Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/7/2018

The Italian Five Star Movement, which came in second in last Sunday’s elections, will attempt to form a government in coalition with the center-left. The largest center-left party, the Democratic Party, suffered dramatic losses in the election, but still has enough seats to provide M5S with a governing majority. However, 90% of the members of the Democratic Party are opposed to any coalition with the Five Star Movement.

In other news, a tiny Irish town that is being forced to take in hundreds of migrants was allowed no say in the decision, nor was it given any information about the origin of the “refugees” to be resettled.

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Financial Crisis
» Italy Growth Far Below EU Average — Dombrovskis
» Thousands More Stores Are on the 2018 Retail Apocalypse Death List: Are Your Local Stores on the List?
 
USA
» Celente: Banksters’ Tariff Tantrum
» Companies Suspend Ads on Alex Jones, Infowars’ YouTube Channel After CNN Contacts Them
» Disarming the Climate Change Agenda
» Florida Man Researched ISIS, Scouted Spot for Sniper Attack, Feds Say
» Media Ignores Thwarted ISIS-Inspired High School Bombing
» Microsoft’s New Windows 10 Privacy Controls Should Avoid ‘Keylogger’ Concerns
» Mozilla Removes Individual Cookie Management in Firefox 60 From Preferences
» Muslim Calls for Murder Increasing
» North Alabama Man to Plead Guilty to Plotting to Help ISIS
» Prepare for War: Globalism, Socialism, And Communism vs. Freedom
» Radical Leftists Want to Kill Climate Deniers
» Seattle Police Begin Nazi Style Gun Confiscation: No Laws Broken, No Warrant, No Charges
» Soros Chalks Up Another DA Win After Dropping Nearly $1 Million in Texas Race
» USA Would Win Trade War — FCA’s Marchionne
» VA Lawmaker’s Speech on Guns Offends Dems, Causes Them to Walk Out [Video]
 
Canada
» Woman Arrested After Rally Against Controversial Professor Jordan Peterson
 
Europe and the EU
» Five Star Movement Look to Italy’s Left to Keep Far-Right Out of Power
» George Soros Denies Trying to Interfere in Slovakian Politics After Journalist’s Murder
» Hungary: Neighbors See the Country in Positive Light
» ISIS Fanatics Urge Deranged Followers to Carry Out a Wave of Car Rammings and Stabbings in Spain as Brits Prepare for Summer Holidays
» Italy’s First Black Senator League Member
» Italy: Fontana Wins Lombardy Election With 49.7%
» Italy: Moroccan Gets 2 Years 4 Months for Preaching Terror
» Italy Envoy Won’t Take Part in Vienna Meet — Alfano
» Italy: Bomb Explodes Outside CasaPound Trento Office
» Italy: 90% PD Against Govt With M5S, Right — Orlando
» Italy’s Elections Threaten Future of the European Union
» ‘Keep Going Orbán!’: Farage Blasts EU for Sanctioning Poland and Hungary, Ignoring Catalonia Violence
» No Risk of Collapse for EU — Verhofstadt
» Priest to be Tried for Mistreating Disabled
» Ryanair Threatens to Ground Flights and ‘Prove’ Brexit Voters Wrong, ‘No More Cheap Holidays’
» Steve Bannon Ignites Swiss With Speech on International Populist-Nationalism
» UK Conspiracy of Silence — Rape Gangs Exposed — Truth Teller’s Twitter Account Shut Down
» What the Sweden Democrats Party Couldn’t, Or Wouldn’t Do, Perhaps the New Anti-Islamization “Alternative for Sweden” (AfS) Party Will
 
Middle East
» Lebanon: Palestinian Factions Clash at Shatila Camp
» President Trump, Tell Terror-Supporting Qatar it Can Kiss Our US Air Base Goodbye
» The Middle East: The Current Score
» Turkey, Russia to Attend Joint Planning Meeting in Moscow
 
Russia
» Kremlin Wants Italy to be Good Partner After Vote
 
Caucasus
» Russia Detains 5 is Recruiters in Dagestan
 
South Asia
» Indonesian Islamic University Bans Burqas on Campus
» Passenger Stripped Naked and Watched Porn on His Laptop Before Attacking a Stewardess During a Flight From Malaysia
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» ‘We Are Cutting the Throat of Whiteness’: South Africa Politician Vows to Target White Mayor as He Praises Plan to Hand Land to Black People and Vows: ‘Angry White People Can Go to Hell’
 
Immigration
» Afghan Migrant Arrested Following Knife Attack That Wounded Four in Vienna
» Australia’s Multiculturalism Model is ‘Failing’ — With New Figures Showing 25% of Some Immigrant Groups Can’t Speak English at All
» Exclusive: Tiny Irish Town Taking Hundreds of Migrants Had No Say, Locals Fear Being Called Racist
» Hungarian Minister: Vienna is Increasingly Crime-Ridden Since Migrants Began Living There
» Iraqi Who Arrived in UK as ‘Child Refugee’ Built Parsons Green Bomb to Cause ‘Maximum Harm and Carnage’
» Kamala Harris: Trying to Force California to Obey Immigration Law is ‘Bullying’
» New Patriotic Swedish Party Wants Full Immigration Stop and Active Return Policy
» NYT Admits ‘Trump is Right’ About Grenade & AK-47 Attacks in Sweden
» Poland Indicts Moroccan Migrant Over Alleged Islamic State Activity
» Sri Lankan Migrants Scalp Man and Cut Off His Arm in Paris Restaurant
» Sweden Democrats Refute PM’s ‘No Go Zone’ Denial as ‘Fake News’
» Swedish Municipalities May be Forced to Raise Taxes to Pay for Mass Migration
 
Culture Wars
» Facebook Asks Users if They Mind Pedophiles Soliciting Sexual Pics of Minors
» Leftists Declare ‘Merry Christmas’ An Islamophobic Microaggression
» No Protection for Babies or Cops in Twitter Land
 
General
» DTube is More Than a YouTube Alternative
 

Italy Growth Far Below EU Average — Dombrovskis

‘Strengthened but productivity, banks still issues’

(ANSA) — Brussels, March 7 — Italian growth is far below the EU average, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said Wednesday. “In Italy we have seen that growth strengthened in 2017 and we expect it to remain constant this year, but it is still a long way below the European average, the debt is the second highest in the Eu and productivity is low,” he said.

