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August 1, 2024
Economy
Immigration
World

One in Twenty Syrians Are Now in Germany, and Most Are on Welfare.

Germany has seen a substantial increase in its Syrian population since the 2015-16 migrant crisis, with the number reaching at least 972,000 by the end of 2023. This represents a sixteenfold increase from 2014, when there were only 60,000 Syrians in the country. Syrians in Germany now represent nearly five percent of all Syrians.

Over half of the Syrians in Germany, 513,534 people, receive German welfare known as Burgergeld, according to the Federal Employment Agency. Even those not on welfare receive aid via the Asylum Seekers’ Benefits Act. The government’s expenditure on migrants was nearly €50 billion in 2023, largely contributing to record-high debt levels. Since 2010, Germany has paid over $145 billion in welfare to foreigners.

Afghan migrants have also increased significantly, with their numbers reaching 419,410 in 2023, representing a sixfold rise since 2014.

Nearly half of these, approximately 197,551, receive social welfare payments. This rapid influx has continued, with an announcement from Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock indicating that 10,000 more Afghans are expected to arrive soon.

Official data reveals that 47.3 percent of all welfare recipients in Germany are foreigners.

Alongside overrepresentation in welfare usage, migrants are overrepresented in crime. Statistics reveal that Afghans have higher criminality rates than native Germans, including serious offenses like assault and gang rape.

Germany’s new citizenship law will allow migrants who have been in the country for five years to apply for naturalization, with some eligible after just three years. Last year, at least 70,000 Syrians became German citizens.

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Germany has seen a substantial increase in its Syrian population since the 2015-16 migrant crisis, with the number reaching at least 972,000 by the end of 2023. This represents a sixteenfold increase from 2014, when there were only 60,000 Syrians in the country. Syrians in Germany now represent nearly five percent of all Syrians. show more
August 1, 2024
Immigration

Judge Dismisses NYC Mayor Eric Adams’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Migrant Bussing Lawsuit.

A Manhattan judge has dismissed Mayor Eric Adams‘s $700 million lawsuit against bus companies that transported more than 33,000 illegal immigrants to New York City, ruling the case “dubious at best.” The suit, filed in January, targeted 17 bus companies for allegedly violating state law by ferrying people from Texas to New York City. However, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Mary Rosado deemed the suit “unconstitutional,” citing the Interstate Commerce Clause.

Rosado’s Monday ruling stated that the city’s attempt to regulate the transportation of illegal immigrants across state lines violated constitutional provisions. The lawsuit hinged on a 19th-century “pauper’s statute,” which Rosado noted had already been declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court over 80 years ago. Specifically, she pointed to a 1941 decision against a California law deemed “essentially identical.”

Mayor Adams had claimed that the bus companies failed to cover the costs of caring for the illegals, leading to expenditures of approximately $700 million over the past two years. “These companies have violated state law by not paying the cost of caring for these migrants, and that’s why we are suing,” he said.

Lisa Zornberg, chief counsel to the mayor and City Hall, expressed respect for the court’s decision but maintained that the 1817 statute the suit was based on had not been conclusively ruled unconstitutional. Zornberg emphasized that the city’s objective was to protect its social services system and residents.

Attorney Robert Hantman, representing the bus companies, praised Judge Rosado for her impartiality and legal adherence. According to the city, roughly 33,600 illegal immigrants have been bused to New York since the crisis began in April 2022. The city also reported that over 200,000 migrants have arrived in total, with 64,000 still residing in city shelters as of July.

Prior to the crisis, Mayor Adams praised the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris government for blocking the completion of Donald Trump’s border wall, and said the Big Apple would “always” be a sanctuary city for migrants.

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A Manhattan judge has dismissed Mayor Eric Adams's $700 million lawsuit against bus companies that transported more than 33,000 illegal immigrants to New York City, ruling the case “dubious at best.” The suit, filed in January, targeted 17 bus companies for allegedly violating state law by ferrying people from Texas to New York City. However, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Mary Rosado deemed the suit “unconstitutional,” citing the Interstate Commerce Clause. show more
August 1, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Crime
UK

Leftist UK PM Promises Draconian Crackdown on People Protesting Mass Stabbing of Children.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to bring the “full force of the law” down on people protesting the murder of a number of young girls, allegedly by a mass stabber born to Rwandan migrants in Southport, England. Some of the protests have descended into disorder or small-scale rioting, with police adopting a much more confrontational approach to them than they have with ethnic minority rioters.

The Labour politician said information on the suspect, Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, and his background would not be forthcoming any time soon, insisting that “the time for answering… questions is not now,” claiming that transparency could “prejudice” his trial.

