The demonstration shown in the following video was organized in Warsaw by the Solidarity union to protest the latest interference from Brussels in Polish internal affairs.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
The news report below shows the polarization in the crowd at a recent campaign rally for German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.
A note from the translator:
That last sentence is very cryptic. I do not know what they mean. Do they mean to say that most who will vote in Berlin, will vote for others such as AfD? There’s no explanation for this, and comments are disabled on the original video.
Video transcript:
Four young people, three of them college students, were arrested after a recent anti-Confederate counter-protest in Richmond, Virginia. The four are being charged with felonies for wearing antifa masks, under a 1952 law that was passed to unmask the KKK. Each may serve up to five years in prison if convicted.
In other news, a Danish fashion agency has hired its first hijab-wearing model.
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In the following video German Chancellor Angela Merkel gets heckled (presumably at a campaign rally) by a man who invokes the German Constitution to support his demand that she be thrown out of office, by force in necessary.
Many thanks to Oz-Rita for translating and subtitling this video:
Article 20 of the German Constitution (thanks, Rita):
| (1) | The Federal Republic of Germany is a democratic and social federal state. | |
| (2) | All power comes from the people. It is exercised by the people in elections and votes, and by special organs of legislation, executive power, and jurisprudence. | |
| (3) | Legislation is linked to constitutional order; executive power and jurisprudence are bound by law. | |
| (4) | All Germans have the right to oppose anyone who undertakes to abolish this order, if other remedies are not possible. |
As reported in the previous post from The Netherlands, the culture-enriching crime situation in Europe has become so alarming that law-enforcement authorities can no longer avoid talking about it, not entirely.
The following report from the German town of Giessen includes similar statistics. In this case, the “New Germans” causing the bump in crime statistics are North Africans.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
The asylum-seeking process has brought with it a large increase in crime all across Western Europe. The surge in violent crime is disproportionately caused by migrants of certain ethnicities, and especially of a certain religion.
This fact is obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention to recent events in Europe, even without any hard statistical data to back it up. If you import a lot of Somalis, Afghans, and Moroccans, you’re going to get a lot of violent crime. This isn’t rocket science.
What makes the following report unusual is that the data comes from official Dutch police statistics, and that it was published in a major MSM outlet. Evidently the situation has become so dire that the Gutmenschen can no longer ignore it.
Many thanks to Dr. Van Helsing for translating this article, which was published in De Telegraaf this past summer, based on statistics from last year:
Breaking the law with impunity
by Jorn Jonker
Asylum seekers who commit crimes and are caught are not always prosecuted. Some are released without penalty. This happens in the hope that they can be deported sooner, but that hope is often in vain. It is one of the many revelations that emerges from piles of police documents about crime by foreigners. Binders with police reports on criminality among foreigners are in the possession of this newspaper. The documents are full of surprises. Police officers are unequivocally aware of the size of the problem of asylum seeker crime, and they know which groups are primarily responsible. […] De Telegraaf learned that police keep track of criminality committed by foreigners and requested copies with an appeal based on the Public Information Act. Police first denied that they had such information, but finally had to turn it over. Thousands of pages of information at the national level — the documents from local forces have not yet been counted — seem hard to miss, one would think. There is even a special “task force” for this matter within the police force. The documents for 2015 and 2016 show that crime by asylum seekers has shifted over time. People from safe countries, who have zero chance getting a residence permit, are gradually becoming more and more responsible for crime committed by foreigners. In the first ten months, two thirds of suspected asylum seekers came from a safe country. They mainly committed shoplifting. One foreigner was even suspected of 13 crimes. Asylum seekers from a group of countries considered “safe countries” travel through Europe. According to the police, there are indications that they know where the best asylum shelters are and where conditions for foreigners are best. They quickly head out once deportation threatens. These migrants move from one land to another. They create so many problems that the police decided to keep weekly reports on the crimes by this particular group in the course of 2016. These reports show that the police are looking for ways to cope with this big problem.
