Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/30/2017

A car exploded just yards away from a Christmas market in Harrow in northwest London. The fire brigade was on the scene for an hour or more. Very little additional information is available about the incident, but a post on the 4chan website said that “a car bomb malfunctioned”.

In other news, hundreds of asylum seekers were relocated from their camp on the island of Lesbos to the Greek mainland.

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Financial Crisis
» Total Black Friday Sales Sets Records; Cyber Monday Also Likely a Record
 
USA
» “Surrender Your Firearms” Hawaii Police Plan to Confiscate Guns From All Medical Marijuana Users
» Democrat Senator Reprimanded for Comparing Female Trump Nominee to a Horse: ‘it’s Dehumanizing’ [Video]
» Klukowski: Media Panics Over Sessions’ Success at Justice Department
» Linda Sarsour Comes Out of the Socialist Closet
» Michigan: “Feminist Lawyer Vows to Defend FGM Doctor Who ‘Circumcises’ Girls
» Obama’s Plan for a One-Party Socialist State
» Planet Nine: Theories About the Hypothetical Planet
» Pro-Terrorist Open-Borders Socialist Luis Gutierrez Abruptly Schedules Retirement
» The Filmmaker on Obama’s Enemies List
» Theresa May: Trump Was ‘Wrong’ To Retweet Far-Right Posts
» Trump Demands Investigation Into “Accidental” Death of 28-Yr Old Joe Scarborough Staffer
» Watchdogs Turn Up More Evidence Obama’s EPA Broke Federal Law
 
Canada
» Top 20 Per Cent of Families Pay 56 Per Cent of All Taxes in Canada
 
Europe and the EU
» Germany’s Social Democrats Refuse to Jump Into Bed With Merkel Quickly
» Government Plans Amnesty to Get Grenades Off Sweden’s Streets
» Julius Caesar’s Possible Landing Site Found in England
» Netherlands: Wilders Filed Discrimination Declaration Against PM Rutte
» Soros-Linked European Politicians Demand EU Cut Off Funding to Hungary
» Study: Prehistoric Women Were Stronger Than Today’s Female Athletes
» Sweden: Working on the Front Line in Stockholm’s Vulnerable Suburbs
» Sweden’s New Government Censorship
» Terrorists ‘Certain’ To Get Killer Robots, Says Defence Giant
» UK: ‘Rush Hour Prowler’ Who Has Molested Women and Girls as Young as Eight at Least 25 Times in a Year is Caught on CCTV Running Down the Street After Groping a 15-Year-Old Schoolgirl
» UK: Car Explodes in Middle of Pinner High Street Near Christmas Market Festival in North West London
 
Balkans
» Slobodan Praljak Suicide: Dutch Police Find Lethal Chemical in Vial
 
North Africa
» Egypt: Saving the Sinai
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Gaza: ‘A Very Serious Attack’
 
Middle East
» ISIS Leader Baghdadi Hiding Near Iraq-Syria Border, Alive But Injured, Iraqi Military Says
» Turkey Rejects “Moderate Islam”
 
Russia
» Paleolithic Camel Image Discovered in Russian Cave
 
Far East
» China Expanding Global Clout as US, EU Retreat From Global Stage, Says Report
» North Korea Releases Photos of Hwasong-15 ICBM Launch, Brags About Celebratory Dance Parties
» North Korea: Russia Accuses US of Goading Kim Jong-un
» North Korean Expert: ‘Global Catastrophe Looms’ After Latest Missile Launch
 
Australia — Pacific
» Emotional Sam Dastyari Chokes Back Tears in the Senate as He Makes a Grovelling Apology Over His Links to China After Being Ordered to Resign by Bill Shorten
» ‘Get Your Facts Right, You Peasant’: Milo Yiannopoulos in Radio Clash With Australian Muslim Who Says He ‘Knows Nothing About Islam’ — But Right-Wing Firebrand Claims the Religion Promotes Violence and Rape of Children
» Now, That’s Deep! Mariana Trench Fish Lives 5 Miles Down
» Two Mexican Men Arrested After Trying to Smuggle 300kilos of Cocaine Worth Over $105million Into Melbourne Disguised as Coffee
 
Latin America
» Army’s Role as Police Under Debate in Mexico
 
Immigration
» Blackwater Founder Plans ‘Border Police’ For Libya for ‘Humane’ End to Migrant Crisis
» Germany: Surge in Migrant Attacks Against Police
» Greece Moves Hundreds of Asylum Seekers From Lesvos to Mainland
» Libya Migrants: Emergency Evacuation Operation Agreed
» Muslim Population of the UK Could Triple to 13m Following ‘Record’ Influx
» Pew: Even if Migration Ended, Europe’s Muslim Population Will Continue to Surge
» UK Border Force Chief: “If You’re Here Illegally You Can Survive Very Well, Chances of us Catching You Are Very Slim”
» Why Muslim Immigrant Welfare Fraud Has Exploded… Latest Shop Owner Stole $1 Million!
 
