Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/4/2016

After Donald Trump won the Republican primary in Indiana with a landslide last night, his rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich both dropped out of the race, leaving Mr. Trump as the only remaining Republican candidate. Even so, British Prime Minister David Cameron refuses to apologize for saying earlier that Mr. Trump was “divisive, stupid and wrong”.

In other news, the European Union is considering changes to EU asylum rules that would fine each country that refuses its refugee quota €250,000 per person not accepted.

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USA
» America, Sheep to the Slaughter
» Anti-Trumpers Call for Riots After Billionaire Wins Indiana
» Background Checks for Ammo Buyers Coming in California
» Former Facebook Curator: We Pick What’s Trending; ‘Regularly Avoid’ Promoting Breitbart, The Blaze
» GOP Concedes: Trump Will be the Nominee… “We’re Going After Hillary Clinton”
» Hundreds of M1 Abrams Battle-Tanks Spotted in Houston on Rail-Train
» Indiana Voting-Fraud Activist Behind Rubio ‘Sex Party’ Leaks Found Dead
» Long-Time Iowa Farm Cartoonist Fired After Creating This Cartoon
» Newt Gingrich: Trump Could be ‘The Most Effective Anti-Left Leader in Our Lifetime’ (Video)
» Obama State Department Hid Key Clinton Benghazi Email From Judicial Watch
» Romanian Hacker Guccifer: I Breached Clinton Server, ‘it Was Easy’
» Social Security Admin. Moves to Strip 75,000 Americans of 2nd Amendment Right
» The Campus Hate Crime Hoax Epidemic
» Trump Pivots to General Election Fight as Last Rival Kasich Bows Out
 
Canada
» Engulfed by Fire: Tens of Thousands Evacuating From Alberta Blaze in Canada (Photos, Videos)
 
Europe and the EU
» “The TTIP is Doomed” — France Threatens to Reject Obama’s Huge Transatlantic Trade Deal
» German PEGIDA Leader Convicted of Inciting Hatred
» Iceland in Court for Not Respecting EU Laws
» Muslim/ISIS Trials Start in Germany
» Tommy Robinson: CPS Investigating Possible Retrial of Ex-EDL Leader for Assault Charge
» UK: Anger as Google is Given Access to Confidential Health Data of 1.6 Million NHS Patients
» UK: David Cameron Refuses to Apologise to Donald Trump for Saying He Was ‘Divisive, Stupid and Wrong’ To Claim Muslims Should be Banned From Entering America
» UK: Google Now Has Access to Millions of Patients’ Medical Records
» UK: Shocking Footage Shows the Moment a Violent Dognapping is Carried Out as a Pet is Snatched From Its Terrified Owner on a Suburban Street
 
Middle East
» Turkey’s AK Party to Hold Congress Amid Doubt Over Future of PM
 
Immigration
» How the EU Helped to Erode Turkish Democracy
» Migrant Crisis: EU Plans Penalties for Refusing Asylum Seekers
» Opinion: The Deal With Turkey Has Its Price
» Rapefugee Attacks Guard in Vienna
» Turkey-EU Visa Deal Disaster for EU as Erdogan Likely to Flood EU With Muslim Migrants
 
Culture Wars
» Obama to Create 1st Monument to ‘Gay’ Rights
 

America, Sheep to the Slaughter

Everywhere I seem to look, I can see the conspirators working relentlessly through the media propagandists who are attempting to re-arrange your reality to become the reality that they want you to believe in (Revelation 3:18).

While walking through the Chicago airport yesterday, I went into several of the stores where I could see the attempt to exchange a lie (Ephesians 2:2) for the truth on every shelf.

As I gathered information for this article to verify everything that I am putting forth, I noticed that the communists are hard at work attempting to attack and discredit anyone and everyone that tells you the truth which exposes their lies…

On the front page of one of the magazines, I read “Hillary Clinton: Front Runner Pad Primary Leads. Her campaign literally has no support!

She is propped up from beginning to the end; and the end of this nation as you know it if you do not deal with her crimes, as well as those who are helping her along to commit the crimes.

Then, we have Ben S. Bernanke, former Federal Reserve chairman, with his new book “The Courage to Act.” This is the man that took $2.2 trillion of American tax dollars to loan to banks with anonymity. The bankers did not want Americans to know who received the money. Ben now admits Wall Street executives should have been jailed. Who is Ben conveying courage? It certainly is not to himself.

Then, we have the communist and immoral criminal in California Governor Jerry Brown on the cover of Newsweek. The headline was “Altered State: How Jerry Brown Secretly Saved California.” Friends, you cannot make this stuff up!

Brown has pardoned dangerous criminals for their crimes and released some back into America’s population, signed legislation against the Second Amendment, signed two transgender bills making “gender identity and expression” a protected class of people, who are abominable and mentally ill (Romans 1:26), etc.

Altered state is correct through the lies that they promote. As I have shared in the past, they know how to lie better than Americans know how to live the truth (Luke 6:46).

Destroyers are made out to be the saviors. The immoral are propped up to be the standard.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Anti-Trumpers Call for Riots After Billionaire Wins Indiana

“If he wins, we riot!”

Although the media has been fixated with Trump voters staging riots if the billionaire doesn’t become the Republican nominee, it was the anti-Trump crowd that took to Twitter last night to threaten riots in response to the Donald’s crushing victory in Indiana.

Trump now looks almost certain to take on Hillary after securing 51 delegates last night, forcing Ted Cruz to drop out and and leading RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to tweet that Trump was the presumptive nominee and that all efforts should now be devoted to defeating Clinton.

That largely puts to bed fears, mentioned by Trump himself but enflamed by the media, that Trump supporters would stage violence if the GOP establishment attempted to steal the nomination at a brokered convention.

However, anti-Trumpers, who have been busy staging violence at Trump events across the country for the last three months, reacted to Trump’s success by renewing their vow to engage in mass civil unrest.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Background Checks for Ammo Buyers Coming in California

California’s lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom, is the consummate politician: Facts don’t matter, just the agenda that he hopes will help him get elected governor

Last Thursday California’s lt. governor, Gavin Newsom, announced that his ballot measure offered last fall — which includes background checks to buy ammunition, along with a host of other restrictions on gun owners — has already gathered 600,000 signatures, more than enough to put it on the ballot in November. Said Newsom, who is running for governor in 2018, “What makes guns dangerous is ammunition. Yet we don’t do background checks on ammo.”

What he failed to mention is that a gun is an inanimate object, just like ammunition. If danger exists, it’s with the person holding it. But that doesn’t matter to Newsom, who added that background checks on ammunition would stop sales of ammunition to criminals and others who are prohibited from owning firearms.

Such a claim also fails to recognize that — as Emanuel Kapelsohn, vice president of the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, expressed it — criminals aren’t likely to abide by the new law:

I’m very skeptical of this approach. It’s a great idea in theory but do we think that gangbangers will go into a gun store and provide ID to get their ammo, or just go out on the street?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Former Facebook Curator: We Pick What’s Trending; ‘Regularly Avoid’ Promoting Breitbart, The Blaze

A former curator of Facebook’s trending news section has revealed that the company purposely suppresses content from blacklisted outlets including Breitbart News, despite Breitbart remaining in the top 25 most engaged publications on the social network for 6 months in a row.

The trending news section is located on the right-hand side of Facebook’s homepage, and it links to the world’s most popular and curated news headlines, frequently updating to provide a top news bulletin for Facebook’s over 1 billion users. In an interview with Gizmodo, numerous former curators who wished to remain anonymous discussed the working environment at Facebook’s news department and revealed that certain news outlets were favored among others.

“It was clear that Zuckerberg could squash the project at any moment,” said one former curator. “We weren’t treated as individuals. We were treated in this robot way,” said another.

Curators were “told to select articles from a list of preferred media outlets that included sites like the New York Times, Time, Variety, and other traditional outlets. They would regularly avoid sites like World Star Hip Hop, The Blaze, and Breitbart, but were never explicitly told to suppress those outlets,” wrote Gizmodo after speaking to numerous ex-employees who were mostly hired by Facebook from liberal outlets such as MSNBC, New York Daily News, and the Guardian.

“They were also discouraged from mentioning Twitter by name in headlines and summaries, and instead asked to refer to social media in a broader context,” the report claims.

The article also revealed that most employees were in their 20s to early 30s and graduated from America’s top Ivy League and private schools.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

GOP Concedes: Trump Will be the Nominee… “We’re Going After Hillary Clinton”

Donald Trump gave a victory speech tonight in a tone that reflected the de facto end of the primaries and a focus on the new opponent.

It is a bombshell moment in this bizarre 2016 election, as Trump now has enough momentum to convince even the GOP establishment to get behind him.

Indiana proved to be the decisive victory for Donald Trump in the GOP primary contest. Ted Cruz, who teamed up with Carly Fiorina as a last ditch effort to save his campaign, was forced to acknowledge bitter defeat — ending his campaign last night. John Kasich is apparently staying in the race for the time being. NBC News reports:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hundreds of M1 Abrams Battle-Tanks Spotted in Houston on Rail-Train

Keep your head on a swivel, military movements are starting up again in the CONUS, this time battle-tanks

HOUSTON, Tex. (INTELLIHUB) — Several rail-trains have been spotted moving through the area this week, carrying hundreds of U.S. M1 Abrams battle-tanks.

Several locals reported seeing a train Tuesday, loaded full of tanks, painted in a desert tan color.

As of now the rail-train’s destination is unknown.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Indiana Voting-Fraud Activist Behind Rubio ‘Sex Party’ Leaks Found Dead

Blogger who exposed voter fraud died right before primary

Voting-fraud activist Gary Welsh, who tipped off Infowars’ Wayne Madsen on Marco Rubio’s foam sex parties, was found dead leading up to the Indiana primary.

Police found Welsh’s body in an apartment complex stairwell in Indianapolis, Ind., on May 1 and quickly ruled it a “suicide.”

“Welsh was a well-known lawyer and political commentator in Indiana who combated against the takeover of the state by religious fundamentalists and opposed ‘well-connected’ GOP presidential candidates like Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and Rubio,” Wayne Madsen reported. “The timing of Welsh’s death just prior to the Indiana GOP primary, one that Cruz hopes to win to keep his chances for the GOP presidential nomination alive, is troubling, to say the least.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Long-Time Iowa Farm Cartoonist Fired After Creating This Cartoon

Rick Friday has been giving farmers a voice and a laugh every Friday for two decades through his cartoons in Farm News. Now the long-time Iowa farm cartoonist tells KCCI that he has been fired. Friday announced Sunday that his job was over after 21 years in a Facebook post that has since gone viral.

FACEBOOK POST: “Again, I fall hard in the best interest of large corporations. I am no longer the Editorial Cartoonist for Farm News due to the attached cartoon which was published yesterday. Apparently a large company affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned in the cartoon was insulted and cancelled their advertisement with the paper, thus, resulting in the reprimand of my editor and cancellation of its Friday cartoons after 21 years of service and over 1,090 published cartoons to over 24,000 households per week in 33 counties of Iowa. I did my research and only submitted the facts in my cartoon. That’s okay, hopefully my children and my grandchildren will see that this last cartoon published by Farm News out of Fort Dodge, Iowa, will shine light on how fragile our rights to free speech and free press really are in the county.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Newt Gingrich: Trump Could be ‘The Most Effective Anti-Left Leader in Our Lifetime’ (Video)

Newt argued that Donald Trump could be the “the most effective anti-left leader in our lifetime.” Newt Gingrich went on with Sean Hannity tonight after the Donald Trump’s Indiana blowout and after Ted Cruz suspended his campaign.

Newt argued that Donald Trump could be the “the most effective anti-left leader in our lifetime.”

Newt added that anyone who does not support Trump is supporting Hillary.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Obama State Department Hid Key Clinton Benghazi Email From Judicial Watch

It has taken several years of persistent legal pressure from Judicial Watch to begin exposing Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. Last week, for example, we reported that we could have known about her email games two years ago had the State Department not withheld a key email responsive to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

The Obama State Department admitted last week that it withheld a key Benghazi email of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from Judicial Watch since at least September 2014. Had the department disclosed the email when first supposedly found, Clinton’s email server and her hidden emails would have been revealed before she authorized the alleged deletion of tens of thousands of emails.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Romanian Hacker Guccifer: I Breached Clinton Server, ‘it Was Easy’

The infamous Romanian hacker known as “Guccifer,” speaking exclusively with Fox News, claimed he easily — and repeatedly — breached former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal email server in early 2013.

“For me, it was easy … easy for me, for everybody,” Marcel Lehel Lazar, who goes by the moniker “Guccifer,” told Fox News from a Virginia jail where he is being held.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Social Security Admin. Moves to Strip 75,000 Americans of 2nd Amendment Right

Ruling applies to Americans who have filed for and receive benefits

Social Security Admin. Moves to Strip 75,000 Americans of 2nd Amendment Right If you are a recipient of or have filed for Social Security disability, you may soon have your Second Amendment right nullified.

Back in January, Obama penned an executive order allowing the Social Security Administration (SSA) to report certain individuals to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, the database Federal Firearms Licensees use to determine whether a prospective buyer is eligible to purchase firearms.

“The reporting that SSA, in consultation with the Department of Justice, is expected to require will cover appropriate records of the approximately 75,000 people each year who have a documented mental health issue, receive disability benefits, and are unable to manage those benefits because of their mental impairment, or who have been found by a state or federal court to be legally incompetent,” a fact sheet released by the White House on January 4 states.

Acting Commissioner Carolyn W. Colvin signed the rule and it was posted to the Federal Register on April 28, according to Guns.com.

The “Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act” spells out a five-step qualification process that will be used to first identify and then report selected Title II and Title XVI beneficiaries to the Department of Justice.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Campus Hate Crime Hoax Epidemic

Fed by leftist mass hysteria, a radical academic vanguard, and an increasingly greedy racial-grievance industry A hate crime aimed at black students at Maryland’s Salisbury University has been revealed as just the latest high-profile race-related hoax to hit the groves of academe in the race-obsessed Obama era.

Except for acknowledging that the two perpetrators are African-American students at the school that is located on the Delmarva Peninsula in eastern Maryland, the university is engaged in a cover-up. If the perpetrators were white, a cynic might say that the school would find a way to leak out the pertinent details in order to make a political statement.

Of course, there certainly are racist incidents on university campuses, but blacks are rarely the targets or the victims. Blacks are more likely to be the instigators or beneficiaries of racist acts. Racially discriminatory admissions policies are a kind of reverse apartheid and part of what David Horowitz has termed “black privilege.” Such policies help unqualified African-Americans get into some institutions of higher learning, while keeping academically qualified Caucasians and Asians out…

The universities are filled with pseudo-intellectual black academics like Kwanzaa inventor Maulana Karenga, Marc Lamont Hill, Michael Eric Dyson, and Cornel West, as well as malevolent radicals like Angela Davis, Julianne Malveaux, black liberation theology creator James Cone, and Obama’s late legal mentor and critical race theory originator Derrick Bell. They, along with plenty of pseudo-intellectual radical white academics, consider it their life’s mission to indoctrinate students in order to eventually force unwanted change on American society.

In such a political and intellectual climate it shouldn’t be all that surprising that racial hoaxes thrive on the nation’s college and university campuses. Without lies, the Left would have no recruiting tools.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Pivots to General Election Fight as Last Rival Kasich Bows Out

Donald Trump pivoted Wednesday to an expected general election brawl with Hillary Clinton, as he watched the political bramble in his path to the Republican nomination clear away entirely — with last remaining rival John Kasich joining Ted Cruz in suspending his campaign.

The Ohio governor dropped out of the race Wednesday afternoon.

Trump, now the presumptive nominee and no longer facing the prospect of a bruising open convention, has effectively crushed any lingering bids to halt his outsider primary campaign, which has defied the odds and political convention ever since his entry into the race less than a year ago.

Trump turns next to the weighty task of uniting a fractured party and told Fox News Wednesday morning he plans to focus on November.

“We’re going to unify the party,” he said. “I think we’re going to beat Hillary Clinton.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Engulfed by Fire: Tens of Thousands Evacuating From Alberta Blaze in Canada (Photos, Videos)

The entire population of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, Canada has been ordered to abandon their homes after a wildfire ravaging a nearby forest moved into the area. The fire has already destroyed homes in several neighborhoods.

Fort McMurray is an urban service area with a population of about 80,000 people.

A mandatory evacuation notice was issued for the whole city on Tuesday after the wildfire began spreading uncontrollably.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“The TTIP is Doomed” — France Threatens to Reject Obama’s Huge Transatlantic Trade Deal

Following this weekend’s leak by Greenpeace demonstrating not only that the TTIP is driven entirely by narrow corporate interests, but that Obama is openly willing to reneg on his pro-environment agenda just to pass the Transatlantic Treaty at any cost, the blowback arrived earlier today when France became the first major European nation which threatened to reject the huge free trade deal between the U.S. and the European Union, because according to AP “it’s too friendly to U.S. business and probably doomed.”

Signs of trouble have been dogging the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a U.S.-EU free trade zone encompassing half the world economy, for months but only today have we seen the accumulated tension bubble up to the surface.

French president Francois Hollande said Tuesday that France “will never accept” challenges to its farming and culture in exchange for better access to U.S. markets. “That’s why at this stage, France says no,” the Socialist leader said at a conference on left-wing politics.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

German PEGIDA Leader Convicted of Inciting Hatred

The leader of German anti-Islam movement Pegida has been convicted of inciting hatred. Lutz Bachmann was fined €9,600 for calling refugees “scum”. Prosecutors had asked for a seven-month jail sentence. He is expected to appeal against the decision. Pegida organises demonstrations against Islam and asylum seekers.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Iceland in Court for Not Respecting EU Laws

Iceland has been referred to a trade tribunal for failure to incorporate into national law EU directives on the transport of dangerous goods and on inspection of commercial vehicles. Its EU legal obligations are part of Iceland’s membership of the European Economic Area (EEA).

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Muslim/ISIS Trials Start in Germany

The first of what promises to be several major trials of ISIS terrorists — all “German nationals” — has started, highlighting the danger of legal nonwhite immigration to Europe. German police are currently investigating at least 30 cases of nonwhite legal immigrants in Germany for having fought for ISIS and subsequently having returned to Germany.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Tommy Robinson: CPS Investigating Possible Retrial of Ex-EDL Leader for Assault Charge

Tommy Robinson could be dragged back to court to face a charge of assault after prosecutors said they may seek a retrial. The former leader of the English Defence League (EDL) had been accused of attacking a fellow inmate in 2015 while serving a sentence for mortgage fraud in Peterborough Prison.

Robinson, who now helps lead anti-Islam group Pegida UK, appeared in Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on 14 April for trial, having crowdfunded £24,000 for a legal defence from his supporters. The case against the 33-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, collapsed after Robinson’s QC successfully argued the trial could not continue because of failures in providing evidence.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) this week told IBTimes UK the case has now been passed to its appeals team, however, which is looking into whether the body “should seek a judicial review” of the judge’s ruling.

No decision has yet been made but a CPS spokesperson said should it decide to appeal the judge’s decision, there could be a retrial.

A spokesperson for the CPS added: “Following legal argument on the day of the trial on 14 April 2016, the case against Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who had been charged with assault, was stopped. We are now seeking advice concerning the hearing.”

Robinson had admitted to punching the inmate concerned but claimed it was self-defence. He said a fellow prisoner warned him he was going to be attacked with a cup of boiling water after a group of Muslim inmates allegedly offered a reward for anyone who assaulted him. Robinson’s alleged assault was caught on prison CCTV.

Robinson told IBTimes UK the CPS had provided only select footage of the fight for the trial, which he said left out a clip allegedly showing a prisoner arrive to warn Robinson he was in danger. He says his defence had been told the rest of the footage had now been deleted.

Robinson also complained prison records, which his defence said would show he had told prison staff he feared for his life, were also not provided by prosecutors.

Robinson described the charge against him as a “stitch up” and said the case was “state persecution” for his political activism.

           — Hat tip: dev [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Anger as Google is Given Access to Confidential Health Data of 1.6 Million NHS Patients

GOOGLE has been given access to 1.6million NHS patients’ records — including information on people who are HIV positive and abortions.

The tech giant said it needed the access to develop an app called Streams to help hospital staff monitor kidney disease patients.

But the agreement, between Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust in London, suggests it has plans to access much more, critics have said.

The agreement means DeepMind can access patient data from the last five years and will continue until 2017 when all copies of the data will have to be deleted.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

UK: David Cameron Refuses to Apologise to Donald Trump for Saying He Was ‘Divisive, Stupid and Wrong’ To Claim Muslims Should be Banned From Entering America

The Prime Minister was today urged by a senior aide of Donald Trump, pictured, to make an apology and extend an invitation to visit Britain ahead of the US general election in November.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Google Now Has Access to Millions of Patients’ Medical Records

A controversial deal between tech giant Google and the National Health Service (NHS) will allow artificial intelligence units access to 1.6 million confidential medical records. Since 2014, Google has partnered with several scientists in an attempt to understand human health, but a new report reveals the data gathering goes far beyond what was originally anticipated.

According to documents obtained by the New Scientist, the data sharing agreement between Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust gives access to the sensitive healthcare data of millions of NHS patients. The chilling and wide-reaching deal allows DeepMind access to the medical records of the 1.6 million people passing annually through the three London hospitals owned by the Trust — Barnet, Chase Farm, and the Royal Free.

The Google-owned A.I. firm announced in February it was working with the NHS to build an app called Streams — intended to help hospitals monitor patients with kidney disease. However, the new information has revealed that the extent of the data being shared goes much further and includes logs of day-to-day hospital activity, records of the location and status of patients, and even logs of who visits them and when.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Shocking Footage Shows the Moment a Violent Dognapping is Carried Out as a Pet is Snatched From Its Terrified Owner on a Suburban Street

The video filmed in Leeds appears to show a man standing next to a dog and its owner, who are both on the floor, before the perpetrator picks up the animal and runs down the street.

As the owner scrambles to their feet, they can be heard screaming ‘please don’t go’ and ‘please, somebody please’ while the other man sprints down the street holding the dog.

[Comment: One member of the gang steals the dog, the other member returns the dog for the reward money.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Turkey’s AK Party to Hold Congress Amid Doubt Over Future of PM

Turkey’s ruling AK Party is to hold an extraordinary congress in the coming weeks, amid speculation over the future of PM Ahmet Davutoglu, media say.

Reports suggest the congress will elect a new leader and that Mr Davutoglu, who met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, will not stand again.

The apparent rift has surfaced after long-rumoured tensions between the two.

Mr Erdogan hand-picked Mr Davutoglu to succeed him as head of the AK Party after the former was elected president.

But Mr Davutoglu was reportedly uneasy about Mr Erdogan’s desire to change Turkey’s political system to a presidential one, shifting the balance of power away from the prime minister.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

How the EU Helped to Erode Turkish Democracy

Turkey is strong, Europe is weak.

That is the image promoted by the Turkish government at a time when the EU has little leverage on Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan due to the refugee crisis.

Europe is partly responsible for getting itself into the situation.

Yavuz Baydar, a liberal Turkish journalist and a co-founder of P24, the Platform for Independent Media, said Turkey had all the power because it could break off the migrant deal at any moment. He said EU leaders let the Turkish government “play them like a yoyo”.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Migrant Crisis: EU Plans Penalties for Refusing Asylum Seekers

The European Commission has proposed reforms to EU asylum rules that would see stiff financial penalties imposed on countries refusing to take their share of asylum seekers.

The bloc’s executive body is planning a sanction of €250,000 (£200,000; $290,000) per person.

The Commission wants changes made to an asylum system which has buckled amid an influx of migrants.

The plans would require support from most member states as well as MEPs.

EU officials hope that, twinned with a deal with Turkey that has already reduced migrant numbers, tensions over migration within the bloc can be reduced.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Opinion: The Deal With Turkey Has Its Price

The EU has sealed its deal with Turkey over refugees in order to cut the flow of migrants off at its head. Barbara Wesel says the EU will have to live with the concessions it made to Ankara.

Of course, it’s blackmail: The government in Ankara openly threatened that if the EU did not allow Turkish citizens to travel visa-free to the EU, they would no longer take any refugees back from Greece.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Rapefugee Attacks Guard in Vienna

One of the three “teenage asylum seekers” accused of the brutal rape of a young student in Vienna was floored in jail after attacking a female warden who was a martial arts expert.

According to a report by Central European News, the 16-year-old nonwhite invader — one of three who had earlier confessed to gang rape at the world-famous Prater park in the city — attacked a female prison warden.

However, the nonwhite chose the wrong victim this time, because the Austrian woman is an experienced martial arts expert and swiftly beat the invader to the ground, who had to be carried back to his cell.

Prison officials have refused to discuss the details of the attack on the female prison warden, including the motivation for the attack, but would only confirm that she had managed to beat the nonwhite off and pin him to the floor.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Turkey-EU Visa Deal Disaster for EU as Erdogan Likely to Flood EU With Muslim Migrants

By Ariel Ben Solomon

As the EU moves closer to grant visa-free travel to Turks in return for help in stopping immigrants could backfire, leading to a flood of Muslim migrants.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could use the mechanism to increase the number of Muslims in Europe as part of his Islamist ideology to Islamize Europe.

He could be planning to accomplish this through a slow clever strategy without firing shot, achieving what the Ottoman Empire failed to do by force in the second siege of Vienna in 1683.

The governing AK Party has been linked with neo-Ottoman ambitions as it has slowly Islamized Turkish society.

Harold Rhode, a former longtime Pentagon official who specialized on Turkey told The Jerusalem Post that “Erdogan is trying to Islamify Europe quickly. That is what open borders would mean.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Obama to Create 1st Monument to ‘Gay’ Rights

President Obama’s administration is poised to create the nation’s first “ gay”-rights monument at what’s been commonly referred to as America’s birthplace of the LGBT liberation movement, Greenwich Village in New York City — and more specifically, a noted homosexual hang-out, Stonewall Inn.

There, in 1969, protests erupted that lasted for six days. The protests, which turned into a riot,…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

16 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/4/2016

  1. Camers can’t possibly apologize.His homey O’bammy promised that he would force Britain to stay in the E.U .And that is a consumation devoutly to be wished ,in what passes for Cameron’s tiny mind.

    If Britain stays in the E.U the E.U will reward Camers with a sinecure (a position in the E.U parliament) once his career as British politician is over. Camers is determined to put his back- pocket first and let Britain sink or swim.

    Now Trump is for strong nation states with secure borders as opposed to the leaky sieve ,undemocratic superstates like the E.U .

    Camers is sulking up a storm.He thought when his homey O’bammy left ,he could team up with Clinton or one of the treacherous neoCons who normally vote with the Democrats to pass legislation contrary to America’s interests.

    His dreams of a seat in the E.U now lie in tatters and he is acting like the petulant spoilt brat he truly is.

    Not a good look.

    • Not the EU Parliament. From The Cameron’s PoV, the EP is for losers, for has-beens and wannabes like Nigel Farage. It would be the European Commission for him. That’s where the real money is to be made. Lots of power and lavish perks.

      • Actually I have it on good authority that Cameron was talking to his mirror at the time and one of his flunkies quickly put it about that he was referring to Trump.

        In the trade it’s known as a damage limitation exercise 🙂

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    Kicked out Housing Minister gets support from Turkish Buddy.

    http://avpixlat.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Recep-Tayyip-Erdo%C4%9Fan-foto-Micha%C5%82-J%C3%B3zefaciuk-Wikimedia-Commons-Mehmet-Kaplan-foto-Esquilo-Wikimedia-Commons.jpg

    2.

    http://avpixlat.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mona-Sahlin-foto-H%C3%A5kan-Dahlstr%C3%B6m-Wikimedia-Commons.jpg

    Mona Sahlin in a new scandal – departs
    After revelations that Mona Sahlin wrote fake income certificates to her bodyguard, she is leaving her position as the government’s national coordinator against violent extremism.

  3. “A spokesperson for the CPS added: “Following legal argument on the day of the trial on 14 April 2016, the case against Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who had been charged with assault, was stopped. We are now seeking advice concerning the hearing.”

    A face saving move by the Crown Prosecution Service? My thought is they will have to find some error in law to overturn the magistrate’s decision.

  4. That ‘s David ‘islam is a religion of peace’ Cameron, n’est pas?

    And he has the temerity to call Trump stupid. Thanks for the chuckle, pig abuser.

  5. Or as Cameron and the Muslims say, “Never give a sucker an even break”. Somehow the aborting West was late for the revolution and damn I am still young enough to probably live to see the burning and mayhem. Might even die in the rubble.

    • The paneurow arm me should be something else. A real bunch of pcboyz and girlz. I imagine not quite up to the ferocity of the pan arab lot who got mesmerised by a real army back in the 1967 day. Then again this is a just in case imaginary scenario. We are all really just one big multi culture commune where eventually the followers of alla and mo will soon be making their way towards pope eye and the brain drain though the big toe suckers. For the mo mites it seems like taking candy from a baby. I’m trying to make this up.

    • Beautiful images. I read the section on Zoroastrianism. Only wished I’d been able to see the large image alone without the overview of its precepts posted over it. It’s amazing that the religion still survives today given the millennia devoted to its eradication…

      …the site is especially useful for drawing older children into the wide sweep of events that underpin their world. Not that it is childish, but that it is created in a way to capture attention.

      • Yes, lovely site … but just noted that in a main page, full-screen slide image of the ‘Big Three’ … Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin … they identify Churchill as ‘British Prime Minister Clement Atlee.’ (sic; ‘Attlee’)

        Oops! What the … ? Typos and minor spelling errors we might overlook … but that’s a real howler.

  6. MUSLIMS SUE SPAIN BEFORE STRASBOURG COURT FOR EASTER

    A British imam of Iranian origin, Anjem Choudary, one of the authoritative and most influential voices in Europe of the Muslim community, has again cried out for what he considers “an offense” and “contempt” to religion the Prophet: the pageantry and processions of Holy Week in Spain.

    “The Spanish Constitution of 1978 reflects that Spain is a secular state,” says the cleric in a recent interview in the Daily Mail, “to carry out all acts and own liturgies of Christianity during the Spanish Easter, it is an offense for the thousands of Muslims who are forced to live their faith practically in hiding “, he concludes.

    “No religion shall have a state character. The public authorities shall take into account the religious beliefs of Spanish society and shall consequently maintain appropriate cooperation relations with the Catholic Church and other confessions’
    Spanish Constitution, art. 16.3

    Choudary explains that even he will sue the Spanish State before the Strasbourg Court; “It is the highest judicial authority to guarantee human rights and fundamental freedoms throughout Europe. Among them, religious freedom and equality “sentence
    .
    The Iranian believes that more than 1.8 million Muslims already living in Spain are “discriminated” by this governmental policy.

    “We focus on the welfare of Muslims throughout Europe. We will not let belittle and debase the rights of our brothers. Islam, in a few years will be the main religion of the entire continent.

    It is time to say loud ‘Europe, here we are!’. “

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