Police officers express frustration when they describe that some of these asylum seekers from safe countries are not even being prosecuted after being caught by police. From a survey in November 2016, the National Task Force found that this experience is shared by multiple police branches. Such cases are filed and the suspect may go. The idea behind the release is, according to the police report, that when someone’s asylum application has been rejected, deportation can be faster if there is no criminal case underway. But deportation often does not take place or takes a long time. As a result, the foreigner can stay in the Netherlands while the police know about his crimes. The department of the police dealing with foreigners writes about this at the end of 2016: “The question is whether forgoing prosecution is desirable if the suspect cannot be deported and thus resides freely in the Netherlands. This gives the impression that committing crimes is not punished until someone is deported.” The office of public prosecution [Openbaar Ministerie — OM] declined to respond.
Powerless
It is not the only example of the police being powerless. Again and again it turns out that asylum seekers from safe countries consider the asylum shelters as a kind of base from which they can conduct “raids”. In December of last year, the police received a report from the military police who where doing night shifts at an asylum shelter. A line from the report reads as follows: “In addition, he stated that EVERY NIGHT there are a number of asylum seekers who leave around 3 o’clock.” Where exactly they were going the police didn’t know, but the military police did see that they entered the nearby city of Delfzijl. The asylum seekers from safe countries sometimes seem to be part of organized crime groups. The police report that Eastern European migrants steal on order. For example, a product is stolen in large numbers, like brushes for electric toothbrushes. Completed order lists are also found.
Which of the different groups causes the most misery changes with time. As 2016 progresses, crime is clearly increasingly committed by Moroccans and Algerians who suddenly massively moved to the Netherlands. First, there were still other groups, especially Eastern Europeans such as Albanians, who, according to the police, account for a lot of the crime. Statistics have been produced which makes clear which nationalities are most likely to be arrested by the police.
This is a great idea. It’s bound to be effective. Why didn’t anyone think of it before?
Peace for our time!
From 2016, but still germane:
We need one of him in each European country, serving in a high-enough office to offset the Merkels, et al.
Speaking of scripted events with Chancellor Merkel, here’s a story about a woman who was un-scripted from the same event.
Astrid Passin is the spokeswoman for the survivors of last winter’s jihad terrorist attack at a Berlin Christmas market, which killed twelve people. After initially extending an invitation, Mrs. Merkel’s handlers must have concluded that Ms. Passin would have been bad for the chancellor’s optics during the final days leading up to a crucial election. After all, it was Mutti’s “refugee” policy that enabled the perpetrator of the Christmas market attack, Anis Amri, to carry out his atrocity.
Many thanks to Egri Nök for translating this article from the Berliner Morgenpost:
The cancellation came suddenly and was very disappointing. The spokeswoman for the survivors of the terror attack of the Breitscheidplatz was supposed to be a guest in the ZDF [public TV] show “Klartext, Frau Merkel!” [Plain text, Mrs. Merkel!]. But hours ahead of time she was cancelled via a phone call. “The reason was not credible,” says Astrid Passin. “I think that my questions would have been too inconvenient.”
On July 24, Passin received an email from ZDF, asking her if she would be willing to appear in the show as a spokesperson for the survivors. They had seen her in a TV report, the email said. “It must have increased your suffering when, in such a difficult time, you had the feeling that politics and the authorities abandoned you. Your appearance in the report by Spiegel TV conveyed this combination of mourning, disappointment and anger impressively and left a lasting impression.”
Passin discussed it with other survivors, and agreed. There were further talks with ZDF. She was asked, which questions she wanted to ask. “But I declined”, she said. “I wanted to be able to react spontaneously, and authentically.” This did not seem to be a problem. Astrid Passin was even sent a contract.
Then, on Thursday, she received the call from ZDF. Tenor: She should not come. There were problems after the show from the day before, “Klartext, Herr Schulz!” [Plain text, Mr. Schulz!]. Citizens who had asked questions had allegedly come under fire by media and in social networks. They wanted to spare her this experience.
“I’m sad that I’m not allowed to ask Mrs. Merkel my questions”
“I told them that as a spokeswoman for the survivors, I am used to media pressure, and that I find it very regrettable and sad that I’m not allowed to ask Mrs. Merkel my questions,” said Astrid Passin. “But it didn’t help. They repeated the same explanations. I felt that they didn’t want me to come.” This were even more regrettable, as this was in a way her second disappointment.
The following videos show an event in Germany in which Chancellor Angela Merkel interacted with her audience, at what would be called a “town hall meeting” in the context of American politics. And just as in any town hall meeting starring Hillary Clinton, the event with the chancellor was tightly scripted. There were no chance encounters between Mutti and her audience, no serendipitous exchanges of views.
