"They found the coats on Thursday morning.
Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary. No note. No explanation. Just coats, zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies.
Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen," she said. "Could be some kind of prank."
But then Kayla Martinez, eight years old, said her mom worked nights cleaning offices and couldn't afford a winter coat this year. She'd been wearing three hoodies layered up. She touched a purple one on the fence, the right size, and whispered, "Can I?"
Mrs. Alvarez, the PE teacher, said yes before anyone could stop her.
By lunch, all fifteen coats were gone. Fifteen kids who'd been shivering through recess were warm.
The next Thursday? Twenty coats. Different fence, same neighborhood, outside the community center. Then thirty coats appeared at the downtown shelter. Then blankets. Then winter boots.
No cameras ever caught who did it. No social media claims. Just... coats. Every Thursday. All winter long.
The news picked it up. Called them "The Fence Angel." Interviewed grateful families. But nobody knew.
Until March.
Old man died, Earl Hutchins, seventy-one, lived alone in a basement apartment on Fourth Street. When they cleaned out his place, they found receipts. Thrift store receipts. Hundreds of them. He'd been buying every decent winter coat he could find, spending his entire disability check, and hanging them up at night.
His nephew found a journal entry, "Lost my son to exposure in 2004. He was homeless, prideful, wouldn't take handouts. Froze to death behind a dumpster wearing a T-shirt. If I put coats on a fence, nobody has to ask. Nobody has to admit they need help. They just take it. Dignity intact."
I'm Kayla Martinez. I'm sixteen now. That purple coat got me through fourth grade. I never knew Earl. Never got to say thank you.
But last November, I took my babysitting money to Goodwill. Bought six coats. Hung them on that same fence.
My friends saw. They bought coats. Then their parents did. Then the high school started a coat drive, not for a bin, for the fence.
Last Thursday, there were 200 coats. Scarves too. Gloves. We call it "Earl's Fence" now. There's one in Detroit. One in Manchester. One in Vancouver.
I never met the man who saved me from freezing. But I'm becoming him, one coat at a time.
Because the best kind of help doesn't ask for credit. It just hangs there, quiet, waiting for cold hands to find warmth."
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Let this story reach more hearts....
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By Mary Nelson
JAW DROPPING WESTERN SYDNEY ISIS RECRUITMENT STATISTICS
With news that the Bondi Massare terrorists were previously linked to an ISIS cell in Western Sydney, I did some research and uncovered some absolutely mind-numbingly terrifying statistics about Islamic radicalisation in Sydney.
The most jaw-dropping statistic: approximately 1 in every 140 young Muslim men in the Western Sydney suburb of Lakemba joined ISIS or attempted to join ISIS at the height of the terrorist group's activity.
This means that on a per capita basis, Lakemba - represented in Federal Parliament by Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke (pictured here) - produced ISIS fighters at a rate comparable to the infamous jihadist hotspot of Molenbeek in Belgium.
Indeed, the data suggests Lakemba was among the top 10 most concentrated localities for ISIS recruitment in the entire Western world.
These statistics clearly seem unbelievable, so it is necessary to show the working.
The Molenbeek Benchmark
First, let us look at the recruitment rate in Molenbeek, Belgium, which is widely considered the European "ground zero" for jihadism.
In 2014, Molenbeek had a population of approximately 6,000 Muslim men of military recruitment age (17–35).
From this pool, roughly 47 individuals left to fight for ISIS. This produced a join rate of 0.78%, or 1 in every 127 young men.
Comparing Molenbeek to Lakemba
According to open-source data, the suburb of Lakemba in Western Sydney produced a network involving at least 12 individuals who either flew overseas to fight for ISIS or were intercepted by Australian authorities while attempting to leave the country to do so.
(Note: This is a conservative estimate based only on confirmed public cases; the true figure is likely higher).
To determine the per capita ISIS join rate, we compare this figure against local demographics.
2011 Census data (extrapolated for 2014 population growth) shows there were approximately 1,700 Muslim men aged 17–35 living in Lakemba in the year 2014.
This reveals that 0.7% of the suburb's young male Muslim population mobilized to join ISIS - a jaw dropping rate of approximately 1 in every 140 young Muslim men.
Statistically, Lakemba was operating at nearly the exact same radicalization intensity as Molenbeek, one of the worst jihadist hot spots in the entire Western world.
