Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/14/2017

In a Charlottesville courtroom today, a judge informed James Alex Fields Jr. of the charges against him. Mr. Fields indicated that he understood them. The judge denied bail during the arraignment, and the defendant remains in jail.

Meanwhile, a 23-year-old Oklahoma man named Jerry Drake Varnell has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting to bomb a bank with the help of an FBI informant. Mr. Varnell is said to be associated with the III Percent movement.

In other news, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that Europe can easily accept another 40,000 migrants.

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USA
» Bombing Plot in Oklahoma City is Thwarted With Arrest, F.B.I Says
» Charlottesville Protests Reveal Syrian Islamist Neo Nazi Alliance
» FBI: Oklahoma City Bank Explosion Plot Foiled by Undercover
» Hollywood Studio Poised to Make ‘Nigel Farage’ Movie
» Julian Assange Explains How WikiLeaks Used an Algorithm to Catch the Clinton Camp Off-Guard With Email Dumps
» Man Accused of Running Car Into Crowd of Protesters Appears in Court
 
Europe and the EU
» ‘Merkel Must Go’ — Angry Protestors Boo German Chancellor as She Tries to Win
» Soros Group Ramps Up Lobbying Efforts in 2017
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Netanyahu’s Woes
 
Russia
» Russian Forces Foil ISIS Terror Plot
 
Far East
» Chinese AI Chatbots Shutdown After Calling Communism Useless
 
Australia — Pacific
» Mother-of-Two, 36, Caught on Camera in Racist Rant Against Muslim Woman Claims She Launched Her Tirade Because She Was ‘Scared by Her Victim’s Veil’
 
Latin America
» U.S. Detects Possible Death Threat Against Rubio From Venezuela
 
Immigration
» Just 0.3 Per Cent of German Asylum Seekers Did Not Come Via Safe Nations
» Lone NGO Ship Laments Lack of Migrant Boats Off Coast of Libya
» Merkel to UN: ‘European Union Can Take 40,000 More Migrants’
» Somali Migrant Arrested in Europe Over 2011 Pirate Attack
» ‘We Can’t Cope Alone!’ Italy Says it’s Been Abandoned by Europe Over Migrant Crisis
 

Bombing Plot in Oklahoma City is Thwarted With Arrest, F.B.I Says

A 23-year-old Oklahoma man has been arrested after he tried to blow up a bank in downtown Oklahoma City using a vehicle bomb similar to the one that destroyed the federal building there in 1995, federal officials said Monday.

The man, Jerry Drake Varnell, had been plotting the attack for months, the authorities said, but was thwarted by a long-running undercover investigation led by an F.B.I. joint terrorism task force.

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

Charlottesville Protests Reveal Syrian Islamist Neo Nazi Alliance

by Jerry Gordon

A minor epiphany occurred at the “Unite the Right” rally revealed in the wanton violent act of 20 year old James Alex Fields, Jr. Fields was arrested as the perpetrator of the Palestinian/ISIS terrorist-style car ramming that tragically killed 32 year old local law firm employee Heather Heyer while crossing the street and injuring 26 others, many seriously, in downtown Charlottesville .

It surfaced in a Newsweek article and interview with a former high school history teacher that noted Field’s pronounced Neo-Nazi views. Upon further investigation of his Facebook page it revealed his bizarre veneration of embattled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad , “Why Do James Alex Field Jr. and U.S. Neo-Nazis Love Syria’s Bashar al-Assad?”

Note what was found on Fields’ Facebook page:…

           — Hat tip: Jerry Gordon [Return to headlines]
 

FBI: Oklahoma City Bank Explosion Plot Foiled by Undercover

OKLAHOMA CITY. — An Oklahoma man was arrested early Saturday after he attempted to detonate what he thought was an explosives-laden van next to an Oklahoma City bank, federal prosecutors say.

According to a criminal complaint filed in the Western District of Oklahoma yesterday, the FBI arrested 23-year-old Jerry Drake Varnell of Sayre after he attempted to detonate the device, which was actually inert.

The complaint says Varnell initially wanted to blow up the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C., with a device similar to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, because he was upset with the government. Varnell allegedly claimed to embrace the “Three Percenter” ideology, referring to a far-right anti-government group.

The FBI was tipped off to the plot by a confidential informant and sent undercover agents posing as someone who could help him, the complaint says.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Hollywood Studio Poised to Make ‘Nigel Farage’ Movie

He’s never been one to shun the spotlight and became known in the US through his role in the Trump campaign.

Now a Hollywood studio is said to be close to signing a deal to make a TV series about Nigel Farage and his Ukip friends.

