Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/3/2017

Catalan workers and citizens took the streets of Barcelona, bringing the city to a standstill, in a general strike protesting the repressive treatment of voters in last Sunday’s referendum. Meanwhile, Nigel Farage savaged the European Union for its indifference to police violence at the polls in Catalonia.

In other news, the man who ran down a policeman and stabbed him last weekend in Edmonton will be charged with criminal offenses, but not with terrorism. After fleeing the scene of the stabbing, Abdulahi Hasan Sharif ran down several pedestrians with a rented U-Haul truck.

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Financial Crisis
» Italy: Inflation Costs 333 Euros a Year Per Household — Consumers
 
USA
» “It’s Gotta be a Set-Up”: Neighbor of Las Vegas Shooter Claims He Didn’t Do it
» ‘Antifa’ Preps Mass Uprising to Remove ‘Fascist’trump
» CBS Fires Top Lawyer, Mother of 3, After Her Evil Facebook Post About #lasvegas Victims Goes Viral
» College Conservatives Stalked by Antifa on Campus: You ‘Will Not Stop US’ [Video]
» Colorado Mom Pays the Price for ‘Shushing’ Teens During Movie: ‘They Were Crawling Over Seats and Yelling’ [Video]
» Florida: Largest Food Stamp Fraud Bust in History, $20m,
» Hammond Mayor: Attorney Was Target of East Chicago Pipe Bomb Explosion
» ‘Largest’ $20 Million Food Stamp Bust Raises Red Flags Over Names Involved [Video]
» Leftists Celebrate “White Trump Supporters” Being Killed in Las Vegas Massacre
» Police Officer Was on the 32nd Floor 16 Minutes After the Shooter Started Shooting and Was Told to Wait for Swat. They Didn’t Clear the Room Until 60 Minutes Later
» State Department Sends Home Cuban Diplomats in D.C. Because of Sonic Attacks in Havana
» USC Professor Detained After ‘Breakdown’ Led to Active Shooter Scare on Campus
» Was Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Craig Paddock an Anti-Trump Activist With Ties to Antifa?
» Was the Las Vegas Shooting a Preview of the Violent Chaos That Antifa Plans to Unleash Starting on November 4th?
» Who is Hispanic Woman That Warned Las Vegas Concertgoers Only 45 Minutes Before Gunman Opened Fire?
 
Europe and the EU
» ‘Bad as ETA Heyday’ Spanish Police Plead for Reinforcements as Catalan Protests Continue
» Catalan Referendum: Region’s Independence ‘In Matter of Days’
» Electric Cars ‘Double-Edged Sword’ — Marchionne
» EU ‘Tragic Error’ On Catalonia — Maroni
» Fake Police Officer Busted by Real Cops in Sweden
» Farage Slams ‘Antidemocratic’ EU Silence Over Brutalized Catalan Voters
» France Backs Tough Anti-Terrorism Bill After Wave of Attacks
» French Authorities Suspect 4 of Helping Killer in Marseille
» Marseilles Killer Lived in Italy, Rome Probe Into Contacts
» Norwegian Army Chief: Europe Must Destroy Islam in Order to Survive
» Number of Returning ISIS Fighters Drops in Sweden
» Spain v Catalonia Update Live: Milions Take to Streets as Referendum Crisis Looms
» UK: Passengers Flee in Panic as Commuter Reads Bible Aloud on London Train
 
Balkans
» Serbia: Kern: Let’s Accelerate Belgrade’s EU Integration
 
Far East
» China’s Secret Military Plan: Invade Taiwan by 2020
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘Harassment Escalated Into Brazen Anti-Semitism’: TV Reporter Caroline Marcus Claims ‘Proud Pedo’ ACA Reporter Ben McCormack Taunted Her for Being Jewish
» Hysterical’ Woman, 26, Filmed ‘Sitting on the Roof of a Taxi While Kicking the Windshield in With Her Bare Feet — After Crashing Her Own Car Into a Nearby Fence’
 
Immigration
» Canada: Somali Refugee Not Charged With Terrorism
» Psychiatrist Warns of ‘Time Bomb’ In Germany: ‘Today’s Migrants Are Not Integrable’
 
General
» Yahoo Says Massive Breach Actually Affected 3 Billion
 

Italy: Inflation Costs 333 Euros a Year Per Household — Consumers

Prices rising while incomes remain stagnant, Federconsumatori

(ANSA) — Rome, September 29 — The level of inflation registered by Italian statistics bureau ISTAT in September will cost an estimated 333 euros per household a year, consumers’ group Federconsumatori said on Friday.

