Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/24/2017

Concrete barriers are being placed around the iconic cathedral in Cologne to prevent a possible vehicular terrorist attack like the one in Barcelona. Meanwhile, Barcelona and other Spanish cities are intensifying security and increasing the number of police on the streets in an effort to deter further jihad action.

In other news, three people were injured after a car tried to drive through a demonstration in St. Louis last night. The march was a protest against the police shooting of a transgender person named Kiwi Herring, who had stabbed and wounded a man prior to the arrival of police. The driver who ran into the protesters seems to have become angry that they were blocking the street.

The black Mercedes collided with protesters marching in honor of Kiwi Herring, a transgender woman shot dead by police on Tuesday, FOX2 reported.

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Financial Crisis
» ECB Chief Draghi: QE Has Made Economies More Resilient
» NAFTA is 23 Years Old — Here Are 20 Facts That Show How it is Destroying the Economy
 
USA
» Alan Dershowitz: ‘Violent’ Antifa Movement is ‘Trying to Tear Down America’
» Assange Blasts ‘Absurd’ Bid to Class WikiLeaks a Hostile Intelligence Service
» CBS News Host Norah O’Donnell Pushes Fake ‘Right-Wing’ Terrorism Stats
» CNN: Everyone Who Voted for Trump is a ‘White Supremacist by Default’
» Delingpole: Trump Lops Off Another of the Green Blob’s Tentacles
» Entire San Francisco Police Force Will Work the Patriot Prayer Rally
» Fake News: Reuters Issues Retraction After Labeling Antifa ‘Peace Activists’
» Fugitive Couple Charged in Nelson County Shooting Caught in Minnesota
» How Charlottesville Helped Drain the Swamp
» Media Run Hit Pieces Attacking Black Audience Member at Trump’s Speech
» Pedophile Government Grooms Kindergarteners
» Populist Strategist Steve Bannon, Exits Trump Administration
» Stunning Leaked Footage of Bunkerville Standoff at Bundy Ranch
» The Abolition of Liberty
» The Enemy Within
» The Forgotten History of White Slaves in America
» The So-Called American “Civil War” Was Not Over Slavery
» Three Injured After Car Drives Through Protest in St. Louis
» United Nations Issues Rare “Early Warning” — Signals Potential Civil Conflict in America
» Video: Trump Exposes #1 Enemy of America
» Violent Leftist Group Plans to ‘Shut Down’ Berkeley March Against Marxism
» ‘Well-Oiled’ Activist Ops Targeting GOP Reps at Their Homes, Hijacking Town Halls
» YouTube Removes “Robert Spencer” Playlist as “Inappropriate”
 
Canada
» Female Genital Mutilation Survivor Recounts Day She Was Cut (Video)
» Trudeau’s Border Deflections Are Just Getting Silly Now
 
Europe and the EU
» “It is Our Very Existence That is Unbearable to Jihadists”
» Barcelona Tightens Security at Tourist Spots After Terror Attacks
» Cologne to Protect Iconic Cathedral From Terror With Concrete Blocks
» Denmark: Submarine Owner Peter Madsen Could be Charged With Murder: Police
» Dutch Arrest After Rotterdam Gig Cancelled Amid Terror Threat
» Dutch Police Arrest Man Planning ‘Terrorist Attack’ On Concert by American Rock Band
» European Cities Add Barriers to Thwart Vehicle Attacks
» France Doubles Fines for Racial Discrimination
» French Satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdo Courts More Controversy With New Cartoon on Islam
» German Elections: Merkel Still Mighty But Gripes Grow in Bellwether Village
» Germany Brings All Its Gold Back From Paris to Quell Conspiracy Theories
» Greece: KKE, 51 Other Parties Slam ‘Anti-Communist’ Summit
» How Did Terror Cell Behind Spain Attacks Avoid Detention?
» Iceland Gets on-Demand Drone Deliveries
» Is Merkel Sleepwalking Her Way to a Fourth Election Victory?
» ISIS Warns of More Attacks in Spain in First Spanish-Language Video
» ISIS Warns of More Spain Attacks in New Spanish-Langage Video
» Mayor of Venice Says Anyone Who Shouts ‘Allah Akbar’ Will be Shot by Snipers
» Netflix Wins Rights to Make Film of Norway’s Utøya Terror Attacks
» Netherlands: “De-Radicalized” Muslim Youth Worker Caught Spreading Jihad Propaganda
» PayPal Blocks German Counterjihad Site PI News
» Poland’s Walesa Denies Informant Claims Amid Probe
» Spain: Terror Cell Planned to Bomb “Monuments” In Barcelona
» Spain: Barcelona Terror Suspects Seen Smiling and Laughing Before Attacks
» Spanish Cities Start to Reinforce Security in Central Pedestrian Areas
» Swiss Indict Suspected ‘Jihadi Traveller’
» Switzerland: SAC Keeps Racist Scientist on Honorary Member List
» Turkey Accuses Germany’s Gabriel of Copying ‘Racists, Far Right’
» Turku Suspect Wanted to Join ISIS, Called Finns Infidels
» UK: ‘Grooming’ Gang ‘Raped Vulnerable Girls as Young as 13 After Luring Them to Parties at a Network of Flats and Plying Them With Alcohol and Drugs’
» Venice Mayor: Anyone Who Shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ Will be Shot
» Venice Mayor Says Anyone Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ In St. Mark’s Square Can Expect to be Shot
 
South Asia
» ‘Alarmingly High’ Levels of Arsenic in Pakistan’s Ground Water
» India Aadhaar ID Cards: Collecting Biometric Data From 1bn People
» India Intensifies Crackdown on Chinese Tech Firms
» Myanmar Tensions: Annan Warns on Rakhine ‘Radicalisation’
 
Far East
» ‘Chinese Trains Could One Day Travel Through the Gotthard’
» Exclusive: In China, The Party’s Push for Influence Inside Foreign Firms Stirs Fears
» Kim Jong-un Killed Uncle, Half-Brother Over ‘China Coup Plot, ‘ Report Says
» Robot Priest: The Future of Funerals?
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘I Agree With Pauline Hanson’: Muslim Woman From Western Sydney Says the Burqa Should be Banned — So a Man Can’t Hide a Bomb Underneath it
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Pictured: Woman, 25, Believed to be the Victim of Cannibals in South Africa Who Were Arrested After One of Them Walked Into a Police Station Holding an Arm and a Leg and Said He Had Lost the Taste for Human Flesh
» Russian Ambassador Found Dead in Pool is Fourth to Die Within a Year
 
Latin America
» Brazil: Is Rio De Janeiro a City at War?
» Venezuela Blocks Columbian TV Signal, Threatens Social Media Clampdown
 
Immigration
» Border Police Stopped 56,0000 Migrants Getting Into the UK in 2016
» EU Says Will Not Drop Case Against Poland Over Migrants
» Immigration Boosts Finnish Population to 5.5 Million
» Italian Police Use Water Cannon Against Refugees Occupying Rome Square
» Italy: Defiant Migrants Throw Rocks and Bottles at Riot Police in Rome Who Turn on the Water Cannon to Remove Them From Makeshift Camp Outside City’s Main Train Station
» Jailed: Trafficker Who Tried to Smuggle Iraqi to UK on Eurotunnel
» Libyan Preacher on Benefits Investigated for Suspected Hate Speech at Swiss Mosque
» Malkin: Trump Standing Firm on Border Wall Despite ‘Unprecedented’ Level of Attacks
» Migrants Make Over 150 Attempts Every Day to Reach UK From France
» Migrant Crisis — Poland Threatens to Take EU to Court Over Refugee Quotas
» Migrant Riots Break Out in Rome: Man Throws Gas Cylinder as Italy Police Clash in Capital
» Poland Refuses to Take Any Muslim Migrants After Latest Terror Attacks
» Swedish Anti-Mass Migration Podcasts Taken Down by Soundcloud for ‘Hate Speech’
» UK: ‘Sex Grooming Gang Drugged and Raped White Girls as Young as 13’
» UK: Group of 14 Men Found in the Back of a Lorry
» UK: Illegal Migrant Jailed for Murdering Carer
 
Culture Wars
» ACLU Apologizes for Tweeting Photo of White Baby With US Flag
» Hysteria: Leftists Triggered by ACLU Tweeting Photo of a White Baby
 

ECB Chief Draghi: QE Has Made Economies More Resilient

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has said unconventional policies like quantitative easing (QE) have been a success both sides of the Atlantic.

QE was introduced as an emergency measure during the financial crisis to pump money directly into the financial system and keep banks lending.

A decade later, the stimulus policies are still in place, but he said they have “made the world more resilient”.

As the economic recovery in the eurozone gathers pace, investors are watching closely for when the ECB will ease back further on its 60bn euro (£55bn) a month bond-buying programme.

On Monday, a former UK Treasury official likened the stimulus to “heroin” because it has been so difficult to wean the UK, US and eurozone economies off it.

The ECB’s massive bond-buying programme, which started in March 2015, is expected to top 2tn euros by the year end.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

NAFTA is 23 Years Old — Here Are 20 Facts That Show How it is Destroying the Economy

The eventual goal is to turn North America into another version of the European Union.

Back in the early 1990s, the North American Free Trade Agreement was one of the hottest political issues in the country. When he was running for president in 1992, Bill Clinton promised that NAFTA would result in an increase in the number of high quality jobs for Americans that it would reduce illegal immigration. Ross Perot warned that just the opposite would happen. He warned that if NAFTA was implemented there would be a “giant sucking sound” as thousands of businesses and millions of jobs left this country. Most Americans chose to believe Bill Clinton. Well, it is 20 years later and it turns out that Perot was right and Clinton was dead wrong. But now history is repeating itself, and most Americans don’t even realize that it is happening. As you will read about at the end of this article, Barack Obama has been negotiating a secret trade treaty that is being called “NAFTA on steroids”, and if Congress adopts it we could lose millions more good paying jobs.

