No More Euros For Palestine!

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The following piece by the Swedish politician Dick Erixon protests the EU’s use of tax money to finance “Palestine”. I don’t think his objections will have the slightest effect on EU policy, but then, I’m pretty cynical.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this op-ed from the Sverigedemokraterna outlet Samtiden:

No, No more tax funding for Palestinian terror

by Dick Erixon
July 24, 2024

As a member of the European Parliament, I am now asking Ursula von der Leyen and the Commission if they can guarantee that the EU’s new aid funding is not used to finance terrorism.

Despite the fact that financial aid from Sweden and Europe is used to promote Palestinian terror, the EU now wants to increase the payments. The need to increase financial aid has never been so great according to the EU’s foreign affairs head, Josep Borrell. The Palestinians’ budget problem has gotten worse since several countries have stopped aid payments when it was discovered that money is being used to spread terror. Part of this funding has been used to pay families of persons convicted of terrorism. The fact that terror families receive higher payments if the crime is worse, therefore, gives individuals an incentive to commit terror crimes.

In a declaration of purpose, The EU Commission makes it clear that they will pay out billions to support the Palestinian Authority’s “reform work”. A new Palestinian strategy would, according to the Commission, “stabilize the Palestinian Authority and economy in the West Bank through a substantial and trustworthy reform agenda… which lays the groundwork for recovery and builds resilience.”

400 million to be sent immediately

The EU’s extra bill for the taxpayers will be €400 million just for July to September of this year. This short-term support will then be replaced with the “comprehensive program for Palestinian recovery and resilience.” The EU Commission promises immediate and sharp proposals when the EU Parliament opens after the holidays. Thus, Ursula von der Leyen wants to ensure that the payouts from the new aid program begin this year.

As usual, there are promises of gold and green forests. The EU’s new aid program will ensure that a balanced budget is achieved in 2026 and that fiscal sustainability is then ensured. The Palestinian bureaucracy will become effective, corruption will be fought, the rule of law and transparency will be strengthened, social insurance and the education system will be reformed, the business climate will be improved, and the foundation for a free market economy will be strengthened.

All this must be done here at home in Sweden and the rest of Europe.

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Jewish Soccer Players Get Extra Protection in Nantes

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An Olympic soccer match between Japan and Israel was scheduled today in the French city of Nantes, prompting a massive security presence to protect the Israeli players.

Based on this report, the match went off without a major hitch, and Israel lost to Japan.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Le Figaro:

2024 Olympic games: At Nantes, maximum police security before Israel-Japan soccer match on Tuesday

by Simon Cherner
July 30, 2024

A significant security system should be deployed to ensure the safety of Israeli players on Tuesday and avoid any excess ahead of the sporting match. Several provocations have now already been spotted on social media.

The match promises to be the most guarded of the eight soccer matches organized in Nantes in the framework of the 2024 Olympic games. Tuesday, July 30 at 9pm, the match between Israel and Japan inside the Beaujoire Stadium should benefit from all the attention of police within the context marked by the controversies surrounding the arrival in France of the athletes from the Jewish state. The security should be even greater since Nantes, an Antifa bastion, hosted several pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the beginning of the year.

“A substantial plan will be put in place, more significant than usual, conforming to the instructions from the Interior Ministry, which wants to create a 24-hour quasi-bubble around the Israeli delegation,” a police source confides to Figaro. Some threats and provocations have already been identified by intelligence services on social media. “There is as yet no major alert, but we will breathe easier when the match is over,” it is further stated.

“Very sensitive” match

“The subject is very sensitive, and is under the purview of the prefecture,” a person close to the case at the Interdepartmental Directorate of the National Police confirms. “We will be very attentive in putting in place the instructions of the Interior Ministry, but with a deployment equivalent to other matches in Nantes,” the Loire-Atlantic Prefecture confirms to Figaro without further detail.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/29/2024

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Two children were killed and nine others were wounded today when a hooded man launched a knife attack in a dance class for kids in the English town of Southport. The 17-year-old “Welsh” suspect is reportedly the child of Rwandan immigrants who settled in Cardiff.

In other news, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared himself the winner of yesterday’s presidential election, but the opposition said the results were fraudulent.

