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Germany: Rapper of Turkish origin admitted to hospital with gunshot wound
The police were called on Thursday afternoon around 4 pm: The hospital in Darmstadt reported a patient with a gunshot wound. A 34-year-old man had been taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries, the police department of Southern Hesse confirmed the incident. On Friday noon, the police also reported that there were indications that the injured man had inflicted the gunshot wound on himself. The officers still did not give any further details.
According to information of the broadcasting station Hessischer Rundfunk, the injured person is the Offenbach rapper Haftbefehl (in English language “arrest warrant”). Aykut Anhan, his civil name, accidentally shot himself in the lower leg after a stay in the Frankfurt train station district. The crime apparently took place under the influence of drugs and alcohol.According to a police spokeswoman in Darmstadt, the investigation is continuing. The patient behaved “extremely uncooperative”. During the evening hours, the police officers also searched his home address and a bar in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district. However, they found no evidence.For the rapper Haftbefehl, the shot could have consequences beyond the hospital stay. In principle, in case of self-injury, investigations for violation of the weapons law could be considered, the public prosecutor’s office in Darmstadt announced upon request. However, the spokesperson did not want to comment on the specific case.It is also unclear why Haftbefehl first went to hospital in Darmstadt. He remains in the hospital for inpatient treatment. It has not yet been determined whether his appearance at a drive-in cinema show in Karlsruhe, planned for July 24, is in jeopardy.The Turkish-born Haftbefehl, born in 1985 in Offenbach, has influenced the German street rap like no other. The newspaper FAZ called him the “hero of all decent and meaningful middle-class children” in 2014 for the release of his highly praised album “Russisch Roulette”.(in English language “Russian roulette”). This year his new work DWA (“Das Weiße Album”) followed.Because of his strong attachment to his hometown, there was recently a petition in the course of the colonialism debate to rename the street Bismarckstraße in Offenbach after Haftbefehl. The municipality of Offenbach has now distanced itself from this. A municipal spokesperson said on Friday that the issue had been dealt with in detail. However, there were no actual plans to rename the street Bismarckstraße.
Cultural Revolution comes for sleepy professor with insufficient wokester zeal
By Monica Showalter
Leftist meetings are famous for their boring long-winded droning, but in a communist revolutionary atmosphere, heaven forbid anyone should fall asleep.
Breitbart’s John Nolte found one such miscreant, not in Chavista Venezuela or Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, but at Marymount Manhattan College in New York, and pitiful Alinsky-ian ‘pick-a-target’ is now the subject of a recall petition:
The fascists have arrived in the form of an online petition with nearly 2,000 signatures that calls for [Professor Patricia] Simon to be fired, after she was allegedly caught sleeping during a June 29 town hall meeting to address systemic racism, or something.
“This is a petition that is demanding the removal a faculty member who does not align with the anti-racist views and actions that were promised to be adopted by the department earlier this week at the Town Hall meetings,” shrieked Marymount student Caitlin Gagnon, not long after the alleged doze.
But the petition does not stop there…
Simon is also being accused of *deep breath* “a history of ignoring instances of racism in the form of racial profiling within the program” and “enabling the racist and sizeist actions and words of the vocal coaches under her jurisdiction” and “has also been known to use her power to intimidate and bully the students in her program who have made efforts to advocate for themselves or for their fellow peers” and all the babies who signed the petition are undoubtedly hoping *sniff* Simon gets hit by a *sniff* train.
The comments left by those who signed the petition are equally childish, and therefore amazing.
She insists she was just ‘resting her eyes.’ Which is disgusting groveling. A normal person in a normal time would advise the clowns they were boring as hell and needed to knock it off.
But these aren’t normal times. Nolte reports that she also yelled at the young bozos for crowding the elevator, which obviously merited a career death-sentence.
This is the sort of lunacy that went on during China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, when China’s young punklings in Red Guard regalia went around smashing up signs of authority and especially humiliating their professors, dragging them through the streets for their insufficient revolutionary zeal, a grotesque inversion of power that Mas Zedong encouraged in order to concentrate absolute power to the state. It’s totalitarian madness. And now there are clear pointers that this mindset is in the universities here, with no university authority there to tell them to cut the crap and get back to studying.
That the clowns got 2,000 signatures at last count, shows just how bad the cancel culture has gotten and how weak the university’s authority has become. Having nobody and nothing to oppose them, they are now starting looking for signs of insufficient revolutionary zeal.
They’re looking for people with eyeglasses to shoot., as Pol Pot once did in Cambodia in the 1970s. They are looking for the first man to end the applause to Stalin’s speech to send to the firing squads or Gulags, as really happened in the Stalinist U.S.S.R.
No brakes. No adults in the room. Think it can’t happen here? It’s happening here.
It’s Mao stuff all right, but it’s also redolent of North Korea, events that have occurred not in the hoary 1960s, which few such wokesters have read about, but actually within their memory and lifetimes.
South Korea’s spy agency told the country’s lawmakers Wednesday that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un executed his defense chief for falling asleep during a meeting and talking back to the young leader.
Lawmaker Shin Kyoung-min says that officials from the National Intelligence Service told a closed-door parliamentary committee that People’s Armed Forces Minister Hyon Yong Chol was killed by anti-aircraft gunfire with hundreds watching at a shooting range at Pyongyang’s Kang Kon Military Academy in late April. Shin was one of the lawmakers who attended the briefing.
North Korea is not a warning to them, it’s a how-to guide.
As Eric Hoffer once observed in the comparable revolutionary university context in the 1960s, imagine what these people would be like “if they got a taste of real power.”
It ought to be a watershed signal of what’s to come if a weak, senile, old dotard like Joe Biden were to win the 2020 election over President Donald Trump and the radicals beneath him were to exercise power.
WATCH: Migrant mass brawl in a formerly peaceful East German city
In the evening of July 16, 2020, a brawl between ten aliens breaks out in front of a gambling house in the street Mühlenstraße in Fürstenwalde.
The fight went on for ten minutes, and police forces called in were attacked. In their fury, the men used the chairs of a neighbouring snack bar as weapons. Broomsticks, display boards and at least one knife were used in the fight. There is a 30-second clip of the clash, which can be seen here. So at the 17th second, an apparently German passer-by walks right between the fighting groups and tries to settle the dispute. The naivety of his action may be due to a certain East German multicultural inexperience.He takes flight when he spots a sharp object in the hand of a rioter standing next to him. As usual, the reason for the argument is unknown, the police are keeping a low profile. Witnesses describe mutual provocations from an apartment above a gambling house against a group of men standing on the street Mühlenstraße. The police came with 30 officers. 3 ambulances had to transport 4 injured persons.
politikstube.com/fuerstenwalde-gruppenschlaegerei-mit-messer-und-stuehlen/
Urban guerrillas: 200 ‘youths’ clash with French police – no arrests
An episode of urban violence shook the Remblai or embankment and the large beach of Sables-d’Olonne on the night of July 14 to 15, 2020.
According to sources, the security forces intervened to calm and separate African and Arab youths – more than 150 – in the seaside town in Western France, on the Atlantic Ocean.
“But when they saw people in blue coming, they got together to attack the cops. They took bottles and everything they had on hand,” a witness told actu.fr.
The National Police Alliance union, which estimated the number of youths closer to 200, called the mob of migrants “an urban guerrilla – our colleagues received fireworks and glass bottles from the beach”.
“These were young people, even very young people,” according to a source close to the investigation, who also spoke of gangs from La Roche-sur-Yon and Le Mans who had come to battle in Les Sables-d’Olonne.
Faced with the large number of aggressors, no arrests were possible, police sources said.
On the previous day, violence broke out in several places in the country, against the backdrop of a national holiday. BFM Paris reported, with supporting images, that numerous mortar and firecracker launches were heard in Île-de-France.
In Vitry-sur-Seine several vehicles were set on fire in a covered parking lot. In Étampes, in Essonne, a firefighter was shot after he intervened with his colleagues to douse a vehicle on fire. The fireman was the target, according to initial reports, of a small caliber rifle. Injured in the leg, the victim was taken to hospital.
On Twitter, a journalist from RT France reported that “several fireworks” had been aimed “in the direction of the police” in a general climate of tension. Several police officers were injured.
On the site of an institution attached to Matignon, the evolution of the presence of non-European immigration in many urban areas are mapped. The category “0-18 years old, Child of Immigrant Parent (Outside Europe)” shows the most relevant data of France’s demographic future.
freewestmedia.com/2020/07/17/urban-guerrillas-200-youths-clash-with-french-police-no-arrests/
US State Department recruited and trained French race activists
The United States began to reach out to ethnic and racial minorities in France with the blessing of the American embassy in Paris.
The New York Times revealed that after September 11, 2001, the US became interested in sponsoring the global race debate.
With the death of George Floyd in the United States, the race movement quickly spread around the world. In France, the family of Adama Traoré, took advantage of this racial focus on Africans to relaunch the 2016 affair of the young black man’s death.
More broadly, France has seen the emergence of many figures claiming to be “anti-racist” and “anti-colonialist”. According to the New York Times, this new racial policy in France is in fact directly imported from the United States, with the help of the State Department.
The American daily explained that in recent decades, “many black French people have gone through a racial awakening, helped by the pop culture of the United States, its thinkers, and even its diplomats based in Paris, who have spotted and encouraged young black French leaders”.
To exploit this potential, the US State Department has been involved in training young French activists in the making by recruiting them and sending them to the United States to take courses on “managing ethnic diversity”.
In Paris, the New York Times revealed that “the embassy even organized educational programs on subjects like affirmative action, a taboo concept in France”.
This initiative has riled many French conservative elected officials, according to the daily, who fear an “Americanization” of French society and a “fragmentation of the country”. In addition, this American maneuver is not new. The New York Times highlighted that “the US embassy in Paris began to reach out to ethnic and racial minorities in France after the September 11, 2001 attacks, as part of a global campaign to ‘win hearts and minds’”.
But winning hearts and minds – an American campaign that has failed miserably in Afghanistan – seemingly entails inventing racial narratives that do not exist.
On Thursday, July 16, the relatives of Adama Traoré, filed a complaint with the Paris prosecutor’s office for “false testimony” against a key witness, reported French tabloid le Parisien. The witness in question is the man with whom Traoré had taken refuge during his escape. As recently as on July 2, in the presence of family and defence lawyers, Adama’s sister Assa had described his testimony as “essential”.
She explained on Twitter that the witness “made important statements” during his interrogation, but when she found out what he had really said less than two weeks later, Assa Traoré changed her mind.
Legal experts believe that Adama died before his arrest. “Expert” reports ordered by the family claim the opposite. The key witness has now confirmed that Adama Traoré “made no noise” when he was on the threshold of his apartment and said he “guaranteed” that “he [Adama] was not well at all”. In particular, the witness stated during his last hearing that Adama Traoré told him “I am going to die”. There were no police officers present at that time.
Therefore, Adama could not have died at the hands of the police as his family members have claimed. But the Traorés have been receiving US funding to advance the notion that French police officers killed Adama.
According to several US polling organisations, US senior military staff officers voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential elections, while rank-and-file soldiers voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.
Thus, on Columbus Day, the United States Army sent out an email to all of its civilian and military staff denouncing “white supremacism”. The thrust of the message was that celebrating Columbus Day, denying “white privilege” and claiming that there is only one human race, are only concerns of the far right.
The email was sent by the Army’s Equity and Inclusion Agency as part of its Operation Inclusion, and was signed by Casey Wardynski, the Assistant Secretary of the Army in charge of Manpower and Reserve Affairs. But because the email contravened the Hatch Act which prohibits any form of political engagement, the Pentagon quickly retracted it.
Hillary Clinton has meanwhile expressed her desire to see African-Americans and Hispanics – including illegal immigrants – vote on the internet to ensure Donald Trump’s defeat. On 13 July 2020 during an interview on the Daily Show, Clinton brushed off objections about the security of the electronic system, claiming it was trustworthy.
freewestmedia.com/2020/07/17/us-state-department-recruited-and-trained-french-race-activists/
New York Times: Make Classical Music More Diverse by Getting Rid of the Classical Part
I remember back when the New York Times had its own classical musical station. The Times was always toxic, but there was a time when there was more to it than viewing every damn thing through the lens of its political agenda. Which, at the moment, is race.
“With their major institutions founded on white European models and obstinately focused on the distant past, classical music and opera have been even slower than American society at large to confront racial inequity.”
Obstinately.
A genre whose high points occurred centuries ago is, get this, “obstinately” focused on the distant past. Why can’t it just go Skillrex?
But we are dealing with progressives here. And being focused on the distant past, as opposed to the unreachable utopia at the end of the socialist rainbow, is a bad thing. A thoughtcrime. Wrongthink. And, considering the current racial lens on everything, racist.
Nine Black performers spoke with The New York Times about steps that could be taken to begin transforming a white-dominated field.
Some are reasonable. Most involve affirmative action. And some go beyond that.
“The first step is admitting that these organizations are built on a white framework built to benefit white people. Have you done the work to create a structure that is actually benefiting Black and brown communities?”
Classical music is meant to benefit people who like classical music. That’s a minority of white or black people. The community it benefits isn’t racial, it’s based on affinity.
Anyway let’s cut to the Unmake Classical Music section of this.
I would like changes to be made in how we train musicians in conservatories and universities. A lot of our thinking, and our perceptions of what’s good music, becomes indoctrinated at that stage. I say this because even though I’m a person of color, I was guilty of not being accepting of new voices and styles outside of Beethoven, Schumann, all the usual music of the past.
