Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/8/2017

Anarchist violence erupted again in Hamburg on the final night of the G-20 summit. More cars were torched and businesses were looted. 300 people have been detained, and more than 200 have been wounded.

In other news, 35 migrants are feared to have drowned after their boat sank in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, Spain has been warned to expect a new flood of migrants who prefer the “safe” route across the narrow strait from Morocco.

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Financial Crisis
» Canadians Brace for a “Perfect Storm” Brewing in Housing Market
 
USA
» Delingpole: #CNNBlackmail is the Best Thing Since Trump Got Elected
» Dual Citizenship and the Strange Case of the Election of Barack Obama
» In Victory for Trump, Most Americans Now Support Travel Ban
» Liberals Are in Trouble — And They Know it
» Muslim FM Radio Station Broadcast 25 Hours of Al Qaeda Speeches Calling for a Holy War ‘By Mistake’
» Pro-Refugee George Clooney Reportedly Moving Family Back to US: Feels Unsafe in Terrorism-Ravaged Britain
» Secret FEMA Report Warns of Major Solar Storms: “Significant Power Grid Collapses May Occur… Could Require 4 to 10 Years to Fully Restore”
» The Democratic Party’s Ominous Shift
» The End of the Cycle: “The Government Will Gladly Enter a War to Cleanse the Balance Sheet and Cull the Herd”
» White House Leaks That Threaten National Security Stream Out at Rate of One a Day
 
Canada
» Nobody Can Find the Source Code for Icewind Dale II
 
Europe and the EU
» Austria Elderly Couple Murder ‘Was Islamist Killing’
» Escaped White Kangaroo on the Hop in Denmark
» G20 Pictures: Shops Looted, Firebombs Thrown in Second Night of Hard-Left Rioting in Hamburg
» Germany: Chechen Sharia Police Terrorize Berlin
» Italy Arrests Chechen Accused of Fighting With is in Syria
» Muslims Offended at Hearing Bible Verses, So Christians Prosecuted
» Slavery, White Guilt, And the Politics of Absurdity
» Web Inventor Sir Tim Sizes Up Handcuffs for His Creation — and World Has 2 Weeks to Appeal
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» The Rage of Islam
 
Russia
» Pope Francis Decries ‘Very Dangerous Alliance’ Between U.S. And Russia
 
South Asia
» Delhi: Aspiring Air Hostess Stabbed to Death by Jilted Jihadi Lover
 
Immigration
» Coastguard: 35 Migrants Feared Drowned After Boat Sinks in Mediterranean
» EU Expects UK to Take Migrants From Africa in New Relocation Scheme
» ‘Exodus of Biblical Proportions’ — Millions of Migrants to Arrive After EU’s Woeful Response
» Major German Parties Leave Migrant Issues Out of Campaign
» ‘Millions of Africans’ Will Flood Europe Unless it Acts Now Warns European Chief as Paris Evacuates Huge Migrant Camp
» Soros-Funded Media Panics Over Immigration Enforcement
» Spain Warned to ‘Prepare’ As Migrants Sea Landing Via ‘Safer’ Route Double
 
Culture Wars
» Parents vs. Paternalists: The Charlie Gard Case
 
General
» Delingpole: Record-Breaking Cold in Greenland; Alarmists ‘Look. An Arctic Squirrel!’
 

Canadians Brace for a “Perfect Storm” Brewing in Housing Market

We’ve spent a fair amount of time discussing Canada’s housing market over the past several months as Chinese money laundering operations have sprouted up bubbles all over the place. Here’s a modest sampling of our recent work:

All Hell Breaks Loose In Toronto’s House Price Bubble

Canada’s Housing Bubble Explodes As Its Biggest Alternative Mortgage Lender Crashes Most In History Canada Housing Regulator Warns Of “Strong Evidence Of Housing-Market Problems” The Toronto Housing Market Is About To Collapse By This Measure

But, as the Globe and Mail notes today, there could very well be a “perfect storm” brewing in several Canadian housing markets as the result of extreme pricing bubbles, over-indebted consumers, a major tightening of mortgage rules and the prospect of rising rates.

