Islam - Current Day > Muslim Democracy ambassador threatens politician in Sweden

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Sweden: Muslim migrant Democracy ambassador threatened

to kill AFS party leader – charged

Translated from “Demokratiambassadör mordhotade AFS partiledare – åtalas,” 

Fria Tider, May 29, 2023:

An immigrant who has previously been hailed as a “democracy ambassador” in SVT threatened to kill Alternative for Sweden’s party leader Gustav Kasselstrand. Now he has been charged.

13 months later.

Gustav Kasselstrand himself filmed the incident, which took place at Arlanda on May 1 last year, during the ongoing election campaign.

The video shows how the man repeatedly threatens the AFS leader with his life.

“You’re lucky it’s a public place, otherwise I would have beaten you to death,” the man is heard saying.

Kasselstrand responds by urging the immigrant to go home.

“Okay. Go home to your country, just so you know.”

The AFS leader also remarks that the immigrant is shaking, to which he replies:

“I’m f***ing… That’s why I’m angry. I kill you! I’ll kill you!”

Sounds like Ahmed the Dead Terrorist!

A few minutes after the incident, two patrolling police officers passed by and Gustav Kasselstrand reported the threat to the police. The police were able to see the perpetrator on film.

Norrort’s Prosecutor’s Chamber in Stockholm has now decided to bring charges against the man for illegal threats.

The man now charged was employed as a “democracy ambassador” in Malmö during the 2018 election campaign, which was noticed through a so-called tribute article in SVT, writes AFS in a press release.

“Despite the fact that the threat was directed at a politician, the crime was never investigated by the police’s special democracy crime unit and was not given special priority either. In correspondence between the police and Alternative for Sweden, the police regret that it instead took an unusually long time before the preliminary investigation was sent to the prosecutor,” the party writes.

I am inclined to believe that Swedish police and prosecutors, like in most European countries, are far too political, and put their country in serious danger.

Islam - Current Day > Virgin Mary Statue Decapitated in Corsica; CoE Primary School invites Muslims to Blaspheme Jesus

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Of course, there is no proof that this was committed by a Muslim although there are many precedents of such incidents at the hands of Islam in France in recent years.

France: Statue of the Virgin Mary decapitated

MAY 31, 2023 12:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

There is no indication in the article below of who has done this. It could have been anyone. But is it possible, just possible, that this had something to do with this Qur’an passage? “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (47:4)

After all, many people who believe that this passage about cutting off heads is holy writ also believe that Christianity is a false religion and that they are commanded to fight unbelievers so that Allah may punish them by the hands of the believers (cf. Qur’an 9:14-15). They are also likely familiar with the Qur’an’s suggestion that the destroyed remnants of ancient non-Muslim civilizations are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth: “Many were the ways of life that have passed away before you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who rejected truth.” (Qur’an 3:137) The ruins of non-Muslim civilizations thus bear witness to the truth of Islam. What ensues from that idea? The creation of more ruins.

Maybe it’s just a coincidence. But large numbers of people who believe these things have entered France in recent years. However, given the political situation and the state of the establishment media there, we will likely never know for sure who committed this crime.

Ajaccio: the statue of Our Lady of Lavasina decapitated

Translated from “Ajaccio : la statue de Notre-Dame de Lavasina décapitée,” Corse Matin, May 29, 2023

The information was revealed, and especially relayed, by social networks. The statue of Notre-Dame de Lavasina, installed on the seafront of Ajaccio, was decapitated, which provoked the indignation of many Internet users.

This is yet another act of vandalism perpetrated on religious symbols in just a few months in Corsica. On Saturday, April 29, the scout camp in the town of Vero, where a makeshift altar was installed, had been vandalized. On April 12, residents of Sevani, in Ajaccio, denounced acts of vandalism perpetrated against a statuette of the Virgin placed in a small stone arch near Petit Capo beach.

Two weeks later, on April 27, the picture of the decapitated cross of the Saint-Jean pass, in Sisco, had provoked a strong anger, of which the mayor of the commune had made himself the megaphone. “It’s a revolting act,” reacted Ange-Pierre Vivoni.

Why no Quid pro quo here? The school should be ashamed to call itself Christian.

UK: Muslim group teaches young children about Islam

at Church of England primary school

MAY 31, 2023 8:00 AM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

Isn’t this wonderful? Celebrate diversity! No doubt the members of Imam Hussein Media Group taught the children all about Islamic jihad violence, Sharia oppression of women, and Islam’s supremacism, right?

And when will the local Islamic school have Christians in to teach the young children about Christianity?

For that matter, since this was a Church of England primary school, when will the students there be taught about Christianity?

Members from the Imam Hussein Media Group invited to Church of England

Primary School in London to discuss with Year 1 students all about Islam

Shia Waves, May 24, 2023

Members from the Imam Hussein Media Group were invited to a Church of England Primary School in London to discuss with the Year 1 students all about Islam.

An interactive lesson was held in which the children were so excited and eager to learn about the religion….

The oneness of God, importance of prayer, Ahlulbayt (AS), Ramadan and Arbaeen were just a few of the things that the children learned about in their class.

The 'Oneness' of God preaches against the Holy Trinity and the Reality of Jesus Christ as the Son of God. How could the Church of England permit such blasphemy to be taught to their children? Would Muslim mosques allow Anglicans to teach the Trinity in their schools? There would be Hell to pay. Someone should be fired over this.

They were taught that the most important thing in Islam is to be a good person, respect others and to always be kind to one another….

Unless 'the others' are not Muslims, in which they should be decapitated, according to the Quran.