“There are still problems in the banking sector, but they are being tackled”.

In general, he said, there are several “challenges” to be overcome.

The Italian economy grew by 1.5& last year, compared to 2.2% in the eurozone.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Thousands More Stores Are on the 2018 Retail Apocalypse Death List: Are Your Local Stores on the List?

Every year, it seems like more and more retail outlets are going out of business, resulting in the loss of jobs and local supplies. Last year, hundreds of stores closed, and this year, even more shops are scheduled to shut their doors for good.

The 2018 Death List

This year, in an effort to save their businesses, the following retailers will close hundreds of their stores, according to Fox Business.

Abercrombie & Fitch: 60 more stores are charted to close

  • Aerosoles: Only 4 of their 88 stores are definitely remaining open
  • American Apparel: They’ve filed for bankruptcy and all their stores have closed (or will soon)
  • BCBG: 118 stores have closed
  • Bebe: Bebe is history and all 168 stores have closed
  • Bon-Ton: They’ve filed for Chapter 11 and will be closing 48 stores.
  • The Children’s Place: They plan to close hundreds of stores by 2020 and are going digital.
  • CVS: They closed 70 stores but thousands still remain viable.
  • Foot Locker: They’re closing 110 underperforming stores shortly.
  • Guess: 60 stores will bite the dust this year. […]

All in all, the collapse of the retail industry could, at some point, put the livelihoods of more than 7 million people in jeopardy. Perhaps the doomsaying economists like Peter Schiff and Dave Kunstler are right when they warn that a Great Depression the likes of the one in the early 1900s is upon us. That means not only massive unemployment but also massive hyperinflation, making it nearly impossible to stay fed.

Let’s add to rising retail unemployment the move to more self-checkout, more AI, and more computerized systems instead of human staff. It’s not too hard to understand why people could soon be dependent on a Universal Basic Income and a return to an almost feudal society.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Celente: Banksters’ Tariff Tantrum

The big banks are p*ssed at Trump

Is the Trump tariff on steel & aluminum a good idea to build manufacturing or the beginning of a global trade war? Gerald Celente joins David Knight to explain.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Companies Suspend Ads on Alex Jones, Infowars’ YouTube Channel After CNN Contacts Them

CNN pushes ad ban…

Many companies have suspended advertising on Infowars’ Youtube channels after CNN contacted them about their ads appearing on the website.

A CNN article published Saturday reads, “CNN has discovered ads on InfoWars’ channels from companies and organizations such as Nike (NKE), Acer, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Network, the Mormon Church, Moen, Expedia (EXPE), Alibaba (BABA), HomeAway, the NRA, Honey, Wix and ClassPass.”

The article also indicates that after CNN got in touch with the companies, many suspended their ads:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Disarming the Climate Change Agenda

After YouTube’s glaring censorship agenda set out to silence those who question the establishment, many have transitioned to a platform where their speech is not politically censored. One such man is now disarming the climate change agenda and his DTube video is throwing all kinds of wrenches in the cogs of the propaganda machine.

Jay Sather’s DTube channel is dedicated to “destroying the illusion,” something which is not allowed on YouTube. In the video below, Sather demolishes the climate change agenda. You can’t even go on social media or a mainstream media (government) outlet’s website without seeing a propaganda piece about “man-made climate change.”

“Let’s make some sense about what the heck’s going on here in regards to climate change,” Sather says.

“There’s this huge propaganda wave I’m seeing, trying to tell us that humans are the cause of global warming when, in my opinion, we are not.” Sather goes on to say that while there are record heat waves, there are also record cold waves occurring right now too. There are a lot of changes happening all around the globe right now, but they aren’t’ caused by carbon emissions. “They are caused by my natural earthy and cosmic cycles,” Sather says.

Sather appears to come to the same conclusion as most of us who look at the statistics and data and happen to also understand that the sun’s cycle plays a role in the weather on Earth. “The Earth is [also] moving into a more energetic region of space,” says Sather. “There’s a lot of things going on in our whole solar system because of that…we’re seeing weird things happen with the poles of Saturn, weird hexagonal shapes…storms are getting worse on all the planets.”

“Just because you deny man-made global warming, does NOT mean you are denying the Earth being polluted…this is a big one. One of those subconscious programmings we’ve undergone…these are two very different things,” Sather reminds everyone. He then says the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) “sucks” and they are “one of the biggest polluters there is.”

Sather continues to make the point that all of this propaganda designed to indoctrinate you into the “religion” of man-made climate change is done to enslave you with carbon emission taxes and control your very life. People have stopped asking “why.” Most just blindly accept what they are told without actually applying their own sense of logic to the information presented by the corporate mainstream media, aka, the government’s propaganda machine.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Florida Man Researched ISIS, Scouted Spot for Sniper Attack, Feds Say

Federal agents say a man who had researched the terrorist group ISIS — including materials on Islamic extremism and lone-wolf terrorism — scouted a spot in downtown Ocala to use in a sniper attack, according to a WFTV.com report.

The place Jonathan Beese scouted was atop the Ocala National Bank building, the report said.

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

Media Ignores Thwarted ISIS-Inspired High School Bombing

Alert students and cops thwart an ISIS-inspired bombing of a Utah high school, but the national media refuses to report on it. I’m going to pose some uncomfortable questions about constitutional rights.

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

Microsoft’s New Windows 10 Privacy Controls Should Avoid ‘Keylogger’ Concerns

Microsoft is once again tackling privacy concerns around Windows 10 today. The software giant is releasing a new test build of Windows 10 to Windows Insiders today that includes changes to the privacy controls for the operating system. While most privacy settings have been confined to a single screen with multiple options, Microsoft is testing a variety of ways that will soon change.

There have been some concerns that Windows 10 has a built-in “keylogger,” because the operating system uses typing data to improve autocompletion, next word prediction, and spelling correction. Microsoft’s upcoming spring update for Windows 10 will introduce a separate screen to enable improved inking and typing recognition, and allow users to opt-out of sending inking and typing data to Microsoft.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Mozilla Removes Individual Cookie Management in Firefox 60 From Preferences

The most recent version of Firefox Nightly, currently at version 60, comes with changes to Firefox’s cookie management. Mozilla merged cookie settings with site data in the web browser which impacts how you configure and manage cookie options.

