Below are two videos featuring the late Gianluca Buonanno, a politician for the Lega Nord. In these clips Mr. Buonanno expresses his loathing of the elite mandarins of the European Union, who are protected from the consequences of their immigration policies while ordinary citizens bear the brunt of them.
Many thanks to Elle Bowlly for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.
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Fjordman’s latest essay has been published by the Gatestone Institute. Some excerpts are below:
How Barcelona Became a Victim of the Barcelona Process
by Fjordman
October 12, 2017The Barcelona Process, promoted by the EU, has helped to facilitate a greater presence of Islam and Muslim immigrants in Western Europe — thereby also increasing the Islamic terror threat there. That result was perfectly foreseeable.
When the number of people who believe in Islamic Jihad doctrines rises, the likelihood of experiencing jihadist attacks increases as well.
It is unlikely, though, that European political leaders will point to this connection. Doing so would be an indirect admission that Europe’s leaders have actively increased the Islamic terror threat against European citizens. This is the brutal truth they do not want exposed.
Western Europe’s appeasement of Islam stretches back at least to the 1970s.
With the 1973 oil embargo, Arab countries in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) used oil as a weapon and tool for blackmail. European countries started giving concessions to Arabs to ensure their oil supply and, they doubtless hoped, avoid terrorism. These concessions were not just limited to economic affairs. They also included opening Western Europe up to Islamic culture and Muslim immigration. The author Bat Ye’or has written extensively on this subject.
Robert Spencer and Christine Douglass-Williams will be speaking in Grande Prairie, Alberta on October 29.
For tickets, please click this link, and then click on “Events”.
This is a rare opportunity. If you’re in the vicinity of Grand Prairie on October 29, I recommend that you head for the Stonebridge Hotel so you can hear them.
Robert Spencer’s presentations on Islam are the best in the business, bar none. He is particularly informative when answering questions from the audience, so ask him a question in the Q&A period if you want to learn more.
I’ve never heard Ms. Douglass-Williams speak, but if she’s teaming up with Mr. Spencer, she’s bound to be good.
The Spanish government has given an ultimatum to Catalonia, demanding that the region rescind its declaration of independence within five days. Spain has also reportedly decided to veto the entry of any Catalonian state into the European Union.
In other news, after investigating 700 asylum seekers, Danish authorities determined that more than 90% of them lied about their origins on their applications, and will be deported.
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More than six months ago The Netherlands held a general election. At last, a cabinet has been formed — but except for the prime minister, none of its members have been announced.
Our Dutch correspondent H. Numan has the story.
Habemus Moderamen
by H. Numan
It took a while, but we’ve got a cabinet. Finally. And what a cabinet that’s going to be! The nickname (one of many) is ‘Until Christmas I’. Nobody thinks this cabinet will last the full ride. Not even the parties who form it. And we still don’t know who is going to be in it, apart from Mark Rutte. All we know is that taxes go up, up, up. And that we will get no fewer than 25 ministers. That alone is a sure sign the cabinet won’t last long. We don’t know who will become ministers, only Mark Rutte. We don’t even know when they will start working. That’s another sign we’re looking at temporary cabinet.
Let me recapitulate for you: we went to the polls on the 15th of March. The PVV party did fairly well, but not well enough. They came second with 20 seats. The ‘winner’ was the VVD (conservatives) with 33 seats. I say ‘winner’ as they didn’t win at all. They lost 25%, down from 41 seats. But they remained the biggest party and therefore called the shots. For Americans, coalition governments are incomprehensible, so allow me to explain how it works.
In Holland and many other countries a coalition is the only form of governance possible. We have too many parties to begin with and our system does not allow for one party which takes all. It’s not illegal, but extremely unlikely to happen. In America you essentially have two parties. Either one governs, or the other. There isn’t any other option.
Now, imagine Donald Trump was rejected by his own party and set up a new one. He is wealthy enough to do just that. More importantly, he has ample funds for a well-run campaign. This is usually the problem for third parties in America: they may have good ideas, even good people, but lack the funds for promotion. The elections are there. Trump doesn’t win outright, but enough to block any government without his party. To make it easy: all get 1/3 of the vote. That’s when you get a coalition. None can govern alone. None likes the others. But the country has to be governed, so a deal must be struck. Let the haggling begin!