After the event, a photo of a page in the script surfaced in the alternative media. The document appeared to show the names and photos of people in the audience alongside their questions. Handwritten information was appended, and some of the participants seemed to be marked for inclusion.
The strategy for the set-up is obvious: participants were chosen to make the chancellor look good in various ways. The carefully-coiffed, perfectly-integrated Syrian migrant was selected to be a poster boy for the government’s migration policies. But difficult questions that touch on sensitive issues were also included, to allow Mrs. Merkel to respond in a reassuring fashion, and thus defuse public criticism on the topic — or so it was hoped. The woman in the second video was obviously included for this reason.
But the exchange in the third video — the one with the cleaning lady — seems to go off-script. Watch what happens when a different woman gets the microphone and interjects a scornful rebuke, throwing Mutti off her game.
Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating all three of these videos, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.
Translator’s introduction to video #1: In this video the Syrian refugee speaks. He tells her about his life here and how much he loves Merkel. Note Merkel’s body language. Completely open, facing him directly, with her hands in “raute”. Compare this to the other two videos, where she turns away from the German women, and keeps her left arm as a protective barrier against the women speaking:
Translator’s introduction to video #2: In this second video, watch Merkel’s body language. She’s completely turned off to this woman:
Translator’s introduction to video #3: This woman is described as a “housekeeper”, a “cleaning lady”. She has a beef with Merkel about the low pension. AGAIN watch the body language. AGAIN she is not facing this lady full on either, just like she didn’t the last lady, and completely opposite to the rapefugee, whom she stood in front of face to face with open body language and her hands typical in “raute” pose.
Video transcript #1:
JLH has compiled and translated a set of headlines from the German-language press reacting to yesterday’s speech at the United Nations by President Donald Trump.
GERMANY
Donald Trump Threatens North Korea with Total Destruction
The US President spoke before the UN and his speech was a singular plea for nationalism in accord with his motto, “America first.” This focus did not, however, prevent Donald Trump from making dire threats against North Korea.
Trump at the UN
America, America, and then the rest of the world
In his first speech at the UN, US President Donald Trump threatens North Korea, condemns Iran and praises himself. Nonetheless, his appearance is the most conclusive one thus far, and that includes various broken taboos.
Trump before the UN
No power that wants to lead morally can talk like that
With his first speech to the UN, Donald Trump dashed all hopes that he might be tamable. His threats against North Korea are beyond measure and dangerous. And so the world stumbles on from crisis to crisis.
US president at the UN
Another Trump is heard from
In his first speech at the UN, the US president attacked “rogue states” from North Korea to Iran to Venezuela. But he also struck other notes. His speechwriter is responsible for that.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Trump’s UN Speech
Fiery words and fatal misconceptions
Donald Trump emphasizes the significance of “sovereign national states” and speaks against North Korea. UN General Secretary Guterres urges unity — with a dig at the US president.
US expert[1] analyzes Trump’s UN speech
“That will not intimidate Kim”
US President Donald Trump’s debut at the UN, where he spoke of the “total destruction” of North Korea,” was not well-received.
1. Devin Hayes Ellis, director of the think tank “ICONS”
SWITZERLAND
The new Trump Doctrine could do serious damage to America’s interests
The American president’s declaration of war against North Korea caused excitement. What is more important is his foreign policy concept. It has serious weaknesses.
The following video shows the intervention read by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, representing Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa, at OSCE Warsaw on September 15, 2017, during Session 8, “Tolerance and non-discrimination II”.
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:
Below is the prepared text for ESW’s intervention:
The following video shows the intervention read by Henrik Clausen, representing Wiener Akademikerbund, at OSCE Warsaw on September 15, 2017, during Session 8, “Tolerance and non-discrimination II”.
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:
Below is the prepared text for Mr. Clausen’s intervention:
The following video shows the intervention read by Clare Lopez, representing the Center for Security Policy, at OSCE Warsaw on September 15, 2017, during Session 8, “Tolerance and non-discrimination II”.
Note that Ms. Lopez was given the standard OSCE rebuke by the moderator after her intervention.
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:
Below is the prepared text for Ms. Lopez’ intervention: