Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/27/2017

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for yesterday’s attack by a Somali mujahid on police in Belgium. The attacker lightly wounded the three officers with a knife before he was shot dead. In addition to the knife and a fake gun, he was carrying a Koran.

In other news, the “DVX” pine forest in Italy that was planted in honor of Benito Mussolini has been partially destroyed by a wildfire. The trees of the forest form the letters DVX, or “Dux”, meaning “leader” in Latin. They were planted in 1939 by forestry students to honor Il Duce.

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Financial Crisis
» Chastised by E.U., a Resentful Greece Embraces China’s Cash and Interests
» My Prediction: The Coming Collapse of China’s Ponzi Scheme Economy
» Sears Death Spiral Accelerates
 
USA
» “We’re Coming for You”: AP Accuses NRA of “Inciting Violence” Against Journalists
» A Chill Wind Blows
» After Charlottesville, UN Demands U.S. Quash First Amendment
» Antifa Has a New Cell in Philly, And They’re Calling for Property Seizures, Violence on Police, And All-Out Revolution
» Breaking: Live Chopper Feed Shows Massive Antifa Mob Chasing Down and Severely Beating Lone Trump Supporter… No Cops in Sight
» Brent Bozell: The Slow Death of the Republican Party
» ‘Civil Disobedience’ March From Charlottesville to DC Will Demand Trump’s Removal
» Combative Ex-Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka in Talks to Rejoin Breitbart
» Confederate Flag Sales Surge After Charlottesville Violence
» Congress Quietly Passed a Bill Allowing Warrantless Searches of Homes — Only 1% Opposed it
» DC Council Member Wants Police to Investigate Pro-Trump Flyers
» Democrats Conveniently Forget 6,000 Prisoners Obama Pardoned Including Crack Dealer Who Committed Horrific Crime Against 3 Innocent Americans
» Elon Musk Wants to Launch Manufacturer of Nice Cyborgs
» Google Sends ‘Offensive’ Videos to YouTube Purgatory as Censorship Regime Expands
» GOP Rep Franks on Arpaio: ‘I’m Just Grateful That the President Had the Courage to Correct This Injustice’
» Harvey Causes ‘Catastrophic Flooding’ In Houston, Thousands of Rescue Calls Made
» IRS Rehires Hundreds of Employees Fired for Fraud, Theft, Abusing Taxpayer Data
» Maxine Suggests POTUS Pardoned Arpaio Because Trump Part of KKK
» NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots Wispy Clouds in Martian Skies
» Paul Ryan Throws in With Leftists to Attack President Trump’s Pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio
» Paul Craig Roberts: “There is a Conspiracy… and it’s Against the American People”
» PC Corporate Culture is a Plague That Government Helps Spread
» Stephen King ‘Blocks’ Trump From Seeing Killer Clown Movie ‘It’ Bangor, Maine (Ap) — Stephen King is Retaliating Against President Donald Trump for Blocking Him on Twitter.
» Storm Harvey: Up to 2,000 Rescued as Houston Hit by ‘Catastrophic Floods’
» Tennessee Theater Cancels ‘Gone With the Wind’ Screening After 34 Years Over ‘Racist’ Content Complaints
» Texas Governor: President Called and Said ‘Whatever You Need, You’Ve Got’
» The Memo: Trump Allies Say He Needs a GOP Scalp
» The Swamp Report Card: Grading Enemies and Friends
» Turning the Lights Back on, On the Internet
» Va Gov McAuliffe: Confederate Monuments Are ‘Symbols of Hatred’ — ‘Let’s Take Them Down’
» We’re Losing Our Free Speech, Part 3
» YouTube “Economically Censors” Ron Paul, Labels Videos “Not Suitable” For All Advertisers
 
Europe and the EU
» Belgium: Islamic State Claims Brussels Attack, Terrorist Found Carrying Quran
» Catalonia Terror Cell Followed Teachings of Highly Secretive Salafi Sect
» Death Toll From Spain Attacks Rises to 16: Local Officials
» EU Deadline Passes for Poland to Comply on Court Reforms
» EU Laws Prevented Spain Deporting Barcelona Terror Mastermind
» Finland: Real Identity of Turku Knife Attack Main Suspect Confirmed
» France: Angry Army Wives Protest in Paris Over Military Working Conditions
» German Elections 2017: Merkel Under Pressure as Erdogan Threatens to Split Vote
» German Woman Dies, Raises Death Toll to 16 in Spain Attacks
» ISIS Threatens Pope, Urges Italy Attack
» Italy: Musumeci to be Salvini Man in Sicily Elections
» Italy: ‘Dux’ Pine Forest Semi-Destroyed Near Rieti
» Italy Gang Rape: Tourist Attacked in Front of Boyfriend at Seaside Resort
» Italy: Polish Man Beaten Unconscious and Wife Gang Raped on Rimini Beach, African Migrants Suspected
» Macron Popularity Plummets: Most Voters in France Now Unhappy With President, Poll Reveals
» Spain: Thousands Take Part in Barcelona March Against Terror
» Sweden: Police Arrest One After Malmö Hit by ‘Extensive’ Car Fires
» UK: Police Chief Suggests Non-English Speaking Victims of Crime Will be Given Priority With White Middle Class Men at the Bottom of the List
» UK: Police Arrest 2nd Man in Buckingham Palace Terror Incident
» UK: Rotherham Abuse: ‘She Was Raped by Six Men’
» Zillertal Alps Accident Kills Five Climbers in Austria
 
Middle East
» Ancient Troy: The City and the Legend
» Syria-Lebanon Border Battle Against is Paused
» Welcome Home, King Salman! Saudi Royal Finally Returns Home After Splashing $100million on a Month-Long Moroccan Holiday
 
South Asia
» Face Scans, Robot Baggage Handlers: How Asia is Leading the New Airport Revolution
» India Guru Rape: Followers Start to Leave Ram Rahim’s HQ
» Myanmar Rakhine: Thousands Flee to Bangladesh Border
» The Painful Price of Adultery in Aceh: Ten Indonesians Are Lashed Up to 100 Times as Barbaric Punishment in Line With the Country’s Brutal Sharia Law
 
Far East
» China Removes Loudspeakers From Hundreds of Mosques in Muslim-Majority Region to Stop Calls to Prayer as Anti-Religion Sentiment Rises
» North Korea Missile Tests Didn’t Fail, US Military Says in Revised Report
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull Slams ‘Stalinist’ Attempt to Rewrite British Colonial History With Removal of Captain Cook Plaque Stating He Discovered the Country
» ‘I’m Tired of Being Criticised for Not Wearing a Headscarf’: Islamic Businesswoman Who Wears a Hardhat Instead of a Burqa Wants Other Muslims to Respect How She Dresses
» ‘Your Sins Are Exposed’: Islamic Preacher Slams Muslims Who Show Their Tattoos — But Still Pray to Allah
 
Immigration
» Australia: Hundreds of Asylum Seekers Will be Booted Off Centrelink and Out of Taxpayer-Funded Housing in Major Government Crackdown on Welfare
» EU Admits Failure to Deport Fake Asylum Seekers ‘Pull Factor’ For Illegal Migrants
» Greece: Government Sources See Erdogan Tactics Behind Increase in Migrant Arrivals
» ‘I Would Do it Again’ Defiant Merkel Has No Regrets About Opening Germany’s Borders
» Norway PM Solberg Dismisses Controversial Asylum Proposal
» Six Facts About Sheriff Joe Arpaio Case That Will Shut Down Every Liberal Crying “Foul” Over President Trump’s Pardon
» Swedish Police Defend Actions After Church Migrants Raid
» Thousands of Migrants Trying to Reach Britain From Spanish Port of Bilbao
 
Culture Wars
» About Time! Christian Group Sues Amazon and SPLC for Designation as Hate Group
» Bolshevik-Style Cultural Purge
» Bombing Outside Australian Christian Lobby HQ by Gay Activist ‘Not Political’
» Canada Introduces Gender ‘X’ On Passports So Transgenders ‘Can Feel Safe’
» Liberal Indoctrination Trumps Education at U.S. Colleges
» MLK Jr., Margaret Sanger, And the Cure for Violence
» Officials at the San Domenico School in California Decided Recently to Remove the Catholic Statues and Icons in a Move to be Seen as More Inclusive.
 
General
» Spacecraft in Extreme Environments
 

Chastised by E.U., a Resentful Greece Embraces China’s Cash and Interests

After years of struggling under austerity imposed by European partners and a chilly shoulder from the United States, Greece has embraced the advances of China, its most ardent and geopolitically ambitious suitor.

