Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/29/2017

Angela Merkel’s efforts to form a new coalition government in Germany are now being complicated by internal strife within her sister party in Bavaria, the CSU. Mrs. Merkel’s migration policy is very unpopular in Bavaria. Some CSU party members are unhappy with Horst Seehofer, the party’s current leader, and want to replace him.

In other news, the European Union’s Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, wants to put Turks on the fast track to visa-free entry into the EU.

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Financial Crisis
» We Have Tripled the Number of Store Closings From Last Year, And 20 Major Retailers Have Closed at Least 50 Stores in 2017
 
USA
» Apocalyptic Super Volcano Eruption Could be Much Closer Than Previously Thought
» Day of Reckoning: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Slams Silicon Valley for Censoring Conservatives
» Flu Vaccine is the Most Dangerous Vaccine in the U. S. Based on Settled Cases for Injuries
» Gateway Pundit’s Lucian Wintrich Arrested After Activists Steal His Property, Disrupt Speech at University of Connecticut
» ‘Healthy’ Energy Drinks Cause Kidney Damage and Hypertension
» Maine: Muslim Ran Massive Food Stamp, Welfare, Medicaid Fraud Out of Halal Market
» Privacy Alert: HP Quietly Installs System-Slowing Spyware on Its PCs Without Consent
» Sarah Sanders Has Hysterical Response to the News That CNN Staffers Are Boycotting the White House Christmas Party
» Stunning Videos Show Anyone Can Hack Macos High Sierra by Only Typing One Word!
» Suspect in Shooting at Crowded Mall Pleads Not Guilty
 
Europe and the EU
» Angela Merkel Faces Fresh Trouble in Bid to Form German Coalition, After Split in Bavarian Sister Party
» Catalan Crisis: Exiled Catalan Leader Mocked for Being Part of ‘Putin’s Club’
» Counter Terrorism Arrests ‘Disrupt Significant Jihadist Plot to Attack UK’
» Czech Election Winner Babis Says His Cabinet to Take Power Before December EU Summit
» Italy: Jihadist Moved Over 100 Mn Euros — Judge
» Italy: Vatican Bank Deputy Dg Sacked
 
Balkans
» Bosnian Croat War General Dies After Drinking Poison During Trial in the Hague
 
Middle East
» Tehran is Winning the War for Control of the Middle East
 
Russia
» Report: An Alien Bacteria Has Been Brought Back to Earth From the Space Station
 
South Asia
» So Much for the Abominable Snowman. Study Finds ‘Yeti’ DNA Belongs to Bears
 
Far East
» How a North Korean Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Could Kill Millions and Turn America Into a Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland
 
Australia — Pacific
» Exclusive: ‘I Was Disappointed Waleed Aly and Karl Stefanovic Weren’t There’: Milo Yiannopoulos Slams ‘Terrified’ Journalists for Not Facing Him as He Lands in Australia — and Denies His Show Was Postponed Over His Outspoken Views
» Hunt for Suspected Bag Snatcher After Elderly Woman, 72, Was Knocked to the Ground and Left Unconscious in Shocking Robbery
» ‘I Was Told I Could Have a Job if I Stopped Wearing a Hijab’: Muslim High School Teacher Explains Why She Refuses to Take Off Her Headscarf
» ISIS Supported Planned Machine Gun Attack on New Year’s Eve in Melbourne
» Jailed Brothers 4 Life Boss Caught With a Phone and Weapons in Ceiling of Cell for a Third Time as He’s Accused of Running Crime Operation From Prison
» Milo Yiannopoulos Says Muslims Should All be Deported
» Police Raid Two Homes in Sydney’s North-West During Investigation Into ‘An Armed Robbery at Auburn Girls’ High School’
» The Dramatic Moment a Gang of Four Middle Eastern Men Drive a Stolen Car at a Mother and Her Baby as She Tried to Flee a Terrifying Home Invasion
» ‘We Prevented a Catastrophe’: Two Teenagers, 16 and 18, Charged With Plotting Columbine-Style Attack on a School Using Firearms and Explosives
 
