Monthly Archives: December 2016

Zeman: May You Live in Dangerous Times

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Czech President Miloš Zeman doesn’t want his people to become flabby and weak, so he sent them an unusual greeting on Christmas.

Many thanks to JLH for translating this brief article published yesterday in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Unusual Christmas Greeting — President Zeman Wishes the Czechs a “Dangerous Life”

December 25, 2016

The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, is wishing the people of his land “a dangerous life full of risks and battles.”

Just traditionally “wishing health, happiness and a long life would be too unoriginal and just a phrase,” is how the head of state on Sunday on radio Frekvence 1 explained his unusual New Year’s wish.

Naturally, he wished his people victories and successes, said Zeman. “But if they fight no battles, they can not win and be successful,” explained the president, whose controversial comments constantly supply the flammable matter for Czech politics.

Is the Longeborgne Perp Still at Large?

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More information is trickling in on the stabbing of people on their way to church on Christmas Day in the Valais canton of Switzerland. (See the previous reports from yesterday and earlier today.)

The original assertion that the perpetrator was a Muslim cannot be confirmed, but it has not yet been definitively ruled out. The latest reports say that the dead man may not in fact be the one who carried out the stabbings, and thus the perpetrator may still be at large.

I still don’t know where the original source (Dreuz.info) obtained the information that the attacker or attackers were alleged to be Muslim.

Many thanks to Ava Lon for translating this article from the French-language Catholic news portal Cath.ch:

Valais: One death and three assaults on the route to the hermitage at Longeborgne

by Raphaël Zbinden
December 26, 2016

On December 25, 2016, several people were stabbed on the way to the hermitage of Longeborgne in Valais. One person was found dead. This death is probably related to the attacks.

A heavy police deployment was set up in Bramois on the morning of December 25, in the Borgne gorges, reports the Valais daily Le Nouvelliste. Three people were injured. A dead body was found in the bed of the Borgne in the afternoon. The attacks took place as the faithful went to Christmas Mass.

According to the initial investigation, there were allegedly no religious motives. Instead, the assaults are said to have taken place in a family context. It is in any case established that the deceased and one of the injured are related.

Assaults on the way to Mass

Father Francis of the hermitage confirms at cath.ch that the afternoon Christmas Mass was cancelled and the road blocked because one person was stopping the faithful on the route and assaulting them. He indicates that the Midnight Mass did, however, take place. He said he could not say more, as the investigation was still ongoing.

Shortly after 9 o’clock, a lady of about seventy years, wounded by a knife, came to the emergency room of the Sion hospital. Based on the latter’s indications, the police immediately went to Bramois, on the road to the Hermitage of Longeborgne. In this area two people were found injured, also with a knife. They are two men, one seventy and the other about thirty. The latter, seriously affected, was brought by helicopter to the Sion hospital.

No indication of a religious motive

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Berlin: Seven Migrants Set Homeless Man on Fire

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Young culture-enrichers in Germany seem to have a tendency to become firebugs lately. The following article from Politically Incorrect draws on German media sources for the latest news about the deliberate burning of German natives by the “New Germans”. It also points out the possible religious justification for this new feature of diversity in Modern Multicultural Germany.

Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation:

Seven Migrants Set Homeless Man on Fire

On Holy Night (Christmas Eve), seven migrants set fire to a sleeping 37-year-old homeless man next to the Schönleinstraße subway station in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Several people who were passing by and one subway rider immediately sprang into action and may have prevented more serious injury. The actions of the “youths” have now been classified as attempted murder, as one spokesperson for the police informed the public.

by Michael Stürzenberger

The Berliner Zeitung writes neutrally of “young men” even though that when looking at the pictures it is clear to everyone that they are migrants:

During the night between the 24th and 25th of December seven young men set a homeless man on fire at the subway station Schönleinstraße. Now pictures of the offenders have been published.

That was fast! Immediately a day after the horrible deed in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the Berlin police had published the photos of the perpetrators. The pictures show altogether seven young men.

One should pay attention to the downplaying public-service-speech of the police:

“The seven youths, all of them young men, are under the suspicion of endangering a sleeping homeless man with fire at the subway station Schönleinstraße”, the police informed the public on Monday.

“Endangering with fire” — that sounds as if the migrants were lighting up cigarettes near the homeless man. The reality is they had set him on fire and wanted to burn him! But at least the usually much sleepier Berlin police published the photos immediately. According to the Berlin Zeitung, the seven migrants fled on the subway after the incident. They have not been apprehended yet.

