Tag: BRUSSELS

Germany: Number of firearms licences more than doubles during the migrant crisis

By   

Germany is seeing a large surge in the number of basic firearm licences, Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) reports.

While in 2014 there were 261,332 basic firearm licences, this number has grown to 600,000 this year. This equals an increase of 130 per cent.

According to RND feelings of insecurity are an important factor for the increase of the licences. Since the start of the migrant crisis in 2015, Germany has seen several terror attacks on festivals, trains and a Christmas market.

“We must be careful not to get American conditions in Germany,” the deputy chairman of police union (GdP) said. “There is a danger that weapons will not be used properly and that their owners will endanger themselves.”

A member of the far-left Green party warns of escalating conflicts:

“More private weapons do not create more security,” said Irene Mihalic, the Green parliamentary group’s spokeswoman for internal affairs. “On the contrary, they have the potential to escalate conflicts into violence.”

Since 2015 Merkel ‘invited’ around 1.5 million migrants from the Middle East and Africa into Germany. It has led to scores of murders, rapes and terror attacks.

See the source image

0

Anti-globalist yellow vests movement ‘conquers’ Europe and spreads to fifth country

By   

The yellow vests movement has spread to its fifth country, Sweden. Starting in France on 17 November, protests of the anti-globalist movement have been seen in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. 

Now yellow vest demonstrations against the UN Migration Agreement have been announced in Sweden on Saturday and Sunday.

Last Sunday around 1,000 Swedes gathered outside Parliament in Stockholm to demonstrate against Sweden’s signing of the UN Migration Agreement. This weekend, even larger events with more speakers will be held in the same place.

Migration to Sweden is in focus because the whole of society is adversely affected when hundreds of thousands of migrants from the third world are brought into such a small country. However, in the future, other issues may also be addressed.

See the source image

“The citizens have been informed that the led migration policy is a profit, which it is not”, says one of the speakers, independent journalist and writer Katerina Janouch.

“The issue of Sweden’s signing of the UN Migration Framework is too important to be hidden away. The signing is done behind the people’s backs.”

“There should be a referendum about this. We should not let a reality denying, high-on-power elite decide. It is becoming increasingly apparent that those who govern Sweden, whoever they are, don’t have what’s best for the Swedes in mind.”, she continues.

The Swedish resistance movement is inspired by the French, but not a copy of it. The Swedes focus on the issues considered most important for Sweden, while the French focus on their issues.

Another difference is that the Swedes have chosen events with speakers instead of street marches as protest form

See the source image

Participants have been asked to wear yellow vests and a lot of those are likely to be seen in Sweden this weekend. Protests will also be held in Gothenburg, Malmö and several other cities.

As the yellow vests movement is spreading through Europe protests have been announced in Brussels (Belgium), Amsterdam and Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Stockholm (Sweden), Paris and several German cities.

Most protests are peaceful, but as usual the escalations receive the most mainstream media coverage. Last week protests in Paris and Brussels completely escalated as some violent groups used the protests to attack people and destroy public property.

In the Netherlands the protests were peaceful last week and it is expected that they will be peaceful again.

If you are joining one of the protests, make your voice heard, stay safe and protest peaceful. It’s the best way to make a statement and not become demonised as a group by mainstream media.

0

Images of students’ arrests ‘shocking’, France in ‘exceptional violence’ – education minister

Images of students’ arrests ‘shocking’, France in ‘exceptional violence’ – education minister

French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer admitted that the images of students on their knees, while being arrested by baton-wielding officers are “shocking.”

The controversial video from Mantes-la-Jolie released late Thursday has been a hot topic of discussion on social media. Depicting rows of education reform protesters on their knees, hands on heads, with helmeted police officers, it gathered thousands of retweets and angry comments. Many users compared the manner the officers were handling the arrestees with execution by firing squad.

READ MORE: Paris warns radicals are trying to exploit Yellow Vests & overthrow the government

On Friday morning, French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer was asked by France Inter radio to give his opinion on the video.

Capture

By “climate of exceptional violence” he was referring to Yellow Vest protests that have been gripping the nation for the third consecutive week. Big rallies are expected this Saturday and authorities are gathering re-enforcements in the face of 89,000 police officers and armored vehicles belonging to Gendarmerie, the country’s military police.

Blanquer called upon those who react to the footage to analyze the situation in this context. “What happened? There are those who don’t attend these high schools, they are more than 20 years old … and they manage to gather students [in these schools],” he said. These very people attacked police officers, who tried to neutralize them and line them up against a wall, he added.

