By Andrea Widburg

One of the most disheartening things about the march of the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement is the way it’s been shaking down corporate America. There is hope, though. The first sign that the worm was turning was the hugely successful “buycott” when Goya Food’s CEO,  Robert Unanue, refused to bow down to the cancel culture mob. Now there’s news that Red Bull not only refused to bow down, but it also launched a counterattack.

As we all know from the junk mail filling our inboxes over the last six weeks, American businesses have desperately tried to stave off a BLM attack against their companies by buying into its shtick and, more importantly, promising it money. Their attitude, no doubt, has been aided by the numerous fairly recent college graduates filling middle and upper-middle management.

Enter Red Bull, the Austrian-owned energy drink company. But first, a little background:

Amy Taylor, a 1993 graduate of James Madison University in Virginia, is out andproud. Knowing these facts — recent(ish) college grad; part of the LGBT spectrum — it’s almost predictable that, when Taylor joined Red Bull’s marketing division, she would found and sponsor an “Inclusion and Diversity.”

Taylor was in a position to make a difference because she eventually held the title of President and Chief Marketing Officer at Red Bull North America. Nor was Taylor working in a vacuum. Instead, she got full support from Stefan Kozak, Red Bull’s North America chief executive.

Things started to go sideways when the Black Lives Matter movement began to dominate American discourse. At the same time, word got out that, in February, Florian Klaass, an Austrian who was Red Bull’s global head of music, entertainment, and culture marketing, used a tasteless slide at a corporate event:

America was marked: ‘We’re number 1!’ while Canada was labeled ‘uninhabited’.

The Middle East and Southeast Asia were marked as ‘evil doers,’ continental Europe as ‘pussies,’ and South America as ‘coffee comes from here I think.’ 

Mexico was marked ‘they do our laundry’; China was shown with the label ‘they make our stuff’; the Middle East had an arrow indicating ‘bombs go here’.

Antarctica was simply: ‘cold’. 

Australia was marked: ‘kangaroos’, and Africa was labeled: ‘zoo animals come from here’. 

That slide was stupid under any metric and at any time, and Klaass deserved to be fired. The more interesting decision was the firing of both Kozak and Taylor, who obviously weren’t responsible for Klaass’s tin-eared, sophomoric stunt.

Although Red Bull didn’t give any reasons for Kozak’s and Taylor’s firings, those firings were part of a pattern. As well as firing the two American executives, Austrian global CEO and founder Dietrich Mateschitz also shut down entertainment and culture teams, as well as music festivals across the UK, Canada, and Austria. From the outside, those decisions could have been seen as belt-tightening moves during a Wuhan virus era, and that’s what Red Bull hinted:

“Red Bull has decided to strengthen the focus of its culture marketing programs on where it makes most impact,” the spokeswoman said. “Culture programs that remain include Red Bull BC One, Red Bull Dance Your Style, Red Bull Batalla de los Gallos.”

An insider, however, offered a different reason, which was tied to the fact that over 300 employees signed a letter complaining that the company hadn’t jumped on the groveling bandwagon when BLM burst upon the scene:

Another employee said the culture teams were seen as the most vocal about racial justice matters and that US staffers saw the restructuring as a form of punishment.

That explanation makes sense when you consider Dietrich Mateschitz, an outspoken conservative who admires Donald Trump. Translating an interview with Kleine Zeitung, the Daily Mail describes him as “Raging at ‘political correctness’ and the ‘intellectual elite,’” and critical of Germany’s and Austria’s decision to open their doors to millions of Muslim refugees in 2015.

It’s to be hoped that Red Bull is indeed hitting back at the straightjacket of political correctness and the corporate tendency to yield to BLM’s extortionate conduct. When Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, attempted to destroy Goya Foods because CEO Robert Unanue praised Trump, Unanue refused to back down. Americans rewarded him by buying up Goya products as if they were toilet paper in March.

People are fighting back in other ways too. In Redwood City, a lawyer countered a “Black Lives Matter” mural that the city paid to have painted on the streets by requesting a MAGA mural. The city quietly removed the BLM mural.

What Goya Foods, Red Bull, and that Redwood City lawyer are realizing is that the BLM mob, along with Antifa, which is the Democrat party’s domestic terrorism arm, win only if we let them. It’s time for more worms to turn. When enough do, they start to look remarkably like a fierce and angry dragon.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/red_bull_gores_cancel_culture.html

A 22-year-old Afghan man sexually harassed a twelve-year-old girl at Vienna’s Praterstern railway station late last Friday afternoon. Two girlfriends of the victim intervened and the police were called in. When he was arrested, the man resisted violently – he kicked and spat at the police officers. Against the will of the young girl, the Afghan is said to have hugged, kissed and touched her all over her body. With the help of the other two girls, the victim was able to break free and the 22-year-old was arrested by the police shortly afterwards. The suspect violently insulted the police officers, beat them and kicked towards them. The officers had to capture the man, but the Afghan could not be calmed down and even tried to spit on the policemen. 22-year-old was arrested and taken to the prison. Video footage of the incident is still being investigated.

