Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/15/2018

The burned body of an electrocuted migrant was found on top of a train that had traveled from Italy to France. The corpse was discovered on top of a car at the first stop in France after the border crossing at Ventimiglia. It is assumed that the unfortunate migrant had grabbed the overhead electric cable to keep from falling off the car.

In other news, 200 migrants stormed the border crossing from Morocco and attacked police in the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa.

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Financial Crisis
» Italy Has Joined Recovery Dance Says S&P
 
USA
» 146 Companies Credit Tax Reform for Bonuses and Pay Raises
» Antifa Documents Reveal Their Plan for America: Dr. Lyle Rapacki
» Donald Trump’s Support Among Blacks Has Doubled Since 2016, Amid Racism Claims
» Federal Documents Reveal Stephen Paddock Had Likely Accomplices — and Seven Different Cellphones
» Georgetown Employee Who Resigned After Wishing Conservative ‘A #MeToo Moment’ Get Fired From Another Job
» How One Employee “Pushed the Wrong Button” And Unleashed Doomsday Panic Across Hawaii
» Prof Releases ‘Checklist’ To Determine if You Support White Supremacy
» Real Story Behind the S***hole Comment
» The New Word of the Week Accurately Describes California
» The United States: United in a State of UN-Readiness
» Trump Tweeted a Message About Crooked Hillary’s Lost Emails That Will Leave Her Shaking in Her Pants Suit
» Why is the Mainstream Media Freaking Out About What Trump Said About Other Countries So Much?
» ‘Won’t Happen Again’: Hawaii Officials Apologize, Blame Missile Warning Fiasco on ‘Human Error’
 
Canada
» Hijab Scissor Attack Against 11-Year-Old Did Not Occur
» Hijab ‘Attack’ Condemned by Canadian Prime Minister Was a Hoax
 
Europe and the EU
» Czech Election Zeman Fights to Retain Presidency Against Pro-EU Drahos
» Desperate Merkel and Schultz Urge Voters to Back Return of Grand Coalition
» Facebook: Championing Blasphemy Laws
» German State TV in a Nutshell
» Germany: Pictures: Historic Church Demolished as Mosques Multiply Across Country
» Italian EU Minister Warns ‘Only One’ Party is Pro-EU Amid Concerns in Brussels
» Italy: Boldrini Says ‘Astounded’ By Deneuve
» Italy: Berlusconi Hails Deneuve’s Letter
» Italy: Serrachiani in Mayor Etiquette Guide Row
» Italy: Ex-Rome Mayor Marino Convicted in Expenses Case
» Italy: Turin City Auditors Quit, Citing ‘Pressure’
» Mohammed is Most Popular Name for Newborn Boys in Holland for 2nd Year Straight
» No Interference in Italy Election — Putin
» Paris Under Siege: Teen Stabbed to Death in Brawl
» Soros Pledges Renewed Fight Against ‘Dominant Ideology’ of Nationalism, Says EU ‘On Verge of Breakdown’
» Spain’s Prime Minister Threatens to Extend Direct Rule Over Catalonia
» Sweden: Increasing Numbers of Young People Seek Help Against ‘Honour Culture’ Violence
» Sweden to Issue Updated 1940s ‘War Guide’ Amid Threats of Terrorism & Climate Change
 
Russia
» 15 Hurt in Stabbing Incident at Russian School
 
Australia — Pacific
» Aboriginal Mother Threatens to Shoot ‘White Racist Privileged Children’
» Aboriginal Mother Threatens to Shoot ‘White Racist Privileged Children’ On the Grounds of a High School and Calls the College ‘Racist’ Because They Wouldn’t Let Her Son Take a Spear Into the Classroom
» ‘His Upbringing Isn’t an Excuse’: Teenager Traumatised After Violent Apex Gang Carjacking Calls for Government to Deport the African Ringleader
 
Latin America
» Shocking Footage Shows Crowd of Hungry Venezuelans Slaughtering a Cow in the Open
 
Immigration
» Bezos Gives Millions to DACA, Amazon Staff Need Foodstamps
» Hungarian PM: If EU Cannot Secure External Borders ‘Internal Borders Must be Closed’
» Illegals Fleeing to Canada Find Even Liberal Canada Has Limits to Freebies
» Immigration Expert Calls Out the Clueless Left: “They Have No Idea What They’re Talking About”
» Italy: Don’t Accept All Migrants, White Race at Risk — Fontana
» ‘Migrants Want to Cone to UK’ French Minister Wades Into Calais Row Ahead of May Meeting
» Migrant Electrocuted on Top of Train From Italy to France
» Niger Mission to Fight Illicit Traffic — Alfano
» One Brutal Image Explains What Happens When Democrats Welcome Unvetted Immigrants to America
» Police Attacked as 200 Migrants Storm Spanish Border to Claim EU Asylum
» Pro-Amnesty Vice President Mike Pence and His Establishment Friends
» Secret Plot to Let 50 Millions African Workers Into EU
» Sweden: Lying “Child Refugee” Goes on Vacation to the Middle East After Receiving Residence Permit
» ‘When We Came, I Thought it Was Going to be Heaven’: Sudanese Mother-of-Six on Welfare Who Has a Gangster Son in Jail Says She Regrets Coming to Australia and Would Take Her Kids Back to Africa if She Had the Money
 
Culture Wars
» Abortions Fall in Italy
» Democrats Condemn Alleged ‘S***hole’ Remark as Racist, Prop Up Eugenics-Based Planned Parenthood
 

Italy Has Joined Recovery Dance Says S&P

Six says GDP still below pre-crisis level

(ANSA) — Paris, January 11 — Jean-Michel Six, S&P Global Chief Economist for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, on Thursday gave a positive view of Italy’s growth performance.

After saying Portugal’s growth was “spectacular”, Six added: “another good news is that the Italians have joined the dance with a return to recovery”. He stressed, however, that the Italy had not yet regained the ground lost during the economic crisis.

“The Italian GDP is still under that of 2007, but it any case there are signs of recovery”,” he said.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

146 Companies Credit Tax Reform for Bonuses and Pay Raises

ne hundred sixty-four companies have gone on record stating they gave bonuses and pay raises to employees because of the new tax reform law, according to Americans for Tax Reform.

The list has been continually updated and jumped from 40 companies to 164 in 10 days, The Washington Examiner reports.

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

Antifa Documents Reveal Their Plan for America: Dr. Lyle Rapacki

Although the documents reproduced below by intelligence analyst and instructor Dr. Lyle Rapacki detail events surrounding the Baltimore riots back in 2015, they still contain valuable intelligence describing organizational, training, and operational methods for a number of George Soros organizations under the umbrella of the ANTIFA movement (Anti-Fascism Group).

The revelation of these documents and content demonstrate that training and monies were very much a part of the riots as earlier Intel reports revealed they most likely would be, according to Dr. Rapacki in his latest law enforcement and security briefing.

The documents — provided to the editor of Conservative Base by Rapacki — reveal a high level of organizational structure, with strong financial backing, and well-planned and practiced tactics. “It is highly anticipated that future confrontations will be better prepared, equipped, organized and financed,” said Rapacki, who owns and operates the private security firm Sentinel Intelligence Services, LLC.

Confidential documents appearing to belong to Friends of Democracy — an activist group run by George Soros’ son Jonathan Soros — describe an acceleration of civil unrest to justify the rollout of martial law nationwide. According to intelligence experts, the goal of such action is to throw the nation into a state of chaos with citizens battling the proponents of the Deep State ‘puppetmasters.’

[Comment: Note how Jonathon Soros is getting practical experience to follow in daddy’s footsteps.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Donald Trump’s Support Among Blacks Has Doubled Since 2016, Amid Racism Claims

Two new polls show President Donald Trump’s rising support among black voters, highlighting his political gains from pushing employers to hire Americans instead of lower-wage migrants.

The growing support from blacks — despite furious Democratic claims of racism — could become a shocking political validation in November when Trump will face millions of upper-income Democratic voters who are angry at his “Buy American, Hire American” policies.

Among black men, Trump’s “2017 average approval rating significantly exceeds his 2016 vote share,” admitted a January 11 article in the Atlantic by author Ronald Brownstein. “23 percent of black men approved of Trump’s performance versus 11 percent of black women,” said the article.

That score averages out to 17 percent, or twice the 8 percent score he was given in the 2016 exit polls.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Federal Documents Reveal Stephen Paddock Had Likely Accomplices — and Seven Different Cellphones

On Friday a federal judge made public hundreds of pages of court documents that had been filed by the FBI in the days and weeks after the Las Vegas concert shooting.

The judge did so in response to a lawsuit filed by CNN and several media organizations.

On Sunday October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The shooting left 58 dead and another 546 injured in the deadliest mass shooting by an individual in US history.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Georgetown Employee Who Resigned After Wishing Conservative ‘A #MeToo Moment’ Get Fired From Another Job

A Georgetown University board member resigned Monday after wishing a conservative commentator would have “a #MeToo moment” and also got fired from another job.

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

How One Employee “Pushed the Wrong Button” And Unleashed Doomsday Panic Across Hawaii

Shortly before panicked Hawaiians stuffed children into storm drains and said their goodbyes on the morning of January 13, an unnamed employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (H-EMA) accidentally selected the wrong dropdown menu choice, resulting in a live broadcast to the cell phones of Hawaii residents and tourists which read “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” according to officials.

Here is what happened, according to the Washington Post:

Around 8:05 a.m., the Hawaii emergency employee initiated the internal test, according to a timeline released by the state. From a drop-down menu on a computer program, he saw two options: “Test missile alert” and “Missile alert.” He was supposed to choose the former; as much of the world now knows, he chose the latter, an initiation of a real-life missile alert.

At 8:07, the alert went out, with a more detailed message scrolling across television screens, reading:…

The following day, there were far more questions than answers. Brand new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said the alert was “absolutely unacceptable,” and that a full investigation was underway. Pai seemed to initially lay blame at state officials for the mistake.

“Based on the information we have collected so far, it appears that the government of Hawaii did not have reasonable safeguards or process controls in place to prevent the transmission of a false alert,” said Pai, adding “Federal, state, and local officials throughout the country need to work together to identify any vulnerabilities to false alerts and do what’s necessary to fix them. We also must ensure that corrections are issued immediately in the event that a false alert does go out.”

Technical Difficulties

A major factor in the 38 minute gap between the erroneous warning and the subsequent “false alarm” alert was the fact that while the state has permission from FEMA to issue the emergency broadcast, there is no system in place to send out a subsequent “false alarm” alert.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Prof Releases ‘Checklist’ To Determine if You Support White Supremacy

Do you get “angry” when colleagues berate you about “understanding your own white privilege?”

Well then, you might be a white supremacist, at least according to professor Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, who teaches English at Linfield College in Oregon.

Dutt-Ballerstadt created a handy checklist “of qualities and attributes of those that overtly or covertly support or contribute to a culture of mundane and everyday white supremacy within our institutions.”

Her list contains 15 “troubles” that she says she “identified to help others in academe recognize your (un)conscious contributions to white supremacy.”

Dutt-Ballerstadt shared her list last Friday on Inside Higher Ed, several of which are highlighted below:…

I can’t help but notice a lot of these sound like her complaining about colleagues getting angry with her berating them for their “white supremacy.”

In short, if you’re not working actively to disenfranchise “white people” in America, you’re probably a “white supremacist.”

This is the new standard for determining white supremacy.

[Comment: Such people are trapped in their own spiral of insanity.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Real Story Behind the S***hole Comment

Trump blurts out what everyone mutters in the bar-rooms, pool halls, card games, living rooms, diners, restaurants, recreation centers, car pools and conferences. He articulates what average Americans grumble daily.

Last week, he hit the big time when one of most anti-American U.S. Senators, Dick Durbin (D-IL), a man representing the most lawless city in America, Chicago — snuck out of a meeting to paraphrase the president with his own interpretation of failed third world countries. Durbin created the “S***hole” rendition of that meeting.

That comment gave the mainstream press a field day for their moral and righteous indignation. Jake Tapper, Shepard Smith, Anderson Cooper, Jonathan Karl, et al. Surely, House reps Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson, John Lewis and other “esteemed” members of the Black Caucus — puckered up their lips — with their own versions of Trump’s vernacular.

Exactly what do you call countries like Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Congo, Pakistan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Somalia and the like — destination resorts for Carnival Cruise ships? Your favorite retirement countries of choice? The wings of humanity’s highest and best aspirations? Paragons of happiness and human triumph?…

Let’s get real: they represent s***holes, and everyone tries to escape them, but the reason they remain horrible places stems from the fact that the people who created them, won’t change them, and recreate them in the countries they invade. Look at the streets of Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Miami and other places where those people migrate.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The New Word of the Week Accurately Describes California

Despite so-called “progressives” promising their policies will create a Soviet-style worker’s paradise, California’s leftist Democrats have turned the once Golden State into a sh*thole through decades of leftist policies penalizing and demonizing employers, businesses, property owners, innovators, entrepreneurs — and really, anyone who wants to work hard and get ahead. These hard working people are responding by fleeing liberal California for conservative red states.

The perception across America is that California is the state people are leaving. And that perception is accurate.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The United States: United in a State of UN-Readiness

On Saturday, we witnessed a mistake (perhaps genuine and perhaps purposeful) regarding the emergency alert system in Hawaii. Yes, we know most of the parameters: the warning of an incoming missile, that it was “not a drill” was broadcast, and 38 minutes of panic.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Tweeted a Message About Crooked Hillary’s Lost Emails That Will Leave Her Shaking in Her Pants Suit

President Trump re-tweeted a tweet that was posted by Paul Sperry yesterday morning. The tweet was from a New York Post article that Sperry wrote, that was published on October 25, 2016. The article, titled: Hillary’s 33,000 emails might not be ‘missing’ after all

One thing we know for sure is now that the FBI has been exposed for their bias against Trump and for allowing Hillary to receive special treatment in her email “investigation”, Donald Trump is not going to walk away from this like it never happened…

Sperry’s article reminds us of how many ways the FBI could’ve retrieved Hillary’s emails, but didn’t. It reminds us of how Obama’s FBI and DOJ allowed Hillary to walk away and pursue her dream of becoming our next President, instead of treating her like every other American would have been treated, who was under a criminal investigation.

The most damning evidence against Clinton may never have been actually destroyed. It was simply left untouched by the FBI. — Paul Sperry

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why is the Mainstream Media Freaking Out About What Trump Said About Other Countries So Much?

We know that President Trump has a good heart, we know that he has been trying to keep the promises that he made to the American people, and we know that he is not politically-correct. And whether he used some colorful language or not, the truth is that what Trump is alleged to have said was not really that controversial. The following is how Tucker Carlson made this point on his show…

“President Trump said something that almost every single person in America actually agrees with,” Carlson said. “An awful lot of immigrants come from this country from other places that aren’t very nice. Those places are dangerous, they’re dirty, they’re corrupt, and they’re poor and that’s the main reason those immigrants are trying to come here and you would too if you live there.”

The Fox News host said that Trump’s use of the expletive “is not surprising” since he “uses them all the time,” but wondered why “virtually everyone in Washington, New York, and LA” is treating it like a “major event.”

But of course the Democrats are going to jump at any chance to demonize Trump, and they are going to try to get as much mileage out of this as they possibly can.

For example, just check out what U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez is saying…

But in the end, we should never forget that it is the Democrats that are leading us down a path to national suicide. I really like how Mike Adams made this point in one of his recent articles…

The process of turning America into a Democrat-run sh*thole, not surprisingly, is already under way in certain parts of California, where the massive swaths of homeless tents and shantytown areas reflect how corrupt left-wing government has a “sh*thole effect” on destroying society. In fact, if you look around the world at the worst sh*thole countries, you’ll find something that shouldn’t be surprising: They’re all run by big, powerful governments that pursue insanely stupid economic policies and are steeped in corruption. They’re Democrats, in other words, although they might not be called Democrats in their home countries.

In 2018, we are going to be facing the most important mid-term elections in modern American history.

If the Democrats are able to take back control of either the House or the Senate, President’s Trump agenda will be completely stalled, and we cannot allow that to happen.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Won’t Happen Again’: Hawaii Officials Apologize, Blame Missile Warning Fiasco on ‘Human Error’

Faced with a public outcry following a false missile alert, Hawaiian officials apologized, saying an automated method of retracting warnings will be introduced and two employees, instead of one, will handle it in the future.

“We did everything that we can, immediately, to ensure that it will never happen again… so a single person will not be able to make an error that triggers another false alarm,” Vern Miyagi, Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) administrator said, as he accepted responsibility for the incident.

“I’m sorry for that pain and confusion that many might have experienced,” he added.

It was a single mouse click by a HI-EMA employee during a routine test that sent the entire state of Hawaii into panic, Miyagi revealed.

“The wrong button was pushed on the test, it went into actual event versus a test,” he said. It was not literally a button, but part of a screen the employee erroneously clicked on to activate the alarm, according to Miyagi. As to why it took the agency nearly 40 minutes to inform the public that the alert was bogus, Miyagi said that officials were forced to go through a number of steps as there was no deactivation template in place.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hijab Scissor Attack Against 11-Year-Old Did Not Occur

Toronto Police say they have concluded that an incident reported Friday in which an eleven-year-old girl’s hijab was cut as she walked to school, did not happen.

Police had been investigating the alleged incident as a hate crime and now say their investigation is concluded.

A media release from police on Monday said that the “events described in the original release did not happen,” but provided no further information on how investigators came to that conclusion.

Allegations from the 11-year-old that surfaced on Friday morning described an attack against her with a pair of scissors, as an unknown man approached her from behind, pulled the hood of her coat down, and made a 30 cm cut into the back of her hijab.

The alleged assault spurred reactions from all three levels of government, with Mayor John Tory, Premier Kathleen Wynne, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau all condemning the attack…

           — Hat tip: Red Mike [Return to headlines]
 

Hijab ‘Attack’ Condemned by Canadian Prime Minister Was a Hoax

An 11-year-old Toronto girl who claimed she was attacked because of her hijab fabricated the story, according to local police.

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

Czech Election Zeman Fights to Retain Presidency Against Pro-EU Drahos

The opponents are gearing up for an election run-off on January 26 and 27 in a battle which is already being compared to that fought between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the United States Presidential Election in 2016.

The leader of the Party of Civic Rights, Mr Zeman, a 73-year-old who has courted the far-right in rejecting migrants from Muslim countries while pursuing warmer relations with Russia and China, was elected President of the Czech Republic in 2013.

He comfortably won Saturday’s first round of voting with 38.6 percent of the vote in a major blow to the EU.

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

Desperate Merkel and Schultz Urge Voters to Back Return of Grand Coalition

Representatives of Mr Schulz’s centre-left SPD party and Mrs Merkel’s conservatives last week agreed a blueprint which, if ratified by party members, would allow negotiations to begin on resurrecting the coalition which governed Germany from 2013 to 2017.

However, there is significant opposition to what is being proposed. On Saturday, youth activists rallied the SPD in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt into rejecting the so-called grand coalition and on Monday the SPD’s Berlin branch recommended its delegates vote against pursuing formal coalition talks.

SPD leader Martin Schulz was in Dortmund on Monday evening to appeal for backing from members in North Rhine-Westphalia, which will contribute more than a quarter of the votes to the congress.

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

Facebook: Championing Blasphemy Laws

Facebook, in cooperation with a British Muslim group, Faith Associates, recently launched a new “guide” developed especially for Muslims: “Keeping Muslims Safe Online: Tackling Hate and Bigotry”.

The launch of the guide was hosted on November 29 at the British Parliament, where Karim Palant, Facebook’s UK Public Policy manager, acknowledged “the partnership of Facebook with Faith Associates and said this was a first step in a line of activities being planned to protect the Facebook family”.

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

German State TV in a Nutshell

A bizarre clip from German TV showing a mother converting to Islam in front of her impressionable young child went viral over the weekend.

It’s from the show Lindenstrasse (“Lime Street”) which has been running on public television weekly since 1985.

According to the site Postcards from Paris, the mother in the show is in a relationship with a Turkish Muslim and the show actually portrays her a fanatic, with her Turkish suitor being the voice of reason…

As I reported earlier this month, German public television is set to air a made-for-TV movie in February titled “Break-out to the Unknown” wherein a European family is forced to flee from Germany to escape a “collapsing,” “right-wing extremist” government that “persecutes dissidents, Muslims and homosexuals.”

[Comment: The propaganda is coming thick and fast now. By the way, when will mutti start wearing a burkha?]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: Pictures: Historic Church Demolished as Mosques Multiply Across Country

The 19th century Church of St Lambertus in Immerath, Germany, has been torn down despite public protests, as mosques and Islamic centres multiply across the country.

The huge building, which was “notable for its double towers and neo-Romanesque design”, according to the Catholic Herald, was demolished by the RWE mining company to make way for an opencast lignite mine.

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

Italian EU Minister Warns ‘Only One’ Party is Pro-EU Amid Concerns in Brussels

Sandro Gozi, who serves as Italy’s State Secretary for European Affairs, claimed that the election will see the “battle between pro-EU and anti-EU forces continue”.

Speaking at the South EU Summit, Mr Gozi, of the ruling centre-left Democratic Party, admitted he was part of the “only one pro-EU party alliance” fighting at the upcoming election.

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

Italy: Boldrini Says ‘Astounded’ By Deneuve

One thing to be courted, another harassed says House Speaker

(ANSA) — Rome, January 10 — House Speaker Laura Boldrini said Wednesday she was “astounded” by Catherine Deneuve’s call for men to be allowed to still hit on women amid the sexual harassment storm. “It’s one thing to be courted, another to be harassed. You can’t confuse the two planes, gallantry and molestation are two different things, confusing them is a very serious thing,” she said.

An open letter signed by movie star Deneuve and dozens of other French women about men being unfairly targeted by sexual misconduct allegations has prompted a backlash in the French press and on social media.

In the letter, published in Le Monde newspaper, Deneuve and about 100 actresses, writers, scholars and artists argued that the “legitimate protest against sexual violence” stemming from the Harvey Weinstein scandal has gone too far and threatens hard-won sexual freedoms. They said men should be free to hit on women and advocated against “puritanism.”

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Berlusconi Hails Deneuve’s Letter

‘She said sacrosanct things’ says ex-premier

(ANSA) — Rome, January 11 — Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday hailed Catherine Deneuve’s letter appealing to let men still hit on women amid the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment storm.

“Catherine Deneuve said sacrosanct things,” said the media magnate-turned-politician.

“It’s natural that women should be happy that a man should court them, women are always courting me,” quipped the 81-year-old three-time ex-premier.

“It seems natural to me, it isn’t offensive to court someone as long as it is elegantly done”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Serrachiani in Mayor Etiquette Guide Row

‘An insult’ say critics

(ANSA) — Trieste, January 10 — Friuli Governor Debora Serrachiani has sent the region’s mayors an etiquette guide, sparking a row in the northeastern Italian region.

The booklet, Serracchiani said, is a practical guide to the ins-and-outs of “ceremony, protocol and institutional behaviour” but also goes so far as to give advice on how to use cutlery and personal hygiene.

Called the “ABC of Behaving Well,” the guide spurred criticism from mayors who said they did not need to be told how to behave.

Pierluigi Molinaro, the centre-right first citizen of a small town near Udine, said it was “an insult”.

In reply, the centre-left Democratic Party governor said the guide was a response to questions on proper procedure and processes from many mayors over the years.

Serracahiani also said “those who are properly brought up won’t need it”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Ex-Rome Mayor Marino Convicted in Expenses Case

Guilty of embezzlement, falsehood in dinners billed to city

(ANSA) — Rome, January 11 — Former Rome mayor Ignazio Marino was found guilty of embezzlement and falsehood in an expenses case Thursday and sentenced to two years in jail by an appeals court.

Marino said “this is a political sentence in view of the March 4 general election”. At the first-instance trial he had been acquitted. In October 2016 the former Democratic Party (PD) mayor was cleared over more than 50 dinners paid for with a city credit card. The case helped spur his removal from office, by the PD itself.

In January, explaining its acquittal, the lower court said Marino had been “careless” but had not committed any crime.

Marino was forced to resign in 2015 amid an expenses scandal, after two years in office.

He has always insisted he was innocent.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Turin City Auditors Quit, Citing ‘Pressure’

‘Always cooperated’ says M5S Mayor Appendino

(ANSA) — Turin, January 12 — The board of auditors of the city of Turin resigned on Friday.

The resignation letter referred to “difficulty in the exchange of communication and obstacles”.

“The lack of cooperation and the pressures received were sources of operative unease and misunderstandings,” the letter said.

Turin Mayor Chiara Appendino, a member of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), rejected the assertion that her administration had failed to cooperate. “We are surprised by the statements of the auditors,” Appendino said.

“The executive and the body I represent have always offered maximum cooperation.

“We take note of the resignations”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Mohammed is Most Popular Name for Newborn Boys in Holland for 2nd Year Straight

Dutch mainstream media reported that Noah was the most popular baby name for boys in the Netherlands, but a little digging turned out a different finding.

The name Noah was putatively considered the most popular boy’s name for 2017, having been given to 635 new-born boys in the Netherlands. But as VoE reports, a journalist from broadcaster Powned did some research into the database, however, and noticed that another name, a non-traditional Dutch name, was slightly more prevalent.

This journalist checked for Mohammed and its alternative spellings.

[Comment: “Hey, Mohamed, hanve you seen Muhammed?” “No Mohammad I have not, check with Mohammed, he might have seen him.” ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

No Interference in Italy Election — Putin

Relations with Italy too important to be ‘ruined’

(ANSA) — Moscow, January 11 — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denied an American Senator’s claim Moscow was set to interfere in Italy’s March 4 general election. Denying Ben Cardin’s claims, Putin said “we have good relations with Italy and for us this relationship with the Italian State is important, it would make no sense to ruin it”. He described Cardin’s claims as “provocations made on purpose to destroy the ties between our two countries”.

Putin stressed that “we have good relations both with political parties and with Italian secret services, with which we have discussed cooperating in digital security.” Putin concluded “I, for example, have excellent personal relations with (centre-right leader) Silvio Berlusconi and (former centre-left leader) Romano Prodi, who are opponents in the political arena”.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Wednesday called Cardin “a liar”.

Speaking to ANSA, she said “it’s up to the Italians who to elect as their leaders”. Cardin’s staff said in a report that “with elections coming in 2018, Italy could be a target for the Kremlin’s electoral meddling, which will probably try to boost parties contrary to the renewal of EU sanctions on Russia.” The report cited the 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the League as “populist, anti-establishment parties” Moscow might want to push its interests by helping.

Both parties, the report said, 2are strong supporters of the Kremlin’s foreign policy and have widely used fake news and conspiracy theories in their media campaigns, often orchestrated by Russian state media”. It also cited “some observers’ suspicions” that the League had obtained funding from Russian secret services.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Paris Under Siege: Teen Stabbed to Death in Brawl

VIOLENCE in Paris is escalating at alarming rates, French police have warned after a teenager was stabbed to death in a brawl.

There are around 40 violent gangs active in the French capital armed with baseball bats and knives, according to police, with members as young as 13.

On Saturday a 15-year-old boy, named only as Ismaël D., died after a brawl with 30 youths erupted in Paris’ 11th and 20th arrondissements.

He died from his injuries minutes after arriving at hospital.

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Soros Pledges Renewed Fight Against ‘Dominant Ideology’ of Nationalism, Says EU ‘On Verge of Breakdown’

The progressive billionaire speculator George Soros has said he will ‘fight back’ against the “dominant ideology” of nationalism, whilst admitting that favoured globalist project the European Union is “on the verge of a breakdown”.

Wistfully writing that Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) once ‘epitomised the optimism about the spread of Western-style democracy’ after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Financial Times described the scrutiny the global progressive body is experiencing amidst a wave of patriotism and populism and the ‘wilting’ attraction of the leftist agenda.

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Spain’s Prime Minister Threatens to Extend Direct Rule Over Catalonia

BARCELONA — Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain threatened on Monday to prolong his government’s direct rule over Catalonia if separatists lawmakers try to allow Carles Puigdemont to run the region from exile.

Mr. Rajoy ousted Mr. Puidgemont and his government in October for leading Catalonia’s drive to break from Spain and called new elections in hopes of a change of leadership.

The election in December did not yield the result Mr. Rajoy had hoped for, however, with separatist parties winning 47.5 percent of the vote, which was sufficient to keep their parliamentary majority.

Mr. Puidgemont now appears poised to become Catalonia’s leader once again, despite having fled to Belgium to avoid prosecution in Spain, possibly for sedition and rebellion.

Speaking before officials of his own Popular Party, Mr. Rajoy described as “absurd” the separatist plan to allow “a fugitive” to take office by videoconference, or by having another lawmaker read Mr. Puidgemont’s acceptance speech on his behalf.

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Sweden: Increasing Numbers of Young People Seek Help Against ‘Honour Culture’ Violence

The number of young people, mainly women, seeking help for honour culture violence has dramatically increased over the last several years with a support worker claiming a 50 per cent increase since 2015.

Dilek Baladiz, a manager at Onigo, a Swedish centre designed to help young people suffering honour violence get support, claims that the number of young people coming forward to the centre has dramatically increased, TT reports.

Sara Mohammed from the anti-honour violence nonprofit GAPF claims the violence is becoming far more elaborate, as well. She described an honour killing in Årsta, Stockholm, where a man mutilated a woman’s face.

“He cut off her nose, lips, and ears. It has symbolic significance in the culture of honour. The cutting of the ears means that you have not listened to the norms and values,” she said.

Honour culture tends to be the most prevalent in heavily migrant-populated suburbs, according to Baladiz. “In some areas there is repression. The more compatriots in an area, the more pressure there is to live according to the norms of honour and the more watchful eyes,” he said.

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Sweden to Issue Updated 1940s ‘War Guide’ Amid Threats of Terrorism & Climate Change

Sweden is set to release a modern version of a 1940s guide on how to cope with war, with the creators citing the threats of climate change and terrorist attacks, according to local media.

The government originally distributed the ‘Om kriget kommer’ (If War Comes) booklet to Swedes at the height of World War II in 1943, advising them what to do if the country became involved in the conflict. A subsequent version dealt with the Cold War. Another, revised in the 1980s, was used internally by the Swedish government.

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15 Hurt in Stabbing Incident at Russian School

At least 14 children have been hurt in a stabbing incident at a school in the Siberian city of Perm. Russian police said the stabbings began after two students at the city’s School No. 127 started fighting with knives.

According to police, a teacher and other pupils tried to break up the fight, after which the two students began attacking them.

Police said they have detained the two alleged attackers. One of them also suffered injuries and has been hospitalized, the TASS state news agency reported.

The local health ministry said of the 15 people hurt, 12 had been hospitalized, among them the teacher who suffered severe injuries. Police told TASS, the teacher and two students, aged 15-16, were being operated on.

Early accounts of the incident were confused, with some reports that the students had been wearing masks. Local news sites reported the children were in fourth class, in which students would typically be 9 or 10 years old.

Witnesses told the state news agency, RIA Novosti, that children came running out of the school, some covered in blood and calling for help.

Some of the children ran into a local shopping mall, where workers called the police…

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Aboriginal Mother Threatens to Shoot ‘White Racist Privileged Children’

She seems nice…

Aboriginal mother threatens to shoot ‘white racist privileged children’ on the grounds of a high school and calls the college ‘racist’ because they wouldn’t let her son take a SPEAR into the classroom…

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Aboriginal Mother Threatens to Shoot ‘White Racist Privileged Children’ On the Grounds of a High School and Calls the College ‘Racist’ Because They Wouldn’t Let Her Son Take a Spear Into the Classroom

An Aboriginal mother put schools on high alert after threatening to shoot the ‘white racist privileged children’.

Two high schools on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland were prepared for a possible disturbance after Iesha Lillian Nixon got into an argument with the Department of Education and Training.

The 38-year-old wanted to enrol her son into Burnside State School after feeling he was ‘racially vilified’ at Nambour State College, according to Sunshine Coast Daily.

Nixon accused Nambour State College of being ‘racist’ towards her son because they wouldn’t let him take a spear to class.

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‘His Upbringing Isn’t an Excuse’: Teenager Traumatised After Violent Apex Gang Carjacking Calls for Government to Deport the African Ringleader

Daniel Sibberas (left) was sitting in the passenger seat of his friend Sam Newman’s (right) car on their way home from a Melbourne bar in 2015 when they were rammed from behind.

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Shocking Footage Shows Crowd of Hungry Venezuelans Slaughtering a Cow in the Open

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s plan to order markets to slash prices of food — an attempt to combat speculation and rampant inflation of the bolivar — has apparently backfired as mobs of hungry Venezuelans have started looting supermarkets and slaughtering cattle in the open to survive, Reuters reports.

Last week, we reported on near-riots that broke out in Caracas after the mandatory price cuts for food stoked widespread shortages as what little inventory that remained on market shelves quickly disappeared.

Venezuelans are suffering from a plethora of economic and social maladies.Four years of recession and an inflation rate approaching 4,000% by some measures have made the country’s currency practically worthless. Widespread shortages of food and medicine led to violent riots during the spring and early summer of 2017 that resulted in more than 100 deaths, including the burning alive of one suspected Maduro supporter by a crowd of citizens. Law enforcement in the capital and many of the country’s smaller cities has effectively disbanded, leading to a rise in lynchings and streets justice. Indeed, suspected thieves are sometimes killed.

Venezuela’s regime probably would’ve collapsed by now if it weren’t for the aide of Russia and China, which have lent the Maduro regime money in exchange for a discount on future oil deliveries. But now that the price of oil is finally climbing again, Maduro could find himself rescued by commodity markets. In apparent anticipation of higher oil prices, the administration announced late last year that it would finally introduce “the Petro” — a state-designed cryptocurrency that will help Venezuela’s customers pay for their goods while circumventing the petrodollar system.

In a shocking example of just how severe Venezuela’s food shortages have become, a video on social media showed roughly a dozen men running into a lush pasture, chasing a cow, and then apparently beating it to death for the meat.

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Bezos Gives Millions to DACA, Amazon Staff Need Foodstamps

Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been hailed for donating US$33 million of his fortune to a scholarship fund for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, while more than 700 Amazon employees have to rely on foodstamps to feed themselves.

News outlets CNBC, Politico, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times published glowing reports on his philanthropic gesture benefitting immigrants, which comes on the heels of US President Donald Trump promising to revoke immigration protection for some 200,000 El Salvadorans living in the United States and referring to Haiti and African nations as “s***hole countries.”

But a recent study by Policy Matters Ohio indicates that more than 700 local Amazon employees — the bulk of Bezos’ staff, who ensure products are correctly sorted, packaged and dispatched — have to rely on foodstamps to survive.

Amazon reportedly received more than $17million in tax breaks in Ohio to open its first two distribution centers, according to The Daily Beast. This act of corporate welfare, which was recorded in 2015, was hailed by lawmakers as a job-creator.

Yet the company has also faced multiple lawsuits and complaints. According to a report by The Morning Call, Amazon employees in Allentown, Pennsylvania, worked in a warehouse where the heat index reached some 102 degrees Farenheit. At least 15 collapsed from heat exhaustion.

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Hungarian PM: If EU Cannot Secure External Borders ‘Internal Borders Must be Closed’

In an extensive interview with German media Sunday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán criticized Brussels for its overreach into national politics, urging a rethinking of the role of the European Union (EU).

Speaking with the German Sunday paper Welt am Sonntag, Mr. Orbán said that Europe and the EU are not the same thing. Europe is “not in Brussels, but in Berlin, in Budapest, in Warsaw and in Paris,” Orbán said.

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Illegals Fleeing to Canada Find Even Liberal Canada Has Limits to Freebies

With renewed pressure brought to bear by President Donald Trump on illegal aliens in the U.S., Canada is warning immigrants here that illegally crossing into Canada is not a free ticket to permanent residency and they can still be deported back to their point of origin if they steal across America’s northern border.

With many illegal immigrants becoming uneasy over their status in the U.S., some are eyeing a trip northward to a country many are told will accept everyone and give them lots of free stuff to boot.

But Ahmed Hussen, Canada’s immigration minister, recently warned illegals that they shouldn’t waltz into Canada and necessarily expect to get cradle to the grave freebies, according to the New York Times.

Hussen, who was an immigrant to Canada himself, warned illegals that while Canada is a welcoming country, they won’t take everyone who illegally crosses into the country.

“We don’t want people to illegally enter our border, and doing so is not a free ticket to Canada,” Hussen said . “We are saying, ‘You will be apprehended, screened, detained, fingerprinted, and if you can’t establish a genuine claim, you will be denied refugee protection and removed.’“

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Immigration Expert Calls Out the Clueless Left: “They Have No Idea What They’re Talking About”

The Center for Immigration Studies’ Mark Krikorian just called out the clueless lawmakers and journalists on their lack of knowledge when it comes to immigration. He gives several examples below but I’ll bet most lawmakers don’t know that each illegal alien costs the U.S $74,722. So when we build the wall and stop the illegals, we’d pay for the wall:

Based on the NAS data, illegal border-crossers create an average fiscal burden of approximately $74,722 during their lifetimes, excluding any costs for their U.S.-born children. If a border wall stopped between 160,000 and 200,000 illegal crossers — 9 to 12 percent of those expected to successfully cross in the next decade — the fiscal savings would equal the $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall.

Mark Krikorian reports:

Unfortunately, when it comes to immigration, people in positions of responsibility feel free to venture opinions on topics about which they have not the tiniest scintilla of knowledge. And I don’t mean that journalists and politicians should know the intricacies of a Labor Condition Application or whether the I-90 form can be filed online. I mean the most elementary of facts.

This struck me in the commentary about the termination (delayed till 2019) of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for about 200,000 Salvadoran illegal aliens. TPS is for illegal aliens (and a much smaller number of people on valid, but expiring, visas) who are here when their country suffers natural disaster or civil strife. The thinking was to temporarily hold off sending them home (and give them work permits) until things stabilize. It is thus not a refugee-like resettlement program that brings people to the United States from places that have experienced such problems. This is not a trivial distinction: They have not fled the earthquake, hurricane, etc. — they were simply lucky enough to be here when it happened and their prize was a work permit.

With regard to El Salvador, this fact is not buried on page 217 of a Federal Register notice — it’s right there on the USCIS page. TPS is only for Salvadorans who can show “Continuous Residence in U.S. Since: Feb.13, 2001”, the date of the second of two closely spaced earthquakes to hit that country. Research from the Center for Migration Studies suggests that the average (I think they meant median) Salvadoran with TPS moved here illegally four years before the earthquakes.

If you, dear reader, didn’t know this, that’s okay, because it’s not your job. But it is the job of our opinion-shapers and policymakers, and they’ve been embarrassing themselves with their ignorance. A few examples:

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Italy: Don’t Accept All Migrants, White Race at Risk — Fontana

Centre-right Lombardy candidate says not question of racism

(ANSA) — Milan, January 15 — Attilio Fontana, the centre-right candidate to be the next Lombardy governor, has said that Italy must not accept large-scale migrant arrivals, suggesting the “white race” is in danger. “Here is not an issue of being xenophobic or racist, but a question of being logical or rational,” Fontana told the Northern League’s Radio Padania on Sunday. “We cannot (accept all asylum seekers) because we don’t all fit, so we have to make choices. “We must decide if our ethnicity, if our white race, if our society, should continue to exist or if it should be wiped out.

“A serious State should plan and programme a situation of this type.

“It should say how many we consider it right to receive and how many migrants we don’t want to allow in, how we want to assist them, what jobs to give them, what homes and schools to give them,” added the former mayor of Varese, a League member.

“At that point, when a government prepares a project of this type, it can out it before its citizens.

“It is absolutely unacceptable to say that we have to accept them all.

“It is a design that we must respond to, that it is necessary to rebel against. “We cannot accept them all because, if we did, we would no longer be ourselves as a social reality, as an ethnic reality. “Because there are many more of them than us and they are much more determined to occupy this territory”.

On Monday Fontana said he is use of the term “white race” was a “slip of the tongue”.

Centre-left Lombardy governor candidate Giorgio Gori responded to his centre-right rival Attilio Fontana’s warning that migrants pose a threat to “the white race” by saying the campaign for the March 4 elections could do without “hysteria and demagoguery”.

“Election campaign: there are those who talk of pitchforks and white race. We talk about training, jobs, growth, and Europe”, Bergamo Mayor Gori said on Facebook. Gori launched an appeal to Lombardy voters, saying “you choose: we must #DoBetter, without hysteria and demagoguery”. Lombardy and Lazio are going to the polls to elect new regional governments on March 4, the same day as the general election.

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‘Migrants Want to Cone to UK’ French Minister Wades Into Calais Row Ahead of May Meeting

FRENCH interior minister Gérard Collomb has backed his president’s demands for a renegotiation of the Le Touquet saying Britain should pay more towards the cost of dealing with UK-bound Calais migrants and take in more refugees.

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Migrant Electrocuted on Top of Train From Italy to France

French police discovered the partially burned body of a man on the roof of a train travelling from northern Italy to southern France.

His body was found as the regional train arrived early on Sunday morning in Menton, in the south of France, its first stop after Ventimiglia station in Italy.

Police suspect that the man climbed on top of the train to make the 15-minute journey across the border and may have grabbed hold of an overhead electric line to avoid being thrown off.

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Niger Mission to Fight Illicit Traffic — Alfano

‘Defending our interests’ in Niger and Libya — Pinotti

(ANSA) — Rome, January 15 — Italy’s mission in Niger is to fight illicit traffic at the request of he Niger government, Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said Monday.

“Niger is on the southern border of Libya and our task will be to help the Niger armed forces to control an area crossed by armed bands”, he told the Senate foreign and defence affairs committees.

Also testifying, Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said the Niger mission would reach a maxium number of 470 men while an ongoing mission to Libya would be slightly boosted to 400 units overall.

She said Italy was defending its “strategic interests” in these and other missions, against migrant trafficking and other issues.

“The heart of our interventions is the enlarged Mediterranean, from the Balkans to the Sahel, to the Horn of Africa,” she said.

Pinotti said the Niger mission was a “non-combat mission”.

She said “we will not guard borders”.

The defence minister stressed that it was a training mission.

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One Brutal Image Explains What Happens When Democrats Welcome Unvetted Immigrants to America

Numbers USA recently published the number of individuals who have come from terror-sponsor nation to the U.S. through the diversity lottery. Fair warning… they are pretty shocking.

According to the latest State Department statistics since 2007, 28,783 individuals from terror-sponsoring countries (Iran, Sudan, and Syria) have received visas to enter the U.S. through the diversity visa lottery program. The visa lottery program has come under criticism after it was discovered that the New York City terror suspect entered the U.S. through the program.

The visa lottery program awards 50,000 visas every year through a random, computer-generated drawing from countries with low immigration rates to the U.S. The immigrants who are awarded the visas are granted legal permanent residence status and lifetime work permits.

Since the NYC terror attack, Pres. Trump has asked Congress to end the visa lottery program and chain migration.

The results of the reckless Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sponsored Diversity Visa Lottery program are summed up in this brutal image by cartoonist Antonio Branco:

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Police Attacked as 200 Migrants Storm Spanish Border to Claim EU Asylum

MORE than 200 African migrants stormed the Spanish border in a bid to claim asylum, regional officials have said.

The migrants are breached the gates leading into Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the border of Northern Morocco.

One police officer was injured in the incident after being “attacked by an immigrant with one of the hooks they use to clamber up the fence” — while four migrants received hospital treatment for minor injuries.

It is reportedly common for migrants looking to scale the two 20ft high fences bordering the city to use hooks as well as shoes studded with nails to gain purchase as they clamber over the border.

The 209 migrants who managed to make it across the barrier have since been taken to a migrant detention centre.

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Pro-Amnesty Vice President Mike Pence and His Establishment Friends

During Mike Pence’s six terms in Congress, he became very good friends with Jeff Flake and Paul Ryan. But why did Pence invite “Gang of Eight” Senator Flake, who is retiring at the end of his term, and other pro-amnesty Senators to meet with President Donald Trump on 9 January 18. Talk about inviting the fox into the hen house! Other Gang of Eight members in attendance were Senators Lindsey Graham, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Robert Menendez, and Michael Bennett. (In 2010, Dick Durbin advocated ending chain migration, but now he says the very term insinuates racism.)

As Senator, Flake embraced the amnesty cause and became a charter member of the disastrous 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty group. Led by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, the gang’s amnesty bill helped the Democrats lose nine seats in the 2014 midterm elections, and allowed Trump to win the 2016 primary race.

Senator Jeff Flake was/is a fierce critic of Donald Trump, but when Trump chose Flake’s good friend Pence for Vice President, Flake responded, “Best choice Donald Trump’s made so far.” I believe VP Pence is Trump’s Trojan Horse, and his latest actions belie his Christian conservative veneer.

In the recent White House bi-partisan immigration meeting with Trump, Pence declined to support Trump’s plan to change the law so that immigration rules help Americans, and he instead touted a quick amnesty for ‘DACA’ illegals. It’s obvious that VP Pence sides with his pro-immigration buddies Flake and Ryan rather than with his boss, President Trump.

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Secret Plot to Let 50 Millions African Workers Into EU

A controversial taxpayer-funded “job centre” opened in Mali this week is just the first step towards promoting “free movement of people in Africa and the EU”.

Brussels economists claim Britain and other EU states will “need” 56 million immigrant workers between them by 2050 to make up for the “demographic decline” due to falling birth rates and rising death rates across Europe.

The report, by the EU statistical agency Eurostat, warns that vast numbers of migrants could be needed to meet the shortfall in two years if Europe is to have a hope of funding the pension and health needs of its growing elderly population.

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Sweden: Lying “Child Refugee” Goes on Vacation to the Middle East After Receiving Residence Permit

Amir Nabizadeh came to Sweden as a so-called “child refugee”. He later claimed to be 18 years-old at the moment he received his residence permit, but things have changed a little.

In Oktober, data was published that strongly indicated that the Afghan refugee is actually 23-years-old. Swedish media say politician Hanif Bali revealed via a blog and Facebook link that Nabizadeh was born in 1994.

After Nabizadeh received his Swedish residence permit the “child” refugee also visited his family in the Middle East. On Twitter he wrote:

“In Tehran and at home after three years, mom and dad are happy, but I want to be in Sweden!”

And:

“I missed my friends and school. Here in Tehran there is everything, but not the security I had in Sweden.”

The Afghan is known for being the leader of a group of Afghan protestors in Stockholm. As a spokesperson for the “Youth in Sweden” he demands amnesty for all Afghan men who have been refused a residence permit because they lied about their age. Hardly surprising given that he himself is guilty of the same offence to public decency.

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‘When We Came, I Thought it Was Going to be Heaven’: Sudanese Mother-of-Six on Welfare Who Has a Gangster Son in Jail Says She Regrets Coming to Australia and Would Take Her Kids Back to Africa if She Had the Money

A Sudanese single mother who came to Australia as a refugee says she is considering moving back to Africa because she cannot control her teenage sons, one of which is in jail.

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Abortions Fall in Italy

Below 60,000 for first time in 2016

(ANSA) — Rome, January 11 — The number of abortions in Italy is falling, the health ministry said Thursday.

In 2016, confirming three-year trend, it said, the number fell below 60,000 for the first time.

The abortion rate among underage girls was down too, the ministry said.

A third of abortions are performed on foreign women, the report said. Conscientious objection by doctors was still widespread in Italy, it said.

The highest rates of objection were found in Campania, the region around Naples, and the northern province of Bolzano.

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Democrats Condemn Alleged ‘S***hole’ Remark as Racist, Prop Up Eugenics-Based Planned Parenthood

Democrats are once again calling President Donald Trump “racist” over an alleged remark attributed to him during immigration talks, yet they continue to wholeheartedly embrace an organization that aborts predominantly black and Hispanic babies.

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10 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/15/2018

  1. Where was the wisdom of importing black people into Australia? How much MORE evidence is needed that multikulti -unless it involves people with suitable “world view”, ethics and religion – doesn’t work (anywhere)?

  2. “It is assumed that the unfortunate migrant had grabbed the overhead electric cable to keep from falling off the car.”

    Well, his idea worked (“[t]he burned body of an electrocuted migrant was found on top of a train).

    • Just goes to show that not all of the african invaders are low-IQ parasites… Now the real trick is to raise the rest of them up to the brainpower of our Darwin award winning Einstein!

  3. The Moroccan youths attack on the Spanish border crossing should highlight in stark relief the results of Europe’s open door policy. Not being content to simply knock on the door, the would be immigrants are now trying to kick the door down. God forbid, however that we should say anthing, let alone point out the obvious. Disagreement will not be tolerated nor even listened to. Victor Orban was correct, this is no longer, if it ever was, immigration. This is no an invasion with all due and available force brought to bear, (or wolf, or jackal).

    • Don’t forget to boycott Amazon. It’s the least we can do. I hope I live long enough to see his fall.

        • I’m happy to report a (trivial?) exception. The town of Lewes in Sussex (near Glyndebourne, for opera fans) has an independent brewery called Harveys. A few years ago a pub there, not owned by Harveys, decided to remove their beers. The regulars boycotted the establishment to such effect that they had to bring them back.

          A small victory in the great scheme of things, I admit. Harveys have a pub near me (The Royal Oak, Southwark) with excellent food; should anyone here fancy a pint, please contact me via the Baron!

  4. ‘Championing Blasphemy Laws’.

    The British police are using Runnymede’s truly pernicious definitions.

    And just in case ‘exceedingly wide’ isn’t enough to resister a ‘hate-crime’, Met commander, Mak Chishty and the ‘force’s lead on hate crime’, said at Birmingham central mosque:
    “….no matter how small, report it. No matter how small, even if they look at you differently and you perceive it because they are thinking you are a Muslim, report it”.
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/mar/24/london-attack-police-terrorist-khalid-masood-live?page=with:block-58d52fb4e4b01ea2330bba43

    Stats are being vastly inflated and arrests for ‘hate’ are up but convictions have fallen.
    One imagines the next big push to criminalise ‘Islamophobia’ is imminent, the Islamo-Stasi will want some teeth.

  5. It is assumed that the unfortunate migrant had grabbed the overhead electric cable to keep from falling off the car.

    Hey! It worked. This individual didn’t topple from the carriage’s roof. Success!!!

    Of course, all that awaits is however-many various riots that will ensue—just as with those that took place in whatever Parisian suburbs; after several “yoots” (with supremely promising aerospace and medical careers) scaled the fence into a high-voltage electrical power substation in order to avoid apprehension by Gendarmes, only to discover the laws of ohmic conductivity. Go figure…

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