Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/29/2016

An estimated 700 would-be migrants are thought to have perished in several shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, according to the Italian coast guard. One of the capsized boats was carrying about 550 passengers. Meanwhile, nineteen would-be migrants were rescued from an inflatable boat in the English Channel by the British coast guard.

In other migration news, a British tourist was sexually assaulted by a North African immigrant on the island of Majorca.

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USA
» 91-Year-Old WWII Vet Beat With Oxygen Tank
» Crime Scene Declared After Looting at Virginia Battlefield
» Emails Show TPP ‘Collusion’ Between Big Banks & Obama Administration
» Facebook Begins Tracking Non-Users Around the Internet
» How Trump Won: He Didn’t Let the Media Mis-Define Him, And Neither Did You
» Latest Hillary Scandal: Lesbian Lovers
» Louisiana Lawmaker: Declaration of Independence is Racist
» NWO Calls to Overthrow “Dying White Majority”
» Oregon Senator Warns — the U.S. Government is Dramatically Expanding Its Hacking and Surveillance Authority
» What Drought? Trump Tells Californians “We’re Going to Solve Your Water Problem”
 
Europe and the EU
» Building Blocks of Life Spotted Around Comet for the First Time
» Malta: Jailed For Using Fake Passport
» Rosetta’s Comet Contains Ingredients for Life
» Sweden: Is Islam Compatible With Democracy?
» Verdun Battle Centenary Marked by France and Germany
 
North Africa
» ISIS Shoot Libyan Teenager for Swearing After He Refused to Say Sorry
» Roadside Bomb in Egypt’s Sinai Kills 2 Police
 
Middle East
» Erdogan Ally Wins Vote of Confidence in Turkish Parliament
» Iran Accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘Blocking the Path to Allah’ And Bans Pilgrims From Going to Mecca
» Iraqi Forces Complete Buildup Around is-Held Fallujah
» ISIS Fighters Seem to be Trying to Sell Sex Slaves Online
» Syria’s Cease-Fire Strengthens Al-Qaida Branch
» Thousands Flee ISIS Offensive in Northern Syria
 
South Asia
» Afghanistan: The Opium Farmers With the Police on Their Side
» Pakistani Christian Woman Accused of Blasphemy Refuses to Flee to Protect Christian Neighbors From Being Targeted
» The Murders in Bangladesh — The Role of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, And Local Jihadis
 
Far East
» Chinese Detergent Maker Apologises for Racist Advert
» World’s Scariest School Run? Chinese Children Tackle 800-Metre Cliff
 
Latin America
» Lufthansa Suspends Travel to Caracas Over Unstable Venezuelan Economy
 
Immigration
» 700 Migrants Feared Dead in Mediterranean Shipwrecks: UN
» Brit Tourist Sexually Assaulted in Majorca as Police Hunt North African Immigrant
» EU Referendum: Gove and Johnson Challenge PM on Immigration
» Germany’s New “Integration Law”
» Italy: Ventimiglia Mayor Suspends Himself From Renzi’s PD
» Liberals Shot and Wounded in Calais
» Mass Violence and Brutal Stabbings as 200 Afghan and Sudan Migrants Rampage in Calais
» Nineteen Migrants Rescued in the Channel After Inflatable Boat Started Taking on Water as it’s Revealed Britain Has Just Three Vessels to Stop People Reaching Our Shores
» ‘The French Have Been Silent for Too Long’: Identitarians March Through Paris
» UK Rescues 19 Migrants From Boat in Channel
 
General
» Geneticists and Historians Need to Work Together on Using DNA to Explore the Past.
 

91-Year-Old WWII Vet Beat With Oxygen Tank

Vet was a ball turret gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress!

As a staff sergeant flying in bombing raids over Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, Michael Nicholas Tristano flirted with death on a recurring basis.

The former ball-turret gunner cheated the reaper again last week, but instead of dodging German anti-aircraft guns’ flak from inside a B-17 “Flying Fortress” bomber, police say the 91-year-old veteran survived a savage attack inside his North Port home by the caregiver entrusted with his welfare.

Police say Tristano’s caregiver, whom he had known for at least a decade, clubbed him in the head multiple times with an aluminum oxygen tank and left him on the floor of his home to die on the night of May 15.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Crime Scene Declared After Looting at Virginia Battlefield

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s National Park Service says a portion of the Petersburg National Battlefield has been declared a crime scene after looting.

