Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/5/2016

Beppe Grillo of the Five Star Movement called for immediate elections in Italy in the wake of yesterday’s No vote in the referendum. Mr. Grillo wants to use the “Italicum” system for the vote, but Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Northern League, says any voting system is fine with him, as long as the vote is held soon. The euro dropped after the referendum, and so did the European stock market at first, but the latter recovered rapidly, with major indexes closing up at the end of the day.

In other news, Nigel Farage is now on the short list for Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year”.

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Financial Crisis
» Global Financial Markets Plunged Into Chaos as Italy Overwhelmingly Votes ‘No’
 
USA
» “Pizzagate” Explodes After Man Arrested in Comet Restaurant Shooting
» Democrats Remain Stuck on Stupid
» Dick Cheney to CNN Reporter: Trump Won, We Don’t Need You Guys Anymore
» Heritage Foundation Drafted NAFTA, President Trump Can Scrap It
» ISIS Plots ‘Bloody Friday’ For Trump Inauguration
» Mother of OSU Jihad Attacker Says Her Son Was Killed “For No Reason”
» Politico Freaks Out Because Betsy Devos Wants Education Reform to ‘Advance God’s Kingdom’
» Purchasing Anti-Trump Violence
» Trump Says He Needs Our Help — Here’s How
» Website Labeled ‘Fake News’ Threatens to Sue Wapo for Defamation
 
Canada
» Canadian State TV Hails ‘Beige Horizon’ With No White People
» Green Party of Canada Adopts Its Most Extreme Anti-Israel Resolution to Date
 
Europe and the EU
» Brexit Has Started the Disintegration of the EU, Italy’s Europe Minister Says
» Dutch Police Arrest Jihadists Who Planned Synagogue Attack
» Geert Wilders to Expand the PVV at a Local Level
» Germany Should Deport Sick Refugees: Merkel Party Mate
» Grillo Calls for Immediate Elections With Italicum
» Italy: Suspected ISIS Mother ‘Forced Son to Train in Combat’
» Italy Tops Pension Contributions — OECD
» Italy Should Continue Path Renzi Started — Schaeuble
» Italy Votes Against EU Takeover as Globalism Implodes
» Merkel Savaged: Migrant Murder of EU Official’s Daughter Sparks Anger at Open-Door Policy
» Nigel Farage on Time’s Person of the Year Shortlist
» Potential “Systemic Crisis in Eurozone” After Italy Votes No, Renzi Resigns
» UK: Anjem Choudary’s ‘Bodyguard’ Sentenced for Attacking Schoolboy
» Valls to Run for President: ‘I Want to Give Everything for France’
» Wilders’ Anti-Islam PVV Further Increases Lead in Latest Poll
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» The United Nations General Assembly Passes 6 Outrageous Anti-Israel Resolutions
 
Middle East
» Erdogan’s Hard Times in Syria, Pressured to Backtrack by Putin
» Fake News in Overdrive: President Assad “Created ISIS”
» ‘Moderate’ Rebels Admit Al-Qaeda Ties as Trump Discusses Ending Support
 
Far East
» Microsoft, IBM, Intel Refuse to Hand Over Family Jewels to China
 
Immigration
» Afghan’s Murder-Rape Arrest Reignites Germany Migrant Debate
» Brain Drain Costs Greece €9.1 Bln in Lost Tax Revenue Annually
» Dutch Asylum Centre Saw Mass Brawl Break Out Between Rival Refugee Gangs
» EU Parents of Daughter Raped/Murdered by Muslim Migrant Collect Funeral Donations for Migrants
» Exactly Who in America Has This Insatiable Appetite for Somali Immigration?
» Germany: Maria Ladenburger Murder — EU Official Daughter Killed by Refugee
» Migrants Should Swear an Oath to Live in Britain, Government Report Demands
» Obama Thumbs His Nose at Trump’s Immigration Agenda
 
Culture Wars
» University of Toronto Historian: Biological Sex a ‘Very Popular Misconception’
 

Global Financial Markets Plunged Into Chaos as Italy Overwhelmingly Votes ‘No’

Italian voters have embraced the global trend of rejecting the established world order, but the “no” vote on Sunday has plunged global financial markets into a state of utter chaos. The euro has already fallen to a 20 month low, Italian government bonds are poised for a tremendous crash, and futures markets are indicating that both U.S. and European stock markets will be way down when they open on Monday. It is being projected that Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s referendum on constitutional reforms will be defeated by about 20 percentage points when all the votes have been counted, and Renzi has already announced that he plans to resign as a result. When new elections are held it looks like comedian Beppe Grillo’s Five-Star movement will come to power, and the European establishment is extremely alarmed at that prospect because Grillo wants to take Italy out of the eurozone. In the long run Italy would be much better off without the euro, but in the short-term the only thing propping up Italy’s failing banking system is support from Europe. Without that support, the 8th largest economy on the entire planet would already be in the midst of an unprecedented financial crisis.

I know that I said a lot in that first paragraph, but it is imperative that people understand how serious this crisis could quickly become.

