Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/1/2018

Violent protests against the Iranian regime entered their fifth day, with more demonstrators reported killed by security forces. When protesters surrounded a member of the Basij, the regime’s paramilitary religious police, rather than kill him, they debagged him and sent him on his way, humiliated. However, there is a report that a protester armed with a rifle shot and killed a policeman.

In other news, the number of cars torched in France over New Year’s rose by more than 10% to 1,031.

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USA
» California Prosecutes Man for Posting Anti-Muslim Messages on Facebook
» Epic Corruption: Unsealed Court Documents Show How Prosecutors Tried to Rig the Bundy Trial
» ‘Never, Ever Give Up’: Hunter Survives Subzero Nightmare
» Vehicle Strikes Pedestrians at Geary & 21st in San Francisco
» Woman Attacks Neighbor Over American Flag in Yard
 
Europe and the EU
» “We Won’t be Blackmailed”: 10 Times in 2017 Central Europe Defied the EU
» Assange Tweets Mysterious Encryption Key at 3am; Sparks Rumors About His Safety, New Leaks
» France Sees Surge in New Year’s Eve Car Torchings and Arrests
» Germany: Seven Arrested for Sexual Assault at Berlin NYE Celebrations
» Germany: Revelers Enjoy Largely Peaceful New Year’s Festivities
» Germany Implements New Internet Hate Speech Crackdown
» Germany: Several Arrested in Berlin, Cologne Over Suspected Sexual Assault During Nye Celebrations
» Hungary Fueling Fights Against Demographic Decline
» Macron Vows ‘French Renaissance’ In 2018
» Several Arrested in Berlin, Cologne Over Suspected Sexual Assault During Nye Celebrations
» Sexual Assaults Reported in Berlin Despite ‘Safety Area’ For Women
» Swedish Police Find ‘No Direct Links’ After Malmo’s 4th Gang Rape in 2 Months
» UK: Four Young Men Die in New Year London Stabbings
» UK: How 1,000C Car Park Inferno Vaporised the Floor: Apocalyptic Images Show Gutted Multi-Storey With No Sprinklers Where All 1,400 Vehicles Were Reduced to Ashes by Heat That Could Melt Aluminium
» UK: London 2018: Vast Areas of East, North and South London “No-Go Zones” Because of Acid Attack Epidemic
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Israeli Arabs Have Highest Life Expectancy in Arab Muslim World
 
Middle East
» Defiant Iran Protesters Steal Revolutionary Guard’s Trousers
» Iranian Protestors Attack Police Stations, Raise Stakes in Unrest
» Why Can’t the American Media Cover the Protests in Iran?
 
South Asia
» Donald Trump Attacks Pakistan Claiming ‘They Have Given us Nothing But Lies and Deceit’ In Return for $33bn Aid
 
Far East
» China’s Next Big Space Mission: The Far Side of the Moon
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘It’s No Excuse!’ Sudanese Activist Shuts Down ABC Interviewer After She Asks if Violence by African Gang Members is Understandable Because ‘Many of Them Have Been Traumatised’
» ‘Someone’s Going to Get Killed’: Sudanese Youth Worker Blasts Top Cop for Downplaying African Gang Terror in Victoria and Says it’s Time to Stop Being ‘Politically Correct’
» ‘Violent Africans Youths Don’t Want to be Australians’: Politician Says Gang Members Must be Deported and Calls for Police to Launch FBI-Style Taskforce
» ‘We’re Sick and Tired of Excuses!’ Athlete Who Was the Victim of a Violent Machete Attack Slams Police for Saying There Are ‘No African Gangs in Melbourne’ as ‘Immoral, Inexplicable and Completely False’
 
Immigration
» Data: Trump Admin Reduces Refugee Admissions by 70 Percent in First Year
» Merkel Security Threat: Germany at Risk of Terror Attacks Unless Borders Tightened
» Pakistani Migrant Kept 12yo Greek Girl as Sex Slave in His House for Three Years
» Pope Francis: Opponents of Mass Migration Sow ‘Violence, Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia’
 
