Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/2/2016

The fire that destroyed the historic Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Manhattan is now considered by the Fire Chief to have had a “suspicious” origin. Meanwhile, Australian authorities are investigating fires at two Orthodox churches — one in Sydney and one in Melbourne — that also occurred yesterday, after Orthodox Easter services.

In other news, 2% of the population of Bosnia has reportedly emigrated over the past two years. There’s no word as to what the likely destinations of the emigrants were.

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Thanks to AF, C. Cantoni, Dean, DV, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, KS, LP, MM, Nick, Srdja Trifkovic, Steen, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Puerto Rico Says it Will Default on Monday
 
USA
» America First Controversy
» Captain Cook’s Ship Endeavour ‘Found’ In Newport Harbor
» CIA Director Says Secret 9/11 Report Pages Full of Hearsay, Inaccurate Info
» Cruz Globalist Machine Behind Eagle Forum Coup
» Cuban-Born Americans Warn: U.S. Morphing Into Communist Country
» Detroit Teachers Hold ‘Sick-Out’ To Protest Against Funding Levels
» Historic Church Fire Deemed Suspicious
» Is This the Ultimate Act of a Frantic Establishment Willing to Do Anything to Stop Trump?
» Judge Temporarily Blocks Removal of Confederate Monument
» New Jersey Institute of Technology Student Shot Dead at Frat
» San Jose Brothers Reportedly Drove Straight to Anime Convention After Allegedly Killing Parents
» Soldier in Baltimore County Barricade at National Guard Facility is Now in Custody
» Techcrunch: NRA is ‘Right’: ‘Smart Guns’ Lead to Gun Control
» Ted Cruz Defends Carly Fiorina’s Outsourcing Record
» Trump: China Allowed to ‘Rape’ U.S.
» Trump on Cruz: ‘He Was Born in Canada Folks’
» Trump Touts Poll Giving Him Edge Over Clinton; Cruz Issues Dire Warning
» Trump Accuses China of ‘Raping’ US With Unfair Trade Policy
» Weird Tailless Comet, First Ever Seen, is a Building Block of Earth
» Who is Blocking 29 Million People in Los Angeles From Getting Water, And Why?
» World Map of Pluto Includes Every Image of Beloved Dwarf Planet
 
Canada
» May Day Marches Sweep Through North America, Turn Ugly in Montreal (Photos, Video)
 
Europe and the EU
» AfD Manifesto Criticized as ‘Unconstitutional’ For Statements on Islam
» British Man Killed in Norway Horror Helicopter Crash That Left 13 Dead Named
» Chinese Police Patrol in Italy to Make Tourists Feel Safer
» DNA Secrets of Ice Age Europe Unlocked
» Erdogan’s Big Prize: Europe at Odds Over Visa Freedom for Turks
» Europe Removes Ban on Fish Imports From Sri Lanka
» Fashion’s Marketing to Muslim Women Draws Ire in France
» Islamic Council of Germany Calls for Ban on Alternative for Germany Party
» Israel ‘Exploiting’ German Friendship: Govt Insider
» Italy: Arcelor Mittal: Marcegaglia in ILVA Bid if CDP Comes in
» Italy: Trevi Runs Red With ‘Blood’ Of Persecuted Christians
» ‘Lost’ Medieval Music Performed for First Time in 1,000 Years
» Norway: Unbelievable Video Shows Super Pumas Rotor Blades Flying Through the Air
» Promising Worlds Found Around Nearby Ultra-Cool Dwarf Star
» Sweden: ‘This Would Not Have Happened if I Was White’
» Switzerland: Anger as Basel Pool Bans ‘Maxi Burqinis’
» UK: Breast Cancer: Scientists Hail ‘Milestone’ Genetic Find
» UK: Everyone Howls at Batty Ken — But They Wouldn’t Dare Tackle Racist Muslims
» UK: Hillsborough Relatives’ Anger at ‘Secret Society’ Police Links
» UK: Hillsborough Inquests Hears David Duckenfield ‘Gave Masonic Handshake’ And Refused to Go to Planning Meeting
» UK: Julie Burchill: Labour Party “Jew-Hatred” Is Cynical Bid for Muslim Vote
» UK: Jeremy Corbyn Accused of Keeping ‘Controversial Company’ After May Day March With Communists
» UK: Muslim Set to Win London Mayor
» What a Week for Integration Britain!
 
Balkans
» Bosnia: 2% of Population Emigrated in Two Years
 
Middle East
» Kerry to Negotiate New Ceasefire in Syria — But With His Own Side
» Syrian War Criminals to Face Trial in Germany Include ‘Leader of a Notorious Islamist Group’
 
South Asia
» How the Lives of Osama Bin Laden’s Neighbours Changed Forever
» Photos: 1,700-Year-Old Sculptures Discovered in Ancient Shrine
 
Far East
» Report: North Korea ‘Pleasure Squads’ Include 13-Year-Old Girls
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia to Spend Over $11mn to Eradicate Carps by Releasing Herpes Virus Into Rivers
» Authorities in Melbourne and Sydney Investigating Orthodox Church Fires
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» South Africa: Hundreds of Well-Wishers Donate £2,000 to Waitress Who Was Refused a Tip by ‘Racist’ Black Oxford Student Because She Was White
» Strategy of Terror: The Suicide Bombing Girls of Boko Haram
 
Latin America
» Amid Impeachment, Marxist Brazilian President Cries “Coup” At UN
» ‘Comments Are Now Closed’: Illegal Alien Convicted of Murder After Stabbing Father of Two to Death, Ripping Out His Liver
» Hungry Venezuelan Soldiers Arrested for Stealing Goats Amid Food Shortage
» Venezuela’s Largest Beer Producer Shuts Down
 
Immigration
» Austria: “Refugee” Drug Gangs in Linz
» Consequences of Bad People Among Us
» Debate in Jordan on Syrian Refugees’ Future in the Country — From Fear They’ll be Naturalized to Calls for Integrating Them Into Jordanian Society
» Germans Shut Down Leftist Minister’s Pro-Migrant Speech & Chase Him Down in the Streets
» Germany’s Third Largest Party Adopts Anti-Islam Manifesto: Says “Muslims Are Not Welcome in Germany”
» Germany: Video: Hundreds Arrested at Rally in Stuttgart, Anti-Migrant AfD Party Conference Delayed
» German Establishment Rounds on Anti-Immigration Party Over Islam
» Germany’s Right-Wing AfD Adopts Anti-Islam Manifesto
» ‘Make America Mexico Again’: Why Americans Are Fed Up With Illegals
» Migrants Cling to Trucks in Bid to Reach Sweden
» Teen Boy in Sex Assault at Swedish Asylum Home
» Ticket to Europe: Refugee Crisis Focus Shifts to North Africa
» Violence by Illegals Against Trump — I Warned in 2006
 
Culture Wars
» Hate Crimes Against Jews Up Sharply in Britain, Audit Finds
 
General
» Chap Runs Windows 95 on Apple Watch
» Does ISIS Have a Mole in the MoD as They Claim?
» History of May Day
 

Puerto Rico Says it Will Default on Monday

Puerto Rico is going to default.

In a television address made Sunday, Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla said the island’s Government Development Bank (GDB) will not make a $422 million payment due to its creditors by the end of business on Monday, according to Bloomberg.

A Reuters report ahead of Padilla’s address released on Sunday evening said the GDB was, “expected to skip at least the principal portion of its payment to hedge funds, credit unions and other bondholders.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

America First Controversy

by Srdja Trifkovic

Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech last Wednesday deserves at least a solid B+ and you can read my take on it in the June issue of Chronicles. It offered an eloquent argument for offensive realism, based on the fact that the international system—composed of sovereign nation-states pursuing their interests—is still essentially competitive and Hobbesian. Trump is the only candidate who understands this cardinal fact, and who unambiguously states America is not and should not be an exception to that timeless principle.

There was no room in the column to consider in detail one aspect of Trump’s speech which has elicited a chorus of mainstream media and Jewish disapproval: his use of the term “America First.” The CNN asserted that the phrase “refers to the America First movement in the early 1940s, in which some elements were associated with anti-semitism and U.S. nationalism in the lead-up to World War II.” Note how “anti-semitism” and “U.S. nationalism” are neatly banded together, with the implication that they are in the same political and moral league.

Bloomberg’s columnist Eli Lake explicitly connected “Trump’s new slogan” with the “Nazi era,” thus reviving this “toxic” phrase which had long been banished from “respectable discourse.” He even accused Trump of emulating Charles Lindbergh’s attacks on FDR in his “personal aspersions against President Obama.” Lake—an “Israel Firster” if there ever was one—went on to claim that “Trump’s Lindbergh-like instincts were apparent in his speech” when he said he would ask NATO allies to pay a fair share for their defense, or else “the U.S. must be prepared to let them defend themselves.” As a cynic commented on informationliberation.com, “The term ‘America First’ was associated with something different in the past, therefore it pretty much means the same thing today, even though it doesn’t. Understand?” (Perhaps nothing better was to be expected from a journalist who five years ago eagerly propagated the atocity lie that Russian agents had bombed the U.S. embassy in Georgia.)…

           — Hat tip: Srdja Trifkovic [Return to headlines]
 

Captain Cook’s Ship Endeavour ‘Found’ In Newport Harbor

Marine archaeologists say they have likely found HMS Endeavour, which Capt. Cook sailed on when he discovered Australia, at the bottom of Newport Harbor.