It amazes me how the American people can fall for the same lies over and over again. The lies that serial liar Barack Obama is telling about “free trade” and the globalization of the economy are the same lies that Bill Clinton was telling back in the early 1990s. The following is an excerpt from a recent interview with Paul Craig Roberts…

Many Americans like to remember Bill Clinton as a “great president” for some reason. Well, it turns out that he was completely and totally wrong about NAFTA. The following are 20 facts that show how NAFTA is destroying the economy…

#1 More than 845,000 American workers have been officially certified for Trade Adjustment Assistance because they lost their jobs due to imports from Mexico or Canada or because their factories were relocated to those nations.

#2 Overall, it is estimated that NAFTA has cost us well over a million jobs.

#3 U.S. manufacturers pay Mexican workers just a little over a dollar an hour to do jobs that American workers used to do.

#4 The number of illegal immigrants living in the United States has more than doubled since the implementation of NAFTA.

#5 In the year before NAFTA, the U.S. had a trade surplus with Mexico and the trade deficit with Canada was only 29.6 billion dollars. Last year, the U.S. had a combined trade deficit with Mexico and Canada of177 billion dollars…

So if NAFTA is so bad for American workers, then why don’t our politicians just repeal it?

Well, unfortunately most of them are not willing to do this because it is part of a larger agenda. For decades, politicians from both major political parties have been working to slowly integrate North America. The eventual goal is to turn North America into another version of the European Union.

Just check out what former general and CIA chief David Petraeus had to say about this…

[Comment: Recentrly we have the propaganda (a lie) of a “knowledge based economy” to replace all those off shored manufacturing jobs…]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Alan Dershowitz: ‘Violent’ Antifa Movement is ‘Trying to Tear Down America’

‘I think it’s the obligation of liberals to speak out against the hard left radicals’

Prominent Harvard law professor and liberal author Alan Dershowitz rebuked the hard-left militant movement Antifa on Tuesday, saying liberals need to avoid turning violent leftist factions into heroes.

Appearing on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning, Mr. Dershowitz said the movement sweeping the country to take down Confederate-era statues that some find offensive is setting a dangerous precedent.

“Do not glorify the violent people who are now tearing down the statues,” he said. “Many of these people, not all of them, many of these people are trying to tear down America.

“Antifa is a radical anti-American, anti-free market, communist, socialist, hard, hard left censorial organization that tries to stop speakers on campuses from speaking,” Mr. Dershowitz said. “They use violence. And just because they’re opposed to fascism and to some of these monuments shouldn’t make them heroes of the liberals.”

“I’m a liberal, and I think it’s the obligation of liberals to speak out against the hard left radicals just like it’s the obligation of conservatives to speak out against the extremism of the hard right,” he added.

           — Hat tip: KS [Return to headlines]
 

Assange Blasts ‘Absurd’ Bid to Class WikiLeaks a Hostile Intelligence Service

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange slammed efforts to officially class his whistleblowing organization as a “non-state hostile intelligence service” — branding it an attempt to put the ‘Pompeo Doctrine’ into law.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is proposing a provision in its annual ‘intelligence authorisation’ bill to declare WikiLeaks as such.

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

CBS News Host Norah O’Donnell Pushes Fake ‘Right-Wing’ Terrorism Stats

Fake statistics die hard, especially when they’re being pushed by the so-called “real news” cartel.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

CNN: Everyone Who Voted for Trump is a ‘White Supremacist by Default’

“It’s the ordinary people — the voters who elected a reality TV star with a record of making racially insensitive comments”

CNN used the voices of a few professors and activists to assert anyone who voted for President Donald Trump is a white supremacist in a news report Wednesday, and to blame these “ordinary” people for the violence in Charlottesville.

Trump voters helped advance white supremacy by giving them room to operate, CNN reported based on the assertions of others in a piece headlined, “‘White Supremacists by default’: How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Delingpole: Trump Lops Off Another of the Green Blob’s Tentacles

President Trump has disbanded something called the Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment (ACSNCA).

Good.

That shrieking you can hear is the sound of the Green Blob, mourning the loss of another of its tentacles.

If you believe the liberal media, the ACSNCA — as probably no one ever called it — was a vital organization established by President Obama in 2015 as part of his career-defining mission to combat climate change:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Entire San Francisco Police Force Will Work the Patriot Prayer Rally

San Francisco city leaders are terrified of violence at a Patriot Prayer Rally. They have dubbed it a “rally by a far-right group” and on Saturday, the city will bring in the entire police force work that day.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Fake News: Reuters Issues Retraction After Labeling Antifa ‘Peace Activists’

Left-wing media continues to defend violent alt-left

Left-leaning media outlet Reuters was forced to issue a retraction Wednesday after labeling violent demonstrators outside a Trump rally in Phoenix “peace activists.”

A tweet sent out from the news agency’s official Twitter account Tuesday night claimed, “Pro-Trump supporters face off with peace activists during protests outside a Trump rally in Phoenix.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Fugitive Couple Charged in Nelson County Shooting Caught in Minnesota

The North Carolina couple charged in a Nelson County shooting and believed to be involved with a missing man has been captured in Minnesota.

According to Virginia State Police, Sean D. Castorina and Penny M. Dawson were arrested at a gas station in the Fergus Falls area.

They had last been seen Tuesday evening at a gas station in Afton, Virginia.

The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Appomattox Field Office, the Nelson County, Va., Sheriff’s Office, Burlington, N.C., Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service all worked together over the past few days in the search for the couple.

Now, police say they’ll be extradited back to Virginia to face charges of malicious wounding, use of a firearm and grand larceny of a vehicle.

The situation began when the Burlington, N.C. Police Department got word that Harold Dean Simpson, 84, was missing. He had last been seen by his family at 10:30 a.m. on Friday.

Then, on Monday evening, his silver 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt was found by the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office, abandoned on Laurel Road.

On Tuesday evening, the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call just down the road from where the vehicle was found, and found a 60-year-old woman suffering from a gunshot wound in her home on Laurel Road.

That woman continues to be treated at UVA Medical Center.

After the shooting, Castorina and Dawson fled the residence in a 2002 Dodge Dakota that belonged to the owner of the home. The two were still driving the stolen pickup truck when apprehended in Minnesota.

The search continues for Mr. Simpson, however. Anyone with information related to Mr. Simpson’s disappearance is asked to still please contact the Burlington, N.C., Police or call 911 or, in Virginia, call #77 on a cell phone.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

How Charlottesville Helped Drain the Swamp

Donald Trump’s decision to dissolve his two business advisory councils in the face of mass defections of corporate leaders and Wall Street titans was a clarifying moment for his presidency. Just as the president promised, he drained the swamp.

Ironically, the swamp was already draining itself as business leaders decided that they agreed with the mainstream media’s interpretation of Trump’s stance on the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia. The president had unequivocally condemned racism and white nationalism while adding that ‘alt-left’ violence was also deplorable. In response he was inaccurately accused of equating white supremacists with “protesters.”

The resignations made it clear that many of the “business leaders” could not be counted on for leadership if that involved standing against the wrath of the mainstream media.

And so the swamp was drained.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Media Run Hit Pieces Attacking Black Audience Member at Trump’s Speech

Hit pieces attacking a black audience member

The headline story on the front page of Yahoo the day after President Trump’s rally in Phoenix was a hit piece attacking one of his black audience members.

They’re not alone.

The Washington Post also ran a similar hit piece.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pedophile Government Grooms Kindergarteners

Impressionable young children are being brainwashed by liberals

It’s a Brave New World in California — a child in kindergarten sex class announced he was now a girl, frightening other children and infuriating some parents. Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia, a 14 yr old is arrested for dancing the Macarena and in South Africa an auction of rhino horns tells us something about the futility of gov’t prohibitions.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Populist Strategist Steve Bannon, Exits Trump Administration

We don’t believe there is a functional conservative party in this country, and we certainly don’t think the Republican Party is that. Stephen Bannon

You don’t come to us for warm and fuzzy. We think of ourselves as violently anti-establishment, particularly “anti” the permanent political class. We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation. Steve Bannon, in early 2016

The Loss Of Steve Bannon

Bannon’s above quotes are absolutely true, and his loss will be felt, but he did promise only a year. He said that his departure was voluntary, and that he’d planned it to coincide with the one-year anniversary of his joining the Trump campaign as chief executive, on August 14, 2016.

“On August 7th, I talked to Chief of Staff John Kelly and to the President, and I told them that my resignation would be effective the following Monday, on the 14th,” he said. “I’d always planned on spending one year. General Kelly has brought in a great new system, but I said it would be best. I want to get back to Breitbart.”

The only reason it was delayed until Friday the 18th was because of the Charlottesville riots.

Bannon said he would continue waging a war against Trump’s enemies and would do all he can to help the President stay on track and keep his promises. That could put Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, national security adviser H.R. McMaster, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator Majority leader Mitch McConnell all firmly in his crosshairs.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Stunning Leaked Footage of Bunkerville Standoff at Bundy Ranch

The 2014 Bunkerville Standoff saw over 200 armed federal agents aim their guns at American citizens who had gathered in support of rancher Cliven Bundy. This shocking footage includes never before seen video clips from BLM dash and body cams.

