Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/20/2018

Two more explosions occurred today in Texas, one in Austin, and one in a FedEx facility near San Antonio, where a package addressed to Austin exploded. A third device that did not explode was found at the same location. Two people were injured in the blasts.

In other news, today’s school shooting was held in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, where a 17-year-old student shot two of his fellow students before being shot and killed by the school’s “resource officer”.

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Thanks to AF, Charles Low, Dean, DV, Insubria, JD, JLH, MM, Reader from Chicago, Red Mike, Srdja Trifkovic, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» Austin Mail Bomber Inspired by Netflix Show About Ted Kaczynski?
» Breaking: Austin Bomber Strikes Again? City Rocked by ‘Sixth Explosion’ — One Injured
» Breaking: Austin Bombing ‘Breakthrough’ As FBI May Have ‘Captured Suspect on Video’
» Charges Filed Against Officer Noor in Damond Shooting
» Charges Coming After Crash Into Sheriff’s Office Substation
» ‘Disregard for Human Life’: U.S. Police Officer Mohamed Noor, 32, Is Charged With Murder Over the Shooting Death of Australian Woman Justine Damond — as Her Tragic Last Words Are Revealed
» Family Visits Gun Range — Their Kids Get Suspended From School
» Florida Man Allegedly Shouts ‘Allah Akbar, ‘ Shoots Wife, Knifes Children, Sets House on Fire
» Hours After FedEx Explosion, Suspicious Package Found at Austin Facility
» Maryland High School Shooting: Two Students Injured, Gunman Dead After Incident at Great Mills High School — Baltimore Sun
» NSA Has Been Tracking Bitcoin Users Since 2013, New Snowden Documents Reveal
» Police: Maryland High School on Lockdown, Shots Fired
» Reported Package Explosion at Goodwill on Brodie Lane
» Shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland Injures at Least Three People
» Trump Indicts 18,000, Including Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid
» Yes, Gun Confiscation Just Happened in Florida, And it Will Happen Nationwide
 
Canada
» Justin Trudeau Approval Rating Now Below President Trump as Right Wing Parties Surge in Canada
 
Europe and the EU
» Fiddling on the Brink
» Former French Prez Sarkozy Detained Over Alleged Millions Received From Libya’s Gaddafi
» France to Get Tougher on Social Media Hate Speech: PM
» Germany’s Top Court Rejects Full-Face Veiled Driver’s Complaint
» How Soros is Trying to Influence Political Situation in Czech Republic, Slovakia
» Hungarian Elections: We Must Protect the Country and Secure the Future, PM Orban Says
» Italy: Salvini to Meet US Envoy Wed
» New Patriotic Party Wants to Save Sweden and Asks Americans for Help
» UK Police Call for ‘Counter-Terrorism Citizens’ to Report Others Viewing ‘Extremism’
» UK: As a Rotherham Grooming Gang Survivor, I Want People to Know About the Religious Extremism Which Inspired My Abusers
» UK: London Police Edit ‘Thought Crime’ Threat After Ridicule Online
» UK: Man is Charged With Attempted Murder After 4×4 Rams Into Nightclub Injuring 13 People at Grime Show
» UK: Nanny Accused of Black Magic by Couple Who Kept Her Prisoner ‘Murdered and Burned in Garden’, Court Hears
» UK: YouTuber ‘Count Dankula’ Found Guilty in ‘Sh*tposting’ Case by British Court
 
Middle East
» Video: Iranian Woman Slapped Across Face by Male Stranger for Stating She Will Wear Hijab When He Does
» Who Are the Jihadists Fighting Alongside Turkey in Syria?
 
Far East
» China to Ban Citizens With Bad ‘Social Credit’ Rating From Traveling
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘I Can’t Walk, Can’t Even Lie Down’: Woman Recounts Horrifying Moment Two Ladies Dragged Her Out of Her Car by Her Hair and Left Her With a Fractured Tailbone
» Teen Arrested in Australia in Stabbing of Italian Woman
 
Immigration
» Far-Left Activists, Illegal Migrants Storm Basilica Holding the Tombs of French Kings
» Germany: Migrant Rape Crisis Still Sowing Terror and Destruction
» In Britain, 28 Per Cent of School Children Are From Immigrant Families
» Italy 2nd to Germany in EU for Asylum Requests in 2017
» Netanyahu Says ‘Flood’ Of African Migrants Worse Than Sinai Terrorists
» Netherlands: Syrian Refugees Support Geert Wilders, Because He Understands the Dangers of Islam
 
Culture Wars
» ‘Check Your Privilege’: Whom Are They Kidding?
» Delingpole: Great News, Barbara Socrates — Oxford University Has Feminized Its Philosophy Course
» Homeschooling: The Best Hope for America’s Future
» UK: Chilling: Police Investigate Stay-at-Home Mom for Tweets Against Transgenderism
» UK: Met Police Website Look to Define What is Considered a ‘Hate Incident’, Twitter Reacts
 

Austin Mail Bomber Inspired by Netflix Show About Ted Kaczynski?

Many people are beginning to ask whether the spate of bombings to hit Austin over the last week were inspired by a recent Netflix series about Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

A package containing nails and pieces of metal destined for Austin exploded earlier today at a FedEx facility in a suburb of San Antonio, injuring one person.