READ MORE: ‘Like execution by firing squad’: VIDEO of French students’ arrest by armed police stirs OUTRAGE

The minister insisted that it was “a miracle” that Mantes-la-Jolie clashes didn’t result in any deaths. Meanwhile, the Yellow Vest rallies that gripped the nation last Saturday turned violent, resulting in the deaths of four people.

Thursday’s clashes resulted in 153 arrests and most of them were students. Similar clashes happened across the whole of France, and as of Friday some 700 high schools across the country were disturbed by protests and 400 of them were closed.

Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!

0

FRENCH POLICE WARN OF LOSS OF LIFE – Ahead of Anti-Macron Protests

by Damien Cowley December 7, 2018

Image result for paris gilets jaunes

The head of a French police union has expressed fears that this weekend’s anti-government protests could see the deaths of both protestors and law enforcement on the streets of Paris.

Exhausted and over-stretched units struggling to maintain order will be compelled to defend themselves from rioters and looters, Yves Lefebvre told BFMTV earlier this week, raising the possibility of lives being lost if police are forced to act in ”a state of legitimate self defense.”

Calling on President Emmanuel Macron to take concrete measures to diffuse escalating tensions, the head of the Unité SGP Police union spoke of CRS (French riot police) commandants’ fears of losing men if the situation degrades further, and of the possibility of loss of life amongst protestors.

Billed as ‘Act IV‘ by Gilets jaunes (Yellow vest) organizers, the fourth consecutive weekend of protest planned for the French capital is taking shape as tens of thousands of hi-vis wearing citizens organize via social media to attend anti-Macron events, primarily a march between the Place de la Bastille and Place de la République but also at the Champs Élysée, the Eiffel Tower and the Élysée Palace.

Meanwhile, another union, VIGI – Ministère de l’Intérieur, representing police and support staff, has called for strike action commencing this weekend in solidarity with anti-government protestors.

A spokesman for the union has expressed concerns that there could be loss of life amidst the ranks of its members, calling on police to stand down rather than face injury or death in clashes with the public.

”Don’t let yourself be injured, scarred or killed for those that consider you canon fodder”, the extraordinary statement continued. ”Think of you, your families and those close to you.”

Encompassing myriad issues beyond fuel tax hikes, the Gilets jaunes are calling for the introduction of a citizens’ referendum initiative into the French Constitution. The insertion of such a provision would allow for citizens to propose legislation, to overturn unpopular laws, and to have the power to recall politicians via plebiscite.

Measures announced by the government earlier this week, which included a delay by one year of the introduction of new carbon taxes, appear to have aggravated disenfranchised French citizens and were quickly characterized as ”crumbs” insufficient to calm public anger.

Paramedics, farmers and truck drivers have in recent days announced strike actions, and French social media is awash with images of ongoing blockades and protests across the country. Multiple events, some using imagery from the French Revolution, are being organized for strategic locations across the capital, with such themes as ”Macron’s Farewell Party” and ”To Arms, citizens!”

A leading figure within the Gilets jaunes, Eric Drouet, has called for protestors to march on the Élysée Palace, home of President Macron, prompting further fears of confrontation with police, some 8,000 of whom will be mobilized in Paris over the weekend. Another member of the movement has called for the dissolution of the Assemblée nationale, the French parliament.

According to Paris daily, L’Express, CRS units have been given the order to fire tear gas grenades directly into crowds rather than to ground. ”It’s the first time that I received such an order. Normally this is prohibited”, a CRS source explained to the newspaper.

Paris museums, theatres and cultural attractions will close this weekend. French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, confirmed Thursday that twelve armored vehicles belonging to the Gendarmerie will be in use across the city.

In spite of the violence, largely condemned across French society, a recent IFOP survey puts support of the Gilets jaunes at 72%, a sign of a widespread public disaffection with the country’s political class.

”The genie is out of the bottle, I think”, Anne-Laure, from Paris told The Gateway Pundit. The 29 year-old admitted to having some reservations about Saturday;

”I’m a little worried”, she confessed, ”but I think those running France into the ground, at this moment they are more worried.”

0

FORMER DEM COMMS DIRECTOR ARRESTED FOR CHILD PORN

Former Dem Comms Director Arrested For Child Porn

National media silent as another Dem embroiled in scandal

Big League Politics – DECEMBER 7, 2018

The former communications director for the Arkansas Democrat Party was arrested and charged with several crimes related to possessing and distributing child pornography in late November.

“A federal investigation into certain online child exploitation chatrooms has resulted in the arrest of Harold “HL” Moody, Jr.,” said a Justice Department press release. “According to the complaint affidavit, on August 29, 2018, Moody was present in a chatroom when child pornography was being displayed. Agents observed Moody in the chatroom, via his webcam. Moody’s face was clearly visible and the undercover agent observed what appeared to be an office setting in the background.”

