Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/8/2016

The late Algerian mujahid who attacked two policewomen with a machete in Belgium last weekend was supposed to have been deported — twice. None of the news stories says why the deportation failed to occur. Meanwhile, 126 more migrants to Europe landed on the Greek islands of the Aegean.

In other news, the Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed more than 70 people at a hospital in Quetta.

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Financial Crisis
» Economics: Singular Currency
» Why the Jobs Report is Not Nearly as Strong as You Are Being Told
 
USA
» Ahmed Mohamed, Boy Handcuffed for Making Clock, Is Suing
» Anti-Trump Candidate Evan McMullin to Launch Independent White House Bid
» Clinton, Trump Clash on Economy
» Dem Congressman Wants Anyone But Straight White Men to Apply for Internships
» Florida Spraying Residents With Neurotoxic Pesticide Banned in Other Countries to Combat Zika
» Infantile Culture Empowers Mujahideen
» New U.S. Citizens Could Help Swing Vote Against Trump
» NJ Town Rocked by Charges of Bigotry After Rejection of Mosque
» Princeton Professor Shows How Easy it is to Hack an Election in Just 7 Minutes
» Republican Security Experts Rail Against Trump in Open Letter
» Senior Fights for Life After Home Invasion
» Trump Touts Old-School Tax Cuts to Return Economy to Glory Days
 
Europe and the EU
» Austria Will Veto Turkey’s Bid to Join European Union: Kurier
» Belgian Machete Attacker Was Ordered to Leave Country in 2014
» Berlin Only European Capital That Makes Country Poorer
» Black Lives Matter Movement Comes to France. But Will it Translate?
» Brits Don’t Regret Brexit Vote and Keep Spending
» Chinese Investors Increasingly Eyeing Spanish Property Market
» Czechia: Police Hunt Knifeman Who Wandered Streets Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’
» Danish Amateur Finds 1000-Year-Old Viking Amulet
» Erdogan: Germany is ‘Feeding the Terrorists’
» Europe’s Rosetta Spacecraft Marks 2 Years Orbiting Comet (Video)
» ‘Extremely Radicalized’ French Teenage Girl Supported ISIS, Prosecutors Say
» Facebook: We Aren’t Culpable for German Terror Attacks
» Germany: ‘Balcony Man’ Who Shouted Profanities at Munich Mass Shooter Reportedly Being Investigated for Insulting the Killer
» German Judges’ Associations Call for Headscarf Ban in Court
» How Can France Solve the Problem of Its Bursting Jails?
» Moving the Earth’s Prime Meridian
» Second EU Referendum Ruled Out by Jeremy Corbyn
» UK: China Warns of ‘Crucial Juncture’ Over Hinkley Delay
» UK: Shocking Moment Four Men Target Outnumbered Police After They Pulled Their Car Over in East London — Before Officers Used Cs Spray to Arrest Them
» UK: Scandal: Horrific Reality of ‘Industrial Scale’ Child Grooming Revealed
» UK: There Are So Many Paedophiles We Can’t Jail Them All, Warns Police Chief Gavin Thomas
» ‘Wealthy American Tourists’ Snub France Over Terror Fears
 
North Africa
» Egypt: Muslim Gang Armed With Gas Cannisters Destroy Village Over Rumours Church Was Being Built
 
Middle East
» 2 Years of Anti-is Airstrikes Have Redrawn the Iraqi Map
» British Teenager Who Was Taken to Syria by His Mother Brandishes an AK-47 in Chilling Facebook Posts
» ‘Christians Have Been Warned’ Koran Offers No Protection From ISIS, Says Historian
» Erdogan Renews Death Penalty Call
» Iran’s Ex-President Ahmadinejad Asks Obama to ‘Fix’ $2b Supreme Court Ruling
» Saudi Arabia’s Ambivalent Relationship to Terrorism
 
South Asia
» In Pictures: India’s Stunted Children
» Professors at American University of Afghanistan Kidnapped in Kabul
» Quetta Hospital Bombing: Pakistan Taliban Claim Attack
» Thailand Votes in Favour of Military-Backed Constitution
 
Far East
» China-Japan Tensions Rise Around Disputed East China Sea Isles
» ISIS’ Philippines Branch Calls for Attacks on Miss Universe Pageant
» Japan’s Emperor Akihito Hints at Wish to Abdicate
 
Australia — Pacific
» Official Says Australian Security Key to Chinese Investment
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» South Africa’s White Minority Warned They Face ‘Uprising’ And Zimbabwe-Style Land Grab
 
Latin America
» Brazil: Astonishing Footage Shows How Brazen Rio Thieves Target Unsuspecting Tourists in Broad Daylight
» Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega Shows His True Colors
 
Immigration
» Another 126 Migrants Land on the Islands of the Eastern Aegean
» Belgium Twice Tried to Deport Algerian Who Attacked Policewomen With Machete
» Clinton Pledges Fast-Track Immigration Bill, Economic Boost for Blacks, Latinos
» Danish Schools Welcome Thousands of Refugee Students
» EU Migrant Deal Not Possible if Turkey’s Demands Not Met, Erdogan Says
» Experts Call for ‘Migrant Quota’ For Top Business Jobs
» Germany Now Having to Deal With Child Marriage Problem Among Refugees After Migrant Influx
» Most Germans Want to End EU Migrant Deal With Turkey — Poll
» Private Ships Play Big Role in Europe’s Migrant Crisis
» Top European Officials Warn of Potential Consequences of Migrant Deal With Turkey Failing
 
Culture Wars
» CNN Host Slams America’s Greatest Olympian Ever for Not Being Black, Muslim Woman
» Physicians Decry Pseudo-Science of Transgenderism, ‘Absurd’ To Say Anyone is Born Into ‘Wrong Body’
 
General
» Churches Take New Security Measures in Face of Terror Threats
» New Technique Searches for Exomoons by the Light of Their Planets
» Venus Could Have Been Habitable While Life Evolved on Earth
 

Economics: Singular Currency

Jonathan Portes parses Joseph Stiglitz’s analysis of the euro in the context of the global financial crisis.

The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Why the Jobs Report is Not Nearly as Strong as You Are Being Told

In America today, there are 7.8 million Americans that are considered to be officially unemployed.

In America today, there are 7.8 million Americans that are considered to be officially unemployed, and another 94.3 million working age Americans that are considered to be “not in the labor force”.

When you add those two numbers together, you get a grand total of 102 million working age Americans that do not have a job right now.

