Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/26/2016

An “Australian” culture-enricher named Mustafa Kayirici chose to represent himself in a Sydney court after being brought up on a charge of raping a 13-year-old girl at knifepoint. Mr. Kayirici says that he thought his victim was of age, and besides, she consented to have sex with him.

In other news, the mayor of the Florida town where Trayvon Martin was shot to death by George Zimmerman was carjacked and robbed in front of his house. Police have arrested two suspects, one of them a minor, and are looking for a third.

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Thanks to Dean, Fjordman, JD, LP, MC, ML, Reader From Chicago, The Observer, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» Gun-Registry-Loving Obama Security Advisor Refused to “Record Another Muslim”
» Muslim Community Donates $87k to Family of Orlando Shooter
» Obama Warns Poor Nations Will Put Planet ‘Under Water’ By Using Fossil Fuels
» Police: Sanford Mayor Robbed, Carjacked
» Several People Stabbed During Neo-Nazi Event in Sacramento
» Texas Man Faces Billions in Fines for Storing Wood
» US Customs Wants to Collect Social Media Account Names at the Border: ‘Please Enter Information Associated With Your Online Presence’
 
Europe and the EU
» An Open Letter to the Republican Establishment
» Belgian Police ‘Arrest 2 Men Planning to Blow Themselves Up During Euro 2016 Hungary Game ‘
» French Govt Refuses “Frexit” Vote
» George Soros: “Brexit Makes EU Disintegration Irreversible”
» Labour MP Demands Parliament Ignore ‘Madness’ Brexit Vote
» Meredith Kercher’s Convicted Killer Freed From Prison for 36 Hours for Good Behaviour
» NON! EU Slaps Down Sturgeon: SNP Leader Dramatically Announces She Wants ‘Immediate Discussions’ To Stay in Eu… But She is Humiliated as Brussels Says ‘No, That’s Not How it Works’
» Petition for a Second EU Referendum Under Investigation by Westminster for Fraud
» Scottish Leader Could Ask Local Parliament to Block UK Exit From EU
» Second Referendum Petition: Concern as Call for New Brexit Vote Gains More Than 39,000 Signatures From Vatican City — Population 800
» Soros Calls for Reconstruction of EU After ‘Brexit’Vote
» The Rebellion is Real; Brexit Was Merely a Warning
» Why Leaving the EU is Possibly the Single Best Thing That’s Happened in Recent History, And Why Mainstream Media is Panicking
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» IDF: Hamas Planning 100-Man Tunnel Attack
» The Hamas Leader Who is Reshaping US Public Opinion Against Israel
 
Far East
» China’s Powerful New Rocket Makes a Successful Debut Launch
» Tesla Signs $9 Billion Agreement to Build Factory in China, Report Says
 
Australia — Pacific
» Man: 26, ‘Kidnaps Schoolgirl, 13, At Knifepoint and Rapes Her’…
 
Latin America
» Venezuela Prices Have Increased 14,000%-19,000% in 4 Years
 
Immigration
» Illegals Dropped Off at Texas Bus Stop; 99+ A Day
» Invaders Land on Crowded Ft. Lauderdale Beach
» Invader Sex Attacks: Another Austrian Town Ban
» Refugees Banned From Austrian Pool After “Foreigner’ Sexually Assaults Teenage Girl
» Tory Brexiteer Dan Hannan Insists Quitting the EU Does Not Mean Dramatic Cuts to Immigrants
 
Culture Wars
» The American Left is Evil
» University of North Carolina: Christmas Vacation is a ‘Microagression’ Now
 
General
» A ZFS Developer’s Analysis of the Good and Bad in Apple’s New APFS File System
» TTP, TTIP, TISA and CETA: U.N. Legal Expert Calls Proposed Trade Deals “Illegal”
 

Gun-Registry-Loving Obama Security Advisor Refused to “Record Another Muslim”

“A Muslim doesn’t record another Muslim”

“A Muslim doesn’t record another Muslim,” said Gamal Abdel-Hafiz (shown). This might not have been noteworthy except that Abdel-Hafiz was an FBI agent at the time and was refusing to do his duty, which at that moment involved taping a Muslim suspect.

