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World media silent as German government to extend state of emergency indefinitely
In sharp contrast to last year’s reports about Hungary’s emergency legislation during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic, the German government’s proposal to extend the state of emergency indefinitely has been announced without any negative commentary or condemnation from the guardians of global democracy.
The German government, made up of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), the Christian Socialist Union (CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), has proposed to change the so-called “Infection Protection Act”, and extend the special powers of the German federal government for an unlimited period, which transfers a number of key powers of the parliament to the executive government, and creates a legal basis for the government to suspend a number of fundamental rights enshrined in Germany’s constitution, such as curtailing freedom of assembly.
For those demanding a medical or scientific justification for granting such sweeping powers to a democratic government, there is going to be a very long wait though, as the deadline for the scientific report that would explain the need for such legal measures is set for March 31, 2022 — more than a year from now.
Furthermore, it is not medical authorities or expert-led panels who will determine what is an “epidemic of national proportions”, which is the legal basis for the current emergency powers. The task falls on members of the Bundestag; they are the ones who will decide on when an epidemic situation warrant special powers for the government. The Bundestag will simply need to have a vote every three months to extend these emergency powers.
The new amendment to the Infection Protection Act also adds further criteria to the existing ones that could be taken into account when renewing the state of emergency, such as the progress of vaccination, or R-rates. This will allow the government to extend or deepen its own emergency powers by the new criteria should the old ones seem insufficient to support such a decision.
The German mainstream media had found nothing objectionable in the radical proposals, and even among opposition politicians there were few and far between to criticize the Merkel government’s proposal. Only the opposition FDP MP Wolfgang Kubicki had dared to declare that “Corona is not keeping us in lockdown, but this federal government because it has been unable to provide sufficient masks, sufficient rapid tests and sufficient vaccine for months”.
The ease by which rules governing basic civic liberties are changed under Angela Merkel’s government are well in line with other measures, such as a sharp crackdown on German opposition parties, or the lack of concern about rising anti-semitic attacks from left-wing groups. However, it is the astonishing hypocrisy of the world’s mainstream media and human rights NGOs in their sharply contrasting reactions to health emergency laws in Germany and those recently adopted by the Hungarian government that truly unmask the double-standards by which left-wing opinion-making elites operate.
When the Hungarian Parliament voted for a state of emergency during the first wave in 2020, the media and human rights industry reacted with outrage and called for international condemnation. One well-funded political pressure-group pretending to be a human rights platform wrote that “the act resembles the German Enabling Act of 1933, the infamous law that created the legal basis for Nazi rule under the Weimar Constitution”.
“The emergency bill also allows Orban to prevent public demonstrations and mitigate criticism by political opponents and the media. He will be the one to decide when the current emergency state is over,” claimedthe left-wing media outlet CNBC.
“Hungary’s state of emergency law is a ‘blank cheque’ to Orban”, wrote another media outlet in its headlines.
According to the Council of Europe human rights chief, Dunja Mijatović, the Hungarian act “would grant sweeping powers to the government to rule by decree without a clear cut-off date and safeguards”.
“Orban granted indefinite ‘authoritarian’ power”, claimed a staunch anti-Orbán English language media outlet.
Even Germany’s minister for European affairs, Michael Roth, who has currently voiced no opposition to Germany’s new radical rule-changes, warned in relation to last year’s Hungarian state of emergency that “Covid-19 requires adequate responses. But they must not endanger rule of law, disempower democratic institutions or put fundamental rights at risk. We need to overcome this together, not rule through decrees.”
Even after all the above critics were proven wrong and the state of emergency was lifted in Hungary, the political lobby group Human Rights Watch stlll saw a conspiracy: “Following international outrage, the Hungarian government’s announcement to revoke the rule-by-decree and state of emergency law this week at first glance seems a positive step. But don’t let Orban’s authoritarian regime fool you.”
As the German government is about to enter uncharted territories by granting itself emergency powers for an unlimited period based on rather arbitrary criteria, the world’s media is unconcerned, and focuses rather on its customary Orbán-bashing in relation to the EPP scandal unabated. At the same time, the only ones benefiting from the global anti-Orbán smear campaign are the Europhile Hungarian left, and all those powers that are opposed to the Hungarian government’s Christian-conservative vision of Europe and a union of empowered and sovereign nation-states.
What is clear is that any measure introduced by Angela Merkel’s government becomes immediately normative for servile Western political decision-makers and those of the so-called journalist class all while the systematic campaign of disinformation against Hungary’s conservatives charges ahead with unbroken vigor.
Islamic State (IS) auctions captive Yezidi women to Turkish men on the internet
Six years after its gruesome assault on the Yazidi minority in Iraq, the Islamic State (IS) continues to sell Yazidi captives online on what is known as the “deep web” of criminal activities. A number of such sales have taken place in Turkey, indicating that IS militants are still able to take shelter in the country.
Most recently, a 7-year-old Yazidi girl was rescued by police posing as buyers. According to Turkish journalist Hale Gonultas, who closely follows the fate of IS captives, police took action after an advertisement in Kurdish and Arabic, complete with the girl’s picture, appeared online Feb. 23. Posing as relatives of the child, the police made the highest bid and were able to detect the address of the advertiser. They raided a home in Ankara’s Kecioren district the following day and rescued the girl.
According to the official account of the incident, police and intelligence services established that a suspect, who was a ranking member of IS in Mosul, Iraq, had made it to Ankara, bringing along a Yazidi child as “war booty.” The man, identified only as S.O., was detained along with a suspected accomplice.
After such online “auctions,” the captives are usually delivered via “safe middlemen” who are typically criminals involved in the trafficking of drugs, arms and humans. The rescued girl remains in state care in Ankara, as Iraqi commissions dealing with missing Yazidis are working to trace her family.
In July 2020, a 24-year-old Yazidi woman, held captive in Ankara’s Sincan district, was rescued by relatives in Australia who “bought” her in an online sale. According to Gonultas, the Yazidi woman’s captor — a Turkmen IS member from Mosul — had bought her from an online slave market in 2018. The man, who moved frequently between Iraq and Turkey, kept a home in Sincan with his two wives, four children and the Yazidi woman.
Another Yazidi woman was rescued in Ankara in October 2019. She was held by a senior Iraqi Turkmen member of IS, who was so audacious as to rent an apartment near a police station in Kecioren. The young woman, abducted as a 14-year-old in 2014, lived with the family of the IS militant and had a baby as a product of rape. The man, who had been an IS emir in Tal Afar, Iraq, traveled frequently to Iraq, which allowed the woman’s brother to track him down to Ankara. The brother managed to take a picture of his sister and her captor, seizing a rare moment the man took the woman out, and went to the police. Eventually, the woman was rescued. The authorities, however, took no legal action against her captor as she did not file a complaint against him, although they had enough findings to pursue a criminal case for abduction and rape.
Another rescue saga unfolded in Kirsehir, a city not far from Ankara, in 2017, when an Iraqi Turkmen made an unsuccessful attempt to register two children as his own at a police bureau dealing with refugees. The two siblings were taken into state care, while their pictures were sent to Iraqi centers dealing with missing Yazidis. This eventually brought their adult sister to Kirsehir — a woman who herself had been an IS captive before relatives bailed her out. Her parents, husband, son and a sibling were also missing. The woman faced legal barriers in claiming her siblings in Kirsehir, including having to provide DNA tests and proof that their parents were dead. Ultimately, the two children, ages 9 and 11, were handed over to Iraqi Kurdistan President Nechirvan Barzani when he visited Ankara in September.
11 Muslim refugees on trial for several gang rapes committed on German women
Two men convicted of a gang rape in Freiburg must stand trial for an alleged further gang rape. The two Syrians, together with a third, also Syrian, accused, allegedly gang-raped a then 19-year-old woman in September 2017, the Freiburg Regional Court announced on Thursday. The scene of the crime was the Freiburg flat of one of the accused. The trial is scheduled to begin on March the 11th. Eleven days of court sessions are scheduled.The two men, aged 24 and 25, who have already been convicted, have been in pre-trial detention since October 2018 for the gang rape in a bush outside a Freiburg disco. Last July, they were sentenced to several years in prison for this. However, the sentences are not yet final, as the Federal Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the appeals of the two men. The third accused was so far at large, as the court informed.In addition to rape, the men are accused of other offences in the new trial. Among other things, the 24-year-old has to answer for dangerous bodily harm, for an attempted sexual assault and an exhibitionistic offence. The 25-year-old is alleged to have committed drug offences.The gang rape at the Hans-Bunte-Areal in Freiburg in mid-October 2018 had caused great horror. Eleven men were accused in the subsequent trial, all but one of them refugees.
Germany: Abbess grants monastery asylum to 30 Muslims – but not to a single Christian
She was supposed to receive the “Peace Prize” at the weekend, but now the date has been postponed.
“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me” is a Christian guiding principle according to Matthew chapter 25, verse 35. The commandment to love one’s neighbour applied to one’s brethren in the faith, not to all the people of that time. Today, it is usually applied to all conceivable nearest and nearest ones on the continents, no longer only to the people in the neighbourhood.
Monastic charity for all? But not for certain Christians? I could not believe my eyes when I had to read such sentences from a convent headmistress, which she gave to the newspaper Badische Zeitung in an interview. For example, a Christian who was persecuted and came to Germany via France was not granted monastery asylum by the kind woman. She had him sent away at the risk that France would not grant asylum because he had also entered France via a safe third country.
But there are open arms for Muslims who entered via Hungary and did not apply for asylum there. Also not receiving asylum or any other residence status here and therefore had to go back: “In 2016, a young man from Iraq and a young German woman who was supporting the man stood in front of the monastery door. He was desperate because he was to be deported to Hungary, where he had entered the EU for the first time …”, the abbess justified the way she opened her monastery to save the man from being “deported” to Hungary. Which is not true. No one is deported from Germany, but returned in more comfort than it was to arrive. He felt badly treated in Hungary, but there is still Austria between Hungary and Germany. Presumably he wanted to come here because of his bride or for some other reason. However, the immigration and asylum law is not yet a matter of wishful thinking.
This migrant’s family was surrounded by IS in Mosul, the Muslim man argues. His brother was killed there. What happened to the family was not mentioned in the interview. Mosul was indeed a contested city in 2015/16. The main targets of the “Islamic State”, however, were Christians rather than Muslims…
“Mosul looks back on 1600 years of Christian tradition. Until recently, the city was the seat of several archbishops of Eastern churches of Syriac tradition…. The cathedral of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch and at the same time the oldest church in the city is the Cathedral of St. Thomas from 640 … of the Syrian Catholic Church. However, the cathedral of the latter was the 17th century Syriac Catholic al-Tahira Cathedral, which was almost completely destroyed in 2017 but is to be rebuilt. The Chaldean Catholic Church, in turn, had its episcopal see in the medieval Mart Meskinta Church until it was moved to the 18th century Chaldean al-Tahira Cathedral in the 1980s….
After the conquest of Mosul by ISIS and Islamic State fighters, the Christian inhabitants were given the choice of leaving the city, converting to Islam or being executed. The vast majority of Christians then left Mosul at the end of July, bringing the city’s Christian tradition to an end for the time being. According to Archbishop Louis Raphaël I. Sako, 25,000 Christians were still living in Mosul when ISIS took power; according to the BBC, there were even 35,000…
On February 2, 2015, Islamic State terrorists in Mosul blew up one of Iraq’s largest and oldest Chaldean Catholic churches, the Church of the Virgin Mary. In April 2016, the historic 19th century Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Hour was destroyed. (source Wikipeda)
Open Doors presented a memorable story from Mosul in 2017 with a report. A young man had joined the IS. Christians were expelled or cruelly murdered. He also participated in their expulsion. A few days after the forced exodus of Christians, while walking through the city, he saw men of his age hanging from four crosses, guarded by two IS fighters. Ten metres from the crosses, he looked up at the bloody men and heard one of them ask God to forgive the IS fighters. The others chanted in a weary voice, “Zeedo el-Maseeh tasbeeh – Praise Jesus Christ more and more.”
Traumatised, he left IS and was able to flee. His path led to Istanbul, where he heard the song of the four crucified people again from a group of people – and then joined the Christians. Converted, he returned to Mosul, as did many others. Back to a former stronghold of Christianity. For in Turkey, Christians are almost only to be found in the Istanbul area and behind monastery walls.
So it cannot be this man who knocked on the monastery door accompanied by his bride. Nor is it reported that this man converted to Christianity in the monastery that gives him so much charity. Is there any attempt at all in church or monastery asylums to convince Muslims that their faith is an aberration that is causing so much harm everywhere in Islamic states? I know of one organisation besides Open Doors that is successful in defusing human time bombs – the conversion of Muslims and even former Islamists.
But no, our churches and monasteries prefer to coddle Muslims and show fellow believers the door. Like this abbess, who is to stand trial this month. She has to answer for 30 counts of aiding and abetting illegal residence in Germany. She is doing this with other abbesses and nuns. Women simply have a bigger heart for migrants. Outside the convent walls, too, it is women, mostly single, who are the most active in the voluntary help circles and also tend to offer personal support to migrants. But they are not awarded the Göttingen Peace Prize as the abbess had hoped for the weekend, but they have postponed it. Other volunteers have lost their lives for or in spite of their willingness to help, as happened in Freiburg.
Why do persecuted Christians hardly ever manage to flee to us? To some extent, word has got around among them that sharing accommodation with Muslims is extremely dangerous and conflict-laden. They also know that only a few Christians are willing to accept other Christians. Or they are among the migrants after all and, frightened, do not reveal their faith.
Thus, hardly any victims of war and terror are given any help in Germany, but migrants from the milieu of perpetrators are all the more likely to be helped. Just like the many criminals who have made their way to Germany in the wake of the wave of migration. Some of them are known by name, most of them not yet.
Autor: Albrecht Künstle – https://haolam.de/artikel/Deutschland/44075/btissin-gibt-30-Migranten-Klosterasyl–einem-Christen-nicht.html
Emmanuel Macron allowed the arrival of ‘two million migrants’
The former French Minister of the Interior sharply criticized the migration policy of the current head of state.
Speaking to French daily Le Figaro, Brice Hortefeux has not spared President Emmanuel Macron on the migration issue: “The state has lost control of immigration… ”
His finding is clear. “Five years of the Macron presidency, means around two million additional migrants, more than twice the city of Marseille,” said the former Minister of the Interior while denouncing “the abundant speeches on the control of flows” which have been “completely contradicted by the reality and the figures for 2020 (302 204 regular entries against 415 826 in 2019).”
The Republican Party MEP believes for his part that the decline currently observed is “due to the Covid effect” only.
“I affirm that we will undergo a strong rebound as soon as the crisis is over,” he insisted. The former member of the government of Francois Fillon also regrets that nothing is being done “to restrict family reunification which concerns 72 245 people. Nothing has been done either to suppress the automatic acquisition of French nationality by marriage – 25 200 in 2019 – the abuses of which are known.”
He concluded that those who have been rejected the right of asylum, are not deported. The Court of Auditors has estimated the rate of expulsion at 5 percent. According to the elected LR member, “there have never been so many immigrants in our country, to date between 6 and 7,5 million”.
Immigration policy will become one of the essential issues of the next presidential election in France.
But it may be the recent judgment against his friend and former president Nicolas Sarkozy which has put the former interior minister in this state. The judicial decision considered by many commentators to be particularly severe against Sarkozy may have served as a catalyst for Hortefeux to openly attack Macron.
On March 1, 2021, a court in Paris found Sarkozy guilty of corruption, trading in influence in a wiretapping and illegal data exchange case. Sarkozy and his two co-defendants were sentenced to three years, two of them suspended, and one in prison. Sarkozy has appealed the ruling, which suspends its application.
Curiously, the Head of State appointed the president of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF). He was criticized in the case involving Sarkozy as well as in the Fillon case citing open bias.
By savaging the migration policy of Emmanuel Macron, it is hard to imagine that the right arm of Nicolas Sarkozy acted alone without having consulted beforehand with his loyal mentor and friend. In this sense, one can easily interpret this declaration of war as a real rupture between the two presidents. It is an essential fact in the perspective of the next presidential elections especially as Brice Hortefeux will be involved in the organization of the primaries.
https://freewestmedia.com/2021/03/07/emmanuel-macron-allowed-the-arrival-of-two-million-migrants/
Cancelled Tech Genius Behind Brave Preps the First New Search Engine
You may remember Brendan Eich. He was the brilliant mind behind JavaScript who co-founded Mozilla, and then was forced out as an early victim of cancel culture over his religious views on traditional marriage.
Since then, the Mozilla Foundation has vanished into further obscurity. Hardly anyone uses Firefox. Thunderbird is a disaster.
But Eich rebounded with Brave, a privacy-oriented browser. That’s not a unique idea, most alternative browsers to Google’s Chrome and whatever Microsoft is calling its browser this week, claim to offer privacy.
But Brave recently had a gamechanger by way of integrating IFPS.
IFPS is potentially a huge deal in an internet that is centralized around a handful of Big Tech monopolies because it moves from a vertical model to a horizontal one, in which sites are loaded from other internet users. Think of it as Torrent for internet browsing. And that will make it much harder to take those sites down.
Now Brave is announcing a new search engine.
Remember, there are only two actual big search engines (where there once used to be many), Google and Bing. Services like DuckDuckGo just serve up results from Bing while keeping you anonymous.
But Brave is touting not just a front for Bing results, but an actual index. That’s potentially huge.
Brave, the privacy-focused browser co-founded by ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, is getting ready to launch an own-brand search engine for desktop and mobile.
Today it’s announced the acquisition of an open source search engine developed by the team behind the (now defunct) Cliqz anti-tracking search-browser combo. The tech will underpin the forthcoming Brave Search engine — meaning it will soon be pitching its millions of users on an entirely ‘big tech’-free search and browsing experience.
“Under the hood, nearly all of today’s search engines are either built by, or rely on, results from Big Tech companies. In contrast, the Tailcat search engine is built on top of a completely independent index, capable of delivering the quality people expect but without compromising their privacy,” Brave writes in a press release announcing the acquisition.
The former Cliqz dev team, who had subsequently been working on Tailcat, are moving to Brave as part of the acquisition. The engineering team is led by Dr Josep M Pujol — who is quoted in Brave’s PR saying it’s “excited to be working on the only real private search/browser alternative to Big Tech”.
“Tailcat is a fully independent search engine with its own search index built from scratch,” Eich told TechCrunch. “Tailcat as Brave Search will offer the same privacy guarantees that Brave has in its browser.
“Brave will provide the first private browser+search alternative to the Big Tech platforms, and will make it seamless for users to browse and search with guaranteed privacy. Also, owing to its transparent nature, Brave Search will address algorithmic biases and prevent outright censorship.”
I don’t want to hype this up too much. Launching an actual search engine is a huge and expensive venture. Competing with Google, which all but monopolizes the search engine market, is a daunting proposition. Other companies have tried and failed. But this is still potentially very exciting.
Google is not only relentlessly biased (the lefty monopoly has deliberately buried my articles in search results for about a year now), its core search engine business has become a massive database of spam. Its search results are inaccurate and its algorithms prioritize corporate sites, political agendas, and its own financial agendas… in reverse order.
A new search engine would be a revolution. An alternative to Google would be as thrilling as the return of Mozilla to challenge Microsoft’s browser back in the day. And it would make for more of a difference to a free internet.
If Brave becomes the epicenter of a browser that bypasses Big Tech control and a new search engine, that could liberate the internet.
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Poland: IKEA director charged after firing employee who refused to participate in LGBT events
In May 2019, an IKEA worker published two Bible quotes in his workplace’s intranet after his employer instituted a day-long event entitled “solidarity with LGBT excluded persons day”. The man was fired for the posts.
The IKEA human resources director, who made the decision to fire the worker, has now been charged with restricting the employee’s rights and discriminating against their beliefs.
The IKEA director is currently facing a fine and incarceration of up to two years for discriminating against the IKEA employee.
According to Deputy Justice Minister Marcin Romanowski, the prosecutor’s office decision was “very good and expected” and Romanowski listed the articles of the Polish constitution which protect freedom of belief and their expression, as well as employee rights.
Romanowski emphasized that every employer, including international companies, is obligated to respect the privacy of its workers, avoid ideological actions towards them, respect their right to freedom of expression, and to not discriminate against workers due to their worldviews.
“We will not permit for Poles to have to hide their faith. We will not allow for the dictatorship of relativism. There will be no ideological agenda in workplaces,” the minister declared.
According to one of the Warsaw prosecutor’s offices, the IKEA store involved in the case had made a “solidarity with LGBT excluded persons day”.
The man who was fired had taken leave in order to not participate in the event and quoted the Bible in a comment under an article entitled “Accepting LGBT is the responsibility of every one of us”.
The prosecutor’s office spokesman Marcin Saduś listed the two Bible quotes:
“Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come,” and “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination”.
The prosecutor’s office declared that the decision to fire the worker was due to the prejudices of the IKEA representative towards the employee.
The quotes were determined to not have been an attack on any particular co-worker but instead a response to the employer’s decision to hold an ideologically-driven event at the IKEA store.
Germany: Syrian parcel delivery driver on trial for rape
This time he is threatened with imprisonment! So far Bozan I. (23) has “only” been fined for his rough treatment of women. But now the courier has to stand trial for rape at the Regional Court of Görlitz.
According to the indictment, the Syrian-born man met a compatriot woman on the internet. He pretended to be a woman, obtained her trust and got a photo from her “showing her unveiled”.
Bozan then revealed himself as a man and blackmailed the victim. He demanded nude photos or he would send the unveiled photo to her husband.
He posted a photo of the victim on the internet and demanded sex in exchange for deleting it – which is an offence equivalent to rape.
Bozan also attacked the woman in a flat, pulled her to the floor and groped her. A friend intervened.”That’s not true,” the defendant said via his lawyer. He had had a relationship with the woman. Only when she threatened to tell his wife about the affair, he threatened to tell her husband as well. He was lured into the flat, locked up and had to flee by force.Witness statements should now bring clarity. Bozan was already convicted in Görlitz for hitting a perfect stranger, grabbing her and licking her face. A year later, he stalked a woman, ignored her rejections and finally threatened to harm her husband if he did not have his way.And according to another indictment already in the hands of the court, Bozan is alleged to have raped two girls in Görlitz with a buddy.The verdict will be given soon.
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