“The fact that continues to cause great concern is that the increase in prices is in strong contrast with household revenues”, said the group’s president, Emilio Viafora, who also cited “persisting high levels of unemployment”.

In its preliminary estimate on Friday, ISTAT said that inflation dropped to 1.1% in September from 1.2% in August.

It also said the prices of the most frequently bought goods in Italy’s inflation trolley rose an annual 1.2% in September compared to 0.6% in August, largely due to the prices of fresh vegetables.

Italy’s unemployment rate dropped to 10.9% in the second quarter of this year, 0.4 of a percentage point lower than the previous three months and 0.6 down in the same period in 2016, ISTAT said earlier this month.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

“It’s Gotta be a Set-Up”: Neighbor of Las Vegas Shooter Claims He Didn’t Do it

A caller to the Michael Savage radio show who says he was neighbors with Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock asserts that Paddock could not have carried out the massacre and that it was actually a “set-up”.

The man, a former Marine who called himself Rick, says he was Paddock’s neighbor between December 2015 and June 2016 in Mesquite, Nevada.

“I can tell you 100% this is not that kind of guy,” said Rick, adding that he would see Paddock every other day and that the two would go to a local bar and play slot machines.

“He never even told me that he owned a gun,” continued the shooter’s neighbor, adding that Paddock did not express any religious or political opinions during their conversations.

“I’m not a big conspiracy theory guy, but it don’t sit right,” said Rick, before making the extraordinary claim that the whole shooting was a “set up” and that Paddock’s body may have been left in the hotel room while other assailants carried out the shooting.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Antifa’ Preps Mass Uprising to Remove ‘Fascist’trump

The far-left group known as “antifa” has dramatically increased its presence in the American political scene since the inauguration of Donald Trump.

It’s violent tactics have been labeled “terrorism” by experts. But is the group now attempting to make the jump to revolution?

On Nov. 4, the group Refuse Fascism is calling for gatherings around America to demand “the Trump/Pence regime must go.”

The group claims the Trump administration is “fascist” and must be resisted, channeling the rhetoric of the antifa, or “anti-fascists,” which have been active across the country.

Yet the group has a larger agenda than simply resisting “fascism.”

Refuse Fascism is a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party, a fiercely anti-American leftist group noted for its overt call to abolish the United States. WND reported in July the group protested the United States and burned American flags outside the Republican National Convention.

The party has even drafted a “Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America” as a template for the post-American order.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CBS Fires Top Lawyer, Mother of 3, After Her Evil Facebook Post About #lasvegas Victims Goes Viral

CBS has parted ways with one of the company’s top lawyers after she said she is “not even sympathetic” to victims of the Las Vegas shooting because “country music fans often are Republican,” when discussing the tragic mass shooting that occurred in Las Vegas late Sunday night.

“This individual, who was with us for approximately one year, violated the standards of our company and is no longer an employee of CBS. Her views as expressed on social media are deeply unacceptable to all of us at CBS. Our hearts go out to the victims in Las Vegas and their families,” a CBS spokeswoman told Fox News.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

College Conservatives Stalked by Antifa on Campus: You ‘Will Not Stop US’ [Video]

It’s shocking that stalking conservatives to intimidate or harm them is actually happening in 2017. Several instances of stalking and threatening behavior have been reported by conservatives on campus at UC Berkeley. The latest reported by Campus Reform is a series of tweets telling where to stalk a group of campus Republicans having dinner.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Colorado Mom Pays the Price for ‘Shushing’ Teens During Movie: ‘They Were Crawling Over Seats and Yelling’ [Video]

