Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/19/2017

A man drove a car erratically through downtown Melbourne, running up onto the sidewalk into crowds of people. Three people were killed, and a number of others were wounded. The driver of the car was arrested. Melbourne police say the incident had nothing to do with terrorism.

In other news, president-elect Donald Trump arrived in Washington D.C. for his inauguration in the midst of protests against his election. Protesters in front of the hotel where the “Deploraball” was underway attacked Trump supporters and threw bottles. Police responded by pepper-spraying them. At least one “Antifa” banner was in evidence.

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USA
» “We Have Eight Years of Serious Damage That Need to be Repealed” — Obama’s Keeping Busy Before the Trump Inauguration
» Ayers ‘Dancing in the Aisles’ Over Terrorist’s Pardon
» Bombmaker Bill Ayers Celebrates Obama’s Clemency for Bombmaker Oscar Lopez Rivera
» CNN: If Trump is Killed During Inauguration, Obama Appointee Would be President
» Cops to Destroy Motorcycle Used in Street Rally
» ‘Deploraball’ Guests Met by Protesters in Chaotic Scene
» Judge Napolitano: Expect More Commutations From Obama
» Man Busted in Brooklyn ISIS Plot Takes Plea Deal
» Man Who Threatened to Kill Trump Was a Close Friend of the Clintons
» Mysterious WikiLeaks Warning Sparks Rumors of Upcoming Release
» NBC Thugs Beat Anti-Clinton Protestor Wearing Rape T-Shirt
» Panicked Joe Biden Admits World Government is Collapsing
» Snoop Dogg Dares ‘Uncle Tom-A** N*ggas’ To Perform at Trump’s Inauguration [Video]
» Soros: Trump Will Fail, Markets Won’t Do Well
» The End of the Obama World Order
» The Search for DNC Staffer Seth Rich’s Killer Continues With Billboards and Website
» Trump’s Challenge of NATO Riles Globalists
» UFO Sightings and Psychic Powers Revealed in Newly CIA Docs
» Video Shows How Media Hacks ‘Howled’ With Laughter at ‘Clown’ Trump
 
Europe and the EU
» Belgium Sentences Fake-ID Gang Used by Brussels and Paris Attackers
» Bill Gates Warns About Bio-Terrorism Threat
» Nigel Farage Urges UK to Forge Ties With Marine Le Pen
» Putin to Visit Hungary on February 2
» Welcome to Europe’s “Israel Free” Cities
 
Middle East
» Turkey Turns Church Into Museum; Greece Builds New Mosque
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia’s Grand Mufti Proposes Hate Speech Law Updates Should Add Protections for Muslims, Other Religions
» Bourke Street Incident: Three Dead, Man Arrested After Car Hits Pedestrians in Melbourne’s CBD
» Hijab Billboard Campaign Success Sees Signs Booked Across Victoria
 
Immigration
» Austria to Tighten Anti-Migrant Border Controls
» Germany Reviewing Nearly 550 Migrants Deemed a Security Risk
» Greece’s Disappearing Refugees
» Illegals Pour Across Border Before Trump’s Inauguration
» Illegal Alien Sues San Francisco for Violating Sanctuary City Law
» Many More Family Members Join Refugees in Germany
» Migrant Accused of Two Separate New Year’s Eve Attacks Had Case Dropped by Police
» Soros Teams Up With MasterCard to Finance Migrants
» Syrian Refugee Enrolls in High School, Sexually Assaults Girl, 14
 
General
» Davos Elite Fear “Rise of Populism… Road Leads to War, Poverty, Confrontation… and Domination”
 

“We Have Eight Years of Serious Damage That Need to be Repealed” — Obama’s Keeping Busy Before the Trump Inauguration

Obama has been running rampant for the past month prior. Now we have word that he’s deployed (as of Thursday, January 12) U.S. troops and armored units to Poland. The following statement by the Russians was reported by ABC News that outlines the gravity of such a maneuver and the threat to Russia as the Russians see it:

“These actions threaten our interests, our security,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday. “Especially as it concerns a third party building up its military presence near our borders. It’s not even a European state.”

