Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/28/2017

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the United States and Britain were no longer reliable partners with Europe. Her remarks came in the wake of the recent G7 meeting, where President Donald Trump declined to support the Paris Climate Agreement.

In other news, North Korea has test-launched yet another ballistic missile into the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.

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USA
» 1 Year Later: No Public Memorial Planned for Harambe as Cincinnati Zoo Looks Ahead
» A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results From NASA’s Juno Mission
» Chicago Police Add Hundreds of Extra Cops for Memorial Day Weekend
» DHS Chief John Kelly: Intel Leaks ‘Borderline, if Not Over the Line, of Treason’
» George Soros — the Hairball Clogging the Swamp
» Harlem Residents Hate Trendy New ‘White People’ Name; Threaten Violence to Anyone Who Utters it
» ‘Heroes’ Died Protecting Women From Anti-Muslim Rant, Portland Mayor Says
» How Sharia Supremacism and Judicial Imperialism Threaten National Security
» It Begins! Close Obama Ally and Hillary Superdelegate Convicted of 18 Felonies! Faces Life in Prison!
» Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton by Parents of Benghazi Victims
» Looks Like the Media Spread Another False Story About Trump
» Meet the Man Who Recorded the World’s First Viral Video
» Politico: Trump’s War on Regulations is His ‘Biggest Untold Success’
 
Europe and the EU
» “The Belgian Armed Forces Are Bankrupt”
» 7/7 Met Police Chief Calls for Extremists to be Locked Up in Internment Camps as He Says MI5 and Police Cannot Keep Track of 3,000 Terror Suspects
» Belgium: Three Injured in Sint-Joost Shooting; One Victim Fighting for His Life
» Brussels Economist Reveals That EU Dream of Closer-Union in Europe Will Never Happen
» Denmark Names First Ever Digital Ambassador for Silicon Valley Role
» Europe Fights Back With Candles and Teddy Bears
» FBI ‘Warned MI5 in January That the Manchester Bomber Was Planning an Attack on Britain’
» FBI ‘Warned MI5 in January That Salman Abedi Was Placing Terror Attack in UK’
» General De Gaulle’s Grave Vandalised, Say French Police
» Henge Monument and Mysterious Burials Uncovered in England
» ISIS-Linked Man Was Released by Swedish Authorities: Report
» Keep Calm and Carry on? No. Not Again. Evil Triumphs When Good Men and Women Do Nothing More Than Offer Up Platitudes, Light Candles, Post Hashtags and Recite Poems.
» Macron: Awkward Trump Handshake a ‘Moment of Truth’
» Malta’s Hypogeum, One of the World’s Best Preserved Prehistoric Sites, Reopens to the Public
» Manchester Terror Attack: May Presided Over Open-Door Policy for Libyan Terror Suspects Fighting Gaddafi
» Manchester Bomber ‘Part of Mob Who Waged Intimidation Campaign Against Gang Rape Victim’
» Manchester’s Islamist-Appeasing Police and Politicians Have Blood on Their Hands
» Marbella Spain: Multiple Injuries After Car Ploughs Into Crowd Outside a Club
» Merkel Furious With Trump After “Unprecedented” G-7 Failure to Reach Consensus on Climate
» Merkel: Europe Can No Longer Rely on US and Britain
» Merkel Warns US, Britain No Longer Reliable Partners
» No Change to Headscarf Ban, Dutch Police Chief Says
» Spain Torn Apart as President Likens Independence-Chasing Catalonia to a ‘Dictatorship’
» Spain Plans to Reinforce Security Measures at Sports Events and Concerts
» Thanks to Trump, Germany Says it Can’t Rely on the United States. What Does That Mean?
» This is the Way the Climate Scare Ends; Not With a Bang, But a Whimper
» Threat for Britons in Spain as Jihadis Plot ‘Strike to Kill’ — Ex-SAS Sent in
» UK Police Helicopter Swoops in on Garden Party: Song Mocking Bin Laden Was Played
» UK: 7/7 Met Police Officer Calls for Internment of Islamic Extremists
» UK: Armed Police ‘Take Away Two Brothers’ In Manchester’s Moss Side Over Terror Attack as Neighbours Report Hearing ‘Huge Explosions’ During Raid
» UK: Manchester Bombing Victim Georgina Callander’s Family Urge the Government to ‘Open Its Eyes’ To Terror Threat — or More Parents Could Lose Children
» UK: Manchester Attack: It is Pious and Inaccurate to Say Salman Abedi’s Actions Had ‘Nothing to Do With Islam’
» UK: Pictured Minutes Before Committing Mass Murder: CCTV Shows Manchester Suicide Bomber Sauntering Towards Ariana Grande Concert in His £150 Nike Trainers and Trendy Jacket on Night of His Attack
» Vehicle Crashes Into Group of Pedestrians in Marbella
» Wales: Horrified Father’s Vauxhall Astra Speeds Up to 120mph of Its Own Accord With His Family Inside
 
North Africa
» In Ramadan Massacre, Egyptian Christians Killed for Refusing to Renounce Their Faith in Jesus
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Tel Aviv Rally for Two-State Model
 
Middle East
» AP Explains: Iraq’s Slow Grind to Retake ISIS-Held Mosul
» Erdogan Told Merkel of Anger Over Asylum for ‘Putschists’
» Federation Removes ‘Arena’ From All Stadium Names in Turkey After’s Erdogan Call
» Iran’s Supreme Leader Calls the Saudi Leaders ‘Idiots’
 
Russia
» Evidence of Early Dog Domestication Found in Siberian Arctic
 
South Asia
» Bangladesh Reinstalls Controversial Lady Justice Sculpture
» India Imposes Security Lockdown in Kashmir to Stop Protests
» Sri Lanka Floods: Residents Afraid as More Rain Forecast
 
Far East
» Inside the Philippines’ ‘Baby Factory’
» Japan’s Growing Concern Over China’s Naval Might
» North Korea Fires Missile Into Waters Off Japan
» North Korea Tests New Anti-Aircraft Weapon System
» Philippines Violence: 19 Killed During Push Against Jihadists
» War of Words as Chinese Jets Intercept US Surveillance Plane
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» South Africa: Minister Introduces Charter to Transform ‘White Male Dominated’ Defence Industry
 
Latin America
» “Mexico is 10 Times Worse Than When I Was Locked Up: “ Mireles
» Family of Missing Disney Cruise Worker, 24, Fear She Was Raped and Thrown Overboard as the Ship Sailed Near Mexico
» Young Activist, Ex-Military Man Latest Killed in Venezuela (1)
» Young Activist, Ex-Military Man Latest Killed in Venezuela (2)
 
Immigration
» 54 Dead, Some 10,000 Migrants Rescued Between Libya and Italy in 4 Days
» German Finance Minister Responds to Manchester Attack: Christians Can Learn From Muslim Migrants
» Massive Migrant Rescue Off Italy as G7 Ended
 
Culture Wars
» Professor Told He’s Not Safe on Campus After College Protests
» U Chicago Students Demand Race-Specific Housing and Requiring ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ To Graduate
» University Hosts Training on How to ‘Reduce the Impact of White Privilege’
 

1 Year Later: No Public Memorial Planned for Harambe as Cincinnati Zoo Looks Ahead

CINCINNATI (AP) — No public events are planned at the Cincinnati Zoo marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of an endangered gorilla.

The zoo’s dangerous-animal response team concluded the life of a 3-year-old boy who fell into the gorilla enclosure last May 28 was in danger and killed 17-year-old Harambe. That led to global mourning, criticism and satires that made him a pop culture phenomenon.

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

A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results From NASA’s Juno Mission

Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Chicago Police Add Hundreds of Extra Cops for Memorial Day Weekend

Coming off a disastrous 2016 that saw more than 760 slain and some 4,300 shot across the city, Chicago police are preparing for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, and the unofficial start of summer — traditionally, the year’s most violent stretch.

During last year’s extended weekend, 71 were shot, six fatally, making it one of the most violent Memorial Day weekends in recent memory. A year earlier, 57 people were shot, 12 fatally.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

DHS Chief John Kelly: Intel Leaks ‘Borderline, if Not Over the Line, of Treason’

‘If it came from the United States, it’s totally unacceptable’

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Sunday U.S. intelligence officials betrayed the country if they were behind the leak of information about the bomb used in last week’s attack in Manchester.

“If it came from the United States, it’s totally unacceptable. And I don’t know why people do these kind of things, but it’s borderline, if not over the line, of treason,” Kelly told NBC “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd on Sunday.

Kelly said he called British Home Minister Amber Rudd following the Monday evening bombing at an Ariana Grande concert. Rudd brought up the New York Times report, which featured images of the bomb used in that attack.

The homeland security chief said his English counterpart “did” have a point to complain about the leak.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

George Soros — the Hairball Clogging the Swamp

MOSCOW 5/25/17—The accuracy of the above headline was not deliberately engineered or coined by this writer. The phrase came from Chaplain Liza Hart during a casual conversation by phone this morning as we talked about the mind-boggling state of our once great nation. Chaplain Liza known as the flying chaplain owns her own airplane which can take her over the mountains to six prisons she serves.

“To really drain the swamp, as Trump promised, it is necessary,” Chaplain Liza offered, “to first get rid of the hairball clogging it up.”

That hairball is George Soros who hires armies of people to block and sabotage everything President Donald Trump attempts to accomplish for our country while causing chaos and confusion. The swamp cannot be drained until that hairball has been removed. That is the first priority.

Soros is behind every protest, riot, and misleading news report about our president and our country. He owns most of the news media and the “reporters” who are on his payroll print every lie he wants published.

He is falsely making the public believe that it is the Republicans, yes, the conservatives, who have turned against our duly elected president “after seeing the truth,” which is the big lie. It is the conservatives that turned out in droves to put him in the Oval Office and who solidly stand by him today. This is another example of Soros’ misdirection which he so skillfully pulls off.

[Comment: What a great line -”George Soros: The Hairball Clogging The Swamp”. Article is recommended reading and watch the video at end of article.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Harlem Residents Hate Trendy New ‘White People’ Name; Threaten Violence to Anyone Who Utters it

Harlem residents have responded with racism and threats of violence to people using the name “SoHa” to describe South Harlem.

The idea was being pushed by real estate developers to make the southern part of Harlem sound trendy and increase investment and interest in the community.

But some Harlem residents and politicians believed the name change was an attempt to “whitewash” the community’s rich African-American history.

“How dare someone try to rob our culture, and try to act as if we were not here, and create a new name, a new reality as if the clock started when other people showed up?” New York Senator-elect Brian Benjamin told a crowd at a press conference on Wednesday, according to the Huffington Post.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

‘Heroes’ Died Protecting Women From Anti-Muslim Rant, Portland Mayor Says

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler touted the “heroes” who tried to intervene when a man on a train yelled racist slurs at two young women who appeared to be Muslim.

The attack occurred Friday, on the first day of Ramadan — the holiest time of the year for Muslims. It sent shockwaves through a city that prides itself on tolerance and liberal values.

“These two men died heroes as a result of a horrific act of racist violence. Their actions were brave and selfless and should serve as an example, an inspiration to us all. They are heroes,” Wheeler said.

Police identified the victims as Ricky John Best, 53, of Happy Valley and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, 23, of Portland. Police said Best died at the scene and that Meche died at a hospital.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

How Sharia Supremacism and Judicial Imperialism Threaten National Security

[…]

As we have previously observed, in order to install the vetting system we need, the challenge of Islam must be confronted head-on and without apology. That is unavoidable. You can’t flinch. It is a certainty that the Democrat-media complex — of which Islamist organizations are members in good standing — is going to smear you as a racist “Islamophobe.” (Yes, this is another race-obsessed “progressive” narrative, so Islam gets to be the “race,” so that defenders of the Constitution and Western culture can be cast as “the oppressor.”) You have to be content with knowing that you are not a racist, with knowing that you are defending religious liberty, including the religious liberty of pro-Western Muslims.

There is a single battle that must be won. American culture must be convinced that Islam, while it has plenty of diversity, has a mainstream strain — sharia supremacism — that is not a religion but a totalitarian political ideology hiding under a religious veneer.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

It Begins! Close Obama Ally and Hillary Superdelegate Convicted of 18 Felonies! Faces Life in Prison!

As she was stealing scholarship money from school children, Corrine Brown flew with Obama, partied with Pelosi, and campaigned for Clinton, and she was a Superdelegate!

The FBI proved that Brown ‘exploited the needs of children and deceived her constituents to advance her own personal and political agendas’. The FBI said the Congresswoman raised over $800,000 in donations for a charity she was linked to while scholarships from that charity only amounted to $1,200.

The verdict came just three days after closing arguments. Brown was shown to have lived the high life on cash that aides secretly deposited in her bank account after passing it through other accounts.

[Comment: A good beginning.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton by Parents of Benghazi Victims

A federal judge tossed a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton by the parents of two Americans killed at a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, ruling Friday the former secretary of state did not defame them when disputing allegations that she had lied.

“The untimely death of plaintiffs’ sons is tragic, and the Court does not mean to minimize the unspeakable loss that plaintiffs have suffered in any way,” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington wrote in a 29-page opinion.

The suit also alleged Clinton’s use of a private email server caused the death of their sons, Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, because it exposed terrorists to sensitive information. They claimed Clinton lied when she allegedly told them it was a YouTube video that prompted the consulate attack.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Looks Like the Media Spread Another False Story About Trump

Journalists around the world quickly ran with the story that Trump was snubbing his foreign counterparts, using the one tweet as evidence.

[Comment: One “legitimate” mainstream media outlet prints the lies. Other fakestram media then quote the orignal story, using thename of the original outlet to “legitimize” the lies.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Meet the Man Who Recorded the World’s First Viral Video

In 1991, George Holliday filmed LA police beating Rodney King, sparking deadly race riots

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Politico: Trump’s War on Regulations is His ‘Biggest Untold Success’

Politico reports Sunday: “The push to block, rewrite and delay scores of Obama-era rules may be the [Trump] administration’s biggest untold success.”

That declaration comes just one month after Politico mocked President Donald Trump’s efforts to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to reverse his predecessor’s rules: none of it, Politco declared, “evoke[d] the drain-the-swamp anti-establishment populism that Trump rode to the presidency.”…

At the time, Breitbart News called Trump’s use of the CRA a “legislative milestone,” arguing that Trump’s “use of the CRA to repeal regulations has put future administrations on notice that there is a limit to government’s regulatory reach, and that given the opportunity by the voters, conservatives will enforce those limits.”

Now, Politico’s Andrew Restuccia and Nancy Cook seem to agree — and they fill in the rest of the picture, noting that Trump’s executive orders and executive actions amount to “a series of actions that could reshape American life for decades — efforts to rewrite or wipe out regulations affecting everything from student loans and restaurant menus to internet privacy, workplace injuries and climate change.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“The Belgian Armed Forces Are Bankrupt”

The Belgian army is bankrupt. At least, that’s according to Roger Housen, the strategical advisor of the independent trades union ACMP, who was speaking on the Francophone public broadcaster RTBF this morning. He says PM Michel is misleading people with the promises he is making.

“Such are the facts: we are the worst NATO pupil. On the list of 28 NATO countries, we are almost bottom of the table for the defence budget, and we are last where investments in new material are concerned. Each captain of industry will tell you that his company is bankrupt if this company has not made any investments for 10 years. Our armed forces are bankrupt”, Housen was sounding the alarm at Matin Première.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

7/7 Met Police Chief Calls for Extremists to be Locked Up in Internment Camps as He Says MI5 and Police Cannot Keep Track of 3,000 Terror Suspects

Thousands of radical extremists must be locked up in new internment camps to protect Britain from the unprecedented terror threat it faces, a Muslim former police chief declares today.

Writing exclusively for The Mail on Sunday, Tarique Ghaffur warns there are too many extremists on the streets for police and MI5 officers to monitor.

Mr Ghaffur, an Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard when the 7/7 bombings took place, proposes that special centres be set up to detain as many as 3,000 extremists, where they can be kept from launching attacks…

           — Hat tip: Vlad Tepes [Return to headlines]
 

Belgium: Three Injured in Sint-Joost Shooting; One Victim Fighting for His Life

A shooting incident in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Joost left three people injured. One of them is still fighting for his life, after being hit three times; the two others sustained minor injuries. The exact details are still unclear, but according to the first reports, the shooting can be linked to a feud between Russian and Chechen families.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Brussels Economist Reveals That EU Dream of Closer-Union in Europe Will Never Happen

Fredrik Erixon, who was voted one of the most influential economists in Europe, has warned Angela Merkel and her Brussels gang cannot stop the end of the European project.

Speaking at an economic conference, the Oxford graduate declared that “the era of an ever-closer union has ended”.

The economist, who has advised the British government in the past, said the hope the election of Emmanuel Macron brought to the EU was misguided.

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

Denmark Names First Ever Digital Ambassador for Silicon Valley Role

Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has appointed a diplomat to a role it is calling ‘tech ambassador’ — the first role of its kind in the world.

The digital ambassador, who will lead the Danish foreign policy initiative dubbed ‘tech diplomacy’, was named on Friday as Casper Klynge, the current Danish ambassador to Indonesia.

Earlier this year, foreign minister Ander Samuelsen announced that Denmark would appoint an ambassador for technology and digitalisation.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Europe Fights Back With Candles and Teddy Bears

by Giulio Meotti

Europe still has not realized that the terror which struck its metropolis was a war, and not the mistake of a few disturbed people who misunderstood the Islamic religion.

We are apparently not ready to abandon our masochistic rules of engagement, which privilege the enemy’s people over our own.

It appears that for Europe, Islamic terrorism is not real, but only a momentary disruption of its routine. We fight against global warming, malaria and hunger in Africa. But are we not ready to fight for our civilization? Have we already given up?

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

FBI ‘Warned MI5 in January That the Manchester Bomber Was Planning an Attack on Britain’

UK security chiefs were warned in January that Salman Abedi was planning an attack in Britain, it was claimed last night.

According to a security source, the FBI told MI5 that Abedi was part of a North African Islamic State cell plotting to strike a political target in the UK.

The information came from a US investigation into Abedi and his links to terrorist groups in Libya. The Mail on Sunday has also been told that US security services put him on a terror watch list — used by agents to identify key suspects — in 2016.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

FBI ‘Warned MI5 in January That Salman Abedi Was Placing Terror Attack in UK’

British intelligence agency MI5 was reportedly warned by its US counterpart that Salman Abedi was planning an attack on UK soil, three months before he blew himself up outside an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester.

FBI agents are said to have informed British officials that the 22-year-old was part of a North African Islamic State cell based in the north west of England that was plotting an attack in the UK.

Abedi was reportedly placed on a US terrorist watch list in 2016 after he came to the attention of intelligence agencies during an investigation into terrorist groups operating in Libya.

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

General De Gaulle’s Grave Vandalised, Say French Police

The grave of General Charles de Gaulle, France’s World War II hero and post-war president, was vandalised on Saturday, police said.

A man aged in his thirties stepped onto the grave and kicked the base of a 1.5-metre-high stone cross at its head, causing the cross to topple over and break, according to police.

The gravestone itself was undamaged, they said.

The simple grave, located in the village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises in the northern French department of Haute-Marne, draws tens of thousands of visitors each year.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Henge Monument and Mysterious Burials Uncovered in England

A 4,000-year-old henge monument, containing five well-preserved human burials, has been discovered in England, archaeologists announced.

This Neolithic earthwork was found in Newbold-on-Stour, in Warwickshire County, this spring, ahead of the construction of houses. Developers in England often need to conduct an archaeological assessment of the land they want to build on. And when a geophysical survey revealed that there could be a henge at this site, a team from Archaeology Warwickshire started digging.

The archaeologists announced this week that they found a simple monument that consists of a circular ditch dug in segments and an embankment created from that dug-out soil. They also found five bodies buried within the monument.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS-Linked Man Was Released by Swedish Authorities: Report

A man who was found to sympathise with the Islamic State terror group was released by Swedish authorities even though they wanted to deport him, according to a report.

The 30-year-old Syrian man, who was accused of terrorism offences and arson, was acquitted by Malmö District Court in April.

The Swedish police security agency Säpo initially detained the man and wanted to deport him from the country, reports newspaper Sydsvenskan.

“I have received confirmation that he was recently released,” the man’s lawyer Lars Edman told news agency TT.

The man was accused of an attack against a Shi’ite Islamic community centre in Malmö.

He was released, but investigation showed that the man sympathised with the Islamic State (Isis) terror group, according to the court judgement.

Following the trial he was released by the court, but was immediately detained by Säpo, which intended to deport him, reports TT.

But the court’s finding the man to be a supporter of Isis actually prevented his deportation to either Syria or Saudi Arabia, the other country with which he is connected, since he risks execution in those countries due to his links with the terror group, according to reports by the Sydsvenskan and Helsingborgs Dagblad newspapers.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Keep Calm and Carry on? No. Not Again. Evil Triumphs When Good Men and Women Do Nothing More Than Offer Up Platitudes, Light Candles, Post Hashtags and Recite Poems.

First Islamic terrorists chose to kill Jews in their homeland and beyond. Then they murdered Americans working in New York’s tall buildings. They murdered people travelling on London trains and buses, too, then French journalists and cartoonists.

Islamic terrorists struck Paris again, slaughtering people at a rock concert and in nearby restaurants. Islamic terrorists blew up people at an airport and a train station in Brussels and drove into people strolling along Nice’s promenade, people walking along London’s Westminster Bridge. A Copenhagen street, the Boston Marathon, a Sydney cafe, Berlin’s Christmas markets, a pedestrian mall in Stockholm, Christians, Yazidis and Muslims across the Middle East. Thousands slaughtered by Islamic terrorists with no borders, physical or moral.

On Monday, Islamic terrorists murdered children in Manchester. One image sticks. A little girl with a headband, the kind little girls like. Her leather jacket makes her look older than her tender years. Her eyes are glazed, wide with shock. She’s hand-in-hand with a woman, hopefully her mum.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Macron: Awkward Trump Handshake a ‘Moment of Truth’

French President Emmanuel Macron has said his clenched handshake with Donald Trump was “not innocent” and was a “moment of truth”.

The awkward encounter saw each grip the other’s hand so firmly that their knuckles turned white .

Mr Macron told French media he had wanted to “show he would not make small concessions, not even symbolic ones, but also not overdo things”.

The leaders met in Brussels on Thursday ahead of a Nato summit.

As their vigorous handshake continued over several seconds, Mr Macron and Mr Trump also looked each other fixedly in the eyes until the US president attempted to disengage.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Malta’s Hypogeum, One of the World’s Best Preserved Prehistoric Sites, Reopens to the Public

This month, one of the world’s best preserved prehistoric sites — a 6,000-year-old underground burial chamber on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta — reopened to the public. Last June, Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, one of Europe’s only known neolithic necropolises, closed for a series of improvements to its environmental management system. Its reopening brings updates that will enhance conservation and ongoing data collection while improving visitor access and experience.

Archaeological evidence suggests that around 4,000 BCE, the people of Malta and Gozo began building with the purpose of ritualizing life and death. The Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, one of the first and most famous of such complexes, is an underground network of alcoves and corridors carved into soft Globigerina limestone just three miles from what is now the capital city of Valletta. The builders expanded existing caves and over the centuries excavated deeper, creating a temple, cemetery and funeral hall that would be used throughout the Zebbug, Ggantija and Tarxien periods. Over the next 1,500 years, known as the Temple Period, above-ground megalith structures cropped up throughout the archipelago, many with features that mirror their subterranean counterparts.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Manchester Terror Attack: May Presided Over Open-Door Policy for Libyan Terror Suspects Fighting Gaddafi

SUICIDE bomber Salman Abedi was among a clutch of terrorist suspects who were cleared to travel to and from Libya, “no questions asked”, when Theresa May was Home Secretary, it is claimed.

These exiles and British-Libyan citizens — including members of a proscribed Islamic terrorist organisation linked to al-Qaeda — were able to join the 2011 uprising against the Gaddafi regime, even though some were subject to counter-terrorism control orders, effectively house arrest.

It is alleged that these orders were lifted, passports were returned and the security service MI5 colluded in allowing them to go to Libya to fight.

Theresa May was Home Secretary at the time -from 2010 until she became Prime Minister last year.

Several foreign fighters now back in the UK have told the respected online news website Middle East Eye (MEE) that they went back and forth to Libya without hindrance while the fighting was going on.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Manchester Bomber ‘Part of Mob Who Waged Intimidation Campaign Against Gang Rape Victim’

The mother of a schoolgirl rape victim has said Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was part of a group who waged a two-month campaign of intimidation against her daughter and family.

Salman Abedi was an associate and childhood friend of Bilal Ahmed, who was jailed with two others for a total of 29 years in 2016 for taking part in the brutal gang rape of the 16-year-old.

Members of the rapists’ South Manchester community “intimidated and goaded” the victim and her family members throughout the trial, and hurled abuse and blew kisses in court on the day the trio were jailed.

The victim’s mother told the Mail on Sunday she is convinced Abedi was part of the mob who intimidated her and her husband outside court, asserting that she recognised Abedi’s name as soon as it became public following the Manchester attack.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Manchester’s Islamist-Appeasing Police and Politicians Have Blood on Their Hands

by Daniel Greenfield

In the months before weeping little girls with nails in their faces were carried out of the Manchester Arena, the authorities of that city were hard at work fighting the dreaded threat of Islamophobia.

While Salman Abedi, the second-generation Muslim refugee terrorist who maimed and killed dozens in a brutal terrorist attack, stalked the streets wailing, “There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah”, Manchester police were busy with more important things.

The Greater Manchester Police are one of only two police forces to list Islamophobia as a hate crime category. Earlier this year, Chief Constable Ian Hopkins honored Tell Mama for fighting Islamophobia. Tell Mama had lost funding earlier when its claims of a plague of violent Islamophobia fell apart.

Shahid Malik, the chair of Tell Mama, had been photographed with the leader of Hamas. Appearing at the Global Peace and Unity conference, where plenty of terrorism supporters have promenaded, he boasted, “In 2005 we had four Muslim MPs. In 2009 or 2010 we’ll have eight or ten Muslim MPs. In 2014 we’ll have 16 Muslim MPs. At this rate the whole parliament will be Muslim.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Marbella Spain: Multiple Injuries After Car Ploughs Into Crowd Outside a Club

The car crashed into a group of pedestrians outside the Ocean Club near the beach in the popular tourist hotspot.

Pictures shared on social media from the scene show a wrecked SUV-style car which appears to have also smashed into another vehicle.

[…]

The car initially fled the scene before crashing into a parked vehicle, according to Publico.

The driver has been arrested and is believed to be a 22-year-old British man, according to local reports.

Eight people have reportedly been injured with two rushed to Costa del Sol Hospital in a serious condition.

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Merkel Furious With Trump After “Unprecedented” G-7 Failure to Reach Consensus on Climate

In the end it was not mean to be. As discussed on Friday, during Trump’s first G-7 summit, world leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and new French President Emmanuel Macron, had hoped to persuade the the US president to endorse the Paris Agreement climate pledge to fight global warming. By the end of the summit — held at a luxury hotel in Taormina, Sicily that was once a Dominican monastery and base for the Nazi air force during World War Two — they realized they had failed, as Trump “underscored his determination to break the global mold” by refusing to follow the Group of Seven line not only on global warming but also by resisting measures on trade.

[Comment: Good. Trump does not “integrate” with these Euro politicians because he sees that they are globalist stooges working to erase national borders and impose a tyrannicla world government. ]

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Merkel: Europe Can No Longer Rely on US and Britain

The German chancellor’s comments came after contentious meetings with US President Donald Trump at NATO and G7 summit meetings. Trump clashed with America’s allies over global warming, mutual defense and trade.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that Europe has to forge its own path forward, as the United States and Britain were no longer reliable partners.

“The times when we could fully rely on others have passed us by a little bit, that’s what I’ve experienced in recent days,” she said while speaking at a campaign rally in Munich.

Her reference was to the contentious G7 Summit meeting in Sicily, which ended Saturday with the world’s democratic powers divided. Most notably they were split “six against one,” as Merkel described it Saturday, on the man-made threat posed by global warming.

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Merkel Warns US, Britain No Longer Reliable Partners

Europe “must take its fate into its own hands” faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday.

“The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I’ve experienced that in the last few days,” Merkel told a crowd at an election rally in Munich, southern Germany.

“We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands,” she added.

While Germany and Europe would strive to remain on good terms with America and Britain, “we have to fight for our own destiny,” Merkel went on.

Special emphasis was needed on warm relations between Berlin and newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron, she said.

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No Change to Headscarf Ban, Dutch Police Chief Says

Police uniform rules will not be changed to allow Muslim police officers to wear headscarves, police chief Erik Akerboom has told staff, the AD reported on Friday. Akerboom said in a message on the police intranet system he had been shocked by the reactions the idea — first floated by Amsterdam’s police chief — had generated.

Currently police officers are not allowed to wear any religious symbols but officials are considering lifting the ban in an effort to improve diversity. ‘We are talking about it,’ the city’s most senior officer Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg told the AD earlier this month. ‘If we cannot recruit sufficient officers with a migrant background, this is a measure which could have an impact.’

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Spain Torn Apart as President Likens Independence-Chasing Catalonia to a ‘Dictatorship’

Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain, is demanding a vote on independence which has referred to as “blackmail” by members of the Spanish government.

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Spain Plans to Reinforce Security Measures at Sports Events and Concerts

After reviewing details of the recent suicide attack at a pop concert in Manchester, Spain’s Interior Ministry has decided to keep the country’s terrorism threat level at 4, the second highest. This level was activated in June 2015 in the wake of attacks in Tunisia, France and Kuwait, and means increased monitoring of critical infrastructure such as airports, nuclear power plants and travel hubs.

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Thanks to Trump, Germany Says it Can’t Rely on the United States. What Does That Mean?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a crowd Sunday in southern Germany that Europe can no longer rely on foreign partners.

Merkel on Sunday declared a new chapter in U.S.-European relations after contentious meetings with President Trump last week, saying that Europe “really must take our fate into our own hands.”

Offering a tough review in the wake of Trump’s trip to visit E.U., NATO and Group of Seven leaders last week, Merkel told a packed Bavarian beer hall rally that the days when Europe could rely on others was “over to a certain extent. This is what I have experienced in the last few days.”

This is an enormous change in political rhetoric. While the public is more familiar with the “special relationship” between Britain and the United States, the German-U.S. relationship has arguably been more important. One of the key purposes of NATO was to embed Germany in an international framework that would prevent it from becoming a threat to European peace as it had been in World War I and World War II. In the words of NATO’s first secretary general, NATO was supposed “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” Now, Merkel is suggesting that the Americans aren’t really in, and, by extension, Germany and Europe are likely to take on a much more substantial and independent role than they have in the past 70 years.

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This is the Way the Climate Scare Ends; Not With a Bang, But a Whimper

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Having persuaded the world to spend trillions of dollars on fighting man-made climate change is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) really going to admit that the causes of climate change are actually far more complex than they originally thought and so they may have been fundamentally mistaken about both the attribution and quantification of warming? And what about the UK’s Royal Society and the American National Academy of Sciences, those most renowned of scientific institutions; are they going to admit that they may have put political correctness and scientific funding concerns before scientific objectivity? What about all those climate scientists who have been so careful to tacitly collude with the IPCC and not rock the climate change crisis boat; are they going to admit that their judgments may have been skewed by considerations of the self-interest of retaining their jobs, careers, incomes and pensions? And the many climate research units around the world; are they going to say, ‘Well we must go where the science takes us — if the science says that there actually isn’t a problem then we’ll just have to shut up shop.’ What about all of the senior politicians in the western world who have foisted an avalanche of regulations, taxes and controls on their electorates to ‘fight climate change’; are they going stand up and admit that their scientific illiteracy led them to be completely fooled? Are all those prestigious environmental organizations, such as the WWF, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth going to admit they had only ‘signed up’ to the global warming scare because it happened to suit their agendas, attracted donations and increased their influence? Is the BBC, that globally respected bastion of impartiality and objectivity, going to admit to the people of Britain that it abused its position of trust by simply taking on face value the selective and spun science fed to them and taking an irresponsible and unjustifiably partisan editorial approach to the climate change debate? What about all those newspaper journalists who for years have been repeating NASA and IPCC Press Releases as ‘objective facts’, neither subjecting them to critical analysis nor asking any awkward questions? What about all those celebrities who have lined up to pledge their support for fighting climate change by flying less frequently in their private jets to reduce their ‘carbon footprint’? What about all those school teachers who (willingly or unwillingly) taught their pupils about the climate change crisis as though it was an undisputed fact? No, it just isn’t going to happen — far too many reputations and far too much money is at stake.

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Threat for Britons in Spain as Jihadis Plot ‘Strike to Kill’ — Ex-SAS Sent in

The former elite soldiers are set to patrol beaches as well as hotel grounds disguised as tourists in a bid to protect British sun seekers as they holiday in the Iberian country.

Intelligence reports have indicated ISIS could be planning a repeat of the 2015 attack in Tunisia when 30 British holidaymakers were gunned down on a beach in north Africa.

Areas of mainland Spain as well as the Canary Islands and the Balearic islands, which includes popular Ibiza, are said to be at risk.

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UK Police Helicopter Swoops in on Garden Party: Song Mocking Bin Laden Was Played

Police swooped on a garden party where a song mocking the death of terrorist Osama bin Laden was played.

The force helicopter and 10 officers were sent to a home in Highdene Road, Cherry Hinton after a complaint from members of the public the music was too loud and people were allegedly shouting anti-Islamic abuse.

Initially one officer was sent to the street at about 10pm on Thursday (May 25) but more arrived and the force helicopter was deployed when the officer called in for back up.

Party goers claim the officer “took offence” at a song mocking dead terrorist Osama Bin Laden being played and called in reinforcements after pressing her ‘panic button’.

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UK: 7/7 Met Police Officer Calls for Internment of Islamic Extremists

‘The time has come to set up special centres to detain these 3,000 extremists’

Tarique Ghaffur, an Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard at the the 7/7 bombings, has called for the internment of radical extremists.

Mr Ghaffur, an Asian Mancunian who was the security coordinator for the 2012 Olympics, said Britain is facing an unprecedented threat.

“About 3,000 extremists are subjects of interest to MI5 and police, and about 500 plots are being monitored,” he warned in an article in the Mail on Sunday.

With an additional 400 jihadis having returned from Syria, he said the numbers were far too great for them to be monitored by the police and security services.

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UK: Armed Police ‘Take Away Two Brothers’ In Manchester’s Moss Side Over Terror Attack as Neighbours Report Hearing ‘Huge Explosions’ During Raid

Armed police took away two brothers in Manchester over last week’s terror attack in a noisy raid where neighbours reported hearing ‘explosions’.

The men were taken in raids which were carried out in the Moss Side area as police continue to close in on Salman Abedi’s terrorist ring. No arrests were made, but shortly after a 25-year-old man was arrested in the city’s Old Trafford area.

More than a dozen officers swooped on the terraced home area as part of the investigation into the atrocity that claimed the lives of 22 people and injured more than 100.

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UK: Manchester Bombing Victim Georgina Callander’s Family Urge the Government to ‘Open Its Eyes’ To Terror Threat — or More Parents Could Lose Children

Manchester bombing victim Georgina Callander’s family has warned the Government to ‘open its eyes’ to the terror threat — or more parents could lose children.

The 18-year-old was killed in the blast shortly after her favourite artist Ariana Grande left the stage at the Manchester Arena on Monday.

In a statement released through Greater Manchester Police, her family said the teenager’s life had been cut short by ‘evil, evil men prepared to ruin lives and destroy families’.

[Comment: Globalist puppets don’t care — they consider such events as “teething pains” on the road of the erasure of national borders and the implementation of a global tyrannical government.]

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UK: Manchester Attack: It is Pious and Inaccurate to Say Salman Abedi’s Actions Had ‘Nothing to Do With Islam’

The attack on Manchester Arena — and those on the Bataclan and the Pulse nightclub before it — can trace their roots to the Wahhabism of Saudi Arabia. The UK and US governments just won’t admit it…

In the wake of the massacre in Manchester, people rightly warn against blaming the entire Muslim community in Britain and the world. Certainly one of the aims of those who carry out such atrocities is to provoke the communal punishment of all Muslims, thereby alienating a portion of them who will then become open to recruitment by Isis and al-Qaeda clones.

This approach of not blaming Muslims in general but targeting “radicalisation” or simply “evil” may appear sensible and moderate, but in practice it makes the motivation of the killers in Manchester or the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015 appear vaguer and less identifiable than it really is. Such generalities have the unfortunate effect of preventing people pointing an accusing finger at the variant of Islam which certainly is responsible for preparing the soil for the beliefs and actions likely to have inspired the suicide bomber Salman Abedi.

The ultimate inspiration for such people is Wahhabism, the puritanical, fanatical and regressive type of Islam dominant in Saudi Arabia, whose ideology is close to that of al-Qaeda and Isis. This is an exclusive creed, intolerant of all who disagree with it such as secular liberals, members of other Muslim communities such as the Shia or women resisting their chattel-like status.

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UK: Pictured Minutes Before Committing Mass Murder: CCTV Shows Manchester Suicide Bomber Sauntering Towards Ariana Grande Concert in His £150 Nike Trainers and Trendy Jacket on Night of His Attack

Leaning back nonchalantly with his hands thrust casually into the pockets of his black body warmer, there is nothing about Salman Abedi’s relaxed demeanour that betrays his monstrous intent.

Yet minutes after these photographs were taken, he would detonate the nail bomb in his backpack, killing 22 people, many of them children, and maiming dozens more.

Though facing his own death, too, there is nothing about his manner or his appearance to separate him from the countless other young men hanging around Manchester city centre last Monday night.

He blends in with the crowd with his casual attire: a £65 Hollister body warmer, his best £150 Nike Air Jordan trainers, a black baseball cap, navy jeans with turn-ups.

In one still, he stares ahead as his hand rests in his pocket, perhaps checking the trigger of the explosive device that he would use to murder teenagers and young children at the Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester Arena.

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Vehicle Crashes Into Group of Pedestrians in Marbella

Seven people injured after the vehicle careered into pedestrians.

Two people have been arrested after a car crashed into pedestrians in Marbella.

Spanish police said they have arrested two people after the car they were in injured seven people while fleeing from a police road check in the popular holiday town.

The Interior Ministry said three people were injured on the street, while four others were hurt in a crash caused by the fleeing car.

They added that the driver of the car was seriously injured in the crash.

They continued that two passengers in the car were arrested, both of who showed signs of “having abused alcohol”…

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Wales: Horrified Father’s Vauxhall Astra Speeds Up to 120mph of Its Own Accord With His Family Inside

A father told of the terrifying moment his car spontaneously sped up to 120mph on its own with his family inside.

Anthony Sammon said there was a ‘bang and a big puff of black smoke’ before he felt as if someone had pushed his foot down on the accelerator — sending his Vauxhall Astra GTC hurtling down the A55 in north Wales.

The father from Rhyl, Wales, who has had the £20,000 car for 16 months, said he was too scared to hit the brakes in case it sent the back of the vehicle spinning out of control.

His car finally lost power and Mr Sammon manoeuvred off the expressway.

He said earlier that day the only warning the car had given was a message displayed on his dashboard saying ‘particulate diesel filter full’.

Mr Sammon said: ‘I rang Vauxhall to tell them about the dashboard message and they told me to take the car for a drive and get it up to 2,000 revs so it could clear itself.

I went on the A55 to get it up to 70mph then all of a sudden there was a bang and a big puff of black smoke.

‘Then it was as if someone had pushed my foot down on the accelerator and my car sped up to 120mph on its own.

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In Ramadan Massacre, Egyptian Christians Killed for Refusing to Renounce Their Faith in Jesus

As more and more details emerge concerning Friday’s Ramadan attack on a busload of Christians on pilgrimage, the more it becomes evident that these 29 martyrs died solely because they were Christians.

Survivors of the attack said that the ten masked Islamic State militants did not merely open fire on the bus full of Christian pilgrims on their way to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confesor, but that the victims were made to descend from the bus and asked one by one whether they were Christians before being shot by the assailants.

According to one of the chaplains of the group, Father Rashed, as each pilgrim came off the bus they were asked to renounce their Christian faith and profess belief in Islam, but all of them-even the children-refused. Each was killed in cold blood with a gunshot to the head or the throat.

In a statement Friday, President Donald Trump said the “merciless slaughter of Christians in Egypt tears at our hearts and grieves our souls.”

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Tel Aviv Rally for Two-State Model

Some 15,000 Israelis at a Tel Aviv rally have demanded progress on the long awaited two-state solution, almost 50 years since Israel occupied Palestinian land. Opposition leader Isaac Herzog said chances had been wasted.

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AP Explains: Iraq’s Slow Grind to Retake ISIS-Held Mosul

Iraq’s fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group has been the largest and the longest operation against the extremists in the nearly three years since they overran a third of the country. Mosul is Iraq’s second-largest city after the capital Baghdad and was a key logistical and economic hub for IS when the extremists’ footprint spanned much of Iraq’s north and into neighboring Syria.

Iraq’s prime minister had originally pledged Mosul would be retaken by the end of 2016, but it quickly became clear IS planned to draw out their inevitable defeat, leaving destruction and human suffering in their wake.

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Erdogan Told Merkel of Anger Over Asylum for ‘Putschists’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his disapproval to German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her country’s reportedly giving asylum to people accused of links to last year’s failed coup, he said in an interview published on Saturday.

“We brought to the agenda the putschist soldiers whose asylum applications have been accepted and gave a firm reaction,” Erdogan said, referring to his meeting with Merkel on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels on Thursday.

“We asked: ‘How can you do this?’“ Erdogan said, quoted by the Hurriyet newspaper.

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Federation Removes ‘Arena’ From All Stadium Names in Turkey After’s Erdogan Call

The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) announced that the word “arena” had been removed from the names of all stadiums in the country on May 27, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The move comes after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced his opposition to the term in a speech on May 26, saying he had instructed the sports minister to order the removal of “arena” from the names of stadiums across Turkey.

Galatasaray was first out of the blocks, announcing that it would change the name of its Türk Telecom Arena. The decision was taken at the club’s board meeting on May 27.

President Erdogan had stated that he had instructed the sports minister to order the removal of the word “arena” from the names of all sports stadiums across Turkey.

“I am against ‘arenas.’ You know what they do in arenas, don’t you? People were dismembered there [by animals]. I have given the instruction to the minister and we will remove the name ‘arena’ from stadiums.

There is no such thing in our language. Look at the definition, there cannot be such a thing,” he said.

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Calls the Saudi Leaders ‘Idiots’

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned Saudi Arabia’s rulers they face “certain downfall” for their close ties with the US. Iran’s pragmatic president instead called for more cooperation to tackle the region’s issues.

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Evidence of Early Dog Domestication Found in Siberian Arctic

Science Magazine reports that dogs may have been bred and domesticated in the Arctic some 9,000 years ago. Archaeologist Vladimir Pitulko and archaeozoologist Aleksey Kasparov of the Russian Academy of Sciences analyzed the bones of canines recovered from a hunter-gatherer site on what is now Zhokhov Island. They compared two well-preserved canine skulls from the site with those of wolves and Siberian Huskies from the region.

The measurements of the skulls suggest that one was a true dog, while the other was a wolf-dog hybrid. Further study of the canine bones from the site suggest ten of the dogs were about the size of Siberian Huskies, which are able to pull sleds without overheating like a larger dog would. The researchers speculate that dog-assisted transportation could have allowed Stone Age Zhokovians to pursue herds of reindeer.

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Bangladesh Reinstalls Controversial Lady Justice Sculpture

Bangladesh has reinstalled a controversial sculpture days after removing it from the Supreme Court’s building. The Lady Justice statue, deemed un-Islamic by religious groups, has now been placed at a different location.

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India Imposes Security Lockdown in Kashmir to Stop Protests

Government forces have enforced strict curfew in parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir after Indian soldiers killed a prominent rebel commander in the disputed region.

Armed police and paramilitary soldiers on Sunday patrolled deserted streets and ordered residents indoors in the region’s main city of Srinagar and other towns to stop anti-India protests.

Thousands of people assembled in southern Tral area to take part in the funeral of the rebel leader Sabzar Ahmed Bhat, chanting slogans calling for Kashmir’s freedom from Indian rule.

One civilian was killed and dozens of others injured as massive anti-India protests and clashes followed the killings across Kashmir on Saturday. Eight militants were shot dead by security forces.

India and Pakistan administer part of Kashmir, but both claim the territory in its entirety.

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Sri Lanka Floods: Residents Afraid as More Rain Forecast

Sri Lankans recovering from devastating floods are bracing themselves for more rain as emergency teams rush to deliver aid.

Floodwaters receded on Sunday but many villages were still inundated.

At least 151 people have been killed and nearly 500,000 displaced in the flooding and mudslides triggered by heavy rains on Friday.

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Inside the Philippines’ ‘Baby Factory’

In the Philippines, one in 10 teenagers aged 15-19 are already mothers, according to the UN. While across the world teen pregnancy rates have been going down, in the Philippines it is growing rapidly.

Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila has one of the world’s largest maternity wards, known as the ‘baby factory’, with an unusually high proportion of young mothers.

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Japan’s Growing Concern Over China’s Naval Might

The pride of Japan’s naval defence, the JS Izumo, is making an unprecedented journey through Asian waters over the next three months.

The Izumo is the largest vessel built by Japan since the end of World War Two — and she looks very much like an aircraft carrier. She has already participated in Singapore’s first ever fleet review, an international naval gathering with fleets from Asia and beyond to demonstrate their power.

There is growing support in Japan for a more strident response to Chinese military assertiveness around Japanese waters and Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force has been increasingly active in the region.

It is all part of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s determination to loosen constitutional strictures over the role of Japan’s self-defence forces.

Japanese navy officials are careful to describe the ship as a “helicopter destroyer” capable of carrying more than 20 helicopters from its expansive flight deck, and thus playing down any offensive capabilities forbidden under Japan’s constitution.

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North Korea Fires Missile Into Waters Off Japan

North Korea on Monday fired what American military officials said was a ballistic missile that landed in the sea, eliciting new objections from neighboring Japan.

The U.S. military’s Pacific Command said the early morning launch — the ninth such test this year by North Korea — occurred near an airfield in the eastern coastal town of Wonsan.

American officials tracked the missile for six minutes, when it landed in the Sea of Japan. It never posed a threat to North America.

“We are working with our interagency partners on a more detailed assessment,” the Pacific Command statement said. “We continue to monitor North Korea’s actions closely.”

The incident angered Japan, which said the launch violated United Nations Security Council resolutions. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that the projectile flew into Japan’s “exclusive economic zone,” a buffer zone around the country…

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North Korea Tests New Anti-Aircraft Weapon System

North Korea tested a new anti-aircraft system that leader Kim Jong Un says will “completely spoil the enemy’s dream to command the air,” the state news agency reported Sunday, following weeks of ballistic missile tests.

The KCNA news agency said glitches detected in an earlier test have been “perfectly overcome,” paving the way for the weapon to be mass produced and deployed nationwide, according to SkyNews.

State media reported the new weapon system is designed to “detect and strike different targets flying from any location.”

North Korea is now the focus of U.S. efforts because its leader has vowed to field a nuclear-armed missile capable of reaching American territory. He has yet to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, but Pentagon officials believe he is speeding in that direction.

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Philippines Violence: 19 Killed During Push Against Jihadists

At least 19 civilians have been killed in continuing clashes between the armed forces of the Philippines and Islamist insurgents in the city of Marawi, military officials say.

The bodies were discovered by advancing soldiers this weekend.

The military is attempting to recapture Marawi, on Mindanao island, after it was recently overrun by jihadists.

Eight of the dead were found in a ravine outside the city, their hands tied and gunshot wounds to their heads.

The Marawi region is a stronghold of the hardline Maute group, which has pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State (IS).

The Philippines, which is majority Catholic, has faced Muslim separatist movements for decades in Mindanao with its significant Muslim population.

The Maute group carries the black flag and insignia of IS, and like the better known Abu Sayyaf group has attacked both troops and civilians.

The battle for Marawi began five days ago when the security forces failed to capture Isnilon Hapilon, believed to be the main IS leader in the Philippines.

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War of Words as Chinese Jets Intercept US Surveillance Plane

The US has accused Chinese aircraft of reckless behavior in international airspace after they intercepted an American surveillance plane. China’s Defense Ministry rejects the claims — and has made accusations of its own.

China has rejected US allegations on Sunday that Chinese fighter jets acted in an “unsafe and unprofessional” manner when they intercepted a US surveillance plane over the South China Sea.

The incident is the latest in a series of similar disputes in recent years over the disputed waterway. China claims much of it as its own, even areas that are much closer to some of its smaller neighbors, including Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia.

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South Africa: Minister Introduces Charter to Transform ‘White Male Dominated’ Defence Industry

Defence and military veterans minister Nosiviwe Mapisa Nqakula wants greater involvement of women and young black South Africans in the country’s multi-billion rand defence industry.

To achieve this‚ Mapisa Nqakula has introduced a “defence industry charter” which will also see military veterans participate and become entrepreneurs in the “white male dominated” sector.

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“Mexico is 10 Times Worse Than When I Was Locked Up: “ Mireles

He has only been out of prison for a couple of days but José Manuel Mireles, who spent three years in jail for his role in leading a self-defense militia in the fight against Mexico’s Knights Templar drugs cartel, can’t go more than a couple of steps without receiving messages of popular support.

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Family of Missing Disney Cruise Worker, 24, Fear She Was Raped and Thrown Overboard as the Ship Sailed Near Mexico

The family of a Disney cruise worker who vanished six years ago fear she was raped and then thrown overboard.

Rebecca Coriam, had been working as a childminder when she reported as missing from the Disney Wonder vessel in March 2011 as it sailed near Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.

Disney claim the Liverpool student, 24, was swept overboard by a freak wave.

But that explanation was dismissed by senior politicians as well as the Coriam family who said they strongly suspect Rebecca was murdered after being sexually assaulted.

No stormy seas were recorded to support Disney’s wave theory, and the Royal Bahamas Police probe has been condemned as ‘appalling’ by influential MPs.

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Young Activist, Ex-Military Man Latest Killed in Venezuela (1)

A 20-year-old man from the opposition Popular Will Party on Sunday became the most recent person to die in a wave of anti-government protests held almost daily since the end of March, Venezuelan authorities said. A former military man died in a separate incident on Saturday when he was attacked by a group of people in another part of the country in a continuing wave of violence sparked by ongoing protests.

Protests against Maduro’s government have left at least 60 people dead in the last two months. The opposition wants immediate presidential elections and the liberation of political prisoners.

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Young Activist, Ex-Military Man Latest Killed in Venezuela (2)

A 20-year-old man from the opposition Popular Will Party on Sunday became the most recent person to die in a wave of anti-government protests held almost daily since the end of March, Venezuelan authorities said. A former military man died in a separate incident on Saturday when he was attacked by a group of people in another part of the country in a continuing wave of violence sparked by ongoing protests.

Officials said Sunday the young activist Cesar Pereira died earlier in the day in the eastern state of Anzoategui. He was gravely wounded when he was shot in the abdomen the day before in a community about 150 miles (240 km) east of the capital, Caracas.

President Nicolas Maduro said that retired National Guard member Danny Subero died shortly after he was attacked Saturday afternoon in the western state of Lara. The 34-year-old was struck with sharp objects and shot, the prosecutor’s office said.

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54 Dead, Some 10,000 Migrants Rescued Between Libya and Italy in 4 Days

About 10,000 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya over the previous four days but at least 54 others died, Libyan and Italian officials said Saturday.

On Saturday, the Tunisian army also rescued 126 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa hoping to reach Italian shores, officials said. They were aboard a flimsy inflatable boat off the coastal town of Ben Gardane, near the Libyan border.

On Friday, more than 1,200 migrants were rescued by Libyan ships and taken to Tripoli or Zawiya, about 50 kilometres west, while the Italian coastguard and commercial boats rescued 2,200 others and took them to Italy.

Of the 181,000 migrants who entered Italy last year, some 90 percent arrived via Libya.

Libya has urged Europe, and particularly Italy, to supply it with the equipment it needs to monitor its southern borders, through which migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan African, enter the country.

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German Finance Minister Responds to Manchester Attack: Christians Can Learn From Muslim Migrants

The growing number of Muslims in Germany represents not a threat but a learning opportunity, said Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, discussing Islam in the wake of the Manchester attack.

“It is fanaticism, not only in Islam, that leads to terrible crimes,” he said, speaking on German public radio station Deutschlandfunk Wednesday evening, when asked about the Islamist attack in which 22 mostly young people, including an eight-year-old girl, lost their lives.

“It is certainly a misunderstanding of religion when belief slips into fanaticism or, at worst, violence.

“The world’s great religions all preach the message that one must look upon others as their sisters and brothers, and that one must live with the other because man cannot live alone,” Schäuble told presenter Christiane Florin.

“‘Islam is part of Germany’ is a sober, factual statement,” the minister remarked, commenting on sentiments voiced by Chancellor Angela Merkel on more than one occasion — which are not shared by the majority of Germans.

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Massive Migrant Rescue Off Italy as G7 Ended

As the G7 leaders arrive home after their summit in Sicily, some 1500 migrants have been taken ashore in Naples by the charity Doctors Without Borders.

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Professor Told He’s Not Safe on Campus After College Protests

As a biology professor for 15 years at Olympia’s The Evergreen State College, Bret Weinstein has seen his share of protests, but he’s never been afraid of being on campus until this week.

“I have been told by the Chief of Police it’s not safe for me to be on campus,” said Weinstein, who held his Thursday class in a downtown Olympia park.

An administrator confirmed the police department advised Weinstein it “might be best to stay off campus for a day or so.”

Demonstrations involving as many as 200 students filled classrooms and the President’s office on campus on Tuesday and Wednesday. Protesters are upset over what they believe are racist policies at the college, and some called for Weinstein to resign.

Earlier this school year Weinstein raised concerns about proposed policy changes, including one that would have race play a larger role in the hiring process.

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U Chicago Students Demand Race-Specific Housing and Requiring ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ To Graduate

A student group at the University of Chicago has published a list of almost 50 demands, including the creation of six separate racially-themed academic departments and race-specific student housing.

The coalition of student groups called “UChicago United” has urged the university to create a “Race and Ethnic Studies Department,” a “Black Studies Academic Department,” an “African Studies Department,” a “Caribbean Studies Department,” an “Asian American Studies Program,” in addition to a “Center for African and Caribbean Studies” and a “Latinx Affairs Office”.

The group notes that these new departments would exist independently, but should receive funding from the university, according to a list of demands aquired by Campus Reform.

The group also seeks to force the establishment of “university-funded and run cultural houses, specifically a Black House, a Latinx House, and an Asian House.”

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University Hosts Training on How to ‘Reduce the Impact of White Privilege’

Western Washington University is scheduled to host a workshop today that aims to “reduce the impact of white privilege on social and academic relations,” according to campus officials.

Part of its Campus Equity and Inclusion Forums, the event at the public university is designed for faculty, staff and students, who will use presentations, interactive exercises and facilitated discussions to learn “how to reduce the expression and effects of white privilege,” the university’s website states.

The seminar will be led by history professor Randall Jimerson, who is white.

“I think the harmful effects of ‘white privilege’ are that it can reflect an insensitivity to the subtle effects of both racism and lack of awareness of the differences between how people of color and people called ‘white’ are treated in everyday life,” Jimerson told The College Fix via email. “Not being aware that other people face daily, often subtle, discrimination can make white people insensitive to these debilitating effects.”

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4 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/28/2017

  1. With troublesome US and UK out of the equation it leaves the way clear for Merkel to ascend the throne as Empress of All Europe.

  2. On 7/7 Met Chief suggesting that all ‘extremists’ be locked up in ‘internment camps’.

    Really?

    But Mr. Met Chief, who are the ‘extremists’?

    And when you suggest that those who you consider to be the ‘extremists’ should undergo a ‘de-radicalization program’, how does that work against an ideology that has propagated much of the violence around the world for over 1400 years, assuming that you mean in using the term ‘extremist’ those who are the followers of Islam?

    Internment camps (concentration camps) and de-radicalization programs for those imprisoned within them, sounds very much to me like the old Soviet Gulag system.

    But, we have had decades of verifiable results, that Western jails do not counter the Islamic ‘extremist’s’ ideology and nor do ‘de-radicalization’ programs work.

    So, being fully aware of that failure, maybe you are intentionally targeting the native population of Britain in your fake news rant, but it is that enveloping term, ‘extremist’, a loose term that can be applied to anyone you would deem to be as such, that tells me at least, of an apparent approach to zero in on anyone who comes under police notice for ‘extremism’ as a target, regardless of what his or her patriotic motivations are.

    And that is about as fake criminality as your name is British!

  3. On Merkel’s worsening problem in keeping the E.U. afloat; Trump’s refusal to ratify the Paris Agreement now forces Merkel to act out the part of boy at the Dyke. Hopefully, and soon, she will quickly run out of fingers with which to plug the many holes that are opening.

    Goodbye E.U.!

  4. Ms. Merkel should look in into the mirror, Germany is no longer ‘reliable’ after being a major contributor to the verminization of Europe .

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