Here’s another one from the Italian journalist Vittorio Feltri, a follow-up to the video from earlier tonight.
Many thanks to Elle Bowlly for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
Monthly Archives: October 2017
New Rules for Mosques in Italy
Marco Minniti is an Italian politician from the Democratic Party (Social Democrats) and currently the Minister of the Interior. We first met Mr. Minniti a week ago, in a video where he expressed his wish that migrants be moved out of big asylum centers and distributed throughout the general population.
In the following video from September 23, the minister sings a different tune as he describes a new law that imposes rules — actual rules! — on mosques and Islamic congregations in Italy.
Many thanks to Elle Bowlly for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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Vittorio Feltri: No One in the Studio Gives a Damn About Migrants!
Vittorio Feltri is an Italian journalist and editor-in-chief. In the following video from Italian TV, Mr. Feltri — who is now 74 years old, and thus feels free to speak his mind — discusses the ordinary Italian citizens of a town who staged a protest against immigrants. He points out that in contrast, the members of the discussion panel, himself included, have the luxury of not caring because they don’t live anywhere near the immigrants.
Many thanks to Elle Bowlly for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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The Former Salafista vs. Harvey Ramadan
The ripples of the Harvey Weinstein affair have spread widely, reaching as far as France and touching the Swiss philosopher Dr. Tariq “Taqiyya” Ramadan. Now that he is being accused of abusing his magisterial office to sexually abuse a young woman (a former Salafist), we’ll have to call him “Tariq Weinstein”, or, better yet, “Harvey Ramadan”.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Here’s an article on the same topic from Al-Arabiya:
Islamist Tariq Ramadan Accused of Rape by Salafist Turned Activist
A rape and sexual assault complaint was filed on Friday in France against Swiss Islamist and Professor Tariq Ramadan by a former Salafist Henda Ayari.
The complaint filed with the Rouen prosecutor’s office in northwestern France, by the Salafist turned secular activist, detailed criminal acts of rape, sexual assault, violence, harassment and intimidation, according to document reviewed by AFP.
The Liberators Association, which Henda Ayari is president of, said on Facebook that she was “a victim of something very serious several years ago” but did not reveal the name of her aggressor for safety reasons.
In her book “I chose to be free”, published in November 2016, she described her aggressor as Zubair.
She said in her writings that she met him at his hotel in Paris after the Islamist thinker gave a lecture.
“I will not give precise details of the acts he has done to me. It is enough to know that he has benefited greatly from my weakness,” Ayari wrote.
She said in her book that when she rebelled against him at one point he screamed at her, insulted her, slapped her and treated her violently.
“I confirm today, that the famous Zubair is Tariq Ramadan,” Ayari published on Facebook.
According to Jonas Haddad, Ayari’s lawyer, the plaintiff did not report the assault earlier, out of fear.
“After revelations over the past few days of rape and sexual assaults claims in the media, Henda has decided to say what happened to her and take legal action,” he told AFP.
Tariq Ramadan could not be reached by AFP and did not react to the allegations on social media.
Ramadan, 55, is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood group in Egypt. He is a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/20/2017
A man went on a rampage in shopping mall in Poland, stabbing seven people at random, killing one of them. Bystanders held the attacker immobile until police arrived. The suspect is a native Pole, and authorities say the incident had nothing to do with terrorism.
In other news, an explosive device was detonated in a parking lot in Colonial Williamsburg just across the street from the College of William and Mary. The initial call to police was for a “car fire”, but police later labeled the device an IED. The investigation is continuing.
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The Minimum Requirements for Being Labeled a “Nazi” in Modern Multicultural Germany
The brief essay below outlines the requirements for inducing the Screaming Nazi Heeber-Jeebers in the Gutmenschen of Germany. Which, as far as I can tell, is any political position even slightly to the right of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Many thanks to JLH for translating this guest-post from David Berger’s blog:
That’s How Easy It is to Be Driven Into the “Nazi Corner”
Guest essay by Markus Hibbeler
I have listed the attitudes that are sufficient to land you in the “Rightist” corner. You needn’t share all of these things, but they are reasonable and completely legitimate points of view and opinions which many people share, although only a few express them, because they fear being seen as “Nazi,” “hater,” “racist” or something similar. And as far as the moralistic narcissists are concerned, there is no longer any difference between “liberal-conservative,” “rightist,” “right-populist” or even “extreme rightist.”
