s office announced that the AfD memeber was filing defamation charges against one of the groups that smeared him as a Russian agent during last year’s campaign.

Bystron accuses the organization of having defamed him in a campaign in March by portraying him as a “politician paid by the Russians.” In posters and social media posts, the group depicted Natálie Vachatová, an adviser to Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, as a security risk and featured her alongside Bystron.

“Such defamatory allegations led to investigations against me lasting two years, including a total of 29 house searches — without a single piece of evidence being found or any charges being filed,” Bystron said in explaining the lawsuit. In addition to financial compensation, he is demanding the immediate removal of the posts, a cease-and-desist order, and a public apology published on the association’s channels.

Vachatová and the photographer of the image used in the campaign, Petr Štěpánek, have also initiated legal action against the organization. Štěpánek is suing over copyright infringement and unpaid licensing fees, while Vachatová has filed a defamation claim. Vachatová became the target of weeks-long attacks by the association after it emerged that she was working on legislation aimed at significantly restricting NGO financing. Bystron himself came under attack from several Czech NGOs and media outlets after repeatedly criticizing the former government in public.

So far, Milion chvilek pro demokracii has not responded to the lawsuit or to media inquiries. The organization is regarded as controversial in the Czech Republic and is viewed by critics as a tool for the defamation of political opponents. Critics accuse the group of one-sided support for the ousted Fiala government, as well as of smearing and intimidating the government’s political opponents. The organization’s founder, Mikuláš Minář, has been accused of embezzling up to 7.3 million Czech crowns donated by supporters.

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Three male players are competing in girls’ volleyball at USA Volleyball-governed events despite a 2025 policy that restricts biological males from participating in the female category. As at least one of the boys has allegedly attempted to conceal his biological sex by altering his legal documents, women’s sports advocates are now calling on USA Volleyball to implement sex testing to enforce protections of the female category.

In January of 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14201, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” directing federal agencies to interpret Title IX protections on the basis of biological sex. The order states that federally funded educational institutions that permit trans-identified males to compete in female sports categories could risk loss of federal funding.

While the executive order primarily applied to schools and educational institutions receiving federal funds, its impact has extended beyond scholastic athletics. In the months following the order, several national governing bodies at the guidance of the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee overseeing Olympic and youth sports pipelines, revised or clarified participation policies for female competition categories..

One of those governing bodies was USA Volleyball (USAV), which oversees sanctioned junior club competition through regional associations across the United States. USAV subsequently adopted eligibility standards for female divisions based on biological sex, and announced the changes in July of 2025.

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But despite USAV’s announcement, Reduxx has been made aware of multiple male athletes who allegedly continued competing on girls’ teams in USAV-sanctioned events. At least two are “stealth,” meaning they have attempted to present themselves as being born female and may not have disclosed their biological sex with their teammates or athletic officials.

One of them is known to be “Bri” Deiley of Centaurus High School in Lafayette, Colorado. Although Deiley has attempted to conceal his biological sex, he was identified through an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court by several transgender advocacy organizations in opposition to state restrictions on male participation in women’s sports. The brief included personal testimonies from trans-identified male athletes who claim to have been impacted by laws restricting their access to women’s sport competitions.

In the filing, Deiley was referred to under the pseudonym “Melissa,” and an anonymized photograph depicting him playing volleyball was included. However, the image was able to be cross-referenced with the original version, which had previously been posted on social media by his high school.

Deiley’s mother is quoted in the brief, and describes him as deliberately “stealth,” meaning they have worked to conceal his biological sex from the female players on his team. She also states that Deiley began puberty blockers at a young age and argues that he does not possess a biological athletic advantage as a result.

The brief also notes that Deiley hopes to participate in NCAA Division I or II volleyball following his graduation. Such participation would conflict with existing federal law prohibiting males from competing in women’s sports.

Deiley is currently participating in girls track and field at his High School, and recently took a first place win in Women’s Varsity High Jump at the B-Town Bash on April 3, and also received a medal at the prestigious Colorado State Championships just last week. But his involvement on the Goldfish 18U Volleyball Team at USA Volleyball-governed events under the Rocky Mountain Region Volleyball Association appears to be in violation of USA Volleyball’s efforts to comply with Executive Order 14201.

