Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/25/2016

A Kenyan immigrant named Getachew Fekede entered his former workplace in Roanoke, Virginia and started shooting. He killed one person and wounded three others before killing himself. Mr. Fekede had been fired by his former employer in March. The late perpetrator had come to the United States as part of the refugee resettlement program; however, based on his name, he was not a Muslim.

In other news, large fires could be seen in the “Jungle” migrant shantytown near Calais as French police began demolishing the camp.

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Financial Crisis
» Canada: Nation of 36 Million Owes $4.4 Trillion, Triple Economy’s Size.
» QE Doesn’t Shift Wealth to Weaker Countries — Draghi
 
USA
» 2 Dead After Shooting at FreightCar America in Roanoke
» Abroad in America, October 2016
» Bundy Prosecutors Admit That Undercover Informants Outnumbered Defendants in Recent Trial
» In an Oligarchy, Voting is a Tool to Manufacture the Illusion of Consent
» It’s a Setup: U.S. Officials Warn That Russians Will Undermine Elections With Fake Documents Showing Voter Fraud
» Man Convicted of Terrorism to be Sentenced
» Polls 1 — 0 Crowds: Despite Apparent ‘Lead’, Democrats Face Empty Rallies in Florida
» Report: Votes Switched From Trump to Hillary in Texas
» Report: Justice Dept. Extorts Companies to Fund Left-Wing Activists
» Shariah Marches on in Florida and New York
» Texas Rigged? Reports of Voting Machines Switching Votes to Hillary in Texas
» The Polls Are Skewed, The Vote is Rigged: “Clinton Has 95% Chance of Winning”
» The Path to Total Dictatorship: America’s Shadow Government and Its Silent Coup
» Why I’m (Still) Betting Big on Donald Trump to Win
» WikiLeaks: Hillary Plotted Fake ‘Grassroots’ Campaign Using Celebs to Con Youth Into Voting for Her
» Will Obama Leave America if Trump’s Elected? Aide Refuses to Deny Rumors That the President is Preparing to Quit the US
 
Canada
» Canadian Nurse Charged With Eight Murders
 
Europe and the EU
» European Parliament Removes MEP Borghezio’s Immunity
» German Police Conduct 13 Anti-Terrorism Raids Across 5 States Citing “Imminent Terror Threat”
» Germany: Berlin Cancels Armenia Genocide Performance at Istanbul Consulate
» Housework Adds 3 Years to Your Life (If You’re a Woman)… But Cleaning, Hoovering and Doing the Laundry is of Little Benefit to Men’s Health
» ‘Misspending to the XXXtreme’ — Eurocrats Accused of Giving EU Funds to a Czech Brothel
» Obama Admin: Hungary Should Rescue Communist Party Newspaper
» Sweden Bans Christmas Lights Under the Guise of “Security”
» UK: Fraud Gang ‘Rigged English Language Tests to Help Hundreds of Overseas Students
» UK: Surveillance by Consent: Commissioner Launches National CCTV Strategy
» Why the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is Worried About Terrorism
 
Middle East
» British Troops to Return to Jordan and Turkey to Train Syrian Fighters
» Peshmerga ‘Bomb Hunters’ Trained by Italy
» Turkish Television Show Guest Confesses He Murdered and Raped a 4-Year-Old Girl
 
Russia
» As Globalists Push War, Russia Unveils Defensive Nuke That Can Destroy
» Paul Craig Roberts: “Putin’s Nukes Could Wipe Out Entire American East Coast” In Minutes
 
South Asia
» Barbaric Rape of 5 Yrs Hindu Girl Child in Bd, Rape Jihadist Saiful Islam Arrested From Dinajpur Town
» Will Central Asia Fight Over Water?
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Neandertal DNA Affects Modern Ethnic Difference in Immune Response
 
Latin America
» Venezuelan Lawmakers Seek Trial of Maduro After Referendum Fails
 
Immigration
» Austrian Newspaper Editor Faces Hate Crime Charge for Writing About Migrant Crisis
» Calais Migrants Given Mixed Reception in French Towns
» Descent Into Evil
» Dozens of Turkish Diplomats Apply for Asylum in Germany
» Editor of Austria’s Largest Paper Charged With ‘Hate Speech’ Over Migrant Article
» EU to Extend Schengen Border Controls for Three Months
» German Authorities Carry Out 13 Simultaneous Counterterrorism Raids Across 5 States
» Hundreds More Child Refugees Are Set to Arrive in the UK Over the Next Few Weeks
» Illegals Go Door-to-Door for Hillary
» Immigrants! Stop Supporting Policies That Caused You to Flee
» Italy: We’ll Veto EU Budget Unless Help on Migrants — Renzi
» Italy: Don’t Send Any More Migrants to Tuscany — Nardella
» Large Fire Visible in Northern Part of Calais ‘Jungle’ — Reuters Witness
» Left-Wing Activists in Calais Plot How to Stir Up Hatred Against Authority
» More Illegal Immigrants Caught at Dutch Ports Heading for Britain
» Over 4,000 Migrants Arrive at Italy’s Ports, As Ministers Urge EU to Do More
» ‘She’s Dangerous’ Angela Merkel Blasted for ‘Leaving Europe on the Brink of Civil War’
» Sweden: New Attacks on Invader Centers
» This City is 78% Latino, and the Face of a New California
» US-Style Democracy Export Arrogant, Destabilizing, Failure — Hungarian PM
 
Culture Wars
» Berkeley Protesters Demand ‘Spaces of Color, ‘ Harass White Students Trying to Pass
» Canoes Reek of Genocide, Theft and White Privilege, Professor Claims
» Claudia Rankine: Why I’m Spending $625,000 to Study Whiteness
 
General
» Can Science Save the Banana?
 

Canada: Nation of 36 Million Owes $4.4 Trillion, Triple Economy’s Size.

Canada’s debt, swelled by a decade-long housing boom to almost triple the size of its economy, is drawing increasing concern from an international banking community that says it threatens growth and financial stability.

The combined debt of Canadian governments, companies and households reached $4.4 trillion in the first quarter, or 288 percent of gross domestic product, exceeding the same gauge for the U.S., the U.K. and Italy, according to the Bank for International Settlements.

While Canada boasts the lowest government debt load among Group-of-Seven countries, household debt is the highest of its peers, the Basel, Switzerland-based BIS said last month in its quarterly report. In September, Statistics Canadareported household liabilities rose to 100.5 percent of GDP, exceeding the size of its economy for the first time.

Canada was the only developed country showing early signs of stress in its domestic banking system amid “unusually high” credit growth relative to GDP, the BIS said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

QE Doesn’t Shift Wealth to Weaker Countries — Draghi

ECB shielding savers

(ANSA) — Rome, October 25 — The European Central Bank’s quantitative easing (QE) programme does not shift wealth to weaker eurozone members, ECB President Mario Draghi said in a speech defending QE in Berlin Tuesday. Draghi added that the ECB was “also protecting savers”. He said the ECB would keep up “very expansive monetary policies”, noting that interest rates were very low everywhere. The ECB has faced repeated criticism from the economic and political establishment in the eurozone’s largest economy over the policies it has adopted to fight the threat of falling prices.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

2 Dead After Shooting at FreightCar America in Roanoke

A gunman who opened fire at FreightCar America in Roanoke early Tuesday morning, killing one employee and injuring three others before killing himself, was terminated from the company in March, police said.

Roanoke police Chief Tim Jones identified the shooter as Getachew Fekede, 53, who was from Kenya and lived in Roanoke. The shooting inside the rail car manufacturing plant prompted a massive law enforcement response from agencies across the Roanoke Valley, requiring sweeps of buildings across multiple acres…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Abroad in America, October 2016

by Diana West

Behold, my own personal protesters (above) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, snapped en route to the parking lot of a lecture hall where I was to give a speech on October 18. My topic? The origins and impact of the Marxist-Bolshevik-Fabian-Socialist-Democrat-Progessive-Alinskyite-micro-aggression-trigger-warning censorship movement against truth and tradition that is opaquely known as “politically correct.”

Ironic, no?

Actually, we’re way past ironic and deep into the danger zone where the ideological and the doctrinaire dominate discourse — but also make people cower. As I explained nearly ten years ago in my first book, The Death of the Grown-Up, this same “politically correct” movement to silence speech and political discourse generally has made common cause with the Islamic blasphemy law movement to supress all criticism, including factual discussion, of Islam as “hate speech.” Under Islamic law, such “hate speech,” a.k.a. “blasphemy,” is punishable, and, even in our own time, often punished, by death. In Western society, this Red-Green axis increasingly draws strength to become more and more dictatorial, even as sharia expands its control and influence on law and custom in Europe and beyond.

Last week in Chapel Hill, I saw how the mechanism works up-close, when I, too, became a target for suppression.

There were three distinct phases to this campaign by local groups and individuals of the Marxist and/or Islamic variety to shut down my appearance — as well as appearances by all future speakers hosted by Issues Confronting Our Nation (ICON), the lecture series that sponsored my talk.

The strategy was to demonize and delegitimize me as a point of pressure to bear on the management of the venue, Extraordinary Ventures, to convince them to cancel my appearance and sever its standing business relationship with the ICON lecture series forevermore. However outrageous, such thuggish tactics have been successful before, as cancellations of certain counter-jihad events attest. Hallelujah, this time it failed. However, as I will explain, this was not necessarily a zero-sum-game…

           — Hat tip: Diana West [Return to headlines]
 

Bundy Prosecutors Admit That Undercover Informants Outnumbered Defendants in Recent Trial

For the past six weeks Oregonians have been treated to a political trial of the “Malheur 7” (Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Shawna Cox, Jeff Banta, David Fry, Neal Wampler and Ken Medenbach,). I was privileged to have a ringside seat at the trial as a volunteer researcher and paralegal for Ryan Bundy (who represents himself) at the trial.

As I write these words, the jury is out, considering whether the defendants conspired to prevent U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service or Bureau of Land Management officers from performing their duties at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in rural eastern Oregon. The Bundy brothers and other defendants are alleged to have participated in an “armed standoff” occupation of the Refuge during January 2016 (while protesting the unconstitutional occupation by the federal government itself over the Refuge and other public lands).

The trial has revealed an astounding brave new world of modern surveillance and surreptitious “law enforcement” techniques. Drones flew over and recorded much of what went on. FBI agents captured and monitored every phone number connected between every participant. A search warrant after the fact gave the government permission to surf through 36 Laptops, smartphones, flash drives and other devices to build the government’s case. The FBI turned the analysis of Facebook likes, dislikes, messages, and posts into a science, with multiple agents assigned to that social media alone.

Outside the Refuge, FBI, Oregon State Police, and other law enforcement agencies swarmed over the countryside. Government snipers appeared on local rooftops. Barricades and barbed wire were erected to protect the school and courthouse from the alleged militia danger. Undercover FBI agents dressed as redneck militia members roamed through local stores and menaced the streets.

Money was spent at such an extravagant pace that one professional auditor told me that the dollar amounts should have themselves triggered a separate criminal investigation. The Feds have publicly claimed that the 41-day occupation caused at least “$6.9 million” in damages.At trial, prosecutors objected, however, to every request to examine such claims. “Irrelevant!” said the prosecution. (In the event that any defendants are convicted, the Justice Department will surely assert such dollar claims in a demand for ‘restitution.’)

And there were undercover government informants. Everywhere. Suspicions that the government’s narrative was largely erected with undercover agents were borne out during the first week of trial. It was revealed by an Oregon State trooper that one of Ammon Bundy’s “bodyguards”-a man who drove him to his arrest-was an undercover informant.

Another informant (“Mama Bear”) was revealed when a defense lawyer subpoenaed her for the defense. The woman admitted that her entire trip to the Malheur Refuge was funded by the San Diego FBI office and that she was paid thousands of dollars to inform on the occupiers while helping out in the kitchen.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

In an Oligarchy, Voting is a Tool to Manufacture the Illusion of Consent

An oligarchical government is a form of rule in which a small group of wealthy individuals have control over the critical mechanisms of state power, industry and economy. These people are unelected, unaccountable and they exercise control on behalf of their personal financial interests, drawing on the productive power of a nation to support their lifestyles and geopolitical ambitions. The ruling class in such a nation is often comprised of dynastic families who pass the baton of power back and forth between themselves, managing the illusion of change and evolution while never actually ceding their franchise over the masses.

The Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton phenomenon is a contemporary example of this exchange.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

It’s a Setup: U.S. Officials Warn That Russians Will Undermine Elections With Fake Documents Showing Voter Fraud

It sounds almost too crazy to believe, but this is now being disseminated to the public via mainstream pipelines

If the election fraud narrative, cyberattack and rigged voting machines haven’t yet thoroughly confused the American voting public, maybe the latest report from Reuters will do the job.

According to Reuters, U.S. voting authorities are now warning that while the Russians may not actually hack the Presidential election, they may fake hacking the Presidential election.

What they’re saying without actually saying it is that if Hillary Clinton wins the election and Trump supporters show proof of any fraudulent activity, the “proof” will have been fabricated by… The Russians.

[Comment: More lies from the mainstream media.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Man Convicted of Terrorism to be Sentenced

PHOENIX — The day has come for Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem to learn his fate in federal court for supporting the Islamic State and plotting and attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon drawing contest.

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

Polls 1 — 0 Crowds: Despite Apparent ‘Lead’, Democrats Face Empty Rallies in Florida

If the polls are to be believed, Hillary Clinton has a strong “election-deciding” lead in Florida…

However, based on the ‘support’ on the ground, we suspect those polls have a little over-optimistic Democrat voter turnout bias built into them.

Here is Hillary Clinton’s Vice Presidential pick Tim Kaine’s “Rally” in West Palm Beach, Florida yesterday…

Caught on tape…Around 30 people turned up…

And here is Trump in Tampa… Around 20,000 turned up…

And finally, in case you thoght it unfair to compare a Dem VP candidate to a Rep President candidate, here is Mike Pence’s crowd in North Carolina yesterday…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Report: Votes Switched From Trump to Hillary in Texas

“She voted straight Republican and the vote had changed to Clinton!”

Residents of at least two cities in Texas are complaining that they voted for Donald Trump only to see the voting machine switch their ballot to Hillary Clinton.

Early voting for the 2016 presidential election started yesterday for people in some areas who have been given the opportunity to avoid the long lines on November 8.

However, in Amarillo, a woman was shocked to see her ballot flip from Republican to Democrat.

“Gary and I went to early vote today,” wrote Lisa Houlette on Facebook. “I voted a straight Republican ticket and as I scrolled to submit my ballot I noticed that the Republican straight ticket was highlighted, however, the Clinton/Kaine box was also highlighted!”

“I tried to go back and change and could not get it to work. I asked for help from one of the workers and she couldn’t get it to go back either. It took a second election person to get the machine to where I could correct the vote to a straight ticket,” she added.

Meanwhile, in Arlington, Texas, another voter reported a similar experience.

“I had a family member that voted this morning and she voted straight Republican,” wrote Shandy Clark. “She checked before she submitted and the vote had changed to Clinton! She reported it and made sure her vote was changed back. They commented that It had been happening.”

[Comment: Were they Soros machines by chance?]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Report: Justice Dept. Extorts Companies to Fund Left-Wing Activists

(BREITBART) A new report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) concludes that the Obama administration’s Department of Justice has been extorting fines from major banks, which are then used to fund leftist groups that push the Democratic vote.

The report notes that while community organizing groups have been using aggressive, “terrorist” tactics for decades to force banks to provide funding for their operations, the Obama administration has brought the power of the federal government to bear on their behalf. Banks are threatened with lawsuits for racial discrimination based on the controversial “disparate impact” theory, and offered incentives to settle by paying left-wing groups directly, beyond the review or oversight of Congress.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Shariah Marches on in Florida and New York

On Friday, October 21st, the Miami, FL, Commission; the Monroe County, NY, Legislature; the Rochester, NY, Board of Education; and the Rochester, NY, City Council announced proclamations condemning hate speech against Muslims. These proclamations define neither hate speech nor the person or persons who will decide what constitutes hate speech. Far from benign calls to let peaceful Muslims go about their lives and prayers in peace, these proclamations represent a step towards elevating Shariah (Islamic law) over the Frist Amendment.

Why do I make this claim? Backtrack to 2012 and the aftermath of Benghazi, when President Obama told the UN, “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” The subtext of this statement was lost amidst several nods by Obama to the First Amendment later in his speech. The subtext was this: slander in Shariah is not telling lies that hurt someone’s reputation; rather, slander in Shariah is telling a truth or a lie which someone doesn’t want to be told. Slander in Shariah is thus defined by what the potentially aggrieved party wants or doesn’t want to hear, not by evidence.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Texas Rigged? Reports of Voting Machines Switching Votes to Hillary in Texas

If recent reports of electronic voting machine issues are true, then perhaps the democrats have another trick up their sleeves to win Texas in 2016. As noted by Paul Joseph Watson, residents in multiple Texas cities have already complained that voting machines are switching their votes from Trump to Hillary.

The following report also surfaced in Arlington, Texas from a person who voted a straight republican tickets only to find just before submitting her ballot that her presidential choice had been switched to Clinton/Kaine. After reporting the error to polling officials, the voter was told that these errors “had been happening.”

Meanwhile, per the following Facebook thread, these voting “irregularities” are hardly isolated.

[Comment: See the facebook posts in the article. This is intentionally being done in software. It is NO accident. They are trying to do the change before voters press the final vote button — hoping voters will not notice. Voters MUST check the machine is showing their votes properly before pressing the final submit vote button. Voting machines should have open software and open hardware that can be rigouroulsy verified.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Polls Are Skewed, The Vote is Rigged: “Clinton Has 95% Chance of Winning”

Editor’s Comment: Of course it’s rigged. Anyone paying any attention can see it clearly. There is no voting, not really. What recourse do we, the people, have for a rigged election? Ultimately, only one. If enough people take to the streets to make clear that this fraud will not stand, then she will have no mandate, no legitimacy. Maybe there would be enough pressure for a court to overturn it, and for a new election to be held.

But I wouldn’t count on it. This is a Banana Republic, and the corruption and fantasy elections are unlikely to come undone unless the whole system collapses.

But if the whole system is poised to collapse, then we already know who is waiting to pick up the pieces. As SHTF reported, plans are in the works to contain civil unrest and beat back anything that even half-way resembles an uprising. The establishment will dig in, and dissent will be crushed — either that, or total revolution could ensue, though likely disorganized, scattershot and subject to losing steam. Violence and rioting, if they occur, will ultimately be counterproductive in the media, and the police state backlash; but at the same time, it seems the time has came for the American people to put their feet down… or at least say something about what happened. But don’t hold your breath.

Bottom line, the country is at an incredibly dangerous point… perhaps the most dangerous possibility of all is that everyone will suck it up, play as if things are normal, and go back home to their bread and circuses with nothing really changed, except a steady decline in our general living condition, and an absolute end to the Constitutional protections that have defined this country against all others in days now quite behind us.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Path to Total Dictatorship: America’s Shadow Government and Its Silent Coup

No matter which candidate wins the presidential election, this shadow government is here to stay. Indeed, as recent documents by the FBI reveal, this shadow government-also referred to as “The 7th Floor Group”-may well have played a part in who will win the White House this year.

To be precise, however, the future president will actually inherit not one but two shadow governments.

The first shadow government, referred to as COG or Continuity of Government, is made up of unelected individuals who have been appointed to run the government in the event of a “catastrophe.” COG is a phantom menace waiting for the right circumstances-a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, an economic meltdown-to bring it out of the shadows, where it operates even now. When and if COG takes over, the police state will transition to martial law.

Yet it is the second shadow government-also referred to as the Deep State-that poses the greater threat to freedom right now. Comprised of unelected government bureaucrats, corporations, contractors, paper-pushers, and button-pushers who are actually calling the shots behind the scenes, this government within a government is the real reason “we the people” have no real control over our government.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why I’m (Still) Betting Big on Donald Trump to Win

By Wayne Allyn Root

Every mainstream media outlet in the country keeps saying Trump is losing badly. They say this as if it’s fact. And based on many polls, it does look that way.

But so did Brexit. That was the vote for UK to leave the EU. No one anywhere in the establishment…or media…or any major politician thought it would pass.

But it did.

I believe this is our Brexit. And I’m putting my money where my mouth is. I’m betting big on Donald Trump to win the election. Here’s why…

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

WikiLeaks: Hillary Plotted Fake ‘Grassroots’ Campaign Using Celebs to Con Youth Into Voting for Her

“It should feel almost like ‘we got together and decided to do this on our own’.”

Leaked emails show the Hillary Clinton campaign plotted to use celebrities to con young Bernie Sanders supporters into voting for her.

The email between Clinton operatives includes a “concept paper” which strategizes on how to “use young elected officials and entertainers to build a ‘grassroots’ movement of under 40 voters as a vehicle to migrate support for Bernie into activism for Hillary.”

The campaign themselves put “grassroots” in quotes, as they know it’s a top-down con job.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Will Obama Leave America if Trump’s Elected? Aide Refuses to Deny Rumors That the President is Preparing to Quit the US

A White House aide has failed to deny rumors President Barack Obama is planning to leave the United States if Donald Trump wins the election.

[Comment: Last I heard he bought the property featured in the TV show Magnum P.I. and is planning to retire in Hawaii.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Canadian Nurse Charged With Eight Murders

A 49-year-old nursing home worker in Ontario has been charged with eight counts of first-degree murder spanning several years.

Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer of Woodstock, Ontario, appeared in court on Tuesday morning.

The victims were residents in two long-term care facilities where Ms Wettlaufer worked and were between 75 and 96 years old.

Police said seven of the victims were given a fatal dose of a drug.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

European Parliament Removes MEP Borghezio’s Immunity

‘Racism cannot be used as political tool’

(ANSA) — Strasbourg, October 25 — The European Parliament on Tuesday lifted immunity from prosecution from Northern League MEP Mario Borghezio due to his April 29, 2013 attacks on then Minister for Integration Cecile Kyenge during an interview on Radio24. Borghezio said the move was a political one.

“This parliament has handed over to the justice system an MEP guilty only of making statements that were disliked by most” of the assembly, he said immediately after the plenary session. In April 2016, Borghezio was ordered to stand trial by a Milan court on charges of spreading “ideas based on racial and ethnic hatred”. Cecile Kyenge, who is now also a member of the European Parliament, said that “racism can never be a tool of political struggle. Those who make use of it disgrace the institutions and do not have the right to any immunity.” “A member of the European Parliament,” she added in a statement, “who shows scorn and hatred on the basis of my skin color did not offend only me, but also the values of European institutions and all those who do not” discriminate on the basis of race, religion or gender.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

German Police Conduct 13 Anti-Terrorism Raids Across 5 States Citing “Imminent Terror Threat”

German police on Tuesday conducted numerous raids across five federal states and stormed an accommodation facility for refugees and 12 homes around the country that were believed to house people suspected of financing terrorism. Police searched residences in the eastern states of Thuringia and Saxony as well as in Bavaria, the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia and in Hamburg, police in Thuringia said in a statement.

Bild magazine cited “an imminent terror threat” as a trigger for the operation. The large-scale operation reportedly targeted “Islamist-linked terror suspects,” local broadcaster MDR reported.

The police have been investigating a 28-year-old Russian citizen of Chechen origin since the second half of 2015 who was suspected of preparing “a serious act of violent subversion”, the statement said. They believed he intended to fight for Islamic State in Syria. During the course of investigations, suspicion arose that that person as well as 10 other men and three women — all Russian citizens of Chechen origin — were financing terrorism.

According to Reuters, the suspects were living in Thuringia, Hamburg and Dortmund, are asylum seekers with unclear residency status, and are aged between 21 and 31, police said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: Berlin Cancels Armenia Genocide Performance at Istanbul Consulate

The Dresden Symphony Orchestra had been scheduled to perform “Aghet.” The piece was written by a composer whose great-grandparents were killed in the Armenian genocide, and commemorates the massacre.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Housework Adds 3 Years to Your Life (If You’re a Woman)… But Cleaning, Hoovering and Doing the Laundry is of Little Benefit to Men’s Health

It’s probably not the most popular piece of health advice ever dished out — but researchers say that doing the housework can add years to your life.

They found that women who clean, hoover and do the laundry are likely to live almost three years longer.

But men can breathe a sigh of relief — housework appears to have little effect on them. They are better off in the garden, according to research by Dutch academics.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

‘Misspending to the XXXtreme’ — Eurocrats Accused of Giving EU Funds to a Czech Brothel

Brussels splashed out on a new roof and frontage for the seedy sex spot, known as Party night club XXX, where young Russian girls sell their bodies.

The embarrassing mix-up came about after the owner of the building applied for funding from an EU cash pot designed to boost rural tourism.

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

Obama Admin: Hungary Should Rescue Communist Party Newspaper

The Obama administration is facing criticism and ridicule after a bizarre outburst by the John Kerry-led State Department urging Hungarian authorities to prop up a defunct Communist Party propaganda organ. In an official statement, the Obama administration, which recently attacked media diversity in the United States, echoed discredited conspiracy theories pushed by communists and called on anti-communist Hungarian officials to prop up the bankrupt newspaper — supposedly to preserve “media pluralism.” But the ownership of the far-left paper, known as Nepszabadsag, wants to shut it down, citing growing financial losses and plunging circulation figures.

[Comment: Hungarians lived under Communism for decades. So who in Hungary would want to buy a Communist Party newspaper?]

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

Sweden Bans Christmas Lights Under the Guise of “Security”

The change is a victory for those who want to tone down the reminder of the country’s Christian traditions

Unlike previous years, there will be no Christmas lights in many Swedish towns this Christmas, reports SVT. Formally the new ban is because of “security reasons”.

The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) will stop allowing municipalities to put up their Christmas lights on light poles that the authority manages, and in many small towns, it means that the central streets actually do not get any Christmas lights at all.

The change is a victory for those who want to tone down the reminder of the country’s Christian traditions, but according to the Swedish Transport Administration, the decision for the drastic change is “security”.

— Poles are not designed for the weight of Christmas lights, and we have to remove anything that should not be there. We guarantee safety first, says Eilin Isaksson, national coordinator at the Swedish Transport Administration, to SVT.

How many poles that have fallen down in previous years because of the Christmas lights is not clear. It is clear, however, that municipalities have difficulty understanding the Swedish Transport Administration’s priorities.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Fraud Gang ‘Rigged English Language Tests to Help Hundreds of Overseas Students

Six fraudsters (including Harinder Kumar, pictured) rigged English language tests for hundreds of overseas students applying for visa extensions, Southwark Crown Court heard.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Surveillance by Consent: Commissioner Launches National CCTV Strategy

Guidelines issued on ensuring the public is protected, not spied on

“There is a gap between what exists and what should exist,” according to the UK’s commissioner responsible for ensuring that surveillance cameras are protecting members of the public, rather than spying on them.

Tony Porter, who sees that public authorities follow the government’s rules on operating surveillance cameras, on Tuesday published a 16-page draft national strategy [PDF] to raise regulatory standards regarding the surveillance of public spaces.

Only a year ago, less than two per cent of public authorities operating surveillance cameras were doing so in compliance to “any British standard” according to Porter, who says that as of today 85 per cent are now demonstrably “having regard” for the Home Office’s Surveillance Camera Code of Practice [PDF].

While this was an enormous improvement, Porter told The Register that he was still hearing “too many stories of a default response to public space surveillance when it’s inappropriate,” however, and said it was his job “to drive out that approach.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is Worried About Terrorism

Victoria’s Secret executives are reportedly keeping details about the brand’s annual fashion show quiet amid terrorism concerns.

Though the panty brand announced Monday that the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is being held in Paris next month, the executives said they aren’t revealing the specific venue because they fear it would give terrorists time to plan an attack.

“We’re told show officials have been secretly working with French national security agencies to thwart possible plots,” TMZ reported Monday.

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British Troops to Return to Jordan and Turkey to Train Syrian Fighters

In a U-turn yesterday, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announced 20 soldiers will return to the region to start the training again but recruits will be subject to ‘strict vetting procedures’.

[Comment: Vetting? Yeah sure. Basically training terrorists who may one day become “refugees”. This is insane.]

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Peshmerga ‘Bomb Hunters’ Trained by Italy

Team on front line trained by Italian troops in Erbil

(ANSA) — Erbil, October 25 — The Kurdish Peshmerga’s ‘bomb hunters’, who identify hidden ISIS improvised explosive devices (IEDs), land mines, man traps and high-pressure explosives, are being trained by Italian troops in Erbil, ANSA sources said Tuesday. The Peshmerga are being taught these skills as part of the Prima Phartica operation at a base in a disused residential area of the city. The team trained by Italians are in the front line of the Mosul offensive. Hidden explosives are what have caused most casualties among the Kurdish Iraqi forces fighting ISIS.

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Turkish Television Show Guest Confesses He Murdered and Raped a 4-Year-Old Girl

Himmet Akturk had agreed to appear on a Turkish television programme which specialises in investigating family dramas.

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As Globalists Push War, Russia Unveils Defensive Nuke That Can Destroy

Don’t mess with Russia: Putin stands up to globalists

In response to warmongering by the Obama administration and its globalist masters, Russia has unveiled a new nuclear-capable missile that carries enough firepower to destroy an area the size of Texas.

The RS-28 Sarmat missile, code named “Satan 2” by NATO, has a maximum speed of 4.3 miles per second and has been designed to outmaneuver anti-missile systems.

With a maximum range of 6,213 miles, the Satan 2 would be capable of striking major cities on the American east and west coasts if the U.S. starts a war with Russia.

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Paul Craig Roberts: “Putin’s Nukes Could Wipe Out Entire American East Coast” In Minutes

Economist and political critic Dr. Paul Craig Roberts explains how diplomatic relations have broken between Russia and the United States, after the U.S. knowingly attacked pro-Assad Syria forces… that, of course, was the cherry on top of a host of insults, deliberate antagonism and a strategy that could only result in further chaos and war.

The end of negotiations is unfortunately, given that fighting it out could mean thermonuclear war that would make Hiroshima and Nagasaki look trivial in comparison.

[Comment: Banksters and their puppet politicians are intentionally trying to trigger WWIII.]

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Barbaric Rape of 5 Yrs Hindu Girl Child in Bd, Rape Jihadist Saiful Islam Arrested From Dinajpur Town

Quran follower pervert Saiful (42 yrs) raped brutally Hindu girl child Puja aged only 5 yrs in Bangladesh. Puja in Critical condition, pray for her… help for immediate plastic surgery.

Atul Brahmachari | HENB | Dhaka | Oct 25, 2016:: The prime accused of 5 years Hindu girl child rape case at Parbatipur, a hardcore Quran follower and devout Muslim Saiful Islam has been arrested by police in the evening of Monday around 7.00 pm from a dense area of Dinajpur Town in Bangladesh.

The social social media outburst to arrest of the 42 yrs Saiful Rapist who traumatised Puja Das (5 yrs) daughter of one one Subal Das, a daily laborer of Hindu Rishi Das community, created a huge pressure upon the Bangladesh police to arrest the culprit anyway anywhere…

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Will Central Asia Fight Over Water?

In Central Asia, a crisis is brewing over water and electricity. The Soviet-era system in which the five countries of the region shared their resources has broken down, leaving some facing water shortages and others chronic power cuts. Instances of small-scale unrest have already occurred, but some warn this could be just the beginning.

Now all across Central Asia more and more people are finding themselves short of either power or water.

“I can’t get anything to grow,” he says, echoing Asima Dalanbay in Kazakhstan. “There’s just not enough water.”

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Neandertal DNA Affects Modern Ethnic Difference in Immune Response

Two studies may explain why people of African descent respond more strongly to infection, and are more prone to autoimmune diseases.

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Venezuelan Lawmakers Seek Trial of Maduro After Referendum Fails

Venezuela’s opposition-majority legislature voted on Tuesday to open a political trial against President Nicolas Maduro, who is resisting efforts to remove him from power in a volatile political crisis.

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Austrian Newspaper Editor Faces Hate Crime Charge for Writing About Migrant Crisis

THE EDITOR of one of Austria’s largest newspapers could be tried for a hate crime over a commentary he wrote about the migrant crisis last year.

Christoph Biro, editor of Kronen Zeitung, revealed his views on the mass of migrants travelling to Europe in an editorial published on October 25 last year.

Calling the majority of migrants “testosterone driven Syrians”, he recounted multiple reports of sex attacks being carried out on European nationals by asylum seekers.

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Calais Migrants Given Mixed Reception in French Towns

As between 6,000 and 8,000 migrants get resettled across France, they’ve been given a mixed reception by the locals.

The Calais “Jungle” is in the process of being dismantled, with thousands of migrants being taken to 451 reception centres all over France.

The move, which is estimated to last all week, has already prompted fierce opposition in parts of France, with some protesters taking to the streets to express their anger at the prospect of migrants being located in their towns.

This opposition has continued as the resettlement continues.

In the town of Chardonnay, famous for the grapes which share the same name, two dozen young Sudanese asylum seekers received a fairly luke-warm reception on Monday evening.

Locals watched from a distance as the men got off the bus in the village, which will eventually host 50 asylum seekers among a population of just 200 villagers.

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Descent Into Evil

by Mark Steyn

Earlier this year, in the Munk Debate on the “refugee” crisis in Europe, I touched on the epidemic of child gang-rape on the Continent and observed that “migrant rights now trump children’s rights”

I believe in Austria the minimum age of consent is 14, so, by definition, a ten-year old cannot “consent” to a “sexual act”, if violent anal rape can be dignified as such.

Or at least that’s the way we used to understand it in the civilized world. Of course, in much of the rest of the planet — and especially in the Muslim world — children are obliged to “consent” to all kinds of things. Once upon a time, when the unfortunate denizens of such societies came to the west, we were culturally confident enough to require them to assimilate with us.

Instead, in an age of civilizational self-loathing, we assimilate with them. So the same sexual license young Muslim men enjoy in, say, Kandahar now extends to Linz and Salzburg .

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Dozens of Turkish Diplomats Apply for Asylum in Germany

Since the failed putsch attempt in Turkey in July, Germany has received 35 asylum applications from people with Turkish diplomatic passports, the Interior Ministry confirmed on Wednesday.

Among the 35 people with diplomatic passports who applied for asylum with the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), there were also spouses and children, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reports.

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Editor of Austria’s Largest Paper Charged With ‘Hate Speech’ Over Migrant Article

An editor of Austria’s largest paper, Kronen Zeitung, is to be tried for hate speech over a commentary he wrote about the migrant crisis last year.

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EU to Extend Schengen Border Controls for Three Months

(AFP) — The EU moved Tuesday to prolong border controls in the passport-free Schengen area for three months, missing an end-of-year deadline to scrap the emergency measures adopted to cope with last year’s massive migrant influx.

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German Authorities Carry Out 13 Simultaneous Counterterrorism Raids Across 5 States

German police have simultaneously raided a dozen apartments and a refugee center across five states, police in Thuringia have announced. Authorities say the raids are targeting asylum seekers suspected of joining IS.

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Hundreds More Child Refugees Are Set to Arrive in the UK Over the Next Few Weeks

The Home Secretary has signalled arrivals will continue as the makeshift ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais is dismantled. But one in four local authorities are said to be refusing to accept the children.

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Illegals Go Door-to-Door for Hillary

(HOT AIR) In 2012 the Obama Administration granted temporary legal status to close to 750,000 illegal immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.Now they are going door-to-door campaigning on behalf of Hillary Clinton and other Democrats.

The Washington Post followed the campaign activities in Norther Virginia, a crucial purple region that could very well determine the outcome in Virginia and, possibly the national electoral college results:

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Immigrants! Stop Supporting Policies That Caused You to Flee

The American Dream attracts millions of people, but is now under attack

Many immigrants entering America are leaving countries that have been destroyed by corrupt politicians and bad government policies.

Once arriving in “the land of the free” many immigrants, legal and illegal, use their votes to support the exact same policies that ruined their homeland.

Project Director at the National Civic Movement of Guatemala, Gloria Alvarez, covers some of these destructive policies and shows how they are often the exact opposite of what makes America so desirable to people around the world.

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Italy: We’ll Veto EU Budget Unless Help on Migrants — Renzi

(ANSA) — Rome, October 25 — Premier Matteo Renzi on Tuesday said Italy may veto the EU budget if it does not get help dealing with the migrant emergency. “We give 20 billion to Europe and the EU gives us back 12, but if Hungary of Slovakia preach to us about migrants and don’t give us a hand and then want out money, in 2017, when the discussion on the budget starts, let Italy be alongside the government in saying “there’s no way, absolutely,” he said. “We’ll put in the money if there are duties on the part of other countries too”.

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Italy: Don’t Send Any More Migrants to Tuscany — Nardella

‘12% more than our due, low quotas in other regions’

(ANSA) — Florence, October 25 — Florence Mayor Dario Nardella has sent a letter to the Florence prefect urging the interior ministry not to send any more asylum seekers to Tuscany, until “the balance with other regions is restored”. Nardella said Tuscany had a migrant presence 12% over due quotas while “there are various other regions that are below quota, like Lombardy, Lazio, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Puglia, and Val d’Aosta”.

Migrant reception capacity is being strained across Italy by record numbers of asylum seekers coming from North Africa.

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Large Fire Visible in Northern Part of Calais ‘Jungle’ — Reuters Witness

A large fire was visible in the northern part of the Calais “Jungle” on Tuesday, on a scale beyond those that can be seen on any day at the migrant camp, according to a Reuters reporter at the scene.

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Left-Wing Activists in Calais Plot How to Stir Up Hatred Against Authority

Scores of middle class British Left-wing ‘No Borders’ activists, who were thrown out of the Jungle on Sunday night by police, are still in Calais plotting how to fight the closure of the Jungle.

[Comment: Likely being paid by Soros.]

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More Illegal Immigrants Caught at Dutch Ports Heading for Britain

Some 840 people have been caught at Dutch ports attempting to make the crossing to Britain this year, according to justice ministry figures. Most of them were trapped trying to climb into lorries. Of the total, 43% were Albanian nationals, the figures show. Hoek van Holland was the most popular location, with 450 stowaways. 180 were found in Europort and just 10 in IJmuiden. A further 190 people were picked up by British officials on the other side of the channel.

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Over 4,000 Migrants Arrive at Italy’s Ports, As Ministers Urge EU to Do More

A total of 4,292 migrants arrived at ports across southern Italy on Monday, following a weekend of rescue operations in the Mediterranean, which also recovered 18 bodies.

The Siem Pilot ship arrived in Palermo carrying 1,117 migrants and 17 corpses, including three children.

One little girl appeared to have been crushed during the frantic rescue, while some of the men had gunshot wounds — witnesses say the migrants were attacked by armed men in Libya before departure, Repubblica reported.

The Palermo public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into the alleged attack.

At the port of Naples, an Italian coastguard boat brought 465 migrants early on Monday morning, the majority of whom were unaccompanied minors.

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‘She’s Dangerous’ Angela Merkel Blasted for ‘Leaving Europe on the Brink of Civil War’

ANGELA Merkel has been dubbed “the most dangerous woman in Europe” for her open-door migrant policy by the head of Austria’s far-right party.

Freedom Party Chairman Heinz-Christian Strache roasted the German Chancellor for allowing an unlimited amount of migrants which he claims has left Europe on the verge of civil war.

Talking to supporters, Strache argued “the uncontrolled influx of migrants alien to our culture who seep into our social welfare system… makes civil war in the medium-term not unlikely”.

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Sweden: New Attacks on Invader Centers

An invader center in the Sigtuna suburb of northern Stockholm Sweden, was burned to the ground on Friday last week, in the second such attack within a week, Swedish newswire service TT has reported. The attack follows an identical blaze which destroyed an invader center in Fagersjö, southern Stockholm, shortly before 1:30 a.m. the previous Sunday.

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This City is 78% Latino, and the Face of a New California

Santa Ana, in Orange County, has an all Latino City Council and stands in the vanguard of a California where Latinos have more influence in everyday life.

Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles, who is fluent in Spanish, said he makes a point at news conferences of setting aside time to speak to Spanish-language media.

“We are well past the tipping point — everywhere,” Mr. Garcetti said. “The shift within 20 years from being the most anti-immigrant state to being the most embracing state for the integration of immigrants has been pretty breathtaking.”

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US-Style Democracy Export Arrogant, Destabilizing, Failure — Hungarian PM

Hungary’s prime minister has blasted the Obama administration’s foreign policy, saying it is based on arrogance and disregards reality. Viktor Orban said exporting democracy US-style produces instability, migration and extremism.

Orban, an outspoken critic of EU’s handling of the refugee crisis, voiced concern that a potential Hillary Clinton presidency would keep the current Democrat foreign policy that caused the problem in the first place.

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Berkeley Protesters Demand ‘Spaces of Color, ‘ Harass White Students Trying to Pass

Left-wing students at the University of California, Berkeley are protesting again. This time, however, these students are calling for “safe spaces” for transgendered people, as well as “spaces of color” at the University (which they already have).

The protesters are also harassing white students trying to study, barring their path across a key bridge while allowing students of color safe passage.

The protest, which began last Friday, blocked Berkeley’s Sather Gate, disrupted studying students in the Student Union, and blocked traffic at the intersection of Telegraph and Bancroft in front of campus.

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Canoes Reek of Genocide, Theft and White Privilege, Professor Claims

Forget Halloween costumes and yoga, there’s a new symbol of cultural appropriation—the canoe.

According to Misao Dean, Professor of English at the University of Victoria, the canoe can be a symbol of colonialism, imperialism and genocide due to history. She also accused the canoers of cultural appropriation because they are primarily white men and have a privileged place in society.

In a radio interview for CBC Radio, which wasn’t picked by the Internet until several months later, she claimed “we have a whole set of narratives that make the canoe into a kind of morally untouchable symbol, something that seems natural, that seems ordinary, and seems to promote values that we ascribe to.”

“But I think if you look a little further that narrative obscures or erases another narrative—and that narrative is about, to be blunt, it’s about theft and genocide”, the professor said.

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Claudia Rankine: Why I’m Spending $625,000 to Study Whiteness

The award-winning poet on why she’s using her MacArthur genius grant to explore whiteness, her questions for Lionel Shriver, and how an Ohio prison explodes the idea that blackness equals criminality

Rankine’s thinking is equally elevated and ambitious: she plans to donate her $625,000 stipend from her MacArthur genius grant to found the Racial Imaginary Institute.

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Can Science Save the Banana?

The banana is the world’s most popular fruit crop, with over 100 million metric tons produced annually in over 130 tropical and subtropical countries. Edible bananas are the result of a genetic accident in nature that created the seedless fruit we enjoy today. Virtually all the bananas sold across the Western world belong to the so-called Cavendish subgroup of the species and are genetically nearly identical. These bananas are sterile and dependent on propagation via cloning, either by using suckers and cuttings taken from the underground stem or through modern tissue culture.

The familiar bright yellow Cavendish banana is ubiquitous in supermarkets and fruit bowls, but it is in imminent danger. The vast worldwide monoculture of genetically identical plants leaves the Cavendish intensely vulnerable to disease outbreaks.

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3 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/25/2016

  1. Getachew Fekede is an Amharic name of Ethiopian origin. Probably neither a Kenyan nor a Muslim, although that part of the Horn of Africa is a tribal, primitive and extremely violent melting pot well steered clear of and the predatory products thereof should never be imported into civilised countries. Poor America, catching up with us suicidal Europeans rather quickly I fear. S III.

  2. Oh, dear lord. I can’t continue reading the “news” at all. It is way too depressing. I have to preserve my mental health as much as possible. . .

    I’ll try again either later, with a strong drink, or in the morning with strong coffee.

    Thank you Baron and Dymphna, for all you do.

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