I would be glad to credit whoever put this footage together, but since it was leaked video I’m not aware of the original creator. If any of you know, you are welcome to pass the info on to me.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Abolition of Liberty

Anyone who studies animal behavior can understand what’s going on today. Tearing down monuments, rioting on college campuses, shouting people down-it’s all a dominance display. It’s the Far Left showing us deplorables who’s boss. It’s intimidation. “It doesn’t matter who you elected president-we still run the country, and you’d better not forget it!” It’s the Alpha baboon strutting around and glaring at all the other baboons, daring them to make a move.

Leftids like to be obeyed. They feel entitled to it, and they get furious when obedience is withheld from them. We passed on Hillary, we passed on that pack of whimpering pygmies trotted out by the Republican establishment, and elected Donald Trump. The tantrum has been ongoing since Election Night.

Some of them saw it coming; and we should have seen their tantrum coming. In December, 2015, well before Trump had nailed down the GOP nomination, an ACLU board member in Denver took to Facebook to exhort his fellow leftids to murder Trump supporters. Because, he said, “they [meaning us] won’t listen to reason… When justice is gone, there’s always force.” His outburst, honest and heart-felt as it may have been, embarrassed his colleagues and he was forced to resign.

At least one loony leftid-and guess what, we’re back in Denver-took him at his word and tried to stab some poor devil he thought was “one of those neo-Nazis”. Apparently it was the guy’s haircut that set him off.

We shouldn’t be surprised. Six months ago, the Antifa brownshirts told Tucker Carlson exactly what they were going to do. “Antifa” is short for “anti-fascist,” a “fascist” being anyone, usually a Trump supporter, whom they think is a fascist. The wacko he interviewed heads a sub-group called “By Any Means Necessary,” including violence. The rightness of their noble cause, they believe, entitles them to physically attack anyone who dares to disagree with them.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Enemy Within

If this mutinous cabal succeeds in destroying democracy it won’t be because of the Democrats, it won’t even be the seditious media. No, it will be the left-wing activists in Republican guise, GOP turncoats who will gleefully drive the final nail

But by far, the biggest danger from these Republican apostates is their subversion. They work with Democrats, media, and deep state to undo our election, to attack our President. They allow the illegal special counsel investigation and hold phony hearings on Russian collusion knowing there’s no crime. They jump to the nearest mic to condemn the President’s travel ban, to link the President to white supremacists, and to criticize every word out of the President’s mouth.

They unite to block any move by the President to stop Mueller’s political assassination, squeal when President Trump questions Attorney General Jeff Session’s back-stabbing recusal, warn the President of the United States not to fire his own Attorney General. They vote to keep the President from firing special counsel Robert Mueller even though Mueller’s serving in that position in defiance of Department of Justice rules, not a whisper of the lawlessness of the investigation.

And yet, Newt, you ask us to reelect Jeff Flake, a never-Trumper who’s been itching to stick it to the President. If Jeff gets another six-year term, guaranteed he’ll gleefully volunteer those no votes again and again, he’ll be the “safe seat”, one of the untouchable saboteurs for the party.

Or Dean Heller, disappointed he couldn’t personally torpedo the repeal this go-around but relieved it was successfully blocked. If this recreant is this arrogant with his term about to expire, what would he do with a six-year cushion?

The sad truth is the American people didn’t win Congressional majorities. Republicans have merged with Democrats into a seditious bloc and we’re far outnumbered. No, it’s not every Republican but it’s a sizable number, Senators McConnell, McCain, Graham, Flake, Heller, Collins, Murkowski, Rubio, Sasse, need I go on? In the House, its Speaker Ryan, House leadership, an entire progressive caucus, and never-Trumpers, enough to impose their will over ours, enough to complete their coup d’tat and remove our President.

So please, Newt, save the spiel about electing the incumbent to save the seat. If the sitting Senator or House member is GOP establishment, then our only hope to “save” the seat, to save our country, is to defeat that incumbent.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Forgotten History of White Slaves in America

Did you know what white slaves existed in America for the past several centuries as well? While extremely rare compared to African or Native slaves, they did exist.

According to the Huffington Post:

“In the early 1860s, photographs of children dubbed “white” slaves were circulated as part of a campaign to raise money for public schools for emancipated slaves. The group was first featured in an engraving of a photograph entitled “Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored” in an issue of Harper’s Weekly in January 1864. According to an article titled “Portraits of Slave Children,” the images were meant to evoke sympathy from wealthy Northerners for potential donations.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The So-Called American “Civil War” Was Not Over Slavery

The real issue between North and South could not be reconciled on the basis of accommodating slavery. The real issue was economic as DiLorenzo, Charles Beard and other historians have documented. The North offered to preserve slavery irrevocably, but the North did not offer to give up the high tariffs and economic policies that the South saw as inimical to its interests.

Blaming the war on slavery was the way the northern court historians used morality to cover up Lincoln’s naked aggression and the war crimes of his generals. Demonizing the enemy with moral language works for the victor. And it is still ongoing. We see in the destruction of statues the determination to shove remaining symbols of the Confederacy down the Memory Hole.

Today the ignorant morons, thoroughly brainwashed by Identity Politics, are demanding removal of memorials to Robert E. Lee, an alleged racist toward whom they express violent hatred. This presents a massive paradox. Robert E. Lee was the first person offered command of the Union armies. How can it be that a “Southern racist” was offered command of the Union Army if the Union was going to war to free black slaves?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Three Injured After Car Drives Through Protest in St. Louis

Three people were injured after a car tried to drive through a protest march in St. Louis on Wednesday night.

The black Mercedes collided with protesters marching in honor of Kiwi Herring, a transgender woman shot dead by police on Tuesday, FOX2 reported.

Three people sustained minor injuries, and the driver was taken into custody about one block away from the scene, according to St. Louis police spokesperson Schron Jackson.

Police said the driver stopped and honked before attempting to drive around the crowd.

The protesters then surrounded his car, slammed on it with their hands, and hit the vehicle with a flag pole, according to Jackson.

Protesters jumped onto the car and sustained scrapes and cuts after the driver pulled away, Jackson said.

But witness Keith Rose told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the driver stopped before accelerating gradually through a crowd at the intersection of Manchester Avenue and Sarah Street.

Rose also claimed the driver raised his middle fingers while he drove through a group of people, the witness told the local newspaper.

About 100 people attended a candlelight vigil for Herring earlier Wednesday before marching through the city.

Herring was killed by officers responding to a stabbing in the 5200 block of Ridge Avenue on Tuesday morning.

A man with knife wounds to his face, arms and torso identified Herring as the attacker, police said.

She stabbed an officer in the arm when police tried to arrest her, police said. The responding officers opened fire and Herring died at the scene.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

United Nations Issues Rare “Early Warning” — Signals Potential Civil Conflict in America

It’s clear that the United States is being purposely divided

A United Nations Committee tasked with combating racism on a global scale has issued an ultra rare “early warning” for the United States citing “alarming racism” trends.

As StockBoardAsset.com notes, this rare signal often preludes the potential for civil conflict.

In the past 10-years, the early warning has been issued in Burundi, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria.

The United Nations Committee on the Eliminations of Racial Discrimination has called on high-level politicians and public officials of the United States to condemn “racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and through the country”.

[Comment: Another globalist elite organization pouring gasoline on a fire started by globalist tools like Soros. Check out the cartoon.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Video: Trump Exposes #1 Enemy of America

POTUS knows what America’s biggest threat is

During his rally in Phoenix, Arizona, President Trump calls out the mainstream media as the primary deceiver of the public and number one enemy to the United States of America.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Violent Leftist Group Plans to ‘Shut Down’ Berkeley March Against Marxism

BAMN is organizing to shut down what it claims is a “Neo-Nazi” rally in Berkeley on Saturday

Two weeks after violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia and one week after violent protests in Boston, another violent clash is shaping up to take place in Berkeley, California. Violent leftist group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) is rallying forces to “shut down” a planned march against Marxism in Berkeley, California. Berkeley has already been the site of repeated instances of political violence this year, predominantly by far-left actors.

BAMN is organizing to shut down what it claims is a “Neo-Nazi” rally in Berkeley on Saturday. The rally is titled “No to Marxism in America.” The rally organizer, a biological man who identified himself as a transgender woman to media outlets, claims the rally is not a “right-wing” rally, embraces diversity and is meant to oppose the spread of Marxism in Berkeley.

BAMN, which was founded by the openly-Marxist Revolutionary Workers League, has previously been involved in violent clashes in Berkeley and elsewhere. The group’s members are unapologetic about their use of violence as a political tactic.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Well-Oiled’ Activist Ops Targeting GOP Reps at Their Homes, Hijacking Town Halls

The left has upped the stakes in its guerilla operations against Republicans, as deep-pocketed groups fund protesters to show up to the offices and even houses of congressmen to protest their lack of “town hall” meetings.

Earlier this month, protesters targeted the home of Rep. Jason Lewis, a newly elected Republican in Minnesota’s 2nd District. The protests on his doorstep grew big enough that one of his neighbors called the police.

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YouTube Removes “Robert Spencer” Playlist as “Inappropriate”

As I said when PayPal reinstated Jihad Watch’s account, the Left’s war on the freedom of speech is by no means over. They are determined to cut foes of jihad terror off from all means of communication.

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Female Genital Mutilation Survivor Recounts Day She Was Cut (Video)

The first research of its kind to probe the practice within this tightly knit South Asian community, the study found that 80 per cent of Dawoodi Bohra women surveyed have undergone FGM and two of the study’s 18 Canadian participants said it happened within Canada’s borders.

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Trudeau’s Border Deflections Are Just Getting Silly Now

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went out of his way on Wednesday to avoid ever having to utter the phrase “illegal” in regard to the, uh, illegal border crossings happening daily.

