Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/19/2018

The European Commission has initiated legal action against Hungary due to the “Stop Soros” law. Officials in Brussels are referring the case to the European Court of Justice.

In other news, a ship carrying 40 migrants who were “rescued” in the Mediterranean has been refused permission to land in Italy, France, and Malta, and is now trying to dock in Tunisia.

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Financial Crisis
» The Cashless Society is a Con — and Big Finance is Behind it
» Trump’s Trade War May Spark a Chinese Debt Crisis
» U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Hit More Than 48-and-a-Half-Year Low
 
USA
» “Get the F*** Out: “ Gun Store Owner Confronts Sacha Baron Cohen After He Enters in Disguise
» Cop-Hating Antifa Terrorist Caught With Explosives
» DARPA Researching Mind-Controlled Troops Connected to Weapons Systems
» Gallup Shows How Much Americans Really Care About the “Situation With Russia”
» Maxine Waters Fears “Armed Protests” As Oath Keepers Descend on Los Angeles
» Nolte: Watch the Oh-So ‘Sacred’ Intelligence Community Lie, Lie, Lie
» Police Union President Laments That Portland Has Become a “Cesspool” As West Coast Cities Struggle With an Unprecedented Surge in Homelessness
» Republicans ‘Overwhelmingly’ Approve of Trump’s Helsinki Performance, Poll Shows
» Seeing Titan With Infrared Eyes
» Turkish Government Using US Mosques to Spread “Islamist-Nationalistic Fervor”
» Twitter Caught Censoring Conservative Journalists With Site-Wide Shadowbans
» West Oakland Man Pleads Guilty to Supporting ISIS
 
Canada
» Canada — How the Communists Took Control (Article)
» Canada — How the Communists Took Control — Part 1 (Audio )
 
Europe and the EU
» A Summary of the Brexit Negotiations in the Style of Yes Minister
» Belgian Political Leader Predicts European Civil War is Near, As Governments Are Losing Control
» Czech Prime Minister: The EU Should Do Less and More Efficiently
» Danish Firefighters to Help Fight Swedish Forest Blazes
» Drone Reveals Massive Stonehenge-Like Circular Monument in Ireland
» ESO’s Very Large Telescope Captures Sharp Images of Neptune
» EU Will Pay: UK Warns Brexit No Deal Will Slash EU Member States’ GDP
» Germany: Berlin Prosecutors Confiscate Lebanese Clan’s Properties
» Germany: Berlin Police Seize Lebanese Clan’s Property Empire
» Germany Arrests Syrian Suspected Islamic State Member
» Halal Meat is the New Standard in Germany — Slaughter Facilities Are Facing Mecca: Survey
» History Explains Eastern European Hostility to Islam
» London Removed ‘Offensive’ Mayor Khan Mural Weeks Before Allowing Trump Baby Balloon
» Majority of Polish Citizens Against Ever Joining the Euro, According to Poll
» More Areas Evacuated in Sweden Due to Wildfires
» Paris: Algerian Men Punch Woman, Beat Up Boyfriend for Saying “Vive La France” After World Cup Win
» Parliamentary Candidate for Sweden’s Feminist Party Suggests Deporting All Jews From Israel
» Polish Gov’t Minister Warns Against Escalated Trade War Between US and Europe
» Sadiq’s London: Knife Crime at Seven-Year High in Britain, Police Not Charging Suspects
» Spain Drops International Arrest Warrant for Puigdemont
» Sweden Rushes Firefighting Aircraft to Tackle Fast-Spreading Wildfires
» The Arabian Nightmare of the West
» Trump’s Secret Service Agent Dies After Suffering Severe Stroke While Protecting President in Scotland
» UK Crimewave: ‘I Wouldn’t Even Walk Alone in the High Street Now’
» UK Government Office Knew About Mass Rape Gangs Decade Before Investigating
» UK: Half of All Robberies Take Place in Sadiq Khan’s London
» UK: Just 9% of Crimes Result in Someone Being Charged or Summonsed
» UK: Met Police on FGM: ‘Prosecutions Alone Won’t Change Anything’
» UK: No-One Charged in 9 Out of 10 Crimes — Home Office
» UK: Political Correctness Enabled Muslim Grooming Gangs to Rape Hundreds of White Girls for More Than a Decade
» UK: Watch: Dramatic Moment Birmingham Terrorist Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman Arrested After Plot to Behead Teresa May
» Why Are Eastern Europeans Hostile to Islam? Look at History
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Islamism, Anti-Semitism: Orban, Netanyahu Agree on ‘Challenges of 21st Century’
» Israel Passes Jewish-Only ‘National Self-Determination’ Law Despite Outcry
» Unlikely Partners? China and Israel Deepening Trade Ties
 
Middle East
» Alleged Islamic Sex Cult Leader Adnan Oktar Formally Arrested in Turkey
» Australian ISIS Fighter Neil Prakash is Set Free From Turkish Prison and Will Not be Extradited to Face Justice
» Prehistoric Bake-Off: Scientists Discover Oldest Evidence of Bread
 
Russia
» Fresh DNA Tests Authenticate Bones of Russia Tsar, Family
» Le Pen Says Putin’s U.S. Critics Out of Touch With Modern Russia
» White House Rebuffs Russia Bid to Question US Officials, Amid New DC Firestorm
 
South Asia
» Muslim Cleric Arrested for Slapping Woman
» Pakistan Approaches OIC Against Netherlands: Report
 
Far East
» Boeing ‘Concerns’ Over US-China Trade Row
» FBI Director: Chinese Espionage ‘Most Significant’ Spy Threat Facing US
» Specter of Communism: Chapter Nine: The Communist Economic Trap (Part I)
 
Immigration
» Boat That Took on Migrants Denied Entry, Pointed to Tunisia
» European Commission Taking Legal Action Against Hungary Over ‘Stop Soros’ Law
» France: 100s of Refugees Settle in Public Park in Nantes After City Expelled Them From Local House (Video)
» German Woman’s Dog Saves Her From Migrant Knife Attack, Bites Attacker
» How Far Will Southern Spain’s Resources for Refugees Go?
» Hundreds of Refugees Make Camps in French Public Park After Being Evicted From Local House
» Hungary to Join U.S. In Rejecting ‘Dangerous’ UN Migration Pact
» Hungary Pursued by EU Over ‘Stop Soros’ Migrant Law
» Non-Citizens Legally Register to Vote in San Francisco School Elections
» Revealed: The Top 10 Immigrant Groups Moving to Australia Permanently — With One Nationality Entering the Country at a Rate of 50 People a Day, And Most Buying Property
» Spanish Search and Rescue NGO Spreads Fake News About ‘Refugee Deaths’
» Swedish Government Targets Polygamists as Illegal Practice Boosted by Migrant Influx
» Szijjarto: UN Migration Compact Extremist and Biased
» Undocumented Migrants in Spain Will Have Universal Healthcare From Day One
 