Culture Wars
» D.C. Church Sues After Christmas Ad Rejected As… Too Religious?
» Replacing God With Mind-Altering Drugs
» Shocking Students Into Social Justice
 

Total Black Friday Sales Sets Records; Cyber Monday Also Likely a Record

Preliminary numbers show that online sales on Thanksgiving and Black Friday surged to record highs, with Cyber Monday sales likely to do the same. Adobe Analytics said that the push to buy online will make Monday’s Internet sales — estimated at $6.6 billion — the largest online shopping day in history. In 2014, Cyber Monday sales set a record at $2.65 billion, followed by another record in 2015 at $2.98 billion. If the present pace continues, online shopping will have more than doubled in just two years.

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

“Surrender Your Firearms” Hawaii Police Plan to Confiscate Guns From All Medical Marijuana Users

The Honolulu Police Department has sent a series of letters to local medical marijuana patients that directly orders them to surrender their firearms or, presumably, face state sanctioned violence to remove them.

Signed by Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard, the letters “inform” patients that upon receipt of the confiscation order, a citizen has 30 days to turn over their guns to the police. This stunning move amounts to direct gun confiscation for people who have no history of violent crimes.

As Leafly noted, “The existence of the notices, first reported early today by Russ Belville at The Marijuana Agenda podcast, was confirmed to Leafly News this afternoon by the Honolulu Police Department.

“The startling order comes just three months after the state’s first medical marijuana dispensary opened in Hawaii’s capital city.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrat Senator Reprimanded for Comparing Female Trump Nominee to a Horse: ‘it’s Dehumanizing’ [Video]

A Democratic Senator tried to compare Trump nominee Kathleen Hartnett White to a horse during testimony before members of the Environment and Public Works Committee…Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse tried to relate a story of Caligula’s horse to the nominee but it went over like a lead balloon. We could start off by saying as a rule of thumb that a woman should never be compared to a horse…Not a good idea. This arrogant and insensitive Senator thought he would get away with demeaning Ms. White…Watch what happens when Senator Barrasso gets his two cents worth in…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Klukowski: Media Panics Over Sessions’ Success at Justice Department

Establishment media elites at the Washington Post recently attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a full-length editorial piece disguised as a news report.

They criticize Sessions for adhering to conservative principles, being faithful to the historically lawful role of the attorney general’s office, and carrying out President Donald Trump’s agenda. In short, the Post hits Sessions for doing his job.

Although they likely did not mean it as a compliment, the Jeff Bezos-owned Post’s writers admit, “Supporters and critics say the attorney general has been among the most effective of the Cabinet secretaries.” The authors then go through a laundry list of items from Sessions and the Department of Justice (DOJ) he leads, all consistent with the president’s MAGA agenda that Americans voted for in November 2016.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Linda Sarsour Comes Out of the Socialist Closet

In my documentary “America Under Seige: Soviet Islam,” I made the case that many American Muslim leaders are also Marxists.

One among them is well known activist Linda Sarsour.

The Brooklyn radical recently formally joined this country’s largest crypto-communist organization, the 30,000 strong Democratic Socialists of America.

DSA and other Marxist groups have been actively recruiting Muslim activists all over the country. The Red/Green Axis, begun in pre-revolutionary Russia, is now very much a feature of political life in pre-revolutionary America.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Michigan: “Feminist Lawyer Vows to Defend FGM Doctor Who ‘Circumcises’ Girls

A Detroit-area doctor charged with mutilating the genitals of young girls in violation of federal law walked out of jail Tuesday a free woman as her lawyer was able to arrange the largest unsecured-bond in the jurisdiction’s history.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Obama’s Plan for a One-Party Socialist State

Trevor Loudon analyzes the massive Republican defeat in Virginia on November 7, 2017, in the context of Barack Obama’s return to Marxist power politics and the “Brown is the New White” strategy of taking total control in the United States. The views of Trevor Loudon do not represent those of America’s Survival, Inc. and are presented for purposes of news and information.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Planet Nine: Theories About the Hypothetical Planet

A massive ice giant may be traveling through the outer solar system. Dubbed “Planet Nine,” the hypothetical world was proposed to exist after scientists noticed that a handful of objects beyond Pluto had been shaken up in unusual orbits. Search parties have formed to find the unseen planet, with optimistic hopes of spotting it within a year.

“It’s not crazy; this is the kind of stuff people are finding all the time,” co-discoverer Mike Brown, at the California Institute of Technology, told Space.com earlier this year. Brown and lead author Konstantin Batygin, also at CalTech, published a paper in January 2016 suggesting that a massive planet could be stirring up the icy bodies of the Kuiper Belt, a ring of material at the edge of the solar system.

“We just need to go out and cover a good swath of the sky.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Pro-Terrorist Open-Borders Socialist Luis Gutierrez Abruptly Schedules Retirement

Since when do radical leftists — from Chicago, of all places — decide to leave Congress to spend more time with family?

One of the most ardent and effective open-borders advocates, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), announced Tuesday that he will not seek reelection next year. At the same time he made it clear he wants another Chicago radical, Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, to succeed him as congressman from the 4th congressional district in the Land of Lincoln.

Gutierrez’s departure is welcome news for those of us who know his history, because in addition to his open-borders advocacy, Gutierrez is one of the most ardent, extreme leftists in Congress. On the leftist echo chamber known as MSNBC hours after his surprise announcement, the 13-term congressman who has devoted his life to fundamentally transforming America, claimed he just suddenly out of the clear blue sky decided 1) he wanted to spend more time with his family 2) he wanted to focus on rebuilding Puerto Rico, which he called his “ancestral home,” and 3) he wanted to politically organize the immigrant community, by which he probably means the illegal alien community.

At Politico, Natasha Korecki isn’t buying the lawmaker’s excuses for quitting…

Gutierrez is a collaborator and ardent supporter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR is a front group for the terrorist organization, HAMAS, and is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land terrorism financing trial — the largest trial of its kind in U.S. history. CAIR only escaped prosecution because newly-elected president Barack Obama shut down the investigation.

Gutierrez gave a speech at CAIR Chicago’s banquet in 2012, which was themed “A Future Without Bigotry.” Of CAIR, he has said, “Through it all, CAIR has been a steady force steering us towards understanding and the core values that define our nation. Whether it is working in Chicago to build bridges or tirelessly walking the halls of Congress in Washington, CAIR is there.”

Gutierrez has a strange notion of what constitutes the “core values that define our nation.” He was one of the primary advocates for the pardon and release of 16 FALN terrorists by President Clinton. Deborah Burlingame, whose brother was killed in Flight 93 on 9/11, sent a letter in 2013 to now-House Speaker Paul Ryan regarding the Wisconsin Republican’s willingness to work with Gutierrez on immigration issues:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Filmmaker on Obama’s Enemies List

In 2016, the three Democrats on the FEC voted to punish filmmaker Joel Gilbert for distributing a film critical of President Barack Obama during the 2012 campaign. That film was titled, “Dreams from My Real Father.” In that film, Gilbert cited evidence that Obama’s mentor, Communist Party operative Frank Marshall Davis, was his biological father, and that the media conspired with Obama to conceal the truth. For his efforts, Gilbert’s personal financial affairs were investigated by a George Soros-linked journalist and he was targeted by the IRS. Joel’s research has uncovered evidence that Obama was “likely” a member of the May 19th Communist Organization, an above ground support group for the terrorist Weather Underground that was based in New York City from 1978-1985, during Obama’s time at Columbia University in the early 1980’s.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Theresa May: Trump Was ‘Wrong’ To Retweet Far-Right Posts

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said Donald Trump was “wrong” to retweet posts from a British far-right group.

But she stressed the “special relationship” between Britain and the US was “in both our nations’ interests” and should continue.

And she rejected calls to cancel a state visit by the US president.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Demands Investigation Into “Accidental” Death of 28-Yr Old Joe Scarborough Staffer

Earlier today, President Trump called for an investigation into the death of Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old staffer for then-Congressman Joe Scarborough. Many Morning Joe viewers probably have forgotten, or never knew, that the body of a female aide once was found in Scarborough’s Congressional office. Investigators quickly saw that a blow to the head, delivered accidentally or intentionally, was involved in Lori Klausutis’ death. There are also some serious questions as to the mental competency of the doctor who performed the autopsy, as well as an important question about why there was no time of death recorded on his autopsy.

According to the Daily Kos: Joe Scarborough, a U.S. Congressman from Florida’s 1st District from 1995 suddenly resigned only 5 months into his 4th term in September 2001. His reason? The classic “In order to spend more time with his children”

Curiously, just 2 months before he resigned, his 28-year-old staffer was found dead in his office.

While Mainstream Media was hounding Democrat U.S. Congressman Gary Condit about his missing ex-intern, Chandra Levy, viewers heard next to nothing about Joe’s intern, a healthy 28-year-old woman was found dead in his Congressional District Office in Fort Walton Beach, FL.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Watchdogs Turn Up More Evidence Obama’s EPA Broke Federal Law

Documents show EPA used social media to lobby support for Waters of the United States rule

Former President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency used a social media platform to secretly promote the agency’s policies in violation of federal law, according to a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C.

Judicial Watch obtained 900 pages of documents Monday showing the EPA used social media to lobby support for the Waters of the United States rule. The agency used Thunderclap, a platform that shares messages across Facebook and Twitter, to recruit outside groups to generate support for various environmental policies.

Federal law prohibits agencies from engaging in propaganda. It also forbids agencies from using federal resources to conduct grass-roots campaigns that prod U.S. citizens into browbeating lawmakers to act on pending legislation.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Top 20 Per Cent of Families Pay 56 Per Cent of All Taxes in Canada

Despite common misperceptions that top earners pay little tax, Canada’s top income-earners pay a disproportionate-and growing-share of all taxes collected by government, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.

