Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/26/2018

A dispute about cereal broke out inside a grocery store in Ottawa, and during the affray a man stabbed and wounded several people. The alleged perpetrator then fled the store, but was rapidly tracked down and shot to death by police officers.

In other news, protests broke out on the streets of Barcelona during a visit by the Spanish king. Nineteen people were injured, and one person was arrested.

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USA
» “Never Seen Such a Large Crowd”: Record Numbers Flock to Florida Gun Show After Shooting;
» If You Have a Mental Illness, This Antifa Student Group Wants You
» Mass Shootings and Psychiatric Drugs: The Connection
» Selco on Martial Law: Forget Your “Movie Illusions About Being a Freedom Fighter
» Tell us What You Think — Will More Gun Control Make America a Safer Place?
» The Left’s Objective in Its War on the NRA
» The Organizers Behind the Youth Anti-Gun Protests
» Video: Hero German Shepherd Shot, Beaten Defending Teenager From Home Invaders
» Weinstein Co. Expected to File for Bankruptcy After Sale Talks Fail
» Weinstein Company to File for Bankruptcy Following Sale-Talk Collapse
 
Canada
» Ottawa Man Shot and Killed by Police After Grocery Store Dispute Over Cereal
 
Europe and the EU
» Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers
» Arctic Stronghold of World’s Seeds Reaches One Million Mark
» Barcelona Erupts as Police Clash With Protestors Over Spanish King’s Visit to Catalonia
» China Interested in Sweden-Denmark Tunnel: Report
» Chinese Billionaire Sees Baguette Goldmine in French Fields
» Danish Government Wants Double Punishments for Crimes in Underprivileged Areas
» France Says it Foiled Two Terror Attacks This Year
» From Drug Tolerance to ‘Narco State’: Migrant Gangs & Hands-Off Policing Threaten Dutch Liberalism
» Geneva Trains Eagles in War on Rogue Drones
» Germany ‘Watchful’ After Geely Buys $9bn Stake in Daimler
» ‘Hit Them With a Truck… Kill Them All’: ISIS Urge Fanatics to Carry Out Vehicle Attacks in Latest Propaganda Showing Blood on the Front of a Lorry
» Italy: M5S Bagheria Mayor Indicted
» Italy: Renzi ‘Won’t Take Step Back’ if PD Loses
» Italy: CasaPound ‘Ready to Support’ Salvini-Led Govt
» Italy: M5S Senator Probe Concluded
» Meet the Gay-Rights Champion Gunning for Merkel’s Job From the Right-Wing of Her Party
» Merkel Wins Over Own Party But SPD Could Destroy Government in Six Days
» Neanderthal Artists Made Oldest-Known Cave Paintings
» Report: UK Taxpayer Hands £6 Million a Year to Islamic Charities Working to ‘Damage Our Society’
» Slovakia Shocked by Killing of Journalist and Partner
» Switzerland: SBB Fights New Low-Cost Bus Lines With Saver Fares
» Tens of Thousands March in Rival Protests Across Italy
» Today in Italian Politics: Italy’s Latest Candidate for Prime Minister is a Real Clown
» UK: 5 Dead, 5 in Hospital After Leicester Shop Explosion
» UK: Grooming Gangs Abused More Than 700 Women and Girls Around Newcastle After Police Appeared to Punish Victims
» UK: Homeschooling Parents Would Rather ‘Go to Jail’ Than Send Daughter to State School
» UK: London Sees 20% Rise in Rape Reports in a Year, But Police Admit They ‘Don’t Understand’ Reason
» UK: Paedophiles and Violent Criminals Could Escape Justice as London Police Struggle With Arrest Warrant Backlog
» UK: Rotherham Abuse Inquiry ‘Needs 100 More Officers’
» Vandals Strike German Food Bank With Anti-Nazi Graffiti
» ‘We Are Not Super-Human’: The Secret to Norway’s Olympic Success
» Wheels Come Off Bicycle Hire Service in France
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Shin Bet Foils ISIS-Inspired Attack on Temple Mount
 
Middle East
» Russia Deploys Advanced Stealth Jets in Syria With Warning Aimed at Israel
» Turkey’s Erdogan in Row Over ‘Girl Martyr’ Comment on TV
 
Far East
» China Faces Rule by Xi for Decades With Repeal of Term Limits
» Tea vs Coffee in China: New-Style Cafes’ Frappuccino Fightback Suggests There’s Room for Them and Starbucks Too
 
Australia — Pacific
» Gang of African Teens Wearing Masks Break Into Melbourne Home and Assault Two Men With Baseball Bats and Crowbars in a Terrifying Home Invasion
» Two Canadian Drug Runners Admit Conspiring With Their Porn Star Friend in a Failed Attempt to Smuggle Four Suitcases of Cocaine Worth $21million Into Sydney on a Round-the-World Luxury Cruise
 
Latin America
» Hungry Venezuelan Workers Are Collapsing. So is the Oil Industry
» Russia, China and Iran in Venezuela
 
Immigration
» An Ancient Tuscan Village, Like Italy, Is Reshaped by Migration
» From Sipping Beers at the Sydney Opera House to Hiking in the Blue Mountains: How a Glamorous Iranian Refugee Couple Lived ‘The Australian Dream’ Before They Were ‘Caught With Nearly 40 Kilos of Ice’
» ‘Germany Changed the Rules’ This is Why Eastern Europeans Are Mad at Merkel
» German Prosecutors Detain Syrian Asylum Seeker Accused of Terror Links
» Germany: ‘Nazi’ Sprayed on Food Charity Which Refused to Take New Migrant Clients
» If Immigration Creates Wealth, Why is California America’s Poverty Capital?
» Iranian Refugee Couple Who Came to Australia by Boat ‘Busted Flooding the Streets of Sydney With Ice’ — as Police Seize 36 Kilograms of the Deadly Drug, $260,000 Cash and Three Luxury Cars
» Italian Election Dominated by Immigration Debate
» New Chicago ID Card Created for Undocumented Immigrants Will be Accepted for Voter Registration
» Preventing the Migrant Wave Germany Exports Employment Offices to Africa
 
Culture Wars
» Transgender Boy Wins Girl’s State Wrestling Championship for Second Year in a Row
 

“Never Seen Such a Large Crowd”: Record Numbers Flock to Florida Gun Show After Shooting;

A record number of firearms enthusiasts made their way to the Florida State Fairgrounds this weekend to attend the Florida Gun Show, amid a fierce national debate over gun rights following the Valentine’s Day massacre at Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida.

