Sunday, September 7, 2025
Politics in Europe > French government to collapse Monday, what then? Finnish MP graduated from prostitution
Macron’s government is collapsing.
Here’s why Ukraine should worry
A €44 billion austerity gamble, strikes in the streets, and promises to Kiev about to
go up in smoke
France’s government is once again on the verge of collapse. Prime Minister Francois Bayrou faces near-certain defeat in a confidence vote over a disputed austerity plan, a showdown that threatens President Emmanuel Macron’s authority at home and casts doubt on Paris’ ability to deliver on its ambitious promises abroad – including security guarantees for Ukraine.
A perfectly logical career progression!
Finnish MP reveals past in prostitution
Anna Kontula has said she worked as an escort from age 16 before switching to politics
Finnish MP Anna Kontula has revealed that she was a sex worker for years before entering politics. In an interview with the new outlet Helsingin Sanomat (HS) published on Saturday, Kontula said she is not ashamed of the experience, adding that it helped shape her political career.
Kontula, 48, is serving her fourth term in the Finnish Parliament. While she has long campaigned for sex workers’ rights, she had never spoken publicly about her own experience.
Kontula told HS she began escorting at 16 while living in a student dorm, and said the choice came from both financial hardship and curiosity. “If I wanted to somehow make ends meet… it was a pretty rational solution,” she explained.
She worked in the industry on and off for nearly two decades and became an outspoken advocate. In 2002, she co-founded the sex workers’ union SALLI and published articles challenging public perceptions of the industry. When Finland passed a 2006 law partly restricting the purchase of sex, she saw it as a partial victory, noting it included protections for trafficking victims.
Kontula has served in parliament since 2011, continuing to campaign for sex workers’ rights. When asked why she decided to speak out now, she told HS: “Talking about the topic now can bring benefits to social debate [on sex work] and its direction.” She has announced she will not seek reelection and is training to become a social worker, including providing safe-sex education.
Kontula’s coming out has already drawn criticism. In an opinion piece published in HS on Sunday, legal psychologist Pia Puolakka called it “worrying” that the MP described sex work as “just work among others,” and argued that “normalizing sex work does not make society freer or fairer.”
“The task of a civilized state is to guarantee conditions in which no one has to sell their intimacy,” Puolakka wrote.
Prostitution is legal in Finland with some exceptions. Although Kontula was a minor when she began sex work, Finnish law did not prohibit it at the time. However, the 2006 legislation partially criminalized the purchase of sex, making it illegal to buy from minors, trafficking victims, or those involved in procurement.
Middle East Madness > Growing up under Hamas - powerful speaker; Green Beret Lt. Col. lies horribly as 'dead' Palestinian boy gives interview to Fox
One cannot believe anything that comes out of Hamas, or anyone who supports Hamas, even an American Green Beret officer.
IDF Kills Palestinian Boy, and Then the Boy Gives a TV Interview
New in PJ Media:
It was one of the most horrific stories of the entire Israel-Hamas conflict, or any conflict. Back in late May, a retired Green Beret named Anthony Aguilar, who had been working with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), claimed that he witnessed an incident of such shocking heartlessness and inhumanity that it seemed destined to be remembered as one of the most cruel war crimes in the entire history of the world. There was just one catch: it has now been definitively established that not a word of it was true.
Aguilar said that while he was working with the GHF, he saw a young Gazan boy, whom he called Amir, approach in hopes of obtaining some food, and was given a bag of lentils. Amir was so overjoyed at this that he kissed Aguilar’s hand in joy and gratitude. This touching moment was captured in photos, as is so often the case these days, and Amir went on his way with everyone feeling happy. Aguilar’s happiness, however, was shattered soon after, when Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers began firing on aid recipients, and shot down young Amir in cold blood. Aguilar was featured on news outlets worldwide, and told the BBC, “I’ve never seen such brutality.”
And that was true: he never did, because as it turns out, his whole story about Amir being gunned down was a fabrication. Amir, whose real name is Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden, has reappeared in a TV interview, very much alive and not wounded. Fox News reported Thursday that he “has been found alive and was hiding out with his mother.” Why was he hiding out? Because if he had appeared, Hamas would likely have killed him, so as to preserve the story that Aguilar spread worldwide. The propaganda had to be preserved. Eventually, however, he was found anyway, and now the cat cannot be put back into the bag.
Fox journalists conducted an exclusive interview with the boy who goes by the name “Abboud,” and his mother, and noted “the pair appeared excited ahead of their planned extraction from the Gaza Strip. Abboud and his mother, whose name is Najlaa, were safely extracted from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, though the location has not been disclosed in this reporting for their protection.” Abboud observed placidly: “Outside the Gaza Strip is nice.” You can say that again, brother.
Amir/Abboud’s reappearance completely exploded the account of Anthony Aguilar, “a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Army and retired Green Beret Lt. Col.” Aguilar “showed images taken using his body camera footage of the boy approaching him and another contractor clutching bags of food. Aguilar claimed that he and the boy had a touching moment where Abdul, whose nickname is Abboud, kissed his hand and then his face in apparent thanks for the food supplies.” But soon thereafter…
There is more. Read the rest here.
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The Islamization of Europe > Muslims with machine gun arrested ahead of Christian festival in Italy; 900 Pro-Palestinians arrested at protest in London
2 Muslims With Machine Guns Arrested at Christian Festival of 40,000 in Italy
Nothing to worry about.
Another day and another one of those things we’re not supposed to talk about. In the past few weeks, two Muslims were arrested for plotting to bomb the Eiffel Tower and another was shot down in France after stabbing 5 people. (Authorities are still searching for the motive of the stabber who was shouting “Allahu Akbar”. It’ll turn out to be ‘mental illness’.
Now over to Italy.
An attack foiled at the Santa Rosa festival in Viterbo. The newspaper Il Messaggero reports that two Turkish citizens were arrested by the Italian Special Operations Division (DIGOS) with machine guns and other weapons. According to the Roman newspaper, the two men had a detailed plan and were ready to shoot.
According to Adnkronos, a citizen who reported the two Turkish nationals’ suspicious movements was the one who led them onto the trail. When police arrived at the scene around 2:30 PM yesterday, the two men—one aged 22, the other 40—were in their room with the submachine gun
Assorted Italian officials from the Meloni government and the Israeli ambassador were supposed to be present.
The media is trying to claim that this is organized crime, but the Santa Rosa festival is a Christian religious event so why would gangsters care about it?
Thousands of people attend Viterbo’s Macchina di Santa Rosa festival, a religious procession and celebration held every year on Sept. 3 to honor the city’s patron saint, Santa Rosa. The main event involves 100 “Facchini di Santa Rosa,” porters carrying a towering, illuminated structure called the “Macchina,” which weighs nearly 5 tons, through the city’s narrow medieval streets.
Either way you can imagine the carnage with 40,000 people gathered there.
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