This “no” vote virtually guarantees a major banking crisis for Italy, and many analysts fear that it could trigger a broader financial crisis all across the rest of the continent as well.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“Pizzagate” Explodes After Man Arrested in Comet Restaurant Shooting

Pizzagate took a turn for the even more bizarre on Sunday, as a man with an assault rifle walked into Comet Ping Pong to “self-investigate” the Baltimore, Maryland, pizza parlor that internet conspiracy theorists say is at the center of an international child sex ring run by prominent Democrats. 28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, N.C., reportedly fired the rifle at least once inside the restaurant but no one was injured…

One can’t help but wonder, as Congress considers a bill “to counter active measures by the Russian Federation to exert covert influence,” whether this is yet another false flag to raise awareness of what is a possible outcome of “fake news”?

[Comment: Expect increased calls for elimination of 2nd amendment and calls to ban or take down those pesky Russian run “fake news sites”.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrats Remain Stuck on Stupid

Democrats are no longer the party of the working class, but the party of radical progressives, illegal aliens and special interests.

In the aftermath of another devastating electoral loss, Democrats have not learned their lessons very well. In the U.S. Senate, Democrats elected 66-year old Chuck Schumer of New York as their Minority Leader, replacing the outgoing Harry Reid of Nevada. Schumer will offer more East Coast liberal leadership to a party that desperately needs to move ideologically to the center and geographically to the country’s heartland.

In an even worse move, House Democrats re-elected super liberal Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco as their Minority Leader. Pelosi has been leading House Democrats since 2003 and has been at the helm as her party has lost control of the House. Despite her horrible track record, Pelosi defeated Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio by a comfortable 134-63 margin in a closed-door session. In response to Pelosi’s re-election, Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway tweeted, “What a relief. I was worried they had learned from the elections & might be competitive and cohesive again.”

Of course, Conway is right, Democrats remain stuck on stupid. Instead of expanding their base, they chose to remain wedded to political correctness and hard core liberal leadership. Soon, they will name a new Democratic National Committee Chairman and the leading candidate is radical Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), a former spokesman for the Nation of Islam, who once praised anti-Semitic Minister Louis Farrakhan as a “role model for youth.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Dick Cheney to CNN Reporter: Trump Won, We Don’t Need You Guys Anymore

Vice President Dick Cheney landed a major zinger on a CNN reporter this weekend. He was at an event with Obama’s former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. They were talking with CNN reporter Barbara Starr about national security and foreign policy.

Cheney had a few really funny lines but the one about the press was hysterical.

Here’s a transcript via Real Clear Politics:

CHENEY: I think he needs to be careful but he’ll learn as he goes along. I think he is putting some brains and good people with him. I am a big fan of Mike Pence. I know Mike well from his 12 years in the House and I think he’s a great choice as Vice President. He’s going to play a major role. I think Mr. Trump is taking very, very seriously the job that he has gotten now. Staffing up the administration.

I think one of the reasons people get so concerned about the tweets is it is sort of a way around the press. He doesn’t have to rely upon, uh, rely upon — this is the modern era, modern technology. He’s at the point where we don’t need you guys anymore.

[Laughter]

CHENEY: I apologize.

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Heritage Foundation Drafted NAFTA, President Trump Can Scrap It

In 1992, President Bill Clinton promised that NAFTA would result in an increase in the number of high quality jobs for Americans, that it would reduce illegal immigration. Ross Perot warned that just the opposite would happen. He warned that if NAFTA was implemented there would be a “giant sucking sound” as thousands of businesses and millions of jobs would leave this country. Most Americans chose to believe Bill Clinton. Well, it is 24 years later and it turns out that Perot was right and Clinton was dead wrong.

United Technologies (Carrier) is staying in Indiana, all because Mr. Trump made it beneficial for them to stay! He used the direct approach and went right to the head of Carrier and asked what they needed to remain in America.

Our newly elected president has stated time and again that NAFTA was the cause for American jobs being decimated. The North American Free Trade Agreement has done far more than destroy over 30% of our manufacturing. Our economy (jobs), our healthcare, and academic education have all suffered. William F. Jasper, summarized what NAFTA was really about: “The planet is quietly being divided up into regional blocs ruled by an unelected and unaccountable cabal.”

NAFTA is seen by globalists here as a step toward a North American Union (NAU). Robert Pastor, professor of international relations at American University, and a strong supporter of NAFTA’s ultimate goals, wrote in Foreign Affairs, the magazine of the globalist CFR, “NAFTA was merely the first draft of an economic Constitution for North America.”

Big Business, Big Finance, Big Media, ex-presidents, and former secretaries of state all supported the deal. Murray Rothbard was right when he said, “The fight was about foreign policy, about the globalist policy that the United States has been pursuing since Woodrow Wilson, and certainly since World War II. It was about the Establishment-Keynesian dream of a New World Order. NAFTA was a vital step down the road to that order.”

Our President-elect has promised to do something about it, and the best thing he could do is to scrap NAFTA in its entirety! Chapter 22 of NAFTA permits each chief executive of the three members of NAFTA (the United States, Canada, and Mexico) to exit the deal, simply by giving six months’ written notice. Trump should do it the very first day in office!

