Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/29/2016

The CSU, Angela Merkel’s sister party in Bavaria, wants to get tough on migrants who attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. The CSU’s proposal would permit the interdiction of migrant vessels and their return to Africa, in contrast to the current policy of “rescuing” them.

In possibly unrelated news, the French government is imposing a new “terror tax” of €1.60 on each homeowner in order to pay for compensating the victims of recent terrorist attacks.

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USA
» Democrat Muslim Pivot Goes to Next Level
» Democrats Prepare for Violent Revolution
» Fake News: Guardian Caught Deceptively Editing Quotes From Julian Assange Interview
» False Inquiries
» ‘Free Speech Zones, ‘ Then and Now
» Obama Under “Intense Pressure” To Release Evidence Proving Russians Hacked the Election
» Pro-White Genocide Professor Given No Punishment Despite Saying Massacre of Whites ‘A Good Thing’
» Soros: Trump is a “Would be Dictator” Who Threatens the New World Order
» The Coup Against Trump and His Military-Wall Street Defense
» The Constitution vs. The Constitutionalist
» Trump Humiliates Clintons, Orders Foundation Shut Down.
» War on Speech: Chicago Review of Books Boycotts Simon & Schuster Over Milo Deal
 
Canada
» Montreal Moves to Limit New Restaurants to Protect Existing Restaurants
 
Europe and the EU
» Catalonia Will Make Unilateral Declaration of Independence From Spain in the Event of “50 Percent Plus One More Vote” Referendum Result
» Deported Tunisian Man ‘Planned Italy Attack’
» European Union Will Collapse: Rise of the Right in 2017 Spells End of the EU
» France Raises ‘Terror Tax’ To Support Attack Victims
» Netherlands: Parents Outraged as School Children Taught Muslim Prayer
» Police Ban German Far-Right New Year’s Eve Protest in Cologne
» UK: Attacker ‘Tried to Pull Girl, 12, Off Her Horse and Kidnap Her’ As She Rode Alone Through Woods in Manchester
» UK: Convict Who Tied Bacon to Mosque Door Handles Dies Behind Bars
» UK: Police Release e-fit of an Intruder Wanted After a Mother Was Sexually Assaulted in Her Own Home Days Before Christmas
» UK: Passengers Cower in Fear as Mass Brawl Erupts Between Teenage Girls Who Wrestle Each Other to the Ground and Tear Each Other’s Hair on the Top Deck of a Birmingham Bus
» ‘White Trash’: Woman Abused by Asian Thugs on Scottish Commuter Train
 
North Africa
» Egypt: Cairo: New Corruption Scandal Involving Justice Official With Huge Treasure
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Educating John Kerry and Barack Obama on Islam’s, And Palestinian Muslim, Denial of Israel’s Right to Exist, In One Minute
» Ethnic Cleansing of Jews Without Anyone Noticing
» Obama’s Treachery Exposed
» Trump Slams Obama’s “Inflammatory Statements”, Tells Israel to “Stay Strong, Jan 20 is Fast Approaching”
 
Middle East
» Boom in Iran’s Exports of Non-Oil Commodities: Up 10 Per Cent to US$ 31.59 Billion
» Who the Crusaders Are in 2016
 
South Asia
» Bangladesh: Dhaka: Anti-Terrorism Forces Foil Christmas Attack on a Catholic Church
» Terrorism in Indonesia: 33 Miltants Killed, 170 Terror Cases in 2016
 
Far East
» China Plans to be the First to Land on Dark Side of the Moon
» Get Ready, America: Russia’s Lethal Su-35 Fighter is Now Part of China’s Air Force
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Boko Haram is Teaching Children as Young as 13 How to Rape Hostages
 
Immigration
» 806,000 California Illegals Receive Driver’s Licenses
» After Berlin Attack, German CSU Wants Clampdown on Mediterranean
» Belgium Grants Asylum to Over 14,000 Applicants in 2016
» Berlin Terror Attack: Anis Amri Contacted ISIS Jihadis & Visited 15 Mosques Before Attack
» Child Migrants Sue Government for Not Letting Them Into Britain
» Cologne New Year’s Eve Sex Attacks: City Hired Refugees as Security Guards Who Were Drinking or Disappeared
» Disguised as Refugees and Able to Cross Borders Without Being Identified: ISIS General Who Blew Up a Hostage With a Rocket and Decapitated Another Prisoner is ‘Back in Europe With 400 Soldiers’ After Fleeing Syria
» Dutch Mother-of-Two Married to Briton Who Has Lived in the UK for 24 Years is Told to Leave After She Applied for Residency Following Brexit Vote
» Finally! Germans Outraged at Angela Merkel’s Obscene Muslim Immigration Policies Are Starting to Fight Back
» Germany Migrant Fight — 200 Gambians Brawl With Moroccans
» Germany: Migrant Arrested After Savage Sex Attack on Lone Woman on Christmas Eve
» Mass EU Immigration is ‘Inevitable’ If Britain Doesn’t Leave the Single Market, Leading Think-Tank Warns
» Serbia: Three Afghan Migrants Killed and 11 Injured After Smuggler Car Crash
» Sweden Demands Migrant Prove Their Identity Amid Growing Crisis
» Syrian, Afghan Migrant Security Hired to Protect Public Went Missing During Cologne Mass Sex Attacks
 

Democrat Muslim Pivot Goes to Next Level

They’re laying the foundation for the Democrat Party’s future with Obama.

Even though over 1,000 state offices have been lost by the Democrats under Obama, the party is not changing direction but doubling down on its realignment, pivoting from Jews who have been a key part of their coalition, and toward Muslims.

Obama is also setting up a conflict between the U.S. and the U.N. as he stokes the fire of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

[Comment: Communists and Islamists working together.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrats Prepare for Violent Revolution

Their hysteria goes beyond insanity, and the liberal lefties are gnashing their teeth in anger and fear because of their anti-Trump derangement disorder.