A script has been put together to turn Ukip donor and Brexit campaigner Arron Bank’s book into a six-part film.

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

Julian Assange Explains How WikiLeaks Used an Algorithm to Catch the Clinton Camp Off-Guard With Email Dumps

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange developed an algorithm last year used to randomly select for release emails hacked from Democratic politicians and staffers, according to a lengthy New Yorker report.

The publishing algorithm, which Assange named “Stochastic Terminator,” helped WikiLeaks publish sets of internal documents and communications, including those of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta, with the goal of making it more difficult for the campaign to “to adjust to the problem, to spin, to create antidote news beforehand,” Assange told the New Yorker’s Raffi Khatchadourian.

Assange explained that the algorithm, which he developed leading up to WikiLeaks’ first release of Podesta’s emails last September, “was built on a random-number generator, modified by mathematical weights that reflected the pattern of the news cycle in a typical week,” Khatchadourian wrote.

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

Man Accused of Running Car Into Crowd of Protesters Appears in Court

(CHARLOTTSVILLE, VA) — The Maumee man accused of running his car into a group of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia made his first court appearance on Monday.

James Fields Jr. was arraigned over a TV screen that was set up in the corner of the courtroom.

The judge appointed attorney Charles Weber to Fields Jr., who has yet to accept the case.

Fields Jr. told the judge he works at Securitas, a security services company in Maumee, and makes $650 every two weeks. Fields Jr. said he had no ties to the Charlottesville area.

The judge told Fields Jr. that he was charged with murder, malicious wounding and hit and run. Fields told the judge that he understood those charges.

Fields Jr. is being held without bond. He will next appear in court on August 25 at 11 a.m.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

‘Merkel Must Go’ — Angry Protestors Boo German Chancellor as She Tries to Win

GERMANY’S Chancellor Angela Merkel was booed and jeered as she took to the stage in Gelnhausen, Germany, today — to try and convince voters to back her.

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

Soros Group Ramps Up Lobbying Efforts in 2017

Liberal billionaire George Soros’s advocacy arm is ramping up its lobbying efforts this year, disclosure forms show.

The deep-pocketed Democratic financier increased lobbying expenditures on a range of foreign issues, including efforts to oppose laws described as a direct attack on his funding of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in his native country of Hungary.

The Open Society Policy Center, a D.C.-based nonprofit that focuses on advocacy efforts and is a separate entity from the Soros grant making Open Society Foundations, has spent nearly as much on lobbying in the first half of 2017 as the group did in the entirety of 2016.

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

Netanyahu’s Woes

by Srdja Trifkovic

For many scandal-plagued politicians there comes a turning point after which the downfall becomes inevitable. In Richard Nixon’s case this happened on March 1, 1974, when he was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an indictment against seven former presidential aides. Two months later, impeachment hearings commenced before the House Judiciary Committee. Charles Haughey’s illustrious career as Ireland’s “Great Houdini” came to an end in 1992, when revelations surfaced about his role in a decade-old phone tapping scandal. In Silvio Berlusconi’s long battle for political survival, the point of no return came on August 1, 2013, when he was convicted of tax-fraud by Italy’s court of final appeal.

Benjamin Netanyahu, now in his fourth term, may become the longest-serving Israeli Prime Minister—provided he survives in his post into 2018. On August 3, Israeli police officially confirmed that Netanyahu is suspected of a series of crimes, including fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. On the same day it was announced that his former chief of staff, Ari Harow, had signed a deal with prosecutors to become state’s witness and testify against Netanyahu. In the ensuing ten days, people in Netanyahu’s inner circle reportedly started “fleeing like rats on the Titanic.” The prime minister is said to be angry that some Likud ministers are reluctant to express support for him. Some told The Jerusalem Post that “they felt uncomfortable defending Netanyahu, because they believed he made mistakes he should not have made and they did not want to be associated with those mistakes.”

Netanyahu and his supporters on the Israeli right insist the investigations, and their media coverage, amount to a politically motivated vendetta by leftists and media purveyors of “fake news.” In a speech to thousands of supporters last Wednesday, the prime minister even accused his foes of seeking to bring him down in order to cede land to the Palestinians. Defiance was to be expected, but after August 3 it looks like “Bibi the Magician” is running out of tricks. The investigation—its details are available to the curious—now also includes his wife, eldest son, personal lawyer, and one of his cabinet ministers. The one important question is what impact Netanyahu’s eventual downfall will have on the political and military situation in the region.