And I mean really out of his way. This all happened at a press conference the PM was giving following an intergovernmental meeting in Montreal on how they’ll handle the illegal border crisis. Not that he used the words “illegal” or “crisis”, of course.

Which made it all a comedy of errors.

We can’t be rid of this idiot soon enough.

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“It is Our Very Existence That is Unbearable to Jihadists”

by Giulio Meotti

The Islamist attacks against Spain, Finland and Germany unmasked the central problem: Pacifism will not protect Europe from either Islamization or terror attacks. Spain and Germany were, in fact, among the most reluctant countries in Europe to take an active role in the anti-ISIS coalition.

The sad conclusion seems to be that that jihadists do not need a “reason” to kill Westerners. They attack equally France, which conducts military operations in the Middle East and North Africa, and countries such as Spain and Germany, which are neutral.

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Barcelona Tightens Security at Tourist Spots After Terror Attacks

Barcelona will boost police patrols at tourist sites including the iconic Sagrada Familia church and major sports and cultural events in the wake of last week’s deadly vehicle attacks in Spain.

One of the four suspects arrested over the attacks which killed 15 people and injured over 100 others told a court Tuesday that the jihadists wanted to carry out a major attack targeting monuments with explosives.

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Cologne to Protect Iconic Cathedral From Terror With Concrete Blocks

The German city of Cologne is putting up heavy stone blocks around its famous cathedral to protect the landmark building and its visitors from potential terror attacks.

Cologne Police president Uwe Jacob said Wednesday the city was increasing its security in reaction to vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a nearby seaside Spanish town last week.

The German news agency dpa reported that the stone blocks, which are several hundred kilograms (pounds) heavy, are discarded parts of the cathedral. They will be used to block the entrance to the big square in front of the cathedral.

Germany has suffered several terror attacks last year, including a truck attack in Berlin in December in which the driver ran the vehicle into a Christmas market, killing 12 people.

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Denmark: Submarine Owner Peter Madsen Could be Charged With Murder: Police

Danish prosecutors will seek to charge submarine owner Peter Madsen with murder in light of new information in the investigation into the death of Swedish journalist Kim Wall.

Psychiatric assessment may also be made of Madsen as the prosecution builds its case, Danish broadcaster TV2 reported on Thursday.

The 46-year-old has been held in custody since August 12th. He was initially detained for 24 days on preliminary manslaughter charges by Copenhagen City Court.

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Dutch Arrest After Rotterdam Gig Cancelled Amid Terror Threat

Police have arrested a 22-year-old man south of Rotterdam, hours after a rock concert in the city was cancelled because of an alert from Spanish police. The alarm late on Wednesday centred on a gig involving US band the Allah-Las, due to perform in Rotterdam’s Maassilo.

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Dutch Police Arrest Man Planning ‘Terrorist Attack’ On Concert by American Rock Band

A 22-year-old man was arrested early Thursday after he was suspected of preparing a “terrorist attack” on a concert by an American rock band in Rotterdam, Dutch police said.

The arrest was made after a detailed tip from colleagues in Spain, according Ahmed Aboutaleb, mayor of Rotterdam, and came hours after officials cancelled a performance Wednesday night by Los Angeles band Allah-Las at a converted grain silo in the city, Sky News reported.

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European Cities Add Barriers to Thwart Vehicle Attacks

Even before the attacks last week in Spain, European cities were installing barriers to protect pedestrians after a series of attacks using cars, vans and trucks.

A key inspiration for the current wave of attacks is the Islamic State propagandist Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, who is believed to have been killed last year in Syria. “Smash his head with a rock,” he urged the group’s adherents in a 2014 speech, “or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car.”

Several terrorists have done just that. Here’s how countries across Europe are taking steps to increase safety.

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France Doubles Fines for Racial Discrimination

The French government has doubled its fines for those found guilty of racial or discriminatory defamation in “non-public” statements.

The increased fine specifically addresses fines issued for “non-public” statements — such as those made on a private Facebook group or to a small group of people — containing abuse aimed at a person or group based on their origin, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation or gender identification.

Businesses whose directors or employees are found to have made discriminatory statements will now face potential fines of up to €7,500 for a one-off incident. And for repeat offences, that rises to a possible €15,000.

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French Satirical Magazine Charlie Hebdo Courts More Controversy With New Cartoon on Islam

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published Wednesday a provocative front-page cartoon about Islam and the recent terror attacks in Spain, leading to criticism that it risked fanning Islamophobia.

The latest edition of the magazine, which was targeted by Islamist gunmen in 2015, shows two people lying in a pool of blood having been run over by a van next to the words “Islam, religion of eternal peace.”

A dozen extremists of Moroccan origin are believed to have plotted last week’s attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, where 15 people were killed and over 100 injured after a van and car were driven into crowds.

As the cartoon became one of the top trending topics on Twitter in France, prominent Socialist MP and former minister Stephane Le Foll called it “extremely dangerous”. “When you’re a journalist you need to exercise restraint because making these associations can be used by other people,” he said.

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German Elections: Merkel Still Mighty But Gripes Grow in Bellwether Village

As Angelika Schneide pushed her trolley down the ice-cream aisle in Haßloch’s supermarket, she hovered over an unfamiliar flavour. “This is the fun of shopping here,” Schneide, 46, said, putting a tub in her trolley. “We get to try everything out.”

Haßloch, a large village in the south-western state of Rhineland-Palatinate, enjoys the title of “most average place in Germany”. Using a list of criteria — including age, income, education and marital status — statisticians determined years ago that its 21,000 inhabitants were broadly representative of the whole of Germany. In the mid-1980s, the Society for Consumer Research (GfK) picked it as the place to test out new products.

About two-thirds of the population are said to be signed up as official testers, in return for vouchers or entries to prize draws. If Schneide is anything to go by, Haßlochers lap up their status as Germany’s decision-makers.

“It’s quite something to know when I do the weekly shop I’m effectively making decisions on behalf of millions of other Germans,” she said.

The GfK theory is that if it sells here, it will sell elsewhere in Germany. If a product flops during a trial run, it will be likely to be consigned to the dustbin of marketing history.

The representative behaviour of Haßloch’s inhabitants is also viewed as a useful gauge of how Germans might behave when the country goes to the polls on 24 September.

The election has been widely interpreted as a referendum on Angela Merkel’s 12-year chancellorship, and all polls so far predict a secure win for her Christian Democrats…

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Germany Brings All Its Gold Back From Paris to Quell Conspiracy Theories

The Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, said Wednesday it had returned to German soil all of its gold kept in Paris and some reserves from the US, three years ahead of schedule.

The secret shipments were finished far ahead of the 2020 deadline at a cost of some €7.7 million, bringing the share of German gold stored at home to 50 percent.

Shipments have been underway since a 2013 board decision to return the precious ingots home.

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Greece: KKE, 51 Other Parties Slam ‘Anti-Communist’ Summit

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) on Thursday issued a statement, signed by 51 communist and labor parties around the world, condemning a conference on crimes by communist regimes that was organized by the European Union’s Estonian presidency in Tallinn this week.

The statement described the event as an “anti-Communist celebration” aimed at “totally slandering socialism and its unprecedented achievements for workers” and said it “provocatively equated fascism with Communism.”

“One hundred years after the Great October Socialist Revolution, the superiority of the socialist system cannot be hidden, however many tons of mud they sling at it,” said the statement signed by the communist parties of Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Austria, among others.

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How Did Terror Cell Behind Spain Attacks Avoid Detention?

The jihadist cell behind last week’s twin attacks in Spain was built around a “guru” and went completely offline to avoid detection by anti-terrorist police, experts said.

The group managed to evade authorities so well that even a giant explosion at their bomb factory in Alcanar, where police later uncovered massive quantities of ingredients to build TATP, was not at first linked to the jihadists. Investigators only made the connection after their vehicle rampages in Barcelona and the nearby seaside town of Cambrils.

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Iceland Gets on-Demand Drone Deliveries

An Israeli autonomous drone delivery company has started commercial operations in Reykjavik, Iceland, one of the first in the world to offer the service on demand.

Tel Aviv-based Flytrex’s drones will fly more than 2.5 kilometers (1.6 mile) across a large bay that separates two parts of the city, delivering for online marketplace Aha, company Chief Executive Officer Yariv Bash said in an interview.

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Is Merkel Sleepwalking Her Way to a Fourth Election Victory?

With a month to go until Germans head to the polls, Angela Merkel looks set to cruise to a fourth term as chancellor of a country showing little appetite for change.

Even after 12 years of “Mutti” (mummy) Merkel, the nation is in “no mood for change”, the conservative daily Die Welt wrote in an editorial.

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ISIS Warns of More Attacks in Spain in First Spanish-Language Video

A week after terrorist attacks in Catalonia which left 15 people dead and over 100 injured, the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) has released a video online warning of more attacks in Spain.

In the video two jihadists can be heard speaking Spanish with an Arabic accent and proclaiming: “Allah willing, Al Andalus will become once again what it was, part of the caliphate.” Al Andalus was the name given to the territory of southern and central Spain controlled for more than five centuries by Muslims.

“If you can’t make the hegira (journey or exodus) to the Islamic State, carry out jihad where you are; jihad doesn’t have borders,” says one of the men in the video whose face is uncovered and who is identified by a video title as Abu Lais Al Qurdubi, or Abu Lais “of Cordoba,” the southern Spanish city that was the capital of Al Andalus.

Later, the jihadist adds: “Spanish Christians: don’t forget the Muslim blood spilled during the Spanish inquisition. We will take revenge for your massacre, the one you are carrying out now against the Islamic State.”

