Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/30/2018

The Turkish government reprimanded French President Emmanuel Macron for supporting the right of free expression for a magazine that called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “the dictator”. The Turkish government is also reportedly encouraging Erdogan supporters in France in their activism against President Macron.

In other news, the number of signatures on the #FreeTommy petition at change.org has surpassed half a million.

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Financial Crisis
» ADP Employment Rebounds Off April Plunge But “Hot Job Market” Is Cooling
» UK: ‘Income Freeze’ Could Finally be Over as Jobs Total Hits Record High
 
USA
» American Overstretch: The Good News
» Convicted ISIS Recruit Headed Back to Custody
» Mass Shootings Spark Growing Interest in Homeschooling
» Starbucks Shuts 8,000 US Stores for Racial Bias Training
 
Europe and the EU
» ‘Absurd’ Comment by EU Official Causes Uproar in Italy
» Belgian Gunman Appeared on Multiple Reports on Radicalism, Killed 4th Person Before Attack
» Cracks Show in Denmark’s Opposition as Allies Censure Social Democrats
» EU Chides Budget Commissioner Oettinger Over Italy Remarks
» EU in ‘Existential Crisis’: ‘Everything That Could Go Wrong Has Gone Wrong, ‘ Says Soros
» EU Unveils Plans for ‘Drastic’ Funding Cuts to Patriotic Eastern Nations
» Exclusive: ‘Western Europe is Consumed by Self Hate’ — German Populist Leader
» Fake News: Media Try to Reframe Italy Political Crisis as ‘Referendum on the Euro’
» France Bans ‘Big Screen’ Zones for World Cup Over Terror Fears
» How the League’s Matteo Salvini Played His Cards Right Amid Italy’s Political Chaos
» Islamic State-Style Shooting Rampage Was Terrorist Act: Belgian Prosecutors
» Italy: 3 Probed for Insulting Mattarella
» Italy: German Tourists Leave Kids in Hot Car
» Italy Will Stay Part of Europe, Euro — Gurria
» Italy: M5S Want to Move Savona, League Doesn’t
» Polish Economy Grew 5.2% in Q1 2018: Statistics Office
» Saakashvili Calls on Europe to Slap Sanctions on Kiev
» Senate Rejects Ban on Foreign Funding for Swiss Mosques
» Tensions Rise on Catalan Streets as Divisions Over Secession Deepen
» ‘Tommy This, an’ Tommy That … an’ Tommy Go Away’
» UK: Half a Million Sign #FreeTommy Petition
» UK: MPs Call for Action on Rape Gangs as Government Accused of ‘Letting Victims Down’
 
Middle East
» Turkey Hits Back at Macron Over ‘Dictator’ Magazine Cover
 
Russia
» Anti-Putin Russian Journalist Has Colleagues in Tears After He Appears Alive in Ukraine
 
Latin America
» Ecuador’s Moreno: Julian Assange Asylum Will Continue With Conditions
 
Immigration
» 71% of Brits Say Immigration Divides Communities
» Austria Wants to Tie Minimum Income to German Language Skills
» Christians in Western European Countries Attacked by Jihadis and Flooded With Migrants Are Reportedly Less Positive About Islam
» France: Paris Police Clear Out City’s Largest Illegal Migrant Camp
» French Woman Beaten up by Afghan Asylum Seekers ‘For Being Too Lightly Dressed’
» New Arrivals in Sweden ‘Should be Taught More About Swedish Laws’
 
Culture Wars
» After Alfie Evans, Vatican Issues ‘Charter of the Rights of the Incurable Child’
 

ADP Employment Rebounds Off April Plunge But “Hot Job Market” Is Cooling

May’s ADP Employment printed a lower than expected +178k.

This is the second lowest ADP print since October, thanks to a sharply revised lower April (from +204k to +163k).

The Goods-producing sector of the economy added 64k jobs in May while the Service-producing segment aded 114k.

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

UK: ‘Income Freeze’ Could Finally be Over as Jobs Total Hits Record High

HOPES of an end to the decade-long incomes freeze were boosted by economic data yesterday. Official figures showed wages in the UK have risen by 2.9 per cent over the past year, while the employment rate has surged to a new record high.

