Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/12/2017

Opposition parties in Italy have called for the creation of a new currency to be circulated in Italy alongside the euro. Its proponents believe the new money would create jobs and increase economic growth in the country.

In other news, German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a warning to the Hungarian government, saying that if Hungary continued to refuse its quota of migrants, its membership in the European Union could be at risk.

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Financial Crisis
» Eurozone Warning: Italy’s Opposition Call for New Currency
» Oberlin Faces $5 Million Budget Crisis
 
USA
» CBS Admits Weather Modification Lasers Are in Operation
» Deep State Drugging Trump Ahead of Coup, Sources Say
» Diamond and Silk Make a Surprise Visit to “The View” And it Might be the Funniest Thing You’ve Ever Seen
» Prof: ‘I’d be OK if #BetsyDevos Was Sexually Assaulted’
» Report: Trump Lawyers Wanted Jared Kushner Out of White House Over Russia ‘Complications’
» Report: McMaster Labeled Trump “Scary, A Dope”
» The Dialectics of Kid Rock
 
Europe and the EU
» British People Have Suddenly Stopped Buying Cars.
» European Commission Sends Poland Final Warning Over Court Law
» Graveyard Killing of Belgian Mayor Was ‘Revenge’: Media
» One in Ten Road Users in Sweden Don’t Stop at Red Lights: Survey
» Planet 9 Probably Isn’t an Exoplanet, After All
» Pope Francis, Titular Head of the Globalists
» Pope Frances Tells Journalists That People Who Don’t Believe in Man-Made Climate Change Are “Stupid” And “Stubborn”
» ‘Strange’ And ‘Strangers’
» UK: Ismael Watson Guilty of Syria Terrorism Plan
» UK: Police Hunt Two Knifemen After Man, 25, is Stabbed in Front of Shocked Shoppers in Busy City Centre
» UK: Report: Radical Imam Tells Children Martyrdom ‘Supreme Success’
» WikiLeaks Founder Says Spain Referendum Could Spark Civil War
 
Russia
» Best Buy Stops Selling Kaspersky Software
» Facebook Blames Russia to Deflect From Fraudulent Ad-Sales
 
Latin America
» Venezuela Supreme Court Has Staged Effective Coup: Jurists’ Group
 
Immigration
» Finland: 70 Percent of Migrants Denied Asylum Convert to Christianity, Appeal
» Germany: Church Demands Open Borders for Europe: ‘Charity Knows No Boundaries’
» Merkel Threatens Hungary With Expulsion From EU Over Refugee Row
» SCOTUS Hands Trump Another Travel Ban Win
 
Culture Wars
» Fake News and the Death of Christianity
» Human Genetic Modification Possible
» Your Beliefs Are No Longer Allowed
 
General
» Astronomers Find Stars That Appear Older Than the Universe
 

Eurozone Warning: Italy’s Opposition Call for New Currency

ITALIAN opposition parties are calling for a parallel currency to run alongside the euro which they say will boost growth and jobs in the cash-strapped country.

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

Oberlin Faces $5 Million Budget Crisis

Yet another American college is suffering an “unexpected” plunge in enrollment and a massive budget deficit after a series of outbursts by radical fringe protesters and professors.

This time, the school is Oberlin College, a private, 2,900-student enclave of progressivism in small-town Ohio where the cost for a single year of tuition, fees and room and board is $69,372.

Oberlin is facing a $5 million budget shortfall for the 2017—2018 academic year due to lower student enrollment and a related drop in revenue, reports The Oberlin Review, the student newspaper.

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

CBS Admits Weather Modification Lasers Are in Operation

Infowars has been covering weather modification for decades, but MSM is just starting to talk about it

Live on CBS Michio Kaku accidentally admits that they are shooting trillion watt lasers into the atmosphere in order to affect the weather.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Deep State Drugging Trump Ahead of Coup, Sources Say

Trump increasingly isolated, even from his own family

Deep state operatives are putting sedatives in President Trump’s food and drink to make him more pliable and disoriented, according to multiple White House sources.

