Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/26/2017

A married couple in New Jersey were rudely awakened when the ceiling fan over their bed exploded, burst into flame, and dropped on top of them. Both were taken to the hospital. They had recently installed the ceiling fan, and there was an old gas line running above the fan that is thought to have remained live and was probably ignited by a spark from the fan motor.

In other news, Canadian Prime Minister Justin “Baby Doc” Trudeau wore Ramadan-themed socks to yesterday’s LGBT “pride” parade in Toronto.

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Financial Crisis
» Italy’s €17bn Bank Crisis is the Fruit of Unworkable EU Policies
 
USA
» Ayaan Hirsi Ali Warns the World Against… Geert Wilders
» CNN: The Most Busted Name in News
» Crime Expands According to Our Willingness to Put Up With it
» Documentary Investigates the Causes and Ramifications of Stress-Related Burnout
» Eric Trump: Democratic Party ‘Imploding, ‘ DNC Chair Perez is a ‘Nut Job’
» How Your Tax Dollars Are Used to Promote Corporate Propaganda
» Islamic State Supporters Hack Local U.S. Government Websites With Jihadist Propaganda
» Larry Krasner and George Soros Spent $33 Per Vote to Win the Philly DA Race
» Mueller Hires Clinton and Obama Supporters to Investigate Trump
» NY Eighth Graders Failing Common Core Math Tests Tripled Since Testing Began
» OFA Organizing for Anarchy Recruitment
» Pat Buchanan: Deep State Wants to ‘Bring Down’ Trump — Unlike Anything I’ve Seen Since Watergate
» Robert Soros Steps Down as President of Soros Family Office
» Supreme Court Allows Most of Trump Travel Ban to Proceed, Will Hear Case in Fall
» The Sleepy Deplorables Are Waking Up
» The US Government Uses the Federal Reserve to Spy Abroad
» Watch: Couple Brutally Beats Restaurant Owners Over Food Order
» West New York Home Explosion Sends Couple to Hospital
» What Happens to Your Body When You Use the Internet
 
Canada
» Anti-Islam Rally in Calgary Meets With Counter-Protest But Remains Peaceful
» Justin Trudeau Wears Islam-Themed Ramadan Socks to LGBT Pride Parade
» No Arrests as Anti-Islam Demonstrators Clash With Counter-Protesters at Calgary City Hall
 
Europe and the EU
» Activist Hedge Fund Third Point Demands Major Change at Nestle
» Great Britain Suffering ‘Meltdown of a Once Great Civilization’
» Has Europe Surrendered to Radical Islam?
» I Was Trying to Brake: Woman is Arrested ‘After Ploughing Her Car Into Families Gathering for Eid Prayers Near Newcastle Mosque’ Sparking Panic and Leaving Two Children in Intensive Care — Just a Week After Finsbury Park Attack
» ‘New York Times’ Defends Independence Referendum in Catalonia
» SVP Calls for a Vote on Ending Swiss-EU Freedom of Movement
» UK: East London Thug Hurls Acid at Student on 21st Birthday
» UK: Teenage Boy, 16, Appears in Court Charged With Raping an Eight-Year-Old Girl in a Public Park
» Video: Black Lives Matter Riots in London, Police Attacked, Fires Lit
 
Middle East
» More Than 40 Convicted Terrorists Have Used Human Rights Laws to Remain in UK
 
South Asia
» First India Bans Cash, Now it’s Targeting Gold
» Two Muslims Screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ Stab a Policeman to Death Hours Before Eid Prayers to Mark the End of Ramadan in Indonesia
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘I’Ll F***ing Stab You’: The Terrifying Moment a Road Rage Driver Threatens to Knife a ‘Disabled’ Driver After ‘Ramming’ Him Outside a School
» ‘Lookin’ Good, When Can u Visit us?’ Convicted Muslim Rioter and Brother of Notorious ISIS Terrorist Taunts Moderate Sheikh With a Picture Showing Him Smeared in Blood
» The Shocking Moment a Driver is Punched and Has His Car Kicked in by Two Men in a Shocking Road Rage Attack ‘After They Beeped at Him for Going Too Slowly’
» ‘This is as Aussie as it Gets’: Labor Senator Sam Dastyari Criticised on Social Media for Asking ‘How Aussie is This?’ During Speech on the Steps of Sydney’s Lakemba Mosque to Mark the End of Ramadan
 
Immigration
» Australia: ‘They Need to Learn the Language’: Chinese Immigrant Calls on the Government to Ban Foreign Shop Signs So Everyone is Forced to Read and Speak English
» German Police: Asylum Seekers Are Taking Over Illegal Drug Trade
» Italian Police Use Tear Gas on Migrants Trying to Enter France
» Paul Ryan Helped Open the Gates to the Wolves
» UK: Revealed: Ten Fines Issued to Hauliers Every Day After Migrants Found Hiding in Lories
 
Culture Wars
» Chicago’s ‘Dyke March’ Kicks Jews Out of Gay Pride Event
 

Italy’s €17bn Bank Crisis is the Fruit of Unworkable EU Policies

Italy’s long-simmering banking crisis has erupted again. The emergency plan to wind down two Venetian lenders at a cost of up to €17bn is a fiasco of the first order.

While the Italians have let the crisis fester, the underlying cause is the unworkable policy regime imposed by the EU authorities themselves.

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

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Warns the World Against… Geert Wilders

by Diana West

If there’s one thing that 31,065 deadly Islamic terror attacks since 9/11 teach us, it’s that there is no way to foster a fact-based discussion of Islam in the halls of Western power.

That’s right — I said fact-based discussion of Islam. After 15-plus years since our Twin Towers burned and collapsed, I am still not talking about “Islamofascism,” “Islamism,” “Islamist extremism,” or any other figleaf-word made up by blushing Westerners to cover up the embarassingly appalling facts about Islam: its defining laws which can be as revolting as they are repressive; its history of violent conquest and “radical” religious and cultural cleansing; its totalitarian goals to apply “sharia” (Islamic law) everywhere to eradicate freedom of conscience, speech, other religions, and, oh yeah, rule the world.

In other words, exactly the things the Powers That Be will not talk about since even before George W. Bush rebounded from the shock of the Islamic attacks of 9/11 to realize that Islam was a “religion of peace.” In the land of the free and the home of the brave, Islamic blasphemy law rules.

Last week’s Senate hearing — even the title of last week’s Senate hearing — was more of the same.

Co-chaired by an affable Sen Ron Wyden and an angry Sen Claire McKaskill, the hearing was called: “Ideology and Terror: Understanding the Tools, Tactics, and Techniques of Violent Extremism.”

Notice no official mention of Islam. Or, more to the point, no official interest in Islam — except to protect it. Sen. Wyden, the “good guy” of the hearing for allowing that there might possibly be some teeny tiny slightly Islamist-ic thing about jihad (not that I heard the word), actually commended the two Muslim-born witnesses on the panel for “bending over backwards” to avoid tarring Islam with a truthful brush (or words not quite to that effect)…

           — Hat tip: Diana West [Return to headlines]
 

CNN: The Most Busted Name in News

CNN’s news is fake news. CNN’s stories are lies. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria is an exposed plagiarizer, but beyond all that, CNN anchors are the worst hypocrites on the air. Legitimate journalists present the news fairly regardless of their personal political views. CNN “journalists” still need safe spaces if someone criticizes Obama yet they endorse every vile lie and vicious action against Trump. CNN anchors are the talking puppets of their corporate owners who are driven by a singular ambition — to overthrow the America-first government of President Donald Trump. The globalists who own CNN want an internationalized America — they do not want a strong, independent, sovereign America led by an America-first President. They want a weak, internationalized socialized America with globalized trade agreements that benefit themselves at the expense of American workers.

The overpaid CNN bobbleheads deliberately create confusion with their unremitting lies and outrageous talking points. They foment anarchy and violence against the President of the United States and should be exposed as the deceitful puppets they are. James Comey had already testified before Congress and made it crystal clear that President Trump never directed him to stop the investigation into the Russians — there was no wrongdoing and no basis for any case against Trump for obstruction of justice. Yet, plagiarist Fareed Zakaria pursued the matter and invited Elizabeth Foley of Florida International University and Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School to discuss pursuing President Donald Trump with charges of obstruction of justice.

Tribe tried to argue that there are “bigger” issues at play and talked about “abuse of power.” Tribe’s statement is typical of the left-wing liberal narrative that turns any specific debate into a scripted general diatribe against Donald Trump in an attempt to delegitimize and discredit Trump’s presidency…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Crime Expands According to Our Willingness to Put Up With it

The Democrats are a network of criminals who seek to sabotage this past election using the press, various progressive organizations and George Soros NGO’s. Their deceptive practices are direct assaults on our electoral process and threatens the stability of our republic. Their “Resistance” supported by powerful Democrats and their activists, use inciting rhetoric fomenting violence leading to attempted assassinations of dozens of GOP congressman by Bernie Sanders supporter, James T. Hodgkinson.

Although the Trump-Russia narrative of collusion has been dispelled by lack of evidence, it still makes headlines. Although Lyin’ Chuck Schumer kept repeating a lie, there was never a FBI investigation of President Trump. The Democrats and their media complex run with fake news in order to run away from the long list of potentially criminal and unethical activities of their friends in the Democrat Party.

The Democrat Media Complex

Before anyone knew John Podesta, Andrew Breitbart knew John Podesta. Andrew also warned us of the Democrat Media Complex, and they instinctively responded with defaming accusations of racism. Yet, the Democrat Media Complex is exactly what Wikileaks uncovered, through a third party, into John Podesta’s email account, giving the world a window into the many unethical, and potentially illegal, activities of collusion and coordination of an attack on our electoral processes and our President.

The Democrat Media Complex operates with outward contempt towards the Republican Party, the Trump administration, and his supporters.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Documentary Investigates the Causes and Ramifications of Stress-Related Burnout

Unless kept in check, stress can wreak absolute havoc on your life, undercutting your health and depressing your very will to live. Around the world, “burnout” is becoming an increasingly pervasive problem, affecting people from all walks of life. Being successful per se will not insulate you from burnout. On the contrary, it may actually raise your risk.

“The Day I Snapped” is a mental health documentary featuring five professionals who walked into the proverbial wall one day, “suddenly” unable to cope any longer. However, as noted in the film, while the crisis may appear sudden, that moment when a person “snaps” is really the culmination of an untenable situation that has been going on for a long time.

Why the Modern Workplace Promotes Burnout

The five individuals in the film suffered burnout due to work-related stress, which is the most typical scenario. But what is it about the modern workplace that pressures people beyond their limits? Key factors highlighted in the film include:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Eric Trump: Democratic Party ‘Imploding, ‘ DNC Chair Perez is a ‘Nut Job’

Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump said the Democratic Party was “imploding” and that the Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez was a “nut job.”

Trump said, “I don’t exactly think the message being spewed by the media — the mainstream media, most of them — is really resonating all that well. If you look at the Democratic party — and I keep saying it — they’re imploding. They’ve got no leadership. They’ve got no message. If you look at the DNC, the DNC is half defunct.”

“They’ve got no money in the bank,” he continued. “They have no operation. You look at the head of the DNC. He is, quite frankly, a nut job. I mean, what is the Democrats’ message right now? I mean, what are they running on? All they’re doing is obstructing. And it’s clearly not working because every race, every special election, my father is winning.”

[Comment: This is what happens when you let Soros take control of your political party.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

How Your Tax Dollars Are Used to Promote Corporate Propaganda

Did you know that the 2017 spending bill1,2,3 includes a rider allocating $3 million for consumer education and outreach by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to “promote understanding and acceptance of” biotechnology?

The deal was recently passed by the Senate, 79 to 18, “under a bipartisan agreement to keep the government funded through the end of September,” The Washington Post reports.4 In other words, if you are American, you are paying for Monsanto to spread their pernicious propaganda. The fact that they can get away with this and slip it in to avoid government shutdown is dystopian, to say the least.

Not only have the government and the food and chemical technology industries fought to prevent the labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), your tax dollars are now to be spent on efforts to “assure” you that genetically engineered (GE) foods are of no concern.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Islamic State Supporters Hack Local U.S. Government Websites With Jihadist Propaganda

Local government agencies in Ohio, New York, and Maryland had their websites hacked by pro-Islamic State cyberattackers Sunday, who replaced the sites with jihadist propaganda.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Larry Krasner and George Soros Spent $33 Per Vote to Win the Philly DA Race

To help Larry Krasner win the Democratic Primary for District Attorney last month, billionaire George Soros spent nearly $1.7 million. But unlike many others in the District Attorney’s race, he didn’t waste his money. He got some bang for his buck.

Numbers that recently became available on the City Controller’s website after candidates turned in their last campaign finance reports show that in the District Attorney’s race, which drew about 17 percent turnout, candidates and PACs spent a total of just under $5.3 million. Nearly 155,000 votes were cast, meaning the average cost per vote was $34.

The combination of money spent by Krasner’s campaign and Soros’ PAC was $1.9 million, which put the Democratic primary winner at $33 per vote for the 59,000 he captured, just under the average, and a way better than a couple of his opponents.

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

Mueller Hires Clinton and Obama Supporters to Investigate Trump

CNN tried to conduct an online Trump hating poll, but it turned out to be a landslide for our President! Here’s what they asked… “Should Trump be investigated for obstruction of justice?” (and they included a very unflattering pic of the President). As of Monday morning, 2,698,604 votes had been cast. The verdict: 70.2% said “no,” and just 29.8% said “yes.” Yes, we still support our duly elected President, Donald J. Trump!

Where are the Republicans?

Our President is right, this is a witch hunt, and you know that whatever this independent counsel does, they will eventually end up with some kind of bogus inane charge. So, where is the outrage from the Republicans who have a Republican President, and a totally Republican Congress, thanks to the campaign of Donald John Trump and the grassroots Americans who voted for him? Where the hell is the outrage, and why aren’t they speaking up?

Trump’s greatest problem is the cowardice of congressional Republicans. Most of them are in the DC swamp Trump initially attacked, but they owe their majority status to the president. Fools that they are, they will eventually have to realize that the anti-Trump campaign is a sewer that could devour them, and their only chance of retaining control of the Congress is to pull together and put the president’s promises and programs through, yet they’re silent. Why? Because most are establishment globalists just like their buddies across the aisle.

While President Trump is the public face of the attacks, the individual that is being targeted, we the people will ultimately pay the price for the America-haters’ success in thwarting what is, in fact, our agenda that was adopted by Mr. Trump…

Robert Mueller has hired 13 lawyers, and is planning to hire more, to help in the spurious investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 presidential election. Talk about beating a dead horse. Now the left is pushing for obstruction of justice charges simply because of the president’s perhaps unwise expression of hope to Comey that General Flynn would not be prosecuted and then his firing of Comey. This does not qualify as obstruction of justice.

So why is there an FBI investigation when there is nothing at all to investigate? Because Democrats, unlike the Republicans, never give up and never give in. They are so angry that they lost this election, they are now hellbent to destroy the rightfully elected President, and they’ve got their own insiders to do it. This witch hunt is a huge career enhancement for all these lawyers. And think about the bucks this is costing the taxpayers, and how all these lawyers will want to find “something” to hang their hats on. I am totally and completely disgusted…

Dick Morris observes, “So there are 330 million people in America and probably four or five million lawyers. And Mueller couldn’t find anybody except aides who worked for Bill Clinton, represented Hillary Clinton or worked for the Clinton Foundation to go after Donald Trump. This is not a special prosecutor’s staff. This is a hit squad.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

NY Eighth Graders Failing Common Core Math Tests Tripled Since Testing Began

The number of students who failed eighth grade math exams went from 14,000 in 2012 to 44,483 most recently.

New York public schools where the number of eighth graders failing math exams has tripled since the state started administering Common Core tests.

The number of students who failed eighth grade math exams went from 14,000 in 2012 to 44,483 most recently.

“I think you have a storm warning,” David Rubel, a consultant for city parochial schools told the New York Post. “That’s a huge number of kids not on track to graduate.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

OFA Organizing for Anarchy Recruitment

Five months after his blatantly hypocritical ‘I-wish-the-new-president-well’ departure from the White House, Organizing for America is raising money for Obama as Leader of the Resistance poised to take President Donald Trump down.

Organizing for America and spinoff Organizing for Action-one and the same-is the chief fundraiser organization for Obama in private life: renegade rabble rouser for the progressive left’s planned re-takeover of a largely unsuspecting America.

If you’re on their mailing list (isn’t just about everybody?) don’t let the cunning of their purposely benign-sounding words fool you.

“Organizing for Action, a community organizing project, which is a spinoff of President Obama’s Organizing for America, appears to operate only to cause harm to and ultimately impeach President Trump.” (Washington Times, June 19, 2017)

The entire trajectory of Organizing for America:

Organizing For America-Obama’s first group was linked to BarackObama.com

Organizing For Action’s new website-OFA.US went live on Jan. 19, 2017.

When Organizing for Action kicked off in 2009, it still used BarackObama.com as its website.

Pictures of Obama smirking from exotic tropical vacation spots send a subliminal message that the ex-president is only harmlessly happy and wishing us all well.

But Obama is not happy in exile and, as Resistance Leader, is playing a key role in the increasing violence that puts American lives at risk.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pat Buchanan: Deep State Wants to ‘Bring Down’ Trump — Unlike Anything I’ve Seen Since Watergate

Sunday on New York AM 970 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan said there was a “classic struggle” going on in Washington D.C. where the “deep state and its media allies seek to bring down Donald Trump.”

“I think we’ve got a classic struggle here, John, between the incoming Trump presidency, which is really embattled in its first five months, and what might be called the Deep State, which is the permanent government in Washington, D.C.,” Buchanan told host John Catsimatidis.

He added, “The Deep State and its media allies seek to bring down Donald Trump and reverse the election returns of 2016.”

Buchanan went on to say the struggle is “causing a great conflict” in Washington D.C., adding it was “unlike” anything he had seen since the final days of Watergate.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Robert Soros Steps Down as President of Soros Family Office

Robert Soros, 53, the eldest of George Soros’ five children and currently deputy chairman and president of Soros Fund Management, is resigning from those roles and stepping down from day-to-day management to invest his own money at the $26 billion family office according to Bloomberg, which adds that Robert will remain an owner at the firm where he has worked in various investment and management roles for more than 20 years, and will continue to be involved in its strategic long-term planning.

[Comment: Probably planning to take over daddy George’s “destabilizating nations” job.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Supreme Court Allows Most of Trump Travel Ban to Proceed, Will Hear Case in Fall

The U.S. Supreme Court, on the last day of the 2016-2017 term on June 26, granted most of the Trump administration’s emergency request to put the president’s March 6 travel ban executive order into place. That order places a 90-day ban on entry into the United States on citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The court will hear arguments related to the travel ban case during its next session, which will begin in October. The court also said it would partly allow a 120-day ban on all refugees entering the United States to go into effect.

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

The Sleepy Deplorables Are Waking Up

Is The Worm Turning?

We live in unbelievable times. As the opening to my daily internet broadcast states…”The world is on fire and the culture is disintegrating…”

As the old saying goes, there are three types of people in the word. Those who make things happen; those who see what is happening; and those who wonder what happened. For the first time in my adult life I think more and more people are awakening to what is happening.

William Shakespeare is famous for many things he has written, but one of his lesser known quotes comes from Henry VI “The smallest worm will turn, being trodden upon…” After four decades of lies and manipulation the American people are finally beginning to roll over and awaken from their collective coma.

That’s right my friends the worm is beginning to turn. The trodden upon are beginning to fight back.

Despite the massive programming and brainwashing purposefully inflicted upon the “deplorables”…you know, the folks who actually work and pay the taxes…the election of Donald Trump has ushered in a new day in America. Ronald Reagan called it “morning in America”, and although the days aren’t as bright as they were in The Gipper’s day, there is hope on the horizon.

Permit me to offer some evidence that you may not have noticed…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The US Government Uses the Federal Reserve to Spy Abroad

Fed gleans intelligence from money movements

The Federal Reserve bills its services to foreign central banks as “safe and confidential” but the central bank allows other agencies access to the data for foreign intelligence services.

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

Watch: Couple Brutally Beats Restaurant Owners Over Food Order

Police are looking for two suspects after video footage emerged of a couple brutally attacking a restaurant owner and her 15-year-old daughter because they were not happy with their order.

The incident took place at the Qwik Chick takeout stand adjacent to U.S. Highway 1 in Baxley, Georgia, on Thursday after the couple’s chicken allegedly arrived cold and they were not given enough fries.

Restaurant owner Jeanette Norris agreed to give them a refund, although the couple continued to go “berserk” and began slamming on the shop’s windows.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

West New York Home Explosion Sends Couple to Hospital

Two West New York residents were sent to the hospital after an early morning explosion gave them second-degree burns, authorities said.

The North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue responded to a home on 57th Street around 6 a.m. Monday morning after receiving a report of an explosion, Chief Frank Montagne said. The family had recently installed a ceiling fan in a second-story rear bedroom and there was an old gas pipe in the ceiling that may have been live or leaked, Montagne said.

“Something electrically caused the explosion and the ceiling fell down onto the people in the bedroom,” Montagne said.

“I woke up from my dreams with the fire alarm going and my dad screaming,” Marco Morales, 22, said Monday morning in front of his home on 57th Street in West New York.

His father suffered second-degree burns to his torso, neck and head area while his mother suffered second-degree burns to her back. They were transported to Jersey City Medical Center, Morales said.

“They were in so much pain,” Morales said…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

What Happens to Your Body When You Use the Internet

Dependence on digital communication presents several physical and emotional health challenges. Mitochondrial damage, exposure to electromagnetic radiation and failing social skills are just the tip of an iceberg that may have deeper roots than anticipated. Recent research has now identified immediate physical symptoms that occur when your digital devices are just out of reach.

Digital Dependence Affecting More Than Teens

Cellphone ownership has reached 95 percent in America, up from 68 percent measured in 2015. Of those owners, 77 percent use a smartphone.2 The people who own the smartphones are distributed equally across gender, age and ethnicity, with the lowest number of people owning smartphones being over the age of 65.

Dependence or addiction to a digital device hooked to the internet affected 6 percent of the world population in 2014.3 This number may not appear to be significant on the surface, but consider that 6 percent of the world population was over 420 million people.4 Comparatively speaking, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 3.5 to 7 percent of the world population between 15 and 64 years had used an illicit drug in the past year.5

The percentage of those addicted to the internet may actually be higher as only 39 percent of the world in 2014 had access to the internet,6 driving the real percentage of those addicted to 15 percent. Symptoms of addiction are similar to other types of addiction, but are more socially acceptable. The authors of the study found an internet addiction (IA) is:…

Reach Out Recovery identifies conditions that may trigger internet addiction or compulsions, including anxiety, depression, other addictions, social isolation and stress.8 Internet activity may stimulate your brain’s reward system, much like drugs and alcohol, providing a constant source of information and entertainment. While each person’s internet use is different, the results may be the same. Long-term effects may include:

  • Irritation when someone interrupts your interaction online
  • Difficulty completing tasks
  • Increasing isolation
  • Experiencing euphoria while online
  • Inability to stop despite the consequences
  • Increasing stress

[…]

Unfortunately, your engagement is not the only physiological or psychological change these techniques trigger in your brain and your body. This short video highlights several changes you may experience after hours of digital use. However, there are also permanent changes that occur to the structure of your brain after watching a flickering screen for hours.

One of the functional changes you may have noticed is a reduced ability to think deeply about one subject.26 The focus of gathering information online often results in you flitting from one website to another as the topic of your research changes, as portrayed in the video above. Another way of saying this is a constant state of distraction, disruption and interruption from notifications and website engagement.

Nicholas Carr, author of the book, “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,” finds in the years after publication, with rising use of digital devices, millennials are experiencing even greater problems with forgetfulness than seniors.27 This is the “dark side” of neurological plasticity that allows your brain to adapt to changes in your environment. This type of plasticity is one way your brain recovers after a stroke has permanently damaged one area.

The truth is, as your brain is plastic, most everything you do and practice will change your brain.28 Using the internet may damage your ability to remember facts, but it also appears to improve your ability to research information. However, a few positive changes may not outweigh the negative aspects of long-term internet overuse. For instance, brain scans indicate those who use the internet consistently have a reduced amount of gray matter.29,30

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Anti-Islam Rally in Calgary Meets With Counter-Protest But Remains Peaceful

Worldwide Coalition Against Islam members march to city hall, met by members of Calgary Anti-Fascist Action

The event billed on social media as a “Patriotic Unity Mega Festival” in front of Calgary’s city hall on Sunday was met by an opposing group rallying against what they saw as a message of intolerance.

Gathered on one side of the municipal plaza were members of the Worldwide Coalition Against Islam (WCAI), which was denied a special event permit for the rally by the city.

Officials said in a written response to the group the decision was “on the basis that your organization, and messages it espouses, are hateful.”

Across the plaza were members of Calgary Anti-Fascist Action (AFA), who say they wanted to show unity against what they called messages of intolerance and hate.

Pro-Muslim rally peaceful ahead of anti-Islam rally planned for Sunday

Duelling rallies at city hall stay peaceful

Standing between the two groups were Calgary police officers, ensuring things remained peaceful.

Insults, slurs and chants were hurled back and forth. However, no arrests were made.

Among the few dozen people watching the two sides rally was Lifetime Adventure Travel guide Judi Sommerville, who was leading a two-hour tour of the downtown.

“It’s totally embarrassing,” she said. “And it does not represent our city in the least. This is where we start the tour and talk about city hall and some artifacts, and it’s not a very good way to begin a tour of our beautiful, interesting city.”

           — Hat tip: DV [Return to headlines]
 

Justin Trudeau Wears Islam-Themed Ramadan Socks to LGBT Pride Parade

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wore Ramadan-themed socks during an LGBT Pride parade in Toronto on Sunday.

Trudeau was photographed wearing the socks at a service just before the parade, where he also wished attendees a happy “Pride Mubarak” in celebration of the end of Ramadan.

“Trudeau was joined by his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, and their children Xavier and Ella-Grace. Grégoire Trudeau waved a rainbow flag, one of the symbols of the LGBTQ community,” reported TheStar.com. “Trudeau also wished the crowd a happy ‘Pride Mubarak,’ a play on words referring to the end-of-Ramadan celebrations happening in the Muslim community Sunday — celebrations Trudeau honoured with a pair of brightly coloured socks.”

In his speech, Trudeau declared “This is all about including people.”

“It’s all about how we celebrate the multiple layers of identities that make Canada extraordinary and strong, and today we celebrate with the entire LGBTQ community,” he continued.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

No Arrests as Anti-Islam Demonstrators Clash With Counter-Protesters at Calgary City Hall

Despite some heated moments, no arrests were made at an anti-Islam rally at Calgary City Hall Sunday afternoon.

The anti-Islam protest was originally scheduled for Saturday but the group organizing it, the World Coalition Against Islam (WCAI), had their permit pulled by the city. They vowed to continue with their demonstration on Sunday instead.

Justin Trudeau’s “Canada” at work: Note that this is the gathering that “Wild Bill” was scheduled to attend. He tells the truth about Islam so was denied entry to Canada, but Holocaust Denier Kevin Barrett was allowed entry to Canada this past weekend to attend the Jew Hate festival of Al Quds Day.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Activist Hedge Fund Third Point Demands Major Change at Nestle

Swiss food and drink giant Nestle has become the latest target for activist US hedge fund Third point, which has taken a one percent stake in the company and demanded major changes, including offloading its large holding in L’Oreal.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Great Britain Suffering ‘Meltdown of a Once Great Civilization’

Violence, fear, loss of freedom, national suicide

The United Kingdom is on the verge of breaking apart, as a van attack on Muslims leaving a London mosque raises the potential of violent exchanges between Muslims and the indigenous British population.

And May also has cited the attack as reason to support her controversial plan to regulate the Internet, including censoring so-called “extremist” content.

The supposedly conservative government of beleaguered British Prime Minister Theresa May is preparing a crackdown on “Islamophobia” in response.

Yet Britain today is already a highly regulated society. With the recent passage of the Investigatory Powers Act, the United Kingdom now has the “most sweeping surveillance powers in the western world,” according to the left-wing British paper the Guardian and dissident Edward Snowden.

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Has Europe Surrendered to Radical Islam?

Political leaders turning their nations over to jihadists.

London, June 5, 2017: A minute of silence is held at Potters Field Park, next to the City Hall, to pay tribute to the victims of the London Bridge jihadist attack three days before.

Those who came have brought flowers, candles and signs bearing the usual words: “unity”, “peace” and “love”. Faces are sad but no trace of anger is visible. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, gives a speech emphasizing against all evidence that the killers’ ideas have nothing to do with Islam.

A few hours after the attack, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May also refuses to incriminate Islam, but dares to speak of “Islamic extremism”. She was immediately accused of “dividing” the country.

[Comment: Populations should remember the traitors in the puppet political class that followed the banskter globalist order to denconstruct their nation.]

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I Was Trying to Brake: Woman is Arrested ‘After Ploughing Her Car Into Families Gathering for Eid Prayers Near Newcastle Mosque’ Sparking Panic and Leaving Two Children in Intensive Care — Just a Week After Finsbury Park Attack

Police have arrested a 42-year-old woman after a car crashed into pedestrians outside Westgate Sports Centre in Newcastle in an incident authorities believe is not terror related.

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‘New York Times’ Defends Independence Referendum in Catalonia

Barcelona (ACN).- The ‘New York Times’ newspaper expressed its support for an independence referendum in Catalonia in an editorial published on Friday. “The best outcome for Spain would be to permit the referendum, and for Catalan voters to reject independence —as voters in Quebec and Scotland have done,” said the editorial board in its text. “Madrid’s intransigence will only inflame Catalan frustrations,” said the NYT, which went on to point out: “Spain is determined to prevent a Catalan referendum on independence, even though its tough attitude toward Catalan leaders has probably only increased enthusiasm for a measure with questionable support: The Catalan government is planning to hold a vote on self-determination on October 1, despite fierce opposition from the Spanish authorities.

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SVP Calls for a Vote on Ending Swiss-EU Freedom of Movement

The right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) has called for a vote on ending the Swiss-EU agreement for free movement of people.

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UK: East London Thug Hurls Acid at Student on 21st Birthday

As Resham Khan (pictured) and her cousin Jameel Muhktar waited for red lights to change in Beckton, east London, a man threw a corrosive substance at them through the open car windows.

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UK: Teenage Boy, 16, Appears in Court Charged With Raping an Eight-Year-Old Girl in a Public Park

A teenage boy has appeared in court charged with the rape of an eight-year-old girl in a park.

Officers were called to Nuthurst Park in Moston, Greater Manchester, at around 6.55pm on Saturday night after reports the girl was found in tears after being raped and the offender had been chased off by members of the public.

The suspect, aged 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested by police in a nearby shop on Saturday evening.

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Video: Black Lives Matter Riots in London, Police Attacked, Fires Lit

Four officers have been taken to hospital as riot police attempted to control a violent Black Lives Matter rally in east London.

Rioters threw projectiles at the police line and set fire to bins at the demonstration in Forest Hill in the borough of Newham.

The protest was called after the death of Edir Frederico Da Costa, 25, on the 21st of June, six days after Metropolitan Police officers in Newham stopped him in a car.

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More Than 40 Convicted Terrorists Have Used Human Rights Laws to Remain in UK

More than 40 foreign terrorists have used human rights laws to remain in the UK, according to an unpublished report delayed by the Home Office.

The study highlights the near insurmountable problem for the Government in deporting dangerous jihadists and follows a series of Islamic State-inspired attacks in the UK.

In the court cases, lawyers — typically funded through legal aid — have successfully prevented foreign-born terror suspects from being sent back to their home countries.

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First India Bans Cash, Now it’s Targeting Gold

In November of last year, India banned certain cash notes in a bold move to force businesses into the banking system to better harvest more taxes from its livestock.

Now, under the guise of “improving transparency” and forming a “common market,” India has begun targeting gold with new taxes, regulation, and incentives for citizens to turn over their undeclared gold to the financial sector.

Roughly 86% of India’s economic activity happened in cash at the time much of it was banned. Presumably that includes the $19-billion-per-year retail gold industry. Again, it appears that India’s government (central bankers) wants a bigger cut of the action and to better track the private assets of citizens.

Bloomberg has been reporting that India’s government is teaming up with crony gold dealers to plan a complete revamp of its gold policy — which is always code for “control, regulate and tax.”

Bloomberg reports:

India, which vies with China as the top consumer of bullion, is working on new policies to improve transparency and help expand its $19 billion gold jewelry industry, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The plans being worked out by the finance and commerce ministries along with industry groups should be finalized by the end of March, the people said, asking not to be identified because they aren’t authorized to speak publicly…

The start of a spot bullion exchange, to make gold supply more transparent and help enforce purity standards, is under consideration, the people said. An import tax of 10 percent could also be reduced as the government seeks to eliminate smuggling, they said. The plans also include a dedicated bank for the jewelry industry, according to one of the people.

The overhaul of India’s disorganized and fragmented gold jewelry industry is meant to bolster confidence among consumers, where the gifting of gold at weddings and festivals or its purchase as a store of value are deeply held traditions. Ensuring quality standards and allowing supply chains to be easily tracked are ways to enhance trust.

In addition to a 10% import tax on gold, which authorities admit causes smuggling, India recently placed a 3% nationwide goods and services tax on gold that goes into effect on July 1st. Grateful slaves celebrated the event as a “lower than expected rate” and as creating a “common market,” Bloomberg reported when the tax passed:

India fixed the duty at 3 percent over the weekend, lower than the 5 percent expected, Ketan Shroff, joint secretary at the India Bullion and Jewellers Association Ltd., said Monday. The goods and services tax, to be implemented from July 1, will replace more than a dozen domestic levies including excise tax and state tariffs, drawing India for the first time into a common market.

ProTip to wannabe dictators: If you’re a tyrant who wants to centralize power over an industry, first frighten large businesses into your cartel protection racket. Then, eliminate local sovereignty over markets while imposing your own regulations and taxes. But call it “drawing into a common market” and “improving transparency to protect them.” Works every time. The final step is to prosecute non-compliance using men with guns.

The creation of a spot market and special bank for gold jewelers (as rumored above) seems like a function that doesn’t require government at all. Yet if your goal was to track, trace and database your citizens’ undeclared gold assets, it makes perfect sense.

Bloomberg makes clear that the new policies aim to encourage citizens to turn over their “idle gold” to the financial system:

The government is also keen to get the public to recycle its jewelry to reduce the nation’s reliance on imports. After a slow start to its plans to monetize the precious metal held in households and institutions, the government is looking to tweak the scheme and attract more participants, the people said, without giving details. The initiative, launched in November 2015, was aimed at returning an estimated 20,000 metric tons of idle gold to the financial system.

It’s reminiscent, albeit a softer version, of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 6102 “forbidding the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States” which criminalized the possession of monetary gold. Citizens were forced to turn over their gold for a set amount of government currency. We’ll have to wait and see how India “tweaks the scheme.”

Credit Suisse confirmed the latest moves in India are designed to force the gold trade onto the banking system in partnership with the central government to better track and tax the industry.

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Two Muslims Screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ Stab a Policeman to Death Hours Before Eid Prayers to Mark the End of Ramadan in Indonesia

Two alleged Islamic State group militants stabbed a police officer to death in western Indonesia in the latest assault targeting officials in the world’s most populous Muslim country.

The two attackers shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’, or God is great, as they entered a security post in North Sumatra’s police headquarters in Medan city before Eid prayers to mark the end of Ramadan.

Several police officers fought back against the two militants, killing one and critically injuring another.

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‘I’Ll F***ing Stab You’: The Terrifying Moment a Road Rage Driver Threatens to Knife a ‘Disabled’ Driver After ‘Ramming’ Him Outside a School

Disturbing footage shows a shocking road rage incident outside a Melbourne school, in which an aggressive man repeatedly abuses and threatens to stab a ‘disabled’ driver

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‘Lookin’ Good, When Can u Visit us?’ Convicted Muslim Rioter and Brother of Notorious ISIS Terrorist Taunts Moderate Sheikh With a Picture Showing Him Smeared in Blood

The brother of a notorious Australian terrorist has sent a controversial Islamic preacher a picture where the imam is smeared in blood.

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The Shocking Moment a Driver is Punched and Has His Car Kicked in by Two Men in a Shocking Road Rage Attack ‘After They Beeped at Him for Going Too Slowly’

Footage shows a driver being punched in the head while his car is kicked and windows smashed by two men in a vicious daylight attack which took place on a busy Melbourne street.

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‘This is as Aussie as it Gets’: Labor Senator Sam Dastyari Criticised on Social Media for Asking ‘How Aussie is This?’ During Speech on the Steps of Sydney’s Lakemba Mosque to Mark the End of Ramadan

Labor Senator Sam Dastyari (pictured) who fled Iran as a boy has described the end of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan as something that is ‘as Aussie as it gets’ at a Sydney mosque.

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Australia: ‘They Need to Learn the Language’: Chinese Immigrant Calls on the Government to Ban Foreign Shop Signs So Everyone is Forced to Read and Speak English

An Asian immigrant to Australia has called on the government to ban Chinese language shop signs. The man in his sixties said shop signs around Sydney were useless to many people.

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German Police: Asylum Seekers Are Taking Over Illegal Drug Trade

Police in the northern German region of Schleswig-Holstein have expressed concern over finding more and more asylum seekers involved in peddling illegal narcotics and fear the drug gangs could take over the area using violence.

Lübeck police are noticing a rise in the number of mass brawls in the city, some of which have seen the use of knives and involving 20 people at a time. Police say there have been 12 such incidents since May and many involve asylum seekers who have links to the illegal drug trade, Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag reports.

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Italian Police Use Tear Gas on Migrants Trying to Enter France

Italian police used tear gas on a group of some 400 mainly African migrants who marched towards the French border from the northern town of Ventimiglia in the early hours of Monday.

The group, most of whom are believed to be from Sudan, said they were fed-up with being held by police.

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Paul Ryan Helped Open the Gates to the Wolves

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful… to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind.” —George Orwell

This week, before jumping on the radio to now 80 affiliates in the United States alone as well as broadcasting into 53 other countries, I heard House Speaker Paul Ryan, playing off of Donald Trump, talking of his care of securing the American people from illegal immigrants and any other possible terror attacks from Muslim jihadists.

Friends, it is of interest to take note that what Paul Ryan says and what he does are a complete contradiction at every step.

It was reported on December 16, 2015 by Brietbart…

Paul Ryan’s first major legislative achievement as Speaker of the House was a total and complete sell-out of the American people that masqueraded as an appropriations bill.

(1) Ryan’s Omnibus Fully Funds DACA

(2) Ryan’s Omnibus Funds Sanctuary Cities

(3) Ryan’s Omnibus Funds All Refugee Programs

(4) Ryan’s Omnibus Funds All of the Mideast Immigration Programs That Have Been Exploited by Terrorists in Recent Years

(5) Ryan’s Omnibus Funds Illegal Alien Resettlement

(6) Ryan’s Omnibus Funds the Release of Criminal Aliens

(7) Ryan’s Omnibus Quadruples H-2B Foreign Worker Visas

(8) Ryan’s Omnibus Funds Tax Credits for Illegal Aliens

(9) Ryan’s Omnibus Locks-In Huge Spending Increases

(10) Ryan’s Omnibus Fails to Allocate Funds to Complete the 700-Mile Double-Layer Border Fence That Congress Promised the American People

It is also important for Americans that are taking this current administration for face value (Matthew 24:5, 2 Corinthians 11:14) that More than 1,400 Syrian refugees have been resettled in the united States, according to State Department figures, which is more than double the 625 Syrian refugees resettled under Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah in during the same time in 2016.

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UK: Revealed: Ten Fines Issued to Hauliers Every Day After Migrants Found Hiding in Lories

Home Office data shows 3,522 civil penalties were handed to drivers or their employers in 2016-17 after “clandestine entrants” were discovered — a 12 per cent rise on the tally of 3,151 in the previous year.

A total of £7.8million worth of fines were issued in the most recent year.

Fines of up to £2,000 can be imposed for each stowaway if reasonable measures are not taken.

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Chicago’s ‘Dyke March’ Kicks Jews Out of Gay Pride Event

Attendees at the Chicago “Dyke March” who carried Jewish LGBT Pride flags were made to leave on Saturday, according to a report.

According to the left-wing Israeli daily Ha’aretz, the flags, which featured the Star of David over the LGBT rainbow, allegedly “made people feel unsafe,” and upset attendees who claimed that the march was “anti-Zionist,” and “pro-Palestinian.”

“It was a flag from my congregation which celebrates my queer, Jewish identity which I have done for over a decade marching in the Dyke March with the same flag,” said one woman who was made to leave the march for carrying the flag, adding that numerous other attendees harassed her, according to the Windy City Press.

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10 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/26/2017

  1. Diana West has an expose on Ayaan Hirsi Ali and her non-acceptance of the only political means with which to fight the entrenched Left and Islam. Surely the ex-Muslim Ali does not believe that the Left will actually wake up to what they are promoting (Islam) and begin distancing itself from its increasing violent means in subjecting all of us to Sharia Law?

  2. “In other news, Canadian Prime Minister Justin `Baby Doc` Trudeau wore Ramadan-themed socks to yesterday’s LGBT `pride` parade in Toronto…”

    Uh oh, that could mean trouble.
    Since feet are seen as something especially unclean in Islam.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3445567/Angry-customer-pens-letter-Nike-company-refuses-let-customize-shoes-word-Muslim.html

    But maybe Muslims will let him get away with it.
    After all, they know what a useful idiot he is.

  3. How do Canada’s Muslims react to Pierre’s boy parading in favor of gay marriage while claiming he celebrates Islam, too? Will he add a Che shirt next year?

        • I think you miss the Baron’s meaning, Peter. If you are able grab a photo of Fidel Castro and put it up against a photo of baby Doc – then admire the startling similarities.

          • No nemesis, I did not miss the Baron’s meaning, I just went on a different tack to remark on the fact that the idiots who voted meathead in as PM are only just starting to wake up to what they have done.

  4. “Has Europe surrendered to (radical) islam”. I’m happy to see that we should remember the names of those who let the enemy in, and still support them, but for once I agree with Erdogan: “There is no such thing as RADICAL islam, there is only–islam.

  5. 5 year ago I read “Infidel ” By Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
    Close to the end of the book I was very surprised why she did not stay in Holland.
    Well, now, that I see better I understand how dangerous Holland can be for any human that speaks the truth.
    I have friends that have parents in Holland and she visits once a year.The story she tells are gory .Terrible.

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