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https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/28/how-ireland-became-a-cauldron-of-the-culture-war/

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This was Dublin on Saturday. There was a huge protest against the government’s immigration policy, and a counter-protest of self-styled radicals chanting ‘Refugees welcome here’. And it was about the most perfect distillation of the ‘culture war’ I’ve ever seen. Crowds of working people rallying behind the national flag as the virtuous of Dublin 4 flipped a collective middle finger at them and branded them fascist scum. There it was, in glorious technicolor, the great clash of our time: that between ordinary people worried about mass immigration, and an elevated class of high-status opinion-havers for whom borders are so 20th century.

The main protest was against the immigration policy overseen by both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in recent years. Immigration is the hottest topic in Ireland right now. Swarms of Irish people are both bemused and troubled that Ireland’s foreign-born population is heading towards a fifth of the whole population. They’ve watched as sleepy green towns have become 35 per cent foreign-born almost overnight. No, they’re not racist, just curious: curious to know how this happened, why it happened, and whether they get a say in it.

The other side, the counter-protesters, could not have been more different. They were rallied by United Against Racism, a leftish group backed by Sinn Fein, the Greens and others in Dublin’s noisy virtue-displaying class. They waved the trans flag rather than the tricolour, because apparently the right of men to shit next to women is more important than the right of nations to self-determination. The words ‘fascists fuck off’ were scrawled on one trans flag, beautifully capturing the seething animus these snobs disguised as radicals feel for Dubliners who’ve never darkened the door of a university and probably think there are only two genders.

Where the big demo was a sea of tricolours, the counter-demo was full of the accoutrements of the neo-religion of woke. People were adorned in the keffiyeh, the Arab garment appropriated by the bourgeois of the West to signal their moral fitness for polite society. The Pride flag fluttered, because to this new class of faux-progressive individual identity matters far more than national identity. It was a clash of two moral universes, the green, white and gold of the tricolour signalling an affinity with the nation, the multicolours of Pride signalling a preference for the neoliberal cult of self-regard.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/kenya-jihadists-target-majority-christian-country/

This month marks the ten-year anniversary of when Islamic terrorists stormed the Garissa University College in Kenya, murdering 148 Christian students and injuring at least 79.

On April 2, 2015, gunmen took over 700 students hostage at the university campus. According to the witnesses, the terrorists asked the victims about their religion and segregated the Muslims from the Christians, intending to execute those who identified as Christians.

Student Collins Wetangula told the Associated Press that when the militants stormed his dorm, he could hear them demanding if residents were Muslim or Christian.

“If you were a Christian, you were shot on the spot. With each blast of the gun, I thought I was going to die.”

“All I could hear were footsteps and gunshots; nobody was screaming because they thought this would lead the gunmen to know where they are,” he said. “The gunmen were saying sisi ni al-Shabab” (That is Swahili for “We are al-Shabaab.”)

The siege ended the same day, after all four of the attackers were killed.

The terrorist group al-Shabaab took responsibility for the attack. The group had also claimed responsibility for a deadly 2013 attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi. This incident left 67 people dead and over 150 wounded.

Since then, Islamic terrorist attacks in Kenya and many other African nations have remained ongoing. In the latest incident, on March 23, 2025, al-Shabaab killed six police personnel after assailants attacked a base near the Somali border.

A jihad group formed in the early 2000s, Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, was quickly nicknamed al-Shabaab, which means “The Youth.” It seeks to establish an Islamic state in Somalia.

Al-Shabaab was created as a member of the Islamic Courts Union, a coalition of Sharia law courts united against the federal government of Somalia. In 2012, al-Shabaab pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda. Today, al- Shabaab controls parts of central and southern Somalia, where it enforces Sharia law.

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, in the areas it controls, al-Shabaab prohibits “various types of entertainment, such as movies and music; the sale of khat, a narcotic plant that is often chewed; smoking; and the shaving of beards. Stonings and amputations have been meted out to suspected adulterers and thieves. At the same time, the group bans cooperation with humanitarian agencies, creating a harrowing challenge in the face of unprecedented droughts.”

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When the skies over the Swiss resort of Davos next fill with over 1,000 private jets bearing the elites of the world to discuss its fate, the Teutonic man behind it all may no longer be there.

Klaus Martin Schwab, born during WWII to a Nazi factory manager using forced labor to make flamethrowers, is Mr. Globalism. Even those who don’t know his name have seen that face with its cold fish stare through the rimmed eyeglasses looking back at them from under the towering futura font, slim and minimalist, of a solemn address at a World Economic Forum event.

“As I enter my 88th year, I have decided to step down from the position of Chair and as a member of the Board of Trustees, with immediate effect,” Klaus announced with dryly punctilious precision, declaring his departure while telling us nothing about why he’s leaving.

One reason may be that the WEF is investigating Schwab’s alleged withdrawal of cash from ATMs and use of the WEF to pay for hotel room massages, but the WEF founder has been accused of worse in the past.

But the real reason may be all the empty seats at the last World Economic Forum’s Davos event.

Not only Trump, who delivered virtual remarks, but most world leaders stayed home from 2025’s AI-themed Davos. Apart from Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, who can be counted on to show up at garage sales, dinner theaters and children’s puppet shows as long as there’s a chance photos will be taken, the WEF had to make do with personal addresses from the likes of South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, the UN Secretary General, and the European Commission president.

The globalists, failed state leaders, and CEOs looking to mingle still come, but Davos is dying.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21576/china-trade-war

Xi Jinping’s regime simply cannot admit it is not able to stand up to Washington.

[O]n April 24 about a dozen Chinese officials, including a “high-ranking official from the Chinese Ministry of Finance,” were seen entering the U.S. Treasury’s main building in Washington at 7:00 in the morning as Chinese security officials attempted to prevent photographers from recording the entry.

“In fact, the tariff waivers underscore that not only does Beijing need access to the American market far more than Americans need the China market but also that the United States makes vital products that simply aren’t Made in China, and won’t be for years at best.” — Alan Tonelson, trade expert at RealityChek, to Gatestone, April 25, 2025.

When Trump has to raise the temperature, Beijing has just shown him which U.S. products China believes it cannot do without.

Beijing has ordered its airlines not to take delivery of Boeing aircraft, and the plane maker has now flown back, from China to the U.S., three 737 Max aircraft that were about to be delivered. Due to the long order backlogs at both Boeing and Airbus, this punishment imposes, as a practical matter, almost no cost on Boeing. Yet if Trump were to order Boeing not to deliver parts or provide services to Chinese airlines, China would soon have to ground a large number of its airliners.

China is making significant trade concessions without saying it is making concessions. Xi Jinping’s regime simply cannot admit it is not able to stand up to Washington. When Trump has to raise the temperature, Beijing has just shown him which U.S. products China believes it cannot do without

China, according to Reuters and Financial Times reporting on April 25, is not uniformly imposing its new 125% across-the-board tariff on American goods. In short, certain imports from the U.S. are in fact coming in tariff-free. Beijing’s new policy has not been announced and is not official.

“Companies in sectors including aviation and industrial chemicals said that some of their products had already been granted a reprieve, while local media reported that some semiconductors had been spared tariffs,” the Financial Times noted.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/26/klaus-schwab-the-last-davos-man/

On Easter Monday, World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab resigned as chair of its board of trustees. He stepped down amid swirling internal allegations that he misused funds and manipulated the WEF’s research to curry favour with governments. We don’t yet know if these charges are true, but manipulation certainly goes with the territory of the WEF. Indeed, manipulating the media and political culture to embrace the outlook of the global elites has always been one of its central aims.

To understand the significance of Schwab’s departure, we need to understand the role he played in the mythology of globalism. Arguably more than any other individual, Schwab personified the quasi-religion of globalism. If he was the pope of the church of globalism, his cardinals were members of the WEF’s board of trustees, including European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde, BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink and former US vice-president Al Gore. These are the Davos Men and Women – members of the super-rich Western oligarchy and their celebrity hangers-on who gather every year at the WEF conference in the Swiss mountain town of Davos.

One of the defining features of Davos Man is that he subscribes to a globalist fantasy, which assumes the nation state is a toothless anachronism. Rather, it is international institutions (like the WEF) that are supposedly best suited to running the world. He blithely assumes that there are no national solutions to the challenges facing the world, only global ones.

In recent years, however, Davos Man has lost his footing. Although the WEF’s public-relations machine continued to churn out high-profile propaganda, behind the scenes it was evident that globalism was gradually unravelling. The WEF never truly got over the global financial crisis of the late 2000s, and was further hit by the eruption of geopolitical conflict – namely, the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Both events led towards more economic protectionism throughout the world.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21574/iran-nuclear-trap

Talks offer hope of sanctions relief, currency stabilization, and international legitimacy — all while buying time to continue uranium enrichment behind closed doors. The West calls it a “deal.” Iran calls it a jackpot.

