Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/9/2016

The Public Prosecutor in the Netherlands has finally released the list of charges that Geert Wilders will face in his upcoming trial. They are:

1.   Deliberately insulting a group of people because of their race; and
2.   Inciting hatred or discrimination against these people.
 

Mr. Wilders is being charged with four variants of each of these offenses — complicity, commit, incitement and “doing it complicity”.

In other news, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Macedonia have now announced that they will close their borders, effectively shutting off the migration route through Greece to Central Europe. This action was undertaken with EU approval, which is surprising, given that just a few weeks ago the European Commission told Austria it was violating international law and the human rights of migrants by limiting the number of “refugees” that could cross its borders every year.

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Thanks to AF, C. Cantoni, Caroline Glick, Dean, Diana West, DL, DV, Fjordman, JD, KS, LP, LS, Vederso, WRSA, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» Ann Coulter: Springtime for Pundits
» Caroline Glick: The Subversion of American Evangelicals
» ESPN Replaces Sportscaster Mike Ditka Days After Trump Endorsement
» FBI Orders Teachers to Report Students Who Question Government
» Feds Win First Conviction After Trial of Someone Trying to Join Islamic State
» Hillary Gets to Run for President as the Hacker Who Exposed Her War Crimes is Extradited to US
» Is the GOP Sabotaging Its Own Presidential Election?
» LOL: Donald Trump Slams ‘Politically Correct, Perfect’ Reporter
» Now He’s Sporting a Breathing Tube: Woman Shoots Mall Stalker in the Throat After He Pulls a Knife
» Pentagon Admits it Has Deployed Military Spy Drones Over the U.S.
» Shock Cell Phone Video Shows the Lavoy Finicum Shooting From Inside Vehicle
» Suspect Held for Five Slayings in Kansas and Missouri
» Talk Show Host Breaks Down Over FBI Murder
» U.S. Bureau of Justice: 73% of Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Have Been Physically or Sexually Abused
 
Europe and the EU
» Belgian Paedophile Who Kidnapped and Murdered Children Planned to Abduct as Many Youngsters as He Could and Create an ‘Underground City’ In an Abandoned Mineshaft
» French Teacher Accused of Islamophobia for Praising Russian Syria Operation
» Netherlands: Geert Wilders Hate Speech Criminal Charges Revealed
» Netherlands: Gangster’s Severed Head is Left Outside Fayrouz Lounge in Amsterdam
» Radicalised Frenchman Manages to Sneak Knives and a Gas Bottle on to Ryanair Flight to Morocco
» UK: Peterlee Woman Slashed in the Face With Knife While Answering the Door
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Israeli Jew Pulls a Knife Out of His Neck and Kills Palestinian Who Had Stabbed Him
» Sanders to Dearborn Muslims: Israel’s Existence to Blame for Mideast ‘Hatred and Warfare’
 
Middle East
» Islamic State ‘Minister of War’ May Have Been Killed in Syria Air Strike
» ‘Israel Must be Wiped Out’: Iran Launches Two Missiles With Threat Written on Them in Hebrew as the Country Ignores Criticism of Its Ballistic Weapon Tests
» Turkish First Lady Says Harem Was ‘School’ For Women
» Video: Iran Test Fires Missiles Branded With Words ‘Israel Must be Wiped Out’
» Video: Inside Iran’s Missile Tunnels: Tehran Shows Off ‘Secret’ Ballistic Missiles
 
Russia
» US to Buy Eight Russian RD-181 Rocket Engines
 
South Asia
» Child Brides Saved by Don Bosco Schools in India
» Indonesia: Slow-Motion Genocide for West Papua Ethnic Minorities and Christians
 
Immigration
» Austria: Grotesque Sex Attack in Klagenfurt Pool
» Germany’s Merkel Underestimated Refugee Crisis
» ‘I Want to Vote So Donald Trump Won’t Win’: Illegals Applying for Citizenship to Vote Against Trump
» Illegal Attempts to Enter the UK Have Risen by a Staggering 1,300 Per Cent in the Last Three Years, Official Figures Revealed Today.
» Illegal Arrested After 5 Killed in 2 States
» Macedonia Closes Border to Illegal Migrants
» Mark Zuckerberg, Tech Leaders Urge Supreme Court to Open U.S. Labor Market to Illegals
» Refugee Crisis: ‘Not the Same Values in East and West’
» Slovenia, Serbia Take Steps to Shut Down Balkan Migrant Route
» Teenage Migrant ‘Rapes Austrian Mother, 52, And is Immediately Caught by Police After Insisting She Took His Phone Number’
» Trump: Get Legal Immigration “Under Control”
 
Culture Wars
» Swedish Footballers Fly the Flag for Gay Rights
» UK: Lance Corporal Hannah Heslop Told a Female Soldier She’d “Make Her Gay”
 

Ann Coulter: Springtime for Pundits

Half of the Washington political class is vowing to vote for Hillary — even Stalin! — over Trump; psychologists (and massage therapists) report they are treating patients for “Trump anxiety”; lengthy thought-pieces on Trump have no room to mention his signature issue, immigration, but get prolix on George Wallace, Mussolini and Hitler. (Never Mao, Stalin or Lenin, curiously.)

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Caroline Glick: The Subversion of American Evangelicals

Monday the Bethlehem Bible College, an Evangelical Christian college in Jesus’s hometown, opened its fourth biennial Christ at the Checkpoint conference. The conference, which is directed specifically toward US Evangelicals, will run through the week.

Today, Evangelical communities in the US number anywhere between 60 and 150 million people, depending on who is counting. They form the backbone of American support for the Jewish state. It is the support of the Evangelical community, rather than the Jewish community in the US that ensures that come hell or high water, no matter how Israel is demonized in the media and in academia, the majority of Americans continue to support Israel.

But will this support last?…

           — Hat tip: Caroline Glick [Return to headlines]
 

ESPN Replaces Sportscaster Mike Ditka Days After Trump Endorsement

Football icon also labeled Obama “the worst president we’ve ever had.”

[Comment: Ditka’s 100% correct. ESPN can run their company as they see fit. As a viewer you have the choice of cancelling your ESPN subscription.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

FBI Orders Teachers to Report Students Who Question Government

New federal guidelines have just been introduced across the country, and what they mandate is quite disturbing to civil libertarians. The FBI has now instructed high schools across the nation to report students who in any way criticize government policies and what the report phrases as “western corruption.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Feds Win First Conviction After Trial of Someone Trying to Join Islamic State

A U.S. Air Force veteran was found guilty of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State Wednesday in what authorities hailed as a first-of-its-kind conviction after a trial.

There have been 24 other people convicted in connection with Islamic State offenses. But Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, 48, is the first to be found guilty by a jury weighing evidence at at trial, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin said in a news release.

The conviction comes as prosecutors in Arizona are trying to convince jurors that another Islamic State supporter, 44-year-old Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, helped in a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas…

           — Hat tip: DV [Return to headlines]
 

Hillary Gets to Run for President as the Hacker Who Exposed Her War Crimes is Extradited to US

(RT) — Guccifer, the infamous Romanian hacker who accessed emails of celebrities and top US officials, will be extradited to the United States, after losing a case in his home country’s top court.

Reuters reports that Lehel will come to the US under an 18-month extradition order, following a request made by the US authorities. Details of the extradition have not been made public, however.

Marcel Lehel, a 42-year-old hacker better known by his pseudonym “Guccifer,” achieved notoriety when he released an email with images of paintings by former President George W. Bush, including a self-portrait in a bathtub. He also hacked and published emails from celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio, Steve Martin and Mariel Hemingway.

Also released were emails between former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Corina Cretu, a Romanian member of European Parliament, prompting Powell to deny that the two had had an affair.

Perhaps most notably, Lehel was also the first source to uncover Hillary Clinton’s improper use of a private email account while she was Secretary of State, which the FBI is investigating as a potential danger to national security.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Is the GOP Sabotaging Its Own Presidential Election?

Establishment candidates in the GOP stand no chance against Trump, so the right will take him down with them.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

LOL: Donald Trump Slams ‘Politically Correct, Perfect’ Reporter

After his victories in Michigan, Hawaii and Mississippi on Tuesday night, Donald Trump held a press conference. He was asked about the attack ads made against him by the GOP establishment — 70 percent of the political ads in the last week have been directed towards Trump — which highlight is foul language. When he was asked by a reporter about the language, this is what Donald Trump had to say:

“Oh, you’re so politically correct. You’re so beautiful. Oh, look at you. Ohhh, he’s so — I know, you’ve never heard a little bad, a little off language. I know, you’re a perfect. Aren’t you perfect? Aren’t you just a perfect young man? Give me break. You know what, it’s stuff like that that people in this country are tired of. OK? It’s stuff like that.”

Following the latest bout of primaries, Trump has 458 delegates, compared to Ted Cruz’s 359 delegates and Marco Rubio’s 151 delegates. Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, is inching closer to clinching the Democratic nomination.

Here is the video embedded below:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Now He’s Sporting a Breathing Tube: Woman Shoots Mall Stalker in the Throat After He Pulls a Knife

When seconds count, you’d better have a way to defend yourself because no one else will be there to help.

According to reports, it came down to a matter of life and death when a Kentucky woman was followed by a man in the mall. When she entered the garage elevator, as shown in the video below, the man followed behind. Neither of them said anything to each other and the woman knew instinctively what was about to happen.

As soon as the elevator door opened she bolted for her car.

The stalker, John Ganobick, gave chase…

Even this tiny, small caliber weapon was powerful enough to stop a predator from inflicting injury or death on his perceived prey.

For those who would ban this woman from carrying a firearm to protect herself, we suggest considering what would have transpired had she not had a weapon to defend herself. Perhaps she would merely have been robbed. Or, she could well have been kidnapped, raped and murdered.

[Comment: This option is unavailalbe to Swedish women.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pentagon Admits it Has Deployed Military Spy Drones Over the U.S.

The Pentagon has deployed drones to spy over U.S. territory for non-military missions over the past decade, but the flights have been rare and lawful, according to a new report.

The report by a Pentagon inspector general, made public under a Freedom of Information Act request, said spy drones on non-military missions have occurred fewer than 20 times between 2006 and 2015 and always in compliance with existing law.

The report, which did not provide details on any of the domestic spying missions, said the Pentagon takes the issue of military drones used on American soil “very seriously.”

A senior policy analyst for the ACLU, Jay Stanley, said it is good news no legal violations were found, yet the technology is so advanced that it’s possible laws may require revision.

“Sometimes, new technology changes so rapidly that existing law no longer fit what people think are appropriate,” Stanley said. “It’s important to remember that the American people do find this to be a very, very sensitive topic.”

The use of unmanned aerial surveillance (UAS) drones over U.S. surfaced in 2013 when then-FBI director Robert Mueller testified before Congress that the bureau employed spy drones to aid investigations, but in a “very,very minimal way, very seldom.”

