About 20,000 people — many of them maskless — marched in the streets of Berlin protesting against government lockdown measures.

It was an eclectic coalition of groups that marched, including anti-vax activists, libertarians, and people who were just sick and tired of government-imposed restrictions. But they all declared “The End of the Pandemic — Day of Freedom” — and demanded a return to a more normal life.

New York Post:

Protesters who came from across the country held up homemade signs with slogans like “Corona, false alarm,” “We are being forced to wear a muzzle,” “Natural defense instead of vaccination” and “We are the second wave.”

They chanted, “We’re here and we’re loud, because we are being robbed of our freedom!”

Police used bullhorns to chide participants to adhere to social distancing rules and to wear masks, apparently with little success. They tweeted that they drew up a criminal complaint against the rally’s organizer for failing to enforce hygiene rules, then said shortly afterward that the organizer had ended the march.

The media was busy trying to turn the rally into a neo-Nazi event.

Politico:

The interior minister for the city of Berlin, Andreas Geisel, said on Friday that neo-Nazi organizations had also called for people to participate in the march. German media outlets noted that “Day of Freedom” was also the name of a Nazi propaganda film documenting the party’s 1935 party congress in Nuremberg.

One banner at the march called for politicians such as German Health Minister Jens Spahn, Bavaria’s state premier Markus Söder, Chancellor Angela Merkel and leading Christian Drosten to be “locked away.”

There were no doubt neo-Nazis in attendance, just like there were radical libertarians, anti-vaccination believers, “right-wing extremists,” and thousands of ordinary people who’ve had enough.

New York Post:

Protesters who came from across the country held up homemade signs with slogans like “Corona, false alarm,” “We are being forced to wear a muzzle,” “Natural defense instead of vaccination” and “We are the second wave.”

They chanted, “We’re here and we’re loud, because we are being robbed of our freedom!”

Police used bullhorns to chide participants to adhere to social distancing rules and to wear masks, apparently with little success. They tweeted that they drew up a criminal complaint against the rally’s organizer for failing to enforce hygiene rules, then said shortly afterward that the organizer had ended the march.

The media was busy trying to turn the rally into a neo-Nazi event.

Politico:

The interior minister for the city of Berlin, Andreas Geisel, said on Friday that neo-Nazi organizations had also called for people to participate in the march. German media outlets noted that “Day of Freedom” was also the name of a Nazi propaganda film documenting the party’s 1935 party congress in Nuremberg.

One banner at the march called for politicians such as German Health Minister Jens Spahn, Bavaria’s state premier Markus Söder, Chancellor Angela Merkel and leading Christian Drosten to be “locked away.”

There were no doubt neo-Nazis in attendance, just like there were radical libertarians, anti-vaccination believers, “right-wing extremists,” and thousands of ordinary people who’ve had enough.

In contrast, the U.S. economy shrank by 9.5 percent. But we’re already slowly coming out of the lockdown. The German economy is still mostly shuttered.

Europe’s mix of socialist and capitalist economies will not fare well in the long run. And their planned trillion euro bailout is being criticized for not being near enough, or timely.

In this unprecedented situation, no one can say what the world will look like in six months. But governments around the world will have discovered by then that ordinary people will only cooperate so long before rebelling against restrictions on their freedom.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/08/02/masks-make-us-slaves-massive-anti-lockdown-protest-in-berlin-n741005

According to the police, the 37-year-old had boarded a tram of line 5 at the Robert Siewert- Straße stop in Chemnitz on Saturday evening. The tram was on its way to the Krenkelstraße depot.

“Since the ride ended there, the tram driver asked the man at the Scheffelstraße stop to leave the tram,” said a police spokeswoman.

But the 37-year-old did not want to do this, he insulted the 52-year-old driver and approached him.

“He probably had a cable in his hand, which he used to bang on the closed door of the driver’s cab, causing minor property damage.”

The 37-year-old finally got out of the car, but verbally threatened the driver with death and made appropriate gestures.