Culture Wars
» UK NHS Patient Asks for Female Nurse for Cervical Smear, Gets Tattooed Trans Man With Stubble
 
General
» The Fractal Wrongness of Leftist Ideology
 

California Prosecutes Man for Posting Anti-Muslim Messages on Facebook

California has leveled misdemeanor charges against 41-year-old Mark Feigin after he sent five anti-Muslim posts to the Islamic Center of Southern California’s (ICSC) Facebook page in 2016.

The California Attorney General’s office argues that his comments constituted “repeated contact by means of an electronic communication device” with “intent to annoy or harass,” a misdemeanor under California law, Reason.com reported Friday. California courts are scheduled to begin the trial Jan. 2, according to court records. Feigin admitted in October 2016 that he wrote the following comments between Sept. 17 and 25 of the same year.

“THE TERROR HIKE … SOUNDS LIKE FUN” (In reference to the Center’s advertised “Sunset Hike”)

“THE MORE MUSLIMS WE ALLOW INTO AMERICA THE MORE TERROR WE WILL SEE.”

“PRACTICING ISLAM CAN SLOW OR EVEN REVERSE THE PROCESS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.”

“Islam is dangerous — fact: the more muslim savages we allow into america — the more terror we will see —this is a fact which is undeniable.”

“Filthy muslim sh*t has no place in western civilization.”

ICSC Communications Coordinator Kristin Stangas blocked Feigin soon after he made the final post, but also kept copies of the comments to pursue legal action. The Los Angeles Police Department arrested Feigin Oct. 19 and interviewed him. Feigin is now arguing that his charges should be dismissed because they are based on an unconstitutional application of the law.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Epic Corruption: Unsealed Court Documents Show How Prosecutors Tried to Rig the Bundy Trial

Unsealed court documents detail how the team of prosecutors tasked with convicting Cliven Bundy and his sons of crimes relating to a 2014 armed standoff failed to turn over potential exculpatory evidence to the court, The Oregonian reports…

The Bundys’ case ended in a mistrial Dec. 20 after Judge Gloria Navarro ruled that prosecutors violated the civil rights of the defendants by withholding evidence supporting the Bundys’ case. Navarro is considering dismissing the case “with prejudice” and blocking prosecutors from retrying the case. Her decision will come Jan. 8, according to The New York Times.

“There were approximately 3,000 pages that were provided to us only after we started trial,” Bundy lawyer Bret D. Whipple told TheNYT.

“I personally have never seen anything like this, especially in a case of such importance.”

Those 3,000 pages include the Bundys’ requests for multiple federal assessments that showed the Bundy family was likely not dangerous.Prosecutors called the requests part of a “long list of frivolous and vexatious pleadings,” until a government witness, under cross examination, revealed knowledge of the assessments in court, The Oregonian reports.

Defense attorney’s asked federal prosecutors to hand over Inspector General reports on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agent Dan Love, who directed the BLM raid on the Bundy ranch to seize the family’s cattle over decades of unpaid grazing fees. Love was fired from the agency in September for corruption and unethical behavior.

Prosecutors had dismissed the allegations and investigations of Love as an “urban legend,” but ended up handing over 500 pages worth of reports on Love in December, according to The Oregonian.

The Bundys’ lawyers made two requests to Navarro for a special “discovery monitor” to ensure that all relevant documents were being turned over by the prosecution. Both requests were denied. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, however, launched an investigation into prosecutorial misconduct after the mistrial.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Never, Ever Give Up’: Hunter Survives Subzero Nightmare

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A missing hunter who walked and crawled to safety in subzero temperatures is sharing his story of survival.

“I kept saying, ‘I can’t fall. If I fall I’m going to be in a bind,’“ said 72-year-old Dave Quiser.