On the regulatory front, Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), is considering new rules that would require lenders to effectively “stress-test” borrowers to confirm they would be in compliance with credit metrics even if rates were to rise 200 bps. From a practical standpoint, such a move would immediately remove roughly 20% of the average Canadian’s home buying power.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Delingpole: #CNNBlackmail is the Best Thing Since Trump Got Elected

[…]

In the early stages of the war, the British and their fellow Allies were invariably on the back foot: how could they possibly defeat an enemy that didn’t play by the rules, that showed no weakness, that seemed more demonic than human?

Anyone who has ever seen action against the SJWs will know the feeling.

They hunt in packs; they swarm; they move as one as if controlled by some sinister hive mind; they are immune to reason; they are completely without mercy. …

#CNNBlackmail, make no mistake, was a pivotal #winning moment.

Why and how did we win? Partly by using the enemy’s tactics against them; partly by exploiting a few strengths of our own.

Here are some of them:

“Sorry. Not interested” …

That attack by CNN’s sinister enforcer Andrew Kaczynski on Reddit user HanAssholeSolo was an outrageous act of overreach by the increasingly aggressive and hectoring left. It was the liberal media deciding that among its new roles is to police society’s behavior and mores in the manner of the NKVD.

Definitely one good thing to have come out of #CNNBlackmail is that the enemy has shown its true colors. But the far, far better news is that the good guys have fought back.

And the best news of all is: we’re #winning.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Dual Citizenship and the Strange Case of the Election of Barack Obama

The media completely controlled the narrative in 2008 and kept the issue of Barack Obama’ s dual citizenship out of the courts by convincing John McCain, the only one with standing to sue, to back off.

Jus sanguinis (Latin: right of blood) is a principle of nationality law by which citizenship is not determined by place of birth but by having one or both parents who are citizens of the state. Children at birth may automatically be citizens if their parents have state citizenship or national identities of ethnic, cultural, or other origins. Citizenship can also apply to children whose parents belong to a diaspora and were not themselves citizens of the state conferring citizenship. This principle contrasts with jus soli.

Jus soli (Latin: right of the soil), commonly referred to as birthright citizenship, is the right of anyone born in the territory of a state to nationality or citizenship. As an unconditional basis for citizenship, it is the predominant rule in the Americas, but is rare elsewhere. Since the Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland was enacted in 2004, no European country grants citizenship based on unconditional jus soli.

A person who becomes a U.S. citizen through naturalization is not considered a natural born citizen. Consequently, naturalized U.S. citizens are not eligible to become President of the United States or Vice President of the United States, which would ordinarily be the case as established by the Presidential Succession Act.

Some argue that the phrase “natural born citizen” describes a category of citizenship distinct from that described by the phrase “U.S. Citizen” in Article Two of the United States Constitution, and this was discussed during the constitutional convention of 1787. While it is true that “natural born citizen” is not defined anywhere within the text of the Constitution and that the Constitution makes use of the phrase “citizen” and “natural born citizen,” Supreme Court decisions from United States v. Wong Kim Ark to the present have considered the distinction to be between natural-born and naturalized citizenship.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

In Victory for Trump, Most Americans Now Support Travel Ban

A new Politico-Morning Consult poll has found that six in 10 American voters now support the new travel ban on people from six predominantly Muslim countries.

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

Liberals Are in Trouble — And They Know it

Conservatives often complain about the lamentable state of their movement. They would do well to look left. Liberals are in greater trouble, and they know it.

The recent special elections for vacant House seats made this evident. The thrashing liberals received in the 2016 elections were also a sign of an inability to communicate their message. Gone are the days in which liberals worked inside a consensus and engaged in debate with others. Everywhere, liberal democracy seems to be endangered by the breakdown of political discourse.

This is due to a great crisis inside the left worldwide. It is no longer a movement of ideas. Liberals have no new ideas because they have adopted such an extreme relativism that they no longer strongly believe in anything. Everything is fluid and undefined. In this way, they have undermined their own foundation of logic and authority that is essential to the functioning of any political movement.