[Comment: These facts refute the claim that Brexit was going to be bad for the British economy.]

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

American Overstretch: The Good News

by Srdja Trifkovic

Imagine you are a denizen of Melos enslaved by the Athenians during the brutal sack of that island in 416 BC. A year later you learn that your masters are preparing a massive expedition to Sicily as a starting point for the conquest of Italy and Carthage; and, furthermore, that they are hoping that the venture would force Sparta to sue for peace, help resolve the financial crisis at home, keep the restive Delian League under control, and intimidate Persia into passivity. As a shrewd man otherwise devoid of prospects, you’d probably hope that the Athenians proceed with their splendid plan with great speed and gusto.

Imagine you are a Balkan Christian enduring the third century of Ottoman misrule. It is early 1683, and the Sultan’s mighty army is marching past your village in the Morava Valley on its way north. But from a German prisoner you hear that the Christians were finally forming a league, with Bavaria, Saxony and Poland rushing troops to help Vienna and the pope providing funds. From a Greek auxiliary you hear that the Venetians are preparing a mighty fleet to take advantage in the Mediterranean of the Turks’ focus on the Danube. A monk returning from Moscow whispers that Russia would join the Holy League within weeks. You light your pipe, sip your plum brandy, and observe the long column passing through the valley below with a knowing smile. You don’t want them to turn back . . .

And now imagine, dear reader, that you are a Prussian farmer observing the steady eastward passage of the Grande Armée in June 1812 . . .

But enough imagining. To put it briefly, imperial overstretch has been the bane of many mighty empires—Paul Kennedy would say that hardly any can avoid it—as well as the hope of their unhappy subjects. Among those today I propose to include the majority of Americans themselves. They live under a regime engaged in the decades-long, psychotic quest for total hegemony overseas. Crucially, this venture which goes hand in hand with that regime’s systematic transformation of the Government of the United States into an out-of-control monster uninhibited by constitutional restraints and devoid of common decency. Patriotic Americans should hope for the defeat of their rulers’ imperial madness abroad, as it is the only realistic hope of eventual liberation at home.

Looking at the U.S. foreign policy in this light, we are entering a period which is both interesting and potentially fruitful. Some fronts are being generously doused with gasoline (the Gulf), some are growing infinitely complex (Syria), some just wait to re-erupt (Ukraine). There may be a new war in the Far East, starting in Korea and possibly including China. Sudden escalation of tensions with Russia into crisis mode—possibly fueled by the ongoing deliveries of U.S. arms to the Kiev regime—is also a distinct possibility. But more likely than either of those is a new conflagration in the Middle East, involving Iran vs. Saudi Arabia and/or Israel at first, but ultimately including the United States as a direct participant…

           — Hat tip: Srdja Trifkovic [Return to headlines]
 

Convicted ISIS Recruit Headed Back to Custody

CHICAGO (WLS) — A southwest suburban man who attempted to join ISIS as a teenager, will be returning to a federal halfway house for violating his court supervised release by going on dating websites.

Mohammed Hamzah Khan was arrested At O’Hare Airport in October of 2014. Khan was 19 at the time and had his younger sister in tow as they were trying to get to Syria.

He was arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and he later pleaded guilty. The girl was a minor and returned to her parents.

Khan served about 3 1/2 years in jail before being released to a halfway house last year and was then authorized to move back with his parents in Bolingbrook and enroll in college.

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

Mass Shootings Spark Growing Interest in Homeschooling

The perversion, lies, dumbing down, fake history, anti-God pseudo-science, and flagrant immorality promoted in government schools was apparently not enough to get parents to pay attention — but the consequences of that evil are waking people up in huge numbers. Amid an apparent wave of school shootings exploited by the press to attack gun rights, a growing number of parents are now exploring a much more sensible option: withdrawing their children entirely.

In fact, according to multiple news reports, it is clear that interest in homeschooling across America is surging in response to the perceived increase in shootings.

