Posted on 11/05/2025 4:55:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
In the German town of Overath (North Rhine-Westphalia), this year’s Christmas market has been cancelled. The cost of protecting visitors from potential terrorist attacks exceeds the organizer’s budget. The city refuses to cover the expenses. A capitulation to Islamism.
It wasn’t long ago that Christmas markets were among the social highlights of the year. Whether in small towns or major cities -- they were meeting points for friends and family, for mulled wine, sausages, and quiet conversations wrapped in winter’s cold and early darkness.
Places of Togetherness
There was this special peaceful coziness. A place where community was celebrated -- joyful, calm, and without fear. A tradition that brought people closer together.
What would urban life be without safe and regular gatherings in public spaces? A wasteland. A dystopia.
These moments -- when people could pause, breathe, and let the soul drift for a moment -- have become scarce in Germany’s public life. Since 2015, since Angela Merkel’s open-border decision, Europe has entered its own Michel Houellebecq moment.
The mass influx of young men from predominantly Islamic countries has deeply shattered the population’s sense of security.
The Loss of Carefreeness
And in this increasingly tense atmosphere, just when Chancellor Friedrich Merz touched a sore point by speaking about the changing face of cities, a manufactured storm of outrage erupted against him.
Even after deadly Islamist attacks -- Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz in 2016 with 12 victims, the Solingen festival stabbing in 2023 with three dead, or the car ramming attack at the Magdeburg Christmas market last year -- Germany still refuses to confront militant Islam pressing into Europe.
The aggressive rejection of any criticism within Islamic circles points to the core problem: Islam never passed through the crucible of Enlightenment like Christianity did. Christianity’s claws were cut
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Drip… drip…. Drip….
I give Oktoberfest about another 10-15 years.
“Submission to Islamism — Christmas market in Overath cancelled”
Cheer up Germany, there’s always Ramadan!
A HEALTHY SOCIETY WOULD NOT TOLERATE THIS.
Of course Hitler would have supported it. He didn’t drink alcohol, and thought Islam would have been a better religion for Germany, because it promises 72 virgins for soldiers who die in battle.
Correct! ISlime is nothing but a death cult founded by a pedophile.
Exactly!
My shocked face....😴
U.S. take warning !
🤔. How does morondummy REALLY feel about glbtqrxyz+2? Does he get on his knees 7 times a day? Or is also a fake mooselimb. Newyucckers aint to bright.
When I see Biden, Merkel, Obama, Carney, Trudeau, Starmer, etc. I see them intentionally destroying the West. A few out of power but they did tremendous damage. I’m sure that there are more examples.
It’s good to see some of the other growth though.
O ya. The difference, I believe, is that PedoJoe Biteme did what he did purely for the money. AFA Castreau, he did it to be ‘petted’ (like a dog), and told ‘what a good boy’ he was, and how ‘cool’ he was. (The epitome of the ‘useful idiot’!)
Marx Carnage is a ‘true believer’ AND a crony capitalist, who figures he’s found a way to make even more billions, while controlling everyone or at least the ones who haven’t yet succumbed, due to his disastrous and destructive policies. What a small, pathetic male he is. (A man? CERTAINLY NOT! A male? Likely.)
[Marx Carnage is a ‘true believer’ AND a crony capitalist, who figures he’s found a way to make even more billions, while controlling everyone]
(Canada’s) Mark Carney Is Incredibly Dangerous
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4316207/posts
The 60-year-old (Mark Carney) didn’t rise through politics. HE WAS NOT ELECTED. HE WAS INSTALLED — by the very institutions that profit most from technocratic control and public obedience.
Goldman Sachs.
The Bank of Canada.
The Bank of England.
The Financial Stability Board.
The World Economic Forum.
Bilderberg.
The Trilateral Commission.
The Council for Inclusive Capitalism.
This is a man who has spent his entire adult life inside the machinery of Global Finance and Elite Governance. Now, he’s running a country.
Carney is no fool. He speaks in the hushed tones of central bankers. He uses the sterile vocabulary of “sustainability,” “transition,” and “inclusive growth.”
But behind the euphemisms is a Blueprint for Absolute Control.
At the center of that Blueprint is the
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
Carney has long supported the deployment of CBDCs, programmable money Issued and Controlled by the State.
This is infrastructure for OBEDIENCE
sold as INNOVATION. Unlike physical cash,
a CBDC can be TRACKED, RESTRICTED,
AND DEACTIVATED IN REAL-TIME.
It allows the government — or its banking partners —
to Control not just HOW MUCH you spend,
BUT WHERE,
ON WHAT, and
WHETHER YOU’RE ALLOWED TO SPEND AT ALL.
The potential for abuse is staggering.
This is not paranoia.
It is already
the REALITY in China.
There, the CCP links Digital Currency to a Nationwide Social Credit System....
[WHETHER YOU’RE ALLOWED TO SPEND AT ALL.]
FEW there be who realize how QUICKLY things will CHANGE SUBSTANTIALLY and NEVER BE THE SAME
[Excellent Post]
THANKS guys
The public at large does a collective yawn,
and remains totally unaware of how MUCH
things are about to change. IRREVERSIBLY.
By the time they wake up, it will be too late 😲.
In fact, it ALREADY is too late 😲😲😲
My prediction is that not only is CBDC (Digital Currency)
attached to Facial Recognition coming to many nations...
They will eventually be merged into a single Global
Digital Currency System during the 7 Years of
‘Peace and Security’ (in the Middle East)
Seems hard to believe but it WILL happen 😲😳🙀🤯
Thought COVID-19(84) was bad?
HATED the COVID-19(84) Global Tyranny?
Felt bad for the Canadian Truckers 🚛🚛🚛?
Felt that the Canadian Truckers 🚛🚛🚛 was just
an anomalous thing that happened to other people?
Confident that you can survive on cash only?
(While virtually no one does - they’re nearly
ALL paying at least a few monthly / yearly bills
by check, Direct Electronic Payment, etc.
Things will change SUBSTANTIALLY when this ball
gets rolling and it ABSOLUTELY WON’T be stopped 😔
Virtually NO ONE but a precious few understand.
No one is going to escape this thing 😔😔😔.
The Chinese Social Credit Score System IS coming.
————6-6-6-——— (precursor)
Just wait until TPTB control ALL COMMERCE via Digital Currency / Facial Recognition
Sounds farfetched but it has ALREADY begun in China
(farfetched: unlikely and unconvincing; implausible.)
(It works great in Communist China.)
China...No Digital ID...Can’t BUY food!
October 19, 2023
[Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14067]
Around mid-2022, this video commercial kept popping up on my YouTube - I finally watched it - it is all about EO14067.
I hope people can take time to watch what I recommended below:
The Digital Dollar will save us! Yeah, That’s the ticket!
(worth it to watch just the first 17 minutes - there will be no way to “prosper”, though)
The Jim Rickards Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCfzQNhi_ns
Author unknown.
Scorpion and the frog.
Once a fable. Now the story of Europe and NYC.
John 15:18-21
KJV
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
Yes, exactly
The Book of Revelation is starting to look like a checklist, with over half of them checked off.
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