Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/31/2018

French police clashed with rioting, drunken migrants in Calais today; four policemen were wounded. Also in Calais, a group of migrants smashed a car window and attacked the women inside using makeshift weapons.

In other migration news, the racist, xenophobic Libyan coast guard picked up 611 migrants in the Mediterranean and returned them to the coast of Libya.

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Viktor Orbán: “The good news is that the days of the European Commission are numbered”

The following video shows an excerpt from a speech given last Saturday (July 28, 2018) by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the annual Bálványos Summer Open University and Student Camp in Tusnádfürdő (Băile Tuşnad), in the ethnic Hungarian region of western Romania.

I’ve included a transcript of the entire 43-minute speech below the jump. The section that Vlad excerpted runs from about 27:56 to about 34:24. The entire video is currently being processed, but Vlad says that will probably take most of the night. You can expect to find it here sometime tomorrow.

Viktor Orbán’s talks at these conferences are notable for their breadth of intellect and insight. His mostly off-the-cuff remarks are calm, reasonable, and thoughtful. As Vlad said, “This is a speech by a grownup. You don’t get many of those in politics.”

Many thanks to CrossWare for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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Pay No Attention to That Creature Behind the Curtain

A reader in the UK sent us a donation yesterday, and included the following note:

I’d really like to see articles on what we can do to escape the cultural Marxists and the Muslims, for example anyone advocating secession or other more radical solutions.

Nothing is being done in the UK really, It’s just slow motion cultural suicide. And it’s not so slow these days.

He’s quite right: that’s an important and worthwhile topic. I’ve written about it in the past, and should be writing more about it nowadays, because it’s far more crucial than most of the other topics I cover . However, I tend to shy away from it, because the discussion in the comments on such a post always devolves to the same unhelpful recommendations.

People who contemplate the iron fist of Cultural Marxism — and the Muslim invaders it forces down the throats of Western culture — generally arrive at the same basic prescription: “We need to do X.”

Now, X could stand for any number of useful courses of action, but what all those have in common is that they have not been implemented in the past, are not being implemented now, and show no signs of being implemented within the foreseeable future. Those who advocate for them provide no step-by-step plan for how we might proceed from where we are now to reach the desired solution. There is no suggested course of practical political action. There is only “We need to do X.” Over and over and over again.

While we’re at it, we might as well wish for a magic pony.

According to the concerned citizens who advocate for drastic solutions, the things “we” need to do may include one or more of the following:

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Stage Right, Enter Brazil

This sounds like the political arena in South America will soon be crowded with vast right wing conspiracies.

Good news for a continent that has had to overcome an economic history that ignored the rule of law and property rights, the two fundamental building blocks of a genuine free state. Perhaps the breakdown of the socialist dream-turned-nightmare, Venezuela, is simply speeding up this process?

Hmmm…given all that’s going on in Europe, it appears this a global move…

Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/30/2018

German police used huge weighted trucks to form a protective barrier preventing Islamic terror attacks on a Pride parade. The large concrete blocks are commonly called “Merkel legos”. Are the protective trucks perhaps “Angelorries”?

In other news, the Spanish coast guard rescued more 200 migrants traveling in 21 boats in the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Nina Drakfors: Swedish Politicians Must Put the Welfare of Their Own People Before Anyone Else

Nina Drakfors is a former Social Democrat in Sweden who woke up to what is happening to her country — or, more precisely, what is being done to it by its own political leaders and the globalist elites who are pushing for the erasure of national borders.

She originally gave this talk at a meeting in Copenhagen at the invitation of the Danish anti-sharia group For Frihed.

Many thanks to Tania Groth for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/29/2018

French President Emmanuel “Toy Boy” Macron has denied that his disgraced bodyguard Alexandre Benalla was his gay lover. Mr. Macron also denied that the bodyguard had access to France’s nuclear codes. Mr. Benalla was recently forced to resign, due to revelations about his scandalous behavior.

In other news, the Spanish maritime rescue service rescued almost 1,000 migrants in just two days.

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The End Times of Albion: Another Hirsch

The essay below by Seneca III is the latest in the “End Times of Albion” series. Previously: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6A, Part 6B, Part 7A, Part 7B, Part 7C, and Part 8.

Hirsch + Hirsch and others — BAME Racism Echoing Through Feminist Megaphones

The End Times of Albion, Part 7D

by Seneca III

Another Hirsch: Shirin Hirsch

I came across Shirin Hirsch roughly about the same time as I did the Afua woman (Part 7B) but this time from a different direction. For the 50th anniversary of Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech the BBC or a production company commissioned by it began to prepare a programme using the voice of an actor to replicate the voice of Powell because only a few fragmentary recordings of the original speech still exist.

It would appear that in the process the BBC (or the production company) consulted across a range of well-known race-baiters and asked them for a contribution without fully explaining the intent to broadcast the replicated speech in full.

When this became known it resulted in several of those contributors publicly withdrawing their sponsorship. The foremost amongst them was one Shirin Hirsch, a young woman whom I had never heard of before:

A controversial BBC broadcast of Enoch Powell’s notorious Rivers of Blood speech has been abandoned by its contributors amid a growing backlash…

…The BBC has responded to the criticism by urging people to “wait to hear the programme before they judge it.”