While Europe was busy squeezing Greece, the Chinese swooped in with bucket-loads of investments that have begun to pay off, not only economically but also by apparently giving China a political foothold in Greece, and by extension, in Europe.

When Germany treated Greece as the eurozone’s delinquent, China designated a recovery-hungry Greece its “most reliable friend” in Europe.

“While the Europeans are acting towards Greece like medieval leeches, the Chinese keep bringing money,” said Costas Douzinas, the head of the Greek Parliament’s foreign affairs and defense committee and a member of the governing Syriza party.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

My Prediction: The Coming Collapse of China’s Ponzi Scheme Economy

by Jake Van Der Kamp

So much production in industries like steel is based on demand for more production, but should that demand falter, the whole system could come crashing down

In my view human society is so dynamic that no command system can last long in charge of an economy. Attempts at this particular form of hubris inevitably end in either war or financial crisis. For the Soviet Union it was financial crisis. I think the same fate awaits Beijing.

Consider crude steel production, a test-tube example of how command economies get it wrong. In the mainland this stood in June at an all time monthly record of 73 million tonnes, five times the total production in all of Europe.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Sears Death Spiral Accelerates

Vendors halt shipments as cost of default insurance soars

When we commented back in March on the unexpected “going concern” notice in Sears’ 10-K which sent the stock crashing, we pointed out the immediate spin provided by Eddie Lampert’s distressed retailer which promised that its comeback plan may help alleviate the concerns, “satisfying our estimated liquidity needs 12 months from the issuance of the financial statements”, to which however we added the footnote that “the question is what happens when vendors start demanding cash on delivery as concerns about SHLD.’s liquidity concerns continue to grow.”

Shortly after, we wrote “Sears Enters Death Spiral: Vendors Halt Shipments, Insurers Bail” in which we described that as Sears financial condition deteriorated, vendors were boosting their “defensive measures”, such as reducing shipments and asking for better payment terms, to protect against the risk of nonpayment as the company warned about its finances.

The managing director of a Bangladesh-based textile firm said his company is using only a handful of its production lines to manufacture products for Sears’ 2017 holiday sales. Last year, nearly half of the company’s lines in its four factories were producing for Sears. “We have to protect ourselves from the risk of nonpayment,” said the managing director, who declined to be identified for fear of disrupting his company’s relationship with Sears.

Furthermore, precisely as we predicted, Mark Cohen, the former CEO of Sears Canada and director of retail studies at Columbia Business School said vendors will keep a close eye on Sears’ finances. “Whatever vendors continue to support them are now going to put them on even more of a short string. That means they’ll ship them smaller quantities and demand payment either in advance or immediately upon delivery.”

He added: “Sears stores are pathetically badly inventoried today and they will become worse.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“We’re Coming for You”: AP Accuses NRA of “Inciting Violence” Against Journalists

Predictably, the Associated Press is not happy. In a story about the new campaign — which debuted on the NRA’s NRATV, a web-video platform run by the association — the AP accused the NRA of employing dangerous rhetoric that risked inciting violence against journalists.

“The election of President Donald Trump and Republican control of Congress meant the National Rifle Association could probably rest easy that gun laws wouldn’t change for at least four years. But the NRA has begun a campaign not against pending legislation but what it sees as liberal forces bent on undoing the progress it’s made — and the political powerhouse is resorting to language that some believe could incite violence.

Using the hashtags #counterresistance and #clenchedfistoftruth, the NRA has put out a series of videos that announce a “shot across the bow,” and say the gun-rights group is “coming for you” and that “elites … threaten our very survival,” terms that suggest opponents are enemy combatants.”

In a video published earlier this month, NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch warned the New York Times that the NRA would be “coming for you,” adding that the NRA “had re-dedicated itself to exposing the lies of the mainstream press” while shining an uncomfortable spotlight on the relationship between the MSM and “globalist, corporate elites” who oppose the agenda of President Donald Trump… at least until Steve Bannon’s departure, which has since been taken over by former Goldman bankers.

“The times are burning and the media elites have been caught holding the match” Loesch said.

“We’ve had it with your narratives, your propaganda, your fake news. We’ve had it with your constant protection of your Democrat overlords, your refusal to acknowledge any truth that upsets the fragile construct that you believe is real life. And we’ve had it with your tone-deaf assertion that you are in any way truth or fact-based journalism,” Loesch says. “Consider this the shot across your proverbial bow. … In short? We’re coming for you.”

The AP countered with various “expert” soundbites who alleged the NRA could inspire an unstable person to incite violence. One of the AP’s sources, a director at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at UPenn, blamed the NRA for trying to incite violence with its videos.

[Comment: By continually lying to the America public, the globalist owned media have painted themselves as enemies of the Republic of the United States.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

A Chill Wind Blows

The antifa rioters need to be arrested and imprisoned before the First Amendment becomes a dead letter.

The shutting down of Patriot Prayer’s planned rally at a federal park in San Francisco Saturday is yet more proof of the political ascendancy of the evil ultra-violent “antifa” street thug movement. Patriot Prayer is an innocuous Tea Party-ish group that only wanted to conduct a rally to support free speech. Instead the group has been smeared relentlessly €šand now as it turns out, persecuted by state actors…

Somehow ordinary conservatives have become neo-Nazis and white-supremacist ogres in the eyes of the mainstream media, a process that received a huge boost when one radical kook who was no conservative used his car to murder one person at the Hijack The Right rally in Charlottesville. Yes, it was a terrible crime that deserves to be denounced and punished to the fullest extent of the law but it does not justify the mass hysteria now gripping parts of the nation.

For the sake of the country these vile antifa extremists need to be rounded up, arrested, and given lengthy prison terms for sedition and racketeering, among other crimes against We The People of the United States of America. This leftist filth, which is openly supported by Republican quislings like Speaker Paul Ryan, will not be satisfied until the First Amendment is abolished.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

After Charlottesville, UN Demands U.S. Quash First Amendment

behead Christians and chop body organs out of political prisoners, the United Nations issued an “early warning” to the United States and demanded illegal restrictions on free speech. As part of its decision, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), a body that includes communists and Islamists, lambasted the United States and President Donald Trump without actually mentioning his name. But critics were quick to ridicule the UN outfit amid growing calls for the U.S. government to withdraw from the widely criticized “dictators club.”

[…]

It is becoming increasingly clear to Americans that the dictators club has a totalitarian agenda for humanity, and that it must be stopped. Trump has proposed drastic cuts to the UN’s budget. But unfortunately, that will not be nearly enough. As prominent conservative pundit Glenn Beck declared this week on his program, “it’s time to shutter the United Nations, close it up … stop paying for it.” Numerous other prominent Americans have made similar calls. And with the dictators club viciously maligning Trump and the nation that elected him to the presidency, critics of the UN hope the time has finally come to get the United States out of the UN, and the UN out of the United States.

Legislation to do just that, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act, or H.R. 193, has already been introduced in Congress. It is currently sitting in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. All that is needed to destroy the dictators club and its lawless attacks against America is sufficient public pressure on the American people’s elected representatives. If there is one thing virtually all Americans remain united on, it is the cherished value of free speech. Perhaps the UN’s shameful attack on this fundamental human right will be enough to get Congress and Trump to finally act against the lawless dictators club.

[Comment: Recommended reading. UN is a tool for advancing the globalist tyrannical NWO agenda. Making the US subservient to the UN red tape is part of that agenda.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Antifa Has a New Cell in Philly, And They’re Calling for Property Seizures, Violence on Police, And All-Out Revolution

An armed Antifa group is launching a new cell in Philadelphia, with support from the “alt-left” alternative media. The group currently hosts anti-police workshops called “Our Enemies in Blue.” The group draws inspiration from convicted murderers and calls for violence against the police, theft of goods, and armed insurrection.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Breaking: Live Chopper Feed Shows Massive Antifa Mob Chasing Down and Severely Beating Lone Trump Supporter… No Cops in Sight

The last time Antifa attacked Trump supporters in Berkely, California was April 15, 2017. They were stunned when the Trump supporters fought back and sent the cowardly, masked Antifa running back home to their parents’ basements. This time the violent Left was prepared and, in addition to Antifa, brought in their like-minded, radical reinforcements.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Brent Bozell: The Slow Death of the Republican Party

The Grand Old Party is about to commit suicide.

All this talk about Trump this, and Trump that, masks a far bigger political controversy. The Republican Party leadership in Washington, D.C., has fundamentally betrayed its constituents and they are about to learn that they’ve been double-crossed — for years.

