Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/4/2015

British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the UK will do its share in the migration emergency by taking in thousands of additional Syrian refugees. Meanwhile, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite called on all EU countries to show solidarity with Hungary, Germany, and other countries that are bearing the brunt of the refugee crisis.

In other news, forty-five soldiers from the United Arab Emirates were killed in a missile strike while taking part in the Saudi-led invasion of Yemen.

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Financial Crisis
» Economic WWIII? Putin Poised to “Deal a Tremendous Blow to the U.S. Dollar”
» Peter Schiff: Federal Reserve Knows if it Raises Rates ‘Everything is Going to Collapse’
» Record 94 Million Americans Not in the Labor Force; Participation Rate Lowest Since 1977
» Ron Paul Responds to Paul Krugman: ‘The Failure of Keynesian Economics is Loud and Clear’
» Thanks Janet Yellen! You Need a $157k Salary to Live in San Francisco
 
USA
» (Neo-Marxist) Profile: Eleanor Lecain, Massachusetts Democrat
» Another Neurodegenerative Disease Linked to a Prion
» Clinton’s Backup Emails Could Come Biting
» Clinton ‘Sorry’ For Email Confusion, Stops Short of Apology for Actions
» Feds Want Evidence They Let Mexican Drug Cartels Buy Guns Kept Quiet
» Hillary Clinton: National Security Disaster
» Is There a Planet X, A ‘Massive Perturber, ‘ Hidden Beyond Pluto?
» Jeb: “But (Immigrants) Learn English.” Has Columba?
» Miami Islam Program Promotes Understanding
» Psychiatrists Drugging Children for “Social Justice”
» The Oldest City in the United States Turns 450
 
Europe and the EU
» Denmark’s First Astronaut Docks on ISS
» Invasive Plant’s Spread Threatens Sweden
» Italy: Jealous Tunisian Kills Wife, Gives Self Up
» Italy: EU ‘Can’t Say No’ to Tax Cuts Says Padoan
» Sweden: Man Gunned Down in Car With Children in Backseat
» Teen Who ‘Joined ISIS’ Returns to Sweden
 
North Africa
» ‘Nothing to Stop ISIS’: Attack Underscores Threat Facing US Force in Egypt
 
Middle East
» 45 UAE Troops Killed in Yemen as Part of Saudi-Led Coalition
» A Glorious Defeat
» Archaeologists’ Weapon Against ISIS: 5,000 Cameras
» From Parthenon to Palmyra: A History of Cultural Destruction
» Germans Build Anti-Arab Fence for Arabs
» He Drowned Because His Father Wanted New Teeth
» Iran Thumbs Nose at US Even as Obama Rallies Support for Nuke Deal
» Syria: Hezbollah Advances on Zabadani, SOHR
 
South Asia
» Afghanistan’s Mineral Deposits: A Source of Wealth and Conflict
» Thailand: Restored Brahmin Statue Unveiled at Bomb Site
 
Far East
» China’s Covert War With America Heats Up
» Chinese Warships Came Within 12 Miles of U.S. Coast
» Chinese Warships Spotted Off Alaska Coast Reportedly Passed Through US Waters
» This is the Insane Video China Just Put Out Showing it Attacking the U.S.
 
Immigration
» Austria: Refugees ‘Suffocated’ Shortly After Truck Set Off
» Cameron Confirms Britain Will Act With Its ‘ Head and Its Heart’ And Accept Thousands of Refugees
» CIS: Welfare Use Higher Among Immigrant Households
» Clashes in European Cities as Mideast Refugee Crisis Erupts
» David Cameron: UK to Accept ‘Thousands’ More Syrian Refugees
» Egyptian Billionaire Proposes Buying Island to Shelter Mideast Refugees
» Finland: Interior Ministry: Asylum Seekers Could Climb to 30,000 This Year
» Finland: Influx of Refugees May Reach to 30,000
» Gentiloni Calls for European Asylum Rights
» Germany: Munich Plans to Keep Revellers, Refugees Apart
» Hungary PM Viktor Orban: Antagonising Europe Since 2010
» Ivorian Accused of Killing Sicily Couple to Stay in Jail
» Juncker to Propose 120,000 Migrant Relocations
» Lithuanian President: We Must Show Solidarity on Migration
» Migrants Break Out of Camp as Hungary Loses Grip
» Migrant Crisis: Austria and Germany Let People in From Hungary
» Migrant Crisis: Hungary Migrants Start Walk to Border
» Nordic Tourists Rush to Help Refugees in Greece
» Orban Says EU ‘Incapable’ On Immigration
» Outrage as UKIP Candidate Claims Dead Toddler’s Refugee Family Were ‘Greedy for the Good Life’
» Police Clash With Migrants Seeking to Board Piraeus-Bound Ferry
» Prepare Yourselves: The Great Migration Will be With us for Decades
» ‘Refugees Welcome’ Rally Set for Swedish Capital
» Refugee Crisis: Many Swedes Want to Help
» Refugees Set Off on Foot From Budapest to Austria
» Refugee Crisis Escalates as Violence Breaks Out
» Relocate 200,000 Refugees UNHCR Tells EU
» Richard Littlejohn: This Child’s Death Was Tragic But it Was Not Our Fault
» Salvini Calls for Closure of Refugee Centre in Sicily
» Swedish Minister Raps Finland Over Refugees
» Tancredo: European Colonization, Not Refugee Resettlement
» The Arab World’s Wealthiest Nations Are Doing Next to Nothing for Syria’s Refugees
» The European Commission Plans to Redistribute 160,000 Asylum Seekers Arriving in Greece, Italy, And Hungary Among Other Member States.
» UK is Racist for Not Taking in More Refugees, Claims Emma Thompson
» UN Calls on EU to Admit Up to 200,000 Refugees
 
Culture Wars
» Changing the Tone of the Abortion Debate
» Kentucky County Clerk Upheld the Law and is a Political Prisoner in America
 

Economic WWIII? Putin Poised to “Deal a Tremendous Blow to the U.S. Dollar”

Editor’s Comment: The demise of the dollar has been planned for some time, and Putin is happy to play his role in doing so and ushering in the new global era where a basket of currencies will replace the current petrodollar standard. That being said, Russia and China are engaged with the U.S. in a quiet but deadly economic war that may impact everyone involved. The Euro is quite vulnerable as well. Accusations of currency manipulation (and much more) have been flying for some time.

The recent stock market plunge coincides neatly with fresh moves against the dollar, and a de facto admission by the Federal Reserve that it’s game of QE3 is all but over. We are now entering into the phase of realignment that many have accumulated gold and silver, as well as other assets, to prepare for. Strap in, it could be a bumpy ride.

Russia Is Going To Pass A Law Formally Dumping The U.S. Dollar

by Michael Snyder

Russian President Vladimir Putin has introduced legislation that would deal a tremendous blow to the U.S. dollar. If Putin gets his way, and he almost certainly will, the U.S. dollar will be eliminated from trade between nations that belong to the Commonwealth of Independent States. In addition to Russia, that list of countries includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Obviously this would not mean “the death of the dollar”, but it would be a very significant step toward the end of the era of the absolute dominance of the U.S. dollar. Most people don’t realize this, but more U.S. dollars are actually used outside of the United States than are used inside this country. If the rest of the planet decides to stop accumulating dollars, using them to trade with one another, and loaning them back to us at ultra-low interest rates, we are going to be in for a world of hurt. Unfortunately for us, it is only a matter of time until that happens.

When I first read the following excerpt from a recent RT article, I was absolutely stunned…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Peter Schiff: Federal Reserve Knows if it Raises Rates ‘Everything is Going to Collapse’

The debate as to whether or not the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates lingers on, at least until the next Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. The general consensus is that the United States central bank will raise interest rates in September, and possibly again in December. But some are skeptical because of the recent tidal waves occurring in the global stock market.

Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, told Kitco News that he doesn’t think the Fed is actually even considering hiking rates for the first time in nearly a decade.

“I think they know that if they raise rates, everything is going to collapse and they’re going to have to cut rates back to zero and look like complete fools,” said Schiff.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Record 94 Million Americans Not in the Labor Force; Participation Rate Lowest Since 1977

While the kneejerk headling scanning algos are focusing on the seasonally-adjusted headline monthly NFP increase which came in a worse than expected 173K, the presidential candidates — especially the GOP — are far more focused on another data point: the labor force participation rate, and the number of Americans not in the labor force. Here, they will have some serious ammo, because according to the BLS, the main reason why the unemployment rate tumbled to the lowest since April 2008 is because another 261,000 Americans dropped out of the labor force, as a result pushing the total number of US potential workers who are not in the labor force, to a record 94 million, an increase of 1.8 million in the past year, and a whopping 14.9 million since the start of the second great depression in December 2007 while only 4 million new jobs have been created.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ron Paul Responds to Paul Krugman: ‘The Failure of Keynesian Economics is Loud and Clear’

Writing in a New York Times blog post in late July entitled “The Old Man and the CPI,” Krugman referred to Paul as an “old man” and a “crotchety crank.” He opined that Dr. Paul, bestselling author of “End the Fed,” tends to “believe his own nonsense.”…

Paul decided to send a video response to the blog post on his Liberty Report. With true class, Dr. Paul denied ever being called a “crotchety crank” because most people he comes across thinks he’s never cranky and has a “a lot of fun in the world of ideas and presenting the cause of liberty.”

Although Paul was irked by the name-calling, the “Champion of the Constitution” delved into the issues and called Keynesianism a failed concept.

“The failure of Keynesian economics is loud and clear.” Paul stated. “That’s one of the reasons why I believe that you have become interested in addressing my issues and what I’m talking about.”

Paul noted how the average American has fared poorly in recent decades, even when the government has increased its spending dramatically, which has been encouraged by Keynesians like Krugman. Paul explained that since 1971 federal spending has increased close to four-fold, but median household incomes have stagnated over a decade and grew by less than 25 percent over the past 40 years.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Thanks Janet Yellen! You Need a $157k Salary to Live in San Francisco

In order to live and own a home in San Francisco and San Diego you need to have a six-figure salary. To live in other top cities, your income needs to be just under $100,000. We can thank the Federal Reserve and Chair Janet Yellen for this enormous increase in the cost of living. The data were compiled by HSH.com.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

(Neo-Marxist) Profile: Eleanor Lecain, Massachusetts Democrat

Eleanor LeCain is a Yale and Boalt Hall Massachusetts based specialist in “ developing and implementing innovative policies that support sustainable development.”

Ms. LeCain led a team at Boston Edison to develop next generation energy efficiency programs (for all commercial, industrial and residential customers). She served as Massachusetts Assistant Secretary of State for Strategic Planning and previously as Executive Director of Blueprint 2000 for the state of Massachusetts.

Ms. LeCain has spoken widely on “ Creating Jobs and Making Money While Healing the Planet,” including Kyoto, Japan, Harvard University, the International Association of Outplacement Counselors and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her writings have been published in the New York Times, the Boston Business Journal and Positive Alternatives, to name a few.

In 1989, Eleanor LeCainserved on the Board of Directors of Women for a Meaningful Summit, a communist led conduit for Soviet “ peace propaganda” to the West.

In 1993 LeCain was listed as a among “ former Visiting Fellows and Visiting Scholars and current TransNational Institute Fellows” on the far left Institute for Policy Studies 30th Anniversary brochure.

In 1993, Eleanor LeCain wrote an obituary of German activist Petra Kelly for DSA’ sDemocratic Left Jan./Feb. 1993 issue.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Another Neurodegenerative Disease Linked to a Prion

A new study concludes that a brain protein causes the rare, Parkinson’s-like disease called multiple systems atrophy (MSA) by acting like a prion, the misbehaving type of protein infamously linked to mad cow disease. The researchers say the results are the most definitive demonstration to date that proteins involved in many neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, exhibit prion-like behavior: They can misfold into shapes that then coax others to do the same, leading to protein aggregation that forms neurotoxic clumps. If these other diseases are caused by prion-like proteins, then scientists could develop treatments that slow or stop disease progression by designing molecules that block prion propagation.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Clinton’s Backup Emails Could Come Biting

A federal judge may soon demand Hillary Clinton and her attorney answer questions about the existence of backup copies of the thousands of personal emails she has claimed are nobody’ s business but her own.

At issue are the 31,000 emails that were wiped from Clinton’ s personal server — emails that the former secretary of state claimed were personal and private. The missing emails have sparked considerable interest among watchdogs and politicians alike, particularly when Fox News journalist Ed Henry questioned Clinton about their disappearance and she ultimately feigned innocence about the meaning of the word “ wipe,” saying she didn’ t understand how the technology worked, as WND reported. A former Clinton spokesman, Brian Fallon, who served as her press secretary at the State Department, adopted the same mantra in a recent interview on CNN, telling host Brianna Keilar: “ I don’ t know what ‘ wiped’ means,” WND also reported.

Thanks to an order from Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court for the D.C. Circuit, those wiped emails could now come back to bite Clinton.

The Hill reported Walton has shown interest in ordering the State Department to question Clinton and her attorney about the existence of backup copies of these 31,000 deleted emails. The order could come before the end of next week.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Clinton ‘Sorry’ For Email Confusion, Stops Short of Apology for Actions

Sorry — sort of?

Hillary Clinton said in an interview Friday that she’s “sorry” her use of personal email for State Department business has “been confusing to people,” but didn’t offer an outright apology for her actions.

“At the end of the day, I am sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions, but there are answers to all these questions and I will continue to provide those answers,” Clinton told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.

However, when asked earlier in the interview if she was sorry for her decision to use personal email for State Department business, Clinton hedged.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Feds Want Evidence They Let Mexican Drug Cartels Buy Guns Kept Quiet

Prosecutors in the trial of a murdered US Border Patrol agent are trying to keep details about guns found on the murder scene from the jury because of their connection to a scandal-ridden federal program.

Between 2006 and 2011, the Arizona field office of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) used a tactic known as “gunwalking” in a secretive program known as Operation Fast and Furious. During that time period, the ATF purposely allowed licensed firearm dealers in Phoenix and Tucson to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, with the hope of later tracking them to Mexican drug cartels.

The operation turned out to be an embarrassing failure for the Bureau, as the ATF ended up losing track of 2,000 weapons. Since then, the Mexican government has claimed that some of these firearms have turned up in at least 10 crime scenes in that country.

Two of these guns were also found at the scene of US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s death, and now case prosecutors are trying to keep the guns out of trial proceedings.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hillary Clinton: National Security Disaster

For an army of ethically compromised defenders in politics and the media, Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is being framed as little more than a political attack aimed solely at derailing her presidential candidacy. Yet while each new revelation makes it harder to dismiss Hillary and Bill’s seemingly endless effort to monetize the Clinton Foundation by virtually any means possible, most of it is beside the point. What’s not beside the point is the reality that Hillary Clinton is a walking, talking national security disaster.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Is There a Planet X, A ‘Massive Perturber, ‘ Hidden Beyond Pluto?

Astronomers so far have detected about 1,500 icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, according to Scott Sheppard, an astronomer with the Carnegie Institution of Washington. A few of them are big enough to rank as “dwarf planets.” And there may be something much bigger lurking out there in the dark, says Sheppard. There are tantalizing hints of a hidden planet that’s bigger than Pluto, perhaps even bigger than the Earth — potentially Neptune-sized.

“I think there are definitely things out there bigger than Pluto that are yet to be discovered,” Sheppard told us.

Sheppard and Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii published a paper in the journal Nature in 2014 saying that “a massive outer Solar System perturber may exist.” The paper reported discovery of what appears to be a dwarf planet, dubbed 2012 VP113 (nicknamed “Biden”), that’s currently about three times farther from the sun than is Pluto — out beyond Kuiper Belt. In describing this new world, the astronomers noted that a number of large, very remote objects share a similar orbital angle. That’s suspicious if you’re an astronomer expecting to see a random distribution of objects.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Jeb: “But (Immigrants) Learn English.” Has Columba?

by Steve Sailer

Okay, but has Columba Bush learned to speak English yet? Has the Presidential candidate’s wife learned English well enough in her 40 years of marriage to be interviewed in English without pre-arranged questions?

I, personally, have never found video of the former First Lady of Florida being interviewed in English. I have found video of her uncomfortably reading a two-minute speech in English. But that’s all I’ve found so far.

It’s often said of Columba in the media that she’s a very shy person, and that’s why she avoids giving interviews in English. Yet, I’ve found video of her being charming in a Spanish-language interview. I’ve found video of her giving a speech on national television on the floor of the Republican National Convention … in Spanish. I’ve found video of her doing a TV commercial with her father-in-law, with her speaking Spanish.

I would hope she’s learned English well enough to converse in it in her 40+ years of marriage to Jeb. But I just don’t have evidence of that yet.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Miami Islam Program Promotes Understanding

Believing in the power of education to combat prejudices and misunderstandings, an American professor at a Miami college is cooperating with a collation of Muslim organizations to show students similarities between the three Abrahamic faiths.

“I have an interest in letting my students know that other religions aren’t so different,” Randall Kaufman, the chairman of the humanities and social sciences department at Miami Dade College (MDC) Homestead Campus, told Miami Herald.

Teaching his students at MDC, Kaufman wanted them to understand that God equals Allah.

Focusing on similar roots of Islam, Christianity and Judaism, the program will kick off on September 29 with a discussion about ‘Eid al-Adha, lead by Imam Zakaria Badat, who is the imam-at-large for COSMOS.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Psychiatrists Drugging Children for “Social Justice”

It’ s the latest thing. Psychiatrists are giving children in poor neighborhoods Adderall, a dangerous stimulant, by making false diagnoses of ADHD, or no diagnoses at all. Their aim? To “promote social justice,” to improve academic performance in school.

The rationale is, the drugged kids will now be able to compete with children from wealthier families who attend better schools.

Leading the way is Dr. Michael Anderson, a pediatrician in the Atlanta area. Incredibly, Anderson told the New York Times (“ Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School” ) his diagnoses of ADHD are “made up,” “an excuse” to hand out the drugs.

“We’ve decided as a society that it’ s too expensive to modify the kid’ s environment. So we have to modify the kid“ Anderson said.

It would be hard to find a clearer mission statement from a psychiatrist: mind control.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Oldest City in the United States Turns 450

St. Augustine, Florida, was the first city founded by European settlers in North America

The Roanoke colony was established in 1585, Jamestown in 1607. The pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. While all of these events are an important part of the nation’s beginnings, none of them marked the first permanent settlement in what would later become the United States. That distinction belongs to St. Augustine, Florida, established by the Spanish in 1565. Today, St. Augustine survives as the nation’s oldest continuously occupied city, and is now gearing up for its 450th birthday bash.

On September 8, 1565, Spanish explorer Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles landed ashore at an inlet (later called Matanzas Inlet) on the eastern coast of today’s Florida. Planting the Spanish flag, he declared the harbor and surrounding land in the name of the Spanish Empire and began setting up a permanent settlement. He named it after St. Augustine, the patron saint of brewers. While other Spanish explorers came to the New World looking for “God, gold and glory,” this was not exactly the case for Menendez, historian Dr. J. Michael Francis told Smithsonian.com. “He hoped to link the Atlantic Seaboard with the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean and New Spain, what later would become Mexico … He was really trying to establish a commercial empire in Florida,” explains Francis.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Denmark’s First Astronaut Docks on ISS

Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen and his two fellow cosmonauts successfully docked at the International Space Station on Friday morning.

The Russian Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft carrying Denmark’s first ever astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Russian Commander Sergei Volkov and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov reached the International Space Station (ISS) as planned on Friday.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Invasive Plant’s Spread Threatens Sweden

An East Asian plant called Japanese knotweed has put down roots in the south of Sweden. Despite being classified as a dangerous invasive species, Swedish authorities haven’t reacted to the threat yet.

It looks harmless and has been widely used in private gardens, but Japanese knotweed has caused numerous problems in many European countries and is now threatening to spread in the southern Swedish county of Halland. Biologist Nils-Gustaf Nilsson studied the expansion of the plant in the region and found several wild specimens outside Ljungby.

“When we inventoried, we had squares of 5 by 5 kilometers, and we didn’t find it in all squares, but we did find it in many throughout the county,” Nilsson tells Swedish Radio in Halland.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Jealous Tunisian Kills Wife, Gives Self Up

‘Beat her to death with punches, kicks’

(ANSA) — Messina, September 4 — A 52-year-old Tunisian killed his 33-year-old wife in their Messina home Friday before giving himself up to police.

The man acted in a jealous fit and beat his wife to death with punches and kicks, police said.

The couple, who had lived in Messina for several years, had four children, police said.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: EU ‘Can’t Say No’ to Tax Cuts Says Padoan

Deficit is falling notes economy minister

(ANSA) — Rome, September 4 — The EU can’t say No to tax cuts since the Italian deficit is falling, Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said Friday.

“Why should the EU say No to the cancellation of taxes on primary residences?” he told Il Messaggero newspaper, adding that Italy expected “attention and respect” from Brussels.

The EU earlier this week said Italy should cut labour taxes rather than property taxes, prompting Premier Matteo Renzi to respond that tax cuts would be decided in Rome and not Brussels.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Sweden: Man Gunned Down in Car With Children in Backseat

A 37-year-old man was shot to death in a car in a Stockholm suburb on Thursday. The murder victim’s two young children were in the backseat at the time.

“They are with their mother. Physically, they are unharmed,” Lars Byström, press spokesperson at Stockholm police, tells news Agency TT. He said the two children were in shock.

The man was driven to hospital where he later died from his injuries.

The police were called to a sports playing field in Hässelby gård at 4pm after a witness heard gunshots.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Teen Who ‘Joined ISIS’ Returns to Sweden

A teenage boy who disappeared from southern Sweden in the spring and is thought to have joined Isis (Islamic State), has returned to Sweden.

A 17-year-old who disappeared from Lund earlier this year to reportedly join Isis, has returned to Sweden, Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet has reported.

The teenager, who is now said to have distanced himself from Isis, was reportedly able to return with the help of the National Coordinator against Extremism, led by Mona Sahlin.

In May he appeared in a propaganda video on YouTube posing with automatic weapons.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

‘Nothing to Stop ISIS’: Attack Underscores Threat Facing US Force in Egypt

An attack that wounded four American soldiers Thursday in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula underscores the growing risks faced by the U.S. contingent stationed there and is likely to fuel an internal debate over whether they should be reinforced with heavier weapons to protect against ISIS.

Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis said four U.S. and two Multinational Force and Observer (MFO) peacekeepers were injured in a pair of IED explosions in Northeast Sinai. The victims were evacuated by air to a medical facility where all are receiving treatment for non-life-threatening injuries.

No group has taken responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic State has a well-known and active faction in the region, posing a complex security challenge for the peacekeeping force that has been there for decades. While much attention has been paid to the deployment of American troops back to Iraq to help fight ISIS, Americans make up the biggest component of the little-known international mission to Sinai — in place since after the signing of the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty. The roughly 1,700-strong force includes 650 American soldiers.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

45 UAE Troops Killed in Yemen as Part of Saudi-Led Coalition

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Forty-five members of the United Arab Emirates’ military were killed while taking part in Saudi-led operations in Yemen against Shiite rebels known as Houthis, the official news agency WAM said Friday, the largest single loss for the Gulf nation’s military to date in the war.

Pro-government Yemeni security officials said the troops were killed Friday when a Houthi missile hit a weapons storage depot near their position in the province of Marib, about 75 miles east of the capital Sanaa. Officials from the Houthi media office in Sanaa confirmed they fired a Soviet-era Tochka missile.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

A Glorious Defeat

by Caroline Glick

Sometimes you have to fight battles you cannot win because fighting — regardless of the outcome — advances a larger cause.

