WJC President Ronald S. Lauder extends deep thanks to Bulgarian government for quelling neo-Nazi Lukov March
NEW
YORK – World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder expressed his
personal gratitude on Saturday to the political and judiciary
authorities in Bulgaria, including Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and
Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova, for putting a long-awaited end to the
annual torch-lit demonstration that generally draws thousands of
neo-Nazi marchers from across Europe to celebrate Holocaust-era General
Hristo Lukov, whose movement sent more than 11,000 Jews to their deaths
in Treblinka.
This year, the organizers of the march agreed to obey a Supreme
Administrative Court decision to uphold a municipal court order limiting
the event to only flower-laying at Lukov’s home. The Sofia Municipal
Police also reportedly advised the organizers of the march that any
person who violated this order would be stopped. In the end, only some
60 supporters were in attendance.
“For the first time in more than a decade, the Jewish community of
Bulgaria has been spared its yearly day of fear and apprehension from
shameful flame-wielding thugs who parade through the streets to glorify
the very ideology that brought the near destruction of the Jewish
people,” Lauder said. “At this frightening time of rising antisemitic
activity across the world, this is a moment of true victory for the
Jewish community, the people of Bulgaria, and all promoters of justice
and tolerance worldwide.”
“The World Jewish Congress is deeply grateful to the officials within
the Bulgarian political and judicial sectors, including Prime Minister
Boyko Borisov, Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zakharieva and Deputy Foreign
Minister & National Coordinator against Antisemitism Georg Georgiev,
Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova, Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev, and the
many others have been sincerely responsive to our concerns over this
inciteful demonstration,” Lauder added.
“Our partnership to ensure the safety and security of the Bulgarian
Jewish community has always been extremely positive and receptive, and
the government’s proactive efforts in recent years in mobilizing to ban
the march despite the many legal obstacles is a clear testament to its
true support and friendship,” Lauder added. “Their cooperation last year
with the WJC and the Organisation of Jews in Bulgaria, Shalom, in
convening the first-ever March for Tolerance to oppose this scourge was
another critical demonstration of their dedication to helping us work to
quell these flames of hatred, and it was an action that spoke louder
than words. This year, only a few dozen neo-Nazi thugs showed up. Next
year, let’s hope that the month of February will pass without a single
disturbance of this kind.”
All
praise to the 2020 organisers and indeed this year to the protective
diligence of the Dresden police force! (Perhaps asking my arresting
officers in 2018 about how many arrests they’d made of the Antifa – who
flaunt huge banners “Bomber Harris Do It Again” – somehow had hit home?)
Owing
to an effectively policed route which meant the Marchers passed in full
view of residents in high-rise apartments blocks, Dresden citizens saw
the miles of some 2000 international sympathisers who filed by, black
and national flags teaming in silent cry for holocaust justice. The
mourners instinctively adhered to disciplined rules of respectful
conduct commensurate with the Day. A Day when Beethoven drowned out, by
contrast the grotesquely offensive Antifa in their rap and raucous scorn
for civilians ( mainly women and children) burnt alive by everafter
fashionable “moral bombing”.
Together with Slavic refugees who were fleeing from advancing Jewish Bolsheviks, the glorious edifice of Baroque Dresden had been turned into an holocaustal offering.
Today
although the edifice has been somewhat rebuilt, the sole monument to
Dresden’s torched civilians ‘says’ it all in a two-line carved
inscription on the entrance surround to a public WC in the city square –
an appalling Remembrance little more, in effect, than graffiti on a
toilet wall.
H&D assistant editor Peter Rushton was among more than
2,000 marchers in Dresden yesterday who commemorated the 75th
anniversary of the RAF and USAAF terror-bombing of the city on 13th-14th
February 1945.
Lady
Michèle Renouf with Thuringia NPD leader Thorsten Heise: the banner
reads – “Where Justice becomes Injustice, Resistance becomes a Duty!”
The Gedenkmarsch was superbly organised by Maik Müller of
Dresden NPD, and was supported not only by NPD branches from across
Germany, but by many other parties and by supporters from other
countries including Ireland, France, Sweden, Croatia, Italy, Bulgaria,
Hungary, Romania, Belgium, the Netherlands and USA – even from as far
away as Japan and Australia.
Despite efforts by the usual antifa rabble to block the
march route, we were able to proceed through a residential area of
Dresden (many locals observing from nearby flats) to a rally point next
to the central train station, where speeches included a message from
Wolfram Nahrath, attorney for persecuted patriots and defenders of truth
and justice including the jailed authors Ursula Haverbeck (now 91) and
Horst Mahler (now 84) and the British traditional Roman Catholic Bishop
Richard Williamson.
