Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/18/2016

A knife-wielding man ran amok in a Minnesota mall last night, stabbing and wounding eight people before he was shot dead by an off-duty police officer. The perpetrator was a Somali-American who was alleged to have invoked Allah during his rampage, and asked at least one victim whether he was a Muslim before stabbing him. The incident had nothing to do with Islam. Meanwhile, investigators in New York and New Jersey are trying to discover a motive for yesterday’s bomb explosions, for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility.

In other news, Angela Merkel’s party (the CDU) suffered its worst electoral defeat ever today in local elections in Berlin, receiving less than 20% of the vote. The SPD (socialists) gained the largest percentage, while AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) received 14%.

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USA
» #NYCExplosion Was Islamic Terrorist Attack #Chelsea #Manhattan [VIDEO]
» 2nd ‘Potential Bomb’ Safely Removed From Manhattan Scene — Police
» 6 States Facing Possible Gas Shortages After Colonial Pipeline Spill
» ‘An Act of Terrorism’: Investigators Hunting for Clues in NYC Bomb That Injured 29
» Black Dallas Cop Sues Black Lives Matter, Soros
» Cynthia: Flesh-Eating Synthetic Bacteria That Has Gone Wild
» Dallas Cop Files Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter, Obama
» ISIS ‘Soldier’ Carried Out Minnesota Mall Stabbings, Group Says
» Minnesota Attack: At Least Eight Injured in Shopping Mall Stabbing Rampage by Knifeman ‘Referencing Allah’
» Minnesota Mall Stabbing Was Terror Attack, Says FBI
» Minnesota Mall Attacker Referenced Allah Before Stabbing Rampage, Police Chief Says
» New Book Exposes “Marxist Madrassas” In Higher Education
» NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Called the Incident an “Intentional Act”
» Officials Probe Bombings, Stabbings in Three U.S. Cities in a 12-Hour Span
» Police: 8 Stabbed: Suspect Dead in St. Cloud Mall Incident
» Political Correctness and the End of Our Culture
» The False Rationale of Homegrown Anti-Americanism
» Two Police Officers, Four Civilians Shot in Ambush-Style Attack in Philadelphia
 
Europe and the EU
» 300,000 Join Massive Protests in Germany Against US-EU Corporate Trade Deals
» AfD Leader’s Car Bombed as Berlin Votes
» Almost 30 Percent of French Muslims Reject Secular Laws, New Poll Finds
» Angela Merkel Damaged as German Far-Right Surges in Berlin Elections
» Angela Merkel’s Party Has Worst Result Ever in Berlin
» ‘France is Not for Sale, ‘ Far-Right FN Chief Le Pen Tells Rally
» Nationalist Politicians Escape Attack in Switzerland, Germany
» One Dead and 14 Injured in Blast at Spanish Resort
» Sarkozy Comes Out of the Closet as a Climate Skeptic
» Swiss Populist Attacked by Knife-Wielding Pensioner
» Top Armed Forces Chiefs Declare: We’d Quit if Britain Joins EU Army
» Two People Charged in Belgium With Terrorist Offences
» UK: Lawyer Says Staffordshire Terriers That Mauled a 9-Year-Old Girl Shouldn’t Have Been Killed
» Why the EU is Doomed
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» A Palestinian State Cometh: UN Secretary-General Calls for Imminent Action to Save the ‘Two State Solution’
 
Middle East
» Amid Hefty Tourism Drop, Turkey Hopes to Weather Storm
» Death Race Damascus Update — on the Precipice of WW III
» Russia Accuses US of Defending ISIS, After Pentagon Admits Coalition Jets Killed 62 Syrian Soldiers
» U.S.-Led Jets Kill Dozens of Syrian Soldiers
» Watch This Real Life Photo Bomb as Syrian Rebel Accidentally Blows Himself Up While Taking Selfie With Cell Phone Detonator
 
Russia
» Pro-Putin Party Wins Parliamentary Election
 
Far East
» World’s Oldest Fish Hooks Found in Japanese Island Cave
 
Immigration
» Female Migrants Are ‘Selling Sex to Pay for Their Entry Into the UK
» George Soros: A Psychopath’s Psychopath
» Immigration Officials Raid Restaurant Where UKIP Officials Were Having a Meal
» Syrian Migrant Given Bogus Documents and Smuggle Him Into the UK on a Ryanair Flight
» You’ve Caused Chaos! EU Chief Blames Angela Merkel for Migrant Crisis and ISIS Attacks
 
Culture Wars
» 1st Child Dies by Euthanasia in Belgium
» Answering a Troubling Question: Man, Woman, Or Whatever?
» UK: Liberal Democrat Says Schools Should be Able to Suggest Prostitution as a Career Choice
 

#NYCExplosion Was Islamic Terrorist Attack #Chelsea #Manhattan [VIDEO]

The bombs were consistent with IEDs (improvised explosive devices), normally found in Iraq and Afghanistan

An unnamed NYPD source has told GotNews that the explosion in New York City today was the work of Islamic terrorists.

