The trial of a married couple who allegedly collected donations for the banned Salafist movement starts today at the Frankfurt Regional Court. The couple, aged 28 and 29, are charged with terrorism financing, preparation of a serious act of state-endangering violence and fraud. They allegedly left for Turkey in November 2016 with the destination Syria, where they were arrested when crossing the border. (File number 6140 Js 247545/17)

Between January and August 2016, they are also alleged to have unjustifiably received around 60,000 euros in welfare benefits from the Employment Office. The Chamber for the Protection of the State has initially scheduled four days of hearings until the end of March.

https://www.t-online.de/region/frankfurt-am-main/news/id_89495488/terrorismus-finanzierung-und-betrug-prozess-beginnt.html?fbclid=IwAR3SCkjudsxmqEXhUeItjXSLy0gfJ-a4dm0xzBils_Y1HeNMpMDfY-XUx-M

Is the corona virus being used to deliberately undermine Christian festivals and thus abolish Western culture? This assumption was recently made by the news portal JouWatch. According to it, Christian holidays such as Easter, Pentecost, All Saints’ Day and Christmas have basically been cancelled.

In addition, church visits were cancelled and so were cemetery visits. “The situation is different for Muslims,” JouWatch reported, citing the portal Unser Mitteleuropa. Because “shortly before their holidays, the strict Corona rules – including lockdowns – are coincidentally ‘suddenly’ lifted. This was the case last year for Ramadan in April, when the lockdown was eased ten days before it began, and also for the Feast of Sacrifice in August.” The author anticipates that it will be the same procedure this year.

Because apparently the “lockdowns” are to last until Easter, so that the Easter holiday for the Germans and Austrians will once again be cancelled. “I am in favour of speaking out truths. Unfortunately, there can be no Easter holidays in Germany this year,” said the Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer ( Christian Democratic Union, CDU), according to tagesschau.de.

Is this all just coincidence? Well, anyone who looks at how Muslims in Germany ignore the ban on contact, with the consequence being clarifying talks at best, and how protesters against the Corona policy in the Netherlands are being combated with the support of the established media, will start to wonder. Add to this the fact that the JouWatch theory is virtually confirmed by quoting the Austrian Freedom Party Secretary General Michael Schnedlitz.

Similar to last year, Chancellor Kurz is caving in to Islam. By then our country will be ruined. The extra weeks will be the death of many businesses – especially in the gastronomy sector. But apparently the chancellor cares more about breaking of the Muslim fasting than about our entire economy.

Earlier, the Freedom Party still stated:

The Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and the Greens are planning to extend the “lockdown” until Ramadan. Making the duration of the lockdown dependent on Ramadan has no basis or evidence. An end to the lockdown must be checked every ten days and must not be influenced by the breaking of the fasting.

Whether it is actually a deliberate conspiracy against the Christian holidays and thus against Christianity is difficult to say. But the fact is that it is a strange coincidence how consideration is given to the Mohammedans and their feelings, while the wishes of the Christians in Germany and Austria are obviously worth as little as those of the restaurateurs.

https://www.unzensuriert.at/content/123945-corona-verschwoerung-gegen-christliche-feiertage/

In 2020, there were 2,275 crimes motivated by anti-Semitism committed in Germany, the highest number in 20 years. According to Bogdan Musiał, a Polish historian who works in Germany, Islamic radicalization and left-wing opposition to Israel accounts for this rise. He said that in left-wing circles, Israel is attacked for racism and of practicing a form of apartheid against the Palestinians.

Musiał notes that security for synagogues and Jewish schools is nothing new in Germany, and these locations have been vulnerable to attacks for years. However, a number of Jews who have arrived from Russia and aided by the German state have become a source of envy, leading to hostility from other migrants. In many Muslim communities, anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish views prevail.

This kind of anti-Semitism, however, is “absolutely not present in the parliament or in ruling circles”, underlined the Polish historian. Even the Euro-skeptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) refuses to attack Jews and actively supports Israel. In fact, any party which attempted to adopt anti-Semitism would in all probability be made illegal by Germany’s court system.

According to the Polish academic, the German establishment is highly sensitive to any political anti-Semitism because of the country’s past and the likely international reaction to any sign of anti-Semitism. Germany stands or falls on the strength of its exports and does not want to fall foul of any boycotts that could result from tolerating anti-Semitism.

Musiał feels that the situation in Germany for Jews is not as acute as in France where the number of Muslims is higher and so is the number of attacks on Jews. He also feels that it is not inconceivable that Germany would react against increased Muslim immigration if it found that it was leading to anti-Semitism and other social problems.

But he concludes that migration policies will depend on the make-up of the next ruling German coalition. If the Greens enter the coalition, they will press for a continuation of a liberal immigration policy. But among the Greens there are also a few politicians who are keen to block immigration, but they want to do so while presenting a humane face.

Musiał said that Poland’s stance on migrants often leads to attacks on the country, especially when contrasted with Germany’s openness to mass migration. 

https://rmx.news/article/article/anti-semitism-surges-from-german-left-wing-groups-and-muslim-communities

A request from the German Greens parliamentary group to the federal government has raised the issue of “ISIS returnees” to Europe once again.

As the answer from the federal government shows, the Federal Criminal Police Office is aware of 148 people who had joined ISIS, fought in the former territory of this terrorist organization in the Middle East and are now living in Germany again. The vast majority of them are still dangerous, as they are believed to have committed “serious, politically motivated crimes”.

Most recently, 42 of the returnees were detained for crimes related to their emigration to Syria or Iraq. Some of them will be released in the near future. This means a lot of work for German law enforcement as they have to be constantly monitored.

The knife murder in Dresden in October 2020 showed what the so-called “de-radicalization measures” in which some of these prisoners were taking part, really amounted to. The alleged perpetrator who killed a tourist from the Rhineland was a threat who had taken part in a deradicalization program in prison.

But that’s not all, because 71 German nationals and 30 foreigners from Germany who are suspected ISIS terrorists in northern Syria and imprisoned, are currently waiting to be admitted to Germany.

According to its own statements, the federal government has so far brought three German women and twelve children back to Germany from custody – seven of them orphans. These retrievals were fought in eight legal proceedings against the federal government. Another nine proceedings were in favour of Germany, while four more are still pending.

In December, the Foreign Office announced that it was working flat out to enable especially German children to leave the northeast of Syria. The dpa (German Press Agency) thus reported: “A particularly large number of supporters and former supporters of ISIS live in the Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria. Fanatics – including women – kill people who think differently there time and again. In 2020, the federal government declared that the ISIS ideology was being passed on to minors there in particular by foreign ISIS supporters in organized teaching groups.”

In addition, according to the dpa , the minors were radicalized by their mothers.

The security of the population in Germany is being jeopardized almost deliberately. Ordinary good people are currently discouraged from entering Germany “because of Corona” but at the same time, potential future threats are being brought into the country as a result of a focused media campaign.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/02/18/isis-returnees-raise-questions-in-germany/

I used to admire the American culture and its spirit. City on the hill, civic religion, free speech, rule of law, hard work, protection of Europe in hard times, an indomitable spirit of resistance…The new woke religion is turning me into an anti-American.

A New York public school just sent a list to parents encouraging them to become “white traitors” and “white abolitionists”. Christopher Rufo, a journalist specializing in “critical race theory,” explained that the principal of New York’s East Side Community School sent in the list detailing the eight types of “whiteness” from good to bad. The author of the graph, Barnor Hesse, is a professor at Northwestern University.

It starts with the “white supremacist” and ends with the “white abolitionist”. There is “white voyeurism”, like those who are fascinated by black culture. The “white privilege” type is someone whose rethorical goal is diversity, but who in fact benefits from supremacism. The “white benefit” is described as someone who sympathizes with black issues, but only in private. The “white confessional” is someone who seeks validation from people of color. Redemption is reached by the “white abolitionist”. It is those who change institutions, work to dismantle whiteness and will not allow white to “reassert itself” in society.

This “whiteness” junk will soon arrive in Europe. Days ago, the New York Times ran an article about how the French are already very worried about that.

For those who love freedom, American culture was once a model.

This racial and censorious neo-religion of whining Americans, who seek power through propaganda and brainwashing, who are becoming hegemonic in every cultural field, is making me hope that Europe will not be contaminated from McDonald’s in racial sauce.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/297015

Six residents of a accommodation for asylum seekers in Ofterschwang ( in the Upper Allgäu region of Bavaria) placed two rubbish containers across the county road OA5 on Monday morning. According to the police, they apparently wanted to draw attention to the fact that the gas heating in their accommodation had broken down over the weekend – and that in partly double-digit sub-zero temperatures.After consultation with the district office of the Upper Allgäu, the police reported that the failure of the heating system was already known to the district office. The repair was ordered for Monday and has been carried out in the meantime. Until then, the asylum seekers were offered alternative accommodation, but the residents refused without any explanation. As a result, they were temporarily provided with mobile heating units, which led to power cuts in some places due to possible overloading. The frustration about the situation apparently led to the protest action with the rubbish containers.

Winter continues to have a heavy impact on Germany. But it is not only icy outside: for many people, a heated home is not a matter of course. This is shown by the latest data from the Federal Statistical Office.

According to the report, there are around two million people in Germany who are unable to heat their flat or house adequately due to financial hardship. This corresponds to 2.5 percent of the population. The data was already collected in 2019.

Single parents and their children often have to suffer from cold: seven percent of people in single-parent households lacked the money to heat their home properly. Those who live all alone in their home are also affected more often than average.

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/deutschland-zwei-millionen-menschen-frieren-in-den-eigenen-vier-waenden-a-2e265d76-18bb-4929-8b21-429c211f03a5 – https://www.all-in.de/sonthofen/c-polizei/asylbewerber-im-oberallgaeu-protestieren-gegen-ausgefallene-heizung_a5105145

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