Rather than focusing on the headline “unemployment” figure, we get a much fairer look at the employment crisis in the United States when we examine the employment-population ratio. The following chart comes directly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and it shows that the percentage of Americans that are employed has never even come close to getting back to where it was just prior to the last recession…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ahmed Mohamed, Boy Handcuffed for Making Clock, Is Suing

The family of Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim teenager who was handcuffed and suspended from his suburban Dallas high school last year after his homemade digital clock was mistaken for a bomb, sued school officials on Monday, saying they had violated his civil rights.

The episode at MacArthur High School in Irving, Tex., in September became a political flash point and President Obama invited him to the White House. But after the freshman was subjected to fevered criticism and threats, Ahmed and his family moved to Qatar.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Anti-Trump Candidate Evan McMullin to Launch Independent White House Bid

A 40-year-old former CIA operative and ex-chief policy director for the House Republican Conference on Monday is expected to officially launch an anti-Trump independent presidential bid.

Though Evan McMullin would be a longshot and immediately faces a challenge simply getting on the ballot, his candidacy highlights frustrations lingering within the Republican Party over nominee Donald Trump. McMullin’s strategy likely will be to target Republicans in red states still on the fence about a Trump presidency.

“In a year where Americans have lost faith in the candidates of both major parties, it’s time for a generation of new leadership to step up,” McMullin told ABC News.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Clinton, Trump Clash on Economy

Hillary Clinton clashed from afar with Donald Trump on the economy Monday, accusing him of peddling “old, tired ideas” that benefit the “really wealthy” — after the Republican nominee hammered the Democrats’ “job-killing” agenda in a speech of his own where he unveiled a revised plan to jolt the economy by slashing taxes and regulations.

Trump insisted Monday that his proposals would help lower- and middle-class Americans the most.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Dem Congressman Wants Anyone But Straight White Men to Apply for Internships

Minnesota Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison’s office is hiring interns for the fall and strongly encourages anyone who isn’t a straight, white able-bodied male to send in an application.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Florida Spraying Residents With Neurotoxic Pesticide Banned in Other Countries to Combat Zika

Residents of Miami subjected to ongoing insecticide spraying campaign — for which officials have not yet provided an end date

Areas of Miami, Florida, are now being sprayed with the insecticide naled in an attempt to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito — carrier of the zika virus. Naled, a potent neurotoxin that kills mosquitoes on contact, is perfectly safe, or so the Environmental Protection Agency insists, despite Puerto Rico’s rejection of its use to combat the spread of zika there — due to concerns about its safety.

To keep naled airborne where it would be most effective, the agent is sprayed in very fine aerosol droplets — about two tablespoons can be dispersed to cover an area the equivalent of two football fields, a local CBS affiliate reported.

If a ‘far greater’ amount of naled were employed, according to the Florida Department of Health, ‘it could cause a person to salivate more, feel numbness, headaches, dizziness, tremors, nausea, abdominal cramps, sweating, blurred vision, difficulty breathing and a slowed heartbeat.’

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Infantile Culture Empowers Mujahideen

by William Kilpatrick

You’ve probably heard about the cancellation of a showing of the film American Sniper at the University of Michigan.

The film was cancelled in response to a student petition protesting that the film was racist and anti-Muslim. The initiator of the petition told the Detroit Free Press that she felt “ uncomfortable “ watching it. The university responded by replacing American Sniper with Paddington —presumably on the premise that no one feels uncomfortable when watching a movie about a teddy bear.

After the school’s football coach, Jim Harbaugh, tweeted his support for American Sniper, the university relented and decided to show both films, although at different locations.

There are several morals to take away from the story. One is that football is still the most important institution on campus. Another moral—the one I would like to expound on—is that the infantilization of our society is complete. When a movie about a stuffed animal is considered age-appropriate for twenty-year olds, it’s a sign that our society is in trouble. When a movie about one aspect of the biggest story of our time is deemed a threat to the safe-space of same twenty-year olds, it may be time for all of us to exchange our newspaper subscriptions for a lifetime subscription to Vermont Teddy Bear’s annual editions of stuffed ursines.

“Infantilization” may be a bit harsh. Let’s just say, as sociologists have been saying for the last fifty years, that the preferred end-state of development for many Americans is adolescence. Culture critic Roger Kimball put it this way: “If America’s cultural revolution [of the 1960s] was anything, it was an attack on maturity: more, it was a glorification of youth, of immaturity.” The result, wrote Kimball, was that the values and attitudes of the youth culture “were adopted by the culture at large.”…

           — Hat tip: Matt Bracken [Return to headlines]
 

New U.S. Citizens Could Help Swing Vote Against Trump

Delcy Vasquez, a native of the Dominican Republic and resident of Florida, used the help on offer from Mexico to become a U.S. citizen. She’s looking forward to casting a ballot against Donald Trump.

“I’ve become very interested in voting,” said the 63-year-old hairdresser, who lives in the Orlando area. “We can’t have a president who ridicules Latinos.”

Vasquez took advantage of a campaign hosted by Mexican consulates in which community groups offer free legal advice to help naturalize U.S. immigrants. She’s one of 33,000 people who applied in Florida alone, a state that handed George W. Bush the presidency in 2000 by a margin of 537 votes and that Trump needs to win to defeat Hillary Clinton.

“The implications potentially are titanic,” said Fernand Amandi, a principal at Miami-based opinion-research firm Bendixen & Amandi who worked for Clinton’s campaign in 2008 but isn’t working for a candidate this year. Florida’s Latinos are “arguably the most important set of voters in the United States.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

NJ Town Rocked by Charges of Bigotry After Rejection of Mosque

A New Jersey suburb known for its tree-lined streets and stately, multimillion-dollar homes has been transformed into a battleground over both a proposed mosque and the free speech rights of residents who oppose the project.

Bernards, a township of about 27,000 an hour west of New York City, has been cleaved by controversy since 2011, when its Planning Board took up a proposal for a 4,250-square-foot mosque in a residential neighborhood known as Liberty Corner. The applicant, Islamic Society of Basking Ridge, is led by a former Bernards mayor and has filed a federal civil rights suit accusing members of the board of religious discrimination in ultimately rejecting the project.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Princeton Professor Shows How Easy it is to Hack an Election in Just 7 Minutes

A professor from Princeton University and a graduate student just proved electronic voting machines in the U.S. remain astonishingly vulnerable to hackers — and they did it in under eight minutes.

In fact, Professor Andrew Appel and grad student Alex Halderman took just seven minutes to break into the authentic Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine Appel purchased for $82 online — one of the oldest models, but still in use Louisiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia, Politico reported.

After Halderman picked the hulking, 250-pound machine’s lock in seven seconds flat, Appel wrested its four ROM chips from a circuit board — an easy feat, considering the chips weren’t soldered in place.

Once freed, Appel could facilely replace the ROM chips with his own version “of modified firmware that could throw off the machine’s results, subtly altering the tally of votes, never to betray a hint to the voter,” Politico’s Ben Wofford explained.

Appel and a team of other so-called cyber-academics have hacked into various models of electronic voting machines in order to prove to the public the equipment is ridiculously bereft of security. Together with Ed Felten, Appel and a group of Princeton students “relentlessly hacked one voting machine after another … reprogramming one popular machine to play Pac-Man; infecting popular models with self-duplicating malware; [and] discovering keys to voting machine locks that could be ordered on eBay.”

Their efforts have gone largely ignored for 15 years.

But now, thanks to the explosion of controversy from revealing documents hacked from the DNC — and as-yet unproven accusations of Russian involvement — Appel and his colleagues’ persistence has finally garnered the attention it deserves.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Republican Security Experts Rail Against Trump in Open Letter

An open letter signed by 50 Republican national security experts warned that party nominee Donald Trump “would be the most reckless president” in US history.

The group — which includes the former CIA director Michael Hayden — said Mr Trump “lacks the character, values and experience” to be president.

Many of the signatories had declined to sign a similar note in March.

“None of us will vote for Donald Trump,” the letter states.

The letter comes after a number of high-profile Republicans have stepped forward to disown Mr Trump.

Mr Trump has broke with years of Republican foreign policy on a number of occasions.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Senior Fights for Life After Home Invasion

Dorothy Dow, 83, was airlifted to Grady Hospital late Thursday night after sustaining third-degree burns and several broken bones. The incident occurred around 11 p.m. on 7745 Forest Rd. in the Lone Oak community in Grantville.

Dow told deputies she was asleep in her bed when four black males and one black female forced their way through her backdoor and roused her from her sleep.

When one suspect demanded money, she was pistol whipped in the face after telling her attackers she didn’t have any. Then one suspect poured a flammable liquid on Dow and set her on fire.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Touts Old-School Tax Cuts to Return Economy to Glory Days

Donald Trump has cast himself as the establishment’s worst nightmare, but his new economic plan borrows heavily from the traditional Republican playbook in seeking to return the U.S. economy to the pre-crisis days of headier growth.

Many of the measures proposed by Trump in a speech on Monday resemble those backed by House Speaker Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee defeated in 2012. Trump is promising the biggest overhaul to the personal income-tax code since Ronald Reagan, as well as a deep cut in the corporate tax rate. He’s also pledging to end excessive regulation and lift restrictions on the nation’s energy producers.

The question is whether such a plan — coupled with Trump’s anti-trade stance — can deliver a sustained jolt to an economy mired in the weakest recovery since World War II.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Austria Will Veto Turkey’s Bid to Join European Union: Kurier

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz will block any effort to advance negotiations necessary for Turkey to join the European Union, he told Austrian newspaper Kurier in an interview over the weekend.

The move comes after Chancellor Christian Kern called for ending Turkey’s accession talks last week. Kurz said that Turkey is “moving away from Europe” and that “what happens there isn’t compatible with European fundamental values.”

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

Belgian Machete Attacker Was Ordered to Leave Country in 2014

The assailant in Saturday’s machete attack in Belgium had been ordered to leave the country in 2014 after having his residency application rejected twice, Belgian authorities said.

The 33-year-old Algerian national, identified as K.B., requested a residency permit in 2013 and 2014, and both applications were rejected, Belgian media reported on Monday. The man was then ordered to leave the country in October 2014, Belga newswire said.

The suspect, who was fatally shot by police in the attack in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi, had lived in the country since 2012. Two police officers were injured in the assault, for which Islamic State claimed responsibility.

The man was known to police for minor criminal offenses but not for terrorism, according to the federal prosecutor’s office.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Berlin Only European Capital That Makes Country Poorer

In almost every European country the capital is the engine of the economy. But a new study shows there is one exception to this rule.

If Berlin were cut adrift from the rest of the Bundesrepublik, the average German would become 0.2 percent wealthier.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Black Lives Matter Movement Comes to France. But Will it Translate?

To the French state, race — as a quantifiable category but also a separate social experience — is not supposed to exist. In 2013, for instance, the country’s National Assembly passed a bill that would have completely removed the word “race” from the country’s constitution. The bill never became law, but its essence remained: in France, there are no distinct races, only equal citizens.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Brits Don’t Regret Brexit Vote and Keep Spending

A majority of Brits do not regret June’s Brexit decision. When asked by YouGov whether Britain “was right or wrong to leave the European Union” 46% of responders confirmed their desire to exit, while 42% said they do not find that the outcome of the vote was correct. The referendum has had little immediate impact on people’s spending habits, reports the Guardian, with consumer spending up 1.6% year-on-year in July.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Chinese Investors Increasingly Eyeing Spanish Property Market

The relatively low prices of Spain’s still-recovering housing market are proving increasingly attractive to China’s burgeoning middle classes, with the country now the seventh-most popular choice for private investors, according to Chinese property website juwai.com.

“Spain’s appeal is growing rapidly among Chinese investors due to the good investment opportunities there,” says Jan Kot of Juwai. He says the most popular areas are Barcelona, Madrid, Alicante, Valencia, and Marbella.

Hu Ning, a Chinese businessman, has just bought a property in Barcelona, where his wife has found work. He intends to move to Spain later this year when he has finalized his paperwork. His daughter starts at one of the city’s international schools in September.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Czechia: Police Hunt Knifeman Who Wandered Streets Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’

POLICE are hunting a man who walked through a town brandishing a knife and shouting “Allahu Akbar”.

Witnesses said he was walking around the streets of Kladno in north-western Czech Republic shouting “Allahu Akbar”, which means “God is the greatest” in Arabic and is a phrase that is sometimes used as a Jihadi battle cry.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Danish Amateur Finds 1000-Year-Old Viking Amulet

A Danish metal detecting enthusiast has discovered a 1,000-year-old Viking amulet thought to be related to the Norse god Odin, a find archeologists called “incredibly exciting and rare”.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Erdogan: Germany is ‘Feeding the Terrorists’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had harsh words for Germany as tensions between the two countries continue to grow.

The Turkish leader was addressing a cheering crowd on Sunday night in Istanbul when he criticized Germany for not allowing him to speak via video link to a demonstration of his supporters in Cologne last week.

“Where is the democracy?” he asked.

Erdogan also condemned how German authorities had previously allowed a commander of the Kurdish militant group PKK to speak to a demonstration in Cologne.

“They’re only feeding the terrorists,” Erdogan said. “Like a boomerang, it will come back to them.”

Cologne authorities were concerned that Erdogan speaking to the demonstration, which drew tens of thousands, would rile up the crowd in the wake of a failed coup attempt in the country last month.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Europe’s Rosetta Spacecraft Marks 2 Years Orbiting Comet (Video)

Europe’s history-making Rosetta spacecraft has now been circling its comet companion for two years.

On Aug. 5, 2014, Rosetta became the first spacecraft ever to orbit a comet when it arrived at an icy wanderer known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta has observed Comet 67P in a number of ways from a variety of different vantage points over the past 24 months, as you can see in this video animation.

“The spacecraft has performed daring close flybys and made distant excursions to sample gas, dust and plasma at a range of distances, giving unparalleled insight into the processes that operate at the comet and how it interacts with its environment as it hurtles through space,” European Space Agency (ESA) officials wrote in a statement today (Aug. 8).

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

‘Extremely Radicalized’ French Teenage Girl Supported ISIS, Prosecutors Say

Paris prosecutors say a counterterrorism judge is questioning a 16-year-old French girl who allegedly supports the Islamic State group and is suspected of trying to perpetrate an attack.

The Paris prosecutor’s office says the girl was using a social media app to spread calls by IS to commit violent acts.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook: We Aren’t Culpable for German Terror Attacks

Facebook on Monday dismissed complaints by German officials that it had not been helpful in fighting terrorism and urged authorities to better formulate their requests.

Following a rash of attacks in southern Germany in late July, several state officials called for websites such as Facebook to be legally required to immediately hand over user data if information relevant to an attack is posted.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: ‘Balcony Man’ Who Shouted Profanities at Munich Mass Shooter Reportedly Being Investigated for Insulting the Killer

Thomas Salbey has been hailed as the “balcony man” following a video showing him engaged in a shouting match with Ali Sonboly just after the 18 year old shot up a Munich shopping center last month in a deadly rampage.

Salbey heard the first volley of bullets, went to his balcony and spotted the mass shooter running from the scene and reloading his gun. That’s when Salbey, 57, chucked his beer bottle at the killer.

With that Sonboly headed to the roof of a parking garage, and Salbey got into it with him, hollering at the killer and reportedly calling him a “wanker,” a “f***ing asshole,” a “f***ing foreigner” and declaring “your head should be cut off.”

Sonboly argued back, reportedly saying that “because of you I was bullied for 7 years” — and fired several shots at Salbey’s direction. Sonboly later died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound.

“All I had was a beer bottle to throw at him,” Salbey told the Daily Mail. “If I had a gun … I’d have shot him in the head.”

A neighbor captured the exchange on video, which made Salbey somewhat of a folk hero after it hit the Internet.

But apparently not everyone is giving Salbey pats on his back…

           — Hat tip: JLH [Return to headlines]
 

German Judges’ Associations Call for Headscarf Ban in Court

Several associations of judges in Germany have proposed a headscarf ban for judges and trainee lawyers, claiming that this is a necessary measure if neutrality is to be upheld in court.

At present, the German Constitution does not ban citizens from wearing religious symbols. Only in Berlin does a ban exist for employees of city authorities (see below).

But two judicial organisations — the Association of German Administrative Judges and the German Association of Judges — as well as the Ministers for Justice in the states of Baden-Württemberg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, are suggesting that judges and junior lawyers should be prevented from wearing the headscarf when they are in court.

They argue that the external expression of religious conviction means that the judicial duty of neutrality is not upheld in the courtroom.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

How Can France Solve the Problem of Its Bursting Jails?

France’s Prime Minister has vowed to solve the problem of the country’s record-breaking number of prisoners, but some say more jails are not the answer.

France’s prisons system is in crisis, mainly due to the fact that it has more inmates in its jails than ever before.

Some prisons like Nimes in the south are 207 percent over capacity, with inmates sleeping on mattresses on the floors of cells.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Moving the Earth’s Prime Meridian

Tourists who want to take photographs at the prime meridian often stand at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. But improved technology reveals that the actual site of the imaginary north-south line that cuts the Earth in half at zero degrees longitude lies 334 feet (102 meters) east of the historical marker. The increased accuracy means that many historical coordinates are sometimes off by significant distances.

“Most people stand on the stripe and have their picture taken, with the sundial in the background,” said Ken Seidelmann, an astronomer at the University of Virginia. “If they stood there with their GPS receiver, it wasn’t zero degrees.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Second EU Referendum Ruled Out by Jeremy Corbyn

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has ruled out a second Brexit vote. “I think we’ve had a referendum, a decision has been made, you have to respect the decision people made,” he told The Huffington Post UK. Corbyn’s rival for the Labour leadership, Owen Smith has demanded a second EU referendum on whatever deal emerges from Brexit negotiations.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

UK: China Warns of ‘Crucial Juncture’ Over Hinkley Delay

Failing to go ahead with the Hinkley Point nuclear project could threaten China’s relationship with Britain, its ambassador to the UK has warned.

Writing in the Financial Times, Liu Xiaoming said the delay to approving the plant had brought the two countries to a “crucial historical juncture”.

He hinted that “mutual trust” could be in jeopardy if the UK Government decided not to approve the deal.

China is expected to fund about a third of the £18bn project.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Shocking Moment Four Men Target Outnumbered Police After They Pulled Their Car Over in East London — Before Officers Used Cs Spray to Arrest Them

This is the shocking moment two brave police officers were forced to use CS gas to arrest four men who were part of a group which became ‘aggressive’.

The two policemen were on duty and pulled over a vehicle during a routine stop in Shadwell, east London.

But the situation became heated as the group of men began shouting at the outnumbered officers and a scuffle broke out.

One of the Met Police officers ended up on the ground during the altercation and had to quickly get back to his feet in a bid to diffuse the situation.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Scandal: Horrific Reality of ‘Industrial Scale’ Child Grooming Revealed

GROOMING of young girls by gangs of predominantly Kashmiri men is still occurring on an “industrial scale” in Rotherham because authorities are failing to tackle an organised child sex crime racket, an investigation by express.co.uk has uncovered.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

UK: There Are So Many Paedophiles We Can’t Jail Them All, Warns Police Chief Gavin Thomas

Gavin Thomas, president of the Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales, is calling for more debate on a softer approach at the lower levels of sexual offences.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Wealthy American Tourists’ Snub France Over Terror Fears

Tourists are turning their backs on France due to fears of terrorist attacks, with the wealthiest being the most likely not to come, a government minister has said.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Egypt: Muslim Gang Armed With Gas Cannisters Destroy Village Over Rumours Church Was Being Built

A MUSLIM mob hurling rocks and gas cannisters destroyed a village and attacked Christians over rumours a church was being built.

Vigilantes attacked Coptic Christians and went on the rampage after hearing a new place of worship was being set up in a house in Egypt.

The horror continued when eight Christians were arrested after the brutal attack in Saft el-Khirsa, near the capital Cairo.

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

2 Years of Anti-is Airstrikes Have Redrawn the Iraqi Map

Two years ago, the U.S.-led coalition dropped the first airstrikes on the Islamic State group, ushering in a deeper phase of intervention that dramatically changed the fight against the militant group in Iraq. Since then more than 9,400 coalition airstrikes have allowed Iraqi forces to slowly claw back cities, towns, supply lines and infrastructure.

But the fight — which continues to be largely waged from the air — has also leveled entire neighborhoods, displaced millions and redrawn the Iraqi map.

The U.S.-led coalition estimates that IS has lost more than 40 percent of the territory the group once held in Iraq since the airstrikes began on Aug 8, 2014. But while coalition airstrikes paved the way for Kurdish and Iraqi ground forces to retake territory, in many cases the result is a ruined prize.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

British Teenager Who Was Taken to Syria by His Mother Brandishes an AK-47 in Chilling Facebook Posts

Posing with an AK47 and pledging his allegiance to the Islamic State, this is the schoolboy who was feared to have fled to Syria with 11 members of his family.

Ibrahim Iqbal was 14 when he disappeared from his Bradford home last year with his brothers Junaid, 15, and Ismaeel, three, and sisters Mariya, five, and Zaynab, eight.

Their mother Sugra Dawood, now 35, took her children and went — without her husband Akhtar Iqbal — to Syria, where her jihadi brother Ahmed had been for more than a year.

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‘Christians Have Been Warned’ Koran Offers No Protection From ISIS, Says Historian

CHRISTIAN communities face being massacred in Syria and Iraq at the hands of Islamic State fighters who have revised their reading of the Koran to legitimise the systematic slaughter of religious minorities, an eminent historian has warned.

[Tom Holland is indeed an eminent historian, and he can be regarded as an authoritative source.]

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Erdogan Renews Death Penalty Call

Turkey’s president has renewed calls to reintroduce the death penalty amid a growing spat with Austria over EU membership.

Some 1 million people on Sunday (7 August) in Istanbul rallied in support of Turkey’s government following last month’s failed military coup.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, told the so-called “democracy and martyrs” rally he would back capital punishment should the public and parliament approve it.

“It is the Turkish parliament that will decide on the death penalty… I declare it in advance, I will approve the decision made by the parliament,” he said.

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Iran’s Ex-President Ahmadinejad Asks Obama to ‘Fix’ $2b Supreme Court Ruling

Iran’s former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter on Monday to President Barack Obama, asking him to “quickly fix” a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing families of people killed in attacks linked to Iran to collect damages from some $2 billion in frozen assets.

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Saudi Arabia’s Ambivalent Relationship to Terrorism

Saudi Arabia is often accused of supporting jihadist groups. Now, the monarchy is helping Berlin’s security authorities in the fight against terror. What appears to be a contradiction is not.

A jihadi inspired rampage in a regional train near Würzburg; and a bomb attack — designed to kill a large number of people but gone awry — in Ansbach: Both attacks were supposedly orchestrated by men in Saudi Arabia that gave the attackers instructions from afar, via chat.

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In Pictures: India’s Stunted Children

India has the highest number of children suffering from stunted growth in the world, the charity WaterAid says in a new report.

The report, titled Caught Short, says India has at least 48 million stunted children under the age of five.

Nigeria and Pakistan rank second and third with 10.3 and 9.8 million stunted children respectively.

Stunting, which is a consequence of malnutrition in the first two years of a child’s life, is largely irreversible. It also affects a child’s mental growth.

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Professors at American University of Afghanistan Kidnapped in Kabul

Five gunmen wearing Afghan military uniforms have abducted an American and an Australian in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a security official said Monday.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued a brief statement confirming the kidnapping of an American citizen but gave no further details “due to privacy concerns.”

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Quetta Hospital Bombing: Pakistan Taliban Claim Attack

A faction of the Pakistani Taliban has said it carried out a suicide bombing that killed at least 70 people at a hospital in the city of Quetta.

The attacker targeted a crowd that had gathered as the body of a prominent lawyer murdered earlier on Monday, Bilal Kasi, was being brought in.

Lawyers and journalists were among the dead. About 120 people were injured.

The Taliban faction, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, said it was behind both the hospital attack and the killing of Mr Kasi.

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Thailand Votes in Favour of Military-Backed Constitution

Early results suggest that about 61% of people back the new constitution, which the military claims will help reduce political corruption

Thailand has overwhelmingly voted to accept a new military-backed constitution, despite fears among critics that it will undermine the power of the next elected government.

Having taken power in a 2014 coup, Thailand’s interim, military-backed National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) had presented the referendum as a major step on its roadmap to “fully functioning democracy”.

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China-Japan Tensions Rise Around Disputed East China Sea Isles

China is stepping up pressure on Japan over disputed islands with hundreds of fishing boats and more than a dozen coastguard vessels spotted in the area, encroaching at times on what Japan sees as its territorial waters.

Japan hit back with formal complaints to China’s ambassador in Tokyo over the incursions in the East China Sea, while the Nikkei newspaper said officials also protested what Japan said was the installation of a military-grade radar on a gas platform near the median line between the two nations in the area.

The latest developments mark an escalation in a long-running dispute between Asia’s two largest economies over the uninhabited islands, and raise the risk of an unintended military clash.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS’ Philippines Branch Calls for Attacks on Miss Universe Pageant

Islamic State jihadis in the Philippines are plotting to attack the Miss Universe contest that will be held in their country in 2017, according to a secret jihadi social media channel accessed by The Foreign Desk.

In a thread posted to a Telegram Messenger group called “IS Philippines supporters,” a jihadi, noting next year’s pageant, encourages “everyone who can” to launch attacks at the event.

Addressing “brothers who love martyrdom,” the author inspires followers to target the blood of foreigners whose nations have participated in the war against ISIS.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Japan’s Emperor Akihito Hints at Wish to Abdicate

Japan’s Emperor Akihito has strongly indicated he wants to step down, saying he fears his age will make it difficult to fulfil his duties.

The revered 82-year-old emperor’s comments came in only his second-ever televised address to the public.

Emperor Akihito did not explicitly say he wanted to abdicate as he is barred from making political statements.

PM Shinzo Abe said the government would take the remarks “seriously” and discuss what could be done.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Official Says Australian Security Key to Chinese Investment

Australia’s treasurer says that national security will be his overriding consideration when he decides whether to allow a Chinese consortium to lease a major Sydney electricity grid.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

South Africa’s White Minority Warned They Face ‘Uprising’ And Zimbabwe-Style Land Grab

SOUTH Africa’s white minority has been warned that they face an “uprising” if they fail to make urgent economic reforms, ruling black politicians have said.

The country is on a knife edge with 13 politicians murdered in the last month and the national broadcaster refusing to show images of violence fearing it will incite more attacks.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Brazil: Astonishing Footage Shows How Brazen Rio Thieves Target Unsuspecting Tourists in Broad Daylight

Brazen thieves have no fear as they snatch bags and phones from pedestrians wandering through the streets of the Olympic city

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega Shows His True Colors

Nicaragua’s president, Daniel Ortega, has taken another step in his move toward totalitarianism. In June, the leader of the ruling Sandinista party took measures to clear the path toward his third consecutive mandate in November’s elections by ensuring that the Supreme Court annulled the candidacy of his rival Luis Callejas, thus forcing the opposition to withdraw. Shortly before, he made sure that the elections would not be monitored by international observers.

But last week he sunk to a new low by announcing that his wife, Rosario Murillo would be running as vice president, assuring that power would remain in his family. In doing so, he revives the tradition installed by the Somoza family he fought against in the 1970s.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Another 126 Migrants Land on the Islands of the Eastern Aegean

Another 126 migrants have arrived on the islands of the eastern Aegean over the past 24 hours.

Of the 126, 99 landed on Chios and 27 on Samos.

In total, 9,919 migrants are currently in reception centers on the islands of the eastern Aegean, according to government figures which put the total number of migrants in the country at 57,047.

The past few weeks have seen a slight uptick in arrivals of migrants from neighboring Turkey amid fears that a failed coup in the country might lead to a larger influx.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Belgium Twice Tried to Deport Algerian Who Attacked Policewomen With Machete

AN Algerian man who attacked two policewomen with a machete was an illegal immigrant who Belgium had tried to deport twice, according to officials.

The attacker slashed two officers after turning up at a police station in Charleroi, Belgium, on Saturday, lunging at them and hacking at their heads.

The man reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the assault — which has now been claimed by Islamic State (ISIS).

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Clinton Pledges Fast-Track Immigration Bill, Economic Boost for Blacks, Latinos

Trying to win the first election since President Barack Obama galvanized black and brown voters to put him in office, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton told the nation’s largest gathering of African American and Hispanic journalists she sees a political landscape favorable for immigration reform and promised programs for economic empowerment of minorities.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Danish Schools Welcome Thousands of Refugee Students

As students across Denmark return to school this week, many will be joined by new classmates who can’t yet speak Danish.

In at least 23 municipalities, officials plan to place refugee children directly into the public school system even if they haven’t yet mastered the local language.

Broadcaster TV2 surveyed officials in Denmark’s 98 municipalities on their plans to educate refugee children. Of the 75 municipalities that responded, 23 of them said that refugee kids would be placed in normal classes rather than special introductory courses that have been offered in the past. A number of additional municipalities said that they are considering following course.

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EU Migrant Deal Not Possible if Turkey’s Demands Not Met, Erdogan Says

Turkey’s migration agreement with the European Union may collapse if the EU does not keep its side of the deal on visa waivers, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told France’s Le Monde newspaper.

Erdogan’s comments reflect a shift in stance at a time when he is rebuking Western leaders for their response to the July 15 coup bid. Erdogan vowed to keep Turkey’s promises on the migrant deal as recently as July 26.

“The European Union is not behaving in a sincere manner with Turkey,” Erdogan said in comments published by Le Monde on Monday, noting that the visa waiver for Turkish citizens was supposed to kick in on June 1.

“If our demands are not satisfied then the readmissions will no longer be possible,” Erdogan said.

Ankara agreed in March to stop migrants from crossing into Greece in exchange for financial aid being revived, the promise of visa-free travel to much of the EU and accelerated membership talks.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Experts Call for ‘Migrant Quota’ For Top Business Jobs

Similar to the ‘women quota’, a government anti-discrimination agency wants to create a quota for immigrants for top leadership roles.

The Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency wrote in an evaluation seen by Die Welt that there must be a reform of the country’s Equal Treatment Act, in particular for people from an immigration background.

One of the solutions could be a similar quota system to the controversial one passed by the German parliament last year for women. The so-called ‘women quota’ asks publicly traded companies with employee representation on the board to include 30 percent female directors.

The women’s quota only applies to companies with more than 500 workers.

Another option would be for companies to have better “diversity goals”.

The anti-discrimination agency wrote that legislators should put in place effective and “positive measures” and include more protected categories of people in anti-discrimination laws.

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Germany Now Having to Deal With Child Marriage Problem Among Refugees After Migrant Influx

GERMANY are having to deal with the issue of child marriage after the massive influx of asylum seekers into the country.

At least 35 child refugees were found to have been wed in their homelands before crossing the continent and into Germany.

Of that figure the majority — 33 — are young girls, the Youth Ministry for the state of Thuringia confirmed.

The youngest among them were revealed to be 14 and 15-years-old.

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Most Germans Want to End EU Migrant Deal With Turkey — Poll

Most Germans think the European Union should scrap a landmark migration deal with Turkey, also scuppering negotiations on its accession to the bloc, according to a poll published on Sunday.

The deal, agreed by Ankara in exchange for the revival of financial aid, the promise of visa-free travel to much of the EU and accelerated membership talks, has sharply cut the number of refugees entering Europe via eastern routes.

Last year Germany took in around 1.1 million people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and beyond, far more than any other EU state, creating conditions that have led to a rise in social and political tensions in Europe’s powerhouse economy.

But the Emnid survey for mass-circulation Bild am Sonntag showed 52 percent were in favour of the migration deal being terminated, compared with 35 percent who wanted it to continue.

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Private Ships Play Big Role in Europe’s Migrant Crisis

Two years ago, a small, privately-run ship set out to lend a hand to military operations in the Mediterranean rescuing migrants on boats near capsizing off Libya.

Today, there are a dozen such aid ships engaged in over 20 percent of the life-saving missions.

So far this year nearly 98,000 migrants have been pulled to safety, including some 20,300 saved by humanitarian ships.

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Top European Officials Warn of Potential Consequences of Migrant Deal With Turkey Failing

Top European officials warned on Monday of the consequences of the potential failure of a deal with Turkey to curb migrant influx and an interruption of EU accession talks with Ankara.

In an interview with Germany’s Tagesspiegel, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said it was important to keep the deal with Turkey on track.

According to Juncker, the EU must continue to work with difficult partners like Turkey “not because we like their governments but because we owe it to all those who would suffer if we fail to agree.”

He added, however, that the EC would not offer Ankara concessions on the issue of visa-free travel.

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CNN Host Slams America’s Greatest Olympian Ever for Not Being Black, Muslim Woman

Michael Phelps may be the greatest Olympian the world has ever known but for CNN host W. Kamau Bell, he is just a “tall, successful, rich white guy” who clearly didn’t “need the honor” of being chosen by his athlete peers as America’s flag-bearer. Instead, Bell exclaims, Ibtihaj Muhammad, a woman, an African-American and a Muslim to boot, should have been chosen because “right now America has enough tall, successful, rich white guys hogging the spotlight trying to make America great.”

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Physicians Decry Pseudo-Science of Transgenderism, ‘Absurd’ To Say Anyone is Born Into ‘Wrong Body’

Physicians argue assumption that gender dysphoria is innate contradicts all relevant data and is based on ideology rather than science

The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) has released a position paper denouncing popular approaches to transgender, declaring that the current protocol is founded upon “unscientific gender ideology,” which lacks any basis in real evidence.

The physicians argue that the assumption that gender dysphoria (GD)-a psychological condition in which people experience a marked incongruence between their experienced gender and their biological sex-is innate contradicts all relevant data and is based on ideology rather than science.

Studies have shown, the authors contend, that the “perspective of an ‘innate gender identity’ arising from prenatally ‘feminized’ or ‘masculinized’ brains trapped in the wrong body is in fact an ideological belief that has no basis in rigorous science.”

“GD is a problem that resides in the mind not in the body. Children with GD do not have a disordered body-even though they feel as if they do,” the doctors note. “Likewise, although many men with GD express the belief that they are a ‘feminine essence’ trapped in a male body, this belief has no scientific basis.”

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Churches Take New Security Measures in Face of Terror Threats

The incident took place on April 12, some four months after a terror attack left 14 dead in nearby San Bernardino, and just over three months before a French priest was killed by ISIS-linked jihadists in his church. The events, whether far or near, underscore a grim new reality for pastors such as Trenham: Instead of offering sanctuary from evil, churches could in fact be attractive targets for terror.

“Many churches are now hiring self-defense instructors for classes or security guards that include off-duty police,” said Ryan Mauro, a professor of Homeland Security at Liberty University and national security analyst for the Clarion Project. “If you are an Islamist terrorist seeking self-glory, executing a priest will bring you more attention than executing an average civilian.”

While no lethal terror attacks have occurred inside a U.S. church to date, experts like Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern, notes the threat tally is growing.

“I’m pretty sure there will be attacks in the future,” King said. “Until [radical Islam is defeated], we can expect Christians, including in the West, to rationally tighten security measures and try to protect themselves from attack.”

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New Technique Searches for Exomoons by the Light of Their Planets

Bright, young planets that are still hot from their formation could shine some light on their moons, making the dim satellites easier for astronomers to spot using a newly developed technique.

The new method suggests using the polarization of the light from the planet to find these small moons. Polarization light refers to light waves that are oriented in the same direction. For example, when sunlight reflects off the surface of the ocean, it tends to become polarized.

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Venus Could Have Been Habitable While Life Evolved on Earth

Nicknamed Earth’s evil twin, Venus seems like everything our planet is not: scorching hot, dried out and covered in toxic clouds.

But a mere one or two billion years ago, these two wayward siblings might have been more alike. New computer simulations suggest that early Venus might have looked a lot like our home planet — and it might even have been habitable.

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14 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/8/2016

  1. Swedish bribes can break Hillary

    Youtube documentary shows how that Swedish oligarchs bought foreign policy of Hillary through the “Clinton Foundation”.

    Swedish oil magnate Lukas Lundin paid $ 100 million to the Foundation: Shortly after US replaced foot in line with Lundin Oil’s interests in Congo-Kinshasa.

    Ericsson gave Clinton $ 750,000 for “a number” – seven days later Hillary overturned planned US sanctions of its exports to Iran.

    While the Postcode Lottery gave $ 26 million to Clinton’s “charitable trust” – tha jus was a post office box in Stockholm

    Published August 8, 2016 at 22:22

    FOREIGN. In the newly released Youtube documentary “Clinton Cash” the author Peter Schweizer shows how the Clinton couple’s “Clinton Foundation” has been used to receive money from foreign governments and companies that Hillary has later benefited during her time as Foreign Minister. Swedish companies such as Ericsson, Lundin Oil and the Postcode Lottery are embroiled in the scandal.

    Clinton scrutinized for their miljoninkomster (google!)

    Clinton under fire for foreign donations

    The documentary is based on Peter Schweizers book of the same name which came out last year. Schweizer is a writer, journalist and editor at Breitbart.

    In the film, Schweizer takes up several examples of how the Clintons used its foundation “Clinton Foundation” to allow themselves to be bought by foreign governments or multinational companies. The two listed Swedish companies Ericsson and Lundin Mining and the Postcode Lottery are accused of being involved in the scandal.

    The largest transaction comes from the oil magnate Lukas Lundin, who is chairman of the Swedish Lundin Mining. In 2007, when the company was threatened by US involvement in the conflict in the DRC, the Swedish oligarch should have donated the equivalent of more than 850 million to the Clinton Foundation. The donation came shortly after Hillary launched her election campaign for the presidential election in 2008.

    When Hillary Clinton more than a year later was appointed US Secretary of State the superpower suddenly changed feet in terms of the civil war in Congo-Kinshasa, where Lundin Mining owns the mine Tenke Fungurume.

    In 2006, the US passed a law to intervene against “destabilizing forces” in the country and one of the driving figures behind the law was just Hillary Clinton. But when she took over as foreign minister her ministry instead chose to take a completely passive attitude in the region, which greatly favored the Lundin Group’s business in the area. The swing astonished the ‘Congo Research Group’.
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    “What is that? No overall strategy in Congo. The issue emerged during the next six months,” said activist group disappointedly in the beginning of 2010. The status quo, the US would not interfere, is said to have been a strong desire from Lundin Mining who made business with the local warlords who fought against the government and committed human rights abuses against the local population.

    But the Lundin family are not the only Swedish player who paid money to Mrs Clinton in connection with important foreign policy decisions. When the telecom giant Ericsson in November 2011 was threatened with US sanctions after delivering large amounts of voice and listening devices to Iran, Ericsson paid over five million to Bill Clinton – he would make a speech during one of the events.

    Postkodlotteriet gave millions. While the Swedish Postcode Lottery donated large sums of money to the Clinton Foundation, revealed by the Washington Times last summer. In order to receive money without violating the Swedish Lottery Act, which requires that the surplus of the lottery goes to Swedish charity, Bill Clinton registered, a Swedish “charitable foundation” in the form of a letter box in Stockholm 2010.

    This Lettewr box company, which lacks Swedish business and official address required by law, made it possible for Mrs Clinton to bypass the American anti-corruption rules, who had demanded that the compensation would be ethically reviewed by the US State Department, writes the Washington Times.
    Total donations in the equivalent of $ 26 million of the state-sanctioned lottery, which up until the 2014 election
    >>> had the current Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström (S) as one of its directors.<<<

    The reason must, according to the newspaper, have been that a group of Swedish politicians and leading businessmen wanted to influence American foreign policy so that Swedish companies will not be hit by US sanctions. In addition to Ericsson, Iran was an important country also for the Volvo and ABB companies.

    "Swedish trade with Iran could continue unimpeded," noted the Washington Times. Even the book and documentary "Clinton Cash" notes that the United States backed off from demands for increased sanctions, which it believes was because the Clintons allowed themselves to be bribed by Sweden.

    Roger Magnergård, press officer at the Swedish Postcode Lottery, dismissed last year allegations as "baseless" and "almost absurd" in an article in the Dagens Industri.

    more cases
    In Clinton Cash are more examples of how Hillary Clinton received money that seems to have affected her political positions. Among other things it is mentioned that Bill Clinton received two million in donations from the Canadian oil industry and suggests that the money changed Hillary's attitude on the issue of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline.

    – It's all about money, it is not that she changed opinion or loocked different on the issue of global warming. It involves taking two million in cash and buying the Minister's decision, said Peter Schweizer.

    The conservative papers Breitbart and Washington Times are far from the only ones who noticed the irregularities surrounding the Clinton Foundation. Already last spring, when Clinton Cash came out, the respected and more leftist newspaper The New York Times said that the information in the book is "more disturbing" than other revelations dismissed as "conservative propaganda" and that US media giants like The Times, The Washington Post and Fox News stands behind the content.

    The video: http://youtu.be/td2pyyCau30

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    http://www.friatider.se/hillary-clinton-avslojas-som-genomkorrupt-i-dokumentarfilm

  2. So let’s get this straight: an Algerian applies for Belgian residency in 2013, it is rejected. He applies again in 2014 and his application is rejected again. Then he is the subject of a deportation order in October 2014 – why he wasn’t ordered deported after his failed 2013 application is unexplained. Yet in August 2015, despite a deportation order 10 months old, he still remains in Belgium, despite being “known to the police” for “petty” criminal offences. How is this possible?

    The failure of the Belgian government to enforce its own deportation orders is directly responsible for one policewoman suffering gruesome facial injuries due to aforementioned stay-behind-deportee’s machete attack that will scar her for life and likely render her incapable of working in her occupation (one she was expensively trained for) or any other occupation in all likelihood. Not to mention the mental trauma she has personally suffered. Another policewoman was less severely wounded, but it’s not a day she is likely to ever forget either. Both will probably become permanent charges on the state. This Algerian has cost the Belgian taxpayer dearly. All because the tax-collecting entity, the Belgian government, fails to enforce its own deportation orders!

    In 1988, the sister of a Australian girlfriend was living in London and working part-time in a pub in breach of the terms of her student visa. She was visited at home by two immigration officials at random and asked was she working. She said “No”. They searched her personal effects and found payslips from the pub. They called up two immigration police officers and the four of them waiting for her to pack her suitcases, one went to organize and pay for a one way airplane ticket to Istanbul (from where she had entered the UK), she asked for a ticket to Paris (which they agreed to because it was cheaper), after the immigration officials stamped her passport “Not to be re-admitted for 5 years” the two immigration police drove her to Heathrow and escorted her onto the first available flight to Paris. That seems an efficient way to enforce immigration laws. A tad draconian for a student who was simply working contrary to her student visa, but …

    Why wasn’t the Algerian machete-wielder with a criminal record escorted under armed guard from the courtroom that issued his deportation order straight to Brussels airport and put on the next flight to Algeria in October 2014?

    • You assume the Belgian government cares about taxpayers. Also you assume the government wants to get rid of the new owners of the continent.

  3. The inmates are running the asylum worldwide. To begin with, if they’re in the West, they need to be caged. If they’re elsewhere, they need to be isolated there.

    • Exactly! In 1976 that is. Way too passé for today’s transitional cultures all messed up. Europe looks more and more like a turn of the ninteenth century market place of bad ideas – where the Middle East Islamites team up with their African stock in trade and middlemen. The Nile is flowing down Main Street. Who ever is profiting from this betrayal may not live to enjoy the proceeds. Wth (Hell) is experience and education?

  4. ** Today, there are a dozen such aid ships engaged in over 20 percent of the life-saving missions. **

    Do all those ship compasses only point north? It must be.

    • Unfortunately not a crackdown. They will just obey until they will have majority and then they reverse the decision. The only way to avoid Islamisation to get rid of them from the country.

      • Unfortunately “we” have sent a very clear signal to the Muslims and millions of non Muslim freeloading hustlers all over the Galaxy, “Screw waiting. Go for it now.” Question: can a freeloader0 freeload from another freeloader? Just axing.

  5. “The late Algerian mujahid who attacked two policewomen with a machete in Belgium last weekend was supposed to have been deported — twice. None of the news stories says why the deportation failed to occur.”

    It is a characteristic of third-world countries that their government agencies get tied up in bureaucratic knots of procedure. Their only effective actions are against law-abiding citizens, as the real criminals are simply too dangerous to deal with.

    You need a police force composed of macho “cowboys” who might not have the most refined interpersonal skills, but who take criminal actions against civilians as a personal challenge. What we have are bureaucrats who have to watch each word, especially when dealing with a Muslim, because their superiors are so sensitive to protests from Muslim political groups.

  6. On a side issue,a friend of mine was in France 2 weeks ago and a taxi driver informed her that he was furious as next year all children in France were to learn Arabic as a mandatory second language.He also said the French people were at their wits end as they have been islamisised and that they wanted revolution.

    • Nope. It ain’t the French. It’s the natural anti-bodies of things. The God of rage or something like that. No doubt the response to Islam and its Muslims will be very clear on the, “Why are we fighting and what
      our objectives are.”

    • it seems to be a typical “FOAF” story. A friend of a friend told so,remember those stories about the chinese restaurant where cans of catfood were allegedly found in the trashcans, of course that was 70 miles away so you do not go and take a look.
      The French would never ever comply to arabic second language.Taxidrivers as reliable witnesses for educational programms and pending revolutions? This is called barbershop talk in the US, isn’ t it?

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