Another male athlete participating in USA Volleyball-governed events is Logan O’Brien, who, like Deiley, appears to have chosen to conceal his biological sex from his teammates and is alleged to be using an altered birth certificate to claim he was born female.

O’Brien plays on the Sportime Gold 15 team, which is affiliated with the Garden Empire Volleyball Association region of USAV. Coaches are reportedly aware that he is biologically male, but have not prevented him from participating in matches governed by USAV.

Also participating on a team within the Garden Empire Volleyball Association is Sawyer Chiappano. However, unlike Deiley and O’Brien, Chiappano makes no effort to conceal his transgender status and openly represents himself as a “GenderCool Champion.”

GenderCool represents itself as a “youth-led movement helping replace misinformed opinions about transgender youth.”

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Chiappano plays on the New York Elite 14 Gray team, which has won several volleyball tournaments this year and is considered a stand-out volleyball team in its region.

Reduxx reached out to USA Volleyball for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication. This article may be updated in the event a response is received.

Speaking to Reduxx, a spokesperson for the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) expressed concerns that USA Volleyball’s purported efforts to protect the women’s category was not being respected.

“Federal law, including Title IX and the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, requires governing bodies and schools to maintain sex-separated sports teams for girls. Families spend thousands of dollars annually for their daughters to participate, and the least USA Volleyball can do is enforce basic eligibility rules to ensure boys do not compete on girls’ teams,” the spokesperson said.

“USA Volleyball’s current stance, which places the burden of identifying and assessing players’ sex on athletes and their families, represents a dereliction of duty. Blatantly violating both the law and the intent of its own policies, while harming young female athletes, is unconscionable,” she continued.

The spokesperson also expressed concern over what she described as the increasing prevalence of males attempting to participate in female athletics without disclosing their sex.

“Sex is not private information, and deception is never a right. Boys and their families cannot be allowed to conceal their sex in order to gain access to girls’ sports and locker rooms,” she said, adding that because birth certificates can be altered in some states, identification documents alone may no longer be sufficient to guarantee female-only spaces in sports.

“All governing bodies in the United States should implement sex screening via cheek swab as part of registration eligibility requirements for girls’ and women’s sports. As the International Olympic Committee has recognized, it is the least invasive and most accurate method, and it can be used whenever eligibility is in question.”

Deiley, O’Brien, and Chiappano are just the latest male athletes to be exposed for participating on female volleyball teams despite growing public backlash.

Earlier this year, three women from Santa Rosa Junior College’s volleyball team filed a federal Title IX complaint demanding the removal of a male player from their women’s squad. Sophomore Madison Shaw and freshmen Gracie Shaw and Brielle Galli allege that they were penalized for protesting the inclusion of Ximena Gomez on their team.

Separately, in January of this year, the Department of Education found that San Jose State University had engaged in sex discrimination by allowing a trans-identified male player to participate on the Spartans women’s volleyball team. The Department threatened imminent punitive action agains the University if it did not comply with Executive Order 14201 and guarantee female athletes access to single-sex sports.

San Jose State University refused the Department’s demands in March, and announced it was planning retaliatory legal action.

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by Giulio Meotti

“Not everyone was raped, I would say, but everyone suffered humiliating and disgusting sexual abuse. The Palestinian reported that he was immobilized, stripped naked and, while blindfolded and handcuffed, a dog was brought to him. With encouragement from a trainer in Hebrew, the dog mounted him.”

Dogs mounting Palestinian Arabs?

Anyone who believed they had heard everything about Israeli Jews has not yet read “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians” by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, which four years ago I called “the Pravda of progressivism.”

Fantastic timing!

The New York Times published it on the very day that the report from Israel was arriving about the mass rapes committed by Palestinian Arab terrorists on October 7: individual and gang rapes, vaginal mutilations, forced sexual violence in front of relatives and other horrors from the catalogue of the “resistance.”

We are witnessing one of the greatest contemporary intellectual collapses: the replacement of evidence with emotion, of research with suspicion, of ideological narrative with reality.

The Palestinian Authority accused Israel of introducing rats into the Palestinian Arab territories. Not ordinary rats, but “engineered” rats that Israeli high-tech supposedly designed to “attack children and the sick.”

