Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/4/2017

The mujahid who attacked soldiers at the Louvre, Abdallah Reda Refai El Hamahmy, reportedly tweeted his support for the Islamic State just before he brought out his machete to commit the attack. Meanwhile, the Louvre has reopened for business, and tourists can now resume admiring its works of art.

In other news, German President Joachim Gauck has called on Europeans to speak out in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed restrictions on immigration. Mr. Gauck said President Trump’s policies were against European values.

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Financial Crisis
» “Is Trump About to Cause Another Crisis?”: 2008 Could be Eclipsed as Bank Restrictions Eliminated
» “Recognize That the Situation is Beyond Repair”: Trump’s Plan to Save the Economy Won’t be Enough
» Greece on Brink of Financial Crisis in Face of Warnings From EU and IMF
 
USA
» A Good American: A Documentary About Bill Binney, An NSA Whistleblower Who Says 9/11 Could Have Been Prevented
» Beloit Student Faked Vile Muslim Hate Crime for Attention
» House Intelligence Members’ IT Staffers Fired in Security Probe
» Julian Assange Claims Google is Not What We Think it is
» Liberal Professor Delivers Vile Rant Urging Violence Against ‘Nazi’ Trump Supporters
» Most Software Already Has a “Golden Key” Backdoor: The System Update
» ‘Nice Legs. Mmm Very Nice’: Disturbing Home Video Reveals Creepy Relationship Slain Texas Teenage Sisters Had With Their Egyptian Father Who Fled Nine Years Ago After Their ‘Honor Killings’
» Training Our Replacements: “Bionic Barrista Will Terminate Millions of Jobs”
 
Canada
» UN Lesson Plans Teach Kids to Get Civilians to “Turn in Guns”
 
Europe and the EU
» Brexit Could Spark EU to Fundamentally Restructure Says MEP
» Europe Unites Against Trump’s Pick for Brussels Ambassador
» France: Louvre Museums Reopens as Egypt Identifies Machete Attacker
» France: Louvre Machete Suspect Egyptian Who Posted ‘Support for ISIL Minutes Before Attack’
» German Magazine Sparks Furor With Image of Trump Beheading Statue of Liberty
» German Islamists Come to Blows in Row Over Who is More Radical
» German Magazine Sparks Furor With Cover of Trump Beheading Statue of Liberty
» German President Gauck Calls on Europe to ‘Speak Out’ Against Trump Travel Ban
» Louvre Suspect ‘Posted Pro-ISIS Messages on Twitter Moments Before He Attacked Four Soldiers Outside Paris Art Gallery’
» ‘Made in France’: Marine Le Pen Unveils Election Platform
» Muslims in Belgium: The Belgian Powder Keg
» Poll-Topping Wilders Wants ‘Stop Islam’ Tram Branding in Run-Up to Dutch Elections
» Sweden on Edge: Now MPs Demand Billion Pound Investment Into Police Amid Growing Crisis
» Swedish Police Prepare for War
» Swedish Policeman Reported to the Police for Telling the Truth
» Why Are Fewer People Visiting UK Museums and Galleries?
 
Middle East
» Iran is World’s Biggest State Sponsor of Terrorism, US Says
» Trump Voices Hope Russia Can Help in Fight Against ISIS
 
Far East
» Record High Fatal Radiation Levels, Hole in Reactor Detected at Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Facility
 
Immigration
» Argentina Amends Its Immigration Law, Speeds Up Deportations
» ‘Christian’ Activists Head to Mosques to Resist Trump
» ISIS-Loving Muslim Immigrant Spits on Police, Gets Instant Texas Justice
» It’s Happening! Trump Kicks Hundreds of Illegal Leeches to the Curb After Finding What They Were Secretly Hiding
» Look What Nasty Nancy Pelosi Was Just Caught Doing in Public — Guess She Didn’t Think Anyone Would Notice!
» Previously Deported Illegal Arrested for Sexual Assault
» Sudanese Sex Attacker Who Raped a Tourist Outside a Railway Station After He Was Granted Asylum in the UK is Jailed for Seven Years
» Sweden to Carry Out I.D. Checks on Board Trains From Denmark
» US Agencies, Airlines Dash to Respond to Judge’s Immigration Ruling; Justice Department Files Notice of Appeal
 

“Is Trump About to Cause Another Crisis?”: 2008 Could be Eclipsed as Bank Restrictions Eliminated

Beware of what may be coming next. We already know the establishment has a plan to blame President Trump for the next financial crisis, and now there are moves being made that will support that narrative.