Culture Wars
» UK: Idiotic Manchester Uni Students Vandalise Rudyard Kipling Poem Because He’s ‘A Racist’
» UK: Manchester Students Deface Poem by ‘Racist’ Kipling
 
General
» UN Envoy: 1.1 Billion People Face Risks From Lack of Cooling
 

The Cashless Society is a Con — and Big Finance is Behind it

All over the western world banks are shutting down cash machines and branches. They are trying to push you into using their digital payments and digital banking infrastructure. Just like Google wants everyone to access and navigate the broader internet via its privately controlled search portal, so financial institutions want everyone to access and navigate the broader economy through their systems.

Another aim is to cut costs in order to boost profits. Branches require staff. Replacing them with standardised self-service apps allows the senior managers of financial institutions to directly control and monitor interactions with customers.

Banks, of course, tell us a different story about why they do this. I recently got a letter from my bank telling me that they are shutting down local branches because “customers are turning to digital”, and they are thus “responding to changing customer preferences”. I am one of the customers they are referring to, but I never asked them to shut down the branches.

There is a feedback loop going on here. In closing down their branches, or withdrawing their cash machines, they make it harder for me to use those services. I am much more likely to “choose” a digital option if the banks deliberately make it harder for me to choose a non-digital option.

In behavioural economics this is referred to as “nudging”. If a powerful institution wants to make people choose a certain thing, the best strategy is to make it difficult to choose the alternative.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump’s Trade War May Spark a Chinese Debt Crisis

There’s no chance China will cut its trade surplus with the U.S. in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff threats. For starters, Washington has made no specific demand to which Beijing can respond. But its efforts may have an unexpected side effect: a debt crisis in China.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Hit More Than 48-and-a-Half-Year Low

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits dropped to a more than 48-1/2-year low last week as the labor market strengthens further, but trade tensions are casting a shadow over the economy’s outlook.

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

“Get the F*** Out: “ Gun Store Owner Confronts Sacha Baron Cohen After He Enters in Disguise

Sacha Baron Cohen has duped dozens of high-profile politicians and celebrities, including Sarah Palin and a handful of Congressmen, who are featured in segments on his new show “Who Is America?” While watching the thinly disguised actor deliver his absurd questions, it’s almost impossible not to wonder: How do these people fall for this? But even an actor as skilled as Cohen isn’t able to dupe everybody.

So when one gun store owner in Riverside, Calif. recognized Cohen mid-shoot, things got a little testy. Norris Sweidan, the owner of Warrior One Guns & Ammo, recounted his story to Fox 11.

The incident unfolded at Warrior One Guns & Ammo in February 2017. Owner Norris Sweidan said Cohen and a camera crew met him at his store, claiming to be filming a documentary about a Hungarian immigrant wanting to buy a gun. Immediately, Sweidan said, something about the situation just didn’t seem right.

“He comes in, off the bat you can see in the video I’m looking like, this guy does not look like a Hungarian immigrant, tight ass leather pants, a beard, it just didn’t fit,” Sweidan said. “The moment his words came out of his mouth I was like this guy is full of s***.”

As soon as Sweidan realized who he was dealing with, he called Cohen out…

“I’m looking at the producer and I’m just like am I being fooled right here?” Sweidan said. “And I just kept looking at the guy and I was like you’re Borat, as soon as I said that his eyes just looked at me like, and he did a turn right out the door.”…Prompting Cohen to walk out and leave his crew behind.

“We’re talking to the people they don’t wanna give us an answer, we basically told them to get the f*** out, you guys are all full of s***, have a great day, get out,” Sweidan said.

Sweidan said he immediately realized what Cohen was up to, and was not pleased.

“Once I knew it was Borat, we already know his game and his bull*****, so we knew he’s here to make a mockery, and of what? Gun owners? The gun business, gun shops,” Sweidan said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Cop-Hating Antifa Terrorist Caught With Explosives

A 43-year-old cop-hating Antifa extremist was arrested after authorities discovered bomb making materials and chemicals in the man’s home indicating that he was planning to carry out a terror attack.

Authorities connected Mark Einerwold to three separate burglaries in the Tea and Dell Rapids areas of South Dakota and raided his home on Tuesday afternoon.

“While serving the search warrant, detectives found what they say were bomb making materials and chemicals,” reports KDLT.

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

DARPA Researching Mind-Controlled Troops Connected to Weapons Systems

By now it’s not exactly news that the U.S. military would love nothing more than to create mind-controlled soldiers. Since the inception of Activist Post we’ve been reporting about technologies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation that could be added to soldiers’ helmets as a way of altering their brain activity.

DARPA, at the behest of the Pentagon, has been at the forefront of nearly all military mind control programs and continues to invest tens of millions of taxpayer funds into moving this technology forward. They have looked at various methods, via remote brain wave stimulation as well as the more direct microchip implant (Neural Engineering System Design in their parlance) in order to create the much-touted “super soldier” of the future.

However, DARPA’s new round of investment seeks to go beyond what has even been discussed thus far. As reported by Nextgov, the future soldier would mentally link up with the various weapons systems at their disposal. Disturbingly, this would also be a two-way system that could enable the systems to transmit information back to the soldier as well.

[Comment: Goal of globalists is to have this army directed by globalist puppet politicians for the benefit of world communism. ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Gallup Shows How Much Americans Really Care About the “Situation With Russia”

While ever-hope-filled expectations among the left are for a ‘blue wave’ in the Mid-term elections, we suspect things may not turn out quite as planned given the last week’s “crisis”. Even before President Trump had set foot in Helsinki, the left and the media were banging the drums of war against “the thug” Putin and how he would trump Trump, and once the press conference furore was over, all hell broke loose as the left-leaning world attempted to out-signal one another’s virtue as to the “treasonous”, “surrender” that had occurred.

So much so — in fact — that the internet became ‘full’ of “Trump” and “Treason” chatter — more so even than when he joked in July 2016 about Russia having Hillary’s missing 30,000 emails.

Once again — the “Russia, Russia, Russia” cries drowned out any sane discussion of the end of cold war 2.0.