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ISIS Warns of More Spain Attacks in New Spanish-Langage Video

A week after a terrorist van attack in Barcelona, Spain, left 15 people dead and more than 100 injured, the Islamic State released a video warning more attacks were imminent in the Iberian Peninsula.

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Mayor of Venice Says Anyone Who Shouts ‘Allah Akbar’ Will be Shot by Snipers

Venice’s right-wing mayor has ordered cops to shoot ANYONE who shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ — rather than risk a terror attack .

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Netflix Wins Rights to Make Film of Norway’s Utøya Terror Attacks

A film about the July 22nd terror attacks carried out by right wing extremist Anders Breivik in Oslo and on the island of Utøya will be produced by streaming giant Netflix.

English director Paul Greengrass will direct the film, writes deadline.com.

The film will, according to the report, use Norwegian actors, and has a budget of $20 million (180 million kroner).

Preparations have already begun for the filming of the movie, which is scheduled to take place during the autumn.

In February this year, newspaper Bergens Tidende reported that Greengrass would collaborate with Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad on the film.

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Netherlands: “De-Radicalized” Muslim Youth Worker Caught Spreading Jihad Propaganda

A believed to be de-radicalized man spread propaganda for the jihad while working with young people in Amsterdam’s radicalization and polarization department, the Telegraaf reports based on sources.

According to the Telegraaf, Bilal L. was convicted for preparing for a terrorist attack as a member of the Hofstad group. After serving his sentence, Amsterdam hired him as a youth worker who knew everything about radicalization and could spot and keep young people off the jihad-road. He worked in the radicalization and polarization department for years — the department under now suspended Amsterdam official Saadia A.-T.

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PayPal Blocks German Counterjihad Site PI News

This is why I didn’t restore the PayPal button on the sidebar when they unblocked the Jihad Watch account. Clearly this was a concerted, organized effort to choke off funding for counterjihad sites not just in the U.S., but all over the world, and many of these groups have not had their accounts restored. Moreover, the effort to choke us off continues.

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Poland’s Walesa Denies Informant Claims Amid Probe

Former Polish President Lech Walesa on Wednesday reaffirmed his denial of allegations that he was a paid informer for the country’s communist-era security services.

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Spain: Terror Cell Planned to Bomb “Monuments” In Barcelona

The terrorist cell responsible for the attacks last week in Barcelona and Cambrils, which killed 15 people and injured over 100 others, planned to carry out a much larger attack.

The cell, based in the small Catalan town of Ripoll, and headed by the imam Abdelbaki Es Satty, had spent at least six months planning a large attack involving explosives in the southern Catalan town of Alcanar.

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Spain: Barcelona Terror Suspects Seen Smiling and Laughing Before Attacks

THREE suspected terrorists shot dead after last week’s callous attack on Barcelona were caught on camera laughing and smiling as they bought groceries just hours before they were killed by police.

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Spanish Cities Start to Reinforce Security in Central Pedestrian Areas

Some of the largest cities in Spain have begun taking preventive security measures to protect their main pedestrian walkways by installing bollards, planters and concrete blocks, to avoid attacks like those in Catalonia last week. Although the Ministry of the Interior did not detail its recommendations so as to “not give clues to terrorists,” it has agreed with law enforcement agencies to “increase security devices in highly attended places or events.”

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Swiss Indict Suspected ‘Jihadi Traveller’

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has indicted a 30-year-old woman from the Zurich area suspected of trying to reach Syria to join the radical Islamic State group accompanied by her young child.

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Switzerland: SAC Keeps Racist Scientist on Honorary Member List

Louis Agassiz was one of the most influential scientists of the 19th century. He was also an outspoken racist. The Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) has now rejected a demand that it remove him as a former honorary member of the club.

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Turkey Accuses Germany’s Gabriel of Copying ‘Racists, Far Right’

Turkey’s European Union Minister Ömer Çelik accused German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Aug. 23 of “copying the far-right and racists” through his statements in the ongoing diplomatic row between Ankara and Berlin.

“Gabriel is not making original statements. He speaks by simply copying from the far-right and racists,” Çelik wrote on Twitter in a 29-post chain, criticizing Gabriel and Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz.

“It can be seen that the German foreign minister has reached the same level as the refugee enemy and symbol of racist politics: The Austrian foreign minister,” Çelik wrote in another tweet.

He said attacks by “racists, fascists and enemies of Islam” against Turkey or President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meant “nothing” to Ankara.

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Turku Suspect Wanted to Join ISIS, Called Finns Infidels

The man suspected of carrying out Friday’s knife rampage in Turku, who is known to Finnish authorities as Abderrahman Mechkah, listened to radical sermons via his phone and worked out to develop his physique. He was also visited by a Moroccan man who lived outside Finland.

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UK: ‘Grooming’ Gang ‘Raped Vulnerable Girls as Young as 13 After Luring Them to Parties at a Network of Flats and Plying Them With Alcohol and Drugs’

A gang is accused of raping and sexually abusing vulnerable girls as young as 13 after plying them with alcohol and drugs.

Six ‘naive’ victims were lured to parties at houses and flats, where they were expected to carry out sexual favours and services in return, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

Soran Azizi, Palla Pour, Ribas Asad, Saman Obaid and Heiman Mohammed, all from Newcastle, are alleged to have committed a string of sex crimes including rape, paying for the sexual services of a child and trafficking.

The men, who spoke through interpreters, denied all 31 of the charges against them at a hearing today.

Some of the sexual acts were carried out by the victims consensually, because they were ‘in thrall’ to their abusers, in return for ‘rewards’ of drink and drugs, the jury was told.

But prosecutor Anne Richardson said the victims were ‘forced’ at other times or were so intoxicated they were unable to consent to what happened to them.

Miss Richardson claimed the women and girls were treated as ‘commodities’, passed around various men and sometimes believed they were in relationships with their abusers…

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Venice Mayor: Anyone Who Shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ Will be Shot

Cops in Venice have been told to shoot potential terrorists on sight. The Italian city’s mayor has ordered them to target anyone shouting “Allahu Akbar”, Arabic for God is Greater.

Luigi Brugnaro, mayor of the tourist hot spot of Venice, revealed the order at a summer think tank and was applauded by delegates. He said: “Anyone who shouts Allahu Akbar in St Mark’s Square can expect to be gunned down by snipers within four paces.”

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Venice Mayor Says Anyone Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ In St. Mark’s Square Can Expect to be Shot

Mayor of Venice Luigi Brugnaro has caused controversy after releasing a statement saying that anyone who shouts “Allahu Akbar” in the city’s most famous tourist area can expect to be shot.

The Venice mayor made the statement Wednesday after calling for more security and better precautions to prevent terrorist attacks in the northern Italian city which sees millions of visitors per year.

Mayor Brugnaro pulled no punches saying: “We have to fight terrorism in Italy and raise the security precautions here.”

He added: “If someone runs in the square and shouts ‘Allahu Akbar,’ he will be immediately shot,” Die Presse reports.

“If you want to kill me, I will defend myself and in Venice we defend ourselves,” Brugnaro said.

He then noted that police in the city had already foiled a terror plot in March when they discovered that three Islamic extremists were planning to indiscriminately attack locals and tourists at the famous Rialto bridge by blowing it up.

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‘Alarmingly High’ Levels of Arsenic in Pakistan’s Ground Water

Up to 60 million people in Pakistan are at risk from the deadly chemical arsenic, according to a new analysis of water supplies.

The study looked at data from nearly 1,200 groundwater quality samples from across the country.

The resulting risk map shows concentrations well above World Health Organization (WHO) safety guidelines across the Indus plain.

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India Aadhaar ID Cards: Collecting Biometric Data From 1bn People

The idea of getting biometric data — fingerprint and iris scans — of a billion people would seem to be an impossibly complex task.

But the Indian government is in the final stages of enrolling all of its citizens in the world’s largest ID system. Siva Parameswaran of the BBC’s Tamil Service finds out how they did it.

The system is known as Aadhaar, which means foundation.

It started as a voluntary programme to help tackle benefit fraud — and is now described as “the largest and most sophisticated ID database in the world”.

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India Intensifies Crackdown on Chinese Tech Firms

India is intensifying a crackdown on Chinese technology companies with a government official saying security testing of China’s UC Browser is being done to see if it’s leaking data.

Testing on the popular browser made by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s UCWeb is under way and the government is awaiting a report before deciding on any action, Ajay Prakash Sawhney, secretary in the ministry of electronics and information technology, said on Wednesday. UC Browser has over 100 million monthly active users in India and claims over 50 percent of the mobile browser market in the country.

The ministry of electronics and IT said earlier this month that it was focusing on “securing Indian cyberspace” and its digital infrastructure.

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Myanmar Tensions: Annan Warns on Rakhine ‘Radicalisation’

Communities in Myanmar’s Rakhine state face a “real risk” of radicalisation if ethnic tensions are not addressed, an independent commission says.

The panel, led by former UN chief Kofi Annan, says a response combining political, security and developmental initiatives is needed to ensure violence does not escalate.

Tensions with the Buddhist population have been rumbling for years, and tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh, accusing Myanmar authorities of ethnic persecution.

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‘Chinese Trains Could One Day Travel Through the Gotthard’

Chinese trains are on track to be a major force in the European market, says Cui Jun, a Swiss-based railway expert and consultant. She tells swissinfo.ch about cultural differences, accusations that China stole Swiss technology, and why Chinese high-speed trains will never be sold to Switzerland.

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Exclusive: In China, The Party’s Push for Influence Inside Foreign Firms Stirs Fears

Late last month, executives from more than a dozen top European companies in China met in Beijing to discuss their concerns about the growing role of the ruling Communist Party in the local operations of foreign firms, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions.