The explosion is almost certainly linked to four previous blasts which took place in Austin, which have left two people dead and four injured.

While many are asserting that the attacks are a racist hate crime, despite two of the victims being white, others have pointed to a popular Netflix show called Manhunt: Unabomber as a possible inspiration.

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

Breaking: Austin Bomber Strikes Again? City Rocked by ‘Sixth Explosion’ — One Injured

A SIXTH Austin bombing explosion has been reported on the busy main road of Brodie Lane and West Slaughter Lane. Reports suggest that one person has been injured in the blast and there could be a second device in the south of the city.

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

Breaking: Austin Bombing ‘Breakthrough’ As FBI May Have ‘Captured Suspect on Video’

THE STRING of bombings in Austin may have hit a breakthrough after it was confirmed that the FBI had obtained footage that may show the suspect thought to be responsible for the five explosions, it has emerged.

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

Charges Filed Against Officer Noor in Damond Shooting

Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor was charged Tuesday with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting Justine Damond last July.

Noor turned himself in late Tuesday morning and is being held at the Hennepin County Jail on $500,000 bail.

If convicted of third-degree murder, he could face a maximum of 25 years in prison. A judge could issue a sentence ranging from about 10 1/2 to 15 years. The second-degree manslaughter charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

According to the criminal complaint filed against him, prosecutors say at the time of the shooting Noor neither investigated nor confirmed a threat “that justified the decision to use deadly force.”

The complaint also states Noor “recklessly fired his handgun” when he shot Damond, leaving her with her hands on a gunshot wound to the left side of her abdomen, saying “I’m dying” or “I’m dead.”

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman has scheduled a press conference for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Hennepin County Government Center to discuss the decision…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Charges Coming After Crash Into Sheriff’s Office Substation

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida woman is facing criminal charges after crashing into a sheriff’s office substation with accelerants in her car.

A Broward Sheriff’s Office news release says 34-year-old Lasandra Johnson will be charged with arson and burglary. The crash occurred Monday at the agency’s South Broward district office in Pembroke Park.

Deputies say Johnson smashed her car into the office’s community service room and a fire erupted inside the vehicle. Officials weren’t immediately saying whether the crash was intentional.

A worker who was painting inside the office helped Johnson out of the car. Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue transported the woman to a Hollywood hospital, where she’s recovering.

           — Hat tip: DV [Return to headlines]
 

‘Disregard for Human Life’: U.S. Police Officer Mohamed Noor, 32, Is Charged With Murder Over the Shooting Death of Australian Woman Justine Damond — as Her Tragic Last Words Are Revealed

Minneapolis officer Mohamed Noor turned himself in Tuesday morning and is held on murder and manslaughter charges for shooting 40-year-old life coach Justine Damond on July 15.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Family Visits Gun Range — Their Kids Get Suspended From School

You wouldn’t think your kids could get suspended from school just because you exercised your constitutionally guaranteed rights off campus, but this is apparently what happened to one New Jersey family. It’s not that the school district jumped the gun, either — rather, the punitive action was prescribed by official policy. As Fox News reported Sunday:

A New Jersey high school came under fire Friday after it allegedly suspended two students over a gun photo taken during a family visit to a shooting range…

Unsurprisingly, district officials hid under their desks when asked for comment. As NJ.com reported, “Lacey schools Superintendent Craig Wigley said in an email to NJ Advance Media on Thursday that ‘information posted on social media is incorrect’,” but “declined to say what aspect of the accounts posted on social media is inaccurate.” He also claimed that he couldn’t discuss student-related “private matters.” This is a typical educator dodge.

What the district couldn’t dodge was the reality of an overreaching policy, which actually stated that “students could be suspended for up to a year if they are ‘reported to be in possession of a weapon of any type for any reason or purpose on or off school grounds,’“ NJ.com further related.

This inspired pro-Second Amendment groups to threaten a lawsuit, as educators have no legitimate power to ban students from exercising constitutionally protected rights anywhere and everywhere and at all times — even off school grounds. It’s as if a government school prohibited students from expressing certain political viewpoints off campus; it would be the government suppression of free speech.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Florida Man Allegedly Shouts ‘Allah Akbar, ‘ Shoots Wife, Knifes Children, Sets House on Fire

A Florida man allegedly shouted “Allah Akbar” repeatedly as police arrested him for shooting his wife, stabbing his two children, and setting his house ablaze.

Police arrested Ronnie Oneal, who identifies as a member of The Nation of Islam, at the house of his partner Kenyatta Barron, in Riverview, Fla., in response to a 911 call from Barron claiming that she had been shot, according to Tampa Bay Times.

Officers found Barron dying of a gunshot wound in the front yard of a neighboring house. Firefighters were responding to a fire set in Barron’s house and found Barron and Oneal’s 9-year-old son, Ronnie Oneal IV, alive but suffering from burns and stab wounds and the couple’s 11-year-old daughter dead from stab wounds.

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

Hours After FedEx Explosion, Suspicious Package Found at Austin Facility

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin police have deployed a hazardous materials squad to a FedEx shipping facility near the city’s airport to investigate reports of a suspicious package.