The inspector general analysis was completed March 20, 2015, but not released publicly until last Friday…

           — Hat tip: WRSA [Return to headlines]
 

Shock Cell Phone Video Shows the Lavoy Finicum Shooting From Inside Vehicle

Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office calls shooting justified.

Watch the video in full:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Suspect Held for Five Slayings in Kansas and Missouri

A man suspected of killing four people in Kansas and a fifth person in neighboring Missouri was arrested early on Wednesday after a 17-hour manhunt, officials said.

Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, who officials described as dangerous and possibly armed with an AK-47, was captured in Montgomery County in eastern Missouri, authorities said. He was being held on a $2 million bond.

Media reports said Serrano-Vitorino is a Mexican national who had been deported from the United States in 2004 and had illegally re-entered the country. Reuters could not immediately confirm the reports.

Serrano-Vitorino, 40, was charged on Tuesday with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shootings of four men between the ages of 27 and 41 in Kansas City, officials said.

Serrano-Vitorino also was wanted for questioning in a fifth slaying in New Florence, Missouri, about 170 miles east of Kansas City, officials said.

The suspect’s vehicle was found abandoned on Tuesday near the Missouri crime scene, officials said.

Serrano-Vitorino was captured at 12:18 a.m. on Wednesday after a citizen reported being approached by a man who displayed a gun, a Missouri State Highway Patrol statement said.

Two troopers spotted Serrano-Vitorino lying face down in a ditch and he was taken into custody without resistance, the statement said. A rifle was recovered.

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

Talk Show Host Breaks Down Over FBI Murder

David Knight discusses the murder of LaVoy Finicum by the FBI and how you need to fight back not with violence, but with information and truth.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

U.S. Bureau of Justice: 73% of Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Have Been Physically or Sexually Abused

One of the starkest statistics in the lives of girls today is that 73 percent of girls in the juvenile justice system have been physically or sexually abused, according to U.S. Bureau of Justice figures.

A report last summer referred to this as the “sexual-abuse-to-prison pipeline.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Belgian Paedophile Who Kidnapped and Murdered Children Planned to Abduct as Many Youngsters as He Could and Create an ‘Underground City’ In an Abandoned Mineshaft

[WARNING: Disturbing Content.]

Belgian paedophile Marc Dutroux planned to ‘kidnap many children as possible’ and create an ‘underground city’ in an abandoned mine to imprison them, according to his former lawyer.

Dutroux was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, molesting and imprisoning six girls and murdering four of them, in a case that sparked demonstrations across Belgium and an overhaul of the nation’s criminal justice system.

Julien Pierre, who was Dutroux’s lawyer from his arrest in 1996 until 2003, the year before he was sentenced, gave Belgian weekly magazine Soir Mag details of conversations with the convicted murderer.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

French Teacher Accused of Islamophobia for Praising Russian Syria Operation

A history teacher in the French town of Sainte-Anne-d’Auray was questioned by police and accused of Islamophobia, after a lesson in which he told students about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policy regarding the anti-Daesh military campaign in Syria.

Pascal Geneste, a history instructor giving lessons in the Breton language at St. Anna High School, learned that students in his class were also questioned by police, over lessons he gave about Russia and its president.

“In an introductory lesson on geopolitics, which is included in the academic course, I wanted to show Russia as it is,” Geneste told Sputnik. “I’ve spoken about the collapse of communism, about the advent of Vladimir Putin’s rule. I was talking about the policy of Vladimir Putin in the context of his fight against Islamism, against Daesh in particular.”

?Geneste detailed that, in the face of what he sees as the rapid Islamization of France, the Russian contribution in the fight against violent extremism must be understood by French citizens. He added that a coalition between Moscow and Paris, in combatting Islamists, would be a “sensible” one, but noted that the French leadership has opted to continue to cast Putin as an enemy.

“The Paris attacks genuinely shocked France, and my students were not an exception. I think it’s necessary to remind them of threats that go hand in hand with the radicalization of Islam. Doing this, I carry out every teacher’s duty — protecting children and their European freedoms,” he said. “A state of emergency is in place, but rather than fight against Islamists we choose to fight against enemies of Islamists.”

Following the lesson, the parents of one of Geneste’s students reported the instructor to the local gendarmerie. Geneste was accused of spreading Islamophobic rhetoric and was summoned to appear at a local police department.

“Those parents appeared to be under a certain propagandistic influence at the hands of French television, which has lost its freedom and objectiveness,” Geneste said of the accusations.

The teacher was asked by police whether he was a member of the National Front Party, and was rebuked for uploading onto his personal website a song that is often sung by the party’s youth movement.

“I was asked shocking questions about my political views that apparently violate France’s freedom of speech,” he told Sputnik. “I was asked whether I’m a French nationalist. If love of your own country, of France, of Brittany, of Europe stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals means nationalism, then I’m a ‘nationalist.’“

Law enforcement found no grounds for prosecuting Geneste and released him shortly after his interrogation. His case has been closed. Geneste said he won’t give up his lessons and stressed that nationalism, under certain circumstances, is acceptable.

“I will keep teaching my course, and to encourage my students to want to know more about their history and to know something new about the history of other European states,” he said.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Netherlands: Geert Wilders Hate Speech Criminal Charges Revealed

The Public Prosecutor released the indictment in the hate speech trial against PVV leader Geert Wilders on Tuesday. The PVV leader is officially charged with four “variants” of two hate speech offenses, NOS reports.

Wilders is facing charges of firstly deliberately insulting a group of people because of their race. Secondly, inciting hatred or discrimination against these people. The Prosecutor is accusing Wilders with four variants of each of these offenses — complicity, commit, incitement and “doing it complicity”.