After the 2008 fiasco, a spotlight on Wall Street misbehavior and some weak, but better-than-nothing regulations were put on the industry in the hopes of preventing another string of bank failures and crippling economic disasters.

But as the system teeters on edge and prepares to endure the backlash of increased rates at the Fed, Trump is also taking off the shackles that have been put in place by the Dodd-Frank Act which instituted certain protections for consumers, including a requirement that pensioners don’t have their nest egg devoured, etc.

For the tens of millions of baby boomer retirees and aging pensioners, the social security net is all they’ve got to count on, apart from a few debt-saddled kids who have hardly been able to save a dime under eight years of Obama.

The 2008 economic crisis penalized everyone with an entire cycle of wage freezes, job starvation and crushing dependence upon government programs for assistance. Wall Street, and the banker class at large were spared from blame or reparations to a society that was robbed blind. Instead, eight years of quantitative easing sent a tidal wave of easy money to the financial sector that created a gorge of asset buy-up from the top — especially in housing, where soaring rates are forcing single households to become renters instead of mortgage debt-slave owners once again.

The election of President Trump created optimism about our collective financial prospects — with seemingly tangible promises of bringing home jobs and returning to American Greatness “¢. But the banksters also cheered his election; stock markets shot upwards in celebration. Key positions in the White House were offered to Goldman Sachs men and others of their ilk.

Now, President Trump has issued an executive order that has Wall Street once again self-congratulating for backing the right man. The order is expected to gut protections that currently require financial products sellers

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“Recognize That the Situation is Beyond Repair”: Trump’s Plan to Save the Economy Won’t be Enough

Editor’s Comment: Despite a number of positive steps at the beginning of the President Trump’s administration, the economy is very, very far gone. Under the arrangements of the past half century, the United States has become an engine of global centralization. The goods its people need are produced overseas and imported; an imperial model poised for collapse. Central bankers have our country in a vulnerable and interdependent state, and even with the best intentions, Trump can’t pull us out of it with renewed manufacturing, tariffs and federal meddling.

Though many of his initiatives are in the right direction, it may be a case of too little, too late. Once the U.S. loses the dollar’s world reserve currency, there won’t be much else propping it up. It is seems that an economic collapse has been readied, and Trump may be cast as the man to blame, rather than the man to save us from it. May we have better wisdom in rebuilding, if those who would enslave us completely in a highly centralized, mechanized global system don’t succeed first.

Prepare now for the recovery as best you can; either way, it will be a long road ahead.

Irreversible Damage — The U.S. Economy Cannot Be Repaired

by Brandon Smith

As I outlined in my article ‘The False Economic Narrative Will Die In 2017’, the mainstream media has been carefully crafting the propaganda meme that the Trump administration is inheriting a global economy in “ascension,” when in fact, the opposite is true. Trump enters office at a time of longstanding decline and will likely witness severe and accelerated decline over the course of the next year. The signs are already present, and this fits exactly with the basis for my prediction of the Trump election win — conservative movements are indeed being set up as scapegoats for a global economic crisis that international financiers actually created.

[Comment: Obama, a bankster puppet, did his job well.]

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Greece on Brink of Financial Crisis in Face of Warnings From EU and IMF

A ‘GREXIT’ could be on the cards as Greece teeters once again on the brink of financial crisis.

The debt-ridden EU state faces a critical few weeks as pressures rise from the US and Germany for it to meet the conditions agreed in Greece’s bailout package almost seven years ago.

Negotiations between Athens and its creditors have come to a standstill, with bond yields skyrocketing.

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

A Good American: A Documentary About Bill Binney, An NSA Whistleblower Who Says 9/11 Could Have Been Prevented

Bill Binney resigned from the NSA in October 2001, after 30 years with the agency where he was viewed as one of their best analysts: he quit because he believed that Bush-appointed leaders in the Agency had chosen to respond to the challenge of electronic communications by building out illegal, indiscriminate mass-surveillance programs that left the country vulnerable to terrorists while diverting billions to private contractors with political connections.

After his resignation, Binney and his fellow whistleblowers faced retaliation from the NSA, as the agency prevented him from getting work as a private intelligence contractor and eventually staged a guns-drawn dawn raid on his home.

Binney has been a sharp, articulate, deeply knowledgeable critic of mass electronic surveillance ever since, refusing to be intimidated by the NSA despite the risks to himself.

