Enrico Letta is a former Italian prime minister who currently leads the Democratic Party in Italy. In the following video a woman confronts Mr. Letta about the country’s vax policies, even as his entourage tries to pull her away.
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
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The Gothenburg Post has published an exposé of the extent to which criminal gangs — typically composed of third-world immigrants — have taken control of certain neighborhoods in Gothenburg, and now exert a covert form of political power in those regions. The report below is an introduction; the full exposé is behind a paywall.
Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from today’s Gothenburg Post:
Christofer Ahlqvist: Why we must consider gang leaders to be those in power
Murdered children, kidnappings, and witness testimonies that are withdrawn. The criminal gangs affect tens of thousands in Gothenburgers in the neighborhoods they hold hostage. Today the Gothenburg Post examines the gangs, and here Editor-in-Chief Christofer Ahlqvist explains why the identified gang leaders should be viewed as being in power.
“You’re not getting in here!” The message to our team was clear. The threatening people did not want us to carry out our journalistic assignment in the neighborhood. The incident occurred when we were going to report on the unrest that broke out in connection with the fatal shooting in Hjällbo last year. We were forced to do our live broadcast from a different location from what we had planned. The next day we were back in the neighborhood again and did our report. That day the Gothenburg Post was directly affected by the actions of the gang and network. But there are others who are affected daily.
Criminal gangs are terrorizing the neighborhoods where they operate, and according to the police affect tens of thousands of Gothenburgers just in our suburbs alone. In the last few days, we have been able to report on murdered children, kidnapped teachers, and witness testimonies being withdrawn.
The foremost mission of the media is to examine power. Those who run the criminal groups undoubtedly have both great influence and power. That is accompanied by significant public interest, which motivates us to report to our readers as much as we know about the gangs and their leaders. Thus, in today’s examination we are publishing names and photos of convicted criminals who are identified by authorities as gang leaders.
The power that a gang leader possesses is not official, compared to, for example, a politician or a business leader. These individuals often deny that they have such a role or a position of power. That makes our job harder, but also more important. Behind today’s publication lie months of intensive work, which is based on several years of accumulated knowledge and experience. Our reporters have gathered and put together official documents such as investigations and court judgments. They have interviewed sources, both public officials and people who speak confidentially. Due to a lack of answers from the identified individuals, we have utilized their answers from trials and hearings in order to present their version, in spite of everything. We have also interviewed those who are truly affected by the gangs in our local community. All in all, we can show the influence and power the gangs and their leaders have, whether they admit it or not.
In Sweden, the number of shootings has increased this year compared to the previous five years. At the same time, the situation in Western Sweden looks somewhat brighter. A partial explanation might be that so many gang criminals in leading positions are behind bars. But according to Mats Bergström, Acting Deputy Regional Chief for Region West, that could quickly change.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Bild. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
She Mocked Germans as “Potatoes”
Activist to become commissioner for anti-discrimination
Once again, a traffic-light personnel decision is causing heated debates. Ferda Ataman (43) is to become Federal Commissioner for Anti-Discrimination. Today the cabinet proposed the publicist and activist. The Bundestag still has to agree. In 2020, Ataman caused heated debates when she defended the term “potato” for Germans without a migration background in a “Spiegel” article. Many citizens “sometimes mutate into thin-skinned Emo-Germans” if they are called “potatoes”, for example.
Ataman was surprised: “A surprising number of people see this as insulting discrimination. Why?” Her answer: “The outrage about ‘potato Germans’ is about something else. It’s about the inner resistance to deal with yourself and your own privileges.”
Group Vice President Andrea Lindholz (51, CSU) says to Bild: “So far, Ms. Ataman has primarily attracted attention with clumsy provocations and hard left-wing ideology.” It is wrong to “insult the majority of society or play social groups off against each other.”
In Bild the domestic politician Christoph de Vries (47, CDU) expresses “doubts as to whether a woman who finds discriminatory terms for Germans completely okay” is suitable for the anti-discrimination job.
