Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/17/2018

The Croatian government has warned the European Union that 60,000 new migrants are on the verge of breaking into Europe. The new wave of migrants will reportedly follow a route from Greece through Albania, Montenegro, and Bosnia to Croatia and points north.

In other news, Luigi Di Maio of the 5-Star Movement and Matteo Salvini of the Lega Nord have come to an agreement on a new coalition government for Italy. The remaining issue to be decided is who will become prime minister.

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Financial Crisis
» Dollar Collapse Coming: EU to Ditch the US Dollar in Payments for Iranian Oil
 
USA
» Aliso Viejo Explosion: Ex-Boyfriend Arrested After Destructive Device Found at Long Beach Home
» Apple CEO Uses Commencement Speech to Praise Student Gun Control Activists
» Conservatives in an Uproar After Twitter Deploys Draconian Shadowban Filter
» George Soros-Linked Think Tank Partnering With Facebook
» Hartford Officer Recovering After Stabbing; Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder
» How Not to Get Shot by a Soldier
» IG Horowitz Finds FBI, DOJ Broke Law in Clinton Probe, Refers to Prosecutor for Criminal Charges
» Let’s Stop Calling it Liberalism
» Minnesota Somalis: You’re Old and We Are Taking Over
» Rigged? Circuit Judge Says Ballots Were Illegally Destroyed in Wasserman Schultz’ House Race
» Senate Confirms Gina Haspel to Head CIA
» US Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low: What’s Behind the Decline?
 
Canada
» ‘A Very Critical Clash of Cultures’: Plea Deal Over Honour Killing Threats Saves Syrian Couple From Deportation
» White Identity Politics is Enshrined in Canada’s Constitution
 
Europe and the EU
» ‘Call Me Equinor’: Statoil Changes Name
» Geert Wilders Appeals 2016 Discrimination Conviction
» Italy: M5S and League Close to Final Deal, But PM ‘Not Decided Yet’
» Macron Announces He Will Launch Islamic Reformation in France, Starting After Ramadan
» New Catalan Leader Shuns King and Constitution at Swearing-in Ceremony
» Poland Stepping up Spending on Humanitarian Aid: Official
» Sweden: Stockholm Trains at Standstill After Track Fire
» Swiss Police Arrest Man in Deadpool Costume
» ‘The Sculptor Voted Le Pen’: Macron Waxwork Mercilessly Mocked Online
» UK Terror Threat to See Rural Police ‘Routinely Armed’ For First Time
» UK: MI5 Boss: Radical Islamic Terror Threat ‘Shows No Sign of Abating’, 25 Plots Foiled Since 2013
» UK: Sheffield’s New Muslim Lord Mayor: ‘I Wouldn’t Even Do a Toast to the Queen’
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Gaza’s Miseries Have Palestinian Authors
 
Middle East
» The Rise of Israel in the Region
» Years After Infowars Broke Story, Fox News Breaks Down How Obama/Hillary Armed ISIS
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘Enjoy the Threesome!’ Waleed Aly Makes a Shock Exit From the Project… As Co-Host Carrie Bickmore Makes Another X-Rated Joke Live on Air
 
Latin America
» Venezuelan Government Seizes Kellogg’s Factory After Closure: A Recipe for Failure
 
Immigration
» 9-Year-Old Migrant Boy Threatens Austrian Children With Knife: “My Job is to Kill People”
» Croatia Warns 60,000 Migrants Ready to Break Through Into European Union
» EU Commission: ‘Europe Will Never be a Fortress’, Mass Migration ‘Here to Stay’
» French Seaside Town Residents Concerned Migrants Scaring Off Tourist Business
» Greece: Migrants Set Detention Centre Alight During Protest — it’s a ‘Miracle’ Nobody Died
» Hungary’s Orban is Right About Border Control — Professor Francis Fukuyama
» New Study: 4 Million Brits Battling Migrants for Jobs
» President Trump Should Ignore the DACA Ruling
» Report: Four Million Brits Can’t Get Work, ‘Virtually Unlimited Pool’ Of EU Migrants
» Sweden: Organised Criminals Recruiting ‘Child’ Migrants for ‘Youth Army’
» Swedish Woman Murdered by Deported Migrant Who Returned Unchecked
» UN Paints Sweden as a “Racist” Inferno Where Immigrants Face “Painful Racism”
» Video: Did Trump Really Call Immigrants “Animals”?
» Viktor Orban: We Help Refugees in Their Home Countries Instead of Bringing the Trouble Here
» While Germany Spends 93 Billion on Asylum Seekers, Its Pensioners Are Increasingly Poor
 
Culture Wars
» 5 Reasons Why the 2018 Grammys Were a Catastrophic Failure
» Are Google and YouTube Blocking Searches for Red Pill Videos?
 
General
» Global Elitists Are Not Human
 

Dollar Collapse Coming: EU to Ditch the US Dollar in Payments for Iranian Oil

The dollar’s collapse is nearing. The European Union is planning to switch its payments to the Euro for its oil purchases from Iran, eliminating United States dollar transactions.

Just one more nail to the US dollar’s coffin. Its collapse is all but imminent at this point. The EU has successfully found a way to scoff at potential future sanctions on Iran by openly defying the US; and as an “added bonus,” they’ve helped seal the dollar’s fate. According to RT, a diplomatic source with the EU has told a news outlet of the decision. “I’m privy to the information that the EU is going to shift from dollar to euro to pay for crude from Iran,” said the diplomatic source.

Brussels has been at odds with Washington over the US’s decision to withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, which was reached during the administration of Barack Obama. President Donald Trump has pledged to re-impose sanctions against the Islamic Republic as soon as he is able to do so. The Trump administration also has had plans to topple the current regime in Iran, according to leaked documents, and it looks like they’ve just given themselves the go-ahead:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Aliso Viejo Explosion: Ex-Boyfriend Arrested After Destructive Device Found at Long Beach Home

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) — A 59-year-old man has been arrested amid an investigation into an explosion that killed a woman at a spa in Aliso Viejo, authorities announced Thursday.

Long Beach resident Stephen Beal was taken into custody Wednesday evening on suspicion of being in possession of an unregistered destructive device, according to a statement released on behalf of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

“Mr. Beal is not being charged in connection with the explosion,” which occurred Tuesday, the news release said. Three other people were injured in the blast — two who are expected to survive after surgery and a third person who was treated at the scene.

“We do not believe this was an accident,” said Paul Delacourt, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s field office in Los Angeles. “Although the damage was extensive, there are some components that we have located at the scene of the explosion that are inconsistent with what one might expect to find at this business.”

Officials believe the explosion that killed a 48-year-old woman in Aliso Viejo was no accident, and that the blast came from a device delivered to the location.

Investigators said a device was found when a search warrant was served at Beal’s home. They did not describe it in detail.

Neighbors described Beal as an ex-boyfriend of Ildiko Krajnyak-Vestil, the 48-year-old Trabuco Canyon resident and spa owner who was killed in the blast. They also said Beal was a hobbyist who built model rockets…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Apple CEO Uses Commencement Speech to Praise Student Gun Control Activists

Apple CEO Tim Cook used part of his commencement speech at Duke University to praise student gun control activists from Parkland while deriding what he called an “epidemic of gun violence.”

Bloomberg reported that Cook called on the Duke graduates to be “fearless.” He emphasized it by saying, “Fearless like the students of Parkland, Florida, who refuse to be silent about the epidemic of gun violence and have rallied millions to their cause.”

Cook overlooked the fact that student gun control activists organized a March 24 gun control march in Washington, DC, and despite all the publicity and celebrity support, CBS News reported the turnout was less than half the expected crowd. They put the turnout at just over 200,000, which was 300,000 less than expected.

Moreover, the Washington Post reported that only “10 percent” of those who attended the march were actually people under the age of 18. In other words, it shifted from being a student march to being another event co-opted by protesters of all ages, many of whom were ready and willing to call for the abolition of the Second Amendment.

[Comment: Amazing how these coporate “leaders” just happen, by chance of course, to march entirely in lockstep with the globalist elites.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Conservatives in an Uproar After Twitter Deploys Draconian Shadowban Filter

Conservative Twitter users are in an uproar over draconian new “behavioral filters” which will start hiding tweets that “detract from the conversation,” and which CEO Jack Dorsey says are designed to “significantly reduce the ability to game and skew our systems” (less than six months before midterms, we might add).

[Comment: That was the scam. Globalists funded such sites — bujilt an audience that uses such portals and then, once public is addicited, begins controlling information. Doing this in a asearch engine is much more insidious and evil.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

George Soros-Linked Think Tank Partnering With Facebook

Facebook is partnering with the Atlantic Council to combat election meddling, the company announced on Thursday.

The Atlantic Council, an anti-President Donald Trump, George-Soros funded think tank, has a “stellar reputation looking at innovative solutions to hard problems,” Facebook said in a press release.

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

Hartford Officer Recovering After Stabbing; Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder

A veteran city police officer was severely wounded Thursday when authorities said she was stabbed in the neck during a struggle with a woman involved in a dispute with her landlord of a downtown apartment building. Maintenance workers jumped in to the bloody fight and helped disarm the woman as police whisked the officer to the hospital through city streets within minutes of the incident.

By Thursday night, the officer — who police did not identify — was in the intensive care unit after undergoing several hours of surgery. The suspect, Chevoughn Augustin, 39, was charged with attempted murder, first-degree assault, assault on a police officer and third-degree criminal mischief, and was expected to appear Friday morning in Superior Court in Hartford.

At 9:48 a.m., two officers were dispatched to Apt. 903 of the Spectra Boutique Apartments, 5 Constitution Plaza, following a call to police about a tenant-landlord dispute, police said. Police Chief David Rosado said there were “no indications of any weapons” in the initial police call.

“There were two officers dispatched [to the dispute] and there were other cars rolling that way. She just happened to be the first one on scene. Remember, it’s a landlord-tenant dispute, no indications of any weapons so protocol was followed but we’ll look into that,” Rosario said. “There were multiple cars going, she just happened to be the first one there.”

The officer tried to talk the person out of the apartment. And then the situation escalated…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

How Not to Get Shot by a Soldier

The following is intended to serve as a useful guide to various activists, protesters and other completely non-violent folk who happen to be packing knives, guns, rocks and grenades. You will encounter various law enforcement and military personnel—this is how not to get shot by them.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

IG Horowitz Finds FBI, DOJ Broke Law in Clinton Probe, Refers to Prosecutor for Criminal Charges

As we reported earlier Thursday, a long-awaited report by the Department of Justice’s internal watchdog into the Hillary Clinton email investigation has moved into its final phase, as the DOJ notified multiple subjects mentioned in the document that they can privately review it by week’s end, and will have a “few days” to craft any response to criticism contained within the report, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Those invited to review the report were told they would have to sign nondisclosure agreements in order to read it, people familiar with the matter said. They are expected to have a few days to craft a response to any criticism in the report, which will then be incorporated in the final version to be released in coming weeks. —WSJ

Now, journalist Paul Sperry reports that “IG Horowitz has found “reasonable grounds” for believing there has been a violation of federal criminal law in the FBI/DOJ’s handling of the Clinton investigation/s and has referred his findings of potential criminal misconduct to Huber for possible criminal prosecution.”

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

Let’s Stop Calling it Liberalism

America is being made great again in the wake of Obama’s failed presidency, which in hindsight already appears as nothing more than the absurd climax of affirmative action gone off the rails. Trump has wiped the floor with his legacy while building an incredible one of his own.

Now, I propose, is the perfect time for the American people to seal their own deal: let’s make a campaign ourselves to expire terms such as “Democrat,” “liberal,” “leftist,” and “progressive,” and let’s call it what it is: totalitarianism…

Trump has done a wondrous job of proving that corporate media are nothing more than a fascist propaganda outlet. The polar opposite of any “official story” is now well worth taking into account. Conspiracy theory is a lot of linguistic tarring and feathering when one realizes that corporate, fascist media do nothing but either mislead or lie a little less. Their business is not the truth, but promoting lies as truth with a singular, successful aim: divide and conquer. When everyday folks are compelled to conduct an independent critique, they realize that moving away from the herd entails investigative journalism. Thus, half of the country has gone from equating tin-foil idiocy with realizing they are being lied to. It is not “conspiracy theories” that matter, nor anyone peddling them under that title; the truth is that corporate media are the conspiracy, paralleled solely by Hollywood in terms of treasonous psychopathology. Where once a conspiracy theorist existed, now there are millions of people realizing that if they do not do something, the Constitution will be destroyed.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Minnesota Somalis: You’re Old and We Are Taking Over

Yesterday, I had long social media conversations with two Somali Muslim gentlemen from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I asked them about their goals for improving Minnesota and how they feel about being an American. I also asked them about the million dollar upgrade at Cedar Riverside public housing that Mayor Jacob Frey promised its majority Somali residents this week. After I was called a racist, a fascist, a bigot, stupid and old, here’s what else they shared with me. Nearly verbatim. Thoughts?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Rigged? Circuit Judge Says Ballots Were Illegally Destroyed in Wasserman Schultz’ House Race

Authored by Nick Givas via The Daily Caller,

Florida circuit court Judge Raag Singhal ruled the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office violated state and federal law Friday, after the office destroyed ballots from a 2016 House race for Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s seat.

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

Senate Confirms Gina Haspel to Head CIA

The CIA has a new boss, and for the first time, it’s a woman.

On Thursday afternoon, despite vocal opposition from many senators over her involvement in the Bush-era “enhanced interrogation”, i.e. torture, programs, the Senate confirmed Gina Haspel in a 54-45 vote as the next head of the CIA.

In the end, support from Senate Democrats, including the Senate Intelligence Committee’s vice chair Mark Warner, helped ensure Haspel’s confirmation. She was previously approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee in a 10-5 vote early Wednesday in a closed-door session, paving the way for her confirmation.

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

US Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low: What’s Behind the Decline?

The number of babies born in the United States has hit a 40-year low, according to figures published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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

‘A Very Critical Clash of Cultures’: Plea Deal Over Honour Killing Threats Saves Syrian Couple From Deportation

A Syrian refugee couple who threatened their adult daughter with an honour killing for dating a Canadian man have made a plea deal with New Brunswick prosecutors that will save them from possible deportation back to their war-ravaged homeland.

Ahmad Ayoub, 52, and his wife Faten, 48, were freed this week after 72 days in jail, after pleading guilty to uttering threats as a summary conviction offence, and being sentenced to time served.

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

White Identity Politics is Enshrined in Canada’s Constitution

Richardo Duchesne, Council of European Canadians, 10 May 2018

Don’t let them deceive you. Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) and the Multiculturalism Act of 1988 encourages Euro-Canadians to “preserve” and “enhance” their cultural heritage and ethnic identity. Section 27 of the Charter clearly states that the “Charter shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the preservation and enhancement” of the culture of all ethnic groups in Canada, including Euro-Canadians. The Multiculturalism Act clearly states that “all citizens,” including Euro-Canadians, “are equal and have the freedom to preserve, enhance and share their cultural heritage.” The racial identity of Euro-Canadians is part of this cultural heritage since this heritage was built by them. Canadian law recognizes the fundamental right of Euro-Canadians to advocate for a Canada that remains majority European in its ethnic and cultural character.

It may seem contradictory to be encouraging White identity politics through the employment of multicultural principles that were intended in their inception to encourage the dominant majority Anglo-European people to “respect” the “human need” of non-European minority groups to cherish and enhance their ethnic and religious identities within the framework of Canada’s political system. Is not multiculturalism a call upon the government to provide extra funding for minority cultural programs as well as “special” rights for non-European groups against past “historical wrongs” and “persisting” discrimination by the White majority?

Section 27 and the Multiculturalism Act are indeed viewed by minorities as legal weapons to “enhance” their ethnic interests in Canada against the “privilege” of Whites. Legal historians inform us that Section 27 was “the result of intensive lobbying by Canada’ ethno-cultural communities [non-Whites] for… a larger share of power in Canada’s political system”. They also tell us that Section 27 was meant to afford minorities with “group rights” (in addition to the individual rights Canadians generally enjoy) to protect their cultures and their racial identity from “dominant” Whites.

This is precisely the point. Group rights for Euro-Canadians are implicitly and logically enshrined in Canada’s legal system. Insomuch as multiculturalism uses the language of collective rights to guarantee the cultural survival of “minority” groups, it follows that Euro-Canadians have a group right to use multiculturalism to “preserve” their identity as a group in Canada in the face of immigration patterns that are fast reducing them to a minority. Why should minorities growing ever larger through relentless immigration enjoy both individual and group rights at the same time that Euro-Canadian members are excluded from enjoying any group rights as their heritage is destroyed? Why should the majority culture be viewed as the only group that is capable of engaging in discrimination against minority groups, decades after decades, rather than as the one culture that has been singled out as lacking any collective identity at all?

The establishment wants to hide this constitutional reality from Euro-Canadians. The Left wants Euro-Canadians to use multiculturalism to enhance the group rights of “non-Caucasians” in Canada. They want Euro-Canadians to attack their own ancestry, their own history, as they celebrate the ancestry and history of immigrants. Conservatives want Euro-Canadians to acts as “individuals” without group rights while lamely begging masses of immigrants arriving yearly to “embrace” this individualism. They are oblivious to the fact that immigrants come from collectivist cultures. They can’t understand the reality of ethnic power politics: that immigrants sense that the Canadian establishment is pathetically weak in its irrational fear of Euro-Canadian identity, and that the impending demographic history of Canada will tilt the balance of ethnic power decisively in their favour in a few years.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Call Me Equinor’: Statoil Changes Name

Norway’s largest oil company Statoil officially changed its name to Equinor on Wednesday as it forges ahead with its drive into renewable energy.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Geert Wilders Appeals 2016 Discrimination Conviction

Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders is appealing a conviction for encouraging discrimination against Moroccans. The staunch Islam critic claims that prosecutors are taking away his right to free speech.

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

Italy: M5S and League Close to Final Deal, But PM ‘Not Decided Yet’

Italy inched closer towards ending more than two months of political deadlock on Thursday as anti-establishment leader Luigi Di Maio revealed that a coalition government contract with the far-right would be finalized “this evening”.

However the Five Star Movement head said that he and Matteo Salvini, the leader of the nationalist League, were still in talks over who would be their joint prime ministerial candidate.

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

Macron Announces He Will Launch Islamic Reformation in France, Starting After Ramadan

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce a major overhaul to Islam in France following Ramadan including major reforms of Islamic bodies, halal practices, and the training of imams.

The French President is expected to announce his proposals for reform after June 14th, following the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, and is expected to seek major changes in the way mainstream Islam operates in France, BFMTV reports.

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

New Catalan Leader Shuns King and Constitution at Swearing-in Ceremony

Quim Torra, Catalonia’s new separatist leader, was sworn in Thursday in a brief ceremony without central government representatives where he avoided promising to obey the constitution and pledged instead to follow “the will of the Catalan people.”

“I promise to loyally fulfil the duties of the post of regional president being faithful to the will of the Catalan people represented by the Catalan parliament,” he said, using the same formula as his predecessor and mentor Carles Puigdemont.

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

Poland Stepping up Spending on Humanitarian Aid: Official

Beata Kempa, the country’s minister for humanitarian aid, said Poland last year allocated PLN 181 million for humanitarian aid and almost PLN 590 million for development projects.

The resulting total of over PLN 770 million (EUR 180 million, USD 212 million) was some PLN 357 million more than in 2016.

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

Sweden: Stockholm Trains at Standstill After Track Fire

Commuters were left stranded after a fire on the railway track north of Stockholm.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Swiss Police Arrest Man in Deadpool Costume

When a man in the Swiss city of Lugano dressed up as the comic character Deadpool to attend a sneak preview of the new Deadpool 2 film on Monday evening he got far more than he bargained for.

Police tackled him and a friend to the ground after apparently failing to recognise he was a cosplayer dressed in character.

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

‘The Sculptor Voted Le Pen’: Macron Waxwork Mercilessly Mocked Online

A wax sculpture of French President Emmanuel Macron has been so thoroughly roasted online that its creators are considering scrapping the piece, even though it cost more than $60,000.

Sometimes waxworks are so well executed that one can barely tell them apart from the real person. The famous Grevin wax museum’s effort at recreating the current leader of France is not one of them.

The bizarre sculpture of Macron sparked a flood of reaction on social media when it appeared on TV this week. People compared it to a crazed robot, artificial intelligence and even Chucky, the movie serial killer doll.

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

UK Terror Threat to See Rural Police ‘Routinely Armed’ For First Time

Frontline officers will be ‘routinely armed’ for the first time to respond to terror attacks in rural parts of Britain, under plans revealed by police.

The National Police Chiefs’ Council is considering the step for remote areas of England and Wales where it would be too expensive to have fully trained firearm units on standby.

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

UK: MI5 Boss: Radical Islamic Terror Threat ‘Shows No Sign of Abating’, 25 Plots Foiled Since 2013

MI5 Director-General Andrew Parker has warned the threat of radical Islamic terrorism in Britain shows “no sign of abating”, with 25 plots foiled since 2013.

Speaking in Berlin in what was the first ever speech by a serving MI5 chief outside the United Kingdom, Parker told European colleagues that the continent faces an “intense, unrelenting, and multidimensional terrorist threat”, noting that the Islamic State continues to pose the most “acute threat” to Western security — but that “al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups haven’t gone away.”

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

UK: Sheffield’s New Muslim Lord Mayor: ‘I Wouldn’t Even Do a Toast to the Queen’

Sheffield’s new lord mayor Magid Magid, who entered politics to “fight xenophobia”, has declared the British monarchy “outdated” and said he would refuse to toast to the Queen.

“I hope by the fact I am a black, Muslim immigrant — everything the Daily Mail probably hates — people will look and say ‘In Sheffield we’re proud of doing things differently and celebrating our differences’,” he told The Star on Tuesday.

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

Gaza’s Miseries Have Palestinian Authors

By Bret Stephens

Why is nothing expected of Palestinians, and everything forgiven, while everything is expected of Israelis, and nothing forgiven?

For the third time in two weeks, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have set fire to the Kerem Shalom border crossing, through which they get medicine, fuel and other humanitarian essentials from Israel. Soon we’ll surely hear a great deal about the misery of Gaza. Try not to forget that the authors of that misery are also the presumptive victims.

There’s a pattern here — harm yourself, blame the other — and it deserves to be highlighted amid the torrent of morally blind, historically illiterate

           — Hat tip: KS [Return to headlines]
 

The Rise of Israel in the Region

By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed

The United States’ cancellation of its commitments to the nuclear agreement with Iran is an important development with potential political implications for the entire region.

The new developments are subject to the ongoing US position regarding Tehran, which could change if the Iranian government offered concessions to the Americans. President Donald Trump has already promised to allow Iran to return to the agreement if it retreats and accepts his amended terms, including stopping the regime from developing a nuclear program for military purposes indefinitely and the withdrawal of its troops and militias from wars outside its borders. However, we do not think that the Rouhani government would accept these conditions at present.

           — Hat tip: KS [Return to headlines]
 

Years After Infowars Broke Story, Fox News Breaks Down How Obama/Hillary Armed ISIS

As Infowars exclusively reported in 2013, the US was funding and arming ISIS militants during the Obama administration, a story which Fox News has brought back into public spotlight.

On Aug. 4, 2013, Infowars documented how numerous guests on the Alex Jones Show disclosed that the CIA was shipping arms from U.S.-controlled facilities located in Benghazi, Libya, to Syrian militants to try and overthrow Bashar al-Assad.

One of these guests was ex-CIA gun runner Tosh Plumlee, who said U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was killed in the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack to cover up the State Dept.’s arm shipments to al-Qaeda in Syria.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Enjoy the Threesome!’ Waleed Aly Makes a Shock Exit From the Project… As Co-Host Carrie Bickmore Makes Another X-Rated Joke Live on Air

Carrie Bickmore made a very risqué remark live on The Project on Wednesday night.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Venezuelan Government Seizes Kellogg’s Factory After Closure: A Recipe for Failure

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,

The socialist Venezuelan government has seized a closed Kellogg’s factory and decided to make the perfect storm for failure out of their theft. The government has handed control of the factory over to the workers who will attempt to continue to produce Kellogg’s products.

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

9-Year-Old Migrant Boy Threatens Austrian Children With Knife: “My Job is to Kill People”

Several elementary school children were threatened by a boy with a migrant background in Ried, Austria. The case went public after Austria’s OÖN received a letter from worried parents about the incident.

The Turkish boy, who is only nine years old, threatened other school children with a knife and said that it is his job to kill people and god had commanded him to do so.

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

Croatia Warns 60,000 Migrants Ready to Break Through Into European Union

The Croatian government has sounded an alarm to the rest of the European Union claiming that the Balkan migrant route may reopen in the very near future with 60,000 migrants ready to cross into the political bloc.

The Croatian Interior Ministry has warned that migrants may be gearing up to try a new route through the Balkan states going through Greece to Albania, then Montenegro, Bosnia and into Croatia.

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

EU Commission: ‘Europe Will Never be a Fortress’, Mass Migration ‘Here to Stay’

Europe is set to absorb massive waves of migration “for the decades to come”, the EU Commission has declared, vowing the continent will “never become a fortress”.

Speaking in Brussels on Wednesday, EU migration chief Dimitris Avramopoulos stressedthat the European Commission would oppose any plans to build a fence on the Greek-Turkish border.

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

French Seaside Town Residents Concerned Migrants Scaring Off Tourist Business

Business owners and residents in the northern French commune of Ouistreham are worried that tourists may not come to the seaside resort, which could crush local businesses, due to the presence of over 150 migrants sleeping rough on the streets.

Many of the business owners see economic ramifications for the town of 9,500 from the presence of the migrants with local MP Christophe Blanchet, a member of French President Emmanuel Macron’s La République En Marche! (LREM) saying, “We are on the edge of the abyss,” French news website Actu.fr reports.

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

Greece: Migrants Set Detention Centre Alight During Protest — it’s a ‘Miracle’ Nobody Died

Yesterday night, four migrants set fire to the detention facilities of the Foreigners’ Police Department of Athens in which they were being held in protest against their living conditions. The fire quickly spread to other cells, endangering lives of police officers and other detained migrants.

A tragedy was prevented only by the well-timed actions of the Greek firefighting department and the police officers on duty at the time.

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

Hungary’s Orban is Right About Border Control — Professor Francis Fukuyama

World-famous philosopher Francis Fukuyama commented on Europe’s migration policy and Viktor Orban’s stance in an interview with Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft.

Speaking about the “end of history”, Fukuyama said that despite the fact that “populists” are leading Hungary and Poland, there are still many liberal democracies, and it’s unclear whether the “Hungarian kind of illiberal democracy would mean the end of history”, or the “Putin model” becomes universal.

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

New Study: 4 Million Brits Battling Migrants for Jobs

A new report from Migration Watch has shown that up to 4 million Brits are struggling to compete with a “virtually unlimited pool of migrant workers.”

But Theresa May tells us we have record unemployment. So what gives?

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

President Trump Should Ignore the DACA Ruling

Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

— U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1

This is the oath President Trump and every president of the United States took prior to becoming the chief executive. Every member of Congress swears to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” When a president or a legislature is directed to perform a duty that is unconstitutional, he or it must refuse or else he or it would, thereby, break this oath.

Due to recent unconstitutional actions taken by the judiciary, this scenario needs be examined as more than a theoretical exercise. A U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. has ordered President Trump to continue President Obama’s DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program. According to the court, President Trump must not only keep the program in place, but also continue accepting new applicants. A federal court is now ordering the president to perform an executive order that even President Obama stated was illegal before later issuing it.

Does a district court have the power to order the chief executive of the United States to take an illegal executive action? Does President Trump simply abide by this order, thus violating his oath of office to defend the Constitution? Or does he have another option?

While abuses by the court have been well documented, there has been a change in the tyranny unleashed by the courts in the past few years. As Daniel Horowitz lays out in Stolen Sovereignty. How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America, the courts have now shifted their attack to America’s national sovereignty. By overturning the Legislature’s precedent of plenary power over immigration policy, the courts are prepared to take away the American people’s ability to determine our immigration policy.

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Report: Four Million Brits Can’t Get Work, ‘Virtually Unlimited Pool’ Of EU Migrants

As many of four million Brits cannot get a job or the work they would like because they are forced to compete with a “virtually unlimited pool” of migrant workers from the European Union (EU), a report has said.

The authors found that there are one and a half million people out of work and a further million stuck in part-time jobs who could do more hours or fulltime hours but cannot find them.

“The large inflow of migrant labour… may have contributed to continuing high levels of underemployment which could be around four million people,” they write.

The report, by Migration Watch, claims that official figures boasting of high employment do not take account of people involuntarily stuck in part-time work. Around a fifth of part-time male workers and a quarter of part-time female workers said they wanted to work more work, the study found.

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Sweden: Organised Criminals Recruiting ‘Child’ Migrants for ‘Youth Army’

X-team, a subsidiary of the Bandidos criminal network in Kalmar, Sweden, is recruiting unaccompanied ‘child’ migrants to serve as a “youth army” (ungdomsarmé).

Intercepted conversations between the X-team lead and his Bandidos contact, played for a Swedish court during a recent trial, recorded the pair discussing how to groom particular refugees for recruitment, reports Sveriges Radio, Sweden’s national, publicly-funded radio broadcaster.

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Swedish Woman Murdered by Deported Migrant Who Returned Unchecked

Eva Engberg, 60-years-old, was killed by a deported Iranian immigrant because he was able to easily return to the country unchecked, Fria Tider reports.

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UN Paints Sweden as a “Racist” Inferno Where Immigrants Face “Painful Racism”

Sweden’s major problems are “hate crimes” and “racist violence” committed against immigrants, according to a new UN report. The report also criticizes Sweden for the fact that extreme racist organizations have not yet been banned, SvD reports. The UN demands that Sweden quickly take action against this racist “hatred”.

Apparently Swedish culture hasn’t disappeared quickly enough for the UN.

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Video: Did Trump Really Call Immigrants “Animals”?

After they defended Hamas terrorists, I didn’t think the left could get any lower.

I was wrong.

They’re now defending MS-13 gang members who rape & dismember women and massacre children.

The media is more outraged about Trump calling murderous gang members “animals” than the murders of innocent Americans by those very same gang members.

Let that sink in.

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Viktor Orban: We Help Refugees in Their Home Countries Instead of Bringing the Trouble Here

On Monday an official meeting between Hungary and Poland’s prime ministers took place. Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban and his Polish colleague Mateusz Morawiecki agreed on issues related to migrants and national sovereignty.

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While Germany Spends 93 Billion on Asylum Seekers, Its Pensioners Are Increasingly Poor

The German taxpayer is paying billions for the 1.5 million asylum seekers that arrived into the country. In 2016 already 93 billion euros were reserved for the years to come.

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5 Reasons Why the 2018 Grammys Were a Catastrophic Failure

#5: U2? Really?

Despite the fact that U2 was nominated for exactly zero Grammy awards this year, the band was trotted in and out of the stage not once, not twice, but three times. U2 was there at the very beginning with Kendrick Lamar, they were brought back near the end to announce the album of the year and they performed a new single that nobody really wants to hear: Get Out of Your Own Way.

The song takes aim at the United States and its immigration policy. At the end, Bono grabbed a US-flag megaphone and started yelling things.

The above screenshot is highly symbolic. It says that Bono is speaking for Americans … although he is Irish.

So why was U2 all over the Grammys? Why was this specific song performed? The answer can be found in the following picture. Pic of Bono and George Soros at the World Economic Forum.

George Soros is one of the most influential people shaping the world’s economy, politics and social issues. His Open Society Foundations operates on a budget nearing a billion dollars per year and is heavily implicated in the social policies of nearly all nations of the world. I won’t go into all of the ways this Foundation shapes modern society, but one of its core issues is the promotion of open borders.

Bono is very close to Soros (here’s a video of him singing his praise for 3 minutes). Get Out Your Own Way is basically an infomercial for the Soros agenda. That is why it was promoted during the Grammys while other songs and performers were ignored…

The sharp drop in viewership was probably a combined result of everything cited above. More importantly, it is symptomatic of a growing divide in America where a great portion of the public simply does not relate to the obvious agenda that is being pushed by mass media. As stated above, this agenda does not come from “the people”, but from a globalist elite that is seeking to create a borderless, genderless and spineless world.

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Are Google and YouTube Blocking Searches for Red Pill Videos?

A year or so ago, there were a spate of articles about the red pill videos on YouTube — millennials turning off to the bullying by feminists and race hustlers, thinking for themselves, becoming conservative, and posting a video of their personal journey from blue to red online. I googled ‘red pill’ and had a cheerful time following links. I learned about Candace Owens at that time, and a lot of other black and white millennials who had posted articulate, heartfelt, intimate, sometimes funny YouTubes explaining why they’d become conservative.

For months afterward, when I was sick of all the bad news about millennials becoming little fascists, I would turn to the red pill videos and cheer myself up. And then I found I could no longer find them. When I went to YouTube and searched for red pill, all I got was the documentary by that name (worth seeing) available for $3.99.

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Global Elitists Are Not Human

To be a globalist, though, one has to do more than merely subscribe to the tenets of globalism; there is a matter of character traits and actions which must be examined.

After studying the behavior of globalists and their organizations for quite some time, I have noticed that their psychological patterns tend to match with a narrow band of people that are best described as “criminally insane.” More accurately, globalists behave like high-functioning narcissistic sociopaths and psychopaths. But what are the traits of such people? Let’s take a look at some of them…

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9 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/17/2018

  1. The first story is unreliable as it relies on a known Russian Government controlled source — RT Television.

    There is no chance that the dollar will be replaced for international trade any time soon. Europe is so weak right now the question is — Will the Euro will collapse as a currency?

    Italy’s new government is going to ignore Germany’s “austerity” and immigration demands.

    https://amp.businessinsider.com/italy-government-threatens-the-existence-of-the-euro-2018-5

    • Sadly, RT is more accurate than CNN these days. Red China and the Leftists who run the EU have an interest in undermining the power of the USA. Trump has asked each entity to stop cheating in trade. Their reaction is to be “insulted”. Then, as noted in the article on psychopaths, they deny any guilt and counter-attack. Besides, the massive debt of the USA screams for an inflationary response, cheapening each dollar. The US could even default on its debt the Peking thugs hold? Hope we do!

    • Oh, yes. I’m glad you reminded me: it’s SO important not to read any news sources except for reliable, unbiased, and objective ones such as CNN, the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian.

      • Patriot,

        He he he….. The random typing of a room full of monkeys is more newsworthy than the Soros channels, such as CNN and MSNBC.
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        Baron,

        Are you stating that RT is free from Russian government influence and propaganda?

        Listing sources that are poor does not have anything to do with RT’s credibility.

        • I am stating nothing of the sort.

          RT is funded by the Russian government, and serves the interests of the Russian state. One should keep that in mind when reading anything they publish. The same is true of Sputnik News and all the other Russian outlets.

          One also needs to be skeptical of some of the Western alternative media sites that take Russian money in return for pushing through Russian-supplied news stories, with the typical Russian spin. I don’t want to mention specific sites, because that would get me into a food fight with their fans. But they’re pretty easy to spot — most of them publish variations on the same story on the same day, with a slant that serves Russian interests. These should be taken with a grain of salt.

          The thing about Russian outlets is that they publish true, factual material that is omitted by our lying, duplicitous, non-state-funded MSM outlets, because it violates The Narrative. So RT can be useful, but I always want to corroborate what they publish with reports from independent sources. Which can be hard to find, but it’s important: the Russians are not averse to peddling outright fabrications when it serves their purposes.

    • I’m not sure about the international currency, but I think there will be something using the dollar in Russia. The flair forced me to exchange dollars for rubles and buy a new car. And in a few days Putin said that Russia needs to unfasten the currency from the dollar.
      I think that this possible ban of foreign currency will affect only ordinary citizens. In the life of the oligarchs, nothing will change.

      Now I wait for a flair to tell me to buy pasta, matches and canned food. It’s something genetic.

  2. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/05/14/109422/police-called-to-israel-pm-doco-screening

    [may 15th 2018] police in Wellington [New Zealand] last night removed a beeping black box from a packed cinema. [and removed protesters]

    The box was chained to a seat in the Roxy Theatre by anti-Israel group, Peace Action Wellington to disrupt the screening of Ben-Gurion, Epilogue, a documentary on the former Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion.

    ……….The interview was shot in 1968 when Ben-Gurion was 82, five years after he stepped down from office and six years before his death. Somehow, the sound and visual footage got separated, leaving only the silent footage. The soundtrack was later discovered and the director, Yariv Mozer, who is an independent award-winning filmmaker, reunited both parts, crafting the documentary from this interview, together with other archive footage and conversations. …..

    The protesters basically got away with that, compared to how one would be treated if said “bomb” at an airport or on an air-liner.

    http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/05/director-of-israel-documentary-reacts-to-wellington-protests.html [19th May]

  3. Concerning the warning from Croatia that 60,000 migrant invaders are getting positioned to enter Europe: policing the migrants nicely is like policing criminals through therapy, community recreation, and persuasion. It is necessary to use force and back up laws and rules with a heavy hand, if necessary. If this is not done, the violators actually have an advantage over those who follow rules.

    In other words, sooner or later, migrants must be forcibly kept out, or forcibly removed to some destination that will accept them. The different options available to European countries for “humane” treatment of migrants is shrinking quickly. The only viable approach is that of Israel, which defends its borders with barbed wire, mines and machine guns.

    Paradoxically, for those actually interested in the welfare of migrants, a small subset of those involved in bringing to Europe, the number of deaths at sea due to the encouragement of unsafe travel methods far exceeds the number of deaths that would result from shootings at the borders. In other words, as humans, our attention tends to focus on what we see rather than on what we know.

    • …as humans, our attention tends to focus on what we see rather than on what we know.

      I disagree, because to focus not on what we know but go after “what we see” is Irresponsibility, and it is a destructive force. We just happen to live in a world where good responsible people moved away from positions of power, and those positions have been taken over by stupid irresponsible and incompetent children who lack the capacity to think things through.

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