Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/10/2017

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Front National, has surged into the lead in the French presidential race, according to the latest polls. The declining popularity of François Fillon, the Conservative candidate, among working-class voters is said to have contributed to Ms. Le Pen’s lead.

In other news, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has caused anger among Austrian Muslims by calling for a ban on the wearing of headscarves by holders of public office.

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Financial Crisis
» A Monetary Litmus Test for Mr. Trump
» Deutsche Bank Predicts Trump Economy Will More Than Double U.S. GDP Growth
» Obama Economy: 9.9 Million More Employed, But 14.6 Million Left Labor Force
» Split Euro Zone in Two, Says Germany’s Far-Right Leader
 
USA
» Activists Are Hoping to Turn Donald Trump’s Inauguration on January 20th Into One of the Biggest Riots in U.S. History
» Barack Obama Legacy: Did He Improve US Race Relations?
» CNN is Now Least Trusted News Network Among Viewers
» ‘Defender of Nazis’: Protesters Thrown Out of Joint Session of Congress Certifying Trump’s Election [Video]
» Democrats Call for Sept 11-Style Commission to Probe Russia
» Earth-Moon System as Seen From Mars Orbit
» FBI Paying Best Buy ‘Geek Squad’ To Dig Around in Computers?
» FBI Quietly Releases 300 Pages of Hillary Clinton Investigation Records
» FBI Warned Clinton Emails Were Vulnerable to ‘Foreign Government Espionage’ In 2015
» Giuliani: What’s Wrong With Trump Putting Successful People in His Cabinet?
» GM Lies to Trump, Public About Chevy Cruze Production
» Left’s Mission Accomplished: Blacks Torturing Whites
» Meryl Streep Applauds Pizzagate Pedophile
» Prediction: Goodbye Democracy, Hello Technocracy
» Revealing Evidence of Russia’s Hacking Would be ‘Irresponsible’ — State Dept
» Silicon Valley CEO: Middle America a “Sh*thole” Full of “Stupid People”
» Spotify Offers Barack Obama a Job as ‘President of Playlists’
» Standing Rock Protests Tied to Soros-Funded Group
» The French-Obama-Arab-UN Attack in the Offing
» The Soft Coup Collapses — CIA Bluffing, Russia Did Not Hack, Blackmail Revealed — What Next?
» US Military Tests Swarm of Mini-Drones Launched From Jets
» Zapping the Brain Really Does Seem to Improve Depression
 
Canada
» A Muslim Murder Spree in Canada’s Capital
» BC’s Housing Bubble — Getting Ready for a Pop!
 
Europe and the EU
» Arms Sales Surge in Czech Republic After President Warns of Islamic Terrorism
» Austria: Minister’s Call for Public Office Headscarf Ban Angers Muslims
» Belgian Police Stopped Paris Jihad Murderer Before Attack, Found Jihad Booklet on Him, Let Him Go
» Czech Government Tells Its Citizens How to Fight Terrorists: Shoot Them Yourselves
» Exoplanet Anniversary: 1st Alien Worlds Confirmed 25 Years Ago Today
» France’s Le Pen Wants Repatriation of Car Plants a la Trump
» German Minister Wants Suspected Extremists to Wear Electronic Monitors
» Germany Dubs ‘National Traitor’ Derogatory Buzzword of the Year
» Germany Sets Plan to Rein in Extremists
» How Political Correctness About Islam Made Britain Vulnerable to Chemical Terrorism
» Hundreds of U.S. Tanks Arrive in Germany as Warhawks Escalate Russian Provocation
» Hungary Promises Crackdown on George Soros Groups After Trump Victory
» Islamic Funded British Universities and How They Foment Anti-Semitism
» Italy Arrests Two for Hacking Into Emails of ECB’s Draghi, Former Italy PM Renzi
» Italy Fears Terrorist Attack by Albanian ISIS Fighters
» Marine Le Pen Surges Into the Lead in Latest French Presidential Polls
» Mass Murderer Anders Breivik Gives Nazi Salute in Court
» Norway is First Country to Turn Off FM Radio and Go Digital-Only
» ‘Pacifism’ No Longer an Option for Germany After Berlin Attack, Says French Presidential Favourite Francois Fillon
» Poland Honours Brit Who Raised Money for Slain Driver in Berlin Attack
» Sweden: Brå: Women’s Heightened Feelings of Insecurity ‘Alarming’
» Swiss Muslim Girls Must Learn to Swim With Boys, Court Rules
» UK: George Michael ‘Tried to End Relationship With Boyfriend Fadi Fawaz’
» UK: Muslim Extremists Are Infiltrating Other Schools in the Same Way as in the Trojan Horse Scandal, Integration Tsar Warns MPs
» UK: Scientists Create a Method to Regrow Teeth Using an Alzheimer’s Drug
» UK: Teenager ‘Was Repeatedly Raped in Back of Van by Traveller Gang’
 
North Africa
» Real Mastermind Behind Tunisia Attacks Has Not Been Captured and is on the Run in North Africa, Investigation Reveals
 
Middle East
» Georgetown University Panel Applauds Erdogan’s Coup and the Islamization of Turkey
» Turkish Marriage Guide: Beating Wives Reminds Them Husband Rules House, “Which is Like Medicine”
 
South Asia
» Pakistan: ‘Like Chickens in Cages Ready to be Slaughtered’
» Sourav Ganguly Gets Death Threat From a Muslim
 
Far East
» China Tightens Xinjiang Border Amid Rising Terrorist Threats
» Chinese TV Producer Fired After Supporting Mao Zedong Critic
» New Candidate for ‘Missing Element’ In Earth’s Core
» Oldest Evidence of Silk Found in 8,500-Year-Old Tombs
» Pen Power: China Closer to Ballpoint Success
» US Ability to Shoot Down North Korean Missile Not Guaranteed, Report Says
 
Australia — Pacific
» Bomber Who Studied in NZ ‘Was Just a Normal Person’
» Former Australian PM Tony Abbott Says UK Should Leave EU Customs Union to Strike Deals With Commonwealth
 
Latin America
» Breakthrough Starshot Enlists Giant Telescope to Seek Planets at Alpha Centauri
» Terence Corcoran: Chavez’s Canadian Fan Club is Awfully Quiet About Venezuela’s Utter Meltdown
» Watch: Protesters in Mexico Kick Feds Out of Town, Storm Buildings as Govt Raises Gas Prices
 
Immigration
» Afghan Refugees Jailed in Austria Pretending to be Child Migrants
» Another of Merkel’s Insta-Germans: ‘Would-be Rapist’ Protected by German Privacy Laws
» Mayors of Lesbos and Lampedusa Awarded Olof Palme Prize
» Nearly One in Three Immigrants Feel Unsafe in Sweden: Report
» Smugglers Offer £100 UK Deal to Migrants
» UK: Violent Migrant Arrested Hurling Abuse at Barman Who Denies Him Free Food
 
Culture Wars
» UN Demands More Globalist Propaganda in School Textbooks
» University Students Demand Philosophers Such as Plato and Kant Are Removed From Syllabus Because They Are White
 
General
» 2016 Was the Deadliest Year on Record for Suicide Attacks, Analysts Say
» How to Not Get Doxed
 

A Monetary Litmus Test for Mr. Trump

Recently, various analysts and commentators in the alternative media have darkly speculated that, rather than presenting a real opportunity to “make America great again”, Donald Trump’s ascendency to the Oval Office actually provides the Globalist International with the perfect opportunity to take a giant stride in the direction of a “new world order” in which America will be reduced to a mere satrapy in a grandiose scheme of totalitarian “global governance”. Their negative appreciations of the situation and prognostications generally follow these lines:…

In the absence of gold and silver currencies circulating side-by-side with Federal Reserve Notes in open and fair competition, Americans are compelled by circumstances to depend upon those Notes (and bank-deposits payable therein) as their only practical currency. So, if the Federal Reserve System should collapse, and Federal Reserve Notes should become next to worthless through hyperinflation, America’s economy would tumble into the black pit of chaos. The Globalist International is, of course, preparing for that eventuality-and may even be plotting to bring it about during the first years of the Trump Administration. However such chaos may arise, when it does the Globalist International, through the International Monetary Fund or some other monetary machinery of “the new world order”, will impose upon this country a new fiat currency-controlled, of course, by the Globalist International. This will shackle Americans more tightly to “the new world order” than ever they have or could have been chained through the Federal Reserve System.

In order to avoid this dire fate, the Trump Administration must set competition among currencies in motion well before the present economic crisis degenerates into a full-blown monetary and banking catastrophe which prevents such competition from even starting. With the benefit of contemporary computer technology, it would be easy enough, through a gradual process mediated by the free market, to establish economically sound and constitutional alternative currencies of gold and silver as viable competitors against Federal Reserve Notes. In the short term, the introduction of such alternative currencies would to a large degree obviate, or at least mitigate, the immediate danger that a collapse of the banking system could (almost surely would) leave Americans with no functioning currency at all, until the Globalist International proffered one at the cost of this country’s sovereignty. In the long run, the introduction of such alternative currencies would bring the full force of the free market to bear against the Federal Reserve System, leading to its gradual self-abolition, as the “member banks” found themselves compelled by economic pressures beyond the Globalist International’s ability to resist to replace Federal Reserve Notes with the alternative currencies as their customers’ preferred media of exchange. And requiring the “member banks” to establish gold and silver accounts for their private customers and perhaps the States as well would not run afoul of the statutory prohibition in 31 U.S.C. § 5118(b) that “[t]he United States Government may not pay out any gold coin”, for the self-evident reason that neither the private “member banks”, nor the States, nor even the private Federal Reserve regional banks are “[t]he United States Government”.

[Comment: Good article by Dr Edwin Vieira.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Deutsche Bank Predicts Trump Economy Will More Than Double U.S. GDP Growth

Yup,… Still Walking in A Winner Wonderland

Interesting to see Duetsche Bank attempting to quantify a new economic dimension. They also identify the construct of the two U.S. economies, Wall Street and Main Street, and present the following forward analysis:… “This policy will be successful in moving the U.S. economy away from low-growth secular stagnation towards significantly more buoyant performance. We would not be taken by surprise by a doubling of the growth rate of real GDP in the U.S. over the next two years, nor by a further significant move up of equity valuations and a material further appreciation of the dollar.”

~ David Folkerts-Landau, Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank

Interestingly, heck, surprisingly, the Deutsche Bank analysis rebukes several years of global economic advocacy and theory. “This approach should produce a new order that will ultimately be more stable in the sense that ‘good fences make good neighbors,’“ Folkers-Landau said.

The impact may not be felt immediately, but once the new agenda kicks in it will serve as a “game changer for the U.S. economy,” Folkerts-Landau added. In raw numbers, that would push 2017 growth to 2.4 percent and 2018 up to 3.6 percent… U.S. growth will bleed into the world economy, according to Deutsche, which pushed its 2017 global GDP forecast from 3 percent to 3.4 percent. (link)

Well, lookie there. A reinvigorated U.S. economy actually driving the total of all global GDP forecasts higher by 14% over previous forecasts (GDP 3.0 — -vs- GDP 3.4). This admission by Deutsche Bank is rather startling.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Obama Economy: 9.9 Million More Employed, But 14.6 Million Left Labor Force

Since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the number of employed Americans increased by 9.9 million, but there were 14.6 million more who left the labor force, according to the latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

– From January 2009 through December 2016, there were 9,959,000 more Americans 16 years and over who became employed. In that same time frame, there were 14,573,000 more Americans 16 years and over who were not in the labor force, which means they did not have a job or look for one in the past four weeks.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Split Euro Zone in Two, Says Germany’s Far-Right Leader

The euro zone should be split into two with a strong cluster around Germany and a weak cluster including France, the co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Joerg Meuthen said.

“The euro is a seed of discord in Europe that has different currency cultures and different competitiveness levels,” Meuthen told Reuters, eight months before the federal election.

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

Activists Are Hoping to Turn Donald Trump’s Inauguration on January 20th Into One of the Biggest Riots in U.S. History

Radical leftists are planning to make January 20th the most chaotic Inauguration Day in American history. Their stated goal is to “ disrupt” the Inauguration festivities as much as possible, and they are planning a wide range of “ actions” to achieve that stated goal. Some of the more moderate groups are using terms such as “ civil resistance” and “ civil disobedience” , but others are openly talking about “ blockades” , jumping barricades, throwing projectiles and “ citywide paralysis” . My hope is that all of their efforts will turn out to be a big flop, but it is important to understand that these groups are well funded, highly organized and extremely motivated. The election of Donald Trump has been perhaps the single most galvanizing moment for the radical left in modern American history, and they are working very hard to turn January 20th into a major political statement.

In fact, just recently one activist group took out a full page ad in the New York Times…

Once Donald Trump won the election, many conservatives seemed to think that the war was won. But the truth of the matter is that many on the left were completely blindsided by Trump’s surprise victory, and now that they are fully awake they are gearing up for battle like never before.

And these protests are not going to end on January 20th. In fact, abortion advocates are hoping to get close to a million women into Washington D.C. on the day following the Inauguration to protest for abortion rights. Filmmaker Michael Moore is hoping that this march will be the beginning of “100 days of resistance” against Trump’s presidency…

[Comment: Soros is funding it all.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Barack Obama Legacy: Did He Improve US Race Relations?

For as we enter the final days of the Obama presidency, the more accurate descriptor of race relations is a fault-line — the most angry fault-line in US politics and American life, and one that continues to rumble away, threatening small explosions at any time.

From Obama we expected seismic change of a more positive kind.

And although it was a presidency that began atop a mountain, it ended in something of a valley.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

CNN is Now Least Trusted News Network Among Viewers

A recent poll of cable news network viewers found that CNN’s regular audience is far more skeptical of the political news they receive than Fox News fans. In the poll published Wednesday by Rasmussen Reports, 1,000 likely voters were asked to describe their media viewing habits. Seventy-five percent said they watch at least some form of cable news each week, with 42 percent saying they most frequently watch Fox News, 35 percent usually choosing CNN, and 19 percent favoring MSNBC. An even 50 percent of frequent Fox News viewers agreed with a followup question, “Do you trust the political news you are getting?” By comparison, 43 percent of frequent MSNBC viewers and just 33 percent of those who mostly watch CNN said they trust their political news.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Defender of Nazis’: Protesters Thrown Out of Joint Session of Congress Certifying Trump’s Election [Video]

The House sergeant at arms had to throw out multiple protesters attempting to interrupt a joint session of Congress certifying President-elect Donald Trump’s victory Friday.

“There will be order,” Vice President Joe Biden said as he banged his gavel. A joint session of Congress met Friday to certify the Electoral College votes cast during the 2016 presidential race.

Three protesters — two men and a woman — were thrown out of the floor of the House and the gallery.

“Donald Trump is a defender of Nazis,” the woman shouted as she was pulled out of the room.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Democrats Call for Sept 11-Style Commission to Probe Russia

Congressional Democrats, and by extension the now concluded Clinton campaign, refuse to end pointing fingers for the turmoil rocking the Democratic party (and/or take responsibility) and instead Democratic members of Congress are trying to compare the “Russian hacking of the elections” to the Sept. 11 terrorist event, and called on Monday for the creation of an independent commission to probe Russia’s attempts to intervene in the 2016 election, similar to the Sept. 11 panel that probed the 2001 attacks on the United States. Of course, it took some 15 years for the true, unredacted findings of that particular panel to finally emerge, when the extent of Saudi involvement in the Sept 11 attacks was finally revealed, leading to the Sept 11 legislation allowing Americans to sue Riyadh for terrorism on US soil.

According to Reuters, the proposed “Protecting our Democracy Act” would create a 12-member, bipartisan independent panel to interview witnesses, obtain documents, issue subpoenas and receive public testimony to examine attempts by Moscow and any other entities to influence the election. The panel members would not be members of Congress. The latest legislation proposal is one of many calls by lawmakers to look into Russian involvement in the presidential contest whose outcome stunned so-called experts. Republicans also kept control of the Senate and House of Representatives by larger-than-expected margins…

Alas, what it really is, is an ongoing farce, and a continuing attempt by Democrats, and those close to the Clintons, to avoid taking blame — after all none of the materials revealed by the hacks were false — for the loss to Trump, and instead to continue casting blame at others.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Earth-Moon System as Seen From Mars Orbit

This image composite combines the best Earth image with the best Moon image from four sets of images acquired on November 20, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

FBI Paying Best Buy ‘Geek Squad’ To Dig Around in Computers?

Geek Squad by day, government informants by… well, also by day

Unsurprisingly, the FBI also has a number of paid informants. Some of these informants apparently work at Best Buy — Geek Squad by day, government informants by… well, also by day.

According to court records, Geek Squad technician John “Trey” Westphal, an FBI informant, reported he accidentally located on Rettenmaier’s computer an image of “a fully nude, white prepubescent female on her hands and knees on a bed, with a brown choker-type collar around her neck.” Westphal notified his boss, Justin Meade, also an FBI informant, who alerted colleague Randall Ratliff, another FBI informant at Best Buy, as well as the FBI. Claiming the image met the definition of child pornography and was tied to a series of illicit pictures known as the “Jenny” shots, agent Tracey Riley seized the hard drive.

Not necessarily a problem, considering companies performing computer/electronic device repair are legally required to report discovered child porn to law enforcement. The difference here is the paycheck. This Geek Squad member had been paid $500 for digging around in customers’ computers and reporting his findings to the FBI. That changes the motivation from legal obligation to a chance to earn extra cash by digging around in files not essential to the repair work at hand.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

FBI Quietly Releases 300 Pages of Hillary Clinton Investigation Records

The FBI quietly released nearly 300 pages of records from its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server on Sunday night.

This is the fifth release of Clinton investigation records from the FBI. The documents deal with the handling of computer hardware collected from Clinton’s lawyers for the investigation and also contain emails from FBI officials discussing the classification of Clinton’s emails.

The FBI has previously released notes from interviews it conducted during its investigation of Clinton’s handling of classified information. FBI director James Comey declined to recommend that Clinton be charged in the case, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch accepted that advice.

The emails included in the documents are from the months prior to the formal opening of the Clinton email probe, which occurred on July 10, 2015. The exchanges show disagreements between the FBI and State Department over whether some of Clinton’s personal emails should be classified.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

FBI Warned Clinton Emails Were Vulnerable to ‘Foreign Government Espionage’ In 2015

Inspector General of the Intelligence Community ordered ‘full investigation’ and warned ‘the potential compromise of classified information’

FBI counter-terrorism officials warned in the summer of 2015 that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doing official business on her home email system potentially compromised national security, according to 300 pages of new evidence released late Sunday.

The warnings came even as Clinton — by then heavily favored to win the Democratic presidential nomination — casually dismissed any problems with the private email system in her New York mansion.

Dramatic behind-the-scenes alarms were triggered by the Clinton’s emails, a fact which is vividly depicted throughout the newly released documents.

[Comment: Likely that the Clintons used the private email server to hide their “pay for play” activities.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Giuliani: What’s Wrong With Trump Putting Successful People in His Cabinet?

President-elect Donald Trump is taking criticism for some of his cabinet picks, including Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary, among others.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) criticized picks, saying “These people that Donald Trump has put up as his appointments to his cabinet are not like President Obama’s people. These are people who are billionaires and have vast holdings, vast wealth. And the American people have a right to know if they’re going to be entering into those offices with conflicts of interest.”

On “Fox & Friends” this morning, Rudy Giuliani defended Trump’s picks, saying there’s nothing wrong with filling out his administration with people who have been successful in the private sector.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

GM Lies to Trump, Public About Chevy Cruze Production

Lying GM makes Cruzes in Mexico, sells them in America

On Tuesday, president-elect Trump tweeted about General Motors, stating the GM was building its Chevrolet Cruze in Mexico, importing them to the US tax-free, and selling them at US car dealers:

General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to U.S. car dealers-tax free across border. Make in U.S.A.or pay big border tax!

– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2017

GM quickly denied Trump’s tweet, and in a press release that same day, the company claimed that all Cruze sedans sold in the US are “built in GM’s assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio”, and that GM builds the Cruze hatchback for global markets in Mexico, with only a small percentage being sold in the US…and the MSM and other liberal outlets were quick to pounce on GM’s statement, using it to slander the president-elect. US News, ABC News, and many others, including the Wall Street Journal, all published articles containing the information in GM’s press release…

It appears that in the MSM’s rush to fact-check Trump and call him hypocritical, no media outlet bothered to fact-check GM as well. So, who did the fact-checking work that the MSM didn’t bother doing?

Auto enthusiast and Twitter user E.W. Niedermeyer, that’s who. Niedermeyer brought the GM and Trump saga up on Thursday, January 5th in a series of tweets that began innocently enough…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Left’s Mission Accomplished: Blacks Torturing Whites

Upon hearing that 4 blacks kidnapped and tortured a disabled white man, I wanted to say to the Left (Democrats, mainstream media, Hollywood and Black Lives Matter), “Mission accomplished.” The 4 pieces of pond-scum forced their white hostage to say f*** Trump and f*** white people.

Folks, make no mistake about it. While some on the Left claim to be upset, this is exactly the hate and violence they hope to generate throughout Trump’s entire presidency. A farmer does not plant corn and then is surprised when stalks of corn begin to grow. The Left has been planting seeds of racial hate and division ever since white America elected Obama. Why? Because the Left needed to be able to scream “racism” whenever anyone opposed Obama (their Trojan Horse) implementing their far-left-radical socialist/progressive agenda.

Leftist billionaire George Soros gave Black Lives Matter $33 million to wreck havoc in our streets; sowing seeds of racial paranoia, fear and hate. The Leftist Ford Foundation pledged $100 million to Black Lives Matter to sow lies about cops and whites. And what did BLM do? BLM declared it “open season” on killing cops and white people.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Meryl Streep Applauds Pizzagate Pedophile

Actress previously praised convicted child rapist

Meryl Streep, who recently used her platform at the Golden Globes to bash President-elect Donald J. Trump, gave convicted rapist Roman Polanski a standing ovation when he won the Academy Award for Best Director for “The Pianist” in 2003.

It seems that Streep has no tolerance for Trump “bullying” a reporter, which has been proven time and time again to be false, but will go as far to stand in adoration of a “child rapist”.

This is why conservatives hate Hollywood.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Prediction: Goodbye Democracy, Hello Technocracy

Watch for a new mantra: “Since Democracy* is irrefutably broken, let’s just throw it under the bus and start afresh with… Technocracy.” In other words, if you can’t get rid of Trump, then get rid of the office altogether.

(The efforts and methods of the Trilateral Commission since its founding in 1973 to resurrect historic Technocracy have been thoroughly documented in my book, Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation.)

First, note that there have been a rash of articles appearing recently in globalist media hammering on the failure of and soon demise of Democracy.

Washington Post 2/10/16 — Is U.S. ‘presidentialist’ democracy failing?

Salon 11/8/16 — President Trump: A colossal failure for democracy

Huffington Post 3/1/16 — Five Reasons ‘Representative Democracy is Failing Us New Yorker 11/7/16 — The Case Against Democracy

According to globalist reasoning, Democracy was a useful tool to get us to where we are today, but it is woefully inadequate to take us into the future. It’s dead. It’s over. It’s time for something new, a final solution to America’s myriad problems.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Revealing Evidence of Russia’s Hacking Would be ‘Irresponsible’ — State Dept

State Department spokesman John Kirby said that no one should be surprised that US intelligence agencies were keeping evidence secret

US intelligence agencies were right to not reveal evidence of their claims that Russia interfered in US elections, and comparisons with intelligence reports that Iraq had WMDs were not relevant in the current year, according to the State Department.

Asked by RT’s Gayane Chichakyan if Friday’s public intelligence report should have contained evidence, State Department spokesman John Kirby said that no one should be surprised that US intelligence agencies were keeping evidence secret in order to protect their sources and methods.

“Most American people understand that they have the responsibility to protect their sources and methods,” Kirby said, adding it would be “irresponsible” to do otherwise. It is up to the agencies to decide which information they share with the public.

[Comment: More lies. ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Silicon Valley CEO: Middle America a “Sh*thole” Full of “Stupid People”

“Clean up your act” by electing progressives. she says

A Silicon Valley tech CEO suggested that jobs are disappearing from middle America because “educated people” do not want to live in a “sh*thole” with “misogynistic, racist, stupid, and violent people.”

Melinda Byerley, founder of the Silicon Valley-based startup company Timeshare CMO, tweeted a Facebook posting in which she advised middle America on how to bring jobs back to their communities.

She premised her advice by noting “one thing middle America could do is to realize that no educated person wants to live in a shithole with stupid people. Especially violent, racist, and/or misogynistic ones.”

Corporations do not want to locate “call centers, factors, development centers, etc” because they must also deal with the fact that small towns “have nothing going for them. No infrastructure, just a few bars and a terrible school system.”

If you live in middle America and want jobs, you must “clean up your act and make your town a place that people like us want to live in.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Spotify Offers Barack Obama a Job as ‘President of Playlists’

President Barack Obama recently joked that he was hoping for a job at Spotify when he leaves the White House.

And it seems the music streaming service is keen to oblige him, after it posted on its careers page a vacancy for “President of Playlists.”

The job ad says applicants should have “at least eight years’ experience running a highly-regarded nation”.

It also calls for “a friendly and warm attitude, and a Nobel Peace Prize”.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Standing Rock Protests Tied to Soros-Funded Group

The pipeline protesters camped alongside the Missouri River in North Dakota have boasted for months about their self-sufficiency. Thousands of small donors on sites like GoFundMe have raised millions for the camp. However, the protest also has ties to left-wing activism groups funded by liberal billionaires George Soros and Tom Steyer. In particular, the Standing Rock camps have both received material support from and are currently directing volunteers to other campaigns run by a group known as Bold Alliance.

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

The French-Obama-Arab-UN Attack in the Offing

President Obama has gone rogue and only one man can protect American democracy in the next few days: the President-elect.

On January 15, 2017, with only five days left after 2,917 days in office, President Barack Obama is planning once again to feed Israel to the international wolves. The move is intended to tie the hands of President Donald Trump and is a direct repudiation of the will of the American electorate who rejected Obama’s calamitous foreign policy and a repeat performance by his secretary of state.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Soft Coup Collapses — CIA Bluffing, Russia Did Not Hack, Blackmail Revealed — What Next?

CIA was bluffing, produced no evidence — Russians did not “hack” the election. Is this the beginning of the end of the Deep State in the USA? Can Trump clean house & wage peace?

Aided by enormous restraint on the part of Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, the soft coup in the USA has collapsed. Not only has the US Intelligence Community (US IC) lost all semblance of credibility with incoming President Donald Trump, but the blackmail by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham has been revealed by investigative journalist Wayne Madsen.

Credit for the defeat of the soft coup has been earned by two persons and one group. Donald Trump earns the most credit — bringing to the matter his deep business experience and common sense, he understood that the narrative against Russia was exaggerated, fabricated, and out of context. With that foundation he was willing to listen to the second person, Michael Flynn, whose deep personal experience in the nether world of black special operations and green clandestine and covert action operations informs him in a manner few can claim.

The group has many members, but three stand out. William Binney, the senior executive (like and admiral or general) who created the National Security Agency (NSA) capability that has been used against US politicians and also to monitor the activity of all cyber-spies, not only Russia, was the first to reveal that the leaks were coming from insiders. Ray McGovern, a retired CIA analyst and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) has been a respected voice challenging the false assertions by the CIA against Russia. Finally Steve Pieczenik must be recognized. A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State who was instrumental in certifying the death of Bin Laden in 2001 and denouncing the multiple false Bin Ladens created by CIA thereafter (including the final patsy provided by Pakistan to enable a theatrical rescue that killed many US special operators for no reason other than to give Barack Obama an edge toward re-election), Pieczenik was the first to announce that a counter-coup against Hillary Clinton was being undertaken by insiders…

Wayne Madsen, a former naval intelligence officer and today one of America’s finest investigative journalists, has just published a formal overview of how CIA has been intervening in the US election, to include the blackmail of Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham. Bringing into public view the blackmail of US members of Congress by the US IC is a necessary first step toward persuading Donald Trump that he needs to address this cancer with two measures:

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US Military Tests Swarm of Mini-Drones Launched From Jets

The US military has launched 103 miniature swarming drones from a fighter jet during a test in California.

Three F/A-18 Super Hornets were used to release the Perdix drones last October.

The drones, which have a wingspan of 12in (30cm), operate autonomously and share a distributed brain.

A military analyst said the devices, able to dodge air defence systems, were likely to be used for surveillance.

Video footage of the test was published online by the Department of Defense.

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Zapping the Brain Really Does Seem to Improve Depression

Now we know — zapping the brain with electricity really does seem to improve some medical conditions, meaning it may be a useful tool for treating depression.

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) involves using electrodes to send a weak current across the brain. Stimulating brain tissue like this has been linked to effects ranging from accelerated learning to improving the symptoms of depression and faster recovery from strokes.

Thousands of studies have suggested the technique may be useful for everything from schizophrenia and Parkinson’s to tinnitus and autism.

However, replicating such studies has generally been difficult, and two recent analyses found no evidence that tDCS is effective, leading some to say that the technique is largely a sham.

“There are too many folks out there right now who are using electrical brain stimulation in a cavalier way,” says Michael Weisend, a tDCS researcher at Rio Grande Neuroscience in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “At best it has an effect that’s poorly understood, at worst it could be dangerous.”

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A Muslim Murder Spree in Canada’s Capital

Canada’s capital is a small sleepy city of less than a million. Its average annual murder rate is only 10. That’s a weekend in Chicago. But last year something strange happened to Ottawa’s murder rate.

It shot up to 24 homicides…

Ottawa has its own “Little Syria” where over a thousand migrants have been dumped. The mass migration quickly overwhelmed local resources. And the Muslim migrants have become a burden on food banks. There are already tens of thousands of Somali settlers in Ottawa forming their own outpost.

A good deal of the Muslim gang violence emerges from Somalis as well as other Muslim refugees. And Somali gang violence is a terrifying problem that has scarred Canadian and American cities.

Syrian Muslim migrant dumping will add another level to the violence and terror that already exists.

“When we think about integration and success we can’t be overly impatient,” Justin Trudeau insisted.

And so the grand postnational experiment, with its associated terror plots, shootings, stabbings and rapes continues. And Canadians mustn’t be impatient at being occasionally shot or stabbed. You can’t integrate a colonial Islamic population without breaking a lot of Canadian skulls.

This experiment has troubling implications for the United States and for the rest of the world.

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BC’s Housing Bubble — Getting Ready for a Pop!

As of January 16th, 2017, British Columbia (B.C) residents will have access to some “free money”. By extending interest-free loans, of up to $37,500 or a maximum of 5% of the homes’ purchase cost, to first-time home buyers that may be sitting on the sidelines, the B.C government seems to be tempting high-risk individuals to throw their hat into the home buyers ring.

In effect, what this is doing is further inflating the already over heated housing bubble, and exacerbating its imminent pop!

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Arms Sales Surge in Czech Republic After President Warns of Islamic Terrorism

President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman has advised Czech citizenry to arm themselves against terrorist threats. The suggestions follow his recent warning that the country may become the site of a terrorist attack. Months ago he said that Muslim terrorists may try to carry out a “super Holocaust” and that people should be prepared.

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Austria: Minister’s Call for Public Office Headscarf Ban Angers Muslims

A minister has been accused by Muslim groups of using Islam to gain political points by proposing to ban people in public office from wearing headscarves.

The Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration Sebastian Kurz, who at 30 is the youngest to hold such a post anywhere in the world, was criticised for his idea by Muslim groups.

Omar Al-Rawi, the chairman of the Initiative of Female Austrian Muslims (IMOe), accused conservative Kurz of wanting to “profile himself politically on the backs of Muslims.”

The chairman pointed at the “inglorious role” the Austrian People’s Party minister played in proposing a uniform German translation of the Quran to combat misinterpretations that promote extremism.

He also reminded Austrians of Kurz’s “agitation” against Muslim child-care centres in Vienna, which he tried to close down.

Al-Rawi said this was yet another example of the minister suggesting a “discriminatory proposal” against Muslim women in the civil service, which he stated he would challenge.

Kurz’s proposal was also rejected by the Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGiOe), which said in a statement that such a measure would be a completely false signal and be “anti-integrative” and “discriminatory.”

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Belgian Police Stopped Paris Jihad Murderer Before Attack, Found Jihad Booklet on Him, Let Him Go

Belgian police missed multiple chances to unmask the ISIS terror cell before they carried out massacres in Paris and Brussels, a secret report has claimed.

Jihadists butchered 130 people in the French capital on November 2015 before extremists killed 32 in attacks on Brussels airport and Metro the following March.

A confidential report has revealed that police in Belgium had numerous opportunities to expose the terror network before they went on the rampage in the two capital cities.

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Czech Government Tells Its Citizens How to Fight Terrorists: Shoot Them Yourselves

A couple of months ago, Czech President Milos Zeman made an unusual request: He urged citizens to arm themselves against a possible “super-Holocaust” carried out by Muslim terrorists.

Never mind that there are fewer than 4,000 Muslims in this country of 10 million people — gun purchases spiked. One shop owner in East Bohemia, a region in the northern center of the Czech Republic, told a local paper that people were scared of a “wave of Islamists.”

Now the country’s interior ministry is pushing a constitutional change that would let citizens use guns against terrorists. Proponents say this could save lives if an attack occurs and police are delayed or unable to make their way to the scene. To become law, Parliament must approve the proposal; they’ll vote in the coming months.

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Exoplanet Anniversary: 1st Alien Worlds Confirmed 25 Years Ago Today

The exoplanet revolution began 25 years ago today.

On Jan. 9, 1992, astronomers Alex Wolszczan and Dale Frail published a paper in the journal Nature announcing the discovery of two planets circling an incredibly dense, rapidly rotating stellar corpse known as a pulsar.

Another big milestone in exoplanet science came in October 1995, when Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva in Switzerland announced the discovery of the “hot Jupiter” 51 Pegasi b, the first alien planet known to orbit a sun-like star. And the finds have kept rolling in ever since.

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France’s Le Pen Wants Repatriation of Car Plants a la Trump

Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has been inspired by US President-elect Donald Trump’s initiative to repatriate car production. She wants to see manufacturing back in France.

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German Minister Wants Suspected Extremists to Wear Electronic Monitors

A proposed German law could force suspected Islamic extremists to wear electronic tags without trial.

Justice Minister Heiko Maas said Monday he wanted to extend the use of the ankle monitors to cover those deemed a possible terror threat even if they haven’t been convicted of a crime.

Maas said the proposal was a “preventive offensive” against Islamic terrorism.

“The use of ankle tags should not be only available for convicted criminals after release from prison, but for those identified as a general threat as well.”

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Germany Dubs ‘National Traitor’ Derogatory Buzzword of the Year

“Volksverräter” — national traitor — has been named Germany’s catchword of the year. The title is meant to raise awareness for awkward or ungainly expressions that are widely used in public discourse.

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Germany Sets Plan to Rein in Extremists

BERLIN—Germany released a plan to rein in known extremists after authorities failed to prevent a terrorist attack last month by a Tunisian radical on a government watch list.

The proposed overhauls aim to make it easier for police to monitor, detain and deport asylum seekers believed to pose a terror threat, Germany’s interior and justice ministers said on Tuesday.

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How Political Correctness About Islam Made Britain Vulnerable to Chemical Terrorism

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Britain’s minister for national security, Ben Wallace, had an ominous warning for Britons. Echoing a Europol report that came out last month, Wallace told The Times that ISIS is plotting to deploy chemical weapons on the island nation.

Although no specific plots are underway, the threat is serious enough that British security forces have carried out exercises to prepare for such a disaster, including chemical decontamination drills. So, how does Wallace suggest foiling such plots? A vigilant populace.

Unfortunately for Britain, their oversized sense of political correctness and so-called religious sensitivity toward Islam make vigilance virtually impossible.

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Hundreds of U.S. Tanks Arrive in Germany as Warhawks Escalate Russian Provocation

4,000 troops, 2,800 pieces military hardware delivered in recent days

Another shipload of America military hardware has arrived at the German port of Bremerhaven to reinforce US commitment to its allies against the perceived Russian threat, and ensure Europe remains “whole, free, prosperous, and at peace.”

The delivery of US Abrams tanks, Paladin artillery and Bradley fighting vehicles mark a new phase of Operation Atlantic Resolve. Over the last few days 2,800 pieces of military hardware and 4,000 troops have arrived at the port.

The delivery marks a new phase of continuous American presence in Europe which will now be conducted on a nine-month rotational basis.

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Hungary Promises Crackdown on George Soros Groups After Trump Victory

Hungary plans on purging groups funded by liberal mega donor George Soros following President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential victory.

Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party will use “all the tools at its disposal” to target non-governmental organizations bankrolled by Soros, a Hungarian-born financier who has become one of the U.S. Democratic Party’s major sources of funding.

[Comment: This is a great development in the crusade for a Europe of nations.]

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Islamic Funded British Universities and How They Foment Anti-Semitism

The United Kingdom leads Europe in university-grown anti-Semitism.

Consider what has happened over the last two months: the student organization of the University of Manchester voted to boycott Israel, the University of London invited a speaker to talk about the “Nazi Israel” and at University College London a rally prevented a meeting of Jewish students. It is not the Germany of 1933, but the England of 2016.

“Some of the leading universities in Britain are becoming ‘no-go areas’ for Jewish student”, denounced Baroness Ruth Deech, former rector of St Anne’s College, Oxford, in her report. Her comments came after a series of high-profile incidents at the best universities where Jewish students claim to have suffered hatred, verbal abuse and have been physically attacked. Deech gave the names of English universities that a Jewish student should avoid: “Surely the School of Oriental Studies, Manchester, Southampton, Exeter and so on”.

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Italy Arrests Two for Hacking Into Emails of ECB’s Draghi, Former Italy PM Renzi

Italian police arrested two siblings on Tuesday for hacking into the emails of European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, former prime minister Matteo Renzi and thousands of others.

The Rome court ordered the detention of Giulio Occhionero, 45, and his sister Francesca Maria Occhionero, 48, for stealing state secrets and illegal hacking. Lawyers representing the two could not be immediately reached.

“There were tens of thousands of email accounts hacked, and among them were accounts belonging to bankers, businessmen and even several cardinals in the Vatican,” Roberto Di Legami, head of the specialised police cyber unit that conducted the investigation, told Reuters.

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Italy Fears Terrorist Attack by Albanian ISIS Fighters

Rome is bracing itself for terrorist attacks by Albanian ISIS recruits based in Italy, La Repubblica reported last week (7 January).

Contacted by EurActiv.com, Albania’s Ambassador in Brussels, Suela Janina, said that the report was fake and questioned the validity of the unnamed sources who were quoted.

According to La Repubblica, the terrorist threat for Italy does not come from the desperate migrants seeking a better life but on the contrary, from Albanian villages “which have raised ISIS flags”

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Marine Le Pen Surges Into the Lead in Latest French Presidential Polls

MARINE Le Pen has rocketed into the lead in the race to become France’s next president — just months ahead of the country’s general election.

The National Front leader has usurped Conservative candidate Francois Fillon to take the lead according to an Ifop-Fiducial opinion poll.

Le Pen is now leading the polls for the first time after taking advantage of Fillon’s declining popularity among France’s working class voters, according to the survey carried out for French weekly newspaper Paris Match, TV channel iTele and radio station Sud-Radio.

In a series of voting scenarios, the populist leader was seen winning around 26.5 per cent of the first round vote, while Fillon is a close second with almost 25 per cent.

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Mass Murderer Anders Breivik Gives Nazi Salute in Court

Mass killer Anders Breivik has given a Nazi salute at a court case into a ruling that his human rights were violated in prison.

The 37-year-old far-right extremist made the gesture as he entered the Norway court in a converted gym at the high security Skien prison where he is incarcerated.

Norway is trying to overturn a surprise ruling by Oslo District Court that it violated his human rights by keeping him in isolation since he carried out a bomb and shooting massacre of 77 people in 2011.

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Norway is First Country to Turn Off FM Radio and Go Digital-Only

Norway will be the first country to start turning off FM radio. Over the course of 2017, the FM radio network will slowly be switched off, with listeners only able to listen to digital programmes instead.

The northern county of Nordland will cease to broadcast FM radio from tomorrow, with other regions following suit throughout the year.

Many countries have toyed with the idea of parting company with FM, but a combination of ageing equipment and geography mean Norway is particularly keen to replace its analogue FM system with digital audio broadcasting (DAB).

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‘Pacifism’ No Longer an Option for Germany After Berlin Attack, Says French Presidential Favourite Francois Fillon

Pacifism is no longer an option for Germany after the Berlin Christmas market attack, according to French conservative presidential candidate François Fillon, who will meet with Angela Merkel to outline his plans for Europe in the coming days.

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Poland Honours Brit Who Raised Money for Slain Driver in Berlin Attack

Poland’s embassy in London on Monday honoured the British trucker who raised nearly £200,000 (€230,000) for the family of a Polish driver killed in the Berlin truck attack last month.

David Duncan, from Otley in northern England, started the crowdfunding campaign after Lukasz Urban was found shot dead in his truck, which German police believe was used by Tunisian jihadist Anis Amri in the attack on the Christmas market.

“I’m a truck driver myself and I just felt compassion with his family… I just felt I wanted to do something to help,” Duncan told AFP at an embassy ceremony, attended by Polish truckers.

“It was incredible how many people responded to it! I wanted to raise just a few hundred pounds and it just went incredibly well,” Duncan said.

The British trucker attended 37-year-old Urban’s funeral in the northwestern village of Banie on December 30th, when truckers across Poland honked their horns in hommage.

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Sweden: Brå: Women’s Heightened Feelings of Insecurity ‘Alarming’

Swedes feel less safe in their own neighbourhoods, according to a fear of crime survey, with almost a third of women said to be scared of going out late at night.

“It is a frightening figure,” says Erik Wennerström, Director General of the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) which on Tuesday published its annual survey of people’s attitudes and experiences regarding fear of crime, victimization and public confidence in the Swedish justice system.

The survey conducted last spring indicated that 31 percent of women said they feel somewhat or very unsafe when they go out in their own residual area in the evenings. This is an increase by 25 percent compared to 2015, the largest rise since records began in 2006. Twelve percent of women say that they feel so unsafe they choose not to go out at all at night.

In total, 19 percent of 16 to 79 year-olds questioned said that they feel unsafe in their neighbourhood at night. That is an increase of four percentage points since 2015.

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Swiss Muslim Girls Must Learn to Swim With Boys, Court Rules

Switzerland has won a case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) obliging Muslim parents to send their children to mixed swimming lessons.

It said authorities were justified in giving precedence to enforcing “the full school curriculum” and the children’s “successful integration” into society.

The ECHR acknowledged that religious freedom was being interfered with.

But judges said it did not amount to a violation.

The case was brought by two Swiss nationals, of Turkish origin, who refused to send their teenage daughters to the compulsory mixed lessons in the city of Basel.

Education officials, however, said that exemptions were available only for girls who had reached the age of puberty — which the girls had not reached at the time.

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UK: George Michael ‘Tried to End Relationship With Boyfriend Fadi Fawaz’

The Wham! star, who died at his home in Goring, Oxfordshire, on Christmas Day, aged 53, reportedly told Mr Fawaz not to come back in a bid to break up with him for good.

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UK: Muslim Extremists Are Infiltrating Other Schools in the Same Way as in the Trojan Horse Scandal, Integration Tsar Warns MPs

Religious extremists are still infiltrating British schools in the same way as happened in the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham, MPs have been warned.

Government integration tsar Dame Louise Casey published a major review on community integration across Britain last month, revealing a shocking picture of ‘ghettos’ in some British towns.

Her investigation found segregation and social exclusion are at ‘worrying levels’ and are fuelling inequality in some areas of Britain.

In evidence to the communities committee, Dame Louise today told MPs it had been ‘easy’ during her probe to find troubling examples in schools.

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UK: Scientists Create a Method to Regrow Teeth Using an Alzheimer’s Drug

Using Tideglusib, previously used to treat neurological disorders, could now offer natural solution for patients with cavities, according to researchers from Kings College London.

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UK: Teenager ‘Was Repeatedly Raped in Back of Van by Traveller Gang’

The ‘vulnerable’ girl was abused between the ages of 13 and 17, Mold Crown Court was told at the start of the trial of six men on child sex charges. Rocky Evans (pictured) is one of those charged.

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Real Mastermind Behind Tunisia Attacks Has Not Been Captured and is on the Run in North Africa, Investigation Reveals

The real mastermind behind the Tunisia terror attack has not been captured and is on the run in Tunisia, an investigation has revealed.

Chamseddine Al-Sandi has been accused of organising the beach attack which claimed the lives of 30 British tourists in a BBC Panorama investigation.

Al-Sandi, now believed to be on the run in Libya, is named in confessions from suspects who were arrested in connection with the attack in Sousse in June 2015.

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Georgetown University Panel Applauds Erdogan’s Coup and the Islamization of Turkey

Two graduate students and two undergraduates recalled personally experiencing the July 15, 2016 coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government at a December 7, 2016, Georgetown University panel, before a youthful audience of about fifty. As crews from Turkey’s TRT Haber television network and Anadolu Agency (AA) filmed/recorded, the panelists praised the coup’s popular foiling as a democratic victory, irrespective of Erdogan’s dangerous Islamist policies.

Such willful blindness mirrors that of other American-educated Middle East studies scholars whose actions and pronouncements lend a veneer of legitimacy to Erdogan’s dictatorial policies, including mass purges and arrests of academics and teachers throughout Turkey. Erdogan’s personal spokesman is Ibrahim Kalin, a George Washington University Ph.D. who serves as a senior fellow at Georgetown’s Saudi-funded Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. He joined Juan Cole of Michigan, Cemil Aydin of UNC Chapel Hill (Harvard Ph.D.) at an October 2016 conference in Istanbul even as innocent educators languished in prison or faced academic ruin.

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Turkish Marriage Guide: Beating Wives Reminds Them Husband Rules House, “Which is Like Medicine”

By Robert Spencer

No surprise here. Nothing to be all shocked and indignant about, Ms. Frodsham. This is just Islam:

“Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34

Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?” — Aisha (Sahih Muslim 2127)

And as for making women into sexual slaves:

A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4.54.460).

And: “By him in Whose Hand lies my life, a woman can not carry out the right of her Lord, till she carries out the right of her husband. And if he asks her to surrender herself [to him for sexual intercourse] she should not refuse him even if she is on a camel’s saddle” (Ibn Majah 1854).

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Pakistan: ‘Like Chickens in Cages Ready to be Slaughtered’

Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are usually used against the Christian minority to settle vendettas or force out entire communities. Here’s a fresh case.

While Western countries send millions of dollars every year for the development of Pakistan, they are unwilling to ask the Pakistani government to repeal their archaic blasphemy laws.

Meanwhile, minorities in Pakistan are like “chickens in cages” always ready to be slaughtered.

Riaz Anjum, a renowned Christian Pakistani lawyer and chairman of the Pakistan Christian Movement shared a fresh and unfortunate blasphemy case, which was registered at the police station in Nishtar Town, Lahore.

According to the report, five Muslims, all residents of Kamahan village, were going to their mosque for morning prayers at around 6 a.m. when they found a bundle of vandalized Quranic pages.

The name of local Christian preacher Babu Shahbaz Masih appeared on several pages, written in blue ink. Based on this “evidence,” a First Investigation Report (FIR) was registered by the police against him and other “unknown” people.

The term “unknown” used when registering criminal cases is very common in Pakistan because it allows the police or those making the accusations to accuse as many people as they see fit.

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Sourav Ganguly Gets Death Threat From a Muslim

Former Indian Cricket Team Captain Sourav Ganguly gets death threat letter under a signature of some ‘Z Alam’.

Anupam Gupta | HENB | Kolkata | Jan 10, 2017:: Former India cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly received an death threat letter from one Z Alam at his home forbidding him to attend a district felicitation function later this month. Ganguly who is now president of the Cricket Association of Bengal, reportedly got the letter by post on Saturday. He was scheduled to visit Midnapore for a function organised by the district sports federation on January 19 and contemplating to cancell all programmes without police intimation and police protection.