Recently the State Department has been sending more weapons to “rebels” fighting the Assad government in Syria. There are also further deployments of U.S. troops planned: one of which is to Lithuania at the end of this month. These are all coming on the heels of deployments to Latvia, Estonia, and Moldova, the latter of which now has American missile defense systems that can also be fitted with Tomahawk missiles and placed into offensive capabilities within a matter of hours.

In a report released by the Washington Post, Obama is also instituting dozens of executive orders in these last days in office. The report, entitled With Days Left in Office, Obama Ushers in Dozens of Policies. But will they stay Seated? The report explains how he is signing off on last-minute orders, such as multi-million-dollar National Monument designations, changes to immigration policy (notably Cuba), and changes instituted for low-income mortgage holders, to name a few. The article also notes how Republican Senators wrote Obama a letter asking him to cease and desist from executive actions. The Washington Post itself sees nothing wrong with these actions, as is evidenced by this excerpt of the article:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ayers ‘Dancing in the Aisles’ Over Terrorist’s Pardon

(Breitbart) Former Weather Underground terrorist group leader Bill Ayers on Tuesday said he was on an airplane “dancing in the aisles” over news that President Obama commuted the sentence of FALN activist Oscar López Rivera, whose group was linked to over 100 bombs placed in U.S. cities in the 1970s and 1980s.

Ironically, Ayers, a former associate of Obama’s, was on his way from Havana, where he wrote that he was celebrating the 75th birthday of his wife, fellow Weather Underground member Bernadine Dohrn.

Like the FALN, Ayers’ Weather Underground was also linked to bombings in U.S. cities, including those targeting the U.S. Capitol building, the Pentagon, and numerous New York police stations.

[Comment: While conservatives have been busy trying to earn a living, communists have been busy infesting and infecting all government levels.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bombmaker Bill Ayers Celebrates Obama’s Clemency for Bombmaker Oscar Lopez Rivera

Rivera was sentenced to 55 years in prison in 1981 on charges of seditious conspiracy, robbery, and transportation of firearms & explosives charges

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CNN: If Trump is Killed During Inauguration, Obama Appointee Would be President

Network slammed for encouraging violence with bizarre report.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Cops to Destroy Motorcycle Used in Street Rally

Six months after a group of bikers performed stunts and blocked a busy section of Interstate 25, the Denver Police Department is trying to send a message.

DPD will destroy one of the motorcycles involved in the rally Thursday morning.

The 2007 Honda was seized through the civil public nuisance abatement process, DPD said in a news release. The motorcycle was found using photos and videos that the bikers had placed on social media.

[Comment: Note that this is even before the trial of the owner.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Deploraball’ Guests Met by Protesters in Chaotic Scene

Trump supporters arriving for the “Deploraball” inauguration celebration in Washington Thursday night were greeted by screaming profanities and threats as they entered the National Press Club Building.

Some of the hundreds of protesters sprayed Mace, while others were peaceful as law enforcement officers lined the streets to monitor the chaotic scene. At least one passer-by reported bottles were being thrown as he showed off a gash in his head.

The “Deploraball” was organized by a pro- Trump organization, MAGA3X, and invited over 1,000 guests to celebrate on the eve of the President-Elect’s swearing in…

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

Judge Napolitano: Expect More Commutations From Obama

(Lifezette) Judge Andrew Napolitano said Wednesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show” the U.S. should “expect another round” of “extraordinary” prison sentencing commutations from President Obama before he leaves office Friday.

In the waning hours of his presidency, Obama caused consternation Tuesday evening when he commuted the sentence of former Army private Chelsea Manning and 209 others. Manning, who leaked a myriad of classified materials to WikiLeaks, had been serving a 35-year sentence. Her sentence now will end May 17.