“The notion of tax fairness has come up recently to justify even higher taxes on top earners, but in reality, they already pay a disproportionate share of the tax bill,” said Charles Lammam, director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute and co-author of Measuring the Distribution of Taxes in Canada: Do the Rich Pay Their “Fair Share”?

The study finds that this year, the top 20 per cent of income earners in Canada-families with an annual income greater than $186,875-will earn 49.1 per cent of all income in Canada but pay 55.9 per cent of all taxes including not just income taxes, but payroll taxes, sales taxes and property taxes, among others.

The discrepancy is even more pronounced for the top one per cent of earners. While this group will pay 14.7 per cent of all taxes in 2017 (up from 11.3 per cent in 1997), it will earn a smaller percentage (10.7 per cent) of all income.

By comparison, the bottom 50 per cent of income-earning families in Canada earn 20 per cent of all income, but pay just 14.6 per cent of all taxes.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germany’s Social Democrats Refuse to Jump Into Bed With Merkel Quickly

BERLIN (Reuters) — Germany’s Social Democrat (SPD) Foreign Minister said on Thursday that his party would not be quick to agree to another grand coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, as party leaders met with the president in a bid to end political deadlock.

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

Government Plans Amnesty to Get Grenades Off Sweden’s Streets

The hope is that criminals will choose to give up some of the grenades that are in circulation during the proposed three-month amnesty between October 2018 and January 2019.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Julius Caesar’s Possible Landing Site Found in England

KENT, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, a team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester say a defensive ditch found on the southeastern tip of England may have been left behind by Julius Caesar’s invasion of Britain in 54 B.C. The ditch measures about 16 feet wide, and resembles first-century B.C. Roman defenses uncovered in France. The researchers also uncovered iron weapons, including a Roman javelin, and human bones bearing injuries.

The site, located near the open sandy shore of Pegwell Bay, probably included a fort and served to protect Caesar’s 800 Roman ships. “The main purpose of the site is to defend the fleet,” said researcher Andrew Fitzpatrick.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Netherlands: Wilders Filed Discrimination Declaration Against PM Rutte

PVV leader Geert Wilders filed a declaration against Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Thursday morning accusing him of “discrimination against all Dutch people”. According to Wilders, asylum seekers receive more benefits than Dutch, and because of that and other things, Rutte is guilty of “punishable and criminal behavior”, AD reports.

Wilders visited a police station in The Hague on Thursday with a letter to the Public Prosecutor and a big cart full of boxes with statements of support. The street was closed down to traffic while this happened, according to AD.

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

Soros-Linked European Politicians Demand EU Cut Off Funding to Hungary

Four major European political figures have written a letter to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker demanding that the European Union stop payments to Hungary, arguing democracy had become corrupted by the ruling Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

The letter was signed by former German Finance Minister Hans Eichel, and ex-European Commissioners Pascal Lamy, Franz Fischler, and Yannis Paleokrassas. They wrote that the political bloc should cut off funding to Hungary unless “basic democratic freedoms are reinstated and corruption counteracted”, Euronews reports.

“We strongly believe that this is also a pre-condition for continuing EU funding to less developed regions — which is indispensable for the future of the European Union — in the period following 2020 in light of growing resentment all over Europe about the inefficient and improper use of EU funds,” the letter said.

Eichel and Lamy have links to Hungarian-born left-wing billionaire George Soros through the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) of which both are listed as members. The ECFR was created by Soros and his Open Society Foundations which continue to give the ECFR millions of dollars per year.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Study: Prehistoric Women Were Stronger Than Today’s Female Athletes

Prehistoric women that lived in Central Europe during the first 5,500 years of farming had stronger upper arms than living female rowing champions, according to a new study.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Sweden: Working on the Front Line in Stockholm’s Vulnerable Suburbs

In 2017 eight new areas were added to a much talked about police list of ‘especially vulnerable areas’ in Sweden, suburbs with socio-economic problems, where crime sometimes means police and emergency services workers have to specially adapt their methods to get the job done.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Sweden’s New Government Censorship

The Swedish government is now officially questioning free speech. A government agency has declared so-called Swedish “new media” — news outlets that refuse to subscribe to the politically correct orthodoxies of the mainstream media — a possible threat to democracy. In a government report, tellingly called “The White Hatred” written by Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut (Total Defense Research Institute), a government agency under the Swedish Ministry of Defense, Swedish new media such as Samhällsnytt (formerly known as Avpixlat), Nyheter Idag and Nya Tider are lumped together with neo-Nazi media such as Nordfront.

“Hate” is defined broadly to include violent extremism, “hateful expressions”, jokes, internet trolling and even the use of certain quotation marks. For instance, in the report, placing the word “refugees” in quotation marks, as well as “unaccompanied children,” is supposedly an expression of “hate”. (Many, if not most, migrants classified as “unaccompanied children” have turned out to be grown men).

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

Terrorists ‘Certain’ To Get Killer Robots, Says Defence Giant

Rogue states and terrorists will get their hands on lethal artificial intelligence “in the very near future”, a House of Lords committee has been told.

Alvin Wilby, vice-president of research at French defence giant Thales, which supplies reconnaissance drones to the British Army, said the “genie is out of the bottle” with smart technology.

And he raised the prospect of attacks by “swarms” of small drones that move around and select targets with only limited input from humans.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

UK: ‘Rush Hour Prowler’ Who Has Molested Women and Girls as Young as Eight at Least 25 Times in a Year is Caught on CCTV Running Down the Street After Groping a 15-Year-Old Schoolgirl

This is the moment a ‘serial sex attacker’ ran down the street after allegedly groping a 15-year-old schoolgirl.

About 25 women and girls, as young as eight, have reported being attacked in the past year in south London, mainly in Lewisham and Greenwich but also including Southwark, Bromley and Bexley.

Officers believe the assaults are linked and may have been committed by the same person.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Car Explodes in Middle of Pinner High Street Near Christmas Market Festival in North West London

A CAR exploded in the middle of the street just yards from where children and families were celebrating a Christmas fayre.

Firefighters were called to Pinner High Street in Harrow after the car burst into flames during the festive fun.

People out for the annual Pinner Panto — attended by more than 10,000 — were ushered away from the burning vehicle by cops and stewards.

Witnesses filmed the fireball after it exploded metres from the community event.

Dramatic photos show the car engulfed in fire as firefighters battle the blaze.

The car was parked metres from one of the children’s rides along the high street.

No injuries were reported and the fire was under control by 7pm.

The Metropolitan Police had no record of the incident but a London Fire Brigade spokeswoman said they were sent to a car fire just before 6pm and left the scene after an hour.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Slobodan Praljak Suicide: Dutch Police Find Lethal Chemical in Vial

A vial drained by Bosnian Croat war criminal Slobodan Praljak in front of the Hague tribunal contained a lethal chemical, Dutch prosecutors have confirmed.

The authorities are investigating how he smuggled poison into the high-security courtroom.

Praljak, 72, died in hospital after declaring to the court that he was innocent and drinking from the vial.

His 20-year sentence for war crimes in Bosnia had just been reaffirmed.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Egypt: Saving the Sinai

Egypt is no longer sovereign in the Sinai Peninsula. Islamic State terrorists, moving freely throughout the Sinai’s Northern Province, have been delivering stinging defeats on Egypt’s military and police convoys. The November 24 mass murder of Sufi Muslim worshippers by radical Sunni terrorists in the Northern Sinai Province underlines the Egyptian government’s loss of control in the area. If Cairo changes its tactics and strategy, however, the Sinai can be saved.

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

Gaza: ‘A Very Serious Attack’

Terrorists operating in the Gaza Strip fired at least a dozen mortar shells at an IDF engineering team inside Israeli territory near the border with Gaza Thursday afternoon, prompting the Israeli military to respond with airstrikes and tank fire.

Twelve mortar shells were fired at the engineering team which was carrying out work near the Gaza border fence. No injuries were reported, but the sudden attack prompted temporary shutdowns of the train system in Ashkelon and Sderot.

In response to the attack, Israel Air Force fighters struck targets inside the Gaza Strip. IDF tank units inside of Israel also opened fire on terrorist positions inside Gaza. A total of four targets were hit during the IDF operation.

Following the mortar attack, the IDF’s chief spokesperson, Brigadier General Ronen Manelis, claimed that the Islamic Jihad terrorist group was responsible for the mortar fire.

Manelis noted that the attack took place exactly one month after Israel destroyed a terror tunnel which extended from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

The demolition killed a dozen terrorists, most of them affiliated with the Islamic Jihad terror group. Israeli forces managed to recover the remains of five Islamic Jihad terrorists, and has refused to return them to Gaza.

In a press briefing Thursday afternoon, Manelis said the incident constituted a serious escalation.

“This was a serious attack by Islamic Jiahd, in which 10 to 12 mortars were fired at an army position north of the Gaza Strip, where work is being conducted on the fence.”

Manelis added that the IDF’s airstrikes and tank fire were only the “initial response” and that more actions would be taken against Islamic Jihad.

“The IDF’s initial response included strikes on four [terrorist] targets. Two of them belonged to Islamic Jihad, while two were [operated] by Hamas.”[…]

[A very noisy afternoon]

           — Hat tip: MC [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS Leader Baghdadi Hiding Near Iraq-Syria Border, Alive But Injured, Iraqi Military Says

The leader of the Islamic State group (ISIS), now in retreat across the Mideast, remains alive, albeit wounded, and hiding near the Iraq-Syria border, according to intelligence gathered by Iraq’s Ministry of Defense (MOD).

“We have a lot of information. He is alive, moving between the Iraq and Syria border in desert areas,” Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, the spokesperson for the MOD and for Joint Operations Command, in partnership with the U.S.-led coalition, told Fox News in Baghdad on Tuesday. “There are still ISIS sleeper cells scattered in these desert areas.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Turkey Rejects “Moderate Islam”

“These epithets of ‘moderate Islam’ are very ugly, it is disrespectful and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.” — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In keeping with Erdogan’s assertions, the Turkish government-funded Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) published in July a detailed 140-page report, which stated that Islam is “superior” to Judaism and Christianity, and that “interfaith dialogue is unacceptable.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Paleolithic Camel Image Discovered in Russian Cave

BASHKIRIA, RUSSIA—According to a report in Newsweek, an image of a two-humped camel has been discovered by restorative specialist Eudald Guillamet in the southern Ural Mountains. Guillamet was cleaning graffiti from a rock art panel in Kapova Cave when he found the camel image, painted in red ochre and partially outlined in charcoal. Uranium-thorium dating of calcite deposits suggests the camel was painted between 14,500 and 37,700 years old, at a time when camels did not live in the region.

Researchers led by Vladislav Zhitenev of Moscow State University suggest the artist may have traveled a long distance to the cave. Horses, bison, mammoths, and woolly rhinoceroses—animals seen in other European caves—were painted as well.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

China Expanding Global Clout as US, EU Retreat From Global Stage, Says Report

China has been free to quietly advance its global interests and influence as US President Donald Trump and European Union leaders retreat from the world stage amid domestic distractions, according to a new report by leading American and European think tanks.

Beijing’s growing global clout — visible in its aggressive handling of regional disputes and expansive economic diplomacy — are “undermining” the interests of the US and Europe, which may now be unable to make up lost ground, the report from the Centre for American Progress and the Mercator Institute for China Studies said.

This has become particularly apparent under Chinese President Xi Jinping, newly empowered after the 19th Communist Party Congress, as he pushes his government’s Belt and Road international trade and infrastructure initiative and depicts himself as a defender of globalisation, it said.

“China’s influence in Asia has been rising for years, but without a coherent US or European strategy to work with China where possible and push back against China when necessary, the Trump administration and the European Union are allowing regional challenges to fester,” Helena Legarda at the Mercator Institute and Michael Fuchs at the Centre for American Progress wrote.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

North Korea Releases Photos of Hwasong-15 ICBM Launch, Brags About Celebratory Dance Parties

North Korea released dozens of photos Thursday showing the events leading up to its latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch, including pics of despot Kim Jong Un howling in laughter after he ordered his rocket men to “fire with courage.”

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

North Korea: Russia Accuses US of Goading Kim Jong-un

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the US of seeking to provoke North Korea into stepping up its nuclear missile programme.

He rejected a call by the American envoy to the UN Security Council to sever ties with the North after its latest ballistic missile test.

Russia argues sanctions do not work and advocates negotiations instead.

The US has warned that North Korea’s government will be “utterly destroyed” if war breaks out.

On Wednesday, the North tested its first missile in two months, saying the continental US was now within striking distance.

However, defence experts have cast doubt on its ability to master the technology needed to launch a missile carrying a warhead capable of re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

North Korean Expert: ‘Global Catastrophe Looms’ After Latest Missile Launch

An expert on North Korea says that a “global catastrophe” is now looming following a powerful missile launch by the rogue regime on Wednesday. Blaine Harden has spent decades reporting on North Korea, and he said doing so has been unlike any other assignment.

According to ABC News, Harden has not only visited and reported on North Korea’s totalitarian state, he has written three books focused exclusively on nonfiction narratives uncovered through his years of work and research there. His latest book, King of Spies, lays out the largely unknown story of Donald Nichols, an unlikely yet effective American spymaster.

“North Korea is, you know, the longest-lasting totalitarian state in the history of the planet. Seventy years almost. And there’s nothing like it,” Harden told ABC News.

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Emotional Sam Dastyari Chokes Back Tears in the Senate as He Makes a Grovelling Apology Over His Links to China After Being Ordered to Resign by Bill Shorten

Embattled Labor senator Sam Dastyari had a long day in the Australian Senate on Thursday, choking back tears as he delivered an emotional speech.

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‘Get Your Facts Right, You Peasant’: Milo Yiannopoulos in Radio Clash With Australian Muslim Who Says He ‘Knows Nothing About Islam’ — But Right-Wing Firebrand Claims the Religion Promotes Violence and Rape of Children

Milo Yiannopoulos has been involved in a fiery clash with an Australian Muslim who claimed the right-wing mischief-maker ‘doesn’t know one thing about Islam’.

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Now, That’s Deep! Mariana Trench Fish Lives 5 Miles Down

The dark and chilly depths of the ocean’s so-called “midnight zone” thousands of feet below the surface are home to numerous species of bizarre-looking and fearsome fish. Many of these creatures have oversized jaws filled with massive teeth.

But a deceptively vulnerable-looking fish is not only right at home in the very deepest ocean environment on Earth — where few creatures can survive — it’s also one of the region’s top predators.

And now, for the first time, scientists have collected specimens of this unusual creature. Dubbed the Mariana snailfish, it swims in the Mariana Trench near Guam, at a depth of about 26,200 feet (8,000 meters).

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Two Mexican Men Arrested After Trying to Smuggle 300kilos of Cocaine Worth Over $105million Into Melbourne Disguised as Coffee

Two Mexican men have been arrested over the attempted importation of 300kg of cocaine into Melbourne via air cargo in pallets of cocoa powder.

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Army’s Role as Police Under Debate in Mexico

A bill to give legal justification for Mexico’s armed forces to assume police roles advanced in the country’s Congress Thursday over objections by rights groups and opposition legislators who say it would provide for an open-ended militarization.

Supporters say Mexico’s armed forces have to stay in the streets to fight gangs, given the incapacity of local police forces. But critics say that’s all the more reason to have a calm, detailed debate about whether the law should allow the army to perform law enforcement, how and for how long.

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Blackwater Founder Plans ‘Border Police’ For Libya for ‘Humane’ End to Migrant Crisis

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater military contractor, has proposed a plan to “humanely” stem the tide of migrants travelling through Libya in an attempt to reach the European Union (EU).

His plan comes amid reports of terrible human rights abuses in the North African nation, including claims that Arab forces are selling black Africans in slave markets.

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Germany: Surge in Migrant Attacks Against Police

Violent attacks against German police have reached epidemic proportions, and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door migration policy is to blame, official statistics show.

The Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA) reported 36,755 attacks against German police in 2016 — or an average of 100 per day, a significant increase over previous years.

Violence — including verbal and physical assaults, and even murder — against police is rampant in all 16 of Germany’s federal states. According to the BKA, the epicenter of the problem in 2016 was North Rhine-Westphalia (8,929 incidents), the state with the largest migrant population, followed by: Bavaria (4,930); Baden-Wurttemberg (4,355); Berlin (3,154); Lower Saxony (3,030); Hesse (1,870); Saxony (1,573); Rhineland-Palatinate (1,537); Hamburg (1,339); Thuringen (1,228); Schleswig-Holstein (1,237); Brandenburg (1,009); Saxony-Anhalt (899); Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (658); Saarland (521); and Bremen (486).

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Greece Moves Hundreds of Asylum Seekers From Lesvos to Mainland

Greek authorities on Thursday said they have moved a few hundred asylum seekers from the island of Lesvos to the mainland in an effort to ease overcrowding in its camps.

Thousands of asylum seekers have become stranded on Lesbos and four other islands close to Turkey since the European Union agreed a deal with Ankara in March 2016 to shut down the route through Greece.

“I came to heaven from hell,” said 30-year old Mohammad Firuz, who lived for two months in a state-run camp in Lesvos.

Firuz was among 300 people, many of them women and children, aboard a ferry that reached the port of Piraeus early on Thursday morning. The asylum seekers would be taken to camps and apartments in the mainland, authorities said.

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Libya Migrants: Emergency Evacuation Operation Agreed

An urgent evacuation plan has been devised for migrants facing abuse in Libyan detention camps.

It was drawn up at an African Union-European Union summit in Ivory Coast.

Libya’s UN-backed administration joined the agreement, but has only limited control over the territory, raising questions about how it will work in practice.

The migrants will be sent mainly back to their home countries.

The move follows the publication of video footage that appeared to show migrants from sub-Saharan Africa being sold in Libya as slaves.

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Muslim Population of the UK Could Triple to 13m Following ‘Record’ Influx

The Muslim population of the UK is set to triple in 20 years, according to projections from the Pew Research Centre.

Under the model which assumes median migration levels, the number of Muslims in the country would rise from 4.1m in 2016 to 13m in 2050.

The US-based think tank says that the UK has been the major destination for economic migrants coming to Europe, while Germany has been the top destination for refugees.

It said the research followed a “record influx of asylum seekers fleeing conflicts in Syria and other predominantly Muslim countries”.

The UK also has one of the largest gaps in fertility rates between Muslims and non-Muslims, with Muslim women having an average of 2.9 children compared to the 1.8 had by non-Muslims.

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Pew: Even if Migration Ended, Europe’s Muslim Population Will Continue to Surge

The Muslim population of Sweden could hit 30 per cent by 2050 if current migration patterns continue, with the figure hitting 14 per cent continent-wide unless there are radical changes to Europe’s attitudes and policies towards mass migration.

Even in the unlikely case that all migration from outside the European Union suddenly and permanently ended, the new research on Europe’s rapidly shifting demographics found that by 2050 the Muslim population of the continent would hit 7.4 per cent, up from 4.9 per cent in 2016.

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UK Border Force Chief: “If You’re Here Illegally You Can Survive Very Well, Chances of us Catching You Are Very Slim”

A top trade union official for the UK Border Force has revealed that illegal migrants can live a good life in Britain, with access to services and schools and little chance of ever being caught.

Lucy Moreton made the shock admission in an interview with The Sun newspaper, stating: “If you are here illegally you can survive very well, you access medical services your child can go to school the chances of us catching you are very, very slim.”

She explained that successive Tory governments under incumbent Theresa May and predecessor David Cameron have not prioritised border protection and that her agency is simply incapable of doing its job.

