Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/13/2017

The conflict between Turkey and Europe has escalated further. Denmark, Austria, and Switzerland are banning campaign stops by Turkish officials, and Germany is opposing any additional Turkish campaigning. The Turks have filed a formal complaint against The Netherlands, demanded an apology from Prime Minister Rutte, and will implement sanctions against the Dutch. Turkey has also taken its complaint about the breach of its rights to the European Union and the Council of Europe.

In other news, the state of Tennessee has filed a lawsuit against the federal government for its “refugee resettlement” policies, based on a legal argument that such policies are a violation of the Tenth Amendment.

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Financial Crisis
» Confirmed: Treasury Says Obama Stole From Fannie, Freddie Investors to Fund ObamaCare
» Italy GDP Steady at 1%, Lowest Among Big Members — OECD
 
USA
» Angry Students Protest Publisher of Mohammad Cartoons
» Clinton Fired 93 US Attorneys in One Day, Trump Only 46
» Democratic Socialists of America Triples Membership Since Trump
» Many Use Student Loans to Finance Spring Flings
» ObamaCare Repeal Analysis: Millions Would Drop Coverage, Costs Would Fall Under Bill
» US Health Bill ‘To Leave 14M More Uninsured’
 
Europe and the EU
» Afghan Father Who Called Son ‘Jihad’ Jailed for Threatening to Kill French Judges
» Austria Stops Four Turkish Political Meetings as Row Spreads
» Brexit Bill: MPs Overwhelmingly Reject Lords Changes
» Catalan Ex-Leader Artur Mas Banned From Office Over Illegal Referendum
» Czech Minister Wants to Guarantee the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
» Denmark’s Far Right Leader Pernille Vermund ‘Polling Well Ahead of the Election’
» Dutch Man Told to Remove 80 Goldfish From Canal
» Dutch Election: PM Warns Against Populism in TV Debate With Wilders
» EU and NATO Both Warn Scotland it Will Lose Membership
» Fabergé as Danish as he Was Russian — as Was His Favourite Client
» Finnish President Meets With Swedish PM, Royals Amid Winter War Commemorations
» France: Police to Travel for Free as Paris Region Boosts Security on Rer Trains
» France: Marine Le Pen Urges Cancellation of Turkish Campaign Rallies
» French Mayor Facing 1,800 Euro Fine for Speaking of ‘Problem’ Of Muslim Schoolchildren
» French ‘De-Radicalisation’ Pioneer in Court Over Embezzlement Charges
» Geert Wilders Clashes With Dutch PM Rutte in TV Debate
» Germany: Trier to Decide on Accepting Marx Statue From China
» Hungary Re-Elects President Ader in Display of Orban’s Dominance
» Italy: Il Sole 24 Ore Editor Placed on Unpaid Leave
» Italy: Row Continues Over Naples Salvini Rally Violence
» Le Pen Calls on Poland and Hungary to Help Dismantle the EU
» Malmö Gang Violence Could Spill Into Copenhagen
» MPs Reject Turkish Election Campaigns in Denmark
» Norway: Driverless Busses Coming to a Street Near You
» Norway Opens Doors to Dual Citizenship
» Politico: European Elites Fear That Steve Bannon Could Destroy the EU
» Scottish Independence: Nicola Sturgeon to Seek Second Referendum
» Spain: Thirteen Years After Deadly Madrid Train Bombings, Memorial in Disrepair
» Stockholm Double Murder Suspect Arrested in Denmark
» Sweden: Second Explosion in 24 Hours, Possible Bombing
» Sweden: Man Injured in Shooting Outside Malmö Restaurant
» Turkey-Netherlands Row: Dutch Warn Citizens After Erdogan Threat
» Turkey Calls EU, Council of Europe to Raise Voice on Netherlands’ Breach of Rights
» Turkey Has ‘No Business Here’ Campaigning in Germany: Minister
» Turkey Cancels Swiss Rally to Zurich’s ‘Great Relief’
» UK: Twitter Terror Trial: Mary Kaya Guilty of is Retweet
» UK: Theresa May Finally Wins the Power to Trigger Article 50
» Wales: ‘Crazed Cannibal’ Killer Met His Shopworker Victim, 22, Just After Being Released in Prison and the Pair Texted for Two Weeks Before He Brutally Murdered Her in His B&B
 
North Africa
» Egypt Extracts Torso of ‘Pharaoh Ramses II’ Statue From Mud
 
Middle East
» “Nazi Dogs”: Turkey Prepares Sanctions Against the Netherlands
» Chinese Officials Express Jitters Over Jihadi Threat
» Turkey Demands Apology From Dutch Prime Minister Amid Rotterdam Rally Row
» Turkey Imposes Sanctions on the Netherlands
» Turkey Lodges Formal Complaint as Tensions With Netherlands Rise
 
Russia
» Free Metro Rides for Kiev Poetry Buffs
 
South Asia
» Malaysia Arrests Immigration Officer and Six Others With ISIS Links
» Narendra Modi’s Golden Opportunity to Reform India
 
Far East
» China Makes it Illegal to Insult ‘Heroes and Martyrs’ Of Its Communist Party
» Exclusive: Japan Plans to Send Largest Warship to South China Sea, Sources Say
» North Korea’s Kim Jong un: From Punchline to World Menace
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia’s Second Gun Buyback Likely to Fail
 
Immigration
» Balkan Migration Route is ‘Not Closed’
» EU Home to More Than 5,000 Criminal Gangs Who Make Billions From Migrant Crisis
» Exit-Town U.S.A: The Quiet New York State Suburb Where Scores of Immigrants Are Creeping Into Canada in the Dead of Night
» Meet the Dutch Immigrants Backing Far-Right Election Candidate Geert Wilders
» Report: Merkel and Rutte Made Concrete Promises With Turkey Over Refugee Quota
» Report: Immigrants No Threat to Jobs in South Africa
» Something is Unspoken in the State of Denmark
» Spanish Police Find Migrants Squeezed Into Dashboard and Under Car Seat
» Steve King Defends Tweet on ‘Western Values’
» Sweden: Foreign Workers to Form Human Chain to Stop Deportations
» Tancredo — Illegal Aliens and Violent Crime: Some Amazing Facts
» Tennessee Sues Federal Government Over Refugees
» Toronto Needs More of Your Money to Look After “Refugees” That Shouldn’t be Here in the 1st Place Say Usual Suspects
» Turkish Minister Calls for Ankara to Reconsider EU Migrant Deal in Wake of Dutch Row
» UK: Syrian Refugees Move Into £500,000 Six-Bedroom Home
 
Culture Wars
» Hungarian Minister: Christianophobia is ‘Last Acceptable Form of Discrimination’
» Many Young Adults Are Turning to Witchcraft as a Way to Rebel Against Their Conservative Christian Upbringings
» Watch Students Support Religious Freedom for Muslims, Not Christians
 
General
» Human Organs-on-Chips May One Day Replace Animal Testing
» Italy: Buzzi Says Gave 21,800 Euros to Bettini
 

Confirmed: Treasury Says Obama Stole From Fannie, Freddie Investors to Fund ObamaCare

Docs reveal Obama defrauding mortgage investors

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A careful analysis of the Treasury Department’s “Agency Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2013” provides evidence the Obama administration stole from Fannie and Freddie investors to fund Obamacare.