The retired sheriff’s deputy decided to go grouse hunting on Christmas Day north of his home near Cook.

His truck got stuck on a back road and his family didn’t know where he was.

Quiser also did not have a cellphone on him when he got stuck.

“I found myself in, as deputy sheriffs would say, ‘deep doo-doo,’“ Quiser said.

He spent the night in his truck as the thermometer dropped to minus-30 degrees.

That night was also hard for his family. When Dana Sanders couldn’t get a hold of her dad, she called police. Search crews worked through the night.

“It was the most helpless feeling ever, not being able to find him and wondering, ‘What’s going on in his mind? You know, he’s got to be scared. Is he hurt?’“ Sanders said.

The next day, Quiser realized he might have to walk to a main road three miles away, just to have a chance of being found. He grabbed his walking stick and started out…

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

Vehicle Strikes Pedestrians at Geary & 21st in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU)- San Francisco Fire Department is alerting to avoid the area of Geary Boulevard and 21st Avenue after two vehicles were involved in an accident this afternoon and then two elderly pedestrians were struck as a result. At least one of the pedestrians has life-threatening injuries. The other elderly pedestrian has been sent to a trauma center.

A family of five was in one of the cars involved. They have all sustained minor injuries and will be released, according to SFFD. Their ages range from pre-teens to adults.

The fire department first tweeted about the accident at 3:49 p.m..

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Woman Attacks Neighbor Over American Flag in Yard

An elderly man is proving to be unflappable after his neighbor allegedly raged on him because of the American flag flying in the man’s front yard.

The (Florida) Citrus County Chronicle reportson the Christmas Eve attack:

Lucille Blanchard, 50, of South Spice Wood Terrace, Lecanto, at 1:48 p.m. Dec. 24 on a felony charge of battery on a person over the age of 65 and a misdemeanor charge of petit theft.

According to her arrest affidavit, “Blanchard is accused (of) grabbing her 69-year-old neighbor by his shirt and pushing him backward, then stealing his American flag valued at approximately $15.”

She was reportedly “upset that her neighbor had a flag in his front yard and came over to remove it when the altercation occurred,” the paper reports.

Her bond was set at $2,500.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“We Won’t be Blackmailed”: 10 Times in 2017 Central Europe Defied the EU

The Viségrad nations of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia have been criticised and threatened with sanctions by the progressive, arch-federalist European Union (EU) in 2017.

Refusing to capitulate on issues of sovereignty, faith, culture, and mass migration, they relied on their eastern resilience and rejected the bloc’s censure and demands, opting to put the rights and well-being of their people first.

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

Assange Tweets Mysterious Encryption Key at 3am; Sparks Rumors About His Safety, New Leaks

At roughly 3AM London time, Julian Assange sent another cryptic tweet featuring a 60-character code along with a link to the music video “Paper Planes” by Maya Arulpragasam (A.K.A. “M.I.A.”). Of course, as with past such tweets, no one has any clue what the encryption key means but it sparked yet another wave of frenzied speculation by the twitter sphere.

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

France Sees Surge in New Year’s Eve Car Torchings and Arrests

PARIS — France saw a jump in arrests on New Year’s Eve as well as an increase in the number of cars torched by vandals, a ritual among revelers in the country’s high-rise suburbs.

The number of vehicles set alight on the night of Dec. 31 climbed from 935 a year ago to 1,031, while arrests rose from 456 to 510, the interior ministry said on Monday.

[Comment: A year ago I submitted an article to the news feed about the car torchings in France. Here we go again.]

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

Germany: Seven Arrested for Sexual Assault at Berlin NYE Celebrations

Seven people have been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate New Year’s Eve celebrations, police spokesperson Thomas Nollendorf confirmed on Monday.