[Comment: Same goes for the Commicrat party. GOP can survuive if GOPestablishment and RINO’s are ditched. Soros owned Democrat Party is beyond saving.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Civil Disobedience’ March From Charlottesville to DC Will Demand Trump’s Removal

Protesters are planning a march starting from Charlottesville, Virginia to Washington, D.C. to fight white supremacy and demand that President Trump be removed from office.

“The March to Confront White Supremacy” will spend ten days starting on Monday, August 28 travelling to the nation’s capitol and then occupy it with non-violent demonstrations.

“For years, white supremacist violence, rhetoric, and policies have escalated and intensified — exploding during Donald Trump’s run for president and reaching a boiling point in Charlottesville,” the website for the event reads.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Combative Ex-Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka in Talks to Rejoin Breitbart

Sebastian Gorka, fresh off his departure from being a national security aide to President Trump, says he will likely take a post-White House role at the populist Breitbart News.

During an appearance on the Breitbart News Saturday radio show on SiriusXM, Gorka acknowledged Friday being in “negotiations” with the outlet, saying he had a “great talk” with Steve Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Confederate Flag Sales Surge After Charlottesville Violence

Business is once again booming for the rebel flag.

The owner of Alabama Flag & Banner, likely the last remaining U.S. retailer to sell the Confederate flag, said that sales surged after the violent protests two weeks ago in Charlottesville.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Congress Quietly Passed a Bill Allowing Warrantless Searches of Homes — Only 1% Opposed it

A bill that will allow homes to be searched without a warrant was passed with overwhelming support by the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Trump-and it happened with no media coverage and very little fanfare.

On the surface, House Joint Resolution 76 looks harmless. The title of the bill claims that its purpose is “Granting the consent and approval of Congress for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia to enter into a compact relating to the establishment of the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission.”

“Whereas the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, an interstate compact agency of the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the State of Maryland, provides transportation services to millions of people each year, the safety of whom is paramount; Whereas an effective and safe Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority system is essential to the commerce and prosperity of the National Capital region; Whereas the Tri-State Oversight Committee, created by a memorandum of understanding amongst these 3 jurisdictions, has provided safety oversight of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.”

The proposal for a safety commission to act as a wing of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority may sound logical, when its power includes thing such as the ability to “Adopt, revise, and distribute a written State Safety Oversight Program” and to “Review, approve, oversee, and enforce the adoption and implementation of WMATA’s Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan.”

However, there is one major red flag buried within the text of the bill that stems from the list of “powers” given to the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, and it violates one of the basic tenets of the U.S. Constitution.

[Comment: Another “pretend law” from the globalist owned puppets. “Pretend law” is any law that violates the US constitution.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

DC Council Member Wants Police to Investigate Pro-Trump Flyers

“Xenophobic and hostile flyers in Ward 4 will not be tolerated.”

A Washington, D.C. council member urged his constituents Friday to report “xenophobic” flyers declaring “build the wall” to the police department.

Residents from Ward 4 have said that posters focused on illegal immigration and building the wall have cropped up around the area, the DCist reports. Council member Brandon Todd has told residents to call 911 if they are handed one of the flyers.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrats Conveniently Forget 6,000 Prisoners Obama Pardoned Including Crack Dealer Who Committed Horrific Crime Against 3 Innocent Americans

Democrats are calling for President Trump’s scalp after he pardoned America’s toughest law enforcement officer on illegal aliens, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. How quickly the Left and their allies in the media forget about the massive release of felons that were returned to the streets after Obama released them just before he left office. The criminals he released included terrorists and even prisoners from “America’s Most Wanted” list. One of his most reckless and horrific releases however, was that of Wendell Callahan, a convicted crack dealer who committed an unimaginable crime against an innocent family.

A convicted crack dealer who left prison early as part of the Obama administration’s mass release of federal inmates was indicted by a grand jury for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her two kids in Columbus, Ohio. The gory crime drew national attention because the children, ages 7 and 10, were murdered to eliminate them as witnesses in the brutal massacre of their 32-year-old mother.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Elon Musk Wants to Launch Manufacturer of Nice Cyborgs

Elon Musk is trying to raise $100 million to launch a manufacturer of nice cyborgs that do not become Terminators.

The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday — the same day as the theater opening of Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D — that Musk is sponsoring a new start-up named Neuralink Corporation, which has already raised the first $27 million of its $100 million goal to create a system that will implant electrodes in human brains to upload and download thoughts and information to computers.

[Comment: Globalist/elites will uses these to help eliminated all those “useless eaters”.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Google Sends ‘Offensive’ Videos to YouTube Purgatory as Censorship Regime Expands

Google has begun to “police YouTube like it never has before” to crack down on “offensive content,” Bloomberg reports.

Via Breitbart:

“Google will police YouTube like it never has before, adding warnings and disabling advertising on videos that the company determines crosses its new threshold for offensive content,” reported Bloomberg Technology on Thursday. “Google outlined these moves in June, but the implementation comes as debate about extremism and political speech is front-and-center in the national spotlight — and when tech giants like Google and Facebook Inc. face deeper scrutiny over how they moderate information distributed through their digital services.”

Offending videos will not be removed, potentially allowing Google to still make money from them but cutting off monetization for the creators, who will also face other restrictions: “YouTube isn’t removing the selected videos, but is instead setting new restrictions on viewing, sharing and making money on them.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

GOP Rep Franks on Arpaio: ‘I’m Just Grateful That the President Had the Courage to Correct This Injustice’

Saturday on Fox News Channel’s “Justice,” Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) praised President Donald Trump for pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, saying he “should never have been prosecuted in the first place.”

“There was an overwhelming bias in the Obama justice department, who was hell-bent on convicting him no matter what they had to do,” Franks stated.

“The real injustice here was that Sheriff Joe was prosecuted at all,” he added. “I’m just grateful that the president had the courage to correct this injustice.”

[Comment: 100% correct.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Harvey Causes ‘Catastrophic Flooding’ In Houston, Thousands of Rescue Calls Made

Hurricane Harvey continued to pound southeastern Texas on Sunday with “catastrophic flooding” in Houston, forcing residents to flee to their roofs and higher ground as officials respond to thousands of 911 calls for rescues in the “unprecedented” event.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

IRS Rehires Hundreds of Employees Fired for Fraud, Theft, Abusing Taxpayer Data

The Inspector General for Tax Administration has discovered that under Commissioner John Koskinen, the Internal Revenue Service re-hired 212 employees it had previously fired for offenses including tax evasion, theft, and abuse of taxpayer data.

The title of the report makes it clear that the IRS “continues to rehire former employees with conduct and performance issues.” The inspection was requested by a U.S. Senator, who is not named in the report, although Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) introduced legislation to block the agency from rehiring such employees shortly after the report was released.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Maxine Suggests POTUS Pardoned Arpaio Because Trump Part of KKK

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) suggested that President Donald Trump pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday because Trump is a part of the KKK.

“I’m not surprised Trump pardoned racial profiler Arpaio,” she tweeted. “White Nationalists, KKK, & Duke celebrated Trump’s election b/c he is one of them!”

[Comment: How do such stupid people get elected?]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots Wispy Clouds in Martian Skies

The clouds on Mars resemble the thin ice-crystal cirrus clouds found in Earth’s atmosphere. The images, taken by the rover’s Navigation Camera (Navcam) on July 17, offer the best view yet of such clouds captured by Curiosity.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Paul Ryan Throws in With Leftists to Attack President Trump’s Pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

House Speaker Paul Ryan has thrown in with leftists to rip President Donald J. Trump for pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

[Comment: RINOs are the most dangerous threat to the USA.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Paul Craig Roberts: “There is a Conspiracy… and it’s Against the American People”

In the United States “conspiracy theory” is the name given to explanations that differ from those that serve the ruling oligarchy, the establishment or whatever we want to call those who set and control the agendas and the explanations that support the agendas.

The explanations imposed on us by the ruling class are themselves conspiracy theories. Moreover, they are conspiracy theories designed to hide the real conspiracy that our rulers are operating…

There is a conspiracy, and it is against the American people. Their jobs have been offshored in order to enrich the already rich. They have been forced into debt in a futile effort to maintain their living standards. Their effort to stem their decline by electing a president who spoke for them is being subverted before their eyes by an utterly corrupt media and ruling class.

Sooner or later it will dawn on them that there is nothing they can do but violently revolt. Most likely, by the time they reach this conclusion it will be too late. Americans are very slow to escape from the false reality in which they live. Americans are a thoroughly brainwashed people who hold tightly to their false life within The Matrix.

