Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/8/2017

Protesters once again threw tomatoes at German Chancellor Angela Merkel, this time at a campaign rally in the town of Wolgast. This tomato attack — which is being humorously referred to as a “Tomutti attack” — was aimed at the chancellor’s limousine.

In other news, Hurricane Irma is bearing down on South Florida. The current projected track shows a direct hit on Key West, possibly after the storm regains strength and returns to Category 5.

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Thanks to AF, Caroline Glick, Dean, Dora, Insubria, JD, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» “Greatest Fiscal Crisis in Our City’s History”: Hartford Warns it Will be Broke in 60 Days
» Toys R US Hires Bankruptcy Law Firm
» War on Cash Backfires on India’s Economy
 
USA
» “Greatest Evacuation in History” — 650,000 Ordered to Leave Florida
» Buchanan: Trump Dumps the Do-Nothing Congress
» Civil Rights Lawsuit Claims Gifted Black Girl Bullied by Black Students for ‘Acting White’
» DC Police Believe it Staffer Planted Laptop to Incriminate Democratic Party Officials
» ‘Explosion’ Clears County Park in Garfield
» Fake News: NBCNews.com Labels Democratic Senator Menendez as a Republican
» Father: Adult Son Stabbed in Brownsville, Brooklyn
» Former Clinton Fundraiser Says Hillary Should ‘Shut the F*** Up and Go Away’
» Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog Interviews Mark Taylor on Trump vs the Saboteurs
» Joni Turner Launches Class Action Lawsuit After CNN Calls Trump a Rapist and His Supporters Complicit
» Libs Go Nuts After Betsy Devos Announces “Due Process” Barack Obama Stripped — From College Students in Sexual Assault Cases Will be Restored
» Mainstream Media Viciously Attacks Republican Candidate for Congress for Suggesting ‘Category 6’ Should be Created for Storms Like Irma
» Massive Data Breach at Equifax: As Many as 143 Million Social Security Numbers Hacked
» Oregon Authorities Release ‘Manifesto’ From Mass Shooting
» Revealed: Vampire Cop’s Secret Identity
» Sheriff: Sex Offenders, Those With Warrants Not Welcome at Hurricane Shelters
» Steve Bannon: Mitch McConnell Demanded No More “Drain the Swamp” Talk
» Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Revealed
» YouTube Demonetizes Another Dissident Channel
 
Canada
» Ontario to Create Cannabis Control Board, Open Up to 60 Storefronts
 
Europe and the EU
» Austrian Government Stops Construction of Million Euro ‘Anti-Terror’ Wall After Backlash
» Germany: ‘Traitor to the People’: Protesters Jeered Merkel on Campaign Trail
» Germany: Merkel Suffers Another Tomato Attack
» Hate Speech or How to Silence the Voice of the Internet
» Hungarian PM Warns: “the Islamization of Europe is Real”
» Hungary Fury at ‘Politically Motivated’ MEPs ‘Interfering’ In National Affairs
» UK: ‘Blood Money’: Lee Rigby’s Mother Blasts Her Son’s Murderer as He Chases £100,000 From Taxpayers Over Claims Jail Injury Left Him Mentally Scarred
» UK: Grooming Gang Victim Sleeps Next to Knife and is Losing Hair After Rape Ordeal
 
Far East
» Alert: An Incredibly Fast and Deadly Super Bug is Spreading in China: “Substantial Threat to Human Health”
» Caroline Glick: North Korea’s Ultimatum to America
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘I’m Never Anonymous in a Hijab’: Muslim-Convert Susan Carland Says She Avoids Walking Behind Waleed Aly When She Shops So People Don’t Think She’s Inferior to Her Husband
 
Immigration
» African Migrants Run Ashore as Boat Lands in Italy
» Ann Coulter is Exactly Right: Every Time Republicans Compromise on Immigration They Get Nothing in Return
» EU Orders Sweden to Shut Down Border Checks
» Germany: Failed Asylum Seeker Accused of Murdering Romanian Prostitute
» Italy: Migrant Nabbed for Attempted Rape
 
Culture Wars
» 12-Year-Old Boy Who Transitioned to Female Changes His Mind Just Two Years Later
» Belgian Viewer Complains About Company Removing Cross From Greek Church in Ad Photo
» Great Britain Orthodox Archbishop Demands Apology Over Lidl Controversy
» Lidl Supermarket Chain Desecrated Churches† in Greece
 

“Greatest Fiscal Crisis in Our City’s History”: Hartford Warns it Will be Broke in 60 Days

Well, that escalated quickly.

Just two months after Standard & Poor’s downgraded its general obligation debt to junk status, warning that the historic Connecticut capital could soon follow other once-proud cities like Detroit into bankruptcy, Hartford city officials confirmed as much when they warned on Thursday that the city could be forced into insolvency within two months if the state doesn’t provide emergency financial relief, the WSJ reports.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Toys R US Hires Bankruptcy Law Firm

Toys R Us, with 1,694 stores globally, has $5.2 billion in long-term debt, according to its latest quarterly report, and sports a negative equity of $1.3 billion. Quarterly sales declined 4.8% year-over-year, to $2.2 billion. This isn’t a one-quarter dip: sales are down 15% from the same quarter in 2012. And the net loss jumped 30% year-over-year to $164 million.