Mark Rutte tried first to form a left-wing coalition by inviting GL (former communists) to negotiate. Yasser Feras (Jesse Klaver) made an absolute fool of himself by demanding the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and a lot more. When a deal was nearly complete, he reneged on it by demanding even more.
The only other option was to invite the CU party. The CU, Christian Union, is an extreme left-wing but staunchly Calvinist party. That sounds somewhat weird, I know. But we’re Dutch, so that’s perfectly normal to us. You can see it as group of very strict Calvinists (Sunday laws, no abortion; that sort of thing) but they take their charity and compassion not out of the Bible but from Marx. Think: your Bible Belt, with Bernie Sanders in the pulpit.
Finally, after months and months of haggling, we got a deal that satisfies no one. It’s next to impossible to name this monstrosity: a conservative (VVD) progressive (CU/D66) Christian (CDA/CU) cabinet. Laugh if you will, but we have to live with it.
The cabinet isn’t there yet, but we already know that the low rate VAT goes up from 6 to 9% and the mortgage tax deduction is going down the drain fast. The cabinet claims everyone will cash in. Realistically, very few people will. Rutte said he will compensate lower incomes but if you believe that, I have a religion of peace on offer for you. Pork is not included.
In Holland we have two VAT rates: 6% (from 2018 onwards that will be 9%) on essential goods, the stuff people need to stay alive. And 21% on luxury goods, that’s everything else. Due to the economic crisis of 2008, the VAT on luxury goods went up ‘temporarily’ from 19% to 21%. To remind you, as a lad I remember when VAT (we call it BTW) was introduced. Back then in 1969 luxury goods were taxed 12%. Now it’s nearly double. The new cabinet is of course not going to lower that ‘temporary’ higher rate, if only because the tax department doesn’t know the word temporary exists.
As you can expect from a left wing cabinet, development aid goes up to two billion. And defense — what’s left of it; that’s not much —probably down. I’ll keep you informed about more good news coming from below the dikes, when it comes in.
Now, I said nobody likes this cabinet, and everybody is dead certain this cabinet won’t last long. Even the parties who form this cabinet think so, because Pechtold (D66), Seegers (CU) and Buma (CDA) all remain in parliament. They declined cabinet seats. For the best of reasons of course, but the main reason is that they don’t want to go down with this shipwreck. Mark Rutte (VVD, conservatives) doesn’t have that option. He wanted this cabinet, and has to live with it.
In this video the late Gianluca Buonanno scolds EU Immigration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos in the European Parliament.
Many thanks to Elle Bowlly for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
KGS at Tundra Tabloids must be a WAYCIST. His Twitter account was just suspended for this tweet:
His tweet was in response to a Swedish-speaking Finn, who asked how Jews feel about neo-Nazis marching through Charlottesville.
As you can see, he tweeted it eleven days ago. Evidently it took that long for the Sharia Anti-Blasphemy Brigade to find it.
For the origin of the reference in this post’s title, see Basil Fawlty.
Jussi Halla-aho, the chairman of the Finns Party, has an op-ed in The Financial Times about Catalonian* independence entitled “Most independent states today were born ‘illegally’”. The piece is behind a subscription firewall, so I’ll just quote the final paragraph:
One must bear in mind that most of the independent states of today were born in an “illegal” manner, against the laws of the entity from which they separated. This applies to my own country, to the US, Algeria, Mozambique and many others. Is their independence therefore illegal? Can it really be that you need to fight a brutal war to make your independence “legal” and acceptable? Empirically, unfortunately, that seems to be the principle.
He’s quite right: that is the general principle. A country is independent if and only if it can defend its borders successfully against those who would prevent its independence.
There is no other metric for it. If your nation can expend enough blood and treasure to defend itself, it is independent. Anything else is simply some grade of “autonomy”.
That’s the metric we used in 1781 in Yorktown, after five years of bitter, costly warfare**.
On the occasion of his surrender, the band played “The World Turned Upside Down” for General Cornwallis. I wonder what “The World Turned Upside Down” would be in Castilian?
Notes:
| * | My remarks about Catalonian independence do not in any way imply approval of its politics. Like Flanders, Catalonia sends more tax revenue to the central government than it receives in return. However, unlike Flanders, it is a communism-loving “migrants welcome” sort of place and holds the EU in high esteem.
If Catalonia becomes fully independent, the Spanish rump state will be both poorer and more conservative. |
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| ** | The newly independent United States could not have achieved that independence without the colonies’ alliance with France. However, the French could not project enough military power to enfeoff the new nation, so we were able to achieve true independence, as opposed to becoming a French colony. |
In the following video, the late Gianluca Buonanno, a politician for the Lega Nord, takes a contrary position in the European Parliament on the EU’s anti-Russian policies.
Many thanks to Elle Bowlly for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
The following article about increasing violence in German schools was published last week at Michael Mannheimer’s Blog. Many thanks to JLH for the translation:
Violence in the Schools
Five Incidents in Two Weeks
At several schools in Saxony-Anhalt in recent weeks, there have been violent confrontations involving immigrants. As Silke Stadör of the state school board told MDR[1], there were five incidents in two weeks. The attacks occurred in schools in Wittenberg, Bitterfeld, Magdeburg, and twice in Stendal In the same instances, teachers were threatened as well. There was a brawl in front of a school in Bitterfeld this week. Three adolescents from Syria battered fellow students with chains. Three German youths were injured. The police are investigating and examining a connection with a mass brawl at the vocational school center in Wittenberg. In early September there, 20 youths came to blows — among them Africans and Syrians.
One-On-One Talks, Teacher Training, Crisis Intervention Teams
After the brawl at the secondary school in Bitterfeld, the school administration and the immigration coordination center consulted on how these excesses of violence could have occurred.
Since then, according to Stadör, there have been school psychologists active in each of the affected schools. They were offering one-on-one consultations. Furthermore, says Silke Stadör, teachers are to be trained in how to act in the case of physical confrontations.
According to a statement by the state school board, the percentage of foreigners, especially in secondary and vocational schools, has increased by leaps and bounds. So there is an increase in the number of incidents involving immigrants. Stadör is not willing to speak of a trend towards more violence in the schools — there is as yet too little data. However, the present burst of violence has sounded an alarm at the state school board.
Crisis intervention teams will now be formed at the schools. And there will be conversations with county and local authorities about more school social workers.
Note:
| 1. | Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk = Middle German Radio. The term “mitteldeutsch” can apply to something ”central to Germany geographically, culturally, linguistically, etc. Since 1990, it is most often used for Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. |
The following video from the Lega Nord shows a protest against immigration in Milan in October of 2014. MEP Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Lega, was a featured speaker.
Many thanks to Elle Bowlly for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
A man named Michael Christopher Estes has appeared in a federal court, charged with leaving an explosive device at the regional airport in Asheville, North Carolina last week. The device consisted of a nail bomb made of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil contained in a Mason jar, with a detonator and an alarm clock used as a timer.
In other news, a Muslim preacher in Australia has denounced parents for allowing their children to listen to music on the car radio.
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In the following video you’ll see participants in an Italian TV show debating the European Union’s unequal treatment of religions.
The clip being aired on the program shows the late Gianluca Buonanno and Mario Borghezio of the Lega Nord removing a blasphemous painting from the European Parliament, and getting into arguments with EP functionaries as a result.
Many thanks to Elle Bowlly for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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Culture-enrichers in Berlin now have the option of expediting the asylum process by creating their own approved applications, using official government equipment.
Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating this article from the Berliner Morgenpost:
B&E at the Migrant office: Asylum papers stolen
At a breaking and entering of the migrant office, thieves have stolen blank documents and stampers
According to police, in the early hours of Monday morning the office for Migrants was broken into at the Friedrich-Krause shore in Moabit. Four offices were obviously ransacked, and one steel cabinet was forcibly opened.
The B&E occurred on the second floor, in the department entitled E4. The department processes asylum applications for Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and the Russian Federation. The entire department is closed down until all forensic investigations have been concluded. Numbered seals were stolen as well as blank asylum applications and stampers. Therefore asylum applications can now be forged.
According to the Berlin Morgenpost, the thieves also tried to cover up their traces with a fire extinguisher. A security service apparently secures the Migrant office only during the day.