Last night we posted an essay by Akif Pirinçci that referred to a culture-enricher’s attempt to murder his wife, which included tying a rope around her neck and dragging her behind his car.
The incident occurred in the German town of Hameln. Many thanks to Ava Lon for translating this report on the incident, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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The following report from Junge Freiheit TV describes the way multiculti laws on the use of DNA evidence prevent the solution of cases in which victims are raped and murdered.
In an interview the ever-outspoken Rainer Wendt, the head of the German police union, weighs in on the degree to which police are hobbled by politically correct laws in their investigation of crimes.
Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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As everyone already knows, on Friday the business section of The Washington Post published an article about so-called “fake news” propagated on the Internet. The Russian propaganda services are said to be behind this disinformation, with many American websites helping to spread it, deliberately or otherwise.
One of the WaPo’s principal sources for the story was a website called “PropOrNot”. For some reason the author, Craig Timberg, failed to link the site, although he linked many others. However, in its post on the piece, Zero Hedge provides a link to the 200 “fake news” websites listed by PropOrNot. Gates of Vienna was not illustrious enough to make the Post’s article, but PropOrNot has honored us by including us in the list of sites that retail “fake news”.
Interestingly enough, much more prominent sites were omitted from that list, including Jihad Watch. I’ll discuss the likely reasons for such omissions, but first I’d like to look at the “journalism” practiced by The Washington Post, which relies on PropOrNot and other “independent researchers” to designate a wide swath of information sources as inadequate, inferior, and false, branding them as worthy of shunning and shaming.
There’s no real need to defend ourselves against the assertion that we propagate “fake news”. Ever since the LGF Wars of nine years ago, the various designations assigned to us have become badges of honor. We’ve been called “neo-fascist” (Little Green Footballs), “Islamophobic” (the OIC), a “hate site” (innumerable sources), and “Breivik’s mentor” (also innumerable sources). I’ll just frame the “fake news site” certificate and put it on the wall alongside all the others.
But think about it — the typical post at Gates of Vienna is a news article, op-ed, or video translated from a foreign language. Most of those are from the European MSM. The articles and op-eds are sourced to the original, and the videos have logos or other graphics that identify the outlet that aired them. The sources can be tracked down and checked by someone who speaks the language to see whether what we posted was accurately rendered from the original.
In what way can that be considered “fake news”? If such posts are “fake”, then the phrase “real news” has no meaning.
I have a theory about how we ended up on that list, but I’ll get to that later.
Consider the following blurb that appeared directly below the WaPo article when I accessed it:
The Post Recommends
Donald Trump pulls a bait and switch on America
But there’s reason to be thankful for his insincerity.
Now, that’s real news, as oppose to the fake stuff we put out here in the fever swamps.
PropOrNot.com is a new website. It was registered as a domain on August 21 of this year. According to its introductory page, it was launched as a website on October 30 — nine days before the presidential election.
Hmmm…
Furthermore, the site does not identify itself as representing any particular organization. It is simply a website, with no visible connection to any corporation or non-profit that might have done the “research” (although a quick look at PropOrNot’s friends as displayed on its sidebar is instructive).
And this is the resource that the renowned Washington Post used to identify “fake news” websites.
Hmmm again…
It reminds me of the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose designations of “hate groups” are used by DHS and other organs of the federal government to determine who should be persecuted monitored for “extremism”. PropOrNot seems to serve a similar purpose, but with a different action vector.
But more on that later. Let’s take a closer look at what The Washington Post has to say about where fake news comes from, and who helps spread it.
Like most other MSM writers, Craig Timberg presumably lives in an ideological bubble and is never required to question the cognitive framework he imposes on raw data to make his judgments. As a result, his analysis is riddled with unexamined premises. I’ll try to tease those out, along with other ideological attributes than can be deduced from his prose.
Below are extensive excerpts from the article, with my exegeses interpolated:
Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say
The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation.
Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery — including thousands of botnets, teams of paid human “trolls,” and networks of websites and social-media accounts — echoed and amplified right-wing sites across the Internet as they portrayed Clinton as a criminal hiding potentially fatal health problems and preparing to hand control of the nation to a shadowy cabal of global financiers. The effort also sought to heighten the appearance of international tensions and promote fear of looming hostilities with nuclear-armed Russia. [emphasis added]
First of all: Yes, it’s true that Russia engages in extensive information warfare on the Internet using the methods described in the first half of the second paragraph. Its operations have been fairly well-documented over the past five years or so.
But look at the second half of the same paragraph and consider the three unexamined premises underlying those sentences:
| 1. | “portrayed Clinton as a criminal” | |
| Hillary Clinton is a criminal, she just hasn’t been indicted or prosecuted. The director of the FBI, no less, acknowledged that her mishandling of classified emails broke the law. Furthermore, she has now been clearly shown to have lied under oath on several occasions, although no prosecution has been initiated against her so far — presumably because the investigatory organs and the Justice Department have been under control of her allies. This is a fact-based analysis. Why is it “fake news”? | ||
| 2. | “potentially fatal health problems” | |
| What does Craig Timberg know about Hillary’s health problems that the rest of us don’t? As far as I know, her full medical records have never been made available to the public. So he has no more idea than we do about the reasons for her stumbling, slurring, swooning, eye-swiveling, pop-eyed maniacal laughter, and bizarre head-bobbing. We don’t know whether these symptoms are caused by Parkinson’s, dipsomania, head trauma, brain lesions, or something else. But they exist, and Mr. Timberg’s explanation (or non-explanation) of them is no more reality-based than anyone else’s. So why is his considered fact, while the others are “fake news”? | ||
| 3. | “promote fear of looming hostilities” | |
| The fear of war with Russia was being ginned up by the Obama administration and the Hillary campaign in the weeks leading up to the election. The pattern of events was clear, based on who leaked what to whom in the compliant organs of the mainstream media. The fomenting of war fever by an incumbent party just before an election is a time-honored American tradition. Remember Lyndon Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin incident? War with the USA would definitely not serve Russian interests. So why isn’t assigning Russia the blame for the fear of war considered “fake news”? |
Next:
Two teams of independent researchers found that the Russians exploited American-made technology platforms to attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment, as an insurgent candidate harnessed a wide range of grievances to claim the White House. The sophistication of the Russian tactics may complicate efforts by Facebook and Google to crack down on “fake news,” as they have vowed to do after widespread complaints about the problem.
Now we’re getting to the meat of the issue. Facebook and Google need to crack down on “fake news” to help their preferred candidates get elected and stay in office. They say they are responding to “widespread complaints”. Who complained? How do we know who put them up to complaining? Could they be paid provocateurs using the same tactics as the Russians, but working for the opposing side? Who pays them?
Ah, but asking those questions constitutes exactly the “fake news” that must be cracked down on. In other words: “We in the MSM know that the Russians are devious manipulators of the American political process, whereas we, the anointed purveyors of truth — especially Google and Facebook — are unbiased and impartial in our assessments.”
Uh-huh.
Next:
Fidel Castro, the long-time leader of Cuba after the revolution of 1959, has died at the age of 90. Depending on one’s point of view, Mr. Castro was either a kind and visionary man much beloved by little children, or a brutal Communist dictator who had innumerable “enemies of the revolution” executed by firing squad. Take your pick. World leaders extolled the late Communist leader as a progressive icon, with the notable exception of president-elect Donald Trump, who referred to the cigar-chomping Fidel as a “brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades.”
In other news, although more than a thousand women were assaulted in Cologne last New Year’s Eve — and many of those assaults took the form of sexual molestation — only six perpetrators have thus far been convicted in the courts.