Just imagine the conversations happening behind closed doors in Tehran. Iranian officials are likely saying something like: “…At least we can waste another two or three years pretending to negotiate. We can agree to pause enrichment a little bit, just enough to give them a diplomatic victory…. Trump is so eager to get a discredited Nobel Peace Prize, but the Norwegians will never give it to him — to them, the ‘left’ is a religion. Their heroes are Castro and Arafat. Meanwhile, to show Norway how peaceful he is, Trump will let Iran, Russia and China off the hook. Poor fellow, it will not work. He will just find himself the ‘sucker’ and the ‘loser.’ Meanwhile he will have thrown away what could have made him a historic great. While he is are celebrating his ‘peacefulness’ in keeping America out of a war that was not going to happen anyway, we can keep on moving toward our bomb, our missiles and the miniature nuclear warheads to put on them. Quietly. And if we get caught? So what. The Americans will negotiate again!”

The idea that you can contain or “monitor” Iran with inspections and enrichment caps is a lovely, romantic fantasy. Sadly, this regime cannot be trusted. It cannot be allowed to keep any part of a nuclear infrastructure. The only acceptable path is total dismantlement or permanent destruction. No centrifuges, no uranium enrichment, no stockpiles, no underground facilities. Nothing.

Each round of diplomacy gives the regime more room to maneuver, more time to develop its weapons, and more resources to fund terror proxies across the Middle East and Latin America. The result is not peace — it is proliferation.

Unless the West finally gets serious, Iran will cross the nuclear weapons threshold and the world will not only face an extremist, predatory regime armed with nuclear weapons, but the mother of all arms races.

Unfortunately, the only solution left is to completely dismantle Iran’s nuclear program. No talks. No deals. No illusions. It is time to bring these endless negotiations to an end.

The Iranian regime is once again celebrating having diplomatic negotiations with the United States, this time under the Trump administration. Tehran’s leaders have been framing these renewed talks as a positive that will enable them to retain their hold on power, and their nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs to unleash at a later date.

Iranian officials, including leading figures in the foreign ministry, have voiced optimism about the direction of diplomacy, portraying the Trump team’s willingness to engage as a step toward “mutual understanding.” They would like the world to believe that diplomacy is working — when in reality, it is a trap. The excitement in Tehran is not a signal of peace or cooperation; it is a victory celebration. Whenever a terrorist regime that chants “Death to America” starts smiling about negotiations, it is not diplomacy — it is a win.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/reality-upside-down-in-the-netherlands/

It doesn’t just happen in Britain.

In the southeastern Dutch province of North Brabant, halfway between the cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen, lies a town called Uden, which has a population of approximately 38,000 and is a part of the municipality of Maashorst. On the morning of April 18, Maashorst’s municipal council held a meeting at which it was addressed by a resident of Uden named Seb van Lier.

Let it be said that van Lier cuts an imposing figure. He brings to mind John Fetterman, the massive, broad-shouldered, bald-headed senator from Pennsylvania. Van Lier, unlike Fetterman, has a shaggy salt-and-pepper beard; and he arrived at this public meeting dressed, like Fetterman, in a dark hoodie. As you can see in the video of his remarks, which the valiant Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek posted on X, van Lier began by telling the council that on January 10, one of his five daughters, aged 15, was “brutally raped” by a Syrian asylum seeker, and that ever since that day she’s experienced severe physical and psychological suffering.

Van Lier looks like a hell of a tough dude, but after spelling out these basic facts, he choked up. One of the council members asked him if he wanted a glass of water. He said no. After a pause he resumed speaking. In his view, he said, the mayor and the council were partially responsible for his daughter’s suffering. Why? Because “we feel that the rapist was portrayed as the victim and we, the family, as the perpetrator.” Because the council had been “playing down the seriousness of the case” and trying to “cover it up.” Because the therapist who’d been appointed by the council to treat van Lier’s daughter had advised him, van Lier, not to tell the council his daughter’s story. Because in statements to the media, the mayor of Maashorst, Hans van de Pas, had suggested that he didn’t believe the 15-year-old’s account of her rape. Because the mayor and council had seen fit to publicly emphasize that the alleged perpetrator lived not in Maashorst but in the nearby town of Veghel (so what?) and that he was a minor (even though there was no reliable way of establishing his age).

Van Lier had additional grievances. He’d been depicted in the media not as a legitimately troubled father but as a “rioter.” He’d been arrested by the police “with great violence.” Most egregious of all, the perpetrator had not been arrested. As of April 18, he was still walking free.