Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/31/2018

Austria has handed down fifty fines to women for violating the burka ban since the law came into effect last October. Most of the charges were issued in November and December; after that, violations tapered off.

In other news, a 25-year-old Moroccan “youth” was arrested in Italy on suspicion of raping a teenage girl on a train in Bologna.

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Thanks to Charles Low, Insubria, JD, MC, Reader from Chicago, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» Maryland Man Headed to Prison After Admitting to Helping ISIS
» New NSA John Bolton Planning Deep State Purge Within National Security Council
» Teacher Assigns Students to Write Anti-Gun Letters to Lawmakers; Parents Are Furious
» Ted Nugent Calls Parkland Student Activists Liars: ‘They Have No Soul’
 
Europe and the EU
» Austria Has Issued 50 Fines for Violation of Burqa Ban Law in Six Months
» ISIS Members Allegedly From Group That Beheaded Hostages Say Revoking U.K. Citizenship Unfair
» Marine Le Pen: I Respect Orban Because He Had the Strength to Face the EU That Threatened and Blackmailed Him
» Mass Blade Fail Means Early ‘Retirement’ For Hundreds of Danish Wind Turbines
» Not Égalité: Macron Tackles France’s Unfair School System
» Prince Charles Delivers Easter Message on Christian Persecution
» Strange Things Happen to European Countries Resisting George Soros’ Assault
 
Balkans
» Iranians Abuse Serbia’s Visa-Free Regime to Move to Western Europe as Migrants
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» IDF Posts Photo of Palestinian Protester With Weapon
 
Russia
» ‘Fire Will Burn You’ ISIS Terror Plot to Attack Russia World Cup With Armed Drones Exposed
 
South Asia
» Destination West Bengal: The Most Prospective Jihadi Hub for Rohingyas in India
» Pakistan: Court Frees 20 Muslims Suspected of Burning Christian Couple Alive in Industrial Kiln for “Blasphemy”
 
Latin America
» Silencing of Assange Sparks Historic Ten-Hour Online Vigil to #reconnectjulian
 
Immigration
» “Huge Caravan” of Central American Refugees is Headed for the U.S. Border
» German Journalist: More and More Citizens Wake Up and Realize That Something is Totally Wrong Here
» Greece Registers Strong Surge in Migrants From Turkey
» Hungary Elections 2018: Fears Over Migration Fuels Viktor Orban as He Soars in Polls
» Imprisoned, Tortured French Teen Was Forced to Use Knotted Sheets to Escape Illegal Migrant Boyfriend
» Italy: Man, 25, Nabbed for Raping Girl, 17, in Bologna Train
» Migration & Radical European Muslims Stir up Anti-Semitism in Germany — Parliament Chief
» Netherlands: Ministers Want to Send Refugees Back to Germany and Belgium to Discourage Travel
» Sweden to Hungary: It is Not OK to Use US as an Example of Failed Mass Migration Policies
» Swedish Student Suspended for Telling the Truth About Migrant Sex Crimes
» UK Government ‘Lost’ 600,000 Foreign Visitors in Two Years
» We’re Not a French Toilet! Italy Protests Rage Against Macron as French Cops Invade Border
 
Culture Wars
» Hollywood Rediscovers America’s Love for Christian Films
 

Maryland Man Headed to Prison After Admitting to Helping ISIS

WASHINGTON — A Maryland man who admitted to helping ISIS has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Mohamed Elshinawy, 33, of Edgewood, pleaded guilty to providing and attempting to provide material support to ISIS, terrorism financing, and making false statements in connection with a terrorism matter.

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

New NSA John Bolton Planning Deep State Purge Within National Security Council

The National Security Council is a large intelligence bureaucracy, within the Washington DC intelligence apparatus, consisting of dozens of principles and hundreds of staff. Many of those staffers are career officials, holdovers from prior administrations.

