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September 6, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
World

Europe Has Seen 21 Attempted Terror Attacks This Year.

Western Europe has seen 21 attempted terror attacks and seven successful attacks so far this year, as a terrorism expert warns that there may be far more attacks ahead in the coming months.

German terrorism researcher Peter Neumann notes that the number of attempted attacks this year is four times larger than in 2022 and is calling for the creation of a Europe-wide thread database to help authorities stop attacks before they happen.

“We have still not managed to create a European database where all these people are in it so that, for example, if this attacker is noticed during a traffic check in Bavaria, a hit is immediately displayed,” he said.

Neumann stated that even German and Austrian authorities do not coordinate in a seamless manner, which was noted after an Austrian Islamist was shot dead in Munich on Thursday outside of the Israeli Consulate General.

Investigators believe the man may have been planning to attack the consulate on the anniversary of the attack on the Israeli Olympic team in Munich, which took place in 1972.

Germany saw another attempted Islamist attack this week in Linz in the Rhineland-Palatinate region, when a man yelling “Allahu Akbar” attacked a local police station while armed with a machete.

The 29-year-old was overpowered after yelling that he wanted to murder police, and a hand-drawn Islamic State flag was later found in his home.

The two attacks come just weeks after three people were fatally stabbed in Germany at a diversity fair in the city of Solingen. The suspect in the case is a Syrian failed asylum seeker who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

As with the suspect in Linz, the Solingen attacker had not been flagged for radicalism prior to the attack.

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Western Europe has seen 21 attempted terror attacks and seven successful attacks so far this year, as a terrorism expert warns that there may be far more attacks ahead in the coming months. show more
September 6, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Politics
World

Le Pen Laughs Last: Macron’s New Prime Minister Depends on Populists to Survive.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron has selected former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as his new Prime Minister. However, his survival in the role could depend on the support of Marine Le Pen and the populist National Rally (RN).

Le Pen’s National Rally finished first in the popular vote and is the largest single party in the National Assembly, although a Macronist bloc and far-left bloc each have more seats than the RN combined. Still, the populists have many more seats than the establishment-right Les Republicains (Republicans), of which Barnier is a member.

Shortly after Macron announced Barnier’s selection this week, the New Popular Front (NFP) bloc of far-left parties, which has the largest share of assembly seats, vowed to immediately table votes of confidence against the new Prime Minister.

While Barnier has the support of the Republicans and Macron’s globalist-progressive bloc, they have only 213 seats together, well below the 289 needed for a legislative majority.

Le Pen‘s RN has 142 MPs, giving her and her party newfound power to shape the next government. They have already stated that their support will require stricter stances on immigration and security and the introduction of a proportional representation system in future elections.

If the electoral system were changed to proportional representation, where the popular vote equals the number of seats gained by a party, the RN could have as many as 192 seats, as they won just over 33 percent in the first round of voting.

Since the election, which took place in two rounds in late June and early July, the legislature has been unable to agree on a Prime Minister, as President Macron flatly refuses to endorse any of the leftist candidates.

The new role for Le Pen comes after Macron’s bloc and others excluded members of the RN from key positions in the legislature.

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France's President Emmanuel Macron has selected former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as his new Prime Minister. However, his survival in the role could depend on the support of Marine Le Pen and the populist National Rally (RN). show more
September 5, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Politics
World

Here’s Who Macron Has Picked as France’s New Prime Minister (It’s Not Good!)

French President Emmanuel Macron has finally decided on a Prime ministerial candidate after the country was without a new government for nearly two months following July’s legislative elections.

Macron has called on Michel Barnier, the former European Union official tasked with negotiating a deal with the UK following the 2016 Brexit referendum, which is well-known as opposed to the UK leaving the European Union.

Barnier, a member of the center-right Les Republicains, is now tasked with forming a government as no single party or bloc of parties has a clear majority in the French parliament.

Marine Le Pen of the populist National Rally (RN) stated that her party’s support for Barnier would depend on his policies. Le Pen also referred to Barnier as the “French Joe Biden” due to his age, 73, which makes him one of the oldest French Prime Ministers in recent history.

Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure, meanwhile, expressed anger that Macron chose a Prime Minister from a party that came forth in the election rather than a member of the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP), which came first overall.

Faure went even further, calling the move a denial of democracy, a term used by Marine Le Pen when Macron’s allies and others prevented her party, which received the most significant vote of any single party in the election, from any critical parliamentary positions.

Alongside his role in the Brexit negotiations, Barnier is known in France for taking a more rigid stance against illegal immigration and mass migration in recent years. He once called for a three—to five-year ban on immigrants entering France from outside the European Union.

Should Banrier be unable to form a working majority, France could face another snap election, a scenario predicted by The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam.

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French President Emmanuel Macron has finally decided on a Prime ministerial candidate after the country was without a new government for nearly two months following July's legislative elections. show more
September 5, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
Sports
World

UFC’s Conor McGregor Wants to Run for Irish Presidency, Throw Out ‘Charlatans’ in Legislature.

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) superstar Conor McGregor is again teasing a run at the Irish presidency, suggesting he would summon the “charlatans” in the Dáil (legislature) and make them “answer to the people of Ireland.” In recent years, the former two-weight world champion has heavily criticized the European Union (EU) member’s globalist government, particularly over the Irish migration crisis.

“As President, I hold the power to summon the Dáil as well as dissolve it,” he asserted on X, formerly Twitter.

“So as [I] said before, I would have all the answers the people of Ireland seek from these thieves of the working man, these [disruptors] of the family unit, these destructors of small businesses, and on and on and on!” he continued.

“These charlatans in their positions of power would be summoned to answer to the people of Ireland and I would have it done by day end. Or I would be left with no choice but to dissolve the Dáil entirely… The people of Ireland deserve the answers they seek.”

The mixed-marital artist insisted, “Ireland needs an active President employed wholly by the people of Ireland,” adding: “It is me. I am the only logical choice.”

However, the Irish presidency is relatively weak compared to, for instance, the American, French, or Russian presidencies, performing largely ceremonial functions. The President performs his constitutional functions mostly on the “advice” of the Prime Minister, or Taoiseach, with this advice being legally binding. The Taoiseach, drawn from among the legislature, also runs the government.

The political class also tightly controls who can run for the presidency, with candidates required to secure the backing of 20 legislators or four local governments to get on the ballot.

Image by Andrius Petrucenia.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) superstar Conor McGregor is again teasing a run at the Irish presidency, suggesting he would summon the "charlatans" in the Dáil (legislature) and make them "answer to the people of Ireland." In recent years, the former two-weight world champion has heavily criticized the European Union (EU) member's globalist government, particularly over the Irish migration crisis. show more
September 5, 2024
Election 2024
World

Axis of Evil: Vladimir Putin & Liz Cheney Endorse Kamala Harris.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he would prefer Vice President Kamala Harris to win the U.S. Presidential Election in November. The news followed shortly after Harris’s endorsement from noted war-hawk Liz Cheney.

“Our ‘favorite,’ if you can call it that, was the current president, Mr. Biden. But he was removed from the race and recommended all his supporters to support Ms. Harris. Well, we will do so – we will support her,” Putin said Thursday at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. During this remarks, Putin also lashed out at President Donald Trump, reminding the audience of “so many restrictions and sanctions against Russia like no other president has ever introduced before him.”

Former congresswoman Liz Cheney announced this week that she will cast her vote for Harris. Just four years ago, Cheney called Harris “a radical liberal who would raise taxes, take away guns & health insurance, and explode the size and power of the federal gov’t.”

“She wants to recreate America in the image of what’s happening on the streets of Portland & Seattle. We won’t give her the chance,” Cheney explained, on August 11 2020.

“Because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris,” Cheney said, channeling Putin.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he would prefer Vice President Kamala Harris to win the U.S. Presidential Election in November. The news followed shortly after Harris's endorsement from noted war-hawk Liz Cheney. show more

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September 4, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Crime
Immigration
World

Syrian Migrant Suspected of Raping 12-Year-Old Girl at Pool.

A Syrian asylum seeker has been arrested at a swimming pool after allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl last month in the pool’s changing room. The incident occurred last month on August 10 at a local swimming pool in the German city of Braunschweig.

Braunschweig senior public prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters explained that the teenage suspect has Syrian citizenship, saying he and a friend began the sexual harassment in the swimming pool itself. Still, it remains unclear if the friend took part in the later rape attack.

When the attack had ended, the victim contacted the staff at the pool, who subsequently informed local German police as to the events. The migrant teenager was arrested at the scene where he had remained after the alleged attack. An employee at the pool claimed it was the first such incident since it opened ten years ago.

While it may have been the first incident at that particular pool, sex attacks by migrants at pools and elsewhere across Germany have been a frequent theme since the migrant crisis in late 2015 and early 2016.

In 2019, a German feminist magazine admitted that migrants were behind many of the swimming pool sex attacks. Years later, in 2022, the federal head of the German police union blamed migrants for a mass brawl at a swimming pool in Berlin as well.

Migrants are also vastly over-represented in violent crime in Germany, accounting for nearly 60 percent of all cases, and migrant stabbing attacks have surged across the country.

Last month, three people were stabbed to death at a festival in Solingen by a Syrian asylum seeker who failed in his asylum claim and pledged loyalty to the Islamic State terror group.

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A Syrian asylum seeker has been arrested at a swimming pool after allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl last month in the pool's changing room. The incident occurred last month on August 10 at a local swimming pool in the German city of Braunschweig. show more
September 4, 2024
Jack Montgomery
War
World

Poland, Ukraine Clash Over Genocide of Poles by Ukrainian Nationalists.

Polish-Ukrainian relations are fraying over the legacy of the Second World War era Volhynia (Wołyń) genocide, in which Ukrainians massacred up to 120,000 ethnic Poles, mostly women and children. The slaughter was instigated by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in then-German-occupied eastern Poland, in territory that belongs to modern-day Ukraine as a result of Soviet-orchestrated land transfers. However, many of the killers were ordinary Ukrainians armed with agricultural implements, using the German occupation as an opportunity to ethnically cleanse the area in preparation for its incorporation into an independent Ukrainian nation-state.

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army and its leader, Stepan Bandera, are regarded as heroes in Ukraine for their partisan activity against the Soviets and, after initially collaborating with them, the Germans. The Ukrainian government also refuses to recognize the Polish massacres as a genocide. This is an ongoing source of tension with the Polish government, despite Poland’s strong support for the Ukrainians in their war with Russia.

Ukraine’s outgoing Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, was evasive when questioned on whether Ukraine would comply with Polish requests for the exhumation of Polish massacre victims recently. He implied Kiev and Warsaw should agree to disagree on the subject of the genocide, saying it should be left for historians to discuss.

Polish government ministers have warned Poland will not agree to Ukraine joining the European Union (EU) if the crimes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army are not addressed. The Poles also have the power to veto Ukrainian accession to NATO.

“Poland will decide to close the next chapters of Ukraine’s negotiations with the European Union, so it is better for Ukraine to settle this matter as soon as possible,” said Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski.

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Polish-Ukrainian relations are fraying over the legacy of the Second World War era Volhynia (Wołyń) genocide, in which Ukrainians massacred up to 120,000 ethnic Poles, mostly women and children. The slaughter was instigated by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in then-German-occupied eastern Poland, in territory that belongs to modern-day Ukraine as a result of Soviet-orchestrated land transfers. However, many of the killers were ordinary Ukrainians armed with agricultural implements, using the German occupation as an opportunity to ethnically cleanse the area in preparation for its incorporation into an independent Ukrainian nation-state. show more
September 4, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Culture
Religion
World

Church Arson Suspect was at Large Despite Previously Targeting 5 Churches.

A 19th-century church was partially destroyed in an arson attack on Sunday. Police say the main suspect in the case has not only been convicted of church burnings in the past, but was only just released from prison.

The 39-year-old suspect was arrested shortly after a fire consumed the Roman Catholic Immaculate Conception church in Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais region of France. It was revealed Tuesday, September 3, that he had been convicted of prior church attacks, attempting to set fire to at least five different churches.

The suspect had been in prison since 2021 but was recently released. While police say he has a history of attacking churches, the information they have released on him, beyond his sex and age, is limited, and they have not explained his motivation.

Social media reports have offered a name for the suspect and alleged he posted about Islam and Palestinian statehood, but such claims remain unverified as of the time of publication.

MANY INCIDENTS.

Over the last several years, attacks on French churches and other Christian sites have become so frequent that members of the Roman Catholic clergy and nonprofits are sounding alarm bells.

Several attacks on French churches have seen people killed, including the 2020 Nice attacks, which saw a jihadist migrant from Tunisia stab three churchgoers to death, and the killing of Father Jacques Hamel in 2016, also by Islamic extremists.

A Catholic group called the Observatory for Christianophobia has documented over a thousand cases of anti-Christian attacks since 2017, from thefts to desecrations and other incidents.

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A 19th-century church was partially destroyed in an arson attack on Sunday. Police say the main suspect in the case has not only been convicted of church burnings in the past, but was only just released from prison. show more
September 4, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Politics
World

French Conservative Leader Proposes Big Tent Right-Wing Party, Including Populists, as France Remains Without a Government.

French conservative leader Eric Ciotti is proposing a new right-wing party, including Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally (RN), inspired by General Charles de Gaulle. Ciotti is a leader of the center-right Les Republicains (Republicans), who, unlike others in the often RINO-like party, is open to allying with Marine Le Pen and the RN, admits the Republican brand is “outdated” and “discredited by its defeats.”

The French conservative is calling for a new party, the Union of the Right for the Republic or “UDR”—a nod to the Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR) created by General Charles de Gaulle in 1967. The original UDR  of de Gaulle opposed the far-left May 1968 movement, which nearly brought France to civil war through strike action and political violence.

Anti-populist members of the Republicans (LR) have attempted to remove Ciotti from the party leadership several times over his electoral alliance with Le Pen ahead of France’s recent snap election. They have failed so far, and await a court decision on ousting him on October 14.

TWO MONTHS & NO GOVERNMENT.

The Union of the Right proposal comes amid an ongoing political crisis. Nearly two months after legislative elections produced no clear winner, a government has yet to be formed.

While Le Pen‘s National Rally won the popular vote and the most seats of any single party, it is unable to form a majority in the legislature and has been excluded from key positions by blocs aligned with President Emmanuel Macron and the far left.

The New Popular Front (NFP) alliance of far-left parties has the most seats overall, but Macron has is refusing to accept the prime ministerial candidate they are putting forward. Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the NFP’s largest faction, France Unbowed, has proposed impeaching the French president over this refusal.

However, other members of the NFP, which the legislature’s second-placed bloc of globalist-progressive ‘Macronists’ are attempting to ally with, have distanced themselves from Melenchon’s proposal.

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French conservative leader Eric Ciotti is proposing a new right-wing party, including Marine Le Pen's populist National Rally (RN), inspired by General Charles de Gaulle. Ciotti is a leader of the center-right Les Republicains (Republicans), who, unlike others in the often RINO-like party, is open to allying with Marine Le Pen and the RN, admits the Republican brand is "outdated" and "discredited by its defeats." show more
September 4, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
1A
Culture
World

Podcasters Face Over $276k Fine for Misgendering.

Two podcasters have been forced to remove an episode of their show from the Internet by court order after they used male pronouns to describe a balding transgender “woman.” They also face massive fines or even prison.

German podcasters ‘Hoss and Hopf’—said to be sympathetic to the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party—referred to Laura Holstein, formerly Nicholas, as a man following several stories about his attempts to access women’s spaces.

Kiarash “Hoss” Hossainpour described the pair’s legal troubles on X (formerly Twitter), writing that the Frankfurt am Main Regional court demanded the removal of the podcast episode in an “expedited procedure” without any oral arguments at all. The court claimed that the “misgendering” is a violation of Holstein’s rights.

“It is noteworthy that the court saw an ‘extraordinary urgency’ here—as if using biologically correct terms represented an immediate danger that could not be delayed. One inevitably wonders whether other, perhaps genuinely urgent cases had to take a back seat for this,” Hossainpour wrote.

The podcasters now face a possible €250,000 ($276,414) fine and up to six months in prison if they cannot pay it. They face two years in jail if they repeat the supposed offense.

Germany is not the only European country with laws against “misgendering.” Last year, Britain’s Labour Party, which is now in government, promised to make misgendering a crime carrying a prison term of up to two years.

In the United States, Michigan’s House of Representatives also passed “misgendering” laws last year, proposing sentences of up to five years for violators despite constitutional free speech protections.

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Two podcasters have been forced to remove an episode of their show from the Internet by court order after they used male pronouns to describe a balding transgender "woman." They also face massive fines or even prison. show more