By Monica Showalter

Looks like it’s not just mansions for smooth operator Patrisse Cullors, who co-founded Black Lives Matter.

She’s also into stretches at luxury resorts, with some very curious accounting.

According to an investigative report from the Daily Caller:

Los Angeles-based jail reform group led by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors spent nearly $26,000 for “meetings” at a luxury Malibu beach resort in 2019, according to campaign finance records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Reform LA Jails dropped $10,179 for “meetings and appearances” at the Calamigos Guest Ranch and Beach Club in Malibu, California, and another $15,593 at the Malibu Conference Center, a corporate conference facility owned by the resort, according to the records, which covered the time period between July and September 2019. Guests at the 200-acre resort, where rooms start at $600 a night, have exclusive access to a private five-acre strip of the Malibu coast.

The records show that the payments were made on behalf of the jail reform group by a consulting firm owned by Asha Bandele, a longtime mentor of Cullors and co-author of her 2018 biography, “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.”

That’s all fine and dandy, but the records of the groups involved don’t show any such “meetings,” the Caller reported.

A review of Reform LA Jails’ social media records shows that the group organized multiple events in the Los Angeles area in the second half of 2019, including a party at actress Jane Fonda’s house and a “day party + summit” in Pasadena featuring live music and local artists.

But the DCNF was unable to locate any public records of the group holding an event at the Malibu beach resort.

Which might mean that the “meeting” involved a lot of lounging around. Some of it yes, was for conference space, so some kind of meeting may have happened. But a lot of it was not, and it was done in a three-month window in 2019. Self-described “trained Marxist” Cullors elsewhere has dropped a cool $3.2 million on four houses and mansions, at least two of them in the Los Angeles area. She couldn’t hold these off-the-record “meetings” in one of those places? Sounds a little funny.

The resort, in fact, is a pretty tony affair. Rooms start at $669 a night for the cheapies ($839 with taxes and fees), and go up to $795 ($992 with taxes and fees) for the luxe ones, according to Expedia. Membership rates may be lower, if she’s a repeat-customer member there, but either way, costs can pile up fast. Amenities include a private beach, lake tours, pool, spa, air-conditioning, free wi-fi, and pet-friendly.

And this is the only resort visit that we know about. There could be others.

 The Caller continued:

“Reform LA Jails’ filings raise a number of questions,” said Peter Flaherty, the chairman of the conservative watchdog group National Legal and Policy Center. “An audit would establish whether any campaign funds were used for personal purposes.”

 BLM, in fact, has taken in tremendous corporate donations. Following its trashing of American cities, leaving black shop owners weeping in the ruins after losing all they had worked for in the BLM arson attacks, lootings, or lost business, corporate America lined up to donate to these trashers, in hopes the crocodile would eat them last.

Cullors, as noted earlier, is a “trained Marxist” and through her co-founder, Opal Tometi, seems to learned her wokester schtick at the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’s knee. The nomenklatura part in particular, as if all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. If the Caller could find this resort activity on someone claiming to fight for ‘the people,’ it’s probable that a lot more of this stuff is going on. Diamond life, as they say. And sure enough, a smooth operator.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/luxe_life_blm_founder_dropped_26000_at_luxury_malibu_resort_daily_caller_reports.html

In addition to wars, famine and droughts, the current coronavirus pandemic could trigger a new wave of immigration towards Europe, Swiss migration expert Eduard Gnesa warns.

“Following the previous ones, Europe and Switzerland are threatened by another wave of the coronavirus, but this one is migratory in its nature,” Gnesa said.

He was director of the Swiss Federal Office of Immigration, Integration and Emigration between 2001 and 2004 and in 2009 was appointed special ambassador of international cooperation in migration. Now retired from public service, Gnesa currently owns a consultancy firm in Switzerland, KMES Partners.   

Gnesa illustrates his claim with the situation on the US-Mexico border. In February alone, US Border Patrol officers blocked 100,000 illegal migrants from entering US. territory and Mexico itself fears a wave of migration at its southern borders. Many immigrants are counting on the migration policy of Democrat President Joe Biden, which is, unlike his predecessor, taking a pro-migration, open borders turn.

Gnesa expects that as soon as border restrictions are lifted, significant increases in migration statistics can be expected immediately. In this regard, the expert notes that he expects a steady increase, with a maximum of 15,000 applications per year in Switzerland. In this regard, it should be noted that a previous estimate of his proved to be conservative. In 2015, his analysis predicted 30,000 asylum seekers, while the actual number was 40,000 in Switzerland.

Gnesa’s assumption is also echoed in relevant EU and World Bank analyses. A similar conclusion is reached, for example, by a research institute attached to the European Parliament (EASO Asylum Report 2020), at the end of which the authors describe that middle- and low-income states typically serve as starting points for migration routes. That is why if the coronavirus hits these countries hard, it will trigger migration trends to Europe.

