The brutal killing of Iryna Zarutska (Ukrainian refugee) on a commuter train in North Carolina highlights not only the willingness of https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ukrainian-refugee-fatally-stabbed-charlotte-train-career-criminal-another-casualty

news stories that jeopardize their woke narratives but also the broader failure of so-called criminal justice reform, which appears to have shockingly backfired and become a major public safety threat. Adding to the mounting outrage, a leftist magistrate judge released the schizophrenic monster on cashless bail (before he killed Zarutska) - another failure point. And then there's this: far-left nonprofits accelerated the push for disastrous criminal justice reforms.

Democrats did this. https://t.co/94ykOx2mtf

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1965468518360777102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

It's now widely known that Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, Zarutska's killer, had been previously arrested 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault to firearms possession, and whose own mother admitted he was schizophrenic and should never have been allowed back on the streets, was recently released on cashless bail (before he killed Zarutska) by a progressive magistrate judge despite a two-decade violent crime spree.

Today, I led a letter calling for the removal of Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, who released a 14-time offender who went on to murder Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte.

This tragedy was preventable. There must be accountability. North Carolinians deserve better. https://t.co/yqEGa873KJ

— Congressman Tim Moore (@RepTimMooreNC) https://twitter.com/RepTimMooreNC/status/1965417942763688346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Magistrate Teresa Stokes is not listed as a licensed attorney on the NC State Bar directory, indicating she has not passed the NC bar exam. However, North Carolina magistrates are not required to be attorneys or pass the bar; qualifications include a degree plus experience or…

— Grok (@grok) https://twitter.com/grok/status/1965148932121788562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

But the failures don't stop with local leftist politicians and rogue progressive judges (or magistrate judges) who embrace woke and enabled criminal justice reform from hell. They extend much deeper - into the shadowy world of the dark-money-funded nonprofit industrial complex, which poured millions of dollars into Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to push for "reducing the jail population."

"Another factor in the death of Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte's light rail--the left-wing MacArthur Foundation giving Mecklenburg county a $3.3 million grant to reduce the jail population. Specifically as part of racial equity aims," Daily Wire's Megan Basham wrote on X.

Basham noted, "Like Soros' Open Society, the MacArthur Foundation incentivizes local municipalities to make residents less safe by leaving threats like Decarlos Brown on the streets."

Another factor in the death of Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte's light rail--the left-wing MacArthur Foundation giving Mecklenburg county a $3.3 million grant to reduce the jail population. Specifically as part of "racial equity aims.

Like Soros' Open Society, the MacArthur… https://t.co/0J0G52iZKT

— Megan Basham (@megbasham) https://twitter.com/megbasham/status/1965239996916408320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Basham's screenshots show Mecklenburg County boasting about the MacArthur Foundation plowing $3.3 million into the county as part of a "Safety and Justice Challenge" that aims to "reduce the jail population"...

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MacArthur Foundation's own website shows that it's committed to DEI.

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Using public data via Sayari, the MacArthur Foundation is linked to the usual far-left NGO suspects, including the Rockefeller Family Fund and many others that are not particularly enthusiastic about 'America First'.

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It seems as if the very pillars the Democratic Party has built itself on, whether social and criminal justice reform, progressive judges, or its dark-money-funded NGO complex, all played a role in allowing serial criminals to roam the streets, endangering the public.

Americans must avoid cities and towns where progressives enforce cashless bail and other woke policies, as these places are increasingly crime-ridden and unsafe.

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Zarutska's shocking death should've never happened. This is a policy failure by the liberal elites. And there needs to be accountability at the ballot box.

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i would be willing to overlook the fact that she isn't 12 years old

but the average "adult" woman is just a sack of shit that i have zero interest in

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Port officials confirmed no injuries were reported, though the contents of the containers and the cause of the incident remain unknown.

Los Angeles - Long Beach https://twitter.com/USCG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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One X user joked, "All that Temu merchandise. Total losses estimated at $5,431."

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Which one stood out? . https://youtu.be/H2TKK-4mxJ0?si=w2TFw6a7F_rWA_Js

Cartels are about to learn why our defense budget is closing in on $1 trillion 🤣 https://t.co/uh8WImtbEo

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1965134711078133820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

"What you’re doing right now is not training; this is a real-world exercise on behalf of the vital national interests of the United States of America to end the poisoning of the American people," Trump's defense chief said.

The Pentagon is reportedly mulling using Puerto Rico as its central hub to wage war against Latin American cartels, at a moment the US has put a https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy1wn1x521o

on President Maduro's head - signaling the pursuit of regime change.

Governor of Puerto Rico Jennifer Gonzalez welcomed Hegseth's presence, showing a willingness to host American troops amid the Venezuela operations, while denouncing Maduro as a "narco-dictator".