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

Starbucks Shuts 8,000 US Stores for Racial Bias Training

NEW YORK (AFP) — Starbucks is closing more than 8,000 stores across the United States Tuesday to conduct employee training on racial bias, a closely watched exercise that spotlights lingering problems of discrimination nationwide.

The move, which affects 175,000 employees, follows the April 12 arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia Starbucks, an incident sparking outrage, protests and anguished soul-searching about racial tensions that have deteriorated during the Donald Trump presidency.

“We realize that four hours of training is not going to solve racial inequity in America or anyone coming into our stores who may have a problem,” Starbucks executive chairman Howard Schultz told CNN…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

‘Absurd’ Comment by EU Official Causes Uproar in Italy

ROME (AFP) — Senior Italian politicians on Tuesday called for EU budget commissioner Gunther Oettinger to resign over an “absurd” comment in which he voiced the hope that the country’s poor economic situation will keep populist parties out of government.

Italy is facing the likely prospect of fresh elections after President Sergio Mattarella on Sunday blocked a cabinet proposed by the anti-immigrant League and their allies, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S).

The chaotic developments have spooked investors, who fear another election could see an even better result for the populist, eurosceptic parties.

In an interview with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, EU commissioner Oettinger said here had been a “noticeable downturn” in government bonds, banks’ market values and in Italy’s economy in general, which “the government formation may be responsible for”…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Belgian Gunman Appeared on Multiple Reports on Radicalism, Killed 4th Person Before Attack

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon says that a man who shot dead two police officers and a bystander in Liege on Tuesday had already killed another person the day before the attack.

Jambon told broadcaster RTL Wednesday that the shooter, identified as Benjamin Herman, “also committed a murder the night before.”

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

Cracks Show in Denmark’s Opposition as Allies Censure Social Democrats

The Social Democrats, the largest party in Denmark’s opposition, risk losing the support of traditionally allied parties on the left due to increasingly populist policies.

The Social Liberal (Radikale Venstre) and Alternative parties have moved to reproach the Social Democrats, led by Mette Frederiksen, in an official parliamentary statement.

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

EU Chides Budget Commissioner Oettinger Over Italy Remarks

EU Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger’s comments to DW that market pressures could “play a role” in voting habits in Italy have landed him in hot water. The German politician has since apologized.

In an interview with DW, Oettinger said he was not fearful that a fresh election would strengthen Italy’s populist parties — a development which observers say could lead to the country leaving the eurozone or even the European Union. Instead, he thinks financial markets and the state of Italy’s economy will convince voters not to pick left-wing or right-wing populists.

“Even now, developments on bond markets, the market value of banks, and Italy’s economy in general have darkened noticeably and negatively. That has to do with the possible government formation. I can only hope that this will play a role in the election campaign and send a signal not to hand populists on the right and left any responsibility in government,” Oettinger said.

Outrage followed quickly. Matteo Salvini, head of right-wing party The League, lashed out on Twitter, writing: “Crazy, in Brussels they are without shame. The EU Budget Commissioner, the German Oettinger, says the markets will show Italians the right way to vote. If that isn’t a threat … I am not scared!” He then demanded that Oettinger resign…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

EU in ‘Existential Crisis’: ‘Everything That Could Go Wrong Has Gone Wrong, ‘ Says Soros

Billionaire open borders advocate George Soros has said that the European Union (EU) is having an “existential crisis” and that member states must “set aside their national interests” to save the bloc.

“The EU is in an existential crisis. Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong,” the 87-year-old Hungarian-American speculator told the audience of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Annual Council Meeting in Paris on Tuesday.

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

EU Unveils Plans for ‘Drastic’ Funding Cuts to Patriotic Eastern Nations

Patriotic Visegrad nations in the east will each see their regional funding from Brussels slashed by around a quarter under new European Union (EU) budget rules which reward the intake of third world migrants.

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

Exclusive: ‘Western Europe is Consumed by Self Hate’ — German Populist Leader

BERLIN, Germany: Co-leader of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) Alexander Gauland spoke exclusively to Breitbart London on the fallout of Germany’s welcome culture and the issue of Western “self-hatred”.

