Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/6/2016

Late last night a passenger train ran into the back of a motionless freight train in Belgium, killing three people and sending nine others to the hospital. The accident occurred along the banks of the Meuse, near Liege. It is thought that an earlier lightning strike during a storm may have contributed to the crash.

In other news, a West Virginia woman and her boyfriend have been arrested for attempting to sell her baby for $500-$1,000.

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Financial Crisis
» Ron Paul: The Keynesians Stole the Jobs
 
USA
» Chemical Contamination Leaves 100,000 Alabama Residents Without Drinking Water
» Couple Arrested for Attempting to Sell Baby
» ‘Dilbert’ Creator Sees Trump Landslide, Warns Clinton Scaremongery “Gives Citizens Moral Permission to Kill Trump”
» Emotionally Unstable Hillary Clinton Fights for Gangsta Vote in California
» Global Gun Control Advocates to Meet in NYC to Set UN Disarmament Agenda
» Hillary Campaign Rocked by Secret Service Agent Book Exposing Clintons’ Dirty Laundry
» Hillary Clinton: Government Has ‘A Right’ To Regulate 2nd Amendment
» More Than Three Years After it Admitted to Targeting Tea Party Groups for Intrusive Scrutiny, The IRS Has Finally Released a Near-Complete List of the Organizations it Snagged in a Political Dragnet.
» Obama Sideswipes Trump During Ramadan Remarks
» Phoenix Crime Spree: 3 Dead: 1 Critical After Motel Shootings, 2 Carjackings
» Progressive Deception is Bringing Socialism and Failure to U.S. Doorstep
» SFD: Small ‘Jungle’ Fires the Work of an Arsonist
» Watch: Police Do Nothing as Trump Supporters Are Beaten Right in Front of Them
» Who Has Donated the Most Money to Bernie Sanders: The Unemployed
 
Europe and the EU
» Belgian Officials: 3 Dead: 9 Hospitalized in Train Wreck
» Frenchman Who Planned Terror Attacks on Muslims and Jews During Euro 2016 Arrested in Ukraine
» Hysteria as Farage Raises Spectre of Cologne Rape Scandal
» New Mein Kampf to Test German Law
» President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker Drunk in Public, Slaps Leaders
» UK: A Wave of Social Media Arrests Sweep Through London
» UK: Psycho Knifeman Forced Women to Stage a Lesbian Sex Show Before Stabbing Them
 
Middle East
» ISIS Tunnels Revealed Where Jihadis Can Live for Weeks to Avoid Peshmerga Forces
» ISIS Resorts to Fining People Over Leaving Doors Open, Beards and Failing Shariah Law Quiz
» Revealed: Iran’s Khomeini Had Secret Dealings With US in 1979
» Syria: The U.S. is Unwilling to Settle — Russia Returns for Another Round
 
South Asia
» England’s Euro 2016 Football Shirts Made by Indonesian Workers on 95p an Hour
» Thailand Thugs Jailed for Savage Attack on Elderly British Couple Rosemary and Lewis Owen
 
Far East
» The Man Who Has Waged War on Disney: China’s Richest Man Features Fake Disney Characters in His Theme Parks and Insists the Firm’s $5.5billion Shanghai Gamble Will Mean ‘The End of Mickey Mouse’
 
Immigration
» 43,000 Criminal Illegals Released Per Annum
» Four Tribes Competing for Supremacy: The Muslims
» France: Migrant Shanty Town in Paris Smashed by Police After Locals Complained of Gang Violence
» More Than One-Third of Refugees in Vermont Test Positive for Tuberculosis
 
Culture Wars
» Jimmy Car & PC Comedians: Not Funny Anymore
 

Ron Paul: The Keynesians Stole the Jobs

Late last week the markets were shocked by a surprisingly bad May jobs report — – the worst monthly report in nearly six years.

The experts expected the US economy to add 160,000 jobs in May, but it turns out only 38,000 jobs were added. And to make matters worse, 13,000 of those 38,000 were government jobs! Adding more government employees is a drain on the economy, not a measure of economic growth. Incredibly, there are more than 102 million people who are either unemployed or are no longer looking for work…

Many will point to the May employment numbers and the weak economy in general and pin all the blame on President Obama. However, Obama is only part of the problem. The real culprit is an economic philosophy shared by both Republicans and Democrats for many decades. It is a belief in the fantasy of effective central economic planning by the Federal Reserve. It is a belief that a central bank can determine better than the free market what interest rates should be. This belief results in mal-investment, spiraling debt, distorted markets, inflation, bubbles, and finally economic depression.

I was not surprised by the lousy May employment numbers. Actually, I am surprised that so many others were surprised. While the “experts” have talked about our “economic recovery” since the crash of 2008, I happen to believe we have been in a recession or even a depression for the past eight years. The government manipulates the statistics to hide how bad the economy really is, until finally a bit of the truth leaks out and everyone seems surprised.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Chemical Contamination Leaves 100,000 Alabama Residents Without Drinking Water

As the Flint water crisis has shown us, sometimes the quality of America’s water infrastructure is not what you’d expect in a developed nation. However, the problems with our tap water are not just found in a few impoverished municipalities. In fact, dangerous chemicals and pathogens can be found in faucets all over America.

Case in point, the West Morgan-East Lawrence Water Authority in Alabama just advised 100,000 of their customers to stop using their tap water for drinking or cooking. According to the general manager of the Water Authority, who spoke at a press conference on Friday, “I recommend that all our customers do not drink our water, until we are able to bring the temporary system our engineer is designing online.” That includes water that has been boiled or cleaned with Brita-style filters, neither of which can remove the contaminants.

The chemicals in question are known as perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid, which are known to cause cancer, thyroid damage, birth defects, and developmental problems in children. The chemicals are typically used in the manufacture of non-stick cookware, waterproof clothes, and carpet sealants.

It’s believed that they were discharged into the Tennessee River by companies like 3M, a claim which the vice president of the company says is overblown.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Couple Arrested for Attempting to Sell Baby

A West Virginia woman and her boyfriend are accused of attempting to sell her 3-month-old baby to someone for $500 to $1,000. Their neighbor, Carolyn Redden, explains what she did next.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

‘Dilbert’ Creator Sees Trump Landslide, Warns Clinton Scaremongery “Gives Citizens Moral Permission to Kill Trump”

‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams has decided to come off the sidelines and endorse a candidate for President of the United States. His choice, however, is more self-protection-based than outcome-oriented. While his prediction remains that Trump will win in a landslide, for ‘safety reasons’ he is endorsing Hillary…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Emotionally Unstable Hillary Clinton Fights for Gangsta Vote in California

Arrogant, foul-mouth, and violent candidate calls for opening border

Hillary Clinton campaigned in Los Angeles over the weekend, wooing Latinos with a promise she will open the floodgates and allow more illegal immigrants into the country.

Clinton doubled down on rhetoric responsible for the riot in San Jose last week. She attacked Donald Trump for what she described as his “hateful, very prejudicial, really unacceptable ways.”

The Democrat spawned meme portraying Trump as an evil racist on par with Hitler resulted in numerous assaults on his supporters. Thugs waving Mexican flags taunted and assaulted Trump supporters on Thursday night in San Jose. The police department in the “sanctuary city” stood down. The San Jose police chief Eddie Garcia, who is affiliated with the racist organization La Raza, defended the inaction of his officers.

Activists are calling for young Latinos to register and vote and refrain from violence. Earlier this year, according to Capitol Weekly, California experienced a doubling of registration growth among Latinos, and a more than 150% increase among some young voters, and a near-tripling for Democrats.

[comment: Just think, one useful idiot voter will cancel out the vote of an informed voter.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Global Gun Control Advocates to Meet in NYC to Set UN Disarmament Agenda

Anti-gun globalists will meet in New York City this week discuss ways to confiscate small arms and ammunition from civilians and to consolidate monopoly control over those weapons in the hands of the governments of United Nations (UN) member states. The convention is part of a UN-controlled process of disarmament called the Programme of Action (PoA).

– From June 6-10 delegates from around the world will attend the Sixth Biennial Meeting of States (BMS6) of the PoA. This latest planning meeting will give delegates an opportunity to move the ball closer to the goal of ridding the world’s civilian population of the small arms and ammunition that could challenge the ability of UN-approved governments to carry out the will of the world body.

Serving as an agenda for the deliberations will be the Chair’s Summary published after the last meeting in 2015. For Americans, then, it will be instructive to examine this document and identify all of the proposals that would violate the Constitution, specifically the right to keep and bear arms as protected by the Second Amendment. To this end, I will highlight a few of the provisions of the Chair’s Summary that represent the most clear and present danger to liberty.

First, the plan as put forth in the Chair’s Summary calls for the UN’s member states to eliminate the threat of technologically advanced weapons, including so-called polymer firearms and 3D printed guns, as well as the tracking of materials used in the “craft-production of small arms and light weapons.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hillary Campaign Rocked by Secret Service Agent Book Exposing Clintons’ Dirty Laundry

“What I saw in the 1990s sickend me,” Byrne explains. “I want you to hear my story.”

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is scrambling as details emerge of a shocking “tell-all” book written by an ex-Secret Service agent, Gary Byrne, who protected the Clintons during the 1990s.

Former secret service agent Gary Byrne was posted outside Bill Clinton’s Oval Office in the 1990s, and has decided that since “the Clintons must never again be allowed to put your children at risk”, to write a tell all book titled “Crisis of Character”, exposing the Clintons’ dirty laundry.

As Drudge Report notes (whose article has shot the book to the top spot of all Amazon book sales), the secret project is causing deep concern inside of Clinton’s campaign. Specific details of the agent’s confessional are being held under tight embargo, although numerous pages have been disclosed in the promo to the book (see below).

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hillary Clinton: Government Has ‘A Right’ To Regulate 2nd Amendment

While arguing for the government’s “right” to regulate the Second Amendment, Clinton twice refused to say the people have “a constitutional right” to keep and bear arms.

Government has a right to regulate the Second Amendment, Hillary Clinton said in an interview on the June 5 airing of This Week With George Stephanopoulos.

Clinton contended that Americans have historically recognized the government’s “right” to regulate the bearing of arms, suggesting that it was not until District of Columbia v Heller(2008) that anyone thought otherwise.

Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you believe an individual’s right to bear arms is a constitutional right? That it’s not linked to the service in the militia?”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

More Than Three Years After it Admitted to Targeting Tea Party Groups for Intrusive Scrutiny, The IRS Has Finally Released a Near-Complete List of the Organizations it Snagged in a Political Dragnet.

The tax agency filed the list last month as part of a court case after a series of federal judges, fed up with what they said was the agency’s stonewalling, ordered it to get a move on. The case is a class-action lawsuit, so the list of names is critical to knowing the scope of those who would have a claim against the IRS.

But even as it answers some questions, the list raises others, including exactly when the targeting stopped, and how broadly the tax agency drew its net when it went after nonprofits for unusual scrutiny.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Obama Sideswipes Trump During Ramadan Remarks

President Obama, during delivery of Ramadan remarks, took a seeming sideswipe at Donald Trump — without naming names — and made it clear he stood firmly alongside Muslims in America in opposition to those who “seek to divide” the country.

He also vowed to continue the open-arm welcome of immigrants and refugees, Politico reported.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Phoenix Crime Spree: 3 Dead: 1 Critical After Motel Shootings, 2 Carjackings

PHOENIX — A shooting at a Phoenix motel along Interstate 17 late Sunday night left two people dead and another in extremely critical condition.

Two men, one a Motel 6 employee, were killed and another motel employee was in extremely critical condition after a Sunday-night crime spree that included a pair of carjackings and a shooting at the motel along Interstate 17.

The gunman, identified by police as ex-convict Daterryn McBride, 28, shot himself in the head after a police chase and has died, according to a Phoenix police spokesman. Investigators were searching for a motive.

In all, five people suffered gunshot injuries at McBride’s hand in confrontations that began about 10:30 p.m. and culminated with McBride shooting himself after a miles-long chase through central and south Phoenix, police said. No motive had yet been determined for McBride’s actions, and the police investigation was continuing.

Officers said McBride approached the lobby area of a Motel 6, near I-17 and Northern Avenue, and shot three men, killing motel employee Brian Harris, 44; and Robert Sykes, 44. A 25-year-old motel employee also was shot and was listed in extremely critical condition at a hospital Monday afternoon.

A man, 46, and a woman, 32, who stopped at the motel with an intent to get a room, saw a man with a gun and tried to flee. They were shot in their pickup truck and were treated at a hotel for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

Progressive Deception is Bringing Socialism and Failure to U.S. Doorstep

A 1989 video exposed the socialist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu visiting a Bucharest grocery store and a bread store. Greeted outside the door with flowers which he unceremoniously dumped into the arms of his minions, Ceausescu waved at the “adoring crowds.” He touched a few loaves of bread as if he really cared about what his people ate. The shelves were bursting with food, bread, pastries, salamis, cheeses, meat, sugar, cooking oil, and other items that the poor citizens fought over in endless lines every day and often came home empty-handed, dreaming about a delicious meal while staring at their empty kitchens…

To keep people under control, communists and socialists punished free speech even though their constitution encouraged free speech on paper. But those who dared to exercise their right to free speech were jailed. “Look at your college campuses which have become mini North Koreas, that’s what happens when they are run by socialists,” said Dr. Michael Savage in a recent radio show.

Socialist dictatorships encouraged people to rat on their relatives. School children were interrogated by their teachers to find out what their parents thought or discussed at home. Once they got that information, the parents were arrested in the middle of the night, never to be seen again.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

SFD: Small ‘Jungle’ Fires the Work of an Arsonist

The Seattle Fire Department believes a series of small fires that cropped up Monday in the homeless encampment known as “The Jungle” were intentionally set.

The Seattle Police Department has stated via Twitter that “Officers have taken 1 person into custody for the fires near Jose Rizal park. Detectives continue to investigate the earlier fires as well.”

Firefighters responded to three more fires about 5 p.m. after previously putting out five.

Fire crews responded to the fires beneath the area of the Interstate 5 and Interstate 90 interchange about 2 p.m.

There, firefighters extinguished five trash fires throughout the area. They returned to extinguish the additional blazes with no injuries.

The fire investigator determined the first batch of five fires were likely arson, but no determination has been made on the evening crop of flames.

           — Hat tip: DV [Return to headlines]
 

Watch: Police Do Nothing as Trump Supporters Are Beaten Right in Front of Them

San Jose, CA — America is in a crisis of consciousness — nothing highlights this notion quite like the clashes at political rallies across the country. We’ve seen Trump supporters attack Bernie supports and Bernie supports attack Trump supporters — all the while both sides are ignoring the giant pink elephant in the room — the police state.

Do people really think things will be different if their candidate gets into office? Failing to realize that both parties are merely two sides to the same coin is sending the country into perpetual decline. Republicans are for big government if with war, and Democrats are for war, if with big government.

Nothing illustrates this notion quite like the Trump rally in San Jose, California this week.

Multiple videos, even some taken by the mainstream media, show citizens brawling as cops stand by and watch. The symbolism involved in police watching as citizens were spat on, assaulted, and beaten, speaks volumes to the current state of affairs in this country.

The police, we are told, are here to keep the peace and protect the public. However, all we saw them do in San Jose this week was protect themselves and buildings. People were being attacked directly in front of hundreds of cops, and they took no action.

“Many of the attendees were attacked out in the open,” said Pete Constant, a former San Jose councilman, and former police officer. “It appears that law enforcement was more focused on protecting private property.”

Why were they even there?

Police in America do not protect the people. They are here to enforce the law only. If you doubt this claim, just refer to Warren v. District of Columbia, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the police do not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm.

The police do what the government tells them to do — morality be damned.

The reason police didn’t step in during these assaults is because they don’t have a dog in the fight. Neither one of the sides has enough political power yet to warrant their protection. If this would have been a protest against G20, Wallstreet, or the establishment in general, however, rest assured that the protesters would have been dealt with swiftly and belligerently.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Who Has Donated the Most Money to Bernie Sanders: The Unemployed

The grassroots support Bernie Sanders has amassed throughout his campaign to become the Democratic presidential nominee is undeniable. Sanders has been supported by small-dollar contributions throughout his campaign, and since donors who give $200 or less don’t have to have names publicized, little has been known about the donors. More than 1 million small-donor contributors gave nearly two-thirds of Sanders’ funding.

However, since Sanders relies on a fundraising tool called ActBlue, all donors must be disclosed regardless of the size of contribution. This has allowed the LA Times to perform an analysis on the donors behind the man who has given (and continues to give) Hillary Clinton so much trouble, and the result is stunning.

The study found that many donors resemble Emily Condit, 40 of Sylmar, who has contributed three times, $5 each. Condit, who has several physical disabilities, is among the largest single group of Sanders’ donors — those who don’t have a job. Out of the $209 million given to the senator’s campaign, about one out of every four dollars came from those not in the workforce, who include the unemployed or retired.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Belgian Officials: 3 Dead: 9 Hospitalized in Train Wreck

BRUSSELS — A late-night passenger train slammed into the rear of a halted freight train in eastern Belgium, killing three people and injuring at least nine others, authorities said Monday.

Two cars from the train derailed and tumbled onto their side when it slammed into the freight train around 11 p.m. on Sunday at a speed of 55 mph (90 kph) on the banks of the Meuse river near Liege, RTL broadcasting said.

Nine people were hospitalized, some in critical condition, and the death toll could rise, said Francis Dejon, mayor of the commune of St. Georges-sur-Meuse.

Twenty-seven other passengers were examined and treated at the scene as a result of the accident.

“The passenger train is really in a lamentable state,” Dejon told a news conference. “We’ve very lucky there weren’t more victims.”

The first car, Dejon said, was so badly damaged “it was curled back on itself.”

It took rescuers up to three hours to free people from the wreckage of the train, which carried around 40 people when it crashed at Hermalle-sous-Huy while traveling between the city of Mouscron and the village of Liers.

Dejon said prosecutors were at the scene and investigating the cause of the accident…

           — Hat tip: MM [Return to headlines]
 

Frenchman Who Planned Terror Attacks on Muslims and Jews During Euro 2016 Arrested in Ukraine

Police announced the arrest of the 25-year-old, identified as Gregoire M., on the day the England team flew into Paris ready for the tournament’s kick off on Friday.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hysteria as Farage Raises Spectre of Cologne Rape Scandal

Britain’s mainstream media went into overdrive this weekend to accuse UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage of “scaremongering” and “outrageous claims” after he raised the spectre of the Cologne mass migrant rape scandal as well as major cultural clashes between migrants and the West.

Speaking to LBC radio, Breitbart London’s Editor in Chief Raheem Kassam dispelled the notion that Mr. Farage was being provocative, instead citing the statistics recently released by the German government which showed that migrants were overrepresented in crime statistics, including those related to sexual offences.

But the Independent, the BBC, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Mirror, and the Huffington Post all took issue with Mr. Farage’s comments without citing the statistics recently released by the German government. Nor did they seek to include evidence from around Europe — Sweden especially — about how migrants were not integrating, and indeed even attack other migrants en masse across major cities.

And the comments reported on by the mainstream outlets were from a government minister who admitted she hadn’t even seen Mr. Farage’s comments.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

New Mein Kampf to Test German Law

A new German edition of Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf, consisting only of the original text without “commentary”, has provoked a hysterical reaction in Germany and the publisher has already had their PayPal account cancelled. According to the publisher, a company called “The Rogue” (Der Schelm) in Leipzig, the new edition will call on Germans to “have the courage to judge the book for themselves.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker Drunk in Public, Slaps Leaders

The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, was bitch slapping EU leaders, calling Hungarian PM ‘dictator’ in front of the press at the EU-Eastern Partnership summit in Latvia. Juncker, known for an anti-British stance, has threatened, possibly when sober, Britain if the country leaves the EU . Juncker has also called for an EU army.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: A Wave of Social Media Arrests Sweep Through London

London is increasingly slapping people with prosecutions for reckless, aggressive or plain hateful language on social media.

“Online crimes of speech” are landing a growing number of people in London’s courts, according to data reported by the city’s police force in response to a Freedom of Information Request. While these types of arrests seemed to be on the decline between 2010 and 2013, a surge was observed again last year.

The Register reports that the number of arrests made for obscene, anxiety-causing, and otherwise offensive messages has increased by 37 percent since 2010. The most common type of these arrests is for “Sendingmessages intended to offend or menace,” accounting for over 60 percent of all crimes included under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003. This controversial bit of legislation broadly defines illegal communication as “using public electronic communications network in order to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety,” a definition that could, frankly, apply to pretty much every website on earth at some point, particularly Britain’s own Daily Mail. Violating this law can carry a six-month prison term or fine of up to the equivalent of $5,500…

In more recent years, the legislation has been used to arrest Twitter users responsible for making racist or anti-Muslim comments. Among the scores of those recently arrested for inflammatory posts was a Scottish resident who had been using Facebook as a platform to espouse his disdain for Syrian refugees.

Meeting the problem at its source, some British police departments have taken to social media platforms to remind citizens to “think before” posting offensive material.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Psycho Knifeman Forced Women to Stage a Lesbian Sex Show Before Stabbing Them

Egyptian-born Mohamed Zahran, 38, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for forcing his victims to degrade themselves on a living room carpet at a house in County Durham.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS Tunnels Revealed Where Jihadis Can Live for Weeks to Avoid Peshmerga Forces

Jihadis were forced below ground as they lost the fight for the village of Mufti, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. An ISIS fighter blew himself up when Kurdish Peshmerga forces advanced.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS Resorts to Fining People Over Leaving Doors Open, Beards and Failing Shariah Law Quiz

A new report on the terror group, which has been losing ground across its strongholds in Iraq and Syria, has revealed they have lost a quarter of their income and are issuing fines for minor offences.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Revealed: Iran’s Khomeini Had Secret Dealings With US in 1979

Newly declassified files show that Ayatollah Khomeini, who led Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, had a secret channel of communication with the United States, and even sent a personal letter to US President Jimmy Carter. On January 16, 1979, after nearly a year of street clashes and protests against his leadership, the king of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, fled the country for the US. His decision to leave was strongly influenced by his American advisors, who feared that Iran was heading toward a catastrophic civil war. The Shah’s departure did little to calm tensions in the country. Protesters -many of them armed- engaged in daily street battles with members of the police and the military, who remained loyal to Pahlavi. Meanwhile, a national strike had brought the Iranian oil sector to a standstill, thereby threatening to bring about a global energy crisis. Moreover, the country was home to thousands of American military advisors and the Iranian military was almost exclusively funded and supplied by Washington. The Carter administration worried that the weaponry and technical knowledge might fall into the hands of a new, pro-Soviet government in Tehran.

It was in that tense and highly unpredictable context that the White House opened a secret channel of communication with Ayatollah Khomeini. Newly declassified US government documents show that these secret contacts began on January 15, 1979, just days before Khomeini returned to Iran from France, where he had been living in exile. The files have been accessed by the BBC’s Persian service, and allegedly contain “diplomatic cables, policy memos, meeting records” and other documents. They show that the first meeting between US government officials and Khomeini’s team took place in Neauphle-le-Chteau, a small village located a few miles west of Paris. It was led by Warren Zimmermann, a political secretary at the US embassy in Paris, and Ebrahim Yazdi, an Iranian-American physician who was Khomeini’s chief of staff in France. Through these secret meetings, Washington signaled to Khomeini on January 18 that American advisors in Tehran would not oppose a discussion about changing the Iranian constitution in order to abolish the monarchy and turn the country into a republic.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Syria: The U.S. is Unwilling to Settle — Russia Returns for Another Round

The Obama administration does not want peace in Syria. The Russians finally have to admit to themselves that the U.S. is no partner for a continuation of a cease fire, a coordinated attack against the Islamic State and al-Qaeda and for peace in Syria. Indeed, as Lavrov explains, the U.S. has again asked to spare al-Qaeda from Russian air strikes even as two UN Security Council resolutions demand its eradication. Huge supply convoys (vid) from Turkey are again going to the “rebels” who will, as always, share them with al-Qaeda and other terrorists.

The current renewed Syrian Arab Army attack towards Raqqa is being obstructed not only by sandstorms but also by a timely attack of al-Qaeda, Ahrar al Sham and Turkestan Islamist Party forces against government positions in the south Aleppo countryside.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

England’s Euro 2016 Football Shirts Made by Indonesian Workers on 95p an Hour

The Nike tops, pictured, which cost £60, are manufactured in the PT Grand Best Indonesia factory, in Semarang, Indonesia. Workers are understood to earn a minimum of £165 a week.

[Comment: Why buy anything from any major clothing and shoe manufacturer since everything is made in third world countries at slave labour rates? If you need a t-shirt get the cheapest one you can find — stop paying exorbitant costs for running shoes and clothing…]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Thailand Thugs Jailed for Savage Attack on Elderly British Couple Rosemary and Lewis Owen

Lewis and Rosemary Owen and their son, also called Lewis, were beaten unconscious when the drunken gang attacked them in Hua Hin during the Thai New Year celebrations in April.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Man Who Has Waged War on Disney: China’s Richest Man Features Fake Disney Characters in His Theme Parks and Insists the Firm’s $5.5billion Shanghai Gamble Will Mean ‘The End of Mickey Mouse’

Wang Jianlin’s Wanda City theme park opened its doors last week and will challenge Disney latest venture, with their new $5.5billion Shanghai attraction launching later this month.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

43,000 Criminal Illegals Released Per Annum

The US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency sets free 43,000 illegal alien convicted criminals every year into America-and more than 140 nations, including China, Haiti, and Jamaica, refuse to take back any of their nationals arrested for illegally entering the US.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Four Tribes Competing for Supremacy: The Muslims

Islam destroys free speech, religious choice, women’s rights, gay rights, children’s rights and intellectual rights. It ‘honor kills” more than 10,000 women annually. It practices female genital mutilation that must be one of the most backward and sickening religious practices of all time. It calls for the complete subjugation of everyone and anything in its path. It’s a political-religious system that brooks no opposition.

Islam proves a highly emotionally infectious, contagious and debauched ethnic disease masquerading as a religion — added to a diabolical Sharia Law mandate. It warps minds of all adherents and forces them toward brutal, violent, cruel, vicious and insane behavior toward men, women and children. It creates suicide maniacs and insensate intellectual morons. Humans under its spell lose their sensibilities, rational values, dignity and minds. They resort to wanton acts of murder, cruelty, perversion and barbarism.

Question: why are Western countries, that base their constitutions and way of life totally on the freedom of thought, freedom of women and freedom of religious choice — -importing millions of Islamic followers-knowing that those immigrants represent an ideological virus worse than Ebola, Polio and the Bubonic plague?…

When historians report on the atrocities committed by the leaders of Europe, Canada, Australia and America in the 21st century — -Muslim immigration stands at the top. Those leaders will be responsible for the blood shed, i.e., Canada’s Trudeau, America’s Bush and Obama, Britain’s Blair and Cameron, Australia’s Howard and Turnbull, Sweden’s leader, Norway’s leader and the list continues. They totally destroyed their own countries. See video below of 9 things Germans do to appease Muslims. Warning — strong language.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

France: Migrant Shanty Town in Paris Smashed by Police After Locals Complained of Gang Violence

Riot police moved into the Eole Gardens close to the Eurostar hub in Paris soon at 6am this morning to break up the migrant camp, much to the shock and surprise of those living there.

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More Than One-Third of Refugees in Vermont Test Positive for Tuberculosis

Data from the Vermont Department of Health show that more than one-third of refugees resettled in Vermont test positive for tuberculosis. Since 2013, about 900 refugees admitted to the Green Mountain State have been tested for tuberculosis, a potentially fatal infectious disease affecting the lungs. Of that number, 318 refugees, or 35.4 percent, tested positive. Watchdog.org obtained the health data on Wednesday following reporting by Stateline that the disease may be making a comeback in the United States.

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Jimmy Car & PC Comedians: Not Funny Anymore

by Bruce Bawer

Comedy ain’t what it used to be. Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld, among others, have said that they’d never do stand-up on a campus these days because the ultra-PC students are so easily offended. Since Joan Rivers’ untimely death in 2014 robbed us of a bold, antic counterweight to all things PC, three other female comics who once fearlessly provoked in every direction have caved in to the zeitgeist. “You have to listen to the college-aged, because they lead the revolution,” Sarah Silverman solemnly told Vanity Fair last summer. “They’re pretty much always on the right side of history.” Last December, in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Amy Schumer repudiated her own on-stage persona, saying, “I used to play a character onstage, really irreverent, kind of a racist. . . . I played this very privileged, white Republican chick. And that’s not who I am. . . . I did not grow up with money. I’m a Democrat.” And Chelsea Handler, who on her nightly E! gabfest — from which she walked away in 2014 — was determinedly facetious about absolutely everything, resurfaced earlier this year in four “serious” Netflix documentaries about topics such as race (that one featured Al Sharpton, no less) and is currently hosting a thrice-weekly Netflix outing on which she seeks to “educate” herself by chatting with people like Senator Barbara Boxer, Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, and Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr…

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5 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/6/2016

  1. “[An ‘immigrant hating’ Frenchman who planned 15 mass attacks on the Euro 2016 football championship was today facing a range of terrorist charges after being arrested in Ukraine / . . . / 125kg-explosives]”

    My gut reaction to this is “FALSE FLAG!” Why in Ukraine? Why would a one-man show be so conveniently caught and photographed with so many weapons of certain types and so much ammo?

    Tick-tock, tick-tock . . . how long do we have to wait until [take your pick] Vlad Putin, Boris Johnson and Brexit, AfD, Trump or any of the usual Soros-targets gets the blame? This flag reeks.

  2. The ‘refugees’ being diagnosed with TB is more serious then one could imagine. Due to cultural differences, lack of education, and trust of medical professionals, if these ‘refugees’ do not take the entire course of treatment, and doses of medication as prescribed, these is always the danger of developing a resistant strain of TB. BTW TB was almost completely wiped out in the USA, now it looks like it has returned along with many other dreaded diseases long gone from our country.

    • The TB of many refugees is latent but they’re capable of spreading it to others. Give us about 10 years and it will be on the same level as the bedbugs so prevalent now. And they’d been wiped out two generations ago.

      In another 20 years the massive movement of 3rd world populations into 1st world areas will resurrect the use of DDT. It won’t happen immediately, but when the mess gets bad enough…DDT never should have been totally verboten. Used judiciously, it had a place. And it is criminal not to permit its use in Africa.

      From four years ago, a takedown of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”:

      http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2012/09/05/rachel-carsons-deadly-fantasies/#6044e2b015d1

    • BTW, a good career path would be public health for the upcoming generation. There is going to be a crying need for people just to track disease paths.

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