There are plenty of classical musicians who enjoy rock, jazz, hip-hop, and assorted musical styles.
Being a classical musician does not mean rejecting all genres of music, but it does mean focusing on one. Dismissing it as the “usual music of the past” is, like the “obstinate” jab, revealing of a mindset which is hostile to classical music.
“If we reinvent what the opera or classical music audience is, we won’t have the disparities in people hired, people attending, even what’s presented, because you will have different people coming up with new ideas.”
Audiences invent themselves.
People decide what they want to listen to. That is their job. Any functioning adult develops his or her own tastes. There are things that can be done to introduce children to classical music. But that’s really a job for parents and schools. The burden isn’t on institutions, many of whom are already struggling, to launch some sort of giant outreach programs.
When we did “Champion” in New Orleans, this African-American guy in his 70s said, “If this is opera, I will come.” That’s a new audience member we didn’t have before. “La Bohème” doesn’t mean anything to him. But these contemporary stories do.
Good for him, but contemporary opera is frankly terrible. Doing it, white or black, means lowering quality and, inevitably going to political messaging. The great operas were written in the past. Trashing them because the past is now bad would kill classical music.
Some people see a Black tenor, and they think Otello. Or they see a Black soprano and they think Aida. “Who wants to see a Black Cio-Cio San?” You’ll hear that. But yes, opera is a suspension of disbelief. When someone does “Eugene Onegin,” they will often cast someone Russian or fluent in Russian. It doesn’t have to be who you expect. There are other people who can sing it.
One of these things is not like the other. You can have someone of any color sing a role. But being fluent in the language is obviously important. Russian is hard for anyone who isn’t Russian, regardless of their race. Learning to do it is a commitment.
Paul Robeson, a Stalinist and execrable human being, but a talented singer, learned to sing in Russian, when he was doing his endless tour of the USSR. Like anything else, it takes hard work and discipline. It’s not about color, but learning to sing in multiple languages is part of the job.
Western culture has contracted mad cow disease
by Giulio Meotti
This is a novel Timothée de Fombelle had the idea to write thirty years ago. He was thirteen when his parents took him to Ghana. “We got there on the tracks and there, on the coast, we could see where the Dutch, the French and the British kept the slaves over two centuries ago before sending them to America or the Caribbean. The vegetation had invaded the place, but there were still the rings hanging on the wall and images that I will never forget … “.
Thus was born the idea of”Alma”, released in France by Gallimard. Hundreds of thousands of children around the world have read De Fombelle’s books. De Fombelle wrote some of the most beautiful works of French children’s literature.
The first volume of a three-volume saga, “Alma” tells the story of an African girl during the period of slavery and evokes her struggle for abolition. But French success will not be repeated in English. Unlike all his previous works, this one by de Fombelle will not be published in England or the United States. He may be an excellent writer, but de Fombelle is white and as such he cannot deal with the subject of slavery.
“From Walker Books, my English publisher who has a branch in the United States, I was warned from the beginning,” said the writer to Le Point.
“A fascinating but too delicate topic, I was told: when one is white, therefore on the side of those who exploited blacks, one cannot take possession of the history of slavery. They liked the book, but for the first time they won’t publish it”.
In “Alma”, the heroine’s name, de Fombelle takes the reader aboard the ship “Douce Amélie” in 1786, which transports hundreds of slaves to France. The ideological “crime” of which the writer is now accused emerged in the 1980s and is called “cultural appropriation” – that is when the “dominant” culture takes elements from a minority or “dominated” culture.
“That a white man can tell the story of the slave trade from the point of view of slaves, even if this story is obviously not his own, is for me the very definition of literature,” said de Fombelle, defending the very basis of literature. But so it goes now.
Now the statue of Victor Schoelcher in front of the old Palais de Justice in Fort-de-France in Martinique is thrown to the ground and shattered to pieces. Why? Because the atheist dandy with a humanitarian vocation who abolished slavery in France, is, for the new anti-racists, actually a crypto racist. And it doesn’t matter that the poet of negritude, Aimé Césaire, celebrated him with the words: “Against the propensity for tyranny, there is an antidote: the spirit of Victor Schoelcher”.
Today a white man cannot even write a story about slaves, let alone free them. He can only kneel and keep silent.
Western culture has contracted mad cow disease. I am still wondering what happened to it. And how it happened.The new demographic power of minorities? The self-laceration of humanities? The construction of a new ideological consensus?
Many questions. Many worries that the West is in such a decadent situation that it will never be able to return, never be able to recover.
