A member of the audience at an outdoor concert in Austria had an argument with his girlfriend, and then got a gun and went on a rampage. He fired randomly into the crowd and killed two people before killing himself.
In other Austrian news, the run-off election held today between presidential candidates Norbert Hofer of the FPÖ and Alexander Van der Bellen of the Greens is a dead heat. The outcome won’t be known until after the absentee ballots are counted, probably tomorrow evening.
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Begrudging WaPo Poll: Trump 46%, Clinton 44%
It’s not the headline, and it takes 219 words to get there, but a new Washington Post poll on the presidential race reveals that Republican Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton among registered voters 46 percent to 44 percent.
Inside the Post’s story about the poll is this paragraph:
“At this point, the two candidates are in a statistical dead heat among registered voters, with Trump favored by 46 percent and Clinton favored by 44 percent. That represents an 11-point shift toward the presumptive Republican nominee since March. Among all adults, Clinton holds a six-point lead (48 percent to 42 percent), down from 18 points in March.”
It is the first time Trump has vaulted over Clinton in the poll and shows the advancement of the New York businessman over the past six months…
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Court-Ordered Document Dump Puts Focus on Fast & Furious
Reveal Obama officials deliberately obstructing probes into gun-running operation
A federal judge has forced the release of more than 20,000 pages of emails and memos previously locked up under President Obama’s phony executive-privilege claim. A preliminary review shows top Obama officials deliberately obstructing congressional probes into the border gun-running operation.
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Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood, 35, claims that Hollywood has its own Jimmy Savile scandal and believes young actors are being sexually abused by predatory ‘vipers’ in the industry.
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Special Report: Pedophile Empire Exposed
Investigative journalist tears down pedophile elite in powerful new book
Conchita Sarnoff of the Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking breaks down her book “TrafficKing,” the story of how, despite bribes to stay silent, Sarnoff risked her life to expose the brutal reality of human trafficking and the Jeffrey E. Epstein case.
“TrafficKing” is available at ConchitaSarnoff.com. Also visit www.atrvt.org for more information on modern day slavery.
Also, watch Sarnoff’s appearance on the May 11, 2016 edition of Alex Jones Show:
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Austria Concert: Deadly Gun Rampage in Nenzing
A gunman has opened fire at a concert, killing two people before shooting himself dead, police in the in Austrian town of Nenzing say.
Eleven other people were injured after the man opened fire at about 03:00 local time (01:00 GMT).
The man, 27, had earlier reportedly argued with a woman in a car park.
He went to his car to get the gun and appeared to shoot randomly at a crowd of about 150 at the concert, hosted by a motorcycle club.
The man then returned to the car park where he killed himself. State broadcaster ORF said the weapon appeared to be a rifle…
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BREXIT THE MOVIE spells out the danger of staying part of the EU. Is it safe to give a remote government beyond our control the power to make laws? Is it safe to tie ourselves to countries which are close to financial ruin, drifting towards scary political extremism, and suffering long-term, self-inflicted economic decline?
BREXIT THE MOVIE shows a side of the EU they don’t want us to see: the sprawling self-serving bureaucracy, the political cynicism, the lack of accountability, the perks, the waste, the cronyism, the corruption.
BREXIT THE MOVIE is a feature-length documentary film to inspire as many people as possible to vote to LEAVE the EU in the June 23rd referendum.
BREXIT THE MOVIE cuts through the patronizing intellectualism of the noble, higher goals of ‘Project Europe’, to reveal the self-interestedness of the political-bureaucratic class which runs and benefits from the EU.
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‘Clintons Followed Soros Order’ With Polish Democracy Insult Says MEP
“I treat this latest comment on Poland and Hungary as a part of Clinton-Soros relationship”
A Polish Member of the European Parliament has waded into the debate surrounding Bill and Hillary Clinton and the recent comments made about Polish and Hungarian democracy.
Speaking exclusively to Breitbart London, Tomasz Piotr Poreba — a former Adviser to the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Regional Development in the European Parliament — alleged that Bill Clinton’s recent foreign policy gaffe over Polish democracy was merely him following the orders of Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros.
Earlier this week Mr. Clinton upset NATO allies when he accused Poland and Hungary of thinking “democracy is too much trouble” and wanting to have an “authoritarian dictatorship.”
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English Football Hooligan James Shayler Plans Euro 2016 Attack on Muslims
Shaven-headed James Shayler claims to have hatched a racist plot with rival Russian thugs to target innocent Muslims when the two countries meet in France during next month’s Euro tournament.
[Comment: Did he receive encouragement and support from State security services?]
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EU Army Tanks Pictured in Britain European Union Battle Group Exercises
A 1,500-strong force of EU troops was on manoeuvres in Britain last week — despite Armed Forces Minister Penny Mordaunt warning that plans for a ‘Euro army’ are a ‘huge concern’.
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Spain: 15-Year-Old Danish Girl Left Blind in One Eye After Being Attacked by Six Muslims
A FATHER is appealing for information after his 15-year old daughter was brutally attacked outside an exclusive Marbella disco.
Nicole Zanlith was waiting for a taxi with a friend outside the Olivia Valere discotheque when an argument broke out at around 7am.
She stepped in to defend her friend when the attackers turned on her, thrusting a bottle in her face and leaving her with six gashes on her forehead and one across her eye.
The six attackers left the scene on foot and the girl’s father, a Danish resident in Marbella, is offering a reward of €2000 for information leading to the arrest of the attackers.
Zanlith, who had been to see French DJ Bob Sinclair at the venue, has been left blind in one eye.
Source: Olivepress
This article in DiarioSur adds the detail that all six of the attackers were of North African origin and that they hit the girl in the face with a bottle of vodka. The video below shows some mobile phone footage of the incident. It also features the girl’s father speaking. He says the attackers were Moroccans.
pls follow link at the top for video.
update
After various days of investigation, police have succeeded in determining the identity of the alleged attacker, who was accompanied by five friends, all of them of North African origin, according to witnesses. However, as yet it has not been possible to apprehend the suspect, who is a minor. The different sources consulted confirmed that a search and arrest order has been issued in connection with the injuries caused to the young girl.
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Spain: Reward Offered for Information About Attack on 15-Year-Old Girl
A 15-year-old girl, Nicole Zanlith, has lost the sight of her right eye after a vicious attack outside a disco in Marbella. The young girl had gone with her sister and a friend to the Olivia Valere discotheque to see the famous French DJ, Bob Sinclar. They left at about 7am and were waiting for a taxi when a group of youths attempted to jump the queue. An argument broke out and the 15 year old tried to intervene to stop her friend being hit. The attackers turned on her and one of them thrust a broken bottle in her face leaving her seriously injured with six deep gashes in her forehead and one across her eye.
After the attack, the six youths left the scene on foot.
The father of Nicole, a Danish resident in Marbella, is offering a reward of 2,000 euros for information leading to the arrest of the attackers. He can be contacted at mzanlith@gmail.com
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Swiss Great-Grandmother Told She Cannot Marry 21-Year-Old Tunisian Fiance Who She Met Online
The great-grandmother, from Switzerland, told the court she loved her Tunisian boyfriend, claiming they shared interests in ‘rap music and country walks’.
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UK: Labour Anti-Semitism Inquiry Head Once Praised Militant Linked to Jihadi John
Shami Chakrabarti was accused of ‘lacking credibility’ after it emerged she had once described former Guantanamo inmate Moazzam Begg as a ‘wonderful advocate… for human rights’.
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Shahnaz Bi, from Sheffield, took her daughters Maryam, 9, and Fatimah, 7, out of school for a two-week break to Mecca and Medina last month.
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UK: Man Charged Over Car Sainbury’s Park Stabbings
A man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after four women were stabbed in a supermarket car park in Hampton, south west London. Ethem Orhon, 66, was remanded in custody.
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Children at St Monica’s Catholic Primary School in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, must instead look out for their teachers’ raised hands to know when to stop playing.
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The review said officers were scared of being’ hung out to dry’ over fake racism claims and that jails in England and Wales needed to segregate terror offenders from other Islamic convicts.
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Keith Best, 51, lives in a spacious, three-bedroom semi in East London — after simply walking in off the street and claiming squatter’s rights when Colin Curtis moved out of his late mother’s house.
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Exclusive: Egyptian Army Prepping Large-Scale Operation Against Islamic State — Source
TEL AVIV — Egypt is in the final stages of planning a large-scale campaign against the Islamic State in the Sinai, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The Egyptian army has mobilized tanks, APVs, as well as engineering and artillery units into the peninsula over the past few days, the official said, adding that the operation is poised to take place with coordination from Israel.
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The EgyptAir passenger jet that plunged into the Mediterranean Sea killing all 66 people on board was once attacked by a group of political vandals who scrawled an eerily accurate threat on its underside.
Aviation workers at Cairo Airport were reportedly behind the attack on the plane, which saw the graffiti message ‘we will bring this plane down’ written on it in Arabic.
Some workers also wrote ‘traitor’ and ‘murderer’ in messages directed at Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi — a play on the phonetic similarity between the last two letters in the plane’s registration SU-GCC and the leader’s surname.
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ISIS Jihadis Use Boulders to Crush a Prisoner to Death in Yemen Video
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. In the shocking video, several masked ISIS fighters dressed in matching military fatigues and tactical vests are shown executing three prisoners in cold blood.
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ISIS Releases Audio Message Calling for Attacks on Europe and the US During Holy Month of Ramadan
Iraq based Al-Adnani (pictured) — the group’s spokesman — asked IS supporters ‘to make it a month of calamity everywhere for the non-believers’ when Ramadan begins on June 6.
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Saudi Daily: ‘Satanic’ Bill Allowing Kingdom to be Sued for 9/11 Will ‘Open Gates of Hell’ For U.S.
TEL AVIV — The Saudi press slammed the U.S. for its “despicable” double standard in regard to a proposed bill that would allow victims of the September 11 attacks to sue the kingdom, claiming that the move would “open the gates of hell,” enabling all countries that have been wronged by the U.S. to sue it for war crimes.
The popular Saudi daily Okaz ran a scathing article translated by MEMRI, entitled, “Congress’s Satanic Deed Opens the Gates of Hell for the World’s Largest Country,” accompanied by an image of President Obama with a Star of David and the emblem of the Iranian regime on his forehead.
Proclaiming that the bill proves that there “is no justice or morality in American politics,” the article accuses the U.S. of bypassing international law, which stipulates that countries are immune from legal proceedings in other states.
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Doctor Hacked to Death by Machete in Suspected Islamist Attack in Bangladesh
Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a village doctor and wounded a university teacher in western Bangladesh.
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Facebook has issued libertarian Canadian commentator Lauren Southern with a 30-day suspension after she criticised the social network for banning the administrator of a right-wing Facebook page.
Only a few days after the widely publicised meeting of “top conservatives” with Mark Zuckerberg to address censorship of conservative media on Facebook, it seems the site is up to its old tricks of silencing conservatives and right-wingers.
The admin of Disdain for Plebs, a pro-Trump, alt-right Facebook page, was banned for arguing that Trump was not anti-Muslim, but anti-ISIS, and that his proposed ban on Muslims was not due to innate racism, but because “Homeland Security cannot differentiate which Muslim is radical wanting to cause harm and which is a harmless refugee.”
Facebook moderators, however, apparently considered this to be wrongthink. The post was subsequently removed, as can be seen below, and the account suspended.
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German Catholic Group: Do Not Segregate Christian and Muslim Immigrants, Despite Violence
A Catholic group has claimed that even though there is a rise of violence toward Christians by Muslims, segregating them in migrant camps would be worse.
The Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) has maintained that they reject any proposals to segregate Muslims form Christians in asylum homes Die Welt reports.
Thomas Sternberg, president of the group and a deputy for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), said that the move to separate by religion would be a “disastrous signal”, despite the huge amount of evidence of persecution of Christian migrants by their Muslim counterparts. This has led many Christian newcomers to feel that their lives may be in danger, especially if they are converts from Islam.
Sternberg claimed that segregation would send a clear signal to the rest of the world that the members of the two faiths simply could not coexist and people should not “stir up the misconception that Christians and Muslims can’t live together.”
Christian relief organization Open Doors feels the opposite, having produced evidence of widespread abuses by Muslim asylum seekers and asylum security guards against Christians. The study released by the organization said that three quarters of non-Muslim migrants were under constant threat from Muslims in migrant homes because of their faith. The Christians and others were routinely beaten, sexually abused or insulted.
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The Saudi Solution Accommodations Are Plentiful in the Kingdom for Sunni Muslim Migrants
by Daniel Pipes
As European governments slam the gates shut on illegal Middle Eastern immigrants, where can Syrians and others go to, not far from their homelands, for safety and employment? The answer is obvious but surprisingly neglected: to Saudi Arabia and the other rich Arab sheikhdoms.
The more than one million migrants who boated, trained, bussed, and walked to northern Europe in the past year overwhelmed the continent’s capabilities and good will. Those large numbers were then exacerbated by crime and disease, an unwillingness to assimilate, a drive to impose Islamic laws, and such outrages as the Cologne taharrush (mass sexual assault) and the attacks in Paris and Brussels.
In reaction, populist and fascist parties (such as, respectively, the National Front in France and Jobbik in Hungary) gained strength. The European mood has so deeply shifted — as shown by the March elections in Germany — that much reduced numbers of illegals are likely to get in, no matter what new routes they try, such as via Italy.
This leaves huge numbers of would-be migrants wanting to enter Europe. A European Union (EU) commissioner, Johannes Hahn, counts “20 million refugees waiting at the doorstep of Europe. … Ten to 12 million in Syria, 5 million Palestinians, 2 million Ukrainians and about 1 million in the southern Caucasus.” Yes, but that’s just a start; I also add vast numbers of Libyans, Egyptians, Yemenis, Iraqis, Iranians, Afghans, and Pakistanis — and not just political refugees but also economic migrants. In all, the numbers of Muslim peoples ready to emigrate could potentially match the 510 million EU residents.
To where, then, are they to go? One nearby, desirable alternative to Europe exists; indeed, it’s a destination so attractive that foreigners already constitute half the population: that would be the six Gulf Cooperation Council states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Let’s focus on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the largest of them in land size, population, and economy.
The KSA has many unique attractions for Sunni Muslims. To begin with, it has 100,000 high-quality, empty fiberglass tents that can house about 3 million people in Mina, just east of Mecca. Fireproof and air-conditioned, complete with toilets and kitchens, this unique resource is occupied a mere five days a year by pilgrims on the hajj.
Comparing the KSA to the states of northern Europe, shows its many other advantages:
- Geography: Much closer.
- Climate: Hot.
- Language: Arabic.
- Economics: An insatiable need for labor.
- Legal system: Reassuringly familiar.
- Religion: Islam, Islam, Islam.
Culturally, many Sunnis find Saudi’s severe strictures more congenial than the West’s secular environment. In the KSA, Muslims can exult in a society that permits polygamy, child marriages, wife-beating, female genital mutilation, and beheadings, while only lightly punishing slaveholding and honor killings.
Saudi also permits Muslims effortlessly to avoid such haram (forbidden) features as pet dogs; pork and alcohol; interest payments on loans; lotteries and casinos; Valentine’s Day, women in revealing clothes, dating, and gentlemen’s clubs; gay bars and gay marriage; the drug subculture; and the public expression of anti-Islamic views.
The Persian Gulf countries have been berated for not taking in “a single” Syrian refugee. Yet the Saudi authorities claim to have taken in 21/2 million Syrians. How to explain this discrepancy?…
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Trump: Hillary’s Plans for More Illegal Immigration a ‘Disaster for Our Country’
Trump, who made the comments in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower here in Midtown, Manhattan, said Clinton’s plan would be a “disaster” for the United States. Trump said:
“I think it’s a disaster for our country. She wants to allow people in, she wants to have a very weak border, she wants illegal immigrants to flow into the country with all of the problems-to flow into the country-and she wants to allow the Syrians to come in in numbers far greater than even Obama. We have no idea who these people are. They’re not documented. Nobody knows anything about them. I think it’s catastrophic for the country if that’s allowed to happen.”
Trump told Breitbart News that the difference between his plan and Clinton’s plan is that he will actually secure America whereas Clinton will leave the border wide open.
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Target CEO Blames Climate Change, Not Bathroom Policy, For Hurting Sales
As retailer Target sees its stock plummeting and sales dropping in the midst of a boycott over its recently announced pro-transgender bathroom policy, the company’s CEO is insisting the weather is the cause of falling sales, not the company’s bathroom policy.
In a recent Wall Street Journal interview, Target CEO Brian Cornell pegged the downturn in the company’s fortunes to the cold weather as opposed to anything the company itself is doing or not doing.
“It’s been a very wet and cold start to the year and it’s reflected in our sales,” Cornell told the paper. “We haven’t seen anything from a structural standpoint that gives us pause.”
In other words, the weather is responsible for the downturn, not Target’s “structural” transgender bathroom policy.
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Bad news from Austria. It’s extremely distressing that after all the signs on the wall, still 1 in 2 Austrians are voting for clitoridectomy.
Unless, of course, the 81 per cent Austrians in Austria voted in a definitely Hofer-inclined way and it’s the 19 per cent non-Austrians who tipped the scale.
Probably something like it and a bad omen of things to come for Europe’s native populations.
We must keep on fighting.
These matters will NOT be decided at the ballot box. Stick a fork in the democracy delusions. Votes do not count. Those who count the votes count.
DeriKuk, as long as there is no unambiguous state of war, the democratic processus has to be maintained. Throwing democracy under the bus is going down a very slippery road.
What the Right must do – or should, because I still don’t see it happen – is take the fight to the media, the political establishment, the cultural and the educational sector. We on the Right have countless good arguments proving that the multicultural delusion leads to ruin. We also have historical proof that it’s leftist views on how to rule a society that are responsible for humanity’s worst mass slaughters.
The Right should somehow hire marketing managers to make our in se very sound schemes for a just and good society appealing to the masses. At the same time we should embark, RIGHT NOW, on our own “Long March through the Institutions”. Much of the intellectual cancer affecting our youths and sapping the West’s strength and civilizational self-confidence finds its origins there.
Be all that as it may – even with Van Der Bellen’s pyrrhic victory, this is the first time that a supposedly “extreme rightwing” European presidential candidate came to close to a victory. That in itself is unprecedented. There is certainly a dynamic in the “Right” direction. We must take heart in that.
It seems the MSM may be misleading the public over the Austrian results; the PROJECTED results are 50/50, but the Greens are down 4% and the mail in ballots being counted are thought to be overwhelmingly AFP.
http://diepresse.com/layout/diepresse/files/wahlen/201605bp/bp-presse/data/0.jsp
‘There is only one way for the US to gain victory,’ ISIS spokesman warns – See more at: http://rudaw.net/mobile/english/middleeast/22052016#sthash.ZaWTegcK.dpuf
http://rudaw.net/mobile/english/middleeast/22052016
It appears as though the squatters rights aren’t that we’ll thought out. What’s stopping the original, rightful, owner from claiming squatters right son the usurper when he steps out to the store one say?
Well, the article did say “Years later, he applied to become the legal owner of the house”. Sounds like the property was abandoned for far longer than a trip to the shops.
Fair enough. This is at least the 3rd instance of squatters mentioned in the news feed over the past few years. I’m sure it happens often enough.
My though was geared towards one case where the owner was indeed running errands and returned home to a family of gypsies who had broken in and claimed squatters.