Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/8/2017

The shock news of the day is that Theresa May’s Conservatives appear to have failed to get a clear majority in today’s snap general election in the UK, according to exit polls. Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party, demanded that Mrs. May resign as prime minister. The Tories will reportedly be the largest party in Parliament, but no longer in the majority.

In other news, the Dutch government decided to refuse the Austrian government’s request that it prosecute Geert Wilders for incitement because of a speech he made in Vienna, saying that Mr. Wilders’ words did not violate the law in the Netherlands.

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Financial Crisis
» Central Banks Now Own Stocks and Bonds Worth Trillions — and They Could Crash the Markets by Selling Them
» Europe — Italy Remains Big Concern Says Investment Strategist
 
USA
» Comey Hearing: Americans Divided Over Testimony
» DICED is UN’s Environmental Constitution for the World and Our Own Constitution Will be Diced
» Officials: Md. Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison After Having Sex With 13-Year-Old Girl
» Play in New York Features Donald Trump Being Stabbed to Death
 
Europe and the EU
» British Intelligence Allowed Terrorists to Freely Plot Attack
» Cheshire Police Remind Social Media Users to Watch Their Mouths in Wake of Terror Attack
» Child Migrants Risk Lives to Reach Europe From… Spain
» Cyprus President: US Vice President Offers Peace Talks Help
» Dutch Won’t Prosecute Geert Wilders Over Anti-Islam Speech in Austria
» Election Results 2017 News — UK Decides on May v Corbyn as Labour and Tories Bid for No10
» Emmanuel Macron’s Dream of a ‘Federal Europe’ Will Cause Chaos, Danish MEP Rages
» Exposed: The Nazi Roots of the European Union
» France: ‘He is Not an Extremist’ Family of Notre Dame Hammer Attack Suspect Left Shocked
» Germany: Brother of Teen Who Stabbed Cop for ISIS Found Guilty of Arson
» Globalists to Push EU Flags, EU Teams at 2024 Olympics
» Iceland: Muslim Leader Claims London Jihad Attacks Were Staged by Police
» Italian Muslims Fear Backlash After London Attacker Identified as Half-Italian
» Italy Rebuked for Failure to Prevent Olive-Tree Tragedy
» Mysterious Fire Monument in England Predates Stonehenge by 800 Years
» Pressure Builds for Early Italy Vote After Electoral Reform Deal Unravels
» Qatari Investments in Swiss Firms Start to Look Awkward
» Ramadan Londonistan: Nursery Worker Stabbed in Broad Daylight by Female Trio Yelling “Allah”
» Rebuffed in Norway, Breivik Takes Case to European Rights Court
» Sadiq Khan is a Complete Idiot
» Sweden: Stockholm Terror Investigation Extended
» Swiss Jihadi Recruits Sought ‘Fresh Start’
» The Dark Origins of Communism: Part 3 of 3
» The London Bridge Killings
» Too Hot to Handle? WWII “Might Have Ended Six Months Earlier”
» UK Election: Hung Parliament Projected in Shock Defeat for Conservatives
» UK: Election 2017- Polling Station Evacuated After Fire in Clacton Coastal Academy
» UK: Two Arrested Over Facebook and YouTube Video of Koran Burning Amid Spate of Race Attacks in Wake of London and Manchester Terror Attacks
 
Middle East
» Iran Rejects Trump’s Condolences After Terror Attack, Calls Statement ‘Repugnant’
» Saudi Arabia Football Team Fail to Line Up for Minute’s Silence in Honour of London Terror Attack Victims
» The Latest: Egypt Seeks UN Probe of Alleged Qatar Ransom
» Turkish Soldiers Coming for Sake of Region: Qatar
» Why Breitbart Fired an Editor for a Tweet
 
Russia
» Comey Testimony: Ex-FBI Boss Says Trump Team Lied, But Stops Short of Obstruction Charge
» Macho Putin in Driver’s Seat as He Takes Oliver Stone for a Ride
 
South Asia
» Chandrashekhar, India Dalit Leader, Arrested Over Caste Riots
» Taliban Territory: Life in Afghanistan Under the Militants
 
Far East
» North Korea Fires Anti-Ship Missiles, Says South Korea
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia’s Race Discrimination Boss Claims Locking Up Muslim Terrorist Suspects Without a Trial is ‘Divisive’ — After Pauline Hanson Demands They be Interned to Protect Lives
» Malcolm Turnbull Won’t Hold a Ramadan Dinner This Year After He Was Slammed for Hosting a $30,000 Feast Attended by Waleed Aly and an Anti-Gay Muslim Sheikh
» Muslim Cleric Found Guilty of Marrying a 14-Year-Old Child Bride to a 34-Year-Old Man in Melbourne
» Muslim ‘Safe Space’ Plan Sparks Row in Australia
» New Footage Shows the Moment Andrew Bolt Fights Off Cowardly Protesters Who Ambushed Him Outside a Melbourne Restaurant
» ‘Someone is Trying to Silence Me Within Facebook’: Muslim Sheikh Says His Social Media Post Paying Tribute to Australian London Terror Victim Was Censored
» ‘We’ve Had Enough of Being Nice, It’s Not Working’: Mark Latham Slams the ‘Delusional’ Wisdom of Being Civil to Muslims So an Informant Will Tip Police Off About a Potential Terrorist Attack
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» South Africa: I Was Charged Because I Am White‚ Says Zille
» Will Kenya Get Value for Money From Its New Railway?
 
Latin America
» Mexico’s Academic World Condemns Widespread Killings of Journalists
» Pablo Escobar’s Medellín HQ to be Demolished
» Prosecutor Urges Venezuelans to Reject Constitution Rewrite
» Venezuela’s Bonds Selling at Massive Discounts for Fear of Default
» Venezuela’s Defense Minister Admits Use of Excessive Force at Protests
 
Immigration
» Finland: Prosecutors to Probe Suspected Ethnic Agitation at Protest Near School
» France’s Macron Sparks Diplomatic Row With Comoros Over ‘Hurtful’ Migrant Boat Joke
» Germany Gives Assertional 3.5 Million Euros to Migrants in Libya
» Germany: Red Cross Therapist Stabbed to Death by Syrian Asylum Seeker
» German Police Chief Claims Asylum Seekers Using Christian Conversion to Avoid Deportation
» Germany Sees Growing ‘Fake Father’ Racket for Migrants
» Germany: Syrian Refugee Stabs Psychologist to Death: Police
» Juncker Threat: EU Boss Says States Will Have Funding Cut if They Reject Migrant Quotas
» Swiss MP: Failed Asylum Seekers Are Avoiding Deportation
 
Culture Wars
» Scottish Episcopal Church to Allow Same-Sex Weddings
 
General
» A ‘Feel-Good Moment for Science’: Volunteers Spot the Sun’s Newest Neighbor
» Exit Poll: Conservatives Largest Party
 

Central Banks Now Own Stocks and Bonds Worth Trillions — and They Could Crash the Markets by Selling Them

Over the years I have often been asked about the “plunge protection team”, but the truth is that global central banks are the real “plunge protection team”. If stocks start surging higher on any particular day for seemingly no reason, it is probably the work of a central bank. Because they can inject billions of dollars into the markets whenever they want, that essentially allows them to “play god” and move the markets in any direction that they please.