President Xi Jinping’s efforts to strengthen the party’s role throughout Chinese society have reached the China operations of foreign companies, and executives at some of those entities don’t like the resulting demands they are facing.

The presence of party units has long been a fact of doing business in China, where party organizations exist in nearly 70 percent of some 1.86 million privately owned companies, the official China Daily reported last month.

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Kim Jong-un Killed Uncle, Half-Brother Over ‘China Coup Plot, ‘ Report Says

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly had his uncle executed and his half-brother killed in a daring airport assassination earlier this year after learning about a Chinese-backed plan to have him ousted, a Japanese magazine claimed.

Kim took power in 2011 after his father, Kim Jong Il, died. In six years, the leader purged senior officials and relatives allegedly plotting to overthrow him and his regime.

Kim’s uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was executed in 2013 when he was accused of being a “traitor” and committing a series of “hideous crimes.” His exiled half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, died this year when two women smeared his face with the banned VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpar airport in Malaysia. Two women are being charged in his death, although they claim they were duped into thinking they were playing a harmless prank for a hidden-camera TV show.

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Robot Priest: The Future of Funerals?

Developers in Japan are offering a robot “priest” to conduct Buddhist funeral rites complete with chanted sutras and drum tapping — all at a fraction of the cost of a human. It is the latest use of Softbank’s humanoid robot Pepper.

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‘I Agree With Pauline Hanson’: Muslim Woman From Western Sydney Says the Burqa Should be Banned — So a Man Can’t Hide a Bomb Underneath it

A Muslim woman from Sydney wants the burqa banned to prevent suicide bombings. Emma Eros agrees with One Nation leader Pauline Hanson. ‘I do agree with the banning of the burqa,’ she said.

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Pictured: Woman, 25, Believed to be the Victim of Cannibals in South Africa Who Were Arrested After One of Them Walked Into a Police Station Holding an Arm and a Leg and Said He Had Lost the Taste for Human Flesh

This is believed to be the victim of five cannibals who were arrested after the brutal rape and murder of a young woman whose flesh was then eaten in a scandal that is rocking South Africa.

Zanele Hlatshwayo, 25, is thought to be the woman who was murdered and cut up before her flesh was shared around neighbours in an unfolding cannibal saga in Estcourt, a town in the uThukela District of KwaZulu-Natal Province.

More than 300 people in surrounding villages have so far admitted to knowingly eating human flesh, and at the home of one of the arrested men eight human ears were found in a cooking pot.

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Russian Ambassador Found Dead in Pool is Fourth to Die Within a Year

Is string of diplomat deaths coincidence?

The Russian ambassador to Sudan was found dead in a swimming pool at his home, becoming the fourth diplomat from his country to die in eight months.

Mirgayas Shirinskiy, 62, who appointed to the role in 2013 suffered from high pressure and died of natural causes, according to police.

Sudan’s foreign ministry expressed its condolences to Russia in a statement, hailing Shirinskiy’s diplomatic efforts.

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Brazil: Is Rio De Janeiro a City at War?

The crisis in Rio is having deadly consequences. A police officer is killed on average every 54 hours in Rio state.

According to the state’s security secretariat, nearly 3,500 people were murdered in the first six months of this year, 15% more than last year.

The number of people killed by police in shootouts rose by 45%.

Every day, there are new headlines splashed across the papers reporting the growing violence.

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Venezuela Blocks Columbian TV Signal, Threatens Social Media Clampdown

CARACAS, VENEZUELA — Venezuelan officials have blocked access to Colombian television station Caracol and threatened a clampdown on social media networks in Venezuela, continuing the government’s efforts to exert control over the flow of information.

Caracol’s management confirmed the block Thursday via Twitter, noting that President Nicolás Maduro had “launched harsh criticism of Colombian media” hours before ordering the move.

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Border Police Stopped 56,0000 Migrants Getting Into the UK in 2016

MORE than 56,000 attempts by migrants to get to Kent from France were stopped by UK border police last year, it is reported.

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EU Says Will Not Drop Case Against Poland Over Migrants

The European Union’s executive arm on Thursday said it would not withdraw its legal proceedings against Poland over migrant relocation quotas. On Wednesday, the foreign ministry in Warsaw said it had asked the European Commission to drop a legal case against Poland over its refusal to accept migrants from states under pressure in the EU’s migration crisis.

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Immigration Boosts Finnish Population to 5.5 Million

The population of Finland has risen to just over 5.5 million, according to advance data from Statistics Finland. However data crunchers attributed the population growth to immigration, since there were 2,000-odd more deaths than births in the first seven months of the year.

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Italian Police Use Water Cannon Against Refugees Occupying Rome Square

Police using water cannon and batons have clashed with refugees who had occupied a square in Rome in defiance of an order to leave a building where they had been squatting.

Television images from the dawn operation showed people screaming and trying to hit police, who were dressed in riot gear, with sticks.

The square, one block from Rome’s main train station, was strewn with mattresses, overturned rubbish bins and broken plastic chairs.

Hung on the building was a sheet with writing reading: “We are refugees, not terrorists,” in Italian. A small fire burned on the pavement and a sheet hanging from a first-floor window was set alight by squatters inside.

Witnesses who arrived at the square after the clearance operation described a scene of carnage…

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Italy: Defiant Migrants Throw Rocks and Bottles at Riot Police in Rome Who Turn on the Water Cannon to Remove Them From Makeshift Camp Outside City’s Main Train Station

Migrants and refugees threw rocks, bottles and gas cans at police in riot gear who were clearing more than a hundred of them from a makeshift camp in Rome. They stood defiant in the face of the police’s powerful water cannons as they were cleared from a piazza near Termini station.

TV footage showed some of the refugees — many from Eritrea — screaming and trying to hit police who were armed with batons and shields. The square, just one block from Rome’s main train station, was strewn with mattresses, overturned rubbish bins and broken plastic chairs.

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Jailed: Trafficker Who Tried to Smuggle Iraqi to UK on Eurotunnel

The conviction followed a trial a three-day trial at Canterbury Crown Court in which the court heard how border guards foiled an attempt by driver Hamid Alhendi to illegally ferry across a passenger on false papers.

Officers at the high-speed train terminal at Coquelles near Calais in France spotted the Dutch identity card presented by the passenger was not his. He was later found to be an Iraqi and passed to the French authorities.

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Libyan Preacher on Benefits Investigated for Suspected Hate Speech at Swiss Mosque

The city of Biel/Bienne is investigating a Libyan man who came to Switzerland as an asylum seeker nearly 20 years ago for giving sermons at a mosque in which he called for non-Muslims to be destroyed.

His alleged hate speech was reported by Swiss media including broadcaster SRF and the Tages-Anzeiger on Wednesday, and has caused particular consternation given they also revealed the unemployed man has been living on Swiss social welfare for years, receiving nearly 600,000 francs over the last 13 years.

The 64-year-old is an occasional volunteer preacher at the Ar’Rahman mosque in Biel/Bienne, said the paper. In a sermon recorded by SRF and attributed to the Libyan, he asked Allah to “destroy the enemies of our religion, destroy the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Russians and the Shiites”.

The preacher came to Switzerland as a refugee in 1998 and was in 2001 granted asylum, claiming he was persecuted by the regime of Colonel Gadaffi.

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Malkin: Trump Standing Firm on Border Wall Despite ‘Unprecedented’ Level of Attacks

Michelle Malkin credited President Trump for remaining committed to the core principles that got him elected, despite the “unprecedented” attacks from the media and both parties.

The host of “Michelle Malkin Investigates” on CRTV said Trump is “under siege” right now but he is standing firm on agenda items like the border wall.

Malkin said on “Fox & Friends” that Republicans like Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney are “pandering to the social justice mob” by opposing Trump’s agenda.

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Migrants Make Over 150 Attempts Every Day to Reach UK From France

More than 56,000 attempts by migrants to get to Kent from France were stopped by UK border police last year. The figures equate to around 153 attempts each day and are the second highest in the past seven years, despite dropping by 25,000 compared to 2015.

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Migrant Crisis — Poland Threatens to Take EU to Court Over Refugee Quotas

POLAND today threw down the gauntlet to Brussels as it confirmed it will defend its refusal to implement migrant quotas in the European Court of Justice.

Polish ministers confirmed they will fight their corner in court unless eurocrats immediately drop infringement proceedings, enacted last month over the country’s refusal to take in refugees.

The move marks a further ramping up of rhetoric between the two parties over the issue of migration, with relations deteriorating between Warsaw and Brussels at an alarming rate.

EU officials have notified Poland of their intention to take action over the government’s refusal to accept migrant quotas, with punishments potentially including a hefty fine.

But with the latest opinion polling showing that more than half of Poles would be prepared to quit the bloc altogether if the EU imposes its migration policies, neither side looks likely to back down.

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Migrant Riots Break Out in Rome: Man Throws Gas Cylinder as Italy Police Clash in Capital

THIS is the moment a man threw a gas cylinder at Italian police as officers moved into a building occupied by migrants in Rome.

Shocking footage shows a man appearing to throw a gas cylinder from the balcony at police and crowds.

Tension arose at dawn when police arrived in Piazza Indipendenza, Rome to empty a building that had been allegedly illegally occupied.

During the operation, officers were met with violent resistance from the migrants.

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Poland Refuses to Take Any Muslim Migrants After Latest Terror Attacks

The head of the Polish National Security Office has announced that the country will not be taking in Muslim migrants after the latest terror attacks in Spain saying poorly integrated Muslim communities allow terrorism to fester.

Pawel Soloch, head of the Polish National Security Office, made the comments in reaction to the recent terror attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils last week. “We are convinced by the latest attacks that there is a natural base for terrorists where a large number of poorly integrated Muslims live,” Soloch said according to Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung.