The story has received zero attention from the mainstream press, but according to Arkansas Online, Moody was a Democratic Party employee just two years ago.

“He was hired by [Pulaski County] after a year-and-a-half stint as communications director for the Democratic Party of Arkansas,” the report said. “Before that, he had been chairman of the Pulaski County Democratic Party for two years.”

Trending: SNAP: Watch as Grandfather Lets Loose on Teacher Who Made Grandson Wear Dress

According to the Justice Department statement, Moody not only viewed, but distributed child pornography.

“On September 7, 2018, Moody was again visible on camera and observed in the chatroom actually distributing child pornography,” the report said. “Among the images that Moody distributed was a video that depicted a nude, adult, male performing oral sex on two nude, pre-pubescent males.”

Two days later he was doing the same thing, according to the release.

Federal agents also found methamphetamine in Moody’s home.

Moody is currently being held without bail while he awaits a “tentatively scheduled” January trial. Due to the serious nature of the charges and length of potential punishment, he reportedly posed a flight risk.

“Distribution of child pornography carries a penalty of not less than 5 years and not more than 20 years imprisonment, not less than 5 years to life of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000. Possession of child pornography carries a penalty of not more than 10 years imprisonment, not less than 5 years to life of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000,” the Justice Department release said.

 

0

CNN BLAMES TRUMP FOR BOMB THREAT: POTUS ‘INSPIRED VIOLENCE AGAINST CNN’

CNN Blames Trump For Bomb Threat: POTUS ‘Inspired Violence Against CNN’

“The United States is now really becoming a battleground”

Steve Watson | Infowars.com – DECEMBER 7, 2018

CNN’s New York City headquarters was evacuated Thursday night due to a bomb threat that was phoned in, but unsubstantiated. Before CNN reporters could even get back in the building, they were already blaming President Trump for ‘inspiring violence against CNN’.

“We were told to evacuate the building and to do it as soon as possible. We grabbed what we could and got out of the building and now, we are standing outside of the building,” Host Don Lemon told viewers during a live broadcast.

Lemon went on to claim that whole thing was extra “suspicious” because it happened shortly after President Trump tweeted  “FAKE NEWS – THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”

Capture

“We don’t know if it has anything to do with it but certainly after. The tweet came out at 10:08 and at 10:15 there was a bomb threat,” Lemon told CNN reporter Brian Stelter.

While Stelter was, rather surprisingly, less eager to embrace Lemon’s theory, the latter continued his journey to conspiracy central.

“And again, we don’t know but the timing is obviously suspicious. These are the times that we are living in and we know what the situation was with the last person who did something similar.” Lemon stated, referring to CNN being mailed an ‘explosive device’ back in October by a purported Trump supporter.

Lemon wouldn’t let up. Later in the broadcast he brought on a former Obama aide to repeat his conspiracy theory.

“Well, the first thing I want to say, Don, is, as I was on my way up here I was struck by the fact the President did tweet minutes before this event happened using language that we know has inflamed violence in the past,” said Samantha Vinograd, a former national security official under Obama.

“From a national security perspective, it is clear that at least in the President’s Twitter feed there is this language that is trigger language for violence that has occurred in the past several weeks. And if you look at the macro picture here, it is very clear that the United States is now really becoming a battleground.” Vinograd added.

Vinograd then claimed that because of Trump, the US is becoming like “countries around the world where people aren’t comfortable traveling, sending their children, and going to study.”

Capture

In addition to this insanity, CNN reporters took to Twitter to blame Trump for the unsubstantiated threat:

Capture

It emerged Friday morning that the bomb threat was actually made before 10pm, thus before Trump’s tweet.

0

Brussels Mayhem: Police Beaten by Migrants, Ambulance Blasted in ‘No-Go Zone’

By Dan Lyman

Screen Shot 2018-12-06 at 5.12.11 PM

Police officers were beaten by migrants in a train station and an ambulance window was shattered by a projectile while passing through a ‘no-go zone’ in Brussels, according to local media.

Migrants squatting in the Brussels North Station responded with violence after being asked to clean up their mess by railway security personnel, and four police officers responding to the scene were injured, SCEPTR reports.

“There was an incident after a Securail employee asked them to clean up the garbage,” an official said. “Then there was a skirmish with people sleeping in the station.”

Officers sustained “dozens of blows” from attackers in the melee.

“We are asking for staff to be strengthened and given the means to defend themselves in such circumstances,” said union representative Philippe Dubois. “The pepper spray that they now have is inadequate. Political leaders must also take the necessary measures to ensure that the North Station does not turn into a refugee camp.”