Latin America
» Prediction: Venezuela Reaches ‘Inability to Pay’ Early Next Year
 
Immigration
» EU Migrant Policies Rejected by 74 Per Cent of People in Central Europe
» European Union Remains ‘Committed’ To Opening Borders to 75 Million Turkish Citizens ‘As Soon as Possible’
» France: Art Museum to Close After Former Nearby Migrant Camp Decimated Visitor Numbers
» Impressive Migrant Flow Fall in 5 Mths — Gentiloni
» Italy: Priest Slams Migrant Beggars
» Trudeau Forces RCMP to Delete Intelligence on Islamic Migrants
 
Culture Wars
» President Trump Retweets 3 Videos of Muslims Committing Disgusting Hate Crimes… The Left Explodes
 

We Have Tripled the Number of Store Closings From Last Year, And 20 Major Retailers Have Closed at Least 50 Stores in 2017

Did you know that the number of retail store closings in 2017 has already tripled the number from all of 2016? Last year, a total of 2,056 store locations were closed down, but this year more than 6,700 stores have been shut down so far. That absolutely shatters the all-time record for store closings in a single year, and yet nobody seems that concerned about it. In 2008, an all-time record 6,163 retail stores were shuttered, and we have already surpassed that mark by a very wide margin. We are facing an unprecedented retail apocalypse, and as you will see below, the number of retail store closings is actually supposed to be much higher next year.

Whenever the mainstream media reports on the retail apocalypse, they always try to put a positive spin on the story by blaming the growth of Amazon and other online retailers. And without a doubt that has had an impact, but at this point online shopping still accounts for less than 10 percent of total U.S. retail sales.

Look, Amazon didn’t just show up to the party. They have been around for many, many years and while it is true that they are growing, they still only account for a very small sliver of the overall retail pie.

So those that would like to explain away this retail apocalypse need to come up with a better explanation.

As I noted in the headline, there are 20 different major retail chains that have closed at least 50 stores so far this year. The following numbers originally come from Fox Business…

[Comment: A direct result of the commie globalist’s goal of the destruction of the middle class.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Apocalyptic Super Volcano Eruption Could be Much Closer Than Previously Thought

A lot of geology news has circled around the possibility of a supervolcano eruption that could wipe out humanity. And a new analysis is not very comforting, as scientists discover that the apocalyptic scenario may be much closer than they previously thought.

The largest super-eruptions are capable of covering entire continents in volcanic ash and changing weather patterns around the world for decades. And a new study suggests the next eruption of this magnitude could be sooner than was previously assumed.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Day of Reckoning: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Slams Silicon Valley for Censoring Conservatives

“When it comes to an open Internet, Twitter is part of the problem.”

In his speech on Net Neutrality reform today, FCC chairman Ajit Pai called out Twitter, YouTube and other Silicon Valley giants for their long track record of censoring conservative viewpoints.

Pai specifically called out a number of big tech companies, including Twitter, for opposing Net Neutrality reform on the grounds that it threatens a “free and open internet,” while engaging in widespread censorship on their own platforms.

“I love Twitter, and I use it all the time” said Pai. “But let’s not kid ourselves; when it comes to an open Internet, Twitter is part of the problem. The company has a viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate.”

In further comments, the FCC chairman specifically called out the censorship of Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s pro-life ad, which was blocked by Twitter for “inflammatory speech.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Flu Vaccine is the Most Dangerous Vaccine in the U. S. Based on Settled Cases for Injuries

The last report issued in 2013 by the Department of Justice (Vaccine Court), for compensation made by the Health and Human Services for people injured or killed by vaccines, was released in December 2013, covering the period of 8/16/2013 through 11/15/2013. The report is available as a Power Point presentation here.

There were 139 claims settled during this time period, with 70 of them being compensated. So, just over 50% of the claims filed for vaccine damages were compensated during this period.

Once again, the greatest percentage of damages compensated were for the influenza vaccine, and most of those were for Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS). Yet these facts, tucked away in a file on the Department of Health and Human Services website, are never reported in the mainstream media. So we will report them here. You can also read the report yourself in the Power Point file here.