As a result, the old days of rational debate are over. The left exploits emotions and resentments, but can no longer be held to the logic of ideas.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Muslim FM Radio Station Broadcast 25 Hours of Al Qaeda Speeches Calling for a Holy War ‘By Mistake’

Iman FM transmitted 25 hours of sermons from Anwar Al-Awlaki, a hate preacher killed by a US drone strike in 2011.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pro-Refugee George Clooney Reportedly Moving Family Back to US: Feels Unsafe in Terrorism-Ravaged Britain

Insider: ‘He doesn’t feel like Amal and the twins are safe living in the English countryside.’

George Clooney, a pro-Islam advocate and proponent of open borders, will reportedly move back to the United States, citing security concerns for his wife and newborn twins in terrorism-ravaged Britain.

Like other Hollywood hypocrites, Clooney, 56, says one thing publicly but does another privately. The anti-Trump actor has repeatedly trashed the president’s calls for sovereign nations to protect their borders and properly vet refugees from known hotbeds of Muslim terrorism.

Yet Clooney has never housed a single refugee in his many mansions around the world, nor does he live without tall gates protecting his lavish properties.

And now, George plans to move his wife, Amal (a Lebanese-Brit who was raised Muslim) and their newborn twins back to Los Angeles after a spate of terrorist attacks rocked England.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Secret FEMA Report Warns of Major Solar Storms: “Significant Power Grid Collapses May Occur… Could Require 4 to 10 Years to Fully Restore”

An unpublished internal FEMA report has finally been obtained via an FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request, which highlights the extent of damage a major solar storm, what they call the “100 year geomagnetic storm,” would do to critical infrastructure in the U.S., including “Significant power grid collapses,” which “could require 4-10 years to fully restore.”

The internal “for official use only” document originated in 2010, and in February 2016, was requested by governmentattic.org and was released to the organization on May 24, 2017, according to the 70 page PDF they released on June 12, 2017, which includes the timeline of request to release, the FEMA final response communication with the requested data of any unpublished internal FEMA or unpublished contractor technical or management reports and studies concerning risks from geomagnetic storms, risks from solar flares, and risks from electromagnetic pulse.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Democratic Party’s Ominous Shift

Democrats have long believed they alone occupy the intellectual high ground, regardless of the issue. Recently, their party has undergone an ominous shift. Part of this involves their staunch refusal to engage in any meaningful debate of the issues —— considering everyone else as just a bunch of cultural infidels. This is a dangerous mindset, as it threatens the fundamental underpinnings of our civility, and thus the overall stability of America.

The political energy driving the Democratic Party today primarily comes from the Left’s dominance in academia, entertainment, and media. This affords them an unprecedented ability to influence what most people learn, see, and hear —— carefully controlling both the medium and the message to keep certain demographics increasingly mired in grievance, fear, and hate. At the heart of it all, of course, is identity politics, producing hotbeds of victim identities that form the basis for the incredibly divisive actions we’re now seeing.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The End of the Cycle: “The Government Will Gladly Enter a War to Cleanse the Balance Sheet and Cull the Herd”

In the days following the 241st anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the country is in an even more precarious position than it was in 1776. We face a situation of a fiat currency about to collapse as the consumer-based economy follows. Whether orchestrated by our imperialistic government or following actions of a hostile foreign nation (prompted or unprompted) the government will gladly enter a war to “cleanse” the balance sheet and cull the herd. Concurrently, the country is deeply divided domestically along lines of racial unrest.

The country also faces a threat to its existence in the face of Muslim extremists who are fostered by the traitorous socialist-Marxists in our government who enabled their entry under Obama as protected “refugees.” U.S. policy in every arena is a chariot drawn by horses with no driver, jerking toward the “Blues” of the socialist Democrats or the “Reds” of the socialist, pseudo-Republicans in the domestic quagmire, the Circus Maximus partially in ruin after years of Barack Hussein Obama II’s reign…

A law-abiding people is most easily controlled by the law. There is no news today! There is no coverage over what is happening in the rest of the world! Where was the coverage…live…when the Egyptians were fed up with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood and enlisted the aid of the army…and aided it, rioting in the streets to oust those extremists that Obama allowed to take power? Where was the true coverage of the coup d’états we fostered, supported, and enabled in Ukraine and in Libya? No, the “coverage” is limited to the lives of tabloid celebrities and distortions of any objectivity. Why?

To keep the citizens dumbed down, uninformed, working, taxed, consuming, mesmerized by sports and sex, and stultified to prevent them from taking any action against a government that is becoming more tyrannical, more repressive by the day.

The media obfuscates: they aid, and in turn are aided by, the government. Benghazi, Libya. An embassy of the United States destroyed, and the ambassador and four members of his consulate killed, and nothing…nothing…has happened to the perpetrators.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

White House Leaks That Threaten National Security Stream Out at Rate of One a Day

Trump has repeatedly denounced the accuracy and propriety of the leaks.

[Comment: Trump must toss out those people planted by Soros and Obama.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Nobody Can Find the Source Code for Icewind Dale II

The people who make enhanced editions of old role-playing games like Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment want to do the same thing for Icewind Dale II. There’s just one problem: nobody knows where to find the code.

Beamdog, a Canadian publisher best known for releasing snazzy new versions of old Infinity Engine RPGs like the ones mentioned above, is looking to re-release Icewind Dale II with enhanced graphics and other improvements. But Beamdog’s CEO, Trent Oster, says his team can’t find the source code for Icewind Dale II. Without that code, he says, they can’t make any sort of enhanced edition of the game.

“We’ve searched all the archives we have access to, including all the data handed over to Wizards of the Coast from Atari and there is no source code for Icewind Dale II,” Oster told me in an e-mail. “We’ve reached out to our friends at Obsidian, as many of them were the development staff behind Icewind Dale II, and they do not have any source code. We’re stalled on the project without source and the project won’t move forward until we can find it. We’ve naturally moved on to other things until there is a change in the situation.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Austria Elderly Couple Murder ‘Was Islamist Killing’

A Tunisian man suspected of brutally murdering an elderly couple in their Austrian home is believed to have acted with an Islamist motive, Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said Wednesday.

If confirmed, Friday’s killings in the northern city of Linz — in which an 85-year-old woman’s throat was slit and her 87-year-old husband was stabbed and beaten to death — would be the first Islamist attack in Austria, which had so far avoided the jihadist assaults seen elsewhere in Europe.

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

Escaped White Kangaroo on the Hop in Denmark

Albino or white kangaroos are a rare sight in their native Australia.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

G20 Pictures: Shops Looted, Firebombs Thrown in Second Night of Hard-Left Rioting in Hamburg

Extreme-left rioters have caused havoc in a second night or rioting in Hamburg, Germany, as they protest against the G20 meeting of world leaders in a violent demonstration dubbed ‘Welcome to Hell’.

Over 200 police officers have been injured in the rioting, which have seen officers deploy squadrons of water-cannon trucks, baton charges, and tear gas to disperse rioters.

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

Germany: Chechen Sharia Police Terrorize Berlin

by Soeren Kern

Threats of violence against “errant” women are viewed as “acts of patriotism.”

“They have come to Germany because they wanted to live in Germany, but they keep trying to turn it into Chechnya with its medieval ways.” — Social worker interviewed by Meduza.

“Everyone’s attention is fixed on the Syrians, but the Chechens are the most dangerous group. We are not paying sufficient attention to this.” — Police in Frankfurt (Oder).

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Italy Arrests Chechen Accused of Fighting With is in Syria

Italian authorities have arrested a Chechen man suspected of fighting in Syria with the Islamic State (IS) extremist group and of being involved in a deadly 2014 attack in Russia’s war-scarred southern Chechnya region.

Italian prosecutors said 38-year-old Eli Bombataliyev was being held on terrorism charges in the southern town of Foggia and that he was suspected of having links to an IS network based in Belgium.

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

Muslims Offended at Hearing Bible Verses, So Christians Prosecuted

After Muslims had a violent reaction as two street preachers cited quotes from the Bible, the preachers were brought to court by prosecutors in the United Kingdom — and now they’ve both been cleared of charges.

However, a British Christian organization warns the message the prosecutors sent throughout the dispute is alarming: Submit to Islam’s Shariah law, and the government will “enforce the Islamist agenda of prohibiting any criticism of Islam.”

According the international Christian ministry Barnabas Fund, street preachers Michael Stockwell and Michael Overd were convicted in a lower court but then found not guilty of inciting public disorder at Bristol Crown Court.

The lower-court decision, from Bristol Magistrates Court, found them guilty of an offense under the Crime and Disorder Act, and although the appeals court cleared them, the message left by the prosecution is concerning, the Christian organization explained.

The two were confronted and badgered by passersby while they were preaching and citing quotations from the King James Bible, the group said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Slavery, White Guilt, And the Politics of Absurdity

Muslims enslaved more than two million white European Christians.

A majority of “white America” are descendants of people who came to America during the great waves of European immigration from 1880 to 1924. Over a hundred million white Americans trace their ancestry to immigrants who passed through Ellis Island, which didn’t open until 1900. Most white Americans are descendants from people who came to these shores long after slavery was extinguished.

The indictment of all white people for the evil of slavery because they share skin color with slave owners is an indulgence in absurdity. We are told not to judge all Muslims as terrorists or all blacks responsible for the crimes of individual blacks. Yet, for whites, the collective guilt is unending. It is propagated in our universities under the now theological dictates of white privilege and white guilt.

The Eastern and Southern Europeans who came here primarily during the period of 1880-1924 had no participation in the slave trade except to have had some of their forbearers taken as slaves by Muslim slavers from North Africa and the Ottoman Empire. For over two hundred years, during the mid-1600s to the 1830s, Barbary Muslims trafficked in white European Christians. The Ottoman Muslims trafficking in White Christian slavery started even earlier, in the 15th century. All in all, Muslims enslaved more than two million white European Christians.

Barbary slavers nearly depopulated the coastal villages of Southern Europe and went as far north as Iceland and Scotland to conduct slave raids. Ottoman Turks went into Russia to procure slaves.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Web Inventor Sir Tim Sizes Up Handcuffs for His Creation — and World Has 2 Weeks to Appeal

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, director of the web standards trendsetter W3C, and Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire, has given his blessing to anti-piracy locks on web content.

Traditionally, web technology has been open. HTML markup, CSS, and JavaScript code can be viewed (though not necessarily easily understood, thanks to minification), remixed, and reused. The web’s openness allowed it to flourish.

But those selling costly content — software and media companies — prefer open wallets to anything goes. So they have employed copy deterrence schemes based on proprietary technologies like Adobe Flash and Wildvine to make high-value content viewable but not easily copyable in web browsers. However, this approach leaves much to be desired in terms of user experience and ongoing compatibility.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Rage of Islam

To preserve his irrational sense of honor, the Muslim man must blame others for any wrongdoing. Conforming to this perverse logic, United Nations Human Rights Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Dubravka Simonovic, blames Israel for the violence committed by Palestinian men against their own women. If Israel’s retaliatory attacks were indeed the cause, shouldn’t the Israeli women be even more abused by their husbands? But that is not the case.

It begins in the home. Family life is a microcosm of the surrounding culture. Inside and outside the Islamic home, there is oppression, subordination, envy, animosity, shame, enslavement, and emotional and physical pain for any deviation. Muslim women are among the poorest, most oppressed, and least educated in the world, caged by their cumbrous shrouds in the insufferable desert heat, by their misogynist sharia laws, and by their chauvinist husbands. The 7th-century Bedouin woman’s attempt at privacy and protection has become a symbol of humiliation, servitude, and protection from men who are raised to lack restraint. Thus clad and maltreated, there is no natural interaction between the sexes, such as is found elsewhere. Not only are the women deprived of freedom and individuality, but they are also denied sunlight and Vitamin D, and more likely to develop osteoporosis, experience pelvic fracture during childbirth, and have babies who are disposed to seizures.

