The news feed is light again tonight. Was there perhaps no news today? Did Donald Trump not say anything racist or hateful?
The big story of the day concerns a middle school in Duluth, Minnesota. Somehow a picture of Donald Trump, accompanied by a caption that read “you’re a dead man”, was placed inside a big glass display case in the hall of the school. Administrators at the school are now attempting to determine how that picture made its way into the case.
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1 Dead: 11 Injured, In Gas Explosion in Central Illinois City
An explosion caused by a gas leak in the central Illinois city of Canton killed one person, and injured another 11 people on Wednesday, Illinois State Police has confirmed.
“The gas explosion took place in the 10 block of North 1st Avenue, Canton,” Illinois State Police said in a statement. “Several surrounding buildings were affected by the blast. Search crews have completed a primary search and are in process of conduction secondary searches to the affected areas. At this time, there is 1 confirmed fatality and 11 additional persons injured. Those individuals were transported to local hospitals.”
The Canton Police Department wrote on its Facebook page, “No one is being allowed within a three block radius of downtown Canton. No property or vehicles within this area will be accessible for quite some time. All roads in the three block radius are blocked. IL 9/IL 78 will remain open, but we ask that you avoid the area.”
The post further read, “ Natural gas is shut off in Canton. We do not know yet when gas will be restored. We do not know what exact areas are affected by the gas outage.”
Photos from the vicinity of the explosion, which occurred around 5:45 p.m., showed extensive damage, including storefronts with blown-out windows…
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Anti-Trump Picture Sparks Investigation at Duluth’s Ordean-East
DULUTH, MN — A picture of Donald Trump with the caption “you’re a dead man” has officials investigating at a Duluth Middle School.
The anti-Trump picture was discovered inside a glass case at Ordean-East Middle School on Monday.
School District officials say the school principal was made aware of the picture on Tuesday and immediately took it out of the case.
School personnel and the school resource officer are looking into how and when it got into the case.
“Sadly, (it’s) another example of the increase in inappropriate and unacceptable behavior related to the election that we’re working to address in our schools,” a statement from the school district read.
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Engineer in NJ Transit Crash Had Undiagnosed Sleep Apnea, Officials Say
The engineer of a commuter train that slammed into a station going double the 10 mph speed limit, killing a woman, suffered from sleep apnea that had gone undiagnosed, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
One official said investigators are looking at it as a potential cause.
The officials, who were briefed on the investigation, spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter.
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George Soros Spends Millions to Bury Republicans, Elect Liberal Prosecutors
Republican Matthew McCord was feeling pretty good about the $12,000 he had raised for his campaign for Henry County district attorney when he was blindsided by a September surprise.
New York billionaire George Soros dumped $147,000 into Georgia Safety & Justice, an independent-expenditure committee registered on Aug. 26, aimed at defeating Mr. McCord and electing his opponent, Democrat Darius Pattillo.
After recovering from the shock, Mr. McCord, a former prosecutor in Clayton and Newton counties, did what he thought was best for himself and the party: He dropped out of the race, allowing Mr. Pattillo to run unopposed.
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Trump Has Huge Opportunity to Kill NAFTA
The globalist modus operandi of handing over to the president immense powers to act unilaterally without Congress may now come back to bite them. During the recent presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump often railed against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), charging that it was hollowing out American industry, costing hundreds of thousands of Americans good-paying jobs, and promising to do something about it were he to be elected.
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Wannabe ISIS Fighters Sentenced to Decades in Prison in Minnesota Case
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota man described as a leader of a group of nine who plotted to travel to Syria to fight for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday by a federal judge who said he didn’t believe the man’s tearful apologies and words of contrition.
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Austria: Schoolgirl Left With Broken Jaw After Being Attacked by Muslim Mob in Niqab Row
The 15-year-old girl, named only as Patricia, claims she kept her hands in her pockets and did not react because she knew she had no chance of escaping at the hands of her terrifying attackers.
Speaking for the first time since the shocking video emerged, Patricia claims that off-camera there was a baying mob watching on as she was violently assaulted.
She said: “If I had reacted in any way, the beating would have simply been more severe.”…
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Belgium Warns EU of Larger Influx of Returning Jihadists, Urges Greater Intelligence Cooperation
As Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) loses territory in both Iraq and Syria, Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders has warned of an increasing influx of returning fighters who could carry out terror attacks in Europe.
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Don’t Questions Us! Arrogant EU Chiefs Dismiss Eurosceptic Revolution as Russian Propaganda
Bureaucrats from the EU’s Directorate-General for External Policies have penned an astonishing document which claims Vladimir Putin was behind Brexit, the Scottish independence bid and even the Wikileaks website.
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French Far-Right Leader Le Pen: A Trump-Putin-Le Pen Trio Would Result in ‘World Peace’
French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday that her election as president next year would form a trio of world leaders with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin that “would be good for world peace.”
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Progressive Cardinal: Illegal Migrants Should be Allowed to Enter Europe
The Cardinal Of Cologne Rainer Woelki has declared that Germany must have a new migrant policy and that policy should include allowing illegal migrants to bypass the law when entering Europe.
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Terrorism Deaths Are Down Worldwide, But Way Up in Richer Countries
Terrorism in 2015 was relentless.
The year began with a deadly attack at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, where armed gunman killed 12 people and wounded five others. That was followed by two attacks in Copenhagen, one at a free-speech debate and another at the city’s largest synagogue. There was a deadly assault at a Tunisian museum (and later a popular beach), and a bombing in Baghdad that killed more than 100 Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan. Then the year ended as it began, with another massacre in Paris—Europe’s worst terror attack in a decade.
Although deaths caused by terrorism fell 10% from 2014, terrorist attacks still claimed the lives of 29,376 people in 2015, according the Global Terrorism Index (pdf), put together by the Institute for Economics and Peace.
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UK: Officials Agree to Boot Out a Violent Tunisian Making a Bogus Claim to Halt Deportation
TOP JUDGES yesterday agreed to boot out a violent Tunisian making a bogus claim to halt a three year-old deportation order.
In a rare victory for common sense, the Supreme Court agreed with the Government and said the order to kick out Zouhair Ben Belacum Makhlouf did not contravene his human rights.
Theresa May ordered his deportation in 2012 when Home Secretary on the basis of a prison sentence in 2005 for GBH and possession of a weapon.
Mr Makhlouf tried to claim that would breach his human rights as it would stop him from seeing his son, who a court had already forbidden him from visiting because of his behaviour.
The decision came just 24 hours after a Supreme Court judge, Lady Hale, incensed Brexiteers by suggesting the PM should replace mountains of EU law before triggering Article 50.
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Ecuador Says Sweden Should Promise Assange Will Not be Extradited
Ecuador said on Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should receive guarantees that he will not be extradited if he faces justice in Sweden after four years of living in the South American nation’s embassy in London.
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Multi-Nationals Are Leaving Venezuela, Selling Out at Fire Sale Prices
Over the last year, General Motors, Ford Motor Company, auto parts maker Dana, Clorox, Kimberly-Clark, Bridgestone Tire, and Liberty Mutual have either sold out their Venezuelan interests at huge losses, have given their factories and properties away for free, or are planning to. Those who used to work for them are now working in another profession: as bachaqueros. This is slang for “giant ants,” used as a pejorative to describe street vendors offering their wares in the black market.
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German Immigrants Favor Social Democrats
Immigrants tend to vote for the center-left Social Democrats, while the conservative Christian Democrats clearly lag behind. Many people new to Germany do not feel represented by the major parties, a new study finds.
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Germany: Shock as Asylum Seeker Stabs Wife to Death After Throwing Her Out a Window
A town in Germany is in shock after an asylum seeker threw his wife out of a window and then proceeded to stab her to death over a reported argument between the pair.
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Germans Now Most Concerned About Immigration, Extremism, Worldwide
A monthly tracker of public attitudes towards key issues shows Germany has now overtaken the United Kingdom as the most concerned nation in Europe on the subject of immigration, a significant development for a nation which has long prided itself on their openness to migrants.
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Germany: ‘We Will Multiply Our Numbers’ Muslim Migrants Aim to Outbreed Christians, Translator Says
After working in migrant centres Germany for several years, the translator claims a number of the Muslim migrants she has spoken to have revealed a hatred for Christians and are determined to destroy the religion.
The 39-year-old translator revealed that despite her Christian beliefs she is often presumed to be Muslim and — as a result — Muslim migrants often confide in her and tell her about their dislike towards Christians.
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Hungarian Opposition to Reintroduce Migrant Ban Amendment
Hungary’s right-wing Jobbik party is to resubmit a proposed constitutional amendment to parliament which would ban the resettlement of migrants in the country, after it fell thanks to its own members voting against it.
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‘Italy is for Italians’ Angry Villagers Take to Streets in Protest at Influx of Migranst
About 700 people, armed with banners and flags, marched in Soave, Italy, against the move as thousands of migrants arrive in the country after being rescued at sea.
Small towns like Soave have largely avoided housing migrants so far but are now having to address the issue after record numbers of people arrived in the country.
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NGO: Just 13 Percent of Migrants in Europe Actually Fleeing War
Just 13.7 per cent of migrants in Europe say they are fleeing war, with most admitting they are economic migrants, a new study by Doctors of the World (MDM) has revealed.
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Public Demands Hard Brexit: 70 Percent Want UK to End Immigration When it Quits EU
THERESA MAY must deliver hard Brexit after a survey revealed 70 per cent of people think the UK should limit the amount of European citizens coming to live and work in Britain.
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Hi Baron,
When is the quarterly fundraiser ? I don’t want to miss it.
kind regards
Shelagh
Hah! You read my mind — I just posted it. 🙂
And thank you.
Ahh! now that is is a gas explosion, and not a bit like Cedar Avenue. Strange, that. S III>
This is the place for general comments.
Dymphna once referred to Obama as the emptiest of empty suits. I just watched the news conference of Obama and Merkel in Germany, and I couldn’t help thinking of Dympthna’s insightful comments. I’d like to say Obama was more vapid and shallow than usual, but this is the first extended new conference I’ve seen him in, so I can’t attest that he has not regularly achieved this peak of blandness and pointlessness.
He used the facade of refraining from criticizing the President-Elect to communicate his deep misgivings and lack of confidence in Trump. Obama really didn’t say anything worth hearing, other than that he thinks the new administration would do best to continue the policies of the Obama administration.
Obama does not come off well in the non-structured environment of a press conference, even though the German reporters tossed long, complex, smoky questions that could be answered by virtually anything he wanted to say. The German reporters, needless to say, thoroughly bought into the weltanschauung that Trump is an impulsive, narrow, ignorant racist who has a 50% chance of pushing the button just because the White House butler looked at him sideways.
As a Canadian I urge all my fellow country men and women to donate . The Baron and Dymphna deserve the support for all the hard work they put into such an intelligent site like Gates of Vienna.
I can’t wait for 2017 when President Trump makes the traditional visit to Ottawa to have a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Bieber . I’m sure it will be a civil…oops, pardon me ,…Trudeau.. ( Silly me,I have a hard time keeping those Justins straight !).
Anyway, this year was hopeful and 2017 will be for even better times. All the best to everyone for a Happy New Year ! – (from a GoV supporter in Saskatchewan).
Looks like the Germans weren’t the only ones to print up some stuff ahead of results:
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