Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/21/2016

The German government is toughening border controls along its Swiss border. Migrants who are being blocked from the Balkan route and the Brenner Pass are now crossing through Switzerland and attempting to enter Germany that way.

In other news, a suicide bomber blew up at a wedding in Turkey, killing at least 50 people and injuring many more. The bomber is said to have been a 12-year-old boy sent by the Islamic State and detonated remotely.

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Financial Crisis
» Rothschild Warns “Biggest Financial Experiment in History” About to Unleash Consequences Unknown
» The Fed Launches a Facebook Page… and the Result is Not What it Had Expected
» Trudeau’s Bail-in Now Law to Allow Banks to Confiscate Your Deposits
 
USA
» 13 People Shot, Wounded at Connecticut House Party
» Call it the Urban De-Development Fund: Black Lives Matter Gets $100 Million to Set More Cities on Fire
» Cop Shoots and Kills Unarmed Deaf, Mute Man as He Tries to Communicate Using Sign Language
» Does the Clinton Campaign Really Want to Make Benghazi an Issue?
» Donald Trump on Louisiana: ‘Obama Ought to Get Off the Golf Course and Get Down There’
» Huma Abedin Worked at a Radical Muslim Journal for a Dozen Years
» Left Wing Nazi Brownshirt Bully-Boys
» Officials Charged With Poisoning Flint Water May Avoid Prosecution Because of Legal Loophole
» Smallpox Eradication ‘Giant’ Donald Henderson Dies at 87
» Swimmer Lochte Takes ‘Full Responsibility’ For Rio Scandal
» The Nordic Democratic-Socialist Myth
 
Europe and the EU
» ‘Belmarsh Hero’ Hate Preacher Anjem Choudary ‘Raising an Army of Extremists’ Behind Bars
» Germany Tells Citizens to Stockpile Food and Water in Case of Islamist Terror Attacks
» Germany to Chart First Civil Defence Plan Since Cold War
» UK Surveillance Powers Have Gone ‘Further Than Any Other Western Democracy’ — MP
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Report: More Air Strikes on Gaza
 
Middle East
» Hate Preacher Abu Qatada Urges Muslims to Flee UK … After His Eight-Year Fight to Stay
» Turkey Wedding Suicide Bomber ‘Was Child Aged 12-14’
 
Far East
» Chinese Ships, Planes Conduct War Games in Sea of Japan
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australian Football League Offers Muslim-Only ‘Diversity’ Positions
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» At Least 17 Killed in Bombings Near Somali Government Offices, Market
 
Immigration
» Apprehension at the Border of Families From El Salvador
» ‘Do Menial Work for 87p-an-Hour or Lose Your State Handouts’: Austria is Set to Force Migrants to Earn Their Keep — But Left Wingers Slam Proposals as ‘Slavery’
» Germany Toughens Swiss Border Against Illegal Migrants
» ‘Missing Child W’ Spotlights ‘Outrageous’ Obama Scam
» Pakistani Man on Hunger Strike After Being Served Pork in Japan
» US College: Invaders Given Preference
 
Culture Wars
» Salon: GOP Must Dump Jesus or Risk Irrelevance
 
General
» Shopped in an Eddie Bauer Store Recently? Your Card’s Probably Gone. It’s Just Gone
» When it Comes to Islam, Western Leaders Are Liars or Idiots
 

Rothschild Warns “Biggest Financial Experiment in History” About to Unleash Consequences Unknown

These are truly unprecedented times.

Central bankers have never had more power; monetary policy has never been stranger. Stock markets are at record highs, but the real economy is stagnate and suffering. The individuals in it are finding it difficult to makes ends meet, and are drowning in debt.

All the quantative easing went straight to the top; investment had literally no incentive to flow into the larger body. The system is top heavy, topsy turvy and weak in the knees. Collapse appears inevitable, yet could be a long way off.

Whatever happens next, no one can say, but we are approaching the limits.

Even Lord Jacob Rothschild, from perhaps the foremost financial dynasty in history, seems aghast at the possibilities.

Of course, everyone pays attention when the elite of the elite speak up about financial matters.

via RT:

Low interest rates, negative yields on government debt and quantitative easing are part of the biggest financial experiment in world history, and the consequences are yet unknown, says RIT Capital Partners Chairman Lord Rothschild. “The six months under review have seen central bankers continuing what is surely the greatest experiment in monetary policy in the history of the world. We are therefore in uncharted waters and it is impossible to predict the unintended consequences of very low interest rates, with some 30 percent of global government debt at negative yields, combined with quantitative easing on a massive scale,” Rothschild writes in the company’s semi-annual financial report.

