Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/6/2018

A man named Abukar Ibrahim used a machete to attack an elderly volunteer while she was delivering food to a homeless shelter in Vermont. The victim, who was a volunteer for Meals on Wheels, was taken to the hospital with multiple injuries, including a significant wound to her leg.

In other news, at least eight migrants drowned after their rubber boat capsized off the coast of Libya. However, 84 others were rescued and brought to safety by the Italian coast guard.

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USA
» Anti-Trump Book Gets Slammed as Author Admits He’s Not Sure it’s All True…
» Antifa Teacher to Pay Damages
» Comey Sees Scheme Unraveling… Sends Out Signals for Backup
» Communist Portland Gives 27-Yr Old Anti-Trump Anarchist Ridiculous Sentence After He Was Caught on Video Throwing Burning Flare Into Portland Cop Car, Bashing Bank Windows
» Establishment Media Now Laughably Claiming That Trump Cannot Read in Latest Pathetic Attack on the President
» Football Legend #LouHoltz Rips Into NFL Players Disrespecting the Flag [Video]
» Home of Roy Moore Accuser Burned to the Ground in Suspected Arson
» Investigators: Pulse Nightclub Shooter’s Wife Knew Husband Was Planning Islamist Attack
» ISIS in the U.S.: Group’s U.S. Followers Are Diverse
» Kate Steinle Killer Sentenced to Time Served for Gun Charge
» Latest Deranged Media Talking Point: Trump Cannot Read
» Man With Machete Attacks 70-Year-Old Woman
» Question: What Made Steve Bannon Think He Ruled?
» Report: Trump Clearing Way for Julian Assange to Return to US
» ‘World Wide Leader in Leftist Disinformation’: ESPN Now Pushing Discredited Russian Collusion Story in Attack on Houston Astros for Accepting White House Invitation
 
Europe and the EU
» Angela Merkel’s Bid for Government Under Threat Ahead of Crucial Coalition Talks
» British Homeschool Population Doubles in Six Years
» EU Back Iran Protestors Despite Supporting Spain’s Clampdown of Catalonia
» French Opposiiton, Twitter Users Slam Macron’s Anti-Fake News Plans
» Italy Announces ‘Rebound’ of Political Right, ‘Collapse’ of the Left
» Merkel Facing New Headache as Hungary Orban’s Arrives in Germany
» Taoiseach Criticized for Visiting ‘Undemocratic’ Hungarian Leader Viktor Orban
» UK: Men Accused of Child Abduction and Drugs Offences Appear in Court
 
Middle East
» The Norm is Not Democracy — The Norm is Extinction
 
South Asia
» Pakistan Says ‘No Alliance’ With U.S. After Trump Suspends Over $1 Billion in Aid
 
Immigration
» Democrats Angry as Trump Restates Pro-American Immigration Principles
» Germany: Mourners, Pro-Diversity Activists Clash at Virgil of Child Murdered by Asylum Seeker
» Germany: Asylum Seeker on the Run After Attacking Several People With an Axe
» If You Hate America, Why Not Go Back to Your Country?
» Migrants Drown as Dinghy Sinks Off Libyan Coast
» Smaller Nations Are Dying Because of EU Open Border Policy
 
Culture Wars
» DOJ’s Transgender Decision ‘Allowed Judges to Run the Military’
» Judges Slap Down Demand That Christians Promote Abortion
» Parents Sound Alarm Over Mad Rush Toward Transgender Children (And the “Progressivism” That Pushes This Distortion)
 

Anti-Trump Book Gets Slammed as Author Admits He’s Not Sure it’s All True…

So, how truthful is Wolff’s book? According to the author himself, he’s not quite sure it’s all true.

Has the media zeroed in on the tabloid-style book to keep Americans distracted from the real news, that Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation are now under investigation by the DOJ? Does the media hope we won’t read about how Comey allegedly committed a federal crime when he released classified emails to his professor friend, who then leaked them to the media?…

The author of the explosive new book about Donald Trump’s presidency acknowledged in an author’s note that he wasn’t certain all of its content was true.

Michael Wolff, the author of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” included a note at the start that casts significant doubt on the reliability of the specifics contained in the rest of its pages.

Several of his sources, he says, were definitely lying to him, while some offered accounts that flatly contradicted those of others.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Antifa Teacher to Pay Damages

A California court ordered a prominent Antifa activist and teacher to pay thousands of dollars in damages to a former University of California, Berkeley student, according to a Friday report.

Yvette Felarca, a teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. middle school, must pay $11,000 in damages to Troy Worden, the former president of UC Berkeley College Republicans, reported Campus Reform.

The Superior Court of Alameda County issued the ruling after the dismissal of a restraining order filed by Felarca against Worden. Worden and lawyer Mark Meuser subsequently sued the teacher for attorney expenses and damages.

[Comment: Do not let your guard down: Left-wingers have a higher rate of the use of force, and threats of force.]

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

Comey Sees Scheme Unraveling… Sends Out Signals for Backup

Is the arrogant former FBI director about to finally hit a brick wall?

The most dangerous time for a rescue swimmer is the moment he reaches a desperate drowning man…

The Last Refuge does a brilliant job of laying out the desperation of James Comey. The former FBI Director James Comey is sending out signals for anyone to back him up. He’s desperate. The sunlight is too intense now. Note the inherent elitist perspective he openly transmits toward being “independent”, or put another way: “above the law”…

The mindset here is the same he carried while in office. That mindset claims the FBI is above scrutiny, a system of law unto itself, and we must blindly owe it respect. THAT is exactly the view that fertilizes the seeds of politicization of offices. His arrogant and condescending viewpoint is exactly what allowed FBI gross misconduct to happen…

Years of being held hostage to the ‘James Comey view’ (Obama, Jarrett, Holder, Yates) has crushed many people under the weight of ‘Battered Electorate Syndrome’. However, though we might not yet want to admit it, we are winning now. Righteousness is rising. Deception is on its heels… there are more of us than them.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Communist Portland Gives 27-Yr Old Anti-Trump Anarchist Ridiculous Sentence After He Was Caught on Video Throwing Burning Flare Into Portland Cop Car, Bashing Bank Windows

John Barton Elliott was one of 25 anarchists arrested for a variety of crimes during an anti-Trump protest in Portland Oregon.

Some of the crimes committed were more serious than others. Elliott’s crime was very serious and could have harmed a lot of people. Unfortunately, the justice system in Portland just sent a message to future anarchists that it’s okay to threaten the lives of police officers and do serious damage to public property with the ridiculous sentence they handed down to 27-year old anarchist, John Barton Elliott.

Oregon Live — A 27-year-old man who investigators said bashed in car windshields, shattered a window and an ATM at two Pearl District banks, then threw a burning flare into a Portland police car during anti-Trump and May Day protests was sentenced this week to three years of probation.

John Barton Elliott was caught on video in some of these acts on Nov. 10, 2016, two days after Donald Trump was elected president. The vandalism included joining others in swinging baseball bats or sticks at the cars at Broadway Toyota on the east end of the Broadway Bridge, shattering the window of Chase Bank and smashing an ATM screen at Umpqua Bank in the Pearl District, investigators said.

Police weren’t able to identify Elliott until May 1, 2017, when he showed up to May Day protests in downtown Portland and joined at least one other man in throwing lighted flares later found in the back of a heavily vandalized police SUV parked near Southwest 10th Avenue and Morrison Street.

Here’s the video showing Elliott throwing the flare into the back of the Portland Police vehicle:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Establishment Media Now Laughably Claiming That Trump Cannot Read in Latest Pathetic Attack on the President

Another day, another pathetic attack on Donald Trump, this time with the laughable claim that the president may not actually be able to read.

That’ s right, Trump derangement syndrome has “ reached its peak” and has even increased with the release of a so far uncorroborated book by anti-Trump author Michael Wolff that claims that almost every person who comes into contact with the president believes him to be a moron.

Keep in mind that this comes at the same time that the media and leftists throughout the country are also trying to claim that Trump is mentally unstable.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Football Legend #LouHoltz Rips Into NFL Players Disrespecting the Flag [Video]

Legendary football coach Lou Holtz ripped into the NFL and the players disrespecting the flag and anthem by kneeling. Holtz made an appearance on Fox & friends this morning to discuss the NFL ratings drop.

Lou Holtz has never been one to hold back his opinion on pretty much anything. This is dead on!

Holtz has been on the Trump Train since the beginning: “Trump is on the right track”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Home of Roy Moore Accuser Burned to the Ground in Suspected Arson

The home of a woman who accused Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual harassment has burned down in what is being investigated as a possible arson attack.

Tina Johnson, who alleged in November that Moore groped her in his office in 1991, said Friday that her house in Gadsden, Alabama had burned down on Tuesday morning. None of the family were home at the time of the fire.

