Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/23/2017

British Prime Minister Theresa May raised the country’s terror alert level to “critical”, meaning that another imminent attack may be expected. Army troops are being deployed on the streets of Britain to assist the police. The soldiers will be under the command of the police as they carry out their duties.

In other news, the first Muslim-only cemetery will be built in Sydney. It will cover ten hectares and have more than 44,000 burial plots.

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Financial Crisis
» Illinois Democrats in Senate Pass 33% Hike of Personal and Corporate Income Taxes
 
USA
» Assange Defends Clinton Campaign Leaks in Foreword of New Book
» Bombshell: Donna Brazile Warned Off Private Eye on Seth Rich Murder
» CIA’s Windows XP to Windows 10 Malware: WikiLeaks Reveals Athena
» DC Insider: There is “Complete Panic” at Highest Levels of DNC Over Seth Rich Murder
» Globalist Mag Urges WH Staff to Abandon Trump
» Is the Islamic State Planning to Strike the United States With Chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction?
» It is Time to Put the ‘Limited’ Back in Limited Government — and Abolishing the EPA is a Good Place to Start
» LOL: Mainstream Media Melts Down Over Infowars White House Credentials
» MSNBC Ruthlessly Cuts to Trump Coverage as Manchester Victims Scream in Background [Video]
» NASA Calls for Europa Mission Instrument Ideas
» Seth Rich Murder Suspects Named by Genius Hacker
» White House Defends Trump Budget Plan Against Dem Attacks
 
Europe and the EU
» Are Europeans Getting Used to Terror Attacks?
» Ariana Grande Concert Attack: Trump Calls on Allies to ‘Obliterate This Evil Ideology’ After Manchester Bombing
» Catalonia Leader Ups the Ante in Independence Drive
» Colin Firth Applies for Italian Citizenship Over Brexit
» Europe Was the Birthplace of Mankind, Not Africa, Scientists Find
» European Fossils May Belong to Earliest Known Hominid
» First Photo of Manchester Terrorist Emerges as Military Deployed to the Streets of UK
» France: Marine Le Pen ‘Ditches Plans for Frexit’ In Shock U-Turn
» France: Cannes: Burkini Beach Party Planned for Film Festival
» France: No-Go Zones Now in Heart of Big Cities
» German Economy Going From Strength to Strength
» ISIS Supporters Warned of Imminent Attack Hours Before Manchester Bombing
» Italy’s Supervolcano Builds Up Stress — But No Eruption Coming
» Leftists Bemoan ‘Islamophobia’ Backlash on Social Media Following Manchester Terrorist Attack
» Manchester Suicide Bombing Prompts ‘Security Rethinks’ Worldwide
» Pope Francis Lashes Out at “Grave Risks” Of Libertarianism
» Robert Gates: Expect More Attacks in the West as ISIS is Defeated in the Middle East
» Roger Moore Dead at 89
» Spain: Two ‘Dangerously Radicalized’ Men With Links to ISIS Arrested in Madrid
» Suicide Bomber Who Slaughtered 22 ‘Was Known to Police’: Attacker Was Caught on CCTV
» UK Deploys Army as Terror Threat Raised to Critical, May Warns “More Attacks Imminent”
» UK: London Could Lose 4,000 Police Officers as Met Cuts Back Amid Crime Surge
» UK: Manchester Terrorist Attacked Children: Girl, 8, Among 22 Dead After Ariana Grande Attack
» UK: Three Girls: How Poor White Girls Were Sacrificed on the Altar of Multiculturalism
» UK’s May Vows to “Defeat the Ideology That Often Fuels This Violence, “ While Refusing to Name What it is
» Vigil in Birmingham Halted as Man Armed With Axe and Bat Detained
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Trump Touts Ultimate Peace, But Same Obstacles Remain
 
Middle East
» Bahrain Police Kill Protester at Sit-in for Shiite Cleric
» Israeli Minister Hints at Coming War in Syria and Iran: “The Time Has Come to Assassinate Assad”
» Manchester Bombing Suspect Identified: Latest on Investigation
» Yemen War: Major Cholera Epidemic Feared, Says Charity
 
South Asia
» Lean-Burn Physiology Gives Sherpas Peak-Performance
» Public Canings — Shariah Defines Indonesia’s Aceh Province
 
Far East
» Philippines President Duterte Declares Martial Law on Mindanao Island
» South Korea Fires Shots at North Korea After Object Crosses Border
 
Australia — Pacific
» First Muslim-Only Sharia Cemetery to be Built in Sydney Will Hold More Than 44,000 Plots on 10 Hectares
» Kenyan-Born Italian Fruit Picker to be Deported From Australia After He Was Caught Touching Himself in Front of an Eight-Year-Old Girl in a Supermarket
» United Patriots Front Members Clash Violently With Anti-Racism Protesters Outside Court as Three Men Face Charges of Offending Muslims by Staging a Mock Beheading
» ‘Who is Anyone to Tell Me What it Means to be Australian?’ Muslim Activist Yassmin Abdel- Magied Defends Making Those Comments About ANZAC Day
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Ebola Spreading: Infections Up 800% in Last Week: Officials Race to Track Down 400 Possible Contacts
 
Latin America
» Two Dead in Venezuela as Protests Spread to Government Stronghold
» Venezuela Entering Final Stages
 
Immigration
» Germany Arrests Migrant Accused of Being a Member of the Taliban, Killing Policeman in Afghanistan
» Ghanaian Asylum Seeker is Charged With Raping Woman at Knifepoint in Front of Her Horrified Boyfriend Days After Learning He Was Going to be Deported From Germany
» Italy Makes Deal With Libya, Chad and Niger Aimed at Cutting Down Migration
» Sweden: Migrants Responsible for 90% of Shootings
» Syrian Migrant in Germany Wins Case Against Deportation to Greece
 
Culture Wars
» New Social Justice Math Class Will Teach Your Kids About “Inequity, Poverty, And Privilege”
» Walter Williams: Campus Atmosphere a Mix of Infantilism, Kindergarten and Totalitarianism
 
General
» Cyberattacks, The Plague of the 21st Century?
» Globalism: Persuading the Individual to Stop Being an Individual
 

Illinois Democrats in Senate Pass 33% Hike of Personal and Corporate Income Taxes

Senate Democrats in Illinois, with a final vote of 32-26, have just passed a new budget proposal that includes a massive personal and corporate income tax hike and an expansion of the state’s sales tax, after saying they are no longer willing to wait for a broader deal with Republicans.

As the Chicago Tribune noted earlier this morning, the Democrats’ budget proposal includes a ~33% hike in both the the personal and corporate income tax rates and an expansion of the state’s share of sales tax revenue. In all, the package would cost Illinois taxpayers an incremental $5 billion.

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

Assange Defends Clinton Campaign Leaks in Foreword of New Book

A book about Hillary Clinton’s presidential run is being promoted by WikiLeaks, thanks in no small part to a foreword by Julian Assange in which he defends publishing leaked Democratic Party campaign material.

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

Bombshell: Donna Brazile Warned Off Private Eye on Seth Rich Murder

WASHINGTON — Former Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile is the high-ranking DNC representative who allegedly called police and the family of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich and demanded to know why a private investigator was “snooping” into Rich’s death, the private eye revealed to WND Monday.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CIA’s Windows XP to Windows 10 Malware: WikiLeaks Reveals Athena

The latest file revealed in WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 catalog of CIA hacking toolkit is Athena, a surveillance tool apparently designed to capture communications from Windows XP to Windows 10 machines.

Details of the Athena malware are available in a document allegedly created by the CIA in November 2015. The malware is said to have been made in conjunction with US cybersecurity firm Siege Technologies, which was acquired by Nehemiah Security late last year.

The latest in WikiLeaks’ series of #Vault7 leaks was released Friday detailing malware that provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers using several Microsoft Windows operating systems.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

DC Insider: There is “Complete Panic” at Highest Levels of DNC Over Seth Rich Murder

Last week, Fox News dropped a bombshell report officially confirming, via anonymous FBI sources, what many had suspected for quite some time, that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich was the WikiLeaks source for leaks which proved that the DNC was intentionally undermining the campaign of Bernie Sanders. In addition to exposing the corruption of the DNC, the leaks cost Debbie Wasserman Shcultz her job as Chairwoman.

Of course, if it’s true that WikiLeaks’ emails came from a DNC insider it would end the “Russian hacking” narrative that has been perpetuated by Democrats and the mainstream media for the past several months. Moreover, it would corroborate the one confirmation that Julian Assange has offered regarding his source, namely that it was “not a state actor.”

Meanwhile, the plot thickened a little more over the weekend when Kim Dotcom confirmed via Twitter that he was working with Seth Rich to get leaked emails to WikiLeaks.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Globalist Mag Urges WH Staff to Abandon Trump

Same magazine pushed secret plan to remove Trump from office via COG

The New Yorker, a globalist publication that recently pushed the removal of President Trump from office, now suggests the existence of the so-called Comey memo has plunged the Trump administration, and the country, into “the full machinery of Presidential reckoning.”…

The fact that the New Yorker and other globalist mouthpieces are trying to sell the idea publicly indicates it was already quietly under discussion amongst the network of globalists embedded in the various government think tanks and agencies inside the beltway that had supported Hillary Clinton in her failed presidential bid.

And to further erode the American ideal of constitutional law, the New Yorker also recently claimed the American Revolution “was a mistake.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Is the Islamic State Planning to Strike the United States With Chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction?

From its inception, ISIS was well on its way to becoming another dark chapter in human history. However, as their self-proclaimed caliphate is chipped away by Kurdish, Iraqi, and Syrian forces, some of their darkest secrets are being revealed to the entire world. And those secrets tell us even more about just how evil this organization is.

In Mosul for instance, where Iraqi military units have nearly finished rooting out every ISIS element in the city, security forces have uncovered chilling documents left behind by the terror organization. These documents reveal that ISIS has been using human guinea pigs to test chemical weapons, which experts fear may be used to spike food supplies in the West.

The experiments were recorded in a stash of papers found hidden in Mosul University after Iraqi special forces recaptured the city from IS fighters.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

It is Time to Put the ‘Limited’ Back in Limited Government — and Abolishing the EPA is a Good Place to Start

The constitutional republic that our founders intended to create has become a monster, and it is time to tame that monster and restore the federal government to its proper size and scope. The left loves big government, because it allows them to impose their progressive vision of how the world should work on all the rest of us. This is why so many control freaks are drawn to liberal politics like moths to a flame. Power and control are very addicting drugs, and those that crave these things on the left are never satisfied. That is one of the reasons why the federal government just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. If our constitutional republic is going to survive, we have got to start putting the “limited” back in limited government. Our forefathers tried to guarantee that the federal government would always be less powerful than the states by making the Tenth Amendment abundantly clear…

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

I don’t see how anyone could possibly misunderstand that, but over the decades the left has worked very hard to make the Tenth Amendment as meaningless as possible.

If we want to see the Tenth Amendment restored, we are going to have to be willing to fight hard in the court system, in statehouses all over America, and in the halls of Congress.

And a good place for Congress to start would be to abolish the EPA. It is one of the federal agencies that is most wildly out of control, and fortunately there are a few good members of Congress that get this.

On February 3rd, U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz introduced a one sentence bill in the House of Representatives that would abolish the EPA at the end of next year…

Introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL1), H.R. 861 totals a mere one sentence: “The Environmental Protection Agency shall terminate on December 31, 2018.” That’s the same date of termination as another Republican bill to end the Education Department, which GovTrack Insider also recently covered. Gaetz is serving his first term in Congress and this is the first bill he’s ever introduced.

I would certainly vote for such a bill in a heartbeat, because as Gaetz has explained, the EPA is suffocating small businesses all over America…

[…]

The EPA has become a highly politicized organization, and it has become one of the favorite tools of the left for moving the “green agenda” forward. And of course this “green agenda” is being promoted on a global scale by the United Nations.

Have you ever heard of Agenda 21? Well, it has been given a makeover and it is now known as “Agenda 2030”. When it was first launched in 2015, Agenda 2030 was being touted as a “new universal Agenda” for humanity. The following information about Agenda 2030 comes from the official UN website…

[Comment: Followed by the Department of Education.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

LOL: Mainstream Media Melts Down Over Infowars White House Credentials

Establishment fears losing ability to undermine Trump

The mainstream media is melting down after Infowars received White House press credentials, underscoring how the establishment wants to monopolize the news coming from the White House to undermine President Trump.

Infowars posted a short article on Monday morning showing DC correspondent Jerome Corsi inside the White House press area, which triggered thousands of mainstream media articles and tweets by establishment journalists outraged that they can no longer distort news to make President Trump look bad.

An estimated 3,000+ news stories covered the Infowars article, which itself received over 14,000 direct shares on Facebook at the time of this writing.

But the mainstream media coverage is largely negative, highlighting how the establishment media will shed its supposed objectivity to desperately maintain control over public opinion.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

MSNBC Ruthlessly Cuts to Trump Coverage as Manchester Victims Scream in Background [Video]

“We’ll get the latest on that in a minute.”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews ruthlessly cut away from video of people screaming after a terror attack Monday night in order to hone in on “shocking news” from Washington regarding President Trump and old accusations of his campaign colluding with Russia.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

NASA Calls for Europa Mission Instrument Ideas

Researchers should begin planning instruments to go on a potential life-hunting lander mission to Jupiter’s ocean-harboring moon Europa, the space agency said.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Seth Rich Murder Suspects Named by Genius Hacker

Hackers known to my source were able to get into Seth’s Gmail account to tie him as the WikiLeaks source! There is no doubt about it now! Here’s a screen shot proving they hacked it. They found the evidence proving Seth Rich was killed for leaking the dirt on the Hillary Crime Syndicate and the DNC!…

Seth Rich was identified as Leaker by the Deep State using secret printer watermarks

One of the biggest revelations from my interview is when my source told me every printer on the planet now places a series of dots and watermarks on the page able to identify who printed it, where it was printed and even what computer printed it and more! He said less than 15 people in the world know everything that can be done with these watermarks and the special software used to decipher them! This is very important because my source told me the Department of Justice demanded scans of the physical copies of the leaks be given to them and my source says this allowed the Clinton Deep State to track all the leaks back to Seth Rich.

TimeLine according to the hacker source:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

White House Defends Trump Budget Plan Against Dem Attacks

The White House on Tuesday vigorously defended President Trump’s $4.1 trillion budget proposal that would cut entitlements and other domestic programs while boosting military and border security spending, saying the plan represents Trump’s campaign promises “put on paper.”

“There’s not a single thing [cut] from Social Security or Medicare,” White House budget Director Mick Mulvaney stressed. “Why? Because that’s what he promised.”

But a range of other programs, from Medicaid to food stamps, would be cut under the fiscal 2018 budget blueprint. In the face of swift and stiff Democratic opposition, Mulvaney told reporters that the Trump administration is taking a new approach to government spending.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Are Europeans Getting Used to Terror Attacks?

While terrorists continue their attacks in various European cities, ordinary people appear less and less fazed by the terror threat. Societies now have the chance to build up resilience to danger, experts told DW.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Ariana Grande Concert Attack: Trump Calls on Allies to ‘Obliterate This Evil Ideology’ After Manchester Bombing

President Trump called Tuesday for “all civilized nations” to unite against terrorism and “obliterate this evil ideology,” citing the deadly Manchester attack to underscore the central message of his foreign trip as he concluded a visit to the Holy Land.

“All civilized nations must be united in this effort. This trip is focused on that goal,” Trump said at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, after meeting earlier with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank.

The president spoke after a suicide bomber killed 22 and injured at least 59 at an Ariana Grande concert in the U.K. The president held a phone call Tuesday morning with British Prime Minister Theresa May to discuss the “wanton and depraved” attack, according to the White House, and will take his message later this week to meetings with NATO and G7 leaders.

During earlier remarks in Bethlehem, Trump offered his condolences to the victims, calling such attackers the “evil losers in life.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Catalonia Leader Ups the Ante in Independence Drive

Carles Puigdemont, the President of the Catalonia regional government, pledged to go ahead with independence referendum, even in the absence of agreed proposal for the future ahead by the authorities in Madrid.

Puigdemont, who is a former journalist, held yesterday (22 March) a conference in the Spanish capital entitled ‘A referendum for Catalonia. Invitation to a democratic agreement’. According to a press release, the aim was offering another chance to negotiate the terms of a referendum with the state authorities.

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

Colin Firth Applies for Italian Citizenship Over Brexit

Colin Firth is seen as the quintessential Englishman but has applied for Italian citizenship due to being ‘horrified’ by the consequences of Brexit, writes SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE.

[Comment: Communist Buffoon.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Europe Was the Birthplace of Mankind, Not Africa, Scientists Find

Contradicts previous claim Africa was birthplace of humanity

The history of human evolution has been rewritten after scientists discovered that Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa.

Currently, most experts believe that our human lineage split from apes around seven million years ago in central Africa, where hominids remained for the next five million years before venturing further afield.

But two fossils of an ape-like creature which had human-like teeth have been found in Bulgaria and Greece, dating to 7.2 million years ago.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

European Fossils May Belong to Earliest Known Hominid

Europe, not Africa, might have spawned the first members of the human evolutionary family around 7 million years ago, researchers say.

Tooth characteristics of a chimpanzee-sized primate that once lived in southeastern European suggest that the primate, known as Graecopithecus, may have been a hominid, not an ape as many researchers assume. One tooth in particular, the second lower premolar, is telling. It features two partially fused roots, a trait characteristic of early hominids but not ancient apes, a team led by geoscientist Jochen Fuss of the University of Tübingen in Germany reports May 22 in PLOS ONE.

Scientists suspect the first hominids appeared sometime between 8 million and 6 million years ago. New age estimates for previously discovered fossils position Graecopithecus as potentially the earliest known hominid, the investigators suggest.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

First Photo of Manchester Terrorist Emerges as Military Deployed to the Streets of UK

ENGLAND — U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May declared the increase of the country’s terror threat level Tuesday after an attack at Manchester Arena killed 22.

The threat level was raised from ‘severe’ to ‘critical’—meaning intelligence officials believe another attack is imminent.

The move means some police officers will be replaced with Military personnel.

On Monday night, a suicide bomber identified as Salman Abedi, 22, detonated an improvised explosive device packed with nails and bolts in the foyer area of the Manchester Arena in Manchester. Abedi was raised in England and was of Libyan decent…

           — Hat tip: Steen [Return to headlines]
 

France: Marine Le Pen ‘Ditches Plans for Frexit’ In Shock U-Turn

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen is to ditch plans to pull France out of the European Union and to stop using the euro and restore the franc, her party’s chief economic strategist has said.

“There will be no Frexit,” Bernard Monot said in an interview with a British newspaper, explaining that the Front National (FN) leader had realised that this was not what the French people want.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

France: Cannes: Burkini Beach Party Planned for Film Festival

The bikini was popularised by Brigitte Bardot on the beach in Cannes in the 1950s, and now the same beach is to be used to celebrate women’s swimwear that hides rather than bares all — the burkini.

French-Algerian businessman Rachid Nekkaz, who led a campaign against a ban on burkinis on French Riviera beaches last summer, is calling on women to descend en masse — wearing the full-body swimwear — on the beach on Friday as the town’s film festival draws to a close.

“The Cannes Film Festival is all about liberty and tolerance,” he told The Local. “It’s the perfect place to celebrate this ‘newfound freedom” in the city that was the first to ban the burkini.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

France: No-Go Zones Now in Heart of Big Cities

In January, 2015, a week after the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the American television channel Fox News created a scandal in France by claiming that Islamic “no-go zones” were established in the heart of Paris. For the French media, the existence of no-go zones — where non-Muslims are unwelcome and Islamic law, sharia, holds sway — in the heart of the capital was pure nonsense and horrifying “fake news.” Paris’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, said she planned to sue Fox News and that the “honor of Paris” was at stake.

By May 2017, however, the tone had changed. The French daily, Le Parisien, disclosed that, in fact, no-go zones are in the heart of the capital. It seems that the district of Chapelle-Pajol, in the east of Paris, has become very much a no-go zone. Hundreds of Muslim migrants and drug dealers crowd the streets, and harass women for wearing what many of these migrants apparently regard as immodest clothing.

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

German Economy Going From Strength to Strength

A raft of fresh economic data from Germany is showing that businesses are doing better than expected, benefitting from higher demand at home and abroad, and setting the economy on track for further expansion.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS Supporters Warned of Imminent Attack Hours Before Manchester Bombing

Reports of pre-attack Tweets begin to emerge

Islamic State supporting accounts tweeted about an attack on Manchester arena — four hours before a suicide bomber killed at least 22 people and injured 59 others at an Ariana Grande concert.

Manchester Arena was rocked by a huge explosion as children and their parents made their way towards the exit after the pop singer’s final performance.

Families are still searching for their loved ones as police confirm children are among the dead.

Reports are beginning to emerge there were warnings on Twitter — four hours before the attack.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Italy’s Supervolcano Builds Up Stress — But No Eruption Coming

A long-quiet supervolcano in Italy, located in an area inhabited by hundreds of thousands of people, may be more stressed than previously realized, new research finds.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Leftists Bemoan ‘Islamophobia’ Backlash on Social Media Following Manchester Terrorist Attack

Leftists across Twitter focused on the possible spread of “Islamophobia” following the attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester

Leftists took to Twitter Monday night to tweet about their fears of Islamophobia following the terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England.

While law enforcement has yet to identify the perpetrator of the attack, ISIS-related accounts have celebrated the bombing on social media. Leftists across Twitter focused on the possible spread of “Islamophobia” following the attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, which killed 19 people and injured at least 50 others.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Manchester Suicide Bombing Prompts ‘Security Rethinks’ Worldwide

Global police state strengthens in wake of terrorism

Countries from the United States to Japan and Singapore are considering tightening security ahead of major theater and sports events following a suicide bomb attack in Britain that killed at least 22 people.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pope Francis Lashes Out at “Grave Risks” Of Libertarianism

The purported pope of the Catholic Church recently attacked “libertarianism.” As a number of theologians have ably shown, Jorge Bergoglio, a.k.a Pope Francis, cannot be a legitimate pope since he was neither ordained as a priest or consecrated as a bishop in the traditional Catholic rite of Holy Orders. And, since he is not a bishop, he cannot be “bishop of Rome” — a prerequisite for being the head of the universal Church.

While “technically” he is not the pope, Bergoglio is a notorious heretic who has said a mind-boggling number of heresies, engaged in the most scandalous of actions, and has attempted to change doctrine and Church teaching. He is not the pope since a heretic is necessarily outside the Church and, thus, cannot hold ecclesiastical office, especially that of supreme pontiff.

If Bergoglio’s “invalidity” is not damnable enough, “Pope Francis” is a neo-Marxist who has repeatedly called for the redistribution of wealth, promoted mass migration, and has denigrated capitalism, accusing it of impoverishing the poor.

Naturally, with such a dossier, Bergoglio would be hostile to the concept of libertarianism. And, as a skillful demagogue, he has deliberately mischaracterized the subject.

In a message to a meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Bergoglio harshly stated:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Robert Gates: Expect More Attacks in the West as ISIS is Defeated in the Middle East

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Tuesday that the terrorist attack in Manchester, England, the night before will be a “harbinger of more activities in the West” committed by Islamic State militants as they continue to be defeated in Iraq and Syria.

“I think sadly, Manchester will be a harbinger of more activities in the West,” Mr. Gates said, speaking Tuesday at a conference on Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood put on by the Washington, D.C., think-tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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

Roger Moore Dead at 89

Roger Moore, best known for playing James Bond in seven of the 007 films, has died. He was 89.

His children shared the news on his verified Twitter account Tuesday that Moore had died in Switzerland after a “short but brave battle with cancer.”

“With the heaviest of hearts, we must share the awful news that our father, Sir Roger Moore, passed away today. We are all devastated,” the statement said.

[Comment: Sad news. Grew up watching The Saint. ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Spain: Two ‘Dangerously Radicalized’ Men With Links to ISIS Arrested in Madrid

Police in Madrid have arrested two men suspected of belonging to a jihadist cell with links to Islamic State.

The two men, aged 43 and 22, are alleged to have strong links to a cell that recruited, radicalized and trained would-be terrorists for suicide attacks, were arrested on Monday evening just hours before the Manchester Arena attack which has so far claimed 22 lives and left more than 50 injured.

Police said the two men, both Moroccans, are suspected of being “cyber soldiers” involved in more than one hundred internet sites aimed at training Isis members to carry out attacks, including video tutorials on how to make homemade explosions.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Suicide Bomber Who Slaughtered 22 ‘Was Known to Police’: Attacker Was Caught on CCTV

An urgent police probe is underway this morning to determine whether the attacker acted alone or had accomplices as part of a wider terror cell

The suicide bomber who slaughtered 22 at Manchester Arena may have been known to police before carrying out last night’s atrocity, it has emerged.

An urgent police probe is underway this morning to determine whether the attacker acted alone or had accomplices as part of a wider terror cell.

Officers are also combing CCTV to determine whether he carried out a ‘recce’ of the arena before detonating a nail bomb as thousands were leaving the Ariana Grande concert at 10.30pm.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the explosion. But last night, ISIS supporters were celebrating the massacre online while two messages, posted four hours before the attack, appeared to predict the mass killing.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK Deploys Army as Terror Threat Raised to Critical, May Warns “More Attacks Imminent”

In a televised statement from Downing Street, UK PM Theresa May said Britain has increased its security threat level to the highest possible “critical” from “severe”, following Monday’s suicide attack in Manchester that killed 22 people, and she also said members of the army would be positioned at key sites to free up police for patrols and military personnel might be deployed at public events such as concerts and sports events as a further attack was seen as potentially imminent.

“Members of the armed forces deployed in this way will be under the command of police officers,” May said, adding that “we cannot ignore that there is a wider group of individuals linked to Manchester attack”.

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

UK: London Could Lose 4,000 Police Officers as Met Cuts Back Amid Crime Surge

Budget cuts could mean that London is about to lose thousands of police officers, leaving the capital’s residents at a heightened risk from terrorism and rising crime. Internal estimates seen by the Times suggest that police ranks could be cut from 32,000 to 28,000 due to government pressure to come up with savings.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Manchester Terrorist Attacked Children: Girl, 8, Among 22 Dead After Ariana Grande Attack

ISLAMIC State has claimed responsibility for the Manchester terror attack as the city remains on lockdown with armed police patrolling the city centre after a suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured 120 at an Ariana Grande pop concert at Manchester Arena.

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

UK: Three Girls: How Poor White Girls Were Sacrificed on the Altar of Multiculturalism

What is the worst moment in Three Girls, the new BBC One three-part drama based on the Rochdale child-grooming scandal?

Is it when Holly realises that “Daddy”, a gross, 59-year-old Pakistani brute she met in a kebab shop, is expecting sex in return for all the chips and vodka he’s given her? “It’s part of the deal,” he explains, as he hauls himself onto the child’s cringing body. By the time he’s finished, Holly’s face has aged a thousand years.

Is it when Holly (played by the wonderful Molly Windsor) goes to the police seeking protection from Daddy (“Look, you’re my bitch now — if you cross me, I’ll kill you”) and the detective yawns extravagantly before pointing out that, if Holly had been raped, as she claims: “You don’t go back for more, do you?”

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UK’s May Vows to “Defeat the Ideology That Often Fuels This Violence, “ While Refusing to Name What it is

by Robert Spencer

“The Prime Minister vowed to ‘defeat the ideology that often fuels this violence’, saying: ‘We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish but as an opportunity for carnage.’“

Ms. May, here is a clue to help you comprehend that kind of warped and twisted mind: “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)

You will not, of course, pursue that line of inquiry, because to do so would be “Islamophobic.” And so you will never defeat this ideology, since you refuse even to admit that it exists, much less formulate effective ways to counter it. You will never comprehend these warped and twisted minds, because you refuse to admit that they’re warped and twisted because of religious teachings that you insist are wholly benign.

And so you will be overwhelmingly elected, and you will continue to lead your country to ruin.

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Vigil in Birmingham Halted as Man Armed With Axe and Bat Detained

A CANDLE-LIT vigil in Birmingham held in tribute to the victims of last night’s terror attack was cut short after police detained a man armed with an axe and a bat.

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Trump Touts Ultimate Peace, But Same Obstacles Remain

President Donald Trump showered his Middle Eastern hosts with praise and declared a breakthrough regional peace within reach. No one contradicted him, but behind the pageantry and politesse a wall of skepticism remains solidly intact.

It’s often said that the contours of Israeli-Palestinian peace are well-known. And as Trump professed, much of the Arab world does seem ready to normalize relations with the Jewish state. But the obstacles that bedeviled industrious outside brokers for decades — including Barack Obama and John Kerry — have not been removed.

Trump did not outline his vision for getting around them, or even the process that might enable such a thing.

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Bahrain Police Kill Protester at Sit-in for Shiite Cleric

Police in Bahrain have killed a protester at a sit-in to support a Shiite cleric. Witnesses say multiple people were wounded when officers shot at demonstrators who threw stones and Molotov cocktails in response.

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Israeli Minister Hints at Coming War in Syria and Iran: “The Time Has Come to Assassinate Assad”

The Iranians have just deployed their S-300 missile system to military bases located on their borders. The S-300 system has the capability of taking down short and medium-range ballistic missiles and engaging upon 6 different targets with 12 missiles. The effective range of the S-300 is approximately 130 miles (200 km). They are also planning on upgrading their defenses with the S-400 missile system. Is this noteworthy? Perhaps it is when examined on the heels of this quote from the Israeli Minister of Housing today, as such, reported in Sputnik News on May 16:

“The reality whereby Syria executes people, intentionally uses chemical weapons to hurt them and, now, in the most recent move of extremism, is burning their bodies — this has not been seen in the world in 70 years,” said Israeli Housing Minister Yoav Galant, as cited by Haaretz. “We are crossing a red line and, in my view, the time has come to assassinate Assad,” he continued. “And when we finish with the tail of the serpent, we will reach the head of the serpent, which can be found in Tehran, and we will deal with it, too,” he said.

Syria is the keystone to an invasion of Iran: Syria is crucial from both a geographical and a military standpoint. Although Israel is an ally of the United States, it is more of a “client” state: far from being independent, its very existence is predicated on American support. The problem is with the pro-Israel lobby that exists in the U.S. that literally (and illegally) has created influence through monetary and political pressure…influence that is not in the interests of the United States.

Please take note of the fact that Galant is not merely a “quoted minister,” but a retired general of the IDF (Israeli Defense Force). In essence, the Israelis see their opportunity here: President Trump is a leader who can (and may) go head to head with the Russians. Obama was too soft and would not follow through on what he started in Syria before the Russians knocked him off at the knees. The subtlety: the Israelis need the U.S. to be a “part” of toppling Assad and/or an invasion of Syria and then Iran.

The Syrian situation is one that has been both fostered and created in part by the United States. ISIS is a creation of the American State Department under Obama. The U.S. wanted to take northwestern Syria to enable a natural gas pipeline to be run from Qatar into Europe. This would have accomplished several things. The move would have taken the monopoly away from Russian energy giant Gazprom by supplying gas to Europe via Qatar.

It also would have struck into Russia’s pocketbook, and enabled Ukraine to come under the IMF “umbrella” by being dependent upon a Western source of supply for their natural gas needs. As of this writing, Ukraine is still into Russia for about $9 billion. The IMF would have paid it already…if Ukraine could have guaranteed repayment. The separatists from Donetsk and the Eastern Ukrainian provinces threw a monkey wrench into the equation with the fighting against the U.S.-installed Poroshenko government of Kiev. The additional specter of Russian military support produced a stalemate in the form of the Minsk accords and successfully dissuaded any thought of American military intervention under Obama.

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Manchester Bombing Suspect Identified: Latest on Investigation

LONDON— CBS News confirmed Tuesday that the man who blew himself up the previous night at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, was 23-year-old Salman Abedi, who was known to British authorities prior to the attack.

In a generic statement posted online, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ( ISIS ) claimed responsibility for Abedi’s suicide bomb attack, which left 22 people dead, including children, at one of the entrances to the Manchester Arena.

Officials said one man was arrested Tuesday in southern Manchester in connection with the attack, and urged people to avoid the center of the city as raids continued at addresses around the city.

Police and British Prime Minister Theresa May made it clear the focus of the investigation was to determine whether the bomber “was acting alone, or was part of a wider group.”

ISIS issued its claim of responsibility in a brief, generic statement that did not identify the bomber and appeared to get some of the facts of the attack wrong. It claimed a “caliphate soldier managed to place a number of devices among a gathering of crusaders in Manchester, and detonated them.”

Officials say there was only one explosion, and there have been no indications that other devices were discovered at or near the arena…

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Yemen War: Major Cholera Epidemic Feared, Says Charity

A major epidemic of cholera is feared in Yemen, according to charity Save the Children.

Almost 250 people have died of the disease this month alone, with hundreds of suspected cases being reported every day, it says.

The World Health Organization said the water-borne illness is spreading at an alarming rate in the war-torn country.

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Lean-Burn Physiology Gives Sherpas Peak-Performance

Nepalese Sherpas have a physiology that uses oxygen more efficiently than those used to the atmosphere at sea level.

This is the finding of a new study that investigated high-altitude adaptation in mountain populations.

The research involved taking muscle samples from mountaineers at 5,300m altitude and even putting them on an exercise bike at Mt Everest Base Camp.

The Sherpas owe this ability to an advantageous genetic mutation that gives them a unique metabolism.

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Public Canings — Shariah Defines Indonesia’s Aceh Province

Amid cheering crowds, two men in Indonesia’s Aceh province have been caned repeatedly as punishment for gay sex. While the incident has grabbed global headlines, it’s not an isolated one in the Shariah-ruled province.

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Philippines President Duterte Declares Martial Law on Mindanao Island

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared martial law on the southern island of Mindanao, where the army and insurgents have been fighting.

The violence has left three members of the security forces dead and 12 others wounded, officials say.

The measure, which will last for 60 days, allows the use of the military to enforce law and the detention of people without charge for long periods.

Mindanao is home to a number of Muslim rebel groups seeking more autonomy.

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South Korea Fires Shots at North Korea After Object Crosses Border

South Korea’s military says it has fired warning shots at an unidentified object flying south from rival North Korea.

The military said in a statement Tuesday that it has bolstered its air surveillance after the incident but provided few other details.

Yonhap news agency reported, without citing a source, that South Korea fired about 90 machine gun rounds into the air and toward North Korea. It said South Korea was analyzing whether a North Korean drone had crossed the border.

The Koreas face off across the world’s most heavily armed border, and the two sides occasionally clash.

Attacks blamed on North Korea in 2010 killed 50 South Koreans.

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First Muslim-Only Sharia Cemetery to be Built in Sydney Will Hold More Than 44,000 Plots on 10 Hectares

Double plots are now available for pre-purchase at the first Muslim-only cemetery to be built in Sydney. The Garden Cemetery will be located at Bringelly. Stock image pictured.

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Kenyan-Born Italian Fruit Picker to be Deported From Australia After He Was Caught Touching Himself in Front of an Eight-Year-Old Girl in a Supermarket

An Italian fruit picker who touched himself in a supermarket (pictured) and in front of an eight-year-old girl will be sent packing out of Australia, Bundaberg District Court was told.

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United Patriots Front Members Clash Violently With Anti-Racism Protesters Outside Court as Three Men Face Charges of Offending Muslims by Staging a Mock Beheading

Tempers have flared as United Patriots Front (UPF) supporters clashed with anti-racism protesters and media outside Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.

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‘Who is Anyone to Tell Me What it Means to be Australian?’ Muslim Activist Yassmin Abdel- Magied Defends Making Those Comments About ANZAC Day

ABC broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied has defended her ‘disrespectful’ comments on Anzac Day, saying she was unfairly treated and a victim of double standards.

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Ebola Spreading: Infections Up 800% in Last Week: Officials Race to Track Down 400 Possible Contacts

Last week three suspected Ebola infections were detected in a remote region of the Congo. Since then, World Health Organization officials have been scrambling to contain the virus.

Their efforts appear to have failed.

The contagion continues to spread, and though it’s nowhere near the 11,000 people who were infected during the outbreak in 2014, the infection rate has spiked over 800% in just the last seven days, with at least nine new cases reported in the last 24 hours:

The number of suspected cases of Ebola has risen to 29 from nine in less than a week in an isolated part of Democratic Republic of Congo, where three people have died from the disease since April 22, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

The risk from the outbreak is “high at the national level,” the W.H.O. said, because the disease was so severe and was spreading in a remote area in northeastern Congo with “suboptimal surveillance” and limited access to health care.

“Risk at the regional level is moderate due to the proximity of international borders and the recent influx of refugees from Central African Republic,” the organization said, but it nonetheless described the global risk as low because the area is so remote. (NY Times)

The 2014 outbreak likewise started in a remote region of Africa, but containment efforts were ineffective and the virus eventually spread to the United States and Europe.

According to W.H.O., about 400 people have come into contact with the 29 people infected and officials are attempting to track them down for monitoring.

Protective gear has been dispatched to health workers and a mobile lab is being constructed and then deployed to the area. Immediate repairs to air strips and telecommunications are also being carried out. The first six months of the operation are expected to cost $10 million…

With the help of the UN, the first search teams, led by the DRC’s Ministry of Health, flew into Likati yesterday. Their immediate priority is to follow the 400 plus contacts of the suspected Ebola cases. (U.N. News Centre)

As we learned in 2014, all it takes is one infected individual to make it through an airport checkpoint.

With international travel via airports, trains and cars available throughout the region, a single infected individual on an airplane could infect scores of others, who in turn could infect scores more.

The following Ebola model from Yaneer Bar-Yam, who has successfully simulated and predicted such events as the rise of the Arab Spring, shows how an Ebola contagion may look.

The above model is based on Ebola’s current infection rates and doesn’t take into account its possible evolution as it spreads from human-to-human.

According to scientists, the 2014 strain began hyper evolving, to the point that had it not been contained and continued to spread through human contact, it could have gone airborne, making it as easy to catch as a common cold.

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Two Dead in Venezuela as Protests Spread to Government Stronghold

The epicenter of the street protests that have swept Venezuela for the last 51 days has moved to the southwest of the country and the state of Barinas. It’s a place with symbolic importance to the ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV), as that is where its founder, former president Hugo Chávez, was born and grew up. On Monday, two people were shot dead there, sparking rioting that caused extensive damage to property, including the house where Chávez lived as a boy.

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Venezuela Entering Final Stages

After eight weeks of protests, 49 deaths, 13,000 injured, and 1,500 arrests, Venezuela’s citizens are turning violent. In the town where Hugo Chávez spent his early years, termed the “cradle” of his socialist revolution, protesters not only burned down his childhood home but also several government buildings, including the regional office of the National Electoral Council. This led one observer of the violence to remark that at least the protesters know whom to blame for their current troubles. Said Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas, “It is pretty symbolic that the citizens are venting their frustrations on the author of the Bolivarian revolution.”

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Germany Arrests Migrant Accused of Being a Member of the Taliban, Killing Policeman in Afghanistan

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested an Afghan man accused of being a member of the Taliban and participating in the killing of an Afghan police officer.

Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that the 20-year-old, identified only as Omaid N. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested on Friday.

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Ghanaian Asylum Seeker is Charged With Raping Woman at Knifepoint in Front of Her Horrified Boyfriend Days After Learning He Was Going to be Deported From Germany

A Ghanaian asylum seeker has been charged with raping a woman at knifepoint in front of her horrified boyfriend days after learning he was going to be deported from Germany.

Erik X. is accused of forcing his way into the tent of a couple camping in Siegaue nature reserve where the River Sieg flows into the Rhine, near Bonn in western Germany.

Police say he threatened them with a tree saw, ordered them to hand over their valuables and then raped the 23-year-old woman, forcing her boyfriend to watch.

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Italy Makes Deal With Libya, Chad and Niger Aimed at Cutting Down Migration

Italy has signed a deal with Libya, Chad and Niger to try to stem the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean by beefing up border controls and creating new reception centres in the African nations.

A joint statement by the interior ministers of the four countries said they had agreed to set up centres in Chad and Niger, key countries of transit for migrants who travel to Libya and on to Italy from sub-Saharan Africa.

The statement, released on Sunday after an Italy-organized meeting in Rome, said the new centres in Chad and Niger, and the existing ones in Libya, would live up to “international humanitarian standards”.

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Sweden: Migrants Responsible for 90% of Shootings

Government responds by putting people who talk about the problem on a “hate list”

A new study has found that people with a migrant background are responsible for 90% of shootings in Sweden, emphasizing once again how the country’s huge importation of “refugees” is exacerbating social problems.

“Young men with immigrant background are behind almost all murder and assassination attempts by firearms shows a recent survey. Most of them originate in the Middle East and North Africa,” reports FriaTider.

The stats are taken from an investigation by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, which found that out of 100 people involved in assassination and murder attempts where firearms were used, 90 people had at least one foreign-born parent.

Around 80% of the culprits are from Middle Eastern and North African countries such as Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Somalia and Eritrea.

The newspaper speculates that joblessness could be a contributing factor to the crime wave, pointing out that less than 30% of adult Somalis living in Sweden have a job.

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Syrian Migrant in Germany Wins Case Against Deportation to Greece

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court has upheld a complaint by a Syrian whose asylum claim was rejected because he’d already been granted asylum in Greece.

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New Social Justice Math Class Will Teach Your Kids About “Inequity, Poverty, And Privilege”

There’s a good reason why some college departments are riddled with social justice ideologues, and others are not. It’s because these beliefs are completely illogical, so they can only thrive in subjects that are open to interpretation. So if you went to college and took a class for liberal arts, gender studies, or sociology, you’re far more likely to run into politically correct nonsense than if you took a class in say, astrophysics. It’s hard to insert emotionally charged drivel into a subject that is relatively cut and dry.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that the social justice warriors in academia won’t try to infiltrate every class, no matter how silly it makes them look. For instance, two education organization known as Teach for America and EdX have partnered to create a six week math course titled “Teaching Social Justice through Secondary Mathematics.”

Unveiled earlier this month, the course aims to teach math instructors how to craft lesson-plans that incorporate social justice in order to raise their students’ awareness

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But the syllabus for this course takes the cake. Half of it doesn’t even sound like it has anything to do with math.

[Comment: Read the syllabus.]

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Walter Williams: Campus Atmosphere a Mix of Infantilism, Kindergarten and Totalitarianism

Time for donors, lawmakers to stop funding campus tyranny

Parents, taxpayers and donors have little idea of the levels of lunacy, evil and lawlessness that have become features of many of today’s institutions of higher learning.

Parents, taxpayers and donors who ignore or are too lazy to find out what goes on in the name of higher education are nearly as complicit as the professors and administrators who promote or sanction the lunacy, evil and lawlessness. As for the term “institutions of higher learning,” we might start asking: Higher than what? Let’s look at a tiny sample of academic lunacy.

During a campus debate, Purdue University professor David Sanders argued that a logical extension of pro-lifers’ belief that fetuses are human beings is that pictures of “a butt-naked body of a child” are child pornography. Clemson University’s chief diversity officer, Lee Gill, who’s paid $185,000 a year to promote inclusion, provided a lesson claiming that to expect certain people to be on time is racist.

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Cyberattacks, The Plague of the 21st Century?

Some of the world’s biggest nuclear powers are under threat from a notorious hacker group. The so-called ‘Shadow Brokers’ claim they are going to auction off …

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Globalism: Persuading the Individual to Stop Being an Individual

Socialism will never provide social justice — it will only provide the pathway to one-world government where no individual rights or self-determination exist

If society understood the reality of collectivism instead of the promise of collectivism then their support for collectivism would vanish. The elite globalist leaders selling collectivism know this to be true and so they have had to rebrand collectivism as Globalism. Songs are written about globalism — John Lennon’s classic song “Imagine” is the globalist anthem. The successful marketing of collectivism requires the names to change from already rejected Communism and faltering Socialism (think Venezuela) to the promise of a New World Order renamed GLOBALISM that disingenuously pledges social justice and income equality.

Globalism is the new word for the old lie about collectivism — that surrendering individual rights and national sovereignty will deliver social justice and income equality.

Philosopher Ayn Rand understood the sinister nature of collectivism and and wrote extensively about socialism/communism and how it persuades the individual to stop being an individual:

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

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8 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/23/2017

  1. Collective governments are very bad, but when private citizens set up co-ops, employee-owned companies and other collective, democratic enterprises, their individual rights are respected more than if they were in the corporate world. Governments can help the average person have the protection of a collective economic enterprise by educating people about co-ops and how they work. Few business schools even teach about co-ops. If young people knew what co-ops are and were able to experiment with starting co-op businesses, they could gain experience in this model. In many ways, the private co-op is superior to the publicly owned company, yet largely remains restricted to rural enterprises, largely due to the public’s lack of knowledge and experience.

    • The difference between the ‘coops’ you are talking about and the Collectivist coops (socialism/globalism/communism) is one on CONSENT.

      Why is ‘romance’ a good thing and ‘rape’ a bad thing, given they are the same physical act? It is because one is VOLUNTARY and one is INVOLUNTARY (no consent).

      Both coops and corporations are voluntary for individuals, so they are ok.

      Why don’t you persuade people how good voluntary coops are ? because most people see that things owned by everyone are effectively owned by no-one, which means the ‘elites’ at the top control it.

  2. Now if she would just raise the Muslim level to national disaster level.

  3. Ayn Rand should be required reading in high school — but it won’t happen because it is the opposite of what the socialists are teaching.

    • Agree.

      Once I discovered Rand I read everything I could that she wrote. Atlas took a while to finish but it was amazing how she predicted the kind of crap the Obama types were going to come up with.

      And the films. I have not been able to slog through the film “We The Living” since it’s an Italian film. Meh, I know how ends. “Fountainhead” is great a great film, and finally they made Atlas into a film. Unfortunately in three volumes with a different actress as Dagny in each one.

      Objectivism touched me.

  4. ‘ere now, come what May? Isn’t it a bit like locking the horse after the barn has been stolen?

  5. I’ve suggested (on another forum) that Victor Orban was an honorable leader, and was met with swift rebuke from a Hungarian; the commenter has suggested Orban is an oligarch-in-training working with the sultan.

    Can you comment?

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    mediaaccess Zolder
    3 hours ago
    I don”t think it’s funny. I live in Hungary. God, these people are evil – the oligarchs, that is.
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    Jeff E. mediaaccess
    2 hours ago
    You have an honorable man running Hungary
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    mediaaccess Jeff E.
    42 minutes ago
    Well, he’s not very honorable at all, and most of what you hear on the news is full of crp. Hungary is one of the most corrupt. He is killing his people. In fact, he is working with Erdogan. And his policies will turn Hungary into a Muslim state within 20 years. It’s all smoke and mirrors. Problems are many. One is most Hungarians don’t know English to get unfiltered propaganda, and if they do, it’s BBC or CNN. The matrix is deep, but orban is against the Muslims only because he is holding his cards close to his chest. Besides, Muslims are buying property here and infiltrating our hospitals. Socialist hospital system tends to deteriorate fast – being abandoned – sustained by cockroach invaders – they call that creeping Shariah. Hungary is a one day project for any invader. We got deals with communist Russia, communist china, socialist Eu, Turkey and Arab worlds. Orban is making deals so his oligarch – like Putin’s – can grow in wealth – but not for the people: Viktor Orbán and the President of Turkey discuss bilateral relations in Beijing: http://www.miniszterelnok.h
    Erdogan proclaims his ‘New Turkey’ vision CANNOT be stopped: http://therightscoop.com/er

    • Well Ladies and Gentlemen here are the unfiltered rumblings of an uneducated useful idiot and his personally created fantasy similar to the ones spread by Maxine Waters about Trump. The only difference that this little troll is not famous from anything. I am not even sure it’s worth for me to go point by point on his mix of accusations.

      Why he calls Orbán an oligarch? Because the Fidesz openly taken as part of their policies to create a strong and independent citizens versus the Liberal-Socialist welfare driven equally poor masses. Let’s not forget the Communists (literally) killed off the richer layer of the Hungarian society and it was hard to build a successful capitalist system without local wealthy investors. The Hungarian economy and politics are not less or more corrupt than any other Western counterparts but Orbán itself not showing any signs of getting rich in anything. He still lives in the same house, even drives his midsize sedan…
      So what is the reason for all these oligarch accusations. The Fidesz based Hungarian government made it clear. When any public funded investment is happening, they will prefer if it done by a Hungarian company vs the international corporations represented by the Liberals. Essentially the Trumpian “Hungary First” principles applies. Of course they will be winners of this and some very sour losers. The Soros type NGO represents those sour loser companies and they target the other set of losers: typically retired post Communists, who finally were kicked out from their comfy powers or the ones who were not talented enough to be successful in a merit based society.
      Ok second major accusation was how Orbán makes agreements with Russia, China and even tries to make a decent relationship with Turkey too.
      Orbán only doing what is the DUTY of every prime ministers: going everywhere and tries to get good economical and business agreements, whoever is willing to invest in Hungary. He very correctly sensing, that the EU suicidal behavior toward Russia amd China is causing economical problems (the EU bureaucracy not even care anymore about the economy, only importing migrants).
      As for having proper diplomatic relationship with Turkey, Orbán simply walk the walk after he spoke about leaving the nations making their own decisions vs the EU constant barking and never ending lectures on human rights (which is always very selective and only seems to apply when migrants needed to be imported and some company wants some natural resources.)
      I can’t even comment on the truly crazy ramblings of this guy about Orbán helping Muslims into Hungary… Total nonsense and the total opposite is what reality is. That is why MSM constantly attacking his government…
      This dude is totally unhinged, but for the GoV readers might be new. This is how the local Liberal-Socialis parties and their volunteers act. At the time of referendum about the refugees, their major tactic was the denial of the mandatory Migrant quote was… YES they just denied it, that even exist!!! Some people who not spoke any foreign language only Hungarian probably believed them ..
      This is complete Information distortion, denial of reality just like the US MSM hair-raising ideas about Trump, is the major weapon in the hand of the Globalists. And just like in the US the left Liberal oriented media is ruling 80-90 percent of all printed media and television. Even more funny when the Liberal useful idiots talking about the suppression of the freedom of the Press with percentages like this.

      I think I spent enough time on this, anyone with half a brain can decide the truth for herself/himself. Especially now they can see the Liberals desperate lies about Trump, or their constant ramblings about the evil racist white patriarchy….

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