In “A Good American,” a new documentary that goes into widespread release today, director Freidrich Moser tells Binney’s story from his early days as an intelligence analyst during the Vietnam War to his service as a codebreaker during the Cold War to his visionary program for conducting electronic surveillance with an emphasis on privacy and the rule of law. Binney and his fellow whistleblowers tell the story of how General Michael Hayden, then head of the NSA, sidelined their proposals in favor of a multibillion-dollar boondoggle called Trailblazer, which collapsed without ever shipping — and how Hayden and his team refused to allow NSA analysts to work in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, literally locking them out of the building while they plotted ways to shift the blame for intelligence failures and use the attacks to build private, well-funded permanent civil service empires.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Beloit Student Faked Vile Muslim Hate Crime for Attention

A Muslim student at a liberal arts college in Wisconsin has been arrested for spray painting reprehensible anti-Muslim messages on his own dorm room door and then filing a report claiming that he was the victim of a hate crime.

The totally fake hate crime occurred last weekend at Beloit College, a 1,400-student bastion bursting with idiosyncratic individualists who enjoy leftist politics.

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

House Intelligence Members’ IT Staffers Fired in Security Probe

Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion that they accessed congressional computers without permission.

Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives Thursday, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.

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

Julian Assange Claims Google is Not What We Think it is

Yes, we all know Google. But WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange holds a different, darker, shrewder view of it.

We use it every day, and entrust it with an ever-increasing amount of our pictures, documents, and presentations. We are all familiar with its playfully artful seasonal logo strains and self-proclaimed corporate benevolence. Yes, we all know Google. But WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange holds a different, darker, shrewder view of it.

It all started with a visit from Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Google Ideas’ head Jared Cohen, and a small retinue of Washington-affiliated characters: they had reached out to Assange seeking an interview for an upcoming book that explored technology’s role as a prominent socio-political force in light of its role in the Arab Spring and its “Twitter-revolutions”.

After a subsequent investigation, Assange soon discovered that this party was not an impromptu arrangement of public and private influencers, but rather a deep-rooted coalition that had been decades in the making.

Assange stakes the claim that Google’s alter-ego is a multi-million-dollar military contractor that supplies and shares in surveillance intelligence with the NSA, CIA and NGA, exerts a strong influence on a cohort of political magnates and Washington power circles, and worked in close collaboration with the Government to act as a foreign policy agenda proxy that could be even more proactive in its efforts thanks to the shield of private, philanthropic pretence.

Further, in his new book When Google met WikiLeaks, Assange details how Google is nurturing a force of Internet activists that it may uncannily mobilize at the right time to enact its interests.

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

Liberal Professor Delivers Vile Rant Urging Violence Against ‘Nazi’ Trump Supporters

Anti-Trump protesters shut down yet another right-wing sponsored lecture on a university campus amid growing tension across the US.

During the ensuing chaos, a liberal professor, who claimed to be from a New York-based university, shouted at “proud-boy” police officers who were failing at their jobs.

She hit out at conservative commentator, Gavin McInnes, who was due to speak to a group of College Republicans at NYU, and branded him a “Nazi”.

Her impassioned tirade went viral, as she condemned the police for arresting students rather than “kicking Neo-Nazi a**”.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Most Software Already Has a “Golden Key” Backdoor: The System Update

Software updates are just another term for cryptographic single-points-of-failure.

In 2014 when The Washington Post Editorial Board wrote “with all their wizardry, perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key they would retain and use only when a court has approved a search warrant,” the Internet ridiculed them. Many people painstakingly explained that even if there were somehow wide agreement about who would be the “right” people and governments to hold such an all-powerful capability, it would ultimately be impossible to ensure that such power wouldn’t fall in to the “wrong” hands.

Yet, here is a sad joke that happens to describe the reality we presently live in:

Q: What does almost every piece of software with an update mechanism, including every popular operating system, have in common?

A: Secure golden keys, cryptographic single-points-of-failure which can be used to enable total system compromise via targeted malicious software updates.

I’ll define those terms:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Nice Legs. Mmm Very Nice’: Disturbing Home Video Reveals Creepy Relationship Slain Texas Teenage Sisters Had With Their Egyptian Father Who Fled Nine Years Ago After Their ‘Honor Killings’

Newly released home movies show the creepy relationship Yaser Abdel Said had with his two daughters he is accused of murdering in a motel parking lot.

Home video shows Said lurking in the bedrooms of daughters Sarah, 17, and Amina, 18, making leering comments at his children.

In a clip, the father says: ‘Nice legs. Mmm very nice.’ He tells this to his teenage daughters as he pans over their legs with the camera as they lie in bed.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Training Our Replacements: “Bionic Barrista Will Terminate Millions of Jobs”

Meet The “Bionic Barrista” Whose Mission Is To Terminate Millions Of Minimum Wage Jobs

Tired of your barista giving you attitude, spitting in your coffee if you only mention Trump, or misspelling your name on your morning cup of joe? Surely a robot could do better. Well, we are about to find out, because on Monday, Cafe X opened its very first robotic cafe in San Francisco’s Metreon shopping center Digital Trends reports. Promising “precision crafted specialty coffee in seconds, the way the roaster intended,” Cafe X thinks that anything a human can do, its machines can do better. Or rather just one machine.