Of the 70 cases compensated, 42 of them were for the flu vaccine, or 60% of the cases settled where compensation was awarded for injury or death due to the vaccine. The combined total of the other 40% of cases settled included the following vaccines: Hep B, Tetanus, HPV, DTaP, MMR, IPV, PCV, Hib, Meningococcal, Varicella, TD.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Gateway Pundit’s Lucian Wintrich Arrested After Activists Steal His Property, Disrupt Speech at University of Connecticut

Gateway Pundit reporter Lucian Wintrich was arrested during his speech at the University of Connecticut this evening after he attempted to recover his notes, which had been stolen by a left-wing activist who stormed the stage.

Video footage from the event shows the activist grabbing the notes and walking away, after which Lucian Wintrich can be seen pursuing the activist, physically grabbing her, and recovering them.

Connecticut state law permits the use of “reasonable physical force” to recover stolen property. Nevertheless, it was Wintrich who ended up being arrested at the event.

The Connecticut Democratic party put out a statement on social media condemning Wintrich for “violence” and “white supremacy.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Healthy’ Energy Drinks Cause Kidney Damage and Hypertension

Energy drinks — which can contain eight times more caffeine than a standard cup of coffee — trigger a range of serious health problems, from stress, raised blood pressure, obesity and kidney damage, a new review has found.

Any immediate benefits, such as greater alertness, are outweighed by longer-term health problems — but it’s something the energy drink industry isn’t telling the public, say researchers from the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health.

The drinks generate around $10bn sales in the US alone every year, partly because they are marketed as a healthy option to improve energy levels, stamina, athletic performance and concentration.

But the drinks’ high levels of caffeine and sugars can cause a wide range of life-threatening health problems, such as hypertension, kidney damage, obesity, and mental health problems such as stress and anxiety.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Maine: Muslim Ran Massive Food Stamp, Welfare, Medicaid Fraud Out of Halal Market

A federal judge on Tuesday accepted guilty pleas from a former halal market owner in Portland who used his store to traffick public assistance benefits, including food stamps.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Privacy Alert: HP Quietly Installs System-Slowing Spyware on Its PCs Without Consent

On the heels of Lenovo’s massive $3.5 million fine for preinstalling adware on laptops without users’ consent, Hewlett-Packard is jumping in with both feet when it comes to installing spyware on its PCs without the consumer’s permission.

According to numerous reports gathered by Computer World, the brand is deploying a telemetry client (a system data that is uploaded by the Connected User Experience and Telemetry component), on customer computers without asking permission.

The software, which was first identified on November 15 of this year, is called “HP Touchpoint Analytics Service” and appears to replace the self-managed HP Touchpoint Manager solution. According to the official productivity description, it features “the tools you need to ensure all your managed devices’ security — and brings you greater peace of mind”. The problem is, it’s installing itself without permission and is wreaking havoc on customers’ systems.

And the consumers are noticing:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sarah Sanders Has Hysterical Response to the News That CNN Staffers Are Boycotting the White House Christmas Party

CNN’s Brian Stelter tweeted out the news that CNN staffers won’t be attending the White House Christmas party…Yes, another liberal temper tantrum all because President Trump called them out for being fake news. The funny thing is that right after Stelter’s tweet, Sarah Sanders tweeted out the best response EVER! She’s so funny!…

“Christmas comes early! Finally, good news from @CNN.” https://twitter.com/politico/status/935655579296681989

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Stunning Videos Show Anyone Can Hack Macos High Sierra by Only Typing One Word!

THERE ARE HACKABLE security flaws in software. And then there are those that don’t even require hacking at all — just a knock on the door and asking to be let in. Apple’s macOS High Sierra has the second kind.

On Tuesday, security researchers disclosed a bug that allows anyone a blindingly easy method of breaking that operating system’s security protections. Anyone who hits a prompt in High Sierra asking for a username and password before logging into a machine with multiple users, they can simply type “root” as a username, leave the password field blank, click “unlock” twice, and immediately gain full access.