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Why Muslim Immigrant Welfare Fraud Has Exploded… Latest Shop Owner Stole $1 Million!

The cases of fraud, money laundering and theft of American tax dollars by Muslim immigrants is outrageous! The list just keeps on growing…Why? Because the punishment is just a slap on the hand and these people are NEVER deported!

The case below is just the latest in a string of Muslim immigrants who take advantage of our system:

A man accused of running a welfare scam out of a Portland halal grocery is pleading guilty. The market sells meat permissible under Muslim law. According to federal court documents, Ali Ratib Daham is pleading guilty to federal food stamp and other welfare fraud. He is also admitting to money laundering and theft from the state’s MaineCare program. Daham is agreeing to a jail sentence of at least 33 months and will pay more than $1 million in restitution to the government. In exchange, prosecutors are agreeing to drop dozens of other charges in the case.The plea deal will be considered in federal district court Tuesday. The guilty plea could cause him to be deported.

They never deport these people, and tell me how is he going to repay $1 million when I’ll bet the money was moved abroad a long time ago. Yes, these crooks send the money back home!

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D.C. Church Sues After Christmas Ad Rejected As… Too Religious?

This is America! We celebrate Christmas in overwhelming numbers AND we are a Christian nation. So why in the world would the D.C. Metro deny a Christmas ad from the Catholic Church? Many others would like to know the answer to this question! It’s so outrageous that the church is suing the D.C. Metro…

The Catholic Church is currently suing the Washington D.C. Metro for rejecting its Christmas advertisement because of its promotion of religion.

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Replacing God With Mind-Altering Drugs

The Soros-funded movement to legalize drugs now wants to make “mind-expanding” drugs more available, even mandatory, in order to erase traditional Christianity and transform consciousness through “New Age” practices. Dr. Tina Trent, a researcher for www.sorosfiles.com, explains how promoting “psychedelic medicine” will lay the groundwork for this insidious campaign.

[Comment: Soma for the masses — all to keep the cattle dumbed down and doped up — this is the globalist viewpoint.]

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Shocking Students Into Social Justice

Students at San Diego State University were recently given the opportunity to go through a series of “disturbing sensory experiences” designed to drive out their ingrained prejudice and reinforce politically correct behavior. The workshop, entitled Journey to a Shared Humanity, consists of several vignettes designed to shame students into accepting liberal orthodoxy.

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9 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/30/2017

  1. ** the doctor who performed the autopsy, **

    JFK, Vince Foster, Ms. Klausutis and the kids in the Arkansas train deaths case IIRC all had bizarre autopsies involved. No connection between these is implied but it’s curious how sketchy (I’m being polite) medical examinations have played key roles in very, very sensitive crimes. That federal court’s suppression of Foster’s post-mortem x-rays (photos?) because of Lisa Foster’s “privacy” stank up the neighborhood. Photos/x-rays of JFK also went walkabout from the National Archives. You can see why the world is hungry for our leadership.

    Jocelyn Elders was instrumental in keeping Bill Clinton’s mother from being sanctioned for her role in a surgical death. Elders later was appointed Surgeon General, clear evidence that the U.S. is still a meritocracy. Well, then, anyway. Now we are shooting for Mecca on the Potomac.

    Just reliving the good times.

  2. .
    Dan, Ingrid & Conrad – Free Sweden:
    An Association to Ensure a Future for Swedish People

    https://youtu.be/Be6f9_2EHlc

    Dan Eriksson lives in Berlin, Germany and is Nationalistic writer, public speaker, podcaster and online video producer for Motgift (antidote). Ingrid Carlqvist worked in mainstream media for many years, before starting Dispatch International with Lars Hedegaard in 2012. She has been a writer for Gatestone Institute and co-hosts the popular Swedish podcast, Ingrid & Conrad. Daniel Frändelöv – a former leftie – who goes by the name Conrad, has been running the popular Swedish podcast Ingrid & Conrad since 2015. For the past five six years, he’s been preoccupied with the thought of the destruction of Sweden and was previously the co-host of Radio Länsman.

    Our guests join us to discuss a new exciting nationalist initiative called Free Sweden. First, we discuss how Free Sweden came to be. We learn that the organization, which was created to serve the interests of Swedes, has gathered gained an impressive membership and substantial funding since its recent launch. We then discuss Sweden’s demographic woes. Our guests explain that the Swedish state has become hostile to the interests of ethnic Swedes, which is why Free Sweden is so necessary. Later, we discuss how Free Sweden is not a separatist organization – quite the contrary, The show also covers the need to reconnect with nature, the Swedish
    government’s response to Free Sweden, and the meaning behind the organization’s symbol.

    Guests website: https://www.detfriasverige.se/english/

  3. So the immigrants are no longer Lesbosians, they’ve gone to be truly Greek. Paraphrase from the Satyricon which I had the dubious pleasure of translating.

  4. And in Berlin explosive found again in Berlin near Christmas market in Potsdam , , it’s gonna be again and again, …

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