Bombs were apparently placed in trash cans in Manhattan’s Chelsea district. Explosions injured at least 25 people. Watch below:

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The bombs were consistent with Muslim IEDs (improvised explosive devices), normally found in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The source told GotNews that an attack was imminent after Osama bin Laden’s son “warned us.” This might point to the attack being the work of al-Qaeda rather than ISIS, but nothing is certain yet except that Islamic terrorists did it.

According to police scanners, secondary devices are suspected and the bomb squad has been deployed, as well as robots and bearcats.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

2nd ‘Potential Bomb’ Safely Removed From Manhattan Scene — Police

A “potential” second explosive device has been safely removed by the NYPD Bomb Squad from a site near the Manhattan area which was hit by a probable homemade pipe bomb earlier in the day.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

6 States Facing Possible Gas Shortages After Colonial Pipeline Spill

Six states — Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and North Carolina — are facing possible gas shortages after a pipeline spill, officials said.

The states have all declared states of emergency, citing concerns about “fuel supply disruptions” and “disruptions of gasoline” in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline spill.

The governor of North Carolina declared the state of emergency to “help ensure that there will be adequate supplies of fuel across the state and prevent excessive fuel pricing.”

Prices on futures contracts for wholesale gasoline rose about 2 percent Friday to $1.46 a gallon after rising 5 percent on Thursday.

Long lines have quickly amassed at gas stations in the six states, and social media users took to their accounts to document the chaos and dwindling gasoline supply, in some cases. Below, images from Tennessee…

           — Hat tip: DV [Return to headlines]
 

‘An Act of Terrorism’: Investigators Hunting for Clues in NYC Bomb That Injured 29

An explosion that injured 29 people when it rocked a crowded Manhattan neighborhood Saturday night has been determined to be an “intentional act,” and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it was clearly “an act of terrorism.”

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

Black Dallas Cop Sues Black Lives Matter, Soros

(Breitbart) The head of a Dallas police organization is suing a collection of Black Lives Matter figureheads and other prominent individuals for allegedly inciting racial violence against American police officers.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Cynthia: Flesh-Eating Synthetic Bacteria That Has Gone Wild

One could recall that back in April 2010 an explosion at the British Petroleum oil rig resulted in millions of barrels of oil contaminating the Gulf of Mexico. Despite the drastic measures taken to prevent an environmental catastrophe, an oil slick produced by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill covered over sixty thousand square miles.

As one of the means of addressing the environmental catastrophe on their hands, Washington’s authorities decided to take drastic measures, regardless of the possible consequences of those actions. It was at that time when an artificially created microorganism nicknamed Cynthia was unleashed, without any kind of examination of the possible threat it may pose to the environment.

Cynthia is the brainchild of the J. Craig Venter Institute that was engaged in genetic engineering experiments since the beginning of the XXI century and Synthetic Genomics Inc, that was created and funded directly by BP. It was believed that Cynthia feeds on oil, but it turns out now that it is equally willing to consume all forms of organic life as well…

In 2011, Cynthia was unleashed in the Gulf of Mexico and at initial stages of its life it was absorbing oil slicks with a breathtaking speed. In January, 2011 the Register reported that that scientists were particularly impressed by the speed with which the bacteria was eating up its “meal”.

But then this bacteria mutated and soon it was feeding on organic lifeforms. Strange reports started coming from the US, like five thousand birds falling victims of an “unknown disease” in Arkansas, or more that a hundred thousand of dead fish found off the coast of North Louisiana. It was also reported that a total of 128 British Petroleum employees that participated in the liquidation of the oil slick were struck by some mysterious illness. According to various sources they were forbidden to seek relief in public hospitals, to prevent them from talking to anyone about what has happened to them…

Soon it was recorded that the disease and the symptoms that were now associated with the coastal zone of the Gulf of Mexico started spreading to the continental United States — for example, people who were caught by heavy rains that came from the Gulf of Mexico were also exposed to it.

In fact, such disturbing reports have become pretty common, in spite of the restrictive measures taken by the US government to prevent this information from spreading. In particular, it’s been reported that certain individuals that were misfortunate enough to take take a swim the Gulf of Mexico often found themselves covered with itching sores only to die in agony a few days later due to extensive internal bleeding.