The banker notes this policy has led to a rapid growth of stock markets… However, the real sector of economy didn’t enjoy such a profit, as “growth remains anemic, with weak demand and deflation in many parts of the developed world,” according to Rothschild.

Lord Rothschild is openly admitting that the system is collapsing on the ordinary workers and average people in society.

The American people are reaping none of the benefits and paying all of the costs for an unprecedented banking experiment that is fundamentally leaving the branches of middle class and working society to wither on the vine.

The banking class have reached out a hand to extent debt, dilute the currency and to entrap people in the circumstances of serfdom once again.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Fed Launches a Facebook Page… and the Result is Not What it Had Expected

While it is not exactly clear what public relations goals the privately-owned Fed (recall Bernanke’s Former Advisor: “People Would Be Stunned To Know The Extent To Which The Fed Is Privately Owned”) hoped to achieve by launching its first Facebook page last Thursday, the resultant outpouring of less than euphoric public reactions suggest this latest PR effort may have been waster at best, and at worst backfired at a magnitude that matches JPM’s infamous #AskJPM twitter gaffe.

Here are some examples of the public responses to the Fed’s original posting: they all share a certain uniformity…

[Comment: Read the public’s facebook posts.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trudeau’s Bail-in Now Law to Allow Banks to Confiscate Your Deposits

On June 22, 2016 Bill C15 became law along with its controversial “Bail-In Regime”. In the crash of 2008 governments “bailed out” banks with billions of dollars. The next time around banks will be permitted to seize your deposits and exchange them for shares, shares in a failed bank.

Some say that Canadian banks are so strong Canadians don’t have to worry. But the experts say “Canada is in Serious Trouble”. DBRS, Moody’s and Standard and Poors all have downgraded Canadian banks to a “negative” outlook. The Bank of Canada says our housing market is 30% overvalued, Deutsche Bank says 63% and CMHC says 35%. With average house prices now over over $1.3 million in Toronto and Vancouver a crash appears imminent.

Canadian banks have over $1 trillion invested in residential mortgages. If values come down, banks could easily find themselves under water at which time they will be permitted to take your hard earned deposits to pay their debts.

Deposits under $100,000 appear to be covered by CDIC insurance but anything above, personal or business, will be fair game for the bail-in.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

13 People Shot, Wounded at Connecticut House Party

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Police in Connecticut are investigating what they say was an unusual outburst of violence in Bridgeport when 13 people were shot and wounded at a house party.

Bridgeport police spokesman Av Harris says investigators believe two shooters opened fire on partygoers from behind some hedges surrounding the home’s backyard. It happened just after 1 a.m. Sunday.

Eleven men and two women were shot and taken to hospitals.

Harris says none of the injuries is considered life-threatening.

He says the suspects shot at people both inside and outside the home. Police are investigating whether the suspects were partygoers who “got upset.”

Authorities are asking that anyone with information contact the Bridgeport police.

           — Hat tip: DV [Return to headlines]
 

Call it the Urban De-Development Fund: Black Lives Matter Gets $100 Million to Set More Cities on Fire

The black nationalist terrorists of Black Lives Matter are about to get a huge injection of left-wing cash to help them kill more cops and burn more businesses to the ground.

Underwriting this mayhem are the Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy which are creating something they call the Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF), a six-year pooled donor campaign that seeks to generate $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition.

The Washington Times reports:

That funding comes in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from top Democratic Party donor George Soros through his Open Society Foundations, as well as grant-making from the Center for American Progress.

[Comment: Soros, world’s number one malevolent globalist agent of destabilization.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Cop Shoots and Kills Unarmed Deaf, Mute Man as He Tries to Communicate Using Sign Language

Charlotte, NC — A community and family is mourning the loss of Daniel Kevin Harris whose life was taken this week by a State Trooper, who apparently fears sign language. Harris, who is deaf and mute was gunned down in front of his house.

According to police, trooper Jermaine Saunders attempted to pull Harris over around 6:14 p.m. on Thursday. For an unknown reason, Harris did not stop and, instead, drove to his home.

During the pursuit, both cars became damaged and eventually came to a stop near Harris’ home.