Truth Never gets in the way of a good story for Palestinian Pseudo-Journalist

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Mohammed Najib,‘Journalist’

MAY 30, 2023 2:00 PM 

BY HUGH FITZGERALD

Jihad Watch

Mohamed Najib is an anti-Israel propagandist and quasi-journalist, whose latest article in the Arab News offers further proof of his animus toward the Jewish state. More on his piece can be found here: 

Arab News parrots Palestinian lies about the Temple Mount.

Lying reporter has written for major news media

Elder of Ziyon, May 25, 2023:

The biography of Mohammed Najib says he “a journalist, war correspondent and defense analyst based in Ramallah, Palestine. He reports and writes on the Middle East region for leading newspapers and journals like The Jerusalem Post, Yomiuri Shimbon, Le Monde, Special Operations Report, the Wall Street Journal and Jane’s Information Group.”

Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? But just one of his articles could have been reprinted in all those “leading newspapers,” and Najib may now be using those multiple appearances of the same article to convince us that he’s a real journalist. What he doesn’t say is that almost all of his pieces appear not in the Western press, but almost exclusively — do an Internet search of his name for the evidence — in Arab, especially Palestinian Arab, newspapers, including Arab News, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, and others of that Saudi or Palestinian ilk.

He is a Palestinian based in Ramallah.

Judging from this article in the Saudi-based Arab News, he has no business pretending to be any kind of journalist. The article is filled with absolute lies and Palestinian propaganda.

Palestinians are outraged by the Israeli government’s move to hold a weekly Cabinet meeting on May 21 inside the tunnels it has dug under Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Israel has not dug a single tunnel underneath the Temple Mount or under the mosque. All the tunnels that archaeologists have uncovered and excavated are adjacent to the Mount, or stretch hundreds of meters away from it.

The Israelis have to date excavated approximately 2,000 archeological sites in Jerusalem alone. But they have never dug a. tunnel, despite Najib’s malign claim, under the Temple Mount; the tunnels they have dug in the vicinity have been located either next to the Mount, or extend for hundreds of meters away from the Mount. It’s no secret; the Israeli archeological digs are not hidden from view, and Mohammed Najib surely has visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and knows about the Marwani Mosque built beneath it. He knows perfectly well that there are no Israeli tunnels underneath Al-Aqsa.

Najib claims:

For decades, Israel has been excavating under Al-Aqsa as part of a vague, historically motivated search for “Solomon’s Temple” in an attempt to justify the occupation through archeology.

Israel doesn’t need to excavate under the Mount to find evidence of the First and Second Temples. Israeli archeologists have discovered every sort of Jewish artifact – oil lamps, utensils, knives, plates, coins, pottery, menorahs – from both the First and Second Temple periods, in the hundreds of tons of debris dug up when the Palestinians excavated under the Mount in order to build a new mosque, the Marwani Mosque, under Al-Aqsa. The Palestinians threw out that debris, wanting to get rid of what they surely suspected contained Jewish artifacts from the Temple periods, but Israeli archeologists rushed to collect that debris, and have spent years sifting through it, finding many hundreds of artifacts. Some of these artifacts are now on display in Israeli museums. Mohammad Najib can hardly be unaware of the Palestinian excavations under Al-Aqsa, or of the debris that the Palestinians threw out and Israeli archeologists then salvaged, as much as they could, for study. And he knows perfectly well that the Israelis have not excavated under the Temple Mount.

Najib continues:

However, after years of digging, Israelis, who claim they can trace their heritage to the land of Palestine, have found nothing linking their history to the Al-Aqsa region.

Elder of Ziyon then notes:

The only people who have excavated  underneath the Temple Mount since the 19th century have been the Muslims of the Waqf. 

They dug out hundreds of tons of debris removed to illegally build the huge underground Marwani Mosque at the site of what was (erroneously) called Solomon’s Stables. 

It was the biggest archaeological crime of the century.

The Temple Mount Sifting Project has been going through the truckfuls of debris – and found countless Judean artifacts from the times of the First and Second Temples. 

One example is this bulla inscribed with the name of a well-known priestly family of First Temple-era Jerusalem, the children of Immer.

They also found the distinctive Herodian tiles from the Second Temple period. So we know Herod built something big there – now what structure could it have possibly been and described in detail by Josephus?…

Yes, a very large structure was built on the Temple Mount during the period of the Second Temple, a building described by the Jewish historian Josephus. What, oh what, could that building have been? Yes, you’ve guessed it. But Najib knows the Second Temple, like the First, never existed; they are part of the fictive history the Jews have made up to justify their presence in Palestine.

Najib insists: 

Dozens of far-right Israelis visit the Al-Aqsa compound daily to show defiance and provoke Palestinians.

Elder of Ziyon responds:

No, they (and visitors like me) visit to be at Judaism’s holiest spot – a small fact that Najib doesn’t mention to the readers. 

Believe it or not, Mohammed Najib, Israelis of all political persuasions, and not just those who are “far right,” visit the Temple Mount (which Najib misleadingly describes as the “Al-Aqsa compound”) with no desire to “show defiance and provoke” the Palestinians. They do everything they can to avoid disturbing the Muslims. They do not pray on the Mount, openly or silently. They do not bring prayerbooks, prayer shawls, and tefillin onto the Mount. They limit their walk to the same well-worn route along the perimeter of the Temple Mount. They visit only five days of the week, and only for three hours in the morning and one hour in the afternoon. They do not visit the Mount on Fridays, in order to avoid possible conflict with the influx of Muslims who stream into Al-Aqsa for Friday prayers. And Jews from all over the world ascend to the Temple Mount for a simple reason that has apparently escaped Mohammed Najib’s notice: they visit the Temple Mount because it is the holiest site in Judaism.