Heather Piper was at the Century 16 Belmar theater, in Lakewood, Colorado, with friends on Tuesday when she says their movie experience was ruined by a group of teens was allegedly ‘acting out of control.’ (SEE VIDEO BELOW)

“They were crawling over seats and yelling,” Piper said. “I asked them to be quiet several times and they wouldn’t and I finally yelled at them to ‘shush.’“

Despite her attempts to quiet the three teenagers, Piper said the group continued to act inappropriately. That’s when another movie-goer got a security guard to come into the theater and the teens behaved. Yet, when Piper left the theater with her friends, one of the raucous teens confronted her.

According to a police description, a “young heavy-set” black woman punched Piper and then kept punching her after Piper asked why she was attacking her.

Piper said she didn’t fight back against her attacker because she is a foster parent and didn’t want to jeopardize her license. Eventually the teen ran off and Piper was rushed to St. Anthony’s hospital in an ambulance. She has a fractured nose, several bruises and scratches.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Florida: Largest Food Stamp Fraud Bust in History, $20m,

South Florida reached another fraud milestone for what the Justice Department called “the largest combined financial fraud loss for a food stamp trafficking takedown in history.”

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Hammond Mayor: Attorney Was Target of East Chicago Pipe Bomb Explosion

Hammond’s mayor said Tuesday that an attorney contracted to do work with the city was the potential target of last month’s pipe bomb that exploded in an East Chicago post office and that another employee has received a threat.

A city employee last week received a bulky package that contained threats of bodily harm, Mayor Thomas McDermott, Jr. said. That delivery came just three weeks after a package containing a pipe bomb injured a postal employee last month.

“It was the same person,” McDermott said.

The FBI has not released the intended target of the pipe bomb and did not immediately return a call seeking comment Tuesday evening…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

‘Largest’ $20 Million Food Stamp Bust Raises Red Flags Over Names Involved [Video]

Florida has had its share of food stamp busts but South Florida reached a fraud milestone for what the Justice Department called “the largest combined financial fraud loss for a food stamp trafficking takedown in history.”

Red Flags Raised Over Names Involved:

That dubious new record, federal prosecutors claim, is $20 million and resulted in a dozen charged with doing the government dirty via food stamp fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

The 12 charged over four cases are Hasan Saleh, 59, Mohammed Alobaisi, 37, Reynold Francois, 38, Ihab Hassouna, 44, Mohammad Alteen, 33, Maria Jerdana, 36, Joe Ann Baker, 56, Yousef “Joe” Homedan Zahran, 60, Omar Hajje, 43, Jalal Hajyousef, 42, Andy Javier Herrera, 24, and father Javier Herrera, 49.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Leftists Celebrate “White Trump Supporters” Being Killed in Las Vegas Massacre

A leftist teacher celebrated the horrific massacre in Las Vegas because many of the victims are likely to have been “white Trump supporters”.

An anti-Trump activist with the Twitter name ‘Ann #TheResistance’ who is also a teacher reacted to the deadliest mass shooting in American history by tweeting, “Lots of white Trump supporters in Las Vegas at route 21 watching Jason aldean. Pray only Trumptards died! #prayforvegas.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Police Officer Was on the 32nd Floor 16 Minutes After the Shooter Started Shooting and Was Told to Wait for Swat. They Didn’t Clear the Room Until 60 Minutes Later

As the shooting began, multiple reports of gunfire at neighboring casinos flooded police dispatchers as officers responded to the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Within minutes, scores of police flooded the area, many distraught and nearly in tears as they asked for medical help and described victims’ gunshot wounds to the chest, legs, face and head.

