Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/24/2017

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a World War One memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland violates the Constitution and must be taken down. The monument is in the shape of the cross, and the court stated that cross shape unconstitutionally entangles the state with a specific religion.

In other news, according to a recent report, more than 20% of German residents are now foreign-born.

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USA
» Columbia Students: Shouting Down Conservatives is ‘Free Speech’
» Cyber-Protest of Medical Kidnapping Results in Draconian Punishment
» Dem Senate Candidate Headed Soros Project to Transform Feds Into Sjws
» Do Conspiracies Exist?
» Federal Court Rules World War I Memorial Cross Must be Torn Down
» Honor Killing Victim Jessica Mokdad’s Mother Leaves Islam and Apologizes
» Oscar-Winning Director Paul Haggis Suggests Hollywood Pedophilia Cover-Up
» Sessions: ‘We Will Use Whatever Laws We Have to Get MS-13 Off of Our Streets’
» Trump’s Pick to Run DHS Allied With ‘Never Trump’ National Security Establishment
» Uncle Sam Poster Outrages Liberals: ‘Don’t Apologize for Being White’
» USC Prof: ‘Whiteness’ Must be ‘By Any and All Means, Destroyed’
» YouTube Censors Viral Video Criticizing Liberal Who Said White Men Were Bigger Threat Than Islamic Terrorists
 
Europe and the EU
» Austria’s New Leader Tells EU to ‘Take a Back Seat’
» Catalonia Crisis: Spain Threatens More ‘Violence’ To Crush Catalan Independence
» Catalonia Independence — Carles Puigdemot Faces Prison if He Declares Independence From Spain
» Catalonia Crisis to Break Up EU? Bloc ‘Could Fall Apart if Spain Installs Puppet Regime’
» EU Plotting to Seize Control of Member-State Wages
» French Judiciary Creaking Under Weight of Terrorism Cases
» Germany: Manhunt Underway in Hamburg After Man Murders Toddler Daughter
» Germany: Fourfold Rise in Terrorism Related Cases
» If You Want to Understand the Next 10 Years, Study Spain
» Jihadis Return: 425 ISIS Fighters Have Come Back to UK, Research Shows
» Journo Who Called Assange ‘Criminal’ Over Rape Claims Now Facing Pedophilia Allegations
» Netherlands: Geert Wilders’ Appeal Against Inciting Discrimination Starts at High Security Court
» Photos of Police Beating Catalans ‘Fake News’: Spanish Foreign Minister
» UK Has Allowed More Jihadists to Return Than Anywhere Else in Europe
» UK: Bombardier Train Company Boss Jailed for Six Years
» UK: Viewers Outraged as Woman Has Islamophobic Abuse Hurled at Her as She Walks Past Her Local Pub While Wearing a Hijab and Posing as a Muslim in Shocking TV Show
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Police Apologize After Terror Training Video ‘Hurts Palestinian Feelings’
 
Middle East
» Iran Sentences ‘Mossad Spy’ To Death Over Assassinations of Nuclear Scientists
» ISIS Massacres 128 Before Fleeing Town it Held for 20 Days
 
Russia
» Russia Triples Gold Reserves in Preparation for Full-Scale Economic War With the U.S.
 
Australia — Pacific
» Father, 43, Accused of Sending $5,000 to a Senior ISIS Kingpin as Police Claim He Could Have Used His Disability Pension to Fund Terrorists
» I Established a Terror Movement in Australia, And I Quit
» ‘Millionaire Muslim’ Convicted of Ripping Off Taxpayers for 18 Years by Posing as a Struggling Single Mother is Finally Kicked Out of Her Government-Funded Home
» Muslims Hit With ‘Terrorist’ Threats After Announcing Plans to Buy a Church Hall and Convert it Into an Islamic Community Centre
» Muslim Extremist Group ‘Brothers Behind Bars’ Who Claim to Have Raised $2500 a Week to Help Jailed Australian Terrorists Has Their Westpac Bank Accounts Shut Down
» Sydney’s Disturbing ‘Triangle of Terror’ — Where Half of Those Charged With Terrorist Offences Live Within a 35km Radius
» ‘They Will Perish on the Battlefield’: Defence Minister Warns Surviving Australian ISIS Fighters They Will Not be Spared When Terror Group is Finally Wiped Out
» You Talk B****** All the Time’: Pauline Hanson in Fiery and Personal Clash With Sarah Hanson-Young — After Revelations Australia’s Paying $300,000 a Minute in Welfare
 
Latin America
» Holiday Warning — ISIS Training Jihadis in Caribbean Hotspots
 
Immigration
» Donald Tusk Wants EU Army This Year to ‘Defend Borders From Migrants and Hostile States’
» Germany: Migrant Who Trafficked Drugs From Asylum Home Gets Only One Year in Prison
» MSNBC Blocks Out Start of Steinle Trial
» One in Five German Residents Come From Foreign Background
» ‘Soros Plan’: Hungary Slams EU ‘Institutionalisation of Mass Migration’
» Spain Refugee Crisis: Migrant Groups Attempt to Jump Border Fence at Ceuta
» Vatican Cardinal Sarah: Nations Have ‘The Right to Distinguish Refugees From Economic Migrants’
 
Culture Wars
» Belgian Government Defends Website Teaching 7-Year-Olds Oral Sex Techniques
» Professor Claims Math, Algebra and Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’
» Women’s Prison Left to Cope After Getting Male Inmate Who Identifies as Female
 

Columbia Students: Shouting Down Conservatives is ‘Free Speech’

Disrupting demonstrations a ‘model for informed political engagement,’ they say

Hundreds of Columbia University students are rallying in support of the “free speech” of the protesters who shouted down a Tommy Robinson lecture earlier this month.

At least 15 students out of 200 are under investigation by the Columbia University administration, The Columbia Spectator reports. If found guilty of causing a substantial event disruption, the protesters could face expulsion.

In the wake of this threat, hundreds of Columbia and Barnard students are rallying to the defense of the disruptive protesters, and more than 4,500 students, professors, and community members have signed a petition demanding that Columbia not discipline protesters.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Cyber-Protest of Medical Kidnapping Results in Draconian Punishment

Nonviolent protesters are being treated worse than actual criminals

Imprisoned human rights activist Martin Gottesfeld is set to face trial in January 2018 for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after he hacked into the Boston Children’s Hospital’s website and network over the controversial Justina Pelletier story.

The Justina Pelletier child custody case gained nationwide attention in 2014 when she became a ward of the state.

The Boston Children’s Hospital disagreed with Pelletier’s original diagnosis of having a mitochondrial disorder and said her symptoms were psychological.

The physicians believed that her symptoms were the result of psychological damage partly caused by her parents.

The hospital then brought child abuse charges against her parents which were upheld by a juvenile court judge and the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.

To summarize Pelletier’s unique story here is an excerpt from Gottesfeld, who is also a writer and Huffington Post contributor, explaining what caused him to hack the hospital’s website.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Dem Senate Candidate Headed Soros Project to Transform Feds Into Sjws

Jones’ project called on federal prosecutors to reduce or avoid sentences for drug offenders

Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate for December’s Senate special election in Alabama, spearheaded an effort on behalf of a legal group massively funded by billionaire George Soros that sought to fundamentally transform the role of U.S.

Attorneys from one of prosecuting criminals to activists that enact a so-called progressive criminal justice agenda.

Among other things, Jones’ project called on federal prosecutors to reduce or avoid sentences for drug offenders, make decisions about seeking jail time on individual cases based upon federal incarceration levels and use their pulpits to “spread change” and work with outside “community organizations” to root out the “causes of violence.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Do Conspiracies Exist?

In 1953 a special investigative committee was appointed by Congressman Carroll Reece of Tennessee to investigate tax-exempt foundations. An allegation of a conspiracy to subvert American education with counter-American principles through tax exempt foundations was made and a subsequent congressional investigation called for. Mr. Norman Dodd was appointed the Director of Research, and the findings were published in “The Dodd Report to the Reece Committee on Foundations”.

[This report can be obtained with some effort. It is a public report and an alleged public record. But I found some difficulty obtaining it from my limited resources. I finally obtained one that started at page four of the report. I’m sure FOIA applications can be made for it. It is copyrighted 1954 and published by the Long House Inc. of NY. It’s Library of Congress Catalog Card Number is 54-11186.]

When the report set out to define its search, it referred to some studies detailed in The Economics of the Public Interest. A damning summary is found on page six and I will quote it below:

These original studies of the “public interest” disclosed that during the four years, 1933-1936, a change took place which was so drastic as to constitute a “revolution”. They also indicated conclusively that the responsibility for the economic welfare of the American people had been transferred heavily to the Executive Branch of the Federal Government; that a corresponding change in education had taken place from an impetus outside of the local community, and that this “revolution” had occurred without violence and with the full consent of an overwhelming majority of the electorate.

Before I go on, let me break it down. There were allegations and concerns that tax exempt foundations were using their monies to change the educational system in America so to redefine America itself and to subvert it to another agenda not found in the Constitution. The six month research found these allegations to be TRUE and posted them in their 1954 Dodd Report. And then Congress did nothing with it, in a sense, endorsing the continuing subversion of American education and ultimately, America.

So what we have here is a conspiracy. There was a conspiracy to alter America fundamentally and the vehicle decided upon was the educational system. This is not a conspiracy theory, this is a conspiracy. The research and findings conclusively agreed that this conspiracy had occurred and was occurring. Yet what mainstream America projects is that there is no conspiracy to subvert the foundations of America — that this is all conjecture and “conspiracy theory”. This is maddening to those of us who actually do the digging to understand the root issues and find the truth. We’re labeled “conspiracy theorists” and dismissed as irrelevant.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Federal Court Rules World War I Memorial Cross Must be Torn Down

Back in 1925, the American Legion erected a memorial in Bladensburg, Md., to honor the memory of 49 men who perished during World War I.

The 40-foot tall memorial became known as the “Peace Cross.”

In 2014, the American Humanist Association — a group that believes in “being good without a god” — filed a lawsuit alleging the cross-shaped memorial is unconstitutional and demanding it be demolished, altered, or removed.

They alleged the cross carries “an inherently religious message and creates the unmistakable appearance of honoring only Christian servicemen.”

On Wednesday, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed and ruled the historic memorial must be torn down — all because the Bladensburg Memorial is in the shape of a cross.