Starmer branded those involved in the “far-right” protests in Southport, London, Hartlepool, and other communities a “tiny, mindless minority in our society.”

“We’ve resolved to show who we are: a country that will not allow understandable fear to curdle into division and hate in our communities,” he said of a meeting he has held with police leaders.

“I will not permit under any circumstances a breakdown in law and order on our streets,” he said, although migration-background men have been involved in a number of riots, police station sieges, and machete brawls in recent weeks without a prime ministerial press conference.

“Let’s be clear, it’s not ‘protest,’ it’s not ‘legitimate.’ It’s crime… an assault on the rule of law,” he declared. “These thugs are mobile; they move from community to community, and we must have a policing response that can do the same, he continued, pledging “wider deployment of facial recognition technology” and “criminal behavior orders to restrict their movements.”

He also warned “large social media companies and those who run them” that “violent disorder clearly whipped up online… is also a crime; it’s happening on your premises.”

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to bring the "full force of the law" down on people protesting the murder of a number of young girls, allegedly by a mass stabber born to Rwandan migrants in Southport, England. Some of the protests have descended into disorder or small-scale rioting, with police adopting a much more confrontational approach to them than they have with ethnic minority rioters. show more
August 1, 2024
William Upton
Media
News

CNN Shutters Opinion Section Amid Ongoing Restructure of Failing Network.

CNN will permanently shutter its opinion page as a result of CEO Mark Thompson enacting cost-saving measures as part of his restructuring of the news network. Key staff and writers were notified of the decision late Wednesday, according to reports.

“Just a quick note to let you know that unfortunately CNN has decided to shut down the opinion section,” an editor wrote to contributors in an email. “I hope our paths cross elsewhere!”

A senior executive at CNN confirmed the decision to The Hill: “We did make the decision at the beginning of the month to sunset the opinion vertical on CNN.com; as a result, we will no longer have a standalone Opinion section.”

The National Pulse reported in early July that CEO Mark Thompson announced a round of layoffs totaling around 100 employees. According to Thompson, the shakeup is part of a new plan to transition the cable news network into the digital age. However, it appears the move was a cost-saving measure after the network was revealed in late May to have scored its lowest ratings in three decades.

Lagging viewership and declining revenue forced Thompson to announce his intention to slash salaries for employees, even top network talent.

CNN has been plagued by complaints of bias, especially against former President Donald J. Trump. Last month, The National Pulse reported CNN media reporter Hadas Gold acknowledged the outlet failed to cover Joe Biden‘s cognitive decline because it feared it may help Trump’s election efforts.

It appears one of the last opinion pieces to be published by CNN was an op-ed by Veronica Goldman attacking The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. Goldman is a director with the far-left think tank Center for American Progress (CAP).

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CNN will permanently shutter its opinion page as a result of CEO Mark Thompson enacting cost-saving measures as part of his restructuring of the news network. Key staff and writers were notified of the decision late Wednesday, according to reports. show more
August 1, 2024
Election 2024
News

Kamala Harris Descends from Notorious Slave Owner, Historian Reveals.

A British historian has traced Vice President Kamala Harris’s lineage to Hamilton Brown, a notorious 19th-century slave owner and plantation manager in Jamaica. Harris, of Indian and Afro-Jamaican descent, has not publicly addressed these historical ties. Her father, Donald Harris, an academic at Stanford University, has written about the family’s connections, noting that Brown is his ancestor.

Stephen McCracken, a historian from Northern Ireland, has asserted that Hamilton Brown—himself an Ulster Scot—was not only a slave owner but also campaigned against the abolition of slavery. Born in Antrim, Brown relocated to Jamaica where he established a plantation and protested anti-slavery efforts in London.

Joe Biden has endorsed Harris as the 2024 Democratic Party presidential nominee after Biden decided not to seek re-election last month. While Harris has enjoyed a honeymoon phase in election polling,  critics have pointed to Harris‘s penchant for gaffes and policy decisions as potential liabilities. Her political ascent has been accompanied by controversies, such as her handling of cases as San Francisco’s District Attorney and Attorney General of California.

Harris is not the only Democratic presidential hopeful who can trace her ancestors back to slave owners. When he was still just a U.S. Senator, Barack Obama was presented with evidence in 2007 that his ancestors were also slave owners on his mother’s side.

Numerous currently living members of the American political elites have ancestors tied to the slave trade, including five living presidents and senators like Elizabeth Warren and Lindsay Graham, among at least a hundred others. However, one major political figure who appears not to have any ancestors involved in the slave trade is former president Donald J. Trump.

