Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/16/2017

An 18-year-old immigrant man has been arrested in Dover in connection with yesterday’s bucket bomb attack on the London Underground. The explosive used in the bomb, which failed to detonate properly, was reportedly the extremely volatile ISIS signature chemical TATP, also known as “Mother of Satan”.

In other news, BLM protesters surrounded the house of the mayor of St. Louis and threw rocks, breaking windows. The protesters were reportedly angry because a white police officer had been acquitted of murder in the shooting of a black man.

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Financial Crisis
» Big Banks Want to Destroy Bitcoin Before it Destroys Them
» Equifax Sacks 2 Executives, Turns Devious to Stop You From Demanding a Credit Freeze
 
USA
» Americanized’ Kids Riled Dad; Matricide Suspected
» Another Coverup? Equifax Accused of Scrubbing That Its Chief Security Officer Was a Music Major
» Antifa Claims They Have to Beat up Americans
» Antifa Leader/Professor: It’s a Privilege to Teach Future Dead Cops
» Apple’s New “FaceID” Could be a Powerful Mass Spying Tool
» BLM Protestors Attack St. Louis Mayor’s House
» BLM Rioters Have Surrounded St. Louis Mayor’s Home…They’re Breaking Out Her Windows [Video]
» Breaking! Journalist Breaks Down the New “Big Brother”
» CIA Whistleblower: “The Shadow Government Controls the Deep State and Manipulates Our Elected Government Behind the Scenes”
» City Officials Fear Antifa Violence at Confederate Monument Rally
» Congressman Chats With WH About Assange
» Counter-Protesters Converge at Confederate Statue Rally in Richmond, Virginia
» Google Sued by Gab Over Play Store Booting
» Honor Killing: Michigan Muslim Teen Accused of Throwing His Mom From Window… Dad Feared Kids Were Being ‘Americanized’ By Mom
» Islamists, Leftists, Gang Up Against ‘Muslim Mafia’ Investigators
» Michigan Teacher Accused of Assault for Trying to Make Student Stand for Pledge of Allegiance [Video]
» Professor Who Tweeted About ‘Dead Cops’ Suspended
» Professor Who Mocked Cop Deaths Placed on Leave
» St. Louis Protests Manifestation of Hegelian Dialectic
» Stop the Birth of Hatred in These United States
» The Angry Left Attacks Trump for Letting 11-Year Old Mow White House Lawn [Video]
» The Communist Origins of the Antifa Extremist Group
» Video Captures Angry St. Louis Protesters Turning on Media… TV Reporter Calls Unprovoked Attack: “The Scariest Moment of My Career”
 
Europe and the EU
» Catalonia Referendum: Separatists Rally Around Mayors in Barcelona
» Geert Wilders: “In My Opinion, Islam is Not a Religion”
» Hungary Asks Citizens for Advice on How to Take Down George Soros
» Italy: Soccer: 2.5-Year-Ban Requested for Juve President Agnelli
» Italy: Chikungunya Creating Major Blood Emergency — CNS
» Italy: Renzi Says CONSIP Dirt Will Rebound on Mudslingers
» Jihadism: The Fear That Dare Not Speak Its Name
» Julian Assange Supports Bitcoin as Ways to Free Catalonia From Spain’s Dictate
» London Mayor Sadiq Khan Tells Public ‘Get Used to’ Islamic Attacks
» London Attack Used ISIS Signature
» ‘Not a Crime But War’: Terrorists Must be Tried by Military Courts, Believes Le Pen
» Pedophile Furore Wrecks Iceland Coalition
» Police in Catalonia Hunt for Hidden Ballot Boxes in Bid to Foil Referendum
» Questions Raised Over the Details of Sweden’s ‘Man-Free’ Music Festival
» Sweden: Chickens Run for it: 1,000 Birds Escape Truck Without the Driver Noticing
» Swedish Politician: ‘I Was Raped at Knifepoint’
» Telegraaf Interview Geert Wilders — in My Opinion Islam is Not a Religion
» The Thought Police Strike Again
» Two Women Are Injured After Man Shouting Allahu Akbar Attacks Them With a Hammer in France
» UK Officials Focus on Trump’s Tweets More Than Terror
» UK: 18-Year-Old Man Arrested Over London Subway Bombing
» UK: The Miracle of Parsons Green: Schoolchildren and Commuters Escape Death as Bucket Bomb on Train Fails to Full Explode
» Vatican Probes Diplomat in U.S. Over Child Porn Case
» Vatican Recalls Washington Diplomat Amid Child Pornography Investigation
» Video: Idiots React to London Underground Attack
» Why Austria’s ‘Wonder Boy’ Sebastian Kurz is on Course to Win Election
 
North Africa
» Italian Mission at Southern Libyan Border
 
Middle East
» Syrian ‘De-Escalation Zones’ Created for 6 Months
» Syrian Journalist Wipes the Floor With Turkey’s Former President During Eurasian Media Forum
 
Russia
» Gorbachev’s Reforms and a Failed Ideology
 
South Asia
» The Rohingya Refugee Crisis and the Disconnect From Objectivity
 
Far East
» Despite Claims of Reform, China’s Organ Transplant System Poses Concerns
» Mike Pompeo: North Korea Likely to Sell Nuclear Technology to Other States
» New Poll Shows US Majority Backs Military Action Against North Korea
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘It’s a Bloody Joke!’: Farmer Threatens Knife-Wielding Trespasser With a Rifle and Turns Him in to Local Police, Only to Have Officers Come Back the Next Day and Seize All of His Guns
» Violent New Muslim Street Gang Named 269 on the Rise in Australia After Converting to Islam Behind Bars
 
Latin America
» At Least 5 Canadian Diplomats and Families Hit by Mysterious ‘Sound Attacks’ In Cuba, Source Says
 
Immigration
» 90 Percent of Asylum Seekers in Austria End Up on Welfare
» Are Americans Really Abandoning Donald Trump?
» DACA Supporters Linked to Communists, Jihadists
» Germany: Asylum Seekers Confessing Membership of Terror Groups Continue to Rise
» Sweden’s New Instability
» Trump Administration Limits Visas for Countries That Don’t Accept Their Deportees
 
Culture Wars
» Army Punishes Officer Who Halted Lesbians’ Public ‘Make-Out’
» Empires End in the Dustbin of History
» Sweden ‘Man-Free’ Festival Comes Under Fire
» The Root of Identity Politics
 
General
» How Women Are Treated by Islam
 

Big Banks Want to Destroy Bitcoin Before it Destroys Them

It seems as if the talk of “the people’s currency” has started to sting the ears of those who traditionally have a monopoly of money, banks and governments.

Recent negative statements by big banks, and governmental crackdown on digital currencies and ICOs can be seen as fightbacks by these institutions to the growing popularity of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin always has had the potential to be a new currency free of control by big banks and governments, but as adoption has spread, the threat has become real.

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

Equifax Sacks 2 Executives, Turns Devious to Stop You From Demanding a Credit Freeze

Now heads are rolling. Oh no, not CEO Richard Smith. He is not leaving the company to spend more time with his family. Instead, Equifax announced Friday evening that it sacked two lower level executives. I mean, not sacked. Chief information officer, David Webb, and chief security officer, Susan Mauldin, “are retiring,” it said, “effective immediately.”

And they had it coming.

Much was made of Mauldin’s degrees in music. But for a person her age, and with as much corporate experience as she had, college is irrelevant. Gates, Jobs, and Zuckerberg didn’t even graduate from college. What matters is how they perform their work.

And they failed to patch a vulnerability in Apache Struts, an open-source and therefore free software. The vulnerability had been “identified in early March” but wasn’t patched. The hack occurred from May 13 through July 30, 2017.

According to Equifax Friday evening:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Americanized’ Kids Riled Dad; Matricide Suspected

Nada Huranieh’s death was initially seen as an accidental fall, but investigators determined she had been murdered

Farmington Hills — Nada Huranieh’s death was initially seen as an accidental fall, but investigators soon determined the 35-year-old fitness trainer had been murdered — and that her 16-year-old son was the alleged culprit.

Authorities remain tight-lipped about their investigation into Huranieh’s death, but court records shed some light on her family’s sometimes troubled existence behind the walls of their mansion off a quiet dirt road in southern Oakland County.

Huranieh, 35, died Aug. 21 from injuries suffered in a fall from a second-floor window of the seven-bedroom home on Howard Road in Farmington Hills. Authorities said she was found on her patio by her 14-year-old daughter, who called police to report Huranieh was not breathing.

The death was ruled a homicide following an autopsy, and her son, Muhammad Altantawi, is charged as an adult with second-degree murder. He is being held in Oakland County Children’s Village without bond.

During a pre-exam conference Friday, Judge Marla Parker of 47th District Court scheduled a preliminary hearing for Nov. 17, when she will decide whether Altantawi will be tried in his mother’s death.

The teenager, from all accounts, is a good student without any prior legal trouble. If found guilty of killing his mother, he could be sentenced to life in prison.

“My client has expressed his innocence and said he had nothing to do with his mother’s death and is looking forward to being cleared in the legal process,” said the teen’s attorney, David J. Kramer, who declined further comment…

           — Hat tip: Vlad Tepes [Return to headlines]
 

Another Coverup? Equifax Accused of Scrubbing That Its Chief Security Officer Was a Music Major

Update: And… she’s gone: EQUIFAX SAYS CIO AND CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER ARE RETIRING

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One week after what may be the biggest security leak in US history, when Equifax belatedly admitted that hackers had made off with over 143 million private data profiles, sending the company’s stock 37% lower in the past week…

[…]leading to a massive scandal which will go through at least one round of Congressional hearings in which company CEO Richard Smith will have to explain why the company waited for weeks before making this unprecedented data breach public (a breach which came due to a vulnerability the company was aware of and should have patched months prior) and will likely culminate with prison time for one or more company executives, questions have emerged if Equifax was involved in another cover up, this time involving the background of its Chief Security Officer.

Meet Susan Mauldin, the Equifax Chief Information Security Officer, and the person who was responsible for keeping the highly confidential and secret information of over 100 million Americans well… highly confidential and secret.

Mauldin has been with Equifax as CSO / CISO since 2013. She was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at First Data Corporation, until July 2013. Mauldin was also SunTrust Banks’ Group Vice President from 2007 to 2009.

So far so good, but a problem emerges: according to LinkedIn, Mauldin’s stated educational background has no security or technology credentials, and consists of… a bachelor’s degree in music composition (magna cum laude) and a Master of Fine Arts degree in music composition (summa cum laude), both from the University of Georgia. Once again, this is the person who was in charge of keeping your personal and financial data safe — and whose failure to do that have put 143 million at risk from identity theft and fraud.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Antifa Claims They Have to Beat up Americans

The violent leftists feel vindicated in their use of violence

Antifa claims that the fascist, Nazi system is against them. Thus, it is their right to use violence to get their point across to the hate groups they supposedly target. But anybody that has been confronted by Antifa knows full well that Antifa’s real enemy is the average American citizen.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Antifa Leader/Professor: It’s a Privilege to Teach Future Dead Cops

The Communist professor believes violence is necessary for progress

Mike Isaacson is a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, but he is also an Antifa leader who is proud that the students he is teaching will end up being “dead cops.”

Some of y’all might think it sucks being an anti-fascist teaching at John Jay College but I think it’s a privilege to teach future dead cops

— Mike Isaacson (@VulgarEconomics) August 23, 2017

In a recent interview with The Hill, Isaacson went in to detail about his pro-violence stance on “anti-fascism.”

“The justification is that Nazi ideology at its very core is founded on violence and on wielding power by any means. There is the question of whether these people should feel safe organizing as Nazis in public, and I don’t think they should,” he said.

Isaacson continued, “I don’t think anyone should think that someone who is intent on politically organizing for the sake of creating a state-sponsored genocide — I don’t think is something that we should protect.”

Far Left Watch also points out that he compared Antifa thugs to soldiers fighting for freedom overseas and said that anyone who disagrees with Communism is a fascist.

Isaacson made an appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Thursday to defend his extreme views.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Apple’s New “FaceID” Could be a Powerful Mass Spying Tool

On Tuesday, Apple revealed their newest phone. The new line was anticipated by Apple users and is another cult favorite. But many are rightly skeptical of the “FaceID” feature.

FaceID, is a tool that would use facial recognition to identify individuals and unlock their phones for use. Unsurprisingly, this has generated some major anxiety about mass spying and privacy concerns. Retailers already have a desire for facial recognition technology. They want to monitor consumers, and without legally binding terms and Apple could use FaceID to track consumer patterns at its stores or develop and sell data to others.

That seems minor on the surface, but the ramifications could be enormous. It’ s also highly possible that police would be able to more easily unlock phones without consent by simply holding an individual’s phone up to his or her face, violating the rights of the person to privacy.

But FaceID should create fear about another form of government surveillance too. And this one is a rights violation of every person on earth: mass scans to identify individuals based on face profiles. Law enforcement is rapidly increasing their use of facial recognition; one in two American adults are already enrolled in a law enforcement facial recognition network, and at least one in four police departments has the capability to run face recognition searches. This could make Apple the target for a new mass surveillance order.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

BLM Protestors Attack St. Louis Mayor’s House

Black Lives Matter protesters converged upon St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s house, hurling rocks and breaking windows on Friday night.

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

BLM Rioters Have Surrounded St. Louis Mayor’s Home…They’re Breaking Out Her Windows [Video]

St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson had the opportunity to call for peaceful protests in her city after the former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley was exonerated of murder in a court of law, but instead, she decided to stir the pot by suggesting that justice was not served, potentially leading angry protesters to believe it is now their responsibility to deliver justice.

Is karma knocking on her door?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Breaking! Journalist Breaks Down the New “Big Brother”

The government is using new technologies to track everyone

Investigative journalist Lee Stranahan breaks down new emails that are emerging about the dirty Clintons, as he shows how the FBI is working with Crowdstrike.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CIA Whistleblower: “The Shadow Government Controls the Deep State and Manipulates Our Elected Government Behind the Scenes”

A CIA whistleblower, Kevin Shipp, has emerged from the wolves den to expose the deep state and the shadow government which he calls two entirely separate entities.

“The shadow government controls the deep state and manipulates our elected government behind the scenes,” Shipp warned in a recent talk at a Geoengineeringwatch.org conference.

Shipp had a series of slides explaining how the deep state and shadow government functions as well as the horrific crimes they are committing against U.S. citizens.

Some of the revelations the former CIA anti-terrorism counter intelligence officer revealed included that “Google Earth was set up through the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and InQtel.” Indeed he is correct, the CIA and NGA owned the company Google acquired, Keyhole Inc., paying an undisclosed sum for the company to turn its tech into what we now know as Google Earth. Another curious investor in Keyhole Inc. was none other than the venture capital firm In-Q-Tel run by the CIA according to a press release at the time.

Shipp also disclosed that the agency known as the Joint Special Ops Command (JSOC) is the “president’s secret army” which he can use for secret assassinations, overturning governments and things the American people don’t know about.

FBI warrantless searches violate the Fourth Amendment with national security letters, which Shipp noted enables them to walk into your employer’s office and demand all your financial records and if he or she says anything about them being there they can put your supervisor in jail or drop a case against themselves using the “State’s Secret Privilege law.”

“The top of the shadow government is the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency,” Shipp said.

Shipp expressed that the CIA was created through the Council on Foreign relations with no congressional approval, and historically the CFR is also tied into the mainstream media (MSM.) He elaborated that the CIA was the “central node” of the shadow government and controlled all of other 16 intelligence agencies despite the existence of the DNI. The agency also controls defense and intelligence contractors, can manipulate the president and political decisions, has the power to start wars, torture, initiate coups, and commit false flag attacks he said.

As Shipp stated, the CIA was created through executive order by then President Harry Truman by the signing of the National Security Act of 1947.

According to Shipp, the deep state is comprised of the military industrial complex, intelligence contractors, defense contractors, MIC lobbyist, Wall St (offshore accounts), Federal Reserve, IMF/World Bank, Treasury, Foreign lobbyists, and Central Banks.

In the shocking, explosive presentation, Shipp went on to express that there are “over 10,000 secret sites in the U.S.” that formed after 9/11. There are “1,291 secret government agencies, 1,931 large private corporations and over 4,800,000 Americans that he knows of who have a secrecy clearance, and 854,000 who have Top Secret clearance, explaining they signed their lives away bound by an agreement.

He also detailed how Congress is owned by the Military Industrial Complex through the Congressional Armed Services Committee (48 senior members of Congress) giving those members money in return for a vote on the spending bill for the military and intelligence budget.

He even touched on what he called the “secret intelligence industrial complex,” which he called the center of the shadow government including the CIA, NSA, NRO, and NGA.

Shipp further stated that around the “secret intelligence industrial complex” you have the big five conglomerate of intelligence contractors — Leidos Holdings, CSRA, CACI, SAIC, and Booz Allen Hamilton. He noted that the work they do is “top secret and unreported.”

The whistleblower remarked that these intelligence contractors are accountable to no one including Congress, echoing the words of Senator Daniel Inouye when he himself blew the whistle on the shadow government during the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987.

At the time Inouye expressed that the “shadow government had its own funding mechanism, shadowy Navy, and Air Force freedom to pursue its own goals free from all checks and balances and free from the law itself.”…

Is this the beginning of whistleblowers coming forward to end the shadow government and deep state? You can watch Shipp’s full explosive presentation below.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

City Officials Fear Antifa Violence at Confederate Monument Rally

‘I’m really concerned about the actions of the Antifa group… They beat people with bats’

City officials in Richmond, Virginia, admit violence from left-wing “anti-fascists” counterprotesters is their biggest concern at a pro-Confederate monument rally taking place Saturday.

Speaking to a neighborhood organization Tuesday, Councilwoman Kim Gray stated she was worried the violent alt-left group of anarchists known as “Antifa” could harm innocent citizens.

“I’m really concerned about the actions of the Antifa group,” Grey claimed, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Grey went on to describe the violence Antifa has carried out in the past.

“They beat people with bats,” she pointed out, adding residents should think twice before joining the protests. “This is why we are urging people to stay home and not travel outside.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Congressman Chats With WH About Assange

California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher spoke to White House chief of staff John Kelly Wednesday about a potential deal with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in exchange for info that exonerates Russia of hacking allegations, according to a Friday report from The Wall Street Journal.

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

Counter-Protesters Converge at Confederate Statue Rally in Richmond, Virginia

RICHMOND, Va. (CBSNews) — Protesters defending Confederate statues surrounded a monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, Saturday (Sept. 16), but counter-protesters far outnumbered them, forming a crowd of several hundred people, CBS News’ Paula Reid reports.

Organizers planned the “Heritage not Hate” rally to urge the city to keep Lee’s statue where it stands. Richmond is reevaluating the monument after the violent white nationalist rally in nearby Charlottesville last month that began as a rally to protest the removal of a Confederate statute. That day’s deadly events still weigh heavily on the minds of the state’s residents. On Saturday, a “Richmond Stands United” Rally countered the pro-Lee Rally by a statue recently dedicated to Maggie Walker, the daughter of a slave who became a newspaper publisher and founder of a bank.

The police presence was heavy Saturday morning, Reid reports, contrasting sharply with the law enforcement response in Charlottesville. Authorities closed down streets and blocked them off with dump trucks to prevent a repeat of Charlottesville, when a suspect rammed a car into a crowd of counter-protesters and killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

The Richmond rally began peacefully, with chants and name-calling, but no visible altercations, according to Reid. Some protesters toted guns in the open, as Virginia is an open-carry state. As of 11:32 a.m., there were no arrests, although one person was removed from the scene, according to the Richmond Police Department. The protesters don’t have a permit…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Google Sued by Gab Over Play Store Booting

‘Free speech’ Twitter alternative alleges antitrust foul

A social network that fancies itself a “free speech” competitor to Twitter is suing Google after its app was removed from the Play Store.

Gab — a recently launched social network that says it is “focused on free speech that would provide a platform for conservatives in the West and dissidents globally” and has become a favored landing spot for right-wing personalities who were booted from Twitter — accuses the Mountain View advertising giant of violating both the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts by removing its mobile app from the Play store for hate speech violations.

Apple, which is not named in the suit, also pulled the Gab app from the iOS App Store, alleging content on the site violated its terms and conditions.

The suit [PDF], filed Thursday in the US District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania, claims that when Google suspended the Gab app from the Play Store, it effectively shut out Gab from any access to Android. This, the suit claims, is because the Play Store has become the only trusted source for Android apps on the market.

Therefore, Gab says, Google had used its control over the market to shut the Gab app out of the market. Gab’s lawyers say this is not because the app was in violation of the Play Store T&Cs, but rather because a conservative social network posed a threat to Google and its partners.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Honor Killing: Michigan Muslim Teen Accused of Throwing His Mom From Window… Dad Feared Kids Were Being ‘Americanized’ By Mom

This is a huge local story in our area but you hear NOTHING on the national news about a Muslim teen who murdered his mom by throwing her from the second story window of their home. We’re shocked that the local news went into detail on this because it’s usually swept under the rug because they are Muslim.

They’re calling it ‘matricide’ and we’re calling it an honor killing by the son of a man who never assimilated to American culture after being here since 1999! The story is horrible but it’s not so horrible in the Middle East where THIS DOES HAPPEN. Note that the local Imam is involved in this case for influencing the 16-year old on trial.

Culture Clash

Nada Huranieh’s death was initially seen as an accidental fall, but investigators soon determined the 35-year-old fitness trainer had been murdered — and that her 16-year-old son was the alleged culprit.

Authorities remain tight-lipped about their investigation into Huranieh’s death, but court records shed some light on her family’s sometimes troubled existence behind the walls of their mansion off a quiet dirt road in southern Oakland County.

Huranieh, 35, died Aug. 21 from injuries suffered in a fall from a second-floor window of the seven-bedroom home on Howard Road in Farmington Hills. Authorities said she was found on her patio by her 14-year-old daughter, who called police to report Huranieh was not breathing.

The death was ruled a homicide following an autopsy, and her son, Muhammad Altantawi, is charged as an adult with second-degree murder. He is being held in Oakland County Children’s Village without bond.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Islamists, Leftists, Gang Up Against ‘Muslim Mafia’ Investigators

While all eyes were on the University of California, Berkeley, Thursday night to see if radical leftists could control their anger over the mere presence of a conservative speaker on campus, it was a gathering in a tiny Iowa town that attracted the attention of one of the left’s key allies — the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

CAIR, which was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a massive terror-financing trial held in 2008, crashed a meeting in Oakland, Iowa — population 1,500 in rural Pottawattamie County.

Why such concern for what’s going on in a place so far off the beaten path?

Actually, it’s not unusual, not in post-Trump America.

CAIR has made it a top priority in the wake of President Trump’s surprising election victory to show up, challenge and cause confusion wherever a factual discussion of Islam is being held, say experts on the organization. CAIR is worried that a nation under the spell of Barack Obama for eight years may start to wake up to some startling facts and discover that Islam has become the government-favored religion, the only religion Americans are not allowed to criticize.

This is all part of CAIR’s nationwide campaign against “Islamophobia” which coincides with the United Nations’ anti-Islamophobia campaign being carried out on a global scale. Cities such as Boston, Minneapolis, San Fransisco and Nashville have all taken up the cause of defending Islam against verbal attacks increasingly referred to as “hate crimes.”

But if Oakland, Iowa, is any indication, CAIR’s strategy of defending Islam against Americans exercising their First Amendment rights doesn’t play as well in rural America as it does in the big cities. In fact, it may even be backfiring.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Michigan Teacher Accused of Assault for Trying to Make Student Stand for Pledge of Allegiance [Video]

So we disrespect the flag in class now? Whether this teacher tried to get this child to stand is one thing…another thing is the fact that children AND adults aren’t being taught why we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. MAYBE THIS KID COULD TALK TO THE KID WHO WON’T STAND: The video below was created by a student to teach students the importance and meaning behind saying the Pledge of Allegiance:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Professor Who Tweeted About ‘Dead Cops’ Suspended

The president of John Jay College said she was “shocked” to hear the “abhorrent” anti-cop statement spewed by a professor at her school and immediately suspended him.

“I am appalled that anyone associated with John Jay, with our proud history of supporting law enforcement authorities, would suggest that violence against police is ever acceptable,” John Jay president Karol Mason said about professor Michael Isaacson.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Professor Who Mocked Cop Deaths Placed on Leave

Mike Isaacson, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice who made numerous jokes about dead cops and openly supports Antifa, has been placed on administrative leave by the school.

The college contacted The Daily Caller Friday with a statement from college president Karol V. Mason to announce that the professor has been placed on administrative leave following TheDC reporting on Isaacson’s comments. The report prompted users on social media to participate in a popular #FireMike Twitter hashtag calling for the college to take action against him.

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

St. Louis Protests Manifestation of Hegelian Dialectic

Black Lives Matter, and all of the foolish folks willing to follow the group’s deceptive message, are simply pawns. The protesters in St. Louis, or other Black Lives Matter marches of civil disobedience, are simply tools being used to feed the power.

The reason for the upheaval was because a white police officer, Jason Stockley, was found not guilty of murdering a black suspect he had shot while serving on duty. The suspect, Anthony Lamar Smith, way back in December 2011, was unwilling to comply with the commands of police as they approached him, used his vehicle to slam it into the police cruiser, fled in a high-speed chase that reached speeds of up to 87 miles per hour, appeared to be pulling out a firearm at the end of the chase, and was on parole for gun and drug charges, so the police officer, fearing for his life, fired upon the suspect in self-defense, killing him.

The protesters say that Stockley shot and killed Smith in cold blood, because the suspect was black.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Stop the Birth of Hatred in These United States

“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there…” (Mt 12: 43-45)

It is both a spiritual maxim that is as simple as its physical counterpart you must empty a glass of its contents before you can re-fill it with the desired fluid. A void is the groundwork for something altogether new, even if it is evil.

To send an entire nation toward its own demise, a void must be accomplished on many levels. Morality, rule of law, founding principles, statesmanship and love for others must all be voided to begin the collective fall into reprobation.

We have worked at producing the void in the United States for a full generation, we are at last seeing the fruits of our labors.

We have relegated the Bible to the realm of myth, fantasy, fable and wishful thinking and the lights are dimming in the next generation in a pervasive manner.

In a potent article entitled “God’s light in the midst of antifa’s brutal darkness” the Benham brothers offered the following piece of ageless wisdom.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Angry Left Attacks Trump for Letting 11-Year Old Mow White House Lawn [Video]

President Trump just made an 11-year old boy’s wish come true but the left is in a tizzy over it. Frank Giaccio wrote to the president offering to cut the White House lawn. He usually charges $8 dollars but offered to cut the grass at no charge…LOL! The president took him up on the offer! Frank was seen mowing the lawn yesterday:…

A great moment but the left didn’t think so. President Trump was hammered on twitter for supposed child labor violations…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Communist Origins of the Antifa Extremist Group

The extremist anarchist-communist group Antifa has been in the headlines because of recent violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia. Yet while the organization has been applauded by some left-leaning news outlets for including white nationalists and neo-Nazis in its list of targets, the organization wasn’t always about targeting “fascism,” as it claims.

The organization was initially part of the Soviet Union’s front operations to bring about communist dictatorship in Germany, and it worked to label all rival parties as “fascist.”

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Video Captures Angry St. Louis Protesters Turning on Media… TV Reporter Calls Unprovoked Attack: “The Scariest Moment of My Career”

KTVI Fox 2, the TV station that appears to be sympathetic of the Black Lives Matter riots in St. Louis, found themselves on the wrong side of angry protesters today, after the innocent verdict for St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley came down today in the murder trial of Anthony Lamar Smith. KTVI Fox 2 News showed their solidarity with the BLM movement when they retweeted a couple of tweets by one of the leaders of the BLM terror group, Deray McKesson. Both of McKesson’s tweets were intended to mock the decision made by Judge Timothy Wilson to exonerate Stockley.

Here is the second McKesson retweet by KTVI Fox News:

KTVI Fox News also pointed out in a seperate tweet that St. Louis police officers were using mace to control the crowd:

KTVI Fox 2 News got a surprise however when they attempted to infiltrate the protesters and found themselves in the middle of a situation that could have very easily ended very badly:

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Catalonia Referendum: Separatists Rally Around Mayors in Barcelona

Catalan separatists and supporters of the region’s right to hold a referendum on independence from Spain have held a rally backing more than 700 mayors facing the threat of arrest.

The mayors have been called in for questioning by prosecutors for agreeing to facilitate the vote locally.

They could be arrested if they do not attend and prosecuted for using public funds if they help stage the ballot.

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Geert Wilders: “In My Opinion, Islam is Not a Religion”

Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders is deeply concerned about Muslim integration. In our series Islam in the Netherlands he is warning about the “perishing”of our culture. “It is not five to twelve or two to twelve, it is almost morning!” The leader of the second party in the country is pondering about very far-reaching measures.

Geert Wilders (54) is not surprised at the shocking poll results released by daily newspaper De Telegraaf. The fact that only thirteen percent of the Dutch population feel that the problem of integration will solve itself is a writing on the wall, according to him. And that only eleven percent of the Dutch see Islam as an enrichment proves in his opinion that what he has been calling for years. “If I had said that three years ago, I would have had tens of thousands of police reports thrown at me. But people are completely fed up with it. “

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Hungary Asks Citizens for Advice on How to Take Down George Soros

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his government are once again going after billionaire investor George Soros with a nationwide campaign.

The government is set to launch a “national consultation” to get eligible voters’ opinions on a number of issues, including the European Union’s mandatory migrant quotas. Lajos Kosa, the vice chairman of Orban’s Fidesz party, said Thursday that the consultation will focus on what the government claims is a plan by Soros, who was born in Hungary, to push for mass immigration to Europe.

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Italy: Soccer: 2.5-Year-Ban Requested for Juve President Agnelli

FIGC prosecutor also wants two games behind closed doors

(ANSA) — Rome, September 15 — An Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) prosecutor on Friday requested that a sporting tribunal ban Juventus President Andrea Agnelli for two years and six months for allegedly breaking the rules by having relations with a hardcore ‘ultra’ fan involved in ticket touting, sources said Friday. FIGC prosecutor Giuseppe Pecoraro also requested that the Italian champions be made to play two home matches behind closed doors, with their stadium’s curva sud stand shut for another game on top, and pay a 300,000-euro fine. The tribunal is expected to announce its verdict within 10 days.

Agnelli, who was recently elected president of European Club Association, has said he only met the ultra at meetings with groups of other supporters.

The fan in question has been convicted of ticket touting and linked to the Calabria-based ‘Ndrangheta mafia syndicate.

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Italy: Chikungunya Creating Major Blood Emergency — CNS

Centre stresses virus rarely has serious symptoms

(ANSA) — Rome, September 15 — The effects of the Chikungunya virus in Lazio on the blood transfusion system are “comparable to a mayor emergency” the National Blood Centre (CNS) said Friday. Blood donations in a large part of Rome and in other areas have been suspended due to the outbreak of the virus, which is spread by mosquito bites. The CNS stressed that the virus “rarely gives serious symptoms”. It said that all Italy’s regions “have expressed willingness to contribute to compensating (for the effects of the suspension), even those that are in difficulty with their collections”. The outbreak started at Anzio, a seaside port to the south of Rome, and spread to the capital and other areas.

Chikungunya, which first broke out in Italy in 2007, is a viral infection that causes acute fever and joint pain. It rarely results in death but effects can sometimes be disabling. Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi signed an order for disinfestations in the capital to combat the emergency on Wednesday.

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Italy: Renzi Says CONSIP Dirt Will Rebound on Mudslingers

Ex-premier demands truth, expresses faith in magistrates

(ANSA) — Rome, September 15 — Democratic Party (PD) leader and ex-premier Matteo Renzi said Friday that alleged attempts to tarnish his reputation via a probe into civil-service procurement agency CONSIP will backfire on the people behind them. “Those who wanted to use the CONSIP case to throw mud at me will see that mud bounce back at them,” Renzi said at a Milan event organized daily newspaper Il Foglio. “Time is a gentleman and it will be with the CONSIP case too”. Renzi expressed “total faith” in the Rome prosecutors and judge working on the case. “We demand that the truth come out,” he added.

He was speaking after newspapers reported that senior members of the Carabinieri police allegedly told a prosecutor that they wanted to “get to” Renzi when he was premier. In July Modena prosecutor Lucia Musti reportedly told the judiciary’s self-governing body, the CSM, about comments attributed to Carabinieri Gianpaolo Scafarto and Sergio De Caprio in July 2016, when Renzi was premier. The CSM has sent evidence in relation to the case on to Rome prosecutors.

The Carabinieri reportedly said to Musti that “if you want, you have a bomb in your hand. You can let off a bomb. It’ll be chaos. We’ll get to Renzi”. Scafarto is under investigation for allegedly wrongly attributing to arrested businessman Alfredo Romeo, and not to centre-right politician Italo Bocchino, a phrase allegedly concerning a meeting with Renzi’s father Tiziano in evidence for the CONSIP probe. Tiziano Renzi is under investigation in the CONSIP case as is Sport Minister Luca Lotti, who is considered close to the ex-premier. De Caprio is the so-called ‘Capitano Ultimo’ (last captain) who arrested Cosa Nostra boss of bosses Totò Riina.

“I have never carried out investigations for political ends,” De Caprio told ANSA, saying he was the victim of a “media lynching”.

“I never spoke about Matteo Renzi, neither with Musti, nor anyone else”.

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Jihadism: The Fear That Dare Not Speak Its Name

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The failure to come to grips with Muslim supremacism, however, has real consequences that can be seen in the book Easy Meat: Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal, by the English writer Peter McGloughlin. His book details how British political leaders and law enforcement officials turned a blind eye to — and even suppressed coverage of — a tremendous scandal that went on for decades: The grooming and rape of thousands of British girls at the hands of Muslim gangs in England.

In short, schoolgirls in England were groomed, raped and forced into prostitution by Muslim men who regarded them as “easy meat.” When some girls went to the police, they were ignored; others remained silent because of physical threats and intimidation. “One girl had boiling water held over her throat: another had her tongue nailed to a table,” McGloughlin writes.

McGloughlin quotes one source as follows:

Social workers and journalists helped conceal the problem from the general public and as a result of this conspiracy of euphemism and silence, young Muslim men living in a non-Muslim country were able to rape thousands of young girls with impunity for decades.

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Julian Assange Supports Bitcoin as Ways to Free Catalonia From Spain’s Dictate

A recent report from BBC News indicates that the Spanish government will seize control of the finances of the autonomous region of Catalonia within 48 hours, if they don’t stop the ‘illegal’ referendum vote regarding independence.

Jullian Assange, the freedom-touting founder of Wikileaks, quickly tweeted his support of the referendum, as well as a comment on the importance of Bitcoin in this regard.

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan Tells Public ‘Get Used to’ Islamic Attacks

Since the government won’t combat terrorism, the people should expect more attacks

Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, has told the people of his town to get used to Islamic terror attacks because he believes more will occur in the near future and doesn’t plan on combating the extremists.

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London Attack Used ISIS Signature

The improvised explosive device (IED) that failed to fully explode in London early Friday was manufactured with the Islamic State’s signature chemical, United Kingdom Security Minister Ben Wallace confirmed Saturday.

The chemical is known as TATP and has been used in a multitude of ISIS attacks across the continent, including the November 2015 Paris attacks, the March 2016 Brussels attack, and the 2017 Manchester attack on an Ariana Grande concert. The London IED still managed to put nearly 30 passengers on the metro system in the hospital, causing some severe burns.

ISIS correspondent for The New York Times characterized TATP as the terrorist groups “signature” explosive in Europe, in a tweet Friday.

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‘Not a Crime But War’: Terrorists Must be Tried by Military Courts, Believes Le Pen

Terrorism cases should be heard by special courts, possibly involving the military, prominent French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen has said, adding that terrorism should be treated as an “act of war.”

Le Pen’s comments were made in an interview with the Le Parisien Newspaper Friday. She was responding to a question on what amendments her party is preparing for the counter-terrorism bill that aims to replace powers under the current state of emergency.

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Pedophile Furore Wrecks Iceland Coalition

A furore over a pedophile’s links to Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has triggered the collapse of Iceland’s ruling coalition.

The Bright Future party announced it was withdrawing from the three-party coalition after nine months in office.

It blamed a “serious breach of trust within the government”.

Earlier it emerged that the prime minister’s father had written a letter recommending a convicted pedophile have his “honor restored”.

This old Icelandic system permits convicts to have certain civil rights restored — enabling them to run for public office, qualify for certain government jobs or serve as an attorney or solicitor, for example — if three letters of recommendation from persons of good character are provided.

But Icelanders have been horrified by the secret backing for Hjalti Sigurjón Hauksson — convicted in 2004 of raping his stepdaughter almost every day for 12 years from when she was five. He served a five-and-a-half-year jail term.

The Reykjavik Grapevine news site quotes the survivor of Hauksson’s abuse as saying it was “surreal” that he should receive restored honor.

The government has also been accused of an attempted cover-up after it refused to disclose who had written the letter of recommendation.

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Police in Catalonia Hunt for Hidden Ballot Boxes in Bid to Foil Referendum

MADRID—Armed police in Spain have raided several print works and newspaper offices in Catalonia in recent days in a hunt for voting papers, ballot boxes and leaflets to be used in an Oct. 1 independence referendum which Madrid vehemently opposes.

The searches are part of a concerted effort by the government to prevent the ballot from going ahead, amid fears that a vote to break away could trigger a political crisis even if Spain does not recognize the outcome.

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Questions Raised Over the Details of Sweden’s ‘Man-Free’ Music Festival

The organizers behind Sweden’s Statement Festivals are facing questions over how they will define and enforce their “man free’ policy.

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Sweden: Chickens Run for it: 1,000 Birds Escape Truck Without the Driver Noticing

At least 1,000 chickens fell off a truck in southern Sweden.

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Swedish Politician: ‘I Was Raped at Knifepoint’

Police are investigating after a Left Party politician said he was attacked and raped because of his political beliefs.

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Telegraaf Interview Geert Wilders — in My Opinion Islam is Not a Religion

[Translation from the Dutch]

Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders is deeply concerned about Muslim integration. In our series Islam in the Netherlands he is warning about the “perishing”of our culture. “It is not five to twelve or two to twelve, it is almost morning!” The leader of the second party in the country is pondering about very far-reaching measures.

Geert Wilders (54) is not surprised at the shocking poll results released by daily newspaper De Telegraaf. The fact that only thirteen percent of the Dutch population feel that the problem of integration will solve itself is a writing on the wall, according to him. And that only eleven percent of the Dutch see Islam as an enrichment proves in his opinion that what he has been calling for years. “If I had said that three years ago, I would have had tens of thousands of police reports thrown at me. But people are completely fed up with it. “

How do you explain the figures?

“Decades ago, a few thousand people from Islamic countries would stay temporarily. But temporarily turned out to be permanently. Those thousands of guest workers became hundreds of thousands. And in Europe millions of people by now. Back then those people were called upon to integrate and assimilate. But Islam, the word says it already, seeks to dominate. Not long ago Professor Koopmans found that as much as seventy percent of Muslims find Islamic rules more important than secular laws. In Europe almost weekly innocent people are slaughtered in name of Allah and Islam. Proudly. We have been declared war and we refuse to defend ourselves.”

Who is responsible for this?

“I think that probably the worst of all is that Western European politicians have allowed this to happen. Last week Sybrand Buma of the Christian democratic party CDA was suddenly critical of Islam. That is like a bank robber who, twenty years after the robbery, has spent all the money and apologizes for doing so. He is the one who did it. CDA has been in power in the Netherlands for 50 years. “

Is it not a bit blunt to say …

“No!”

“I am talking about Islam. But research also points out that 11 percent of Dutch Muslims in the Netherlands are prepared to use violence on behalf of their religion. That is a 110,000 people, twice the size of the Dutch army! “…

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The Thought Police Strike Again

by Giulio Meotti

Universities in Britain are now even holding workshops to “deal with right wing attitudes in the classroom”. Instead of being intellectually diverse, universities are trying their utmost to impose homogeneity of thoughts and ideas. So-called “right wing newspapers” are banned from certain universities. Recently, the at the City University of London, the student union, devoid of irony, fascistically voted to ban some conservative tabloids in order to “oppose fascism”.

Dozens of personalities, conservative and liberal alike, have been prevented from speaking on many U.S. campuses. This is just a short list: Milo Yiannopoulos, Janet Napolitano, George Will, Condoleezza Rice, Madeleine Albright, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Henry Kissinger, Christine Lagarde, Charles Murray and Jason Riley.

First, students asked to limit freedom of expression to a specific place on campus. Then they started issuing declarations about no rights to free speech. Finally, in a crescendo of hysteria, they ended up throwing firebombs. How can we pretend that freedom of expression in the West is protected — from fascism, Islamism, anything — when we restrict it in our universities?

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Two Women Are Injured After Man Shouting Allahu Akbar Attacks Them With a Hammer in France

A man shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ has attacked several people with a hammer in a town in eastern France, local media reports.

Two women are reportedly in critical condition after the assault in Chalon-sur-Saone, in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté around lunchtime today.

This comes as a knife wielding man attacked a French soldier outside a Metro station in Paris today while praising Allah.

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UK Officials Focus on Trump’s Tweets More Than Terror

Globalists shift attention AWAY from details of London attack

Britain’s globalist-leaning politicians are more concerned with President Trump’s response to London’s recent attack than they are about the continued threat of Islamic terror.

Prime Minister Theresa May, who infamously wanted to restrict free speech online, was quick to blast Trump for “speculating” about the incident.

“I never think it’s helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation,” she said.

But all Trump said was that the UK “must be proactive” and “much tougher” on terrorism. How is that hurtful speculation?

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UK: 18-Year-Old Man Arrested Over London Subway Bombing

An 18-year-old man was arrested by British police in the city of Dover in connection with Friday’s rush hout “terrorist” bombing of a London subway train, calling the arrest “significant” but warned that the country’s threat level remained at its highest, “critical” point.

“We have made a significant arrest in our investigation this morning. Although we are pleased with the progress made, this investigation continues and the threat level remains at critical,” Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, said.

It was unclear if the man arrested was the person believed responsible for the attack, which has been classified as terrorism. Late on Friday, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the improvised bomb attack via its news agency, Amaq, saying it was carried out by a “detachment.” There was no independent indication of the group’s role. In another separate statement, Islamic State said it had deployed several explosives but only one detonated. That too couldn’t be independently verified.

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UK: The Miracle of Parsons Green: Schoolchildren and Commuters Escape Death as Bucket Bomb on Train Fails to Full Explode

With schoolchildren and commuters squashed in like sardines, no one paid much attention to the white bucket in a plastic bag yesterday morning.

After mingling among the victims, the terrorist who dropped off the makeshift device simply slipped off the packed rush-hour Tube train — leaving the timebomb ticking at their feet.

Had it worked as intended, a massive blast of fire would have killed dozens on the new, open-plan style train which — at 8.20am yesterday — was close to its capacity of nearly 1,000 people.

Miraculously, the main charge — apparently on a timer — failed to fully detonate.

But the partial explosion was still enough to create a giant fireball — and then pandemonium. In a dangerous stampede to escape, a pregnant woman and schoolchildren were among those crushed.

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Vatican Probes Diplomat in U.S. Over Child Porn Case

Priest recalled after State Department notification

(ANSA) — Vatican City, September 15 — The Holy See said Friday that its prosecutor, the Promoter of Justice, has opened an investigation into a possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images by a member of its diplomatic corps in Washington. It said it has recalled the priest in question, who is currently in Vatican City, following notification from the US State Department.

“It should be noted that, as provided by the laws in force applicable to all preliminary inquiries, the investigations carried by the Promoter of Justice are subject to investigative confidentiality,” a statement said.

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Vatican Recalls Washington Diplomat Amid Child Pornography Investigation

The priest, who was not named, has returned to Vatican City

A Vatican diplomat working in Washington has been recalled to the Holy See after the U.S. State Department said the priest may have violated child pornography laws, the Vatican said on Friday.

Prosecutors in the Vatican have opened an investigation into the case, which represents a fresh blow to the Roman Catholic Church as it struggles to overcome repeated sex abuse scandals among its clergy.

The State Department notified the Holy See in August “of a possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images by a member of the diplomatic corps of the Holy See accredited to Washington,” the Vatican statement said.

A State Department spokesman said the United States had requested that the man’s diplomatic immunity be waived to open the way for possible prosecution, but the Vatican refused.

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Video: Idiots React to London Underground Attack

Who’s to blame? Paul Joseph Watson of course…

Islamist hate crimes have killed 34 people in 6 months in the UK.

What are leftists concerned about?

Donald Trump’s tweets.

[Comment: Globalist using their control of fake stream media to divert people’s attention and rage away from the traitorous globalist-puppet politicians.]

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Why Austria’s ‘Wonder Boy’ Sebastian Kurz is on Course to Win Election

Tall, tanned and only 31, Austria’s rising political star Sebastian Kurz oozed confidence as he strode to blaring pop music into Graz’s main square — seemingly with good reason.

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Italian Mission at Southern Libyan Border

Logistical base for border guards, UN presence

(ANSA) — Rome, September 15 — A Rome meeting of an Italian-Libyan committee chaired by Interior Minister Marco Minniti on Friday agreed on an Italian project for a mission on the southern border of Libya, sources said. The principle aims are to create a logistical base for border guards and to facilitate the presence of United Nations organizations. The committee is tasked with implementing a memorandum signed by the two countries on February 2.

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Syrian ‘De-Escalation Zones’ Created for 6 Months

Extended automatically with guarantors’ consent

(ANSAmed) — The ‘de-escalation zones’ in Syria have been created temporarily and for a period of six months, the Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov is reported as saying on Friday. However, they can be “extended automatically with the consent of the guarantors”, he added according to Interfax. “Thanks to the decisions and resolution of the participants in the Astana talks there is now hope for a peaceful solution to this acute crisis,” he added.

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Syrian Journalist Wipes the Floor With Turkey’s Former President During Eurasian Media Forum

Syrian war correspondent, Alaa Ebrahim, politely destroys the lies and falsifactions of former President of Turkey, Abdullah Gul and exposes Turkey’ s nefarious role in the incubation of terrorism and carpet bagger project inside Syria. From Syriana Analysis, Watch:

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Gorbachev’s Reforms and a Failed Ideology

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As described in the 2000 book “The Destruction of the Soviet Union” by David Lockwood, the reform attempts aimed to engineer an “economic shake-up.” It was assumed that the military industry, reinforced using western-style means of economic growth, would shore up the rest of the Soviet economy without requiring major changes to the communist system.

“In general, these attempts failed,” Lockwood writes. The Party’s 1987 commitment to intensive growth “reflected the fact that the Soviet leadership, for the most part, initially believed that moderate levels of reorganization would suffice.” …

In the book “Why Perestroika Failed,” written by Jeter J. Boettke in 1993, the author suggests that Gorbachev’s restructuring failed to bring about the economic improvements that the USSR needed, as it was never intended to reduce the influence of the state, only change its applications.

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The Rohingya Refugee Crisis and the Disconnect From Objectivity

The article should be entitled: The Rakine State refugee crisis or the Burmese/Bengali refugee crisis. But readers will be more familiar with headings such as Rohingya refugee crisis or Rohingya genocide. Why is that?

On the 25th of August a Saudi-backed terrorist group Arakanese Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA formerly Harakah Al Rakin) attacked thirty police stations in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, murdering 12 security forces and two civilians . The Burmese government responded with a full-scale military counter-insurgency operation. 59 insurgents were killed.

Burmese authorities leaked information which proves that ARSA leader Ullah Ata had planned the attack with help from outside agents in Pakistani intelligence and ISIS terrorists in Iraq. Supporters of ARSA and the Rohingya cause accuse the Burmese military (Tatmadaw) of burning down Rohingya (Eastern Bengali) villages. The Tatmadaw say the villages have been burned by the terrorists, embedded among the illegal Bengali immigrant communities. Thousands of Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus have fled the violence. Many Buddhist eye witnesses and victims have described massacres committed by Bengali terrorists to local journalists in Myanmar. The stories have not made international headlines.

Human rights agencies financed by the US State-Department and Saudi Arabia, such as Human Rights Watch have blamed all of the violence on the Tatmadaw.

In previous articles I have explained the reasons for the media war on Myanmar and the complex ethnic, religious, historical and geopoltical forces fueling the violence. No researcher — not even the Burmese government— claims that all of the violence is coming from one side. But all the mainstream media and most alternative media sources blame the Myanmar government and ‘fascist, racist Buddhist monks’.

I have contested that consensus, for the last two years, is a crass over simplification of a complex ethno-religious conflict and will continue to do so. The following is an exchange I had with a Bangladeshi journalist. Bangladesh is making great efforts to care for the hundreds of thousands of Bengali refugees fleeing the violence in northern Rakhine state. The Awami League government under Prime Minister Sheihk Hasina has a long history of anti-imperialist struggle and, like Myanmar, is facing the dire possibility of a US/Israeli-backed destabilisation and regime change programme. The journalist who contacted me is designated as BJ below:

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Despite Claims of Reform, China’s Organ Transplant System Poses Concerns

China recently claimed it now has nearly 300,000 registered organ donors and will surpass the United States in organ transplants by 2020—an explosive rise that is cause for alarm, according to Dr. Torsten Trey, the executive director of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting.

Trey spoke with The Epoch Times about concerns over the transparency of China’s organ transplant system and pointed to the possibility of ongoing abuses, despite the country’s claims of reform.

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Mike Pompeo: North Korea Likely to Sell Nuclear Technology to Other States

CIA Director Mike Pompeo told Fox News on Monday, Sept. 11, that it would be “fair to say” that North Korea would share advancements in its nuclear weapon capabilities with other states.

“As North Korea continues to improve its ability to do longer range missiles, and to put nuclear weapons on those missiles, it is very unlikely that, if they get that capability, that they wouldn’t share it with lots of folk,” he said.

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New Poll Shows US Majority Backs Military Action Against North Korea

A majority of Americans support military action against North Korea if economic and diplomatic efforts fail, according to a Gallup poll released on Friday, amid rising tension over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program and recent missile launches.

The survey of 1,022 U.S. adults last week found that 58 percent said they would favor military action against North Korea if the United States cannot accomplish its goals by more peaceful means first.

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‘It’s a Bloody Joke!’: Farmer Threatens Knife-Wielding Trespasser With a Rifle and Turns Him in to Local Police, Only to Have Officers Come Back the Next Day and Seize All of His Guns

A farmer who confronted an armed trespasser on his New South Wales property with a rifle and turned him in to police has been left shaking his head after officers returned and seized all of his guns.

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Violent New Muslim Street Gang Named 269 on the Rise in Australia After Converting to Islam Behind Bars

Gold Coast’s Glitter Strip has reportedly become home to new street gang, 269—a collective of ex-bikies and middle-eastern organised crime associates.

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At Least 5 Canadian Diplomats and Families Hit by Mysterious ‘Sound Attacks’ In Cuba, Source Says

Origin of attacks targeting Canadian and U.S. diplomats and their families remains a mystery

At least five Canadian diplomatic families were affected by mysterious “sonic attacks” in Cuba that left them with symptoms including hearing loss, headaches and dizziness.

That is a larger number of people than previously reported and suggests the Canadian diplomats were targeted intentionally and were not merely victims of mistaken identity in a wave of attacks that affected a larger number of U.S. diplomats.

But a Canadian source with knowledge of the affair told CBC News that unlike some of those U.S. diplomats, all affected Canadians have recovered from their initial symptoms, which in some cases required hospital treatment.

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90 Percent of Asylum Seekers in Austria End Up on Welfare

Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka is resisting EU efforts to increase his country’s migrant quota, claiming that 90 per cent of asylum seekers in Austria end up on welfare benefits and strain the system.

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Are Americans Really Abandoning Donald Trump?

Trump supporters jump the gun and burn MAGA hats after rumors were spread about his DACA strategy

As rumors spread that President Trump has abandoned his own agenda, many former Trump supporters have taken to burning their Make America Great Again hats in an act of defiance.

[Comment: Hint — never trust fake stream media.]

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DACA Supporters Linked to Communists, Jihadists

Why are Democrats so angry about attempts to enforce immigration law? And why are those who want open borders unwilling to require immigrants to speak English, even as they claim everyone in the world should have the privilege of becoming an American citizen?

A blockbuster new documentary reveals the disturbing answers to these questions.

In “The Enemies Within,” investigative researcher Trevor Loudon exposes the master plan to create a permanent liberal majority by flooding America with millions of voters hostile to its founding principles. But “The Enemies Within” also claims forces dedicated to the destruction of the nation have even penetrated the national security bureaucracy, endangering all Americans and the entire system of constitutional government.

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Germany: Asylum Seekers Confessing Membership of Terror Groups Continue to Rise

Asylum seekers in Saxony are increasingly confessing membership terrorist groups, possibly in hopes this will prevent them from being deported to home countries where they could face execution.

Saxony Minister of Justice Sebastian Gemkow said this week that the number of asylum seekers who boast of being members of terrorist organisations has greatly increased since last year. He says there have been 36 cases of individuals saying they were members of groups like the al-Nusra Front or Islamic State so far this year, MDR reports.

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Sweden’s New Instability

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Another scary fact is that in 80% of the reported sexual assaults in the traditional Swedish bathhouses where Swedes go during the harsh winters, the offenders were of foreign origin and most lacked a Swedish national identity number.

The survey covered the period 2011 to 2016 and concerned more than 10,000 reported crimes relating to sexual offenses.

Certainly, one should criticize articles that exaggerate how insecure it is in Sweden, but it is equally wrong to minimize the extent to which unvetted mass-immigration has created an insecure situation for women, especially at bathhouses, swimming pools and gymnasiums.

That Sweden has not managed to handle migration properly, and that the conditions for conflicts exist, is not something that alternative media or Donald Trump have made up. Nearly one-fifth, or 18%, of Sweden’s population are now foreign-born. At the same time, unemployment in July 2017 among Swedes born in Sweden was 3.9%, while unemployment among foreign-born Swedes was 21.8%. This disparity creates conflicts within Sweden’s civil society that should not be neglected. The reason many foreigners do not get jobs in Sweden is because often a person needs to be highly educated. Those who come to Sweden through asylum immigration are simply not well-educated enough to meet the demands of its labor market. The question soon becomes: how much asylum immigration can Sweden manage before spending gets too big and social problems become too heavy?

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Trump Administration Limits Visas for Countries That Don’t Accept Their Deportees

The Trump administration announced Wednesday it has ordered the State Department to limit certain visas for Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, and Sierra Leone because those countries have refused to accept the return of its nationals who are deported from the United States.

“International law obligates each country to accept the return of its nationals ordered removed from the United States,” Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke said in a statement. “Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, and Sierra Leone have failed in that responsibility. The United States itself routinely cooperates with foreign governments in documenting and accepting its citizens when asked, as do the majority of countries in the world. However, these countries have failed to do so, and that one-way street ends with these sanctions.”

“American citizens have been harmed because foreign governments refuse to take back their citizens. These sanctions will ensure that the problem these countries pose will get no worse as ICE continues its work to remove dangerous criminals from the United States,” said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan.

State Secretary Rex Tillerson has told U.S. consular officers in the four countries to impose visa restrictions on certain categories of applicants. These restrictions will be determined on a country-by-country basis.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Army Punishes Officer Who Halted Lesbians’ Public ‘Make-Out’

The Army broke its own rules in its punishment of an officer who, following military protocol, intervened to stop a public “make-out” session by two lesbian subordinate officers, contends an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Lt. Col. Christopher Downey was cited for assault for bumping a camera that inadvertently hit the nose of an Army staffer who was trying to capture the scene on video.

The Thomas More Law Center of Ann Arbor, Michigan, this week petitioned the high court to “correct the injustice done to Lt. Col. Christopher Downey after the United States violated its own regulations, effectively ending his stellar career.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Empires End in the Dustbin of History

My people fought the Ottoman Empire for centuries. Much blood has been shed to keep them out of Christian lands. Now they are here to stay and fundamentally transform us because we let them.

Young brainwashed generations are rejecting God, morality, their countries, their own skin color, their history, and everything that made our modern society most developed.

Terrorists are allowed to cause destruction and mayhem around the world yet those in power bring more into developed countries under the insane notion that they are protecting multi-culturalism and diversity and the U.N.-established “right” to migration anywhere they wish, regardless of borders and sovereignty.

The lessons of 9-11 and the unity against Muslim terrorist evil forces lasted as long as the clean-up ended, those innocents killed were buried, and the families recompensed from the 9-11 fund. Even the death of the 200 or so jumpers before the towers fell was sanitized by the leftist media because it was too much to bear and see.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sweden ‘Man-Free’ Festival Comes Under Fire

A Swedish festival that describes itself as being “man-free” has been faced with questions over how it will enforce the unusual policy.

[Comment: It would be much simpler to ban migrants.]

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The Root of Identity Politics

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‘Exclude the Middle’

By equating individuals with their race or social group, academics and activists who engage in identity politics make ideologically colored and extremism-prone judgements about their moral character, actions, and intentions.

While neither communism nor Nazism was capable of taking root in mainstream American society, the socialist Frankfurt School of sociology rose to prominence in the postwar U.S. academic community.

The concept of “critical theory” pioneered by scholars of the Frankfurt School expanded the economic-centered dogma of classical Marxism to include provisions for looking for and exacerbating contradictions across all facets of society and the human experience.

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How Women Are Treated by Islam

[…]Indeed, if we look at a list of 265 convictions for grooming gangs and individuals in the UK between November 1997 and January 2017 (and if we add on another 18 for the recent Newcastle gang), we will note that more than 99% are for Muslim men, mainly young men in their 20s and 30s. On June 2, 2017, it was reported that another 165 suspects had been identified in Rochdale in West Yorkshire, all described as “Asians”, a code-word for Pakistani Muslims. Some days later, on June 9, fourteen Pakistani men appeared at Oxford Crown Court charged with child sex abuse.[3]

Like Rochdale and Oxford, several towns appear more than once in different years as centres of Muslim grooming gangs. Rochdale itself saw convictions of a total of 41 men from 2010 (twice), 2012, 2013, and 2016 (twice). It is hard to escape the conclusion that there is an endemic problem both with Muslim men and the communities from which they emerge. The police, social workers, the courts and other authorities who for so many years did their best to cover up the identity of the criminals, allowing them to carry out their sexual abuse for so long, were in the end forced by some determined investigators to take action that exposed the Islamic origins of the vast majority of offenders. But, as some statements about Newcastle have shown, there is still a remarkable reluctance to pinpoint features of Islamic doctrine or Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and other cultures as the trigger for this behaviour.

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16 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/16/2017

  1. On Bitcoin: I’m all for freeing ourselves from the control of the Globalists via their international slavery inducing Banking system, but who or what controls Bitcoin, and what is the ultimate goal of Bitcoin within the international money market?

  2. On Le Pen: Islamic Terrorists are waging a war (Jihad in Arabic, which means war on the house of Dar al Harb, the house of the infidel, or the West and others who are not Muslim) on us within the West and without. It is an undeclared war because it suits the powers that be their agenda. In time of war, those who attack the country they target are considered the enemy and all enemy combatants are not subject to civil law as mere criminals, but military law as the terrorists or the enemy that they are. Le Pen gets it, as do the many French who support her and her actions and words that are exposing more and more of the treachery and the Traitors to La Republique De France.

    In other and more plainer wording. If Islamic terrorists were given their status as ‘soldiers of Allah’ by Western governments, as they should be given as combatants for a political cause who use terrorism to advance their objective – which is the complete overthrow of all Western governments to submit to Islamic rule – that is by any definition a military/political movement, or in simpler terms, an ideological based movement designed to subjugate all before it. Such a system of terrorism breaches all known and accepted criminal codes and becomes by its own actions and admissions a military style action that must be subject to military law and the consequences of such action, which would preclude all Islamic terrorists from the human rights laws on which they have become so dependent to advance their cause.

    Without those deliberate and obstructionalist Human Rights Laws that are used to protect the terrorist, the terrorist would be indicted, tried, and then executed by Military Tribunal.

    Vive la France!

    • @ Nemesis

      Be careful what you ask for!

      “combatants for a political cause who use terrorism to advance their objective”

      That definition can be applied to pretty much anyone who works against a “democratic” government. The US is in the process of defining mere so called hate speech as a so called hate crime which will then be defined as terrorism. ( http://tinyurl.com/ybp5ad2d )

      Which basically means that, in a few years, you can probably be court-martialed for what you write here if your suggestion becomes reality.
      Goodbye habeas corpus …

      • Ron, under current legislation within the West we are all considered potential ‘terrorists’. That is one of the reasons for why the powers that be have not identified the real enemy.

        All our governments have become a tyranny, and as such, they can choose whatever they like in naming us.

  3. On that Aussie farmer who had his firearms confiscated by over zealous police because he dared to produce an unloaded .22 caliber rifle (a popgun to anyone who knows their firearms) to deter a would be thief from stealing his property.

    The smart gun owners of this country buried their firearms and ammo after 1996 (Port Arthur massacre) for later use when it becomes absolutely necessary to have them, and do not have any firearms that are registered for any ‘authority’ to remove from them at their whim and fancy!

    (intemperate reaction deleted and please imagine your own expletives) Grin.

  4. A “women only” concert in Sweden? What if it is a trans-gendered man, or woman. Not sure how it is called if it is a woman with a penis.

  5. Well now it looks like the “we’re all the same” mobs who have been falling over themselves to greet the brothel bred’warriors of god’. It’s only going to get better.
    I just love everybody.

  6. Baron you forgot the case of the 4 female students from Boston who were sprayed with acid in Marseille station. The incident has nothing to do with islam because the person who did it, reportedly a 41 year old woman, has a history of mental problems.

    hmmm. 4 broads from a Boston uni on a trip in Europe. Please tell me, WHY do i seem to have this conviction they voted Hillary?

  7. On the “18” year old suspect in custody in respect of the Parsons Green, London bombing, who says that he is 18 years old, he himself? It is known that the many “child” refugees (sic) let into Britain and other European countries certainly are anything but children. It is in the interest of anyone over 18 to say that they are under 16 since they have a greater chance of being accepted into a country. It is also in the interest of Organisations “taking care” of these “children” to not question the ages of anyone obviously over 18 years old since they receive more money to look after “children.” So any ISIS soldier or Salafist can sneak in to any country under the cover of them being a “child.”

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