Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/16/2017

The Spanish navy arrested 72 migrants who were trying to enter Spain illegally by crossing the Strait of Gibraltar in boats. However, since the migrants were brought to Spain and given medical care, it’s not clear at this point what the difference is between “arresting” and the more typical “rescuing”.

In other news, Switzerland expelled a Tunisian taxi driver who was facing criminal charges, due to concerns that he might pose a terror threat.

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USA
» “We Came From Different Parts of the Country”: Possible Voter Fraud in Alabama Senate Race Exposed
» “You White B***h!”: Anti-Trump Thugs Attack White Woman Over Her Supposed Support for Trump
» Anti-Trump Lawyer Sought Out Payments for Women Who Would Accuse Donald Trump of Sexual Assault
» Doctor Mentioned in Hillary Email Released by WikiLeaks Found Dead in Apartment…police Say He Committed Suicide by Stabbing Himself to Death??
» Google’s True Origin Partly Lies in CIA and NSA Research Grants for Mass Surveillance
» Husband Finds Hidden Camera Pointed at Bed on Major Cruise Line… Cruise Security Downplays Severity of Situation [Video]
» Major Scandal: U.S. Congressman Says That There Was a ‘Concerted Effort’ Within the FBI to Help Hillary Clinton Win the Election
» New City Ordinance Outlaws Giving Money to Panhandlers, Violators Will be Fined & Jailed
» Robots Are Being Used to Shoo Away Homeless People in San Francisco
» The Sun is Blank, NASA Data Shows it to be Dimming
» Turning Red States Marxist Red
» Video: Leftists Embrace Domestic Terrorism, Call for Assassination of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Over Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules
 
Europe and the EU
» Austria’s Anti-Immigrant Freedom Party Enter Government; Wins Key Ministry Posts
» ‘EU is Killing Europe’: Far Right Leaders Call for End to ‘Disastrous’ Union
» Italy: Algerian Nabbed in Terror Probe
» Switzerland Expels French-Tunisian Man Over Terror Fears
» UK: Bengali Student, 16, Was Told ‘Don’t Mess With Our Blood’ as He Was Given a Savage ‘Honour’ Beating by a Group of Pakistani Men for Dating a Girl From Their Family
» UK: Head of Ofsted Reveals She Faces ‘Personal Attacks’ From ‘Extremists’ Trying to Intimidate the Watchdog Over Crackdown on Illegal Muslim Schools
 
Middle East
» Conspiracy Theorists Were Right: Corporate Media Finally Forced to Admit America Armed ISIS
 
Australia — Pacific
» Inside Australia’s Most Muslim Suburb: Lakemba Residents Speak Out About Racism and Same-Sex Marriage in One of the Country’s Most Diverse Areas
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Zimbabwe Ruling Party Meets to Seal Mugabe’s Fall From Grace
 
Latin America
» Video: What Everyday Life is Like in Puerto Rico Now
 
Immigration
» Italy: We’ll Give Mother Bonus to Regular Foreigners — INPS
» Spain Arrests 72 Migrants in Gibraltar Strait
» Systematic Trade in Fake Asylum Stories Revealed in Sweden
» UK: Human Rights Insanity: Barmy Laws Are Preventing 6,000 Foreign Criminals Including Killers and Rapists Being Deported While 200 a Year Are Receiving Millions of Pounds in Compensation
 
Culture Wars
» Calif. Companies That Sold Aborted Baby Parts Forced to Close
» D.C. Metro Defends Ban on Catholic Church’s Christmas Ads
» Multiculturalists Working to Undermine Western Civilization
» UK: Traditional Depictions of Mothers to be Banned in Adverts Amid Ongoing War on ‘Gender Stereotypes’
» Vampires, Zombies and ‘Hooking Up’: 37 Examples of Real College Courses That Are Almost Too Crazy to Believe
 

“We Came From Different Parts of the Country”: Possible Voter Fraud in Alabama Senate Race Exposed

The possibility that there was widespread voter fraud during the recent Alabama senate election between Doug Jones and Roy Moore has become very real after a Jones voter was caught on camera discussing how his supporters came from different parts of the country to vote for the Democrat.

The clip, which has gone viral on Facebook, was captured by the local Fox affiliate shortly after the media had confirmed that Jones had pulled off the stunning upset.

After being asked by a local reporter why he was excited to see Jones victory, the man responded with a comment that could easily be interpreted as proof that voter fraud did indeed happen.