“I don’t know what motivated Barack Obama,” Napolitano, the senior judicial analyst for Fox News, told LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham. “I will tell you this: We have learned at Fox to expect another round of these before Friday morning, which would be this afternoon or tomorrow.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Man Busted in Brooklyn ISIS Plot Takes Plea Deal

One of the men busted in a 2015 Brooklyn terror plot — which included joining ISIS, killing President Obama and bombing Coney Island — took a plea deal Thursday in exchange for up to 45 years off his sentence.

Akhror Saidakhmetov, 21, is now facing a maximum of 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to provide material support, including services and personnel, to a foreign terrorist organization.

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

Man Who Threatened to Kill Trump Was a Close Friend of the Clintons

He once gave $20,000 to the Democratic National Committee.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Mysterious WikiLeaks Warning Sparks Rumors of Upcoming Release

WikiLeaks tweeted an anomalous warning Friday afternoon: “NOTE: No present Wikileaks staff, including our editor, have medical, psychological or drug conditions which could lead to sudden death.”

What does it mean, and is Wikileaks preparing the world for a massive release?

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

NBC Thugs Beat Anti-Clinton Protestor Wearing Rape T-Shirt

Man wearing Infowars Bill Clinton rape shirt attacked by mainstream media bodyguards.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Panicked Joe Biden Admits World Government is Collapsing

Globalism is imploding, the enemies are in their death throes

Alex Jones breaks down Vice President Joe Biden’s warning to fellow progressives that the “liberal world order” is collapsing.

[Comment: Far from over. But the biggest change is that public has realized that mainstream media are organs of propaganda for the globalist banksters. ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Snoop Dogg Dares ‘Uncle Tom-A** N*ggas’ To Perform at Trump’s Inauguration [Video]

“Which one of you niggas gonna do it first?” Snoop asked.

[Comment: Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr (“Snoop Dog”) is another Democrat plantation brainwashed useful idiot.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Soros: Trump Will Fail, Markets Won’t Do Well

Soros Fund Management Chairman George Soros discusses Donald Trump and how markets are reacting to the president-elect. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Francine Lacqua from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on “Bloomberg Markets.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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

The End of the Obama World Order

For the past eight years, Barack Obama has been using the power of the U.S. presidency to impose his vision of a progressive world order on the entire globe.

As a result, much of the planet will greatly celebrate once the Obama era officially ends on Friday. The Obama years brought us the Arab Spring, Benghazi, ISIS, civil war in Syria, civil war in Ukraine and the Iran nuclear deal. On the home front, we have had to deal with Obamacare, “Fast and Furious”, IRS targeting of conservative groups, Solyndra, the VA scandal, NSA spying and the worst “economic recovery” since the end of World War II. And right at the end of his presidency, Barack Obama has committed the greatest betrayal of Israel in U.S. history and has brought us dangerously close to war with Russia.

So is the end of the Obama world order worth celebrating?

You better believe it is.

Of course Obama and his minions are in a great deal of distress that much of their hard work over the past eight years is about to be undone by Donald Trump. On Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden warned the elitists gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos that their “liberal world order” is in danger of collapsing…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Search for DNC Staffer Seth Rich’s Killer Continues With Billboards and Website

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — ABC 7 News has learned of a new development in the search for the killers of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee worker shot to death in the District. We have the exclusive first look at new billboards going up in the neighborhood where he was murdered

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

Trump’s Challenge of NATO Riles Globalists

President-elect Donald Trump has called the unelected bureaucracy ‘obsolete.’

[Comment: NATO and the concept of mutual defence is being subverted by banksters and globalists. They create crisis situations and try to use that as a pretext to suck NATO countries into a broader war. Look at Ukraine and how banskters tried to start WWIII by instigating and supporting Nazis to foment chaos which they would use to blame Russia. Remember the calls for NATO to get involved?]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UFO Sightings and Psychic Powers Revealed in Newly CIA Docs

There’s no shortage of intrigue amidst the CIA’s newly released archive of nearly 13 million pages of declassified records. Some of the more peculiar revelations detail the handling of UFO sightings and the potential weaponization of psychic powers.

