Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/23/2017

A request for water drew attention to a tractor-trailer parked in a Wal-Mart parking lot in San Antonio. Ten dead illegal immigrants were found in the trailer, and dozens more were in bad shape from heat prostration and dehydration. The driver of the tractor-trailer has been arrested pending trafficking charges.

In other news, the Minneapolis Police Department has acknowledged that it employed “fast-track training” — i.e. affirmative action — to speed Mohamed Noor’s deployment as a police officer. Mr. Noor shot an unarmed woman to death last weekend after she made a 911 call.

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USA
» “You Afraid of a Dead Body?” Boys Who Laughed While Man Drowned Will Face Charges
» Fast-Track Training Put Officer Mohamed Noor on Minneapolis Police Force
» Getting Trump Elected Was Not Enough — We Need a Thousand Liberty Candidates to Run for Office All Over the Nation
» I Have Only Been Running for Congress for 2 Weeks and I Am Already Being Attacked Viciously by the Left
» Innocent Man Sentenced to Prison for Standing on a Sidewalk, Informing People of Their Rights
» Oakland Man Charged With Trying to Aid ISIS
» Ron Paul Warns Trump: Deep State is Coming for You!
» Tribalism Explained
» Vaccines: Good or Bad?, Part 8
» Waiter Gets Racist Note Rather Than Tip From Couple, ‘We Don’t Tip White ppl! Lol’
 
Canada
» Ontario’s Expensive Hydro System Unreliable
 
Europe and the EU
» A Month of Islam and Multiculturalism in France: June 2017
» Army, What Army?
» Austria’s Rutar to Open Dipo Outlet in FVG
» French Alps: Austrian Falls to Death on Mont Blanc
» Hungary Accuses EU and Soros of ‘Muslimising Europe’
» Italy: ACS Studying Abertis Counterbid to Stop Atlantia
» Macron’s Approval Rating Plunges, Only Chirac Was Worse
» Norwegian Defense Chief in Classified Report: The Armed Forces Cannot Defend the Country
» Norwegian Army Chief: — We Must Prepare to Fight
» PET: Denmark’s Biggest Threat is Sweden
» Popularity Tumbles for France’s Macron: Poll
» Sweden to Ban Alternative Media
» UK: Great-Grandfather, 73, With Alzheimer’s Fights for His Life After He Was Tasered by Police for Carrying a Butter Knife
» UK: Urdu Road Signs Going Up in Bradford and Manchester Causes Outrage
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Israel Detains Hamas Members in Wave of Arrests After Stabbing
 
Middle East
» Assange: ‘CIA Not Only Armed Syria’s Insurgents — It Paid Their Salaries’
» Don’t Interfere in Turkish Affairs, Erdogan Tells Germany
» How ISIS Lost Its Chance at a Dirty Bomb
» ‘I Just Want to Go Home, ‘ Says German Teen Who Joined ISIS
» Iraqi Kurds Schedule Independence Referendum for September
» Turkey Re-Arrests Activists in Amnesty Case Involving German, Swedish Citizens: Group
 
South Asia
» Record-Breaking ‘Despacito’ Banned in Malaysia as “Obscene”
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘Sharia Law Opponents Are Bigots’: Muslim Psychologist Calls for Australia to Introduce Special Laws for Followers of Islam
» ‘These Are Ridiculous Measures’: Islam Extremist Group Hizb ut-Tahrir Accuses Australian Government of Giving Police the Power to Kill Muslims With New Anti-Terror Super Department
 
Latin America
» Venezuela Will be the First Sovereign Oil Producer to See an “All-Out Collapse”
 
Immigration
» Bavarian President: ‘We All Know the Migration Wave Will Continue’
» Death Toll Rises to 10 in ‘Horrific’ Human Trafficking Case in San Antonio
» German Elections — Angela Merkel Attacked Over Refugee Open Door Policy by Martin Schulz
» Immigration Attorney, Pakistani National Indicted for Alleged Marriage Fraud
» Invasion-21: UN Document Plans People Replacement War Against West
» Lampedusa Mayor Compares Austrian Foreign Minister to “Neo Nazi” Over Migrant Comments
» Sweden Hiring Clowns to Help Muslims Integrate
» Walmart Migrant Lorry — Police Find Eight Dead in San Antonio Trailer
 
Culture Wars
» Delingpole: Bill Nye ‘The Old People Must Die to Save the Planet Guy’
» If America Does Not Turn Back to God, There Isn’t Going to be an America
» Minnesota Schools Adopt Transgender Toolkit for Kindergartners
» Southern Poverty Defends Its Attacks on Christians
 

“You Afraid of a Dead Body?” Boys Who Laughed While Man Drowned Will Face Charges

In a news story that sounds like something from Mad Max, a group of Florida teenagers who filmed themselves laughing and cracking jokes while a disabled man drowned, and then left the scene without telling anybody, will face criminal charges after all — but there’s a catch.

The teenagers, each between the ages of 14 and 16, will be charged with not reporting a death, a misdemeanor offense under Florida law. Authorities initially said there didn’t appear to be grounds to prosecute the teens, who were caught on camera mocking 32-year-old Jamel Dunn as he drowned in Cocoa, Florida, according to the New York Post.

The callous crime, which is vaguely reminiscent of the infamous Kitty Genovese slaying in New York City, is indicative of a trend tht has been bothering older Americans since the first signs began emerging in the early 90s. The contemporary breakdown in communal responsibility, fostered by smartphones and digitization of daily life, where violent videos inure children to death and violence. The boys can be heard in the video discussing Dunn’s impending death. One of the boys teased another about being scared to see a dead body, the boy replies “I ain’t scared to see no dead person.”

The disturbing footage, recorded by one of the boys, shows Dunn, who is disabled, struggling and screaming for help in the pondIn response, the boys urge him to get out of the water — “Get out the water you’re going to die!” Another boy shouts. “We’re not gonna help you!”

The recommended charges will be given to the Florida State Attorney’s Office, which will determine whether to prosecute the teens, according to Cocoa Police Chief Mike Cantaloupe.

Even if the boys are charged, misdemeanors typically carry sentences of less than a year, leaving the boys free of criminal records, unless they commit more crimes as adults Cocoa Police Department spokesperson Yvonne Martinez said the teens, ages 14 to 16, had The department didn’t disclose the number of teens involved, or their names.

“He started to struggle and scream for help and they just laughed,” Martinez said. “They didn’t call the police. They just laughed the whole time. He was just screaming … for someone to help him.” The teenagers didn’t stop joking about Dunn when he failed to surface in the water.

“Oh, he just died,” said one as the others laughed.

The teens left the Cocoa park without notifying anyone about Dunn’s death. Three days later, his body was discovered in the pond.

[Comment: If the person in the lake was black and those laughing at his death were white there would be 24 hr news coverage and long prison sentences for the whites.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Fast-Track Training Put Officer Mohamed Noor on Minneapolis Police Force

The former police chief stood by the training of officer Mohamed Noor, who shot and killed Justine Damond. But not everyone is sold on the process.

Minneapolis made a significant financial investment in Mohamed Noor.

The officer who fatally shot Justine Damond graduated in 2015 from the city’s accelerated police cadet program. The seven-month training is a quicker, nontraditional route to policing aimed at helping those who already have a college degree enter law enforcement.

The Minneapolis program covers tuition at Hennepin Technical College and pays trainees a $20-an-hour salary with benefits while they work to get licensed. After that their salary bumps up.

More than a year into the job, Noor, 31, rose from a beat cop’s obscurity to international headlines after shooting Damond, a 40-year-old spiritual healer from Australia, after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her southwest Minneapolis home. When she approached the driver’s side window of the squad car, Noor, who was in the passenger seat, fired across his partner in the driver’s seat, killing Damond.

Since then the MPD has been dogged by questions about Noor’s experience and training. On the night of the shooting, he was paired with officer Matthew Harrity, who had been a cop for about one year…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Getting Trump Elected Was Not Enough — We Need a Thousand Liberty Candidates to Run for Office All Over the Nation

The last few weeks have shown us that getting Donald Trump elected is not enough. This Congress is being called “ the most unproductive in 164 years” , and thanks to all of the RINOs in the Republican Party Trump’ s agenda is sitting dead in the water. Obamacare has not been repealed, taxes have not been cut, there is no funding for a border wall, and Planned Parenthood is still fully funded. It has become clear that simply getting the Republicans control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives is not going to get us where we want to go. Starting in 2018, we are going to have to work very hard to replace bad Republicans with liberty candidates that will fight relentlessly for our values.

And I am not just talking about getting a handful of liberty candidates elected. What we really need is for a thousand good men and women to step forward to run for seats on the national, state and local levels all over the nation.

If we sit back and do nothing we are just going to get more of the same, and that is not an option.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

I Have Only Been Running for Congress for 2 Weeks and I Am Already Being Attacked Viciously by the Left

I always knew that politics was a dirty game, but I didn’ t know that running for Congress would be like running into a nest of angry hornets. When I decided to do this, I told my readers that I would keep them updated on what I am learning, and one of the things that I am learning is that people can be really mean. So far, every cuss word in the book has been thrown at me, I have been told that I should leave the state, and people have even been saying absolutely horrible things about my wife and daughter. I am tough and can take the abuse, but it isn’ t right to attack family.

Many of the attacks are not fit for public consumption, so in this article I just want to share some of the milder attacks that are more focused on the issues.

I knew that my extremely strong Pro-Life stand was going to upset a lot of people, and that is definitely turning out to be the case. Here is one example from Facebook…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Innocent Man Sentenced to Prison for Standing on a Sidewalk, Informing People of Their Rights

A former pastor will serve time in jail for a conviction of “jury tampering,” after he was arrested and charged with a felony for handing out jury information pamphlets outside of a courthouse. Keith Wood is innocent. He was merely attempting to educate his neighbors about their rights on a jury, which should be protected free speech. However, courts are intent on using their power to hide the full scope of the jurors’ responsibility and they will apparently go to great lengths to do so — including throwing an entirely innocent man in prison.

For those who don’t know, jury nullification is the right for any juror to not only judge the facts of the case but also to judge the validity of the law itself. If a jury feels that a defendant is facing an unjust charge, they have the right to rule in the defendant’s favor, even if they are technically guilty under the court’s standards.

Federal and individual state governments are terrified about this concept becoming mainstream as it could lead to radical change in regards to victimless ‘crimes.’

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Oakland Man Charged With Trying to Aid ISIS

A 22-year-old California man has been charged with attempting to support terrorism by allegedly using social media to promote the Islamic State group and offering to join the organization, according to court documents.

Federal prosecutors allege Amer Sinan Alhaggagi “went so far as to meet with undercover agents on multiple occasions to plan a potential terrorist attack,” said a court filing unsealed Friday.

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

Ron Paul Warns Trump: Deep State is Coming for You!

Libertarian icon says Shadow Government fighting to keep power

Renowned former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul tells Alex Jones that the Deep State is making its move against President Trump and that it’s time for Americans to stand with him during these troubled times.

MORE: Sean Spicer Resignation Is The Beginning Of Trump’s Deep State Purge

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Tribalism Explained

In the world of liberal progressives, “fair” means pitting one group of people against another group, demanding that one side deserves more “fairness” than the other because of… you name it (it can be any excuse). Liberals think in terms of divide and conquer class warfare…

When you hear members of various media outlets say the words “identity politics,” that is what the words mean: Identifying people with a group or gang — or, tribe rather than as individuals. The media usually does not use these words. Regardless, they accurately define the tribal wars that liberal progressives use to gain and keep power.

The objective is to throw as many daily crises on your plate as possible so that intellectual chaos results. That is a major purpose of identity politics.

Why do liberals want your intellect to be chaotic? Because it is hard for the mind to reason in the midst of chaos. When you aren’t reasoning, you miss what’s going on behind the curtain the Wiz tries so hard to keep closed. The best way to cover up major events and unspeakable objectives (from the overthrow of the American government to world government to being nuked by North Korea) is to prevent you from viewing your world and what is really happening in it through a logical lens. In short, it’s the way they hide what they’re really doing. If they can make you fearful, they win the game. That’s why the Russia thing will remain at the top of the media’s chaos list for as long as they can milk it.

If having the above as the platform for one of your two political parties doesn’t frighten you, it should.

What “they” are doing is strongly motivating people to become part of a group… or, better said, a tribe. This is how you achieve tribalism. It is the most dangerous psychological ops game the Deep Statists have played thus far.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Vaccines: Good or Bad?, Part 8

The more we look at vaccines the more we see that they are unsafe but as with GMO products the dangers are simply ignored by government and the FDA. Yet we see that the government even produces information that proves they are incompetent concerning the safety of vaccines. Even though the mainstream media push the agenda that “vaccines are safe” the federal government has publicly released vaccine injury payout figures that prove vaccines routinely maim and kill children all across America.

The government’s own document reveals statistics of over 18,000 petitions filed for compensation by families of children who were seriously injured, maimed or killed by vaccines in the United States alone.

The document reveals that a shocking 633 petitions for serious vaccine injury or death have been filed in the fiscal year 2017. This follows 1,120 petitions that were filed in 2016.

The number of petitions filed is a tiny fraction of the total number of children who are seriously harmed by vaccine injuries, as doctors aggressively brainwash parents into believing that seizures, convulsions, autism and other serious conditions are never caused by vaccines. Furthermore, families of vaccine-injured children must hire an attorney to file a petition with the U.S. government, then wait anywhere from two to ten years for a decision by a “kangaroo court” that’s stacked against them. Thus, in nearly all cases of vaccine injury, parents are convinced into either believing that vaccines had nothing to do with the injury or that trying to fight the government for compensation is a complete waste of time. (This is all by design.)

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Waiter Gets Racist Note Rather Than Tip From Couple, ‘We Don’t Tip White ppl! Lol’

A Tennessee waiter said he got a surprise “tip” from a couple he served who were not fond of white people. Nathan Bergeron, who works at the On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina, claimed that a couple left him a $0.00 tip with a note explaining why they didn’t give him a gratuity. “We don’t tip white ppl! LOL,” read the note at the top of the couple’s $47.00 bill on Sunday, NBC4 reported. “I was more shocked,” he told NBC4. “The fact that they would be so blatant and put it out there.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ontario’s Expensive Hydro System Unreliable

From Premier Kathleen Wynne on down, whenever the Ontario Liberals talk about the high cost of electricity they have imposed on us, they boast about creating a “clean, modern and reliable” hydro system as a result.

Those words are constantly repeated in public statements and press releases by Wynne, present and past energy ministers, and other Liberals, along with boasting about eliminating Ontario’s use of coal-fired electricity in 2014.

Except that through its continuing minority ownership in Hydro One, the Wynne government is now back in the coal business, with the utility’s announcement last week it’s buying U.S. power company Avista Corp for $6.7 billion, part owner of a giant, U.S. coal-fired electricity plant in Montana.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

A Month of Islam and Multiculturalism in France: June 2017

by Soeren Kern

June 1. Saber Lahmar, a 48-year-old Algerian who has lived in Bordeaux since his release from Guantánamo Bay in 2009, was charged with “terrorist association” and placed in pre-trial detention. He is suspected of providing financial, logistical and doctrinal aid to French jihadists who were planning to travel to Iraq and Syria. Lahmar was arrested in Bosnia in 2001 after being accused of plotting to bomb the American embassy in Sarajevo. In November 2008, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon ordered Lahmar to be released from Guantánamo because there was insufficient reason to hold him. In December 2009, Robert C. Kirsch, a lawyer at the firm of WilmerHale, which represented Lahmar in federal court, said: “We are grateful for the courage and generosity of the French people and government, and for the ongoing effort by President Obama… which will now give Mr. Lahmar a chance to rebuild his life in France.”

June 1. A group of prominent intellectuals accused French authorities of covering up the April 4 murder of a Jewish woman by her Muslim neighbor. Kobili Traoré a 27-year-old Malian Muslim, tortured 66-year-old Sarah Halimi and threw her out of her third-story apartment. The letter criticizes the Paris Prosecutor’s Office for omitting hate crime charges from a draft indictment against Traoré. They cited a recording of the incident made by another neighbor. In it, Traoré can be heard shouting “Allahu Akbar” and calling Halimi “dirty Jew” to her face. Some observers believe the authorities covered up Halimi’s murder to prevent it from helping Marine Le Pen’s presidential campaign.

June 2. The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, banned Noorassur, a local insurance broker, from hanging a sign with the words “Islamic finance” because it “poses a high risk of disturbing public order.” Estrosi said the sign was placed in close proximity to the Promenade des Anglais, the site of the July 14, 2016 jihadist attack. He said that there was a risk to both the staff and the customers and that passersby might see the sign as a provocation. Noorassur’s founder, Sonia Mariji, filed a lawsuit against the city. “Islamic finance is not incompatible with the Republic,” she said. “I am a fruit of the Republic.” Her lawyer accused Estrosi of “conveying the idea that Islamic finance is linked to Islamist terrorism.”

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Army, What Army?

By 2004 the size of the Swedish Army was down to 60 000 soldiers, and in 2013, three years after the end of conscription, the size was at an all-time low of just 16 000 soldiers, though the army plans to reach a level of 50 000 professional soldiers by 2020, mostly through a large media campaign. …

In 2008, said Major General Robert Mood, that we have a “micro-defense”. In reality politicians and civil servants maneuver us slowly but surely towards a controlled liquidation of the defense. The most serious consequence is that the army, our largest and most important military branch, in the last few years has not been able to act as an effective first line of defense.

Today’s army is in practice Brigade North (just under 5,000 troops) with three manoeuvre battalions, as well as management and support departments. Manoeuvre Battalions are those who fight ground war, such as infantry and tanks.

“If we gather the whole army, we are able to control an area between Sinsen and Røa (11 km of Oslo). Alternatively we can defend one landing facility for oil and gas in an efficient way — assuming we had air defense, which we do not have.”, stated Mood. …

The entire Danish Defense employs approximately 24,000 people. According to figures from IISS, Denmark had in 2014 a personnel strength of 17,200 active in service, plus a reserve of 53,500.

The 53,500 reservists all have a automatic assault rifle and ammunition at home, but the government do not trust them (Danes & beer) so the bolt has been taken out of the rifle leaving it useless till the bolt is given back from the Army. …

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Austria’s Rutar to Open Dipo Outlet in FVG

It will be the third shop in Italy, 1.5mn investment

(ANSA) — TRIESTE — Austria’s Rutar furniture Group continues its expansion into Italy, by opening the third “Dipo” store on July 27 in Zoppola (Pordenone).

This will be the second store in the FVG region: the first is located at Tavagnacco (Udine), headquarters in Italy. The third shop in Italy opened at San Fior (Treviso) on March 1st, with a 1,5mn investment. The Dipo chain is part of Union, one of the largest retail stores groups in the world; it designs, sells, carries and installs furnishings at transparent prices.

The Eberndorf group, founded in 1961, has reached 16 stores (both with the Dipo and Rutar brands) in Austria, Slovenia and Italy. The goal is to continue with new openings in northeastern Italy. There will be 50 employees in Zoppola, all selected from the parent company and trained in outlets abroad.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

French Alps: Austrian Falls to Death on Mont Blanc

An Austrian climber fell some 200 metres (650 feet) to his death Saturday while descending Mont Blanc, Western Europe’s highest mountain, rescurers said.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Hungary Accuses EU and Soros of ‘Muslimising Europe’

EU leaders and Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros are seeking a ‘new, mixed, Muslimized Europe,’ according to Hungary’s anti-migration prime minister.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban said during a visit to Romania on Saturday that Hungary’s border fences, supported by other Central European countries, will block the EU-Soros effort to increase Muslim migration into Europe.

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

Italy: ACS Studying Abertis Counterbid to Stop Atlantia

Italian group made offer in May

(ANSA) — Rome, July 21 — Spanish company ACS said Friday that it was examining a possible counterbid for highway toll company Abertis to stop a takeover by Italy’s Atlantia. The Italian infrastructure company made a 16-billion-euro bid for Abertis in May.

According to a Spanish media report, ACS is working on an offer that could feature German subsidiary Hochtief for the counterbid.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Macron’s Approval Rating Plunges, Only Chirac Was Worse

A Ifop poll released on Sunday showed that the approval rating of France’s new President Emmanuel Macron tumbled by 10 points, hitting 54% in his third month in office, as voters were “either confused by plans for the tax system, shocked by a dispute with the head of the army or unsettled by upcoming labor laws reform”, according to Journal dy Dimanche.

According to Bloomberg calculations, the 10 point slump for Macron, elected in early May, was the second-biggest decline for a French president so soon after election. Jacques Chirac dropped 15 points from his May 1995 election to July, the Paris-based pollster said. The survey for JDD was conducted by phone and online July 17-22 among 1,947 respondents.

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

Norwegian Defense Chief in Classified Report: The Armed Forces Cannot Defend the Country

The report, entitled “Defense Chief Performance and Control Report for 2016”, is marked confidential, and includes the Chief of Defense’s assessment by the end of last year.

According to the report, central parts of the Armed Forces are “poorly manned and of low perseverance” and will therefore collapse in a short time in case of a crisis or war, writes Klassekampen.

The preparedness of the Army, the Air Force, the Home Guard, the Cyber Defense, the Armed Forces and the Armed Forces logistics organization are considered to be “unsatisfactory.”

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Norwegian Army Chief: — We Must Prepare to Fight

— I think we must be prepared to fight, both with words, actions — and if necessary with weapons — to preserve the country and the values we have in common, said Johannessen in a speech to Oslo Military Society on Monday.

He took over as Army Chief last October and was previously head of operations for the Defence Staff in Oslo.

— The Ukraine crisis and the terror in Paris shows that Europe can no longer expect to live in peace and security, without having to defend its interests and values, said Johannessen, who spent much of his speech to emphasize the importance of well-trained and adequately equipped soldiers.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

PET: Denmark’s Biggest Threat is Sweden

The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) has told Danish Radio, DR, that Denmark’s biggest terror threat lies in neighbouring Sweden, The Copenhagen Post reports.

The Swedish intelligence bureau Säpo recently warned that Sweden is harbouring thousands of extremists. In contrast, PET received only 62 reports of radical asylum-seekers in Denmark in 2016, according to a Ministry of Justice email accessed by DR.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Popularity Tumbles for France’s Macron: Poll

PARIS (AFP) — A poll out Sunday shows the popularity rating of France’s new President Emmanuel Macron has slumped 10 points to hit 54 percent over the past month.

While Macron has made a strong start on the world stage and won a solid majority in parliament, his first three months in power have not been completely trouble-free.

He was widely criticised by opponents and the press as heavy-handed after a row over budget cuts that ended with the resignation of a highly-regarded military chief…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Sweden to Ban Alternative Media

By changing the constitution, the Swedish government wants to prohibit websites that reveal the ethnicity of convicted criminals, Fria Tider reports.

It is through a change in the Freedom of the press and the freedom of expression Act that Stefan Löfven and his government want to prohibit popular Swedish sites such as Lexbase and Fria Tider, referring to the fact that they contain “sensitive personal data.” Neither alternative media nor any of the sites are explicitly mentioned in the bill, but the company behind Lexbase, Verifiera AB, is one of the referral bodies.

When the government sent out the first version of the bill to Swedish leftist universities and other referral bodies, it was met with harsh criticism. The government had namely proposed to ban the In 2008, said Major General Robert Mood, that we have a “micro-defense”. In reality politicians and civil servants maneuver us slowly but surely towards a controlled liquidation of the defense. The most serious consequence is that the army, our largest and most important military branch, in the last few years has not been able to act as an effective first line of defense.publication of data revealing “race” — something that is a social construction according to the official ideology in Sweden and other parts of the United States-controlled part of the world.

The Faculty of Law at the Lund University opposes the use of the expression and instead proposes that the wording “concept of race” is to be used. At Uppsala University, the Faculty of Law replies that “race” should be replaced by “ethnic origin, skin color or other similar relationship.”

If the law passes, it could mean an end to the truth coming out of Sweden, and a total victory for fake news, represented by SVT, Expressen, Aftonbladet and other news organizations that are spreading disinformation to keep people from objecting to the ongoing cultural suicide, which will (most likely) eventually end up in a bloody civil war.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Great-Grandfather, 73, With Alzheimer’s Fights for His Life After He Was Tasered by Police for Carrying a Butter Knife

A great-grandfather and Alzheimer’s sufferer was almost killed by police after being tasered for carrying a butter knife.

David Litherland, 73, became agitated after lunch at his nursing home in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.

Staff at The Gables called an ambulance for the father of seven, out of fear the advanced Alzheimer’s sufferer with no history of violence would attack [someone].

But ambulance dispatch then told the police, who deployed the taser with no knowledge of David’s health problems.

[Comment: Good to see the bobbies have their priorities right eh. “Offensive” tweets and elderly people in their dotage must be dealt with first and foremost. Obviously, tracking down known jihadists can wait for another day, when there are no OAPs to hospitalise.]

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Urdu Road Signs Going Up in Bradford and Manchester Causes Outrage

Outrage in Bradford as far right groups vandalise Urdu road signs in Manningham area of Bradford, historically a no-go zone for non-Muslims.

The council installed more than £100,000 worth of Urdu road signage along Oak Lane following a spate of incidents involving drivers who speak no English.

Demands were made of the council by local mosque elders and Bradford’s Grand Mufti, Mohammed Amin al Husseini, as they felt English only road signs were putting Urdu speakers at unnecessary risk.

“It was felt that it was the right time to address pedestrian safety and make sure that our health and safety provisions were fully compliant with EU legislation” said Graeme Pardy, Bradford council’s Head of Planning and Highways Safety following the decision to install the signs.

The pilot run of bi-lingual road signs has proven successful and a larger roll-out of signage across multi-cultural cities and towns across West Yorkshire and the North West has been approved and is expected to be implemented in early 2017 with Dewsbury and Bradford set to receive the majority of the £8 million pound EU grant funding…

           — Hat tip: Ivan Winters [Return to headlines]
 

Israel Detains Hamas Members in Wave of Arrests After Stabbing

The Israeli military has carried out a wave of West Bank arrests following a deadly stabbing attack against an Israeli family.

Forces arrested 29 people, including nine members of the Hamas militant group, forces said.

A 20-year-old Palestinian assailant infiltrated the settlement of Halamish late on Friday surprising a family during their Sabbath dinner.

He stabbed to death Yosef Salomon and his adult children, Chaya and Elad. A neighbour, an off-duty soldier, heard the screams, rushed to the home and opened fire, wounding the attacker.

Israel fortified its troops in the West Bank and placed forces on high alert after the attack.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Assange: ‘CIA Not Only Armed Syria’s Insurgents — It Paid Their Salaries’

Assange said they “buried the lede”

Wikileaks’ Julian Assange is continuing his attempt to “take down America any way he can” by accurately reporting the truth.

Saturday on Twitter, Assange highlighted an article from Thursday where the Financial Times noted how many Syrian rebels are getting salaries from the CIA.

Assange said they “buried the lede”:

RELATED: Washington Post Says Trump Is Treasonous For Stopping ISIS Funding

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Don’t Interfere in Turkish Affairs, Erdogan Tells Germany

ISTANBUL (AFP) — Germany has no right to interfere in Turkey’s domestic affairs, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, his latest broadside in a blistering row sparked by the waves of arrests under the current state of emergency.

Several German nationals are among those being held and Berlin has warned its citizens that their safety cannot be guaranteed in Turkey and that consular access is not assured in case of arrest.

Throwing away any pretence at diplomatic nuance, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel had Thursday also warned German firms against investment in Turkey and spoke of an “overhaul” of the entire relationship…

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How ISIS Lost Its Chance at a Dirty Bomb

The Islamic State came dangerously close to obtaining a radioactive dirty bomb, in fact the ingredients were readily available to the group for more than three years, but an apparent lack of knowledge or know-how prevented a disaster.

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‘I Just Want to Go Home, ‘ Says German Teen Who Joined ISIS

A German teenager who joined Islamic State is now being held in detention in Iraq and says she regrets joining the jihadist group and just wants to come home to her family, media reported today.

Der Spiegel magazine reported on Saturday that four German women who joined Islamic State in recent years, including a 16-year-old girl from the small town of Pulsnitz near Dresden, are being held in an Iraqi prison and receiving consular assistance.

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Iraqi Kurds Schedule Independence Referendum for September

In September, Iraqi Kurds have scheduled an independence referendum. NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group about the prospects for Kurdish independence.

[Comment: This article was published on July 21, 2017.]

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Turkey Re-Arrests Activists in Amnesty Case Involving German, Swedish Citizens: Group

Turkish security forces have re-arrested two activists previously detained but then released in a controversial case that has raised tensions with the west, Amnesty International said on Saturday.

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Record-Breaking ‘Despacito’ Banned in Malaysia as “Obscene”

The global his is deemed contrary to the morals and principles of the Muslim majority nation. State Tv and state radio cannot broadcast it. Private outlets are urged not to play it. For Communications Minister, entertainment should spoil people but make them better.

Kuala Lumpur (AsiaNews) — Malaysia has banned a highly popular song, ‘Despacito’, because it deems it obscene and unIslamic.

The ban applies only to government-run radio and TV outlets, not to private stations or the music streaming services hat have fuelled its success. Nevertheless, private broadcasters have bene urged not to play the song because of its lewd lyrics.

Malaysian Communications Minister Salleh Said Keruak said late Wednesday the song was reviewed and banned from public broadcasters. He urged private radio stations to censor the song themselves out of sensitivity to local culture.

Amanah, an Islamic party had filed a complaint against the song and called for its ban in Malaysia as many children were singing the song without understanding the words.

“We respect the right to be entertained but there should be clearer guidelines so that the entertainment does not spoil people but makes them better,” party official Atriza Umar told The Star newspaper.

The Spanish-language song — whose title means “slowly” — is erotically charged. It exalts the Latin macho man who seeks to conquer the desired woman. This led authorities to ban the song in the mostly Muslim nation, scene of anti-Christian persecution in the past.

The original by Puerto Rican artists Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee and a remix featuring Justin Bieber together reached 4.38 billion plays across streaming platforms, and is expected to overtake ‘See you again’ by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth. As the soundtrack of Fast and Furious, the latter counts 2.9 billion views breaking the record of South Korean PSY’s ‘Gangnam style’.

In Malaysia, a nation of over 28 million, Muslims are the majority (60 per cent). Christians are the third largest group after Buddhists with more than 2.6 million members. In the capital Kuala Lumpur, there are 180,000 Catholics out of a population of 11 million.

The community plays an important role but has also been the subject of attacks and violence, often triggered by the controversy over the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims. (DS)

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‘Sharia Law Opponents Are Bigots’: Muslim Psychologist Calls for Australia to Introduce Special Laws for Followers of Islam

A Muslim psychologist with a practice in Sydney’s west says opponents of Sharia law are bigots. Hanan Dover says Australia needs to allow special laws for Muslims.

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‘These Are Ridiculous Measures’: Islam Extremist Group Hizb ut-Tahrir Accuses Australian Government of Giving Police the Power to Kill Muslims With New Anti-Terror Super Department

Hamzah Qureshi, a leader of Islamist extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, says new Home Affairs super department combining security agencies will give police the power to kill Muslims.

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Venezuela Will be the First Sovereign Oil Producer to See an “All-Out Collapse”

Venezuela’s anti-government protests are growing increasingly violent, with the death toll from clashes between protesters and government forces that began in May topping 100. Despite the country’s increasing political instability, and US President Donald Trump’s half-serious threats of an invasion, President Nicolas Maduro has decided to press ahead with his vote to create a rubberstamp constituent assembly that will allow him to amend the country’s constitution.

With the country’s finances looking ever more precarious, Bloomberg warns that that this decision could bring about the first collapse of a sovereign oil producer. Venezuela has the largest natural oil reserves of any country on Earth, yet the decline in oil prices that began in 2014, coupled with years of economic mismanagement, have been enough to bring the country’s economy to its knees.

“We may be about to see the first sovereign producer to unequivocally fail. The oil producer in question is Venezuela, and that assessment comes courtesy of Helima Croft, who is global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets and formerly worked with both the Council on Foreign Relations and the CIA. In a global oil market mired in excess inventory and low expectations, Venezuela is the most tangible of wildcards. Its tragic and volatile mix of a failing, oil-dependent economy, political gridlock and simmering unrest is well known at this point.But things are building to a head, partly due to the relentless logic of the bond market and partly due to the more proprietary logic of U.S. foreign policy.”

While many oil dependent nations are working to diversify or ride out low oil prices in other ways, it seems unlikely that the crisis in Venezuela will be reversed anytime soon.

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Bavarian President: ‘We All Know the Migration Wave Will Continue’

The Minister-President of Bavaria has said he expects the migrant crisis to continue and demanded Chancellor Angela Merkel do more to tackle it.

Horst Lorenz Seehofer is Chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU), who are currently part of the coalition government led by Chancellor Merkel.

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Death Toll Rises to 10 in ‘Horrific’ Human Trafficking Case in San Antonio

Two more immigrants who were found in critical condition inside a tractor-trailer at a Walmart parking lot early Sunday have died, officials confirmed.

That brings the death toll to 10, making it the second deadliest case of human trafficking via cargo trailer since at least 2003. Eight immigrants were found dead inside the closed trailer just after midnight Saturday. Thirty others, the only ones left of the more than 100 who started the trip, were taken to area hospitals, many in serious to critical condition due to the heat.

The driver of the vehicle, 60-year-old James M. Bradley Jr. of Florida, was booked into a federal jail in San Antonio on Sunday morning for his alleged role in what U.S. Attorney Richard Durbin called “an alien smuggling venture gone horribly wrong.”

The truck was parked at a back corner of the Walmart parking lot at 8538 S. Interstate 35 and Texas 16 on the Southwest Side at least since Saturday evening. The eight immigrants are believed to have died as a result of heat exposure/asphyxiation, according to a San Antonio Police Department news release, but an official cause of death will be determined by the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office. No names or ages have been released of any of the 10 victims.

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German Elections — Angela Merkel Attacked Over Refugee Open Door Policy by Martin Schulz

MARTIN SCHULZ has taken a furious swipe at Angela Merkel over her ill-fated open door refugee policy as he bids to take her job as Chancellor of Germany in the upcoming elections.

The Social Democratic Party leader said Germany needs to take action now to prevent a re-run of 2015 when 890,000 migrants arrived in the country after Mrs Merkel opened the borders.

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Immigration Attorney, Pakistani National Indicted for Alleged Marriage Fraud

A Dallas, Texas, immigration attorney and his Pakistani national assistant were indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly scheming to commit marriage fraud.

Bilal Ahmed Khaleeq, 47, and Amna Cheema, a 37-year-old Pakistani national, were charged with one count each for conspiracy to commit marriage fraud after they allegedly schemed to make Cheema a permanent United States resident.

“Immigration attorneys risk severe consequences when they choose to illegally profit by breaking U.S. immigration laws rather than building a profession on following those laws,” Special Agent Katrina W. Berger said in a statement.

The indictment alleges that Khaleeq solicited a naturalized U.S. citizen from India to marry the Pakistani national to get permanent residence in the U.S. The person solicited by Khaleeq to marry Cheema was allegedly given $745 for his part in the marriage scheme and was promised by Khaleeq to be paid more when and if Cheema was granted U.S. permanent residency.

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Invasion-21: UN Document Plans People Replacement War Against West

Globalist agenda to overthrow Western society exposed.

A United Nations document from 2000 exposes “The Great People Replacement” as their final solution.

Offered as a solution for the unsustainable entitlement states of Europe, it is now being implemented by the EU superstate as “refugee quotas.” But it’s not about responding to unforeseen tragedies and wars that create refugees.

David Knight breaks down the UN’s plan for a 21st Century invasion and subjugation of the West.

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Lampedusa Mayor Compares Austrian Foreign Minister to “Neo Nazi” Over Migrant Comments

Mayor of Lampedusa Salvatore Martello has likened Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz to a “neo-Nazi” after Kurz suggested that migrants should be kept on Italian islands rather than allowed to move north.

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Sweden Hiring Clowns to Help Muslims Integrate

(Frontpage) If some of the things that are being done in Sweden today weren’ t demonstrably true, they’ d be unbelievable. If they weren’t so idiotically tragic, they’ d be brilliantly funny.

What follows is not a joke. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and his crew have come up with a great new way to improve integration.

One word: clowns.

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Walmart Migrant Lorry — Police Find Eight Dead in San Antonio Trailer

EIGHT people were found dead inside a sweltering 18-wheeler trailer parked behind a Walmart store in San Antonio, Texas, early on Sunday, authorities said.

Another 30 people, many suffering from heat stoke and exhaustion, were with the bodies in the trailer, which lacked air conditioning or a water supply, San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said.

Police suspect those in the lorry were illegal immigrants who had just arrived in America.

The truck’s driver was arrested and will be charged, said Richard Durbin, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, and prosecutors will work to identify others responsible.

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Delingpole: Bill Nye ‘The Old People Must Die to Save the Planet Guy’

Bill Nye has a new nickname. It’s not as snappy as his old one, “the Science Guy,” but it’s a lot more accurate. Nye wants all the old people to die, preferably sooner rather than later, because they stand in the way of his holy mission to save the planet from climate change.

He told the LA Times:…

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If America Does Not Turn Back to God, There Isn’t Going to be an America

I know that politicians aren’ t supposed to talk like this, but I don’ t care. I am not a politician and I never will be. And I am not running for Congress because I want a career in politics. We have enough career politicians right now, and so we definitely don’ t need another one. So I am not going to carefully craft a message that I think that the voters want to hear. Instead, I am just going to tell the truth, and I believe that people all over America are going to stand with me. And the truth is that if America does not turn back to God, there isn’ t going to be an America.

Since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, close to 60 million American children have been murdered by the abortion industry.

The blood of 60 million children is crying out from the ground against us, and if we continue to slaughter children on an industrial scale there will be absolutely no future for our nation.

So no, I don’ t plan to tone down my message. I have been urged to compromise on my message in order to attract more voters, and that is how it always starts. Politicians start making compromise after compromise, and after a while they become spineless jellyfish that don’ t really stand for anything.

Just look at what has been happening in Congress. We gave the Republicans control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives and Planned Parenthood has still not been defunded. Earlier this year the Democrats threatened to shut down the government, and the spineless Republicans gave them virtually everything that they wanted — including full funding for Planned Parenthood for the rest of the fiscal year.

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Minnesota Schools Adopt Transgender Toolkit for Kindergartners

Teachers told to ask children their ‘preferred pronouns’

A “transgender toolkit” for public schools in Minnesota advises teachers to call children “scholars” instead of boys and girls.

The guidelines were approved Wednesday by the “School Safety Technical Assistance Council” and will be distributed to Kindergarten through 12th grade public schools and charter schools throughout the state. The toolkit attempts to “ensure a safe and supportive transition” for children becoming a different gender at school.

The toolkit allows for boys who identify as girls to use the girls’ bathroom, and tells teachers to ask kids what their “preferred pronouns” are.

The Minnesota Department of Education encourages parents to have “acceptance and support of their child’s gender identity” if they want their child to perform well at school.

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Southern Poverty Defends Its Attacks on Christians

The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been in the spotlight recently for its practice of designating conservative non-profits as “hate groups,” has gone on defense.

Richard Cohen, the president of SPLC, which has been linked to a domestic terror attack, wrote in a Huffington Post commentary that Christians deserve the designation because they “sow the seeds of hate.”

For adhering to a biblical perspective on homosexuality, for one thing.

The Family Research Council, wrote Cohen, has a “long track record of using dehumanizing language and outright lies to portray LGBT people as sick, evil, and a danger to children and society. As stated on its website, it opposes the acceptance of homosexuality ‘ in the law, in the media, and in the schools.’“

He also renewed his group’s attacks on the conservative Center for Immigration Studies.

“It’s a group whose immigration agenda is colored by ethnic bias,” he claimed.

SPLC’s defense of its activities comes on the heels of a lawsuit against the charity-monitoring organization GuideStar over its use of SPLC’s “hate” designations.

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11 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/23/2017

  1. On popularity tumbles for France’s Macron. Buyers remorse of a simple recognition that things are going to become a lot worse?

  2. Swedish clowns to help with muslim integration? Ach well.

    I say it again – “communicating” is a feminine virtue, and the way a natural woman would go about de-radicalising any man would be through “communication”. Clowns, slogans, shaming tactics, treats, and so on…

    What feminine societies like Sweden forget is the “male principle”, which is to do what is necessary.

    I bet the swedish lady-clowns are honest in their endeavour, they really believe that “violence is not an answer”.

    That is because – “violence is not an answer for the feminine gender”.

    It is quite an answer when males take it to action, though.

    The swedish clown ladies have no idea about the depth of misguided altruism they been led into.

  3. .

    Criminal Psychopaths Run The Government…
    Let’s Give Them More Power!!!

    We all know that the criminal psychopaths who populate the government will stop at nothing to achieve their sadistic ends. But you’ve gotta vote for someone, right? So why not vote for the criminal psychopath that promises you free healthcare? Or maybe the criminal psychopath that promises to keep you safe from the big, bad turban-wearing (Gladio-sponsored) boogeymen? Anyway, I’m sure it’ll all work out…

    https://youtu.be/dLFjgk4tVcY

    https://www.corbettreport.com/

  4. The Minnesota Department of Education encourages parents to have “acceptance and support of their child’s gender identity” if they want their child to perform well at school.

    I hope a parent challenges this in court. This is all part and parcel of the Global Ethic agenda, sponsored by the UN and many supra-national organisations, especially the evil NGOs to deconstruct the traditional values of the West – and also to convert the Third World where the multi-million dollar NGOs operate.

    I’ve never read a better explanation of this than Marguerite Peeters..

    http://www.faith.org.uk/article/november-december-2007-post-modern-globalisation-a-portrait

    She is fighting it tooth and nail and I suggest we ought to join her. Time is running out.

  5. Israel Detains Hamas Members in Wave of Arrests After Stabbing

    What Israel ought to do is round up the German-funded and Soros-funded NGOs fanning hatred for Israel among the Arabs. They are a fifth column doing the UN’s dirty work.

    Read Tennenbom – http://www.catchthejew.net/ All his books are a real eye-opener!

  6. By changing the constitution, the Swedish government wants to prohibit websites that reveal the ethnicity of convicted criminals

    More PC insanity in the land that only made bestiality illegal in 2014.

    “Some of us like girls, others boys, some like cows.”

    What more needs to be said?

  7. The officer who fatally shot Justine Damond graduated in 2015 from the city’s accelerated police cadet program.

    This is the land of the Swedes and Germans -so that explains almost everything. The Lutheran Church brings in ship loads of Somalis, kindergarteners are now able to choose their gender pronouns and the culture is about personal choice without reference to natural law.

    Merkel would fit in here perfectly!

    Of course today the Somali community is warning us not to judge all Somalis by one police officer. But no-one dares to mention PC hiring protocols which were the direct cause of the woman’s murder.

    The truth is VERBOTEN and VORBJUDEN!

  8. so softly courting a girl with in a song is un-islamic – so what then is islamic : Raping ?

  9. The story about roadsigns in Bradford is satire or fake news of a “hateful, hate-filled agenda”, according to some tweet in the admittedly uber-pc Metro.
    http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/19/people-actually-thought-this-road-sign-exists-5892289/
    Although thanks to the craven appeasement and hubris of the political and media elites in the UK these days, all too believable, at first glance anyway.
    Such is the state of play, tales like ‘the Lancaster Plan’ appear to be more descriptive than satirical.
    http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=184244/sec_id/184244

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