There’s just one problem with the Democrats’ unending focus on Russia and the media’s constant collusion chatter: few Americans care, because — drumroll — they have real lives in the real economy to worry about.

As the latest survey from Gallup shows: when asked what the most important problem facing the nation is, Russia did not even warrant a 1% — and worse still, it is declining in importance from there.

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

Maxine Waters Fears “Armed Protests” As Oath Keepers Descend on Los Angeles

California Democrat Maxine Waters warned supporters on Wednesday of possible “armed protests” by the Oath Keepersorganization, which she described as “an anti-government militia” that has conducted armed protests across the country.

The group, founded by Yale Law graduate Stuart Rhodes, bills itself as an association of non-partisan current and former military officers, cops and first responders and notably provided disaster relief to Texas, Louisiana and Puerto Rican hurricane victims. They also have a policy to physically remove any white supremacists from their rallies — but they do like their guns.

On Tuesday, the group issued a “call to action” against Waters, urging members to prepare for as many as several weeks of protests in the Los Angeles area.

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

Nolte: Watch the Oh-So ‘Sacred’ Intelligence Community Lie, Lie, Lie

[…]

Let’s watch as these wretched men, these unbalanced, dishonest, hyper-partisans lie to us, lie under oath, and define patriotism only as BELIEVING EVERY WORD THEY SAY…

The swamp is filled with monsters and the only thing standing between us and their monstrous madness is Trump’s healthy skepticism, his refusal to forget the lessons of Iraq. And while he is not perfect and could be more articulate and makes mistakes, he does so in pursuit of doing the right thing, which is to keep the monsters you will meet below from manufacturing whatever horrors they are willing to put our sons and daughters through (not to mention hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians) in order to primp and polish their own self-regard.

These hideous men, like their confederates in Never Trump and the establishment media, are the most dangerous breed of all: nihilistic peacocks…

And only a madman would trust them.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Police Union President Laments That Portland Has Become a “Cesspool” As West Coast Cities Struggle With an Unprecedented Surge in Homelessness

Even though it has always been kind of crazy, at one time Portland, Oregon was quite an attractive place to live, but now those days are long gone.

Today, the city streets are strewn with garbage, drug paraphernalia and human feces. Mentally ill homeless people and drug addicts wander about like zombies, and there are certain areas of the city that you absolutely do not want to visit at night. In essence, the city is slowly becoming a post-apocalyptic version of its former self, and those that love the city are seething with frustration. Of course Portland is simply experiencing the same surge in homelessness that so many other west coast cities are struggling to deal with. As housing prices have risen dramatically, many on the lower end of the income scale have been priced out of the market entirely, and an increasing number of people are being forced to sleep in vehicles, in shelters or on the streets.

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

Republicans ‘Overwhelmingly’ Approve of Trump’s Helsinki Performance, Poll Shows

Republicans who criticize President Trump often drop their objections pretty quickly in the face of public backlash. And while the outrage over President Trump’s performance in Helsinki was louder than the typical Trump administration controversy, Republicans appear to have already fallen in line behind the leader of their party.

And if there were any doubt left as to why (poll after poll shows that President Trump remains overwhelmingly popular among Republicans and his support has been climbing among independents), a recent Axios/SurveyMonkey survey once again affirmed that Trump’s supporters have his back, come hell or high water.

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

Seeing Titan With Infrared Eyes

These six infrared images of Saturn’s moon Titan represent some of the clearest, most seamless-looking global views of the icy moon’s surface produced so far. The views were created using 13 years of data acquired by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) instrument on board NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The images are the result of a focused effort to smoothly combine data from the multitude of different observations VIMS made under a wide variety of lighting and viewing conditions over the course of Cassini’s mission.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Turkish Government Using US Mosques to Spread “Islamist-Nationalistic Fervor”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent re-election is fueling concerns about his growing powers not just in Turkey but here in the U.S., according to experts who believe he’s determined to spread his controversial brand of Islamist-nationalistic fervor through a network of mosques and religious centers.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Twitter Caught Censoring Conservative Journalists With Site-Wide Shadowbans

Two days after Twitter told Congress that they aren’t politically biased when censoring content, several prominent conservatives discovered that the social media giant automatically includes them in a site-wide “Quality Filter Discrimination” shadowban which prevents anyone not already following them from viewing their posts.

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

West Oakland Man Pleads Guilty to Supporting ISIS

A 23-year-old West Oakland resident pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon in federal court to providing material support to ISIS. The I-Team’s Dan Noyes knew about this case long before it became public. Sources gave him a confidential law enforcement bulletin about this case in 2016, and the FBI asked him to hold the story until the arrest last year. Now, the case is winding down.

More than 100 friends, family and supporters from the Northern California Yemeni community jammed into court to see Berkeley High School graduate Amer Alhaggagi plead guilty to providing material support to ISIS. He also admitted three counts involving phony credit cards and identity theft.

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

Canada — How the Communists Took Control (Article)

MANY Canadians know a lot about America.

They watch American television. They read American magazines. But until a few years ago most Americans didn’t know much about Canada. There was the colorful Calgary Stampede, of course. There were the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. There was Sergeant Preston — and his loyal dog, King. But that, as far as most knew, was it.

The situation has now been simplified. There is only one thing anyone has time to know: The events of last year prove that if enough Canadians, with the help of enough Americans, don’t act soon enough to prevent it, Canada in a very short time will be a totalitarian dictatorship of the kind in Cuba…

Also in 1951, the Communist World Peace Council, and the Communist World Federation of Trade Unions, then run by V.V. Kuznetsov of Soviet Intelligence, began planning an international economic conference to be held the next year in Moscow.

Indeed, so obvious was the nature of the• forthcoming conference that in December, 1951, then-Canadian Justice Minister Stuart Garson warned all Cabinet Ministers that it was a Communist operation, and advised that government employees should not attend.

The conference was held in April, 1952. Of the 471 delegates, 132 were from officially Communist countries. Observers at the time estimated that 300 of the remaining 339 were known or suspected Party members — which left 39 or so for window dressing.

Marcus Leslie Hancock, one of the six delegates from Canada, says the Canadian delegation was organized by the Canadian Communist Party, which also paid the delegates’ bills. Hancock, then a Communist, says that everyone else he knew in the delegation was also a Party member.

The report of that conference, printed in Moscow, is now very hard to get. All copies in Canadian libraries have disappeared. You see a part of that report reproduced on Page 3. As you see, one of the delegates was Pierre-Elliott Trudeau. Indeed, the fact that Trudeau’s name appears first means he headed the Communist delegation.

Hancock says he didn’t know Trudeau, who stayed at a different hotel. Millionaires, after all, don’t mix with peasants. It’s outré.

Trudeau apparently was inspired in Moscow. He couldn’t wait to get home, where he began writing pro-Soviet articles. He couldn’t understand why Le Droit (Ottawa) and L’Action Catholique (Quebec City) began calling him a Communist.

All he had done was attend a Communist meeting in Moscow as a guest of the Communist Party at the head of a Communist delegation. All he was doing now was publishing his thanks…

Pierre apparently had developed a taste for leading delegations to Communist countries. In 1960 he led another — to Communist China. He participated in a Communist “victory celebration.”

He met his idol, Mao Tse-tung. He collaborated on a book called Two Innocents In Red China. (Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1968.)

Trudeau describes his meeting with the Communist leaders like this:

“…It is a stirring moment: these greybeards, in their ripe old age, embody today the triumph of an idea, an idea that has turned the whole world upside down and profoundly changed the course of human history.”

Of the greybeard who has murdered more than 30 million Chinese, Trudeau says:

“…Mao Tse-tung, one of the great men of the century, has a powerful head, an unlined face, and a look of wisdom tinged with melancholy. The eyes in that tranquil face are heavy with having seen too much of the misery of men.”

You don’t believe he said it. I know. Neither did I. Get the book. Notice that the typical Trudeau sarcasm and condescension are gone. Now the Lord Protector of the Realm fawns and scrapes…

Trudeau, in other words, was still working for Communism. He had become a Liberal simply because the Liberals could win and the N.D.P. couldn’t. He was frankly using the Liberal Party, in accordance with the Maoist tactics he so admires.

The three revolutionaries were elected, shortly after which Prime Minister Lester Pearson appointed Trudeau his Parliamentary Secretary. Politicians and reporters stared at each other. Who is Trudeau? In 1967, Pearson appointed him Minister of Justice. Politicians and reporters stared at each other. Who is Trudeau? And in 1968 Pearson conveniently retired, opening the way for Lucky Pierre.

I realize that what you have already read presses painfully on your limits of belief but the fact is that Pearson is also a Communist. Elizabeth Bentley, the late, former Soviet spy, testified in Executive Session before a Congressional Subcommittee in Washington that “Mike” Pearson had been one of those who passed information to the spy ring.*

The following is a true copy of part of the F.B.I. file documenting Pearson’s Soviet espionage activities with Bentley:

Lester B. Pearson, Soviet Espionage (File Description: HQ, Pearson L.; Subject: Silvermaster; File No. 65-56402; Vol. No. 151; Serials 3897-3945) Excerpt (1951)

That a Communist of the Pearson sort should become Prime Minister of Canada is understandable.

Bland and smiling, he tricked the Canadian people, as other Communist traitors have tricked people in country after country. He concealed his real color by continually mouthing “peace.” But Trudeau, as we have seen, boldly tells us what he thinks. Could it be that the Conspiracy decided the time had come to make Canada an official Communist state? Could it be that Pierre and Mike had a cozy tête-à-tête?…

“Trudeau has homosexuals everywhere,” says the Conservative M.P. in the cafeteria on the Hill. “They’re useable.”

The Fabian affinity for homosexuality is of course well known. John Maynard Keynes, for instance.

“Canada is completely in the hands of the Fabians,” says the M.P. “Stanfield, who is supposed to be a Conservative, is also a Fabian.”

“How possible is it that Canada will fall?” I asked. The Member leaned toward me, his voice a combination of bitterness and surprise.

“She’s already fallen,” the Member said…

Indeed, the possibility that Communist Pierre-Elliott Trudeau colluded with the Communist F.L.Q. in the matter must be seriously considered. Charles Gagnon, one of the revolutionaries now on trial, was still another frequent contributor to Trudeau’s Cité Libre.

Indeed, before he entered politics, Trudeau turned Cité Libre over to Pierre Vallières, another of the F.L.Q. leaders now on trial, who also had been a frequent contributor to the magazine. In some direct or indirect way did they concoct a Canadian version of Hitler’s Reichstag fire?

You will remember that Trudeau’s defense of federalism is based not on genuine Canadian patriotism, but on his idol Mao Tse-tung’s idea of imposing Communism in a province, from which it then can spread. In June, 1970, socialized medicine came to Quebec, in the form of Provincial Bill #8.

[Comment: Recommended reading. Written in ‘71, but still relevant — the Trudeau apple does not fall far from the tree. Boil the frog incremental implementation of communists policies under socialism. Pretty much all Canadian leftist parties are communists, as is the legacy media, tv news and print (inc. magazines). All regurgitate the globalist communist mantra — no deviation allowed.]

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Canada — How the Communists Took Control — Part 1 (Audio )

“CANADA How The Communists Took Control (Part 1)” is an audio recording of parts of the April 1971 article by Alan Stang of the same title, published in AMERICAN OPINION. Subscribe now to receive future segments.

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A Summary of the Brexit Negotiations in the Style of Yes Minister

Mrs May: Let’s kick this Brexit row into touch by going on holiday earlier, the back bench troops will like that, won’t they?

Brexiteers: The public’s perception?

May: They’ll be glad of the break too, a break from all this divisive leaving talk.

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Belgian Political Leader Predicts European Civil War is Near, As Governments Are Losing Control

A leading member of the Belgian right-wing party, Vlaams Belang, said we could be close to a civil war in Europe. “Lynching, violence and vandalism, the urban guerrilla is portentous,” Filip Dewinter writes on Twitter.

The leading member of Vlaams Belang, reacted on twitter to the French World Cup riots, during which shops were looted, police were attacked and hundreds were injured.

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

Czech Prime Minister: The EU Should Do Less and More Efficiently

Prime Minister Andrej Babis has stressed the need to reform the European Union and return power to national capitals.

In an interview for the Financial Times, Babis said the principle should be that the EU does less and more efficiently. Over-regulation kills innovation and business, Babis argued.

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

Danish Firefighters to Help Fight Swedish Forest Blazes

27 Danish firefighters with fire engines and equipment have been sent to Sweden to help emergency services to cope with ferocious forest fires that have raged this week.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Drone Reveals Massive Stonehenge-Like Circular Monument in Ireland

A drone flyby has revealed a prehistoric henge, or circular monument, in a field next to the 5,000-year-old passage tomb at Newgrange in Ireland. The new henge is the fourth one discovered near the Newgrange tomb.

The discovery comes as archaeologists, in a separate discovery, have unearthed a mysterious prehistoric structure — thought to be a ceremonial Neolithic avenue aligned with the rising and setting of the sun at the spring and fall equinoxes.