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The Epistemology of Flat Tires and Chiggers

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Epistemology: The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge. (OED)

How do we know what we know?

How do we distinguish fact from inference, speculation, hypothesis, or outright fabrication?

This is what the discipline of epistemology is intended to address. In the last hundred years or so, epistemological discourse has proliferated, creating a dense layer of abstruse philosophical jargon that is intimidating for a layman to penetrate (which is probably intentional).

But you don’t have to read a cubic mile of phenomenological bumf to get the hang of epistemology. There’s no need to unpack the writings of Husserl or Heidegger. All that’s required is common sense, an alert intellect, and ready access to Occam’s Razor.

Consider two very different examples of things that I might profess to know:

1.   I know that the attempted assassination of Donald Trump was orchestrated by the Deep State and implemented by various three-letter agencies of the federal government.
2.   I know my car has a flat tire.
 

The second type of knowledge is distinctly different from the first. My flat tire isn’t a psyop. I can’t be gaslighted into believing my tire is flat when it isn’t. Media propaganda will not convince me that I can safely drive on my flat tire. Fact checking plays no role in my assessment that my tire is flat. My flat tire is not a conspiracy theory.

In other words: Only that which is immediately apprehended by the senses is known.

Unfortunately, very little of what is commonly accepted as knowledge is actually known. The vast bulk of what we think we know is simply inferred, deduced from available data, or received from authority, but it is not known in the same way I know I have a flat tire.

What I find most interesting is the process in which people think they know something, but they really don’t. I’ll give you an example from my own personal experience, one with no political connotations, which means it’s unlikely to spark any controversy. It concerns those nasty little creatures known as chiggers.

For readers who don’t live in the South: chiggers are tiny red mites that are also called red bugs. They’re a type of arachnid, roughly analogous to harvest mites in England. (The word “chigger” is considered rude. “chegro” is the polite word for them, but the mites themselves prefer the term “Arachnid American”. [Yes, this pathetic parenthetic aside is a joke — don’t take it seriously.])

From as far back as I can remember, until I was well into my adulthood, I knew that chiggers burrowed under the skin and remained there indefinitely, which was why they caused intense itching for such a long time. When I was in my thirties, however, I learned from a friend of mine that chiggers did not in fact burrow under the skin. He was a scientist, but not an arachnologist or even an entomologist. He had also thought that chiggers burrowed in, and had only recently learned otherwise.

That’s what everybody thought: we had all learned from an early age about the repulsive behavior of chiggers. Everybody knew it, both young and old.

But it wasn’t true.

Prior to the Internet Age it was more cumbersome to learn the facts, but now it’s a simple matter to look them up: chiggers bite and suck blood like other obnoxious pests. They just happen to secrete a digestive enzyme when they bite that breaks down skin cells and causes the formation of a structure known as a stylostome, a hardened cylinder of dead tissue. The stylostome remains in the skin for days or weeks after the bite and causes the maddening, burning itch for which chiggers are notorious.

So that’s the real story about chiggers. Yet in the area where I grew up, everyone knew that chiggers burrowed under the skin. It was a simple fact, and we all knew it.

The point is: What you know may not in fact be true.

Epistemology is the discipline that strives to discern the basis for what is known, and how knowledge is acquired.

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Earlier this year I wrote about the terrorist attack on Istanbul airport in 2016. I have no direct knowledge of the deeper causes behind that incident — I only know what I read in various media accounts at the time. By patching together the different data points, I came to the conclusion that the Russian state had ordered the hit on Istanbul, in retaliation for Turkey shooting down a Russian fighter plane over the border between Turkey and Syria. The circumstantial evidence was sufficient to convince me that Russian responsibility was a fact, but it wasn’t something I knew. In order to be able to consider it knowledge, I would have had to have direct access to sources at the highest levels of Russian and/or Turkish intelligence.

This brings us up to the paranoia of the current moment.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/28/2024

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The lead sharpshooter of the local Pennsylvania SWAT Team working alongside the U.S. Secret Service during the Butler rally said in an interview that his group had no communication with the Secret Service until after the shooting. Meanwhile, both men who were shot and wounded at the July 13 rally in Butler have now been released from the hospital.