As can be seen and heard in attached video links, the respectful and
dignified conduct of the marchers contrasted with grotesque behaviour of
‘antifascist’ counter-demonstrators who failed in their objectives. The
rentamob’s disrespectful cacophony was drowned out by solemn classical
music accompanying the march.
The UK Sunday Times today could not resist publishing an
attack on the demonstration, written by the paper’s foreign editor Peter
Conradi, a well-known Jewish-Zionist historian. As has become the habit
of establishment journalists, Mr Conradi seeks to minimise the Dresden
death toll and accuses 21st century German patriots of exaggerating it.
A Dresden spokesman for AfD (the fast-growing patriotic-conservative party Alternative für Deutschland)
had quoted a death toll of close to 100,000 – a figure which Conradi
compares to the claims of “Holocaust-denying historians”, while himself
insisting on a figure of 25,000.
The actual Dresden death toll remains difficult to assess precisely
due to the large number of refugees from the East who had packed into
the city at the time of the bombing. Yet one very recently released
document from the postwar secret British propaganda agency IRD
(Information Research Department) offers us some clues.
In Ex-Stasi Merkel’s Germany, If A Nationalist Gets Elected, Just Reverse the Results
In this
Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019 photo German far right party member Stefan Jagsch
stands in front of the community house in the Altenstadt-Waldsiedlung, a
part of the village of Altenstadt, near Frankfurt, Germany. Annegret
Kramp-Karrenbauer, the leader of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union
(CDU) said late Sunday the election of far-right NPD party member Stefan
Jagsch in the small Hesse town of Altenstadt-Waldsiedlung needs to be
reversed. German news agency dpa reported Jagsch was elected unanimously
Thursday after the post had remained vacant for several weeks. (Andreas
Arnold/dpa via AP)
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right
party has condemned the election of a far-right district mayor in
central Germany with the votes of mainstream party members in the local
council.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the leader of Merkel’s Christian
Democratic Union, or CDU, said late Sunday the election of far-right NPD
party member Stefan Jagsch in the small Hesse town of
Altenstadt-Waldsiedlung needs to be reversed.
German news agency dpa reported Jagsch was elected unanimously Thursday after the post remained vacant for weeks.
Local CDU member Norbert Szielasko, who also voted for Jagsch, said
the council elected him because, “we don’t have anybody else, especially
nobody young who knows how to use computers and send emails.”
Lawmakers of other mainstream parties also expressed shock. NPD is known for its openly anti-migrant stance.
B.C. man
convicted of online hate crime back in court
Arthur Topham allegedly breached
probation order
Betsy Trumpener · CBC News · Posted: Feb 11, 2020
6:07 PM PT | Last Updated: an hour ago
A jury in
Quesnel convicted Topham of communicating statements on his website in 2011 and
2012 that willfully promoted hatred against Jewish people. (Betsy
Trumpener/CBC)
A
B.C. man convicted of an anti-Semitic hate crime is back in court.
Arthur
Topham was convicted in 2015 of one count of communicating online
statements that wilfully promoted hatred against Jewish people.
In 2017,
a B.C. Supreme Court judge sentenced him to a six-month conditional
sentence, two years probation, a curfew and a ban on posting online.
This
week, the B.C. Prosecution Service said Topham is back before the
courts for allegedly breaching the terms of his probation order.
Online posts demonized Jews
Topham, a retired teacher, was charged with hate crimes while producing an online newspaper from his rural home near Quesnel. …
Topham’s
lawyer argued the posts were political satire, did not incite
violence and included materials that could easily be ordered on Amazon.
First B.C. hate crime trial in a decade
Topham, who was living along a remote road 700 kilometres north of Vancouver attracted high profile supporters.Self proclaimed “white nationalist” Paul Fromm helped fund Topham’s defence and travelled to Quesnel for the trial. Monika Schaefer, who served jail time in Germany for Holocaust denial, also attended court.
As well,
Topham had the support from the Ontario Civil Liberties Association, which
champions free speech.
When
Topham’s case went to trial, it was the first hate crime prosecution
in B.C. in almost a decade.
In 2008,
Keith Francis William [Bill] Noble of Fort St. John was sentenced to jail time
for promoting hatred against identifiable groups on the internet.
Topham is scheduled to return to court on the
probation breach allegation on Feb, 19, with a trial scheduled for March
12
Patrick Moore: I was banned from speaking in Regina over this alternative CO2 point of view
There is no doubt in my mind that on balance our CO2 emissions are 100 per cent positive for the continuation of life on Earth
Commercial greenhouse growers around the
world inject CO2 into their greenhouses to double and triple the
concentration compared to present atmospheric levels.Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images files
Late last Friday I was deplatformed for the first time in my 45
years of giving keynote speeches at conferences around the world. The
City of Regina, which through my speaker’s bureau had signed a contract
with me to kick off their Reimagine Regina Conference in May, caved to
local activists and told me I should stay home.
