Hegseth: NATO lost its way… our allies must step up!

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the decline of European NATO as a warfighting organisation has mirrored the continent’s crisis of faith in itself and the open borders era, telling a meeting of alliance leaders they now need to step up if they want America to keep contributing.

Hegseth appeared to make implicit that the U.S. would be reconsidering its deployment in Europe at the end of this six months and decisions would be based on which countries made solid guarantees on access to bases and overflight rights, and on which countries show that credible path to making their alliance spending commitments five per cent of GDP on defence investment.

Hegseth Torches ‘Paper Tiger’ NATO at Defence Summit: You Have Six Months to Shape Up o

Hegseth Torches ‘Paper Tiger’ NATO at Defence Summit: You Have Six Months to Shape Up or Face Consequences

A meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) member state defence ministers in Brussels, Belgium was addressed by U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Thursday morning as a session opener, where he delivered a blunt assessment of the alliance’s failure to be war-ready, and warned it had six months to turn itself around or else face consequences.

Hegseth’s remarks spoke the language of “NATO 3.0” — also frequently mentioned by Secretary General Mark Rutte when discussing plans underway to transform the alliance — shorthand for the new standards members have to meet going forward. This third NATO is expressed as being a return to the first incarnation of the alliance, which won the Cold War and where its European members were major military powers, and as the end to NATO-two where Europe took full advantage of the so-called peace dividend to massively scale back defence and plough that money into other projects, most often welfare spending.

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The Pros & Cons of the “Iran Deal”

Here’s the latest:

  • US Vice President JD Vance has said that the 60-day negotiating period between Tehran and Washington has begun today and the blockade of Iran’s ports has been lifted.
  • Earlier, US President Donald Trump and Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian have electronically signed a memorandum of understanding to end the war.
  • Israel kills three people in Lebanon as it continues its invasion of the south, despite the inclusion of an end to its occupation in the US-Iran interim agreement.
  • Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has hailed the agreement as a “big victory” and said Lebanon’s negotiations with Israel should be limited to “mutual security” and not the armed group’s disarmament.

The Hawks Are Right That Iran Will Cheat… That’s the Point

The right has reached a verdict on President Trump’s memorandum of understanding with Iran, and the verdict is rage. Ben Shapiro went on Fox News and called the agreement “a disaster.” Erick Erickson, who spent the war defending it, pronounced the deal “an American surrender.” Sen. Ted Cruz warned that handing “billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea” and accused the president of receiving bad advice once again. The hawks are convinced their man capitulated to the mullahs.

Every Dollar Comes With a Leash

Read the financial terms closely and the alarm starts to look misplaced. The Treasury does not terminate sanctions under the memo; it issues waivers, and a waiver is a thing that can be withdrawn as easily as it was granted.

Iran’s frozen funds are not handed over in a duffel bag; their release runs through procedures still to be negotiated. The headline $300 billion that has the commentariat in a froth is not American money at all. As ZeroHedge laid out in detail, it is a proposed private investment fund, financed by Gulf states and multinational firms rather than the U.S. Treasury, and it functions only if sanctions relief, banking access, and a durable settlement actually materialize. Until Iran performs, the pledged capital is, by the fund’s own logic, theoretical.

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Israel:

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says he is suspending contact with the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, after reports that she compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to South Africa’s former apartheid system.

Netanyahu says Israel must protect relationship with US

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressed for the ‘preservation’ of Israel’s relationship with the US. Earlier, US Vice President JD Vance had criticised Israel for its actions in Lebanon and rebuked members of the Israeli cabinet for their criticism of Trump’s deal.

France: ‘F**k your mothers, you Christians!’ and ‘Allahu akbar’

France: Muslims storm Catholic church service, scream ‘F**k your mothers, you Christians!’ and ‘Allahu akbar’

Imagine how much we would be hearing about this if a pair of Roman Catholics had shown up at a mosque and shouted “F**k your mothers, you Muslims!” and “Jesus is Lord!” That would never happen and should never happen, of course, but the double standard is no less acceptable for being obvious. Everywhere Muslims and non-Muslims live in close proximity, some Muslims are hostile toward the Christians. Screaming these things in a church is designed to frighten and intimidate the people inside, and make them think that for their safety, they should leave the area. When they do leave, other Muslims will be ready to move in, until the entire area is “Muslim land.” That’s how the jihad advances without a shot being fired.

