Monthly Archives: October 2013

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/31/2013

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According to Reuters, President Obama has ordered the NSA to stop spying on the IMF and the headquarters of the World Bank. Mr. Obama reportedly gave the order at the same time as he stopped the NSA from spying on UN headquarters in New York.

In other news, an Italian man died after his pet pit bull bit off his testicles.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, Gaia, Insubria, JD, Jerry Gordon, Kitman, Steen, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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A Citizens’ Initiative in Munich

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Michael Stürzenberger is the leader of the Munich branch of the German anti-Shariah party Die Freiheit. His party is in the midst of an urgent campaign to gather enough signatures on a petition to force the authorities to hold a referendum on the proposed building of a mega-mosque in Munich.

If you have not already signed the petition, German readers are urged to note the contact information near the end of this video telling them how to participate.

Update: I’m told that Mr. Stürzenberger’s wording was sloppy. Only residents of Munich are eligible to sign the petition.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Party Hearty in Katroo

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According to The New York Times, the Fed is unleashing a new round of Quantitative Easing, despite its earlier hints that it would tighten up the money supply:

Fed Maintains Stimulus, Awaiting Sustained Growth

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve, still uncertain that the American economy can grow unaided, announced on Wednesday it would press ahead with its stimulus campaign of asset purchases and low interest rates.

It reminds me of the fabled land of Katroo, as chronicled by Dr. Seuss in his 1959 book Happy Birthday to You!.

In Katroo, on your Day of All Days, you are invited to party like there’s no tomorrow. “If you wish, you may eat with both hands and both feet. / So get in there and munch.” The party then continues into the Night-of-All-Nights-of-All-Nights in Katroo:

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So America has become the new Katroo. Let’s enjoy the party while we can.

The NYT had more to say:

The Fed maintained a relatively optimistic economic outlook in the statement, released after a scheduled two-day meeting of its policy-making committee. It said the economy continued to expand “at a moderate pace” and that the availability of jobs continued to improve.

But the Fed reiterated its blunt assessment that “fiscal policy is restraining economic growth,” referring to enacted cuts in federal spending and the unresolved, episodic standoff over the federal budget.

It also said that the housing market, which grew strongly during the first half of the year, had cooled, because in part of higher interest rates.

“Taking into account the extent of federal fiscal retrenchment over the past year, the committee sees the improvement in economic activity and labor market conditions since it began its asset purchase program as consistent with growing underlying strength in the broader economy,” the Federal Open Market Committee said in its statement. “However, the committee decided to await more evidence that progress will be sustained before adjusting the pace of its purchases.”

The Fed noted that inflation remained below the 2 percent annual pace it considered most healthy, and it said persistently low inflation “could pose risks to economic performance,” but it reiterated its expectation that inflation would rise modestly over the next few years.

It’s important to remember that when the Fed talks about “inflation” here, it means price inflation. The money supply is already hideously overinflated. At some point prices will inflate to reflect the engorged supply of dollars, but for the moment we can still dance the night away here in Katroo.

More from the Old Grey Hag:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/30/2013

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243 illegal immigrants landed at the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, causing an accommodations crisis. The town’s holding facility was already overcrowded with nearly 500 migrants, so the new arrivals are being held in a gym.

In other news, Turkish police preemptively arrested 35 young people in Izmir because they were suspected of being potential demonstrators during a visit by President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at an economic congress.

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Child Torture at a Mosque School?

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Remembering the hysterical coverage of the McMartin Preschool case back in the ’80s, some skepticism about this report is warranted. Still, if such things were to happen anywhere, a masjid school would be a prime candidate.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this news video about allegations of child beatings at an Ohio mosque:

Below is the accompanying article from WBNS-TV:

Allegations of Child Abuse At Religious School of Mosque

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An investigation is underway after teachers at a Westerville school reported allegations of child abuse at a mosque.

Westerville police said the accusations came from children, who are 8, 9, and 10 years old.

A normal day of school at Mark Twain Elementary in Westerville took quite the turn, when several students in a class of mostly Somalis learning English, entered a discussion.