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS Plots ‘Bloody Friday’ For Trump Inauguration

(MIRROR) ISLAMIC STATE is planning a ‘ Bloody Friday’ assault on the SAME DAY as Donald Trump is inaugurated as US president, it can be revealed.

And the Islamic terror organisation is reported to have recruited a number of new English speaking operatives in recent months in a major bid to communicate messages ahead of the event.

US special forces will be on high alert when Mr Trump takes over as 45th President of the United States on Friday, January 20, 2017, in Washington, DC.

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Mother of OSU Jihad Attacker Says Her Son Was Killed “For No Reason”

Abdul Razak Ali Artan last week set off a fire alarm on campus, the drove his car into the crowd of students evacuating the building. Then he jumped out of his car and began stabbing people with a butcher knife. But he was a “nice young man” and “a good student” who “had a dream to be someone to help his community and serve his community. So obviously he was killed “for no reason” because, you know, Muslims are always and in every case victims, no matter what they do. As the mother spoke, doubtless Van Jones was nodding in agreement.

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Politico Freaks Out Because Betsy Devos Wants Education Reform to ‘Advance God’s Kingdom’

Politico — Worst Web Site in the World, When God is honored, lefty media thinks it’s a scandal

Like the story we reported the other day about the BuzzFeed hit piece on Chip and Joanna Gaines, this story represents the currently in-vogue method the media use to scandalize things that are not scandals. There’s nothing in Politico’s story that isn’t true. The deception is in treating something as scandalous (or even newsworthy at all) when it isn’t. Betsy DeVos is a Christian and supports Christian schools? Betsy DeVos thinks public education funds should not be used exclusively for traditional public schools because Christian schools and charter schools represent healthy competition? Betsy DeVos thinks churches, not public schools should be the center of communities?

Duh. Pretty much every mainstream Christian in America believes these things. Pretty much every mainstream Christian in America wants to advance God’s Kingdom with everything we do in our lives.

That sounds creepy, scary and terrifying to the secular leftists who populate institutions like Politico, but it’s standard fare for those who have devoted their lives to the service of Jesus Christ. Those whose god is politics and government always get wigged out when those of us who serve Christ get into a position of power in government because we’re putting their god in subjection to ours. They think the Constitution’s prohibition against Congress establishing a religion should be read to mean that no one in government can do anything even remotely guided by religious faith. Of course, it doesn’t mean that at all. It simply means that Congress can’t establish any particular religion as the official religion of the state. That in no way means a person of faith should not try to honor God while serving in government.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Purchasing Anti-Trump Violence

Less than a day after the election of Donald Trump, the protests against candidate Trump turned into riots against President-elect Trump. The radical resistance against Trump — seen throughout his campaign — shifted into high gear. In cities all across America, from New York to Los Angeles and almost everywhere in between, angry, frightened young protesters — mostly minorities — could be seen in media coverage staging “spontaneous” demonstrations, chanting, “Not My President! Not My President!” as they illegally blocked highways and byways, threw Molotov cocktails, set fires, defaced public buildings and monuments, assaulted people they perceived as Trump supporters, and destroyed property. When confronted by police over these acts of wanton lawlessness, the crowds — on multiple occasions — turned their violence against the police, injuring officers.

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

Trump Says He Needs Our Help — Here’s How

Last week there was great rejoicing as Trump and Pence brokered a deal with Carrier to keep 800 jobs in the US instead of shipping them to Mexico. However, it’s more complicated than some realize and the number smaller than what’s been bandied about. Hundreds could still lose jobs at Carrier’s Indianapolis plant, despite Trump deal: “Whatever deal Trump struck with Carrier does not appear to have salvaged jobs at a separate branch of United Technologies in Huntington, Ind., that makes microprocessor-based controls for the heating, air conditioning and refrigeration industries. That branch will move manufacturing operations to a new plant in Mexico, costing the city 700 jobs by 2018.”

The wonderful concept of “free” trade so revered by globalists and many libertarians has all but destroyed our most important job sectors: manufacturing, industrial and agriculture. NAFTA, GATT and all the other “free” trade agreements and treaties have gutted what made America the most prosperous nation on earth. I know time is in short supply, but please bookmark and read this column I wrote in January 2014. Very critical we try to educate our fellow Americans about how America built a nation like no other and her industries while protecting them.

Libertarians and globalists use words like isolationism and protectionism as if it’s some sort of disease. One of the most important books I’ve ever read referenced in my column above is: America’s Projectionist Takeoff 1815- 1914: The Neglected American School of Political Economy by Michael Hudson. If you read the comments on Amazon you’ll understand why this book is so important in understanding this issue.

Going hand in hand with the issue of treaties is the equally important trade deficit:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Website Labeled ‘Fake News’ Threatens to Sue Wapo for Defamation

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A lawyer for Naked Capitalism accuses WaPo of running a debunked list of “fake news” sites in the “sensational” story compiled by a dubious team of researchers, without substantiating their claims or giving Naked Capitalism a chance to respond to the allegation. The Washington Post’s actions constitute defamation, the lawyer writes in the letter published Monday.