The police were able to arrest the suspect shortly afterwards in Annaberger Street. Investigations against the Libyan were started for threat and damage to property.

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The hunting in the Italian savannah was successful.

by Giulio Meotti

“A friend of mine died this week and people across the country celebrated his death”, wrote David A. French, a well-known conservative columnist at the National Review.Mike S. Adams shot himself. A friend had called 911 saying that the 55-year-old professor was “very stressed” and hadn’t been around for days. Adams, who was a professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, had been forced to resign as of August 1, following two student petitions asking for his expulsion for posting “offensive” comments on social media.The University had denounced his words as “unjustifiable”, while the petitions grinded 88,000 signatures and the entrance to the faculty was dominated by a rock with the words “Fire Mike Adams”. On May 28, in the wake of protests for George Floyd, the professor had written: “Do not close the universities. Close non-essential majors. Like women studies”.

When university chancellor Jose Sartarelli announced that Adams would be leaving on August 1, the professor replied with a tweet: “Many young people are depressed because they have been taught to feel constantly offended.”

Referring to the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement, Adams wrote: “The violent outrage of white liberals taking to the streets is brought to you by your local university. None of this would be possible without the encouragement of academic extremists who have hijacked the system of higher education.”

He seemed to love controversy, from attacks on abortion (his last tweet before death) to criticism of LGBT groups, so much so that he became a hero of Rush Limbaugh’s conservative America.

Adams repeatedly targeted students, as when he wrote an article that read: “If your cell phone goes off in class or you are late to class,” where he instructs students, “you must write a 2,500-word paper (minimum) entitled ‘The Death of Civility at the Postmodern University.’ . . . You will receive no other credit for completing this project, except, of course, for its positive impact upon your character.”

He had published numerous books, most recently “Letters to a Young Progressive: How to Avoid Wasting Your Life Protesting Things You Don’t Understand”, for the conservative publishing house Regnery.

Local movie stars, such as Orlando Jones, and teachers from other universities, including 270 criminologists, had also mobilized in support of his expulsion. “2020 success, having survived Mike Adams”, people tweeted after his suicide.

World-famous Swedish opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter blamed MeToo’s campaign for the suicide of her husband, Benny Fredriksson: “You can break a person”, said Von Otter.

Mike Adams had also been properly and viciously broken. And too many, perhaps, were looking forward to his self-cancellation.

We have seen this phenomenon before. Where? In Moscow in 1937. Because cancel culture is pure Stalinism.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284568

On the Grand Place, the central square of Brussels, an individual subject to deportation, was caught in the act of public harassment. However, he was released after his hearing.

In one of the most famous places in the Belgian capital, a man was caught harassing female passers-by. On Thursday, July 30, police officers on patrol caught this 25-year-old illegal resident on the Grand-Place. Officers witnessed him accosting a woman and making highly disrespectful remarks. As reported by RTBF, the man justified his attitude by explaining that he was “looking for a wife”.

Because he is an illegal immigrant, he had no identity papers to show to the police officers. But after research at the police station, it appeared that the foreigner was known to the courts for at least six crimes he had committed – which were not however specified by the news outlet.

For a few weeks now, he had also been the subject of an obligation to leave Belgium according to the Immigration Office. After his arrest, the police took the suspect to the nearby police station in rue du Marché au Charbon. The report mentioned insults against the agents during his transfer, reported RTBF.

To deal with this frequent harassment, the City of Brussels and the NGO Plan International have decided to map the streets that are most at risk. As reported by BX1, signs warning pedestrians were put up in several places in early July.

freewestmedia.com/2020/08/02/brussels-foreigner-in-search-of-wife-harasses-female-passers-by/

The local government in Turin, Italy, has allowed Muslim groups to publicly celebrate an Islamic holiday while still restricting other gatherings due to the Wuhan coronavirus.

The Turin government has given permission for Muslims to engage in celebrations for the Eid al-Adha festival in nine public and private areas of the city.

Local politician Augusta Montaruli, a member of the national-conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI), slammed the move while noting that the government had cancelled a yearly Christian procession, the processione della Consolata, in June.