The liberal left utopia, however, is more than merely an ideology. For the American Left it is a religion. They hate any opposition, and are willing to do whatever it takes to either win over their opposition, or silence and eliminate their opposition. We saw this to be true during the 2016 Election. The tactics of street warfare, and something way beyond mudslinging, were disturbing.

While a liberal left Democrat failed utopia exists in places like California, Detroit, Chicago and the Northeast, Americans in the remainder of the United States have rejected the unsuccessful leftist policies that have left these places in severe economic trouble, and have encouraged a massive exodus from those regions by Americans who just can’t survive under leftist rule.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Fake News: Guardian Caught Deceptively Editing Quotes From Julian Assange Interview

The Guardian published fake news earlier this week, selectively editing quotes from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about the Russian press and Donald Trump.

Ben Jacobs wrote an article at The Guardian titled, “Julian Assange gives guarded praise of Trump and blasts Clinton in interview.” Both of these claims are provably false within The Guardian’s own article and are a blatant misrepresentation of Assange’s statements.

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

False Inquiries

Duke warns professors about emails from someone claiming to be a student, seeking information about their courses — many in fields criticized by some on the right. Update: Some Michigan faculty members have received similar emails but from different source.

Duke University professors took to social media on Tuesday to see if they could trust emails from someone claiming to be a student, seeking information about reading lists in their courses for the coming semester.

It is unclear how many Duke professors received the emails, and this is a time of year that some faculty members aren’t checking email regularly. But those who went public with the emails noticed that the courses about which the so-called student was seeking information all happened to be the types of classes that some right-wing bloggers like to criticize. The person sending the email sought information, for example, on courses called “Money, Sex and Power,” “Energy and Environmental Justice” and “Religion and Mass Incarceration.”

[Comment: I like Japan’s idea of shutting down liberal arts and social science departments.]

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

‘Free Speech Zones, ‘ Then and Now

In September 2013, FIRE released an infographic reporting for the first time on the number of schools in our Spotlight Database that have “free speech zones” — policies limiting student demonstrations and other expressive activities to small and/or out-of-the-way areas on campus. At that time, roughly one in six of the colleges and universities in Spotlight maintained a free speech zone policy.

This year, we decided it was time to take a fresh look at that figure, since a lot has changed over the last few years.

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

Obama Under “Intense Pressure” To Release Evidence Proving Russians Hacked the Election

As noted previously, at some point today the White House is set to unveil new sanction, and other retaliatory “measures” against Russia and specifically the Kremlin, in retaliation for what according to a constantly repetitive narrative has been Russian hacking of the US election. Obama will do so by using a 2015 executive order that would allow the president to freeze the US assets of Russians overseas who have engaged in cyber acts, even though such order only applies to actions that have threatened U.S. national security or financial stability, neither of which have yet been invoked in the current “hacking” scandal. Further, per a “senior administration official,” use of the existing law would require (1) actual election infrastructure to be designated as ‘critical infrastructure’ and (2) the administration to prove that such infrastructure was actually “harmed,” conditions which the National Security Council say have not been met.

The problem is that if the administration relies on the 2015 Executive Order to launch this latest round of diplomatic “retaliation”, it will also have to demonstrate some proof that the individuals or entities it names were involved in the scheme, and until now, the White House has provided no documentation to back up its official October assessment that the Russian government was attempting to “interfere” in the U.S. election besides just repeating the allegation over and over and over, as if that somehow makes it true.

Which perhaps is why this morning The Hill writes that the Obama administration is “under intense pressure to release evidence confirming Russian interference in the presidential election before leaving office.”

As the website correctly note, “the administration up until now has provided little documentation to back up its official October assessment that the Russian government was attempting to “interfere” in the U.S. election.” Actually, it has provided exactly zero documentation, but that has not stopped the media machine from parroting the claims and repeating it ad nauseam, in hopes the emotional appeals through repetition will make it factual.

Just as bad, the Hill also writes that nor has Obama “corroborated subsequent leaks from anonymous officials contending that the CIA believes the campaign was an attempt by Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure Donald Trump’s victory.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pro-White Genocide Professor Given No Punishment Despite Saying Massacre of Whites ‘A Good Thing’

Despite explicitly stating the massacre of white people during the bloody Haitian revolution was “a good thing” and wishing for “white genocide” on Christmas eve, professor George Ciccariello-Maher says Drexel University supports him…

College professors can explicitly wish for white genocide and say the massacre of whites is “a good thing indeed,” but to suggest there’s an agenda in “majority-white countries” to “promote low fertility and immigration to wipe out the white population” is a “conspiracy theory.”

How interesting.

[Comment: Cut all taxpayer money going to this “University”.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Soros: Trump is a “Would be Dictator” Who Threatens the New World Order

Billionaire globalist George Soros has penned a panicked rant in which he decries President-elect Donald Trump as a “would be dictator” who threatens the future of the new world order.

In an article for Project Syndicate, Soros begins by mentioning how he lived under both Nazi and then Soviet rule in Hungary before asserting that “various forms of closed societies — from fascist dictatorships to mafia states — are on the rise.”

This claim is confounded by the facts, which show that, “The share of the world population living in democracies (has) increased continuously.”

[Comment: If Trump is smart, he’ll never let this toad or his henchmen anywhere near the Whitehouse.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Coup Against Trump and His Military-Wall Street Defense

A coup has been underway to prevent President-Elect Donald Trump from taking office and fulfilling his campaign promise to improve US-Russia relations. This ‘palace coup’ is not a secret conspiracy, but an open, loud attack on the election. The coup involves important US elites, who openly intervene on many levels from the street to the current President, from sectors of the intelligence community, billionaire financiers out to the more marginal ‘leftist’ shills of the Democratic Party.

The build-up for the coup is gaining momentum, threatening to eliminate normal constitutional and democratic constraints. This essay describes the brazen, overt coup and the public operatives, mostly members of the outgoing Obama regime.

The second section describes the Trump’s cabinet appointments and the political measures that the President-Elect has adopted to counter the coup. We conclude with an evaluation of the potential political consequences of the attempted coup and Trump’s moves to defend his electoral victory and legitimacy.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Constitution vs. The Constitutionalist

The Obama Administration has indeed been historic in many ways, first and foremost, the failed but extreme effort to “fundamentally transform” our sovereign Constitutional Republic into a secular socialist member of a criminal global commune. No previous President has ever done so much to destroy the republic or their own political party, Obama having lost the Democratic Party more than 1000 political seats in less than eight years.

The 2016 revolt of the people that resulted in the historic election of political outsider Donald J. Trump also resulted in Republicans gaining control of both chambers of Congress, 2/3 of the state governorships and all but 13 of the 50 state legislatures. In short, the Obama era has been disastrous for both the country and his party.

Still, even Barack Hussein Obama claims constitutional expertise and reverence, as he works day in and day out to destroy everything the Founders created some 240 years ago. Like many modern lawyers trained in Common Law [noun: common law is the part of English law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes;] instead of Constitutional Law based in Natural Law, experts with a left-leaning agenda may be experts, but use that expertise to undermine and subvert the Rule of Constitutional Law rather than uphold and preserve it. Three great examples of this is demonstrated by the open assault on States’ Rights, the call for congressional term limits and the end of the Electoral College.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Humiliates Clintons, Orders Foundation Shut Down.

Trump Humiliates Clintons, Orders Foundation Shut Down. The Trump Foundation is to shut down so that Trump is not considered to have conflict of interests while he is President of the USA.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

War on Speech: Chicago Review of Books Boycotts Simon & Schuster Over Milo Deal

The Chicago Review of Books tweeted today that they would not be reviewing any books published by Simon and Schuster in 2017, calling the publishing of Breitbart Senior Editor MILO’s book, DANGEROUS, a “disgusting validation of hate.”

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

Montreal Moves to Limit New Restaurants to Protect Existing Restaurants

Lawmakers in Montreal have moved to crack down on new restaurants, in an odious attempt to protect existing ones.

“Montreal has one of the highest restaurant per-capita ratios in North America and the amount of places to eat is worrying local politicians,” reads a Canadian Press piece from earlier this week.

If that sounds awful and weird, that’s because it is. Studies of the best places to eat often conclude that the more restaurants a city has per-capita, the better its restaurant scene. It’s no surprise that the more choices a consumer has, the better off that consumer is.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Catalonia Will Make Unilateral Declaration of Independence From Spain in the Event of “50 Percent Plus One More Vote” Referendum Result

CATALONIA’S president is preparing for the next round in its battle for secession from Spain with a warning that he will make a unilateral declaration of independence if “50 per cent plus one more” of the electorate votes yes in the referendum planned for next year.

He also warned that “Europe has no future” if it does not recognise “a reality like Catalonia”.

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

Deported Tunisian Man ‘Planned Italy Attack’

A Tunisian national deported from Italy on Thursday was planning an attack in the country, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

The 23-year-old, who had been living in Brescia, a city in the northern Lombardy region, allegedly received instructions in mid-November “to carry out attacks in Italy, similar to ones in France and Belgium, in retaliation for Italy’s operations in Libya”, the statement said.

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

European Union Will Collapse: Rise of the Right in 2017 Spells End of the EU

A NEW World Order is set to emerge next year as huge political changes sweep across Europe including the rise of the mega-alliance under Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

Putin’s growing power and Trump’s extraordinary US Election victory are both herald’s of a growing movement against the established world governments.

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

France Raises ‘Terror Tax’ To Support Attack Victims

French citizens will contribute an extra 1.60 euro (£1.36) on their property insurance policies to help finance a fund for victims of extremist attacks which have recently hit the country.

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

Netherlands: Parents Outraged as School Children Taught Muslim Prayer

Students prepare for Sharia Law.

After a video emerged showing children learning how to pray in a mosque, angry parents are demanding a primary school in Holland to change its curriculum.

The mosque in question, called the Ghulzar e Madina, is located in the Dutch city of Zwolle and is thought to have been visited by radical preachers from Pakistan.

One of these radical preachers was identified as M Anas Noorani Siddiqui, who promoted the death penalty for those who insult Muhammad and once said that “non-Islamic Dutch behave like dogs and b****s.”

The video shows an imam explaining to the children how Muslims pray, with the boys forced to stand on one side of the room with the girls on the other.

The children, most of whom are thought to be Christians, are told to put their ‘elbows on the ground’ and ‘hands close to the ears.’

Though the video was taken last year, it emerged after Harm Beertema, an MP for Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom Party, brought attention to it and called for schools to stop participating in “politically-correct activities.”

“Refuse to allow your child to participate in such ‘away-with-our-culture’ excursions,” she stated. “You are deciding, not the school.”

The Dutch curriculum states that children have to “learn the main points about the religions which play a big role in the multicultural Dutch society.”

Hundreds of parents reacted on social media, with one saying: “I recently found out my son was forced to sing ‘welcome, welcome refugee’ instead of Christmas songs.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Police Ban German Far-Right New Year’s Eve Protest in Cologne

Police in Cologne have banned the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) from holding a demonstration at the Cologne cathedral square on New Year’s Eve over safety concerns.

The far-right party had intended to hold a demonstration at the scene of the mass sex attacks which occurred on New Year’s Eve of last year. The party had made a formal request via a private individual to hold the demonstration, but police expressed doubts that the safety of the participants or of the public could be maintained, Der Spiegel reports.

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

UK: Attacker ‘Tried to Pull Girl, 12, Off Her Horse and Kidnap Her’ As She Rode Alone Through Woods in Manchester

A man attempted to pull a 12-year-old girl off a horse as she rode alone through woodland.

The girl was out on the horse in Tottington Lines, near Manchester, at around 3pm when she was approached by a man blocking her path.

