Spain: Government Apparently Spreading Migrants from Canary Islands Throughout Spain

 Hat tip Vlad Tepes and Gates of Vienna. Translation by Fousesquawk.

Recently, we have been reporting about the flood of migrants from North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa to the Canary Islands and the overcrowded conditions. It now appears that the Spanish national government, in conjunction with the Red Cross, is flying hundreds of these migrants to other destinations in Spain. Local authorities are none too happy about it and are asking what controls are in place.

The below video is from RTVE Noticias (Spain). English sub-titles by Fousesquawk.

Jewish Voice for Peace?

 Hat tip Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers and Jewish Ledger

This article first appeared in New English Review.

Palestinian "fighters"

Last week, the inappropriately-named, pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel organization, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), sent out a tweet commemorating the First Intifada. (In Arabic, intifada is loosely translated as "rebellion" or "uprising".) The blog, Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers has the tweet up on their web site. 

What an obscenity, especially from a Jewish organization. The First Palestinian Intifada lasted from late 1987 to 1991 or 1993 depending on which account you read. If you think it consisted of just protests and rock-throwing, you would be mistaken. Over 270 Israelis were murdered, including many civilians. Naturally, the military fought back, and many more Palestinians (about 1,100) died in the fighting.  Disproportionate? No, that is the way it should be when terrorists attack you. (Hundreds of Palestinians were put to death by their own "authorities" for being suspected of collaborating with the Israeli military.)

The Second Intifada began in September 2000 when Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount and lasted to about February 2005.

Of course, if you Google "First Intifada", you will come up with a highly pro-Palestinian Wikipedia entry and the first several pages of other links will be dominated by anti-Israel articles. If you want to believe the spin, you would think it was somewhat akin to the French resistance during the occupation of France in World War II.

You might ask how a supposedly Jewish organization in America or anywhere else could glorify anything that resulted in the deaths of Israeli citizens and soldiers. I ask myself that question as a gentile fighting against anti-Semitism. All these years I have been confounded by certain misfit Jewish Americans who march arm in arm with the very people that want to destroy them. That is what JVP does. By the same token, how can any American Jew support the BDS movement (Boycott, Divest and Sanctions) against Israel? That is what JVP does.

I saw first-hand what this organization was all about when three of their leaders came to speak at the University of California at Irvine, where I was teaching in 2011. One of them, a young character named Matan Cohen, an Israeli, no less, told us that any pro-Israel speech on campus was "useless discourse".

Translation? It shouldn't be allowed.

Similarly, when I attended a University of California Regents meeting at UCLA in 2015 as they were attempting to draw up a statement of principles against campus anti-Semitism, there was JVP there to speak against it on the grounds it would stop the free speech of pro-Palestinian activists on campus (a false charge). They were joined by the usual collection of faculty radicals, including the UCLA Near Eastern Studies Department.

Jewish Voice for Peace is not for peace. How can they be for peace when they celebrate the intifadas? They are for the destruction of the Jewish state. If, God forbid, Israel were overrun and Israeli Jews slaughtered, JVP would be right there dancing with the Palestinians and their motley assortment of supporters in the US.

Like everyone else, JVP enjoys their right of free speech in America. At the same time, the rest of us are free to hold them up to the light. As a gentile, I leave it to Jews to debate who the "self-hating Jews" are. But I will say this about JVP: They are a despicable organization.

Netherlands: War Criminals Can Apply for Asylum

Hat tip Dagelijkse Standaard-Translation by Fousesquawk

                                "Good news, mein Fuehrer. You can apply for asylum in the Netherlands-if you meet certain criteria"

In the Netherlands, the Council of State has ruled that certain war criminals may apply for asylum. This ruling comes as Western Europe is coping with the problem of ISIS fighters making their way back to Europe from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq. 

Below is a translation of an article by Bart Reijmerink of Dagelijkse Standaard, a conservative Dutch news site.

 https://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2020/12/raad-van-state-veroordeelde-oorlogsmisdadigers-kunnen-asiel-krijgen/

-Bart Reijmerink, 16 December 2020

Council of State: Convicted war criminals can get asylum

Convicted war criminals can possibly still receive asylum in the Netherlands. That is the ruling of the Council of State. As long as these convicted war criminals pose no acute danger, they can qualify for asylum. This ruling from the Council of State can bring about many changes.......

Currently, asylum-seekers who have a serious crime on their (record) are automatically denied, but the ruling by the Council of State may bring a change

In the future, they may still attempt to obtain asylum in the Netherlands if they can demonstrate that they have changed their lives for the better. In such case, the State Secretary must look into the matter.

The Council of State says that Dutch people do not have to worry now. It is not that any criminal can claim asylum; there are "high demands" in place. The door has become a bit opened, but the  (criteria) to enter the Netherlands remains high.

Nevertheless, the ruling by the Council of State is cause for concern. I can imagine that the members of Parliament will want to have more clarity over this ruling. Because how do we guarantee that the (criteria) remain high enough that no mistakes are made?

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Fousesquawk comment: This is not to single out the Netherlands for ridicule. Sweden actively accepts ISIS fighters who left from Sweden back into the country with new identities, job training, and God only knows what else. Meanwhile, here at home, we have new George Soros-funded, radical district attorneys in Los Angeles and San Francisco, who are all but closing down their jails. 

                                                                                         "Hey, Usama! We have company." 

But it is clear that the Netherlands, like so many other Western countries, is not putting the safety of its own citizens first, and innocent people will pay the price in terms of losing their lives. I can say that with certainty because it is already happening.

Biden Picks Buttigieg for Secretary of Transportation and Granholm for Secretary of Energy

"Energy is perhaps the most important portfolio in the Biden cabinet, since it is key to greening America and decarbonizing our economy (which will present a model for the rest of the world)."

-Juan Cole

Juan Cole (side view)

The parade of lefties coming into the Biden administration continues. Old Joe has picked none other than Pete Buttigieg to be his Secretary of Transportation and former Michigan governor and UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Granholm to be Secretary of Energy. 

And just what are the qualifications of these two-other than being liberal? 

Granholm has no real professional experience in energy other than being an advocate for clean energy and electric cars. Buttigieg couldn't even run the city of South Bend, Indiana as mayor. As for his transportation experience, he may have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. 

The bottom line is that both of these lefties want to transition away from fossil fuel and make everything electric. Thank God  Old Joe didn't put one of them as Secretary of Defense. We would have electric tanks in 5 years.

But there is one academic who is heralding these appointments as perhaps, the salvation of the world, saving us all from Climate Change.

That would be none other than University of Michigan comedian Juan Cole. Here is his latest laffer from Informed Comment:

https://www.juancole.com/2020/12/greening-buttigieg-granholm.html

Cole informs us of this 2011 interview with Granholm, where she talks about.....

“MALVEAUX: You and I spoke about a new investment in Michigan’s economy, the battery making business . . . How important is this new industry for your state?

[In older clip:] GRANHOLM: Well, that’s the whole thing. This is a whole new industry. So what you’re going to see here is one of 16 battery plants that are coming to Michigan or having been built in Michigan. Those 16 plants wouldn’t be here, but for the stimulus dollars. Those 16 plants are going to create 62,000 jobs here over the next ten years. . .

Cole- "Granholm was way ahead of her time. She understood early on the centrality of better and bigger batteries to green transportation and electricity." 

And there was this from Granholm:

"If Hu Jintao, the premier of China, wakes up every night thinking how can he create 25 million jobs a year for his people. And he is not abiding by the old theories that many of those running for president right now in the United States are abiding by, he’s actively intervening in the economy to create jobs for his people."

Something President Trump was doing quite well until Covid came along (from China).

As for Mayor Pete, Cole explains to the Uninformed why Buttigieg is the right man for the job:

"As for Buttigieg, he would be the first openly gay US cabinet secretary in history. He would be the second Arab-American secretary of transportation, after Ray Lahoud. Buttigieg’s family name is Maltese, who are Christian Arabic speakers. His name is formally Abu al-Dajjaj or chicken farmer."

"Buttigieg urges a carbon tax and slapping steep fees on carbon dioxide-emitting vehicles. This approach has worked like a charm in the European Union. It isn’t clear how much of that sort of thing Biden will be able to do without the senate, but maybe some executive orders will push things in the right direction."

You mean like all those "dictatorial", "fascist" executive orders that Trump was issuing, which the Juan Coles of the world condemned? And last time I looked, things are not working much like a charm in the European Union that Cole touts. The European people want out.

So what we essentially have here is Old Joe filling his government with tired old lefties whose biggest issues are Climate Change and Green Energy. But I'd better stop here, or Old Joe might appoint Juan Cole for Secretary of Education.

Famous Doctors

 

Dr Kildare

Dr Howser

Dr J

Dr Holliday

                                                                           Dock Ellis

                                                                                                                 Dr Jill

Ravens Beat Brownshirts: Hitler Reacts

 It's been a bad week in Cleveland. No more Indians, and last night the Cleveland Brownshirts lost a huge game to the Ravens in an incredible fashion. Had they won, they would have been one game behind the collapsing Steelers, and would have been odds-on to win the division. Instead, it appears the Steelers will limp across the finish line and win the AFC North.

