Germany: Ukraine War Refugees Cynically Used to Distract From Ongoing Global Migrant Crisis, Opposition MP Says
Ukraine war refugees are being used by Germany’s Interior Minister to obscure the country’s ongoing migrant crisis, an opposition MP has claimed.
Mathias Middelberg, the deputy leader of the Christian Democratic Union in the German parliament, has accused Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of using the war in Ukraine to obscure the reality of the ongoing migrant crisis.
The Antifa-linked Interior Minister has previously ignored recent concerns raised about migrant arrivals in the country rising to near-record lies, outright refusing any suggestion that asylum numbers in the country could be capped.
“Eight out of ten refugees come from Ukraine,” she is described as saying. “There can be no upper limit for humanity there.”
However, according to a report by Süddeutsche Zeitung, Middelberg has now accused Faeser of fudging the numbers, saying that the number of refugees arriving from Ukraine has collapsed since the start of 2023.
The publication notes that, by March 31, 81,647 people said to be fleeing Ukraine arrived in Germany this year.
This is compared to the 80,978 non-Ukrainian migrants who claimed asylum in the county within this same period.
“Federal Minister of the Interior Faeser is misleading [the public] about the development of migration to Germany,” Middelberg claimed, adding that the figures have clearly shown a substantial increase in the number of African and Asian migrants arriving in Germany in 2023.
Middelberg’s accusation that Feaser is trying to mislead the public with her talk of Ukrainian arrivals comes at a time when migration is once again becoming a major issue in Germany.
Having last spiked during the infamous European Migrant Crisis of 2015-2016, the number of foreign arrivals claiming asylum in the country is rising once again, with multiple local municipalities across the country now struggling to cope with the influx.
Overall, more than 200,000 migrants made asylum claims in Germany for the first time last year, with a further 55,000 applying for international protection in the first two months of 2023 alone.
The migrant surge has prompted multiple warnings from officials in the country, with the head of Germany’s Federal Police Union lashing out at the left-wing government’s “scandalous” refusal to properly deal with the crisis.
Union Chairman Heiko Teggatz also added that anyone who “publicly opposes the protection of our borders and thus the fight against illegal migration” is ultimately ignoring “the associated dangers to public security”, and that Minister Faeser’s inaction was effectively giving “international crime an El Dorado in Germany”.
Opposition MPs within the populist Alternative for Germany party have meanwhile expressed concern about crimes committed by migrants against German citizens.
“In 2022 alone, 3,503 German women were victims of immigrants who committed crimes against women’s sexual self-determination,” MP Stephan Brandner revealed using statistics he obtained from the German government.
“30 women had to die,” he added. “Effective border control would save many lives!”
Germany: 150 migrants for small village of 150 in Saxony has citizens turning to conservative AfD party for help
The village of Rosenthal in eastern Saxony has only 150 citizens, but its population may soon double if a planned migrant center with capacity for 150 is built in the vicinity of the village. Now, citizens are turning to the conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) party for help.
The tranquil village is located in a little-known corner of Germany where a large number of ethnic Sorbs live, right on the border of Poland. The village’s obscurity may be exactly why the federal government and the state of Saxony may have thought they could relocate migrants there without much opposition.
None of the migrants headed there will be Ukrainians; instead, they will be Afghans, Syrians, Iranians, and Iraqis. Given that the move will change the culture and demographics of the village virtually overnight, residents are furious and actively fighting against the top-down measure with the help of the AfD.
At the beginning of April, when Thomas Gampe, the head of the social affairs department of the district of Görlitz, presented plans for the construction of a migrant home in the village, he was met with boos. Citizens appealed to District Administrator Stephan Meyer (CDU) to block the project. Meyer is being accused of rushing to find new asylum accommodation with his plans to make migrant homes out of a former vocational school in Boxberg as well as a former apprentices’ dormitory in the Hirschfeld district of Rosenthal.
Now, the topic appears to be the only one the villagers want to talk about. The AfD has also forced the issue to the forefront. On Tuesday, the Görlitz district council will meet in a special session after the AfD requested the meeting to address asylum seekers being moved into the town.