In its
announcement regarding my banishment, the city said it did not want “to
spark a debate on climate change.” It said the stated goal of the
conference is “to make the city’s facilities and operations 100 per cent
renewable by 2050.” In other words, municipal officials wanted me to
say what they wanted me to say and not what I wanted to say to them.
That’s just not how I operate.
Regina is one of at least 54 cities
and towns in Canada that have declared a state of “climate emergency.”
This is political virtue-signalling at its disingenuous best: the only
people fleeing any emergency from these cities are doing so to escape
the frigid winter by flying to a warmer country further south. Not a lot
of Canadians from our southern regions are heading to Yellowknife or
Inuvik, N.W.T, to escape global warming. The climate emergency is at
best a bad joke. It might even be amusing were it not threatening to ban
the primary energy sources — natural gas, oil and coal — that provide
85 per cent of global energy and make our civilization possible.
Of the 195 countries recognized by the United Nations,
Canada is the coldest, with an annual average temperature of -5.35 C.
(Russia is number 2 only because it doesn’t have islands situated near
the North Pole.) It strikes me as odd that the world’s coldest country
worries more about warming than the people of India, Brazil or Saudi
Arabia, where it really is warm. These countries don’t have carbon taxes
that punish farmers for fuelling their tractors or policies that are
aimed at destroying much of their country’s natural resource sector.
Why
do I believe CO2 emissions from using fossil fuels to power modern
societies are not “pollution” that will bring about the apocalypse? Let
me count the ways.
First and foremost, CO2 is the most important
food for all life on earth. On both land and in the sea all the carbon
for carbon-based life, which is all life, comes from CO2. All green
plants on land and all plants in the sea, phytoplankton and kelps,
combine CO2 with H2O and by photosynthesis produce the sugars that
provide the energy source for all life, including ours. The increase in
CO2 due to our emissions has resulted in a greening of the planet and an
expansion of forests. This is not contested.
Second, during the
hundreds of millions of years since modern life evolved from primitive,
single-celled life in the sea, CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans has
steadily declined. This is primarily due to the advent of calcifying
marine species that use CO2 and calcium dissolved in the sea to make
protective shells of calcium carbonate (limestone) for themselves
(corals, clams, mussels, shrimp and many planktonic species, etc.). As a
result, CO2 in the atmosphere fell from at least 0.6 per cent to 0.018
per cent only 20,000 years ago at the last glacial maximum.
Third,
both cement production and our use of fossil fuels are putting CO2 back
into the atmosphere and the oceans. Both its very long-term depletion
and the return of CO2 to the atmosphere by our burning of fossil fuels
and production of cement were inadvertent. There is no credit or blame,
just pure scientific facts.
There is no doubt in my mind that on
balance our CO2 emissions are 100 per cent positive for the continuation
of life on Earth. Commercial greenhouse growers around the world inject
CO2 into their greenhouses to double and triple the concentration
compared to present atmospheric levels. By doing so they increase the
growth and yield of their crops by 20 to 60 per cent. This, too, is
uncontested.
I realize this is a hypothesis that not many people
have heard about, thanks to the wall of “denial” that has been created
by the climate emergency crowd. But I know that this analysis of CO2
history will eventually win the day, as it is a provable fact. I could
have presented my ideas to the Regina audience — after all, science is
about continual discovery — but they turned me away rather than listen
to an alternative point of view.
Patrick Moore, a past president of Greenpeace Canada, is chair of the CO2 Coalition in Washington, D.C
I heard that Dalhousie University had invited Omar Khadr, the Al
Qaida terrorist, to speak to students.
I thought that was appalling, so I flew from Halifax to Toronto
this morning to attend the event tonight.
Little did I know that Khadr
would be on the same plane as me, just a few rows ahead of
me.
He was sitting first class — that’s what you can do when Justin
Trudeau gives you $10.5 million.
I didn’t recognize him when I boarded the plane because he hid his
face from me. But I recognized him when we landed and he stood up.
I asked the flight attendant about it. Why was an Al Qaida terrorist allowed on a
plane?Why
wasn’t the no-fly list being enforced? I asked the
co-pilot the same question. Neither had any idea.
