Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/18/2018

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said that he would not rule out the possibility of deploying the army to stop violent youth gangs. The prominently migrant gangs have plagued Sweden in recent months, with the latest major attack being the blowing up of a police station in Malmö.

In other news, the lawyer for Abukar Ibrahim, the Manhattan bike path jihadi, has said that his client will plead guilty to the charges and take life without parole if the prosecution agrees to take the death penalty off the table.

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Financial Crisis
» Italy: Nine-Year Low for CIG Lay-Off Benefit in 2017
» Italy’s NPLs Down by 24.6% — European Commission
» Venezuelan Hyperinflation Explodes, Soaring Over 440,000 Percent
 
USA
» Anarchist College Group Calls for ‘Law Enforcement Incineration Day’
» Artist’s Impression of White House Press Corps This Week
» Bezos Gives Millions to DACA, His Amazon Employees Need Foodstamps
» Bike Path Terrorism Suspect Seeks Plea Deal to Avoid Death Penalty
» DA: Multiple Officers Taken to Hospital After Harrisburg Shooting
» Does a Red Thread Run Through the Anti-Trump “Coup”? Part 2
» Facebook Says Big Change is Coming: ‘It’s Time to Pull Out All the Stops of Censorship’
» MSM Double Standard: If Anyone Had Questioned Obama’s Sanity They’d Have Been Fired
» Oregon Quran Instructor Arrested for Teen Sex Abuse
» Paying for the Surveilance State: Detroit Businesses Are Being Forced to Pay to Allow Police to Spy on Their Customers
» Remember the CIA’s Heart Attack Gun?
» Senate Votes to Reauthorize FISA Without Substantial Reforms
» Shock: An Elon University Professor is Using Software to Provide Private Details on American Patriots to the Donestic Terror Group Antifa
» South Carolina Officers Shot: Detective Dies From Injuries Following York County Shooting
» U.S. Marshal and Suspected Gunman Killed in Shootings
» West Virginia School District Signs Off on Mosque’s ‘Indoctrination’ of Teachers
 
Europe and the EU
» Altmaier-Le Maire ‘Optimistic’ Abt Pro-EU Italy Govt
» Catalonia’s Puigdemont Seeks to Vote by Proxy for Comeback Bid: Source
» ‘EU Dream is Dead’ — Juncker’s Plot for European Superstate is Over
» Greece’s “Robin Hood” Terrorists
» Here is Norway’s New Coalition Government
» Italian Election: Frontrunner Shuts Down EU Bureaucrat After Gloomy Forecast
» Italy: Fed Up of Being ‘Fig Leaves’ Says Gabrielli
» Italy: Trainee in Veil Row Says ‘Shocked But Happy’
» Italy: Dozens Arrested in Operation Targeting Chinese Mafia
» Italy: 4 of 10 Firms Don’t Pay IRES — Ministry
» Italy: Anti-Trust Opens Probes Into Apple, Samsung
» No Insects Authorized for Food in Italy — Ministry
» Polish President Thanks Trump for Fighting Fake News
» Snus is Now More Popular Than Smoking in Norway
» Sweden Police Station in Rosengard Malmo Rocked by Explosion
» Swedish PM Considers Sending Army Onto the Streets to Combat Violence
» Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence
» Two Arrested After Police Station in Swedish ‘No Go Zone’ Bombed
 
Middle East
» Iran-Based Jihadist Group Claims Attack on Iranian Oil Pipeline
» Saudis See the Radioactive Writing on the Wall
» Will Saudi Ladies Ever Wear Bikinis?
 
Russia
» Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo
 
Far East
» Chinese Government Propaganda is Being Enthusiastically Embraced at U.S. Universities
» Eerie Satellite Images Show North Korea Gearing Up for Another Nuclear Test
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Hell on Earth: Major City Will Run Out of Water in Less Than 95 Days
» Uganda Doctor: Eye Bleeding Fever is ‘An Epidemic Already’
» ‘Whites Must Run!’: EFF Rioters in South Africa Attack White Parent Outside School
 
Immigration
» £360 Million Spent on Calais Migrant Crisis is ‘Just Tip of the Iceberg’
» Brexit News: Britain to Give France £44.5 Million for Border Controls
» German, Austrian Chancellors Stress Need to Secure EU Border
» Germany: Adult Migrant in Teen Love Documentary is Supporter of Radical Islamic Extremists
» Hungary Outlines ‘Stop Soros’ Legislation Aimed at Halting Illegal Immigration it Blames on the Liberal US Billionaire
» Hungary Outlines “Stop Soros” Legislation
» Italy: Inspector Convicted for Putting Ticketless Migrant Off Train
» Maine’s First Somali Muslim Immigrant Police Officer Arrested at Ja Rule Concert, Placed on Leave
» Migrant Crisis: 77 Per Cent of Belgians No Longer Feel at Home
» ‘Secure EU Borders’: Austria’s Kurz and Merkel Clash Over Migrant Quotas
» Vermont Machete Attacker is Somali Immigrant
 

Italy: Nine-Year Low for CIG Lay-Off Benefit in 2017

Unemployment claims down 26% in November

(ANSA) — Rome, January 18 — Pensions and social-security agency INPS said Thursday that it received requests for the Cassa Integrazione (CIG) benefit for workers who have been laid off or had their hours reduced by companies in financial difficulty for 351 million hours in 2017.

This was 39.3% down with respect to 2016 and the lowest level since 2008 — the year of the start of the economic crisis.

INPS said it authorized CIG benefits for 19.8 million hours in December, down 30.1% with respect to October and 47.6% lower than in the same month in 2016. The agency said it received 209,325 applications for unemployment benefit in November, down 26.39% on October.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy’s NPLs Down by 24.6% — European Commission

Only Slovenia has done better — report

(ANSA) — Brussels, January 18 — Italy is one of the European countries that has done best in reducing the amount of non-performing loans in its banking sector, according to a report released by the European Commission on Thursday based on ECB data. It said NPLs were down 24.6% in Italy in the second quarter of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016. Only Slovenia did better, registering a 30.4% reduction.

The number of non-performing loans on the balance sheets of many banks caused a series of crises in the Italian banking sector that required rescues involving public money. “Italy has reduced its NPLs by a quarter,” said Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commission Vice-President for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union.

“The problem has not been resolved and that is why we have prepared this report and we are thinking of further measures for the future.

“But we are making significant progress”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Venezuelan Hyperinflation Explodes, Soaring Over 440,000 Percent

If there was any doubt about whether Venezuela had sunk into an inflationary spiral, it’s gone now.

The price of a cup of coffee in Bloomberg’s Cafe Con Leche Index has risen six of the past 12 weeks. During that period, the cost climbed from 5,500 bolivars to 45,000 bolivars. That’s an increase of 718 percent. Translated into an annualized pace, it comes to 448,025 percent.

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

Anarchist College Group Calls for ‘Law Enforcement Incineration Day’

A radical student group at the University of Texas has courted controversy by tweeting a message clearly urging violence against law enforcement.

Fox News reports that the tweet, accompanied by a photo of a French police officer engulfed in flames after being hit by a Molotov cocktail during last year’s May Day protests, was sent out by the Autonomous Student Network (ASN) at UT-Austin, which describes itself as a pro-liberation, anti-capitalist “outlet for radical student activism.” The tweet states “Instead of #LawEnforcementAppreciationDay how about #LawEnforcementIncinerationDay.”

“We see the state as integral to all forms of domination,” the group states on its website, “as it provides a means for ruling classes to enforce their will and protect their power and enforces the ability to render individuals or entire populations disposable. We see police as an extension of this and refuse any negotiation with the cops.”

“We hope to proliferate new forms-of-life on campus that break with all systems of control,” the website continues. “Spread Anarchy, Live Communism!” Yeah, because anarchy and communism have worked out so well for other societies in the past.

Law enforcement organizations across the country have denounced the ugly message as a “sign of disrespect for law enforcement.” That’s putting it mildly. These anarchists aren’t merely disrespecting the police; they’re inciting lethal violence against them.

[Comment: How would these idiots feel if others called for a “Communist and Useful Idiot Incineration Day”? ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Artist’s Impression of White House Press Corps This Week

“I felt a great disturbance in the farce, as if millions of voices cried out in horror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bezos Gives Millions to DACA, His Amazon Employees Need Foodstamps

Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been hailed for donating US$33million of his fortune to a scholarship fund for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, while more than 700 Amazon employees have to rely on foodstamps to feed themselves.

But a recent study by Policy Matters Ohio indicates that more than 700 local Amazon employees — the bulk of Bezos’ staff, who ensure products are correctly sorted, packaged and dispatched — have to rely on foodstamps to survive.

Amazon reportedly received more than $17million in tax breaks in Ohio to open its first two distribution centers, according to The Daily Beast. This act of corporate welfare, which was recorded in 2015, was hailed by lawmakers as a job-creator.

Yet the company has also faced multiple lawsuits and complaints. According to a report by The Morning Call, Amazon employees in Allentown, Pennsylvania, worked in a warehouse where the heat index reached some 102 degrees Farenheit. At least 15 collapsed from heat exhaustion…

Three plaintiffs sued Amazon in 2015, claiming that the company violated wage and hour policies in San Bernardino, California. Two years later, Amazon workers in Sacramento said they were denied overtime pay and rest breaks, according to Salon.

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, Amazon has been criticized in Scotland for not signing up to the government’s “fair work” program, despite having received more than £5.3million (US$7.28million) of taxpayers’ money to help spur job growth.

Forbes lists Bezos’ wealth at US$108billion, meaning his “philanthropic” donation to DACA recipients equates to roughly 0.03 percent of his total fortune.

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Bike Path Terrorism Suspect Seeks Plea Deal to Avoid Death Penalty

Lawyers for the Uzbek man charged in the truck attack on a crowded Manhattan bike path that killed eight people on Halloween said on Wednesday that their client would plead guilty and accept life imprisonment without parole if prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

The proposal came in an exchange of letters to Judge Vernon S. Broderick of Federal District Court in Manhattan, in which prosecutors were seeking a firm trial date for the defendant, Sayfullo Saipov, arguing that victims and witnesses needed closure, and Mr. Saipov’s lawyer said the best way to obtain closure was through such a plea deal.

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

DA: Multiple Officers Taken to Hospital After Harrisburg Shooting

HARRISBURG (WPVI) — Multiple law enforcement officers have been taken to the hospital after a shooting in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, reports say.

According to ABC station WHTM, the shooting happened Thursday morning at 17th and Mulberry streets.

Police tell WHTM the suspect remains inside a house.

The officers were conducting a search warrant between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. when the shooting began, Police Chief Tom Carter said.

Neighbors say they heard dozens of shots being fired…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Does a Red Thread Run Through the Anti-Trump “Coup”? Part 2

by Diana West

Let’s take a closer look at Fusion’s “academic expert on Russia,” Nellie H. Ohr, the mystery woman, intriguing for her marriage to DOJ official Bruce Ohr, her fluency in Russian, her ham radio operator’s license, and, finally, the possibility that she had a hand in the anti-Trump “dossier.”

The “H” stands for Hauke, Ohr’s maiden name. On reading through a Washington Post obituary of Kathleen A. Hauke, Nellie’s mother, and a guide to the papers of her parents, Kathleen A. and Richard L. Hauke, both Ph.D.s, which are archived at the University of Rhode Island, a sketch of the Hauke family’s life of the mind takes shape.

Clearly, Nellie grew up in a family on the intellectual Left — i.e., the mainstream of American academia. Her mother, an English professor, was active, if not activist, in black-white racial issues of the late 1960s and 1970s, including interracial adoption and “promoting racial equality in education,” a kindly-sounding idea, which, via coercive means of “promoting,” has atomized our society into a sum of non-working parts — yes, the opposite of “a more perfect union.” Whoever conceived of the project, there was something devilishly clever about turning college admissions offices into key enforcement centers of racial and other quotas of a state-mandated order. As we might finally admit, from Berekely to Yale to Mizzou, it is here where generations of cadres have received Marxian indoctrination under cover of cap and gown, the indispensable legions of ideological victory in a “Cold War” Americans still insist they won.

In this same pioneering spirit of “promoting,” perhaps, Kathleen A. Hauke devoted herself to studying black/African American authors and writers on the same Left, even communist, wavelength, from Langston Hughes to South African writer Richard Rive. One notable biographical detail was Kathleen’s first visit to South Africa in 1954, via freighter, when she was just 19 years old.

Her main academic interest, however, was a black American journalist named Ted Poston. She wrote or edited three books on Poston, including a 2000 collection of his journalism, which is described as having “infused” his newspaper, the New York Post, “with a black viewpoint on topics as varied as the paranoia engendered by McCarthyism and the light-stepping magic of Bill Bojangles Robinson” (emphasis added). A highlight of Poston’s pre-”McCarthyism”-youth came when he, along with Langston Hughes and others, journeyed to the USSR in 1932, the height of the Stalin’s mass-starvation of “collectivized” Ukrainians, to be wined and dined by the Soviets as they worked on a Comintern movie about the plight of the “American Negro.” It was never completed.

Nellie’s father, Richard L. Hauke, was a botany professor. His listed works are mainly scientific, but his biographical notes highlight his interests in creationism, bioethics and, circa 1983-1985, “nuclear winter.”…

           — Hat tip: Diana West [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Says Big Change is Coming: ‘It’s Time to Pull Out All the Stops of Censorship’

Facebook is planning a major change to their news feed. According to those briefed on this change, Facebook believes prioritizing content that’s acted on will reduce the occurrence of fake and offensive content in the news feed.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

MSM Double Standard: If Anyone Had Questioned Obama’s Sanity They’d Have Been Fired

If anyone had challenged President Obama’s sanity they would be out of a job in ten seconds flat and then banished from respectable society.

But, with President Trump it’s a different story: There are no restrictions. Call him what you like.

Thus, the New York Times’ editorial board has this headline: “Is Mr. Trump nuts?” the Times answers its own question, saying it’s beside the point: He is impulsive, erratic, alarming, and unfit to serve.

Not a word about the president’s actual performance: Strong growth, 2 million new jobs, over 1 million workers getting bonuses, tax cuts and a huge win for everyone’s pension plan! ISIS gone. That is the one — year record of this “unfit to serve, dangerous” president!

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Oregon Quran Instructor Arrested for Teen Sex Abuse

A Quran instructor in Oregon has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing teenage girls.

Muhammad L. Hasan, 50, was taken into custody on Wednesday on seven counts of sex abuse after two girls under the age of 14 reported him.

The abuse allegedly started in 2016 when the girls were clients of Hasan.

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

Paying for the Surveilance State: Detroit Businesses Are Being Forced to Pay to Allow Police to Spy on Their Customers

In yet another shocking example of the ever increasing American police state, the Mayor of Detroit is planning to mandate that all businesses that stay open later than 10pm be equipped with surveillance equipment that said businesses would then be forced to pay for.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Remember the CIA’s Heart Attack Gun?

CNN keeps predicting Trump will die of a heart attack, which brings to mind the CIA poison dart gun that can trigger one.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Senate Votes to Reauthorize FISA Without Substantial Reforms

The Senate voted Thursday 65 to 34 to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — a piece of legislation that was recently set to expire — without significant changes to the government’s surveillance apparatus.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Shock: An Elon University Professor is Using Software to Provide Private Details on American Patriots to the Donestic Terror Group Antifa

In an absolutely shocking revelation, a report from Wired Magazine has revealed that a professor at Elon University has devised a so-called “secret weapon”, in support of Antifa, that allows her to keep tabs on at least 400,000 Americans who she believes are members of the alt-right.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

South Carolina Officers Shot: Detective Dies From Injuries Following York County Shooting

YORK COUNTY, S.C.- Surrounded by his family Wednesday evening at Carolinas Medical Center, York County Sheriff’s Office Det. Mike Doty died from his injuries after being shot early Tuesday morning, York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson said.

Doty was injured during an ambush and shootout on South Paraham Road near the town of York…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

U.S. Marshal and Suspected Gunman Killed in Shootings

HARRISBURG, Pa. — WGAL News 8 has learned that a U.S. Marshal was killed in a shooting in Harrisburg Thursday morning. Two other law enforcement officers, a York detective and Harrisburg police officer, were injured and the suspect was killed, according to a federal source.

The officers were all part of a U.S. Marshal’s Task Force serving a warrant on a woman along the 1800 block of Mulberry Street around 6:30 a.m. When they attempted to serve it, a man came out of a building and fired on the the officers, hitting three.

“Seen a gentleman running out the alley, down the street. And then two officers came in pursuit after him. They were shooting. The one officer was across the street, saying, ‘Officer down. Officer down. Shots fired. Shots fired.’ I’m still standing out there. They were shooting back and forth,” Stinson said.

The Harrisburg officer, who was wounded, returned fire and hit the gunman, according to Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse.

More information is expected to be released at a 2 p.m. news conference. WGAL will broadcast that on air and online…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

West Virginia School District Signs Off on Mosque’s ‘Indoctrination’ of Teachers

Parents and taxpayers in Charleston, West Virginia, are starting to ask questions about what’s going on in their public schools after teachers were recently targeted by what appears to have been a brazen violation of separation of mosque and state.

Kanawha County Schools Superintendent Dr. Ronald Duerring gave his approval for the Islamic Association of West Virginia to place personal invitations into each teacher’s school mailbox to attend a “Get to Know Your Muslim Student Event” at the mosque on Jan. 25.

“We came back from lunch [on Jan. 4] and found them in our mailboxes,” said a teacher who asked not to be identified for fear of professional repercussions.

The invitation included a request for teachers to “Please RSVP by Jan. 19.”

Brenda Arthur, a local insurance broker who leads the Greater Charleston ACT For America chapter, says she will approach the Kanawha County Board of Education at its Thursday night meeting on Jan. 18 to address the controversial invitations.

[…]

The city’s only mosque — Islamic Association of West Virginia — doubled in size about two years ago. CAIR, or the Council on American Islamic Relations, announced plans last year to open an office in Charleston, likely in anticipation of a second wave of 100 Muslim refugees arriving from Syria.

Because of a citizen backlash, however, that second wave never happened.

Episcopal Migration Ministries wanted to open a Charleston office, and had been approved to do so in the final weeks of the Obama administration, according to media reports of December 2016…

[Go to the link to see the whole story, especially why the defeat of Hillary made a difference]

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Altmaier-Le Maire ‘Optimistic’ Abt Pro-EU Italy Govt

FMs mustn’t meddle in election campaigns

(ANSA) — Paris, January 18 — German Finance Minister Peter Altmaier and his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire on Thursday said they were “optimistic” that the upcoming Italian general election would produce a pro-European government. “We remain optimistic that pro-European forces will prevail in Italy too, as they already did in Netherlands and France,” they said. “We are not at all worried”, Altmeier said. “Elections are part of a all democratic systems and I think it is absolutely wise as national ministers not to meddle in their election campaigns of our neighbours”. Le Maire said “I echo all that”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Catalonia’s Puigdemont Seeks to Vote by Proxy for Comeback Bid: Source

MADRID (Reuters) — Catalonia’s fugitive separatists on Thursday sought to get around a Spanish government ban on voting via webcast in a regional leadership election by seeking to vote by proxy instead, paving the way for a new confrontation with Madrid.

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

‘EU Dream is Dead’ — Juncker’s Plot for European Superstate is Over

The EU27 is faced with a series of long-term challenges which, combined with Brexit, are causing “a lot of friction beneath the surface”, experts from Stratfor warned.

And one of the geopolitcal firm’s specialists claimed the only way Brussels would realise its dream of a United States of Europe would be if the bloc “removed three-quarters of its members”.

Speaking during a rundown of the “top geopolitical risks for 2018”, expert Rodger Baker said the EU was moving towards “disintegration”, despite hopes from some of its key figures for closer cooperation between members.

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

Greece’s “Robin Hood” Terrorists

The radical leftist Greek organization, the Group of People’s Fighters (OLA), which claimed responsibility for the December 22 bombing of the Athens Court of Appeal, has been committing terrorist attacks on governmental targets since 2013, when the country entered its serious debt crisis. According to the Greek authorities the OLA has ties with the terrorist organization “Revolutionary Struggle” (EA), and attacked at the past the offices of New Democracy political party, a Bank, the Greek Industrialists Association and the German Ambassador’s home in Athens.

The OLA boasted of this and other attacks on the “bourgeois, imperialist and capitalist” government institutions, the media and businesses in a 4,500-word manifesto published on the anarchist website Indymedia.

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

Here is Norway’s New Coalition Government

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg presented her new cabinet on Wednesday after an agreement for a new coalition partnership was reached.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Italian Election: Frontrunner Shuts Down EU Bureaucrat After Gloomy Forecast

Mr Moscovici said the European Union considers the Italian election one of the biggest “political risks” to the union because of the uncertainty of the results.

Matteo Salvini — leader of The Northern League Party — blasted the eurocrat, saying Italy will once again its sovereignty after the March 4 vote.

Writing on Twitter, Mr Salvini said: “Slaves of the European Union? No, thanks! I can’t wait for Italy, with our government, to regain its sovereignty to defend the national interest in any way possible.

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

Italy: Fed Up of Being ‘Fig Leaves’ Says Gabrielli

Italy will ‘die of bulimia of laws’

(ANSA) — Vercelli, January 18 — Italian police chief Franco Gabrelli on Thursday said the police was “fed up of being fig leaves” for the judiciary. He said the Turin soccer final stampede in which a woman was trampled to death was “one example of this”. Italy will “die of a bulimia of laws”, he added

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Trainee in Veil Row Says ‘Shocked But Happy’

Legal battle will got forward she says

(ANSA) — Bologna, January 18 — A Moroccan-born trainee lawyer ejected from a Bologna courtroom for wearing the Muslim veil but later told she would be allowed back told ANSA Thursday she was “shocked but happy” over the incident. “When the judge said No to me I was shocked, but I’m happy about what I did,” said 25-year-old Asmae Belkafir, who was forced to choose between taking off the veil or leaving the regional administrative court (TAR). Belkafir said she was “very much struck” by the many messages of solidarity she had received.

“I was really upset, I had taken part in many hearings and nothing of the kind had ever happened to me,” Belkafir told ANSA.

She said there had been a lot of comments on social media about the norm banning covered heads that the TAR judge pinned up outside the courtroom, and “many people are saying the judge was right, but that’s not so”.

Belkafir, who is a trainee lawyer at a local university, said “norms must be read, known and interpreted.

“This is a legal battle,” she said.

Belkafir later emerged from a hearing of a Bologna civil court and said “there as no problem, everything was OK today”. The TAR judge’s ruling was implicitly challenged Wednesday by Italy’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, and the trainee at the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia was told she could return to court with her hijab on.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Dozens Arrested in Operation Targeting Chinese Mafia

Around a hundred police involved, raids in France and Spain too

(ANSA) — Rome, January 18 — Italian police on Thursday conducted a huge operation targeting the Chinese mafia, sources said. Dawn raids were staged to execute many arrest warrants in several Italian cities in relation to a probe coordinated by Florence anti-mafia investigators. There were also operations in France and Spain thanks to cooperation with police in those countries, sources said.

The organization allegedly did illegal business in several European countries in addition to Italy.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: 4 of 10 Firms Don’t Pay IRES — Ministry

42.1%

(ANSA) — Rome, January 17 — More than four out of 10 Italian firms don’t pay the IRES business tax, the economy ministry said Wednesday. Referring to 2015 tax returns, the ministry said “the percentage of firms that declared tax was 57.9%, more than the previous year.” It said that “the remaining 42.1% did not declare tax, or had a tax credit”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Anti-Trust Opens Probes Into Apple, Samsung

‘Cut performance times to make users buy new ones’

(ANSA) — Rome, January 18 — The Italian anti-trust authority on Thursday opened two separate probes into companies in the Samsung and Apple groups operating in Italy, for suspected anticompetitive practices. The authority said the decisions had been taken after complaints from consumers and a “formal pre-investigative phase”. The companies are accused of “a general commercial policy aimed at exploiting the lack of certain components to reduce the performance times of their products and induce consumers to buy new versions”.

The firms also allegedly offered clients “software updates of their cellphones without highlighting the possible consequences of the update and without supplying enough information to maintain an adequate level of performance of the devices, promoted and acquired for their specific and elevated technological characteristics”.

This conduct, the anti-trust authority said, “could prove to be in breach of articles 20, 21, 22 and 24 of the Consumers Code.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

No Insects Authorized for Food in Italy — Ministry

Circular letter released on ‘novel food’

(ANSA) — Rome, January 17 — The health ministry said Wednesday that no insects have been authorised for human consumption in Italy so far. The ministry released a circular letter to clarify things after new European legislation came into force on January 1 regulating novel food — food not widely consumed previously, such as insects.

The ministry said that the new regulation does not mean it will be immediately possible to find insects for human consumption on the market.

“The authorization of a novel food must be requested from the European Commission, following EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) guidelines,” the ministry said.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Polish President Thanks Trump for Fighting Fake News

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president has thanked President Donald Trump for fighting “fake news,” saying his own country experiences the power of fake news “first hand.”

President Andrzej Duda voiced his thanks to Trump in English on Twitter Thursday, a day after the U.S. leader revealed his promised “fake news awards.”

In his tweet, Duda wrote that Trump “just stressed again the power of fake news. Thank you. We must continue to fight that phenomenon. Poland experiences fake news power first hand. Many European and even U.S. officials form their opinions of PL (Poland) based on relentless flow of fake news.”

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

Snus is Now More Popular Than Smoking in Norway

More Norwegians use “snus” — a form of snuff particular to Nordic countries — instead of cigarettes for their nicotine fix, official figures showed for the first time Thursday.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Sweden Police Station in Rosengard Malmo Rocked by Explosion

The explosion was caused by a hand grenade according to local news reports.

The police have released a statement to say they were called by several people due to a loud bang.

Police spokeswoman Anna Goransson said to the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet: “The place is locked off and the bombing group is on its way.

“Fortunately, no people have been injured, but cars, I cannot say how many, have been damaged.”

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

Swedish PM Considers Sending Army Onto the Streets to Combat Violence

Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has announced he is prepared to send the army onto the streets of Sweden if that’s what it takes to end the wave of gang violence in the country.

Speaking to the TT news agency, Lofven said: “It would not be my first option to bring in the military, but I am prepared to do whatever is necessary to make sure that serious, organised crime is stamped out.”

His announcement comes just days after four people were shot dead and a man was killed after picking up a hand grenade at a Stockholm train station.

Swedish TV claim that more than 300 people were shot in 2016 in gang-related incidents, which is shockingly high for a country with such a small population.

[Comment: Clearly the Swedish PM is xenophobic. /sarc]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) — Sweden will do whatever it takes, including sending in the army, to end a wave of gang violence that has seen a string of deadly shootings, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in Wednesday.

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Two Arrested After Police Station in Swedish ‘No Go Zone’ Bombed

A Swedish police station was bombed Wednesday evening, only the latest of several attacks against such symbols of the Swedish state in recent years.

The apparent attack against Sweden’s police in the migrant ghetto neighbourhood of Rosengård in Sweden’s migrant crisis frontier city Malmö took place around nine o’clock Wednesday night. There were no injuries, but several cars belonging to police officers and the facade of the recently built police station were damaged.

Two police cars were reported to be outright destroyed, and the explosion was so loud it was heard several neighbourhoods over…

Although several news outlets have reported the explosion was caused by a grenade, police have not confirmed the nature of the powerful blast.

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Iran-Based Jihadist Group Claims Attack on Iranian Oil Pipeline

Ansar al Furqan, an Iran-based jihadist group, claims to have targeted an oil pipeline in Iran’s Khuzestan province. The group’s report has been shared on many al Qaeda-linked Telegram channels, including the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF). FDD’s Long War Journal could not independently verify the claim, which is plausible but unconfirmed. Ansar al Furqan states that “a major oil pipeline was blown up in Omidiyeh region of occupied Ahvaz, Iran.” The group added that it had established a new unit, the Ahwaz Martyrs Brigade. The area of Ahvaz has historically had a large Arab population. However, it is unclear if this purported brigade is comprised of Iranian Arabs or Baluchis, as most of its members are thought to be Baluch. The jihadists say the “operation was conducted to inflict losses on the economy of criminal Iranian regime.” A video of the purported operation was also released, showing surveillance of the pipeline beforehand and the actual explosion itself. However, no independent reporting of the incident appears to exist, making it impossible to confirm Ansar al Furqan’s images. In addition, no date was given for the alleged operation.[…]

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Saudis See the Radioactive Writing on the Wall

Saudi Arabia expects to award the contracts for the construction of its first nuclear reactors in December this year, and will be picking bidders from the pool of U.S., China, France, South Korea, and Russia, a Saudi official working with the project told Bloomberg on Monday.

Saudi Arabia has received requests from five bidders from those countries, said Abdulmalik Alsabery, a consultant in the business development department at King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy. Alsabery declined to name the companies on the short list.

“By April we will sign a project development agreement with two to three selected vendors,” Bloomberg quoted Alsabery as saying.

“We are going to have only one winner that will be building the two reactors,” he noted.

Saudi Arabia expects construction on the facilities to begin in 2019, aiming for commissioning them in 2027, the official said.

Each of the two reactors—in one single nuclear power plant—will have the capacity to produce between 2.2 GW and 3.3 GW, depending on the technology they would use, according to Alsabery.[…]

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Will Saudi Ladies Ever Wear Bikinis?

On the edge of the turquoise sea, on the golden sand, beautiful girls sunbathe in almost invisible bikinis, and their handsome men bring them frozen champagne from beach bars.

In the evening they will go to luxurious discos and clubs, where they will drink, dance and enjoy the holidays. It’s not Ibiza, it’s Saudi Arabia. Well, maybe not quite today’s Arabia, but the one to be in four years. Well, maybe not all of it supposed to be like this, but a large part of it — over a hundred-kilometer strip of pristine beaches and 50 islets in five years are to become a zone of luxury rest for foreign tourists, managed by a “private committee” and ruled by “independent regulations and rules established by that committee”. That is — nudity, mixing of women and men and alcohol will be allowed. Ordinary female and male Saudis will probably not be allowed in, but over 30,000 people will find employment there — apparently Saudis.

Meanwhile on Sunday November 5, an even more amazing news was made public: the day before, the first anti-corruption agency in the history of Saudi Arabia detained eleven princes, two current ministers, dozens of former ministers, and a few businessmen too and all this after just one day of functioning. Among the detainees are the richest Saudi businessman, shareholder of Citibank and Twitter, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the former Minister of Economy and the previous commander of the Palace Guard.

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Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo

A key U.S. nuclear weapons document confirms that the Russian government is developing the most powerful nuclear weapon in more than a half century.

A leaked copy of the Pentagon’s Nuclear Posture Review states that Russia is developing a “new intercontinental, nuclear-armed undersea autonomous torpedo.”

The existence of the weapon, known as Kanyon to the Pentagon and “Ocean Multipurpose System Status-6” to Russia, was first leaked by Russian television in November 2015. A test involving the Sarov-class submarine mothership was leaked in December 2016.

The Nuclear Posture Review report, dated January 2018, lists the weapon as part of Russia’s underwater nuclear arsenal. Here’s a screen capture, with Kanyon circled in red:…

Kanyon is reportedly a very long range autonomous underwater vehicle that has a range 6,200 miles, a maximum depth of 3,280 feet, and a speed of 100 knots according to claims in leaked Russian documents.

But what really makes Kanyon nightmare fuel is the drone torpedo’s payload: a 100-megaton thermonuclear weapon. By way of comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 16 kilotons, or the equivalent of 16,000 tons of TNT. Kanyon’s nuke would be the equivalent of 100,000,000 tons of TNT. That’s twice as powerful as Tsar Bomba, the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever tested. Dropped on New York City, a 100-megaton bomb would kill 8 million people outright and injure 6 million more.

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Chinese Government Propaganda is Being Enthusiastically Embraced at U.S. Universities

“Confucius Institute.” It’s a benign sounding name which immediately conjures up visions of enlightenment and ancient Eastern wisdom. Indeed, that appears to be precisely the intent. Effective propaganda always drapes itself in cuddly messaging in order to distract from the nefarious agenda underneath. This is exactly what’s going on with Chinese government funded Confucius Institutes, which have sprung up at 500 universities worldwide, including 100 in the U.S…

Why are colleges embracing this ,you ask? As is typically the case with such things, it’s all about the money. Universities that don’t want, or lack the resources to, spend the time or money on Chinese studies departments figure they’ll accept one for free even if its primary function is to disseminate foreign government propaganda.

As Politico notes:

Hanban has been shrewd in compelling universities to host Confucius Institutes. Marshall Sahlins, a retired University of Chicago anthropologist and author of the 2014 pamphlet Confucius Institutes: Academic Malware, reports that each Confucius Institute comes with “$100,000 … in start up costs provided by Hanban, with annual payments of the like over a five-year period, and instruction subsidized as well, including the air fares and salaries of the teachers provided from China. … Hanban also agrees to send textbooks, videos, and other classroom materials for these courses — materials that are often welcome in institutions without an important China studies program of their own.” And each Confucius Institute typically partners with a Chinese university.

They’re kind of like restaurant franchises: Open the kit, and you’re in business. American universities can continue to collect full tuition from their students while essentially outsourcing instruction in Chinese. In other words, it’s free money for the schools. At many (though not all) Confucius-hosting campuses, students can receive course credit for classes completed at the institute.

Disturbingly, there appears to be absolutely zero academic freedom within these Confucius Institutes, which you’d think goes against the entire idea of a university.

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Eerie Satellite Images Show North Korea Gearing Up for Another Nuclear Test

As the world stands at the precipice of a third world war, eerie satellite images show that North Korea is likely getting ready for another nuclear test. The new images are reigniting fears that this could be the final straw that would officially lead to world war 3.

Dramatic satellite images taken earlier this month show disturbing activity on a barge that supports the development of a deadly nuclear submarine. The photos show activity on a second submersible ballistic missile test stand barge at the Nampo Navy Shipyard, a seaport in South Pyongan Province. This particular barge supported the development of the deadly Pukguksong-1 SLBM and the SINPO-Class experimental ballistic missile submarine.

The photo below was taken by satellite on January 6, 2018.

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Hell on Earth: Major City Will Run Out of Water in Less Than 95 Days

If you’ve ever needed a reason to store extra food and water, this just might be it. Cape Town, South Africa is on schedule to run out of water in less than 95 days, and when they do, the government will turn off the taps.

“There are only 95 days left before we reach Day Zero,” the City of Cape Town announced on January 15 in a statement. “Day Zero has moved a day closer this week to April 21, 2018. Day Zero is when the City will be forced to turn off most of the taps.”

The coastal South African city has been battling droughts for nearly three years, amounting to the worst one in their history. With little rain on the horizon, the city has now ordered its 3.7 million residents to drastically cut their water consumption, take short stop-start showers, not wash their cars, and flush toilets as little as possible. If they don’t, all of their taps could be shut off by the government in April.

The city doesn’t appear to have any plan in place for such a SHTF event. But if the government cannot find a solution to the problem, Capetonians will be forced into “bread lines” for water. As if that isn’t scary enough, city residents will have a limit of 5.5 gallons of water a day that will only be given to them at specific government outposts around the city.

Cape Town’s mayor Patricia de Lille € tweeted: “I cannot stress it enough: all residents must save water and use less than 87 liters [19 gallons] per day… We must avoid Day Zero and saving water is the only way we can do this.” Not missing the opportunity to levy extra taxes on the populace, the city mayor has also impeded a “drought charge” in order to fund new water projects, such as constructing desalination plants.

The climate alarmists are out in full force too, quickly blaming the drought (natural occurrences throughout Earth’s history) on the junk science of “climate change.”

[Comment: These “climate change” junk science buffoons would be more help if they did a rain dance to alleviate the drought.]

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Uganda Doctor: Eye Bleeding Fever is ‘An Epidemic Already’

The horrific outbreak of “eye bleeding fever” in East Africa has forced one doctor to admit the disturbing truth. The fatal outbreak of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is “an epidemic already.”

Amid news that this disease is the same on the wiped out much of the Aztec population, Dr. Mukuzi Muhereza, from the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) warns that immediate action should be taken to prevent the spread of this disease, which has a 40% fatality rate, and as a virus, has no cure.

Dr. Muhereza warned that the disease is “highly contagious” and said the people “must be protected” to prevent it spreading. Muhereza’s warning comes amid a growing war of words between the UMA and Uganda’s health ministry, who have said there is no CCHF in the country, despite confirming a case.

This horrific infection causes victims to suffer from a burning fever before beginning to bleed from orifices including their eyes, anuses, and mouths. World Health Organisation (WHO) officials label any outbreak of CCHF as a major threat to public health. “CCHF outbreaks constitute a threat to public health services because of its epidemic potential, its high case fatality ratio (10-40%), its potential for nosocomial outbreaks and the difficulties in treatment and prevention,” WHO’s description of the virus reads.

And new reports say that the Aztecs fell victim to a strikingly similar disease.

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‘Whites Must Run!’: EFF Rioters in South Africa Attack White Parent Outside School

Hot on the heels of destroying a host of H&M stores in South Africa over a “racist” sweatshirt, EFF goons rioted outside a school and attacked a white parent after their kids were denied access to the school by a high court.

Video from the scene shows EFF members screaming in a small reporter’s face and angrily shouting “whites must run!”

[Comment: S.Africa is the globalist test bed case for demonization of whites propaganda. It is only a matter of time before the rabid hatred of whites becomes mass killing of whites. ]

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£360 Million Spent on Calais Migrant Crisis is ‘Just Tip of the Iceberg’

BRITISH taxpayers have forked out more than £360million since 2010 tackling the migrant crisis in Calais, it can be revealed today. The £850,000 every week has been spent trying to stop tens of thousands sneaking into the UK from northern France.

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Brexit News: Britain to Give France £44.5 Million for Border Controls

The Prime Minister insisted the updated immigration agreement would “work in the best interests of both France and the UK”.

UK officials said the cash would go towards high-tech kit such as carbon dioxide monitors and heartbeat monitors to find stowaways hidden in vehicles bound for Britain.

The money will also be spent on more traditional security measures like fencing and new CCTV systems to prevent ports like Calais becoming what Mr Macron has branded a “back door to Britain”.

Part of the sum will go towards relocating people away from Channel ports in an attempt to stop another migrant camp like the “Jungle” from forming as it did in Calais in 2015.

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German, Austrian Chancellors Stress Need to Secure EU Border

Solution for migration question is protecion of exterior borders

(ANSA-AP) — BERLIN — The chancellors of Germany and Austria glossed over differences on migration Wednesday, seeking instead to focus on the need to secure the European Union’s external borders an d fight the reasons why people flee their homes. Germany was the largest European destination for refugees fleei ng the Syrian civil war and other conflicts in 2015, which has put pressure on German Chancellor Merkel from the right of her conservative Union bloc. Austria was one of the major transit routes for migrants and al so saw a large number of new arrivals staying, raising concerns that helped bring new Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to office in a coalition with the nationalist, anti-migrant Freedom Party.

In his inaugural visit to Berlin since becoming chancellor last month, Kurz told reporters he remained “convinced that the solution for the migration question is in the orderly protection of exterior borders.” He added that in his view Austria had already made a “dispropor tional contribution” in the refugee crisis, and that the Europe an discussion over countries accepting quotas of migrants was t aking up “too much room” at the expense of other solutions. Merkel also stressed the need to secure external borders and re duce illegal migration, while emphasizing that Germany believes all European countries need to help with the migrants who get through. “It can’t be, in my view, that there are countries who say we w on’t take part in European solidarity,” she said. Merkel didn’t name specific countries, but several Eastern European nations have opposed taking in migrants. The two chancellors suggested they were both taking a wait-and- see attitude on how political developments in their respective neighbors play out before passing judgment. Merkel, who has been critical of the nationalist anti-migrant Alternative for Germany that won seats in parliament for the fir st time in September’s election, said it was too early to comment on Kurz’s decision to form a coalition with the Freedom Party in Austria. “I want to make clear that we’ll judge the new government on its actions,” she said. Merkel added that what she’d heard from t he new Austrian government regarding Europe politics convinced her they would work with Germany in “very close cooperation.” Kurz, meantime, declined to comment on Merkel’s attempts to for m a new coalition government with the center-left Social Democr ats, saying he would refrain from “meddling in (German) politic s.” But, he said, Merkel’s “one of the most experienced government leaders” around, and that a “stable government in Germany is an advantage for both Austria and Europe.” DAVID RISING/ (ANSA-AP).

