Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/31/2016

French Minister for Families Laurence Rossignol provoked outrage by saying that women who wear the Islamic veil are like “Negroes who supported slavery.” The minister’s comments were in response to a spate of fashion shows aimed at the Islamic market that feature women in hijab.

In other news, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said that the migration crisis in Europe is a threat to the national security of the United States.

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Financial Crisis
» 30 Years of ‘Free Trade’ Brings 400% Trade Deficit With China
» Curse of Delingpole: World’s Biggest Green Energy Company Collapses
» Wall Street Bankers and Lobbyists Move to Ensure Industry Continues to Regulate Itself
 
USA
» An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right
» Depressing Survey Results Show How Extremely Stupid America Has Become
» Desperate Media Portrays Trump as Violent for Accidentally Knocking Phone Out of Journalist’s Hand
» LOL: Hillary Clinton Can’t Stop Nodding for Three Minutes During Roundtable on Islam
» Pamela Geller: Muslim Offers $10,000 to Anyone Who Can Show the Qur’an Commands Terror; Where Do I Pick Up My Check?
» Pat Caddell: As Establishment Empire Strikes Back, Voters Must Unite to Stop it
» Pat Caddell: GOP Establishment ‘Using Cruz as Cats-Paw’ To ‘Nominate an Establishment Figure’
» Secret Identity of ‘Guns at RNC’ Petitioner ‘Revealed
» Socialism on Campus — Video
» States Are Using “Smart” Lighting Systems to Create a National Biometric and Vehicle Database
» ‘Trump Has Finally Inspired Me to Leave Islam’ — Fan Ditches Her Religion
» U.S. Secret Service & World Media Liable; Not Trump & Israeli Shooter of Terrorist
 
Canada
» Liberal-Socialism and the Erosion of Christian Canada
» Pass, Fail — An Inside Look at the Retail Scam Known as the Modern University
 
Europe and the EU
» Britain Won’t be Able to Leave the EU for Two Years Because of Biased Brussels Rules, Warns Former Head of the Civil Service
» British ISIS Fighter Says ‘Gatwick Will be Next’ For Brussels Style Attack
» French Minister Compares Veiled Women to ‘Negroes Who Supported Slavery’
» French Minister Sparks Outrage by Comparing Muslim Women Who Wear the Veil to ‘Negroes Who Supported Slavery’
» Paris Terrorist Salah Abdeslam Agrees to Turn Supergrass for French Police… Making the World’s Most Wanted Man Now the No.1 ISIS Target
» Politico: ‘Europe’s Muslims Hate the West’
» Race-Blind UK Home Secretary’s Delusion Over Muslim Extremists in Britain
» Scotland: Asad Shah Believed to Have Received Death Threats Months Before He Died
» Scotland: Anti-Terror Police Launch Probe Into Glasgow Central Mosque Leader’s Pakistani Terror Link
» Scotland: Death of Ahmedi Shopkeeper in Britain Celebrated on Facebook
» Scots Mosque Leaders in Pakistani Terror Link
» ‘Take the Threat Seriously’: US: Russia, Europe Need to Fight ISIS Together — Ex-DIA Chief Flynn
» UK: Birmingham Named Worst City for Crash for Cash Claims
 
Middle East
» Does ISIS Possess Saddam Hussein’s WMDs?
 
South Asia
» Disgraced UN Climate Boss Pachauri: I’m the Victim of a Big Oil Conspiracy
 
Latin America
» Four Cartel Gun Battles in Four Days Near Texas Border
 
Immigration
» “Refugee” Slit Family’s Throats
» 800,000 Migrants Lie in Wait in Libya, Ready to Break for Europe
» Brussels Attacked by Refugee-Terrorists
» Give Voters True Figures on Migrants Before EU Referendum, Says Watchdog: Concerns That Current Data ‘Falls Short’ Of the ‘Full Picture’
» John Bolton: Migrant Crisis in Europe is National Security Crisis for America
» John Bolton: Open Borders ‘Destroying’ The American ‘Experiment’
» Major German Newspaper: 1960s Anti-Immigration Firebrand Enoch Powell Was Right
» Sweden: Easter Car Burnings
» Switzerland: 60 Jihadist Cases
» Tempers Flare at Cramped Idomeni Migrant Camp as Knife Fight Breaks Out Among Stranded Refugees — But Macedonia Insists the Greek Border Will Remain Closed
» The Flooding of America
» Turkish Troops ‘Are Killing Refugees’ As They Try to Cross Border From Syria: Father and Child Are Among 16 Migrants ‘Shot Dead in the Past Four Months’
 
Culture Wars
» Religious Freedom Crushed: Illinois Inn Fined Over $80,000 for Refusing to Host Gay Wedding
 
General
» Stand Up and Fight Islamization of the West: An Interview With Paul L. Weston of Liberty GB by Jerry Gordon
 

30 Years of ‘Free Trade’ Brings 400% Trade Deficit With China

There is much debate over the negative effects of massive trade deficits, and what the best strategy for correcting them might be, but it’s hard to deny the U.S. trade deficit with China is staggering in scale … and it got that way after just a few decades of old-school “free trade” orthodoxy.

Raul Amoros of HowMuch.net puts the issue in perspective:

The start couldn’t be more balanced: in 1985, the U.S. exported $3.9 billion to China, and imported goods and services for the exact same amount. But by 2015, there was a staggering imbalance, to China’s advantage, of $365.7 billion — an all-time record, not just for U.S.-China trade, but for any bilateral trade, ever. X

It’s not that U.S. exports to China haven’t increased. They have, and by a lot. America exported an impressive $116.2 billion into China last year, 30 times more than in 1985. That makes China the U.S.’s third-biggest export market, nearly twice as important as Japan ($62.5 billion), in fourth place. But that’s still a lot less than U.S. exports to Canada ($280.3 billion) or Mexico ($236.4 billion). Meanwhile, Chinese exports to the U.S. have exploded. In 2015, China exported $481.9 billion to the U.S. — an amazing 123 times more than in 1985.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Curse of Delingpole: World’s Biggest Green Energy Company Collapses

If you’d picked SunEdison — the world’s largest green energy company — you would have made a killing as its shares plunged further this week, amid rumours that it now faces imminent bankruptcy.

SunEdison, valued at $10 billion in July 2015 is now worth just $400 million today. This represents a catastrophic loss for the investors gulled into this sector in the mistaken belief that “clean” energy is the future and that it’s possible to make lots and lots of money and polish your environmental conscience at the same time.

Well maybe once you could but not any more. And it won’t be the last green venture to turn to ashes either for one very simple reason: renewable energy is almost entirely dependent on taxpayer subsidy. When the money runs out the business dies.

I’m kicking myself that I didn’t follow my own advice and short those SunEdison shares. But I’m guessing there’ll be plenty of similar opportunities in the years to come.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Wall Street Bankers and Lobbyists Move to Ensure Industry Continues to Regulate Itself

Not content with continued prosecutorial immunity and trillions in taxpayer bailouts and backstops, Wall Street banksters are making moves to ensure they regulate themselves.

In case you’re still wondering who the real owners of this country are…

The Wall Street Journal reports:

ORLANDO, Fla.-Wall Street’s top lobbying group wants a closer relationship with the policy makers that oversee its member firms.

John Rogers, chairman of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and a top official at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., on Tuesday called for a standing body made up of bankers and regulators to discuss developments in policy, examination and enforcement. A key responsibility for the panel would also involve regularly providing guidance on postcrisis rules and other issues to financial firms.

Mr. Rogers said such a standing body isn’t novel, noting the Treasury Department operates such a group aimed at tackling money-laundering issues. That panel, he said, “can be extremely effective, providing regulators with valuable insight into the commercial viability and impact of their initiatives, and the industry with a greater sense of control over their destiny.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right

There are many things that separate the alternative right from old-school racist skinheads (to whom they are often idiotically compared), but one thing stands out above all else: intelligence. Skinheads, by and large, are low-information, low-IQ thugs driven by the thrill of violence and tribal hatred. The alternative right are a much smarter group of people — which perhaps suggests why the Left hates them so much. They’re dangerously bright.

The origins of the alternative right can be found in thinkers as diverse as Oswald Spengler, H.L Mencken, Julius Evola, Sam Francis, and the paleoconservative movement that rallied around the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan. The French New Right, also serve as a source of inspiration for many leaders of the alt-right.

The media empire of the modern-day alternative right coalesced around Richard Spencer during his editorship of Taki’s Magazine. In 2012, Spencer founded AlternativeRight.com, which would become a center of alt-right thought.

Alongside other nodes like Steve Sailer’s blog, VDARE and American Renaissance, AlternativeRight.com became a gathering point for an eclectic mix of renegades who objected to the established political consensus in some form or another. All of these websites have been accused of racism.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Depressing Survey Results Show How Extremely Stupid America Has Become

Ten years ago, a major Hollywood film entitled “Idiocracy” was released, and it was an excellent metaphor for what would happen to America over the course of the next decade. In the movie, an “average American” wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that he suddenly finds himself in. Sadly, I truly believe that if people of average intellect from the 1950s and 1960s were transported to 2016, they would likely be considered mental giants compared to the rest of us. We have a country where criminals are being paid $1000 a month not to shoot people, and the highest paid public employee in more than half the states is a football coach. Hardly anyone takes time to read a book anymore, and yet the average American spends 302 minutes a day watching television. 75 percent of our young adults cannot find Israel on a map of the Middle East, but they sure know how to find smut on the Internet. It may be hard to believe, but there are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet today, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.

What in the world has happened to us? How is it possible that we have become so stupid? According to a brand new report that was recently released, almost 10 percent of our college graduates believe that Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court…

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know.

Nearly 10 percent of the college graduates surveyed thought Judith Sheindlin, TV’s “Judge Judy,” is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Less than 20 percent of the college graduates knew the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. More than a quarter of the college graduates did not know Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during World War II; one-third did not know he was the president who spearheaded the New Deal.

It can be tempting to laugh at numbers like these until you realize that survey after survey has come up with similar results.

Just consider what Newsweek found a few years ago…

When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar.

Even worse were the extremely depressing results of a study conducted a few years ago by Common Core…

*Only 43 percent of all U.S. high school students knew that the Civil War was fought some time between 1850 and 1900.

*More than a quarter of all U.S. high school students thought that Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean after the year 1750.

*Approximately a third of all U.S. high school students did not know that the Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

*Only 60 percent of all U.S. students knew that World War I was fought some time between 1900 and 1950.

Of course survey results can be skewed, and much hinges on how the questions are asked.

However, even studies that are scientifically conducted confirm how stupid America has become. In fact, a report from the Educational Testing Service found that Americans are falling way behind much of the rest of the industrialized world. The following comes from CBS News…

[Comment: This is all part of the “Dumbing Down America” (book of same name by Chalotte Iserbyt) education plan. It is no accident. Banksters don’t want smart slaves. ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Desperate Media Portrays Trump as Violent for Accidentally Knocking Phone Out of Journalist’s Hand

Press attempts to turn innocent accident into proof of violent tendencies

The media attempted to equate a trivial accident to physical violence Tuesday after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accidentally knocked a phone out of a reporter’s hand.

Footage of the “incident,” captured during a press conference on the GOP frontrunner’s private jet, shows Trump apologizing to a reporter whose phone inadvertently crossed paths with his hand.

Fast forward to 24:53

“Whoops, sorry,” Trump tells the journalist.

Despite its mundane nature, sites such as the Washington Examiner attempted to connect the encounter to recent news surrounding Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

LOL: Hillary Clinton Can’t Stop Nodding for Three Minutes During Roundtable on Islam

Former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is an interesting person. If comedians and the media weren’t so partisan and stuck in that left-right paradigm, Clinton could provide a lot of material for laughter. This latest three-plus-minute video of Clinton nodding non-stop is a perfect example. During a roundtable on Islam, the probable U.S. President just kept nodding and nodding…and nodding (perhaps she was just thinking of how much she desires and needs to be in power and how great she’ll be sitting in the Oval Office).

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pamela Geller: Muslim Offers $10,000 to Anyone Who Can Show the Qur’an Commands Terror; Where Do I Pick Up My Check?

Alnatour insists that he does: “As a Muslim American who continually strives to do everything I can for the betterment of my community and this nation, I am tired of being asked to apologize and condemn terrorism that I have absolutely nothing to do with.” And he adds: “As a practicing Muslim, I know that my religion teaches peace. I am so certain of this fact that I will award anyone $10,000 if they can find me a verse in the Quran that says it’s ok to kill innocent people or to commit acts of terror. This is an open offer that will never expire.”

Where do I pick up my $10,000?

“And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you; persecution is more grievous than slaying. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, slay them — such is the recompense of unbelievers — but if they give over, surely God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate. Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is God’s; then if they give over, there shall be no enmity save for evildoers.” (Quran 2:191, 192, 193)

“We will cast into the hearts of the unbelievers terror, for that they have associated with Allah that for which He sent down never authority; their lodging shall be the Fire; evil is the lodging of the evildoers.” (Quran 3:151)

“This is the recompense of those who fight against God and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement…” (Quran 5:33)

“When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers’ hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!’“ (Quran 8:12)

“Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to strike terror into the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Quran 8:60)

“Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.” (Quran 9:5)

“Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden — such men as practise not the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book — until they pay the tribute out of hand and have been humbled.” (Quran 9:29)

“And when We desire to destroy a city, We command its men who live at ease, and they commit ungodliness therein, then the Word is realized against it, and We destroy it utterly.” (Quran 17:16)

There are so many more passages that I could list — so many that Alnatour should pay me a million. We rarely hear Muslims condemn the Islamic texts and teachings that inspire jihad. On the contrary, in the wake of jihad slaughter, they make generic, weak statements against the killing of innocents, knowing full well that under Islam, non-Muslims are not considered “innocent.” What programs have been instituted in the Muslim world to teach against the jihadi view of Islam? What is the Muslim world doing to expunge the genocidal texts from the Quran?

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Pat Caddell: As Establishment Empire Strikes Back, Voters Must Unite to Stop it

Political strategist Pat Caddell explains that both the Republican and Democratic political establishments are scheming to deny the will of their voters, by foisting unwanted nominees upon them.

Caddell tells Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon that the Democrats’ turmoil is receiving less attention because the personality clashes are not as spectacular, the Democrat Party’s rules are more brutally effective at squelching insurgencies, and the media has little interest in writing stories about a Democrat civil war.

If we weren’t having what we’re having on the Republican side, the story would be the revolt on the Democratic side, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) rising, and the rigged system for delegates, and all of that stuff,” he said. “I believe there’s a good chance that when the Establishment puts its foot down in the Democratic party, as they do with super-delegates, and Bernie Sanders falls, they make sure he’s not the nominee… his voters, the young voters in his base, they don’t want Hillary either.

The media’s involvement in the Republican gladiatorial spectacle has allowed Hillary Clinton to skate through some disastrous weeks of campaign news, in Caddell’s estimation.

If you think about the fact that Hillary Clinton, in the last couple of weeks, has, you know, threatened to get rid of all the coal miners, has said that nobody died in Libya, with her husband out saying the Obama legacy has failed, is a legacy of failure over the last eight years… and you have her in the trouble she’s in, the stuff that she’s saying about her servers and other things… they just give her a pass now.

Caddell predicted the electorate will become enraged, and perhaps realign itself in some unprecedented ways, if both party establishments insist on running candidates who couldn’t win the support of voters in the primaries.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Pat Caddell: GOP Establishment ‘Using Cruz as Cats-Paw’ To ‘Nominate an Establishment Figure’

Caddell said he believes the GOP Establishment is “using Cruz as a cats-paw.”

“Look, you don’t really think that Jeb Bush, and Lindsay Graham, and some of those who have endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)… you don’t really think they want Ted Cruz, do you?” Caddell asked. “They’re using him to stop Trump.”

This strategy will face a crucial test in Wisconsin’s primary on Tuesday, where Caddell noted the generally reliable Marquette poll was showing “a huge surge for Cruz.” He found such a surge believable, given that Governor Scott Walker and other potent political forces in the state have aligned behind the senator from Texas, while Trump has been “off-balance” in Wisconsin.

“I think the odds are the Trump is the decided underdog right now,” said Caddell, predicting that a big Cruz win in Wisconsin would make it “very difficult” for Trump to collect the 1,237 delegates he needs to win the first round of balloting at the Republican National Convention. Also, a loss in Wisconsin will “energize” those who wish to block Trump from winning the nomination.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Secret Identity of ‘Guns at RNC’ Petitioner ‘Revealed

Hillary backing firearm-control supporter is brains behind ‘satire’ movement

(Observer) A petition that’s been circulating for a week on Change.org is asking the Quicken Loans Arena to “Allow Open Carry of Firearms at the Quicken Loans Arena during the RNC Convention in July.” Posted by an anonymous petitioner who calls himself The Hyperationalist, the petition caught fire when it became a darling of talk radio and right-wing blogging. The petition, which calls the arena’s ban on weapons “a direct affront to the second amendment…[that] puts all attendees at risk” has surpassed 51,000 signatures and is racing toward its goal of 75,000.

But the identity of its anonymous progenitor has not been fully cracked. Until now. The petition is the brainchild of a Democratic activist and blogger named James P. Ryan, who claims to be satirizing rather than supporting the idea that Republicans should bring weapons into their nominating convention.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Socialism on Campus — Video

John Stossel examines the rise of Socialism on campuses. 99% of professors donate to Democrats and 1% donate to Republicans.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

States Are Using “Smart” Lighting Systems to Create a National Biometric and Vehicle Database

A company called Sensity Systems is using “smart” LED lighting called NetSense to set up a national surveillance network.

The name of the new national surveillance network is called SkyNet, i’m joking, it’s called NetSense.

“Sensity’s NetSense Partner Program is designed to accelerate a global ecosystem for the Industrial Internet of Things .”

“The company [Sensity] targets malls, universities and cities…”

According to the Daily Mail, “Smart” lights are being touted as security devices that can assist with ‘Homeland Security’ measures by providing applications like video surveillance and motion sensors.

NetSense enables security solutions in environments such as parking lots and garages, college and corporate campuses, and city streets where there is a need for enhanced security, asset protection and perimeter detection. What they’re really saying is, they’re quietly installing a nationwide smart LED lighting surveillance system!

Sensity’s “smart” LED lights are being installed in airports across the country.

“Using an array of sensors and eight video cameras around the Newark Airport terminal, the Sensity light fixtures are part of a new wireless network that collects and feeds data into software that can spot long lines, recognize license plates and even identify suspicious activity, sending alerts to the appropriate staff.”

The airport has installed 171 “smart” LED lighting fixtures, attached to the ceiling, that peer down and record the movements of passengers and staff.

Las Vegas’s “smart” LED lights can record people’s conversations.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Trump Has Finally Inspired Me to Leave Islam’ — Fan Ditches Her Religion

A Reddit user wrote a lengthy post to “The_Donald” subreddit on Wednesday detailing how she has “been secretly watching Trump and his speeches for the last few months and agreeing with what he says about Islam.”

“Until yesterday, I had not once removed my Hajib in my life while outside,” the author, a 19-year-old girl whose parents are Muslim immigrants, explained. “I tried to do it once when I was 10 years old, and my parents grounded me for a week.”

The author states, in her view, the idea of “moderate Muslims… is b*******.”

“There are no ‘assimilated Muslims.’ Throughout my life, I have been to three different mosques regularly,” she added. “Everyone there had some kind of animosity to America. Either they support jihadist actions outright or they refuse to condemn them, or they victim blame Christians and the west. Every time theres a terrorist attack, all over the media there are reports of Muslims who speak out against jihad or protest terrorists.”

ExMuslimMaga then explained how, after the Brussels terror attacks, “not a single” member of her mosque condemned the actions of the ISIS-inspired bombers.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

U.S. Secret Service & World Media Liable; Not Trump & Israeli Shooter of Terrorist

In America, it has already been established that the Secret Service failed to prevent the reporter Michelle Fields from reaching and even touching the Republican frontrunner for the presidency of the United States. So the Secret Service should be condemned, and Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, should be hailed as a hero for reaching Fields where the Secret Service failed and by effectively preventing her from being in a position to potentially assault the candidate by Corey’s restraint in grabbing and diverting her arm rather than tackling her or using a weapon to stop her.

Donald Trump pointed out that Fields alleged she was shoved to the ground before she realized she was on videotape, which clearly showed that she was not shoved to the ground. Donald Trump pointed out she had a pen in her hand, which could have been more than just a pen and which could have contained a concealed weapon. But even without considering what Ms. Fields may have been holding, she certainly penetrated through the permissible perimeter around the candidate. The Secret Service is clearly obligated to prevent unauthorized personnel from coming near the person they are guarding, let alone touching him. The Secret Service by right could have tackled the unauthorized intruder, and then examined what was in her head and her hand later. They had politely told her twice not to come closer, but she ignored them. The Secret Service is not trained to politely request potential murderers to step aside. For that, you can hire an openly obsequious perpetrator of a disservice-not a Secret Service-to politely ask questions. If anything, Lewandowski was not hired to be a bodyguard and did not tackle Fields to the ground, so he should be heralded as a hero who used restraint under the circumstances.

The villains here were not Trump nor Lewandowski, but rather Fields for her aggressive behavior and for disobeying the Secret Service and unauthorized touching of the presidential candidate, and all the people who defamed Donald Trump and Corey Lewandowski, including members of the mainstream media, and presidential candidates who oppose Trump and many of the supporters of these candidates.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Liberal-Socialism and the Erosion of Christian Canada

Over the past several years, the population of Christians in Syria has been reduced from 160,000 to approximately 40,000 people. In straight-forward terms, this religious community has been systematically murdered by Islamic militants. The situation is so extreme the U.S. government recently labelled the situation an act of genocide. The Canadian government, however, do not agree. Nor do they agree with most western governments that we are at war with ISIS.

Throughout this time period, Canada’s refugee program has been focused entirely upon Islamic refugees. In fact, the Syrian refugee crisis has been priority number one since the Liberals were elected into office. Why, one may ask, is our Liberal government exclusively focused upon the plight of Muslim refugees?

The entire spectacle is shrouded in mystery. Lacking a proper explanation from government, Canadians are left to draw their own conclusions. Why would Justin Trudeau, a person of such lofty moral standards, ignore the fate of the Syrian-Christians? Frankly speaking, if Trudeau put the same degree of elbow-grease into Christian-Canada that he directs toward Islamic-Canada, our churches would be filled to the rafters.

Of course, this will never happen. The Liberal party do not support the Christian faith, nor its various institutions upon Canadian soil. As it happens, this area of government support is reserved strictly for Islamic-Canadians.

Why? The answer is to be found in a simple word-socialism, or within a Canadian context- Liberal-Socialism. From an historical perspective, socialism has no affinity with Christian faith. The nation of China does not support it, nor does any other communist government. To state Islamic nations do not support it is to state the obvious.

As most Canadians understand it, a key differentiator between democratic and socialist nations is whether or not a government is established by way of a voting process. What Canadians may not understand, however, is that beyond the voting process, the Liberal government of Canada is firmly rooted in socialist ideology.

In recent history, a unusual alliance has developed between Liberal-Socialism, and the nation of Islam. Although incongruous upon initial investigation, both movements have one thing in common- an all-encompassing malevolence toward the Christian religion.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pass, Fail — An Inside Look at the Retail Scam Known as the Modern University

For the past seven years, I’ve polled my students at the University of Prince Edward Island on two questions. First: If you were told today that a university education was no longer a requirement for high-quality employment, would you quit? Second: If you decided to stay, would you then switch programs?

Positive responses to both questions run consistently in the 50 percent range. That means at least half of my humanities students-or about 750 since 2007-don’t want to be there.

Why not? A university degree, after all, is a credential crucial for economic success. At least, that’s what we’re told. But as with all such credentials-those sought for the ends they promise rather than the knowledge they represent-the trick is to get them cheaply, quickly, and with as little effort as possible. My students’ disaffection is the real face of this ambition.

I teach mostly bored youth who find themselves doing something they neither value nor desire-and, in some cases, are simply not equipped for-in order to achieve an outcome they are repeatedly warned is essential to their survival. What a dreadful trap. Rather than learning freely and excelling, they’ve become shrewd managers of their own careers and are forced to compromise what is best in themselves-their honesty or character-in order to “make it” in the world we’ve created for them.

The credentialing game can be played for only so long before the market gets wise and values begin to decline. I have been an educator in Canadian universities for over fourteen years, having taught some eighty-five liberal arts courses. During that time, evidence has mounted showing that a bachelor’s degree from a Canadian university brings with it less and less economic earning power.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Britain Won’t be Able to Leave the EU for Two Years Because of Biased Brussels Rules, Warns Former Head of the Civil Service

Britain’s ex-top civil servant was today under withering attack for saying the idea of Britain quitting the EU is ‘scary’.

Lord Gus O’Donnell — who served as Cabinet Secretary to David Cameron — argued the UK would be unable to negotiate its exit from the Brussels club within the two years allowed by EU treaties.

In the latest Establishment intervention on behalf of the Remain camp, he said we would then be left at the mercy of other member states in requesting extra time to secure trade deals.

Lord O’Donnell, who was elevated to the Lords under Mr Cameron, said this prospect was a ‘bit scary’.

His remarks triggered anger from senior ministers and Leave campaigners — who dismissed his argument as ‘absurd’ and ‘doing Britain down’.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

British ISIS Fighter Says ‘Gatwick Will be Next’ For Brussels Style Attack

The terror suspect, who appears to be fighting with ISIS in Iraq, warned on Instagram that jihadis would bring carnage to the country’s second largest airport using ‘sleeper cells’ sent from Syria.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

French Minister Compares Veiled Women to ‘Negroes Who Supported Slavery’

A French government minister on Wednesday compared women who wear the veil to “negroes who supported slavery” amid a backlash against the growing trend for Muslim-orientated fashion.

Families minister Laurence Rossignol sparked outrage on social media with her comment which came after former fashion mogul Pierre Berge lashed out at designers creating Islamic clothing and headscarves, accusing them of taking part in the “enslavement of women”.

The businessman, a partner of the late fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent, took aim at the wave of big fashion chains that have followed the Italian designers Dolce & Gabbana in catering specifically to the Muslim market.

Rossignol, who is also responsible for women’s rights, maintained she was referring to an abolitionist tract by the French philosopher Montesquieu, “On the Enslavement of Negroes” when she made her controversial comments on BFMTV and RMC radio.

Read more: Fashion mogul accuses designers of ‘enslaving women’ with Islamic styles

As she apologised for using the n-word, two leading French designers — Agnes b and Jean-Charles de Castelbajac — also came out strongly against so-called “modest” Muslim-friendly fashion.

“I am scandalised by it,” Berge told Europe 1 French radio.

“Creators should have nothing to do with Islamic fashion. Designers are there to make women more beautiful, to give them their freedom, not to collaborate with this dictatorship which imposes this abominable thing by which we hide women and make them live a hidden life.”

Rossignol admitted later that she had made “an error of language”.

“But other than that… I don’t take back a word,” the socialist said.

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French Minister Sparks Outrage by Comparing Muslim Women Who Wear the Veil to ‘Negroes Who Supported Slavery’

A senior French politician today sparked outrage by comparing Muslim women who wear fashions designed for their own religion to ‘negroes who supported slavery’.

Laurence Rossignol, the families secretary in the Socialist government, was reacting to new lines by designers who increasingly cater for followers of Islam.

They include millions of women in countries such as Britain and France who are increasingly drawn to the clothes in a market said to be worth more than £200billion a year.

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Paris Terrorist Salah Abdeslam Agrees to Turn Supergrass for French Police… Making the World’s Most Wanted Man Now the No.1 ISIS Target

Paris terrorist Salah Abdeslam has agreed to turn supergrass for French police — making the world’s most wanted man now the number one ISIS target.

The 26-year-old, suspected of being the logistics chief behind the deadly Paris terror attacks in November, was captured earlier this month during a raid in Brussels.

Abdeslam has not spoken to investigators since the Belgian capital was hit by suicide bombs at the airport and a metro station last week. But this morning it emerged that Abdeslam now wants to ‘cooperate’ with French authorities.

The terror suspect had previously told interrogators he had intended to blow himself up at the Stade de France stadium in Paris but had backed out at the last minute.

In subsequent interviews, he has continually tried to blame the killing on other ISIS operatives, saying that he simply provided hire cars and other logistics.

There were fears before his capture that he may have tried to flee to Syria. But he may have been fearful of becoming a target himself in the ISIS heartland — having pulled out of his suicide mission.

He will now be extradited from Belgium to France.

‘He wants to cooperate with the French authorities,’ lawyer Cedric Moisse said, as a prosecutor was set to travel to the prison in the city of Bruges where Abdeslam has been held since March 18 for an extradition hearing, which was granted today.

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Politico: ‘Europe’s Muslims Hate the West’

From Politico.eu:

The first reaction to the Brussels massacres among postmodern European intellectuals was predictable: What did we, Europeans, do to them, our Muslims? How could followers of a religion that is proudly called “the religion of peace” commit these kinds of atrocities?

People like Peter Vandermeersch, the Belgian editor-in-chief of Dutch newspaper NRC-Handelsblad, and Belgian writer David Van Reybrouck, both accomplished intellectuals, argued that Belgium must have done something terrible to deserve this. Their line of reasoning: The terrorists’ fury must be a reaction to their inhumane treatment at the hands of the West.

So, we blame ourselves in order to remain blameless. Safer to blame our own societies and socioeconomic conditions than to blame the religious and cultural concepts with which terrorists poison their own minds…

[…]In December 2013, Professor Ruud Koopmans of the Berlin Social Science Center published a study on “Fundamentalism and out-group hostility,” in which he compared hostility among Muslim immigrants with hostility among Christian natives in Western Europe. He writes: “Almost 60 percent agree that Muslims should return to the roots of Islam, 75 percent think there is only one interpretation of the Quran possible to which every Muslim should stick and 65 percent say that religious rules are more important to them than the laws of the country in which they live.” In regards to Christian citizens he concludes: “Less than 4 percent can be characterized as consistent fundamentalists.”

On hatred of Jews and homosexuals among Europe’s Muslim population, Koopmans finds: “Almost 60 percent reject homosexuals as friends and 45 percent think that Jews cannot be trusted. While about one in five natives can be considered as Islamophobic, the level of phobia against the West among Muslims — for which oddly enough there is no word; one might call it ‘Occidentophobia’ — is much higher still, with 54 percent believing that the West is out to destroy Islam.” Recorded rates of Christian hate toward Muslims hover around 10 percent.

“Occidentophobia” is an interesting term. It expresses a refusal to accept the essential concepts of life in the West. Young men like the perpetrators of the Brussels attacks have refused to embrace the social codes of Belgian life. They were raised on the idea that their religious ethics trump the ethics of the infidels (close to non-existent, in their eyes, in any case). Their second-rate socioeconomic status was therefore a humiliating affront, an indignity to be destroyed.

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Race-Blind UK Home Secretary’s Delusion Over Muslim Extremists in Britain

The race-blind shortsightedness of modern Western liberalism has been displayed once again with the announcement by British Home Secretary Theresa May that she will bring in new “anti-social behavior order” (ASBO) regulations as an attempt to halt Muslim extremism in that country.

The announcement, made after it emerged that a Muslim invader living in Britain, but now fighting with the extremist Islamic State (IS) movement in Iraq, was responsible for the videotaped decapitation of US journalist James Foley.

May, a leading member of Britain’s Conservative Party, said the “new civil powers” would “target radical preachers whose outbursts fall short of breaking the law, and similar ASBO-style ‘banning orders’ to outlaw groups communicating extreme views.” Neither of these acts would, under British law, be criminal acts by themselves, but breaching the orders would be a crime.

Writing in the Telegraph newspaper, May said the British government needs to “stop people travelling to fight in Syria and Iraq” and for that reason she had removed the passports of some 23 “British citizens who want to travel abroad to engage in terrorism.” She also announced that of those with dual nationality, she would strip them of their British nationality and deport them.

None of these measures will, despite May’s claims, solve the problem at hand. This is because she, like the rest of her party, have failed to understand the racial nature of the Islamic conquest of Europe. May seems to actually believe that, given enough time in Europe, these Middle Easterners will actually just become “Europeans,” albeit darker-skinned ones.

This delusion is emphasized in May’s concluding comments in the Telegraph: “As the Prime Minister wrote recently in The Telegraph, we are in the middle of a generational struggle against a deadly extremist ideology. We will be engaged in this struggle for many years, probably decades.”

In other words, May appears to believe that this “problem” will be solved after a few decades-that these Middle Easterners will “stop” being radical over a period of time. This race-blind and false assumption ignores the historically-proven reality that a society’s culture is only a reflection of the people who make up the majority population of that community-and once the majority of the population undergoes a racial change, the society’s culture will change to reflect the inner soul of the new population.

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Scotland: Asad Shah Believed to Have Received Death Threats Months Before He Died

A popular Glasgow shopkeeper is believed to have received death threats in the months before he died.

But the 40-year-old didn’t tell police or others in the Muslim community because he couldn’t believe anyone would want to harm him.

The details emerged at a press conference held in the Ahmadiyya mosque in Yorkhill yesterday, where leaders condemned the attack on Mr Shah and called for unity against extremism.

Ahmed Owusu-Konadu, external affairs secretary for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Scotland mosque, said: “He had received some death threats on Facebook and Youtube but, unfortunately, we were not aware of them before he was killed.”

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Scotland: Anti-Terror Police Launch Probe Into Glasgow Central Mosque Leader’s Pakistani Terror Link

Anti-terror police have launched an investigation after it emerged that the head of religious events at Glasgow Central Mosque, Sabir Ali, held senior positions in the UK branch of the group Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP) — an organisation responsible for terrorist atrocities in Pakistan.

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Scotland: Death of Ahmedi Shopkeeper in Britain Celebrated on Facebook

The killing of a Muslim shopkeeper described as a “brilliant” man, who showed nothing but kindness and respect towards others, has been celebrated by a sectarian Islamist Facebook page.

Entitled Anti Qadianiat (Tahafuz Khatme Nubuwwat), the page posted a comment, alongside a screenshot of an article about the death of Asad Shah, that said: “Congratulations to all Muslims.”

The page has previously posted clips calling Shah a “false prophet”.

Shah was actively involved in the Ahmadi Islamic community, which promotes “love for all, hatred for none”.

Tahafuz Khatme Nubuwwat claims to “educate” people about the “false” Ahmadi belief there were more prophets after Mohammed, Mirror reports.

Shah was attacked outside his Glasgow newsagents hours after posting an Easter message online wishing a Happy Easter to his “beloved Christian nation.”

He was found severely wounded with multiple stab wounds outside his shop in the Shawlands area of Glasgow.

In addition to his stab wounds, it is alleged the suspect also stamped on his head. Shah died later in hospital.

It is thought the assault on the newsagent was “religiously prejudiced”.

A 32-year-old Muslim man from Bradford has now been charged with Shah’s murder.

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Scots Mosque Leaders in Pakistani Terror Link

LEADING figures in two of Scotland’s biggest mosques have been linked to an organisation responsible for terrorist atrocities in Pakistan.

The head of religious events at Glasgow Central Mosque and the leader of Polwarth Mosque in Edinburgh have held senior positions in the UK branch of the group Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP), documents claim.

The organisation was officially banned by the government of Pakistan in 2002 for its violence against the Shi’a community. It had been proscribed the previous year by the UK Home Office.

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‘Take the Threat Seriously’: US: Russia, Europe Need to Fight ISIS Together — Ex-DIA Chief Flynn

“What I’ve heard over the past 24 hours is a bunch of excuses” from Europe following the fatal Brussels airport and metro attacks, Flynn said in an exclusive interview on Wednesday. “We have to stop apologizing for the political correctness that I see just running rampant.”

Flynn, who led the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) between 2012 and 2014 and commanded US Special Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq before that, believes there is a direct link between migrant crisis and the Brussels and Paris terror attacks.

There is very little coordination between EU nations right now, even as border controls “absolutely” have to be tightened, Flynn warned, reminding that Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has said it wanted to infiltrate Europe and the US through the refugee stream.

“There is a major problem how we vet these refugees that are coming in, where they come from, how we document them, how we share the documentation, how we then share the intelligence surrounding them,” Flynn said, adding that information-sharing between the law enforcement, security services and intelligence “has to get better, it must.”

Terror in the heart of EU: global threat demanding global response has been ignored for years. Could the tragic events happening in Europe now been prevented if the EU hadn’t been so deaf?

It took the Belgian authorities months to act against the suspected ringleader of the terror attacks in Paris, and Tuesday’s bombings have been speculated to be a reaction to his arrest.

“This is not just authorities in Belgium, this is the leadership of Europe, of the EU,” Flynn said, arguing that the US, Russia and the entire international community have to stand together against what he described as a “vicious enemy, getting worse by the day.”

The first step would be to take the threat seriously, he argued, pointing out that the EU has not done so. While governments all over Europe preach multiculturalism, terrorists hide in “no-go areas,” where law enforcement is too afraid to go into.

“You can’t have that in one’s country, you just can’t have that,” Flynn said.

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UK: Birmingham Named Worst City for Crash for Cash Claims

Birmingham has been ranked as England’s “crash for cash” capital.

The second city is the number one location where motorists are most likely to fall victim to the scam, according to an insurance group.

Aviva said 25% of its 3,000 crash for cash claims last year were in Birmingham, in particular the B11 area of Sparkbrook, Sparkhill and Tyseley.

Research showed Leeds, Harrow, parts of London, Bradford, Luton, Coventry and Oldham were all in the top 10 hotspots.

More on crash for cash, plus other Birmingham stories

The figures include induced accidents, where innocent motorists are targeted, as well as staged accidents, when two damaged cars are brought together to make it look like an accident.

The biggest crash for cash scam in the UK involved a gang making bogus claims worth £132,000.

And in one case, a staged accident caused the death of another driver.

Recently, gangs have targeted bus passengers to claim thousands in alleged whiplash injuries.

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Does ISIS Possess Saddam Hussein’s WMDs?

An interview with Ken Timmerman by Mike Bates and Jerry Gordon

Following his South Carolina victory, GOP Presidential front runner Donald Trump was on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace on February 21, 2016 when the subject of the War in Iraq came up. Trump contended it was a disaster. He pointed toward the result, Iran taking over Iraq and its oil reserves, something he alleges would stop if he were elected President. Trump was on record in an interview with Howard Stern in September 2002 tentatively supporting the Iraq war, but later questioning its cost. Wallace’s question was triggered by an exchange with Anderson Cooper of CNN during the South Carolina town hall on February 19th. His comment about WMDs in Iraq caught a wave of attention. In the exchange with Cooper he said:…

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Disgraced UN Climate Boss Pachauri: I’m the Victim of a Big Oil Conspiracy

Rajendra Pachauri, the disgraced former head of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), has produced an ingenious defence against the sexual harassment charges he is now facing in an Indian court.

It turns out that, no he didn’t pester, bombard with emails, and grope the attractive female employee at his TERI climate research institute.

Rather, the whole thing is the result of an evil conspiracy by climate change sceptics and right-wing think tanks, funded by Big Oil. Apparently they hacked into all his computer accounts and, without his knowledge, sent a series of flirtatious emails and love poems to his unnamed accuser.

Pachauri was given generous space to make these extravagant claims by John Vidal, one of the numerous environment editors who works at the Guardian — in this case its Sunday edition the Observer — and who for years has uncritically championed the world-saving, Nobel-prize-winning work down by the IPCC.

If — as Pachauri claims — this really was a hack, then his persecutors certainly have a twisted sense of humour.

One of the emails he supposedly sent reads:

“I will go on a fast after a cricket match … I will break the fast only when you believe I love you with sincerity and unfathomable depth.”

another says:

I have never felt so overwhelmingly in love as I have been with you, and even though you gave me so much pain, I will always be your well-wisher and carry beautiful memories of the joyous moments between us, limited as they might have been.

Whoever wrote them has captured perfectly the clumsiness and absurdity of the cricket-loving, ice-shunning, vegetarian, yogic guru, as best displayed in the erotic novel Pachauri published a few years ago, Return To Almeira.

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Four Cartel Gun Battles in Four Days Near Texas Border

The most recent bouts of violence have resulted in four separate gun battles that killed four gunmen and one police officer. The raging civil war continues despite the constant assurances by Mexican government officials about the improving security conditions along the Tamaulipas border.

The first of the four recent gun battles began on Friday in the border city of Matamoros where Mexican soldiers killed two cartel gunmen, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas government revealed.

The shootout began when a convoy of Mexican soldiers spotted a pickup with two gunmen near the “November 20th” rural community. The gunmen tried to flee from authorities and started a high speed chase into Matamoros. During that chase two other vehicle ran into the convoy in an effort to help the gunmen in the white pickup.

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“Refugee” Slit Family’s Throats

A United Nations “aid” worker in Turkey has lifted the lid on the violent and murderous nature of the “refugees” currently being let into Europe-including one case where a Syrian slit his entire family’s throats before moving to Europe.

The aid worker-who has since resigned her job in horror-produced a report which a UK-based newspaper, the Express, has exclusively obtained.

According to the Express, the former UN official worked on the “frontline of the refugee crisis in Turkey” and her report tells of the “horrors that made her quit her job.”

The “most distressing account” of her time as a “counsellor” working with the UN in Turkey was, the Express said, when she “discovered an entire family who had been murdered in cold blood by a refugee who then fled to Europe.”

According to her report, the worker came across a “house full of people, children included, with their throats slit.”

She said the killer was a Syrian refugee who “took everything before heading west” toward Europe.

In another “terrifying experience” which then persuaded her to resign from her job, she was held captive for four days and tortured by a rebel group.

Her “work” in Turkey was founded on a government initiative to “re-home refugees away from the camps” into Turkish homes, where they were given guaranteed work and a chance at a new life.

But, she said, “around a third of those given the opportunity to live and work in Turkish towns and cities ultimately fled to Europe, lured by the promise of Western lifestyles”-confirming the truth that the “refugees” are not fleeing persecution when invading Europe.

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800,000 Migrants Lie in Wait in Libya, Ready to Break for Europe

A report from Libya claims there are at least 800,000 migrants on the coast waiting for the right moment to cross the sea to Italy, and the European Union (EU) plans a new summit to prepare for the next potential great wave of migrants.

Austrian paper Kronen Zeitung reports that French Interior minister Jean-Yves Le Drian claimed the number of migrants in North Africa waiting to cross the Mediterranean sea numbered in the “hundreds of thousands.” European Union foreign policy chief Federica Moghoerini confirmed the fears of the French official saying that the EU estimated at least 500,000 displaced people were waiting to flee to Italy. Ms. Mogherini was slammed by critics last week after she cried during a press conference following the Brussels attacks, with Members of the European Parliament calling for her resignation over the incident.

Libya has been a more or less failed state since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, and has seen rebel fighters and Islamic State militants battle for control of the country. For months Libyan government forces have struggled to combat the two groups who use the migrant crisis to extort money from African migrants who want to come to Europe.

Mr. Le Drian said their is an urgent need for sides to come together and form a national unity government to control the borders or Europe risks hundreds of thousands of African migrants arriving when the weather on the sea improves.

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Brussels Attacked by Refugee-Terrorists

At least three of the terrorists who took part in the March 22 attacks in Brussels were “refugees” who entered Europe via Greece and the Balkans route, the Greek government has confirmed.

Two of the nonwhites landed on the island of Lesbos on September 20, 2015, posing as refugees, while the third flew into Greece from Italy on July 23.

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Give Voters True Figures on Migrants Before EU Referendum, Says Watchdog: Concerns That Current Data ‘Falls Short’ Of the ‘Full Picture’

The British public must be informed about the true extent of immigration ahead of the EU referendum, the statistics watchdog warned last night.

The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) stepped into the heated debate amid fears figures on the number of foreigners flooding into the country are wrong.

The watchdog is concerned that current data on how many people are arriving in Britain ‘falls short of providing a full picture’ — meaning voters may not receive an accurate picture of migration ahead off the June 23 in-out referendum.

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John Bolton: Migrant Crisis in Europe is National Security Crisis for America

When asked if Europe’s migrant crisis is a national security threat for the United States, Former UN Ambassador and AEI scholar John Bolton said, “Oh, I think it is, and I think it’s already a national security issue for Europe,” during an interview with Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon.

Bolton added, “I think you could possibly see the results of this in the British referendum in June on whether they’re going to stay in the European Union, or not. They’ve seen what happened in Paris in November. Then back in January of 2015. They saw what happened in Brussels just last week. They’ve seen people pushing to get on the trains coming in the tunnel under the English Channel. And I think they already have their own domestic difficulties in the UK, and it’s going to have an effect on that referendum. And I think it is on elections all over Europe.”

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John Bolton: Open Borders ‘Destroying’ The American ‘Experiment’

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton tells Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon that, in effect, unfettered illegal immigration is “destroying this experiment” known as America and “the consequences will come sooner than later and they will be negative in their entirety.”

Beginning the immigration discussion in Europe, said Bolton:

There’s a philosophy out there and it’s the kind of conventional wisdom on the International Left that International borders, you know, they’re just kind of there and really people should be allowed to go anywhere they want. They don’t like to say that so expressly publicly. And I guess I’m exaggerating for effect to an extent, but the notion that a given nation — a Spain — can be filled with, I know this is anachronistic, Spanish people, is something that they reject. So, if you live in the Middle East and want to live in Germany, why not?

When asked about America’s Southern border, said Bolton:

I think that after decades of being lectured by our friends in Europe about out attitude toward illegal immigration, they’re now seeing the chickens come home to roost. I think citizenship is a critical concept in a democratic society and America has, over the years, because of our melting pot phenomenon, our ability to integrate people from all over the world — it’s our national motto E Pluribus Unum — it has made us the greatest country in History. If you abandon that and say that citizenship is for anybody that happens to be on our side of the border, you’re destroying this experiment. And the consequences will come sooner than later and they will be negative in their entirety.

Asked if the migrant issue in Europe is starting to become a national security issue for the United States, said Bolton:

Oh, I think it is. I think it’s already a national security for Europe. I think you could possibly see the results of this in the british referendum in June on whether they’re going to stay in the European Union, or not. They’ve seen what happened in Paris in November. Then back in January of 2015. They saw what happened in Brussels just last week. They’ve seen people pushing to get on the trains coming in the tunnel under the English Channel. And I think they already have their own domestic difficulties in the UK and it’s going to have an effect on that referendum. And I think it is on elections all over Europe.

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Major German Newspaper: 1960s Anti-Immigration Firebrand Enoch Powell Was Right

German establishment newspaper Die Welt (The World) has published a sympathetic article about former British Conservative politician Enoch Powell — a hero of anti mass migration campaigners often vilified by the political left — in a reflection on the migration crisis.

In British political discourse, reference to the late Wolverhampton Member of Parliament is most often an invitation for a firestorm of criticism from the same sort of pro mass-migration activists who contributed to the downfall of Mr. Powell himself. Yet the same does not appear to hold true in Germany were a thoughtful editorial on the prescience of Mr. Powell’s comments on mass migration has elicited little excitement.

Reporting the classical source of his now infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech — the Roman poet Virgil — the column by German historian Michael Stürmer said no one in British politics had been “punished” so “mercilessly” as Powell for stepping out of line.

Entitled ‘Powell’s Early Warning on Mass Migration’, the piece opens by quoting the book of Ecclesiastes from the Bible, that “Everything on earth has its own time and its own season”, appealing to the idea that Powell himself was ahead of his own time, and crucified politically for it.

Remarking that Powell’s message was not just “against the political correctness of the 1960s”, it also offended the interests of British industry which wanted to import cheap labour. Pursuing that goal, the editorial contends, Britain like Germany did not at the time give attention to “the idea of long-term consequences” and so suffers today.

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Sweden: Easter Car Burnings

Nonwhite “immigrant” violence ripped apart the Swedish suburb of Hovsjö in the city of Södertälje, with brick throwing, car burnings, and attacks on police starting over the Easter weekend.

The trouble started on Thursday evening, when police and the fire brigade were called to a burning car in Hovsjö-and were met with nonwhite mobs throwing bricks and setting additional fires.

The riot quickly escalated, with large fireworks also being fired at the police. At least two other vehicles were burned, and another one damaged severely.

The nonwhites set up burning tires on pedestrian overpasses, and bombarded the police with what appeared to be large fireworks.

Södertälje police were forced to request reinforcements from Stockholm, some twenty miles away.

According to the Länstidningen newspaper report of the events, the larger number of police patrol were eventually able to bring the nonwhites under control, although arrest operations carried out past midnight.

Later that night, however, just after two o’clock, two more cars were burned out in a townhouse area in Alby, a municipal area of the Botkyrka Municipality within the greater Stockholm area. Like Hovsjö, Alby is completely overrun with nonwhite “immigrants.”

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Switzerland: 60 Jihadist Cases

Switzerland-another nation being flooded with nonwhite “refugees”-currently has no less than 60 Jihadists being investigated for possible terrorist links, that country’s attorney general has announced.

Speaking to the Neue Luzerner Zeitung, Michael Lauber confirmed that the number of criminal investigations into Islamist groups in Switzerland has doubled in the past four months.

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Tempers Flare at Cramped Idomeni Migrant Camp as Knife Fight Breaks Out Among Stranded Refugees — But Macedonia Insists the Greek Border Will Remain Closed

Escalating tensions in the Idomeni refugee camp in Greece led to a knife fight breaking out today between two asylum-seekers living in cramped conditions in the over-crowded camp.

Horrified bystanders looked on as a volunteer attempted to break up the violence, which broke out during what was reportedly a makeshift party at the camp.

Some 12,000 people remain camped out in the harsh conditions near the border village of Idomeni, despite daily calls by the government to move to nearby shelters built by the army.

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The Flooding of America

New nonwhite “immigrants” to America now form over 25 percent of the population in six states, and over 15 percent of the population in 16 states-making up a total 61 million people, according to a new report by the Center for Immigration Studies.

All of these “immigrants” have come to the US since 1970, pushing the white element of the US population down from 84 percent to less than 62 percent today.

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Turkish Troops ‘Are Killing Refugees’ As They Try to Cross Border From Syria: Father and Child Are Among 16 Migrants ‘Shot Dead in the Past Four Months’

Refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war are being shot dead by Turkish border forces, it was reported last night.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 16 migrants, including three children, had been killed in the past four months as they tried to cross into Turkey.

The true number is believed to be higher, according to a Syrian police officer and a Syrian smuggler who lives in Turkey, but it is impossible to say exactly how many because the bodies of those who fell on the Syrian side of the border were dragged back to be buried in the war zone.

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Religious Freedom Crushed: Illinois Inn Fined Over $80,000 for Refusing to Host Gay Wedding

The left is literally trying to destroy this man’s life simply because he believes differently than they do

This is not about “equal rights,” this is about extortion.

These fanatics could have gone anywhere to host their civil union, they instead chose to target and harass this one Inn owner and persecute him solely for his beliefs.

From Reuters:…

Why would you even want to hold your wedding at a place where people don’t want you?

Who wants to give money to people who hate them?

This is pure politics, they shopped around for someone to shakedown. The amount of stress this must have put this man under is immeasurable, and now he’s been hit with an obscenely large bill for the “crime” of wishing to use his own property as he sees fit.

Take a look at TimberCreek Bed & Breakfast’s Yelp page, it’s rated one star because of left-wing fanatics vandalizing it with a flood of fake reviews.

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Stand Up and Fight Islamization of the West: An Interview With Paul L. Weston of Liberty GB by Jerry Gordon

On April 26, 2014, Paul L. Weston, founder of the Liberty GB party, was arrested at Winchester Guild Hall in London for reciting an excerpt from Sir Winston Churchill’s River War, attacking the barbaric Islamic Qur’anic doctrine. The River War concerned the British campaign in 1898 that defeated the Mahdi’s Jihadi army in the Sudan which had enslaved Sudanese Africans and subjected all in his conquered realm to a brutal form of Salafism. The Mahdi’s jihadis had killed and beheaded legendary Major Gen. Sir Charles Gordon at the siege of Khartoum in 1883. Gordon who was immensely popular in Britian had been sent to the Sudan by the Khedive of Egypt to reign in the Islamic enslavement of Africans.

At the time, we wrote of what Weston called a “stunt” in an interview on the Lisa Benson Show both after his release from jail in April 27, 2014 and on a reprise March 20, 2016. We wrote at the time of Weston’s arrest in 2014:…

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12 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/31/2016

  1. Of course not to forget that the current tolerance and enforcement of Islam in general is self assured distruction of freedom and civilizstion in general. In western Europe you are not alone.

  2. re. Women Wearing Hijab/Veils are like Slaves Supporting Slavery:

    I was at a local Smart & Final grocery two weeks ago. While fishing out my wallet, I happened to glance to my right, to the customer next in line behind me.

    I was stunned to see, in the San Francisco East Bay, a woman in a niqab. I gave her a quick, straight-on-in-the-eyes look, and returned to my fishing expedition.

    Once I had walked out to my car and loaded my two bags into the front seat, I was additionally surprised to see that she and her party had parked nose-to-nose with my car. So I got a good look at her group: two women in niqab and a young man maybe 15 years or so buried in his iPhone or game-playing mobile. I say “15 or so” because he didn’t yet have a beard.

    The *only* good part was that the women were driving and were in the front seats. The young man was in the back seat.

    Niqabs. In a grocery store not 6 miles from my house. Bleah.

    • Beware of drivers wearing niqabs. Let’s just say I’ve noticed that some of them don’t quite have the amount of driving experience that one would hope for.

      • The real problem as I have seen it is not so much experience as it is a complete lack of peripheral vision because these women do not lift the face covering to drive. As a transportational cyclist in Portland, Oregon I used to say that the vast majority of the near misses I had with drivers involved cell phones and texting. Here in Edmonton, Alberta, I’ve had to add niqab-wearing drivers to my near-miss list of causes. I think it comes to about 15%.

    • I actually work in a grocery store in Edmonton where we get a fair number of women in niqabs. It’s taught me a lot about how much I rely on lip reading due to some hearing loss in one ear, especially when the person’s first language is not English. It has also taught me how much I rely on facial expressions to comfortably interact with others while performing customer service work. I find providing customer service to women in niqabs frustrating and unnerving. I can’t anticipate their speech or their physical movements as I can with others. I am as uneasy around them as I am with people in masks on Halloween. It’s even worse when they have babies and toddlers with them. I’m sure it comes as no real surprise to anyone that knows anything about children that their babies tend to be fussier and more prone to crying because they cannot rely on their mothers’ body language for comfort and reassurance. I’ve also noticed the discomfort among my coworkers – even some of them that are Muslim themselves. We don’t talk about it, but it’s always there.

  3. I’m curious about how many regulars at GoV have read CAMP OF THE SAINTS, by Raspail, (1973). I don’t know if it was republished recently; my copy is pretty old, and buried here somewhere, unless I pressed it on someone.

    • I’m re-reading mine. It’s more a crystal ball than a novel. Everything is in there, from the migrants throwing away aid with disdain to them polluting the local swimming pool.

      • I read my copy possibly 18 months ago. I may have seen a reference to it on GoV or a similarly aware site. Had to order it.

        Raspail apparantly never believed it would be a Hindu problem but as long ago as 1973 had concerns about his life expectancy.

  4. I started reading it, but it was so depressing I couldn’t finish. Maybe I’ll try again, now that it’s spring. I bought it on amazon in paperback last year. what was your take on it?

    • My take:

      The people in power in the west are too narcissistic to have any survival skills left. And intellectuals have even less. He does get into this quite well.

      I suppose we would not call them intellectual if we thought they were intelligent.

      The book is well worth a read or two but it is depressing.

  5. BareNakedIslam: BELGIUM: Muslims sing victory song two days after Brussels terrorist attacks
    A group of Moroccan Muslims was singing in the centre of Brussels an Islamic victory song (Nasheed) in order to celebrate the successful terror attacks of Airport Zaventem and the Metro of Brussels.
    If you view the video closely, you see some naïve Belgians bleeding hearts who are clapping with their hands without even knowing what the song is all about. is a traditional Islamic song that the Ansar (residents of Madinah) sang to the Islamic prophet Muhammad upon his arrival at Medinah to welcome him after completing the Battle of Tabuk.
    ===========================
    Youtube provides the following: Nasheed Amantu Billah – Nasheed video with transliterated lyric first, then at the two minute mark an alleged english translation of the lyrics:

    Allah is the creator of heaven of of earth
    Nothing may compare with Him,
    He is the One alone
    The prophets, best of humankind
    Sent to all nations and all tribes
    Last of all Muhammad
    mercy to the worlds.
    ***Chorus shahada
    la ilaha illa Allah
    la ilaha illa Allah
    la ilaha illa Allah
    Muhammad Rasulullah
    *****
    Formed of light and beauty,
    the angels of the Lord
    To praise Allah, to help mankind,
    Jibril brings the word.
    The scriptures, all by Allah sent,
    Torah, Psalms and Gospel then
    The source of perfect guidance,
    the Glorious Quran.
    ***Chorus shahada
    la ilaha illa Allah
    la ilaha illa Allah
    la ilaha illa Allah
    Muhammad Rasulullah
    *****
    The reckoning, the Final Day
    when all will see their works
    Remade in soul and body
    to stand before the Lord
    With patience bearing evey grief
    With thankfulness for all blessing
    We are content with destiny,
    the will of Allah

    Faith is belief in Allah and the
    Messengers
    The angels and the Final Day,
    and the holy scriptures
    To believe in destiny that
    good and bad both come from Him
    and the Resurrection;
    there is no god but Allah.

    Read the comments to the video – sad how many truly ignorant people there are in the world – swayed by the drumbeat and soothing melody.

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