“Because we came here all the way from different parts of the country as part of our fellowship and all of us pitched in to vote and canvas together and we got our boy elected!” the Jones supporter stunningly revealed.

While it remains unclear what the man specifically meant with his comments, one can imagine that he either meant that people were transported into the state to campaign for Jones or that out of state liberals actually voted for the anti-gun former prosecutor.

Or perhaps both?

Interestingly, Moore has so far refused to concede the election with the claim that military and provisional ballots had not yet been counted.

“Roy Moore is continuing to refuse to concede the election, commenting, “In this race, we have not received the final count to include military and provisional ballots. This has been a very close race and we are awaiting certification by the secretary of state,” reported Paul Joseph Watson.

“If Moore reduces Jones’ 1.5 percentage advantage to within 0.5% after the military ballots have been counted, this will trigger an automatic recount which will will be paid for by the state government.”

The possibility that voter fraud did indeed happen during the senate race is very real, especially when you consider the fact that the entire establishment cheered Jones victory shortly after it was announced that he had won the Senate seat vacated by Republican Jeff Sessions.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“You White B***h!”: Anti-Trump Thugs Attack White Woman Over Her Supposed Support for Trump

A 32-year-old liberal white woman was attacked and robbed by two Hispanic teens who accused the woman of being a Trump supporter while pelting her with groceries at a Bronx area deli Wednesday night.

Amazingly, the woman is not actually a Trump supporter and was apparently attacked as one simply because she was white. Keep in mind that the left has specifically blamed white people for Trump’ s election victory so one can imagine that the teens were simply carrying out an attack they thought was for the “ greater good.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Anti-Trump Lawyer Sought Out Payments for Women Who Would Accuse Donald Trump of Sexual Assault

A media promoted, leftist women’s rights lawyer openly sought to arrange payments from both liberal donors and the mainstream media for the women she represented who accused then presidential candidate Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, according to a bombshell new report from The Hill.

The report not only exposes the lengths that California lawyer Lisa Bloom was willing to go to stop Donald Trump from becoming president, it also points to the fact that she herself was attempting to make money off accusations that Trump sexually assaulted multiple women.

According to the report, Bloom’s efforts including arranging a liberal donor to pay off one of the accusers mortgage, offering to sell an alleged victims story to TV outlets, and even trying to secure a six figure payment for another women who eventually decided not to come forward with her supposed accusations.

One of the Bloom clients who DID receive financial help in exchange for her allegations against Trump was New York City makeup artist Jill Harth who herself defended the revelations while claiming that the money had nothing to do with her coming forward in the first place.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Doctor Mentioned in Hillary Email Released by WikiLeaks Found Dead in Apartment…police Say He Committed Suicide by Stabbing Himself to Death??

54-year-old Dr. Dean Lorich, Associate Director of Orthopaedic Trauma Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery, as well as the Chief of the Orthopedic Trauma Service at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, was found dead in his apartment earlier this week.

According to New York City police, he committed suicide by stabbing himself to death.

That’s a pretty normal way to commit suicide…right?

It’s like the time when former President of the United Nations General Assembly John Ashe, was found dead in his apartment only days before he was set to testify against the Clintons in a corruption case. The official reports indicated that Ashe died of a heart attack.

The problem, however, is that police on the scene reported Ashe died when his throat was crushed during a work-out accident.

Adding to the mysterious nature of Ashe’s death was the fact that he had been slated to be in court Monday with his Chinese businessman co-defendant Ng Lap Seng, from whom he reportedly received over $1 billion in donations during his term as president of the U.N. General Assembly. And then there was this: During the presidency of Bill Clinton, Seng illegally funneled several hundred thousand dollars to the Democrat National Committee.

Now ABC News is reporting:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Google’s True Origin Partly Lies in CIA and NSA Research Grants for Mass Surveillance

Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google’s ambitious creation was funded and coordinated by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online.

The intelligence community hoped that the nation’s leading computer scientists could take non-classified information and user data, combine it with what would become known as the internet, and begin to create for-profit, commercial enterprises to suit the needs of both the intelligence community and the public. They hoped to direct the supercomputing revolution from the start in order to make sense of what millions of human beings did inside this digital information network. That collaboration has made a comprehensive public-private mass surveillance state possible today.

The story of the deliberate creation of the modern mass-surveillance state includes elements of Google’s surprising, and largely unknown, origin. It is a somewhat different creation story than the one the public has heard, and explains what Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set out to build, and why.

But this isn’t just the origin story of Google: It’s the origin story of the mass-surveillance state, and the government money that funded it.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Husband Finds Hidden Camera Pointed at Bed on Major Cruise Line… Cruise Security Downplays Severity of Situation [Video]

It’s hard to imagine how violated this Florida family must have felt after finding a hidden camera pointing at their bed, where they slept the night before.

A family from Florida is demanding answers from Carnival Cruise Line after finding a hidden camera behind their cabin’s television during an October vacation.

The device was reportedly discovered by the family’s father during an allergy attack, after he moved the TV to inspect for dust. Sticking out from the wires, he said, was a small camera — still warm to the touch — with its lens pointing directly at the bed, The Miami New Times reported. He also snapped photos of what appeared to be an antenna on the back of the device.

The family, who did not wish to be named, added that they only found the camera on the second night of their Carnival Fantasy voyage from Alabama to Mexico.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Major Scandal: U.S. Congressman Says That There Was a ‘Concerted Effort’ Within the FBI to Help Hillary Clinton Win the Election

Did the FBI attempt to swing the outcome of the 2016 election in a certain direction? I know that question sounds completely outrageous, but this is exactly what one member of Congress is now claiming. For a long time we have known that elements within the Deep State have been actively working to undermine the Trump administration, but now solid evidence is emerging that the interference by the Deep State actually began during the presidential election. As more details come out, this could easily become one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history.

If you think that I am exaggerating, please consider what U.S. Representative Jim Jordan told Lou Dobbs just the other day…

Rep. Jim Jordan: Listen you can’t make this stuff up. It gets worse each and every day… What deep down scares me, if this actually happened the FBI had a concerted effort with the people at the top to go after one party’s nominee to help the other party’s nominee. If that actually happened in the United States of America and everything each and every day points to more and more likely that that is what took place, it is sad for our country if that took place. And I think it did based on everything I am seeing. All the evidence points to that.

You can watch Jordan making these comments on YouTube right here…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

New City Ordinance Outlaws Giving Money to Panhandlers, Violators Will be Fined & Jailed

Wichita, KS — Wichita used to be known as “Cowtown” because of its cattle trade but now if people stop and give something as small as a cheeseburger to a homeless person they run the risk going to jail and paying a $500 fine. The ordinance was recently approved by the city council and now complicates matters for both panhandlers and philanthropic citizens alike.

Beat downs and arrests by police are, unfortunately, becoming a larger and larger part of the homeless culture. Not only do police regularly harass the homeless but TFTP has reported on incidents in which officers have confiscated blankets and tents from homeless people in the middle of the winter.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Robots Are Being Used to Shoo Away Homeless People in San Francisco

The San Francisco branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) has been ordered by the city to stop using a robot to patrol the sidewalks outside its office, the San Francisco Business Times reported Dec. 8.

The robot, produced by Silicon Valley startup Knightscope, was used to ensure that homeless people didn’t set up camps outside of the nonprofit’s office. It autonomously patrols a set area using a combination of Lidar and other sensors, and can alert security services of potentially criminal activity.

These robots have had a string of mishaps in the past. One fell into a pond in Washington, DC, in July. Another ran over a child’s foot in California in 2016. And Uber, which is no stranger to the ethical quandaries of what it means to be gainfully employed by a company, has used the robots in San Francisco.

Knightscope’s business model, according to Popular Science, is to rent the robots to customers for $7 an hour, which is about $3 less than minimum wage in California. The company has apparently raised over $15 million from thousands of small investors.

In a particularly dystopian move, it seems that the San Francisco SPCA adorned the robot it was renting with stickers of cute kittens and puppies, according to Business Insider, as it was used to shoo away the homeless from near its office.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Sun is Blank, NASA Data Shows it to be Dimming

Today at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched a new sensor to the International Space Station named TSIS-1. Its mission: to measure the dimming of the sun’s irradiance. It will replace the aging SORCE spacecraft. NASA SDO reports that as the sunspot cycle plunges toward its 11-year minimum, NASA satellites are tracking a decline in total solar irradiance (TSI).

Across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, the sun’s output has dropped nearly 0.1% compared to the Solar Maximum of 2012-2014. This plot shows the TSI since 1978 as observed from nine previous satellites:

[See graph at URL]

In the top plot, we drew the daily average of measured points in red (so there are a lot of points, 14187 to be precise). On the left is a red vertical bar showing a 0.3% change in TSI. The black curve is the average of TSI over each year. The dashed horizontal line shows the minimum value of year-averaged TSI data. The vertical black bar shows the 0.09% variation we see in that average. The bottom plot shows the annual sunspot number from the SIDC in Belgium in blue. Source: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission Blog.

What do we learn from these plots? First, TSI does change! That’s why we stopped calling it the solar constant. Second, as the sunspot number increases, so does TSI. But the converse is also true. As the sunspot number decreases so does TSI. We have watched this happen for four sunspot cycles. This waxing and waning of TSI with sunspot number is understood as a combination of dark sunspots reducing TSI below the dashed line and long-lived magnetic features increasing TSI. SORCE has even observed flares in TSI.

Third, the horizontal dashed line is not an average…

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Turning Red States Marxist Red

The Alabama win for Barack Obama’s candidate Doug Jones confirms our thesis that Obama is running the Democratic Party and the anti-Trump resistance. Obama, who recently compared President Trump to Hitler, recorded a robocall in support of the Alabama Democrat, calling him a “fighter for equality, for progress.” His notion of progress means suppressing the white vote and inciting black voters, who now believe by a margin of 72 percent that Trump should be impeached.

Reports indicate that Jones’ win was the result of a surge of Democrat voters statewide, “and specifically in African-American strongholds.” The grassroots of the Tea Party, evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics in Alabama couldn’t match the “Brown is the New White” strategy of Obama’s political strategist and operative Steve Phillips. Analyst Trevor Loudon discussed Phillips’ leftist background and association with Obama during his talk at our November 10 conference about Obama’s plan for a one-party socialist state.

We have studied Obama’s background, including his grooming by a hard-core communist, and his future plans, in our books, Comrade Obama Unmasked and Red Star Rising.

Obama: America’s first Marxist president

As America’s first Marxist president, his job isn’t done and he will not rest until a complete Marxist takeover is complete. His mentor, communist Frank Marshall Davis, taught Obama that blacks have a “reason to hate” white people. But other minorities and constituency groups will also have to be mobilized. Looking at what happened in both Virginia and Alabama, where the Republicans were defeated with Obama’s help, the former president’s return to Marxist power politics has to be seen as a development that could not only result in the Democratic Party taking control of Congress, but impeaching Trump.

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According to government statistics, marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug. The estimate is that 22.2 million people have used it in the past month. Assuming they can be mobilized and directed to the polls, the stoners are a potential major voting bloc.

As ridiculous as it may seem, the use of drugs in the “fundamental transformaton” of America cannot be downplayed. Obama, a member of the marijuana-smoking “Choom Gang,” was the perfect politician to carry out the plan of hedge fund billionaire George Soros to turn America into a virtual narco-state. The next step, as Tina Trent outlined at our November 10 conference, is access to LSD and other mind-bending drugs, marketed as “medicine.” Heroin injection centers are being planned for liberal Seattle.

Many of the stoned voters are “progressive whites,” products of the Marxist Madrassas called colleges and universities. They damage their brains with drugs, graduate with useless degrees and big debt, and become cannon fodder for the revolution. The University of Maryland’s upcoming “Trans(form)ing Queer” conference is another example of this trend. One topic, “Sex work and sexual economies,” suggests another constituency group for the Democratic Party — prostitutes. There is really no end to mobilizing disaffected and alienated groups of people for special recognition and benefits.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Video: Leftists Embrace Domestic Terrorism, Call for Assassination of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Over Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to “dismantle” Obama-era rules that regulated the businesses that connect Americans to the internet in a move that the left has breathlessly attacked since its announcement.

The so-called net neutrality regulations were supposedly put in place to prohibit broadband providers from blocking websites and or charging consumers for higher-quality services or to watch certain content such as Netflix…

As Infowars.com reported, “Does net neutrality cripple innovation or encourage it? Ultimately the FCC would vote to release the internet back to its pre-Obama days in the wild, but more death threats against FCC Chairman Ajit Pai weigh in on Twitter. It’s the way the left operates now as they embrace domestic terrorism unchecked in the face of our Republic.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Austria’s Anti-Immigrant Freedom Party Enter Government; Wins Key Ministry Posts

Two months ago, in Europe’s latest shocking, anti-establishment outcome, Austria’s 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz became the world’s youngest leader after his conservative People’s Party won the Austrian National Council elections, making him Austria’s youngest Chancellor in history, while the establishment Social Democrat party suffered its “worst result since Hitler rule.”

And now, two months later, in a double whammy for Europe’s outraged liberal establishment, the anti-immigrant Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) — which finished third in October’s elections with 26% of the vote, less than a percent behind the Social Democrats, has joined a coalition government with Sebastian Kurz and his People’s Party (OVP). The agreement between the People’s Party and the Freedom Party, which is returning to government after more than a decade’s absence, was struck on Friday, the two parties’ leaders, Sebastian Kurz and Heinz-Christian Strache announced in a joint news conference.

Austria’s president approved the new coalition on Saturday, two months after inconclusive elections. According to BBC, the coalition government makes Austria the only country in Western Europe to have a far-right party in power.

Introducing the new government, and the 180-page document setting out its agenda, Mr Kurz said the two parties had agreed “on a clear pro-European outlook”. Meanwhile, Strache, who in January advocated a law similar to the ban on Nazi practices to be introduced against “fascist Islam,” spoke about “mutual appreciation” with Kurz, adding that they share “the responsibility for our homeland Austria and for the people in this country.”

While the two parties have yet to unveil the details of the coalition agreement, some of the key points that will shape the next government have already been discussed: among them is a further crackdown on migration

“We want to reduce the burden on taxpayers … and above all we want to ensure greater security in our country, including through the fight against illegal immigration,” Kurz said.

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

‘EU is Killing Europe’: Far Right Leaders Call for End to ‘Disastrous’ Union

The European Union is a “disaster” and a “danger” for Europe that has no place in its future, leaders of far-right European parties said at a gathering in Prague. They also vowed to develop cooperation outside the EU structures.

“Because we love Europe, we accuse the EU of killing Europe,” the leader of the French National Front, Marine Le Pen, told reporters at congress of European right-wing parties in the Czech capital, Prague. She also advocated the establishment of a new sort of union, which she defined as a “Europe of sovereign nations.”

“We are not xenophobes, we are opponents of the European Union,” she said. “I think this is something we have in common, because the European Union is a disastrous organization which is leading our continent to destruction through dilution by drowning it in migrants, by the negation of our respective countries, by the draining of our diversity.”

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

Italy: Algerian Nabbed in Terror Probe

‘Part of jihadi network’

Redazione ANSA Rome

(ANSA) — Rome, December 15 — An Algerian national was arrested in the Puglia town of Foggia Friday on suspicion of committing terror crimes, police said.

Yacine Gasry was first arrested in 2004 and sentenced to almost five years in jail.

He is suspected of being part of a jihadi recruitment network, police said.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Switzerland Expels French-Tunisian Man Over Terror Fears

Swiss police said on Saturday they had expelled a person facing criminal charges in Switzerland for suspected links to a terrorist group, over fears he poses a threat to national security.

Federal police confirmed to AFP their “decision to expel a person who is facing (Swiss) criminal charges for participation in, or lending support to, a terrorist organisation”.

According to Swiss media, the man is a French-Tunisian national in his 40s who was working as a taxi driver when he was arrested in Geneva last June.

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

UK: Bengali Student, 16, Was Told ‘Don’t Mess With Our Blood’ as He Was Given a Savage ‘Honour’ Beating by a Group of Pakistani Men for Dating a Girl From Their Family

Mirza Baig was part of a group of men who brutally battered a Bengali schoolboy after finding out he was in a secret relationship with his daughter

A 16-year-old schoolboy was subjected to a savage ‘honour’ beating by a group of Pakistani men after they found out he was secretly dating a girl from their family, a court heard.

The Bengali student was taken prisoner and escorted to a cul-de-sac where he was repeatedly kicked about the head, battered with weapons and told: ‘Don’t mess with our blood — find someone your own kind.’

As the victim fought for his life onlookers — thought to include women — were heard shouting: ‘kill him, kick him in the head, finish him off.’

The beating continued after the attackers — which included the girl’s father, uncle and brother — seized the boy’s mobile phone and searched it for evidence he had been dating the girl — a fellow pupil at their high school — and found pictures of them together.

The victim was eventually released when members of the lynch mob drove him away from the scene and dumped near a local barber’s shop.

The boy, from Blackburn, Lancashire, was later treated in hospital for injuries similar to those administered by a knuckleduster. He was left with a scar to his head and is now too scared to leave home by himself.

Details of the shocking assault emerged at Preston Crown Court where four men face jail…

           — Hat tip: Seneca III [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Head of Ofsted Reveals She Faces ‘Personal Attacks’ From ‘Extremists’ Trying to Intimidate the Watchdog Over Crackdown on Illegal Muslim Schools

The head of Ofsted says she faces personal attacks as extremists try to intimidate the watchdog over a crackdown on illegal Muslim schools.

Chief inspector of schools Amanda Spielman received an email saying: ‘We know where you live and we can get you any time we want to,’ after a court case against an Islamic school that separated girls and boys.

Her home address has had to be removed from the internet , while inspectors in one of Ofsted’s regional offices have been sent extreme Islamic literature and forced to take security measures as they are targeted by extremists.

Head of Ofsted Amanda Spielman, pictured here, says that she faces personal attacks after received threatening email

Mrs Spielman said that confronting unregistered faith schools has been the toughest part of her role, which she took on in January this year. Investigating illegal schools, inspectors found some children had not been taught English and teachers had told them British values were ‘meaningless’, she told The Times.

In one incident at an unregistered East London Islamic school, Ofsted inspectors were called ‘Britain First paedophiles’ before being accused of performing sex acts in order to get their jobs. A head teacher at another faith school phoned parents during an Ofsted visit to say inspectors were asking the children if they were gay. The head then asked whether the inspection should proceed after telling inspectors that angry parents were lining up outside the school…

           — Hat tip: Seneca III [Return to headlines]
 

Conspiracy Theorists Were Right: Corporate Media Finally Forced to Admit America Armed ISIS

While the mainstream media opted to protect the United States government by treating anyone who dared to question the government’s role in the rise of ISIS as crazy conspiracy theorists, a new report is forcing the MSM to admit that those “conspiracies” were true all along.

Now, mainstream media outlets such as Reuters and USA Today are suddenly reporting that the United States and its close ally, Saudi Arabia, were instrumental in supplying weapons and ammunition to ISIS. Both reports cite an investigation conducted by Conflict Armament Research (CAR), which looked at 40,000 items recovered from Islamic State militants between July 2014 and November 2017.

A final report from CAR titled “Weapons of the Islamic State,” concluded that the vast majority of the weapons used by ISIS were supplied in the thousands, given their origin and the fact that they were found “in numbers far beyond those that would have been available to the group through battlefield capture alone.”

More than 97 percent of the weapons and 87 percent of the ammunition used by ISIS were “Warsaw Pact calibers — originating primarily in China, Russia, and Eastern European producer states,” according to the report. However, the weapons were not distributed to the militants by China or Russia.

The weapons and ammunition were originally purchased by the United States and Saudi Arabia, and then distributed to rebel groups opposing the administration of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. While the U.S. claimed to be fighting ISIS, the fact is that ISIS was one of the Syrian rebel groups opposing Assad, and as the report noted, nearly all of their weapons came from those purchased by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Inside Australia’s Most Muslim Suburb: Lakemba Residents Speak Out About Racism and Same-Sex Marriage in One of the Country’s Most Diverse Areas

One of Australia’s most diverse suburbs has been explored after a tumultuous year. Residents of Lakemba in western Sydney have opened up about their experiences in the area.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Zimbabwe Ruling Party Meets to Seal Mugabe’s Fall From Grace

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Breaking into cheers and song, Zimbabwe’s ruling party on Friday sealed the fate of Robert Mugabe, a man they had revered for decades but removed from power in dramatic scenes last month.

The ZANU-PF party congress officially endorsed its Central Committee’s decision to replace Mugabe with Emmerson Mnangagwa as its leader, and it endorsed Mnangagwa as its candidate for the 2018 elections. Mnangagwa was inaugurated as the country’s new president last month, with the immediate challenge of reviving a shattered economy and removing himself from his longtime mentor’s shadow.

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

Video: What Everyday Life is Like in Puerto Rico Now

In Puerto Rico, everything has changed since Hurricane Maria struck nearly 3 months ago.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: We’ll Give Mother Bonus to Regular Foreigners — INPS

Complying with Milan court order

(ANSA) — Rome, December 15 — Italy’s social security and pensions agency INPS on Friday said it would give a mother’s bonus to foreigners who have regular stay permits in the country, upholding a recent court ruling. INPS said it would comply with the Milan court’s ruling that it should give the bonus to foreign mothers who had a baby in 2017 who possess any stay permit, not only a long-term one. INPS said it had informed the relevant ministries and the premier’s office and was about to take the necessary online steps.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Spain Arrests 72 Migrants in Gibraltar Strait

Spanish navy yesterday arrested 72 African migrants while they were trying to cross the Gibraltar Strait heading to Spain, the Anadolu Agency reported.

Navy boats intercepted four boats as they crossed the sea, a statement said, adding that they had set off from Morocco. Seventy-two migrants were onboard including three women.

Those captured were transported to The city of Tarifa, in the south of Spain, where some of them received medical care.

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

Systematic Trade in Fake Asylum Stories Revealed in Sweden

No legal reason for staying in Sweden? No problem, as plenty of “asylum dealers” offering false online histories, fabricated refugee stories and counseling on how to trick the authorities has been revealed operating in the Nordic country — with tacit endorsement from the authorities.

A widespread network of “asylum dealers” providing fake asylum stories to people seeking residence permits in Sweden has been revealed by Swedish Radio.

“I had been rejected and was afraid that they would expel me back to Iran. Then I heard that there were people who could help one out with asylum,” a client of “asylum dealers” named “Hamid” (assumed name) told Swedish Radio. “I was able to buy a blog critical of the regime that had been active for several years. I took it over and then they helped me update it as if it had always been mine,” “Hamid” explained. With the help of this new false evidence, he was able to gain a residence permit in Sweden.

After hearing several similar stories and discovering a plethora of websites providing both false asylum stories and helping to obtain visas on dubious grounds, Swedish Radio staff contacted one of them under the pretense of smuggling an Iranian brother to Sweden, emphasizing that the man had no legal protection reasons.

The journalists were immediately offered a deal, in which the “brother” would be provided a networking history as a regime critic and receive counseling on how to present his legend in a more advantageous light. The “brother” would also receive an invitation from a company as a valid visa reason. Lastly, he would also receive background evidence on how to present his fictional asylum report to the Migration Board.

The price for the entire package, which allegedly came with a “100 percent guarantee,” was approximately SEK 60,000 ($7,100).

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Human Rights Insanity: Barmy Laws Are Preventing 6,000 Foreign Criminals Including Killers and Rapists Being Deported While 200 a Year Are Receiving Millions of Pounds in Compensation

Given the £110,000 compensation payment winging its way towards his bank account, Aliou Bah ought to be a very happy man indeed.

The 28-year-old refugee from Guinea, West Africa, who has two convictions for sexual assault, was awarded the bumper payout last week at Central London County Court after a judge ruled he had been detained for too long by the Home Office while they were trying to deport him.

A jaw-dropping decision indeed, as Judge Nicholas Madge ‘wholeheartedly’ acknowledged when he said that people would believe Bah’s victims — one of whom was only 16 at the time he assaulted her — deserved large payouts, not him.

We shall turn to the Kafka-esque legal shenanigans behind the claim later, but that offensive payout to Bah is just the tip of a very disturbing iceberg. Jumaa Kater Saleh, a 25-year-old from Sudan, won the right to damages for being unlawfully detained for two years despite being previously jailed for four years for being part of a child sex ring.

In actuality, an average of 200 such cases come before the courts every year, typically costing the taxpayer £4.5 million in compensation payouts and making a mockery of Home Office pledges to deport foreign nationals who commit serious crimes.

And, as we shall see, most of these compensation claims have their roots in the highly controversial 1998 Human Rights Act which has fuelled an apparently never-ending merry-go-round of ‘unlawful detention’ claims, often pursued by no-win, no-fee solicitors on behalf of immigrants and refugees with criminal records.

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Calif. Companies That Sold Aborted Baby Parts Forced to Close

A pair of California bioscience companies that illegally sold tissue and body parts from aborted babies are slated for closure after they were hit with a $7.8 million lawsuit settlement over their actions. The sister companies, DV Biologics and DaVinci Biosciences, were among the entities exposed by the pro-life organization Center for Medical Progress during its 2014-15 undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood and its sale of aborted baby parts to a number of bio-medical companies.

The Los Angeles Times identified the owners of both companies as Estefano Isaias, Sr.; Estefano Isaias, Jr.; and Andres Isaias, all of whom were named as defendants in the settlement.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

D.C. Metro Defends Ban on Catholic Church’s Christmas Ads

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority told a federal appeals court on Friday that a lower court was right to reject an injunction that would’ve let the D.C. archdiocese advertise a Christmas campaign on city busses.

Metro defended the lower court’s ruling denying the Archdiocese of Washington’s “Find the Perfect Gift” campaign in a 32-page filing entered in response to a new emergency motion for injunction pending appeal currently being considered by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

The Archdiocese of Washington sued Metro in D.C. District Court last month after the transit agency refused to let it advertise a website, FindthePerfectGift.org, on Metrobus exteriors. The archdiocese asked U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson to grant a preliminary injunction forcing Metro to run the ads, but she ruled against them on Monday, December 11, prompting its attorneys to file another motion for injunction in D.C. federal court the next day.

The appeals court ordered Metro on Wednesday to respond by Dec. 18, and on Friday its attorneys reiterated their concerns with the archdiocese’s proposed ads and insisted its case is without merits.

The archdiocese “has not established anything close to a likelihood of success, much less the virtual certainty of success that it must show to justify the extraordinary relief it demands,” Metro’s attorneys wrote Friday.

“Movant’s failure to demonstrate any likelihood of success on its First Amendment claims alone defeats its request for a mandatory injunction pending appeal,” Metro’s motion reads in part.

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[See link for rejected ad]

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Multiculturalists Working to Undermine Western Civilization

Unlike postmodernism, which sees Western culture as no better than other cultures, postcolonialism considers Western culture inferior to other cultures.

Rather than enhancing Western culture through the enrichment different ethnic and religious groups provide in countries with a Judeo-Christian foundation, multiculturalists have actually been rejecting their own Western culture.

The West, even flawed, has nevertheless afforded more freedoms and prosperity to more people than ever before in history. If Western civilization is to survive this defamation, it would do well to remind people its historical accomplishments: its humanism and morality derived from Judeo-Christian traditions; its Enlightenment thought; its technological revolutions; its political evolution into full democracy; the separation of church from state; its commitment to human rights and most of all its gravely threatened freedom of speech. Much of what is good in the world is thanks only to Western civilization. It is critical not to throw it out or lose it.

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UK: Traditional Depictions of Mothers to be Banned in Adverts Amid Ongoing War on ‘Gender Stereotypes’

Cooking, cleaning mums will be banned in advertisements across the UK from next year, following a study which claimed traditional gender roles are “harmful and outdated”.

The decision to tighten regulation was announced by the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) this week, after a report published in summer identified gender stereotypes in adverts as a driver of inequality between men and women.

“Wherever they appear or are reinforced, gender stereotypes can lead to mental, physical and social harm which can limit the potential of groups and individuals,” the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) alleged in its study…

Nanette Newman, an actress who appeared in 1980s Fairy Liquid commercials, told the Daily Mail the ban is “ridiculously over the top”.

“What a bizarre world we live in where the adverts I starred in might today be considered harmful, yet it’s considered perfectly acceptable for women to be shown on mainstream TV having sex,” she told the Mail.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Vampires, Zombies and ‘Hooking Up’: 37 Examples of Real College Courses That Are Almost Too Crazy to Believe

ou just can’t make this stuff up. All over America we push our young people to get good grades so that they can get “a college education”, but then once they get through college many of our young people are completely unequipped to deal with the real world. Personally, I spent eight years at public universities, and I can tell you that the quality of education that our college students are receiving is a complete joke. Especially on the undergraduate level, almost all testing consists of either true/false, multiple choice or fill in the blank questions. Students learn very few useful skills at our “institutions of higher learning”, and many of them leave school barely even able to function in society.

I am about to share with you a list of 37 of the most ridiculous courses that are currently being offered at major U.S. colleges and universities today. This information comes from a brand new report that was just put out by Young America’s Foundation, and it is tempting to chuckle as you read through what they have compiled, but the truth is that what is happening to our system of higher learning is not a laughing matter. The following is a short excerpt from the report…

As tuition rates increase and students face increasing levels of college-related debt, the value and quality of education plummets. Rather than churning out the next generation of American leaders, so-called “premiere” institutions graduate class after class of adults who are unable to tolerate opposing viewpoints.

Many of the courses listed in the following pages are comical in their titles and descriptions, but the situation unfolding on America’s campuses is hardly a laughing matter. Beyond the inane topics, these classes advance a liberal agenda, malign conservatives, and shut out ideological diversity.

Since 1995, Young America’s Foundation has released “Comedy and Tragedy” to document the intellectual abuse and flat-out indoctrination happening by way of the appalling curriculum at our country’s most (so-called) prestigious institutions of higher education.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

5 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/16/2017

  1. When I read your chronicles “cultural wars”, I get scared.
    Even In our absurd country there is no such ugliness.
    Why do not you protest against 15 years of imprisonment for Michael Wolff? You do not have a totalitarian regime, but a free country.

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