Israel’s fight against the nuclear deal the major powers, led by US President Barack Obama concluded with Iran was such a battle.

The battle’s futility became clear on July 20, just six days after it was concluded in Vienna.

On July 20, the US administration anchored the deal — which paves the way for Iran to become a nuclear power and enriches the terrorism-sponsoring ayatollahs to the tune of $150 billion — in a binding UN Security Council resolution. Once the resolution passed, the deal became unstoppable.

Most of the frozen funds that comprise the $150b. would have been released regardless of congressional action. And the nonproliferation regime the US developed over the past 70 years was upended the moment the deal was concluded in Vienna.

The fight in Congress itself probably couldn’t have succeeded even if the administration hadn’t made an end run around the lawmakers at the Security Council. After Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, passed the law obligating Obama to secure the support of a mere third of the members of either House to implement his nuclear deal, its implementation was a foregone conclusion.

The US Constitution gives sole power to approve international treaties to the Senate and requires a minimum of two-thirds approval for passage. Corker turned the Constitution on its head when he went forward with his bill. Far from curbing Obama’s executive overreach, Corker gave Obama unprecedented power to enact his radical, reckless nuclear agenda.

So if the fight against the deal was doomed to fail, why did the Israeli government decide to fight it for all it was worth? And why is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still fighting it even though there is no longer any way to stop Obama from enabling Iran to sprint across the nuclear finish line?…

           — Hat tip: Caroline Glick [Return to headlines]
 

Archaeologists’ Weapon Against ISIS: 5,000 Cameras

Archaeologists and thousands of volunteers are in a race against time to digitally map some of the world’s oldest and most important statues, temples, and cities before they can be destroyed by the Islamic State, the Los Angeles Times reports.

If ISIS “is permitted to wipe the slate clean and rewrite the history of a region that defined global aesthetic and political sensibilities, we will collectively suffer a costly and irreversible defeat,” Roger Michel, director of the Institute for Digital Archaeology, tells the Telegraph.

In recent months, the terrorist group has blown up a pair of 2,000-year-old temples in Syria and destroyed Iraq’s ancient city of Nimrud. ISIS considers these antiquities idolatry, and destroying them is a major facet of its propaganda, notes Forbes.

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From Parthenon to Palmyra: A History of Cultural Destruction

Demolition of temples in Syria by Isis is the latest act in a catalogue of purposeful vandalism in the name of religion or ideology.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germans Build Anti-Arab Fence for Arabs

by Steve Sailer

You may be wondering why Syrian and Iraqi refugees are pouring into Europe rather than into, say nearby Saudi Arabia. Well, Saudi officials planned ahead.

Although the Israelis are the most renown anti-immigrant border fence builders, which is why Hungary and Bulgaria are negotiating with Israel right now, it’s really not that arcane an art. For example, if you can build an airliner, you can build a really good fence, like Airbus is building for Saudi Arabia. In fact, fence-building is one of the oldest and most developed crafts and there are no doubt perfectly fencing contractors with a few miles of you right now, wherever you are. When people tell you it’s practically impossible or unbelievably expensive to keep out economic immigrants, they are either lying or ignorant or both.

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He Drowned Because His Father Wanted New Teeth

The horrific and tragic picture of a drowned Syrian toddler washed up at a beach in Turkey, who died because the family took a risk traveling across the Mediterranean in an unsafe boat that capsized, has been shared by numerous media across the world.

The sole survivor of the family of four, is the father Abdullah. Both his small children, both boys, and their mother drowned.

In this interview Abdullah Kurdi explains what happened when the tragic accident occurred.

Now their aunt, Tima Kurdi, Abdullah’s sister, who lives in Canada, has given an interview with British Sky News, where she explains why the family took the risk.

And as it turns out, the family didn’t flee war, with bullets flying, or persecution, no the family got on the boat because father Abdullah needed new teeth, and because it was troubling transferring money for it to Syria, via Western Union.

It was Abdullah and Tima’s father who came up with the idea, she says. It would be easier to go to Europe, for a better future, and to fix his teeth.

Some may call this insensitive, but as tragic as it is, it’s the truth. They took the risk for economic reasons, and being Syrians, they would have been granted asylum in all EU member states, no questions asked.

Syria has, or had, a population of 22.8 million. They can all freely migrate to Europe.

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Iran Thumbs Nose at US Even as Obama Rallies Support for Nuke Deal

Even as President Obama was securing the Senate support necessary to assure passage of the nuclear deal with Iran, Tehran’s top defense officials were scoffing at U.S. claims the pact will restrict the Islamic Republic’s military ambitions.

The president has been twisting arms and Secretary of State John Kerry reassuring lawmakers that the deal between Iran and the P5 +1 — members of the UN Security Council plus Germany — will ensure international inspections and bar Iran from ever developing nuclear weapons. This week, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., became the 34th member of the Senate to back the controversial and unpopular deal, meaning that if it is defeated in a vote as expected, Obama will have enough support to sustain his certain veto. But Iran’s military brass has answered the U.S. nose-counting by thumbing their nose at America.

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Syria: Hezbollah Advances on Zabadani, SOHR

Rebels including Jabhat Al-Nusra closer to NW Shia enclaves

(ANSAmed) — BEIRUT, SEPTEMBER 4 — Shia Lebanese Hezbollah fighters advanced Friday towards Zabadani, west of the capital, against local Sunni rebels.

At the same time, fighters from the local Al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat Al-Nusra, were tightening their siege on two Shia towns, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The SOHR has been monitoring violations in Syria since 2007. Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television station has confirmed the advance by the Iran-supported ‘Party of God’ alongside Syrian regime troops in Zabadani. Local sources also confirm that fighters from Jaish Al-Fateh, a coalition of militias backed by Turkey and Saudi Arabia and which includes the local Al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat Al-Nusra, are near Fouaa and Kafraya, two Shia enclaves in the northwestern Idlib region. Over the past month, regional powers supporting the different sides fighting in the three places had attempted to mediate in vain for an agreement to protect civilians in the towns.

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Afghanistan’s Mineral Deposits: A Source of Wealth and Conflict

Afghanistan’s vast untapped natural resources, valued at more than $1 trillion, are seen as the war-battered country’s ticket to a self-reliant future, a possible trump card that could jumpstart the lagging economy as foreign aid ebbs.

But the lucrative sector — already plagued by rampant corruption, insurgent violence and a lack of regulation which are all deterring international miners — also threatens to fuel conflict and push Afghanistan deeper into turmoil.

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Thailand: Restored Brahmin Statue Unveiled at Bomb Site

After nine days of repairs, authorities on Friday unveiled a restored centerpiece of Bangkok’s Erawan shrine, with a ceremony to honour the four-faced Brahmin figure at the site of last month’s deadly bombing.

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China’s Covert War With America Heats Up

Warships near Alaska, another industrial explosion, and China unveils cruise missile that renders U.S. carriers obsolete

(NaturalNews) Two weeks ago, I ran an exclusive Natural News story announcing that a covert war between China and the USA had begun. The war started as a currency and debt war, then escalated into the catastrophic Tianjin explosion carried out by the U.S. Pentagon in a “kinetic retaliation” strategy, according to sources.

It wasn’t long after the Tianjin explosion that a second explosion rocked the Chinese province of Shandong, sending “coincidence theorists” into a hissy fit because suddenly a pattern of explosions was emerging that could not simply be explained away as sheer chance.

Just a few days later, a massive explosion took out a U.S. military munitions depot in Japan, and evidence clearly pointed to it being sabotage (the Chinese government hates the Japanese, and it’s now the 70th anniversary of Japan’s heinous war crimes committed against the Chinese people).

Now, as reported by The Daily Sheeple, a THIRD massive explosion has ripped through China’s industrial infrastructure… this time also taking place in the Shandong province.

When I first saw this news, I thought someone was confusing the facts about the Shandong province, mistakenly thinking there were two explosions taking place there. But it turns out there were really two explosions in Shandong alone (plus the one in Tianjin), according to the Mirror (UK) which reports: “Today’s explosion is also the SECOND blast to occur in Shandong, after a previous one injured eight people just over a week ago.”

(Keep in mind that China is desperately censoring all the news on these explosions, and the Chinese government is also heavily pressuring other nations to downplay or censor these explosions as well. There is a global effort to suppress this news, and China has even arrested over 15,000 bloggers and journalists for so-called “internet crimes” which include reporting on true events the government doesn’t want talked about.)

For full details on this latest explosion, you’ll have to read little-known Chinese language websites such as this page from NTDTV.com which explains this latest explosion in great detail and even carries some new video not found elsewhere.

Here’s video from the first Tianjin explosion. It will make your head spin. (WARNING: LOTS OF PROFANITY IN THE VIDEO for all the obvious reasons.) Notice carefully that it contains two explosions: the 3-ton TNT equivalent explosion you see at the beginning, followed by a massive 21-ton TNT equivalent explosion of the chemicals:

Now, then, we have FOUR explosions that have taken place between China and the United States, all in the span of just a few weeks. The realization that something far beyond chance is happening here is now inescapable. Clearly, someone is strategically and covertly sabotaging China’s industrial infrastructure… and this is all taking place at a time when China is accelerating its selling of U.S. debt while devaluing its own currency (both of which are considered acts of economic warfare by the United States).

Five Chinese naval ships spotted operating off the coast of Alaska — Wall Street Journal Following all the back-and-forth explosions mentioned above, we now have the Wall Street Journal reporting that Chinese naval ships are being spotted off the coast of Alaska.

From the WSJ on Wednesday, Sep. 2:…

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Chinese Warships Came Within 12 Miles of U.S. Coast

On Wednesday we noted, with some alarm, that just as Xi Jinping was busy putting China’s military might on display for the entire world to observe via a massive parade (a parade which, incidentally, provided China’s weary masses with some much needed mental relief after weeks of hand-wringing over stock market meltdowns and deadly chemical explosions), the Chinese navy was spotted off the coast of Alaska. “It’s difficult to tell [what they’re doing] exactly, but it indicates some interest in the Arctic region,” a Pentagon official told WSJ, adding that, “it’s different.”

To that, we said the following: “Different” indeed, as in “uprecedented”, and while we won’t endeavor to jump to conclusions, we would note that the PLA hasn’t exactly been shy when it comes to challenging the US from a maritime perspective of late and of course, the US has had its ships and carriers to the east and south of China for decades, so it would appear that Xi is intent on giving Washington a taste of its own medicine.

Today, we get a bit more detail on the “incident” and as it turns out, the ships were a little closer than you might have thought

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Chinese Warships Spotted Off Alaska Coast Reportedly Passed Through US Waters

Five Chinese warships that were operating off the Alaska coast earlier this week reportedly entered U.S. territorial waters and came within 12 nautical miles of the coast, Pentagon officials told the Wall Street Journal early Friday.

China’s Defense Ministry also confirmed to the paper that its naval ships had sailed to the Bering Sea for training after a joint military exercise with Russia in late August. Officials in Beijing insisted that the activity was routine and not aimed at any particular country.

Navy Commander Bill Urban, a Pentagon spokesman, confirmed to Fox News Wednesday that three surface warfare ships, one amphibious assault ship and one supply vessel from the People’s Liberation Army Navy had been sighted in the Bering Sea. It was the first time that Chinese ships had been seen in the body of water separating Alaska and Russia.

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This is the Insane Video China Just Put Out Showing it Attacking the U.S.

Michael Ballaban

A small group of Chinese Navy ships showed up near Alaska earlier this week during President Obama’s visit to the northern state, mostly as a “we’re here” message. But then, as the Chinese People’s Liberation Army marched in a Beijing parade, someone simultaneously put out this completely nuts video of a naval attack on an American fleet, and on an American base that looks suspiciously like the one on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

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Austria: Refugees ‘Suffocated’ Shortly After Truck Set Off

The 71 refugees found dead in an abandoned lorry in Austria last week most likely suffocated soon after they were picked up by a smuggler in Hungary, police said on Friday.

Preliminary autopsy results indicate that “if you take into account the number of people and lack of oxygen, it’s fair to assume that asphyxiation occurred within no time at all,” police spokesman Hans Peter Doskozil told a press conference. An investigation of the truck has revealed that it was airtight.

The final coroner’s report was expected to take another five or six weeks, Doskozil added.

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Cameron Confirms Britain Will Act With Its ‘ Head and Its Heart’ And Accept Thousands of Refugees

Britain will act with its “ head and its heart” by giving thousands of Syrian refugees safe passage to the UK, David Cameron has pledged.

The Prime Minister said Britain will “ do more” becasue it has a “ moral responsibility” to help refugees as it has throughout its history.

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CIS: Welfare Use Higher Among Immigrant Households

Half of immigrant households, both legal and illegal, received some kind of public assistance in 2012, compared with 30 percent of non-immigrant families enrolled in welfare programs, a new report shows.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies’ 52-page study, which examined the Census Bureaus’ Survey of Income and Program Participation data, welfare use rates are “a good deal higher than use rates shown by other Census data.”

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Clashes in European Cities as Mideast Refugee Crisis Erupts

Clashes broke out between police and some 1,000 migrants attempting to storm a ferry on the Aegean island of Lesbos Friday, and 500 migrants broke through a police barricade in Hungary, marching towards the Austrian border as hundreds of thousands of mostly Syrians and Afghans flee the horrors of war, causing the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.

The mayor of Lesbos is appealing for “immediate measures” to help alleviate the urgent migrant crisis on his island, which is the entry point for about half of the hundreds of thousands who have arrived in Greece so far this year.

Spyros Galinos described the situation as a bomb about to explode in his hands. “I appeal to the prime minister for immediate measures,” he told state television Friday.

“We will have victims,” Galinos warned.

Earlier Friday, clashes broke out between police and about 1,000 people, mostly Afghans, rushing onto a ferry heading to Greece’s main port of Piraeus, near Athens. Police tried to quell the chaos by firing stun grenades at the stone-throwing crowd.

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David Cameron: UK to Accept ‘Thousands’ More Syrian Refugees

The UK is to provide resettlement to “thousands” more Syrian refugees in response to the worsening humanitarian crisis, David Cameron has announced.

No specific figure has been decided but the prime minister said the extra refugees would come from camps bordering Syria, and not from among people already in Europe.

Britain, he said, would act with “head and heart” to help those most in need.

The UN has said EU countries should accept up to 200,000 refugees.

Earlier this week, Mr Cameron said accepting more people was not the simple answer to the situation, described by some as the worst humanitarian crisis since World War Two.

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Egyptian Billionaire Proposes Buying Island to Shelter Mideast Refugees

An Egyptian billionaire thinks he has a solution for the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war in the Middle East in search of a better life in Europe: their own island.

Telecom tycoon Naguib Sawiris has offered to buy an island off Italy or Greece and develop it, to help the stream of people seeking refuge from violence and economic instability in Syria and other countries.

Sawiris— also a media mogul — first suggested the initiative in a Twitter post, French wire service AFP reported.

“Greece or Italy sell me an island, I’ll call its independence and host the migrants and provide jobs for them building their new country,” Sawiris wrote.

More than 340,000 migrants have arrived in Europe since the beginning of the year and at least 2,300 have lost their lives trying to escape by boat.

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Finland: Interior Ministry: Asylum Seekers Could Climb to 30,000 This Year

The Interior Ministry estimates that the number of asylum seekers entering Finland could double from the 15,000 projected two weeks ago to reach up to 30,000 this year. Minister Petteri Orpo said Friday that he’s assembled a special expert group due to the escalating situation.

During this week alone many asylum seekers reportedly entered the country via the northern city of Tornio, which borders Sweden, where up to 300 people have allegedly crossed the border every day.

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Finland: Influx of Refugees May Reach to 30,000

The Interior Ministry on Friday said that the number of influx of asylum seekers in the country might be double compared to the number estimated previously.

The Interior Minister, Petteri Orpo described the situation as unusual.

“What is clear is that pressure on Finland is growing all the time. The new estimate is between 25,000 and 30,000, however, it may be less or more,” Orpo told news agency STT.

The growing number of asylum seekers arrivals has seen the reception centres bulge, and at the same time, the processing of asylum application has slowed down.

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Gentiloni Calls for European Asylum Rights

Otherwise ‘we risk a lot on Schengen’

(ANSA) — Luxembourg, September 4 — Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Friday that “we have to move towards joint European asylum rights: it won’t be simple, but if we don’t do it and we leave each country to deal with the problems, I think we risk a lot regarding (the) Schengen (free movement accords)”.

He said the principle where asylum is granted by the country of arrival must be overcome. At present that principle is enshrined in the Dublin regulation, which many EU members want to see changed.

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Germany: Munich Plans to Keep Revellers, Refugees Apart

Police in Munich are preparing a significant operation to ensure that drunken revelers at Oktoberfest are kept away from refugees arriving at the city’s central station from Budapest.

The situation at the station during Oktoberfest which begins in two weeks will already be testing for police, Bavarian interior minister Joachim Hermann told the Münchner Merkur on Friday.

If refugees arrive in the numbers seen on Tuesday the station would get very crowded, he added.

Munich station is the main arrival point for refugees currently travelling to Germany via Hungary. On Tuesday alone an estimated 1,500 asylum seekers arrived at the station.

There were reports in Hungarian media on Friday of clashes between refugees and a mob of football hooligans in Budapest’s Keleti station, and Munich authorities will be hoping to avoid a repeat.

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Hungary PM Viktor Orban: Antagonising Europe Since 2010

Viktor Orban’s tough approach to the migrant crisis has positioned him as one of Europe’s most controversial leaders.

His comments describing the situation as “Germany’s problem” and insisting that Hungarians have “the right not to live together with populous Muslim communities” drew strong criticism from EU politicians.

But the Hungarian prime minister has long riled many of his European colleagues with divisive domestic and foreign policies, including close ties with Russia.

Despite forging the country’s strongest government since the fall of communism, his democratic and economic credentials have been questioned.

After a surge in the number of refugees entering Hungary he is reaching out to anti-immigrant opinion across Europe.

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Ivorian Accused of Killing Sicily Couple to Stay in Jail

Judge accepts prosecutor request for pre-trial custody in prison

(ANSA) — Catania, September 3 — An 18-year-old Ivorian man accused of killing a couple in Palagonia in Sicily at the weekend must remain in prison ahead of trial, a judge ruled on Thursday.

Mamadou Kamara is accused of killing Vincenzo Solano, 68, and his wife Mercedes Ibanez, 70, while attempting to rob their villa on August 30.

The judge in Caltagirone accepted the local prosecutor’s request for Kamara to be held in pre-trial custody in prison.

Police arrested Kamara Sunday after he was found with blood-stained trousers as well as a mobile phone and clothes belonging to Solano in the controversial Cara di Mineo migrant reception centre, where he had been living since June.

According to initial reports, the murder weapons may have been a screwdriver and a large pair of pliers, and Ibanez may have been raped before she was killed.

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Juncker to Propose 120,000 Migrant Relocations

On top of previous 40,000

(ANSA) — Brussels, September 4 — European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will propose 120,000 migrant relocations on top of the previous 40,000, regarding migrants in Italy, Greece and Hungary, an EC spokesman said Friday.

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Lithuanian President: We Must Show Solidarity on Migration

Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite has called for solidarity with EU countries receiving the most refugees. “All countries must show understanding and solidarity with those states that have the biggest influx, to respond to Germany’s call to be constructive and deal with the problem”, she said according to Delfi.

New EU proposal to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers

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Migrants Break Out of Camp as Hungary Loses Grip

Hundreds of migrants broke out of a Hungarian border camp on Friday and others set off on foot from Budapest as authorities scrambled to contain a migrant crisis that has brought Europe’s asylum system to breaking point.

Police said they had given chase and halted traffic on a nearby motorway after some 300 migrants fled a crowded reception centre in Roszke on Hungary’s southern border with Serbia.

They said another 2,300 migrants still inside were threatening to break out too, and the MTI state news agency said dozens more had fled a second camp west of Budapest in the town of Bicske.

Hungary says it is enforcing European Union rules that it must register all migrants caught crossing Hungary’s borders, but thousands are refusing and demand they be allowed to continue their journey to western Europe from war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

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Migrant Crisis: Austria and Germany Let People in From Hungary

The Austrian chancellor has said his country and Germany have agreed to let migrants cross their borders from Hungary.

Werner Faymann made the comments shortly after the authorities in Hungary sent buses to transport a group who had been walking to the border.

The BBC’s Matthew Price saw the first bus leave towards the Austrian and Hungarian border late on Friday.

European Union states are struggling to agree on how to deal with the crisis.

Earlier, hundreds of migrants left Budapest station on foot after a stand-off with police, defying official efforts to take them to reception centres and register them.

Another group of migrants escaped along railway tracks in Bicske, to the west of the Hungarian capital, from a train stopped by police.

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Migrant Crisis: Hungary Migrants Start Walk to Border

Large groups of refugees and migrants in Hungary are trying to walk to the Austrian border, after defying official efforts to stop them.

Hungary has announced it will send buses to transport them to the border.

As darkness fell, police advised around 1,000 walkers on the main motorway to Vienna to put on light-coloured clothing so that they could be seen.

Earlier on Friday another group escaped along railway tracks in Bicske, to the west, from a train stopped by police.

European Union states are struggling to agree on how to deal with the crisis.

The Hungarian, Czech, Slovakian and Polish prime ministers have rejected quotas for EU nations.

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Nordic Tourists Rush to Help Refugees in Greece

Swedes and Danes are heading to Greece with bags of unwanted clothes and other goods to help newly-arrived refugees.

Danish tour operator Spies and Swedish partner Ving have told The Local that despite a slow start, their offer to allow tourists to take up to 20 additional kilos of goods to Greece has recently caught-on with Danish and Swedish tourists.

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Orban Says EU ‘Incapable’ On Immigration

Hungarian PM calls EU immigration ‘a German problem’

(ANSA) — BRUXELLES — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday said the EU is “incapable of managing the situation” of immigration in Europe, following a meeting with European Parliament President Martin Schulz. A public announcement on Thursday at Budapest’s main train station told passengers that international trains to Western Europe are suspended “indefinitely”, the BBC said. This came following a two-day stand-off in Budapest, where unregistered asylum seekers camped in front of the station that closed its doors to them.

Orban said EU immigration “isn’t a European problem, it’s a German problem”.

“Everyone wants to go to Germany. No one wants to stay in Hungary, Slovakia, or Estonia,” Orban said.

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Outrage as UKIP Candidate Claims Dead Toddler’s Refugee Family Were ‘Greedy for the Good Life’

A former Ukip candidate has sparked outrage after his Twitter account claimed a dead toddler’ s refugee family were ‘ greedy for the good life’ .

Photos of three-year-old Aylan Al-Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach stunned the world yesterday and reduced top politicians to tears.

But Peter Bucklitsch, who won 2,500 votes for Ukip at the general election in May, appeared unmoved.

[Comment: Tragic situation for family. But keep in mind, the reason why pictures of dead children are being used — to manipulate public into accepting mass migration. Notice pictures of dead children are buried when it comes to state sanctioned abortions. Expect more “spontaneous” stories to tug at the heart strings ]in order to promote “open borders”.]

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Police Clash With Migrants Seeking to Board Piraeus-Bound Ferry

Police fired stun grenades Friday to disperse hundreds of migrants and asylum-seekers attempting to board a Piraeus-bound ferry from the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, reports said.

According to early reports, a group of about 1,000 people, mostly migrants from Afghanistan, sought to make their way into the Blue Star 1, shouting “Athens-Athens.”

Lesvos is one of several Greek islands inundated by thousands of migrants and refugees crossing from Turkey in flimsy boats in the hope of traveling onward to western Europe.