In other words, the bug allows any rogue user that gets the slightest foothold on a target computer to gain the deepest level of access to a computer, known as “root” privileges. Malware designed to exploit the trick could also fully install itself deep within the computer, no password required.

“We always see malware trying to escalate privileges and get root access,” says Patrick Wardle, a security researcher with Synack. “This is best, easiest way ever to get root, and Apple has handed it to them on a silver platter.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Suspect in Shooting at Crowded Mall Pleads Not Guilty

WALLKILL, N.Y. — A Pennsylvania man suspected of firing a gun in an upstate New York mall crowded with holiday shoppers has been arraigned on reckless endangerment and assault charges.

Michael Perez Rodriguez pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday.

Two people suffered minor injuries when the gun discharged at Galleria at Crystal Run in the Orange County town of Wallkill on Sunday afternoon. The shooting sent shoppers scurrying for safety.

Assistant District Attorney Jason Rosenwasser tells the Times Herald-Record in Middletown that Perez Rodriguez turned himself in Tuesday night after police released video showing the shooting suspect entering the mall with a woman, a young child and an infant.

Rosenwasser says Perez Rodriguez is a lawful pistol permit holder in New York and Pennsylvania and has a carry permit…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Angela Merkel Faces Fresh Trouble in Bid to Form German Coalition, After Split in Bavarian Sister Party

Angela Merkel was presented with a fresh complication in her efforts to put together a coalition government in Germany on Wednesday as a power struggle broke out for control of her Bavarian sister party.

Horst Seehofer, who has been one of Mrs Merkel’s strongest allies in coalition talks, is facing an attempted coup by rivals within the Christian Social Union (CSU).

Mrs Merkel is set for crucial talks in Berlin on Thursday with Martin Schulz, the leader of the rival Social Democrats (SPD), as she tries to negotiate a new coalition.

Mr Seehofer will also be at the talks, hosted by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, but his authority to negotiate on behalf of his party will be damaged by events in Munich.

Mrs Merkel is already facing a frosty start to the negotiations, with the SPD furious after a senior minister in her caretaker government gave German approval for a controversial EU decision without consulting cabinet colleagues.

Some form of deal with the SPD is Mrs Merkel’s last chance to avoid new elections after talks with smaller parties collapsed earlier this month.

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

Catalan Crisis: Exiled Catalan Leader Mocked for Being Part of ‘Putin’s Club’

OUSTED Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has been ridiculed as a “useful idiot” in the mock “Putin’s champion awards” given out by a Czech Republic think tank.

The pro-Western European Values group said the former president of Catalonia had been picked for the less than prestigious accolade because of his appearance on the “Kremlin disinformation pseudo-journalistic outlet RT”.

Mr Puigdemont was a guest on the Alex Salmond Show, which was broadcast by the Russian-backed channel earlier this month to discuss the upcoming elections in the region.

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

Counter Terrorism Arrests ‘Disrupt Significant Jihadist Plot to Attack UK’

Counter terrorism police are believed have disrupted a well advanced Islamist terror plot to attack UK targets after arresting two young men.

The plotters thought to have been inspired by Islamic State group propaganda had been planning to carry out attacks in London and Birmingham.

The arrested pair, aged 20 and 21, were on Wednesday night being held “on suspicion of being involved in the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorism”, a Scotland Yard statement said.

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

Czech Election Winner Babis Says His Cabinet to Take Power Before December EU Summit

PRAGUE (Reuters) — Czech ANO party leader Andrej Babis said on Tuesday he expected his minority cabinet to take power on Dec. 13 which would enable him to attend a European Union summit as prime minister.

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

Italy: Jihadist Moved Over 100 Mn Euros — Judge

13 arrested for laundering via Hawala system

(ANSA) — Milan, November 28 — Salem Bashir Mazan Rajah, a Libyan suspected jihadist who spurred a Milan probe that arrested 13 people for conspiracy to money launder via the Hawala system, moved cash worth “over 100 million euros,” between Libya, Italy and Europe, an investigating judge said Tuesday. Cited for laundering after a Milan airport check in 2015 and now on a wanted list, Rajah “could play a role as money mule” for groups linked to jihad, the judge said. Italian police said earlier they had suspected Rajah for some time.

Police said they had found evidence that the laundering group had been infiltrated “by jihadist organisations”.

They said the hawala money-laundering system was “linked to the funding of international terrorism”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Vatican Bank Deputy Dg Sacked

Giulio Mattietti escorted out of Vatican on Monday

(ANSA) — Rome, November 29 — Vatican bank IOR has sacked Deputy Director-General Giulio Mattietti for so-far unknown reasons, sources said Wednesday. Mattietti was escorted out of the Vatican two days ago, they said.

The deputy head of the Vatican Press Office, Paloma García Ovejero, told ANSA that Mattietti “ceased his service on Monday November 27”. Vatican experts said the decision, although its reason was as yet unknwon, appeared to have been a sudden one. Mattietti was appointed in November 2015 along with Director-General Gian Franco Mammì. Another IOR staffer was also sacked recently, sources said. Asked about the report, the Vatican press office confirmed that Mattietti had been dismissed. The IOR, Istituto per le Opere Religiose (Institute for Religious Works) has been through a painful process of reform recently after past financial scandals.

Mattietti had had a successful career at the IOR and had been tipped for the top job.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Bosnian Croat War General Dies After Drinking Poison During Trial in the Hague

The wartime commander of Bosnian Croat forces, Slobodan Praljak, has died after he drank poison seconds after UN judges turned down his appeal against a 20-year sentence for war crimes against Bosnian Muslims, Croatian state television reports.

Sources close to Mr Praljak told Croatia’s state TV he died in a hospital in The Hague.

Dutch police will not comment on the TV report based on “sources close to General Praljak”.

Spokesman for the tribunal Nenad Golcevski, when asked if he could confirm the death, said: “I have no information to share at this point”.

Mr Praljak, 72, tilted back his head and took a swing from a bottle shortly after appeals judges confirmed his sentence for involvement in a campaign to drive Muslims out of a would-be Bosnian Croat ministate in Bosnia in the early 1990s.

“I just drank poison,” he said.

“I am not a war criminal. I oppose this conviction.”

Presiding Judge Carmel Agius had overturned some of Mr Praljak’s convictions but left his sentence unchanged.

Judge Agius quickly halted the hearing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Dutch police, an ambulance and a fire truck quickly arrived outside the court’s headquarters and emergency service workers, some of them wearing helmets and with oxygen tanks on their backs, went into the court…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Tehran is Winning the War for Control of the Middle East

by Jonathan Spyer

Saudi Arabia appears to be on a warpath across the Middle East. The Saudi-orchestrated resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Saudi officials’ bellicose rhetoric after the launch of a ballistic missile targeting Riyadh from Yemen, appear to herald a new period of assertiveness against Iranian interests across the Middle East.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s sudden moves on a variety of fronts may superficially have the feel of Michael Corleone’s swift and simultaneous strikes at his family’s enemies in the closing frames of The Godfather. Unlike in the film, however, the credits are not about to roll. Rather, these are the opening moves in an ongoing contest — and it is far from clear that the 32-year-old crown prince has found a formula to reverse Iran’s advantage.

Let’s take a look at the track record so far. The confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran is taking place across a swath of the Middle East in which, over the last decade, states have partially ceased to function — Iraq and Lebanon — or collapsed completely, as in the case of Syria and Yemen. A war over the ruins has taken place in each country, with Riyadh and Tehran arrayed on opposing sides in all of them…

           — Hat tip: KS [Return to headlines]
 

Report: An Alien Bacteria Has Been Brought Back to Earth From the Space Station

A Russian cosmonaut has said that the bacteria recently found on the International Space Station and brought back to earth, is extra-terrestrial. The bacteria did not originate from Earth, however, raising more questions.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

So Much for the Abominable Snowman. Study Finds ‘Yeti’ DNA Belongs to Bears

Hikers in Tibet and the Himalayas need not fear the monstrous yeti—but they’d darn well better carry bear spray. DNA analyses of nine samples purported to be from the “abominable snowman” reveal that eight actually came from various species of bears native to the area.

In the folklore of Nepal, the yeti looms large. The creature is often depicted as an immense, shaggy ape-human that roams the Himalayan hinterlands. Purported sightings over the years, as well as scattered “remains” secreted away in monasteries or held by shamans, have hinted to some that the yeti is not merely a mythical boogeyman.

But science has not borne this out so far. Previous genetic analyses of a couple of hair samples collected in India and Bhutan suggested that one small stretch of their mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)—the genetic material in a cell’s power-generating machinery that’s passed down only by females—resembled that of polar bears. That finding hinted that a previously unknown type of bear, possibly a hybrid between polar bears and brown bears, could be roaming the Himalayas, says Charlotte Lindqvist, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York in Buffalo.

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

How a North Korean Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Could Kill Millions and Turn America Into a Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland

North Korea can now reach New York and Washington DC

This is why North Korea’s test of an intercontinental ballistic missile is so important.

North Korea had test fired a total of 22 missiles so far this year, but this latest one showed that nobody on the globe is out of their reach. In fact, General Mattis is now admitting that “North Korea can basically threaten everywhere in the world”, and that includes the entire continental United States. In addition to hitting individual cities with nukes, there is also the possibility that someday North Korea could try to take down the entire country with an EMP attack. If the North Koreans detonated a single nuclear warhead several hundred miles above the center of the country, it would destroy the power grid and fry electronics from coast to coast.

I would like you to think about what that would mean for a few moments. Suddenly there would be no power at home, at work or at school. Since nearly all of our vehicles rely on computerized systems, you wouldn’t be able to go anywhere and nobody would be able to get to you. And you wouldn’t be able to contact anyone because all phones would be dead. Basically, pretty much everything electronic would be dead. I am talking about computers, televisions, GPS devices, ATMs, heating and cooling systems, refrigerators, credit card readers, gas pumps, cash registers, hospital equipment, traffic lights, etc.

For the first couple of days life would continue somewhat normally, but then people would soon start to realize that the power isn’t coming back on and panic would begin to erupt.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Exclusive: ‘I Was Disappointed Waleed Aly and Karl Stefanovic Weren’t There’: Milo Yiannopoulos Slams ‘Terrified’ Journalists for Not Facing Him as He Lands in Australia — and Denies His Show Was Postponed Over His Outspoken Views

Milo Yiannopoulos was disappointed ‘terrified’ TV presenters and an outspoken feminist weren’t there to greet him when he landed at Sydney Airport on Wednesday.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Hunt for Suspected Bag Snatcher After Elderly Woman, 72, Was Knocked to the Ground and Left Unconscious in Shocking Robbery

A hunt is underway for a man who knocked a 72-year-old woman unconscious in broad daylight for her handbag.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

‘I Was Told I Could Have a Job if I Stopped Wearing a Hijab’: Muslim High School Teacher Explains Why She Refuses to Take Off Her Headscarf

A Muslim woman says she was offered a job as a teenager on the condition she stopped wearing a hijab. Melbourne teacher Inaz Janif says it was a difficult decision to make when she was 18.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS Supported Planned Machine Gun Attack on New Year’s Eve in Melbourne

Australian authorities say they have foiled a plot to carry out an attack on New Year’s Eve by an Islamic State militant group (ISIS) sympathizer in the city of Melbourne.

Police said Tuesday that Ali Ali, an Australian born to Somali parents, sought to target Federation Square in the city center, one of the most popular spots to spend the annual celebration in the city.

The 20-year-old, from the city’s suburb of Werribee, made a court appearance on Tuesday after being charged with making preparations to commit an extremist attack and collecting documents to facilitate it.