That was 2002, and this is now. And now the Cairo-born Abdel-Hafiz has moved on to bigger and perhaps better things — he’s a homeland-security advisor to Barack Obama. And while recording a single Muslim is a problem for him, putting every single American firearm owner on a gun-registry he fancies a good idea. WFAA.com reports on his idea:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Muslim Community Donates $87k to Family of Orlando Shooter

According to several recent reports, the Muslim community has made a donation in excess of $87,000 to the family of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen.

It’s currently unknown how the funds will be distributed, however it’s been said that the majority of the $87,000 will be allocated to Omar Mateen’s widow Noor Salman and father Seddique Mateen. Sources indicate that the remaining funds will be distributed among Omar’s siblings. Prior to distributing the donation, the Mateen family is expected to provide Omar with a “proper Islamic funeral’.

The whereabouts of Omar Mateen’s widow Noor Salman are currently unknown and cause for controversy as rumors of her potential grand jury indictment in connection to her husband’s June 12th shooting spree circulate throughout social media and on-line news publications. It’s clear to authorities that Omar Mateen’s father Seddique Mateen, knows where Noor Salman is and has maintained contact with her since her disappearance on June 15th 2016.

Many are surprised by the donation made on behalf of the Muslim community as Muslim community leaders have largely spoken out against the actions of Omar Mateen since the mass-shooting occurred during the early hours of June 12, 2016…

           — Hat tip: Vlad Tepes [Return to headlines]
 

Obama Warns Poor Nations Will Put Planet ‘Under Water’ By Using Fossil Fuels

The world’s richest nations have long been fueled by oil, coal and natural gas, but President Obama warned Friday that less affluent countries trying to take the same path will put the planet “under water.”

In an interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Mr. Obama said he hoped social-media “connectivity” will help convince developing nations to eschew fossil fuels, which contribute to rising carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere but are also less expensive and more reliable than green energy alternatives.

“In terms of the problems we have to solve, energy is a classic example, the issue of climate change,” Mr. Obama said at the three-day Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University…

           — Hat tip: ML [Return to headlines]
 

Police: Sanford Mayor Robbed, Carjacked

Two suspects accused in the robbery and carjacking of the mayor of Sanford early Saturday morning have been arrested, officials say.

According to investigators, Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett was standing outside a friend’s home on Chapman Avenue at 2:14 a.m. Saturday when he was forced to the ground by 18-year-old Jermine Horne and a 17-year-old accomplice, who then threatened to kill him.

A third person was also with the duo, but it’s not clear what his role was or if he will be charged with a crime.

Police say Horne and the 17-year-old were both armed. The duo is accused of stealing the mayor’s wallet which held $300 in cash, two credit cards, a bank card and Triplett’s city identification card.

The suspects are also accused of stealing the keys to Triplett’s 2012 Mercedes-Benz ML350 and using the vehicle as a getaway car.

Minutes after the robbery, a police officer spotted the car speeding away from the scene, an arrest report said…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Several People Stabbed During Neo-Nazi Event in Sacramento

At least seven people were injured — several of whom were stabbed — Sunday when friction between neo-Nazi and counter demonstrators in Sacramento turned violent.

Seven patients were transported to area hospitals, “some with critical trauma stab wounds,” the Sacramento Fire Department said. None of the injuries are believed to be life-threatening, Sacramento Police Officer Matt McPhail said.

The injuries were the result of what the fire department described as a “mass casualty event.”

“It was quite a bit of a melee,” SFD public information officer Chris Harvey told The LA Times.

No arrests had been made as of Sunday afternoon, but the original, permitted neo-Nazi rally was officially cancelled, ABC10 reported. That rally was to include factions from the Traditionalist Workers Party, Golden State Skinheads, Blood & Honor, National Socialist Movement and Ku Klux Klan, CBS reported.

The neo-Nazi group had planned a demonstration for several weeks, The LA Times reported, and counter protesters were evidently well organized and prepared for the event. Many carried signs or banners with slogans such as “Many colors one working class! Smash patriarchy and racism.” Several protesters had their faces covered with black cloth…

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

Texas Man Faces Billions in Fines for Storing Wood

(Dallas Morning News) Flower Mound resident Kirk Grady owned some Hunt County property with a woodpile for about three years before he sold it in 2002.

Hunt County now wants to collect as much as $2 billion from him in fines for improper waste disposal, he says. Hunt County sued Grady in Travis County last year, and Grady is fighting back with a federal lawsuit.

Grady’s Dallas attorney, Michael R. Goldman, blames the “ridiculous and unconscionable” legal action on the county’s hiring of a private law firm to prosecute the state lawsuit with a contingency-fee provision. That means the law firm gets to keep a percentage of whatever is collected.

That has given the firm a perverse incentive to sue for as much money as possible, said Goldman. And critics say some elected officials could use the law to reward lawyers who give money to their campaigns, as was alleged in a Dallas case.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

US Customs Wants to Collect Social Media Account Names at the Border: ‘Please Enter Information Associated With Your Online Presence’

Your Twitter handle may soon be part of the US visa process. Yesterday, US Customs and Border Protection entered a new proposal into the federal register, suggesting a new field in which persons entering the country can declare their various social media accounts and screen names. The information wouldn’t be mandatory, but the proposed field would still provide customs officials with an unprecedented window into the online life of travelers. The process already includes fingerprinting, an in-person interview, and numerous database checks.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

An Open Letter to the Republican Establishment

Congressman Ryan, Senator McConnell, Reince Priebus, et al…

You have made it quite clear that you, the Republican establishment, do not like Donald J. Trump as the Republican standard bearer in the upcoming presidential race.

Republican voters have made it equally clear that they support Donald J. Trump. You, however, choose to avoid hearing what the voters want… nothing new there. You ignore the fact that more people voted for Donald J. Trump during the various primary contests than have ever voted for a Republican primary candidate and that he defeated a field of 16 establishment Republicans in the process.

You remind me of the European Union politicians who were so convinced the United Kingdom would never exit that conglomeration of arrogance and who, as of late night reports on June 23rd, were “stunned” by the results.

Why were they stunned? The polls said the outcome would go the other way… that the Brits would vote to remain in the EU. Everyone they talked with said the same. There are two reasons everyone was so wrong about the outcome of this vote:

1. They have yet to figure out that the people with whom they socialize and do business (from lobbyists to the highly affluent — both of which make large political contributions) are out of touch with the real world as viewed by the majority of voters. Like EU politicians, American politicians have no understanding of the attitudes, likes, dislikes, fears and dreams of the majority of people who support nationalism rather than global governance.

The Brits got tired of paying $20 billion every year to the EU and receiving only $10 billion back in benefits. I don’t want to point out the obvious, but American taxpayers sympathize with that concept which amounts to nothing more than a socialist redistribution of wealth. Like the Brits, we are tired of being told Islam is a religion of peace when the behavior of Muslims and the Koran tell us otherwise. All of us are wearied by your political lies.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Belgian Police ‘Arrest 2 Men Planning to Blow Themselves Up During Euro 2016 Hungary Game ‘

Belgian police detained two men for questioning after fresh anti-terror raids overnight amid reports of a planned attack on a Euro 2016 fanzone. Belgium are playing Hungary tomorrow night.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

French Govt Refuses “Frexit” Vote

The French government has refused to even consider holding a French European Union membership referendum, Front National leader Marine le Pen has said. In addition, she said, the EU intends to make the Brexit process as “painful as possible” so as to teach any other would be “leavers” a lesson.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

George Soros: “Brexit Makes EU Disintegration Irreversible”

While Soros is lukewarm on the UK, his forecast about Europe is far more dire

Just four days ago, the “big guns” when George Soros wrote a Guardian op-ed titled “The Brexit crash will make all of you poorer — be warned” in which he said that “as opinion polls on the referendum result fluctuate, I want to offer a clear set of facts, based on my six decades of experience in financial markets, to help voters understand the very real consequences of a vote to leave the EU.”

We promptly countered that Soros’set of “facts” may be clouded by his far greater equity stake in interests around Europe, and the globe, which would be drastically impacted by not only a Brexit, but by a European Union which is suddenly on the rocks. That’s precisely what happened when, as we wrote earlier, the world’s 400 richest people lost $127.4 billion Friday following the Brexit vote.

Soros was among them.

However, seemingly unhappy that his generously altruistic warning was so roundly ignored by the peasants, not to mention his sudden concern about the future of the European Union whose collapse would also destroy the premise behind Soros’ Open Society globalization initiative, the 85-year-old billionaire has decided to follow up with a case of sour grapes and go all in, making another forecast — since his first one was so clearly rejected — and in what may end up roiling markets even more, moments ago Soros said in his second op-ed of the week that the “catastrophic scenario that many feared has materialized, making the disintegration of the EU practically irreversible. Britain eventually may or may not be relatively better off than other countries by leaving the EU, but its economy and people stand to suffer significantly in the short to medium term. The pound plunged to its lowest level in more than three decades immediately after the vote, and financial markets worldwide are likely to remain in turmoil as the long, complicated process of political and economic divorce from the EU is negotiated. The consequences for the real economy will be comparable only to the financial crisis of 2007-2008.”

But while Soros is lukewarm on the UK, his forecast about Europe is far more dire.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Labour MP Demands Parliament Ignore ‘Madness’ Brexit Vote

Labour legislator David Lammy says Thursday’s national vote was non-binding

(AP) — A British opposition lawmaker says Parliament should stop the “madness” and overturn the result of a referendum calling for Britain to leave the European Union.

Labour legislator David Lammy says Thursday’s national vote was non-binding and “our sovereign Parliament needs to now vote on whether we should quit the EU.”…

Constitutional experts say Parliament cannot easily ignore the will of the people. Alan Renwick, deputy director of University College London’s Constitution Unit, says “in legal theory that is possible. In practice, that is absolutely not possible.”

[Comment: Another communsit puppet of the banksters.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Meredith Kercher’s Convicted Killer Freed From Prison for 36 Hours for Good Behaviour

Rudy Guede was jailed for 16 years in 2008 for killing Miss Kercher who was found dead in her Italian flat after being stabbed 47 times. He has been granted temporary release from prison.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

NON! EU Slaps Down Sturgeon: SNP Leader Dramatically Announces She Wants ‘Immediate Discussions’ To Stay in Eu… But She is Humiliated as Brussels Says ‘No, That’s Not How it Works’

The EU yesterday dealt a devastating blow to Nicola Sturgeon’s new bid for independence — by ruling out any prospect of Scotland retaining its EU membership when Britain leaves.

The SNP leader yesterday said she is seeking ‘immediate discussions’ with Brussels to ‘protect Scotland’s place in the EU’.

But The Scottish Mail on Sunday can reveal that the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, has already ruled there is no option but the whole of the UK exiting following Thursday’s shock Leave vote.

[Comment: Scottish National Party is essentailly a Communist Party. That’s why SNP were upset the Brexit vote won. EU appartchiks are their fellow travellers. Scottish hatred for England is blinding them to the reality of the EU politburo. Do these Scottish buffoons really think they will get more democracy and freedom under the EU? Scottish commie puppets would become rubber stamp MPS for EU diktats. ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Petition for a Second EU Referendum Under Investigation by Westminster for Fraud

An MP has revealed the petition calling for a second referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU is being investigated for fraudulent signatures added.

After it was revealed the plea, which has garnered the support of over three million people, was in fact set up by a Leave campaigner before the referendum, reports surfaced of thousands of signatories to it potentially being fake.

Data on the parliamentary petitions website shows over 39,000 of those who have added their names to it come from Vatican City; the city state’s total population is just 800.

The website also purports that 23,000 signatories to the petition were from isolationist and Internet-censored North Korea.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Scottish Leader Could Ask Local Parliament to Block UK Exit From EU

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she may ask the Scottish parliament to block the UK’s exit from the EU

The Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she may ask the Scottish parliament to block the UK’s exit from the EU. However, she doesn’t believe there should be any border between Scotland and England if the country gained independence from the UK.

Speaking to the BBC, Sturgeon said she would have no qualms asking parliament to veto legislation that would see the UK exit the EU.

[Comment: Communists of a feather flock together. Does this foolish woman believe Scotland will have democracy by staying in the EU?]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Second Referendum Petition: Concern as Call for New Brexit Vote Gains More Than 39,000 Signatures From Vatican City — Population 800

A petition to hold a second EU referendum that has garnered more than three million signatures since Friday may have been manipulated.

Data published on the UK Government and Parliament Petitions website show a suspicious number of signatures attributed to places outside the UK — in some cases more than their total population.

Some 39,411 residents of Vatican City, home to Pope Francis, appeared to have signed the petition by Sunday morning, despite the tiny city state having a total population of just 800.

In isolationist North Korea, one of the least internet-connected countries in the world, 23,778 people had apparently gone online to express their frustration at the UK’s decision to quit the EU.

Located 800 miles south east of the Falklands, and with a permanent population of zero, the South Atlantic British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands was responsible for more than 3,000 signatures

That was some 300 more than those coming from the British Antarctic Territory, which though home to some 400 researchers also has no settled population of its own.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Soros Calls for Reconstruction of EU After ‘Brexit’Vote

(Reuters) Billionaire investor George Soros on Saturday called for thorough reconstruction of the European Union in order to save it, even though he warned that Britain’s vote to leave the bloc makes “disintegration of the EU practically irreversible.”

Soros, who warned of financial meltdown if Britain voted to leave the EU before Thursday’s referendum, also said the effects of the decision will likely damage Britain.

“Britain eventually may or may not be relatively better off than other countries by leaving the EU, but its economy and people stand to suffer significantly in the short to medium term,” he wrote in a commentary on the website Project Syndicate.

[Comment: Translation: Banksters plan to manipulate market to punish Britain in short to medium term.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Rebellion is Real; Brexit Was Merely a Warning

Within 24 hours of the Brexit victory its disruptive effects made many argue it was a mistake; that it would not be long before a repentant Britain was pushing its face against the cold glass doors of the Euro cafe, wistfully eyeing the delicacies now out of its foolish reach. Yet others have argued in the same breath it would be Europe with its face pressed against the glass, longing the other way round. For example Jamie Kirchick writes in the NY Daily News that an EU without Britain would be easy meat for Russia.

An E.U. without Britain is also more prone to appease Russia, which today poses a greater threat to European security than at any point since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Soon to be a body dominated by France and Germany, where voices demanding accommodation with a revanchist Moscow grow louder every day, the E.U. is increasingly likely to lift sanctions on Russia regardless of its behavior in Ukraine. Indeed, if there is one world leader of whose reaction to Brexit we can be confident, it is Vladimir Putin, unquestionably delighted that the largest military power in Europe, and its strongest proponent of democratic freedom in Europe’s east, has decided to call it quits.

Come back, Lord Shane! Come back!

Kirchick is right about the EU’s vulnerability as far as it goes. It’s a fair bet that there’ll always be an England. Less certain is whether there will always be an EU, a fact of which the public will be reminded when Putin’s adventures, rising bond rates and refugee flows creep back into the news. As soon as the focus returns to why the UK bailed in the first place the proper sympathy will shift from the poor Britons in a flimsy rowboat to Europeans still trapped on the Titanic.

As Ross Douthat observed in Twitter: “the actual disaster isn’t the vote, it’s the eight years of policy that made it thinkable.” Brexit is not the disaster. The disaster is what they’re rowing from.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why Leaving the EU is Possibly the Single Best Thing That’s Happened in Recent History, And Why Mainstream Media is Panicking

Let’s have a look at how the EU works:

First, there is the European Parliament, where MEPs are elected by the general public to represent them; their job is to vote for or against proposed new EU laws.

Next there is the European Council, where the nations’ leaders meet; yet their job is also not to propose new legislation.

That is the role of the European Commission, which consists of 28 commissioners — one for each member country. These people are not elected but chosen by each country’s current leader. It is these unelected commissioners who create the laws, not the leaders or MEPs we vote in.

It is also important to note that the 2007 Treaty of Lisbon replaced all previous treaties as the new EU constitution; in this treaty, it is also almost impossible for any country to petition a law once it has been put in force (source).

So where are these Commissioners getting their ideas for the laws? They come from the The European Round Table of Industrialists. The ERT consists of “around 50 Chief Executives and Chairmen of major multinational companies” and the ERT was formed with the express intention of shaping and furthering EU integration (source).

[Comment: Watch the video of lies told to Norway before they rejected EU membership.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

IDF: Hamas Planning 100-Man Tunnel Attack

The most serious scenario that the IDF is currently preparing for on the southern front is a multi-pronged “surprise attack by about 100 Hamas men coming out of several terror tunnels simultaneously,” said a military source Sunday.

“We are preparing for this all the time and putting our greatest efforts into it,” he added.

The source said that Hamas has three regiments facing Israel in Gaza. One in the northern part of the coastal strip, another in the central refugee camps and the third in Rafiah (Rafah), on the Egyptian border.

“These regiments are organized and operate as military organizations,” he said. “They have a methodology of war, they have a well-organized control and command structure and they are preparing all the time for a surprise attack like the one in Operation Protective Edge, only bigger.”[…]

[Heroic Hamas like killing unarmed women and children, and they just KNOW that the ICC will not be at all interested….]

           — Hat tip: MC [Return to headlines]
 

The Hamas Leader Who is Reshaping US Public Opinion Against Israel

by Lee Kaplan

There is one man behind the founding of anti-Israel organizations on campus.

The Web is now referring the public to an “academic report” that came out from the Hamas front group CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations in the US), and UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender Studies that discusses “Islamophobia “ in the United States. The report identifies 33 specific non-profits in the U.S. that have been allegedly responsible for “attacks” against the Muslim population that are being done “unfairly.” Pro-Israel and pro-U.S. groups and individuals on the list fired back, mostly at CAIR, but neglected to mention the ultimate source for the bogus academic work report. While one critic of the report described it as “so far-out, steeped in campus Marxist radicalism and Critical Theory jargon, that it must be read to be believed,” even he failed to note that the pseudo-academic report was produced by an Arab UC Berkeley lecturer from the Department of Near East Studies at Cal who knows how to use the rhetoric of the student revolutionary to perfection.

His name is Hatem Bazian and he is a Hamas apparatchik on the faculty at UC Berkeley who uses California and US tax dollars to finance his jihad against Israel and the United States right from the Bay area campus. Bazian, has used the California educational system since his undergraduate days as a leader of the Palestinian movement at his alma mater, San Francisco State University, called the General Union of Palestinian Students, or the GUPS for short.[…]

[Nazism is alive and well in California, Haj Amin would be proud and happy]

           — Hat tip: MC [Return to headlines]
 

China’s Powerful New Rocket Makes a Successful Debut Launch

China’s developing space program took another major step forward on Saturday with the launch of its Long March 7 rocket, a new class of booster capable of lifting up to 13.5 metric tons to low-Earth orbit (LEO). The primary payload of the flight was a dummy version of its next-generation crew capsule and some CubeSats.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Tesla Signs $9 Billion Agreement to Build Factory in China, Report Says

Tesla Motors has reportedly signed a non-binding agreement with Chinese government-owned company Jinqiao Group to construct a Tesla production plant in the city of Shanghai.

All told, the investment could cost $9 billion, a person close to the matter told Bloomberg.

[Comment: How much money from taxpayers did Tesla get? Take a look — $4.9 billion in government subsidies — -www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-elon-musk-subsidies-comments-20150601-story.html and see this http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/05/tesla_is_worse_than_solyndra_how_the_u_s_government_bungled_its_investment.html. And what did taxpayers get? A new factory in China.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Man: 26, ‘Kidnaps Schoolgirl, 13, At Knifepoint and Rapes Her’…

A 26-year-old man who allegedly kidnapped and raped a 13-year-old girl at knifepoint claims he is being ‘treated like a paedophile predator’ and can prove the teenager lied about her age.

Mustafa Kayirici chose to represent himself as he fronted Parramatta Bail Court on Sunday and claimed to have ‘dirty’ videos of the teenager consenting to have sex with him several times, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Police had been searching for the Sydney man since he allegedly sexually assaulted and robbed a 22-year-old woman he met through an escort agency on June 19.

On Saturday morning, Kayirici was arrested at Bondi, east of Sydney, after he crashed into a bus stop during a high-speed chase with police…

           — Hat tip: The Observer [Return to headlines]
 

Venezuela Prices Have Increased 14,000%-19,000% in 4 Years

(El Universal) The economic reality in Venezuela lacks food pricing controls since about three years ago, stated economic analyst Luis Enrique Gavazut, who based his remarks on a research conducted jointly by the Presidential Economy Watch and the National Superintendence for the Defense of Socio-economic Rights.

“This was a recent study on a number of products in 2012-2016 to observe price variations in the Metropolitan Area of Caracas. In twelve protected products and other eight that have never been regulated, the most surprising data reveal that regulated items had a 14,000% price variation while the unregulated ones, which are also monitored, recorded raises around 19,000% in those four years. For this reason, the country’s major businesspersons, large industries, claim that what is happening is due to a lack of production as there are cost structures recording a delay with respect to prices. However, they are not basing their opinions on true criteria,” Gavazut said.

According to what the expert regarded as “objective evidence,” he recalled that this result shows that in practice control measures have been misused.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Illegals Dropped Off at Texas Bus Stop; 99+ A Day

The United Nations said there are more Central Americans headed to the Rio Grande Valley.

Central American families that are caught and released by Border Patrol end up at the McAllen bus station. Luis Guerrero started volunteering at Catholic Charities two years ago.

“I’m an ex-firefighter. I always liked to help people,” he said.

The people Guerrero helps are from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and other Central American countries.

[Comment: Catholic “charities” appear to be encouraging the mass migration.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Invaders Land on Crowded Ft. Lauderdale Beach

Taking their cue from the nonwhite invaders pouring into Europe over the Mediterranean Sea, a group of nonwhites have managed to row to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, landing on a packed holiday-goer beach in broad daylight-after threatening to kill themselves if they were not allowed to land. At least one of the invaders did stab himself in order to “force” his evacuation to a local hospital as part of a plan to avoid deportation.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Invader Sex Attacks: Another Austrian Town Ban

Yet another town in Austria, this time in Mistelbach, 60 miles north of Vienna, has banned all nonwhite invaders from using its public pool after a sex attack by an “asylum seeker.”

The latest attack saw the nonwhite follow a 13-year-old girl into the women’s changing rooms and sexually molest her.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Refugees Banned From Austrian Pool After “Foreigner’ Sexually Assaults Teenage Girl

Authorities in the Austrian town of Mistelbach issued a temporary pool ban for refugees following a sexual assault by a “dark-skinned’ man on a 13-year-old girl.

“This news was a shock,” said the town’s mayor, Alfred Pohl, as quoted by the Heute media outlet.

According to Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung, the attack happened on Wednesday afternoon.

Read more

Migrant assaults mother and 4yo son in Austrian swimming pool

The girl was first followed by a young man into the women’s changing room. Once there, he forced her to perform oral sex. The girl however fiercely resisted and started shouting, forcing the attacker to flee.

Police are now investigating the incident and are searching for the suspect.

According to eyewitnesses and the victim herself the man was a “foreigner.”…

           — Hat tip: Reader From Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Tory Brexiteer Dan Hannan Insists Quitting the EU Does Not Mean Dramatic Cuts to Immigrants

After a bitter referendum battle dominated by immigration, senior MEP Daniel Hannan insisted the Vote Leave campaign had only ever demanded control and not a specific number.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The American Left is Evil

The American Left is just plain evil. Not only do they not seek truth, they suppress it. Everything the Left does, including shamefully exploiting the slaughter of Americans in a nightclub, is to further their deception and power to force their unpopular agenda down our throats.

Leftists are the minority. However, they own the federal government, social media, public education, Hollywood and the Democratic party. They use inciting misdirected anger, hate and guilt to bully the public into embracing their anti-American and anti-God agenda. Because the Left controls the media, they get away with falsely portraying their opposition. The Left takes disapproval of them forcing their agenda on us to absurd extremes.

For example: If you say “no” to men using girl’s restrooms, Leftists in the media brand you an insane hatemonger who seeks the murder of all homosexuals. If you disagree with the Left’s illogical obsession with disarming Americans, repealing the second amendment, Leftist media brands you a racist toothless idiot redneck that wants to shoot all people who do not look like you.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

University of North Carolina: Christmas Vacation is a ‘Microagression’ Now

The taxpayer-funded guide also identifies golf outings and the words “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” as microagressions

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill issued a guide this week which instructs students that Christmas vacations and telling a woman “I love your shoes!” are “microagressions.”

The taxpayer-funded guide — entitled “Career corner: Understanding microaggressions” — also identifies golf outings and the words “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” as microagressions.

The UNC Chapel Hill guide, published on Thursday, covers a wide range of menacing microaggressions — which are everyday words that radical leftists have decided to be angry or frustrated about.

Christmas vacations are a microagression, the public university pontificates, because “academic calendars and encouraged vacations” which “are organized around major religious observances” centralize “the Christian faith” and diminish “non-Christian spiritual rituals and observances.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

A ZFS Developer’s Analysis of the Good and Bad in Apple’s New APFS File System

Apple announced a new file system that will make its way into all of its OS variants (macOS, tvOS, iOS, watchOS) in the coming years. Media coverage to this point has been mostly breathless elongations of Apple’s developer documentation. With a dearth of detail I decided to attend the presentation and Q&A with the APFS team at WWDC. Dominic Giampaolo and Eric Tamura, two members of the APFS team, gave an overview to a packed room; along with other members of the team, they patiently answered questions later in the day. With those data points and some first-hand usage I wanted to provide an overview and analysis both as a user of Apple-ecosystem products and as a long-time operating system and file system developer.

The overview is divided into several sections. I’d encourage you to jump around to topics of interest or skip right to the conclusion (or to the tweet summary).

[Comment: ZFS — probably the best filesytem for stability and ensuring data integrity — was developed by Sun for Solaris. Sun was bought out by Oracle.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

TTP, TTIP, TISA and CETA: U.N. Legal Expert Calls Proposed Trade Deals “Illegal”

Alfred de Zayas, the U.N.’s Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, is assigned the task to apply the standards of international law to proposed treaties, to determine whether they’re in accord with international law. On Friday, June 24th, he issued his finding on three large proposed treaties regarding international trade among Atlantic countries: TTIP, TISA, and CETA.

Earlier, on February 2nd, he had issued a similar finding on the proposed TPP treaty between Pacific countries, and his conclusion there was the same: that the proposed treaty violates international laws, and is inconsistent with democracy.

His finding regarding the proposed Atlantic treaties condemned them by saying: “Trade deals prepared and negotiated in secret, excluding key stakeholders such as labour unions, consumer associations, health professionals and environmental experts and now parliaments, have zero democratic legitimacy.” This describes all of U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed treaties on trade: TPP, TTIP, and TISA, and it also includes CETA, which is the proposed treaty between the EU and Canada.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

4 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/26/2016

  1. Lucky Mustafa Kayirici, sacked his lawyer, I can see his sentence going up like a tacho on a Porche every time he opened his mouth. He will get heaps.

    • Oh please… We know that democracy isn’t really democracy unless leftists get what they want out of it. That’s why they always cry “it’s like democracy died today” when they don’t get their way.

  2. I know the Sanford, FL Mayor. I voted for him, before I left that area, not long after the Trayvon Martin “incident”.
    Jeff Triplett was a serious Republican, he was also a serious “elite”, and a serious coke-head and a hopeless drunk. He was always a perfectly coiffed person with a pressed shirt and impeccable manners, but he was a blind puppet who would do anything to get elected. He was not unlike most of the “elite” we see in major politics today.
    I have no doubt the reason he was in the place he was when he was “carjacked” is because he wanted to purchase something not completely legal. (he likely didn’t take his body-guard with him) I know that neighborhood, no one goes there at 2:30 am for anything but what he was attempting to do.
    In fact, the 10 or so bars in downtown Sanford, I won’t go to today, after dark. Trayvon changed that town forever.
    Oh, in the bigger picture, I’m still betting the bigger heads in Britain (House of Lords) will not allow the people to actually do the BREXIT, they voted for. EU will make it so expensive….

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