The AfD is counting on growing frustration to get its motion passed in Görlitz, with AfD politicians aware that rival parties are under ample pressure due to the extreme popularity of the AfD in Saxony. In the Görlitz city council, the AfD holds 27 seats and the CDU only 23. Citizens are directly pressuring the CDU as well to support the measure, and if the CDU fails to deliver, it could end up costing the party even more political capital down the road.
AfD leader Timo Chrupalla is urging all county council members to vote in favor of the motion. He points to the country’s soaring deficit, which stands at €50 million in the last year alone. The AfD has long argued that the country’s exploding immigration population has resulted in billions in taxpayer money going into housing, education, social benefits, and unemployment benefits for millions of newcomers who have a notoriously bad record at integrating into German society.
“We have completely different problems here. For example, we lack doctors, teachers and craftsmen; money for school lunches or the school bus,” Chrupalla said. Many of the rural villages in Germany feature little to no investment, and Chrupalla noted that there is no public infrastructure in the Hirschfelde district of Rosenthal. Now, citizens are asking why money is going into housing more migrants when it could have gone into improving their quality of life, schools, and infrastructure.
In March alone, 80,000 asylum seekers registered in Germany, according to the German Interior Ministry. If this trend continues, it is estimated that almost 1 million asylum seekers will apply to stay in Germany, which would exceed the record-breaking 750,000 asylum applications from 2016. As citizens increasingly turn against the left-wing government’s open borders immigration policy, the AfD party and anti-immigration sentiment are growing in popularity.
Italy: Govt determined to address declining birth rate says Meloni
Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday that her government was determined to take action to boost Italy’s birth rate, which reached a new record low last year, and to increase the number of working women to help resolve shortages on the labour market.
“There are more and more people to maintain in Italy and fewer and fewer people who are working,” Meloni said as she arrived at the Milan Furniture Fair (Salone del Mobile).”This problem can be solved in several ways.
“The government’s way is not just to solve it with migrants, but also with the great unused reserve of female labour, bringing it (the proportion of Italian women in employment) up to the European average, and by focusing on demographics, with incentives for families to bring children into the world”.
National statistics agency Istat said earlier this month that there were less than seven births for every 1,000 inhabitants in Italy in 2022 and more than 12 deaths.
Last year, births fell below the 400,000 mark for the first time since the unification of Italy, standing at 393,000.
Germany: African rapes 28-year-old German woman in beer garden
A horrific crime took place on Sunday night ( April 16) very close to the main railway station in the heart of Munich.
At around 4.20 a.m., officers from police station 16 ( Central Station) were on patrol in the Old Botanical Garden. There they noticed a man on a beer bench attacking and raping a woman. When the perpetrator noticed the police officers, he let go of his victim and fled.
The officers immediately called for reinforcements. More than ten police patrols were involved in the subsequent manhunt. The search was quickly successful: a short time later, the suspected perpetrator was arrested in the city area. According to the police, the suspect is a 27-year-old Nigerian who currently lives in the Weilheim-Schongau district. The man will be brought before the competent investigating judge in the course of Monday ( April 17), who will then decide on the issue of arrest.
The victim is a 28-year-old woman from Munich, who was taken to hospital for further medical examination after the horrific crime. The woman was subsequently taken home. The investigation by the responsible department of the Munich criminal police is ongoing.
Will Sweden’s decision to close Pakistan embassy set a precedent for other EU countries?
Sweden has closed its Islamabad embassy indefinitely due to security concerns. The decision will have implications on bilateral relations like trade, education and people-to-people ties besides tarnishing Pakistans image globally as an unsafe country.
A short statement posted on the embassy website said: “Due to the current security situation in Islamabad, the Embassy of Sweden is closed for visitors”. It did not say when it will resume its operations in Pakistan.
The embassy added that the migration section is unable to handle requests of any kind. It also said the embassy cannot send any documents to Swedish consulates, Sweden or “your home address. We understand that this will cause inconvenience, however, the safety of our applicants and staff members is of highest priority”.
Sweden had informed the Pakistani Foreign Office in advance about its decision to close down the embassy. According to the Pakistani media, Islamabad even advised the embassy to review its decision.