Saint-Louis’ church of Beauregard in Poissy, © Peter Potrowl, sitemai.eu, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

“‘F**k your mothers, you Christians!,’” Génération Poissy, June 7, 2026 (thanks to Medforth):

…Friday night Beauregard church was the site of racist, insulting and inadmissible language! At least two people hurled these insults and “Allah Akbar” while a Catholic religious office was being held.

France: 7 in 10 Want Referendum on Reinstating Death Penalty for Crimes Against Children

Farage: So-Called ‘Equality Act’ Is Anti-White Racism

Islam and Sharia are the law of the land in the UK!

“The Ikhwan [Brotherhood] must understand that their work is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilisation from within,” and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s [Allah’s] religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

Farage: Anti-White Racism ‘Embedded Into Heart’ of British State Under So-Called ‘Equality Act’

Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK party speaks at an event in London, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said that anti-white racism instituted by the government in Westminster has spread throughout all of British society, and so the “madness” of the Equality Act must be rooted out.

In his debut article for Substack, Brexit champ Nigel Farage accused the Westminster establishment of actively working against the native people of Britain, arguing that the government actively promotes policies which advantage minorities and hurt white British people, creating a “two-tier” system in the country.

While proponents claim that the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) agenda is merely attempting to level the playing field, Mr Farage warned that in reality, it is, in fact, a “deeply sinister act of social cleansing” in which unelected anti-racist institutions and networks use their power to “dominate” and suppress the native population.

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No. We Will Not Always Have Paris

 
 
 
 
 
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French Far-Left Leader Claims ‘White, Christian’ France Never Existed

Anonymous:

I’m a firefighter, and what I saw yesterday in the streets of Paris broke my heart.

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We responded around 10 p.m., after the call for a dumpster fire that was escalating. We thought it was just a simple evening incident.

We arrived on the scene, and it was hell. Paris, my city, the one where I grew up, where I did my first shifts, had become a war zone. Black smoke everywhere, screams, explosions from mortars. Groups of young people, often from immigrant backgrounds, hooded, organized, charging at law enforcement like on a battlefield.


I saw fellow police officers getting lynched with iron bars. I saw a police car pelted with stones as we were just stepping out to put out a fire that was threatening families. We were set upon by rioters who screamed at us, calling us “dogs.” We were just trying to save lives, and we became targets.

I picked up a 14-year-old kid, face covered in blood, who was crying as he said he’d followed “the big guys” just “for fun.” I saw a mother, shutters closed, begging us to protect her children while everything downstairs was being smashed. Shattered storefronts, looted shops, burning cars… all of it under the pretext of “celebrating” something.

Celebrating isn’t breaking things.

Is this France in 2026? A country where you can’t go out at night without risking your life? A country where entire neighborhoods are handed over to clans that respect neither our laws, nor our history, nor our firefighters, nor our police? Where we watch helplessly as our capital, a symbol of light and culture, is turned into a playground for barbarians who spit on the hand that feeds them?

That night, coming home at 6 a.m., still covered in soot and sweat, I cried like a child. Not from exhaustion. From rage and sadness. For my children. For my injured colleagues. For this country I love and that’s letting itself die.
Wake up. Please. Before there’s nothing left to save.

France: ‘Civil War Scenes’

France is descending into chaos as Muslim mobs take to the streets, burning everything in sight, chanting “Allah hu Akbar” and “Death to France,” and openly calling for Islamic Law.

This is the direct result of years of mass migration and failed integration. France gave them asylum and opportunity, now they’re torching the country that welcomed them. Europe is waking up too late.

Geert Wilders For Breitbart: When Our Cities Resemble Warzones, We Have to Reclaim Our Streets

Geert Wilders For Breitbart: When Our Cities Resemble Warzones, We Have to Reclaim Our Streets

Following a football match, rioters in Paris went on a rampage in the French capital, looting shops setting cars on fire, attacking, even firing at police officers. Videos and television footage showed that many rioters had an immigrant background. It is a scene Europeans have become all too familiar with – not just in France, but all over the continent.