“I see a growing number of Muslim refugees and a surge of terrorism,” Soloch said and added that there was evidence of a potential migrant wave headed for Poland.

The comments from the security office chief are in line with the general sentiment expressed by other nations in the Visegrád Group — Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia — who have all resisted the redistribution of migrants by the European Union.

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Swedish Anti-Mass Migration Podcasts Taken Down by Soundcloud for ‘Hate Speech’

Several Swedish language podcasts have been removed from the audio website Soundcloud after the company emailed users telling them they had broken their “hate speech” terms of service.

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UK: ‘Sex Grooming Gang Drugged and Raped White Girls as Young as 13’

Sex with gang members then became “chillingly almost a daily occurrence”, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

Anne Richardson, prosecuting, said: “They were young, naive women who were in thrall to and under the control of these, for the most part, older and more worldly-wise defendants.”

Miss Richardson told the court the girls were effectively passed between “some if not all the defendants” and were “treated almost as commodities”.

The defendants, all of Kurdish extraction, face a variety of charges. Soran Azizi, 28, denies, rape, sexual activity with a child and two counts of trafficking for sexual exploitation.

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UK: Group of 14 Men Found in the Back of a Lorry

A GROUP of men have been discovered huddled in the back of a lorry at the side of a motorway near Rigby.

Warwickshire Police found 14 men in the back of the vehicle — which had come from abroad — on the A45.

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UK: Illegal Migrant Jailed for Murdering Carer

AN ILLEGAL immigrant has been jailed for at least 26 years for murdering a carer after slipping through the hands of authorities at least six times in two years.

Homeless Hani Khalaf, 22, survived on the streets of Britain by stealing food and clothes after arriving in the back of a lorry posing as a Syrian asylum seeker, the Old Bailey heard.

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ACLU Apologizes for Tweeting Photo of White Baby With US Flag

The American Civil Liberties Union is doing damage control after Twitter leftists denounced the group for sharing a picture of a white baby holding an American flag.

In a tweet sent Wednesday afternoon, the ACLU captioned a photo of a blonde-haired Caucasian child wearing a free speech onesie and waving a flag, “This is the future that ACLU members want.”

Leftists were furious over the post because they believed it endorsed white supremacy.

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Hysteria: Leftists Triggered by ACLU Tweeting Photo of a White Baby

Group forced to apologize for declaration “This is the future that ACLU members want”

However, the only thing that mattered to the hysterical leftist twitterati was the color of the child’s skin.

The ACLU was forced to issue an apology for tweeting a photo of a baby holding a US flag with the caption “This is the future that ACLU members want,” after an army of basement dwelling leftists lost their shit because the baby was Caucasian.

The point of the image was that the child was wearing an ACLU onesie emblazoned with the words “Free Speech,” as well as holding the Stars and Stripes.

However, the only thing that mattered to the hysterical leftist twitterati was the color of the child’s skin.

[Comment: It’s always about skin color with leftists. They don’t see the flag, the country, the constitution or respect free speech.]

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30 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/24/2017

  1. “One hundred years after the Great October Socialist Revolution, the superiority of the socialist system cannot be hidden, however many tons of mud they sling at it,” said the statement signed by the communist parties of Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Austria, among others.

    Ach well: You know the Russian Communist Party was very popular in Czechoslovakia inbetween the wars – in the 1930’s. That was only until individual Prague intellectuals traveled to Russia and witnessed the results and the horrors of the Great October Revolution.

    One of the problems with communism is its “dragon talk”. If you get to read only propaganda about communism, and its self-boasting, you might be mis-led to believe it is actually a perfect system for us.

    Don’t be fooled. They know that the superiority of the socialist system is non-existent! These statements are for the public, that is why they are made.

    • After 100 years of the proven failure of Socialism, and in all its guises, those who still promote Communism truly fit the description of insanity.

      • It might look like that, but it really is well thought out propaganda. They target the ill informed – predominantly young and impressionable. But behind it is a hidden drive for power. Communism and fascism are both scientific, refined ideologies, and that statement – that the superiority of the socialist system cannot be hidden – is like when the Russians had an accident in space, they would report “We just successfully tested an explosion in space”. Just like the ancient Egyptians: All is weill in Egypt, all is in peace – is written on the hieroglyphs right after Egypt was destroyed by one disaster or another.

        It is about maintaining the status quo, the party is infallable and therefore untouchable.

  2. Bunkerville is, I believe, a graphic example of the failure of Obama’s complete influence over America – and the underhandedness Obama’s cronies (BLM) had to stoop to in exacting revenge (prosecution and jailing of Cliven Bundy) on baseless charges for a giant slap in the face to their authoritarianism.

    I think the Stand at Bunkerville will at some time be looked back upon as a turning point in American history when the people decided that they had suffered enough and resisted the encroachment of a tyrannical federal government.

  3. Donation from :…”Bulgaria, Israel, Lithuania”…
    O dear..I just find two countries ,you haven’t receive a one penny from..
    Germany & Austria…Those charitable , good hearted and compassionate Muslim lovers Germans and Austrian…
    Is there ANY,the Truth and Freedom loving German or Austrian out there ?
    Show yourself,please..you will restore my faith in Humanity again..

    • That’s just for Thursday. Look at the earlier days; you’ll see Germany in there. But probably not Austria — I don’t think we usually get any from Austria, for some reason.

    • Marxism = The Culture of Death.

      Marxism = The Death of Culture

      There, fixed that! But only in the veterinary sense.

      A final question: How high must the mountain of skulls be until this world’s Socialist “leaders” finally admit that their brand of “collectivism” will NEVER create genuine economic equality, much less any semblance of a politically-correct “Capitalist-wage-slave” society that (for a dozen times) safely returns to earth, astronauts who have landed on the moon?

      This constant mockery of free enterprise (and accompanying abject refusals to discard repeatedly failed Centrally Planned Economies) all points towards even more countless millions of deaths (or skulls).

      As in the way that these latest generations of budding, starry-eyed, Social (Antifa) Engineers continue to impose their lunatic, utopian visions upon an all-too-meek working class that has yet to realize how marching with these cadres of revisionist and collectivist mock-übermensch is nothing more than a (however delayed) death sentence.

  4. Straight from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla#Social_structure

    Gorillas are considered highly intelligent. A few individuals in captivity, such as Koko, have been taught a subset of sign language. Like the other great apes, gorillas can laugh, grieve, have “rich emotional lives”, develop strong family bonds, make and use tools, and think about the past and future. Some researchers believe gorillas have spiritual feelings or religious sentiments. They have been shown to have cultures in different areas revolving around different methods of food preparation, and will show individual colour preferences.

    I’m notifying CAIR, the world’s premier civil rights organization, that an entire species is ready for Islam. In fact, Simian Rights may be the upside of all this mayhem.

    Then, the porpoises! Flipper was a Muslim!!

    Allahu-Akbar!! Is it true that octopi are smart enough to unscrew jar lids?
    Another candidate!

    • On the contrary – these species are FAR TOO INTELLIGENT to be swindled by Mohammed. It takes an IQ in the minus range.

      Last week, my husband had a call from his bank. “Did you donate $2,000 to the Center for American Islamic Relations, Mr X? Ah! We thought not! We’ll be sending you a new card and we’re not honoring the claim.’

  5. ‘This is believed to be the victim of five cannibals who were arrested after the brutal rape and murder of a young woman whose flesh was then eaten in a scandal that is rocking South Africa.’

    Yet another sign of the destruction of civilization across the planet. The four horsemen of the apocalypse are unleashed – Plague: War: Tyranny: Death.

    We have a plague of invaders.

    We have civil war in the West its early stages, as well as wars in the ME, Africa and Asia Minor.

    We have political tyrannies of the Left – the spread of government like a shadow over the land; the erosion of free speech; pulling down statues; undermining constitutions; Soros paid mercenaries (antifa) wreaking havoc on the streets; corruption and despotism in the Third World and the Globalist takeover of communication networks, migration, banking and regulation of the environment (i.e. every aspect of life).

    And we have Death – and there’ll be a lot more of it as the law becomes completely weaponized and the nation state is overrun by murdering, raping invaders.

  6. Myanmar:’ The panel, led by former UN chief Kofi Annan, says a response combining political, security and developmental initiatives is needed to ensure violence does not escalate. It also suggests lifting restrictions on the Muslim Rohingya minority.
    Rakhine has seen deadly clashes between Muslims and majority Buddhists’

    So the corrupt Kofi Annan weighs in. Confine yourself to ripping off Ghana with your perfumery, Annan! Typical that he would suggest giving in to the enemy. At least the Buddhists are setting us the example of resistance.

  7. ‘Koob said stability would be uppermost in her thoughts on 24 September, which is why she values Merkel. “She exudes calm. She doesn’t make any hasty decisions. She gets on well with France, she’s good at working things out with England. She’s smart enough to let Trump do the talking. She brings equilibrium at a time of uncertainty.”’

    What planet are these people living on?

    Yet, what can one expect from the newspaper that operates in the city of over 400 mosques, where people have to brave acid thrown at their faces and having their throats slit each time they step onto the street!

    As for the Germans – one only has to recall that father of atheism, Feuerbach – inspiration to Marx and Freud, to know why the sooner Germany goes under the better for the rest of the world!

  8. ‘Even before the attacks last week in Spain, European cities were installing barriers to protect pedestrians after a series of attacks using cars, vans and trucks.’

    What is the point of living in an environment where one has to be on guard 24/7 against an enemy your government have welcomed in?

    I suppose it gives the government a raison d’etre. First bring in rabid barbarians, and then turn society into an armed camp. It requires an ever-expanding contribution by taxpayers to law enforcement, just to keep themselves alive.

