Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/17/2018

Spain has now overtaken Italy as the preferred destination of migrants crossing the Mediterranean. In its latest batch of rescues, the Spanish maritime rescue service picked up 328 migrants.

In other migration news, Austria refuses to take any more migrants, specifically those from the load of 450 that recently landed in Italy. Also, four pro-migration activists in France were arrested for helping migrants cross the border into the country.

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Financial Crisis
» Italy: June Inflation Rises to 1.3%
 
USA
» 10 Attack Quotes From Establishment Insiders About the Trump-Putin Summit That Will Make Your Skin Crawl
» Chicago Considering $6 Million Universal Basic Income Pilot
» CNN’s Philip Mudd Calls for ‘Shadow Government’ To Rise up, Oppose Trump
» CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Gets Schooled by Senator Rand Paul on Election Meddling… “Trump Derangement Syndrome Motivates All of This”
» Cops Attempt Gun Confiscation Without Warrant, But One Man Didn’t Allow It
» Democrat Meltdown, Part 2
» Kevin Shipp: ‘Indictments Are Coming… Trump Cannot be Bribed’
» Lee County, Virginia, School Board Votes to Arm and Train Teachers
» Nearly Every Mass Shooting in Past 20 Years Has One Thing in Common…and it’s Not Guns
» Putin Drops Bomb at Helsinki Presser: Says US Intelligence Helped Move $400,000,000 to Hillary Campaign!!
» Soros Believes Liberal Democracy Endangered
» The Creation of Dystopia Now Unfolding is One of the Gravest Threats Humanity Faces
» The FBI is Ripe With Corruption, Bias, And Massive Abuse of Power
» Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits it Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States
» Why the ‘Resistance’ in the State Department is a Gift to Trump
 
Canada
» After Two Weeks, Premier Ford’s Influence Felt Beyond Ontario
 
Europe and the EU
» Back on Track? May Survives 24 Hours of Brexit Chaos (Just) As Leadership Threat Seen Off
» Brits Pick Boris and Nigel as Brexit Leaders Over the Prime Minister
» England: Schoolchildren Given Lessons on ‘Living Knife-Free’ As Youth Violence Soars
» Norway Calls in Military to Relieve Exhausted Fire Service as One Dies Fighting Forest Blaze
» One of Belgium’s “Most Wanted” Criminals Deported From the Country
» Radical Islam Wins in Sweden: Number of Islamists Increases by 900% With Children Being Raised to Hate the West — Study
» Rap Culture and Islam to Blame for French Riots: ‘They Are Looking for Opportunities to Unleash Hell’
» UK: Tory MP Smith: Remain Spent More Than Twice as Much as Leave in Referendum
» UK: Theresa May Criticised for Taking Early Holiday Without Delivering Brexit
 
Balkans
» French ‘Anti-Racism’ Organisation Bashes Croatian Football Team Because it is Too White
 
Russia
» Trump in Helsinki: The Score (I)
 
South Asia
» Google Engineer is Beaten to Death by 2,000-Strong Mob in Latest Attack Sparked by False WhatsApp Messages Accusing People of Kidnapping Children in India
 
Far East
» Can Artificial Intelligence Compete With Real Doctors?
» Trade War Intensifies: China Files Complaint With WTO Over US Tariffs
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘American Patriot’: Australian PM Backs Donald Trump, Defends Putin Meeting
» Bloody Home Invasion Leaves a Couple Fighting for Their Lives With Stab Wounds to the Neck and Chest — as a Rebels Bikie is Rushed to Hospital With a Serious Gunshot Wound
» ‘There is a Real Concern’: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Finally Breaks His Silence on Sudanese Gangs
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Violent Islamist Groups Are Gaining Strength in Africa
 
Immigration
» Australia: Foreign Students ‘Gaming the Visa System’ To Stay in Australia Are a ‘Major Factor’ Pushing Wages Down While Putting Pressure on the Country’s Housing Market
» Austria Refuses to Take More Boat Migrants After Ship of 450 Arrives in Europe
» British, European Public Against Taking in More Migrants
» Czech PM: EU Must Turn Back Boats, Resettling Migrants is ‘Road to Hell’
» Four Activists Held in France for Escorting Migrants Over Border
» Le Pen Demands End to French Visas and Currency Transfers for Algerians
» Mass Migration: “The Fatal Solvent of the EU”
» Merkel’s Insane Deportation Circus Endangers German Citizens
» Spain Picks up 328 Migrants Departing Morocco
» Spain Overtakes Italy as Sea Route Destination for Migrants
 
Culture Wars
» Little House on the Prairie Now Declared Racist and Homophobic
» Psychology Itself is Under Scrutiny
» ‘Tedious Old Racist’: Richard Dawkins Under Fire for Dismissing ‘Aggressive’ Muslim Prayer
» US Marxists Working to Destroy Christian Churches in America
 
General
» Computer Problems? It Could be Possessed by a Demon
 

Italy: June Inflation Rises to 1.3%

Rome, July 17 — Italian inflation hit 1.3% in June, ISTAT said Tuesday, lowering its original estimate of 1.4%.

The national consumer price index, net of tobacco, rose 0.2% on the previous month and 1.3% on an annual basis, up from 1% in May.

Prices in the inflation ‘trolley’ of the most frequently bought goods rose 2.2% on an annual basis, from 1.7% in May.

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

10 Attack Quotes From Establishment Insiders About the Trump-Putin Summit That Will Make Your Skin Crawl

Donald Trump’s summit meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki has unleashed a torrent of criticism that is unlike anything that we have ever seen. U.S. and Russian leaders have been getting together for decades, but this particular gathering was labeled the #TreasonSummit on social media before it even began. In the end, nothing that Trump could have possibly done would have pleased his critics, and the joint press conference at the end of the summit was enough to push some of them completely over the edge. Here are 10 attack quotes from establishment insiders about the Trump-Putin summit that will make your skin crawl…

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Can you remember a time in the modern history of our country when the mainstream media and members of Congress talked about a president in such a manner?

The mainstream media in particular is supposed to maintain some semblance of objectivity, but they hate Donald Trump so much that they can’t resist saying these things.

At this point they hate Donald Trump so much that they would be quite happy to sabotage peace talks between the United States and Russia just to damage him. This is something that Caitlin Johnstone commented on in her most recent article…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Chicago Considering $6 Million Universal Basic Income Pilot

Citing the danger automation poses to low-income jobs, Chicago Alderman Ameya Pawar wants to hand cash to every man, woman and child in the city according to The Intercept — while the city’s broken pension system has already saddled every resident with $11,000 of debt.

