Allah's Willing Executioners

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.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/18/queen-of-migrant-and-energy-crises-merkel-given-germanys-highest-award/

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.

https://rmx.news/france/macron-admits-pension-reform-undemocratic-but-says-he-will-implement-it-anyway-despite-mass-protests/

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/

A shocking result in the latest anti-Semitism report: one third of Austrians think that Jews take advantage of the Nazi era, and they are also tired of the constant discussion of the Holocaust. In addition: Turkish and Arabic-speaking people in Austria are particularly anti-Semitic.

On Tuesday morning, National Council President Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) presented the third anti-Semitism report to the public. The first two reports, which like the current one had been commissioned by the parliament, had existed in 2018 and 2020.

As Sobotka explained, anti-Semitism is “not a phenomenon of fringe political groups, it comes from the centre of society”. And the President of the National Council continued: “It becomes visible on the margins, on the right-wing margins we have seen it for years and decades; on the left-wing margins we have not paid attention for a long time, now we see it quite clearly as anti-Israelism and anti-Zionism; and in the third form we see it among those people who have come to us for migration reasons, because they come from countries where anti-Semitism or anti-Jewish attitudes are part of a kind of reason of state.”

He was referring to Turkey on the one hand, and Arab countries such as Egypt, Syria and Iraq on the other.
What specifically emerges from the anti-Semitism report:

1) More than a third of people in Austria think that Jews today try to capitalise on having been victims during the Nazi era. Among Turkish- and Arabic-speaking respondents with a migration background, it is more than half.

2) One third of Austrians are tired of the topic of the persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust. Among people with a migration history, this is said to be just under half.

3) Over a third of Austrians believe that Jews dominate the international business world. Among respondents with a migration background, it is the majority.

4) 40 percent of the Turkish- and Arabic-speaking respondents are of the opinion that “many things are exaggerated” in the reports about concentration camps and the persecution of Jews during the Second World War. Furthermore, 40 per cent of this group are of the opinion that it is no coincidence that Jews were persecuted so often in history.

5) Almost half of the Turkish- and Arabic-speaking respondents think that there would be peace in the Middle East if the State of Israel did not exist. Moreover, more than the majority of these respondents believe that the State of Israel treats the Palestinians no differently than the Third Reich treated the Jews during the Second World War. In the whole of Austria, just under a third agree.

Overall, the report shows that respondents under the age of 25 are less anti-Semitic than the population as a whole.

https://exxpress.at/aktueller-antisemitismus-bericht-tuerken-araber-judenfeindlicher-als-oesterreicher/

Having jumped the shark years ago, the liberal media establishment no longer has to pass the laugh test. It is free to excrete headlines like this one from the Washington Post:

Tax season is getting longer. Blame climate change.

The reasoning (if you can call anything related to Democrat ideology “reasoning”):

The Earth’s warming climate is altering everything from animal migration patterns to when plants bloom. It’s also changing when Americans file taxes: As severe storms and natural disasters worsened by climate change afflict broader swaths of the country, the IRS is issuing more extensions for individuals and businesses to cope with the fallout sooner and pay taxes later.

If you can believe that global warming makes baseball players hit too many home runs, you should have no problem swallowing this story too.

What causes the supposed global warming? Could it be the perpetual fluctuation that has always characterized the climate and always will? No. It is bad things that humans do, like produce food— not just meat, but even rice:

VIDEO: Rice is to blame for around 10 percent of global emissions of methane, a gas that over two decades, traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. Scientists say that if the world wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rice cannot be ignored. pic.twitter.com/46GgkaGPgK

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 16, 2023

At least the climate doesn’t mind if we eat bugs.

https://moonbattery.com/climate-change-blamed-for-tax-season-being-too-long/

The reserve wing of the German Army only truly exists on paper, as its troops are not properly equipped and have not received adequate training, the head of the German Reserve Soldiers’ Association has claimed.

In an interview with the German newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung, retired Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Sensburg, a former CDU member of parliament, said he believes the reserves are badly managed and significantly underfunded.

“It’s really a force that exists largely on paper,” said the retired lieutenant colonel.

The German government is paying more attention to improving its army after the outbreak of the war between Russia and Ukraine, but with the Bundeswehr underfunded for years, this is no easy task. The reserve forces are seen as an important part of the modernization plan, but the head of the Reserve Forces Association says they are far from their targets and appear more like a phantom army than a valuable component of the country’s defense.

Huge numbers, few trained soldiers

The officially registered total of reservists is around 930,000, a figure that is so high because the law in Germany stipulates that anyone who has previously served in the army is a permanent reservist. However, the true figure of individuals who have recent military training or have been classified as active is as few as 34,000.

Reservists in the regular forces have to beg for uniforms, even routine military training such as target practice is difficult to obtain, and they have no military vehicles. According to Sensburg, at most, reservists are only allowed to use civilian cars, and most bizarrely, reserve tank commanders receive no training on real tanks.