The company needs to restructure its debts, particularly $400 million that is coming due in 2018, and a bankruptcy filing is one of the options, “sources familiar with the situation” told CNBC on Wednesday.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

War on Cash Backfires on India’s Economy

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a surprise attack on cash in late 2016. He gave Indians a few days to convert the two largest denomination bills then circulating to bank deposits, after which point any undeposited notes would become worthless. The move was intensely controversial. Transactions completed using cash represented the vast majority of economic activity in the country.

In order to sell the program Modi employed a familiar strategy. He vilified the users of cash as tax cheats and criminals. He promised the measure would punish black marketeers, boost the Indian economy, and increase tax revenues. The latter may be true — forcing transactions onto the grid is good for nosy bureaucrats trying to impose taxes and controls.

But it now appears Modi’s claims about the amount of criminal activity tied to cash and promises of economic growth were nonsense.

The official argument was that cash is an indispensable tool for black marketeers. The reform would catch many of these “criminals” with piles of cash they would be unwilling to declare and deposit. That argument fell apart last week when the Indian central bank reported that 99% of the outlawed bills were converted to deposits. Turns out very few “criminals” were punished.

Meanwhile the Indian economy is paying the price. Growth has slowed significantly and some estimate as many as 5 million jobs have been destroyed by the demonetization of cash. More and more Indians are angry.

They didn’t enjoy the upside promised by Modi. Instead, they suffered massive economic disruption and loss of privacy. Perhaps India’s experience will provide an object lesson elsewhere in the world where bankers and the political elite are waging a similar war on cash.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“Greatest Evacuation in History” — 650,000 Ordered to Leave Florida

A “traffic nightmare” as Cat-5 Hurricane Irma bears down

In what spokesman Michael Hernandez describes as “the biggest evacuation in history,” Miami-Dade has expanded its mandatory evacuations orders to Zone C, forcing over 650,000 to leave Florida in a “traffic nightmare” as Cat-5 Hurricane Irma bears down.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Buchanan: Trump Dumps the Do-Nothing Congress

President bypasses RINO saboteurs to protect reviving economy

Donald Trump is president today because he was seen as a doer not a talker.

Among the most common compliments paid him in 2016 was, “At least he gets things done!”

And it was exasperation with a dithering GOP Congress, which had failed to enact his or its own agenda, that caused Trump to pull the job of raising the debt ceiling away from Republican contractors Ryan & McConnell, and give it to Pelosi & Schumer.

Hard to fault Trump. Over seven months, Congress showed itself incapable of repealing Obamacare, though the GOP promised this as its first priority in three successive elections.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Civil Rights Lawsuit Claims Gifted Black Girl Bullied by Black Students for ‘Acting White’

A lawsuit has been filed by the parents of a young black girl in South Carolina who claim their academically gifted daughter, a student at Hand Middle School, was physically and verbally terrorized for “acting white.”

According to a study and news article cited by the federal civil rights lawsuit, the girl’s tormentors are black themselves.

The alleged bullying has gone on for two years. The lawsuit itself reads like a horror show of humiliation and physical abuse that began almost immediately upon her arrival at the school in 2015.

Although approximately 50 percent of the students at Hand Middle School identify as African American, India was one of the few African Americans in her honors and advanced classes during the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 school years.

According to the lawsuit, what followed was physical assaults: pushing and shoving, water thrown in her face, two chipped teeth, and a beating with a bottle. On one occasion “a group of three female students attempted to push India down a flight of stairs. These same students had verbally accosted India on prior occasions and continued to do so after the assault.”

[Comment: They were jealous and angry that she was not stupid like them; and that she wanted to make something more out of her life other than being a useful idiot for BLM.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

DC Police Believe it Staffer Planted Laptop to Incriminate Democratic Party Officials

Debbie Wasserman Schultz may be in deep trouble

The Daily Caller has broken a story that states the DC police believe Imran Awan intentionally planted DWS’s laptop to incriminate her and other individuals within the DNC.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Explosion’ Clears County Park in Garfield

GARFIELD, N.J. — “Some type of explosion” Friday cleared Belmont Hill Park in Garfield, responders said. No injuries were reported.

“We received a report at 3:06 p.m. of an explosion that occurred in the woods behind Belmont Hill County Park,” Capt. Darren Sucorowski said.

The county park was evacuated and Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9s were sweeping it, Sucorowski said just after 4 p.m.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Fake News: NBCNews.com Labels Democratic Senator Menendez as a Republican

NBC issues correction after Associated Press mislabeled Menendez

On Wednesday, NBCNews.com published an Associated Press dispatch on the bribery trial of Democratic Senator Bob Menendez (N.J.), but there was one huge problem in that Menendez was labeled a Republican. Translation? NBC News saw no reason to engage in basic proofreading or got caught red-handed in the act of liberal bias.

