Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/24/2017

President Donald Trump approved the final stage of the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will bring crude oil from Canada to the United States. Mr. Trump’s action reverses the 2015 decision of the Obama administration to halt construction of the pipeline.

In other news, the latest reports on the London jihadi Khalid Masood — who was a convert to Islam himself — say that he strongly pressured his teenage daughters to follow their father’s example and convert to Islam.

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Financial Crisis
» Record Low Rates for a Long Time — ECB
 
USA
» Buchanan: An Obama Plot to Sabotage Trump?
» Charles Murray Speaks at Columbia, With Support of Nearly 150 Faculty Members
» Chicago Area Leads U.S. In Population Loss, Sees Drop for 2nd Year in a Row
» Democrats Turn to Convicted Domestic Terrorist Brett Kimberlin in Bizarre Anti-Trump Scheme
» Former Muslim: Islamists Emboldened by PC Culture
» Hacks on Job-Assisting Company Puts Nearly 5 Million Americans at Risk of Identity Theft
» In Anti-Intellectual Email, Wellesley Profs Call Engaging With Controversial Argument as Imposition on Students
» Potential ‘Smoking Gun’ Showing Obama Administration Spied on Trump Team, Source Says
» Security Alert: Windows 10 Has Been Quietly Logging Every Keystroke You Type and Sending it to Microsoft (This is How to Stop it)
» Soros, Left Wing Activists Plot Trump Resistance
» Spicer: There’s More Evidence CNN Colluded With Hillary Than Russia With Trump
» Trump Was Right: Jewish Teen Arrested for Bomb Threats to Jewish Centers
» Trump Admin Approves the Keystone XL Pipeline
» Unbelievable: 4-Year-Old Gets Suspended for Bringing Empty .22 Casing to Preschool
 
Canada
» Foreign Buyers Tax Won’t Solve GTA Housing Affordability Crisis
» M-103 Passes and Now the Islamophobia Study Begins
 
Europe and the EU
» Belgium Driver on Terrorism Charge Over Antwerp ‘Attack’
» Brussels Mayor: All of Our Mosques Are Controlled by Radical Islamists
» Eurocrat Frans Timmermans Says Silent Majority Do Not Like EU Policies
» European Union at ‘All Time Low’ Says Shocking New Ipsos Mori Poll
» Italy: Surgeon Probed for ‘Breaking Woman’s Femur’
» London Attacker Khalid Masood ‘Forced Daughter to Convert to Islam’
» Pope Francis Sees Hope for European Union, Urges Leaders to Return to Roots
» So How Did Birmingham Become the Jihadi Capital of Britain?
 
Balkans
» Macedonia to George Soros and USAID: Go Away
 
Middle East
» Caroline Glick: Trump’s Greatest Deal
» Getting to Know the Christians in Kuwait
 
Russia
» Nobody’s Stooge: Le Pen Meets Putin, Shows ‘French Desire for Detente With Russia’
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Porn Aired on Islamic TV for Half an Hour
 
Immigration
» Federal Law Enforcement Resources Overwhelmingly Spent on Immigration Crime
» High School Gang Rape Isn’t Slowing Maryland Sanctuary Bill
» Police: Repeatedly Deported MS-13 Gang Member Sexually Assaulted 2-Year-Old Girl
» Three Million Migrants Waiting to Cross Into Greece, Says EU Commissioner Avramopoulos
» Turkish President Could Rip Up EU Migrant Agreement
» UK: Smug, Craven Politicians in Thrall to Notions of ‘Diversity’ Sowed the Seeds of the Terror We’re Now Reaping, Writes Richard Littlejohn
» Violent Traffickers Smuggling Migrants Into Britain Exposed
 
Culture Wars
» Christians Urged to Pull Children From Public Schools
 
General
» Artificial Intelligence: How to Scale the Human Mind
 

Record Low Rates for a Long Time — ECB

Underlying inflation moderate says ECB

(ANSA) — Frankfurt, March 24 — Underlying eurozone inflation is moderate, the European Central Bank said Thursday.

Record low interest rates will therefore stay that way for a long time, it said.

The ECB said protectionism and Brexit posed threats to growth.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Buchanan: An Obama Plot to Sabotage Trump?

We need to unearth the deep state conspiracy to sabotage a presidency

Devin Nunes just set the cat down among the pigeons.

Two days after FBI Director James Comey assured us there was no truth to President Trump’s tweet about being wiretapped by Barack Obama, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Trump may have had more than just a small point.

The U.S. intelligence community, says Nunes, during surveillance of legitimate targets, picked up the names of Trump transition officials during surveillance of targets, “unmasked” their identity, and spread their names around, virtually assuring they would be leaked.

If true, this has the look and smell of a conspiracy to sabotage the Trump presidency, before it began.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Charles Murray Speaks at Columbia, With Support of Nearly 150 Faculty Members

Charles Murray, the conservative thinker whose appearance at Middlebury College earlier this month sparked both a student demonstration on campus and widespread national debate over free speech on campus, spoke at Columbia University tonight — with wide faculty support.

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

Chicago Area Leads U.S. In Population Loss, Sees Drop for 2nd Year in a Row

Patrice Bedford had never questioned raising her baby in Chicago.

But on a springtime stroll during the first trimester of her pregnancy last year, a heightened sense of smell — piqued by pungent neighborhood odors — made her view the city differently.

The city’s expensive, she said. Public schools face an unfolding financial crisis and the violence is “terrifying and frightening” to a parent-to-be. It didn’t take long for Bedford, 28, to realize it was time to pack up and leave her Roscoe Village home.

She, her husband and their son, now 6 weeks old, are preparing to move to Denver this summer.

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

Democrats Turn to Convicted Domestic Terrorist Brett Kimberlin in Bizarre Anti-Trump Scheme

The notorious “Speedway Bomber” served 17 years in prison for his crimes but is now a left-wing activist.

Convicted terrorist bomber Brett Kimberlin was revealed this week to have worked with shady Democrat operative Alexandra Chalupa in a campaign to discredit President Trump.

“That work culminated in a Washington, D.C. meeting in December between” Chalupa, “Speedway Bomber” Kimberlin, and a South Africa-born Israeli man identified as Yoni Ariel, the Daily Caller reported.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Former Muslim: Islamists Emboldened by PC Culture

‘The Islamists want one thing and that is a Sharia compliant society’

Bending over backwards to appease followers of Islam only serves to embolden radical Islamists, a former Muslim said on Tucker Carlson Tonight following a terror attack in London Wednesday.

“The Islamists want one thing and that is a Sharia compliant society and eventually the world. That’s what their aim is. It sounds crazy to you and me and everyone else, but that’s their objective.”

Ali also described the infrastructure by which Islam takes over a culture, including indoctrination, intimidation and physical violence known as “jihad.”

“And whoever is in their way is their enemy,” Ali said.

“And it doesn’t matter how nice the liberals are, how accommodating and obliging they are, that’s the objective of the Islamists. And if you don’t understand that I don’t think you should be in the business of making legislation or in the business of authority leadership because you are just incapable of understanding that problem.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hacks on Job-Assisting Company Puts Nearly 5 Million Americans at Risk of Identity Theft

A series of hacks targeting America’s Job Link Alliance, a Kansas-based company that operates job search engines across several states connecting applicants with potential employers, compromised the personal information listed on 4.8 million different job-seeker accounts, the Departments of Labor of multiple states reported Wednesday.

The personal information exposed by the hacks on March 12 and March 13 included customers’ names, Social Security numbers, and birthdays. The states that have reported being affected were Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Illinois, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Oklahoma and Vermont.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

In Anti-Intellectual Email, Wellesley Profs Call Engaging With Controversial Argument as Imposition on Students

In an email to fellow faculty yesterday afternoon, a committee of Wellesley College professors made several startling recommendations about how they think future campus speakers should be chosen. If implemented, the proposals by the faculty Commission for Ethnicity, Race, and Equity would have a profound impact on the quality and quantity of voices Wellesley students would be permitted to hear.

FIRE has obtained the email, sent by one of the signatories to a faculty listserv, and republished it in full below.

While paying lip service to free speech, the email is remarkable in its contempt for free and open dialogue on campus. Asserting that controversial speakers “impose on the liberty of students, staff, and faculty at Wellesley,” the committee members lament the fact that such speakers negatively impact students by forcing them to “invest time and energy in rebutting the speakers’ arguments.”

And here we thought learning to effectively challenge views with which one disagreed was an important part of the educational process!

[Comment: The article is dated March 21, 2017.]

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

Potential ‘Smoking Gun’ Showing Obama Administration Spied on Trump Team, Source Says

The intelligence is said to leave no doubt the Obama administration, in its closing days, was using the cover of legitimate surveillance on foreign targets to spy on President-elect Trump

Republican congressional investigators expect a potential “smoking gun” establishing that the Obama administration spied on the Trump transition team, and possibly the president-elect himself, will be produced to the House Intelligence Committee this week, a source told Fox News.

Classified intelligence showing incidental collection of Trump team communications, purportedly seen by committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and described by him in vague terms at a bombshell Wednesday afternoon news conference, came from multiple sources, Capitol Hill sources told Fox News. The intelligence corroborated information about surveillance of the Trump team that was known to Nunes, sources said, even before President Trump accused his predecessor of having wiretappedhim in a series of now-infamous tweets posted on March 4.

The intelligence is said to leave no doubt the Obama administration, in its closing days, was using the cover of legitimate surveillance on foreign targets to spy on President-elect Trump, according to sources.

The key to that conclusion is the unmasking of selected U.S. persons whose names appeared in the intelligence, the sources said, adding that the paper trail leaves no other plausible purpose for the unmasking other than to damage the incoming Trump administration.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Security Alert: Windows 10 Has Been Quietly Logging Every Keystroke You Type and Sending it to Microsoft (This is How to Stop it)

According to a recent report, if you are a Windows 10 user then every single keystroke you have ever typed on your computer may have been logged and sent to Microsoft.

You know those nagging questions during the installation process that ask you whether or not you want to “help” improve Windows by sending data to Microsoft? If you happened to answer “yes” to one of these questions, or if you went with the Microsoft default installation, there is a real possibility that everything you have done on your computer from the get-go, including sending “secure” messages (because the keyboard logger captures your keystrokes before they appear in your secure messaging app), is now a part of a massive user database somewhere.

There’s been heaps of controversy associated with Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 10 since it was launched, but the latest issue takes the cake — apparently Windows has been quietly logging every single keystroke users make on their keyboards from the beginning. Even better, that data is being constantly sent to Microsoft’s servers on a regular basis.

Via IB Times

It’s been reported that Microsoft has been using the data to improve artificial intelligence writing and grammar software, but it’s not clear what else they are doing with it.

If you are OK with sharing your personal messages, usernames and passwords with Microsoft for the betterment of the Windows universe, then there is nothing else you need to do at this time.

But if you are concerned about your personal privacy, there are two ways to avoid having your computer spied on using this keylogger method.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Soros, Left Wing Activists Plot Trump Resistance

A network of wealthy liberal donors aligned with billionaire George Soros are meeting in Washington, D.C. with left-wing activists and political players for four days this week to strategize how best to undermine the Trump agenda and “restore progressive government.”

Although the spring investors conference for Democracy Alliance is closed to the press, The Daily Caller was able to obtain a copy of the conference’s agenda, marked “confidential.”

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

Spicer: There’s More Evidence CNN Colluded With Hillary Than Russia With Trump

DNC chair supplied CNN debate questions to the Clinton campaign ahead of time — and she still lost

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer once again went after CNN as a fake news channel Thursday, after the network published a report claiming that ‘US officials’ have confirmed that FBI is investigating communications between Russia and the Trump campaign…

The press Secretary fired back that “I think there’s probably more evidence that CNN colluded with the Clinton campaign to give her debate questions than the Trump campaign [did] any kind of collusion.”

“That reporting is filled with a bunch of subjective terms about, ‘This person may have done this, possibly could have done that,’ and at the end of the story if you wade to the very bottom it says, ‘The FBI cannot yet prove that collusion took place,’“ Spicer clarified.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Was Right: Jewish Teen Arrested for Bomb Threats to Jewish Centers

President Trump was viciously attacked in February for suggesting the threats may have been a false flag to “make people look bad.”

A 19-year-old Jewish teenager with dual Israeli-American citizenship was arrested Thursday by Israeli police as the “main suspect in a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers in the United States,” the AP reports.

President Trump was viciously attacked in February for suggesting the threats may have been a false flag to “make people look bad.”

The ADL and other far-left Jewish groups, without any evidence, blamed “white supremacists” who were “embolden by Trump” for being behind the calls.

It turns out Trump was entirely right and they were entirely wrong…

The Washington Post said Greenblatt and the entire top brass at the thoroughly disgraced ADL need to resign immediately.

“Self-serving groups such as the Anti-Defamation League chose to hype and politicize the threats without any idea of their actual origin,” David Bernstein wrote. “The ADL’s board of directors needs to clean house to regain credibility, starting with anyone who publicly attributed the bomb threats to emboldened white supremacists.”

They actually need to apologize to Donald Trump and all his supporters they viciously demonized to advance purely political aims. All their transparent propaganda campaigns directed against Trump and his supporters are directly in violation of their 501(c)(3) status which forbids them from taking a position on behalf of or in opposition to any candidates for office. The ADL opposed Trump from the very beginning and viciously attacked him as an anti-Semite throughout the campaign. They need to lose their tax-exempt 501(c) (3) status immediately and be made to register as Democrat lobbyists.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Admin Approves the Keystone XL Pipeline

The Trump administration approved the final stages of the Keystone XL oil pipeline Friday.

The approval comes 16 months after the Obama administration rejected the project over concerns it would tarnish the U.S.’s reputation as a leader in the fight against global warming.

The Department of State granted TransCanada, the company building Keystone XL, permission to “construct, connect, operate, and maintain pipeline facilities at the U.S.-Canadian border in Phillips County, Montana for the importation of crude oil.”

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

Unbelievable: 4-Year-Old Gets Suspended for Bringing Empty .22 Casing to Preschool

The American school system has long abandoned its job of teaching the young. It’s not an exaggeration to say that our schools are little more than indoctrination centers. They don’t really prepare our children for the world. They just teach them to be scared, dependent, and to disregard any traditional value. And god forbid one of your boys does something even remotely masculine outside of a physical education class or a football field. In most schools, boys are treated far more harshly than girls are for their bad behaviour.

And that may explain what happened to Hunter Jackson, a 4-year-old from Collinsville, Illinois who was attending preschool. During a visit with his grandpa, he picked up an empty .22 casing in a field and took it home with him. But when he took it to school to show his friends, all hell broke lose. The boy’s mother explained what happened in a Facebook post, which has since gone viral:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Foreign Buyers Tax Won’t Solve GTA Housing Affordability Crisis

The middle class dream is slipping through the fingers of families in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and the fault lies with our politicians.

Forget about a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot-with parking spots in downtown condos selling for between $45,000 and $60,000 per space, who can afford a garage, let alone a house attached to it. In February, detached homes in the GTA sold for an average price of $1.21 million and Toronto home prices are expected to grow by 20 to 25 per cent this year. Compare that to average Ontario weekly earnings of $963, or $50,000 per year, and you can see the problem.

Ontario politicians depend on middle class GTA voters for their electoral success, and should be committed to seriously addressing the issue of housing affordability. Cue renewed pontification by the Ontario minister of finance about bringing in a foreign home buyers tax. Last year the minister said the government had no plans to tax foreign buyers, but he now saying he is considering a number of policy options to cool the GTA market, and that “a foreign tax is just one.”

The trouble is that many experts point out that the price issue has been overwhelmingly driven by a shortage of supply rather than a sudden increase in demand (let alone foreign demand). And supply restrictions are largely the fault of our political leaders.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

M-103 Passes and Now the Islamophobia Study Begins

As expected, Liberal MP Iqra Khalid’s anti-Islamophobia motion passed the House of Commons with a hearty majority.

The Thursday afternoon vote tally saw 201 votes for and 91 against. All Liberal MPs present voted in favour, although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was absent. The only Conservative MP who voted for it was leadership candidate Michael Chong.

An interesting spanner was thrown into the works with the release of an Angus Reid Institute survey that morning. It asked Canadians how they’d vote if they were MPs. A plurality of 42% said they’d vote against it. While only 29% would give it the go ahead.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Belgium Driver on Terrorism Charge Over Antwerp ‘Attack’

A man who drove at a crowd in Antwerp has been charged with attempted terrorism, Belgian prosecutors say.

No-one was injured but shoppers in a pedestrian zone were forced to dive out of the way in Thursday’s incident.

The man was caught by soldiers, who found knives, a non-lethal gun and a substance which a bomb disposal team had to deal with in the car.

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

Brussels Mayor: All of Our Mosques Are Controlled by Radical Islamists

“Everyone knows that all mosques in Brussels are in the hands of Salafists”

In an admission that demonstrate the scale of the problem now posed in Europe by radical Islam, the Mayor of Brussels has admitted that all of the mosques controlled in the Belgian capital are controlled by Salafists, who believe in a radical interpretation of Islam.

Mayeur admits that: “Everyone knows that all mosques in Brussels are in the hands of Salafists,” adding that: “We need to change this, we need new mosques that follow our democratic rules and that are being controlled by the government.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Eurocrat Frans Timmermans Says Silent Majority Do Not Like EU Policies

MASSIVE numbers of ordinary European voters do not like the EU’s bloated institutions or its policies, one of the bloc’s top officials conceded in an extraordinary admission today.

EU Commission first vice-president Frans Timmermans said a “huge silent majority” across the continent was tired and frustrated with the direction Brussels is heading in in a jaw-dropping intervention.

The senior eurocrat warned the entire project could “fall apart” because of its growing popularity crisis and urged European leaders to do more to emphasise its role as a peace maker.

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

European Union at ‘All Time Low’ Says Shocking New Ipsos Mori Poll

European Union is now at an “all time low”, a new Ipsos MORI survey has revealed.

The survey, conducted between February 17 and March 3 and involving more than 18,000 people across Europe and the wider world, revealed rapidly growing euroscepticism.

It also shockingly revealed former EU strongholds such as Belgium, Italy and France were now hotbeds of anti-EU sentiment.

In Belgium, for example, 69 per cent of respondents said they believed the EU was now “on the wrong track”.

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

Italy: Surgeon Probed for ‘Breaking Woman’s Femur’

‘I put in a zip to open her up again’

(ANSA) — Milan, March 23 — A surgeon at a Milan hospital was arrested Thursday for allegedly breaking a 78-year-old woman’s femur so as to try out a “bikini-style” operation to “train myself”, according to a wiretap. “I didn’t put stitches in, I put in a zip so I can open her up again,” said the orthopaedics chief at the Gaetano Pini Hospital, Norberto Confalonieri.

Confalonieri was arrested for bid-rigging and corruption and is under investigation for bodily harm.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

London Attacker Khalid Masood ‘Forced Daughter to Convert to Islam’

THE terrorist behind the London attacks forced his eldest daughter to convert to Islam and wear a full-face veil, according to reports.

Khalid Masood’s oldest daughter, now aged 24, was also reportedly convinced by her father to change her name.

The revelation follows allegations that three years ago Masood tried to convince his youngest daughter, then aged just 16, to adopt his faith and live with him in Birmingham.

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

Pope Francis Sees Hope for European Union, Urges Leaders to Return to Roots

“What hope is there for the Europe of today and tomorrow?” Pope Francis asked when he addressed the leaders of 27 European Union countries this evening in the Sala Regia (Royal Hall) of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, March 25, 1957, that created the European Economic Community, the forerunner of today’s European Union.

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

So How Did Birmingham Become the Jihadi Capital of Britain?

‘Connection’ of London terror attacker to Britain’s second city is more than just a coincidence

The Hyundai 4×4 at the centre of the Westminster terrorist atrocity might have ended its bloody mission at the gates of Parliament, but the vehicle — and the maniac behind the wheel — began the journey more than 100 miles up the M40 . . . in Birmingham.

The vehicle was hired from a firm — in Birmingham. The ‘driver’ was staying in a rented flat — in Birmingham. Police with machine guns carried out a series of raids in the aftermath of the attack — in Birmingham.

Birmingham. Birmingham. Birmingham. It’s always Birmingham…

The recent history of Britain’s second city, however, tells us that the Birmingham ‘connection’ is more significant; more than just a coincidence.

How can the shocking statistic — namely, that one in ten convicted Islamic terrorists come from a tiny area of Birmingham in and around the Sparkbrook district — be dismissed as a ‘coincidence?’

These five highly concentrated Muslim council wards, occupying a few square miles, have produced 26 of the country’s 269 known jihadis, according to recent analysis of terrorism in the UK.

The evidence is there, in black and white, in the 1,000-page report published earlier this month by security think-tank, the Henry Jackson Society.

The overall number of Islamic terrorists revealed to have had a Birmingham address down the years is even higher: 39 in total. This figure is more than for the whole of West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Lancashire put together.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Macedonia to George Soros and USAID: Go Away

Small but mighty Macedonia is the mouse that roared this year, declaring war on George Soros, 86, and his U.S. Government handmaidens, who, incredibly, have financed a left-wing agenda to divide the nation and bring a socialist-Muslim coalition to power.

It was the kind of Obama Administration manipulation that was so routine that it passed unnoticed in 2012, when USAID/Skopje selected Soros’ Foundation Open Society Macedonia (FOSM) to manage $2.5 million in taxpayer dollars earmarked for oxymoronic “democracy building,” an amount increased to $4.8 million two years later.

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

Caroline Glick: Trump’s Greatest Deal

What can be done about Iran?

In Israel, a dispute is reportedly raging between the IDF and the Mossad about the greatest threat facing Israel. IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot thinks that Hezbollah is the greatest threat facing Israel. Mossad Director Yossi Cohen thinks Iran’s nuclear program is the greatest danger facing the Jewish state.

While the media highlight the two men’s disagreement, the underlying truth about their concerns has been ignored.

Hezbollah and Iran’s nuclear program are two aspects of the same threat: the regime in Tehran.

Hezbollah is a wholly owned subsidiary of the regime. If the regime disappeared, Hezbollah would fall apart. As for the nuclear installations, in the hands of less fanatical leaders, they would represent a far less acute danger to global security.

So if you undermine the Iranian regime, you defeat Hezbollah and defuse the nuclear threat.

If you fail to deal with the regime in Tehran, both threats will continue to grow no matter what you do, until they become all but insurmountable.

So what can be done about Tehran?…

           — Hat tip: Caroline Glick [Return to headlines]
 

Getting to Know the Christians in Kuwait

‘Seven licensed churches — Hundreds of thousands of worshipers’

Recently a controversial incident at the Catholic church in Kuwait City garnered international attention. Not everyone knows that there is a sizable, diverse Christian community in Kuwait. But Christians have been here from the earliest days and in fact there are Christian Kuwaiti families.

Last December MP Ahmad Al-Fahdl called on the government to declare Christmas a holiday. The gesture was welcomed by many Christians in Kuwait as ‘good’ for religious tolerance and freedom of religion in the country. The constitution declares that Islam is Kuwait’s official religion, but provides absolute freedom of belief and freedom of religious practice here. According to the latest Public Authority for Civil Information statistics, more than 822,000 Christians reside in Kuwait. The overwhelming majority of them are non-citizens, while approximately 200 plus Kuwaitis hailing from eight families declare themselves Christians.

Seven licensed churches

There are seven officially licensed Christian churches in Kuwait that are recognized by the government: The National Evangelical (Protestant), Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic (Melkite), Coptic Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox and Anglican. The Ministry of Interior provides residency permits, security and protection of places of worship of licensed churches, while the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor issues visas for clergy and other staff. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Municipality handle building permits and land issues.

The Seventh Day Adventist Church in Kuwait, a Christian congregation, has been in existence in Kuwait for the last 45 years, and according to Pastor Jonnie, the current head of the church in Salwa, it has encountered no issues with the government. “Worshippers hail from various nationalities. Right now, we have around 250 active members. They come and go as we mostly comprise of migrant workers. Most worshippers are temporary workers — after some time, they move to another country or go back to their countries of origin,” he told Kuwait Times.

Smaller groups of Christians in Kuwait are part of the Greek Orthodox Church in Salwa and the Church of Christ and other Filipino Christian churches mostly affiliated with the National Evangelical Church. The Catholic Church has three major houses of worship — the Holy Family Cathedral in Kuwait City, the Ahmadi Church and the Saint Therese Parish Church in Salmiya. The Evangelical Church in Kuwait City is headed by Kuwaiti Pastor Emmanuel Gharib, and has several satellite branches in various areas including Mishref. Under it are smaller groups of community churches like the Filipino Language Christian Congregation, headed by Bishop Jun Nones…

           — Hat tip: ESW [Return to headlines]
 

Nobody’s Stooge: Le Pen Meets Putin, Shows ‘French Desire for Detente With Russia’

Marine Le Pen has been demonized all through her career, so she is no stranger to criticism. Meeting Vladimir Putin is a gamble to attract voters outside her core support who want better relations with Russia, says political author Diana Johnstone.

The French National Front leader is in Moscow and has been meeting with President Puting, their first official face to face.

During the talks, Vladimir Putin stressed the importance of relations with France and said despite having the right to meet any potential candidate, the country has no intention of meddling in April’s presidential election.

RT: What do you make of this high-profile, first face to face meeting, of the two politicians?

Diana Johnstone: It is a surprise. It is a very bold move on the part of Marine Le Pen. Because already any candidate who wants to have peaceful relations with Russia is branded as a ‘Putin stooge.’ Obviously, she is ready to face these accusations. She must believe, perhaps they have their own private polls at the National Front, that this position of wanting to end sanctions and have peaceful relations with Russia is popular enough that it can overcome the violent media reaction that you will have here, saying she is a “Putin stooge and has been brought by the Kremlin.”

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

Porn Aired on Islamic TV for Half an Hour

Privately run Touba TV shocked viewers with 20 minutes of hardcore pornography in the middle of the day, in what the Senegalese Islamic TV station on Wednesday attributed to a ‘criminal act’.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Federal Law Enforcement Resources Overwhelmingly Spent on Immigration Crime

Half of federal law enforcement arrests in 2014 were immigration-related crimes

Immigration-related crimes made up half of all federal law enforcement arrests in 2014, according to a new Department of Justice report released Thursday.

Immigration offenses accounted for more than 81,000 of the 165,256 arrests made by federal authorities in 2014, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found in its study. Nearly two-thirds of the total number of federal arrests occurred in the five jurisdictions that sit along the U.S.-Mexican border.

The report further found those arrested along the U.S. southern border to be more likely than those arrested in any other region in the country to return to federal prison within three years of release.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

High School Gang Rape Isn’t Slowing Maryland Sanctuary Bill

Maryland is moving forward with “sanctuary state” legislation shielding illegal aliens even after the rape of a 14-year-old girl by two illegals in a Maryland high school bathroom during school hours last week outraged state residents from Hagerstown to Ocean City.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Police: Repeatedly Deported MS-13 Gang Member Sexually Assaulted 2-Year-Old Girl

Officer says alleged crime is “probably the most heinous criminal act I’ve ever seen. It really is nauseating”

A member of the MS-13 street gang who had been deported from the U.S. four times stabbed two women and sexually assaulted a 2-year-old girl in a New York City suburb, police said Thursday.

Tommy Vladim Alvarado-Ventura, 31, of Hempstead, pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail Thursday. His court-appointed attorney declined to comment.

Alvarado-Ventura is suspected of assaulting the child between Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning while the girl’s mother was at work, acting Nassau County Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter said at a news conference. He said investigators are still working to determine exactly when the child was assaulted.

Krumpter said that in his 28 years in law enforcement, the alleged crime is “probably the most heinous criminal act I’ve ever seen. It really is nauseating.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Three Million Migrants Waiting to Cross Into Greece, Says EU Commissioner Avramopoulos

Thousand of migrants are already bottlenecked

While visiting Athens on Thursday, European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said that there are approximately 3 million refugees waiting to cross into Greece from Turkey in an effort to reach Western and Northern Europe.

The news comes at a time when repeated threats from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan along with many of his advisors and aides imply that the Brussels-Ankara deal might come to an end.

Mr. Avramopoulos stated that the deal signed last year between Turkey and the EU had reduced the influx of migrants toward Europe and reduced the number of deaths at sea while stressing the need to safeguard the deal in order to curb human smuggling in the Aegean.

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Turkish President Could Rip Up EU Migrant Agreement

TURKISH president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has insisted he will review Turkey’s relationship with the European Union — including its deal to curb illegal migration into the bloc — after its constitutional referendum in April.

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UK: Smug, Craven Politicians in Thrall to Notions of ‘Diversity’ Sowed the Seeds of the Terror We’re Now Reaping, Writes Richard Littlejohn

Every time there is a terrorist atrocity, either here or abroad, the politicians go through the same old motions, mouthing platitudes about never surrendering to evil. But by their actions they betray their hollow rhetoric and the rest of us have to live with the consequences.

It is the political class who have fostered the conditions which allow Islamist fundamentalism to flourish in Britain.

They encouraged the pernicious doctrine of ‘multiculturalism’ — which is just a fancy word for apartheid and has created vast, monocultural Muslim ghettoes in our great cities.

One-tenth of all convicted jihadis come from a single, small area of Birmingham.

The politicians have opened the floodgates to mass immigration without insisting on integration.

They pretend every culture, no matter how medieval and barbaric, is worthy of equal respect. They permitted foreign hate preachers from cruel theocracies to set up shop here, peddling their doctrine of violence and division.

In pursuit of votes, they are in thrall to self-appointed ‘community leaders’ who take our money but reject our freedoms. As a result, it is possible to spend your entire life here without ever subscribing to one of our traditional values, such as tolerance of those with different religious beliefs. Many young Muslims grow up hating the country that gave them everything.

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Violent Traffickers Smuggling Migrants Into Britain Exposed

THE true scale and violence of the people smuggling trade from France to the UK is exposed today in a Daily Express investigation.

“To witness the violence was horrifying but it gives me an insight into what our drivers are having to face every day.”

The past two summers have seen British truckers and tourists face increasing levels of violence and intimidation on roads leading to the Calais ferry port and Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles with gangs using felled trees, burning blockades and petrol bombs to stop traffic.

French officials now fear another summer of chaos and estimate migrants are returning to the area at a rate of more than 100 a week. There are thought to be at least six secret camps in the NordPas-de-Calais region.

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Christians Urged to Pull Children From Public Schools

Christian parents should pull their children out of public schools, now, to protect them from spiritual damage and other serious problems. Pastors and churches should work to encourage that “exodus,” helping and encouraging families to put their kids in homeschools or private Christian schools as quickly as possible. The alternative will be the continued decline of the church in America and an acceleration of the nation’s decline. That was the message of an evangelical ministry leader speaking as a guest this week on one of America’s top Christian radio programs.

Dr. James Dobson, one of the nation’s most influential Christian leaders, hosted the discussion on his national radio program focusing on the spiritual danger of allowing children to sit in secular or even anti-God public schools for over a dozen formative years. Dobson’s guest on his nationally syndicated show Family Talk, heard on hundreds of stations across America, was Lt. Col. E. Ray Moore, a retired military chaplain, a homeschooling pioneer, and the nation’s leading advocate of a mass exodus of Christian children from the government schools. The explosive interview could have far-reaching ramifications, forcing millions of Christian parents and thousands of pastors across America to re-consider their choices.

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Artificial Intelligence: How to Scale the Human Mind

The implications of recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have spurred heated debate globally. As science fiction starts to become reality, AI products are slowly infiltrating homes and workplaces. This is causing concern about potential detrimental effects of AI on the job market, or even about the dangers of an AI singularity, where sentient robots take over the world and destroy humans.

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11 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/24/2017

  1. “So How Did Birmingham Become the Jihadi Capital of Britain?”

    Because significant parts of it are one of the nation-wide occupied territories full of and run byMuslims, that’s why.

    Furthermore, the security services and the political classes have been fully aware of the causes and inevitability of this for nigh on a quarter of a century since the Satanic Verses debacle – the Bradford riots, book burnings and Fatawa.

    They also know what the only solution is but either lack the testicles to implement the only pssible solution, need the the Muslim vote or are active supporters of the Bilderberg/NWO cabal or all of those things.

    The Augean clean out needs to start in the operations rooms, not the stables, and the primary operation room is the Palace of Westminster.

  2. So, Schumer’s War with Trump over Russia is to keep Trump from aligning with Russia to combat Iranian power, financed by Barack?

  3. In my opinion, the pipeline is a mistake. There has already been systematic sabotage on it, people burning big holes with blow torches. You can no longer build civilization on the backs of the locals — even high tech sabotage has become easy. The only way is to build… if not consensus, then at least grudging agreement. Predatory capitalism will not be sustained if there are sophisticated people willing and able to harm the project, and to be persistent. You cannot police the whole pipeline. I wonder if Trump’s advisors are savvy to these issues.

  4. Bringing crude oil from Canada to Us. Good idea. Hope it works out for the people. But Trump does not look like he is doing much for the American people as hoped. Trump said he has “big, ambitious plans to improve people’s live” This is nonsense. Those plans includes tax cuts for the rich, for businesses, increased defense spending. In my Italy this means fancier military garrisons near Vicenza and Aviano for more wars of aggression, meaning more refugees for Europe. Thanks a lot. Billions will be wasted, according to the design construction I now see, a waste of money. You want a wall? How about a design like the Great Wall of China? Now that is a wall. Well patrolled that keeps them out, easy to shoot them down if they scale walls. So sorry for Americans. They only exchanged one tyrant and tyranny for another. Hillary Clinton nightmare. No choices. No learning from Europe’s experience of stupid migration laws.

    • “Trump not doing much for the American people…” For heavens sake man, he’s been in power for eight weeks! And is being stalled, fought and road-blocked every inch of the way by traitorous countrymen and women called democrats, who conveniently forget that Americans gave the former President Obama a free ride, but all he accomplished was endless shilling for islam and doubling America’s debt!

      You don’t seem to know much of the North American scene; criticize Europe, there’s enough there to keep you occupied for a long, long time!

      • And don’t forget Paul Ryan’s part in being one of Trump’s major roadblocks. Hopefully, we will soon see the end of Globalist Ryan after his politically suicidal declaration that Obamacare is now the Law of the Land.

  5. **  Timmermans “urged European leaders to do more to emphasise its role as a peace maker.” **

    Peace maker?

    No. Ardent proponent of internal violence, parasitism, surrender to primitivism and stupidity, urban destruction, and streets as war zones and latrines. Deceiver. Destroyer of liberty. Haven for Maoists. Cheerleader of AntiFa. Erdogan lickspittle. Unaccountable Potempkin Palace of useless bureaucrats, smug poseurs, and traitors. Instigator of subversion, bankruptcy, tyranny, and the destruction of white civilization!

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