A grotesque zoological litany.

Wild boars released by the Zionists destroyed Arab crops.

Israel unleashes hyenas against Palestinian Arabs.

Sharks. Yes, sharks were recruited by the Mossad to destroy tourism in Egypt.

The “Palestinian president”, Mahmoud Abbas – the one we shower with money – even went before the plenary session of the European Parliament to claim that a rabbi had asked the Israeli government to poison Palestinian Authority water. At the end of his speech, Abbas received much applause and a standing ovation from many parliamentarians. It took some time before the old relic of Ramallah apologized.

I do not doubt that Islamists may believe in the great conspiracy of Jewish fauna. What is worse is that many Westerners believe it too.

The machinery of Islamic propaganda understood the postmodern void: fill it with emotional narratives, sacred victims and white-Jewish executioners. It works!

Doctor Goebbels is the hidden master of our time.

On August 17, 2009, Aftonbladet, Sweden’s oldest and best-selling newspaper, published an article by Donald Bostrom in which the journalist, without sources or evidence, wrote that the Israeli army, in collusion with the medical establishment, kidnapped Palestinian Arabs to harvest their organs. Jews stealing organs?

The propaganda machine never stops: it simply moves on to the next slander.

Rationalism died when we decided that truth is a white colonial construct. From then on, anything can be said and thought: that the Jews are Satan, that the white man is a racist who pollutes, and that there are not 2 sexes but 72.

The past is not dead; it has gone viral. Welcome to the new world. It is identical to the oldest one. Dark, primitive, drunk on hatred. And incredibly fashionable.

There is a line in “Stella Maris” by the immense Cormac McCarthy:

“When this world that reason has created is finally swept away, it will take reason with it. And it will be some time before it comes back.”

Today we are living in that intermediate time, suspended between a dying Enlightenment and triumphant archaism. What is coming, we will discover soon.

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“Violent” ex-soldiers from countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have massed at small boat launch sites on the Belgian coast, police have revealed.

A growing number of military men have been spotted “accompanying” the boats – making it too dangerous for police to intervene, local force chief Nicholas Paelinck said this week.

With French authorities taking a stricter approach to monitoring the would-be migrants, small boat smuggling gangs have moved to launch from Belgium.

But armed men have rendered authorities impotent to stop the boats.

“Normally, we try to puncture the boat beforehand to prevent the crossing to the United Kingdom,” Mr Paelinck said.

“But that is not possible here, because you see ex-military personnel from Iraq circling the boat to ensure the police cannot get to it.

“Officers were threatened by the soldiers, and a mirror was even smashed with an iron bar. We conducted a risk analysis, and it is too dangerous to operate on that beach anymore. We will not do that again.”

Police have also found “weapons of war and ammunition” in migrant tent camps, and have warned it is “only a matter of time” before officers are confronted.

Ostend police chief Hannelore Hochepied told Belgian MPs it will only get more difficult, with summer a “very busy period” for his men.

“The small boats usually set off in the early morning, so it’s all hands on deck for the local police, with a major impact on daytime capacity,” he added.

Belgium’s coastal police receive support from federal police but have called for further federal aid to tackle smuggling gangs.

This includes technological support such as high-performance surveillance cameras, thermal cameras at key locations, sensors on access roads to the beach and drone technology.

Rob Bates, director at the Centre for Migration Control, told GB News the presence of ex-soldiers was worsening a migrant “invasion”.

“We’re talking about the fact that they are coming from countries that are in a state of permanent conflict, and they have been almost incubated in a culture and a society where it’s inevitable that they will have encountered some form of violence at some point and maybe been involved in combat and conflict,” Mr Bates warned.

British politicians have been reluctant to treat small boat crossings with the “level of severity” needed, while the British Government has taken a “lackadaisical attitude” to the crisis, he added.

Mr Bates said: “I think, unfortunately, as the flows shift up from Belgium to France, it just shows Labour’s folly of putting all their eggs in the French deal basket.

“And actually, this is now a situation where any collaboration with European partners won’t yield the results that we need them to.

“It’s time to just finally take that step and embark on a policy of detention and deportation.”

Last month, Shabana Mahmood signed an agreement worth £662million with the French Government in an attempt to curb small boat launches.