The unauthored post sat for well over two hours before being changed. NBCNews.com offered a correction at the bottom of the story: “CORRECTION (Sept. 6, 2017, 5:35 p.m.): An earlier version of this article misstated the party affiliation of Menendez. He is a Democrat, not a Republican.”

Seeing as how NBC’s Today wasn’t interested in the trial, it wasn’t shocking that they’d punt coverage to AP wire stories. Again, it’s still troubling that this liberal network didn’t engage in any serious proofreading.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Father: Adult Son Stabbed in Brownsville, Brooklyn

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A father and his adult son were stabbed Friday in Brownsville, Brooklyn, police said.

The 47-year-old man and his 21-year-old son were attacked and stabbed by two men at Thomas S. Boyland Street and Pitkin Avenue, police sources told CBS2.

The attack appeared to be random and unprovoked, sources said.

The victims were both taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, sources said. The father’s condition was stable, but his son was likely to succumb to his wounds, sources said.

A useful description of the suspects was not immediately available. Police late Friday were canvassing for security cameras, sources said.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Former Clinton Fundraiser Says Hillary Should ‘Shut the F*** Up and Go Away’

“The best thing she could do is disappear.”

A fundraiser for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said the recent release of her tell-all campaign book hurts the Democratic party and admonished Clinton to step away from the national spotlight.

“The best thing she could do is disappear,” the Clinton fundraiser and surrogate, who played an active role at the convention, told the Hill. “She’s doing harm to all of us because of her own selfishness. Honestly, I wish she’d just shut the f— up and go away.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog Interviews Mark Taylor on Trump vs the Saboteurs

Mark Taylor, author of the wildly popular book “The Trump Prophecies,” correctly predicted, early on, a victory by Donald Trump to win the White House. Taylor is a retired firefighter that has become an unlikely prophet of God, who contends “President Trump is God’s anointed.” Taylor says what is going on is nothing short of a grand battle between good and evil. Taylor explains, “Here’s what I believe is going on right now. There is no longer a Republican and Democrat party — period. This is about globalism vs. patriotism basically right now. This is about light vs. dark. (WATCH INTERVIEW BELOW)

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Joni Turner Launches Class Action Lawsuit After CNN Calls Trump a Rapist and His Supporters Complicit

Americans are standing up to the bully media

Joni Turner is filing a class action lawsuit against CNN to hold them accountable for the libel, defamation and potential damage that they’ve done to Trump supporter’s lives.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Libs Go Nuts After Betsy Devos Announces “Due Process” Barack Obama Stripped — From College Students in Sexual Assault Cases Will be Restored

“The era of rule by letter is over!”

President Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos spoke today at George Mason University’s Virginia campus. DeVos ignited a firestorm when she announced the end of yet another case of an unlawful overreach by Barack Obama, that affected every college student by stripping them of their right to due process in sexual assault cases.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Mainstream Media Viciously Attacks Republican Candidate for Congress for Suggesting ‘Category 6’ Should be Created for Storms Like Irma

Somebody really needs to be fact checking the so-called “fact checkers” . A few days ago, I published an article in which I stated that “some have suggested that we need to add a ‘category 6’ to describe the kind of ‘super storms’ that are now developing in the Atlantic”. That article ended up going megaviral on Facebook, and there has been a tremendous backlash from the mainstream media. By their reaction, you would have thought that I just committed some very serious form of blasphemy, but the truth is that scientists have been talking about adding a “category 6” for more than a decade. Nothing that I said should have been controversial. In fact, if this had come from a liberal source the mainstream media would probably be gushing about how this is more evidence for their “global warming” narrative. But because I am a Republican and I am running for Congress, they had to attack me.

Over the past 24 hours, the Washington Post and dozens of other mainstream news sources have all run similar articles specifically attacking me for suggesting that a “category 6” should be created for storms such as Hurricane Irma. Of course I never said that Hurricane Irma is a category 6 storm or that such a category was about to be established. But what I did say is that the establishment of a “category 6” has been discussed for a long time, and that if you were to extrapolate the Saffir-Simpson scale, Hurricane Irma would potentially qualify as a category 6 storm.

The source that the Washington Post and other mainstream media sources are quoting in their hit pieces is Snopes. Of course Snopes is well known to be a mouthpiece for the left, and just about everything on their site lines up with the progressive agenda of the radical left. So it is no surprise that they would attack a Republican candidate for Congress…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Massive Data Breach at Equifax: As Many as 143 Million Social Security Numbers Hacked

Credit-reporting company Equifax shocked investors, and more than a third of America, when it announced on Thursday afternoon that hackers had breached its data systems, compromising the personal information of approximately 143 million U.S. consumers. The information accessed “primarily includes names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers.” In other words, pretty much everything that should have been hidden behind an n-number of firewalls, is now available to the dark net’s highest bidder.