Mr. Gauland rarely grants foreign interviews. but agreed to sit down with Breitbart London at his office in central Berlin this week.

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

Fake News: Media Try to Reframe Italy Political Crisis as ‘Referendum on the Euro’

Mainstream media outlets have scrambled to recast Italy’s crisis in national sovereignty as a debate over participation in the European Union (EU) and its currency (euro) to draw attention away from President Sergio Mattarella’s unprecedented veto of democratic elections.

Walking in perfect ideological lockstep, Reuters stated that “Italy’s fresh election risks being referendum on euro” while CNBC declared that “Italian voters brace for euro showdown ahead of snap election,” assertions that have no basis in fact.

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

France Bans ‘Big Screen’ Zones for World Cup Over Terror Fears

The threat of terrorist attacks in France has put paid to fans’ hopes of watching the World Cup on big screens in public spaces, France’s ministry for the interior announced.

“I remind all publicly-elected officials of the fact that ‘big screen’ zones are completely forbidden in public spaces,” said a statement from the ministry.

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

How the League’s Matteo Salvini Played His Cards Right Amid Italy’s Political Chaos

As Italy struggles to form a government to end three months of political turmoil, right-wing populist leader Matteo Salvini has emerged strengthened and eyeing victory in the event of fresh elections, analysts say.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Islamic State-Style Shooting Rampage Was Terrorist Act: Belgian Prosecutors

BRUSSELS (AP) — The man who killed four people in the Belgian city of Liege this week carried out an act of “terrorist murder” and may have intended to cause more carnage, prosecutors said Wednesday, as authorities tried to establish whether he acted alone.

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

Italy: 3 Probed for Insulting Mattarella

In Palermo

(ANSA) — Palermo, May 30 — Italian police on Wednesday placed three people under investigation for insulting President Sergio Mattarella on social media.

The trio were named as Manlio Cassarà, Michele Calabrese and Eloisa Zanrosso.

Dozens of other insults and threats against Mattarella are being examined.

Mattarella has been accused of scotching a League-Five Star government by rejecting its anti-euro economy minister.

Cassarà wrote on Facebook “they killed the wrong Mattarella” referring to the president’s older brother, Piersanti, gunned down by Cosa Nostra when he was Sicilian regional president in 1980.

Calabrese wrote a similar phrase, while Zanrosso wrote “they killed your brother, wasn’t that enough for you?”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: German Tourists Leave Kids in Hot Car

Cited by cops who save children aged 8 mths, 3 yrs

(ANSA) — Verona, May 30 — A couple of German tourists were cited Wednesday for leaving their two small children in a stifling car while they strolled around Peschiera del Garda near Verona.

The children, a boy aged eight months and a girl aged three years, were saved by Carabinieri after spending some time in the locked car under a hot sun.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy Will Stay Part of Europe, Euro — Gurria

Fears, but policies should not be based on markets

(ANSA) — Paris, May 30 — Italy is part of Europe and the euro and will remain so, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Secretary-General Angel Gurria said Wednesday. Gurria was answering a question as to whether he could imagine an Italy without the euro. Gurria added that there were fears for Italy but policies should not be based on the markets. “It would be madness, we need a medium and long-term vision”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: M5S Want to Move Savona, League Doesn’t

Mattarella weighing Di Maio proposal ‘very carefully’

(ANSA) — Rome, May 30 — The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) are willing to move rejected economy minister pick, anti-euro economist Paolo Savona, to another post in a possible new government but their prospective ally, the anti-migrant Euroskeptic League, want to keep him in the same post in which he was scotched by President Sergio Mattarella, ending their first government bid.

M5S leader Luigi Di Maio said Wednesday that “we’ll find a person of the same calibre of the excellent professor Savona for the Treasury and he will “stay in the government team in another position”.

Mattarella ssid he was weighing Di Maio’s proposal “very carefully”.

League leader Matteo Salvini, however, said he hoped to form a government with the M5S but rejected the M5S’s idea of moving Savona. He said he wanted “the same team” and that Di Maio had agreed that Savona was the best man for the job of representing the government’s economic position in Brussels.

Di Maio said the M5S and the League “never conceived the hypothesis of leaving the euro”.

Di Maio reiterated a call for a political and not technocratic government saying that technocrat premier-designate Carlo Cottarelli does not have the numbers in parliament. The formation of a political government does not depend on the M5S, which is in favour, but on the League, Di Maio said. He said former premier-designate Giuseppe Conte could be “recalled” with Savona moving places and thus potentially meeting Mattarella’s approval. Salvini said his patience was “almost up” over the possibility of forming a new government. “In the meantime the mortgage instalments do not have patience,” he added. “If they block me now, I’ll ask for the votes to go it alone,” he said.

Like Di Maio, premier-designate Cottarelli went to see Mattarella Wednesday and the pair agreed not to “force the timetable” for the formation of a political government, presidential sources said.

The two men thus decided to slow things down, because of the evolution of the political situation, and certainly not due to problems with the ministerial list that Cottarelli is drawing up, the sources said.

Cottarelli is waiting for possible developments for the formation of a political government before pressing further ahead with his effort to form an interim technocrat executive, sources said.

“During his work as premier designate for the formation of a new government, new possibilities emerged for the creation of a political government,” sources close to Cottarelli said. “Faced with the tension on the markets, this circumstance induced him — in agreement with the president — to await eventual developments”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Polish Economy Grew 5.2% in Q1 2018: Statistics Office

The Polish economy grew 5.2 percent in the first quarter of this year, the country’s Central Statistical Office (GUS) said on Wednesday.

The reading was slightly higher than the 5.1 percent flash estimate issued by the statistical office earlier this month.

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

Saakashvili Calls on Europe to Slap Sanctions on Kiev

THE HAGUE (AFP) — Ukrainian opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili Tuesday urged European leaders to slap sanctions on President Petro Poroshenko, whom he accused of violating his human rights by expelling him from the country three months ago.

Saakashvili, 50, was thrown out of Ukraine in mid-February when masked men abducted him from a downtown Kiev restaurant and swiftly deported him to Poland. He is currently living in the Netherlands with his Dutch wife and two sons.

Now his lawyers say Kiev trampled on the rights of the maverick politician, but any lawsuit — for instance at the Luxembourg-based European Court for Human Rights — could take years to pursue…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Senate Rejects Ban on Foreign Funding for Swiss Mosques

The Swiss senate on Tuesday on Tuesday voted against a motion calling for foreign funding of mosques in the country to be banned.

Politicians in the upper house voted 29 to 7 against the proposal which had narrowly passed through the lower house Council of States.

The motion had been put forward by Lorenzo Quadri, a senator for the right-wing Ticino League party in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking canton of Ticino.

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

Tensions Rise on Catalan Streets as Divisions Over Secession Deepen

BARCELONA (AFP) — From pro-independence yellow crosses vying with Spanish flags on beaches to party offices vandalised, Catalonia has seen a rise in tensions as divisions over secession from Spain deepen.

“There is latent violence, violence that can be felt in the air but doesn’t usually materialise into physical violence, and it’s on the rise,” warns Sonia Andolz, a political expert in conflict analysis at the University of Barcelona.

“There is a rise in tone, confrontation between people who push or insult each other. Hate speech against others is becoming normal.”

Over the past weeks, this region of northeastern Spain with 7.5 million people has been the scene of a war of symbols…

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

‘Tommy This, an’ Tommy That … an’ Tommy Go Away’

by Mark Steyn

On Sunday morning I had the pleasure of appearing with Rowan Dean and Ross Cameron on their Sky Australia show, “Outsiders”, to talk mainly about the Obama Administration’s attempt to subvert the Trump campaign in the 2016 US election, and in particular the remarkable Anglo-Australian contribution to that effort. (You can view our exchange here- and/or listen to it here, starting about 17 minutes in).