The high ground around the Newgrange passage tomb, beside the Boyne River about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Dublin, is already celebrated as a Neolithic “graveyard” and ceremonial center.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

ESO’s Very Large Telescope Captures Sharp Images of Neptune

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved the first light with a new adaptive optics mode called laser tomography and captured super-sharp images of Neptune and other objects.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

EU Will Pay: UK Warns Brexit No Deal Will Slash EU Member States’ GDP

BREXIT trade secretary Liam Fox has warned EU member states their economies will pay the price if Britain crashes out of the bloc without a deal.

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

Germany: Berlin Prosecutors Confiscate Lebanese Clan’s Properties

Berlin authorities have seized dozens of apartments and houses they claim are owned by one of the city’s Arab crime networks. A new law allows police to confiscate property bought with ill-gotten gains.

Berlin’s state prosecutors have claimed they have made a major sweep against one of the large organized crime families in the German capital: a”clan” of Arab-Lebanese origin,known simply by their initial R., to comply with German privacy law. Authorities confiscated some 77 properties, worth an estimated €9.3 million ($10.8 million).

At a press conference on Thursday, Berlin chief state prosecutor Jörg Raupach said that 16 people were being investigated on suspicion of money-laundering, all of whom were part of the R. family network. None of them had been arrested yet.

The investigators would not mention any details about the 16 suspects, including their nationality or family relation to one another. “But what is important for us is who profits from which crimes, and who helps bring money from crime back into legal circulation,” Raupach told DW. “This is a signal to organized crime that we are trying to freeze their sources of income, or even to stop them altogether, to show that in Germany it’s possibly no longer lucrative enough.”…

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

Germany: Berlin Police Seize Lebanese Clan’s Property Empire

Police have seized 77 Berlin properties owned by a Lebanese family suspected of mafia-style crimes, including the theft of a giant gold coin.

Three clan members were detained over the coin heist. The Canadian “Big Maple Leaf” — 100kg (220lb) of pure 24-carat gold — was stolen from Berlin’s Bode Museum in March 2017.

The 77 houses, apartment blocks and garden allotments are worth about €10m (£9m; $12m), German media report.

The gold coin has not yet been found.

There are fears that the gold might have been been melted down and sold off. The coin was valued at about €3.7m.

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Germany Arrests Syrian Suspected Islamic State Member

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Syrian man suspected of being a member of the Islamic State group and spreading propaganda for the extremist organization.

The federal prosecutors’ office said the 22-year-old, identified only as Esmail A.A. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested Thursday in the eastern state of Saxony.

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Halal Meat is the New Standard in Germany — Slaughter Facilities Are Facing Mecca: Survey

Germany’s leading meat producers often work according to Islamic laws, a survey of the Evangelical News Agency Idea shows.

The largest German poultry producer Wiesenhof produces exclusively “halal”. This was admitted by the group from Visbek (Lower Saxony) on request.

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History Explains Eastern European Hostility to Islam

Why have several Eastern European nations been so adamant against taking in Muslim migrants? Most recently, when Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczynski was asked earlier this month how many “refugees” Poland has taken in, he flatly responded: “Zero.”

When the British interviewer, whose nation has taken in millions of Muslim migrants, scoffed, “And you’re proud of that?,” he said: “We will not receive even one Muslim, because this is what we promised [to voters] … this is why our government was elected; this is why Poland is so safe, this is why we have not had even one terror attack.”

Considering that “[t]housands of Catholics formed a human chain along the borders of Poland” late last year “to pray for peace and ‘against the Islamisation of Europe,’“ it is clear that the Polish government is acting on behalf of the people.

What accounts for this staunchly anti-Islamic response? The answer rests in history. Unlike most Western European nations, which, thanks to their geographical proximity, have for centuries been out of the reach of — and thus have forgotten all about — Islam, Eastern Europeans are intimately acquainted with it.

Indeed, an event that occurred this week in history sheds much light on the current situation. On July 14, 1683, the largest Islamic army ever to invade European territory — which is saying much, considering the thousands of invasions preceding it since the eighth century — came and surrounded Vienna, the heart of the Holy Roman Empire and de facto nemesis of Islam.

Some 200,000 Muslim combatants, under the leadership of the Ottomans — the one state in nearly fourteen centuries of Islamic history most dedicated to and founded on the principles of jihad — invaded under the same rationale that so-called “radical” groups, such as the Islamic State, cite to justify their jihad on “infidels.” Or, to quote the leader of the Muslim expedition, Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa, because Vienna was perceived as the head of the infidel snake, it needed to be laid low so that “all the Christians would obey the Ottomans.”

This was no idle boast; sources describe Mustafa as “fanatically anti-Christian.” After capturing a Polish town in 1674, he ordered all the Christian prisoners to be skinned alive and their stuffed hides sent as trophies to Ottoman Sultan Muhammad IV.

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London Removed ‘Offensive’ Mayor Khan Mural Weeks Before Allowing Trump Baby Balloon

A London Labour-controlled council removed an “offensive” satirical painting of Mayor Sadiq Khan in swimwear, just weeks before Khan’s Greater London Authority allowed a balloon depicting U.S. President Donald J. Trump as a baby to fly abovethe city in the name of free speech.

Contractors were called in to remove two murals, one showing the Mayor in a so-called ‘Mankini’ and the other of the Prime Minister in a suggestive pose, from outside Food Bazaar Café in Gray’s Inn Road in Holborn, north London, two weeks ago, West End Extra reports.

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Majority of Polish Citizens Against Ever Joining the Euro, According to Poll

The Poles aren’t running to sign up to the Euro, that’s for sure.

According to polling company Kantar, 53% of them never want Poland to join the Eurozone.

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More Areas Evacuated in Sweden Due to Wildfires

Swedish firefighters were still battling 49 different wildfires across the country on Thursday afternoon, and in some areas residents have been asked to leave for their safety. Here’s where evacuations have taken place.

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Paris: Algerian Men Punch Woman, Beat Up Boyfriend for Saying “Vive La France” After World Cup Win

A woman and her partner were viciously beaten in Paris by a group of Algerian men after France’s World Cup Win for the sin of shouting “Vive la France!”

According to a report by Valeurs, the incident occurred just after midnight on Sunday night in the Saint-Eloi district of the capital.

A young couple was walking on the street when they were overtaken by a car, from which one of the occupants shouted, “vive l’Algérie!” (long live Algeria).

The couple responded by shouting “Vive la France!” — potentially referencing the country’s World Cup win earlier that day.