Here is a video from CCTV in the subway:

Another similar case, although with children, happened on the afternoon of December 23rd, in Hamm: On a playground three youths that looked “Eastern European” sprayed two children, ages 9 and 10, with a spray can and lit them on fire with a lighter. The Westfälische Anzeiger reports:

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Update: Knife Rampage at Longeborgne

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We reported yesterday on a knife attack against people who were on their way to Christmas Day Mass at Longeborgne in Switzerland. The attacker was alleged to be a Muslim.

According to later reports, a body was found in a river near the site of the attack, and the dead person was related to one of the victims. He is thought to have committed suicide.

It’s important to note that the Muslim angle has neither been confirmed not refuted by the later reports. So stay tuned.

Many thanks to Ava Lon for translating this article from Le Nouvelliste, a French-language news site in the canton of Valais:

Longeborgne: perimeter still closed

December 26, 2016 8:53 pm

After the assault on three people in Bramois and the mysterious death of a fourth man found in the river, the perimeter of Longeborgne is still closed on Monday for the purposes of the investigation.

A mystery still shrouds the case that shook the hermitage of Longeborgne this Christmas Sunday. Three people were stabbed, including one seriously, and a fourth man was found man in the river bed, and may be the aggressor. It has since been established that he and the person seriously injured are related. Attorney General Nicolas Dubuis assured us on Sunday night that there were “no potentially dangerous people at large.” That would suggest suicide.

This Monday the area is still closed of by the police, and investigators from the forensic police are on the scene. The area was nonetheless provisionally open for morning Mass, according to several witnesses. At the beginning of the road that leads to the Longeborgne, consternation and incomprehension prevail. No one here knows what exactly happened Sunday midway between the hermitage and the Café des Pèlerins.

“I saw a lady who was bleeding, accompanied by a couple; at first I thought that she had fallen before seeing the police arrive, and then I understood that there had been an assault,” says the owner of the coffee shop. And she confesses that she does not know anything about the identity of the victims or the facts, she simply hopes that “this drama will not weigh too much on the magical place of Longeborgne.”

Interviewed Monday by the 19:30 show on RTS [Radio Télévision Suisse, Swiss public broadcaster], Fr. Francois Huot, rector of the Hermitage, indicated to have taken care of the wounded septuagenarian, “a regular” of the place: “He was bleeding so much from his cheek, and he told us that there was someone who was stopping people, massacring them, so to speak, attacking them so that they would not be able to climb [the road].”

Berlin Truck Jihadi’s Pledge of Fealty to the Islamic State

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Below is a video recording of Anis Amri, the now-deceased mujahid who massacred twelve people and injured dozens more by running a truck into a crowded Berlin Christmas market last week. In it you’ll hear the murderer pledge allegiance to the Islamic State and Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The subtitles in this video were translated from the German text in previously-existing subtitles. Both sets of titles are obviously much shorter than Mr. Amri’s actual words, so either the original is in flowery Arabic that can be condensed to a few simple sentences, or some of his message has been left out — I don’t know which.

Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/25/2016

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A Russian military plane crashed into the Black Sea today shortly after takeoff, killing all 92 people aboard, most of whom were members of the Red Army Choir. Concerning the possibility of terrorism, conflicting reports are coming from the Russian government, with some officials ruling it out, while others say it is too early to do so.

In other news, four Filipinas were arrested in Kuwait for possession of 35 kilograms of pork with the intent to distribute

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Thanks to ESW, JD, Reader from Chicago, Red Mike, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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A Blessed Christmas to Everyone

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Our Dutch correspondent H. Numan sends an atheist’s impassioned defense of Christmas, plus a roundup of the latest political news from Modern Multicultural Holland.

A blessed Christmas to everyone

by H. Numan

After the battle over Black Pete, we’ve got another one here in Holland: the fight over Christmas and New Year’s. Mohammedans don’t like Christmas. That’s why they mass murdered twelve people in Berlin and maimed fifty more. The Germans celebrate the New Year as Saint Sylvester day; mohammedans don’t like that, either. They don’t like much, least of all each other.

But first, I, a confirmed die hard atheist, would like to wish every reader a blessed Christmas! Definitely not happy holidays. Why the change of heart? Because my (non) religion has been hijacked. Just as your religions are. I’m not going into the debate on whether gods exist. That’s up to you. I don’t believe it, that’s up to me. For me, Christmas is a nice family festival. I don’t mind it at all. Is it religious? Of course, in origin. Rest assured, buying gifts and setting up a Christmas tree or a nativity scene is not religious at all. But we all do it, don’t we? And we love it!