It isn’t known yet if the suspicious package is linked to a bomb that detonated earlier Tuesday at a FedEx distribution center near San Antonio or the four bombs that have gone off in Austin this month.

But the Austin Police Department says an investigation is underway.

The package that exploded earlier Tuesday at the FedEx facility in Schertz, about 60 miles southwest of Austin, slightly injured one worker. Authorities believe it is linked to what they say is a serial bomber responsible for the four Austin bombings since March 2.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Maryland High School Shooting: Two Students Injured, Gunman Dead After Incident at Great Mills High School — Baltimore Sun

Two students were injured and a third, the gunman, has died after a shooting at Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland on Tuesday morning, according to the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office.

A school resource officer fired at the student gunman, who fired back with a handgun, Sheriff Tim Cameron said. The school resource officer was not injured, Cameron said.

“He pursued the shooter and engaged the shooter,” Cameron said of the school resource officer, whose identity has not been released.

The two students who were injured — a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl — were being treated at local hospitals, officials said. Neither their identities, nor the shooter’s, were released Tuesday morning.

The boy is in good condition and is being treated at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital. The girl was initially brought to MedStar, officials said, but was later stabilized and transferred to University of Maryland Prince George’s Hospital Center.

The shooting happened just before 8 a.m. at the school at 21130 Great Mills Road, county spokesman Tony Jones said from the emergency operations center. The St. Mary’s County school was placed on lockdown and students were evacuated, Jones said…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

NSA Has Been Tracking Bitcoin Users Since 2013, New Snowden Documents Reveal

During his 2015 trial, Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht’s defense attorneys raised questions about the government’s case that, although they were ultimately disregarded by the jury, have continued to bother crypto users with an affinity for so-called “conspiracy theories.” They pointed out vagaries in the FBI’s account of its years-long pursuit of Ulbricht, and questioned whether the bureau had truly discovered Ulbricht’s involvement on its own, or whether it had help from other deep state elements, namely the National Security Agency.

Of course, the judge, who eventually sentenced Ulbricht to life in prison without the possibility of parole, refused to entertain their argument. But if they were correct, it would mean that the government’s whole case was built on evidence that was ultimately inadmissible.

As it turns out, Ulbricht’s lawyers were on to something.

In a blockbuster report published Tuesday in the Intercept, reporter Sam Biddle cited several documents included in the massive cache of stolen NSA documents that showed that the agency has been tracking bitcoin users since 2013, and has potentially been funneling some of this information to other federal agencies. Or, as Biddle puts it, maybe the conspiracy theorists were right.

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

Police: Maryland High School on Lockdown, Shots Fired

Great Mills High School in Maryland has been placed on lockdown after a shooting Tuesday morning, police confirmed.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Reported Package Explosion at Goodwill on Brodie Lane

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Emergency crews are responding to a reported package explosion on Brodie Lane at Slaughter Lane Tuesday evening.

The Austin Fire Department says the call came in at 7 p.m. The agency says the package exploded at a Goodwill located at 9801 Brodie Ln.

Austin-Travis County EMS says a man in his 30s was taken to the hospital with serious but non life-threatening injuries…

           — Hat tip: MM [Return to headlines]
 

Shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland Injures at Least Three People

At least three people were injured Tuesday morning in a shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland, police told Fox News.

The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office said the three victims were taken to the hospital but it was not clear how they were injured or the extent of the injuries. There were no fatalities immediately reported…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Indicts 18,000, Including Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid

On Nov. 17, 2017, the NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers, in a bold, unprecedented move, without notifying superiors, traveled to New York to warn President-Elect Donald Trump that he was being monitored by the Obama administration.

When Trump announced that his phones were being tapped by Obama, the MSM ridiculed him, belittled him for months; they accused him of being paranoid and called him a liar, and they still haven’t retracted or apologized.

The very next day, The Washington Post — a CIA intelligence Community leak-dump, which also uses CNN — reported that Rogers was recommended to be moved from his NSA position. That recommendation was denied. The U.S. “downgraded the CIA into a department of the NSA, ensuring total military control of the intelligence apparatus,” and NSA has kept Trump abreast of not only all of the Deep State’s treasonous activities, as well as the elite Shadow Government that manages the Deep State.

The Shadow Government and the Deep State were first introduced to us by President Bill Clinton’s Georgetown University Professor Carroll Quigley who revealed the international conspiracy in his 1348 page book, Tragedy and Hope. The insight Quigley offered was priceless, “The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The main purpose is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Yes, Gun Confiscation Just Happened in Florida, And it Will Happen Nationwide

For all those individuals who claimed door-to-door gun confiscation wouldn’t happen? Well, it just did…in Florida. The report came out via Breitbart on 3/16/18, entitled It Begins: Florida Resident’s Firearms, Ammunition Confiscated Under Gun Control Law.

Yes, here it is: Here it starts.

Apparently, the individual is a 56-year-old man who has not committed a crime: he just falls into a category of people that could “pose a harm to the public good.” Here’s an excerpt:…

What’s even worse is that they have incorporated wonderful elements of Communism, namely stoolpigeons and snitches within the family or by order of a judge. Yes, Communism is that system that many deny, along with Marxism, that concentrated on removing undesirables and nonconformists by sending them to psychiatric wards until they displayed “correct thinking.”

For those who are not aware: Communism is the end-state, resulting in the death of all the undesirables and the enslavement of the masses. For “primers” on Communism, read George Orwell’s “1984,” and J. Edgar Hoover’s “Masters of Deceit.” Yes, Communism is alive, well, real, and waiting…in the guise of labels such as “the Progressive Movement” and “Social Justice,” clarion calls for armies of fools and illiterates who wish to change the world to be utilized in the call.

Utilized, and then liquidated after their usefulness expires: History has shown it again and again, with the “showcase era” being the entire 20th century.

Here is an excerpt that illustrates how the Communists work…turning family members against one another, using the “gendarmes” of the police force outside of their normal role, and bypassing due process of law with the use of judges:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Justin Trudeau Approval Rating Now Below President Trump as Right Wing Parties Surge in Canada

The popularity of Canadian Liberal Party Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on a steady decline as his approval ratings have fallen below U.S. President Trump in polls as right-wing parties surge across the country.

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

Fiddling on the Brink

by Srdja Trifkovic

A standard theme in the literature on the Great War is that hardly anyone expected it at the time. Europe’s last summer, balmy and idyllic, suddenly brought the guns of August. This view is not historically accurate—Germany willed the war, and her leaders engineered the July crisis—but for most other actors the catastrophe did come as a surprise. In the years preceding 1914 the Old Continent was not gripped by an impending sense of doom. Quite the contrary: The prevailing Stimmung was that of self-confidence and belief in boundless progress.

A century later the world has entered an era of unprecedented insecurity. The sense of angst was reflected in the official title of this year’s Munich Security Conference: “To the Brink—and Back?” Several hundred politicians, think-tank analysts, intelligence chiefs, and military officers gathered at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof on February 16-18 for the geostrategists’ equivalent of the World Economic Forum at Davos. Interesting debates and ideas were promised. NATO’s former secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen promoted Munich as “the jewel in the crown of the international security conference circuit, guaranteed to make headlines.”

The event proved underwhelming. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster listed unprioritized threats and claimed that the evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election was incontrovertible. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was present on the first day but did not speak, prompting speculation about discord in Trump’s team. CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats were there, too, but said nothing.

Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron did not turn up. Theresa May gave a boring speech assuring her European colleagues that post-Brexit Britain will remain closely aligned with them on foreign and security policy. Benjamin Netanyahu may have intended to stir things up by declaring that Israel would go to war if Iran continues trying to establish a presence in Syria; he even waved a fragment of what he claimed was an Iranian drone shot down over Israel. Hardly anyone was moved.

Everyone agreed that the fight against jihadism is far from over and that hard work will be needed to achieve victory. Not one speaker tackled the link between terrorism and immigration, however, or defined “victory.” Recommendations did not go beyond some bland suggestions for improved operational efficiency, specifically information sharing. There were the usual calls for a common E.U. security policy, but no proposal on how to devise and conduct such policy in view of the radically different understanding of “security threats”—and even core national interests—between, say, Lithuania and Ireland, or Hungary and Sweden.

A chilling reminder of the main source of global instability came on the last day, when Sen. James Risch (R-ID) said that the U.S. was determined to prevent Kim Jong-un from developing his nuclear arsenal. There will be no “bloody nose” to send a message to Pyongyang, Risch said:…

           — Hat tip: Srdja Trifkovic [Return to headlines]
 

Former French Prez Sarkozy Detained Over Alleged Millions Received From Libya’s Gaddafi

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is being detained by police in connection with allegations that he received 50 million euros from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 presidential campaign.

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

France to Get Tougher on Social Media Hate Speech: PM

PARIS (Reuters) — France will toughen rules on hate speech to ensure social media giants do more to remove racist and anti-Semitic content from internet, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Monday.

The announcement comes as the 28 European Union countries work on rules that would compel Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google to be more proactive in filtering and weeding out hate speech on their platforms.

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

Germany’s Top Court Rejects Full-Face Veiled Driver’s Complaint

The woman, who wears a niqab, had argued a law against driving with the face covered violated her religious freedom. Germany’s top court rejected her motion.

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

How Soros is Trying to Influence Political Situation in Czech Republic, Slovakia

American billionaire George Soros could apparently have had a hand in the recent Slovak crisis, Petr Zantovsky, a lecturer at the University of Economics in Prague, told Sputnik, at the same time expressing doubts regarding the West’s potential intentions to kick-start a color revolution in the Central European state.

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

Hungarian Elections: We Must Protect the Country and Secure the Future, PM Orban Says

Hungary’s elections are within three weeks, on the 8th of April and as part of his political campaign Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited the town of Szerencs on Monday.

Orban said “We must not simply win an election; we must protect the country and secure the future”.

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

Italy: Salvini to Meet US Envoy Wed

Eisenberg to meet all major party leaders

(ANSA) — Rome, March 20 — Anti-migrant Euroskeptic League leader Matteo Salvini, one of the two winners of the March general election, will meet US Ambassador Lewis Eisenberg on Wednesday afternoon, ANSA sources said Tuesday. The ambassador, embassy sources said, plans to have talks to all major Italian political leaders in the wake of the general election, which produced a hung parliament.

Salvini’s rightwing populist League scored 17.5% in the election, passing its centre-right ally Forza Italia of ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi which got 14%.

Salvini thus became the centre-right premier candidate.

The centre right coalition was the top alliance, getting 37%, but not enough for a majority.

The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) led by Luigi Di Maio was the other big winner in the vote, getting 32% to become the top individual party, again without a majority.

Di Maio and Salvini have been holding talks to try to overcome the parliamentary stalemate.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

New Patriotic Party Wants to Save Sweden and Asks Americans for Help

Sweden’s new party, Alternative for Sweden (AfS), launched a crowdfunding campaign on YouTube today. The party was founded a few weeks ago by Gustav Kasselstrand, a former member of the right-wing Sweden Democrats party.

On its website Alternative for Sweden says it wants to mobilise “like-minded movements and voters all around the world” and hopes that they will help funding the party’s election campaign for Sweden’s election on 9 September this year.

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

UK Police Call for ‘Counter-Terrorism Citizens’ to Report Others Viewing ‘Extremism’

Police are appealing to the British public, asking them to act as “counter-terrorism citizens” and help thwart plots and stop the wave of Islamic extremist attacks hitting the nation.

Following a series of deadly attacks in 2017, counter-terror officials said tipoffs are essential to them, revealing that more than 30,000 reports were made last year with more than 6,000 yielding useful intelligence.

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

UK: As a Rotherham Grooming Gang Survivor, I Want People to Know About the Religious Extremism Which Inspired My Abusers

I’m a Rotherham grooming gang survivor. I call myself a survivor because I’m still alive. I’m part of the UK’s largest ever child sexual abuse investigation.

As a teenager, I was taken to various houses and flats above takeaways in the north of England, to be beaten, tortured and raped over 100 times. I was called a “white slag” and “white c***” as they beat me.

They made it clear that because I was a non-Muslim, and not a virgin, and because I didn’t dress “modestly”, that they believed I deserved to be “punished”. They said I had to “obey” or be beaten.

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

UK: London Police Edit ‘Thought Crime’ Threat After Ridicule Online

People can be “charged” with an “offence” if their actions are within the law but their “reasons for doing it” are perceived as illegal hate by others, London police have said, before withdrawing the claim.

Social media users began drawing attention to the Metropolitan force’s new, and highly unusual, definition of a ‘hate crime’ on the 16th of this month. It remained like that until the 18th , according to Google cache, before the police edited it again on Monday.

The definition did not match that given by the College of Policing or Crown Prosecution Service, and critics online claimed it could be read as a threat against “thought crimes”.

Breitbart London asked the Metropolitan Police for comment on their change of heart over hate crime, but no reply had been received at the time of publication.

“London’s Metropolitan Police inform you that you can be arrested for doing something that isn’t illegal, if someone else thinks you had bad thoughts while doing it,” joked U.S. commentator Jeff Jacoby…

           — Hat tip: JLH [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Man is Charged With Attempted Murder After 4×4 Rams Into Nightclub Injuring 13 People at Grime Show

A 21-year-old man was today charged with attempted murder after 13 partygoers were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd during a gig by grime artist Giggs.

Mohammed Abdul, 21, Deptford, South East London, will appear at court today after a Suzuki Vitara was driven into revellers outside Blake’s nightclub in Gravesend, Kent.

Footage taken on Saturday night shows clubbers appearing to attack the driver of a car which smashed through the marquee where smokers had congregated.

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

UK: Nanny Accused of Black Magic by Couple Who Kept Her Prisoner ‘Murdered and Burned in Garden’, Court Hears

Sabrina Kouider and her partner Ouissem Medouni, right, are accused of killing Sophie Lionnet, left

French nanny was murdered and burned after being accused of stealing a diamond necklace and dabbling in black magic, a court heard.

Sophie Lionnet’s charred remains were found in a garden in Southfields, Wimbledon, on September 20 last year after a neighbour reported foul smells coming from a garden fire.

Before her death, the 21-year-old had been starved, mistreated and assaulted after she went to live with Sabrina Kouider, a mother of two, and her partner Ouissem Medouni.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: YouTuber ‘Count Dankula’ Found Guilty in ‘Sh*tposting’ Case by British Court

Scottish YouTube personality Count Dankula — real name Mark Meechan — was found guilty at Glasgow Sherrif Court Tuesday of a hate crime, and potentially faces two months in prison after recording a video of his girlfriend’s dog doing Nazi salutes.

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

Video: Iranian Woman Slapped Across Face by Male Stranger for Stating She Will Wear Hijab When He Does

“The man yelled, demanding that she must “obey the rules”….Firmly responding to him, the woman said: “I don’t like this veil. I don’t want to obey this rule. It’s my right”, adding that she will only wear it when he wears it. Shortly, the man stepped out of his car and slapped the woman across the face.

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

Who Are the Jihadists Fighting Alongside Turkey in Syria?

by Sirwan Kajjo

[…]

The remaining 17 groups that make up the Syrian portion of Operation Olive Branch are a combination of Salafist, jihadist and ultra-extremist militants who have been either formed or supported by Turkey at various stages of Syria’s seven-year civil war. The following is a rundown of these groups: …

The second largest rebel group participating in Operation Olive Branch, the Shamiyah Front is a union of Islamists and Salafists from Aleppo. Its members are largely remnants of the Nureddine al-Zanki Brigades and other extremist groups that were active in Aleppo in 2015. Supported by Turkey and Qatar, this rebel group believes that jihad is the only path for Syria to become an Islamic emirate governed by sharia law. It has an estimated 3,000 fighters.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

China to Ban Citizens With Bad ‘Social Credit’ Rating From Traveling

China has banned more than nine million people so far from buying plane tickets and at least another three million from buying business-class train tickets because of their poor “social credit” ratings, according to the deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission. The ratings have also been used to deny loans and other forms of government support to more than 6,000 businesses blacklisted by the government. Two statements issued by the Chinese government on Friday confirmed that rule breakers can expect to face travel bans of up to a year. But I would bet that in some cases if not most, the bans are longer or permanent.

Under China’s new social scoring system, trustworthy entrepreneurs and individuals will be rewarded, while those who commit social misdeeds such as fraud, spreading false information about terrorism and causing trouble on flights will be discredited. You can even wind up on the blacklist for parking a bike in the wrong place or giving an insincere apology. President Xi Jinping’s plan is based on the principle ‘once untrustworthy, always restricted’ , which will become effective on May 1st. Xi was just declared ruler for life… the first since Mao ruled the country. The system is expected to be fully implemented by 2020 and Xi will see it is enforced brutally and efficiently.

[Comment: Soon coming to western nations, likely Sweden first. Only good comrades will enjoy the “privilege” of “freedom”.]

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‘I Can’t Walk, Can’t Even Lie Down’: Woman Recounts Horrifying Moment Two Ladies Dragged Her Out of Her Car by Her Hair and Left Her With a Fractured Tailbone

The 28-year-old woman, who did not want to be named, said she was pulled from the car by her hair by two women and ended up in hospital after the violent attack in Brisbane’s south.

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Teen Arrested in Australia in Stabbing of Italian Woman

Victim Stella Trevisani, 27, in serious but stable condition

(ANSA) — Sydney, March 20 — A 15-year-old was arrested in Perth, in Western Australia, in connection with the stabbing of an Italian woman from Bologna, the Italian-language programme of Australian broadcaster SBS reported.

It said the teen tried to rob 27-year-old Stella Trevisani, who has lived in Perth for two years, and that he stole her cell phone and stabbed her in the arms and legs.

Trevisani is in serious but stable condition, and doctors at Royal Perth Hospital said she is expected to make a full recovery.

The teen fled on his bicycle following the attack, but police arrested him shortly thereafter, finding him “in a confused state”.

He pled guilty in an appearance in juvenile court, and his defence attorney said he suffers from a mild intellectual disability and may not fully understand the seriousness of his situation.

Trevisani’s Australian boyfriend has started a drive to cover her medical costs.

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Far-Left Activists, Illegal Migrants Storm Basilica Holding the Tombs of French Kings

Far-left activists and illegal migrants invaded the Basilica of Saint-Denis on Sunday to protest the French government’s new asylum law before they were forcibly removed by police, resulting in evening mass being cancelled.

Around 80 illegal migrants and far-left activists from the group Coordination des Sans-Papiers (CSP 75) protested the new law holding up banners, Le Parisien reports.

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Germany: Migrant Rape Crisis Still Sowing Terror and Destruction

by Soeren Kern

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A quarterly report — Criminality in the Context of Migration (Kriminalität im Kontext von Zuwanderung) — published by the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA) showed that migrants (Zuwanderer, defined as asylum seekers, refugees and illegal immigrants) committed 3,466 sex crimes during the first nine months of 2017 — or around 13 a day. (Final crime statistics for 2017 will not be publicly available until the second quarter of 2018.) By comparison, in all of 2016 migrants committed 3,404 sex crimes, or around nine a day; in 2015, 1,683 sex crimes, or around five a day; in 2014, 949 sex crimes, or around three a day; and in 2013, 599 sex crimes, or around two a day. …

Attacks on public transportation have now spread to all parts of Germany, in large cities and small towns:

Frankfurt, February 28. A 29-year-old asylum seeker from Ethiopia sexually assaulted a 34-year-old woman on a train.

Weilburg, February 24. A “southerner” (Südländer) masturbated in front of an 18-year-old female passenger on an intercity bus to Weilmünster. Police said the man got on the bus, sat directly next to the woman, masturbated and alighted at the next stop.

Mühlhausen, February 13. Six “North African men” (Männer nordafrikanischer Herkunft) sexually assaulted a 17-year-old woman on a regional train from Erfurt.

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In Britain, 28 Per Cent of School Children Are From Immigrant Families

Statistics collected by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show that nearly one-third of children in British schools are immigrants, higher even than the EU average.

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Italy 2nd to Germany in EU for Asylum Requests in 2017

126,550 requests last year, 19.5% of total — Eurostat

(ANSA) — Brussels, March 20 — Italy was second-top in the European Union for the number of first-time asylum applicants registered in 2017 behind Germany, Eurostat said on Tuesday. Italy had 126,550 requests last year, 19.5% of the total.

That was a rise of 4% on the 121,185 registered in 2016.

Last year the top country of origin of asylum seekers in Italy was Nigeria with 24,950 applications.

With 198,300 first-time applicants in 2017, Germany accounted for 31% of the total in 2017, although the figure was down by 73% on the previous year. Last year 650,000 first-time asylum seekers applied for international protection in the EU, down on 46% on the 1.2065 million of 2016. In the table for last year, Italy was followed by France (91,100 applications), Greece (57,000), the United Kingdom (33,300) and Spain (30,400).

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Netanyahu Says ‘Flood’ Of African Migrants Worse Than Sinai Terrorists

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said the border fence constructed along Israel’s border with Egypt is holding back a potential “flood” of illegal migrants from Africa, and charged they were worse than terrorists in the Sinai peninsula.Speaking at an event celebrating the Negev region held in Dimona, the prime minister said that Israel has recently completed a fence along “more than 200 kilometers [120 miles] of the border with Sinai.”

Without the fence, “we would be faced with … severe attacks by Sinai terrorists, and something much worse, a flood of illegal migrants from Africa,” he said.

The comments come as Israel has embarked on a highly controversial campaign to deport thousands of African migrants in the country…

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Netherlands: Syrian Refugees Support Geert Wilders, Because He Understands the Dangers of Islam

Tomorrow there will be local elections in the Netherlands. The Freedom Party, of Geert Wilders, will be participating in 30 Dutch municipalities and could be supported by a lot of Syrian Christians, Dutch broadcaster NOS reports.

One of Europe’s largest Syrian Christian communities is located in the Dutch city of Enschede. In the last elections the Freedom Party received a lot of votes from the 8,000 Christian Syrians.

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‘Check Your Privilege’: Whom Are They Kidding?

The “Check Your Privilege” poster series from the University of San Francisco is a grotesque form of bigotry. By design, it imputes or ascribes to an individual certain characteristics based solely on group membership, while ignoring the individual’s distinguishing traits — which is the very definition of bigotry.

Taken together, the set of privileges chosen by the authors reads like a textbook application of modern intersectionality — multidimensional political correctness as a tool for social power and oppression — and embodies the condescension and dominance that permeate the intersectionality model. The authors neglect to include any “privilege” challenging the authors’ own academic position or worldview, placing them safely outside the privilege structure and consequently unassailable.

For the observer who recognizes the checklist’s bigotry and condescension and is offended or insulted by it, the CYP authors attempt to defuse the issue with a claim that the instrument exists for noble purposes…

Beyond the contrived veneer of righteousness that surrounds it, the entire CYP method is an ingeniously deceptive tool of power and oppression. “Check Your Privilege” is a trap — namely, an example of a “kafkatrap,” described by Eric S. Raymond.

Raymond defines a kafkatrap as “a form of argument that is so fallacious and manipulative that those subjected to it are entitled to reject it based entirely on the form of the argument.” CYP is what Raymond would call a “Model P Kafkatrap,” which asserts: “Even if you do not feel yourself to be guilty of transgression X, you are guilty because you have a privileged position in the {transgression X} system.”

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Delingpole: Great News, Barbara Socrates — Oxford University Has Feminized Its Philosophy Course

Oxford University will be letting you know shortly, once it has got the results of its latest politically correct academic experiment.

From now on, Oxford’s philosophy faculty has decreed, 40 percent of the recommended authors on its departmental reading lists must be female.

Also, academic staff have been asked to use philosophers’ first names rather than their initials when compiling reading lists, to make it clearer to undergraduates which ones are female.

This is great news for Barbara Socrates, Mandy Aristotle, Seraphina Wittgenstein, Nancy Descartes, Fifi Trixibelle Locke, Suzi Nietzsche, Bobbi Confucius, Ermintrude Plato, and Petronella Hume, to name but a few of the awesome female philosophical intellects who have been cruelly neglected by history because sexism, misogyny, and the oppressive phallocentric hegemony.

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Homeschooling: The Best Hope for America’s Future

A 7-year-old in second grade came home and said, “Mom, Dad, guess what! Our teacher read us the funniest book. It was so silly. It was about a prince who was getting married, but he didn’t marry a princess. He married a prince! Isn’t that so silly, Mom?” The book read to the confused child to introduce 7-year-olds to same-sex “marriage” is King and King by Linda de Haan.

Without parental knowledge or consent, 5-year-old Jacob, entering kindergarten, came home with a “diversity bookbag.” Inside was a book introducing kindergartners to same-sex households, celebrating Clifford and her dad’s “partner,” Henry — selling homosexuality to 5-year-olds disguised as diversity. The book is Who’s in a Family by Robert Skutch.

Folks, if my public school arrogantly usurped such authority when I was a kid, my stocky little-over-five-foot black mom would have been outraged. She’d march to my school and angrily confront the principal: “Who do you people think you are? How dare you take such liberty with my nine months?”

Please correct me if I am wrong. But all I see is parents passively allowing leftists to mold and shape students into their image.

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UK: Chilling: Police Investigate Stay-at-Home Mom for Tweets Against Transgenderism

March 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — I’ve written often in this space that the trans movement will countenance no dissent in their attempts to remake our culture and implement their agenda in schools, universities, and beyond — but even I was stunned when the Christian Post broke the story of a stay-at-home mother of four being contacted by the police for making comments critical of transgender ideology on Twitter — a story that has received very little attention so far. Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, it is important to note, is not a conservative Christian or even a political right-winger — when I emailed her, she noted in her response that she is “a feminist and pro-choice.”

Keen-Minshull’s story is positively chilling. She was contacted last month, apparently because Susie Green, the CEO of a UK organization called Mermaids which “supports transgender persons,” had decided to report Keen-Minshull to the police, who then got her details from Twitter. According to the Post, “the officer told her she was a ‘test case’ in a new ‘human rights’ fight they were undertaking.” Keen-Minshull had been tweeting about transgenderism and had been publicly critical of Green’s decision to fly her son to Thailand to “have his genitals removed when he was 16.” According to the Post:…

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UK: Met Police Website Look to Define What is Considered a ‘Hate Incident’, Twitter Reacts

A hate crime is when someone commits a crime against you because of your disability, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, religion, or any other perceived difference. It doesn’t always include physical violence. Someone using offensive language towards you or harassing you because of who you are, or who they think you are, is also a crime. The same goes for someone posting abusive or offensive messages about you online. If it happens to you, you might be tempted to shrug it off. But if you tell us, we can investigate and stop it from getting worse — either for you or someone else. Hate crimes and hate incidents

If someone commits a criminal offence and the victim, or anyone else, believes it was motivated by prejudice or hate, we class this as a ‘hate crime’. It means the offender can be charged for the crime itself and also their reasons for doing it.

If someone does something that isn’t a criminal offence but the victim, or anyone else, believes it was motivated by prejudice or hate, we would class this as a ‘hate incident’. Though what the perpetrator has done may not be against the law, their reasons for doing it are. This means it may be possible to charge them with an offence.

If you’ve witnessed or been the victim of a crime or incident you believe was motivated by prejudice or hate, visit our How to report hate crime page. There you’ll also find details of where to get help and advice if you’re not ready to report it to police just yet. Read More…

Reactions from twitter:

From the Met Police website. Read it. Then read it again. And again. And again.

You may not have committed a criminal offence. But if we don’t like what was in your head, we can still make you a criminal.

This isn’t ‘hate crime’. This is thought-crime. https://t.co/a1Nt0mviqG pic.twitter.com/xXbNf3UD8Q — Paul Embery (@PaulEmbery) March 16, 2018

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10 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/20/2018

  1. Also, the quality of philosophy has steeply declined. Can you compare anybody to Barbara Socrates, Ermentrude Plato, Mandy Aristotle? These womyn nowadays climb a low mound. No peaks around, they look like giants on top of Everest.

    Simone de Beauvoir is every bit as overrated as her husband Jean-Paul Sartre. They both were pampered because they said things convenient to powers that be. There will remain zero, 0, zilch, of all of their philosophical “output” in a few years from now. Who reads them anyway? What did they say remarkable?

    Today I learned “promoting dross over bullion”. It is the same with Affirmative Action. We need it because Blacks are disadvantaged but we are all equal.

    • Mandy Aristotle was the teacher of Alexander the Great. Some sources say that Mandy Aristotle was with Alexander the Great in all of his greatest conquests. Simone de Beauvoir is famous for what?

  2. How did they come up with 40% female philosophers? What about the 11% that are NOT represented. AND how about African ones, and the deaf.

  3. Maryland HS shooting – it hasn’t yet been determined if the gunman (gunkid?) was killed by the cop or whether he shot himself. But the cop did engage without hesitation, unlike the Parkland fiasco.

  4. thank you Gatestinstitue and GOVienna for enlightening us about the pro NATO pro-(hate speech word) moderate rebels of syria after 7 years of the so called civil war

    there must be some secret behind reporting on the Arab spring heroes specially those of the syrian portion.

    now we’re waiting any of the two news platforms and others alike to link those rebels to a country in the middle-east, a staunch ally to USA that supports them from day 1
    Hint: it doesn’t speak Arabic or turkish it has an army of even non MSM writers and reporters to defend it besides in owns the main stream ones

  5. Some fun commentary and comments about how Trump (100% correctly) left May out to dry with her push to use the Skripal poisoning as a pretext to move closer to war with Russia:

    http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/03/trump-leaves-may-hanging-out-to-dry.html

    Trump is well aware that the UKistan/Airstrip One is irrelevant as a nation, which is appropriate seeing how they are currently jailing people for telling jokes.

    The only reason Argentina has not taken back the Falklands is their military is in even more dire shape than the UKistan’s.

    • Argentina is simply waiting for UKistan to get in a worse shape so that the takeover will be easier. Everybody is happy to see EUstan and UKistan collapse. The sooner, the better.

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