Organizers say almost 7,000 people attended on Saturday, with Sunday’s tally expected to be higher. Organizer Steve Fernandez said they’ve never seen such a large crowd — however it’s possible that the cancellation of next month’s show in Fort Lauderdale may have attracted concerned citizens.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

If You Have a Mental Illness, This Antifa Student Group Wants You

A Texas Antifa student group hosted a six month health program to “politicize” students with “mental illnesses,” according to a Thursday report.

The Revolutionary Student Front at the University of Texas at Austin hosted a “Revolutionary Mental Health Program” “to address the mental health needs of students in a way that would primarily serve to politicize and strengthen them, to become more committed to revolution and more capable of carrying it out,” reported Far Left Watch.

The UT Austin Antifa student group based its 2017 program on “Turn Illness Into A Weapon,” a book charting the neo-Marxist Socialist Patients Collective group’s actions in Germany, which placed the blame of mental illness on capitalist oppression.

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

Mass Shootings and Psychiatric Drugs: The Connection

by Jon Rappoport

I’ve been tracking the connection since 1999, when I wrote a long white paper, for the Truth Seeker Foundation, on school shootings and psychiatric drugs. The paper was titled: “Why Do They Do It? School shootings Across America.”

The drugs aren’t the only causative factor, but they produce what I call the Johnny Appleseed effect throughout society. Sprinkle enough of the drugs among enough people and you get otherwise unexplainable violence popping up — in schools, in workplaces. The psychiatric plague eats out the country from the inside.

Here are excerpts from my 1999 report —

The massacre at Columbine High School took place on April 20, 1999. Astonishingly, for eight days after the tragedy, during thousands of hours of prime-time television coverage, virtually no one mentioned the word “drugs.” Then the issue was opened. Eric Harris, one of the shooters at Columbine, was on at least one drug.

The NY Times of April 29, 1999, and other papers reported that Harris was rejected from enlisting in the Marines for medical reasons. A friend of the family told the Times that Harris was being treated by a psychiatrist. And then several sources told the Washington Post that the drug prescribed as treatment was Luvox, manufactured by Solvay…

Dr. Peter Breggin, the eminent psychiatrist and author (Toxic Psychiatry, Talking Back to Prozac, Talking Back to Ritalin), told me, “With Luvox there is some evidence of a four-percent rate for mania in adolescents. Mania, for certain individuals, could be a component in grandiose plans to destroy large numbers of other people. Mania can go over the hill to psychosis.”

Dr. Joseph Tarantolo is a psychiatrist in private practice in Washington DC. He is the president of the Washington chapter of the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians. Tarantolo states that “all the SSRIs [including Prozac and Luvox] relieve the patient of feeling. He becomes less empathic, as in ‘I don’t care as much,’ which means ‘It’s easier for me to harm you.’ If a doctor treats someone who needs a great deal of strength just to think straight, and gives him one of these drugs, that could push him over the edge into violent behavior.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Selco on Martial Law: Forget Your “Movie Illusions About Being a Freedom Fighter

Let’s talk about martial law. This is when the normal law of the land is suspended and the authority comes from the military or federal government.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Tell us What You Think — Will More Gun Control Make America a Safer Place?

The left has decided that the great tragedy that we just witnessed down in Florida is an opportunity to try to grab our guns. We are witnessing an all-out assault on the 2nd Amendment like we haven’t seen in decades, and this will undoubtedly be one of the most hotly debated issues as we head into the 2018 mid-term elections. I will never compromise a single inch when it comes to the 2nd Amendment, but unfortunately not all politicians are willing to take the same stand. In fact, some of my opponents publicly indicated that they were willing to compromise on gun issues even before the tragedy in Florida took place. If you would like to help us win this race so that we can relentlessly stand up for your 2nd Amendment rights in Washington, here is how you can make a financial contribution…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Left’s Objective in Its War on the NRA

The NRA is perhaps the most powerful grassroots organization in the nation still dedicated to preserving the rights as enumerated in the Constitution. Because of its over 5 million members, it has influence not only in Washington, but in the state capitals as well. Through its offices and media activity, it can influence and mobilize exponentially far more than just its dues-paying membership.

Therefore, the left-wing cabal must mobilize and utilize all tactics possible in order to marginalize the NRA. The fact that the primary purpose of the NRA is the defense of the 2nd Amendment plays into the left’s hands, as leftists have a cudgel — gun violence — to use whenever mass shootings occur. With a compliant media (see C above), a woefully ill educated populace (see A above), and an entertainment complex to do their bidding (see B above), the forces arrayed against the NRA or any other similar organization dedicated to preserving the tenets of this nation’s founding are formidable

Leftists know they cannot confiscate all the guns in the nation and have no intention of attempting to do so. But by eliminating the influence of the NRA they can by legislation, taxation, and regulation incrementally make gun ownership increasingly problematic and progressively more expensive, as there will be no organized and powerful voice to defend the unfettered right to bear arms or promote the tenets and spirit of the Constitution.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Organizers Behind the Youth Anti-Gun Protests

In the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last week that claimed the lives of 17 and wounded 15 more, several movements are springing up. All of them have teenagers as the leaders of the groups. But those aren’t the true instigators… the organizers. The same radicals behind the Women’s Marches are behind these groups and they are rabidly anti-gun, anti-NRA and anti-President Trump.

The biggest of these groups is the #Enough National School Walkout scheduled for March 14th, 2018. It’s scheduled to begin at 10 am in every time zone and last for 17 minutes — one for each victim who lost their life in the massacre. The radical Women’s March Youth Empower group are the organizers behind much of this. They are sponsored by groups such as: Rock The Vote, Teen Vogue, Peace First, Rise To Run, The Gathering For Justice and Justice League NYC.

The leaders behind the Women’s March Youth Empower group include:

  • Ziad Ahmed — Youth Advisor
  • Hannah Rosenzweig — Strategic Advisor
  • Adam Jacobs — Curriculum Advisor
  • Jackson Hyland Lipski — Graphic Designer

From their website:…

These children are being weaponized by communists, leftists and radicals. Their movements are being fueled by grief and they are being given someone to blame: the NRA, President Trump and conservatives. A new revolutionary movement is being born with young people at its center and it is a communist radicalized one.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Video: Hero German Shepherd Shot, Beaten Defending Teenager From Home Invaders

A two-year-old German Shepherd went above and beyond to protect his owner after he took bullets and blows defending his best friend from home invaders.

The 16-year-old owner, Javier Mercado, hid in his closet with his dog Rex as burglars ransacked his Des Moines, Iowa, home Wednesday, KWCH reported.

“As soon as he heard the window shatter, he ran downstairs full charge,” Mercado told KOMO. “And then I just heard a bunch of barking and struggling, and then one of the guys screaming, ‘The dog! The dog bit me! Get the dog!’“

Rex, sensing there was danger in the house, ran downstairs to confront the burglars — who ruthlessly beat him.

As the burglars continued to pilfer through the house, they approached the room where the teen was hiding. Although Rex had little strength left in him, he pounced on the burglars.

“I think if it wasn’t for him, I probably wouldn’t be standing here today,” Mercado said.

The hero German Shepherd was shot three times trying to take down the burglars.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Weinstein Co. Expected to File for Bankruptcy After Sale Talks Fail

The Weinstein Co.’s board of directors says the company is expected to file for bankruptcy protection after last-ditch talks to sell its assets collapsed.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Weinstein Company to File for Bankruptcy Following Sale-Talk Collapse

The Weinstein Company on Sunday night said in a statement that it would file for bankruptcy in the “coming days” after it reportedly failed to find a buyer.

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was accused by at least 75 women have told the news media that Weinstein harassed, behaved inappropriately toward them or assaulted them. Authorities in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, New York and London are investigating.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Ottawa Man Shot and Killed by Police After Grocery Store Dispute Over Cereal

A 25-year-old man is dead after an Ottawa police-involved Carleton Avenue shooting on Sunday evening.

Police responded to reports of a stabbing on Carleton and Wellington Street West at around 6:45 p.m., arriving to a scene at a Metro grocery store where it was reported that multiple people had been stabbed in what began as a dispute over cereal. The man fled, and police found him a few blocks away in an alleyway near the corner of Western Avenue and Spencer Street.

According to the province’s Special Investigations Unit, there was “an interaction” between the man and police. One of the officers discharged his firearms multiple times, striking the man, who was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The SIU is an arm’s-length agency that investigates reports involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.

Four investigators and three forensic investigators from the SIU have been assigned to the case, and Ottawa police are no longer commenting on the case…

           — Hat tip: Vlad Tepes [Return to headlines]
 

Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers

The ancient population of Britain was almost completely replaced by newcomers about 4,500 years ago, a study shows.

The findings mean modern Britons trace just a small fraction of their ancestry to the people who built Stonehenge.

The astonishing result comes from analysis of DNA extracted from 400 ancient remains across Europe.

The mammoth study, published in Nature, suggests the newcomers, known as Beaker people, replaced 90% of the British gene pool in a few hundred years.

Lead author Prof David Reich, from Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, US, said: “The magnitude and suddenness of the population replacement is highly unexpected.”

The reasons remain unclear, but climate change, disease and ecological disaster could all have played a role.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Arctic Stronghold of World’s Seeds Reaches One Million Mark

The vault storing the world’s most precious seeds is taking delivery on Monday of donations that will take it to the one million mark.

More than 70,000 crops will be added to frozen storage chambers buried deep within a mountain in the Arctic Circle.

Cereal staples, unusual crops like the Estonian onion potato, and barley used to brew Irish beer are among the consignments.

Monday marks the tenth anniversary of the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Barcelona Erupts as Police Clash With Protestors Over Spanish King’s Visit to Catalonia

NINETEEN people were injured and one person was arrested when protests erupted in Barcelona on Sunday night during King Felipe VI’s first visit to Catalonia since last year’s failed independence bid.

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

China Interested in Sweden-Denmark Tunnel: Report

A Chinese company will put forth a proposal to build a tunnel between Helsingborg in Sweden and Helsingør in Denmark, the so-called HH-tunnel.

The mooted tunnel, which has been discussed a number of times previously by authorities in both countries, would provide the second connection crossing the Öresund strait between the two countries.

A Chinese company is to put forward a report on technical aspects of building the tunnel, reports media News Øresund.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Chinese Billionaire Sees Baguette Goldmine in French Fields

Over the past four years Hu Keqin has quietly snapped up 3,000 hectares of wheat fields in the central Indre and Allier regions.

Hu’s purchases are part of a Chinese buying-spree in recent years stretching from the US to Australia. And in France, struggling farmers fear a landgrab.

“It’s a piece of French heritage that is being taken, but that’s globalisation and that’s the trend at the moment,” Bernardet told AFP.

“If it wasn’t the Chinese, it would be someone else.”

The fields may be bare for winter, but Hu has big dreams: eventually they’ll provide some of the flour for 1,500 French bakeries in China, catering to a burgeoning middle class.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Danish Government Wants Double Punishments for Crimes in Underprivileged Areas

Vandalism, theft and threatening behaviour will be punished more severely in areas defined as ‘special punishment zones’, according to a new plan to be set out by the Danish government.

Double punishments for certain types of offence committed in underprivileged areas defined as ‘ghettos’ will form part of a programme of measures aimed at the marginalised zones, Justice Minister Søren Pape Poulsen told newspaper Berlingske.

They exact types of crime to be subjected to the harsher punishments is yet to be confirmed, but will be defined as part of the parliamentary process to establish the new measures, according to the report.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

France Says it Foiled Two Terror Attacks This Year

France has foiled two terror attacks this year targeting a leading sports team and the armed forces, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said Sunday.

Paris is still on its highest level of alert after a string of Islamist attacks over the last three years.

According to official figures, 20 attacks were foiled in France in 2017.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

From Drug Tolerance to ‘Narco State’: Migrant Gangs & Hands-Off Policing Threaten Dutch Liberalism

The Netherlands’ permissive drugs policy has been hailed worldwide, but immigrant-dominated crime gangs are taking advantage to create a “parallel mafia society.” Yet they are not the only ones who created this crisis.

A report by the Dutch police union based on interviews with 400 detectives, released last week, read less like a blueprint for tackling crime, but rather a concession of defeat.

A sample of quotes from interviewees: “In 25 years, I’ve seen small dealers grow to large businessmen with respected investors [and] political connections.” “Five years ago a contract killer would cost €50,000 [US$61,000] now one can be found for €5,000. It’s supply and demand.” “The Netherlands has become a narco state in the past three decades. We do not see what remains invisible, but underground it has been growing.”

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

Geneva Trains Eagles in War on Rogue Drones

Police in the Swiss city of Geneva are training two eagles to take down drones but the success of the project is far from guaranteed.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Germany ‘Watchful’ After Geely Buys $9bn Stake in Daimler

Germany says it will remain “watchful” of Chinese carmaker Geely after it became the biggest investor in Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler.

The German government warned the deal should not be used as a “gateway” for Chinese industrial policy interests.

Geely, which has bought a 9.7% stake, says it hopes to co-operate with the German car giant on electric cars.

The Chinese firm already fully-owns Sweden’s Volvo and black cab maker London Taxi Company.

Geely’s $9bn (£6.4bn) investment has raised some concerns that the Chinese firm will seek access to technology and innovation in exchange for the deal.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

‘Hit Them With a Truck… Kill Them All’: ISIS Urge Fanatics to Carry Out Vehicle Attacks in Latest Propaganda Showing Blood on the Front of a Lorry

ISIS has urged fanatics to carry out vehicle attacks in a chilling poster showing a picture of blood on the front of a lorry.

The terror group called on would-be lone-wolf jihadists to ‘hit them with a truck’ and to ‘kill them all’ in the propaganda material.

Muharar al-Ansar, the pro-ISIS group that released the poster, has previously released similar graphics calling for arson and gun attacks, according to the respected SITE Intelligence group which monitors terror activity.

ISIS has used vehicles to carry out a wave of atrocities in the past, with similar attacks taking place in Britain, the US, France, Germany, Spain and Sweden and claiming well over 100 lives.

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

Italy: M5S Bagheria Mayor Indicted

Accused of bid rigging, fraud, abuse of power

(ANSA) — Palermo, February 26 — The prosecutor’s office in the Sicilian town of Termini Imerese on Monday issued an indictment for the mayor of Bagheria, Patrizio Cinque, of the 5-Star Movement (M5S) party. Cinque is accused of bid rigging, fraud, abuse of power, revealing secrets of office and official misconduct. The preliminary hearing is set for April 11. Cinque suspended himself from the anti-establishment M5S after learning he was under investigation.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Renzi ‘Won’t Take Step Back’ if PD Loses

Ex-premier ‘ready to talk about programmes’

(ANSA) — Rome, February 26 — Ex-premier and Democratic Party (PD) leader Matteo Renzi said Monday that he would not step down from the helm of the centre-left group if it does badly in Sunday’s general election. “I’m ready to talk about (electoral) programmes from now until Sunday,” Renzi told SkyTg24. “There won’t be a step back and I find it disconcerting that the whole issue of the election campaign is what I’ll do. If you think that we’ll spend the last week talking about what comes after, you’ve got the wrong person”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: CasaPound ‘Ready to Support’ Salvini-Led Govt

Far-right group wants Italy out of euro and EU

(ANSA) — Rome, February 26 — Simone Di Stefano, the premier candidate for far-right group CasaPound, said Monday that he may be ready to a support a government headed by League leader Matteo Salvini after the March 4 general election. “If there is the possibility of a sovereign government that takes us out of of the euro and out of the European Union and blocks immigration, which are the three main points of our programme, we are ready to support it,” Di Stefano told Radio 24.

“It shouldn’t be a government with (European Parliament President Antonio) Tajani premier and (Renato) Brunetta as economy minister, but a government with Salvini premier and (economist Alberto) Bagnai as economy minister”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: M5S Senator Probe Concluded

Attempted abuse of office in hiring

(ANSA) — Catania, February 26 — Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) Senator Ornella Bertorotta was told Monday a probe into alleged attempted abuse of office had been concluded, paving the way for charges to be pressed. Bertorotta is suspected of exerting undue pressure to get a young woman close to the M5S hired by a rehab community near Catania, judicial sources said.

She is alleged to have used her inspection and interrogation powers to try to influence the decisions of the rehab centre, the sources said.

The case was opened by the head of the community for minors at Mascali near Catania.

After learning of the probe Bertorotta gave up her ambition to stand for the Senate again.

She has denied all wrongdoing.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Meet the Gay-Rights Champion Gunning for Merkel’s Job From the Right-Wing of Her Party

He’s 37 years old, openly gay yet staunchly conservative and one of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s loudest critics within her own party. Meet Jens Spahn, the ambitious “anti-Merkel” tapped to become Germany’s new health minister.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Merkel Wins Over Own Party But SPD Could Destroy Government in Six Days

Today the Christian Democrats (CDU) approved the coalition agreement in a move that inches Mrs Merkel closer to her fourth term as German Chancellor.

Mrs Merkel has drawn criticism from more conservative members of her party for her open door migration policy of 2015, as well as her approach to the Greek banking crisis.

But despite tensions within the centre-right group the party, desperate to stay in power, threw their support behind a coalition deal struck the the SPD.

However the more formidable hurdle to ending a five-month political impasse in Europe’s largest economy comes in six days.

On Sunday March 4, results of a binding postal vote by members of the centre-left SPD will be announced and they are far less certain.

Now Mrs Merkel faces the tricker task of finding the approval of the SPD themselves — who are much more likely to oppose the deal as members fear another term of propping up Mrs Merkel risk damaging their future prospects.

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

Neanderthal Artists Made Oldest-Known Cave Paintings

Designs at three Spanish sites are thought to predate human arrival in Europe by at least 20,000 years.

Neanderthals painted caves in what is now Spain before their cousins, Homo sapiens, even arrived in Europe, according to research published today in Science. The finding suggests that the extinct hominids, once assumed to be intellectually inferior to humans, may have been artists with complex beliefs.

Ladder-like shapes, dots and handprints were painted and stenciled deep in caves at three sites in Spain. Their precise meaning may forever be unknowable, says Alistair Pike, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton, UK, who co-authored the study, but they were almost certainly meaningful to our lost kin. “It wasn’t simply decorating your living space,” Pike says. “People were making journeys into the darkness.”

Humans are thought to have arrived in Europe from Africa around 40,000—45,000 years ago. The three caves in different parts of Spain yielded artworks that are at least 65,000 years old, according to uranium-thorium dating of calcium carbonate that had formed on top of the art.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Report: UK Taxpayer Hands £6 Million a Year to Islamic Charities Working to ‘Damage Our Society’

Around £6 million of taxpayers’ money is being handed each year to Islamic charities with extremist tendencies, “whose only goal is to damage our society” in some cases, a report has found.

The report, by The Henry Jackson Society, accuses some taxpayer-supported groups of backing “the spread of harmful non-violent extremist views that are not illegal; by providing platforms, credibility and support to a network of extremists operating in the UK”.

The document, titled Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How Islamist Extremists Exploit the UK Charitable Sector, says that the £6 million “is likely the tip of the iceberg”.

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

Slovakia Shocked by Killing of Journalist and Partner

A Slovak investigative journalist and his partner have been murdered in a suspected assassination linked to the journalist’s work.

Jan Kuciak, 27, and Martina Kusnirova were shot dead at the weekend at home in Velka Maca, a village 65km (40 miles) east of the capital Bratislava.

It was “most likely related to the journalist’s investigative work”, a police commander said.

Kuciak had written about alleged tax fraud involving luxury apartments.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Switzerland: SBB Fights New Low-Cost Bus Lines With Saver Fares

Switzerland’s national rail company, the SBB, has reportedly responded to the government’s decision to greenlight three new, private long-distance bus lines by ramping up supply of its so-called “supersaver” tickets.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Tens of Thousands March in Rival Protests Across Italy

Tens of thousands of people marched in rival far-right and anti-fascist demonstrations across Italy on Saturday, with isolated clashes erupting as tensions threatened to boil over ahead of next weekend’s election.

Police estimated that between 15,000 and 20,000 people attended a campaign rally in Milan led by Matteo Salvini, the head of anti-immigration group The League, which said the turnout was closer to 50,000.

The group, formerly known as the Northern League, is part of ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s right-wing coalition, which opinion polls suggest is leading ahead of the March 4th election.

“Italians first,” Salvini, who hopes to become the country’s next leader, told the crowd.

Violence briefly broke out at another Milan demonstration, police in riot gear briefly grappling with anti-fascist protesters marching to counter a rally by the neo-fascist CasaPound movement.

There has been a dramatic uptick in violence between anti-fascist and far-right activists in recent weeks, and more than 3,000 police were mobilised for demonstrations in Rome.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Today in Italian Politics: Italy’s Latest Candidate for Prime Minister is a Real Clown

In the run-up to the Italian general election on March 4th, The Local is bringing you a daily round up of who’s done what and why in the fast-moving world of Italian politics.

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UK: 5 Dead, 5 in Hospital After Leicester Shop Explosion

LONDON (AP) — Five people have died of injuries from an explosion that caused the collapse of a building in the central England city of Leicester, police said Monday.

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UK: Grooming Gangs Abused More Than 700 Women and Girls Around Newcastle After Police Appeared to Punish Victims

‘Sexual exploitation is happening in towns and cities across the country,’ serious case review warns

Grooming gangs abused more than 700 women and girls around Newcastle with “arrogant persistence” after police appeared to punish victims while letting the perpetrators walk free, a case review has found.

The report into the response by authorities to child sexual exploitation found that before a large-scale police operation was launched in 2014, officers’ actions were sending an “unhelpful” message to perpetrators.

It warned that abusers are still preying on girls across the UK, and called for urgent action from the Government.

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UK: Homeschooling Parents Would Rather ‘Go to Jail’ Than Send Daughter to State School

The parents of a homeschooled child have said they would be willing to go to prison rather than submit to Westminster Council’s demand to interview their daughter or send her to a state-run school.

Edward Hardy and his wife Eileen Tracy, both education professionals, were told that the family must meet with a home education advisor, submit an “endorsement by an educator”, or send their 12-year-old daughter Lilian to school by March 7th, reports The Telegraph.

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UK: London Sees 20% Rise in Rape Reports in a Year, But Police Admit They ‘Don’t Understand’ Reason

The number of alleged rapes reported to police in London has risen by almost 20 per cent in a disturbing increase police are struggling to explain.

There were 7,613 reported rapes in the year to January, compared to 6,392 over the previous 12 months, according to figures collated by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).

Sir Craig Mackey, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said the rise could not be accounted for simply by more victims feeling able to report abuse or better recording practices.

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UK: Paedophiles and Violent Criminals Could Escape Justice as London Police Struggle With Arrest Warrant Backlog

Thousands of suspected paedophiles and violent criminals could be allowed to walk free and not face justice as London police consider ignoring un-served warrants.

The Metropolitan force is reviewing and clearing some outstanding warrants across all departments, including its child sex abuse unit, The Times reports, examining cases that are more than three years old.

In the London area, there are 7,000 warrants that have not yet been served, with suspects not attending court after being charged. If the offences were considered at the level of seriousness to be heard by magistrates, or in some cases by a judge and jury, they could be cleared.

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UK: Rotherham Abuse Inquiry ‘Needs 100 More Officers’

The UK’s biggest investigation into child sexual exploitation needs 100 more officers to tackle the unprecedented scale of abuse in Rotherham, the head of the operation has told the Guardian.

The National Crime Agency (NCA), which is investigating past grooming offences in the town, has identified more than 1,500 potential victims and 110 suspects, and officers expect those figures to rise.

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Vandals Strike German Food Bank With Anti-Nazi Graffiti

The non-profit in the city of Essen has found itself at the center of a national debate about xenophobia. The manager of the food bank worries that his volunteers will be too scared to show up to work.

“F*** Nazis,” was found written in graffiti on Sunday on some of the doors and delivery vans of a food bank in Essen, the German city west of Dortmund. The “Tafel,” as it is known in German, became the subject of intense debate last week when it emerged that it was refusing to hand out new membership cards to foreigners.

Manager Jörg Sartor dismissed the vandalism as “kid’s stuff,” during an interview with broadcaster WDR. “We are going to continue operating as usual. That said, I am worried about our volunteers — that they will be too scared to show up for the food distributions.”

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‘We Are Not Super-Human’: The Secret to Norway’s Olympic Success

When it comes to sport, Norway creates headlines roughly once every four years, when the nation of 5.2 million makes one hell of a racket at the Winter Olympics.

Norway finished top of the Pyeongchang medals table on Sunday, winning a record 39 medals — 14 of them gold.

“It’s amazing to win this many medals and something to be proud of,” Norway’s chef de mission Tore Øvrebø told AFP in an interview.

“But we must keep raising the bar and find new challenges for the future.”

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Wheels Come Off Bicycle Hire Service in France

People wanting to get on their bikes in France have one option less to do so after the Gobee.bike hire service said Saturday it was closing following a welter of thefts and vandalism.

The company said that “more than a thousand bikes” had been stolen and almost 3,400 damaged nationwide, with almost 300 complaints filed to police and 6,500 repairs needed.

Gobee.bike had already thrown in the towel in the northern cities of Lille and Reims as well as Belgian capital Brussels for the same reason.

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Shin Bet Foils ISIS-Inspired Attack on Temple Mount

Three Arab citizens from the village of Um el-Fahm were indicted on Monday for plotting a terrorist attack on the Temple Mount in the name of Islamic State, the Shin Bet security agency announced.

The suspects, identified as 20-year-olds Muhammad Mas’ud Muhammad Jabarin and Imad Lutfi Muhammad Jabarin, as well as a minor, were arrested during January and February in a joint operation by the Shin Bet and the Israel Police.

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Russia Deploys Advanced Stealth Jets in Syria With Warning Aimed at Israel

Satellite images show two Su-57 at airbase in Latakia; Russian official says presence of planes a ‘message’ to neighboring states who fly aircraft into Syria ‘uninvited’

Russia has deployed two of its most advanced and sophisticated stealth jets in Syria, in a power move likely to draw US criticism, as the Pentagon expressed its alarm earlier this month over recent close calls with Russian planes in the war-torn country.

Satellite images published by Israeli company ImageSat International on Friday showed the fifth-generation jets — two Su-57 fighter aircraft — at Russia’s airbase in the coastal Syrian city of Latakia. A source in the defense ministry confirmed to RBK news agency this week that the two planes were sent to the Hmeimim base “for a test in real conditions.” The jets are said to be a potential rival to the US’s Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, which American forces use in patrols over Syria…

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Turkey’s Erdogan in Row Over ‘Girl Martyr’ Comment on TV

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been criticised after telling a girl in military uniform that she would be honoured if killed while fighting.

“If she’s martyred, they’ll lay a flag on her,” he told the sobbing girl at a televised congress of his AK party.

His supporters cheered “Chief! Take us to Afrin!”, in reference to Turkey’s operations against Kurdish fighters in Syria’s northern Afrin region.

The speech has been described as “child abuse” and a glorification of death.

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China Faces Rule by Xi for Decades With Repeal of Term Limits

China’s Communist Party is set to repeal presidential term limits in a move that would allow Xi Jinping to rule beyond 2023, completing the country’s departure from a political system based on collective leadership.

The party’s Central Committee announced Sunday it was seeking to end a constitutional provision that bars the head of state from serving more than two consecutive terms. That would remove the only formal barrier to Xi, who is also party leader and commander-in-chief of the military, staying in power indefinitely.

The move was first flagged at a party meeting last October, although Sunday’s formal announcement shows the extent of Xi’s grip on power heading into the start of his second term. It dispenses with the orderly succession system China adopted in the aftermath of Mao Zedong’s chaotic rule.

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Tea vs Coffee in China: New-Style Cafes’ Frappuccino Fightback Suggests There’s Room for Them and Starbucks Too

Despite a 2,000-year tradition of tea drinking, coffee culture has been quick to conquer China, pushing tea houses out of business. But new cafes serving quick-to-make tea drinks with added milk, cream or fruit suggest there’s room for both brews

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Gang of African Teens Wearing Masks Break Into Melbourne Home and Assault Two Men With Baseball Bats and Crowbars in a Terrifying Home Invasion

The four men, believed to be of African appearance and in their teens, stole a mobile phone and car keys before fleeing the scene in a car belonging to one of the Melbourne home’s residents.

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Two Canadian Drug Runners Admit Conspiring With Their Porn Star Friend in a Failed Attempt to Smuggle Four Suitcases of Cocaine Worth $21million Into Sydney on a Round-the-World Luxury Cruise

Melina Roberce, 23, and Andre Tamine, 64, were part of a trio caught with four suitcases containing 95kg of cocaine on after the cruise ship Sea Princess docked in Sydney.

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Hungry Venezuelan Workers Are Collapsing. So is the Oil Industry

“I haven’t eaten meat for two months,” he said. “The last time I did, I spent my whole week’s salary on a chicken meal.”

Hunger is hastening the ruin of Venezuelan’s oil industry as workers grow too weak and hungry for heavy labor. With children dying of malnutrition and adults sifting garbage for table scraps, food has become more important than employment, and thousands are walking off the job. Absenteeism and mass resignations mean few are left to produce the oil that keeps the tattered economy functioning.

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Russia, China and Iran in Venezuela

Last week, I tripped across a very interesting article from the Middle East Forum. It’s written by Joseph M. Humire of the Gatestone Institute, where I also saw it. It’s very well written and I recommend both sites. It caught my eye because it covers a topic that has bothered me for a long time militarily… Venezuela.

At issue here is the fact that Iran, Russia and China have moved into Venezuela and are looking to use it as a military vantage point. They also want the oil there. Caught in the middle are the starving people of a once prosperous nation. They are pawns in a geopolitical chess match. Rex Tillerson just finished a tour of Latin America where he invoked the Monroe Doctrine, which Obama tried to kill off. He suggested the Venezuelan military could manage a “peaceful transition” from the authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro. Once again, this raised the specter of the US using a “military option” for Venezuela, where we would step in to stop the country from collapsing. Iran, China and Russia are sure to take a dim view of any move by the US and we should be aware they are there. Tillerson mentioned both Russia and China, but failed to mention Iran.

It is widely held that Venezuela has now become a Cuban-occupied country. More than 30,000 Cubans are now embedded in Venezuela. Many of them are part of the intelligence and security apparatus there. The Castro brothers surely played a heavy role in collapsing Venezuela. It was planned. But why? In a word, control. Russia is the primary supplier of military aid and technical support to the Venezuelan armed forces. 75% of Russian military sales in the area are to Venezuela, who Russia is loaning money and aid to. When Venezuela defaults, you can bet that the Russkies will be there to take their cut. We are talking $11 billion in arms sales. The Russian state-owned energy firm, Rosneft, has provided Venezuela with an estimated $17 billion in financing since 2006. It is pretty clear at this point that Russia owns most of Venezuela’s oil fields at this point.

Pictured: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro visits Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Iran on October 22, 2016.

According to the International Institute of Finance, China also holds more than $23 billion in Venezuela’s foreign debt. They are Venezuela’s largest creditor. Sound familiar? Beijing is now Venezuela’s biggest banker and they will come to collect their debt before long. The communists have been very busy in Venezuela it would seem, while the US has done virtually nothing. The Chinese are also vying for the same oil fields Russia has their paws on. China has also financed many of the nation’s social programs, such as subsidized housing and free medical clinics.

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An Ancient Tuscan Village, Like Italy, Is Reshaped by Migration

Today, more than half of the 23 second graders have parents from Afghanistan, Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia, Morocco, Pakistan or Tunisia. Five were born in their family’s country of origin or in transit to Europe. This is the new Italy.

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From Sipping Beers at the Sydney Opera House to Hiking in the Blue Mountains: How a Glamorous Iranian Refugee Couple Lived ‘The Australian Dream’ Before They Were ‘Caught With Nearly 40 Kilos of Ice’

Ali Maleki and Yosra Rabieh were granted temporary protection visas after arriving to Australia by boat in 2013 — and have since built a luxury life in Sydney’s north-west with their two daughters.

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‘Germany Changed the Rules’ This is Why Eastern Europeans Are Mad at Merkel

Ivan Krastev said countries such as Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic enjoyed a brief honeymoon period after joining the EU but now feel like they have been taken advantage of.

The Eastern Europe expert said Mrs Merkel had “suddenly changed the rules” during the 2015 migrant crisis, a decision which led to poorer nations in the east being forced to take their share of new arrivals.

And he warned the EU’s failure to agree a long-term solution to rehoming refugees and asylum seekers was only making the situation worse.

In an interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Mr Krastev said: “The Eastern Europeans are now feeling like the biggest losers.”

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German Prosecutors Detain Syrian Asylum Seeker Accused of Terror Links

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they have detained a 28-year-old Syrian man on allegations he fought with an extremist organization in Syria.

Frankfurt prosecutors said in a statement Monday that the suspect, whose name was not released, was detained last week upon his arrival at Frankfurt airport.

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Germany: ‘Nazi’ Sprayed on Food Charity Which Refused to Take New Migrant Clients

The police said on Monday they were searching for vandals who sprayed the word “Nazis” on the building and vans of a charitable food bank that has stopped accepting new migrant clients.

Essener Tafel charity leader Jörg Sartor said the slogans, also including “FCK NZI”, that defaced a building door and six vans would not immediately be removed because “everyone should see this”.

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If Immigration Creates Wealth, Why is California America’s Poverty Capital?

