Dearly Beloved

I’ll be away all afternoon to attend the wedding of a relative. I remember when the groom was a little kid; it was just the other day. Somehow, he’s now over thirty. Weird.

This is the first wedding I will have attended since Dymphna died. The first one in more than forty years where I’ve had to pick out a wedding gift and wrap it on my own. The first one where I’ll be putting on my suit without anyone to cast a critical eye on it, straighten my collar, and tell me how I look. Makes me a little nervous.

The festivities are relatively nearby, so I won’t be away overnight. I’ll be home in time to put up the news feed, but there may not be any additional posts today.

Nice Work If You Can Get It

It seems that German politicians can expect golden parachutes. Maybe even platinum ones.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Bild:

“Pension With 60” ++ €1100/Month Per Year of Work

You have to be an ex— (Government) Minister ! An average earner would have to work for 132 YEARS

Pension from 60, more than 1100 euros per month on account and mini-deductions in the event of early retirement! Sounds like a pension land of milk and honey, but it really does exist: You would have to be a minister of the outgoing federal government…

There are these extra special pension favours for departing ministers. Amount: After four years of office, there is currently around €4500/month as a pension — so €1100 per year [of work]. If the Bundestag is dissolved prematurely, the pension is already available after two years of office! For comparison: an average earner would have to work for 132 YEARS!

Retirement age: Officially, ministers also have to raise their retirement age to 67 years. But: on request, you can collect your pension at 60. In comparison: employees can only retire after 35 years of work, at 63 at the earliest.

Nine of the ministers still in office could benefit from the “retirement at 60”. Including the Union Ministers Helge Braun (Chancellery), Anja Karliczek (Education), Julia Klöckner (Agriculture), Andreas Scheuer (Transport) and Jens Spahn (Health).

Discounts: These also exist for ministers, but they are capped at 14.4%. If ministers were treated like retirees, the discount would actually have to be 25.2% if retirement were brought forward by seven years. Even in politics, the pension privileges for ministers are viewed critically. The FDP applied for the abolition of some extra special pension favours last year, but failed in the Bundestag. As a likely future ruling party, it could now ensure that the federal ministers also arrive at the pension reality.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/15/2021

The Conservative British MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death while he was meeting with constituents in a church. The alleged assailant is a 25-year-old man of Somali background. He is alleged to have stabbed Sir David dozens of times. Police are investigating the incident as Islamist terrorism.

In other news, migrants from the Middle East have set up housekeeping in the airport in Minsk, completely blocking the waiting area.

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Urgent: More Housing for Culture-Enrichers!

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from PolitikStube:

The tax money sits loose in the pockets of German municipalities: the community is looking for apartments/houses for “refugees”

In Germany, not only is the demand for living space increasing, rents are also rising exorbitantly. Although the welcome-screamers trumpet the hollow phrase “We have space” like a mantelpiece, space seems to be a scarce commodity, or the Jubel-Aufnahme-Hüpfer [cheering admission-hoppers] meant the social hammocks (free for all non-white, non-Germans).

The uncontrolled admission and immigration of “refugees” is worsening the situation on the housing market immensely, also in many communities, such as in Uetze (Lower Saxony):

More and more refugees from the crisis areas of the world are seeking refuge in Germany. At present, this mainly affects refugees from Syria and Afghanistan.

Due to the allocations that have already been made in recent months and years, the housing capacities of the municipality of Uetze are now almost completely exhausted.

For this reason, the municipality of Uetze is now looking for apartments and/or houses to rent to accommodate refugees.

For this community it’s a mere trifle; tax money is squandered away for the accommodation of “refugees” in apartments/houses, even for those who should not actually be here, but of which “those who have lived here for a long time” can only dream of.

A Mujahidette on German Public TV

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Bild:

After the WDR [Westdeutscher Rundfunk, regional state broadcaster] scandal

ZDF [public television] brings an Islamist author into the team

New Islamism scandal among the public broadcasters. ZDF has brought a well-known Islamist and Israel-hater on board. Feyza-Yasmin Ayhan has been hired as a comedy writer for the sitcom “Barry’s Barbershop”. The 20-year-old (stage name: Yasmin Poesy) has a reputation as an Islamist activist and Israel-hater.