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Swedish writer Åsa Linderborg, who served as the cultural editor for newspaper Aftonbladet, has admitted the paper would label those against mass migration as fascists to stifle debate.

Linderborg, who is now a senior reporter at the same newspaper, served as the cultural editor from 2009 to 2019 and acknowledged that the newspaper contributed to creating a small window of acceptable opinions in which anyone who disagreed with leftist-liberal ideology would be branded a fascist.

“Everyone who did not want open borders or wanted to talk about integration was branded as fascists,” she said in a recent interview, Nyheter Idag reports.

She went on to talk about a book she had written on populism and the many issues raised by populist parties that the mainstream left has refused to touch.

“The difficult thing for the cultural left is to find progressive answers to the questions that the right-wing populists want to talk about. Then it’s easier to say: ‘we should not talk about that!’ she said.

According to Linderborg, some in the mainstream liberal-left largely turned on her when she spoke to members of the newspaper Nya Tider, an alternative newspaper that has been labelled a so-called “right-wing extremist newspaper” by public broadcaster Sveriges Radio in 2013 for reporting on migrant crime.

During the migrant crisis in 2015, Sweden’s political and media establishment be4came well-known for supporting open borders and mass migration.

In March of the following year, the official Swedish Twitter account, which was formerly managed by a different Swedish citizen every week, hurled expletives and other insults toward anyone critical of open borders.

While Sweden’s public support for mass migration has severely declined in recent years as migrant crime, gang crime and costs of mass migration rise, some on the left still support open borders and are more than willing to label their political opponents as racists for objecting to their ideology.

Earlier this year, members of the Swedish Left Party claimed that Swedish police were racists for cracking down on crimes in no-go areas in Malmö, many of which have high migrant-background populations.Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, however, has denied a link between mass migration and rising crime saying, “The segregation is because there is too low employment and too high unemployment in these areas. But that would have been the same regardless of who had lived there. If you put people born in Sweden under the same conditions, you get the same result.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/21/swedish-writer-admits-media-purposely-labelled-those-against-mass-migration-as-fascists/

All of France, with the exception of the Western part of the country, is affected by radical Islam, warns a commission of French politicians in a report about the spread of radical Islam and the effects of Islam on how society functions.

“Radical Islamism is multi-faceted and influences all aspects of social life to the point where it asserts itself at the expense of individual freedom,” said Republican Senator Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio.

“We must react now or never,” the senator said. If the French state does nothing, she estimates that in a few years, districts and entire territories will break out of the French Republic and radical Islamism will take control of them, according to the report.

“Recently, the most significant symptoms [of advancing Islamism] are candidate lists for municipal elections, which, by the way, is very difficult to detect. The infiltration is real. We know about more and more cases where a spot on the candidate is promised in exchange for the votes of the mosque. This is a very dangerous mechanism because it is initially an alliance with radical Islamism, which will then take control,” described Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio.

According to Novinky.cz, the Commission founded in November 2019 formulated 44 recommendations in the fields of the economy, education, social affairs, and culture to prevent “Islamists from controlling part of the French population”

According to the parliamentary report, the answer cannot be just police measures.

The 30-member Senate commission interviewed scientists, journalists, university professors, politicians, and many more people from a number of fields. A total of 60 hours of hearings were held, and 67 respondents pointed out that part of the population is radicalizing in the name of Islam and this phenomenon continues to grow.

The report recalls that the Muslim Brotherhood has grown its influence in the country since the 1990s by around 50,000 members. The Commission recommends banning the preaching of the Muslim Brotherhood or mass street prayers.

According to senators, any association that wants to use local subsidies and support would have to commit to “signing statutes that respect the values of the republic.” Religious associations should also have transparent accounting.

Politicians further recommend to train special agents in order to monitor the radical Islamist movement. Besides that, the report draws attention to the problem in schools, where the spread of discriminatory and hate speech full of violence against children should be prevented. The proposed measures should apply not only to children in schools but also to those who are educated at home.

France is currently undergoing demographic transformation, with one-in-five French newborns having Arab-Muslim names. Despite opposition from both conservative and nationalist parties, the French government is moving forward with plans to teach Arabic in schools.

Last year, a French teenage girl was placed under police protection after receiving death threats for criticizing Islam. The country has also been plagued by Islamic terrorism that has led to dozens of high-profile attacks that have killed hundreds.

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A girl (14 years old) was kicked and spat on by a man on Sunday evening ( July 19) at 9.30 pm on the street Friedrich-Ebert-Straße in Düsseldorf. Based on the description of the man, the previously unknown perpetrator could be identified by federal police officers at Düsseldorf main station following a theft. Criminal proceedings were initiated against the 18-year-old.