If you run Firefox 59 or earlier, you can load about:preferences#privacy to manage privacy related settings in Firefox. If you set the history to “use custom settings for history” or “remember history”, you get an option manage cookie settings and to remove individual cookies from Firefox.

A click on the link or button opens a new browser window in which all set cookies are listed. You can use it to find set cookies, look up information, remove selected or all cookies…

Mozilla engineers changed this in recent versions of Firefox 60 (currently on the Nightly channel).

If you open the privacy section of about:preferences, you may notice the following:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Muslim Calls for Murder Increasing

In December 2017, four imams — at mosques in North Carolina, New Jersey and Texas — called for killing Jews. Two of the imams quoted from a hadith that says:

“The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him”.

Two other imams, respectively, asked Allah “to destroy the Zionists and their allies, and those who assist them” and “to wreak vengeance upon the plundering oppressors”.

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

North Alabama Man to Plead Guilty to Plotting to Help ISIS

MADISON COUNTY, Ala. — A North Alabama man says he’s ready to plead guilty to plotting to help ISIS.

Court documents show Aziz Sayyed will have a change of plea hearing set for tomorrow. Sayyed was arrested in Huntsville after authorities uncovered his bomb plot after he watched ISIS videos and met with people he understood to be ISIS members.

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

Prepare for War: Globalism, Socialism, And Communism vs. Freedom

History: It repeats itself and is consistently ignored before it does so. Ignored are the elements that lead up to the repeated event, although they blossom akin to flowers right before the eyes. One of the problems is doubting it, the “doubting” that the event is happening…is really happening. One of the elements that leads to that doubt is the event transpires almost imperceptibly, with such incremental slowness that it is not recognized as a single event that is happening.

In this case we are talking about the conversion of our society in the United States to full-blown dictatorship or a complete loss of rights guaranteed under the Constitution…such a loss that eventually leads to a dictatorship or a tyrannical, oppressive government. History shows us, and we ignore it.

The Founding Fathers have been degraded and ridiculed by the new society the media and their Communist masters are creating. Their mortal weaknesses are upheld at every chance in substitution for the enormity of the sacrifices they made to form the basis for our nation’s government. The Constitution of the United States of America took more than 11 years to create.

These Communists would have you believe that the Founding Fathers were a pack of illiterate morons who could not control their own lascivious appetites…who owned slaves and were elitists. These Communists have been infiltrating the United States for a hundred years…destroying the moral fabric of our society by destroying the family. The Communists infiltrated our government and camouflaged themselves with the names “Liberal” or “Progressive,” or some (such as Bernie Sanders) declaring softly, “I’m a Socialist.” The government is infested with Communists, plain and simple, and these Communist/Socialist traitors have denigrated our nation and sunk it into an abyss. Aided by their lackeys, such as the Cloward and Piven, Abbie Hoffman, Saul Alinsky, the Trumka’s and other union leaders…they further destroyed it by what they allowed. These Senators, Congressmen, Justices, and those in successive Presidential Administrations, bolstered by oligarchs and other magnates…what they did not foster or create, they allowed in the media and in Hollywood to be rammed into our eyes and ears.

These Communists have destroyed the family structure, the borders, the culture, the religious and social traditions, and the history that has given us identity and solidarity with one another.

The bottom line: J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy had it right…100% right.

“Globalism” is not simply international trade or commerce. Globalism is global governance. Governance is rule. Government is supposed to derive its powers from the consent of the governed…not by chicanery, lying, theft, or by bypassing the Constitution of the United States. Globalism is a “nice” way to phrase it…akin to a happy Kumbaya-singing globe of each different genotype holding hands with a smile in a conga line.

Hoover and McCarthy would have called globalism what it is: socialism on the “soft” side, and Communism on the concrete, reality side…

To complete the “fundamental transformation,” as it was termed by Obama, there must be mass unrest…civil unrest and potential racial strife and riots. The perceived differences between people are being exacerbated by the media, by the politicians, and by the socially-constructed brain patterns of the youth…dissenting for no reason except to disagree. With no motive other than the “causes” they have been herded and manipulated to uphold.

The greatest example of this was the NFL kneeling initiated by Colin Kaepernick…to protest injustice that did not even exist. The “test program” backfired, because the NFL and the powers that back them underestimated the populace…that still has enough nationalistic pride and care for the country that they wouldn’t tolerate it. Yes, every avenue is being tested…crafted to see how they will handle the population when the big goal is finally attempted…the most necessary item in the plans to destroy the United States.

They must have the guns.

They must. They cannot collapse the United States and subjugate her to the rest of the world…make her a part of the Communist One-World government until they have the guns. We are seeing this materialize. Look at what the President of the United States has said! That guns can be confiscated without due process of law, and in complete violation of the Constitution. The states are already doing it: with legislation, and by executive order…they’re going after the guns.

Read these, to learn what is happening, and what will happen again…from what has already happened before:

[Comment: Americans — never give up your 2nd amendment, for tyranny will surely follow. The Republic of the USA is all that stands between the public and tyranical globalists. If the 2nd amendment falls, the USA will fall to communist NWO, and the world will plunge into darkness. Best quote from the comments: “A Socialist is a patient Communist. A Communist is a impatient Socialist. A Progressive is a Communist with a mask.”]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Radical Leftists Want to Kill Climate Deniers

Liberals openly call for climate skeptics to be murdered.

Further proving how far gone the left is, they want to kill those that don’t agree with the lie of climate change.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Seattle Police Begin Nazi Style Gun Confiscation: No Laws Broken, No Warrant, No Charges

A man in Seattle has had his gun confiscated by police after breaking no laws. The police took his gun without a warrant and without pressing any charges. Tyranny has officially taken hold on American soil.

This sets a precedent that government can now forcefully take guns away from an individual without a crime being committed or an arrest being made and without a warrant. In the name of fear and political exploitation of anti-gun rhetoric, a citizen’s Second Amendment rights have been ripped away from him by the government.

The new “red flag” law, which has taken hold in other states already, allows the courts and law enforcement to take away guns from individuals they deem are dangerous and they’ve just begun the confiscation. A man living in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington became the first individual in the state to have his firearm confiscated without any formal arrest or charges. The man was not identified by authorities.

Neighbors complained that the man had been “staring” at people through storefront windows while wearing a holstered firearm. He was not brandishing his weapon by any account, and open carrying is legal in the area, so he was abiding by the law. Other residents also complained that the man’s open carrying made them feel “uncomfortable” and “unsafe.”

“He was roaming the hallways with a .25 caliber automatic,” said Tony Montana, a man who lives in the same apartment complex as the gun owner and a person without any reasonable gun knowledge. Handguns are semi-automatic.

These lousy complaints from neighbors allowed police to use the newly passed state law to confiscate the man’s firearm because the man apparently stared at others. Maybe there’s a ban on staring at others in Washington we are unaware of. Under the extreme risk protection orders — also referred to as “erpos” or “red flag laws” — police (government officials) are now allowed to violate a person’s Second and Fourth Amendment rights (which are basic fundamental human rights) and take their legally acquired personal property if they are tattled on by offended liberals.

Tyranny has now taken hold on American soil.

[Comment: Likely just looking, not “staring”.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Soros Chalks Up Another DA Win After Dropping Nearly $1 Million in Texas Race

George Soros has effectively purchased another district attorney’s seat.

The left-wing billionaire pumped almost $1 million into a Texas district attorney’s race against a Democratic DA who opposes sanctuary cities, according to campaign filings reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Soros’s preferred candidate, Joe Gonzales, upset incumbent Bexar County DA Nico LaHood in the Democratic primary Tuesday. LaHood conceded after Gonzales jumped up to a sizable lead as votes were counted.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

USA Would Win Trade War — FCA’s Marchionne

America imports more than it exports says CEO

(ANSA) — Geneva, March 7 — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) CEO Sergio Marchionne warned the EU against retaliating to the United States’ announcement it is imposing new tariffs on steel and aluminium, saying America would win a trade war. “Threatening tariffs against tariffs resolves absolutely nothing,” Marchionne told reporters after a meeting of European carmakers association ACEA in Geneva.

“If there were a tariffs war all the way till the end, America would win.

“All you have to so is look at the economic balance — they import more than they export”. The head of the Italian-American carmaker said FCA’s investments would not change but added that “there could be impacts on the maintenance of a base in America”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

VA Lawmaker’s Speech on Guns Offends Dems, Causes Them to Walk Out [Video]

A Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates has offended a lot of Democrats with his powerful speech on guns that quickly went viral, raking in over 13 million Facebook views since Friday. Nick Freitas finally hit the nail on the head and told gun grabbers the truth, much to their discontent.

The speech laid out the unfortunate history of the left in America. Desiring government control over their lives and the lives of others from the beginning was always designed to harm people, not help them. According to the Daily Wire, Freitas happened to be the man who finally just cut to the chase with Democrats.

“For several days now, some Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates have made public speeches comparing those of us who take our oath to the Constitution seriously, to include the 2nd Amendment, to Nazis and segregationists,” wrote the delegate on Facebook captioning his speech, which he dubbed as his “response” to such attacks.

“It’s really difficult to have an open and honest debate about this [… ] because members of this body are comparing members of [the Republican] side of the aisle to Nazis,” he said, adding that it was particularly offensive that GOP members were also compared to “segregationists.” Freitas continued saying, “It was not our party that supported slavery, that fought women’s suffrage, that rounded up tens of thousands of Asian Americans and put them in concentrations camps, that supported Jim Crow, that supported segregation, or supported mass resistance — that wasn’t our party, that was the Democrat Party,” he said. “I’d be really appreciative that every time you want to make a powerful point, you don’t project the sins, the atrocities, and the injustices the Democratic Party perpetrated on others onto us,” slammed the Republican.

[Comment: Better watch it before youtube bins it for “waycism.” ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Woman Arrested After Rally Against Controversial Professor Jordan Peterson

KINGSTON, Ont. — A woman in eastern Ontario is facing numerous charges after taking part in a protest against a lecture by a controversial Toronto professor.

Police say a 38-year-old woman was arrested near Queen’s University in Kingston Monday evening.

She’s charged with mischief, assaulting police, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and for carrying a concealed weapon.

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

Five Star Movement Look to Italy’s Left to Keep Far-Right Out of Power

ITALY’S anti-EU 5-Star Movement (M5S) is thought to be considering forming a coalition with the centre-left to keep the far-right out of power after the Italian election results failed to provided a clear majority to form a government.

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

George Soros Denies Trying to Interfere in Slovakian Politics After Journalist’s Murder

Prime Minister Robert Fico claims the controversial Hungarian influenced President Andrej Kiska before he made a speech calling for significant changes to the Slovakian government following the recent murders of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee.

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

Hungary: Neighbors See the Country in Positive Light

Two thirds sympathize with Budapest

(ANSA) — BELGRADE, 02 MAR — The great majority of citizens of Hungary’s neighboring countries has a positive opinion of Hungary, according to a survey of the Nezopont Institute. The survey was commissioned by the Charta XXI movement, which focuses on reconciliation in Central- and Eastern Europe. In average, 63 percent of interviewees in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria has a positive opinion of Hungary. The countries that have the most positive perception of Hungary are Bulgaria (85% of positive views), Slovakia (74%), the Czech Republic (73%), whereas in Romania only 57% of people interviewed for the poll expressed a positive view of Hungary, 39% a negative one. The survey revealed also that Hungarians had the most positive view of neighboring Austria (73%), the least favorable of Ukraine (23% positive, 43% negative), Serbia (32%) and Romania (35%).

(ANSA). The survey is based on the answers of 1,000 respondents in each country.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS Fanatics Urge Deranged Followers to Carry Out a Wave of Car Rammings and Stabbings in Spain as Brits Prepare for Summer Holidays

Intelligence experts are now warning that lone wolf attacks could be imminent.

ISIS propaganda group Muharir al-Ansar published the poster on social media encouraging ISIS followers to carry out jihad.

The post contains images of the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona and encouraged those without a “weapon” to use a vehicle or knife.

It reads: “If you don’t have a weapon, you have a truck or knife.”

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

Italy’s First Black Senator League Member

Nigerian-origin IT man Tony Iwobi, 62, immigration spokesman

(ANSA) — Milan, March 6 — Italy’s first black Senator is a member of the anti-migrant League, Nigerian-origin Toni Iwobi, now a Bergamo resident who has been in Matteo Salvini’s party for more than 20 years. Iwobi, 62, is an IT entrepreneur. He became a town councillor for the League at Spirano in 1995.

Since then he has been a committed activist and has become the party’s immigration and security chief, speaking regularly on Italian TV.

Iwobi has been in Italy for 38 years.

Iwobi led the League’s campaign on Italy’s immigration crisis, under the slogan “stop the invasion”.

Some 600,000 undocumented migrants have arrived in Italy from Libya since 2014, stoking fears and social tensions.

The emergency was a top campaign issue along with economic woes, even though the centre-left government managed to drastically cut arrivals thanks to deals in Libya.

Asked about Iwobi Tuesday, Salvini said “racism in Italy is only on the left”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Fontana Wins Lombardy Election With 49.7%

Centre-right candidate wins 20 points more than centre left Gori

(ANSA) — Milan, March 6 — Centre-right candidate Attilio Fontana is set to be the new governor of Lombardy after winning the election in the northern region with 49.74% of the vote, according to almost-definitve results with the count nearly finished. That gives him around 20 points more than the centre left’s Giorgio Gori, who has 29.09% of the vote. The 5-Star Movement’s Dario Violi got 17.36% and Onorio Rosati of the leftwing Free and Equal (LeU) group 1.93%. The count has been completed in all but 12 of the 9,227 voting sections.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Moroccan Gets 2 Years 4 Months for Preaching Terror

To be deported after serving term

(ANSA) — Milan, March 7 — A 35-year-old Moroccan man got two years and four months in jail in Milan Wednesday for instigation to and apology of terrorism. Omar Nmiki was arrested last March for publishing a dozen videos hailing ISIS on social media. Milan assizes judges also ruled that he should be deported once he has served his time.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy Envoy Won’t Take Part in Vienna Meet — Alfano

On double citizenship for German/Ladin speakers in Alto Adige

(ANSA) — Rome, March 7 — Italy’s ambassador to Austria will not take part in a meeting in Vienna later this month on Austria’s proposal to give double Italian and Austrian citizenship to residents of Alto Adige (South Tyrol) who speak German or Ladin, Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said Wednesday. Alfano said he had reiterated to Austrian counterpart Karin Kneissl in January that any discussion on the issue must be between Rome and Vienna and not also with Bolzano, which is an autonomous province of Italy.

Therefore, he said, Ambassador Sergio Barbanti will not take part in the March 23 meeting in Vienna.

He said Italy’s position against Austria’s arguments in defence of its double-citizenship proposal was well-known.

He said such arguments “clash with the high levels of safeguarding and developing minorities in Alto Adige, with the reality of bilateral relations, with the common membership of Italy and Austria in the European Union, and with international law”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Bomb Explodes Outside CasaPound Trento Office

Rudimentary device causes damage to entrance

(ANSA) — Trento, March 7 — Far-right party CasaPound said Wednesday that a rudimentary explosive went off outside its Trento branch overnight. It said the explosion damaged the entrance and the shutters of the venue. It said graffiti declaring “the only useful vote is always antifascism” was daubed on the wall.

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Italy: 90% PD Against Govt With M5S, Right — Orlando

Only Emiliano in favour

(ANSA) — Rome, March 7 — Some 90% of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) is against forming a coalition government either with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) or the centre right, Justice Minister Andrea Orlando, a PD bigwig, said Wednesday. Orlando said his “area” within the party, as well as the vast majority of the party, “has ruled out the possibility of a government with the 5 Stars, and with the centre right”.

Orlando said only Puglia Governor Michele Emiliano, who got 10% at a party congress, was in favour of joining the M5S in government.

“90% of the PD’s ruling group is against an alliance with the M5S.

Orlando added: “there’s no need for a a referendum in the PD.

“There’s already been a referendum,” he said, referring to Sunday’s general election. “We’re at 18%, only a point above (Matteo) Salvini’s League”.

Orlando added that the resignation of leader Matteo Renzi, pending the formation of a new government, had been “real” and after that the party would be run in a “collegial” way before picking a new leader.

Orlando reiterated later that “no alliance is possible” with the centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party of ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi and the anti-migrant, Euroskeptic League, or with the M5S.

He added: “Renzi must resign, the party statute says so”.

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Italy’s Elections Threaten Future of the European Union

The Five Star Movement, a political party skeptical of the merits of the European Union, finished first in Italy’s general elections on Sunday, with 33 percent of the vote. Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni’s Democratic Party finished far behind, at only 18 percent, after having scored 40 percent just four years ago. Another anti-immigrant, EU-skeptic party, The League, won enough votes for the two anti-EU parties to form a coalition government.

Coalition governments are the norm in Italy, as it is nearly impossible for one party to win a majority on its own in the country’s multi-party parliamentary system. But as Alex Newman reported in The New American the day after the elections, “The two common threads among the victors in Italy’s election are suspicion of the increasingly oppressive EU, as well as fierce opposition to mass Islamic immigration and open borders. Despite the results, though, establishment media organs continue to refer to the victors as ‘far right,’ inadvertently revealing the fact that most of the press — not just in Italy, but across the Western world — is on the far left of the political spectrum and way out of touch with every day people.”

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‘Keep Going Orbán!’: Farage Blasts EU for Sanctioning Poland and Hungary, Ignoring Catalonia Violence

Nigel Farage has urged Hungary and Poland to keep “rebelling” against and criticising the European Union (EU), as the bloc’s unelected leaders use authoritarian sanctions to suppress elected governments and their policies.

In an impassioned speech to the European Parliament, the MEP and Brexit leader accused the bloc of double standards by sanctioning nations with right-wing governments critical of the EU but ignoring “human rights” violation in pro-EU states.