According to media reports, a person can become Cynthia’s victim in two cases: if it penetrated the skin barrier through a wound or if he was unfortunate enough to eat raw seafood infected by this bacteria. Once the bacteria is in the system, it penetrates into the layer between the skin and muscles and starts producing a toxin that disrupts tissues. It is known that Cynthia is capable of reproducing itself pretty rapidly in the infected cells, and that is immune to antibiotics.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Dallas Cop Files Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter, Obama

A Dallas Police sergeant filed a lawsuit on Friday against Black Lives Matter and its supporters, alleging the group is inciting a race war.

Sgt. Demetrick Pennie, a 17-year veteran of the force, is seeking between $500 million and $1.5 billion in the complaint filed in federal court, the Dallas Morning News reported.

The defendants in the class-action suit include Black Lives Matter; President Obama; Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton; the Rev. Al Sharpton; Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and billionaire activist George Soros.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS ‘Soldier’ Carried Out Minnesota Mall Stabbings, Group Says

A man who stabbed nine people at a mall in central Minnesota before being shot dead is a “soldier of the Islamic State,” the militant group’s news agency said on Sunday, as the FBI investigated the attack as a potential act of terrorism.

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

Minnesota Attack: At Least Eight Injured in Shopping Mall Stabbing Rampage by Knifeman ‘Referencing Allah’

At least eight people have been taken to hospital after a stabbing rampage at an American shopping mall by a knifeman who made references to Allah.

The attacker, who was was wearing a private security uniform when he struck in St Cloud, Minnesota, was shot dead by an off-duty officer, authorities said.

St. Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson said the knifeman made references to Allah during his attack and asked at least one person if they were a muslim.

[Comment: Minnesota…by any chance was the perp one of the many Somali muslim communists allowed into the country?]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Minnesota Mall Stabbing Was Terror Attack, Says FBI

The FBI has said it is treating a stabbing attack at a shopping centre in Minnesota that injured eight people as an act of terrorism.

The attacker, who was dressed in a security uniform and reportedly made references to Allah, was shot dead by an off-duty police officer on Saturday.

The so-called Islamic State claimed the man was one of its supporters, but the FBI said no link had been found.

The attack happened in St Cloud, 70 miles (110km) out of Minneapolis.

None of the victims suffered life threatening injuries.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Minnesota Mall Attacker Referenced Allah Before Stabbing Rampage, Police Chief Says

ISIS claimed responsibility after a knife-wielding man injured eight people at a mall in central Minnesota Saturday evening, a bloody rampage during which he reportedly asked at least one victim whether they were Muslim and referenced Allah.

St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson said the suspect, whom he did not identify, was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer from another jurisdiction. Five of the eight victims had been treated and released from a local hospital and all were expected to survive their injuries.

ISIS-related media on Sunday morning claimed responsibility for the attack, issuing a statement via a source.

“The executor of the stabbing attacks in Minnesota yesterday was a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response to calls to target the citizens of countries belonging to the crusader coalition,” the statement said.

Authorities didn’t identify the attacker, but the Star Tribune of Minneapolis said the man’s father identified him as Dahir A. Adan, 22. Speaking to the newspaper through an interpreter, Ahmed Adan, whose family is Somali, said his son was born in Africa and had lived in the U.S. for 15 years…

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

New Book Exposes “Marxist Madrassas” In Higher Education

A groundbreaking new book on campus radicalism titled Marxist Madrassas examines the educational background of Mrs. Hillary Clinton, in a chapter titled, “From Goldwater Girl to Marxist,” and looks at the far-left influences at Harvard and Columbia that have guided President Barack Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of the United States.

“If you want to change society, change academia,” says co-author Cliff Kincaid, a long-time journalist and media critic. “Changing academia will save our culture and our nation.”

Kincaid, who was himself banned from a college campus because of his conservative views, examines the dangerous inroads Marxist totalitarianism has made at a number of universities. He also documents the useless but expensive degrees in such areas as “Queer Studies” being foisted on students. Kincaid’s own son, who moved to South Korea to find a job, contributes a chapter on how students can take advantage of the education online learning revolution and get marketable skills.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Called the Incident an “Intentional Act”

New York authorities have confirmed that an improvised explosive device stuffed inside a dumpster was the likely cause of a blast in Manhattan which resulted in multiple casualties. The mayor called the incident an “intentional act.”

The outdoor explosion occurred at 135 23rd Street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues in New York City, outside the Associated Blind Housing facility that cares for the visually impaired.

At least 29 people were injured in the blast, with one person suffering serious wounds. Twenty four people with non-life threatening injuries were transported to local hospitals.

25 injuries to civilians confirmed at 133 W 23 St #Chelsea. None appear to be life-threatening at this time

– FDNY (@FDNY) September 18, 2016

NYC mayor Bill de Blasio called the incident an “intentional act,” adding that, according to preliminary information, “there is no evidence at this point of a terror connection.”