But, just before I came on (about 15 minutes in), Rowan and Ross addressed recent events in the United Kingdom and in particular the fate of, er, someone whose name they weren’t permitted to mention but who, um, had been gaoled for, er, something or other… This was somewhat astonishing to me, as I’d assumed empire-wide D-notices had lapsed with the passage of the Statute of Westminster. But mein hosts circled back, cautiously, to the topic toward the end of my interview — and I observed, as I have before, how in almost the entirety of the western world, whenever anyone draws attention to some of the more problematic aspects of Islam, the state cracks down not on the problematic aspects, but on the guy who draws attention thereto. In Britain and Europe, we are an incident or two away from literally “shooting the messenger”.

Rowan, Ross and I all knew we were referring to a gentleman by the name of Tommy Robinson. I expect many of you know that, too. But I doubt most Australian viewers had much of a clue about it, and I’m pretty certain the overwhelming majority of his fellow Englishmen are unaware of his fate. As readers may recall, I have met Mr Robinson just once, at an event at the European Parliament in Brussels. He is an engaging, charismatic fellow, albeit a bit rough-hewn for the refined sensibilities of the metropolitan media — although I thought he had the better of a rather somnolent Jeremy Paxman in this BBC interview.

On Friday, Robinson was livestreaming (from his telephone) outside Leeds Crown Court where last week’s Grooming Gang of the Week were on trial for “grooming” — the useless euphemism for industrial-scale child gang rape and sex slavery by large numbers of Muslim men with the active connivance (as I pointed out to the Sky guys) of every organ of the state: social workers, police, politicians. Oh, and also the media. Me last year, on my time in a certain municipality about thirty miles south of Leeds:

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Half a Million Sign #FreeTommy Petition

More than half a million people have signed a petition calling for the right wing activist Tommy Robinson to be freed from jail, in just a few days.

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

UK: MPs Call for Action on Rape Gangs as Government Accused of ‘Letting Victims Down’

A group of 20 MPs have called for concrete action to be taken against “sickening” grooming gangs, as the government was accused of “letting down” thousands of victims of child sexual exploitation in the UK.

In a letter to the Home Office noting “alarming” similarities in how the gangs of mostly Pakistani-heritage men operate across Britain, the cross-party group called forgovernment research into why the abuse is taking place.

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

Turkey Hits Back at Macron Over ‘Dictator’ Magazine Cover

ISTANBUL (AFP) — Turkey on Tuesday angrily hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron over his backing to the right of freedom of expression for a weekly magazine that called President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “The dictator”.

In a tweet, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also appeared to back pro-Erdogan activists in France who tried to tear down images of the front cover story on newsstands.

“Democracy is not just limited to accepting insults, curses and lies by one side but also taking into account the point of view and sensitivities of the other,” Cavusoglu wrote on Twitter in reply to a tweet by Macron….

           — Hat tip: C. Cantoni [Return to headlines]
 

Anti-Putin Russian Journalist Has Colleagues in Tears After He Appears Alive in Ukraine

AN ANTI-Putin journalist had his colleagues in tears and in fits of joy after it emerged his death had been staged in a desperate attempt to catch a Ukrainian man that had been hired to kill him.

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

Ecuador’s Moreno: Julian Assange Asylum Will Continue With Conditions

President Lenin Moreno said granting the Ecuadorean citizenship to Assange was the foreign minister’s idea.

Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno says his country will respect Julian Assange’s right to asylum but only if the Wikileaks founder “respects the conditions” his government has put in place for him to continue his stay at their London Embassy.

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

71% of Brits Say Immigration Divides Communities

New statistics from think tank Demos have shown that 71 per cent of Brits — the vast majority — believe that immigration has made us more divided.

The stats also show that 44 per cent believe immigration has been negative overall (compared to 41 per cent believing it’s positive),and that the British people are overwhelmingly concerned about their identity.

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

Austria Wants to Tie Minimum Income to German Language Skills

The amount of the minimum income protection in Austria is now to be made dependent on the German language skills, among other things. EURACTIV Germany reports from Vienna.

In each of the nine Austrian states, there is currently a separate minimum income scheme. Now the Austrian government has decided to create a nationwide legal regulation, which should be decided by the summer.