“You did not provide even a single example of ‘fake news’ allegedly distributed or promoted by Naked Capitalism or indeed any of the 200 sites on the PropOrNot blacklist,” James A. Moody writes. “You provided no discussion or assessment of the credentials or backgrounds of these so-called ‘researchers’ (Clint Watts, Andrew Weisburd, and J.M. Berger and the ‘team’ at PropOrNot), and no discussion or analysis of the methodology, protocol or algorithms such ‘researchers’ may or may not have followed.”

Naked Capitalism is a finance and economics blog started in December 2006, with a stated goal of “shedding light on the dark and seamy corners of finance.”…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Canadian State TV Hails ‘Beige Horizon’ With No White People

Taxpayer-funded CBC disables comments on video after public outrage

The CBC has produced a bizarre music video hailing an “inevitable” future where white people are made extinct.

The video, which was produced for the comedy show “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” and stars Canadian actor Shaun Majumder, says “a beige horizon” where we’re all “gonna look the same” is “inevitable” and mocks how “pure breeds” are “losing their grip.”

“People it’s inevitable a beige horizon Brown meets white, no use in disguisin’,” Majumder begins. “People out makin’ whoopee, colour-blinded by love, genetic kris-crossin’, forgot to wear a glove.”

“Whoops! There it goes generational drip. Look at the ‘pure breeds’ losing their grip,” Majumder says.

Using racist terms like “Mexijews,” “Chonkies,” and “Beaner Schnitzels,” Majumder attacks Donald Trump and Steve Bannon as racists for their perceived relationship with the alt-right…

While Majumder and his producers seemed to believe it was funny to use racial slurs and celebrate the death of an entire race of people, the public has overwhelmingly rejected the video.

Every last comment on the video was negative. I say “was” because the CBC decided to shut down all criticism of their hate film by disabling comments altogether.

– From memory, the top comment with around 300 upvotes highlighted a contradiction with the idea “race doesn’t exist” but “white people” alone need to die.

Taxpayer money is going to produce this hate-filled garbage.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Green Party of Canada Adopts Its Most Extreme Anti-Israel Resolution to Date

The new resolution replaced the one passed at the Greens’ annual convention in August, which at that time accorded the party the dubious distinction of being the first and only Canadian party to formally endorse the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, whose explicit aim is to strangle the Jewish State by means of economic, academic and cultural boycott.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Brexit Has Started the Disintegration of the EU, Italy’s Europe Minister Says

Britain’s vote to leave the European Union has started the bloc’s “disintegration”, Italy’s minister for European affairs has said.

Sandro Gozi, an ally of outgoing Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, said his country was facing a “period of uncertainty” following the vote this weekend to reject a planned constitutional reform.

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Dutch Police Arrest Jihadists Who Planned Synagogue Attack

Reports identify main suspect as ‘Abdelhakim,’ a man in his 40s of Moroccan descent connected to Amsterdam’s Arrayan Sunni mosque

[Comment: And for asking, “Do we want more Moroccans or less?”, Geert Wilders might get a fine. Sigh.]

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

Geert Wilders to Expand the PVV at a Local Level

PVV leader Geert Wilders wants his party to take part in as many places as possible in the 2018 local elections.

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

Germany Should Deport Sick Refugees: Merkel Party Mate

A top member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party on Monday defended his proposal for Germany to deport sick refugees after receiving harsh criticism.

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

Grillo Calls for Immediate Elections With Italicum

‘Goodbye Renzi’ writes M5S leader

(ANSA) — Rome, December 5 — Beppe Grillo, the leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), called for immediate elections with the Italicum system after Premier Matteo Renzi announced he was resigning following Sunday’s victory for the No camp in the Constitutional referendum. “Goodbye Renzi,” Grillo wrote on his blog. “(Now) the Italian people must be called on to vote as soon as possible. The fastest, most realistic and concrete (option) to vote at once is to vote with the law that’s there — the Italicum”. The Italicum system is designed only to apply to the Lower House as, under the Constitutional reform rejected on Sunday, the Senate was meant to revamped and made up of regional representatives.

Northern League leader Matteo Salvini said Monday that he was ready for new elections as soon as possible “with any election law” after Premier Matteo Renzi announced he was quitting following defeat in Sunday’s Constitutional referendum. “I don’t think Italy can afford months of debate on a new election law,” he added when asked about Renzi’s call for the No front to propose a new election system.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s opposition centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party said Monday that the whole of parliament had the job of formulating a proposal for a new election law to replace the Italicum. “I’d like to say to Renzi that the honour of reform the election law is not down to us, but to the whole parliament, the parties of the ruling majority and the of the opposition,” FI Lower House whip Renato Brunetta said.

Ex-premier Massimo D’Alema, one of a group of rebel members of Renzi’s centre-left Democratic Party (PD) who backed the victorious No camp in Sunday’s referendum, said Monday that it would be “irresponsible” to hold immediate elections. “The head of State will give the mandate to a figure who will measure the willingness (to form) a government necessary for the country,” he said. “It would be irresponsible to vote now as the Constitutional Court still has to rule on the Italicum (election law)”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Suspected ISIS Mother ‘Forced Son to Train in Combat’

Son told father ‘mom is dressed like a ninja’

(ANSA) — Milan, December 5 — Milan special ops police on Monday said an Albanian woman from the province of Lecco, near Milan, who moved with her six-year-old son to Syria in 2014 to allegedly join ISIS, forced him to train in “body-to-body” combat at a Syrian training camp so that he could become a “future fighter”.