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Akif Pirinçci is a best-selling author and commentator in Germany. Despite his Turkish origins, he continually confounds the cultural establishment with his intractably politically incorrect opinions. If he were a native German, Mr. Pirinçci would have long ago been labeled a “racist” and a “neo-Nazi”.
The following essay is from the author’s blog, by way of Politically Incorrect. Many thanks to JLH for the translation:
Dragging is Trending
by Akif Pirinçci
November 22, 2016Two recent reports made us prick up our ears. On Saturday, in the Lower Saxony town of Hameln, a man used a rope to tie his wife to the trailer hitch of his car, and then dragged her through town. Both the sportsman and the sporting equipment have an Arabic-Kurdish immigration background, and therefore are not a part of those “who already live in Germany” (h/t Angela Merkel) and/or are under no suspicion of racism and sexism, as is seen by the fact that the one being dragged is not an old white man and does not post any hate comments on Facebook. It is a scandal that the press is hyping the incident so as to create a completely false picture of the leisure activities of foreign cultures. After all, many trendy and fun types of sport have come to us by way of refugees. Like homo-hanging (Iran), beheading (Iraq) or knifing (Turkey), which are now promising to overtake soccer in popularity.
What is needed for dragging is, first, a robust vehicle with all-wheel drive, preferably an SUV. And spare no expense to acquire a quality rope. There must be an insistence on heat-treated nylon fibers, solid thread tension, and a closely meshed braiding pattern, if you’re really going to have fun. Finally, what you are dragging is important. Exact linguistic usage is difficult, even in the official, semi-annual dragging competition in the “Southland”. It is almost impossible to decide between “t**t” and “stupid t**t.” It is acceptable for the beginner to add some t**t-like expression, without regard to the dragee’s age, education or volume of shrieking during the “run.” When training has taken hold and you have become a pro, you may indulge in having a “filthy slut” on the line. But be careful on the curves. Those t**ts like to wrap themselves around light poles.
The second report corresponds to the first. In Lower Saxony, the red-green parties have introduced in the legislature an application for multi-lingual instruction. One-quarter of the state’s residents have foreign roots and speak primarily Turkish, Farsi or Polish. So these languages should be offered as regular courses. In order to have a graduation examination in Turkish or Farsi, the state would need teachers with corresponding native language ability. What may sound odd at first, can naturally only be the first step. After all, what sense is there in translating Faust into Turkish or offering biology in Farsi, when Allah has created everything? The content of German education has nothing to do with the reality of the lives of these children and young people. The graduation examination could just as easily be outsourced to the Islamic State in the Near East. Better to give this one-quarter of the residents of Lower Saxony one-quarter of the land, so everyone can keep to themselves and there will be no Tower of Babel — just as the integration law requires. At any rate, attention must be given to the building of an efficient pipeline between the hosts and the new diversity lands, through which social welfare can flow smoothly. And there can also be cooperation in getting together now and then for communal dragging.
After the latest uprising in the Harmanli asylum center, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is now considering deporting the entire population of the camp. Below is a panel discussion from Bulgarian television about the logistics of deportation, and the migrant role in drug trafficking.
Many thanks to Tanya T for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript (based on the times in the original clip):
French citizens who have the highest earnings are leaving the country in record numbers. In other words, the French tax base is hemorrhaging.
Nevertheless, the French government has just increased the amount of money — taxpayers’ money — offered to illegal immigrants to persuade them to return home. The bribes have now reached obscene levels. Needless to say, the migrants are ready to scam the system to milk it for as much as they can get.
Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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The well-known German opinion writer Anabel Schunke has earned a thirty-day suspension from Facebook for exposing (if that is the right word) the obscene harassment she experienced from a culture-enricher.
Nash Montana, who translated the video below, includes this brief introduction:
Apparently Anabel Schunke was blocked on Facebook for thirty days for posting a screen shot that showed an immigrant sexually harassing her, telling her that maybe she just needed some [details redacted].
She says she is crying and sad about it because she was planning a Christmas donation campaign. She had talked to several authors and friends about donating autographed books etc. to raise money for the local homeless shelter and animal shelter.
