Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/30/2017

The Peruvian transsexual who was raped in the Italian resort town of Rimini has identified his/her attackers without a doubt, according to police. The gang that raped the Peruvian is reportedly the same one that raped a Polish woman and badly beat her husband.

In other news, after seeing what Muslim immigrants have done to Western Europe, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka says that the Czech Republic wants no more Muslim migrants.

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Thanks to AC, AF, Charles Low, Insubria, JD, Reader from Chicago, Seneca III, Srdja Trifkovic, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Another Banking Trojan is Trying to Loot Your Cryptocurrency Wallets
» U.S. Economic Growth Hits 3% Rate in Second Quarter
 
USA
» Berkeley Mayor: Time to Classify Antifa as a Street Gang
» Clovis Library Shooting: Patrons Tell of Laughing Gunman
» CNN Reporter Exits Bubble, Discovers Just How Much Texas Hates CNN
» Five Reasons Why Trump Was Right to Pardon Arpaio
» Greenfield: The Left Turns on Antifa
» Hurricane Harvey Will Render Some Parts of Texas ‘Uninhabitable for an Extended Period of Time’
» Islam’s Onslaught of America: Our Apathy Will Bite Us
» Julian Assange: “If Trump Doesn’t Keep His Promise, I Will”
» Kathy Griffin: On Second Thought, I’m ‘No Longer Sorry’ About That Whole Beheading the President Thing
» Keith Ogre-Mann: Conde Nast-y’s Misogynist-in-Chief
» Liberal Media: Cheerleaders for “Antifa” Communist Thugs
» Maxine Waters Spills the Beans: Admits Mueller Works for Democrats, Will Take Down Trump/Pence
» New York: Muslim Cleric From Jamaica Indicted for Recruiting Jihadis
» Police Stand Down, Allow “Anti-Hate” Anarchists to Attack Conservatives
» Radical Antifa Group Targets the Police
» Southern Poverty Law Center’s Full Frontal Attack on Law-Abiding Americans
» Texas Voters to Challenge Sen. Cruz Ballot Eligibility
» The Distorted Window Through Which Americans Perceive Reality
» The Militarization of the Police is Back On
» The Unmaking of a President
» Tucker Carlson: I’ll Disarm When Michael Bloomberg Disarms
» Unprecedented Disaster: Hurricane Harvey Has Shattered the Rainfall Record for the Continental United States
» White House Petition Calls for Terrorist Designation for George Soros
 
Canada
» Another “Hate Crime” Hoax, Police Drop Charges, Say Muslim Exaggerated Interaction
 
Europe and the EU
» Italy: Victim ID’s Rimini Rape Gang
» Italy: Rimini Rape Gang ‘Had Tried Previously’
» Poland Calls for WWII Reparations Amid Strains With Germany and EU
» Poland to be Stripped of EU Voting Rights as Merkel Does Not Agree With Domestic Reforms
» The Fake News Media of Sweden
» UK Judge Tells Seated Sharia Spreading Islamo-Convert to Stnd Up in Court…
» UK: Christian Girl Fostered in Muslim Home Can Rejoin Family, Judge Rules
» US Defence Secretary Mattis Warned Sweden Not to Sign Anti-Nuclear Weapons Treaty: Report
» ‘We Do Not Want More Muslims in Czech Republic’: Prime Minister
 
South Asia
» Fake Muslim ‘DNA Changer Baba’ Arrested in Hyderabad Old City for Exploiting Women
 
Far East
» Forecaster Martin Armstrong Warns of War in September: “We Must be on Guard… Prime Period Where a Confrontation Could Emerge” Mac Slavo
 
Australia — Pacific
» Judge Waits to Jail Muslim Refugee Who Tried to Kill His Ex-Girlfriend — After Concerns He Won’t be Able to Observe Ramadan
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» South Africa Student Receives $1m Loan in Error
 
Latin America
» Flashback: How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes
 
Immigration
» 390,000 Syrians Eligible to Bring Their Families to Germany in 2018
» Austria: Syrian Migrants Arrested After Stealing Car… to Drive to Asylum Application Police Station
» Coming to a Town Near You: Expert Warns That No-Go Zones Are Growing in America
» Europe: Jihadists Exploit Welfare Benefits
» Family Members Could Cause Migrant Wave
» ‘Foreigners’ Who Attacked Polish Couple in Italy Also Gang Raped Peruvian Transsexual
» Former Sweden PM Gives Support to Cancellation of Listhaug Meeting
» Greece Migrant Facilities ‘Are at Breaking Point’: Will Refuse Illegals Returned From Germany
» Hungary Extends State of Emergency Due to Migrant Crisis
» Italy: Priority for Those Awaiting Housing for Decades — Raggi
» Italy: Rome Eyes Buildings Confiscated From Mafia to House Migrants
» Libya Says Boats Carrying 700 Migrants Intercepted
» Macron and Merkel’s Attempts to Tackle Migrant Crisis Slated by Italy
» Merkel Heckled Twice in One Day as She Defends Migrant Policy
» Slovenia: SDS: Border Fence to Stop Migrants
» Sweden: Court Refuses to Deport Migrant Who Raped Mentally Disabled Child Because He ‘Felt Bad’
» The Constitutional Pardon of Joe Arpaio
» This is it: The Total Destruction of Europe Has Just Been Decided Upon
» Zero Deaths on the Mediterranean in Past 20 Days After Open Borders Charities Suspend Operations
 
Culture Wars
» Fake Racism and Real Racism
» Flashback: Christian Police Officer Sacked for Misconduct After Offering Officers ‘Cure for Homosexuality’
» Mattis Freezes Trump Ban on Transgender Troops
» San Jose Police Department Launches LGBT Recruitment Campaign
 
General
» Astrological Events to Pay Attention To
» How to Stop the Terrorist Driving Into a Crowd?
 

Another Banking Trojan is Trying to Loot Your Cryptocurrency Wallets

Trickbot variant adds Coinbase exchange to monitored sites

Researchers have discovered a new variant of banking trojan that targets cryptocurrency wallets instead of traditional accounts.

Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange site targeted in part by the latest Trickbot variant, manages multiple currencies thus offering crooks a wider platform for abuse once they succeed in harvesting the account credentials. Coinbase has been added as a target to config files for the trojan, which already attempted to loot bank accounts with numerous providers worldwide, infosec firm Forcepoint Security reports.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

U.S. Economic Growth Hits 3% Rate in Second Quarter

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. economic rebound in the second quarter was stronger than initially reported, as a lift to consumer spending and business investment led to the strongest growth in more than two years.

Gross domestic product rose at 3% rate from April to June, up from an initial 2.6% reading, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

[Comment: The Trump Administration’s goals of keeping regulations and taxes down has a positive effect on the economy.]

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

Berkeley Mayor: Time to Classify Antifa as a Street Gang

Berkeley mayor Jesse Arreguin is calling for “Antifa” — the so-called “anti-fascist” group that proudly uses violence to silence views with which it does not agree — to be classified as a street gang by police.

Arreguin’s comments came after hundreds of Antifa activists jumped police barricades on Sunday and assaulted right-wing protesters, injuring five. National media generally reported that Antifa had initiated the violence.

The mayor’s criticism of Antifa, however, was not to be mistaken for a defense of free speech. Arreguin also called for a “Free Speech Week” scheduled by conservative students at the University of California Berkeley to be canceled, suggesting that the presence of conservative speakers provokes violence.

[Comment: Stop the Soros money flowing to antifa.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Clovis Library Shooting: Patrons Tell of Laughing Gunman

CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — Patrons of the public library where a young man opened fire Monday described the surreal scene in which the laughing attacker killed two people.

The suspect has been identified as 16-year-old Nathaniel Jouett.

“He was happy,” Lupe Aguirre told the Albuquerque Journal. “He was just laughing, smiling the whole time, until he came up real close to me, and then he put on that mean look.”

Aguirre had gone into the library to find his wife and son after hearing the shots — and there he was confronted by the gunman, who told him to get on the ground. As Aguirre kneeled, he attempted to distract the shooter by pointing out something behind the man’s back. The shooter then walked away in the direction Aguirre had pointed.

Aguirre’s family escaped safely after hiding in an office.

Lisa Baird said she was about 20 feet from the man when he opened fire. “Run!,” he yelled at her. “Why aren’t you running? I’m shooting at you! Run!”

Baird says she dove under a nearby desk “and tried to squish up as small as possible.” From there, Baird told the Eastern New Mexico News, she could hear the man moving around the library and firing multiple shots.