Chief of interpretation Chris Bryce said Saturday that park officials are in the process of assessing the damage. He said there were a number of places where the ground had been dug up earlier this week.

Petersburg National Battlefield is a 2,700-acre park, about 26 miles south of Richmond, that marks where more than 1,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died fighting during the Siege of Petersburg 151 years ago.

There are a number of locations on the battlefield where someone has gone in and actually dug and upturned the soil by several inches, Bryce said.

Unfortunately, he said, people will sometimes go into national parks or to battlefields and dig up relics in search of buttons from uniforms, bullets, artillery shells and other historic items. They often sell their loot online because there is a market for Civil War relics.

“When this happens, it’s not just a loss for Petersburg National Battlefield, it’s a loss for the American people,” he said. The timing of the looting could not have been worse, he said, because it comes right before Memorial Day. “And now we’re having to deal with a situation where someone has essentially come in and has desecrated the park on the eve of a very important weekend for us in terms of commemoration.”…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Emails Show TPP ‘Collusion’ Between Big Banks & Obama Administration

A series of emails released Friday show what activists describe as “collusion” between U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and Wall Street executives to push for the passage the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

The emails (pdf), obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the group Rootstrikers, which organizes against money in politics, include a message to Froman from a managing director at Goldman Sachs urging him to push for “robust commitments” on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions-which allow private corporations to sue governments for perceived loss of profits-to be included in the divisive trade deal.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Begins Tracking Non-Users Around the Internet

Facebook will now display ads to web users who are not members of its social network, the company announced Thursday, in a bid to significantly expand its online ad network. As The Wall Street Journal reports, Facebook will use cookies, “like” buttons, and other plug-ins embedded on third-party sites to track members and non-members alike. The company says it will be able to better target non-Facebook users and serve relevant ads to them, though its practices have come under criticism from regulators in Europe over privacy concerns. Facebook began displaying a banner notification at the top of its News Feed for users in Europe today, alerting them to its use of cookies as mandated under an EU directive.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

How Trump Won: He Didn’t Let the Media Mis-Define Him, And Neither Did You

It may not be officially official until the Republican convention in July, but Donald Trump last week passed the 1,237-pledged delegate mark, essentially making him the Republican nominee for president. …

How did Trump do it? No matter how many times the media and the political class hyperventilated over something he said or did, it made no difference. He just kept rolling all the way to the nomination.

I believe he won for several important reasons. One is that he didn’t concern himself with pleasing the media. They worked overtime to create the perception that he had no chance and was not even a serious candidate. Trump did not panic and overreact every time they did this. In fact, quite the opposite, he let it be known that he had little regard for them and really didn’t care what they said.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Latest Hillary Scandal: Lesbian Lovers

Allegedly used unsecured phone to talk with lesbian lovers

The National Enquirer is reporting Democrat presumptive Hillary Clinton used an unsecured phone on numerous occasions to contact lesbian lovers.

“It is my understanding that Hillary was careless — very careless,” a Beltway insider told the gossip newspaper. “What she wants to do in her own bedroom is her own business. But she didn’t take the necessary steps to keep her romps with other women secret, and now it’s going to explode in front of every American voter!”

In March, the newspaper reported emails on Clinton’s private email server included missives detailing her lesbian lifestyle. The accusation was not confirmed.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Louisiana Lawmaker: Declaration of Independence is Racist

Opposes proposed measure to have kids recite founding document in school

(London Daily Mail) A Louisiana lawmaker argued against a bill requiring public school students to recite excerpts from the Declaration of Independence because ‘only Caucasians were free’ at the time it was penned.

While the Declaration of Independence states ‘all men are created equal’, it took nearly a century later before the 15th amendment allowed men regardless of ‘race, color, or previous condition of servitude’to vote.

Barbara Norton said it was ‘unfair’to require children to recite the founding document, given it was written when slavery was still widespread.

Republican representative Valarie Hodges shelved the bill, which required public school students in grades four, five and six to recite a passage every day.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

NWO Calls to Overthrow “Dying White Majority”

More racial division leads to total state control

Here is The Guardian’s Steven Thrasher looking forward to the day when America’s “dying white majority” is overthrown and a political revolution led by people of color ends the “white supremacist” system currently represented by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

[Comment: Watch the video. A real *&%!#@&!!. ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Oregon Senator Warns — the U.S. Government is Dramatically Expanding Its Hacking and Surveillance Authority

Ron Wyden, a Senator from Oregon, has been one of the most influential and significant champions of Americans’ embattled 4th Amendment rights in the digital age. Recall that it was Sen. Wyden who caught Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, lying under oath about government surveillance of U.S. citizens.

Mr. Wyden continues to be a courageous voice for the public when it comes to pushing back against Big Brother spying. His latest post at Medium is a perfect example.

Here it is in full:

Shaking My Head

The government will dramatically expand surveillance powers unless Congress acts

Last month, at the request of the Department of Justice, the Courts approved changes to the obscure Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which governs search and seizure. By the nature of this obscure bureaucratic process, these rules become law unless Congress rejects the changes before December 1, 2016.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

What Drought? Trump Tells Californians “We’re Going to Solve Your Water Problem”

Forget the wall along the southern border, Donald Trump recently made what may be his boldest claim yet. During a rally in Fresno, California, Trump said that there isn’ t really a drought, and that if he wins the presidency, he’s going to solve the water problem.

Trump gathered intel from his friends in California who alerted him to the fact that there is water, but it’s being pumped into the sea allegedly in order to protect “a certain kind of 3-inch fish.”

“We’re going to solve your water problem. You have a water problem that is so insane, it is so ridiculous, where they’ re taking the water and shoving it out to sea. I just met with a lot of the farmers who are great people, and they’re saying we don’t even understand it. I’ve heard this from other friends of mine, in California where they have farms up here and they don’t get water. I said oh that’s too bad is it a drought, they said no we have plenty of water. I said what’ s wrong, ‘well we shove it out to sea’ .”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Building Blocks of Life Spotted Around Comet for the First Time

A frosty comet could have delivered the ingredients for life to Earth. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has spotted an amino acid on the comet it orbits — confirming that a ball of ice and dust can hold a major building block of life.

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which control essential reactions in living cells. Astrobiologists have long wondered whether they could have been delivered to early Earth on the backs of comets or asteroids.

In 2009, scientists reported that they had found the simplest amino acid, glycine, in comet dust brought back by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, but it’s possible those samples were contaminated with dust from Earth.

Now, Rosetta, which has been orbiting comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko since 2014, has definitively seen glycine in the gas cloud surrounding the comet. The probe also picked up the scent of phosphorus, a component of DNA.

Previously, the spacecraft had found alcohols, sugars and oxygen compounds, which are also needed for life and cellular structure. With the addition of glycine and phosphorous, all the major types of prebiotics have been found on the comet.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Malta: Jailed For Using Fake Passport

A Libyan national has been jailed for eight months after admitting to using a fake passport while travelling from Libya to the UK through Malta.

Prosecuting officer Darren Buhagiar charged Essam Hamad Elkershine, 28, with using a fake British residency permit.

The accused, Insp. Buhagiar told the court, was arrested at the airport after having arrived from Mitiga in Libya. His intention was to board another flight to Edinburgh.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Rosetta’s Comet Contains Ingredients for Life

Ingredients regarded as crucial for the origin of life on Earth have been discovered at the comet that ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has been probing for almost two years.

They include the amino acid glycine, which is commonly found in proteins, and phosphorus, a key component of DNA and cell membranes.

Scientists have long debated the important possibility that water and organic molecules were brought by asteroids and comets to the young Earth after it cooled following its formation, providing some of the key building blocks for the emergence of life.

While some comets and asteroids are already known to have water with a composition like that of Earth’s oceans, Rosetta found a significant difference at its comet — fuelling the debate on their role in the origin of Earth’s water.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Sweden: Is Islam Compatible With Democracy?

by Ingrid Carlqvist

It may have finally begun to dawn on the people that Swedish Sweden will soon be lost forever, and in many areas replaced by a Middle Eastern state of affairs, where different immigrant groups (mainly Muslims) make war on each other as well as on the Swedes.

According to Dr. Peter Hammond, in his book Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat, the goal of Islam is not to convert the whole world, but rather, to establish sharia law all over the world.

There is no country where Islam is dominant that can be considered a democracy with freedom of speech and equal justice under law.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Verdun Battle Centenary Marked by France and Germany

French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are marking the 100th anniversary of the battle of Verdun, the longest of World War One.

Hundreds of thousands of French and German soldiers died during 10 months of fighting in north-eastern France.

France eventually emerged victorious.

But today Verdun is seen as a symbol of Franco-German reconciliation, which was reflected by both Mr Hollande and Mrs Merkel in their speeches.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS Shoot Libyan Teenager for Swearing After He Refused to Say Sorry

Amjad Mohammed Ben Sasi, 19. had allegedly blasphemed during a dispute with a neighbour in the coastal city of Sirte, Libya and was publicly executed after refusing to repent.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Roadside Bomb in Egypt’s Sinai Kills 2 Police

Egypt’s state news agency says a roadside bomb has killed two police and wounded three conscripts in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula.

MENA quoted an Interior Ministry statement saying that the explosion happened Sunday.

Egypt has been hit with a wave of militant attacks that intensified after the military’s ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013. An Islamic State affiliate based in northern Sinai has claimed most of the attacks.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Erdogan Ally Wins Vote of Confidence in Turkish Parliament

Turkey’s new government, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s loyal ally, has easily won a vote of confidence in parliament.

Legislators voted 315-138 on Sunday to approve Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s government.

Yildirim, 60, replaced former premier Ahmet Davutoglu, who stepped down after falling out of favor with Erdogan over a range of issues. They included Davutoglu’s apparent lack of enthusiasm for constitutional changes, pressed by Erdogan, which would transform his largely ceremonial presidency into one where the president wields more power.

Yildirim has promised to immediately work toward passing the controversial constitutional changes demanded by Erdogan.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Iran Accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘Blocking the Path to Allah’ And Bans Pilgrims From Going to Mecca

Iran accused Saudi Arabia of “blocking the path leading to Allah” on Sunday when Tehran announced that its pilgrims would not perform the Hajj in Mecca this year.

If this ban is enforced, the annual Hajj in September will be the first in 30 years without any pilgrims from Iran, the largest Shia Muslim nation.

Iran and Saudi Arabia are bitter rivals, seeing themselves as the leaders of Shia and Sunni Islam respectively. Officials from both countries have tried to negotiate arrangements for Iranians to perform the Hajj this year, but without success.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Iraqi Forces Complete Buildup Around is-Held Fallujah

Iraq’s special forces have completed a troop buildup around Fallujah ahead of an operation to retake the Islamic State-held city west of Baghdad.

Maj. Dhia Thamir, of the Special Forces Service, says the last battalion arrived at dawn Sunday at the sprawling Tariq Camp outside Fallujah. Thamir declined to comment on troop numbers or the timing of the expected assault.

He says troops have recaptured 80 percent of the territory around the city since the operation began a week ago.

Fallujah, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, is one of the last major IS strongholds in Iraq. The extremist group still controls territory in the country’s north and west, including Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS Fighters Seem to be Trying to Sell Sex Slaves Online

“Another sabiyah [slave], also about $8,000,” the posting reads. “Yay, or nay?”

The photos were taken down within hours by Facebook, and it is unclear whether the account’s owner was doing the selling himself or commenting about women being sold by other fighters. But the unusual posting underscores what experts say is an increasingly perilous existence for the hundreds of women who are thought to be held as sex slaves by the Islamic State.

As the terrorist group comes under heightened pressure in Iraq and Syria, these female captives appear to be suffering, too — sold and traded by cash-strapped fighters, subjected to shortages of food and medicine, and put at risk daily by military strikes, according to terrorism experts and human rights groups.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Syria’s Cease-Fire Strengthens Al-Qaida Branch

Al-Qaida’s branch in Syria has recruited thousands of fighters, including teenagers, and taken territory from government forces in a successful offensive in the north, illustrating how the cease-fire put in place by Russia and the United States to weaken the militants has in many ways backfired.

The branch, known as the Nusra Front, has churned out a flood of videos — slickly produced in the style of its rival, the Islamic State group — that show off its recruitment drive. In one, young men line up for combat training. In another, a bearded al-Qaida fighter in a mosque urges a crowd of men to join jihad. A third shows an al-Qaida-linked cleric leading a graduation ceremony, handing out weapons to young men.

Since March, the group recruited 3,000 new fighters, including teenagers, in comparison to an average of 200 to 300 a month before, according to Rami Abdurrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group monitoring the conflict. He cited contacts within the Nusra Front. Other activists said hundreds living in camps for displaced people in the north have joined the al-Qaida branch.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Thousands Flee ISIS Offensive in Northern Syria

Thousands of civilians have fled an offensive by ISIS against non-militant rebels in northern Syria into territory controlled by a US-backed Kurdish-led alliance, a monitor said on Sunday.

The offensive against the towns of Marea and Azaz threatens to overrun the last swathe of territory in the east of Aleppo province held by non-militant rebels and bring ISIS to the doorstep of the Kurds’ Afrin enclave.

At least 29 civilians have been killed since ISIS launched the assault early on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

It came as the militants were under attack by the Kurdish-led alliance in Raqa province further east and by the army and allied militia around Fallujah in neighbouring Iraq.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Afghanistan: The Opium Farmers With the Police on Their Side

This year, Afghanistan is expected to produce more opium than the world consumes. Although billions of dollars have been spent trying to eradicate the crop, in some places the trade seems more institutionalised than ever, with local police openly supporting farmers.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Pakistani Christian Woman Accused of Blasphemy Refuses to Flee to Protect Christian Neighbors From Being Targeted

A young Pakistani Christian woman accused of blasphemy chose not to flee from her home, so that her Christian neighbors wouldn’t be targeted in her absence.

The accusations against Sonia Gill, 23, were eventually withdrawn, but not before she had refused to leave the “Christian Town” settlement near Gujrat.

Dozens of Pakistanis have been murdered and Christian settlements attacked after blasphemy accusations. In all recent examples, Christians fled their homes in the wake of the accusations, but Gill refused to do so, despite angry protestations outside her home.

“If I flee, what would happen to my Christian neighbors and their houses?” she said.

The accusation came less than a month after another Christian was accused of blasphemy in the village of Chak 44, just 100km away. On 16 May, an angry mob of about 70 people gathered outside Gill’s house, led by Muslim cleric Khubaib Jalali, who used to live in Mandi Bahauddin, the nearest city to Chak 44.

At least 150 Christian families live in Christian Town, which has three churches…

           — Hat tip: KS [Return to headlines]
 

The Murders in Bangladesh — The Role of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, And Local Jihadis

By Tufail Ahmad

Since early 2013, Bangladesh has attracted international media attention for the systematic killing of freethinkers and non-Muslims by Islamist forces in the country. In analyzing these killings, an important date to begin with is March 31, 2013 — the day a group of Islamist leaders submitted a list of 84 individuals to the Bangladeshi government and urged it to take action against secular bloggers and Facebook commentators for their remarks against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.

Since then, a number of secular activists and writers have been killed, including those whose names were not on the aforementioned list.

At the center of the Islamist movement in Bangladesh are not only the jihadis associated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS), but also Hefajat-e-Islam (“Defense of Islam”), a coalition of Islamist organizations supported by 25,000 madrassas (Islamic seminaries), which orchestrated a campaign against the secularist Shahbag Movement.

Hefajat-e-Islam enjoys the support of the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for political reasons. The Shahbag Movement was focused on demands to prosecute Islamists, especially the leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, for committing war crimes during the 1971 War of Liberation from Pakistan.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Chinese Detergent Maker Apologises for Racist Advert

A Chinese detergent maker has apologised to black people hurt by an advert in which a black man “washed” by its product was transformed into a fair-skinned Asian man.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

World’s Scariest School Run? Chinese Children Tackle 800-Metre Cliff

Authorities in south-west China have vowed to come to the aid of an isolated mountain village after photographs emerged showing the petrifying journey its children are forced to make to get to school.

To attend class, backpack-carrying pupils from Atuler village in Sichuan province must take on an 800-metre rock face, scrambling down rickety ladders and clawing their way over bare rocks as they go.

Images of their terrifying and potentially deadly 90-minute descent went viral on the Chinese internet this week after they were published in a Beijing newspaper.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Lufthansa Suspends Travel to Caracas Over Unstable Venezuelan Economy

German airline Lufthansa says it is suspending its flights to Caracas, citing the difficult economic situation in Venezuela.

Lufthansa spokesman Andreas Bartels said Sunday that the company is suspending its three weekly Frankfurt-Caracas flights “until further notice” from June 17. He cited Venezuela’s economic situation and difficulties in transferring currency.

Venezuela’s economy shrank 5.7 percent last year while shortages of basic goods multiplied.

Currency rationing is increasingly cutting Venezuela’s global trade. The government has created what amount to subsidized rates for hard currency and requires companies to get approval for converting local bolivars into dollars.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

700 Migrants Feared Dead in Mediterranean Shipwrecks: UN

More than 700 migrants may have drowned in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy in the last few days as they tried to reach Europe, according to the UN refugee agency.

Carlotta Sami, spokeswoman for UNHCR, told Associated Press an estimated 100 people are missing from a smugglers’ boat that capsized on Wednesday.

Sami said about 550 others are missing from a smuggling boat that capsized on Thursday morning.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Brit Tourist Sexually Assaulted in Majorca as Police Hunt North African Immigrant

The 23-year-old holidaymaker is said to have met her sex attacker during a night out in bar area Punta Ballena in the resort of Magaluf on the Spanish holiday island of Majorca.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

EU Referendum: Gove and Johnson Challenge PM on Immigration

David Cameron must accept the failure of the government’s manifesto pledge to reduce migration into the UK, two leading Vote Leave MPs have said.

Michael Gove and Boris Johnson said the pledge was “corrosive of public trust” while Britain remained in the EU.

But Number 10 said their claim was an “attempt to distract” from the fact that an EU exit would be “disastrous”.

It comes amid growing Tory turmoil over the EU, with some MPs threatening a post-referendum leadership challenge.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Germany’s New “Integration Law”

After months of haggling, Germany’s coalition government has agreed on a new “Integration Law” aimed at regulating the rights and responsibilities of asylum seekers in Germany.

The main focus of the law is to encourage refugees to learn enough German to be able to find a job and help pay for their living expenses.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has hailed the new law as a “milestone,” and Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel says it represents a “true paradigm shift in Germany.”

Critics counter that the new law is a largely symbolic measure directed at reassuring German voters and blunting the rise of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party.

[Comment: Trying to fool the German public into thinking the government is working hard to solve the problem (a problem the government created).]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Ventimiglia Mayor Suspends Himself From Renzi’s PD

Protest at failure to address migrant problem in border city

(ANSA) — Ventimiglia, May 26 — Ventimiglia Mayor Enrico Ioculano and 11 fellow local councillors said Thursday that they were suspending themselves from Premier Matteo Renzi’s Democratic Party in protest at the lack of help in coping with migrants in the Ligurian city on the French border. Domenico Casile, the PD head in the city, said that the move was a protest at “the lack of a political position by central and regional bodies of the PD and by the government to resolve the migrant issue in Ventimiglia”. Ioculano’s request for a migrant reception centre near to the city’s railway was met after Interior Minister Angelino Alfano visited on May 7. But hundreds of migrants continue to live camped out in conditions of poor hygiene near the Roja River, with Catholic charity Caritas handing out food.

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Liberals Shot and Wounded in Calais

A liberal refugee-helper volunteer was shot in the face by a nonwhite invader during this week’s tribal warfare between Afghans and Sudanese in Calais’s “Jungle,” French news reports have revealed.

In addition, at least four other liberals, all working in the “Jungle,” and the “Doctors without Borders” offices were attacked during the rampage by the “peace-seeking refugees.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Mass Violence and Brutal Stabbings as 200 Afghan and Sudan Migrants Rampage in Calais

MORE than 50 people have been injured after a violent brawl broke out between migrants in the Calais Jungle hoping to come to Britain.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Nineteen Migrants Rescued in the Channel After Inflatable Boat Started Taking on Water as it’s Revealed Britain Has Just Three Vessels to Stop People Reaching Our Shores

A group of nineteen migrants were rescued in the early hours of this morning after the inflatable boat they were in started to sink in the English Channel.

The UK Coastguard received a call for assistance just off the coast of Dymchurch in Kent, at 11.40pm on Saturday night.

A search and rescue helicopter was deployed as well as lifeboats from nearby Dungeness and Littlestone, and coastguard rescue teams from Dungeness and Folkestone.

The rhib (rigid-hulled inflatable boat), with 19 people on board, was found at 2am and the matter was handed over to Home Office Immigration Enforcement.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

‘The French Have Been Silent for Too Long’: Identitarians March Through Paris

Hundreds of people from the Génération Identitaire movement have marched in Paris, protesting against Islamisation, mass migration, and Islamist terror.

“No to islamisation”, “the French are angry” and “Here is our home!” the 500 hundred strong crowd chanted as the processed through the streets of the French capital.

“We have a message for the Islamists who murdered 130 young French on 13 November: Daesh Daesh you buggers!” the group added on Facebook.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

UK Rescues 19 Migrants From Boat in Channel

The British coastguard said it rescued 19 migrants on Sunday from the Channel after their inflatable boat began to take on water.

“The rhib (rigid-hulled inflatable boat), with 19 people on board was located at 2.00am (0100 GMT) and the incident handed over to Border Force,” it said in a statement.

Thousands of people have been massed in northern France for months as they try to reach Britain where the believe they will have a better chance of finding employment, according to French and British charities.

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Geneticists and Historians Need to Work Together on Using DNA to Explore the Past.

Who brought down Rome? Few questions vex historians as much as the identity of the invaders who transformed the last vestiges of the great empire into a series of warring medieval territories. Was it long-distance migrants, the infamous barbarian hordes? Or was it diverse, local militias who moved to fill the power vacuums left by the diminished capital? Both?

This is not a question typically asked in these pages — historians have their own meetings and journals, after all. But as scholars continue to discuss the past, a new breed of scientists is trying to muscle in on the work of the present. These researchers want to use modern genetic techniques to answer historical questions, and as they do so, they are firmly treading on the toes of their colleagues in the humanities. These geneticists promise answers: using analysis of DNA to discover what ‘really’ happened during the Bronze Age and the Viking sagas and replace ‘biased’ histories with cold, hard data.

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10 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/29/2016

  1. For those who don’t have it, a global incidents map — according to this, most known “activity” is in the United States (not Canada or Mexico), the United Kingdom, Israel, and the likes of India (click on “map” in the upper right corner for a daylight version):

    http://www.globalincidentmap.com/

    A Hungarian site has kept one of these things going for a long time (many years) if someone wants to look for that one, but the one above seems a little easier for western thought to relate to it (at least in my mind).

    • The Global incident map is very informative, However the MSM USA (the government media complex) does a stellar job of masking, perverting, and twisting the facts and the truth, especially the immigration status, religious affiliation and motivation of the perpetrators and suspects in most of these incidents.

    • Re. Global Incident map–1 (one) in Germany and none at all in Scandinavia….

      Who does these things?

      • Oops! I looked too fast. Syria, not Israel, and that’s accurate. Evidently Pakistan (both once and now), not India and that’s accurate.

        Don’t remember checking out the map offered, but as I recall the one in Hungary was developed on the basis of some kind of radio contact.

  2. If I leave my keys inside my car and someone steals it using my keys, I can be charged with a crime.

    This is because I negligently encouraged them to commit the crime of stealing my car.

    Yet, if I negligently encourage people – men, women, children – to get into a leaky boat and float hundreds of miles over storm-tossed seas in the direction of my land, and they sink and die, I’m lauded as a progressive humanitarian.

    • indeed, my compassion is limited, too.It would be racist to presume that these people are stupid.Or are they?
      There are travel agencies in all those countries and they know damned well how much a plane ticket one way is to Europe. So why do they pay several times the price for a 60 mile boat trip on an overloaded vessel of fortune? The answer is: they know they are acting against the law, but they are not shown the consequences in a no- nonsense way.

  3. Re sexual assault in Majorca.Assault? So she got slapped about and her bra ripped off?Maybe got groped? Are we so insensitive that that msm won’t call it for what is is…violent rape! Not only has she got psychological problems to now deal with but a one in two chance she may contract HIV.considering whom her attacker is. Never mind any nasty std she may have been given.( the rapist will have considered her low risk so little chance he wore a condom).What of her future? What of her husband to be? Will he get aids …eventually..and her child? Imagine her agony of seeing her little one dying in her arms all because of a rape a decade ago…? Call it for what it is .Rape is a death sentence nowadays. I should know..i live in Africa.

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