Many migrants are reportedly relocating from nearby Maximilian Park to the transit station as winter weather arrives.

“Now that it is getting colder, the illegal immigrants flock to the covered north station, near the Maximilian Park,” SCEPTR reports. “There they cause a great deal of nuisance – there is a mountain of waste and excrement – but above all a lot of crime. The number of thefts rose by as much as 82% and there is reportedly at least one stabbing incident every day.”

Brussels government employees were recently warned to avoid Maximilian Park after a slew of robberies and attacks upon officials walking through the park, in which hundreds of migrants are known to loiter and sleep.

Also, in a separate incident this week, an ambulance rushing to respond to an emergency call near the Brussels Christmas market was allegedly hit by gunfire, according to the fire department.

While traveling through a neighborhood referred to by some officials as the “Chicago of Brussels,” paramedics were rocked by a projectile that shattered a side window of their vehicle.

Trade union representative Eric Labourdette maintains that the damage was likely caused by a firearm, and warns that such incidents are becoming more common.

“The world is really going crazy,” Labourdette said. “Even in a war zone there is a treaty that emergency services are not shot at. This makes it very difficult to exercise our profession properly. There is a lack of respect towards people in a uniform and the violence is only increasing.”

“Among the staff it is already said that this district has become the ‘Chicago’ of Brussels, but there are other places in the capital and other metropolises where such troubling incidents occur. This creates no-go zones.”

As Infowars Europe reported last week, there are now over 1,400 locations across England that have been red-flagged as ‘no-go zones’ for ambulances without police escort, as the rate of violent attacks on paramedics has risen to a staggering eight per day.

Screen Shot 2018-12-06 at 5.14.50 PM

0

UN Migration Pact Crumbles As Attention Drawn to Disturbing ‘Replacement Migration’ Plan

By Chris Menahan

Bulgaria has become the latest nation to reject the United Nations’ controversial “migration pact” joining the US, Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Israel and Poland.

“Bulgaria will not join a United Nations accord on regulating the treatment of migrants worldwide and would not attend the conference marking its formal adoption in Morocco next week, its centre-right government decided on Wednesday,” Reuters reports.

The pact reportedly seeks to make immigration a “human right” and “criminalize criticism of migration” as “hate speech.”

The government of Belgium is currently “teetering on the brink of collapse” as a result of their ruling party saying they would back the pact.

Capture

In discussions over the pact, many people brought up a disturbing plan from the UN which called for “replacement migration” to address the “new challenges of declining and ageing populations.”

Though the plan was released in 2001, the UN sometime over the last two weeks took down a page many people were linking to which featured the plan (it’s still up on another section of their website).

Here’s some of the excerpts which got people concerned:

Capture

Capture

Capture

As you can see from the chart, the UN wants us to fit 4 billion people into Europe and the UK (current population 508 million).

All the countries which are rejecting the UN’s latest compact should instead form together to create a “repatriation plan” which enshrines national sovereignty, strong immigration policies and strong borders as a basic human right.

0

Mainstream media grieves for Bush with whitewashed tributes and tear-jerker tweets

Mainstream media grieves for Bush with whitewashed tributes and tear-jerker tweets

Tributes to former US President George H.W. Bush have flooded social media since his death last week — and judging by the outpouring of grief from mainstream media, journalists seem to be just as upset at his passing as anyone.

Instead of honest, balanced tributes which delivered a full picture of Bush’s life and legacy, the media seemed to favor hagiography, retelling the former president’s life with its blemishes removed.

The New Yorker was a particularly bad offender, with writer Thomas Mallon describing Bush as a character who had an “irreducible niceness” to him, a man who waged a “just” war in Iraq and a president who “presided over a brief but glorious Pax Americana.”

Another New Yorker journalist Susan B. Glasser, who described the late Senator John McCain’s funeral as a“meeting of the resistance” was back again for Bush’s sending off, this time to remind her followers how“extraordinary” a thing it is for a country to have two presidents from one family.

Screen Shot 2018-12-06 at 11.47.47 AM

Glasser’s tweet raised a few eyebrows, however, with many noting that living in a “hereditary aristocracy” wasn’t actually such a great thing and that dynasty politics tends to be “indicative of rigid class structure with decreasing social mobility.”

CNN journalist Brenna Williams tweeted a GIF image of George Bush passing a piece of candy to Michelle Obama; a mirroring, she said, of their viral candy-passing moment which “warmed our hearts” at McCain’s funeral a few months ago.