Insiders close to Trump noticed his slurred speech and sleepiness over the past several months, which are strikingly similar to changes observed in former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, both of whom were sedated.

Prior to the presidency, Trump was known for his energetic 18+ hour days in the high-stress world of real estate development — and his reportedly sudden shifts in behavior mesh perfectly — too perfectly — with the establishment media’s prediction that the president would soon suffer cognitive issues.

“The president does not drink, the president most certainly does not do drugs. The president is a sharp as a tack,” according to Trump insider Roger Stone, who talked to his own sources in addition to the sources who spoke to Infowars. “…I have now heard, not from one but two different sources, that he seemed disoriented and was slurring his speech in conversations.”

“To me this is a tip-off that he may be medicated. Is [Chief of Staff] Gen. Kelly above this? No.”

Consequently, Kelly pressured Trump’s decades-long bodyguard, Keith Schiller, to resign from the White House, a troubling development given Schiller’s personal dedication to the president’s well-being.

“With a loyalist like Schiller no longer standing next to the president, incapacitating him would be relatively easy,” Stone pointed out.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Diamond and Silk Make a Surprise Visit to “The View” And it Might be the Funniest Thing You’ve Ever Seen

They’re President Trump’s #1 fans and they’ve been with him from the start of his campaign. The wildly popular, hilarious and outspoken “Diamond and Silk” duo have been hitting it out of the park on YouTube with their videos that rely entirely on pro-Trump commentary. They never use vulgarity or threats and their videos are always G-rated (Well, okay, a few of their videos may be PG-13). Apparently supporting the President of the United States now violates YouTube’s monetization policies. Their videos have received millions of hits and had such an effect on liberals that Youtube recently made the decision to pull 95% of their revenue.

Conservative Trump supporters Lynnette Hardway and Rochelle Richardson of North Carolina, know they’re never going to get an invitation to leftist” The View” show, so, by using a few special effects, Diamond and Silk have decided to make a surprise visit to The View hags and give them a piece of their mind. The result is hilarious!

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Prof: ‘I’d be OK if #BetsyDevos Was Sexually Assaulted’

“Yes, @twitter. My words were harsh. I don’t wish harm on anyone.”

A community college professor said he would be fine with Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos being sexually assaulted after she announced plans to revise guidance on Title IX.

“I’m not wishing for it…but I’d be ok if #BetsyDevos was sexually assaulted. #SexualAssault #TitleIX,” Robert Ranco said Friday night in a tweet, which has since been deleted.

Ranco is currently an adjunct Professor of Paralegal Studies at Austin Community College, where he teaches the “Advanced Research and Writing” class. He is also a member of The Carlson Law Firm.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Report: Trump Lawyers Wanted Jared Kushner Out of White House Over Russia ‘Complications’

Some of President Donald Trump’s legal team advised him months ago that son-in —law Jared Kushner should leave the White House over concerns tied to Special Counsel Mueller’s Russia investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

According to the report, it was Kushner’s admitted contacts with Russians during and after the campaign which caused him to stand out as a cause for concern among current senior White House staff. These contacts took center stage in media reporting of the “Russia investigation” in May after the Washington Post reported him as a “person of interest”who may have discussed opening a line of communication with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak in a December, 2016 meeting.

Of particular concern to these lawyers was a meeting with a Russian attorney at Trump Tower in New York along with Donald Trump, Jr. in July, 2016. In June of this year, when the lawyers reportedly came to the conclusion Kushner must leave, that meeting was not yet public knowledge. In July, the meeting became a media-driven scandal of its own.

[Comment: People voted for Trump, not his daughter or his son-in-law. ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Report: McMaster Labeled Trump “Scary, A Dope”

“I see my mission as preventing him from blowing up the globe”

National Security Advisor General H.R. McMaster labeled President Donald Trump “a dope,” said it was “scary” that he had the nuclear football and vowed to stop him from “blowing up the globe”.

That’s according to long time Trump confidante Roger Stone, who said the remarks were made when McMaster was attempting to recruit Oracle CEO Safra Catz to chair the president’s Intelligence Advisory Board.

