Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/21/2017

The Spanish government has used a clause in the national constitution to revoke Catalonia’s regional autonomy in the wake of the latter’s independence referendum, which Spain says is illegal. As part of the process, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy may remove the Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont from office.

In other news, President Donald Trump has ordered that all remaining classified government files on the assassination of President Kennedy be made available to the public.

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USA
» American Teacher Resigns After Comparing MAGA Shirts to Swastikas
» Leftist Protesters Storm College Republicans Meeting, Three Arrested
» ‘Mentally Unstable, Armed With Nukes’: US Billionaire Looks to Impeach Trump
» Miami Man Inspired by ISIS Arrested on Charge of Trying to Blow Up WMD at Dolphin Hall
» Networks Censor Latest Bombshell on Russia/Uranium/Clinton Scandal
» NFL to Allow Players to Kneel During Anthem Without Penalty
» Nolte: Roger Goodell Fell for Mainstream Media’s Fake Reality and Destroyed NFL (Possibly Forever)
» Project Veritas Using Encrypted Protonmail to Protect Whistleblowers
» Socialist Group Calls for “Extermination” of Capitalists, “Worth Shooting” Donald Trump
» Trump to Allow Release of 3,000 Never Before Seen Documents on JFK Assassination
» Trump Says He’ll Allow Release of Kennedy Assassination Files
» Wanna Exorcise Intel’s Secretive Hidden Cpu From Your Hardware? Meet Purism’s Laptops
 
Europe and the EU
» “It’s a Coup”: Catalan President Slams “Worst Attack” By Spain “Since Franco Dictatorship”
» A Beginners Guide to Italy’s Autonomy Referendums
» Austria-Turkey Relations Go to the Dogs Over Airport Checks
» Catalonian Independence: Wikilekas Founder Assange Weighs in on Crisis
» Catalonia Independence Latest: Spain Applies Article 155 to Remove Puigdemont
» ‘Czech Trump’ Secured Landslide Win
» Discovery of 9.7m-Year-Old Teeth in Germany Could Rewrite Human History
» EU Finally Gives ‘Green Light’ To Brexit Negotiations After Theresa’s Appeasement, Brexit Betrayals
» German Magazine Posts Picture of Sebastian Kurz Saying it is ‘Finally Possible to Kill Baby Hitler!’
» Germany Terrorism Prosecution Cases Soar: Report
» Meet the Eccentric, Eurosceptic, Czech Billionaire Who Will Become Prime Minister
» Prominent Muslim Scholar Tariq Ramadan Accused of Rape, Sexual Assault in France
» Spain Activates “Nuclear Option”: Will Seize Control of Catalan Government, Force New Elections
 
Far East
» Duterte Now Says He’ll Execute Criminals Himself
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» White Genocide by South African Marxists
 
Immigration
» “We Can’t Welcome All the World’s Poor” — Macron Unveils Crackdown on Criminal Illegal Aliens
» Immigrants Are a Huge Net Cost to Canadians
 
Culture Wars
» California is a Liberal Lunatic Wasteland Beyond Saving
» Down the Tube: YouTube Quietly Launches New Censorship Scheme Designed to Limit Access to Videos
» TV Drama ‘Star’ Depicts White Racists Harassing Muslim, Dumping BLM Activist Out of Wheelchair
 

American Teacher Resigns After Comparing MAGA Shirts to Swastikas

A Georgia teacher who compared students T-shirts bearing President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan to swastikas has resigned from her job.

Lyn Orletsky, who taught at River Ridge High School in Woodstock, resigned from her position after receiving death threats.

The former math teacher released a statement explaining her decision:

After attacks on my character and threats on my life, I have made the decision to resign from my teaching position at River Ridge High School. While in hindsight I would have handled the situation differently, the outcry over this incident has been disproportionate to the event itself.

Orletsky had been placed on leave and removed from her classroom in September after a student’s video posted on the conservative student website Turning Point USA showed the teacher ordering students to take off their Trump-supporting T-shirts went viral and gained national media attention.

In the video, she told the two students wearing the “Make America Great Again” T-shirts that wearing the shirts is like wearing a swastika because the phrase had been coined by hate groups, and ordered them to leave the classroom.

“Just like you cannot wear a swastika to school, you cannot wear ‘Make America Great Again’ like that,” the teacher told the students.

Orletsky defended her decision to kick the students out of her class, claiming that she did not want minority students to feel threatened and that her decision had nothing to do with politics.

The controversy did not end there. State Senator Michael Williams (R-Cumming), who launched a 2018 gubernatorial bid in Georgia, organized a protest to demand that the school board fire Orletsky in late September.

The Cherokee County School Board will consider her resignation at Thursday’s board meeting.

[Comment: “the outcry over this incident has been disproportionate to the event itself”…wow…so she pushes a demonization agenda and is shocked at the blowback?…stupid woman.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Leftist Protesters Storm College Republicans Meeting, Three Arrested

UCSC officials delayed two hours before calling police

College Republicans meeting at the University of California, Santa Cruz was taken over by protesters screaming that the group’s existence is a threat to the safety of students.

Shortly after the CR meeting convened, one student entered the ground floor room of McHenry Library to ask attendees which group was assembling. After being informed that the meeting was a gathering of College Republicans, the student returned about 15-20 minutes later with company.

One of the ringleaders of the protest was student activist Haik Adamian, who posted an announcement in the official UCSC Student Facebook group calling on students to deny the CR group its First Amendment rights.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Mentally Unstable, Armed With Nukes’: US Billionaire Looks to Impeach Trump

Tom Steyer, an American billionaire and self-identified environmentalist addressed the public in a video released on Thursday

A US billionaire has launched a campaign, calling for the impeachment of “mentally unstable” President Donald Trump, who has brought America “to the brink of nuclear war.”

Tom Steyer, an American billionaire and self-identified environmentalist addressed the public in a video released on Thursday. “He [Donald Trump] has brought us to the brink of nuclear war,” the tycoon said.

Steyer lambasted the current administration of the US leader as well as Congress, saying people there know that Trump “is a clear and present danger, who’s mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons, and they do nothing.”

[Comment: Another globalist stooge.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Miami Man Inspired by ISIS Arrested on Charge of Trying to Blow Up WMD at Dolphin Hall

A Miami man suspected of being inspired by Islamic extremists was arrested Friday night on a charge of attempting to blow up a bomb at the Dolphin Mall by FBI counter-terrorism agents in an undercover operation.

Vicente Solano, who acted alone, was communicating with a confidential informant who tipped off the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force about his alleged plot to carry out a weapons of mass destruction attack on the sprawling mall in Doral, according to authorities.

Before the planned bombing attack, Solano made pro-Islamic State videos, authorities said. But there is no indication he was directed by ISIS terrorists.

Read more here: #storylink=cpy

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

Networks Censor Latest Bombshell on Russia/Uranium/Clinton Scandal

Network evening shows have spent only 3 minutes and 1 second on the Clinton Foundation scandal

New revelations that the FBI uncovered a Russian bribery plot before the Obama administration approved a nuclear deal with Moscow, that involved millions of kickback money to the Clinton Foundation, have been utterly ignored the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening or morning shows, since the story broke early Tuesday.

In fact, the network evening shows have only spent only 3 minutes and 1 second on the Clinton Foundation scandal in more than two years.

The latest developments in the Russia/Uranium/Clinton scandal were first reported, on Tuesday, by The Hill’sJohn Solomon and Alison Spann. On Tuesday’s edition of FNC’s Hannity, Solomon and Circa News’s Sara Carter were invited on to lay out the latest details of this scandal, that the Big Three networks, so far, have refused to report on.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

NFL to Allow Players to Kneel During Anthem Without Penalty

“[O]ur commitment to work together with our players on issues of social justice,” Goodell stated

The NFL will continue allowing players to kneel during the national anthem at games, Commissioner Roger Goodell announced Tuesday, according to Reuters.

“We spent today talking about the issues that our players have been trying to bring attention to, about issues in our communities to make our communities better,” Goodell said at a news conference following a meeting between officials and team owners in New York.

The meeting included officials from the NFL and the NFL Players Association, as well as 11 team owners and 13 NFL players who have protested during the national anthem.

“Today’s discussion with our players was very productive and very important. It reflected our commitment to work together with our players on issues of social justice,” Goodell stated.

[Comment: NFL and kneeling players are morons. They are urinating on their fans. NFL will hemorrhage fans and tickets sales by continuing in this vein.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Nolte: Roger Goodell Fell for Mainstream Media’s Fake Reality and Destroyed NFL (Possibly Forever)

In Goodell’s provincial world, in his deluded thinking, shaped by ESPN and CNN, he was fooled into believing America is enamored with identity politics and social justice. And so, although every other form of personal expression is banned by the NFL, Goodell actually believed it was a good idea to give the okay for spoiled millionaires to publicly express their hatred and contempt for America. Completely out of touch with the common man and fan, Goodell fell for the media’s fake reality and did irreparable damage to the NFL.

My wife is a perfect example. Since childhood, thanks to a tradition handed down by her father, the Green Bay Packers has been one of the great passions of her life — until this season. And this is what should really terrify Goodell…

My wife’s lost passion is not a political statement or protest. Her passion died a natural death as she watched something she once loved betray her country. She is not angry. She just stopped caring.

How does the NFL recover from that, from indifference, from those who have moved on?

Now that it is almost certainly too late, now that the Morning Joe scales have fallen from Goodell’s eyes, now that the ratings and empty stadiums and devastating polls make it impossible for even a somewhat powerful media to keep Goodell’s bubble afloat, the man charged with protecting this institution has finally figured out that it might not be a good idea to open every NFL game with your players giving the American flag the finger.

What a jackass, what a pathetic and delusional fool, a weakling, who allowed the media’s phony reality to drag him into deep water from which he can no longer escape.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Project Veritas Using Encrypted Protonmail to Protect Whistleblowers

As Project Veritas continues to expose the liberal mainstream media in video after video, James O’Keefe is asking for help from “insiders” working for corrupt media organizations, Silicon Valley titans, and the deep state. And he’s leaning on a tried and true method for secure communications to handle those tips: ProtonMail — possibly the most secure e-mail on the planet.

The newest batch of videos, which this writer covered in a previous article, end with a different type of “ask” than other Project Veritas videos. O’Keefe addresses viewers and says:

Usually at the end of these videos, I make a request for financial support. Today, I’m going to ask for something slightly different. As you can see, we’re working on some of the most powerful, sensitive investigations we have ever done. We’ve been able to do this because of people on the inside who are cooperating with us.

If you’re inside a corrupt mainstream media organization — a fake news organization, a Silicon Valley titan, or maybe, you’re one of those people inside the deep state, we want you to reach out to us. Now your security is our biggest concern. We will protect you. I will personally go to jail to protect your identity.

But if you’re an insider, we want you to send us a tip at veritastips@protonmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

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

Socialist Group Calls for “Extermination” of Capitalists, “Worth Shooting” Donald Trump

“The left has done a good job radicalizing juggalos, weebs, furries, but I will not rest until ‘hXc’ stands for hang+Xterminate capitalists.”

A socialist student group at Iowa State University has repeatedly made threatening comments about conservatives on social media, but the school says the comments are protected speech.

In one recent tweet, the school’s Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) chapter called for the hanging and extermination of all “capitalists.”

“The left has done a good job radicalizing juggalos, weebs, furries, but I will not rest until ‘hXc’ stands for hang+Xterminate capitalists,” the group wrote in an October 4 tweet that has since been deleted.

After students brought the tweet to attention of the university, it replied via twitter by stating “this falls under free speech” and then offering available “resources” to student if they “feel threatened or harassed.”

Nor is this the first time that YDSA has posted threatening tweets, such as a September 30 tweet in which the club endorsed “shooting” President Trump…

While the university did not respond to Campus Reform’s request for comment, one student asserted that YDSA has a long-established pattern of making vitriolic remarks about conservatives.

“Overall, the club has had many hateful tweets against capitalism and capitalists, with the occasional directly-threatening tweet as shown above,” student Michael Fredrickson told Campus Reform.

“If this was a conservative group, all hell would break loose. It wouldn’t be allowed. Making them delete tweets isn’t going to do anything,” a recent graduate of the university commented on Twitter.

“Why isn’t the school doing something? This sounds like a threat to students on campus and in the Ames area. How is this allowed?”

[Comment: Note how hard core commies call themselves socialist to sound less threatening.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump to Allow Release of 3,000 Never Before Seen Documents on JFK Assassination

Following years of delays, President Trump announced on Twitter on Saturday morning that he will allow the release of more than 3,000 of classified documents from the FBI, CIA, and Justice Department on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The unexpected announcement means that a trove of previously unseen documents will be released by the National Archives by October 26.

“Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,” Trump tweeted.

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

Trump Says He’ll Allow Release of Kennedy Assassination Files

Washington (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Saturday he will allow long blocked secret files on the assassination of John F Kennedy to be opened to the public for the first time.

The November 22, 1963 assassination — an epochal event in modern US history — has spawned multiple theories challenging the official version that Kennedy was killed a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald.

So the release of all the secret documents has been eagerly anticipated by historians and conspiracy theorists alike.

Trump’s announcement followed reports that not all the files would be released, possibly to protect still relevant intelligence sources and methods.

But Trump appears to have decided otherwise…

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

Wanna Exorcise Intel’s Secretive Hidden Cpu From Your Hardware? Meet Purism’s Laptops

Free software lovin’ crusaders kick out Management Engine

Purism — a San Francisco, California, social purpose company that flies the flags of privacy, security and software freedom — has begun offering its GNU/Linux-based laptops with Intel’s Management Engine disabled.

The Intel Management Engine is a hidden coprocessor at the heart of Chipzilla’s vPro technology. Part of the Platform Controller Hub — a multifunction chip that interfaces a computer’s main CPU to peripherals — the Management Engine offers a way for system administrators to manage large numbers of PCs over a network using out-of-band communications.

It’s also widely despised by security professionals and privacy advocates because it relies on signed and secret Intel code, isn’t easily alterable, isn’t fully documented, and has been found to be vulnerable to exploitation, though the Active Management (AMT) module in recent Management Engines. In short, it’s a tiny potentially hackable computer in your computer that you cannot totally control, nor opt-out of, but it can totally control your system…

His company is offering its Librem 13 (US$1,399+, Core i7-6500U) and Librem 15 (US $1,599+, Core i7-6500U) laptops with the Intel Management Engine verifiably turned off, something it has been able to do because its machine run the open source coreboot firmware and because of findings published by Positive Technologies in August. The Librem laptops, by the way, feature physical switches that electrically disconnect the microphone and webcam, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth hardware, from the rest of the computer as a privacy defense.

Purism not only turned the Management Engine off using the HAP mechanism, it also removed the bulk of the ME firmware using the me_cleaner tool. It’s a bit like burning a vampire after putting the stake through its heart, because you really don’t want it coming back.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“It’s a Coup”: Catalan President Slams “Worst Attack” By Spain “Since Franco Dictatorship”

Update: The defiant Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont, addressed Catalans, Spaniards, and the rest of Europe on TV saying that the Spanish states’ imposition of Article 155 means “liquidation of our self-government and cancellation of the democratic will of Catalans”. In other words, he made it quite clear that the region’s leaders would not accept direct rule imposed on the region by the Spanish government, as a political crisis that has rattled the economy and raised fears of prolonged unrest showed no signs of easing.

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

A Beginners Guide to Italy’s Autonomy Referendums

Two northern Italian regions, Lombardy and Veneto, vote this Sunday on whether they favour taking powers back from Rome.

Here’s everything you need to know….

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

Austria-Turkey Relations Go to the Dogs Over Airport Checks

Turkish police on Friday inspected Austrian passengers on an Istanbul-Vienna flight with the help of a sniffer dog, the day after a canine search of passengers flying wth Turkish Airlines in Austria, local media reported.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Catalonian Independence: Wikilekas Founder Assange Weighs in on Crisis

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has condemned the unprecedented decision by the Spanish government to invoke Article 155 and force new elections in Catalonia.

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

Catalonia Independence Latest: Spain Applies Article 155 to Remove Puigdemont

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s Cabinet met this morning to agree to roll out hardline rules to penalise the breakaway region and impose direct rule.

Mr Rajoy said in a press conference this afternoon he will apply article 155 of the Spanish Constitution for the first time in the country’s democratic history, remove members of the regional government behind the referendum, and hold elections within six months, if the senate approves it.

He will try to oust Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and other officials who had backed the referendum.

But he will not suspend the Catalan government or autonomy, or self rule.

Mr Rajoy expressed his anger during the press conference at the lack of dialogue that took place between himself and Catalan leader Mr Puigdemont.

He blasted the Catalan leader for wanting to “impose” his will on Spain as that “is not dialogue…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

‘Czech Trump’ Secured Landslide Win

Populist billionaire Andrej Babis and his ANO movement won the Czech general election by a wide margin Saturday.

ANO had almost three times as many votes as any other party when 94 percent of votes were counted. The party is expected to finish around 30 percent, with the center-right Civic Democrats in second place. Eight parties are expected to make the parliament, and it’s unclear with whom Babis will rule.

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

Discovery of 9.7m-Year-Old Teeth in Germany Could Rewrite Human History

The discovery of a set of 9.7-million-year-old teeth has led archaeologists to raise questions about the commonly believed ‘out-of-Africa’ theory of human origins.

The teeth, which were discovered in a former bed of the Rhine river, don’t resemble those of any other human species found in Europe or Asia.

The find suggests that contrary to popular belief, Europe may be the cradle of humanity.

The researchers claim they were so baffled by the findings, that it has taken them a year to announce the discovery.

The teeth are currently being examined in detail by a team of scientists and the first paper to report on the finding will be published next week.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

EU Finally Gives ‘Green Light’ To Brexit Negotiations After Theresa’s Appeasement, Brexit Betrayals

Formal trade talks could possibly take place in December

European Council President Donald Tusk has said leaders of the 27 remaining European Union nations have given the ‘green light’ to preparations for the second phase of talks, as the prime minister pledged her “unconditional commitment” to European defence.

The announcement comes after a series of appeasements made by Prime Minister Theresa May on the transition period, the European Court of Justice, and recently her offer to pay a Brexit ‘divorce bill’ of ‚¬20 billion which President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajan called “peanuts”, demanding tens of billions more.

She has also conceded on EU migrants’ residency rights in the UK after sources revealed that a deal between Britain and the EU on the matter is now “done and dusted” and that any EU migrants arriving in Britain before its formal departure from the bloc in 2019 will be allowed to acquire “settled status”, leading to fears of a migrant influx and mass family reunifications pushing net migration to record levels.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

German Magazine Posts Picture of Sebastian Kurz Saying it is ‘Finally Possible to Kill Baby Hitler!’

German satirical magazine Titanic posted the picture on Twitter which shows Austrian conservative Sebastian Kurz, who won last Sunday’s election, with a target over his chest.

The tweet has caused a storm of criticism from Austrians who voted Kurz and the Austrian People’s Party into first place in Sunday’s national election.

Reactions have been not only negative but some have even alleged that the Tweet may be breaking the law in Austria as it seems to call for the assassination of the 31-year-old politician who is expected to be Austria’s next chancellor.

The official Twitter account for the Vienna police even commented on the tweet saying: “We have already forwarded this to the relevant authority.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germany Terrorism Prosecution Cases Soar: Report

A nearly four-fold increase in terrorism-related cases is stretching the manpower of federal prosecutors. So far this year nearly 900 terrorism cases have been opened.

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

Meet the Eccentric, Eurosceptic, Czech Billionaire Who Will Become Prime Minister

The Czech election is taking place today, with the “Czech Donald Trump”, Andrej Babis, expected to be voted in as Prime Minister. As we noted last week, Babis is the Czech Republic’s second wealthiest person, is demanding the return of greater sovereignty from the EU, rejects the Euro and is against Muslim immigration. He has pledged to run the country like a business, while eliminating corruption. Oh, and he is also facing criminal charges for fraud. Babis’s anti-establishment party ANO stands for “Action of Dissatisfied Citizens” and is also the Czech word for “yes”.

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

Prominent Muslim Scholar Tariq Ramadan Accused of Rape, Sexual Assault in France

A rape and sexual assault complaint was filed on Friday in France against Swiss Islamist and Professor Tariq Ramadan by former Salafist Henda Ayari.

The complaint filed with the Rouen prosecutor’s office in northwestern France, by the Salafist turned secular activist, detailed criminal acts of rape, sexual assault, violence, harassment and intimidation, according to document reviewed by AFP.

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

Spain Activates “Nuclear Option”: Will Seize Control of Catalan Government, Force New Elections

This is the first time in the modern democratic period that a central government has suspended home rule in one of Spain’s 17 regions

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy asked lawmakers to grant him unprecedented powers to force leaders of the Catalonia region to cease their independence push, a dramatic escalation in the confrontation between Spain and the separatist region, which the WSJ — and virtually everyone else — has said will be a major test for Spanish democracy.

According to The Spain Report, this is the first time in the modern democratic period that a central government has suspended home rule in one of Spain’s 17 regions.

Rajoy announced that his central government would use Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution to remove the Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, and sack the entire Catalan regional government as part of a barrage of actions, and force new elections on the region within six months. Summoning the sweeping powers of Article 155, Rajoy said Saturday, was a last resort.

Puigdemont and his regional administration will be removed from office once the Spanish Senate approves the government’s plan as soon as this week and Spanish government ministers will take over the management of the Catalan administration, Rajoy said according to Bloomberg. The responsibilities of the Catalan government will be administered in the interim period by central government ministries. Furthermore, the Catalan Parliament will not be allowed to present a new candidate for First Minister, to prevent Puigdemont from being reappointed.

[Comment: Civil war coming to Spain.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Duterte Now Says He’ll Execute Criminals Himself

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to kill drug dealers himself Friday in an effort to stop his war on crime.

“Those who rape children, who rape women, those sons of … if you don’t want the police, I am here now. I will shoot them. That’s true! If nobody would dare it, I will pull the trigger,” he said Friday night.

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

White Genocide by South African Marxists

South Africa is going through very difficult times

Simon Roche, former ANC activist, explains why the Marxist government of South Africa is pursuing a policy of land confiscation and white genocide and how Afrikaners are prepping for survival.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“We Can’t Welcome All the World’s Poor” — Macron Unveils Crackdown on Criminal Illegal Aliens

Two years after the European Commission carried out the bidding of German Chancellor Angela Merkel by approving a plan to distribute migrants entering the Schengen area through Greece and Italy evenly across the European Union, the people of Europe have made their displeasure with Merkel’s “open door” policy abundantly clear.

Last month, Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union suffered its most embarrassing showing in a federal election in decades, allowing a far-right, anti-immigrant party into parliament for the first time since World War II. The Alternative for Germany party’s unexpectedly strong showing fractured the ruling coalition spearheaded by Merkel’s conservatives as her partners, the Social Democrats opted to rebuild in opposition, complicating Merkel’s attempts to form a ruling coalition.

In what was widely celebrated by the right as an important public capitulation, Merkel announced that her government would consider implementing a refugee cap of 200,000 (far larger than the cap adopted by the Trump administration). While it’s unclear whether the cap will ultimately become law, the fact that Merkel has publicly acknowledged the failure of open doors was interpreted as a sea change in Europe’s response to the worsening migrant crisis.

And now, French President Emmanuel Macron — Merkel’s de facto partner in leading the European project — has himself made a small but important concession to the growing anti-immigrant sentiment in France, which, like many of its neighbors in western Europe, has suffered a horrific string of terror attacks inspired or actively organized by the Islamic State, the South China Morning Post reported.

In a wide ranging interview this week, Macron revealed a new policy whereby illegal immigrants who commit crimes in France will face deportation. Presently, being an illegal immigrant in France isn’t a criminal offense.

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

Immigrants Are a Huge Net Cost to Canadians

This article provides easy access to a powerful set of facts showing that immigrants are a net cost to Canadians rather than a net benefit.

These facts were researched and tabulated by Herbert Grubel, Professor of Economics (Emeritus), at Simon Fraser University, a rare critical thinker in academia who questions the economic merits of mass immigration. He understands well why so few are willing to speak out negatively about immigration, and why the academic establishment is packed with sheepish conformists:

The atmosphere of political correctness existing in Canada suppresses any negative comments in the fear that they could be interpreted as evidence that the person expressing them is a racist…As a result, negative results of immigration are debated rarely in public. By contrast, the idea that immigration brings positive results is politically correct and gets much exposure in public discourse.1

We are fortunate to have someone like Grubel. Here are some of the statistical highlights he has produced:

The costs in services and benefits, in the year 2002 alone, incurred by the 2.5 million immigrants who arrived between 1990 and 2002 exceeded the taxes they paid by $18.3 billion.2 “Recent immigrants on average paid less than half the taxes paid by the average Canadian, while at the same time immigrants consumed roughly the same amount of government services as other Canadians.”3 As a result, the average immigrant since 1986 has imposed an annual fiscal burden on Canadian taxpayers of $6000, for a total of $25-billion annually for all immigrants.4 The total fiscal burden “has risen from $16 to $24 billion in 2005, to $20 to $28 billion in 2010, to $27 to $35 billion in 2014.”5

Grubel explains that these numbers are “the result of these immigrants having low average incomes and paying correspondingly low taxes while they are entitled to all the benefits offered by Canada’s welfare state.”6 He observes, furthermore, that “a significant part of this burden originates with the parents and grandparents who join their families in Canada [and who] pay virtually no taxes and consume large amounts of government services, especially health care.”7

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

California is a Liberal Lunatic Wasteland Beyond Saving

Drag Queens will now be teaching children about sexuality

California libraries are now hosting “Drag Queen Story Hour” where drag queens read books to children in order to teach them about gender identity and diversity.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Down the Tube: YouTube Quietly Launches New Censorship Scheme Designed to Limit Access to Videos

YouTube has been accused of censorship after introducing a controversial new policy designed to reduce the audience for videos deemed to be “inappropriate or offensive to some audiences”.

The Google-owned video site is now putting videos into a “limited state” if they are deemed controversial enough to be considered objectionable, but not hateful, pornographic or violent enough to be banned altogether.

This policy has come into force in the past week, prompting anger among members of the YouTube community.

The Sun Online understands Google and YouTube insiders refer to the tactic as “tougher treatment”.

One prominent video-maker slammed the new scheme whilst WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange described the measures as “economic censorship”.

However, YouTube sees it as a way of maintaining freedom of speech and allowing discussion of controversial issues without resorting to the wholesale banning of videos.

Videos which are put into a limited state cannot be embedded on other websites.

They also cannot be easily published on social media using the usual share buttons and other users cannot comment on them.

Crucially, the person who made the video will no longer receive any payment.

Earlier this week, Julian Assange wrote: “‘Controversial’ but contract-legal videos [which break YouTube’s terms and conditions] cannot be liked, embedded or earn [money from advertising revenue].

“What’s interesting about the new method deployed is that it is a clear attempt at social engineering. It isn’t just turning off the ads.

“It’s turning off the comments, embeds, etc too.

“Everything possible to strangle the reach without deleting it.”

Criticism of YouTube’s policies is most acute among people on the right of the political spectrum, who fear that Silicon Valley is dominated by the left and determined to silence opposing voices — a claim denied by tech giants like Facebook and Google.

[Comment: The goal is to throttle anti-globalist ideas, anti-mass-migration and nationalsit ideas and to prevent them from spreading on social media.]

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TV Drama ‘Star’ Depicts White Racists Harassing Muslim, Dumping BLM Activist Out of Wheelchair

When there’s not enough real hate crimes, just insert them into fictional shows

When there aren’t enough real hate crimes to exploit to push your political agenda, why not just insert them into the scripts of popular TV shows?

That’s what the writers of Star, a Fox drama about the music industry, decided to do by portraying two white racists harassing a Muslim woman and then dumping a ‘Black Lives Matter’ activist out of his wheelchair.

The episode followed one of the show’s main characters, Derek, as he tried to get over his bad mood about being paralysed by getting out of the house.

The clip shows Derek in a convenience before he sees the two men harassing a female Muslim cashier wearing a hijab.

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5 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/21/2017

  1. Czech Trump, is a Slovak communist. We shall se what crimes he shall perpetrate in the upcoming years. As a Czech finance minister, he made 48 billion CZK on government subsidies. As a prime minister, he will do better…

  2. On Trump’s non-obstruction of the overdue release – in terms of justice being seen to be done – of what the CIA and the FBI have been at great pains in trying to keep from public viewing.

    Problem. How many of those ‘files’ to be released will in effect be null and void because they have already been redacted by the actions of the corrupt within the CIA and the FBI?

    And if that is the case upon release, then what exactly have they been hiding since November 1963 that the ‘public’ were not meant to know and exactly why was the public not meant to know?

    From the protestations coming from Mike Pompeo – the CIA Director – to President Trump NOT to allow the release of such documentation, one must wonder whose side Pompeo is on and who is he really working for?

  3. In other news, President Donald Trump has ordered that all remaining classified government files on the assassination of President Kennedy be made available to the public.

    I would dearly like to think that this move by Trump is a “thumb-in-the-eye” for the Deep State. Please consider reading, “The Devil’s Chessboard — Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government”, by author David Talbot.

    As someone who reads over 30,000 pages per year, it is one of the more disturbing accounts of inappropriate (if not despicable) American Imperialism that I have ever read. This book’s last few chapters are dedicated to an excruciatingly precise analysis of JFK’s 1963 assassination which leaves few doubts as to who was responsible for that traumatic episode in American politics.

    It would be beyond gratifying if Trump’s effort to exalt America’s FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) happened to genuinely clarify this dark episode in modern US history.

    Read the book. I’ve yet to see any better source of information about this abortion of justice. Feel free to suggest better references. I would welcome them.

  4. In other news, Czech elections were won by the party ANO (“yes” in Czech) with nearly 30%. Their view on immigration is that it has to be dealt with away from European soil. No surprise that their leader is considered populist and controversial.

    Second, was ODS, a traditional right party, basically tied was the Pirates (a liberal leftist party whose leader and other members are confirmed on several Antifa photos) and SPD (right-wing anti-immigration party, also called populist and extremist), other five parties get into the parliament.

    Among our 200-member cabinet the numbers look as follows:
    ANO 78
    ODS 25
    Pirates 22
    SPD 22
    KSČM (communist party) 15
    ČSSD (social democrats) 15
    KDU-ČSL (christian party, but much like Merkel’s they’re pro-migration) 10
    TOP09 (like ODS almost) 7
    STAN (a party made of mayors from all over the country) 6.

    Now the first post-elections talks about possible coalitions are taking place.

    • They require 101 votes to have the majority to pass laws and 120 votes to have the majority to change the constitution btw.

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