[Comment: No evidence — tired of this “nothing to do with islam” parroting even before the facts are in — at least have the intelligence to shut your mouth until the investigation has completed.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Officials Probe Bombings, Stabbings in Three U.S. Cities in a 12-Hour Span

Police believe the two devices that were detonated in New Jersey and New York were made by the same person, a law enforcement source told Fox News on Sunday, as authorities move forward with investigations into the incidents as well as the ISIS-backed stabbing rampage in Minnesota — separate incidents that have cemented fears the United States is still a prime terror target.

As of Sunday afternoon, officials have not said publicaly there was a common link between the two bombing incidents, according to New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill.

“I am concerned,” O’Neill said during a news conference. “We have a bomb that detonated and no one apprehended.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Police: 8 Stabbed: Suspect Dead in St. Cloud Mall Incident

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A St. Cloud mall was on lockdown for several hours Saturday night after a suspect stabbed eight people, according to police.

It happened just after 8 p.m. There were eight victims with stab wounds, police said. Seven were treated and released and one remains in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to police.

Police said the suspect, dressed in a private security uniform, made a reference to Allah and asked one victim if they were Muslim.

An off-duty police officer from another jurisdiction confronted the suspect and fatally shot him, police said…

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

Political Correctness and the End of Our Culture

We are seeing more and more Americans accept the demands of the islamic invaders of America. These Americans have not taken the time to understand how islam works. The number one aspect of islam they no one ever talks about is why they immigrate to other nations? Sometimes it is obvious because of the violence that is occurring because of the radical aspect of islam. Their so-called holy book states that the only reason to immigrate is to begin the process of replacing the new nations government with shariah. With that understood America should never allow muslims to immigrate to America because their goal will be to overthrow our Constitution and replace it with shariah.

I know that some will say that I am a conspiracy theorist for saying that. No! I’m a student of history and I pay attention to current events. I’m sure most of you have heard of CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations. As of late they have been doing a fine job of NOT allowing the profiling of islamic terrorists in our Department of Homeland Security, which is rife with members of the muslim brotherhood. The founder or CAIR made this comment: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominate. The quran, the muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” Now with this understood, why do we continue to allow muslims to immigrate to America? There are enclaves of muslims all across America most notably in Dearborn (istan) Michigan. There they post signs stating that their little neighborhood is a shariah neighborhood and women must dress to be shariah compliant. Remember that Deardorn(istan) is in America! In the city of Hamtramck, MI there is a muslim call to ‘prayer’ announced over loudspeakers all over the city of 23,000.[1] No church bells though, that’s offensive to muslims.

This is not assimilation. This is controlled invasion! The culture of these neighborhoods where muslims move to are fading and being replaced by a culture that is NOT conducive to our Constitutional rights.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The False Rationale of Homegrown Anti-Americanism

Homegrown anti-American activists are a dishonest bunch. Maybe some of them mean well, though I doubt it. Either way, in order for us to listen to them, or support them, we have to accept the premise that underlies their movement: everything is someone else’s fault, especially America in general. This is where the good-hearted or gullible fall into traps set by the frauds, because the cause is almost never what it appears. We are not correcting America. We are erasing it.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Two Police Officers, Four Civilians Shot in Ambush-Style Attack in Philadelphia

Two police officers and four civilians were shot Friday night in Philadelphia in what reports describe as an ambush-style attack. One Philadelphia Police Department office and one University of Pennsylvania police officer were shot Friday night by “an individual driven by hatred,” according to Philadelphia Police Department public information office John Stanford.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

300,000 Join Massive Protests in Germany Against US-EU Corporate Trade Deals

Hundreds of thousands took to city streets across Germany on Saturday as they marched against a pair of corporate-backed trade deals they say will undermine democracy, attack workers and local economies, and accelerate the threats posed by corporate hegemony and global warming.

Taking aim at both the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), European Union deals with the United States and Canada respectively, opponents say the agreements are not really concerned with expanding trade but rather increasing corporate power.

“CETA and TTIP threaten environmental and consumer protection for millions of people in Europe and North America,” said Jennifer Morgan, co-executive director of Greenpeace International. “These agreements will weaken food safety laws, environmental legislation, banking regulations and undermine the sovereign powers of nations.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

AfD Leader’s Car Bombed as Berlin Votes

The car belonging to the leader of Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been fire-bombed just 12 hours before voting began in Berlin elections, where that party is expected to break through into the city’s state legislature. The attack follows weeks of public incitement against the AfD by establishment politicians, terrified at the party’s recent electoral successes.