“Catz and McMaster were having dinner at a public restaurant…McMaster became inebriated but during that time he took a call from the president,” Stone told the Alex Jones Show, adding that when McMaster returned to the table “he had nothing but disparaging things to say about his boss.”

Stone then read out what he said was a direct quote from McMaster.

“The president is a dope, he is incapable of understanding anything beyond 140 characters — the idea of this guy having the nuclear football is scary — I see my mission as preventing him from blowing up the globe.”

Stone claims that Catz was offended by the comments and repeated them to business magnate and close personal friend of Trump, Sheldon Adelson.

Friends of Adelson attempted to give the story to the New York Post in “an attempt to expose the disloyalty of McMaster,” according to Stone, but Jared Kushner called Rupert Murdoch and the story was spiked.

Catz is refusing to talk to reporters about the story but is willing to talk to the president if he asks he about it, according to Stone, who called the story a “stunning example of McMaster’s disloyalty.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Dialectics of Kid Rock

Before analyzing Kid Rock as a cultural phenomenon, we first have to spend some time with the Frankfurt School, a group of European academics who rose to prominence in the mid 20th century. No, seriously…

Who could possibly stand against such diabolical masterminds? Enter Kid Rock.

Kid Rock’s foray into the political sphere coincided with the release of his video “Po-Dunk.” One way to read this is that the political move is in service to selling the music, but that’s a false dichotomy — “Po-Dunk” is suffused with political-social meaning.

Over the driving bass line that sounds like a threat, you can hear the menacing rattle of the Don’t Tread on Me snake, and when you hear it, you know that Kid Rock is serious about music and politics. The symbols could not be any clearer: tight shots of the Bible and firearms, a direct embrace of the “God and Guns” that America “clings” to. But Kid Rock isn’t even getting started.

Take the recent upheaval over Confederate symbols. Is it too cynical to say, only because it’s a great way to destabilize a nation? It is certainly the modus operandi of the New Left. But Kid Rock’s not having any of it. Even before “Po-Dunk,” you see in Kid Rock videos the apparently contradictory blending of Southern and American symbols, the Confederate Battle Flag with the Stars and Stripes, the General Lee with biracial children. It’s jarring only to those under the spell of the New Left, where the American and Confederate flags are to be seen as opposites. But they’re not; one is part of the other, and Kid Rock claims them both.

And he keeps on smashing New Left social divisions…

In other words, Kid Rock takes all the false dialectics, absorbs them, metabolizes them, and…well, if you’ve seen his videos, you know the rest, and it involves a roll of Radiohead toilet paper. If Trump is the clenched fist of the American people, Kid Rock is the middle finger that comes after the punch is thrown, at the very moment when the New Left expects an apology from those who dared to even challenge it.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

British People Have Suddenly Stopped Buying Cars.

It’s not clear why. But a number of anti-car trends have hit Britain simultaneously — such as the rise of Uber and a decline in household savings — driving down car sales.

The chart above of total car sales both old and new, from Barclays, says it all. On this chart, the grey-black line is the crucial one. The blue line (online sales) represents only a small number of purchases. Barclays

Here’s what new car registrations look like:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

European Commission Sends Poland Final Warning Over Court Law

European Union regulators stepped up pressure on Poland to scale back legislation on the country’s court system in a bid to protect judicial independence. The zloty fell to a two-week low.

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

Graveyard Killing of Belgian Mayor Was ‘Revenge’: Media

MOUSCRON, Belgium (Reuters) — A Belgian teenager who blamed the local mayor for his father’s suicide after he was fired from a town hall job has confessed to slashing the politician’s throat in a cemetery on Monday night, public broadcaster RTBF said.

The murder of Alfred Gadenne, 71, the mayor of Mouscron and a former lawmaker in the regional parliament, has shocked the country, with the prime minister expressing his “horror”.

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

One in Ten Road Users in Sweden Don’t Stop at Red Lights: Survey

Almost one in ten road users jump red lights, according to a new survey.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Planet 9 Probably Isn’t an Exoplanet, After All

Object roughly 20 times the mass of Earth

Planet 9 probably isn’t from another star, according to researchers from the UK and Switzerland.

