17 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/14/2018”

1. “Swedes Don’t Want to be Teachers Anymore Due to Dangerous School Environments”

   Yes, it’s true: I know a few Swedish 6-year-olds and they are being terrorized in the Kindergarten by a little black African. And I mean Terrorized!

   The sad thing is: The teachers, and the mothers – all of them “Femminists™” – they absolutely and completely refuse to accept physical punishments. Not only are physical punishments illegal, but they also refuse to accept that it might work well on the 8-year-old stupid violent African. Ultimately, the Swedish children are left unprotected, and when we – Czechs – voice our concern, all Swedes are calling us racists and backwards…

   • Barn Swallow: call me an old-fashioned “liberal’, but I believe the era of physical chastisement of small children should have gone, and good riddance. Their parents, however, should be held responsible.

     • I disagree. There is a difference between spanking and beating, and if a parent objects to their little saint being disciplined, then they should be called down to the school to do the disciplining themselves.

       Many children are intelligent enough to learn to behave after only a few spankings, but some are only capable of learning proper behavior repeatedly through their buttocks. Swedes seem to be discovering belatedly that patient reasoning does not work with low-IQ Middle East and African culture enrichers. Whether they will make the jump to maintaining order in the classroom in a language such savages are capable of understanding remains to be seen…

       • I never objected to my children being disciplined for the infraction of school rules, but fortunately, I lived in states where physical discipline by school authorities was illegal.

         I remember one child I knew who lived in public housing. His family was dysfunctional and he was somewhat autistic. Would go mute when scared.

         He was aged 10 or so when he encountered a school principal who went off the deep end because of the kid’s silence. He decided to knock this boy around the room until he spoke. The child won…but at what cost?

         And that was in lovely, liberal Charlottesville where there is a two-tier educational system: one for the underclass, one for the middle class.

         The boy was viewed as anything but saintly by anyone. But he did close down when he thought he was being treated unfairly.

     • Mark, I disagree, although I do agree that there is a very thin line to walk on, and as a consequence many people hate physical punishments because they were often unfair. However, right time and right place, good spanking can be the best thing that can happen to the child. One time punishment without any further consequences is, I believe, much better than psycho terror for years to come.

       And, I also trust the Bible: He who spares his rod hates his son. There is a reason why bastard is a pejorative, or why wildlings are wild…

       • What is the point of discipline for children? To make “disciples of” whatever the family values are. Hitting anyone smaller than you sends a louder message than all the lectures that go with it.

         Actions have consequences, including the actions of physical punishment of others. It’s the lazy way to discipline. The term “good spanking” is an oxymoron.

         There is a choice between thoughtful remediation of a child’s behavior and “psycho terror for years to come”. Dial down the rhetoric, please.

         • “Hitting anyone smaller than you sends a louder message than all the lectures that go with it.”

           But that is neither spanking nor discipline. Spankings incorporated into the disciplinary toolbox of the parent cannot be construed as simply the larger person hitting any person in the house that is smaller than them.

           I think the consequences of Sweden’s spanking bans are bearing fruit in a nation full of people afraid to discipline any wrongdoer.

         • I agree that Sweden’s spanking bans are detrimental, but still don’t believe in “spanking” as good form in child rearing. The toolbox needs fewer physical “tools”.

           Sweden’s ban is harmful because it interferes directly with the crucial moral authority of the parent. That is mortally dangerous to families.

           Spanking doesn’t work in the long run – not if one’s aim is a strong and compassionate adult. However, it’s not the worst thing a parent can do to a kid. The worst thing – and I see it frequently – is a parent whose child is tired, hungry, cranky, yanking them by the arm and saying, “come on, now, or I’ll leave you here”. The fear of abandonment becomes hard-wired into the kid at that point.

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnhI2Uw1rBY
   Several positive seconds from the life of St. Petersburg.
   Angel against the migrant.

3. The anti-Christian hatred inside the New Yorker Magazine is chilling. The chubby cardinal of NY should be waddling down to buy a sandwich to support Chik-fila. Don’t hold your breath for him to stand up to this vile intolerance.

4. “Donald Trump declared “Mission accomplished” after launching air strikes against the Assad regime in Syria.” His declaration was horse manure.

   The strikes were symbolic. which means Russia’s threat to respond worked – the US essentially backed down. Trump hugely damaged himself politically. He lied and lied and he will not get re-elected. You don’t need a course in logic, which high schools no longer teach, it’s easy to see he is a liar, it is so obvious. He read his teleprompter speech like a hostage. Trump in effect joined the globalists, and they are winning.

   This from a country that burned its own women and children in Waco, Texas. I am so saddened and wearied by this. Truly astonishing.

   • I’ll take just one of your assertions:

     The strikes were symbolic. which means Russia’s threat to respond worked – the US essentially backed down.

     The Allied’s strikes were aimed at – and hit – Assad’s chemical weapon infrastructure. But the fog of war was already there in Syria before the U.S., Britain, and France deepened it. From Belmont Club:

     […]

     The US-led strike on Assad’s chemical weapons facilities was probably more about the Salisbury [poisoning] than Syria. About the need to draw a line somewhere because it had never been drawn before. In many ways, the strike was an attempt to make amends for years of policy inaction that emboldened Putin until, perhaps without realizing it, he went too far. The Kremlin strongman refined his hybrid warfare tactics against the training set of Obama/Clinton and may have been genuinely shocked when the tactics which once served him so well have suddenly stopped working.It is as if America suddenly awoke in the Big Cold War Casino, with no memory of how it got there and a two-week growth of Access Hollywood beard on its face.