According to Foreign Policy, incoming National Security Adviser to the President, John Bolton, is planning a significant ‘clean house’ removing a significant number of people within the system.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Teacher Assigns Students to Write Anti-Gun Letters to Lawmakers; Parents Are Furious

A seventh grade student at a middle school in Georgia informed his parents that his teacher, Corey Sanders, asked students to create letters addressed to lawmakers urging them to stand up for gun control.

The concerned parent — who clearly understands the importance of the Second Amendment and why it exists — is taking a stand and imploring other parents to “stay vigilant” and keep an eye on what their kids are being taught in school…

The Henry County School District spoke with Fox News and delivered the following statement:

“The lesson topic was not a part of an approved curriculum. … We would never approve of a politically biased assignment or directive given by a teacher. … We do not condone the actions that transpired. It has been handled appropriately with the teacher to ensure they know this is not acceptable and won’t happen again.”

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

This is yet another example of how public schools are no longer about learning essential skills necessary to become a fully functioning adult member of society, but have become indoctrination centers for radical progressives.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ted Nugent Calls Parkland Student Activists Liars: ‘They Have No Soul’

Ted Nugent, the sometime classic rocker and current NRA board member, is speaking out about the new generation of gun reform advocates: the “pathetic” teenage “liars” who survived the deadly massacre last month at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

These poor children, I’m afraid to say this and it hurts me to say this, but the evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul,” he said Friday on Newsmax’s “The Joe Pags Show.”

“The dumbing down of America is manifested in the culture deprivation of our academia that have taught these kids the lies, media that have prodded and encouraged and provided these kids lies,” he said after watching clips Parkland mass-shooting survivors such as David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez who have become leading advocates of legislation to curb gun violence in the U.S.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Austria Has Issued 50 Fines for Violation of Burqa Ban Law in Six Months

Central European Austria has issued 50 fines to transgressors of the full face covering ban in the first six months since it was enacted, each carrying a punishment of up to €150.

In a sign of how effective the ban has been in changing behaviour and discouraging the garment in public places in the nation, the majority of the 50 fine issued were in the first two months after October 2017 when the ban came into effect.

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

ISIS Members Allegedly From Group That Beheaded Hostages Say Revoking U.K. Citizenship Unfair

Two British members the Islamic State group believed to have belonged to a cell notorious for beheading hostages in northern Syria said Friday that their home country’s revoking of their citizenship denies them the possibility of fair trial.

One of them said the killings of captives was “regrettable” and could have been avoided.

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

Marine Le Pen: I Respect Orban Because He Had the Strength to Face the EU That Threatened and Blackmailed Him

According to Marine Le Pen, president of the National Front, France has no immigration policy, they have no control of the events, they can’t determine who they live together with, so they are watching Hungary with envy.

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

Mass Blade Fail Means Early ‘Retirement’ For Hundreds of Danish Wind Turbines

Among the lies pedalled by the wind industry is that wind turbines run on the smell of an oily rag and last for more than 25 years.

The pitch is made to beguile the gullible (read, ‘planning authorities’, ‘politicians’, ‘bankers’ and ‘investors’) into believing that their operating costs can be covered out of petty cash — which fits with the other great line about there being nothing as ‘free’ as the wind.

Mechanical wear and tear, including bearing failure is one of the most common reasons for turbines to be put out of action; and is one of the key factors that accounts for the fact that the ‘economic’ life of wind turbines is 10-12 years, which runs contrary to wild claims about them lasting for “25-plus years” (see our post here and this paper).

Top flight German turbine maker, Siemens booked a €223 million write down (ie loss) in 2014 due to the fact it had to replace bearings in a fleet of turbines that were less than 2 years old.

Siemens talking about the loss said: “The charge is related to inspecting and replacing bearings due to the early degradation in certain turbine models. We believe this is related to recent batches of bearings and we are in discussions with the supplier” (see our post here).