But French politicians have said the deal “will not change anything” to stop the influx of migrants across the Channel.

Mr Bates also warned migrants in Britain had become a “permanent invasion” – with the total number of arrivals now outnumbering the British Army.

“We are facing something here that could wreak huge, huge havoc – not just socially and fiscally – but actually in terms of the security and well-being of hundreds of thousands of Britons.

“I don’t know how many more flashing red lights we have to see on the dashboard before ministers start to treat this with the severity it does deserve.”

Last month, GB News revealed how at least 250 small migrants had launched from Belgium’s coast in a single day.

A total of 7,576 asylum seekers have crossed into Britain through the Channel so far this year, with an average of 65 people per vessel from 15 May 2025 to 14 May 2026.

A Home Office spokesman said: “We are aware of dangerous and illegal small boat launches from Belgium. Through continued shared intelligence and close partnerships with Belgian authorities, numerous others have been successfully prevented to prevent illegal arrivals to the UK.

“Our work with France has already stopped more than 42,000 illegal migrants attempting to cross the Channel since the election. We have removed or deported almost 60,000 people who were here illegally.

“But we are going further to remove the incentives that draw illegal migrants to this country and increase removals and deportations of those with no right to be here.”

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Two new pro-life bills have been introduced in the U.K.’s House of Lords.

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) reported that Lord Daniel Moylan and Baroness Nuala O’Loan have each introduced a pro-life bill to the House of Lords. Both bills will receive their first reading in June.

Moylan’s “Complications from Abortions (Annual Report) Bill” aims to pressure the government to ensure transparency and accurate reporting of complications in relation to abortion procedures.

Complication rates in the U.K. may be significantly higher than officially reported, a 2023 government review revealed. A data analysis from statistics in England between 2017 and 2021 revealed that abortion providers reported a complication rate of 1.52 per 1,000 abortions, while hospital data showed a significantly higher complication rate of 4.06 per 1,000.

According to SPUC, the figure could be even higher since 1 in 17 at-home abortions (so-called “pills-by-post” abortions) result in an ambulance call.

The government review also found that abortion providers were often not updating records if complications occurred after women had left their facilities, especially when the attempt to kill the unborn child was done via abortion pills.

The bill from O’Loan seeks to protect babies born alive during abortions. The issue has become more relevant since abortion was completely decriminalized in the U.K. this year, allowing women to perform their own abortions using abortion pills up to the moment of birth. This could lead to more dangerous long-term abortions, with more babies being born alive accidentally.

In the Australian state of Victoria, 33 babies were born alive after late-term abortion attempts since the practice was decriminalized. In Queensland, 204 babies were reportedly born alive following failed abortions between 2005 and 2015.

A 2008 report showed that in the U.K., 66 babies were born alive after abortion attempts carried out by the National Health Service in a single year, with many surviving for more than an hour after birth.

SPUC notes that Private Member’s Bills such as those proposed by Moylan and O’Loan rarely become law, but they still serve the important function of raising awareness and sparking parliamentary debate on controversial issues.

SPUC CEO John Deighan commented on the matter, saying, “It’s a joy to see Lord Moylan and Baroness O’Loan standing up for the unborn against the terrible barrage in the last parliamentary session.”

“These Bills would not be necessary, however, if it were not for the dreadful pills-by-post scheme pushed by the careless pro-abortion ideologues in Parliament. SPUC will do all we can to help them get the recognition and traction they deserve, of course, but will not give up lobbying to end the dangerous scheme that has led to these moves in the first place,” Deighan concluded.

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U.S. Vice President JD Vance encouraged the British public protesting against the longstanding government policy of flooding the jobs market with mass migration to “just keep going” and remember “it’s OK” to want to live in a safe, culturally homogenous place.

The U.S. Vice President stood in for press secretary Karoline Leavitt at the White House press briefing room on Tuesday to cover her maternity leave, as reported by Breitbart News, and amid responses for a wide range of questions spoke out about the weekend’s Unite The Kingdom Rally.

The rally, convened by veteran street organiser and child rape gang critic Tommy Robinson, was called on Saturday 16th in defence of freedom of speech, civil liberties, and “our shared British identity, our history, our heritage, and the culture that connects England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland”.