When I got off the plane, I saw Khadr with a group of his local
fans who had come to meet him at the airport. I went up to him and
asked if I could talk with him. I recorded the video:
Can you believe it? Police threatened to arrest me. Not Khadr, the
Al Qaida terrorist — me. They called me a danger. I didn’t touch him
or block him or swear at him — I tried to ask him some basic
questions.
The police literally grabbed me and pushed me. What a disgrace.
Canadian police protecting an Al Qaida terrorist’s “right” to fly
on a passenger plane and threatening to arrest a peaceful journalist
for asking about it.
We have to pursue this further. Why is a terrorist being allowed to
fly? Is that a special favour that Trudeau did for him?
P.S. I was truly stunned with the “normalcy” of a terrorist
swanning around an airport, after flying first class on a passenger
plane. What is going on in Canada?
P.P.S. I’m going to make this an important project. The CBC is on
Khadr’s side — they literally threw a champagne party for Khadr on TV
last year. They try to white-wash his crimes. I promise we’ll get to
the bottom of this. If you want to help us pay for our independent
journalism, please chip in a few dollars, by clicking here.
Senate Ethics Committee Recommends Sen. Lynn Beyak Be Suspended Again & Sent Back to Political Re-education Camp
Senate Ethics Committee Recommends Sen. Beyak Be Suspended Again & Sent Back to Political Re=education CampThe following story shows just how far down the Cultural Marxist road we have come to Stalinism. The Senate Ethics Committee is recommending that Senator Lynn Beyak be again suspended (no pay, no benefits) because, it seems, her apology for posting letters critical of natives and offering another view of the residential schools was not abject enough. During her previous suspension she was to take a political re-education “anti-racism” course, at her own expense. Well, it appears that she did not change her views. She resisted being re-educated. The report scolds: ” Sen. Beyak failed to exhibit any willingness to learn and because of this the training provider did not provide the agreed-upon instruction in its entirety.”In other words, she did not change her views.
Make no mistake about what this means. Should the full Senate endorse the committee’s recommendations, they will effectively have subverted the career of a duly appointed Senator,. They will have un-appointed her or sidelined her because they do not like her political views. She will have been neutered — the Stalinists would have called it “liquidated” — and prevented from doing the job she was appointed to do. the implications of being sent off for re-education are chilling. The Senate was established as a chamber of “sober second thought”, not as a rubber stamp for the social justice warrior fads of the day or the endless White-bashing that constitutes Ottawa approach to Indian issues.
Global News (January 31, 2020) reported: “
Sen. Lynn Beyak says the bad aspects of the residential school system has overshadowed the good.
Senate/Sencanada.ca
Sen. Lynn Beyak should be suspended again without pay, the Senate’s ethics committee recommended Friday.
Beyak’s
colleagues ousted her from the upper chamber temporarily last spring
after condemning as racist several letters she had posted to her
website.
The Ontario senator had published letters supporting her
view that some Indigenous people had had positive experiences in
residential schools, which the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
concluded caused generations of First Nations, Metis and Inuit children
to suffer abuse and alienation.
Some of the letters went beyond that, suggesting Indigenous people or their cultures are inferior.
Beyak’s suspension ended automatically when Parliament was dissolved for the federal election last fall.
Attempts
to reach Beyak through her lawyer and her Senate office weren’t
immediately successful Friday. In November, Beyak said she had met all
the conditions to return to work.
She had removed the letters
the ethics committee found most objectionable from her website, taken a
briefing on the role of a senator, completed education programs on
Indigenous history and delivered an apology, she said.
“I deeply respect the Senate and love working with my Senate
colleagues. I pledge myself to uphold the highest standards of conduct
and look forward to working hard for all of the people of Ontario and
Canada,” Beyak wrote in a statement at the time.
But the committee concluded in a report released Friday that Beyak
did not meet the conditions set out for her return, calling an apology
she delivered insufficient and her participation in educational programs
on racism towards Indigenous Peoples in Canada incomplete.
The
committee agreed that the letters had been taken down and that Beyak had
been briefed on her duties as a senator. But it wasn’t satisfied that
she had taken her education on Indigenous history seriously.
“On
the one hand, Sen. Beyak can rightfully assert that she attempted to
complete the training that was provided to her,” the report says. “On
the other, the training provider indicated that Sen. Beyak failed to
exhibit any willingness to learn and because of this the training
provider did not provide the agreed-upon instruction in its entirety.”
The committee also found that Beyak’s one-sentence apology for having
been found in breach of Senate rules wasn’t good enough. The senators
“cannot accept an apology that fails to show awareness of the wrong,
fails to accept responsibility for the wrong, fails to sincerely
apologize, fails to atone for past actions and fails to commit to take
action in order to rectify the situation,” they wrote.”