The local fire department extinguished the blaze, but Johnson says her home and all of her belongings are destroyed. “I am devastated, just devastated,” Johnson told AL.com Friday morning. “We have just the clothes on our backs.”

The fire is now “under investigation by the Etowah County Arson Task Force” and “investigators are speaking to a person of interest,” according to a statement released by the department.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Investigators: Pulse Nightclub Shooter’s Wife Knew Husband Was Planning Islamist Attack

The wife of the Pulse nightclub shooter, Omar Mateen, knew her husband was “going to do something bad” in the hours before he carried out his deadly attack, investigators have revealed.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that Mateen’s wife, Noor Salman, was aware that her husband was planning something “bad” just hours before he opened fire at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016, killing 49 people and injuring at least 68 others.

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

ISIS in the U.S.: Group’s U.S. Followers Are Diverse

A teen playing basketball after school. An FBI agent. A couple on their honeymoon. A young mother raising her 7-year-old son.

All American — women, men, Muslim, non-Muslim, African-American, white.

All arrested on charges of helping the Islamic State.

ISIS and supporters of the terrorist group have seemingly ingrained themselves in America. New York City recently saw two terror attacks in less than six weeks. But even in less high-profile places, the group’s followers are pressing forward.

USA TODAY reviewed 152 federal cases across the U.S. involving ISIS from 2014 to 2017 and found that its followers are just as diverse as the states where they’ve been caught.

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

Kate Steinle Killer Sentenced to Time Served for Gun Charge

Zarate will be turned over to federal authorities

(KRON) The man acquitted in the death of Kate Steinle was sentenced to three years for a gun possession charge.

A judge denied a defense request to give Jose Ines Garcia Zarate a new trial for his conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Garcia Zarate will now be taken into federal custody, but it’s not clear when he will be transferred.

Defense attorneys argued that the judge failed to properly instruct jurors, who found Garcia Zarate not guilty last month of killing Kate Steinle on a popular pier in 2015.

Garcia Zarate faced a maximum sentence of three years behind bars but has been held in the San Francisco jail since his July 1, 2015, arrest.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Latest Deranged Media Talking Point: Trump Cannot Read

Claims that POTUS is “no more than semi-literate”

Trump derangement syndrome has reached its peak with the release of Michael Wolff’s widely uncorroborated book Fire and Fury which purports that practically every single person who has come into contact with the President believes him to be a child-like moron.

The latest talking media point, in addition to the notion that the President is mentally unstable, is that Trump is probably also illiterate.

The point was raised, predictably, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, with Joe Scarborough declaring “[Trump] doesn’t read. He didn’t read. […] [T]here has been a question of whether this guy can read, whether he does read.”…

Indeed, this is the line the media is taking — that the claims in the book are likely totally false, but they should be reported as if they are true anyway.

But then what else would America expect from the fake media?

[Comment: This is getting ridiculous. What’s next? Trump is actually an escaped prisoner from the planet Krypton?]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Man With Machete Attacks 70-Year-Old Woman

A man armed with a machete assaulted an elderly volunteer worker at a homeless shelter in Shelburne, Vt., Friday morning, according to local police.

32-year-old Abukar Ibrahim attacked a 73-year-old Meals on Wheels volunteer while she was delivering food to Harbor Place, which provides temporary emergency housing to those in need. While in the office, the female victim reportedly saw Ibrahim vandalizing her car. When she confronted him and tried to intervene, the man became violent, assaulting her with a machete.

The woman was taken to the University of Vermont Medical Center with multiple injuries, including a “significant leg wound.” She received treatment and was later released.

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

Question: What Made Steve Bannon Think He Ruled?

by Diana West

It is hard to stop gaping at the hole where a fragmentation bomb blew up inside Trumpworld this week, prompting the president, under fresh if prepackaged attack, even by his own senior former adviser, to return massive fire.

I refer primarily to the unfiltered, reckless statements — ravings — that author Michael Wolff attributes to Steve Bannon in Wolff’s new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. After breaking in the Guardian, these same statements were carried as a news story at Breitbart and have since gone unrefuted, also undiscussed by Steve Bannon. He has offered no reason to doubt them.

Proceeding from the premise that his remarks have been accurately transcribed, a couple of questions start taking shape, even in the politically concussed mind. The first is, What was he thinking, this super-supremo-”strategist,” by deciding to show off, trash-talk, turn-coat, and unload on this perfectly hostile media emissary to Trump and MAGA? The White House, USA reports, claims it was Bannon himself who “signed off on most of Wolff’s access.”