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No Risk of Collapse for EU — Verhofstadt

Europe must reform itself for citizens

(ANSA) — Brussels, March 7 — European Parliament Brexit spokesman Guy Verhofstadt said Wednesday “I don’t think there is a risk of an EU collapse” after Brexit, the Italian general election and the situation in Poland. Two populist Euroskeptic parties, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the anti-migrant League, won the Italian election but do not have enough seats to form a majority. Verhofstadt said “my invitation is to reform Europe to meet the concerns of citizens and the challenges facing us.

He said “by nature I am an optimist and I think there is on the part of Europe a will to reform itself”.

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Priest to be Tried for Mistreating Disabled

In Piacenza

(ANSA) — Piacenza, March 7 — On Italian priest will got on trial next week for allegedly mistreating disabled people, judicial sources said Wednesday.

Piacenza priest Father Angelo Bertolotti, 60, was arrested in November on suspicion of maltreating disabled guests at a shelter he founded 30 years ago.

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Ryanair Threatens to Ground Flights and ‘Prove’ Brexit Voters Wrong, ‘No More Cheap Holidays’

The boss of Irish airline Ryanair attempted to wield corporate power to influence British politics Tuesday, threatening to ground flights to make voters “rethink” Brexit and prove that “everything will fundamentally change” when the UK leaves the bloc.

Michael O’Leary (pictured), the chief executive of Europe’s biggest airline, said he wanted to make the British think they were “no longer going to have cheap holidays” outside the European Union (EU), Travel Weekly reports, going out of his way to punish Brits for voting against his wishes.

The Irishman was seemingly backed by the boss of German carrier Lufthansa, who said it was a “good idea” to “use the industry” to “prove” British voters were wrong.

The bullying tactics are by no means out of character for O’Leary, who has long run his business on the principle of there being no such thing as bad publicity, calling his customers “stupid”, and saying of Germans they would “crawl bollock-naked over broken glass” to get cheap airline fares.

[Comment: Boycott Ryanair.]

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Steve Bannon Ignites Swiss With Speech on International Populist-Nationalism

Stephen K. Bannon took Zürich by storm Tuesday, addressing a sell-out crowd on the future of international populist nationalism, calling the movement “unstoppable” and “only at its beginning stages.”

Citing recent examples from Italy, Poland, Hungary, Austria and France, Mr. Bannon—former executive chairman for Breitbart News and chief strategist for U.S. President Donald Trump—painted a phenomenon that is fueled by a desire to retake national sovereignty at the grass roots level.

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UK Conspiracy of Silence — Rape Gangs Exposed — Truth Teller’s Twitter Account Shut Down

Apparently, Twitter believes hiding the truth is moral

For MANY years, law enforcement in the UK has studiously ignored and rejected young girls’ claims of serial rape by gangs.

These gangs “groom” the girls with drugs and alcohol — and eventually physical coercion. Sometimes the girls are trafficked to other locations in the country where they are preyed on and raped.

A major reason the police have been sweeping these crimes under the rug? Political correctness. Fear of being labeled racist. Because…

Well, here is what just happened to Tommy Robinson, as Breitbart reports:…

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What the Sweden Democrats Party Couldn’t, Or Wouldn’t Do, Perhaps the New Anti-Islamization “Alternative for Sweden” (AfS) Party Will

New patriotic Swedish party wants a full ban on Muslim immigration as well as an active deportation policy for illegal and criminal Muslim migrants.

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Lebanon: Palestinian Factions Clash at Shatila Camp

‘At least one dead’. Factions in charge of security

(ANSAmed) — BEIRUT, MARCH 7 — At least one person has died and two were injured in gunfire on Wednesday afternoon at the Palestinian camp of Shatila, in the southern outskirts of Beirut, according to Lebanese security sources quoted by local media.

The clashes, in which eye witnesses said RPG rockets were used, occurred between militants from Al Fatah and rival group Al Saaiqa. The website of Lebanese newspaper Daily Star reported that the murdered militant is the brother of the head of the local Al Fatah office.

The causes of the gunfire are still unclear. A resident said that the clashes lasted for about an hour and ended at sunset.

Under an agreement between Lebanese and Palestinian authorities, Beirut’s army doesn’t walk into the 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, leaving Palestinian factions in charge of security.

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President Trump, Tell Terror-Supporting Qatar it Can Kiss Our US Air Base Goodbye

By Mitchell Bard

The tiny Persian Gulf nation of Qatar — one of the wealthiest countries in the world on a per capita basis, thanks to enormous oil and natural gas reserves — has become one of the most harmful influences in the Middle East and a key supporter of terrorist groups.

No one expects Qatar to launch a military attack of its own on any country. Located on a peninsula jutting out of Saudi Arabia, it is slightly smaller than Connecticut and has a population of only about 2.3 million.

But Qatar is endangering America’s Arab allies and our ally Israel by bankrolling terrorists, inciting violence and hatred through its state-funded Al Jazeera TV network, and collaborating with the far more powerful and virulently anti-American Islamic Republic of Iran.

Because Qatar poses such a danger to the region, Saudi Araba and its Persian Gulf allies have blockaded the country since June. They have closed Qatar’s border with Saudi Arabia and prevented many planes and cargo ships from landing and docking in Qatar…

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The Middle East: The Current Score

by Srdja Trifkovic

“Peace in the Middle East” is like the unicorn: we can envisage the beast, paint it in detail even, but we can’t groom a living specimen. The problem transcends geopolitics and ideology, it is also metaphysical. The people inhabiting the region are vying for limited resources, such as land and water. In addition, many also see themselves (and their rivals) as actors in a metahistorical drama preordained by an authority higher than themselves. After two weeks in the region’s still-diverse Levantine microcosm, I can report that my interlocutors of different faiths and political persuasions agree on at least one point: that there will be no lasting peace in our lifetime.

The most pressing immediate question for Lebanon is whether Israel is preparing for a new incursion into the majority-Shia south of the country, in order to neutralize the network of Hezbollah bases and training facilities. During my visit to the guerrilla group’s museum complex and its subterranean former command center at Mt. Mleeta, my guide—a fluent English speaker—insisted that the outcome of any such operation would be the same in 2018 as it was in 2006. “Israeli forces would have to withdraw yet again without accomplishing their objective,” he said. “We are now even better armed and trained than 12 years ago, and we also have thousands of hardened veterans from the battlefields in Syria.”

The air of self-confidence is more than bravado for foreign visitors. Two weeks before my visit, Bashar’s government forces downed an Israeli F-16 fighter which attacked a Hezbollah supply convoy in Syria. “They can no longer operate with impunity,” my guide said; “the old rules no longer apply.” He and others say that the group has a network of bases, outposts and rapid deployment units, both in southern Lebanon and all over Syria, which are capable of absorbing a major attack. They are also said to possess new precision-guided surface-to-surface missiles, based on the Iranian models, which can be used to strike targets deep inside Israel in retaliation for an attack. In addition to actively fighting Sunni jihadists in Syria, the group has also helped train local militias loyal to the Damascus government, and it retains advisors and operations experts embedded in those units. On balance, its decentralized structure would make an Israeli “decapitation strike” difficult to envisage; and another round of costly occupation would be hard for the beleaguered Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sell at home.

Netanyahu claims that Iran’s overall behavior in the Middle East—notably Tehran’s support for the Bashar regime and for the embattled Shi’ites in Yemen—is chronically destabilizing and must be stopped. Yet as most Lebanese are well aware, the United States has supported some of the most ghastly Sunni jihadist groups for years, most notably in Syria. America’s Saudi “allies” and Turkey had groomed the Islamic State from its early days, with Washington’s tacit approval. In fact the only people who would warmly welcome a new U.S. Middle Eastern adventure, except for Israel, are the Sunni jihadists. Virtually all Christians and Shiites I’ve spoken to think that war against Iran would be a catastrophic blunder—that the price would be prohibitive and long-term consequences incalculable—but with an air of resignation they warn that in the years to come America will not set herself free from the need to pander to Saudi whims. They see a consistent American bias in favor of the Sunni Muslim party in virtually every Middle Eastern conflict which pits them against Christians or Shiites.

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Turkey, Russia to Attend Joint Planning Meeting in Moscow

Iranian foreign minister to meet in Astana on Syria

(ANSAmed) — MOSCOW, MARCH 2 — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will participate in a meeting of the Joint Group for Strategic Planning in Moscow on March 14, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

“The parties will focus particular attention on the fight against international terrorism, efforts to stabilise the situation in Syria, and ways to find a political solution in light of the results of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Sochi,” Zakharova said.

Two days later, on March 16, Iranian Foreign Minister Javaz Zarif will participate in a meeting in Astana, where Iran participated with Russia and Turkey in building the Astana talks for a solution to the Syrian conflict, according to Russia’s charge d’affaires in Kazakhstan, Aleksandr Musienko, cited by Interfax news agency.

“In this context the foreign minister of Kazakhstan has great hopes that the humanitarian problems Syria is facing can be resolved,” Musienko said.

“Prisoner exchanges, freedom for hostages, access to essential goods and services, such as food, the possibility to rehabilitate people: Russia is doing everything possible to this end,” he said.

“The process is taking place with our Iranian and Turkish partners,” he said.

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Kremlin Wants Italy to be Good Partner After Vote

Putin’s spokesman says elections are internal matter

(ANSA) — Moscow, March 6 — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that “it is in our interest that Italy remains a good partner of ours” following Sunday’s general election. He added that the election was “an internal matter”. The Italian people have “the sovereign right to vote for the parties in which they see the future of their country,” he added.

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Russia Detains 5 is Recruiters in Dagestan

MOSCOW, March 6 (Xinhua) — Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday it had detained five people trying to recruit for the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in the country’s Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus region.

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Indonesian Islamic University Bans Burqas on Campus

JAKARTA (Reuters) — An Indonesian state Islamic university faced criticism from Muslim groups and activists on Wednesday after it banned female students from wearing full-face veils citing fears over the spread of radical ideology on the campus.

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Passenger Stripped Naked and Watched Porn on His Laptop Before Attacking a Stewardess During a Flight From Malaysia

Shortly after the Malindo Air flight departed from Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, the 20-year-old Bangladeshi reportedly took his clothes off and started watching pornography on his laptop.

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‘We Are Cutting the Throat of Whiteness’: South Africa Politician Vows to Target White Mayor as He Praises Plan to Hand Land to Black People and Vows: ‘Angry White People Can Go to Hell’

Julius Malema, who leads South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters, said he wanted to ‘remove’ Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip.

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Afghan Migrant Arrested Following Knife Attack That Wounded Four in Vienna

Police in Vienna have arrested an Afghan migrant after four people were stabbed in the second district of Vienna in two separate incidents, although police are not confirming the man is a suspect in both.

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Australia’s Multiculturalism Model is ‘Failing’ — With New Figures Showing 25% of Some Immigrant Groups Can’t Speak English at All

Alan Tudge has also flagged the idea of toughening English-language tests and ensuring new arrivals show a commitment to Australia’s democratic and liberal values.

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Exclusive: Tiny Irish Town Taking Hundreds of Migrants Had No Say, Locals Fear Being Called Racist

A resident of a tiny Irish town having its population increased by a third by a new migrant centre has said Ireland has become a “slave state” of the European Union (EU) and its immigration policies, leaving locals helpless.

“We don’t know where these people are going to be from. They won’t tell us what countries they’re from. What religion they’re from,” said Michael Walsh.

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Hungarian Minister: Vienna is Increasingly Crime-Ridden Since Migrants Began Living There

Janos Lazar, Chief of Staff of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, posted a controversial video about Austria’s capital on his Facebook. He states that “immigrant communities have completely changed the cityscape” and “Vienna has become a worse place because of refugees”.

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Iraqi Who Arrived in UK as ‘Child Refugee’ Built Parsons Green Bomb to Cause ‘Maximum Harm and Carnage’

An Iraqi asylum seeker, who illegally entered the UK in the back of a lorry when he was 16, packed a bomb with knives, nails, and bolts to cause “maximum harm and carnage”, a court has heard.

Ahmed Hassan, 18, is accused of attempted murder and causing an explosion likely to endanger life for the September 2017 Parsons Green Tube Station attack when a device stuffed with shrapnel and the chemical explosive TATP (triacetate triperoxide) partially detonated in a train carriage, injuring 30 people.

