Again the Church of St. John in Ellrich (photo) was the target of vandals. Unknown persons damaged several organ pipes, tore them out partially and set fire to the candlesticks. The perpetrators didn’t spare a Bible either. It is not yet possible to say how much damage was caused.The police are looking for witnesses, in particular visitors to the church, who made observations on Sunday the 15th of September between 3.30 p.m. and 6 p.m., related to the damage. The damage occurred while the church was being opened. Already on Saturday the 31st of August, unknown persons had damaged the church organ. The police in Nordhausen will take any information by calling 03631/960.  

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An unknown woman attempted to rape an 18-year-old woman in the street Libanonstrasse in Stuttgart last night on Tuesday.The woman was on her way home around 02:35 am when she noticed that a man was following her. In the area of  the street Wagenburgstraße, the stranger grabbed her at the hip and tried to push her onto a park bench. He touched her indecently on her upper body, tried to kiss her and open her trousers.The woman screamed for help and bit the man in the arm. When a witness who had become aware of the cries for help approached, the stranger fled. The witness alerted the police, but an immediately initiated search was unsuccessful. The man is described as follows: about 180 centimetres tall, about 30 years old, dark-skinned, with short, black, curly hair and dressed in a black sweater and black or dark blue trousers. Witnesses who can provide information on the facts of the case are requested to contact the officers of the criminal investigation department by calling +4971189905778. 

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A 73-year-old German almost lost her life for good will. The woman was strangled, kicked and left lying helpless. Her tormentor is currently on trial. A 23-year-old man from Eritrea is tried in Aachen. She took him in, gave him a home. As a reward he is said to have almost killed her! The African lived with his brother at the home of a woman from Düren (73 years old). According to the public prosecutor’s office, he had asked her for money on May 8 of this year. She gave him no money…Thereupon he choked her according to accusation with a kind of scarf, kicked her brutally against the head and the chest. The migrant thought he had killed her, but left the old lady lying there. The fact that the woman was finally found before she almost died was, according to the prosecution, just sheer luck. The trial against the African will continue on Friday. Because of a mental illness the Eritrean could also have been not fully responsible and could only have been admitted to a clinic. 

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Police have been investigating in Pößneck on suspicion of a sexual offence since Friday. A 20-year-old man (Afghan) is suspected of having sex with them against the will of two minors. According to previous findings, the suspect and the two girls (German, 13 and 16 years old) were known to each other and stayed together in the 20-year-old’s apartment before the crime. There the two girls and the suspect consumed alcohol. As a result, the suspect carried out sexual acts on both girls against their will. The 16-year-old had left the apartment and then confided in a confidant. The 13-year-old had also fled the apartment later. Passers-by spotted the girl drunk on Friday evening in the downtown area of Pößneck and alerted the police. In the course of the investigation, the suspect was arrested and brought before the investigating judge at the Gera District Court at the weekend. Subsequently, an arrest warrant was issued against the 20-year-old. The accused was handed over to a juvenile prison. The Saalfeld Criminal Investigation Department is investigating the suspicion of serious sexual abuse of children.

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by Giulio Meotti

Roast beef, steak and burgers will soon be a fading memory in the British universities. Goldsmiths, University of London, announced that it will ban red meat food from its restaurants and cafeterias to help in fighting climate change. Cows, it seems, with their gas emissions, contribute to CO2. The new green authoritarianism is joined by the prestigious University of Cambridge, which in addition to beef has decided to also ban lamb. When Churchill College in Cambridge set up a “Meatless Monday”, many students responded with the “Monday Steak Club”. Now the meats have been banned.England is a pioneer in what is called the “Nanny State” with taxes on sins imposed by the government – on products like sugary drinks, chocolate and chips, a form of food transition to the detriment of those who cannot afford healthier foods. But the Nanny State in the universities does not only have culinary prescriptions (at the University of Leeds they eliminated the “unethical” products of Nestlé). Universities also claim to impart cultural prescriptions.
Cambridge is at the center of an ideological war:

• A famous bell at St Catherine’s College in Cambridge has been removed when its links with colonization were exposed.
• Cambridge suspended the cycle of lectures of a famous Canadian and conservative professor, Jordan Peterson, two days after he had been offered the job, and after academics and students had publicly protested.
• Cambridge has withdrawn the invitation to Noah Carl, a conservative researcher on immigration.
• Cambridge also announced the intention of literature professors to replace white authors with minority writers, following the proposals made by academic staff in response to student requests to “decolonize” the curriculum.
• Then the “decolonization” campaign in Cambridge was extended to the faculties of Physics, Chemistry and Engineering in a case of unbridled student tyranny.

We are in “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, where pigs manage to walk on two legs, dress like men and declare that “all animals are equal, except that some are more equal than others”. And then, from lambs to cows, they all find themselves slaves again, as in the book. This time under the pigs’ rule.

https://www.en24.news/2019/09/raid-on-gold-trader-police-arrest-manager.html / https://www.journalistenwatch.com/2019/09/23/whistleblower-tuerkischer-vorzeige/

Over the weekend, climate change activists associated with teen Greta Thunberg’s Climate Strike movement took to the streets, demanding “action” on climate. On Monday, climate activists tried to “Shut Down DC,” resulting in more carbon emissions as cars stall in worse traffic. Even climate activists have denounced the Climate Strike manifesto as extreme and useless, but Thunberg herself may be very useful to a certain type of climate financier.

Standpoint magazine’s Dominic Green revealed the corporate financiers and the Climate-Industrial Complex that stands to gain from Thunberg’s activism.

“The Greta phenomenon has also involved green lobbyists, PR hustlers, eco-academics, and a think-tank founded by a wealthy ex-minister in Sweden’s Social Democratic government with links to the country’s energy companies. These companies are preparing for the biggest bonanza of government contracts in history: the greening of the Western economies. Greta, whether she and her parents know it or not, is the face of their political strategy,” he wrote.

Thunberg became a viral sensation on August 20, 2018, when she launched a one-girl “school strike” at the Swedish parliament. Ingmar Rentzhog, founder of the social media platform We Have No Time, happened to be passing by, or so the story goes. Rentzhog posted Thunberg’s photo on his Facebook page and the newspaper Dagens Nyheter picked up the story.

Yet the Swedish teen’s viral moment was far more orchestrated than this official version of events. While Rentzhog insisted that he “did not know Greta or Greta’s parents” before the Parliament protest, he later admitted to meeting Thunberg’s mother, Malena Ernman, “3-4 months before everything started.” He had shared a stage with Ernman at the Climate Parliament conference. He was also tipped off about the teen’s protest at the Swedish parliament — informed “the week before” by climate activist Bo Thorén, leader of the Fossil Free Dalsland group.

In February 2018, Thorén and other activists strategized about getting young people involved. In May, after Thunberg took second prize in an environmental op-ed writing competition, Thorén approached the competition winners with a plan for a “school strike” — modeled after the gun control protest after the shootings in Parkland, Fla. Only Thunberg was interested.

The teen’s decision to launch the protest coincided with the publication of Scenes from the Heart, her parents’ memoir about how climate activism had saved their family. Svante Thunberg, the teen’s father, is an actor, and Ernman is an opera singer. Their prominence made their teen daughter an ideal face for the climate movement.

As Green noted, Rentzhog “combined Thorén’s plan and Malena Ernman’s musical fame with Greta’s uncanny charisma and We Have No Time’s mailing list, he turned Greta into a viral celebrity.”

The man who launched Greta Thunberg was trained by Al Gore:

Trained by Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, Rentzhog set up We Don’t Have Time in late 2017 to “hold leaders and companies accountable for climate change” by leveraging “the power of social media”. Rentzhog and his CEO David Olsson have backgrounds in finance, not environmental activism, Rentzhog as the founder of Laika, an investment relations company, and Olsson with Svenska Bostadsfonden, one of Sweden’s biggest real estate funds, whose board Rentzhog joined in June 2017. We Don’t Have Time’s investors included Gustav Stenbeck, whose family control Kinnevik, one of Sweden’s largest investment corporations.

In May 2018, Rentzhog and Olsson became chairman and board member of Global Utmaning (Global Challenge), a climate think tank. Kristina Persson, Global Challenge’s founder, is an heir to an industrial fortune, a career trade unionist, and a Social Democrat politician. She previously served as deputy governor of Sweden’s central bank.

Labor leaders hold board positions at the think tank, as does Catharina Nystedt Ringborg, former CEO of Swedish Water, advisor at the International Energy Agency, and former vice president at the Swedish-Swiss energy company ABB. Ringbord is also a member of green energy venture capital firm Sustainable Energy Angels, which counts a who’s who of the Swedish energy sector among its members.

When Greta met Rentzhog, he was the salaried chairman of a private think-tank owned by an ex-Social Democrat minister with a background in the energy sector. His board was stacked with powerful sectoral interests, including career Social Democrats, major union leaders, and lobbyists with links to Brussels. And his board’s vice-chair was a member of one of Sweden’s most powerful green energy investment groups.

Green admitted that Thunberg and her parents “probably did not know this.” Yet he added that Ernman and Rentzhog signed an op-ed in Dagens Nyheter calling for “bottom-up” action against national governments to fight climate change. Heiress Persson and three other Global Challenge board members signed the op-ed, but cited other affiliations.

Rentzhog later explained that “many of us involved in Global Challenge were also involved” in the op-ed. He also admitted showing Ernman “the article and the other signatures, but not their titles for Global Challenge.”

Thunberg’s father denied any connection to We Have No Time or Global Challenge. Yet the teen activist served on We Have No Time’s advisory board between November 2018 and January 2019, and — as noted above — Ernman signed the letter with four Global Challenge board members.

In December 2018, We Have No Time and Global Challenge launched the Climate Emergency Plan. Anders Wijkman, president of the anti-growth group Club of Rome, which collaborated with the other groups to launch the project, told Green that Thunberg was invited to the launch event, but declined because she was already booked to deliver a TED Talk.

The Climate Emergency Plan pushes the same narrative as Thunberg. Wijkman claimed the teen activist has been “instrumental” to getting young people involved in the climate movement. “She has been a lightning rod or catalyst of this.” He also said Rentzhog was essential to Thunberg’s rise.

In January, Rentzhog and We Have No Time used Thunberg’s face and story in promotional materials. Rentzhog claimed the family knew, but Thunberg and her parents insisted they did not. They announced their association with the financier-turned-activist was over, a curious statement given the father’s insistence that the family never associated with him in the first place.

“Whatever Greta or her parents know or think, her eco-mob increases the likelihood of legislation and investment that will make colossal profits for people like Global Challenge, We Don’t Have Time and Sustainable Energy Angels,” Green concluded. “For Sweden’s energy titans, saving the planet means government contracts to print the green stuff.”

“Green energy lobbyists use populist scare tactics and a children’s crusade to bypass elected representatives, but their goal is technocracy not democracy, profit not redistribution. Greta, a child of woke capitalism, is being used to ease the transition to green corporatism,” he wrote.

In January, Myron Ebell, director at the Center for Energy and the Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), told PJ Media that the climate crisis “has been manufactured in order to create a huge climate-industrial complex that can command the redistribution of colossal amounts of money.”

“There is a huge climate-industrial complex benefitting from this, but it’s not reducing emissions,” he said.

Under President Barack Obama, the government directed millions to the solar panel company Solyndra. The federal government offered $535 million in low-cost loan guarantees, and the company went belly-up. Senior executives collected hefty bonuses in the months before the company filed for bankruptcy.

Climate change activists like Greta Thunberg are likely motivated by the purest of intentions, but that doesn’t mean the Swedish financiers who helped her launch her Climate Strike movement won’t cash out if she convinces governments to “go green.” The Climate-Industrial Complex stands to gain a great deal from climate alarmism.
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Mesut P, managing director of PIM-Gold, was arrested on September 4th during a raid in Frankfurt Heusenstamm. 10,000 German small savers are now worried about their old-age provision. According to the public prosecutor’s office, a total of 1.9 tons of customer gold disappeared according to the Handelsblatt newspaper.According to an employee’s testimony, Mesut P. “had neither a school-leaving qualification nor vocational training. He “cannot even write two German sentences without making mistakes”.According to a courageous whistleblower in his criminal complaints to the public prosecutor’s office in Darmstadt, the criminal rip-off system was supported and promoted by a lawyer specializing in capital investment law, an auditor, and several distribution directors.Among them are the Turkish businessmen Hayri E. and Cemil Ö., against whom a criminal complaint has now also been filed with the public prosecutor’s office in Darmstadt for “complicity and incitement to fraud in the sale of Bonusgoldkauf-Plus contracts”. Also against the attorney and the tax consultant charges are pending. 
The business newspaper Handelsblatt reports:

It was a ghostly scene in front of the headquarters of PIM Gold GmbH in Heusenstamm on Wednesday afternoon. Again and again drove in front of dark Mercedes sedans. Out of them men with serious faces, apparently employees or partners of the gold trader, rose. They hurried past armed civilian police and the blue police patrol car into the building. The officers had already arrived in the early morning, until about 4 p.m. they left again. The prosecutor Darmstadt confirmed on Handelsblatt request that she has searched on Wednesday the premises of PIM Gold. The district court Darmstadt had proclaimed in this context a pre-trial detention order against a 48-year-old man. “The man is charged with, inter alia, commercial fraud,” said the spokesman for the prosecutor, Attorney Robert Hartmann. The execution of the detention had been ordered. The arrest, according to the Handelsblatt, is the managing partner of PIM Gold, Mesut P. (48), against whom the prosecution has been investigating for more than a year. Mesut P.’s defense attorney was initially unavailable for comment. An ex-employee of PIM, who later worked in the environment of a rival company, had already raised serious allegations in 2017 and repeatedly filed criminal charges against management personnel of PIM. He claims that more than 1.5 tons of customer gold worth around 60 million euros have disappeared. PIM Gold has always denied these allegations and sees itself as a victim of a “filth campaign” of ex-employee. In a sworn statement, Mesut P. said the allegations were “false and defamatory.” His gold inventory estimates were based on wrong or manipulated numbers. “Missing inventories could not be determined after a critical, manual review of the data in the computer so far.” The company said two months ago: “We are very sure that this process will be stopped soon and all charges against us will falter.” After that, it does not look like it anymore. An investigation for suspected fraud continues, said prosecutor Hartmann. As part of Wednesday’s search, “assets have been secured to ensure compliance with legal recovery requirements,” the agency said. Whether it is about customer gold and how big the assets are left them open.The news should strike gold buyers like a bomb. Because PIM not only sold gold, but paid his customers an interest between three and six percent, if they stored the precious metal in the safes of PIM. Mesut P. or a spokesman for the company was not available for comment on Wednesday afternoon. On-site at the headquarters, PIM staff did not want to comment. A top distributor, the Handelsblatt reached in the short term, said only that he was in shock and must inform himself. PIM Gold has repeatedly been the subject of critical reports in recent weeks. Consumer advocates had warned about the business model. In addition, the Handelsblatt reported that the public prosecutor in Frankfurt on suspicion of money laundering against executives identified. The company also denies these allegations. On Wednesday, the Handelsblatt continued to report that consumer websites and financial journalists have been victims of a hacker attack after reporting on PIM. A lawyer from PIM said: “It is utterly absurd to associate PIM Gold with the attacks. It is obviously a renewed attempt to discredit the company. “PIM Gold basically distance itself from the attacks

https://www.en24.news/2019/09/raid-on-gold-trader-police-arrest-manager.html / https://www.journalistenwatch.com/2019/09/23/whistleblower-tuerkischer-vorzeige/

In the night from Friday to Saturday an aggressive man took the suburban train line 19 to Cologne main station. When he spotted employees of the German Railway he insulted them and behaved extremely violently. As the incident escalated, the Federal Police was called in to aid and arrested the offender at Cologne Central Station. After midnight, a 23-year-old in the Cologne district of Lövenich boarded the suburban train in the direction of Cologne Central Station. As soon as the train entered the station, the man kicked against the train and behaved violently. When he spotted the employees of the German railway company, he started his insults.Calming words had no effect. He approached the employees and attacked them. He spat at the men and continued to insult them. Thereupon the Cologne Federal Police was called upon to assist, and they arrested the attacker at Cologne Central Station. The 23-year-old Afghan also behaved violently and in an aggressive and uncooperative manner towards the federal police. He spat at the officers and insulted them as well. A voluntary breath alcohol test showed a value of 1.64 per mille. The man now has to answer for bodily injury and insult.

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