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

Jailed Brothers 4 Life Boss Caught With a Phone and Weapons in Ceiling of Cell for a Third Time as He’s Accused of Running Crime Operation From Prison

Convicted killer Bassam Hamzy, 38, has been caught with phones and running his crime operation from inside the prison twice before.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Milo Yiannopoulos Says Muslims Should All be Deported

  • Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos says Muslims should be ‘expelled’
  • Yiannopoulos made the remark to Sydney Muslim businesswoman Emma Eros
  • He told her anyone who identified as Muslim should go back to the Middle East

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

Police Raid Two Homes in Sydney’s North-West During Investigation Into ‘An Armed Robbery at Auburn Girls’ High School’

Two north-west Sydney homes have been raided by police as part of an investigation into an armed robbery at a girls high school.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

The Dramatic Moment a Gang of Four Middle Eastern Men Drive a Stolen Car at a Mother and Her Baby as She Tried to Flee a Terrifying Home Invasion

Horrific video showing a gang attempting to run down a mother holding her baby outside their Melbourne home has been released.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

‘We Prevented a Catastrophe’: Two Teenagers, 16 and 18, Charged With Plotting Columbine-Style Attack on a School Using Firearms and Explosives

Two teenage boys, aged 16 and 18, have been charged with planning a ‘Columbine-style’ (pictured) shooting at a school in the Riverlands area of South Australia.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Prediction: Venezuela Reaches ‘Inability to Pay’ Early Next Year

The Venezuela default watch continues. It looks like everyone will have an answer to the perennial question these days on South America’s biggest basket case nation: when does willingness to pay lose out to the government’s ability to pay? If Nomura Securities is right, it happens in 2018.

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

EU Migrant Policies Rejected by 74 Per Cent of People in Central Europe

A strong majority of Europeans across 11 nations are opposed to the European Union’s (EU) immigration policies, including nearly nine in 10 Hungarians.

The survey was conducted by the Nezopont Institute in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

It revealed that 74 per cent of respondents in those countries believed that the EU’s migration policies have or will be negative for the continent.

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

European Union Remains ‘Committed’ To Opening Borders to 75 Million Turkish Citizens ‘As Soon as Possible’

The European Union (EU) remains “committed to” giving, and is in the later stages of securing, Turkish citizens visa-free travel in the bloc, as well as handing an extra three billion euros to migrants in the nation by next year, a commissioner has said.

The EU’s Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos explained that all elements of the migrant deal with Turkey were moving ahead, after Turkey agreed to stem the tide of Middle Eastern migrants in return for billions in aid and the opening Europe’s borders to Turks.

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

France: Art Museum to Close After Former Nearby Migrant Camp Decimated Visitor Numbers

The Art Ludique museum in Paris is set to close in the new year after a former nearby migrant camp has been blamed for gutting visitor numbers.

The museum, which showcases works of “playful” art and currently has an exhibition relating to DC Comics superheroes, owes more than 600,000 euros in rent. A judge of the district court of Paris has now decided to evict the museum from its current location near the Gare D’Austerlitz train station, Le Journal du Dimanche reports.

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

Impressive Migrant Flow Fall in 5 Mths — Gentiloni

Now time for everyone to out hands to wallets

(ANSA) — Abidjan, November 29 — Premier Paolo Gentiloni on Wednesday voiced satisfaction for the “extraordinary results of the last few months in cutting irregular migrant flows in the hands of traffickers”. He said “the numbers are impressive”.

From July to November, he said, “we went from the 102,786 of 2016 to the 33288 of 2017 in those five months”. He called it a “remarkable fall” and said “fewer arrivals mean weakening the traffickers and making flows more manageable from the standpoint of social acceptance, but also fewer deaths at sea, which are a slap in the face for the EU and Africa”. Gentiloni added that it was now time for “everyone to put their hands to their wallets” to ease the migrant flows from Africa, funding a slew of projects.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Priest Slams Migrant Beggars

In Nuoro

(ANSA) — Nuoro, November 29 — A parish priest in this Sardinian town has caused an outcry by criticising migrant beggars.

In an editorial in his parish weekly, Father Francesco Mariani says “I don’t know you, but I have felt great unease” at migrant beggars in front of the church or outside of bars and supermarkets.

Father Mariani told ANSA: “I’m just trying to make sense of what’s happening”.

Centre-left parties criticised the priest as going against the Catholic Church’s welcoming stance.