It is believed that Sweden took the decision after a comprehensive assessment of the security situation in Pakistan.
The South Asian nation has witnessed numerous killings of foreign nationals including that of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara over fake blasphemy charges as well as Pakistani women of foreign nationality.
With the closure of the Swedish embassy, relations between the two countries will be impacted severely. Badly affected will be Pakistani students intending to study in Sweden for whom the visa process takes between 4-6 months. The closure will also impact the Pakistani diaspora in Sweden as the to-and-fro visits between family and friends may not materialise easily.
The decision may have an impact on other European nations which are cagey about security and terror impacting their citizens.
In February this year, China too shut down the consular section of its Islamabad embassy citing poor security. Before closing shutters on its consular section, Beijing advised its nationals to enhance personal safety measures due to increasing attacks by the Pakistani Taliban, also known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) and the Baloch insurgents across the nation.
Chinese nationals have been attacked across Pakistan for a variety of reasons plunging diplomatic relations to new lows.
Last month, Pakistan’s ministry of foreign affairs had informed its embassies globally that it would not be able to pay additional bonuses and allowances to staff and diplomats due to the economic woes it has been facing since last year. The fuel allowance of diplomats has been revoked and travel outside the capital cities has been reduced in missions in the UK, Canada, Europe, Africa, even the Middle East, Central Asia, the Pacific region and the Far East.
The Washington embassy seems to be the worst off as allowances were stopped immediately. Moreover, Pakistan decided not to offer lunch, supper, and high tea at its official events in Washington. Another far-reaching decision was to stop events at hotels and organise these at the embassy itself.
The decisions by Sweden and China will have far-reaching consequences for Pakistan’s global image and relations with other nations at a time when it desperately needs finances to tide over day-to-day finances and provide food to its citizens.
-By Indianarrative.com / https://hindupost.in/world/will-swedens-decision-to-close-pakistan-embassy-set-a-precedent-for-other-eu-countries/
Former Pakistani cricketer, who was banned for spot-fixing, charged for inciting people to murder Dutch MP Geert Wilders
On Monday, April 17, the authorities in the Netherlands confirmed that it was prosecuting a ‘famous’ Pakistani for allegedly inciting the murder of a lawmaker. According to the Dutch public prosecution office, a 37-year-old man offered 21,000 euros ($23,000) in 2018 for the murder of a Dutch MP through an online video but did not specify the suspect or the victim.
“In this particular case, the suspect is identifiable. He is a famous person in his own country. As a result, the Dutch police recognised him from the images,” prosecutors said in a statement.
Geert Wilders, a Dutch MP, however, tweeted about it and identified the accused as the former international cricketer Khalid Latif.
Wilders, who in 2018 withdrew a competition for drawings of the Prophet Mohammed due to protests and death threats, tweeted that the suspect was former Pakistan opening batsman Khalid Latif.
“The Dutch Public Prosecutor will prosecute and subpoena cricket player #KhalidLatif from #Pakistan who put a price on my head to kill me in 2018. They will ask for his arrest and extradition as well. I hope #SaadHussainRizvi and @DrJalaliTLY who put a fatwa on me will be next!” tweeted the MP.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor will prosecute and subpoena cricket player #KhalidLatif from #Pakistan who put a price on my head to kill me in 2018. They will ask for his arrest and extradition as well. I hope #SaadHussainRizvi and @DrJalaliTLY who put a fatwa on me will be next! 👍 pic.twitter.com/6kgwGGL6LL
— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) April 17, 2023
When asked to confirm that Latif was the suspect, a representative for the Dutch prosecution service said, “We never give names.”
When asked, Latif claimed he was not aware of the allegations. “I have no knowledge of this. I will only comment once I get any communication on this,” he reportedly told the French news agency AFP.
Currently, Dutch prosecutors have asked Pakistan to serve the summons on the suspect, but they warned that this would be “very complicated” due to the lack of a legal treaty between the two nations.
Latif has been ordered to appear in court near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on August 29 for charges of attempting to incite murder, sedition, and threats. According to Dutch media, Latif was questioned by prosecutors in 2019 as well. The Pakistani embassy in The Hague has not responded to the case yet.
