Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/22/2017

Now that the Italian government is interfering with the migration route from Libya to Italy, people-smugglers are devising different routes for getting their charges into Europe. Some traffickers are offering package deals that include a flight to Casablanca in Morocco as well as passage to Spain.

In other news, an NGO linked to George Soros is demanding that the European Union accept an additional 540,000 migrants from poor countries.

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Financial Crisis
» Italian Government Debt ‘Reason for Concern’: EU
 
USA
» ‘George Soros Seeks a One World Government to Serve Oligarchs, Not the People” — US State Senator
» ISIS-Loving Terrorist Sayfullo Saipov Faces 8 Counts of Murder
» PD: Drunken Driver Hits, Seriously Injures 2 Pedestrians
» Univ of Illinois Instructor Arrested for Attacking Conservative Students
 
Canada
» 60 Battle Hardened ISIS Jihadists Return to Trudeau’s Canada (And More Could be Coming)
 
Europe and the EU
» Dutch Politician Wilders Calls for ‘Alternative to Russiaphobia’ In Europe
» EU Independence Crisis Will Spread Like Cancer if Catalonia Separates Warns Barcelona MP
» Fears ISIS May Launch Terror Attack on Black Friday Shoppers, Experts Warn
» France: Le Pen Accuses Bank of ‘Fatwa’ After Closing Her Accounts
» Merkel Tanks in the Polls: Chancellor Ratings Slump as German Anger Grows
» Poland Signs Deal to Buy US Liquefied Gas Over 5 Years
» Tommy Robinson: Behind the Scenes at My Grimsby Book Launch
» U.S. State Department Put $700,000 Into Hungarian Media, Demands ‘Programming’ Against Orban, Patriots
» Wilders Improves Relations With Russia
 
Russia
» Is Seeking the Truth a Human Right?
 
South Asia
» India, Russia to Join Forces on Terrorism
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘It’s Like Dating an Abusive Guy’: Muslim Activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied Likens Her Relationship With Australia to Domestic Violence as She Defends Outrageous ANZAC Day Tweet
 
Latin America
» Tracking Socialist Venezuela’s Death Spiral: 4,000 Percent Inflation
 
Immigration
» Migrants Paying People Smugglers for ‘All-Inclusive’ Trips to Spain
» Soros-Linked NGO Demands EU Accept 540,000 Migrants From ‘Poor Countries’
 
Culture Wars
» ‘It Could Lead to Unintended Consequences’: Leading Gay Marriage Campaigner Admits Same-Sex Unions Bill Could Pave the Way for Sharia Law in Australia
 
General
» Islamic Indoctrination Becoming Common in Schools
 

Italian Government Debt ‘Reason for Concern’: EU

The European Commission sounded the alarm on Wednesday over Italy’s high level of public debt, adding to concerns about the eurozone’s third largest economy.

“In the case of Italy, the persisting high government debt is a reason of concern,” the European Commission said in a statement on Wednesday.

Debt levels are a concern in the EU, which has only recently started to make a sustained recovery from the 2008 global financial crash and the ensuing eurozone debt crisis.

Brussels singled out six eurozone nations — Italy, France, Belgium, Austria, Portugal and Slovenia — as being on course for breaching EU regulations on government deficits.

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

‘George Soros Seeks a One World Government to Serve Oligarchs, Not the People” — US State Senator

For people like Soros and the globalists; they view the nation-state as a problem, because the nation expresses the will of the people of that nation, and it serves their personal interest, Richard Black, Republican Virginia state Senator, told RT.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the Fidesz Party Vice Chairman Gergely Gulyás are locked in a desperate battle with the billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros, as well as his ideologically driven campaign to allow thousands of migrants to flood into Europe.

Leaders like Orban say the strategy will lead to the total collapse of a “Christian Europe,” and argue that Soros is trying to subvert Hungary and the rest of the EU.

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

ISIS-Loving Terrorist Sayfullo Saipov Faces 8 Counts of Murder

The man accused of killing eight people in a Lower Manhattan terrorist attack has been charged in a 22-count indictment, officials said Tuesday.

Sayfullo Saipov, 29, faces eight counts of murder in aid of racketeering in the gruesome truck attack along a bike path on Halloween.

He is also charged with 12 counts of attempted murder in aid of racketeering, and one count of providing and attempting to provide material support to ISIS, as well as one count of violence and destruction of a motor vehicle.

He could face the death penalty for nine of these counts. Saipov was behind the wheel of a rental truck when he crossed into Manhattan from New Jersey over the George Washington Bridge, and then cruised south on the West Side Highway on Oct. 31, prosecutors said.

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

PD: Drunken Driver Hits, Seriously Injures 2 Pedestrians

A drunken driver hit two pedestrians and a parked car in Norwalk early this morning and both people who were struck have serious injuries, according to police.

The pedestrians were on West Avenue when the driver hit them at 1:07 p.m. and they were transported to Norwalk Hospital. Police have identified the suspected driver as 31-year-old Walter Veliz, of Norwalk, who does not have a driver’s license.

Police said his blood-alcohol level was .1852, which is more than twice the legal limit. He was not injured.

Veliz was charged with two counts of second-degree assault with a motor vehicle, driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, reckless driving and operating without a license. Bond was set at $75,000.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Univ of Illinois Instructor Arrested for Attacking Conservative Students

A University of Illinois graduate instructor was arrested for assaulting two students during an anti-Trump protest Thursday, stealing the phone of one student and throwing it on the sidewalk.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

60 Battle Hardened ISIS Jihadists Return to Trudeau’s Canada (And More Could be Coming)

On last night’s show, I reported on Justin Trudeau’s weak response to the 60 ISIS terrorists returning to Canada from Syria and Iraq.

These jihadists are responsible for rape, murder, and genocide, and Trudeau is allowing them to live free in Canada. Alarmingly, these 60 terrorists may only be the first wave of ISIS members to return.

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

Dutch Politician Wilders Calls for ‘Alternative to Russiaphobia’ In Europe

Geert Wilders, whose PVV party increased its vote but failed to make a breakthrough in the Dutch general election in March, said on Wednesday, November 22, he wanted to lead the fight against Russophobia in Europe.

He told the Elsevier Weekblad newspaper he wanted to offer an “alternative to the hysterical Russophobia that is prevailing everywhere.”

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

EU Independence Crisis Will Spread Like Cancer if Catalonia Separates Warns Barcelona MP

Josep Antoni Duran Lleida said the independence movement would be a “metastasis” for the whole continent.

And he warned the shockwaves of the Catalan referendum could spark a wave of independence across Europe, El Pais reports.

Mr Duran is a former member of parliament in Madrid for the Democratic Union of Catalonia, a Spanish nationalist alliance.

Despite vowing to step back from the front line of Spanish politics, the outspoken figure has condemned the division of Spain into “two irreconcilable blocks” of those in favour of independence against Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s Popular Party.

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

Fears ISIS May Launch Terror Attack on Black Friday Shoppers, Experts Warn

SHOPS across the nation have been warned to be vigilant for ISIS-inspired terrorists launching a Black Friday atrocity.

The country’s high streets will be thronged as shoppers turn out in force to snap-up pre-Christmas bargains.

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

France: Le Pen Accuses Bank of ‘Fatwa’ After Closing Her Accounts

French populist leader Marine Le Pen claims her National Front party fell victim to a “banking fatwa” after HSBC and Societe Generale closed her accounts.

Le Pen claims HSBC called her up to inform her that her personal account was getting closed “without justification.” Societe Generale, where Le Pen has been a customer for 30 years, asked her to do shut down her account voluntarily.

Le Pen claims the actions are part of a “banking fatwa” against her populist movement.

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

Merkel Tanks in the Polls: Chancellor Ratings Slump as German Anger Grows

The survey, carried out in the coalition talks breakdown, makes worrying reading for Angela Merkel.

While Mrs Merkel said yesterday she wanted to stand again in any new snap election the German people appear to be turned off by the prospect.

Of those polled, 54 per cent said she should not run for office, according to the polling institute Civey for t-online.de.

Only 38.5 percent of Germans would welcome a renewed candidacy of the chancellor.

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

Poland Signs Deal to Buy US Liquefied Gas Over 5 Years

Poland’s state-owned gas company says it has signed a five-year deal to buy liquefied natural gas from the U.S. as Europe seeks to cut its dependence on imports from Russia.

The company, called PGNiG, says that starting next year the Centrica LNG Company Ltd. will make nine shipments of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from the Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana to Poland’s gas port in Swinoujscie on the Baltic coast. Poland already received a few one-off LNG deliveries earlier this year.

PGNiG said in a statement it was the first such contract for regular LNG deliveries to central and eastern Europe, a region seeking to cut dependence on Russia, which has used its gas exports as a policy tool.

Poland is also seeking to buy natural gas from Norway.

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

Tommy Robinson: Behind the Scenes at My Grimsby Book Launch

(LANGUAGE WARNING) You might have heard that my book launch in Grimsby was cancelled. This is the third time it’s happened.

It seems that local politicians and hard-left activists just don’t want people reading a certain book. Interesting.

During the course of the night, four venues were cancelled. Eventually, we found someone who was willing to ignore the threats from the left — and we had a great night. I gave out copies of Muhammad’s Koran for free, and I met supporters from across the country who value free speech.

Tonight’s episode of The Tommy Robinson Show takes you behind the scenes and shows you exactly what we have to deal with every time this happens. The left are hell-bent on stopping free speech, but I won’t give up.

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

U.S. State Department Put $700,000 Into Hungarian Media, Demands ‘Programming’ Against Orban, Patriots

The U.S. State Department has courted controversy by announcing it will plough $700,000 into Hungarian media, angering the country’s anti-globalist, conservative government.

The funding was announced by U.S. Chargé d’Affaires David Kostelancik, who has previously appeared to openly criticise the Trump administration by alluding to “apparent inconsistencies in [U.S.] foreign policy” and remarking that “not every criticism of the government is ‘fake news’.”

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

Wilders Improves Relations With Russia

[Translated from Elsevier]

PVV-frontman Geert Wilders views Russia as an ally, accuses others of raising spectres of enmity, but refuses donations. ‘There are no rubles coming our way.’

Not everything Moscow does is beneficent, admits Geert Wilders. Yet he is on his way to the Russian embassy in The Hague, located along the Andries Bickerweg. He wants to ‘counterbalance the hysterical Russophobia that exists in places.’

There are no rubles coming our way

Is the PVV-frontman perhaps considering imitating the French Front National? Party leader Marine Le Pen, who is, according to Wilders, an ally in ‘the European Patriotic Spring’, in 2014 accepted loans worth 14 million Euros from Russia, of which 11 million belonged to a Kremlin-connected bank, as reported by the BBC.

‘No,’ says Wilders (54) moments before entering the Russian embassy. ‘I accept no loans or gifts from Russia. I never have and never will. There are no rubles coming the way of the PVV.’

Wilders is unsure whether Russophobia is a word, but the Russians know exactly what he is hinting at, because they themselves use the term roesofobiija to describe the increasing dislike and arrogance that they experience in Western countries.

The interior of the embassy looks like a set piece from a film on the Cold War. Decent, sober, somewhat dark. It is surprising to see how professionally the diplomats compose themselves and how eloquently some of them express themselves in Dutch. Ambassador Alexander Shulgin and Wilders converse in English.

The ambassador receives him in a room where another diplomat is already present, who maintains his silence.

Russians are people too

The PVV-frontman took the initiative. He invited the ambassador for a work visit to his party’s quarters in parliament. But since 2014 — the annexation of Crimea and the disastrous take-down of MH17 — the embassy has noticed that the barriers have been higher than before and that appointments have been more often postponed. This was most likely the reason for Shulgin to invite Wilders to the embassy.

The PVV-frontman knows that these relations are politically sensitive. D66-Minister Kasja Ollongren of Interior Affairs warned a couple of days earlier against the fake news that Russia allegedly uses to influence democratic processes. But it is quite common for politicians to meet with ambassadors, and Wilders has been upfront to Elsevier Weekly Magazine: ‘Nothing secretive is going on.’

In a previous lifetime working for the VVD, Wilders learnt from the party leader at the time, Frits Bolkestein, that you have treat Russians as people, and that you have to respect their geopolitical sphere of influence.He repeatedly visited Moscow — the last time was ten years ago — and has been explained on a map with coloured lights how this great country has been surrounded by an eastwardly advancing NATO.

‘I am a big fan of NATO and the Americans, but this time the Russians are in the right,’ says Wilders. That is exactly the kind of talk that ambassador Shulgin knows how to appreciate.

Flight and stay will be paid out of pocket

‘Do not underestimate how important the relations with elected representatives are for the relations between countries’, says Geert Wilders. Years ago he visited Iran and found in their Assembly representatives who spoke openly about what what happening on the ground. ‘Such meetings give me more insight than Laboru Party member Bert Koenders gets from ten Ministerial work visits. In 2018 Wilders would like to visit the Parliament in Moscow. ‘I am going alone, on behalf of the PVV, but in the role of elected representative. Flight and stay will be paid out of pocket.’

Wilders: we have to realise that Russia is our ally

Wilders claims to remain critical of Russia. He believes that the perpetrators of the take-down of MH17 need to appear before court, and he rejects the Russian annexation of Crimea, contrary to Le Pen. Despite these differences, he likes to focus on the common interests

After the meeting, Wilders says that ‘we have much to learn from Russia in terms of patriotism. This is not all rainbows and sunshine, and I shall be critical of every misstep. But I do not dislike the Russians.’

Wilders: ‘Instead of criticising, we should realise that Russia is our ally in the fight against terror and mass immigration from Africa. They are just as exposed to these things as we. I treat the Russians as equals and as friends.’

Russophobia

What is his explanation for the alleged Russophobia in The Hague? Have politicians any interest in fanning the flames of the Cold War? Are they guilty of the same accusation they level against Wilders, namely that they embolden the baser instincts of the voters?

‘Russia is not an enemy and should not be made out as one,’ says Wilders. ‘I do not know what possesses D66-frontman Alexander Pechtold to ridicule president Donald Trump and to mock Russia. It is totally inapproriate.’

‘I suspect that such politicians are pointing at these supposed enemies to conceal what is truly important, namely our struggle against islam.’It occurred to him that Shulgin never mentioned islam. Russia has 142 million inhabitants, of which at least a 100 million consider themselves Christian. Early next year, Wilders will travel to Moscow to ‘show that there are patriots over there too’. He believes it necessary because: ‘Russia is on our side.’

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Is Seeking the Truth a Human Right?

by Diana West

Earlier today, Bill Browder, American-born British billionaire and also grandson of the notorious CPUSA leader Earl Browder, posted the above picture on Twitter from inside a conference on “human rights challenges” at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. Hosted by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the conference was billed as an “international hearing” into the death of Browder’s longtime accountant, Sergei Magnitsky, in Russian state custody. Browder’s tweet reads: “Magnitsky denial filmmaker complaining how unfairly he’s been treated in his ambitions to spread FSB version that Magnitsky wasn’t murdered.”

Tsk, tsk. I don’t know what filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov said — he was not permitted to record the proceedings — but you would think that whatever it was, Browder could take it: five scheduled minutes of dissent in an uninterrupted battery of pro-Browder speakers and even an after-dinner play, all endorsing the international Magnitsky movement as he, Browder, and his impressive organization, have created it.

What is the Magnitsky movement? For starters, it is an amazing success. By dint of Browder’s ceaseless lobbying and influence, the US Congress and parliaments in Canada, the UK, Estonia, Latvia have passed “Magnitsky Acts” sanctioning mainly Russian individuals connected with the arrest, imprisonment and death of Sergei Magnitsky, who died at the age of 37 under terrible circumstances in a Russian prison in 2009.

Apparently, Browder sees fit to tar anyone who questions whether Magnitsky’s prison death was an intentional “murder” (carried out by eight men wielding batons for over an hour, as Browder tells it), or, perhaps, a result of criminal negligence by prison medical personnel, as mouthpieces of the “FSB version” — the FSB being successor to the KGB.

I wonder if Browder realizes he has just slimed not only filmmaker Nekrasov, director of the quite amazing documentary, “The Magnitsky Act — Behind the Scenes,” but also at least two significant persons who appear in the Nekrasov film…

           — Hat tip: Diana West [Return to headlines]
 

India, Russia to Join Forces on Terrorism

Home Minister Rajnath Singh is expected to visit Russia November 27 onwards, during which a pact on cooperation in tackling all forms of terrorism will be signed, a senior Home Ministry official said.

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

‘It’s Like Dating an Abusive Guy’: Muslim Activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied Likens Her Relationship With Australia to Domestic Violence as She Defends Outrageous ANZAC Day Tweet

Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has appeared on Channel 10’s The Project, and compared her relationship with Australia to ‘dating an abusive guy’.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Tracking Socialist Venezuela’s Death Spiral: 4,000 Percent Inflation

It took 41,000 bolivars of the Venezuelan currency to purchase a single American dollar on November 1. Three weeks later it took 84,000 bolivars. Back on January 1 Venezuelans could trade just 3,100 bolivars to purchase a dollar. Patrick Gillespie, writing for CNNMoney, did the calculation: Inflation in Venezuela is running at a rate of 4,000 percent a year.

Which explains why Venezuelans are increasingly turning to barter in order to survive. A loaf of bread can be traded for a handful of beans because each has intrinsic value and can’t be degraded through a printing press.

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

Migrants Paying People Smugglers for ‘All-Inclusive’ Trips to Spain

People smugglers in Morocco are now offering African migrants an “all-inclusive” smuggling package which includes a flight to Casablanca and passage to Spain.

Despite the slowdown of the Libyan migrant route, people smugglers have continued to operate their businesses by switching to different migrant routes. Now, according to a migrant from Cameroon, they are offering “all-inclusive” luxury smuggling packages to get migrants into Europe from Morocco. Die Welt reports.

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

Soros-Linked NGO Demands EU Accept 540,000 Migrants From ‘Poor Countries’

European Union (EU) nations should take more than half a million refugees currently living in third world camps, according to an open borders NGO with close links to globalist billionaire George Soros.

In an interview with EUobserver on Monday, Chairman of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) David Miliband said Europe has two choices: accept massive illegal immigration, or create routes enabling the world’s poorest people to migrate legally.

The former British foreign secretary announced he is pressing Brussels to resettle 540,000 refugees in Europe over five years, a number far larger than the 50,000 migrants the European Commission announced in September is to be delivered to EU nations from Africa over the next two years.

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

‘It Could Lead to Unintended Consequences’: Leading Gay Marriage Campaigner Admits Same-Sex Unions Bill Could Pave the Way for Sharia Law in Australia

Dean Smith, a gay senator from Perth championing a same-sex marriage bill, is concerned about Sharia law coming to Australia if religious protections go too far.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Islamic Indoctrination Becoming Common in Schools

In his latest video, Ezra Levant exposes a disturbing new trend of Islamic indoctrination taking place at schools all over the West.

These days, Christianity is pretty much kept completely out of schools by the politically correct left. In contrast, however, children are given extensive courses on Islam and taken on field trips to mosques, where they speak with imams about Islam. If any parents protest that they do not want their child to be indoctrinated, they are immediately accused of “racism” or being “Islamaophobic.”

It’s disturbing that we live in a world where students are kept in the dark about aspects of the Christian faith — even from a simple, educational perspective — yet those students are happily encouraged to write essays about Islamic conversion. If a parent does not want their child to be indoctrinated in this way, he or she should be allowed to have their child withdrawn from these programs without being attacked.

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

13 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/22/2017

  1. Yesterday evening 20 Pakistani and Afghans coming out of a construction building tried to rape a 30 year-0ld woman who was going back home.

    She was lucky because the incident took place near her home and her two brothers listening to her screams for help, came out. The neighbours also called the police and the woman was saved but her brothers ended up in a hospital. All of the immigrants were illegal.They took 8 months in jail with 3 years in a row, so they will be able to try again.

    None of the Media referred to this. We usually are informed by some patriotic blogs.

    As for the religious books in schools. They are whatever you may think except Christian Orthodox. So the parents took all the books back to school. We decided not to accept them but teach Orthodoxy at home.

    • Certainly a most compelling argument for private ownership of full-automatic weapons.

      In the meantime, these subhumans will get three meals a day, warm accomodations, and their own private security at taxpayer expense for the next eight months minimum.

      A magazine of 5.56 would have been cheaper.

      • A magazine of 5.56 would have been cheaper.

        Clearly, many Europeans would do well to subscribe to that “magazine”.

        In the midst of their relentless firearm restrictions, far too few on The Continent have yet to realize that real gun control means using both hands!

      • They probably also get advanced training on islam and practical jihad tactics. (as part of their religious rights).

  2. “In other news, an NGO linked to George Soros is demanding that the European Union accept an additional 540,000 migrants from poor countries”

    Why the EU and not the USA?

    • Why the EU and not the USA?

      By comparison, Europeans are defenseless fatted calves ready for the slaughter. Their voluntary allowance for state monopolies on violence may (at one time) have fulfilled many idealistic public visions of a calm, ordered life—however, as with so many utopian goals, relinquishing such a fundamental component of human survival has rendered them relatively unprotected against invaders and oppressive governments alike.

      Additionally, the EU is much more proximate to the readiest sources of these immigrants economic tourists. This combination of adjacency and availability permits a relatively swift dismantling of one of this planet’s major Caucasian population centers—a primary objective of Tranzi Globalists like Soros.

      Finally, not only is America insulated (to some extent) by sheer oceanic distance, the USA also is protected by a very well-armed populace that’s far less inclined to tolerate the unrestrained criminality of the type currently flooding into Europe.

      Besides, who needs Soros when you have such a vast number of treasonous politicians holding US public office? America was long ago sold down the “immigration” river and it’s been a race to the bottom ever since.

  3. And that “Virtue Signalling” hypocrite David Milliband has ensured he is seen by all! “Ooh how wonderful I am!” Labour and the Millibands are evil. They care not one iota for the poor and destitute in UK living out of food kitchens.I loathe these poseurs.

  4. This is too disturbing for me , I’m very worry about my daughter and granddaughter, where this incident took place ? With this savages? In Germany?

  5. It’s is beyond my mind what is happening, this brainless politicians invited criminals!!, they are far away from refugees!!!.

  6. In other news, an NGO linked to George Soros is demanding that the European Union accept an additional 540,000 migrants from poor countries.

    In some ways, this is good. As people start recognizing how “immigrants” equate to an immediate decrease in quality of life, they will begin to instantly associate all such pleas or demands with having come from the enemy.

    All of this falls under what may be, perhaps, the most insidious of modern Liberal campaigns. Mere “equality of opportunity” is no longer sufficient.

    These dangerous lunatics will be satisfied with nothing less than “Equality of OUTCOME.” A result that cannot possibly be assured, save at gunpoint. Any government apparatus that could assure equality of outcome would be inches away from ultra-oppressive tyranny.

    Here is where there springs to mind ex-President Gerald Ford’s uncharacteristically prescient words:

    A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

    As if the USSR wasn’t an adequate object lesson, the usual anguished lament about Communism continues to this day … “But it just hasn’t been done right!!!”

    • Right on.

      “Equality of Outcome” – isn’t that called COMMUNISM?

      Re: communism: “But it just hasn’t been done right!!!” – oddly, that’s what the Islamists claim, as well.

      By its fruits you shall know the tree. Both have a lot in common.

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