“I heard his pants ‘shooshing’ as he approached the end of the reference desk. I heard a sound like a phone or something being put on the reference counter at the end of the desk, about 4 feet from my head.”

It was then, she said, that police entered the library and began yelling for the gunman to “lay on the ground.”

Clovis Police Chief Doug Ford says the suspect did not resist after police arrived…

           — Hat tip: AC [Return to headlines]
 

CNN Reporter Exits Bubble, Discovers Just How Much Texas Hates CNN

The bubble is real. The bubble explains so much. You need not live in DC or New York or Los Angeles to be bubbled. Out here in the wilds of North Carolina, you can still lose touch. Just stay online, watch cable news and monitor Twitter. This will completely warp your view of the way things really are.

I know this because it has happened to me. But never, not once, have I ever been so bubbled that I was unaware of just how much America freakin’ hates CNN. With that in mind, try to imagine just how out-of-touch CNN correspondent Nick Valencia is:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Five Reasons Why Trump Was Right to Pardon Arpaio

Sheriff Joe was charged under the wrong statute and was denied a jury trial

First off, Sheriff Joe Apraio’s prosecution was a political “revenge prosecution” initiated by the Obama DOJ to stop him from rigorous enforcement of the immigration laws.

As previously reported, the case against Arpaio began with the 2007 traffic stop that resulted in the arrest of Ortega Melendres, a Mexican tourist who was a passenger in an automobile stopped in Cave Creek, Maricopa County.

Melendres charged the Maricopa County sheriff’s officers were “fundamentally stopping brown-skinned people with the pretext of looking for criminals.”

The case developed into a class action lawsuit that caught the attention of Tom Perez, then in the Civil Rights division of the Obama Justice Department.

As explained in an article published by the Law Enforcement Charitable Foundation, Inc., the Obama administration unleashed Perez to utilize the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, authored by then Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware — a law that gave the Obama administration under Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch a club with which to “police the police.”

That club in the form of “consent decrees” allowed the leftist “open borders” administration of Barack Obama eight years to utilize the Justice Department as a club to intimidate and force any state and local government law enforcement authority attempting to enforce immigration laws to buckle under various charges of civil rights violations…

Perez began his legal career as a LaRaza attorney in Maryland. He currently is Chair of the Democratic National Committee, a major force in moving the Democratic Party in a hard-left direction.

[Comment: Read it all to see the lengths the commicrats will go to advance their open borders agenda.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Greenfield: The Left Turns on Antifa

Leftists dumping Antifa after they become Trump talking point

Does the left have any kind of speed bump for radicalism?

The Democrats were quickly overrun by the left with little resistance. Within little more than a decade, they were on board with Socialism. A few weeks ago, the media was full of editorials calling for the end of free speech.

It certainly didn’t appear that the Democrats, now a leftist party, or what was now the mainstream left, had any ability or desire to resist further radicalization.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hurricane Harvey Will Render Some Parts of Texas ‘Uninhabitable for an Extended Period of Time’

Do you remember what Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans? Well, now we are watching the same thing happen to southeast Texas. On Friday, Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a category 4 hurricane. It is the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States in 12 years, and it is the most powerful storm to hit the state of Texas in at least 50 years. One meteorologist is saying that what we are witnessing is “worse than the worst-case scenario for Houston”, and another stated that this storm “could easily be one of the worst flooding disasters in U.S. history”.

It would be difficult to overstate the devastation in the Houston area at this moment. Hurricane Harvey has ripped roofs off of homes, turned vehicles over and snapped thousands of trees. Thousands have been rescued from their homes and vehicles, and it is being reported that so far five people have died. In fact, one woman’s dead body was actually spotted floating down the street.

According to the National Weather Service, over 24 inches of rain fell in Houston in just a 24 hour period. More rain continues to fall in southeast Texas, and meteorologists are running out of adjectives to describe the nightmare that is currently unfolding…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Islam’s Onslaught of America: Our Apathy Will Bite Us

Part 16: Muslim push, honor killings, and our apathy One of my long time friends became angry with me because she enjoys several Muslim friends whom she regards highly.

Qur’an 3.28: “Let not the believers take the unbelievers for friends rather than believers; and whoever does this, he shall have nothing of (the guardianship of) Allah, but you should guard yourselves against them, guarding carefully; and Allah makes you cautious of (retribution from) Himself; and to Allah is the eventual coming.”

NOTE: By ‘guarding carefully’, a Muslim should deceive the infidel. Acting as a friend is fine as long as it is to benefit the Muslim and protect Islam.

That’s the rub. Muslims may be just as nice as you and me in their own countries. While they remain in small numbers, they “nice” you into their “niceness.” Incidentally, Sir Winston Churchill in 1899 said it best, “Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”

While they remain in a minority in this country, you can bet your bottom dollar they remain “nice” because they can’t step out of line until they grow greater numbers that allow them bigger “push” for their culture and mores. You can already see it happening in Detroit, Michigan; Minneapolis, Minnesota; New York City, Philadelphia, Miami and more. Over 10,000 of them ended up on our nation’s Capital Mall last year as they bowed their heads and raised their butts to the sky.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Julian Assange: “If Trump Doesn’t Keep His Promise, I Will”

Julian Assange issued a warning to the FBI and President Donald Trump Wednesday: If you conceal information on the Hillary Clinton investigation, WikiLeaks won’t.

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

Kathy Griffin: On Second Thought, I’m ‘No Longer Sorry’ About That Whole Beheading the President Thing

Shortly after Kathy Griffin posed for photos holding President Trump’ s severed head, she issued a completely phony apology. Actually, scratch that. First, she defended the sanctity of her “ art,” then she tried to dodge the scrutiny, then she issued a phony apology.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Keith Ogre-Mann: Conde Nast-y’s Misogynist-in-Chief

Once a woman-hating blowhard, always a woman-hating blowhard.

Keith Olbermann, the “new” face of the Democratic resistance on Conde Nast’ s digital video platform, is the same old foul-mouthed beast he was on cable TV.

Over the weekend, the former MSNBC frother went berserk over Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s anodyne call for prayers “for all those in the path of #HurricaneHarvey” and her promise to “assist impacted schools.”

“The hurricane is going to do less damage to schools than you are, Motherf — er,” Olbermann snarled in response (and no, he did not use dashes in his unfiltered, uncensored tweet).

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Liberal Media: Cheerleaders for “Antifa” Communist Thugs

Are the “Antifa” rioters America’s new idealistic heroes? The New York Times, NBC, CNN, Yahoo! News, and other organs of the establishment media, clearly, would have us believe so. However, the media puff pieces that romanticize the violent Antifa (short for antifascist or Anti-Fascist Action) mobs are covering up the fact that these groups are being led and trained by violent communist revolutionary groups such as the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), Workers World Party (WWP), and By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). These organizations are notorious for exploiting wedge issue charges — such as racism, police brutality, global warming, sexism, xenophobia, and homophobia — — to promote their broader, more radical, anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Christian, pro-communist agenda. They are training the Antifa cadres to be America’s new Red Guards, the legions of young fanatics unleashed by Mao Tse-tung to cow China into total subjection to the Communist Party by mass indoctrination, terror, torture, and murder. This is not mere polemics on the part of this writer; leaders of the Revolutionary Communist Party, for instance, one of the primary Antifa sponsors, openly and ardently idolize Mao Tse-tung and his Red Guards and sing praises to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

Over the past year, Antifa gangs have materialized to lead violent confrontations and riots on college campuses and in city streets across America. The black-clad, mask-wearing communists/anarchists dogged candidate Donald Trump throughout his campaign and infamously disrupted his inauguration by blocking streets, smashing windows, starting fires, and physically attacking inaugural attendees. Now, their clashes with the neo-Nazis at the deadly protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12 have catapulted them to new stardom. Radical Professor Cornel West, the “Ivy League Al Sharpton,” has claimed that the Antifa hoodlums are “courageous students” who “saved” him and a group of leftist clergy members from being “crushed like cockroaches” by the violent racists.

[Comment: Communist media supporting their communist street thugs.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Maxine Waters Spills the Beans: Admits Mueller Works for Democrats, Will Take Down Trump/Pence

The globalist plan to destroy Trump has been revealed

Alex Jones breaks down a speech performed by Maxine Waters in which she calls upon democrats and anti-Trumpers to continue the fight to impeach the President and remove him from office.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

New York: Muslim Cleric From Jamaica Indicted for Recruiting Jihadis

A radical muslim cleric who was convicted of stirring up racial hatred in Britain and deported to Jamaica was indicted Friday in New York on charges of recruiting would-be terrorists.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Police Stand Down, Allow “Anti-Hate” Anarchists to Attack Conservatives

The continual anti-Trump leftist violence that began before even the president’s inauguration saw another chapter written Sunday, when black-clad anarchists attacked peaceful demonstrators at a Berkeley rally.

The scene was the California city’s “No Marxism in America” protest. While it was met by a larger left-wing “Rally Against Hate,” the trouble didn’t begin until approximately 100 anarchists showed up and, apparently, were given minutes of free rein by police. As eyewitness Lizzie Johnson, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter, related in a tweet, “The #Berkeley police have stood down. A sea of black masks as far as I can see. This is what WAS NOT supposed to happen.”

A bizarre explanation was offered for this. As Fox News writes:…

Of course, in certain cases this government inaction could be attributed to liberal policing “theories.” Yet many suspect that these jurisdictions’ leftist politicians often are allowing the fellow-traveler thugs to do their dirty work, to silence voices of which they disapprove. It’s reminiscent of the Mississippi Burning case, in which police purposely handed off three civil-rights workers to KKK members who had murderous intent.

Also forgotten, however, is that many, if not most, of these violent acts are orchestrated by well-funded professional agitators. This was proven conclusively via a 2016 Project Veritas sting operation in which Democrat operatives were caught on hidden camera plotting to foment violence at Trump rallies. One of them, Scott Foval, called this “conflict engagement” and unabashedly stated, “We’re starting anarchy here” (To watch the video, click here; warning: foul language).

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Radical Antifa Group Targets the Police

Nationalization of the police is a longtime goal of the Left, and the targeting of local police by a violent Antifa group supports that goal.

Since President Donald Trump responded to the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, by condemning “hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides,” it has become clear that the left-leaning media is going to cast the violent leftist Antifa movement as simply engaged in “resistance” to racist “hate groups,” such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis. Then all persons opposed to the Marxist agenda of Antifa are falsely portrayed as the same as those two groups.

The reality is that Nazi is short for “National Socialist,” the political party of Adolf Hitler — a party of the Left in Germany that favored social welfare programs and heavy-handed government control of the economy and the culture. This clash between Antifa and the neo-Nazis, then, is really an intramural battle among ideological soulmates, and has nothing to do with constitutionalists, other than the use of the Klan and the neo-Nazis to smear Americans who believe in traditional American principles such as liberty and limited government.

The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM), an Antifa group, is organizing in Philadelphia. Its target is the police, as evidenced by their production of workshops such as “Our Enemies in Blue” and “Introduction to Anarchism.” RAM cites a “rich revolutionary tradition” in Philadelphia, offering examples such as Russell Shoats, who put five bullets into the back of a Philadelphia policeman in 1970. Another “hero” of RAM is Mumia Abu Jamal, a Black Panther who killed Daniel Faulkner, also a Philadelphia police officer, in 1981.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Southern Poverty Law Center’s Full Frontal Attack on Law-Abiding Americans

“The Southern Poverty Law Center is attempting to change your reality into the reality that they want you to believe in.” (Isaiah 5:20)

Finally. The Washington Times reports a conservative Christian media group has slapped the Southern Poverty Law Center with a defamation lawsuit after being listed alongside neo-Nazis and white supremacists on its “hate map.”

James Kennedy Ministries filed a lawsuit this week in federal court in Alabama alleging that the SPLC “illegally trafficked in false and misleading descriptions of the services” offered by the ministry, subjecting it to “disgrace, ridicule, odium, and contempt in the estimation of the public.”

“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,” said president and CEO Frank Wright in a Wednesday statement.

For the record, The Southern Poverty Law Center has The Sons of Liberty on their site listed in “General Hate.” We are consulting with our attorneys at this time to consider taking the same action or adjoining ourselves to this lawsuit.

First and foremost America, I am not here in anyway attempting to change the Laws (The Mosiac Institution-Common Law —Constitutional Republic, Article 4, Section 4 of the United States Constitution) nor am I attempting to change your values. I am here to enforce and to reaffirm your laws and your values. In doing so, this requires an expose on un-American groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center who are attempting to use the law against the law (Psalm 94:20) while aiding and abetting enemies both without and within which is defined as treason.

Second, the Southern Poverty Law Center is simply pointing at the groups and ministries that are effective in pulling off the mask of the SPLC (Revelation 12:17; John 15:22).

They are even going so far as to push a hate agenda against the police which only exhibits there hatred for American Law (2 Thessalonians 2:8-10).

International criminal and financier of Southern Poverty Law Center George Soros also financially backs over 200 other anti-American groups

Soros is responsible for stating:

“Destroying America will be the culmination of my life’s work.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Texas Voters to Challenge Sen. Cruz Ballot Eligibility

Without exception, the people who challenged Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Bobby Jindal eligibility for the Oval Office in 2016 were the same people who challenged Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. But many who challenged Obama were missing from the challenge of GOP frauds who were attempting to usurp the Oval Office in 2016.

Sen. Ted Cruz raised a reported $89.4 million in campaign contributions for his presidential bid in 2016. He finished second in the GOP primaries behind Donald J. Trump. All of it happened “fraudulently.”

34 U.S. Senators are up for reelection in 2018, 25 democrats and 9 republicans, one of which is Sen. Rafael Edward (Ted) Cruz of Texas.

GOP voters in Texas learned in May 2014, that they were defrauded by Rafael Edward (Ted) Cruz in the 2012 senate race. In short, it became public knowledge that Rafael Edward (Ted) Cruz was a legal citizen of Canada when he ran for U.S. Senate and won in a crazy runoff in 2012. Had Texas voters and campaign donors known that Cruz remained a legal citizen of Canada as of 2012, it is highly unlikely that they would have voted for or contributed to the Cruz for Senate campaign in 2012.

To appear on the 2012 ballot for U.S. Senate in 2012, Cruz had to file an application claiming under oath and penalty of perjury, that he was a legal citizen of the United States, eligible for the office he was seeking and he did. He failed to disclose to Texas election officials, voters and donors that he was in fact, still a legal citizen of Canada at that time and until May 14, 2014.

He must file a similar application again in 2018 to run for reelection to the U.S. Senate, or he cannot appear on the Texas ballot. To date, Sen. Cruz has refused to release any authenticated proof of documented U.S. citizenship.

A group of Texas GOP voters going by “OUST CRUZ 2018” are filing an official challenge with Texas election officials in an attempt to prevent Rafael Edward (Ted) Cruz from repeating his fraud of 2012 and secure Texas elections to only honest eligible candidates.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Distorted Window Through Which Americans Perceive Reality

From Boston to Berkley, from Ferguson to Baltimore, from Seattle to Miami, we are forced to witness the bad behavior of a minute fraction of the American population, leading us to believe that everything is going to Hell and society is collapsing before our eyes. In fact, the news media is the carrier of the diseases of violence, dissention, division and racism. Their reporting on violence only spawns more violence, division and racism, all for the sole purpose of increasing their ratings. The recent riots and violence in Charlottesville, VA were a glaring example. The news media alone is responsible for this insane rush to tear down historical statues, as Democrats engage in self-flagellation. It was in fact Southern Democrats of the 1860’s that wished to preserve slavery.

In spite of this distorted picture of America, we have a totally distinct identity that is only marginally represented by the worst in us. What we see and hear every day is not the real America and does not represent the true and beautiful character of her people … a people steeped in responsibility, self-reliance, industriousness, goodness, charity and compassion, under that great symbol of freedom, our American flag. If the rest of the world watches American news every day, through the distorted window of the print and electronic media, it is no wonder the people of many countries think we are decadent, self-absorbed and inherently evil. The truth is, such a view of our America could not be farther from the truth.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Militarization of the Police is Back On

Trump rescinds Obama-imposed limits on the military transferring surplus equipment to police departments

It was trendy not long ago, and perhaps will still be trendy for some people, to express concern over the “militarization of the police.” Maybe it’s OK for cops to have sidearms and billy clubs, but not the type of equipment the military uses to win wars. Because if they had that equipment, so goes the thinking of leftists and paranoid libertarians, they will use it to wage war on us!

You will get no such sentiment from this column. Especially given the reality we see today of politically inspired riots — with police on the receiving end of bottle rockets and smoke bombs — I say equip the police with everything you can possibly give them.

[Comment: “Help protect us from antifa”. It is no accident police are being ordered to stand down and let antifa run amok. It is no accident the two groups were funneled together in Charlottesville. Create the chaos — propose the “solution” — which somehow always seems to be more centralization, more tyranny, less freedom. Best way to stop antifa — cut off the money from Soros.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Unmaking of a President

by Srdja Trifkovic

The aftermath of the Cold War has seen the emergence of what neocon gurus Robert Kagan and William Kristol have called “benevolent global hegemony” of the United States. Throughout this period, key figures of both major parties have asserted that America’s unchallengeable military might was essential to the maintenance of global order. This period was marked by military interventions in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and (less overtly) in Syria. Each violent exercise of hegemony was validated by the rhetoric of “promoting democracy,” “protecting human rights,” “confronting aggression,” and by the invocation of alleged American exceptionalism.

That bipartisan consensus was codified in the official strategic doctrine. George W. Bush’s 2002 National Security Strategy declared that the U.S. would “extend the peace by encouraging free and open societies on every continent,” and—furthermore—bring about an end to “destructive national rivalries.” The Obama Administration’s 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance (“Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense”), which is still in force, claimed that the task of the United States was to “confront and defeat aggression anywhere in the world.” Such continuity of utopian objectives reflected the chronic refusal of the policymaking community in Washington to establish a rational correlation between strategic ends and means, or to see America as a “normal” nation-state pursuing limited political, economic, and military objectives in a competitive world.

As a result, one major source of instability in contemporary global order is the tendency of the most powerful player to reject any conventionally ordered hierarchy of American global interests. Traditional foreign policymaking may be prone to miscalculations (e.g. Vietnam), but in principle it is based on some form of rationally adduced raison d’etat. Deterritorialized strategy of full-spectrum dominance, by contrast, had its grounding in ideological assumptions impervious to rational discourse. It consistently creates outcomes—in Iraq, Libya, etc.—which are contrary to any conventional understanding of U.S. security interests…

           — Hat tip: Srdja Trifkovic [Return to headlines]
 

Tucker Carlson: I’ll Disarm When Michael Bloomberg Disarms

After pointing out the hypocrisy of gun controllers who fight to deny weapons for the common man yet surround themselves with layers of armed guards, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson said he will disarm as soon as Michael Bloomberg does.

He made this point after taking apart gun controller Mark Glaze’s arguments line by line.

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Unprecedented Disaster: Hurricane Harvey Has Shattered the Rainfall Record for the Continental United States

Never before have we seen a storm dump more than 50 inches of rain on a single location in the continental United States. The previous record for rainfall in the continental United States occurred when Tropical Storm Amelia dumped 48 inches of rain on Medina, Texas in 1978. But now one spot in southeast Texas has already received 52 inches of rain, and the rain continues to fall. And overall, 14 different spots in the Houston area have already gotten more than 40 inches of rain. Authorities are telling us that this will easily be the most costly disaster in all of U.S. history, but nobody will be able to truly assess the total damage that has been done until the rain finally stops.

Sadly, meteorologists say that some parts of Texas will continue to get more rain all the way through Thursday. By that time, some areas may receive an additional 20 inches of rain on top of what they already have…

Wide swaths of southeast Texas have been devastated by Tropical Storm Harvey, with some areas drowning in nearly 40 inches of water — and Lone Star State residents are bracing for another beating with up to 20 more inches of rain.

If you have seen video of the flooding that is taking place in Houston, it is hard to imagine that things could get much worse. As I mentioned above, many areas already have more than 40 inches of rain, and one spot in southeast Texas has actually gotten 52 inches of rain…

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White House Petition Calls for Terrorist Designation for George Soros

A White House petition is calling on the United States to list multi-billionaire George Soros as a terrorist, and to seize assets of his organizations and of organizations tied to him.

Soros has been a key financier behind many revolutions around the world, and a financier behind many similar seedling movements in the United States. He has also played a leading role in crashing the currencies of countries including in the United Kingdom.

The petition was started on Aug. 20, and by Aug. 30 had more than 50,000 signatures. The petition requires 100,000 signatures by Sept. 19 to get a response from the White House.

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Another “Hate Crime” Hoax, Police Drop Charges, Say Muslim Exaggerated Interaction

Assault charges against a 57-year-old Whitby man related to what police initially ssaid was a hate incident have been dropped.

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Italy: Victim ID’s Rimini Rape Gang

Peruvian transsexual identifies four North Africans

(ANSA) — Rimini, August 30 — One of the two victims of a suspected North African rape gang on Wednesday identified her assailants.

The Peruvian transsexual ID’d the four from video footage “beyond a shadow of a doubts”, police said.

The four allegedly raped a Polish tourist and badly beat her companion before going on to rape the transsexual on the night of Saturday and Sunday.

Polish police and magistrates met with Rimini counterparts in the Romagna seaside resort Wednesday.

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Italy: Rimini Rape Gang ‘Had Tried Previously’

Attacked Varese couple Aug 12

(ANSA) — Rimini, August 29 — A gang of four North Africans who raped a Polish tourist and a transsexual prostitute on Friday had tried on August 12 to attack a couple from Varese north of Milan but the pair managed to escape, police said Tuesday.

The pair robbed the couple by threatening them with a broken bottle before trying to rape the woman who fled with her boyfriend, police said.

In the latest case the gang badly beat up the Polish tourist’s boyfriend before raping her, police said.

A task force has been set up with help from Rome and identikits have been drawn up in the search for the four, believed to have come from the Maghreb.

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Poland Calls for WWII Reparations Amid Strains With Germany and EU

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — In the decades since the end of World War II, reminding Germany of its Nazi past has become a temptation whenever tensions arise over current events in Europe.

So recent assertions by politicians in Warsaw that Germany owes Poland reparations for the mass atrocities and destruction the brutal Nazi occupation of the country are being met with skepticism from some, even though many Poles support the calls.

The Polish government has not named a sum, but lawmakers and sympathetic media outlets estimate Germany owes Poland anywhere from hundreds of billions to several trillion dollars for the six years the Nazis occupied Poland, set up death camps and killed nearly a fifth of the population.

“Poland is only asking for justice … The injury has not been repaired in any way at all. Just the opposite,” Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said last week. This week, however, she said the government hasn’t yet decided whether to make an official demand.

Germany says the matter of financial compensation was settled long ago, and international legal scholars agree Poland has no legal claim to compensation at this point. What’s more, the demand has emerged amid rising tensions between Poland and Western European powers.

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Poland to be Stripped of EU Voting Rights as Merkel Does Not Agree With Domestic Reforms

POLAND could be stripped of its voting rights in the European Union after Angela Merkel revealed her outrage with the country’s controversial domestic and judicial reforms.

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The Fake News Media of Sweden

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Although the statement can be criticized for being unacceptably racist, what is unique is that the mainstream media in a Western democracy can expose private individuals because they wrote something in a blog’s comments section. Criticism is not aimed at the people who hold power, but against private citizens who according to the journalists have the “wrong” ideas.

Moreover, each of these private citizens, who have had their lives ruined because they wrote something distasteful in a comments section, serves as a warning, so that others will not dare to make the mistake of posting something politically incorrect on a blog.

It is shocking that in a democracy, the media acts this way, but that is how Swedish — and, increasingly, other Western media — operate these days.

In addition to punishing private individuals who, according to the them, communicate “wrong” ideas, the media celebrate and support people who have the “right” ideas. On May 1, 2017, Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven was interrupted by a number of hijab-wearing activists who were protesting a verdict of the Court of Justice of the European Union that employers are entitled to prohibit staff from wearing a hijab. Given that Sweden’s prime minister cannot directly influence the Court, and that one should not interrupt the country’s prime minister when he speaks, one would think that these “hijab activists” might be criticized in the media.

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UK Judge Tells Seated Sharia Spreading Islamo-Convert to Stnd Up in Court…

‘Get up. This is not a court of religion’: Judge blasts Muslim convert who refuses to stand as he faces charges of promoting sharia law in Oxford Street

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UK: Christian Girl Fostered in Muslim Home Can Rejoin Family, Judge Rules

A five-year-old girl who was placed in the foster care of two Muslim households has been reunited with her family after a court ruled she could live with her grandmother.

The child had been placed with a carer who allegedly wears a burka when accompanying her in public.

Crisis-ridden Tower Hamlets council in London had faced criticism after confidential local authority reports suggested one of the girl’s foster carers removed her Christian cross necklace and suggested she should learn Arabic.

At a family court hearing on Tuesday, a judge said it would be in the child’s best interests to let her live with a member of family who could meet her needs “in terms of ethnicity, culture and religion”, The Times reported.

[Comment: What actions are going to be taken to ensure this never happens again to another child?]

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US Defence Secretary Mattis Warned Sweden Not to Sign Anti-Nuclear Weapons Treaty: Report

US Secretary of Defence James Mattias sent a letter to Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist warning the Nordic nation of a negative impact on relations should they sign an anti-nuclear bomb treaty, according to a report in a Swedish newspaper.

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‘We Do Not Want More Muslims in Czech Republic’: Prime Minister

Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka does not want the Muslim community to grow in the Czech Republic, saying he has seen what problems large Muslim populations have caused in other European countries.

Noting that there was only a small, non-radicalised Muslim community in the Central European country, the prime minister told Austrian newspaper Die Presse: “When we see problems in other European countries, we do not want Muslims in the Czech Republic.”

“We would greatly appreciate if Europe would better protect its external border. Receiving refugees should always be the responsibility of nation states,” Mr. Sobotka added.

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Fake Muslim ‘DNA Changer Baba’ Arrested in Hyderabad Old City for Exploiting Women

Meet this Mulla Baba who claimed his ability to transform a female fetus into male by influencing DNA.

B Upendra Rao | HENB | Hyderabad | Aug 30, 2017:: When the whole media is engaged with a Rapist Baba Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh Insan’s fraud and limitless misdeeds, another tale of a fake Muslim Baba has been surfaced in Hyderabad.

Charminar police arrested a 68-year-old ‘baba’ from Old City for molesting a 19-year-old homemaker. The baba, Shaik Abdul Raheem, is popularly known as Bhai Miya. The woman’s in-laws, Mohd Sadiq (50) and Samina Sultana (50), were also arrested for harassment.DCP of South Zone, V Satyanarayana, said that the in-laws of the woman approached the baba asking him to ensure through black magic that their daughter-in-law delivers a male child.

The Raheem Baba claimed that he had the ability to transform a female fetus into male by influencing DNA by Ruhani Karamat.

The baba took Rs 20,000 from them and gave them the assurance of a male heir. He then molested the young woman by touching her private parts and gave her an oil to apply on her abdomen so that her female fetus would turn into a male one. Though she complained to her husband and in-laws about the incidents, they did not support her…

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Forecaster Martin Armstrong Warns of War in September: “We Must be on Guard… Prime Period Where a Confrontation Could Emerge” Mac Slavo

You may have thought that tensions with North Korea were abating following Kim Jong Un’s missile test stand-down earlier this month. But as we and others outside of the mainstream media propaganda machine warned, absolutely nothing has been resolved between the United States and the rogue nation.

The only proof you need is the fact that Un just recently launched a missile directly over Japan and is now threatening a new nuclear weapons test to take place some time in the next two weeks.

As noted earlier today, both sides are preparing for the next level of escalation at this very moment, with President Trump continuing to shift military assets into the region. Moreover, Russia has been deploying troops to the Baltic states for “military exercises,” but from a strategic standpoint one can only conclude they are massing troops just in case hostilities break out.

According to cyclical forecaster Martin Armstrong, who has accurately predicted global crisis scenarios since the 1970’s, September may well be the month that propels the world into its next great conflict:

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Judge Waits to Jail Muslim Refugee Who Tried to Kill His Ex-Girlfriend — After Concerns He Won’t be Able to Observe Ramadan

Muhumed Samow Ali attempted to kill his former girlfriend with this machete.

A judge has asked for more detail about the conditions faced by Muslim inmates in Queensland jails after hearing a refugee who tried to kill his ex-partner was having trouble observing Ramadan.

Muhumed Samow Ali appeared in the Supreme Court in Brisbane today after being convicted of trying to kill his former girlfriend with a machete at Wacol, in Brisbane’s south-west, on September 10, 2015.

He was sentenced to 10 years’ jail for attempted murder, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, assault and going armed as to cause fear.

[Comment: This getting ridiculous. It seems a judges now are also joining hands with traitorous politicians.]

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South Africa Student Receives $1m Loan in Error

A South African university is investigating how a student was mistakenly given a 14m rand ($1m; £770,000) loan.

The error became known after an image of a receipt showing the student’s account balance was widely shared.

A Walter Sisulu University (WSU) spokesperson accused the student of spending some of the money on a “lavish lifestyle”, Times Live reports.

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Flashback: How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes

In late 2011, the Red Cross launched a multimillion-dollar project to transform the desperately poor area, which was hit hard by the earthquake that struck Haiti the year before. The main focus of the project — called LAMIKA, an acronym in Creole for “A Better Life in My Neighborhood” — was building hundreds of permanent homes.

Today, not one home has been built in Campeche. Many residents live in shacks made of rusty sheet metal, without access to drinkable water, electricity or basic sanitation. When it rains, their homes flood and residents bail out mud and water.

The Red Cross received an outpouring of donations after the quake, nearly half a billion dollars.

The group has publicly celebrated its work. But in fact, the Red Cross has repeatedly failed on the ground in Haiti. Confidential memos, emails from worried top officers, and accounts of a dozen frustrated and disappointed insiders show the charity has broken promises, squandered donations, and made dubious claims of success.

The Red Cross says it has provided homes to more than 130,000 people. But the actual number of permanent homes the group has built in all of Haiti: six.

After the earthquake, Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern unveiled ambitious plans to “develop brand-newcommunities.” None has ever been built.

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390,000 Syrians Eligible to Bring Their Families to Germany in 2018

The German government expects that by 2018 there will be around 390,000 Syrians with approved refugee status making them eligible to make advantage of family reunification rules.

Currently, there are around 267,500 Syrians with approved asylum status who are candidates for the family reunification scheme but the number could rise to as many as 390,000 by next year Focus Online reports.

If each person eligible were to bring only three other family members each, the number of migrants coming to Germany could increase by well over a million in the span of a year.

From January 2015 to June 2017 the German government granted 230,000 family reunion visas, with Syrians and Iraqis making up 103,000 of the approved requests.

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Austria: Syrian Migrants Arrested After Stealing Car… to Drive to Asylum Application Police Station

A pair of Syrian asylum seekers were arrested during their asylum application in Austria after the man whose car they had stolen turned up to the same police station at the same time as them to report the crime.

The Syrians are said to have stolen the parked car in the western Austrian town of Bregenz on Saturday afternoon. The crime occurred at around 1:30 pm according to police, who identified the two men later from video footage taken near the scene, Kronen Zeitungreports.

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Coming to a Town Near You: Expert Warns That No-Go Zones Are Growing in America

Nothing epitomizes the failure of Europe’s immigration policies more than the notorious “no-go zones.”

For decades the West has opened its borders to people who don’t share their values, and the West has utterly failed to encourage these people to assimilate. To even suggest that is now considered racist in many European countries.

The lack of assimilation has reached a degree that many of these populations have become resentful of their mediocre status in society, and have actually become more insular. Younger generations of these immigrants are more likely to follow ideologies like radical Islam, and they’re less likely than their parents to interact with native born Europeans. Many of them don’t even speak any European languages.

The result has been the rise of dozens of no-go zones, which dot the urban landscapes of Europe. These are places that act as ethnic enclaves within their host countries. They are nations within nations, where outsiders are routinely shunned, berated, and beaten if they dare enter. In addition to that, they’ve become hotbeds of terrorism and civil unrest. And believe it or not, these Islamic no-go zones are beginning to show up in the United States.

That’s according to Raheem Kassam, a conservative political activist and author from the UK. He recently wrote a book on the subject of no-go zones, which reveals startling similarities between the Middle Eastern enclaves of Europe and America.

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Europe: Jihadists Exploit Welfare Benefits

A Libyan imam who called on Allah to “destroy” all non-Muslims received more than $600,000 in welfare payments from the Swiss government, according to the Swiss broadcaster SRF.

Abu Ramadan arrived in Switzerland in 1998 and was granted asylum in 2004 after claiming that the Libyan government was persecuting him for his affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood. Since then, Ramadan has collected 600,000 Swiss Francs ($620,000) in social welfare payments, according to SRF.

Although Ramadan has lived in Switzerland for nearly 20 years, he can barely speak French or German, and has never held a steady job. Ramadan, 64, will soon be entitled to receive a Swiss state pension.

While taking money from Swiss taxpayers, Ramadan, a well-known Salafist, called for the introduction of Sharia law in Switzerland and urged Muslims to avoid integrating into Swiss society. He also said that Muslims who commit crimes in Switzerland should not be subject to Swiss laws. In a sermon Ramadan recently preached at a mosque near Bern, he said:

“Oh, Allah, I ask you to destroy the enemies of our religion, destroy the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Russians and the Shiites. God, I ask you to destroy them all and to return to Islam its ancient glory.”

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Family Members Could Cause Migrant Wave

Around 390,000 migrants may be able to bring their families to Germany next spring, and the number is expected to rise, government figures reveal.

The Geneva Convention gives people with full asylum status the right to bring immediate family members to their new country of residence. Since 2015, more than 230,000 migrants in Germany have had their family reunification applications accepted and the number is expected to rise.

Tabloid Bild reported Tuesday that the government anticipates that as many as 390,000 people may be eligible for family reunification by the end of 2018. Around 267,000 of them come from Syria.

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‘Foreigners’ Who Attacked Polish Couple in Italy Also Gang Raped Peruvian Transsexual

Four suspected North African migrants who beat, robbed and sexually assaulted a Polish couple in Italy gang raped a transsexual from Peru on the same night, according to reports.

The third victim was attacked on a beach in Rimini either before the couple or shortly afterwards on a nearby road, Polish outlet Gazeta Wyborcza reports.

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Former Sweden PM Gives Support to Cancellation of Listhaug Meeting

Carl Bildt, a former Swedish prime minister, says that immigration is not causing as many problems for the country as Norway’s immigration minister Sylvi Listhaug depicts.

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Greece Migrant Facilities ‘Are at Breaking Point’: Will Refuse Illegals Returned From Germany

The Greek government has said it will not accept Germany returning migrants who have crossed its borders, insisting Greece is already overwhelmed.

The Greek official spoke on condition of anonymity, The Times reports, due to his closeness to talks with the European Union (EU) on the migrant returns, which could begin next in September.

“It would be tragic if not hugely nonsensical for Greece to take back refugees from Germany and other European countries as it battles to manage 60,000 refugees and migrants already stranded here,” the official said.

“It’s not an issue of Greece not wanting, rather of it not being able, to take back refugees because it simply does not have the space.

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Hungary Extends State of Emergency Due to Migrant Crisis

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Hungarian government has decided to extend by six months, until March 2018, the state of emergency declared early last year because of the migrant crisis.

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Italy: Priority for Those Awaiting Housing for Decades — Raggi

Mayor addresses housing emergency amid evictions

(ANSA) — Rome, August 30 — Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi said after a meeting on evictions and the city’s housing crisis Wednesday that “the positon of the city council is very clear, we must give priority in the housing emergency to those who have been waiting for a home for decades”.

Raggi was greeted by women from the pro-squatting Movement for the Struggle for Housing who shouted at her: “We’re all fragile, we’ve got nothing, the poor are all fragile. Shame (on you).” Last week police evicted hundreds of Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers from a building near Termini Station they had been squatting in for years.

The migrants clashed with police when they were cleared out of a nearby square, where they had camped for four days.

Aid agencies and leftwing politicians said the migrants should not have been evicted, and subsequently moved on, without alternative lodging being provided.

The migrants reportedly refused lodgings outside Rome because it would have meant moving their children out of schools and being split up.

Authorities have said they will properties seized from the mafia available to evicted squatters.

Italians on housing lists for years regularly claim migrants are being jumped past them.

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Italy: Rome Eyes Buildings Confiscated From Mafia to House Migrants

ROME (AP) — Rome authorities are looking into whether buildings confiscated from the mafia can be used to house migrants, a move that comes after police were criticized for the violent clashes that erupted as they tried to evacuate a building occupied by asylum-seekers.

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Libya Says Boats Carrying 700 Migrants Intercepted

BENGHAZI, LIBYA (AP) — Libya’s navy says it has intercepted and brought to shore vessels carrying nearly 700 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe over the past two days.

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Macron and Merkel’s Attempts to Tackle Migrant Crisis Slated by Italy

Laura Ferrara, an MEP for Italy’s 5 Star Movement, said Mr Macron and Mrs Merkel’s plans to place “illegal migration” at the top of their agenda is laughable.

Italy has been the main recipient of hundreds of migrants each day as they make their way from Africa, and despite continuous calls for the rest of Europe to help the country has for a long time been left on its own to cope.

Writing on 5 Star leader, Beppe Grillo’s blog, Ms Ferrera compared Mr Macron and Mrs Merkel’s announcement yesterday to the EU-Turkey deal which has largely failed.

The deal was meant to stem the flow of migrants entering Europe, mainly through Greece, via Turkey but the agreement has stalled over Turkey’s unwillingness to co-operate despite being given billions of pounds in cash for the deal.

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Merkel Heckled Twice in One Day as She Defends Migrant Policy

Germans hammer Merkel, call for her prosecution

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was heckled twice on Tuesday by protesters as she stubbornly defended her open-door refugee policy, one of the most contested issues in the country’s upcoming federal election.

Members of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party booed Merkel, the top candidate of the Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU) at an election campaign rally in the town of Bitterfeld-Wolfen, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

“Merkel must go away”, “Protect basic law from Merkel” and “I used to be CDU voter, today I want to see Mrs. Merkel in court,” were the welcoming chants from AfD supporters in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, the Leipziger Volkszeitung reported.

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Slovenia: SDS: Border Fence to Stop Migrants

Following recent attacks, key priority is to protect citizens

(ANSA) — LUBIANA — Following recent terror attacks in Barcelona and Finland, “it is necessary to intervene firmly and timely to protect citizens. We have to build a fence along our borders, in order to protect Slovenia and prevent clandestine migrants from entering the country”, said Branko Gomis, deputy president of the SDS opposition party, led by former conservative prime minister Janez Jansa, at a press conference. On this occasion, Gomis invited politicians to use every democratic means to “defeat radical Islam, otherwise we will have neither peace, nor security”.

Gomis then added that some of the attackers who hit several targets across Europe in 2017 entered the Union among the mass migrant flow which also crossed Slovenia in recent years.

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Sweden: Court Refuses to Deport Migrant Who Raped Mentally Disabled Child Because He ‘Felt Bad’

Authorities lenient on migrant molester because he suffered hardship in Afghanistan

A court in Sweden has refused to deport an Afghan migrant who raped a 15-year-old mentally disabled girl for an hour and a half because he was in a “bad mood” about it afterwards and had suffered hardship in his home country.

Two migrants kidnapped and brutally raped the girl vaginally, orally and anally in the middle of winter in the Arlöv area of Sweden. The girl is now frightened of going outside and is petrified of men.

“If you kiss or someone else, I will kill you,” the older migrant told the victim after the rape.

One of the culprits told authorities he was 15, thus avoiding prosecution, while the 18-year-old migrant was charged in May and was about to be deported and refused re-entry for 10 years.

As we previously reported, a study by the Swedish National Board of Medicines found that three out of four so-called child “refugees” are actually adults.

However, the older migrant avoided deportation on appeal because court authorities decided that he was in a “bad mental mood” and had suffered hardships in his home country of Afghanistan.

“According to the court, one must take into account that the rapist is “a young person who has recently reached the age of 18 years, has previously been unpunished, has a bad mental mood — with three suicide attempts in Sweden — and the security situation in Afghanistan is serious,” reports Fria Tider.

This is not the first time that migrants have avoided punishment for sexual assault because of people taking pity on them.

[Comment: Sweden is the model for the elites “soft tyranny society” for the rest of the world. ]

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The Constitutional Pardon of Joe Arpaio

One of the main functions of an executive or presidential pardon is to act as a constitutional check against an unrestrained federal judiciary.

Such is the case involving former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, who was convicted of criminal contempt for disobeying a federal judge’s order to halt an initiative he designed to fulfill his duty in stopping illegal immigration into his jurisdiction.

A federal judge claimed Sheriff Arpaio’s policies violated the civil rights of American citizens who had been targeted for their Hispanic appearance.

Facing a maximum of six months in jail for his so called “crimes,” Arpaio continued his law enforcement program for more than a year after the judge’s order to end it.

This led to the conviction of criminal contempt for allowing his department to continue detaining illegal aliens despite a court order telling him to halt the practice.

Simply put, Joe Arpaio was prosecuted for obeying federal immigration laws instead of a judge’s unconstitutional edict.

That’s right, the federal judge charged him for obeying the federal law!

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This is it: The Total Destruction of Europe Has Just Been Decided Upon

It will now become much easier for ‘refugees’ from Africa to seek asylum in Europe, according to a new agreement between four western European countries and Chad and Niger. “Particularly vulnerable refugees” will now be able to apply for asylum in Europe directly in place in the African countries.

Four Western European countries have agreed on a new asylum policy, allowing African ‘refugees’ to seek asylum in European countries, directly on the African continent, reports AP.

It is the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Spain, who jointly presented the news, together with EU Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, after the representatives of the countries gathered in Paris to discuss integration, migration and defense within the EU. Representatives from other African countries also participated.

Several African leaders have asked for increased support from the EU, since their countries are used in many ways as transit areas for refugees and migrants heading for the European continent.

They also call for help to put an end to trafficking, primarily by providing opportunities for those who participate in such activities to engage in other legitimate business areas, such as trade or agriculture.

Specifically, the European countries intend to work with Chad and Niger, where they want to start a process of coping with what is described as “particularly vulnerable migrants” and help them to begin a new life in Europe.

In this way, if their asylum applications are approved, migrants will now be able to travel to Europe in a legal and safe manner, instead of dealing with, in many cases, life-threatening voyages with unsafe boats across the Mediterranean…

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Zero Deaths on the Mediterranean in Past 20 Days After Open Borders Charities Suspend Operations

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In recent weeks a number of developments have led to the number of migrants greatly declining from last year’s levels. While Frontex says that the increased action of the Libyan coastguard has rescued many migrants and turned them back to Libya, they have also helped shut down the operations of pro-migrant NGO vessels by confronting them at sea and ordering them to leave the area.

Earlier this year Frontex said that the pro-migrant rescue missions, which often took place very close to Libyan territorial waters, were acting as a pull-factor encouraging more migrants to try and make the dangerous voyage.

NGOs Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) and SOS Mediterranee recently complained about the lack of migrants saying,”What we’re seeing at sea is that it seems fewer small boats are leaving Libya, and those that do leave are intercepted by the Libyan coastguards.”

The two NGOs operate the 68-foot vessel the Aquarius, which is one of the last ships to operate in the search and rescue (SAR) zone. Currently, the ship is the only vessel operating to the SAR zone according to data from the AIS tracking website Marine Traffic.

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Fake Racism and Real Racism

America — traditional, moral, Constitutional, Christian America — has always had, and still does have serious enemies. Because the foundation of American law and government rest on the acknowledgement of divine authority, the efforts of these enemies to destroy America has for decades focused on the separation of American culture from the principles on which it was founded.

For example, over the last sixty years, the Supreme Court’s peddling of the phrase “separation of church and state” as phony First Amendment jurisprudence has been a major vehicle in this subversive agenda. Now, with the tearing down and removal of statues in the middle of the night, absent anything like a democratic process, we are witnessing a ratcheting up of this radical agenda to include the destruction, denial and the denigration of the connection of America to her own history and heritage. That is to say, the destruction of the American memory.

Now, these enemies of America are screaming about racism, but it rings quite hollow and, well…fake.

Supposedly these statues represent racism. But the ignorance of the protestors, journalists and politicians is stunning. Consider Robert E. Lee. Lee emancipated slaves that came into his family by inheritance while the General he surrendered to at Appomattox, Ulysses S. Grant, both purchased and inherited slaves that served his family during the war. Grant did not emancipate the slaves inherited. So, the Southern General freed slaves while the Northern General’s family had slaves during the war. So, why aren’t they tearing down all the statues of Ulysses S. Grant?

Again, this is fake racism. And to promote it is to detract from real racism in our midst. And what could be more racist than a national program designed to eliminate black people? What could be more racist than a black genocide?

Such a program not only exists in America but is funded by millions of taxpayer dollars. It is known as Planned Parenthood and its founder, Margaret Sanger made her racist vision and purpose quite clear. Sanger desired to rid the nation of those she deemed ‘defective’ and ‘feeble-minded’ by stopping the growth of their populations, particularly blacks and other minorities.”

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Flashback: Christian Police Officer Sacked for Misconduct After Offering Officers ‘Cure for Homosexuality’

A Christian policeman who objected to being ‘bombarded’ at work by emails and posters promoting gay rights and events has been sacked for misconduct.

PC Graham Cogman, 50, responded to the ‘politically correct’ campaign by sending emails to colleagues which quoted religious texts and suggested homosexual sex was sinful.

The regular churchgoer was hauled before a disciplinary committee where he was advised by lawyers to admit a breach of the police code of conduct to save his job.

But he was ordered before another hearing following further allegations, including breaching a ban on using internal communication system to circulate a link to an American Christian helpline, and has now been fired by Norfolk police.

Speaking yesterday at the home in Sea Palling, north Norfolk, he shares with his wife Elaine, 46, and their two children, he said: ‘The news that I have lost my job is only just sinking in and I am very upset.’

He confirmed he was considering an appeal against the dismissal and was continuing with plans to have his case heard by an employment tribunal on the grounds that he had been harassed over his Christian beliefs.

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Mattis Freezes Trump Ban on Transgender Troops

(FOX NEWS) Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday night that the Pentagon’ s current policy on transgender troops “will remain in place” while President Trump’s directive banning transgender people from joining the military undergoes an expert study.

The move by Mattis allows transgender people to continue serving openly in the military while the Pentagon considers whether to discharge them in light of Trump’s order.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

San Jose Police Department Launches LGBT Recruitment Campaign

The San Jose Police Department has launched an LGBT recruitment campaign, attempting to attract new officers at the Silicon Valley Pride Parade.

According to PoliceOne, the recruitment campaign includes “identical ads showing the actual families of three officers: a heterosexual couple, a gay male couple and a lesbian couple,” while the department has also “created a liaison role dedicated to addressing crime and police concerns within the LGBT community.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Astrological Events to Pay Attention To

Last year, on November 20, 2016, Jupiter entered Virgo’s abdomen area and will stay there for 42 weeks, exiting on September 9, a few days from now. For Jupiter to remain in the constellation Virgo’s abdomen for 42 weeks, it has to engage in a rare retrograde motion. Additionally, Leo, with its primary nine stars, will move to the head of Virgo and Mars, Mercury and Venus will line up in Leo, making a sort of 12 star crown on the head of Virgo. The moon will be a crescent at Virgo’s left foot and the sun will be on her left shoulder. It appears that for the first time in seven millennia3, the sky will depict Revelation 12:1-2.

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

(And if you wondered, that word “wonder” in Rev. 12:1 is the exact same word for “sign” in Luke 21:25.)

As if it couldn’t be any plainer, all of these aligning of stars will take place on September 23, which also happens to be Rosh Hashanah, (the first fall festival known as the festival of trumpets). Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the Jewish (spiritual) New Year and is a rehearsal for the coronation of a king. This sign will occur over Jerusalem’s sky in a matter of weeks. What could God be indicating exists or what is He signaling? And why is He revealing it on the Feast of Trumpets over Jerusalem?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

How to Stop the Terrorist Driving Into a Crowd?

Barcelona and other recent terrorist attacks are forcing a serious rethink on counterterrorism strategies. Earlier terrorist attacks involved a long process—procurement explosive materials, developing the expertise to make explosives, having the ability to plant these explosives without detection, etc. The recent terrorist attacks have shown that the only resource that is required to launch a terrorist attack anywhere in the world is the ability to drive a vehicle. In this new scenario, one needs a total rethink about our counterterrorism strategies.

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

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

  1. Hi Baron,just made a late donation towards your quarterly fundraiser.Keep up the good work.

  2. Thank the Lord for Julian Assange. Trump protects HRC and covers for all her deceits? Julian brings Truth. After all, didn’t she “joke” about sending a drone to destroy the building where Assange lives? Then, it was back to destroying incriminating evidence. A busy bee, indeed, out riding her husband’s coattails for life.

  3. “Merkel must go away”, “Protect basic law from Merkel” and “I used to be CDU voter, today I want to see Mrs. Merkel in court,” were the welcoming chants from AfD supporters in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, the Leipziger Volkszeitung reported.

    Would everyone agree that had Hitler been assassinated in 1933, the world have been better off?

    I think the same applies to Monster Merkel.

    • There is much evidence to show that both Hitler and Stalin had designs on Greater Europe, hence that non-aggression pact between Germany and Russia. So I would suggest that if Hitler had been eliminated early, Stalin would have over run Europe, as there is also much evidence to show that Stalin intended to do just that but, at a later date than Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa – by only a matter of a few weeks in fact. Things would have turned out differently than what we see today, but to whose advantage would a collectivized Europe have benefited under the Soviet yoke?

  4. This Daily Mail article has many of the details surrounding the recent terror on the people of Barcelona. The terrorist in chief called el Saty would have been expelled from the country and Europe in 2014 except for a judge and involvement of EU law. The article also details the divisions between Catalonia and Spain.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Catalan-police-failed-act-Belg…
    But one thing is not covered and it is very important. It was in January, just 6 months or so previous, that there was a massive march through Barcelona, of hundreds of thousands even, that had the express purpose of welcoming immigrants.
    There is another thing too. The al-Andalus has been sold in Spain of all places as being sheer glorification of Islam.
    So that march in January 2017, and the selling of Islam as a religion of peace, that is most important in what happened in Barcelona.
    To follow up this line of thought it is necessary to examine the politics of groups like the PSOE and Podemos.

    • If the people had not forgotten their own history of what life was like under the Moors, this gross stupidity would not have taken place.

  5. ‘The result has been the rise of dozens of no-go zones, which dot the urban landscapes of Europe. These are places that act as ethnic enclaves within their host countries. They are nations within nations, where outsiders are routinely shunned, berated, and beaten if they dare enter. In addition to that, they’ve become hotbeds of terrorism and civil unrest. And believe it or not, these Islamic no-go zones are beginning to show up in the United States.’

    Today multiculturalism has morphed into multi-nationalism. The bonds of concord are strained and the state threatens to splinter apart.

    Who on earth would want to go into these mini-Third world slums anyway? The bad news is that the houses are trashed because they are not maintained. The gardens go to wrack and ruin. And the streets start to look like Africa or the Middle East.

    True multiculturalism in USA, Canada, Australia and NZ , was what we had from the 1950s. The post war migration of Europeans enriched those nations, which used the migrants’ labor, where no migrant got any social benefits upon arrival, but were expected to work on roads and building dams, where the migrants were encouraged to learn English and we were happy to have the delis and restaurants and all the ethnic businesses that these resourceful people later established. They have also intermarried with their hosts.

    The same largely applies to the Vietnamese migrants after the Vietnam War. Many were Catholic and the rest Buddhist. They learnt English and they have made an enormous contribution wherever they settled.

    There were even, from the 1960s, small numbers of educated Africans and Indians who fitted in, after a rocky reception from the locals. They married locally and now have second and third generation children who are highly educated professionals.

    It is the immigration of massive numbers of under-educated people from the Third World which has caused the problem. They come from non-Western value systems where their lack of education, even in their own culture, means they have not developed analytical skills and many were from backward rural areas or were city fringe-dwellers. Education was not encouraged in their own homes, so they have little chance of adapting to post-industrial Western society. And in large numbers they are a primitive horde.

    Islam is always a thorn because its core belief system prohibits proper integration.

    The problem is – what can be done now as idiots like Merkel and the Left continues to undermine civilization with the importation of hostile foreigners, who mainly want to rip the system off?

    Number 1: Attack and destroy the Left – because unless that happens, they will replace our civilization with a Global Zoo, where they are the zoo-keepers.

    Number 2: Stop all social security payments after a period of warning. As one African said, ‘The little we get in Europe from welfare, is still far more than what we can earn back home.’

    Number 3: Hold a gun to the heads of the African dictators that if they don’t grow their economies instead of amassing all the foreign exchange for their private use, we will bomb the crap out of every palace and Mercedes Benz they own!

    Number 4: Designate Islam as a political ideology. Remove all the benefits of the legal protection of a religion and then prosecute all those who adhere to it on grounds of human rights abuse, promoting violence and encouraging genocide. Outlaw Sharia. Every imam is on notice. If they wish to continue practicing their monstrous religion, they can do it in their country of origin. All mosques to become community centers.

    But we can’t do any of that until we destroy the Left.

    • In Oz, 69% of the Media is owned by the Left and nearly every business/financial/educational/religious institution now has a Marxist cultural base.

      How does a majority of the population who do not wish to travel the Marxist path, but who only have a minority influence when it comes to the above, defeat the self-destroying ‘culture’ that is now in place to deliberately shut down any form of dissent, be that legal and/or public?

      I am a paid up member of One Nation, but I truly cannot see how this country can be saved by the political process any longer, a political class that has become totally corrupted to the point of being unsalvagable, IMHO, and that leaves the only course of action open to the Patriot, and unless there is either a revolution or a civil war in which the Marxist and their ally the Muslims, can be effectively ‘cleaned out’ from those places they now control, the native Australian Patriot will in future, be hunted to extinction via ‘anti-terrorism’ laws.

      I’m all for your suggestion on the welfare front, but:

      We are no longer, IMHO, able to deal effectively with our current rampant criminality within the welfare recipient world, even while the money is still on tap; The minute the government shuts down welfare to those who are dependent on it, those who are not already criminals will resort to criminality in order to obtain what they now believe they are ‘entitled’ to – and that trouble would come from across the whole spectrum of this ‘multicultural’ country of tribes. We do not have enough police to deal with the problems we now have, and that problem is escalating year after year at 200,000 legal migrants arriving, year after year.

      While the politicians keep kicking that can down the road, they are also learning how to keep the lid on the boiling pot of ‘multiculturalism’ from boiling over while they sell us out for their 30 pieces of silver. Their selfish actions have made most of them experts in deceptive and deflective statements whenever genuine concerns are raised about our now out of control ‘immigration’ problem, a problem that exposes their orchestrated responses as having nothing at all to do in even attempting to address that problem.

      • In Australia what are the main political parties and what is their position towards Islam?

        The name Marx figures highly in your comment and so I ask what is the relation of these parties to Marx?

        If you want to add what is the position of the Churches to Islam?

        These are serious questions because you are clearly advocating a Pinochet solution for Australian.

        • Marx specifically opposed Islam. He saw it as an evil. His name should not be linked in any way with Islam.

          Marx and Engels did not create the class struggle in society. It was recognized and written about before them. It existed. It was the way that society developed on from feudalism.

          A god article on this which I think answers some of these attacks on Marx is:

          “by Robert Wilde
          Updated August 07, 2017
          The Myth: Adolf Hitler, starter of World War 2 in Europe and driving force behind the Holocaust, was a socialist.

          The Truth: Hitler hated socialism and communism and worked to destroy these ideologies. Nazism, confused as it was, was based on race, and fundamentally different from class focused socialism.”
          https://www.thoughtco.com/was-adolf-hitler-a-socialist-1221367

          • Interesting point (and link), Felix. I guess it depends whether you define a system by what it calls itself, or the actual results.

            Communism (in the USSR, China etc) killed millions of workers and peasants, while the elite lived in luxury. Under National Socialism, capitalism was tolerated, but tightly controlled to serve the needs of the State.

            Communism was supposed to be internationalist, but anti-semitism was common, and it was not unknown for black students in Russia to be attacked and even murdered. Nazism was, as you say, based on the “volk”, but otherwise behaved much like communism; no free elections or freedom of speech- in other words, it was much like communism, but only for the racially pure. They really are two sides of the same coin, or at least the same currency!

        • I generally use Marxism as a generic brand to label all the Left. And while I do realize that Marxism does not adequately describe the complete list of Leftist ideologies, Marxism is the most easily recognized form as used by Western civilization saboteurs.

          There are two main political parties, Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the Liberal/National Coalition (LNP)

          The LNP were the Australian conservatives but have now, like all main Western political parties, turned Left.

          Both major parties received between them, around 48% of the national vote during the last federal election, while the remaining 52% went onto a tablecloth sized ballot paper that contained over thirty other minor political parties. So in effect, we are being governed illegally.

          Voting in this country is compulsory, and I believe, for good reason.

          As to the major parties relationship with Marxist thinking, I believe their Leftwing political actions over the past two decades, speak for themselves. I guess you could use a Marx/Hitler/Stalin kind of description if seeking to nail any point in their collective thinking – be it made plain though, they are deliberately destroying what we now have left of this country for their ideology which has long been bought and paid for.

          Most of the Churches have all sold out to Islam. There are very few clerics who are Christian and uphold the Christian faith while speaking out against what is now occurring. From memory, we have lost around 12, or it could be more, Churches around the country due to ‘accidental’ fires over the past 15 years.

          I’m not the only Aussie now thinking what needs to be done – hence, the reason for why the politicians have now introduced anti-terror laws without defining what a ‘terrorist’ is or who he belongs to or the cause he is taking up, while they put up a big wall around Federal Parliament to protect themselves from us. The first sign of ‘insurrection’ by Patriots will be treated as a ‘terrorist’ attempt at takeover of the Australian Government, or whatever passes for government today.

          Pinochet? I would prefer a Cromwellian act myself.

    • Ending welfare for illegals and layabouts should be the top priority.

      People don’t appreciate things they don’t earn, and it’s amazing how they shape up when the gift horse closes its mouth.

  6. I have been to Peru many times and never met a “Peruvian Transexual”.
    I guess they have all gone to Germany, for the cultural enrichment.

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