By charging Wilders with each possible variant of the offenses, it seems that the Public Prosecutor is trying to avoid the trial being prematurely stranded by Wilders’ lawyer arguing that the offenses are not properly named in the indictment, according to NOS. “The Public Prosecutor has an opinion on this, but it may be that the court sees it differently and therefore we included different variants in the indictment”, a spokesperson said to the broadcaster.

The lawsuits revolves around statements Wilders made during campaign visits to The Hague in March 2014. On March 12th of that year the PVV leader paid a visit to Loosduinen and said that The Hague should be “a city with fewer burdens and if possible fewer Moroccans”. And then on the eve of the municipal elections, Wilders asked a cafe full of people whether they wanted more or fewer Moroccans, to which they chanted “fewer, fewer, fewer”.

Wilders’ lawyer Geert Jan Knoops is holding his comments on the indictment for the first hearing in the process next week.

The PVV leader responded on Twitter: “No one will silence me. Also not about Moroccans. Not terrorist threats, not prosecutor with nonsense indictments, not judge. Nobody.”

           — Hat tip: Vederso [Return to headlines]
 

Netherlands: Gangster’s Severed Head is Left Outside Fayrouz Lounge in Amsterdam

[WARNING: Disturbing Content.]

Nabil Amzieb’s severed head was found dumped outside the Fayrouz lounge in Amsterdam yesterday morning. Police believe the dead gangster was murdered as part of a vicious gang feud.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Radicalised Frenchman Manages to Sneak Knives and a Gas Bottle on to Ryanair Flight to Morocco

A radicalised Frenchman has been arrested after he managed to sneak knives and a gas bottle on to a Ryanair flight to Morocco.

The 31-year-old named as Manuel Broustail, who has previously been under house arrest in France, was held upon arrival in Fez airport on Sunday, where authorities discovered the items as well as a black balaclava in his luggage.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Peterlee Woman Slashed in the Face With Knife While Answering the Door

Vicky Bowes, 27, (pictured) from Peterlee, County Durham, answered her door to a man who sliced her across the cheek with a knife before running off.

A young mother-of-two has been left with a huge scar after she was slashed across the face with a knife when she answered her door.

Vicky Bowes, 27, from Peterlee, County Durham, was tucked up in bed when she heard a knock on the door at around midnight on Monday.

She answered it to a man who sliced her across the cheek before running off.

Her father, Kevin Bowes, has shared the pictures of the young mother’s shocking injuries on Facebook and appealed for help to find the ‘scumbag’ responsible.

The man is described as around 5ft 8in to 5ft 10in dressed with a dark navy or black hoodie, dark grey joggers and white trainers.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Israeli Jew Pulls a Knife Out of His Neck and Kills Palestinian Who Had Stabbed Him

An ultra-Orthodox Jew pulled a blood-stained knife out of his own neck and used it to kill a Palestinian man who had stabbed him in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sanders to Dearborn Muslims: Israel’s Existence to Blame for Mideast ‘Hatred and Warfare’

Indirectly invoking the left-wing and Islamic narrative of Israel’s existence as the cause of political dysfunction in the Middle East, Senator Bernie Sanders implied to supporters at a campaign rally on Monday in Dearborn, Michigan — home of one of the nation’s largest Arab and Muslim communities — that “hatred and warfare” in the Middle east region were the fault of Israel.

Praising former Democrat presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton for their presumably good faith-endeavors to resolve the Israeli-Arab conflict, Sanders implied that America unjustifiably treated the various parties unequally.

In other words, allegedly favorable treatment of Israel at the expense of its Arab enemies needed to change. Moral relativism was also deployed via implication, declaring all sides as entitled to equal treatment.

“For decades now, there has been hatred and warfare in the Middle East,” Sander said. “All I can tell you is I will make every single effort to bring rational people on both sides [of the Israel/Arab conflict] together, so that hopefully we can have through a level playing field — the United States treating everybody in that region equally — hopefully, and I know that there are people of goodwill in Israel and the Arab communities,”

Attributing regional conflict to Israel’s existence by conflating Israel with the entirety of the Middle East, Sanders neglected to comment on the roles of Muslim and Arab social and cultural pathologies driving the “hatred and warfare” of the region…

           — Hat tip: KS [Return to headlines]
 

Islamic State ‘Minister of War’ May Have Been Killed in Syria Air Strike

One of the most infamous Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) commanders may have been killed on Friday by a US air strike in Syria.

Abu Omar al-Shishani, or “Omar the Chechen”, was the target of a strike near the town of al-Shaddadi.

US officials are now attempting to determine whether al-Shishani, 30, was killed in the strike, according to CNN.

Al-Shisani, whose given name is Tarkhan Batirashvili, joined Isil after leaving an elite unit in the Georgian military…

           — Hat tip: DL [Return to headlines]
 

‘Israel Must be Wiped Out’: Iran Launches Two Missiles With Threat Written on Them in Hebrew as the Country Ignores Criticism of Its Ballistic Weapon Tests

Iran has launched two missiles with ‘Israel must be wiped out’ written on the side in Hebrew as the country continues to ignore criticism over its ballistic weapon tests.

The rockets were test-fired in Iran’s eastern Alborz mountain range in a new show of force by the Islamic Republic as US Vice President Joe Biden visited Israel.

Such phrases have been emblazoned on missiles fired before by Iran — but the latest test comes after the country recently signed a nuclear deal with world powers, including America. It also comes a day after the country carried out a similar launch.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Turkish First Lady Says Harem Was ‘School’ For Women

The wife of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday hailed the harem of the Ottoman sultans as “a school for preparing women for life”.

Emine Erdogan’s comments come a day after the president triggered protests by saying he believed that “a woman is above all a mother” in a speech marking International Women’s Day.

Critics have accused Erdogan’s government of trying to impose strict Islamic values on Turkey and curtailing women’s civil liberties.

“The harem was a school for members of the Ottoman dynasty and an educational establishment for preparing women for life,” Emine Erdogan said at an official event on the Ottoman sultans in Ankara, according to Turkish TV stations…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Video: Iran Test Fires Missiles Branded With Words ‘Israel Must be Wiped Out’

Iran test fired two ballistic missiles on Wednesday with the words “Israel must be wiped out” written on their sides in the latest of a series of provocative moves by the country’s hardliners.

The two Qadr-H missiles had the words written in Hebrew as they were fired from a mountain range in northern Iran, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

“The 2,000-kilometer range of our missiles is to confront the Zionist regime,” said Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. “Israel is surrounded by Islamic countries and it will not last long in a war. It will collapse even before being hit by these missiles.”

More missiles were tested on Tuesday in what Iran described as a show of its “deterrent power”…

           — Hat tip: DL [Return to headlines]
 

Video: Inside Iran’s Missile Tunnels: Tehran Shows Off ‘Secret’ Ballistic Missiles

Iran has shown off its arsenal of ballistic missiles by broadcasting footage from a previously secret storage bunker on state television.

The pictures appear to show Shahab medium range weapons, capable of hitting a variety of targets in the Middle East.

The missiles “are stationed and ready under the high mountains in all the country’s provinces and cities,” said General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the aerospace division of the Revolutionary Guard Corps…

           — Hat tip: DL [Return to headlines]
 

US to Buy Eight Russian RD-181 Rocket Engines

The US company Orbital Sciences Corporation will buy eight RD-181 liquid rocket engines from Russia’s Energomash.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The US company Orbital Sciences Corporation will procure eight Russian-made RD-181 rocket engines, Russia’s space and rocket engine company, Energomash, said Wednesday.

“Orbital Sciences Corporation decided to realize the option for the procurement of eight RD-181 liquid rocket engines from Energomash. The option is to be realized within a contract signed in 2014 on the RD-181 delivery for use in the first stages of the carrier rockets Antares [produced] by Orbital Corporation,” the Energomash’s statement reads.

The Russian manufacturer added that last month representatives of the US company visited Russia and highly estimated the quality management system in place at Energomash.

In 2015, Energomash delivered four such engines to the United States, according to the statement.

At the time of signing the contract worth around $1 billion in December 2014, Orbital said they had looked at several other propulsion providers but had decided to use the RD-181 engines because the Russia-designed engine offered “the best combination of schedule availability, technical performance and cost parameters as compared to other possible options.”

The RD-181 deal is the second large-scale deal Energomash has made with a US company. In the late 1990s, the company won a contract with United Launch Alliance to supply RD-180 engines for Atlas rockets. This contract, also valued at about $1 billion, is still in place.

The US imposed sanctions on Russia on the pretext of the Donbass conflict and the purchase of the engines was prohibited; however, Washington had to remove them from the list as they proved indispensable for US space flights.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Child Brides Saved by Don Bosco Schools in India

Fr M C George Menamparampil took part in the ‘Voices of Faith’ seminar organised by the Jesuit Refugee Service in the Vatican. He spoke to AsiaNews about the role Salesian educators play in saving street kids from child labour and early marriage. The lives of four girls give, saved by the Salesians, illustrate the situation.

Rome (AsiaNews) — Every year, the Salesians of Don Bosco save hundreds of young women and girls from early marriage and a destiny of domestic slavery, this according Fr M C George Menamparampil, national coordinator for the Don Bosco Schools in India.

Speaking to AsiaNews on the sidelines of the symposium ‘Voices of Faith’ organised by the Jesuit Refugee Service in the Vatican for International Women’s Day, the clergyman stressed the importance of Catholic education in India, focusing especially on women, children and poor tribals, “who without us would never have a chance to improve their lives.”

Born in Kerala, Fr Menamparampil has dedicated the last 48 years of his life to the disadvantaged tribal communities in northeastern India.

Regarding the status of women, he said that 15 million young women and girls are forced into forced marriages each year.

Although banned under Indian law, child brides are “considered ‘normal’ in Hindu tradition. Parents do not know what to do with the girls at home. They prefer to marry them off. For Hindu fathers, there is also the basic duty of seeing their daughters may before their death.”

To illustrate this point, the Salesian Father mentioned the case of four girls saved by Salesian schools among the hundreds who ask for help. All of them come from poor or tribal families, with a history of violence, abuse, suffering and finally rebirth.

Rupa Khatun, now 18, lost her mother when she was just a kid. Her alcoholic father, instead of sending her and her siblings to school, wasted money on booze. When he lost his wife, he took the girl to a place for only men and left her there. Rupa, who at the time was 7, managed to escape.

Another case of discrimination and violence against women is that of Chiquita, Andhra Pradesh, married off by her family at the age of 15. She was able to flee after a month of marriage and tell her story to an NGO, which brought her to facility run by Salesian Sisters. “Her dream is to work in the bank,” Fr Menamparampil said, “and take care of her mentally ailing mother.”

Kanchan Kumari Sao has instead two dreams: building a home on her own and open a construction company. For the first objective, “she is on the right track. Thanks to the Don Bosco Self-Employment Research Institute, she trained in construction engineering and can do her best.” In her case, her father played a critical role. He is “the hero of her life” because he refused to give his daughter away in marriage, choosing instead to send her to school.

In the fourth and last one case, Deepika Samkuru (not her real name) saw family try several times, unsuccessfully, to get to her to marry, starting when she was 15 years old. All of her relatives mistreated her.

Deepika, who is now 22, was kept segregated at home, and on one occasion had her head smashed against a wall, drawing blood. Yet, she rejected her third suitor. Her sisters could not understand her choice. One of them even “became a grandmother at the age of 30,” Fr Menamparampil said.

At present, all four girls are in a different situation, the priest explained. When she fled, Rupa met a woman who took her to a police station; from here, she was taken to a Don Bosco Ashalayam (House of Hope). Today she wants to be a teacher to tell her story and be “an example of what should not happen.”

Chiquita is now in 11th grade in a nun-run school, and wants to continue her studies. Kanchan Kumari Sao is now working in construction.

Finally, Samkuru Deepika moved away from her jail-like family and went to the Navajeevan Bala Bhavan (Don Bosco House for Children to give them a new life) in Vijayawada. She has not seen her relatives for years.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Indonesia: Slow-Motion Genocide for West Papua Ethnic Minorities and Christians

A report by the Brisbane Catholic Justice and Peace Commission blames Indonesian authorities for intimidation, beatings, torture, kidnappings and murders in West Papua, a once predominantly Christian province. According to the report, there is “a movement for Muslims from Indonesia to replace Papuans,” who are mostly Christians.

Manokwari (AsiaNews) — A new report documents allegations of military and police intimidation, beatings and torture, kidnapping and murder against West Papua’s ethnic minorities, political dissidents and Christians.

The report was prepared by the Brisbane Catholic Justice and Peace Commission’s Shadow Human Rights Fact Finding Mission to West Papua, following a visit to the province last month.

Although the report itself has not yet been released, The Catholic Leader has published excerpts, noting illegal actions by Muslim militants and Indonesian police in the once predominantly Christian province.

It describes Indonesia’s actions as a “slow motion genocide” designed to “replace the Christian religion with Islam”.

It also slammed the Indonesian government for carving up “the land” and giving “it for exploitation to some 50 multinational companies”.

The report author Josephite Sister Susan Connelly was accompanied to West Papua by Brisbane archdiocese’s Catholic Justice and Peace Commission executive officer Peter Arndt.

During their fact-finding mission, the two interviewed more than 250 community leaders in Japapura, Merauke, Timika and Sorong.

Sr Connelly likened her visit to West Papua to “stepping back twenty years when I first went to East Timor”.

During her stay, she found “The same oppressive security presence everywhere, the same suspicion, bewilderment, frustration and sadness, the same fear, the same seemingly groundless hope” among Papuans.

The “Authorities want to close down any Papuan efforts to promote discussion about self-determination, and they have applied a military response to deal with the irrepressible desire of a large number of Papuans to promote their cause for freedom.”

Based on his interviews across West Papua, Mr Arndt identified the instigators of alleged human rights violations as members of the Indonesian army, including Kopassus, the police, including a special counter insurgency unit, Detachment 88, and Indonesia’s intelligence agency, BIN.

“Even demonstrations about social issues such as access to education get broken up by authorities,” he said.

When Indonesia became independent in 1945, western Papua remained under Dutch control. In 1969, the territory was incorporated by Indonesia after a vote denounced by many as manipulated by Jakarta. Papuan separatists have rejected the annexation and insist on independence.

In the 1970s, ethnic Papuans accounted for 96 per cent of the population. Today they are a minority, 48 per cent, because of the rapid migration of Indonesians from other more populated islands such as Java.

What is more, according to the report, there was “a movement for Muslims from Indonesia to replace Papuans in every sector”. To reach this goal, “Many mosques are being built everywhere”. At the same time, settlers “burn down the Papuan houses. They are recruited as illegal loggers. Their camps and logging are well protected by the military” who “are certainly killing the people”.

To illustrate this point, the Justice and Peace Commission lists a series of crimes committed by the authorities in 2015: a young wealthy businessman was poisoned; a Papuan woman activist was arrested for holding a prayer service in support of an international conference in London; 27 Papuan palm oil workers were tortured by the Indonesian army’s special force Kopassus after they complained that they had not been paid for two months; and an 18-year-old man, son of a local prayer meeting leader, was killed.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Austria: Grotesque Sex Attack in Klagenfurt Pool

The man who barely spoke German had attempted to chat to the 37-year-old woman who was at the swimming pool with her young son.

When she rejected his advances, he had then gone back into the play pool for young children and grabbed her son, running off into a grotto behind a fake waterfall at the water park.

The panicked mother had then run after him, where he had put the child to one side and grabbed her, putting his hand inside her swimming costume on her private parts and breasts.

           — Hat tip: LS [Return to headlines]
 

Germany’s Merkel Underestimated Refugee Crisis

Danish foreign minister Kristian Jensen complained Wednesday that Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel had underestimated how many refugees would flood into her country under a former open door policy.

Denmark and Sweden have temporarily reintroduced border checks in an attempt to control the migrant flow, but Jensen said much of the problem stemmed from poor planning in their larger southern neighbor.

“I think that Merkel has been surprised by the number of refugees coming to Germany. She thought this was a crisis that would fade out,” Jensen told guests at a US think tank during a visit to Washington.

“She has been accused actually of being the one sending out invitations to refugees around the world, ‘Please come to Germany, you are welcome here, we have a house and a job and it’s a great place to be’,” he said…

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‘I Want to Vote So Donald Trump Won’t Win’: Illegals Applying for Citizenship to Vote Against Trump

Obama administration, Soros-linked NGOs behind push to naturalize illegals before November.

[Comment: Soros funded NGOs are organs of destabilization and should be banned. Follow Russia’s example. ]

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Illegal Attempts to Enter the UK Have Risen by a Staggering 1,300 Per Cent in the Last Three Years, Official Figures Revealed Today.

Between 2008 and 2012 the number of people who were caught by UK authorities trying to enter Britain illegally by hiding in lorries, walking through the Channel Tunnel or arriving without visas at ports and airports stood at around 1,000 a month.

But in 2013 this monthly figure doubled to 2,000 and in 2014 it doubled again to 4,000.

By July last year the number of monthly illegal attempts had shot up to 13,000 as the migration crisis engulfed Europe, according to data released by the Home Office.

[Comment: These are only the reported and recorded figures. The number is probably actually much higher.]

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Illegal Arrested After 5 Killed in 2 States

An illegal immigrant accused of killing five in a violent spree at separate spots in Kansas and Missouri — and who was mistakenly released by police authorities in September, as well as deported by feds in 2004 — was finally found and taken into custody Wednesday, on a hill by an interstate near a McDonald’s restaurant.

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Macedonia Closes Border to Illegal Migrants

SKOPJE Macedonia has closed its border completely to illegal migrants after Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia announced tight new restrictions on migrant entry, a police official said on Wednesday.

Thousands of migrants have built up on the Greek side of the Macedonian border. Macedonia had been allowing small numbers of Syrians and Iraqis through but stopped this after its neighbours tightened up their policies.

“We have completely closed the border,” the police official, who declined to be named, told Reuters.

According to the Macedonian Interior Ministry, no migrants entered from Greece on Tuesday.

“Macedonia will act according to the decisions taken by other countries on the Balkan route,” an Interior Ministry spokesman said, referring to the main routes taken by more than a million migrants to reach the European Union over the last year.

Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia said on Tuesday they would place new restrictions on the entry of migrants. The decisions were announced hours after EU leaders outlined an agreement intended to end a mass movement to reach wealthy countries in Europe from war zones…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Mark Zuckerberg, Tech Leaders Urge Supreme Court to Open U.S. Labor Market to Illegals

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a coalition of tech and business leaders are joining the administration’s call for the Supreme Court to “unfreeze” President Barack Obama’s 2014 executive-amnesty programs.

In an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court and released Tuesday by FWD.us, a Zuckerberg-founded immigration advocacy group, more than 60 tech business leaders say that Obama’s executive amnesty programs are essential to a stable national workforce.

“By clarifying its enforcement priorities and giving certain low-priority undocumented immigrants the opportunity to obtain temporary work authorization, the federal government can help stabilize labor supplies in these, and many other, industries, thereby reducing labor shortages and spurring economic growth,” the brief reads in part.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Refugee Crisis: ‘Not the Same Values in East and West’

While solutions to the refugee crisis are being pursued intensely in Western Europe, Eastern Europeans remain unimpressed by the tragedy. Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev sees a new divide.

But the question remains: Why are Eastern Europeans so disinterested in the refugee tragedy?

The return of the East-West divide in Europe is more than just an unhappy coincidence. It is rooted in history, demography and the turbulence of the post-Communist transitional period. At the same time, there is a Central European “popular uprising” against globalization. History weighs heavily on Eastern and Central Europe. Very often history contradicts the promises of globalism. Central Europe knows the benefits as well as the dark side of multi-cultural societies better than most other places in Europe.

The states and countries of Eastern Europe came about late in the nineteenth century, and all at once. Whereas Western Europe was formed in the legacy of colonial empires in the wider world, Central European states arose out of the collapse of empires and the ethnic cleansing that followed that collapse. For instance, before the Second World War, Poland was a multicultural society in which more than a third of its citizenry was made up of Germans, Ukrainians and Jews. Today, Poland is one of the most ethnically homogenous societies on earth, with 97 percent of its citizens being ethnic Poles. Therefore, a return to ethnic diversity seems to them like a return to the difficult times between the wars.

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Slovenia, Serbia Take Steps to Shut Down Balkan Migrant Route

Slovenia and Serbia said on Tuesday they would block transit through their countries to all but a handful of migrants in a bid to seal off the Balkan route used by hundreds of thousands of people seeking a new life in Europe.

The decisions to further restrict routes taken by more than a million migrants in the last year were announced hours after EU leaders declared an end to a mass scramble to reach wealthy countries in Europe from war zones.

“From midnight, there will be no more migration on the Western Balkan route as it took place so far,” the interior ministry of EU member Slovenia said in a statement…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Teenage Migrant ‘Rapes Austrian Mother, 52, And is Immediately Caught by Police After Insisting She Took His Phone Number’

[WARNING: Disturbing Content.]

A teenage migrant accused of raping an Austrian mother was caught after insisting she took his phone number, police say.

The 18-year-old who was living in an asylum seeker centre close to the scene of the attack had tried to use the number to call his alleged victim before he was arrested, according to investigators.

The attack, described by police as particularly violent, happened when the 52-year-old woman had gone to visit a friend in Innsbruck, in western Austria’s Tyrol state.

She was just ringing the doorbell when she was grabbed from behind, and then dragged to a nearby lawn.

Police said she was stripped naked and raped for 15 minutes after being dragged behind the building.

Afterwards, her attacker forced her to exchange telephone numbers with him, and insisted that she save his number in her phone before running off…

The suspect had only arrived in Austria in January and had immediately applied for asylum. His victim, who was hospitalised after the attack, told police that she had often seen him walking around the area.

Police then discovered that he was living in an asylum centre nearby. He was one of 380 men living in the centre which now seems likely to be closed down at the end of April.

Local Green party spokesperson for social affairs Christine Baur warned against prejudice towards the refugees, although at the same time stressing that violence against women should also be condemned.

She said that they planned to reassure people that they were safe by handing out pamphlets to fight against scaremongers.

[Comment: Another Green party moron, and another person who endured a horrible atrocity that would NOT have happened were it not for the traitorous open border policy.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump: Get Legal Immigration “Under Control”

by Diana West

This chart based on US Census figures and produced by the US Senate in January 2016, estimates that the immigrant population residing in the USA to be a staggering 42.4 million.

It is already way out-of-date.

New estimates from CIS show that an even more staggering 61 million immigrants (plus their children) live in the United States today. This means that nearly one in five people in the USA are immigrants. And it doesn’t count the millions of illegal aliens already here and continuing to cross our non-borders. While our leaders sworn to uphold the Constitution and defend the United States all look the other way, population-replacement is well under way. Can it be halted, reversed? Can it even be slowed?

Donald Trump is the only presidential candidate who wants to try. In response to these staggering new figures for foreign legions in our midst — and to a bank-breaking extent, under taxpayers’ care — Trump released the following statement promising to get legal immigration numbers “under control.”

This fits neatly into Trump’s mission: the border wall, ending illegal immigration, limiting or halting legal immigration, protecting American trade and manufacturing, and, of course, imposing a moratorium on Muslim immigration — an urgently needed measure to halt the import of sharia demographics plus Tahrir Squares, as seen in the epidemic of sexual assaults on women and children across Europe. Note that in the past five years alone, the US has awarded green cards to 680,000 migrants from Muslim countries.

Note also that candidates Cruz and Rubio both favor expanding and streamlining legal immigration.

Trump:…

           — Hat tip: Diana West [Return to headlines]
 

Swedish Footballers Fly the Flag for Gay Rights

A Malmö football club which frequently campaigns for gay rights is donning the Pride flag on its new match outfits — after winning the fight against UEFA bosses.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Lance Corporal Hannah Heslop Told a Female Soldier She’d “Make Her Gay”

A woman soldier told a female colleague she would ‘make her gay’, before assaulting the woman as she slept after a night out, a court martial has heard.

Lance Corporal Hannah Heslop, 25, had ‘sexually targeted’ the heterosexual woman before taking her back to a room at Normandy Barracks in Leconfield, Yorkshire, it was alleged.

Bulford Military Court in Wiltshire was told that as the other soldier slept, Heslop removed the victim’s knickers and ‘used this opportunity to fulfil her objective of scoring’.

The woman, told the hearing she woke up in pain to ‘find the accused between her legs’, and that she was left feeling ‘shocked and confused’ after the alleged incident.

However, bisexual Heslop, who serves with 22 Field Hospital, later boasted about the incident, claiming the sex was consensual and went on for an hour, the hearing was told.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

16 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/9/2016

  1. The government of the Netherlands needs to be overthrown by the people before it is too late.

    • In Denmark it is. The white suicide rate is trending up. Perhaps eventually people will choose fight as a much easier option.

    • Indeed. My understanding is a Muslim is one who follows Mohammed as exemplar and submitted to Allah. One could be caucasian, asian, negroid, mongol, latin, eskimo, or even arab…etc etc and be Muslim.

      • This is true, and the Ummah’s pan-racial and pan-national coverage are two of its most terrifying strengths.

        • It’s also why the racism within ISIS and Muslim areas in general needs more attention.

          While they claim all Muslims are treated the same, that’s not what actually happens.

  2. The Public Prosecutor should be charged with

    1. Deliberately insulting the people of the Netherlands because of their race; and
    2. Inciting hatred or discrimination against these people.

    • It’s the ‘same old’ over and over again! You’re absolutely right, but you know it won’t happen.

      Wilders is being victimized by traitorous idiots who don’t give a damn about their own country and it’s ‘lesser’ (?) people; as long as the infantile ruling cliques have their power and fortified bunkers and pay their dues to the NWO, they can taunt, ridicule and even squash people like Geert with impunity. They really are like spoilt, precocious brats. Moreover, as you know it isn’t only Netherlands where this scenario is playing out, but all over Eurabia.

  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIKLlsH4_Q4

    There she is. The so called “prosecutor”. Yesterday she went on national television to “inform” the people about mr. Wilders “crimes”. Since she misquoted mr.Wilders, mr Wilders filed a official complaint about her lies and “statements”.

    Feel free to tell that commie what you think about her so called “free speech” and prosecution. It’s the prosecutors official YouTube channel.

  4. Perhaps people need to encourage the good prosecutor to self-terminate? I mean clearly she is suffering from terminal, incurable mental distress over the likes of Wilders, and I know the Netherlands and Belgium have pretty liberal euthanasia laws. I mean clearly her condition is incurable, so she should do the right thing. Besides, it would be one less privileged white chick denying valuable real estate, food and air to the far more deserving “other”. I think an HR complaint on behalf of migrants is warranted.

    Damn Europe is pretty well effed, no? I sold my positions in the EU a good year ago. Short Europe! You can’t go wrong.

  5. What is the point of being a US or European citizen if illegals are going to have more rights and benefits than native-born citizens? Why should anyone in the West show loyalty to a state that has none for its people?

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