The company, which in delightful irony offers credit-monitoring and identity-theft protection products to “guard consumers’ personal information”, said that it had learned of the incident on July 29, 2017, at which point it reported the intrusion to law enforcement and contracted a cybersecurity firm to conduct a forensic review: based on the company’s investigation, the unauthorized access occurred from mid-May through July 2017. Oddly enough, it took shareholders and over a third of America, more than a month longer to learn that all their personal data may have been compromised.

As if 143 million leaked social security numbers wasn’t enough, Equifax said that criminals also accessed credit card numbers for approximately 209,000 U.S. consumers, and certain dispute documents with personal identifying information for approximately 182,000 U.S. consumers. But wait, there’s more: the company also identified unauthorized access to limited personal information for certain UK and Canadian residents.

The good news, is that according to Equifax, “this issue has been contained.” The bad news is that, well, as many as 143 million social security numbers have been hacked. So no, it’s not contained.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Oregon Authorities Release ‘Manifesto’ From Mass Shooting

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon authorities have released a detailed report on a mass shooting at a community college that includes a six-page, typewritten “manifesto” that says the shooter had studied the methods of other mass killers.

The report was released Friday involving the attack by 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer that left nine people dead and nine others injured in 2015 at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.

In the document left on a thumb drive for police to find, Harper-Mercer says he serves the “demonic Hierarchy” and will become a demon when he dies and return “to kill again and again.”

He also makes it clear that he idolizes other mass shooters and says he has studied their methods to figure out how to kill more people.

Harper-Mercer committed suicide after he was injured by police during the Oct. 1, 2015, shooting.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Revealed: Vampire Cop’s Secret Identity

Officer from viral video exposed

The cop who brutalized a nurse for refusing his order to draw blood from an unconscious patient who was not under arrest and for whom the cop had no search warrant.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sheriff: Sex Offenders, Those With Warrants Not Welcome at Hurricane Shelters

Officers will be at shelters checking IDs, and those who are sex offenders or predators are not allowed to stay

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd put out a warning to sexual offenders and predators, and even those with outstanding warrants, that they’re not welcome at evacuation shelters.

Sheriff Judd Tweeted early Wednesday that sworn law enforcement officers will be at shelters checking IDs and that those who are sex offenders or predators are not allowed to stay. He went on to say that anyone with an outstanding warrant will also be escorted from the shelter to the Polk County Jail.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Steve Bannon: Mitch McConnell Demanded No More “Drain the Swamp” Talk

“The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election”

According to Steve Bannon, Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell demanded no more “drain the swamp” talk as part of an effort by establishment Republicans to “nullify the 2016 election”.

The revelation was made during Bannon’s interview with 60 Minutes, which is set to air this Sunday.

“The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. That’s a brutal fact we have to face,” Bannon told Charlie Rose.

Asked who exactly is trying to sabotage Trump, Bannon named Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.

“They do not want Donald Trump’s populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented. It’s very obvious. It’s obvious as night follows day,” added Bannon.

Asked to illustrate an example of this sabotage, Bannon told Rose that towards the end of one of the first meetings in Trump Tower, McConnell told Trump and his team, “I don’t wanna hear any more of this ‘drain the swamp’ talk.”

“They’re not gonna help you unless they’re put on notice. They’re gonna be held accountable if they do not support the President of the United States. Right now there’s no accountability,” said Bannon, adding that he was “absolutely” going to war with the Republican establishment now that he was out of the White House.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Revealed

Three Equifax Inc. senior executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered a security breach that may have compromised information on about 143 million U.S. consumers.

The trio had not yet been informed of the incident, the company said late Thursday.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

YouTube Demonetizes Another Dissident Channel

YouTube is demonetizing many videos published by the Rubin Report on the Google-owned video platform, according to tweets from Dave Rubin on Wednesday.

Demonetized videos of the Rubin Report include interviews with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Adam Carolla, Brigitte Gabriel, Rita Panahi, Christina Hoff Sommers, Jason Whitlock, and others.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ontario to Create Cannabis Control Board, Open Up to 60 Storefronts

The Ontario government will announce Friday that it will create a cannabis control board and open up to 60 storefronts to manage the sale and distribution of marijuana in the province, CBC News has learned.

The plans include restricting marijuana sales to those 19 and older, a year above the minimum age recommended by the federal government’s cannabis task force report in December.

The 30 to 60 stores selling marijuana to the public will not be housed inside existing LCBO stores as Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne had previously suggested.

Illegal pot shops in Ontario would be shut down over the next 12 months.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Austrian Government Stops Construction of Million Euro ‘Anti-Terror’ Wall After Backlash

The Austrian government has halted the construction of an “anti-terror” wall around the chancellor’s building after a backlash from the public when it was discovered the project had cost 1.5 million euros.

The office of Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern announced Thursday that the project to build the wall would be cancelled effective immediately after a prolonged outcry. Many, like the leader of the anti-mass migration Freedom Party (FPÖ) Heinz-Christian Strache, accused the government of only “protecting themselves”, Die Presse reports.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, the plan for the wall had been drafted as early as 2014 but has become an issue due to the campaigning for the early national election which is scheduled to take place on October 15th.