The occupants of the vehicle responded by exiting and immediately punching the woman in the face. The group of men then beat up her boyfriend.

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Parliamentary Candidate for Sweden’s Feminist Party Suggests Deporting All Jews From Israel

Oldoz Javidi, a member of Sweden’s Feminist Initiative (FI) party, suggested in an interview that was published on Friday on the party’s website, that all Jews should be deported from Israel.

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Polish Gov’t Minister Warns Against Escalated Trade War Between US and Europe

A Polish government minister on a visit to Washington has warned against any escalated trade war between the United States and Europe, Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.

Jadwiga Emilewicz, Poland’s minister for enterprise and technology, voiced concern during talks at the US Department of Commerce that increased trade tensions could also affect Poland, especially its automotive industry, the Polish public broadcaster’s news agency reported on Wednesday.

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Sadiq’s London: Knife Crime at Seven-Year High in Britain, Police Not Charging Suspects

Crime in the UK has risen significantly. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics reveal a 12 per cent rise in homicides and 16 per cent increase in knife crimes. Homocides are now at their highest since 2008 in a violent crime wave in London and other UK cities.

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Spain Drops International Arrest Warrant for Puigdemont

A Spanish judge on Thursday dropped European and international arrest warrants for deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and other separatist leaders who fled abroad, the Supreme Court said, which means they no longer face extradition.

In a court ruling, Pablo Llarena said he had taken the decision after a German court agreed to extradite Puigdemont, but only for misuse of public funds and not on the more serious charge of rebellion.

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Sweden Rushes Firefighting Aircraft to Tackle Fast-Spreading Wildfires

Italian planes and Norwegian helicopters have been deployed to help tackle more than 40 large blazes across central Sweden. Fires were also registered in the country’s northernmost county in the Arctic Circle.

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The Arabian Nightmare of the West

Method #3 (the most common one) is to declare that fanatics are mere psychopaths. Thus after the terror attack act at Hamburg’s supermarket in August 2017 the terrorist was described by Spiegel as a man with mental issues. The knifeman who killed one person and injured several more people while shouting “Allah Akbar” on May 10, 2016, apparently had psychiatric disorders, and so on so forth. …

Method #5: to accuse of Islamophobia anyone who dares calling the name and religion of a terrorist. “Focusing on whether the Parsons Green bomber [21-old Syrian refugee] was a refugee is shamelessly Islamophobic,” the Independent wrote. …

Method #8: Finally, here goes the last method from the arsenal of totalitarian regimes: censorship, fines, prohibitions and a mere withdrawal of posts, like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube do. …

Today there is no Muslim terror in the West. Bullets accidentally fly out of guns, shops and subway cars explode spontaneously, cars squash pedestrians on their own, machetes and knives fly in the air on their own cutting, chopping and stabbing passers-by. Is it all a consequence of global warming? Quite possible.

Countless sufferings without the realization of such…

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Trump’s Secret Service Agent Dies After Suffering Severe Stroke While Protecting President in Scotland

One of the Secret Service agents protecting U.S. President Donald Trump during his trip to Scotland died yesterday from a severe stroke.

In a statement released Tuesday, the Secret Service confirmed the death “with great sadness and regret” and revealed the agent died surrounded by his family and “extended Secret Service family.” His identity was not released to protect the privacy of his grieving loved ones and to allow time to notify other relatives.

“[He was a] dedicated professional of the highest order,” the agency said. “The secret service thanks the medical personnel in Scotland, in addition to the members of the White House Medical Unit and Police Scotland, who provided exceptional care and support for a member of our family.”

The agent, who had served in the agency for 19 years, suffered a stroke on Sunday, while securing the president from threats during his visit to the U.K. last week. He was taken to a hospital immediately for treatment.

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UK Crimewave: ‘I Wouldn’t Even Walk Alone in the High Street Now’

ONCE a proud mining town, there is now a genuine air of fear in Swadlincote. The Daily Express revealed last weekend how big-city criminals have turned the small Derbyshire market town into a “24/7 drugs takeaway”.

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UK Government Office Knew About Mass Rape Gangs Decade Before Investigating

Britain’s Home Office had received information about Pakistani grooming gangs raping vulnerable white girls more than a decade before it finally commissioned an investigation, a review has found.

A review had found that documents relating to an unpublished report which detailed “men who are believed to be responsible for pimping and grooming young people into prostitution” in Rotherham, north east England, was sent to the Home Office in 2002, but the department failed to act on it.

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UK: Half of All Robberies Take Place in Sadiq Khan’s London

Half of all robberies and thefts taking place in England and Wales happened in London, Office for National Statistics figures revealed.

Across the countries, there was a 30 percent surge in robberies resulting in 77,103 offences in the 12 months to March 2018 of which 42 percent took place in London, according tothe ONS.

Thefts in London also accounted for nearly half (48 percent) of all thefts in England and Wales.

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UK: Just 9% of Crimes Result in Someone Being Charged or Summonsed

The number of people being charged with crimes or summonsed has plummeted to just 9%.

Last year, it was 11%, and when a new system of recording data was introduced in 2015, it was 15% — this just shows how far the breakdown in law and order has sunk in the UK.

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UK: Met Police on FGM: ‘Prosecutions Alone Won’t Change Anything’

Arrests and prosecutions alone will not stop female genital mutilation (FGM) in Britain, the Metropolitan Police has said, stressing the importance of “having conversations” with migrants for whom “community ties” are paramount.

The comments came just days after new government figures showed that while the number of new cases of women and children having their genitals cut off for cultural and religious reasons continues to soar, there has still not been a single prosecution for the crime in the United Kingdom.

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UK: No-One Charged in 9 Out of 10 Crimes — Home Office

Only 9% of crimes end with suspects being charged or summonsed in England and Wales, Home Office figures suggest.

In the 12 months to March, 443,000 crimes resulted in a charge or summons out of 4.6 million offences — the lowest detection rate since 2015.

Data also shows police closed nearly half (48%) of all cases because no suspect could be identified.

It comes as new figures show the number of homicides has increased for the fourth year running.

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UK: Political Correctness Enabled Muslim Grooming Gangs to Rape Hundreds of White Girls for More Than a Decade

A report by Alexis Jay reveals an unpublished Home Office report from 2002, which detailed the extent of child sexual exploitation and grooming gang activity in Rotherham, went largely ignored, The Independent reports.

The independent study exposes ‘blatant’ failures by police and the labour run council, who saw more than 1500 girls and young women sexually abused between 1997 and 2013.

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UK: Watch: Dramatic Moment Birmingham Terrorist Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman Arrested After Plot to Behead Teresa May

This is the moment a Birmingham terrorist was swarmed by cops and arrested after plotting to behead Teresa May.

Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 20, planned to bomb the gates of 10 Downing Street, kill guards and then attack Theresa May with a knife or gun in an attack on the heart of the Government.

He revealed to an undercover police officer that he would make a “10-second sprint” for the door of the building, with his main objective to “take her head off.”

But the Islamic State terrorist’s suicide plot was thwarted when he collected what he believed was an explosive-packed rucksack in London last November.

Now, astonishing drone footage from the Metropolitan Police has emerged, capturing the exact moment Rahman’s terrifying plot was foiled as he was arrested.

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Why Are Eastern Europeans Hostile to Islam? Look at History

July 18, 2018 (American Thinker) — Why have several Eastern European nations been so adamant against taking in Muslim migrants? Most recently, when Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczynski was asked earlier this month how many “refugees” Poland has taken in, he flatly responded: “Zero.”

When the British interviewer, whose nation has taken in millions of Muslim migrants, scoffed, “And you’re proud of that?,” he said: “We will not receive even one Muslim, because this is what we promised [to voters] … this is why our government was elected; this is why Poland is so safe, this is why we have not had even one terror attack.”

Considering that “[t]housands of Catholics formed a human chain along the borders of Poland” late last year “to pray for peace and ‘against the Islamisation of Europe,’“ it is clear that the Polish government is acting on behalf of the people.

What accounts for this staunchly anti-Islamic response? The answer rests in history.

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Islamism, Anti-Semitism: Orban, Netanyahu Agree on ‘Challenges of 21st Century’

Since the refugee crisis broke out in Europe in 2015, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been pursuing a tough line toward migrants, something that was a major part of his election campaign and remains one of the main topics in his current political agenda.

Speaking at a press conference after talks with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban specifically applauded what he touted as “excellent ties” between the two countries.

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Israel Passes Jewish-Only ‘National Self-Determination’ Law Despite Outcry

The Israeli Knesset has approved the ‘nation-state bill’ that promotes Jewish-only settlements, downgrades Arab language status and limits the right to self-determination to Jews. Arab MPs chided the law as racist.

The bill, which has the status of a basic law (approximately the same as a constitutional law in countries with a written constitution), was passed overnight to Thursday with 62 votes in favor and 55 against after hours of fierce argument and debate. It will now come into force as soon as it’s published in the Knesset’s Official Gazette.

The law, which had been in the works since 2011, has sparked a wave of protests, which spilled over the Israeli border and angered the influential Jewish diaspora in the US.

The bill formally defines the main principles that should stand at the core of the Israeli state and its symbols, such as the flag, the anthem, its capital and language. In a clause that set Arab lawmakers off, the bill explicitly states that “the right to exercises national determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.”

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Unlikely Partners? China and Israel Deepening Trade Ties

Yet what many people don’t know is that Chinese investment in Israel is continuing to boom, at the same time as a growing number of Israeli firms are entering the Chinese marketplace.

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Alleged Islamic Sex Cult Leader Adnan Oktar Formally Arrested in Turkey

Adnan Oktar is one of the most well-known advocates of Islamic creationism and has long been accused by critics of running a sex cult. More than 100 of his followers, including his “kittens,” have also been arrested.

Turkish authorities formally arrested a bizarre Islamic televangelist cult leader and more than 100 of his followers on Thursday for charges including forming a criminal gang, blackmail and sexual abuse of minors, state-run Anatolia Agency reported.

Adnan Oktar, known commonly by his pen name Harun Yahya, was taken into custody last week in multiple raids that also rounded up 235 people. Oktar’s property was confiscated in the operation, which yielded guns and ammunition.

Oktar is a self-described Islamic scholar known for wild conspiracy theories and his numerous writings promoting creationism against Darwin’s theory of evolution.

When he was arrested last week, he told journalists it was a “game of the British deep state,” a reference to one of many of conspiracies he peddles…

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Australian ISIS Fighter Neil Prakash is Set Free From Turkish Prison and Will Not be Extradited to Face Justice

Australia’s most wanted ISIS terrorist has been freed from a Turkish prison and will likely never be extradited to face trial in Australia.

Neil Prakash was apprehended in 2016 when he crossed the Syrian border into Turkey after fighting in Syria and Iraq, but walked free Thursday after nearly two years behind bars.

A judge ordered the 27-year-old’s release from Gaziantep H-Type Prison and rejected Australia’s application to have the self-confessed Islamic State member extradited.

The ruling, handed down by Judge Ismail Deniz, went against a prosecutor who said just 10 minutes earlier he would not object to Prakash being returned to Australia for trial.

At this stage it is unknown what kind of rights, if any, Australia has to appeal the decision…

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Prehistoric Bake-Off: Scientists Discover Oldest Evidence of Bread

Scientists have discovered the earliest known evidence of bread-making, from a 14,000-year-old dig site.

The bake would have looked like a flatbread and tasted a bit like today’s multi-grain varieties, they say.

Our ancestors may have used the bread as a wrap for roasted meat. Thus, as well as being the oldest bread, it may also have been the oldest sandwich.

The find, from the Black Desert in Jordan, pushes back the first evidence for bread by more than 5,000 years.

The stone age bread-makers took flour made from wild wheat and barley, mix it with the pulverised roots of plants, added water, and then baked it.

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Fresh DNA Tests Authenticate Bones of Russia Tsar, Family

Moscow (AFP) — Fresh genetic tests on bones of Russia’s last tsar and his family murdered a century ago have confirmed their authenticity, investigators said Monday.

The tests could be a step towards the Russian Orthodox Church finally recognising the bones and burying them with full rites.

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Le Pen Says Putin’s U.S. Critics Out of Touch With Modern Russia

French nationalist Marine Le Pen said U.S. politicians who characterize Moscow as a threat are “backward” and they need to accept that 21st century Russia is “modern and safe.”

“Russia is not the Soviet Union, it’s a great country,” Le Pen said on France 2 television Wednesday. “I am surprised that some politicians in the U.S. are stuck in the past, in a Cold War, in which Russia must absolutely be the evil and the U.S. the good. All this seems so backward to me.”

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White House Rebuffs Russia Bid to Question US Officials, Amid New DC Firestorm

The White House sought Thursday to tamp down another firestorm that broke out in the wake of President Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin, making clear the president does not support the Russian leader’s proposal to allow his government to interview American officials.