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

CNN’s Philip Mudd Calls for ‘Shadow Government’ To Rise up, Oppose Trump

In a disturbing declaration during Monday’s CNN Newsroom following President Trump’s controversial press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, CNN analyst and former CIA/FBI official Philip Mudd called for a self-appointed “shadow government” to step forward and counter the democratically elected one. He then had the audacity to complain about “Trumpianism” fighting Americanism.

Fresh off of declaring the Trump-Putin press conference “one of the most disgraceful performances” by an American president, AC360 host Anderson Cooper completed the CNN’s feedback loop by touting Arizona Republican Senator John McCain saying the same thing. He then turned to Mudd and asked if he agreed.

Of course, Mudd did but his next concern was in regards to who was going to step up to oppose the President. “You have seen senators come out. In the past, we have seen the senator who is in the midst of a painful illness, Senator McCain. Senators like Jeff Flake who are leaving the Senate. Now you see Marco Rubio still, obviously, in the fight speaking out,” he boasted.

He spoke glowingly about how there were many people at different levels of government who were saying and doing things contrary to the President. “Curious point in American government. When do we see almost a shadow government come out and say, ‘We cannot side with the government, whether its cabinet or the Senate.’ I think that’s the big question,” he opined.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Gets Schooled by Senator Rand Paul on Election Meddling… “Trump Derangement Syndrome Motivates All of This”

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer got more than he bargained for when attempted to trick Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) into criticizing President Trump for meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helenski.

Wolf’s conversation with Senator Paul started out on a contentious note when it was clear that Blitzer had no interest in hearing anything Paul had to say, as he launched into an anti-Trump rant that made it almost impossible for Senator Paul to answer his question. When Paul finally got the opportunity to talk, he reminded the grand-standing #FakeNewsCNN host that he was invited to be interviewed.

Senator Paul went on to explain why he agrees with President Trump’s decision to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and felt he was justified in calling out the bad behavior of the US intelligence community, using James Clapper and John Brennan as examples of two people who “ginned up” the whole Trump-Russian collusion story with no evidence. Paul reminded Blitzer that John Brennan, who just accused President Trump of “treason” actually voted for a Communist when he was younger.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Cops Attempt Gun Confiscation Without Warrant, But One Man Didn’t Allow It

Police in New Jersey have officially crossed the [thin blue] line and literally attempted to confiscate guns from an army veteran without a warrant. But it didn’t go as planned, because Leonard Cottrell Jr. refused to comply with the orders of the cops.

Eventually, all gun confiscation will be carried out by the police; who of “don’t make the laws, they just enforce them,” and Cottrell found this out the hard way. After serving two tours in Operation Iraqi Freedom overseas, Cottrell found himself at end of the state’s tyrannical oppression and gun elimination scheme.

According to The Daily Wire, two police officers were given orders to go to Cottrell’s home to confiscate his guns. The order followers complied, and “because [Cottrell’s] 13-year-old son had made a comment at school about the Millstone Middle School’s security, and the officers wanted to confiscate Cottrell’s firearms as part of an investigation,” NJ.com reported. But Cottrell disobeyed and defied the orders of the police.

Cottrell legally owns a shotgun and a handgun (not quite a cache of weapons by any stretch of the imagination) but based solely on comments made by his 13-year-old son, police demanded all his guns. According to the report by The Daily Wire, Cottrell says that his wife let the officers into their home and let them search their sons’ room where they did not find any weapons. But the search didn’t end there. The officers then made attempts to try to take his firearms, which “he has all the correct permits to own.”

“No one from the state was going to take my firearms without due process,” Cottrell said, according to NJ.com. According to New Jersey law, signed into law, Cottrell’s disobedience is “illegal.” Democrat Governor Phil Murphy a bill that makes it incredibly easy for law enforcement to confiscate firearms without due process and for seemingly any reason the state deems.

Cottrell said that his son is also very upset by the situation. The teenager did not do anything wrong and the entire situation is being misconstrued and blown up. “He didn’t do anything wrong, and he doesn’t understand why it happened — he was just having a conversation with nothing as far as threats,” Cottrell said. “It shouldn’t have blown up the way it did. But he understands it happened, there are consequences and there’s fallout from his actions.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrat Meltdown, Part 2

This absolute hatred for anything conservative since Trump was elected has got to keep you wondering just how deep the left has gone in believing that only their opinion matters. Years ago, William F. Buckley, Jr. stated “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” It has gotten to the point where in some so-called places of higher education you are not even allowed to espouse a conservative point of view.

Most colleges will not allow a conservative to speak on their campus. As we have seen in Berkley over the last couple years, you know, the so-called bastion of free speech, the students destroy public and private property protesting even the thought of a different opinion. So much for their stand for free speech. Over a third of our colleges don’t even have a Republican professor: The latest study of American campuses shows that nearly 40 percent of the colleges surveyed did not have even one professor on their faculty who identified as Republican — confirming that liberal indoctrination in classroom politics is no myth.

[Comment: This is the Communists “Demonization” phase. If these rabid communists come to power expect Soviet II, with gulags and extermination.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Kevin Shipp: ‘Indictments Are Coming… Trump Cannot be Bribed’

Whistleblower and former CIA officer Kevin Shipp stated clearly that indictments are coming for Hillary Clinton and the deep state because Donald Trump cannot be bribed. In an interview with USA Watchdog’s Greg Hunter, Shipp says this deep state espionage will eventually be exposed to the public.

During his discussion with Hunter, Shipp says that what Hillary Clinton did with her charity and Uranium One while she was Secretary of State was a crime for the history books. Shipp explains, “Hillary Clinton used this to launder money in foreign banks so it wasn’t subject to U.S. laws, congressional subpoenas, or FOIA demands for the evidence. This was done to launder this money globally into the Clinton Foundation so the U.S. government could not examine it at all.”

“Obviously [Hillary’s] not stupid, she is diabolical,” says Shipp of Hillary Clinton’s decision to have an unsecured server as Secretary of State. “She knew darn well what she was doing…the Clinton Foundation is a global crime syndicate.”

Shipp continued saying, “we just found out recently that…at least 30,000 of her emails went to a foreign entity that was not on any of the distribution lists…they’re trying to figure out who that is now…this reeks of espionage to me.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Lee County, Virginia, School Board Votes to Arm and Train Teachers

he Lee County, Virginia, school board has unanimously approved a proposal that would pay for the arming and training of school teachers in the county.