But the rightwing Brothers of Italy party defended him, saying “we have always been against clandestine immigration” and saying the priest had been the victim of “hypocritical” attacks for simply speaking his mind.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Trudeau Forces RCMP to Delete Intelligence on Islamic Migrants

On last night’s show, I reported on Justin Trudeau’s decision to force the RCMP to delete 5,000 records about Islamic illegal immigrants.

What began with Muslim men crossing into Canada illegally from Minnesota and North Dakota into Manitoba, where they were aided by police, has turned into a full-scale illegal immigration crisis.

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

President Trump Retweets 3 Videos of Muslims Committing Disgusting Hate Crimes… The Left Explodes

The left woke up in a fury after they discovered President Trump retweeted 3 videos showing disgusting hate crimes committed against Europeans by Muslims.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

12 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/29/2017

  1. ‘OUSTED Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has been ridiculed as a “useful idiot” in the mock “Putin’s champion awards” given out by a Czech Republic think tank.’

    I’m Czech and I never heard about this ‘think tank’. But I know their kind: Every time you encounter these Czech Saloon intelectuals, they tend to think in black and white: you are either with us or you are ‘pro Kremlin’.

    this kind of people speak about our president in terms like ‘our freedom and democracy has been destroyed’ – because our president is pro-Kremlin too. nevermind that he was elected into office by the people’s vote.

    freedom and democracy only so far we agree with you…

  2. I guarantee that this gentleman of color who knocked to the ground the elderly woman in Melbourne, in order to steal her handbag, will not be adequately punished and then deported. This fact alone makes me extremely angry and makes me realise that the west is willfully bringing upon itself the impending mass disaster that is just down the road.

    The PEOPLE THEMSELVES must rise up to defend our civilisation. Yes, I know that the topic of why we aren’t doing so has been quite often written about and discussed on GoV.

  3. An Iraqi immigrant who owned a halal market in Portland, Maine, pleaded guilty to using his store to commit millions of dollars in food stamp fraud.

    Where’s the hand-wringing, inarticulate Sen. Susie Collins?!

    • Now realize how many cash businesses the Ummah run all over the US and multiply this story by a factor of 1000, maybe even 10,000

  4. Herr Seehofer was given a mock name by German independent media as Drehhofer, i.e. Turn-hofer. What a joke this guy is! Sometime in the spring, he let it know that he is going to make a major announcement…like breaking the coalition with Merki. Still waiting. The CSU already lost a significant percentage of votes in Bavaria, its stronghold. I hope he is booted out before he does more damage.

    • FYI: CSU exists as a party _only_ in Bavaria; in place of the CDU in the other states of FRG; OTOH the CDU is not active as a party in Bavaria.

  5. Opening borders to Turkey, sending European wealth to (presumably north) Africa.

    This is not the way of leadership or the creation of a superior domain, this is corrupt politicians applauding themselves for selling their own countries away, while the local population either watches stunned, or worse still basks in the gracious perversion of it all.

    The merchants of destruction :

    “These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.” ”

    Peter.

  6. I admire President Trump for not behaving as “politicians” are expected to, but he really should consult the more informed among his advisors before tweeting.

    “Britain First” has long-standing racist credentials, which gives the media (especially here in the UK) licence to condemn his message. If he’d quoted more reputable sources, especially from the US (eg Jihad Watch, or indeed GoV) his message would hae been harder to refute.

    • Trump tweeting “racist” comments? May he do even more of them: the very term “racist” has become a socialist, neo-Marxist smear in this country. A disgusting smear.

      Keep it up, Trump…we won’t go quietly into that good night the British twilight is beginning to reveal. Give me a so-called “racist” over a soi-disant “tolerant” leftie any day. Theodore Dalrymple, whose ideas I sometimes question, called this term into question more than a decade ago. As in, “death before intolerance”.

      No, Trump should NOT consult the craven before he sends out his messages. He has the right to be intolerant, as do we all. What was once a virtue – i.e., the faculty of discernment – has been bulldozed into oblivion by the suicidally tolerant. Bah!

  7. ** Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos **

    Avramopoulos wants to open Europe to 75 million Turks but this isn’t a provocation. Nothing to upset the status quo from that jasper. No sir. But Milo now. That there is one dangerous firebrand. Look out below!

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