The World Bank examined, among other things, the financial transactions of migrants in Europe on their way home. This is a significant data point because, according to World Bank analysis, a significant share of the GDP of the poorest countries (nearly 10 percent) comes from remittances from migrants in developed countries.

Thus, if economic problems also occur in developed countries (in this case, for example, if an immigrant working as a waiter in Europe cannot transfer enough income home to Africa to help his or her own family), this is also reflected in the GDP of the migrant’s country of origin. The World Bank has clearly shown that remittances to low- and medium-economy countries fell by roughly 20 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year (from $554 billion to $445 billion). Even more strapped for cash, those who previously chose to remain in their native countries, could also resort to migration.

https://rmx.news/article/article/swiss-expert-warns-covid-may-trigger-migration-wave-to-europe

Elected mayor of Meylan, east of Grenoble in the French department of Isère, a year ago, the politician of the “Diverse Left” had, according to the French magazine “Valeurs actuelles”, ” taken it into his head to bring to its knees the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, a traditionalist Catholic movement, which wants to build a church in the commune”. But the Grenoble administrative court ruled otherwise on April 15, rejecting the request to annul a building permit previously granted – by a previous majority in the municipal council. The application for annulment had been filed in 2018 by the left-wing association “Medya”, which is close to the current mayor Philippe Cardin.

Despite this setback, the magazine continued, Cardin insists on his negative stance and asks the state for support: “I ask for the support of the representatives of the state, the government and our parliamentarians to fulfil our responsibility to fight against obscurantism and all religious extremisms,” he said in a press release.

Two and a half years ago, the former mayor of the community, Jean-Philippe Blanc, voted in favour of the building permit for this church of the Priestly Fraternity. Which was a perfectly logical decision, Valeurs actuelles notes, since the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X already maintains a priory here and a public school founded in 1992. At the time, Blanc explained: “The brotherhood has been resident in the parish for 25 years”. It had always been quiet concerning them.

Even though there have never been any problems, the new mayor still wants to prohibit the church building. The reason he gives is: “They are against freedom of faith, freedom of expression, freedom of conscience”. If this church were actually built, “these people will gather people who will stir up violence and tensions”, Cardin warns. The Bishop of Grenoble, Guy de Kerimel had raised the controversy “gently”.

Even though he sees no reason to “oppose the construction of this church”, he sees it as a problematic counterpoint in this matter. In his view, the tug-of-war between the mayor and the Priestly Fraternity is proof of the problematic nature of the Separatism Law: “This situation shows all the fragility of this law. The different aspects are not clearly defined, so perhaps the politicians lack a little objectivity”.

Recently, the mayor of the commune of Albertville (19,000 inhabitants), north-east of Meylan, had been forced by the administrative court to authorise the construction of a private Muslim school for 400 pupils of the Islamist movement Milli Görüs. This project was described by the prefect of the department, Pascal Bolot, as “separatist” and “oversized”.

For the mayor of Meylan, there can be no difference in treatment between Islamist movements and a traditionalist current of the church, explains the magazine Valeurs actuelles. “What is said in the separatism law is that the state wants to fight all those who fight the roots and the values of the republic. And I believe that Civitas and the Priestly Fraternity of St Pius X are fighting the values of the Republic,” Cardin said in an interview.

Speaking to the magazine Valeurs actuelles, Father Benoît de Jorna, the French District Superior of the Priestly Fraternity of St Pius X, highlighted the mayor’s contradictory statements: “We are supposed to be against freedom of faith, and at the same time they want to ban us from a place of worship where we profess our faith. Who is against this freedom here?” Moreover, Father de Jorna noted that the Republic must be very vulnerable when “a small church in the province with less than 300 seats threatens it in such a way!” This is precisely the problem with this separatism law, writes the magazine, that the “traditionalists” are being ” poured out with the separatist bathwater”.

https://www.die-tagespost.de/politik/aktuell/franzoesischer-buergermeister-gegen-bau-einer-kirche-der-piusbrueder;art315,217770

Time and again, German or Austrian media report on a disproportionately high share of migrants in Corona hospitals or intensive care patients (about 60 per cent). Only a fortnight ago, Gottfried Waldhäusl, Lower Austria’s regional councillor for asylum, declared on Facebook that more than 50 percent of Corona patients have a migration background, which drew massive criticism from the usual circles. Also the internet portal unzensuriert reported extensively on the topic in March. There are many reasons for this – for example, lack of education, lack of language skills, no interest in local regulations, small flats, low percentage of home-based work, poverty. In German clinics there is already a special (unofficial) term for such cases: “patients with communication blockade”.

Now a new (but not surprising) factor has been added – Ramadan, which has been taking place since April 13. Until May 12, devout Muslims have to fast during the day. In the evening, the so-called breaking of the fast takes place, usually in larger company (not only with family members). Using the example of Tyrol, where the infection figures are currently rising particularly strongly, the newspaper Kronen Zeitung has now shown that there is a direct connection between Ramadan and the situation in the covid wards of the hospitals.