The Fourth Circuit said the memorial excessively entangles the government in religion because the cross is the “core symbol of Christianity” and “breaches” the wall separating church and state…

           — Hat tip: cxt [Return to headlines]
 

Honor Killing Victim Jessica Mokdad’s Mother Leaves Islam and Apologizes

My AFDI Jessica Mokdad Human Rights conference on April 29, 2012 in Dearborn, Michigan was the first (and only) conference of its kind dedicated to increasing awareness of honor killings and gendercide under sharia. When we first called the conference, the only attention the media paid to it at all was to give a platform to Jessica Mokdad’s family, which was angry that Jessica’s name was being used and claiming that Jessica’s murder was not an Islamic honor killing. Jessica’s father threatened to sue me. But now Jessica’s mother has contacted me to confirm that it was indeed an honor killing and to thank me for standing for her daughter.

She Facebook-messaged me:

“My daughter is Jessica mom dad and she was killed by her step father a muslim from Iraq, in Warren, Michigan. I was muslim at that time, but I felt I was brain washed into it. I’m a Christian again Thank JESUS! I believe you had a meeting here in Dearborn in 2011. I wish I was thinking then the way I do now. I’d like to thank you for all u do! I hate Islam and everything it stands for! I was in in for 16 years! I regret every minute! God bless you and all u do!”

We always knew this to be true, but now the Muslims and leftists who complained about my event are exposed as liars. I named the conference after Jessica because she was the victim of an honor killing. Her family should have been standing with us instead of denying this.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Oscar-Winning Director Paul Haggis Suggests Hollywood Pedophilia Cover-Up

He implies abuse claims made by former child stars could be legitimate

Oscar-winning writer-director Paul Haggis suggested Hollywood may be covering up serious allegations of child sexual abuse amid the continued industry fallout from from the scandal surrounding decades of allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse against disgraced super-producer Harvey Weinstein.

In an interview with The Guardian Sunday, the two-time Oscar-winning writer and director of Crash said that while much of Hollywood’s self-examination in the wake of the Weinstein scandal has been about the entertainment industry’s treatment of women, he would not discount the numerous allegations made by former child stars of sexual abuse, including those previously made by Corey Feldman and the late Corey Haim.

“It is not an innocent place and never has been,” Haggis told the paper of Hollywood. “Most of this behaviour has been aimed at women, but I am sure that former child stars such as Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, who have both made allegations in the past that no one took seriously, are worth considering, too.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sessions: ‘We Will Use Whatever Laws We Have to Get MS-13 Off of Our Streets’

A.G. announces MS-13 as target of interdepartmental task force

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Monday new initiatives to combat MS-13, the transnational drug gang that has been a major target of President Donald Trump’s criminal justice agenda.

Speaking to the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Philadelphia, Sessions announced the designation of MS-13 as a focus of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF).

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump’s Pick to Run DHS Allied With ‘Never Trump’ National Security Establishment

President Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) not only previously worked alongside national security establishment figures who aligned themselves with the failed “Never Trump” movement — she has also been endorsed by members of the defunct group.

Kirstjen Nielsen, a former official under President George W. Bush, was chosen by Trump to replace Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke, who has been influential in moving forward on an initiative to construct a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Allied with Nielsen are members of the failed Never Trump effort, many of whom penned open letters during the 2016 presidential election claiming Trump was “unfit” to serve as Commander in Chief.

For instance, former Bush official Tom Ridge has praised Nielsen, calling her a “homeland security veteran” to the Washington Post and heaping more praise on her in the New York Times, where he called her “a patriot.”

Ridge, though, was one of 95 Republican establishment former national security officials who signed a letter opposing Trump in 2016 for his “America First” agenda.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Uncle Sam Poster Outrages Liberals: ‘Don’t Apologize for Being White’

Boston College students furious as ‘white supremacist’ signs appear on campus

College liberals were extremely triggered when posters with the classic Uncle Sam “I Want You” image and text reading, “I want you to love who you are. Don’t apologize for being white,” were put on kiosks at Boston College during an anti-racism protest.

The flyers were found to be so offensive that they were taken down and prompted a police response where they revealed there is an investigation into the issue, but believe they were put up by a white supremacist group that is not affiliated with the campus.

Local Boston news channel WHDH 7 called the posters a “disturbing discovery” and claimed they promote “white supremacist” messages.

“I am upset. I’m disappointed. I think that’s pretty much what you’ll hear from any student of color,” said Boston College Junior Naya Joseph.

This is simply another example of how American liberals want everyone to be inclusive and be proud of who they are… unless they are white.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

USC Prof: ‘Whiteness’ Must be ‘By Any and All Means, Destroyed’

Why is the University of Southern California allowing this hate-preacher to teach students?

The University of Southern California is employing a self-described “black identity extremist” who says “whiteness” “must be, by any and all means, destroyed.”

Charles H.F. Davis, according to his bio, is an “assistant professor of clinical education at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California and chief strategy officer and director of research at the USC Race and Equity Center.”

A look at his Twitter profile shows it’s filled with anti-white racial hate and glamorizes the murder of police.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

YouTube Censors Viral Video Criticizing Liberal Who Said White Men Were Bigger Threat Than Islamic Terrorists

Google-owned company openly blacklisting criticism of leftists

YouTube has sensationally censored a viral video that criticized a liberal comedian for claiming that white men were a bigger threat than Islamic terrorists.

The video, entitled The Dumbest Liberal Ever, had received over 700,000 views before it was hidden behind an interstitial that reads, “The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences.”

Users have to be signed in to watch the video, while comments, likes, and views have all been removed.

In the video, I completely debunked, using primary sources and hard data, comedian Josie Long’s claim that the “far-right” and white men in general represented a bigger violent threat than Muslim extremists.

The video contains nothing other than perfectly legitimate criticism of a celebrity and public figure’s opinion. It is now included on a censored list that includes neo-nazi content, Islamic State propaganda and hate speech.

This is precisely what we have warning about since the YouTube “adpocalypse”. In August, I made a video warning that YouTube had sent out a message, “don’t have controversial opinions about anything or you will be punished” and that YouTube has made it, “abundantly clear that it doesn’t support free speech.”

YouTube is now censoring content that debunks the arguments of leftists who run defense for Islam. This is a new level of thought policing.

You can watch the original video below via Twitter.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Austria’s New Leader Tells EU to ‘Take a Back Seat’

Sebastian Kurz, who at 31 is set to become the youngest leader in the world, said he wants to make the European Union ‘more subsidiary and more collaborative’.

The young politician, who campaigned for this month’s election with a hard line on immigration, said he wanted the bloc ‘to take more of a backseat on issues where nation states can make better decisions.’

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Catalonia Crisis: Spain Threatens More ‘Violence’ To Crush Catalan Independence

SPAIN has threatened to use “violence” to crush Catalonia’s independence dream if the region attempts to resist direct rule.

Inigo Mendez de Vigo, a Spanish government spokesman and education minister, has stated that authorities will be called upon if the region persists with its quest for sovereignty.

He said: “No government wants any acts of violence but the government has to make sure that the law is obeyed and if there are people on the other side who do not want to obey the law, then, through the Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan police), we will have to restore the law.

“The government is not suspending the autonomy. What we are doing is restoring the autonomy.”

He also told The Times: “Those who run the Mossos d’Esquadra will be replaced by the interior ministry for now.”

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

Catalonia Independence — Carles Puigdemot Faces Prison if He Declares Independence From Spain

SPAIN’S Attorney General has warned Carles Puigdemont that if he declares independence for Catalonia he will be charged with “rebellion” and could face 30 years in prison.

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

Catalonia Crisis to Break Up EU? Bloc ‘Could Fall Apart if Spain Installs Puppet Regime’

THE crisis in Spain could collapse the European Union (EU) should Madrid attempt to impose control of Catalonia, a Catalan official has indicated.

Catalan Minister for Foreign Affairs, Institutional Relations and Transparency, Raul Romeva, speaking on BBC Radio 4’s news and current affairs programme, said: “How can the European Union democracies be credible if they allow the Spanish government to take control of Catalonia?”

Mr Romeva added: “How can the European Union live with that situation? How can EU democracy survive? And how can they be credible if they allow this to happen?

“We cannot simply keep blind and deaf to that. It is an [attack] on democracy. We are defending in Catalonia the principles, the values, that we supposedly are defending in the European Union.”

Referencing the imprisonment of the president of the Omnium Cultural Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sanchez, the head of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), he said: “Today we have in the European Union political prisoners, people that have been defending the peace, people that have been defending dialogue.”

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

EU Plotting to Seize Control of Member-State Wages

EUROPEAN Union MEPs are set to vote on handing more power over wages and social security standards of workers in Europe, according to a new report.

The report, by Italian left-winger Laura Agea, says the laws already exist for the European Union (EU) to take control over something which national governments have previously assumed is solely their competence.

The EU’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs stops short of guaranteeing a minimum wage but so-called “minimum income schemes” would inevitably mean handing more powers to Brussels bureaucrats in being able to determine wages and social security programmes.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

French Judiciary Creaking Under Weight of Terrorism Cases

PARIS (Reuters) — France’s efforts to combat terrorism and prevent further attacks on its soil are generating so much work for investigators and law courts that further staffing will be needed to keep up, intelligence and justice officials say.

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

Germany: Manhunt Underway in Hamburg After Man Murders Toddler Daughter

A HUGE manhunt is underway after a man murdered his toddler daughter by slashing her throat in front of her terrified mother.

The two-year-old was found by police after they were called out to an apartment complex in Hamburg, Germany last night.

Local media say police officers broke down after seeing her lifeless body.

The mother is receiving treatment for shock at a hospital in the city. A second child was in the property but reported to be safe and unharmed.

The depraved dad is on the run.

Officers are searching for him the neighbourhood of Neiwiedenthal in the city with sniffer dogs.

A murder squad formed in the early hours of Tuesday morning has been going door to door seeking information about the fugitive.

According to authorities the family comes from Pakistan.

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

Germany: Fourfold Rise in Terrorism Related Cases

Authorities in Germany are struggling to cope with the threat posed by Islamist terrorism, with police warning that the nation houses hundreds of extremists willing to carry out attacks.

According to the Welt am Sonntag, Germany has seen a quadrupling of the number of terror-related cases in just one year, with prosecutors having opened more than 900 so far in 2017, compared with 250 cases initiated throughout 2016.

Around 705 Islamists who are living in Germany have been identified by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) as posing a terror threat to the nation. While some of these extremists have been locked up, authorities say radicalisation is a major problem in German prisons.

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

If You Want to Understand the Next 10 Years, Study Spain

Some of you may be confused as to why a U.S. citizen living in Colorado has become so completely obsessed with what’s going on in Spain. Bear with me, there’s a method to my madness.

I believe what’s currently happening in Spain represents a crucial microcosm for what we’ll see sweep across the entire planet over the next ten years. Some of you will want to have a discussion about who’s right and who’s wrong in this particular affair, but that’s besides the point. It doesn’t matter which side you favor, what matters is that Madrid/Catalonia is an example of the forces of centralization duking it out with forces of decentralization.

Madrid represents the nation-state as we know it, with its leaders claiming Spain is forever indivisible according to the constitution. Madrid has essentially proclaimed there’s no possible avenue to independence from a centralized Spain even if various regions decide in large number they wish to be independent. This sort of attitude will be seen as unacceptable and primitive by increasingly large numbers of humans in the years ahead. Catalonia should be seen as a canary in the coal mine. The forces of decentralization are rising, but entrenched centralized institutions and the bureaucrats running them will become increasingly terrified, panicked and oppressive.

As I’ve discussed, this isn’t coming out of nowhere. Humanity’s current established centralized institutions and nation-states have become clownishly corrupt, merely existing to protect and enrich the powerful/connected as opposed to benefiting the population at large. As such, legitimacy has been shattered and people have begun to demand a new way. Whether we see this with the rising popularity of Bitcoin, or the UK decision to leave the EU, evidence is everywhere and we’ve already passed the point of no return. This is precisely why EU leaders are rallying around Madrid. They’re scared to death and fear they might be next. They’re probably right.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Jihadis Return: 425 ISIS Fighters Have Come Back to UK, Research Shows

HUNDREDS of British jihadis who fought for Islamic State (ISIS) overseas have already returned to the UK, shocking new research has uncovered.

At least 425 members of the terrorist group are believed to have fled back to Britain from the ruins of its self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

Some had reportedly become disillusioned with ISIS, while others were simply retreating from the region after US-backed forces recaptured the group’s Syrian capital of Raqqa earlier this month.

Only Turkey (900), Tunisia (800) and Saudi Arabia (760) had larger numbers of returning foreign fighters, according to the analysis.

The research by The Soufan Centre estimated 300 fighters have returned to Germany and 271 to France.

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

Journo Who Called Assange ‘Criminal’ Over Rape Claims Now Facing Pedophilia Allegations

Swedish media personality accused of grooming, raping young teens

A journalist with Swedish daily Aftonbladet who reportedly referred to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange as a “criminal” is himself in hot water. He’s accused of rape and sexual assault — including of underage girls.

The allegations against Fredrik Virtanen, who also hosts his own talk show on Swedish TV8, emerged as part of the #MeToo social media campaign. The campaign, which surged in popularity after the sex scandal surrounding Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, encourages women to speak up to share their experiences of sexual harassment.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Netherlands: Geert Wilders’ Appeal Against Inciting Discrimination Starts at High Security Court

Geert Wilders’ appeal against his conviction for inciting discrimination kicks off at the high security court at Schiphol airport on Tuesday with a pre-trial hearing. As yet it is unclear whether Wilders, who boycotted the original hearing in 2016, will attend the court. The MP and PVV leader is appealing against his conviction for two incidents during a local election campaign in The Hague in 2014.

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

Photos of Police Beating Catalans ‘Fake News’: Spanish Foreign Minister

‘If there was any use of force, it was a limited one,’ he says

THE Spanish Foreign Minister described accusations for police violence during the “illegal” Catalonia independence referendum as “alternative facts and fakes news”.

Alfonso Dastis, the Spanish Foreign Minister claimed that a number of the images that circulated online, which showed police violence, during the Catalonia independence referendum, as “fake”.

Hundreds of people were injured during the violence as Spanish police were ordered to stop the Catalan people from voting in the election at the start of the month.

[Comment: What’s next? Will the Spanish government announce a war against Oceania. ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK Has Allowed More Jihadists to Return Than Anywhere Else in Europe

Seasoned fighters roaming streets as jihadist attacks increase

The pathetic weakness of the British position on returning jihadists has been laid out by information in a new report that shows the UK has allowed more foreign fighters back from Syria and Iraq than any other country in Europe, and most other countries in the world.

‘Beyond the Caliphate: Foreign Fighters and the Threat of Returnees’ is authored by Richard Barrett and highlights the dangers posed by jihadi fanatics across the globe.

The report makes clear that: “While returning Foreign Fighters have not as yet added significantly to the threat of terrorism around the world, the number of attacks inspired or directed by the Islamic State continues to rise. All returnees, whatever their reason for going home, will continue to pose some degree of risk.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Bombardier Train Company Boss Jailed for Six Years

A train company boss who swindled £690,000 from his own firm to pay for skiing trips to the US and Harley Davidson motorbikes has been jailed.

Andrew Saunders, 52, syphoned the cash from Bombardier through fake companies and used joint bank accounts with his ex-wife to pay bogus invoices in a prolonged a sophisticated scam.

Today Mr Saunders was jailed for six years after being convicted of fraud at Hove Trial Centre.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Viewers Outraged as Woman Has Islamophobic Abuse Hurled at Her as She Walks Past Her Local Pub While Wearing a Hijab and Posing as a Muslim in Shocking TV Show

Viewers were left outraged last night after a British woman posing as a Muslim was subjected to vile abuse as she walked past her local pub.

Katie Freeman was targeted by drinkers while disguised in a hijab as she took part in an explosive new documentary on Channel 4 called My Week as a Muslim.

The 42-year-old was taunted in her hometown of Manchester by punters, including one who asked if she planned to ‘blow them up’, in the same week that a terror attack rocked the city.

However Katie, a former ‘ban the burka’ campaigner, also came in for criticism for claiming early on in the programme that Muslims did not ‘dress British’.

As part of the documentary, Katie spent seven days living with with Saima Alvi, 49, and her family.

[Comment: Another PC TV show by channel 4.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Police Apologize After Terror Training Video ‘Hurts Palestinian Feelings’

An anti-terror training exercise drew the ire of Palestine’s most senior diplomat in Australia after vision was released showing mock terrorists in Palestinian-style head scarves pretending to stab commuters at a major railway station.

New South Wales Police apologised for their effort on Monday, according to ABC News. The backdown came in response to Izzat Abdulhadi, the head of the general delegation of Palestine to Australia, claiming many people had been left “really upset” by the video designed to train frontline police to respond to a so-called “active armed offender” incident.

Speaking on SBS Arabic24, NSW police’s multicultural media liaison officer Tarek Al-Issawi apologized for any offence caused.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Iran Sentences ‘Mossad Spy’ To Death Over Assassinations of Nuclear Scientists

An alleged spy for Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has been sentenced to death in Iran after he was found guilty of being involved in a string of assassinations of Iran’s nuclear scientists, according to prosecutors in Tehran.

“One of the crimes of the convict has been disclosing the address and some details of 30 important figures involved in (the country’s) research, military and nuclear projects, including (Iranian nuclear scientists) martyrs, Shahriari and Ali— Mohammadi, to Mossad intelligence officers which led to their assassination and martyrdom,” Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said, as cited by a judiciary news website Tuesday under the caption “An execution of Mossad agent.”

Over the last decade, at least four senior nuclear researchers had been killed in Iran, including Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, Majid Shahriari, Dariush Rezaei Nejad and Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.

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ISIS Massacres 128 Before Fleeing Town it Held for 20 Days

Dozens of the victims were shot or knifed to death before being dumped in a pit in Qaryatayn, in Syria’s central Homs province.

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Russia Triples Gold Reserves in Preparation for Full-Scale Economic War With the U.S.

The Central Bank of Russia has more than doubled the pace of its gold purchases, and tripled its gold reserves-from around 600 tonnes to 1,800 tonnes-bringing its international gold reserves to the highest level since Putin became president 17 years ago, according to the World Gold Council.

The impetus for the massive increase in Russian gold reserves is their desire to break away from the hegemony of the U.S. petrodollar and dollar-based payment systems. Currently, over 60 percent of global reserves and 80 percent of global payments are denominated dollars, according to James Rickards, author of Currency Wars.

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Father, 43, Accused of Sending $5,000 to a Senior ISIS Kingpin as Police Claim He Could Have Used His Disability Pension to Fund Terrorists

A Melbourne man believed to be providing financial support to a senior Islamic State terrorist was arrested Tuesday morning.

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I Established a Terror Movement in Australia, And I Quit

SHAYNE Hunter established the far-left and violent Antifa movement in Australia. After four years the Brisbane man quit. Here’s why.

ANTIFA is a growing extreme group who believe violence is legitimate.

I got radicalised in Sydney. I was originally concerned about Western intervention in Syria. Radical left wing people dominated rallies and I started to associate with them more. My so-called ‘normal’ friends drifted away.

We would hang out at an anarchist library in Sydney. Here a bunch of people on the dole gather enough money to rent out the space and run a bookshop. It’s like extremist networking.

I came to believe that war was a symptom of bigger systems at play in society and they were the real enemy, like white supremacy and patriarchy. Antifa believe these systems need to be smashed through a process of ‘de-platforming’ to save the world. People who don’t necessarily agree on everything are united to attack their common enemy — anyone in the right wing of politics.

This micro-society became my life for four years.

They believe historically their roots were fighting Nazi oppression. They run a website which is updated every couple of weeks with a hit list of right wing names. They believe if these people are allowed to speak, society will suffer. So, they must be pushed back.

There is no mission statement, rather, it’s a dangerous rhetoric. There are a lot of very damaged people who are drawn to it.

Lots of activists came from Sydney University. They invited me along to some of their lectures. When I was organising the ‘Reclaim Australia’ rally and pushing Antifa into Brisbane, we delegated roles out across the gathering. Someone would print pamphlets that got our propaganda out there. Someone else would look after social media and online, we all gathered people to come.

I read that Antifa in the US is training people to shoot and punch. It’s the same here. Antifa in Sydney are doing martial arts to, as they would put it, ‘fight the Nazis’. It’s a paramilitary mindset.

It’s more dangerous than ISIS.

I was ideologically possessed for four years. I would speak louder on public transport so people could hear me speak, hoping they would hear my message.

The radical left of Antifa presents itself as being about compassion and empathy; it’s a Trojan horse. All conversations are about entitlement and rights, not responsibility. When these people talk about freedom, they really mean freedom from responsibility.

Often the people who are drawn to this cult don’t have a strong identity outside it. I’m not a psychologist but, like ISIS, it gives people a sense of belonging to something and having purpose.

A ‘social justice warrior’ cringe video appeared on my social media feed. I didn’t watch it at first. A couple of weeks later it popped up again so I pressed play. It was like seeing the entire cult through an outside lens. It woke me up. I realised that everything I had started to believe was wrong.

You don’t know humiliation until you’ve left a cult; I wasted four years of my life…

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‘Millionaire Muslim’ Convicted of Ripping Off Taxpayers for 18 Years by Posing as a Struggling Single Mother is Finally Kicked Out of Her Government-Funded Home

Rebecca Khodragha lived in the apartment in south-west Sydney for 18 years, failing to tell authorities her husband owned a lucrative business which reportedly raked in $1million a year.

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Muslims Hit With ‘Terrorist’ Threats After Announcing Plans to Buy a Church Hall and Convert it Into an Islamic Community Centre

A group of Muslims in Gympie, Queensland have received terrorist-style threats after announcing plans to purchase a church hall to use it as a religious community centre.

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Muslim Extremist Group ‘Brothers Behind Bars’ Who Claim to Have Raised $2500 a Week to Help Jailed Australian Terrorists Has Their Westpac Bank Accounts Shut Down

Brothers Behind Bars claims to raise $2,500 every week for Australian extremists and their families, including ISIS-linked Sulayman Khalid. Westpac bank as shut the group’s accounts.

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Sydney’s Disturbing ‘Triangle of Terror’ — Where Half of Those Charged With Terrorist Offences Live Within a 35km Radius

A disturbing pattern has emerged showing those charged with terror offences lived in close proximity to one another in Sydney’s southwest.

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‘They Will Perish on the Battlefield’: Defence Minister Warns Surviving Australian ISIS Fighters They Will Not be Spared When Terror Group is Finally Wiped Out

Australians fighting with ISIS in the Middle East have been issued a stern warning from Defence Minister Marise Payne that they will ‘perish on the battlefield’ if they make a final stand.

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You Talk B****** All the Time’: Pauline Hanson in Fiery and Personal Clash With Sarah Hanson-Young — After Revelations Australia’s Paying $300,000 a Minute in Welfare

Senators Pauline Hanson and Sarah Hanson-Young have clashed in a fiery and personal disagreement over the state of Australia’s rocketing welfare costs.

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Holiday Warning — ISIS Training Jihadis in Caribbean Hotspots

THE barbaric Islamic State (ISIS) will train jihadis in a Caribbean tourist hotspots when fighters are forced to return home from Syria and Iraq where the terror cult has been smashed.

Fears are growing Western holidaymakers will be targeted in terror attacks by depraved terrorists who have travelled back to Trinidad and Tobago from the beaten caliphate.

So much so, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is currently taking measures to prevent fighters from returning to the islands, located southeastern from the United States, into a platform from which terrorist attacks can be organised.

When quizzed over the risk of jihadis returning, Minister of National Security of Trinidad and Tobago at the CARICOM replied: “It is not a matter of yes but when.”

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Donald Tusk Wants EU Army This Year to ‘Defend Borders From Migrants and Hostile States’

DONALD Tusk is pushing to set up an EU army by the end of the year to protect the bloc’s borders and fight back against “destabilisation around Europe”.

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Germany: Migrant Who Trafficked Drugs From Asylum Home Gets Only One Year in Prison

A 31-year-old asylum seeker who ran a drug trafficking operation out of an asylum home in the German town of Gummersbach has been sentenced to only one year and two months in prison despite the scale of his operation.

The court found the 31-year-old guilty this week of selling large amounts of marijuana and amphetamine, also known as speed, from the asylum home where he lived between December 2015 and August 2016. The man did not act alone and two of his accomplices already have been convicted of trafficking and illicit possession of narcotics, Kölnische Rundschau reports.

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MSNBC Blocks Out Start of Steinle Trial

The trial for the accused murderer of Kate Steinle began Monday, but MSNBC chose not to inform its viewers of the development in a case that sparked a national immigration debate.

Steinle was murdered in 2015 while walking with her father, James Steinle, in San Francisco. Steinle’s father and another witness say she was shot by Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, a homeless illegal immigrant, but Zarate claims the shooting was accidental.

CNN and Fox News both updated viewers on the start of the trial several times, but MSNBC had not mentioned it by late Tuesday afternoon.

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One in Five German Residents Come From Foreign Background

A newly released report has shown the true extent of the impact of mass migration on Germany as 18.6 million residents, over one-in-five of the total population, now come from foreign backgrounds.

The statistics come from the German Federal Statistical Office’s new yearbook for 2017 which finally shows the extent of demographic change that many Germans have assumed for years. The figures also show a huge divergence between the west of the country and the east with some areas in the west having up to 30 per cent foreign background residents, Die Welt reports.

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‘Soros Plan’: Hungary Slams EU ‘Institutionalisation of Mass Migration’

Prime minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán blasted the European Parliament for adopting changes to the bloc’s asylum system which the Hungarian government sees as the implementation of the ‘Soros Plan’ to flood the continent with an unlimited number of third-world migrants.

On Friday, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs (LIBE) adopted a report on the amendment of the Dublin Agreement, which regulates the EU’s Common Asylum System, which would see all member states forced to accept asylum seekers against the will of their people and for funds to be withheld from nations that refuse to comply.

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Spain Refugee Crisis: Migrant Groups Attempt to Jump Border Fence at Ceuta

A GROUP of African migrants have stormed the border of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta as the nation’s escalating refugee crisis threatens to boil over.

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Vatican Cardinal Sarah: Nations Have ‘The Right to Distinguish Refugees From Economic Migrants’

Vatican Cardinal Robert Sarah has praised Poland for standing up to the European Union’s “immigration logic” and fighting to preserve its own cultural identity but not allowing the nation to be overrun with migrants.

Speaking at the Europa Christi conference in Warsaw on Sunday, the African cardinal—considered by many as papabile, a contender for the papacy—said that while every migrant is a human being who must be respected, that doesn’t mean that a country should compromise the common good through indiscriminate immigration.

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Belgian Government Defends Website Teaching 7-Year-Olds Oral Sex Techniques

Government official accuses concerned parents of exhibiting “a new kind of prudishness” for protesting site

A sex education website in Belgium is stirring controversy for recommending 7-year-olds learn oral sex techniques.

The website, “Everything about sex,” features, among other things, graphic illustrations of sexual acts and sex toys as well as details surrounding birth control and STDs.

Although the website was designed for 15-year-olds, the content has now been suggested for school children as young as seven.

Students learned of the website URL after seeing it listed in a government supported “Youth Guide” that was given to primary schools in the Flemish region.

Frederic Leire, a parent who spoke with the Daily Mail, stated that both his seven-year-old and nine-year-old received the guide while at school…

The scandal is just the latest in a long line of similar instances in which younger and younger children are subjected to sexual content.

In 2015 school leaders at the “Gaia Democratic School” in Minnesota defended a field trip that took 11-year-olds to a local sex shop.

A Chicago school also outraged parents in 2013 after mandatory sex education courses were introduced to five-year-olds.

[Comment: Elites are infested with pedophiles. They are trying to “normalize” their evil into society.]

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Professor Claims Math, Algebra and Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’

“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness.”

A University of Illinois math professor believes that algebra and geometry perpetuate “white privilege” because Greek terms give Caucasians unearned credit for the subject.

But that isn’t the professor’s only complaint. She also believes that evaluations for math proficiency perpetuates discrimination against minority students, if they do worse than their white counterparts.

Rochelle Gutierrez argues in a newly published math education book for teachers that they must be aware of the identity politics surrounding the subject of mathematics.

“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness,” she argues with complete sincerity, according to Campus Reform. “Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White.”

[Comment: Moron and useful idiot.]

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Women’s Prison Left to Cope After Getting Male Inmate Who Identifies as Female

The Grand Valley federal prison for women received its first male inmate last week, a 54-year-old man who is still a fully functional male who hasn’t yet undergone re-assignment surgery.

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8 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/24/2017

  1. 20% of the Germans foreign born? No problem, as far as Dutch, Austrians, Italians or Americans are concerned. Those unfortunately constitute only a minority among the foreign born. The most prolific and unpleasant group is more and more germany- born, but not german and will hardly ever be, i.m.h.o.

  2. Gee, the monument was not unconstitutional when it was erected. Why should it be unconstitutional now, unless of course the constitution is a living that is subject to change. If that is the case then all laws are subject to change. If all laws are subject to change, then what or whom are the laws subject to? Hmmmm.

    • Makes one’s blood boil doesn’t it! I hope there is enough interest among those this may affect to take up an appeal against those activist judges decision.

    • I think taking down that monument is treasonous. It is a slap in the face to those who have given their lives for their country. No one is excluded in the symbolism of the cross — in fact, quite the reverse. As a side note, there certainly are some nasty, misguided people posting on that story at Fox. No wonder the world is in such a mess with such haters seeking to destroy our heritage and cherished symbols.

  3. My beloved and I have just returned from holiday, so I’ve only been following “Gates” intermittently. Doing a quick skim today, I was glad I stopped to hear John Kelly’s White House briefing, which was dignified and moving.

    We were in Al-Andalus (sorry, Andalusia): Seville, Granada and Cordoba (I especially recommend the last, not least for the food). Finest building (imho) was not the Alhambra, but undoubtedly the cathedral in Seville, largest Gothic cathedral in the world, they say; best appeciated from the western end, looking east, where one can appreciate the way the eye is led upwards over successive layers of intricate structures to the figure of Christ crucified in the distance. One does not have to be a Catholic, or any kind of believer, to be moved by this expression of faith.

    The famous Mosque-Cathedral in Cordoba (as it is commonly called) is impressive, but quite obviously one thing grafted inside another. Apparently King Carlos I, who approved the remodelling in the mid-C16th, regretted the result: “You have destroyed something that was unique in the world”. The usual myth of Al-Andalus is widely pedalled in the city (see https://gatesofvienna.net/2016/08/the-fairy-tale-of-al-andalus/#comments).

    Having previously had the good fortune to visit Barcelona and Madrid, I think the Spanish (not so much the Catalans) need to work on their customer service, especially the men.

    • What a wonderful itinerary! And you had good company…a great time of year to travel. All the school-aged children have returned home.

      • Thanks, but I can’t believe I misspelled “peddled”! English Language used to be my best subject.

  4. Congress can at its will, define the scope of the courts purview and powers. That would take courage, integrity and patriotism, not to mention selflessness.

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