If that last bit is true, duck…

           — Hat tip: Diana West [Return to headlines]
 

Report: Trump Clearing Way for Julian Assange to Return to US

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be able to return to the US without fear of arrest, according to a new report.

The article by InfoWars cites a WikiLeaks retweet which reads: ‘US government on why it has decided to close its eight year long grand jury proceedings against @WikiLeaks (expanded in 2017 to cover our series on the CIA). Wait, what?.’

WikiLeaks was retweeting a State Department tweet from January 2, which includes a clip of spokesperson Heather Nauert during a press briefing.

She says: ‘We support a freedom of the press. When a nation clamps down on social media, we ask the question — what are you afraid of? We support the people of Iran, and we support their voices being heard.’

The report goes on to say that WikiLeaks is suggesting that there is coded communication within the tweet.

[Comment: I’m very skeptical.]

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

‘World Wide Leader in Leftist Disinformation’: ESPN Now Pushing Discredited Russian Collusion Story in Attack on Houston Astros for Accepting White House Invitation

Over the last couple of years the once unbeatable sports network ESPN has gone full-scale liberal, firing various commentators who didn’ t tow the new company line while allowing those that do work for the company to spread leftist disinformation masquerading as legitimate sports analysis.

Now, in a new low for the network, ESPN has aired a rant by commentator Max Kellerman that specifically brought up the widely discredited Russian collusion probe while pretending that it didn’ t have anything to do with being a liberal or conservative.

In other words, according to the obvious implications put forth by Kellerman, good people are against Donald Trump and bad people support him…

So there you have it. ESPN has officially stopped being a sports network and is now nothing more than another leftist propaganda outlet pushing discredited lies while ignoring key facts about the deep states ongoing war against Donald Trump.

Its no wonder that the network is bleeding subscribers at a startling rate with new competitor FS1 seemingly in line to take over as the actual leader of TV sports coverage.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Angela Merkel’s Bid for Government Under Threat Ahead of Crucial Coalition Talks

German Chancellor Angela Merkel — weakened by a humiliating election setback in September — has fallen from “Europe’s most powerful leader to one of its most insecure”.

According to John Simpson, the BBC’s World Affairs editor, Mrs Merkel’s second bid to build a coalition government “is not looking good”.

Talks to form another ‘grand coalition’ with the Social Democrats (SPD) are set to begin tomorrow, but experts believe any deal struck will be voted down by party members.

Simpson told Radio 4’s Today programme: “No-one would have predicted it, but she is far less secure in her job than Theresa May is in hers.

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

British Homeschool Population Doubles in Six Years

From FreedomProject Media:

The number of British children being educated at home has doubled in a mere six-year period, according to government data cited in U.K. media reports. The surge in homeschooling comes as government schools across the Western world become increasingly extreme in pushing anti-Christian, anti-liberty indoctrination.

Estimates based on admittedly incomplete local government data across the United Kingdom suggest that there were some 30,000 home-educated children in the 2016-2017 academic year. By contrast, in 2011, the estimates suggested there were some 15,000. In all, it was a 97 percent increase.

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

EU Back Iran Protestors Despite Supporting Spain’s Clampdown of Catalonia

THE EU have supported protestors in Iran for exercising their “fundamental right” to “freedom of expression”, despite condemning Catalan campaigners in Spain just months ago.

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

French Opposiiton, Twitter Users Slam Macron’s Anti-Fake News Plans

PARIS (Reuters) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to legislate against fake news are running into opposition.

Twitter users have propelled “InventYourFakeNews” to a top trending topic, opposition lawmakers warn of a risk to civil liberties and experts say a law might not be the best tool.

Macron’s announcement Wednesday was the latest attempt by a government to find ways to handle the worldwide spread of disinformation on social media — “fake news”, as U.S. President Donald Trump calls it.

His plan would allow judges to block a website or a user account, in particular during an election, and oblige internet platforms to publish the names of those behind sponsored contents. That raises more questions than answers, critics said.

“Only authoritarian regimes try to control what the truth is,” said senior conservative senator Bruno Retailleau. Freedom of expression carries risks, but that’s better “than the temptation to control minds,” he said.

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

Italy Announces ‘Rebound’ of Political Right, ‘Collapse’ of the Left

In the lead-up to national elections, research indicates that Italians have swung significantly to the right in the past five years, with those who self-identify as “liberals” or “progressives” falling by nearly 50 per cent.

An extensive survey of Italian voters conducted by the Italian daily Il Messaggero in late December reveals that 22 per cent of Italian adults now describe themselves as part of an anti-establishment “movement of discontents,” 14 per cent as “conservatives,” and another 16 per cent as part of a newly formed group called “Italy First,” apparently inspired by Trump’s “America First” platform in the United States.

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

Merkel Facing New Headache as Hungary Orban’s Arrives in Germany

EU REBEL Viktor Orban is set to arrive in Germany today to offer his views on defending Europe’s borders as Angela Merkel faces growing pressure to toughen her immigration stance.

[Comment: The article is dated this past Friday]

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

Taoiseach Criticized for Visiting ‘Undemocratic’ Hungarian Leader Viktor Orban

TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR is facing criticism from opposition benches for travelling to Budapest to meet Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Varadkar will visit the Hungarian capital today before later travelling to Bulgaria where he will meet Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov.

The government say the visits are part of an ongoing programme of engagement with EU leaders in the context of discussions on the future of Europe and Brexit negotiations.

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

UK: Men Accused of Child Abduction and Drugs Offences Appear in Court

Two men accused of child abduction in Coventry have appeared in court.

Mustafa Ahmadzai and Nasar Jabarkhail both face two counts of child abduction and two counts of possession with intent to supply a class A drug.

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

The Norm is Not Democracy — The Norm is Extinction

By David P. Goldman

Before we wax too eloquent about the democratic aspirations of the great Iranian people, we should keep in the mind that the most probable scenario for Iran under any likely regime is a sickening spiral into poverty and depopulation. Iran has the fastest-aging population of any country in the world, indeed, the fastest-aging population of any country in history. It has the highest rate of venereal disease infection and the highest rate of infertility of any country in the world. It has a youth unemployment rate of 35% (adjusted for warehousing young people in state-run diploma mills). And worst of all, it has run out of water.

We might be observing the birth of Iranian democracy in the protests of the past few weeks, but it is more likely that we are watching the slow-motion train wreck of a once-great nation in all its gory detail. As I noted in an Asia Times analysis this morning, the most violent protests, e.g. the burning of a police station near Isfahan captured on this video, happened in the boondocks where water has run out. The river that runs through Isfahan, a legendary city of gardens in the desert, literally has run dry. Some Iranian officials warn that tens of millions of Iranians will have to leave their homes for lack of water. The country has used up 70% of its groundwater and it is literally drying up major rivers to maintain consumption. It’s the worst ecological disaster in modern history.

The Islamic Revolution presided over an orgy of corruption, brutality, and mismanagement. Despite the Obama administration’s cash infusion and the lifting of sanctions on oil exports, the government is nearly bankrupt. It has allowed several major banks to fail, wiping out the savings of millions of depositors, after the banks lent vast sums to regime cronies for real estate speculation. Forty-five percent of Iranian bank loans are toxic and the cost of cleaning up the bank mess is estimated at half of GDP (to put that in perspective, the U.S. Treasury set aside $700 billion, or 1/20th of U.S. GDP, to bail out the banks in 2008, and needed only a fraction of it. The Iranian banking crisis is a full order of magnitude worse than the U.S. 2008 crisis)…

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Pakistan Says ‘No Alliance’ With U.S. After Trump Suspends Over $1 Billion in Aid

Pakistan’s foreign ministry claimed to annul its alliance with the United States after the Trump administration reportedly suspended an estimated $1 billion in security aid for refusing to take decisive action against jihadists who are fighting American troops and their allies in Afghanistan.

“We do not have any alliance” with the United States, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Friday. “This is not how allies behave.”

Asif accused American President Donald Trump’s administration of turning Pakistan into a “whipping boy.”

His comments came a day after Heather Nauert, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State (DOS), told reporters, “We are suspending security assistance, security assistance only, to Pakistan at this time until the Pakistani Government takes decisive action against groups, including the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network. We consider them to be destabilizing the region and also targeting U.S. personnel.”

That same day, an anonymous DOS official explained to reporters that the Trump administration is only freezing the aid.

“The suspension is not a permanent cutoff at this time,” pointed out the unnamed State official, adding: “Our hope, and I won’t say our expectation, but our hope, is that Pakistan will understand our seriousness, that they appreciate the value of this relationship — which they clearly have indicated that they do, and I believe that they genuinely do — and that they will look at what additional they can do to try to address … our requests.”

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Democrats Angry as Trump Restates Pro-American Immigration Principles

Pro-amnesty Democrats insisted President Donald Trump should send them a shorter list of immigration priorities — so he sent them on Friday a new copy of his October 8 priorities plus a new cost estimate for his border wall…

Four million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs in the free market.

But the federal government inflates the supply of new labor by annually accepting more than 1 million new legal immigrants, by providing work-permits to roughly 3 million resident foreigners, and by doing little to block the employment of roughly 8 million illegal immigrants.

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Germany: Mourners, Pro-Diversity Activists Clash at Virgil of Child Murdered by Asylum Seeker

Mourners and a pro-diversity group rioted in the town of Kandel this week during a vigil dedicated to a 15-year-old girl who was stabbed to death by an Afghan asylum seeker.

Approximately 400 mourners met at the grocery shop where the 15-year-old was stabbed to death and engaged in a silent march through the town centre. Another 30 pro-diversity activists held a vigil at the scene of the murder and when the groups met violence erupted, Die Welt reports.

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Germany: Asylum Seeker on the Run After Attacking Several People With an Axe

A 29-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker, formerly living at an asylum home in the German town of Rees, is on the run after robbing several residents of the town and attacking them with an axe.

The first of the attacks occurred on Wednesday at around 9:20 pm when the Moroccan asylum seeker approached a 50-year-old local man and demanded his wallet and cash after brandishing an axe. The man threw his cash at the asylum seeker who only 20 minutes later moved on to his next victim, Tag 24 reports.

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If You Hate America, Why Not Go Back to Your Country?

When I first arrived in America, I would ask every extremist and fundamentalist Muslim I met: “How has your life been since you came to the United States?”

It was clear that their living standards were much better than back home. I knew well the lands they had come from, their economic standards and restrictions, their lifestyle, the social, and the religious, economic and political landscapes of the region.

They were surely about to say how much their lives had improved, and how grateful they were to be in a new, less restricted environment. Instead, they expressed anger and even hatred of their new country and its culture. What they could not put into words, was clearly written across their faces: revulsion and disgust.

It seemed they were comfortable disclosing their true feelings in Farsi or Arabic about the US, Americans, the West, Christians, and Jews. As we had all come from, grown up in, and worked in the same region, many of them mistakenly assumed that we both shared the same hate-filled views. Once they discovered that was not the situation, some even tried to reshape my views: as I was new to the country, I probably did not yet understand.

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Migrants Drown as Dinghy Sinks Off Libyan Coast

At least eight migrants have drowned and 84 have been rescued after a rubber dinghy sank off the coast of Libya, the Italian coastguard said.

Dozens of others might still be missing, the Spanish rescue charity Proactiva Open Arms said.

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Smaller Nations Are Dying Because of EU Open Border Policy

A LATVIAN official has warned the EU’s open borders policy means small countries in the bloc are shrinking at an alarming rate.

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DOJ’s Transgender Decision ‘Allowed Judges to Run the Military’

An expert on military readiness is warning that the Department of Justice’ s decision not to go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court in the dispute over transgenders in the ranks “ allowed judges to run the military,” which violated the U.S. Constitution.

Lower courts affirmed the Obama administration policy of allowing transgender recruits in the U.S. military. But the Department of Justice then failed to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, setting a bad precedent, contends Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness.

Donnelly argued Chief Justice John Roberts also could have stayed the injunctions temporarily and referred the matter to the full court for an expedited briefing.

“ It would be reasonable to expect that Justice Roberts would be inclined to grant the stay on basic separation of powers issues, but there is no way to know for sure,” Donnelly said.

“ We do know that failure to petition for a stay has abdicated presidential authority, and allowed judges to run the military,” she said.

“ Absent intervention, nothing stands in the way of future activist judges issuing orders on any national defense issue, especially lawsuits demanding liberal interpretations of ‘ social justice.’“

The dispute dates back to Obama’ s overturning of centuries of precedent by ordering that transgenders be allowed to enlist.

President Trump reversed the order, but transgender activists went to court in several jurisdictions where judges ruled that while Obama was allowed to make the change, President Trump didn’ t have the authority to reverse it.

One such judge was Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, and WND reported she faced criticism for acting as the “ supreme judicial commander of the military” by refusing to temporarily halt her order against Trump’ s decision.

“ Outlasting the Gay Revolution” spells out eight principles to help Americans with conservative moral values counter attacks on freedoms of religion, speech and conscience by homosexual activists

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Judges Slap Down Demand That Christians Promote Abortion

Baltimore requirement raised

After several years of various courts forcing Christian pregnancy centers and counseling groups to promote abortion — even though it violates their faith — it appears the tide is turning.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday struck down a Baltimore ordinance that required pregnancy centers to post “notices that conspicuously state in English and Spanish that they do not provide nor refer women for abortions or birth control services.”

The appeals court found that the ordinance violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.

The opinion said: “The compelled speech at issue here raises particularly troubling First Amendment concerns. At bottom, the disclaimer portrays abortion as one among a menu of morally equivalent choices. While that may be the city’s view, it is not the center’s.”

The ruling also found the ordinance was an impermissible attempt by Baltimore officials “to use compelled speech as a weapon to run its ideological foes into the ground.”

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Parents Sound Alarm Over Mad Rush Toward Transgender Children (And the “Progressivism” That Pushes This Distortion)

(Natural News) A mother from New York is taking a bold stand against the LGBT mafia and its relentless and demonic war against innocent children. Kristie Sisson says that transgender activism and its youth-centric indoctrination agenda ultimately led her daughter, Danielle, to want to transition into being her “son” — and she isn’t going to stand for it.

According to Sisson, it all started when the family decided to move from Long Island down to North Carolina after Danielle graduated from public middle school. The adjustment process for Danielle was rough, which led her to seek acceptance from whoever would give it.

This led her to a friend who happened to be a lesbian, and who apparently convinced Danielle that she, too, was a lesbian — even though she had always grown up liking boys. After being enrolled in a private high school in North Carolina, Danielle encountered several biological girls who were in the process of trying to transition into boys, to which Danielle also jumped on the bandwagon.

In the fall of 2016 things got really ugly, as Danielle informed her parents that she wanted to start dressing like a boy and would soon pursue surgery to become a “male.” This took Danielle’s parents completely off guard, as they were unaware at the time that Danielle was being so innately influenced by her new friends.

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“Transgender ideology is not just infecting our laws,’ writes pediatrician and researcher Dr. Michelle Cretella, a mother of four and president of the American College of Pediatricians (ACP). “It is intruding into the lives of the most innocent among us — children — and with the apparent growing support of the professional medical community.”

The ACP is bold in asserting that one’s biological sex is a permanent fixture, and that it can’t be changed as the LGBT mafia claims. And to subject children to such lies represents a form of child abuse that parents need to put a stop to by joining together and fighting back.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

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

  1. ATTN: Reader from Chicago:

    Special thanks for the story about the machete attack on the Meals on Wheels lady. I have a friend who delivers them and have passed on the story.

    • I’m gratified that people like my news tips.
      I’m also gratified when others give interesting news that I had totally missed.

  2. The real reason Muslim nations are keen as beans to move into and take over western countries.
    Water.
    Due to their own inability to keep their populations within limits, and due to medieval practices of agriculture, most Muslim countries can no longer feed their people. All the oil money in the world can’t do anything to feed a burgeoning population in a desert called Saudi Arabia. Egypt imports most of its food for a one hundred million people. Look at the populations of Indonesia and Pakistan! I remember in the late 1950s Haile Selassie reported as saying Ethiopia could not export or build infrastructure because every time there was a good harvest, the birth rate exploded and the people ate everything up.
    Yet any time there is a move to teach women about birth control or encourage families to use it, the men get inflamed about outsiders interfering with their ‘culture’.
    It is a pity about Iran. Population in 1979 – 37 million. Population in 2017 – 81 million. The population more than doubled in less than forty years. But the water didn’t double. Neither did the agricultural land.
    What did they think would happen?

    • Excellent post! Thank you!

      (Actually, they might not even need to teach/preach birth control if people could ever come to the understanding that it’s not essential to staying alive like food, clothing, shelter and oxygen are essential.)

        • What is essential in Personal and existence en mass is being Responsible…
          For other Cultures than White Man it is a Abstract..

        • Yes but what if you enjoy it?I mean without books ,without decent websites like Gates of Vienna , without sex with one’s beloved spouse one could go through the motions of living.

          But it would be an entirely joyless experience akin to living in the Greek underworld (Hades) as sad grey shade of one’s former self

      • Seriously, Countess?

        Look at the known statistics: in those countries where women are educated and free to make decisions, they practice birth control – whether it be with hormones, abortions, or refusal of any sexual congress – and increasingly turn against men in general.

        I presume by the “it” you mention as “not being essential” you’re referring to reproduction. For some, it *is* viewed as “essential”. Having many children in a place where few of them reach adulthood means ensuring that some of them survive to take care of you in old age.