According to a paper on the Cornell University Library archive, while previous studies show how planet-sized objects can be captured during the early evolution and dissolution of stellar nurseries, it seems several constraints reduce the probability of interstellar planet-swapping to a near-zero value, in the case of Planet 9.

Not long ago, scientists like Alexander Mustill of Lund University observed unusual orbital characteristics of several objects in the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt — a cloud of frozen objects beyond the orbit of Neptune — and hypothesized the presence of an interstellar interloper; essentially, a (former) exoplanet snatched up by the Sun’s gravitational forces soon after it was born, roughly 4.5 billion years ago.

Roughly 20 times the mass of Earth, this ninth planet’s effects on other distant bodies would place it in an eccentric elliptical orbit, up to 60 degrees off the solar orbital plane. If confirmed, Planet 9 is estimated between 150-350 AU away. That’s at least 150 times farther from the Sun than the Earth.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pope Francis, Titular Head of the Globalists

Political Hack: The tragic truth of our times is that ‘The Titular Head of the Globalists’ walks like a Marxist, talks like a Marxist and likely prays as a Marxist

The one official title you will never see among those set aside for the pope: ‘Francis, Titular Head of the Globalists’; ‘Francis, the Political Pope’, ‘Francis, Pope Putting Politics Ahead of Prayer’.

“The pope’s proper title, according to the Vatican’s website, is Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, Servant of the Servants of God.”

They could have added-’Political Hack’.

Each and everyone of these titles has taken a back seat to ‘Francis, Titular Head of the Globalists’ soon after Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was so sorrowfully elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church in March of 2013.

Have other popes wandered far off their proper titles?

You betcha!

Has any other pope ever become the ‘Titular Head of the Globalists?

NEVER!

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pope Frances Tells Journalists That People Who Don’t Believe in Man-Made Climate Change Are “Stupid” And “Stubborn”

Journalists then broached the “man-made climate change” topic, asking Pope Frances for his thoughts on the topic: While we are flying, we are pass near Hurricane Irma which, after causing dozens of deaths in the Caribbean, is now heading towards Florida where there are millions of displaced people. Scientists think that ocean warming makes hurricanes more intense. Is there a moral responsibility of those political leaders who refuse to cooperate with other nations by denying that this climate change is man-made?

“Those who deny this must ask the scientists: they speak very clearly, they are precise. The other day the news came out of a Russian ship that went from Norway to Japan and crossed the North Pole without finding ice. From a university, they have said that we only have three years “to step back”, if not, the consequences will be terrible. I don’t know if the three years are true or not, but if we don’t step back, we will fall! We can see climate change in its effects, and we all have a moral responsibility when we make decisions. I think that is a very serious matter. We all have our moral responsibility and politicians have their own. Let them ask the scientists and then decide. History will judge on their decisions.”

[Comment: Marxist globalist shill.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Strange’ And ‘Strangers’

Two new studies of Islam portray recent outbursts of coordinated violence and oppression not as a reaction to Western liberalism but instead as fundamental to the religion itself

By Edward N. Luttwak

The Europe that conquered much of the world from the 15th century onward was empowered by its violent disunity. Its quarreling states large and small were sharpened in war and diplomacy by fighting one another at frequent intervals. Each war brought its share of death and destruction, but each was followed by vigorous procreation and reconstruction, so that Europe kept growing from war to war, in population and in wealth, while advancing in the arts, the sciences, and in technology. That Europe was still Christian except for its Jews, privileged survivors when the pagans were exterminated, but its very un-Christian central ideology was the Iliad’s: men love war, women love warriors. European wars over the centuries were fought by volunteers, whose urge to fight was far more widely admired than deplored, not least by women desirous of virile mates…

           — Hat tip: Steen [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Ismael Watson Guilty of Syria Terrorism Plan

A Muslim convert caught trying to join so-called Islamic State has been convicted of planning to travel to Syria to engage in terrorism.

Ismael Watson was stopped as he tried to cross the Turkish border into Syria in July 2016, the Old Bailey heard.