It was more than an hour later before officers breached the suspect’s room at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino and found he’d committed suicide. SWAT officers used a device to enter room 135 on the 32nd floor of the hotel, where shooter Stephen Paddock was holed up with a cache of at least 19 weapons. He had a perfect view of the concert and the thousands in attendance when he opened fire. He then took his own life. Here’s how the shooting unfolded and how officers responded taken from radio traffic:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

State Department Sends Home Cuban Diplomats in D.C. Because of Sonic Attacks in Havana

The State Department released a press statement on October 3 that said the department informed the government of Cuba that it was ordering the departure of 15 officials from the Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C.

This was the latest step in our government’s response to the unexplained, mysterious symptoms exhibited by U.S. diplomats in Havana, which U.S. officials believe were caused by “sonic attacks.”

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

USC Professor Detained After ‘Breakdown’ Led to Active Shooter Scare on Campus

Reports of a shooting at USC Monday afternoon were the result of confusion and alarm after a university professor suffered some sort of “episode” on campus, Los Angeles police said.

According to Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Mike Lopez, a female faculty member had a “breakdown” in Fertitta Hall and started yelling about an active shooter, which “caused everybody to panic.”

Chief John Thomas of USC’s Department of Public Safety said it was reported that during class, a faculty member “falsely told her students there was an active shooter in the building.”

About 12:15 p.m., officers with the Los Angeles Police Department and USC campus police responded to 610 Childs Way on the University Park Campus and searched the area.

Within the hour, LAPD officials confirmed no shooting took place on the campus.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Was Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Craig Paddock an Anti-Trump Activist With Ties to Antifa?

The mainstream media is trying to tell us that they have no idea why Stephen Craig Paddock fired “thousands of rounds of ammunition” into a crowd at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday. According to the latest reports, 58 people have died and more than 500 were injured in the attack, and somehow we are supposed to believe that this guy had no motive for doing this whatsoever. I am not buying that, and I am sure you are not buying that either. Could it be possible that the mainstream media is covering up the truth because it does not fit their narrative?

As you will see below, there appears to be evidence that Stephen Craig Paddock was at an anti-Trump rally in Reno, Nevada in August. And it is also being reported that Antifa literature was discovered in his hotel room by authorities. In part 2 of this report, I will be discussing the very disturbing things that Antifa has planned for the month of November. Could it be possible that Stephen Craig Paddock has just given us a preview of coming attractions?…

Meanwhile, Infowars is reporting that “a source linked to the team” that stormed Paddock’s hotel room says that Antifa literature was found in his possession…

The Las Vegas shooter didn’t commit suicide as the mainstream media is reporting, but was killed by a FBI hostage rescue team who also found Antifa literature in his hotel room, according to a source linked to the team.

The FBI team took the suspect out after he opened fired on them, according to the source, and afterwards the team found photos taken in the Middle East of a woman linked to the suspect, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock.

If true, this would change everything.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Was the Las Vegas Shooting a Preview of the Violent Chaos That Antifa Plans to Unleash Starting on November 4th?

On November 4th, Antifa is pledging to “gather in the streets and public squares of cities and towns across this country”, and they are promising not to end their protests until “the Trump/Pence Regime” is “removed from power”. But of course these won’t be entirely peaceful protests. In fact, Antifa activists are very open about the fact that “violence is necessary” in order to achieve their goals. This open embrace of violence has gotten the attention of federal law enforcement authorities, and the DHS and the FBI have both warned that Antifa is engaging in “domestic terrorist violence”. Starting with the protests around the nation on November 4th, Antifa is pledging to do whatever is necessary to end the presidency of Donald Trump. How far is Antifa ultimately willing to go in order to achieve that goal? In part 1 of this series, I discussed the horrific events that transpired on Sunday in Las Vegas. It appears that the shooter, Stephen Craig Paddock, may have been involved in anti-Trump protests and at least one outlet is reporting that Antifa literature was discovered in his hotel room.

If Paddock was inspired by Antifa, it would make sense that he would specifically choose to target a country music festival, because there would certainly be a very high percentage of Trump supporters in attendance…

I don’t know if we have ever had a time in modern American history when the left has embraced violence so openly. According to Paul Joseph Watson, Antifa’s plans are largely based on a book that was authored by an American communist activist entitled “The Coming Civil War”…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Who is Hispanic Woman That Warned Las Vegas Concertgoers Only 45 Minutes Before Gunman Opened Fire?

‘They’re all around…You’re all going o f***ing die today’

Why was a woman who warned concertgoers they would all “F***ing die today” escorted out of the venue by security? Where is she now? Who is she and how did she know about the shooting that was about to happen? Why is the media not talking about her?

A woman in the crowd screamed ‘They’re all around…You’re all going to f***ing die today’ just 45 minutes before a gunman opened fire at a Las Vegas music concert killing at least two people and injuring dozens more, DailyMail.com has learned.

The woman, described as Hispanic and in her 50s, made the terrifying outburst before her and a male companion were escorted out of the venue by security.

[Comment: “They’re all around you”… Sounds like many shooters. Possibly an evil globalist operation to use this as a pretext to increase calls for elimination of the 2nd amendment. Start getting suspicious of mass shootings… the 2nd amendment is the only thing standing in the way of a planned economic collapse and tyranny… naturally globalists will ensure antifa groups will retain ther weapons…]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Bad as ETA Heyday’ Spanish Police Plead for Reinforcements as Catalan Protests Continue

At least 893 people and 33 officers were injured on Sunday after riot police stormed the polling stations to try to stop people from voting in the controversial referendum.

In the vote on Sunday, 90 per cent of the 2.3 million ballots cast were in favour of independence for Catalonia, which would split Spain in two.

Today the region in the North of Spain remains at a standstill as thousands of protesters continue to take to the streets during a mass strike to protest the Spanish Government’s violent crackdown.

But police have savaged the Government, saying the Catalan harassment is now as “bad as ETA heyday”, in reference to the Basque terror group.

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

Catalan Referendum: Region’s Independence ‘In Matter of Days’

Catalonia will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region has told the BBC.

In his first interview since Sunday’s referendum, Carles Puigdemont said his government would “act at the end of this week or the beginning of next”.

Meanwhile, Spain’s King Felipe VI said organisers of the vote put themselves “outside the law”

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

Electric Cars ‘Double-Edged Sword’ — Marchionne

Solve energy problems says FCA chief

(ANSA) — Rovereto, October 2 — Electric cars are “a double-edged sword” because while they may cut emissions in urban centres the problem of producing clean end renewable energy at a global level has not yet been solved, Fita Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) CEO Sergio Marchionne said Monday.

He said the latter was a “threat to the very existence of our plant”.

Marchionne added that FCA will spin off Magneti Marielli next year.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

EU ‘Tragic Error’ On Catalonia — Maroni

Oct 22 poll on Lombardy, Veneto independence ‘very different’

(ANSA) — Milan, October 2 — The European Union has made a “tragic error” by washing its hands of the Catalonia referendum issue, Lombardy Governor Roberto Maroni said Monday.

“The EU is acting like Pontius Pilate and trying to ignore a very important issue,” said Maroni, a leading member of the once-secessionist Northern League.

Maroni said the League’s October 22 illegal informal consultative referendum on the independence of Lombardy and the neighbouring Veneto region would be a “very different matter indeed”.

After a abandoning secessionist platform, the League under young leader Matteo Salvini has successful shifted to an anti-euro, anti-migrant ‘patriotic’ and sovereignty-linked stance which is increasingly wooing supporters across Italy.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Fake Police Officer Busted by Real Cops in Sweden

A man in the southwest of Sweden has been caught impersonating a police after he made the error of overtaking two genuine officers at high speed with his fake cop car’s emergency lights flashing.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Farage Slams ‘Antidemocratic’ EU Silence Over Brutalized Catalan Voters

Brexit leader and UKIP MEP Nigel Farage has slammed the European Union (EU) over its silence on violence in Catalonia carried out by military and police sent by Brussels-backed Madrid.

Addressing the EU Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, Mr. Farage said ordinary Europeans would be “stunned” by Brussels’ refusal to act in the face of the violent suppression of Catalonia’s independence referendum.

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

France Backs Tough Anti-Terrorism Bill After Wave of Attacks

PARIS (Reuters) — France’s parliament adopted an anti-terrorism bill on Tuesday that will bolster police surveillance powers and make it easier to close mosques suspected of preaching hatred, but rights groups warned it would lead to civil freedoms being infringed.

Before the vote, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb described France as being “still in a state of war” as authorities struggle to deal with the threat posed by foreign jihadists and homegrown militants.

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

French Authorities Suspect 4 of Helping Killer in Marseille

French authorities on Tuesday detained four people suspected of helping a man who later stabbed to death two women in the southern port city of Marseille.

In a separate case, five people remained in custody after being detained by French authorities over an apparent failed bombing attempt in an apartment building in a chic Paris neighborhood.

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

Marseilles Killer Lived in Italy, Rome Probe Into Contacts

Lived in Aprilia, same town as Berlin attacker Amri

(ANSA) — Rome, October 3 — Rome prosecutors have opened a probe to shed light on the background and contacts in Italy of Ahmed Hanachi, a Tunisian who stabbed to death two young women in Marseilles at the weekend. Hanachi, who has shot dead by soldiers, had reportedly lived in Italy for several years and was reportedly married to an Italian woman resident in Aprilia, near Rome — the same town where Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri also lived for a short time, police said. Amri killed 12 people at a Berlin Xmas market before going on the run and being shot dead at Milan central train station in December 2016.

Like Hanachi, Amri was a Tunisian failed asylum seeker.

Hanachi reportedly left Italy shortly after the couple split up in 2013, sources said.

Friends and acquaintances of Hanachi told reporters Tuesday: “He didn’t seem to have been radicalised. He had Western clothes and a Western lifestyle”.

Hanachi’s in-laws said they hadn’t seen him for several months.

His ex-wife has moved to North Africa with another man, they said.

Sihem Zrelli, president of the ‘Palma del Sud’ Tunisian immigrant business and cultural association, said: “Aprilia is not a crossroads for terrorists, the Tunisian community is well integrated and we have worked hard with Italian associations and institutions”. The Marseilles victims were two cousins aged 20, Mauranne and Laura.

The so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.

Another person was arrested in connection with the attacks in France Tuesday, bringing to four the total of people arrested, including a woman.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Norwegian Army Chief: Europe Must Destroy Islam in Order to Survive

“We must be ready to fight with words, actions, and if necessary, weapons to preserve the country and the values we have in common.”

A Norwegian Army Chief has bucked the political correctness and multiculturalism that has northern Europe in its grip, and warned Europeans that they must be ready and willing to fight against radical Islam in order to preserve Western values.

“I think we must be ready to fight, both with words, actions — and if necessary weapons — to preserve the country and the values we have in common,” said Odin Johannessen in a speech to the Oslo Military Society last week, according to Freedom Daily.

“Europe can no longer expect to live in peace and security, without having to defend its interests and values,” he added, noting that well-trained and adequately-equipped soldiers would be crucial. “You can not win wars without having people on the ground,” he asserted.

Freedom Daily notes that in an internal document uncovered last week, General Anders Brännström, the chief of the Swedish army, ordered his troops to prepare for a coming war in Europe against well-trained opponents.

“The global environment we are experiencing which is also demonstrated by strategic decisions [taken by politicians] leads us to the conclusion we could be at war within a few years,” wrote Brännström.

Back in December, Swiss army chief André Blattmann warned that the threat of terrorism was heightening in Europe and that citizens should arm themselves.

“The threat of terror is rising, hybrid wars are being fought around the globe; the economic outlook is gloomy and the resulting migration flows of displaced persons and refugees have assumed unforeseen dimensions,”said Blattmann.

           — Hat tip: Frontinus [Return to headlines]
 

Number of Returning ISIS Fighters Drops in Sweden

The number of people returning to Sweden after travelling abroad to fight for Isis has dropped.

It was feared that more Swedish citizens who went to join the terrorist organization would return to the Nordic country after Isis was pushed back in Syria and Iraq earlier this year. Instead the trend from 2016 has continued and the number is declining.

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

Spain v Catalonia Update Live: Milions Take to Streets as Referendum Crisis Looms

CATALANS have taken to the streets of Barcelona in protest against the police brutality that disrupted the region’s independence referendum on Sunday. Here are live updates and the latest news.

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

UK: Passengers Flee in Panic as Commuter Reads Bible Aloud on London Train

Commuters travelling in South-West London experienced delays Monday morning after passengers on a train forced open the doors and ran onto the tracks to escape a man with a bible.

The incident took place near Wimbledon station, as a passenger on a packed commuter train started reading lines from the bible. Another passenger asked the man to stop because he was “scaring” others, but it was already too late and panic had set in.

An eyewitness to the incident told The Guardian newspaper the “well-spoken and calm” preacher started reading from the old testament and told the carriage: “Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to talk to you about something and that something is the word of the Lord, Jesus Christ. He’s here to heal your sins. The Bible tells you that homosexuality is a sin and sex before marriage is a sin. You need to repent.”

Fellow commuters in their panic prised open the train doors and climbed down onto the track to escape the man, forcing the rail operator to turn off power to the area to prevent anyone being electrocuted. The power isolation ultimately delayed hundreds of thousands of commuters, according to reports.

The Bible reading man was questioned by police after the train reached the station but was found to be carrying only books and water, and was not arrested.

[Comment: Indicative of how stupid (or apparently demonically possessed) people have become. A public Bible reading…and they panic!?…]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Serbia: Kern: Let’s Accelerate Belgrade’s EU Integration

Austrian chancellor, Serbia driving force in the Balkans

(ANSA) — BELGRADE — According to Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern Serbia’s EU integration process should be accelerated, underling this issue has long been overlooked by Brussels.

“Serbia is part of Europe and a natural partner of the European Union”, Kern told the Serbian news agency Tanjug. “Serbia is a driving force in the Balkans and a key country for the whole region, therefore its entry into the European family must be accelerated”, added the chancellor, who is the leader of the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPOE). Talking about the problems the EU is facing — in particular Brexit, slowing down the enlargement process — Kern said that he will submit Serbia’s problem to the EU’s partners: “In Brussels we have recently dealt with this issue, and I said it was in favour of an acceleration of Serbia’s integration process. We are supported by Jean-Claude Juncker and Federica Mogherini”, added Kern, who praised the reforms that have been already implemented in Serbia with excellent results.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

China’s Secret Military Plan: Invade Taiwan by 2020

China has drawn up secret military plans to take over the island of Taiwan by 2020, an action that would likely lead to a larger U.S.-China conventional or nuclear war, according to newly-disclosed internal Chinese military documents.

The secret war plan drawn up by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the Chinese Communist Party’s armed forces, calls for massive missile attacks on the island, along with a naval and air blockade that is followed by amphibious beach landing assaults using up to 400,000 troops.

The plans and operations are outlined in a new book published this week, The Chinese Invasion Threat by Ian Easton, a China affairs analyst with the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank.

The danger of a Taiwan conflict has grown in recent years even as current tensions between Washington and Beijing are mainly the result of U.S. opposition to Chinese militarization in the South China Sea and China’s covert support of North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.

           — Hat tip: Bill Keezer [Return to headlines]
 

‘Harassment Escalated Into Brazen Anti-Semitism’: TV Reporter Caroline Marcus Claims ‘Proud Pedo’ ACA Reporter Ben McCormack Taunted Her for Being Jewish

A Sky News reporter has publicly spoken out about how embattled former A Current Affair reporter Ben McCormack (pictured) taunted her about her Jewish heritage as a work colleague in Sydney.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Hysterical’ Woman, 26, Filmed ‘Sitting on the Roof of a Taxi While Kicking the Windshield in With Her Bare Feet — After Crashing Her Own Car Into a Nearby Fence’

A Melbourne woman allegedly kicked in the front windshield of a taxi with her bare feet overnight moments after police claim she crashed her car into a nearby fence.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Canada: Somali Refugee Not Charged With Terrorism

Edmonton police announced late Monday that they aren’t charging Somali refugee Abdulahi Hasan Sharif with terrorism.