In other news, French President Emmanuel Macron said the opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris had made France extremely proud.

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Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 14

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Below is the fourteenth chapter in the serialization of Paul Weston’s book Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. Previously: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime.

by Paul Weston

Chapter 14: Is It Safe?

No, the Covid vaccines are not safe. Before I get into this though, here is a quote from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Why do I mention this? Because I cannot ignore what I have seen and heard about the vaccines. My social group is not particularly large; friends and friends of friends probably amount to no more than a couple of hundred people. Yet within this relatively small circle I know of two deaths post-vaccine, one of them a professional cyclist in his thirties.

I know of three instances of myocarditis in young men, and several other heart related issues. Every Saturday and Sunday morning I used to hear the thwacking footsteps of a fifty-something chap called Matt as he ran past my bedroom window. Matt doesn’t run anymore. He is now confined to a wheelchair.

As for blood clots and thrombotic issues, I know of at least five. Prior to 2021 I didn’t know anyone suddenly falling foul of these problems. Nor did I know, in 2020, of a single person who became ill or even a bit sniffly from Covid-19. As I say then, I cannot ignore the evidence of my eyes and ears.

This is anecdotal, obviously, but is it borne out by official data? Yes, it is. Vaccine injury databases in Britain, Europe and America suggest that in just three years there have been more deaths, maimings, serious injuries and minor injuries caused by the Covid-19 vaccines than all the other non-Covid vaccines combined over the last thirty years.

See the following graphs:

Source: openvaers.com/covid-data/mortality

Source: openvaers.com/covid-data/disabled

In early 2023, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was interviewed by CNBC in Davos. The journalist seemed to be aware of vaccine injuries and nervously pressed him — very lightly — as to whether the Pfizer booster was causing heart attacks, strokes etc. Bourla replied thus:

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Another Migrant Success Story

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A culture-enriching faux academic in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia got away with his imposture for years before the state government twigged to his bogus résumé. It’s amazing to see how much scrutiny “brown” people can avoid — or white people pretending to be brown, such as Rachel Dolezal and Ward Churchill.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the online news portal Nius. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

He falsified his studies and doctorate and worked for years in the Ministry of Education: The state of North Rhine-Westphalia waives €711,000 for fraudsters!

1.   For years, a supposed doctor and professor worked for the NRW state government.
2.   Then it came to light that he had never completed a university degree. The Duisburg District Court has now convicted the fraudster.
3.   Ahmet Ü. is allowed to keep his stolen wages of around €711,000. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia is waiving any demand for reimbursement.
 

An impostor who advised the NRW state government on Islamic issues for years has been sentenced to two years’ probation for fraud. The judges at the Duisburg District Court were convinced that he had forged documents, committed fraud and used academic titles without authorization.

The 48-year-old had largely admitted the allegations. As a supposed professor and doctor, he had made a career in the NRW Ministry of Education and in science — although he had not actually earned a single university degree.

State of NRW waives claims

A side aspect of the negotiations even caused irritation in the courtroom, reports Welt am Sonntag. The Düsseldorf district government is waiving the right to demand repayment of the wages of around €711,000 that the fake professor had pocketed. In 2021, the authority ruled that Ahmet Ü. had “performed his work in accordance with his office.”

“I think you have a fair amount of narcissism,” the presiding judge told the alleged professor in her verdict. “You enjoyed being spoken to like that.”

The verdict largely followed the prosecutor’s request. The 48-year-old’s defense attorney had called for a significantly shorter suspended sentence and emphasized that his client was not a calculating impostor. He criticized the authorities for making it too easy for him and not properly looking at his qualifications. [I guess they weren’t looking out of fear of losing their own jobs by being accused of Islamophobia and racism.]

The 48-year-old was quite successful as a supposed professor. He won awards and was a sought-after speaker and interview partner on issues of integration. He also took part in discussion events with former Federal President Christian Wulff, for example, and ultimately advised ministers in the NRW state government directly — for example on sensitive issues of Islamic religious education, which is carried out in NRW in cooperation with DİTİB [Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs — Turkish: Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı; German: Türkisch-Islamische Union der Anstalt für Religion]. DİTİB is the largest Islamic religious association in Germany. Critics also repeatedly accuse it of tolerating Israel-related anti-Semitism and of projecting a fundamentalist understanding of Islam to the outside world. [That’s what it boils down to when you look honestly and critically at Islam.]