The Muslim family is a hatchery for abnormal behavior, its dynamics providing constant frustration. Just as Islam seeks to dominate all other religions, so the man seeks to dominate all within his dominion —— the employer who humiliates his employee, the husband who beats his wife, and the father who kills his daughter for his “honor.” It is seen in the pain needlessly inflicted on cattle brought to slaughter during the Islamic holiday of Eid. The sounds of the men’s sadistic torture, and animals bleating and bleeding in the streets, increase their indifference to cruelty and the value of life. All of these are nurtured within the family…

A study conducted by Oxford University has shown that the male must make as many as 34 head-to-prayer mat contacts five times per day, often resulting in a zebibah (or prayer bump) and traumatic brain injury along with mental disorders. The practice is known to cause irritation, aggression, depression, and cognitive impairment, all to feed the cult and war mentality. Known as TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), it can affect thinking (memory, reasoning), sensation (touch, taste, smell), language (communication, expression, understanding), and emotion (depression, anxiety, personality change, aggression, social inaptness). It can cause epilepsy, and increases the conditions for age-related Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease and other brain disorders.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pope Francis Decries ‘Very Dangerous Alliance’ Between U.S. And Russia

In a new interview, Pope Francis said he fears there are “very dangerous alliances between powers who have a distorted view of the world,” including such an alliance between the United States and Russia.

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

Delhi: Aspiring Air Hostess Stabbed to Death by Jilted Jihadi Lover

Aspiring Hindu air hostess stabbed seven times to death by jilted Muslim lover.

Sumedha Bist | HENB | New Delhi | July 8, 2017:: 48 hours after Riya Gautam, a 21-year-old aspiring air-hostess, was stabbed seven times by a ‘Love Jihadist’, just meters away from her Ram Nagar Extension house in Shahdara area Wednesday, her brother said she had lodged a complaint against the accused in April. “About three months ago, she told us that a Muslim man was harassing and stalking her. We had lodged a complaint at the Mansarovar Park police station. Police told us that he was in Gujarat and that they would investigate,” Ashish, the victim’s elder brother, said.

Riya succumbed to injuries at GTB Hospital early Thursday. CCTV footage from Wednesday shows her being slapped by the accused, Adil alias Munne Khan, in the presence of passersby. It also shows her trying to escape by entering a photo studio even as Adil runs behind her wielding a knife. “She was stopped by the accused. Minutes later, he started slapping her and then stabbed her seven times inside the shop,” police sources said.

Special Commissioner and chief spokesperson of Delhi Police, Dependra Pathak, said an officer of the rank of Additional DCP has been appointed to look into why action was not taken after the complaint was received three months ago. Pathak told the press that raids were being conducted to track Adil, a private taxi driver, and that he would be arrested soon. “After scanning call data records of the victim and CCTV footage of Wednesday’s incident, we came to know she was talking to the accused before the incident,” Pathak said.

           — Hat tip: Upananda Brahmachari [Return to headlines]
 

Coastguard: 35 Migrants Feared Drowned After Boat Sinks in Mediterranean

Thirty-five migrants, including seven children, were feared drowned after their inflatable boat sank on Saturday off the Libyan coast, the coastguard said.

Eighty-five migrants, including 18 women, were rescued with the help of fishermen who alerted the coastguard, said Issa al-Zarrouk, a coastguard official in Garabulli, 60 kilometres (40 miles) east of Tripoli.

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

EU Expects UK to Take Migrants From Africa in New Relocation Scheme

The first vice president of the European Commission has said he expects the UK to take in migrants from North Africa as part of a new European Union (EU) programme.

The bloc is planning to take genuine refugees directly from nations like Libya, hoping to secure a deal where Libya would, in return, accept the immediate return of all migrants found crossing the Mediterranean.

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

‘Exodus of Biblical Proportions’ — Millions of Migrants to Arrive After EU’s Woeful Response

ANTONIO Tajani has criticised Europe for “underestimating” the migrant crisis and warned “millions” more will come.