           — Hat tip: Howard [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: Revelers Enjoy Largely Peaceful New Year’s Festivities

Police in the eastern city of Leipzig said on Monday they used water cannon to subdue over 40 partygoers who began to attack the officers and their vehicles with rocks and fireworks.

           — Hat tip: Howard [Return to headlines]
 

Germany Implements New Internet Hate Speech Crackdown

A new German law named NetzDG that will force social media sites to delete offensive content has come into effect with the New Year. There are plenty of critics on both the far-right and among internet activists.

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

Germany: Several Arrested in Berlin, Cologne Over Suspected Sexual Assault During Nye Celebrations

Police have arrested several people in Berlin and Cologne over suspected sexual assault against women during New Year’s Eve celebrations, police and media say. Most of the suspects were young men from Syria and Afghanistan.

At least seven people were arrested for sexual assault in the German capital, police said, as cited by Die Welt newspaper.

The incidents took place during a New Year’s Eve festival at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate area, which drew hundreds of thousands of spectators, accordingto the event’s organizers.

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

Hungary Fueling Fights Against Demographic Decline

BUDAPEST (ChurchMilitant.com) — Led by Hungary, the nations of Central Europe are ramping up efforts to halt population collapse.

At a conference on family policy in Budapest last week, Hungarian parliamentary representative Gabriella Selmeczi conceded Europe is in the midst of demographic crisis.

The fertility rate “needs to be improved,” she rallied participants. “[W]e have to do something.”

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

Macron Vows ‘French Renaissance’ In 2018

in the first paragraph of this online news: President Emmanuel Macron vowed to pursue his reform agenda with the “same intensity” in 2018 and kickstart a “French renaissance” in his first New Year’s address as leader, which comes as the economy picks up.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Several Arrested in Berlin, Cologne Over Suspected Sexual Assault During Nye Celebrations

Police have arrested several people in Berlin and Cologne over suspected sexual assault against women during New Year’s Eve celebrations, police and media say. Most of the suspects were young men from Syria and Afghanistan.

At least seven people were arrested for sexual assault in the German capital, police said, as cited by Die Welt newspaper.

The incidents took place during a New Year’s Eve festival at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate area, which drew hundreds of thousands of spectators, accordingto the event’s organizers.

“Cases of sexual assaults were unfortunately reported during Welcome2018 events in Berlin. We do not tolerate such acts. Suspects were arrested,” Berlin police tweeted on Monday morning.

In most cases, women were “groped between their legs or their buttocks,” Thomas Neuendorf from the Berlin police press office told Ruptly. “The suspects were predominantly young men from Syria or Afghanistan,” he said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sexual Assaults Reported in Berlin Despite ‘Safety Area’ For Women

At least 13 cases of sexual assault were reported in Germany’s capital on New Year’s Eve — despite the city’s creation of a “safety area” for women to celebrate the arrival of 2018 near Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.

Police made seven arrests, according to Fox News and multiple German media reports, but no information was released about the suspects.

A local police spokeswoman told Fox News that police were still gathering information about the night’s reported crimes, but did not disclose more information about the detained people.

As midnight neared in Germany, Berlin police tweeted that they were receiving reports of sexual assaults, but warned that the force does not tolerate such crimes.

[…]

After being asked on Twitter about the nationality of the perpetrators, police declined to provide the information — saying ethnicity or national origin would have no bearing on the cases.

           — Hat tip: Howard [Return to headlines]
 

Swedish Police Find ‘No Direct Links’ After Malmo’s 4th Gang Rape in 2 Months

Yet another woman has been assaulted in the Swedish city of Malmo in another case of suspected gang rape, the fourth in just two months.

The attacks come as activists started nightly street patrols to reassure the community. Police said they do not yet see any apparent link between the appalling attacks, amid the ongoing investigations.