The following things already lead to the rightist stamp:
| 1. | Being for the deportation of criminal asylum seekers. | |
| 2. | Criticizing Islam with the attitude that it does not belong in Germany. | |
| 3. | Being against imported, anti-constitutional, patriarchal philosophies. | |
| 4. | Being for a ban of full female covering. | |
| 5. | Being against foreign financing of mosques and against import-imams. | |
| 6. | Being for each religion living privately, and against clergy taking over public spaces. | |
| 7. | Demanding from new arrivals that they accommodate to and respect our way of life. | |
| 8. | Being against a feminine model in which a strand of hair or extra-marital contact with men is considered unseemly. | |
| 9. | Being against clans, parallel societies and no-go areas. | |
| 10. | Being for women being able to go anywhere freely and safely. | |
| 11. | Being of the opinion that all the Erdogan followers among German Turks would be better in Turkey than here with us (and we would gladly accept secular Turks in trade). | |
| 12. | Being for helping people in true need, but against an uncontrolled mass immigration into the social systems that is unparalleled in any other country. |
Many other things could be added:
For example, being against German history being reduced to twelve criminal years; simply being too proud and happy about values like freedom, enlightenment, democracy and sexual equality; being happy that no woman here must be veiled, or virgin in order to be honorable, and gays and apostates are not hanged from the nearest construction crane; just liking European/German culture and finding it, if not without fault, nevertheless both livable and defensible.
Not belonging to any minority, being a heterosexual German male with no “immigration background,” married, with a house and garden, earning his own money and outside of a few tickets having broken no laws, and besides all that, having the gall to like his country and to express all these things straightforwardly — that completes the rightist stamp.
Before anyone becomes concerned, I’m doing fine and I will stick with my opinion. And I recommend to all clandestine, female readers that they do the same. First of all, you are not by any means alone, and second, we are the ones who have it right.
California Set Itself on Fire
UPDATE:
There is some question in the comments about the accuracy of the Breitbart material used in this post. The problem stems from their lack of link to a quote from ICE about an illegal alien who was purported to have set some of the fires in Sonoma county.
I looked for the blockquoted material Breitbart used, a quote from ICE, but couldn’t find the source to the original link on ICE’s page (ICE.gov is a bureaucratic nightmare to navigate). However, through some backtracking in the Duck Duck Go search engine, the Baron was able to find this on the ICE website. It’s from the acting Director, dated October 18:
Statement from ICE Acting Director on Sonoma County’s repeated releases of dangerous criminal alien
“Once again, a non-cooperative jurisdiction has left their community vulnerable to dangerous individuals and preventable crimes. ICE lodged a detainer against Jesus Gonzalez with Sonoma County jail officials on October 16, following his arrest on felony charges for maliciously setting fire to a property. This is especially troubling in light of the massive wildfires already devastating the region. Over the past year, ICE has lodged detainers against Mr. Gonzalez after four separate arrests by Sonoma County on various felony and misdemeanor charges. ICE was never notified of Mr. Gonzalez’ various releases. Additionally, Mr. Gonzales has been returned to his home country of Mexico on two separate occasions. The residents of Sonoma County, and the state of California, deserve better than policies that expose them to avoidable dangers. Non-cooperation policies – now enshrined in California state law – ensure only one thing: criminals who would otherwise be deported will be released and left free to reoffend as they please.”
Evidently the name “Jesus Gonzales” is a common one in California. So there is the additional question as to whether the fellow in the Sonoma County jail is the same person ICE is after.
Meanwhile, the Sonoma County sheriff had this to say:
On Sunday, the sheriff’s office arrested Gonzalez, 48, for felony arson, which occurred at Maxwell Farms Regional Park in the Sonoma Valley where Gonzales was sleeping, Giordano said. Deputies recognized Gonzalez who told the deputies he lit the fire to keep warm.
Gonzalez is being held in the Sonoma County Jail under $100,000 bail on the arson charge and under $100,000 bail for a misdemeanor drug related warrant from Ventura County, Giordano said.
He was arraigned Wednesday in jail and his next court date has not been set. The Sonoma County Superior Court is closed until Monday because of the fires.
ICE sent a request on Oct. 16 to detain Gonzalez for 48 hours past his scheduled release date from the jail, but the detainer was not signed by a judge and the sheriff’s office could not legally honor it, Giordano said.
ICE spokesman James Schwab said Wednesday ICE filed an administrative detainer to hold Gonzalez, but Giordano said administrative detainers are considered unreasonable search and seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
“ICE has the ability to obtain a warrant for anyone they are interested in like we do everyday in this county. If ICE obtains a warrant I can legally hold the person and would be happy to do so,” Giordano said.
Gonzalez will remain in the Sonoma County Jail until his arson case is adjudicated and Ventura County will then prosecute Gonzalez, Giordano said.
One has to wonder why the Fourth Amendment applies to illegal aliens. But we are talking about California here. They passed that “sanctuary” “law” and Governor Brown signed the bill:
SB54, by Senate President Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, bars law enforcement officers in the state from arresting individuals based on civil immigration warrants, asking about a person’s immigration status or participating in any joint task force with federal officials for the purpose of enforcing immigration laws.
At any rate, this seems to be a fog-of-war-and-smoke situation. California has declared war on ICE and has passed a “law” that could be construed as a form of secession, or at least the beginning of a pull-out. Sonoma County is following its new state law to the letter.
See you in court.
The suicidal left continues down the low road. Demented Governor Brown and his henchmen in Sacramento concocted a bill making the Golden State the Crazy State.
Here is ICE’s background commentary about this new sanctuary law [from October 10th]:
Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to sign SB54 and make California a sanctuary state for illegal aliens — including those who have committed crimes — will undermine public safety and hinder ICE from performing its federally mandated mission. The governor is simply wrong when he claims otherwise.
SB54 will negatively impact ICE operations in California by nearly eliminating all cooperation and communication with our law enforcement partners in the state, voiding the delegated authority that the Orange County Sheriff’s Office has under the 287g program, and prohibiting local law enforcement from contracting with the federal government to house detainees.
ICE will have no choice but to conduct at-large arrests in local neighborhoods and at work sites, which will inevitably result in additional collateral arrests, instead of focusing on arrests at jails and prisons where transfers are safer for ICE officers and the community. ICE will also likely have to detain individuals arrested in California in detention facilities outside of the state, far from any family they may have in California.
Ultimately, SB54 helps shield removable aliens from immigration enforcement and creates another magnet for more illegal immigration, all at the expense of the safety and security of the very people it purports to protect.
Despite the severe challenges that this law creates for ICE, we remain committed to our public safety mission and we will continue to do our sworn duty to seek out dangerous criminal aliens and other immigration violators. ICE seeks straightforward cooperation with all sheriffs and local elected officials. This misguided legislation will severely undermine those efforts.
Now ICE has confirmed that an illegal alien, arrested five times in the past year, deported twice, is responsible for the some of the fires set in Sonoma County — more than one billion dollars’ worth of destruction, not to mention the dozens of deaths.
Breitbart seems to have the only direct quote from Acting Director Homan on this:
Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/19/2017
Radee Labeeb Prince, the man suspected of shooting five of his co-workers, killing two of them, reportedly gathered his workmates together in one place in the Maryland business where he worked with the deliberate intent of shooting as many as he could. Mr. Prince remains in jail in Delaware in lieu of paying a $2.1 million bond.
In other news, the public prosecutor in the German city of Bonn is asking for a sentence of 13 years in prison for the Ghanaian immigrant who raped a young woman at knifepoint at a campsite last summer.
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Quebec Tackles the Burka Issue
To call the following CTV news report “tendentious” would hardly do it justice. It discusses the recent passage of a law against full-face coverings in Quebec, and the anchor naturally focuses on the injustices that it would impose on those poor, poor Muslim women — who will be “forced” to remain at home.
I doubt that the writers who composed the copy for this report realized the implications of their assertions. If Muslim women are forced to remain at home due to the burka ban, it means that the wearing of the garment is not voluntary, as the Progressives like to maintain. It is mandatory, not optional, implying that somebody, somewhere — presumably a husband, father, or brother — makes these women cover their faces in public.
Otherwise they would risk… What? What does CTV think the penalty would be for a failure to cover up? And who would administer it?
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for annotating and uploading this video:
John Kelly Sets the Record Straight
There is yet another fake news cycle about President Trump. This time it concerns what he said to the wife, now widow, of one of the four soldiers who died in Niger. The MSM simply never gives up in their ongoing smear attack against Trump.
Former General John Kelly, a Gold-Star father himself, with another son deployed in Iraq right now, held an impromptu press conference to criticize the Congresswoman who tried to make political hay out of this soldier’s death.
Kelly is eloquent:
Mutti, Take Me Home From Camp Shahada!
The following video shows an appeal made by a young German woman who converted to Islam and made hijra to Syria to fight for the Islamic State (or at least get married to an ISIS fighter). As the Islamic State collapsed, she was captured by the Peshmerga and interned in a POW camp. Now she wants to come home, and appeals directly to Angela Merkel for help.
Nash Montana, who translated the video for subtitles, has these observations about the patois spoken by the young German Muslima:
Even though Nadja R. is a German-born German, she speaks the language like a retarded person. You might say she speaks “ebonics”, German-style. The kind of Islamized German that Muslims speak in Germany. She has totally taken on the low-IQ-speak and -think of Muslims.
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/18/2017
Early this morning a man named Radee Labeeb Prince brought a gun to his workplace in Harford County, Maryland, and allegedly shot five of his co-workers, killing three of them. He then drove 55 miles to a car dealership in Wilmington, Delaware where an acquaintance worked. After allegedly shooting the man in the head, he took a vehicle and fled, later abandoning it. After an hours-long manhunt, police finally caught up with the suspect in the Newark area, and apprehended him without further violence.
In other news, a bomb exploded in front of the police station in the southern Swedish city of Helsingborg, doing extensive damage to the building, but fortunately causing no injuries.