A Milan preliminary investigation judge issued an arrest warrant on November 28 for the woman, 34-year-old Valbona Berisha.

Police said she changed her son’s name to Yussuf and had him circumcised, and that they were living in a town about 40 kilometres from Aleppo.

They said it is unknown whether or not the two are still alive.

The boy spoke by phone on a few occasions with his father, which police wiretapped as part of the investigation.

The woman’s husband, also Albanian, reported her disappearance to police, and the couple also have two older daughters. Investigators said the woman’s move to Syria was also motivated by her intention to marry an ISIS fighter from Macedonia.

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Italy Tops Pension Contributions — OECD

33 of private employees’ gross salary

(ANSA) — Rome, December 5 — Italy is still top of the OECD standings for compulsory pension contributions, accounting for 33% of payrolled worker’s gross salary, the Paris-based organisation said Monday in its Pensions Outlook 2016 survey, which stressed the extent of employers’ contribution (23.81%), while workers’, at 9.19%, was in line with Germany and France.

The OECD also urged politics to give information on retirement plans and called on governments to boost supplementary pensions.

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Italy Should Continue Path Renzi Started — Schaeuble

No reason to speak of euro crisis, says finance minister

(ANSA) — Brussels, December 5 — German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Monday that Italy should continue with the reforms started by outgoing Premier Matteo Renzi. “It’s urgent for a new government to be formed. I hope it will continue with the reforms,” he said as he entered a Eurogroup meeting. “Italy must continue of the path started by Renzi three years ago. Even if the Italian public did not accept this Constitutional amendment, there’s no reason to talk of a euro crisis. Italy must continue on the road started by Renzi from a political and economic viewpoint”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy Votes Against EU Takeover as Globalism Implodes

The globalists are on the run, but that means the stakes are higher as they launch their most desperate plans to enslave humanity

Liberty is on the rise as worldwide referendums keep affirming that people demand self determination.

The globalists are on the run, but that means the stakes are higher as they launch their most desperate plans to enslave humanity. Alex breaks it all down in this insightful briefing.

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Merkel Savaged: Migrant Murder of EU Official’s Daughter Sparks Anger at Open-Door Policy

Social media is also burning up with hate messages directed at refugees in the wake of the arrest of the 17-year-old Afghan boy whose DNA has linked him to the murder of Maria, the daughter of a high ranking EU legal official.

One tweet from Eli Dahl quoted Angela Merkel from her election campaign in 2006 when she told the House of Representatives: “Zero tolerance when it comes to interior security, Ladies and Gentlemen.”

He wrote: “What’s interior security like in 2016, Mrs Merkel?”

Another tweeter said: “The Federal Government remains silent! NOT JUST Maria Ladenburger would still be alive if it wasn’t for Merkel’s refugee policies.”

European Parliament president Martin Schulz also came under fire with Bonke Kolja saying: “Was Martin Schulz (“What refugees bring our country is worth more than gold’) at the funeral of Maria Ladenburger?”

[Comment: See the video of German police describing what happened to Maria.]

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Nigel Farage on Time’s Person of the Year Shortlist

Nigel Farage has been shortlisted for the title of Time magazine’s person of the year, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and singer Beyonce.

The former UKIP leader is one of 11 contenders named by the US publication, which cites his role in helping bring about Brexit.

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Potential “Systemic Crisis in Eurozone” After Italy Votes No, Renzi Resigns

Although the referendum on Sunday was officially on Renzi’s plan for legislative overhaul, it was widely seen in Italy as a vote of confidence in the prime minister and his government. In voting “no” — projections suggest 59% of those in the ballot made that choice — the Italians have set the stage for an early election and perhaps given local populist parties the chance to deliver a Brexit- or Trump-style shake-up.

But if the political uncertainty lasts, the fallout from the vote could have an effect not only within Italy — on its already embattled banks, for instance — but also beyond the borders of the boot-shaped country.

The problems in Italy could — in theory — “spark a systemic crisis in the eurozone,” said Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg, in a recent note.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Anjem Choudary’s ‘Bodyguard’ Sentenced for Attacking Schoolboy

Muslim convert Michael Coe attacked a boy because he took exception to the 16-year-old cuddling his teenage girlfriend in Newham, east London, in April.

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Valls to Run for President: ‘I Want to Give Everything for France’

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls formally announced Monday evening that he is running for the presidency in next year’s election.

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Wilders’ Anti-Islam PVV Further Increases Lead in Latest Poll

Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam party PVV is still gaining popularity in the polls. In Maurice de Hond’s latest poll the PVV gained one seat over the past weeks, and 7 seats over the past four weeks. The anti-Islam party is now 10 seats ahead of ruling party VVD.