Newspaper Kronen Zeitung noted that the 220-foot long wall would cost Austrian taxpayers 1.5 million euros and questioned why it was needed when the terror threat in Austria is regarded as “low”.

FPÖ leader Strache called the project hypocritical saying: “While Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán built a border fence to protect his people, the Austrian federal government has been toiling away building a wall only for themselves.”

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: ‘Traitor to the People’: Protesters Jeered Merkel on Campaign Trail

Called her a “traitor to the people”

Protesters heckled and whistled at German Chancellor Angela Merkel as she has campaigned in the eastern German regions of Brandenburg and Saxony this week.

Supporters of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) and of the far-right National Democrats (NPD) heckled Merkel calling her a “traitor to the people” as she gave a speech in Torgau, Die Welt reports.

During her 30-minute speech, Merkel, who is currently leading in the polls in double digits, indirectly addressed the numerous protesters saying: “This is why we can be grateful that today we have democracy in Germany and free elections. Other peoples are dreaming of it.”

Saxony’s minister president, Stanislaw Tillich, also a member of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), slammed the protesters saying: “This republic will not be pushed forward by bullying.”

[Comment: Not pushed forward by bullying?…classic rabid communist elitist talk…accuse the other of that which you do…]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: Merkel Suffers Another Tomato Attack

Protestors threw tomatoes at German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s car Friday as she arrived in the town of Wolgast for a rally.

Anti-Merkel demonstrators have attempted to disrupt several rallies with boos and whistles in protest of the chancellor’s immigration policies. Merkel has appeared seemingly unfazed by the criticism, but she decided to address her haters during the speech in Wolgast.

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

Hate Speech or How to Silence the Voice of the Internet

[…]

An excursion to the lion’s den

The seminar began with the “common activities” in order to create a collective atmosphere. If you’re a leader of a group of children, you must know it. All 22 participants (I was reminded of Heller) introduced themselves and they were supposed to say “where they’re going to refill their power”. To charge their batteries. Does it mean that the NGOs are running out of steam? Not at all. They feel enthusiastic now and you will see why momentarily. Ms Vlasta Urbanová started with a well-known optical illusion, a secession-era picture showing the duality of a girl and an old woman. The purpose was to realize that it’s not important what we see but the right perspective to look at it. Black may be white but the color has to be looked at through the proper ideological eyes (I couldn’t avoid thinking about another number, 1984). …

She glanced at me with another look of a seven-headed female dragon, as if I were a naughty truant. You can still see the years she spent at a mechanical apprentice school. She leaves, very upset. And I am feeling like a pariah. It’s similar as when, decades ago, our comrade teacher took me to the corner and asked me why I was the only one who doesn’t attend the events of the Pioneer [communists’ children organization, I had similar experience, LM]. And fear. Isn’t Ms Urbanová going to pick her telephone and ask someone at my workplace? Or will I be terminated at FIT? Maybe forbidden opinions ceased to be a matter of fun again.

[Original article (Czech):

Hate Speech aneb Jak umlcet hlas Internetu
www.davinciprague.cz/clanky/hate-speech-aneb-jak-umlcet-hlas-internetu ]

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Hungarian PM Warns: “the Islamization of Europe is Real”

Viktor Orbán identifies existential threat to European civilization

Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has once again identified the existential threat facing European civilization in blunt terms, warning that the continent is being ‘Islamized’ and that waves of migrants will only increase in intensity during years to come.

He also stated his opinion that countries like the United States and China will reject this transformation in a way that parts of Europe may not.

“The Islamization of Europe is real, unlike in China or the United States, where it doesn’t stand a chance,” he said in an address to attendees of the ‘Civic Picnic’ in Kötcse, Hungary.

He cited projections that as many as 60 million Africans could attempt to invade Europe by the year 2020, sending the already-burgeoning Islamic population skyrocketing in a few short years, with millions more to come.

[Comment: Nothing will change in Europe until the traitors in governments are removed from office.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Hungary Fury at ‘Politically Motivated’ MEPs ‘Interfering’ In National Affairs

HUNGARY has hit out at meddling European Union politicians who they claim are visiting the country for a “politically motivated” trip to interfere in next year’s election.

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

UK: ‘Blood Money’: Lee Rigby’s Mother Blasts Her Son’s Murderer as He Chases £100,000 From Taxpayers Over Claims Jail Injury Left Him Mentally Scarred

Lee Rigby’s murderer wants £3100,000 ‘blood money’ over allegations that prison officers left him mentally scarred.

Michael Adebolajo, 32, who murdered the fusilier Mr Rigby, 25, in Woolwich, south east London, in 2013, lost his two front teeth when prison staff tried to restrain him four years ago.

He has now officially launched a court writ in which he claims he was left with a ‘psychiatric injury’.

And Mr Rigby’s mother, Lyn, 50, hit out at her son’s killer and said he deserves to ‘die in jail’.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Grooming Gang Victim Sleeps Next to Knife and is Losing Hair After Rape Ordeal

Newcastle grooming gang victims have relived the horrendous ordeals they were subjected to as teenagers when members of a gang abused and repeatedly raped them.