The 14-year-old German and her girlfriend (16 years old) were addressed by the 18-year-old Iranian. When they told him that they did not want to deal with him, he kicked the 14-year-old in the buttocks, spat on her leg and left the scene of the crime.

In order to file a criminal complaint against the stranger, the two young women went to the Federal Police station at Düsseldorf Central Station. They described the suspect in detail so that he could be identified at 11:40 pm at the Düsseldorf main station in the case of a committed theft. In this case, too, he behaved very aggressively towards an employee of the supermarket in Düsseldorf Central Station.After the personal data had been investigated, the 18-year-old was dismissed and criminal proceedings were initiated for the theft and assault. The two girls were picked up by their parents at the federal police station. The 14-year-old remained uninjured.

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The “Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs” (Ditib) with its more than 900 funded mosques in Germany is regarded as a powerful instrument of influence of the Turkish state.

The German government has just confirmed in an answer to an inquiry by the party Die Linke that Ditib also cooperates with the extremely Turkish-centric Grey Wolves in Germany. Is there also evidence of increased Turkish intelligence activities under the Ditib umbrella?

The German Federal Government’s reply states that there is cooperation between the Turkish far-right extremists and the Islamic umbrella organisation, the “Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion” (Ditib), which has been active in Germany and is supervised by the Turkish state authority, the “Office for Religious Affairs” (DIYANET).

The Federal Government further confirmed in its reply that there are regular meetings between the Turkish secret service MIT [Turkish National Intelligence Organisation] and the Grey Wolves in Germany. It is “therefore likely that such contacts are also used by MIT to promote intelligence matters”.

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The 22-year-old migrant “King Abode”, whose real name is Mohamed T., was supposed to be deported back to Libya, but now the district court of Dresden lifted an eight-month prison sentence against the permanent asylum seeker on Wednesday and referred the 2018 case back to juvenile court.

“King Abode” received an eight-month suspended sentence in 2018 for insulting, threatening, and biting a train passenger in the arm. His self-proclaimed name translates to “King Stay” in English, and is meant to highlight Germany’s inability to remove him from the country.

The reason the Dresden court dropped the case and referred it to juvenile court is that it claims “King Abode” should not have been sentenced as a an adult, a spokesman for the regional court confirmed a report of the Bild newspaper on Thursday.

When he first entered Germany in 2014, Mohamed T. stated that he was 18 years old and born on February 4, 1996. However, standing before the Bautzen Youth Court in another case, he said that he was born on August 4, 1997, more than a year later. The court accepted his claim that he was younger, and he was sentenced as a juvenile instead as an adult, which resulted in the court slapping the amateur rapper to only 16 months of probation for 24 crimes.

If the judge in the juvenile court also recognizes his supposedly younger age of the case of 2018, the eight-month prison sentence could now be reversed, leaving Mohamed T. free once again. “King Abode”, who claims to be a Libyan citizen, is well known to the police and the judiciary. The authorities have already initiated more than 60 cases against him, at least nine of which went to trial. He has been convicted seven times.

In one instance in 2018, he was released from custody only to steal a boy’s cellphone three days later. He smugly told the press at the time that “nothing happens to me anyway” in response to that arrest.

The immigrant should have been deported a long time ago. His asylum application had already been rejected in September 2016. Since then, he has managed to stay in Germany by initiating a variety of court cases.

“King Abode” was also involved in riots between asylum seekers and Germans on the Bautzen market during summer 2016. The German press has labeled him the “riot refugee” and numerous articles have been published about him over the years.

He later attracted attention when he posted a video of himself on social media with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. In another incident, a special task force had to overpower him on the roof of an asylum-seeker accommodation building.

The attention the “King Abode” case has served to highlight the disproportionately large role migrants play in crime statistics in the country, including for the most serious crimes of murder, assault, and sexual assaults. At the same time, the case highlights German authorities’ inability to successfully deport even those migrants who have committed a variety of crimes.

The uncertainty over “King Adobe’s” age is also not unique a unique case. In fact, there are over 400,000 migrants in Germany who have unknown birth dates, with the Alternative for Germany party indicating that many of them have lied about their age to gain access to more benefits under the German system and avoid deportation.

Concerns have been raised in the past that migrants have lied about their age in order to gain entry into Europe. For example, 84 percent of “child migrants” tested by Swedish health authorities were actually adults aged 18 or older, according to a report from the BBC. In another study from Belgium released by the government this month, 73 percent of “migrant children” were actually adults.

According to a study by the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Münster, a large proportion of underage immigrants lied about their age upon entering Germany. The university clinic’s forensic specialists examined around 600 so-called unaccompanied minor refugees on behalf of the courts where their age was questioned. The institute determined that around 40 percent of them were demonstrably 18 years of age or older, according to the study available online.

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