"We thank [President Donald] Trump and his Administration for recognizing the strategic value Puerto Rico has to the national security of the United States and the fight against drug cartels in our hemisphere, perpetuated by narco-dictator Nicolas Maduro," she wrote on social media.

The Iwo Jima is currently stationed about 30 miles south of Puerto Rico...

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Along with the carrier deployment, the US has at least three guided missile destroyers in the Caribbean, ten F-35s, and thousands of US Marines. There are also reports of a US attack submarine operating at locations unknown off Venezuela.

Tensions are soaring after last week the US attacked an alleged drug-smuggling boat, killing all eleven on board - and reportedly with no warning or attempt to intercept it. Maduro has put his own forces on alert, particularly on the coast and in border areas, and has sent F-16s to buzz US warships, though Trump has threatened to shoot them down.

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Edição extra da DZCM nessa semana para falar sobre o grande assunto das últimas 24 horas. E também para dar umas dicas sobre segurança e gestão de endereços das suas carteiras. https://open.substack.com/pub/lucianorocha/p/dzcm-60-extra-ataque-npm-meus-bitcoins?r=bclxe&utm_medium=ios

In Nepal, politicians ban social media use and citizens burn down parliament. Politicians flee by helicopter. https://t.co/6Sju9CH7Jm

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1965391218227241132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The airport was also shuttered and army helicopters were seen deployed to rescue government ministers from the mob. Apparently, the country's finance minister wasn't so lucky...

India Today: Nepal's Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel reportedly chased by protesters and kicked after a video showed him fleeing down a street.

❗️ Nepal's Finance Minister reportedly chased by protesters and kicked after a video showed him fleeing down a street — India Today https://t.co/n3CzE7ntOD

— RT (@RT_com) https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1965377745812394373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

According to https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/india/chaos-in-kathmandu-nepal-finance-minister-bishnu-prasad-paudel-chased-thrashed-by-protestors-watch-shocking-video/ar-AA1MbyYK

, "Nepal's finance minister was chased and beaten by demonstrators Tuesday as Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned following days of violent student-led protests against corruption and a ban on social media."

⚡️ Nepali Finance Minister dragged along street by angry protesters https://t.co/OUC8A1q4g8

— RT (@RT_com) https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1965378668366364865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Residents of top politicians in Kathmandu have been reported attacked and in some cases damaged or set on fire, including the prime minister of the country, KP Sharma Oli. He has since stepped down in the wake of the protester killings.

"Oli’s private home was among those set on fire, as were those of the president, home minister and the leader of the country’s largest party, Nepali Congress, which is part of the governing coalition," AP https://apnews.com/article/nepal-protest-social-media-ban-89cf500969536cf2a35c3fb884cfa620

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"Oli’s family was at the official residence at the time. The home of the leader of the opposition Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) was also set ablaze," AP adds.

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The moment at which police opened fire on crowds was the tipping point. Even after the social media ban was reversed, the rioting became more intense.

“We are here to protest because our youths and friends are getting killed, we are here to see that justice is done and the present regime is ousted,” one eyewitness interviewed by international press outside the damaged parliament building said Tuesday. "K.P. Oli should be chased away."

Protestors set Nepal’s Energy Minister’s house ON FIRE — Prez house STORMED

Banknotes RAIN down as Gen Z rioters start looting the houses https://t.co/t1ggYZ07Dz

— RT (@RT_com) https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1965346117736169781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

A key part of what's driving the outrage related to the protests dubbed 'Gen Z' is that those killed by police were found to have been shot in the head and chest, according to hospital staff who received the dead and wounded.

One protester told the BBC, "Rather than the social media ban, I think everyone's focus is on corruption." She added, "We want our country back - we came to stop corruption."

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New York’s department of public health released a series of odd guidances to pharmacists and physicians on Friday to promote COVID vaccines to children and adults for “off label” use, meaning in conflict with FDA’s official label. Signed by Governor Kathy Hochul, New York’s https://www.governor.ny.gov/executive-order/no-52-declaring-disaster-state-new-york-due-federal-actions-related-vaccine-access

declares a “disaster in the state of New York due to federal actions related to vaccine access.”

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“A friend of mine said they’re contacting the nurse’s union,” a New York City nurse texted me, shortly after New York released their new COVID vaccine guidance. “They don’t know wtf to do with that!”

A New York physician sent me documents the state’s health department sent to physicians and pharmacists, called “providers” in healthcare lingo. She and the majority of her colleagues no longer get COVID boosters, and she’s worried that the new guidance for “off label” use makes no sense, does not fully inform patients, and might be illegal.

Pfizer pled guilty to criminal charges and https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history

daughter-in-law is a top lobbyist at a pharma firm that has sought to influence NY lawmakers.

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According to a recent https://www.bio.org/events/bio-patient-health-advocacy-summit/speakers/2157665

, Christina Hochul is now a lobbyist at Alexion, a subsidiary of AstraZeneca.

In one unsettling example of New York’s emergency guidance, officials allege that “physical activity” places people at risk of COVID.

Because she works in both New Jersey and New York, this physician requested to go by the name “Michelle” to protect her license and possible job reprisals. “The states that I practice in are particularly regressive and hostile,” Michelle said. “They have pursued suspending and revoking licenses for providers that asked questions that in any other situation would be normal to ask.”

Over the weekend, I spoke at length with Michelle, probing her to explain what is going on in healthcare right now and what she and other physicians plan to do about New York’s emergency declaration. At times, the conversation veered into the horrors she’s experienced in modern American healthcare. When a wave of illegal immigrant children came to New York a couple years back, many of them she treated had been sexually abused and trafficked during their migration from places as far away as Honduras. She also consulted for a hospital where boys who identified as “trans girls” were placed in a female psychiatric ward and then sexually abused the girls, crimes which were likely never reported to police, and handled internally by staff.

This interview has been edited and condensed for brevity and clarity. “I have never worked in healthcare like this,” Michelle said. “I can’t even ask the state department questions about some of this because that might flag me to a licensing board.”

THACKER: Tell people what's been going on with prescribing in your part of the country, and what happened when these new statements came down from the Department of Health in New York.

MICHELLE: There’s an undercurrent in healthcare right now … if you look at the uptake of COVID vaccinations, it's plummeted, right? Even in healthcare workers. And many hospitals have dropped their COVID vaccine requirements.

I also work at a private university. And this is an ongoing conversation for students. Are students going to be required to get these vaccines when they are not required by employees? It's a constantly changing conversation. And some hospitals are requiring students get COVID vaccination, even when they don't require it for their employees.

So what I see... privately and personally in my colleagues is … no one's getting boosters. No one's getting them anymore. They're uncomfortable getting them, and they're not required to.

It just feels like an internalized hypocrisy that we have to recommend these vaccines when most of us aren't getting them. And it's not like a minority of my peers. I would say the vast majority, even people that were previously receiving multiple boosters.

THACKER: Why are they not getting the boosters? Excess mortality dipped below zero in January 2023. Do they think the risk benefit doesn't make any sense, so there's no point in getting them? Or are they worried about potential side effects now?

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MICHELLE: In practice you can see the risk benefit doesn't make any sense. There are populations that still get COVID, but it's very treatable for the vast majority of people.

The data is skewed from the beginning, because we are looking at hospital numbers for COVID rates of infection. I would say about 30 to 40 percent of people test at home. So we don't even know the reality of how many people are getting infected. The vast majority of people are recovering from this at home.

THACKER: So the true number COVID infected people are never accounted for, which increases the percentage of people we think are getting seriously ill or dying.

MICHELLE: People with comorbidities may get ill, and certainly older people, but this is not a time where our hospitals are struggling. This is three years out from the height of COVID. RSV and flu were a lot more severe than COVID last year.

States have dropped their COVID trackers. There weren’t COVID trackers last year, I checked everywhere. I feel like that's a conflict, where our states aren't even tracking disease statistics, but then recommending vaccination for the disease that you're not tracking.

You track flu, but we stopped tracking COVID statistics. I think that is meaningful, don't you?

THACKER: Your department of health put out this notice to pharmacists and it actually says that while federal actions may restrict eligibility with no underlying conditions, meaning comorbidities, providers may administer the vaccines “off-label.”

And then it provides step by step instruction for off label use for “patients age 3 and older,” which I thought was really odd. That a department of health would be recommending, “Hey, here's how you can do something off label.”

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MICHELLE: I was stunned. I couldn't believe that. I've never seen that. I went to my colleagues, I asked peers, “Have you ever seen any department of health recommend off-label use?” No, never. People that I've known—that have been practicing for 25, 30 years—had never seen that before.

And I am like, “Wait a minute, you can't do that.” Departments of health deliver guidance from regulatory bodies; they send federal information, regulatory information to providers. So that made me pause.

But the off-label thing, I still can't wrap my head around.

THACKER: A lot of these COVID vaccines are given by pharmacists. You're not getting a prescription from your doctor. You just show up at like CVS and say, “Hey, I want this.”

Now you can say, “Hey I want this, and I want to get it off label.”

MICHELLE: Absolutely. But I just want to note that a pharmacist can prescribe vaccines only. This is the one thing they can do at point of care. Let's say your kid goes to a school where they require the flu shot, or you have to get an update on varicella. If you go to the CVS, they can now upsell you on COVID vaccine because they have this guidance for off label.

If you're an informed consumer, you might go, “Oh my gosh, look at the federal guidance on COVID and I'm 45. I shouldn’t get this. What am I gonna do? Oh, I can get it off label.”

You might be an informed customer that wants the COVID-19 shot, and you should have that right. But I've never seen this before where you're having a department of health encouraging people to ignore the FDA.

THACKER: I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of this.

MICHELLE: At the top of the new guidance to physicians, it says, “We recommend vaccination..” It’s only on the bottom of the page that it says “federal actions may restrict eligibility.” That wording is very complicated and avoids stating, “The FDA recommends vaccination only for people over 64 etc…” By not naming the FDA or the FDA’s guidance, someone glancing over this could incorrectly believe that this is recommended by the FDA as well.

My concern is for the people with kids who go to the pharmacy and don't know about the research and FDA guidance.

Is the pharmacist gonna give them actual informed consent and say, “Well, I'm writing this for you off label because the state says I can.”

Are you gonna really say that? I highly doubt it.

THACKER: It’s highly unlikely they're gonna inform parents that federal guidance says healthy kids don't need this, but I'm gonna give it to you anyway.

MICHELLE: Are they going to be pleasant, “Hey, do you also want to get a COVID shot for your kiddo?”

I can't speak to if there are incentives for that, for pharmacists. Perhaps. Who knows? There's certainly incentives for MDs, if you maintain a certain percent of your patient population with current vaccinations. That's a known incentive.

There's so many questions at play here, because off label use of medication is tricky.

THACKER: So you can walk into your CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid and get it off-label for kids, three years and older. Now for medical doctors like yourself, PAs, RNs, it tells you 19 years and over. So it's completely a different age bracket that they're recommending for prescribers.

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MICHELLE: Well, let me clarify that, because there are multiple updates. That's the COVID recommendations for adults. There were two other missives that went out, pregnant women and children.

THACKER: It says there is no concern about getting vaccinated at any stage of pregnancy, “in any trimester.” Wow, this ishttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.18.25329352v1

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Can I just correct you on one thing. It says, “pregnant people.”

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Oh, God. We’re doing that again. Can you explain “pregnant people” to readers. I live in Spain and this political vernacular hasn’t worked its way into the Spanish language. When I tell physicians in Spain about “pregnant people” they don’t’ understand.

I then explain it to them and they start cracking up.

MICHELLE: This is the most politicizied term to sanitize a polical agenda. It’s an attempt to include trans langauge into the basics of healthcare, at its foundation. This language didn’t exist from the NY state department of health a few years ago.

THACKER: So let’s look at what NY recommends for children.

MICHELLE: For children, the thing that I noticed right away that was concerning: well, on all of these documents, they hide that FDA is not recommending this. They don’t tell you up top, in a first bullet point. It's way further down. I’m still going through all the new advice we’ve been given.

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But the first bullet point states that all children age six to 23 months should be vaccinated. The second says children and adolescents ages two to 18 years who fall in these subgroups can be vaccinated

THACKER: And by “subgroups” they mean these are kids with comorbidities, increased risk for disease.

MICHELLE: Wait so that's the first two points. And then third point states that vaccine may also be provided to children ages 2 to 18 who do not fall into one of the above categories, at the request of their parent or guardian.

So, it's a blanket, it's a catch-all, covering all kids. And when you combine that with the other documents, you see that we're doing everybody.

THACKER: All ages, unless you’re a newborn, less than six months.

MICHELLE: These documents should say very clearly at the top that they don't have the role of the FDA. And maybe that this is a new vaccine from June 2025. Have they reviewed all those studies that the FDA reviewed to approve this newest vaccine? I'm just confused. Who’s taking accountablity for this if some kid is harmed?

Kathy Hochul?

They're taking a regulatory authority they don't have. Did they examine the safety data on these vaccines? The FDA is the one that's supposed to do that. I don't know if they're able to operate in the role of the FDA and give this guidance

Governoer Kathy Hochul released an emergency order to allow this off label use for a month. And I don't see that there either in any guidance, which is also misleading. They’re releasing guidance for the season, but the emergency order only covers this next month.

I don't see anything on there saying this is for the month of September.

THACKER: The other weird thing is on the second page for the adults. It explains the underlying medical conditions that increase the person's risk of severe COVID-19 and it says “physical activity.”

I mean, what the hell? Is this like, “Did you exercise?”

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MICHELLE: I know. I'm so curious about that. I'm still pulling everything apart. I want to look at the medical citations. I don't even think that was cited.

So physical activity, that's wild. And I don't understand. I don't understand. Your moderate activity that keeps you healthy, keeps your cholesterol down, your blood pressure down, is what they actually say is putting you at risk for severe COVID.

THACKER: What is all this craziness doing to you and your colleagues?

I'll just let you know, I got a message from a nurse in New York City who told me that her other nurse colleagues are going to their union asking, “What do we do?”

MICHELLE: I think there's like an ethical and moral dilemma going on in healthcare because people—nurses and doctors—are living privately in a different way than they have to practice publicly. And that's the truth.

I mean, look at the uptake rates. Even in the department of health admits that COVID vaccination for small children's is like 3.4%. Wouldn't that indicate that almost 97% of people are not wanting to vaccinate their children for COVID?