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An Islamophobic Election Commercial From Czech TV
Many thanks to Xanthippa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
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A Bang Followed by Whimpering… and Silence
Gotta love The Swamp. Now that North Korea (probably) has the capability to fire a missile into our airspace, TPTB have shut down the one governmental organization with the ability to do anything testicular to deter the Fat Boy driving the looming disaster.
Did you think NoKo is going to do something fissionable with its missiles and is going to simply try to “bomb” us? Well, it would seem that’s the intention, but the real problem is the payload on their missiles. All they need is one EMP detonated in our skies (over the East Coast, where lies most of our outdated electrical infrastructure) to send the continent back to say, 1850…and that will mean ninety percent of our population gone within six months or less. One can envision the follow-up: a leisurely walk-through by China. It would be easy-peasy to sort through the pieces of what remained of Canada and the United States.
From The Center for Security Policy [with my emphases — D]:
Inexplicably, just when we need the country’s most knowledgeable and influential minds advising about how to protect against a potentially imminent, nation-ending peril, the Congressional Electromagnetic Pulse Threat Commission is being shut down.
For seventeen years under the leadership of President Reagan’s Science Advisor, Dr. William Graham, this blue-ribbon panel has warned that we had to protect our electric grid from just the sorts of EMP attacks North Korea is now threatening to unleash upon us. Successive administrations and the electric utilities have shamefully failed to heed those warnings and take corrective action.
Consequently, we could experience on a national scale the sort of devastating, protracted blackouts now afflicting Puerto Rico. President Trump should give Dr. Graham and his team a new mandate as a presidential commission to oversee the immediate implementation of their recommendations.
This disaster happened at the end of September, while the MSM dithered away on their fiddles about the eeevil Trump. Meanwhile, two men who served on the panel appeared in front of this subcommittee to get the views of the panel into the permanent record, i.e. the Congressional Record. If/when it all goes down, their warnings will still exist, if anyone can access them after an EMP explosion:
STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD
DR. WILLIAM R. GRAHAM, CHAIRMAN
DR. PETER VINCENT PRY, CHIEF OF STAFF
COMMISSION TO ASSESS THE THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES FROM
ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE (EMP) ATTACK
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY
SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND MANAGEMENT EFFICIENCY HEARING
“EMPTY THREAT OR SERIOUS DANGER:
ASSESSING NORTH KOREA’S RISK TO THE HOMELAND”
Here is an excerpt from that “Statement For the Record” [any emphases are mine — D. The footnotes, which have been omitted here, can be found in the pdf linked at the end of this post]:
During the Cold War, major efforts were undertaken by the Department of Defense to assure that the U.S. national command authority and U.S. strategic forces could survive and operate after an EMP attack. However, no major efforts were then thought necessary to protect critical national infrastructures, relying on nuclear deterrence to protect them. With the development of small nuclear arsenals and long-range missiles by new, radical U.S. adversaries, beginning with North Korea, the threat of a nuclear EMP attack against the U.S. becomes one of the few ways that such a country could inflict devastating damage to the United States. It is critical, therefore, that the U.S. national leadership address the EMP threat as a critical and existential issue, and give a high priority to assuring the leadership is engaged and the necessary steps are taken to protect the country from EMP.
By way of background, the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack was established by Congress in 2001 to advise the Congress, the President, Department of Defense and other departments and agencies of the U.S. Government on the nuclear EMP threat to military systems and civilian critical infrastructures.The EMP Commission was re-established in 2015 with its charter broadened to include natural EMP from solar storms, all manmade EMP threats, cyber-attack, sabotage and Combined-Arms Cyber Warfare. The EMP Commission charter gives it access to all relevant classified and unclassified data and the power to levy analysis upon the Department of Defense.
On September 30, 2017, the Department of Defense, after withholding a significant part of the monies allocated by Congress to support the work of the EMP Commission for the entirety of 2016, terminated funding the EMP Commission. In the same month, North Korea detonated an H-Bomb that it plausibly describes as capable of “super-powerful EMP” attack and released a technical report “The EMP Might of Nuclear Weapons” accurately describing what Russia and China call a “Super-EMP” weapon.
Neither the Department of Defense nor the Department of Homeland Security has asked Congress to continue the EMP Commission. The House version of the National Defense Authorization Act includes a provision that would replace the existing EMP Commission with new Commissioners. Yet the existing EMP Commission comprises the nation’s foremost experts who have been officially or unofficially continuously engaged trying to advance national EMP preparedness for 17 years.
And today, as the EMP Commission has long warned, the nation faces a potentially imminent and existential threat of nuclear EMP attack from North Korea. Recent events have proven the EMP Commission’s critics wrong about other highly important aspects of the nuclear missile threat from North Korea: