Germany notifies the EU it will bring in controls on ALL land borders

Reality dawns in the wake of the recent big vote for the AFD

Germany will bring in controls on all its land borders to deal with the 'continuing burden' of migration and 'Islamist terrorism', the country's interior minister has told the EU.

Nancy Faeser of the struggling Social Democrat party (SPD) has finally accepted that Germany has no choice but to enforce proper border controls if it has any hope of coping with the staggering amount of unauthorised entries.

According to German newspaper Bild, the new rules will see 'harsh rejections of migrants at the borders'.

Faeser has reportedly already informed the EU Commission of the decision, which is fuelled by deep-rooted panic over Germany's current migrant situation and internal security threats.

It marks, however, a U-turn from her stance just last month when she refused to extend strict controls first introduced last year on Germany's borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.

This policy has already seen more than 30,000 people turned back at the borders since mid-October last year amid concerns over the rise in first-time asylum requests.

Now the rules will be applied across the length of Germany's 2,300-mile land border with Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland.

The latest action comes shortly after an 'emergency' migration meeting between the conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group and regional representatives, where discussions focused on tightening immigration policies.

Austria, however has not welcomed the development, saying it would not accept any migrants turned away at the border.

'There's no room for manoeuvre there,' Austria's Foreign Minister Gerhard Karner told Bild. 'It's the law. I have directed the Head of the federal police to not allow any returns,' he added.

Concerns about immigration have already been pushed to the forefront of German politics, heightened by a series of attacks carried out by Islamists, most recently in Solingen.

The German government has also been facing increased pressure to respond to migration as support for right-wing party, the AfD has rapidly gathered pace.

And at the end of last month Germany's police union announced that Schengen was making Germany's security crisis even worse and must be abandoned immediately.

Manuel Ostermann, deputy federal chairman of the Federal Police Union, has launched a fierce condemnation of Schengen, the EU's hair-brained border-free scheme, in an interview with Focus magazine.

'The crisis in Germany's security is a direct consequence of Schengen's ineffective policies. Schengen's inability to manage migration effectively has put Germany's safety at stake.'

'Germany must realize the current failure of Schengen and either make a concerted effort to return to the current legal situation or terminate Schengen,'

Here he pointed to the rising crime rates in Germany, exacerbated by the migration crisis, as proof that Schengen is no longer viable.

He said Schengen's open borders have made it easier for criminals to operate across Europe, impacting Germany's safety.

'Schengen has failed to protect Germany from the influx of criminals, necessitating immediate action.'

'We must continue to notify our internal borders because border controls, whose effectiveness has been proven, are no longer maintained under Schengen.

'The failure of Schengen is evident in the increased crime rates, making it clear that changes are needed.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13830071/Germany-EU-border-controls-Islamic-extremism.html

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Why have we allowed the woke elites to declare war on history, our values - and on America itself, asks FRANK FUREDI

`It was almost 9pm in Portland, Oregon, when the police department warned that a mob was gathering on a corner of Southwest Park Avenue.

This was October 2020, and American streets were still ablaze from the Black Lives Matter rioting that followed the murder of George Floyd.

‘Some are trying to pull down a statue with a chain,’ said a tweet from the authorities. And quite a statue it proved to be.

Within an hour, the revered figure of Abraham Lincoln, the founding father of modern America, had been hauled from his plinth – assassinated for a second time.

A telling new low in the culture wars that today engulf America and the west, this mindless act of vandalism was, for me, the moment that crystalized the terrible danger we now face.

The past itself is under attack.

We are witnessing nothing short of a war on history, a moral crusade which seeks to make people ashamed of their origins and who they are.

Nowhere is this crusade more aggressively pursued than in the United States of America and nowhere are the consequences more wide-reaching and destructive. The tentacles have reached into every corner of education and public life, as I explain in my new book.

The importance of Lincoln in all this can hardly be overstated.

Born in a log cabin in Kentucky, he rose to become not just the 16th President but among the most consequential of all to hold that office.

It was Lincoln who invoked ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’ in his Gettysburg address.

A prominent opponent of slavery (for which he was gunned down), Lincoln is a hero, surely, to all reasonable Americans who believe that black lives matter.

Yet not, it seems, to the rioters who desecrated his memory and not to their fellow travelers among the liberal elite.

Today, it’s these cultural commissars – those who dominate the seats of learning and the media – who drive this narrative of hate against America’s achievements and its legacy.

Often, they do so through the pages of their favorite mouthpiece, The New York Times.

It is the Times which sponsors, the 1619 Project, for example, a program instructing children that the American Revolution was not so much a war of independence as an act of great selfishness to preserve the racial oppression of exploited peoples.