Nicknamed Gordon, after a Cafe X employee, this robot mans, or robots, two standard professional coffee machines in order to serve up espressos and lattes. In the San Francisco location, customers can grab a cup of coffee with beans from AKA Coffee, Verve Coffee Roasters, or Peet’s. While the coffee itself may not make Cafe X stand out from the competition, the startup hopes that the robot’s efficiency and utility will.

And it surely will, because while its name may be Gordon, its title is the “ bionic barrista” and its primary mission is to terminate millions of minimum wage jobs around the globe, boosting the bottom line for major coffee chains everywhere, whose growth has plateaued and who are desperate to cut on overhead costs. Already the average Cafe X coffee costs more than 10%, or 40 cents less than a similar drink at Starbucks. With greater scale the price will only drop.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UN Lesson Plans Teach Kids to Get Civilians to “Turn in Guns”

The United Nations (UN) is offering lesson plans for teaching American and Canadian children about the benefits of civilian disarmament and to familarize them with “the process by which the international community, regional organizations, and the UN encourage the practice of disarmament.”

Over the course of six lessons, teachers using the “Disarmament Education Programme” prepared by the United Nations Association in Canada will indoctrinate students to accept the UN as a global government and an engine of peace with the goal of creating a “world without weapons.”

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

Brexit Could Spark EU to Fundamentally Restructure Says MEP

BREXIT, Britain’s leaving the European Union, could spark a fundamental restructuring of the bloc, according to an MEP.

Daniel Hannan, Conservative MEP and Brexiteer, has said that the UK’s exit from the EU could tempt other Eurosceptic countries such as Italy and Poland to break away from close political integration and form an “outer tier” with nearby countries such as Morocco, Israel, Ukraine and Iceland.

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

Europe Unites Against Trump’s Pick for Brussels Ambassador

European Parliament leaders have written to the European Council asking its president not to accept Ted Malloch, pictured with Nigel Farage, as US ambassador to the EU should he be put forward.

[Comment: A sort of “reverse endorsement”. If those communist apparchiks hate him, he must be the right man for the job.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

France: Louvre Museums Reopens as Egypt Identifies Machete Attacker

The Louvre in Paris reopened to the public Saturday morning, less than 24-hours after a machete-wielding assailant shouting “Allahu Akbar!” was shot by soldiers.

In drizzly weather, tourists filed by armed police and soldiers outside the central Paris museum, which had been closed immediately after Friday’s attack.

The attacker was shot four times after injuring a soldier patrolling the underground mall.

An Egyptian interior ministry official confirmed to The AP Saturday the identity of the attacker as Egyptian-born Abdullah Reda Refaie al-Hamahmy, 28.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

France: Louvre Machete Suspect Egyptian Who Posted ‘Support for ISIL Minutes Before Attack’

An Egyptian man suspected of launching a machete attack outside Paris’s Louvre museum is believed to have professed support for Isil in social media messages posted minutes before the assault, it has emerged.

French investigators believe the man is 29-year-old Abdallah Reda Refai El Hamahmy, who entered the country on a tourist visa.

The attacker, in a black t-shirt bearing a skull design and armed with two 40-centimetre machetes, lunged at four patrolling French soldiers while shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”) near the tourist hotspot on Friday.

“In the name of Allah… for our brothers in Syria and fighters across the world,” an account in the name of Abdallah Hamahmy posted in Arabic on Twitter on Friday morning, before making reference to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) jihadist group in another tweet.

“Why are they afraid of the establishment of the Islamic State?” it said. “Because the Islamic State defends its resources and dignity and honor, and respond fight back.”

In the last message posted before the attack, he wrote: “No negotiations, no compromise, no retreat, relentless war.”

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German Magazine Sparks Furor With Image of Trump Beheading Statue of Liberty

It depicts a cartoon figure of Trump with a bloodied knife in one hand and the statue’s head, dripping with blood, in the other. It carries the caption: “America First”.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

German Islamists Come to Blows in Row Over Who is More Radical

ONE of Germany’s most infamous Islamists has been accused of beating up a fellow extremist — in a row over who was the most radical.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

German Magazine Sparks Furor With Cover of Trump Beheading Statue of Liberty

The magazine Der Spiegel has ignited controversy in Germany and elsewhere with a cover illustration that depicts President Trump as an ISIS executioner, brandishing a bloody knife in one hand and the head of Lady Liberty in the other, Reuters reports.

