How the Third World Celebrates New Year’s Eve in Germany

”Attacks on the fire brigade and police ++ barricades erected and torched ++ rescue vehicles destroyed ++ police unionists demand a ban on firecrackers

Berlin – Germany celebrates the turn of the year – and the men and women who provide security and are supposed to rescue in an emergency are attacked!

Nationwide, young men in particular fought brutal New Year’s Eve battles with emergency services. Who are these chaotic people who are destroying our country?

In BERLIN, the police and fire brigade responded 3,943 times. “There were dozens of attacks,” says Interior Senator Iris Spranger (61, SPD). 15 firefighters and 18 police officers were injured. There were particularly bad attacks in the hotspot districts of Kreuzberg and Neukölln with a high proportion of migrants.

Complete firecracker madness in Berlin: In several parts of the city, mostly young men attacked the police and shot them with rockets and firecrackers. A police officer and a firefighter were taken to the hospital with serious injuries

Young men set fire to barricades in Kreuzberg. When firefighters came to extinguish the fire, they were attacked by 200 masked men. In Neukölln, 50 perpetrators fired rockets at the emergency services. “Our vehicles were shot at with bird scare ammunition,” says Thomas Kirstein (46) from the Berlin fire department. Dangerous to life: An illegal ball bomb was thrown at a fully occupied police car. 103 people (98 men, 5 women) arrested.

Young men set fire to barricades in Kreuzberg. When firefighters came to extinguish the fire, they were attacked by 200 masked men. In Neukölln, 50 perpetrators fired rockets at the emergency services. “Our vehicles were shot at with bird scare ammunition,” says Thomas Kirstein (46) from the Berlin fire department. Dangerous to life: An illegal ball bomb was thrown at a fully occupied police car. 103 people (98 men, 5 women) arrested.

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Bills player suffered cardiac arrest, in critical condition after collapsing on field

Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field, was administered CPR by medical professionals and put into an ambulance and rushed to an area hospital in one of the scariest on-field scenes in NFL history during a “Monday Night Football” game in Cincinnati. 

Hamlin, 24, suffered cardiac arrest and is in critical condition, according to a statement from the Bills late Monday night. 

“His vitals are back to normal and they have put him to sleep to put a breathing tube down his throat,” Jordon Rooney, Hamlin’s marketing representative at Jaster Athletes, wrote on Twitter in an update about an hour after the league’s statement. “They are currently running tests. We will provide updates as we have them.” 

A hospital spokesperson canceled a news conference, originally scheduled for around 11 p.m. Monday, according to multiple reports. Hamlin’s agent, Ira Turner of Agency 1 Sports, released a statement asking to “please continue to pray for Damar and his family.” 

Hamlin and his mother, who was watching from the stands, were taken two miles away to the University of Cincinnati Level I trauma center in what was treated as a life-or-death emergency. The ambulance left Paycor Stadium about 30 minutes after the emergency began when Hamlin made a first-quarter tackle on Bengals receiver Tee Higgins but appeared to take the brunt of the hit. 

Hamlin hopped to his feet and adjusted his facemask but almost immediately fell onto his back. 

“Something we haven’t seen in our time,” NFL executive vice president Troy Vincent, a former 15-year player, said in a midnight conference call. He said many on site were “traumatized.” 

The crowd and the television audience held its collective breath waiting for the universal sign to exhale — a thumbs-up from an NFL player loaded onto a stretcher, even used in cases of paralysis to show that the player can communicate. It never happened. 

The game was suspended with the Bengals leading, 7-3, after a temporary delay of more than an hour. The ESPN broadcast relayed to viewers that players initially were given a five-minute warm-up period before resuming play, but Vincent, who was in contact with “devastated” commissioner Roger Goodell, denied that such a scenario was ever discussed. 

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Rep-elect Luna Opposes McCarthy, Demands Scrapping of Pelosi Rules, Return of Motion to Vacate

US Representative-elect Anna Paulina Luna has come out against Kevin McCarthy’s campaign for Speaker of the House in a public statement to the constituents of Florida’s 13th Congressional District. In it, she issued a 5-point list of priorities that she says any GOP Speaker candidate should have, including a scrapping of Nancy Pelosi’s House rules, the return of the motion to vacate, and a commitment not to use dark money to railroad conservative candidates in GOP primaries, as McCarthy did in 2022.

Luna, a conservative Rep-elect from Florida’s Pinellas County-based 13th District, issued a public statement to her constituents this month, laying out her requirements for a Speaker candidate. The list echoed the demands of Freedom Caucus Reps, like Bob Good and Matt Gaetz, who’ve also publicly come out against McCarthy’s speakership campaign.

head of the January 3rd vote for Speaker, McCarthy has failed to garner enough support to secure the 218 votes he needs, after previously falling short in an internal GOP vote. According to his conservative opponents and estimates based on the public statements of Representatives, McCarthy could need as many as 25 Democrat votes to become Speaker of the House.

Luna called for a return of the crucial motion to vacate the chair, which was stripped away in Nancy Pelosi’s House rules packages. Without it, members of Congress are powerless to hold the Speaker accountable, and Kevin McCarthy has refused to commit to bringing the motion back.

The motion to vacate, “stood the test of time for 200 years, starting with Thomas Jefferson,” Luna’s statement reads, before explaining that without it, Pelosi has been able to “exercise total control,” as members of Congress are powerless to stop her.

Luna also called for the “fair treatment” of all members of Congress, and an end to the Pelosi-era practice of icing the American people and their elected Representatives out of the legislative process, by concentrating power among party leadership, and a “clear policy agenda” to reign in government spending.

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