Responding to a question that specifically highlighted protester’s concerns about “mass illegal migration and replacement of British culture”, Vance encouraged Britons who reject the modern paradigm of business-dominated government constantly pushing wages lower through human quantitative easing to keep fighting.

He said:

One of the problems that we have in all of Western societies is that we have a lot of people who have decided — Wall Street bankers, corporate lobbyists, and government officials — that what the United States and what the West need is more and more cheap labour. What we believe in this White House is what we need more and more of is high wages for American workers and investing in our own people.

What you see all over the West, and it’s kind of crazy, is this idea that the way to generate prosperity is to bring in millions and millions of unvetted people and drop them into your neighbourhoods, and we simply reject that idea.

So to everybody in the UK who rejects that idea, I’d encourage them to just keep on going.

Expressing concern about mass migration and its ill effects has long been portrayed as a simple expression of racism and beneath contempt and in the United Kingdom mass migration has been forced on the public for decades despite repeated election results showing the public mood on the matter.

In the long Tory era the government made play of understanding the concerns of the public, particularly at election time, but privately held voters in contempt and kept the borders firmly wedged open.

The country is now governed by the centre-left-globalist Labour Party of Keir Starmer, and the same effect is achieved with a different public-facing strategy, with supporters of a deportation programme simply labelled as extremist threats to the very social fabric, or “soul” of the country.

Encouraging Britons to simply side-step the criticism and stick to their guns on these deeply important political matters, Vice President Vance reassured that:

It’s OK to want to defend your culture, it’s OK to want to live in a safe neighbourhood, it’s OK to want your job to go to yourself and your neighbours, and not to a stranger who you don’t even know. It is reasonable for the people in Western societies to want to control who comes into their country and who doesn’t.

A lot of people — frankly, a lot of people in the media have tried to persuade all of those people that it’s somehow racist to want to protect your borders, even though very often the very people who are most affected by low wage immigration are lower income black and Hispanic Americans right here in the United States of America, and I guarantee that’s true in the UK.

So we believe in making America Great Again, you can’t do that unless you protect your borders, I’d encourage our friends in the UK to follow the same path.

Vance’s remarks are part of a series of such made by the Vice President to offer morale support to European sovereigntists and conservatives since he took office under President Donald Trump last year.

The first and most prominent of these interjections was his Munich Security Conference speech in February 2025 when he accused European leaders of ever-less-liberal attitudes, stating: “If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you, nor for that matter is there anything you can do for the American people”.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance encouraged the British public protesting against the longstanding government policy of flooding the jobs market with mass migration to “just keep going” and remember “it’s OK” to want to live in a safe, culturally homogenous place.

The U.S. Vice President stood in for press secretary Karoline Leavitt at the White House press briefing room on Tuesday to cover her maternity leave, as reported by Breitbart News, and amid responses for a wide range of questions spoke out about the weekend’s Unite The Kingdom Rally.

The rally, convened by veteran street organiser and child rape gang critic Tommy Robinson, was called on Saturday 16th in defence of freedom of speech, civil liberties, and “our shared British identity, our history, our heritage, and the culture that connects England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland”.

Responding to a question that specifically highlighted protester’s concerns about “mass illegal migration and replacement of British culture”, Vance encouraged Britons who reject the modern paradigm of business-dominated government constantly pushing wages lower through human quantitative easing to keep fighting.

He said:

One of the problems that we have in all of Western societies is that we have a lot of people who have decided — Wall Street bankers, corporate lobbyists, and government officials — that what the United States and what the West need is more and more cheap labour. What we believe in this White House is what we need more and more of is high wages for American workers and investing in our own people.

What you see all over the West, and it’s kind of crazy, is this idea that the way to generate prosperity is to bring in millions and millions of unvetted people and drop them into your neighbourhoods, and we simply reject that idea.

So to everybody in the UK who rejects that idea, I’d encourage them to just keep on going.

Expressing concern about mass migration and its ill effects has long been portrayed as a simple expression of racism and beneath contempt and in the United Kingdom mass migration has been forced on the public for decades despite repeated election results showing the public mood on the matter.

In the long Tory era the government made play of understanding the concerns of the public, particularly at election time, but privately held voters in contempt and kept the borders firmly wedged open.