Taking its name from the year the first recorded slave ship arrived in Virginia, the project is enthusiastically endorsed by online influencers, by the leaders of America’s cultural industry and by celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey.

The power of such people helps explain why so many children have been brainwashed through anti-American indoctrination.

Books that remind children of the positive features of history have been taken off school shelves. So have masterpieces including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Libraries have taken objection to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s depiction of native Americans in her Little House on the Prairie books. In 2018, the American Library Association retrospectively cancelled her lifetime achievement award.

These are no mere details. When books are cancelled by libraries, they are rendered invisible to future generations.

Instead, our past is relentlessly demonized as a story of shame. Inspiring human achievements are routinely downplayed or called into question – part of what the Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey has called the ‘Black Armband’ view of history, invoking a past haunted by abuse and exploitation. History, in this view, is malevolent and the hold it exerts perpetuates oppression and misery.

Academics such as Professor Robert Meister of the University of California, Santa Cruz, have stated it directly: the ‘past is evil’.

If attacking the memory of Lincoln was egregious, an official decision to smear the 1776 Declaration of Independence is bewildering.

Executives from Washington’s National Archives, where the document is displayed, are critical of the language used to describe the indigenous population of the time.

So, it’s been disfigured by a trigger warning telling visitors that views expressed in the Declaration are ‘outdated, biased and offensive’.

This might seem unnecessary, bizarre even, as almost anything produced in the 18th century is likely to be outdated. But it’s worse than that. This sour commentary is misleading and destructive.

The Declaration of Independence was way ahead of its time, a document that would inspire independence movements for centuries to come.

Written mainly by Thomas Jefferson and famous for its insistence that ‘all men are created equal and possess certain inalienable rights’, it is, arguably, the foundation document of America itself. A blow for liberty around the world. Far from being outdated, the Declaration retains its relevance today.

By treating its content as ‘biased and offensive’, America’s official National Archives imply that the very creation of the United States was flawed. Everything that has followed since must, presumably, bear the same sinister hallmark.

And, yes, that is very much the view of those now trying to tear down America and the West.

The harm done by vandalizing the past in this way is all too evident. Young people, the human casualties, are growing up with a weak and troubled sense of connection with what preceded them.

We must remember how to learn from those whose footsteps we are following and embrace their achievements – if we are not to lose an entire generation to ignorance and falsehood.

We must counter this malevolent crusade, this war on history.

And we should take note of Winston Churchill’s prescient warning: ‘a nation that forgets its past has no future’.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13829883/woke-elites-declare-war-history-FRANK-FUREDI.html

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The BBC has been CAPTURED by radical gender ideology

“The BBC is committed to achieving due impartiality in all its output”. So says Section 4 of its Editorial Guidelines. If only this were true. Unfortunately, like the Financial Times, which I looked at last week, our national broadcaster, now also worships the cult-like religion that is radical gender ideology. And many of us have the privilege of paying £169.50 every year to watch the BBC embrace this dogma.

Don’t believe me?

Here are some of the most shocking examples of the BBC actively promoting radical gender ideology and throwing impartiality completely under the bus.

When looking at journalistic ethics, what better place to start than the BBC’s own editorial “style guide”, which instructs BBC staff how to present coverage.

Here, BBC journalists are told:

“a person born male who lives as a female would typically be described as a transgender woman … we generally use the term and pronoun preferred by the person in question”.

This one line alone signifies that the BBC is clearly content to completely disregard factual reporting based on reality.

For example, just a few weeks ago, there was significant international coverage of the grooming allegations made against MrBeast’s co-host, Ava Kris Tyson.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with MrBeast, he is a social media celebrity, with one of the largest online followings in the world.

Now, let’s make one thing clear, Ava Kris Tyson is a man. He had a wife and fathered a child. Then, in 2023, he decided to ‘transition’.

Yet, in line with the ‘style guide’, the BBC chose to refer to Tyson as a woman, writing: “MrBeast’s YouTube co-host Ava Kris Tyson has quit the channel after grooming allegations, which she denies”.

Here is a man, who claims he is a woman, accused of sexually grooming a young child. Yet, the BBC appears more concerned with using his preferred pronouns.

We witnessed more of this gender madness at the recent Paris Olympics, not to mention many other shocking examples of how it is being embraced by the BBC.

During BBC coverage of the women’s shotput, the commentator introduced one of the competitors, Raven Saunders —donning a mask and rainbow-coloured hair— saying “it’s good to see her back”. However, he was promptly corrected by his co-host, who said: “they are actually non-binary”.

If they’re not a woman, why are they in the women’s competition? This is something that went unanswered by the BBC commentator who, again, was clearly more concerned with getting pronouns right.

Such an embarrassing approach to journalism has even culminated, on multiple occasions, in the BBC using the ‘preferred female pronouns’ of male rapists and on one occasion even changing a rape victim’s quotes to avoid ‘misgendering’ her rapist.

This is utterly disgraceful. But it gets worse —a lot worse.

Remarkably, the BBC’s obsession with ideological language has even infiltrated recruitment procedures.

For those who wish to apply for a job there, they are forced to answer questions, including: “What is your Gender Identity?” and “Do you identify as trans/transgender”?

What the BBC considers newsworthy is also extremely telling.

With significant division and unrest around the country, including a spate of recent fatal stabbings, the BBC still found the time to report on an ‘incident’ in which someone had covered a pavement Pride flag in Forest Gate with white paint, describing the incident as “traumatising”.

When it comes to BBC Dramas, we’ve also witnessed a phenomenon in which ‘LGBTQ+’ characters are shoe-horned into programmes for no reason other than mindless virtue-signalling.

For example, it was recently announced that BBC’s Sherwood would be getting a makeover and would now feature a “young, queer and female” Sheriff of Nottingham.

More concerning is when the BBC seeks to impose moral supremacy over its viewers

https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/the-bbc-has-been-captured-by-radical ?

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Australia: NT plan to lower age of criminal responsibility to 10 could contribute to ‘child jail crisis’, advocate says

Behind this is the tremendous nuisance caused by Aboriginal [black] boys. They do a lot of breakins and car stealings and make streets in some important NT cities -- such as Alice Springs -- unsafe at night

The Country Liberal party’s plan to lower the age of criminal responsibility back to 10 in the Northern Territory is “really concerning” and part of a “tragic shift” towards more punitive policies nationwide, the head of Indigenous legal services has said.

Karly Warner, chair of National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, is warning that such policies will result in a “child jail crisis” and should be undone or at least accompanied by greater investment in proper prevention programs.

Warner, who is going to Canberra to lobby the Albanese government this week, said it was the responsibility of “all attorneys” to ensure that “really regressive law and order policies” that harm children do not get enacted.

After a landslide victory in the August Northern Territory election, Lia Finocchiaro has promised to overhaul justice policies with repeat and violent alleged offenders to be refused bail and the age of criminal responsibility lowered again to 10.

Warner told Guardian Australia: “Wherever we are around country, there are absolutely signs of a tragic shift back to these punitive policies that obviously lead to more children in jail and more dangerous communities.

“[But] the signal from the new NT government, particularly around abandoning what is set in legislation for the minimum age of criminal responsibility, is really concerning.”

She added: “Law and order posturing about punishment is absolutely not the thing that will create safer communities”.

“They can implement evidence-based policies that will actually make our communities safer … or they can implement policies, look tough in response and create an environment and Northern Territory where crime will thrive.”

Warner cited other examples including: the Queensland government suspending its Human Rights Act to imprison children in police watch houses for adults; the Victorian government backflipping on a commitment to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14; and New South Wales bail laws.

Warner said the “dangerous” NSW bail laws would see “more children locked up in jails rather than getting the supports they need” and instead facing an “apprenticeship of crime in youth prisons”.

“We fear the worst when it comes to children in custody. We are already seeing an increase, and recent history tells us that the outcomes will be unimaginable and tragic.

“We are extremely concerned that the proven programs that actually work to prevent crime – which have never been properly supported or funded – will now be even further deprioritised.”

After national cabinet on Friday, the Albanese government announced a five-year $3.9bn national legal assistance partnership, which is $800m more than the previous agreement.

Warner said the funding announcement was “incredibly appealing” but argued it amounted to $500m, or just $100m a year more than its predecessor, once the $300m for indexation and pay parity was accounted for.

“There is no way [that] goes even close to hitting the sides of the phenomenal demands of the legal assistance sector.”

In question time on Monday the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said the package was “the biggest single investment by the commonwealth in the legal assistance sector, ever”.

“Community legal centres, including women’s legal centres, are currently turning away up to 1,000 people per day,” he said. “This investment in legal assistance will ensure that those services can help more Australians.”

Dreyfus said it was “very significant” that the package included “a commitment to ongoing funding”, arguing this would give “confidence for the future” after “the Liberals oversaw a decade of chronic underfunding”.

The independent senator Lidia Thorpe noted the commitment “falls short” of the independent Mundy review call for an additional $459ma year to be provided as a floor from 2025 onwards.

Thorpe said the announcement was “smoke and mirrors” and “mostly a rebrand of existing funding arrangements”.

“Labor’s ongoing failure to properly fund these services will see First Peoples women, children and other vulnerable groups without access to life-saving legal services.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/sep/10/nt-age-of-criminal-responsibility-lowered-10-impact#:~:text=After%20a%20landslide%20victory%20in,responsibility%20lowered%20again%20to%2010 .

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