Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/22/2018

A Muslim woman in Berlin was attacked by another woman for wearing a burqa. Her assailant ripped off the burqa and verbally abused her. Later reports indicated that the attacker was also a Muslim, so the incident was quietly dropped from the media.

In other news, a mob of thousands of Pakistanis gathered in the streets of Lahore to demand the death sentence for a Christian teenager who allegedly had blasphemous material on his phone.

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Financial Crisis
» Italy: Inflation 0.9% in Jan
 
USA
» After the Feds Repeatedly Violate Man’s Rights and Property, He Sues
» AI Experts List the Real Dangers of Artificial Intelligence
» Billy Graham Dead at 99
» CNN Scrambles: Denies ‘Scripted Question, ‘ Invites Pro-Gun Student to Appear
» Data From License-Plate Readers Goes Where?
» Eric Lundgren Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs
» Jeff Bezos Reveals Construction of a Massive Clock Inside a Texas Mountain That Will Chime Every Day for 10,000 Years as a ‘Symbol for Long-Term Thinking’
» ‘Mass Censorship’ v ‘Bot Purge’: Twitterati Split Over Alleged Crackdown on Conservative Voices #TwitterLockout
» Nvidia Making Facial Recognition AI for Smart City Surveillance
» Pennsylvania Republicans Threaten Impeachment Over Redrawn Electoral Map
» Prohibition Never Works: Banning Alcohol Didn’t Work, And Banning Guns Won’t Either
» Sustainable Development: Code for Reorganizing Human Society
» Why Mainstream Media Websites Are Censoring & Removing Comment Sections
 
Europe and the EU
» Ban Private Schools From Teaching Arabic: Danish People’s Party
» Companies Can Access Workers’ Files — ECHR
» EU Court: Poland Has Violated EU Air Quality Laws
» EU on Brink: Germany Demands Rogue States Hungary and Poland Get Less Cash From Brussels
» European Superstate ‘Questioned’: Juncker Admits Embarrassing Revelation About EU Vision
» Europe: The Rapid Spread of Dhimmitude
» Foreigners Account for 80 Per Cent of Inmates in French-Speaking Swiss Prisons
» Former EU President Barroso ‘Lobbied Brussels on Behalf of Goldman Sachs’
» Germany: Burqa Snatched from Woman
» Germany: Syrian Medical Student Was Training 7-Year-Old Boy as Islamic State Fighter
» ‘Gunman on Loose’ In Brussels — Armed Police Rush to Incident in Belgian Capital
» Italian Election: Shock Photos After Violence Erupts in Italy — Three Officers Injured
» Italy: Sala Appeals to EU Audit Court on EMA
» Italy: ‘5 Nabbed’ After FN Provincial Chief Attacked
» Italy: Couldn’t Care Less About Strasbourg Ruling — Berlusconi
» Italy: Industrial Turnover Up 5.1% 2017, Highest Since 2011
» Juncker Accused of Snub to Millions as he Prepares to Unveil Statue of Communist Karl Marx
» Le Pen at CPAC: ‘All I Want is the Survival of My Nation’
» Not Many Answers From Netherlands on EMA — La Via
» ‘The Threats to Sweden Are Greater Than in a Long Time’
» UK: Lonely Hearts Couple Sent to Jail for Terror Bomb Plot
» UK: Murdered Grandad Was Stabbed 45 Times in a ‘Rapid Attack’
» UK: MPs Launch £300,000 ‘Charm Offensive’ To Win Over Public After Signing Off £4 Billion Overhaul of Palace of Westminster
» UK: Number of Rotherham Rape Gang Victims Rises to 1,500, Officers Expand Operation
» UK: The Hijab as the Entry Point for Islam
» Violent Islamism Causes Highest Threat Level in Sweden in a Long Time: Security Service Head
 
Balkans
» Albania: 3 Schools Designed in Italy to be Built in Tirana
» US Embassy ‘Under Attack’ By Grenade Throwing Assailant in Montenegro
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Hopeless in Gaza
 
Middle East
» Arab Writer: We Blew an Entire Century
 
South Asia
» India: Muslims Burn Piles of Pampers Nappies and Call for a Ban Because Cartoon Cat’s Whiskers Printed on Them ‘Look Like the Arabic Spelling of Mohammed’
» Pakistan: Thousands-Strong Muslim Mob Demands Beheading of Christian Teen for ‘Blasphemy’
 
Far East
» Muslim Leader: Islamic State Jihadists Leaving Middle East for Philippines
 
Australia — Pacific
» Cambodian Prime Minister Says He’ll ‘Follow Protesters Home and Beat Them Up’ If They Picket His Visit to Sydney
» Relatives of Girl, 2, ‘Raped by a Father-Figure, 24, ‘ Begged for Her Not to be Returned to the House Because it Was ‘Full of Alcohol and Drugs’ — As Child Services Were Called to Home 21 Times in Three Months
» Revealed: How Drug Addicts and Alcoholics Collect a $814-a-Fortnight Centrelink Disability Pension — as Long as They Prove They’re Being Treated
» ‘You’re Hiding Behind a Mask, You’re Not Free’: Moment a Blonde Beachgoer Confronts a Muslim Woman Wearing a Burqa in Sydney in New Reality TV Show
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Britain Warns of ISIS Attacks in South Africa After Couple Kidnapped
 
Immigration
» Amnesty International Say Italy ‘Steeped in Racism’
» Amnesty International Criticises France on Migration
» Bulgaria and Hungary Want Secure EU Borders and Control of the Migrant Crisis
» Germany Could Need Up to 16,000 Planes to Deport Its Rejected Asylum Seekers
» Germany: Food Bank in Essen Bars New Migrant Clients ‘To Ensure Reasonable Integration’
» Italian Town ‘Taken Over’ By Nigerian Migrant Gangs
» Italy: Migrants Hole Up in Rome Centre
» Merkel Walks Out of Parliament After AfD Leader Lambasts Her Support for Migrant Quota System
 
Culture Wars
» Horrific Sex Ed Curriculum is Taking Over in This Virginia County, And Objectors Are Getting Steamrolled
 

Italy: Inflation 0.9% in Jan

Same as December

(ANSA) — Rome, February 22 — Italy’s annual inflation rate was 0.9% in January, the same as December, ISTAT said Thursday.