Facebook is not the end-all of campaign donations, but I understand why she’s upset. She has a huge following and could have raised a fair amount of money.
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to unleash a new wave of Third-World migrants upon Europe. Mr. Erdogan’s angry announcement about “opening the gates” was a response to yesterday’s vote in the European Parliament requesting that negotiations for Turkish accession to the EU be halted.
In other news, former British Prime Minister John Major says that a perfectly credible case may be made for holding another Brexit referendum.
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We’ve reported several times on the migrant shelter in the Bulgarian town of Harmanli. See the list at the bottom of this post for previous news reports on Harmanli, where local residents are quite upset about all the cultural enrichment that has been foisted upon them against their will.
This latest video shows the extent to which the rioting and unrest have been ramped up. It’s fortunate that no one has been killed yet, despite the best efforts of the “refugees”.
Many thanks to Tanya T for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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The Italian interior ministry recently formulated a new directive concerning the housing of migrants, which was then leaked to the press. Under its provisions, the owner of a property that is standing empty or is under-utilized will be required to take in migrants in numbers assigned by the state. Anyone who objects will be speedily prosecuted and jailed. To make matters worse, property owners do not have the right to be reimbursed by the state, because the government has used up the funds allocated for the placement of migrants.
Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this article from Il Giornale:
Migrants, Alfano’s Blackmail: Jail for those who resist requisitions
According to sources in the Interior Ministry, the Viminale Plan foresees enforcement agents and detention measures for those who resist requisition of their premises for migrants.
The Interior Ministry in the figure of Angelino Alfano is preparing to requisition the real estate of Italians to place migrants.
It will be done, explains Il Giornale, beginning only as of December 4 or after a consultation referendum, in order to avoid allowing protests by citizens to influence the outcome of the vote.
Because it is indeed the protests that worry Alfano. The barricades of Goro and Gorino against the requisition of a hotel in order to place fifteen refugees for days has occupied the front pages of newspapers and embarrassed the government. The secret services have already made a filing on the cities where it is possible for the citizens to organize in committees to resist the refugees.
The requisitions in fact, will go forward, and according to l’Opinione, which cites sources in the Interior Ministry, the executive would be ready to take drastic measures against those citizens who would resist the assignment of private real estate to the migrants.
Jail for those who oppose migrants
“The secret services”, writes the daily, seem to have already alerted the government about eventual violent protests on the part of Italians not disposed to having their property requisitioned. What does it mean? According to l’Opinione the plan, “given the exceptionality of the issue and the reluctance of the Italians to collaborate in the reception”, would be to send at least 2,000 policemen, carabinieri, Guardia di Finanza and soldiers. Not just that: The Justice Ministry would be prepared to outright guarantee rapid trials and detention space for those who resist the Viminale Plan. In substance: jail for those who don’t agree.
Pat Condell addresses his latest rant to the criminal “refugees” who are now flooding Europe:
During a visit to Austria, former Czech President Václav Klaus was interviewed for the regional weekly Wochenblick about the current “refugee” crisis and the political machinations surrounding it.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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Posting has been light today because of Thanksgiving. However, the news feed is full of chunky newsy goodness, thanks to the efforts of our tipsters — some of whom are Americans, and should have been eating turkey and stuffing rather than surfing the intertubes.
Migrants have been rambunctious all over Europe today. In the Italian town of Turin, migrants from the asylum center in the former Olympic village took to the street and rioted. And two people were killed when migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos rioted and burned down their camp. Also, migrants clashed with police in the Harmanli center in Bulgaria two days after the camp was sealed off due to the presence of infectious diseases among the inmates.
In other news, a major wildfire in Haifa did serious damage, prompting the evacuation of thousands of residents and the call-up of reservists to help battle the blaze. The Israeli authorities referred to it as “terror”, implying that the fire may have been deliberately set by Arab Muslims.
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