The man said he wanted to speak to her but when she tried to get away he grabbed the horse’s reins, causing the animal to run off, carrying the girl to safety…

The attacker was described as being aged in his late 20s, around 6ft 2ins tall with dark skin and a beard and ‘scratches over his face’.

He was wearing a black hoodie and said to be ‘missing teeth’.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Convict Who Tied Bacon to Mosque Door Handles Dies Behind Bars

Kevin Crehan was jailed in July after he attacked Jamia mosque in Totterdown, Bristol, along with three others in January this year.

Bacon was thrown at the mosque and a St George’s flag was propped up outside along with the slogan, ‘No more refugees’.

Worshippers visiting the mosque were also verbally attacked in the incident.

A Prison Service spokesperson said: “HMP Bristol prisoner Kevin Crehan died in custody on Tuesday 27 December.

“As with all deaths in custody, the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will investigate.”

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Police Release e-fit of an Intruder Wanted After a Mother Was Sexually Assaulted in Her Own Home Days Before Christmas

This is the e-fit of a suspect who is accused of sexually assaulting a mother in her own home while her children were forced to listen to her terrified screams.

The horrific attack took place just days before Christmas when the mother heard repeated knocking on her front door in Heald Green, Greater Manchester, at around 10.30pm.

When she answered it, an intruder burst into the home, grabbed her by the throat and pushed her to the floor.

He then sexually assaulted her, leaving her children — who were asleep upstairs — to listen to their mother’s petrified cries for help.

It was only when the woman — who is in her 30s — continued to scream that the attacker fled the scene.

Police are continuing to hunt for the attacker who is described as Asian, of slim build, about 20-years-old and 6ft tall.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Passengers Cower in Fear as Mass Brawl Erupts Between Teenage Girls Who Wrestle Each Other to the Ground and Tear Each Other’s Hair on the Top Deck of a Birmingham Bus

Shocking footage has emerged of teenage girls fighting in a mass brawl on a bus that left fellow passengers cowering in fear.

The dramatic images show the youngsters pulling at each other’s hair and punching and kicking each other while frequently tumbling to the floor of the double-decker National Express vehicle in Birmingham.

The minute-long footage of the melee sees girls, dressed in jeans and casual clothing, knocked backwards over seats while screams are heard alongside unintelligible shouting and swearing.

At one point a boy tries to break up the fight only to be told by a girl ‘unhand me now or I will headbutt you’.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘White Trash’: Woman Abused by Asian Thugs on Scottish Commuter Train

A WOMAN was called “white trash” by three Asian men on a commuter train in Glasgow, who also made grotesque sexual gestures towards her.

The alleged incident happened between Wishaw and Glasgow Central on October 14, according to British Transport Police.

The woman was described as being “upset and distressed” by the harrowing ordeal.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Egypt: Cairo: New Corruption Scandal Involving Justice Official With Huge Treasure

Jamal al-Din al-Laban, a Justice Ministry official, is arrested after large sums of cash in local and foreign currency as well as jewels and title deeds are found at his home. Irony and outrage prevail on the web with most users believing that “They are all corrupt.”

Cairo (AsiaNews) — Egypt’s Administrative Control Authority, which is responsible for enforcing laws and regulations within state bodies, announced the arrest yesterday in Cairo of Jamal al-Din al-Laban, head or procurement department at the Egyptian Justice Ministry.

Large sums of money were found at his house. According to investigators, the cash comes from bribes he received from individual entrepreneurs to sign purchase contracts and supplies to the ministry.

Early reports indicate that 24 million Egyptian pounds (US$ 1.2 million) were seized, along with US$ 4 million, € 2 million and a million Saudi riyals (pictured).

Police also found jewels and title deeds to private homes, cars, farmland in Laban’s name or assigned to members of his family.

Pictures of the suitcases and cardboard boxes crammed with bundles of local and foreign cash quickly hit social medias, sparking comments ranging from the ironic to the indignant among millions of Egyptian internet users.

Such a scandal is that more disconcerting that the country is in a deep economic crisis and ordinary Egyptians have to cut back on family budgets after the Egyptian pound was sharply devalued against the US dollar.

On Facebook and Twitter, a sense of mistrust and suspicion towards the ruling classes prevails.

“What about the other leaders! What have they accumulated in their homes?” wrote one blogger. “Give us a bribe too,” said another. For others, “In this country, they are all corrupt”.

According to the 2016 report of Transparency International, Egypt ranks 88th most corrupt nation in the world out of 168 countries.

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Educating John Kerry and Barack Obama on Islam’s, And Palestinian Muslim, Denial of Israel’s Right to Exist, In One Minute

John Kerry, and Lame Duck POTUS Barack Obama, who have shamefully rationalized U.S. failure to veto an odious U.N. resolution condemning Israel’s legal right to build settlements in its ancestral homeland should consider two complementary fatwas, one written January 5, 1956, by then grand mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Hasan Ma’moun, and another January 9, 1956, signed by the leading members of the Fatwa Committee of Al Azhar University—Sunni Islam’s Vatican—and the major representatives of all four Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence. These rulings elaborated the following key initial point: that all of historical Palestine—modern Jordan, Israel, and the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, as well as Gaza—having been conquered by jihad, was a permanent possession of the global Muslim umma (community), “fay territory”—booty or spoils—to be governed eternally by Islamic law. I elucidated the gist of those simultaneous fatwas in a one minute clip from a December 27, 2016 interview with Tom Trento, embedded below: (One minute clip link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYYMlC_m3IM)…

           — Hat tip: Andy Bostom [Return to headlines]
 

Ethnic Cleansing of Jews Without Anyone Noticing

Palestine must be Judenrein — cleansed of Jews

One of the false mantras of the so-called Palestinian leadership and their BDS supporters is that they are being ethnically cleansed by the brutal Zionist occupiers. This despite the fact that the Arab population is increasing by leaps and bounds and thanks to Israel their health and medical care has improved greatly.