As doctors assure (in secret), the Covid patients are mostly Muslims who practise Ramadan. This is also reflected in the official Corona figures in the country: these are highest in those municipalities where particularly many Muslims live, for example in Innsbruck (502 active cases), Kufstein (119), Telfs (99) and Reutte 50) – as of Monday evening.

Medical experts are particularly concerned about the three-day final fast at the end of Ramadan. After that, a renewed sharp increase in new infections is feared.On the part of the respective hospital operators, they justify not addressing the problem by pointing out that they do not collect data on the patients’ religious affiliation. It is not yet known whether and what measures the state government will take.

The fact that, due to the prevailing “politically correct” ideology, any reference to migrants as potential source of infection is immediately dismissed as “racism” or “right-wing extremism”, no matter what the facts are, is certainly an obstacle. This makes a factual discussion or the implementation of effective countermeasures almost impossible.

https://www.unzensuriert.at/content/127840-ramadan-als-corona-treiber-politische-korrektheit-erschwert-gegenmassnahmen/

About six months after the terrorist attack in Vienna, the mother of a victim from Bavaria is suing the Republic of Austria for the payment of damages and compensation for pain and suffering. The trial will take place on May 17 at the Regional Court for Civil Matters in Vienna, a court spokeswoman confirmed on Wednesday, according to a report in the newspaper “Die Presse”.

The mother of a 24-year-old art student from Bavaria claims that the Republic of Austria did not sufficiently follow up on clues in the run-up to the attack. “The attack could have been prevented,” says her lawyer Norbert Wess. The lawsuit is about 125,000 euros. The funeral costs alone would have exceeded the payment of 2,000 euros received under the Crime Victims Act several times over, Wess said.

On November 2, 2020, a 20-year-old supporter of the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) had shot four passers-by and injured 23 before being killed himself. In its report published in February, an investigative commission had criticised considerable mishaps in the run-up to the crime. For example, the investigators had been aware of a meeting between the later assassin and other Islamists as well as his attempt to buy ammunition for military weapons.

There had been serious indications of the suspect’s continued membership in a terrorist organisation, the commission said. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (BVT) and the Vienna State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LVT) had not cooperated effectively.

The attack was the latest reason for a reform of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Austria, which has been initiated in the meantime.

https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article230721121/Anschlag-von-Wien-Mutter-von-Opfer-aus-Deutschland-verklagt-Oesterreich.html

The EU could soon sign a contract with Pfizer for 1,8 billion additional doses of its anti-Covid vaccine. With deliveries possible until 2023, such a quantity should be enough to vaccinate the entire European population several times over. This is a commercial triumph for the American pharma giant, which has now asserted its supremacy over the European market, as well as for the German laboratory BioNTech which co-produced the famous vaccine Comirnaty.

For AstraZeneca, it’s the descent into hell. After renaming its vaccine in an attempt to restore its image to escape controversy, the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical group is being sued by Brussels for its multiple delivery delays with a lawsuit filed on April 23 by the Commission with the approval of the Member States.

Since the signing of the contract, only a third of the promised doses have been delivered, procrastination that let Pfizer take a head start. But the American laboratory has not acted exemplary in this area either. In February, the EU was still awaiting a third of the doses promised by Pfizer, reported Reuters on the basis of “several sources within the European Union”.

The Commission is incidentally headed by an ex-minister of Angela Merkel. As for the Russian vaccine, which has cost the Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovič his post for having ordered it, its authorization within the EU has been postponed indefinitely.

According to the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Baune, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) should not rule before the end of June on the approval of Sputnik V. That is more than four months after the filing of the Russian application with the relevant European health authorities.

This deadline contrasts sharply with that of Pfizer/BioNtech, approved in less than four weeks at the end of December.

“We will absolutely not need Sputnik V“, said Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Foreign Trade and Vaccination. In short, a boon for the American-German vaccine.

This situation is all the more surprising given that the European Commission usually does not tolerate monopolies. Moreover, several treaties ban such schemes. The example of the takeover by the French Alstom of the Canadian Bombardier in the summer of 2020 is an illustration of this. Brussels had demanded that the two manufacturers sell production sites to competition. When it comes to respect for treaties, the Commission has been uncompromising, at least until recently.

Moreover, media discretion seems to obscure the deaths that have occurred after the injections of Pfizer/BioNtech. Instead, the suspected cases of thrombosis after an injection of AstraZeneca made headlines, so much so that public confidence in this vaccine has totally collapsed. As a result, Pfizer’s ratings went up even though the British-Swedish vaccine could prove to be much less dangerous than its American-German competitor. In any case, this is what has emerged from the figures of Hungarian authorities.

Hungary was the first European state to order the Russian vaccine Sputnik V, and Budapest has drawn up a comparison of the different vaccines administered on its territory between December 26, 2020 and April 20, 2021.

For each 100 000 injections, thirty-two deaths have been recorded for the Comirnaty (Pfizer) against seven for AstraZeneca.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/04/28/is-pfizer-immune-to-competition/