In the medium term no significant changes should be expected in Israel’s position. Two politicians who are considered most likely to replace him—Bayit Yehudi leader and Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Netanyahu’s old Likud rival Gideon Sa’ar—take an even more intransigent line on the question of Palestinian statehood than the prime minister. Both now reject the assumptions behind Netanyahu’s Bar-Ilan speech in 2009 and his subsequent conditions for support of a demilitarized Palestinian state…

           — Hat tip: Srdja Trifkovic [Return to headlines]
 

Russian Forces Foil ISIS Terror Plot

DEADLY explosives used in terror attacks like the Manchester bombing have been discovered by Russian intelligence services after they foiled an ISIS plot in Moscow.

The jihadi’s had planned to devastate the capital city with at least two suicide bombings and four people have been arrested on suspicion of planning terror attacks.

A weapons laboratory producing improvised explosives was raided in a special operation on the outskirts of the city.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) said the attacks were directed by two senior militants who are fighting for ISIS in Syria, and hail from “the former Soviet Union”.

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

Chinese AI Chatbots Shutdown After Calling Communism Useless

A pair of ‘chatbots’ in China have been taken offline after one said its dream was to travel to the United States, and another shared it wasn’t a huge fan of the Communist Party.

The two chatbots, BabyQ and XiaoBing, are designed to use machine learning artificial intelligence (AI) to carry out conversations with humans online. Both had been installed onto Tencent Holdings Ltd’s popular messaging service QQ.

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

Mother-of-Two, 36, Caught on Camera in Racist Rant Against Muslim Woman Claims She Launched Her Tirade Because She Was ‘Scared by Her Victim’s Veil’

The woman (pictured) caught on camera accusing a Muslim woman of being a terrorist has been sentenced after pleading guilty to intimidating a couple in Sydney.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

U.S. Detects Possible Death Threat Against Rubio From Venezuela

One of Venezuela’s most powerful leaders may have put out an order to kill Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a fervent critic of the South American country’s government, according to intelligence obtained by the U.S. last month.

Though federal authorities couldn’t be sure at the time if the uncorroborated threat was real, they took it seriously enough that Rubio has been guarded by a security detail for several weeks in both Washington and Miami.

Believed to be behind the order: Diosdado Cabello, the influential former military chief and lawmaker from the ruling socialist party who has publicly feuded with Rubio.

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

Just 0.3 Per Cent of German Asylum Seekers Did Not Come Via Safe Nations

An almost inconsequentially small number of migrants (0.36 per cent) applying for asylum in Germany last year should have done so according to EU law, as they had not passed through other safe nations before getting there.

Around 280,000 migrants entered the German asylum system in 2016, and less than 1,000 did not come via safe third countries.

If Germany’s Basic Law and the European Union’s (EU) Dublin Agreement were fully implemented, then 99.6 per cent of the migrants entering asylum claims would not be allowed to do so.

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

Lone NGO Ship Laments Lack of Migrant Boats Off Coast of Libya

MEDITERRANEAN SEA (AFP) — On board the Aquarius, one of the last NGO ships still operating off the coast of Libya, rescuers are worried they are not seeing any more boatloads of migrants at sea.

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

Merkel to UN: ‘European Union Can Take 40,000 More Migrants’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed UN plans to send more Middle Eastern and African migrants to the European Union, saying the bloc could “cope with” 40,000 more asylum seekers.

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

Somali Migrant Arrested in Europe Over 2011 Pirate Attack

A suspected ringleader of a terrorist-linked pirate group which hijacked an oil tanker has been arrested after being identified inside an Italian migrant camp.

The 24-year-old Somali Mohamed Farah arrived in Italy without paperwork or identification, a common state of affairs amongst migrants claiming asylum in Europe which makes them significantly harder to deport according to European Union rules.

The suspected pirate was identified after he requested asylum at a migrant centre in the Italian town of Caltanissetta, part of the process for which involved fingerprints being taken. Farah’s prints matched with those associated with a 2011 pirate attack, leading to his arrest and the launch of a police investigation, reports Roman newspaper Il Messaggero.

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

‘We Can’t Cope Alone!’ Italy Says it’s Been Abandoned by Europe Over Migrant Crisis

ITALIAN Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano has accused the European Union (EU) of abandoning Italy as it struggles to cope with the refugee crisis.

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

9 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/14/2017

  1. ** Alfano has accused the European Union (EU) of abandoning Italy as it struggles to cope with the refugee **

    Italy did nothing but ensure that invading Africans and Muslims were safely transported to Italy. What is this stupid talk of abandonment? Did they think the E.U. is not run by snakes?

    • I think the money to Italy for all those migrants has dried up Colonel, that’s what they are really complaining about.

  2. .
    The 2017 American Renaissance Conference: “Turning the Tide.”

    Helmuth Nyborg: “What Made Europe Great & What Could Destroy It”
    Publiced 9 aug. 2017

    https://youtu.be/02vvYDxXQ3w

    Helmuth Nyborg, professor emeritus of the University of Aarhus, begins by pointing out the clear relationship between distance from the equator and both brain size and intelligence. At or close to the equator, the average IQ is 69, whereas at a latitude of 54 degrees the average is 98. Prof. Nyborg observes that races could be logically be classified as “eco-types,” since their traits reflect the ecological niches in which they evolved.

    Prof. Nyborg also notes that unlike the north/south gradient in IQ there is no East/West gradient, virtually proving that it is the challenges of a cold climate that have forced northern peoples to evolve higher intelligence and a greater capacity for cooperation. He points out that Arabs have lower-than-expected IQs relative to the latitudes in which they evolved, probably due to the dysgenic effects of frequent cousin marriages.

    Two forces could destroy Western Civilization. One is a social system that taxes the competent to subsidize the proliferation of the incompetent. As Prof. Nyborg notes, “The welfare-state debases what created high civilization in the first place. This is the first time in history that the less fit are reproducing more than the more fit.”

    At the same time, lower-IQ non-Europeans are pouring into the continent, bringing with them alien practices and religions. Prof. Nyborg concludes with a warning: Unless Europeans are able to reverse these two trends, “the result could be the undoing of the Enlightenment. We may be on the precipice of a new Dark Age.”

    Website: https://www.amren.com/

    • I guess Ashkenazic Jews are from the north pole. Yet, Israel is preferable.

    • I could more easily buy this scenario if the Inuit (the Eskimos) were found to be geniuses. What neuroscience *is* proving in the last decade or so is the plasticity of the human brain. It’s no longer nature vs. nurture but both. That’s where we get the study of epigenetics, which is far more aligned with reality than a simplification of DNA…

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics

      You can use it to decipher historical events, like the sequelae of the Dutch Winter of Starvation, or the persistence of genodical damage in subsequent generations. Useful for understanding family and larger cultural dynamics.

      That’s not to say the en masse immigration isn’t harmful. But it would be similar (not perhaps so violent) if an equal number of say, Japanese and Chinese, were to “invade”…maybe we’ll see when our Chinese overlords finally make their move. They’re already buying up our ports and real estate.

      At any rate, IQ ratings are reductionist.

    • The traditional cultures of the Inuit and many American Indian Nation residents of the cold, northern climes, the Laplanders and the inhabitants of Mongolia have more in common with ‘warm climate’ traditional cultures than they do with cold climate, college graduate Western city dwellers!

      This is a selective city-rural bias and I’m sure the IQ test measures qualities more prevalent in the Western city. I dare say that a Western, suburban female, transferred to the hot Australian Outback would have little clue how to track animals for hunting and the local Aboriginal people (belonging to the oldest continuous Stone Age culture on the planet) would be correct in thinking she was a complete idiot, well-deserving inferior status.

      Further, it was the Judeo-Christian heritage, incorporating the best of Greek philosophy, which made the West great. And the foundation of that heritage is that all human beings are equal in the eyes of God.

      Within the West there is a great variety of IQ levels. In poorer neighborhoods, where children have no access to the paraphernalia that goes with educated and caring parents, their IQs will suffer because of inadequate educational levels.

      The Jewish people, universally envied for their intelligence, grew up in a warm Middle Eastern environment, which placed a high value on education and the exegesis of the Torah.

      Yet, in the same eco-environment, Arabs recite their Koran, which unlike the Torah, was apparently authored by a single, but highly flawed intelligence, and therefore it has had the opposite effect. Continuous recitation of that text increases exponentially the stupidity of its adherents, judging by their opinions and actions!

      The marked superiority of the Jewish, Greek, Roman and Christian cultures is therefore separate from their ecology – and still remains a mystery.

      I agree that it is being destroyed by the barbarian invasion – but its destruction began during the Enlightenment, when men fell in love with their own minds. Sadly, as any self-referential entity deteriorates from lack of relationship beyond itself – much like Islam – the West was well on the way to committing suicide before the advent of the invaders.

      It is the Marxist Left which has destroyed us. The Muslim invaders are only hammering the last coffin nail.

  3. The Foreign Secretary of the EU is an Italian, long associated with Marxism. She wants all nation-states to be absorbed into the collective. Italy, with its silly leaders, is first on the menu.

  4. Just dropping in to reiterate a great point that Black Pigeon made in his latest clip-

    Along with the radical Left, the Ummah are the other group known for destroying any and all history they find offensive to their ideology of intolerance.

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