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Germany: Adult Migrant in Teen Love Documentary is Supporter of Radical Islamic Extremists

Adult asylum seeker Diaa, who appeared in a documentary with his underage German girlfriend on a television channel aimed at children, has now been revealed as a fan of radical Islamic preachers.

The 19-year-old Syrian, who claimed to have been underage for the controversial television programme, is a fan of German radical Islamic preacher Pierre Vogel, according to several “likes” he made on social media platform Facebook, Kronen Zeitung reports.

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Hungary Outlines ‘Stop Soros’ Legislation Aimed at Halting Illegal Immigration it Blames on the Liberal US Billionaire

Hungary has introduced new laws which it says will penalize groups that receive foreign funding to aid illegal immigration.

The government has dubbed the new legislation the ‘Stop Soros’ laws, because it blames Hungarian-American billionaire and philanthropist George Soros for Europe’s migration challenges — in part because of his funding of groups that support the rights of refugees.

The country’s right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been embroiled in an escalating feud with his former friend Soros, who has described a prolonged Hungarian government campaign against him as ‘distortions and lies’ designed to create a false external enemy.

Orban is expected to secure a third straight term in a general election due on 8 April.

[Comment: Hungary shows the way.]

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Hungary Outlines “Stop Soros” Legislation

Hungary has introduced new laws which it says will penalise groups that receive foreign funding to aid illegal immigration.

The government has dubbed the new legislation the ‘Stop Soros’ laws, because it blames Hungarian-American billionaire and philanthropist George Soros for Europe’s migration challenges — in part because of his funding of groups that support the rights of refugees.

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Italy: Inspector Convicted for Putting Ticketless Migrant Off Train

‘Incomprehensible’ says governor Zaia

(ANSA) — Venice, January 18 — A train ticket inspector who threw a Nigerian migrant off a train near Venice in 2014 because he did not have a ticket was sentenced to 20 days in jail for “attempted private violence” on Thursday.

Veneto Governor Luca Zaia said “it’s an incomprehensible affair”.

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Maine’s First Somali Muslim Immigrant Police Officer Arrested at Ja Rule Concert, Placed on Leave

The state of Maine’s first Somali Muslim immigrant police officer has been placed on administrative leave after being arrested for a multitude of charges, including assault, at a Ja Rule concert.

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Migrant Crisis: 77 Per Cent of Belgians No Longer Feel at Home

The massive rise in the proportion of Muslim migrants in the country has resulted in two-thirds of Belgians feeling their nation is being “increasingly invaded”, according to a new study.

This sentiment was especially marked among respondents to the detailed survey aged 65 and over, 84 per cent of whom likened the influx of migrants and refugees to an invasion.

Overall, two-thirds of the 4,734 people polled believe there are “too many immigrants in Belgium”, while 77 per cent agreed with the statement, “Today we no longer feel at home as we did before [mass migration]”.

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‘Secure EU Borders’: Austria’s Kurz and Merkel Clash Over Migrant Quotas

(AFP) — Angela Merkel and her Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz clashed over immigration in their first meeting Wednesday, with the seasoned German chancellor saying Vienna’s resistance to sharing out refugees across the bloc was “wrong”.

Kurz, at 31 the world’s youngest leader after forming a government with the far right last month, said following talks with Merkel that the debate about mandatory migrant quotas “took up too much space”.

“I’m convinced that the solution to the migrant problem lies with decent border protection and stronger help in countries of origin,” Kurz told reporters after he was received in Berlin with military honours.

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Vermont Machete Attacker is Somali Immigrant

A man accused of violently assaulting an elderly volunteer worker with a machete outside a homeless shelter in Vermont earlier this month is the son of a Somali refugee, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Abukar Ibrahim, a 32-year-old immigrant, assaulted 73-year-old Meals on Wheels volunteer Johanne LaGrange with a machete outside Harbor Place in Burlington, Vt., in early January after vandalizing vehicles and threatening other individuals nearby. Ibrahim “willfully, deliberately and with premeditation, and with intent to kill” assaulted his victim, Shelburne News reported, citing charges detailed in the court records.

[Comment: I had submitted to the news feed The Daily Caller’s story about the machete attacker. Here, The Daily Caller has an exclusive.]

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6 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/18/2018

  1. UK (Theresa May) will pay £44.5m to France.
    “Part of the sum will go towards relocating people away from Channel ports in an attempt to stop another migrant camp like the “Jungle” from forming as it did in Calais in 2015.”
    The fact that a camp “formed” in Calais is the result of failure by the French state to uphold its own laws by enforcing them. And, yes, to “enforce” does entail force. France failed. The remedy? UK taxpayers must pay. In the event this means more debt for UK.

  2. ‘Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said that he would not rule out the possibility of deploying the army to stop violent youth gangs.’

    But… but… but… can these unfortunate misunderstandings not be solved with talks over a cuppa tea??? And L-O-V-E????

    Besides, there is no Swedish Army any more. Last time I checked, 10 years ago, the entire Armed Forces numbered 20,000. I’d be surprised if he can scrape a platoon together. Ah those leftists! Unrivalled in breaking down healthy countries!

  3. Maybe the UN can send a contingent of international peacekeepers to Sweden, surely that will take care of the problem? If that doesn’t produce the desired outcome/or if the Swedish government faces a backlash from the international community over heavy handed tactics, they could always engage in ‘land for peace’ talks with the freedom fighters that have instigated this latest Swedish intifada.

    An absolute last resort would of course be to build a giant wall around the affected areas in Malmö, Stockholm, Gothenburg and all the other places where these freedom fighters hold territory.

    • You can build all the walls you like and plug up the sewers to boot they’ll just start digging tunnels underneath.
      I wouldn’t be suprised if Soros would chip in for a small tunnel boring machine.
      Not that those “freedom fighters” know how to operate such complicated equipment but hey it’s the thought that counts.

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