The South-West Sydney ''Jihad Axis'': Worse Than Molenbeek
The numbers become truly terrifying when you stop viewing Lakemba in isolation.
The more accurate comparison to Molenbeek is not just Lakemba, but the broader Lakemba-Punchbowl-Bankstown axis.
These three suburbs form a contiguous, high-density belt in South-West Sydney that functions as a single social ecosystem.
In European terms, Molenbeek is a "commune" - a district larger than a single Australian suburb. For example, Molenbeek had a population of roughly 96,000 people and a recruitment pool of 6,000 young Muslim men in 2014.
The Lakemba-Punchbowl-Bankstown axis had a nearly identical urban scale to Molenbeek in 2014: approximately 68,000 people and a recruitment pool of 6,800 young Muslim men.
Intelligence estimates suggest that 60–70 foreign fighters originated from this combined Lakemba-Punchbowl-Bankstown South West Sydney axis.
This indicates that roughly 1% of the entire male Muslim generation in this specific corridor of South-West Sydney traveled to Syria or Iraq to fight for ISIS, or were stopped by Australian authorities while they attempted to do so.
A join rate of 1 in 100 places this Sydney axis among the most concentrated ISIS recruitment zones in the Western world.
When considering broader South-West Sydney as a whole, the radicalization rate was actually higher than in Molenbeek.
The National ISIS Join Rate
Australia's overall national statistics for ISIS recruitment are equally horrifying.
Nationally, approximately 150 Australian men traveled to fight for ISIS, while another 150 were stopped by authorities (via passport cancellations and airport interceptions).
With a national pool of roughly 120,000 Muslim men of military age in 2014, the national mobilization rate was approximately 1 in 400.
This means that approximately 0.25% of all Muslim men aged between 17 and 35 living in Australia in the early 2010s literally joined ISIS as a foreign fighter or attempted to leave Australia to do so.
Just absolutely jaw dropping statistics.
But even with this unbearable national join rate of approximately 1 in 400, a young man living in the Lakemba-Bankstown corridor of South-West Sydney was FOUR TIMES more likely to join ISIS than the average Australian Muslim man.
Australia's Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke represents this region in Parliament.
This has to be the final straw for Anika Wells.
Imagine, there are at least 10 dead Australians and others fighting for life with gunshot wounds due to Islamic Extremism, in the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history, on our sacred Bondi Beach, and the first thing Anika Wells can think of to post is a call for censorship.
When every Australian needed to see the true evil of Islamic Terrorism, Anika Wells was calling for people to "report graphic material to the platform to help get it removed quickly"
F*#* you Anika Wells.
What’s distressing is that people of your ilk are in government.
That’s it - she has to GO
#JoshSeaman
Labor’s censorship machine has finally been dragged into the sunlight, and they’re not happy about it.
During Senate Estimates, One Nation forced eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant to admit she had been officially summonsed by the US Congress.
Not invited.
Not consulted.
Summonsed.
Why?
Because the US House Judiciary Committee labelled her a “noted zealot for global takedowns” a bureaucrat pushing censorship beyond borders, reaching into other nations’ fundamental rights.
And what was she planning to do about it?
She sent a reply.
A secret reply.
A reply she wanted buried away from the public eye.
When asked if she would release that letter, she tried to dance around it:
She’d “prefer” to keep it private.
Of course she would. When governments censor citizens, they never want the paperwork going public.
But One Nation wasn’t going to let her wriggle out of it.
If there’s a letter, Australians have a right to read it.
So when we said:
“We want to see it.”
She had no choice but to back down.
That letter is coming out.
This is bigger than one bureaucrat.
This is the internationalisation of censorship, an unelected official trying to dictate what the world can and cannot say online.
While the Albanese Government cheers from the sidelines.
Australia was once known for free speech.
Now we export censorship and threaten global platforms to erase opinions we don’t like.
Enough.
Australians deserve transparency.
Australians deserve to speak.
Australians deserve a Government that isn’t terrified of public opinion.
One Nation isn’t backing down, not to Big Tech, not to foreign power players, and sure as hell not to a bureaucrat trying to turn Australia into a speech-controlled zone.
Sunlight is coming…
And Labor’s censorship empire won’t survive the exposure.
What do you think?