Victims of the 17-man and one-woman gang who forced vulnerable teenagers into sex and prostitution have told a court how their abusers ruined their lives— as they are sent to prison.

One woman spoke of how she sleeps with a knife by her bedside, suffers froma personality disorder and is on constant suicide watch, even now years have passed since her ordeal.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Alert: An Incredibly Fast and Deadly Super Bug is Spreading in China: “Substantial Threat to Human Health”

There is a substantial threat to human health in China, and it could becomea global epidemic if not contained. As an antibiotic resistant super bug is making its way across the country and the new deadly illness spreads, the mainstream media remains tightlipped about this potential epidemic.

Infowars’ editor note reads:

We’re horrified to learn that we’re the first international news outlet to bring massive attention to this story. This superbug was first revealed in The Lancet, a peer-reviewed medical journal. Until now, this story went underreported in the media, with only a handful of regional outlets providing limited coverage.

The Lancet has titled their article: A fatal outbreak of ST11 carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Chinese hospital: a molecular epidemiological study. It bears to reason that this may be something that the general public should be concerned about, and the silence by mainstream media is telling.

Scientists in Hangzhou, China have discovered a new strain of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia which spreads incredibly fast. They completed a study following a 2016 outbreak in a hospital ICU (intensive care unit) which led to the deaths of five patients ranging in age from 53 to 73.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Caroline Glick: North Korea’s Ultimatum to America

The nuclear confrontation between the US and North Korea entered a critical phase Sunday with North Korea’s conduct of an underground test of a thermonuclear bomb.

If the previous round of this confrontation earlier this summer revolved around Pyongyang’s threat to attack the US territory of Guam, Sunday’s test, together with North Korea’s recent tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the continental US, was a direct threat to US cities.

In other words, the current confrontation isn’t about US superpower status in Asia, and the credibility of US deterrence or the capabilities of US military forces in the Pacific. The confrontation is now about the US’s ability to protect the lives of its citizens.

The distinction tells us a number of important things. All of them are alarming.

First, because this is about the lives of Americans, rather than allied populations like Japan and South Korea, the US cannot be diffident in its response to North Korea’s provocation. While attenuated during the Obama administration, the US’s position has always been that US military forces alone are responsible for guaranteeing the collective security of the American people.

Pyongyang is now directly threatening that security with hydrogen bombs. So if the Trump administration punts North Korea’s direct threat to attack US population centers with nuclear weapons to the UN Security Council, it will communicate profound weakness to its allies and adversaries alike…

           — Hat tip: Caroline Glick [Return to headlines]
 

‘I’m Never Anonymous in a Hijab’: Muslim-Convert Susan Carland Says She Avoids Walking Behind Waleed Aly When She Shops So People Don’t Think She’s Inferior to Her Husband

A hijab-wearing Muslim academic says she never walks behind her high-profile husband Waleed Aly when they are out together in public. Susan Carland says she constantly worried.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

African Migrants Run Ashore as Boat Lands in Italy

Fresh footage has emerged showing African migrants landing on a beach in broad daylight as stunned tourists look on.

In the latest video, this time recorded in the beauty spot of Agrigento in Sicily, dozens can be seen clambering out of a small vessel and running up the beach before disappearing.

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

Ann Coulter is Exactly Right: Every Time Republicans Compromise on Immigration They Get Nothing in Return

When are Republicans going to learn? In her most recent article, Ann Coulter pointed out that every time Republicans compromise on immigration it turns out to be a total disaster. If you go back all the way to 1986, the Republicans never got the employer sanctions that they were promised even after the Democrats were given amnesty for four million illegal immigrants. And every time Republicans have attempted to push amnesty since that time, it has been a disaster for Republican politicians at the polls.

This time around, we are told that we are supposed to compromise on DACA.

Okay, will we get to build a wall in return?

Of course not.

Will our concerns about lightly vetted refugees coming in from hotbeds of Islamic terror be addressed?

Of course not.

In return for compromising on DACA, the Democrats wants to make some nice sounding promises that won’ t be too politically damaging that they will be able to easily break in the future.

This has happened time after time, and yet Republicans never seem to get it. But Ann Coulter sure does…

Congress has passed laws requiring that immigrants pay back taxes, learn English, not collect welfare and have good moral character. That’ s not too onerous, right? It’ s not like we’ re requiring them to have any skills or talents that would be valuable to America.

Every single one of these requirements has been scuttled by immigration bureaucrats, federal judges and Democratic presidents. All of ‘ em. Our immigration bureaucracy is so dedicated to destroying America that it’ s made citizens of thousands of convicted felons.

Look, I am certainly not against immigrants. In fact, I have a great love for those that have risked everything to come here for a better life.

I have great-grandparents on both my mother’ s side and my father’ s side that were immigrants to this country.

And it is also important to note that Donald Trump’ s wife is an immigrant.

This nation was built by immigrants, and we should never forget that. But the point is that they came in legally.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

EU Orders Sweden to Shut Down Border Checks

The European Union has ordered Sweden to end its border controls by mid-November, saying the reasons for putting them into place don’t exist anymore.

At a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday, the EU’s migrant commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said it will not allow the Nordic country to extend its border controls between Sweden and Denmark.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: Failed Asylum Seeker Accused of Murdering Romanian Prostitute

A failed asylum seeker from Mali has been accused of brutally murdering a 33-year-old Romanian prostitute in the German city of Regensburg by strangling her to death.

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

Italy: Migrant Nabbed for Attempted Rape

In Potenza

(ANSA) — Potenza, September 8 — A 20-year-old asylum seeker from Guinea has been arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a 50-year-old Italian woman in the lobby of a building in the centre of Potenza last Tuesday, sources said Friday.

The woman was allegedly rescued by two local men who called the police.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

12-Year-Old Boy Who Transitioned to Female Changes His Mind Just Two Years Later

Professionals suggested transitioning was right choice…

An Australian schoolboy who decided to transition into a female has changed his mind two years later.

At just 12-years-old, Patrick Mitchell, begged with his mother to begin taking oestrogen hormones after doctors diagnosed him with gender dysphoria — a condition where a person experiences distress because there is a mismatch between their biological sex and gender identity.

“You wish you could just change everything about you, you just see any girl and you say I’d kill to be like that”, Mitchell told 60 Minutes.

After heeding advice from professionals who suggested that it was right choice, his mother was fully supportive and Mitchell began to transition.

[Comment: Note the article still pushes the fraud of “gender identity”.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Belgian Viewer Complains About Company Removing Cross From Greek Church in Ad Photo

“I am outraged that the Lidl stores that sell Greek products, erase photos of Greece, part of its landscape and its culture,” a viewer wrote to the RTL TV Belgium website.

The viewer sent a picture of Santorini showing an aerial view of the famous Caldera that includes the domes of a Greek church with crosses on top. Then they juxtapose the same picture used to illustrate the German giant retailer’s packaging of the Greek product range ERIDANOUS “Original Greek Product”. …

“We are a company that respects diversity and this is what explains the design of this packaging,” he added.

The story created wider indignation as it was criticized in plenty of European media. The German supermarket giant replied: “Our intention has never been to shock. We avoid the use of religious symbols on our packaging to maintain neutrality in all religions, and if this has been perceived differently, we apologize to those who may have been shocked,” said the company spokesperson.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Great Britain Orthodox Archbishop Demands Apology Over Lidl Controversy

Gregorios, Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, raised concerns that Lidl’s marketing decision to digitally remove crosses from the packaging of some food items had offended believers and Greeks alike.

In an interview with Premier Christian Radio, His Eminence said: “They [have] hurt the Christians — not only the Greeks because it was a Greek church — but the Christians [from] what I read. I hope that many others will protest against this silly decision.”

Dozens of shoppers took to the company’s Facebook page in protest at Lidl erasing roof-mounted crosses from a picture of an iconic Greek Orthodox church on the island of Santorini.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Lidl Supermarket Chain Desecrated Churches† in Greece

You should study the Orthodox churches in Santorini, Greece, these fun structures with blue roofs. What do you expect from a church — as opposed to the headquarters of George Soros’ NGO, for example? Yes, you should have said “a cross”.†††

These bastards at Lidl have photoshopped the crosses away in order to be “religion neutral” and “respectful to diversity”. Wow. Thankfully, around 90% of consumers in Belgium disagreed with this explanation. When Czechs like me were finally pointed out that we became victims of this scandal, the anger in the atheist Czechia has vastly beaten that in Belgium or any other country, of course. 😉 The dissatisfaction with Lidl’s decision is at about 95% among Czechs.†

Would you also remove the star of David from Pilsen’s synagogue?†

The claim that the removal of Christian symbols follows from their “respect for diversity” is quite some chutzpah — or Orwellian newspeak, indeed. Did the gas chambers represent the German respect for life and other ethnic groups?†

Folks at Lidl: Are you serious that this desecration is how you imagine “religious neutrality”? There are 362 churches on the Santorini caldera. Every single one is white, every single one has a blue dome, and every single one has a cross on top of it. These buildings were built by Christians and have belonged to Christians for many centuries. The churches were built between 11th and 19th century. Spiritually, almost all of Greece “belongs” to Christianity in the same way in which the supermarkets with “Lidl” belong to the company named Lidl. In other words, your move was as “religion neutral” as squatters’ occupying your supermarkets would be “business neutral”. Neutrality doesn’t mean that one can destroy or arbitrarily confiscate other people’s assets and symbols, does it?†

[Great photoshops!]

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

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

  1. Caroline Glick;

    The USA needs to supply nuclear armaments to Japan and South Korea, not remain as the world’s bouncer. Japan and SK spend pennies on defense and have strong economies. They cheat the USA in trade agreements, too. Let their own people defend their own lands and their own Freedom. American white men make up the overwhelming majority of US troops even though they are less than a quarter of the US population. They’re oppressed by Affirmative Action quotas, barred from colleges and from jobs, too, simply because they are white men. Why they should die in East Asia has not been explained.