The country is now governed by the centre-left-globalist Labour Party of Keir Starmer, and the same effect is achieved with a different public-facing strategy, with supporters of a deportation programme simply labelled as extremist threats to the very social fabric, or “soul” of the country.

Encouraging Britons to simply side-step the criticism and stick to their guns on these deeply important political matters, Vice President Vance reassured that:

It’s OK to want to defend your culture, it’s OK to want to live in a safe neighbourhood, it’s OK to want your job to go to yourself and your neighbours, and not to a stranger who you don’t even know. It is reasonable for the people in Western societies to want to control who comes into their country and who doesn’t.

A lot of people — frankly, a lot of people in the media have tried to persuade all of those people that it’s somehow racist to want to protect your borders, even though very often the very people who are most affected by low wage immigration are lower income black and Hispanic Americans right here in the United States of America, and I guarantee that’s true in the UK.

So we believe in making America Great Again, you can’t do that unless you protect your borders, I’d encourage our friends in the UK to follow the same path.

Vance’s remarks are part of a series of such made by the Vice President to offer morale support to European sovereigntists and conservatives since he took office under President Donald Trump last year.

The first and most prominent of these interjections was his Munich Security Conference speech in February 2025 when he accused European leaders of ever-less-liberal attitudes, stating: “If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you, nor for that matter is there anything you can do for the American people”.

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by J.B. Shurk 

Josep Borrell is a Spanish socialist who held several high-ranking positions in the European Union.  Until 2024, he was a vice-president of the European Commission and the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy.  In that capacity, he ran Europe’s External Action Service, which is the diplomatic body that executes Europe’s foreign policy decisions around the world.  He remains a man with a great deal of influence over European perspectives.

In 2022, Borrell created a bit of an international incident when he described Europe as a “garden” and the rest of the world as a “jungle.”  “We have built a garden,” he told aspiring European diplomats in Bruges, Belgium.  “Most of the rest of the world is a jungle.  The jungle could invade the garden.  The gardeners should take care of it.”  

As the head of the European Defense Agency, Borrell’s comments made strategic sense.  As he said in that same speech, “The jungle has a strong growth capacity…Walls will never be high enough to protect the garden.  The gardeners have to go to the jungle, Europeans have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world.  Otherwise, the rest of the world will invade us, by different ways and means.”  

Borrell’s speech came seven years after German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open her country’s borders to millions of Islamic immigrants.  Originally touted as a humanitarian policy designed to temporarily shelter refugees from war-torn Syria, Germany’s generous welfare programs quickly became a magnet for young men across the Middle East and North Africa.  When Merkel declared on August 31, 2015, “We can do this,” she initiated an all-of-society “welcome culture” that quickly produced a full-blown migrant crisis for the whole continent.  Over ten years later, the influx of millions of Muslims into Europe has transformed school demographics and local politics, unleashed an explosion in sex crimes and anti-European violence, strained Europe’s hospital services and social safety nets, and exacerbated government debt.  

Speaking after the “jungle” had already successfully invaded Europe’s “garden,” Borrell knew there was no way to put the genie back in the bottle.  Merkel’s fateful decision to “welcome” Middle Easterners to Europe transformed cities and towns across Europe into the Middle East.  Borrell also knew that the European Union’s patchwork defense agency did not have the requisite military and espionage assets to effectively protect the continent.  So he tried to fashion his corps of young diplomats into a network of information and persuasion agents who could do Europe’s bidding around the world. 

Borrell’s message got lost in the ensuing international kerfuffle over his “garden” / “jungle” division of the world.  From Russia to Canada, Africa to Southeast Asia, every self-described “foreign policy expert” took umbrage at Borrell’s bluntness.  Perpetually offended virtue-signalers hadn’t gotten so worked-up since President Trump had called Haiti a “shithole country” four years earlier.  Just as Conan O’Brien felt compelled to white-knight for Haiti’s dystopian, cannibal gangland by visiting a heavily guarded resort in the Caribbean country and recklessly encouraging vacationers to join him, legions of politically correct snobs from around the planet recorded social media videos from their country estates in which they turned tsk-tsk-ing into a veritable lingua franca for the vicariously aggrieved. 