According to a Westerville Police report, the allegations were discovered after children told their teachers about the alleged actions at their religious school, which is part of the Masjid As-Salaamah mosque on Cleveland Avenue in Columbus.

According to the police report, it all started when the teacher said how impressed she was with their knowledge of the Quran.

In response, one of the students told her that, at their religious school, “if they do not learn their religious passages as they are instructed,” they are sometimes “chained to a wall by their wrists and ankles and beaten with a long stick.”

10TV spoke with a founding board member of the mosque, who said they never knew about any of the allegations until Franklin County Children Services stepped in.

“We understand the seriousness of this,” said Mahdi Warsama, Masjid As-Salaamah Board Member.

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When Tommy Met Mo

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On Monday night the BBC aired its long-awaited documentary about Tommy Robinson and his departure from the English Defence League. The film features Tommy’s association with Mo Ansar, a Muslim who gained notoriety by demanding that the EDL be banned. It also discusses his introduction to the Quilliam Foundation.

One of the notable incidents in this video occurs when Tommy and a group of concerned parents in Lancashire confront Mr. Ansar and another Muslim about the sexual enslavement of underage white girls by Muslim pedophile gangs. The BBC not only allowed this footage to aired, it did not attempt to refute or relativize what the “Islamophobes” said — which may be a first for the Beeb.

There are some other interesting moments in this documentary. I recommend watching it all the way through:

Previous posts about Tommy Robinson, Kevin Carroll, and the Quilliam Foundation:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/29/2013

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed an outbreak of polio in northeastern Syria. European public health officials are concerned that the disease might be imported to Europe and re-establish itself there.

In other news, Uighur extremists are now thought to be behind yesterday’s Jeep crash in Tiananmen Square, which killed three people in the vehicle and two tourists outside it.

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Thanks to Andy Bostom, C. Cantoni, Caroline Glick, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, Jerry Gordon, Kitman, Steen, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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How Vulnerable is the Electric Grid?

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For several years the Center for Security Policy has been educating the public about the danger to the electric grid posed by a possible electromagnetic pulse, whether manmade or of natural origin.

Last weekend a documentary about the possible effects of an EMP was shown on television. Below is the press release sent out today by CSP about the questions raised in the documentary.

‘The Real American Blackout’: Will the Electric Industry Really Examine the Grid’s Vulnerability?

National Geographic Film, New Video Suggest the Costs of Failure to Do So

Washington, DC: On Sunday night, National Geographic aired an alarming, and most timely, new docu-drama entitled, “American Blackout.” It explores the trauma that would be experienced by the United States and its people should there be a prolonged nationwide blackout caused by a major disruption to the nation’s power grid.

In mid-November, the real test of the grid will take place when 100 electric utilities and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) participate in a nationwide exercise dubbed GridEx II that is supposed to demonstrate how well the grid can cope with significant disruptions.

A new video produced by the EMP Coalition, however, raises questions about whether GridEx II will actually test the nation’s bulk power distribution system — or be conducted in a manner calculated to obscure the grid’s actual vulnerabilities.

The electric utilities and their trade association/regulatory organization —NERC — have, to date, proven resistant to examining rigorously, let alone remediating, the grid’s vulnerabilities to various threats (including physical attack, cyberwarfare and electromagnetic pulse (EMP)).

The National Geographic film describes how a cyber attack could leave the nation without the critical infrastructures that provide everything necessary to life in 21st Century America, including: food, water, fuel, transportation, medicine, communications and finance.

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An Open Letter to a Mealy-Mouthed Dissembling Invertebrate

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Prompted by today’s news that Britain has become the first non-Muslim nation to issue Shariah bonds, Seneca III has a few choice words for Prime Minister David Cameron.

An open letter to the Rt. Honourable David William Donald Cameron MP, Prime Minister of the United (?) Kingdom and First Lord of the Treasury

Dear Prime Minister,

I awoke yesterday morning to read headlines such as: “Britain to become first non-Muslim country to launch sharia bond” and “Cameron to launch first ‘sukuk’ Islamic bonds outside Muslim world as London stock exchange woos Muslim investors” and I was in no way surprised. Appalled, yes. Surprised, no — this is no more than I have come to expect from you and your alter ego, that fragrant Taqiyya artiste the Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, your track record having already enlightened us as to what your joint Islamification of the UK Project really is about.