Guided by a CPA, who worked for two years for a major U.S. accounting firm as an outside auditor for Freddie Mac, Infowars.com has documented in the Treasury Department’s 2013 financial reports how the Obama administration diverted into Obamacare billions of dollars that Treasury confiscated from Freddie and Fannie earnings.

On Aug. 17, 2012, the Obama administration finalized the amendment of the Treasury Department’s Senior Preferred Stock Agreements with Fannie and Freddie that deprived private and institutional investors of their legally due dividend payments.

This enabled the Obama Treasury Department to confiscate billions of dollars in Fannie and Freddie earnings, in what is known as the “Net Worth Sweep,” or NWS.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Italy GDP Steady at 1%, Lowest Among Big Members — OECD

Italy, France to lag Germany

(ANSA) — Rome, March 7 — Italian growth should stay steady at 1% in 2016, 2017 and 2018, the lowest for the current year among the bigger members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD said Tuesday. It said “growth should remain solid in Germany but it will continue at a slow pace in France and Italy”. Italian statistics agency ISTAT meanwhile saw “signs of a moderate economic improvement” in Italy, led by industry while services would lag and investments would improve.

The Italian government has lined up a string of growth-stoking measures.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Angry Students Protest Publisher of Mohammad Cartoons

The Danish journalist who ignited violent Muslim protest when he published cartoons of Islamic prophet Mohammad over a decade ago, still ignites a crowd when he speaks.

The College Fix reports that free speech advocate Flemming Rose was at Franklin & Marshall College this month to talk about his new book, “Tyranny of Silence: How One Cartoon Ignited a Global Debate on the Future of Free Speech” and had to face down some angry students.

Rose was demonized by Muslims in 2005 when, as the cultural editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, he published cartoon depictions of Mohammad. That decision resulted in global riots by Muslims who took their anger onto the streets over what they considered Rose’s blasphemy for reproducing their prophet’s image.

Several dozen protesters appeared on cue when Rose arrived at the Lancaster, Pennsylvania college on March 2 to talk to students not only didn’t want to hear the lecture, they didn’t think Rose should speak at all.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Clinton Fired 93 US Attorneys in One Day, Trump Only 46

NYT proves CNN whitewashing Clinton firings!

Former President Bill Clinton asked 93 politically-appointed U.S. attorneys to resign in 1993, which didn’t prompt as much media outrage as when President Trump did it.

“Attorney General Janet Reno today demanded the prompt resignation of all U.S. attorneys, leading the federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia to suggest that the order could be tied to his long-running investigation of Representative Dan Rostenkowski, a crucial ally of President Clinton,” reported the New York Times on March 24, 1993. “All 93 US attorneys knew they would be asked to step down, since all are Republican holdovers, and 16 have resigned so far.”

“But the process generally takes much longer and had usually been carried out without the involvement of the Attorney General.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democratic Socialists of America Triples Membership Since Trump

Membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has tripled since Donald Trump’s election in November to over 19,000 paying members, a report from the Los Angeles Times reveals.

The group, founded in 1982, is now the largest socialist organization in the United States and recently published a “Resistance Rising” strategy to combat the Trump administration.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Many Use Student Loans to Finance Spring Flings

When people hear the term “student loans,” they typically think of tuition bills, pricey textbooks and other campus-related expenses.

However, a new survey indicates that nearly a third of college students use some of their loan money to finance spring break trips.

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

ObamaCare Repeal Analysis: Millions Would Drop Coverage, Costs Would Fall Under Bill

Congressional budget scorekeepers released their highly anticipated analysis of Republicans’ ObamaCare repeal bill late Monday, estimating millions more people would be uninsured under the legislation — though the federal deficit and premiums also would shrink in the long-term.

The Congressional Budget Office predicted 14 million more people would be uninsured in 2018, with that number growing to 24 million by 2026. The estimate swiftly fueled opponents’ warnings that the measure would toss millions of voters off insurance plans.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

US Health Bill ‘To Leave 14M More Uninsured’

An estimated 14 million more people would lose insurance coverage in 2018 under the new Republican healthcare plan, according to a budget analysis.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a group of budget analysts and economists, released its assessment on the long-awaited Republican bill.

The group said the number of uninsured would jump to 24 million by 2026.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Afghan Father Who Called Son ‘Jihad’ Jailed for Threatening to Kill French Judges

A FRENCH court sentenced an Afghan national to 18 months in jail for threatening to kill magistrate judges, local prosecutors said.

Mohammad Khan Wazir, 30, a former radicalised Muslim whose name was only recently removed from the government’s terrorist watch list, uttered the threats last week and was tried and convicted less than 48 hours after his arrest, the French daily Nice-Matin reports.

Mr Khan Wazir, who lives in Fréjus, a town on the French Riviera, told the employees of a childcare centre he intended to “fatally shoot” local judges because he was tired of waiting for his son’s French passport, the local prosecutor, Fabienne Atzori, said.

He said: “I’m going to go to court and shoot them all dead with a Kalashnikov (assault rifle).”

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

Austria Stops Four Turkish Political Meetings as Row Spreads

VIENNA, March 10 (Reuters) — Four planned Turkish political meetings in Austria were cancelled on Friday in the latest signs of unease across Europe over a series of campaign events to rally support among expatriate Turks for President Tayyip Erdogan.

A spokesman for police in the city of Linz said the private owner of a venue there had cancelled an event featuring a party colleague of Erdogan.

The town of Hoerbranz near the German border cancelled a separate event with a former Turkish minister because the organisers falsely labelled it as a book presentation.

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

Brexit Bill: MPs Overwhelmingly Reject Lords Changes

MPs have overwhelmingly voted to overturn amendments to the Brexit bill made by peers and send the landmark legislation back to the House of Lords.

They rejected calls for the government to protect the status of EU nationals within three months of the start of Brexit talks by 335 votes to 287.

They then dismissed calls for Parliament to have a meaningful vote on any Brexit deal by 331 to 286 votes.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Catalan Ex-Leader Artur Mas Banned From Office Over Illegal Referendum

Former Catalan leader Artur Mas has been banned from holding office for two years after organising an illegal independence referendum in 2014.

The 61-year-old was convicted in Catalonia’s Superior Court of Justice of civil disobedience for organising the symbolic, non-binding poll.

Spain’s Constitutional Court had banned the vote at the time.

Catalonia, a region in the country’s north-east, has long campaigned for greater autonomy.

[Comment: Well, he might become the President of an independent Catalonia.]

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

Czech Minister Wants to Guarantee the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

A constitutional amendment would enable Czechs to acquire and possess a gun for security purposes. This is a partial response to the proposed EU Firearms Directive.

The right to be armed could be included in the Czech constitution. This controversial proposal was discussed by the Czech government this week, with the proposed EU Firearms Directive being mentioned frequently in the debate.

The government has not reached any conclusion on the matter. However, the author of the proposal — Interior Minister Milan Chovanec — perceives this as a positive sign.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Denmark’s Far Right Leader Pernille Vermund ‘Polling Well Ahead of the Election’

The 41-year-old leader of Nye Borgerlige or ‘The New Right’ party polled at 4.8 per cent in late February, an incredible feat as the party was only founded less than two years ago.

Her ideas are gaining so much popularity that it would be dangerous to ignore her, says Andreas Reventlow in an opinion piece for The EU Observer.

Mr Reventlow, a political commentator and an adviser at the Copenhagen based non-profit International Media Support, says the rise of the blonde politician comes amid the popularity of France’s Marine Le Pen and the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders.

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

Dutch Man Told to Remove 80 Goldfish From Canal

A man who released dozens of goldfish into a Dutch canal has been told he has to scoop them out again.

The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has given Hans van Manen one month to pluck the creatures from the waterway in the central town of Veenendaal, De Gelderlander news website reports. The fish have been swimming around in the canal since June, when Mr Van Manen decided to release them to create a local attraction with the support of nearby businesses.

In total, 280 fish were released — a mixture of goldfish and another similarly orange species, golden orfe.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Dutch Election: PM Warns Against Populism in TV Debate With Wilders

Dutch PM Mark Rutte has warned his country not to succumb to a “domino effect” of populism that he linked to Brexit and to Donald Trump’s election.

Mr Rutte was taking on his main rival, the controversial populist Geert Wilders, in a TV debate ahead of Wednesday’s election.

Mr Wilders has pledged to take the Netherlands out of the EU, close all mosques and ban the Koran.

Some opinion polls suggest his Freedom Party could win the most seats.

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EU and NATO Both Warn Scotland it Will Lose Membership

Unveiling her plans for a second referendum today, First Minster Nicola Sturgeon insisted she wanted to hold the poll in time for Scotland to ‘secure our relationship with Europe’.

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Fabergé as Danish as he Was Russian — as Was His Favourite Client

Given that Princess Dagmar owned 60 percent of them, is it far-fetched to speculate that some of the lost Imperial Easter Eggs might be in Denmark?

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Finnish President Meets With Swedish PM, Royals Amid Winter War Commemorations

President Sauli Niinistö is in Stockholm on Monday, meeting with Sweden’s top political leadership on the sidelines of events honouring Swedes who volunteered to help defend Finland during the WW2 era.

The three-and-a-half-month-long conflict ended on March 13, 1940, with a peace treaty between Finland and the USSR.

Some 8,000 Swedes volunteered to fight on the Finnish side in the Winter War, as well as about 1,700 during the Continuation War against the Soviet Union in 1941-44.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

France: Police to Travel for Free as Paris Region Boosts Security on Rer Trains

Paris region chiefs announce a series of measures aimed at boosting security on public transport around the French capital.

The new security plan was unveiled by Valérie Pécresse the president of the greater Paris region called Île-de-France.

Her aim is make those who live in the suburbs around the French capital feel safer, not least on the RER trains, where passengers have been the victim of some notorious and violent robberies in recent years.

Pecresse said those living in the suburbs outside Paris were the “forgotten ones” when it came to security and safety.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

France: Marine Le Pen Urges Cancellation of Turkish Campaign Rallies

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of the National Front on Monday urged to cancel Turkish political rallies, aimed at gathering support from Turkish expats for a constitutional change, in France.

On Sunday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was allowed to hold a campaign meeting with Turkish expats in France’s northeastern city of Metz.

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French Mayor Facing 1,800 Euro Fine for Speaking of ‘Problem’ Of Muslim Schoolchildren

A French mayor has appeared in court on charges of inciting racial hatred after saying there were too many Muslim schoolchildren in his city.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

French ‘De-Radicalisation’ Pioneer in Court Over Embezzlement Charges

Once considered one of France’s leading figures in the fight to “de-radicalise” prospective jihadists, Sonia Imloul on Monday went on trial over accusations she embezzled as much as €60,000 and failed to pay her employees.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Geert Wilders Clashes With Dutch PM Rutte in TV Debate

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte clashed with his main rival anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders on Monday, as they laid out starkly opposing visions of their country’s future in an election campaign now consumed by a diplomatic row with Turkey.

Two days before Wednesday’s crucial general election, The Netherlands is mired in a war of words with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which has provided fodder for Wilders and his uncompromising anti-immigration stance.

‘You are being taken hostage by Erdogan. Close the Dutch borders,’ Wilders told Rutte, as tempers flared in the 30-minute head-to-head televised debate.

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Germany: Trier to Decide on Accepting Marx Statue From China

China plans to donate a giant statue of Karl Marx to the city of Trier, where the German philosopher and economist was born in 1818. Not all citizens agree with the idea.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Hungary Re-Elects President Ader in Display of Orban’s Dominance

BUDAPEST — Hungarian lawmakers comfortably re-elected ruling Fidesz party veteran Janos Ader as President for another five years on Monday, a sign of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s firm grip on power just over a year before a parliamentary election.

The 57-year-old Ader, a lawyer and long-time member of Orban’s Fidesz party, has been a strong ally of Orban since being elected for the largely ceremonial role in 2012.

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

Italy: Il Sole 24 Ore Editor Placed on Unpaid Leave

Napoletano suspended amid misappropriation probe

(ANSA) — Rome, March 13 — The Il Sole 24 Ore board on Monday granted the request of the financial daily’s editor, Roberto Napoletano, to be placed on unpaid leave amid a three-million-euro misappropriation probe, to be replaced on an interim basis by Guido Gentili. The newspaper’s staff had said they would strike until Napoletano resigned. Tax police on Friday raided the Il Sole 24 Ore group offices in a probe where 10 people are under investigation for false reporting and misappropriation to the tune of 3 million euros. Among those probed for false reporting are the former chairman of the group, Benito Benedini, former CEO Donatella Treu and Napoletano.

The probe is focused on the suspected fictitious registration of tens of thousands of digital subscriptions, police said.

Il Sole said in a statement it had complete faith in the judiciary, which it was sure would get to the bottom of things, and was weighing actions to safeguard shareholders.

Napoletano voiced “full, total and absolute confidence in the investigating magistrature” and said “I am certain I will be able to demonstrate in all fora the full correctness of my conduct, which I have shown all my life”.

Il Sole 24 Ore is Italy’s leading financial daily. The group also controls a business radio station, Radio24.

Journalists at Il Sole said they would strike until Napoletano stepped down, and staff at Radio24 also announced a strike.

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Italy: Row Continues Over Naples Salvini Rally Violence

‘I am not on side of violence, ever,’ De Magistris says

(ANSA) — Naples, March 13 — Political tension remained high on Monday over violent street protests in Naples against a rally by the anti-immigrant and anti-euro Northern League leader Matteo Salvini on Saturday that resulted in three arrests and 34 injured including 28 police.

Naples Mayor Luigi de Magistris denied accusations that he had supported the perpetrators of the violence after apparently taking sides with demonstrators against the formerly secessionist leader, who has turned his party into a nationwide one but still regularly gets barracked in southern Italy.

“I am not on the side of people who are violent, ever,” De Magistris said after being accused by former premier Matteo Renzi of fueling tension ahead of the rally.

“These attacks are totally unjustified,” de Magistris said.

The charges came after de Magistris seemed to express support for an anti-racism network and radical and anticapitalist squats that had occupied the convention hall where Salvini was due to speak.

For his part, Salvini said he would return to Naples — where his rally eventually went ahead on Saturday — as well as holding rallies in other parts of the South. The Northern League had traditionally disparaged Italy’s poorer south, the Mezzogiorno, as draining money from the affluent north but, because of a recent switch from a regionalist to a nationalist populist stance, Salvini has been aiming to court voters across the Mezzogiorno too.

Salvini went on to describe the perpetrators of the violence as “a bunch of criminals “ and called on de Magistris to pay for the damage “that he sought”.

Two of the three people arrested during the protests are to be released from jail, a judge ruled Monday. The judge upheld a request from prosecutors that the pair, Luigi Tarantino and Carmine Esposito, be obliged to sign in at a police station three times a week.

Their trial is set to start on May 17.

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Le Pen Calls on Poland and Hungary to Help Dismantle the EU

MARINE Le Pen has called for Poland and Hungary to collaborate with her and bring down the European Union (EU), if she is elected France’s next president.

The Front National leader said she would hold talks with both Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Poland’s right wing Law and Justice party, if she won the race in May.

Speaking to Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolitej, Le Pen said the nations would “not agree on everything” but there were a number of key issues they could potentially find common ground on.

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Malmö Gang Violence Could Spill Into Copenhagen

The Danish police fear that the escalation in gang violence that has struck Malmö recently could spill across Øresund Bridge into Copenhagen. In the wake of five gang-related killings in 2017 already, the Danish police have turned a keen eye towards Sweden and are in close contact with the police across Øresund Strait.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

MPs Reject Turkish Election Campaigns in Denmark

MPs from two Danish parties have said that they oppose election campaigning in Denmark by the Turkish government.

Neither the Liberal (Venstre) party, the largest party in the country’s governing coalition, nor the nationalist Danish People’s Party (DF), which supports the government in parliament, wants Turkish prime minister Binali Yildirim to hold campaign meetings in the Scandinavian country.

Kenneth Kristensen Berth, EU spokesperson for DF, told newspaper Politiken that he was highly critical of Turkey’s policy of campaigning in other European countries.

“I think it is completely unacceptable that Turkey is transforming European countries into a battlefield for its internal election campaigns,” the minister said.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Norway: Driverless Busses Coming to a Street Near You

Tests are underway in Stavanger, but new laws have to be drafted and passed before self-driving busses can actually take to the streets. The Norwegian Government will probably give them the green light this year.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Norway Opens Doors to Dual Citizenship

Norway’s Høyre (Conservative) Party, the largest party in the governing coalition, voted at its annual conference in favour of a proposal to allow dual citizenship in the country.

Norway is currently the only Nordic country and one of only a small handful of European nations that does not allow dual citizenship.

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Politico: European Elites Fear That Steve Bannon Could Destroy the EU

Michael Crowley writes in Politico Magazine about the fear among Europe’s elites that President Trump and his chief strategist Steve Bannon pose an existential threat to the future of the European Union.

Trump and Bannon’s championing of Brexit and their distrust of globalist bureaucracies have raised alarm bells among the elites in Brussels. To Bannon, Crowley writes, “a strengthened EU is nothing less than a risk to civilization: a body that dilutes national identity and whose border policies allow Islam to invade the West, one refugee at a time.”

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Scottish Independence: Nicola Sturgeon to Seek Second Referendum

Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed she will ask for permission to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence.

Ms Sturgeon said she wanted a vote to be held between the autumn of 2018 and the spring of the following year.

That would coincide with the expected conclusion of the UK’s Brexit negotiations.

The Scottish first minister said the move was needed to protect Scottish interests in the wake of the UK voting to leave the EU.

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Spain: Thirteen Years After Deadly Madrid Train Bombings, Memorial in Disrepair

Thirteen years after the Madrid train bombings that killed 193 people and left around 1,700 injured, the monument to their memory at Atocha station remains in a state of disrepair nearly a year and a half after it started falling apart.

Following the Islamist attack of March 11, 2004 against commuter trains in the central station of Atocha, the city of Madrid and Renfe, the railway operator, organized a competition to create a memorial to the victims of Spain’s worst terrorist attack.

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Stockholm Double Murder Suspect Arrested in Denmark

Danish police have arrested a man in his thirties on suspicion of carrying out a shooting in which two men were killed in the Stockholm suburb of Kista. The man, held on suspicion in absentia by Swedish police on Saturday, was arrested in Denmark in the early hours of Monday and will be brought to Stockholm for questioning, reports Swedish news agency TT.

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Sweden: Second Explosion in 24 Hours, Possible Bombing

A specialist bomb squad has been scrambled to the Swedish city of Gothenburg after an explosion, just 24 hours after a suspected car bomb rocked Stockholm.

The incident occurred in the stairwell of an apartment block just after 10 pm on Friday evening, Göteborgs-Posten reports.

“I thought it was another country that has come to attack. I thought it was a war…” said one witness.

Authorities suspect the blast was caused by an “attack” involving some form of homemade device, and the National Guard and a police bomb squad were called to the scene.

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Sweden: Man Injured in Shooting Outside Malmö Restaurant

A man has been injured in a shooting outside a restaurant in the Heleneholm area of Malmö.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Turkey-Netherlands Row: Dutch Warn Citizens After Erdogan Threat

The Netherlands has warned its citizens over travel to Turkey as a row between the countries shows no sign of abating.

Turkish attempts to hold rallies in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands have been blocked.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed retaliation, saying: “Nazism is still widespread in the West”.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the comments as unacceptable and offered the Netherlands her “full support and solidarity”.

On Monday, the Dutch foreign ministry issued a new travel warning, urging its citizens in Turkey to take care and noting the new “diplomatic tensions”.

The warning to “avoid gatherings and crowded places” came as Turkey’s foreign ministry lodged a formal protest with the Dutch envoy.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Turkey Calls EU, Council of Europe to Raise Voice on Netherlands’ Breach of Rights

Turkey has called on the European Union and the Council of Europe to raise their voices on the Netherlands’ alleged breach of fundamental freedoms and European human rights convention, accusing the Dutch government of causing a crisis in international law with its violence against Turkish demonstrators and a member of the Turkish government, according to EU Minister Ömer Çelik.

“There is a need to altogether stand against these kinds of actions. Turkey will do whatever is necessary, but the European Union and the Council of Europe should condemn these incidents and adopt exclusionary actions,” Çelik told the Ankara bureau chiefs of media outlets on March 13.

Turkey calls EU, Council of Europe to raise voice on Netherlands’ breach of rights

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Turkey Has ‘No Business Here’ Campaigning in Germany: Minister

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Sunday he was against Turkish ministers holding political rallies in Germany, and signalled that there are legal ways to stop such campaigns.

“A Turkish campaign has no business being here in Germany,” he told public broadcaster ARD, saying he is “strongly opposed politically” to such events.

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Turkey Cancels Swiss Rally to Zurich’s ‘Great Relief’

Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu cancelled his planned visit to Switzerland on Sunday, despite his Swiss counterpart backing his right to come.

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UK: Twitter Terror Trial: Mary Kaya Guilty of is Retweet

A woman has been found guilty of encouraging terrorism after she retweeted a speech by the so-called Islamic State (IS) leader.

Mary Kaya, 57, from Batley, West Yorkshire, had denied posting a link to an audio clip by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

She was found guilty after a week-long trial at Leeds Crown Court of dissemination of a terrorist publication likely to encourage people to participate in terrorism.

Kaya will be sentenced on 27 March.

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UK: Theresa May Finally Wins the Power to Trigger Article 50

Theresa May has finally won the power to trigger Article 50 after peers backed down and passed the Brexit Bill after two crucial votes in the Commons earlier.

MPs followed orders to delete an amendment on guaranteeing the rights of EU nationals, backing the Government 335 to 287, majority 48.

The Commons also defeated the second amendment on the timetabling of votes at the end of the negotiation by a majority of 45.

Peers then debated the deletions but did not offer any further resistance. It means the historic legislation will be law by tomorrow.

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Wales: ‘Crazed Cannibal’ Killer Met His Shopworker Victim, 22, Just After Being Released in Prison and the Pair Texted for Two Weeks Before He Brutally Murdered Her in His B&B

A ‘cannibal’ killer murdered a young woman just two weeks after he was released from prison and began texting her following a night out, an inquest heard.

Cerys Yemm, 22, died from her injuries at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel in Argoed, Blackwood, South Wales, in the early hours of November 6, 2014…

Mr Bowen said: ‘The proprietor Mandy Miles got a key code for the room, and she will describe to you what she saw.

‘She will say she saw a girl on her back on the floor with Williams lying on top of her and that it was horrific. There was blood everywhere. There were no signs of life from the girl.’

‘Mrs Miles spoke to Matthew Williams who responded aggressively and carried on attacking her.

‘Mrs Miles closed the door and went immediately to phone the police.’

The court heard Williams answered ‘aggressively’ and carried on attacking Miss Yemm’s body as she lay in the room.

Cerys was found in his room covered in blood after a sickening attack by Williams.

Williams then collapsed when he was tasered by a lone woman police officer who attended the horrific scene.

The jury was not told details of how he had allegedly committed an act of cannibalism on her body. Police had refused to comment on the specifics of the incident at the time, but sources did confirm Miss Yemm received substantial facial injuries…

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Egypt Extracts Torso of ‘Pharaoh Ramses II’ Statue From Mud

The torso of a huge statue, possibly 3,000 years old, has been lifted from the ground in Egypt. It could depict a famous pharaoh.

The statue’s giant head and other fragments were extracted from the same site last week.

The relics were found in the north-east of Cairo, close to the temple of Ramses II, also known as Ramses the Great, and experts believe it may represent him.

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“Nazi Dogs”: Turkey Prepares Sanctions Against the Netherlands

The bizarre diplomatic scandal that erupted over the weekend, after the Netherlands banned several prominent Turkish politicians from organizing and participating in pro-Erdogan rallies just days ahead of the Dutch general election where immigration will be perhaps the most important topic, and which prompted numerous accusations of “nazism” and “fascism” by Turkey’s president Erdogan, appeared set to escalate further on Monday when the Turkish cabinet is expected to consider imposing sanctions on the Netherlands in a deepening row with the country’s NATO ally. Cited by Reuters, one minister said punitive measures were likely.

A government source told Reuters that sanctions were expected to be discussed when the cabinet of ministers meets at 7 pm (1600 GMT). Ankara’s minister for EU Affairs, Omer Celik, said sanctions were likely. “We will surely have sanctions against the latest actions by the Netherlands. We will answer them with these,” Celik said.

In addition to economic measures, sanctions could affect cultural activities, and military and technological cooperation. “When the sanctions are imposed, what we need to be careful about is being realistic. We are not completely closing the windows,” the source said. “However, we want to show that what has been done to Turkey will have a response.” He said certain cultural activities may be cancelled and the re-evaluation of military and technological cooperation was also on the table.

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Chinese Officials Express Jitters Over Jihadi Threat

Chinese officials are issuing new warnings about the specter of global religious extremism seeping into the country, following reports of fighters from China’s Muslim minority fighting alongside militants in Syria and Iraq.

Sharhat Ahan, a top political and legal affairs party official in Xinjiang, on Sunday became the latest official from a predominantly Muslim region to warn about China becoming destabilized by the “international anti-terror situation” and calling for a “people’s war.”

Over the past year, regional leaders in Xinjiang, home to the Uighur ethnic minority, have ramped up surveillance measures and police patrols and staged massive rallies intended to showcase the power of the security forces.

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Turkey Demands Apology From Dutch Prime Minister Amid Rotterdam Rally Row

President Tayyip Erdogan has warned it would retaliate in the “harshest ways” following the decision and said there had been a breach of the Vienna Convention in diplomatic notes over the treatment of Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

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Turkey Imposes Sanctions on the Netherlands

Turkey says it is halting all high-level political discussions with the Netherlands in the wake of the Dutch government’s decision to bar two cabinet ministers from campaigning in the country.

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said during a news conference following a weekly cabinet meeting that Ankara also is closing its air space to Dutch diplomats until the Netherlands meets Turkish requests.

Kurtulmus also says the Dutch ambassador to Turkey, who was traveling when the diplomatic row started, won’t be allowed to return.

He says Turkey’s government plans to advise parliament to withdraw from a Dutch-Turkish friendship group.

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Turkey Lodges Formal Complaint as Tensions With Netherlands Rise

Turkey has summoned the Dutch envoy to protest a “disproportionate” use of force against demonstrators in Rotterdam. The Netherlands has also warned its citizens in Turkey to “stay alert” in light of the rising tensions.

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Free Metro Rides for Kiev Poetry Buffs

Metro users in Ukraine’s capital city are being allowed to ride free of charge at some stations if they can recite a poem by Taras Shevchenko, the country’s national poet.

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Malaysia Arrests Immigration Officer and Six Others With ISIS Links

An immigration officer was among seven Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suspects who were arrested in Sabah and at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) from last Wednesday to Sunday (March 8-12).

The woman officer is alleged to have arranged for militants to travel without valid documents to Sabah before heading to southern Philippines. The other suspects include three Filipinos with permanent resident (PR) status.

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Narendra Modi’s Golden Opportunity to Reform India

After BJP’s landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh, PM Modi’s political clout has been reinforced and the ruling party is in a strong position to reshape India’s economy and politics.

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China Makes it Illegal to Insult ‘Heroes and Martyrs’ Of Its Communist Party

POLITICIANS introduced amendments to China’s nascent civil code to make defaming “heroes and martyrs” of the ruling Communist Party a civil offence, as the leadership moves to strengthen its grasp on the history of the People’s Republic.

China’s ongoing National People’s Congress (NPC), an annual meeting of some 3,000 delegates, is currently debating general rules for a civil code. The rules are expected to be passed by the event’s close this Wednesday.

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Exclusive: Japan Plans to Send Largest Warship to South China Sea, Sources Say

Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War Two.

China claims almost all the disputed waters and its growing military presence has fueled concern in Japan and the West, with the United States holding regular air and naval patrols to ensure freedom of navigation.

The Izumo helicopter carrier, commissioned only two years ago, will make stops in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka before joining the Malabar joint naval exercise with Indian and U.S. naval vessels in the Indian Ocean in July.

Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Brunei also claim parts of the sea which has rich fishing grounds, oil and gas deposits and through which around $5 trillion of global sea-borne trade passes each year.

Japan does not have any claim to the waters, but has a separate maritime dispute with China in the East China Sea.

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North Korea’s Kim Jong un: From Punchline to World Menace

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, once a source of global ridicule, is no longer being treated as a joke now that the Hermit Kingdom’s destructive power can match his increasing belligerance.

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Australia’s Second Gun Buyback Likely to Fail

There were an estimated 3.2 million firearms possessed by law-abiding Aussies before the NFA was enacted. After the buyback program ended in 1997, there remained an estimated 2.4 million firearms still in private hands. The report analyzed the available data to see if there was any measurable decline in violent crime in the years following the buyback, and pointed out the futility of the effort: “The buyback alone was an implausible candidate for reducing crime rates because the targeted gun type was one not much used in homicides or, presumably, other kinds of violent crime.” The report concluded: “The results provide little insight.”

In other words, millions were spent in abrogating the natural rights of Australian citizens, going after weapons that weren’t even being used in violent crime.

The new program is a tacit admission that the first effort failed, leaving the vast majority of now-illegal firearms in the hands of the country’s citizens who largely ignored the mandate, and so a second one is being ramped up in an attempt to complete the process. And it will likely fail as well.

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Balkan Migration Route is ‘Not Closed’

Despite the Balkan migration route having been officially closed for 12 months, Austrian Interior Minister Hans-Peter Doskozil and his Slovenian counterpart, Bostjan Sefic, have complained that it is still being used as a gateway into the European Union.

As weather conditions improve, refugees stuck in Greece are expected to make their way north. Doskozil also said people would continue to arrive from Turkey “unhindered”, despite the EU’s agreement with Ankara.

The Austrian minister said his country would continue to increase border protection in cooperation with the Balkan states, as well as Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, because the Balkan route is “not closed”.

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EU Home to More Than 5,000 Criminal Gangs Who Make Billions From Migrant Crisis

MORE than 5,000 organised crime gangs are under investigation in the European Union, as police chiefs warn crime bosses made billions from the migrant crisis.

Many of the gangs are involved in drugs, people trafficking and migrant smuggling.

According to the report, migrant smuggling in 2015 earned crime bosses up to £4.9billion (€5.7billion), with profits dropping to around £1.7billion (€2billion) last year as the number of people entering the EU illegally fell to around 510,000.

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Exit-Town U.S.A: The Quiet New York State Suburb Where Scores of Immigrants Are Creeping Into Canada in the Dead of Night

In this photo the RCMP escorts a clan of illegal alien invader benefit shoppers to the local welfare office where your tax dollars will be put to work providing a comfortable lifestyle much as is done for the “employees” of the CBC who gleefully record the event for the daily scheduled national “2 minute Trump Hate”. It’s important to note the criminal illegals faced no danger in the USA.

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Meet the Dutch Immigrants Backing Far-Right Election Candidate Geert Wilders

“I was at a birthday party last week,” says Sharda Ramdihal, who moved to the Netherlands from Suriname almost 40 years ago. “Of the 50 people there, every single one of them said they are voting for Geert Wilders.”

Ramdihal works behind the bar in the Transvaal neighbourhood of the Hague, the Dutch political capital. It’s a mixed neighbourhood filled with Surinamese restaurants, Turkish barbers and Moroccan coffeehouses. Almost 90 per cent of the inhabitants have an immigrant background.

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Report: Merkel and Rutte Made Concrete Promises With Turkey Over Refugee Quota

A report has found that German Chancellor Merkel and Dutch PM Rutte agreed a refugee quota with Turkey in 2016 without informing other EU leaders. They reportedly pledged to accept up to 250,000 Syrian refugees per year.

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Report: Immigrants No Threat to Jobs in South Africa

Just weeks after a fresh wave of anti-immigrant protests, South Africa’s Institute for Race Relations has released a report highlighting immigrants’ entrepreneurial skills and their sizable contribution to the economy.

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Something is Unspoken in the State of Denmark

By Rasmus Brygger

Anti-Muslim nationalism is blazing in Denmark. Parliament has discussed banning prayer rooms in schools and universities. The right-wing and nationalist Danish People’s Party, now the second-largest party in Parliament, is calling for immigrants to celebrate Christmas to prove their Danishness. To reinforce Danish culture and custom, the town of Randers has asked cafeterias in public schools to serve pork.

Most recently, a man was charged last month with blasphemy for posting a video of a burning Quran on Facebook back in 2015 — a charge that hadn’t been prosecuted since 1971.

Denmark is not alone in experiencing a rise in nativism; the current runs throughout Europe and America. Denmark has suffered comparatively little from Islamist terrorism, and a vast majority of Danes report feeling safe. But discomfort with Islam has run deep for over a decade, especially after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005, triggering a violent backlash in several countries.

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Spanish Police Find Migrants Squeezed Into Dashboard and Under Car Seat

Spain’s National Police discovered two migrants close to suffocation after hiding in tiny spaces within a car in an attempt to cross into Spain from Morocco

Two young Guineans, concealed within a car, attempted to cross the border into the Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta on Friday night when they were discovered by officers from the National Police.

Both migrants showed symptoms of asphyxiation, one was travelling underneath the car’s seat and the other was squeezed into a secret compartment behind the dashboard.

The driver of the car, a 36-year-old man from Ceuta, has been arrested and faces charges of human trafficking.

This sort of people discovery has become more and more common at Spain’s north African borders, with people having been found hidden inside secret compartments within cars as well as cramped up within suitcases.

Scenes of desperate migrants scaling the border fences that separate Morocco from the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla have become all too common in recent months.

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Steve King Defends Tweet on ‘Western Values’

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) Iowa Rep. Steve King on Monday defended his controversial tweet that said Western civilization won’t be rebuilt with “ someone else’s babies,” and called for an increase in the U.S. birth rate that would strengthen western values.

King said on CNN that he wasn’t calling for more white people in the United States or criticizing diversity, but instead was trying to make a point about differences in culture and how immigrants from other cultures contribute to society. His point related more to what’s happening in western Europe than the United States, but the lesson is the same.

“You cannot rebuild your civilization with somebody else’s babies, you’ve got to keep your birth rate up, and that you need to teach your children your values and in doing so you can grow your population you can grow your culture and you can grow your way of life,” King said.

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Sweden: Foreign Workers to Form Human Chain to Stop Deportations

An organization campaigning for the rights of work permit holders in Sweden is to form a human chain this weekend to protest against bureaucratic rules for foreign workers.

The Work Permit Holders’ Association (WPHA) calls on people to join a protest to “draw the attention of the politicians, Migration Agency, policy makers and common people about this issue”, a spokesperson told The Local in an e-mail.

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Tancredo — Illegal Aliens and Violent Crime: Some Amazing Facts

Take a look at the crime statistics for just one state, Texas. A 2017 report by the Texas Department of Public Safety reveals that over the period from June 1, 2011 to February 28, 2017, the 215,000 criminal aliens who were booked into Texas jails were collectively charged with 566,000 offenses, including 1,167 homicides and 6,098 sexual assaults, with a total of 257,000 convictions.

By the way, Texas has less than half the criminal alien jail and prison population of California, which has over 100,000 criminal aliens occupying facilities supported by California taxpayers. (For 2009 incarceration numbers for each state, see Appendix III of the 2011 GAO report, here.)

It’s no secret that progressive politicians in hundreds of cities and counties are opposing the Trump administration initiatives to end so-called “sanctuary” policies. What those politicians never talk about is the fact that those policies continue to allow tens of thousands of criminal aliens to go free instead of facing deportation proceedings as prescribed by federal law.

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Tennessee Sues Federal Government Over Refugees

Tennessee became the first state in the nation on Monday to sue the federal government over refugee resettlement on the grounds of the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of several state lawmakers Monday morning in the western district of Tennessee, contends that the federal government has violated the Tenth Amendment, which says the federal government possesses only the powers delegated to it by the U.S. Constitution and that all other powers are reserved for the states.

The charge that the federal government is not complying with the Refugee Act of 1980, based on the Tenth Amendment, makes Tennessee’s lawsuit the first of its kind. Other states have sued the federal government over refugee resettlement but on different legal grounds.

The nation continues to debate refugee resettlement and immigrant rights as it awaits President Donald Trump’s new travel ban. The ban, set to take affect Thursday, bars travel for many people from six Muslim-majority counties and is considered by Trump’s opponents to function essentially as a Muslim ban, although the administration denies this charge.

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The lawsuit asks the court to force the federal government to stop resettling refugees in Tennessee until all costs associated with the settlement are incurred by the federal government.

“Plaintiffs will suffer significant and irreparable harm unless this Court intervenes,” the 15-page lawsuit states.

The defendants named in the lawsuit include the U.S. Department of State, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Refugee Resettlement…

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Toronto Needs More of Your Money to Look After “Refugees” That Shouldn’t be Here in the 1st Place Say Usual Suspects

Toronto is woefully unprepared for a potential influx of migrants, critics say.

The number of asylum seekers entering north into Canada this so far year — since President Donald Trump took power and put strict regulations on entering the U.S. — has doubled over the same time period in 2016 to about 1,700.

In Jan., 2016, the number of refugees in Toronto shelters was 11%, but in Jan., 2017 that number had risen to 19%.

That means there are now 810 refugees relying on the city’s shelter system, and the fear is the numbers will grow greatly.

Mayor John Tory is looking for federal help before the problem is potentially unmanageable.

Good old Tory, always happy to spend your money in the name of diversity.

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Turkish Minister Calls for Ankara to Reconsider EU Migrant Deal in Wake of Dutch Row

A SENIOR Turkish minister has called for his country to “reconsider” its deal preventing migrants entering the European Union (EU), as the row between Istanbul and the Netherlands deepened.

Mr Cavusoglu was prevented from landing in the Netherlands and Dutch authorities went on to expel Turkish family minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya.

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UK: Syrian Refugees Move Into £500,000 Six-Bedroom Home

A Syrian family will be housed in a six-bedroom property in Sevenoaks, Kent, worth at least £500,000 after the district council was unable to find a permanent local family to give it to.

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Hungarian Minister: Christianophobia is ‘Last Acceptable Form of Discrimination’

The Hungarian Foreign Minister said that Europe ignores its Christian roots to its own peril, and its lack of identity makes it difficult to understand or respect other traditions.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Péter Szijjárto, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, pulled no punches in describing Europe’s dearth of values because of its refusal to embrace its own history.

“While everyone speaks very hypocritically about tolerance and accepting others,” Szijjárto said, “we must ask how it is possible to respect others with their religions, traditions, and history if we don’t respect our own.”

“So if you don’t respect your own culture, heritage and religion, you will not be able to respect those of others. That’s our understanding at least,” he said.

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Many Young Adults Are Turning to Witchcraft as a Way to Rebel Against Their Conservative Christian Upbringings

Young adults in America are far less likely to identify themselves as “Christians” than previous generations of Americans, but that does not mean that they have given up on searching for spiritual meaning in their lives.

According to Wikipedia, one very popular form of witchcraft known as Wicca has been growing at a rate of more than 100 percent annually in recent years, and this has been happening at a time when Christianity has been in decline in the United States. Of course other pagan and occult groups have been exploding in popularity as well, and as you will see below, one of the primary reasons for this is because many young adults are seeking ways to rebel against their conservative Christian upbringings.

I have written much about how young adults in this country are far more politically liberal than their parents and grandparents, and this enormous cultural shift in values has a spiritual dimension to it as well.

A recent Barna Group study found that only 4 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 have a Biblical worldview.

Only 4 percent.

The shocking truth is that the values of most Millennials much more easily fit into pagan spirituality than they do into most evangelical Christian churches.

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Watch Students Support Religious Freedom for Muslims, Not Christians

‘The freedom to live and work according to your beliefs really depends on what you believe’

Several students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison admit that Muslims should not be forced by law to do business with Christians. Those same students, however, had a hard time agreeing that Christians or conservative Americans have the right to decline work that conflicts with their conscience or religion.

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Human Organs-on-Chips May One Day Replace Animal Testing

Scientists have developed more than ten different human organ chips, including devices to mimic critical functions of the lungs, kidneys, intestines, liver, and bone marrow. Eventually this technology could render animal testing obsolete.

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Italy: Buzzi Says Gave 21,800 Euros to Bettini

‘For meeting with Letta’

(Corrects ‘Gianni’ to Enrico’, lead).

(ANSA) — Rome, March 13 — Alleged Capital Mafia ringleader Salvatore Buzzi on Monday testified that he had given 21,800 euros to centre-left Democratic Party (PD) MEP and heavyweight Goffredo Bettini for setting up a meeting with then former PD premier Enrico (RPT: Enrico) Letta.

Buzzi told the court that the money was given to Bettini “also via bank transfers to cover his electoral expenses”.

Buzzi, former honcho of leftwing cooperatives, is one of two alleged Capital Mafia ringleaders along with former rightist militant and gangster Massimo Carminati.

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14 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/13/2017

  1. The western world, and all intelligent people, need to get together and understand that Muhammadans (aka islamists/muslims) want to die for their god, and the rest of the population of the Earth, whatever their faith, or lack thereof, should help them to achieve their paradise, because if the rest of the world doesn’t accommodate them in their journey, they will kill all of us, one at a time, and that will upset their god that they didn’t die killing us, so they will not get to their paradise. I think we should be more appreciative of their ambitions, and help them find their paradise.

    • It’s an absolute no brainer. “Muslim” or “Islam” or “Koran” as these creatures are are best known need to be turned permanently ‘off’. Anyone or thing associated with this lot is a very serious dangerous killer mental illness needs to be checked. Clearly the Muslim creature’s death wish not only for its own ilk but also for the rest of humanity is surely by now deserving of the attention of humanity? The same way as any nation would or group threatened by bloody violent invasion. The depth of darkness clearly represented by these opportunistic and degraded seventh century leftovers is in need of our full attention.

      • ….sigh.. why can’t moslems just go out into some paddock and top themselves and leave the rest of us to get on with our lives.

        “Clearly the moslem creature’s death wish not only for it’s own ilk but also for the rest of humanity is surely by now deserving of the attention of humanity?” Nope. You must have noticed while munching those fish and chips, that the rest of the (western) world is composed of VERY slow learners!

        E.g. just look at the Netherlands, a tiny, grossly over-populated country which has stupidly taken in tens of thousands of the MENA trash, and yet Geert Wilders is still only ‘neck and neck’ with Rutte!

  2. – ” Turkey has also taken its complaint about the breach of its rights to the European Union and the Council of Europe. ”

    By allahu akbar EU will twist every law to help Turkey win and disgrace their own .

    – ” In other news, the state of Tennessee has filed a lawsuit against the federal . . .” This sounds to me the infidels are confused cowards and always say and do things that are futile but give a gloss of high empty pompous respect of the law. The real respect is for shariah.

  3. Young Americans turning to pagan beliefs and Wicca and so on… I consider that to be the greatest problem, caused mainly by total ignorance about what the Bible really says. It’s the inheritance of the Churches going “wordly” – singing nice songs, dancing nice dances, eating nice meals, promoting “art and culture”…

    In such an environment, who would have thought that real Christianity is about hard-core life and death arguments, praying and fasting, feeding the hungry, clothing the poor – forgiving but also striking the wicked and unrepentant?

    The young think Christianity is some kind of cult which should not offend anyone. Nothing could be further from the truth, since real Christianity offends the wicked beyond belief! Just look what it took for the martyrs to be martyred. Not much…

    I bet Hollywood blockbusters like the latest “Resident Evil” don’t help much neither. Watch that movie carefully: All men are evil in that movie, the only capable and moral are the women. The most evil corporation has a Red Cross in its logo, and the most wicked leader of that corporation quotes the Bible.

    How can our young stand such propaganda?

    Truth is the only way out.

  4. President Yap Yap Erdogan is really pushing the boundary of international diplomacy.

    I’m waiting for what should be a natural aggressive reaction from those countries that Erdogan has in his sights – but will we get to see one?

    On the second Australian gun buy back which is of course doomed to fail because most Aussies know when their government has overstepped its authority. Pity we don’t have a second amendment in our constitution – yet.

    • Erdogan is like the US democratic politicians: they have not yet adapted to Trump’s winning the Presidency, and are still acting like the globalists hold the power of government.

      Erdogan’s actions would have been perfectly logical under an Obama or Hillary administration. Recall that Obama threatened US sanctions against Britain if Britain pulled out of the EU. Under Hillary, the EU would have been happy to issue sanctions and even criminal warrants against Europeans opposing Turkey’s wishes.

      I wish you and Australia every success in keeping your arms. Without them, you will be completely vulnerable to the immigrant and aborigine street gangs encouraged by the government to break up enclaves of European identity.

    • Nevertheless, I’m glad to see that like Canada and NZ, most Aussies have kept their guns–never implicitly trust your (any) government!

    • Hello Ronald and Peter. Not well known by the wider public is that the feds had no control over states rights when it came to ‘confiscating’ firearms, so after some heavy media propaganda for ‘gun control’ the gun buyback scheme was thought to the be most effective way of eliminating those pesky firearms.

      As that article points out, it was a failure. So what have the feds now done to counter such a failure?

      Soon after that buyback scheme’s obvious failure they organized a national council to oversee state parliaments into including ‘acts of violence or intoxicated driving’ in all states criminal codes as a measure to remove firearms from lawful owners. All firearms are now ‘confiscated’ upon a guilty verdict arising from those incidents, or in domestic incidents, upon suspicion of violence, and without redress or reimbursement for loss of private property. All in the name of gun control of course.

      All state’s police forces have in place a Special Operations Group (SOG) who are used for non-publicized activities (generally speaking) throughout the various states. The SOG have been known to work closely with ‘intelligence’ services to affect various ‘anti-terrorist’ outcomes and are not limited to training and public relations exercises.

      There is much evidence that the Port Arthur Massacre of 1996 was a false flag involving the SOG, Australian Intelligence and CIA operatives. I have investigated all the available evidence on that massacre and have formed the opinion that there was more to that massacre than a ‘lone nut gunman’ and that there are still many questions that have yet to be answered.

      The Port Arthur Massacre occurred prior to the massive ‘gun control’ program being implemented by the government and media. Does that ring any alarm bells?

      When it comes to the gun grabbers, there will always be a will and a way, no matter how unconstitutional, criminal or underhanded it may have to be!

      • Hi Nemesis, thanks for that info. However bad the Aussie cops and Govt. are, they’re certainly no worse than our govts (prov. and fed.) and our once glorious now infamous RCMP, our national police, FGS, who betrayed the Canadian people when the town of High River was partly flooded a few years ago, and those ‘legal crooks’ went around in boats and broke into scores of houses which had been evacuated and seized any and all firearms. Nor were they at all circumspect–just kicked and smashed in expensive doors, walked over expensive carpets with their filthy muddy boots, you get the picture.

        And when all the shouting subsided? The head cop was promoted, and to this day no heads have rolled.

  5. Ok, I confess-it’s EU and USA’s fault that Turkey has gone islamist.
    AtaTurk forbad religious acts in public; he ruled that prostitutes should cover their heads as for identification. So everyone prayed at home or in temples; religious costumes forbidden outside temples; honest ladies took off they veils; sermons in mosques were watch over. And the Armed Forces were the guardians of a secular state.

    Then Turkey tried to join the UE. Cyprus was a problem and the lack of free elections. At the same time Salafist imams paid by Saudi Arabia, started to subvert the expat Turks, to make them true muslims, Saudi style.
    So sermons preached in Germany started to been smuggled in Turkey. Persecuted, USA and EU ‘democrats’ ask for their rights and Saudi money was dumped in madrassa schools –first in Pakistan to Germany; then directly in Turkey. Democracy was like rain in the desert –stupid ideas flooded and –islamic behaviour showed up in Turkey and abroad.
    Now we can’ t blame others

  6. Aren’t there any Dutch sanctuary canals where east Asian goldfish can escape the rampant piscophobia of the Dutch authorities? I was severely triggered when I read the hateful, bigoted, Nazi, speciesist ruling by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency demanding removal of these poor creatures from the canal. These scaled freedom fighters just want to do the jobs the native species of fish won’t do.

  7. Iowa Congressman Steve King’s district includes areas where settlers from the Netherlands established their own versions of European civilization. Many of those northwestern Iowans cherish their Dutch heritage.

  8. Re: ‘Exit Town USA’
    What’s not to like here?
    They get to leave, and they’re happy.
    We get to have them leave, and we’re happy.
    It’s a win-win. (Except for the Canadians, but you know what Napoleon said about omelets and eggs…
    (Irony, by the way)

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