Yet a former co-worker of the man suspected of stabbing an Edmonton police officer and running down four pedestrians says Sharif talked of genocide. Police found a black ISIS flag in the white Malibu that Sharif was allegedly driving.

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Psychiatrist Warns of ‘Time Bomb’ In Germany: ‘Today’s Migrants Are Not Integrable’

A psychiatrist has warned that Germany faces a “time bomb” as a result of the mass migration of young men who have “crazy potential for aggression”.

“This is a time bomb,” Christian Peter Dogs said of the decision to open Germany’s borders, in an appearance on the Peter Hahne talkshow on ZDF last month, explaining that psychiatry has found people’s temperament and personality are usually fixed by the age of 12.

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Yahoo Says Massive Breach Actually Affected 3 Billion

Verizon, the new parent company of Yahoo, announced Tuesday that the breach for its subsidiary originally estimated to affect 1 billion users was likely a couple billion shy.

The 3 billion figure comes as new information was analyzed in recent months, according to The Wall Street Journal. Yahoo announced in December that one billion user accounts were hacked two years ago, an incident separate from another cyber intrusion where roughly 500 million accounts were breached. Both of the cases are likely the two largest single cyber thefts ever, even before the latest update.

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16 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/3/2017

  1. Newest meme from Canadian conservatives on Facebook : “Canada does not need more gun control..It needs more Liberal control. Please spay and neuter your Liberals to ensure future generations of Canadians are safe and protected” 😀
    If the Liberal federal government in any way messes with guns in Western Canada then there WILL be holy hell to pay,..Plus !
    What a time to live in,what a place….

  2. UK: Passengers Flee in Panic as Commuter Reads Bible Aloud on London Train

    reminds me of a legion of demons that makes the possessed people run away from the truth saying: art thou come to torture us before our time? They all ended up possessing swine and drowned in the sea.

    I have also encountered some strong reactions to bible verses, but nothing as powerful yet 🙂

    • Yes, the EU is not friendly towards Christianity at all. It’s post-Christian, while the Serbian Orthodox religion has long ties to the Russian tradition.
      Remember when Bill Clinton bombed the Serbians, mercilessly, to expend Muslim influence in the Baalkans?

      • Yes, I remember the aggressive destruction shown toward a country that wanted no part of Islam and the subsequent show trials in the Hague for the war criminals from Serbia. Many will not realize that the Bosnian Muslims also committed their share of atrocities because none of the perpetrators have ever been brought to justice.

        In my opinion, a deliberate act.

  3. Total failure by the wimps in Edmonton for not calling a terrorist attack what it is.

    As for Vegas, MSM is now saying the perp was on drugs that could cause, ‘violent, impulsive behavior,’ yet he, ‘meticulously planned,’ for several weeks.

    Folks, this is how stupid the Deep State thinks we are.

    • Re: Vegas, my money is on it being anti-depressant related.

      There are people out there who have such fantasies, but are connected enough with reality not to act them out. Add in mood-altering drugs like anti-depressants, and some of them take it up a notch. That’s my guess on this one.

      • Anti-depressants may be a factor, but I still think there is a lot more to this story. More that will probably be kept from the public.

  4. Can anyone point me to an actual mapping of all the no go zones in major European cities?

    • The police in Sweden have (or had) a map of no-go zones a few years ago, but it’s long out-dated by now. IIRC, there were ~35.

    • Just wait a bit and a normal map displaying Western Europe will be good for you…

    • Generally, you can assume that the highly touristy areas are “GO” areas. The rest, well, you’d better figure it out…

  5. Bravo to the head of the Norwegian Army….but how long until he is sacked for his comments?

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