Italian coastguard authorities on the island of Lampedusa have denied port access to the German migrant transport NGO Sea-Eye, telling the vessel to head to Germany.

Sea-Eye’s ship, the Alan Kurdi, flies the German flag and currently has 133 migrant on board off the coast of Lampedusa after picking them up along the coast of Libya in the search and rescue (SAR) zone. The NGO ship arrived in the area on Sunday and has demanded the authorities allow them to drop off the migrants aboard.Gordon Isler, who serves on the executive board of Sea-Eye and is responsible for the Alan Kurdi, shared an email on Twitter from the Italian coastguard. It told Sea-Eye to contact German authorities in Bremen, arguing the migrants were not picked up in the Italian SAR zone.

Isler went on to complain about the response, saying: “Imagine that an Italian ship saves [people] in the North Sea and Bremen refers them to Rome. That’s grotesque.”

According to a report from newspaper Il Giornale, the Governor of Sicily Nello Musumeci has complained about the NGO activity as both Sicily and Lampedusa have seen a dramatic rise in migrant boat landings.

“If the boats were not enough, the quarantine ships are full of people brought by the NGOs. In this too, the government did not want to listen to us,” Musumeci said. He added: “Here’s some common sense: if Sicily has to manage the autonomous landings, it cannot bear those planned by the NGOs, which should then be destined for other European ports.”

Earlier this month, another German NGO, Sea-Watch, complained that Italian authorities were taking too long to transfer migrants from their vessel.

“We insist that it should not take eight to ten days before a ship, which rescues people at sea, to reach a port,” Giorgia Linardi, a spokeswoman for the NGO, said.

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by Giulio Meotti‏  

“Our attitude towards death is ambivalent,” French historian and philosopher Rémi Brague told Le Figaro last April. “Look at Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous phrase, ‘God is dead’. It implies that death is more divine than the God it has overcome. In this way, ‘God is dead’ logically turns to ‘death is God’”.

In the midst of a pandemic that has caused the deaths of nearly 30,000 of its people, the Spanish government is pushing ahead with a bill to advance euthanasia. The “right to die”, initially considered by the Congress last February, has just managed to overcome two amendments presented by the Popular Party and by Vox.

Vox MP, María Ruiz Solás, accused the Socialists of betting “once again on death rather than on the defense of life. This is what they have always done. They did so with the abortion law and with the elderly in nursing homes in the hardest moments of the pandemic when it was preferred to sedate them with morphine instead of taking them to intensive care to try to save their lives”.

Alejandro Macarron Larumbe, essayist, demographic expert and director of the Fundación Renacimiento Demográfico, in a conversation we had, pointed out the paradox of a country with the lowest birth rate in Europe betting on the end of life, rather than on new lives:

“It’s incomprehensible. The obsession in favor of euthanasia would have only one logical, profoundly anti-humanist explanation: that the state saves on pensions and medical care for the elderly. On the other hand, not investing in life, in a Spain and in a Europe that are dying little by little from lack of births, is a betrayal of our nations and our ancestors”.

Without net immigration, the population of Spain would go from 47 to 23 million in two generations. “These figures are similar to 18th century Spain in terms of births” explained me Macarron Larumbe. “And they’re even worse than the Civil War birth rates. In 1939, 422,000 children were born in a desolate Spain with twenty million fewer inhabitants. This year there will be 359,000. Collectively, we do not have the moral right to seriously deteriorate the social heritage we receive from our ancestors. But this will have a price: we will pay very dearly for the decline of our societies.”

Brague said it all: “The death that threatens us today in the form of a pandemic is the same death with which Europe, with its demographics in freefall, has been flirting for a long time”.

This European obsession with death, to end connection with life, to “die with dignity”, to legislate in every aspect the self-destruction of an individual (one’s sex, one’s identity, one’s religion, one’s family and now one’s own death) indicates a lethal impulse that underlies the soul of our societies.

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In the course of an investigation of an accident in the street Lammstraße in Pforzheim a policeman was slightly injured on Saturday afternoon.

According to the police, an uninvolved 18-year-old Turk approached the officers of the traffic police inspection and the Pforzheim-North district, who were just recording an accident, at about 5:10 p.m.

The man failed to keep the minimum distance that was required at times of the Corona pandemic and disturbed the police officers’ duties by heckling. He ignored instructions from the officers. When they tried to establish the man’s identity, the 18-year-old became increasingly aggressive and once again came too close to the police. According to the police press release, the man hit the arm of the policeman when an officer tried to keep him at a distance.