The cooperation with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ended in 2021. There were “well-founded doubts regarding the academic career,” the state government wrote at the time. The state also filed a complaint.

Afterword from the translator:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/27/2024

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French bishops issued a statement deploring the anti-Christian parody of the Last Supper at the opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris last night. Meanwhile, former French Culture Secretary Philippe de Villiers said, in reference to the blasphemous ceremony, “We are committing the suicide of our country in front of the whole world.”

In other news, former President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that a third world war may break out if he doesn’t win the November election.

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Is the Islamization of Europe a Conspiracy Theory?

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An earlier version of this essay by Fjordman was first published in Norwegian at the website Document.[1]

Is the Islamization of Europe a Conspiracy Theory?

by Fjordman

The so-called Extremism Commission (Ekstremismekommisjonen) was appointed by the Labour-led Støre government in Norway in June 2022. They published their report in the spring of 2024.[2]

The commission, which was supported by key figures in the Norwegian Labour Party, seems to conclude that people who disagree with the Social Democrats and their immigration policy are suspected extremists and possibly potential terrorists. This is perhaps not so surprising.

The following are three quotes about alleged conspiracy theories, all of which appear on page 85 of the report:

“At the heart of the Eurabia narrative is the ongoing Islamization of Europe through immigration. The ultimate plan of the conspiracy, according to those making the claim, is to introduce Islamic law, sharia, into Europe. Western politicians, academics, journalists, business leaders and religious leaders are alleged to be part of this secret plan. In Norway, the literature was largely carried on by Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen, who called himself Fjordman online. Fjordman was a source of inspiration for the terrorist who carried out the terrorist attack in July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik”.

“The Eurabia conspiracy narrative forms an ‘ideological backdrop’ for opinions shared by many in social media. Particularly oft-repeated claims are that Europe is being Islamized and is thus about to perish, that Islamization is taking place under the cover of political correctness and in cahoots with left-wing politicians, that Muslims are disloyal to European values and do not want to be integrated.”

On the same page, the Extremism Commission mocks the alleged “conspiracy narrative” about the Great Replacement:

“It claims that the original population of Europe is about to be replaced by non-European immigrants. According to the narrative, this can be called a kind of reverse colonization of white Europeans. The story is based on the author Renaud Camus’ book Le Grand Remplacement”.

Let’s start with the first paragraph. The author Gisèle Littman is better known by her pen name Bat Ye’or, which means “Daughter of the Nile”. She was born into a Jewish family in Cairo, Egypt, in 1933. She is also a calm and sensible person whom I have had the pleasure of meeting several times.

Perhaps the most controversial of her books is Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis from 2005. In this book, Bat Ye’or referred to real agreements within the so-called Euro-Arab Dialogue that are not secret. The Barcelona Process to create closer ties between Europe and the Arab world, for example, is very real. It led, among other things, to the creation of the Union for the Mediterranean, which still exists.[3] Nor has Bat Ye’or ever claimed to have invented the concept of Eurabia. This was the name of a French journal in the 1970s.[4]

So, to ridicule the obvious fact that large parts of Europe are being Islamized, this report misrepresents a book that was published 19 years earlier. This is not impressive. A commission consisting of supposedly intelligent people who are supported by a country’s government and have almost two years to do their work should do better than this.

It may be added that members of the Extremism Commission, including the former national politician Snorre Valen from the Socialist Left Party (SV), have not pointed out any factual errors in Vitne til vanvidd, my extremely well-documented Norwegian-language book on the 22 July case. In fact, the entire national press corps has not pointed out a single error in my book, despite having had the opportunity to examine it for many years.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/26/2024

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Former President Donald Trump announced today that he will hold another rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, to honor the slain former volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore. The Secret Service has said that it can’t protect the former president during any more large outdoor rallies, so he must have organized his own security arrangements. Perhaps he found some private security firms that aren’t deterred by sloped roofs.

