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Friday, April 26, 2024

Islamization > Former Czech PM says immigration a cancer on Europe leading to cultural suicide

 


Mass migration ‘a poison used for the

assisted suicide of Europe and its culture’

Former Czech PM

Only the willfully blind and those who are cheering this on would say that he is wrong.

‘Assisted suicide of Europe’ – Former Czech PM Babiš delivers historic speech

against EU migration pact in Czech parliament

by John Cody, Remix News, April 22, 2024:

In what may be one of the most impassioned and epic speeches against the EU migration pact in all of Europe, former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš warned in Czechia’s parliament that immigration was a “cancer” that had already destroyed Western Europe but which would now slam Central and Eastern Europe as well.

The center-left Czech government of Petr Fiala helped approve the pro-migration pact, which has led to sharp criticism from the opposition led by Babiš, who says the pact will lead to a wave of immigration from the Middle East and Africa to Czechia.

“(Interior Minister) Vít Rakusan and Fiala’s migration pact is not a medicine that will cure the European Union, but a poison used for the assisted suicide of Europe and its culture. The rejection of migrants from a completely different cultural environment is not a manifestation of a lack of solidarity, but an instinct for self-preservation,” said Babiš.

He further warned that migrant quotas are coming to Czechia, which will force the country to accept thousands of newcomers.

“The migration pact was negotiated and pushed through by the Fiala government during the Czech EU Presidency and passed through the European Parliament last week. The vote on this absolutely insane, monstrous agreement, which contains hidden refugee quotas and obliges the Czech Republic to accept migrants from Africa and the Middle East exactly as Brussels envisages, could change our country beyond recognition in a few years. Without any exaggeration, Fiala and Rakusan have traded our security, culture and way of life for uncontrolled migration, an explosion of crime and the disintegration of our society, just as is happening in many countries in Western Europe today.

I’m going to say it bluntly here and I’m not afraid of it. Mass illegal migration of people with a completely different culture, customs and mentality is a cancer that is destroying European society. If we do not start doing something about this insidious disease, in a few years the Czech Republic may find itself in the same situation as France, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, Italy, or Sweden.”…

 “This must be clear to anyone who sees what is happening in Western European cities. Unfortunately, I think it is too late to save Western Europe. In the Czech Republic and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, however, that situation is still avoidable. Even if it’s ‘5 minutes to midnight,’ we still have time and the opportunity to fight illegal migration. That first step is to reject the progressive open border ‘welcomers,’ eco-fanatics and social engineers who want to forcefully ‘improve our world’ and elect people who will fiercely defend our national interests and oppose illegal migration in the European Parliament elections.”



Thursday, April 25, 2024

Corruption is Everywhere > Even when wives are involved in France and Spain

 

French court confirms ex-PM Fillon's

conviction in 'fake jobs' scandal


France's Court of Cassation on Wednesday confirmed the conviction of former premier François Fillon in a fake jobs scandal that wrecked his 2017 presidential bid but ordered a new trial for his sentencing.



Fillon, 70, was sentenced on appeal on May 9, 2022 to four years' jail, three years of which were suspended, and a fine of 375,000 euros ($400,000). A new sentencing trial will take place in coming months at the Paris court of appeal.

The conservative politician was found guilty of providing a fake parliamentary assistant job to his wife, Penelope Fillon, that saw her paid millions of euros in public funds.

She was given a suspended two-year prison sentence for embezzlement at the 2022 appeal trial, and ordered to pay the same fine as her husband.

Both were also ordered to repay 800,000 euros to the lower-house National Assembly, which reimbursed Penelope Fillon for the job as her husband's assistant. 

Under French sentencing guidelines, it is unlikely that Fillon will spend any time behind bars, and can be ordered instead to wear an ankle-bracelet.

The couple has always insisted that Penelope Fillon had done genuine constituency work.

(AFP)

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Spain’s PM considers resigning amid

wife’s legal probe: ‘Is it all worth it?’





Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he would step back from public duties “for a few days” to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a business corruption probe into his wife’s private dealings.

Sanchez, who last year secured another term for his Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) as leader of a minority coalition government, said he would announce his decision on Monday, April 29.

“I need to pause and think,” he wrote in a letter shared on his X account. “At this point, I have to ask myself: is it all worth it? I honestly don’t know… whether I should continue to lead the government or renounce this honor.”

“I will cancel my public agenda for a few days in order to reflect and decide which path to take.”

For more on this story please go to "The court investigating Gomez"

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Villages being massacred by Burkina Faso army after being accused of helping jihadists - hundreds dead including babies

 

Burkina Faso’s army summarily executed

223 civilians, says Human Rights Watch


Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Thursday. 



The mass killings took place on Feb. 25 in the country's northern villages of Nondin and Soro, and some 56 children were among the dead, according to the report. The human rights organization called on the United Nations and the African Union to provide investigators and to support local efforts to bring those responsible to justice.

“The massacres in Nondin and Soro villages are just the latest mass killings of civilians by the Burkina Faso military in their counterinsurgency operations,” Human Rights Watch Executive Director Tirana Hassan said in a statement. “International assistance is critical to support a credible investigation into possible crimes against humanity.”