Screen Shot 2018-12-06 at 11.50.30 AM

On NBC’s Today Show, one anchor expressed that she was still “recovering emotionally” from the few days surrounding Bush’s funeral.

Prominent Russiagate reporter and Twitter personality Ed Krassenstein, tweeted that Bush’s funeral was “a reminder that Republicans are mostly good people.”

Screen Shot 2018-12-06 at 11.53.41 AM

On the other side of the pond, the Guardian newspaper sparked some Twitter outrage with its obituary, writing that the former president “did not put a foot wrong” during his devastating 1991 invasion of Iraq, which was described by the paper as an “impressive achievement.”

Screen Shot 2018-12-06 at 11.55.12 AM

British TV presenter Piers Morgan was also saddened by Bush’s passing, chiding Comedy Central’s The Daily Show for posting a meme about the awkward meeting between Donald Trump and Barack Obama at “a great man’s funeral.”

Screen Shot 2018-12-06 at 11.55.59 AM

Receiving less attention during a week of public mourning, however, were the uncomfortable bits of Bush’s legacy. The US airstrikes which massacred Iraqis fleeing Kuwait City in 1991, leaving a trail of human destruction known now as the Highway of Death, barely got a mention.

Screen Shot 2018-12-06 at 11.56.48 AM

Nor did the shooting down of an Iranian passenger jet by the USS Vincennes in 1988, after which the ‘irreducibly nice’ Bush declared that he would “never apologize for the United States of America, ever — I don’t care what the facts are.”

The Bush obituaries also conveniently left out numerous recent allegations of inappropriate touching and groping of women that had cropped up during the height of the #MeToo movement.

Screen Shot 2018-12-06 at 11.58.19 AM

Screen Shot 2018-12-06 at 11.59.19 AM

0

Elysee fears ‘putschists’, coup attempt during Yellow Vests protests this weekend – media

Elysee fears ‘putschists’, coup attempt during Yellow Vests protests this weekend – media

With more Yellow Vests protests approaching this weekend Elysee Palace is worried about a possible coup attempt. Calls have been made to attack parliamentarians and police forces, French media report.

Even though the French government abandoned the fuel tax hike after sweeping protests, the movement still calls upon its followers to gather on December 8. “The Act IV” will be held under the motto “we stay on our course.” The Facebook event has already counted 6,000 people who wish to participate and 22,000 others who are “interested.”

READ MORE: ‘Hypocrite’: Macron takes heat over Twitter post on ‘pollution deaths’ in France

On Thursday Eric Drouet one of the movement’s most famous leaders announced the Yellow Vests plans to approach the residence of Emmanuel Macron. “Saturday will be the final outcome, Saturday is the Elysee, we all would like to go to the Elysee,” he said.

ALSO ON RT.COMFrench parliament’s left parties to discuss vote of no confidence against governmentThe intelligence services have reported to the Elysee Palace, the official residence of the president, that there have been “calls to kill” and “carry arms to attack” parliamentarians, government officials and police officers, Le Figaro newspaper said on Thursday.

“They are putschists. [There is] a coup attempt,” a source claimed. The ministry has even been reportedly instructed to forbid its staff and ministers from working this weekend.

Security forces were also tipped that Saturday’s demonstrations may be hit by unprecedented violence caused by both “radicalized…extreme right and extreme left,” Le Figaro added.

Yellow Vest protests, named after high-visibility jackets all drivers in France must carry in their vehicles, are entering their third week. Started as unprompted rallies called on social media against fuel price hikes and Macron’s unpopular reforms, they have evolved into one of the most dangerous challenges for the nation in recent decades.

December 1 protests turned violent across the whole country and saw over 130 people injured and more than 400 arrested. Four people, including an elderly woman, died amid the fierce clashes between rioters and officers.

ALSO ON RT.COM5 striking VIDEOS that reveal the violence & compassion of France’s Yellow Vest protestsThe French government had to concede to the protesters’ demands and abandoned the fuel tax hike plan – at least for the 2019 budget. However, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe who broke the news, did not clarify whether Paris might reintroduce the hike in a budget update later in 2019.

The real problem lies in the government that has lost touch with its people, Yellow Vest protesters recently told RT. The government has to “put humane attitude first, and not the money,” one more demonstrator said. Another added that they “would prefer to be at work, than to find [themselves] on the streets shouting, hoping for nothing.”

According to Jean Bricmont, a French writer and political commentator, the fiery protests have more to do with the “incompetent,” EU-dependent government policy than the rising gas prices. “The revolt is not just about the gas prices, it’s a general revolt against the policy of the government,” he told RT.

Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!

0

Blog at WordPress.com.

Up ↑