“What was the use of banning the Consolata procession, interrupting an ancient tradition in Turin, when the mass prayers of Muslims were authorised?” Ms Montaruli said.

“This is Turin on the day of the Islamic festival of sacrifice, where organising the crowd into separate groups has only increased the number of gatherings in the various neighbourhoods of the city. Thousands of men are crowded together on prayer carpets without the slightest social distance,” Montaruli told Il Giornale.

Montaruli, who serves in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, slammed the national leftist government. She said it “flexes its muscles when it comes to limiting the religious and political freedoms of Italians in the streets, but grants everything to those who impose foreign identities and traditions in public, in defiance of the delicate health situation that threatens the return of COVID-19”.

Italy, which has been one of the countries in Europe worst hit by the coronavirus, is facing a potential new wave of infections. According to populist leader Matteo Salvini, the threat is due to the surge in arrivals of illegal migrants in recent weeks.

Many of the migrants arriving in the country have tested positive for the Chinese virus. Some have also escaped migrant reception centres put under quarantine where there have been outbreaks.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/08/02/turin-govt-gives-muslims-permission-hold-holiday-celebrations/

A Turkish colonel, who worked for the country’s Special Forces Command intelligence division (OKK), testified in a court proceeding that the former head of the OKK issued an assassination order against one of the organizers of the 2016 coup because he reportedly had knowledge of illicit Qatari funding of jihadi groups in the Syrian civil war, according to a Friday report on the website of Nordic Monitor.“[Brigadier General Semih Terzi] knew how much of the funding delivered [to Turkey] by Qatar for the purpose of purchasing weapons and ammunition for the opposition was actually used for that and how much of it was used by public officials, and how much was embezzled,” Col. Firat Alakus said.

Terzi was reported in 2016 to have been one of the organizers behind the failed coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Nordic Monitor added that Alakus said the Qatari case was not the only example of how financial graft unfolded after monetary transfers to Turkey for use in the Syrian civial war.According to the Sweden-based news outlet, Alakus testified at the Ankara 17th High Criminal Court on March 20, 2019.“Now, Semih Terzi was targeted because of his intimate knowledge of affairs relating to Syria, Your Honor. What is this information? If you want, I can expand on it, some of which is critical,” Alakus said at the court hearing.Terzi “was aware of which public officials were assisting in arms smuggling to Syria and for what purpose,” noted Alakus.“[Terzi’s murder] had to do with a trap devised by Zekai Aksakallı, who did not want such facts to come out into the open,” he continued.

Lt.-Gen. Zekai Aksakalli oversaw the OKK at the time of Terzi’s assassination and has now become a Syrian civil “war profiteer,” according to the Nordic Monitor.Alakus said “[Terzi] was aware of who in the government was involved in an oil-smuggling operation from Syria, how the profits were shared and what activities they were involved in.”The colonel said Terzi was also aware of the Turkish government providing medical care in Turkey to armed radical and jihadist groups disguised as moderate Free Syrian Army troops. Allegations of Turkish officials securing bribes in exchange for providing services to the jihadis were raised in the court testimony.The Nordic Monitor obtained the hearing transcript. The Jerusalem Postcould not independently verify the transcript. Media outlets in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain reported on Alakus’s testimony based on the Nordic Monitor article. One Turkey expert told the Post that he believes the legal documents published on the website of the Nordic Monitor are authentic.The Nordic Monitor is affiliated with Erdogan’s adversary Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish Islamic scholar and leader of the Gülen movement. The Nordic Monitor describes its organization as “a news portal that reports about developments on extremism, terrorism, crime, foreign policy, security and military matters.”The Post reported Wednesday on the role of Qatar’s ambassador to Belgium and NATO, Abdulrahman bin Mohammed Sulaiman al-Khulaifi, in allegedly seeking to cover up a plan to finance the Lebanese terrorist movement Hezbollah.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/turkish-brig-gen-executed-for-revealing-qatari-funding-of-jihadists-637141