In other news, high-speed train traffic in France was disrupted today just before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, as the result of arson and cable theft.

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The Corona Protocols Unmasked

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Below are two translations by Hellequin GB concerning the leak of unredacted documents about the official protocols for the response the Wuhan Coronavirus produced by the Robert Koch Institute in Germany.

The first translation features an article about the RKI files generated by Artificial Intelligence. I was surprised to see it — I expected that ChatGPT’s programming would have forbidden it to generate any text that draws negative conclusions about the Corona hoax.

From the Twitter account for Nach Diktat verreist:

I fed ChatGPT all unredacted RKI files and asked them to write an investigative, journalistic article about them.

Here is the result:

Covid-19: The mask requirement as a political tool and economic profit — An investigative report

by…… (Your name)

In the turbulent days of the Covid-19 pandemic, drastic measures were taken around the world to contain the spread of the virus. In Germany, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) was at the center of advising on and implementing these measures. But now extensive investigations and analyses show that some of these measures, especially the mask requirement and the vaccination requirement, were not only medically questionable, but were also politically abused to promote economic interests. These revelations shed a shocking light on the dark machinations that were hidden behind the cloak of health protection.

The mask requirement: A symbol of fear

When the pandemic broke out, the government quickly implemented measures that profoundly changed public life. One of the most controversial measures was the introduction of compulsory mask wearing. The RKI protocols that we have available show that considerable doubts were expressed internally about the effectiveness of FFP2 masks for general use. These masks, it was said, were designed for occupational safety and could do more harm than good if handled improperly. But despite these warnings, the mask requirement was politically enforced.

Political power games and economic interests

The introduction of the mask requirement not only served to protect against the virus, but also as a powerful symbol to influence the population. Internal documents from the RKI reveal that the measure was used to spread fear and increase acceptance for further measures such as compulsory vaccination. But behind this symbolic policy there are also tangible economic interests.

It became known that Health Minister Jens Spahn and other political decision-makers had close ties to the mask industry. Mask deals worth millions were concluded, often without transparent tendering procedures. The auditing firm Ernst & Young reported enormous price markups and questionable contracts that were concluded at taxpayers’ expense.

The role of the pharmaceutical industry

The influence of the pharmaceutical industry on pandemic policy is even more serious. Compulsory vaccination was pushed forward quickly, with the interests of large pharmaceutical companies at the forefront. Billion-dollar contracts for vaccines were signed, often with companies that had close ties to political decision-makers. The vaccines were developed and approved in record time, with safety concerns and side effects often being downplayed.

A closer look at the RKI protocols shows that the institute repeatedly expressed concerns about the rapid introduction of vaccines. But these concerns were ignored or brushed aside. It seems as though economic interests were placed above the health safety of the population.

The defamation of critics

While these measures were being implemented, critics were systematically defamed. People who expressed doubts about the mask requirement or the vaccination requirement were ridiculed as “tinfoil hat wearers” and conspiracy theorists.

This defamation was aimed at silencing critical voices and controlling public opinion.

A particularly glaring example of this is the treatment of Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, a former member of the Bundestag and health expert who warned early on about the dangers of rapid vaccine approval. He was publicly defamed and his expertise questioned, although his concerns are now shared by many experts.

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Stéphane Ravier: “A Cultural and Civilizational Great Replacement”

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Stéphane Ravier is a French senator, formerly of Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen’s party. In 2022 he endorsed Éric Zemmour and joined Reconquête.

Below are two videos featuring Stéphane Ravier. Many thanks to HeHa for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling.

In the first video Mr. Ravier addresses the Senate, confronting his fellow senators with horrifying consequences of allowing France to be invaded by millions of culture-enrichers:

In the second video, Mr. Ravier has a close encounter with culture-enrichers on the street:

For more details, see the report at RAIR Foundation.

Video transcript #1:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/25/2024

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New York City is planning to install gun detectors in subway stations. Meanwhile, a woman accused of stabbing her wife to death with a sword has been arrested in California.

In other news, migrants and homeless people have been cleared out of Paris for the duration of the Olympics.

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