The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP) says that Endeavour, which was renamed Lord Sandwich, is one of 13 ships scuttled in Newport Harbor in 1778. Lord Sandwich had been used to transport troops during the American Revolution and was scuttled in the days leading up to the Battle of Rhode Island.

The vessel was a bark, or three-masted sailing ship.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

CIA Director Says Secret 9/11 Report Pages Full of Hearsay, Inaccurate Info

CIA Director John Brennan said Sunday that 28 classified pages of a bipartisan commission’s report on the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks contains “uncorroborated, unvetted information” that some could seize upon to claim Saudi Arabian involvement in the attacks.

Brennan, speaking on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” said such claims would be “very, very inaccurate.”

The Obama administration may soon release at least part of the secret chapter, which some believe shows a Saudi connection to the Al Qaeda attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa.

A groundswell to declassify the documents began last month, when former Florida Sen. Bob Graham told CBS’ “60 Minutes” he believed the 19 hijackers “substantially” received support from officials in Saudi Arabia’s government and prominent members of society.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Cruz Globalist Machine Behind Eagle Forum Coup

Eagle Forum is a conservative organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972. They claim 80,000 members. In my previous articles, here and here, I explained how Eagle Forum was being torn apart by Cruz supporters within the organization.

Anne Cori and the Attempted Takeover

Phyllis Schlafly endorsed Trump, upon which her daughter, Anne Cori, launched a Board coup to take over Eagle Forum, and seize the bank accounts in the 501 (c)4. This is where the money lies, and money that can be given to candidates. A 501(c)4 allows endorsements of candidates. The following court case was brought by Phyllis’s daughter, Anne Cori, against Phyllis and Eagle Forum.

On April 26th, Phyllis went to court in Madison County, IL. Here is the press release sent out by President Ed Martin:…

Cruz has called for a number of constitutional amendments. In reality, he wants a Constitutional Convention (Con-Con). Why? Because he knows that in order to pass the North American Community which would give us a North American Union, he needs the Con-Con.

In a conversation with Bob Menges, the South Carolina director for the Convention of States (COS) Project, Cruz reiterated his support for the movement. Ted Cruz is unequaled in his hypocrisy and treachery. He knows perfectly well that we will need a new Constitution to change our status from a sovereign nation to a member State in the North American Union. Remember, Ted’s wife, Heidi, was on the CFR Task Force to write up the plan for the North American Community. He absolutely knows about the Parliament which the Plan sets up over Canada, the United States, and Mexico! The Parliament will consist of fifteen members (5 from each nation) to rule over the NAU. The North American Union would be yet another collective regional government, a new North American Soviet, that would clearly be the enemy of United States sovereignty.

Cruz’s close friends and supporters are also on the bandwagon for a Con-Con, Glenn Beck, David Barton, Mark Levin, and others.

[Comment: Triple Con. The Con of the Con-con. Phyllis Schlafly is 100% correct that the globalists are seeking the con-con in order to eliminate the Constitution prior to the move to a NAU (North American Union Soviet. Once a Con-con is called anything goes — there are no rules or restrictions — the new soviet like “constitution” has ALREADY been written and is waiting in the wings.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Cuban-Born Americans Warn: U.S. Morphing Into Communist Country

America transforming into SJW, socialist hellhole

Filmmaker and American citizen Agustin Blazquez never thought his native Cuba would become a communist country, but now he sees the same radical shift happening in America.

In this exclusive video interview for The Daily Caller News Foundation, he says the left has been clever by using “very non-threatening words,” like liberal, progressive and concerned citizens, for advancing government control of American lives. The truth about Cuban politics is hard to find because of media spin and propaganda dominating American discourse.

For Blazquez, watching American youth embrace avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, strikes him as “absurd.” It is the end result, he says, of the cultural marxist education and media propaganda that has anesthetized too many Americans who do not defend the values that made America exceptional.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Detroit Teachers Hold ‘Sick-Out’ To Protest Against Funding Levels

Most Detroit public schools closed on Monday for a “sick-out” in which teachers are protesting against funding levels for the school system.

Ninety-four of 97 schools in the 46,000-student district were closed for the day.

A union representing the district’s teachers urged them to call out sick because of dwindling funds.

The union says there is not enough money to pay teachers for the summer or for summer schooling.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Historic Church Fire Deemed Suspicious

Fire officials say a raging fire that has damaged the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Midtown Manhattan has been deemed suspicious for now, though the investigation is continuing.

The fire started at about 7 p.m. Sunday, just hours after its Orthodox worshippers celebrated Easter, and sent plumes of smoke billowing into the city’s skyline.

“We had a very heavy volume of fire on arrival, which is always a concern,” said Deputy Assistant Fire Chief Mike Gala at the scene. “We deemed the fire suspicious.”

The blaze was largely extinguished three hours later, but firefighters had to beat back small pockets of flames. The fire gutted the building and destroyed the church’s roof and stained glass…

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

Is This the Ultimate Act of a Frantic Establishment Willing to Do Anything to Stop Trump?

As Donald Trump inches closer to the Republican nomination, GOP insiders scramble to put a halt to the billionaire’s run for the White House. A new lawsuit filed in the state of California could prove to be the ultimate act of desperation by a frantic establishment willing to go to any lengths to end Trump’s bid for the Oval Office. However, if the allegations contained within the court documents are found to be true, they would not only spell the end of Trump’s presidential aspirations, but most likely his brand as a whole.

On April 26, a woman residing in California named Katie Johnson filed a lawsuit against Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein — for the amount of $100 million — accusing the two billionaires of “forcing her to engage in various perverted and depraved acts by threatening physical harm.” The plaintiff, who describes herself as Trump and Epstein’s “sex slave” in the papers, also accuses the pair of having threatened to kill her family if she told anyone of their crime.

The incidents alleged to have taken place over a four-month span in 1994 in New York City, when Johnson was only 13-years-old.

Of the four separate encounters Johnson outlined in the documents, the last incident is described in the most detail:

“On the fourth and final sexual encounter with the defendant, Donald J. Trump, the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, was tied to a bed by Defendant Trump who then proceeded to forcibly rape Plaintiff Johnson. During the course of this savage sexual attack, Plaintiff Johnson loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to “please wear a condom.” Defendant Trump responded by violently striking Plaintiff Johnson in the face with his open hand and screaming that “he would do what he wanted” as he refused to wear protection. After achieving sexual orgasm, the Defendant, Donald J. Trump put his suit back on and when the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, in tears asked Donald Trump what would happen if he had impregnated her, Defendant Trump grabbed his wallet and threw some money at her and screamed that she should use the money “to get a f*cking abortion.”

Jumping in front of the media blitz that accompanies rumors of this nature, Trump has already addressed the story, calling the events described by the woman a lie.

“The allegations are not only categorically false, but disgusting at the highest level and clearly framed to solicit media attention or, perhaps are simply politically motivated. There is absolutely no merit to these allegations. Period,” Donald Trump told RadarOnline concerning the court papers.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Judge Temporarily Blocks Removal of Confederate Monument

A judge has temporarily barred the city of Louisville from removing a 70-foot-tall Confederate monument from the University of Louisville campus.

Jefferson Circuit Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman signed a restraining order Monday morning forbidding the city from moving the 121-year-old obelisk honoring Kentuckians who died fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War.

Mayor Greg Fischer and University President James Ramsey announced Friday they would remove the monument, marking the latest government to reconsider its display of Confederate symbols following the massacre of nine black churchgoers in South Carolina last summer.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans and Everett Corley, a Republican running for Congress, filed for the restraining order on Monday. The judge scheduled a hearing for Thursday morning.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

New Jersey Institute of Technology Student Shot Dead at Frat

A New Jersey Institute of Technology student was fatally shot during a robbery at the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house.

A New Jersey Institute of Technology fraternity brother was fatally shot at the school’s Tau Kappa Epsilon house during a robbery Monday morning, authorities said.

Joseph Micalizzi, 23, lived in the frat house with his chapter brothers near the Newark campus, according to the school. He was shot around 3:30 a.m. and died at University Hospital.

Police have not named a suspect, and no arrests have been made. But the school said in a statement there is “no imminent threat” to the campus. The college offered a $10,000 reward for any information leading to the shooter’s capture…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

San Jose Brothers Reportedly Drove Straight to Anime Convention After Allegedly Killing Parents

On Friday, prosecutors charged 22-year-old Hasib bin Golamrabbi and his younger brother, 17-year-old Omar Golamrabbi, each with two counts of homicide for the murder of their parents, Golam, 59, and Shamima Rabbi, 57. The couple’s bodies were found in their San Jose home last Sunday, which had been vandalized and covered with cryptic notes. Scrawled all over the walls in black ink were messages including, “Sorry, my first kill was clumsy” and “Take care of your brother, or he’s next.”

“Golam and Shamima Rabbi were murdered inside their home by their two sons on Saturday, April 23. Golam was shot more than a dozen times. Shamima was shot once in the head,” Deputy District Attorney Matt Braker said in a press conference Friday, reported KPIX.

The two were arrested last Wednesday; Hasib in Tracy, Calif., and Omar in San Jose, Calif. where he’s been charged as an adult.

[“I want everyone to know what happened’: Brothers arrested in the homicide of couple found with chilling note]

According to police, Hasib allegedly shot Golam, his father, more than a dozen times before shooting his mother one time in the head, according to ABC7. The brothers appeared in court Friday, where they both pleaded not guilty. Hasib wore a yellow jumpsuit, which the Mercury News reported is traditionally worn by inmates in the psychiatric ward.

According to police documents, while the brothers both admitted to being at the scene, they offered conflicting accounts as to what transpired, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Hasib allegedly admitted to killing his father in the family’s garage, but he claims a “stranger” at the house, who he couldn’t identify, commanded him to do so. He then allegedly said he did not kill his mother nor did he witness her being shot.

Omar, on the other hand, said he was home when Hasib killed Golam and that there were no other intruders, the Mercury News reported.

After his brother killed Golam, Omar said he closed the curtains at Hasib’s request, who allegedly proceeded to kill Shamima. Before they left, Omar, again at his brother’s request, checked the garage door to make sure blood wasn’t seeping out from under it.

Friends discovered Golam and Shamima Rabbi’s dead bodies beside a sinister note inside their San Jose, Calif., home. Now the couple’s two sons have been arrested for their murder. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)

After both parents were dead, the brothers allegedly drove to the Kraken Con convention — an anime convention in Oakland — where police say they were seen “behaving normally,” according to the Mercury News…

           — Hat tip: DV [Return to headlines]
 

Soldier in Baltimore County Barricade at National Guard Facility is Now in Custody

Standoff at National Guard facility ends peacefully

A Special Forces soldier entered a closed National Guard armory building in Baltimore County on Monday morning, authorities said, setting off an alarm and starting a standoff with heavily armed police that went on for several hours.

The soldier was safely taken into custody Monday afternoon, Baltimore County police said. They said he is likely to face trespassing charges.

The soldier tripped an alarm at the Gunpowder Military Reservation about 11 a.m., Maryland National Guard spokesman Col. Charles S. Kohler said. The Army called Baltimore County police for help.

Because police didn’t know whether the soldier had access to weapons stored at the armory, they sent a tactical team and a negotiation team.

“The police were taking every precaution,” Kohler said.

The 244-acre facility and training grounds off Notchcliff Road houses a firing range, a navigation course and obstacles.

The man turned out to be unarmed and did not have access to the weapons, which were locked with a code, Baltimore County police spokeswoman Elise Armacost said. The soldier eventually agreed to come out of the building, Armacost said.

The soldier was sent for a medical evaluation, Armacost said.

The soldier’s identity has not been released, but Kohler said he is a member of B Company, 2nd battalion, 20th Special Forces Group, which is based at the facility…

           — Hat tip: MM [Return to headlines]
 

Techcrunch: NRA is ‘Right’: ‘Smart Guns’ Lead to Gun Control

On April 30, the tech blog “TechCrunch” examined the Democrat-led push for “smart guns” and concluded the NRA is “right” — that a successful push for smart guns will be followed by a mandate for smart gun purchases, i.e. a form of gun control.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Ted Cruz Defends Carly Fiorina’s Outsourcing Record

“Outsourcing is a big issue in Indiana,” Wallace said. “The company that controls Carrier Air Conditioning has announced they’re going to ship 2100 jobs from Indiana to Mexico. But Fiorina has a record as head of Hewlett Packard laying off 30,000 people and outsourcing many of those jobs to India and China. So I guess the question is: Will the Cruz-Fiorina team do the same thing to Indiana that she did to Hewlett-Packard?”

Cruz laughed and said, “Carly has an incredible business record and an incredible personal story.”

Cruz then proceeded to defend Fiorina’s business record, declaring: “She helped HP become the largest technology company in the world, achieved remarkable success. Many of those jobs, by the way, were transferred from one state to another within the United States.”

However, Cruz’s assertion that the jobs Fiorina cut were simply “transferred from one state to another within the United States” seems contradicted by multiple reports, fact-checks, and even Hewlett-Packard’s website itself.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Trump: China Allowed to ‘Rape’ U.S.

Donald Trump, Republican front-runner for president, told an Indiana crowd that China must be reeled in — that the communist-controlled country has been allowed to essentially “rape” the United States when it comes to trade.

“We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country and that’s what they’re doing,” Trump said, during a rally in Fort Wayne, in reference to the high number of China’s exports when compared to that of the United States, various media reported.

“That’s what they’re doing,” he went on, NBC News reported. “It’s the greatest theft in the history of the world.”

But under a Trump administration, all that would change, he vowed.

“We’re going to turn it around,” he said, CNN reported. “And we have the cards, don’t forget it. We’re like the piggy bank that’s being robbed. We have the cards. We have a lot of power with China.”

Trump also made clear he wasn’t “angry at China,” but rather with “grossly incompetent” American leaders.

[Comment: Not grossly incompetent, but traitorous globalists puppets.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump on Cruz: ‘He Was Born in Canada Folks’

Donald Trump during a rally in Indiana doubled down on his view that Sen. Ted Cruz, who’s been giving him a run in the polls and delegate counts for the presidency, isn’t an American-born citizen and is therefore ineligible to seek the high White House office.

“He was born in Canada folks, he was born in Canada,” Trump said.

Trump’s remarks came shortly after Heidi Cruz referred to her husband as an immigrant, forcing his campaign to come out and clarify she meant he was the son of an immigrant parent.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Touts Poll Giving Him Edge Over Clinton; Cruz Issues Dire Warning

Donald Trump moved Monday to blunt the narrative that he would lose a general election to Hillary Clinton if he’s the Republican nominee, touting a new poll that showed him narrowly edging the Democratic presidential front-runner in a hypothetical match-up.

The Rasmussen Reports survey buoyed Trump’s campaign as he seeks to add to his hot streak on Tuesday in Indiana’s primary — a contest rival Ted Cruz is fighting hard to win.

Cruz has escalated his rhetoric as he courts Hoosier voters, even saying Sunday that Americans are “praying” for them. He warned against giving “in to evil.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Accuses China of ‘Raping’ US With Unfair Trade Policy

Mr Trump, a billionaire businessman, has long accused China of manipulating its currency to make its exports more competitive globally.

This, he says, has badly damaged US businesses and workers.

“We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country, and that’s what we’re doing,” he told the campaign rally on Sunday.

“We’re going to turn it around, and we have the cards, don’t forget it,” he added. “We have a lot of power with China.”

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Weird Tailless Comet, First Ever Seen, is a Building Block of Earth

A new kind of comet that is nearly tailless has been discovered — and the surprises don’t stop there. The new comet recently returned from the edge of the solar system but may have originated much closer to the sun, scientists say. In fact, it may even reveal clues about the building blocks of Earth.

Given the nearly tailless appearance of this new comet, the scientists named it a Manx object, after Manx cats, which are mostly tailless.

“I always tell my students that science is 99-percent hard work, sometimes tedious, because the details really matter,” said study lead author Karen Meech, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii. “But there is 1 percent of the time where there is the thrill of excitement, when you discover something new and unexpected and you know it is important,” she told Space.com. “This was one of those times!”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Who is Blocking 29 Million People in Los Angeles From Getting Water, And Why?

In my last article, Why Can’t California Farmers Get the Water They Need?, exposed were Gov. Brown’s appointees at the State Water Resources Control Board who ordered the release of massive amounts of water from the New Melones Reservoir and Lake Tulloch, to save a dozen fish, and Gov. Brown who has systematically booted a number of qualified people off of the California Water Commission, the body that decides how to spend $2.7 billion in Prop. 1 Water Bond water storage money.

Now we all need to know A “slough” of enviro-sounding non-profits claiming to be for waterfowl, ducks, trout, fish, nature, natural resources, and the environment, oppose shifting $8 billion in uncommitted rail bonds from the High Speed Train to nowhere, and $2.7 Billion in pre-designated water storage funds from the 2014 Proposition 1 water bond, to use to build new surface and underground water storage. Something is not as it appears in California.

These non-profit groups have been feeding at the government money trough, doing little or nothing to actually help improve water delivery issues, while the water shortage in California has only been getting worse.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

World Map of Pluto Includes Every Image of Beloved Dwarf Planet

A black-and-white map of Pluto’s surface — that includes all available and resolved images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecarft — is the most comprehensive view yet of the icy world.

Prior to 2015, the dwarf planet Pluto looked like little more than a fuzzy speck of light hovering at the edge of the solar system. That all changed when NASA’s New Horizons space probe made its close flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015. Since then, the agency has released a flood of beautiful, detailed and scientifically surprising photos of the icy world.

The new map brings together all the images that NASA has been slowly releasing, into a single global overview of the solar system’s largest known dwarf planet.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

May Day Marches Sweep Through North America, Turn Ugly in Montreal (Photos, Video)

Thousands have taken to the streets across the US to defend workers’ rights, and protest against the treatment of immigrants and hateful presidential campaign rhetoric. Meanwhile 10 people were arrested in Montreal where May Day celebrations resulted in clashes with police.

Canada May Day celebrations ended up with crowds scuffling with the police just one hour into the demonstration.

Rallying to fight “imperialism, racism, borders and colonialism in an attempt to destroy capitalism,” the so-called anti-capitalist protest got a bit out of hand.

As the procession went into full swing, some protesters attacked police station on Saint Catherine Street. Two large police station windows were smashed by projectiles.

[Comment: The history of May Day — http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/15268-history-of-may-day]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

AfD Manifesto Criticized as ‘Unconstitutional’ For Statements on Islam

The manifesto adopted by Germany’s right-wing populist AfD party has been condemned by politicians ad religious communities. A Muslim leader called it socially divisive and a Jewish leader dubbed it anti-religious.

“Islam is not part of Germany” is the phrase in the AfD policy paper that is drawing fierce criticism across the country.

The manifesto approved by the majority of the 2,400 delegates at their party congress in the western city of Stuttgart demands a ban on minarets on mosques, the call to prayer, full-face veils for women and headscarves in schools.

Aiman Mazyek, who chairs Germany’s Central Council of Muslims, said the Alternative for Germany’s (AfD’s) “Islamophobic” agenda, would not help “one jot” to solve problems. He told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” it would only split German society.

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British Man Killed in Norway Horror Helicopter Crash That Left 13 Dead Named

THE British victim of a helicopter crash in Norway which left 13 people dead has been named locally as Iain Stuart.

Iain Stuart, from Laurencekirk in Aberdeenshire, was travelling in the Airbus Super Puma helicopter when it crashed on the Norweigan coastline on Friday.

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Chinese Police Patrol in Italy to Make Tourists Feel Safer

ROME — Chinese policemen are in Italy to start patrols with Italian officers in Rome and Milan in a two-week experiment.

Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said Monday that the aim is to make Chinese tourists feel safe and noted that it’s the first time China sent police to Europe for such a project.

Starting Tuesday, two Chinese uniformed policemen will patrol with Italian counterparts in Rome, while two others will patrol with Italian police in Milan. For the second week, the Chinese will switch cities.

The Chinese, who speak Italian, received training from Italian officials in Beijing. Three million Chinese tourists visit Italy annually.

Italy has scarcely drawn on its relatively-new immigrant communities for police officers.

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DNA Secrets of Ice Age Europe Unlocked

A study of DNA from ancient human bones has helped unlock the secrets of Europe’s Ice Age inhabitants.

Researchers analysed the genomes of 51 individuals who lived between 45,000 years ago and 7,000 years ago.

The results reveal details about the biology of these early inhabitants, such as skin and eye colour, and how different populations were related.

It also shows that Neanderthal ancestry in Europeans has been shrinking over time, perhaps due to natural selection.

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Erdogan’s Big Prize: Europe at Odds Over Visa Freedom for Turks

Brussels is likely to open the door for visa-free travel to Europe for Turkish citizens, even if Ankara doesn’t fulfill all the conditions imposed. Many in Europe are concerned that it could trigger a wave of new refugees from Turkey itself.

Ankara’s logic is simple: Given that Turkey is solving Europe’s refugee problem, the country’s 79 million people must be provided with visa-free travel to the EU, even if Ankara hasn’t yet fulfilled all 72 of the conditions set out by Brussels. That’s the price. Europe must turn a blind eye.

It’s likely that it will do so.

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Europe Removes Ban on Fish Imports From Sri Lanka

The ban was imposed in January 2015 against Rajapaksa government’s inability to curb illegal fishing. Since 2012, Sri Lankan fishermen under check due to lack of deterrent measures and violation of international law. Colombo exported 68% of fish to EU. The losses amount to 100 million dollars a year. Activist: “It is the fault of the unlawful conduct OF some fishermen, who then had a negative impact on the entire industry.”

Colombo (AsiaNews) — The European Union has decided to lift the ban on fish imports from Sri Lanka. Minister of Fisheries, Mahinda Amaraweera, has stated that European countries have decided to “lift the ban without conditions. We can now resume fish exports to Europe. “

Special envoy of the World Forum For Fisher People (WFFP) and national secretary of the National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO) , Herman Kumara, commented on the news to AsiaNews. He stated that “the primary motivation of the call comes from the Iuu”. The IUU is a European regulation approved in 2010 that aims to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The European legislation requires boats to expose their state flag and draws up a list of those authorized to fish and those who do not respect the laws.

The activist says that “vessels flying the flag of Sri Lanka will travel around the world. But it is the joint ventures that compete for fishing in international waters that cause the most damage to the fishermen of the motherland. The misbehavior of a few has had effects on the entire industry. “

The ban on the Asian island fish products was imposed in January 2015, due to the inability of the previous government of Mahinda Rajapaksa to prevent the illegal conduct of Sri Lankan fishermen who were fishing in international waters without permission. The fishermen’s activities had been under surveillance since 2012, when the European Union had raised the “yellow card” lamenting lack of control, lack of deterrent measures and violation of international law on fishing.

The Colombo authorities declared a loss of $ 100 million a year because of the ban. The island was exporting 68% of its fish products to the EU; the remainder was directed to other countries, especially the US and Japan.

Herman Kumara confirms that the restriction has “caused serious damage to the fish industry, also due to the fact that the price of the fish dropped dramatically.” He welcomed the EU decision and says that given that the European market absorbed almost all of the Sri Lankan tuna caught in deep seas, exports can now resume.

The elimination of the import ban, concludes the activist, “will lead to a further price increase. This will have positive effects on the lives of fishermen and their families, who have been extremely tested in recent months”

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Fashion’s Marketing to Muslim Women Draws Ire in France

The years-old debate about designing fashion for Muslim women who follow strict dress codes has reignited in France, raising the question of just what role, if any, European design houses have in a political debate.

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Islamic Council of Germany Calls for Ban on Alternative for Germany Party

In a remarkable interview with the BBC Newshour program on Sunday night, the spokesman for the Islamic Council of Germany (ISC) called for an outright ban on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party after comparing the AfD to the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP) of the 1930s:

BBC: But in a democratic system, if people are voting for them, what can you do?

ICG: We have to teach the people that we have made some experiences from the history, which are very similar and close to the what the AFD is now doing. They are excluding one religious group from the social life. Therefore, they have to be banned from the political system because you cannot deal with the enemies of the democracy by means of the democracy, so the democratic people have to exclude them from all the democratic platform.

BBC: So you want them banned. A party which has won seats in half of regional elections, which has — as you say — between 10 and 15 percent of the vote in opinion polls at the moment — you’d like to see them banned completely, would you?

ICG: Yes.

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Israel ‘Exploiting’ German Friendship: Govt Insider

A leading member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has accused Israel of exploiting German friendship, as Spiegel claimed Berlin is becoming ‘sceptical’ about its relationship with the Jewish state.

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Italy: Arcelor Mittal: Marcegaglia in ILVA Bid if CDP Comes in

85%-15% binding offer possible by end-May

(ANSA) — Rome, May 2 — Anglo-Indian steel giant Arcelor Mittal and Italy’s Marcegaglia steel group are reasy to bid for troubled steeelmaker ILVA is government bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) comes in with them, sources told ANSA Monday. If CDP agrees to join, the remainder of the consortium will be 85% Arcelor Mittal and 15% Marcegaglia, they said. The two groups had talks with CDP Monday outlining their plans. They said they would make a binding offer by an end-May deadline if the government bank comes into a three-way consortium. ILVA has been put up for sale after the court-ordered seizure of assets at its highly polluting Taranto plant, which is being cleaned up.

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Italy: Trevi Runs Red With ‘Blood’ Of Persecuted Christians

The Trevi fountain in Rome was bathed in red light on Friday, symbolising the spilt blood of persecuted Christians, in a grim makeover for one of Italy’s most iconic monuments.

Tourists looked on as survivors and relatives of victims of attacks on Christians in Africa and the Middle East made emotional pleas for an end to religious violence next to the fountain in the heart of the Eternal City.

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‘Lost’ Medieval Music Performed for First Time in 1,000 Years

The language of music is universal, but can be lost over time.

After a 20-year reconstruction effort, a researcher and a performer of medieval music have brought “lost” songs from the Middle Ages back to life.

The “Songs of Consolation” were recently performed at the University of Cambridgein the United Kingdom. Reconstructed from “neumes” (medieval symbols used to represent musical notation), the tunes accompanied poems from Roman philosopher Boethius’ magnum opus, “The Consolation of Philosophy.”

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Norway: Unbelievable Video Shows Super Pumas Rotor Blades Flying Through the Air

Horrifying video shows the rotor blades that fell off a Norwegian helicopter flying through the air on their own after the fireball crash that killed 13 people including a British man.

Helicopter carrying 13 people crashed on an island in western Norway.

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Promising Worlds Found Around Nearby Ultra-Cool Dwarf Star

Astronomers using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory have discovered three planets with sizes and temperatures similar to those of Venus and Earth, orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth.

Michaël Gillon of the University of Liège in Belgium, leading a team of astronomers including Susan M. Lederer of NASA Johnson Space Center, have used the TRAPPIST telescope to observe the star 2MASS J23062928-0502285, now also known as TRAPPIST-1. They found that this dim and cool star faded slightly at regular intervals, indicating that several objects were passing between the star and the Earth. Detailed analysis showed that three planets are present around the star.

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Sweden: ‘This Would Not Have Happened if I Was White’

Yasri Khan, the Muslim politician who quit Sweden’s Green Party last month after refusing to shake the hand of a woman interviewer has warned of an Islamophobic, racist campaign that risks turning Sweden into a divided society.

The Muslim politician who quit Sweden’s Green Party in a storm of controversy last month, after refusing to shake the hand of a woman interviewer, has warned that he has been the victim of an Islamophobic, racist campaign which risks turning Sweden into a divided society.

“There is Islamophobia in Sweden,” said Yasri Khan, who had been a senior member of the Green Party, told Dagens Nyheter in his first major interview since stepping down on April 20th. “I am quite sure I would not have been treated like this if I’d been a white man. I wish that Sweden was more tolerant.”

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Switzerland: Anger as Basel Pool Bans ‘Maxi Burqinis’

A swimming pool in Basel which is popular with Muslims has banned certain types of burqinis as part of a suite of rule changes designed to improve conditions at the venue.

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UK: Breast Cancer: Scientists Hail ‘Milestone’ Genetic Find

Scientists say they now have a near-perfect picture of the genetic events that cause breast cancer.

The study, published in Nature, has been described as a “milestone” moment that could help unlock new ways of treating and preventing the disease.

The largest study of its kind unpicked practically all the errors that cause healthy breast tissue to go rogue.

Cancer Research UK said the findings were an important stepping-stone to new drugs for treating cancer.

To understand the causes of the disease, scientists have to understand what goes wrong in our DNA that makes healthy tissue turn cancerous.

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UK: Everyone Howls at Batty Ken — But They Wouldn’t Dare Tackle Racist Muslims

By Peter Hitchens

I have known and disagreed with Ken Livingstone for nearly 40 years. I especially loathe his slippery excuse-making for the IRA, and I think he has done more damage to this country than almost any other figure on the Left.

But it is ridiculous to call him an ‘apologist for Hitler’, or to suggest that he is an anti-Jewish bigot.

I was just leaving the BBC’s Westminster studios on Thursday when Mr Livingstone stepped into an over-excited knot of political reporters. They looked like what they are — simultaneously a pack of snapping wolves, buzzing with self-righteousness, and a flock of bleating, conformist sheep, all thinking and saying exactly the same thing…

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UK: Hillsborough Relatives’ Anger at ‘Secret Society’ Police Links

CALLS for “greater transparency” about links between the Freemasons and police were growing last night in the wake of the Hillsborough inquest.

Relatives of the 96 victims have long believed the powerful “secret society” wielded influence at South Yorkshire Police.

They believe officers, including disgraced match commander Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield, were promoted above their capabilities because of their Masonic connections, then colluded in an alleged cover-up.

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UK: Hillsborough Inquests Hears David Duckenfield ‘Gave Masonic Handshake’ And Refused to Go to Planning Meeting

A former South Yorkshire Police chief inspector has told the Hillsborough inquests that match commander David Duckenfield gave him a masonic handshake and refused to go to a planning meeting three weeks before the disaster.

[Back story: dated 5th Sep 2014]

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UK: Julie Burchill: Labour Party “Jew-Hatred” Is Cynical Bid for Muslim Vote

Ken Livingstone’s anti-Semitist outburst is just an example of the “obscene” racism in left-wing politics, says Burchill.

As someone whose autobiography was called I Knew I Was Right, I’ve never been backward in coming forward when it comes to world-class gloating.

But never on any subject have I wanted so much to be proved wrong as on the obscene level of anti-Semitism — or Jew-hatred, to give it an uglier, more accurate name — infecting the left-wing in this country… the Labour Party has found itself supporting a sexist, homophobic, nihilist death cult — Islamism — just because the majority of those who practice it are dark skinned and the majority of Jews white… There are 230,000 Jews in this country and two million Muslims. If the Labour party was currently committing self-immolation for purely ideological reasons, it would be tragic enough.

But the fact that they are doing it cynically, as well — to win the biggest group of voters — compounds their catastrophe.

I am torn between feeling sad that the Labour Party I was brought up in is dying by its own hand and feeling glad that this brain-dead zombie which calls itself a political movement will soon be finished.

With each new day, and each new outburst, I’m thinking the latter.

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UK: Jeremy Corbyn Accused of Keeping ‘Controversial Company’ After May Day March With Communists

The Labour leader, thought to be the first in 50 years to address the event in London, insisted his party was ‘absolutely against’ anti-Semitism and other forms of racism.

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UK: Muslim Set to Win London Mayor

The real importance of Khan’s expected election victory is however that the predictable end-result of the policy of mass Third World immigration-pursued by successive Conservative and Labour Party governments-has now come to pass.

It is conclusive evidence-if any more was needed-that legal immigration is a larger threat than illegal immigration, and any nation which does not take immediate steps to ensure its racial homogeneity, will suffer London’s fate.

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What a Week for Integration Britain!

It’s been a terrific week for integration Britain. First the National Union of Students (NUS) elected what the BBC joyously headlined as its ‘First black Muslim woman president.’ Wahey! Another victory for diverse Britain. But amid the preliminary bunting some people still remembered that Malia Bouattia is principally known for two things: a reportedly extreme opposition to some things Jewish, and an equal opposition to measures which protect the country which gave her and her family sanctuary when they fled from Algeria. Ms Bouattia denies being an anti-Semite and insists she is, instead, simply anti-Zionist…

I noticed earlier this year from her appearance on an edition of the BBC’s The Big Questions that although she had suffered some of the harsher corners of Pakistani culture, Ms Shah was no moderate. And then yesterday morning the wholly unsurprising news emerged that she has spent recent years railing against the Jews and the State of Israel on social media. Specifically she seems to approve of a plan to remove all the Jews of the Middle East from Israel. If there is any irony to a Bradford Muslim telling the Jews of the Middle East to ‘go back to where they came from’ then it is clearly lost on Ms Shah.

Of course this is the same Ms Shah who sits on a Parliamentary Group investigating anti-Semitism. She has already issued the pro-forma statement stressing that in the wake of this unfortunate outing of her views she will be ‘seeking to expand my existing engagement and dialogue with Jewish community organisations, and will be stepping up my efforts to combat all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism’. Yes — that’s it! All that’s needed is for Shah to ‘fight’ racism just that little bit harder. Hitherto she just hadn’t been doing it quite enough. All she needs to do now is promise to crush ‘all extremists’ a little bit more and the sunlit uplands will be reached for all of us.

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Bosnia: 2% of Population Emigrated in Two Years

80,000 persons since July 2013

(ANSA) — TRIESTE — Over 80,000 persons expatriated from Bosnia and Herzegovina over the last two years searching for a better life abroad, Clix.ba portal reported quoting the data gathered by the Union for sustainable repatriation and integration in BiH (Unija za odrzivi povratak i integraciju u BiH). For a population of 3,8 million, these numbers represent more than a 2% of the total population.

The Organisation gathered information relative to the period from July 2013 to the beginning of 2016 in the framework of a project dedicated to the life of families returning to Bosnia after of a period of life spent abroad. “We found a situation different from what we had expected, realising that it is no longer a question of integration of those returning, but rather of permanence of persons in the country in general”, said Union’s director, Mirhunisa Zukic, underlining that entire families are leaving towns like Zvornik, Bijeljina, Brcko, Kalesija and Tuzla. Zukic said that Posavina — a canton along the border with Croatia, divided from the EU only by the river Sava — was particularly problematic. Not only the unemployed but also entire families with members already working in Bosnia are leaving. “The elderly who decide to leave are a few, but at the same time we are witnessing an exodus of young couples”, Zukic concluded.

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Kerry to Negotiate New Ceasefire in Syria — But With His Own Side

U.S. Secretary of State is in Geneva today to renegotiate a cessation of hostilities between the Syrian government forces and the foreign supported “rebels” in Syria. But there is something very curious going on with these negotiations. Kerry will neither talk with the Syrian government nor with the Russians. The Russian Foreign Minister is not even expected to come.

No, Kerry is negotiating with the U.S. allies Jordan and Saudi Arabia who support the same “rebels” that are opposed to the Syrian government that the U.S. itself supported all along. He now asks them to separate their proxy forces in Syria from the terrorist organization al-Qaeda/Jabhat al-Nusra.

[Comment: Idiot. They can’t separate them — it’s the same thing. Now they could create the “appearance” of separation — which is what Kerry may be suggesting in diplo-speak.]

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Syrian War Criminals to Face Trial in Germany Include ‘Leader of a Notorious Islamist Group’

The first case to be heard in Frankfurt tomorrow is that of a German national who posted pictures of himself posing with the heads of two decapitated civilians on Facebook (file photo of ISIS terrorists).

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How the Lives of Osama Bin Laden’s Neighbours Changed Forever

Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan in a dramatic and bloody raid by US Navy Seals on 2 May 2011. Five years on the BBC’s M Ilyas Khan finds loose ends, unsettling and unanswered questions, and a neighbourhood changed forever.

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Photos: 1,700-Year-Old Sculptures Discovered in Ancient Shrine

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Bazira (also called Vajirasthana) in the Swat Valley in Pakistan have uncovered highly detailed ancient sculptures. They date back more than 1,700 years.This particular sculpture illustrates an ancient Buddhist story. It shows a prince named Siddhartha departing a palace atop a horse named Kanthaka. The prince gives up his wealth in order to seek enlightenment.

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Report: North Korea ‘Pleasure Squads’ Include 13-Year-Old Girls

North Korea officials and leaders have kept “Pleasure Squads,” with girls as young as 13 years old, to give the men sex, massages, or to sing and dance while partially clothed, according to defectors.

The world only knows about the secret squads because of defectors. The squad allegedly includes 2,000 girls picked at random by North Korean soldiers. The girls must undergo regular examinations “to ensure their virginity is intact.” They cannot speak to friends or relatives once they join the group.

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Australia to Spend Over $11mn to Eradicate Carps by Releasing Herpes Virus Into Rivers

Australia will spend more than US$11 million in a bid to exterminate European carp by releasing a virulent strain of herpes into the country’s largest waterway.

As much as 15 million Australian dollars will be spent on funding the clearing of the Murray-Darling Basin from the country’s worst freshwater feral pest. This will be included into Tuesday’s federal budget, Australian authorities said on Sunday.

Interestingly enough, the war on fish is to be waged by an unusual means — the water will be contaminated with a special type of herpes, known as koi herpes.

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) scientists have been carrying out various tests for nearly a decade on other animals including chickens, mice, frogs, turtles and water dragons “to determine the safety and suitability” of the virus in dealing with an excessive carp population.

The virus was proven to be harmless to humans and animals, but it causes kidney failure in carps, attacks their skin and kills the fish after sitting tight in its system for about seven days.

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Authorities in Melbourne and Sydney Investigating Orthodox Church Fires

Australia’s second oldest Greek Orthodox church has been saved, but a Macedonian Orthodox church was gutted

Australia’s second oldest Greek Orthodox church has been saved after a fire broke out in Melbourne, a day after Orthodox Easter celebrations. The cause of the fire at the 115-year-old Holy Church of Annunciation of Our Lady in East Melbourne on Monday afternoon is still under investigation.

No one was inside at the time of the fire at 1.30pm, which was mainly contained to the roof.

Dejected church priest Kosmas Damianides said a historic icon of Mary that had been at the church since soon after its establishment in 1900 was probably destroyed.

“It’s a shock. I can’t believe it,” Damianides said on Monday.

Assistant chief fire officer Martin Braid said it was fortunate the Eastern Hill fire station was only a few hundred metres away.

He said the extent of the damage will be better known once the municipal building surveyor inspects the premises.

Annunciation of Our Lady is the second Orthodox church in Australia affected by fire after the Macedonian Orthodox Church of the Resurrection in Sydney’s south was gutted on Sunday night, hours after Easter celebrations.

The Rockdale church, parts of which have been standing since the 1890s, was engulfed in flames around 10pm on Sunday, less than 12 hours after the end of the Easter service.

Church treasurer Steve Kostovski says there were irreplaceable icons from around Europe inside and the church did not have contents insurance.

“It is heartbreaking,” an emotional Kostovski said as investigators took pictures of the rubble from a cherry-picker on Monday.

“The name of the church was resurrection of the Christ. It makes it even more sad because yesterday was the resurrection of Christ.”…

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South Africa: Hundreds of Well-Wishers Donate £2,000 to Waitress Who Was Refused a Tip by ‘Racist’ Black Oxford Student Because She Was White

Hundreds of well-wishers have donated money to a waitress to cover the tip a black Oxford student refused to pay because she was white.

Ashleigh Schultz, 24, was reduced to tears when Ntokozo Qwabe — a leader of the campaign to remove a Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford — and a friend wrote on their cafe bill: ‘We will give tip when you return the land.’

He bragged online that they had made her cry ‘typical white tears’, leaving him ‘unable to stop smiling because something so black and wonderful had happened’.

The incident last week at Obz Cafe in the Western Cape, South Africa, has ignited a backlash against Mr Qwabe, who was branded a racist bully.

Stacey-Leigh Wood, a friend of Miss Schultz, said: ‘This is so sweet of everyone that donated. That other idiot [Mr Qwabe] still needs to be slapped though.’

South African Mr Qwabe is a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, meaning he receives money from the Rhodes estate to study.

But he is also one of the leaders of the Rhodes Must Fall movement, which wants the statue of the 19th-century imperialist removed from Oriel College.

[Comment: Watch for this commie to become a future member of the S.African politburo.]

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Strategy of Terror: The Suicide Bombing Girls of Boko Haram

The Nigerian military looks to be slowly gaining the upper hand in its fight against Boko Haram. But the Islamist terror group isn’t going quietly and has begun using young girls as suicide bombers. We talked to some of those who escaped.

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Amid Impeachment, Marxist Brazilian President Cries “Coup” At UN

Abandoned even by many of her allies and facing impeachment proceedings at home supported by more than nine out of ten Brazilians, Brazil’s embattled president, former communist terrorist Dilma Rousseff (shown), was in New York City last week to fight back. After expressing her fervent support for the United Nations “climate” agreement and thanking her comrades for expressing “solidarity,” Rousseff practically begged the UN and the world’s media on Friday to help her battle against what she falsely described as a “coup d’etat.” She also denounced the alleged plot by supposed “conspirators” against her regime as being based on politics.

In the real world, though, following the overwhelming vote in support for impeachment in the lower House of Brazil’s Congress, few were buying the bogus narrative. In fact, with the extremist regime’s house of cards crumbling all around it amid explosive corruption scandals and the largest protests in Brazil’s history, even the left-leaning establishment press in the United States that has long carried water for Rousseff and her comrades — even describing her, absurdly, as “moderate” — was ultimately forced to reveal the facts. A “truth squad” of Brazilian lawmakers tailing the embattled Brazilian ruler around New York City also made it harder for her to lie.

In the capital Brasilia and beyond, critics from across the political spectrum lambasted the radical ruler for further tarnishing Brazil’s tattered international image with her whining and lies. Opponents of the regime — at this point, basically everyone — also slammed Rousseff for not respecting the law, the Brazilian Constitution, Brazilian institutions, and the will of the people as expressed through their elected representatives. Leaders of virtually every political party and governmental institution denounced Rousseff’s lies, too.

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‘Comments Are Now Closed’: Illegal Alien Convicted of Murder After Stabbing Father of Two to Death, Ripping Out His Liver

An illegal alien from El Salvador, Mauricio Morales-Caceres, faces life in prison without parole after being convicted of stabbing acquaintance Oscar Navarro, father of two, “at least” 89 times with a 15-inch butcher knife and tearing out his liver with his bare hands — but no comments on this shocking murder by a foreign national, who smiled cheerfully in his mugshot, are allowed, according to the Washington Post.

Illegal alien Morales-Caceres, 24, started by stabbing Navarro in the back before stabbing him in the face, then his head, and then his chest, according to prosecutors.

Standing before an image of the extremely gruesome murder scene, prosecutor Douglas Wink said Morales-Caceres sawed through his victim’s body to tear out his liver and place it on his chest.

“The defendant took the knife and sawed,” he said. “This man reached in with his bare hands and took out his liver. He probably thought it was his heart. He ripped out his liver and left it on his chest for the police to see.”

The Washington Post buried the fact that Morales-Caceresis is an illegal alien.

Nice of WaPo to share this detail at Paragraphs 37 and 38. Too interesting! @kausmickey https://t.co/ex7dDXMK8i pic.twitter.com/CzRMIPUZHO

— tedfrank (@tedfrank) May 1, 2016

They also shut down the comments section, explaining: “We turn off the comments on stories dealing with personal loss, tragedies or other sensitive topics.”

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Hungry Venezuelan Soldiers Arrested for Stealing Goats Amid Food Shortage

Six Venezuelan army officers were arrested Sunday after allegedly stealing goats from a nearby farm because they were hungry, the PanAm Post reports.

The soldiers were arrested in the central region of Lara after investigators spotted an unmarked van carrying dead animals. The army officers told local law enforcement they had no choice but to steal, kill and eat the animals because their army base, Fort Manaure, had almost run out of food.

The owner of the stolen goats told police he saw the theft when it happened. Local farmers claim this was not the first time somebody stole their animals.

“Instead of protecting us, they come to kill our animals,” farmer Jaime de Dios Verde Lameda told police, according to local media.

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Venezuela’s Largest Beer Producer Shuts Down

Alimentos Polar, the corporation responsible for making 80 percent of Venezuela’s beer supply, has shut down all its beer plants after months of being denied the dollars necessary to buy malted barley for production. The shutdown threatens to completely deplete Venezuela’s beer supply.

Maduro has threatened to “reclaim,” or seize, the Polar company, which also produces soft drinks and some food products, if they shut down production plants, calling the shutdown a crime. His only publicly produced solution has been for Mendoza to supply his corporation with locally-produced malted barley instead of importing it, which is impossible due to Venezuela’s inhospitable climate for barley.

Maduro has deemed Mendoza a “class enemy” and “head bigwig” due to Polar’s financial success in its 75-year history. Mendoza initially reacted to these attacks by penning an open letter to Maduro offering to negotiate with the government for access to dollars in April 2015, but his warnings that the company would soon run out of raw materials to make beer was ignored.

“Today it is Polar Beer, tomorrow it could be your business.”

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Austria: “Refugee” Drug Gangs in Linz

Gangs of Africans and Afghans who have swindled their way into Austria pretending to be refugees have turned a central children’s playground in Linz into a drug hell.

According to a report in the Austrian Wochenblick newspaper, the playground adjoining the Krempl building in central Linz has been a “drug hotspot” since the nonwhite invaders arrived last year.

According to Linz city police chief Karl Pogutter, the nonwhites run an active-and “uninhibited”-trade in marijuana, crystal meth, and other drugs.

“Some days and at certain times there are over thirty drug traffickers selling their banned substances,” Pogutter said, adding that they had been there since “last spring.”

A local woman-who asked the Wochenblick not to name her “for fear of reprisals from the criminals”-said that the dealing “goes on around the clock.”

“First it was just a few Africans, but now many Afghans have appeared. Often around here up to 50 people hang around dealing and smoking,” she said.

The Wochenblick continued: “Next to the park is a restaurant, frequented mainly by black Africans. Dozens of beer cans and liquor bottles lie piled up in a large plastic garbage can, evidence of a great party which was celebrated here. Residents say this is the main reason why the drug scene has come to the playground: the Africans meet here first and then go to the park.”

The Wochenblick asked a local if the police ever come to the area.

“Yes, they come regularly,” the local said, but the police are not taken seriously “because the dealers know that nothing can happen to them if they have only a small amount for personal use with them.”

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Consequences of Bad People Among Us

Mr. Trump may be a lot of positive and negative things, but when it comes to the consequences of letting bad people into our country, he has it exactly right

Early on in Donald Trump’s campaign for President in the 2016 race he made a comment that claimed, “the worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government.” According to Mr. Trump, Mexico is “sending people that have lots of problems” to America including rapists, drug runners, and other criminals. Immediately, there was blow-back, and The Donald claimed the media was distorting what he said. Later, in an attempt to clarify, Donald Trump added in a written statement, “Many fabulous people come in from Mexico and our country is better for it. But these people are here legally, and are severely hurt by those coming in illegally. I am proud to say that I know many hard working Mexicans-many of them are working for and with me…and, just like our country, my organization is better for it.” Trump also argued the Mexican government is “not our friend” and is taking advantage of the U.S. on “bad trade deals.”

As a result of his statements the popularity of Donald Trump as a consideration for President of the United States skyrocketed.

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Debate in Jordan on Syrian Refugees’ Future in the Country — From Fear They’ll be Naturalized to Calls for Integrating Them Into Jordanian Society

Since the onset of the war in Syria, refugees have flocked to Jordan. Some have been housed in refugee camps, but the vast majority settled throughout the country, burdening its society and economy — the latter of which is based primarily on foreign aid. Jordan has taken in massive waves of immigration over the years, mostly Palestinians and Iraqis, and with the influx of refugees from Syria is facing a huge financial burden as well as the demographic, social, economic, and political ramifications of their arrival and their presence.

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Germans Shut Down Leftist Minister’s Pro-Migrant Speech & Chase Him Down in the Streets

Notice how these leftist traitors who do everything in their power to shut down our speech love to cry “free speech” when they’re the ones in the crosshairs?

Where was Maas crying “free speech” when last month a bunch of right-wing Germans had their homes raided by police for posting “anti-migrant messages, anti-Semitic messages and songs with banned lyrics” on social media?

We’re all supposed to “play nice” while traitorous usurpers sell us out and destroy our countries. Meanwhile, when the left is in power they crush our freedoms and jail us for not complying their with “politically correct” bullsh*t.

It’s about damn time the right start fighting back against these left-wing fanatics. Let’s see how they enjoy getting a taste of their own medicine.

UPDATE: According to Face of a Dying Nation, Maas is “one of the biggest proponents of expanding censorship laws, demanding persecution, fines and jail-time for everybody posting ‘hate speech’ on social media.”

Using the same tactics as the left who destroyed their country, East Germans in Zwickau blew whistles and hurled boos and insults at Federal Justice Minister Heiko Maas to shut down his “pro-refugee” speech, then chased him down in the streets as he fled.

Note, Maas is the same Germanophobe who called last month for “sexy” display ads to be banned in an attempt to stop the “refugees” he loves so much from raping German girls.

[Comment: About time. A good start. More protests like these please… notice — – — no violence, but constant chant of traitor.]

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Germany’s Third Largest Party Adopts Anti-Islam Manifesto: Says “Muslims Are Not Welcome in Germany”

One week after Austria was shocked by the news that its right-wing, anti-immigrant Freedom Party, had swept the competition, gathering over 35% of the vote and leaving the other five candidates far behind, Europe’s anti-immigrant juggernaut just added to its momentum when neighboring Germany’s populist AfD party adopted an anti-Islam policy on Sunday in a manifesto that also demands curbs to immigration according to AFP. The biggest surprise however, is that the three year-old party is now also Germany’s third strongest party.

Formed only three years ago on what was originally a eurosceptic platform, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has gained strength as the loudest protest voice against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s welcome to refugees that brought over one million asylum seekers last year. However, with the migrant influx sharply down in recent months, the AfD has shifted focus to the signature issue of the xenophobic Pegida street movement, whose full name is Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident.

“Islam is not part of Germany” ran a headline in the AfD policy paper agreed in a vote by some 2,400 members at the party congress in the western city of Stuttgart.

The paper demanded bans on minarets on mosques, the call to prayer, full-face veils for women and female headscarves in schools.

A proposal for a more nuanced formulation, to “stop Islamism but seek dialogue with Islam”, was rejected with boos in the mostly-male gathering, which was held in a hall decorated with banners that read “Courage. Truth. Germany.”

“Islam is in itself political,” retorted one speaker, while another linked the religion with “sharia, suicide bombings and forced marriages”.

As AFP adds, in a broader sense the AfD is presenting itself as a nationalistic conservative force that also questions climate change, promotes traditional gender roles and “family values”, would reintroduce military conscription and take Germany out of the euro. Co-leader Joerg Meuthen said the AfD stood for a “modern conservatism” and a “healthy patriotism” while it rejected “the Germany of 1968, infected by the (socialist and environmentalist) red-green left”.

Having soared to national prominence and entering half of Germany’s 16 state parliaments, the AfD, which many see as the country’s answer to France’s National Front and Austria’s Freedom Party, has now firmly set its sights on national elections next year.

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Germany: Video: Hundreds Arrested at Rally in Stuttgart, Anti-Migrant AfD Party Conference Delayed

Police have made around 400 arrests as clashes broke outside the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party conference in Stuttgart.

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German Establishment Rounds on Anti-Immigration Party Over Islam

German politicians from across the spectrum criticised the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Monday after the party declared Islam incompatible with the constitution.

Aiman Mazyek, head of Germany’s Central Council of Muslims who has likened the AfD’s attitude towards his community to that of Hitler’s Nazis towards Jews, told the Osnabruecker Zeitung the AfD manifesto was “an Islamophobic programme” that “is of no help to solve problems, but rather just divides our country.”

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Germany’s Right-Wing AfD Adopts Anti-Islam Manifesto

Germany’s right-wing populist AfD Sunday adopted an anti-Islam policy in a manifesto that also demands curbs to immigration, as a poll showed it is now the country’s third strongest party.

Formed only three years ago on a eurosceptic platform, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has gained strength as the loudest protest voice against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s welcome to refugees that brought over one million asylum seekers last year.

“Islam is not part of Germany” ran a headline in the AfD policy paper agreed in a vote by some 2,400 members at the party congress in the western city of Stuttgart.

The paper demanded bans on minarets on mosques, the call to prayer, full-face veils for women and female headscarves in schools.

A proposal for a more nuanced formulation — to “stop Islamism but seek dialogue with Islam” — was rejected with boos in the mostly-male gathering, which was held in a hall decorated with banners that read “Courage. Truth. Germany.”

“Islam is in itself political,” retorted one speaker, while another linked the religion with “sharia, suicide bombings and forced marriages”.

“We must not repeat the mistakes of the 60s and 70s and look abroad for labour migration,” reads a line from the party platform taking shape at the meeting in the western city of Stuttgart.

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‘Make America Mexico Again’: Why Americans Are Fed Up With Illegals

There is something a bit unsettling about watching violent, foul-mouthed protesters waving the Mexican flag on American soil.

Over the weekend, Hispanic children lined the streets in Fort Wayne, Indiana — hurling filthy insults at Donald Trump supporters.

“F*** you,” the youngsters shouted as they flipped off passerby. “F*** you.”

Video captured images of the angry protesters wearing sombreros and holding signs that read, “Brown Pride.”

What kind of a parent would allow their child to behave that way in public?

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Migrants Cling to Trucks in Bid to Reach Sweden

Growing numbers of asylum seekers are trying to get to Sweden from Denmark by clinging to trucks, a ferry company has warned.

The ferry operator’s CEO Henrik Rørbæk urged drivers to look out for any attempts to board ferries illegally.

“This is of course an unfortunate and potentially very dangerous situation that these people put themselves and others in,” he wrote in the letter, Danish news agency Ritzau reported.

The number of people trying to make their way from Denmark to Sweden by sea has risen in recent weeks, according to the Danish Shipowners’ Association.

“We’re seeing the same trend that we’ve seen in the English Channel,” the association’s director Jakob Ullegård told Ritzau.

“When vehicles stop on the road down to the ferry they sneak up under the trucks.”

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Teen Boy in Sex Assault at Swedish Asylum Home

Five men have been arrested in Sweden for sexually assaulting a teenager at an asylum centre, in the latest in a string of serious crimes at the country’s overcrowded refugee centres.

The youth, who is between 15 and 18, also allegedly suffered an assault and threats of further violence while staying at the centre in Årjäng, Värmland, close to Sweden’s border with Norway.

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Ticket to Europe: Refugee Crisis Focus Shifts to North Africa

Hundreds of thousands of Africans are preparing to test their luck on the voyage across the Mediterranean to Europe. As the weather begins improving, the number of arrivals will rise — as will the number of deaths.

Europe continues to focus primarily on the war refugees coming from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. But it is often forgotten that increasing numbers of people from countries south of the Sahara are trying to head north as well. In 2015 alone, according to the European Union border control agency Frontex, 108,000 Africans made their way illegally to Europe. That represents an increase of 42 percent over 2014 — and experts believe the total is but a harbinger of what Europe may soon be facing.

Intelligence agencies are warning that hundreds of thousands of people are now waiting in North Africa for their chance to flee across the sea. Particularly from Libya, the dream of Europe looks closer than ever before.

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Violence by Illegals Against Trump — I Warned in 2006

Who incited the riot? Illegal aliens and their supporters. Who was beaten bloody? Trump supporters. VIDEO: Trump Supporter -Kicked, Punched, Assaulted, Forced to Climb Over Bushes to Escape Anti-Trump Mob

Back in 2006, illegals and their America hating supporters were demonstrating across this country. They did so with impunity as police stood around and watched. While Americans enjoy the First Amendment right to peacefully protest, that right is NOT extended to liars, cheats and thieves: illegal aliens. They are not citizens of this country and the only right they have is humane treatment as they are shipped back to where they came from…

Like the signs and banners back then, this round has a new favorite of the media. A little boy standing in front of a Mexican flag with a sign that says ‘Make America Mexico Again’. At those demonstrations that turned violent last Thursday and Friday, thugs were burning the American flag. Once again, ignorance abounds from illegals with their claims that America stole Mexican land:

“The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo (gwah-dah-loop-ay ee-dahl-go), which brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government had fled with the advance of U.S. forces.

“Under the terms of the treaty negotiated by Trist, Mexico ceded to the United States Upper California and New Mexico. This was known as the Mexican Cession and included present-day Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado (see Article V of the treaty). Mexico relinquished all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary with the United States (see Article V).

The United States paid Mexico $15,000,000 “in consideration of the extension acquired by the boundaries of the United States” (see Article XII of the treaty) and agreed to pay American citizens debts owed to them by the Mexican government (see Article XV). Other provisions included protection of property and civil rights of Mexican nationals living within the new boundaries of the United States (see Articles VIII and IX), the promise of the United States to police its boundaries (see Article XI), and compulsory arbitration of future disputes between the two countries (see Article XXI).” Library of Congress

So you see, we did not steal land from Mexico. Mexico ceded land to the U.S. and was paid $15 million dollars. In 1848 that was a hell of a lot of gold. If Mexicans have a problem with that treaty executed by their government they should take it up with them. But, of course, these are the uneducated masses the Mexican government is happy to get off their hands because illegals are a cash cow for Mexico:…

When the criminal impostor in the White House, a racist and bigot of the first caliber, usurped the Oval Office and the Demorats took over Congress, many of us could see exactly what was going to happen: the U.S. government would aid and facilitate the illegals invasion. This illegitimate administration and his lackeys in the worthless Department of Homeland Security have coddled illegals and bent over backwards with the help of lunatics like Gov. Jerry Brown of California to make sure illegals not only stay here, they are given sanctuary and free reign to murder Americans on the street in broad daylight.

Remember 32-year old Kathryn Steinle? Murdered by an illegal alien in SF in the middle of the day by an illegal who had been deported five times yet given ‘sanctuary’ by the lunatic SF city government. A bill was introduced in Congress called Kate’s Law which would heavily penalize illegals who sneak back into our country after being deported. Guess who blocked it in the Senate? You got it. The despicable, vile and soon to be retired, Dirty Harry Reid. The same Harry Reid who was for deporting illegals. On August 5, 1993, Dirty Harry’s office issued the following:…

The violence we’re seeing is being orchestrated by those who want open borders. Manipulate the dumb herds into committing violence all built on carefully crafted lies about Donald Trump. Illegals hate him because they can see their days living off your paycheck may be coming to an end.

Illegals have been biding their time:

Hide What’s in Your Heart Today, April 13, 2006: “April 10, 2006, Spanish speaking radio was sending this message: “Hide what’s in your heart today. We know in your heart your allegiance is to Mexico, but today use your head. Americans were upset about Mexican flags and our show of solidarity for reconquista. Now we must wear white shirts and wave the American flags being handed out. It will be difficult because we know in your heart your love is for Mexico, but hide it today.”

[Comment: America should treat illegals the SAME way that Mexico treats it’s illegals. Remittances from illegals are the 2nd biggest source of income for Mexico, the first being oil.]

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Hate Crimes Against Jews Up Sharply in Britain, Audit Finds

A report on anti-Semitism in Britain published Sunday found that hate crimes against Jews rose sharply in the past two years, with a 50 percent increase in violent crimes, while police have been charging fewer perpetrators.

The National Antisemitic Crime Audit from the non-governmental group Campaign Against Antisemitism said that nearly 1,000 incidents were reported in 2015, representing a 25.7% increase in anti-Jewish crimes on 2014, and making it the worse year on record.

Data collected from all of the country’s police forces showed that during 2014, UK police forces recorded 746 anti-Semitic crimes; that figure rose to 938 in 2015.

Violent crime jumped to 196 incidents, a 50.8% rise, in 2015 and accounted for 20.3% all crime against Jews, compared to just 126 incidents representing 16.9% of violent crimes the year before.

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Chap Runs Windows 95 on Apple Watch

It takes an hour to boot and you need to tickle the Watch with a stick while it loads

A chap named Nick Lee has managed to run Windows 95 on his Apple Watch.

We say “run”, and not installed, because he’s had to emulate it. As Lee explains the Apple Watch packs a 520Mhz processor, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of storage, specs that put many a PC to shame when Windows 95 launched back in 1995.

Of course Windows 95 just wasn’t built to run on Apple’s custom ARMory, so he had to get an x86 emulator running on the Watch and then get Windows 95 running on that emulator.

He used the Bochs emulator for the job and helpfully posted the tweaks needed to do the job to GitHub.

The code works, but emulation always comes with a heavy overhead so it takes an hour to boot Windows 95. That long period necessitated another hack: Lee built a machine to jiggle the Watch’s digital crown to prevent the device falling asleep.

As the video below shows, the results are curious, rather than producing anything usable.

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Does ISIS Have a Mole in the MoD as They Claim?

The terror group threatened to publish intelligence obtained by extremists working in the MoD (pictured) that could identify RAF drone operators and put them on a ‘hit list’.

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History of May Day

Most Americans associate May Day with the hanging of flower baskets or the National Day of Prayer. With the Cold War now a distant memory, we seem to have forgotten that May 1, or May Day, while traditionally representing the coming of spring, has been for over a century the most important calendar day of the year for communists, socialists, and anarchists. This was the traditional day in the Soviet Union and the communist bloc countries for massive parades, replete with missiles, tanks, rank upon rank of goose-stepping troops, red flags, and huge posters of Marx and Lenin. This has not changed in countries that are still officially communist, such as China, North Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam. In non-communist countries of the world, the communist and socialist parties have continued to hold May Day celebrations, usually under the banner of International Workers Solidarity Day.

According to The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, communist countries and communist parties celebrate May Day “by mobilizing the working people in the struggle to build socialism and communism.” The same source goes on to report: “On May Day the working people of the Soviet Union show their solidarity with the revolutionary struggles of the working people in capitalist countries and with national liberation movements. They express their determination to use all their power for the struggle for peace and building of a communist society.”

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3 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/2/2016

    • I’m less concerned now that Tommy has decent representation. And if it moves to a higher court there will be more sunlight on the trial proceedings. All to the good.

      I never did think they’d let it rest, but their failure gave Tommy a much-needed boost.

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