Instead, maneuvers are carried out on foot, and soldiers are not obliged to participate in exercises.

The reserves would have a wide range of tasks in a crisis, from guarding power stations and transporting the wounded to filling in gaps on the front line, but Sensburg says they are currently unable to do these things.

The veteran officer said it was clear that increasing the number of equipment, vehicles, and weapons available to the reserves was the first step, but a change in the organizational structure of the reserve force was also needed. Sensburg added that at the very least, reserve soldiers should be required to complete a two-week training course every two years.

By comparison, the British Army Reserve Wing requires soldiers to serve 27 days a year, and if reservists meet this requirement, they receive a cash reward or “bounty.”

https://rmx.news/germany/the-german-reserve-force-isnt-fit-for-purpose/

A group of 25 Christian inmates are planning legal action against the Prison Service for failing to protect them from violent Islamist gangs.

Lawyers for the prisoners say wardens have allowed the groups to take control because they fear being accused of racism.

The gangs offer ‘protection’ to those who convert to Islam and punish those who refuse, even threatening family members on the outside.

Wardens have moved Christian inmates to solitary confinement for their own protection rather than dealing with the problem, it is claimed.

Last night, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith called on prison governors to stamp out the gangs, as a group of barristers plan a class-action legal challenge to force them into action. Several Government reports have identified the gangs as a growing menace, with one warning last year that some were running Sharia courts and dishing out punishments such as floggings.

Criminal barrister Tony Wyatt has clients serving entire sentences in ‘the block’ – an isolation wing usually reserved for dangerous prisoners – as they refused to convert to Islam.

Mr Wyatt said: ‘We have reached a point where these so-called Islamic gangs seem to run our prisons. This problem has been left to fester and grow for 20 years. There is now no conceivable fix which does not include a fundamental overhaul of the prison system. For years, misguided political correctness made wardens hesitant to call out what was happening, but now it’s too late. These groups are now so big that there just aren’t enough prison staff to take them on.

‘Successive governments have effectively surrendered our prisons to an organised crime group. The fear of identifying these gangs as Muslim stems from a fear of what the outraged response will be, as no one wants to be accused of racism.

‘These gangs are taking advantage of that. Everything they do, everything they stand for, goes against the Koran. They are an organised crime group and use Islam as a shield to protect themselves.’

Mr Wyatt said he is aware of dozens of cases where prisoners have been isolated for years in bare cells usually reserved for disruptive inmates.

One client, convicted drug offender Richard Caswell, has witnessed the rise of the gangs over the last 20 years. He said they became ’emboldened’ in the wake of 9/11 and started ‘throwing their weight around’.

Mr Wyatt and colleagues are now planning to launch a class-action judicial review on behalf of at least 25 Christian prisoners being held in isolation for their own protection.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11977343/Christian-inmates-planning-legal-action-violent-Islamist-gangs-issue.html

A man who disguised himself as a woman by wearing a burka made it past the fourth round of the Kenya Chess Championship in Nairobi before arousing suspicion.

The chess player, 25-year-old Stanley Omondi, who kept his identify a secret by not speaking to anyone at the tournament, registered under the alias Millicent Awuor.

But he was discovered after he won matches against former Kenyan national champion Gloria Jumba and top Ugandan player Ampaira Shakira.

At that point, players and the arbiters began to get suspicious. When Omondi made it past the fourth round, he was taken into a private room and staff demanded to see identification. It was then that he admitted he was a male university student desperate for money.

Once he was found out, Omondi was kicked out of the championship. His points were given to his female opponents.

The Kenya Open Chess Championship features 450 players from 22 chess federations. It has a top prize of $42,000.

Man wears burka to enter Kenyan female chess tournament | ערוץ 7 (israelnationalnews.com)

During Ramadan, the feminist and anti-racist Muslim organisation Lallab launched a digital campaign on March 27 to combat violence within the community. A way to anonymously spread the messages of Muslim women who are addressing issues that are still taboo.

“It is often the law of silence. They can’t report the assaults they are subjected to because they are told that they would betray the cause and that you don’t wash your dirty linen in public.”

Lallab has collected around 50 testimonies that talk about incest, women wearing headscarves who feel stigmatised by their own families, or sexism experienced in the mosque. Some have already been published anonymously on their social networks and the violence of the reports shows that there is an urgent need for action. Above all, the organisation tries to create spaces for conversations, as the victims are not always being believed in their environment.

“What does it take for Muslim women to feel safe in mosques and in their families, to be invited to family dinners without fear of experiencing violence because they said something? “, Fatima Bent wonders.

These statements will be used to organise the counter-offensive, because Lallab, is also a place of mobilisation for Muslim women, available all year round. They organise self-defence courses as well as training. Le Mouv’

https://www.fdesouche.com/2023/04/17/les-musulmanes-ne-peuvent-pas-denoncer-les-agressions-quelles-subissent-parce-quon-leur-dit-quelles-vont-trahir-la-cause-lassociation-lallab-organise-une-operation-pour-lutter/