He had denied preparation of terrorist acts and opted to represent himself but refused to attend court.

His first trial was abandoned and following a two-day retrial, he was found guilty in his absence.

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

UK: Police Hunt Two Knifemen After Man, 25, is Stabbed in Front of Shocked Shoppers in Busy City Centre

Police have closed off a busy shopping street in Leeds city centre as they hunt two suspects thought to have stabbed a man.

A 25-year-old man was found with serous injuries before a police cordon was put in place after emergency services were called around 1.20pm.

The man was taken to hospital for emergency treatment. Police are looking for two suspects described as young black males. The incident is not being treated as terrorism-related.

One eyewitness, who asked not to be named, said the victim appeared to be running away from the two males.

He said: ‘He tried to run but they stabbed him twice, once in the back and once in the forearm.

‘The two men ran away and he collapsed outside the Vodafone store. We helped him but within less than two minutes the police response arrived and took over.’…

           — Hat tip: Seneca III [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Report: Radical Imam Tells Children Martyrdom ‘Supreme Success’

Undercover cop secretly recorded sermons

A radical imam voiced support for Isil and told children at his mosque that martyrdom was the “supreme success” and better than anything they would achieve at school or college, a court has heard.

Kamran Hussain, 40, allegedly made a series of radical sermons over four months last year encouraging terrorism and supporting Isil in Syria.

Hussain, of Knightsbridge Way, Tunstall, who denies the charges, had also posted his views on social media, jurors at the Old Bailey heard.

In a post in March last year, he allegedly made an apparent reference to IS saying it was “knocking on your door” and if you were “enraged” by it, “then our message is simple: Die in your rage”.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

WikiLeaks Founder Says Spain Referendum Could Spark Civil War

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange believes the upcoming Catalonia independence referendum will create “a new 7.5 million nation or civil war” as around one million pro-separatists marched through the streets of Barcelona in support of succession from Spain.

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

Best Buy Stops Selling Kaspersky Software

Best Buy is the largest electronics retailer in the U.S.

Best Buy has stopped selling security software produced by Russian cyber firm Kaspersky Lab.

A spokesman for Best Buy confirmed the development, but said the retailer does not “comment on contracts with specific vendors.”

Kaspersky also confirmed that it had parted ways with Best Buy in an emailed statement.

“Kaspersky Lab and Best Buy have suspended their relationship at this time; however, the relationship may be re-evaluated in the future,” the software firm said. “Kaspersky Lab has enjoyed an almost decade-long partnership with Best Buy and its customer base, and the company will continue to offer its industry-leading cybersecurity solutions to consumers through its website and other retailers.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Blames Russia to Deflect From Fraudulent Ad-Sales

A typically political and business strategy to lessen public attention of an evolving scandal is to launch a diversion campaign. A well designed counter campaign makes sensational claims about an unrelated issue. It is intended to take the media attention away from the real issue. Any decent public relation department will have several “canned” campaigns ready to launch on a moment’s notice.

Yesterday a new report proved (again) that Facebook cheats with its advertisement reach data. This explains why advertisements booked on Facebook have much less impact than Facebook claims and the paying customers assume. Only hours later the company launched a diversion campaign. Its purpose is to keep the media off the real scandal. The diversion claim, presented without evidence, is that a “Russian operation” bought influencing advertisements on Facebookaimed at the U.S. public.

Here is the real scandal that Facebook tries to cover up. Facebook advertisement sales are based on systematically falsified data:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Venezuela Supreme Court Has Staged Effective Coup: Jurists’ Group

GENEVA (Reuters) — Venezuela’s Supreme Court has progressively dismantled the rule of law, becoming an instrument of President Nicolas Maduro’s government in what amounts to a coup against the constitutional order, an international human rights group said on Tuesday.

The collapse of the judiciary has left victims of torture, killings and disappearances and their families without recourse to justice after months of violent street protests, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said. It called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to take action.