The President of the European Union said there will be an exodus “of biblical proportions” in the next five years that will be “impossible to stop” if Europe does not confront the problem now.

Mr Tajani’s warning came as France evacuated almost 3,000 migrants sleeping rough from a makeshift camp near Paris’ city centre.

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

Major German Parties Leave Migrant Issues Out of Campaign

The two largest parties in Germany, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), have largely refused to acknowledge migrant issues in their campaign ahead of September’s national election.

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

‘Millions of Africans’ Will Flood Europe Unless it Acts Now Warns European Chief as Paris Evacuates Huge Migrant Camp

Europe is “underestimating” the scale and severity of the migration crisis and “millions of Africans” will flood the continent in the next five years unless urgent action is taken, a senior European official has warned.

The dire prediction from Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, came as Paris evacuated almost 3,000 migrants sleeping rough from a makeshift camp near the city centre — the 34th such evacuation in two years.

In an interview with Il Messagero newspaper, Mr Tajani said there would be an exodus “of biblical proportions that would be impossible to stop if we don’t confront the problem now”.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Soros-Funded Media Panics Over Immigration Enforcement

President Donald Trump’s administration’s enforcement of United States immigration laws is leaving media funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros in a panic.

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

Spain Warned to ‘Prepare’ As Migrants Sea Landing Via ‘Safer’ Route Double

The UN’s refugee agency has warned Spain to prepare for an increase in migrants arriving from North Africa as landings double compared with 2016, with more asylum seekers preferring the “safer” route to Europe from Morocco.

The Morocco-Spain route is the fastest growing route for illegal immigrant crossings across the Mediterranean Sea, with current arrivals already pushing Spanish migrant reception resources to their limit, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has said.

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

Parents vs. Paternalists: The Charlie Gard Case

Many important questions are raised by the case of ten-month-old Briton Charlie Gard, sentenced to death against the wishes of his parents who had raised money for a desperate last hope of life-saving treatment in America. For months, those parents fought a losing battle, all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, to invoke the human tradition of parental authority against the impersonal death cult of progressive paternalism which had condemned their son.

One of the most subtle and telling questions, raised by many, is what would happen should Charlie’s parents be granted permission to keep him alive with experimental treatments, only to find their son trapped permanently in a vegetative state. Should Britain’s national health care system be on the hook to pay to keep a baby alive indefinitely in such a condition?

In short, no —— because the British government should not be providing health care. The question occurs to us, and seems complicated, only if we accept the key premises of the argument for socialized medicine, namely, (a) universal health care is a human right, and (b) government is the only proper guarantor, through confiscatory taxation and/or other coercive means, of this universal right to health care (i.e., medical services).

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Delingpole: Record-Breaking Cold in Greenland; Alarmists ‘Look. An Arctic Squirrel!’

Greenland just broke the record for the coldest July day ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere at —33C. [image]

But as Tony Heller notes, what’s even more interesting than the temperature record is the way the climate alarmists have tried to spin it. [screenshots]

In fact they lie. Almost all Greenland’s surface is gaining ice. [image]

In fact, says Heller, Greenland has gained a near record amount of ice this year, and the ice is melting very slowly. [image]

It’s hard not to agree with his conclusion:

Climate science is not a science. It is a criminal venture intended to extort money from the public. Whatever they are doing, has nothing to do with science.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

4 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/8/2017

  1. Best to gather troop transports and move millions of Africans to the Pope’s Argentina.
    As the Argentines fight this, we can call on the Pope for moral suasion to force his homeland to accept several million.

  2. Don’t look now, but the Washington Post is giving prime op-ed space to that “moderate” Linda Sarsour so she can explain her use of the term “jihad”.

    Unbelievable.

  3. “Feared”? The only people fearing for them are probably Merkel and her clique.
    The Hamburg ordeal was terrible! Though purely subjectively speaking, I’m glad it lured many of the troublemakers away from Berlin, where I was spending the weekend.

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