The outlandish cover for the Feb. 4 edition, which includes the caption “America First,” generated debate on Twitter and in German and international media with Alexander Graf Lamsdorff, a member of German’s Free Democrats and vice president of the European Parliament labeling it “tasteless,” according to Reuters.

The artist behind the illustration is Cuban-born Edel Rodriguez who came to the U.S. as a political refugee in 1980, The Washington Post reported.

“It’s a beheading of democracy, a beheading of a sacred symbol,” Rodriguez told the paper in defending the illustration. “And clearly, lately, what’s associated with beheadings is ISIS, so there’s a comparison” between the ISIS extremist group and Trump.

“Both sides are extremists, so I’m just making a comparison between them,” he said.

The cover accompanies a story on the Trump administration and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, according to the Washington Times.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

German President Gauck Calls on Europe to ‘Speak Out’ Against Trump Travel Ban

Germany’s president has urged Europe to take a clear stance against Trump’s entry ban for citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. He said the order was “incompatible” with the European values of human dignity.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Louvre Suspect ‘Posted Pro-ISIS Messages on Twitter Moments Before He Attacked Four Soldiers Outside Paris Art Gallery’

A man suspected of attacking four soldiers outside the Louvre in Paris posted pro-ISIS tweets moments before it happened yesterday morning, French investigators believe.

Detectives are probing the Twitter account of Egyptian national Abdallah El Hamahmy, who is believed to have arrived in France eight days before the attack.

A machete-wielding man, who the French capital’s police chief said was shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’, was shot five times in the stomach by paratroopers who were patrolling the tourist hotspot.

Among the 12 tweets, posted between 9.27am and 9.34am French time, was one stating: ‘In the name of Allah… for our brothers in Syria and fighters across the world.’

[Comment: What are his connections to muslim brotherhood? US should follow Egypts example on how to handle the brotherhood.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Made in France’: Marine Le Pen Unveils Election Platform

LYON, France (AP) — Marine Le Pen, the right wing presidential candidate, is unveiling her platform at a weekend conference, envisioning a thriving nation “made in France.” That means a state having its own borders to guard, its own currency to spend and its identity unchanged by immigrants, refugees and globalization.

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Muslims in Belgium: The Belgian Powder Keg

The Islamic State in the Middle East collapses. Diminishing resources of ISIS translate into increased risk of terrorism in Europe, especially given the sympathies of Muslims in Belgium.

Average inhabitants of the West are convinced that security services cope with the threat. Reality is, however more complex.

From isolation to hostility

Islamic State is popular among Muslims in Belgium — about 20%; similarly 20% of Muslims do not intend to share with police information regarding threat of terrorism. Large group of Muslims living in Belgium admits hostility towards the state which has in the past opened its borders to them.

Marek Orzechowski (Polish journalist living in Belgium) in his book “My Neighbour The Islamist” writes that Muslims in Belgium represent the most tight-knit minority. Local community does not know what are their views, stances or what they are occupied with. One can venture to say that alongside EU institutions, bureaucratic and governmental districts, a parallel society grew there.

“The war against Islamic terrorism continues. It will however be longer and more difficult than it might seem. “

Without a doubt today Brussels is the largest, excluding Moscow, concentration of Muslims in our part of the world. In 12 years majority of inhabitants of capital of Belgium will profess Islam. For many years there has been observed a process of social disintegration. Muslims in Belgium have been creating enclaves to which they admitted either sympathetic journalists, who write about the love of peace and good neighbourliness or politicians vying for the votes of Muslims in elections…

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Poll-Topping Wilders Wants ‘Stop Islam’ Tram Branding in Run-Up to Dutch Elections

A proposed advertisement for Geert Wilders’s Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) would see Rotterdam trams wrapped with “Stop Islam” stickers as the nation prepares to vote in the 2017 general election.

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Sweden on Edge: Now MPs Demand Billion Pound Investment Into Police Amid Growing Crisis

SWEDEN’S Prime Minister was brutalised in Parliament for allowing Sweden to crumble into a lawless state.

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Swedish Police Prepare for War

In late January, 28,500 police officers in Sweden were told what to do and where they should meet up in case of a high alert or war, reports ABC Nyheter.

Swedes raises the preparedness at a time when some concerns over both the world situation, as well as the internal situation, are spreading.

The National Police Chief Dan Eliasson has given orders that all personnel within the police immediately should know where to meet up during a war mobilization, according to Aftonbladet.

Sweden already has an elevated threat level due to fear of Islamic terrorism, which they have admitted is the reason, but yet they are now trying to explain that aggression or even a potential, highly unlikely invasion by Russia is the reason for the sudden panicking attempt to build up both the almost closed down defense, and the police.

This while criminal gangs are winning, suburbs are burning, along with a large numbers of cars every week, without a single Russian in sight.

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Swedish Policeman Reported to the Police for Telling the Truth

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

Peter Springare, police investigator and former deputy head of the Division for serious crimes at the police in Örebro, has been reported to the police after he in a post on Facebook spoke plainly about those who are behind the serious crimes. The report to the police comes after the local newspaper Nerikes Allehanda found the outspoken policeman to be racist, the usual solution to silence any criticism in the politically correct country.

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Why Are Fewer People Visiting UK Museums and Galleries?

Did you go to a museum or gallery last year?

Figures show the number of visitors to the UK’s major museums and galleries fell last year for the first time in almost a decade.

The biggest drop in 2015/2016 was seen in educational visits and school groups, which saw a 6.9% decline on 2014/15.

So why are figures dropping? It has been speculated that security fears over terrorism may be a factor.

[Comment: I think that’s part of it. Another reason is that contemporary art is crap. Just look at the painting up for an award, shown in the article.]

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Iran is World’s Biggest State Sponsor of Terrorism, US Says

US Defence Secretary James Mattis has called Iran the world’s “biggest state sponsor of terrorism”, amid rising tensions between the two nations.

His comments come a day after the Trump administration imposed new sanctions against Iran in response to a ballistic missile test.

But Mr Mattis said he did not see any need to boost US troop numbers in the Middle East to deal with Iran.

Iran has been carrying out military exercises in a show of defiance.

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Trump Voices Hope Russia Can Help in Fight Against ISIS

President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that he does “respect” Russian President Vladimir Putin, but that respect does not mean they’ll get along.

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Record High Fatal Radiation Levels, Hole in Reactor Detected at Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Facility

Record high radiation levels that’s lethal even after brief exposure have been detected at a damaged reactor at the Fukushima power plant in Japan. Specialists also found a hole, likely caused by melted nuclear fuel. Radiation levels of up to 530 Sieverts per hour were detected inside an inactive Reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex damaged during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami catastrophe, Japanese media reported on Thursday citing the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).

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Argentina Amends Its Immigration Law, Speeds Up Deportations

Argentina made a major change to its immigration law Monday. The change makes it easier to expel foreigners who do crimes or who are under investigation.

President Mauricio Macri ordered the change to the 2003 immigration law.

The presidential order notes a rise in organized crime by foreigners. It prevents entrance to immigrants who are serving sentences or have criminal records. It also speeds up expulsion for those who do crimes, including selling drugs and weapons or hiding illegal money.

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‘Christian’ Activists Head to Mosques to Resist Trump

A national coalition with ties to George Soros was behind a national day of “ solidarity” with Muslims Friday that included rallies at airports and prayer vigils at mosques.

The National Partnership for New Americans sponsored a “day of action” to protest Donald Trump’s 90-day moratorium on travel from seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen — which the groups are calling “unconstitutional” and a “Muslim ban.”

The NPNA was funded with a $200,000 grant from Soros’ Open Society Foundations in 2011.

[Comment: This is what happens whe people blindly believe what the idiot box and communist newscasters tell them. It is not a muslim ban. Most muslim immigrants don’t come from those countries and are not affected. It is a temporary halt from those countries in order to set up a more thorough immigration vetting procedure. Once that is done the temporary ban will be lifted.]

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ISIS-Loving Muslim Immigrant Spits on Police, Gets Instant Texas Justice

Tuesday afternoon In Arlington, Tx. was pretty eventful when Police pulled over the driver of a black 4 door Acura. The male driver turned out to be a self-proclaimed Muslim Terrorist. The Muslim immigrant has been living in Texas and was identified by police as Wahib Sadek Hamed. Arlington Police were notified of a car driving recklessly recently during rush hour down Arlington’ s’ Green Oaks blvd. Once police pulled over the car they were met with an irritate driver claiming to be a Muslim Terrorist.

Witnesses Mohammad Omar Ileiwat who owns a smoke shop in the area was driving back to his shop when he saw the suspect driving erratically. Ileiwat said the suspect was “ driving like a mad man” .