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

Finland: 70 Percent of Migrants Denied Asylum Convert to Christianity, Appeal

Authorities in Finland have noted a significant increase in failed asylum seekers converting to Christianity and appealing their deportation orders.

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

Germany: Church Demands Open Borders for Europe: ‘Charity Knows No Boundaries’

The German church has stepped up criticism of government and EU migration policies, with senior figures stating that Europe “has room for more refugees”.

“Charity knows no boundaries,” said the president of the Rhineland’s Evangelical Church, Manfred Rekowski, demanding a system which would distribute migrants throughout Europe, along with a much more liberal approach to family reunification.

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

Merkel Threatens Hungary With Expulsion From EU Over Refugee Row

The German Chancellor, who has faced criticism over her own open door policy on asylum seekers, said the country’s refusal to comply with a European Court of Justice ruling risked Budapest’s continued membership of the bloc.

Speaking to Berliner Zeitung on Tuesday, Ms Merkel said it was “unacceptable” of Budapest to reject the ECJ’s dismissal of its legal challenge against the EU scheme.

Hungary and Slovakia had tried to overturn the union’s 2015 plan to relocate more than 160,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece across all 28 member states.

But the case was dismissed by ECJ judges on Wednesday, who ruled that the allocations were “proportionate” and upheld the EU’s initial plans.

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

SCOTUS Hands Trump Another Travel Ban Win

The U.S. Supreme Court stayed a lower court ruling which narrowed enforcement of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, handing the administration another victory on a signature immigration policy initiative.

As a result of the order, some 25,000 refugees are temporarily barred from resettlement in the U.S.

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

Fake News and the Death of Christianity

Mark Twain, quoting Disraeli, once said “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” So it has been with the recent story that White Christians are a minority, To paraphrase Twain again, the reports of Christianity’s demise have been greatly exaggerated…

While many Americans might not be thrilled with the number of Muslims in America, their numbers are relatively small. America is barely 1% Muslim, and some of that number includes Black Muslims, who often quote the Bible, and have Baptist grandmothers praying for the salvation of their wayward souls and a return to Jesus.

Canada is 3% Muslim. Much of Europe is far worse. As nations go, the United States is one of the least Muslim major nations on the planet. You would never know it from the Huffington Post article. Nor would you know that Muslim groups often inflate their numbers.

Islam survives by crushing proselytization. It cannot compete with free thought, so it kills it. A good percentage of the children of those Muslims will become Christian in one generation in America. Islam has no social answer to street preachers.

There is a second matter to consider: the nature of American Christianity; and to a lesser extent Australian Christianity.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Human Genetic Modification Possible

While there have been rumours coming out of China for years, US scientists have now confirmed that the first attempts to create genetically modified human embryos have been a success.

Led by researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, the study used CRISPR to change the DNA of multiple one-cell human embryos […] According to the team, the positive results confirm that the world’s first CRISPR baby could be on the horizon. The scientists have assured the scientific community that no unintended genetic errors were introduced to the embryos during the procedure, which has been a main cause of concern for previous studies.

While gene editing embryos is considered less controversial that living humans, there are still plenty of ethical hurdles to cross. Critics are concerned about the concept of ‘designer babies’ which could see a trend in parent customising features like eye colour, hair colour and even skin colour. Eventually, genetic modification could even be used to increase intelligence.

[Comment: What could possibly go wrong?.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Your Beliefs Are No Longer Allowed

American progressives have fnally gone all the way to a totalitarian vision, demanding control over not just your behavior, but your thoughts and beliefs. This as the price of simply living without being attacked.

And hats off to Erick Erickson for naming it first. The former RedState honcho and Never-Trumper called it right, and no, I’m not talking about his near-demonic hatred of President Trump.

Last year, Erickson released a book with a title he popularized: You Will Be Made to Care: The War on Faith, Family, and Your Freedom to Believe. The book is a summation of an argument Erickson has long made. As the sexual left makes progress on its biggest projects — same-sex marriage, transgenderism acceptance, pronoun wordplay — they are increasingly unwilling to brook resistance.

