Brussels police ordered to stand down against BLM rioters

During the BLM riots in Brussels, the municipal police failed to act in a timely manner against violence and destruction wrought by protesters. According to one disgruntled police officer, this was because t hey had been ordered by their superiors to stand down.

Belgian daily La Libre reported that an officer had complained about the danger they had faced. “We were hit with rocks, but the order from the mayor to charge didn’t come”.

The attack against the police, the looting of businesses, and the destruction of public property at the end of the Black Lives Matter protest in Brussels on June 7, has caused indignation, anger, but also incomprehension.

Why did the police did not intervene earlier? “It’s simple, we didn’t receive the order. We had to wait 1 hour and 30 minutes!” a police officer of the Brussels-Ixelles district, who wished to remain anonymous, complained

“Before the demonstration, we had received the order to not implement controls. Then, when we were hit with rocks and we confirmed the material destruction, such as traffic lights and traffic signs, we could not act. However, there the means to intervene was already in place. In normal times, we would have charged, but the order did not come… We remained in a defensive position: one leg in front and the baton in hand,” the source said.

“Then they sent us to play hide-and-seek: That is, we received the order to proceed to a street, except the mayhem was happening a few blocks further away. The goal: To avoid confronting the demonstrators. I really don’t understand what was going on in the heads of our decision-makers at that moment, because we could have easily arrested the rioters.”

And who are the decision-makers? “The mayor of Brussels,” exclaimed the police officer. “It is he who gave the instructions on Sunday, it’s he who supervised the operation from the crisis center with the area chief. Today, he says he reacted in time. But on the ground we had to wait 1 hour and 30 minutes after the first incidents before we could finally intervene. We felt abandoned. We were obliged to let it go when we were hit with every object that was in the hands of the ‘people destroying things’. Today, several colleagues are injured due to the paving stones they were hit with.”

The source indicated that it was expected that the protest would end in mayhem. Nevertheless, there were enough police on the ground to prevent just that. “It’s just that the manner in which we were utilized is incomprehensible. Morally, it is hard to go through.”

Finally, this police officer deplored the fact that the residents and merchants of the quarter were themselves also neglected. “Imagine: They call the police and more than an hour later, the police are still not there. They don’t understand this absence of reaction, this abandonment.”

The police union SLFP has filed a notice of strike for the Brussels Capital-Ixelles police district, which was deployed to cover the protest that involved about 10 000 people. “We stated that the risk analysis for Sunday did not hold water. The tolerance thresholds concerning violence against the police were sufficiently determined,” said Vincent Houssin, president of the union.

“Some 28 cops were injured. We turn here to the administrative authorities, who hold an important obligation and should assume responsibility for the application of the law,” he added. According to the union, the protest should never have been held.

Contacted by the daily, Philippe Close, the mayor of Brussels, asserted that this absence of order is “false”. “I formally refute this. After the incidents at Porte de Naur, we gave instructions to charge directly. I am ready to confront the point of view of anyone. We are not under a dictatorship; I can understand the critics. But I strongly dislike this process of testifying anonymously.”

The socialist mayor added that he had accompanied the corps commander. “How could you imagine that I would prefer that windows be broken and police injured? That’s ridiculous; it is defamation.”

Ilse Van de Keer, spokesperson for the police zone, said that the corps commander gave the order to intervene and charge from the “first incidents” but officers on the ground said it was not true.

freewestmedia.com/2020/06/16/brussels-police-ordered-to-stand-down-against-blm-rioters/

WATCH: A war has broken out between Algerian gangs and Chechen IS returnees in Dijon, France

A war has broken out between Algerian gangs and Chechen IS returnees in Dijon. Reportedly started due to a few Algerian adults beating up a 16 year old Chechen teen.While our mainstream media is exclusively concerned with alleged racism and Corona.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/06/france-army-deployed-to-dijon-to-quell-ethnic-violence-between-chechens-and-arabs-video/

Renewable power fails in Germany

By Mark Landsbaum

No one can tax and regulate you enough to come close to making it feasible for solar and wind power to replace fossil fuels — but count on them to continue taxing and regulating you until you scream “Enough!” And then probably continuing to tax and regulate long after that too.

Germany is even farther down the alternative energy road to oblivion than the U.S., and the Germans are running up against multiple insurmountable roadblocks.

Exorbitant tax subsidies haven’t helped, except to drain taxpayers’ pocketbooks and enrich industries that otherwise wouldn’t be profitable enough to exist. With hubris typical of tax-and-spend fanatics, Germans decided last year to shut down their entirely reliable, less-costly-to-operate 84 coal-ower plants in addition to closing all their nuclear-power plants.

Now the Germans are discovering what should have been obvious before they shot themselves in the foot: the alternatives of wind and solar power tremendously costly and will remain completely unreliable to provide energy 24/7 365 days a year at any price.

Despite states like California and New York declaring they too will follow this dead-end path, the idea that solar and wind power will replace fossil fuels is a myth.

“The inherent high cost and unreliability of wind and solar energy mean that they are highly unlikely ever to be more than niche players in the overall energy picture,” writes Francis Menton, a board member of the American affiliate to the UK’s Global Warming Policy Foundation.

Menton hammers nails in the solar-wind coffin:

  • No one yet has figured out how wind turbines and solar panels can run a fully functioning electrical grid without fossil fuel backup. (That means the fossil fuel plants being shut down are necessary for when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. Or else the lights go out.) 
  • Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that “Germany’s Green Power Finance Is Becoming Unaffordable.” Unaffordable plus inadequate is a formula for disaster. 
  • Government-guaranteed payments to power producers already cost about $100 per month for every German household — on top of “electricity prices that were already about triple the U.S. average.” 
  • Germany is discovering the yin and yang of solar and wind: When the wind blows on a sunny day, more electrical power is generated than the country can use, resulting in it given away to Poland (or even to pay the Poles to take it). But on a calm night, no matter how much wind and solar is built, it produces nothing. 
  • There is no practical storage to save power to use later, and without fossil-fuel backups there will be nothing to fill the gap when electricity is not generated. 
  • Cambridge Professor Michael Kelly states the obvious: if wind and solar energy are ever going to surpass niche status, there is a gigantic engineering problem to solve.  But to date nobody has engineered an electrical system based on the intermittent energy from solar and wind that works 24/7/365.  
  • Nevertheless, these true believers have plunged ahead phasing out what works to replace it with what doesn’t, driving up costs and taxes in the process.

Menton sums up by saying “…almost everything you read about supposed solutions to climate change is completely delusional.”

I highly recommend Menton’s own blog post on this subject, which is replete with fine points, details, and technical information that bolster the case. It would behoove German change agents to read it if they are lost in the politically correct mumble jumble and need a wakeup call before it’s too late. New Yorkers and Californians as well.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/renewable_power_fails_in_germany.html

No one spared: Philosopher Kant attacked as ‘co-founder of racism’

The historian Michael Zeuske has spoken out in favor of targeting personalities such as the philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) when dealing with historical racism in Germany.

“He co-founded European racism in his writings,” the professor at the University of Bonn told Deutschlandfunk over the weekend.

The background to this new insanity are the attacks and the destruction of monuments of European and American politicians, the military and entrepreneurs who were slave owners or who were allegedly “racist” even if they had campaigned to end slavery.

“If you apply the discourse level of racism to monuments, a lot has to be done,” said Zeuske, referring to German history. He praised projects for dealing with slavery in the Holy Roman Empire.

In view of the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement, he expressed hope “that a new chapter in history will be written”. There may be a profound cultural change in our societies. Zeuske spoke of a “cultural revolution”.

At the beginning of June, rioters in Bristol, England, overturned the statue of the MP and slave trader Edward Colston (1636-1721) and sunk it in the harbor basin. In Richmond, Virginia, demonstrators overturned a statue of the navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus (1451-1506).

In Hamburg meanwhile, strangers smeared the Bismarck monument in the Altona district with red paint. The 34-meter-high monument to Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) near the Landungsbrücken in Hamburg was the target of anti-white protesters. Bismarck was the founder of the German Empire and its first chancellor. He is accused of his role in German colonial politics.

Hamburg historian Jürgen Zimmerer advocated a new approach to the monuments. In public broadcaster ARD’s morning magazine, he suggested that the statues be put down or turned upside down, “to challenge our viewing habits. In this way, a confrontation with history is forced”.

In London, a university library said that they intend to “decolonize and diversify” their collection of books to appeal to the Black Lives Matter movement.

On Friday, the Royal Holloway University of London Library said that, in an effort combat “structural racism” in British society, it will be removing books from their collection, apologising for not doing so earlier.

“We’ve taken time to reflect on our role in this and recognize that we must do more to combat systemic racism and support our BME [Black and Minority Ethnic] community. With this in mind, we’ve created a reading list of resources to help you understand the struggle against racism,” the Royal Holloway declared.

“But we know there is much more we can do. Going forward we will be sharing details on the steps we are taking to decolonize and diversify our collections, make our services more inclusive and tackle racism and discrimination. Now is the time for real and lasting change,” the library said.

The symbolic book burning by race fanatics, comes amidst similar calls to purge statues, popular historic movies, and television programmes featuring police officers because they are deemed offensive to left-wing sensibilities.

In the US, the publicly-funded media organisation National Public Radio (NPR) called on Americans to start “decolonizing your bookshelf“.

The broadcaster claimed that “white voices have dominated what has been considered canon for eons,” adding that so-called decolonisation of bookshelves is “about actively resisting and casting aside the colonialist ideas of narrative, storytelling, and literature that have pervaded the American psyche for so long”.

In Rennes, France, race rioting arsonists tried to set the Saint-Pierre cathedral on fire last week. Their attempts at torching the historic monument was foiled by Rennes firefighters.

The door was damaged, and partially destroyed by the flames while the pediment and stones around the door, were blackened by smoke. The Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DRAC) instructed local craftsmen to carry out a temporary repair.

freewestmedia.com/2020/06/15/no-one-spared-philosopher-kant-attacked-as-co-founder-of-racism/

You want to hunt down racists? Here’s one…

“The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.”

Obviously this is a quote that shows his idea: European white people are superior to the Black Africans. There is no other way of interpretation this quote.

There is also another quote from his book ‘the motorcicle diaries’ that he says Mexicans are lazy Indians.

“During the Cuban guerrilla campaign, Che’s girlfriend (for all intents and purposes) for the first half of 1958 was Zoila Rodríguez García, a black/mulatto woman.”

During slavery time in Brazil, it was very common the black slave women to give birth to mulato children, as their ‘owners’ used to also take advantage of them sexualy. The fact you sleep with a black person doesn’t make you a not racist person.

“In 1959, Che pushed for racially integrating the schools and universities in Cuba, years before they were racially integrated in the southern United States. “

Try to push for racially integrating school show that you think blacks are not smart enough to enter school by their own effort. This sort of mentality is offensive to any black person. I believe we are all the same and we can reach whatever we want if we try hard enough. This sort of mentality is typical from ‘rich kids’ such as Che Guevara, that got born in a rich family and see poor people and black people as less capable and in need of help and support from ‘superior beings’ like themselves. 

I came from a very poor family. My grandmother and grandfather used to walk 20 kilometres to reach a farm where she would work 8 hours under the burning sun and earn little money. After a lot of struggle, they moved to Sao Paulo with absolutely nothing. Sao Paulo is a capitalist city in Brazil with a large industry, where my grandma found a job as maid and my grandpa in a factory, and managed to save money and buy a piece of land and build their house. Beside working they had nine children, which all survived and lived well. That’s the power a poor person that never went to school has: work in hard conditions, start from zero, raise children and never give up. People like my grandparents have much more power to conquest things than anarchists freaks with superiority complex like Che Guevara. Poor people, black people, all people only need opportunities only and a govern that doesn’t explore them, like the Cuban government that remove 70% of Cubans salary in income taxes. Che Guevara thought he was superior – a hero! – and was ‘saving’ other people while wearing Rolex watches… he actually put all Cuban people in a slavery system which thousands of them end up dying in open sea trying to scape from it.

https://www.quora.com/Was-Che-Guevara-racist?share=1