When police pulled Hamed over at a stop light Hamed immediately exited his vehicle, shirtless and aggravated, Hamed, aggressively approached the officer. After a few steps toward the officer, Hamed turns back to his vehicle, he attempts to open the door and the officer uses the taser twice. The officer initially pulling out his gun, but then changed his mind and opted for a teaser. The suspect tried to pull out the taser prongs and come after the officer again. It took till the third tease to bring Hamed down. Once Hamed was down on the ground the officer handcuffed him, but the officer wasn’ t alone. A number of passersby immediately jumped into the action to help subdue Hamed. It was as Hamed was down on the ground that he shouted something about supporting ISIS and other terrorist organizations.

Had this incident happened in any other state the officer would have somehow been villainized, but this is Texas. Citizens respect and help police officers, not villainize them. One eyewitness recalls when the citizens stepped in the help the police officer, “Everyone helped out, It was pretty crazy.” Ileiwat recorded the confrontation on his smartphone and posted it to Facebook, the video has over 65,000 likes. Police also had their dash cameras rolling as they pulled over Wahib Sadek Hamed. Now Hamed is in very real trouble. It’ s no surprise that officers found dangerous weapons in his car. Police found an AK-47, a shotgun, a handgun and over two-hundred rounds of ammo following Hamed’ s arrest. Ileiwat witnessed the whole arrest process and praises the officer for treating Hamed with respect. Ileiwat says the officer didn’ t use excessive force on Hamed “ the (officer gave Hamed) benefit of the doubt, backing up, (asking Hamed to), get down on the ground, get down on the ground. Even when he was on top of him, he could have come down on him hard.”

Good on the Police of Arlington, Tx. and for the good citizens that had the backs of our Men-in-Blue.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

It’s Happening! Trump Kicks Hundreds of Illegal Leeches to the Curb After Finding What They Were Secretly Hiding

As you can see, President Trump is tired of illegal immigrants milking the system of free welfare benefits. I’ m not even sure how they’ re getting benefits if they’ re illegals, but I’ m sure they’ re living in cities ruled by democrats.

Donald Trump is tired of seeing our homeless citizens suffer while illegal immigrants suck the well dry for every cent they can get.

He wants to identify and remove every illegal immigrant who smuggled themselves into America for the sole purpose of getting welfare.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Look What Nasty Nancy Pelosi Was Just Caught Doing in Public — Guess She Didn’t Think Anyone Would Notice!

Democrat mayors who are so far liberal they have lost their freaking minds are screaming foul play when it comes to refusing to shut down their sanctuary cities.

Including nutcase House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi who first is CRAZY and second is claiming that the only way to keep America safe is by bringing in unvetted Islamic refugees. Not a joke. Her words not ours, her and her colleagues are far more concerned about anyone and everyone but Americans.

I guess to them, the more, the merrier yes? According to this wicked witch of the west, immigrants have a ‘ right’ to come here, non-US citizens have a right to come to America and enjoy the constitutional rights that all Americans have.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Previously Deported Illegal Arrested for Sexual Assault

Juan Lopez was deported to Mexico in 2009 after serving a prison sentence for a 1987 homicide. Lopez, 46, returned to the U.S. and was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service in Austin, Texas on Thursday for sexual assault.

Lopez allegedly raped a woman in a car while her toddler was in the back seat, KXAN Austin reported Friday.

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

Sudanese Sex Attacker Who Raped a Tourist Outside a Railway Station After He Was Granted Asylum in the UK is Jailed for Seven Years

A Sudanese sex attacker who raped a tourist outside a railway station after he was granted asylum in the UK has been jailed for seven years.

Salah Koubar, 20, threw the South Korean woman over the railings at West Dulwich Station in south London, dragging her into the bushes.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sweden to Carry Out I.D. Checks on Board Trains From Denmark

Denmark has given the go-ahead for Swedish police to board the Öresund train in Copenhagen, making I.D. checks possible on board.

The Danish Ministry of Justice has confirmed that it will allow Swedish police to board Öresund Bridge trains at Kastrup in Copenhagen.

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

US Agencies, Airlines Dash to Respond to Judge’s Immigration Ruling; Justice Department Files Notice of Appeal

Airlines, federal agencies, foreign travelers and others scrambled throughout Saturday in response to a weekend court order blocking President Trump’s immigration ban — almost identical to the international response last weekend after Trump issued the executive order that temporarily stopped travelers, immigrants and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S.

A federal judge late Friday in Seattle issued the temporary halt to Trump’s order. And by early afternoon, the departments of State and Homeland Security effectively said that they had responded accordingly.

However, the U.S. Department of Justice annoucned that it had filed a formal appeal of the Seattle ruling Saturday night with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

President Trump, at Mar-a-Lago for the weekend with the first lady to attend the Red Cross Ball, had this to say when a pool reporter asked if has confident he would prevail in court: “We’ll win,” he replied. “For the safety of our country, we’ll win.”