  9. “It is Our Very Existence That is Unbearable to Jihadists”

    I’d like to assure them that the feeling is mutual.

  10. ‘Female Genital Mutilation Survivor Recounts Day She Was Cut’

    People say, well baby boys are circumcised – what’s the difference?

    Most parents today refuse this for their baby sons. It is thought that it originally had a health aspect as in the dry. water-deprived areas of the ME, it enabled boys and men to keep themselves (and their womenfolk) freer of infection. Just as the taboo against pork was probably based on the prevalence of disease in pigs, when raising them in hot, dry climates.

    But there is no health advantage, and many health risks, with female genital mutilation! It is purely vindictive – preventing women from enjoying sexual intercourse and therefore lessening the likelihood of infidelity. This is male thinking! As females are emotionally triggered by more than just sex, it backfired. That stupid thinking also assumed that a woman must ward off an attacker – a big mistake, but one for which the Muslim rape victim is blamed! My nursing friend from London told me she saw many Muslim women with urinary infections and other complications from FGM.

    To be honest, I don’t think that it is mandated in the Koran and is probably a hangover from the primitive culture of those times, which has been preserved in Islam like a scorpion in aspic. Basically, traditional, patriarchal cultures despise women for their beauty, before which men feel undone. How pathetic!

    What is appalling is that this butchery is performed on young girls, without anesthetic. Aayan Hirsi Ali has spoken out against it, as she was also a victim.

    ON THE OTHER HAND, THE SILENCE OF THE RADICAL FEMINISTS IS DEAFENING!

    • [P]reserved in Islam like a scorpion in aspic.

      Brilliant, DiMu! A genuine keeper! In some cases, your term beats […]the more common descriptors such as, “trapped in amber” or “cut in stone”. Please indicate whether or not you created this particular meme all by yourself. If so, I hope that you will check in and lay appropriate claim to this superb meme.

      ON THE OTHER HAND, THE SILENCE OF THE RADICAL FEMINISTS IS DEAFENING!

      Not just “deafening”, but one of the most thoroughly deranged and hypocritical examples of ideologically (de)based “reasoning” in modern times.

      Considering how women represent more than HALF of our planet’s population, this tacit acceptance of FGM and institutionalized misogyny (by many of its most well-educated followers) is just barely matched by the very much smaller homosexual community’s ridiculous, yet suicidally, stark refusal to vociferously and openly oppose all forms of flagrant Islamic homophobia.

      To reiterate: FGM is nothing more or less than psychosexual rape being imposed on a most personal and DAILY basis.

      Forcibly denying a woman of any hope with respect to experiencing climactic pleasure from intimate congregation with her (ostensibly “chosen”) mate is a crime unto itself (if not against some significant portion of humanity).

      For the nonce, we’ll unsuccessfully ignore any attempt to disregard how such a significant fraction of this planet’s female population is routinely denied this most basic and totally fundamental right.

      All of which makes Medieval “chastity belts” look like the fluffy, elastic “handcuffs”, used by today’s,”soft-core”, proponents of such (admittedly) relaxed sexual practitioners that dot the landscape of modern (heated) waterbed mattresses.

      The fact that Muslim men accept this psychosexual deprivation (for Islamic women) is something that transcends all rational and even remotely healthy definitions of personal intimacy.

      At the very least, it represents a somewhat-unanimous willingness to relegate Muslim women into a psychosexual “underclass” (e.g., dhimmi) which reinforces doctrinally accepted mistreatment of even the most basic elements of human society.

      Even the slightest notions regarding why a woman should be deprived of her climax (much less the most basic pleasures of simple physical foreplay) represents an astounding degree of utterly cruel misogyny.

      All of which should necessarily direct intense sarcastic derision and limitless scorn towards all approving Muslim males for their (tacit or overt) support of such malicious cruelty.

      Any questions?

      • A brief history of FGM, insofar as I understand it:

        The earliest known example is the mummy of an ancient Egyptian queen. This probably accounts for why the Coptic Christians, descendants of the original inhabitants, still practise it. Some other Christians (and, I believe, some Jewish people) also used to, or still do, follow it. What they all had in common was geography, ie N Africa/Middle East. So it was likely cultural, more than religious, in origin.

        However… Mohammed was the only founder of a major religion to recommend it, which is why it is spreading in Pakistan, Indonesia etc.

          • At first, when I saw that change in your nic I thought you were my cousin, Mark Humphrys.

            He has a website – imagine a Dublin atheist libertarian! – which you’d enjoy. Very informative about the murderous 20th century. I think it’s on the sidebar but I’ll have to find it.

  11. Hi guys..perhaps it will be interesting for you ?
    Interesting development in War between EU-Macron vs Poland..
    Polish Prime Minister minced “french golden boy” in her recent statement to de pices :-))
    Here are my translation from Polish language :…”I remind you President Macron that Poland is the same EU member as France. We have the same rights as France and other member states and we will use them for the good of Poland and Poles. Poland is not in conflict with any EU country nor with itself.

    I advise the President to deal with the affairs of his country, perhaps he will be able to achieve the same economic results and the same level of security of his citizens as Poland did and guarantees.

    The future of EU will not be decided by The President of France, or any other individual leader,, but by all members of the EU community. I advise the president to be more conciliatory and not try to break the EU.

    Perhaps his arrogant tantrum result from lack of political experience and experience, which I will note with understanding, but I expect that he will make up for this shortcoming and will be more restrained in the future. On delegated workers, Poland and Central Europe defend the common market and France, through its efforts, is trying to dismantle one of the pillars of the EU. “…
    Original link to interview Polish PM :https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/354764-tylko-u-nas-premier-beata-szydlo-odpowiada-na-slowa-prezydenta-macrona-podpowiadam-aby-nie-rozbijal-ue-i-zajal-sie-swoim-krajem
    Please notice how world “mainstream” is manipulating by citing only chosen fragments from this open Polish PM Deceleration of War statement..
    Hungary pull out today his Ambassador from Holland for similar ,arrogant Dutch statement about Hungary..
    EU monster is falling down..slowly but surely :-)) Regards

    • “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” Mahatma Gandhi
      History of Poland…

    • Nobody has the right to talk about Poland as Macron says. And no one has said so since World War II

      This is not my point, but I agree with it: since 1939 no one in such a high position spoke about Poland as abusive as Emmanuel Macron.

      Its words suggesting “nullity”, “irrelevance” of Poland, its insignificance, its marginality in Europe’s “present and future”, the lack of right to formulate its own interests and the suggestion that someone from outside should give the Poles something more, To the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact of 1939, where the word “the fall of the former Polish state” falls.

      Later, Molotov said:

      ” It was enough to show a brief blow to Poland from the German army and the Red Army, so that nothing could be left of the quagmire bastard of the Treaty of Versailles, which lived at the expense of non-Polish nationalities.”..

      Of course, I do not compare Mr. Macron to those criminals. But I point to how dangerous the path was. Poles, painful experience through history, feel the tones that imply the irrelevance of the Polish state. And they know they can be ominous. Mr. Macron probably does not want the war in Europe, he is convinced that he is fighting for the peace and happiness of mankind, but he does not understand that using such language triggers demons, which can lead to great misery, also to his country.

      He does it only in the name of self-interest, French limping economy, motivated by weak polls (a wonderful child turned out to be a failed child), having to “deal”with “bad” Polish government that defends the legitimate economical interest of Poland. That’s why hi turns on abusive language . Shameful and stupid. Embarrassingly irresponsible

      What happened to France that such madly irresponsible kid are elected for president?

      • What happened to France was Eurabia. You can trace it back to de Gaulle’s hubris and envy. France has been on a downward spiral since then and Micron is simply whistling past his Daddy’s grave. La Belle is fast becoming an old hag. It’s sad.

  12. ….”Poland does not define the future of Europe today and it will not be defined tomorrow either.” And “Poles deserve more” than what their current government does. Even if Emmanuel Macron did not say anything more today in Varna, these two sentences would completely redefine the relations between the Member States of the European Union. The first of them says explicitly that only some members of the Union will have an influence on the shape of Europe in the future. While the Bonapartist Macron thinks that it will be in Paris to decide who it will be and who will not. The second sentence is, in the case of France and Poland, an absolutely unprecedented, open invitation from the leader of one state to change power in the other. Such cases have, indeed, happened so far in the European Union, but only in relation to Greece’s insolvent debts.

    Macron does not publicly attack Poland for the first time. Already in an interview with the newspaper Le Voix du Nord, he promised to “punish” Poland within three months of taking power. This term has just passed. He also called publicly at the great rally in Paris on the eve of the great rally in Paris, and then his speech in Poland was the chief offender of the evil and poverty that falls on the French. But today Varna has even exceeded that measure. It is important to realize that in Paris the enemy of our country is ruled by the attacks on Poland and the weakening of its position in Europe has made the tool of mobilizing its supporters. Since the emergence of the European Communities, such cases have been successfully removed from the official policy brackets. Only political correctness does not openly mention the names of the last European leader, who has made himself one of the leading motifs of his speeches in Poland. After that leader, for many decades nothing in Europe could have happened.

    So Emmanuel Macron opens a new epoch in Europe. Probably some symbolic significance is that it does in the place where a young Polish king once was killed, who at the head of the European army tried to stop the Muslim line.”….

    • I don’t see Micron as opening a new epoch in Europe. In his dreams. His country is overrun and quickly passing from the rule of law in many areas -those areas are enlarging.

      The welfare state of France is slowly dying out as its ethnic French fail to reproduce, work, and pay in the taxes necessary to keep it functioning…it’s downhill from here for Micron and Momma.

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