Stefan Müller (46), the parliamentary director of the CSU state group, describes Ataman to Bild as a “left-wing activist” who is being “raised to a government office funded by taxpayers.” She has “so far been noted primarily for verbal attacks towards people without a migration background” and is a “blatant misappointment” for the office.
The Islamism expert Ahmad Mansour (45) is also critical of this person. Ferda Ataman will “actually be an agent for cancel culture and the division of society.” Mansour continued: “This policy will create even more discrimination as it divides people according to race and skin colour. Criticism of ‘old white men’ or ‘potatoes’ is intolerance under the guise of anti-discrimination.”
Bild also asked the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens and Youth what Minister Lisa Paus (53, Greens) thinks of the term “potatoes” for Germans without a migration background. The Ministry did not reply to this.
A spokeswoman explained that Ataman will “contribute to strengthening an inclusive and democratic society.” Discrimination “for racial reasons or because of gender, sexual identity, religion or belief, age or because of a disability” is unacceptable. Ataman’s nomination was received very positively by the Greens. Sven Lehmann (42), the Queer Commissioner of the Federal Government, praised Ataman on Twitter with the words: “A strong voice for diversity and against discrimination!”
Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt (56) congratulated Ferda Ataman, and wrote on Twitter: “It’s a good choice.” [She would think this, wouldn’t she(?), since she hates the people that are forced to keep her in “royal” state with their taxes, and would love to see them all dead and forgotten.]
Marine Le Pen has stepped down as the leader of National Rally in France in order to be able to focus on her new parliamentary group after the party’s success in last week’s elections. Also in France, a high school teacher has been subjected to death threats after insisting that a female student remove her face veil for the purposes of identification before taking her baccalaureate exam.
In other news, Uvalde School District Police Chief Peter Arredondo has been put on administrative leave after recent revelations about the apparent shortcomings of his response to the massacre at Robb Elementary School. He is expected to be replaced.
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Earlier this month the town of Peschiera del Garda in northern Italy experienced the glories of cultural enrichment in spades, so to speak. An estimated 1,500 male migrants, most of them from North Africa, but some from further south, terrorized the town for an extended period (see previously “Taharrush on the Train to Milan” and “African Culture-Enrichers Run Wild in Peschiera del Garda”).
Among the rambunctious youngsters’ recreational activities on the train was the sexual harassment of a group of teenage girls who were on their way back to Milan from the Gardaland amusement park. The following news video describes what happened to the unfortunate girls on their railway outing.
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When the new waves of Corona — or Monkeypox, or whatever the next pandemic will be — arrive, Big Pharma executives want to dispense with all those annoying human trials and go straight from the mRNA manufactories to the needles for people’s arms.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Report24. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
BioNTech boss Ugur Sahin calls for further “vaccines” to refrain from clinical studies
The multi-billionaire Ugur Sahin, who resides with his company at the address in Mainz , “An der Goldgrube 12” (12 at the Goldmine [yes, you read it correctly and don’t need new reading glasses]), announced in a newspaper interview that future changes to his “vaccines” should refrain from human studies.
The article “BioNTech boss in alarm mode” appeared in the Wiesbadener Kurier — the online version can be found here, but like many publicly relevant topics it is once again well hidden behind the paywall. We have the print version:
“Sahin is demanding nothing less for the approval of vaccine adaptations than the waiver of additional clinical studies on humans, which are actually common…”
However, Sahin does not speak to the Wiesbaden courier about side effects. He speaks of the danger of new variants that can be expected starting this autumn. On the other hand, one would have to “vaccinate” as soon as possible. The multi-billionaire sharply criticizes the fact that the approval authorities expect PROOF of the effectiveness and harmlessness of the vaccines used. [“This is an outrage” — imagine the voice of Hitler.] He calls for “rapid approval of adapted vaccines.” According to Sahin, new clinical studies would be unnecessary, since only a few components of the “vaccination” would be changed in any case. Before the Corona crisis, vaccine approval in less than ten years was completely unthinkable. [It still is, at least for anyone who isn’t suicidal.]
Incidentally, according to research by Report24, not a single ampoule, let alone a batch of the BioNTech “vaccine” in Austria, has been tested for composition and purity. They rely on Germany. [Haven’t they learned anything from history?] A recent letter from the PEI raises doubts that much more than a “visual inspection” was carried out there. Because just a few days ago , the PEI asked BioNTech which criteria could be used to check the quality of the “vaccines”:
“Please let us know how and with which control methods the quality of the mRNA is assessed, i.e. how the identity of the mRNA species, the amount of truncated or faulty mRNA compared to the full mRNA is determined.”
This means — and we only came to this conclusion after several months of research — that at least the entire German-speaking area blindly relies on BioNTech’s assurances that the ampoules contain what is claimed. And on this basis one wants to carry out compulsory vaccinations of the population! [I’d be auditing these puppeticians all the way back to when they went for their first day in kindergarten, and then hang the guilty.]
Afterword from the translator:
The current surge of migration into Italy has brought with it an alarming increase in criminality. The following article discusses the disproportionate amount of crime committed by immigrants in Italy, and its effect on the native Italian population.
Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Il Giornale:
Rapes, fights, “cultural” crimes: The criminal immigration that frightens Italy
June 17, 2022
The violent side of immigration from sexual crimes to attacks on police: “In Italy, a stable presence of the foreign component”
by Francesca Bernasconi and Rosa Scognamiglio
Women and girls molested or raped in the middle of the street. Police officers and Carabinieri punched or threatened with knives. And girls mistreated or killed by their own relatives because they rejected the traditions of their own culture and wanted to live in the Western style. These are the crimes and attacks that appear on the news pages and involve criminal foreigners. And the phenomenon of criminal immigration, arising simultaneously with the arrival in Italy of social and cultural groups from various countries in the world, a phenomenon which, from the 1970s, has transformed the peninsula into an immigration state. But how has this trend transformed the criminal panorama?
The presence of different social, ethnic, and cultural groups inevitably brings about a transformation of criminal-specific points, as explained to Il Giornale by the criminologist Francesca Capozza, author of the book Criminal Immigration, which analyzes the phenomenon, showing the face of foreign crime in Italy. “You see the stable presence of the foreign connection that takes the form of organized crime, within that municipality, of terrorism, as well as culturally-motivated crimes”.
The numbers of foreign crimes
Immigration is not synonymous with criminality. It’s the opposite. Beginning in the 1970s, however, in our country, an increase in the arrival of people from other parts of the world with different customs and habits has been recorded. In addition to people who migrate legally, there are those who migrate illegally. This new movement has brought about a change in crime because, in addition to Italian crime, there is added the foreign component, which has gone on to change the general panorama of criminality and security.
The statistics, reported in the XIII Report of the Antigone Association on conditions of detention, tell of a rise in the number of foreigners present in Italian jails, which, beginning in the early 1990s, has undergone an “unstoppable” increase. Now, according to the data from the Justice Ministry, updated on May 31 2022, detained foreigners make up 17,136, of a total of 57,067 people in jail: a percentage that slightly surpasses 30%, as also confirmed by Francesca Capozza, who speaks of official data “which do not record, therefore, any unverified, subsequent involvement.” In the large cities, however, this percentage has risen so much that, according to what is specified in Il Giornale by counselor Riccardo De Corato, “in Milan, over 70% of the prison population of San Vittore is composed of immigrants.”
It is necessary, however, to point out that among the foreign detainees, the percentage of illegal migrants, reported in the Antigone report, is “between 60% and 80% depending on the type of crime. Not only that: “Almost all of the migrants who commit crimes have previous arrests,” points out Counselor De Corato. “I believe many of the illegals present in Italy are fleeing their own country of origin because they evidently have unfinished business with the justice system; they probably can’t walk around free or they risk heavy sentences. Otherwise, you cannot explain the motive that makes them prefer to pay money to the smugglers, risking their lives at sea, rather than reach Italy by other means. I do not believe that they are all fleeing from war.”
According to the latest information released by the Texas Department of Public Safety, heavily armed police were inside the elementary school in Uvalde within three minutes of when Salvador Ramos began his murderous rampage. The conclusion is that the killer could have been stopped much earlier, if police had not waited 78 minutes before acting.
In other news, when discussing President Biden’s recent bicycle mishap, former President Trump pledged that he would never, ever ride a bicycle.
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The following article describes the prosecution of a wealthy Lebanese criminal clan that diverted hundreds of thousands of euros in German welfare money to line their own pockets.
Europeans have been told over and over again that immigrants enrich their culture, but it seems that they primarily enrich themselves at the expense of the native taxpayers.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
€456,000 Hartz IV for a multimillion-dollar clan
Dusseldorf
The trial of members of the Al-Z. clan has begun before the Düsseldorf district court. The upshot is that the taxpayer financed the extended family, which is already worth millions and comes from Lebanon, with 456,000 euros Hartz IV. Clan boss Badia Al-Zein, his wife, four sons and a daughter-in-law are accused.
The public prosecutor raises serious allegations: money laundering, extortion, tax evasion, hostage-taking, dangerous bodily harm, exploitation, coercion — and gang-like welfare fraud. Between 2014 and 2021, the German state supported the family’s luxurious lifestyle with almost half a million euros. How it happened that this large sum was paid to the dreaded clan should now be clarified. How could the job center pour out the cornucopia for seven years for a clan that flaunted their wealth in public? Why wasn’t it decided that they should first sell their villa and luxury cars before money from the state arrived?
Badia Al-Zein, who came to Germany without papers in 1990 and married a twelve-year-old here under Islamic law a year later, was arrested a year ago. The 47-year-old stateless person has been in custody for that long — just like two of his sons. The rest of the accused, including his wife, with whom he fathered nine children, are at large.
“High pressure on the public prosecutor’s office”
When the police stopped the man — who wears a long gray beard in court — in his Mercedes S-Class on June 8, 2021, he had €17,830 in cash with him. During a raid on the Leverkusen clan villa, the investigators found a further €341,415 and US$2,000 in bills and various jewelry worth around €200,000. The trial should now reveal where the extended Al-Z family, whose patriarch, according to Bild, never did regular work, got the money from. The suspicion: It stems from crime. [No? Really? Imagine my shock.]
So far, Badia Al-Zein has never been convicted. For example, witnesses for the prosecution failed to appear in court in 2019 when a restaurant was robbed, or withdrew incriminating statements. This time, too, the accused appeared confident of victory in front of his supporters in the audience. He clenched his fist, raised it with his arm outstretched, and then waved to his followers in the hall. His lawyer speaks of a “politically motivated” procedure. [Does he mean by that that these people should be allowed to do as they please and aren’t subject to the law? Sounds like it to me, because that guy is not in custody for walking into the Reichstag building, now is he?] According to Bild, he said: “There is a lot of political pressure on the public prosecutor.”
It won’t be clear until November at the earliest whether it will be enough for a conviction this time. Until then, the court has initially set dates.
Afterword from the translator:
Our Bangkok correspondent H. Numan sends this report with important news from Thailand.
It’s legal now!
by H. Numan
The biggest news of the year in Thailand: Marijuana has been legalized. Sort of, that is. And sort of surprising, certainly coming from a military junta clad in civvies. First the (back then) military government allowed marijuana to be grown for medical purposes. Officially, that’s still the policy.
There is a big difference between what the government allows and what the law allows. Strictly speaking, if you want to grow hemp as a cash crop, you have to jump through thousands of hoops to get a permit. But individuals are now allowed to buy hemp plants legally. Provided… the THC contents is less than 0.2%. I’m quite certain no reader has ever touched the stuff, so let me explain. THC stands for Tetrahydrocannabinol and is the stuff that makes you happy. The higher the THC content, the higher you get. Like the alcohol content in a drink. A THC level of 0.2% is what you normally find in rope. Cynical as I am, I encourage the government to allow home brewing and distilling (both are illegal here), provided the final product doesn’t contain any alcohol.
Having said that, the common folks don’t really care much for the growing itself or buying a piece of rope. Marijuana sellers pop up everywhere. What they sell is the good stuff. So far, without any problems. The police do not interfere. The current rate is about Bt. 700 ($20) per gram. I expect those prices to drop over the coming months, due to competition.
What makes it hilariously funny is the reaction of the media. Most media are pretty conservative here. They really are in panic mode. The craziest stories appear that demonize weed. It’s Reefer Madness version 2.0. A paper reported a woman had to be hospitalized for a severe allergic reaction to a few leaves of weed in her bowl of soup. That kind of stuff. Woo the weed! Shame, shame!
The funniest story was about a man who went berserk with a knife after smoking weed and taking Tramadol. Really? Once I had severe stomach pain, and my doctor proscribed tramadol for it. It’s a very strong painkiller. Even in Thailand, you can’t get it without prescription. One of the side effects is that it makes you drowsy. And if you happen to be allergic to it, as I am, you fall asleep. Knocked out cold. I slept for +24 hours. Normally when I wake up, I’m wide awake. Not this time.
I was barely able to drag myself to the hospital, where I fell asleep on the floor. The nurses were kind of surprised, but they picked me up from the floor and laid me on a bed. The doctor showed up, and told me: I see what the problem is. You’re allergic to tramadol. I’ll give you something else. He didn’t even have to examine me.
Lithuania closed off rail and highway links that cross its territory between the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and the border of Belarus, effectively blockading Kaliningrad. The action violates the post-Soviet treaty between Russia and Lithuania, and the Russian government issued a strong response, saying that the Lithuanian blockade, if carried through, would be an act of war, and that Russia would retaliate by any means it deemed appropriate.
In other news, a child in Florida had to be hospitalized after it was stabbed by a catfish. There’s no word yet on whether the catfish had been given an early release by a soft-on-crime Soros-backed district attorney.
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Nupur Sharma is an Indian politician who had been a prominent spokeswoman for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party until she was expelled from it on June 5.
What was Ms. Sharma’s offense? Back in May she publicly stated that Mohammed married his wife Aisha when the latter was six years old, and consummated the marriage when she was nine.
The controversy over her remarks boiled over when prominent Muslims outside of India began to condemn her vigorously. Eventually the BJP — which is said to be a Hindu nationalist party — felt compelled to throw her under the bus.
Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) in the Netherlands, was one of the few prominent Western politicians who dared to speak out in support of Nupur Sharma. Not surprisingly, he has received a rash of new death threats for his temerity.
The following clip is an excerpt from an Indian TV news show on which Mr. Wilders appeared:
For background on the Nupur Sharma Controversy, see the following recent articles from Struggle for Hindu Existence:
Macarena Olona was the VOX party’s candidate for the regional presidency of Andalusia in yesterday’s elections in Spain. She did not win the presidency, but she made a respectable showing with 13.5% of the vote. Juan Manuel Moreno of the center-right People’s Party of Andalusia was the clear winner with 43.1%, and his party will be supported by VOX in the regional parliament.
In the following video from a pre-election debate, Ms. Olona delivers a spirited rebuttal to one of the leftist candidates.
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
The “Ensemble” coalition — which includes the party of French President Emmanuel Macron — lost its absolute majority in today’s legislative elections in France. The biggest winners were the parties that comprise the left-wing coalition, but the right-wing group — which includes Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and Éric Zemmour’s Reconquest — also did well in the vote.
In other news, an official Swedish government report determined that the death of the artist Lars Vilks — who gained international attention for his depiction of “The Prophet as a Roundabout Dog” — was an accident.
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