In the meantime, three other passers-by showed solidarity with the 18-year-old and insulted the officials. In addition, according to the police, more than 30 onlookers gathered, who also expressed sympathy with the aggressive man.

The police were only able to calm the aggressive mood with a squad of seven patrol cars and 14 officers.

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Republicans and Democrats have a fundamental disagreement about the upcoming presidential election.

Republicans believe that it should be determined on Election Day, just as it is every year, while Democrats want to drag it out until their election officials find enough ballots to seal the deal with the Harris-Biden camp. And so they’re talking about Election Week. Or maybe Election Month and Election Year.

This is not how the American political system works.

Nevertheless the media and Big Tech firms are aligned on suppressing Republican statements of victory on Election Day. And Nick Clegg is in charge of Facebook’s response.

Facebook has said it will take aggressive and exceptional measures to “restrict the circulation of content” on its platform if November’s presidential election descends into chaos or violent civic unrest.

Like nationwide riots? A bit late for that isn’t it. And Facebook has taken some Antifa groups down, but it hasn’t touched the third rail of politics, Black Lives Matter.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Nick Clegg, the company’s head of global affairs, said it had drawn up plans for how to handle a range of outcomes, including widespread civic unrest or “the political dilemmas” of having in-person votes counted more rapidly than mail-in ballots, which will play a larger role in this election due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Nick Clegg is a former Liberal Democrat leader in the UK. Should a former British politician really be in charge of determining what Americans can say about the election?

The whole point of a free society, one of those things we fought for so that British politicial officials shouldn’t be determining who leads us and what we can say, is actually debating and discussing elections.

And yet the media and lefty political elites keep warning that the public should not be allowed to discuss certain issues. Like who runs the country.

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Attempting to hispander, Biden promises that if leftists can use him to seize power, there will be no deportations for 100 days. Or maybe there will be no deportations except for illegal aliens who commit felonies in the USA. It depends on which lines Biden catches as they scroll past on his teleprompter.

That’s the problem with running a candidate in such a state of cognitive decline that not only can he not get through staged softball interviews without a teleprompter, he can’t even competently read the teleprompter.

Looks like he lost a line again. Never mind; you know the thing.

Kamala, Bernie, AOC, and the rest of the radical left will not have to worry about pushback from Biden on even the most demented and anti-American initiatives. By next January, he won’t recognize himself in the mirror.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Germany’s largest circulating paper in a jaw-dropping on interview on Monday that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is not doing enough fight Islamic Republic of Iran‘s terrorism.“Berlin does too little against mullah terror,” reads the sub-headline of the interview conducted by paper’s editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt via video.

When asked about the difference between Europe and the US with respect to the controversial Iran nuclear deal, Pompeo said: “There’s been disagreement for years now about the value of this nuclear deal. The United States views it not only as unfortunate, but dangerous. The Europeans have suggested that somehow staying inside of this is important, the United States have taken a different approach. We are not going to allow them to have the money and wealth to allow them to continue to ferment terror.”We are not going to send pallets of cash over to the Iranian regime,” he added. “We are going to develop a system that makes sure Iran never has a nuclear weapon. The United States has the capacity to lead the world to push back against this terror threat.”When Reichelt asked Pompeo about Germany’s moral responsibility (a reference to the Holocaust), Iran’s murder of the innocent wrestler Navid Afkaria, and sanctions targeting German companies who do business with Tehran, Pompeo said “German business will understand the risk and they will comply with the UNSC resolutions. It is the German government that is so disappointing. This country (Iran) has created assassination campaigns across Europe.”Pompeo added that “the German government tells us they agree with that they don’t want Iran to buy and sell weapons, yet they have come up with no plan, no alternative to prevent it. The US is going to lead, the US will make the right decision, the moral decision. Not only did they execute this wrestler, remember this is the most antisemitic nation on the planet, that does not only threaten to destroy America, but also the nation of Israel. I think the German people understand the risk, the threat to themselves and to the world. This is not a country that should escape the sanctions that UNSC Resolution 2231 lays out, that is not a nation that on October 19 this year be able to buy and sell weapons.”The Jerusalem Post sent a press a query to Germany’s federal commission for combating antisemitism, Felix Klein, asking if he agreed with Pompeo about the Islamic Republic of Iran being the top state-sponsor of antisemitism.Klein criticized antisemitism in the US last year but has refused to answer multiple Post queries about Iran’s sponsorship of Holocaust denial and antisemitism. Klein’s counterpart in the Elan Carr, America’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, has previously said that Iran is the “world’s chief trafficker in antisemitism” and that “antisemitism isn’t ancillary to the ideology of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is a central foundational component of the ideology of that regime – and we have to be clear about it, and we have to confront it and call it out for what it is.”It is unclear why Klein won’t criticize the regime of Ali Khamenei in Tehran – the top international state-sponsor of antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Merkel’s Foreign Ministry has celebrated Iran’s Islamic revolution multiple times at Tehran’s embassy.In 2019, the president of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, sent a congratulatory telegram in the name of the German people to honor Iran’s Islamic revolution.Merkel told the Knesset that Israel’s security is “non-negotiable” for her government. Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi urged Merkel to join the US in imposing UN snapback sanctions on Iran’s regime to prevent Iran from purchasing new weapons. Merkel ignored Ashkenazi’s request.

https://www.jpost.com/international/us-accuses-merkel-of-failing-to-combat-irans-terrorism-and-antisemitism-643159

On Monday, the Hauts-de-Seine Court sentenced a 50-year-old Algerian male who used to work as a nurse in the American Hospital of Neuilly-sur-Seine, to 14 years in prison for raping a patient under psychotropic treatment in February 2018. The woman was reportedly stunned with drugs at the time of the attack.

The convicted man, Mohamed A., who started working at the Neuilly hospital in 2006, had already been sentenced in 2012 for “sexual assault on a vulnerable person”.

The sentence, which is slightly less severe than the public prosecutor had demanded, also bans the perpetrator from participating in any medical and paramedical profession for five years and contains an injunction for treatment.

Sylvie Noachovitch, the lawyer for the victim, described the accused man as a “predator”, adding that “if tomorrow he is outside, he will start again.”

When assessing the mental health of the perpetrator, experts detected no mental pathology, but a strong need for “reassurance about his virility”.

The victim has been severely affected by the incident, is “unable to work” and has since developed a “phobia” of the medical world.

The Algerian originally wanted to become an architect but ended up studying nursing in Algeria.

During his time in custody, Mohamed A. first denied everything, before changing his statement as the DNA samples taken in the room of the American hospital provided enough evidence of his guilt. Later, he admitted that he did have sexual intercourse with the victim, but claimed it was consensual.

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The daily newspaper Der Standard caused a stir on Sunday by publishing an article on the over-representation of asylum seekers in sexual crimes. But this time, too, the “central organ of left-wing liberalism” could not do without relativizations. The men from “pre-modern societies” could not help it, women in hot pants would encourage rape.Five years after the refugee crisis, the left-liberal Standard also admits: the rapes have virtually skyrocketed due to the mass influx of young migrants. In 2016 the percentage of asylum seekers among the suspects rose from 5.7 to 14.6 percent. Measured in terms of their proportion of the population, this group of people is undoubtedly overrepresented among sex offenders. Afghans, in particular, are boosting the sad result.As early as 1996 the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington caused controversial discussions with his “Clash of Civilizations”.Now, in the year 2020, the problem of cultural clashes is also making its way into the left-liberal Standard editorial staff. This late insight is thanks to a men’s advisor, a sociologist and a conflict researcher.

The director of the Viennese Men’s Counseling and Psychotherapist, Jonni Brem, made it clear to the Standard: Nothing was exaggerated. On the contrary: “I have experienced many cases that have been ignored in public.
In prisons, at trials and in cooperation with the police, he had read reports of young asylum seekers who had just arrived in the state. In the process, he registered a surge of sexual assaults, which he called “dramatic” in an interview with the newspaper Standard.

The head of the Institute for Conflict Research, Birgitt Haller, also spoke bluntly to the Standard: “Sexual violence has increased – and asylum seekers are massively overrepresented among the suspects.
At the same time, she showed a great deal of understanding for the behavior of the soldiers of fortune who had arrived: Men from “pre-modern societies” would often misinterpret the Western way of life and had no understanding for the equality of women that prevails in the West.Much to the annoyance of some commentators, the conflict researcher noted: “A girl in hot pants often appears to them as an offer to have sex together.

This statement enraged many of the people who had read it. After all, the debate about personal responsibility in women’s choice of clothing in order not to be raped is considered long since overcome.
The argument that a woman was dressed too provocatively and therefore herself was to blame for her subsequent rape or sexual harassment is considered deeply sexist.

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The German press office published a release about a telephone call German Chancellor Angela Merkel made to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The report said that along with the mastering of the Covid19 pandemic regional themes were discussed.

-The Chancellor welcomed the ongoing conversations on the normalization of bilateral relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

-In this context she underlined the need for the reestablishment of relations with the Palestinian Arabs with the aim of a two state solution.

The latter was a malevolent advice. The word is chosen over more euphemistic terms such as misguided, counter-productive, antagonistic, confrontational, aggressive, disingenuous, disruptive, misplaced, erroneous and so on. In the Israeli agreement with the United Arab Emirates there is no mention of a Palestinian state. So what business is it of a Chancellor of Germany where remnants of its horrible past keep emerging?

There can in the future occur a situation where there will be two states on the West side of the Jordan river. Yet that is not a two-state solution. Turning the current Palestinian entities into a state, where the largest party, Hamas, is in favor of genocide of Jews — more or less like the generation of Merkel’s grandparents in Germany – is unlikely to solve anything. Also, the second largest Palestinian party, Fatah, is in favor of terrorism and the Palestinian Authority, which it controls, rewards potential or effective murderers. The glorification of death is a cult which permeates large parts of Palestinian society.

There are several other reasons why Merkel’s remark was brazen. Yet Germany is powerful and Netanyahu thus could not permit himself to say the following in reply to Merkel’s advice. As this, however, has to be said, we are publishing it here:

Dear Mrs. Chancellor,

You have done a number of good things for Israel, which I greatly appreciate. On the other hand, there are various highly negative aspects in the German government’s behavior under your leadership, which endanger both Israel and German Jews.

Nobody has indirectly promoted terrorism in the Middle East more in the past decade than the previous US President Barack Obama. Yet he holds the Nobel prize for peace which was given to him by irresponsible Norwegians. The 2015 JCPOA Agreement, which Israel strongly opposed has freed the hands of the Iranian government — with its genocidal intentions toward Israel — to foster terrorism in many parts of the Middle East. Germany has supported this agreement.

Even today, Germany has a far too soft attitude toward Iran.

Your ambassador to the United Nations also participates in the anti-Israel hate fest there. At the UN your country votes frequently with the enemies of Israel. Your ambassador has even made very negative remarks about Israel and you should have recalled him.

Your government is the greatest importer of antisemites into Europe. Your welcome policy has let about 1 million additional Muslims into your country without any check on whether they are antisemites or not. According to studies, about half of them are Jew-haters.

In view of its exceptionally criminal past, Germany should not have let in any antisemites. There is nothing humanitarian about importing antisemites into Europe, even if they are refugees. This radically wrong decision has also led to a strengthening of activism, including against Jews, on the German right. Now a right-wing party, which has antisemitic members, is represented in your country’s parliament, the Bundestag.

Your predecessor, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, made a major effort to normalize the reality as much as possible for Germany’s Jews. He opened the German borders for Jews from Russia, which led to a major increase in the number of Jews and new Jewish communities in various German cities. Yet your policies have led to the opposite. German Jewish leaders have been extremely reluctant to tell the truth, but by May 2020 Josef Schuster, the chairman of the German Jewish umbrella organization Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, finally admitted that he had given up on the utopian idea that there could be a Germany without antisemitism.

Germany’s national Antisemitism Commissioner Felix Klein said: “I cannot advise Jews to wear kippot everywhere all the time in Germany.” Schuster also advised Jews not to wear kippot in public in major cities.

The main reason for this advice was that hatred by Muslims sometimes results in violent acts. One of those who initially did not heed this advice was the Munich Rabbi Shmuel Aharon Brodman. He was harassed by four Arab speaking men this past July. We don’t know whether the attackers were part of your welcome immigration group or entered the country before. Rabbi Brodman has now decided to no longer wear a kippa in public or to speak loudly in Hebrew.

In view of the risks involved Jews have to heed advice to hide their identity in Germany. On the other hand a labor court has decided that Muslim women can show their identity by wearing headscarves when teaching at schools.

Berlin is now the capital of Europe’s antisemitism. A particular problem is some cases of extreme harassment of Jewish pupils in schools, mainly by Muslims. Your government manipulates the statistics and tries to blame almost all antisemitic incidents on the right-wing even if only half of the perpetrators are known.

Allow me to add one more remark. Your ambassador in Israel is a guest in our country. She should keep the German government opinion about the two state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to herself. In light of the above she should not publicly spread your unsolicited and malevolent recommendation about the “the two-state solution.” Guests should not insult hosts.

As you have made a recommendation to me, I would like to reciprocate by also making a recommendation. You have many problems in Germany, including growing antisemitism. So first solve the problems in your own backyard.

Netanyahu couldn’t say this. Yet there is one thing that he certainly could have said in his telephone conversation with Merkel: “Tens of millions of Germans think that Israel behaves toward the Palestinians like Nazis or alternatively that Israel intends to exterminate the Palestinians. I would politely but strongly request you to investigate this matter and see how the German government can act against these widespread extremely evil opinions.”

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