Meanwhile, in Berlin, the Brownshirts number one fan, Adolf Hitler, was stuck down in his own Dawg Pound and had no reception, so his generals (who were watching the game in a Berlin pub and drinking vodka with the Russians), had to break the news to him. Naturally, after so many years of being a suffering Brownshirts fan, he did not take it well.

Sub-titles by Fousesquawk.

The Muslim Brotherhood in the Netherlands (4)

Hat tip Dagelijkse Standaard and Syp Wynia. Translation by Fousesquawk.

Continuing in our series of translations from European articles on the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe, this is the 4th article from the Netherlands. In this article, Tim Engelbart of Dagelijkse Standaard links an article by Dutch journalist Syp Wynia reporting on the decision of the Dutch government to give a subsidy to Islamic Relief, a front organization in the Netherlands for the MB. The original Syp Wynia article is linked but is in the original Dutch.

https://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2020/12/ka-ching-islamofascistische-club-moslimbroeders-krijgt-in-januari-eerste-miljoenensubsidie-van-kaag-en-kabinet/

Ka-Ching! In January, Islamofascist club Muslim Brotherhood will receive first million (euro) subsidy from Kaag and the Cabinet

-by Tim Engelbart-December 14, 2020

The Muslim Brotherhood, which wants to replace the secular state with a strict Islamist sharia state in the Netherlands, is crazily enough, not on the list of banned organizations. Even more: Beginning January 1, a branch of these extreme-right hate-bosses will receive an official subsidy from the Dutch government, so Minister Kaag has decided in her infinite wisdom.

After the Green-Left (party), the D66 (party) and the Cabinet also seem to be having a real riot with the Muslim Brotherhood. Because, where the party of Jesse Klaver wants to guide a known youth administrator of the dingy movement into the Parliament, Minister Kaag (D66) is financing the front,  Islamic Relief, in the name of the national government.  IR is just a cover organization of the Muslim Brotherhood. And as commonly known, these folks want to abolish secular forms of government in favor of theocratic, sharia governments. But Kaag is giving them money in the name of the Cabinet because they are going to lend a hand to "freedom of belief". Cheers!  We read from Syp Wynia:

"Beginning January 1, 2021, Minister Sigrid Kaag (D66) of Development, Cooperation and Trade, will begin a new round of large distributions. The fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood can also profit this time, now that the Islamic Relief Worldwide, connected to the fundamentalists in many ways, is getting a contribution from the Dutch subsidy pot."

As usual, enemies of the Dutch rule of law subsidized with money from the taxpayer. Really. How stupid can you be? Less stupid than a party leader like Sigrid Kaag, who apparently knows very well how expensive a packet of milk is but doesn't know what to do when it comes to protection of freedom in the Netherlands. So give me a manager who hasn't the faintest idea how much you pay for the contents of a shopping cart, but keeps scary Islamist fascists outside the door.

Spain: Santi Abascal Speaks in Canary Islands

 Hat tip Vlad Tepes

The Canary Islands of Spain are swamped with migrants arriving by boats across the Mediterranean from North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Naturally, Spain is dealing with the Covid virus and is ill-equipped to handle the migrants. This is especially true in the Canary Islands. 

The conservative VOX party, under the leadership of Santi Abascal, is firmly against the admission of these thousands of people, but VOX is not in control of the Spanish government. On December 5th Abascal spoke in front of a huge crowd of supporters in Gran Canaria. There were also protesters there, people who consider Abascal and the VOX party to be racists. I would say Abascal answered their false accusations quite effectively.

Below is a segment of Abascal's speech.  Translation is by Fousesquawk.

MLB: The Cleveland Mistakes

The Cleveland Indians have announced they are going to change their name. No, they are not moving to Tulsa to become the Tulsa Indians; they are staying in Cleveland, which is always a mistake. So now, what should be their new name?

I got!

The Cleveland Mistakes. It's perfect. What is Cleveland's nickname? The Mistake by the Lake. 

The stadium can now be re-named, "The Big M".

Now all we have to do is design a cool new uniform.

                         

And how about that logo? Sure beats old Chief Wahoo. 

As you can plainly see, any reference to Indians is gone. There is also no mention of Cleveland.

Play Ball!

Don't You Dare Disrespect Dr Biden

"Take two aspirins and drink lots of liquid."

Call me uninformed, but for years when I heard Jill Biden referred to as "Dr Jill Biden", I thought she was a practicing physician. It wasn't until the Democratic convention that I learned that she was actually a former teacher with a PhD. Truth be told, there has been lots of misleading information surrounding the Biden family, but I will stay with this specific topic.

It seems that the Jacobins at Northwestern University are all upset that a former NW English teacher has written an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal advising Jill to drop the Dr title because it is misleading. 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/wsj-op-ed-on-dr-jill-biden-gets-writer-canceled-by-northwestern-university

Here is what the Daily Northwestern has to say about all this:

https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/12/12/lateststories/nu-condemns-former-english-lecturer-joseph-epsteins-op-ed-calling-jill-biden-to-drop-doctor-title/

“Northwestern is firmly committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, and strongly disagrees with Mr. Epstein’s misogynistic views,” the University wrote.

Is there a university in the Land that doesn't use this by-line? But I digress.

Personally, calling someone with a PhD "Dr" is appropriate in a university setting or when that person is being addressed in their capacity as an academic. To use it as an everyday title the way Jill Biden has been using it does strike me as a bit presumptuous.  

And unlike Whoopi Goldberg, I never presumed that Jill Biden was an "amazing" doctor who should be surgeon general.

Italy: Matteo Salvini's "Maxi-Trial"

Hat tip Vlad Tepes and Gates of Vienna. Translation by Fousesquawk. 

Former Italian Interior Minister and Lega party leader Matteo Salvini arrived today in the  Sicilian city of Catania for the preliminary phase of his trial for "illegal detention of illegal aliens" (quotation marks mine)  while he was interior minister. It is noteworthy that the judicial proceedings are being held in a bunker-type facility normally reserved for trials of Sicilian Mafia figures with maximum security. Salvini's "offense" was blocking the disembarkation of illegal migrants at a Sicilian port. In other words, the whole thing is a joke and a miscarriage of justice. 

The below video is translated by Fousesquawk and begins with Salvini's arrival.

Congratulations, President Trump

 I am not at all optimistic that President Trump will be successful in challenging the election results in those infamous swing states that he suspiciously lost. In other words, there isn't much positive to report on the Trump side.

Or is there? 

There has been good news on two fronts. It looks like the Covid vaccine is on the way. Have we now conquered Covid? It's too soon to say, but unless this stuff turns out to be snake oil, the pharmaceutical and scientific community is to be congratulated. President Trump is also to be congratulated for Operation Warp Speed, which expedited the research, testing, and approval process given the emergency situation we have been facing with the Covid pandemic. Again, it's too soon to close the book on Covid, but I have a feeling that history will treat President Trump very kindly on this issue-if the vaccine is successful and the government-military efficiently distributes it, which I expect they will.

On the diplomatic front, what can I say? Like everyone else, I laughed when Jered Kushner "sat down to play the piano".  What was this snot-nosed kid who happened to be Trump's son-in-law going to accomplish that our most seasoned diplomats have been unable to accomplish-get Arab nations to shake hands with Israel? (Of course, I am not forgetting the Israel-Egypt peace treaty during the Carter administration. It looked like it was going to fall apart when Mohammad Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood took control of Egypt, but with  Morsi out-and dead, the current government is maintaining the deal.)

But without much fanfare from the media, the Trump administration has helped Israel forge normalized relations with Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, and just this week, Morocco. Now I know very well that peace with Arab states can blow away with the sand, but as it stands now, Trump and his administration are to be congratulated. 

But guess who is unhappy with Israel's normalization of relations with the above Arab states. The Palestinians and their apologists worldwide. Essentially, they have been left out of the deal, which is a good thing. As I have said over and over, I am not a Middle East expert. All I know is that Israel is a diamond in the Middle East landfill. I also think it's safe to say that nobody really likes the Palestinians, the world's longest-standing refugee group. To this day, they reside in so-called refugee camps created after the 1948 war, and which are now, basically, slum-like towns where succeeding generations have grown up. Lebanon, Jordon, Syria etc. never allowed them to assimilate into their own societies, which would have saved the world a lot of grief. So now they are permanent wards of the world.

Also upset at Trump-Kushner's diplomatic success are the apologists for the Palestinians in Europe, Canada and the US-largely in the universities, the Middle East Studies propaganda centers, and the left. For them, the Palestinians are the benighted victims. In truth, they use the Palestinians as a prop to wage their never-ending war against the Jewish state-and the West in general.

President Trump's approach was sensible. He supports Israel and doesn't see any indication that the Palestinians really want to make peace. So he cut off support for the corrupt PA and the corrupt  UNRWA. Biden, of course, will resume it. He's already said so.

To sum up, if you take the whole election fiasco out of the picture, it's actually been a pretty good week for Trump.