So where is the ethnic cleansing? It is against Jews by the Palestinian leadership supported by the BDS activists and now with the help of the United Nations.

On a visit to Cairo in July of 2013, Mahmoud Abbas said that “no Jew, civilian or otherwise, would be permitted to live in the future Palestinian state.” He repeated it several times to his own people before someone whispered in his ear that this was being construed as anti-Semitic and not helpful to their cause, so he switched the word “Jew” to “Israeli.” But it was too late. He had already set the marker. This Holocaust denier had said what he meant. Further proof that the main obstacle to a two-state solution is not the settlements, as UNSC 2334 would have us believe, but the absolute refusal of Abbas to acknowledge the presence of the Jewish state of Israel. This is too abhorrent a reality for Mahmoud Abbas and certainly also Hamas on the other side of the Palestinian political divide.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Obama’s Treachery Exposed

Mr. Obama’s Middle East Policy: “Praise Islam, ignore Christians, blame Jews.”

Writer Mona Charen has said that Mr. Obama has a “genocidal hostility toward Israel.” As if to reinforce that opinion, he just engaged in his longtime habit of spitting on Jews-and also Christians-by launching his poison dart on December 23rd, right in time for Chanukah and Christmas.

After the first vote proposed by Egypt to condemn Israeli “settlements”-meaning housing on Israeli land-was canceled after President-elect Trump intervened, the vote was rescheduled in the United Nation’s Security Council when New Zealand (10,000 miles from Israel), Malaysia (where the official religion is Islam), Senegal (which is 90-percent Muslim), and Venezuela (so impoverished that people are now scrounging for toilet paper) reinstituted the anti-Israel measure, and the United States, reversing decades of U.S. policy, refused to veto it.

Resolution 2334 demands that Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the [so-called] occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.” It also advised all states “to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967”-what former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called “Auschwitz borders.”

Despite White House denials that it had anything to do with creating the Resolution, there is no doubt that this sneak attack was hatched and orchestrated directly from the Oval Office and involved Mr. Obama himself, Secretary of State John Kerry, Susan Rice, and other of his Jew-hating acolytes. Israel says it has “iron-clad evidence” of direct involvement, and leaked documents already confirm that claim.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Slams Obama’s “Inflammatory Statements”, Tells Israel to “Stay Strong, Jan 20 is Fast Approaching”

Just when you thought it was safe to turn Twitter down from ‘11’, president-elect Donald Trump unleashes a triple whammy tweet-storm against the Obama administration, “shocking” the mainstream media with his frankness.

First, he took direct aim at Obama, assuing the outgoing president of hobbling the transition to the Republican’s administration by unspecified “inflammatory” statements and “roadblocks,” as tensions between the two men spilled into the open less than a month before Inauguration Day.

Then unloaded a double-tweet aimed at the treatment of Israel. As a reminder, last week, Obama ordered Samantha Power to abstain from a vote on a resolution declaring Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal, allowing the measure to pass.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Boom in Iran’s Exports of Non-Oil Commodities: Up 10 Per Cent to US$ 31.59 Billion

The trade balance registered a positive gain of US$ 55 million. Imports stand at US$ 31.5 billion, up 4.3 per cent, especially in natural gas, LPG and light industrial oil. Its main partner are China, UAE, and Turkey. Iran’s economic and trade partnership with Germany is also growing.

Tehran (AsiaNews/Agencies) — The latest official figures show that Iran’s exports of non-oil commodities over a period of nine months starting 21 March 2016 increased by about 10 per cent, a sign that the its trade is improving after years of sanctions over its nuclear programme.

Figures released by the Customs Administration of Iran show that non-oil exports over the period reached as high as US$ 31.59 billion — up by 9.5 per cent compared to the same period last year. There was also a boom in Iran’s service exports in diverse sectors, including tourism, engineering, and transit.

The data concerning imports stand at US$ 31.53 billion US dollars, up by 4.3 per cent on an annual basis.

Iran’s 9-month trade balance was thus positive with exports exceeding in value imports by US$ 55 million, this despite the still lingering effects of western restrictions and sanctions.

Gas condensate comprised the majority of Iran’s non-oil exports over the period at 16.2 per cent with an overall value of US$ 5.12 billion.

Next top exported items were liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and light industrial oil each with a share of 6.18 per cent and 3.89 per cent and a net value of US$ 1.95 billion and US$ 1.23 billion, respectively.

The main export destinations were China (US$ 5.69 billion), the United Arab Emirates (US$ 5.50 billion), Turkey (US$ 2.71 billion) and South Korea (US$ 2.33 billion).

Figures also show that most imports came from China (US$ 7.51 billion), the United Arab Emirates (US$ 5.10 billion), South Korea (US$ 2.50 billion), and Turkey (US$ 2.18 billion).

There was also a 38.22 per cent increase in imports from Germany over the same period with a total value of US$ 1.78 billion.

After years of embargo, in 2015, Iran achieved a partial easing of Western economic sanctions following an agreement on its controversial nuclear programme, which was largely welcomed by the international community.

Israel and the Republican-controlled US Congress opposed it, and now everyone is waiting to see the first moves of US President-elect Trump.

During the election campaign, he threatened to scrap the deal, but at present nothing is known about what the new president will do.

In recent months, Washington has blocked the use of US dollars in financial transactions, thus stopping new economic agreements after the nuclear deal.

This decision has affected Europe, in particular its banking sector, and penalising domestic production.

This in turn has helped Iran’s extremist factions and undermined the reform programme of moderate President Hassan Rouhani.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Who the Crusaders Are in 2016

Today’s Islamists claim there is an age-old conspiracy against their religion and that Christianity and Judaism have always tried to stifle their faith by force of arms.

History reveals and entirely different story.

When the Prophet Mohammed died in A.D. 632, the Holy Land was Christian-controlled and had been for centuries, as were what are now modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon. The Byzantine Empire, which ruled the territory, became Christian shortly after the conversion of Emperor Constantine I in 324.

Jerusalem, sacred to Jews as the site of the Temple and to Christians as the place of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, is not even mentioned in the Quran.

– From its very beginning, Islam set about spreading its faith at swordpoint. It conquered the nearby pagan territory, including Mecca, and then turned on the Byzantines in the west and north and the Persians in the east. The armies of Allah poured into Syria and the Holy Land, taking Jerusalem in 638, a full six years after Mohammed’s death.

While maintaining a constant pressure on the Byzantines and swallowing the Persian Empire, they pushed across North Africa, subjugating all of it by the end of the seventh century. Not content with these conquests, Islamic armies then swept north from Africa into Europe, the heart of Christianity. They landed in southern Spain in 711 and rapidly subdued the entire Iberian peninsula under the banner of the crescent. Still not satisfied, their armies poured across the Pyrenees into France, where a Christian army under Charles Martel finally stopped them at the Battle of Tours in 732.

It took just 21 years for Islamic armies to sweep from Africa to the heart of France. It would be 781 years before they were finally driven out, when Granada fell in 1492 to Spanish armies.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bangladesh: Dhaka: Anti-Terrorism Forces Foil Christmas Attack on a Catholic Church

The target was the Holy Spirit parish in the Banani neighborhood. The officers arrest members of the “New Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh”. For months, the terrorist group was rebuilding the leadership decimated by successive arrests after Dhaka massacre.

Dhaka (AsiaNews / Agencies) — The anti-terrorism forces have foiled an attack on a Catholic church in the capital, planned for Christmas Day. This was revealed by a police officer, who reports the arrest of members of the extremist group “New Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh” (Neo-JMB) who planned to plant suicide bombers in the Holy Spirit Church, in the Banani neighborhood.

In view of Christmas, the government increased controls and security measures around 62 churches in Dhaka. The arrest of the militants took place on December 24 in a house in Ashkona, but details of the operation were leaked yesterday. The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) group arrested the new leader of the terrorist group, Moinul Islam alias Abu Musa, along with other accomplices.

CTTC chief Monirul Islam, told the Dhaka Tribune that the apartment was used as a refuge by the bombers. Inside documents and papers were found that delineate the attack mode, which would have included a woman.

The agents reveal that the group was reorganizing its leadership, after its leaders were gradually decimated in raids following the massacre of foreigners on July 1 last at the Holey Artisan Bakery Cafe in Dhaka. Now investigations are concentrated on tracking down sources of funding and other likely supporters.

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Terrorism in Indonesia: 33 Miltants Killed, 170 Terror Cases in 2016

The number of terror crime cases in Indonesia rose steeply in 2016 due to “Operation Tinombala” in Poso (Central Sulawesi). This operation, jointly conducted by Indonesian police and the army, aims at eliminating Indonesian terrorist cell East Indonesia Mujahidin (in Indonesian: Mujahidin Indonesia Timur, or MIT) that was led by Indonesia’s former most wanted Islamic militant Abu “Santoso” Wardah, an Islamic State (IS) supporter. Although Santoso was killed in July 2016 the operation continues. It is believed that there are still around 10 MIT militants and that Ali Kalora has replaced Santoso as the cell’s new leader.

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

China Plans to be the First to Land on Dark Side of the Moon

After years of attempting to catch up with American and European space agencies, China could be the first to land a probe on the far side of the moon, perhaps as soon as 2018.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Get Ready, America: Russia’s Lethal Su-35 Fighter is Now Part of China’s Air Force

Russia has apparently delivered an initial batch of four advanced Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker-E jet fighters to China.

The aircraft appropriately arrived at the People’s Liberation Army Air Force training center in Cangzhou, in China’s Hebei province, on Christmas day from the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association (KnAAPO) plant in Russia according to the BMPB blog — which is produced by Centre for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies in Moscow.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Boko Haram is Teaching Children as Young as 13 How to Rape Hostages

Adult fighters tell their young recruits they will ‘have fun’ sexually assaulting their captives, according to a boy soldier who was kidnapped by Boko Haram from his home in Baga, Nigeria.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

806,000 California Illegals Receive Driver’s Licenses

California has issued more than 800,000 driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants in the two years since the state implemented a law allowing for issuance without proof of legal presence.

The Mercury News reports that in the two years since AB 60 took effect the California Department of Motor Vehicles issued driver’s licenses to 806,000 undocumented immigrants — 14,000 of which the department issued just last month.

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

After Berlin Attack, German CSU Wants Clampdown on Mediterranean

Germany’s arch conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party, a junior partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition, wants to close off the Mediterranean Sea route for migrants by sending them back to Africa rather than allowing them to stay in Europe.

As a reaction to the Dec. 19 truck attack in Berlin, the Bavarian sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) has drafted a paper calling for a change in policies that allow refugees rescued from endangered vessels to remain in Europe.

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

Belgium Grants Asylum to Over 14,000 Applicants in 2016

The current numbers were 33 percent higher than in 2015 when Belgium accepted almost 11,000 people as refugees, according to the Belgian Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons.

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

Berlin Terror Attack: Anis Amri Contacted ISIS Jihadis & Visited 15 Mosques Before Attack

Anis Amri, who brutally murdered 12 people in the sickening assault last Monday, is believed to have been in contact with fellow extremists while in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, according to German media reports.

He had applied for asylum under eight different aliases in western Germany — one of which he used in Oberhausen.

By February 2016, Amri was mainly located in Berlin — despite the fact he should not have been allowed to leave North Rhine-Westphalia due to asylum restrictions…

           — Hat tip: Nick [Return to headlines]
 

Child Migrants Sue Government for Not Letting Them Into Britain

DOZENS of children who arrived in the UK from the Calais ‘Jungle’ migrant camp have launched a legal challenge against Home Secretary Amber Rudd, claiming Britain has let them down.

Lawyers representing 36 children say the Government broke its promise to bring vulnerable accompanies minors to the UK under section 67 of the Immigration Act, which is know as the Dubs Amendment.