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

The United Nations General Assembly Passes 6 Outrageous Anti-Israel Resolutions

Last Wednesday, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to adopt 6 outrageous anti-Israel resolutions. These resolutions address a wide variety of issues including “ a two state solution” , the status of the Golan Heights and a “ lasting solution to the question of the City of Jerusalem” . Unlike UN Security Council resolutions, these UN General Assembly resolutions are not considered to be legally binding upon the parties, but they do show that virtually the entire planet is in favor of dividing the land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem. In addition, even though the U.S. voted against each of these resolutions, there is still a tremendous amount of buzz that the Obama administration may decide to go along with a UN Security Council resolution that would set the parameters for a “ two state solution” before the end of Barack Obama’ s term comes on January 20th.

I have not seen a single mainstream news article about these UN General Assembly resolutions that were just passed. The only way that I learned about them is because someone sent me a link to an announcement on the official UN website. In this article I want to share with you some extended excerpts from that announcement so that you can see for yourself exactly how the UN feels about Israel.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Erdogan’s Hard Times in Syria, Pressured to Backtrack by Putin

On November 29, he publicly announced that Turkey had launched its operations in Syria to end the rule of “the tyrant al-Assad”:…

Nonetheless, on December 1, the Turkish president was pushed to backtrack on Syrian goals, claryfying that “to end the rule of tyrant al-Assad” means “to combat terrorism”:

Turkey’s military operation in northern Syria does not target any country or individual, and is aimed only at terrorist groups, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. He had earlier stated that Turkey was in Syria to “end the rule of the cruel Assad.”…

The shift of Erdogan’s strategy in Syria came after a phone call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.

[Comment: Perhaps the phrase “lake of glass” was used.]

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Fake News in Overdrive: President Assad “Created ISIS”

The so called “journalist” Roy Gutman is marketing an old fairy tale in three acts. It was the Syrian President Assad who created ISIS. Assad also faked the Al-Qaeda bombings in Syria to get sympathy in the “west”. The Daily Beast even paid Gutman to publish this nonsense:

[Comment: Truth is already out — NATO and US intel agencies and State Dept. funnelled arms from Libya (via Benghazi) to Turkey to Syrian “rebels”. Along with lots of cash. Looks at all those “accidental” supply drops that ened up supplying the terrorists instead of the “rebels”. Mainstream media is now trying to paper over the truth with more lies. Perhaps the tactic is now is spin so many lies that people get confused and can’t see the truth.]

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‘Moderate’ Rebels Admit Al-Qaeda Ties as Trump Discusses Ending Support

Obama administration made a “willful decision” to support terrorist groups in the fight against Assad

CIA-backed “moderate Syrian rebels” are eyeing closer ties with terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda over fears of “abandonment” by a President Trump.

According to a report in the Washington Post Saturday, rebel groups are weighing their options as more than three years of CIA support could be ended by the next administration.

“Among the options, say U.S. officials, regional experts and the rebels themselves, are a closer alliance with better-armed al-Qaeda and other extremist groups, receipt of more sophisticated weaponry from Sunni states in the Persian Gulf region opposed to a U.S. pullback, and adoption of more traditional guerrilla tactics, including sniper and other small-scale attacks on both Syrian and Russian targets,” the Post states.

Trump has long expressed doubts over the so-called rebels. Numerous military experts, including retired Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, have stated that the vast majority of rebel fighters have always been radical extremists.

“Funding these guys, fundamentally, may well help destabilize Assad but when they are done with Assad they are coming back towards us,” Shaffer said on the Alex Jones Show in 2014.

Throughout his campaign, Trump has said the Islamic State, not the Assad regime, would be his primary focus in the region.

“My attitude was you’re fighting Syria, Syria is fighting ISIS, and you have to get rid of ISIS,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal last month…

The Post also notes that retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, now Trump’s designated White House national security adviser, has argued that the alliance between the rebels and terrorist groups is more substantial than being admitted.

Flynn stated last year during an interview with al-Jazeera that the Obama administration made a “willful decision” to support terrorist groups in the fight against Assad.

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Microsoft, IBM, Intel Refuse to Hand Over Family Jewels to China

US giants balk at demands to reveal source code, schematics

Microsoft, IBM and Intel have given Chinese officials short shrift after the government demanded to see their top-secret source code and blueprints.

Last month, the Middle Kingdom passed a tough cybersecurity law that will, among other things, require any technology company doing business in the Asian superpower to submit their designs to Chinese regulators, which will check the code and schematics for security holes.

The government says such a measure is needed to ensure that its national security isn’t threatened, but Western tech giants are concerned over the measure. The Wall Street Journal reports that Intel, Microsoft, and Intel have all filed objections to the practice…

While no one is actually saying it overtly, there are also concerns that by handing over their family jewels, technology companies will be making the theft of their intellectual property much easier. China doesn’t have a good reputation when it comes to stealing data it wants — although neither does the US.

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Afghan’s Murder-Rape Arrest Reignites Germany Migrant Debate

(AFP) — The German government pleaded for calm Monday after the arrest of a teenage Afghan asylum seeker for the alleged rape and murder of a German student triggered fresh criticism of the country’s liberal refugee policy.

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Brain Drain Costs Greece €9.1 Bln in Lost Tax Revenue Annually

The loss of Greece’s brilliant minds who emigrate abroad for work “costs” the country 9.1 billion euros per year in lost tax revenues, says a McKinsey & Company survey.