     […]

     If there’s any silver lining it is that the Western response has converted Putin’s “hybrid warfare” into an open dispute. It can no longer skulk like a U-boat in the depths of ambiguity; in green men, front organizations, in swarms of trolls. The shock of recent events has forced it to the surface, where all the cards are on the table. The sight may be frightening to the public but better that the common man can see it than where it could not.

     Yet the drama of recent days should not obscure the fact that war — hybrid or otherwise — is essentially a defensive instrument in the long conflict against Putin. It can contain but it cannot defeat a nuclear power. War, in this case, is but a shield. It is economics which is the sword. If Putin falls it will not be to missiles but to gas prices.

     Unfortunately, the Western energy sword is bent. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writing in Australian Financial Review notes that the “EU turns blind eye to Russian stranglehold over European gas supplies”.

     The investigation leaves no doubt that Germany has been enjoying a sweetheart deal with Gazprom, gaining a competitive advantage in gas costs at the expense of fellow EU economies and leaving front-line states at the mercy of Moscow’s strong-arm tactics.

     A leaked document from the European Commission paints an extraordinary picture of predatory behaviour, with Gazprom acting as an enforcement arm of Russian foreign policy. Bulgaria was treated almost like a colony, while Poland was forced to pay exorbitant prices for imported flows of pipeline gas from Siberia.

     Tim Daiss in Oil Price amplifies the European ambiguity. “In a statement that is sure to provoke Russian backlash, while also sending a strong message to both Moscow and European energy markets, Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry said on Thursday before the Senate Armed Services committee that moving U.S. energy supplies into Eastern Europe is one of the more powerful ways to contain Russian influence. … However, Perry’s message may not be as welcome as he would like in Europe. Though EU members, including an increasingly alarmed Germany, appear to be waking up to Russian influence and blatant geopolitical maneuvering, many in the EU are still equally as cautious over American motives to export its liquefied natural gas (LNG) to European markets.”

     If Congress really wanted a strategy that would work it would be to contain Russia only as necessary with measured force but principally rely on lower oil prices to bring the Kremlin down. Unfortunately, it will only be days before we are back to the news cycle of scandal and social justice. The really significant collusion is occurring where Mueller will never look: in the self-interested policies of members of the Western alliance itself. It is in the billions of dollars of gas sales, not a few hundred thousand spent on Facebook that the problem lies.

     Some nations really don’t want to rock the boat with Putin although they don’t like nerve gas warfare either. From time to time they find themselves in a pinch and require America to provide relief. But although the actions of the United States might square the circle periodically, the effect will only be temporary.

     https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/sword-and-shield/

     I also think you’re mistaken about the effect on those who voted for Trump. They like the fact that the WMD infrastructure in Syria is gone.

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     You are entitled to a reply to Belmont Club’s assertions. But please omit the name-calling and confine your response to what this strategy means. Please source your assertions – the NYT and Washington Post don’t count.

     • @Dympha

       No contest. My comments on Trump are sometimes emotional and biased. It’s difficult not to be fed up, given the surrender of all rational thought, the non-stop accusations by Western leaders and media that pass their propaganda on to an unawares and programmed public, where indoctrination is thick and deep. The mostly left-leaning press get just about everything wrong about Russia. Russia is a convenient scapegoat and a distraction of America’s and Europe’s fatal flaws, both with mob-ruled democracies, both turning into collectivist totalitarian police-surveillance states. America is no longer a Republic and Europe is being run by the heirs of Adolf Hitler.

       I am not a Putin fan even though I have travelled to Russia (Georgia) have long held business ties with the Russians, and studied its history, so my perspective is certainly “biased”. I don’t believe I do any more name calling than some at GoV. The old Trump is gone. I sincerely believe Trump is a liar simply because he has no choice. He is being held hostage in some way or other, they’ve got something on him or he is in way over his head and his courage has failed– but I can’t believe he’s that stupid.

       He knows there was no evidence for the Skripal attack on a former spy (it was not a murder attempt on Mary Poppins) and what about the hundreds of deaths from the Saudi attacks on Yemen? Silence.) and none for the latest chemical attack in Syria. Trump is supposed to know that ISIS has a history of using chemical attacks 49 times, and they even boasted about it with videos. Yet no Western media questions this obvious and problematic fact, that the ISIS created by the Americans may have something to do with it.

       But what stands out most in your response is this statement: “The Allied’s strikes were aimed at – and hit – Assad’s chemical weapon infrastructure”. What chemical weapons infrastructure? Where is your evidence? The international authority on this had already declared them destroyed. Now with the bombing all “evidence” will be destroyed, how convenient, because there was no evidence to begin with.

       By bombing Syria Trump is doing exactly what a good globalist dreams of; destroying nations, creating chaos as a distraction for a larger plan of which Trump is only a small actor. My main sources are many; historians, journals, publications like True Publica, Russia-Insider, even globalist publicatipons, and U.N. and EU propaganda sources for perspective… dozens of alternative news site, and anecdotal “evidence” from Russian citizens. None of it is perfect but it’s never the NYT or the Washington Post. That’s an insult.

       • I repeat: that precise bombing destroyed nothing but the chemical plants’ infrastructure. It was not an attack on people. The fact that warning was given is shown by the Russians’ moving all their ships out of port, their planes, and their personnel, the day before the attack. Russia’s materiel is old and clunky; they can’t afford to lose any of it.

5. I hate the news. I force myself to watch it but I do sometimes wonder why. I have enough problems of my own that I really don’t need this.

6. I’ll try to give more cheery tips to the news feed.

   • 🙂

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