The majority of those involved in the legal action — 28 — have had their applications turned down while the others involved are still waiting to hear.

[Comment: Lawyers paid for by British taxpayers.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Cologne New Year’s Eve Sex Attacks: City Hired Refugees as Security Guards Who Were Drinking or Disappeared

Untrained refugees were deployed as security personnel on New Year’s Eve in Cologne last year, according to a secret police report.

It said many abandoned their posts and at least one was so drunk he could not work.

Last year mobs of mostly North African men sexually assaulted and robbed hundreds of women in and around the city’s main railway station as police totally lost control of the situation.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Disguised as Refugees and Able to Cross Borders Without Being Identified: ISIS General Who Blew Up a Hostage With a Rocket and Decapitated Another Prisoner is ‘Back in Europe With 400 Soldiers’ After Fleeing Syria

Kosovan Lavdrim Muhaxheri and his men are among thousands who have fled Syria after ISIS suffered devastating losses in war-torn Syria, according to sources in Italian intelligence.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Dutch Mother-of-Two Married to Briton Who Has Lived in the UK for 24 Years is Told to Leave After She Applied for Residency Following Brexit Vote

A Dutch mother-of-two who has lived in Britain for 24 years has been told to make plans to leave the country after she applied for permanent residency.

Cambridge graduate Monique Hawkins, who has two teenage children with her British husband, decided to apply for UK citizenship following the referendum because she feared what would happen once Britain leaves the EU.

She told the Guardian she feared she would be made ‘to join a US-style two-hour immigration queue’ while the rest of her family ‘sail through the UK passport lane’.

To apply for citizenship — which is not automatically granted to EU spouses of British nationals — Mrs Hawkins, from Esher, Surrey, first had to complete an 83-page application to obtain a ‘permanent residency’ document.

However this application — which took her an entire weekend to complete — was rejected by the Home Office because she did not provide her original Dutch passport.

Mrs Hawkins claims she included a covering letter explaining that she needed the passport over the next few months to travel to the Netherlands to support her mother following the death of her father.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Finally! Germans Outraged at Angela Merkel’s Obscene Muslim Immigration Policies Are Starting to Fight Back

German history of 2016 will be notable for a rising tidal wave of anger and political unrest…which will pale in comparison to the public demonstrations of outrage that are projected for 2017.

Islamic Jihad activities started on New Years Eve of 2015 with mass Jihad rape in Cologne and other German cities. The Islamic Jihad War against Germans was proceeded bya series of terror attacks like in Würzburg, München and Ansbach. It was followed by smaller attacks committed by Islamic refugees and immigrants especially on women. All this had changed the country totally. 2016 is the year of protest demonstrations and new political movements as the Alternatives for Germany (AfD), PEGIDA and others. Now, no weekend goes by without protests against the Islamization of the country, EU and against open borders.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germany Migrant Fight — 200 Gambians Brawl With Moroccans

ABOUT 200 migrants from Gambia brawled with a group of Moroccans at a refugee centre in Sigmaringen, Germany in the latest shocking violence to hit the nation.

The Gambians claimed they felt provoked by Moroccans who were constantly drunk and trying to start fights.

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

Germany: Migrant Arrested After Savage Sex Attack on Lone Woman on Christmas Eve

A YOUNG woman was punched in the face during a brutal sex attack as she made her way home on Christmas Eve.

The 22-year-old was walking on Lange Strasse in Nagold, southwestern Germany, at about 2.30am, when she started to suspect she was being followed.

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

Mass EU Immigration is ‘Inevitable’ If Britain Doesn’t Leave the Single Market, Leading Think-Tank Warns

Net migration from the Brussels bloc — those people arriving in Britain minus those leaving — will be ‘unlikely’ to fall below 155,000 unless Ministers take back full control of the UK’s borders, it claimed.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Serbia: Three Afghan Migrants Killed and 11 Injured After Smuggler Car Crash

THREE Afghan migrants died and another 11, including six children were injured in a traffic accident in southern Serbia today when a passenger car crammed with people swerved off the road and hit a safety barrier, the interior ministry said.

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

Sweden Demands Migrant Prove Their Identity Amid Growing Crisis

LIBERAL Sweden is set to fortify its borders amid the growing migrant crisis as a leading minister demanded stricter controls of identification papers.

Interior minister Anders Ygeman said the Scandinavian country has been far too lenient with migrants who have either arrived without legal documents or refused to show them to authorities.

Adding a policy change was required to ensure a fair legal process, he said: “If a person doesn’t have an identity document, I think you clearly have to place the burden with the individual to prove their identity.”

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

Syrian, Afghan Migrant Security Hired to Protect Public Went Missing During Cologne Mass Sex Attacks

As Germany’s fourth city prepares to field a massive police deployment over the New Year’s weekend following the migrant rape crisis of 2015, it is revealed many of those hired to assist the police were newly arrived migrants themselves.

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

27 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/29/2016

  1. The article; The Coup against Trump and his military-Wall Street allies, I found a most informative piece that gets to the heart of ‘behind the political scenes’ and exposes the treachery and underhandedness that many readers may find of benefit in understanding what it is that is at stake with Donald Trump’s election as POTUS.

  2. Re. http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/12/29/war-speech-chicago-review-books-boycotts-simon-schuster/

    “Disgust Sensitivity” seems to be the common ground the new Left uses to bond with each other and look for recruits. See Sarah Silverman’s tweets in the above article.

    Jordan Peterson explains this phenomenon very well at 9:35 in this lecture:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcDhcGdepIk

    Another great example of this is Diana West’s Trump Lexicon:
    http://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/3392/Back-by-Popular-Demand-The-Rights-Anti-Trump-Lexicon.aspx

  3. ” The CSU’s proposal would permit the interdiction of migrant vessels and their return to Africa, in contrast to the current policy of “rescuing” them.”

    Call them slow learners maybe, but this is an improvement. A year ago many of us were saying Europe had to adopt the Australian model of “turning back the boats”, that always was the only sane solution and way to break the migrant industry.