The Berliner posted an anti-Semitic cartoon on social media showing hook-nosed Jews. In 2015 she appeared at the Hamas-affiliated German Youth for Palestine, justified violence against Israel and wished for an end to the Jewish state.

During the Gaza war in May, she called for hate demonstrations against Israel and spoke there. While anti-Israel demos escalated again and again and there were anti-Semitic riots, Ayhan wrote on Instagram: “Arab demos BEST always a lot of energy and a little party”.

Ayhan spoke of an allegedly “sick big lobby” that the Jewish state had at its disposal. She thanked the musician Roger Waters (78) for his statement that Israel was an “apartheid state”, although Waters is also a prominent supporter of the BDS anti-Semitic boycott campaign.

Ayhan declared that she had nothing against Jews, but scolded confidently: “BUT F** ZIONISM”.

ZDF confirmed for BILD: “Feyza-Yasmin Ayhan has been part of the five-person team of authors for the sitcom project that is currently being produced in Berlin by the Studio71 production company since August 2021.”

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Why Don’t We See News Stories Like This?

The following fictional report is modeled on this BBC story about Wednesday’s attack in Norway, with relevant nouns and adjectives changed:

Rawalpindi: Knife Attack Appears to be Terrorism — Officials

A deadly knife attack in Pakistan which left five people dead appears to have been an act of terror, Pakistan’s security service (ISI) said.

However, a motive has not yet been determined.

The suspect, a 37-year-old Afghan citizen, had converted to Christianity and there were fears he had been radicalised, police say.

He is accused of killing four women and a man on Wednesday night in the northern town of Rawalpindi.

Why do Christian converts not carry out violent attacks?

Why is it that nobody ever has to be concerned about the “radicalization” of a convert to Christianity?

When is the last time you heard of a convert to Christianity killing someone for religious reasons?

The situation is not at all symmetrical. Contrary to what the media and your political leaders keep telling you, Islam is not a “peaceful religion just like other religions.”

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/14/2021

The mother of Johntra Haley, the alleged shooter who killed two people at a Memphis postal facility, said her son had been bullied at work before he committed his crimes. The alleged perpetrator and both his victims were African Americans, so all of their lives matter. It’s not clear who will pay reparations to whom.

In other news, the Danish man who killed five people with his bow and arrow in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg was a convert to Islam. He was already known to police, and had been flagged for “radicalization”.

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Thursday’s Vax and Corona Roundup

So much material related to the Wuhan Coronavirus has landed on my desk in the past few days that I’ve decided to stick a metaphorical finger down my digital throat and regurgitate the whole noxious mess in a single post.

Below are five videos and three articles about the dreaded Corona and the miraculous “vaccine” that promises to cure it, but only if 100% of the population is injected with as many shots and boosters as it takes.

The first video features an interview with a microbiologist in Quebec about healthcare workers who refuse to be “vaccinated” (and are now being suspended).

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

The second video discusses the number of Italian soldiers who have refused to be vaxed, and compares it with the navy, the air force, the police, and the Carabinieri.

Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

In the third video a magistrate in Rome named Angelo Giorgianni denounces the “Green Pass”, promises a “new Nuremberg” for those who are pushing the vax, and says he will resign from the judiciary rather than abandon his stance.

Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

The fourth video features a young woman who attends university in Bologna. When she tried to enter a class without a “Green Pass” (the Italian vaccine passport), the professor insisted that she leave. When she refused, the professor cancelled the class.

Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

The final video may not even be Corona-related, but I’m including it here, just in case.

Eva-Maria Holzleitner is an Austrian MP for the Social Democrats who collapsed on Tuesday as she spoke in Parliament in Vienna. She is known to be a staunch advocate for the experimental mRNA injections used to treat COVID-19. There’s no information about how long ago she was vaxed, or whether the jab had anything to do with her swoon. Nor is there any word on her current condition.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

All three articles were translated by Hellequin GB. The first is from PolitikStube, and concerns a new “no jab, no food” rule in the German state of Hesse:

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Nuclear Power Goes Green

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the German-language service of RT:

France first: Ten EU countries are calling for nuclear power to be classified as green energy

A group of ten EU countries, led by France, has asked the European Commission to recognize nuclear energy as a low-carbon energy source. The technology is intended to contribute to the EU’s transition to climate neutrality, which has been planned for decades.