For the gullible and naive who have been brainwashed into believing that any explanation that differs from the officially-blessed one is a conspiracy theory, there are available online long lists of government conspiracies that succeeded in deceiving the people in order that the governments could achieve agendas that the people would have rejected.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

PC Corporate Culture is a Plague That Government Helps Spread

Most people think that the 1st Amendment guarantees free speech. But the philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that free speech requires more than just the absence of legal strictures. The “tyranny of opinion” of the majority has the same effect as censorship enforced by law. When everyone lives “under the eye of a hostile and dreaded censorship” by their fellow citizens, there will be no free inquiry. If Congress “make[s] no law … abridging the freedom of speech,” yet challenging popular opinion gets you fired from your job and made into a pariah, the legal freedom is largely symbolic. Some people may speak their mind and suffer the consequences, but there won’t be free speech.

Mill extolled freedom of speech as a necessary condition for discovering the truth, and he took it for granted that truth is a valuable thing to have. But what about people who don’t want to discover the truth? For them, free speech is the enemy…The leading popular science magazine, Scientific American, also just published an editorial on sex and gender. It asserts: “arguments about innate biological differences between the sexes have persisted long past the time they should have been put to rest.” It then quotes an article from 122 years ago that discusses the question of whether riding bicycles is bad for women’s health. The lesson for the editors of Scientific American seems to be that to even investigate the possibility of innate sex differences is as ridiculous as investigating whether women should ride bicycles. The implication is that anyone studying sex differences is as benighted and outdated as the troglodyte who wrote that article in 1895. But science is based on evidence, not guilt by circuitous and fanciful association.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Stephen King ‘Blocks’ Trump From Seeing Killer Clown Movie ‘It’ Bangor, Maine (Ap) — Stephen King is Retaliating Against President Donald Trump for Blocking Him on Twitter.

In a post late Thursday, the Maine horror author said he would block Trump from seeing the upcoming movie “It” or the currently showing television series “Mr. Mercedes,” both based on his books.

[…]

“Mr. Mercedes” is about a killer who drives a stolen Mercedes into a crowd. The series began airing earlier this month on the Audience network.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Storm Harvey: Up to 2,000 Rescued as Houston Hit by ‘Catastrophic Floods’

Up to 2,000 people have been rescued from floods in and around Houston, as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to batter Texas with heavy rains.

There are reports of possible deaths in submerged vehicles, but investigations continue, Chief Darryl Coleman of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott told the media he could not confirm storm-related deaths.

The National Weather Service (NWS) says conditions are “unprecedented”.

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Tennessee Theater Cancels ‘Gone With the Wind’ Screening After 34 Years Over ‘Racist’ Content Complaints

The Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee, will no longer screen Gone With the Wind after the theater’s board said it had received “numerous comments” from viewers who called the 1939 film “insensitive” and “racist.”…

The theater’s decision to pull the film ends a 34-year tradition at the Orpheum. The removal apparently stemmed from a post on the Orpheum’s Facebook page from an early August screening, in which someone deemed the eight-time Academy Award-winning film “racist.” Another Memphis resident said of the news that “slowly but surely, we will rid this community of all tributes to white supremacy.”

The iconic film, set around a southern plantation during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, follows the lives of several black and white characters of the historic era. Actress Hattie McDaniel, who played a house servant named Mammy, became the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in the film.

What’s more, the film’s producer David O. Selznick went out of his way to avoid offending black audiences and consulted with black leaders at the time to insure the film would not be insensitive to blacks — in the way that, for example, Birth of a Nation was.

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Texas Governor: President Called and Said ‘Whatever You Need, You’Ve Got’

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) expressed his gratitude to President Trump for his help in the wake of Hurricane Harvey’s devastation in the Houston area.

President Trump’s response to the crisis has been “extremely professional, very helpful,” the governor assured, adding that the two spoke on the phone several times. “He called and said, ‘Governor, whatever you need, you’ve got.’

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The Memo: Trump Allies Say He Needs a GOP Scalp

Republicans on Capitol Hill lament President Trump’s aggressive behavior toward them, but some people in the president’s orbit are urging him to up the ante even further.

They say that, far from making nice, Trump needs to instill fear so that lawmakers do not feel at liberty to thwart him.

“Most members of Congress are arrogant, and until a scalp is actually taken they are going to continue to be defiant,” longtime Trump friend Roger Stone told The Hill. “All he needs to do is punish one incumbent and I think you’d see a sea-change.”

Advice like Stone’s feeds the president’s instincts to hit back hard against those whom he believes have wronged him: a list that at present appears to include Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as well as GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.).

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The Swamp Report Card: Grading Enemies and Friends

Navy Admiral James “Ace” Lyons shocked the nation with his candid remarks at the Center for Security Policy “Defeat Jihad Summit” held in January, 2015. Admiral Lyons calmly and plainly stated that Obama was deliberately and unilaterally disarming the military. The Admiral further warned that the Muslim Brotherhood has already penetrated every one of our national security security agencies including our intelligence agencies.

Instead of heeding this dire warning, Mr. President, your government continues to be informed and advised by Obama legacy staffers who remain in government advancing Obama’s anti-American, pro-Islamic, pro-Iranian, and pro-Muslim Brotherhood agenda. Whether uninformed, misinformed, or disinformed the Obama leftovers threaten our national security with their skewed information because those are the people who are briefing you daily. Islam is not a religion like any other. Islam is a comprehensive socio-political ideology with military (jihadi), educational (mosques/cultural centers), and religious (imams) wings. Islam is an expansionist movement seeking world dominion. There is no separation of church and state in Islam. Islam is a comprehensive ideology governed by supremacist religious sharia law. Islam seeks conquest and submission. Islam is spread through population jihad, educational jihad, religious jihad, military jihad including terrorism, and stealth jihad that relies on taqiyyah — — lying in the service of Islam.

Mr. President you were exactly correct when you said that open borders is a Trojan Horse — it is the vehicle for population jihad against the host country. Identifying your friends and identifying your enemies in your administration, the military, and among national security staffers is an urgent matter. It does not matter if they are uninformed, misinformed, or disinformed. Any advisor or staffer who refuses to utter the words radical Islamic terror does not belong in your administration. If staffers embrace sharia law, promote Islam, are apologists for Islam, are members of the Muslim Brotherhood or CAIR and support Obama’s purging of materials that implicate Islam, they are your enemies and must be removed. You are being surrounded by Obama leftovers who will continue to disinform you so that your decisions will tilt toward Obama’s failed globalist policies. Mr. President you are being dragged into the swamp you were elected to drain.

H.R. McMaster was recommended for the position of National Security Advisor (NSA) director by #2 swamp creature John McCain. Under McMaster’s leadership the people who have the courage to speak out and expose the existential danger of Islam are being purged from the military and from the national security staff. Those who have the courage to support the initiatives of your America-first candidacy are being eliminated while the Obama globalist leftovers remain.

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Turning the Lights Back on, On the Internet

Stand up to the progressive left-guided mainstream and social media, by keeping on going to the videos and news sites of your choice

One by one, they’re turning the lights off on the Internet.

Not long ago the promised Information Highway for everyone, the World Wide Web is fast transforming over to the Misinformation Highway.

An all-powerful Google is now flat-out dictating which videos you will be able to see. A pious Facebook the judge and jury of which topics will be permitted to trend

Some saw it coming when Barack Hussein Obama met with the top CEOs of the Tech Industry within months of his 2009 inauguration. Google went on to digitalize Obama as a forever fixture on the human conscience, helped run run his second presidential campaign and the campaign of his failed protégé in 2016. (See previous columns) With the help of ISIS-among-migrants-denying world leaders like Angela Merkel, Facebook became the immovable centurion at the gate, suppressing conservative news sites from viewership and readership.

Social media started with putting most conservative news sites on Fake News lists by sending the Harvard Library Fake News list.

Currently it’s sending the Southern Poverty Law Center Hate (SPLC) List viral.

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Va Gov McAuliffe: Confederate Monuments Are ‘Symbols of Hatred’ — ‘Let’s Take Them Down’

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) said in the wake of violence in Charlottesville, VA, Confederate monuments had become “symbols of hatred” and that should come down.

McAuliffe said, “When I gave that speech is when I had taken executive action and removed the Confederate flag from all the license plates in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It was a very controversial move when I did it because I said, listen, this is a divisive symbol that is on the license plate and as governor, I took executive action. Many individuals disagreed with my action at that time.”