Najib continues:

In July 2017, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee issued a decision affirming that Israel has no sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in 1967. It condemned the excavations carried out by the Israeli Antiquities Department in the city….

That UNESCO resolution of 2017, condemning excavations carried out by Israelis in the city that has been the capital of the Jewish people for more than 3000 years, was an outrage. It completely ignored the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount site, which was referred to only by its Muslim name, Haram al-Sharif. The Western Wall was described as the Al-Buraq Wall. And the resolution said nothing about what the Muslim Waqf was doing, carrying out extensive excavations inside the Mount in order to build, deep underground, the Marwani Mosque. And neither then, nor since, has UNESCO condemned the massive excavations undertaken by the Arabs at the Temple Mount, and the destruction of so many Jewish artifacts that were thrown out with the piles of dirt removed in the Marwani excavations.

There are tens of thousands of archeological sites all over Israel. Two thousand of them are in Jerusalem alone. Archeologists, Israeli and non-Israeli, have unearthed thousands of Jewish artifacts dating as far back as 3000 B.C. And then there is the stunning written evidence on ancient parchment of Jews in their land, dating from between the first and third centuries B.C., found in the caves of Qumran – the Dead Sea Scrolls, now on view at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. Yet Najib and Ikrima Sabri, a preacher at al-Aqsa Mosque whom Elder of Ziyon also quotes, claim that the Israelis have found no archeological evidence of an ancient Jewish presence on the land. How do Sabri and Muhammed Najib explain the existence of those scrolls, all of them written in Hebrew, save for two written in Greek? The answer is: they don’t. They simply ignore the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other scrolls found later in other Qumran caves, and don’t mention, either, those Jewish artifacts carbon-dated to the First and Second Temple periods.

It is not the Jews, but the Muslims, who have destroyed Jewish (and Christian) antiquities in Jerusalem and in the rest of Israel. The latest example is the disposal of hundreds of tons of earth, rich with archeological evidence, that the Muslims dug out from under the Temple Mount when building the Marwani Mosque. That disposal was a great crime; thousands of artifacts were destroyed in the process.

The only thing the Israelis have had trouble finding is not ancient Jewish artifacts in the Land of Israel, as Ikrima Sabri claims, but enough museum space to display even the tiniest fraction of those ancient artifacts that their archeologists have so carefully unearthed. And the series of lies Mohammad Najib tells, about Jewish tunnels dug under Al-Aqsa — there are none — and his claim that Israelis have “found nothing linking their history to the Al-Aqsa region,” when the Temple Mount debris dug up by the Muslims themselves and rescued for sifting and study by Israeli archeologists turned out to contain a wealth of Jewish artifacts carbon-dated to the periods of both the First and Second Temple, should disqualify him from appearing in the Western press. Should, but won’t, because that Western press has shown itself all too willing to publish the most absurd charges against Israel.

Corruption is Everywhere > Especially in Latin America where ex-El Salvador President Sentenced

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Ex-El Salvador president sentenced in absentia to 14 years

By Darryl Coote

Former President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador was sentenced in absentia Monday to 14 years in prison. File Photo by Alex Wong/UPI/Pool | License Photo

May 30 (UPI) -- Mauricio Funes, the disgraced former president of El Salvador, has been sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison for his ties to criminal organizations and breach of duties.

The sentence was handed down by a San Salvador court on Monday, with his former justice minister, David Munguia Payes, receiving an 18-year sentence, the Office of Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado said in a statement.

"We were able to verify that these two former officials, who had the obligation to protect Salvadorans, traded their lives in exchange for electoral favors, acting as gang members," Delgado tweeted.

Funes, 64, served as president from 2009 to 2014. Prosecutors accused him and his justice minister of securing an agreement with rival gangs that permitted the criminal organizations to grow economically and territorially in exchange for reducing the homicide rate between 2011 and 2013 to benefit the Funes administration in upcoming elections.

The attorney general's office said Funes received eight years for connections to illicit organizations and six for breach of duties, while Munguia Payes received the same sentence plus four years for arbitrary acts.

The prosecution had asked the court to hand down a 16-year sentence for Funes, who remains at large, and a 20-year sentence for Munguia Payes, who was arrested in 2020.

The former president was prosecuted and sentenced in absentia as he lives in Nicaragua where he and his family were granted asylum in 2016. He was granted citizenship in the country in 2019.

"An unjust conviction without evidence," Funes said Monday on his social media accounts following the announcement of his and his former justice minister's convictions. "The [attorney general of the Republic of El Salvador] did not submit any evidence that the benefits allegedly received by the gangsters were authorized by the presidency.

"A conviction without strong evidence is synonymous with political persecution."

Ozzone 8-5 > Have you been called by God? To What? You need only ever know that you are called to an intimate relationship with Him.

 

European Politics > Spain's Sanchez trounced in regional elections - calls a federal election

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Spain PM calls snap election after local poll drubbing

Daniel SILVA

Mon, May 29, 2023, 11:14 AM PDT·4 min read

Yahoo News

Pedro Sanchez has had a rollercoaster political career characterised by his propensity to take risks

In a surprise move, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called Monday for a snap election on July 23, a day after his Socialist party suffered a drubbing in local and regional polls.

Widely seen as a dress rehearsal for a general election that had been expected at the end of the year, Sunday's polls saw the main opposition group, the Popular Party (PP), chalk up the largest number of votes.

The right-wing PP also scored significant gains at a regional level, seizing six regions that had been led by Socialists, including Valencia in the east and the Balearic Islands, which includes the holiday island of Ibiza.

But as pundits were mulling over the Socialists' drubbing in the polls, Sanchez stunned the political establishment by saying he had informed King Felipe VI of his decision to dissolve parliament and call a general election on July 23.

"I take responsibility for the results and I think it's necessary to respond and submit our democratic mandate to the will of the people," he said.

Sunday's results "require a clarification from Spaniards about.. which political forces should lead this phase," he said.

Opposition leader Alberto Nunez-Feijoo, still jubilant from Sunday's success, welcomed the snap election announcement saying: "the sooner the better".

Spain, he said, "has begun a path of change that is already unstoppable".

- 'Support for Vox will grow' -

Oriol Bartomeus, a politics professor at Barcelona's Autonomous University, said Sanchez was "facing a dismal defeat and now he's changed the playing field".

"The alternative was six months of governmental bloodletting and he has decided to gamble it all," he told AFP.

But in Madrid, many were doubtful about his snap election call.

"I don't think it was a good decision, he lost this time around and if he brings it forward, it won't change people's opinion much," 30-year-old Carla Gimenez told AFPTV.

"For me, the fear is a PP-Vox government," said Iris Hernandez, a 65-year-old jeweller, referring to the party's need to rely on the far-right Vox, Spain's third largest political force.

Although the PP seized power from the Socialists in six regions, it will only be able to govern there with support from Vox -- posing a major headache for Nunez-Feijoo.

But 76-year-old Juan Jose Garcia Gonzalez, who voted for Vox, said Sunday's results merely reflected "what a lot of us have been saying in the streets".

"I think support for Vox will grow" ahead of the election, he said.

- Feijoo's dilemma -

In office since 2018, Sanchez has struggled with public fatigue with his left-wing government as well as voter disenchantment over soaring inflation and falling purchasing power in the eurozone's fourth-largest economy.

He has also been hurt by the repeated crises with hard-left coalition partner Podemos, which also saw its support collapse in Sunday's vote.

Sanchez's reliance on the support of Catalan and Basque separatist parties to pass legislation has also harmed his standing.

The PP secured more than seven million votes (31.52 percent) in the municipal elections, compared with nearly 6.3 million for the Socialists (28.11 percent).

The other big winner was Vox, which is hoping to become an indispensable partner for the PP -- both at a regional level and, ultimately, nationally.

Since taking over as PP leader last year, Nunez-Feijoo has sought to moderate the party's line while keeping Vox at a distance. He will now have to enter negotiations with Vox on its role in regional and local governments.

"The Socialists will probably try to use these upcoming talks to mobilise left-wing voters against a potential PP-Vox government on the national level," said Antonio Barroso of the Teneo political consultancy.

It was not immediately clear how such negotiations would "affect the tendency to vote for the PP", he said.

Despite Sanchez's high-stakes gamble, "the odds of a right-wing government taking over in July are high, a 70 percent probability," said Eurasia Group analyst Federico Santi.

Military Madness > Ukraine's Biolabs and the Pentagon's Involvement

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Spectre of clandestine biolabs in Ukraine and role of US

April 13, 2022

 By MAYANK KUMAR

The Daily Guardian, India

File photo of a researcher working in a medical lab.

OPINION

As the Russia-Ukraine war drags on beyond everybody’s expectations, the intriguing consolidation of the Western nations against Russia has led to deep speculation and enquiry for other underlying causes. The hasty imposition of a slew of sanctions on Russia by Western nations, comprising political, economic, cultural, and even sports embargos makes it an all-encompassing offensive minus hard military action. In a veiled retaliation, the cornered Russians have brought to the limelight the existence of around 28 secret bio-labs in Ukraine.

Ukraine is just a developing country with a lower-middle-income economy, ranking 74th in the Human Development Index. Ukraine is among the poorest countries in Europe. As of 2020, it suffers from low life expectancy and widespread corruption. In such a country, the existence of clandestine ‘Bio-labs’ has jolted the whole world. China has gone public with the startling disclosure that the US is clandestinely operating 336 biolabs in 30 countries across the world, including 26 in Ukraine.

Biolabs across the world are engaged in biological-military experimentation of extremely dangerous proportions. Basically, they are all into fabricating bioweapons, which can wipe out large swathes of population, using hitherto unknown viruses. Most of these labs maintain a database of lethal viruses. Currently, the world is experiencing the Covid-19 pandemic, suspected to have been created in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. There is a surfeit of reports in the public domain hinting at the possibility of the leakage of the deadly virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Whether the leakage was accidental or deliberate remains a mystery, and is likely to remain so. Many reports have also emerged that testify China’s nefarious plans to weaponize the SARS Coronavirus against the world.

All biolabs are predominantly engaged in continuous research on new and deadly viruses with pandemic potential, for use in future wars, in order to completely wipe out enemy population, in a short span of time. There would be no kind of medical defence against these strange and deadly viruses. Nobody would know what virus has afflicted them, let alone the cure for it.

A book titled ‘What Really Happened in Wuhan: The Cover-Ups, the Conspiracies and the Classified Research’ authored by award-winning Australian journalist Sharri Markson, and published by Harper Collins, reveals the ‘secretive project’ that the US had funded at the Wuhan laboratory in China. It also reveals that WIV is one of the few laboratories in the world that can undertake ‘gain-of-function’ research i.e., make viruses deadlier and more infectious. The reason touted for such research work is its utility for predicting pandemics, providing opportunities for researchers to work pre-emptively on medicines and vaccines, but the underlying reason is to stockpile a collection of super dangerous viruses to wipe out populations of inimical countries, occupy their lands and seize all their assets, with almost zero damage.

The Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) is part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, under which many biolabs across the world are funded by the US government. Since 2005, the BTRP has partnered with the government of Ukraine, and the United States has invested millions of dollars in Ukraine, funding an estimated 26 to 46 laboratories engaged in biological warfare research. According to publicly available data, 336 laboratories in about 30 countries receive funding from the BTRP.

The research work conducted by these US defense ministry-funded biolabs is highly classified, but it is an open secret that all sorts of diabolical experiments and research is happening and that these biolabs store dangerous pathogens and toxins. All such activities are in brazen violation of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

Activities and projects conducted in biological laboratories are categorized by biosafety level. The four biosafety levels are BSL-1, BSL-2, BSL-3, and BSL-4, with BSL-4 being the highest (maximum) level of containment. There are additional specific rules and designations for animal research (ABSL), agricultural research (BSL-Ag), and other types of research. 

There are two types of BSL-4 laboratories:

• Cabinet laboratory – all work with infectious agents or toxins is done in a Class III Biosafety Cabinet​, having top security safeguards. 

• Suit laboratory – Laboratory personnel are required to wear full-body, air-supplied suits, which are the most sophisticated type of personal protective equipment​. All personnel shower before exiting the laboratory and go through a series of procedures designed to fully decontaminate them before leaving. 

The engineering controls required are different for BSL-4 cabinet and suit laboratories. For either type, they are extensive and supplemented by carefully designed procedures and practices.

If Ukraine is maintaining 26 to 46 Biolabs, it is a national industry for them, and it is happening in Russia’s neighbourhood. Any country would be apprehensive about these foreign-funded, secretive biolabs in their immediate vicinity. The consequences can be disastrous not only for Russia but for the entire humanity. The Covid 19 virus carnage is only a preview of what can happen in the event of a full-fledged bio-warfare engulfing the planet. None can dictate to the virus where and when to attack, whom to attack, and when to stop.

Ultimately, it's murderous madness to even research bioweapons. Russia may be called evil for invading Ukraine, but what do you call a country that researches methods of mass destruction?

The Covid 19 pandemic has also highlighted the utter ineffectiveness of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), as also the hypocrisy of nations who are signatories to this. Formally known as “The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction”, the Convention was negotiated by the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland. It opened for signature on 10 April 1972 and entered into force on 26 March 1975. The BWC supplements the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which had prohibited only the use of biological weapons. Countries that are signatories to the Biological Weapons Convention undertook “never in any circumstances to develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain:

1. Microbial or other biological agents, or toxins whatever their origin or method of production, of types and in quantities that have no justification for prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes;

2. Weapons, equipment or means of delivery designed to use such agents or toxins for hostile purposes or in armed conflict.”

Spread over 23 countries, the largest concentration of BSL4 labs is in Europe, with 25 labs. North America and Asia have roughly equal numbers, with 14 and 13 respectively. Australia has four and Africa three. Three-quarters of the world’s BSL4 labs are in urban centres. Imagine, all these biolabs are engaged in synthesising deadly viruses to decimate humanity. Who knows what Frankenstein’s are awaiting to be unleashed?

The role of the United Nations Organization does not inspire any confidence, either in its effectiveness or impartiality in functioning. It is just a tool for easy manipulation by Western nations. Nobody saw any alacrity when Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Vietnam were bombarded, chemical weapons used and indiscriminate destruction unleashed. This is partly because the UN remains an organisation in the clutches of Western nations. About 11 UN organizations are having their headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Another 23 international organizations have their headquarters in Geneva. In addition, there are around 250 NGO’s operating from there. Not a single Asian country or African country, can boast of being headquarters for a single UN organization, why this discrimination? Both India and China boast a population of 1200 million-plus, yet not a single UN organization have their headquarters in either of these countries, why? There is an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with headquarters at Vienna, that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. Ironically, despite 336 fully functional biolabs, funded by Western nations, engaged in clandestine pursuit of biological weapons, there is not a single UN organization like IAEA, to monitor them or inspect their activities!

If Russia has acted with toughness on Ukraine for hosting 26 to 46 secret biolabs, it cannot be faulted. It appears that manufacturing strange viruses is the national industry of Ukraine.

Dr G. Shreekumar Menon, IRS (Rtd) PhD (Narcotics), is the former Director General, National Academy of Customs Indirect Taxes and Narcotics. Views expressed are the writer’s personal.

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Big Pharma > Is Big Pharma Pressuring French medical bodies to quash clinical trials on Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin?

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French researchers slam former hospital director for

'unauthorised' Covid trial

French medical bodies on Sunday called on authorities to punish researcher

Didier Raoult for "the largest 'unauthorised' clinical trial ever seen" into 

the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19

A picture taken on February 26, 2020 shows French professor Didier Raoult, biologist and professor

of microbiology, specialized in infectious diseases and director of IHU Mediterranee Infection Institute

posing in his office in Marseille, southeastern France. © Gerard Julien, AFP.

Issued on: 28/05/2023 - 17:39

Raoult, the former head of the IHU Mediterranee research hospital, and his subordinates engaged in "systematic prescription of medications as varied as hydroxychloroquine, zinc, ivermectin and azithromycin to patients suffering from Covid-19... without a solid pharmacological basis and lacking any proof of their effectiveness," a group of 16 research bodies wrote in an op-ed piece on daily Le Monde's website.

Of course, Big Pharma's vaccines were used "without a solid pharmacological basis and lacking any proof of their effectiveness." 

The drugs continued to be prescribed "for more than a year after their ineffectiveness had been absolutely demonstrated," they added.

Endorsement from respected tropical disease specialist Raoult helped push anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine into the public consciousness in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, feeding into its promotion by former US President Donald Trump and Brazil's then-leader Jair Bolsonaro.

In April, France's ANSM medications authority said that treatment with hydroxychloroquine "exposes patients to potential side effects that can be serious".

And somehow they forgot that all the anti-Covid vaccines also exposed patients to potentially serious side-effects, including death. But they don't want you to think about that.

The doctors' bodies said Sunday that authorities should take "measures appropriate to the infractions" for the sake of patient safety and "the credibility of French medical research".

Raoult in March published a "pre-print" study -- not yet submitted for scientific peer review -- into treatment of more than 30,000 Covid-19 patients.

So far no one has been charged in a probe opened last year by Marseille prosecutors into fraud and unwarranted human testing at the IHU Mediterranee, based in the southern port city.

The government has also requested an investigation into the IHU's conduct under Raoult's management following a harsh report from inspectors.

Health Minister Francois Braun told broadcaster RTL on Sunday that he would not comment on an open investigation, but confirmed that the latest study would be included in the probe's remit.

Raoult retired as a professor in summer 2021 and was replaced at the IHU Mediterrannee last August.

A spokesman said he remained an emeritus professor and was still supervising two doctoral students who began work on their theses before he left.

At the IHU itself, all clinical trials involving humans have been suspended since Raoult's replacement Pierre-Edouard Fournier took over.

The hospital told AFP it was waiting for the ANSM drug regulator's word before resuming the trials.

"The IHU has to show it has met expectations" before human testing would be allowed, the ANSM said, without setting out a timeframe.

Of course, Big Pharma has a very strong influence over the IHU, I'm sure, and the last thing they want is to have a study prove the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. If they can be proven effective, then the experimental vaccines Big Pharma produced should never have been allowed to be used without proper clinical trials. 

(AFP)

Bits and Bites > Cockroach ignites hysterical fear of Palestinian terror in Tel Aviv cafe

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Cockroach sparks terror attack panic in Tel Aviv

Cockroach sparks terror attack panic in Tel AvivCafe Dizengoff after false panic over terror attack

on May 27th, 2023. (Twitter)

Several patrons injured at popular Tel Aviv cafe as diners stampede, overturning tables and trampling each other, according to eyewitnesses.

By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News Staff

May 28, 2023

Several patrons were injured at a Tel Aviv café on Saturday afternoon, after a woman who screamed when she saw a cockroach in the bar next door sparked panic that the eatery was under attack by terrorists.

Cafe Dizengoff, named after the main Tel Aviv thoroughfare on which the restaurant is located, is a popular brunch location in the White City. The café was packed with customers on Saturday, according to a Mako report.

However, the eatery devolved into chaos after a customer, who was drinking in a neighborhood bar directly next to Cafe Dizengoff, began screaming dramatically when she spotted a cockroach on the sidewalk.

Her nonstop shrieks were so intense that nearby patrons at the café believed that there was a terror attack in progress. There have been several major terror attacks on Dizengoff Street in recent years, including a shooting attack that killed one this March.

“It was the scariest thing that ever happened to me,” an eyewitness who dined at Cafe Dizengoff told Mako.

“Suddenly there was screaming, people panicked and overturned tables, and everyone started yelling and running and trampling each other. There were many glasses and plates shattered, and people tripped and fell and got cut on the glass while other people stepped on them.”

Pictures from the scene circulating on social media showed smashed plates and cups, along with tables knocked on their sides. The diners’ personal items left behind during the rush to flee, such as sunglasses, purses, and even a shoe, were also visible.

“People were frightened by the screams and started running away, knocking over tables,” another eyewitness told Mako. “Because of the chaos, there were people who were injured. I saw an older man with blood on his face, he appeared to be in shock. I also saw two young girls whose legs were all cut up.”

At least “five police cars and an ambulance responded to the scene,” the witness said. “It was terrible.”

This is how Israelis must live because of the madness of Palestinians and the evil of those countries that support them.

Islam - Current Day > Palestinian terrorist shot on synagogue steps; Muslim gang beats Hindu youth for snacking with Muslim woman; Genocide in Nigeria with Government cooperation

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IDF: Palestinian killed after infiltrating West Bank settlement

synagogue with knife

by Emanuel Fabian, 

Times of Israel, May 26, 2023:

A Palestinian man was shot and killed Friday by a member of a local security team after infiltrating into the Teneh Omarim settlement and trying to stab an Israeli at the entrance to the community synagogue, the military said.

There were no reports of Israeli casualties in the incident that came as residents of the southern West Bank settlement were gathered for morning prayers on the Shavuot festival.

Video from the scene showed the man sliding under the community gate and then walking into the community with what appears to be a knife in his hand….

The Israeli military sent forces to the area as an infiltration alert sounded in the community, and was carrying out searches in the area south of the West Bank city of Hebron….

According to an initial investigation, the assailant crawled under the main gate of the community while the guard was on patrol. He then walked several hundred meters into the settlement, passing a crowded playground.

He was then spotted by a resident who alerted security. One of the members of the security team intercepted him as he approached the synagogue and opened fire, killing him.

The IDF doesn't mess around with terrorists.

Youth Eating Snacks With Woman Beaten By Group Of Men in Karnataka

Times Now News, 

May 26, 2023:

Chikkaballapur: A group of Muslim men attacked a Hindu youth on Thursday in Karnataka’s Chikkaballapur for eating snacks with a Muslim woman, after they spotted the two eating snacks at a food outlet. The Muslim woman was also attack(ed) by the group for visiting the food outlet with a Hindu man, police said.

The accused had noticed them when the youth and woman were having snacks at Gopika Chaats and realised that the man accompanying her was Hindu.

They started thrashing the youth. The woman came to rescue him and told the group attacking the youth that she knew him “very well”.

The group then started questioning her and told her that going out to a food outlet with a Hindu man was wrong and she should apologise for the same…

Plateau State Residents Confirm Over 200 Persons Killed,

32 Communities Displaced In Herdsmen Attacks

Sahara Reporters, 

May 25, 2023:

There is palpable tension in the Mangu local government area of Plateau State as armed Fulani herdsmen reportedly sacked 32 communities, forcing nine Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps to spring up.

Community sources told SaharaReporters on Thursday, that 200 people were killed between Monday May 15 and Wednesday May 17, 2023 with millions of properties destroyed including several houses.

Simon Lalong, Governor of Plateau State

Lamenting the killings and destruction of the communities, one of the sources told SaharaReporters that 37 people were killed on Monday night, while accusing the security agencies of aiding Fulani herdsmen in the attacks.

The source said “I attended a meeting yesterday (Wednesday), about what is happening in Mangu local government area. Over 200 people were recorded killed between Monday May 15 and Wednesday May 17, 2023. Thirty two communities have been completely displaced with nine Internally Displaced Persons Camps (IDPs) with over 15,000 people.

“From the record 1,292 households with 3,951 children, 2,701 women and 2,140 men were all displaced. There are no security agencies there, the securities are only going there to visit for a few minutes and go.”…

Governor Simon Lalong, has confirmed the incident which he had described as a sad development, while directing security forces to ensure that the killers were apprehended to face justice.

How can this be anything but genocide? Genocide that has the full cooperation of the state. Why is this being ignored by western media and governments? Is it because most of the victims are Christians?

Plateau State, Nigeria

European Politics > Isabel Díaz Ayuso - Rising Star on the Spanish Right

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Meet The Woman Spain Can't Stop Listening To

Isabel Díaz Ayuso: Where might Spain head if she rises to power? Photo:Atilano Garcia / ZUMA Wire /

Isabel Díaz Ayuso has risen out of nowhere to political stardom. In Madrid, the regional president is on the verge of his next triumph, a success story that could pull Spanish conservatives to the right.

By José Bautista and Steffen Lüdke in Madrid

05/25/2023, 2:15 p.m

At some point, long after the mass has been read, the priest has had enough. He hisses into the microphone, loud and sustained: "Sh-sh! "Sh-sh! Sh-sh!" A crowd has formed in front of the altar in his church in the center of Madrid. Retirees, businesspeople, nuns and children are all elbowing each other out of the way, fighting for a selfie, as they try to get closer to the woman they adore.

DER SPIEGEL 21/2023

The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 21/2023 (May 20th, 2023) of DER SPIEGEL.

Isabel Díaz Ayuso, 44, president of the Madrid region, is standing in a magenta dress in the middle of the cluster of people, wrapped in a mist of incense. She is squeezing forearms and hands. Her fans have been waiting for their chance for more than an hour, and now they wrap their arms around her.

The increasingly desperate priest pleads: Please take your photos outside on the street. But no one is listening.

Ayuso isn't particularly pious, but that doesn't matter to the devout on this particular day. The capital city is in the middle of an election campaign, with less than a week to go until regional and local elections. "Madam president, my lovely, you have to win," shouts one retired woman. "She's done so much for Madrid," says a chubby-cheeked 24-year-old with dark curls. Ayuso squeezes him, too, as tears well in his eyes.

Few Spaniards had even heard of Ayuso a couple of years ago. Now, the former journalist governs Madrid, one of the country's most important and powerful regions. Ayuso has become a star of the conservatives. Within her party, few dare to question Ayuso's power, and there has even been speculation that she might ultimately seek the Spanish presidency.

"It's like rubber-necking a car accident. I just can't look away."

Leftist politician

In Spain, Ayuso is either loved or loathed. Children wear T-shirts printed with her image, and some bars have photos portraying her as the Virgin Mary. But her critics paint her as a danger. She reminds them of Donald Trump and they wonder where it will all lead.

There's never a dull moment with Ayuso. Sometimes she downplays climate change, sometimes she tells an opposition leader to do her crying at home. During the pandemic, she lambasted Podemos, the left-wing coalition partner in Pedro Sánchez's government, as being "worse than the virus." She's known for lines like: "When they call you a fascist, you know you're on the right side of history."

After a glass of wine, one leftist politician admits: "It's like rubber-necking a car accident. I just can't look away."

Díaz Ayuso: When she appears on television, the ratings rise. Photo: Gustavo Valiente / Europa Press / Getty Images

Ayuso is hoping to expand her power in Madrid in the nationwide regional elections on May 28, and according to polls, around 47 percent of voters intend to cast ballots for her party. She is aiming for an absolute majority, and right now, her approval ratings are reminiscent of times when only two major parties vied for power in Spain: the Socialists and the People's Party.

Just who is this woman? How can her success be explained? And what does it mean for Spain?

On a hot, early summer day, Ayuso is sitting in sneakers and jeans in the announcer's booth of a sports stadium in an affluent Madrid suburb, and she's rather annoyed. Ayuso has just opened a children's sports competition, dancing around in the stands as the kids warmed up below. But as she spoke, she complains, she could only hear herself, and the echo made her feel insecure. It's something that rarely happens to her on a political stage.

Ayuso grew up as the younger of two siblings in Madrid's posh Chamberí neighborhood. She didn't have a good relationship with her father, a businessman. "He was really hard on me," she said once. She studied journalism in college and moved out of her family home at the age of 22.

The past four years as regional president have completely changed her life, she says. The pandemic, a fierce winter storm, the war in Ukraine - it seems all she did was work the whole time.

Ayuso talks about the time she worked from a hotel because she had come down with the coronavirus. The father of a good friend died during that time, Ayuso had known him since childhood. She says they were the most difficult months of her life.

A member of the conservative People's Party, Ayuso has been sharply criticized for her loose coronavirus containment policies. She allowed restaurants and bars to stay largely open, and there were times when masses of young French people flew to Madrid to party. The city paid an enormous price for her policies: Madrid recorded one of the highest death rates in Spain during the pandemic. Reporting by the Spanish media also found that, during the first, particularly horrible wave of the pandemic, Ayuso's government prevented ill senior citizens from being taken from nursing homes to crowded hospitals. Thousands of people died because they didn't receive medical treatment.

In the meantime, though, there are many who are grateful to her for not forcing them to stay in their homes at the time. Ayuso also remains convinced to this day that she did the right thing. "I would do it all over again the same way," she says.

The rather quiet Ayuso, sitting in the stadium announcer's booth during her interview with DER SPIEGEL, has little to do with the woman who speaks to her supporters in a park shortly afterward. As Ayuso takes the stage and begins her speech, her features harden. She shouts that Spanish Prime Minister Sánchez wants to turn Spain into an ultra-leftist country. That Sanchez is weakening the monarchy and the capital. She tells them that he and his people "despise Madrid because Madrid doesn't elect them." And that Sanchez reads every day. That he treats people like cattle. The crowd applauds.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is a popular target of Ayuso. Photo: Christina Quicler / AFP

It's Ayuso the demagogue who is speaking now. She sinks her teeth into Sánchez, the rather harmless Social Democrat leading the country, and doesn't mention the political competition in the Madrid region even once. It seems that she outgrew them long ago.

Listening to the stage version of Ayuso, it's easy to see why she's even more popular among supporters of the radical right-wing Vox party than among her own PP. Vox is weaker in Madrid than elsewhere, and Ayuso deserves some credit for that. But she has no qualms about working together with the right-wing radicals and didn't seek to distance herself from them until shortly before the regional elections.

Most mornings, Ayuso already knows the message she wants to make it into the media that day. The man many believe is responsible for that receives his guests at the presidential palace on Puerta de Sol. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Ayuso's communication director, has two ashtrays in his office. He stores a box of red wine under the table, and his shirt sleeves are embroidered with the initials by which he has been known in Madrid for decades: MAR.

Many believe the Ayuso's communication director, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, has played a major role in his success.

Photo: Carlos Lujan / Europa Press / Getty Images

Rodríguez, 59, a bearded man with a furrowed face, once advised conservative politician José María Aznar and helped pave the way for him to become prime minister. People in Madrid suspect he has the same plans for Ayuso.

The Ayuso way is also the MAR way – when she makes appearances on TV, the ratings go up, he says. And the TV stations are fully aware of that, he says. That's why, for years now, everything has revolved around Ayuso – all the stations need her pugnacity for their ratings. She sets the agenda, and her competitors riff on her and her positions – not the other way around. Ayuso's approach works because Spanish society is already polarized, a development she is further reinforcing.

If Ayuso were locked in the container of the reality TV show “Big Brother,” she would have a good chance of winning.

"Madrid is Spain" is one of Ayuso's favorite lines. It's also the home of all the people who come to the capital city to build a new life through hard work. If you listen to Ayuso for long enough, you get the impression that Madrid is the center of the world. " Chulería madrileña " is how they describe that in Spain: Madrilenian pomposity.

If Ayuso were locked in the container of the reality TV show "Big Brother," she would stand a good chance of winning. Recently, she sat in the audience at the Los40 Music Awards when the half-naked reggaeton singer Anitta danced over to her unexpectedly. Ayuso laughed, raised her hands and enjoyed the spectacle. It's scenes like this on which her cult status is based.

Ayuso is now largely immune to criticism, says Antonio Maestre. The left-wing journalist has memories of her from the time they competed against each other on political talk shows.

Donald Trump once said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and still not lose any voters. Maestre says that's how far Ayuso has come. He says she is ruining Madrid's public health system and that she's involved in shady deals. During the pandemic, her government awarded a contract to her brother, who procured masks from China. "None of it has hurt her."

People on Ayuso's team indignantly reject that comparison, but political scientist Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca also describes Ayuso's political style as a sort of "Trumpism." The question many in Spain are currently asking is this: Does such a person also stand a chance outside of Madrid? Will Ayuso become prime minister one day?

Spaniards will go to the polls at the end of the year to elect a new parliament. The leading candidate with Ayuso's conservative PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is in many ways the antithesis of the colorful Ayuso. He's a serious, slightly dull politician, a candidate at the political center who isn't built for culture wars. But since Feijóos' popularity has started waning in the public opinion polls, his rhetoric has also taken a shriller turn.

"Under Ayuso, the People's Party would move further to the right."

Political scientist Pablo Simon

Ayuso has already taken down one party leader – Feijóos' predecessor, and people close to the lead candidate are clearly nervous. One recently remarked to journalists that Ayuso's policy blueprint is reminiscent of Liz Truss, the short-lived British prime minister who failed miserably with her tax-cutting plans and ended up being mocked even by Prince Charles.

Ayuso, of course, denies wanting to take over from the party's lead candidate. She says her place is in Madrid. But if you let her talk long enough, she also says things like: "It's true that many citizens would like to see me as the head of government." But she says her party already has a candidate: Feijóo.

There's much to suggest that Feijóo may indeed be allowed to try his luck in the election at the end of the year – and that he will have to go if he doesn't win. That's when Ayuso's hour could strike. "She would be the logical successor," says political scientist Pablo Simón. "Under her, the People's Party would move further to the right."

The big Ayuso show, which she has so far been performing mainly in Madrid, would then be making stops all across Spain.