However, the politically correct left has taken over both religious as well as non religious ideas. From now on, we are supposed to wish ‘happy holidays’ as not to offend. Who is offended? I certainly am not. Buddhists aren’t. Jainists aren’t either, nor are Shintoists. Also Hindus don’t have a problem with it. There are only two religions which are offended: extreme lefties and mohammedans. No one else. Again: only extreme left wing activists and mohammedans are offended, and they have taken over our way of life. Both of them try to subvert anything you can think of into their way of thinking.

I resent that. What actually is atheism? That you don’t believe in gods. Nothing more. Anything else is added. You can be conservative, gay, progressive, conformist or whatever and not believe in gods. The only thing atheists share is that they don’t believe. Period. Nothing else.

Does that mean other people have to share my non-belief? Of course not. That’s up to you. If you want to. If you don’t, and most Americans don’t, fine. Oh yes, I do have limitations, but they are based on science. If you really want you can believe the earth was created 6000 years ago — something all mohammedans do too — fine, but you would fail any geology exam worthy of the name exam. If you believe man is not a species of animal but something different, excellent. You’d fail every biology exam, but that is your problem. Not mine. And you share that belief with mohammedans. They go one better even. The divide mankind into two different species: believers and anyone else.

Only two religions do that. Extreme socialism and mohammedanism. You have to think they way they think. Nothing else is acceptable.

They have ways to make you believe. Lefties, at least in Holland, control public opinion, commerce and government. They simply changed ‘gelukkig kerstfeest’ into ‘fijne feestdagen’ (‘merry Christmas’ into ‘happy holidays’). Christmas bread is no longer sold as ‘kerststol’ but as ‘feeststol’ (from ‘Christmas bread’ into ‘party bread’). So as not to offend the other group of intolerants. But the same companies that refuse to sell traditional Dutch products bent over backwards to promote mohammedan products. You can’t buy Kerststol, as we don’t want to offend … but why don’t you buy halal food (you actually do already, also in America) instead? Maybe something extra to celebrate Eid al Fitr? Excuse me? That is not offensive to Dutch? Actually, no. It isn’t. Or it wasn’t. Most Dutch used to be very tolerant. As long as they weren’t bothered by you, you could do as you pleased.

That border has been passed. The left simply doesn’t care. You do it our way; there is no other way. Of course there’s a reaction coming. A lot of people, myself amongst others, don’t buy stuff in the Hema anymore. Easy enough for me, as I have to fly 12,000 km to shop there, but many more people share that feeling.

Hema stands for Hollandse Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij. It’s one of the oldest large retailers in the country, and they introduced fixed prices. They prided themselves on relatively high quality for low prices. Even the design wasn’t too shabby. A few years ago Hema, as a first, introduced ‘El Hema’. It was a special program in which they sold as many Dutch products as possible wrapped up in a mohammedan outlook. For example, during Sinterklaas the Dutch buy often chocolate letters. Large pieces of chocolate shaped as the letters of the alphabet. El Hema was, you guessed it, introduced during that period and they didn’t have chocolate “Dutch” letters, but Arabic. It’s chocolate after all, what’s the big deal? Likewise, they promote each and every mohammedan festival to the max. The result? Declining sales. The whole ‘El Hema’ was a huge and utter failure. The Dutch couldn’t say they disapproved; that’s discrimination. They voted with their wallets instead.

A common sense board would immediately say: Which a**w*** came up with that idea? You’re fired! However in Holland, as in America, left-wing loonies have slithered into most board rooms. Making profits isn’t their primary goal. Converting heathens is. Instead of firing the marketing team that came up with that silly idea, they simply keep on going. Because the end justifies the means.

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Switzerland: Muslims Attack Christians Going to Mass in Longeborgne

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Update: A new translated article has been posted. As of this writing, the Muslim angle has neither been confirmed not refuted by the newer reports.

Additional update: The dead man may not be the perpetrator; the person or persons who stabbed people may still be at large. The authorities have repeatedly said, however, that they have no indications of a religious motive.

Swiss Christians were reportedly prevented from attending Mass this morning in Longeborgne by Muslim mujahideen with knives. Three people were injured, one seriously.

Many thanks to Ava Lon for translating this French-language report from the conservative Christian news portal Dreuz.info:

Switzerland: Anti-Christian attack in Longeborgne: three wounded, including one seriously

by Christian Larnet
December 25, 2016

Christians were attacked with cold steel — always the weapon of Islam — for going to Mass this Sunday morning at Our Lady of Longeborgne, Brumous.

On the social networks, eyewitness reports speak of a knife attack against three faithful of the Hermitage of Longeborgne — one of which was seriously wounded — who were on their way there.