You have frequently told us that here there are only moderate Muslims, that there is no such thing as ‘Islamic Extremists’ and, even if there were, they would simply be criminals and have “nothing to do with Islam”. Well, Prime Minister, I am of the firm opinion that all of your dissembling, groveling, treasonous cant only serves to encourage these barbarians to advance their cause at every opportunity, as is so well illustrated by the recent brutal attack on a lone American student in one of your ‘Sharia Zones’, an attack that should probably be interpreted thus according to your gospel of appeasement:

“A group of moderate Muslims were going about their peaceful business on their way from their moderate mosque to the Kuffar benefits office in order to collect their Jizya when a nasty, white, racist, extreme right wing fascist thug attacked them out of the blue and they were forced to defend themselves.”

Furthermore, this sort of both inferred and openly stated misrepresentation of the enemy within is also, I suspect, one of the many reasons why no one in their peaceful, hard-working, fully assimilated moderate community has come forward to identify the actual miscreants to the police despite the high quality video that has been circulating there for the last couple of months. Or, I should clarify, those miscreants that haven’t already legged it back to whatever failed atavistic third-world moderate paradise they or their immediate moderate ancestors hail from and are trying to recreate here — or what bits of it that they haven’t occupied yet and you are now trying to sell to them at a knock-down price, I might add.

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The Green Light for an Islamic Takeover

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Last week Michael Stürzenberger, the leader of Die Freiheit in Munich, was attacked by Muslims at a street rally and punched in the face. That hasn’t deterred him from his very vocal public opposition to the construction of a new mega-mosque in downtown Munich.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for translating this video, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/28/2013

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An Iranian-born “Canadian” man was arrested at Ottawa airport after trying to bring suspicious luggage aboard a U.S.-bound flight. The package in question contained disassembled bomb components, but no explosives. The suspect is now in custody.

In other news, a Jeep crashed into a barrier in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, catching fire and killing five people.

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The Camp of the Saints and the Golden Dawn

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The Camp of the Saints and the Golden Dawn
By Fjordman

The Camp of the Saints is a dystopian novel written by the French author Jean Raspail. Although it was first published as long ago as 1973, the author is still alive today. Now 88 years old, his brain remains remarkably sharp for a man his age.

Raspail has published many books, but the one for which he will be chiefly remembered is ironically his most atypical one. Over forty years ago, The Camp of the Saints predicted a Third World mass invasion of Europe, causing the downfall of Western civilization. This process was compressed in time so that what might take fifty years in real life took fifty days in the book. Also, the main bulk of illegal immigrants in the novel came from India. Today, while immigration to Europe comes from every corner of the planet, much of it comes from the Islamic world and Africa.

Apart from that, the novel was remarkably prescient in describing the dysfunctional mindset of the modern Western world. We have become so wedded to unsustainable humanitarian ideals that we are mentally incapable of defending our own continued national existence. When faced with millions of people coming from the global South, we simply raise a white flag and say that they are welcome to colonize our countries.

Or at least, that’s what our leaders and mass media do. Some of the natives are finally and belatedly starting to get restless about their state-approved ethnic displacement. Is this European awakening coming too late, or does it happen at the very last moment? Only time will tell. Jean Raspail was pessimistic on behalf of his native France in a new interview with him made in 2013.

In the generations that have passed since its original publication, The Camp of the Saints is no longer just a novel; it has now become actual reality in Europe. Hordes of illegal immigrants are entering the continent, sometimes by boat as in the novel, sometimes by other means.

In May 2011, I went for a trip to northern Italy. When visiting Pisa in magnificent Tuscany, I was greeted by sub-Saharan Africans selling Chinese-made authentic Italian souvenirs in the streets. Globalization is wonderful. I doubt all of these immigrants were in Italy and the EU legally.