Bengali newspaper “Bartaman” published the letter in its edition of January 10 which revealed that one Z Alam had sent the death threat letter to her mother Nirupama Chatterjee (Ganguly).

As per report, Ganguly said he had lodged a police complaint about this. “I have intimated the whole matter to the police as well as the organisers of the programme there,” he said on Monday…

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China Tightens Xinjiang Border Amid Rising Terrorist Threats

China is tightening border controls in its northwestern Xinjiang region amid rising terrorism threats, the regional governor was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

Xinjiang has long been home to a simmering insurgency against Beijing’s rule waged by extremists among the native Turkic-speaking Uygur ethnic group, who are mainly Muslim and culturally distinct from most Chinese. Many Uygurs already face onerous restrictions on where they can work and travel, including extreme difficulties in obtaining passports.

Xinjiang shares a border with Afghanistan, Pakistan and four nations in the often volatile Central Asian region, whose native populations share ethnic, linguistic and religious links with Uygurs. Uygur extremists have also been reported to have joined the fighting in Syria and were blamed for a deadly attack on a Buddhist temple in Thailand.

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Chinese TV Producer Fired After Supporting Mao Zedong Critic

Although many older Chinese remember when insufficient respect for Mao Zedong could lead to disaster for one’s entire family, younger citizens have been shocked to learn criticism of Mao can still ruin careers today.

A television producer was fired after defending a critic of Mao — communist China’s founding father — online, in a controversy that began around Mao’s birthday on December 26th.

Liu Yong, a producer with the Luohe Television in Henan province, was suspended for “wrongful speech that violates political discipline and morals”, his employer posted on social media.

The statement did not detail exactly what triggered the punishment, but Liu apologised on his social media account on Monday for “having hurt the feelings of the public”.

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New Candidate for ‘Missing Element’ In Earth’s Core

Japanese scientists believe they have established the identity of a “missing element” within the Earth’s core.

They have been searching for the element for decades, believing it makes up a significant proportion of our planet’s centre, after iron and nickel.

Now by recreating the high temperatures and pressures found in the deep interior, experiments suggest the most likely candidate is silicon.

The discovery could help us to better understand how our world formed.

Lead researcher Eiji Ohtani from Tohoku University told BBC News: “We believe that silicon is a major element — about 5% [of the Earth’s inner core] by weight could be silicon dissolved into the iron-nickel alloys.”

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Oldest Evidence of Silk Found in 8,500-Year-Old Tombs

The oldest evidence of silk made by silkworms has been found buried in 8,500-year-old tombs in China, revealing that people may have used the luxurious material thousands of years earlier than previously thought, a new study finds.

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Pen Power: China Closer to Ballpoint Success

It has sent rockets into space, produced millions of the world’s smartphones and built high-speed trains. But until now, one bit of manufacturing had perhaps unexpectedly eluded China: the ballpoint pen.

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US Ability to Shoot Down North Korean Missile Not Guaranteed, Report Says

The U.S. has a “limited capability to defend” its homeland from a small number of “simple,” intercontinental ballistic missiles launched by countries like North Korea or Iran, the Pentagon’s weapons testing office said in its latest annual report.

The report said that the U.S. maintains ground-based interceptors based in Alaska and California, but they cannot be counted on with any degree of certainty due to “lack of ground tests,” according to Bloomberg.

Vice Admiral James Syring, the director of the missile defense agency, responded to the report and told Bloomberg he has a “high confidence” in the system in place.

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Bomber Who Studied in NZ ‘Was Just a Normal Person’

Editor’s note: Articles like this attempt to soften the threat, by saying that he was just a normal guy, so sho would have known? This actually makes the threat more serious, as there is no way of knowing who is going to ‘radicalise’. A man deemed to be one of the worst bomb makers in Saudi Arabia lived and studied in New Zealand for five years — something that has shocked his unsuspecting former classmates.

Taye’ Al-Say’ari and another man were killed in a shoot-out in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, on Sunday over a planned attack on one of Islam’s holiest sites, the Medina mosque.

Immigration New Zealand said Al-Say’ari entered the country in July, 2008 on student visas before leaving in November, 2013.

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Former Australian PM Tony Abbott Says UK Should Leave EU Customs Union to Strike Deals With Commonwealth

Britain should leave the European Union’s customs union so it can strike trade deals with “economically advanced” Commonwealth countries, a former prime minister of Australia has said.

Tony Abbott backed a report co-authored by Tory MP James Cleverly, calling for the UK to withdraw from the tariff-free customs union to give it the ability to strike new deals with the likes of India and Australia.

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Breakthrough Starshot Enlists Giant Telescope to Seek Planets at Alpha Centauri

Breakthrough Initiatives, a private organization that’s dedicated to looking for life elsewhere in the universe, has enlisted the help of a massive telescope in Chile to search for planets around one of the nearest star systems to our sun, officials announced today.

Earlier this year, scientists announced the discovery of a potentially rocky planet orbiting the nearest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri; the planet orbits in a region where its surface temperature might be right to host liquid water. The discovery has created excitement about the possibility of finding more potentially habitable planets in our cosmic backyard.

Breakthrough Initiatives is hosting a program called Breakthrough Starshot, which will aim to send postage-stamp-size probes to look for planets in the Alpha Centauri system (including Proxima Centauri). As part of the new collaboration, Breakthrough Initiatives will help pay for an upgrade to an instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), making the instrument ideal for studying planets around Proxima Centauri and its stellar siblings.

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Terence Corcoran: Chavez’s Canadian Fan Club is Awfully Quiet About Venezuela’s Utter Meltdown

It’s time for a break from the great media/Hollywood fixation on the imminent malfeasance of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Better, for sanity and perspective, to reflect on a former media/Hollywood fixation: The ideologically sainted Hugo Chavez, a national leader whose wondrous achievements as socialist president of Venezuela were hailed and celebrated for almost two decades.

With Venezuela currently slipping deeper into financial and economic ruin, not much has been heard from the dead dictator’s legion of supporters, including those Canadian media celebrities who joined hands with Hollywood types such as Michael Moore, Oliver Stone and Sean Penn to support Chavez as a great South American democrat.

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Watch: Protesters in Mexico Kick Feds Out of Town, Storm Buildings as Govt Raises Gas Prices

Monterrey, Mexico — Hundreds have been arrested, and at least 3 people have been killed after several days of intense protests and riots in Mexico, that started as the result of a 20% gas price increase.

It was reported that some of the deaths resulted from protesters being shot by police with live ammunition.

“To deter the disturbances, the officers used tear gas, but the protesters did not withdraw and continued their aggressions, (and) gunfire was heard at the scene,” the Mexican government admitted in a statement.

President Enrique Pena Nieto is unwavering by the protests, and has promised to follow through with the price increase, explaining that previous subsidies enacted by the government have kept the price of gas artificially low.

“I know that allowing gasoline to rise to its international price is a difficult change, but as president, my job is to precisely make difficult decisions now, in order to avoid worse consequences in the future. Keeping gas prices artificially low would mean taking money away from the poorest Mexicans, and giving it to those who have the most,” Nieto said.

Given the previous subsidies, it is clear that the government created this problem in the first place by tampering with prices, creating an artificially low price that people grew accustomed to. Now the rug is being swept from under their feet, and causing an increase in the cost of living that was not expected by the average consumer. This is one of the unfortunate but eventual unintended consequences of subsidies, price controls, and other government interference in industry.

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Afghan Refugees Jailed in Austria Pretending to be Child Migrants

A GROUP of Afghan refugees pretended to be children to pocket a staggering £87,000 in benefits.

The three migrants were jailed for five to six months for supplying false information to Austrian authorities after lying about their age.

The three men cheated the state out of more than €100,000, benefitting from health insurance, support, basic care, pocket money and German language courses.

The case against the three was brought after a court ordered medical reports which revealed that the men were older than stated on documents supplied during their asylum application.

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Another of Merkel’s Insta-Germans: ‘Would-be Rapist’ Protected by German Privacy Laws

German police have only just released pictures of a suspected sex attacker four months after the crime — because of the country’s strict privacy laws and to protect his rights.

CCTV footage from the Berlin underground shows the suspected Arab or North African man wearing an Adidas T-shirt and carrying a bottle of beer.

He was seen on the day that a 15-year-old girl was followed to her home in the capital’s suburb of Spandau on September 6 last year and subjected to an attempted rape.

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Mayors of Lesbos and Lampedusa Awarded Olof Palme Prize

The mayors of the Greek island of Lesbos and the Italian island of Lampedusa and Linosa will be awarded the Olof Palme Prize for their work to help people fleeing from war and terror.

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Nearly One in Three Immigrants Feel Unsafe in Sweden: Report

Nearly one in three immigrants feel unsafe in Sweden, according to new research by the Swedish Council on Crime Prevention.

The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention’s annual survey on safety in Sweden found that 30 percent of people born outside of Sweden feel unsafe when they go out at night.

Of people born in Sweden to foreign-born parents the same figure was 20 percent, compared to 17 percent among native Swedes who have at least one parent also born in the country.

The figures have increased on last year, when 24 percent of foreigners in Sweden reported feeling unsafe, compared to 13 percent of Swedes with one or two Swedish-born parents. However, if you go back ten years, the numbers have dipped slightly in both categories.

Ten percent of foreign-born people told the survey they feel so unsafe that they choose to stay at home in the evenings, compared to six percent of native Swedes with Swedish parents.

The survey also indicates a notable difference between men and women.

A total of 31 percent of women said they felt unsafe going out at night — up from 25 percent in the 2015 survey.

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Smugglers Offer £100 UK Deal to Migrants

HUMAN traffickers are offering to smuggle migrants into Britain for around £100.

Gangs are now offering cut price cross-Channel deals to those still desperate to reach the UK in winter.

“Tariffs” from northern France vary, with an “unsophisticated” attempt available for just £112 (€130) and a “guaranteed” journey costing around £6,900.

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UK: Violent Migrant Arrested Hurling Abuse at Barman Who Denies Him Free Food

A MIGRANT from Morocco has been arrested as he turned violent and abusive after a barman denied him free food and drink.

The 35-year-old man, who has not been named, has been charged with extortion and resisting arrest by police in Legnano, near Milan in Italy.

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UN Demands More Globalist Propaganda in School Textbooks

Under the direction of a known Communist Party operative from Bulgaria dogged by corruption charges, the scandal-plagued United Nations “education” agency released a new report demanding broad changes to school textbooks around the world. It is the latest shot across the bow aimed at parental rights, local control of education, and national sovereignty.

The goal of the “Global Education Monitoring Report” by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is fairly transparent: accelerate the indoctrination of impressionable children worldwide with textbook propaganda promoting “global citizenship,” the discredited man-made global-warming theory, homosexuality, transgenderism, and outright totalitarianism. And according to the report itself, school textbooks are the best way to do that.

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University Students Demand Philosophers Such as Plato and Kant Are Removed From Syllabus Because They Are White

They are said to be the founding fathers of Western philosophy, whose ideas underpin civilised society.

But students at a prestigious London university are demanding that figures such as Plato, Descartes and Immanuel Kant should be largely dropped from the curriculum because they are white.

The student union at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) insists that when studying philosophy “the majority of philosophers on our courses” should be from Africa and Asia.

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2016 Was the Deadliest Year on Record for Suicide Attacks, Analysts Say

Suicide attacks killed more people in 2016 than any other year on record: 5,650 people worldwide, top analysts have revealed.

In all, 800 perpetrators carried out 469 attacks in 28 countries, according to the annual report by the Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict Research Center at the Institute for National Security (INSS).

The biggest culprit? The Islamic State. The terror network carried out some 70 percent of last year’s suicide attacks.

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How to Not Get Doxed

Probably the biggest impediment for most alt-righters to becoming active is the possibility of having one’s personal info published by antifa or other anti-whites. This is known as doxing. Since this poses a threat to the livelihood of many of us, it is an important part of being an activist to know how to avoid being doxed — unless you are intending to go public with your ideals.

This document was written by someone who is very good at personal security. While offering proof of that claim is impossible because I would inevitably have to dox myself to substantiate my claim, I can assure you that my info is so secure that even a Google search with my full name and address will turn up nothing. I am likewise not to be found on any of the popular people search engines such as Spokeo or Intellius.

I am not an expert in this type of security, but I seem to have inadvertently become very good at it, since it is so hard to find me. With that in mind, I will present you with my list of tips to make yourself like me in this respect. Please do not take this as definitive, expert advice — it is just everything I can think of that I have done to result in the situation that exists now. With that being said, here are my recommendations:

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11 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/10/2017

  1. “Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Front National, has surged into the lead in the French presidential race, according to the latest polls.”

    Those damned rooskies again…….

    I’m sure she’s a racist, Nazi, bigot anyway so no deplorable will vote for her.

    Unless they do of course.

  2. I am worried about the tanks Obama is sending out to eastern Europe. If I were a conscious traitor to the USA, knowing my time is up, I would do some desperate moves like onto rat that is being cornered.

    What I see in the comments around the Internet is like “Let’s wait 9 more days…”

    But what if Obama is really going to proceed with high treason and declare war on Russia few days before that date?

    After all, the globalists have a friendly government in Ukraine, one that may want to attack Crimea. If they do that then US would send “help”. And then… WWIII? China attacks Taiwan, Pakistan India, etc…

    Sorry for my doom and gloom comment. Im just worried that desperate people – the Obamas gang – are hell bent to mortally wound the USA, and they have only 9 days left to do that.

    Lets pray that this comment will be wrong and forgotten in a couple of weeks 😉

    • It is obvious that the Globalists’ people are everywhere (seems like CIA more infested than others), but also the “deplorables”, patriots are also part of those organizations. I think if they would give the order of attack in somewhere the Pentagon, they would be stopped… I hope. But you are these rats are getting desperate!

      • “CIA more infested than others…” Well Brennan is said to have converted to islam years ago….. not to mention that the FBI also has moslem friendly people, and I would put absolutely NOTHING past the obama gang–they should all be rounded up and deported to Ukraine, there to live happily with that crook Poroshenko.

    • I wouldn’t worry about military adventurism from Obama, he is more wimp than warrior and more a professor than patriot. He will have his thoughts on the lucrative speech circuit now and cozy forum chats with people who agree with him.

  3. ‘The Soft Coup Collapses’ has some very insightful information on what the Trump administration faces after January 20.

    A good read but be warned, don’t swallow all of it and do further research on that info that may get your radar up.

  4. “a General Motos spokesman told U.S. News & World Report in a statement Tuesday. “All Chevrolet Cruze sedans sold in the U.S. are built in GM’s assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio.”

    GM says it also builds the Cruze hatchback in Mexico to sell in global markets, and only a “small number” of those are sold in the U.S.”

    We don’t need a fact checker to know that GM is telling a lie. First they say that “all” Chevrolet Cruze sedans sold in the US are made in Ohio, then they say that they sell in the US “a small number” of Cruze that are made in Mexico. Both statements cannot be true.

    • While all of what you say is true, isn’t the real question why production has moved to Mexico?
      Let’s solve that problem.
      Isn’t it true that salaries and union health benefits have been so inflated that production in Mexico makes more sense?
      I’m just asking…

  5. IS BLACK ALSO MORE NORDIC?

    Controversy as a Nigerian, Sephora Ikalaba, is crowned Miss Helsinki …

    https://goo.gl/images/gNzJzA

    http://youtu.be/Cxl3Uf_h3tA

    A 19 year young Nigerian lady, Sephora Ikalaba, has won the Finnish beauty contest and emerged the 2017 Miss Helsinki.
    The end result has led to a media storm in Finland and on social media many write that the only reason that Ikalaba won was because she is black. Many also believe that this is the cultural Marxists way to advance their positions.

    http://www.iltalehti.fi/viihde/201701052200050150_vi.shtml

    • Unattractive people can win beauty contests when “diversity” is the true primary criteria in said contests.

      Personally, I cannot decide if Miss Helsinki or the mulatto Miss Japan is more unattractive. The judgment has nothing to do with how Finnish or Japanese they are or are not, but rather the simpler question, “Is this a member of the female population that I find attractive?”

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