As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, the Viennese middle school teacher Susanne Wiesinger once again breaks the taboo against discussing the failure to integrate Muslims into Austrian society.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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The following report by Egri Nök was published earlier at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form.
Bloody Weekend — Knife Attacks All Over Germany
by Egri Nök
The new normal in Germany. An original translation from Bild:
Bloody Weekend: Knife Attacks All Over Germany
[Photo caption (not shown): Sunday afternoon: the handcuffed suspect (17) is taken to the committing magistrate at the Burgwedel District Court]
By S. Sievering
March 25, 2018
Knife attacks on the rise in Germany. Bild document the incidents of just this weekend alone.
Knife rammed into upper thigh
Berlin — Nine men chase a man (26) after visiting a club. One rams a knife into his upper leg — hospital!
Children threatened, youth critically wounded
Hannover — Two attackers spray pepper spray into the face of an 18-year-old, then stab him. His life is in danger! The same night, three masked men stab a 17-year-old in the leg because he refused to hand over his mobile phone. It appears that previously the three, who spoke German without an accent [Hochdeutsch] had threatened two children (14) with the knife.
Neighbor attacked with hunting knife over loud music
Nürnberg — As a woman was complaining over the loud music of her neighbor (51), he attacked her with a hunting knife, with which he also attacked the police. No one was injured, the perpetrator was overpowered.
Knife fight at the station
Hamburg — A German-Tunisian (36) attacked a Tunisian (35) with a knife in the Barmbek subway station. He fought back with a knife, too. Both were wounded.
Man threatened in the street tram
Duisburg — In the street tram, a man (39) draws a knife, spits at, and threatens, a dark-skinned man.
Pupil stabbed down in mass fight
Bochum — A Syrian (16) appears to have stabbed down a 15-year-old in a mass fight near a school. The boy was critically injured; the perpetrator fled.
Martin Sellner is a leader of Identitäre Bewegung Österreich, the Austrian chapter of the Identitaire movement. He had been planning to give a speech at Speakers’ Corner in London, but was detained by Immigration when he entered the country, locked up in a cell for three days, and then deported.
Tommy Robinson went to visit Mr. Sellner in Austria, and got a copy of the speech he would have given, with revisions added while the speaker was in the lockup.
Last week we posted a cell phone video of Tommy reading Martin Sellner’s speech at Speakers’ Corner. The audio quality of the footage left something to be desired, so Tommy has recorded a new version of the speech that he read out (passionately) in the studio.
The video below features the new reading of the speech, and is accompanied by other material, including archival footage of the history of Speakers’ Corner. It’s a very moving production, and I highly recommend it:
Hat tip: Vlad Tepes.
There was a big to-do in the media yesterday about all those marches against guns in cities across the nation. There’s nothing the MSM loves more than photogenic teenagers weeping because American citizens own guns.
Sultan Knish (Daniel Greenfield) asks an important question: “Who runs March for Our Lives?” Read the whole thing, but this is an important part of the answer:
March for Our Lives is funded by Hollywood celebs, it’s led by a Hollywood producer and its finances are routed through an obscure tax firm in the Valley. Its treasurer and secretary are Washington D.C. pros. And a top funder of gun control agendas is also one of its directors.
None of this has much to do with Parkland. The mass shooting by a mentally ill man who should have been committed and arrested long before he carried out his massacre was a political opportunity.
Now that opportunity is being exploited to the hilt by a professional class of political activists.
Gun control activists wring their hands over the NRA. They claim that a special interest lobby is illegitimately thwarting the “will of the people”. Yet it’s the anti-gun groups that are invariably false fronts. It’s very clear who runs the NRA. But the latest fake anti-NRA group is a nebulous shadow. Out front are the high school students and out back are the professional activists.
And who is really behind the whole thing? Hollywood celebs, Bloomberg, a network of organizations?
We know who supports the NRA. You can see NRA stickers on car windows even in the bluest cities in the country. But who really supports the anti-gun political network? You’ll need to spend hours sorting through paperwork, following the trail, comparing addresses and researching names, to even get a hint.
That’s what an illegitimate lobby thwarting the will of the people really looks like.
Hat tip: WRSA. If I’m not mistaken, Matt Bracken made the meme pic at the top of this post.
Caroline Glick appears to have a regular gig at Breitbart. Smart of them to feature an outstanding writer.