THACKER: Who comes to you to get their kids vaccinated for COVID?

MICHELLE: It's a very niche, small group of people. However, there are people that come in to get vaccinations and are told they need to get the COVID vaccine and do it because they're told. They can be convinced into it, but even among that group there is more and more people that aren't.

But this other group are—I would say are separate—that are almost religious in this quest to get vaccinated. It's like a moral belief. “This is the correct thing to do.”

THACKER: What does this do to you as a doctor? You know what the FDA is saying, and you're reading the medical literature. And then you're getting this guidance coming in from New York state telling you what to do.

If a patient said, “I want the COVID vax.” Would tell them what the FDA says? Or do you gotta shut up because you wanna preserve your job?

MICHELLE: It's very, very tricky. It's a very fine line. The core of my practice is patient education and informed consent for every medication. When people ask for medications that I have feelings about or don't agree with, I usually have an exploratory conversation.

“Why do you think you'd like that medication?”

Hear their thoughts and get to the core, the issue. I share information with them as neutrally as possible to help them make the best decision, but it is a tightrope walk. I do not involve politics in any way. I think it's an unhelpful, because my goal is to provide good healthcare. And I think that has to be apolitical.

I don't judge anyone on their politics or beliefs. I don't judge anyone about their choices to get COVID vaccination. I do feel negatively towards healthcare. Agencies and institutions that don't share information with their patients. It's unfair. You're basically using fear-based narratives to sway thinking.

And then again, this is America. If you want to get a shot, you should be able to get a shot. But you have to be told also what your risk-benefit ratio is, just like with any product.

THACKER: Would you feel comfortable if someone came in to get a five-year-old vaccinated for COVID, would you feel uncomfortable telling them, “Well, I just wanna let you know that neither I nor any of my colleagues are getting our children vaccinated for COVID.”

MICHELLE: The states that I practice in are particularly regressive and hostile. They have pursued suspending and revoking licenses for providers that asked questions that in any other situation would be normal to ask.

I've seen colleagues threatened or called racist by hospital administration for suggesting we restrict travel to China at the beginning of the pandemic—when it originated in China. If you look at the swine flu pandemic, that's exactly what they did was restrict travel. That's a normal pandemic measure for centuries.

So this is a very strange, politicized moment in time. And there are many, many providers who will privately practice differently than what they prescribe to their own patients. I have never worked in healthcare like this.

I can’t even ask the state department questions about some of this because that might flag me to a licensing board.

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https://rmx.news/article/eu-censors-post-from-german-police-union-deputy-head-describing-a-dystopian-germany-in-2050-due-to-mass-immigration/

What will Germany look like in 2050? The outspoken deputy head of the German police union (DPolG), Manuel Ostermann, published an excerpt from his book on X about what he sees as the perils of mass immigration. His post described Arab clans dominating big cities in 2050, Sharia law, child marriage, grooming gangs, and a host of other ills. Now, the European Union has censored his post from being seen across the entire continent in a major escalation against a public official, one who is considered one of the leading voices of tens of thousands of German police officers, and a voice frequently appearing in major German news outlets, including Welt and Bild.

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Here is the original text, https://rmx.news/article/germany-2050-police-union-deputy-head-predicts-arab-clans-dominate-big-cities-drug-use-explodes-sharia-law-child-marriage-and-grooming-gangs-wreak-havoc/

, which was translated before his post was censored.

For those looking for the post, they are now greeted with this text. Likely, the post was removed under the Digital Services Act, a https://rmx.news/article/they-want-censorship-poland-considers-shutting-down-x-eu-launches-investigaiton/

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However, Ostermann’s prediction is a perfectly valid exercise of speech in any free and democratic society. Even if his predictions are wrong, or even if some do not turn out to be true, Germany and other EU nations still guarantee a constitutional right to such speech.

Furthermore, there is much evidence to support his conclusions, at least in part.

“By the way, this text comes from my book ‘Germany is no longer safe.’ I’m pleased that it’s being debated, because that’s how reality, unfortunately, can look quite rapidly in Germany,” he wrote in a post that is still visible.

Will the EU also ban his book? If they are willing to censor sections of a book, they are also willing to censor entire books. It is certainly a dark turn of events that Europe is actively censoring a police official and union deputy leader amid an ongoing public debate about immigration and its effect on European nations.

Dieser Text stammt im Übrigen aus meinem Buch „Deutschland ist nicht mehr sicher“.

Freut mich, dass darüber debattiert wird, denn so kann die Realität leider ziemlich zügig aussehen in Deutschland.

— Manuel Ostermann (@M_Ostermann) https://twitter.com/M_Ostermann/status/1960810757530247453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Ostermann’s post was not created in a vacuum. He has a bird’s eye view in his role as a police officer of the chaos wrought by Germany’s open borders ideology. While his warning is stark, it is fair to make predictions based on current events and data.

Let’s address some of the facts.