It may be recalled that Khalid Latif was banned from cricket for five years in 2017 for spot-fixing in a Pakistan Super League match in Dubai. The Pakistan Cricket Board had charged Khalid Latif with six major breaches under the PCB’s anti-corruption code and banned him from all forms of cricket. Khalid Latif was also fined a million Pakistani Rupees.
“Anti Corruption Tribunal has found Khalid Latif guilty of all charges…” the PCB had tweeted from its verified Twitter handle.
Later, in 2022, Khalid Latif accepted his role in spot-fixing and apologised to PCB in writing.
https://www.opindia.com/2023/04/former-pakistani-cricketer-dutch-mp-banned-spot-fixing/
Legacy? What Legacy? Angel Merkel, Queen of Migrant and Energy Crises Gets Germany’s Highest Award
Former Chancellor Anglea Merkel was awarded Germany’s highest honour of merit on Monday despite a questionable legacy including ushering in the European Migrant Crisis and leaving her country in a state of dependence on Russia after her failed green energy push.
In Germany, every Federal Chancellor is awarded a Federal Cross of Merit after leaving office, however, it is up to the Federal President to determine which of the eight levels of merit the chancellor receives. On Monday, it was announced that Chancellor Angela Merkel would receive the highest order of merit, the “Grand Cross” for her 16 years in office.
The honour has only been bestowed on two other chancellors, Konrad Adenauer, who oversaw the Western integration of Germany following the Second World War, and Helmut Kohl, who led the country through unification following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The prestigious award has also been granted to foreign heads of state, including Russia’s Mikhail Gorbachev, French wartime leader Charles de Gaulle, and the leader of the Velvet Revolution and the last president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) awards the Order of Merit to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Bellevue presidential palace in Berlin on April 17, 2023. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)
The decision to bestow the honour upon Merkel from now-President Frank-Walter Steinmeier — her longtime foreign minister who led the nation’s disastrous policy on Russia — has sparked controversy, with many pointing to her record of failure, particularly on energy and immigration.
Even a leading member of her former political party, CDU Vice President Carsten Linnemann said that while Merkel had some “great merits”, he acknowledged that “mistakes were also made, even blatant ones.”
“In the case of migration, blatant mistakes were made that we did not protect the borders. This should be addressed just as openly as the positives.” Linnemann said, adding that Merkel’s decision to phase out nuclear power “was a mistake in the form at the time, without saying how we want to supply ourselves with energy reasonably self-sufficiently.”
Andreas Rödder, the head of the CDU Fundamental Values Commission, added that he believed that handing Merkel the award is “a mistake with which the Federal President harms democracy and its credibility.”
Angela Merkel’s legacy has severely waned following her exit from office a year and a half ago, principally on her failures to heed warnings — from former President Donald Trump, among others — on the threat posed by relying on Vladimir Putin’s Russia for energy, which following the invasion of Ukraine sparked economic and energy crises in the European Union’s main manufacturing hub.
In October of last year, it was revealed in a declassified document that was drafted four months before the February invasion of Ukraine that Merkel’s government foolishly believed that increasing dependency on Russian gas with the now sidelined Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline would “not jeopardise” Germany’s energy security.
The decision to ignore warnings from former President Donald Trump, who told Merkel in 2018 that Nord Stream 2 would leave Germany “captive” to the political whims of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, turned out to be disastrous for Germany in the months after her resignation, with tens of tens of billions of euros being wiped from the German economy and people and businesses forced to ration their energy usage.
BERLIN, GERMANY – APRIL 17: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attends a ceremony at which former German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Fellow globalist and onetime ally, former President of the European Council Donald Tusk declared last year that Merkel’s reliance on Russian gas — which she argued was necessary to keep her green agenda afloat — would go down as one of the “biggest mistakes” of her time in office.
Tusk added: “As Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel was helpless in the face of the lobbying force of domestic entrepreneurs,” going on to claim that Merkel “admitted” this was the case in private conversations with him.
