Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/6/2017

Norway is considering instituting 24-hour surveillance of migrants at asylum centers, after more than 5,000 of them disappeared last year. Of those who vanished, almost half are still unaccounted for.

In other news, a judge denied bail to the four young African-Americans who held a mentally-challenged white man hostage and tortured him while live-streaming his ordeal on Facebook.

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Financial Crisis
» Bigger Crash Coming: “Scale of the Final Stage of Collapse Will be Truly Unprecedented”
» Italy’s 5-Star to Appeal to European Court Over Lost Savings
» Moody’s Places U.K. And Italy on Negative Outlook
 
USA
» Another Look at Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s Death
» At Least 5 Dead, 8 Hospitalized After Shooting at Ft. Lauderdale Airport
» Audit the Fed Re-Introduced, With Best Prospects Ever
» Bill to Get U.S. Out of UN Introduced in New Congress
» Don’t Make Yourself a Target for Predators — Be Ready — Be Aware
» Ft. Lauderdale Shooter to FBI: I Was Forced to Fight for ISIS
» Guantanamo Detainees to be Freed by Obama Include Some Who Have Threatened to Behead Americans
» Gulftainer Scandal Connects Obama, the Clintons and the Media
» Gunman in Custody After Killing Five and Injuring Six at Florida’s Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport
» Judge Denies Bail for 4 Chicago Facebook Live Torture Suspects
» Obama’s Legacy: New Jobs Went to Janitors, Bartenders and Nurses
» Obama: His Legacy of Damage Done to America
» Obama’s Indifference to White “Deaths of Despair”
» Police: Suspected Gunman Got Into an Argument During Flight
 
Canada
» Ontario Liberals Are California Scheming
 
Europe and the EU
» Austrian FM Pushes for Islamic Headscarf Ban for All Public Servants
» Delingpole: Green Energy is a Charter for Crooks and Liars. The Scam Must End Now
» European Union — Research Programme to Probe EU ‘Legitimacy’ After Brexit
» Far-Right Leader Le Pen Says Trump and Putin’s Policies ‘Good’ For France
» France Secretly Launches Fightback Against ISIS as President Hollande ‘Orders Deaths of 40 Jihadists’
» Putin Set to Visit Orbán in Budapest on Feb. 2
» Radicalisation on the Rise in Italy
» US, France and Russia Should Form ‘Alliance’ Says Marine Le Pen
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Caroline Glick: The IDF’s New Social Contract
 
Middle East
» Scots Mother in Bahrain Jail Ordeal After Adultery Claim
 
Russia
» Political Insanity: Outgoing President Obama’s “Operation Atlantic Resolve” Against Russia: US Sends 3,600 Tanks Against Russia — Massive NATO Deployment Underway
 
South Asia
» Bangladesh Police Kill ‘Mastermind’ Behind Holey Artisan Bakery Siege
 
Immigration
» 181,000 Invaders Land in Italy
» Blow to Schengen as Austria Refuses to Re-Open German Border
» Germany: 3,000 Sex Attack Victims in 2016
» Italy Boat Migrant Numbers Surge 20% in 2016
» Journalist Investigating Rape Epidemic in Sweden Beaten by Migrants Speaking Arabic
» Majority of Poles Do Not Want Middle Eastern Migrants in Poland
» Migrant Arrival in Europe Plunged in 2016 as Route Via Greece Blocked
» Norway Considering 24-Hour Surveillance of Migrants as Thousands Vanish Before Deportation
» Schengen is Over: Left-Wing French Presidential Candidate Vows to Slam Shut Borders
» Shut Down America’s Refugee Programs Before They Turn us Into Germany
» UK: ‘They Don’t Want to Integrate’ Kay Burley & Guest in Feisty Immigration Tirade on Sky News
» When Will it End? Rapes and Violence Continue in Germany in First Week of 2017
 
General
» ‘Governments Loathe Transparency, Can Do Wicked Things’ — Assange
» Julian Assange: Governments Loathe Transparency Because it Makes Them Work Harder
» Suicide Terrorism Across the Globe Hits Record High
 

Bigger Crash Coming: “Scale of the Final Stage of Collapse Will be Truly Unprecedented”

Editor’s Comment: The system is taking advantage of the public’s naivety, and its false hope in the latest stock bubbles. The truth is that the underlying factors are tipping towards disaster; the real economy is grinding to a halt, and no amount of good news about returning jobs and production can turn that around overnight.

Obama’s administration left us with a huge bill due, and the banksters-that-be have poised the next administration for the collapse. Those who follow economic news may know of the warnings, but much of the public has no idea about what is coming. Take heed, and get ready. The happy times may not last…

The False Economic Recovery Narrative Will Die In 2017

by Brandon Smith

Yes, the narrative of the “new normal” has been around for so long now that many people have simply grown used to it. The assumption is that the fiscal “new normal” has become the fiscal “normal,” and though the fundamentals continue to strain under the weight of poor global demand and historic debt levitated by extraneous fiat stimulus, the masses feel far less fear than is warranted. Hey, why should they? We’ve managed around eight years skating on thin ice, why shouldn’t we expect eight more years of the same?

The banking elites have done the job they set out to do, which was to drive the economy to the very edge of the financial cliff, and then keep it suspended there until the general public became comfortable living next door to the abyss.

Why do this? Well, the greater dynamic at play here is something the average person will not understand or refuses to examine — economics today is about mass psychology. The economy is a tool, or a weapon, by which international financiers can influence the public mind and the emotions of the mob. In order to grasp the mechanics of economics it is not enough to deal in statistics and trade principles; one must also grasp human behavior and how it is manipulated. One must acknowledge that in economics we witness the transmutation of societies by word and by force, by chaos and by order. Economics is alchemy.

The globalists (in their twisted view) seek to change lead into gold, and just as in alchemy, these elements are a metaphor for psychological evolution. For the globalists, social engineering is a form of witchcraft; they see it as creation, or a grand form of architecture.

But it is not creation. The globalists are incapable of such art because true art requires wisdom and empathy. All they know is how to deconstruct existing systems generated by nature and free men and rearrange the shattered pieces into something more oppressive and ultimately less interesting than what existed before. Give the internationalists a Mona Lisa and they will shred it, reconstitute it and regurgitate a paint by numbers coloring book.

The globalists only know how to turn gold into lead.

If you do not understand the reality of globalist influence in markets and the nature of economics as a weapon; if you actually believe that the economy operates purely on some kind of free-roaming free market principles, then you will never be able to wrap your head around the otherwise absurd behavior of our financial structure.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Italy’s 5-Star to Appeal to European Court Over Lost Savings

ROME: Italy’s populist 5-Star Movement is appealing to Europe’s highest court to obtain compensation for thousands of people whose savings were all but erased by bailouts at two regional banks.

Italy’s largest opposition party, 5-Star has lambasted the government’s handling of a string of bank crises triggered by years of economic stagnation, and accused it of making the people pay for bankers’ mistakes.

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

Moody’s Places U.K. And Italy on Negative Outlook

Moody’s is about to place Britain and Italy on a negative credit rating outlook amidst a sharp rise in political risk globally, Reuters reported on Thursday.

Political insecurity puts one in four rated sovereigns in a negative outlook, the highest since the peak of the euro crisis, according to Moody’s managing director Alastair Wilson.

[Comment: These credit rating agencies are bunch of hacks. The ratings agencies did a horrendous job evaluating mortgage-tied securities before the financial crisis of 2008 hit. ]

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

Another Look at Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s Death

I’m taking another look because I have a new statement about a related case: Melaney Parker, a woman found dead on the railroad tracks in Marfa, Texas, in 2013, after a train hit her.

The same judge who inexplicably decided Scalia needed no autopsy, after he died in Texas, in 2016, came to the same conclusion in the Melaney Parker case.

That Texas judge is Cinderela Guevara.

Heavy.com (Feb 2016) summarizes the questions surrounding the 2013 death of Melaney Parker and Guevara’s role:

“Liz Parker, Melaney’s mom, questioned how Guevara handled the investigation of her daughter’s death, The Daily Kos reported. Melaney was hit by a Union Pacific Railroad train and, Liz wrote, a Union Pacific representative told her that it appeared that her body had been placed on the tracks while she was unconscious. Liz asked the Justice of the Peace and the Sheriff to open the case as a homicide investigation, but they would not. Guevara, who was a Justice of the Peace at the time, did not order a rape kit or an autopsy, Liz wrote, because a doctor at the scene said the cause of death was obvious.”

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

At Least 5 Dead, 8 Hospitalized After Shooting at Ft. Lauderdale Airport

The suspect in the first shooting was identified as Esteban Santiago, Fla. Sen. Bill Nelson told reporters. He said Santiago was carrying a military ID, but did not elaborate.

Eight people were rushed to hospitals, the Broward County Sheriff said. The city’s mayor said there was only one shooter involved in the first incident.

“It was very surreal,” John Schlicher, a witness, told Fox News. “He did not say a word.” He described the shooter as a slender man with dark hair, likely in his 30s, wearing a Star Wars T-shirt.

           — Hat tip: Vlad Tepes [Return to headlines]
 

Audit the Fed Re-Introduced, With Best Prospects Ever

Facing its best chance of passage ever under the new GOP-controlled Congress and the incoming Trump administration, wildly popular legislation to open up the Federal Reserve’s books, known as “Audit the Fed,” was just re-introduced in the 115th Congress. The bill, sponsored by dozens of lawmakers in the House and the Senate the day it was re-introduced, would force the obsessively secretive and increasingly controversial central bank to submit to a full government audit. But the Fed and its apologists do not plan to allow a real audit without a tough fight.

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

Bill to Get U.S. Out of UN Introduced in New Congress

Amid growing outrage on both sides of the aisle surrounding the United Nations, legislation to get the U.S. government out of the UN and evict the scandal-plagued global bodyfrom the United States has been re-introduced in the new Congress. If approved, H.R.193, better known as the “American Sovereignty Restoration Act,” would end U.S. participation in and funding of the widely ridiculed “dictators club” while protecting American sovereignty under the Constitution. Support for the effort is spreading like wildfire.

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

Don’t Make Yourself a Target for Predators — Be Ready — Be Aware

This is why these individuals are sub-human and demon possessed. They abducted a person who was not able to protect himself, nor understood how to be situationally aware. They are the perfect definition of a predator.

Yes, this is what our society has created and this is what we now need to keep an eye out for, predators like this.

That means that we need to start improving our situational awareness and be ahead of the game when predators are in the vicinity.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ft. Lauderdale Shooter to FBI: I Was Forced to Fight for ISIS

The man suspected of shooting five people to death at the Fort Lauderdale airport Friday previously told the FBI he was being forced to fight for the Islamic State, according to CBS.

The suspect, Esteban Santiago, reportedly walked into the FBI field office in Anchorage, Alaska in November and told officials he was being forced to fight for the terrorist group. ISIS has not taken credit for the attack.

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

Guantanamo Detainees to be Freed by Obama Include Some Who Have Threatened to Behead Americans

President Obama is planning to transfer at least 18 more Guantanamo Bay detainees within days after announcing that four prisoners are being sent to Saudi Arabia, DailyMail.com has learned.

The group being released will be drawn from those held at Guantanamo — who include an accused senior al Qaeda bomb-maker, the terror group’s top financial manager, and two intended 9/11 hijackers, who have all been held in the Cuba-based U.S. detention facility for more than a decade.

According to a military source briefed on the process, as total of 22 detainees are being prepared for transfer out of the camp, also known as Gitmo, before January 20.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Gulftainer Scandal Connects Obama, the Clintons and the Media

In a recent column, I challenged the notion that the Obama administration has been scandal free. This has been the assertion, most recently, of Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, in a softball interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. The media have covered for the multiple scandals that have occurred right under their noses, and this is nothing less than willful blindness. It has applied to the Obama administration, the Clinton Foundation and recent presidential campaign, as well as going back to the Clinton administration. One largely overlooked scandal that ties together the Clintons, Barack Obama and the media’s willful blindness is the Gulftainer scandal.

This clear case of malfeasance comes at the expense of national security and American safety. As we reported in 2015, a United Arab Emirates subsidiary company, Gulftainer USA, was granted a lease “at the vital national security hub of Port Canaveral, Florida.” Now a recent Occasional Paper from the Center for Security Policy (CSP) shows that Gulftainer’s parent company, The Crescent Group, is connected to Iraq’s illicit nuclear program, and may have benefited from associations with the Obamas and Clintons. CSP has done an excellent job connecting these very disturbing dots.

Hamid Jafar is the founder and chairman of the Crescent group of companies, according to the Crescent Petroleum website. However, as Alan Jones and Mary Fanning write for the CSP, Hamid Jafar “is the brother and the business partner of Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar-the Baghdad-born nuclear physicist who masterminded Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program.”

In other words, the company has links to terror. Jones and Fanning write that David Kay, a “U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-1992” who returned to Iraq after 2003, says that Dr. Jafar told him, “You can bomb our buildings. You can destroy our technology. But you cannot take it [nuclear technology] out of our heads. We now have the capability.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Gunman in Custody After Killing Five and Injuring Six at Florida’s Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport

A gunman is in custody after a deadly shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport.

Sources tell DailyMail.com that the shooter killed five people and injured six more.

The incident happened in the baggage area of Terminal 2, and it does not appear that the shooter breached the TSA-secured area of the terminal.

Video from the airport Friday afternoon showed hundreds of passengers corralled together on the tarmac with emergency vehicles parked outside the terminal with lights flashing…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Judge Denies Bail for 4 Chicago Facebook Live Torture Suspects

CHICAGO (WLS) —

A judge denied bail Friday for four people charged with committing a hate crime. They are accused of torturing an 18-year-old man with special needs and streaming it live on Facebook.

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

Obama’s Legacy: New Jobs Went to Janitors, Bartenders and Nurses

But manufacturing adds jobs… thanks to Trump.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Obama: His Legacy of Damage Done to America

Within two weeks, our national Obama nightmare fades into history’s dust bin. Obama said, “I will stand with the Muslims if the political winds turn in an ugly direction.”

As a Muslim, he lied as he pretended to be a Christian. He created the greatest racial divide in America since the 1960s. He created Islamic terror like never before by insuring ISIS enjoyed Iraq as a base of operations when he told them of his intention to leave that country unguarded.

As an African-Kenyan-American, Obama lived outside our country until the age of 12. He never inculcated the American way of life or our ethos, but he did become indoctrinated in the ways of Islam. He isn’t and wasn’t and never will be an All-American.

At some point, historians will unravel why he carries a fraudulent Social Security card. It will lead to the unscrambling and exposure to his real origins.

During his eight years in power, he flooded our country with Muslims and concurrent terrorists from the Boston Marathon to San Bernardino to Chattanooga to Orlando to Minneapolis to Ohio State University and more to come.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Obama’s Indifference to White “Deaths of Despair”

A Soros-funded faux Catholic group called Faith in Public Life is holding what it calls a “special briefing” on “Faithful Resistance to Rising White Nationalism,” featuring Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This exercise is designed to further demonize white Americans who are waking up to what President Obama has done to them during his eight years in office.

At Pearl Harbor, President Obama condemned “the tug of tribalism” and “the urge to demonize those who are different.” Yet his administration did little to stop the heroin epidemic that disproportionately affects white communities devastated by bad trade deals, open borders and the Democratic Party’s anti-industrial policies.

Several researchers are using the phrase “Deaths of despair” to refer to what is happening in the “heroin beltway” of America.

The Associated Press reports that preliminary death certificate data for 2015 showed that the U.S. death rate rose for the first time in a decade, and that experts say white death trends are likely the primary reason.

Rather than admit that Obama’s legacy turned many white Americans against the Democrats, groups like the SPLC are attempting to portray racial consciousness among white people as something to fear. The SPLC’s profiteering is designed to add to its $300 million endowment fund, built on the basis of previous scares.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Police: Suspected Gunman Got Into an Argument During Flight

FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) — Federal law enforcement sources said the suspected gunman in a deadly attack at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport got into an argument during his flight from Alaska to Florida.

They’re now investigating whether that’s what set off a shooting rampage that left 5 dead and 8 others wounded.

Esteban Santiago-Ruiz, 26, took a flight from Alaska to Florida Friday with a stop in Minnesota, officials said. Somewhere along the way, he got into an argument.

According to Broward Commissioner Chip LaMarca, Santiago-Ruiz arrived from a flight with a gun that he checked in.

“He claimed his bag and took the gun from baggage and went into the bathroom to load it. Came out shooting people in baggage claim,” LaMarca said.

Passengers are legally allowed to travel with guns and ammunition as long as the firearms are unloaded, secured in a lock box and not brought on board the plane as a carry-on. They must be declared to the airline at check-in.

Earlier reports claimed Santiago-Ruiz came in on a flight from Canada. On the company’s Twitter account, Air Canada confirmed that no one by that name was on their flight.

[…]

Santiago-Ruiz was born to Puerto Rican parents in New Jersey and recently became a father of a baby boy.

He also had military experience.

His aunt, according to nj.com, said after a tour of duty in Iraq, he “lost his mind” and was hospitalized at one point for mental health issues.

According to the Associated Press, the Pentagon said he went AWOL several times as a specialist during a stint with the Alaska National Guard and was demoted to private first class. He was given a general discharge, which is different from an honorable discharge.

In November 2016, he walked into an FBI office in Anchorage claiming that he was being forced to fight for ISIS and was sent to a psychiatric hospital, officials revealed.

In 2011 or 2012, he was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations for child porn. Three weapons and a computer were seized, but there was not enough evidence to prosecute, according to law enforcement sources.

Santiago also has a record for minor traffic violations and was evicted in 2015 for not paying rent.

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Ontario Liberals Are California Scheming

Thanks to green energy boondoggles, crass politics and general ideological incompetence, Ontario has the highest all-in cost for electricity in North America. The public outrage this has created is clearly a major preoccupation for the Ontario Liberals.

Now, with the new year upon us, comes even higher costs due to the impact of cap and trade on electricity, home heating, transportation etc.

But while Wynne is facing further grief from residents and opposition parties for these new costs, outside the province she’s being criticized for unfairly sheltering Ontario residents from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national carbon tax plan.

Complaining about Ontario’s cap-and-trade system last month, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark said “There’s nothing good about people in Terrace (B.C.) paying double in their carbon price than people in Toronto.”

At home Wynne is getting hammered for rising energy costs. Elsewhere she’s being attacked for not raising energy costs high enough. What gives?

To square this circle, we have to understand what’s really going on with Ontario’s cap-and-trade system. And what’s likely to become of Trudeau’s so-called national plan.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Austrian FM Pushes for Islamic Headscarf Ban for All Public Servants

All public servants in Austria, including school teachers, must be banned from wearing Islamic headscarves at work, according to legislation being drafted by Sebastian Kurz, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration.

Kurz is working on the new regulations together with his Muslim colleague, Muna Duzdar, Austria’s Secretary of State for Diversity, Public Service and Digitization.

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

Delingpole: Green Energy is a Charter for Crooks and Liars. The Scam Must End Now

When is the rest of the Western world going to catch up with Donald Trump and point out that the green emperor is wearing no clothes?

I ask as a concerned UK taxpayer absolutely sick to death of the vast sums of money that continue to be funnelled into the pockets of crooks, liars, spivs, chancers, con-artists and fantasists in the name of solving the non-existent problem of “climate change.”

Let me give you some examples of what I mean. …

So too are many institutions — corporations, law firms, trade bodies. So too are the vast majority of churches, of all denominations. So too is almost all local government. So too are significant number of politicians, not just left-wing and green ones, but ones who profess to be conservatives and really ought to know better.

To all these people, I have some questions:

In the light of the examples I have given above — and remember these are just the tip of the iceberg — how comfortable do you feel with your ongoing support for green policy?

Does the warm, gooey feeling you get from championing green causes still offset the damage you now know — demonstrably and incontovertibly — is being done in the name of saving the planet from global warming?

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

European Union — Research Programme to Probe EU ‘Legitimacy’ After Brexit

A GROUND-BREAKING research programme will probe whether the European Union still has any “legitimacy” in the modern age amid accusations the body is undemocratic and corrupt.

Academics from across Europe will take part in the massive project, designed to assess whether the EU “meets its own standards” in terms of representing ordinary citizens.

Experts from Cambridge University are part of the revolutionary PLATO initiative, which will explore the twin phenomenons of technocratic Government and rising populism.

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

Far-Right Leader Le Pen Says Trump and Putin’s Policies ‘Good’ For France

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Friday dismissed allegations that Russia was behind cyber-attacks during the US presidential elections, a day after America’s top intelligence official said Moscow aggressively interfered in the campaign.

Le Pen defended Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump, who beat Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in November’s elections, telling reporters in Paris that neither leader posed a threat to France.

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

France Secretly Launches Fightback Against ISIS as President Hollande ‘Orders Deaths of 40 Jihadists’

Vincent Nouzille claims in his new book “Erreurs Fatales” that the DGSE — the French equivalent of MI6 and the CIA — has been given a green light to target Islamic State terrorists

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

Putin Set to Visit Orbán in Budapest on Feb. 2

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest on February 2, according to a report by Hungarian daily Blikk today.

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

Radicalisation on the Rise in Italy

(AFP) — Italy’s terror threat level is lower than in other European countries but radicalisation is on the rise and more must be done on prevention, a government-appointed panel reported Thursday.

“The threat remains low,” commission head Lorenzo Vidoni told journalists, but “there is an increasing number of young people and women in our country who are becoming radicalized”.

Prisons are hotspots for radicalization, as is the internet, he said. …

Vigoni said the number of foreign fighters was significantly down on elsewhere in Europe, with some 1,500 people setting off from France to join the so-called Islamic State (IS), 1,000 from Germany, 600 from Belgium, 350 from Austria 350 and 100 from Italy.

Italy does not have a high number of second and third-generation immigrants either, “the type which have been the most radicalised in other European countries”.

It also has a policy of expelling foreigners at the first sign of radicalization or plotting, a tactic which has “undoubtedly been efficient” in stopping in their tracks those who risked “infecting” others or committing attacks, he said.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

US, France and Russia Should Form ‘Alliance’ Says Marine Le Pen

French far-Right Front National leader Marine Le Pen on Friday called for an “alliance between the US, France and Russia” to fight Islamist fundamentalism around the world as she took aim at her chief domestic rival, François Fillon, ahead of upcoming presidential elections.

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

Caroline Glick: The IDF’s New Social Contract

Sgt. Elor Azaria, who was convicted of manslaughter Wednesday for shooting a terrorist in Hebron last March, is a symptom of what may be the most dangerous threat to Israeli society today.

Azaria, a combat medic from the Kfir Brigade, arrived at the scene of an attack where two terrorists had just stabbed his comrades. One of the terrorists was killed, the other was wounded and lying on the ground, his knife less than a meter away from him.

A cameraman from the foreign-funded, Israeli- registered anti-Israel pressure group B’Tselem filmed Azaria removing his helmet and shooting the wounded terrorist. According to the military judges, the film was the centerpiece of the case against him.

The day of the incident, the General Staff reacted to the B’Tselem film with utter hysteria. Led by Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot and then-defense minister Moshe Ya’alon, Israel’s generals competed to see who could condemn Azaria most harshly.

For the public, though, the issue wasn’t so cut and dry. Certainly Azaria didn’t act like a model soldier. It was clear, for instance, that he acted without proper authority and that his action was not permitted under the rules of engagement then in effect in Hebron.

But unlike the IDF’s senior leadership, the public believed that the fact that it was B’Tselem that produced the film meant that it had to be viewed with a grain of salt…

           — Hat tip: Caroline Glick [Return to headlines]
 

Scots Mother in Bahrain Jail Ordeal After Adultery Claim

Hannah James was imprisoned after her allegedly abusive husband went to police.

A Scottish woman has not been allowed to return home after she was arrested and jailed on charges of adultery in Bahrain.

Hannah James, from Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire, is understood to have moved to the nation in the Middle East with her partner Jassim Alhaddar and their son last year.

Following an alleged dispute with Mr Alhaddar, however, Ms James was reportedly charged with adultery, a crime under Bahrain’s Sharia-based legal system.

Ms James’ mother Shelley claimed her daughter’s estranged partner had been physically abusing her.

She alleges he made a false report to police that she had been having an affair. She was imprisoned for these reports and her family claim she was kept in difficult conditions and given only rice and water…

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Political Insanity: Outgoing President Obama’s “Operation Atlantic Resolve” Against Russia: US Sends 3,600 Tanks Against Russia — Massive NATO Deployment Underway

The NATO war preparation against Russia, ‘Operation Atlantic Resolve’, is in full swing. 2,000 US tanks will be sent in coming days from Germany to Eastern Europe, and 1,600 US tanks is deployed to storage facilities in the Netherlands. At the same time, NATO countries are sending thousands of soldiers in to Russian borders.

According to US Army Europe, 4,000 troops and 2,000 tanks will arrive in three US transport ships to Germany next weekend. From Bremerhaven, US troops and huge amount of military material, will be transported to Poland and other countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

USA is sending to Russian borders 3rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division. Overall, more than 2,500 pieces of cargo are shipped to Germany, where those will be unloaded in the period January 6-8. US military material and troops will continue to Poland by rail and military convoy’s. Massive US military deployment should be ready by January 20.

[Comment: Puppet obama desperate to trigger WWIII before he leaves office.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bangladesh Police Kill ‘Mastermind’ Behind Holey Artisan Bakery Siege

Tamim (Ahmed Chowdhury) — Another Dead Muslim terrorist with a Canadian passport

Authorities in Bangladesh shot dead two extremists in a pre-dawn raid in Dhaka on Friday. Police said this included Nurul Islam Marzan, who was “one of the masterminds” behind a siege that killed 29 people, including 18 foreigners, at a bakery in July 2016.

The deputy chief of Dhaka’s counterterrorism unit, Mohibul Islam Khan, told French news agency AFP that Marzan, 30, had been a student at Chittagong University before dropping out to join a group associated with Bangladesh’s homegrown Islamist terror organization Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

JMB has been blamed for the attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan district, the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history. Twenty hostages were shot or hacked to death, as well as two bakery workers, two policemen, and five of the gunmen.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

181,000 Invaders Land in Italy

At least 181,000 nonwhite invaders pretending to refugees arrived in Italy during 2016, an increase of almost 18 percent compared with 2015. Since the beginning of 2014, more than 500,000 invaders have landed in Italy from North Africa, the vast majority from sub-Saharan Africa.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Blow to Schengen as Austria Refuses to Re-Open German Border

Austria remains in favor of border controls and an upper limit on refugees, Interior Minister Wolfgang Subotka told German newspaper Die Welt.

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Germany: 3,000 Sex Attack Victims in 2016

Third World invaders pretending to be refugees in Germany carried out at least 1,964 serious sex attacks in Germany during 2016, preying on 2,000 adults and 1,000 children, a new study by monitoring group XZ Einzefall has shown. The true number of attacks and victims is much higher, because police are under orders to withhold hundreds of reports and only respond if the media makes inquiries.

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Italy Boat Migrant Numbers Surge 20% in 2016

Italy saw a record 181,000 migrants arriving on its shores on boats from northern Africa, EU border agency Frontex said on Friday.

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Journalist Investigating Rape Epidemic in Sweden Beaten by Migrants Speaking Arabic

As Europe has naively opened its borders and allowed millions of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa to move in without expectation of assimilation to local culture and laws, rape has become an epidemic.

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Majority of Poles Do Not Want Middle Eastern Migrants in Poland

Two-thirds of Poles reject the European Union (EU) redistribution of migrants from the Middle East and Africa, and more than half do not want to accept any asylum seekers at all, a new poll reveals.

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Migrant Arrival in Europe Plunged in 2016 as Route Via Greece Blocked

There was a sharp decline in the number of migrants crossing the Aegean and using the Balkan route to reach western Europe. But the Mediterranean death toll rose to more than 5,000.

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Norway Considering 24-Hour Surveillance of Migrants as Thousands Vanish Before Deportation

NORWAY is considering 24-hour surveillance of asylum seekers as more than 5,000 migrants vanished from reception centres in 2016.

In a radical move, the Scandinavian country’s Conservative government announced it is considering making ankle monitors mandatory for asylum seekers.

The proposal was made after the police directorate delivered a report on the possibility of using electronic decides to monitor migrants who are a flight risk if their application is denied in December.

In 2016, 5,482 migrants ran away from their reception centre, 69 per cent of which had their request for asylum denied or did not have permission to remain in Norway.

Around half of the migrants who vanished off the radar to escape deportation are still uncounted for, according to Aftenposten.

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Schengen is Over: Left-Wing French Presidential Candidate Vows to Slam Shut Borders

The presidential candidate has demanded the return of national borders after it was found that Anis Amri, the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack, had travelled through at least five European countries, including France, before being shot dead by police in Milan, Italy.

Mr Montebourg, who will be taking part in the upcoming Socialist presidential primary, told BFMTV the Schengen rules had to be “reviewed” in light of the ongoing threats to France by Islamist terrorist groups.

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Shut Down America’s Refugee Programs Before They Turn us Into Germany

It costs 12 times as much to resettle refugees as it does to assist them in place. Almost all refugees would prefer to return home than be resettled to a third country.

On the first day of the new year, Islamic terrorists claimed another 39 victims, including Americans, in an attack at a popular nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey. The Christmas truck attack in Berlin recalls the similar July attack in Nice, France. The suspect, Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri, was killed in a shootout with Italian police on December 23.

Amri had been denied asylum in Germany due to his terror risk, but was not deported because Tunisia would not accept him since he lacked a passport. Amri carried six different aliases from three nations and had been monitored by German authorities. He was not a “lone jihadist” but part of an ISIS cell, and traveled covertly, like some of the Paris killers, with the refugee flow from the Mediterranean.

On the same day as the Berlin attack, there was a knife attack at a Virginia Metro station by an African Muslim, Ali Ahmed Mohamound. A similar knife attack occurred in New York City the day before, with the suspect still at large.

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UK: ‘They Don’t Want to Integrate’ Kay Burley & Guest in Feisty Immigration Tirade on Sky News

A WRITER and a former Tory aide ripped into each other in an explosive clash over immigration.

Journalist and broadcaster Bidisha hit out at columnist Andre Walker on Sky News while debating calls for immigrants to be forced to learn English before being allowed to settle in Britain.

The outburst came after Walker claimed the UK was “addicted” to welcoming people “who don’t want to integrate”.

He said: “We’re addicted to unskilled labour, we’re addicted to people who don’t want to integrate, we’re addicted to people who don’t want to speak English and we should just stop it — it’s crazy.”

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When Will it End? Rapes and Violence Continue in Germany in First Week of 2017

VIOLENCE and sex assaults against young women in Germany are continuing into 2017 as the integration of migrants continues to fail.

Despite numerous campaigns, classes and continual acceptance of refugees from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration, the horror stories of 2016 have not stopped.

On the first day of 2017 a young woman was sexually assaulted as she looked for her boyfriend after a night out in Neumarkt in Bavaria.

The woman told police she was looking for her partner, who was staying at a youth hostel for refugees in Kastengasse, when she was attacked.

The victim had drunk so much alcohol she cannot fully remember the details of the assault, but told officers she was physically and sexually abused.

Two young Afghans were arrested the following day and were brought before the prosecutor at the district court in Nuremberg, Bavaria

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‘Governments Loathe Transparency, Can Do Wicked Things’ — Assange

If organizations like WikiLeaks don’t publish information about people in power, the powerful of this world “can do very bad, wicked things,” the group’s founder Julian Assange said in an exclusive interview with Fox News.

Though they published leaks from the US Democratic Party ahead of the 2016 presidential elections, WikiLeaks has never had the goal of influencing votes, Assange told Fox News host Sean Hannity in a previously unaired portion of their conversation.

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Julian Assange: Governments Loathe Transparency Because it Makes Them Work Harder

JULIAN ASSANGE says governments around the world often lie to manipulate the minds of their citizens and loathe transparency “because they have to work harder”.

The Wikileaks founder suggested constant secrecy by those in power had lead to incompetence in governments.

Speaking from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been kept for the past five years as he fights extradition, Mr Assange said the goal of WikiLeaks is to expose that truth to people, without any political agenda.

“We’re in the business of publishing information about power,” he told Fox News Sean Hannity.

“Why are we in the business of publishing information about power? Because people can do things with power, they can do very bad things with power.

“If they’re incompetent, they can do dangerous things. If they’re evil, they can do wicked things.”

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Suicide Terrorism Across the Globe Hits Record High

A total of 469 suicide bombings carried out by 800 perpetrators across 28 countries, causing the deaths of about 5,650 people made 2016 the worst year ever for this deadly form of terrorist atrocity.

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6 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/6/2017

  1. >> “Scots mother in Bahrain jail ordeal after adultery claim”

    That is sad, but such is the law of THAT land.

    >> “Hannah James, from Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire, is understood to have moved to the nation in the Middle East with her partner Jassim Alhaddar and their son last year.”

    Well, that explains it then.

    Any further rational exploration of the story will have to contain the word “stupid” in its summation. You could also add the word “warning”.

    • Well, she is learning the hard way that one should never judge a book by its cover. Still, I do feel sorry for her and all those others who have been brainwashed by their so called ‘teachers’.

  2. >> Another Dead Muslim terrorist with a Canadian passport

    Hey, he was a “Canadian” . . . or as I like to call it, a COC (Canadian of Convenience).

  3. The most basic of basics is being considered. Nobody can call the Norwayers
    deaf, dumb or blind. That should send a clear message to the caliphate’s soldiers.
    Norway means business.

  4. “Norway is considering instituting 24-hour surveillance of migrants at asylum centers, after more than 5,000 of them disappeared last year. Of those who vanished, almost half are still unaccounted for.”
    The best way to make them disappear would be to deport them back to their own countries or a reasonable facsimile thereof. Installing cameras will just allow you to watch them wander off. It makes more sense to install them in cells if you insist on keeping them anywhere.

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