But of course what they have done is essentially destroy the marketplace. A “free market” for stocks basically no longer exists because of all this central bank manipulation. I really like how Bruce Wilds made this point…

One indication of just how messed up and flawed the global markets have become is reflected in the way central banks across the world are now buying stocks. This has become a part of their response to correcting the forces of past excesses. Their incursion into this bastion of the free markets signals we have entered the era where true price discovery no longer exists. The central banks are often viewed as price-insensitive buyers, so this incestuous influx of money is in some ways the ultimate distortion.

According to Business Insider, global central banks are on pace to purchase an astounding 3.6 trillion dollars in stocks and bonds in 2017.

Overall, the five largest global central banks now collectively have 14.6 trillion dollars in assets on their balance sheets.

You can call this a lot of things, but it certainly isn’t free market capitalism…

If global central banks have the power to pump up these markets, they also have the power to crash them.

Why would they want to do such a thing?

I can answer that question with just two words…

Donald Trump.

If the Comey angle doesn’t work, the elite could try to destroy Trump by engineering an absolutely devastating stock market crash. Close to half the U.S. population dislikes Trump anyway, and so it would be fairly easy to get them to believe that Trump’s policies have caused a new financial crisis. Of course that would be complete nonsense, but in our society today the truth often doesn’t really matter.

And without a doubt, evidence continues to mount that the real economy is starting to slow down substantially. For example, we just learned that bankruptcies surged once again in May. The following comes from Wolf Richter…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Europe — Italy Remains Big Concern Says Investment Strategist

Isabelle Mateos y Lago, BlackRock’s Chief Multi-Asset Strategist suggested that they were “keeping an eye” on countries like Italy as they look at market risks around the world.

Speaking on CNBC, the chief also admitted that Brexit was also another concern.

The host quizzed the strategist over how they analyse global market risks around the world.

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

Comey Hearing: Americans Divided Over Testimony

Political junkies weren’t the only ones riveted to ex-FBI Director James Comey’s testimony Thursday, as the much-hyped event also drew a wide swath of viewers who normally aren’t entrenched in Washington politics.

The long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee hearing pulled in eyes from bars, cubicles, airports and homes across the nation, after constant media coverage of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and whether Trump campaign associates colluded with Russia.

“I think that it is very telling that people are so interested in this—people are skipping work, using social media—people are talking,” Merideth Turner, a 25-year-old from Columbus, Ohio, told Fox News. “I think that stems from concern for our country and our future.”

One New York City bar hostess told Fox News the venue was “packed” for the hearing.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

DICED is UN’s Environmental Constitution for the World and Our Own Constitution Will be Diced

By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

It is time that American mayors follow the U.S. Constitution and not the U.N.’s environmental Constitution called D.I.C.E.D.

I am sure there are many Americans who have no idea nor care what “The Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development” (DICED) is. They should. The Draft Covenant is the “Environmental Constitution of Global Governance.”

The first version of the Covenant was presented to the United Nations in 1995 on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. It was hoped that it would become a negotiating document for a global treaty on environmental conservation and sustainable development.

The fourth version of the Covenant, issued on September 22, 2010, was written to control all development tied to the environment, “the highest form of law for all human activity.’

The Covenant’s 79 articles, described in great detail in 242 pages, take Sustainable Development principles described in Agenda 21 and transform them into global law, which supersedes all constitutions including the U.S. Constitution.

All signatory nations, including the U.S., would become centrally planned, socialist countries in which all decisions would be made within the framework of Sustainable Development.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Officials: Md. Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison After Having Sex With 13-Year-Old Girl

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (ABC7) — A Hyattsville, Maryland man was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 20 years of supervised release for having sex with a 13-year-old Virginia girl, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Virginia.

According to authorities, in June of 2016 Manuel Delgado, 26, called the girl’s middle school stating that she was sick so she would have an excused absence for the day. He reportedly then picked her up at a school bus stop in Alexandria using a car service and had her taken across state lines to his home in Hyattsville and had sex with her.

Court documents state that Delgado met the teen when she was only 11 years old through family and started a “romantic relationship” with her at that time that lasted for over a year.

The incident came to light when the girl told her mom what had happened, although officials say Delgado tried to get her to remain quiet.

On March 16, Delgado pleaded guilty to “transportation of a minor across state lines for criminal sexual activity,” the attorney’s office said.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Play in New York Features Donald Trump Being Stabbed to Death

“I mean, it was the on-stage murder of the President of the United States.”

New York’s Public Theater is running a modernized version of Shakespeare’s Julius Ceaser, which features POTUS Donald Trump as the protagonist.

In the play’s most iconic scene, the character, clearly intended to be the President is gruesomely stabbed to death.

The Ceaser character has light hair and wears a suit with a long coat and a long royal blue tie, just like Trump.

Ceaser’s wife, Calpurnia, has been made to look exactly like the first lady Melania Trump, and even speaks with an eastern European accent.

On the play’s website, Caesar, aka Trump, is described as “Magnetic, populist, irreverent, he seems bent on absolute power.”

“A small band of patriots, devoted to the country’s democratic traditions, must decide how to oppose him.” the preview reads, adding “Shakespeare’s political masterpiece has never felt more contemporary.”

One person who attended the production told reporters that it was “blatantly obvious” that Trump was the protagonist.

The theater-goer, Laura Sheaffer, described the murder scene as “shocking” with blood “spewing everywhere.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

British Intelligence Allowed Terrorists to Freely Plot Attack

PC culture let terrorists roam free while they planned attack on city that took them in

The scum responsible for the murder and maiming of innocents on June 3, 2017 were allowed to operate freely as potential terrorists up until the attack took place thanks to British intelligence.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Cheshire Police Remind Social Media Users to Watch Their Mouths in Wake of Terror Attack

The spy state is ready to to pounce on users who dare speak out against radical Islam

Paul Joseph Watson covers a story that precipitated directly after the terror attack on London Bridge in which the Cheshire Police Department reminded citizens to refrain from insulting Islam.

[Comment: Would they do the same for those who bash Christianity?]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Child Migrants Risk Lives to Reach Europe From… Spain

It is midnight and nine-year-old Wahib hides near the port of Melilla, a tiny Spanish territory on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast.

Like scores of other street children here, he is prepared to risk everything to reach mainland Europe.

Wahib is one of 50 to 100 foreign minors, mainly from Morocco, who sleep on the streets of Melilla after sneaking into the Spanish city with hopes of getting onto a boat, according to a recent report by Madrid’s Comillas Pontifical University.

But the road to Europe is treacherous and the youths’ game of hide-and-seek takes many forms.

Some climb over the fence and descend into the port with a rope.

Others cling to the undercarriage of trucks waiting to board ferries for mainland Spain.

Attempts to cross the Mediterranean also include hiding among cargo and clambering onto ferries with the aid of mooring ropes.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Cyprus President: US Vice President Offers Peace Talks Help

Cyprus’ president says U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has offered his personal help in ongoing talks to reunify the ethnically divided island.

President Nicos Anastasiades said after a meeting with Pence on Thursday that the vice president expressed willingness to respond to any call for help.

Preparations are underway for a summit meeting in Geneva later this month between Anastasiades and the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots, Mustafa Akinci. The talks will also involve Cyprus’ “guarantors” Greece, Turkey and Britain.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Dutch Won’t Prosecute Geert Wilders Over Anti-Islam Speech in Austria

Dutch prosecutors have rejected an Austrian request to prosecute MP Geert Wilders over alleged inflammatory remarks about Islam during a visit to Vienna two years ago, officials said Wednesday.

The decision comes after Austria requested judicial assistance from the Dutch following a March 2015 speech by Wilders at a gathering of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ).

“Insulting a religion or a religious community in the Netherlands, as opposed to Austria, is not punishable by law,” the public prosecutor’s office said, adding that incendiary words would have to target a specific group within that religion.

“Dutch prosecutors therefore turned down Austria’s request,” the prosecutors said.

Wilders is said to have told an audience that “Islam is an ideology of war and hatred” and “Islam calls on people to become terrorists — the Koran leaves no doubt about it”, according to Dutch media reports.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Election Results 2017 News — UK Decides on May v Corbyn as Labour and Tories Bid for No10

POLLING stations across Britain closed at 10pm with exit polls pointing towards a hung parliament — follow Express.co.uk here for the latest results and news.

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

Emmanuel Macron’s Dream of a ‘Federal Europe’ Will Cause Chaos, Danish MEP Rages

Anders Vistisen, of the Danish People’s Party, criticised the newly-elected President as he said it would lead to “horror visions” of Europe’s future coming true.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Exposed: The Nazi Roots of the European Union

World War 2 continued by other means

This is an intelligence briefing. Here I present the bare bones of what has been happening before our eyes…if we would see it.

Once upon a time, there was an industrial combine in Nazi Germany called IG Farben. It was the largest chemical/pharmaceutical octopus in the world. It owned companies, and it had favorable business agreements with companies from England to Central America to Japan.

The author of The Devil’s Chemists, Josiah DuBois, traveled to Guatemala, on a fact-finding mission, in the early days of World War 2, and returned with the comment that, as far as he could tell, Guatemala was “a wholly owned subsidiary of Farben.”

The pharmaceutical empire was and is one of the major forces behind the European Union (EU). It is no accident that these drug corporations wield such power. They aren’t only involved in controlling the medical cartel; they are political planners.

This is how and why Big Pharma fits so closely with what is loosely referred to as the New World Order. The aim of enrolling every human in a cradle-to-grave system of disease diagnosis and toxic drug treatment has a larger purpose: to debilitate, to weaken populations.

This is a political goal. It facilitates control.

IG Farben’s main component companies, at the outbreak of World War 2, were Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst. They were chemical and drug companies. Farben put Hitler over the top in Germany as head of State, and the war was designed to lead to a united Europe that would be dominated by the Farben nexus.

The loss of the war didn’t derail that plan. It was shifted into an economic blueprint, which became, eventually, the European Union.

The European Commission’s first president was Walter Hallstein, the Nazi lawyer who, during the war, had been in charge of post-war legal planning for the new Europe.

As the Rath Foundation reports: In 1939, on the brink of the war, Hallstein had stated, “The creation of the New Law [of the Nazis] is ONLY the task of the law-makers!”

In 1957, with his reputation sanitized, Hallstein spoke the words in this manner: “The European Commission has full and unlimited power for all decisions related to the architecture of this European community.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

France: ‘He is Not an Extremist’ Family of Notre Dame Hammer Attack Suspect Left Shocked

Farid Ikken, 40, was shot in the chest as he lunged at a police officer outside the world-famous cathedral on Tuesday afternoon and is currently under guard at a Paris hospital.

The Algerian journalist reportedly shouted “this is for Syria” as he attacked a police officer with a hammer outside the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.

A video of the suspect pledging allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS) was later found in his flat in the northern Paris suburb of Cergy-Pontoise following a counter-terrorism raid.

But his nephew, Sofiane Ikken, told Europe 1 radio on Wednesday that Ikken was a moderate Muslim with no known links to radical Islam.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: Brother of Teen Who Stabbed Cop for ISIS Found Guilty of Arson

The older brother of a teenage girl who stabbed a police officer in 2015 has also been found guilty of a dangerous extremist act.

Saleh S.,18, was sentenced to eight years in youth detention by a court in Hanover on Thursday after he attempted to set fire to a shopping centre in the capital of Lower Saxony last year.

The teenager admitted to the court that he had thrown two Molotov cocktails into a shopping mall on February 5th 2016.

According to his own account, the teen wanted to kill as many people as possible, a court spokesman said. No one was injured in the attack

Saleh S. is the older brother of 16-year-old Safia S., who was convicted of attempted murder in January and sentenced to six years in jail.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Globalists to Push EU Flags, EU Teams at 2024 Olympics

EU wants to downplay national sovereignty at Olympics

European Union officials and their allies are using the 2024 Olympic games, which are likely to be held in Paris, as an opportunity to consolidate power and ‘solidarity’ within the bloc — even planning to fly the EU flag on the medals podium.

EU Parliament president Antonio Tajani disclosed the plot at a confab in Brussels this week, saying EU competitors will “win as Europeans” and should represent the entire superstate in their victories.

“What we’ve tried to do is to see the European flag flying alongside national flags at the Olympic Games and we want to win at the Olympics as Europeans,” he said at a press conference. “So that’s something we’re working on with the national federations. Of course we want to see the French flag there, the national flags there, but we will want to make clear that this is a European candidacy for 2024.”

“So that’s the idea that I’d like to launch, that’s the parliament’s idea with the backing of all the national federations.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Iceland: Muslim Leader Claims London Jihad Attacks Were Staged by Police

By Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch writer Christine Douglass-Williams and I recently spoke in Iceland, where I was poisoned by a Leftist posing as a well-wisher who still has not been arrested by the Icelandic police (they would no doubt be moving heaven and earth to apprehend him had, say, Linda Sarsour, or some other Leftist been poisoned). This imam, Ahmad Sedeeq was present at our public lectures. He attempted to claim that stonings were not taking place in Sharia-adherent countries, and that the Bible contains violent verses, and that we were claiming that Osama bin Laden’s version of Islam was the normative version (this, after I had read from a manual of Islamic law endorsed by al-Azhar on the necessity of Muslims to wage violent jihad against Infidels). He was, in short, just another deceiver, and not a very subtle or able one, but doubtless he wasn’t used to running into informed and determined kuffar.

The Leftist Icelandic media was aghast that we had treated him so badly as to challenge him on his half-truths and lies. And so now they have him, and they want him, and here is a sampling of what they will be living with from now on. In terms of deceit, this is just the beginning. When Icelanders start to die in jihad attacks, that happy, safe nation will be treated to a much more sophisticated level of deception.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Italian Muslims Fear Backlash After London Attacker Identified as Half-Italian

Italy’s Muslims fear a backlash from the London attacks could undermine their already fragile position in the country after one of the attackers was identified as half-Italian.

Youssef Zaghba, 22, was one of three men shot dead by police after a jihadist van attack and stabbing spree in the British capital on Saturday.

It has since emerged that the Moroccan-born militant had an Italian passport and his mother, a convert to Islam, lives near Bologna.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Italy Rebuked for Failure to Prevent Olive-Tree Tragedy

European Commission reveals widespread delays by the country’s authorities to halt spread of deadly plant disease.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Mysterious Fire Monument in England Predates Stonehenge by 800 Years

A massive, wooden, eyeglass-shaped monument in Avebury, England, that was set alight in ancient ceremonies may be 800 years older than it was thought to be, new research suggests.

The monument, which consists of two huge, circular enclosures — each outlined by tall, wooden posts — is about 5,300 years old, meaning the structure predates the first stones erected at nearby Stonehenge by about 800 years, the study found.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Pressure Builds for Early Italy Vote After Electoral Reform Deal Unravels

A deal between Italy’s main political parties on electoral reform unraveled on Thursday, leading to calls for a snap election that could usher in more instability in the euro zone’s third largest economy.

Two major opposition parties, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the right-wing Northern League called for an immediate vote, and the ruling Democratic Party (PD) said it now seemed hard for the government to carry on.

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Qatari Investments in Swiss Firms Start to Look Awkward

The isolation and blockade of Qatar by neighbours on the grounds of suspected terrorist financing has raised uncomfortable questions about the Middle Eastern country’s global investments — including those in Switzerland.

The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) sovereign wealth fund has significant stakes in Credit Suisse (and a joint partnership with the bank in the Aventicum Capital Management investment vehicle), commodity trading giant Glencore (with which QIA recently formed a consortium to buy large numbers of shares in Russian oil giant Rosneft), travel retailer Dufry and several Swiss hotels.

The $335 billion (CHF323 billion) Qatari investment fund also has significant holdings in other parts of the world. In Britain it has stakes in Harrods department store and Heathrow airport, in Germany Volkswagen and Siemens and in the United States a large real estate portfolio — the list goes on.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Ramadan Londonistan: Nursery Worker Stabbed in Broad Daylight by Female Trio Yelling “Allah”

Police are not treating stabbing as terrorism.

A nursery worker was stabbed by three women as they chanted ‘Allah will get you’.

Karrien Stevens, who runs Little Diamonds nursery in Hermon Hill, London confirmed that a member of staff, aged in her 30s, was slashed by three women while on her way to work this morning.

The victim was walking down Wanstead High Street in north London when she was set upon by three girls and knifed, according to her boss.

It is believed that the victim was stabbed from behind as her attackers chanted ‘Allah’, however police are not treating it as a terrorist incident.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Rebuffed in Norway, Breivik Takes Case to European Rights Court

Neo-Nazi mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, will take his case over his “inhumane” prison conditions to the European Court of Human Rights, his lawyer said Thursday after exhausting all legal options in Norway.

Breivik, who for safety reasons has been held apart from other inmates since his arrest in 2011, has complained about his lengthy isolation. He wants the Norwegian state to be found guilty of violating the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits “inhumane” and “degrading” treatment.

But Norway’s highest court, the Supreme Court, on Thursday refused to hear his case.

Having exhausted his legal options in Norway, the rightwing extremist now plans to take his case to the Strasbourg court, his lawyer Øystein Storrvik said.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Sadiq Khan is a Complete Idiot

The truth abut the moronic Muslim Mayor of London

Three attacks in three months and the UK has arrested more people for “Islamophobia” and mean tweets than they’ve arrested actual terrorists.

The UK’s response to terrorism is a joke.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sweden: Stockholm Terror Investigation Extended

The prosecutor investigating the April 7th attack in Stockholm has been granted more time to continue looking into the suspected terrorist crime in the Swedish capital.

Senior Public Prosecutor Hans-Jörgen Hanström asked Stockholm District Court for an extension of the preliminary investigation until July 6th, and was granted his request on Thursday.

Uzbek national Rakhmat Akilov is being held in custody after confessing to driving the truck in the attack on Drottninggatan which killed five people and injured several more.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Swiss Jihadi Recruits Sought ‘Fresh Start’

Homegrown Swiss jihadists often want a fresh start due to troubles at school or in the workplace. They tend to view the world in stark terms but harbor no hatred toward Switzerland, according to academic research by an analyst at the Federal Office of Police.

The findings come from an unusual source — an unpublished master’s thesis by University of Bern student Florent Bielmann, who works at the Federal Police Office (Fedpol). The work emerged this week through his mentor, Frédéric Esposito, a political scientist and lecturer at University of Geneva’s Global Studies Institute.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

The Dark Origins of Communism: Part 3 of 3

How communist ideology was formed by the dark occult, atheism, and societies of violent revolution

[…]

Communism grew out of an age in which everything was being reconsidered, and the mid-to-late 1700s was a time of massive religious and political shifts.

The growth of Protestantism led to the First Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s, and it captured many discontents within the Catholic Church. Likewise, the American Revolution between 1775 and 1783 showed there was an alternative to the rule of kings.

People came to believe they could live lives independent of the existing hierarchies, and they sought new ideas and alternatives to the prevailing religious and political systems. The political paths Europe inevitably took, however, were opposite to those of the United States.

The new American system attempted to create personal liberties by limiting government. It allowed people to build wealth and choose how to live their lives with a greater allowance for free will.

The emerging European systems aimed to strip the individual of adherence to traditions, to replace the practice of individual faith with state-sponsored beliefs, and to begin playing with the idea of achieving equality through state redistribution. They would soon find these goals were only possible through a totalitarian system that could force its will on the individual.

Just a few years after Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the famous essayist G.K. Chesterton wrote on March 21, 1925, that the new communist systems “are not rebelling against an abnormal tyranny; they are rebelling against what they think is a normal tyranny—the tyranny of the normal.”

“They are not in revolt against the king,” he wrote. “They are in revolt against the citizen.”

[The Dark Origins of Communism: Part 1 of 3
www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2249661-the-dark-origins-of-communism-part-1-of-3

The Dark Origins of Communism: Part 2 of 3
www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2251602-the-dark-origins-of-communism-part-2-of-3 ]

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

The London Bridge Killings

Unpacked by Jay & Hatun at Speaker’s Corner

Barely 18 hours after the attack at London Bridge last Saturday night, Hatun Tash and I had to once again talk about the violence being perpetrated in our streets in London by Muslims.

Yet, what we said on the ladder at Speaker’s Corner could not be said outside of Speaker’s Corner, because no one is publicly permitted to call these killers Muslims, nor their belief system Islam.

As we’ve so often done before, we decided to go to the verses in the Qur’an which supported the three Muslim men who perpetrated the killings at London Bridge, and at the nearby Borrough Market, situated just a few miles from where we were speaking.

We read from Surah 8:60, which tells Muslims to use any “steeds of war” (i.e. horses and camels then, or trucks and cars today), to “cause terror in the hearts of your enemy” (i.e. terrorism).

We then went to Surah 47:1-6 to show that Muslims were to behead non-believers, and if they should die themselves, they would go straight to paradise.

To understand what motivates Muslims to do the violence we are witnessing, one need go no further than the Qur’an itself.

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Too Hot to Handle? WWII “Might Have Ended Six Months Earlier”

by Diana West

Friend of mine sent me a link this morning to a UK Express interview with Brian Cox, who stars in a new movie about Winston Churchill. The headline was like something right out of American Betrayal:

Churchill did NOT want D-Day ‘His plan would have ended WW2 6 months EARLIER’

However, when I clicked on the Express link, I got this:

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Gone.

Fortunately, the story was cached, so I took a series of screen shots to reconstruct it below.

Cox discusses Churchill famed “soft underbelly” strategy to press Nazi Germany through southern Europe rather than, or even in addition to, the invasion of northern France at Normandy. Cox tells a very interesting story about how the movie’s military advisor said near the end of filming that when he was Sandhurst, Churchill’s strategy was subject to computer modeling. The outcome? The war might have ended six months earlier.

Why would such a story would be pulled offline? Anyone’s guess. Mine is that British censors are as keen to preserve the “court history” as American enforcers…

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UK Election: Hung Parliament Projected in Shock Defeat for Conservatives

An exit poll projected a hung parliament following Britain’s general election Thursday, in what would be a crippling political defeat for Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative government.

The exit poll, commissioned by the U.K.’s three main broadcasters and released after the polls closed at 10 p.m., projected the Tories to hold 314 seats, down 16 from their total at the end of the last Parliament. The Labour Party was forecast to gain 37 seats for a total of 266, the Scottish National Party was projected to lose 20 seats for a total of 34, and the center-left Liberal Democrats were projected to have 14 seats, up five from the last Parliament.

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UK: Election 2017- Polling Station Evacuated After Fire in Clacton Coastal Academy

Fire crews rushed to Clacton Coastal Academy at 10.30am over reports of a fire.

This forced the site, which was being used as an election polling station, to be evacuated.

Clacton residents were casting their votes in the cafe part of the building when they were ordered to leave by the caretaker.

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UK: Two Arrested Over Facebook and YouTube Video of Koran Burning Amid Spate of Race Attacks in Wake of London and Manchester Terror Attacks

Police have arrested two people on suspicion of racial hatred after a video appeared online showing a man burning a copy of the Koran.

The video, which MailOnline has chosen not to publish, shows a tattooed man standing in a kitchen complaining about being unable to start a fire.

Speaking into the camera, he says: ‘I’ve been trying to get my poxy fire started for half-hour wondering what s**t I can get it going with.’

Holding a paperback copy of the Koran up to the camera, he adds: ‘And then I found this.’

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Iran Rejects Trump’s Condolences After Terror Attack, Calls Statement ‘Repugnant’

A top Iranian official on Thursday rejected President Trump’s condolences after a pair of terror attacks in Tehran, saying, “Iranian people reject such U.S. claims of friendship.”

Reuters reported that Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, called the White House’s statement “repugnant.”

ISIS claimed responsibility for a pair of stunning attacks Wednesday on Iran’s parliament and the tomb of its revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 40.

The White House released a statement from Trump condemning the terrorist attacks in Tehran and offering condolences, but also implying that Iran is itself a sponsor of terrorism.

“We grieve and pray for the innocent victims of the terrorist attacks in Iran, and for the Iranian people, who are going through such challenging times,” the statement said. “We underscore that states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote.”

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Saudi Arabia Football Team Fail to Line Up for Minute’s Silence in Honour of London Terror Attack Victims

The Saudi Arabian football team were booed by Australian supporters after they failed to properly line up for a minute’s silence in honour of the victims of the London Bridge terror attacks.

Saudi Arabia were preparing to play Australia in a World Cup qualifier at the Adelaide Oval when the stadium announcer called for a minute’s silence to begin.

The Australia team linked arms in a line on the centre circle while the Saudi Arabia team stood in random formation as the silence began.

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The Latest: Egypt Seeks UN Probe of Alleged Qatar Ransom

The latest on the Gulf crisis after Saudi Arabia and other nations cut ties to Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism (all times local):

Egypt is asking the U.N. Security Council to investigate reports that Qatar “paid up to $1 billion to a terrorist group active in Iraq” to free 26 hostages including members of its royal family, which would violate U.N. sanctions.

Egypt’s deputy U.N. ambassador Ihab Moustafa told a council meeting Thursday that all 193 U.N. member states are obligated under sanctions resolutions “to prevent terrorists from directly or indirectly benefiting from ransom payments, or from political concessions.”

The Qataris were kidnapped Dec. 16, 2015 from a desert camp for falcon hunters in southern Iraq.

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Turkish Soldiers Coming for Sake of Region: Qatar

Qatar’s top diplomat has said Turkish troops are en route to the embattled Gulf country “for the security of the entire region.

“Turkish troops are coming to Qatar for the sake of the security of the entire region,” Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said in Doha while briefing the press on June 8 on the recent crisis with a group of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Turkey’s parliament on June 7 ratified two deals on deploying troops in Qatar and training the country’s gendarmerie forces, amid criticism from the opposition ranks.

The votes came just days after five Arab countries cut ties with the gas-rich Gulf nation.

The deal on deploying troops on Qatari soil to improve the country’s army and boost military cooperation was signed back in April 2016 in the Qatari capital Doha.

Under the bill, the armies of the two countries will also be able to carry out joint exercises, with the two sides saying it “aims to contribute to regional and world peace.”

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Why Breitbart Fired an Editor for a Tweet

“There would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn’t live there,” tweeted Breitbart News‘s Katie McHugh, in the wake of the London Bridge attack that killed eight and injured 48 people. McHugh then responded to a critical tweet from an Iranian American actor by telling him he was Indian.

And Breitbart did fire McHugh. But this wasn’t an anomaly. During her time at Breitbart, McHugh consistently made racially charged statements on her Twitter feed and used the argot of the alt-right twittersphere. Apart from Milo Yiannopolous, the site’s provocative former tech editor who resigned in disgrace earlier this year, McHugh was possibly the member of the staff most closely aligned with the alt-right. McHugh’s public statements had attracted scrutiny in the past. So what made this one different?

Five months into the Trump administration, Breitbart—the right-wing news outlet that, under former chairman (and now White House chief strategist) Steve Bannon, became the most vocal pro-Trump organ in the media—has gone from edgy outsider to, at least in Trump’s D.C., something close to establishment media. It’s even hired reporters from mainstream outlets like The Wall Street Journal.

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Comey Testimony: Ex-FBI Boss Says Trump Team Lied, But Stops Short of Obstruction Charge

Former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before a Senate panel on Thursday could have President Trump’s legal team breathing a sigh of relief since he stopped short of alleging obstruction of justice — but his otherwise scathing comments guarantee the political controversy and Russia-related investigations are far from over.

“This is nowhere near the end of our investigation,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., said moments after the hearing’s conclusion.

Comey, in his high-profile appearance before the committee, accused the administration of defaming him and said comments made about his competency “were lies, plain and simple.”

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Macho Putin in Driver’s Seat as He Takes Oliver Stone for a Ride

He could be just another Moscow commuter driving home from the office. Except that’s President Vladimir Putin behind the wheel as filmmaker Oliver Stone quizzes him on the fugitive Edward Snowden in a scene from his new documentary on the Russian leader.

The unusually smooth car journey through Moscow’s normally traffic-clogged streets isn’t the only strange moment in The Putin Interviews, the Oscar-winning director’s four-part documentary. While Putin expounds on favorite subjects including U.S. geopolitical overreach, he’s also shown staring stone-faced at the classic Cold War doomsday satire Dr. Strangelove. He explained that he never has an off day as president because he’s a man.

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Chandrashekhar, India Dalit Leader, Arrested Over Caste Riots

Chandrashekhar, the leader of an Indian caste-based movement, has been arrested for allegedly fuelling violence in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Mr Chandrashekhar, who uses one name, leads the Bhim army, a group of activists from the Dalit (formerly untouchables) caste.

India’s 200 million Dalits have traditionally been at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, and for centuries were kept in subjugation by the higher castes. Despite laws to protect them, discrimination remains a daily reality for many.

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Taliban Territory: Life in Afghanistan Under the Militants

Sixteen years after they were ousted in the US-led invasion, the Taliban have fought their way back to control swathes of Afghanistan. The country remains mired in conflict, and recent months have seen a series of bloody attacks. In the south, key towns are now Taliban territory. The BBC’s Auliya Atrafi was invited by the militants to spend four days behind the front line in Helmand province witnessing life under their control.

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North Korea Fires Anti-Ship Missiles, Says South Korea

North Korea has fired several anti-ship cruise missiles off its east coast, South Korea’s military says.

Authorities said the weapons, launched on Thursday morning near the city of Wonsan, appeared to be short-range “surface-to-ship” missiles.

They flew about 200km (125 miles) before landing in the water.

Repeated ballistic missile tests by the North this year — not all successful but all a breach of UN sanctions — have sparked international alarm.

Experts fear the tests indicate progress towards Pyongyang’s ultimate goal of putting a nuclear warhead on a missile.

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Australia’s Race Discrimination Boss Claims Locking Up Muslim Terrorist Suspects Without a Trial is ‘Divisive’ — After Pauline Hanson Demands They be Interned to Protect Lives

Australia’s race discrimination commissioner has described the idea of locking up Muslim terror suspects as ‘divisive’ following a call from Pauline Hanson.

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Malcolm Turnbull Won’t Hold a Ramadan Dinner This Year After He Was Slammed for Hosting a $30,000 Feast Attended by Waleed Aly and an Anti-Gay Muslim Sheikh

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (pictured) has announced he won’t be hosting another end-of-Ramadan dinner with Australia’s Islamic leaders, following last year’s controversial event.

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Muslim Cleric Found Guilty of Marrying a 14-Year-Old Child Bride to a 34-Year-Old Man in Melbourne

Former Muslim cleric, Ibrahim Omerdic was found guilty on Thursday of marrying off a child bride, 14, to a man, 34, in Noble Park Mosque in Melbourne.

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Muslim ‘Safe Space’ Plan Sparks Row in Australia

A proposal by an Australian Islamic group to allow “safe spaces” for young Muslims to discuss “inflammatory” issues has sparked a row.

The Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) said such forums enabled young people’s opinions to be “respectfully and intelligently debated and challenged”.

But State Premier Daniel Andrews said he was “very troubled” by the idea of a space where people “could be radical”.

Victoria was rocked by a suspected terror attack earlier this week.

Gunman Yacqub Khayre killed a man, wounded three police officers and took a woman hostage during a siege at an apartment building on Monday night. He was later shot dead by police.

Australia has prevented a number of extremist attacks on home soil in recent years, and has been on alert amid fears over the return of Australians fighting for Islamist militant groups in Syria.

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New Footage Shows the Moment Andrew Bolt Fights Off Cowardly Protesters Who Ambushed Him Outside a Melbourne Restaurant

Stunning new video has emerged of masked left-wing thugs attacking conservative broadcaster Andrew Bolt.

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‘Someone is Trying to Silence Me Within Facebook’: Muslim Sheikh Says His Social Media Post Paying Tribute to Australian London Terror Victim Was Censored

A Muslim imam who campaigns against extremism says Facebook deleted a post paying tribute to an Australian nurse killed in the London terrorist attack.

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‘We’ve Had Enough of Being Nice, It’s Not Working’: Mark Latham Slams the ‘Delusional’ Wisdom of Being Civil to Muslims So an Informant Will Tip Police Off About a Potential Terrorist Attack

Former Labor leader Mark Latham (pictured) says the ‘be nice’ approach towards Muslims in a bid to tackle terrorism has failed. He singled out the ASIO boss as a member of the ‘be nice faction’.

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South Africa: I Was Charged Because I Am White‚ Says Zille

Former DA leader Helen Zille says the Democratic Alliance has dealt harshly with her‚ claiming the party failed to follow proper party procedures when considering her suspension.

Zille made her motivation letter public moments after the DA confirmed her suspension.

“Given that so many black South Africans have expressed exactly the same views on the legacy of colonialism as I have (only in more forceful terms) and given that the DA has never raised any concerns about these views‚ let alone repudiated them‚ and has no written policy on the matter‚ I drew the conclusion that a contributing reason to my being charged is the fact that I am not black‚” said Zille.

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Will Kenya Get Value for Money From Its New Railway?

The first major new railway line in Kenya for more than a century, running between the capital Nairobi and the coastal city of Mombasa, faces an immediate challenge of justifying its relatively high cost.

At $5.6m per kilometre for the track alone, Kenya’s line cost close to three times the international standard and four times the original estimate.

About 80% of the money for the new railway came through loans from China. The loans are the country’s biggest yet — amounting to roughly 6% of Kenya’s gross domestic product (GDP).

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Mexico’s Academic World Condemns Widespread Killings of Journalists

The Ibero-American University in Mexico City has condemned the current “climate of violence against the practice of journalism and freedom of expression” in the country, in a scathing statement in which it also decried the “silence of the authorities in the face of aggression toward, and intimidation and murder of, journalists.”

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Pablo Escobar’s Medellín HQ to be Demolished

For years, the Colombian city of Medellín — the country’s second largest — has been trying to shake its global image as a hotspot for drug trafficking. More than two decades after the death of the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, the city is enjoying a renaissance and has become a model of urban renewal, thanks in part to a public transportation system that is the envy of Latin America.

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Prosecutor Urges Venezuelans to Reject Constitution Rewrite

Venezuela’s chief prosecutor called Thursday for Venezuelans to reject President Nicolas Maduro’s push to rewrite the nation’s constitution and urged the Supreme Court to annul the process immediately, further deepening her divide with the government.

Grasping a copy of the nation’s blue constitution book in her hands on the steps of the Supreme Court, Luisa Ortega Diaz said she was acting to defend both the embattled nation’s constitution and its very democracy.

“What’s at play here is the country,” she said. “The integrity of Venezuelans.”

Ortega Diaz’s remarks were her strongest repudiation yet of Maduro’s effort to rewrite the nation’s constitution, an act she said would destroy the legacy of the late President Hugo Chavez, who drafted the current charter.

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Venezuela’s Bonds Selling at Massive Discounts for Fear of Default

When it was learned that Goldman Sachs had purchased $2.8 billion of Venezuela’s bonds for just $865 million — a 69-percent discount — the firm received criticism from opponents of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro (shown). The critics claimed that by buying them, even at such a fire sale price, Goldman allowed Maduro to pay some critical bills that kept his corrupt Marxist regime afloat for a little while longer.

Now comes word that Maduro has resorted to desperation financing — what the Wall Street Journal calls “unorthodox” — by issuing bonds to one of its state-owned banks, which then turned to Haitong Securities USA, a unit of China’s Haitong Securities, to resell them to vulture bond funds in the United States. According to unnamed managers, they were offered at an 80-percent discount. If they can be sold, which is dubious because of the nature of the unregulated black market in which they are being offered, Maduro would receive $1 billion in hard currency in exchange for a promise to pay it back, by 2036

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Venezuela’s Defense Minister Admits Use of Excessive Force at Protests

The Venezuelan defense minister, General Vladimir Padrino López, has publicly warned that he will not tolerate new excesses from National Guard troops sent out to control street protests.

The comments came on day 67 of street protests called by the MUD coalition of opposition parties to fight what they describe as the “continuous self-coup d’etat.” This coup began, they argue, with decisions made by the Supreme Court that effectively dissolved Venezuela’s parliament and gave Maduro the power to legislate, and which was extended from May 1 with his decision to convene the constituent process.

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Finland: Prosecutors to Probe Suspected Ethnic Agitation at Protest Near School

The Prosecutor General’s office has been asked to consider whether comments made by anti-immigrant Finland First demonstrators could be construed as ethnic agitation, or any other crime. The request comes from Finland’s Ombudsman for Non-Discrimination. The demonstrators set up a protest outside an eastern Helsinki school after getting their hands on a 10-second audio recording of Arabic inadvertently played on the school’s PA system.

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France’s Macron Sparks Diplomatic Row With Comoros Over ‘Hurtful’ Migrant Boat Joke

EMMANUEL Macron has provoked outrage after making a joke about kwassa-kwassa — tiny fishing boats which have been dubbed the “boats of death.

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Germany Gives Assertional 3.5 Million Euros to Migrants in Libya

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is pledging an additional 3.5 million euros ($3.9 million) to help improve conditions for refugees in Libya.

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Germany: Red Cross Therapist Stabbed to Death by Syrian Asylum Seeker

A Red Cross therapist who helped treat asylum seekers was stabbed to death by a 27-year-old Syrian after the pair got into a heated argument.

The fatal stabbing occurred at a Red Cross facility in Saarbrücken that specialised in counselling and therapy for asylum seekers. The victim, a therapist employed by the Red Cross, was repeatedly stabbed by the Syrian and succumbed to his wounds at the scene, Die Welt reports.

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German Police Chief Claims Asylum Seekers Using Christian Conversion to Avoid Deportation

Braunschweiger Criminal Police chief Ulf Küche has claimed many migrants are “tricking” the German government when they convert to Christianity and others have called for more stringent standards regarding migrant conversions.

Police chief and vice-chairman of the Federal German Criminal Police Office Ulf Küche made the remarks after the news of the brutal killing of a five-year-old child in an asylum home over the weekend, Tag 24 reports.

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Germany Sees Growing ‘Fake Father’ Racket for Migrants

Officials have said that there are thousands of cases of men claiming paternity for money and expedited visa procedures. Legally prosecuting them, however, remains a gray area.

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Germany: Syrian Refugee Stabs Psychologist to Death: Police

A 27-year-old Syrian man was arrested on Wednesday after he stabbed and killed a refugee aid worker during an argument in a Red Cross therapy and counselling centre, police said.

The unnamed suspect, who also injured himself, was arrested shortly after the attack in Saarbrücken, near the French border, and was then hospitalized, police said. The victim was a psychologist who worked with traumatized refugees, said the German Red Cross. According to police, the suspect had gotten into an argument during a counselling session with the 30-year-old psychologist and stabbed him with a knife.

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Juncker Threat: EU Boss Says States Will Have Funding Cut if They Reject Migrant Quotas

JEAN-CLAUDE Juncker today warned Eastern European member states that they will have their Brussels funding cut if they do not reverse their opposition to centralised migrant quotas.

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Swiss MP: Failed Asylum Seekers Are Avoiding Deportation

Migrants who are refused asylum are not always deported and could prove a threat to society, according to an MP who wants the Swiss government to address the issue in a report.

On Thursday the Swiss upper house of parliament backed a motion by Liberal-Radical Damian Müller in which he asked the Swiss government to examine the problem, reported news agencies.

According to the text of Müller’s motion, some migrants are refused asylum but then manage to avoid being deported, including some who are criminal offenders or may have jihadist sympathies and therefore pose a terror threat.

The Swiss government should find ways to improve current deportation rates and ensure that potentially dangerous people whose deportation is delayed are sufficiently monitored, he said.

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Scottish Episcopal Church to Allow Same-Sex Weddings

The Scottish Episcopal Church voted Thursday to allow its clerics to marry same-sex couples, the first Anglican branch in Britain to permit gay weddings in church.

Church members voted to remove the doctrinal clause which stated that marriage is a “union of one man and one woman.” The proposal was passed with 80 percent support from bishops and laity and 67 percent of the clergy — achieving the required two-thirds majority overall.

The church’s decision specifies that clergy who don’t wish to preside over same-sex weddings won’t be compelled to do so “against their conscience.”

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A ‘Feel-Good Moment for Science’: Volunteers Spot the Sun’s Newest Neighbor

Citizen scientists have spotted a failed star, known as a brown dwarf, just 100 light-years from the sun.

That makes the cold world — somewhere in between star and planet — relatively close to our solar system, at least in the astronomical sense. The volunteers identified the brown dwarf just days after science organizations released a new tool to help engage the public in the hunt for new worlds at the edges of our solar system.

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Exit Poll: Conservatives Largest Party

Exit poll predicts Conservatives largest party, but may be short of a parliamentary majority.

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20 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/8/2017

  1. Hate to say it, but the sun has set on Britain. I understand May is Mitt Romney in a skirt, but after 3 rapid fire attacks there should have been a ‘rally round the flag’ effect in a healthy soceity.

    I think they are in despair and protest voting (or sitting it out). The attacks are not surprising – actually depressingly predictable. A bear will defacate in the woods right? But in each instance the attackers were known to the authorities.

    23,000 of them running around according to MI5. Standing Army is what? 80,000?

    The Rubicon has been crossed….

    • There are really two enemies within the West that every true Patriot needs to appreciate before stepping up and taking on the status quo.

      In Britain, that 23,000 Muslim fanatics as advertised, is probably just the tip of the iceberg of the real number of fanatics just waiting to exercise their Islamic muscle against the infidel.

      Then there is the establishment that controls all authorities within Britain via a central command and intelligence structure, and their NGO thugs, who they can make appear on the streets at the drop of a hat to protect the Muslim fanatics, and at anytime.

      Patriots are still a disparate lot, they have no single entity organisation at this time, well, at least not that I am aware of, and until they can gather together as a recognizable force of numbers that will then have political influence, they will remain as Tommy Robinson remains, individual targets to a totalitarian system intent on taking Britain back into a feudal kind of system in which all races are kept apart via enforced enclave /ghetto states within a state.

      But that will only come about after massive civil unrest has run its course and the establishment still remains in control.

      Not much of a future to look forward to!

      • Well, those 23k fanatics running around a simply a wonderful secret, unpaid army that the Leftist, authoritarian state can coddle until such time they need to use that army to crush any patriotic dissenters standing in the way of their globalist plans.

        • Here’s the thing; The state controls almost everything including most folks minds via the idiot box, soccer matches er, sorry, football games, and loud chaotic music at events where the human brain turns to absolute mush not to mention early deafness.

          But, they cannot control those who know to avoid the above and all the other things I have not mentioned that are heavily promoted as ‘entertainment’ or ‘news’.

          And it is those they know that they cannot control, like the Tommy Robinsons, that they really concern themselves with because without any absolute control over the population a state wishes to herd to an agenda, the state is vulnerable to a counter-attacking strategy such as openly uttering the simple plain TRUTH that they try ever so hard to keep from the population.

          Tommy speaks the TRUTH so Tommy becomes a target.

          And what is important and strategically significant in the war against the state is this, that army you mention is not all in the one place, but is spread throughout the big cities of the land, as are those who no longer listen to anything the state tells them and now know what they must do to take their country back.

          And there are many more of them than that jihadi army.

  2. The calling of a “snap election” when you don’t have to, is always a risky political move, but this debacle will cost May leadership for sure. Maybe not tomorrow but within a few weeks. The Conservatives probably are able to form a government if they throw a Cabinet post offer to the Liberal Democrats and hook them in as a junior partner. And the LD will agree as they need to look relevant. But May’s departure hopefully will open the door to someone who understands the Jihadist threat is not about more jobs and skills training for young muslim men. The ambitious Gove might be the one, as he clearly knows more about Islam than May.

    • Any government – and it will of necessity be a coalition government – that is able to be formed from this shambles of a result, and as expected by many, will find it very difficult to govern on the numbers as projected. There may have to be another election to obtain a clearer result after some time has passed and the government admits it cannot govern.

  3. “Germany: Brother of Teen Who Stabbed Cop for ISIS Found Guilty of Arson”

    But just eight years and six years in prison? We WANT to be laughed at!!

  4. Ramadan Londonistan: Nursery Worker Stabbed In Broad Daylight by Female Trio Yelling “Allah”

    Terrorism? Of course not! Who would be so silly to ever imagine it might be? “Dressed in black”, “Asian” (Brit shorthand for Pakistani, Indian or Bangladeshi) and shouting something about someone or other called”Allah”. Indeed, the police spokesman (sorry “person”) is unwilling to confirm whether it might be a hate crime.

    But these are “interesting times”. I say that, and with optimism, because I sense that we’re moving towards the tipping point, that something serious is going to have to be done about the evil allowed to live amongst us.

  5. When one chooses the expedient over the correct by their vote, what they will receive by their choice will be neither expedient nor correct. We learned this fact of governance the hard way and paid for the lesson witj our un-Civil War. One would hope that England would have learned by the historic example we provided. Sadly, it doesn’t appear that they have.
    The most dishonorable mayor of London should be investigated and then brought to book before the Queen’s Bench as an accessory before the fact of the London bridge incident as MI5 had advance knowledge.
    Sadly, that doesn’t appear to be likely either. Those who are the governed have lost trust and faith in those who govern. The only possible and logical outcome is anarchy followed by a dictatorship. Sniff.

  6. Sorry, but IG Farben was 50% owned by Chicago Ch. -an all USA firm.
    During II WW profits were sent from Germany to US through Swiss Banks.

      • Norse, the story on the EU and its Nazi roots is probably being referred to in that comment.

        If anyone would like to exercise their intellect in reading a very well put together article on what has befallen the West over the past one hundred years, you should not go past an article over at, larouchepac.com titled, The Insurrection Against the President, or Who Really is George Soros Anyway?

        That article will join many dots together for those who are still learning about the wicked West and those who control our part of the world, but be warned, it is rather lengthy however, and in my opinion, the reader will find it very educational and well worth the read.

  7. I still do not understand why Nigel Farage stepped away from UKIP and become a reporter for Fox… He is exactly the type of person who should have lead the party and grow it. Like a general leaves in the middle of the battle… Now even BREXIT is in danger!

    • Mmmmm, well maybe Arlene will have something to say about that, she looks tougher than May, but we’ll see; it just could be very interesting!

      I agree with you about Farage, a political giant, and a man we have certainly not heard the last of!

  8. Central Banks Now Own Stocks and Bonds Worth Trillions — and They Could Crash the Markets by Selling Them

    For a truly mind-bending visualization of how overextended the global banking system is, please check out this chart: Comparing the World’s Money and Markets.

    NOTE: Do not drink liquids while examining this visual and be sure to have your hypertension medication close at hand.

    Also recommended: The Economy Is Going To Implode

    In this 150 minute video, The Colorado Buzzsaw (Ann Barnhardt) lucidly explains in layman’s terms the nuts and bolts of why America’s economy is overextended and at risk of total collapse. Although a bit lengthy, the clip is well worth watching. This is especially so for anyone who holds substantial investments or has wealth being held by financial institutions.

    I particularly admire Barnhardt’s willingness to boil down the entire issue of America’s deficit into simple man-hours. The fact and figures that arise from this one example is enough to make your hair stand on end.

    • A counter to that scenario could be the re-introduction of the Glass-Steagal Act. This would give Trump the oomph to legally force the Banks to chew on their own bad debts that could save the economy in the long run.

      There is a push now going on in the Senate to at least debate this subject.

  9. This would give Trump the oomph to legally force the Banks to chew on their own bad debts that could save the economy in the long run.

    Would that this happened. Left to their own devices, American banks will rape out this nation’s economy at every opportunity.

    • Indeed. In 2008, the UK government bailed out the banks, for which we’ll pay for decades; they should have let them fail, while rescuing customers’ funds.

      The arguments for free-market capitalism fail if they are not applied consistently (with the odd exception for firms supplying essential services, on a temporary basis).

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