    • It will have to be a concentrated effort by all sea going ships to take migrants back to their own shores. Doctors Without Borders will continue rescuing migrants and dumping them in Europe.
      “Sanctuary Ships” will likely follow. Fines and penalties will have to be imposed on smugglers and Ship captains regardless of vessel size.

  4. ** The CSU’s proposal would permit the interdiction of migrant vessels and their return to Africa, in contrast to the current policy of “rescuing” them. **

    What kind of lunatic proposal is this?! There can never be enough Nigerian Muslims in Europe.

    • What’s your point, Colonel? Admittedly the Nigerian military could do more to protect Christians (though the Obama administration has not been helpful with logistical support), and their muslim president’s heart may not be in it, but it follows that genuine refugees from that country are unlikely to be muslims.

      While on the topic of sub-Saharan Africa, and since the comments on the news feed are open, I’d like to say something about Botswana (the former British colony of Bechuanaland), a landlocked country within South Africa. The story of its hereditary king and first elected president, Seretsi Khama, and his marriage to a white British woman, Ruth Williams, is related in a recent film, “A United Kingdom”. We Brits, including Churchill, I’m sorry to say, behaved disgracefully over the issue; racism may have been a factor, but mainly it was about the South African government’s objections; they were just imposing apartheid, and we needed their gold and uranium.

      I’ve read most of the novels about “The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency”, set in Botswana, by the Scots writer Alexander McCall Smith, who lived there, but also taken on board that the rape rate there is horrendous. Today, in the charity (thrift) shop where I work, I served a young woman from Botswana. Yes, she was beautiful and immaculately turned out, and I wished I were 40 years younger (and unattached), but she was also courteous and respectful, and when I mentioned the film and Seretse Khama, she put up her hands and bowed. How many other dead politicians would evoke this degree of respect?

      • My point is that refugees or opportunistic migrants have no place in Western countries. The numbers of foreigners in the world is essentially unlimited and there is neither a Western appreciation of the impossibility and stupidity of importing even a tiny subset of that foreign population nor of the stupidity of not forcing non-Western nations to solve their own problems.

        There are both a monstrous Western denial of obvious facts and a malevolent intent to conceal the nation-destroying effect of immigration of whatever dimension.

        Smith’s novels were a delight, especially the audio book versions narrated by a woman who had all the accents down pat.

        • Thanks Colonel (and Nemesis). We must agree to differ over taking relatively small numbers of immigrants.

  5. If they have such a thing as a pension for government employees I think that instead of taxing the citizens a terror tax it should come out of government pensions.

    • The “terror tax” could be used as a useful indictor to show progress, or the lack thereof, against terrorism. If the tax remains the same, or increases, then that shows a lack of progress against terrorism. Considering that the terror tax is going to be increased, that shows no progress against terrorism.

      Perhaps economists could do a study of the relationship between property and casualty insurance premiums and terrorism.

      There’s an interesting paper showing the relationship between Confederate gold bonds and the state of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. The paper shows that the price of these bonds fluctuated based on the prospects of the Confederacy winning the war.

      My idea is similar in that it suggests that prices in the insurance market can be used as an indicator of the status of our current conflict.

      Here is the paper by the way:

      http://www.academia.edu/24049976/Victory_or_Repudiation_The_Probability_of_the_Southern_Confederacy_Winning_the_Civil_War

  6. Let’s assume for a moment that there is global warming, and never mind for this moment any melting icecaps and rising sea levels.

    Warmth encourages life. Too much of it, like too much cold, destroys life. So warm things up some but not impossibly so and bugs, unfriendly plants, etc., get along better, maybe even develop new strains. If it gets too hot, however, look for a way to get cool….

    On the assumption, not only is it getting hotter along the equatorial areas from which people are migrating (bringing not only ideology but also culture perhaps better suited for and therefore established in said areas) but also the likes of minute critters and illnesses not usually found farther north.

    If this is a factor, then peace in the Middle East and technology in Africa isn’t going to make any difference.

    • As Golda Meir once stated, or words to that effect, ‘There can be no peace between Jew and Arab until the Arabs can learn to love their children.’

      If Islam can be eliminated or at least ostracized as the retrograde force that it is to humanity then peace will come to Africa and the Middle East.

      • “islam eliminated?” Oh, I agree, but instead of taking any steps in that sensible direction, the entire western world is being forced to welcome moslems as friends, when the unindoctrinated all know damned well they are not.

        A friend who was a soldier in Europe and the Middle East in WW2 told me there would never/could never be peace between Jews and moslems, there was simply too much disparity. One people arguably the most successful on earth, the others the most determinedly backward, hate-filled, useless people on earth.
        Personally, I think he got it dead right.

        • There are some good Aussie movies that portray that thinking – Gallipoli and The Anzacs, come to mind.

          Also some well researched and written books regarding Anzac experience with the locals in the middle east in both world wars that make for good reading. The kind of experiences mentioned would be condemned by the PC writers of today.

  7. Sorry I couldn’t find your direct email addy…
    I would like to wish you and all your readers a very good 2017…

    I would very much appreciate if you could remember all the young lives lost in the Vietnam war…it means so much to me…I tried so hard to assist in this war as I felt it was just at the time. I could not go..as I am a Brit..

    Best wishes for the future to all
    Bazzam/Bassam/Barry

    • Not to be judgmental, Barry, and bearing in mind that I believe the US’ involvement in Vietnam was misconcieved: before the US was drawn into WW2, American volunteer pilots (the “Flying Tigers”) fought with the Chinese Nationalists against the Japanese; similarly US pilots joined the RAF in the first “Eagle Squadron” fighting the Nazis, with the covert support of Rooseveldt. Was there no way for you to get involved? Not criticising, just asking.

  8. I haven’t had the opportunity to visit for a very long time. Baron and Dymphna, it’s good to see you’re still fighting the good fight.

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