The ongoing brain drain that started after the onset of the economic crisis is also depriving the Greek economy of precious human resources that would be essential for its recovery. The McKinsey report says that one in three Greek employers cannot fill important vacant posts because they cannot find people with the proper skills.

[Comment: These are the kind of immigrants that the US and other Western countries should want. Instead we are taking in welfare spongers, rapists, and murderers.]

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Dutch Asylum Centre Saw Mass Brawl Break Out Between Rival Refugee Gangs

Rival gangs of migrants attacked each other with tables and chairs during a shocking riot at a Dutch asylum centre.

Footage leaked by Dutch far right politician Geert Wilders, shows the massive disturbance involving dozens of young men inside the asylum centre’s canteen area.

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EU Parents of Daughter Raped/Murdered by Muslim Migrant Collect Funeral Donations for Migrants

A teenage Afghan asylum seeker has been arrested in Germany for the rape and murder of the 19-year-old daughter of a senior EU official

Maria Ladenburger, the rape/murder victim of a Muslim migrant and whose father is a senior EU official, told people to not bring flowers to the funeral but give money to a pro-migrant organization that works to stop deportation of “refugees.”

These are the acts of a conquered people. Their daughter was brutally raped and murdered by a Muslim refugee and her parents are urging donations to an organization for migrants.

Unfortunately the organization “Weitblick Freiburg” deleted the Facebook posting with the comments, but this article reports that that Facebook users were outraged because Maria’s parents used her murder to raise funds for Muslim refugees. “Weitblick Freiburg” works to stop the deportation of “refugees.”

Thanks to Markus who sent me the death notice (above) on Facebook. Assuming it is authentic, charity appeal is in the last sentence on the bottom.

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Exactly Who in America Has This Insatiable Appetite for Somali Immigration?

People often say, concerning genuine Muslim refugees, driven from their homes in places like Syria, that their brother Muslim nations should take them in. Well, in the case of the Artans, assuming they genuinely were fleeing from something or other in Somalia — a questionable assumption in itself, given the history of fraud in these cases — even assuming that, Muslim Pakistan did indeed step up and take them in.

How did they then become America’s responsibility?

The answer is that the U.S.A. has an insatiable appetite for Somali immigrants. Ann Corcoran has dug out the numbers over at Refugee Resettlement Watch. We’ve taken in eight thousand Somalis so far this year. Last year it was nine thousand. Year 2014 it was also nine thousand. Clicking back through the years from there: eight thousand, five thousand, three thousand, five thousand, four thousand, two and a half thousand.

That last low number was for 2008, when family reunification was suspended after the State Department tried out a DNA testing program that exposed widespread fraud — strangers claiming to be family members…

The appetite belongs in the first place to the refugee importers, the so-called Voluntary Agencies, who get vast grants of federal money to aid them in their efforts, and who pay their executives grand salaries; and in the second place to Midwestern meatpacking and food-processing companies wanting cheap labor.

It’s all a nice little money racket dressed up in humanitarian language.

The precise Voluntary Agency involved in Artan’s case was Catholic Charities of Dallas. [Email them] [Catholic Charities Resettled Ohio State’s Somali Attacker,by Michael Patrick Leahy, Breitbart.com, November 29, 2016] They will not, of course, be held responsible for the actions of their protégé. Nor will anyone be called on to explain how the mass importation of African Muslims helps the mission of the Catholic Church…

Monday’s attack also brought out the sanctimonious non-judgmentalism of our Goodwhite elites. One of those more seriously hurt was 68-year-old emeritus professor of engineering William Clark. [Send him mail] Quote from him, speaking the day after the attack:

Before I pass judgment on this young man, I would like to see exactly what the circumstances are and exactly why he took the course of action that he chose.

Ohio State University Professor Injured in Attack: ‘We’re Still a Great University’

Time.com, November 29, 2016

The circumstances! The root causes! It wasn’t Mr. Artan’s will, his agency, that brought about those injuries and his own death, you see; it was those pesky circumstances.

Members of victim groups have no agency. They are the helpless playthings of circumstance.

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Germany: Maria Ladenburger Murder — EU Official Daughter Killed by Refugee

Maria Ladenburger, the daughter of a high-ranking EU official, was returning from a party in the university city of Freiburg in Germany when she was assaulted on a cycle path.

She was raped and then drowned before her body was found in the River Dreisam.

The shocking incident happened on October 16 but details have only been released after an arrest on Friday.

The suspect, an Afghan migrant, was caught after police found DNA on a scarf near the path.

The scarf reportedly belonged to Maria.

They also found a strand of hair on a nearby blackberry bush.

Officers then trawled CCTV to see find people with a similar hairstyle, which led them to the suspect.

Following his arrest the suspect, aged 17, pleaded guilty to the attack and will be sentenced next year…

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Migrants Should Swear an Oath to Live in Britain, Government Report Demands

The author of a bombshell report on immigration and integration in Britain today slammed ‘right on’ critics for ignoring real problems.

Dame Louise Casey made a series of extraordinary recommendations today after months studying the impact of migration across the country. Among her proposals is a demand for all new migrants to Britain to take an oath of allegiance where they promise to embrace liberal values before arriving.