The once-peaceful nation has been ravaged by violence that has pitted jihadis linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group against state-backed forces. Both sides have targeted civilians caught in the middle, displacing more than 2 million people, of which over half are children. Most attacks go unpunished and unreported in a nation run by a repressive leadership that silences perceived dissidents.

The HRW report provided a rare firsthand account of the killings by survivors amid a stark increase in civilian casualties by Burkina Faso’s security forces as the junta struggles to beat back a growing jihadi insurgency and attacks residents under the guise of counterterrorism.

Earlier in April, The Associated Press verified accounts of a Nov. 5 army attack on another village that killed at least 70 people. The details were similar — the army blamed the villagers for cooperating with militants and massacred them, even babies.

Witnesses and survivors told HRW that the Feb. 25 killings were believed to have been carried out in retaliation for an attack by Islamist fighters on a military camp near the provincial capital Ouahigouya, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) away.

The toll of civilian deaths was higher than first described by local officials. A public prosecutor previously said that his office was investigating the reported deaths of 170 people in attacks carried out on those villages.

A Burkina Faso government spokesperson didn’t respond to requests for comment about the Feb. 25 attack. Officials previously denied killing civilians and said jihadi fighters often disguise themselves as soldiers.

More than 20,000 people have been killed in Burkina Faso since jihadi violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group first hit the West African nation nine years ago, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, a United States-based nonprofit.

Burkina Faso experienced two coups in 2022. Since seizing power in September 2022, the junta led by Capt. Ibrahim Traoré has promised to beat back militants but violence has only worsened, analysts say. Around half of Burkina Faso’s territory remains outside of government control.

Frustrated with a lack of progress over years of Western military assistance, the junta has severed military ties with former colonial ruler France and turned to Russia instead for security support. 

Russia fighting against Islam, hmmmm.

(AP)



Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Canadian Convulsions > Ideology masking as leadership killed the Canadian dream! - General Rick Hillier

 

Yes indeed!!!


Ideology masking as leadership killed the Canadian dream!
"Enough of the gaslighting, evading, blaming and deluding.
Canada needs to be made ours again"
By Gen. Rick Hillier
The Canadian dream, so wonderfully launched in 1867 with the partnership that was the Dominion of Canada, is dead.
Killed by ideology masking as leadership. Slaughtered by economic suicide posing as climate control.
Bled by crushing taxes wasted on scandalous and foolish endeavours. Crushed by debt that compromises long-term fiscal viability.
Wounded by battles over responsible care for children. Frightened by our abandonment of some 300,000 Canadians, attacked not because they’re bombing Gaza, but because they’re Jews.
Coupled with increasing brain drain, capital flight and failing infrastructure, we face a harsh reality: the great experiment, a federation of like-minded peoples that was the Dominion of Canada, is failing.
Our responses are feeble. More regulations. More and higher taxes.
Massive amounts of immigration, without a plan to integrate.
Decrying American politics without acknowledging that our dirty politics are homegrown, with leaders dividing instead of uniting.
Think of former governor general Julie Payette, who as head of state mocked religious Canadians by complaining that “we are still debating and still questioning whether life was a divine intervention or whether it was coming out of a natural process let alone, oh my goodness, a random process.”
The cure for what ails us is simple to say, but difficult, perhaps impossible, to implement: leadership.
Real leaders have a vision for what we can be, a strategy to get there, a plan to execute the strategy and priorities to get things done daily.
Those who wish to be political leaders should articulate what their leadership will mean and how it will function, including how they would hold the public service accountable for delivering priorities under the plan.
Equally crucial to a leader’s vision is the economy. In the federal domain, any strategy should consider how to unfetter and inspire a private sector that delivers transformational technology, investment opportunity, well-paid employees and hope for a better future.
Underscoring all of this should be a rethink of how, and how much, we tax. Canadians are tired of “tax and spend” policies.
Canada should also have a plan to develop, rather than dismantle its energy sector....Last on this incomplete list is the empowering of personal ambition, initiative and ingenuity.
De-regulate, remove red tape and stop being an obstacle. Our current housing crisis, our inability to dream of owning a home, can be traced in large part to the red tape and taxes with which we have handicapped both builders and buyers.
It all starts with responsible leadership.
We have succeeded in tough times before. As Canada’s prime minister during the First World War, Sir Robert Borden led through a brutal conscription crisis. During the Second World War, then-prime minister Mackenzie King became a powerful influencer to two of the greatest leaders ever, Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, shaping the world to Canada’s advantage.
Strong prime minsters continued to strengthen the nation in the decades that followed: Lester B. Pearson in the ’60s, Brian Mulroney in the ’80s and ’90s and ruthless Jean Chretien in the ’90s into the early 2000s.
We need that leadership now. Enough of the gaslighting, evading, blaming and deluding. The mission is clear: make this our Canada.
(Rick J. Hillier is a retired Canadian Forces general who served as the chief of defence staff from February 2005 to July 2008.)