In view of the ongoing energy crisis in Europe, ten EU countries wrote to Brussels in favor of nuclear energy as an “important affordable, stable and independent energy source” that could protect EU consumers from “being exposed to price fluctuations”. The document, initiated by France, was sent to the EU Commission with the signature of nine other EU countries, most of which already include nuclear energy in their national energy mix: Bulgaria, Finland, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

Nuclear power plants generate over 26 percent of the electricity produced in the European Union. “The rise in energy prices has also shown the importance of reducing our energy dependence on third countries as quickly as possible,” the letter reads. Over 90 percent of the natural gas in the EU is imported from abroad, with Russia being the main producer. For the signatories of the letter, this appears to be one of the main factors behind the rise in energy prices. They write:

“Supply outages will occur more and more frequently, and we have no choice but to diversify our supply. We should be careful not to increase our dependence on energy imports from outside Europe.”

The signatories call on the Commission to include nuclear energy in the EU’s green taxonomy. This is a technical guide to help governments and investors determine which projects comply with the Paris Agreement and which violate its climate targets. Activities that fall under the taxonomy must make a “substantial contribution” to at least one environmental objective of EU climate policy and at the same time avoid significant damage to one of the other objectives. In addition, projects that fall under the taxonomy must meet a minimum level of social guarantees.

France versus Germany

The Commission has already included an extensive catalog of sectors such as solar, geothermal, hydrogen, wind, hydropower and bioenergy in the guide. When Brussels presented the taxonomy in April, however, one sector was missing: nuclear energy. Despite the self-set goal of tackling climate change, member states are still unable to reach consensus on whether nuclear energy is a green or a dirty source of energy. The Commission has postponed the important decision to allow the countries to close the debate.

On the one hand, Germany, which plans to shut down all of its reactors by 2022, is leading the anti-nuclear movement along with Austria, Denmark, Luxembourg and Spain. “We are concerned that the inclusion of nuclear energy in the taxonomy would permanently damage its integrity, credibility and thus its usefulness,” wrote the federal states under the leadership of Germany in July .

On the other hand, France, which gets over 70 percent of its electricity from nuclear power plants, is fighting for nuclear power to be classified as sustainable under the taxonomy. As the new letter shows, Paris has the support of several eastern states that have already allocated millions to nuclear projects. “While renewable energy sources play a key role in our energy transition, they cannot produce enough low-carbon electricity to meet our needs in a sufficient and constant manner,” says the letter, in which nuclear energy is considered a “safer and more innovative” sector that has the potential to retain one million highly skilled jobs “in the near future”.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s energy policy is what he calls an “both-and” strategy. He wants to build new, small nuclear power plants (SMR), but at the same time renewable energies are to be expanded. However, the mini-reactors are not yet ready for production. A single model is currently running in Russia. In addition, French industry shows little interest in the small reactors, as they produce relatively little electricity and cannot replace conventional nuclear power plants.

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I Will Not…

I will not…

by Seneca III

…participate in the destruction of our society.
Women are women; Men are men; Deviance is deviance.
I will not police my language nor hold my tongue.
I will not use moronic ‘Preferred Pronouns’.
I will not pander to hysterical minority groups.
I will not act as if their mental illness is acceptable.
I was born a normal human being and will remain so.

It is now a testament to the level of decay and depravity in Western civilization that when one stands out by his or her commitment to being normal he will be considered unusual… or even evil or guilty of a Hate Crime.

Fortunately, I live in a predominantly blue-collar and mostly self-employed or small company community. Such people tend to be pragmatists and have no time for those dysphoriacs who seek to destroy everything that is good. I have never experienced a Wokist here and don’t expect to. Everywhere I look there are young men and women having and bringing up their children, often with a dog to complete the joyous family unit.