All the “very best people” denounced Borrell for promoting a scarcely disguised restoration of European imperialism, colonialism, fascism, and genocide.  Young international students enjoying university scholarships and living in Europe for free made sure to remind Borrell that “diversity is our strength.”  Borrell’s socialist comrades beat him over the head with Europe’s prime directive: multiculturalism über alles.  Mohammadbagher Forough, a random research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies, publicly reprimanded Europe’s foreign minister thusly: “This kind of comment puts a serious dent in the enterprise of European strategic autonomy.  It upsets, at the most profound level, countries in the rest of the world, because of the history of colonialism.”  

In other words, Europe’s “ruling class” and auxiliary straphangers condemned Borrell for daring to defend the beneficiaries of Western civilization.  He was encouraged by threat of high-culture social banishment to follow Chancellor Merkel’s example in supplicating before the migrant hordes.  The message was clear: Europe’s minister of defense cannot properly “defend” Europe unless he allows non-Europeans to take over the continent.  It was further proof that Europe is irreparably lost.

Since his departure from the European Union’s foreign policy perch at the end of 2024, Borrell has spent most of his time in public lambasting President Trump’s global leadership.  A staunch supporter of Ukraine who once threatened to “annihilate” the Russian army, Borrell has frequently defended the honor of Volodymyr Zelenskyy by claiming that Ukraine’s holdover president is leading “the resistance” and “deserves respect.”  After President Trump described Zelenskyy as a “dictator without elections,” Borrell called the “accusation” the “height of dishonesty.”  When President Trump and Vice President Vance took offense to Zelenskyy’s sense of entitlement and disregard for American taxpayers who have paid the salaries and pensions of Ukraine’s government workforce, Borrell screamed on X, “Trump and Vance have put on a disgraceful show.  I am ashamed of that behavior.”  

In response to Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference last year during which the vice president excoriated Europe’s crackdown on free speech and political dissent, Borrell lectured his erstwhile colleagues: “This is a declaration of political war against the European Union.”  Going further, Europe’s former defense minister declared, “Europe must stop pretending that Trump is not an adversary and assert its technological, security, and political sovereignty with clarity and strength.”

As much as I find Borrell’s socialist-globalist politics abhorrent, I respect his impulse to defend his fellow Europeans.  The problem is that the European Union is a governmental monstrosity — bureaucratically lethargic, ideologically suffocating, foolishly regulatory, unmoored from its stated principles, opposed to public debate, enamored with its empires’ past glories, and increasingly oppressive.  Eurocrats such as Borrell believed they could reconstitute European centrality in the world by constructing a “rules-based international order” and forcing every other nation in the world to bend to Europe’s will.  Brussels has long desired to rule the world through rule-making. 

It turns out that depending on the United States for security, the Russian Federation for energy, and communist China for critical imports is not a blueprint for European strength.  To his credit, Borrell understands Europe’s dilemma.  He knows that the European Union “was not designed for the world in which we live today.”  Forced to watch President Trump remake the world without showing any deference to Europe’s globalist prerogatives, Borrell openly laments, “We are not very relevant to international politics.”  

Can you imagine how difficult of an admission that is for Borrell to make?  He has been weaned on the notion of European superiority all his life.  Even as parts of the European continent careen toward civil war, Borrell still believes that Europe is the world’s idyllic “garden” and everywhere else remains wild “jungle.”  From Borrell’s perspective, not only is Haiti a “shithole country” but also the United States is, too.  

Borrell finally realizes, however, that Europe survives only because the rest of the world permits it to endure.  When you depend upon the United States, Japan, India, China, Russia, and the Middle East to produce everything that Europe’s dying empire needs, then you have no leverage or real power in the world.  European imperialism is dead because Europe has no armies or navies to enforce its “rules-based” edicts.  European imperialism is dead because sane nations refuse to impoverish themselves in the name of carbon credit tyranny.  European imperialism is dead because Europe opened its doors to an Islamic invasion. 

Europe is the “jungle.”  The “garden” is gone.  European hubris sealed its fate.

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New government data out of Germany is fueling fierce debate, as figures reveal that the country’s most popular opposition party—the right-wing anti-globalist Alternative for Germany (AfD)—has become the primary target of political violence, raising serious questions about the state of democracy in Europe’s largest economy.