But Dr Shirin Hirsch, an academic at the University of Wolverhampton and a contributor to the show, said she was “disgusted by the way the BBC are promoting this” and had “made a mistake” for being interviewed.

She claimed on Twitter: “the producers are not answering my calls or emails where I am clearly asking for my quotes to be withdrawn”

Two things here put up my red flag; first that it was another Hirsch contributing to the deconstructionist dialectic so soon after the other; and secondly the name ‘Shirin’, which I recognised as a Muslim baby name meaning ‘sweet and pleasant’. The name is sometimes found within the Akan tribal grouping in Ghana, to which the Ashanti sub-tribe (more correctly ‘Assanti’) belongs (see 7B).

‘Curiouser and curiouser!” cried the Alice within me, and I decided a deeper look might well turn out to be productive. It was; here from Wolverhampton University’s web page:

Shirin Hirsch researches race, class and migration in post war British history. She is currently working on a public history project exploring Enoch Powell, race and resistance in the West Midlands. This focuses on the unstable relationship between Powell and his constituency and how Powell’s politics were negotiated in the area. 2018 will be the 50th anniversary of Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech and to reflect on this moment, Shirin is working closely with the Wolverhampton Art Gallery and the artists Anand Chhabra and Jagdish Patel to prepare an exhibition on the speech and its impact in Wolverhampton. A number of events are planned in April involving the local community to draw out the memories of resistance in response to Powell’s speech and to document the experiences of ethnic minority communities in Wolverhampton. This project Shirin is coordinating has recently received/ shared Heritage Lottery funding.

Short Interlude

I noted immediately that WU’s Faculty of Social Sciences is located in the ‘Mary Seacole’ Building. I knew, from past research into one of the biggest ideological scams of modern times, that there are at least two other Universities harbouring Mary Seacole buildings, Salford and Brunell.

Question: Who, then, is/was Mary Seacole?

Answer: A recently resurrected icon (and a very accomplished self-promoter) whose past became a carefully falsified construct of epic proportions that was foisted upon modern Britain by the butterfly horde of Marxist-Socialist social engineers who had been spawned by the pseudo-science of ‘Sociology’…and yes, you guessed it, Mary Seacole was not a native-born white Englishwoman, she was:

From Wiki (all bold is mine, S III):

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Cole Porter on An Oslo Rooftop

Cole Porter’s spirit lives!

Angelina Jordan is one of my favorite singers. In this clip from 2016, she’s ten years old. As you can hear, she has perfect pitch; after listening to everything she’s published, for clarity and interpretation, there is still nothing that reaches this level of delivery. Her guitarist here ‘gets’ her music and complements it wonderfully. I always look forward to what she does with his backing.

Ms Jordan was born in Norway and at least one of her parents is of Iranian extraction…other than that I don’t know much about her, except that she moved to Los Angeles, plus that she performs in her bare feet. Oh, and that she was in Norway recently to sing with the state band…not so good. Nothing like the previous summer’s work with a back-up band at festivals, what with her long underwear peeking out, and those cools licks from the brass in the background…hunky Norwegian guys.

While she was still too young to do “Porgy and Bess” well in 2016, no doubt her voice has matured by now and will continue to do so. Gershwin was urbane, even when he wasn’t trying.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/28/2018

The news feed is light tonight, for some reason. Not all our tipsters live in California or Scandinavia, so it can’t be the wildfires keeping the tips down. Maybe everyone’s just gone off for a well-deserved vacation — perhaps on the lip of the crater at Mt. Kilauea in Hawaii…

The most significant news story of the day is the reported expert opinion that George H.W. Bush’s former cardiologist, the late Dr. Mark Hausknecht, was probably targeted by a trained assassin. Three well-placed shots from a moving bicycle would seem to indicate that his killer had military or law enforcement training. There is no apparent motive for the murder of the doctor, who was a Buddhist and a former Boy Scout leader.

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The Battle of Old Orléans

On July 25 a church in the French city of Orléans was defaced with graffiti. Nobody knows the perpetrator or the motive, but a mysterious message — “Allah ou Akbar” — was included in the graffiti. I have no idea what that’s about.

As it happens, it is in the same church that Joan of Arc is honored every year with a religious concert. But I’m sure that’s only a coincidence…

Many thanks to Ava Lon for translating this article from 20 Minutes:

Orléans: arson, destruction and heinous graffiti in a church

On Wednesday evening, a church in Orléans was partially set on fire. Graffiti “Allah ou Akbar”[sic] were found on the building…

by Caroline Politi
July 26th 2018

[Photo caption: The Saint-Pierre du Martroi Church was victim of defacement]

The criminal nature of the arson leaves no doubt. On Wednesday evening, the Saint-Pierre du Martroi Church in Orléans was the target of a series of malevolent acts, according to police. The religious music sheets were set on fire, furniture was defaced, heinous graffiti were discovered on several walls of the religious building. In the middle of those graffiti, the investigators found the inscription: “Allah ou Akbar” [sic], the source specifies.

The fire, promptly tackled by the fire brigade, didn’t damage the structure of the building. An investigation was opened by the police station in Orléans.

What Really Happened on Danforth Avenue in Toronto?

Last Monday a mentally disturbed young man named Faisal Hussain went on a shooting rampage at a café in the Greektown district of Toronto. Two people were killed in the unfortunate incident and thirteen more wounded.

The gunman’s motives remain mysterious. It is thought that he frequented extremist websites, and in the past had traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan, but Toronto police said that he had no apparent connection to terrorism. One thing is certain: the incident had nothing to do with Islam.

A few days ago Vlad Tepes interviewed the former CIA station chief Brad Johnson about last week’s events in Toronto. In their discussion Vlad and Mr. Johnson speculated about some possible angles to the Faisal Hussein case that the Toronto police might have missed:

Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/27/2018

The Spanish coast guard says that it is overwhelmed, and can’t cope with the huge influx of migrants crossing the Mediterranean. Its vessels had to rescue more than 600 migrants in just one morning.

In other migration news, Hungary has just imposed a tax on NGOs that advocate for mass migration. Meanwhile, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has drastically reduced the benefits paid to asylum seekers, and plans to use the savings to pay police who work overtime shifts.

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Is It Time to Bring Back Treason?

Her Majesty’s Government is being advised to revive the laws against treason, according to The Guardian:

Renew treason laws to jail enemies of the state for life, says thinktank content

Ancient treason laws should be renewed to allow enemies of the state to be jailed for life, a right-leaning thinktank has recommended.

Britons who betray the country through acts of terror or by aiding hostile nations should be dealt with as traitors, according to a Policy Exchange report.

It warned a wave of terrorists was coming up for release and claimed the country would be safer if they had been jailed for betrayal.

Treason laws dating back to 1351 are now unworkable, according to the report; the authors of which included Conservative and Labour MPs.

It was backed by the former home secretary, Amber Rudd, told the Daily Telegraph “the time has come for us to consider additional measures, such as those set out in this report, that we need to deal with those who betray this country”.

Jonathan Evans, the former head of MI5, said the report was “timely and balanced” and Richard Walton, Scotland Yard’s former head of counter-terrorism, said its recommendations were “appropriate” for jihadists, the paper reported.

In a foreword to the report, the former lord chief justice of England and Wales, Igor Judge, wrote: “If a citizen of this country chooses to fight with the Taliban in Afghanistan against British forces, his crime is more than terrorism. It is treason, and should be prosecuted accordingly.”

The last person to be convicted under the act was William Joyce, more commonly known as Lord Haw-Haw, who was hanged in 1946 for assisting Nazi Germany.

Policy Exchange and Ms. Rudd seem to be taking the advice of ECAW’s blog. The following article was posted by ECAW a year and a half ago (visit the original to find the links):

But what should Mrs May do?

I recently tried to encourage an English friend to inform herself about Islam. She said “Never mind that. What should Mrs May do tomorrow morning?” It’s a fair question isn’t it? So here goes…

Unfortunately the very first thing Mrs May needs to do is to inform herself about Islam. Anyone who can say “The actions of ISIS have absolutely no basis in anything written in the Quran” has clearly never read it.

It should only take her a month or so to get a basic understanding, if she is a quick learner. Without it the measures proposed below will just appear senseless or worse.

So, first thing tomorrow morning Mrs May should order some books on Islam. I recommend anything by Robert Spencer, whom she banned from Britain for having said that “Islam has doctrines involving violence against unbelievers” (it has).

But she also needs to go to the source. That means studying the Koran (especially the first nine blood-curdling suras) and the earliest biography of Mohammed by Ibn Ishaq. She should also sample the Hadiths (traditions about Mohammed), the mediaeval commentaries by Islamic scholars (such as the one by Ibn Kathir ) and a manual of Sharia law (only a few sections really concern non-Muslims). [NB unfortunately the manual in question, The Reliance of the Traveller, is no longer accessible online since the translator has since used copyright law to get all the various versions taken down. Mrs May will have to buy a copy.]

She should then acquaint herself with Islam’s history of relentless warfare against non-Muslims, only interrupted by an interlude of European colonisation, and look at a map and notice the current insurgencies on most of the borders of the Islamic heartlands.

She should come to understand Islam’s dual nature, on the one hand a religion and on the other a totalitarian political ideology. No one gives a damn about flying donkeys and parading round a meteorite in Mecca, but the legal system which claims authority over non-Muslims and mandates jihad until the entire world is converted or subjugated is quite another matter.

In particular, she should come to a view on two questions:

“Is Islam inherently and unavoidably supremacist?”
and
“Are we already in a war, that of global jihad, whether we like it or not?”

If her answers are no and no, as they would be for the great majority of the population who have not enquired into Islam, then the following measures will make no sense. They will merely look like persecuting a particular minority, which they would actually be if applied to Sikhs or Jews.

If her answers are yes and yes then these measures will follow naturally, to attempt to put a brake on the Islamisation of Britain. So, what should she do on the first day after her period of study?

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