Her focus on investing in the green agenda as well as propping up social welfare programmes also saw Germany’s military consistently neglected during Merkel’s reign, with the wealthy nation consistently failing to meet the 2 per cent of GDP defence spending requirement for the NATO alliance.
The derelict state of the Bundeswehr left the country scrambling when called upon to supply weapons and ammunition to Ukraine once it decided to do so, with Germany’s reliance on Russia to keep the lights on widely discussed as a cause for the nation’s reluctance to give material support to Ukraine in the early months of the war. Berlin has taken a backseat to Paris and London during the conflict since.
Nevertheless, Merkel has refused to acknowledge any guilt for her role in the Ukraine crisis, saying last year: “I don’t blame myself for not having tried hard enough… I tried sufficiently. It is a great sadness that I did not succeed.”
Merkel has similarly been unrepentant in terms of the other major policy that came to define her tenure in office, the European Migrant Crisis of 2015 when she unilaterally opened the doors of Europe open to mass migration.
The open borders policy, which allowed over a million migrants from Syria and elsewhere to flood the country, was promised to usher in a globalist vision of prosperity, however, in reality, the vast majority of migrants who entered the country have been an economic drain, with some 65 per cent being recorded as unemployed by 2019.
Studies from the government itself have also admitted the mass influx of foreigners from far-off places to a rise in violent crime and terror attacks. In a defining moment for the crisis, a fraudulent asylum seeker, Anis Amri murdered a dozen people and injured over 50 more after he drove a heavy goods truck into a crowded Christmas market in December of 2016.
In addition to the economic and social degradation witnessed in Germany, Merkel’s decision has also had serious implications for the demographic makeup of the country, with one-third of the population predicted to have a foreign background (either being from a foreign country themselves or having at least one migrant parent) by the year 2040. The impact is expected to be more pronounced in major cities such as Frankfurt — which became the nation’s first minority-majority city in 2017 — and is predicted to see as much as 70 per cent of its population have a migration background.
Yet, despite all of this, then Chancellor Merkel said in 2020 that she would “make essentially the same decisions” during the European Migrant Crisis again.
France: Macron admits pension reform undemocratic, but says he will implement it anyway despite mass protests
In a much anticipated speech on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced shortly after the Constitutional Council’s approval that he will go ahead with his pension reform despite nationwide protests.
Macron announced that the controversial pension reform would be enacted in the autumn, then admitted that the law in question had not been approved by the people with a vote in parliament and that it was clearly a reform that would require effort. He claimed the reform was “necessary.”
In a speech that lasted no more than 15 minutes, the French head of state stressed that he did not want to remain deaf to the call for social justice or for a renewal of democratic life in France. He also stressed his rejection of any radical and extremist view of the social crisis because he says it is not the solution.
“Anger is also due to the feeling that some do their share but are not compensated for their efforts in public services or public funds,” said Macron. “All this anger was expressed by many French people and in their immense majority in a calm and respectful manner. No one, and especially not me, can remain deaf to this demand for social justice and for our democratic life to be renovated, particularly expressed by our youth.”
Despite Macron openly admitting he jettisoned democracy to pass his controversial reform, which nearly every poll showed was opposed by approximately 70 percent of the population, the EU has not criticized him for democratic “backsliding.” In contrast, countries like Hungary, which passes laws through parliament first, still has billions of its EU funds frozen.
Macron is doing more than raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. In his speech, he said he wants to base the pension reform on three pillars. The first is work, and to this end, Macron would reform vocational schools and put to work those who are not on unemployment benefits and have no income, but who are on state benefits.
The second project is to reform the French justice system and to strengthen controls on illegal immigration, as the head of state said there is no freedom without laws and without sanctions against those who violate the rights of others. He has made similar promises in the past, including bringing the deportation rate to “100 percent.” Instead, his promises have failed to materialize. France has hit record levels of legal and illegal immigration, and those who criticize his lack of immigration controls face legal action and even imprisonment. Macron is also moving forward with a measure to flood the countryside, an electoral stronghold of his political rivals, with migrants.
Macron said the judiciary will be strengthened, with more than 10,000 judges and other judicial staff and 200 new gendarmerie brigades to fight all forms of crime and fraud.