The victim, who is said to be over 18, was attacked by several unidentified assailants in Malmo’s Hogaholm district overnight to Friday. She eventually managed to get home by herself and alerted police. An investigation into a suspected gang rape is underway as police believe several people were involved. Read more (c) Ana Devi ‘No rapists on our streets’: Hundreds, mostly women, rally in Sweden & demand action over gang rapes

The woman suffered only minor physical injuries but was deeply traumatized by the experience, police said. No one has been detained so far, as police continue examining forensic evidence and questioning the woman.

[Comment: Swedish police studiously avoid looking at the elephant in the room.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Four Young Men Die in New Year London Stabbings

Four young men were killed in stabbing incidents in London amid New Year celebrations, the Met Police has said.

Three were stabbed on New Year’s Eve and a fourth in the early hours of New Year’s Day in unrelated incidents.

Another young man stabbed on New Year’s Day is in a critical condition in hospital.

Five men have been arrested over the death of an 18-year-old in Larmans Road, Enfield. No other arrests have been made.

In the other attacks, a 20-year-old man was fatally stabbed in Memorial Avenue, West Ham, and a 17-year-old boy was killed in Norwood Road, Tulse Hill, on New Year’s Eve.

Early on New Year’s Day, a 20-year-old man was fatally wounded in Bartholomew Court, Old Street. A second man in his 20s suffered critical stab injuries in the same incident.

The fatalities in the final hours of 2017 took the number of people stabbed to death in the capital last year to 80, the Met said…

           — Hat tip: Seneca III [Return to headlines]
 

UK: How 1,000C Car Park Inferno Vaporised the Floor: Apocalyptic Images Show Gutted Multi-Storey With No Sprinklers Where All 1,400 Vehicles Were Reduced to Ashes by Heat That Could Melt Aluminium

A 1,000C inferno that incinerated up to 1,600 vehicles in a car park ‘could have been stopped’ if sprinklers had been fitted in the building.

Fire hot enough to melt aluminium engulfed seven floors of the multi-storey car park at the Echo Arena on Liverpool’s waterfront after a Land Rover burst into flames and quickly spread to other vehicles on Sunday night.

Terrified motorists abandoned their cars and fled in panic along with 4,000 people who were evacuated as the final event of the Liverpool International Horse Show was called off at the Echo Arena.

Around 80 horses were rescued and residents and tourists staying in apartments and hotels nearby had to spend New Year’s Eve in a temporary shelter as their buildings were evacuated amid fears for their safety.

On Monday, pictures showed the floors of the car park had been vaporised and vehicles were reduced to ashes by the blaze that reached temperatures between 800C and 1,000C…

           — Hat tip: LP [Return to headlines]
 

UK: London 2018: Vast Areas of East, North and South London “No-Go Zones” Because of Acid Attack Epidemic

VAST areas of East, North and South London have been declared “no-go zones” by terrified delivery drivers because of the acid attack epidemic, The Sun can reveal.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Israeli Arabs Have Highest Life Expectancy in Arab Muslim World

A recent survey by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel found that in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality rates, the Arab Israeli population ranks highest in the Arab and Muslim world.

In 2015, the average mortality rate among Israeli Arabs was 79, higher than wealthy countries such as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, and equal to that of the general US population.

All Arab and Muslim countries exhibited a substantial decline in infant mortality between 1995 and 2015. However, there are still large disparities between countries. Bahrain has the lowest infant mortality with 5.3 death per 1,000 live births. At the other extreme is Pakistan, with an infant mortality rate of 65.8 per 1,000 live births. Arab Israelis rank fourth, after Bahrain, the UAE and Malaysia.

Israeli Arabs have access to one of the most advanced medical systems in the region, and enjoy all services provided by the Jewish state.

Not surprisingly, a recent poll shows that the vast majority of Israel’s Arabs, 73 percent, feel a sense of belonging in the Jewish state and 60 percent are proud to be Israelis.

Anyone living in Israel knows that Arabs are employed by and receive service at all government offices. They study at all universities, including Ariel University in Samaria, and serve as judges, doctors, IDF officers and parliamentarians.

