Douglas Murray told Julia Hartley-Brewer that everyone he has heard from is united in being horrified at the manger in which George Floyd was killed by a policeman. However, he said the death of one man in Minnesota “is not a reason for people to turn out in their thousands in cities across the world”. Expressing concern at the way the government have handled recent events, Mr Murray said there was “seemingly one thing even more important than stopping coronavirus…that’s anyone who just says they want to turn out to protest in this manner”. He said protest scenes were “reminiscent of somewhere in the middle east after a revolution and where everybody’s passion is just going wild”. He criticised people for turning out to protest, saying people in these situations will be putting public health at risk, suggesting that it would be difficult in the media to condemn people because “the protesters are able to say it’s under the guise of Black Lives Matter”. Douglas went on to say he does not envy the police “they’ve been stuck to a great degree by the wider societal pusillanimity, when it comes to a group that turns from having a righteous cause into being a thuggish and extremely troubling demonstration day after day.” He does not think that crowds and mobs do have the right to pull down things that they claim to be outraged by, adding “I don’t think they are outraged, particularly by this statue in Bristol. The statue was put up, because clearly the city was paying homage to the philanthropy of the man in question.” One of the important things about studying history, says Douglas, is learning what happens when “mobs go around operating like this” saying that while it has been happening in London and elsewhere, “people become more emboldened about what they are allowed to do by society and police forced become cowed by them.” He argues that one of the morbidities in British society is “this pretence that we are this fantastically racist, terrible country”, going on to suggest the people who say that “have gotten away with saying it without enough opposition for too long, and the result is that you see wounded policemen on the streets, who have nothing to do with Minnesota policing.”

The populist party Vox has alerted its supporters about a North African YouTuber who encourages people to come to Spain because with the Universal Basic Income “you earn more” than by working.

The original of the video below was in Arabic with Spanish subtitles. Many thanks to Pampasnasturtium for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below is an article on the same topic, also translated by Pampasnasturtium, from Ok Diario:

Vox alerts its supporters about a Maghrebi YouTuber who encourages people to come to Spain because with the Basic Universal Income “you earn more” than working

This Tuesday Rubén Pulido, Press and Communication secretary for VOX in Andalusia, condemned the way a Maghrebi YouTuber mocks the ‘high welfare benefits of Universal Basic Income’. ‘He boasts that you earn more than working in the fields and suggests that now with Spain (economically) sunk you live better because they have access to more welfare benefits,’ explains Pulido, who asks: ‘Doesn’t this act as a mass invitation to come to Spain?’ (“efecto llamada”).

‘Newspapers say the Spanish government has finally decreed that benefits be increased to as much as 2,000 euros of Universal Basic Income. Some 1,015 maybe. God knows, let’s hope it is so, for taking care of the children. And they say it will be compatible with another benefit, for example, in the Basque Country region, if you have children, many children, three children… with the supplies for them, you can obtain from 1,200 to 1,250 euros,’ states the Maghrebi YouTuber whose content Rubén Pulido re-shared on his social media accounts, and that also the national account of VOX has re-shared.

‘It follows,’ continues the YouTuber, ‘that if you don’t work and are charged with the care of minors, you qualify for the benefit that would combine 1,015 euros for taking care of the family with 1,250 euros. A total of 2,265 euros per couple, while the person who works in agriculture, in the fields, among us in Almería, ha ha ha, works for 800 or 900 euros. When Spain was well-off and there were jobs and industriousness, if you went to ask for a benefit of 400 euros, you were told you had no right to it.’

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Central Europe has remained strikingly calm even as mass unrest breaks out in the multicultural West, where George Floyd protests and riots have left cities in the United States and Western Europe in chaos, led to billions of dollars in damage, and resulted in many police officer gravely injured and some even murdered.

Social media users who believe countries like Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, which have conservative-led governments that have rejected multiculturalism, demographic change, and liberal ideologies, have been touting the peace their countries enjoy as the West appears set for a meltdown.

Although Black Lives Matter protests and violence targeted against police and businesses originated in the United States, Europe is now increasingly facing mass protests despite lockdown measures designed to keep coronavirus in check.

In Great Britain, Winston Churchill’s statute was defaced during a Black Lives Matter protest, and the left-wing BBC described protests as “largely peaceful” in the same social media description that noted 27 police were injured.

After protesters pelted a police horse, the horse was spooked, resulting in the officer’s horse bolting and a female officer slamming into a pole at high speed. She is currently recovering in hospital with shattered ribs, a collapsed lung, and a broken collarbone, with the crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters cheering as she suffered the nearly-fatal injury.

Videos of dazed and bloodied retreating British officers at George Floyd protests seemed to exemplify a complete loss of control.

Britain was only one country in Europe that has seen mass protests, with Belgium, Sweden and France all seeing significant violence from Black Lives Matter protesters.

In contrast, countries in Central Europe, particularly Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, have seen virtually no protests, and in the cases small numbers gathered, they have ended without incident.

As previously reported on Remix News, a Black Lives Matter Facebook event was planned for Budapest in Hungary, with only three white female U.S. expats expressing their interest in attending before they removed the event from Facebook.

Memes comparing the chaos in the West to the relative peace in Hungary highlighted the differences.

István Kovács, strategic director for Budapest think tank the Center for Fundamental Human Rights, said that in the event Westerners start fleeing the breakdown in order in their own countries, he suggests they apply to migrate to Hungary through legal channels. Better yet, they should stay and fix the problem themselves.

The conservative politicians that lead Central Europe, particularly in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, have forcefully rejected the conditions which have led to the breakdown in order in other Western countries. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has frequently noted that the West is deteriorating under political correctness, identity politics, and changing demographics.

“If Europe is not going to be populated by Europeans in the future and we take this as given, then we are speaking about an exchange of populations, to replace the population of Europeans with others,” said Orbán at a demographic summit in 2019. “There are political forces in Europe who want a replacement of population for ideological or other reasons.”

Orbán has noted that political correctness will not protect people and that increasingly mixed cultures feature strife and tension that is not present in Hungary. The Hungarian leader saying that compared to other European countries, there are few “people with cultural backgrounds different from ours” in Hungary. He also said the few migrants the country have respect the laws of the country, work on their own, and want to find their place in Hungarian society. He continued that there no problems with minorities that currently live in Hungary  and their numbers are not growing at a rate that would “give us a headache”

Recently, he criticized the European People’s Party, the center-right conservative party in the Euroepan Parliament that his Fidesz party belongs to, as not being conservative enough.

“We gave up the family model based on matrimony of one woman and one man, and fell into the arms of gender ideology. Instead of supporting the birth of children, we see mass migration as the solution to our demographic problem,” Orbán wrote.

Orbán said the party needs to stand up to the media forces aligned against conservatives.  However, he contends it is not only demographic changes an clashing cultures that portend disorder, but also a lack of respect for police coupled with a growing assault from the media on conservative values.

“We don’t stand up for ourselves as old and great Europeans, and don’t take on the fight against left-liberal intellectual forces and the media they influence and control,” Orbán wrote to the EPP in an open letter. 

While police are kneeling with protesters in the U.S. and other countries, Orbán has also voiced full-throated support for the country’s police and emphasized that they stand their ground when confronted with disorder. Orbán said the following a speech to police officers to celebrate 100 years of police forces in Hungary:

The Hungarian language can create apt and powerful images. The Hungarian uses a single word for standing one’s ground [helytállás]. This is when someone fully delivers what is expected of them in their situation. Yes, the former and current members of the Hungarian police force are bound together by their capacity to stand their ground in fulfilling their duties.

Orbán said that police are both necessary and guarantee Hungarians’ security, and emphasized that, “our constitutional rules, constitutional order and governmental system see the existence and work of the police as necessary – in the interests of the community – in restraining, and indeed disciplining, the sometimes dominant worst side of our inner selves, our violent outbursts and our predatory greed. Not only does it provide restraint and discipline, but – in the hope of a fair trial and judgement – it delivers to the courts whatever and whoever rejects the rules designed to protect our community.”

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The night before last, a police control in Bielefeld turned into a dangerous commotion. A police patrol had spotted a group of six people at Kesselbrink in front of a kiosk.

The Kesselbrink is known as a meeting place for the Bielefeld drug scene. Because the people were very loud and had scattered large amounts of garbage, the police officers wanted to check the personal details and asked the group to identify themselves.A 23-year-old asylum seeker from Burkina-Faso immediately reacted violently, insulted the officials and accused them of racist motives. After the man refused, an officer grabbed him by the arm for the purpose of a search. Thereupon, the 23-year-old began to resist violently and tried to beat and kick the police officers. During the scuffle, the rioter was brought to the ground and held. The others came threateningly towards the officers and shouted at them.The police officers called for assistance and used irritant gas against the growing group of people who were gathering and “approached the scene roaring loudly” (police report). As people came towards the officers armed with chairs, one of them drew his firearm.This calmed the crowd, which however continued to throw glass bottles at the officers. This also continued when a total of 15 patrol cars arrived to support their colleagues. Again, irritant gas had to be used against several people, as they ran resolutely and aggressively towards police officers.Finally, after one and a half hours, the crowd dissolved. The asylum seeker was taken to the police station to establish his personal details. Afterwards he was allowed to leave, at some point a procedure for resistance against him will be initiated. Two policemen were injured by bottle throws in the face and the arms.

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Yesterday, Sunday, there was a violent clash between a group of Afghans and Chechens in the 21st district of Vienna. According to oe24 information, the authorities were called to the Prager Street around 8:18 pm because the two parties were clashing near a gas station. According to eyewitness reports, between 15 and 20 people allegedly beat each other. When the emergency forces arrived, some of the people involved fled by car.Four Afghans were still on the spot and, according to the police, showed clear signs of injury, suggesting that they had been involved in a previous beating. One of the injured is said to have suffered a deep cut on his fingers, probably caused by a knife. The group of men still on the scene was charged with brawling. According to the persons involved, they had been harassed and persecuted by the Chechen group some time before.It is suspected that the dispute could have been a possible rivalry between the two groups. The brawl is said to have been preceded by insults and provocations from both sides.An immediately initiated manhunt against the Chechens who had fled in a car failed for the time being. However, the Vienna State Police Department was confident that the suspects would be tracked down, as the incident was recorded by surveillance cameras at the nearby gas station.

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A video on Instagram exposed a 24-year-old Syrian from Linz as an animal abuser.

Several people had reported on Friday to the Lenaupark Police Department that the video showed a man who had tied the front legs of a dog and several sheep together and then beaten the animals. The Syrian could be investigated, the public prosecutor’s office in Linz ordered a house search. Here, the police found a spiked collar next to the dog, a Staffordshire Terrier. The dog was taken to the animal shelter in Linz. A laptop and a mobile phone were also seized. With this, they hope to find out where the sheep were tortured and whether the Linz resident has any other videos of animal cruelty.

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China’s official death toll for Covid-19 currently stands at 4 634 for the entire country. Sweden is at 4 656 fatalities.

Critics say that comparing numbers may not be accurate, but the fact is that China has about 1,4 billion people, 140 times more than Sweden.

Even if some misreporting is taken into account, it is difficult to explain a 140 times higher mortality rate per capita.

The death rate is bound to spike too, after violent Black Lives Matter protests in Gothenburg and Stockholm, with mobs attacking the police, pelting them with stones and looting.

Despite the current restrictions on gatherings of more than of 50 people, some 3 000 protesters took to the streets in Gothenburg.

​According to the Swedish daily Aftonbladet, the rioters attacked a reporter. The police said many of the rioters were of immigrant descent.

“It is young people from the suburbs who take this opportunity and riot”, police spokesman Christer Fuxborg told the newspaper. “In our opinion, these are individuals who are here to destroy”, Fuxborg added. “Right now I don’t feel so proud to be a resident of Gothenburg”, he added.

“The only purpose, what I understand, is that they want to confront the authorities and deal out damage”, Fredrik Dahlgren of the Gothenburg Police said.

Sweden’s national broadcaster incredulously blurred the faces of rioters to protect their identity.

[Tweet translated: Do the police in other countries also back down for the mob in entire platoons, or is it part of the unique, Swedish model?]

[Tweet translated: Welcome to the multicultural Aftonbladet. This is what “racists” warned you about for decades. ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯]

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The coronavirus pandemic in the northern hemisphere seems starting to subside — perhaps just temporarily.

Many journalists wonder if Italy, one of the eight countries most affected in Western Europe, will leave the EU. Another country of concern is France — not in great shape.

Although France spends a significant amount on its healthcare (8.6% of France’s GDP), the pandemic there has been frighteningly mismanaged. There was a tragic shortage of intensive-care beds: 5,000 for the whole country, compared to Germany’s 28,000. There was also, until the end of April, a near-total lack of masks and protective equipment for hospital doctors and caregivers. Further, there was the great lack of an ability to test for the coronavirus. The situation led the government to decide on one of the strictest general lockdowns in Europe. For eight weeks, the French economy, like others, effectively stopped. The results were devastating.

France, before the pandemic, was already in an alarming economic state. For several years, the country’s economic growth rate had been barely above zero; the country’s central bank had lowered its growth forecast for 2020 to 1.1%. France’s unemployment rate was high (8.1%); it had not fallen below 8% for two decades. France was, in addition, paralyzed from any kind of growth by a proliferation of regulations and an omnipresent bureaucracy. The Index of Economic Freedom, published each year by the Heritage Foundation, ranks France number 64 , behind the United Kingdom (7), the Netherlands (14), Germany (27), and far behind formerly communist countries such as Poland (46), Romania (42), Bulgaria (37) or the Czech Republic (23).

France has now entered a deep recession. Economists anticipate that growth at the end of 2020 will be minus 8%. By comparison, the figure given for Germany is minus 6.3%. Many economists seem unsure if, in 2021, growth in France will resume at all. They say the country’s rigidities are such that for the country fully to recover, it could take a decade. Although the French government has not published any recent statistics on unemployment, commentators say that one out of two persons working in the private sector is now unemployed. Worse, as a large number of small and medium businesses have gone bankrupt during the pandemic, there is virtually no hope of seeing millions of jobs quickly recreated. Although the French government also has not published any recent statistics on poverty, an increase in unemployment is bound to go hand-in-hand with an increase in poverty.

Before the pandemic, taxes and public spending, the highest in the developed world, also further paralyzed France’s economy. The overall tax burden equaled 48.4% of the country’s GDP; government spending amounted to 56.5% of the country’s GDP. The country’s budget deficit was at least 3% a year. To cover its spending, the government, had to borrow; so the country’s debt continued to rise. In 2019, it reached 100% of GDP.

During the pandemic, like the governments of other European countries affected, the French government injected tens of billions of euros into the economy, but could rely only partly on the European Central Bank: it remains bound by drastic rules that limit its ability for quantitative easing. France consequently went further into debt; its obligations now are even greater. Financiers estimate that its debt, which has increased by at least 15%, will reach 130% in 2021. The French government cannot increase taxes unless it intends to go from recession to depression, and is unlikely to lower public spending during a time of increased poverty and extremely high unemployment.

France’s situation is all the more untenable in that for decades it has been a country of high immigration. France has accepted hundreds of thousands of newcomers — on average, 400,000 migrants annually. Most have no marketable skills and rely on welfare indefinitely. Among people living on social benefits, the proportion of first-generation immigrants is more than 20% — double the rest of the population. Even if the French government decided to put an abrupt end to immigration, the weight of unskilled immigrants already present in the country would not disappear.

A crucial factor for the country’s future, largely overlooked since the pandemic, is that most of the immigration in France since the 1960s has come from the Muslim world: France is now the European country with the largest number of Muslims in its population. Some estimates were that they consisted of around or 6 million people: 8.8% of the population of roughly 67 million. Other estimates spoke of 10% of the total population, or 6.7 million people. In addition, available data show that the birthrate in Muslim families is higher than in non-Muslim families, further adding to the social and economic impact of the mass-migration. Demographers project that by 2050, the Muslim population in France will double, or possibly increase even more.

Before the pandemic, integrating Muslims into the general population did not seem to be working particularly well. In a survey conducted for the Institute Montaigne in 2016, 29% of French Muslims questioned said that, “Islamic law (sharia) is more important than the law of the Republic”; 65% said that women should wear an Islamic veil and that women who do not wear one are “immodest”, and 24% said that modest women should wear the niqab, a veil that also covers the face. The figures for responders under the age of 25 were even higher.

No one is imagining that integration will suddenly work better, and the lack of it has visible effects. Muslim populations are increasingly living apart from the rest of the population. In Muslim neighborhoods, for instance, the lockdown was not respected at all. When journalists asked Muslims why they did not pay attention to the pandemic, they replied that Allah was protecting them and that the sickness only affected infidels.

In the 1980s, districts now officially regarded as “sensitive areas” (zones urbaines sensibles, or “no-go zones”) barely existed. Twenty years later, they have become areas where French laws rarely apply. In 2002, the author Georges Bensoussan, defined these areas in his book as The Lost Territories of the Republic. Three years later, the “lost territories” rose up in protest for three weeks and France seemed on the brink of a civil war. Calm returned only thanks to imams to whom the government ceded power. The government told them that the police would no longer intervene where Muslim populations live. In 2017, when Bensoussan published A Submitted France, he said that now the entire country was affected.

There are presently 751 sensitive zones in France. There, gangs reign and the law that is enforced is the law of Islam, sharia. Most of the non-Muslim residents have gone. Doctors enter these areas only under escort. During the last decade, several perpetrators of the jihadist attacks that struck France — and left 263 dead and many more wounded — came from these districts. More than 150 mosques there are run by radical imams who incite hatred without the slightest murmur.

Some recent books show that perhaps an exhilarating feeling of supremacy combined with a desire for widespread submission to Islam might be at work. Bernard Rougier, a professor at the University of Paris who recently published a book, The Territories Conquered by Islamism, notes that “Islamist ideologues are doing in France what they did in the Maghreb 30 years ago”. Many infiltrate political parties, various associations and sports clubs; make demands and intimidate; gain influence and are finally given their way. The lost territories of the republic, he says, are now “territories ruled by the Islamists”.

François Pupponi, the former socialist mayor of Sarcelles, in the northern suburbs of Paris, in his book, The Emirates of the Republic, speaks of a “process of colonization” — the creeping takeover of entire cities all over the country.

The police, during the pandemic, have been ordered to avoid going into the no-go zones. The government might have feared that if an incident occurred, riots could break out. On April 19, a young man riding a motorcycle at high speed hit the door of a police car near a sensitive zone in a suburb of Paris and was injured: for days, throughout the country, buildings and cars were burned.

The ubiquitous police checks during the pandemic seemingly forced many of the gangs to suspend their activities. The impoverishment of the country resulting from the lockdown will make drug trafficking less profitable. Police therefore expect in the months to come that the gangs might be more violent.

Social conflicts in France, always present, have become even more frequent since the beginning of the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. For years, almost all public gatherings have ended in riots, car burnings and store lootings. They are not a help.

The country’s longest strike in four decades ended the day the lockdown was enacted. For more than six weeks, the movement of people and goods was effectively impossible or extremely slowed. The uprising of the “yellow vests”, which began on November 17, 2018, before the long strike, lasted fifty weeks. Macron chose to ignore the claims of the strikers, and instead decided to crush the yellow vests movement by using police violence. Polls in January indicate that he has become the most hated president since the founding of the Fifth Republic in 1958.

When the general lockdown was officially supposed to end on May 11, the French intelligence services told Macron and the government that they feared a large uprising might begin going hand-in-hand with an explosion in gang violence.

Macron apparently then decided to keep the population under tight control. The French were not allowed to travel more than 60 miles from home (the restriction was lifted on June 2). They cannot leave the country without government authorization. Public gatherings of more than ten people are prohibited. Public parks, coffee shops and restaurants are still generally closed. In every city, the police are everywhere and visible. The country seems to be in a state of siege that cannot last indefinitely.

During the lockdown, a law was passed to fine heavily (250,000 euros, $275,000) any social network that published what a judge might consider “hateful.” People are also being asked to report to the justice department any suspicious statement they read or hear about. Since schools and high schools have reopened, teachers were invited by the government to listen to the conversations of their students and immediately to report any comment criticizing the government.

There seems no political solution to the situation. Macron, elected in May 2017 when the main French political parties had collapsed, used a fear of “fascism” to defeat Marine Le Pen, president of the rightist National Front party. Macron is unpopular and widely rejected by the French population. His approval rating, which never exceeded 31%, fell to 23%. None of the decisions he made ever stopped the country’s decline. The mismanagement of the pandemic in the country was appalling. Yet, he evidently still seems to think that by the next election, in the spring of 2022, he can defeat Marine Le Pen a second time — she will probably be his main opponent once again — and glide to an easy victory.

Recent polls, however, suggest that this strategy might not be so easy: it seems Marine Le Pen has been gaining ground.

The present situation, the columnist Ivan Rioufol in Le Figaro suggests, is the result of the “cowardice” of all of the leaders who have ruled the country for decades:

“At the source of French misfortune, there are French traitors who bear French first names. They have been abusing the voters’ trust for more than 40 years. They lied about the real state of society and ransacked the country”.

“A gunpowder smell spreads over the country,” wrote the essayist, Maxime Tandonnet. “Never since the Liberation, even in the worst times, has a team in power been hated so much. The vast majority of the people reject it to a point that is difficult to express. “

He added that he hopes “one or more heroes will emerge from the apocalypse”. At the moment, regrettably, no hero is in sight.

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