    • She has read my thoughts. Was thinking the same. I know why White men are sent there to die. For a variety of reasons, not least to thin the White herd. Selling nukes to South Korea and Japan would be a brilliant idea that our hostile elite will never implement, but Trump should. Instantly it would become clear that the two Koreas will have to duke out the problem, with patience. That would render the US troops irrelevant. This is not what our hostile elite wants. They want to encircle China and Russia. That’s why our troops are there.

      • I was a little disappointed in Glick’s article in that she failed to mention the Elephant in the room when it comes to which country has been supplying technical and industrial assistance to North Korea’s nuclear capability – Iran.

        China too has played its part, though it appears not as actively as Iran has of late.

        North Korea and Iran have been very pally with each other since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 while China has tolerated the rogue state of North Korea as a buffer and covert zone against the West.

        And while Obama and his predecessors appeased the Zika Kid’s predecessors, it was Obama who gave Iran the ability in both a technical sense and a financial sense the impetus, to not only progress at a now alarming rate in Iran’s nuclear and missile capability, but to be able to also provide the Zika Kid with what he is now foolishly provoking the United States, South Korea and Japan with.

        If that ICBM miniturized nuclear warhead is real that the Kid recently flaunted to the world – who made that happen? The North Koreans? I don’t think so!

        But, if Trump can take out the Zika Kid with minimal collateral damage, who is there to replace him?

        My guess is if that occurs, then North Korea will probably break up into factional power groups and descend into possible civil war while leaving the rest of the world alone as it awaits the winner and the intentions of any new N.K. government.

        • In the past, Pakistan more than Iran provided North Korea with nuclear technology, in exchange for rocket technology that North Korea had very advanced. Iran helped whatever it could. Pakistan was aided by China, and used Chinese polygon for the detonations. That’s kind of karma for China. It is surrounded by 4 nuclear countries, the most of any other country, and the likelihood is that the number will increase. Chances are, South Korea and Japan will get nukes. Maybe some more countries.

          • Pakistan is close to being a rogue state. Only Western Jizya money has kept it in check – whenever the Paki’s were seen as getting too uppity.

            It appears that China is willing to back the U.S. but only if North Korea strikes the United States first – gee!

            China hoping that the first strike would also include an EMP attack as well as several large cities going up in smoke?

            I say China is due for that Karma.

    • Why should White men die fighting against Russia? For the glory of Wesley Clark? Clark wants to “diversify” every last neighborhood in America.

  2. “Protestors threw tomatoes at German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s car Friday as she arrived in the town of Wolgast for a rally.”

    I approve of the tomato throwing for these reasons.

    1) It fulfills the Alinsky goal of asymmetric tactics against a superior power, which are designed to gain publicity and influence for for a populist cause;

    2) It fulfills the non-Alinsky goals of not actually injuring anyone and not actually preventing the speech and presentation from taking place. In other words, it maintains the ideal of free speech and open debate, although taking the actions necessary to counter an openly oppressive and totalitarian regime.

    • Germany resembles a police state. There is little freedom of speech. No doubt all the tomato throwers will be identified from photographs and they will be receiving a warning, if not worse. When the ‘knock at 4 am’ routine starts up again, as was the norm in Eastern Germany, I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem far away.

      Watch the movie ‘The Lives of Others’. It depicts Angela Merkel’s home environment!

  3. FPÖ leader Strache called the project hypocritical saying: “While Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán built a border fence to protect his people, the Austrian federal government has been toiling away building a wall only for themselves.”

    Strache’s solution: “If they (Islamists and their ilk) are banished to a lonely and well-guarded island, the problem is solved for the most part, instead of waiting until they strike and massacre people,” he said.’ That will go down well with the PC elites!

    So whichever way the problem is viewed, guarded barriers are needed. We are locked in (for our own safety) or they are locked out, (for our safety) which means in effect both are locked up. Even now, the no-go zones are forbidden to us. And forget your plans to have a camping holiday on one of the remote ‘prison’ islands.

    It seems that the Austrian yet multicultural aristocrat, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi’s plan for a PAN-EUROPA, so beloved by Brussels and Merkel, has a few loose bolts. Of course Kalergi represented a superior, internationalist Masonic-Illuminati viewpoint, backed by other (and super-rich) Masonic-Illuminati, who were united by their utter disdain for the mono-cultural, nationalist bourgeoisie, not to mention the bigoted working class and appalling peasantry.

    Their ultimate goal was, and remains, a One World Government run by a pharaonic intellectual aristocracy for the ‘benefit’ of the deliberately ethnically mixed up masses. However it seems that our ‘benefit’ clearly involves being caged! This ‘superior’ model of government can be visited at the local zoo, or perhaps more aptly, North Korea, where people are forced to work as slaves, or historically in the Egypt of the pyramids.

    Where is Moses when we need him?

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