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Defiant Iran Protesters Steal Revolutionary Guard’s Trousers

The Basij militiaman, a paramilitary storm trooper of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, was reportedly swinging an electric shock baton when the crowd of angry protesters closed in around him.

“They got a Basij, hold him!” one man shouted as the demonstrators pulled away the militiaman’s baton and knocked him to the ground in the largely Kurdish city of Kermanshah.

But rather than beat the man to death, the crowd struck a different kind of blow against Iran’s authoritarian regime: they stripped him of his trousers and sent him stumbling and humiliated into the cold night.

           — Hat tip: Vlad Tepes [Return to headlines]
 

Iranian Protestors Attack Police Stations, Raise Stakes in Unrest

DUBAI (Reuters) — Iranian protesters attacked police stations late into the night on Monday, news agency and social media reports said, as security forces struggled to contain the boldest challenge to the clerical leadership since unrest in 2009.

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

Why Can’t the American Media Cover the Protests in Iran?

Because they have lost the ability to cover real news when it happens

By Lee Smith

As widespread anti-regime protests in Iran continue on into their third day, American news audiences are starting to wonder why the US media has devoted so little coverage to such dramatic—and possibly history-making—events. Ordinary people are taking their lives in their hands to voice their outrage at the crimes of an obscurantist regime that has repressed them since 1979, and which attacks and shoots them dead in the streets. So why aren’t the protests in Iran making headlines?

The short answer is that the American media is incapable of covering the story, because its resources and available story-lines for Iran reporting and expertise were shaped by two powerful official forces—the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Obama White House. Without government minders providing them with story-lines and experts, American reporters are simply lost—and it shows.

It nearly goes without saying that only regime-friendly Western journalists are allowed to report from Iran, which is an authoritarian police state that routinely tortures and murders its political foes. The arrest and nearly two-year detention of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian drove this point home to American newsrooms and editors who might not have been paying attention. The fact that Rezaian was not an entirely hostile voice who showed “the human side” of the country only made the regime’s message more terrifying and effective: We can find you guilty of anything at any time, so watch your step…

           — Hat tip: KS [Return to headlines]
 

Donald Trump Attacks Pakistan Claiming ‘They Have Given us Nothing But Lies and Deceit’ In Return for $33bn Aid

Donald Trump has accused Pakistan of “lies and deceit,” saying the US was “foolish” to have given the country more than $33bn in aid.

The American President launched the scathing attack in his first tweet of 2018, claiming Pakistan “give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt” and think “of our leaders as fools”.

It follows reports the US is considering denying Islamabad $255 million in aid in a show of discontent with its efforts to fight terrorism.

Mr Trump wrote: “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools.

“They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!”

The President made no further comment on the issue and it was not immediately clear if his tweet signalled a decision to cut off aid to Islamabad.

Relations between the US and Pakistan have soured since Mr Trump entered the White House.

The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 1, 2018

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

China’s Next Big Space Mission: The Far Side of the Moon

THIS year, China plans to boldly go where no superpower has previously been before — the far side of the moon.

In a bid to become the new world leader in lunar exploration, China will launch a pair of missions known collectively as Chang’e 4, The Guardian reports.

It is the fourth mission in a series named after the Chinese moon goddess.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘It’s No Excuse!’ Sudanese Activist Shuts Down ABC Interviewer After She Asks if Violence by African Gang Members is Understandable Because ‘Many of Them Have Been Traumatised’

Sudanese activist Nelly Yoa hit back at an ABC interviewer — saying any trauma that African gangs may have suffered is not an excuse for their violent actions across Melbourne.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

‘Someone’s Going to Get Killed’: Sudanese Youth Worker Blasts Top Cop for Downplaying African Gang Terror in Victoria and Says it’s Time to Stop Being ‘Politically Correct’

A Sudanese youth worker has called for Victoria police to ‘stop being politically correct’ and admit African gangs are an issue in Melbourne before someone gets killed.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

‘Violent Africans Youths Don’t Want to be Australians’: Politician Says Gang Members Must be Deported and Calls for Police to Launch FBI-Style Taskforce

Federal Liberal MP Jason Wood, who used to be a police officer, has declared violent African youths across Melbourne don’t want to become Australians citizens anyway.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

‘We’re Sick and Tired of Excuses!’ Athlete Who Was the Victim of a Violent Machete Attack Slams Police for Saying There Are ‘No African Gangs in Melbourne’ as ‘Immoral, Inexplicable and Completely False’

Nelly Yoa, a professional athlete who trialled for leading English soccer teams before becoming a youth worker, has slammed claims gangs are not causing a problem in Melbourne.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Data: Trump Admin Reduces Refugee Admissions by 70 Percent in First Year

President Trump reduced foreign refugee admissions by roughly 70 percent in nearly the first year of his presidency, a new report reveals.

Center for Immigration Studies researcher Nayla Rush released a new study comparing refugee admissions to the United States under Trump versus those under former President Obama between Jan. 20 to Dec. 20, 2017, and the same time period in 2016.

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

Merkel Security Threat: Germany at Risk of Terror Attacks Unless Borders Tightened

August Hanning, who ran Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1998-2005, has warned the country will face a significant security threat “as long as we let people come into the country without identity papers”.

Mr Hanning told German newspaper Bild am Sonntag: “As the terrorist attacks and attempted attacks in the last two years have shown, the security situation in Germany is very tense.

“Our security architecture needs to be urgently improved in order to meet new challenges. Otherwise it threatens to become very uncomfortable for us in Germany.”

Mr Hanning also criticised Angela Merkel’s refugee policy, claiming an undeniable “link between internal security and efficient border control”.

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

Pakistani Migrant Kept 12yo Greek Girl as Sex Slave in His House for Three Years

A 34-year-old Pakistani migrant was arrested for keeping a young girl captive in his house in the town of Menidi in Greece.

The child was kidnapped in 2013, at the age of twelve, when she was abandoned by her mother. According to Greek media the girl lived in a nightmare for three years. The migrant raped her on a daily basis and locked her up in his house.

In 2015 the girl became pregnant and gave birth to a child in October that year. She managed to escape in 2016 and found refuge in a women’s shelter.

After the girl told her story in the shelter, the man was finally arrested on 27 December last year, in the town of Karea. The Pakistani migrant is charged with kidnapping, seduction of a child under the age of fourteen, and assault.

           — Hat tip: Vlad Tepes [Return to headlines]
 

Pope Francis: Opponents of Mass Migration Sow ‘Violence, Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia’

In his new message for the World Day of Peace, Pope Francis has denounced those who question the wisdom of mass migration, accusing them of demagoguery and promoting xenophobia.

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

UK NHS Patient Asks for Female Nurse for Cervical Smear, Gets Tattooed Trans Man With Stubble

A woman who requested a female nurse for an intimate procedure was given an “obviously male” member of staff with stubble and tattoos, who claimed to be a transsexual.

The National Health Service (NHS) patient said she was “embarrassed and distressed” when summoned by a nurse with “an obviously male appearance … close-cropped hair, a male facial appearance and voice, large number of tattoos and facial stubble” to carry out a cervical smear, The Times reports.

When she pointed out what she thought was a mistake, the nurse told her off: “My gender is not male. I’m a transsexual.”

Speaking after the examination, which she ultimately decided to abandon, the patient said it was “weird where somebody says to you: ‘My gender is not male’ and you think: ‘Well, what does that even mean? You are clearly a man.’“

In a formal letter of complaint, she objected that “People who are not comfortable about this are presented as bigots and this is … kind of how I was made to feel about it.”

