Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/17/2016

According to Wikileaks, Julian Assange’s access to the Internet has been cut off by a “state actor”. Some reports say the Ecuadoran government cut him off under pressure from an unidentified foreign government. Mr. Assange has claimed asylum in the Ecuadoran embassy in London since 2012.

In possibly unrelated news, RT says that NatWest bank has closed all its accounts in the UK, without giving a reason for the action. The RT news agency is owned and funded by the Russian state.

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Thanks to Dean, Fjordman, JD, Matt Bracken, Nick, Reader from Chicago, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Euro ‘House of Cards’ To Collapse, Warns ECB Prophet
» One in Two University Graduates Cannot Find Work in Greece
» ‘The Euro is Finished’: Currency’s Creator Says it Will Soon Collapse and Destroy the EU
» Turkish Unemployment Rises as Tourists Stay Away
 
USA
» ‘Clinton Cash’ Author: WikiLeaks Emails Confirm Clinton Foundation Pay-to-Play Allegations
» CNN Host Blames Firebombing of Republican HQ on Donald Trump
» CNN: “it’s Illegal” To Read WikiLeaks Clinton Emails, You Have to Go “Through US”
» Faux Outrage, Lies, And More Media Bias Against Trump
» Iraqi Refugee Living in Houston Pleads Guilty to Trying to Help ISIS
» Julian Assange in Mexican Stand-Off With Hillary Campaign
» Kaine Makes History With First-Ever Speech Entirely in Spanish During Church Service
» Latest Wiki Dump Reveals Heavy Press Collusion Over Hillary’s “Excellent Health” Medical Statement
» Lawmakers Allege “Quid Pro Quo” Between FBI and State Over Altered ‘Classified’ Clinton Emails
» Leaked Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton’s Life of Deceit
» More Than 1 Million to Lose ObamaCare Plans as Insurers Quit
» Newt Gingrich: Political Coup is What is Happening to America Right Now (Video)
» One Day Biden Declares Cyber War, Next Day Assange is Cut Off From Internet. Hmmm…
» Red White and Dead
» Sally Miller, Former Miss Arkansas Says Hillary is Satan in Drag
» Sex, Trump and Our Republic
» The “Muslim Hate Crimes Increase” Hoax
» The Elite “Have No Idea” — Society is Near the Breaking Point
» Trump: Election is Being “Rigged” By Media and at Polling Stations
» Why is Obama Threatening Russia With World War 3 Right Before the Election?
» WikiLeaks Email: Clinton Campaign Wished San Bernardino Terrorist Had Been White
» WikiLeaks Reveals Long List of Media Canoodling With Hillary Clinton
» WikiLeaks: Podesta Lamented That a Muslim, Not a White Man, Named as Killer in 2015 Massacre
 
Canada
» 80 Years Later, Polar Explorer’s Sunken Ship Floats Again
 
Europe and the EU
» Austria: Young Muslims at Risk of Radicalisation in Vienna
» BASF Germany Explosion Death Toll: Victims Missing, Injured After Blast at Headquarters in Ludwigshafen
» Christian Party Wants to Ban Dutch Mosques’ Calls to Prayer
» First Brexit, Now Auxit? Austria Should Leave Failing Brussels Bloc, Top Economist Says
» Germany: Man Admits Offering Infant Daughter on eBay
» Is This Ancient Shoe the Roman’s Version of the Adidas Predator Football Boot? See for Yourself
» Looking Beneath the Surface of Greek Pottery
» RT: NatWest to Close Russian Channel’s UK Bank Accounts
» RT’s Bank Accounts Blocked in the UK; Russia Foreign Ministry Slams RBS’ Decision
» Scotland: Coast Set to Hold ‘Robot Wars’ Exercise
» Sweden: Gotland Rape Protests Take Place ‘According to Plan’
» The Moderate Muslim Majority Myth
» The Vatican Submits to Islam (2006-2016)
» UK: ‘All White Girls Are Good for is Sex. They’re Just Sl*gs’: Eight Members of ‘Openly Racist’ Violent Asian Sex Gang Raped and ‘Sexually Degraded’ Three Teenage Girls in Rotherham
» UK: Bigotry Runs Through Labour Like a Virus
» UK: Mother-of-Six Claims Killer Clowns Tried to Snatch Her Baby
» What Colour Did the Vikings Paint Their Houses?
» WikiLeaks Says Assange’s Internet Link Was Severed by ‘State Party’
» WikiLeaks: Julian Assange’s Internet Access ‘Cut’
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» The Danger Zone: Why Israel Greatly Fears Barack Obama’s Last Few Months in Office
 
Middle East
» Al-Qaeda Fighters in East-Aleppo (Defined) Down to Three!
» Battle for Mosul: Operation to Retake Iraqi City From ISIS Begins
» Debunking the Western Media’s Coverage of the War on Syria
» Iraqi, Kurdish Forces Make Early Gains as First Day of Mosul Operation Takes Hold
 
Russia
» Still Do Not See Any Nazi? Ukrainian Neo-Nazi “Nationalists” Stage Massive March in Kiev
 
South Asia
» Greater Jakarta: N. Jakarta Cleric Accused of Sex Abuse
» Indonesia Tracking Dozens of Militants Returned From Syria: Police Chief
» Muslim Woman Screams Out in Pain as She is Caned 23 Times in Indonesia for ‘Standing Too Close to Her Boyfriend’
 
Far East
» China’s Shenzhou 11 Blasts Off on Space Station Mission
» Western Contact With China Began Long Before Marco Polo, Experts Say
 
Latin America
» WikiLeaks Claims Ecuador Cut Off Julian Assange’s Internet Link
 
Immigration
» Africa’s Population Boom Fuels ‘Unstoppable’ Migration to Europe
» Austria: Syrian Asylum Seeker in Court on Terror Charges
» Calais Migrants Attack News Reporters With Stones and Knives for Filming Bid for Britain
» Denmark’s Had it With Brussels: Borders Will Remain Until EU ‘Gets Control Over Crisis’
» Female Clinton Voters: When an Illegal Alien Rapes Your Daughter or a Muslim Does This
» France: ‘Scenes From the Apocalypse’: Filmmaker’s Shocking Footage Shows Once-Romantic Paris Covered in Filth and Rubbish as African Migrants Are Forced to Live in the Streets
» Germany’s Fertility Rate Hit 33 Year High Due to Migrant Influx
» Germany: Thousands March on Anti-Mass Migration PEGIDA’s Second Anniversary
» Germany: Sex Attacks, Brawling, Theft: Far Left Youth Club Admits Migrant Outreach Failed
» Migrant Arrested in Germany Over Raping Grandmother
» Migrants Attack Journalists Near Camp in Northern France
» Raising Barriers: A New Age of Walls, Episode 1
» Riot Officer Badly Injured After ‘Swarm’ of Migrants Storms Port of Calais
» UK: Former Archbishop and Activists Bring in Migrants From France
» Video: Hundreds of Africa Migrants Storm Spanish Enclave of Melilla
» Who Says You’re a Dane?
 
Culture Wars
» Australian High School Students to be Re-Educated on Male Privilege
» Feminist Phd\D Candidate: Science is Sexist Because it’s Not Subjective
» History of Veterans Victory Over ACLU in Mt. Soledad Cross Case
» Swedish School to Build Gender Neutral Changing Room
 
General
» BRICs, Putin Secretly Aligned With West, Seek Aggressive Globalism
 

Euro ‘House of Cards’ To Collapse, Warns ECB Prophet

The European Central Bank is becoming dangerously over-extended and the whole euro project is unworkable in its current form, the founding architect of the monetary union has warned.

“One day, the house of cards will collapse,” said Professor Otmar Issing, the ECB’s first chief economist and a towering figure in the construction of the single currency.

Prof Issing said the euro has been betrayed by politics, lamenting that the experiment went wrong from the beginning and has since degenerated into a fiscal free-for-all that once again masks the festering pathologies.

“Realistically, it will be a case of muddling through, struggling from one crisis to the next. It is difficult to forecast how long this will continue for, but it cannot go on endlessly,” he told the journal Central Banking in a remarkable deconstruction of the project.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

One in Two University Graduates Cannot Find Work in Greece

One in two Greeks with a university degree cannot find work in the first three years after graduation, a Eurostat study says.

According to the study correlating high level of education and employment opportunities, Greece ranks last among European Union member states as only 49.9 percent of university graduates find work within three years after they graduate.

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

‘The Euro is Finished’: Currency’s Creator Says it Will Soon Collapse and Destroy the EU

In an explosive intervention professor Otmar Issing predicted that Brussels’ dream of a European superstate will finally be buried amongst the rubble of the crumbling single currency he designed.

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

Turkish Unemployment Rises as Tourists Stay Away

The Turkish statistics agency has reported a rise in unemployment in the country. It pointed out that joblessness among young people was of particular concern, with tourism taking a major hit after terror threats.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

‘Clinton Cash’ Author: WikiLeaks Emails Confirm Clinton Foundation Pay-to-Play Allegations

On Sunday, WikiLeaks released more purported emails stolen from Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.

Peter Schweizer, author of “Clinton Cash,” says that these emails further reinforce what he’s been saying for a long time: Clinton Foundation donors expected a quid pro quo from Hillary Clinton’s State Department in exchange for their gifts.

“Everything we assumed or thought was the case a year-and-a-half ago has been now confirmed in these emails,” Schweizer said on Fox and Friends this morning.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

CNN Host Blames Firebombing of Republican HQ on Donald Trump

CNN host Brian Stelter responded to the firebombing of a Republican Party HQ in Orange County, N.C. — almost certainly carried out by anti-Trump Hillary supporters — by blaming it on Donald Trump…

In essence, Stelter is arguing that because Trump said some “offensive” words, that justifies violent attacks against his supporters and absolves the real culprits of blame.

The media narrative that Trump is to blame for any and all acts of violence has been in place for the entire year — despite virtually every instance — from violent assaults on Trump supporters, to property being vandalized, to brazen death threats — being the fault of anti-Trump agitators.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CNN: “it’s Illegal” To Read WikiLeaks Clinton Emails, You Have to Go “Through US”

“Everything you’re learning about this, you’re learning from us,” he says

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo says “it’s illegal” for common plebs to read Hillary Clinton’s leaked emails but “it’s different for the media.”

“Everything you’re learning about this, you’re learning from us,” he says.

I guess that means people are learning nothing, as they’ve all but ignored the story except to push the tin-foil hat conspiracy theory “muh Russians” are behind it.

A look at CNN’s current front page shows not a single article on Wikileaks except one titled, “US finds growing evidence Russia feeding emails to WikiLeaks” — which cites anonymous “officials” who provide zero evidence.

The most important up to this point, according to Wikileaks themselves, is the revelation Hillary Clinton knew Saudi Arabia and Qatar were funding ISIS in 2014 yet took over $30 million from both nations through her crooked foundation.

Additionally, Bill Clinton was given a $1 million dollar “birthday check” from ISIS funding Qatar.

These facts alone should be enough to indict both Hillary and Bill Clinton for treason, but the sold out GOP are a bunch of cowards and traitors and would prefer Hillary beat Trump so the rigged system continues unabated.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Faux Outrage, Lies, And More Media Bias Against Trump

In what we have described as a “shock and awe” campaign, the media want us to believe there’s a right and wrong regarding Donald Trump and women-but not a right and wrong when it comes to what the Clintons, the Kennedys and the Democratic Party elites do and say. On November 8, says Michelle Obama, “…let’s elect Hillary Clinton and other Democrats who share our values and can be role models for our children.”

Trump has been around hundreds of beautiful women for decades, but only now are these spurious charges against him surfacing. You have to be a Democrat partisan or completely ignorant of media bias techniques to think they are not coordinated for maximum political effect.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Iraqi Refugee Living in Houston Pleads Guilty to Trying to Help ISIS

HOUSTON — An Iraqi refugee who authorities say wanted to set off bombs at two Houston malls pleaded guilty Monday to trying to help the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

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

Julian Assange in Mexican Stand-Off With Hillary Campaign

NEW YORK — Starting Sunday evening, Julian Assange, secreted away in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, entered into a “Mexican stand-off” with John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

As the drama unfolded overnight, suspicions built the Clinton campaign had grown tired of Assange’s daily “drip, drip, drip” release of Podesta emails, with the ninth drop of Podesta emails occurring earlier Sunday, resulting in a total of 12,073 emails released out of a suspected trove of 50,000 most observers believe Assange is holding in total.

Despite being ignored by the mainstream media, that the WikiLeaks hacked emails have exposed as largely partisan to Clinton, the daily release of Podesta emails by WikiLeaks has done obvious damage to Clinton’s candidacy by their wide circulation on the Internet.

The problem Podesta and the others in charge of the Clinton campaign face is that any attempt to apprehend Assange may not prevent the future release of more adverse emails.

To the contrary, WikiLeaks appears to be giving out clear signals on Twitter that any attempt to apprehend Assange could trigger the automatic WikiLeaks release of the most damaging information WikiLeaks holds not only on Clinton and her presidential campaign, but on the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, on Ecuador, and on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

At around 5:30 p.m. EST on Sunday, WikiLeaks tweeted what appeared to be three “dead man” files, the first dealing with UK FCO [Foreign & Commonwealth Office], the second with Ecuador, and the third with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

A “dead man” file, in the vernacular of cyber-hackers is considered a fail-safe measure, in which the hacker creates a file of the most damaging information that will automatically be released on the Internet should any action be taken by state authorities or otherwise to kill the hacker.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Kaine Makes History With First-Ever Speech Entirely in Spanish During Church Service

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine used his Spanish skills to urge voters in Florida to hit the polls in just about three weeks.

The Virginia senator took the microphone at Pneuma Church in Miami at a Sunday morning service to ask Latinos to vote. It was the first time a presidential ticket candidate has ever delivered a speech entirely in Spanish, according to the Clinton campaign.

“Buenos dias a todos,” Hillary Clinton’s running mate told a couple hundred people at the Miami church, before talking about his time as a missionary in Honduras and emphasizing the importance of voting on Nov. 6.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Latest Wiki Dump Reveals Heavy Press Collusion Over Hillary’s “Excellent Health” Medical Statement

Among the latest, ninth round of Podesta email releases by Wikileaks this morning, is a July 31, 2015 email by Hillary Clinton’s National Press Secretary Brian Fallon who lays out the agenda for the day’s rollout of Clinton’s tax record and, more importantly, Hillary’s “excellent health” medical statement, where once again the media, listed as “AP, Politico, WSJ, WaPo, etc” is exposed as coordinating and colluding with the campaign to send a message that Hillary is in great health.

In the email written in the early hours on Friday, Fallon writes that in the “rollout plan” for that same day, the campaign will “Pitch the first round of stories to the travelling press corps (AP, Politico, WSJ, WaPo, etc) with a 2 pm embargo.”

He goes on to say that for these stories “we will provide the full text of HRC’s physician’s letter, summarizing that she is in excellent health and is medically fit to perform the duties of President. We will push that she is the FIRST presidential candidate to release this info.”

In further evidence of the prepared media narrative, Fallon points out that “we expect the stories that pop at 2 pm to have headlines such as “CLINTON IN ‘EXCELLENT HEALTH,’ MEDICAL RECORDS SAY” … “CLINTON RELEASES HEALTH REPORT.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Lawmakers Allege “Quid Pro Quo” Between FBI and State Over Altered ‘Classified’ Clinton Emails

About a week ago we wrote about newly released FBI interviews with numerous references to State Department officials, including Patrick Kennedy, applying pressure to subordinates to change classified email codes so they would be shielded from Congress and the public (see “Two Boxes Of Hillary Emails Mysteriously Disappear”). Here is the relevant section from the FBI’s interview notes:

Now, according to a report from Fox News, new FBI files reviewed by Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), Chair of the House Oversight Committee, potentially point toward a “quid pro quo” arrangement between the State Department and the FBI whereby Patrick Kennedy, a senior executive at the State Department, offered “additional slots for the FBI at missions overseas” in return of “altering the classification” of certain Hillary Clinton emails. If true, of course, this new evidence could serve to discredit the entire FBI investigation as the notes are a “flashing red light of potential criminality.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Leaked Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton’s Life of Deceit

Among the many telling kernels of truth dappling the spoor of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s internal emails released by WikiLeaks this past week, this one immediately leaped out:

“Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be. But if everybody’s watching . . . then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position.”

The sausage maker was Clinton, giving one of her $225,000 speeches that she’s so long sought to conceal from the public, in this instance to the National Multi-Housing Council in April 2013. It came at a time when the just-retired secretary of state was coyly gearing up for a White House run, little tin cup at the ready, raking in nearly a million dollars that month alone.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

More Than 1 Million to Lose ObamaCare Plans as Insurers Quit

A growing number of people in Obamacare are finding out their health insurance plans will disappear from the program next year, forcing them to find new coverage even as options shrink and prices rise.

At least 1.4 million people in 32 states will lose the Obamacare plan they have now, according to state officials contacted by Bloomberg. That’s largely caused by Aetna Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and some state or regional insurers quitting the law’s markets for individual coverage.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Newt Gingrich: Political Coup is What is Happening to America Right Now (Video)

The former Speaker of the House didn’t hold back in describing the truth of what is now happening to the election process in America, including those who are responsible, and how Donald Trump is the only figure in the modern era of American politics, who has taken the corrupt, colluding machine head on.

This is a must-watch:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

One Day Biden Declares Cyber War, Next Day Assange is Cut Off From Internet. Hmmm…

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it seems like a series of events during the last couple of days are related.

First, you have the Democrats calling Assange a puppet of Putin. Then you have Vice President Joe Biden calling for an offensive cyber war against “Russia”. Mysteriously, the next day, Julian Assange’s Internet connection gets severed:

Before the tweet went out saying his Internet had been cut off, Wikileaks disseminated a series of hash codes which are most likely meant to verify the authenticity of documents contained in “dead man’s switches”, which Assange has previously planted. So if something further happens to Assange, we’ll be able to verify that the documents that eventually get released have not been tampered with.

The Obama administration is apparently psychopathic and ready for nuclear war to protect their darling candidate’s crimes from being exposed.

I honestly can’t stop laughing, as a former Democrat myself. They have turned into the very monster that they’ve always railed against. Using military force to shut down a news publisher — that’s pure fascism. And coming from the very same people who claim to be against it.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Red White and Dead

In this Matrix world of falsified realities, lies, and scripted scenarios and teleprompter wisdom-it’s WHATEVER the fanatic, Marxist, Islamist, Globalist, agendized media says is true, is true. Because the media says it’s true.

The only thing that really matters to Them are the personal fortunes of politicians, media talking-mouths, and-as Michael Savage says-their “Maoist-style,” militant, social warrior irregulars.

Whatever They say is true, is true; whatever they say is not true, is not true. Because they control all social, media, and cultural reins that create or annihilate whatever words or meanings they choose. This is classic, Soviet mind control, to keep you from even HAVING thoughts that they don’t regulate and control.

It’s political correctness. The self-installing, self-perpetuating, self-evident jailer and Enforcer billeted deep inside your brain.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sally Miller, Former Miss Arkansas Says Hillary is Satan in Drag

This beauty queen described how she’s been under attack from the Clintons — who are infamous for their intimidation tactics — since the 1990s. She was physically threatened by a Clinton campaign operative, and is worried that they will stop at nothing to silence her during the 2016 campaign.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sex, Trump and Our Republic

Trump’s vulgarity didn’t bother me more than four dead Americans in Benghazi — – especially after Ambassador Chris Stevens sent 600 requests to Hillary Clinton for help and she chose to ignore him.

Murder is one of the Ten Commandments; vulgar language is not.

It didn’t bother me any more than Hillary being forced to return $200,000 of stolen goods to the White House when the Clintons left office in 2000. White House furnishings belong to you and me.

Stealing is one of the Ten Commandments; vulgar language is not. Murder and stealing represent actions actually taken. Vulgar talk does not.

Trump’s unlawfully video taped conversation didn’t bother me any more than memories of the murder (or was it suicide?) of Vince Foster, Castle Grande (Whitewater), the trail of dead bodies that follow the Clintons wherever they go, and Hillary’s lies about her investing skills — which are different than these other known lies. I’ve read “Thou shall not lie” somewhere… let me see.

People consider Trump’s vulgarity worse than Hillary’s actual behavior? It is said that we get the government we deserve. I want Hillary supporters — including Bill Kristol, Mike Lee, John McCain, Paul Ryan, and all of the other RINOs — to remember that as our country is flushed down the toilet. Your hand was on the “flush” button.

Trump’s disgusting conversation, taped with an Access Hollywood interviewer named Billy Bush who is the nephew of George H.W. Bush (cousin of Jeb), suggest this conversation was manipulated by Billy Bush, then saved to bring public when Trump decided to run for the Presidency. After all, he spoke of running often. We know NBC had the recording for six months and waited until 48 hours before the Sunday night debate to publish it.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The “Muslim Hate Crimes Increase” Hoax

You may have seen the headlines claiming that “hate crimes” against Muslims have soared to levels not seen since 9/11. According to this controversial study, hate crimes had increased 78%. All the media had to do was fill in the boilerplate language blaming Trump and Islamophobic discourse by conservatives.

These numbers come from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University San Bernardino. It’s conveniently located around 11 miles from the site of the Muslim massacre in San Bernardino. One of its authors, Kevin Grisham, was the former director of the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, and his writings reveal a certain degree of sympathy for Islamists.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Elite “Have No Idea” — Society is Near the Breaking Point

What I find most surprising today is that the insiders and the elite have no idea what is percolating just beneath the surface. Okay, maybe their arrogance actually produces its own fog, so it should not come as a surprise that they are blinded. They do not look at the calendar, which, if one really looks, says “1788” on it. Something is close. Very close. Society is near the breaking point.

My own experience is that Hillary’s so-called Deplorables are actually the most reserved, most polite, and most honest demographic in the country. They are more informed, more self-reliant, and among other things, better armed. Regarding their arms, they are incredibly responsible, and not the source of the violence for which the implement, and not the person, is too often blamed. The Deplorables have the longest fuse. It is, however, a fuse.

Alt Left, on the other hand, are the Neo Fascists and Neo Neocons. It is Alt Left that thinks Free Speech means THEIR speech only. It is Alt Left that needs ‘safe spaces’ and wants to enforce thought crime.

It is Alt Left, and its media lapdog sites, that is heavily into censorship of ideas that diverge from their approved ideology. It is Alt Left that champions regime change and ratcheting up the rhetoric against Russia. It is Alt Left that believes it has an inherent right, even an obligation, to lie and obfuscate if it serves their greater purpose.

Perhaps most significant is that it is Alt Left who so quickly resorts to violence and vandalism when confronted with people and ideas with which it takes exception. Never has that been as clear as in this election cycle…

           — Hat tip: Matt Bracken [Return to headlines]
 

Trump: Election is Being “Rigged” By Media and at Polling Stations

GOP nominee Donald Trump once again repeated a warning that the upcoming election is being “rigged”. Trump leveled the accusation at the corporate media, and also suggested voter fraud would be a leveling factor in favor of Hillary Clinton on election day.

“The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary — but also at many polling places — SAD” Trump tweeted out Sunday evening after a number of his surrogates also warned of voter fraud during media interviews.

Trump also tweeted “Election is being rigged by the media, in a coordinated effort with the Clinton campaign, by putting stories that never happened into news!”

In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Sunday, Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, said “the American people are tired of the obvious bias in the national media. That’s where this sense of a rigged election goes here.”

Pence added that the media is prioritizing negative stories about Trump rather than covering “the real hard evidence” against Clinton, alluding to the Wikileaks emails and the numerous scandals Clinton has been associated with.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why is Obama Threatening Russia With World War 3 Right Before the Election?

It sure seems like an odd time to be provoking a war with Russia. As I write this, we stand just a little bit more than three weeks away from one of the most pivotal elections in U.S. history, and Barack Obama has chosen this moment to strongly threaten the Russians. As I wrote about on Friday, Reuters is reporting that Obama is contemplating “direct U.S. military action” against Syrian military targets, and the Russians have already indicated that any assault on Syrian forces would be considered an attack on themselves. The rapidly deteriorating crisis in Syria has already caused tensions with Russia to rise to the highest level since the end of the Cold War, but now Obama is adding fuel to the fire by publicly considering “an unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia”. Apparently Obama believes that Russian hackers are interfering in the election and so he wants payback. The following comes from an NBC News article entitled “CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia”…

Here in the United States, most people don’t even realize that we could be on the verge of a major conflict with Russia.

But over in Russia things are completely different. Talk of war is everywhere, and the potential for war is the number one topic in the Russian media right now. Just check out some of the recent Russian media headlines about the conflict between our two nations…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

WikiLeaks Email: Clinton Campaign Wished San Bernardino Terrorist Had Been White

Podesta: “Better” if killer was Christopher Hayes.

A new email uncovered as part of the Wikileaks Podesta hack reveals that Hillary Clinton’s campaign wished the San Bernardino shooter had been white after news broke that his name was “Sayeed Farouk”.

After MSNBC host Christopher Hayes (who is white), tweeted “NBC News now reporting a US citizen named Sayeed Farouk believed to be one of the people involved in the shooting,” Karen Finney, Hillary’s ‘strategic communications adviser and senior spokesperson’ responded simply with the word “damn”.

Campaign chairman John Podesta responded to the email by stating, “Better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter.”

The fact that the shooter was in fact an Islamic extremist played into Donald Trump’s narrative that ISIS represents a significant threat to America.

Response on Twitter was damning.

“Must have been terribly inconvenient for them that another Islamist fanatic went on a bloody rampage killing infidels,” tweeted one user.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

WikiLeaks Reveals Long List of Media Canoodling With Hillary Clinton

There is a reason that the establishment media is devoting so little airtime to the Wikileaks revelations: the hacked emails show how many establishment media people are working with Clinton family to rig the election.

Here is a list of some of media actions that have been exposed, so far.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

WikiLeaks: Podesta Lamented That a Muslim, Not a White Man, Named as Killer in 2015 Massacre

Top Hillary Clinton aides were upset a Muslim man was publicly named as the shooter in a 2015 massacre that left 14 people dead, and a longtime Clinton confidant even expressed regret that the terrorist wasn’t a white man, according to purported emails released by WikiLeaks on Sunday.

The emails were part of a trove of messages stolen from the gmail account of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, who has had a long association with the Democratic presidential nominee and her husband, former President Bill Clinton. The email chain began on Dec. 2, when digital operative Matt Ortega forwarded a tweet from MSNBC host Christopher Hayes that named one of the shooters in the San Bernardino, Calif., attack as Sayeed Farook. Consultant Karen Finney forwarded the email to Podesta, commenting, “Damn.”

Podesta responded: “Better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk [sic] was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

80 Years Later, Polar Explorer’s Sunken Ship Floats Again

For the first time in more than 80 years, the Maud is floating above the sea surface.

The sturdy oak ship, made to withstand Arctic winters stuck in pack ice, was originally built for the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, the first human to arrive at the South Pole. In 1930, the ship sank in shallow water off the coast of Cambridge Bay, in northern Canada’s remote Victoria Island.

This past summer, a Norwegian salvage expedition says they successfully raised the wreck onto a barge.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Austria: Young Muslims at Risk of Radicalisation in Vienna

A study by the City of Vienna shows that a high proportion of Muslim teenagers in the Austrian capital are at risk of being radicalised.

The study found that 85 percent of young people who are in contact with a youth worker have an immigration background, and that 27 percent of those teenagers who are Muslim show strong sympathy for jihadism, and violent and anti-Western thinking.

The government in Vienna says that it wants to identify this group of “latently vulnerable” youth and establish a dialogue with them, before they become radicalised.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

BASF Germany Explosion Death Toll: Victims Missing, Injured After Blast at Headquarters in Ludwigshafen

An explosion at a chemical company’s factory in Germany left at least one person dead in addition to injuring several people late Monday morning local time, according to multiple reports. But a number of others were also missing and unaccounted for.

The cause of the blast at BASF headquarters in Ludwigshafen was not immediately determined, Deutsche Wells reported.

“There was an explosion with several people injured for as-yet undetermined reasons at around 11:30 (0930 GMT) at BASF Ludwigshafen,” BASF said in a statement.

There was no any information immediately available about the person who died, but the explosion may have been a result of work on a pipeline route according to local news outlet Suddeutsche Zeitung. The blast took place along a nearby harbor used for flammable liquids and liquefied gas, the Associated Press reported.

At least seven people were still missing and at least four people were injured…

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Christian Party Wants to Ban Dutch Mosques’ Calls to Prayer

Christian party SGP wants to ban mosques in the Netherlands from making their daily calls to prayer with the words “Allahu Akbar”, party leader Kees van der Staaij said to broadcaster NOS. This ban is one of the points in the SGP’s election campaign, which will be released in two weeks.

“We’re not in the Middle East here. We don’t have to find it normal that at so many times, with that volume, ‘Allah is great’ blares through the street”, the SGP leader said. “We have recently seen more and more irritation arise about these prayer calls.”According to him, this measure would need no constitutional changes — the number of prayer calls can be limited through the public demonstrations law.

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First Brexit, Now Auxit? Austria Should Leave Failing Brussels Bloc, Top Economist Says

Hans-Werner Sinn argued that population, along with wealth, will tip the balance of power in the favour of poorer countries after such as Greece and Spain while Germany and Austria will suffer.

With Britain set to trigger Article 50 in early 2017, Sinn claims so-called richer nations will be at the mercy of poorer nations who will manipulate and mould the EU in their favour.

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Germany: Man Admits Offering Infant Daughter on eBay

BERLIN — German police say a 28-year-old man has admitted listing his infant daughter for sale on eBay but maintains that it was meant as a joke.

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Is This Ancient Shoe the Roman’s Version of the Adidas Predator Football Boot? See for Yourself

Excavations at Vindolanda Roman Fort have dug up a haul of old shoes — and one looks rather familiar.

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Looking Beneath the Surface of Greek Pottery

The Daily Mail reports that a team of researchers from the Cantor Arts Center’s Art + Science Learning Lab and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory examined a 2,500-year-old Athenian oil flask with a technique called synchrotron X-ray fluorescence. The results of the test produced a chemical map of the paint on the vase, which suggests that an extra step was required to apply a calcium-based additive for the color white. “Under what they thought was a single coat, they found other instances of painting that the naked eye could not see,” said Jody Maxmin of Stanford University.

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RT: NatWest to Close Russian Channel’s UK Bank Accounts

NatWest bank is to close the accounts of Russia’s state-run broadcaster, RT.

Editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan tweeted: “They’ve closed our accounts in Britain. All our accounts. ‘The decision is not subject to review.’ Praise be to freedom of speech!”

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RT’s Bank Accounts Blocked in the UK; Russia Foreign Ministry Slams RBS’ Decision

While we have yet to get an update from Wikileaks on the status of Julian Assange’s internet connection at the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK, which as reported overnight was allegedly “severed” by an unknown “state party”, moments ago Russia’s RT (originally Russia Today), a television network and website funded by the Russian government, has allegedly seen its bank accounts blocked by the UK, according to a tweet posted moments ago by the station’s editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan.

“Our accounts in the UK have been closed. All Accounts. ‘The decision is not subject to revision’. Long live freedom of speech!” Simonyan said in a Twitter post, suggesting that the move stifles free speech.

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Scotland: Coast Set to Hold ‘Robot Wars’ Exercise

THE world’s biggest ‘robot wars’ military exercise will be held off the Sutherland coast next week.

Flying drones and robotic submarines are expected to take part in the hi-tech “Unmanned Warrior 2016” event, being staged from October 6-12.

The US Navy and Nato’s centre for maritime research and experimentation will be among the 40 participants from industry, academia and the defence sector.

The first large scale war games of their type will see more than 40 different types of unmanned air, sea and underwater vehicles take part in the exercise in and around the Minches and off the west of the Hebrides.

Cape Wrath bombing range is also expected to be used.

Sir Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, has warned that terrorists and enemy states are already developing and using cutting-edge technology to target Britain and that the UK must stay “ahead of the curve”.

The focus of the event will be on hunting enemy submarines, evading mines, and gathering intelligence…

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Sweden: Gotland Rape Protests Take Place ‘According to Plan’

The planned rallies on the Swedish island of Gotland took place without any major incidents at the weekend, despite police sending extra back-up to the location ahead of the demonstrations.

Police reinforcements were called out to the holiday island ahead of the weekend round of demos, which saw anti-immigration party the Sweden Democrats protest on Saturday, and a rival anti-racism and anti-sexism demonstration on Sunday.

The protests were sparked by the fall-out over an ongoing investigation into an alleged gang rape, which saw five men arrested on suspicion of rape then later released when the prosecutor judged that there was not enough evidence to remand them in custody.

Part of the tension around the alleged rape case is due to online speculation that some of the suspects may be asylum seekers.

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The Moderate Muslim Majority Myth

What exactly is the litmus test for “moderation”?

The head of Britain’s M-16 recently told a panel of intelligence officers that jihad terror “will certainly be with us for our professional lifetimes.” Which prompts a question. How can that be so when we are repeatedly assured that extremists are only a tiny minority and that the vast majority of Muslims are moderates? Why should it take a lifetime to defeat such a small number?

Perhaps it’s time to revisit the assumption that the vast majority of Muslims are moderate. It’s true, of course, that the vast majority of Muslims are not engaged in terrorist activities, but that doesn’t mean that they are necessarily moderate.

Not currently killing people is a poor gauge of moderation. A better gauge would be to determine the potential for turning to violence in a given population. The fact is, we do have such a gauge. It’s the belief system that one adheres to. If beliefs do have consequences, it’s legitimate to ask if there is something about the Islamic faith that predisposes to violence.

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The Vatican Submits to Islam (2006-2016)

by Giulio Meotti

“It is clear that Muslims have an ultimate goal: conquering the world…But we find it hard to recognize this reality and to respond by defending the Christian faith […] I have heard several times an Islamic idea: ‘what we failed to do with the weapons in the past we are doing today with the birth rate and immigration’. The population is changing. If this keeps up, in countries like Italy, the majority will be Muslim […] And what is the most important achievement? Rome.” — Monsignor Raymond Burke, US Catholic leader.

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UK: ‘All White Girls Are Good for is Sex. They’re Just Sl*gs’: Eight Members of ‘Openly Racist’ Violent Asian Sex Gang Raped and ‘Sexually Degraded’ Three Teenage Girls in Rotherham

Eight members of an Asian sex gang in Rotherham were today convicted of sexually exploiting teenage girls after making them suffer ‘degrading and violent’ acts.

Sageer Hussain, 30, openly boasted that he was racist and told his distraught 13-year-old white victim: ‘All white girls are good for is sex and they are just sl*gs.’

Sageer was convicted of four rapes and one indecent assault and his elder brother Basharat, 40, of indecent assault against the same girl at Sheffield Crown Court.

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UK: Bigotry Runs Through Labour Like a Virus

The Labour Party is revealed to have anti-Semitism running through it like a virus — and Jeremy Corbyn himself is blamed for an utter failure to tackle it.

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UK: Mother-of-Six Claims Killer Clowns Tried to Snatch Her Baby

Mother-of-six Leah Newton, 32, says she was confronted by a man wearing a clown’s mask as she left a birthday party at The Top Club in Deighton, West Yorkshire, at around 11pm on Friday.

A mother-of-six says a knife-wielding clown tried to snatch her three-month-old baby from her car in a terrifying night time ordeal.

Leah Newton says he was only stopped from stealing her baby because he could not get the child’s baby seat out of her car.

Ms Newton, 32, says she was confronted by three men all wearing clown’s masks as she left a birthday party at The Top Club in Deighton, West Yorkshire, at around 11pm on Friday.

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What Colour Did the Vikings Paint Their Houses?

Archaeologists in Denmark are busy building one of the largest experimental archaeology reconstruction projects. But what colours would the Vikings have used?

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WikiLeaks Says Assange’s Internet Link Was Severed by ‘State Party’

WikiLeaks said Monday that its founder Julian Assange’s Internet link was severed by a “state party” and that “appropriate contingency plans” had been activated.

The controversial anti-secrecy website has been busy in October, methodically releasing a trove of emails allegedly stolen from the gmail account of Clinton presidential campaign chair John Podesta. WikiLeaks had released just more than 12,000 emails of a purported 50,000 they have access to as of Monday morning. The Podesta emails have raised questions about a too-cozy working relationship between the Clinton campaign and some members of the media and has also shed light on how Clinton’s team handled various scandals.

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WikiLeaks: Julian Assange’s Internet Access ‘Cut’

Wikileaks says an unidentified “state actor” has shut down internet access for its founder Julian Assange.

The transparency activist has been claiming asylum at London’s Ecuadorean embassy since 2012 to avoid extradition over sex assault allegations.

There was no way to immediately verify if he had been knocked offline, and if so, how a state actor was suspected.

Wikileaks has recently been releasing emails from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

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The Danger Zone: Why Israel Greatly Fears Barack Obama’s Last Few Months in Office

Between right now and January 20th, 2017 is a real “ pressure point” for U.S. relations with Israel. Barack Obama has always desired to “ leave a legacy” in the Middle East, and at this point the only option for accomplishing anything tangible is through the United Nations. The Israeli government is extremely concerned that Obama may attempt to take such action before he leaves office, and so they recently asked Secretary of State John Kerry if the U.S. would promise to veto any anti-Israel resolutions that come before the UN Security Council for the rest of Obama’ s time in the White House. Unfortunately for Israel, the New York Post is reporting that Kerry flatly refused to make such a promise…

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Al-Qaeda Fighters in East-Aleppo (Defined) Down to Three!

The pro-jihadist “west” is doing its best to define the number of civilians in east-Aleppo up and the number of al-Qaeda fighters in the city down. If the current numbering trend continues there will be a no al-Qaeda fighters left in east-Aleppo even as none have left. They will be redefined into “moderate rebels” who are entitled to the failed ceasefire they had never accepted in the first place.

The terrorists in east-Aleppo are encircled and besieged. The Syrian army nibbles away piece after piece of their territorial hold while the Syrian and Russian air force attack any recognized concentrations of forces or material. It is only a question of time until they are completely defeated.

Most of the fighters in the besieged area are associated with al-Qaeda. They are several thousand strong. Only few civilians remain. The eastern parts once housed some 300,000 people. About 10% of those, likely less, are still there. That are the realistic numbers. The spin differs.

When in 2013 the sectarian rebels had enclosed and completely besieged (map) the government held parts of Aleppo every win of theirs was called a liberation.

They since killed many of the people they “liberated”. Others fled. But the tide has turned. This animated map shows the development from September 2015 to 2016. The now besieged “rebel” held areas in east-Aleppo are shrinking every day. This is today’s situation. Much of the northern parts of the besieged area, including the Palestinian camp Handarat, are back in government hands.

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Battle for Mosul: Operation to Retake Iraqi City From ISIS Begins

An Iraqi operation to recapture the city of Mosul, the last major stronghold of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in the country, has started.

Artillery began firing on the city early on Monday, in a long-awaited assault from Kurdish peshmerga, Iraqi government and allied forces.

Tanks are now moving towards the city, which has been held by IS since 2014.

The UN has expressed “extreme concern” for the safety of up to 1.5 million people in the area.

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Debunking the Western Media’s Coverage of the War on Syria

There were indeed anti-Assad protests, sometimes clashing with pro-Assad protests, but they were in many cases infiltrated or even promoted by elements with very different goals, mainly not Syrian in origin, and used for violence against civilians and peaceful protestors, policemen and soldiers.

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Iraqi, Kurdish Forces Make Early Gains as First Day of Mosul Operation Takes Hold

Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition air and ground support, launched coordinated military operations early on Monday as the long-awaited fight to wrest the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters got underway. But the battle for Mosul is likely to be long and at was unclear at this early stage when the troops would enter the city itself.

Also, the fate of civilians trapped inside Mosul will also be critical as the battle intensifies in the days and weeks ahead amid concerns that the extremist Islamic State could use them as potential human shields.

In the morning hours Monday, convoys of Iraqi, Kurdish and U.S. forces moved east of Mosul along the front line as U.S.-led coalition airstrikes sent plumes of smokes into the air and heavy artillery rounds could be heard.

The move came shortly after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the operations on state television, launching the country on its toughest battle since American troops left nearly five years ago.

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Still Do Not See Any Nazi? Ukrainian Neo-Nazi “Nationalists” Stage Massive March in Kiev

On Friday, several thousand Ukrainian ultranationalists descended onto the streets of Kiev to mark Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) day, dedicated to the 74th anniversary of the founding of the WWII-era Nazi collaborationist organization.

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Greater Jakarta: N. Jakarta Cleric Accused of Sex Abuse

The police have arrested a Muslim cleric, identified as Ahmad “Aman” Suryadi, 29, for allegedly sexually assaulting several students in the Yayasan Titipan Ilahi Muslim boarding school in Koja, North Jakarta.

During questioning Aman is reported to have told the police he had abused more than 10 students. However, as of Tuesday, the police had identified only six of the victims.

“Currently, we have only identified six victims. Nonetheless, the suspect says he assaulted more than 10,” said Koja Police chief Comr. Supriyanto as quoted by wartakotalive.com on Tuesday. “We are investigating the possibility that the number of victims might be even higher than he claims.”

Meanwhile, Aman is alleged to have said he often assaulted the victims in his room in the boarding school…

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Indonesia Tracking Dozens of Militants Returned From Syria: Police Chief

Dozens of Indonesians who joined Islamic State in Syria have returned home with combat experience and pose a major threat to the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation, the police chief said on Monday.

Authorities are closely monitoring about 40 returnees and are concerned they could be linking up with existing networks to equip a new generation of radicals with the skills and equipment required to launch a major attack.

“We are getting in touch with them but they can evade our detection. We believe they are organizing secretly and building interactions with other (radical) networks,” police chief Tito Karnavian told Reuters in an interview.

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Muslim Woman Screams Out in Pain as She is Caned 23 Times in Indonesia for ‘Standing Too Close to Her Boyfriend’

Heart-wrenching images show a screaming young woman flogged in front of a jeering crowd for breaking Islamic laws as floggings reportedly spike in Indonesian province.

An unidentified woman screamed out in pain as she was caned 23 times in Indonesia’s Aceh for breaking the province’s strict Islamic law forbidding intimacy between unmarried couples.

Aceh is the only province in Indonesia that enforces sharia law and people face floggings for a range of offences, including gambling, drinking alcohol and gay sex…

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China’s Shenzhou 11 Blasts Off on Space Station Mission

China has launched two men into orbit in a project designed to develop its ability to explore space.

The astronauts took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China.

They will dock with the experimental Tiangong 2 space lab and spend 30 days there, the longest stay in space by Chinese astronauts.

This and previous launches are seen as pointers to possible crewed missions to the Moon or Mars.

An earlier Tiangong — or Heavenly Palace — space station was decommissioned earlier this year after docking with three rockets.

The astronauts on this latest mission were Jing Haipeng, 49, who has already been to space twice, and 37-year-old Chen Dong.

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Western Contact With China Began Long Before Marco Polo, Experts Say

China and the West were in contact more than 1,500 years before European explorer Marco Polo arrived in China, new finds suggest.

Archaeologists say inspiration for the Terracotta Warriors, found at the Tomb of the First Emperor near today’s Xian, may have come from Ancient Greece.

They also say ancient Greek artisans could have been training locals there in the Third Century BC.

Polo’s 13th Century travel to China had been thought the first by a European.

“We now have evidence that close contact existed between the First Emperor’s China and the West before the formal opening of the Silk Road. This is far earlier than we formerly thought,” said Senior Archaeologist Li Xiuzhen, from the Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum Site Museum.

A separate study shows European-specific mitochondrial DNA has been found at sites in China’s westernmost Xinjiang Province, suggesting that Westerners may have settled, lived and died there before and during the time of the First Emperor.

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WikiLeaks Claims Ecuador Cut Off Julian Assange’s Internet Link

WASHINGTON — The Ecuadorean government declined late Monday to say whether it had cut off internet access to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but said it would continue providing him asylum, as they have in their London embassy since 2012.

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Africa’s Population Boom Fuels ‘Unstoppable’ Migration to Europe

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel toured three African nations this week for talks on curbing migration to Europe, the leader of the world’s poorest country, Niger, suggested it would take a “Marshall Plan” of massive aid to stop people coming.

“You can’t resolve this by just paying money,” said Owoeye Olumide, a demographer at Bowen university in southwest Nigeria, one of the world’s most densely populated regions.

“There are going to be too many people … the development you need will not be possible. You have to lower fertility rates and bring down population (by educating and empowering women).”

Niger, a vast, largely desert nation to the north of Nigeria, presents the starkest example of Africa’s challenges.

With an average of 7.6 children born to each woman, its population is projected to more than triple to 72 million by 2050, from about 20 million now, according to the latest U.N. figures. By then, Africa will have more than doubled its population to 2.4 billion, the United Nations says.

Frequent droughts in Niger cause hunger, and low investment in education means a dearth of skills. Yet somehow it must hugely increase food production just to stay where it is.

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Austria: Syrian Asylum Seeker in Court on Terror Charges

A Syrian man is on trial in Salzburg, accused of having fought with the so-called Islamic State group (Isis), before coming to Europe to claim asylum.

According to the prosecutor the 22-year-old Syrian man worked as a security guard for Isis and fought with them in several places in Syria until January 2015.

After that he’s believed to have travelled to Turkey and across the Mediterranean to Greece, where he joined other refugees along the Balkans route to Europe and claimed asylum in Salzburg.

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Calais Migrants Attack News Reporters With Stones and Knives for Filming Bid for Britain

The knife-wielding mob launched a vicious assault with stones, knives and sticks before they attempted to sneak onto lorries bound for the UK, according to the investigative reporters.

During the attack, which took place at a petrol station near the notorious Jungle camp in Calais at around 10.30pm, the reporters were left “cut, bruised and without one of their cameras”.

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Denmark’s Had it With Brussels: Borders Will Remain Until EU ‘Gets Control Over Crisis’

Immigration and integration minister, Inger Støjberg, has announced she is set to tell the EU that Denmark will continue the internal border checks, despite being a member of the Schengen Zone.

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Female Clinton Voters: When an Illegal Alien Rapes Your Daughter or a Muslim Does This

Female voters for Clinton care nothing for the victims of illegal aliens or their grieving families. They care nothing for the slaughter of American citizens by illegals. Over 64,000 Americans have been killed or murdered by illegals since 9/11. In November 2015 an illegal from Mexico, described by his defense attorney as a drunk, broke into an apartment and raped a 6-year old little girl. He has been convicted and faces 50+ years in prison.

The Democratic/Communist Party USA is 1000% for illegal aliens aided and abetted by too many Republicans in Congress (Paul Ryan and Juan McCain to name two) and the criminal impostor in the White House. They don’t give a damn how many Americans are victims of illegals:

Study Finds Nearly 70,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens Released Back Into the U.S.

“I think it’s important for the public to understand that ICE is able to identify more criminal aliens than ever before and yet they’re not allowed to uphold their sworn oath to uphold the laws because of the policies put in place by this administration to deliberately suppress immigration law enforcement,” Vaughan, a former foreign service officer with the State Department, told TheBlaze. “The result is that not only are illegal immigrants not being detoured from settling here but once they get here, even if they have shown that they’re a threat to the public by committing crimes [the administration] ignores it and they are sent back into our communities.”

“One case highlighted by Vaughan referred to Amado Espinoza-Ramirez, an illegal alien living in Chicago who was charged with 42 counts of predatory sexual acts on children in 2012 yet was released from ICE’s custody shortly thereafter. Espinoza was mandated to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet yet somehow removed the device, disappeared and failed to show up at his hearing, the Daily Caller reported. ICE said the decision to release Espinoza-Ramirez from custody “was made based on the fact that he had no prior criminal convictions, no prior immigration violations, and is the parent of a U.S. citizen child.”…

Have female Clinton voters forgotten about San Bernadino and Orlando? In November 2014, a Muslim named Nolen went to his workplace in Moore, Oklahoma, stabbed Traci Johnson, 43, several times and then cut off Colleen Hufford’s head; she was 54. That murdering piece of crap was trying to convert other workers to Islam. When that didn’t work, he resorted to the usual by Muslims: sickening violence…

Hillary Clinton is directly responsible for the death of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, CIA contractors Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty. Ten other Americans were injured in the attack in Benghazi, Libya. THAT is an undeniable fact.

Hillary Clinton and Barry Soetoro are directly responsible for the destruction of Libya and the current mess in the Middle East with those savages who call themselves ISIS. THAT is an undeniable fact. Hillary Clinton Supplied Cash, Weapons, Tanks, Training to Al-Qaeda to Kill Gaddafi & Weaponize “ISIS” in Syria. Apparently that also doesn’t bother female Clinton voters.

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France: ‘Scenes From the Apocalypse’: Filmmaker’s Shocking Footage Shows Once-Romantic Paris Covered in Filth and Rubbish as African Migrants Are Forced to Live in the Streets

A filmmaker has captured footage revealing trail of devastation left behind by migrants forced to leave on the street in the middle of Paris.

An anonymous Frenchman wearing a hidden camera recorded the aftermath of a raid on a migrant camp on Avenue de Flandre in the north of the French capital.

After the migrants had been forced on to buses by police officers in full riot gear, all that was left was sidewalks blocked with trash, junk and mattresses.

The video also captures the scene before the hundreds of young Africans, mainly Sudanese and Eritreans, were confronted by riot shields and tear gas.

The men are shown forced to live and sleep on flat pieces of cardboard, with all their worldly belongings stuffed into plastic bags.

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Germany’s Fertility Rate Hit 33 Year High Due to Migrant Influx

The EU’s most populous country has reversed demographic trends going back decades, with statistics showing that the rise in fertility is almost exclusively down to immigrant women, while the lifetime birthrates among the German population remain static.

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Germany: Thousands March on Anti-Mass Migration PEGIDA’s Second Anniversary

BERLIN (AP) — Several thousand people have turned out for a demonstration in the eastern German city of Dresden marking the second anniversary of the anti-Islam and anti-immigration group PEGIDA.

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Germany: Sex Attacks, Brawling, Theft: Far Left Youth Club Admits Migrant Outreach Failed

A far-left political club and youth centre in Leipzig has issued a statement admitting its outreach efforts with migrants resulted in a huge increase in sex attacks, brawling, and theft.

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Migrant Arrested in Germany Over Raping Grandmother

Dusseldorf police announced on Sunday that they had arrested the man after they had launched a search for the assailant after the daylight attack on the grandmother.

The elderly woman had left in the church in the heart of the German city centre on October, 2, when the assailant pushed her into a narrow alley between two pubs.

In the alley, which is usually closed off to the public and used for storing rubbish from the pubs, the perpetrator is said to have demanded money from the woman before sexually assaulting her…

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Migrants Attack Journalists Near Camp in Northern France

A Sky News team is attacked with sticks, rocks and a knife after filming a group of migrants and a suspected people smuggler.

Sky News has witnessed the increasing levels of lawlessness in pockets of northern France as authorities struggle to contain the violence committed by some of the migrants and refugees in the area.

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Raising Barriers: A New Age of Walls, Episode 1

A generation ago, globalization shrank the world. Nations linked by trade and technology began to erase old boundaries. But now barriers are rising again, driven by waves of migration, spillover from wars and the growing threat of terrorism.

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Riot Officer Badly Injured After ‘Swarm’ of Migrants Storms Port of Calais

According to a French official an ambush took place between 9pm and 11pm on Saturday, after more than 300 immigrants from the soon-to-be razed ‘Jungle’ refugee camp stormed towards the port in an attempt to cause traffic chaos and block off access to the A16 motorway.

For months now, thousands of violent migrants have been running amok on the motorway outside the port of Calais in a bid to break into moving vehicles headed towards the UK.

A ‘prefecture’ spokesperson said: “Riot police officers and security officials were rushed to the scene in order to keep the migrants off the port of Calais ring road.”

Local officials also said that the migrants started throwing rocks and projectiles at members of the riot police force, who retaliated with tear gas in an effort to break up the crowd.

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UK: Former Archbishop and Activists Bring in Migrants From France

The UK began accepting migrant youths from Calais on Monday, after campaigners and a former archbishop lobbied local authorities to take advantage of a new loophole in immigration law.

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Video: Hundreds of Africa Migrants Storm Spanish Enclave of Melilla

About 70 sub-Saharan African migrants forced their way over a barbed wire barrier into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla on Thursday.

They ran to a local immigration center where they were met by dozens of migrants cheering “victory, victory” although their legal status in Spain has yet to be determined.

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Who Says You’re a Dane?

An exchange in a recent debate on national TV was emblematic of changing times in Danish politics. An 18-year-old high school student named Jens Philip Yazdani was pitted against Martin Henriksen, a member of Parliament for the far-right Danish People’s Party who is the chairman of an important parliamentary committee on immigration, integration and housing. When Mr. Yazdani asserted his Danish identity as someone born and brought up in Denmark, Mr. Henriksen interrupted him.

“This is not how one becomes Danish,” he said, starkly forcing to the fore the old question of what is “Danishness.” In that moment, the nationalist politician signaled an end to the uneasy truce that has long defined the immigration debate in Denmark. By rejecting the very possibility of ever “becoming” Danish, even down several generations, he effectively shelved the political project of integration of immigrants.

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Australian High School Students to be Re-Educated on Male Privilege

“Students will be taught the meaning of terms including pansexual, cisgender and transsexual…”

The cries of social justice sweep far and wide, reaching the shores of Australia. Now, legions of Aussie youth will be indoctrinated on how to combat white, male privilege with a new state-mandated high school curriculum dubbed “the respectful relationship.”

Slated to commence in the state of Victoria in the 2017 school year, the program will have students “explore issues around social inequality, gender-based violence and male privilege,” The BBC reports:

[Comment: meanwhile students in china are being taught advanced mathematics and science.]

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Feminist Phd\D Candidate: Science is Sexist Because it’s Not Subjective

College science classes are hostile to women and minorities because they use the scientific method, which assumes people can find reliable truths about the natural world through careful and sustained experimentation, concludes a recent dissertation by a doctoral candidate at the University of North Dakota.

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History of Veterans Victory Over ACLU in Mt. Soledad Cross Case

U.S. District Judge Lawrence Byrne’s final order in Trunk vs. City of San Diego was filed on Sept. 13, 2016. It dismissed the ACLU’s lawsuit once and forever as moot, due to the transfer of the Mt. Soledad Memorial from the federal Department of Defense to the private, non-profit Mt. Soledad Memorial Association by purchase for $1.4-million. The purchase was authorized by Congress in legislation sponsored by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), the former combat Marine who represents the District.

Many thanks for this victory are owed attorneys and members of the Liberty Institute in Texas, the Alliance Defending Freedom in Arizona, the Thomas More Law Center in Michigan, the Pacific Legal Foundation in California; former Congressmen Jerry Lewis (R-CA), Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), former Rep. John Hostettler (R-Indiana) and other legislators; veterans of The American Legion, and other veterans service organizations, as well as individual veterans and other patriots; and most of all to San Diego Attorney Charles S. LiMandri, founder of the Free-dom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF) who has done more than any other single American to save the Mt. Soledad Cross “as it was, where it was,” to honor veterans.

WHY MT. SOLEDAD CROSS VICTORY IS SO IMPORTANT

The importance of this victory cannot be overemphasized. What has been at stake in the Mt. Soledad Cross Case, and the companion Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Cross Case, is whether 300-million Americans will continue to have the ability to honor their war dead as they choose in their communities, including by use of the Cross or other symbol or expression with a religious aspect; or whether intolerant atheists, agnostics, or extremist progressive liberal secu-larists epitomized by the ACLU, who are “offended” by the sight of the Cross, the Ten Com-mandments, or a monument bearing a religious symbol or expression honoring veterans, will have a veto power over those choices.

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Swedish School to Build Gender Neutral Changing Room

A high school in Sweden is to build an additional gender neutral changing room to cater for pupils who identify with a gender other than their biological sex, or consider themselves neither male nor female.

St Eskil’s gymnasium, in Eskiltuna, a city west of Stockholm, is building the new changing facilities at the request of the student council.

“We have discussed this with the pupils and have realised that there is a need for this,” Johan Ahlkvist, the headmaster, told Swedish Radio.

Mary-Jane Nehme, a pupil who was born male but identifies as female, has faced difficulties as she has not been permitted to use the female changing rooms, and has instead had to use her own small room.

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BRICs, Putin Secretly Aligned With West, Seek Aggressive Globalism

This summit provides yet more evidence that at the very top, the BRICs are aligned with the Western controllers of London’s City.

This has always been our theory and history shows this to be true.

Wall Street tycoons traveled to Russia dressed up as Red Cross workers to ensure that Lenin won the day and communism was established in Russia.

Supposedly Mao attended Yale Divinity School in China and was inducted into the notorious (Illuminati) Skull and Bones fraternity.

The head of Germany during World War I was actually the grandson of Queen Victoria. Hitler was funded by Western central and commercial banks.

Why should the BRICs be any different? The term BRICs was invented by a Goldman Sachs banker.

We are supposed to believe that the BRICs are going their own way and are challenging the West on numerous economic and military issues.

But as usual what’s adopted by the BRICs seems to have its foundation in Western economic and socio-political solutions.

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5 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/17/2016

  1. Uh, the two top stories of the day….

    Should we presume safety and the biggest defense of freedom is in Russia as Edward Snowden guessed four or more years ago?

    • Oh please ma’am.
      Putin’s criminal gang usurped the power in Russia. There is no freedom or safety, but total lawlessness and incredible levels of corruption. The only difference between the Gang of Pu and his western counterparts is that he has a better survival instinct and the country is not infested with PC/liberal nonsense.

      By the way, RT is Kremlin’s most disgusting foreign propaganda unit, has nothing to do with journalism. They report truth only accidentally when it gives an opportunity to denigrate the “west”.

  2. .
    Nice folks!

    Ecuador shut down Assange’s Internet.
    WikiLeaks released documents about Hillary’s ties to Goldman Sachs. Then the left-hand driven country cut Julian Assange’s internet connection.

    • Kerry: I demand you extradite Assange to the United States of America immediately!
      Ecuadorean in chief: Nope, sorry John, can’t do that for you.
      Kerry: Oh…, but can you at least cut off his internet?
      Ecuadorean in chief: Okey-dokey!

      This story is not complete, isn’t it?

  3. New Russian Orthodox cathedral in Paris

    The incredible story about the orthodox cathedral in the middle of Paris, at the feet of The Eiffel Tower, so to speak – according to French Vanity Fair.

    Putin cancels trip to Paris as diplomatic crisis over Syria deepens

    “Mr Putin had been due to visit Paris on October 19 to open a new Russian Orthodox cathedral and visit a Russian art exhibition in the French capital.”

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