And Siemens’ ‘luck’ has been no better in the US, where its — barely-out-of-nappies — turbines literally fell apart in the Californian desert: 2 Year Old Siemens Turbines Falling Apart: Wind Farm Investors, Get Out While You Can

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Not Égalité: Macron Tackles France’s Unfair School System

Used to teaching 24 children or more at a time, Zahia Adnani now spends her days with a group around half that size in her colourful classroom north of Paris where a flagship effort to tackle inequality is under way.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Prince Charles Delivers Easter Message on Christian Persecution

LONDON (AP) — Prince Charles released a videotaped Easter message early Friday offering support for persecuted Christians around the world.

He expresses sympathy for people who have “had to flee for their faith and for their life” and says he has been deeply moved by their courage and ability to forgive.

He says all three Abrahamic faiths have endured persecution when religion “has fallen into the barbaric grip of those who distort and misrepresent faith.”

Charles, who is heir to the British throne, has spoken out in the past on the need for religious tolerance.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Strange Things Happen to European Countries Resisting George Soros’ Assault

Strange things happen in East and Central Europe that get little mention from media outlets. Two heads of state, the PMs of Slovenia and Slovakia, resigned almost simultaneously.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was a victim of the scandal over the murder of Jan Kuciak, a journalist who was investigating government corruption. The PM had to step down amid mass street protests.

Mr. Fico was known for his support of a stronger Visegrad Group. He opposed Brussels on many issues. It’s worth noting that he called for lifting sanctions and improving relations with Moscow. The PM was adamant that Russia was a reliable energy partner. Is it a coincidence that he was forced to resign amid the anti-Russia campaign triggered by the Skripal case and other obviously concocted stories used as false pretexts for incessant attacks on Moscow? Wasn’t he a threat to the so-called unity of the EU against Russia? He definitely was.

The PM did not hide the fact that his decision was made under great pressure. The ouster was engineered by outside forces, including philanthropist billionaire George Soros. For instance, Slovak President Andrej Kiska had a private meeting with the billionaire in September, 2017. It was a one-on-one conversation. No Slovak diplomat was present there.

According to Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak, “George Soros is a man who has had a major influence on the development in Eastern and Central Europe and beyond. That is a fact that cannot be questioned.” PM Viktor Orban had this say about the event: “George Soros and his network are making use of every possible opportunity to overthrow governments that are resisting immigration.”

[Comment: Western populations are in a war against globalists, a war they don’t yet understand is being waged upon them with the assistance of a globalist traitor political class.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Iranians Abuse Serbia’s Visa-Free Regime to Move to Western Europe as Migrants

Official statistics reveal there are about 7,000 Iranians who arrived in Serbia and who do not have intentions to return home, Croatian newspaper Jutarnji reports.

After Serbia and Iran abolished the visa regime, an increasing number of Iranians are visiting the country.

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

IDF Posts Photo of Palestinian Protester With Weapon

“Hamas probably doesn’t know the well-known Hadith,” Mordechai continued, referring to the words, actions, and the silent approval of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

“The Prophet did not permit me to participate in Uhud battle, as at that time, I was 14 years old. But on the day of Khandaq battle, when I was 15 years old, the Prophet permitted my participation,” COGAT quoted the Hadith.

“Hamas has no problem endangering any Gazan child, in a way that contradicts Islam! There is no greater shame than using children for fighting, and any Muslim with a heart and a mind who knows the Hadith renounces that,” he added,,,

           — Hat tip: MC [Return to headlines]
 

‘Fire Will Burn You’ ISIS Terror Plot to Attack Russia World Cup With Armed Drones Exposed

TERRORISTS plan to attack the World Cup in Russia using drones armed with grenades, missiles and mortars.

Isis is even plotting to send suicide bombers into stadiums on flyboards, a Daily Star Sunday investigation can reveal. Islamist nuts have been posting videos and pictures on encrypted app Telegram detailing their evil plans to murder players and fans.

Chilling images show extremists believed to be returning to Russia from Syria and Iraq building weaponised drones. Several shots are taken from a drone camera of bombs being dropped on to a target.

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

Destination West Bengal: The Most Prospective Jihadi Hub for Rohingyas in India

Within a span of three months Kuruli-Hardaha location near Baruipur increased its numbers of ten times. In January 2018, there were only 29 Rohingyas in 8 families. Now they are over 320 in 41 families.

Upananda Brahmachari | HENB | Kolkata | March 29, 2018:: In a very nefarious design, the ruling TMC in Bengal is promoting illegal Rohingya intruders in the soil of West Bengal with a Jihadi aspiration to harm the Hindu activists within the state.

When Hindu activists are advancing in WB, some leaders of TMC’s minority cell are engaging themselves to give shelters these Rohingya intruders in Barauipur, Canning, Falta, Budge Budge, Burdwan, Coochbehar, Uttar Dinajpur, Birbhum and other locations; only to restore a Jihadi force to eliminate growing Hinduitva power in Bengal.

Making many NGO and collaborating with AIMIM (All India Majlish e Ittehadul Muslemin) of Hyderabad, these Muslim leaders in TMC are collecting huge money from Middle East and Bangladesh in the name of rehabilitation of Rohingya refugees, actually the new Islamic force engaged in capturing the land of Bharat under Islamic flag.

On a high level meeting of SMAC (State Multi Agency Center) held on March 12, it shared intelligence inputs between constituent agencies over the ‘threat of Rogingya intruders in WB’ and ‘border situations where more than 60,000 Rohingyas are waiting to cross the border to enter WB’.

Though WB representatives in the meeting admitted the growing number of Rohingyas in the state and their colony in some parts in the state, they pointed out the slackness of BSF in border protection and accused a part of BSF involved in the cross border Rohingya rackets…

           — Hat tip: Upananda Brahmachari [Return to headlines]
 

Pakistan: Court Frees 20 Muslims Suspected of Burning Christian Couple Alive in Industrial Kiln for “Blasphemy”

There is a two-tier justice system in Pakistan, which essentially means that Christians and other non-Muslims rarely get justice. If there were any country in which Muslims were treated the way Christians are in Pakistan, there would be screaming international headlines for weeks or longer. But no one will take any particular note of this.

“Pakistani Court Frees 20 People Suspected of Burning Christians Alive in Industrial Kiln for ‘Blasphemy,’“ Associated Press, March 24, 2018:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Silencing of Assange Sparks Historic Ten-Hour Online Vigil to #reconnectjulian

Via Disobedient Media

The Ecuadorian Government’s decision to silence Julian Assange by cutting off his internet access, phone communications and ability to receive visitors represents a saddening turnabout by a country that has long protected the publisher’s human and journalistic rights. The move took place at the behest of Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno, who took office in May last year. Since that time Moreno has continued to provide Assange with asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and his government conferred citizenship and diplomatic immunity on the arbitrarily confined journalist last December.

When news of the cut in communications emerged yesterday, friends and supporters of Assange immediately leapt into action, with Kim Dotcom and Suzie Dawson organizing an online vigil under the banner of #ReconnectJulian. Meanwhile, supporters on the ground in London gathered in front of the embassy, live streaming as they stood in solidarity for hours, metres from the confined Wikileaks Editor-In-Chief.

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

“Huge Caravan” of Central American Refugees is Headed for the U.S. Border

Over 1,500 Central Americans are on a crusade across Mexico in the hopes of being granted asylum at the U.S. border — a move which is set to pose an enormous challenge to the Trump administration’s much campaigned about immigration policies, while reminding Trump’s base that they still don’t have the wall they elected him to build 14 months into his presidency.

“We want to become one, supporting us shoulder to shoulder and show that together we can break down borders,” say the caravan’s organizers.

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

German Journalist: More and More Citizens Wake Up and Realize That Something is Totally Wrong Here

Germany accepted more than a million migrants. Why did the Germans let it happen? It didn’t look like a very democratic decision.

No, it was not a democratic decision and Angela Merkel was criticised in hindsight by parts of the media. The biggest problem was that it was a creeping development, the extent of which the majority of Germans only became aware when it was too late.