The State Department said it had reversed cancelling visas for related foreigners, after provisionally revoking as many as 60,000 of them to comply with Trump’s Jan. 27 order.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

14 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/4/2017

  1. ** orders that all personnel within the police immediately should know where to meet up during a war mobilization, according to Aftonbladet **

    Hefalumps, jabberwocks, Klingons, succubi, shapeshifters, fog hounds, werewolves, vampires, bridge trolls, Putin lizards, and mist squirrels are reaching critical levels.

    The vigilance of the Swedish people is as never before. Soon the threat to the beloved Swedish nation will be crushed by the guardians of the public weal.

    Feminist lunatics and arrogant Muslum supremacists will be cast down . . . no, wait. Let us not enter the realm of fantasy here.

  2. SOMETHING QUITE NEW

    Published 4 feb. 2017

    Norse News

    Episode 1 – Sweden’s Titanic Nationalism

    https://youtu.be/cmpQmXyRBMA

    Norse News is here! A monthly update on the horrific things that are going on in Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia. Sweden is the canary in the multicultural coalmine. What happens here will come to the rest of the Western world if we don’t say: Stop it right here!

    Norse News is keeping an eye on the North. We give you the latest news and scandals from Scandinavia.
    Norse News is a collaboration between Red Ice TV and Ingrid & Conrad.

    Stories covered this show:

    1. Political Scandal of the month: 2:33
    Katerina Janouch, a Czech born Swedish author expressed concerns in Czech television over how Sweden is developing – and gets scolded by Sweden’s Prime minister.

    2. The problem with Sweden 9:42
    We suffer from Titanic nationalism. Sweden is the “unsinkable nation”. We are so convinced that our society is the best and most stable that has ever existed. Nothing bad can ever happen to us.

    3. Sweden Crime Update 16:13
    * The live streamed rape on Facebook
    * Shopping mall “Nordstan” in Gothenburg deemed a no-go zone
    * Does Malmö need military intervention?

    4. Latest in Migration Scandals 33:12
    Swedish municipality Hultsfred stops welfare to immigrants

    5. Idiots in the Media 39:20
    Peter Rawet, from the Swedish Television, makes a fool of himself outside the Trump inauguration. You’ve never seen anything like it!
    —————————————————————————————–
    Why, dear Conrad, this ridicolous outfit?
    Haircut + trouser braces!!!
    (on a slender perso with a distinct waist)

    • Sweden gearing up for war–with Russia? They wouldn’t last a minute.
      And elsewhere, Norway also buying submarines and also gearing up for war with–Russia! I wonder if Vlad. is aware of the warlike intentions of these two Scandinavian ‘superpowers!’

      Further, American troops going to Værnes in Norway for winter training. I wonder if they’re aware Værnes is only just across a river from HELL!

      • Sweden is gearing up for war since at least 1500’s. It’s THE humanitarian superpower, because they make their own tanks, aircraft, ships, and so on…

        I remember last time the budget for Swedish Army was at stake, the bloody Russians sent a spy submarine right into Stockholm, it was a big chase, and the result was that the budget was passed.

        • “Sweden is gearing up for war since at least 1500’s”. I don’t think so. The last time they went to war was 200 years ago–against Norway, and that was just a short battle.

          Battle is alien to the Swedes now, which is the reason their country is in such a mess. The still make munitions, the odd tank and a few planes, but ships? You’re thinking of Finland?

    • I watched the entire episode and enjoyed it. It was fast paced and very informative. Thank you for the link.

  3. “Mr. Gauck said President Trump’s policies were against European values.”
    – Too bad. Trump is an American president who was constitutionally elected. His job is to protect Americans and American interests, not Islam;
    – Mr. Gauck is free continue with policies that reflect European values that presumably include civilizational suicide. Others are not interested in such European values.
    – The German leadership once again cannot resist meddling.

  4. “A Sudanese sex attacker who raped a tourist outside a railway station after he was granted asylum in the UK has been jailed for seven years.”

    After serving the sentence is imposed, he won’t be deported to Sudan as it would infringe on his human rights.

  5. “SWEDEN’S Prime Minister was brutalised in Parliament for allowing Sweden to crumble into a lawless state.”

    Sweden’s lemming-like march to cultural and national suicide has made them a laughing stock around the world.

  6. ‘Christian’ Activists Head to Mosques to Resist Trump:

    Do you know that there were Jews supporting Hitler as well?

    Maybe the Church is just the younger sister in this story, Aholibah?

    “Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.”

    Why? Because provoking God to jealousy works very well!

    Those who cry appease appease! are hung by those they try to please.

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