This compared to a preliminary estimate of 0.8%. The national price index rose 0.3% between December and January, the national statistics agency said.

This was the same rise as that between November and December, ISTAT said.

Italy’s inflation ‘trolley’ of most frequently bought items rose 0.7% over the month and 1.3% over the year in January, ISTAT said Thursday.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

After the Feds Repeatedly Violate Man’s Rights and Property, He Sues

An elderly man is suing two federal government agencies for Constitutional rights violations. The rancher claims that both agencies trespassed on his property and installed cameras on his trees without his permission — but the icing on the cake was when they threatened to arrest him.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

AI Experts List the Real Dangers of Artificial Intelligence

A 100-page report written by artificial intelligence experts from industry and academia has a clear message: Every AI advance by the good guys is an advance for the bad guys, too.

The paper, titled “The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation,” calls this the “dual-use” attribute of AI, meaning the technology’s ability to make thousands of complex decisions every second could be used to both help or harm people, depending on the person designing the system. The experts considered the malicious uses of AI that either currently exists or could be developed over the next five years, and broke them out into three groups: digital, physical, and political.

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

Billy Graham Dead at 99

Billy Graham, America’s best-known evangelist and a spiritual adviser to 11 presidents who preached to more than 2.2 billion souls in more than seven decades of ministry, died Wednesday at the age of 99.

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association said he died at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, from “natural causes.”

Born Nov. 7, 1918, on a dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina, William Franklin Graham Jr. became a believer in Jesus Christ at the age of 16 during a series of revival meetings and went on to lead hundreds of evangelistic “crusades” in which he famously invited members of vast stadium and arena audiences to “come forward and accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior.”

“My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ,” Graham once said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CNN Scrambles: Denies ‘Scripted Question, ‘ Invites Pro-Gun Student to Appear

CNN issued a statement Thursday morning denying that it had asked a shooting survivor to ask a “scripted question” at the CNN Town Hall on guns on Wednesday evening in Sunrise, Florida.

On Wednesday evening, junior Colton Haab, a survivor of last week’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, told local Fort Lauderdale ABC affiliate WPLG that CNN had invited him to appear at the town hall, but he had withdrawn after being asked to recite a “scripted” question.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Data From License-Plate Readers Goes Where?

FBI, U.S. Marshals, DEA, even Georgia cops know where you go

It’s not something that gets a lot of attention, but there are ALPRs all over the place.

The automated license plate readers are technology systems that capture plate numbers and add them to a database, along with the time and the location.

The information is used to track down fugitives and much more.

And it’s that “much more” that has privacy advocates alarmed.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and a public records information site called MuckRock are joining forces to track down what happens when your tag is recorded in the database.

The privacy groups already know such information goes to police agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals service and other agencies. Even those with nothing to do with traffic.

Now they’ve launched an effort to find out more about how the data is used and who has access to it. They plan to file Freedom of Information requests with about 1,000 data-using agencies.

EFF said police departments are routinely sharing ALPR data with “a wide variety of agencies that may be difficult to justify.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Eric Lundgren Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs

Eric Lundgren is obsessed with recycling electronics.

He built an electric car out of recycled parts that far outdistanced a Tesla in a test. He launched what he thinks is the first “electronic hybrid recycling” facility in the United States, which turns discarded cellphones and other electronics into functional devices, slowing the stream of harmful chemicals and metals into landfills and the environment. His California-based company processes more than 41 million pounds of e-waste each year and counts IBM, Motorola and Sprint among its clients.

But an idea Lundgren had to prolong the life of personal computers could land him in prison…

“In essence, I got in the way of Microsoft’s profits, so they pushed this into federal court on false pretense,” Lundgren said. He said McGloin “testified that a free restore CD was worth the same price as a new Windows operating system with a license. … This was false and inaccurate testimony provided by Microsoft in an attempt to set a precedent that will scare away future recyclers and refurbishers from reusing computers without first paying Microsoft again for another license. … Anyone successfully extending the life cycle of computers or diverting these computers from landfills for reuse in society is essentially standing in the way of Microsoft’s profits.”

Lundgren called his own expert witness, Glenn Weadock, an author of numerous software books who testified for the government in a major antitrust case against Microsoft that was resolved in 2001. Weadock was asked, “In your opinion, without a code, either product key or COA [Certificate of Authenticity], what is the value of these reinstallation discs?”

“Zero or near zero,” Weadock said.

Why would anybody pay for one? Lundgren’s lawyer asked.

“There is a convenience factor associated with them,” Weadock said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Jeff Bezos Reveals Construction of a Massive Clock Inside a Texas Mountain That Will Chime Every Day for 10,000 Years as a ‘Symbol for Long-Term Thinking’

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has invested $42 million (£30 million) in the project, revealed the clip on social media.

It shows workmen installing the mechanism inside a hollowed out chamber in a West Texas mountain.

The clock, powered by Earth’s thermal cycles, will continue to keep time over the millennia, marking time with a chime once a day rather than each hour.

Its creators hope that this will encourage humanity to consider about their impact on the planet and act as a ‘symbol for long-term thinking’.

[Comment: A clock, yeah sure. ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Mass Censorship’ v ‘Bot Purge’: Twitterati Split Over Alleged Crackdown on Conservative Voices #TwitterLockout

Conservative Twitter users across the platform are, metaphorically at least, setting their hair on fire amid claims their accounts were locked in a reported “purge” of right-wing voices.