In this particular document concerning such reporting, a UFO is defined as “any object which, by performance, aerodynamic characteristics, or unusual features, does not conform to known aircraft or missiles.”

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

Video Shows How Media Hacks ‘Howled’ With Laughter at ‘Clown’ Trump

Here’s why fake news anchors are so butt hurt about Trump.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Belgium Sentences Fake-ID Gang Used by Brussels and Paris Attackers

A Belgian court convicted 14 people on Thursday of falsifying identity documents, some of which were sold to Islamist militants involved in terror attacks in Paris and Brussels.

Thirteen received jail terms of between one and eight years, some suspended, according to Belgian news service Belga.

One member of the group was sentenced to community service.

The group are said to have made around 2,000 fake documents.

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

Bill Gates Warns About Bio-Terrorism Threat

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — Bill Gates warned at the World Economic Forum on Thursday that a new form of terrorism could be coming and that we are not prepared for it.

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

Nigel Farage Urges UK to Forge Ties With Marine Le Pen

NIGEL Farage has said Britain must start building a relationship with Front National leader Marine le Pen as 2017 will see more political shocks for the establishment.

The former Ukip leader said while the “political revolution” in America was complete, in the United Kingdom more was to come.

He also predicted several shocks in Europe over the coming year, with key elections expected in the Netherlands and France.

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

Putin to Visit Hungary on February 2

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief-of-staff Janos Lazar tells reporters Orban and Putin will discuss ‘current socio-political and economic questions’ in an ‘important’ but not ‘exceptional’ meeting

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

Welcome to Europe’s “Israel Free” Cities

The City Council of Trondheim, the third largest Norwegian town, passed a motion calling on its residents to boycott Israeli goods. A city that aspires to be “Israel free”. Then it was the turn of another Norwegian city, Tromso, 72,000 inhabitants, whose City Council approved a similar motion. Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, also adopted a motion to boycott Israeli products.

This is not a city, but one of the largest regions of Spain. It is Valencia, where the leftist party València en Comú has managed to vote on the following motion: “Today the Provincial Council of Valencia is declared free from Israeli apartheid”.

The semi-autonomous region, which governs 250 municipalities and 2.5 million inhabitants, has approved the proposal. Meanwhile, a Spanish court has declared illegal a similar motion of the municipality of Santiago de Compostela. In recent years in Spain more than 50 municipalities have endorsed the boycott of Israel. Like Ibiza, a popular tourist destination, where the City Council of Santa Eulalia, the second largest city, has voted for a boycott of goods from the Jewish State. These motions do not remain without consequences. The Spanish town of Villanueva de Duero, for example, no longer distributes the Israeli Eden Springs water in its public buildings.

It is a major phenomenon also in England, where some city councils were acquitted by a court from accusations of anti-Semitism after imposing a boycott of Israeli goods. This is the Leicester City Council, Swansea City Council and Gwynedd. In France, the town of Bondy, near Paris, passed a motion for the boycott of Israeli goods. The mayor, Sylvine Thomassin, who belongs to the Socialist Party of President François Hollande, approved the resolution with only five objections. In Ireland, many cities governed by Sinn Féin endorsed the ban on Israeli products. The Irish town of Kinvara became “Israel free”: no one in the city should use the goods of the Jewish State. Pro Palestinian activists have lobbied to pressure restaurants and cafes to delete anything produced in Israel.

The Mayor of Newry, in Northern Ireland, has written to all retailers asking them to provide a list of Israeli products in stock. He then asked to remove them from sale, supported by 21 votes in favor and three against at the City Council.

Israeli goods disappear from major cities such as Leicester, the tenth largest in the UK, and entire Spanish regions such as Valencia.