The decision of Angela Merkel from September the 4th 2015, was sold as a humanitarian state of emergency. You have to imagine: The mood in the summer of 2015 was a kind of welcome culture, which was exaggerated to the extreme by the media in Germany.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Greece Registers Strong Surge in Migrants From Turkey

A sharp increase of 33% in the flow of immigrants arriving from Turkey has been confirmed by the Greek immigration minister, Mr Dimitris Voutsis.

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

Hungary Elections 2018: Fears Over Migration Fuels Viktor Orban as He Soars in Polls

Mr Orban has been able to strike a chord with his countrymen as he warns them of a dystopian future where civilisations clash.

He has claimed that his nationalist government is battling international forces that are set on “breaking” Hungary down.

Mr Orban addressed his supporters at a rally saying: “Europe is now under invasion.”

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

Imprisoned, Tortured French Teen Was Forced to Use Knotted Sheets to Escape Illegal Migrant Boyfriend

An 18-year-old French girl escaped the captivity of her illegal migrant boyfriend using a knotted bed sheet to climb down from a ninth-floor apartment balcony after he had held her prisoner and tortured her.

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

Italy: Man, 25, Nabbed for Raping Girl, 17, in Bologna Train

Priest caused furore by saying he wasn’t sorry for her

(ANSA) — Bologna, March 30 — A 25-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday on suspicion of raping a 17-year-old girl in a Bologna station train wagon in a case that caused a stir when a local priest said he didn’t feel sorry for her and implied she had been asking for it.

Dhabi Amine has been charged with sexual violence.

The priest was forced to apologise in November after saying he didn’t feel sorry for the girl who was raped in the train carriage after getting drunk.

“I’m sorry but if you swim in a piranha tank you can’t complain when you’re missing a limb when you get out,” said Father Lorenzo Guidotti, a parish priest in Bologna.

“Should I feel pity? No!!. I keep that for those who are really VICTIMS of a sh***ily run city, not for those who live like barbarians with barbarians and then complain when they discover they haven’t been treated civilly. Those who CHOOSE the GETWRECKED culture should let others ‘enjoy themselves too”.

Father Guidotti said “waking up semi-naked I’d say is the least that could have happened to you.” He said “honey, I’m sorry but 1) you frequent Piazza Verdi which has become the “a**hole of Bologna…2) you get disgracefully drunk…3) and then who do you go with, a North African?!!! Notoriously, real gentlemen”.

The archdiocese of Bologna said Father Guidotti’s views did not reflect its thinking.

Father Guidotti’s views “are personal opinions which do not in any way reflect the thinking and the assessment of the Church, which condemns all kinds of violence,” the archdiocese said in a statement.

The diocese, led by Msgr Matteo Zuppi, also published a statement from Father Guidotti in which he apologised to the girl.

“I was wrong with my intervention, the terms, the ways, the corrections. I can only therefore apologise to her and her parents if my imprudent words may have added pain, which will happen in reading them,” said Father Guidotti.

The priest said he recognised he had “expressed himself in an inappropriate way and intended to clarify his thinking”.

He appealed to parents and the authorities to combat what he called the ‘get high’ culture that he said was endangering young people.

Father Guidotti said: “I ask everyone, who have perhaps a better capacity for language and possibilities (authorities, journalists, teachers, parents) to help dismantle this get-high culture our young people are living in.

“Otherwise tomorrow we will have to feel pity for another victim, and then another.

“Until when? Until we are able to say ‘enough!’“.

“It is necessary to supply an alternative,” he said.

The priest also apologised for appearing to offend migrants, saying he had nothing against them.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Migration & Radical European Muslims Stir up Anti-Semitism in Germany — Parliament Chief

Radical Muslim communities and immigrants harboring extremist views of Israel are contributing to the rise of anti-Semitism on German soil, speaker of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schaeuble warned in a candid interview.

Wolfgang Schaeuble, a German political heavyweight who previously served as the country’s finance minister, argued that combatting anti-Semitism is “a stress test” for Western societies, especially in times when immigration from Muslim-majority countries continues to grip Europe.

While anti-Semitism is “not a specific Muslim problem,” it is still getting stronger “due to migration and the hatred against Israel that is fueled by radical forces in the Islamic world,” he told the Funke media group, as cited by Die Welt newspaper.