According to official statistics, reported on by several German outlets, nearly two-thirds of all violent attacks against politicians in 2025 were directed at members of Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party that has surged in popularity in recent months.

The numbers are stark. Out of 183 recorded violent attacks against political figures, 121 targeted AfD representatives—more than all other major parties combined.

The figures, for or supporters of the party, confirm what they have long argued: that Germany’s political establishment and media have created a climate of hostility that has now spilled over into physical violence.

AfD MP Martin Hess pulled no punches in his response to the data.

“Those who constantly defame, delegitimize and dehumanize the AfD and its supporters shouldn’t be surprised when enemies of democracy see in this a call to violence,” he said.

The sheer scale and consistency of the attacks leads critics point to something deeper than isolated incidents. The violence is not evenly distributed across the political spectrum.

Government data indicates that roughly 60 percent of violent politically motivated crimes were attributed to left-wing extremist suspects, compared to just 11 percent linked to right-wing perpetrators.

The imbalance directly contradicts the dominant narrative often promoted in mainstream political discourse.
And violence goes beyond physical attacks.

AfD members were also the most frequent targets of so-called “speech offenses,” including threats, defamation, and harassment, accounting for over a third of such cases nationwide.

In total, more than 1,800 politically motivated crimes were recorded against AfD figures in 2025 alone. Party infrastructure has also been under sustained pressure.

AfD offices were targeted in 239 separate incidents, ranging from vandalism to arson, placing them among the most attacked political facilities in the country.
Even Germany’s ruling, globalist establishment parties have not been immune.

The CDU/CSU bloc saw a sharp increase in attacks on its own facilities, particularly after cooperating with AfD votes on a parliamentary migration proposal earlier in the year.

In one week alone, 30 attacks were recorded against CDU buildings following that vote, highlighting the intensity of political tensions surrounding immigration policy.

Despite this, the pattern remains clear: the party that challenges the political status quo—with that clearly being the AfD—bears the brunt of the backlash.
The AfD’s platform—centered on stricter immigration controls, national sovereignty, and opposition to EU policies—has made it a lightning rod in Germany’s increasingly polarized political landscape.

At the same time, the party’s rising popularity has only heightened tensions.

Recent polling has placed the AfD well ahead of traditional liberal CDU, marking a significant shift in German politics.
The AfD has surged to a record 29%—matching the SPD, FDP, and Greens combined—marking a sudden collapse of Germany’s political establishment as voters across Europe reject what elites call extremism and instead see it as failed governance.

🇩🇪 The AfD just hit 29% in Germany's latest INSA poll, an all-time high.

One party now equals the SPD, FDP, and Greens combined.

Germany's political establishment didn't lose ground gradually. It collapsed it all at once.

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— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 16, 2026

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— Dr. Maximilian Krah MdB (@KrahMax) May 17, 2026

For critics of the current system, of which there is an ever-increasing number, the surge reflects growing dissatisfaction with mainstream parties, particularly on issues such as migration and economic policy.

But that shift has also triggered fierce resistance from an entrenched system unwilling to relinquish power.

Large-scale protests, media campaigns, and political isolation efforts have been directed at the party, with opponents frequently labeling it as beyond the democratic mainstream.

AfD figures argue that such rhetoric has consequences. They claim that constant public vilification creates an environment in which violence becomes normalized—or at least excused.

“This development is the result of years of political and media disinhibition,” Hess said, pointing to what he sees as a broader breakdown in civil discourse.
The broader question now facing Germany is whether political competition can remain peaceful in such a climate.

For a country that prides itself on democratic stability, the rise in politically motivated violence presents a serious challenge.
It also raises concerns about the ability of opposition movements to operate freely without intimidation.

While the government insists there is no organized campaign behind the attacks, others argue that the data tells a different story.
They point to the concentration of incidents, the ideological imbalance among perpetrators, and the sustained targeting of a single political force.
The issue goes beyond party politics.

It touches on the fundamental principles of democratic engagement: the right to participate, to campaign, and to express political views without fear of violence.

As Germany moves toward its next electoral cycle, these concerns are almost cetrain to intensify.

The combination of rising political polarization, shifting voter preferences, rising political violence, and a general escalation of tensions on the ground, in the media, and in the parliament, suggests a volatile period ahead.

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