By Monica Showalter

At a time when small businesses go wanting, why is COVID relief easily attained by Democrats’ favorite radical activist groups?

Apparently, it’s rolling out for them, based on political and even racial/political considerations. With Joe Biden attempting to ram a monster new COVID relief stimulus through in these days, it may be that Democrats are looking to make their radical activist allies into millionaires.

Jason Rantz of 770KTTH of Seattle wrote about what’s going on, citing examples from his state and examples from others:

The Washington State Department of Commerce gave federal COVID relief tax dollars to nonprofits pursuing radical political agendas. Tax dollars even went to indirectly bail criminals out of jail.

The selection process for funding was based on race. And some of the vetting seems influenced more by ideology than by need.

The Department of Commerce, led by Lisa Brown, aimed to “distribute COVID relief funds equitably to the communities hardest hit by the pandemic.” But to qualify to the Washington Equity Relief Fund, a group of “reviewers” made sure the nonprofits were “led by and serving Black, Indigenous and people of color.”

Among others, the noxious Jew-hating NGO known as CAIR pocketed a free $50,000 from the taxpayers as its COVID relief measure. It had been reportedly rejected for budget reasons earlier, according to Rantz, but somehow, someone pulled some strings to ensure they got it, and too bad about the rules. 

Another group, the Climate Justice Initiative, claimed that COVID led to cancelled contracts and cancelled fundraisers. You know, those big glittering charity balls full of ladies who lunch? Somehow, they got theirs ahead of restaurants and gyms and beauty parlors. still waiting for their checks. 

There were also these charmers:

Collective Justice, part of the Public Defenders Association, is a partisan, social justice group. It actively lobbies light-on-crime policies and is now being propped up by federal tax dollars.

The nonprofit is currently asking supporters to back a Democrat-sponsored bill forcing courts to ignore the juvenile crimes of adult defendants in sentencing. It received $25,000 in federal tax dollars through the state.

And these, whose mission, according to Rantz, seems to be to “bail criminals who recommit.” And these people seem to be fond of dishonesty, as Rantz reports:

The Bail Project was described as a “small startup program” by internal paperwork to justify the grant. But it is not a small startup.

The Bail Project national organization had an operation budget of nearly $25 million in 2018 and $15 million in 2019, according to Charity Navigator.

Which is outrageous. The groups claim that COVID has dried up their donations, but the problem may well be that the public doesn’t want to donate to them anymore, given their bad causes. Instead of change their missions to something more in the public interest, they’re getting federal bailouts instead, so they can keep pursuing bad causes that the public at large doesn’t want to pay for. 

It might actually be an artificial life support system for every radical cause under the sun.

For radicals, it’s a pinata, because Joe Biden is trying to ram through another $1.9 trillion COVID relief spending bill. You might get $1,400 from it. But social justice warriors will get $50,000. It calls to mind President Obama’s rewarding of this ACORN allies with 2009 stimulus funds. It’s nothing but political back-scratching by Joe and his cronies, and like Venezuela’s wealth, it will be lost to corruption. Why are these people getting money at all while legitimate businesses being shut down and forced to wait for any such relief?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/covid_relief_heading_to_the_coffers_of_social_justice_warriors.html

The statement of the top candidate of the Aktive Demokraten (Active Democrats) in Rüsselsheim, Erdal Koca, that the party list is open to Muslims as well as ” infidels”, has caused a lot of fuss and anger in the past week.

Even some representatives of the usually pro-Muslim party, The Greens, are alarmed:

The Greens in Rüsselsheim fundamentally reject the statements of Erdal Koca (Active Democrats Rüsselsheim). In a characterisation of society, he differentiates between “Muslims and infidels”. For the Greens it is clear: “A human being is a human being. A differentiation into believers and infidels is harmful. All people have the same dignity and the same rights. We expect all people to be open to new things, tolerant of those who think and believe differently, and accepting of other ways of life and identities. No tolerance for intolerance!”

“We expect all parties in the local elections to accept the values of the Free Democratic Basic Order, especially if they use the word “democratic” in their name. The executive committee of the Greens in Rüsselsheim fundamentally excludes cooperation with voter groups that try to divide society and take radical positions,” says Christian Vogt, spokesperson of the executive committee of the Greens in Rüsselsheim.

https://www.main-spitze.de/lokales/kreis-gross-gerau/ruesselsheim/war-so-nicht-gemeint-koca-bedauert-wortwahl_23140505 – https://www.gruene-ruesselsheim.de/2021/02/12/mensch-ist-mensch-keine-toleranz-gegenueber-intoleranz/

Faced with a major resurgence of Covid-19, and in particular of several very contagious variants, Germany continues to tighten its health measures. To the chagrin of the European Union, Berlin decided on Sunday February 14 to close some borders.

“Even if the virus variants are already circulating in Germany, it is necessary to prevent any further intrusion as best as possible,” explained the Minister of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg. Faced with a major “third wave” of Covid-19, Germany thus decided, on Sunday, February 14, to close its borders with the Czech Republic and Austrian Tyrol. The two countries concerned, showed variants of the virus circulating, according to French daily Le Monde. They are in fact considered particularly risky by the German authorities.

Among the panel of measures announced, Germany in particular decided to close rail traffic, and called for the establishment of “fixed control points” on the borders concerned. And the least that can be said is that these sovereign measures greatly displeased the European Union, which deplored a return to “Europe with closed borders as in March 2020”.

Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Health, declared “that the virus will not be stopped by closed borders”. It was a barely veiled criticism that the European Commissioner used as an injunction to follow European directives: “The only thing that helps are vaccines and health precautionary measures,” she asserted.

The Germans did not appreciate her comments at all, despite being great fans of the “European project”. Thus, reported Le Monde, the Federal Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer, sharply criticized the European Union which has already “made enough mistakes” and “should support us rather than hamper us with its advice”.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/02/15/against-the-advice-of-the-eu-germany-closes-its-borders/