Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/3/2016

Nigel Farage, the former leader of UKIP and the architect of the Brexit movement, predicted that Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will lose tomorrow’s referendum on changes to the country’s constitution. Mr. Farage said, “The EU is dying before your very eyes.”

In other news, a new Europol report says that it is “indisputable” that Islamic terrorists have entered Europe posing as refugees.

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Thanks to Insubria, JD, Nick, Reader from Chicago, Srdja Trifkovic, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Chinese Developers Rethink U.S. Real Estate Projects: “I See Danger…u.S. Real Estate is Peaking”
» Intriguing Predictions on Trump’s Plan for Federal Reserve
» Stanford Study Reveals California Pensions Underfunded by $1 Trillion or $93k Per Household
» The Shocking Truth About How Barack Obama Was Able to Prop Up the U.S. Economy
» These Countries Have Nearly “Eliminated Cash From Circulation”
 
USA
» As Predicted, The Wicked Witch is Back!
» CNN Apologizes for Producer’s ‘Trump Plane Crash’ Remark
» CNN Caught in Locker Room Talk; Crew Jokes About Trump’s Plane Crashing
» Donald Trump: “We Didn’t Break it, We Shattered That Sucker!” — Best Line of Trump’s Ohio Thank You Speech
» Ford Willing to Work With Trump if Policies Are Right, CEO Says
» Hillary Supporters Get Welcome News as Study Confirms White Population Dying Off Fast in Key Swing States
» House Quietly Passes Bill Targeting “Russian Propaganda” Websites
» Introducing the Professor Watchlist
» Is Obama Planning a “Fake News” Outlet of His Own?
» Jill Stein Drops PA Recount, Blames Lack of Funds, Slams System That’s “Stacked Against Voters”
» Kellyanne Pistol Whips Robby Mook: ‘Biggest Piece of Fake News in This Election Was That Trump Couldn’t Win’ [Video]
» Marijuana REIT Prices IPO, Shares Drop Early on
» Michigan AG Files Suit to End Jill Stein’s Worthless Recount
» More Bad News for Jill Stein as Pennsylvania Judge Blocks Recount Petitions
» More President Obama’s Lies Exposed
» OSU Students & Miss Ohio Demand Right to Carry Guns on Campus Following Jihad Attack
» Prominent Mideast Studies Profs Sexually Harassed Students
» Samsung’s Warning: Our Smart TVs Record Your Living Room Chatter
» Texas Bill Would Restore Right to Carry Firearms Without Gov’t Permission
 
Canada
» Cap and Fail — Auditor General Slams Government’s Carbon Tax Scheme
» Peter Foster: Canada’s Elite ‘Useful Idiots’ Endorse the Liberal Plan to Eat Them Last
 
Europe and the EU
» Alessandro Di Battista: Full Transcript of Interview With Five Star Movement’s ‘Heart-Throb’
» Europeans Increasingly Skeptical of the EU
» Germany: Migrant Says He Has ‘Sexual Compulsion’ After Group Sexually Assaults Teens
» Italy Against Sanctions on Russia Over Syria — Gentiloni
» Le Pen Victory Would be ‘Body Blow’ To Europe, Says Cameron
» London Man Arrested for Mock Pokemon Cards Criticizing Islamic Terrorism
» Sardinian Judge Arrested for Alleged Corruption
» Swedish Festival Get Muslims to Sign a Set of ‘Values’ Declaring, ‘I Promise Not to Rape Anyone’
» ‘The EU is Dying Before Your Very Eyes’ Farage Says Renzi Will Lose Crucial Vote
» UK: Plastic Fiver: 28 Years’ Work, Saves Acres of Cotton… May Have Killed Less Than One Cow*
 
North Africa
» Egypt’s Parliament Gives Final Backing to New Rules for NGOs
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Castro’s Greatest Victory
 
Middle East
» A Glimpse of a World Under Shariah Law
» ‘Being Shot on Way Out Was Better Than Staying’: East Aleppo Family Shares Story of Escape (Video)
 
Russia
» The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda
 
Caucasus
» Head of ISIS ‘Branch’ In Russia’s N. Caucasus Killed in Special Police Op — FSB
 
Far East
» Donald Trump’s Break With US Policy in Phone Call to Taiwan President Risks China Fury
» Duterte Tells Filipinos: Be Prepared for Terrorism
 
Latin America
» “Economy Shattered, Currency Collapsing”: Venezuelans Wait in 6 ATM Lines for Enough to Buy Rice
» Congratulations to Bolivarian Socialism — Venezuela’s Largest Banknote is Now Worth 2 US Cents
 
Immigration
» Angela Merkel — German Leader Blasted by Dad Over Migrant Crisis
» Austrian Minister: ‘It Would be Fatal to Believe the Migrant Crisis is Over’
» Canada Prepares for Mexican Surge
» Europol Terror Report: ISIS Fighters Enter UK by Posing as Refugees
» France on Fire
» German Police Arrest 17-Year-Old Linked to Freiburg Student Murder
» ‘Indisputable’ That Terrorists Entered Europe Posing as Refugees
» No Sanctuaries in “Sanctuary Cities”
» Obama Administration Stiff-Arms Lawmakers Questioning Secret Refugee Deal
» Stowaway Migrant Found Crushed Under Trucks in Austria
» Sweden to Become a Third World Country by 2030, According to UN
» Universities Exploring ‘Sanctuary’ Status for Immigrants
 
Culture Wars
» Columbia University’s Climate: A Visit to an Alternate Universe
» Indoctrinating the Young in Hate Factories
» Left Launches ‘Anti-Gay’ Smear Against Trump Transition
 

Chinese Developers Rethink U.S. Real Estate Projects: “I See Danger…u.S. Real Estate is Peaking”

For months we’ve been warning that real estate markets in NYC and San Francisco, among others, are getting ready to rollover as the market is about to be flooded with new supply of luxury apartments (see here and here). Real estate in both markets are just starting to show signs of cracking as the apartments sales cycle is getting stretched out and pricing growth has stalled.

Now, per an article from the Wall Street Journal, wealthy Chinese real estate investors are admitting that the jig is up in large cities like New York and are running for the hills. With a substantial amount of capacity expected to come online over the next several quarters and a growth cycle that is entering its 8th year, one Chinese real estate investor admits “you get a sense now that it’s peaking.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Intriguing Predictions on Trump’s Plan for Federal Reserve

Donald Trump is preparing for his entrance to the White House, and a big part of that process involves selecting individuals to fill top-level appointments in his administration. Trump’s picks so far are already garnering a lot of attention, but his choices for appointments relating to the economy could cause the biggest stir of all.

As Trump and his new appointments rise to power, the Federal Reserve could be targeted for overdue changes and reforms. Let’s take a look at how the Trump administration may change the Fed. Stripping the Fed’s Independence

With the exception of a couple isolated periods in U.S. history, the Federal Reserve has operated as an independent entity, with practically zero accountability to any branch of the U.S. Government. As a result, the Fed maintains the ability to manage and manipulate the economy without the fear of political repercussions or punishment from government officials.

If you’re wondering whether or not that kind of autonomy is a good thing, just take a look at the treacherous boom-and-bust cycle our economy is currently stuck in.

But there’s one loophole that could rain on the Fed’s party. According to Narayana Kocherlakota, there’s no law on the books that protects the Fed’s independence; the broad freedom assumed by the Fed over the past several decades relies solely on the president’s discretion.

It’s no secret that Trump has a bone to pick with the Fed, so he could be the first president in years to strip away its independence.

Plus, it speaks volumes that just days before the election, Fed chair Janet Yellen started to publicly argue the importance of an independent Fed.

[Comment: This would be a good first step, followed by a comprehensive audit with banksters going to jail or hanged for treason and sedition.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Stanford Study Reveals California Pensions Underfunded by $1 Trillion or $93k Per Household

Earlier today the Kersten Institute for Governance and Public Policy highlighted an updated pension study, released by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, which revealed some fairly startling realities about California’s public pension underfunding levels. After averaging $77,700 per household in 2014, the amount of public pension underfunding for the state of California jumped to a staggering $92,748 per household in 2015. But don’t worry, we’re sure pension managers can grow their way out of the problem…hedge fund returns have been stellar recently, right?

Stanford University’s pension tracker database pegs the market value of California’s total pension debt at $1 trillion or $93,000 per California household in 2015.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Shocking Truth About How Barack Obama Was Able to Prop Up the U.S. Economy

Barack Obama is one of the biggest “ Keynesians” of all time, but unfortunately most Americans don’ t even understand what that means. In this article, I am going to share with you the primary reason why Barack Obama has been able to prop up the U.S. economy over the past eight years. If Barack Obama had not taken the extreme measures that he did, we would be in the midst of a historic economic depression right now. But by propping things up in the short-term, he has absolutely demolished our long-term economic future. But like most politicians, Obama has been willing to sacrifice the future for short-term political gain…

When Barack Obama entered the White House, the U.S. was in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The Bush administration had already begun to ramp up spending, but Barack Obama took “government stimulus” to ridiculous new levels. The national debt has risen by an average of more than 1.1 trillion dollars a year while Obama has been in charge, and this fiscal year we are on pace to add more than 2 trillion dollars to the debt.

At this moment, the U.S. national debt is a whopping $19,901,545,151,126.51, and it will cross the 20 trillion dollar mark by the time Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20th.

But when Barack Obama was inaugurated, the national debt was only 10.6 trillion dollars. That means that we have added about 9.3 trillion dollars to the debt since that time.

[Comment: Bankster run Federal Reserve accelerated, with cover from Obama, the plan to bring down US economically by drving US deep into the debt spiral.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

These Countries Have Nearly “Eliminated Cash From Circulation”

Editor’s Comment: The cashless society is catching up to all of us. Most of Europe has shifted that way, and now India is forcing the issue. In the United States, people are being acclimated to it, and may soon find that no other option is practical in the highly-digitized online world.

Once that takes hold, the banksters, bureaucrats and hackers will have total information on all your transactions, purchasing behavior, profiles about consumers, political and social background history and even predictive behavior, allowing them to control the population with ease. If/when a major crisis hits, nothing will work if the grid goes down; nothing will take place that isn’t strictly authorized — apart from a barter and precious metals exchange system that will be marginalized to the pre-digital ghetto.

Cashless World: 1 out of 3 People Never Use Cash by Rory Hall

We recently learned how serious these criminals are about stealing the sovereignty of every person on planet earth. Actually, most people are willingly handing over their sovereignty to the banks/government and have no idea what they are actually doing.

When India ban, made illegal, the 500 and 1000 rupee banknote this move effected every 1 out of 7 people on planet earth. That means that every 7th person, anywhere and everywhere, you come in contact with may have been effected by this cash ban.

Our individual sovereignty is tied directly to our ability to move freely about. When every step we make is tracked by the bank/government our sovereignty is gone forever. Freely trading commerce is one of the cornerstones of human sovereignty. Without the ability to conduct business with whom we wish, when we wish we are nothing more than cattle to the overlords of the land…

The purpose of going cashless is not for our “convenience”, it is specifically for the purpose of “saving the banks” and tax collections. Governments and banks could care-less about what is convenient for us. They are only concerned with how much of our wealth they can extract from every person who has any currency.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

As Predicted, The Wicked Witch is Back!

Exclusive: Larry Klayman takes action to stop Clinton, accomplices from overturning election

I told you so!

Hillary Clinton and her despicable criminal comrades are not through trying to destroy the nation. Having lost the presidential election fair and square — – despite the fact that the Democrats got millions of illegal aliens and criminals to vote in states like California and elsewhere — the Wicked Witch of the Left has arisen from the politically dead and resumed her attempted overthrow of America along with her equally criminal accomplices.

These accomplices include the sleazy John Podesta (Hillary’s corrupt campaign manager), Jennifer Palmieri (her low-class press spokesperson), Cheryl Mills (a sleazy Clinton lawyer and confidant), Huma Abedin (who is Hillary’s Palestinian girlfriend and “adviser” and tied to Muslim terrorists and interests), Harold Ickes (who is Mafia-connected) and Terry McAuliffe (the dishonest Hillary Clinton fundraiser and crooked governor of Virginia where much of the illegal-alien and criminal voting fraud occurred).

These bottom feeders drafted Green Party candidate Jill Stein — a radical leftist socialist/feminist — to raise millions of dollars to mount a fraudulent recount of votes in three crucial battleground states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

The goal of Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein and their leftist comrades: to undermine and overturn the election of Donald Trump as president!

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CNN Apologizes for Producer’s ‘Trump Plane Crash’ Remark

(INTELLIHUB) — CNN issued a statement Friday apologizing for remarks made by a producer while the camera was rolling at Carrier’s plant in Cincinnati on Thursday during a visit by the new President-elect.

“An unfortunate and inappropriate remark was made by one of our producers off camera yesterday. We have apologized to the Trump transition team, and the producer has been disciplined,” a statement issued by a representative of CNN said, as reported by Business Insider.

Intellihub reported on the incident earlier Friday which can be seen on video in a post titled Caught on film — CNN news crew laughs about the Presient-elect’s plane crashing: Reports.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CNN Caught in Locker Room Talk; Crew Jokes About Trump’s Plane Crashing

Nothing to see here. The girls at CNN were merely fraternizing, joking it up about the President elect’s airplane crashing. If you listen closely, one of the catamites caught giggling said he’d only be injured, not killed, so there’s that.

Hot mics are a b*tch and so is the person who made these comments.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Donald Trump: “We Didn’t Break it, We Shattered That Sucker!” — Best Line of Trump’s Ohio Thank You Speech

Trump: There Is No Global Flag, No Global Currency, No Global Citizenship. We Will Be United As Americans

At Donald Trump’s first post-victory “Thank You” rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, the president-elect outlined his “America First” policy. He said that attempts to “separate us by race, by age, by income, by place of birth, and by geography” were over.

He said: “Now is the time to embrace the one thing that truly unites us. You know what that is? America.”

He continued: “We hear a lot of talk about how we are becoming a ‘globalized world.’ But the relationships that people value in this country are local.”

“There is no global anthem. No global currency. No certificate of global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag and that flag is the American flag,” he continued. “From now on it is going to be: America First… Never anyone again will any other interests come before the interest of the American people. It is not going to happen again.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ford Willing to Work With Trump if Policies Are Right, CEO Says

“We will be very clear in the things we’d like to see”

Ford Motor Co. was a target of Donald Trump’s criticism on the campaign trail for building cars in Mexico, and now that Trump will be president, Ford said it’s willing to work with him to keep jobs in the U.S. — provided Trump puts the right policies in place, according to the automaker’s chief executive officer.

“We will be very clear in the things we’d like to see,” Mark Fields said in an exclusive interview Friday at Bloomberg offices in Southfield, Michigan.

Among them, according to Fields: currency-manipulation rules to promote free and fair trade, tax reform and safety guidelines for autonomous vehicles.

Fields said that Ford plans to lobby the new president to soften U.S. and state fuel-economy rules. They hurt profits by forcing automakers to build more electric cars and hybrids than are warranted by customer demand, he said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hillary Supporters Get Welcome News as Study Confirms White Population Dying Off Fast in Key Swing States

Disaffected Hillary snowflakes at colleges and universities all around the country, many of whom surely cried themselves to sleep last night, woke up this morning to some of the best news they’ve received in weeks. According to a new study by the University of New Hampshire Carsey School of Public Policy, white people are dying off faster than ever in the U.S. Moreover, the biggest declines are coming in key swing states like FL and PA. Even better, the study expects the “natural decrease” of whites to accelerate in the future.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

House Quietly Passes Bill Targeting “Russian Propaganda” Websites

On November 30, one week after the Washington Post launched its witch hunt against “Russian propaganda fake news”, with 390 votes for, the House quietly passed “H.R. 6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017”, sponsored by California Republican Devin Nunes (whose third largest donor in 2016 is Google parent Alphabet, Inc), a bill which deals with a number of intelligence-related issues, including Russian propaganda, or what the government calls propaganda, and hints at a potential crackdown on “offenders.”

A quick skim of the bill reveals “Title V-Matters relating to foreign countries”, whose Section 501 calls for the government to “counter active measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the Russian Federation has been hidden or not acknowledged publicly.”

The section lists the following definitions of media manipulation:…

As ActivistPost correctly notes, it is easy to see how this law, if passed by the Senate and signed by the president, could be used to target, threaten, or eliminate so-called “fake news” websites, a list which has been used to arbitrarily define any website, or blog, that does not share the mainstream media’s proclivity to serve as the Public Relations arm of a given administration.

Curiously, the bill which was passed on November 30, was introduced on November 22, two days before the Washington Post published its Nov. 24 article citing “experts” who claim Russian propaganda helped Donald Trump get elected.

[Comment: Any website against the globalsit new world order will be labelled a “Russian propaganda” website.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Introducing the Professor Watchlist

There’s a new database students can use to expose professors who use their platform to push their radical left-wing ideas on students.

Illinois-based Turning Point USA has launched The Professor Watchlist to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Is Obama Planning a “Fake News” Outlet of His Own?

After spending the past month blaming Hillary’s loss on the rampant spread of “fake news,” because choosing a failed candidate subject to numerous active federal criminal investigations and/or Obama’s failed policies couldn’t possibly be to blame, Mic is reporting that Obama is contemplating starting a propaganda machine media company of his own after leaving the White House.

[Comment: Dear leader seeks his own TV channel. He could call it COC — Community Organizer Channel. Good luck getting non-drones to watch it.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Jill Stein Drops PA Recount, Blames Lack of Funds, Slams System That’s “Stacked Against Voters”

So did Stein really spend all the $6 million-plus she raised or was the decision made to save the scammed millions instead of pressing ahead with a futile unwarranted recount?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Kellyanne Pistol Whips Robby Mook: ‘Biggest Piece of Fake News in This Election Was That Trump Couldn’t Win’ [Video]

“That was peddled, probably for weeks and months before the campaign ended.”

While taking part in a post-election discussion at Harvard University — of which CNN aired footage Friday afternoon — Mook argued that “Congress has got to investigate what happened with Russia here.”

“We cannot have foreign aggressors, I would argue, intervening in our elections,” he continued. “We know the Russians were propagating fake news through Facebook and other outlets.”

Mook argued that sites like Breitbart peddled stories that “reinforced sexist, racist, anti-Semitic notions in people” and “shouldn’t be part of the public discourse.”

CNN’s Jake Tapper gave Conway an opportunity to respond, which she graciously accepted.

“I think the biggest fake news in this election was was that Donald Trump couldn’t win.”

“That was peddled, probably for weeks and months before the campaign ended, definitely in the closing days,” she continued. “If you look at major newspapers and major cable stations, networks, Jake, it’s unmistakable.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Marijuana REIT Prices IPO, Shares Drop Early on

A San Diego real estate firm that aims to own buildings used to grow medical marijuana became a publicly traded company on Thursday, opening at $20 a share but seeing its stock price fall by the end of the week.

Shares of Innovative Industrial Properties, lead by former BioMed Realty Chief Executive Alan Gold, ended trading on Friday at $18.45 on the New York Stock Exchange.

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

Michigan AG Files Suit to End Jill Stein’s Worthless Recount

Jill Stein’ s multi-state recount effort is, in a word, worthless. She’ s admitted as much. There is no evidence of any systemic wrongdoing or errors in either the voting machines or the tabulation. Even proponents of the recount admit it won’ t overturn any results. Yet, they press on with an expensive effort built upon nothing more than pretense, innuendo, and rumor.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

More Bad News for Jill Stein as Pennsylvania Judge Blocks Recount Petitions

As most people are still trying to figure out exactly what Jill Stein is doing and why she’s doing it, a judge in Montgomery County Pennsylvania, just north of Philadelphia, has decided he’s seen enough. After hearing arguments from attorneys representing Jill Stein’s campaign and the Montgomery County Board of Elections, Judge Bernard A. Moore dismissed the petitions of voters in 78 precincts to recount votes or forensically analyze voting machines due a lack of evidence and improperly filed petitions. Per The Times Herald of Montgomery County:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

More President Obama’s Lies Exposed

Jews-Christians more likely victims of hate crime than Muslims

For almost eight years, President Barack Obama and his administration have been harping on the backlash against Muslims due to the activities of radical Islamic terrorists. And as is usually the case, the Democrats’ media sycophants echo the message that Muslims, including American citizens, are being treated unfairly and violently by non-Muslim Americnas.

In a speech by the Obama Justice Department’s head of Civil Rights Vanita Gupta in May, an audience of Muslims in California were told:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

OSU Students & Miss Ohio Demand Right to Carry Guns on Campus Following Jihad Attack

Well, it didn’t take long for common sense to set in on those most vulnerable. Following the Islamic jihad knife attack at Ohio State University on Monday, there was a lot of Communist thinking gun grabbers who took to Twitter to urge for more gun confiscation measures. However, those affected closest to the attack are singing a different tune, including Miss Ohio. They are demanding they be allowed to exercise their right to keep and bear arms on campus in order to protect themselves.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Prominent Mideast Studies Profs Sexually Harassed Students

The famously self-righteous field of Middle East studies, which lambasts outside criticism as “censorship” and condemns America, Israel, and the West while lauding Islamists, now finds itself on the defensive. Two of its leading lights, the University of California, Berkeley’s Nezar AlSayyad and the University of California, Los Angeles’s Gabriel Piterberg, have been accused of sexually harassing female graduate students.

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

Samsung’s Warning: Our Smart TVs Record Your Living Room Chatter

Technically Incorrect: Samsung’s small print says that its Smart TV’s voice recognition system will not only capture your private conversations, but also pass them onto third parties.

The wording, first spotted by the Daily Beast, first informs you that the company may “capture voice commands and associated texts so that we can provide you with Voice Recognition features and evaluate and improve the features.”

This is almost understandable. It’s a little like every single customer service call, supposedly recorded to make your next customer service call far, far more enjoyable.

However, the following words border on the numbing: “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Texas Bill Would Restore Right to Carry Firearms Without Gov’t Permission

If a bill passes through the state legislature next year and is signed by the governor, Texas will become the 12th state to restore the carrying of a weapon to the status of a right, not a privilege given at the will of the government.

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

Cap and Fail — Auditor General Slams Government’s Carbon Tax Scheme

When consumers’ bills suddenly jump in 2017, the government doesn’t want to identified as the culprit

The Ontario government’s cap and trade scheme is already a failure, and it hasn’t even started yet.

On Wednesday November 30, the Auditor General released her annual report, in which she slammed the Ontario government’s cap and trade tax, which is set to take effect January 1st.

The Auditor General zeroed in on a series of major flaws with cap and trade-the premier’s showpiece legislation. She highlighted the policy’s inability to achieve emission reduction targets, that cap and trade would send billions out of the province, and that there is a total lack of transparency…

The Auditor General’s second major criticism of cap and trade is that “small reductions in emissions in Ontario [are] expected to come at significant cost to Ontario businesses and households.”

Based on the Auditor General’s analysis, Ontario businesses are expected to send $466 million to California and Quebec under cap and trade by 2020. And by 2030, businesses will have sent about $2.2 billion.

That’s all money leaving the Ontario economy to achieve almost nothing.

And sadly, it’s just the beginning. That’s just the money being sent out of Ontario. The total cost is projected to be $8 billion over the first four years.

That’s not money conjured out of thin air-it’s money from businesses that are already squeezed by out of control hydro rates, and money out of your pockets every time you pay your natural gas bill, fill your car up or buy products that were manufactured or transported in Ontario. It’s money we can’t afford to waste on a policy that does nothing.

[Comment: Auditor General is 100% right and hits this one out of the park. This is a lunatic proposal in this current economic situation.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Peter Foster: Canada’s Elite ‘Useful Idiots’ Endorse the Liberal Plan to Eat Them Last

The other day, a motley group of 60 business and “civil society” leaders signed an open letter calling on the prime minister and the premiers to impose “smart” climate policies on the way to that allegedly inevitable “low-carbon world.” The letter read like a Liberal policy document because, essentially, it was. Bizarrely, it made no reference to the election of Donald Trump.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Alessandro Di Battista: Full Transcript of Interview With Five Star Movement’s ‘Heart-Throb’

Italy’s populist Five Star Movement is leading opposition to the prime minister of Italy’s constitutional reforms which will put to the country via a referendum this Sunday.

Along the campaign trail The Telegraph interviewed Alessandro Di Battista, the leading Five Star campaigner who is often described as the movement’s “heart-throb”.

This is a transcript, edited only for reasons of length and clarity, of that interview.

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

Europeans Increasingly Skeptical of the EU

Excerpts from Srdja Trifkovic’s latest Sputnik Radio interview, in which he comments on the findings of a new poll which indicates that an increasing number of Europeans want their countries to leave the European Union. More than half (53%) of the respondents in Italy said they would like their government to hold a referendum on EU membership. Similar sentiments are felt in France, Germany, Spain and Poland. [Audio]

[…] We are witnessing an overall public backlash against the European Union. It is increasingly perceived not as an institution geared to facilitating the flow of goods, services and people, but as a means of political and ideological control by an elite that is alienated from ordinary people… In Italy’s case it is clear that the level of dissatisfaction with the political establishment is very high. If someone like Beppe Grillo, a comedian who has never conducted a serious campaign, gets as many votes as he did [25.5% in 2013], we are looking at a discredited establishment, where politics is seen as part joke and part tragedy.

In Poland the disenchantment is to a large extent due to the attempt by Brussels to impose immigration quotas on former Soviet bloc countries. They rebelled together, the Visegrad Group, starting with Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban, but including the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland’s [prime minister] Beata Szydlo. They simply do not want to submit a key element of their sovereignty—the decision on who will reside inside their frontiers—to the unelected Eurocrats in Brussels…

International bureaucrats operating from inside the Brussels machine—from Ireland, Finland, Italy, Greece, or Estonia—have much more in common with each other than with the people of their own countries. They partake in the same political rituals, they belong to the same competitive hierarchical structure, and they are part of the same process which is completely divorced from the democratically expressed will of their electorates… We have an equivalent of the nomenklatura, which in the old communist days was the name for the chosen cadres of the communist party. It existed as the elite of the state, quite apart from the society. Nowadays we have the Brussels nomenklatura, which is just as divorced from the society of their own native countries as the old communist elite had been in Brezhnev’s, Khrushchev’s, or Stalin’s days…

           — Hat tip: Srdja Trifkovic [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: Migrant Says He Has ‘Sexual Compulsion’ After Group Sexually Assaults Teens

MIGRANTS sexually assaulted a group of 18-year-old girls and tried to drag one screaming teenager into an empty room against her will.

A Syrian student also “aggressively fondled” a young victim and relentlessly tried to kiss her despite her physically fighting him and begging him to stop.

Police in Munich, Germany, arrested the Middle Eastern man, who later claimed he had a “sexual compulsion”.

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

Italy Against Sanctions on Russia Over Syria — Gentiloni

But ‘has always complied with EU decisions’

(ANSAmed) — ROME, DECEMBER 2 — Italy “has always complied with decisions on European sanctions against Russia but has also expressed strong opposition to extending the sanctions mechanism to the Syrian situation”, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Friday at the Med Dialogues 2016 conference in the Italian capital.

He was speaking at a press conference with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.

“This position has not changed for us,” Gentiloni added.

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Le Pen Victory Would be ‘Body Blow’ To Europe, Says Cameron

New Delhi (AFP) — Britain’s former premier said Saturday the election of France’s Marine Le Pen would be a “big body blow” for Europe, saying he hoped for the victory of a mainstream party.

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London Man Arrested for Mock Pokemon Cards Criticizing Islamic Terrorism

A man in London has been arrested on hate crime charges after he plastered the London Underground with faux Pokemon cards that criticize Islamic terrorism and politicians who allegedly allow terrorism to thrive.

According to the Evening Standard, a 46-year-old man has been arrested for “inciting racial hatred” on Thursday after he produced the mock Pokemon cards and placed them across the public transportation system in London.

[Comment: As George Orwell wrote: In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.]

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Sardinian Judge Arrested for Alleged Corruption

Two Emerald Coast businessmen also arrested

(ANSA) — Olbia, December 1 — Police on Thursday placed a judge on house arrest for alleged corruption in the Sardinian town of Tempio Pausania, in the Gallura region of the island’s north. The judge, Vincenzo Cristiano, is originally from Campania but has worked in the Sardinian court for more than 10 years. Two businessmen with interests on the island’s Emerald Coast were also arrested in connection with the investigation conducted by the Rome prosecutor’s office.

One of them, Manuel Spano of Olbia, owns a company called ‘Centro Musica’, which provides music for parties and shows including on the Emerald Coast.

The other, Umberto Galizia, is a businessman from Naples.

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Swedish Festival Get Muslims to Sign a Set of ‘Values’ Declaring, ‘I Promise Not to Rape Anyone’

The nerdy Swedes have found a ‘solution’ to their Muslim rape problem.

Get them to pledge to a no-rape contract. Wow. That’s harsh. That should really deter medieval Muslim men from raping Swedish women when they originate from a culture where rape is perfectly legal, women get stoned to death, or women end with a rope around their necks while they are dragged behind a car to their death for serving dinner too late.

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‘The EU is Dying Before Your Very Eyes’ Farage Says Renzi Will Lose Crucial Vote

NIGEL FARAGE has lambasted the “dying” European bloc for “not learning lessons” following the Brexit vote and “wanting to centralise” power.

Speaking on Fox News, the former Ukip leader blasted Eurocrats for not responding to the EU referendum despite its “significance”.

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UK: Plastic Fiver: 28 Years’ Work, Saves Acres of Cotton… May Have Killed Less Than One Cow*

Professor David Solomon, the inventor of the polymer banknote, has told vegetarians that they’re being “stupid” over their opposition to its trace amounts of animal fat.

The UK’s new plastic notes were introduced earlier this year to replace the UK’s battered and disintegrating stocks of paper** £5 notes.

However, when the Bank of England confirmed that there was a trace of tallow in the polymer pellets used in the base substrate of the placcy fivers, veggies lost their minds.

This morning, the Royal Society fellow and polymer chemist, who is also known for his investigation of living free-radical polymerization techniques, told Australian radio station 2GB that the campaign to find a non-animal alternative substance in the manufacture of the money was “stupid. It’s absolutely stupid,” according to the Guardian. The Australian chemist went on to note that “there’s trivial amounts of [animal fat] in there.”

[Comment: “being stupid”? Sounds like a typical reaction of someone with no respect for religion. What about the Hindu’s? Suppose it was pig fat? Do you think the prof would be walking around without bodyguards? For sure he would have found a chemical substitute or get fatwa-ed. The Scottish ones don’t contain tallow: theukbulletin.com/2016/12/01/scottish-polymer-bank-notes-are-vegan-friendly/]

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Egypt’s Parliament Gives Final Backing to New Rules for NGOs

Measures strongly criticised by human rights groups

(ANSAmed) — CAIRO, NOVEMBER 30 — Egypt’s parliament on Tuesday approved definitively a new law regulating non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and conferring sweeping powers on the security services concerning their operations.

The law must now be ratified by President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi in order to take effect. Under the new regulations NGOs require state authorisation to receive foreign funding or local donations in excess of 10,000 Egyptian pounds, transfer their headquarters or carry out research or investigative activities, among other things. Permits will be issued by a newly created oversight body comprising government and security agencies including the intelligence agency and the interior and defence ministries. People found violating the new rules face five years in jail and hefty fines. The measures have been strongly criticised by activists in Egypt, with Mohamed Zaree of the Cairo Centre for human rights studies describing them as a “massacre” for NGOs.

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Castro’s Greatest Victory

The Palestinians are loudly mourning the passing of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. PLO Chief and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas ordered flags in the PA to be flown at half-mast on Sunday to honor Castro.

They are right to celebrate him.

The Cuban Communist dictator, who murdered tens of thousands of his own people, imprisoned tens of thousands more, caused a million Cubans to flee their homeland, and transformed an island paradise into a water enclosed prison, was a key ally of Palestinian terrorists in their war to destroy Israel.

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A Glimpse of a World Under Shariah Law

Exclusive: Joseph Farah says U.S. policy isn’t multiculturalism, ‘it’s national suicide’

On Monday I told the story of what happened to our Christian pilgrimage to the Temple Mount when we tried to pray on the holiest site of Judaism and one of great significance to followers of Jesus.

We were chased out of the courtyard — escorted by representatives of the Islamic Waqf who lectured us about the entire site being an exclusively Muslim holy place.

What seemed to bother them most was a reference by messianic rabbi Jonathan Cahn, my partner in the annual tours we conduct, to the Temple Mount being the site where history tells us the First and Second Temples rested.

This kind of spiritual revisionism and coercion offered a microcosmic view of what life under Islamic Shariah law would be like for non-Muslims.

Keep in mind, Israelis captured the Temple Mount and all of Jerusalem in 1967 from the Jordanians who empowered the Waqf to administer affairs on the site. It was only a goodwill gesture by Israeli leadership that permitted to the Waqf to continue to play a role there, given the existence of the Dome of the Rock shrine and the al-Aqsa Mosque — ensuring continued access to Muslims.

But, as I have written before, give the Muslims an inch and they take a mile.

Under their rules for the Temple Mount, neither Jews nor Christians are permitted to pray on a site that is holy to Judaism and Christianity and one that pre-existed Islam by more than 1,000 years.

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‘Being Shot on Way Out Was Better Than Staying’: East Aleppo Family Shares Story of Escape (Video)

Some of the people light fires to try to keep warm, as it is freezing cold in the region at the moment. Cold, however, isn’t the only life-threatening issue — despite fleeing the terror, many suffer from severe malnutrition and most of the kids have yellowish skin and can barely move.

One of the mothers told RT that it was the rebels who took the food from them in eastern Aleppo.

“The prices for everything were so high! When the aid would come, they [the rebels] would take it and keep it for themselves. They stole it from us. None of my kids have eaten for three days, they are suffering, and the journey here was so difficult!” Majdolene said.

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The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda

In late October, I received an e-mail from “The PropOrNot Team,” which described itself as a “newly-formed independent team of computer scientists, statisticians, national security professionals, journalists and political activists, dedicated to identifying propaganda-particularly Russian propaganda targeting a U.S. audience.” PropOrNot said that it had identified two hundred Web sites that “qualify as Russian propaganda outlets.” The sites’reach was wide-they are read by at least fifteen million Americans. PropOrNot said that it had “drafted a preliminary report about this for the office of Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), and after reviewing our report they urged us to get in touch with you and see about making it a story.”

Reporting on Internet phenomena, one learns to be wary of anonymous collectives freely offering the fruits of their research. I told PropOrNot that I was probably too busy to write a story, but I asked to see the report. In reply, PropOrNot asked me to put the group in touch with “folks at the NYTimes, WaPo, WSJ, and anyone else who you think would be interested.” Deep in the middle of another project, I never followed up.

PropOrNot managed to connect with the Washington Post on its own. Last week, the Post published a story based in part on PropOrNot’s research. Headlined “Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread

[…]

But a close look at the report showed that it was a mess. “To be honest, it looks like a pretty amateur attempt,” Eliot Higgins, a well-respected researcher who has investigated Russian fake-news stories on his Web site, Bellingcat, for years, told me. “I think it should have never been an article on any news site of any note.”

The most striking issue is the overly broad criteria used to identify which outlets spread propaganda. According to PropOrNot’s recounting of its methodology, the third step it uses is to check if a site has a history of “generally echoing the Russian propaganda ‘line’,” which includes praise for Putin, Trump, Bashar al-Assad, Syria, Iran, China, and “radical political parties in the US and Europe.” When not praising, Russian propaganda includes criticism of the United States, Barack Obama, Clinton, the European Union, Angela Merkel, NATO, Ukraine, “Jewish people,” U.S. allies, the mainstream media, Democrats, and “the center-right or center-left, and moderates of all stripes.”

These criteria, of course, could include not only Russian state-controlled media organizations, such as Russia Today, but nearly every news outlet in the world, including the Post itself. Yet PropOrNot claims to be uninterested in differentiating between organizations that are explicit tools of the Russian state and so-called “useful idiots,” which echo Russian propaganda out of sincerely held beliefs. “We focus on behavior, not motivation,” they write.

To PropOrNot, simply exhibiting a pattern of beliefs outside the political mainstream is enough to risk being labelled a Russian propagandist.

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Head of ISIS ‘Branch’ In Russia’s N. Caucasus Killed in Special Police Op — FSB

A Dagestan-based militant leader who swore allegiance to Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL), was picked as “emir” by IS chief al-Baghdadi and was linked to terrorist acts in Russia’s Volgograd, has been eliminated, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said.

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Donald Trump’s Break With US Policy in Phone Call to Taiwan President Risks China Fury

China lodges protest over phone call — the first by a US president or president-elect since 1979 — as Taiwan urges ‘calm’

President-elect Donald Trump has spoken directly with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen — breaking with nearly four decades of US policy — in a move protested by China.

The 10-minute telephone call with Taiwan’s leadership was the first by a US president-elect or president since President Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China in 1979, acknowledging Taiwan as part of “one China”.

China’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that it had lodged a protest with the “relevant side” in the United States — with experts saying that officials in Beijing will have been angered by the call.

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Duterte Tells Filipinos: Be Prepared for Terrorism

On the heels of the Maute local terrorist group’s threat to behead him and the military, President Rodrigo Duterte warned the public of the looming threat of terrorism.

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“Economy Shattered, Currency Collapsing”: Venezuelans Wait in 6 ATM Lines for Enough to Buy Rice

Is this how the economic crisis will play out in America? A cash strapped population, forced to the brink and stripped of their dignity?

Unfortunately, it is already underway in Venezuela.

Of course there is a higher standard of living in the United States overall, but tens of millions of people are already on the edge of poverty and tens of millions more can be brought to their knees in a matter of hours.

Some 46 million Americans are already on food stamps, and reliance on digital systems, EBT debit cards and electronic transactions could make Americans more vulnerable than they appear on the surface.

If the system shut down tomorrow, what would you do? How would you feed your family? Unless you are a prepper, the answer could make you uneasy.

Long lines have been the norm in Venezuela for over a year now; shortages and rations just another part of their upended lives. But now, the sheer free fall of their currency’s value has made live even more precarious — forcing many to visit as many as six ATMs just for enough to buy very basic, cheap goods.

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Congratulations to Bolivarian Socialism — Venezuela’s Largest Banknote is Now Worth 2 US Cents

Well done to Nicolas Maduro and the economic team in Caracas here. They’ve managed to create inflation so fierce, and thus such a collapsing exchange rate, that the largest Venezuelan banknote is now worth 1 US cent or less. OK, maybe if you’re quick it might still be worth 2 US cents but no one’s holding out all that much hope that that will be true by the end of next week. For from what we can see I would say that Venezuela is now entering the terminal stages of hyperinflation.

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Angela Merkel — German Leader Blasted by Dad Over Migrant Crisis

Mrs Merkel is normally protected from the sharp end of public opinion by phalanxes of flunkies, security personnel and office aides.

But there was no hiding place when she agreed to a virtual town hall meeting which linked her in her Berlin office with conservative voters in Frankfurt.

The embarrassing clash Thursday evening came days before her Christian Democratic Union party congress in Essen.

It gave the opportunity for people like the disillusioned father to vent his despair at the refugee policy that has riven the country, caused neo-Nazi violence to increase and lured her supporters into the arms of right-wing anti-immigrant parties like the Alternative for Germany (AfD.)

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Austrian Minister: ‘It Would be Fatal to Believe the Migrant Crisis is Over’

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has said that it would be “fatal” to consider the migrant crisis over. He also criticised German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her migrant policy and dominance in the European Union (EU).

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Canada Prepares for Mexican Surge

Canada will next week lift visa requirements for visitors from Mexico-imposed in 2009 to halt a surge in illegal invaders-as part of that far left government’s response to the Donald Trump election victory. When the visa was imposed, the number of Mexicans entering Canada fell by two-thirds and 9,000 Mexican “refugee” applications per year halted completely.

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Europol Terror Report: ISIS Fighters Enter UK by Posing as Refugees

The security service warned ISIS jihadis are using migrant routes to smuggle crazed fighters in to wage terror across the continent.

Here they will plot to attack European countries, with Britain “high on the target list” for aggression from the sick terror cult.

A shocking report published on Friday by Europol said: “It is indisputable that some have entered the EU posing as refugees.

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France on Fire

Honestly, I do not know how to watch videos like this without knowing, immediately but also deep down, I would not want to be anywhere near this sort of activity…

Here’s a great use of concealed carry, and if they guy didn’t have it, it’s pretty obvious he would have been violently attacked:

While any culture can absorb some people over time, there is a pace above which only shock and splintering can occur. It seems to me that the bureaucrats of Europe have overlooked the impacts of their decisions, allowed in too many people at once without any good plan for dealing with them (as evidenced by the legions of refugees and migrants camped out on the rue [French for street]).

Why do bureaucrats do this? Because they generally do not live with the consequences of their decisions. They hang out in their tiny echo chambers and make decisions that other people have to live with.

This cannot end well, and the people of France may well vote for anybody who seems to be listening to their concerns about violent migrants and refugees.

Again, you can be against a senseless, overly fast immigration policy and not be racist.

[Comment: Watch the video on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHX5jsomq_U . The “refugee” has a bat and the Frenchman is holding the butt of his gun and telling the refugee “don’t touch me with that”. Perfect use of concealed carry.]

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German Police Arrest 17-Year-Old Linked to Freiburg Student Murder

A 17-year-old has been arrested in connection with the rape and murder of a medical student in the southwestern German city of Freiburg. The suspect reportedly came from Afghanistan as an unaccompanied refugee.

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‘Indisputable’ That Terrorists Entered Europe Posing as Refugees

It is “indisputable” that terrorists have entered Europe posing as refugees, and some of them will target the UK, Europol has warned.

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No Sanctuaries in “Sanctuary Cities”

In his recent NewsWithViews commentary, “Sanctuary Cities and the PATCO Strike Analogy” (21 November 2016), Jonathan Emord recommends that

[u]pon assuming office, President Trump should announce that Sanctuary Cities violate federal law and that any state official who impedes federal law enforcement officials endeavoring to enforce the nation’s immigration law will be arrested and prosecuted. * * * While it is beyond federal law to permit the arrest of state and local officials who enact sanctuary city laws and policies, it is not beyond federal law (indeed, it is entirely consistent with federal law and the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution) to arrest and prosecute any such official who actually physically obstructs ICE agents from investigating, arresting, and prosecuting illegal aliens.

One wonders, though, whether “actual[ ] physical[ ] obstruct[ion]” is the only basis on which rogue State and Local officials who devise and promote “sanctuary city laws and policies” can be prosecuted.

For example, Title 18, United States Code, Section 1324(a)(1) provides (in pertinent part) that

(A) Any person who-

[Comment: Trump should follow through on this…]

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Obama Administration Stiff-Arms Lawmakers Questioning Secret Refugee Deal

In an unprecedented move, the U.S. State Department has classified details on refugees to be resettled in America via a secret deal made with Australia. The bi-lateral agreement, which Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called a “one-off,” involves 2,465 people currently being held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru who will now be transferred onto U.S. soil.

“This is a backroom deal, wheeling and dealing with another country’s refugee problem,” Center for Immigration Studies fellow Don Barnett told FoxNews.com. “I don’t believe for a moment it’s a one-time deal. That’s for public consumption.”

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Stowaway Migrant Found Crushed Under Trucks in Austria

Two migrants who had apparently hidden on a train bringing trucks from Italy to Austria were found dead early on Saturday, either of cold or because they were crushed when the vehicles were unloaded, the police said.

A third migrant was seriously injured and taken to hospital, the police in the western province of Tyrol said, adding that the migrant’s nationalities were not known.

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Sweden to Become a Third World Country by 2030, According to UN

Sweden’s leftist establishment and media believe a cornerstone of their perfect society is multiculturalism: large scale immigration from some of the poorest, most backward nations on earth. Swedes who disagree with that plan risk being labeled racist, fascist, even Nazi.

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Universities Exploring ‘Sanctuary’ Status for Immigrants

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Universities and colleges in several states are considering labeling themselves “sanctuary campuses” amid fears from immigrant students and pressure from activists following the election of Donald Trump.

College administrators in New Mexico — the state with the highest percentage of Latino residents— are looking into proposals that would grant immigrant students living in the country illegally protections while they pursue their studies

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Columbia University’s Climate: A Visit to an Alternate Universe

The real craziness comes out at a global warming conference — featuring a journalism professor, a philosopher, and an actual real scientist…

The lesson I came away with is that there are many university types who firmly believe in global warming and are convinced that sinister forces are holding up action on preventing global warming. I don’t think it occurs to them that the scientists making the predictions are exaggerating the ability of computer models to predict the future climate, or that those scientists have greatly benefited from the global warming scare. Professors in non-science areas, like journalism or philosophy, are easy to fool with scientific-sounding predictions invoking computers.

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Indoctrinating the Young in Hate Factories

Our schools across the country have created and nurtured millions of godless, America-hating, angry, statist, whiny, cry babies and we will all be paying dearly for it, now and in the future.

In McAllen, Texas, teachers tried to force a teenager to sing the Mexican national anthem and recite the Mexican pledge of allegiance. She refused saying it was against her beliefs. She was subsequently thrown out of the class and given a failing grade for the day.

University of Hawaii professor, Huanani-Kay Trask has taught students “We need to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United States of America and everyone who supports it.”

University of Southern California professor, Darry Sragow, teaches hate in his Regulation of Elections and Political Finance class, telling them “Republicans are stupid, racist losers,” and that they are “angry old white people.”

University of Rhode Island history professor, Erik Loomis, tweeted, “I want Wayne LaPierre’s (NRA President) head on a stick.” He asked, “Can we define dues to the NRA as contributing to a terrorist organization?”

Scott Compton, an English teacher at Chapin High School, Chapin, SC, was put on administrative leave after he allegedly threw an American flag on the floor and stomped on it in front of his students. He chose to resign. He probably teaches at a college now.

A geography teacher at Lumberton High School in Texas encourages students to dress in Islamic clothing and actually instructed them to refer to the 9/11 hijackers as “freedom fighters.” They were also taught that the Holocaust was not genocide. John Valastro, the superintendent of the school district, told Fox News that the teacher did absolutely nothing wrong.

[Comment: This is what is meant by “one generation away from losing the Republic.” It is also the reason communists infiltrated America’s education system en masse (especially after WWII) — in order to indoctrinate the children with communist mush.]

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Left Launches ‘Anti-Gay’ Smear Against Trump Transition

After racism charge fails to take hold, liberals try new offensive against president-elect

(Lifezette) Liberals still distraught over the impending Trump presidency are trying a new tactic to defame the president-elect’s team and derail his transition process — hysterical cries of “homophobia.”

Having resigned themselves to the fact that slandering Trump associates such as Steve Bannon as white supremacists isn’t working, liberals are now trying stir up resistance by tarnishing members of the Trump team as anti-gay.

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13 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/3/2016

  1. “Keep in mind, Israelis captured the Temple Mount and all of Jerusalem in 1967 from the Jordanians who empowered the Waqf to administer affairs on the site. It was only a goodwill gesture by Israeli leadership that permitted to the Waqf to continue to play a role there, given the existence of the Dome of the Rock shrine and the al-Aqsa Mosque — ensuring continued access to Muslims.”

    The Israelis, attacked in a surprise attack by Arab nations in the “Six Day War” ended up with the unexpected prize of Jerusalem. But ferocious in war, the Israelis were magnanimous in victory, giving the Arabs and Jordanians a say in the administration of the Temple mount site which included the muslim mosque. But little by little the Arabs have tightened their hold to the exclusion of both Jews and Christians. This was in hind sight a mistake by Israel. One they probably now regret.

  2. The Israelis are far too magnanimous in victory! They gave up Gaza and that was immediately trashed and turned into a jihad launching site.

    We cannot indefinitely postpone a show down with Islam – and the sooner we confront them in all out war, the better. Dragging things out only makes the situation worse. Do we want Islam in the world? Yes or no? If no, then develop a strategy to eliminate it beginning with the meteorite in Mecca and every mosque in the West.

    Muslims are already mad as hornets, so the sooner they are dealt with, the sooner we can take back our civilization from their violence.

    • Islam is first, a supremacist political ideology and second, that encompasses both social and religious aspects. As such, it will prove to be as difficult to destroy as is Nazism and Communism – unless of course you wish to wipe out two billion humans in the process.

      In my opinion if the West can finally declare Islam a non-religion and a dangerous ideology – which it is – and every bit as dangerous as the other two fore-mentioned ideologies, then by law, and after ridding ourselves of our own Islamic problem, we could isolate all Muslim lands and let them sort out their own differences through natural attrition and violence as they have done ever since Islam was invented.

      The menace of Islam is not worth the cost of young men dying over, so think of all our young soldiers that could be saved by applying the above simple exercise.

      • Given their predilection for cosanguination and the resultant genetic defects that include stunted mental capacity I am not entirely convinced that the Ummah are members of the same species as right-thinking, freedom-loving people who just want to live in peace.

    • We defeat Islam when everyone in the World understands that Islam is FICTION and therefore FALSE. Here is the archeological evidence that proves, beyond any doubt, that Islam’s story about its creation is FALSE:

      “An Historical Critique of Islam’s Beginnings”
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9lIuUjPs0

      Every counter-jihadi should know the archeological evidence against Islam. Once we do, and we start propagating the TRUTH widely, then we win.

      We cannot win by pointing out Islam and Mohammed are evil. They are evil by our standards, but by Islam’s standards they are ‘good’ by definition.

      We can only win by pointing out Islam is FALSE. The jihadis fight because they believe Islam is true. Point out the truth that Islam is FICTION and is FALSE and they lose.

      Would you fight for a lie? very few would.

      THIS IS HOW WE WIN – IT IS THE ONLY WAY WE CAN WIN.

      Repeat after me, “Islam is FICTION and therefore is FALSE” ! do that every morning and evening, and let everyone you know the archeological evidence that shows Islam is untrue.

  3. DiMu
    I agree. However, we have to wait for the changing of the guard here (USA) before we can do anything. Obama is secretly in agreement with Muslim-hood and most of us know it. Trump will be something else entirely.

  4. Well in Austria (mostly women) voted to continue the cultural enrichment by groping raping islamists. I guess they made their choice! No complains after leaving the voting boots!

  5. “What happened in America could also happen in Italy,” said Giulia Grillo, a leader of the Five Star Movement in the lower house of Italy’s Parliament. “There is something that is happening in the world. It’s a reaction to globalisation. It’s a reaction to external political power that was not so visible in the past.”

    Grillo is right, can anyone now doubt a new wind is blowing through the democracies of the world? We are seeing the beginning of the end of the EU. The failed polices of the Social Democratic parties and the disasterous embrace of globalisation by those parties, has been rejected by the formerly silent majority. More governments are set to fall.

    • Yet he is belittled by the established status quo but still loved and rightly so by the Great British Public.

      He is dignified, forthright, never politically correct, but he speaks “human”which is why has become an icon to us Brits!

      Not lured by stupid offers to go on pathetic reality TV shows
      (Take note Ed Balls) and we all know he was the real driving power behind Brexit and not the reluctant David Cameron (who?)

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