Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/25/2017

A man crashed his car (some versions say pickup truck) into a crowd during Mardi Gras revelries in New Orleans, injuring 21 people. The driver, who is now in police custody, was reportedly highly intoxicated at the time of the incident.

In other news, Former Labor Secretary Thomas Perez beat out Congressman Keith Ellison and was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Perez immediately appointed Rep. Ellison as his deputy.

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Financial Crisis
» Could Holland Ditch the Euro?
 
USA
» A Global Alliance of Witches Plans to Cast a ‘Binding Spell’ On Trump and His Supporters Every Month During the Crescent Moon
» Amid CNN Leaks, Sleuths Say Nearly Half of CNN’s Twitter Followers Fake
» Congress Investigates Fraudulent Science Used by NOAA to Push UN Global Warming Treaty
» Disband the NSA — Now!
» ‘Fake News’ Media Outlets CNN, NYT, BuzzFeed Not Invited to White House Presser
» Former Labor Sec. Perez Elected as Democratic National Committee Chairman
» Full Speech, Transcript: President Trump Slams ‘Fake News’ Media at CPAC
» GE, Intel, AT&T Team up to Put Cameras, Mics in San Diego
» How Angry Will You be if the Republicans in Congress Do Not Repeal ObamaCare?
» Hubble Cooperates on Galaxy Cluster and Cosmic Background
» Lana Del Rey Joins Effort to Defeat Trump With Witchcraft
» Most Scientists ‘Can’t Replicate Studies by Their Peers’
» Pentagon Told to Refer to Terrorist Group Islamic State Same Way Trump Does
» Podesta Falsely Claims Trump, Infowars Held Pizzagate Conference Calls
» Police: Car Plows Into Parade Crowd in New Orleans; 21 Injured and Suspect in Custody
» President Trump to Skip White House Correspondents’ Dinner
» Street Artist Mocks Hollywood ‘A**holes’ Unwatchable Movies’ With Fake Oscars Posters (Photos)
» Traitor: Republican Senator Says No to Repealing ObamaCare
» Trump Opts to Keep Anti-Trump Obama Appointees at VA
» Trump-Reagan Parallels Are Scary, But Not for the Reasons Critics Think
» Trump’s National Security Adviser Reportedly Says Label ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism’ Not Helpful
» Trump Says Not Going to White House Correspondents Dinner
» Witches Cast ‘Mass Spell’ Against Donald Trump
 
Canada
» In Ontario, The Taxpayers Sustain Wynne’s Green Energy Perpetual Motion Disaster
 
Europe and the EU
» BBC Dismayed at German ‘BND Spying on Journalists’
» Despite Arrest of Top Advisor and Bodyguard, New Poll Shows Le Pen is Mightier Than Les Globalists
» France: Two Jewish Brothers ‘Assaulted With Hacksaw’ In Paris Suburbs
» French Farmers Hope Marine Le Pen Will Free Them From EU ‘Straitjacket’
» Germany: Man Hits 3 With Car and Flees, Is Shot by Police
» Germany Kicks Off Six Days of Carnival Despite Higher Security
» German Intelligence Warns of Massive Increase in Islamists
» One Dead, Two Injured in Heidelberg Car Attack
» Semyon Gluzman: Meeting a Soviet-Era Dissident Again After 35 Years
» Two Terror-Plot Charges in France
» UK: Evangelical Christian Preachers Confronted by Angry Mob After They Shouted Slogans About Mohammed and Allah Face Religious Abuse Trial
» UK: Five London Teenagers Charged With Terror Offences Over Suspected ‘Plan to Fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq’
 
North Africa
» Christians Flee Egypt’s Sinai After Militant Killings
 
Middle East
» Conditions Deteriorate in West Mosul as Iraqi Advances Slow
» Pakistan Airline Admits Taking Extra Passengers in Aisle
 
South Asia
» Bangladesh Muslims Protest Against Justice Goddess Statue
» Kim Jong-Nam Killing: Malaysia Airport Terminal Declared Safe
 
Far East
» Beijing Vows to ‘Fully Enforce’ UN Sanctions Against Pyongyang, Despite Being ‘Friendly Neighbour’
» China Will Take ‘Necessary Steps’ For Security if North Korean Regime Collapses
» China Overtakes US as Germany’s Top Trade Partner
» Chinese Minister Appeals to Washington to Avoid ‘Trade War’
» Leila De Lima: Top Duterte Critic Arrested on Drug Charge
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Nigerian Kidnappers Demand $200,000 for German Scientists
» South Africa Clashes at Anti-Foreigner Protest in Pretoria
 
Immigration
» 136 Turks With Diplomatic Status Sought Asylum in Germany Since Putsch
» 80 Percent of Dutch Voters Concerned About Immigration
» Brawl at German Refugee Centre Between Gambians and Albanians
» Donald Trump Badmouths Sweden, Germany and Paris in One Go
» France: Hollande Hit Backs at Trump Over Paris Criticism
» Hungary to Build Second Border Fence to Stop Migrants
» In Latest Intel Mutiny Against Trump, DHS Analysts Say White House Travel Ban is Wrong
» Le Pen Rival: Whole World Moving to Europe in Coming Decades, Deal With it
» Morocco is Blackmailing EU Using Migrants as Leverage
» Starbucks Brand Crashes After Announcement of Plan to Hire 10,000 Muslim ‘Refugees’
» Sweden: Trump’s Wrong, It’s ‘Quiet and Safe’ In Malmo
» Sweden Fires Back at Trump With ‘Facts’
» Trump Was Right About Sweden: Alternative Media Avpixlat News Editor and Broadcaster Comment
 
Culture Wars
» Protesters Freak Out, Yell “Lucifer!” After GOP Town Hall Opens With a Prayer
 
General
» Tyranny of the Minority
 

Could Holland Ditch the Euro?

Dutch MPs order probe into whether Netherlands could leave the single currency — and how.

Dutch MPs are considering whether the Netherlands could ditch the Euro, after ordering a report on the future of the currency.

The country’s relationship with the single currency is set to be debated in parliament once the findings are published.

The probe, which will also look at how Holland might be able to pull out of the Euro, was prompted by concerns the European Central Bank’s ultra-low interest rates are hurting Dutch savers.

The debate on the Euro will come after the country’s elections in March, which is expected to change the make-up of parliament dramatically.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

A Global Alliance of Witches Plans to Cast a ‘Binding Spell’ On Trump and His Supporters Every Month During the Crescent Moon

At the stroke of midnight on Friday, a global alliance of thousands of witches plans to cast a “ binding spell” on Donald Trump and all of his supporters. This event is being spearheaded by some very prominent members of the witchcraft community, but it has also attracted the attention of a wide range of other people that are into the dark acts. Under the crescent moon, a very strange ritual will be performed at locations all across America and all around the world once the clock strikes midnight. And those organizing this event plan to keep it going once a month until Donald Trump is removed from office.

There is a Facebook page which is promoting this cause, and it has already been liked by more than 7,000 people. In comparison, my recently created Facebook page has only been liked by about 3,000 people. So this is not just a small handful of occultists that we are talking about.

As word of this has gotten out, it has made headlines all over the planet, and so this is going to be a truly global occult ritual. The following comes from the Daily Mail…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Amid CNN Leaks, Sleuths Say Nearly Half of CNN’s Twitter Followers Fake

Bogus #CNNLeaks screenshot leads to real discovery

A fake screenshot intended to discredit the Project Veritas CNN leaks has led to Twitter users discovering that, in reality, over half of the network’s followers are likely fake.

The phony image purports to represent a quote from Arthur Brice, Executive Editor of CNN, saying, “Yes. Go you need to buy automatic retweets so it adds a level of social acceptance, and obviously buy followers every month so you look like your popularity is growing and thus, they will believe what you say.”

While Brice was indeed featured in the short video of James O’Keefe explaining “CNN Leaks: Part I”, this supposed quote was found nowhere in the presentation, the text format doesn’t match that of the Project Veritas style, and the “Go” typo would also be out of character for Veritas.

It’s unknown whether the image was concocted by dishonest CNN trolls or planted by propagandists seeking to discredit the thousands of citizen journalists, but it has already circulated heavily through social media.

Despite the inauthentic nature of the quote, it has lead to an interesting discovery.

An audit of CNN’s Twitter account reveals that their most recent rating reflected an abysmal 46% real followers, 54% fake.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Congress Investigates Fraudulent Science Used by NOAA to Push UN Global Warming Treaty

In 2015, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, requested the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide his committee with the data the agency had used to produce a controversial report on global warming. The report, written by Dr. Thomas R. Karl, director of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, and published online in the journal Science, was desperately needed by the Obama administration at that time. Why? Because President Obama was heading to the United Nations Climate Summit in Paris, where he and other world leaders intended to conclude a new global compact. However, they were facing a major roadblock to their grandiose plans: the “pause.”

Contrary to the non-stop fright-peddling by the politicians and the hysterical media reports, global surface temperatures had remained flat for the past two decades. The modest, gradual rise in temperatures over much of the past century, insisted the more sensible climate scientists, was likely nothing more than natural, cyclical climate variation, and certainly nothing to panic about. However, even many of the most ardent global warming alarmists had been forced to admit that global temperatures, in defiance of alarmist predictions, had failed to rise since 1998. Among them was Prof. Phil Jones, the main character at the center of the infamous Climategate scandal at the University of East Anglia. Dr. Jones reluctantly acknowledged in 2015 that there had been no “statistically significant” warming for the previous 15 years. This pause in warming (also called a “hiatus,” “plateau,” or “slow-down” in the climate literature) obviously, presented a huge problem to advocates of global governance, since the world’s peoples — and particularly Americans — are much less likely to accept the incredibly oppressive and outrageously expensive (as much as $100 trillion, or more, over the next century) draconian controls proposed by the UN if there is no credible evidence of an approaching climate apocalypse.

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

Disband the NSA — Now!

by Servando Gonzalez

Contrary to some disinformers’ claims, far from accumulating failures, the CIA has always been one of the most successful organizations created by the U.S. Government. The problem is that the CIA has never worked for the American taxpayers, the people that foot the bill. Actually, the CIA is just one of the tools the globalist conspirators entrenched in the Council on Foreign Relations use in the pursuit of their hidden goal: the creation of a communo-fascist global government controlled by Wall Street bankers, oil magnates and multinational corporations -what they euphemistically call the New World Order.

In the same fashion, the globalist conspirators created the National Security Agency, ostensibly for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). But, following the similar pattern created by the CIA, this gigantic spying mechanism created by the NSA failed miserably to alert the U.S. government about the attacks on September 11, 2001.

The huge extent of the NSA’s spying, both foreign and domestic, was revealed to the American people by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in a series of detailed disclosures of internal NSA documents beginning in June 2013. Most of the disclosures leaked by Snowden were telephone intercepts and Internet communications of over a billion people worldwide, mostly about economics and private conversations of leaders of foreign countries, many of them U.S. friends.

After this NSA whistleblower revealed the extent and depth of the NSA’s surveillance on friendly global leaders and even American citizens, it showed that the true job of the NSA differed considerably from the one stated in their mission. Even in the aftermath of Snowden’s revelations, the House failed to pass an amendment defunding the NSA’s warrantless spying on U.S. citizens.

However, in order to understand the House’s reluctance to clip the NSA’s long tentacles it is necessary to know the true reasons why it was created.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Fake News’ Media Outlets CNN, NYT, BuzzFeed Not Invited to White House Presser

“I want you all to know we are fighting the fake news — fixed, phony, fake”

Reporters for media outlets dubbed “fake news” by US President Donald Trump were upset Friday after they did not receive an invite to an informal White House press briefing.

Several members of former Obama administration lapdog media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, Buzzfeed, The Los Angeles Times and others, complained they were unable to access the exclusive presser, known as a “gaggle,” while right-leaning outlets such as The Washington Times and Breitbart were allowed to enter.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Former Labor Sec. Perez Elected as Democratic National Committee Chairman

Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez on Saturday was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, defeating top-rival Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, in their respective bids to chart the direction of the national party.

Perez was elected after two rounds of balloting in Atlanta at the party’s annual winter meeting. He received 235 votes, crossing the threshold of 218 ballots.

“We are at a turning point for our party and for all Americans,” Perez said after his victory. “By getting back to basics, we can turn the Democratic Party around, take the fight to (President) Donald Trump, and win elections from school board to the Senate.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Full Speech, Transcript: President Trump Slams ‘Fake News’ Media at CPAC

“The ‘fake news’ doesn’t tell the truth”

But the First Amendment gives all of us, gives it to me, to you, to all Americans, the right to speak our minds freely. It gives you the right and me the right to criticize fake news and criticize it strongly. And many are part of the large media corporations that have their own agenda and it is not your agenda and not the country’s agenda, their own agenda. They have a professional obligation as members of the press to report honestly. But as you saw throughout the entire campaign, and even now, the fake news doesn’t tell the truth. Doesn’t tell the truth. So just in finishing, I say it doesn’t represent the people, it doesn’t tell the — never will represent the people and we’re going to do something about it because we have to go out and have to speak our minds and we have to be honest. Our victory was a win like nobody has ever seen before. [applause]

I’m here fighting for you and I will continue to fight for you, the victory and the win were something that really was dedicated to a country and people that believe in freedom, security and the rule of law. Our victory — [applause]

– — was the victory and the win for conservative values. And our victory was a win for everyone who believes it’s time to stand up for America, to stand up for the American worker and to stand up for the American flag. [applause]

Yeah, well we should stand up. Come on. There we should stand up. And by the way, we love our flag, by the way, you folks are in here, this place is packed, there are lines that go back six blocks and I tell you that because you won’t read about it, okay. There are lines that go back six blocks, there is such love in this country for everything we stand for, you saw that on election day. [applause]

[…]

I’ve also followed through on my campaign promise and withdrawn America from the Transpacific Partnership. We can protect our economic freedom and we’re going to make trade deals, but we’re going to do one-on-one and one-on-one and if they misbehave, we terminate the deal. They will come back and we’ll make a better deal. None of the quagmire deals. Look at NAFTA, one of the worst deals made by any country having to do with economic development, it is economic “un-development” as far as our country is concerned. We are preparing to repeal and replace disaster known as Obamacare. We’re going to save Americans from this crisis and give them the access to the quality healthcare they need and deserve. We have authorized the construction, one day, of the Keystone and Dakota Access pipeline. [applause]

And issued a new rule that took place while I was getting ready to sign. I said who makes the pipe for the pipeline? Well, sir, it comes from all over the world, isn’t that wonderful? Nope, it comes from the United States or we are not building them. American steel. If they want a pipeline in the United States, they’re going to use pipe that’s made in the United States. Do we agree? [applause]

Can you imagine, I told this story the other day. Can you imagine the gentleman never met him, don’t know the name of his company, I sort of know it, I want to get it exactly correct. Big, big powerful company. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the pipeline, same with Dakota, difference place, got approval and everything in the case of Dakota and they couldn’t connect it because they had people protesting that never showed up before. With the Keystone, they spent hundreds of millions of dollars with block sucker consultants sucking the blood out of the company. Don’t worry, I used them all my life, don’t worry, we will get it approved, I’m connected, I’m a lobbyist, don’t worry. Bottom line, Obama didn’t sign it. Could be 42,000 jobs somewhere around there, a lot of jobs. Didn’t sign it. Can you imagine, he gave up. It was dead. Now he’s doing nothing, calling his wife, hello, darling, I’m bored, that pipeline, that has killed us, killed our company. Knock, knock, Mr. So-and-so, the Keystone pipeline, sir, out of nowhere has just been approved. Now can you imagine the expression and you know the sad part, the same blood-sucking consultants that hit him for all the money that failed will go back to him and say, didn’t we do a great job, we want more money. Right? That is the way the system works, a little bit off, but that is the way the system works. We’re preparing bold action to lift the restrictions on American energy, including shell shale oil, natural gas and beautiful, clean coal and put the miners back to work. Miners are going back to work. [applause]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

GE, Intel, AT&T Team up to Put Cameras, Mics in San Diego

3,200 street lights are being put up around the city

General Electric will put cameras, microphones and sensors on 3,200 street lights in San Diego this year, marking the first large-scale use of “smart city” tools GE says can help monitor traffic and pinpoint crime, but raising potential privacy concerns.

Based on technology from GE’s Current division, Intel Corp and AT&T Inc, the system will use sensing nodes on light poles to locate gunshots, estimate crowd sizes, check vehicle speeds and other tasks, GE and the city said on Wednesday. The city will provide the data to entrepreneurs and students to develop applications.

Companies expect a growing market for such systems as cities seek better data to plan and run their operations. San Diego is a test of “internet of things” technology that GE Current provides for commercial buildings and industrial sites.

[Comment: Internet of Things = massive real time surveillance grid. The hype of IoT is being used to brainwash the population into building their own panopticon prison matrix.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

How Angry Will You be if the Republicans in Congress Do Not Repeal ObamaCare?

Top Republicans are now publicly saying that Obamacare will never be fully repealed. In fact, many Republicans in Congress are already using the term “ repair” instead of “ repeal” to describe what is going to happen to Barack Obama’ s signature healthcare law. Without a doubt, the Republicans in Congress are eventually going to do something, but strategists in both parties are now suggesting that most of the key elements of Obamacare are going to remain once everything is all said and done. It will be put into a more “ conservative” package, but it will still be Obamacare.

On Thursday, former House Speaker John Boehner made headlines all over the country when he said that a complete repeal of Obamacare is “ not what’s going to happen” . Instead, Boehner said that Republicans are going to “ fix Obamacare” and that they will “ put a more conservative box around it” in order to keep their constituents happy.

Of course this isn’ t what we voted for. For years, Republican politicians all across the country have been promising that Obamacare would be repealed once they got control of Congress, but now Boehner is telling us that all of that was just “ happy talk” …

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hubble Cooperates on Galaxy Cluster and Cosmic Background

The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the cosmos. We can detect these scars today by observing the oldest light in the universe. As it was created nearly 14 billion years ago, this light — which exists now as weak microwave radiation and is thus named the cosmic microwave background (CMB) — permeates the entire cosmos, filling it with detectable photons.

The NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) Hubble Space Telescope observed one of most massive known galaxy clusters, RX J1347.5—1145, seen in this Picture of the Week, as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). This observation of the cluster, 5 billion light-years from Earth, helped the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to study the cosmic microwave background using the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect. The observations made with ALMA are visible as the blue-purple hues.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Lana Del Rey Joins Effort to Defeat Trump With Witchcraft

Singer promotes occult gatherings held on “waning crescent moon ritual dates”

On Thursday, Del Rey mysteriously tweeted, “At the stroke of midnight Feb 24, March 26, April 24, May 23. Ingredients can b found online.” While early speculation wondered whether the tweet had something to do with her upcoming LP, those four dates aligned with the lunar calendar’s “waning crescent moon ritual dates.”

Occultists noted that, on those four dates, practitioners of witchcraft would congregate for a mass ritual that would with the hope that their efforts resulted in Donald Trump’s removal from the Oval Office.

A representative for Del Rey confirmed to Pitchfork that the singer’s tweet was in support of those efforts, with the necessary ingredientsincluding “an unflattering photograph of Donald Trump,” a small bowl of water, a small nail, a “tiny stub of an orange candle” and a Tower tarot card.

The participants will then hex the president and “Bind [Trump] so that he shall not […] fill our minds with hate, confusion, fear, or despair.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Most Scientists ‘Can’t Replicate Studies by Their Peers’

Science is facing a “reproducibility crisis” where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, research suggests.

This is frustrating clinicians and drug developers who want solid foundations of pre-clinical research to build upon.

From his lab at the University of Virginia’s Centre for Open Science, immunologist Dr Tim Errington runs The Reproducibility Project, which attempted to repeat the findings reported in five landmark cancer studies.

“The idea here is to take a bunch of experiments and to try and do the exact same thing to see if we can get the same results.”

You could be forgiven for thinking that should be easy. Experiments are supposed to be replicable.

The authors should have done it themselves before publication, and all you have to do is read the methods section in the paper and follow the instructions.

Sadly nothing, it seems, could be further from the truth.

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

Pentagon Told to Refer to Terrorist Group Islamic State Same Way Trump Does

The change of name was outlined in a February 13 memo

Pentagon officials now refer to the notorious terrorist group Islamic State as ISIS rather than ISIL, as was the case under the Obama administration. The renaming is meant to be consistent with the language used by President Donald Trump.

The change of name was outlined in a February 13 memo issued by the office of Defense Secretary James Mattis, AP reported. According to the Pentagon chief, the switch to “ISIS” would make the DoD language “consistent with’“ that used by the Trump administration in a January 28 directive ordering the department to come up with a new plan to defeat Islamic State (IS).

The group currently known as IS used to call itself Islamic State of Iraq. In 2013, its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi changed the name to “Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham”, marking its growing ambition.

Al-Sham is an archaic term for a territory that includes parts of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan. It’s usually translated into English as either “Syria” in the sense of greater Syria of the past or as the Levant, a term close to the territory encompassed by the Arabic Al-Sham.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Podesta Falsely Claims Trump, Infowars Held Pizzagate Conference Calls

Embattled Clinton insider pushes fake conspiracy theory

John Podesta, the embattled former campaign chair for Hillary Clinton, is pushing a fake conspiracy theory implying that President Trump calls Infowars to discuss Pizzagate.

The irony is that Podesta, who came under fire after Wikileaks released thousands of emails linking him to “Spirit Cooking” and other bizarre rituals, pushed his conspiracy theory while blasting the epidemic of “conspiracy theories.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Police: Car Plows Into Parade Crowd in New Orleans; 21 Injured and Suspect in Custody

Twenty-one people were injured Saturday night when a vehicle plowed into a crowd watching a parade in the Mid-City section of New Orleans and a suspect has been taken into custody, police said.

Police Chief Michael Harrison said in a press conference after the incident that the suspect, who was traveling in the opposite direction of the parade and stuck two vehicles, veered off to the other side from the parade, hitting a number of pedestrians before coming to a stop.

The suspect was described by Harrison as “highly intoxicated”; he is being investigated and is at the DWI office.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

President Trump to Skip White House Correspondents’ Dinner

US President Donald Trump has announced he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on 29 April.

The glitzy event draws celebrities, journalists and politicians, normally including the US president.

Mr Trump said he would not attend a day after the White House excluded several major broadcasters and newspapers from a press briefing.

He has frequently described negative news coverage as “fake”.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Street Artist Mocks Hollywood ‘A**holes’ Unwatchable Movies’ With Fake Oscars Posters (Photos)

Conservative street artist Sabo has struck again, this time with a series of posters mocking the upcoming Academy Awards that he plastered all over Hollywood with just 48 hours to go until the big show.

The Los Angeles-based self-described “rebel artist” shared photographs of his handiwork on his Twitter page Friday; the work includes a poster with a quote from the Quentin Tarantino film True Romance: “All those a**holes make are unwatchable movies from unreadable books.”

Another one of Sabo’s posters was pasted onto a Redbox movie rental kiosk: “Yeah! We wouldn’t have paid full price to watch any Oscar nominated movies either,” reads the caption.

In a post on his website, the artist wrote that it was “out of touch actors who rail against my political beliefs” that served as the inspiration for the latest work, which he calls, “Discounting Hollywood.”

“Shia LaBeouf, Bryan Cranston, Cher, Madonna, Ashley Judd, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck … I could go on all day, have shot their mouths off long enough calling people like myself every vile name in the book, again and again, and again, and again,” Sabo wrote. “I used to really love movies and the occasional tv show but not so much these days. I ‘discount’ what goes on in them these days more than ever.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Traitor: Republican Senator Says No to Repealing ObamaCare

Murkowski wants to fund Planned Parenthood even more

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has announced her opposition to the repeal of Obamacare if it means defunding Planned Parenthood or eliminating the state’s expansion of Medicaid.

“The Affordable Care Act has failed in so many ways, but there are elements within it that deserve to be saved,” Murkowski said during an address before the Alaska Legislature.

Specifically, Murkowski citied provisions mandating coverage be provided to individuals with pre-existing conditions, the ability of people to remain on their parents’ insurance plans until the age of 26, and mental health coverage as worth saving, as well as her state’s decision to expand Medicaid under Obamacare.

[Comment: RINO.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Opts to Keep Anti-Trump Obama Appointees at VA

(Daily Caller) The Trump administration has decided to keep at least two Obama-era political appointees at the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) who have expressed anti-Trump sentiments.

Brandon Fureigh, who serves as a senior adviser for strategic engagement at the VA, and Kayla Williams, director of the VA Center for Women Veterans, have both successfully transitioned from the Obama administration to the Trump administration, despite anti-Trump comments and actions.

Fureigh has protected his Twitter account, but according to The Washington Examiner, he tweeted out in December, 2016: “I despise what this man is doing to our country” in response to another tweet that mentioned Trump’s “fringe Islamophobic views.”

[Comment: Perhaps this is the setup — When VA collapses, they will get all the blame.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump-Reagan Parallels Are Scary, But Not for the Reasons Critics Think

By Tammy Bruce

The media laugh at any attempt to compare President Trump to former President Ronald Reagan, but there are many similarities, not the least of which are the withering attacks both men endured before and after they sought the presidency.

The extraordinary assaults by media, celebrities and jealous politicians against Trump have been unending. Their attacks include questioning his mental health, repeatedly comparing him to Hitler, declaring him a fascist, insisting he’s a modern-day Manchurian candidate, that he’s a traitor (because Russians!), and on and on.

The now-freed John Hinckley believed murdering Reagan would impress actress Jodie Foster.

There’s nothing in Foster’s history indicating she expressed a loathing for Reagan. At the time of the shooting, she was a 19-year-old student at Yale. But it’s arguable that the overall media environment had become so toxic, a man with an already tenuous relationship with reality thought shooting the president would be a good idea and appreciated. After all, the critics all agreed that Reagan was a doltish, unhinged fascist who would start World War III simply because he was dumb. And evil, of course.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Trump’s National Security Adviser Reportedly Says Label ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism’ Not Helpful

President Trump’s newly appointed national security adviser on Thursday reportedly held his first “all hands” staff meeting where he said labels like “radical Islamic terrorism” are not helpful because he said terrorists are “un-Islamic.”

The New York Times, citing people who attended the National Security Council meeting, reported that Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster was in his Army uniform at the time and it represents a break from the opinion of other senior advisers.

Peter R. Mansoor, a retired Army colonel who served with McMaster in Iraq during the 2007 surge of U.S. troops, said earlier that McMaster “absolutely does not view Islam as the enemy.”

“So I think he will present a degree of pushback against the theories being propounded in the White House that this is a clash of civilizations and needs to be treated as such,” he said.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Says Not Going to White House Correspondents Dinner

President Trump said Saturday that he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, escalating his battle with the news media and raising questions about the future of the annual event.

“I will not be attending the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner this year,” Trump tweeted. “Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!”

The comment was just the latest turn in Trump’s adversarial relationship with the news media, which essentially began at the start of his campaign in July 2015 and took another questionable turn Friday.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Witches Cast ‘Mass Spell’ Against Donald Trump

Most of Donald Trump’s opponents believe they will have to wait four more years to see him leave the White House.

But America’s witches are more optimistic.

At the stroke of midnight on Friday, followers of witchcraft across the US performed a mass spell designed to remove the president from office.

A Facebook group devoted to the ritual has attracted over 10,500 likes, and coined the hashtag #magicresistance.

The development has sparked fury among Christian conservatives, who have accused the witches of “declaring spiritual war”.

Writer Michael Hughes, who describes himself as a “magical thinker” posted a version of the spell online, saying he had seen multiple versions on private witchcraft groups.

In it, he suggests using a stubby orange candle, an unflattering picture of Mr Trump, and a Tower tarot card.

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In Ontario, The Taxpayers Sustain Wynne’s Green Energy Perpetual Motion Disaster

There’s more than a touch of Oprah in our Prime Minister. Substitute town halls for studio audiences and you get a little of the flavour of his recent hopscotch to various venues across the country. He loves — and why should he not? — being on stage in front of people who (mainly) like or idolize him, and he’s quick, like the great Eminence Herself, on his emotional feet. By far the most affecting moment of his grand tour, interestingly on “the catastrophe and heel” of his (originally) covert stay on the yacht of his buddy the Aga Khan, came in Peterborough, Ont.

There, somewhat in the manner of the Biblical Ruth, a woman “stood in tears” as she recounted to the Prime Minister, whom she both liked and supported, how her hydro bill was now competing with her mortgage payment. “Something is wrong now, Mr. Trudeau,” she told him and the assembled crowd. “My heat and hydro now cost me more than my mortgage, … I now not only work 75 hours a week, I stay and work 15 hours a day just so I don’t lose my home.” The audience was moved. Her sad plea touched the hearts of the audience. Its rueful climax came with her reluctant confession to our green Prime Minister that “I feel like you’ve failed me.”

Mr. Trudeau, for all his gifts, could not win the moment. He paid a compliment to her “strength and (the word choice here was daring) energy.” Then — how could he not? — he acknowledged that his federal government, like Ontario’s, was “putting a price” on what he called “carbon pollution.” This is a fake designation, I point out. If carbon dioxide is a pollutant we should all be shut down, but it is a necessary thing in the liturgy of global warming to declare everything and anything in the way of the creed a pollutant. But hydro costs, he must have been pleased to point out, were Ontario’s doing — a provincial affair.

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BBC Dismayed at German ‘BND Spying on Journalists’

The BBC has voiced dismay over alleged German spying on foreign journalists, including some working for the BBC.

Germany’s foreign intelligence service BND spied on media e-mails, faxes and phone calls, including more than a dozen BBC numbers in London and Afghanistan, Spiegel news reported.

The surveillance, which began in 1999, also extended to Reuters news agency and the New York Times, it is alleged.

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Despite Arrest of Top Advisor and Bodyguard, New Poll Shows Le Pen is Mightier Than Les Globalists

French authorities have made yet another monumental error in judgment after arresting Marine Le Pen’s chief of staff and bodyguard for questioning over alleged misuse of public funds to pay parliamentary assistants — the equivalent of a jaywalking ticket in terms of public opinion. By making le mountain out of le molehill, this latest debacle by French authorities is the most recent in a long list of backfired attempts to delegitimize the National Front candidate — including the refusal of French banks to lend money to Le Pen’s campaign, and the MSM’s ongoing hit-jobs (calling Le Pen “far-right” and “extreme” on a regular basis, for example).

These tactics seem to be working about as well as they did with Trump. Keep it up French establishment — you’ve effectively solidified Le Pen’s underdog status. In case you hadn’t noticed, your country is being burned to the ground by foreign invaders as France becomes one giant no-go zone. Instead of addressing the problem, you’ve doubled down on multiculturalism by continuing to welcome a hoard of migrants — 70% of which are “men of fighting age.”

Coincidentally, the latest French election poll has Le Pen ahead…

With her promise to return france to Economic sovereignty, it goes without saying that if Le Pen is elected in May, the European Union will be living on borrowed time. Frexit will happen and the ECB backstop will dissolve — considering Germany and France are it’s largest contributors. Italy’s solvency is #FakeNews with it’s 133% debt/gdp ratio, and the rest of the PIIGS are vulnerable to the big bad wolf of defaults. I wonder if Italy’s recent legislation of “extraordinary and temporary state support” of their largest bank was a canary in the coal mine of ECB death? The fact that Germany is p*ssed about it may be a clue.

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France: Two Jewish Brothers ‘Assaulted With Hacksaw’ In Paris Suburbs

Police have launched an investigation after two Jewish men, wearing kippas, said they were attacked with a hacksaw following a heated exchange with their attackers in the Paris suburbs.

Two Jewish brothers wearing kippas were reportedly assaulted in Bondy, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department to the north of Paris (pictured below).

One of the attackers reportedly said: “I’m going to kill you, you dirty Jew”.

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French Farmers Hope Marine Le Pen Will Free Them From EU ‘Straitjacket’

Bertrand Hourdel proudly pats one of his plump pigs, but the Brittany farmer is painfully aware that when he sells them, his profits, if any, will be slim.

He blames the European Union’s “straitjacket” of regulations and inaction by politicians from establishment parties for French farming’s deepest crisis since the Second World War.

Brittany’s verdant pastures and ancient stone farmhouses are a picture of bucolic bliss, but anger and desperation in France’s leading agricultural region, and other rural areas, are shifting the political winds in favour of Marine Le Pen’s anti-EU Front National.

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Germany: Man Hits 3 With Car and Flees, Is Shot by Police

A man apparently drove a car into pedestrians in a central square in the German city of Heidelberg on Saturday, injuring three people, then fled and was shot after being tracked down by officers, police said.

One of the three people hit outside a bakery on Saturday afternoon was seriously injured, police spokeswoman Anne Baas said.

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Germany Kicks Off Six Days of Carnival Despite Higher Security

Revelers in clown costumes and wigs kicked off six days of merriment on Thursday with Weiberfastnacht or “women’s carnival”, traditionally the day when women take over town halls and symbolically “castrate” men by cutting off their ties.

Carnival festivities began at precisely 11:11 a.m. in Cologne and other Catholic parts of Germany despite stormy weather and high security after an Islamist attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in December that killed 12 people.

In Mainz, police chief Achim Zahn appealed to carnival-goers to use common sense and avoid dressing up as suicide bombers with explosive belts, the German website Strand Journal reported.

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German Intelligence Warns of Massive Increase in Islamists

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence service, warns that the number of radical Islamists has grown enormously in the last four years.

Since 2013, the number of Islamists has skyrocketed from a mere 100 or so to over 1,600 currently. Chief of the BfV, Hans-Georg Maassen, said the number is increasing more and more every month. Mr Maassen described the current situation saying: “We receive between two and four credible tips on planned terrorist activity in Germany each day,” and added, “We have to recognise that we are living in a different situation now than was normal,”

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One Dead, Two Injured in Heidelberg Car Attack

A man has died and two other people were hurt after a man drove into a pedestrian area in Heidelberg, Germany.

The attacker, said to have been armed with a knife, was shot, injured and arrested by police in a brief standoff after fleeing the scene on foot.

His motives are unclear, but there are no indications this was a terrorist attack, police say.

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Semyon Gluzman: Meeting a Soviet-Era Dissident Again After 35 Years

In the Soviet Union there were rare individuals who fought for human rights, at great personal expense. One was psychiatrist Semyon Gluzman, who condemned the incarceration of dissidents in mental hospitals. The BBC’s Owen Bennett Jones met him once in the 1980s and again this year — and this time he was full of hope for the future of his country.

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Two Terror-Plot Charges in France

Two men who had been arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack in France were charged on Saturday, legal sources said.

The suspects, aged 19 and 27, were arrested Tuesday in the coastal city of Marseille and the central city of Clermont-Ferrand.

Both men, known to intelligence services for belonging to the jihadist Salafist community, were indicted on charges of criminal association in connection with a criminal terrorist enterprise, as well as for possession of firearms.

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UK: Evangelical Christian Preachers Confronted by Angry Mob After They Shouted Slogans About Mohammed and Allah Face Religious Abuse Trial

This is the moment police arrested a group of street preachers including a British army major after they shouted ‘Mohammed is a liar’ and ‘Allah is the greatest deceiver’.

An angry mob of around 150 people surrounded the men in Broadmead, Bristol after they told onlookers that being gay was ‘immoral’ on July 6 last year.

The three devoted Christians were using microphones and holding up placards before police intervened and arrested the men to cheers from onlookers.

Major Adrian Clark, 51, and evangelical Christian preachers Michael Overd, 52, from Creech St Michael, near Taunton, and American Michael Stockwell, 50, from Selden, New York, are standing trial at Bristol Magistrates Court.

They deny using religiously aggravated threatening or abusive words or behaviour…

A witness told the court that Clark, Overd, and Stockwell were there ‘to pick a fight’.

Prosecuting, Ian Jackson said the preachers took a ‘tag team’ approach taking it in turns to speak using a microphone on the podium outside Boots.

He told the court that the incident took place on the first day of the Muslim festival of Eid.

The men preached about Islam, Buddhism, and even Jehovah’s Witnesses, as well as sex before marriage and sexuality, leaving onlookers shocked.

[Comment: read that again…”police intervened and arrested the men to cheers from onlookers”… people cheered…]

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UK: Five London Teenagers Charged With Terror Offences Over Suspected ‘Plan to Fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq’

Five London teenagers — one aged just 15 — have been charged in relation to suspected terror offences after police stormed homes across the capital.

The five males, ages 15 to 19, were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of planning to flee Britain to fight for Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

The Met’s counter terror detectives are investigating alleged plans by the teenagers, four of whom are schoolchildren, to travel to join the jihadist terror group after communicating with each other online.

The teenagers — most of whom cannot be named — were all charged with offences relating to preparing terror acts or distributing or collecting terrorist publications.

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Christians Flee Egypt’s Sinai After Militant Killings

Suspected Islamic militants gunned down a Christian man inside his home in northern Sinai, officials and a priest said Friday, the latest in a string of sectarian killings there that has sent hundreds of Christians fleeing and raised accusations the government is failing to protect the community.

The militants stormed the home of Kamel Youssef, a plumber, on Thursday and shot him to death in front of his wife and children in the town of el-Arish, said two security officials and the priest.

The officers spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters, as did the priest, fearing retaliation by militants. The priest said initial reports that the man’s daughter was kidnapped and killed turned out to be incorrect.

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Conditions Deteriorate in West Mosul as Iraqi Advances Slow

The Iraqi advance into Mosul’s western half slowed Saturday as combat turned to urban warfare and Iraqi forces met stiff resistance from the Islamic State group. Hundreds of civilians poured out of Mosul on foot following the advances, but the vast majority of 750,000 estimated to still be in the city’s west remain trapped, and describe deteriorating humanitarian and security conditions.

Special forces Lt. Gen. Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi said that his troops are “moving very slowly” and that IS fighters are responding with car bombs, snipers and dozens of armed drones.

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Pakistan Airline Admits Taking Extra Passengers in Aisle

Pakistan International Airlines is investigating how seven extra passengers were allowed to stand in the aisles on a flight to Saudi Arabia, a spokesman told the BBC.

The passengers were allowed on the 20 January flight to Medina despite every seat being filled, the airline said.

Details of the flight have only emerged now because of extensive investigations by Dawn newspaper.

Staff had issued additional handwritten boarding passes, the paper reported.

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Bangladesh Muslims Protest Against Justice Goddess Statue

Thousands of supporters of a conservative Islamist group have protested in Bangladesh against a statue of the goddess of justice erected outside the supreme court.

The protest in the capital, Dhaka, demanded its removal.

The demonstrators say the figure, a variation on the Greek goddess Themis but in a sari, goes against Islam.

The protest is another sign of tension between Islamic conservatism and liberal values in Bangladesh.

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Kim Jong-Nam Killing: Malaysia Airport Terminal Declared Safe

The airport terminal where the half-brother of North Korea’s leader was killed with a nerve agent has been declared free of any “hazardous material” by Malaysian police.

Security teams in protective suits had earlier swept the area.

Malaysia’s health minister said that an autopsy suggested the toxin used to kill Kim Jong-nam caused “very serious paralysis”.

Tests show Mr Kim was killed with the highly toxic nerve agent VX.

An Indonesian woman arrested for the murder has said she was given 400 Malaysian ringgit ($90; £72) to carry out a prank.

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Beijing Vows to ‘Fully Enforce’ UN Sanctions Against Pyongyang, Despite Being ‘Friendly Neighbour’

China said yesterday it will fully enforce United Nations sanctions against North Korea despite maintaining Pyongyang as its friendly neighbour, after the North issued a rare attack on its traditional ally in the aftermath of Beijing halting coal imports.

A thinly veiled commentary published by the Korean Central News Agency on Thursday did not mention China by name or the coal ban, but referred to a “neighbouring country” which often claims to be friendly.

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China Will Take ‘Necessary Steps’ For Security if North Korean Regime Collapses

China will take the “necessary measures” to safeguard national security in the event of the collapse of the neighbouring North Korean regime, a defence official said on Thursday.

The recent assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother Kim Jong-nam has sparked renewed concerns over the stability of Pyongyang and the possibility of a collapse of the reclusive regime.

Beijing — long seen as the guarantor of Pyongyang’s security — has stayed largely silent on the incident.

But in a sign of its growing frustration with Pyongyang and as part of efforts to increase pressure on the regime over its latest missile test earlier this month, China announced last week it would suspend all imports of coal from North Korea for the rest of the year, depriving the country of a crucial source of foreign capital.

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China Overtakes US as Germany’s Top Trade Partner

China overtook the United States last year to become Germany’s biggest trading partner for the first time, official data showed, a shift likely to reassure Berlin as worries grow over US President Donald Trump’s protectionist leanings.

The figures compiled by the federal statistics office Destatis and seen by AFP yesterday showed that the total volume of trade between China and Germany climbed by 4 per cent to just under €170 billion (HK$1.4 trillion) in 2016.

France remained Germany’s second-largest trading partner while the US slipped to third place, as bilateral trade contracted by 5 per cent to €165 billion.

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Chinese Minister Appeals to Washington to Avoid ‘Trade War’

China’s commerce minister has appealed to Washington to negotiate disputes with Beijing and avoid a “trade war” that he warned would hurt both sides.

Gao Hucheng, responding to a question about President Donald Trump’s promise to raise taxes on Chinese imports, said at a news conference Tuesday the two governments should work together to promote trade.

Gao said a trade war “should not become an option.” He appealed to Washington to “properly solve” disputes through “dialogue and cooperation.”

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Leila De Lima: Top Duterte Critic Arrested on Drug Charge

A leading critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Senator Leila de Lima, has been arrested on drug trafficking charges.

Senator Leila de Lima is accused of receiving money from detained drug lords.

She has insisted on her innocence and says the charges are an attempt to silence her criticism of Mr Duterte’s war against drugs.

She had spent the night in the Senate in Manila to evade arrest on Thursday.

Ms de Lima has been one of the most vocal critics of Mr Duterte and his brutal nationwide drug war, launched in July last year. More than 7,000 people have been killed.

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Nigerian Kidnappers Demand $200,000 for German Scientists

Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of 60 million naira (about $200,000) for a German archaeologist and his associate abducted this week from a northern Nigerian village, a worker at the excavation site said. Two villagers were shot and killed in the kidnapping, police confirmed Friday.

The worker said he heard a man make the demand in a telephone call Thursday to the site’s supervisor. The caller warned him not to involve police or security forces, said the worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.

Police special forces and a special investigative team for kidnappings have been searching around the village of Jenjela in the state of Kaduna, where gunmen on Wednesday abducted Professor Peter Breunig and his associate, Johannes Behringer, and walked with them into the bush.

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South Africa Clashes at Anti-Foreigner Protest in Pretoria

South African police have used rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon to try and disperse anti-immigrant protesters in the capital, Pretoria.

A low-flying police helicopter has also been deployed amid a stand-off between local protesters and foreigners, with both groups armed with sticks, bricks and knives.

President Jacob Zuma had called for calm ahead of the anti-immigrant march.

Many unemployed South Africans accuse foreigners of taking their jobs.

Mr Zuma has condemned the acts of violence and intimidation directed at African immigrants living in South Africa.

Earlier this week, angry mobs attacked Nigerians and looted shops belonging to Somalis, Pakistani and other migrants in townships around Pretoria and parts of Johannesburg.

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136 Turks With Diplomatic Status Sought Asylum in Germany Since Putsch

More than 130 Turkish diplomats, soldiers and their family members have sought refuge in Germany since last July’s failed coup, according to German government data in documents seen by AFP on Friday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has accused US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen of having orchestrated the putsch, and launched a sweeping crackdown against his followers.

Some 43,000 people in Turkey have been arrested over their suspected links to Gulen’s movement, and 100,000 fired or suspended. Many of them are teachers, police, magistrates and journalists.

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80 Percent of Dutch Voters Concerned About Immigration

An overwhelming number of Dutch voters say immigration is one of their top concerns ahead of March’s parliamentary election.

As the populist Eurosceptic Party of Freedom, led by Geert Wilders, leads in the polls, 80 per cent of voters in the Netherlands say they are worried about immigration.

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Brawl at German Refugee Centre Between Gambians and Albanians

A GANG of asylum seekers from Gambia brawled with a group of Albanians at a refugee centre in Germany in the latest shocking violence to hit the nation.

Three people were left injured and taken to hospital after the brawl erupted at 12pm on Thursday at the Patrick Henry village outside of Heidelberg.

A 22-year-old and 58-year-old who say they were attacked with iron rods have been left with injuries to their head and upper body.

They are being treated at a hospital in Heidelberg, along with a 28-year-old who was also beaten with an iron rod.

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Donald Trump Badmouths Sweden, Germany and Paris in One Go

US president Donald Trump intensified his verbal attacks on Sweden, France and Germany on Friday, painting swaths of Europe as a jihadist-infested hellscape.

Firing up victory-drunk conservatives at a rally outside Washington, Trump trashed long-time allies as he sought to justify his own controversial crackdown on immigrants.

“Take a look at what’s happening in Sweden. Take a look at what’s happening in Germany. Take a look at what’s happened in France. Take a look at Nice and Paris,” he said.

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France: Hollande Hit Backs at Trump Over Paris Criticism

French President Francois Hollande on Saturday hit back at Donald Trump after the US president criticised France in a veiled attack on its immigration policies and those of its European allies.

“It is never good to show the slightest mistrust towards a friendly country,” Hollande said.

“That is not what I do toward a friendly country and I ask the American president not to do it to France,” he said at the opening of the annual agricultural fair in Paris.

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Hungary to Build Second Border Fence to Stop Migrants

Hungary is to start building a new fence on the Serbian border in the spring to hold back an expected new surge of migrants.

Janos Lazar, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said construction will begin as soon as the weather allows, amid fears hundreds of thousands of migrants could once again attempt to travel up through the Balkans in order to reach Western Europe.

AP reports the Hungarian government expects to spend around £104 million on the new fence, and will also set up shipping containers at key points along the border to help process any new arrivals. Asylum seekers will have to wait at these sites while their applications are processed.

Mr Lazar said the new fence would act as a “second line of defence”, and confirmed asylum seekers would not be free to roam to the country as happens in other European Union (EU) states.

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In Latest Intel Mutiny Against Trump, DHS Analysts Say White House Travel Ban is Wrong

Another day, another symbolic ‘mutiny’ has broken out against president Trump in the US intel community, this time involving the Department of Homeland Security.

Overnight, analysts at DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis found “insufficient evidence” that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump’s travel ban pose a terror threat to the United States. According to a draft document obtained by The Associated Press, citizenship is an “unlikely indicator” of terrorism threats to the United States and that few people from the countries Trump listed in his travel ban have carried out attacks or been involved in terrorism-related activities in the U.S. since Syria’s civil war started in 2011. The DHS report said its staff “assesses that country of citizenship is unlikely to be a reliable indicator of potential terrorist activity.”

The White House on Friday dismissed it as politically motivated and poorly researched. Trump has previously cited terrorism concerns as the primary reason he signed the sweeping temporary travel ban in late January, which also halted the U.S. refugee program.

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Le Pen Rival: Whole World Moving to Europe in Coming Decades, Deal With it

“We have entered a world of great migrations and we will have more and more of it [migration]”, former investment banker Emmanuel Macron declared during a debate on climate change.

Speaking at a discussion staged for Science and Future magazine, the independent candidate announced that the world has entered an age of mass migration which will be inescapable for Europe.

“In the coming decades we will have migrations from geopolitical conflicts that will continue to play, and we will have climate migrations because the planet is in a state of deep imbalance,” he said.

France’s failure to tackle climate change will have contributed to these mass migrations, according to Macron, who argued that the country must “reconcile a principle of solidarity [with the ‘refugees’]”.

Voicing a stance diametrically opposite to that of his rival Marine Le Pen, who wants to close France’s borders, Macron said the country’s geographical location makes resisting the migrant tide impossible.

“France will not be able to stem it, and Europe will be affected immediately. We will see a migratory phenomenon far greater than what we have seen [with migrants from] Syria.”

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Morocco is Blackmailing EU Using Migrants as Leverage

On February 22, France 24 reported that Morocco uses the migrant crisis as leverage in a trade dispute with the EU. More than 850 migrants are said to have breached the border with Spanish held Ceuta from Morocco. Located just South of Gibraltar, Ceuta was conquered by the Portuguese in the 15th century, before deciding to remain in the Spanish Empire in the 17th century. It is one of two Spanish cities on the Mediterranean Coast, the other one being Melilla. Consequently, it is one of two land borders between Europe and Africa, making the city a focal point for migrants seeking to gain entrance.

This latest attempt might have been successful due to Moroccan sabotage, after threats made by the Moroccan agricultural ministry after a ruling on a free trade agreement with the EU did not go Morocco’s way.

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Starbucks Brand Crashes After Announcement of Plan to Hire 10,000 Muslim ‘Refugees’

Its brand name has lost its luster with customers

The Starbucks Coffee brand has taken a major hit since the company’s announcement that it would hire 10,000 Muslim “refugees” in response to President Donald Trump’s temporary travel moratorium in January.

Starbucks was one of those early to criticize President Trump for putting a temporary hold on immigration from a list of seven terror-torn countries flagged by the Obama administration. In response, the coffee house giant pledged to hire 10,000 Muslim refugees over five years in protest against Trump’s order.

But since the company issued its anti-Trump statement its brand name has lost its luster with customers. Perception levels of the Starbucks brand name fell by an incredible two-thirds since its January announcement, according to a YouGov survey, as reported by Yahoo Finance.

The survey measures how potential customers feel about a company’s brand and asks if they have “heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks, through advertising, news or word of mouth, was it positive or negative.”

In the week before the company’s January refugees announcement, 30% of respondents said they would consider spending money at Starbucks. But after the statement that number fell to 24 percent, the survey discovered.

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Sweden: Trump’s Wrong, It’s ‘Quiet and Safe’ In Malmo

In the wake of Donald Trump’s comments on Sweden earlier this week, there’s been a global debate over whether the country’s immigration policy has been a success or a failure.

Malmo, one of Sweden’s most diverse cities, has been in the spotlight after 13 murders in just over six months and a number of high profile shootings and explosions.

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Sweden Fires Back at Trump With ‘Facts’

Sweden has sought to set the record straight after Donald Trump linked immigration to a supposed rise in violence in the Scandinavian country, publishing “facts” to correct “simplistic” and “inaccurate information”.

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Trump Was Right About Sweden: Alternative Media Avpixlat News Editor and Broadcaster Comment

Mats Dagerlind from the alternative news site in Sweden, Avpixlat, discusses with Jan Sjunnesson of Swedish Webbtelevision the remarks president Donald Trump made about Sweden recently. They also comment on the riots that took place Feb 19 in the immigrant populated Stockholm suburb Rinkeby.

The studio discussion is subtitled in English, which you need to enable using the YouTube settings in the lower right corner. The video is also uploaded at www.100percentfedup.com

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Protesters Freak Out, Yell “Lucifer!” After GOP Town Hall Opens With a Prayer

They became especially furious when the chaplain closed the prayer “in Jesus’s name”

Liberal protesters became enraged when a Louisiana town hall with Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy opened with a prayer earlier this week, screaming at the chaplain as he tried to lead the crowd in prayer.

The protesters, who were there with a local chapter of anti-Trump group Indivisible, can be heard groaning and shouting as the chaplain says, “In God we trust.” One man can be heard saying, “Pray on your own time!” Others shouted incredulously, “Prayer? Prayer?”

Video of the event, first reported by The Washington Free Beacon, reveals one woman shouting the name “Lucifer” while the chaplain invokes God’s name. Other, non-protesting attendees can be heard trying to shush the protesters.

Protesters can be heard shouting about “separation of church and state” throughout the prayer. They became especially furious when the chaplain closed the prayer “in Jesus’s name.”

[Comment: Greatest lie foisted on American public — “separation of church and state” which appears nowhere in the Consitution. Rather it says congress shall not establish a religion as the religion of the USA. Individuals are free to pray — even if they happen to work in government. ]

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Tyranny of the Minority

Every serious politician and thinker declares his or her belief in democracy. Yet, in practice, they seek to separate power from the people

Back in the 18th century, political reformer Henry Fox was advocating giving the vote to more people. But only, he insisted, to what he called ‘the better sort’. Not ‘the mob or the mere dregs of the people’. Heaven forbid! Now, in the 21st century, such derogatory sentiments about ‘the people’ are dangerously back in fashion — ever since they dared vote for Brexit in Britain, and for Donald Trump in the United States.

Questions are being asked in high places about whether ordinary voters are fit to make decisions on major issues.

As a result, democracy — the cornerstone of our way of life — is being undermined, its very survival put at risk. Its modern enemies are mustering from all corners — but most worryingly from the Left, the very area where its stoutest defenders should be.

As a long-standing person of the Left, I fear that democratic freedoms are now in danger of being abandoned as elitists in our midst attempt to restrict them.

Every serious politician and thinker declares his or her belief in democracy. Yet, in practice, they seek to separate power from the people. The mantra has become ‘I’m a democrat, of course, but …’

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10 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/25/2017

  1. Sounds like a drunk illegal, but I’ll wait for the name and backstory. South of the border drinking & driving is national past time in Latin America.

    Strange though as they had put on real security in NOLA to protect against a Nice scenario.

    • This incident was in midtown not the French Quarter where the dump trucks were deployed. Tourists and out of towners are usually more protected than the locals in New Orleans unfortunately.

    • Well, it’s Mardi Gras, which attracts hoards of homegrown wastoids and [epithets], so I think it’s statistically unlikely to be an illegal. It would be nice if it was, though. At least then they could be deported, unlike our own hedonist losers. Those we’re stuck with.

  2. How pathetic Hollande is. Walk your own Paris streets. Filled with armed police and army. It is an encampment. Visit Gare du Nord at night and then travel north. The beautiful Paris has gone. Of course Trump was right.

  3. Servando Gonzalez’s article calling to disband the NSA exposes much of why it should be done. Many will not be aware that J.D. Rockefeller got his start into the financial world via the Rothschild family who have themselves been very active in steering the U.S. toward their idea of how the world should be.

    It is also not widely known that during 1947 and the push via the United Nations to establish the state of Israel, it became obvious to David Ben Gurion via the Jewish intelligence network, Max, that several South American countries were not going to cast their votes for the Jewish state’s establishment and without those crucial votes the odds were stacked against a formation of a Jewish state.

    However, a visit was arranged by several prominent ‘Jewish businessmen’ to conduct some ‘business’ with Nelson Rockefeller in his New York office with a view to using his influence into changing the intentions of those South American countries representatives at the United Nations when the Israeli vote came up. And on cue, all those South American countries that had intended to vote against the formation of a Jewish state unexpectedly voted in favor of such a formation.

    So what had occurred in Rockefeller’s office that changed the voting intentions of those South American countries?

    The Rockefeller’s had many ‘business’ dealings in South America, not just with businessmen, but also with governments. The Rockefeller’s were also partners with I.G Faben in Germany during the Second World War and provided the Germans with whatever they needed to boost their war effort from Rockefeller’s ‘business’ partners in South America.

    So, Rockefeller was bribed by some Jewish agents into leaning on those South American countries for their much needed votes unless his treason be exposed.

    Source; The Secret War against the Jews, John Loftus and Mark Aarons, St Martins Griffin, New York, 1994.

  4. “Reporters for media outlets dubbed “fake news” by US President Donald Trump were upset Friday after they did not receive an invite to an informal White House press briefing”

    While president Trump has oversimplified the activities of the press as “fake news,” it is clearly far more complicated than that. Terminology has a lot to do with it as has the introduction of media agendas in routine interviews. For example:

    On 24 February at about 10.15 local time (3.15am GMT) on BBC World Service, news presenter Mike Embley was interviewing an American talking head while bad-mouthing Steve Bannon. In a convoluted lead up to a question, Embley suggested to his interviewee that Bannon was Anti-Semitic, a white supremacist and until recently ran a website that specialised in fake news……..

    This is not what one should expect from a neutral news site. Trump was right to exclude the BBC from his future briefings.

  5. ** Speaking at a discussion staged for Science and Future magazine, the independent candidate [Macron] announced that the world has entered an age of mass migration which will be inescapable for Europe **

    Our bullets just bounce off them. We are helpless. When it comes to invasion, our armies are just for decoration.

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