Arab clans dominate the big cities

“Imagine Germany in 2050. Arab clans dominate the big cities. Gangs fight each other in the fight for sovereignty in organized crime. People who don’t belong to the “right side” are murdered on the street. Even the police hardly dare to go to certain areas known as no-go areas anymore. Drug deaths hit an all-time high,” wrote Ostermann.

What exactly is the issue with the censors here?

Clan crime is a major problem within German cities, and it is almost entirely derived from Muslim countries, including Lebanon, Turkey, and even Syria. There are similar problems in neighboring countries, including Moroccans and Chechens operating in France and the Netherlands, and warring over the country’s drug trade.

Germany’s only public media networks routinely run articles and documentaries on the country’s growing clans and their power. In fact, https://rmx.news/germany/clans-corruption-drugs-german-documentary-reveals-clan-crime-gangs-have-bribed-police-and-infiltrated-state-authorities-across-the-country/

details how these clans have infiltrated the government and police forces to the point that fellow police officers cannot even trust each other.

“https://www.zdf.de/play/dokus/zdfzeit-106/kriminelle-clans-in-deutschland-102

” shows that criminal networks not only exercise control in some areas of large cities, but have also established their influence nationwide, right up to state institutions. Accumulating huge wealth illegally, they have built a tight network that includes law enforcement professionals.

“It is a murderous and extremely criminal milieu that goes on there. And now on so many levels that we no longer know whether we can really stop it at all. Were raids betrayed, investigations manipulated and employees bought off by the authorities? There is even despair in certain police stations,” states the narrator.

As Germany’s foreign population grows, so does clan crime, or at least the potential for such crime.

Just this year, 100 Lebanese clan members battled on the streets. Here is what Remix News https://rmx.news/article/germany-mass-street-battle-with-100-lebanese-clan-members-leads-to-bloodbath-as-mass-police-operations-launched/

: “There was a bloodbath on the streets of Germany after two extended Lebanese family groups fought in a battle that reportedly involved 100 people in the city of Heiligenhaus. The two groups battled using machetes, knives, and other weapons, leading to a mass police operation that resulted in at least five serious injuries, including one that is life-threatening. Police made several arrests.”

Incredible violence, attacks on police, and corruption at the highest levels are already the case to a large degree in a number of European cities. In Marseilles, killings have hit a record high and foreign gangs dominate the city’s drug trade.

🇫🇷 Marseilles. France

The French port city is now a major narcotics hub for Europe.

Last year, a 15-year-old was stabbed 50 times and burned alive in the drug violence as murders hit record highs.

This is the "New France." https://t.co/2ueIZ5BKH4

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1908116262875525378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

In the Netherlands, even the royal family has been threatened by the power wielded by foreign criminals.

Regarding the potential for drug overdose deaths, the situation could go many different ways, but https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/06/05/rising-deaths-fake-pills-gang-violence-how-the-eu-is-struggling-to-cope-with-illegal-drug-

. With the flood of synthetic opioids coming into Europe, the situation could worsen.

Is there any guarantee that Germany can escape such developments? Certainly not. Osterman presents a valid prediction based on trend lines, and certainly, there are no grounds to censor his prediction.

Sharia law and women’s rights

“In some districts, only Sharia law is recognized as valid law.“

Already, Austrian courts are https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/08/austrian-court-allows-use-of-islamic-sharia-law-in-private-contracts/

as valid so long as it does not contradict fundamental rights and higher state laws. However, this may be only a stepping-stone ruling.

In Germany itself, there is a small but vocal minority of Muslims who are openly protesting in favor of a https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hamburg-caliphate-rally-prompts-calls-for-punishment/a-68971732

.

However, this is not the most concerning development. Instead, in a https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/dieanderefrage-scharia106.html

, it showed that nearly half of young Muslims in Germany believe a theocracy is the best form of government.

In the same study, 67.9 percent of young Muslims said that the rules of the Quran were more important than the laws in Germany. This was also all reported by the state-run news network WDR.

This also means there are hundreds of thousands of Muslims who do not hold these beliefs, but the sheer numbers are also extremely worrying.

Nearly every single Muslim country on Earth is either ruled by classic Sharia law or has many elements of Sharia law incorporated into its legal system. Not every country is ruled by a strict standard, but many feature extremely harsh versions of such laws, including laws that openly target homosexuals and women.

Within Germany itself, the situation is potentially explosive, with an alarming number of Muslims feeling alienated living in a Western democratic society. Many of them harbor ideas that can be considered more radical, including a willingness to turn to violence.

A https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=14762

that “for around 20 percent of the approximately 1,900 (Muslim) respondents, a perceived insult would not be compensated for. Those affected then blame their emotional misery on an abstract perpetrator, namely German society in general. Around 11 percent of this group are also prepared to defend Muslim interests with violence.”

That 11 percent is no small number, and could represent hundreds of thousands of people. Often, it is radicals in a society who push social reform in their direction.

One quote from Ostermann’s excerpts stood out: “Women are only allowed to go out on the streets unless fully veiled and accompanied by a male relative.”

Again, Ostermann is not making an idle claim here. In many Middle Eastern and African countries, this is a serious issue for women. In fact, Human Rights Watch released an entire report on the issue, https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/07/18/trapped/how-male-guardianship-policies-restrict-womens-travel-and-mobility-middle

:

“Women across the Middle East and North Africa region face varying restrictions preventing them from moving freely in their own country and from traveling abroad without the permission of their male guardians—typically their fathers or brothers, and when married, their husbands.”

As Human Rights Watch notes, there is a tremendous number of countries where women need outright permission from their husbands to leave their homes.

“In positive news, some countries such as Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia have removed language around women’s obedience to their husbands which led to restrictions on their movements. However, 15 countries in the region still apply personal status or family laws that require women to either “obey” their husbands or live with them, and/or deem women disobedient if they leave the marital home or work or travel without their husbands’ permission. Courts can order them to return to their marital home; if they do not, they can lose their right to spousal maintenance from their husbands.”

Even Germany’s own https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftBu5v6uJQ

.

Why is this development impossible in Germany?

In 25 years, Germany’s baby boomer population will have mostly passed away, which will represent a massive demographic shift in the country. The country will, according to all demographic trends, become more Muslim. Pew Research predicts up to https://rmx.news/article/muslim-population-of-europe-could-triple-in-30-years-but-not-in-hungary-poland-czechia-and-slovakia-report/

. If more and more Muslims hold positions of power, as they do in the U.K., they may have more and more opportunities to shape Germany in ways that align with their cultural norms. Certainly, they may enforce these rules in their own neighborhoods and districts, with authorities mostly turning a blind eye to such practices.

Another prediction from Ostermann: “The streetscape in these cities is dominated by Arab shops and traders.”

Ostermann’s claim here is more or less already the reality in many neighborhoods in Germany’s big cities. German stores, pubs, and even butchers have been greatly pushed out, often because there is simply no market for them. However, there are other forces at work that lead to these developments, not only immigration.

Arabic dominates

“You only hear Arabic. Germans have moved to other parts of the city and no longer dare to go back. In schools, lessons can only take place bilingually,” Ostermann also writes.

Again, what is the issue with this prediction? Already, there are numerous schools where https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus68b5a7b7861a6b0577ff7071/schulalltag-ich-frage-mich-was-tut-man-diesen-kindern-damit-an.html

and where the majority of students entering the school do not even speak a word of German. This is simply a fact.

This trend is already in its early stages. There have been massive demographic shifts in a number of major European cities. Vienna is already farther along. There, Muslims make up 41 percent of the elementaryhttps://rmx.news/austria/this-is-no-longer-immigration-this-is-displacement-for-the-first-time-muslim-students-outnumber-christians-in-viennas-schools/

.

Language problems are rife, and in many areas, Arabic languages dominate. In fact, in Vienna, 70 percent of students do not speak German in their everyday life.

🇦🇹🚨Mass immigration DESTROYING Austria's education system

🔺Around 70% of school-age children in Vienna do not speak German in their everyday life. 39%, or nearly 80,000 children, do not have Austrian citizenship,

🔺Teachers are quitting schools in Vienna "in droves" over mass… https://t.co/idjcga6NIU

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1815379697280155977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

In 25 years, if these trends continue, it is hard to see how this situation will not dramatically worsen, just as Ostermann predicts: “The law of the strongest prevails in the playground.”

Remix News has discussed this issue many times. Berlin schools have seen violence skyrocket. Students are stabbed or threatened with knives at an alarmingly high rate. Ethnic Germans are https://rmx.news/article/berlin-is-everywhere-multiculturalism-is-burning-down-the-german-school-system/

, marginalized, and assaulted.

🇩🇪❓"Why don’t you have any German friends?"

🔺"Because they don’t belong to us. I can’t stand the Germans too much."

Thousands of German students now face discrimination and sometimes outright assault from foreigners in their school systems.

Yet, the narrative of the "evil… https://t.co/3EtIdpGpna

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1957905409492091054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

🇩🇪🔴 A young German girl spoke of the nightmare she experiences from her Muslim classmates.

"Sometimes they say to me that I’m German. And yeah, then they laugh at me, curse at me and tease me. Others are always Muslim, and they ask me why I am not a Muslim. I said I am a… https://t.co/gggVOm9IPs

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1958475716384735511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

🇩🇪‼️ A 14-year-old schoolgirl was brutally beaten up by a Libyan and Syrian gang of girls, who were known for sharing Islamic State (IS) videos in a chat.

When the victim tried to help her sister, she was pulled to the ground, brutally kicked and taken to hospital.

She… https://t.co/MQScfabzBo

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1949389574431514656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

These are not isolated incidents, and even left-wing voters will acknowledge that there are tremendous problems for German children in heavily migrant schools. Green and affluent left-wing voters increasingly isolate their children in private schools, in gifted programs, or in wealthy enclave neighborhoods to protect their children from these issues. All the while, these same parents hold true to their ideology, despite the reality on the ground for thousands of other students.

“Girls and women only dare to be around people with pepper spray in their pockets. Gang rapists and so-called grooming gangs wreak havoc with impunity.”

Ostermann refers to a reality that is already in place, as insecurity among women has already greatly increased. Surveys show that the German populace https://rmx.news/article/germans-increasingly-afraid-to-go-outside-a-majority-believe-the-police-have-lost-control/

, largely due to mass migration.

Women have turned to self-defense tools, but those are largely limited in Germany.

🇳🇱🇩🇪 Women in the Netherlands and Germany are now trying to defend themselves with "Smurf spray" after an asylum seeker raped and murdered 17-year-old Lisa.

"Since Lisa’s death, many of (self-defense) products have been sold out, including the Smurf spray."

Pepper spray is… https://t.co/CorZ9UKhbi

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1962818971444379859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Women are expressing their https://rmx.news/poland/in-germany-i-dont-feel-safe-i-want-to-return-to-poland-says-polish-woman-to-pm-morawiecki/

on the web quite openly.

🇩🇪🔴 A young German teen ponders what Germany would be like if Merkel had not welcomed over 1 million migrants.

She was only 4 when the former chancellor made her decision, but life has dramatically changed.

"I can hardly recognize the Germany you tell me about today. And since… https://t.co/uHRFov08z1

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1963157493846036602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Foreigners and men with a migration background already https://rmx.news/article/record-number-of-gang-rape-suspects-in-germany-in-2024-with-over-half-being-foreign-nationals/

. However, in the U.K., where grooming gangs were targeting thousands of women, nearly all suspects were from Pakistan and other Muslim countries. To say that such a development in Germany is impossible is simply not realistic.

Does that mean all Muslims are gang rapists? Of course not, but what is happening in Germany, what has happened in countries like the U.K., and the threat that https://www.unicef.org/esa/press-releases/over-79-million-girls-and-women-sub-saharan-africa-subjected-rape-or-sexual-assault

.

Child marriage, genital mutilation

“Muslim girls, who are still pre-adolescent, like to be married to older men. Genital mutilation is practiced quite naturally in certain circles.”

Again, Ostermann is not far off. Regarding child marriage, this is already a growing problem in Germany, which the government readily admits.

Already in 2019, https://rmx.news/article/germany-is-failing-to-fight-child-marriages-in-migrant-communities/

Although Germany has a law to protect minors from forced marriages, it does not apply in practice, and the number of child marriages in Germany was described as rapidly rising, with 98 percent of those affected having a migration background.

Child marriages are not only the practice of people from Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan but also from Turkey and even Bulgaria, according to German news outlet https://www.focus.de/perspektiven/heirate-oder-du-stirbst-jede-woche-wird-in-deutschland-eine-kinder-ehe-geschlossen-wie-wir-teufelskreis-durchbrechen_id_12482399.html

.

“In fact, there are many more,” said Monika Michell from the Terre des Femmes organization in 2019.

India leads the world in child marriages, with over 15 million recorded. However, other countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria feature millions of child brides.

How prevalent this practice will be in Germany depends entirely on what share of the population features foreigners from countries where this is already commonly practiced. As Germans head towards minority status, foreigners may become more open about such practices as they gain political power and shape cultural norms.

That leads us to the next issue, genital mutilation.

Germany once again admits itself that it has a serious problem with this practice, entirely due to foreign populations arriving in the country. Already five years ago, the federal government reported that Germany had 68,000 victims of female genital mutilation.

The number of girls and women who are victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Germany has increased by 44 percent since 2017 to 68,000, announced German Minister for Family Affairs Franziska Giffey

According to the minister, mainly migration is to blame for the massive increase as many migrants coming to Germany commonly practice FGM in their own home countries. The practice, which is a human rights violation, involves the ritual cutting off some or all of the external female genitalia.

Giffey confirmed that the increase in cases compared to 2017 is so significant because of the rising numbers of immigrants from Eritrea, Somalia, Indonesia, Egypt, and Nigeria arriving in Germany,

Censorship is not the answer to these issues

All of Ostermann’s fears and predictions are grounded in reality, even if some do not come to pass. The EU’s act of censorship is a gross violation of his fundamental rights.

Will they all turn out to be true? Much could happen in the future, but the answer is not to censor leading voices, even if they are delivering a message that is highly uncomfortable for the ruling elite.

https://rmx.news/article/eu-censors-post-from-german-police-union-deputy-head-describing-a-dystopian-germany-in-2050-due-to-mass-immigration/

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