“So this was the first step and now what we of soon after Charlottesville and around the country that those statues have very similar significance to what went on when I took the Confederate flag off our license plates,” he continued. “They are — monuments should be unifiers. They are now symbols of hatred, and I have said let’s take them down. I do not have the authority as governor. The local jurisdictions do and the general assembly. Let’s take them down and move forward.”

[Comment: Globalist puppet.]

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We’re Losing Our Free Speech, Part 3

One of greatest things about America is the fact that we have had the right to voice our opinion for the last 241 years. Our Founders gave us that because under the tyranny of most countries in Europe at that time you could be punished for putting forth an opinion that differed from those in power. How times have changed.

We now have a bunch of gutter scum lowlifes that believe that there should only be one opinion allowed, the liberal point of view. We’ve witnessed this last weekend in Boston protests that cancelled a legal free speech rally by people who hate the freedoms we enjoy in America. At least they are being paid to hate them by seditionists like George Soros…

George Soros is the one behind all the riots we are seeing. In an interview with Germany’s BILD in September of 2014 he stated: “I’m going to bring down the United States by funding Black Hate groups. We’ll put them into a mental trap and make them blame white people. The Black community is the easiest to manipulate.” He has followed through with his promise. George Soros’s Open Society Institute viewed the 2015 Baltimore unrest following the death of Freddie Gray as opening a “unique opportunity” to create “accountability” for the Baltimore police while aiding activists in reforming the city, according to hacked documents reviewed by Breitbart Jerusalem.

The documents further confirm that the Open Society last year approved $650,000 to “invest in technical assistance and support for the groups at the core of the burgeoning #BlackLivesMatter movement.”[1] But it isn’t just BLM that he has funded. Washington CAN! is a far left group leading the protests against Donald Trump in Seattle.

The far left group is paying protesters to attend their rally. CAN! is funded by George Soros’s Open Society Foundation:

From a 2010 press release: Open Society Institute Announces Small Donor Development and Diversification Grant Recipients

Washington CAN! is behind the ad hiring protesters for the anti-Trump rallies and riots. Via Free Republic and Reddit:

Stan Taylor is the one who posted the ad on Craigslist. He is listed in the staff directory on the Washington CAN! website. He is the office administrator.

This is proof that Soros money is funding the violent organized anti-Trump protests across America.[2]

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YouTube “Economically Censors” Ron Paul, Labels Videos “Not Suitable” For All Advertisers

Former US Congressman Ron Paul has joined list of independent political journalists and commentators who’re being economically punished by YouTube despite producing videos that routinely receive hundreds of thousands of views.

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Belgium: Islamic State Claims Brussels Attack, Terrorist Found Carrying Quran

The Islamic State news agency Aamaq has claimed the Brussels attacker who assaulted three soldiers with a knife as an Islamic State group soldier.

In a statement Sunday, it said he carried out the Friday evening attack in response to calls to target countries of the coalition that is fighting IS.

Belgian prosecutors have opened an attempted terrorist murder probe after attacker assaulted the soldiers while shouting “Allahu akbar!” — Arabic for “God is greater.” He was shot dead by troops.

The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said the man was known to police for assault charges but had no previous terror-relate offences. The suspect, a Belgian citizen of Somali origin, was also carrying a fake firearm and copies of the Quran.

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Catalonia Terror Cell Followed Teachings of Highly Secretive Salafi Sect

Takfir wal-Hijra allows for drinking of alcohol and eating of pork to disguise radicalization

The 12 young men who formed the terror cell that carried out last week’s terrorist attacks in Spain’s Catalonia region had been indoctrinated into the extreme Takfir Wal-Hijra (“excommunication and exodus”) sect of Salafi jihadism, counter-terrorism sources have told EL PAÍS.

The so-called takfiris comprise the most radical and violent strand of Salafi jihadism and figure in the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations. They also represent the most dangerous form of jihadism because their members hide in plain sight.

Evidence suggests Aldelbaky es Satty, the imam who headed the Catalonia terror cell based in the Catalan town of Ripoll — and who died in an accidental explosion in a house being used as a base of operations by the group — indoctrinated its members into this form of Salafi jihadism that is very difficult for security forces to detect.

The main defining characteristic of the takfiris is their willing to break the sacred rules of other jihadist groups in order to avoid being detected. They wear Western clothing, drink alcohol, take drugs, listen to music, watch television, go out with women and eat pork. In addition, they do not grow full beards or goatees.

In the case of the Catalonia terror cell, these “sins” for the jihad kept them off the radar of intelligence services. “This explains why neither the imam nor the 12 members of the cell ever showed any external signs of radicalization,” one police chief said.

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Death Toll From Spain Attacks Rises to 16: Local Officials

The number of people killed in twin vehicle attacks in Spain last week rose to 16 on Sunday, local authorities in Barcelona said.

“This morning a 51-year-old German woman died after being treated in a critical condition in hospital,” said a statement from the region’s civil defence.

The attacks on Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona and in the seaside resort of Cambrils left around 120 wounded.

The woman who died on Sunday was hurt when a man ploughed a van through crowds of tourists on Spain’s most famous street on August 17th — an attack that was claimed by the Islamic State group.

Hours later, a car sped into Cambrils some 120 kilometres south, hitting people before crashing into a police vehicle.

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EU Deadline Passes for Poland to Comply on Court Reforms

BRUSSELS — Poland has missed an EU deadline to respond to concerns over controversial court reforms by the rightwing government, which Brussels fears will erode judicial independence, a Brussels spokesman said Sunday.

On July 26, the European Commission gave Warsaw a month to end what it considers a “systemic threat” to the rule of law and inform the EU executive branch of measures taken to modify the reforms.

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EU Laws Prevented Spain Deporting Barcelona Terror Mastermind

EU LAWS prevented Spain from deporting the Islamic preacher suspected of masterminding the Barcelona terror attacks, it emerged today.

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Finland: Real Identity of Turku Knife Attack Main Suspect Confirmed

The suspected attacker is a man born in 1994. The Moroccan national had given authorities a false name and age.

The true identity of the main suspect of the deadly knife attack in Turku has been confirmed.

The man suspected of murder with terrorist intent and attempted murder with terrorist intent was born in 1994. Police are withholding his real name for the time being.

Initially the suspect, a Moroccan national, gave authorities false personal details.

Police have not disclosed any more information of the investigation at this point.

The knife attack in Turku killed two and wounded eight.

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France: Angry Army Wives Protest in Paris Over Military Working Conditions

Several hundred women married to French soldiers are holding a demonstration in Paris to denounce the “deplorable working conditions” in the army.

The protest was organised by the group Angry Soldiers’ Wives, which has nearly 5,200 members.

Mercedes Crépin, who helped set it up, said some troops on anti-terror duty were being housed in damp hangars infested with cockroaches and lice.

After the Islamist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, the French government deployed more than 7,000 soldiers to guard prominent public places and events.

French news sites reported on Saturday that one soldier linked to the operation had shot himself dead on Friday night.

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German Elections 2017: Merkel Under Pressure as Erdogan Threatens to Split Vote

THE TURKISH president’s latest attack on Angela Merkel has deepened a split between Turks in Germany and their home country as tensions between Ankara and Berlin escalate.

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German Woman Dies, Raises Death Toll to 16 in Spain Attacks

A 51-year-old German woman died Sunday from injuries suffered in the Aug. 17 vehicle attack in Barcelona, raising the overall death toll in Spain’s recent attacks to 16, health officials in Catalonia said.

The woman died in the intensive care unit of Barcelona’s Hospital del Mar, according to the regional health department.

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ISIS Threatens Pope, Urges Italy Attack

Vatican officials warned Saturday that a pro-ISIS jihadist video and text messages threatened Pope Francis and marked Italy as the Islamic State’s next target.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state and second highest official of the Holy See, said that the latest video clearly marked Francis as a target, according to The Associated Press. The video depicted jihadists destroying various Catholic icons, a man ripping a poster of Francis in half, and a terrorist saying “We will have our vengeance …We will arrive in Rome,” according to Crux Now.

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Italy: Musumeci to be Salvini Man in Sicily Elections

Despite NCS opposition

(ANSA) — Rome, August 25 — Anti-immigrant, anti-euro Northern League deputy secretary Giancarlo Giorgetti said Friday that Union for a Europe of Nations MEP Nello Musumeci, a rightist, would be their candidate for November elections in Sicily. He said leader Matteo Salvini was folowing the issue “directly” and that Musumeci was the only candidate taken into consideration, the only man “able to clean up, relaunch and give a better future to Sicily”. Giorgetti’s announcement came after the NCS group had asked Musumeci to withdraw his candidacy.

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Italy: ‘Dux’ Pine Forest Semi-Destroyed Near Rieti

Natural monument

(ANSA) — Rieti, August 25 — A pine forest that spelled out DUX, the Latin handle of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, has been left semi-destroyed by a wildfire, sources said Friday.

The forest on Mt Giano near Rieti was planted by forestry students in honour of Il Duce in 1939 and later declared a natural monument.

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Italy Gang Rape: Tourist Attacked in Front of Boyfriend at Seaside Resort

A POLISH tourist was gang raped in a “brutal and bestial attack” in front of her boyfriend before he was beaten up at an Italian tourist hotspot.

Italian newspaper Ansa said the girl’s attackers have been described as dark skinned.

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Italy: Polish Man Beaten Unconscious and Wife Gang Raped on Rimini Beach, African Migrants Suspected

A young couple from Poland were subjected to a “brutal and bestial attack” by four men suspected to be African migrants on a beach in Rimini, Italy.

The 26-year-olds were taking an evening stroll on their last night in the popular tourist spot when they were set upon by four men, Wiadomo?ci reports.

The young man was beaten unconscious by the gang, who then subjected his partner to multiple rapes in front of him. Both were also robbed.

The Polish consulate in Milan say they are providing every assistance to the couple, who were both hospitalised following their ordeal.

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Macron Popularity Plummets: Most Voters in France Now Unhappy With President, Poll Reveals

MORE than half of French voters are now dissatisfied with Emmanuel Macron’s performance as president, according to a new poll, in a dramatic nosedive in support for a leader who basked in a landslide election victory just four months ago.

The poll, conducted by Ifop for newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, shows the French president’s ‘dissatisfaction rating’ has risen to 57 per cent, up 14 per cent compared with last month.

In fact, Mr Macron’s popularity after four-months in office is lower than any French president over the same time period since 1995.

[Comment: My take is that Macron came out of nowhere and was put forward to the voters by the globalists. ]

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Spain: Thousands Take Part in Barcelona March Against Terror

Spain’s King Felipe VI joined thousands of people in a defiant march against terror through Barcelona on Saturday following last week’s deadly vehicle attacks.

People who tended the victims of the attack were given pride of place at the front of the procession behind a large white— and-black banner that read “No tinc por” — Catalan for “I’m not afraid”.

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Sweden: Police Arrest One After Malmö Hit by ‘Extensive’ Car Fires

Swedish vehicles burned at different locations in Malmö on Saturday night.

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UK: Police Chief Suggests Non-English Speaking Victims of Crime Will be Given Priority With White Middle Class Men at the Bottom of the List

A senior police officer at the Metropolitan Police has said victims of crime who don’t speak English could be prioritised more during call outs.

Craig Mackey, deputy commissioner for the force, said the Met could decide who receives a face to face visit from the police depending how ‘vulnerable’ they are.

He added the method was an ‘absolutely feasible’ way to help the force cope following cuts to funding.

[Comment: Fire this police chief.]

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UK: Police Arrest 2nd Man in Buckingham Palace Terror Incident

Authorities on Sunday arrested a second man in London in connection with a terrorist incident near Buckingham Palace.

A man drove up to a police van and then reached for a 4-foot sword.

Three police officers were slightly injured Friday night as they confronted a 26-year-old man who approached a police van in a restricted area outside Queen Elizabeth II’s London residence then reached for the sword in his car. The man, who repeatedly shouted “Allahu akbar!” (“God is great” in Arabic), was arrested on the scene.

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UK: Rotherham Abuse: ‘She Was Raped by Six Men’

Julie Roberts’ foster daughter Gemma was one of more than 1,400 girls abused by gangs of men in Rotherham between 1997 and 2003.

But despite the scandal being exposed in 2014, she continued to be preyed upon until she died following a morphine overdose.

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Zillertal Alps Accident Kills Five Climbers in Austria

Five climbers have been killed and one seriously injured in an accident near Krimml in the Austrian Alps.

Five rescue helicopters were sent to the scene, 2,000m above sea level in the Zillertal Alps mountain range.

Authorities say the exact cause of the incident is unclear, but six people who were climbing with ropes appear to have fallen together.

Only one survived, and was flown to hospital in Salzburg, about 80km (50 miles) away.

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Ancient Troy: The City and the Legend

The name Troy refers both to a place in legend and a real-life archaeological site. In legend, Troy is a city that was besieged for 10 years and eventually conquered by a Greek army led by King Agamemnon. The reason for this “Trojan War” was, according to Homer’s “Iliad,” the abduction of Helen, a queen from Sparta. This abduction was done by Paris, the son of Troy’s King Priam. Throughout the “Iliad” the gods constantly intervene in support of characters on both sides of the conflict.

Troy also refers to a real ancient city located on the northwest coast of Turkey which, since antiquity, has been identified by many as being the Troy discussed in the legend.

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Syria-Lebanon Border Battle Against is Paused

A ceasefire has been declared in offensives against so-called Islamic State on the Syria-Lebanon border.

The militants have been fighting the Lebanese army on one front, and Hezbollah with the Syrian army on the other.

Lebanese sources said IS had “succumbed under fire and asked for negotiations”.

Syrian state media, citing a military source, later reported that a deal had been reached to move IS militants in the area to eastern Syria.

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Welcome Home, King Salman! Saudi Royal Finally Returns Home After Splashing $100million on a Month-Long Moroccan Holiday

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has returned home after splashing out $100million on a month-long holiday in Morocco

He had spent a month at his favourite holiday spot, Tangier, in the north west of Morocco, along with an entourage of more than 1,000, who were booked into luxury hotels.

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Face Scans, Robot Baggage Handlers: How Asia is Leading the New Airport Revolution

Facial scanning in particular is generating a lot of buzz. Changi in the affluent city-state of Singapore, regarded as among the world’s best airports, is set to roll out this biometric technology at a new terminal to open later this year.

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India Guru Rape: Followers Start to Leave Ram Rahim’s HQ

Followers of a controversial Indian guru have started to withdraw from his 1,000-acre compound in Sirsa, Haryana, after a tense stand-off with soldiers.

Tens of thousands are still believed to be inside the headquarters of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect.

Some 36 people died and hundreds were injured in riots on Friday after their leader, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, was convicted of raping two disciples.

Authorities fear more bloodshed could follow when he is sentenced on Monday.

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Myanmar Rakhine: Thousands Flee to Bangladesh Border

Thousands of people have fled their homes following two days of violence in a deepening crisis in the state of Rakhine in Myanmar.

Members of the Muslim Rohingya minority escaped to the border with Bangladesh but Bangladeshi border guards are turning them back.

Fighting erupted when Rohingya fighters attacked 30 police stations on Friday and clashes continued on Saturday.

Pope Francis has appealed for an end to persecution of the Rohingya people.

They face severe restrictions inside mainly Buddhist Myanmar, where tensions with the majority population have been rumbling for years.

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The Painful Price of Adultery in Aceh: Ten Indonesians Are Lashed Up to 100 Times as Barbaric Punishment in Line With the Country’s Brutal Sharia Law

Ten Indonesians were were sentenced to up to 100 lashes of the whip for adultery in Banda Aceh under the brutal Sharia law.

The beatings occurred in Aceh, which is the only province in the country which implements Sharia law in full.

The province began implementing Sharia law after being granted autonomy in 2001 — an attempt by the government in Jakarta to quell a long-running separatist insurgency.

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China Removes Loudspeakers From Hundreds of Mosques in Muslim-Majority Region to Stop Calls to Prayer as Anti-Religion Sentiment Rises

A Chinese county has removed loudspeakers from over 300 mosques after getting noise complaints from neighbours about the call to prayer.

Hualong Hui Autonomous County in China’s Qinghai province has removed over one thousand loudspeakers over three days.

The removal of the call to prayer has angered muslims in the area who have branded the locals as intolerant. It comes as anti-muslim sentiment rises in China and the Chinese government cracks down on people practicing the Islamic faith.

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North Korea Missile Tests Didn’t Fail, US Military Says in Revised Report

North Korea fired three short-range missiles on Saturday — all successful — despite earlier reports suggesting failure, according to the U.S. military.

Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the projectiles fired from the North’s eastern coast flew about 155 miles. It said South Korea and U.S. militaries were analyzing the launch and didn’t immediately provide more details.

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Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull Slams ‘Stalinist’ Attempt to Rewrite British Colonial History With Removal of Captain Cook Plaque Stating He Discovered the Country

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has dismissed calls to change colonial-era monuments and the date of Australia Day as ‘Stalinist’ exercises in rewriting history.

It comes as debate intensified over the country’s treatment of its Aboriginal population.

Moves to remove Confederate statues and other Civil War-era symbols in the United States have renewed focus on the mistreatment of Aboriginal Australians in the colonial era and recognition of their place in the nation’s history.

Prominent indigenous commentator Stan Grant this week pointed to the ‘damaging myth’ inscribed on a Sydney statue of British explorer Captain James Cook that says he ‘Discovered this territory 1770’.

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‘I’m Tired of Being Criticised for Not Wearing a Headscarf’: Islamic Businesswoman Who Wears a Hardhat Instead of a Burqa Wants Other Muslims to Respect How She Dresses

Emma Eros, an Islamic woman who runs her own plumbing business in Sydney, is fed up with fundamentalist Muslims having a go at her for not wearing a head scarf.

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‘Your Sins Are Exposed’: Islamic Preacher Slams Muslims Who Show Their Tattoos — But Still Pray to Allah

An Islamic preacher has slammed Muslims who show their tattoos in public. Nassim Abdi, a morals campaigner from Sydney’s west, had some harsh words for Muslims who seek forgiveness.

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Australia: Hundreds of Asylum Seekers Will be Booted Off Centrelink and Out of Taxpayer-Funded Housing in Major Government Crackdown on Welfare

The Federal Government is moving to cut welfare payments to hundreds of asylum seekers who are temporarily in Australia to receive medical treatment.

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EU Admits Failure to Deport Fake Asylum Seekers ‘Pull Factor’ For Illegal Migrants

The European Union’s (EU) failure to deport the vast majority of illegal migrants arriving by boat is a “pull factor”, encouraging the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean, a Brussels official has conceded.

Economic migrants crossing the Mediterranean, who have no right to be in the EU, have a 73 per cent chance they will be permitted to stay, official figure show.

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Greece: Government Sources See Erdogan Tactics Behind Increase in Migrant Arrivals

There are fears within the ranks of the government that a new intensified influx of undocumented migrants from neighboring Turkey is happening with the blessings of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan though the development is also being viewed as potential leverage with the European Union with which Ankara’s relations are being sorely tested.

The same sources do not connect Ankara’s stance on the refugee issue to its cultivation of tensions with Athens in the Aegean — recent weeks have seen a spike in Turkish violations of Greek air space despite the moratorium that usually applies over summer — but with the recent deterioration of relations between Ankara and Brussels.

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‘I Would Do it Again’ Defiant Merkel Has No Regrets About Opening Germany’s Borders

ANGELA Merkel said she would open Germany’s borders to migrants all over again if she had the chance to turn back the clock to 2015 as she continues her election campaign.

The German Chancellor said she still backed her decision to allow more than one million migrants to enter Germany since 2015, despite coming under fire for the so-called open doors policy and being relentlessly heckled at recent election events.

On the campaign trail Angela Merkel has been booed by protestors furious at her decision to completely open Germany’s borders during the migrant crisis.

But a defiant Mrs Merkel, who hopes to secure a record fourth term, says she would do the same again.

And she risked further outrage by announcing she will continue to push for the fair distribution of migrants across Europe rather than letting Italy and Greece shoulder the load purely “because of their location”.

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Norway PM Solberg Dismisses Controversial Asylum Proposal

Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg has rejected calls by coalition partner the Progress Party to detain rejected asylum seekers in secured facilities.

The proposal by the nationalist Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp) had no support from other parliamentary parties, Solberg said.

“Frp has always been of the opinion that people whose asylum applications are rejected should be held in secured facilities. They have not received backing for that, and we agree with this [the lack of backing, ed.],” the PM told NRK.

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Six Facts About Sheriff Joe Arpaio Case That Will Shut Down Every Liberal Crying “Foul” Over President Trump’s Pardon

Here are a 6 interesting facts that Breitbart News laid out, regarding the Sheriff Joe Arpaio case, that every American crying “foul” over President Trump’s pardon yesterday needs to know:

The US District judge who tried the case against Sheriff Arpaio was a Bill Clinton appointee.

1. The guilty ruling, by Bill Clinton-appointed U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, is the latest chapter of a nearly decade-long saga of legal proceedings against Sheriff Joe initiated by leftist groups opposed to his aggressive policing of illegal aliens.

The charges against 85 year old Arpaio stem from a civil rights suit demanding he cease “racial profiling” in his Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s immigration enforcement operations. After a federal judge issued an order demanding certain practices, Arpaio was charged with contempt for continuing to try to enforce the law as he saw fit.

The misdemeanor charge was a ploy to prevent Sheriff Arpaio from having a jury trial.

2. Because Arpaio was charged only with a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of six-months in jail, the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee him a right to trial by a jury of his peers. Arpaio and his attorneys repeatedly petitioned for a jury, only to be denied by Judge Bolton in March and again in May. Sources familiar with the proceedings have told Breitbart News the decision to charge only the misdemeanor was likely a ploy by federal prosecutors to avoid a jury trial in the community where Arpaio served as sheriff for more than 20 years

According to the NCPD President, the DOJ had no evidence to make their case against Sheriff Arpaio.

3. National Center for Police Defense (NCPD) President James Fotis, who was present in the courtroom, was highly skeptical a Phoenix jury could have ever found Arpaio guilty. He told Breitbart News:

I sat through three days of testimony and it was clear from the beginning that the DOJ had no evidence to make their case. In fact, all of the DOJ’s witnesses made it clear that Judge Snow’s order was unclear and ambiguous. There is no way a jury would have determined that the Sheriff willfully and intentionally violated the judge’s order.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

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Swedish Police Defend Actions After Church Migrants Raid

Police in Sweden have defended their actions after a raid on a church activity attended by undocumented migrants and refugees, saying that there is no such thing as protected zones.

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Thousands of Migrants Trying to Reach Britain From Spanish Port of Bilbao

THOUSANDS of migrants are trying to reach Britain on ferries from the Spanish port of Bilbao after the closure of the Jungle camp in Calais.

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About Time! Christian Group Sues Amazon and SPLC for Designation as Hate Group

All we can say on this one is it’s about time someone sued the Southern Poverty Law Center!

On Tuesday, D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM) filed a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the charity navigation organization GuideStar, and Amazon, for defamation, religious discrimination, and trafficking in falsehood. The SPLC listed DJKM as a “hate group,” while GuideStar also categorized it in those terms, and Amazon kept the ministry off of its charity donation program, Amazon Smile. “We embarked today on a journey to right a terrible wrong,” Dr. Frank Wright, president and CEO at DJKM, said in a statement Tuesday. “Those who knowingly label Christian ministries as ‘hate’ groups, solely for subscribing to the historic Christian faith, are either woefully uninformed or willfully deceitful. In the case of the Southern Poverty Law Center, our lawsuit alleges the latter.”

The SPLC has labeled DJKM an “anti-LGBT hate group” for its opposition to same-sex marriage and transgenderism. “These false and illegal characterizations have a chilling effect on the free exercise of religion and on religious free speech for all people of faith,” Wright declared.

“After having given the SPLC an opportunity to retract, we have undertaken this legal action, seeking a trial by a jury of our peers, to preserve our own rights under the law and to defend the religious free speech rights of all Americans,” the DJKM president concluded.

The lawsuit laid out charges against the SPLC, GuideStar, and Amazon.

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Bolshevik-Style Cultural Purge

Bolshevism where the “equality” utopia will reign supreme except for the elites who will continue to live their debauched and obscene lives

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”-Mad Hatter, character in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

If you wondered about the deplorable state of American mis-education, all you have to do is look at the historical revisionist indoctrination in the textbooks, the classroom-forced Islamization of students, the Common Core standards that are dumbing down students across the board, and the Bolshevik-style cultural purge of Civil War monuments and heroes that are taking place around the country with the full approval and instigation from academia, the MSM, politicians, the current administration, and American citizens.

Identity politics is the new front to fight and change the face of America forever into the Bolshevik state that the socialist Democrats demand, a state based on bogus “social justice.” Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, Stalin, and Hitler could not have been any prouder of these American socialists, fascists, and anarchists.

Purging a culture by book burnings, statue destructions, repression and persecution of people arbitrarily deemed enemies of the state was something Bolsheviks, Stalinists, and fascists had done. But now, we have American hate groups, paid violent protesters like ANTIFA and BLM, rallied under the banner of fighting fascism and white supremacy, employing violent and fascistic tactics of terrorizing the population whose divergent views and skin color they were told to hate.

Such purges killed millions of innocents under the false accusations of political crimes, i.e., espionage, wrecking, sabotage, anti-communist agitation, conspiracies to prepare uprisings and coups. The accused were summarily shot or sent to Gulag labor camps. Many died in the camps of starvation, disease, exposure to the harsh elements, and overwork…

What kind of schools mind-program students that loving one’s nation, language, culture, flag, national anthem, historical artifacts such as statues and monuments is racist, bigoted, fascist, and supremacist? The answer is simple, public and private schools who have adopted Howard Zinn’s history of America, Common Core Standards, and have hired licensed teachers who were themselves trained in the socialist indoctrination mills of Jimmy Carter’s Department of Education.

The mentality of these new globalist citizens created by the College of Education’s “social justice” curricula, coupled with the drug and sex culture promoted by Hollywood and the English professors obsessed with everything sexual ever written, and hygiene classes where students are introduced to perverted sexual behavior at an earlier and earlier age, it is no surprise that rational people wake up every day with a feeling that “we landed on another planet.”

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Bombing Outside Australian Christian Lobby HQ by Gay Activist ‘Not Political’

An LGBT activist who blew up a hired van outside the Australian Christian Lobby’s headquarters disliked its “position on sexuality”, according to reports.

Jaden Duong “drove a van up to a church, opened four cylinders of gas and lit a lighter” in an apparent suicide attempt, according to records released to the magistrate’s court where he is standing trial for arson and property damage.

Notes from Sydney’s Concord Hospital — which treated Duong following the blast — suggest “He is ‘not a huge fan’ of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), or religion in general, due to their beliefs and position on sexuality,” according to The Australian.

Asked why he chose the ACL headquarters — the ground floor of which was gutted — Duong is alleged to have replied: “Because I dislike the Australian Christian Lobby,” and, “Because religions are failed.”

However, Australian Capital Territory (ACT) police insisted the “car fire” was not motivated by religion, ideology, or politics.

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Canada Introduces Gender ‘X’ On Passports So Transgenders ‘Can Feel Safe’

Canadians who claim to be neither a man nor a woman will be able to identify their gender as “X” on their passports.

The move from the department for Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship is intended to “support LGBTQ2 rights” and advance the Canadian government’s “agenda on gender equality, diversity and inclusion”.

“An ‘X’ will make it easier for people who do not identify as female (‘F’) or male (‘M’) to acquire passports and other government-issued documents that better reflect their gender identity,” reads a government statement.

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said he made the changes so that all Canadians could “feel safe to be themselves” and “live according to their gender identity and express their gender as they choose”.

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Liberal Indoctrination Trumps Education at U.S. Colleges

Higher education in America is in crisis, not just because of spiraling tuition costs, but because of the toxic atmosphere on campuses. The disease of political correctness has taken root in our colleges and the causes being championed relate very little to the supposed education being offered on campuses.

The liberal group-think on issues such as climate change or “white privilege” is so pervasive that debate it not allowed. The presentation of a conservative viewpoint is either discouraged or completely forbidden. Conservative speakers such as author Ann Coulter and columnist Ben Shapiro have faced harassment and threats on college campuses.

In the aftermath of the Trump victory, this liberal indoctrination has only increased. There has been an array of incidents on college campuses in recent weeks that are more than troubling.

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MLK Jr., Margaret Sanger, And the Cure for Violence

Consider the person who has done the most harm to blacks in our country; there is a prominent bust of this woman which still stands today in our National Portrait Gallery.

“The museum has the Margaret Sanger bust in their ‘Struggle for Justice’ exhibit, which is supposed to honor those of the past who were ‘champions of justice.’ A sign beneath the sculpture says that Sanger was “profoundly affected by the physical and mental toll exacted on women by frequent childbirth, miscarriage and self-induced abortion.”

A group of black pastors wrote the Smithsonian a letter explaining that Sanger was far from a champion for their race because of her strong ties to the eugenics movement. The black pastors, along with other pro-life advocates rallied outside the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery to demand the removal of the statue.

They say Sanger supported eugenics to rid the nation of those she deemed ‘defective’ and ‘feeble-minded’ by stopping the growth of their populations, particularly blacks and other minorities.

Officials at the Smithsonian have rejected the request, defending the inclusion of Sanger in their exhibit, describing her as someone who “fought to achieve civil rights for disenfranchised or marginalized groups.”

But the pastors say they will not be dissuaded, saying “Margaret Sanger was a racist who wanted to end the black population through birth control and abortion.”

With leftist protests demanding the removal of Confederate monuments across the country, where is the media and academia outcry against the bust of the Planned Parenthood founder?”[1]

This was not the first time the demand was made of the taxpayer-funded Smithsonian. Back in 2015, “25 House Republicans campaigned to have [the] bust …removed from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, where it has been included in an exhibit featuring American civil rights leaders, called ‘The Struggle for Justice,’ with Ted Cruz’s office issuing a press release explaining that she didn’t belong there for a number of reasons, the most damning of which is that as part of her ‘inhumane life’s work’ she ‘advocated for the extermination of African-Americans.’“ It’s not the first time Sanger has faced this accusation. During this past primary season, Ben Carson proclaimed that Sanger “believed that people like me should be eliminated” —later clarifying, per PolitiFact, that he was “talking about the black race”-and in 2011, Herman Cain alleged that Sanger’s original goal for Planned Parenthood was to “help kill black babies before they came into the world.” That might sound outlandish until you read what she actually said.

Sanger infamously wrote in her book Woman, Morality, and Birth Control, “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” (pg.12)

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Officials at the San Domenico School in California Decided Recently to Remove the Catholic Statues and Icons in a Move to be Seen as More Inclusive.

The school is celebrating its 167th year.

Officials feared the statues of Jesus and Mary were alienating.

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Spacecraft in Extreme Environments

Building instruments that boldly go into some of the solar system’s most extreme environments presents unique challenges for instrument designers. Keith Cooper explores how they do it

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6 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/27/2017

  1. On China and Greece: What is it with Greeks and Chinese-Trojan Horses? Have they not learned from a valuable historical lesson?

  2. China is not about to collapse, I know this for a scientific fact. It’s wishful thinking. There is an institute in China that studies only one thing: the modality of collapse of Soviet Union. They have extracted too many valuable lessons. Everything that the West did for that collapse to happen. The US had plans to further collapse Russian Federation, it didn’t happen. That’s what the war in Chechenia was, and the “independence” of Tatarstan. Even the film about Kazakhstan was less innocent than people assume. It aimed to bring Kazakhstan into the attention of the Americans. Kazakhstan is the backdoor to Russia’s soft underbelly. Kazakhstan needs some democracy.

    Greece is doing the right thing. Germany, not China, is the new Trojan horse. All this debt enslavement was done by design. Germany must pay back the gold they stole from Bank of Greece during WW2.

    • You are swapping one bad system (West) and pinning your hopes on another bad system (Communist China). The Chinese are very clever, but their global expansion and that comes with some belligerency added, is starting to concern many countries, even other Communist Asian countries.

      The only reason that China is now in the position it is now in is due to the Globalists stripping the West’s manufacturing base, except France and Germany of course, and shipping it lock, stock and barrel onto China.

      What China is doing is unsustainable due to its own system of government which is far too centralized and far too inflexible when it comes to what the Chinese people want.

      And regardless of how the Chinese have attempted to cover all their bases in reducing risk to an eventual economic collapse – which is why they are expanding outside of China – that event will arrive at some point in the future if China does not find itself in a hot war before then, especially with India.

      • I don’t mind to intermingle with the Chinese, they are smart. That said, I prefer my own. Chinese are more honest than “our hostile elite”. Would be blocked if I spoke my mind more openly.

  3. I am familiar with Sheriff Joe’s methods in curbing criminality by insisting on measures that in turn reduced the incidence of repeat offenders – he should be given a policing medal for efficient use of the criminal justice system that guarantees a reduction in criminality not a politically motivated prison sentence.

    What an injustice to a good man!

  4. ‘I Would Do it Again’ Defiant Merkel Has No Regrets About Opening Germany’s Borders

    I think it’s fairly safe to say that, when it comes to any indigenous German having “thrown the switch” on this stupendous cultural traitor, given another chance to do the same, they would most likely reply, “I Would Do it Again”.

    But hey! Maybe that’s just me…

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