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

Netherlands: Ministers Want to Send Refugees Back to Germany and Belgium to Discourage Travel

The Dutch cabinet wants to make agreements within the EU on sending asylum seekers back to the European country they were in before reaching their final destination. Junior justice minister Mark Harbers, who focuses on refugee policy, said in an interview with the Volkskrant on Friday that this would mean asylum seekers who entered the Netherlands from Belgium or Germany would be sent back to those countries. In turn, Belgium and Germany could send the refugee back to the EU country they had traveled though to reach the Belgian and German borders. ‘If refugees know this is how Europe works, they will be discouraged from moving on,’ Harbers told the paper.

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

Sweden to Hungary: It is Not OK to Use US as an Example of Failed Mass Migration Policies

Swedish Education Minister Gustav Fridolin visited Hungary this week telling the Hungarian government and ruling Fidesz party to stop using Sweden as an example of failed mass migration policies.

The Education Minister, who is also a member of the Green party, travelled to Hungary to meet with leaders of Politics Can Be Different (LMP) party to discuss issues of education.

[Comment: ie “stop telling the truth, people are waking up”]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Swedish Student Suspended for Telling the Truth About Migrant Sex Crimes

A Swedish student of Stockholm’s Royal Institute of Technology, is suspended from his class, Friatider reports. The male student, called Felix, published a fact sheet about the overrepresentation of migrants concerning sex crimes in the country.

It all started with a discussion between Felix and two female classmates. When he said migrants are overrepresented as perpetrators of sex crimes the women did not believe him and wanted to see sources of his claim.

The next day Felix came with official statistics of Sweden’s National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) and a well verified study that showed that 95 per cent of assault rapes are committed by men with foreign backgrounds.

After he had given the fact sheet to the women the following day, it was spread in his class during a lecture. In the middle of the lecture, an African woman in the back of the hall suddenly stood up and pointed to Felix, who sat at the front.

“She screamed that I was racist and a Nazi. I tried vainly to tell her to calm down and there was no room for discussion”, says Felix.

[Comment: Read it all to see orwellian indoctrination demonstrated by teachers.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK Government ‘Lost’ 600,000 Foreign Visitors in Two Years

The Home Office lost track of 601,222 foreign, non-European Union visitors in two years who should have left the UK.

A report by the chief inspector of the borders and immigration watchdog David Bolt found that the Home Office’s short-lived Exit Check Programme and ensuing exit checking procedures resulted in no record of the exits of half a million non-visa holding visitors including from Argentina and Brazil and 88,000 foreign citizens whose short-term visas had expired.

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

We’re Not a French Toilet! Italy Protests Rage Against Macron as French Cops Invade Border

ITALY’S parties are coming together to protest against Emmanuel Macron after the French police entered without authorisation an Italian migrant centre in a “brutal act” of violence which may cause an international incident.

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

Hollywood Rediscovers America’s Love for Christian Films

Authentic Christian films are proving to be huge moneymakers for Hollywood studios, despite still being dismissed by many in the entertainment business as “not part of mainstream Hollywood fare.”

The breakout success of the 2004 blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, whose astounding U.S. box office sales of over $370 million surprised supporters and detractors alike, woke a sleeping Hollywood to the reality of Christian audiences hungry for genuine spiritual fare.

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

3 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/31/2018

  1. Does that “huge caravan” of 1500 future illegal immigrants marching northward through Mexico remind anyone else of a book they have read? They are receiving assistance along the way. They plan to simply enter the USA and claim the right to be there, along with the generous benefits of public welfare. If they are not stopped at the border the next caravan will be orders of magnitude larger. Who thinks they will be stopped?

  2. Hollywood and the Left, in general, hates Christianity and deplores Christian-based movies. “Paul, Apostle of Christ” was a fine film that the Hollywood movie critics tried to strangle to death with lousy, rotten reviews.

  3. Goot to read that the NSA has “dozens of principles”; a few good ones should be enough.

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