One of them succeeded in crossing the roadblock made by the aggressors, and arrived in Longeborgne with his face covered in blood. He was taken to the hospital as soon as the police arrived. According to the priest, his condition was not worrisome, but another victim was reportedly found by the policemen on the ground and seriously wounded.

“There was no mass, for the faithful were stopped by a person who assaulted them. It was probably a sharp weapon,” said Father Francis, the rector of the Hermitage. One of the wounded was able to reach the holy place and was treated on the spot before being transported by the emergency services. Three people, two women and one man, were stabbed. The latter was seriously injured.

Numerous police patrols, dogs and a helicopter were deployed in the Gorges de la Borgne.

In the afternoon, the police barred access to Longeborgne around the Café des Pèlerins.

A helicopter was still in the air around 3pm.

The prosecutor’s office has not formally communicated the facts or the identity of the aggressor, but unofficially, the trail of a jihadist terrorist act is said to be dismissed without explanation.

Dylan Thomas’ “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”

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For anyone who’d like to follow along with the poet, here are the words. Back when the children were here, the Baron used to read this to us…

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing sea, and out come Mrs. Prothero and the firemen.

It was on the afternoon of the Christmas Eve, and I was in Mrs. Prothero’s garden, waiting for cats, with her son Jim. It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats. Patient, cold and callous, our hands wrapped in socks, we waited to snowball the cats. Sleek and long as jaguars and horrible-whiskered, spitting and snarling, they would slink and sidle over the white back-garden walls, and the lynx-eyed hunters, Jim and I, fur-capped and moccasined trappers from Hudson Bay, off Mumbles Road, would hurl our deadly snowballs at the green of their eyes. The wise cats never appeared.

We were so still, Eskimo-footed arctic marksmen in the muffling silence of the eternal snows – eternal, ever since Wednesday – that we never heard Mrs. Prothero’s first cry from her igloo at the bottom of the garden. Or, if we heard it at all, it was, to us, like the far-off challenge of our enemy and prey, the neighbor’s polar cat. But soon the voice grew louder.

“Fire!” cried Mrs. Prothero, and she beat the dinner-gong.

And we ran down the garden, with the snowballs in our arms, toward the house; and smoke, indeed, was pouring out of the dining-room, and the gong was bombilating, and Mrs. Prothero was announcing ruin like a town crier in Pompeii.

This was better than all the cats in Wales standing on the wall in a row. We bounded into the house, laden with snowballs, and stopped at the open door of the smoke-filled room.

Something was burning all right; perhaps it was Mr. Prothero, who always slept there after midday dinner with a newspaper over his face. But he was standing in the middle of the room, saying, “A fine Christmas!” and smacking at the smoke with a slipper.

“Call the fire brigade,” cried Mrs. Prothero as she beat the gong. “There won’t be there,” said Mr. Prothero, “it’s Christmas.”

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/24/2016

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The nephew of the Berlin truck mujahid, Anis Amri, has been arrested in Tunisia for being part of a terror cell, and for planning to join other ISIS jihadists in Europe. His arrest was one of four connected with the late Mr. Amri, who died early yesterday morning in a shootout with Italian police.

In other news, officials at an asylum home for unaccompanied “minors” in the German town of Freising have sounded the alarm after they discovered several of their young charges watching ISIS propaganda videos.

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Thanks to AF, Dean, Dora, JD, LP, MC, Reader from Chicago, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

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Rainer Wendt: “This Just Can’t Be True, But I am Here to Tell You it Is”

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Rainer Wendt is the head of the German police union. His outspoken views have been featured here numerous times since this time last year, most notably after the New Year’s Eve “groping jihad” in Cologne.

In the interview below, Mr. Wendt discusses the absurdities imposed on German law enforcement, as evidence by the legal restrictions that allowed Anis Amri to remain on the loose to wage his murderous jihad-by-truck in Berlin last Monday.

Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Identitäre Bewegung: “Women, Where is Your Rebellion Against This?”

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The German equivalent of the French Generation Identitaire is Identitäre Bewegung, the “Identitarian Movement”. The following video features several young German women talking about what the two-year wave of “refugees” has meant for their security and well-being.

Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Berlin: Some American Views on Merkel, Immigration, and Culture

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Oops…Munich, Berlin…DUH.

Mostly people complain about the cross-talk on these shows, but interruption is something people do – i.e., get passionate and become engaged in making their own views known.

Despite the interruptions here, some important points emerge. Do readers think these opinions could be spoken publicly in, say, Germany?