        Since Japan’s population declined past the replacement rate, it was importing Koreans to take care of the elderly. Of course, Koreans aren’t considered as being worthy of inclusion into the population (both China and Japan look down on any peoples who are not, respectively, Han Chinese or Japanese). Now, though, with the rapid advance of robots, they’ve solved that problem and are free to keep on their decline in population to the point of disappearing.

        By the way, the urge to reproduce bypasses “understanding”. It’s a far more primal urge; some will starve to death if need be to satisfy that urge. The heart has its reasons…

        • ..” to take care of the elderly”…
          This problem does exist only in one generation..
          After that reduced Demographics are working at reduced population proportions..
          Concept that population has to increase is wrong and doesn’t serve well…accept those who created this dynamics…and you know who there are…Consumerist Pulp is the reason for their existence and source of their Power coming from that
          Soon as they will be deprived from it ,World will get own bearing again..

        • Uh…. theoretically and supposedly nuns don’t become nuns because of a “refusal of any sexual congress.”

          I’ve heard the theory about having kids so someone takes care of you in your old age, as well as ones like having kids so you have farm hands but that doesn’t always work out so. either.

          It’s not likely any kind of a “first” in the history of mankind if an ethnic group disappears, be it through lack of reproduction or something else. Why would it be such a disaster if it’s through lack of reproduction?

          Can’t think of the name right now, but seems like there was an entire religion that didn’t encourage reproduction (? – Shakers).

    • They steal the water and create this mess. The river that runs through Spahan (Isfahan), as stated in the main article, has not run dry for natural causes; they pump the water to Yazd to feed steel industries and perhaps other industries I don’t know (feel free to imagine bad things in your mind). River disappears in Korbal Region, just south of Persepolis, and forests burn over night not because of global warming, someone sets fire to the trees. A lot more to be said, but better stop at this point. Population growth is the other side of the coin.

    • Jayem-

      Excellent points.

      Other than that, I would simply mention that, other than Aceh aka “Mecca’s Veranda” Indonesia is probably the least screwed up Muslim realm, even if that is a low bar.

      • Not sure about that; the genocide in West Papua has claimed over half a million victims so far.

        • Yes exactly Indonesia is a ghastly country.Those of us in its neighborhood( eg Australia) know it all too well.

      • …Aceh aka “Mecca’s Veranda”…

        Your allusion would be hilarious were it not for how direly mistaken you are about Indonesian Muslim violence.

    • From today’s GoV news section:
      David P. Goldman reports in Iran:
      “..most violent protests…. happened in the boondocks where water has run out..”
      Iranian MP’s “warn that tens of millions..will have to leave”.
      https://pjmedia.com/spengler/norm-not-democracy-norm-extinction/
      One of the other drivers, notions of Hijrah or resources aside, is living-space (although with the sheer numbers of people involved, Islamist and/or nationalist agendas coming with them, seems inescapable).

      In Anthony Browne’s ever relevant essay- ‘The Folly of Mass Immigration’ he notes, when asked how Bangladesh would deal with the pop. doubling by 2050, former PM Sheikh Hasina replied: “Globalisation will take that problem away……we’ll send them to America”.
      https://www.opendemocracy.net/people-migrationeurope/article_1193.jsp
      An op-ed in the Times of India, proposes some “breathing room”.
      “New Delhi needs to facilitate emigration of 300 million or more….let many little Indias bloom”.

    • This can be said about the whole planet, but you pointed out the sacred cow: the right to produce as many hungry mouths as a woman can manage. This is a particular problem where women have no rights other than granted by some pedo prophet, and interpreted by elderly, teenage-molesting dudes.
      Population Ponzi.
      Now, back to the enlightened West. The creaky establishment prophecy is that the economy must grow at a certain clip, or the debt grows out of control, and to grow the economy, the debt must grow. That on a limited planet. Throw out these encrusted old shamen, and paddlers of Financial Ponzi.

        • That is one reason some serious culling is in order at the UN. Not only there are superfluous agencies, and offices, but the pay should also be adjusted to average for this last bastion of aristocratic privilege.
          Now, that will hit the economy of the cities where the offices are located, but fear not: they are all located in cushy, trendy locales of the first world – which pays the bills, anyway.

  3. So let me get this right, the scumsucking islamic UN gets a 255mil “general budget” haircut that the UN will acknowledge by cutting conservative causes and the pakis are down a billion?
    Consistency what?

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