For the first time in recorded history, the continent of Africa now has a larger population than the continent of Europe. What’s more, the already unsustainable African population is set to double in the coming two generations.

Africa is on the move, and it’s moving north. The Middle East and regions further east in Asia have already seen a growing influx of Africans. I visited Tel Aviv, Israel, in early 2013, for the first time in ten years. In just one decade, I saw many more Africans there than before. Obviously, Israel has some Ethiopian Jews, but Ethiopians have a distinct look. The ones I saw this time were often not Ethiopians. They were sub-Saharan Africans on the move out of Africa.

Ultimately, the intended destination for many of them is no doubt Europe, the promised land of milk and honey. The only response European political elites and the EU have to this is that it is “shameful” for Europe if foreigners trying to illegally enter and colonize Europe run into accidents along the way.

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The Art of Fooling the Swedish People

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I have written previously about the original Swedish welfare state, Folkhemmet, which had its heyday in the early-to-mid 20th century. The “Swedish model” was not replicable in most other societies, because it relied on a peculiarly Swedish set of cultural virtues: industriousness, thrift, honesty, intelligence, integrity, and a general trust in one’s fellow man.

For several decades the system worked well, until the modern, cynical managerial state — which is not at all a Swedish concept — took over. The new management brought in hundreds of thousands of New Swedes, who do not as a rule possess the same virtues that made Folkhemmet possible. And so we have the violent, degraded society of Modern Multicultural Sweden.

Errbe, a regular Swedish reader, contributes the guest-essay below about what Sweden once was, and what it has now become, based on his more than fifty years of direct experience.

Distinguish between Swedish politicians and Swedish citizens

by Errbe

I want to defend the Swedes, that is, Swedish citizens. I have travelled in many countries and dare say that the average Swede is one of the least xenophobic members of humanity. He is also one of the most trusting creatures on earth. He just cannot comprehend the depth of the betrayal our Politically Correct politicians are committing.

For hundreds of years the Swede could trust the authorities to be reasonably fair and sensible. In the first half of the last century the value of democracy was preached by authorities and studied by responsible citizens in voluntary circles, often organized by unions. I attended such studies in high school. Candidates for political posts were chosen from among citizens who had performed well in some position within unions, several levels of business, farming, bureaucracy, judiciary, media, teaching, etc.

You may say that the value of decency was certified 1938 in the so-called “Saltsjöbadsavtalet”, a contract between the confederations of trade unions, LO, and of employers, SAF, respectively. This was the foundation of the original “Swedish Model”, a concept which lately has been widely corrupted.

Its basis was decency, voluntary agreements, compromise and adherence to agreed-upon procedures for conflict. These should be peaceful. The basic rule was that the employer had the authority to allocate work to employees and to direct its implementation as well as that of hiring and firing. The unions guaranteed workplace peace, no strikes during the contract period, and could negotiate pay, work safety and other conditions.

The overriding agreement was that neither party would initiate legislation that would restrict the power of the other party. This was broken in the ’70s, when the Social Democrats legislated “co-determination” with union members on company boards and much more. That means: When you hear the “Swedish Model” nowadays, it refers to the corrupted version, the one that the last thirty years have proven does not work.

The 1938 spirit of cooperation prevailed for twenty years, during which the standard of living, work conditions and law and order developed favorably. After the war, which Sweden escaped unscathed, the average worker achieved what he had dreamed of: a safe job, good lodging, a car and paid holidays.

In 1960 I had an appointment with the director of production at a factory of some 500 employees. My appointment was 09.00, but his secretary excused him, because he was engaged in “negotiations” with the head of the trade union and such matters always had priority. The director could not receive me until 10.30. When entering I remarked that his negotiation must have been tough, as it lasted so long. It had begun at 08.00. The director answered, “No, it was finished in less than ten minutes. He had a hopeless case. He had requested full pay for a worker who lets his automatic lathe continue to produce pieces with faulty tolerances. The very job of the worker is to adjust the tools to ensure that only good pieces are produced. And that is clearly covered in the collective union contract for our industry.”

“So, what did you do during the two hours I was waiting?” I asked.

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