[Comment: Likely that Security services look the other way as their proxy rabid leftist communists swing into action to silence government opposition.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Almost 30 Percent of French Muslims Reject Secular Laws, New Poll Finds

Just under 30 percent of France’s 3 to 4 million Muslims reject the country’s secular laws, according to an Ifop poll published by the French weekly Journal du Dimanche.

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

Angela Merkel Damaged as German Far-Right Surges in Berlin Elections

Angela Merkel suffered damaging losses at the hands of Germany’s resurgent far-Right in regional elections in Berlin on Sunday evening.

The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won the highest share of the vote for the far-Right in Berlin since the Second World War, with around 14 percent, according to public broadcasters’ projections.

Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) suffered their worst ever results in the German capital, with just 17.5 per cent of the vote.

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

Angela Merkel’s Party Has Worst Result Ever in Berlin

The Christian Democratic Union, the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have had their worst election result ever in the German capital of Berlin.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel continues to be hit by poor election results in the latest regional election in the German capital of Berlin. The Chancellor’s Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) have been pushed under 20 per cent for the first time in the party’s history.

The party, which has seen a drastic decline in support across the country, largely due to Ms. Merkel’s migrant policies, has continued a downward trend in Berlin where the party saw 40 plus percent support in the early nineties…

           — Hat tip: Vlad Tepes [Return to headlines]
 

‘France is Not for Sale, ‘ Far-Right FN Chief Le Pen Tells Rally

“France is not for sale,” National Front party leader Marine Le Pen told supporters on Sunday, launching her campaign for the 2017 presidential election with a vow to defend national sovereignty if elected.

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

Nationalist Politicians Escape Attack in Switzerland, Germany

A man wielding a knife attacked a prominent Swiss politician Saturday, a day after the leader of Germany’s Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) had her car set on fire.

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

One Dead and 14 Injured in Blast at Spanish Resort

One person died and 14 people were injured in an explosion in a block of flats in a Spanish seaside resort near Barcelona early Sunday, rescuers said.

It was not immediately clear what caused the blast which took place in the residential building in Premia de Mar, a resort town some 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of Barcelona.

“The explosion happened at 8:25 am (0625 GMT) and affected 15 people, 14 of whom were injured and one who died,” a spokeswoman for Barcelona’s emergency services told AFP.

Two of the injured were in serious condition, she said…

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

Sarkozy Comes Out of the Closet as a Climate Skeptic

Presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy reckons that climate change is not caused by man and that the world has far bigger problems on its hands than global warming.

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

Swiss Populist Attacked by Knife-Wielding Pensioner

The longtime strongman of Switzerland’s populist right Christoph Blocher was attacked by an elderly man carrying a knife after a political debate in Zurich, but escaped unharmed, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

The 75-year-old multi-billionaire, who is considered the architect of the Swiss People’s Party (SVP)’s soaring popularity, was leaving a political roundtable discussion at a Zurich hotel Saturday afternoon when an unidentified man accosted him, the SonntagsBlick weekly reported…

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

Top Armed Forces Chiefs Declare: We’d Quit if Britain Joins EU Army

Col Richard Westley, awarded a Military Cross for gallantry for his actions in Bosnia, said plans by Brussels to accelerate a pan-EU force would spell a “dangerous distraction” from the work of Nato and leave both Europe and Britain exposed to a greater threat.

His warning comes after EU Commissioner Jean-Claude Juncker said Europe should speed up the creation a EU Army headquarters.

Last night defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon said that Britain would block the move, declaring: “We are full members and we will go on resisting any attempt to set up a rival to Nato.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Two People Charged in Belgium With Terrorist Offences

A man and a woman detained on Friday have been charged with terrorist offences, although the woman has been freed under conditions, federal prosecutors said on Sunday.

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

UK: Lawyer Says Staffordshire Terriers That Mauled a 9-Year-Old Girl Shouldn’t Have Been Killed

The lawyer representing the owner of two Staffordshire terriers which viciously mauled a nine-year-old girl in Perth has asked the local mayor to stop ‘yapping’ about the incident.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why the EU is Doomed

We are accustomed to looking at Europe’s woes in a purely financial context. This is a mistake, because it misses the real reasons why the EU will fail and not survive the next financial crisis. We normally survive financial crises, thanks to the successful actions of central banks as lenders of last resort. However, the origins and construction of both the the euro and the EU itself could ensure the next financial crisis commences in the coming months, and will exceed the capabilities of the ECB to save the system.

It should be remembered that the European Union was originally a creation of US post-war foreign policy. The priority was to ensure there was a buffer against the march of Soviet communism, and to that end three elements of the policy towards Europe were established. First, there was the Marshall Plan, which from 1948 provided funds to help rebuild Europe’s infrastructure. This was followed by the establishment of NATO in 1949, which ensured American and British troops had permanent bases in Germany. And lastly, a CIA sponsored organisation, the American Committee on United Europe was established to covertly promote European political union.

It was therefore in no way a natural European development. But in the post-war years the concept of political union, initially the European Coal and Steel Community, became fact in the Treaty of Paris in 1951 with six founding members: France, West Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy. The ECSC evolved into the EU of today, with an additional twenty-one member states, not including the UK which has now decided to leave.

With the original founders retaining their national characteristics, the EU resembles a political portmanteau, a piece of assembled furniture, each component retaining its original characteristics. After sixty-five years, a Frenchman is still a staunch French nationalist. Germans are characteristically German, and the Italians remain delightfully Italian. Belgium is often referred to as a non-country, and is still riven between Walloons and the Flemish. As an organisation, the EU lacks national identity and therefore political cohesion.

This is why the European Commission in Brussels has to go to great lengths to assert itself. But it has an insurmountable problem, and that is it has no democratic authority. The EU parliament was set up to be toothless, which is why it fools only the ignorant. With power still residing in a small cabal of nation states, national powerbrokers pay little more than lip-service to the Brussels bureaucracy.

The relationship between national leaders and the European Commission has been deliberately long-term, in the sense that loss of sovereignty is used to gradually subordinate other EU members into the Franco-German line. The driving logic has been to make the European region a protected trade area in Franco-German joint interests, and to protect them from free markets.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

A Palestinian State Cometh: UN Secretary-General Calls for Imminent Action to Save the ‘Two State Solution’

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has harshly criticized Israeli settlements in the West Bank and is calling for urgent action to save “ the two state solution” . He insists that Israeli settlements in the West Bank “ are illegal under international law” and he told reporters that the “ occupation” of Palestinian-controlled territories “ must end” . These comments represent perhaps the strongest statements that any UN Secretary-General has ever made against Israel, and they come at a very ominous time. As I detailed just a few days ago, there is a major push to try to get some sort of UN Security Council resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before Barack Obama leaves office. As you will see below, this is something that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon obviously endorses.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Amid Hefty Tourism Drop, Turkey Hopes to Weather Storm

ISTANBUL — With summer drawing to a close, Turkey is counting the cost of a tough year that saw a string of terrorist bombings and the fallout from a diplomatic spat with Moscow that cut deep into the country’s crucial tourist trade.

And then right bang in the middle of summer, the economic backdrop got more precarious after an attempted military coup that saw more than 270 people killed, the imposition of a state of emergency and the subsequent arrest and dismissal of thousands of supposed sympathizers.

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

Death Race Damascus Update — on the Precipice of WW III

As the clock runs down on the Obama “presidency” and as the Clinton candidacy is becoming more fragile by the day, the information I received from two intelligence sources in 2012 is being validated. We are on the precipice of a World War that will begin in Syria and pit the U.S. against Russia, fueled by Barack Hussein Obama’s policy of arming, aiding and supplying Muslim terrorists throughout the region, and specifically in Syria.

It is being reported today that the U.S. bombed Syrian troops inside Syria, killing 62 troops. This is a dangerous and overt escalation of the war that has been boiling beneath the surface for the last six years. Additionally, Russia has made it clear that they will blame the U.S. should the fragile truce that exists within Syria collapse.

I warned about this in my 2012 column Death Race Damascus — 13 Days in October. In that report, I postulated that World War III will begin in Syria and not in Iraq, Afghanistan or even Iran. I wrote that US forces are waging a proxy war against Russia on behalf of Saudi Arabia, which provided the context for not just historical moments such as Benghazi, but can explain and define the entire Obama “presidency.”

Now with just a few months remaining for Obama to complete his objectives and under the threat of a complete reversal of foreign policy should Hillary Clinton become sidelined, it appears that a deliberate escalation inside Syria is in progress.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Russia Accuses US of Defending ISIS, After Pentagon Admits Coalition Jets Killed 62 Syrian Soldiers

he Obama administration officially expressed it’s “regret” for an airstrike that killed Syrian forces with a senior White House official saying “The United States has relayed our regret through the Russian Federation for the unintentional loss of life of Syrian forces.”

Meanwhile, the U.S. UN envoy called Russia’s request for an emergency Security Council meeting a “stunt.”

Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin responded by saying that the U.S. airstrike that struck Syrian government troops has put “a very big question mark” over the future of the U.S. and Russian-brokered cease-fire agreement in Syria adding that in his decades as a diplomat he had “never seen such an extraordinary display of American heavy-handedness as we are witnessing today.”

[Comment: an “accident”, just like all those “accidental” ammo drops that ended up in the hands of ISIS.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

U.S.-Led Jets Kill Dozens of Syrian Soldiers

(Reuters) U.S.-led coalition jets bombed a Syrian army position at Jebel Tharda near Deir al-Zor airport on Saturday, killing dozens of Syrian soldiers, Russia and a war monitor said, paving the way for Islamic State to briefly overrun it.

The U.S. military, in an apparent admission that it may have hit the position, said in a statement that coalition air strikes near Deir al-Zor had been halted when Russia told coalition officials they may have hit the Syrian army.

Syria’s army general command said in a statement that the air strike was “ conclusive evidence” of U.S. support for Islamic State, noting that the strike was “dangerous and blatant aggression” .

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Watch This Real Life Photo Bomb as Syrian Rebel Accidentally Blows Himself Up While Taking Selfie With Cell Phone Detonator

We’re not quite sure if these are the good guys, the bad guys or this week’ s allies du jour, but the video below is a lesson in how not to take a selfie with a random mobile device picked up from a table full of guns and improvised explosive devices.

Several reported rebels were sitting together and appeared to be preparing for and celebrating a future attack when one of the men was so excited he just had to take a selfie. He grabs a cell phone of the table, positions for the perfect social media pic and takes a snap shot. A clicking noise can be heard, suggesting that the phone he used was a detonator for the IED explosion that immediately followed:…

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Pro-Putin Party Wins Parliamentary Election

Allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin comfortably won a parliamentary election, early results showed on Monday, but low turnout suggested a softening of enthusiasm for the ruling elite 18 months before the next presidential election.

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World’s Oldest Fish Hooks Found in Japanese Island Cave

Archaeologists have found the world’s oldest fish hooks in a cave on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

The pair, dating from about 23,000 years ago, were carved from sea snail shells and found with other ancient relics, according to a paper.

It is thought humans inhabited the island from at least 30,000 years ago, surviving despite scarce resources.

The findings suggest a wider use of advanced maritime technology in that era than previously thought.

While fishing has been essential for early humans to spread around the planet, it is unclear how the technology evolved, with evidence limited to sites in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

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Female Migrants Are ‘Selling Sex to Pay for Their Entry Into the UK

Female migrants are selling sex to pay for their entry into the UK with sex, according to a leaked report.

The confidential National Crime Agency (NCA) memo also states the sexual abuse of children is rife in the squalid Jungle camps in Calais.

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George Soros: A Psychopath’s Psychopath

Soros’ part in destabilizing Europe is well attested. The Daily Mail reported back in November 2015 that Soros was busy telling the EU to take “at least a million” refugees every year.

In the same article, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is quoted as saying, “This invasion is driven, on the one hand, by people smugglers, and on the other hand by those activists who support everything that weakens the nation-state.” Orban went on, “This Western mindset and this activist network is perhaps best represented by George Soros.”

Soros — described in the article as “a funder of pro-migration groups all over the world” — responded to Orban’s comments by arguing that his beliefs “uphold European values”.

I don’t know what Soros means by “European values,” but I assume it includes lots more immigration for us — unilaterally decided upon by Mr. Soros.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Immigration Officials Raid Restaurant Where UKIP Officials Were Having a Meal

The extraordinary scenes were revealed on Twitter by a member of Ms Duffy’s team hours after she was well beaten into second place by new Ukip leader Diane James.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Syrian Migrant Given Bogus Documents and Smuggle Him Into the UK on a Ryanair Flight

In an astonishing security lapse, Bashar Habib, 18, walked unchallenged through a series of checks at Athens airport before claiming asylum on arrival at Stansted.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

You’ve Caused Chaos! EU Chief Blames Angela Merkel for Migrant Crisis and ISIS Attacks

EUROPEAN Union (EU) bosses have blamed Angela Merkel and her open-door policy for the migrant crisis and Islamic State (ISIS) terror attacks on the continent.

As the remaining 27 European Union leaders attempted to put on a show of unity at a summit in Bratislava, Slovakia, Donald Tusk, president of the European Council hit out at the German Chancellor.

He said she created chaos in the region by welcoming 1.1million Syrian migrants last year.

Mr Tusk blamed “political correctness” for delays in closing Europe’s borders in 2015 which allowed more than a million into the continent unchecked, including ISIS jihadis who attacked Paris and Brussels killing 130 and 32 people respectively.

Mrs Merkel was forced to listen to EU leaders ripped into her — destroying the unity leaders of the EU are attempting to portray as they meet to talk about the future of Europe after Britain voted in June to leave the bloc.

[Comment: They are just as responsible, if not more. Seeing how irate the public is getting is making their shirt collars seem tight. A big show for the public to make EU leaders look “good”.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

1st Child Dies by Euthanasia in Belgium

(CNN) A terminally ill minor has become the first child to be euthanized in Belgium since age restrictions were lifted in the country two years ago, according to several sources.

A Belgian lawmaker told CNN affiliate VTM that the physician-assisted suicide happened within the past week.

The child, who was suffering from an incurable disease, had asked for euthanasia, Sen. Jean-Jacques De Gucht told VTM. The identity of the child and age are unknown.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Answering a Troubling Question: Man, Woman, Or Whatever?

A friend of mine recently rejoiced because he had finally found a job after being unemployed for a few months. It was an engineering job with a good company comparable to the one he had before. However, there was one thing about the final interview that bothered him. He was asked: “What is your gender?”…

The agents of this change need no longer be anchored in physical reality, logic, or biological science. Reality becomes what you imagine it to be. In such a fantasy world, one can ignore the obvious and ask: Are you a man? Woman? Something in-between?

That is to say, we have entered the reign of fantasy where concrete reality is forced to conform to delusions. This is not the action of some isolated and confused individuals that want attention and that does not affect the population as a whole. No, the official business establishment is now institutionalizing fantasy and making it part of their reality. It involves schools, universities, and government institutions that are abolishing sexual pronouns, inventing new ones, and penalizing those who make mistakes in their use.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Liberal Democrat Says Schools Should be Able to Suggest Prostitution as a Career Choice

Dennis Parsons, who is chairman of the Cheltenham Liberal Democrats, questioned why schools are not suggesting prostitution as a potential career for pupils.

[Comment: More and more politicians showing themselves to be deviants of the highest order. Just a few days ago it was V.P. Biden making lewd comments to a 13 year old.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

14 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/18/2016

  1. So Germany really is gone. When Merkel’s party receive their worst ever drubbing, but still get nearly 20% of the vote, while AfD only gets 14%.

    Seemingly, the Germans believe the Socialists can save their country. I’ve heard of slow learners, but this is tragic!

  2. In respect of the Berlin election, the SPD lost 6.7%, the CDU 5.7 and the Greens 2.4. That’s 14.8% lost, which is just a little more than the total gain of 14.2 by the AfD, and a measure of just how much the major parties are on the nose. The Pirates lost rather a lot, too, but it would seem that the only serious left-leaning party to gain was Die Linke (which is frightfully ‘refugee’-friendly), gaining 3.9%. The FDP gained 4.9%.
    Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahl_zum_Abgeordnetenhaus_von_Berlin_2016

  3. “In other news, Angela Merkel’s party (the CDU) suffered its worst electoral defeat ever today in local elections in Berlin, receiving less than 20% of the vote.”

    Merkel’s chickens are coming home to roost. This is the beginning of the end. Right now she is bordering on a toxic for the CDU. If they have any political sense they will ditch her.

  4. If you are an Amerikan you need to be carrying a concealed firearm. Recommended carry is a reliable autoloader. Carry a spare magazine also. Practice drawing and firing from concealment. Do not rely on the police.

    Only YOU can prevent attacks upon yourself. Start now. Start today. Go armed everywhere.

  5. The SDP, the old German communist party dating back to 1875, won in Berlin.

    Germany is lost. Too many wars last century?

    • It always wins in Berlin–but see my post above, it actually lost more percentage points than the CDU.

  6. Hey hey hey… How dare you write it down that it was a bomb? Who gave you that information? It was loud, sound making, smoke making, expansive gas making device dragging metal pieces through the air but it was not a bomb! Your government keeping the right to name things. Just like it was nothing to do with the “I” word… Yes you do not own the right for that one either! (sarcasm:off)

    • It was not a bomb, it was a spontaneous oxidation/reduction reaction of unknown materials according to De Blasio. Nothing to do with terrorism, much less islam. The suspect was just angry about the local fuzz shutting them down during the prime late night chicken sales when bars close down. The locals are very negative in the reviews on their fried chicken restaurant by the way. Lot’s of topical comments.

      https://www.yelp.com/biz/first-american-fried-chicken-elizabeth

  7. The off duty cop that shot the Somali stabber dead is an NRA certified shooting instructor. Thank you NRA!
    So many more could have been injured or killed if that officer hadn’t been there with a gun.
    (I knew I sent you $20 last winter for a reason…)

  8. Syrian Rebels blow themselves up taking a selfie, HaHaHaHaaaaaHaHaHa
    Ok Ali pay attention, don’t touch this button, got it?
    Which button, this BaBOOM!!!

  9. that this kind of thing is happening to americans is the fault of the AMERICAN POLITICIAN, the muslims have been very honest about what the want to do to americans and the united states. despite this, they are exactly the kind of people the AMERICAN POLITICAN say they want to bring to the united states. muslims are the largest immigrant group the politicians have been colonizing the country with over the last eight years. it tells you a lot about what the AMERICAN POLITICIANS want for the united states.

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