“I was here in my driveway and I saw the highway patrol car come through and it was smoking really bad,” said neighbor Mark Barringer. “About 10 seconds later, I heard one gunshot.”

According to WCNC, Barringer says when he went to take a closer look, he saw Harris in the middle of the street. He died just a few feet from his front door. Several neighbors have put flowers near where Harris took his final breaths.

“It was surreal, you just don’t expect to see something like that,” said Barringer. “When the gunshot went off, it was scary.”

According to police, detectives say Saunders and Harris got into “an encounter” before the officer killed him. However, according to neighbors, as soon as Harris got out of his vehicle, Saunders fired.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Does the Clinton Campaign Really Want to Make Benghazi an Issue?

The Benghazi scandal should be a significant campaign issue in this year’s presidential race. It goes to the heart of the many questions about Hillary Clinton’s integrity, judgment and values, as it does also for President Barack Obama’s. Together they sit at the center of this grand fiasco of botched decision-making, the refusal to provide adequate security in Libya, and the cover-up blaming the video in the aftermath. Questions still remain, such as how much of this was ideological, as opposed to just bad judgment. Why was the decision made to not send available air power into Benghazi while there was still time to save at least two of the four lives?

As we have reported, the Obama administration and Secretary of State Clinton not onlyswitched sides in the war on terror by pushing for the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and aiding al-Qaeda-linked rebels, but they also betrayed those Americans in Benghazi by leaving them on the ground to fend for themselves while under attack. This was unquestionably a dereliction of duty. Our Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi dealt with all aspects of this scandal at a press conference we held back in June at the National Press Club.

Yet in an effort to undermine the impact of the Benghazi scandal on her campaign, Clinton’s running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine (D) has started stumping on the false claim that she has treated the relatives of the Benghazi victims with compassion. Is this really an issue they want to run on?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Donald Trump on Louisiana: ‘Obama Ought to Get Off the Golf Course and Get Down There’

Donald Trump took a swipe at President Obama during his campaign rally in Dimondale, Michigan on Friday afternoon following the New Yorker’s visit to Baton Rouge, where there has been historic flooding.

“Obama ought to get off the golf course, and get down there,” Trump told the crowd. Trump in Michigan: “The devastation, they’ve never seen anything like it…Obama better get off the golf course and go down there.” — Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 19, 2016 “To the people of Louisiana: We are with you and will always be with you,” Trump added. Obama and Hillary Clinton were both in Martha’s Vineyard on Friday. Obama has been there on vacation while Clinton was reportedly attending her husband’s birthday party.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Huma Abedin Worked at a Radical Muslim Journal for a Dozen Years

Hillary Clinton’s top campaign aide, and the woman who might be the future White House chief of staff to the first female US president, for a decade edited a radical Muslim publication that opposed women’s rights and blamed the US for 9/11.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Left Wing Nazi Brownshirt Bully-Boys

Leftist agitators employed fascist tactics at a Donald Trump fundraiser in Minneapolis on Friday night-Kyle Olson “Agitators bang on doors at Trump fundraiser, punch attendees in ‘gauntlet’“ As the above quote implies, left-wing agent provocateurs accompanied by their “useful idiot” groupies used Fascist methods to intimidate, frighten, and physically attack people attempting to exercise their right to free speech in Minneapolis yesterday.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Officials Charged With Poisoning Flint Water May Avoid Prosecution Because of Legal Loophole

The prosecution of current and former state of Michigan employees for their role in Flint’s lead-contaminated water crisis likely will face an early test over whether one of the most serious charges can even be levied against the middle- and lower-level government officials. All eight workers charged so far, five from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and three with the Department of Health and Human Services, face a misconduct in office charge — a felony that can carry a five-year prison term. The cases are in the early stages of prosecution.

But there is no statute clearly defining official misconduct. Rather, it is a common law offense based on judicial decisions and a doctrine whose origins trace back centuries to England.

The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that misconduct in office applies only to “public officers,” not all government workers.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Smallpox Eradication ‘Giant’ Donald Henderson Dies at 87

US doctor and epidemiologist Donald Henderson, who led a successful campaign to wipe out smallpox worldwide, has died at the age of 87.

Hailed as a “giant” in the field of public health for his work in the 1960s and 70s, Henderson died of complications after breaking a hip.

One of the world’s deadliest diseases, smallpox killed hundreds of millions of people in the last century alone.

It was officially declared to have been eradicated in 1980 — the first infectious disease to have been fought on a global scale.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Swimmer Lochte Takes ‘Full Responsibility’ For Rio Scandal

New York (AFP) — Star American swimmer Ryan Lochte said Saturday he took “full responsibility” for vandalizing a gas station bathroom and then telling police an “overexaggerated” story about it during the Rio Olympics.

The episode, which has embarrassed the US sporting superpower, saw Lochte and three other gold-winning US swimmers embroiled in a controversy after he gave a shocking — and false — account of how they had been robbed at gunpoint.

“That’s why I’m taking full responsibility for it, is because I overexaggerated that story and if I had never done that, we wouldn’t be in this mess,” said Lochte in an interview broadcast in part late Saturday, the peroxide color washed out of his hair.

The full interview will be aired later by NBC television.

Lochte had already apologized on Friday for saying that the swimmers had been mugged by robbers pretending to be police on their way back from an all-night party…

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

The Nordic Democratic-Socialist Myth

by Nima Sanandaji

The American Left dreams of importing the Nordic social system — but how accurate is their caricature?

It is not difficult to grasp the American Left’s admiration for Nordic-style democratic socialism. These countries combine relatively high living standards with low poverty, long life spans, and narrow income distributions — everything the Left would like America to have. There is, however, a simple fact that seems to have escaped those who idealize Nordic-style social democracy. As I show in my forthcoming book Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism, the social success of Nordic countries pre-dates progressive welfare-state policies.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

‘Belmarsh Hero’ Hate Preacher Anjem Choudary ‘Raising an Army of Extremists’ Behind Bars

ANJEM Choudary is trying to “raise an army” inside one of Europe’s most violent jails, where Muslim prisoners regard him as a hero.

The news comes as the Government prepares to launch a crackdown on radicalisation behind bars.

Choudary, 49, is being held in a single cell inside the most secure part of Belmarsh Prison.

He has been isolated from the bulk of the jail’s 900 inmates for several months to prevent him from spreading his poisonous ideology.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germany Tells Citizens to Stockpile Food and Water in Case of Islamist Terror Attacks

— For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the German government plans to tell citizens to stockpile food and water in case of an attack or catastrophe, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper reported on Sunday.

Germany is currently on high alert after two Islamist attacks and a shooting rampage by a mentally unstable teenager last month. Berlin announced measures earlier this month to spend considerably more on its police and security forces and to create a special unit to counter cyber crime and terrorism.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Germany to Chart First Civil Defence Plan Since Cold War

Germany will introduce its first civil defence strategy since the end of the Cold War, calling on the population to stockpile enough food and water for several days, according to a report Sunday.

The plan, which makes civilian backing of troops a priority while boosting the resilience of buildings and increasing capacity in the healthcare system, is due to be adopted by the government Wednesday, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) daily.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

UK Surveillance Powers Have Gone ‘Further Than Any Other Western Democracy’ — MP

Britain has gone “further than any other Western democracy” in its expansion of surveillance powers and its ability to collect bulk data without justifiable reason, a British MP has said.

Joanna Cherry, a Scottish National Party (SNP) MP, made the comments in reference to the Investigatory Powers (IP) Bill, which has been introduced to extend surveillance and data-gathering laws. It will allow UK intelligence agencies to collect, store and access information about internet users.

The government says such a move is necessary to combat terrorism. Critics of the bill have branded it a “snoopers’ charter” on the grounds it infringes privacy and undermines basic human rights.

Cherry says: “At least the IP Bill is honest about the fact that it permits the collection of bulk data. However, we shouldn’t be too congratulatory of the bill as we have now gone further than any other Western democracy.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Report: More Air Strikes on Gaza

Arab news is reporting on an additional airstrike on Gaza, in retaliation for the rocket shot into Sderot earlier today.

According to the reports, the IAF is attacking terror infrastructure in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip. Earlier, the Airforce struck additional targets in the Gaza strip in retaliation for the rocket attack on the Israeli city of Sderot near the Gaza Strip.

At 2:25 in the afternoon, residents of Sderot and nearby communities heard a “red-alert” siren warning of a falling rocket.

Soon after, they heard two explosions. Security forces located the rocket inside the city of Sderot. There were no injuries.

In response to the rocket, the IDF targeted terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip by means of air strikes and tanks.[…]

[It was noisy]

           — Hat tip: MC [Return to headlines]
 

Hate Preacher Abu Qatada Urges Muslims to Flee UK … After His Eight-Year Fight to Stay

The fanatic, who fought deportation from Britain for eight years, warned followers of Islam they face “bloodshed” in the West in a social media rant.

Posting messages in Arabic to his 58,000 Twitter followers, he wrote: “Muslims living in the West will lose. Sedition and spread of bloodshed will devour them.

“They will have no option but to prepare to return back to their countries as soon as possible.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Turkey Wedding Suicide Bomber ‘Was Child Aged 12-14’

A suicide bombing which killed 51 people in the Turkish city of Gaziantep was carried out by a 12 to 14-year-old, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.

Mr Erdogan said the so-called Islamic State (IS) was behind the attack, which targeted a Kurdish wedding party. Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, is known to have several IS cells.

The bomb wounded 69 people, Mr Erdogan added, 17 of them seriously.

The bomber targeted the wedding guests as they danced in the street.

The BBC’s Seref Isler, who is from Gaziantep, says the city of 1.5 million was already on edge because of events in Syria, where IS has been battling Syrian Kurdish forces.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Chinese Ships, Planes Conduct War Games in Sea of Japan

Chinese planes and ships held war games in the Sea of Japan last week, the military said, during which Beijing displayed its latest-generation frigate at a time of bitter territorial disputes with Asian neighbors.

The Defense Ministry said in a statement on its website late Saturday that the long-range exercises staged Friday pitted a red army against a blue one in a simulated bomber attack on a naval task force.

It quoted the commander of an unidentified flight wing under the East Sea Fleet, Zhang Wenzhong, as saying the planes found, identified and struck their targets in a “radically short time.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Australian Football League Offers Muslim-Only ‘Diversity’ Positions

Australian Football League offers Muslim-only ‘diversity’ positions THE AFL is offering 10 “diversity trainee” positions worth $34,000 a year exclusively to Muslim youth as part of a Federal Government-funded program. To be eligible for the positions, which span a range of areas including social media, administration, finance and marketing, applicants must “be from Muslim background”, and “have recently completed secondary school”. “Workforce participation is a pivotal issue impacting the Australian Muslim community, especially Muslim young people,” the job listings read. “To help assist Muslim young people make that step into employment, the Federal Government has provided funding support for 10 traineeships for Muslim young people to work across the AFL industry over a 12 month period to gain critical work experience and job skills.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

At Least 17 Killed in Bombings Near Somali Government Offices, Market

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the gates of a local government headquarters in Somalia while another bomber targeted a nearby marketplace, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 30 others, police said Sunday.

Abdisalam Yusuf with the police said one bomber rammed the car into a checkpoint in Galkayo town Sunday morning after reaching the main gate of Puntland’s local government. Puntland, a semi-autonomous state in northern Somalia, controls the northern part of the town, while the southern part is controlled by rival regional state Galmudug.

Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke condemned the twin blasts, saying that “evil-doers” had targeted innocent civilians.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Apprehension at the Border of Families From El Salvador

A “silent swell” of family units from El Salvador is creating another immigration crisis on our southern border.

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

‘Do Menial Work for 87p-an-Hour or Lose Your State Handouts’: Austria is Set to Force Migrants to Earn Their Keep — But Left Wingers Slam Proposals as ‘Slavery’

Foreign minister Sebastian Kurz said many asylum seekers were ‘illiterate’ and should be made to carry out mandatory community jobs to help integrate them into society.

They would be required to work between 15 and 30 hours a week for just one euro an hour on work like street cleaning and municipal gardening, Kurz said.

He is now calling on coalition partners of his right-wing OVP party to support the proposals when a bill comes before parliament.

Left-wing parties in the wealthy Alpine state have branded the scheme as ‘one step away from slave labour’.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germany Toughens Swiss Border Against Illegal Migrants

Germany has deployed an additional 130 border staff to stop illegal immigrants at the Swiss border. As more migrants arrive in Italy, Switzerland has become a new transit route for migrants trying to reach Germany.

Switzerland is becoming a new transit route for migrants trying to enter Germany, Swiss media reported on Sunday, a development that has prompted Germany to beef up border security.

Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer, who also manages border police, said Germany had assigned roughly 90 additional border guards and 40 police officers to the border to prevent illegal migrants from entering the country.

“Germany is consistently securing the border to Switzerland,” Maurer told a congress of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) over the weekend, the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag” reported him as saying.

He used the tougher German response to justify his country sending back to Italy nearly 1,000 migrants a day. “Germany has clearly moved away from its welcoming attitude,” he said.

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

‘Missing Child W’ Spotlights ‘Outrageous’ Obama Scam

A 12-year-old Honduran boy seeking asylum in the United States has been “ lost” in the system, illustrating what immigration experts say is a widespread problem of the government failing to keep track of the large number of vulnerable children flooding across the border.

The case of missing child “W” has been brought to light in a lawsuit filed in federal district court in Columbia, South Carolina, that names Gov. Nikki Haley, the S.C. Department of Social Services, Lutheran Services and World Relief among the defendants. World Relief is a division of the National Association of Evangelicals and, like the Lutherans and Catholics, is heavily involved in the resettlement of refugees and asylum seekers, getting paid handsomely to perform one of the government’s most secretive and cash-rich operations under the guise of humanitarianism, the suit claims.

The suit was filed by Brian Bilbro, a husband, father and taxpayer who lives near the state capital of Columbia. It seeks to shut down refugee resettlement in South Carolina on the grounds that it amounts to executive overreach by the state and federal governments, which are secretly placing refugees and asylum seekers into local communities — often without vetting those responsible for their care. It also claims South Carolina’s freedom of information laws are being violated by nonprofits working for the government under the guise of religious charity.

But the bombshell revelation is the tragic story of Walter Alexander, aka Ordonez Campos, also known as “missing child W.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pakistani Man on Hunger Strike After Being Served Pork in Japan

A Pakistani man being detained at a Yokohama immigration centre has gone on a hunger strike after being served pork.

The 48-year-old, who is being detained for unidentified reasons, was served a hot meal that contained processed ham on the evening of August 3. The man has now been on hunger strike for two weeks.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

US College: Invaders Given Preference

Nonwhite invaders who have entered America illegally are being funded by the Obama regime by millions of dollars to attend colleges free of charge-while American citizens are put to the back of the queue and forced to pay for their studies. $12 million has been set aside to pay for invaders illegally resident in California alone to attend college.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Salon: GOP Must Dump Jesus or Risk Irrelevance

(Breitbart) Salon Magazine has accused the Republican Party of being out of touch with “post-Christian America,” warning the GOP that if it doesn’t renege on its alliance with Christianity, it will soon become irrelevant.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Shopped in an Eddie Bauer Store Recently? Your Card’s Probably Gone. It’s Just Gone

Clothing chain Eddie Bauer has admitted the payment terminals in more than 350 of its stores have been siphoning customers’ bank card details to criminals.

The retailer — which sells high-end clobber for hikers or anyone who wants to pretend they’re outdoorsy — said malware infected its cash registers on January 2 and the code remained undetected for at least six months. The software nasty was cleaned up on July 17.

Anyone who used their credit or debit card at any of the group’s 350 stores in the US and Canada during that time may well have handed over their card numbers to fraudsters. The malware silently skimmed people’s payment information during transactions and fed the data to crooks to create cloned cards for spending sprees.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

When it Comes to Islam, Western Leaders Are Liars or Idiots

by Raymond Ibrahim

When it comes to the connection between Islam and violence against non-Muslims, one fact must be embraced: the majority of those in positions of leadership and authority in the West are either liars or fools, or both. No other alternative exists.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

5 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/21/2016

  1. US College: Invaders Given Preference: same thing happening in the UK. Bristol University is offering free degrees to invaders whilst Brits have to pay and put themselves deep into debt for years to come:

    http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/bristol-university-launches-free-degrees-for-refugees-and-asylum-seekers/story-29413251-detail/story.html

    Another consequence is that in order to get the parasites qualified the courses will either have to be dumbed down or the assessment levels selectively diluted.

    This will also mean that any future degree holders from that institution, be they natives or otherwise, will be presenting useless pieces of paper in the jobs market where the pragmatists doing the hiring will be more than a little reluctant to offer them gainful employment.

    Bristol Uni was considered to be a top tier establishment where potential high achievers aspired to enroll, but any of them with a clear perspective of where they want to end up post-grad would now be wise to avoid that place like the plague.

  2. Marxists from the Ivy League are coordinated, well financed, and determined, dating back to Rosa Luxemburg.

    • I wonder if he (or was it she?) even knew what was going to happen? Or was the CHILD so whacked out on drugs that it didn’t matter?

      Your sarcasm is out of place – there are many other stories surely more deserving?

      • Opportunities for perfect rhyme-puns (not sarcasm) like that have to be seized, though …

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