Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/15/2017

President-elect Donald Trump may invite talk show hosts and bloggers to take part in press briefings as credentialed members of the media, according to sources in the Trump team. If I find out where to get the forms, I’ll fill them out, apply for credentials, and hotfoot it up to DC to ask The Donald a few pertinent questions.

In other news, according to the latest polls, Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) is on track to win the March parliamentary elections in the Netherlands.

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Financial Crisis
» Vatican Calls for Central World Bank to be Set up Across the Globe
 
USA
» Death Threats Force Opera Star Bocelli to Pull Out of Inauguration
» Fake News: Wash Post Changes Story on Trump ‘Firing’ D.C. Nat’l Guard General
» For $8,000 This Startup Will Fill Your Veins With the Blood of Young People
» Maryland School Employee Fired for Correcting Student’s Spelling
» Pardon Snowden Campaign Delivers Over One Million Signatures to Obama
» The ‘News’ Media as We Knew it is Finished
» The Trump Dossier Puts the Deep State in Deep Doo-Doo
» Trump May Invite Bloggers and Talk Show Hosts to Press Briefings
» U2 Delays New Album Release Due to the Election of Donald Trump Because the World is Now ‘In a Different Place’ Than When the Songs Were Written
» Watch: Ted Cruz Incinerates Corrupt Senate Democrats at Sessions Hearing
» Will the CIA Assassinate Trump? Ron Paul Warns of “More Powerful, Shadow Government”
 
Canada
» Trudeau’s Cheap Talk on Climate Change
 
Europe and the EU
» Catalan Separatists Launch New Independence Campaign
» Donald Trump Declares Brexit as ‘Great Thing’ And Pledges a Rapid Trade Agreement
» Facebook Launches Battle Against ‘Fake News’ In Germany
» Le Pen Follows Trump’s Lead on Social Media Bombardment
» UK: Charles, The Ladybird Eco-Warrior: Prince Writes a 52-Page Book About Global Warming
» UK: Theresa May Given One-Month Deadline to End Secrecy on Her Brexit Strategy
» Will Geert Wilders Win the Dutch Election? Latest Polls for the Netherlands Election 2017
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» The World’s Obsessive Hostility Towards the Jews
 
Middle East
» Congresswoman Says US Government is Arming ISIS, Introduces Bill to Stop it
» Enslaved, Tortured, And Sacrificed: Islam’s Child Soldiers
 
Caucasus
» Dangerous Terrorist From Group With ISIS Links Detained in Chechnya — Kadyrov
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Goblin Attacks Sweep Zimbabwe
 
Immigration
» 25,800 “Children” Invaded Italy
» Bodies of Five People Found Off Spain’s Southern Coast
» Crisis Warnings Sound as EU Gears up for New Migrant Wave
» EU Ships 10,000 Invaders Northwest
» George Soros: The Man Behind the Mayhem
» Germany: Migrant Jailed After Blaming ‘High Sex Drive’ For Rape of Girl in Classroom
» Greek Minister: Invaders Not “Refugees”
» Heroin Use Rampant Among Sweden Child Refugees: Addiction Centre
» Hungary Orders “Asylum Seekers” Locked Up
» Pakistan: Two-Faced Refugee Deportation Policy
 
Culture Wars
» Proposed Arizona Law Would Ban College Classes About White Privilege
 

Vatican Calls for Central World Bank to be Set up Across the Globe

The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank’ to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing with crises.

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

Death Threats Force Opera Star Bocelli to Pull Out of Inauguration

“Andrea is very sad to be missing the chance to sing at such a huge global event but he has been advised it is simply not worth the risk…” according to a source close to blind opera singer Bocelli who had been determined to ‘press ahead’ and sing at Donald Trump’s inauguration…

As The Daily Mail reports, when blind tenor Bocelli announced he would not sing at this Friday’s celebration, it was widely reported it was because fans had said they would boycott his concerts and records.

But a source said the 58-year-old had been determined to ‘press ahead’ and sing but had pulled out on the advice of his security team after receiving threats to his life.

The revelation came as another singer — Broadway legend Jennifer Holliday — last night pulled out of the President-elect’s festivities after being threatened and branded an ‘Uncle Tom’.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Fake News: Wash Post Changes Story on Trump ‘Firing’ D.C. Nat’l Guard General

The Washington Post wrote on Friday that President-elect Donald J. Trump “fired” the commanding General of the D.C. National Guard who is heading up the military presence during the coming inaugural event — in the middle of the oath of office ceremony. Yet a second story on Saturday did not contain the claim.

The Post’s original report set off a wave of stories across the world, causing raised eyebrows over Trump’s “extremely unusual” decision to fire a general in the middle of the presidential oath of office ceremony, especially during these dangerous times.

The paper reported that Major General Errol R. Schwartz, who has commanded the D.C. National Guard since his appointment to the position by George W. Bush, was told to vacate his office the moment Trump says his “I dos” to the oath of office. The decision was presented to readers as unfathomable, if not dangerous, by a president who doesn’t know what he is doing.

In an interview, General Schwartz told the paper that his firing was strange. “The timing is extremely unusual,” the general said.

“My troops will be on the street,” Schwartz continued. “I’ll see them off, but I won’t be able to welcome them back to the armory.” The general added he would “never plan to leave a mission in the middle of a battle.”

The paper went on to quote Democrat D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson as saying, “It doesn’t make sense to can the general in the middle of an active deployment.”

The paper concluded its speculation, saying, “Schwartz said that he has not been told why he was asked to step down. ‘I’m a soldier,’ he said, noting that he was following orders and has no regrets. ‘I’m a presidential appointee, therefore the president has the power to remove me.’“

An earlier version of the story can still be seen at Stars And Stripes.

The fact is, of course, that the commander of the D.C. National Guard serves at the pleasure of the president and is not put in place by the Pentagon or any of the federal branches of the military.

But thePost’s early reporting on the “firing” of General Schwartz contains no statements from the Trump transition office and also leaves out key points such as the fact that the general of the D.C. National Guard traditionally supplies his letter of resignation to every new president who is about to take office.

Subsequent to the publishing of the paper’s story making Trump appear incompetent, news emerged that the incoming Trump administration offered to let General Schwartz keep his position through inauguration day, but it was the general himself who refused the offer, preferring instead to quit at 12 noon on January 20, the hour Trump takes his oath of office.

The general then ran straight to the media to “argue his case in the press,” as a recent Fox News report noted…

           — Hat tip: WRSA [Return to headlines]
 

For $8,000 This Startup Will Fill Your Veins With the Blood of Young People

Just off a winding highway along the Pacific coast in Monterey, California, is a private clinic where people can pay $8,000 to have their veins pumped with blood plasma from teenagers and young adults.

Jesse Karmazin is the entrepreneur who made the practice possible, by launching a clinical trial on the potential of “young blood” through his startup Ambrosia. He says that within a month, most participants “see improvements” from the one-time infusion of a two-liter bagful of plasma, which is blood with the blood cells removed.

[Comment: Repulsive toads like George Soros and David Rockefeller are probably frequent users of this procedure.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Maryland School Employee Fired for Correcting Student’s Spelling

Katie Nash, the media services coordinator with the Frederick County Public School System, was let go after she corrected a youngster on social media, after he spelled tomorrow wrong.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pardon Snowden Campaign Delivers Over One Million Signatures to Obama

With less than a week left of Obama’s presidency, a coalition of organizations has collected more than a million signatures on a petition urging Obama to issue a full pardon to Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower who revealed the size and scope of the surveillance conducted by the NSA and other federal agencies. Snowden (shown) fled the country and has lived in exile in Russia since May of 2013. If pardoned, he could return to American soil a hero to many.

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

The ‘News’ Media as We Knew it is Finished

I don’t want to shock anyone, even those who already know there is something quite awry in the contemporary news media, but I have come to realize that it is not merely a temporary condition that will soon pass away, and that the problem cannot be simply repaired.

The news media, as we have known it in the three quarters of a century since World War II, is disappearing much faster than we realize. It might soon be extinct.

I am being very specific in speaking about the “news” media. Communications, in some older and innovative forms, will continue, but what we have understood to be “the news” will come to us in other ways, perhaps primarily as data and notifications. Advertising, promotions, storytelling,editorial writing, gossip, etc., will still find their way to the citizenry in a variety of formats, many of which we know today and some of which are being now invented.

I am talking only about “hard” news — that is, the communication of events, facts and other relatively objectifiable information.

The U.S. presidential campaign of 2016 was not a sudden news reporting phenomenon of excessive bias, but it was the apotheosis of the breakdown of journalistic fairness and credibility that had been gaining acceleration in recent years. It was inevitable that the ideological polarity so evident today was a long time coming — not only in journalism, but in virtually every aspect of U.S. political life.

[Comment: Trust is hard won and easily lost. Mainstream media have worked hard for decades to lie ot the public who now will never believe mainstream media.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Trump Dossier Puts the Deep State in Deep Doo-Doo

Mr. Garfinkle of Garfinkle’s New Method Hebrew School in Milwaukee used to frequently echo King Solomon’s admonition; “There’s nothing new under the sun.” I was reminded of that this week when the rapidly unfolding “scandal” of Trump’s purported dealings with Russia hit the news. It has more than a few similarities with the Dan Rather faked-up story of GW Bush’s National Guard service where an anonymous, never-found source supposedly gave Bill Burkett a demonstrably fake report and Dan Rather ran with it. This time a Bush (Jeb) is involved but as an instigator of the story, not a victim. John McCain acts as the intermediary passing the junk on to the Intelligence Community, which makes sure it is published.

If you’re confused about it, let me put it in the context of the most reliable information I’ve been able to put together, noting that I think the story is likely to become even more clear over the next few days. As you will see, the dossier is so ridiculous, if anyone in the Intelligence Community fell for it, he’s too stupid to allow in place, and if no one did but they still played a role in publicizing it, everyone involved needs to be fired

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump May Invite Bloggers and Talk Show Hosts to Press Briefings

Talk radio hosts and bloggers could be invited to official White House press briefings once the Trump administration takes office, under a highly irregular proposal being floated that may also remove briefings from the West Wing.

[Comment: Awesome idea! This move would further reduce the influence of the main stream media.]

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

U2 Delays New Album Release Due to the Election of Donald Trump Because the World is Now ‘In a Different Place’ Than When the Songs Were Written

U2 had delayed the release of its new album because of the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.

David Evans, also known as guitarist The Edge, told Rolling Stone in an interview published Monday that the band’s new album, ‘Songs Of Experience’, was almost ready to be released when the Republican candidate pulled off a shock victory in November — causing the Irish rock band to reconsider.

‘It’s like a pendulum has suddenly just taken a huge swing in the other direction,’ The Edge said. So the band resolved to put the album ‘on ice’ for a little while in order to take a second look at the songs and check that they send the right message.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Watch: Ted Cruz Incinerates Corrupt Senate Democrats at Sessions Hearing

Texas senator reduces slanderous, amoral colleagues to ash

Democrat senators were taken behind the woodshed and thrashed without remorse by expert litigator, Ted Cruz, at Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing on Tuesday.

After Democrats attempted to smear and degrade Sessions’ character with their worn out, baseless accusations of racism and xenophobia, debate champion Cruz stepped up to the plate to remind the world of some of the most egregious Constitutional and ethical violations the Obama administration has committed, with the full compliance of Senate Dems.

“You know, this has been an interesting day at this hearing, listening to Democratic senator after Democratic senator give speeches and praise of the rule of law… because for eight years, it’s been absent,” Cruz began. “For eight years, we’ve seen the Department of Justice consistently disregarding the rule of law.”

He then launched into a itemized short list of some of the worst trespasses perpetrated against the United States and its citizens by Obama and his gang of co-conspirators.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Will the CIA Assassinate Trump? Ron Paul Warns of “More Powerful, Shadow Government”

It isn’t just that Donald Trump routinely thumbs his nose at the establishment, insults media figures he sees as unfair and bucks conventional wisdom.

It is that President-elect Trump is defying the will of the deep state, military industrial complex base of ultimate power in the United States. That is why he is treading dangerous waters, and risks the fate of JFK…

And to the extent that President Kennedy consciously stood up to the system, he paid the price for his attempt at independent wielding of power from the Oval Office.

It is a shuddering thought. A sharp lesson in history that must not be misinterpreted.

The implications for Trump are quite clear. If his refusal to take intelligence briefings, or follow CIA advice is serious, then serious consequences will follow. If Trump is serious about peace with Putin when they insist on war, there will be a problem.

There are several powers behind the throne that have wanted to ensure that presidents don’t let the power go to their head, or try to change course from the carefully arranged crisis-reaction-solution paradigm.

[Comment: Faction within CIA and FBI et al that follow directives of globalist masters/banksters.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trudeau’s Cheap Talk on Climate Change

If you want to understand the impact of climate change polices on ordinary Canadians and how detached our political leaders are from what they are doing by imposing them, think of this every time they say “carbon pricing.”

Think of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flying in on the Aga Khan’s helicopter to the billionaire’s private island in the Bahamas, part of his greenhouse-gas spewing winter holiday with his family and Liberal friends.

Then think of him returning to Canada to hear a tearful mother and grandmother on his “meet the people” damage control tour in Peterborough Friday tell him her skyrocketing electricity and fuel bills have driven her into energy poverty.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Catalan Separatists Launch New Independence Campaign

Barcelona (AFP) — Eight months before a controversial — and still theoretical — planned independence referendum, Catalan separatists launched a new seduction campaign Sunday to woo voters.

Spain’s central government has angrily protested against Catalan President Carles Puigdemont’s planned vote in September, claiming it would be illegal.

But nonetheless, the battle is on for minds rather than hearts, with the region’s main independence association, the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), going after those hardest to convince.

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

Donald Trump Declares Brexit as ‘Great Thing’ And Pledges a Rapid Trade Agreement

Donald Trump last night delivered a huge boost to Britain by promising a trade deal within weeks of taking office to help make Brexit a ‘great thing’.

The President-elect spoke in glowing terms of his ‘love’ for the UK and revealed he was inviting Theresa May to visit him ‘right after’ he gets into the White House.

He said that he wants a trade agreement between the two countries secured ‘very quickly’ — making a mockery of President Obama’s threat that, if the country voted for Brexit, we would be at the ‘back of the queue’.

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

Facebook Launches Battle Against ‘Fake News’ In Germany

Social media giant Facebook announced on Sunday that it would introduce new measures to combat fake news in Germany, as Europe’s largest economy and most populous nation enters an election year.

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

Le Pen Follows Trump’s Lead on Social Media Bombardment

Paris (AFP) — Domination of social media was a key weapon in Donald Trump’s rise to the US presidency, and now France’s far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, is looking to follow suit, analysts say.

Le Pen has more than a million followers on both Twitter and Facebook, giving her a bigger social media platform than any other candidate for the French presidency.

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

UK: Charles, The Ladybird Eco-Warrior: Prince Writes a 52-Page Book About Global Warming

Details of its content have not been revealed but The Mail on Sunday understands that the slim, hardback volume claims there is overwhelming scientific evidence that largely man-made global warming causes catastrophic events, including the recent flooding in parts of Britain and rising global temperatures.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Theresa May Given One-Month Deadline to End Secrecy on Her Brexit Strategy

Theresa May has been given a one-month deadline to finally end the secrecy surrounding her Brexit strategy, a hard-hitting report by MPs revealed today.

Crucial issues including membership of the EU’s single market and customs union — and plans for a “transitional deal” — must be revealed by the middle of February, they say.

The Prime Minister is also told to guarantee her promised Brexit plan is a fully fleshed-out White Paper, rather than a rumoured brief note.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Will Geert Wilders Win the Dutch Election? Latest Polls for the Netherlands Election 2017

GEERT Wilders is riding a growing wave of populism and appears on track to win the Dutch election, according to the latest polls.

The anti-Islam leader of the Dutch far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is on course to win the most seats at the general election in March.

His election would be the latest blow for Europe’s liberal order in the wake of the Donald Trump’s victory and the Brexit vote.

Mr Wilders has pledged to close the Netherlands’ borders, shut down mosques and leave the euro and EU if he gets into power.

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

The World’s Obsessive Hostility Towards the Jews

A Palestinian state is in contention only because it satisfies the world’s anti-Semitic bloodlust. The nations know well that a Palestinian Arab state does not entail a peaceful political or diplomatic solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

[…]

Syria is dying, Islamists are murdering European civilians, ISIS and affiliated groups are on the rampage in the Middle East, food and water are in short supply in Africa. And so it is remarkable that the nations of the world have gathered against tiny Israel in order to dispossess Jews of what little land they have in order to create a twenty-third Arab state called Palestine.

Indeed, it is all the more remarkable when one considers the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have no historical, cultural or legal rights to the land of Israel.

That the Palestinian Arabs are endowed with so much international and economic patronage by the United Nations, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the Obama White House is testament to the world’s perpetual hatred towards the Jews. How did the Palestinians and their international backers manage to achieve such a feat? Why does the world revolve around the Palestinians?

There are several answers to this. One is the Palestinians’ cynical calculus of terror. They have learned that violence is rewarded by the international community. Palestinians do not want a peaceful political solution, not when terrorism reaps dividends. That’s why Yasser Arafat instigated the second intifada. He did it to mask his rejection of the Camp David deal in 2000. And what happened? The world blamed Israel for the “occupation,” which garnered further sympathy for the Palestinians.

Indeed, ethnic cleansing of the Jews is the ultimate aim of the Palestinians. A Palestinian state does not entail a peaceful political or diplomatic solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict…

           — Hat tip: NC [Return to headlines]
 

Congresswoman Says US Government is Arming ISIS, Introduces Bill to Stop it

Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has broken free of the corporate media’s narrative by accusing the United States of funding and arming terror groups al-Qaeda and ISIS.

“If you or I gave money, weapons or support to al-Qaeda or ISIS, we would be thrown in jail,” Gabbard tweeted on Saturday.

Most importantly, however, is her introduction of the “Stop Arming Terrorists Act,” which she presented last Thursday. In her presentation of the bill, Gabbard cited prominent publications such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journalto show that the rebels the U.S. is supporting in Syria are aligned with al-Nusra (which is essentially al-Qaeda in Syria).

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Enslaved, Tortured, And Sacrificed: Islam’s Child Soldiers

[Warning: Disturbing Content.]

Barbaric practices victimizing children are occurring even in so-called “moderate” Muslim nations.

Past and present, Muslim militants continue relying on the same inhumane tactics to terrorize “infidels.” The devastating effects of one of these occurred last August in Turkey: a child “recruited” by the Islamic State blew himself up in a suicide attack that left at least 51 people — mostly fellow children — dead.

This child was one of countless nameless, faceless children seized, beaten, and indoctrinated in Islam, until they become willing “martyrs” and executioners. Known as the “cubs of the caliphate,” they are graduates from “schools [established by ISIS] to prepare hundreds of children and teenagers to conduct suicide attacks.” The Islamic State is fond of showcasing these abducted children turned criminals.

A few days ago, ISIS posted a video of its “cubs,” most of whom appear to be about ten years of age, walking around an abandoned amusement park, where they savagely execute hostages tied to rides. One child, reportedly only four years old, shoots five rounds into a tied up victim while screaming, “Allahu Akbar!” Another little boy slits the throat of his victim next to a kiddie train before planting the knife in his back. Last November, ISIS posted another video of four children — one Russian, one Uzbek, and two Iraqis, aged between 10 and 14 — executing civilians.

One Christian clergyman explained the Islamic State’s strategy: “They dislocate the families, they take the newborn babies, and they put them in Islamist families,” where they are indoctrinated in jihad, or what is called in the West “terrorist activities.”

Children who managed to escape ISIS say they were repeatedly beaten and fed “endless propaganda,” including that they must kill their non-Muslim parents: “We weren’t allowed to cry but I would think about my mother, think about her worrying about me and I’d try and cry quietly,” one little boy said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Dangerous Terrorist From Group With ISIS Links Detained in Chechnya — Kadyrov

An extremely dangerous terrorist from a group linked to Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has been arrested in Chechnya, the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has posted on Instagram, adding that more than 50 members of the group have been detained so far.

“On Saturday, Imran Datsayev, a highly dangerous terrorist, was detained. He had managed to escape during a special operation in the village of Geldagan earlier,” Kadyrov wrote on Sunday.

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

Goblin Attacks Sweep Zimbabwe

Two Zimbabweans who stabbed their wives to death have been acquitted by courts in that country within the last month after successfully persuading judges that they thought their wives were witchcraft-created goblins.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

25,800 “Children” Invaded Italy

At least 25,800 nonwhite invaders pretending to be refugees and claiming to be “unaccompanied children” landed in Italy by sea in 2016-with the majority coming from Eritrea, Egypt, the Gambia, and Nigeria.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bodies of Five People Found Off Spain’s Southern Coast

Eight other people died off the coast of Libya after their boat capsized on Saturday

Five people have been found dead off the southern Spanish coast this weekend, a Spanish police spokeswoman said on Sunday, after at least eight others were discovered off the coast of Libya on Saturday.

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

Crisis Warnings Sound as EU Gears up for New Migrant Wave

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Tens of thousands of people seeking better lives are expected to trek across deserts and board unseaworthy boats in war-torn Libya this year in a desperate effort to reach European shores by way of Italy.

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

EU Ships 10,000 Invaders Northwest

The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) has announced that over 10,000 invaders who landed in Greece and Italy have been airlifted to other European Union (EU) member states through the EU “relocation program” agreed to by the European Commission.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

George Soros: The Man Behind the Mayhem

George Soros lost a billion dollars because his bets against a Trump victory crashed on his head. Soros recently fell into a public tirade and wrote that Trump is a Nazi — a would-be dictator who threatens the glorious hope of the new world order. (The very fact that Soros feels compelled to admit that Trump now “threatens the new world order” makes me feel good to know that even the new world order’s strongest backers feel his hot breath on their necks. We can only hope Soros is right.)

Soros is concerned that rejection of Hillary means the dawning of democracy in the world is being extinguished. Those words tell me Soros will do all he can to rile people against the new US leader who extinguished Hillary’s flame, democratically elected as he was. Here again, Soros is a contradiction, for he is always talking about how important democracy is; but I hope to sort that out in this article, too.

Soros is afraid that America will now be ““unable to protect and promote democracy in the rest of the world.” If he thinks Hillary would have done that, he must mean that, under Trump, we will now no longer carry out as many wars and coups as the US staged under Hillary’s state department in order to assure democracy. (Again, I would find that refreshing; but it is apparently alarming to Soros who, himself, was an advocate of the coup in Ukraine and of Hillary’s war in Syria. See my earlier published State Department documents.)

Soros laments that his new world order is disordering itself, “first from Brexit, then from the election of Trump in the US, and on December 4 from Italian voters’ rejection, by a wide margin, of constitutional reforms;” but everyone knows these movements are primarily being fueled by the EU’s insane immigration policies. Even in the US, immigration was a main issue. Maybe liberals love these immigration policies, but clearly there are too many people who don’t, and when you try to force feed people on each other, they’re going to throw up on you…

Even Steve Kroft on Sixty Minutes struggled almost twenty years ago to understand the Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of George Soros who openly describes his financial endeavors as being done without any regard to morality or social consequences but who, outside of his business life, “tries to be moral” and is very socially involved. Here is the actual interview, not the popular fake-news one plastered on conservative sites all over the internet (which attempts to make Soros look even worse than he naturally does by editing together statements that didn’t happen in the same context and by removing his qualifying statements):

Even in this unmanipulated version of the interview, Soros makes the peculiar statement that it was “not at all” difficult for him to travel with his Nazi protector and watch the man confiscate the property of his fellow Jews. It didn’t trouble him in the least because he wasn’t the one doing it.

While Soros was not the one actually seizing the property of his fellow people, as the fake news versions make it sound, I have to think most people with a conscience would experience duress just watching what was happening to their own people. That Soros says it wasn’t the least bit difficult indicates some pathology had already set in … as though he was numb to what was happening or was able to completely dissociate himself from what his Nazi protector was doing.

The particularly telling part is when he immediately goes on with a smile to equate that experience of watching the confiscation of Jewish property to being just like his work in financial markets where, if he wasn’t the one causing currencies to break down with his own speculation, someone else would be causing the chaos anyway, so what difference does it make?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: Migrant Jailed After Blaming ‘High Sex Drive’ For Rape of Girl in Classroom

A MIGRANT has been jailed after blaming his “high sex drive” for raping a girl in a German classroom.

The 24-year-old Ghanian has been jailed for three years and two months for the horrific assault last August.

He had stumbled across his victim in an empty school building in the town of Duisburg, where she was talking to friends.

One friend escaped out of a window before the man grabbed the girl, forcibly undressed her and then raped her.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Greek Minister: Invaders Not “Refugees”

The Greek Minister for Migration, Yannis Mouzalas, has finally admitted in public that the vast majority of Third World invaders pouring into Europe via his country are not refugees, but “economic migrants.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Heroin Use Rampant Among Sweden Child Refugees: Addiction Centre

Heroin use is rampant amongst the unaccompanied child refugees who have come to Sweden over the past two years, the head doctor at Stockholm’s leading youth addiction centre has said.

“They aren’t taking the classic Swedish path of drug abuse where you start by smoking cannabis and then gradually move on through to the heavier drugs,” Dr Mathias Sjöberg, head doctor at Maria Ungdom, told Sweden’s TT newswire. “Instead they seem to jump all the steps and start at once with severe drug abuse, most often with brown rock heroin.”

Sjöberg claimed that the centre began treating more and more young child refugees, most of them from Afghanistan, in the second half of 2015, with the number checking into the centre rising throughout 2016.

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

Hungary Orders “Asylum Seekers” Locked Up

Third World invaders pretending to be asylum seekers in Hungary will from now on be locked up and not allowed to roam free while their applications are processed.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pakistan: Two-Faced Refugee Deportation Policy

The Pakistani government has accepted back at least 266,412 of its nationals deported home from other nonwhite nations-but refuses to take back those being deported from Europe, it has emerged…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Proposed Arizona Law Would Ban College Classes About White Privilege

Saying students are being taught hatred at public expenses, a Republican lawmaker from Flagstaff is proposing new limits on what and how schools, colleges and universities can teach.

Rep. Bob Thorpe said a 2010 law that targeted “ethnic studies” courses at some public schools, including those at Tucson Unified School District, does not go far enough with its prohibition against teaching anything that promotes resentment toward another race. He wants to expand that list to include gender, religion, political affiliation and social class.

And Thorpe wants a ban on not just classes but any events or activities that “negatively target specific nationalities or countries.”

But it does not stop there.

HB 2120 would extend the new restrictions to community colleges and universities, not just in terms of what’s taught in the classroom but also any event or activity. And it gives the attorney general the unilateral power to withhold up to 10 percent of state aid if he or she determines a college or university is in violation.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

14 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/15/2017

  1. “So the band resolved to put the album ‘on ice’ for a little while in order to take a second look at the songs and check that they send the right message.”

    Ego alert! Dear old Edge and Bono still actually believe people listen to their music for guidance.

  2. “President-elect Donald Trump may invite talk show hosts and bloggers to take part in press briefings as credentialed members of the media, according to sources in the Trump team.”

    If this is not fake then it tells me that The Donald’s confidential polling research has told him that the MSM has already been completely by-passed.

    Sorry MSM, you’ve [blown] it.

  3. >> Barbaric practices victimizing children are occurring even in so-called “moderate” Muslim nations.

    The medieval (probably ancient) practice of devshirme [click on link] has not gone away. It was implemented by the Ottoman Turks as well as the Arab Mamluks, and from time to time there are calls in Western democracies to bring back the selective slavery known as conscription.

    These kids are but the latest manifestation of the Yeni Cheri (new soldiers) that came be known as the “Janissaries”. Old becomes new again.

    • Oddly, only a century after the Ottomans’ defeat at the gates of Vienna (where have I seen that phrase?), Mozart (among others) was using “Janissary” music, not only in such an obvious place as his opera “The Abduction from the Seraglio”, but the final movements of his Fifth Violin Concerto and 11th Piano Sonata. Maybe the danger seemed sufficiently distant.

  4. >> polices on ordinary Canadians and how detached our political leaders are from what they are doing . . . Prime Minister Justin Trudeau . . . returning to Canada to hear a tearful mother and grandmother on his “meet the people”

    This arch-narcissist is on a series of tours to RE-connect with ordinary Canadians. When has this camera-hog ever been connected to ordinary Canadians? He’s lived in a self-admiration silo of rarefied air all his life; inheriting his enormous ego from his conceited, philandering father . . . but his intellect – or lack of it – from his toking, partying, rock-groupie mother. To be fair, he does have nice hair and pecs . . . which is why a great majority of women voted for him. It’s good to see them so tearful . . . plucks at the heartstrings. Of course, I have no heart. 😉 I live in Alberta.

    • I lived there for 26 Years, loathed his arrogant father, and now the brainless son; you’ve described him pretty well.
      Trudeau has no connection whatsoever to the middle/lower classes he claims to represent, and Canadians voted in this meathead to spar with Putin and the Chinese? OMG!!

      Thankfully Americans seem to have woken up, though….well, the Republicans anyway.

  5. Ted Cruz – very impressive on Session’s defence and the Democrat’s lack of constitutional adherence and outright criminality.

    On Soros: He is a prime example of all that is evil in this world.

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