Only a few frightened drones are still walking and driving around wearing masks. They are simply ignored and often regarded with pity.

Our school kids are all spic and span and neatly uniformed on their way to school, yet are very often rebelliously dishevelled on their way home (ties undone and askew, shirts hanging out etc.), but they are always so full of energy and laughter and the joy of life that their presence has calming effect on the waters of these stormy times. Mischievous they are, yes, but harmlessly so. Healthy, happy youngsters always are that way, pushing the boundaries to find out what is and what is not acceptable in society. The future belongs to them and they must find the best ways to shape it.

Furthermore, I would emphasise that I do not know of any man who has a cervix nor do I recognise anyone as “A person who breast feeds”, as the ugly-minded proselytisers of deviance choose to misrepresent that natural function. I do recognise and enjoy the presence of those whom evolution and nature intended to bear and succour our young — women.

Down all my days I have exercised my role first as a normally functioning heterosexual male and later as a father. I have happily carried out my responsibilities in loving union with a real woman where the meaning of life finds its soul.

Elsewhere, the poor demented creatures screaming out demands that their terrible way of non-life be recognised not just as normal but especially privileged constitute an offence against all humanity. Let us be done with them; gently and kindly so, yes, for they are the benighted and are in need of our care, as they have either drawn or constructed for themselves a truly rotten hand in the poker game of life, but done with them we must be. They cannot be permitted to exercise any power over our way of life nor impose upon us their grotesque moralities.

However, their manipulative, cynical, self-serving political bag-carriers who criminalise us by using evil, weaponised legalisms to defend the deviants’ are a different matter entirely; for them there must be nothing… or something a little more definitive than nothing, perhaps.

— Seneca III

For links to previous essays by Seneca III, see the Seneca III Archives.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/13/2021

A Danish man has been arrested by police in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg for carrying out a bow and arrow attack in a supermarket that killed five people and wounded two others. Political leaders immediately called for stricter bow controls.

OK, so I made that last part up, but still…

In other news, a woman in British Columbia was awakened at night by a fragment of meteorite that crashed through the roof of her house and landed on the pillow next to her in her bedroom. Fortunately she was uninjured.

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Do you Love to Hate?

Our Israeli correspondent MC sends this essay on the dire excesses of contemporary public policy, including the “vaccine” situation in Israel, which suffers from one of the worst cases of the Coronamadness.

Do you Love to Hate?

by MC

Any private view that deviates from the approved ‘liberal’ meme is now labelled as hate. I hate Islam, for example; I do, I do.

They send these missiles over and they explode near me and my family, but although the firing of missiles at civilians is a war crime, it is an acceptable war crime because Islam is a religion of peace and lurve. Isn’t it?

I have to say it is because to point to the world-domination aspects of Islam is ‘Islamophobia’ and Islamophobia is a ‘hate’ crime.

In 1941, in operation Barbarossa, the Nazi armies swept across the Russian Steppes, raping, looting and burning as they went. Liberals (modern day Nazis) would have those peasants whose livelihood had just gone up in flames smile and accept their fate for the greater good. A freezing winter of starvation and death is not an excuse for ‘hate crimes’; to be a hate crime, the action must fall into a violation with very narrowly defined victim and perpetrator groups.

To criticize Islam is a hate crime, full stop. To criticize Judaism is less black and white. To criticize and demean Israel, the only Jewish State, is to be encouraged.

If you come to Israel you will find that the majority of people are of Mediterranean appearance, with very dark Ethiopians, and very light Russians, but to liberals Israel, and all Jews, are white supremacists, no matter what their skin colour. Since most Jews in the USA are Ashkenazi Jews of European extraction, then Jews in Israel must therefore be ‘white’ and ‘supremacist’ (living in the ‘holy land’ as ‘occupiers’ claiming to be the ‘chosen race’, regardless of their origins).

Everybody knows that God in his wheelchair, just before he died, anointed all liberals to carry on his works of lurve, compassion and coercion. After all, it is ‘right’ and ‘just’ to make people conform for the benefit of all of us. Forcible conversion is a major part of the socialist creed.

For a Liberal, there are two ways of doing things; the Liberal way and the wrong way. To do things the wrong way violates Liberal principle and is thus implied criticism; a hate crime because ‘liberalism’ is one of the defined victim/perpetrator groups.

We no longer debate issues; we just manoeuvre our opponents into the treacherous quicksand of mudslinging. Any dialogue can be reduced to a monologue by just a few well-placed liberal epithets invoking ‘racist’, Nazi, Fascist, hate and conspiracy theory.

Recently we have seen quite a few so called ‘conspiracy theories’ prove to be accurate. When somebody puts two and two together and gets four, when they were supposed to get five, if we then yell “CONSPIRACY THEORY” for all we are worth we can make it all go away.

The so-called conspiracy theory was once the domain of the loony left, but has morphed over the last few decades into a weapon to suppress logical speculations. Here is some logical speculation:

  • China released the COVID-19 virus at the Armed Forces Games in Wuhan in October 2019.
  • Releasing a dangerous bioweapon of mass destruction is justification for war.
  • In December 2019 General Milley was worried that President Trump might declare war on China, so he took steps to acquire the power of the Commander-in-Chief for himself.
  • Milley tells his counterpart in China that he will give them a heads-up if the POTUS decides that China has committed an act of war.

If we put these points together we can logically draw the following conclusions:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/12/2021

Three postal employees were shot to death in a postal facility in the Orange Mound neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee. One of the deceased is thought to have been the shooter. The race of the victims has not been disclosed, so we don’t yet know whether their lives matter.

In other news, administrators at Colorado State University threatened to have students arrested if they failed to show vaccine passports.

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We Are All Rwanda Now

Our German translator Hellequin GB was in Rwanda at the time of the genocide in 1994. In the following essay he points out the disturbing parallels between the Hutu propaganda of that time — which demonized and dehumanized the Tutsis prior to the slaughter — and what we read in the left-wing media (is there any other kind?) in 2021.

About Rwanda and the Genocide Propaganda

by Hellequin GB

Two major radio stations transmitted hate propaganda to the illiterate masses: Radio Rwanda, and Radio Télévision des Milles Collines (RTLM). Radio Rwanda was the official government owned radio station.
Under the second(?) Arusha Accord it was banned from continuing to disseminate hate propaganda. This led the Hutu Power circle around President Habyarimana and his wife to found RTLM as a private radio station.

RTLM became immensely popular as a young, hip alternative to the official voice of the government. They did the usual — played popular music and encouraged the public to phone in and participate in radio broadcasts. Amongst its listeners, RTLM attracted the unemployed youth and the Interhamwe militia, a Hutu paramilitary organization.

RTLM and Radio Rwanda, before and during the genocide, continued to encourage and direct the killing of Tutsis and moderate Hutus until they were forced off the air by the Rwanda Patriotic Front’s military victories.

Here are a few transcripts in English from the Radio/TV-shows in Rwanda 1993/94. The rest is in French and Kinyawranda, but that should give you enough insight into what was going on.

I’m starting with one that’s from October 21 1990 for you to connect some dots: RR_21Oct90_eng_K036-2134-K036-2138.pdf

The next ones are those that come from the nitty-gritty, although there are some serious time-lapses in between.

Also, when you read the word Inyenzi, that means cockroach (Tutsi). There was an article in one of the papers; I cannot remember its name now, but the headline stuck with me throughout the years:

“A cockroach cannot bring forth a butterfly.”

The editorial argued that the Tutsi, like a cockroach, use the cover of darkness to infiltrate: “the Tutsi camouflages himself to commit crimes.”

Another word you’ll read is Inkotanyi, which means “invincible”, and is the nickname given to the Tutsi rebel army, but it was also used in the connection with “Cutting down Tall Trees”, meaning killing Tutsi.

Like the Nazis did to the Jews of Germany and later in the occupied Territories, and what we’re seeing now, was and is a build-up to genocide, in my humble opinion.

This time it’s just on a monstrous scale never seen before in recorded human history.

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