The legacy of the slave trade remains an issue for some, including Caribbean nations, who have demanded as much as $33 trillion in reparations.

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A British historian has traced Vice President Kamala Harris’s lineage to Hamilton Brown, a notorious 19th-century slave owner and plantation manager in Jamaica. Harris, of Indian and Afro-Jamaican descent, has not publicly addressed these historical ties. Her father, Donald Harris, an academic at Stanford University, has written about the family’s connections, noting that Brown is his ancestor. show more
August 1, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Crime
UK
World

Far-Left Lawmaker on Terror Watchlist Calls for ‘Antifa Response’ to Britons Rioting Over Mass Stabbing.

A French lawmaker who is a far-left extremist Antifa associate listed on the French S-File terrorist watchlist is calling for an Antifa response to riots in the United Kingdom. The riots broke out in response to the fatal stabbing of multiple young girls by a migration-background suspect, leaving three dead.

National Assembly member Raphaël Arnault, of the far-left France Unbowed party (LFI), is calling for an “antifascist response” to riots in Southport, England, which saw over 50 police officers injured in the aftermath of the mass stabbing by a 17-year-old suspect born in Wales to Rwandan migrants.

Arnault, 29, founded the Antifa group Jeune Garde Antifasciste in Lyon in 2018. He is the first known person to be elected while on the S-File terrorist watchlist, having been placed on it for his far-left extremist activities by three separate agencies, including the DGSI, France’s internal intelligence agency.

He has also been charged and convicted for politically motivated violence in the past, receiving a four-month suspended prison sentence which he is currently appealing.

Members of Antifa in Europe have carried out several violent attacks in Europe in recent years, including the notorious German Hammerbande (Hammer Gang) which went on a rampage in Budapest, Hungary, in February of 2023, attacking right-wingers and innocent bystanders with hammers.

Like Arnault, a member of the Hammerbande was also recently elected despite having been arrested for her connection to the attacks in Budapest. Hammerbande member and Italian national Ilaria Salis was elected to the European Parliament in June as part of the Greens and Left Alliance and, as a result, gained parliamentary immunity from legal proceedings against her in Hungary.

Image via Wikimedia Commons. 

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A French lawmaker who is a far-left extremist Antifa associate listed on the French S-File terrorist watchlist is calling for an Antifa response to riots in the United Kingdom. The riots broke out in response to the fatal stabbing of multiple young girls by a migration-background suspect, leaving three dead. show more
August 1, 2024
William Upton
Media
NatSec
News

Russia Frees Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan In Prisoner Exchange With U.S. & Other NATO Members.

Evan Gershkovich, a reporter with The Wall Street Journal, has been freed from prison in Russia as part of a massive prisoner exchange with the United States and several other NATO members. In addition, Paul Whelan—a former U.S. Marine—is also believed to have been released by Russia as part of the deal.

The exact details of the exchange have not yet been made public, but some have speculated this may be the largest exchange of prisoners between the U.S. and NATO on one side and Russia on the other since the end of the Cold War. Gershkovich was tried and convicted on charges of espionage earlier this year while on assignment for The Wall Street Journal in Yekaterinburg. Both the newspaper and the U.S. government deny the spying claims.

Like Gershkovich, Whelan was also tried and convicted on spying charges. Whelan was in the midst of serving a 16-year sentence prior to the announcement of the exchange late Wednesday night—spending more than five years in prison. Gershkovich had been detained in a Russian prison for 16 months prior to his trial in July.

Additional details on the exchange, including which Russian-aligned individuals have been released and if any additional Americans are part of the deal, are not yet public.

This story is developing…

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Evan Gershkovich, a reporter with The Wall Street Journal, has been freed from prison in Russia as part of a massive prisoner exchange with the United States and several other NATO members. In addition, Paul Whelan—a former U.S. Marine—is also believed to have been released by Russia as part of the deal. show more
August 1, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Crime
Immigration
UK

Riots Spread as Mass Stabber Who Targeted Young Children Named as Axel Muganwa Rudakubana.

Disorderly protests over the deadly mass stabbing of a number of people, mostly young girls, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class in Southport, England, are spreading, with police taking a confrontational approach and arresting dozens. The suspect in the case, who will turn 18 shortly, has been named as Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, born in Wales to migrants from Rwanda. The corporate media are illustrating stories about Rudakubana with a photograph taken when he was a small child, markedly different from his appearance in court sketches.

More than a hundred people were arrested in central London on Wednesday evening on Whitehall, near Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer‘s official residence on Downing Street, apparently including a 73-year-old woman with a pacemaker. While there are reports of many police officers being injured, in some cases, they appear to have started fights with the demonstrators themselves.

Many people are contrasting police forces’ combative approach towards the mostly white mass stabbing protestors to their habit of simply abandoning the streets when minority communities begin rioting, as when Roma Gypsies flipped police cars and torched buses at a recent riot in Harehills, Leeds.

This was not lost on yesterday’s demonstrators, with some taking up chants of “Where the f**k were you in Leeds?”

Protests also turned violent in Hartlepool, with a police car set on fire, multiple officers pelted with eggs and other missiles, and eight arrests.

Aldershot also saw protests centered on a hotel where illegal aliens are being housed at taxpayers’ expense. Protestors held placards bearing slogans such as “no apartments for illegals” and “deport them, don’t support them,” with at least two being arrested.

Manchester also saw some minor unrest.

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Disorderly protests over the deadly mass stabbing of a number of people, mostly young girls, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class in Southport, England, are spreading, with police taking a confrontational approach and arresting dozens. The suspect in the case, who will turn 18 shortly, has been named as Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, born in Wales to migrants from Rwanda. The corporate media are illustrating stories about Rudakubana with a photograph taken when he was a small child, markedly different from his appearance in court sketches. show more
August 1, 2024
William Upton
News

Biden-Harris Government Gifts Plea Deal to 9/11 Mastermind, Death Penalty Off the Table.

The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris government has reached a plea deal agreement with alleged September 11, 2001, terrorist attack mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and several other accused plotters held at Guantanamo Bay. Under the agreement, none of the accused plotters, including KSM, will face the death penalty for perpetrating the deadliest terrorist attack in American history.

“The Convening Authority for Military Commissions has entered into pretrial agreements with Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, three of the co-accused in the 9/11 case,” an Office of Military Commissions (OMC) spokesman stated on Wednesday.

According to family members of 9/11 victims, the OMC has informed them the terrorists will not face the death penalty.

KSM and the other 9/11 plotters, held at the special U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, face charges of providing training, financial support, and other assistance to the al-Qaeda terrorists who perpetrated the attack.

Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives when al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four U.S. airliners and flew two of them into the World Trade Center Buildings in New York City. A third plane flew into the Pentagon, which houses the U.S. Department of Defense in Washington, D.C.

A fourth plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers overcame the hijackers. It is believed that they intended to fly it into the U.S. Capitol building.

Image by Robert J. Fisch.

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The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris government has reached a plea deal agreement with alleged September 11, 2001, terrorist attack mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and several other accused plotters held at Guantanamo Bay. Under the agreement, none of the accused plotters, including KSM, will face the death penalty for perpetrating the deadliest terrorist attack in American history. show more
germany
August 1, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Immigration
World

A New Electorate: Huge Surge in Citizenship Applications After Unpopular Leftist Govt Changes Rules for Migrants.

German states have reported a surge in citizenship applications after the leftist national government changed citizenship laws last month, allowing migrants who have lived in Germany for just five years to apply.

The State Office for Immigration in Berlin reported receiving about 4,000 applications in June, averaging 133 per day. By July 21, the office had already processed over 5,000 applications, averaging around 200 per day.

The Bavarian Ministry of the Interior reports monthly applications in Bavaria surged from an average of over 5,600 from January to May to over 8,400 in June. In July, Hesse saw 3,300 naturalization applications, up from 2,600 the previous year. Hamburg experienced a 76 percent increase, Bremen 41 percent, and Schleswig-Holstein 38 percent.

These increases come after at least 70,000 Syrians alone were granted citizenship in Germany last year out of the total 200,100 people granted a German passport.

The new law, introduced by Germany‘s leftist governing coalition, reduces the naturalization period from eight to five years, with a three-year option for those showing supposedly exceptional integration. Children born in Germany to foreign parents will automatically receive German citizenship if at least one parent has lived legally in Germany for over five years and has permanent residency.

CHANGING THE ELECTORATE. 

The Social Democrats, far-left Greens, and neoliberal Free Democrats that make up the coalition all polled behind the populist, anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the recent European elections. The move to hand out citizenship to many more migrants may boost the coalition at the ballot box, however, with migration-background Germans being more likely to vote left.

Since the migrant crisis of 2015-16, Germany has seen migrant crime soar to the point that migrants are suspects in nearly 60 percent of violent crimes.

Many Europeans are noticing the change in Germany, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who said last month that mass migration has radically transformed the country for the worse.

Jack Montgomery contributed to this report. 

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German states have reported a surge in citizenship applications after the leftist national government changed citizenship laws last month, allowing migrants who have lived in Germany for just five years to apply. show more