Here’s part of her essay on John Bolton’s recent appointment [with my emphases —D]:
President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint former UN Ambassador John Bolton to serve as his National Security Advisor is arguably the most significant single step he has taken to date toward implementing his America First foreign policy.
The news hit America’s enemies and competitors — from Pyongyang to Teheran to Moscow to Beijing — like a wall of bricks Thursday night.
Early criticisms on the political right of Bolton’s appointment have centered on two points. First, it is argued that Bolton, who has been involved in U.S. foreign policymaking since the Reagan administration, is a creature of the Washington foreign policy swamp.
While it is true that Bolton is from Washington – or Baltimore, to be precise – and although it is true that he held senior foreign policy positions in both Bush administrations, he has always been a thorn in the side of the establishment rather than a member of that establishment.
For the better part of three decades, Bolton has bravely held positions that fly in the face of the establishment’s innate preference for appeasement. He was a vocal critic, for example, of then-President Bill Clinton’s disastrous nuclear diplomacy with North Korea.
The 1994 “Agreed Framework” that Clinton concluded with Pyongyang was touted as a peaceful resolution of the nuclear crisis with North Korea. In exchange for shuttering – but not destroying — its nuclear installations, North Korea received light water reactors from the U.S. and massive economic relief. As Bolton warned it would, North Korea pocketed the concessions and gifts and continued to develop its nuclear weapons. In other words, far from preventing North Korea from developing nuclear weapons, the Agreed Framework preserved the North Korean nuclear program and enabled the regime to develop it effectively with U.S. assistance.
For his warnings, Bolton has been reviled as a “warmonger” and a “superhawk” by the foreign policy elite, which has gone out of its way to undercut him.
President George W. Bush appointed Bolton to serve as UN ambassador in 2005 in a recess appointment. Three moderate Republicans on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Lincoln Chafee (RI), Chuck Hagel (ND), and George Voinovich (OH), signaled that they would oppose Bolton’s confirmation, blocking it.
At the time, rumors surfaced that then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had quietly undercut Bolton’s confirmation in private conversations with senators. Those rumors were denied, and Rice publicly supported Bolton’s confirmation. But in 2016, Rice, along with her mentor, former secretary of state James Baker, and her deputy and successor as National Security Advisor, Stephen Hadley, openly opposed President Trump’s intention to appoint Bolton Deputy Secretary of State. At the same time, all three lobbied Trump to appoint outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Bolton was a vocal opponent of Rice’s nuclear diplomacy with North Korea, undertaken after Pyongyang conducted its first nuclear test in 2006. He also opposed Rice’s pursuit of diplomatic ties with Iran through negotiations in Iraq. In both cases, as events showed, Bolton’s criticisms were all in place.
Rice’s nuclear diplomacy with North Korea emboldened the regime and enabled its continued testing of nuclear weapons and development of ballistic missiles.
The piece below is the second part of the latest in an occasional series of essays by our expatriate English correspondent Peter on the history of the Socialist Left in Britain.
The Red Evolution IV: The Subversive Left, the Destabilising Left, the Antecedents of Generation Snowflake and the Ultimate Surrender of Rationality
by Peter
TWO
In the mid-1960s many of us stopped reading the mainstream press, preferring the more radical International Times, Oz and the UK version of Rolling Stone, which wasn’t a patch on its American original and was why founder, Jann Wenner, closed it down. There were many, many others, too, most of which were of questionable value. I continued to take the Times and the Sunday Times as in those days, their government and law reporting were second to none and I had been encouraged to read both by my college lecturers, during my part-time study at Southampton College of Technology funded by my employers.
While the political pages of the mainstream media featured our own grey and boring governmental figures like Harold Wilson, the alcoholically challenged George Brown, and the pudgy-faced Edward Heath, the alternative press concentrated on more interesting people such as Regis DeBray, Rudi Dutschke, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Tariq Ali. There were others, too, such as Marcuse, Adorno and Erich Fromm, but in spite of that, most of the so-called underground publications were largely incoherent. Their contributors appeared to have partaken liberally of those substances they were campaigning to legalise, but if anything, that tended to enhance their appeal to a youthful readership which, having rejected the mainstream, were rapaciously seeking out something in which they could believe. For many, that already existed.
In my late teens, I became aware of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), better known by one of their much-used slogans — “Ban the Bomb.” As far as I could see, they consisted of a large number of student types and other sartorially inelegant individuals who would assemble en masse in various public places, make speeches, march, wave banners and shout anti-American slogans. The movement started in 1957 when Kingsley Martin, then the editor of the New Statesman, chaired a small meeting at a flat in Central London to discuss the widespread fear of nuclear conflict and its potential consequences. On 17 February 1958, the Campaign was launched formally at a public meeting in Central Hall, Westminster attended by 5000 of the great, the good and the Left, a number of whom, including politician Michael Foot, author J.B. Priestley and journalist James Cameron had already been selected as Executive Committee members. Some commentators cite Islington Labour Party members Pat Arrowsmith and Pat Pottle as founder members, too as well as the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
The declared intention of CND was to persuade the UK government by peaceful means to renounce unilaterally “ the use, production of or dependence upon nuclear weapons by Britain and the bringing about of a general disarmament convention; halting the flight of planes armed with nuclear weapons; ending nuclear testing; not proceeding with missile bases; and not providing nuclear weapons to any other country,” which made a lot of sense, didn’t it? At the height of the cold war, the Soviet Union and the Peoples’ republic of China had nuclear weapons, as did the USA and France. Not to be similarly armed while keeping the same company seemed at the time to be suicidal, but the concept appealed to the leftists and much of the CND membership consisted of Labour Party members and other left-leaning people, although — officially — the Labour Party wanted nothing to do with them. Every Easter, from 1958 onwards, CND members took part in a march between Central London and the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire, a distance of some 52 miles. This became an annual pilgrimage attracting growing numbers each year.
Many CND supporters in those days were unemployed student types, while those of us who had jobs tended to look down on them, particularly since our taxes paid for their student grants, we were better dressed, had more money and as a result, attracted all the women. Also, as stated earlier, the idea of disarmament in those dangerous times did not seem to be rational. In hindsight, I believe that the reason no nuclear war broke out then was that those nuclear-armed governments put their trust in the theory of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) rather than the impassioned pleas of CND.
Prior to the formation of CND, the international peace movement had been dominated by the World Peace Council (WPC), an anti-Western organisation funded by the Soviet Communist Party, so that the WPC and its adherents became identified with communist ideology. This caused difficulties for CND, which, although totally detached from the WPC and from any political party, was accused of being a communist-controlled and -influenced organisation, and a number of its leading members were subject to active surveillance and occasional arrest by the UK counter-intelligence services. Support for CND diminished after the 1963 Test Ban Treaty, and it tended to focus its attention thereafter on the escalating war in Vietnam. CND still exists, though it is often overshadowed by more vocal movements such as the “Stop the War Coalition,” set up by Socialist Workers Party supporters.
1968 was an apocalyptic year as the entire world seemed to explode in protest and insurrection, and the war in Vietnam was by no means the only grievance. Demonstrators occupied college buildings, banks and offices while protesters fought pitched battles on the streets against the forces of law and order, whatever law and order it was they claimed to be upholding. I will only look at what I consider to be the most significant of these — readers may well disagree with my selection, but I am writing an essay, not a book.
Pauline Krikke, the Mayor of the Hague, was robbed at a tram stop in a culturally enriched district of her own city. Ms. Krikke had tried to keep the embarrassing incident quiet, but the Dutch media found out about it.
In other news, an Islamic State mujahid was killed in a shootout with Russian police in the republic of Dagestan in the Caucasus.
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A veteran schoolteacher in Vienna named Susanne Wiesinger decided to go on the record with her frank assessment of what cultural enrichment has done to Viennese schools. The fact that this report could air, even if only on internet TV, is a sign of how much the political winds have shifted in Austria.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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We reported in last night’s news feed that a man named Hafiz Kazi crashed a vehicle loaded with gasoline cans and propane tanks into Travis Air Force Base in California yesterday, killing himself. Mr. Kazi had apparently locked the doors of his van and then ignited some of the flammables before making his suicide run.
This morning’s media reports about the incident emphasized that investigators had no clue as to what Mr. Kazi’s motive might have been. They are variously stumped, mystified, perplexed, baffled, and at a loss. Sometimes people do bizarre things like fill their vehicles up with explosives and ram them into military bases, and you just can’t figure out why.
The fact that Hafiz Kazi was originally from India, rather than some more obviously Muslim utopia such as Pakistan or Yemen, makes the official perplexity that much easier. Investigators “don’t have any evidence of any religious affiliation”. He’s Indian, so he’s probably a Hindu, or a Sikh, or maybe even a Buddhist, right?
Wrong. I can identify Mr. Kazi as a Muslim with complete assurance, due to his first name. Hafiz or hafez is a designation used by Muslims to identify a man who has memorized the Koran. No non-Muslim would be called “Hafiz”. And I doubt any Muslim who converted to another religion would retain the name.
This official bewilderment is more than just a combination of stupidity and ignorance. It is deliberate misdirection (kitman), drawing attention away from the Religion of Peace for as long as possible, until the charade can no longer be maintained.
In this case, it’s obvious that none of the media writers knows the meaning of hafiz, or they never would have bothered.
Here’s what CBS News had to say about the mysterious case. They’re stumped — stumped, I tell you!
Travis AFB explosion: No known terror link in fiery van crash, FBI says
ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Investigators said Friday that they are stumped as to why a man who emigrated 25 years ago from India drove a flaming minivan full of propane tanks and gasoline cans through the main gate of a major Northern California Air Force Base this week, but see no evidence of terrorism. FBI Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan on Friday said the driver, Hafiz Kazi, was dead when authorities reached the wreck, CBS Sacramento reports.
Today’s Islamic terror attacks were held in France and the United States.
In France, a gunman named Redouane Lakdim killed three people and took hostages in a supermarket while shouting “Allahu Akhbar” before he was shot dead by police. A dozen other people were wounded.
At Travis Air Force Base in California, a man named Hafiz Kazi, originally from India, locked himself in a car full of gasoline and propane tanks, set the gas on fire, and crashed through an entrance to the base. By the time rescuers pulled his corpse from the burned-out car, he was identifiable only through his fingerprints.
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The Crushing of Irish Culture — It Has Been Decided
by Michael Copeland
What’s up, Ireland? Feeling left behind?
Not enough brutal rapes?
Not enough mass gropings?
Not enough throat-slitting of priests?
Not enough knifepoint robberies?
Not enough car-burnings?
The “Big Vision” will soon fix all that.
What is the Big Vision? Translated, it is the Big Invasion. Announced with glowing spin as a plan to boost the population of Ireland, “to re-shape Ireland”, it involves inflicting a MILLION extra inhabitants from abroad on the luckless Irish. Ponder well: this will be followed by “family re-unification” — some two and a half million more — as well as all the new children born to these new arrivals. The Irish, population 4.7 million, will be swamped. How can their sense of specialness, their identity, survive? It cannot, and it is not intended to. Irish culture is to be overrun, crushed, and destroyed. That has been decided. Irishness will be just a quaint curio to be found in museums and scratchy old recordings.
The Irish government has issued a propaganda video to explain their policy, grandly titled “Ireland 2040 — Our Plan”. Spot the sly ambiguity straight away? “OUR” plan. Dear Irish people, is it really? No. The hapless Irish were, of course, never asked if they wanted the population to be “boosted” from abroad, if they wanted Ireland to be “re-shaped”. It is THEIR plan, the politicians’ plan. They can say it is “Our Plan” as politicians, but the listeners will conveniently imagine that the people have somehow been party to it. What a mistake!
Dear Irish people, in case you feel like it, your government will not want you to disagree. The authoritative voice-over dictates, almost menacingly, how to think.
We are a country that is diverse, growing, and changing.
“Diverse”? In fact, Ireland is still nearly all Irish. “Growing”: this is a dishonest mis-description. Ireland will be deliberately flooded with a million outsiders: that is not ordinary domestic growth. “Changing” sounds all nice and natural, but it misrepresents what is really happening — having change inflicted from above.
By 2040 our population is expected to increase by one million….
Oh, “is expected to”: how very abstract of it. No. Again, this is not honest. It has been DECIDED. That is why it is expected. It was decided, furthermore, without any consultation with the luckless taxpayers upon whom it is being imposed. Note well that nowhere in this exciting plan is there any mention of encouraging native Irish young adults to have more children, and the plan will be spending 116 billion Euros. No, the Irish are unimportant.
Imagine ELEVEN cities the size of Limerick. That much housing is what is needed to accommodate the ushered-in newcomers. As the publicity material explains:
There will be a need for an absolute minimum of half a million new homes, which is at least 25,000 homes every year.
Ireland is bankrupt, in debt for the next fifty years for having bailed out the failed Irish banks. It seems that Irish leaders are doing what their EU and UN banking masters tell them. These “banksters” have a plan for Europe. They worked it out at those Bilderberg meetings — you know, the ones where world leaders gather to stitch up policy without any tiresome Parliaments in the way, and whose conclusions are never made public. Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, has rumbled this conspiracy:
Hussein Khavari, the Afghan “refugee” who raped and murdered Maria L. in Freiburg back in 2016, has been sentenced by a German court to life in prison. Maria was 19 years old when he killed her. Mr. Khavari’s age has been variously listed as 17, 19, 25, and 34. His official age was 17 for at least three years. I don’t know how long “life” means in German jurisprudence, but the killer will be somewhat older than 17 when he finally gets out of prison.
In other news, in the recent local Dutch elections, the Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) won seats in thirty municipalities.
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Towards a Swedish Civil War?
by Fjordman
On March 3, 2018, the liberal American newspaper The New York Times ran an article titled “Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class.”[1] An article with such a title would have been unthinkable a couple of generations ago. However, mass immigration is dramatically transforming Swedish society.
The NYT now admits that gang-related assaults and shootings are becoming more frequent. The number of neighborhoods categorized by the police as “marred by crime, social unrest and insecurity” is rising. In major cities, hospitals report armed confrontations in emergency rooms. School administrators say threats and weapons have become commonplace. The use of hand grenades has become disturbingly common. The police are struggling to gather information in immigrant neighborhoods where gangs intimidate witnesses. “We have lost the trust from the people who lived and worked in this area,” says police superintendent Gunnar Appelgren.
Mr. Appelgren describes an arms race among rival criminal gangs that has become difficult to contain. He fears that the escalating attacks on the Swedish police will soon feature AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifles and other weapons used in armed conflicts around the world. “I think we’re going to see, if we don’t stop it, more drive-by shootings with Kalashnikovs and hand grenades,” he said. “They throw rocks and bottles at our cars, and they trick us in an ambush. When will it happen that they ambush us with Kalashnikovs? It’s coming.”
The newspaper also interviewed an immigrant from Lebanon, a country that was marred by a bloody civil war not many years ago. He fears that the same thing could happen in Sweden. “Now, when I think of the future, I am afraid,” he says. “I am afraid for Europe.”
It is good that The New York Times has published this article. It describes problems that are very real. However, just a few years earlier, the paper painted a very different picture of the situation in Sweden.
The NYT claimed in January 2015 that it is false that there are no-go-zones in some urban areas in Western Europe dominated by certain immigrant groups. The newspaper highlighted myself, alongside the American writers Steve Emerson and Daniel Pipes, for spreading this alleged falsehood.[2] This was published shortly after Islamic terrorists had massacred the staff of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
Fox News issued an unusual on-air apology for allowing its anchors and guests to repeat the suggestion that there are Muslim-only “no-go zones” in European countries such as Britain and France, areas that are not under the effective control of the state and are ruled according to sharia law.
Three years later, the same newspaper indicates that criminal gangs have indeed established de facto control over certain areas in Western Europe. Perhaps they could admit that the writers they have unfairly smeared were right all along. That would probably be too much to ask.
In 2008, the Swedish writer Anders Lugn wrote an article titled “Sweden’s road to disaster.” Somewhat unusually, he even got this text published in the major newspaper Aftonbladet. In the 1980s, Lugn served as a captain in UN-led peacekeeping forces in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War between Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims and Christians. While living there, he asked himself how it was possible for such a wonderful country with so many good people to commit national suicide and self-destruct? Among several reasons for the collapse of Lebanese society he mentions a weak sense of national identity and common values, weak national armed forces, a weak police force, easy access to weapons (legal or illegal) and easy access to drugs. There was also a general sense of powerlessness among average citizens. Lugn is deeply concerned to observe that many of the factors that contributed to a brutal civil war in Lebanon are now also at work in his native Sweden.[3]
Things keep getting worse in the country. The hip-hop artist Ken Ring expects Sweden to descend into a civil war in the next 20 years. He is considering moving to Africa, which he believes will be safer than Sweden. Ring made these comments on the television program Trygdekontoret, which was broadcast on Norway’s state broadcaster NRK on March 13, 2018.[4] This was also reported in English by Breitbart News a few days later.[5]
The gentleman in the following TV interview is from the eastern German city of Cottbus. Like the demonstrators in Cottbus shown in the previous video, he doesn’t hesitate to speak his mind to the interviewer about immigration and Islam.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript: