Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/19/2016

Justin Barrett, the president of the Irish National Party, is calling for a temporary halt to Muslim immigration into Ireland. He says that adherence to the Koran makes all Muslims a potential danger to Ireland.

In other news, Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan has mounted a challenge to Nancy Pelosi for the position of House Minority Leader.

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Financial Crisis
» San Fran Home Sales Crash to Lowest Level Since 2008 as Pricing Reset Gets Underway
» Why Donald Trump Must Shut Down the Federal Reserve and Start Issuing Debt-Free Money
 
USA
» “Pizzagate”: How 4chan Uncovered the Sick World of Washington’s Occult Elite
» Anti-Trump Protesters Threaten to “Put a Bullet” In the Brain of Michigan Elector
» Doctor ‘Saw Hell’ During Out-of-Body Experience in Surgery
» Fake News Alert: Bloomberg Editor Creates Libelous Trump Tweet Out of Thin Air!
» House Democrats in Disarray as Ohio Congressman Challenges Pelosi
» Meet the Leftist Professor Who Wrote the ‘Hit List’ of “Fake News” Sites
» Paul Joseph Watson Blasts the MSM: “You’re the F**king Experts of Fake News”
» Protestors March on Trump Tower for Second Weekend
» Responsibility for Donald Trump’s Personal Safety is Obama’s
» Steve Bannon Class Enemy
» Steve Bannon Interviewed: “It’s About Americans Not Getting F-ed Over”
» Stone on Trump Cabinet Picks: Team of Nationalists
» Times When the “Mainstream Media Created Fake News”… and People Died as a Result
» TV Reporter Fired for Celebrating Trump Victory on Her Private Facebook Page
» What’s the Truth About Steve Bannon?
 
Europe and the EU
» Dutch Intelligence Experts Say ISIS Has 60-80 Operatives in Europe
» EU Strangled Greece After Colluding to Bring Athens Into Euro, Blasts Archbishop
» French Fashion Designer Refuses to Dress Melania Trump
» German Finance Minister Warns That Britain Could Still be Paying Into Brussels Coffers in 2030
» ‘ISIS Terrorsits’ Accused of Plotting to Carry Out Attacks in Spain Are Arrested
» Italy: Basilicata Governor Sentenced to Give Back 20k
» Italy: Two Pakistanis Arrested on Suspicion of ISIS Sympathies
» Nigel Farage Says Angela Merkel and Barack Obama Are in Denial
» Renzi’s Italian Referendum Threatens Euro
» Sweden Paid ISIS Fighter $600 a Month in Child Benefits
 
Mediterranean Union
» Irish National Party Calls for Temporary Ban on Muslims Entering Ireland
 
North Africa
» Skeptical Scientists Crash UN Climate Summit, Praise Trump for ‘Bringing Science Back Again’
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Why Did Democratic Congressmen Meet With Anti-Israel Terrorist?
 
Russia
» Obama, EU Leaders Agree to Keep Anti-Russia Sanctions Over Ukraine
» Russian City Honors Trump While NYC Censors Trump Signs
 
Australia — Pacific
» Springvale Commonwealth Bank Fire: Inside the Life of Alleged Bank Attacker
 
Immigration
» Renzi Stresses Impasse With EU Over Asylum Seekers
» Smuggler Feeding Migrants Diesel to Calm Them During Sea Voyage
» The System Has Failed: Hungary’s Damning Verdict on EU Migrant Regulations
» UK: Migrant Who Raped Boy, 5, Given Rehabilitation Order by Derbyshire Court
 

San Fran Home Sales Crash to Lowest Level Since 2008 as Pricing Reset Gets Underway

We have frequently written over the past couple of quarters about the bubbly San Francisco housing market that looks set for another epic reversal as home prices have reached staggering new highs just as employment levels seem to be rolling over. With home prices now implying that only 10-20% of residents can afford the “median” priced home, it’s certainly not difficult to understand why demand may be waning.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why Donald Trump Must Shut Down the Federal Reserve and Start Issuing Debt-Free Money

If Donald Trump truly wants to fix the economy, he must shut down the Federal Reserve. If he just tries to patch up our current system, he will fail, because it has been fundamentally flawed from the very beginning. A little over a century ago, very powerful forces on Wall Street convinced Congress to completely restructure our financial system. An immensely powerful central bank known as the Federal Reserve was created, and the goal was to transform the U.S. dollar into a debt-based currency that would continuously be inflated and to create an endless debt spiral from which the federal government could never possibly escape. Sadly, they were successful on both counts. Since the creation of the Federal Reserve, the value of the U.S. dollar has declined by approximately 98 percent and our national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger.

Americans tend to give most of the credit or most of the blame for the performance of the U.S. economy to our presidents, but the truth is that an unelected, unaccountable group of central bankers has far more power over our economy than anyone else does. The Federal Reserve has become known as “the fourth branch of government”, but unlike the other branches of government we are told that the Fed’s decisions are “above politics” because they are “too important”. Fed officials fiercely guard their “independence”, and they fiercely resist any “interference” from Congress, the President, or the American people.

Donald Trump can try to lower taxes and reduce regulations, but what he will be able to do to influence the economy pales in comparison to the immensely powerful tools that the Fed wields. The Fed controls interest rates, the Fed controls the money supply, and the Fed regulates the banks.

To give you an idea of how enormously powerful the Fed is, I want you to pull out a dollar bill.

As you look at that dollar bill, I want you to notice that it says “Federal Reserve Note” right at the top.

In the financial world, a “note” is an instrument of debt, and the truth is that our system was designed to create as much debt as possible.

So why are we using debt-based “Federal Reserve Notes” in the first place? Shouldn’t Congress have control over our currency?

According to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, it is Congress that has the authority to “coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures”.

So how did the Fed get involved?

Well, it is a very long and convoluted story, and if you are interested in the history behind it I would commend to you an excellent book by C. Edward Griffin entitled “The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve”. Basically, big money interests on Wall Street got their hooks into the White House and Congress, and they rushed through legislation right before Christmas in 1913 that created this insidious central banking system that was designed to slowly but surely take wealth from the American people and put it into their hands.

[Comment: The Federal Reserve is the greatest scam ever perpetrated and designed to enslave the entire country.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“Pizzagate”: How 4chan Uncovered the Sick World of Washington’s Occult Elite

[WARNING: * Disturbing Content *]

This is a very bad one. I was trying to follow this on 4chan a couple of weeks ago, but I just couldn’t stand it.

Thankfully, Vigilant Citizen has put this summary together.

Via: Vigilant Citizen:

Posters over at 4Chan and Reddit have been conducting an extremely bizarre investigation following the John Podesta e-mail leak (Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman) and the results are surreal: They’ve apparently uncovered an elite child trafficking network which celebrates its tendencies using code words and disturbing artworks.

[Comment: David Icke was sounding the alarm on this evil years ago — and as more and more news of this evil comes out he is being proven right. Globalist elites (who ensure these circles are “protected”) use the knowledge of these perversions to keep their stooges in line and ensure they do what they are told, or else. This is happening world wide (ex: the coverup in the Belgium Detroux case — http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/08/24/vt-exclusive-largest-pedophile-ring-in-history-70000-members-heads-of-state-the-rats-scramble/ , http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/belgium/358/belgian-pedophile-trafficking-ring-and-alleged-cover-up-marc-dutroux-and-nihoul/15315/ ) and is a conspiracy so big the mind refuses to grasp the depth of the horror. A quote from the book “The Franklin Coverup”: “What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how much evidence you have. This is simply one of the hard facts of life you have to face.” — Former CIA director, Cercle member and Opus Dei sympathizer William Colby giving advice to his friend Senator John DeCamp, urging him to cease his investigation into the Franklin child abuse affair and to write a book about his experiences (‘The Franklin Coverup’, 2nd edition, foreword). ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Anti-Trump Protesters Threaten to “Put a Bullet” In the Brain of Michigan Elector

“You’re a hateful bigot, I hope you die”

A member of the electoral college in Michigan is being bombarded with death threats from anti-Trump protesters, one of whom vowed to “put a bullet” in his brain if he didn’t change his vote in favor of Hillary Clinton.

Anti-Trump agitators have been emailing electors in red states for over a week in an effort to convince or intimidate them into breaking the law and overturning the outcome of the election.

22-year-old Michael Banerian, one of Michigan’s 16 Electoral College voters, told the Detroit News that he has received a deluge of hateful messages from leftists, including numerous death threats.

“I’ve had people talk about shoving a gun in my mouth and blowing my brains out. And I’ve received dozens and dozens of those emails. Even the non-threatening-my-life emails are very aggressive,” said Banerian, adding that he has been labeled a “hateful bigot” by the same people who are violently threatening him.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Doctor ‘Saw Hell’ During Out-of-Body Experience in Surgery

The former chief anaesthetist at Bakersfield Heart Hospital in California, gave a harrowing first person account of his out-of body experience as he went under the knife.

And the ordeal convinced him to leave conventional medicine and sell off his luxury possessions, including his mansion and fleet of supercars, in order to lead a simpler, more virtuous life.

As he felt himself leave his anaesthetized body he said: ““I was now seriously frightened. What was going on? Would my untethered consciousness ever get back into my body — or was I destined to roam through eternity as a spirit?

“I flew up to the ceiling as the medics operated.

“Was I dead? I felt like an astronaut who’d left his spacesuit, only to find that a suit was unnecessary to begin with. With rising panic, I looked back and forth at the two scenes — until both started to fade like a fast-setting sun. Everything went dark. I was relieved: I’m returning to my body, I thought.

“Then came a jolt of pure fear. To my right, I heard screams of pain and anguish. I was drawn in, as if on a moving pavement, to the edge of a flaming canyon. Smoke filled my nostrils, and with it the sickening odour of burning flesh. I knew then that I was on the lip of hell.

“I tried to turn away, but each time I took a step back, an unseen force moved me forward. A voice spoke to me telepathically. ‘You have led a materialistic and selfish life,’ it said. I knew that was true, and felt ashamed. Over the years, I’d lost empathy for my patients.”…

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Fake News Alert: Bloomberg Editor Creates Libelous Trump Tweet Out of Thin Air!

Article cites bogus, non-existent tweet from Trump admitting he “cheated more than 6,000 students”

A Bloomberg News piece featured as a main headline on the widely trafficked news aggregator DrudgeReport.com cites a quote from President Elect Donald Trump that doesn’t exist.

[Comment: Bloomberg later corrected their tweet, but would they have done so if others had not caught the lie?]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

House Democrats in Disarray as Ohio Congressman Challenges Pelosi

An Ohio Congressman has launched a long-shot campaign to oust House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as Democrats struggle to craft a coherent post-election message.

Ohio Representative Tim Ryan launched his campaign for House Minority Leader in a letter to House Democrats, suggesting it was time to “bring a new voice into leadership” following Donald Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton and a poor showing by Democrats in House and Senate races across the country.

“While having a position in Democratic leadership has never been my life’s ambition, after this election I believe we all need to reevaluate our roles within the caucus, the Democratic Party, and our country,” Ryan wrote. “That is why I am announcing my run for minority leader.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Meet the Leftist Professor Who Wrote the ‘Hit List’ of “Fake News” Sites

Melissa Zimdars is a troll.

The mainstream media are going wild circulating a viral list of so-called “fake news” websites — and the list includes established news sites like WND, Zero Hedge, Breitbart, Red State, the Daily Wire and Project Veritas — but WND has found a leftist, Trump-bashing assistant professor in Massachusetts who specialized in “fat studies” is behind the effort to target and discredit legitimate news organizations.

Meet Merrimack College Assistant Professor Melissa Zimdars, a 30-something self-identified feminist and activist who has expressed great dislike for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence.

She’s only actually held her teaching position at the private college in North Andover, Mass., for 15 months.

Zimdars published and circulated a list of “fake, false, or regularly misleading websites that are shared on Facebook and social media.” She said she began writing the list because she didn’t approve of the sources her students were citing.

The problem?

In addition to some satirical and bogus sites, her list attacks the credibility of well-established news organizations such as Breitbart, BizPac Review, Red State, the Blaze, the Independent Journal Review, Twitchy, the Daily Wire, WND and James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. In many cases (such as with her WND listing), she offers no explanation for why the news organizations were included on the list.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Paul Joseph Watson Blasts the MSM: “You’re the F**king Experts of Fake News”

Paul Joseph Watson is back with another epic rant…this time eviscerating the mainstream media for spreading an obviously biased list of “fake news” sources compiled by a left-wing assistant professor in an obvious attempt to undermine conservative news outlets.

We wrote about the list a couple days ago as Zero Hedge itself was actually a target of Melissa “Mish” Zimdars’ fake news wrath. To our complete “shock”, the list of fake news sources created by the self-described “feminist, activist” who is an avid supporter of numerous “neutral” political groups, like Occupy Wall Street, included several conservative news outlets like Breitbart and InfoWars but somehow missed leftist sites like The Huffington Post which was exposed by WikiLeaks to have been overtly colluding with the Hillary Clinton campaign.

As always, here are a couple of our favorite lines though the full clip is a must see.

Oh, and when they say “fake news,” that includes any reporting or opinion that contradicts their leftist narrative.

Who gave the mainstream media the right to be judge, jury and executioner of what constitutes “fake news”? All you do is put out fake news. You’re the aficionado of fake news. You put out the fake news that Hillary Clinton was 98% likely to win the presidency. You printed out and shipped copies of Newsweek celebrating “Madam President.” You put out fake, rigged polls that were proven spectacularly wrong. You create fake narratives like Trump being responsible for violence at his own rallies when it was DNC-funded agitators all along. You’re the f*cking experts of fake news.

As WikiLeaks exposed, you’re a public relations front for the Democratic Party. You lost the argument. You trashed your own credibility. And now you’re trying to resurrect it by claiming that everyone that beat you is “fake news”. Give me a break.

[Comment: Watch the video.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Protestors March on Trump Tower for Second Weekend

More than a week after Donald Trump was elected president, at least 200 protesters and onlookers crowded Federal Plaza at noontime ahead of a milelong march to Trump Tower as families waited for the evening’s Festival of Lights parade on the Mag Mile.

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

Responsibility for Donald Trump’s Personal Safety is Obama’s

If ANYTHING should happen to Donald Trump then FULL responsibility should devolve upon Barack Hussein Obama, President of the so-called “United” States, and his Chief of the so-called Department of Homeland “Security,” Jeh Charles Johnson.

These ARE the men charged with Donald Trump’s PROTECTION. It’s they who are responsible. They have the liability. And it’s part of their sworn, Constitutional Duty.

So what is this game people are playing with death threats against Trump, the rioters, lying media, idiot entertainers, precious snowflakes, and severely disgruntled other Democrats?

The states and their leaders are usually thought of as American, united, and secure.

But these states of America are neither united, nor secure. And Barry Soetoro’s personally chosen new name, “Barack Hussein Obama,” is Arabic. The name “ Jeh” is the name of an African tribal chief.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Steve Bannon Class Enemy

Let’s face it Steve Bannon is a class enemy. Next they’ll call him a kulak- — – -or fascist. His crime on top of being an anti-Semitic, homophobic, racist, and Islamophobic, was standing up against the left wing media establishment. But it’s worse than that- — he beat them! Yet his biggest crime against the state was wanting to stop the destruction of the U.S. Leading a successful conservative media establishment and presenting an alternative narrative, can be thrown in the mix. They might even call him, hold your breath, a capitalist a deadly label for the left. Definitely not like Obama, Soros and the Clintons, proletarian poseurs and provocateurs while privately jetting on the public’s dollar.

The plebes have infallible assurance that the anti Trump and anti-Bannon demonsrtations were organized by the Alt-left when demonstrators called Bannon a “Nazi.”In the cold war communists invariably called their opponents, investigative committees, Joseph McCarthy and others “Nazis”while claiming that they opposed fascist totalitarianism, even while supporting the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.

This election was about Donald Trump. Sure. But it was also a referendum on the fourth estate. While technically not on the ballot, the drama queens and fellow occupiers pontificated and lobbied for Clinton day and night. And attacked Trump. The deplorables noticed. The plebes in flyover country also noticed. For those in the media who need a remedial course in news and networks, the plebes have been noticing it for a while. And certainly Bannon noticed. And that is part of the reason they didn’t trust the media to say who they would vote for. That simple. They’re not on the side of the people. The Marxist operatives worked for eight years creating agitation and divisiveness: religion against religion; race against race; player against player; and congress and bureaucracy against the people. They’re on the side of the elites, the former ruling class, from elite schools, elite foundations, elite hedge funds, elite neighborhoods. The media-political complex was one. Get one, you get the other.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Steve Bannon Interviewed: “It’s About Americans Not Getting F-ed Over”

Bannon next discusses the “battle line” inside America’s great divide.

He absolutely — mockingly — rejects the idea that this is a racial line. “I’m not a white nationalist, I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist,” he tells me. “The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia. The issue now is about Americans looking to not get f-ed over. If we deliver-” by “we” he means the Trump White House “-we’ll get 60 percent of the white vote, and 40 percent of the black and Hispanic vote and we’ll govern for 50 years. That’s what the Democrats missed, they were talking to these people with companies with a $9 billion market cap employing nine people. It’s not reality. They lost sight of what the world is about.”

Trump’s strategist views himself as a simple symbol: the “fall of the establishment.” He also slams the media: “The media bubble is the ultimate symbol of what’s wrong with this country…It’s just a circle of people talking to themselves who have no f-ing idea what’s going on. If The New York Times didn’t exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern.” He’s right.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Stone on Trump Cabinet Picks: Team of Nationalists

Anti-ISIS Flynn taking job Kissinger once had!

President-elect Donald Trump’s recent nominations of Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General and retired Gen. Mike Flynn for National Security Advisor are the latest examples of how Trump’s administration is shaping up to be a nationalist dream team, says insider Roger Stone.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Times When the “Mainstream Media Created Fake News”… and People Died as a Result

5 Times Corporate Media Got Caught Publishing Fake News Causing the Death & Suffering of Millions

Editor’s Comment: While the powers that be are determining the fate of alternative media voices that are now branded under the dubious label “fake news” and blacked out from online search results, it is worth keeping in mind all the disinformation and downright lies that have been perpetrated by the corporate news media — typically hand in hand with a political agenda.

Whether it is lies that took us to war, or the perception that a deadly attack was carried out by a certain group, the impressions they create play a significant role in determining world events. Often times, that role is one of deception, ensnaring people into supporting deadly and costly actions — in spite of the true facts.

These misleaders are the fake news, and the fake news problem has helped to ruin this country.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

TV Reporter Fired for Celebrating Trump Victory on Her Private Facebook Page

Scarlett Fakhar was a reporter on KRIV-TV — a Fox affiliate in Houston, Texas — until a post she made celebrating the election of Donald Trump on her personal Facebook page, which was set to private, was made public.

In the post, Fakhar expressed glee at Trump’s victory, writing, “Since everyone is talking about how they woke up this morning…ill (sic) just go ahead and say I could barely sleep from how happy and relieved I was.”

After saying she’d “prayed about this for a long time,” Fakhar lamented how the country “has become more violent and racist under the Obama administration.”

Continuing, Fakhar wrote:

Want to talk about going downhill? Look what Obama has done… How is made the entire country hate one another. Were you happy with how many people were killing each other in our own country? I work in news… And I hate to say it… But the number of African-Americans killing one another far outweighs the number of them being killed by whites. And now you have groups murdering police officers both black and white. How did this happen under the Obama administration? You guys want another administration like that?

Fakher then pointer her words toward millennial college supporters of Clinton. “And to all the college kids who wanted Hillary’s free education? HELLO? I have student loans…but I also have a job,” she wrote. “No one is entitled to anything. Get an education…then work hard like the rest of us. I will not be paying for your laziness.”

“And you want their money?” she asked. “Because you decided it’s ‘not fair.’ The founding fathers created a country based on capitalism. And that’s when it worked best.”

Finishing, Fakhar recounted how her father legally immigrated to the US from Iran with little money, working his way through college to become a successful engineer in spite of the fact that he didn’t know anyone or the language when he arrived.

She ended her post with, “God is so good. And He had a hand in this election.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

What’s the Truth About Steve Bannon?

The demonization of Stephen K. Bannon from all angles as soon as he was named Trump’s chief strategist was unlike anything I can recall. It was even worse than what the media said about Trump throughout his campaign, which immediately made me wonder — is this guy really as horrible as they say?

If I, someone who reads news constantly, can’t be sure what to make of Bannon, how is it possible that millions of Americans on Twitter and Facebook could be so sure he’s a “white nationalist” and anti-Semite? The simple answer is that the media told them so, which is extremely dangerous. As such, I decided to start reading as much as I could about Bannon.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Dutch Intelligence Experts Say ISIS Has 60-80 Operatives in Europe

NEW YORK — Intelligence experts estimate that the Islamic State extremist group has between 60 and 80 operatives planted in Europe to carry out attacks, the Dutch counterterrorism coordinator said Friday.

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

EU Strangled Greece After Colluding to Bring Athens Into Euro, Blasts Archbishop

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has blasted the Brussels elite who ‘strangled the hopes and futures’ of Greece, after fiddling the sums so that Athens could join the euro.

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

French Fashion Designer Refuses to Dress Melania Trump

(CTV News) A French fashion designer, known for dressing first lady Michelle Obama, has vowed to never outfit incoming first lady Melania Trump. She made the pledge in an open letter posted online on Thursday.

Sophie Theallet writes that she is boycotting Melania because she objects to the policies her husband president-elect Donald Trump espoused during the U.S. election.

[Comment: She is doing Melania a favour…Michelle Obama’s outfits were ugly.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

German Finance Minister Warns That Britain Could Still be Paying Into Brussels Coffers in 2030

We’re not letting EU go!

Britain could be forced to write cheques to Brussels until 2030 despite leaving the EU, the German finance minister has warned.

Wolfgang Schauble delivered his blustering warning as Theresa May flew into Berlin for talks with Angela Merkel and other world leaders.

Mr Schauble said post-Brexit Britain would be bound by tax rules restricting it from granting incentives to keep investors in the country.

He also insisted there will be no special deal to curb freedom of movement if the UK wants to remain part of the common market.

Signalling that the bloc is determined to take a tough line in looming negotiations, Mr Shauble — a key ally of Mrs Merkel — said: ‘Until the UK’s exit is complete, Britain will certainly have to fulfil its commitments.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘ISIS Terrorsits’ Accused of Plotting to Carry Out Attacks in Spain Are Arrested

Two suspected ISIS terrorists, who authorities say were willing to carry out attacks in Spain, have been arrested in Barcelona and Madrid.

The Moroccan pair were ‘dangerous’ and ‘directed and controlled’ by the terror group, Spanish Ministry of Interior officials said.

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

Italy: Basilicata Governor Sentenced to Give Back 20k

A total of 22 convicted in improper expenses claims case

(ANSA) — Potenza, November 17 — An Audit Court ruled Thursday that Basilicata Governor Marcello Pittella (Democratic Party — PD) must give back 20,274.88 euros for damages the region sustained via improper expenses claims that were reserved for councillors and other officials. The court found a total of 22 defendants guilty and acquitted four people, including current health undersecretary Vito De Filippo (PD) over expenses claims while he served as Basilicata governor. Pittella’s lawyers said their client was not at fault and that all the expenses claims were for institutional activities.

The case involves expenses incurred in 2010-2012 while Pittella served as a regional council member and as a cabinet member.

Also sentenced to give money back was former Basilicata council member Francesco Mollica of the small centrist UDC party.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Two Pakistanis Arrested on Suspicion of ISIS Sympathies

In Benevento

(ANSA) — Benevento, November 17 — Police in the Campania city of Benevento on Thursday arrested two Pakistani youths on suspicion they sympathize with the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group. Anti-terrorism investigators found photos and videos exalting ISIS in their apartment in central Benevento. The operation is ongoing and law enforcement is not disclosing further information at this time.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Nigel Farage Says Angela Merkel and Barack Obama Are in Denial

Hailing 2016 the year of ‘two big political revolutions’ Nigel Farage said Angela Merkel and Barack Obama are ‘in denial’ over the public’s rejection of the political establishment.

Speaking on Fox News, the UKIP leader said Obama and the German Chancellor ‘simply can’t face up to the fact that their worldview has taken an absolute beating in the year of 2016’.

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

Renzi’s Italian Referendum Threatens Euro

THE euro could be at risk if the Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi does not win the referendum on his constitutional reforms, which could plunge the already troubled European Union into fresh chaos.

The Italian premier, Mr Renzi, has vowed to resign if he loses his referendum on constitutional change to improve Rome’s slow and costly government.

Polls show that the Italian people will reject the referendum, but many voters have still not decided.

If the no vote does win then there would be the potential for the Italians to elect parties that could call for a vote on whether the country should stay in the European Union.

If Italy were to leave the EU, it would plunge the single currency into crisis.

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

Sweden Paid ISIS Fighter $600 a Month in Child Benefits

A Swedish fighter for the terror group ISIS claimed over 50,000 Swedish kroner in benefits while living and working in its Raqqa stronghold.

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

Irish National Party Calls for Temporary Ban on Muslims Entering Ireland

The president of the Irish National Party has called for a temporary ban on Muslims coming into Ireland.

Justin Barrett told Sean Moncrieff here on Newstalk there is “a need for a temporary ban” on Muslim people entering Ireland, as part of his organisation’s broader call for a completely new approach to immigration policy in this country.

Mr Barrett claims this is necessary due to a rise in Islamic fundamentalism in Ireland.

He also took the view that “all of them (Muslims) are potentially dangerous”.

Mr Barrett explained his belief that the Koran is in itself an incitement to radicalisation — saying “you will find support for drenching the world in bloodshed in the Koran”.

He rejected the idea that his views were fascist, saying the term can be “thrown at anybody who basically doesn’t agree with the liberal left consensus”.

Mr Barrett and Sean got into a debate over the definition of open boarders.

“Anybody can come from anywhere, anytime”, Mr Barrett said.

Sean interrupted: “You can come if you’re a citizen of the European Union, yes, but anybody else needs a visa to come here.”

Mr Barrett added: “No they don’t — they need the word ‘asylum’, they need to be able to pronounce the word ‘asylum’“.

“I would like to see the asylum seeker process being a proper asylum seeking process.

“It’s estimated by An Garda Síochána that 97% of asylum applications are transparently bogus as soon as the words are spoken”, Mr Barrett claimed…

[Et tu Paddy?]

           — Hat tip: MC [Return to headlines]
 

Skeptical Scientists Crash UN Climate Summit, Praise Trump for ‘Bringing Science Back Again’

MARRAKECH, Morocco — A team of international scientists crashed the UN climate summit in Marrakech and welcomed the election of Donald Trump as a way to bring positive reforms to climate science. The three scientists from Paraguay, Norway and Sweden, were granted a presentation by the UN to present the skeptical climate change view and they praised Trump for rejecting the UN “global warming” claims. The three scientists were also hopeful that Trump’s presidency will help end the politicized UN climate agenda.

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

Why Did Democratic Congressmen Meet With Anti-Israel Terrorist?

Five congressional Democrats met with an Arab terrorist affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the organization responsible for the assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi and decades of murderous terror attacks on Israeli civilians and security forces.

The five House Democrats, including Luis Gutierrez (Illinois), Hank Johnson (Georgia), Matt Cartwright (Pennsylvania), Dan Kildee (Michigan), and Mark Pocan (Wisconsin), toured Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem on a guided tour paid for by the American Global Institute.

The AGI, which was founded by Sudanese-born Arab lobbyist Alsadig Omer Khalafalla, covered the expenses for the five congressmen — amounting to between $11,000 and $15,000 for each participant.

During the trip, the five met with Shawan Jabarin, whom the itinerary described as the General Director of Al-Haq, for a discussion on “Palestinian political prisoners”.

What the AGI itinerary failed to note, however, are Jabarin’s ties to terrorism.

A member of the PFLP, Jabarin was convicted for his efforts to enlist support abroad for attacks on Israel. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but was released after nine months due to respiratory difficulties.

While Jabarin has since denied any ties to the terror group after his release from prison, rebranding himself as a “human rights activist”, a 2007 ruling by the Supreme Court found that he has used his ties with alleged human rights groups to conceal his terrorist activities.[…]

None of the five congressmen responded to questions posed by The Weekly Standard regarding the meeting with Jabarin. The Standard noted that while 71 members of congress had been invited to participate in the tour, only five accepted.[…]

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Obama, EU Leaders Agree to Keep Anti-Russia Sanctions Over Ukraine

US President Barack Obama and EU leaders have agreed to keep anti-Russian sanctions in place for a further year over the situation in Ukraine.

President Obama, who is on his final official visit to Europe, met with the leaders of Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the UK on Friday.

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Russian City Honors Trump While NYC Censors Trump Signs

Russia sick of warmongering by Obama and Hillary

Two stories — one of resentment by Hillary supporters in NYC who want Trump’s name removed from their apartment building and one of relief in a Russia town where the people have petitioned for a street to be renamed “Donald Trump Street.”

The Russian town have a sense that they have been reprieved from war, from the warmongering agenda of Obama that would certainly have been escalated by Hillary Clinton, but it is also a tale of two directions.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Springvale Commonwealth Bank Fire: Inside the Life of Alleged Bank Attacker

A sheetless, unmade single bed. A small chest of drawers. This is where the man accused of injuring 26 people, including children, in the Springvale Commonwealth Bank fire slept in the corner of a share house lounge room.

Retrieving the accelerant he would use to set himself alight, CCTV from a local cafe shows the alleged arsonist moments before he entered the Springvale Commonwealth Bank. Vision courtesy Seven News, Melbourne.

As investigations continue into the horrific events on Friday, a disturbing picture has begun to emerge of the man allegedly behind the arson attack.

The 21-year-old, known to his friends as Nur Islam, is a Rohingya asylum seeker from Myanmar who has been in Australia since 2013.

Springvale Commonwealth Bank fire: as it unfolded at Dandenong Hospital

‘I really thought I was gonna die’: Mother feared for her children

Friends and community leaders said he had “struggled mentally” in recent months. Flatmates said he had become increasingly agitated at his inability to access Centrelink payments that he believed were owed to him.

One member of the Rohingya community, Abdul Hamid, said Nur appeared quiet when he recently saw him.

“He wasn’t talking too much because of his mental problems,” he said.

Mr Hamid was at home when he heard of the attack. “We feel very bad, everyone was very concerned,” he said. “About the bank, the injuries and the people.”…

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Renzi Stresses Impasse With EU Over Asylum Seekers

Sources say refugees part of discussion at Berlin summit

(ANSA) — Berlin, November 18 — Migration was one of the issued discussed at Friday’s summit of the heads of state and government of the United States, Italy, Germany, France, Spain and Britain today in Berlin, sources said. During the discussion Italian Premier Matteo Renzi stressed the difficulties raised by the asylum seeker crisis and the EU impasse on this issue. The summit is the last such event at which outgoing United States President Barack Obama will participate.

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Smuggler Feeding Migrants Diesel to Calm Them During Sea Voyage

Smugglers who transport migrants from North Africa across the Mediterranean to Europe are said to have given many of them a mixture of diesel and other substances to keep them quiet.

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The System Has Failed: Hungary’s Damning Verdict on EU Migrant Regulations

Protecting the European Union’s external borders is now both essential for solving the migration crisis and keeping the EU together as a political entity, the Hungarian Deputy State Secretary for European and American Relations said.

After unsuccessful negotiations with Holland, Mr Altusz said: “Time has proven that the quota-based system determined by the EU for the distribution of 160,000 immigrants who are awaiting resettlement does not work.”

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

UK: Migrant Who Raped Boy, 5, Given Rehabilitation Order by Derbyshire Court

The teen, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the boy to perform a sex act on him just months after arriving in the UK from Europe to be with his father.

He threatened the five-year-old not to tell anyone and then started crying in a bedroom immediately after committing the rape.

The victim told his mum about the day after the attack in Derby on October 30 last year and the 15-year-old was arrested…

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

5 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/19/2016

  1. Pizzagate, as the article confirms, is really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to who and what controls this world.

    Winston Churchill once quipped ; when those who find out who really controls this world pick themselves up and dust themselves off, they carry on as if nothing happened – or words to that effect.

    Such is the impact of a revelation that is so contrary to the normal human experience of this world, even among the very faithful, that very few will ever take up the gauntlet to partake in correcting what they have learned, and what they learn is so abhorrent to them and their view of human existence, that what they have learned, is better left forgotten.

    As an ex-police officer who experienced many things that everyday people would never expect to have to deal with in their day to day lives and the experience of which inures one to a certain kind of hardness of emotion to life in general, what I have learned in my retirement is something that is so disturbing that it clutches at the very soul of one’s existence, and that what is learned is so obviously evil, that one not wanting to accept the existence of an Evil One, must through experiencing much of the evidence come to accept that such a thing does exist.

  2. http://youtu.be/3KSJY0c8QWw

    http://youtu.be/wUkpeQNyZUg

    Status Quo prevails – basically, but a patriotic public opinion might be growing, Let the good societal preservers continue to dwell on their
    “racism” and “humanity” and the maximal idioty of “every man’s equal value” and convince themselves that it really is the “class struggle” people want,
    while the patriotic breeze is increasing in intensity and hopefully will reach full storm strength eventually.

  3. Muslims in the Republic of Ireland are on a roll. Northern Ireland just says, “No!” Especially to mosques. I look around and I ask myself, “Do the Irish even know what they are doing?” They have imported an ultra racist, anti white, anti Christian death cult that is a guarantee of permanent future civil strife, conflict and war. Forever idol Islam. Too bad.

  4. .
    ELOQUENCE ON HIGH-LEVEL

    Deutschland das Schlachtfeld Europe’s! – Andreas Popp & Václav Klaus

    https://youtu.be/TQIFSjE4eo4

    Publiced the 16 nov. 2016
    Mass migration, media and Merkel, “Germany the battlefield of Europe!” – Andreas Popp, Václav Klaus & Eva Herman

    Andreas Popp has never been so unanimous with a leadership politician as at this meeting. The founder of the Manufacture of Knowledge Institution in Europe and Germany recently met with the former President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, in Dresden. The interview with the two was led by ex-Tagesschau spokeswoman Eva Herman.

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