Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/21/2017

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Front National in France and currently the front-runner in the presidential race, canceled a scheduled meeting with the Grand Mufti of Lebanon. Ms. Le Pen backed out of the meeting with Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Latif Derian after she learned that she would be required to wear a headscarf, saying that she refused to cover up.

In other news, at least 87 would-be migrants drowned off the coast of Libya on their way to Italy.

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Financial Crisis
» After Seven Years of Bailouts, Greeks Sink Yet Deeper in Poverty
» Shocking Extent of Greece’s Poverty Revealed as EU-Enforced Austerity Cripples Nation
» Spain Sets Massive Precedent — Charges Its Central Bankers in Court
 
USA
» ‘Allahu Akbar’ Becomes a Rallying Call as Leftists Join Forces With Radical Muslims to Fight Trump All Across America
» ‘California is a Nation, Not a State’: A Fringe Movement Wants a Break From the U.S.
» College Writing Center Declares American Grammar a ‘Racist, ‘ ‘Unjust Language Structure’
» Is a Shadow Government Trying to Take Down the Trump Administration?
» ISIS Boasts Muslims Born in U.S. Will Become ‘Army of Conquest’
» Ivanka Trump’s Perfume is Selling Like Crazy on Amazon Despite Boycott
» Lew Rockwell: Break Up the USA
» Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns From Breitbart News
» Missouri Man Charged in Alleged ISIS Plot
» Pussyhat Creators Craft Next Step in Defiance of Trump
» We Must Deal With the New World Generation
» Why Americans Don’t Trust Main Stream Media
» Why Melania Trump Leading the Public in the Lord’s Prayer at a Rally in Florida Was a Historic Event
 
Canada
» Trudeau Gives Preference to Islam Over All Other Religions in Canada
 
Europe and the EU
» A Mystery of Secret Eel Migration Solved
» Barcelona Police ‘Shoot at’ Driver of Speeding Truck Full of Gas Cylinders ‘Driving at High Speed Near City Centre’
» Face of Pictish Murder Victim Recreated
» France’s Le Pen Cancels Meet With Lebanon Grand Mufti After Refusing to Wear Headscarf
» France: Paris Court Sends ‘Spiderman’ Thief to Prison for €109m Museum Heist
» France: Marine Le Pen Cancels Meeting With Arab Leader Over Hijab
» France ‘Attack Plot’: Three Arrested
» French Police Arrest Three Men for ‘Planning Terror Attack’
» George Soros Fighting ‘Islamophobia’ By Funding Political Islam
» Group Arrested Over Attacks at Swiss Mosque
» Hungary Unites With Poland to Fight Brussels
» ‘I Will Not Cover Myself Up’ Marine Le Pen Refuses to Wear Headscarf for Grand Mufti Talks
» Italy: Controversial Palm Trees in Milan’s Piazza Duomo Set Ablaze
» Italy: Boschi Calls Racism Body Chief in ‘Gay Sex Club’ Row
» Jean-Claude Juncker: UK Faces Hefty Brexit Bill
» Le Pen Accused of ‘Improper Behaviour’ For Refusing Headscarf to Meet Muslim Leader
» Marine Le Pen Extends Lead in First Round of French Presidential Voting, Polls Find
» Norway Demands to be in EU Brexit Talks Revealing it’s Already Talking to UK
» Paris Region Loses 1.5 Million Tourists Over Terror Fears
» Sweden is Having a Good Time Trolling President Trump
» Sweden: Police Fired Upon Crowd Throwing Stones
» Swedish Press Photographer Assaulted in Rinkeby Riots
» Switzerland: Ten Arrested Over Attack on Pair at Winterthur Mosque
» UK: Police Arrest Five Teenagers in London for Terror Offences
» UK: Race-Hate Attacker Who Spat Into a Nine-Month-Old Baby’s Face and Shouted ‘White People Shouldn’t Breed’ at Her Mother Walks Free
» UK: Stoke-on-Trent Mosque Imam Charged With Terrorism Offences
» Unusual Burial Unearthed in Transylvania
» USA Today — Would-be Dutch PM: Islam Threatens Our Way of Life
» What Would Norway be Like Without Oil Money?
» Why Sweden is Not the ‘Rape Capital of the World
 
North Africa
» ISIS Egypt Affiliate: Christians Are Our ‘Favorite Prey’
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» ‘Why Does US Consulate in Jerusalem Refuse to Hire Jews?’
 
Middle East
» CIA-Backed Aid for Syrian Rebels Frozen After Islamist Attack — Sources
» Four Workers for Norway NGO Detained in Yemen
» Saudis Kick Off $50 Billion Renewable Energy Plan to Cut Oil Use
» ‘Young Men Need This’ Twisted ISIS Militant Brags About ‘Raping More Than 200 Iraqi Women’
 
Russia
» 4 Dead Russian Ambassadors in 3 Months
 
South Asia
» “Moderate” Malaysia: Tens of Thousands Rally to Support Adoption of Islamic Penal Code
» Thai Junta Urged to Drop Case Against Anti-Torture Activists Who Reported ‘Grave Abuses’
 
Far East
» Angelina Jolie Cooks Tarantulas for Her Children to Eat
» Blockade! Communist Chinese Close Strategic Water Way
» Chinese Police to Track Cars in Xinjiang in Terror Crackdown
» Philippines’ President Duterte is a ‘Sociopathic Serial Killer’ Who Should be Forced Out of Office, Senator Says
» Region in China’s Restive Xinjiang Orders Tracking of Vehicles as Anti-Terror Measure
» Should We Eat Bugs Like Angelina Jolie?
 
Australia — Pacific
» Breaking: Aircraft Turned Into Fireball After Plummeting Into Melbourne Shopping Centre
» New Zealand Garden Gnome Thefts ‘Fund Meth Trade’
» Youth Gang Attacks Summersault Festival Crowds in Melbourne
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Christine and Roger Solik Found Murdered in South Africa
» Malawi Albino Attack Survivor: ‘I Am Too Scared to Sleep’
» Zimbabwe: As He Turns 93-Years-Old Today: Who is Robert Mugabe?
 
Latin America
» Study: Venezuelans Lost 19 Lbs. On Average Over Past Year Due to Lack of Food
» WikiLeaks ‘Will Not Respond to Pressure’ From Ecuador’s Presidential Candidates — Assange
 
Immigration
» Angela Merkel’s Migrant Policy Attacked by Own Economic Adviser
» Denver Police Ignore Immigration Officers’ Pleas, Release Alien Before Alleged Murder
» Dozens of Migrants Drown Off Libya
» Germany Sex Attack: Iraqi Migrant ‘Raped 13-Year-Old Girl’
» Glazov Gang: Trump and the Rape of Sweden
» Greece: Islanders Resist New Migrant Centers, Governors Assume Duties
» Hungary and Austria Migrant Crisis: Countries Feud Over Migrant Deportation
» ‘I Am Ready to Do Anything to Reach Europe and Provide for My Family’
» Insider Reveals ‘What’s Happening’ In Immigrant-Loving Sweden
» Inside the Deadly Pirate Corridor Where Migrants Escape to Europe
» Italy: Immigrant Residency Permit Racket Busted
» J K Rowling Asked to Take in Refugees in Her 18 Spare Rooms
» Liberal Government ‘Testing the Limits’ of Canadians’ Attitudes to Refugees: Poll
» Lorry Driver Shares Harrowing Story of Calais Migrant Ambush
» Migrants Drown After Traffickers Steal Their Boat’s Motor at Gunpoint
» Polish Border Guard Discover Group of 13 Migrants Hiding in a Lorry
» Refugee Assistance NGO Chief Concerned About Finland’s Deportations
» Rioting Erupts in Immigrant-Dominated Swedish Suburb
» Soros-Funded Org Urges ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Journalistic Vocabulary on Immigration
» Sweden Riot: Police Forced to Shoot at Protestors as Violence Erupts — Yet PM is in Denial
» Sweden Refuses to Find Statistics on Immigrant Crime
» Sweden on the Brink? Police Force Pushed to Breaking Point by Violence Amid Migrant Influx
» Sweden: Riots and Looting in Stockholm
» Sweden Riot: Police Forced to Shoot at Protestors as Violence Erupts — Yet PM is in Denial
» Sweden Rocked by Riots in the Midst of Trump Argument
» ‘Trump Was Right’: Migrants Riot, Loot, Fight With Police and Set Cars on Fire in Sweden
» Zimbabwe Arrests and Deports African Invaders
 
Culture Wars
» Is Sweden’s Feminist Agenda Working?
» Jacksonville Rallies Mayor to Veto LGBT Law
» Piers Morgan Withdraws From Hosting Awards Show After SJW Outrage
» Salon.Com Removes Pro-Pedophilia Articles Written by Todd Nickerson From Its Website
 
General
» How You Can Fix a Dent in Your Car [Plastic] Bumper With Nothing More Than a Saucepan of Boiling Water
 

After Seven Years of Bailouts, Greeks Sink Yet Deeper in Poverty

Greek pensioner Dimitra says she never imagined a life reduced to food handouts: some rice, two bags of pasta, a packet of chickpeas, some dates and a tin of milk for the month.

At 73, Dimitra — who herself once helped the hard-up as a Red Cross food server — is among a growing number of Greeks barely getting by. After seven years of bailouts that poured billions of euros into their country, poverty isn’t getting any better; it’s getting worse like nowhere else in the European Union.

The global financial crisis and its fallout forced four eurozone countries to turn to international lenders. Ireland, Portugal and Cyprus all went through rescues and are back out, their economies growing again. But Greece, the first into a bailout in 2010, has needed three.

Rescue funds from the EU and International Monetary Fund saved Greece from bankruptcy, but the austerity and reform policies the lenders attached as conditions have helped to turn recession into a depression.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Shocking Extent of Greece’s Poverty Revealed as EU-Enforced Austerity Cripples Nation

THE economic situation in Greece is worsening despite massive bailout funds from the European Union with 22.2 percent of the population now “severely materially deprived”, according to the shocking research.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Spain Sets Massive Precedent — Charges Its Central Bankers in Court

First, Iceland, and now Spain has taken on the Big Bankers responsible for financial calamity, as the country’s highest national court charged the former head of Spain’s central bank, a market regulator, and five other banking officials over a failed bank leading to the loss of millions of euros for smaller investors.

This, of course, markedly departs from the mammoth taxpayer giveaway — commonly referred to as the bailout — approved by the U.S. government ostensively to “save” the Big Banks and, albeit unstated, allow the enormous institutions to continue bilking customers without the slightest fear of penalty.

Errant bankers and financiers, it would seem, typically manage to either evade actually being charged, or escape hefty fines and time behind bars.

Spain’s Supreme Court last year ruled “serious inaccuracies” in information about the listing led investors to back Bankia in error, thus the bank has since paid out millions of euros in compensation.

But Spanish authorities could not abide the telling findings of a yearslong investigation into the failed listing, as Wolf Streetexplains,

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Allahu Akbar’ Becomes a Rallying Call as Leftists Join Forces With Radical Muslims to Fight Trump All Across America

An “ unholy alliance” between anti-Trump leftists and radical Muslims is beginning to emerge all over America. President Trump’ s recent executive order that restricted immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries is bringing a very strange mixture of people out to street protests. On the one hand you have hardcore Muslims that are chanting “ Allahu Akbar” and that believe that Islamic law will someday prevail over the U.S. Constitution, and on the other hand you have radical leftists marching right next to them that are protesting for “ women’ s rights” , “ gay rights” and “ civil rights” . The ironic thing about all of this is that if the radical Muslims have their way, the leftists will either convert to Islam someday or will be completely destroyed. But for now they need one another, and so a very odd marriage of convenience has taken place.

Later on in this article I want to discuss the very unusual “ I Am Muslim Too” protest that just took place in Times Square in New York City, but first I want to talk about what happened when the Nation of Islam held their annual meeting in Detroit over the weekend. It is being reported that thousands of people in the audience were enthusiastically chanting “ Allahu Akbar” as Louis Farrakhan made his way to the stage, and Farrakhan made it abundantly clear to those assembled that he plans to oppose Trump every step of the way…

“I’m here to talk to all of you who are shaking in your boots” over Trump being president, Farrakhan said. Imitating a person who’s worried about Trump, Farrakhan said: “What are we going to do, the president is bad. He’s the president and he don’t like black people. He don’t like Mexicans. He don’t like Muslims.”

Farrakhan then said: “Maybe so. Who cares? We don’t give a damn what he likes or what he doesn’t like.

“Have no fear … the future is ours. Time for the liberation of our people.”

Perhaps it is not much of a surprise for thunderous chants of “ Allahu Akbar” to be heard at a Nation of Islam conference, but you definitely wouldn’ t expect to hear the same thing in Times Square in New York City.

But that is precisely what happened on Sunday. According to the Daily Caller, an Islamic call to prayer during the “ I Am Muslim Too” protest included the familiar phrase…

Sunday’s anti-Trump rally in New York City featured a Muslim “Allahu Akbar” call to prayer and comparisons between President Trump and Adolf Hitler.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘California is a Nation, Not a State’: A Fringe Movement Wants a Break From the U.S.

About 15 people huddled in a luxury apartment building, munching on danishes as they plotted out their plan to have California secede from the United States.

“I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of an independent California,” Geoff Lewis said as he stood in a glass-walled conference room adorned with California’s grizzly-bear flag and a sign reading “California is a nation, not a state.”

Sweaty onlookers from the gym across the hall peered in curiously.

Bolstered by the election of President Trump, the group, Yes California, is collecting the 585,407 signatures necessary to place a secessionist question on the 2018 ballot. Its goal is to have California become its own country, separate and apart from the United States.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

College Writing Center Declares American Grammar a ‘Racist, ‘ ‘Unjust Language Structure’

The poster insists American grammar is “racist”

An “antiracist” poster in a college writing center insists American grammar is “racist” and an “unjust language structure,” promising to prioritize rhetoric over “grammatical ‘correctness.’“

The poster, written by the director, staff, and tutors of the University of Washington, Tacoma’s Writing Center, states “racism is the normal condition of things,” declaring that it permeates rules, systems, expectations, in courses, school and society.

“Linguistic and writing research has shown clearly for many decades that there is no inherent ‘standard’ of English,” proclaims the writing center’s statement. “Language is constantly changing. These two facts make it very difficult to justify placing people in hierarchies or restricting opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate in particular versions of English.”

[Comment: Follow these fools and you’ll end up taking like tha character Nell in th emovie “Nell”.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Is a Shadow Government Trying to Take Down the Trump Administration?

Donald J. Trump is the only, and the last hope for America, and his recent press conference was superb. As such, I have supported him from the time he announced his candidacy. However, that doesn’t mean he hasn’t made some mistakes.

The two men I totally trusted to guide him in the right direction were General Michael T. Flynn, and Senator Jeff B. Sessions. Trump stated that, “General Flynn is a wonderful man. I think he’s been treated very, very unfairly by the media — as I call it, the fake media, in many cases.”

Well then, why the hell did Trump let him resign, or even ask for his resignation? Even Rush Limbaugh spent days asking the same question, and I want to know why Trump didn’t say to him, “General, I know all these charges are false, we will weather this attack, now get back to work.”

Instead, Trump allowed the Obama deep state to derail one of his best men. As such, his administration should use the grand jury through Attorney General Jeff Sessions to subpoena the leakers and the news organizations who received these taped conversations and then rehire Flynn. There is obviously a slow-motion coup underway instigated by the US intelligence community.

Are we a police state? What was done to General Flynn is an egregious violation of the Espionage Act. There are so many acts of sedition, including what Obama is doing, and I want to know why they’re not being prosecuted.

The Obama Holdovers

This is a crime, Obama’s spies, holdovers who have not yet been replaced, but should immediately be ousted, taped a private citizen’s phone conversation (before he was sworn in as NSA Chief) and found Flynn had called the Russian Ambassador. Incoming administrations call foreign countries all the time, it’s part of their new job and not a crime. Even left of center Charles Krauthammer has said the same thing.

Flynn insisted that he crossed no lines in his telephone conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. “If I did, believe me, the FBI would be down my throat, my clearances would be pulled. There were no lines crossed, and the leakers must be prosecuted.”…

In the wake of Flynn’s departure, the Washington Free Beacon cited several anonymous sources who suggested that there was a very specific reason that Flynn was targeted — his opposition to the Iran deal:

“It’s actually Ben Rhodes, and the Iranian mullahs who are celebrating today,” said one veteran foreign policy insider who is close to Flynn and the White House. “They know that the number one target is Iran … [and] they all knew their little sacred agreement with Iran was going to go off the books. So, they got rid of Flynn before any of the [secret] agreements even surfaced.”

Flynn had been preparing to publicize many of the details about the nuclear deal that had been intentionally hidden by the Obama administration as part of its effort to garner support for the deal, these sources said.

Flynn is now “gone before anybody can see what happened” with these secret agreements, said the second insider close to Flynn and the White House.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS Boasts Muslims Born in U.S. Will Become ‘Army of Conquest’

Jihadists returning to Europe from Syria to carry out attacks, says former Danish ambassador

With the Islamic State’s stronghold over areas in Syria and Iraq quickly slipping, ISIS is now boasting that Muslims born in the United States will become an army of conquest and are “getting ready for the battle in their homeland”.

According to an article in the Spectator by BBC world affairs correspondent Paul Wood, “A document is circulating among Isis members through text messages and Twitter. Titled ‘The caliphate will not perish,’ it is a series of morale-boosting declarations by Isis leaders, living and dead.”

The document makes it clear that when ISIS loses its territory, which could happen in just weeks or months, a “virtual caliphate” will replace the physical one, with a new generation of jihadis inspired to continue the fight.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ivanka Trump’s Perfume is Selling Like Crazy on Amazon Despite Boycott

Boycott or no boycott, Ivanka Trump’s perfumes have taken over the top two best-selling spots on Amazon.com’s beauty section.

As of early Saturday, Ivanka Trump Eu de Parfum Spray for Women and Ivanka Trump for Women Roller Ball are the No. 1 and No.2 best sellers, respectively, on Amazon. They retail between $15 to $46.50 on the website.

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

Lew Rockwell: Break Up the USA

Prominent thinker makes case for abandoning leftists

Some of our assumptions are so deeply embedded that we cannot perceive them ourselves.

Case in point: everyone takes for granted that it’s normal for a country of 320 million to be dictated to by a single central authority. The only debate we’re permitted to have is who should be selected to carry out this grotesque and inhumane function.

Here’s the debate we should be having instead: what if we simply abandoned this quixotic mission, and went our separate ways? It’s an idea that’s gaining traction — much too late, to be sure, but better late than never.

For a long time it seemed as if the idea of secession was unlikely to take hold in modern America. Schoolchildren, after all, are told to associate secession with slavery and treason. American journalists treat the idea as if it were self-evidently ridiculous and contemptible (an attitude they curiously do not adopt when faced with US war propaganda, I might add).

And yet all it took was the election of Donald Trump for the alleged toxicity of secession to vanish entirely. The left’s principled opposition to secession and devotion to the holy Union went promptly out the window on November 8, 2016. Today, about one in three Californians polled favors the Golden State’s secession from the Union…

When I say go our separate ways, I don’t mean “the left” goes one way and “the right” goes another. I mean the left goes one way and everyone else — rather a diverse group indeed — goes another. People who live for moral posturing, to broadcast their superiority over everyone else, and to steamroll differences in the name of “diversity,” should go one way, and everyone who rolls his eyes at all this should go another.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns From Breitbart News

Milo Yiannopoulos resigned from his position as senior editor at Breitbart News amid a controversy over comments in which he appeared to defend pedophilia. “Breitbart News has stood by me when others caved,” Yiannopoulos said in a statement this afternoon.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Missouri Man Charged in Alleged ISIS Plot

WASHINGTON — While on bond and subject to electronic monitoring by local police, a 25-year-old Missouri man allegedly began extensive communications with FBI undercover agents about a Presidents’ Day plot to attack Kansas City-area rail and bus systems, federal authorities charged Tuesday.

None of the transportation systems was ever at risk during the sting operation, but court documents alleged that Robert Hester, Jr., purchased common bomb-making components — batteries, duct tape, copper wire and roofing nails — before delivering them to an agent posing as a local operative sympathetic to the Islamic State, also called ISIS.

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

Pussyhat Creators Craft Next Step in Defiance of Trump

Half a dozen women sat around a large table, each with a ball of yarn in front her. Some made fumbling progress, while others settled into the rhythmic calm that so many knitters say reminds them of meditation.

Kat Coyle, 54, walked around the students, inspecting their progress and handiwork. Two of the women were making their first pink, knitted “pussyhats”. One planned to give hers to a friend’s infant.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

We Must Deal With the New World Generation

For years now, Americans have talked and theorized about the “New World Order” — a term that has been meshed with the much older term “One World Order” — and most today believe that the two terms are now and always have been synonymous. They were not always synonymous however…

One World Order was the Marxist design for a One World Government under some form of totalitarianism, now labeled a number of “ism’s” like global progressivism or liberal democracy and most often referred to as the New World Order today. The point of origin for the much newer term New World Order came from George H.W. Bush’s famous “thousand points of light” speech.

These two ideas were once diametrically opposing views at their point of origin. Global Communism under a One World Order is not what Bush spoke about in his New World Order speech. Bush took office following Reagan, the fall of the Soviet Empire and the downing of the Berlin Wall. Bush was talking about a new world governed by the “rule of law” and international diplomacy in a world where only one superpower was left standing, The United States of America.

Today, academics and conspiracy theorists have made the two terms appear synonymous, which is why many Americans have no idea who or what to trust. We talk a lot about the intentional muddying of waters in the FIVE STAR rated book, TRUMPED: The New American Revolution. Readers have posted over and over again that “every American must read TRUMPED to possess a full understanding of the war for America ahead.”

For Trump to say he inherited a mess, is a gross understatement. Trump took office after a hundred-years of dismantling America. Nowhere is this more obvious than in a glance at the New World Generation, the so-called millennials, whom we see rioting in the streets across our country today, fighting for all the wrong causes…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why Americans Don’t Trust Main Stream Media

After 30 years of slanted, biased and false news reporting from major players in the Main Stream Media (MSM) -Americans turn toward more reliable sources-such as citizen journalists writing for Internet news services. Social media features speakers like British speaker Pat Condell telling hungry audiences what’s really happening with the Muslim invasion of Europe.

Whistleblowers such as Julian Assange and Edward Snowden exposed deeper layers of fraud and deception continuing in Washington DC and in Europe.

One look at the talking heads at CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR and CNN shows untenable bias and false reporting on multiple levels. In the past 20 months, prominent news anchors pretty much cut off their noses to spite their faces. Their election polls showed Hillary Clinton winning the White House while major pundits predicted Trump’s collapse.

Pelley, Muir and Holt downplayed Islamic terrorism in America by reporting “lone wolf” Muslims as mentally ill or suffering from depression-when in fact, those terrorists followed the dictates of the Quran while exacting violence. Similar examples abound everyday in the USA and Europe, i.e., rapes, honor killings, female genital mutilation, gay killings and arranged marriages.

For the past 15 years, the anchors at NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR told the American people that 11,000,000 illegal aliens inhabited the United States. After extensive research as to U.S. Census Bureau data by Ann Coulter in her book, Adios Amigo, she noted 31,000,000 (million) illegal migrants living, working and violating America’s laws.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why Melania Trump Leading the Public in the Lord’s Prayer at a Rally in Florida Was a Historic Event

We just witnessed Melania Trump’ s finest moment as First Lady so far. After a week in which her husband declared war on the mainstream media, Melania absolutely electrified a huge crowd at a rally in Melbourne, Florida by reciting the Lord’ s Prayer. What Donald Trump had to share afterwards was remarkable as well, but that night will always be remembered for what Melania did. After beginning with the phrase “ let us pray” , Melania stunned the entire world by slowly but carefully leading the crowd in the Lord’ s Prayer, and it is being reported that the assembled throng responded to her prayer with “ thunderous applause” .

She did not pronounce all of the words perfectly, but that didn’ t matter.

What matters is that her courage enabled her to create the most powerful moment that we have seen from a First Lady in decades. The following is from a transcript of her remarks…

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed is your name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespasses against us.

‘ Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.

If you have not seen footage of this incredible moment yet, you can watch it right here…

One of the primary reasons why this moment evoked so much emotion is because the Lord’ s Prayer is undeniably a Christian prayer.

Over the decades, our politicians have become very adept at speaking of “ god” in a very generic sense. Even when they pray, most of our politicians are careful to use universal language that could apply to almost any religion.

That is why what Melania Trump did was so radical. By reciting the Lord’ s Prayer, she was clearly identifying herself as a Christian, and there was absolutely no question about who she was addressing.

It was such a simple prayer, but needless to say it sent liberals into a social media frenzy. They started calling her every name in the book and used some of the most foul language imaginable.

Some of the more moderate liberals objected to the prayer on the basis of separation of church.

[Comment: Freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. Only Congress can establish religion — which they have not. Rabid leftists would have you believe that every government official must be a secular communist like them. Any American, including the first lady should be free to practice their religion.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trudeau Gives Preference to Islam Over All Other Religions in Canada

I predict this will not end well for Trudeau and his Liberals

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and his Liberal government have just committed a major political blunder which in the long term will hurt Trudeau and his Liberal party in their re-election efforts.

Trudeau and his Liberals have started a process of developing, issuing and then passing a law which will give preferential treatment to Islam and all followers and adherents of Islam in Canada over all other Canadian religious groups, including Canadian Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs, just to name a few of the major religious faiths practiced in Canada.

Motion M103 was introduced by a Liberal MP backbencher, Iqra Khalid, a Muslim Canadian. This motion has been taken up and defended by the Canadian Heritage Minister Melanie Joly. It is clear Trudeau, the PMO office and the full Liberal Cabinet are strongly behind this very controversial legislative initiative.

The motion calls for the government to (1) recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear and (2) condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination.

This motion further requests the Heritage committee to study the issue and “develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia,” and then report its findings to Parliament.

Since the Liberals are in the majority and they control the Heritage committee, there is no question that this motion will come back in short order as a bill specifically condemning Islamophobia in the broadest terms with the potential of criminalizing any legitimate criticism of Islamic practices, no matter how offensive and incompatible these practices are with Canadian values and Canadian practices.

To suggest that this motion is just benign and harmless, as the mainstream Globe and Mail has suggested- is just plain deceptive and disingenuous.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

A Mystery of Secret Eel Migration Solved

A team of scientists have mapped the eels’ 5,000 kilometre long journey, but the study leaves even more questions about how eels migrate from Europe to the Sargasso Sea.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Barcelona Police ‘Shoot at’ Driver of Speeding Truck Full of Gas Cylinders ‘Driving at High Speed Near City Centre’

A police spokeswoman wouldn’t confirm the gunshots but said the driver was being interrogated

Spanish police used gunfire to stop the driver of a truck laden with household gas canisters who was allegedly driving at high speed in the wrong direction near the city centre on Barcelona’s main ring road.

One policeman shot the lorry cab’s front window and brought the driver to a halt after a high-speed chase during which some of the gas containers had fallen off the trailer, with one person reported injured by a falling canister.

Police have said that the driver had stolen the vehicle and sped off, ignoring signals to stop. Finally, the lorry came to a halt after taking a slipway in the wrong direction.

According to La Vanguardia newspaper, the arrested man is a Swedish citizen, who has been taken to a hospital, although he is not seriously injured.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Face of Pictish Murder Victim Recreated

BBC News reports that a team of researchers led by Sue Black of the Center for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee has recreated the face of a Pictish man whose skeleton was discovered in the Scottish Highlands, in a cave on the coast of the Black Isle peninsula.

Examination of his bones revealed that he had suffered from at least five serious head injuries, including broken teeth on the right side of his face; a fractured jaw on the left; a fracture to the back of his head, probably after falling from the first two blows; and a wound through the head that was probably made with the same weapon. The fifth injury is thought to have come from a larger weapon to the top of the skull. Radiocarbon dating indicates that he was killed some 1,400 years ago.

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France’s Le Pen Cancels Meet With Lebanon Grand Mufti After Refusing to Wear Headscarf

“I will not cover myself up”

French far-right National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting on Tuesday with Lebanon’s grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to wear a headscarf for the encounter.

Le Pen, among the frontrunners for the presidency, is using a two-day visit to Lebanon to bolster her foreign policy credentials nine weeks from the April 23 first round, and may be partly targeting potential Franco-Lebanese votes.

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France: Paris Court Sends ‘Spiderman’ Thief to Prison for €109m Museum Heist

A thief nicknamed “Spiderman”, who stole five masterpieces from a top Paris museum, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Monday for one of the most daring art heists in recent years.

Vjeran Tomic and two accomplices were also fined a whopping 104 million euros ($110 million) over the theft of five paintings by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Ferdinand Leger and Amedeo Modigliani from the Musee d’Art Moderne in 2010.

The artworks, which were estimated by the City of Paris to be worth 109 million euros, are still missing.

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France: Marine Le Pen Cancels Meeting With Arab Leader Over Hijab

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting with a key Arab leader Tuesday after he insisted she wear a headscarf.

The National Front leader who is a frontrunner for president was scheduled to meet with Lebanon’s grand mufti, an important cleric for Sunni Muslims, but backed out after it was made clear she was expected to cover her head, Reuters reports.

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France ‘Attack Plot’: Three Arrested

Three people have been arrested in France on suspicion of plotting a terrorism attack, police sources say.

A bomb disposal squad was called in to sweep the home of one of the suspects, in the central city of Clermont-Ferrand, French media say.

The other two arrests were reportedly in Marseille and in the Paris region.

France is on high alert after a series of deadly attacks in recent years by militants claiming to be from the Islamic State group.

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French Police Arrest Three Men for ‘Planning Terror Attack’

Counter-terror police arrested three men in three separate raids around France on Tuesday, in what appears to be the latest in a growing list of foiled terror plots.

The men were arrested in the central city of Clermont-Ferrand, Marseille in the south, and in the Paris region, reported BFM TV.

“The suspects had a plan and it was sufficiently advanced that that counter-terror police decided to intervene,” a source told the channel.

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George Soros Fighting ‘Islamophobia’ By Funding Political Islam

On his weblog, Dutch investigative journalist Carel Brendel this Sunday published an article on the first winner of a subsidy, given out by the Foundation for Democracy and Media (SDM). Brendel aimed some criticism at the subsidy earlier, writing that while SDM announced it, it is really paid for by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation (OSF) and led by Maartje Eigeman, who worked for OSF. Brendel also said that the subsidy is really another attempt by the OSF to influence Dutch elections: the subsidies, ostensibly to fight discrimination of Muslims, offered a ‘fast-track procedure’ for those that were focused on the elections.

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Group Arrested Over Attacks at Swiss Mosque

Ten people have been arrested for allegedly attacking two Muslims from the An’Nur Winterthur mosque for talking to journalists.

The group are alleged to have physically attacked and detained the two Muslims inside the mosque and threatened their families back in November 2016 after they gave information to journalists about an imam who called for non-practising Muslims to be killed.

The people aged between 17 and 53 were arrested on Tuesday in Winterthur and the surrounding area. Around a dozen houses were searched.

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Hungary Unites With Poland to Fight Brussels

An unprecedented attempt by the European Union’s unelected executive to alter national policy in Poland, on the basis of supposed “rule of law” deficiencies, will end in failure, as Hungary refuses to support sanctions.

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‘I Will Not Cover Myself Up’ Marine Le Pen Refuses to Wear Headscarf for Grand Mufti Talks

The controversial presidential hopeful was in Lebanon seeking to bolster support ahead of the first round of voting in April.

But the proposed meeting with the Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Latif Derian — the most prominent Sunni Muslim cleric in the country — was scrapped at the last minute.

Ms Le Pen said: “You can pass on my respects to the Grand Mufti, but I will not cover myself up.

“I have met before with Grand Imam Sheikh al-Azhar in Egypt without wearing a veil.”

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Italy: Controversial Palm Trees in Milan’s Piazza Duomo Set Ablaze

Right-wing groups rail against ‘Africanization’, Starbucks

(ANSA) — Milan, February 16 — A number of palm trees in Milan’s central Piazza Duomo were set alight on early Sunday amid a dispute after global coffee giant Starbucks planted them on Tuesday in the city’s famous Piazza Duomo.

One suffered extensive damage to its trunk.

Starbucks plans to open its first Italian retail point in Milan in 2018 and planted the trees as part of a contract it won to restyle the green spaces surrounding the equestrian monument to Victor Emmanuel II for the next three years.

The palm trees had set off an outcry from the city government’s centre-right factions and a protest was staged on Saturday by the radical rightwing movement Casapound and the anti-immigrant Northern League party, who railed against the “Africanization” of the historic piazza.

Mayor Giuseppe Sala had said that he wasn’t “very enthusiastic about the idea” but pointed out that there was a historic precedent for the palm trees going back to the late 1800s in the same square and that, as such, the city’s superintendency had approved the plan, which also includes banana plants.

A bronze statue of a palm tree marks the exact center of the city in the St Sepulcher Church.

Northern League leader Matteo Salvini, nonetheless, had commented by saying that the planting of the trees was “madness.

Now we only need sand and camels for the illegal immigrants to feel at home”.

No alarm was raised during the night and only in the morning did the local police go to the scene, after a photo was circulated on Facebook. The authorities are checking surveillance camera footage. Salvini added that “I do not like it that a multinational comes and decides what to do in one of the most beautiful squares in the world. It is as if McDonald’s were to deck out St Mark’s Square and fill it with French fries everywhere, or (as if it were to do the same to) the Colosseum.”

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Italy: Boschi Calls Racism Body Chief in ‘Gay Sex Club’ Row

UNAR allegedly funded club that offered ‘dark room’ for sex

(ANSA) — Rome, February 20 — The head of Italy’s anti-racism and anti-discrimination office UNAR, Francesco Spano, was summoned to the premier’s office Monday after a TV report that seemed to show UNAR gave funding to a gay association running a sex club. Spano was summoned by the premiership undersecretary with the brief for equal opportunities, former reform minister Maria Elena Boschi.

The summons came amid calls for UNAR to be closed after the report by Mediaset show Le Iene, which screened footage that suggested the association offered members a ‘dark room’ for sex.

It also showed clips of masseurs offering to perform sexual acts for money.

The report said the association got around 50,000 euros in funding from UNAR.

It also said it had documents suggesting that UNAR chief Spano had been a member of the association, although Spano denied this.

“It is necessary to have clarification from the government on the public money allocated by UNAR,” the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) said in a statement, adding that one of its lawmakers would present a parliamentary question on the case. “What emerges is a disturbing scenario”.

Giorgia Meloni, the head of the small right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, called on Spano to quit and said UNAR should be closed “today”. Members of the right-wing Northern League and of Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right Forza Italia (FI) also called for the office to be shut down. UNAR Communications Chief Fernando Fracassi, meanwhile, said Monday that he and his family had been inundated with threats via Facebook and telephone after the Iene report. “I’d just like to say to those people who are filling my page with gratuitous insults and making anonymous phone calls to attack me in a violent way just because I work for UNAR that, unfortunately, you do not know how much dedication we perform our work with, from the director right down to the person who answers the Freefone,” Fracassi said.

“You don’t know the office and you are basing your judgements exclusively on a report that distorts reality…

“We do not finance associations, but only projects that have an exclusively social value and can contribute to fighting discrimination”. Photo: UNAR Director Francesco Spano meets Lower House Speaker Laura Boldrini.

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Jean-Claude Juncker: UK Faces Hefty Brexit Bill

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has warned the UK it faces a “very hefty” bill for Brexit.

He promised two years of “tough negotiation”, when discussions on leaving terms get under way between the government and the European Union.

Reports suggest the UK could have to pay the EU up to 60 billion euros (£51bn) after Brexit talks start.

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Le Pen Accused of ‘Improper Behaviour’ For Refusing Headscarf to Meet Muslim Leader

Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen sparked controversy on Tuesday when she refused to wear a headscarf to meet with Lebanon’s top Sunni Muslim cleric. Or was it all just a publicity stunt on both sides?

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Marine Le Pen Extends Lead in First Round of French Presidential Voting, Polls Find

MARINE Le Pen will beat her fellow French presidential hopefuls and is extending her lead over nearest rivals, a host of the latest polls have shown.

The Front National leader has cemented her position as the frontrunner to win the first round of voting in the French presidential election on April 23.

An Elabe poll has Marine Le Pen surging ahead of her nearest rivals and snatching 28 per cent of the vote, while her nearest rival and former frontrunner Francois Fillon loiters on 21 per cent of the vote.

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Norway Demands to be in EU Brexit Talks Revealing it’s Already Talking to UK

NORWAY has said it would like to be included in any transitional Brexit talks between the UK and EU.

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Paris Region Loses 1.5 Million Tourists Over Terror Fears

Tourism in the greater Paris region Île-de-France has been hit hard by terror fears, the latest figures show. But it’s turning around.

“In total, in 2016, hotel owners in Île-de-France welcomed 1.5 million fewer French and international tourists compared to 2015,” the Regional Tourism Committee reported on Tuesday.

While the average number of tourists visiting the region has only decreased by 0.8 percent, the drop was particularly sharp among some countries more than others.

There were 21.5 percent fewer Chinese tourists setting down their suitcases in the Paris region, and 41.2 percent fewer tourists from Japan checking in to hotels in the region.

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Sweden is Having a Good Time Trolling President Trump

Swedes and internet denizens of all nationalities began parodying the non-events with hashtags like #JeSuisIKEA.

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Sweden: Police Fired Upon Crowd Throwing Stones

Police opened fire late Monday on a crowd throwing stones at them in the northern Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby, which saw several cars burned and stores looted.

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Swedish Press Photographer Assaulted in Rinkeby Riots

A police officer trained his gun on rioters in the Rinkeby suburb of Stockholm on Monday night.

The riots started at around 8pm when police were making an arrest near the underground station in Rinkeby.

“Several people” threw rocks at the officers, according to police, who later confirmed that one officer had fired at rioters.

“But nobody has been found injured at the scene and we have checked the hospitals and there hasn’t been anyone with what could be gunshot wounds,” police spokesperson Lars Byström told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.

The unrest continued late into the night. At around 10.20pm police said that there had been a second violent riot, with seven to eight cars set on fire.

A photographer from Dagens Nyheter said he had been assaulted by a group of around 15 people when arriving in Rinkeby to report on the unrest.

“I was hit with a lot of punches and kicks both to my body and my head. I have spent the night in hospital,” he told the newspaper.

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Switzerland: Ten Arrested Over Attack on Pair at Winterthur Mosque

Police in the canton of Zurich arrested ten people on Tuesday morning suspected of attacking two others at the An’Nur mosque in Winterthur because they tipped off a journalist about a controversial sermon given by the mosque’s imam.

The ten suspects, aged between 17 and 53, were arrested after a raid on a dozen houses in the Winterthur area, the Zurich public prosecutor said in a statement on Tuesday.

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UK: Police Arrest Five Teenagers in London for Terror Offences

Scotland Yard did not elaborate on which organisation the teenagers were attempting to join, but confirmed the arrests came following raids at four different London homes last month.

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UK: Race-Hate Attacker Who Spat Into a Nine-Month-Old Baby’s Face and Shouted ‘White People Shouldn’t Breed’ at Her Mother Walks Free

An attacker spat into a nine-month-old baby’s face and shouted ‘white people shouldn’t breed’ in a sickening race-hate assault.

Rezzas Abdulla left little Layla-Jean, who was just nine months old and in her pushchair, covered in saliva after the shocking street attack in South Shields last January.

Newcastle Crown Court heard the baby’s mother, hairdresser Rebecca Telford, 25, was out walking with the baby when the 33-year-old attacker approached without warning.

Prosecutor Emma Dowling told the court: ‘He lent into the pushchair and spat into the face of her daughter.

‘As he did so, he shouted or said “white people shouldn’t breed”.’

The court heard that when the baby’s stunned mother confronted Abdulla, he told her to ‘shut the f*** up’ and walked off.

Miss Dowling told the court the spit was ‘sprayed around’ the baby’s face and a shocked passer by gave her a tissue to clean up.

Ms Telford tried to take a photograph of her baby’s attacker as he walked away but was too shaken by what had happened.

Abdulla, who has two previous convictions for race-hate attacks on white women, was later tracked down through CCTV.

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The judge said Abdulla’s deteriorating mental health at the time of the attack ‘contributed’ towards the offence.

Abdulla was sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, with rehabilitation and mental health treatment requirements.

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UK: Stoke-on-Trent Mosque Imam Charged With Terrorism Offences

An imam has appeared in court charged with a string of terrorism offences, including delivering sermons drumming up support for Islamic State.

Kamran Sabir Hussain, 39, from Stoke-on-Trent, is accused of encouraging support for the terror group, as well as influencing his congregation to carry out terrorist acts, at a mosque in the city.

His defence lawyer Matt Foot told Westminster Magistrates Court that Hussain will plead not guilty to two counts of delivering a sermon to the congregation to encourage support for Islamic State, and six counts of encouraging terrorism.

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Unusual Burial Unearthed in Transylvania

City News reports that students from Australian National University unearthed a total of 49 graves dating from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries in a cemetery belonging to Transylvania’s Székely people, who migrated to Transylvania from Hungary in the eleventh or twelfth century.

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USA Today — Would-be Dutch PM: Islam Threatens Our Way of Life

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — This country’s version of Donald Trump — but with more extreme anti-immigration and anti-Islam views — is counting on voters to give his right-wing party a chance next month to implement its controversial vision.

“Dutch values are based on Christianity, on Judaism, on humanism. Islam and freedom are not compatible,” populist politician Geert Wilders, 53, said in an interview with USA TODAY. “You see it in almost every country where it dominates. There is a total lack of freedom, civil society, rule of law, middle class; journalists, gays, apostates — they are all in trouble in those places. And we import it.”

Wilders wants to close all mosques, ban the Quran, the Muslim holy book, and seal the nation’s borders to asylum seekers and immigrants from Islamic countries to prevent the spread of Islam.

Trump wants a temporary halt in immigration from seven majority-Muslim nations, but he says his goal is to prevent terrorists from entering the United States.

Many Dutch voters find Wilders’ views repugnant, and he was convicted in December of inciting discrimination through hate speech. Yet his Party for Freedom is projected by polls to come in first in the March 15 national election, a closely watched test of populism’s growing spread in Europe after President Trump’s upset victory in the United States and Britain’s vote to leave the European Union last year.

Under the Netherlands’ multi-party system, coming in first doesn’t guarantee that Wilders will get to wield power. He would be forced to form a governing coalition with other parties, most of which have ruled out doing that. Plus his lead is narrowing as incumbent Prime Minister Mark Rutte has wooed the Dutch nationalist vote by shifting rightward.

Still, Wilders predicts a populist wave against free-flowing immigration and rules set by the European Union will continue to wash over Europe whether he prevails or not.

“Even if I lose this election, the genie will not go back in the bottle again,” he said. “People are fed up with the combination of mass immigration, Islamization and austerity measures that require us to cut pensions and support for health care and the elderly while giving (debt bailout) money to Greece and the euro zone.”

“People are not satisfied. They feel misrepresented,” he continued. “The process of a ‘patriotic spring’ won’t be stopped.”

Wilders believes his nation of 17 million — more than a fifth with a foreign background — has for too long tolerated high levels of immigration without demanding cultural assimilation. He calls Islam an ideology that poses an existential threat to core European values.

“For a long time, our society has been afraid to say, ‘No, this is our Dutch culture, we don’t treat women like that,’ and anyone who did was labelled a racist or bigot or hate-monger, and they are not,” Wilders said. They just believe we should be more proud of who we are.”

Wilders recently described Moroccan immigrants as “scum” who make the streets of the Netherlands unsafe. His conviction for hate speech was for leading a chant of “fewer, fewer” against Moroccans. Wilders has also compared the Quran to Mein Kampf, Hitler’s autobiography.

“On Islam, it is true that I am tough. Perhaps tougher than I should be if my only aim was to get votes,” Wilders said. “But I really believe in what I say, that the Islamic ideology is this huge threat.”

Wilders’ harsh views on Islam have placed him on al-Qaeda, Taliban and Islamic State assassination lists for more than a decade. He wears a bullet-proof vest in public, has an elaborate security detail and moves with his wife between safe houses.

In 2002, Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was murdered for his outspoken anti-Islam views. Two years later, Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker was killed by a Dutch-Moroccan Muslim for a short film he made that was critical of Islam’s treatment of women.

“I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I can’t even go on a spontaneous walk or to a restaurant without armored cars and police, but there is no alternative,” Wilderrs said. “If I stop or moderate my voice people who use or threaten violence against democracies would win. I will never let them win.”…

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What Would Norway be Like Without Oil Money?

What if there wasn’t as much as an ounce of oil under the North Sea? Would Norway be one of Europe’s poorest countries?

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Why Sweden is Not the ‘Rape Capital of the World

Is Sweden really a ‘rape capital’ as repeatedly suggested by sections of the international media? The Local consulted experts to get to the bottom of the matter.

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ISIS Egypt Affiliate: Christians Are Our ‘Favorite Prey’

An Islamic State affiliate released a video Monday vowing that Egyptian Christians are their “favorite prey,” showing images of a suicide bomber who killed nearly 30 people inside a packed Cairo church in December.

“God gave orders to kill every infidel,” one of the militants carrying an AK-47 assault rifle says in the 20-minute video.

The video shows footage of Egypt’s Coptic Christian Pope, Christian businessmen, judges and priests who either speak of the need to protect the minority or use derogatory terms to refer to Egypt’s Muslim majority. The narrator says Christians were no longer “dhimmis,” a reference to non-Muslims in Islam who enjoy a degree of state protection. Instead, the group describes the Christians as “infidels” who are empowering the West against Muslim nations.

The video shows footage of Abu Abdullah al-Masri, a masked militant who blew himself up at the central Cairo church in December, killing 28 people, most of which were women and children. The attack, says a narrator, was “only the beginning.

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‘Why Does US Consulate in Jerusalem Refuse to Hire Jews?’

Dear Senators Graham, Corker, Cotton, Paul, and Rubio,

I am a US citizen living in Israel. Over the past decades I have had numerous occasions to utilize the services of the US Consulate in Jerusalem. In all those years, I have observed that I have never seen a Jewish Israeli at any of the various service points where consular staff interact with the public.

All such staff are either from the US or local Arab staffers. Not only is this consistently the case at all consular services inside the consulate, but also it can be seen, shockingly, that even the security staff are often Arabs. I can assure you that there is no shortage of qualified Jewish Israelis who could fill such consular positions — and so the question is begged: is the US State Department systematically choosing, over the course of decades, to not hire Jewish Israelis, while singularly preferring all local staffers to be selected from the Arab population?

The second matter is different but definitely potentially connected to my first query. A perusal of consular activities as reflected on the official website shows that all programming efforts are geared towards and in concert with local Arab populations in eastern Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.

There is not a single mention of any cultural, political, educational, business, or any other consular activities or programming on behalf of or in cooperation with the Jewish residents of these areas. Further to this observation, State Department Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) grants in this area appear to be given only to either Arab grantees or to organizations that work to promote Arab civic, business, cultural, and other agendas in the region.[…]

[Could it be that the foggy mega-swamp is also wraycist and hates Jooz?]

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CIA-Backed Aid for Syrian Rebels Frozen After Islamist Attack — Sources

Halt in assistance, including salaries, training, ammunition and in some cases guided anti-tank missiles…

CIA-coordinated military aid for rebels in northwest Syria has been frozen since they came under major Islamist attack last month, rebel sources said, raising doubts about foreign support key to their war against President Bashar al-Assad.

Rebel officials said that no official explanation had been given for the move this month following the jihadist assault, though several said they believed the main objective was to prevent arms and cash falling into Islamist militant hands. But they said they expected the aid freeze to be temporary.

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Four Workers for Norway NGO Detained in Yemen

Four Yemenis working with the Norwegian Refugee Council have been detained in a rebel-held part of the country, the NGO said Monday.

The workers had distributed aid the insurgents allege is linked to Saudi Arabia.

In a statement, the NRC said authorities in the rebel-controlled Red Sea district of Hodeida detained three Yemeni staff and a contracted driver on Tuesday last week.

Local sources told AFP the employees were accused of having accepted and distributed aid from a Saudi-led coalition, which has been battling the Huthis since March 2015.

The NRC said it did not take funding from Saudi Arabia in any of its operations but had been using recycled boxes to distribute hygiene kits in Yemen.

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Saudis Kick Off $50 Billion Renewable Energy Plan to Cut Oil Use

Saudi Arabia is kicking off its $50 billion renewable-energy push as the world’s top crude exporter turns to solar and wind power to temper domestic oil use in meeting growing energy demand.

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‘Young Men Need This’ Twisted ISIS Militant Brags About ‘Raping More Than 200 Iraqi Women’

Amar Hussein said “young men need this. This is normal” during an interview after he had been captured by Kurdish forces during an assault on the city of Kirkuk in October that killed 99 civilians.

Hussein said his ‘emirs’, or local Islamic State commanders, gave him and others a green light to rape as many Yazidi and other women as they wanted.

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4 Dead Russian Ambassadors in 3 Months

Russia’s long time ambassador to the UN has died suddenly in New York — this is the fourth Russian diplomat who has died in the last 3 months.

Vitaly Churkin was one of the wisest voices in international diplomacy. His voice will no longer echo in the halls of the United Nations. Articulate, polite yet commanding, wise yet affable, he oversaw some of Russia’s and the world’s most important events in a position he occupied since 2006.

Churkin had to face a great deal of hostile criticism from both the Bush and Obama administrations during his time at the UN, but he always did so with grace. He never failed to explain the Russian position with the utmost clarity.

Standing next to some of his colleagues, he often looked like a titan in a room full of school children.

His death, a day before his 65th birthday, is a tragedy first and foremost for his family, friends and colleagues. It is also a deeply sad day for the cause of justice, international law and all of the principles of the UN Charter which Churkin admirably upheld in the face of great obstacles.

His death however raises many uncomfortable questions…

Here are 5 things that must be considered:

1. A Macabre Pattern Has Emerged

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Each death took place on foreign soil. Mr. Karlov’s killing in particular, exposed the weakness of his security contingent. If security was that weak in a comparatively volatile place like Turkey, it goes without saying that security in states considered more politically stable would be even more lax.

Again it must be said that a non-biased detective might say that the only pattern which has emerged is that many people in the Russian diplomatic corps and related institutions have heart attacks. Maybe they eat fatty foods every day and drink and smoke too much. But if this was this case, why are the heart attacks all on foreign soil?

If all of the former Ambassadors except Karlov were really in bad health, is it really just a coincidence that none of these men had a health scare on Russian soil? Again, a pattern has emerged.

[Comment: Globalists “suiciding” calm level headed diplomats that would be against WWIII?]

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“Moderate” Malaysia: Tens of Thousands Rally to Support Adoption of Islamic Penal Code

Tens of thousands of Malaysians rallied in the capital on Saturday to support the adoption of a strict Islamic penal code, a proposal religious minorities fear could infringe their rights.

Prime Minister Najib Razak has thrown his weight behind the contentious bill, which seeks to incorporate parts of the Islamic penal code, or “hudud”, into Malaysia’s existing Islamic legal system.

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Thai Junta Urged to Drop Case Against Anti-Torture Activists Who Reported ‘Grave Abuses’

Rights groups on Tuesday urged the Thai army to drop defamation charges against three activists over a landmark report on torture in the conflict-hit south, decrying the prosecution as an effort to silence critics.

More than 6,700 people — mostly civilians — have been killed in a near 13-year insurgency by Malay Muslim locals against the Thai state, which rules the region with emergency laws.

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Angelina Jolie Cooks Tarantulas for Her Children to Eat

Angelina Jolie cooked tarantulas for her and her children to eat on live television, although the actress has already eaten the delicacy before.

The 41-year-old actress-and-director is currently in Cambodia promoting her new movie ‘First They Killed My Father’ and showed her familiarity with local delicacies, including the arachnids, scorpions, and crickets, as she demonstrated how to prepare, cook and eat the grubs to her brood, Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10, and eight-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

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Blockade! Communist Chinese Close Strategic Water Way

Global elite pushing for WWIII to stop Trump from destroying NWO

The communist Chinese are positioning to try and trigger world war 3 as Donald Trump attempts to bring the world back from the edge.

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Chinese Police to Track Cars in Xinjiang in Terror Crackdown

Chinese authorities in part of the western Xinjiang region have ordered all vehicles to be installed with satellite tracking devices as part of a crackdown on terrorism.

The government wants an end to sporadic attacks in the province, which it blames on Islamist militants.

A police statement said cars are the main means of transport for terrorists.

Drivers in the Bayingol area who refuse to install the system will not be allowed to buy fuel.

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Philippines’ President Duterte is a ‘Sociopathic Serial Killer’ Who Should be Forced Out of Office, Senator Says

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is a “serial killer” who should be forced out of office, one of his chief critics said on Tuesday, as she faced arrest on drug charges she insisted were meant to silence her.

Senator Leila de Lima invoked a famous “People Power” revolution that toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos three decades ago, in her strongest comments yet against Duterte and his drug war that has claimed thousands of lives.

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Region in China’s Restive Xinjiang Orders Tracking of Vehicles as Anti-Terror Measure

Chinese authorities have ordered all motor vehicles in Bayingol prefecture in far western Xinjiang to be installed with mandatory satellite tracking devices, in the latest tough anti-terror measure targeting the ethnically divided region.

China has been stepping up already tight security in restive Xinjiang after a rise in violence in recent months.

Hundreds have been killed in Xinjiang in the past few years, mostly in unrest between the Muslim Uygur people, who call the region home, and the ethnic majority Han Chinese. Beijing blames the unrest on Islamist militants.

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Should We Eat Bugs Like Angelina Jolie?

Angelina Jolie cooked up a storm while promoting her latest film in Cambodia by eating bugs with her kids. The actress was seen frying a scorpion and eating the leg of a spider which she said had a “really good flavour”.

It’s estimated that by 2050 the world will be home to nine billion people, meaning current food production will need to almost double.

As the population grows, there’s been a real push to look at sources of food — particularly protein — other than your traditional meat and fish.

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Breaking: Aircraft Turned Into Fireball After Plummeting Into Melbourne Shopping Centre

A MASSIVE explosion has taken place after an aircraft crashed into a major shopping outlet in Melbourne — with fears growing for the lives of all those on board.

Plumes of smoke billowed into the air after the carrier thundered into Direct Factory Outlet, a centre close to Melbourne’s Essendon Airport in Australia.

Victoria Police reported the plane crash around 9am local time but have not yet released any information on the number of casualties.

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New Zealand Garden Gnome Thefts ‘Fund Meth Trade’

It’s not often that garden gnomes get caught up in a drug-related crime spree, but police in New Zealand say a spate of thefts from gardens is likely to be linked to the trade in methamphetamine.

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Youth Gang Attacks Summersault Festival Crowds in Melbourne

FESTIVAL goers were punched and kicked, and had phones, wallets and bags stolen, as a gang of up to 40 youths terrorised an event in Melbourne’s west on Saturday night.

Crowds at the Summersault Festival in Caroline Springs estimated about 30 to 40 teenagers of African descent went on a rampage through the event grounds about 10pm, as families gathered to watch the fireworks.

Jack McLaughlin, 16, was hospitalised after being jumped on and punched by a group, before his phone was stolen.

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Christine and Roger Solik Found Murdered in South Africa

A couple from south Wales have been found murdered in South Africa.

Police in South Africa believe the couple had been kidnapped from their home during a robbery on Friday.

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Malawi Albino Attack Survivor: ‘I Am Too Scared to Sleep’

Femia Tchulani survived an attempted kidnapping in Malawi by people wanting to kill her for her body parts. In Malawi, like other countries in the region, people with albinism are hunted down because of the belief that potions made from their body parts can bring good luck and wealth.

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Zimbabwe: As He Turns 93-Years-Old Today: Who is Robert Mugabe?

He is one of the continent’s longest-serving leaders. He is the only executive president his country has ever known. It’s been over three decades in charge of the southern Africa country, yet Robert Mugabe shows no signs of slowing down.

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Study: Venezuelans Lost 19 Lbs. On Average Over Past Year Due to Lack of Food

In a new sign that Venezuela’s financial crisis is morphing dangerously into a humanitarian one, a new nationwide survey shows that in the past year nearly 75 percent of the population lost an average of 19 pounds for lack of food.

The extreme poor said they dropped even more weight than that.

The 2016 Living Conditions Survey (Encovi, for its name in Spanish), conducted among 6,500 families, also found that as many as 32.5 percent eat only once or twice a day — the figure was 11.3 just a year ago.

In all, 82 percent of the nation’s households live in poverty, the study found.

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WikiLeaks ‘Will Not Respond to Pressure’ From Ecuador’s Presidential Candidates — Assange

Julian Assange has hit back at Ecuadorian presidential candidate Lenin Moreno for saying that the WikiLeaks founder should reduce his attempts to influence the politics of countries with which Ecuador has friendly relations.

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Angela Merkel’s Migrant Policy Attacked by Own Economic Adviser

ANGELA Merkel’s open door migrant policy has been slammed by one of her most senior economic advisors, saying those travelling from safe havens should have been rejected at the border.

Prof Hans-Werner Sinn, 68, is one of Germany’s leading economic experts and serves on the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Economics, cited research saying that the migrant crisis in Germany had cost the country in the region of £17billion (20bn euros) and would cost the country around £340bn (400bn euros) in the long-term.

Before retiring he held the chair of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Munich.

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Denver Police Ignore Immigration Officers’ Pleas, Release Alien Before Alleged Murder

Denver police have charged an illegal immigrant with murdering an American just one month after they released the alien from jail

Denver police have charged an illegal immigrant with murdering an American just one month after they released the alien from jail despite pleas from federal immigration officials.

The criminal illegal alien, Ever Valles, was arrested in February and charged with the murder of Tim Cruz, 32. The victim was waiting at the Sheridan light rail station when Valles and accomplice Nathan Valdez allegedly approached him with the intent to rob him, according to Fox 31, Denver.

Police say Valles and Valdez are seen on the rail station’s surveillance video after allegedly robbing and shooting Cruz. Both Valles and Valdez were arrested within days of the murder.

The Hispanic-American victim was a landscaper and a graduate of Denver’s Lincoln High School who had turned 32 only three weeks before his Feb. 7 murder.

The release-and-murder sequence has happened in other states, most notably, with the July 2015 murder of Kate Steinle in California by a released illegal alien.

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Dozens of Migrants Drown Off Libya

The bodies of 87 African migrants have washed ashore in the Libyan city of Zawiya, in the latest drowning tragedy to hit the region.

It is believed they were trying to cross the Mediterranean to Italy.

Migrant deaths have risen to record levels along this smuggling route in recent months.

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Germany Sex Attack: Iraqi Migrant ‘Raped 13-Year-Old Girl’

AN Iraqi migrant has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 13-year-old girl at a German railway station.

The unnamed migrant, 37, allegedly violently attacked the girl in Hamburg on November 2016, but fled the country before being detained in Hungary.

Hungarian authorities identified the man, who had used a string of different names and dates of birth, by his fingerprints after he tried to gain access to a holding camp in southern Hungary.

When authorities took his fingerprints they realised a European Arrest Warrant had been issued under one of his aliases.

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Glazov Gang: Trump and the Rape of Sweden

The media is now mocking President Trump for highlighting trouble in Sweden, and specifically for him using the words “last night” in referring to what, at first, seemed like a reference to a specific incident in that country. But as the president himself later explained, he was referring to an actual, accurate news report that was broadcast the night before on Fox News about Muslim immigration to Sweden. On Friday night, Tucker Carlson interviewed documentarian Ami Horowitz about his upcoming film about the surge in rape and violence that has accompanied the increase of immigration to Sweden.

While the president could have used better technical wording to make his point, his overall thesis was correct.

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Greece: Islanders Resist New Migrant Centers, Governors Assume Duties

Government plans to create pre-departure detention centers for migrants ineligible for refugee status have run into opposition from locals on Chios and other eastern Aegean islands, Kathimerini understands.

Authorities say the new facilities will accelerate returns to Turkey and, as a result, help reduce the numbers of migrants and refugees on the islands which currently total more than 14,000.

At the same time, islanders on Chios continued to obstruct the transfer of more container homes to the notorious Vial facility.

Authorities recently appointed a new police chief on Chios, fueling speculation among residents that there are plans afoot to break resistance by locals.

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Hungary and Austria Migrant Crisis: Countries Feud Over Migrant Deportation

HUNGARY has accused Austria of breaking Schengen zone rules for “illegally deporting migrants” back to its country.

The war of words broke out after a group of asylum seekers were allegedly “discarded” by the Austrians.

Head of Hungarian border police, Laszlo Balazs, blasted the act as “illegal”.

He said: “According to Schengen rules, such deportations can only be carried out in consultation with the Hungarian authorities.

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‘I Am Ready to Do Anything to Reach Europe and Provide for My Family’

“I left school and came to Morocco last July, passing through Mali and Algeria,” he said.

He spent several months in a run-down suburb of the capital Rabat before heading for a forest near Ceuta, where he lived in the most basic conditions.

Both from Cameroon, they started their long and gruelling odyssey three years ago, wandering through several Moroccan cities before trying their luck at entering Ceuta.

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Insider Reveals ‘What’s Happening’ In Immigrant-Loving Sweden

“Gun shots and explosions, which were non-existent when I first came to peaceful Sweden in 2005, are now common,” the contractor said. “I can assure you 100 percent it is NOT Swedish people doing this. Some of my family members have been robbed multiple times in recent years. Flaming cars, dumpsters, schools and anything else that can be set on fire is no longer even newsworthy because it is such a common sight. Children get murdered on the streets now. Drug dealing and attacks and gang activity occur openly in ‘ no-go zones’ in the big cities, and the media just lie about it as if we don’ t have eyes.”

The man claimed he has spent time with Asian and Latin American immigrant friends in some of the dangerous areas of Swedish cities.

“What I have seen there is flagrant criminality, out in the open, with absolutely no consequences or even the slightest fear of consequences,” he revealed. “The police all know this. When the police do come in to those immigrant areas, they come in huge groups because they know they will be brutalized, pelted with rocks, bombed with fireworks, spit on and who knows what else and if they react there will be riots and other terror.”

He said even the native Swedes, who are naturally averse to voicing controversial opinions, are now discussing the reality of migrant crime with their families and friends — despite the real risk of prosecution or employer retaliation.

“Sweden is facing a crisis of enormous proportions, and no amount of fake media and politician denials can conceal it any longer to anybody who lives in Sweden,” he said. “We are being asked to stop believing our lying eyes, but eventually we have to face up to the facts.”

[Comment: When the time comes Swedish citizens should remember their traitorous globalist politicians and lying media that engineered this destruction of their country. ]

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Inside the Deadly Pirate Corridor Where Migrants Escape to Europe

EU policy has stagnated while illegal migrant routes proliferate.

The past few years of chaos in Libya have opened a path through that country to Europe, and Ahmed’s journey was typical. He was headed for Italy through the central Mediterranean route, which can start deep within Africa.

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Italy: Immigrant Residency Permit Racket Busted

171 probed, 11 arrests in Lombardy

(ANSA) — Milan, February 20 — Italian police on Monday said they had broken up a racket giving residency permits to illegal immigrants via fake job hiring.

Police placed 171 people under investigation across Lombardy and made 11 arrests in the Monza-based probe.

They said the gang had set up more than 30 fake companies.

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J K Rowling Asked to Take in Refugees in Her 18 Spare Rooms

An online petition has asked Harry Potter author J K Rowling, who has been an ardent supporter of allowing refugees from the Middle-East, to give shelter to 18 refugees in each of her 18 spare rooms. The petition has been started on the platform change.org, and the name of the petitioner is shown as Marcus Aurelius, from France.

The petition first details Rowling’s continued advocacy for open borders and allowing refugees into Europe and then alleges her and other rich elites to be ‘disconnected from the ugly reality.’ The petitioner claims Rowling has a total of 18 spare rooms combined in all her mansions in Britain, and then makes the case that she should provide long-term housing to 18 refugees, and also provide refugee shelters at the space available on her property.

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Liberal Government ‘Testing the Limits’ of Canadians’ Attitudes to Refugees: Poll

A majority of Canadians generally approve of the Liberal government’s approach to refugees, but Ottawa may be “testing the limits” of how many migrants they are willing to accept, a new poll shows.

While 47 per cent of respondents believe Canada is taking in “about the right number” of refugees, 41 per cent said the number is “already too high,” according to the survey by the non-profit Angus Reid Institute. Eleven per cent said they’d like to see Canada open its doors to even more refugees.

[Comment: Commie liberals seeking to find the pitchfork limit of citizens.]

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Lorry Driver Shares Harrowing Story of Calais Migrant Ambush

A LORRY driver has shared a harrowing story of the desperate attempts made by migrants to try to smuggle themselves into Britain.

Adrian, a Romanian, claimed he is often left powerless to resist as refugees ,sleeping in Calais, block road in a bid to stow themselves away on trucks to cross the Channel.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the driver said: “They can hide underneath on the axels, sometimes between the cab and the trailer and on the back of the trailer as well.”

Adrian added while feeling “sorry for them”, his “life is put in danger” as they attempt to smuggle themselves out of Calais.

“It happens just a month ago, they blocked the road,” he said.

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Migrants Drown After Traffickers Steal Their Boat’s Motor at Gunpoint

The bodies of 74 drowned African migrants have washed ashore in Libya, leading to speculation people traffickers removed the motor from their boat during the treacherous Mediterranean crossing.

It is claimed the refugees making the treacherous trip to Europe from Libya came into difficulty after human traffickers intercepted their vessel at sea and stole its motor at gunpoint, according to the Libya Observer.

However, a spokesman for Libya’s Red Crescent said the circumstances of the drowning was unknown.

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Polish Border Guard Discover Group of 13 Migrants Hiding in a Lorry

A STOWAWAY group of 13 migrants was caught hiding in the back of a lorry with Turkish license plates crossing into Poland.

Border control officers of the Silesian district stopped two lorries for a routine check-up where they discovered a group of men and women with children.

The vehicles were halted on the A4 highway in the south of Poland near the town of Niemodlin, at a service stop.

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Refugee Assistance NGO Chief Concerned About Finland’s Deportations

The head of a local NGO that assists refugees in Finland says she is concerned that officials may be deporting migrants who have yet to receive final decisions regarding their asylum applications. She said some migrants who’ve decided to return to their home countries may not have fully understood the complex asylum application and appeals process in Finland.

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Rioting Erupts in Immigrant-Dominated Swedish Suburb

Riots erupted in a heavily immigrant Stockholm suburb Monday night, as masked looters set cars ablaze and threw rocks at cops, injuring one police officer, Swedish officials said.

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Soros-Funded Org Urges ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Journalistic Vocabulary on Immigration

An Italian lobby group is insisting on purging journalistic language of all references to migrants that could carry a negative connotation, including such terms as “illegal immigrants.”

The list of forbidden terms to be expunged from news reporting comprises expressions that underscore the ethnicity of certain migrant groups or their illegal status. Terms like “clandestini” (clandestine migrants), “zingari” (gypsies), “nomadi” (nomads), “extracomunitari” (those coming from outside the European Union) and others like them are marked for extermination.

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Sweden Riot: Police Forced to Shoot at Protestors as Violence Erupts — Yet PM is in Denial

SWEDEN’S capital was plunged into chaos on Monday

SWEDEN’S capital was plunged into chaos on Monday as police were forced to fire at rioters after a violence erupted in an area described as high risk.

The terrifying scenes took place just hours after the country’s Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, slammed Donald Trump for claiming Sweden was in crisis as a result of its liberal refugee policy.

Stockholm police were forced to fire a shot into the rampaging crowd in the hard-hit suburb of Rinkeby, after a mob of around 30 thugs started attacking the officers with rocks.

Violence erupted after the police had tried to arrest a wanted person on the subway.

[Comment: PM is not in denial, he is a traitor to his nation state.]

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Sweden Refuses to Find Statistics on Immigrant Crime

(DAILYCALLER) — While many governments collect exhaustive data of crime trends to measure public safety, Sweden refuses to disclose any statistics on crime committed by immigrants in the country.

The last time statistics on immigrant crime were collected in Sweden was over a decade ago in 2005.

During that time, there has been high levels of migration into Sweden, with hundreds of thousands of immigrants coming from Muslim countries like Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Somalia.

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Sweden on the Brink? Police Force Pushed to Breaking Point by Violence Amid Migrant Influx

SWEDEN is on the brink of becoming a lawless state as the police force is losing the battle against unprecedented levels of crime and violence amid a growing migrant crisis.

The Scandinavian country is facing an existential crisis with on average three police officers handing in their resignations a day.

If the alarming trend continues, and police officers continue to resign more than 1,000 officers will have quit the service by New Years.

Since the migrant crisis began last summer, Sweden has been hit by a series of brutal crimes and violent incidents.

In 2015 alone Sweden, with a population of 9.5million, received over 160,000 asylum applications and the country is expected to take as many as 190,000 refugees, or two per cent of the population, by the end of 2016.

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Sweden: Riots and Looting in Stockholm

The Stockholm suburb Rinkeby was plagued by immigrant related riots, looting and violence Monday night. On duty officers were attacked by stone throwers, shots were fired and hundreds of police officers and firemen were called up to quell the violence and put out the fires.

A police patrol is carrying out a routine police operation. A wanted criminal has been spotted and arrested close to the Metro station in Rinkeby; a suburb in west Stockholm where more than 75 percent of the population has foreign background ackording to official statistics.

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Sweden Riot: Police Forced to Shoot at Protestors as Violence Erupts — Yet PM is in Denial

The terrifying scenes took place just hours after the country’s Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, slammed Donald Trump for claiming Sweden was in crisis as a result of its liberal refugee policy.

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Sweden Rocked by Riots in the Midst of Trump Argument

MALMO, Sweden — Violent riots broke out in a Stockholm neighborhood Monday night in the midst of an argument between U.S. President Donald Trump and the Swedish government over immigration policies in the country.

Riots erupted around 8 p.m. in Rinkeby — an area with a large immigrant population — after police tried to arrest a man in relation to an investigation. Masked men threw rocks at police, set cars on fire and robbed businesses.

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‘Trump Was Right’: Migrants Riot, Loot, Fight With Police and Set Cars on Fire in Sweden

While the media was dismissing Trump, riots were breaking out in the immigrant suburb of Rinkeby in Stockholm

While the media was busy Monday trying to dismiss Trump’s claims of troubles in Sweden, riots were breaking out in the immigrant suburb of Rinkeby in Stockholm.

– From FriaTider.se (translated with Google):

DOMESTIC. It is now very unsettled in the immigrant suburb of Rinkeby in Stockholm. Police officers have been subjected to stone throwing, warning shots have been fired, shops have been looted, shopkeepers are beaten and several cars on fire. A huge police operation at the site.

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Zimbabwe Arrests and Deports African Invaders

Hundreds of illegal immigrants from Ethiopia, Somalia, and Malawi have been arrested in Zimbabwe since the beginning of 2017 and have been forcibly deported back to their home countries-all with the active help and cooperation of the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration, it has emerged.

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Is Sweden’s Feminist Agenda Working?

“The first feminist government in the world” — that is how the Swedish government describes itself. So how is that feminist agenda taking effect?

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Jacksonville Rallies Mayor to Veto LGBT Law

JACKSONVILLE, FL — Liberty Counsel released a three-page legal memorandum today proving that Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry can still legally veto the so-called “Human Rights Ordinance” (HRO), 2017-15, passed by the City Council last week. The ordinance is not final law until after the next City Council meeting on Tuesday, February 28, 2017.

The research and memo was prepared by Liberty Counsel’s Assistant Vice President of Legal Affairs, Roger Gannam, a former long-time Jacksonville resident. Gannam previously testified at a specially-called city council meeting against the proposed ordinance that would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes under Jacksonville law. The HRO was previously defeated twice in Jacksonville, with help from Liberty Counsel and others. However, radical leftist activists are trying to impose this special LGBT rights ordinance on Jacksonville’s citizens and businesses, hoping to implement its most objectionable provisions through deceptive language.

The General Counsel has erroneously claimed that the HRO is final law, and therefore the mayor is unable to veto it. The legal memo clearly demonstrates this is not correct from a review of the City Charter provisions.

Because Mayor Curry still has the legal power to veto the HRO, hundreds of Jacksonville women are gathering this Wednesday, February 22, 2017, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., for a rally and press conference outside on the sidewalks around City Hall and in Hemming Plaza. At 12:30 p.m., various women are scheduled to make public statements to the media urging the mayor to veto the HRO because the law would force them and their daughters to shower, dress and use bathrooms with men.

“We urge Mayor Curry to do the right thing and veto this ridiculous ‘Human Rights Ordinance,’“ said Gannam. “Jacksonville does not have an LGBT discrimination problem that needs to be solved. This law unnecessarily puts women in harm’s way by opening their facilities to men, and forces Jacksonville’s businesses and citizens to celebrate the same-sex relationships of others under threat of fines and even loss of their business.”

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Piers Morgan Withdraws From Hosting Awards Show After SJW Outrage

Morgan’s rude awakening continues to play out

Piers Morgan has pulled out of hosting a television awards ceremony after social justice warriors mounted a campaign to have him sacked.

At the time, the Royal Television Society, said: “Morgan’s reputation for being opinionated and his wealth of experience working within the industry make him the perfect host and we look forward to a lively event.”

That didn’t go down well with the professionally offended, with campaigners saying he lacked the ‘creative excellence’ criteria required to host such an event and that his presence would be damaging and inappropriate.

Given that Morgan has hosted a variety of shows over the last decade, this line of reasoning just doesn’t add up.

They also claimed he failed to understand a social movement that values equality and diversity of voice. Ahh, it makes sense now. Poor Piers is being ‘no-platformed’ because he’s a friend of the Donald.

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Salon.Com Removes Pro-Pedophilia Articles Written by Todd Nickerson From Its Website

The ultra-liberal website, Salon, has begun to remove articles from their website that attempted to justify pedophilia. Yes, you read that correctly, Salon published content normalizing Pedophilia.

– — – From Truth Revolt (05/2016):…

Salon has since removed the article from it’s website but unfortunately for Salon internet archives exist that will allow truth seekers to see the filth that was promoted by Salon when they decided to publish the article.

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How You Can Fix a Dent in Your Car [Plastic] Bumper With Nothing More Than a Saucepan of Boiling Water

If you have ever considered paying a costly mechanic to repair an unsightly dent in your car, then think again.

A genius hack allows you to mend your battered bumper with nothing more than boiling water.

This video shows the owner of a white car dousing a dent with scalding water from a saucepan. Quite why he was not wearing any shoes is not known.

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5 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/21/2017

  1. re. ‘A Mystery of Secret Eel Migration Solved.

    Looking at the photograph in the article it appears the the tracker unit is quite large relative to the size of the eel. Would this not result in a drag affect reducing the aquadynamic efficiency of the eel thus causing its overall journey time to be greater than that of an eel that is not tagged?

  2. Le Pen’s standing with the French patriots and people, can only improve after her rebuking an item of Islamic submission.

    Well done Marine Le Pen, a true French Patriot.

  3. It’s refreshing to see that Marine Le Pen refused to wear the Islamic head scarf when required to do so by the Grand Mufti. Her reaction was quick, unequivocal, and honest. She obviously understands the true meaning behind the head scarf. Good for her!

    We are constantly told that we must respect the practice of wearing head coverings, burkas, and niqabs, — it’s their religion, it’s their culture, it’s just a piece of cloth, and so on. But the fact that a non-Muslim woman is required to wear one, as in this instance, shows that there is a much broader significance to that “piece of cloth.” The Grand Mufti could have dropped his requirement and the meeting could have taken place. But to have done so would mean that his purported superiority of gender would have been negated. Also, on another level, this Muslim cleric tried unsuccessfully to impose his will on a Western public figure.

    Le Pen knows all this and responded magnificently.

  4. Marine sure beats toady Obama’s Godforsaken grovelling to the enemies of civilisation. Barry is still out there creating mischief while the rest of us try to break the siege – so to speak.

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