In the past decades, Europe’s ruling elites have allowed millions of immigrants from Africa and the Islamic world to settle in our midst. Some of them hate their host country to the extent that they want to destroy it. They loot and vandalize, assault and rape, and even murder.
 

Leading politicians – such as Emmanuel Macron in France, Rob Jetten in my own Netherlands, Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, and many others in their ivory towers – think that people do not notice what is going on. But they do notice, and they are deeply worried. They want the chaos to stop. They also realize the root cause of our societal break-down: Mass immigration by people who contribute absolutely nothing to our societies and reject our cultural values. Continue reading France: ‘Civil War Scenes’

Paris is burning, again….

European elected leaders imported the 3rd world thinking they would become workers and extend the pension system. Instead they go on welfare and burn down cities after soccer matches.

The rioters are generally young men, overwhelmingly from North African (Maghrebi) and sub-Saharan African immigrant backgrounds in the Paris banlieues.

This is the recurring demographic in French urban unrest — from 2005 to 2023 and recent flare-ups — driven by concentrated socioeconomic problems, family structures, and failed integration in those specific communities.

French officials and media almost always call them just “youths” or “protesters” to skip over their origins.

Paris Burns: PSG Champions League Victory Sparks Second Straight Year of Riots, Looting, and Arson

France’s biggest football triumph of the year once again—for the second year in a row–descended into a night of riots, looting, arson, and street violence, reinforcing growing concerns that public disorder has become a recurring feature of major national celebrations.

By dawn, following Paris Saint-Germain FC’s victory over Arsenal in the Champions League final in Budapest, Hungary, at least 416 people had been arrested across the country, including 283 in Paris. Meanwhile, Budapest remained calm.

Seven police officers were injured, businesses were looted, vehicles were torched, and large sections of the capital resembled a security operation rather than a victory celebration.

The most remarkable aspect of the violence, for many French citizens, was not its scale but its predictability. Days before PSG even took the field, authorities—and business owners—were already preparing for riots,

The French state deployed more than 22,000 police officers and gendarmes nationwide, including 8,000 in Paris alone. Such numbers would normally be associated with a major security threat, not a soccer match.

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Islam is not an ‘Abrahamic’ religion

…and Islam is not a ‘religion of peace’ either.

The ‘Muslim Catholic’ Who Invented the Christian-Muslim Relationship

The origins of the dangerous myth of “Abrahamic Religions.”

Louis Massignon by Taqtigre

When Pope Leo hails Islam and when western politicians praise Islam as an “Abrahamic religion,” they are not reaching back to an ancient Christian tradition but the relatively new twentieth century invention of a man whom Pope Pius IX had described as a “Muslim Catholic”.

Traditional Christianity saw Islam as a pun for the sins of nations and Islamic rulers like Sultan Mehmed II as a “second Mohammed,” a “son of Satan” and a harbinger of the Antichrist.

One unlikely Christian ‘Islamist’ in the twentieth century helped change all that.

Louis Massignon was a French academic, intellectual, artist, officer, priest, gay man and likely spy, whose obsessive orientalism led him to spend a good deal of his time, occasionally at risk of his life, in the Muslim world, to advocate for its causes and to find spiritual meaning in Islam. Continue reading Islam is not an ‘Abrahamic’ religion

France: replacing ‘infidel’ law with sharia

Starting in 1983, the OIC developed a strategy for conquering the West. The 56 Muslim states aim to install a “civilisation of substitution” in Europe: replacing Christians with Muslims, ‘infidel’ laws with Sharia.

France’s Senate passed a bill targeting “Islamist infiltration,” with supporters calling it protection for democracy and critics condemning it as far-right rhetoric stigmatizing Islam. jpost.com/international/

In 1977, France Used a Guillotine to Execute a Muslim Pimp Running a Sex Grooming Gang

Imagine if European governments had this kind of courage today. National decline is a choice. France joined the UK and other European ‘Islam First’ governments in condemning Israel for passing a bill calling for the death penalty for terrorists. Along with the rest of the EU, France condemned the death penalty as unacceptable.