By Spencer P. Morrison

California used to be home to America’s largest and most affluent middle class. Today, it is America’s poverty capital. What went wrong? In a word: immigration.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Official Poverty Measure, California’s poverty rate hovers around 15 percent. But this figure is misleading: the Census Bureau measures poverty relative to a uniform national standard, which doesn’t account for differences in living costs between states — the cost of taxes, housing, and health care are higher in California than in Oklahoma, for example. Accounting for these differences reveals that California’s real poverty rate is 20.6 percent — the highest in America, and nearly twice the national average of 12.7 percent.

Likewise, income inequality in California is the second-highest in America, behind only New York. In fact, if California were an independent country, it would be the 17th most unequal country on Earth, nestled comfortably between Honduras and Guatemala. Mexico is slightly more egalitarian. California is far more unequal than the “social democracies” it emulates.

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Iranian Refugee Couple Who Came to Australia by Boat ‘Busted Flooding the Streets of Sydney With Ice’ — as Police Seize 36 Kilograms of the Deadly Drug, $260,000 Cash and Three Luxury Cars

An Iranian couple who arrived to Australia by boat five years ago have allegedly been flooding the streets of Sydney with the deadly drug ‘ice’.

Ali Maleki and Yosra Rabieh, from the city’s north-west, are two of several Iranians in Australia on temporary protection visas recently arrested over alleged meth trafficking, The Daily Telegraph reported.

The couple, who share two young daughters, were arrested last week after police allegedly seized more than 36kg of ice, over $260,000 in cash, three luxury cars and more than 100 ampules of steroids at homes in Hornsby and Asquith.

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Italian Election Dominated by Immigration Debate

Standing opposite an arch commemorating Italy’s liberation from fascism at the end of the World War Two, a group of men dressed in black are huddled beneath a gazebo. They’re supporters of Casa Pound — a fringe political party that claims to be inspired by the poet Ezra Pound.

Massimo Trefiletti proudly proclaims himself and his party as fascists. The irony of standing opposite a monument to their defeat doesn’t escape him. Mr Trefiletti says 25 April 1945 isn’t a day of national pride but of loss. As for the future, he wants Italy to turn its back on the EU, close its borders and deport all the immigrants.

Casa Pound is supported by a tiny minority of Italians but its nationalist, anti-immigrant rhetoric is being echoed by other parties in the run up to the country’s election on 4 March.

About 600,000 people have made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean and landed on Italian shores in the past four years. Now, Italian politicians of all stripes are competing to show they will be tough on these new and increasingly unwelcome arrivals.

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New Chicago ID Card Created for Undocumented Immigrants Will be Accepted for Voter Registration

A new municipal ID designed primarily for illegal immigrants will be accepted in Chicago as a valid form of identification to register to vote.

The CityKey will be a government-issued photo identification card available to all Chicago residents regardless of immigration status, criminal record, housing status, or gender identity, according to the city clerk’s website.

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Preventing the Migrant Wave Germany Exports Employment Offices to Africa

In order to combat the root causes of economic migration, Germany has opened a job center in Ghana that helps people find local employment. But what happens when German bureaucracy comes head to head with the everyday reality in Ghana?

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Transgender Boy Wins Girl’s State Wrestling Championship for Second Year in a Row

We were shocked when we reported on this last year (see our previous report below)…this is nuts!

Mack Beggs is in the process of transitioning from female to male and taking a low-dose of testosterone.

It is the steroid therapy treatments while wrestling girls that stirred a fierce debate about competitive fairness. Beggs had asked to wrestle in the boys’ division, but the rules for Texas public high schools require athletes to compete under the gender on their birth certificate.

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9 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/26/2018

  1. What are the odds that the Ottowa cereal dispute stabber was “newer to Canada than other Canadians…”

    Allah’s well that ends well; sounds like another Darwin award is in order here…

    • Well…yet another Trudeau is…nuts?

      Meanwhile, A new municipal ID designed primarily for illegal immigrants will be accepted in Chicago as a valid form of identification to register to vote.

      The CityKey will be a government-issued photo identification card available to all Chicago residents regardless of immigration status, criminal record, housing status, or gender identity, according to the city clerk’s website.

      • Rahm-

        What you describe is an absolutely horrific precedent that basically amounts to a Marxist-globalist city-state (Chicagoland) granting illegals quasi-legal status in opposition to Federal law.

        Hillary may as well start referring to… “…the 7 billion Americans on planet Earth…”

  2. Everything is very alarming in Russia. The Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area is famous for its oil and gas production. Now many Muslims live there. In the summer there was a big event with a knifing in Surgut.

    Now after the skirmishes with the Chechens, the local OMON is being disbanded.
    Kadyrov pressed the Kremlin.
    https://ura.news/articles/1036274053
    For some reason I think that only a military coup can save us.
    After the PMCs were bombed in Syria, there are rumors that this is a provocation organized by the Kremlin. The military should think about the fact that the regime they support, can at any time betray them and send them to slaughter.

    It is not clear what is happening in the country: all the leadership seems to have sniffed cocaine.

    • I had not realized. We hear so little about what is actually happening in Russia. Many of “the right” in the UK seem to view Putin as some kind of potential White Knight, who will eventually charge in to rescue Western civilization from the encroaching Islamic darkness. It would appear from your comments that the insanity (evil?) afflicting Western politicians is contagious, though at least your Muslims are somewhat ‘home grown’, rather than deliberate imports from the Third World.

      • In addition to similar problems, in Russia on labor migrants from Central Asia, officials and corrupt police and mafia structures make a lot of money.
        Migrants are very pissed, driven to despair and yearn for revenge.

        Yes, there is really very little information about the Islamization of Russia in English..
        The old article of 2012, but it has not lost its relevance.
        https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/130347/sharia-moscow-daniel-greenfield
        Putin has one face for the West, another for Russia.
        If you saw my early comments, you should remember my comment about the channel “Russia Today” – for the Russian-speaking and English-speaking public, completely different content is offered.

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