The move, which has yet to be confirmed by Twitter has nonetheless been labelled an attempt at “mass censorship” by critics, is thought to be a bid to rid the platform of automated accounts — or ‘bots’ — set up to artificially amplify conservative campaigns online.

Some of the more rabid elements of conservative Twitter have reacted with incredulity, claiming they have lost hundreds of followers who, like them, have been targeted for their cutting-edge commentary and off-beat political polemics.

[Comment: Dump twitter and their ilk. Let them end up like myspace or echo chambers for communists.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Nvidia Making Facial Recognition AI for Smart City Surveillance

Tech company Nvidia announced Thursday that it has partnered with AI developer Any Vision to bring a new type of surveillance technology to smart cities.

Both companies are working on bringing automatic facial recognition into closed-circuit television surveillance cameras, Mashable reports.

According to Anyvision, the technology can continuously scan for faces 24/7, and automatically identify and track individuals with 99% accuracy. Then the systems algorithms, with the help of human monitors, will compare identified faces with criminal databases.The technology is also meant to be scalable across platforms, from smartphones to computers.

[Comment: Useful idiots helping to build the panopticon tyrannical society of the future. Another company whose products are now added to the list of “Never Buy”.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pennsylvania Republicans Threaten Impeachment Over Redrawn Electoral Map

PITTSBURGH — Pennsylvania Republicans are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court and threatening to impeach the state’s supreme court after the body approved a redrawn electoral map that heavily favors Democrats.

Late Wednesday, Pennysylvania’s House Speaker Mike Turzai and Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati submitted an emergency request to nation’s highest court requesting a block on implementing the new lines drawn by the state court.

           — Hat tip: Vlad Tepes [Return to headlines]
 

Prohibition Never Works: Banning Alcohol Didn’t Work, And Banning Guns Won’t Either

They say those who don’t pay attention to history are destined to repeat it. It seems like even though humans have paid attention, they somehow think the same things that failed in the past, like prohibition and communism, will magically work now.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Sustainable Development: Code for Reorganizing Human Society

It’s in every community in the nation. We hear it talked about in county commission meetings and state legislatures. It’s even used in advertising as a positive practice for food processing and auto sales. It’s used as the model for building materials, power sources and transportation policy. It’s sold as the bold visionary plan for the future. The nation is being transformed under the banner of “Sustainable Development.”

We are assured by elected officials that Sustainable Development is simply a tool or a guideline to help direct the carefully-planned growth of our cities and rural areas while protecting our natural resources for future generations. “We must guard against a chaotic, unregulated growth in our cities,” say its earnest proponents as they sell the concept through familiar, non-threatening words and beautiful pictures.

Citizens are assured by their community leaders that all such plans are just local, local, local, created with the participation of the whole community. Sustainable Development policy, they say, is just an environmental land conservation policy, a sensible development policy. Sustainable…what’s wrong with that?

As usual, the answers are hidden in the details. Are we hearing the truth? What are the consequences of the policy that has taken over every level of government? Are there hidden dangers most just can’t see? Or, as its proponents claim, is opposition to Sustainable Development really just a silly, overblown conspiracy theory found in a twenty-year-old meaningless document called Agenda 21?

The UN’s Brundtland Commission on Global Governance described Sustainable Development as “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future.” It’s just common sense to assure we don’t overuse our resources, say proponents. If everyone will do their part, we can achieve total sustainability.

A couple of years later, in 1992, at the UN’s Earth Summit, 50,000 delegates approved a plan describing in great detail how to meet those future needs. They issued a document called Agenda 21, which the UN labeled as a “comprehensive blueprint for the reorganization of human society.” The UN sold Agenda 21 as a “soft law” policy, meaning it was an idea that nations would need to take up and impose through their own mechanisms.

[Comment: Excellent article. Tom Deweese knows the scam of Agenda 21. Oppression starts with “soft” tyranny. “Re-educating” and “re-organizing” society into the end goal of a tyrannical NWO where the population are nothing more than drones in the elites “glorious new future” — the individual will be subsumed to the glorious collective or else get a jackboot on their neck.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why Mainstream Media Websites Are Censoring & Removing Comment Sections

News that Google has developed a new AI system that “identifies abusive comments” to clamp down on “hate speech” reminds us why mainstream media websites are censoring and removing comment sections altogether — because studies show they have more influence over the opinion of the reader than the article itself.

Google’s new tool, Perspective, works by comparing comments left on news websites to comments left on Wikipedia and the New York Times that were deemed “toxic” by a team of human reviewers.

The only criteria given for what constitutes a “toxic” comment is that it causes someone to leave a conversation. Obviously, this could also include someone who lost a debate or who is merely offended or triggered by another comment.

With trust in mainstream media plummeting, the real goal behind the censorship and in some cases entire removal of comment sections is to manipulate public opinion.

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

Ban Private Schools From Teaching Arabic: Danish People’s Party

The anti-immigration Danish People’s Party (DF) wants to ban private schools from teaching the Arabic language.

The party will on Thursday forward a proposal to parliament that would, in practice forbid many Islamic private schools in Denmark from teaching students in their mother tongues.

DF has previously proposed scrapping state support for Islamic private schools.

           — Hat tip: Anton [Return to headlines]
 

Companies Can Access Workers’ Files — ECHR

Don’t bear the name ‘private’

(ANSA) — Strasbourg, February 22 — Companies can legitimately access workers’ computer files, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday. Ruling in favour of French railways, it said the files did not bear the name “private” and thus could be opened even in the absence of the employee.

The ECHR upheld the acquittal of the French railway company by national courts.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

EU Court: Poland Has Violated EU Air Quality Laws

Government launched a program limiting the use of coal

(ANSA) — WARSAW — The European Union’s top court says that Poland has violated EU law on air quality by continuously exceeding the bloc’s pollution limit from 2007-2015.

Issuing the ruling Thursday, the EU Court of Justice urged Poland’s government to speed up efforts to improve air quality and cut the health-threatening levels of particulate matter known as PM10. European Commission may weigh in if Poland does not improve its air quality soon.

In reaction, Poland’s government launched a program limiting the use of coal for heating in private homes. The ruling was welcomed by environmental organizations.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

EU on Brink: Germany Demands Rogue States Hungary and Poland Get Less Cash From Brussels

GERMANY wants countries hosting large numbers of migrants to be rewarded with more EU regional aid in a move that would shift funds away from poorer countries in central and eastern Europe.

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

European Superstate ‘Questioned’: Juncker Admits Embarrassing Revelation About EU Vision

The chief eurocrat revealed his parents, who passed away last year, began to grow sceptical the policies of their son’s European Union project when they reached their seventies.

The Commission President announced a swathe of federalist polices when he gave his State of the Union speech, in Strasbourg, last September.

He called for greater EU integration — which includes a EU president, combining the role with that of the head of the European Council — and a eurozone finance minister, a Brussels intelligence agency, European anti-terrorism prosecutor and an agency to enforce labour standards.

However, even Mr Juncker may be somewhat hard pushed if he couldn’t entirely convince his parents, who he said were “pro-Europeans”.

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

Europe: The Rapid Spread of Dhimmitude

One of the most troubling aspects of this rapidly spreading dhimmitude, is the de-facto enforcement of Islamic blasphemy laws. Local European authorities have been utilizing “hate speech” laws to prohibit criticism of Islam, even though Islam represents an idea, not a nationality or an ethnicity. The conventional purpose of most hate-speech laws is to protect people from hatred, not ideas.

The British Foreign Office, which has ignored Iranian women’s desperate fight for freedom and stayed shamefully silent during the Iranian people’s recent protests against Iran’s regime, unbelievably handed out free headscarves to its staff. Meanwhile, at least 29 Iranian women were arrested for shedding the hijab, and were likely subjected to rape and other torture, as is common in Iranian prisons. Yet British MPs and Foreign Office employees were perversely celebrating the hijab as some sort of twisted tool of “female empowerment”.

Counter-jihad measures have been obstructed by Western leaders everywhere since immediately after 9/11. President George W. Bush declared that “Islam is peace”. President Obama removed all references to Islam in FBI terror training manuals that Muslims deemed offensive. New York City’s current leadership threatened New Yorkers, immediately after the October terror attack in Manhattan, not to link the terror attack to Islam. UK Prime Minister Theresa May claimed that Islam is a “religion of peace”.

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

Foreigners Account for 80 Per Cent of Inmates in French-Speaking Swiss Prisons

Foreigners now account for 80 per cent of prison inmates in the French-speaking part of Switzerland according to Franz Walter, director of prisons in Bellechasse.

Mr Walter claimed that the rate of foreign prisoners in the French-speaking part of Switzerland was 80 per cent, compared to the German-speaking part of the country where the number was between 50 and 60 per cent, broadcaster RTS reports.

Most of the prisoners, according to Walter, come from Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Maghreb.

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

Former EU President Barroso ‘Lobbied Brussels on Behalf of Goldman Sachs’

The former President of the EU Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, is now working for Goldman Sachs and has reportedly been lobbying the EU, despite saying he wouldn’t.

A letter obtained by the Corporate Europe Observatory from commissioner Jyrki Katainen, in charge of jobs and growth, reads: “Indeed, I met with Mr. Barroso from Goldman Sachs in the Silken Berlaymont Hotel in Brussels on 25 October 2017.

“Mr. Barroso and I were the only participants to this meeting, where we mostly discussed trade and defence matters.”

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

Germany: Burqa Snatched from Woman

BERLIN — German police say a Muslim woman wearing a veil covering her entire face and body was attacked and verbally abused inside a Berlin store.

Police said Tuesday a 28-year-old woman insulted the victim and ripped the veil of the burqa from her head.

The attacker then followed the 54-year-old victim out of the store and continued shouting anti-foreigner abuse at her before being detained by police. Police gave no more details of the incident.

           — Hat tip: Elena [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: Syrian Medical Student Was Training 7-Year-Old Boy as Islamic State Fighter

A 30-year-old Syrian medical student living in Germany and currently on trial for a plot targetting a Berlin synagogue has been accused of trying to train his girlfriend’s seven-year-old son as a jihadi soldier.

According to the indictment against him, the 30-year-old Syrian is thought to have shown the 7-year-old boy various Islamic State propaganda videos glorifying child soldiers, “showing how other children fought for the Islamic State, shot other people and were shot themselves,” Kronen Zeitung reports.

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

‘Gunman on Loose’ In Brussels — Armed Police Rush to Incident in Belgian Capital

BRUSSELS terror police have rushed to the Forest region of the city after reports of a gunman on the loose. Officers have put the area on lockdown and told residents to remain in their homes.

           — Hat tip: Anton [Return to headlines]
 

Italian Election: Shock Photos After Violence Erupts in Italy — Three Officers Injured

PROTESTORS from the social centres, anti-racist and anti-fascist movements have clashed with police tonight during a rally against a meeting of the Italian far-right party ‘CasaPound’ in Turin ahead of the Italian election on March 4th.

‘‘Anti-fascist” protesters tried to break through a police cordon to reach a hotel where the far-right Casapound party was holding a rally for its candidates.

Shock photos show Italian police officers struggling to contain protestors as they rush to extinguish Molotov cocktails thrown at them.

Officers in riot gear charged at the demonstrators after protestors started setting off smoke bombs and firecrackers.

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

Italy: Sala Appeals to EU Audit Court on EMA

We’ll see if process transparent says Gentiloni

(ANSA) — Milan, February 21 — Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala on Tuesday appealed to the European Audit Court against the European Medicines Agency (EMA) being assigned to Amsterdam over Milan. He said he was in possession of documents which allegedly proved that Amsterdam had not met bid requirements in allegedly not being ready to host the agency after it leaves London after Brexit.

“Today the Dutch government was forced to make public the acts it had filed away, and from this we understood that our suspicions were founded”.

Amsterdam says its temporary location for the EMA is adequate.

Milan and the Italian government are appealing a November 20 tie-break lottery decision to assign the agency to the Dutch city over the Lombardy capital.

Premier Paolo Gentiloni said Wednesday Italy would “verify” whether the process that assigned the EMA to Amsterdam was “transparent”. He said “the city (of Milan), the region (of Lombardy) and the government are working and will continue to work to verify that the process was done with correctness and transparency, because if it was not it would be doing wrong not only to Milan but also to Italy and Europe”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: ‘5 Nabbed’ After FN Provincial Chief Attacked

‘Communist hatred unleashed’ says Fiore

(ANSA) — Rome, February 21 — Five people were nabbed Wednesday after he Palermo provincial secretary of the far-right Forza Nuova (FN) group was tied up and bloodily beaten by persons wearing ski masks or with their heads wrapped in scarves in Palermo’s central Via Dante Tuesday night.

Five ‘antagonists’ — anticapitalist and anarchist or leftist youth squatters — including university students were reported to have been taken to a police station on Wednesday.

Italy’s DIGOS special security police was said to be weighing two arrests in the case, sources said.

They said CCTV cameras had established that eight people were involved in the attack. Prosecutors are investigating on suspicion of attempted murder, judicial sources said. The FN provincial chief, tattoo salon owner Massimo Ursino, was surrounded, tied hand and foot with duct tape and brutally beaten, sources said. Ursino suffered bruising to the face and the whole of his body, a broken nose, and a suspected shoulder lesion, medical sources said. He was taken to the ER where doctors said his injuries would heal in 20 days.

FN leader Roberto Fiore said “after a campaign of hatred sown by the (newspaper) Espresso group and followed by all the left including the Free and Equal (LeU) party, Communist hatred is unleashed against Forza Nuova”.

“A Forza Nuova official was struck at his workplace, tied up and brutally beaten, in a cowardly way, in 10 against one”.

The attack, which was condemned by all political parties, was claimed by an unnamed lefist group which said it “repudiated Fascism” and that Ursino had been given an “exemplary” beating a few days ahead of a rally in Palermo by Fiore.

It said Italy was threatened by the “rise” of racist and neo-Fascist groups.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Couldn’t Care Less About Strasbourg Ruling — Berlusconi

ECHR weighing ex-PM’s appeal agst office ban

(ANSA) — Rome, February 22 — Centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday said he couldn’t care less about a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg on his appeal against an office ban that runs until next year.

Three-time ex-premier and media magnate Berlusconi was answering a question of whether he still hoped the office ban would be lifted in time for him to stand for premier again.

The billionaire is leading his centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party in the campaign for the March 4 general election.

The ECHR started considering Berlusconi’s appeal in November.

It normally takes 9-11 months over such cases.

Berlusconi was served the six-year office ban, related to a tax-fraud conviction, in 2013.

He has argued that the ban was served retrospectively and therefore unfairly.

The ex-premier has not yet named FI’s premier candidate but has repeatedly touted European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, an FI member.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Industrial Turnover Up 5.1% 2017, Highest Since 2011

Orders up 6.6%

(ANSA) — Rome, February 22 — Italian industrial turnover rose 5.1% in 2017, the highest rise since 2011, ISTAT reported Thursday. In 2011 the rise was 6.8%. Orders were up 6.6% last year, the national statistics agency said. Turnover rose 2.5% in December over November and by 7.2% over December 2016, ISTAT said.

Orders were up 6.5% over the month and 6.9% over the year, the statistics agency said.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Juncker Accused of Snub to Millions as he Prepares to Unveil Statue of Communist Karl Marx

The controversial President of the European Commission is listed to open an exhibition to the father of Communism in Trier to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth there on 5th May.

It includes unveiling a statue funded by the Chinese government to the man who gave birth to a destructive ideology that has caused mass murder and imprisonments around the globe.

The plans have provoked outrage in Britain and across Europe especially in the former Communist controlled Eastern European countries where the far Left tyrannies murdered and imprisoned millions of people.

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

Le Pen at CPAC: ‘All I Want is the Survival of My Nation’

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — French nationalist Marion Marechal-Le Pen earned a warm reception at CPAC Thursday, despite numerous conservative pundits denouncing her appearance.

Le Pen mocked the criticism she was a “national socialist” and not a real conservative with the opening lines of her speech.

“Hello my fellow conservatives!” the 28-year-old National Front politician greeted the crowd. “I hope you see me as less terrifying than how the American media portrays me because it’s crazy. Yesterday, I was a fascist — today, I’m a socialist!”

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Not Many Answers From Netherlands on EMA — La Via

After inspecting temporary offices

(ANSA) — Amsterdam, February 22 — European Parliament delegation chief Giovanni La Via said after inspecting the temporary Amsterdam home of the European Medicines Agency Thursday that “it’s an intense moment, we asked a lot of questions and there weren’t very many answers” from Dutch officials. He said “in fact we discovered that the adjustments to the office won’t envisage a tender, and they think they’ll be able to do it in time”.

He added “it also emerged that there is no alternative plan.

If the work isn’t ready in time there is no alternative”.

La Via said “the tender for the permanent site is still very far from being ready and they say the work should start on the first of June, but since there is no tender yet, it seems a bit difficult to us.

“We’ll see the site of the Vivaldi Building this afternoon and everything they’ll have to do to have an efficient home for the EMA there”.

Italy has appealed against a November 20 decision to assign the EMA to Amsterdam rather than Milan amid concerns the Dutch city may not be ready to host the agency after it moves from London after Brexit.

The temporary office is housed in the Spark Building, while the permanent home in the Vivaldi Building has yet to be built.

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‘The Threats to Sweden Are Greater Than in a Long Time’

Sweden’s security service Säpo warns in a new report that the threats to the country are greater than in a long time, citing rising extremism and tension in the rest of the world.

Säpo released its annual report outlining current security threats to Sweden on Thursday.

“In the past few years, the security situation in our part of the world has deteriorated and the threats to Sweden are greater now than they have been in a long time,” writes the outgoing head of the organization, Anders Thornberg, in the report.

Säpo said last year that some 3,000 violent extremists are currently based in Sweden, of whom around two thirds are believed to have Islamist motives.

Thornberg reiterates that the growth of extremist environments is “a reason for concern”.

“Our country is facing a ‘new normal’. In just a few years, the number of individuals belonging to violent extremist circles has increased from hundreds to thousands.”

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UK: Lonely Hearts Couple Sent to Jail for Terror Bomb Plot

A MUSLIM couple who plotted a terror campaign after meeting on a dating website were jailed yesterday.

Factory worker Munir Mohammed, 36, was given life and told he must serve at least 14 years.

Chemist Rowaida El-Hassan, 33, was jailed for 12 years and told she must remain behind bars for two-thirds of the sentence, rather than the normal half.

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UK: Murdered Grandad Was Stabbed 45 Times in a ‘Rapid Attack’

Murdered dog walker Peter Wrighton suffered up to 45 knife wounds during a “rapid attack” in a Norfolk woodland, a court today heard.

The 83-year-old, from Banham, was stabbed in the back of his head, throat and left eye while walking in an area known as the Heath in East Harling on August 5 last year.

Alexander Palmer, 24 of Freesia Way, Cringleford, is on trial accused of his murder.

Giving evidence at Nottingham Crown Court this morning, home office pathologist Dr Virginia Fitzpatrick-Swallow said the fatal wound was caused by Mr Wrighton’s neck being cut open.

She said the wound to his neck was delivered with “significant force” and that his carotid artery, which supplies blood to the brain, was “almost completely cut through.”

Discs between his vertebrae, at the back of his neck, were also cut, she said.

He suffered a further 22 non-fatal incisions to his arms and hands, which were described as being “defensive wounds”.

Dr Fitzpatrick-Swallow said the injuries could have been caused by a single-edged sharp object, such as a kitchen knife.

When asked whether they could have been inflicted by the weapon shown in a photograph to members of the jury, she said: “This knife would have been capable of inflicting those injuries.”

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UK: MPs Launch £300,000 ‘Charm Offensive’ To Win Over Public After Signing Off £4 Billion Overhaul of Palace of Westminster

MPs are pumping £300,000 into a PR drive after voting for a £4billion restoration of the Palace of Westminster.

The parliamentary authorities are planning to spend the money on distributing leaflets and other ‘promotional’ material to members of the public, schools, and libraries.

The push has a broad goal of enhancing ‘understanding’ of parliament, but will be seen as a charm offensive ahead of the controversial refurbishment project.

The plans, which will see politicians move out of the building entirely while essential repairs and improvements are made, are likely to be tricky to sell to the public at a time of austerity.

The promotional tender, worth £250,000 plus VAT, was issued on February 16, just over a fortnight after MPs voted in favour of the multi-billion pound overhaul.

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UK: Number of Rotherham Rape Gang Victims Rises to 1,500, Officers Expand Operation

The number of victims of Rotherham grooming and rape gangs has risen even higher than the 1,400 figure which shocked the nation in 2014, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed.

The revelations come as millions of pounds continue to be pumped into an independent review of the mass sex crimes in the town, with hundreds of officers still expanding their work on the scandal.

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UK: The Hijab as the Entry Point for Islam

Islamists seem to be influencing the British school system with ease: there is simply no solid opposition to them. The government even stays silent about the harassment and intimidation.

Islamists in Britain seem to be intent on establishing regressive requirements, such as the hijab for young girls, wife beating, making homosexuality illegal, death for apostates, halala rituals in divorce, and exploitation of women and children through Sharia courts as part and parcel of British culture.

That St. Stephen’s School allowed itself to be blackmailed in this way bodes ill for both Britain and its education system.

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Violent Islamism Causes Highest Threat Level in Sweden in a Long Time: Security Service Head

A new report, from Sweden’s security service Säpo, says the country is facing “greater threats than in a long time”.

“In the past few years, the security situation in our part of the world has deteriorated and the threats to Sweden are greater now than they have been in a long time,” Säpo head Anders Thornberg writes.

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Albania: 3 Schools Designed in Italy to be Built in Tirana

Architects explain: an new idea of school, open to everyone

(ANSA) — TIRANA — Three schools designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti will be built in Tirana, Albania. Three buildings shaped in accordance with ideas meeting the criteria of innovation, which will be dedicated to pre-university education.

They will host five educational institutions open all day, every day, which will welcome students of all ages. The three schools will be built, according to the Tirana Master Plan, in the northwestern quarter of the Albanian capital, in the Don Bosco, Kodr-Kamz and Piazza Shqiponja areas. “The project is inspired by an innovative vision of the social and cultural function of the school system .- explained Italian architect Stefano Boeri -, which is seen as a place always functioning and open to all citizens, associations, creative enterprises, institutions. The new school will host meetings and conferences”. The whole concept is contained in the “manifesto” described by Project Director Francesca Cesa Bianchi. “The three new schools in Tirana will have facades in red brick and white concrete foundations and will be a local cultural epicentre, a new point of reference for the neighborhood and public life”. The schools cover a total area of 29,609 square meters, which will include the Don Bosco School Complex with nursery, pre-school education, middle school and high school, the Kodr-Kamz School Complex with nursery, pre-school education, secondary school and high school and the Shqiponja School Complex with nursery, preschool education and middle school.

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US Embassy ‘Under Attack’ By Grenade Throwing Assailant in Montenegro

A US Embassy in Montenegro has been blasted with a grenade by an unnamed attacker who then blew himself up with a second device, American officials have confirmed.

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Hopeless in Gaza

By Clifford D. May

Gaza has been an unhappy place for a long time but the situation is now reportedly growing desperate. Jobs are scarce, electricity is intermittent, drinking water is unsafe, and raw sewage released into the Mediterranean is washing up on Gaza’s white sandy beaches.

How did this happen? A one-paragraph history: Ruled by the Ottomans for centuries, then ruled by the British for decades, in 1948 the territory was taken over by Egypt. The Israelis seized it in 1967, the outcome of a defensive war in which Israel also took the West Bank from Jordan. In 2005, the Israelis withdrew from Gaza, thinking that might pave the way to a resolution of their conflict with the Palestinians. Instead, the two dominant Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, went to war with one another. After two years, Hamas emerged on top.

A front-page takeout in The New York Times this month gives voice to Gaza’s suffering masses. Accompanying photos, artfully composed, show a woman begging, shopkeepers behind bars for not paying their debts and patients in a hospital looking grim.

Jerusalem bureau chief David M. Halbfinger concludes that Hamas has “few options.” He adds: “The one it has resorted to three times — going to war with Israel, in hopes of generating international sympathy and relief in the aftermath — suddenly seems least attractive.”

Did you get that? The New York Times sees nothing alarming, certainly nothing to criticize, about Palestinians contemplating “going to war” against Israelis to improve their economic situation. Would the newspaper take the same attitude toward any other peoples anywhere else in the world?…

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Arab Writer: We Blew an Entire Century

Al-Hilu wrote that a century after the Balfour Declaration, which gave the Jewish people a homeland, “the Arabs have not managed to build a [a single] state that possesses knowledge, justice, and the economic, social, and human capability for confronting Zionism.”

“One hundred years have been squandered, in all aspects; during them, the Arabs have been confronting Israel while their cultural infrastructure was in crisis — in the areas of knowledge, politics, economy, society, and thought.”

He said that according to the 2014 United Nations report on knowledge in the Arab world, the Arab Knowledge Report, “despite the 500 Arab universities, with an enrollment of nine million students and faculties of 220,000 lecturers, higher education in the Arab world is very meager in scientific research, in its failure to adapt to digital culture, and in its incompatibility with [universal] scientific and human culture.”

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India: Muslims Burn Piles of Pampers Nappies and Call for a Ban Because Cartoon Cat’s Whiskers Printed on Them ‘Look Like the Arabic Spelling of Mohammed’

Muslim protests in India are calling for a boycott of Pampers products after claiming to have seen the word ‘Mohammed’ in the face of a cartoon cat which appears on its nappies.

The lines illustrating the whiskers, nose, mouth and left eye of the smiley feline have been suggested to resemble the Prophet’s name when written in Arabic or Urdu, although the company that makes the products vehemently denied the claims.

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Pakistan: Thousands-Strong Muslim Mob Demands Beheading of Christian Teen for ‘Blasphemy’

A mob of an estimated 3,000 Islamic extremists in Pakistan reportedly called for the beheading of a 17-year-old Christian whose phone, after reappearing days after he lost it, contained blasphemous content that authorities could use to sentence him to life in prison or death.

The case is the latest in a series of incidents each year involving a member of a religious minority group accused engaging in the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for Islam in the Muslim-majority country.

On Monday, the accused blasphemer Patras Masih claims “an unknown person added blasphemous content to his FB [Facebook],” the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) reports.

Initially, “hundreds” of local Muslims from the Dhair a village in Lahore’s Shahdara town, where Patras lives, accused the Christian boy of blasphemy on Monday, but the group of Islamic extremists calling for authorities to punish the teenager grew to 3,000.

[Comment: For a non-muslim in a muslim state it must be like a Stasi state where every move is reported, and state apparatchiks seek to set you up and report you.]

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Muslim Leader: Islamic State Jihadists Leaving Middle East for Philippines

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked foreign fighters from Indonesia, Malaysia, and other predominantly Muslim countries are traveling to Christian-majority Philippines to join the terrorist group’s Southeast Asia wing.

The Middle East, home to the original ISIS “caliphate,” has become inhospitable for the group following the liberation of Raqqa, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq, at the hands of U.S.-backed troops and local forces.

“Based on our own intelligence information, foreign fighters who were displaced from the Middle East continued to enter into our porous borders and may be planning to take two southern cities — Iligan and Cotabato,” Ebrahim Murad, the chief of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), told Reuters.

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Cambodian Prime Minister Says He’ll ‘Follow Protesters Home and Beat Them Up’ If They Picket His Visit to Sydney

Hun Sen will be arriving in Sydney in March to attend a summit for Southeast Asian leaders. The controversial leader is expecting protests, and says he will ‘beat up’ anyone who opposes him.

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Relatives of Girl, 2, ‘Raped by a Father-Figure, 24, ‘ Begged for Her Not to be Returned to the House Because it Was ‘Full of Alcohol and Drugs’ — As Child Services Were Called to Home 21 Times in Three Months

Relatives of a two-year-old girl who was allegedly raped are angry the toddler has been returned to her home, which was reported to child protection services 21 times over three months last year.

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Revealed: How Drug Addicts and Alcoholics Collect a $814-a-Fortnight Centrelink Disability Pension — as Long as They Prove They’re Being Treated

The Australian Government will attempt to disqualify drug and alcohol addicts from the payments when it reintroduces its welfare reform, which was blocked in the Senate last year.

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‘You’re Hiding Behind a Mask, You’re Not Free’: Moment a Blonde Beachgoer Confronts a Muslim Woman Wearing a Burqa in Sydney in New Reality TV Show

A Muslim woman wearing a niqab reflects on her experience talking to a stranger about her full-face veil on Sydney’s Manly Beach in a clip from a new SBS two-part reality TV documentary.

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Britain Warns of ISIS Attacks in South Africa After Couple Kidnapped

JOHANNESBURG — Britain has warned of a threat of attacks by Islamists on foreigners in South Africa after two British nationals were kidnapped in a small town there, but South African police said they had no evidence militants were behind the incident.

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Amnesty International Say Italy ‘Steeped in Racism’

League leads in hate speech with 50%, FdI 27%, FI 18%

(ANSA) — Rome, February 22 — Amnesty International said Wednesday Italy was steeped in racism and rightwing parties were at fault for stoking anti-foreigner sentiment.

Amnesty said Italy was “steeped in hatred, racism and xenophobia, and unjustified fear of the other”.

It said 95% of discriminatory, racist, and hate speech on the Internet came from the centre right, The anti-migrant League led by firebrand leader Matteo Salvini led the way at 50% of such speech, Amnesty said in its report.

It was followed by the nationalist, neo-Fascist Brothers of Italy (FdI) led by Giorgia Meloni at 27%, the Amnesty report said. In third place came Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right Forza Italia (FI) at 18%.

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Amnesty International Criticises France on Migration

(ANSAmed) — PARIS, FEBRUARY 22 — France is still “not up to its responsibilities” on welcoming the exiled and foreigners, according to Amnesty International in its annual report. The report was released Wednesday, just one day after the presentation of the country’s draft law on asylum and migration, which contains a crackdown on detention and expulsion for irregular migrants.

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Bulgaria and Hungary Want Secure EU Borders and Control of the Migrant Crisis

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and Viktor Orban met in Bulgaria on Monday. Both urged to secure the EU’s borders and to control the migrant crisis.

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Germany Could Need Up to 16,000 Planes to Deport Its Rejected Asylum Seekers

On Tuesday evening 14 Afghans were deported to their homeland with a chartered plane from Munich Airport.

The rejected asylum seekers were flown back to their homeland with a plane chartered by the Federal Government, Germany’s Ministry of the Interior reported.

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Germany: Food Bank in Essen Bars New Migrant Clients ‘To Ensure Reasonable Integration’

A food bank in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia has temporarily stopped accepting non-German new registrants.

Tafel Deutschland in Essen, one of the charitable association’s more than 930 nationwide food banks, is currently only accepting new customers with a German ID card.

The food bank which serves free meals to the poor made the decision last December and implemented it in January until further notice.

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Italian Town ‘Taken Over’ By Nigerian Migrant Gangs

The largely abandoned former seaside resort town of Castel Volturno north of Naples has been taken over by Nigerian gangs who run drug and prostitution rings.

The town has a total population of around 30,000 people, of which an estimated 20,000 are migrants, French news magazine L’Obs reports.

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Italy: Migrants Hole Up in Rome Centre

Complain pocket money not paid

(ANSA) — Rome, February 22 — Around 200 migrants barricaded themselves into a migrant reception centre in Rome Thursday in a protest against an alleged failure to pay them their pocket money.

Police came to the scene as tension mounted.

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Merkel Walks Out of Parliament After AfD Leader Lambasts Her Support for Migrant Quota System

German Chancellor Angela Merkel walked out of a parliamentary session after a leader from the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party criticized her support of a proposed EU refugee distribution system.

While Merkel and AfD have never been friends, one particular comment by the party’s co-founder, Alexander Gauland, prompted her to leave the Bundestag on Thursday. That remark slammed the chancellor’s support for an EU quota system for accepting refugees.

“Countries want to decide for themselves who they take in. There is no national duty with regard to multiculturalism,” Gauland said.

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Horrific Sex Ed Curriculum is Taking Over in This Virginia County, And Objectors Are Getting Steamrolled

I usually avoid really sick, appalling spectacles. I skip movies like “Saw.”

But last Thursday I saw something worse. I went to the sex education committee meeting of the Fairfax County School Board. I have never seen anything as shocking.

Understand that I have sat through years of shocking meetings. My day job is monitoring and lobbying the United Nations. But I have never seen or heard anything like this. This meeting was a horror show. And a Soviet one at that.

The Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee advises the Fairfax County School Board for the content of the sex education lessons taught to students from kindergarten through 12th grade.

This group has come up with over 80 hours of sex education for these poor kids. And some of it is straight-up pornography.

Rich, Leftist, and Libertine

This school district in Northern Virginia, one of the largest and richest in the country, is among the most leftist in the country. No big surprise there. Twenty-five years ago, it was already promoting “Two Mommies” to the little tots.

But the sexual revolution ideology kicked into hyperspeed a few years ago. Fairfax leftists put transgender ideology into schools a full year before President Barack Obama’s Department of Education mandated it for the rest of the schools in the country.

Last year, the Trump administration canceled the mandate, though Fairfax County is clinging onto it.

This committee has long embraced the rest of the LGBT program. “Oral sex” is introduced to kids as young as 12. Thirteen-year-olds are told about “anal sex” 18 separate times in one year’s lessons.

The committee is made up of about two dozen people. They’re appointed by the overwhelmingly leftist Fairfax County School Board. Four voting members are students, chosen no doubt because they’re members of student LGBT clubs, and most other members appear to be teachers and administrators.

If the idea behind the committee is to get community input, why stack it with people on the county payroll?…

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3 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/22/2018

  1. A disgusting publication in the Russian-language segment of “Deutsche Welle”
    Chechen militant who fought in the Islamic state is exposed to the Russian public as “white and fluffy.” The Germans are not enough that they tolerate jihadists in their country, they broadcast it to other countries.
    http://www.dw.com/ru/%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%B2%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BA-%D0%B8%D0%B3-%D0%B8%D0%B7-%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D1%8F-%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8-%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B-22022018/av-42701159
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    When I first read this publication of the English author, I was shocked. And now I think that he is not so wrong.
    http://www.snouts-in-the-trough.com/archives/19466
    Our German friends seem to have a repetitive pattern of behaviour. They cause total chaos trying to impose their rule on the rest of Europe and then are surprised when they end up as the losers. We saw this in World War 1 and World War 2. And now we’re seeing it in the great Moozerlum invasion.

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