The general aim is to make immigration into the Austrian social system more difficult and to curb “minimum income tourism” between the federal states.

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

Christians in Western European Countries Attacked by Jihadis and Flooded With Migrants Are Reportedly Less Positive About Islam

Christians in Western European countries are reportedly more negative than their non-religious counterparts toward Muslim migrants after years of terrorist attacks and floods of refugees.

The Pew Research Center reported on anti-Muslim and anti-migrant sentiment among European Christians as part of a survey conducted in 15 countries.

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

France: Paris Police Clear Out City’s Largest Illegal Migrant Camp

PARIS (AP) — Police on Wednesday cleared out about 1,000 people from the largest makeshift migrant camp in the French capital, which became a focal point in France’s immigration debate.

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

French Woman Beaten up by Afghan Asylum Seekers ‘For Being Too Lightly Dressed’

A 33-year-old woman was severely beaten by two Afghan asylum seekers last week, France’s Valeurs Actuelles reports.

The assault happened on a train leaving Paris. The men taunted and insulted the woman for not being dressed enough to suit them.

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

New Arrivals in Sweden ‘Should be Taught More About Swedish Laws’

Anyone moving to Sweden — from asylum seekers to expats — should be made to study the laws that make up the Swedish way of life, says Sweden’s Integration Minister Ylva Johansson.

Swedish laws, Swedish rights, and how Sweden works. This should be general knowledge among those who live in Sweden, and new arrivals should be no exception.

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

After Alfie Evans, Vatican Issues ‘Charter of the Rights of the Incurable Child’

The Vatican has struck back at the system that decreed the death of young Alfie Evans, publishing a ten-point “Charter of the Rights of the Incurable Child” Monday.

The Alfie Evans affair, which pitted the rights of the family against the authority of the state, ended in a death sentence for the British infant who was prohibited from traveling to another country for care. The Vatican’s children hospital, Bambino Gesù, was caught up in the middle of the affair after Pope Francis weighed in on the side of Alfie’s parents and the hospital offered to treat the child for free.

Italy even granted Alfie citizenship to ease the passage to Italy should the UK have permitted him to be moved.

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

9 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/30/2018

  1. “UK: MPs Call for Action on Rape Gangs as Government Accused of ‘Letting Victims Down’ …. the .. group called forgovernment research into why the abuse is taking place.”

    Suggestion: consult Robert Spencer.

  2. “The Turkish government is also reportedly encouraging Erdogan supporters in France in their activism against President Macron.”

    That’s called fomenting revolution isn’t it?

    • No no! It’s “Reappraisal of cross cultural equalities within the context of international democratic tolerance in a post majority setting” .

        • Again, no !!

          It is a peroratory analysis of contemporary social definitions guided by a preliminary basis of hypothetical re-recognition of subset distinctions as parameter to a monolinear objective.

          Ok, it’s a bit long winded and all, but there is a profound meaning attached to the phrase, and even if it is not really worth finding out what that is it will keep you busy until I come up with my next sentence … Ok, its Newspeak, gone are the old days alas of writing “please turn over” on both sides of a piece of paper… sigh.

          • Sucking up to the native French majority by pretending to be upset. Probably calling Erdogan for tips behind the scenes.

          • Hi Anon,
            you should apply for a tenure in post- modern deconstructivism at Antifagasta College .
            Make two more sentences like this and you’ ve got a curriculum that will feed you a lifetime.
            ( are you Ivy-leage trained?)

  3. The mayoress of Barcelona Ada Colau stated she is hopeful over the censure of Rajoy in Spain, which she celebrates.

    “This she affirmed in statements to the media, before starting a fund raising dinner called by the NGO Proactiva Open Arms , held in the park of El Retiro, in Madrid”

    https://okdiario.com/espana/2018/05/31/colau-celebra-mocion-censura-rajoy-llegado-tarde-pero-mas-vale-tarde-que-nunca-2370609#.WxBsfnYZvFE.twitter

    https://okdiario.com/internacional/2018/03/27/barco-proactiva-open-arms-seguira-retenido-italia-decision-del-juez-2029926

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