“The only way to fight a gun if somebody comes through these doors with a gun to shoot our students, is with another gun,” says Michael Kidwell, Lee County School Board chairman.

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

Nearly Every Mass Shooting in Past 20 Years Has One Thing in Common…and it’s Not Guns

Liberals would like you to believe the NRA is responsible for every school and mass shooting in America. We all know the guns don’t shoot themselves, so why does the media and the politicians who are beholden to major drug companies ignore the common thread in almost every single mass shooting case over the past 20 years?

Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and it’s not the weapons used.

The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes.

Multiple credible scientific studies going back more than a decade, as well as internal documents from certain pharmaceutical companies that suppressed the information, show that SSRI drugs ( Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors ) have well known, but unreported side effects, including but not limited to suicide and other violent behavior…

It should be emphasized that so-called adverse reactions are most likely to occur when starting or discontinuing the drug, increasing or lowering the dose or when switching from one SSRI to another. Adverse reactions are often misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or some other “mental illness of unknown origin” when the symptoms may be entirely iatrogenic (treatment induced). Withdrawal, especially abrupt withdrawal, from any of these medications can cause severe neuropsychiatric and physical symptoms that can also cause the above signs and symptoms. It is important to withdraw extremely slowly from these drugs, often over a period of a year or more, under the supervision of a qualified and experienced specialist, if available. Withdrawal is sometimes more severe than the original symptoms or problems.

SSRI “adverse reactions” are actually expected, understandable and therefore should not be surprising to physicians. They are not actually “side effects”…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Putin Drops Bomb at Helsinki Presser: Says US Intelligence Helped Move $400,000,000 to Hillary Campaign!!

Putin offered permitting officials in the US, including Mueller, to Russia to assist in their investigation of the supposed Trump-Russia collusion story. Then Putin dropped his bomb where the US could reciprocate Russia in one of their investigations —

For instance, we can bring up Mr. Browder, in this particular case. Business associates of Mr. Browder have earned over $1.5 billion in Russia and never paid any taxes neither in Russia or the United States and yet the money escaped the country. They were transferred to the United States. They sent [a] huge amount of money, $400,000,000, as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary Clinton. Well that’s their personal case. It might have been legal, the contribution itself but the way the money was earned was illegal. So we have solid reason to believe that some [US] intelligence officers accompanied and guided these transactions. So we have an interest in questioning them.

MORE on Bill Browder… Browder is an American-born British financier. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, an investment fund that at one time was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia.

Bill Browder’s grandfather was head of the Communist Party USA.

The Russian government put Browder on the Interpol most wanted list in 2017.

The Washington Post reported:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Soros Believes Liberal Democracy Endangered

George Soros, the Hungarian-born leftist who has spent the last 15 years or so unloading money to prop up the Democratic Party, its candidates, and street activists, is in trouble.

At least if you the believe the New York Times, which published a major feature on the man who might be the most dangerous leftist on the planet.

The Times reported in its headline, “Soros Bet Big on Liberal Democracy. Now He Fears He Is Losing.” And just to be sure readers know where the Times is headed, it adds this subhead; “His enemies paint him as all-powerful, but the billionaire philanthropist believes that his political legacy has never been in greater jeopardy.”

One can only hope.

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

The Creation of Dystopia Now Unfolding is One of the Gravest Threats Humanity Faces

In the only video below featuring Pastor Paul Begley interviewing Steve Quayle, Quayle immediately tells us that artificial intelligence is now advancing so fast and furiously, it’s almost impossible to keep up with the advances with new headline stories emerging every day.

Speaking with us about his just released book, “Terminated: The End Of Man Is Here”, Quayle re-emphasize’s the warning seen on the book cover: “Here lies the human race who refused to recognize their end when it stared them in the face”. Referring to A.I. as ‘anti-christ intelligence’, Quayle warns us that the road we’re on, with A.I. being ‘packaged’ to the masses dressed in pretty bows, will surely lead to our destruction.

And while the masses aren’t quite yet seeing what Quayle, Elon Musk and others are warning about, as Hacker Noon reports in this new story that Zero Hedge republished on their website a few days ago, the creation of dystopia that is now unfolding before our eyes is one of the gravest threats that humanity faces.

As Search Enterprise AI recently reported, the risks of A.I. continue to grow the more pervasive the technology becomes and what most people aren’t yet seeing is the fact that once A.I. becomes completely autonomous, what human beings want from A.I. will no longer matter as ‘it’ will be making decisions based upon the needs of A.I., not the needs nor wants nor at the direction of human beings.

And with many globalists actually believing that A.I. and ‘transhumanism’ combined will allow them to ‘become Gods’ and ‘live forever’, the future unfolding before us will look unlike anything we’ve seen yet in the past.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The FBI is Ripe With Corruption, Bias, And Massive Abuse of Power

Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by strictly legal means … We have a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state. It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government. This ruthless power-seeking elite is a disease of our century. This group is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically irremovable. — Republican Senator William Jenner to Congress in 1954

Senator William Jenner was right and today we call what he described in 1954, the “Deep State.” Since Donald J. Trump announced that he was a candidate for President of the United States, there has been a concerted effort to destroy him and all the people who surround him…that includes all of us “deplorables” who voted for him.

Congressional Examination of Agent Strzok

Why didn’t the Congressmen get together and each of them ask different questions of this agent? Why did most of them repeat the same thing? Why didn’t they hire an actual trial lawyer who knew how to cross examine a witness? Why didn’t they give all their questions to Louie Gohmert who was a defense attorney in the Army and a state district judge for Texas’ 7th Judicial District for ten years? He could have parsed them out and there would have been no repetitions.

Where were the questions about who told Agents Strzok and Pientka to go to National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s office and interview him when General Flynn thought it was a routine meeting? Was former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who was fired by President Trump, the person who walked them to Flynn’s office as has been reported? Where were the questions about the FBI’s 302s of the Flynn interview by Strzok and Pientka who then allegedly gave them to fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe? (The 302s are the written reports by agents of interviews.) Where were the questions about why those 302s haven’t been given to Congress? Where were the questions as to whether Andrew McCabe had changed the 302s of Strzok and Pientka to make it look as though General Flynn actually did lie? And where were the questions about the September 2, 2016 Lisa Page texts to Strzok, who was investigating Clinton’s email use, about President Obama wanting to know everything the bureau was doing?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits it Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States

The nation’s top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access software on election-management systems it sold over a period of six years, raising questions about the security of those systems and the integrity of elections that were conducted with them.

In a letter sent to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) in April and obtained recently by Motherboard, Election Systems and Software acknowledged that it had “provided pcAnywhere remote connection software … to a small number of customers between 2000 and 2006,” which was installed on the election-management system ES&S sold them.

The statement contradicts what the company told me and fact checkers for a story I wrote for the New York Times in February. At that time, a spokesperson said ES&S had never installed pcAnywhere on any election system it sold. “None of the employees, … including long-tenured employees, has any knowledge that our voting systems have ever been sold with remote-access software,” the spokesperson said.

ES&S did not respond on Monday to questions from Motherboard, and it’s not clear why the company changed its response between February and April. Lawmakers, however, have subpoena powers that can compel a company to hand over documents or provide sworn testimony on a matter lawmakers are investigating, and a statement made to lawmakers that is later proven false can have greater consequence for a company than one made to reporters.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why the ‘Resistance’ in the State Department is a Gift to Trump

President Trump’s diplomacy will continue to make America safe and strong, as long as he relies upon his own experience in negotiation and does not follow State Department guidance.

The majority of our 75,382 State Department employees do not support our president. Many are openly scornful. Several ambassadors, ready to retire anyway and with full pensions locked in, have resigned dramatically.

But because State Department protocols and diplomacy have failed us for decades — in Libya, Syria, with the creation of ISIS, Russian expansion, and North Korean belligerence — their “Resistance” has given President Trump the opportunity to do an end-run around them.

[Comment: State Dept. is a wholly owned and controlled organ of the deep state.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

After Two Weeks, Premier Ford’s Influence Felt Beyond Ontario

On June 29, Douglas Robert Ford Jr. was sworn in as Ontario’s 26th premier. After 15 years of disastrous Liberal Party rule, Ford won a majority government based upon his promises to undo many of the terrible policies that saw the once mighty economic engine of Canada become a have-not province and an economic train wreck that saw many Ontarians forced to choose between heating and eating.

As people are these days, many voters were skeptical Ford would actually deliver on the promises he made during the election campaign. And so far the new premier has not disappointed. Ford and the PC Party have moved quickly to implement the new government’s agenda. So far the government has scrapped the controversial sex-ed curriculum and gotten rid of Hydro One’s “six million dollar man” and the company’s board of directors. In true Kathleen Wynne fashion, beleaguered Ontario taxpayers paid Mayo Schmidt, the CEO of Hydro One over six million dollars a year. This compares to the salary of the head of Hydro Quebec of $400,000 + per year. While saving on the exorbitant salary of the utility’s CEO was only symbolic it was a good omen of things to come.

Ford also took steps to dismantle the Liberals cap and trade program

Ford also took steps to dismantle the Liberals cap and trade program. Implemented to save the planet from climate change more and more Ontarians became aware it was merely a cash grab to pay for the Liberals’ uncontrolled spending and pay off their political friends.

But in the two weeks and two days Ford has been in power, his influence and policies are being felt not only in the province he was elected to govern but throughout the country.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Back on Track? May Survives 24 Hours of Brexit Chaos (Just) As Leadership Threat Seen Off

THERESA May last night thwarted an attempt by pro-Brussels Tory MPs to keep Britain locked in a customs union with Brussels after Brexit. On another dramatic day at Westminster, her Government defeated a Commons bid to rewrite her EU departure plans by the wafer-thin margin of just six votes.

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

Brits Pick Boris and Nigel as Brexit Leaders Over the Prime Minister

New polling by YouGov has shown that despite being the Prime Minister supposedly implementing Brexit, the British public still view Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage as Britain’s Brexit Leaders over Theresa May.

More than 4,000 people were asked: “Who do you think comes closest to being the ‘Leader’ of those in favour of Brexit?”

And whilst 34% said there was no Leader, 15% picked Boris and 13% picked Farage.

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

England: Schoolchildren Given Lessons on ‘Living Knife-Free’ As Youth Violence Soars

Schoolchildren across England will be given hour-long lessons on the dangers of knife crime ahead of the summer holidays amidst a 70 percent spike in youth homicide seen in Sadiq Khan’s London.

Almost 50,000 secondary school teachers have received the Home Office guidance for lessons which aim to “empower” 11— to 16-year-olds to “live knife-free”, according to documents issued by the PSHE Association.

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

Norway Calls in Military to Relieve Exhausted Fire Service as One Dies Fighting Forest Blaze

A firefighter has died as a result of his injuries after a reported accident while fighting one of a number of forest fires that raged in Norway during the weekend.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

One of Belgium’s “Most Wanted” Criminals Deported From the Country

The Asylum and Immigration Office confirmed to the Belga press agency, on Monday evening, that it had deported the criminal Safet Rustemi in June 2017.

The statement is in line with the announcement in the publication La Dernière Heure. The man, an Albananian aged 33, has just been added over the last week to “Belgium’s most wanted” list of criminals, having been convicted in Belgium. It was the Belgian state, through the Asylum and Immigration Office, which escorted him out of Belgium a little over a year ago. However the Asylum and Immigration Office stated that at the time he had been released, and that he had no right of residence in Belgium.

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

Radical Islam Wins in Sweden: Number of Islamists Increases by 900% With Children Being Raised to Hate the West — Study

Last year, Swedish authorities declared that the number of Islamist militants in Sweden had risen from 200 to 2,000 over a 10-year period. Now, a 265-page report has been released on the fundamentalist branch of Islam known as Salafism, which advocates a return to ‘pure’ Islam. The report, the largest ever of its kind, shows a clear rise of Salafism in Sweden.

According to the study, which was commissioned by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, a government department, “not all Salafists are jihadists, but all jihadists are Salafists”.

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

Rap Culture and Islam to Blame for French Riots: ‘They Are Looking for Opportunities to Unleash Hell’

Hundreds of cars were torched, shops were looted and numerous police officers were injured. France turned into a battlefield after their World Cup win. What’s going on?

We’ve asked it one of our most respected journalists, Abdelhamid Kaddour, who lives in France.

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

UK: Tory MP Smith: Remain Spent More Than Twice as Much as Leave in Referendum

Tory MP Henry Smith has just tweeted out a home truth.

For all this talk from sore establishment losers of the various Leave campaigns somehow cheating, Smith points out that Remain spent more than twice as much.

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

UK: Theresa May Criticised for Taking Early Holiday Without Delivering Brexit

The Prime Minister has been described as out of touch with working people as she sends her government off on an early holiday to avoid a Brexit rebellion.

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

French ‘Anti-Racism’ Organisation Bashes Croatian Football Team Because it is Too White

Croatia’s World Cup football team was called “dramatically uniform” and “without colour” (or too white) by a major French ‘anti racist’ NGO, news outlet Valeurs Actuelles reports.

The LICRA (in english : International League against Racism and Antisemitism), is a supposed anti racist organisation. Yet on 15 July remarks made by the organisation regarding Croatia’s football team can only be described as racist.

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

Trump in Helsinki: The Score (I)

by Srdja Trifkovic

The hysterical media/establishment/Deep State reaction to President Trump’s comments in Helsinki is based on a lie. U.S. intelligence chiefs, current and former, fire back at Trump—a sample offering from the NPR—quotes Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats as saying the U.S. intelligence community has been “clear in our assessments of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.” Former CIA director John Brennan went many steps further: “Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors.’ It was nothing short of treasonous.” The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Richard Burr of North Carolina said his committee has no reason to doubt the (alleged) intelligence community’s “conclusion that President Putin ordered an influence campaign aimed at the 2016 elections.” Und so weiter, and so on, ad nauseam . . .

Let us clarify this key issue with the help of Jack Matlock, a career U.S. diplomat who “served on the front lines of American diplomacy during the Cold War” and was U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union when the edifice collapsed. Did the U.S. “intelligence community,” asks he, really “judge that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election? Most commentators seem to think so. Every news report I have read . . . refers to ‘Russian interference’ as a fact.” In fact, Matlock points out—on the basis of freely available, unclassified evidence—that the “intelligence community” has done no such thing, ever. It has not been tasked to make a judgment, and its key members did not even participate in preparing the report which is routinely cited by Trump’s critics as proof of “Russian interference.” Unprecedentedly long quotes are in order because of the importance of this issue in making a judgment on what President Trump said on July 16.

Matlock starts by pointing out that after 35 years of government service with a top secret and later “codeword” clearance, ambassadorial rank, and previous experience as Special Assistant to the President for National Security, he had developed an astute “feel” for the strengths and weaknesses of the various U.S. intelligence agencies’ reports. It was with that background that he read the January 6, 2017 report of three intelligence agencies: the CIA, FBI, and NSA:…

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Google Engineer is Beaten to Death by 2,000-Strong Mob in Latest Attack Sparked by False WhatsApp Messages Accusing People of Kidnapping Children in India

Mohammad Azam was attacked along with two friends by a 2,000-strong mob in southern Karnataka state’s Bidar district.

Police have arrested 32 people over the death — the latest in a string of lynchings caused by unfounded rumours of child abductions.

Azam’s friends, including a Qatar national, were critically injured in the assault that came days after the Facebook-owned messaging service published advertisements in Indian newspapers offering tips to curb the spread of fake information on its platform.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Compete With Real Doctors?

Authored by Michael Scott via Safehaven.com,

In the race for world dominance in advanced technology, Chinese artificial intelligence is also taking on its own doctors, with a new system claiming to diagnose brain tumors faster and more accurately than human physicians.

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Trade War Intensifies: China Files Complaint With WTO Over US Tariffs

China is now seeking legal relief from the tariffs imposed by the United States on over $200 billion worth of goods imported. China’ s complaint with the World Trade Organization alleges that the imposition of the tariffs by the US is illegal and nothing more than thinly veiled attempts at protectionism.

This WTO complaint is just the latest in heightening tensions over a trade war between the Chinese and American governments. According To NPR, the WTO complaint comes less than a week after the Trump administration published a preliminary list of more than 6,000 Chinese products that it wants to hit with an additional 10 percent duty. The list targets products worth a total of $200 billion, ranging from an expansive range of seafood and vegetables to stones, metals, and plywood.

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‘American Patriot’: Australian PM Backs Donald Trump, Defends Putin Meeting

Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has come out in full support of U.S. President Donald Trump and his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling Mr. Trump an “American patriot” who is loyally serving his country to the utmost 0f his ability.

Mr. Turnbull was speaking on the Miranda Devine Live program on the Sydney Daily Telegraph website after being asked if President Trump was a “traitor” for holding a joint press conference with Mr. Putin in Helsinki. Mr. Turnbull said:

Of course not. Donald Trump is a patriot.

He’s an American patriot and his job is representing his country and he’s doing that to the best of his ability just like I represent my country Australia to the best of my ability.

I think he’s doing exactly what he said he’s seeking to do, he believes it’s better to talk to people and to engage with them and again this obviously has been highly controversial in America and I don’t run a commentary on Australian politics let alone American Politics.

This is the second time this year Mr. Turnbull has backed Mr. Trump on the world stage.

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Bloody Home Invasion Leaves a Couple Fighting for Their Lives With Stab Wounds to the Neck and Chest — as a Rebels Bikie is Rushed to Hospital With a Serious Gunshot Wound

The violent episode began on Monday night after a man, 32, and woman, 28 — both wearing balaclavas and armed with a gun and a knife — allegedly forced their way inside the home in south-west of Sydney.

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‘There is a Real Concern’: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Finally Breaks His Silence on Sudanese Gangs

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he has heard from Melbourne residents who are anxious about violence in the city, backing claims people are too scared to go out.

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Violent Islamist Groups Are Gaining Strength in Africa

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria’s main north-eastern city, is at the centre of a series of jihadist campaigns stretching in two broad belts across Africa on either side of the Sahara. The northern one hugs the Mediterranean, from Egypt through Libya and Tunisia to Algeria. The southern one extends from Somalia and Kenya in the east through Nigeria and Niger and on to Mali, Burkina Faso and Senegal in the west. Such vast distances separate the different battlefields, that Dakar, in Senegal, is almost as close to Miami as it is to Mogadishu in Somalia.

Much of the conflict is barely reported on, even though last year it claimed more than 10,000 lives, almost all of them civilian.

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Australia: Foreign Students ‘Gaming the Visa System’ To Stay in Australia Are a ‘Major Factor’ Pushing Wages Down While Putting Pressure on the Country’s Housing Market

Foreign students gaming Australia’s immigration system by switching visa types to stay in the country are putting pressure on the housing and labour markets, a think tank has warned.

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Austria Refuses to Take More Boat Migrants After Ship of 450 Arrives in Europe

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has made clear his strong stance on unlimited mass migration after he refused to take part in an EU-wide effort to distribute the migrants of a fishing boat that landed on an Italian island Monday.

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British, European Public Against Taking in More Migrants

The numbers are huge: 72% of Germans are against taking in more migrants, as are 65% in Denmark, 64% in Finland, 60% in Sweden, 58% in Great Britain and France plus 52% in Norway.

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Czech PM: EU Must Turn Back Boats, Resettling Migrants is ‘Road to Hell’

Europe must turn back the boats, the Czech Republic has said, warning the current approach of resettling migrants across the continent is the “road to hell”, and making illegal immigration worse.

Prime Minister Andrej BabiÅ¡ restated his nation’s position of not taking any third world migrants from other EU nations after Italy asked fellow bloc members to take a share of a batch of hundreds picked up by Brussels border force Frontex in the Mediterranean on Saturday.

“[Like other European leaders], I received a copy of the letter from Prime Minister [Giuseppe] Conte, … in which he asks the EU to take care of the 450 people currently at sea,” said the populist billionaire, who has been described by some as a ‘Czech Donald Trump’.

“Such an approach is a road to hell” and “only motivates smugglers and increases their income”, he said, telling Czech News Agency (CTK):”It is no solution to accept these people. On the contrary, this is just worsening the problem we have in Europe.”

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Four Activists Held in France for Escorting Migrants Over Border

BRIANÇON (FRANCE) (AFP) — Four people accused of illegally helping migrants cross the border into France were being questioned by police on Tuesday, the latest case over aid provided to refugees on the move through Europe.

The activists, part of the “Tous Migrants” association, took part in a solidarity march of 100 activists escorting some 20 migrants over an Alpine pass last April.

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Le Pen Demands End to French Visas and Currency Transfers for Algerians

The leader of the extreme right-ring National Rally party in France, Marine Le Pen, has called on the authorities to take punitive measures against Algeria due to its refusal to repatriate convicted terrorist Jamal Beghal. She insisted that France must stop granting visas to Algerians and limit migrants’ currency transfers as a response to the Algerian position.

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Mass Migration: “The Fatal Solvent of the EU”

“Far from leading to fusion, Europe’s migration crisis is leading to fission”, Stanford’s historian Niall Ferguson recently wrote. “Increasingly, I believe that the issue of migration will be seen by future historians as the fatal solvent of the EU”. Week after week, Mr. Ferguson’s prediction seems to be turning into a reality.

Not only does Europe continue to fragment as anti-immigration sentiment gathers political strength, but, as a result of the migrant crisis, the EU’s border-free internal zone, Europe’s most cherished prize after the Second World War, is now defined as “at risk” by the Italian government, among other governments, such and Austria.

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Merkel’s Insane Deportation Circus Endangers German Citizens

Bin Laden’s ex-bodyguard, Sami A., was finally deported by the German government this week. However, as the plane left for Tunisia, a court issued an injunction to stop his deportation on the grounds of “the possible torture he might face back home.”

Because Sami A. had already been handed over to the Tunisian government, the court ruled that he must be brought back to Germany and cannot be deported. This all happened within 24 hours of his deportation.

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Spain Picks up 328 Migrants Departing Morocco

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says at least 328 people have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea despite strong currents in the Strait of Gibraltar area, the closest stretch of water separating Europe from North Africa.

The service said 82 migrants, including 16 women and 3 children, were found in a boat attempting to navigate the strait’s wild waters on Tuesday after departing from Morocco.

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Spain Overtakes Italy as Sea Route Destination for Migrants

The number of migrants arriving in Spain by boat is surging, the UN said Tuesday, and it has now surpassed Italy as the top destination for Mediterranean crossings.

So far this year, 50,872 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe — less than half the number that made the treacherous journey during the same period of 2017, according to the UN migration agency.

But while the overall numbers have fallen dramatically, Spain has seen landings on its shores nearly triple, IOM said.

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Little House on the Prairie Now Declared Racist and Homophobic

Here is another classic series of books, made into a film series, that now must be burned, psychologically. Not only does the headline display the (imagined) shocking details of this book series, it also has been kicked in the back cover for, now get this, ‘lack of inclusiveness.’ Inclusiveness was totally unknown in those days. Today it signifies LGBTQ which was not visible back then.

Author Laura Ingalls Wilder who wrote colorful books on frontier life, was such an esteemed author that the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) named their annual award for children’s book authors after her.

HOWEVER…with the Soros Democrat-Communist puppeteers agitating blacks, homosexuals and misfits in general to declare war with anyone not looking or acting like them, they now want Americans to find fault with everyone with a fault-line that can be turned to hatred. The author of the classic, Little House on the Prairie, is the latest classic writer to be condemned for depicting (mentioning) the biases of a bygone era.

Biases’ and attitudes were very much a part of earlier life in America. To write about that time in history must be accurate to truly capture the thinking of that time in society along with the lives that the people lived.

Yet, The Association for Library Service to Children, voted over the weekend to remove Wilder’s name from the award, the Washington Post reports, and rename it,The Children’s Literature Legacy Award.

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Psychology Itself is Under Scrutiny

The urge to pull down statues extends well beyond the public squares of nations in turmoil. Lately it has been stirring the air in some corners of science, particularly psychology.

In recent months, researchers and some journalists have strung cables around the necks of at least three monuments of the modern psychological canon:

The famous Stanford Prison Experiment, which found that people playacting as guards quickly exhibited uncharacteristic cruelty.

The landmark marshmallow test, which found that young children who could delay gratification showed greater educational achievement years later than those who could not.

And the lesser known but influential concept of ego depletion — the idea that willpower is like a muscle that can be built up but also tires.

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‘Tedious Old Racist’: Richard Dawkins Under Fire for Dismissing ‘Aggressive’ Muslim Prayer

Best-selling atheist author Richard Dawkins has once again been branded “racist” after he tweeted that the sound of cathedral bells is much more pleasant than the “aggressive-sounding Muslim Allahu Akbar.”

The Arabic phrase — which means ‘God is Greatest’ — is used by Muslims, usually to express gratitude and commitment to Allah, and it’s sung at the beginning of the call to prayer. It also has negative connotations as a number of terrorists have shouted the words before carrying out attacks.

Dawkins, who has previously faced a barrage of criticism for claiming in a 2013 tweet that Islam is the “greatest force for evil in the world today,” was again accused of Islamophobia on Tuesday morning after sending a provocative tweet.

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US Marxists Working to Destroy Christian Churches in America

According to intelligence analyst Dr. Lyle Rapacki, throughout human history, whenever a tyrant or demonic political or philosophical movement occurred, one area of focus by the sinister forces was the church and the family.

You bring severe disruption leading to division, and then neutralization leading to abolishment of the influence and goodness flowing from these two critical societal cornerstones. And that strategy has succeeded in causing a community to be torn and scattered, allowing the forces of darkness for whatever cause their banners flew, to high step in and take over.

“America is at such a crossroads today!” exclaimed Rapacki, the founder and owner of Sentinel Intelligence Service, LLC. Rapacki warns Americans that humanism, socialism, a neutered and politically correct gospel, and even worse, now emanates from many pulpits across America.

Marxism and Christianity are not compatible; never have been, never will be. This is perfectly fine for those who have already crossed over and adopted Marx’s world view.

But I am soberly reminded what the famous French statesman, social philosopher, and observer of the American Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 — 59), publicly stated: “I sought for the key to the greatness and genius of America in her harbors…in her fertile fields and boundless forests; in her rich mines and vast world commerce; in her public school system and institutions of learning. I sought for it in her democratic Congress and in her matchless Constitution. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

A vast number of people holding elected offices and other positions of trust, past and present, no longer wish America to be great. If America is viewed by a majority of citizens as being great, the politicians in power will soon appear to be what they truly are: Anti-American opportunists.

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Computer Problems? It Could be Possessed by a Demon

Do you have trouble with your computer? Does is freeze or shut down at the most inopportune times? Does it go haywire suddenly or arbitrarily erase important data for no reason? Does it vomit forth long dead languages in a deep, growling voice? If so, then you may have a serious problem. According to some reports, your computer or even your smartphone may actually be possessed by an evil spirit.

Demonic possession is a very well-documented phenomenon among human beings, and has been for centuries, but what of modern devices such as computers and smartphones? Can these machines serve as some sort of conduit for evil forces? One person who would say yes to that is a Reverend Jim Peasboro, of Savannah, Georgia, in the United States, who has spent a lot of time denouncing how computers are powerful tools of the Devil for corrupting our souls. So far, so standard, but Peasboro goes beyond just using the Devil working through computers as a metaphor for their bad influence on our youth, and rather seems to believe that demonic forces can literally possess computers.

Peasboro has written a whole book on this, called The Devil in the Machine: Is Your Computer Possessed by a Demon?, in which he outlines his belief that possession by demons can be experienced by anything with a mind, including humans, animals, and even the processor of your computer. According to Peasboro, “Any PC built after 1985 has the storage capacity to house an evil spirit,” with storage capacity seeming to make a difference, and he asserts that “one in 10 computers in America now houses some type of evil spirit.” He seems to take this all quite literally, and claims that these malicious spirits are responsible for seeping through our screens to exert their influence, which has led to much of the crime and gun violence among young people seen in the country. As to other effects of these malevolent cyber-demons he says:…

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15 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/17/2018

  1. Spain has now overtaken Italy as the preferred destination of migrants crossing the Mediterranean.”

    Benevolent Socialists … using other peoples’ money … are the magnet which attracts the ‘migrating voters’ that they believe will keep them in power!

    … until the money runs out, which, if truth be told, ran out years ago.

  2. Re “10 Attack Quotes…” and “Putin Drops Bomb at Helsinki Presser”. I vividly recall the unanimity of US intelligence agencies in 2006 that Iran had no aspirations to develop nuclear weapons and it posed no threat. It was clear at the time that this unanimity was fixed to dissuade Bush from taking any sort of action against Iran.

    US intelligence agencies are extensions of the Democratic Party, which I’d assumed was a well-known fact. The agencies no longer work to protect America and its allies, they gather information to protect the Democratic Party and embarrass and constrain the GOP. Just as the DOJ and FBI have been weaponized against conservatives, so have the intelligence bureaus.

    This Trump and Putin were correct to condemn the partisan lies and corruption of the US intelligence bureaus. This explains the media firestorm, who had banked on having cornered Trump into condemning Putin. They’d have crowed about that as a confession of guilt and complicity. Instead Trump maneuvered them to over-reacting, as they did. I expect Trump’s base will interpret this as the Left’s willingness to have very sour relations with Russia, and risk war, to gain credibility in their attempt to use Russian collusion to unseat the President.

    Like the fake news media the US intelligence agencies have become an enemy of the American people. This can’t continue. The Left needs to be destroyed.

  3. “Computer Problems? It Could be Possessed by a Demon”

    The part that I do not know possible in that is if a computer can be commanded (programmed) without an intermediary physical agent. As someone who is “sensitive” and quite acutely aware of what others term the “non physical world” (and no I am not here to argue or prove anything, firstly because negative thought is destructive to the psyche and I have no wish to engage in futile argument – either you witness and are aware to some degree or you don’t or don’t bring it to consciousness, probably for good reason), I notice that physical manifestation is fortunately very weak, if it weren’t we would probably be living in a chaos.

    That does not detract from how powerful an effect “interference” can have on a person. You can reduce it to psychology etc. if you prefer, doesn’t change the equation that if you stare into the void the void also stares into you, and as the world around you manifests itself in response to you to a degree, what you take in you will also then find represented there, not by mere own perceptions but as if of by itself, as an extension of one’s own unwitting manifestation.

    Choose what you contribute your attention to wisely, especially especially regarding children anyone is guardian to as they are wide open, is all the advice I can give. What you or anyone else will call superstition actually has a profound effect, and just because you are able to shrug off and move on to something more familiar, bare in mind that “your familiar” generally did not get created by the inclusions the children of today are getting subjected to and in their very own homes.

  4. Why, when you write about Russia, you write only about Putin?
    https://interesnoznat.com/wp-content/uploads/selfi-s-Putinyim1.jpg

    There is a lot of interesting things happening here, especially in the countries of the former USSR. For example, recently killed and drowned in the lake 22 year-old resident of Kyrgyzstan for illegitimate pregnancy. The crime was committed by her own mother. In the same Kyrgyzstan mass kidnapping of girls for forced marriage. Recently, the police took the girl from the rapist. The failed husband killed her right in the police station.

    • Cook County has more crime and fiscal fraud per square foot than possibly any other entity. So many of its officials, whether local or state, end up in prison that it’s surely a world record by now. And despite its strict gun control laws, sections of Chicago are almost no-go zones for police. They certainly don’t dare move in to collect all the illegal guns.

      The rot starts from the head and moves down. Don’t forget, the Chicago machine spawned both Obamas plus election thief, Mayor Daley (they have routinely stolen elections in Chicago for generations, most famously 1960’s deciding presidential outcome). Fiscally, the place is about to implode due to its unfunded public pension hot mess, yet they want to introduce a guaranteed annual income for everyone.

      Here’s a source which addresses just a few of Chicago’s fiscal problems:

      http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180713/ISSUE07/180709917/what-the-supreme-courts-new-majority-means-for-illinois-fiscal-mess

      [just noticed that the title uses “mess”, too. It’s the only way to describe the criminal phenomenon that is Democrat machine-controlled urban areas all over the country. Including Mexifornia…]

      But those infested areas do not mean that Western civilization is doomed. That’s a jump too far.

  5. Елена, I appreciate your news and compliment you on your English. Are you in the selfie with Putin to which you link?

    However I personally find human interest news items from Shame and Honour extended-family cultures such as you mention useful only if the article relates them to
    – the issue of how Islam is developing in ex-USSR given its high birthrate;
    – the divisions inside ex-USSR Islam;
    – relations to Russian Orthodox now and in future;
    – links of Russian Turkic and other Islamists to Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman project and to CIA (CIA involvement in Chechnya and hence the Boston Bombing), etc.
    – relations of ex-USSR Islam to China (Salafist ties with Uighurs? and any support of them by US intelligence so as to weaken Russia and China?

    Regarding Putin: The western and especially US media, that works for and is partly owned by the security/industrial complex, wants to maintain tension with Russia so as to justify spending on new weapons. (Paul Craig Roberts)

    Weapons are great, unlike fridges or microwaves they need replacing very quickly because they have been shot off or are obsolescent (Mary Kaldor) and so the profits over time are high.

    Demonising Putin is the way to do this; they did it to Saddam and Gaddafi too.
    In the 1960s, Nasser was demonised also for similar reasons.

    In 2018 it is not so easy for official anti-racist, cultural diversity reasons in the West to demonise all Russians, even though they are usually an un-Enriched White and so are not really Vibrant and Colourful:-)))), and there are Russians like Kasparov or Navalny or who are needed by the West too.

    So demonising Putin alone is safer for the US media.

    Also, it was Putin who announced the new Russian space weapons himself recently.

    • Excuse me, for conspiracy, but I do not know who Putin is. I do not know what kind of person he is, whether he has a family and daughters, about whom they speak, but do not show. Is this the man who wore a briefcase behind St. Petersburg Mayor Sobchak? He had ice-blue eyes, and this one had the color of a muddy toad. This is some terrible dystopia. I do not think that he is an independent character.
      Moreover, he is conducting an anti-human anti-Russian policy inside the country.

      I also do not think that our rescuers can be the proteges of some Western forces – Navalny and Kasparov. Russian people are not interested in anyone, only resources in this territory are of interest.

      Yes, by the way, once again about conspiracy, remember one of the last films of Jarmusch? Where do the vampires say: do people still fight for oil? They have not yet begun to fight for water? And they start to laugh.

      And in Russia there is a lot of water.

      • I don’t understand most of what you write, possibly because it is very allusive. I would have to ask you what you mean, sentence by sentence.

        Yes there is much water and many other raw materials in Russia.
        Yeltsin was loved in the West because he was selling them off. Did he not dissolve the USSR against a popular vote to retain it?

        You say that Putin is anti-human and anti-Russian, which seems hyperbole.
        Were you alive when Yeltsin was in power or have you talked to people who suffered in Russia at that time? Look at suicide, early death, alcoholism statistics from Russian hospitals 1991-2000. Then you might not use the phrase “anti-human” by comparison.

        But any corruption in Russia by Putin or others, or even contract killing, is unimportant considering the growing threat to its borders and so the threat of nuclear war. Although as Churchill said when becoming Stalin’s ally when you sup with the Devil, take a long spoon.

        What do you think of the “liberasty”, or are you one yourself?

        • Do not identify me on political grounds – I do not support any parties.

          I found Yeltsin’s time in adulthood. Now the situation is not better, it is simply hushed up. And the statistics are even worse, because the social achievements of the old era under Putin are finally destroyed. And now no one knows who owns the resources and who are the owners of this territory. Do not forget that Putin was put to cover up Yeltsin and his inner circle from the popular anger. He does a good job.

          All these patriots and liberals are just a circus for the plebeians. They organize political shows, pouring mud at each other, and then they laugh and drink vodka together in Yeltsin center.

          Do you know that under the noise of Mundial the government increased the retirement age? To men for five years, women to eight.
          Political impotents ravaged the country with their mediocre foreign and domestic policies.

          • http://thesaker.is/no-5th-column-in-the-kremlin-think-again/

            You write as if Putin did not have to do a balancing act against the Atlanticists, but have a look at the analysis above. Think about what the existence of Ekho Moskvy means.

            Maybe the raising of the pension age is a concession designed, as happens in the West, to increase profits for finance firms such as banks that offer private retirement pensions in place of the now lost or delayed government ones.

            Putin may have made this concession, I don’t know, to bribe his enemies in government to let him do something else in another area of policy. Horse trading is normal in politics everywhere.

            Do you know how much the Western business press loved Gaidar in the 1990s?

            You write “mediocre” foreign policies: I do not call Russia saving Syria with the aim of stopping the growth of Salafism in the ex-USSR mediocre.

            I see you as a person who maybe does not trust the Russian media reporting on the US Empire’s aggression because you see maybe every day that those media do not report about Russia’s internal life the way you see it. But that is not logical, I think.

            Because it does not abolish Defense Secretary Mattis’ 30:30:30:30 statement or the NATO expansion since 1994.

        • I wonder how I die? From hunger and disease in Putin’s Russia, from Muslim knives or American bombs?
          I don’t negotiate with scoundrels.

      • Russian people are not interested in anyone, only resources in this territory are of interest.

        The peoples of central and eastern Europe and Ukraine might argue with you regarding this proposition. They look will apprehension toward the bear, in fear of being mauled again.

    • So demonising Putin alone is safer for the US media.

      The media in the U.S. are weaponizing PUtin in an attempt to bring down the U.S. president.

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