A few days ago came the data on the escape of the French Jews: 5,000 have emigrated to Israel in 2016, bringing to 40,000 the number of Jews of France who left the country in the last ten years. Jewish goods disappearing, Jews packing their bags, how familiar![…]

[ OOOOh look Nazis on the left — how strange! ]

           — Hat tip: MC [Return to headlines]
 

Turkey Turns Church Into Museum; Greece Builds New Mosque

Turkish newspapers have recently reported that plans are underway to restore the historic Greek Hagios Georgios Church, referred to as “Aya Yorgi” in Turkish. The church will be converted into a museum and a cultural site.

Osmaneli Mayor Munur Sahin said that the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, also visited the region, and said:

“We re-evaluated the situation of the church. This place will never be opened to worship again. It will serve as a museum and a cultural venue. We obtained the necessary permits; we will bring movable cultural artifacts from around Osmaneli and keep them here.”

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

Australia’s Grand Mufti Proposes Hate Speech Law Updates Should Add Protections for Muslims, Other Religions

AUSTRALIA’S Grand Mufti has called for race hate speech laws to be updated to include protections for Muslims and other religions, warning the Federal Government “watering down” the law would expose minorities to vilification.

One conservative MP has slammed the idea, saying it would be like introducing a “national blasphemy law”.

Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, the Grand Mufti since 2011, has called for section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act to be updated to include protections against religious vilification,The Australian reports.

In a submission to a Parliamentary inquiry, which was established by the Prime Minister late last year, Dr Mohammed warned the Government against watering down the law, which would “expose” minority groups to discrimination, vilification and hate speech…

           — Hat tip: Salome [Return to headlines]
 

Bourke Street Incident: Three Dead, Man Arrested After Car Hits Pedestrians in Melbourne’s CBD

Three people are dead and a man has been arrested after a car was deliberately driven into pedestrians near Bourke and Queen streets in Melbourne’s CBD, police say.

Acting Commander Stuart Bateson from Victoria Police said they believed the man arrested was connected to an earlier stabbing in the city’s southern metro region.

“We have the offender in custody. There is no further threat to the public at this stage,” he said.

“We believe this male did some doughnuts at Flinders Street and Swanston Street, turned left into the Bourke Street Mall and deliberately drove into the crowd, continued along the footpath colliding with further pedestrians.”

Acting Commander Bateson said the incident was not terrorism related.

He asked people to avoid the city this afternoon and overnight…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Hijab Billboard Campaign Success Sees Signs Booked Across Victoria

Agency Campaign Edge had raised $150,000 by Thursday afternoon towards restoring an Australia Day advertising campaign that features two girls wearing hijabs — thousands of dollars over its original target of $20,000.

It set a new goal of $200,000.

A previous billboard, which represented a range of cultures, in Victoria was taken down following complaints that two girls were depicted wearing hijabs.

Campaign Edge executive creative director Dee Madigan told SBS: “We were just hoping to get the billboard back up, and now we’re going to be able to put up a billboard in every capital city in Australia, as well as full page newspaper ads,” she saId.

The campaign had received “some great offers” from billboard companies, Ms Madigan said, and had booked Victorian digital and print billboards in Preston, Collingwood, Springvale, Endeavour Hills and Yarraville.

In Queensland, it had booked billboards in Kedron, West End, South Brisbane, Newstead, Fortitude Valley, Woolloongabba and Kangaroo Point.

The agency had also booked a full-page advertisement in publications in each state and territory, she added.

She said that the same people who complained that Muslims did not assimilate were the ones who made threats about an ad showing two Australian Muslim girls celebrating Australian Day…

           — Hat tip: JP [Return to headlines]
 

Austria to Tighten Anti-Migrant Border Controls

VIENNA (AFP) — Austria aims to tighten border controls, in particular on its frontier with Slovakia following a rise in migrants trying to enter the country, the defence minister was quoted as saying Wednesday.

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

Germany Reviewing Nearly 550 Migrants Deemed a Security Risk

Germany said on Wednesday it would review the cases of nearly 550 asylum seekers who have been deemed a security risk, spurred by new questions about the handling of a Tunisian migrant who killed 12 people last month at a Berlin Christmas market.

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

Greece’s Disappearing Refugees

The refugee camps on the Greek Aegean Islands are overflowing. As a result, a growing number of refugees are leaving the islands secretly and heading for Europe. And this could endanger the EU’s deal with Turkey.

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

Illegals Pour Across Border Before Trump’s Inauguration

Illegal immigrants are racing against the clock and crossing America’s southern border before President-elect Donald Trump takes office Friday.

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

Illegal Alien Sues San Francisco for Violating Sanctuary City Law

Pedro Figueroa Zarceno, an illegal alien from El Salvador, filed a lawsuit on January 17 against the city and county of San Francisco (which are consolidated), the acting police chief, the sheriff, and several police officers for violating San Francisco’s sanctuary city law by arresting and detaining him.

The lawsuit charges that when Figueroa went to San Francisco’s auto impound lot in December 2015 to claim his stolen car — which had been recovered by police — he was directed to the nearest police station to get the paperwork necessary to retrieve his car. The complaint, curiously filed on Figueroa’s behalf by a nonprofit group called Asian Americans Advancing Justice/Asian Law Caucus, states:

However, instead of being assisted by the police, Mr. Figueroa was victimized yet again when he was unlawfully arrested and detained by San Francisco Police Department officers.

The complaint went on to state that officers from San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments identified a civil immigration warrant for Figueroa, and then “proceeded to violate San Francisco’s Sanctuary Ordinance by contacting federal immigration authorities, providing them with Mr. Figueroa’s location, and coordinating to hold him in custody long enough for federal immigration agents to arrive at the police station.”

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

Many More Family Members Join Refugees in Germany

The number of family members from non-EU countries who have moved to Germany to join their partner or relative has risen by roughly 50 percent in the past year. The Foreign Ministry released the figures on Thursday.

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

Migrant Accused of Two Separate New Year’s Eve Attacks Had Case Dropped by Police

A MIGRANT suspected of carrying out a sex attack in Germany on New Year’s Eve was also accused of a similar offence 12 months ago — however police dropped the first case due to a lack of evidence.

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

Soros Teams Up With MasterCard to Finance Migrants

Psychopath and billionaire investor George Soros and global payments company MasterCard are planning to create a social enterprise to help refugees and migrants, as well as others struggling within their communities all over the world.

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

Syrian Refugee Enrolls in High School, Sexually Assaults Girl, 14

A 14-year-old Canadian girl was sexually assaulted at a high school dance by a Syrian refugee classmate, who was allowed to return to class after a brief suspension, according to an investigation by Canadian news outlet The Rebel.

The alleged assault took place at Fredericton High School in New Brunswick. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the girl’s mother said two Syrian students attempted to grind with her daughter at the dance, before one of them began groping her breasts and forced his hand inside her underwear, touching her vagina…

Another vice-principal, Elaine Kilfillen, worried that the alleged attacker “will become a target in our student population once the rumor mill gets going.” The girl’s mother claimed that school officials encouraged her daughter to understand the alleged attacker’s perspective and consider the effect her clothing may have had, according to The Rebel.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Davos Elite Fear “Rise of Populism… Road Leads to War, Poverty, Confrontation… and Domination”

Multiple studies are finding that trust in central governments and their institutions (including the establishment media) is at an all-time low around the world.

Love your country, but never trust its government ~ Robert A. Heinlein

– — CatoTheYounger (@catoletters) January 11, 2017

Regarding a recently released global survey titled Leader’s Report: The Future of Government Communications, the Guardian reports:

Weakened and distrusted central governments around the world have been incapable of responding to the way the internet and social media have empowered populist but previously fringe groups, a unique worldwide survey of government communication chiefs has found.

The survey spanning 40 countries is the first international review to reveal how deeply governments feel they are losing control and authority over communications…how deeply governments feel they are losing control…

Distrust of central governments and institutions of authority plus Internet as an alternative means of gathering information have combined and snowballed into an uprising of nationalism and populism, although the people attempting to run this dog and pony show like to mush those two concepts together with radicalization and extremism… because if you don’t trust your loving central government, you obviously must be a radical extremist.

“When people feel ignored, unheard and unrepresented they turn to alternative sources of information. If governments do not communicate with citizens properly, citizens will go somewhere elsewhere for information,” the report says.

Another way of reading this? “Waaaah! Our propaganda is no longer working!”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

17 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/19/2017

  1. Since the Melbourne police have already ‘ruled out terrorism’ than it’s safe to say it’s a muzzie and was terrorism. The ‘give’ are eye witness reports he jumped the curbs to deliberately run down civilians ala’ Nice, Berlin, etc. etc.

    • Senator David Leyonhjelm (Lib-Dem) is calling it a semi-automatic car assault as no one yet in authority wishes to identify this obvious Jihadist attack for what it is. My heart goes out to those killed and injured, but especially to the mother of that baby, I can only imagine the horror of the parent at seeing their child killed like that.

      • Sad to say, but that name sounds unmistakably, Swedish. Swedish noble.

        And, it is. This senator was, however, born in Australia.

        Leyon hjelm
        Lion Helmet

    • They do seem to be denying it rather a lot. Apparently the suspect was recently charged with domestic violence offences and there are known mental health and drug issues. My office is in a building near where he crashed and was arrested. We were locked down.

  2. Australia should really extend its out-reach [the precursor of permanent up-reach] to include Fatwa Enforcement. This is the real and permanent cure for that social malady of “divisiveness”.

    But, the responsible citizen insists upon certain safeguards. We are fortunate to be living in age where identification is possible to a bio-metric certainty, allowing flying squads of Bureau of Fatwa Enforcement agents to descend upon offenders complete with medical examiners in position to extirpate and render remains officially in a continuous throughput manner that would make Henry Ford proud.

    This commitment to render onto Allah all that used to be Caesar’s is just the ticket to show Australia’s Imams the public support they so richly deserve.

  3. Hello again! This might be out of date by the time it is moderated, but here goes. The Melbourne killer car driver first drew serious public attention to himself by doing donuts in the intersection of Flinders Street and Swanston Street (the corners of which are Federation Square, Flinders Street Station, Young & Jackson’s Pub and St Paul’s Cathedral. While he was doing the donuts, his head and shoulders were out of the vehicle and he was shouting something and waving his right, free arm (we’re right hand drive here). I saw a couple of comments on an article to the effect that eyewitnesses had reported that he was shouting Allahu akhbar, but we haven’t got anything further on this. What we do know, from the police, was that he appears to be implicated in a stabbing in the southern suburbs earlier in the day, and that he was pursued (not all that hotly) by police by land and air from the inner western suburbs and across the Bolte Bridge, where a woman was let out of the car, before he wound up at the Flinders Street Station intersection doing donuts. He then pursued slowly up Swanston Street and turned left in to Bourke Street. Bourke Street between Swanston Street and Elizabeth Street is known as the Bourke Street Mall and is closed to vehicular traffic apart from trams, which travel very slowly and ding their bells a lot. He is said to have proceeded through the Mall at at least normal maximum speed in a built up area (50 to 60 km/h). A lot of people were injured here. He then continued to proceed down Bourke Street, including up a footpath, and I understand that the three people who were killed were killed at various points along his journey between Elizabeth Street and William Street. He was stopped by police just before William Street. I was alerted by one of our fire wardens that there had been a shooting downstairs and that we weren’t to try to leave the building. Then reports began to pop up on the internet (initially from Sydney newsrooms, where they had no idea where anything in Melbourne was) and the lunchroom telly. The first police officer to give a press conference said, ‘It is not CT-related.’ I googled “victoria police CT” and found it meant ‘Counter Terrorism’. That was subsequently translated by the police. So the perp, sorry, suspect, isn’t on any terrorist watch list, but does have form for domestic violence and drugs and there is also ‘mental health’ to take into consideration. Every report reiterates that it is not ‘terrorism’. If I could, I’d be splitting my bet between the Religion of Peace and crystal methamphetamine. Even if it isn’t the former, I just wonder whether recent vehicular jihad incidents didn’t give this nutter the idea that he could go out in a blaze of goriness. Whatever, at the moment three apparently unconnected people–a man and a woman in their 30s (who could have been anyone from my office out on a lunch hour stroll) and a child of 10–won’t see the sun rise tomorrow, or ever again, and more, including an infant are critically injured. Melbourne won’t be the same again.

    • Seems his name is Dimitrios Gargasoulis. No Mo coefficient there. Still, if people weren’t embarking on deliberate vehicular jihad in some parts of the world, chances are he wouldn’t have had the necessary neurons to come up with the idea on his own.

    • As you comment on, this guy has come up on police radar several times in the past for acts of violence, particularly the domestic variety, and it now appears he was not motivated by any personal faith and more by years of drug abuse.

      Methamphetamines shrink the brain over time to the point where the user becomes mentally deranged and this idiot’s actions certainly point to that aspect of this horrific incident that should never have occurred.

      Why should it never have occurred?

      Well, going on how our Australian society has become victim to Leftist radical thinking – all those who were killed and maimed yesterday are the obvious victims – by those in authority, I think we can all assume the answer to that question.

      The current Labor state government and its chief public manipulator, Dan Andrews, should be swept from office after this fiasco of yet another incidence in the running saga that the Keystone Victoria police have lately become.

  4. So Bill Gates wants the US to control other countries’ vaccination programs. More Big Pharma Bucks

  5. We shall never know the real truth. However, it would appear the police gave hot pursuit and then ABANDONED THE PURSUIT for reasons of Public Safety. Shortly after the abandonment of the chase, the perp. drove his car into that crowd of people ! Public Safety narrative vindicated? I think not! A grave error!

    • Driving at high speed in a pedestrianised area, even with blue lights and sirens going, would definitely prejudice public safety.

      • In the course of my duties I did exactly that in crowded areas, that is why emergency vehicles have warning lights and loud sirens. However, the onus on public safety has always been with the officer doing the driving and not from those who only drive a desk.

        Apparently pursuing police were deterred in even the simple act of ramming this idiot’s vehicle off the road such is the stupidity that comes from radical socialist thinking.

        The person who made that decision needs to be exposed because it has cost four citizens their lives and numerous others injured.

    • There are stories that our police sought and were refused permission to ram him numerous times. There is a lot of controversy about police pursuits here, because in some parts they tend to be initiated by car theft by teenagers. Whether or not the brass made a wrong decision, the police on the ground were excellent.

  6. Islam is the religion of peace; it must have been poisoned doughnuts that drove him to it.

  7. It seems that witnesses of the ramming heard the usual «allhu ackbar». Police ignored but it’s allready on line.

  8. Self identified Greek of Kurdish Islamic extraction.

    Much like the Fort Lauderdale airport shooter- who we now know was a convert and did it for ISIS.

    The MSM and their PC minions in the Constabulary do this first off since they know the public’ attention span is zero and this will be the lasting impression.

  9. “Davos Elite” involved in continental and civilisation-sized socio-engineering works, using unprecedented levels of mass-immigration into Europe, which includes millions of unskilled, military age males, consequent gender imbalance, while the dysfunctional Eurozone, already has areas of entrenched unemployment of up to 50%….”Leads to War, Poverty, Confrontation… and Domination”.

    That’s before we even put Islam and violent jihad in the mix.

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