Letting people legally change gender with no checks could let biological men into women’s sports, toilets, refuges. https://t.co/WsHdGrkYsU

-— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 23, 2017

The incident raises concerns about the governing Tory Party’s proposed Gender Recognition Act, spearheaded by lesbian Education Secretary Justine Greening, which seeks to “de-medicalise” the gender transition process and allow men to legally change gender with a simple self-declaration.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Fractal Wrongness of Leftist Ideology

What is fractal wrongness? Let’s begin with a fractal. A fractal is a geometric pattern that repeats itself at every level of magnification. Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot introduced fractal geometry in 1975 and defined a fractal as “a geometric shape that can be separated into parts, each of which is a reduced-scale version of the whole.” This means that a fractal is a self-similar never-ending pattern that repeats itself at different scales.

The famous Menger sponge is a fractal in math. Fractals in nature are trees, rivers, lightning bolts, and crystals. Russian nesting dolls are fractals. In computer science fractals are images that are the same at any level of scale which means that it is impossible to determine how much the image is zoomed by simply looking at it.

Fractal wrongness is the state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution — the person’s entire worldview is wrong. The political Left has decided that anyone who disagrees with their platform of political correctness, moral relativism, and historical revisionism is fractally wrong. Fractal wrongness explains why the Left views the entire worldview of conservatives as wrong, deplorable, and contemptible.

Leftism, like any orthodoxy, has embraced its tenets with religious zealotry and a tyrannical demand for conformity that ignores obvious contradictions in its own narrative. Leftists, who pride themselves on being tolerant, are hypocritically intolerant of anyone who embraces a world view that differs from their own. Leftist faux tolerance only tolerates those who look different — it does not tolerate those who think differently. This presents a philosophical inconsistency that Leftism solves with Leftist Newspeak, the official language of the Left.

Newspeak is the language of George Orwell’s dystopian city Oceania described in his classic novel 1984. Newspeak is the language of official propaganda in Oceania that was created to replace Oldspeak — standard English. Newspeak replaces the meaning of a familiar word with its unfamiliar opposite. The key to translating Newspeak is thinking in opposites.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

10 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/1/2018

  1. So being trans-sexual means using the urinals in the Ladies’ Rest Room?

    • Being “trans-sexual” means living a lie, even believing it. Transexuals are less real than unicorns, but infinitely more confused and sadder.

  2. “In other news, the number of cars torched in France over New Year’s rose by more than 10% to 1,031.”

    Can’t they buy fireworks in France?

    • No, carbeques are a cultural thing. Those that burn them have no hope of ever owning one. Carbeques are evidence of the rage born of envy.

    • The question is: are parts of Europe a war zone, a pre-war zone, or just a dysfunctional state like Mexico?

      • Though this question isn’t posed to me, I was intrigued by the reference to Mexico.

        First of all, Mexico hasn’t a history similar to Europe’s – not the culture, not the rule of law, not property ownership in a broad middle class. Corruption runs deep and wide, which is one reason you see the deadly drug wars and the lack of effective state response.

        For another, despite the tyranny, it is extremely difficult for anyone to emigrate to Mexico and stay there permanently. The rest of us would be lucky to have Mexico’s draconian laws re outsiders.

        Europe is, as ever, a patchwork quilt, full of no-go zones (including almost whole cities – e.g., Bradford) next to wealthy enclaves that have good security. Come to think of it, Mexico is similar, but in a much smaller way.

        Europe has a long history with a vibrant middle class, prosperity, and reverence for the rule of law. It is still a Mecca (so to speak) for tourists who want to see the ancien regime landmarks.

  3. Central Europe…once again in the loving arms of Christianity, after the Iron Curtain…is the only target of the atheists and mountebanks running the EU. Stay strong soldiers of Christ, and slip the noose of the EU!

    • [I consider your statement to be ill-grounded and superficial]. How are the machinations of a hostile civilization masquerading as a spiritual religion attributable to atheists?

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