The second annual CPAC Hungary conference concluded yesterday in Budapest. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was one of the featured speakers. Below is a video of his address, subtitled in English.
Many thanks to László for timing the official translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
The second annual CPAC Hungary conference wrapped up yesterday in Budapest. Santiago Abascal, the leader of the conservative VOX party in Spain, was unable to attend the conference, so he sent the following video message to be played in his absence.
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
The following AP article concerns today’s attempted assassination of a pro-Kremlin writer in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia.
Although my knowledge of Russian geography is limited, when I read the story, alarm bells went off in my head. Why would someone traveling from the Donbas to Moscow stop off in Nizhny Novgorod en route?
Read the story, and then take a look at the map at the top of this post:
Pro-Kremlin Novelist Injured in Car Explosion in Russia
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The car of a prominent pro-Kremlin novelist exploded in Russia on Saturday, injuring him and killing his driver, Russia’s state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency and law enforcement officials.
The incident involving the car of Zakhar Prilepin, a well-known nationalist writer and an ardent supporter of what the Kremlin calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, took place in the region of Nizhny Novgorod, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow.
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The regional governor of Niznhy Novgorod, Gleb Nikitin, said Prilepin suffered minor bone fractures and was receiving medical help.
Russian news outlet RBC reported, citing unnamed sources, that Prilepin was traveling back to Moscow on Saturday from Ukraine’s partially occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions and stopped in the Nizhny Novogorod [sic] region for a meal. [emphasis added]
I don’t know anything about Zakhar Prilepin or his role in Russian political intrigues. All I can do is look at the map and state the obvious: There is something fishy about this story.
The Russian government is looking to arrest the head of Ukrainian intelligence for his alleged role in last October’s sabotage of the bridge between the Crimea and Ukraine. Meanwhile, a NATO report says that Russia has already set explosives on Europe’s undersea pipelines and cables.
In other news, an elderly man in France was hit by a train after being pushed off a platform onto the tracks by an illegal migrant.
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Multiple EU member states are following the EU policy of removing children from their parents if they show too much attachment to their mothers and fathers. Because that weakens their attachment to the State, and we can’t have that, now, can we?
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Uncut News.
Note: this text was translated from Romanian to German, and then from German to English, so the syntax may get a little bumpy from time to time:
New EU policy: State confiscation of children for “over”-attachment to the mother
Being loving parents has already become a crime in EU countries. This has led to the state tearing children from their families and locking them up in social centers because they are too attached to their mothers. Child confiscation measures have multiplied and spread to more and more EU countries, which is the new EU policy, and Romania will also join this policy through the controversial child monitoring center, which is a milestone in the NRP.
The European Parliament’s Petitions Committee was embroiled in a major scandal last Wednesday after MEPs rejected a report against Germany’s abusive policy of removing children from their families. The report might have had a significant impact on the German state, which would have been forced to return children to their families, says Marius Tudor, an adviser in the European Parliament. One of the reasons children were taken from their families was “excessive attachment to the mother”, since in Germany that would be against the safety of the child.
“At school, the child said he loved his mother, missed his mother, wanted to stay with his mother, and child protection kicked in. This is also the case of a Romanian girl in Germany, the daughter was taken away and placed in an institution because she expressed her love for her mother at school. For two years the little girl was taken away from her mother and father and for four months the poor mother was not even allowed to visit her child in this social center. Now she can only visit her regularly, but the German state will not return her child. In Germany, the law provides that the state also has rights over the child by granting them free access to education and other public services.”
Romania adapts
What happened in the European Parliament with this vote is unbelievable, because most MEPs are parents, says Marius Tudor. He points out that the policy of state abuse of parents already exists in Austria, Germany and the Nordic countries, and now it seems that with this monitoring for children in Romania, which is a milestone in the NRP, they are trying to address the “problem” in our country.
“Under the pretext of prevention, most children in Romania are at risk of being separated from their families, because many Romanians are poor, many have gone abroad, with or without children. In the Child Monitoring’s draft law, there is a paragraph that states that a child who has migrated for more than a year can be separated from its family. If you, the state, were not able to lift the Romanian children out of poverty, do you now want to pass a law that will take them away from me? Why, actually? Did you fight with them? Did you dress them, put shoes on them? Or do you have enough financial resources now to take care of them while you have not been able to so for decades? They actually follow orders. On the initiative of a USR (Save Romania Union) deputy, now Reper (Renewing Romania’s European Project), the EU-wide child guarantee was passed last year. Part of that guarantee is the Child Monitoring approach, which gathers all children in different difficult situations into one database,” said Councilor Marius Tudor.
Actually, nobody got shanked — one of the culture-enrichers threatened his victims with a shank, and was thereby able to bend them to his will.
The following video is an appeal from the Belgian police for information on the two illustrious gentlemen who beat, threatened, and robbed people at a bus stop and on a bus. Watch the video and see if you can identify the ethnicity of the alleged perpetrators. I think it’s safe to say that at least one of them is a culture-enricher.
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
A 13-year-old schoolboy shot nine people to death and wounded a number of others at a school in Serbia. In response to the tragedy, the president of Serbia wants to lower the prosecution age to 12. Meanwhile, eight people were killed in a drive-by shooting in Serbia.
In other news, the Russian government alleged that Ukraine unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack on the Kremlin.
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In the following excerpt from a recent interview, Pope Francis argues for increased immigration to compensate for the fact that Europeans are not having enough children.
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
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A Russian train hit an explosive device on the tracks and derailed near the Ukrainian border, catching on fire but causing no casualties. So far there is no firm evidence that connects Ukraine with the incident.
In other news, federal regulators seized the assets of the troubled First Republic Bank before selling it to JPMorgan Chase.
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A 12-year-old Swedish girl named Adriana was shot to death in the Stockholm suburb of Botkyrka when she was caught in the crossfire during a confrontation between culture-enriching gang-bangers. The news reports don’t discuss ethnicity, but it seems reasonable to assume that there was a turf war going on between rival gangs of different ethnicities — Albanians and Somalis, perhaps, or something similar.
I was surprised to hear that the murderers received life sentences. In Sweden the perpetrators of horrible crimes are usually sentenced to a two or three years, with early release for good behavior. Mind you, I don’t know what a “life” term means in Sweden, in practical terms — maybe they can expect to be released after five years or so.
The following news report discusses the verdict and sentencing. Many thanks to Gary Fouse for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Below is the accompanying article from SVT (Swedish state television), also translated by Gary Fouse:
Three men were sentenced to life in prison for murder of 12-year-old Adriana
Three men have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 12-year-old Adriana, who was shot to death at a gas station in Botkyrka in the summer of 2020. Södertörn district court announced the sentence.
One of the convicted men is the 31-year-old gang leader Maykill Yokhanna, who also has links to Västerås.
The three convicted men had planned to shoot several persons from a rival criminal gang, but instead, Adriana was hit with two shots and died. Three weapons, including one automatic weapon, were used in the shooting.
The evidence in the case consisted of a large number of different circumstances, each of which pointed to there being three men who shot Adriana. There were connections to the weapons and the car used, as well as motive and chats. In addition, the men’s so-called sky telephones (encrypted phones) were connected to the crime. The men’s subsequent actions are also important for the verdict, since they made sure the weapons and car were gotten rid of.
“This was a matter of an indiscriminate firing of automatic weapons in a location where several people were present, and one of them died. The punishment, therefore, cannot be anything other than life in prison,” says the president of the court, Chief Counselor Tore Gissen, in a press release.
Maykill Yokhanna is identified as the leader of a criminal network in south Stockholm. He was earlier convicted of an aggravated weapons offense, among others.
In January 2020, he was shot at as he sat in a car together with his wife and a friend in Kungens Kurva [King’s Curve]. The friend died and Maykill Yokhanna’s wife was wounded. The gang leader was the one the shooter was actually after.
The other two men who are now sentenced to life did not have the same power position and criminal records as the gang leader.
The three men have been convicted of murder and seven counts of attempted murder, among other things.
Defense: Will appeal
The verdict will be appealed to the appeals court, says Maykill Yokhanna’s defense council, Hampus Wikerstål. The prosecutor did not prove that Yokhanna was at the scene of the crime, and the verdict is based on a weak chain of circumstances, the lawyer says.
