By Dennis Sevakis

The very green Germans have major concerns regarding their dependence on renewables:

‘Die Welt’ Commentary: “Europe Can’t Bail Out The German Power Supply”…Calls Strategy “A Dangerous Miscalculation”
Germany has seriously overestimated how much its neighboring countries are able to help out in the event wind and solar energy fail to deliver, thus putting its power supply at risk.
By P. Gosselin on 11 September 2018

Little attention is paid to the question of just how much “climate change” is a result of human activity, i.e., CO2 emissions into the atmosphere resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. Does anyone have a handle on this?

A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions

ABSTRACT:We examine tropospheric temperature trends of 67runs from 22 ‘Climate of the 20th Century’ model simulations and try to reconcile them with the best available updated observations (in the tropics during the satellite era). Model results and observed temperature trends are in disagreement in most of the tropical troposphere, being separated by more than twice the uncertainty of the model mean. In layers near 5 km, the modelled trend is 100 to 300% higher than observed, and, above 8 km, modelled and observed trends have opposite signs. These conclusions contrast strongly with those of recent publications based on essentially the same data. 

Copyright 2007 Royal Meteorological Society 
Received 31 May 2007; Accepted 11 October 2007

I’ve sent that around before, and here’s one of the replies I received in response to the question:

“So, you think the following (‘A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions’) is b.s.? You don’t understand it? Or something else? Just asking.”

Answer: “So tilts the narrative that conclusions are not credible. (can collect enough isolated facts to prove almost anything – in this case, I just don’t agree with premise.)”

… which indicates absolutely zero understanding of the issue. The degree of warming in the tropical troposphere resulting from an increase of CO₂ is the central premise behind the climate change hoopla. The fact that such warming is not occurring to the degree predicted by the climate models is not an ‘isolated fact,’ it is a very strong indication that there is a real disconnect between theory and reality. The linchpin is weak or missing.

Whatever observed changes are taking place, they are probably not primarily the result of CO2 “pollution.” 

What’s also missing is any great awareness of this by the general population. Try asking friends or acquaintances what their understanding is of the connection between human activity and “climate change.” A blank stare is often the result.

As far as our climate crisis leadership elites are concerned, I have little idea how many are merely ignorant, or lying, or both. Whatever the case may be, it’s misdirection on steroids. 90% politics, 10% science.

For more on the issue of what’s “science” and what’s “denial,” spend some time browsing the “Science and Environmental Policy Project” website.

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” 
– Physicist Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate.

I occasionally remind myself of that.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/as_germans_freeze_leading_newspaper_calls_green_energy_strategy_a_dangerous_miscalculation.html

The National Counterterrorism and Security Coordinator (NCTV) is concerned about the rise of the influence of the Turkish leader among Dutch people of Turkish origin. In an internal memo that HP/De Tijd has in its possession, the NCTV reported that Turkish President Erdogan is implementing a strategy of conscious Islamization in the Netherlands.

Erdogan supports Salafist organizations, sometimes jihadists, linked to Turkish-Dutch institutions and this could affect Dutch security, the service believes.

But Turkey’s Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun criticized the NCTV report, saying that it was biased and mimicked the ideology of neo-Nazis.

In the confidential memorandum, a possible link is made between “anti-Western rhetoric” of the Turkish President and the terrorist attack on a tram in Utrecht in 2019. Four people were killed in that attack. The day before this attack in Utrecht, Erdogan had mentioned the terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which left 49 dead. Erdogan placed it “in a context of war between Muslims and Christians,” according to the HP, citing the report.

The NCTV confirmed the existence of the memorandum to Dutch public broadcaster NOS, but did not wish to comment on its content.

The report states that the Turkish community is “vulnerable to the influence of Turkey”. Ties with Turkey are strong, and many Turkish Dutch people vote for Erdogan in Turkish elections. They are also associated with foundations which are in contact with the Turkish government.

The Turkish-Dutch youth organizations in particular are said to be affected by the fundamentalist movement of Islam. The memorandum warned against radicalization, also online.

From various walks of life, there have been criticisms against the “factually incorrect analyzes” or at least some improbabilities contained in the report. For example, the Utrecht tram attacker has been associated with statements made by Erdogan in the NCTV report. However, Gökmen T. is a supporter of the extremist cleric Metin Kaplan, who is pursuing an Islamic caliphate. His movement and Erdogan’s AKP are at odds. The attacker had called Erdogan “an American dog”.

The fact that the report pointed out that Erdogan has been allowing the spread of Salafi organizations, has been debated. The Salafists are rivals of the Muslim Brotherhood and it is precisely this movement which is supported by Turkey. Although they are both conservative Islamic movements, there are important ideological differences between the Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Turkey and Qatar are important pillars of the Muslim Brotherhood, while Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States support the Salafist movements. Turkey and Saudi Arabia have been rivals for years vying for influence in the Middle East.

The memorandum is not yet “analytically mature”, Dutch Justice and Security Minister Grapperhaus complained. This means, among other things, that the security services AIVD and MIVD and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Social Affairs and Employment have yet to give their opinion on this subject. These services are currently reviewing the report. The NCTV then decides whether the report still needs to be amended and published or whether it remains confidential.

The substantive analysis of the report is included in an overview of security threats that is published three times a year, said the NCTV. The service expects the next version of it to be released in late March, early April.

Dutch PVV leader Geert Wilders has meanwhile called the Turkish leader a “terrorist” in a tweet. Wilders urged Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to “show courage” to oppose the Turkish president, expel the Turkish ambassador and expel Turkey from NATO. Wilders shared a drawing of Erdogan with the ISIS terrorist flag in the background.

Erdogan supporters soon fired back: They denounced Wilders as a pig and a devil and said he was racist. “Erdogan is democratically elected by the Turkish people and is the leader who fights the terrorist organization DAESH the most in Syria,” one Turkish supporter said, adding that Wilders was the “real terrorist”.

The report underscored that Turkish citizens in the Netherlands were likely to be manipulated by Erdogan, because he wanted to become the leader of Sunni Muslims around the world.

Turkey’s presidential spokesperson also slammed Wilders, calling the Dutch politician an “imbecile” while the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) spokesperson Ömer Çelik said Wilders was a “cursed Nazi”.

“If he lived in the Middle East now, he would have been a Daesh murderer, but because he lives in the Netherlands today, he has become an ugly anti-humanity fascist,” Çelik said, adding that Wilders would kill innocent migrants if he had the chance to do so.

“It is only natural for this fascist to attack our president, who has embraced migrants fleeing death,” Çelik concluded, claiming that Wilders was the enemy of “humanitarian values”.

Turkey’s chief public prosecutor’s office issued a statement announcing a probe against Wilders for “including a photograph and written insult about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Feb. 15”.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/02/17/netherlands-national-counterterrorism-and-security-coordinator-concerned-about-erdogans-influence/

On Friday, the French government announced the dissolution of the anti-mass-immigration, identitarian movement Génération Identitaire, also known as Generation Identity in the English-speaking world, after its recent protest action at the French-Spanish border, which exposed the government’s lack of control of illegal immigration, despite its previous statements to the contrary. Remix News spoke on Monday by phone with Jérémie Piano, the spokesperson for the organization, which calls itself a “right-wing Greenpeace” because of its actions devised to attract media attention.

The French Interior Minister wants to dissolve your movement. What reason is given in the notification you received on Friday?

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin wants to dissolve us for two reasons: incitement to hatred and the formation of militias. For his accusations, he relies in particular on the actions that Génération Identitaire has carried out in the Alps and the Pyrenees. For the 2018 Defend Europe mission in the Alps, we were fully absolved by a court of appeal. Concerning our last action, last month in the Pyrenees, the prefect himself acknowledged that we had not done anything illegal. For the charge of incitement to hatred, Gérald Darmanin’s services also rely on the occupation of the roof of the Poitiers mosque construction site in 2012, for which, similarly, we had no conviction. The file is quite empty legally, and if we are judged according to the law, we will win because it is mostly a political move on the part of the government.

It also seems that the French government is resorting to judicial harassment against Génération Identitaire.

That is exactly right.

What do you think is the real reason for this relentlessness?

The true reason is that Darmanin has announced a law on Islamic separatism with some timid measures against Islamists. Because of this, he has been subject to criticism and pressure from the left and the far left. Thus, in order to rebalance somewhat the perception that the left has of the government, Darmanin attacks the French who are fighting against immigration. He is going after Génération Identitaire. We could see that the first to rejoice at our dissolution were the militants of [the far-left parties] France Insoumise and Printemps Républicain as well as the Socialist Party.

Are you going to challenge the minister’s decision in court?

Of course, we are going to fight to the bitter end. We will have a long court battle to overturn the dissolution proceeding. Dissolution will take place by decree next week, and so for months our lawyers – among whom there is the famous lawyer Gilles-William Goldanel – will be fighting to dismantle the government’s accusations point by point and cancel the decree of dissolution.

Concretely, this decision to dissolve your movement will block you for a while, will it not?

Yes, it is going to hold us up because the appeal does not equate to a suspension [of the dissolution decree]. Therefore, for several months, Generation Identity will de facto no longer exist. We will no longer be able to carry out any actions or receive any funds, and so on. This will last until the decision to cancel the dissolution is made by the courts.

So it is a way to block you, hoping maybe you will give up your fight.

Yes, but we will not give up.

Following your action at the Col de l’Échelle and the uproar it generated against you in the media and among the ruling political class, some of your activists lost their jobs. Can you confirm this?

I can confirm to you that this was the case, for example, of Romain Espino, who worked in a bank and was under pressure from the left on social media, and he lost his job as a result of that legal and peaceful action.

You define yourselves as a “right-wing Greenpeace” and the trials that have been held against you have indeed confirmed that your actions were peaceful and legal. Why do you think the interior minister is not targeting violent ultra-left groups instead?

The French government has a multiculturalist political agenda. It sometimes finds itself obliged to take small measures against the Islamists, which provokes criticism on the left flank, and so he tries to redress the balance by attacking Génération Identitaire, which represents the opinion of the French. Indeed, three-quarters of French people are against illegal immigration, they want a referendum on mass immigration and think that the fight against immigration should be a priority.

Do you accept the “ultra-right” label used against you by the public media and which was picked up by Darmanin in a tweet?

No, we do not recognize ourselves in these “ultra” or “extreme” type labels. They are used only to denigrate our group and to denigrate the French who are mostly against immigration.

There was already an attempt to dissolve your movement in 2019. Did it go that far?

Our dissolution has been under consideration several times, but governments have never found any legal grounds that would make it possible to ban us. However, this is the first time the government has formally notified us of our dissolution, yet they have no more legal basis today to justify our dissolution. But they do not care and are attempting a political coup against Génération Identitaire’s activists.

Does this mean that, in France, people no longer have the right to oppose immigration in the public debate?

That is clearly the case. One of the things we are being accused of is that we had on our banner, for the Defend Europe Pyrenees mission, words that were, quote, “clearly anti-immigration”. The French government considers it a crime to be against immigration. It is just amazing! This is an extremely serious infringement on freedom of expression and freedom of association, and this is a worrying drift by the government of Emmanuel Macron.

Social media systematically blocks you, and they block media that talk about you in too positive a tone. Do you think they are acting on their own or under pressure from the French government?

They did not need the French government to remove the account of US President Donald Trump, but the French government and the boards of directors of companies like Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram share the same totalitarian multiculturalist ideology and want by all means to silence their opponents. 

Do you still feel you live in democracy despite all this?

Increasingly less so. If the decree of dissolution is not overturned by judges, then it will mean that we are moving towards a very authoritarian regime. If it is canceled, it will mean that we are not in a great democracy, but a democracy nonetheless, because we will still have been able to defend ourselves in courts and reverse the government’s unjust decision. In any case, we are going to fight this battle on the legal and the political front, and we will be holding a demonstration in Paris on Saturday against the dissolution of Génération Identitaire.

Generation Identity banned – ‘The French government considers it a crime to be against immigration’

Afghans, Somalis, and Eritreans have been singled out as those responsible for a number of threatening incidents and violence that has befallen the Swedish town of Kumla and which makes SJ, the Swedish government-owned passenger train operator, consider stopping its trains in the city.

The Samhällsnytt daily talked to the police, SJ, entrepreneurs, and citizens of Kumla about the situation in the town.

On, Jan. 29, SJ issued a press release stating that due to “serious problems with order” in Kumla and Hallsberg, the train company considers completely avoiding two stations and letting trains pass instead. So far, the trains stop in both Kumla and Hallsberg, but according to the press release, this position could quickly change.

“As an ultimate consequence of the problems with the order in Kumla and also Hallsberg, and which are spreading on the trains, the most drastic and last resort measure would be not to stop at those stations,” explained SJ’s business manager Jan Kyrk.

Kyrk emphasized that SJ is conducting a “good dialogue” with the police and that the train service hopes to avoid taking such drastic actions.

In Hallsberg, Police Inspector Karin Eldblom, who is normally tasked with investigating incidents on the trains reported by SJ and its staff, is now also heading up the preliminary investigation in this case. She told Samhällsnytt about three cases from November and December in which the train staff were threatened or attacked by passengers.

A pattern of abuse on Sweden’s trains

On Nov. 15, there were two perpetrators, one of whom spat in the face of the train conductor, said Eldblom. The incident is classified as an assault on an official. The reason behind the attack was due to the passenger lacking a paid train ticket, for which the conductor tried to expel the passengers.

On Nov. 26, a person who boarded the train in Kumla started shouting and acting threateningly towards the train conductor. This time, it was also due to a missing ticket. Authorities classified the offeanse as an assault on an official as well.

And on Dec. 13, the police were alerted by SJ’s train staff because of an incident in Hallsberg. The train staff felt threatened and harassed by an unknown suspect, with a dispute arising due to the lack of a ticket, explained Karin Eldblom.

Kyrk pointed out that train staff now has to avoid confrontation with those who are refusing to pay for public transportation. 

“You should not get into conflict with these passengers but rather go away and think about your own and the travelers’ safety and alert the police instead. That is why we say that the police must prioritize this and arrive at the next station and take care of these passengers,” stressed Kyrk.

“These people know what we do, that we contact the police. In one case, we have seen the police standing at one end of the train, and these passengers jump off at a completely different end and get out of there,” he added.

According to SP’s business manager, not all incidents on the trains come to the attention of the police. He knows of cases in which the staff have been subjected to conflicts but then chose not to involve the police for fear of reprisal.

“We now have a gang-like problem that is spreading to the trains,” concluded Kyrk.

Samhällsnytt has spoken to a woman in her 40s who lives in Kumla and who witnessed an incident a few weeks ago.

The woman had dropped off her children by the train stop and was waiting for the train to leave when two men showed up and tried to get on board. The conductor asked to see the men’s tickets, something they seemed to be missing, at the door.

“They tried to push past the conductor. And the conductor spread his hands to stop them. They started arguing and shouting that she was a racist. They started kicking her. Then she began to scream, and then another conductor came to her rescue,” described the witness, adding that the two men, two Afghans, then started kicking at the train doors.

Immigrant gangs plague the Swedish town

Iréne Ekblom is 52 years old and lives in Kumla. She testified to growing insecurity in her hometown.

“You have to be brave to go out alone as a 50-year-old, but I do not go out by myself in the evenings. There are large gangs, that’s why people do not go out. Groups are hanging down in the tunnel, at Maxi, and down towards Fylstaskolan,” she said.

Iréne Ekblom made no secret of the fact that these are immigrant gangs.

Irene’s daughter, 28-year-old Beatrice Ekblom, runs Salong Agaton, which is located in the Kumla station building. She agreed with her mother’s description of what is happening in the city.

“Around the station, and especially at the waiting room, it has been unsafe. Not all the time but occasionally, especially in the evenings,” she said, adding that there are large groups of males in their upper teens up to 25 to 30 years of age.

The groups move around the station in groups and are often outside her workplace when she goes home.

Beatrice said that her salon also suffered damage to the windows last spring.

In addition to Afghans, Somalis are also seen as a problematic group in Kumla. Somalis are listed as perpetrators in several judgments of the Örebro District Court from recent months regarding violence and drug crimes in Kumla.

Jama Saed of the Somali Cultural Association in Kumla said he knows that there are various groups moving around Kumla station.

“It’s not just Somalis. There are immigrant youths such as Somalis, Eritreans, and Afghans,” he pointed out.

Last year, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven reversed his earlier accommodating refugee stance and said, “If migration is so strong that integration is no longer successful, we risk further problems.”

He was reacting to a spate of migrant crimes in the country that led to more stabbings, gun violence, and murders. Last year, a woman was beaten by migrants on a public train while 50 passengers looked on and did not intervene. 

Polling shows that the majority of Swedes want to reduce migration.

Sweden: Violence from migrants has train operator threatening to cancel service in certain areas

An Islamist terrorist group is said to have trained for jihad in Rheine, in the Münsterland region of Germany. This is the result of an indictment by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office.

According to a report by the public broadcaster WDR, the group also had its training in Rheine. According to the indictment, the five men from Tajikistan did paint-ball drills there. According to the indictment, this was training for the armed struggle against “infidels” – as Islamists call non-Muslims.The group is said to have already made concrete plans and preparations for attacks in Germany. The suspected terrorist group is also said to have obtained parts for the construction of a bomb. In addition, the accused men are said to have had connections to the Vienna attacker. In the terrorist attack in November 2020, four people were killed and 23 others were injured, some seriously.

https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/westfalen-lippe/rheine-terrorgruppe-paintball-100.html