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Prepare Yourselves: The Great Migration Will be With us for Decades

It is not war, but money, that drives people abroad. That is not going to change any time soon

When the crew of HMS Bulwark first fished immigrants out of the Mediterranean, they were expecting to find the world’s hungry, wretched and destitute. Instead, they found them relatively healthy, well-dressed and carrying mobile phones and credit cards, which they intended to use upon arrival in Italy.

The military learnt then what politicians are only slowly beginning to work out — that this is not simply a refugee crisis. The world’s poor are on the move because they’re not quite so poor as they used to be, and can afford to travel. A great migration has begun, and it could be with us for decades.

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‘Refugees Welcome’ Rally Set for Swedish Capital

More than 15,000 people have shown their support for refugees by signing up for a rally in Stockholm this weekend as charity donations smash records in Sweden.

The ‘Refugees welcome’ demonstration is set to take place in Södermalmstorg, a square in Slussen in central Stockholm at 4pm on Sunday. Guest speakers will join locals in calling for better protection and assistance to refugees arriving in Europe.

By Friday morning, 15,000 people had joined the Facebook group for the event, which is being supported by numerous charities including Rädda Barnens Ungdomsförbund (Save the Children’s youth wing), Ungdom mot rasism Stockholm (Young people against racism in Stockholm) and Röda Korsets Ungdomsförbund (the youth arm of the Red Cross in Sweden).

Youth wings of political groups from across the spectrum have also pledged their support, with young Feminist Initiative and Left party supporters set to join members of all of Sweden’s major centre-right Alliance parties.

The rally was organized following similar events at football matches in Austria and Germany last month, but gained momentum after images of a dead Syrian child washed up on a Turkish beach sparked debate around the world on Thursday.

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Refugee Crisis: Many Swedes Want to Help

Paula Öhman is one of the founders of the group “We do what we can,” which is fundraising to help refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos. It was posted for the first time on Facebook on Wednesday, and has since received SEK 3.6 million in donations.

Paula and her family went to Lesbos on holiday, but instead of lying by the pool, they helped as best they could in the desperate situation for migrants on the Greek island.

“We made sandwiches and rented a bus to help with transport,” says Paula Öhman to Swedish Radio’s P4 Stockholm channel.

Since she came home, Paula has continued to work to help the migrants on Lesbos. She is one of the initiators of the group set up on Facebook with the name “Vi gör vad vi kan,” (We do what we can). It wants to help the refugees on the Greek island. It asks people to send shoes, hygiene items, children’s clothing and sleeping bags. All money donated will go to transport and helping the humanitarian aid effort on Lesbos.

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Refugees Set Off on Foot From Budapest to Austria

Hundreds of refugees have set off on foot from Budapest’s main railway station, planning to walk to Austria after the Hungarian authorities suspended international train services.

The crowd includes people in wheelchairs and on crutches, as well as parents carrying children on their shoulders, all prepared to march 175 km to the border.

Some flashed victory signs while others waved images of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who recently announced that Berlin was easing asylum restrictions for Syrians.

“We are very happy that something is happening at last, The next stop is Austria. The children are very tired, Hungary is very bad, we have to go somehow,” 23-year-old Osama from Syria told AFP.

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Refugee Crisis Escalates as Violence Breaks Out

Violent clashes between police and refugees broke out on two Greek islands on Thursday evening and Friday morning as tensions flared amid a worsening crisis. A standoff continues at Bicske train station in Hungary, where hundreds of men, women and children are being held by police in train carriages in stifling heat.

Dramatic scenes erupted on Lesvos island where some 33,000 refugees arrived in August alone. Running battles around the port area spilled onto the streets of Mytilene as police fired stun grenades into a crowd of refugees trying to board a ferry to Pireaus. The port area is closed off Friday afternoon, and refugees are “trying to find a place to rest,” it reported.

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Relocate 200,000 Refugees UNHCR Tells EU

‘Compulsory participation’ says Guterres

(ANSA) — Geneva, September 4 — The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres on Friday urged the EU to set up a “mass relocation programme” with the compulsory participation of all member States to cover an estimated 200,000 refugees.

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Richard Littlejohn: This Child’s Death Was Tragic But it Was Not Our Fault

By any standards, it was a horrible, harrowing, heart-wrenching image. A young boy, washed up dead on a Mediterranean beach, cradled in the arms of a Turkish policeman.

Objective reporting, especially on the broadcast media, has been thrown out of the window, to be replaced by New Age emoting and political posturing on behalf of the ‘Let Them All In’ and ‘We’re All To Blame’ Brigade. It has proved once again Stalin’s cynical maxim that while one death is always a tragedy, a million deaths is a mere statistic.

You can’t blame Hungary. When they signed up for the EU, they thought they were joining a democratic, free-trade union. They didn’t expect to be cast as a departure lounge for thousands of people who want to get into Europe illegally.

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Salvini Calls for Closure of Refugee Centre in Sicily

Says ‘only baby Jesus and Martians’ haven’t requested the same

(ANSA) — Mineo, September 4 — Matteo Salvini, leader of anti-immigrant, anti-euro Northern League party, visited the Cara refugee reception centre at Mineo near Catania on Friday and called for its closure.

The centre has been in the spotlight in recent days after one of its residents was arrested at the weekend in connection with the killing of a couple in their home in Palagonia, and the suspected rape of one of the victims.

“Even the bishops’ newspaper, the 5-Star Movement and Forza Italia are calling for the closure of the Cara (centre),” Salvini said. “All that’s left are the baby Jesus and martians to call for closing this out-in-the-open shame, whose management has involved even the cooperatives of Rome’s Mafia Capitale”.

Salvini said the centre was inaugurated by his party colleague Roberto Maroni as a temporary measure during the war in Libya, and questioned whether all of its residents were actual political refugees requesting asylum.

“This is the fourth time I’ve come here. I don’t know how many other investigations, how many other interventions and murders and disasters still have to happen to close the Cara di Mineo. Here hundreds of millions of euros have been thrown away,” he said.

“Today I’m going to ask the nationality of the residents and we’ll see how many of the resident immigrants are truly fleeing from war,” Salvini said.

Salvini said the migrant crisis could be resolved by “speeding up procedures to identify true refugees and deporting all of those who aren’t actual asylum seekers”.

“But landings in Sicily and Calabria also have to be blocked, and there needs to be action taken in Africa,” Salvini said.

He said he’ll be going to Nigeria in the coming weeks “to understand what needs to be done so that Nigerians stay in their country”.

Prior to his arrival at the Mineo center, Salvini tweeted his disapproval of European leaders’ handling of the immigrant crisis.

“Europe will punish member states that don’t welcome immigrants enough? Clowns. The umpteenth proof that this Europe is a dangerous cage,” he tweeted.

“The PD secretary and Alfano are two incompetents glued to their chairs. Where are they? I don’t see Renzi and Alfano, I didn’t see them in Palagonia: if I were them I’d be ashamed,” Salvini said prior to his visit, referring to Italy’s prime minister and interior minister, respectively.

Then, in direct response to a comment made by Alfano on Thursday that Salvini is a “jackal,” Salvini said, “the real jackals are those who cry over deaths that could have been avoided”.

“The EU and Italy have an embargo against the Syrian government and are accomplices to the ISIS massacres. Those images should wake up the consciences of those who pretend to be good but are actually true assassins,” Salvini said.

The images he referred to were photos distributed on social media in recent days of a three-year-old Syrian boy who washed up on a Turkish beach after drowning in an attempt to flee Syria with his family.

Salvini also called European leaders “ridiculous” and said German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “best effort is to say ‘I’ll take the Syrians’, the only people who are fleeing war, as if to say, ‘I choose who I want and you can keep the rest,” he said. Upon leaving the centre, Salvini came out strongly against the idea of opening humanitarian corridors in Syria to allow for safe passage of refugees.

“Yes, there’s a war there, there 40% of the territory is occupied by the Islamic caliphate, so there, truly, you’d need to intervene with bombs to exterminate those beasts,” he said.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Swedish Minister Raps Finland Over Refugees

Ahead of an EU foreign ministers meeting, Swedish minister Margot Wallström has sharply criticised Finland’s refugee policy, noting that Sweden took in more than 70,000 Finnish war children during the Second World War. Her Finnish counterpart, Timo Soini, refused to comment on plans for new refugee quotas.