Dame Louise said ghettos have formed because the pace and scale of immigration has been ‘too much’ and some towns and cities have been transformed ‘out of all recognition’, it says.

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Obama Thumbs His Nose at Trump’s Immigration Agenda

President Barack Obama is thumbing his nose at his successor, President-elect Donald Trump by bringing as many Islamic refugees as he can in his remaining weeks in office. Fact, Obama entered into a secret deal with Australia to take as many refugees as possible who were turned down for asylum by Australia, according to a number of sources.

In fact on Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wrote a letter of complaint to both Secretary of State John Kerry and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. In his letter he reportedly condemned reports that President Obama was going to admit thousands of Muslims into America including “asylum seekers” the Australian government believed were a danger to their citizens.

“Apparently, Australian officials are more concerned with national security and the safety and security of their people than our own President,” claims former police official David Renauldi. “This is an example of how little the Democrats care about the American people. Their hearts are with illegal aliens, Muslim terrorists and other anti-American groups they consider ‘constituents,’“ retired Capt. Renauldi said.

The refugees involved are nationals from global hotspots including Iran, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Sudan. Grassley called these nations places where it’s almost impossible to vet people.

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University of Toronto Historian: Biological Sex a ‘Very Popular Misconception’

“Basically, it’s not correct that there is such a thing as biological sex,” Mr. Matte said last month on “The Agenda,” a Canadian talk show, adding that “for over 50 years scientists have shown that that’s not true.”

[Comment: DNA denier.]

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8 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/5/2016

  1. RE the Canadian anti-white music video…

    “The video, which was produced for the comedy show “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” and stars Canadian actor Shaun Majumder, says “a beige horizon” where we’re all “gonna look the same” is “inevitable” and mocks how “pure breeds” are “losing their grip.””

    Besides the dullness of everyone “looking the same” (and isn’t that kind-of like a world where everyone’s Aryan, just darker?!), I take it “Mr Majumder” has never seen an Indian dating ad, which is often very specific with regards to the desired partner – right down to the caste… and the makers of this video are clearly not very well acquainted with a typical crowd of leftie do-gooder Guardian readers (or their non-UK equivalents). In a bar full of such types, the only “persons of colour” to be found are usually on the door, in the kitchens or behind the bar… the customers are usually all “lily-white”, with perhaps a couple of token blacks/Asians thrown in to enhance to whites’ “anti-racist” credentials. The real “mixing” is left to the oiks on council estates, or in downtrodden towns like Rotherham (voluntary or not). And even in such multi-racial paradise states like Brazil, very white and very black people are still very much alive and kicking…

    Therefore I suspect that the utopia where “everyone looks the same” which the makers of this music video envisage is still some way off from happening…

  2. Regarding Renzi, there seem to be two stories. One, yesterday, said he decided to postpone his resignation until the budget is approved. Today, the story is that he did hand a resignation in, but that he’s been asked to preside over the adoption of the budget.

    All the stories I’ve seen use weasel words, implying a resignation where there maybe hasn’t been one. Italians, what’s the word on the street?

  3. Oh, dear God — the world is going madder than the proverbial mad hatter. If people think white people are worthless, they might as well give up electricity, phone, central heating and a few other thousand things invented/produced by white people. If you like muslims better, go to the middle east where they pee in the sand (and do other things as well, don’t ask), treat their women like slaves and still haven’t figured out the basics of “modern” living. Good luck with that.

    At some point I had to stop reading, although I see right above that someone now denies the idea of biological sex. Maybe he should ask his mummy and daddy how he arrived on this earth!

    Well, I have to go make turkey soup out of the remains of the carcass of our turkey — much more useful than what I’m doing now. However, as always, thank you — Baron and Dymphna for all you do! How else would I know of some of idiocy? I’ll come back and finish reading after a brief recovery period with the turkey.

  4. Was wondering if you would like to run this story:
    http://theindicter.com/the-case-assange-in-the-context-of-swedens-feminist-foreign-policy-for-exports-gains/
    Assange is not usually a topic here, just serving as example in this examination which casts a spotlight on the toxicity of a government’s declared feminist agenda, which pretends to work for human rights but does not refrain from committing human rights violations in the means it uses.

  5. ” Very critical we try to educate our fellow Americans about how America built a nation like no other and her industries while protecting them.”

    America with a 300 million population, significant mineral resources, and vast agricultural land mass, could operate as a “closed economy” importing only needed raw materials for it’s industries and exporting surplus production. Globalization has reduced the cost of clothing and television sets in developed “Western” nations but at a severe cost. The manufacturing sector has been gutted with those jobs exported to lower cost countries. This fits fine with the Socialist economic idea of spreading the wealth around but it dooms the less academically gifted worker in the West to a low income, state supported future.
    This of course is one of the reasons Trump won. He alone seems to believe the rot can be reversed. Trump’s 35% tariff threat on companies that go off shore to manufacture is a good start to challenge the economic dogma.

    • I agree. The “conservatives” who see economic optimization as the ONLY principle worth supporting need to be helped to observe other points of view, including those which insist on the necessity of protecting and nurturing the culture and the nation.

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