HAVE AT IT BELOW 👇
My tenant has been renting from me for 5 years and she has NEVER given me a problem. Rent always on time, she keeps the house spotless, and anytime something breaks she gets it fixed and just lets me know it’s taken care of. She’s really been a blessing as a tenant. Today she called me crying, saying she’s been sick and had to go on FMLA. She doesn’t qualify for disability, so right now she has no way to pay her rent. I told her not to stress and gave her 90 days rent-free. I’d rather lose the money for a few months than lose a good, respectful tenant who has always handled her business. Sometimes it’s not about profit it’s about compassion.
Mother writes: My daughter Adar Ben Simon, 20, was a commander and fighter in a rescue and search unit.
On October 7, she heard that terrorists had infiltrated the Zikim base.
Adar immediately jumped in and protected 120 new soldiers.
She put all the recruits in the protected room and went out to fight the terrorists.
She strove for contact and fought with all her might!
After a hard fight, she fell in battle.
I ask that you share in her memory!💔🕯
@harryfisherEMTP This is my wife Wendy Kessler , December 25th 4:32 P.M 2021 she passed in McKinney Medical City , Tx. She was isolated from me and I was denied the ability to see her and be by her side. I never saw her awake again. I will never forgive what happened. It broke me
Australian Parliament Petition has a Vote of No Confidence in the Albanese Government has so far over 150,000 signatures
Come on Australia, we need to get rid of this incompetent government:
https://t.co/DzJnsQwjGO
Australia 🇦🇺 The country is sick, infested with parasites. What are you going to do?
We have:
- Race Discrimination Commissioner, that hates white people
- Sex Discrimination Commissioner, that hates women and can’t define one
- Environment Minister that clears forests for wind turbines
- Energy Minister, that is destroying our energy security
- Immigration Minister, that floods the country with incompatible and dangerous people
- Social Services Minister, that bleeds tax payers dry to pay immigrants who have never contributed
- Housing Minister, that doesn’t build houses or cut red tape
- Home Affairs Minister, that is silent on radical far-left Antifa terrorists
- Prime Minister that destroys social cohesion then cries that people are angry at him
Labor are THE MOST DANGEROUS AND PATHETIC globalist government ever to rule over Australia.
What are YOU going to do to change course?
I’ll be starting with marching on 19 October.
Paul Kelly’s column in The Australian earlier this week deserves a response.
Australia hasn’t “moved left”. Ordinary Aussies just want strong families, safe communities, and a prosperous nation. The last election wasn’t Labor’s big win, it was our failure to stand firm. Every time we go “Labor-lite,” we lose.
It’s not radical to want cheap energy, sustainable migration, stronger industry, real education for our kids, or freedom from big government. That’s just common sense.
If the Liberal Party is to win again, we must reject identity politics, fight for everyday Australians, and offer a real alternative.
Well done, folks, Petition EN8108;
Motion of no confidence in the Albanese government just cracked 100,000.👍
Signature count: 100809
https://t.co/h1fdcV173h
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A similar petition in Britain is well under way and is complimenting the Marches of Patriotism in helping build a case.
We have to do more than talk and shake our heads in dismay in Australia.
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Why do Americans need to go out of their way to make Muslims feel welcome?
This is not a Muslim country.
We do not need to change our way of life in the US to cater to the backward ideology of Muslims who are actively working to subvert and undermine western civilization.
You people have 56 countries. Stop shoving Islam down our throats here in the US the same way you’re doing it in Europe.
I am not going to respect anyone who openly practices a supremacist ideology that calls for the eradication of all non-Muslims.
I will not respect any supremacist ideology that calls for all non-Muslims to be subjugated and killed. I will fight to keep those people out of my country for the sake of preserving Western Civilization.
America will not repeat Europe’s mistakes.
We will never become a Sharia adherent country.
Why can’t you just be proud to be an American?
Muslims need to decide if they want to be Muslim first, or American First.
Muslim values are incompatible with the values in the US Constitution.
Muslims view the Quran as their constitution. We can’t destroy our founding values to give space to sharia Supremacy.
If you don’t like that, there are 56 other countries you can move to where Sharia supremacy is tolerated.
@plalor I am reading 500,000 israelis in tel Aviv are protesting against netanyahu's genocide in gaza. Surely this is further proof the world is turning against the right wing nutters and their hunger to murder innocent men, women and children
@JohnRowsthorne @plalor Hamas built 300 miles of tunnels under its civilian population. They purposely used their civilian population as sacrificial lambs and you blame right wing nutters.....shame on you