The nationalist Finns Party, which joined the government for the first time three months ago, has fought hard to limit the number of refugees to be taken in by Finland. The country has one of western Europe’s smallest foreign-background populations — some 5.5 percent of the population compared with about 15 percent in Sweden.

Arriving at the Luxembourg meeting, Finns chair and Foreign Minister Timo Soini declined to comment to Yle about his views on proposed refugee quotas, which are to be discussed on Saturday.

He did comment that it is “intolerable that the EU does not follow its own rules, the Dublin Convention,” which specifies that the first member state through which an asylum seeker first enters the EU is responsible for processing his or her claim.

Asked what should be done now in regard to the refugee crisis, he replied simply:

“Follow the rules.”

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Tancredo: European Colonization, Not Refugee Resettlement

In the mushrooming “refugee crisis” in Europe, there is a big dog that is not barking.

Why are the more than one million Muslim refugees so anxious to get to northern Europe and not, say, Saudi Arabia or Egypt? Why are we obligated to help them get to Amsterdam, Oslo and London? And why in the world is the United States government planning to take 66,000 Syrian refugees?

Yes, Europe is faced with a massive refugee crisis when a million homeless people surge northward in search of food, shelter and safety. But why are they choosing Germany, Belgium, Sweden and Britain and not neighboring Muslim countries?

And why does the United States have any obligation whatsoever to absorb any more refugees and asylum seekers than the over 100,000 we already accept each year from Central America, Asia and Africa?

This human wave surging across Europe is a byproduct of the interminable civil war in Syria, ISIS massacres of whole cities in Iraq — and the terrorist mayhem across North Africa unleashed by Obama’s incredibly stupid “Arab Spring.” We can understand why people are fleeing the chaos. But why must Muslim refugees be accommodated with shelter, food, and jobs in Europe instead of in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey?

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

The Arab World’s Wealthiest Nations Are Doing Next to Nothing for Syria’s Refugees

The world has been transfixed in recent weeks by the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe, an influx of migrants unprecedented since World War II. Their plight was chillingly highlighted on Wednesday in the image of a drowned Syrian toddler, his lifeless body lying alone on a Turkish beach.

A fair amount of attention has fallen on the failure of many Western governments to adequately address the burden on Syria’ s neighboring countries, which are struggling to host the brunt of the roughly 4 million Syrians forced out of the country by its civil war.

Some European countries have been criticized for offering sanctuary only to a small number of refugees, or for discriminating between Muslims and Christians. There’ s also been a good deal of continental hand-wringing over the general dysfunction of Europe’ s systems for migration and asylum.

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The European Commission Plans to Redistribute 160,000 Asylum Seekers Arriving in Greece, Italy, And Hungary Among Other Member States.

The latest plan will be unveiled on Wednesday (9 September) by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Juncker is also set to announce rules on quickly repatriating people from Western Balkan countries who claim asylum in EU states.

A similar proposal to relocate 40,000 Syrian, Iraqi and Eritrean asylum seekers from Greece and Italy over a two-year period was made over the summer.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

UK is Racist for Not Taking in More Refugees, Claims Emma Thompson

The Oscar-winning actress said the UK’s response to the growing refugee crisis had been ‘really shaming’ and insisted there was ‘plenty of room’ in Britain to accept thousands of refugees.

[Comment: More proof of the stupidity of actors. Does she even stop to ask why US, EU, NATO are supporting ISIS? Recall the news reports of convoys of hundereds of trucks headed to Syria from Turkey… Stop supporting ISIS and number of Syrian refugees will drop drastically.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UN Calls on EU to Admit Up to 200,000 Refugees

The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees has called for up to 200,000 refugees to be shared across the European Union. Various meetings are due to be held across the EU to discuss the crisis.

Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said on Friday that EU member states would be bound to the “mass relocation program.”

“People who are found to have a valid protection claim … must then benefit from a mass relocation program, with the mandatory participation of all EU member states,” Guterres said in a statement.

“No country can do it alone, and no country can refuse to do its part,” he declared.

A European source told AFP news agency that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker would next week unveil a plan for the relocation of at least 120,000 more refugees.

Guterres’ call on Friday followed similar demands from Germany and France for a binding EU quota on the number of refugees taken in by each member state.

“So many refugees are arriving at our external borders that we can’t leave Italy or Greece alone to deal with the task,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Changing the Tone of the Abortion Debate

It’s time we look at our views on abortion from the perspective of how we see ourselves as a society. We in the West talk about and see ourselves as compassionate caring people, looking out for the weak and vulnerable. We define ourselves by the way we treat the most vulnerable in our society, which ultimately speaks to our compassion, individually and communally.

Let’s take the opportunity provided by the Planned Parenthood videos to start another conversation; a different conversation about abortion. Let’s throw out the false canard that a fetus is not a living being. True, a human fetus must incubate inside the womb for nine months, unlike a kangaroo fetus which leaves the womb at a month and lives outside in the pouch, until fully grown. Is a kangaroo fetus considered a living being because it lives outside the womb, despite the fact that it is as helpless as a human fetus in the womb, while a human fetus is just cells?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Kentucky County Clerk Upheld the Law and is a Political Prisoner in America

I’ll make this very brief, for it’s not that complicated. Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis broke no laws. In fact, she kept to her oath of office and upheld the Kentucky state Constitution by refusing to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples. Setting aside her Christian beliefs here, I ask anyone to show me the codified law of Rowan County or the state statute in which she has allegedly violated. It does not exist.

The “dirty little secret” that the Marxists, Communists and Fabian Socialists who have captured our nation desperately don’t want you to know is that Kim Davis executed her duties exactly as she was elected to do, for there is no law that permits Kim Davis or anyone in her office to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples. None! The Supreme Court opinion of June 26, 2015 does not trump the laws of the state or county and is not the law of the land — period.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

4 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/4/2015

  1. I wonder how many more ‘conservative’ voters in Britain have come to the realization since the last general election, that Cameron is no conservative and will always dance to the Globalists tune?

    Russia and China along with a number of other less powerful countries are gearing up to dump Uncle Sam’s currency – this could be the beginning of the end for the one world government agenda Globalists are determined, no matter what the cost in human lives, to bring about.

    Caroline Glick has a must read article which is very insightful.

    The US and China already in a covert war? Natural News has a most compelling piece that assists in joining some dots together.

    Couldn’t bring myself to post a comment on Europe – what can one say about a system of ‘government’ that many Europeans actually support, that is going Hell for leather to commit suicide?

    • Idiots keep doing the same and the same over and over again, only to expect a different outcome,my dear Nemesis.

      We see it all over the West. The immigration topic. The left wants the votes, the right (in name only) want the cheap labor and if possible the votes too…

      The problem is within the so called right wing parties. The left can vote themselves into other peoples money all the time. Until they eventually run out of other peoples money but that’s not in their hands. They just wanna eat cake no matter how small the cake will end up.

      It’s people like Cameron and his supporters who are the real stupid ones. They are the real problem inside the west. They have an attention span of a lifetime (at best). To bad for their children and their children. They want the easy life right here and now.. No matter what! Tory voters. I consider them less than socialists. A true conservative in the UK would and should have voted: Ukip! Regardless of the silly islam paragraf Ukip has.

      • And the most we can do at present is to observe and to warn those who have questions to ask. As for the idiots who present their throats to Islam – well they have made their choice and there is little we can do to counter their idiocy.

  2. @Prepare yourselves: The Great Migration will be with us for decades – It is not war, but money, that drives people abroad. That is not going to change any time soon.

    Fraser Nelson is wrong in his bias that wants to spin out the immigrant probe into Europe as a success story of capitalism, the majority intention is clearly the politically motivated rape, pillage and plunder of Europe.

    Wishful thinking to assert that the majority are coming to peacefully compete in Europe’s capitalist economies.

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