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Kamala Harris: Trying to Force California to Obey Immigration Law is ‘Bullying’

Yesterday, Dan told about Libby Schaaf, Oakland CA’s Democrat mayor who decided to help criminals evade arrest and prosecution. By warning illegals of an impending ICE raid, Schaaf aided 800 illegals — including violent offenders — as they escaped the long arm of immigration law. Sadly, this was not surprising — nor was it anything new. It was just the latest in a long line of moves made by California liberals in pursuit of their open-borders fantasy.

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New Patriotic Swedish Party Wants Full Immigration Stop and Active Return Policy

Gustav Kasselstrand, the former chair of the Sweden Democratic Youth organization, has formed a new political party called “Alternative for Sweden” (AfS). The formation of the party is in time for Sweden’s general elections that will take place on September 9, Expressen reports.

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NYT Admits ‘Trump is Right’ About Grenade & AK-47 Attacks in Sweden

As we detailed earlier, in the latest installment of our focus on Sweden, the New York Times diverted from the establishment media playbook, publishing an astonishing report detailing Sweden’s increasing problem with immigrant gangs using hand grenades and Kalashnikovs in crime sprees across the country — more than a year after the dying liberal paper scolded President Trump for bringing awareness to the issue.

The NYT — which titled the weekend piece “Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class,” uncovers the troubling truth of what the mainstream media was not permitted to share with the rest of the world for the past year: weapons of war ended up in the hands of refugee gangs on the streets of Sweden.

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Poland Indicts Moroccan Migrant Over Alleged Islamic State Activity

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors say they have indicted a Moroccan man for alleged participation in the Islamic State group, the first such case in Poland.

The national prosecutor’s office said Wednesday the man, identified only as Mourad T., was active in Poland, some other European Union countries, Serbia and Turkey from December 2014 until his arrest in southern Poland in September 2016.

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Sri Lankan Migrants Scalp Man and Cut Off His Arm in Paris Restaurant

In what has been described as a dispute between rival Sri Lankan migrants, two men attacked another with a machete, scalping him and cutting off his arm in a Paris restaurant.

The attack occurred on Monday evening at a restaurant in the 10th arrondissement of the city not far from the heavily migrant populated area of La Chapelle in northern Paris, broadcaster RTL reports.

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Sweden Democrats Refute PM’s ‘No Go Zone’ Denial as ‘Fake News’

The leader of the populist Sweden Democrats has issued a scathing rebuke to the country’s Prime Minister following a press conference with President Trump in the White House today.

Answering a question about the rise of migrant crime and no go zones, Prime Minister Stefan Loefven told the world: “…it is not like you have these ‘no go zones’. We have our share of domestic challenges no doubt about that”.

But Jimmie Akesson — leader of the insurgent Sweden Democrats — told Breitbart London this evening:

The Prime Minister’s statement is simply not true. We have re-occurring incidences of cancelled bus lines in fear of entering certain immigrant heavy areas, frequent attacks on emergency vehicles, oftentimes lured in there by fake 911 calls for the sole purpose of attacking the emergency personnel, and even reluctance in simple services such as delivering mail or investigating illegal television/cable services. In some areas self-appointed sharia police patrol the streets enforcing dress-code rules and proper Islamic behaviours.

Akesson added: “The police themselves have confirmed the existence of no go zones for the entire world to see. The statements of the Prime Minister is nothing short of a classic example of fake news.”

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Swedish Municipalities May be Forced to Raise Taxes to Pay for Mass Migration

A report from the Swedish National Institute of Economic Research claims that municipalities across the country may be forced to raise taxes to pay for the recent population growth fueled by mass migration.

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Facebook Asks Users if They Mind Pedophiles Soliciting Sexual Pics of Minors

Calling the police is not an option, according to survey

Facebook reportedly asked certain users how it should handle a situation where a pedophile is soliciting a minor for explicit images, but didn’t provide calling the police as a possible reaction.

“There is a wide range of topics and behaviors that appear on Facebook,” the initial prompt reads. “In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebook’s policies, how would you handle the following: a private message in which an adult man asks a 14-year-old girl for sexual pictures.”

First, Facebook asks if such content should be allowed and if people should be allowed to see it. Second, the tech giant asks who should determine the rules behind such a decision: purely Facebook, the firm “with advice from external experts,” purely external experts, or user voting.

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Leftists Declare ‘Merry Christmas’ An Islamophobic Microaggression

On last night’s show, guest-host David Menzies reported on the various definitions of “Islamophobia” being cooked-up by virtue-signaling groups.

Last year the Liberals passed M-103, a motion that condemned “Islamophobia” without actually defining what that entails. Since then, Leftists and Muslim organizations have been pushing dangerous definitions that threaten free speech.

WATCH my video to see how saying ‘Merry Christmas’ could be construed as “Islamophobic”.

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No Protection for Babies or Cops in Twitter Land

Pathologically hypocritical Twitter executives see fit to warn users about pictures of unborn babies as “potentially sensitive media”, but allow free range to ex-professor cop hater Michael Isaacson, who calls the 18 officers killed thus far in 2018: “pig death stats”.

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DTube is More Than a YouTube Alternative

YouTube is the world’s largest video hosting platform but will it keep its position or will it drop in user popularity? And if it does, which service will pick the number one spot then?

DTube is a decentralized video platform that utilizes the Blockchain and P2P technology. The first thing that I noticed when I visited the start page of the platform was that it listed Dollar amounts underneath each video.

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10 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/7/2018

  1. The Irish that voted yes to the Lisbon treaty deserve this and more. They should be made to pay the relocation costs of their neighbours that voted against it.

    • So many of the Irish, with diplomas all over, are eejits. All the colleens do is call anyone who disagrees with them a xenophobe.

    • The Irish voted against the Lisbon Treaty but the ruling elite told them to keep voting until they got it right. Some countries, e.g., Britain, were promised a vote but didn’t get it. Their elites made the decision for them.

    • Have the new rich Irish forgotten their 16th century experience with forced settlement of British refugees?In time I imagine the outcome will have similarities? A vague echo of Cromwell’s, “To Hell or to Connaught”? Have ye no imagination lads?

  2. FiveStar wants to form a government with the larges center-left party, many of whose members reject the idea. Can you say CDU and SPD?

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