Do you believe in traditional marriage but don’t care that gays marry? Think it’s OK teenagers take hormonal injections to swap genders but it’s not right for your kids? Don’t really give a hoot about someone who identifies as “xe”?

Well, too bad, sucker. The new dispensation doesn’t care for your waffling. Going forward, your private beliefs must align with your public stance. No exceptions made or allowed.

In short: You will be made to care

Erickson’s warning was just vindicated in a tweetstorm by Zack Ford, the flamboyant correspondent for the liberal blog ThinkProgress.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Astronomers Find Stars That Appear Older Than the Universe

Is everything we were told a lie?

The oldest stars we’ve found in the Universe are nearly pristine, where almost 100% of what makes them up is the hydrogen and helium left over from the Big Bang. They come in at over 13 billion years old, with the oldest at 14.5 billion. And this is a big problem, because the Universe itself is only 13.8 billion years old.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

17 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/12/2017

  1. Human Genetic Modification Possible – What could possibly go wrong?

    Some say that the main reason for destroying all living from the surface of the Earth via a great flood was a genetic manipulation and contamination of the genepool. The term “Noah was perfect in his generations” apparently means “his DNA was not poluted”.

    Given that the Atlanteans and Olymians and the Indian Gods and pretty much all gods of antiquity mastered DNA manipulation, creating giants and chymeras and pegasuses and minotaurs and so on…

    Given that “as in the days of Noah, so shall it be again”

    Luciferians have a desire to become like gods…

  2. Fake News and the Death of Christianity
    As major religious institutions have corrupted themselves, and as the society-at-large paganizes, Christians have left the decaying denominations and reconfigured themselves in home gatherings akin to the original breeding ground of Christianity in the first century.

    This is encouraging, especially in light of a news story today that Planned Parenthood in Missouri is teaming up with – I kid you not – the Satanic Temple, whose supporters are on record back in 2013, chanting ‘Hail Satan!’

  3. Live on CBS Michio Kaku accidentally admits that they are shooting trillion watt lasers into the atmosphere in order to affect the weather.

    Deep State Drugging Trump Ahead of Coup, Sources Say

    Human Genetic Modification Possible

    As if we haven’t got enough to worry about already! These stories all have one thing in common – the desire for power – over the planet, over the political system, over human nature.

    It is perfectly illustrated by the the hubris of the Globalist Left. By keeping us focused on backward, medieval Muslims, they assume they have ownership of the future.

  4. The Prime Minister of the Hungarian Government to the German Chancellor of the German Government: NUTS!

  5. Opposition parties in Italy have called for the creation of a new currency to be circulated in Italy alongside the euro. Its proponents believe the new money would create jobs and increase economic growth in the country.

    There are many benefits, and a few pitfalls, to decentralizing currencies.

    There was a time when individual banks could issue their own currency and paper. This served the function of countering deflation, which is far more pernicious than inflation. Many economists attribute the Great Depression to the actions of the Federal Reserve, actually a private institution, in deflating the money supply at exactly the wrong time.

    Reintroducing a national currency, or even allowing private currencies, would go a long way to removing the stranglehold the EU (and Great Leader Merkel) is trying to get on European countries.

    Given the previous fiscal irresponsibility of the Italian government, I would expect some (many, many) road bumps in developing its own national currency. But, if they can stay the course, the rewards will be overwhelming.

    • Ronald. The only problem I can see in decentralizing the entire Banking system is that many existing Banks would not survive a return to the once normal Banking practice of ensuring their own financial position due to the requirement in backing their currency issuance (lending) with their own collateral.

      For example; For every one dollar the Bank lends out there should be some thing of equal value held in reserve within the Banks holdings. And that expectation would need to be legislated and audited regularly.

      The Federal Reserve must be ended as well as the Internal Revenue Service that has been used as the Reserve’s collection agency.

  6. Hungary has survived through the centuries, through wars,invasions, ottoman domination, decades of harsh Soviet dominated communism and natural disasters. It will take more than threats of being tossed out of the failing EU to throw a scare into them.

  7. Human Genetic Modification, Dr. Mengele would be so proud. BTW was he not accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Wow we have come a long way.

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