French Senate adopts a law aimed at combating ‘Islamist infiltration’

Too little, too late? Probably. Nevertheless, it is refreshing to see a Western Europe government even come close to acknowledging that there is a problem of Islamic jihad. “French senate adopts proposed law aimed at combating Islamist infiltration,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, May 6, 2026

The Islamic Takeover of Europe Accelerates 

The statement by the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris was a message of implied appropriation of France as Islamic land. It was a message of jihad, coming right after two years of tense relations with Algeria over attacks and calls for terrorism on our soil.

French Cuisine Offends Mohammedans

French Canon Banquets: The Rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris Laments the Exclusion of Mohammedans by Serving Pork

Recently across France something new, honoring something old, has sprung up: municipalities have started to hold public banquets of traditional French fare, as a way of honoring French cuisine and French history at the same time. But this act of tribute to the past, a solidifying of social cohesion through food, has angered the Rector of the Paris Mosque. More on his anger can be found here: “Rector of Paris Mosque Accuses Canon Français Banquets of ‘Exclusion,’” by Hélène de Lauzun, European Conservative, May 7, 2026

The plan is unfolding as planned:

_ the pork: that excludes the Muslims

_ unveiled women: that’s provocation

_ the church bells: why don’t we get the call to prayer ourselves?

_ you eat during Ramadan: you’re not respecting Ramadan…

The controversy surrounding the banquets organised by Le Canon français shows no sign of abating. The initiative, launched by two young entrepreneurs to revive traditional banquets centred on culinary specialities from across France, has come under fire from the press and the Left on the grounds that it perpetuates an ideology of exclusion and promotes far-right ideas. The rector of the Paris Mosque has spoken out publicly to, in turn, attack these festive gatherings which bring together several thousand enthusiastic guests in towns and cities across France.

These “Canon Banquets” exclude no one. All are welcome to attend. If you are Muslim, and don’t wish to eat pork products, no one is forcing you to eat them. What “far-right ideas” do these banquets, which showcase those local food specialties that are a storied part of French cuisine, promote? Is respect for, and pride in, French traditional cuisine a “far-right idea”? Is it any more a “far-right idea” than staging a public reading of such medieval French works as Le Chanson de Roland? Or if the education minister chose to stage a play for high school students inside various cathedrals and churches across France, is that “far-right”? Are the French supposed to ignore their past because others — Muslims — have no affection for or interest in that past, and don’t want others to be able to display that affection, that interest?

ONE OF EUROPE’S LARGEST MOSQUES IS BEING BUILT IN STRASBOURG

The criminal establishment of France  feels threatened by Elon Musk & X, the last free speech platform that gives everyone a say. It makes it hard for degenerate despots to hide their incompetence & their crimes. So yes, the solution for them lies in eliminating the threat:

French Cybercrime Authorities Elevate Investigation of Elon Musk and X to Criminal Probe

French Cybercrime Authorities Elevate Investigation of Elon Musk and X to Criminal Probe

French cybercrime prosecutors have announced that their investigation into Elon Musk and his social media platform X has been upgraded to a criminal probe, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing legal scrutiny of the tech tycoon’s deepfake porn scandal.

CNBC reports that the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed the elevation of the investigation, which originally began in early 2025 following a request from French Member of Parliament Éric Bothorel. The probe centers on allegations of algorithmic manipulation designed to interfere in French politics and concerns about the spread of AI-generated deepfake content on the social network.

According to the prosecutor’s office, both Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino received summons to appear before French authorities on April 20. Neither complied with the request to answer questions related to the investigation.

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ONE OF EUROPE’S LARGEST MOSQUES IS BEING BUILT IN STRASBOURG.
 
6 kilometres from the European Parliament.
 
The Eyyub Sultan Mosque – 7,000 square metres. Minarets 36 metres high. Capacity for 5,000 worshippers. Library. Education centre. Cultural centre. Conference facilities. Research centre. Parking for 6,000 cars.

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