In his speech, Macron said his third task will be promoting a “better life” for the French. He said he is aware that many people are frustrated and angry because they are not rewarded for their efforts in terms of aid and effective public services, and he wants to ensure that the quality of life of the population is improved.
Big Pharma is Coming for Your Food
Two years ago, moms led a revolution. Many of us refused to accept an untested gene therapy “vaccine” rushed to market during unnecessary and prolonged Covid lockdowns. The years since have vindicated moms: Our concerns about adverse reactions and potentially life-altering complications are, unfortunately, proving to be true. Courageous patriots fought unethical vaccine mandates and drew attention to the lack of informed consent as pharmaceutical corporations experimented on the population at large.
What you might not have seen coming is that Big Pharma has a back door to mass distributing the vaccine: the food supply. Moms for America learned from industry sources that this month farmers and ranchers will begin using mRNA vaccines on cattle and pigs. From the mainstream media? Crickets.
Not everyone is accepting this unprecedented power grab. Brave legislators in Missouri are facing off against the agricultural lobbyists and big corporations. Missouri House Bill 1169 is a simple measure to require disclosure of gene therapy products in everything from food to cosmetics, including soap. This two-page bill would not ban anything. It simply requires that products we purchase to consume or apply to our bodies are appropriately labeled if they contain materials that can alter our genetic material.
The disclosure bill defines a “gene therapy” as “any product with any capacity to alter, interfere with, or otherwise act in any manner similar or equivalent to genes.” If these substances were not going into our food supply, why are the lobbyists pitching a fit? The level of outrage among agricultural associations and professional lobbyist groups suggests that this is a very big deal.
When moms learn about these changes to our food supply—which may already be happening—they are shocked. Every mom wants to know: What can we do?
The first step is to show your support for Missouri HB 1169. Whether or not you live in Missouri, contact state legislators to let them know how important this legislation is for Missouri and for the nation. If one state stands up to the Big Pharma and industry associations, other states will be emboldened to follow. HB 1169 has widespread grassroots support, including from many farmers and ranchers who do not want to go along with the industry practices being pushed on them from professional organizations.
If you do not live in Missouri, the next step is to get in touch with your own state legislators to make them aware of the Missouri bill and encourage them to introduce a similar disclosure bill in your state. We have a right to know what is in our food! You can also call your congressman and make him/her aware of this dangerous threat to our food supply. Encourage them to pass legislation in Congress similar to Missouri’s bill.
Another very important action moms can take is to make relationships. Reach out to your local farmers and ranchers. Who are the food producers in your own community? Many of these patriotic Americans do not want gene therapy products being given to their children and grandchildren any more than we do.
More and more independent farmers and ranchers are working to ensure the quality and purity of their products. Vote with your dollars to support these industry pioneers and show them that you support their efforts to ensure our food supply is not tainted with experimental substances.
When we speak one-on-one with our elected officials and our local food producers, we cripple the industry elites trying to manipulate us. Big Pharma thought they could sneak this in the back door, getting around issues of informed consent by putting gene therapies in our food. Moms are coming together to reject this tyranny and demand disclosure.
Attorney Tom Rentz has dedicated time and attention to the Missouri’s HB 1169, and he has identified who is fighting this commonsense legislation. As someone who knows many farmers, Rentz makes an important point that disclosure legislation protects farmers. When people develop potentially lifelong complications from consuming gene therapy products without their knowledge or consent, Big Pharma should bear the responsibility. When people decide to sue because of what was in their food that they did not know about, they should not be able to sue the farmers who may not have known what was in the products. Legislation requiring disclosure is good for farmers.
During Covid lockdowns, mask requirements, and unethical vaccine mandates, many Mama Bears woke up. Many of us realized how our liberties had been hollowed out. Unelected bureaucrats and powerful lobbyists have eroded our freedoms in ways we could not have anticipated. Now that we know what is happening, it’s time to stand up. We demand to know what is in our food. And that is why all eyes should be on the unprecedented HB 1169 in Missouri.
Spread the word!
https://www.frontpagemag.com/big-pharma-is-coming-for-your-food/