“I am greatly surprised there was a conviction, and we are going to appeal.”
Video transcript:
Gerald Grosz is an Austrian politician for the BZÖ (Bündnis Zukunft Österreich, Alliance for the Future of Austria) and the FPÖ (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, Austrian Freedom Party). He made the headlines in Germany recently when Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder ordered the public prosecutor to investigate Mr. Grosz in reaction to the latter’s Ash Wednesday speech, which ridiculed Mr. Söder.
Mr. Grosz has posted one of his signature video rants in response. Before getting to that video, we need to dig into the origin of Carnival customs in Bavaria, of which the Ash Wednesday speech is just a small part. Hellequin GB, who translated the video and associated material, includes the following background information:
Carnival in Bavaria begins on November 11. It’s the official start, with meetings, building the stages, the costumes, writing the speeches, and so on, and then a few weeks before Fat Thursday, there’ll be speeches and dances and music on a stage, like a theater performance. And the rest of the year, after Ash Wednesday, you collect everything that can be used against politicians and bureaucrats, local and otherwise.
The beginning of Carnival on 11.11. at 11:11 comes from the 19th century. The fool number eleven was particularly suitable, since at that time anyone who violated God’s Ten Commandments was called a fool. The Elferrat (Committee of Eleven), the organizing committee in Carnival clubs, is also associated with the number eleven.
In the history of Carnival, the tradition of the speeches also dates back to the 19th century, when the Revolutionary and later Napoleonic French occupiers prohibited people west of the Rhine from taking part in political activities. That is why the people of the Rhineland, Moselle and Saar met in secret meetings in order to exchange critical and humorous information about political developments. This Carnival custom has continued to this day — anyone who climbs into the Bütt (lectern) can complain about anything and everything in a humorous way that makes the oppressor look ridiculous.
The origin of Fasching (Carnival) was a Christian festival, and describes Fastnacht, the night before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. For devout Christians, Carnival is still the symbol for the beginning of the 40-day Lent period before Easter.
The haydays are when everything comes together at the last days of Carnival, from the “bombarding” and storming of City Hall, through the last stage performance on Friday and Saturday, the Carnival Parade, Rose Monday and Shrove Tuesday Revelry to the laying of the Revelries to rest on Ash Wednesday when Lent starts.
Since the 13th century, carnival haydays have extended from Weiberfastnacht (Woman’s Carnival Day) on Fat Thursday to Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras or Violet Tuesday. On Weiberfastnacht, the women traditionally stormed City Hall, after being shot at with a cannon — I was part of that, too, every year as the Gunner — and took the mayor hostage.
The mayor was then placed by us in a cage on wheels and paraded through the center of our town, and he was only released when City Hall provided a “feast”, which entailed beer, coffee, schnapps and Berliner (carnival jelly doughnuts). The women, dressed up like old hags, also cut off every man’s tie, and if he was stupid enough to wear an expensive one — tough.
And now we come to the “controversial” Ash Wednesday Speech.
After I came home from church this afternoon a line of clouds rolled through the area. There was some thunder and a modest amount of rain, but nothing significant. Then the electricity went out, and stayed out for a number of hours. That’s why there’s nothing but a news feed tonight. There will be other things tomorrow.
The most significant news story I noticed is that the ratings of the remaining Fox News personalities — Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Jesse Watters, for example — have steadily declined since Tucker Carlson was fired. It appears that Mr. Carlson was propping up the rest of the channel, so that when his fan base departed, all the other luminaries lost out.
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A gunman in Texas shot and killed five people, including an 8-year-old child, in the town of Cleveland. The alleged perp is a man named Francisco Oropeza, a Mexican national. He had been asked by the residents of a house — who were from Honduras — to stop firing his gun in front of his house, because children were trying to sleep. In an angry response he went next door with his rifle and shot five people, execution-style. He is still at large and is being sought by police.
In other news, a man is missing and feared dead after screams were heard where he was fishing on the bank of a river in northern Queensland. He is thought to have been dragged off and eaten by a crocodile.
Fisherman is Feared Eaten in a Fatal Crocodile Attack — After Campers Hear Angler’s Desperate Screams at Remote River Bank Where He May Have Been Dragged to His Death
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