“It is a proposal that was made in sincerity by President Putin, but President Trump disagrees with it,” Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a brief statement on Thursday afternoon.

The statement came as the administration faced mounting backlash for even entertaining Putin’s proposal, which pertained to the Robert Mueller probe.

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Muslim Cleric Arrested for Slapping Woman

During TV Debate (VIDEOS)

Muslim cleric Mufti Ejaz Arshad Qasmi was arrested Tuesday for repeatedly slapping lawyer Farah Faiz during a live TV debate regarding triple talaq, a banned practice in India that claims Muslim men can divorce their wives by saying, writing or texting “talaq” three times.

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Pakistan Approaches OIC Against Netherlands: Report

Pakistan has approached Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to lodge protest against a cartoon competition in Netherlands by an anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.

Foreign Minister Abdullah Haroon has written a letter to the Secretary General of OIC asking for collective action to register a protest of OIC countries with the Dutch authorities, the Foreign Office spokesman said at the weekly press briefing.

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Boeing ‘Concerns’ Over US-China Trade Row

The head of US aerospace and defence giant Boeing has warned about potential damage of the growing US-China trade row.

“Aerospace thrives on free and open trade,” said chief executive Dennis Muilenburg.

He said he was concerned tariffs could push up costs for aircraft manufacturers.

“The aerospace sector drives economic benefits globally,” he added.

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FBI Director: Chinese Espionage ‘Most Significant’ Spy Threat Facing US

China, rather than Russia, is the “most significant” long-term threat to the United States, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday.

During an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt at the Aspen Ideas Forum, Wray said that the FBI has economic espionage investigations in all 50 states that trace back to Chinese activity.

“It covers everything from corn seeds in Iowa to wind turbines in Massachusetts and everything in between,” said Wray.

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Specter of Communism: Chapter Nine: The Communist Economic Trap (Part I)

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An important feature of communist or socialist economics in Western countries is robust social welfare. Current social welfare policies make people who came from communist countries feel as though they have simply moved to another socialist state.

Undercover Socialism

The government itself doesn’t generate value. Rather, it’s like shearing wool from a sheep. All social benefits are ultimately paid for by the people using taxes or national debt. A high degree of welfare itself is a variant form of communism, just without the violent revolution practiced by communist parties. …

China’s economic growth in the past 40 years draws in large part from the following factors:

First, the relaxation of the state-owned economy and abandonment of central planning, as well as the revitalization of the private sector have given the Chinese economy a powerful productive drive. Chinese people are hardworking and intelligent, but the Party hindered their industrious potential for decades. A desire to alleviate themselves of poverty has rekindled the motivation to do business and unleashed the tremendous economic power of the Chinese.

A second factor was the massive influx of Western capital and technology into China during the reform era. Under the command economy, China’s vast swathes of underutilized land, labor, and markets was like gold for which prices were not yet determined. The combination of capital investment and undeveloped resources ignited the blaze of China’s economic growth. Had it not been for the Party’s totalitarian rule, this fire should have been started decades earlier, and in a much more controllable and sustainable fashion. …

Finally, the CCP overturned the conventions of international trade and took full advantage of the opportunities available to it regardless of their legitimacy. It adopted the nationwide strategy of plagiarizing intellectual property in an attempt overtake other countries in terms of industry and technology. This constitutes the biggest case of theft in all of history.

The 2017 report by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property said that every year, China’s fake goods, pirated software, and stolen trade secrets cause the United States a loss of between $225 billion to $600 billion every year, a figure that does not include losses due to the theft of intellectual property.

The report stated that over the past three years, US$1.2 trillion were lost due to intellectual theft, the majority of which was from China. [25][26] A report by the Director’s Office of National Intelligence Service states that 90 percent of cyberattacks on U.S. businesses come from the Chinese government, inflicting an estimated $400 billion in total economic damage every year. [27]

China’s economic growth was fueled by the relaxation of socialist ideology, investment from advanced Western countries, and the CCP’s immoral business conduct. In no way does this indicate the superiority of socialism, nor that the Party is developing on the normal capitalist path. Western observers sometimes describe communist China’s unscrupulous business model as “state capitalism.” This is giving the Party undue praise. Under the CCP’s totalitarian rule, the economy is merely a political instrument. The window dressing of market economics is a superficiality the CCP uses to deceive the world.

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Boat That Took on Migrants Denied Entry, Pointed to Tunisia

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Four humanitarian groups say a commercial boat carrying 40 migrants who had been stranded in the Mediterranean Sea has been waiting to get a green light to dock in the Tunisian port of Zarzis for more than 48 hours.

The groups, most of them based in Tunisia, said Thursday that Tunisian authorities were deciding whether to grant the boat entry after Italy, Malta and France refused. Tunisian authorities couldn’t immediately be reached to discuss its stance.

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European Commission Taking Legal Action Against Hungary Over ‘Stop Soros’ Law

The unelected European Commission are set to take on the elected Orban government in Hungary, hitting out at their approach to border policy and a ‘Stop Soros’ law aimed at curbing illegal immigration.

Brussels have now said that they are referring the case to the European Court of Justice regarding Hungary’s “non-compliance of its asylum and return legislation with EU law”. The end result could be that Hungary is hit with financial sanctions.

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France: 100s of Refugees Settle in Public Park in Nantes After City Expelled Them From Local House (Video)

Some 500 refugees are now stranded in a public garden in Nantes, France, where they are living in tents after being expelled from an abandoned house nearby. As doctors warn of epidemics, locals voice unease over their presence.

An estimated 500 refugees, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, have settled in numerous tents in the heart of Nantes, western France, after authorities forced them to leave an abandoned building nearby. RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij came to the spot and talked to one of the refugees. “We’re lost, hopeless. There’s a problem with finding somewhere to live, and food. We don’t sleep well, it’s tiresome,” said a man identified as Mohammed.

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German Woman’s Dog Saves Her From Migrant Knife Attack, Bites Attacker

A woman walking her dog in a park was attacked by an unknown man, Radiovest Germany reports.

The dog briefly disappeared in the bushes as the mountain biker approached the woman and pushed her to the ground. He then threatened her with a knife.

The dog returned and bit the man, who then fled on his bike in the direction of Hülsberg.

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How Far Will Southern Spain’s Resources for Refugees Go?

When the Aquarius docked in Valencia, the 630 migrants on board were welcomed by over 2,400 volunteers and medical staff. But what happens to those who arrive from Morocco?

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Hundreds of Refugees Make Camps in French Public Park After Being Evicted From Local House

Roughly five hundred refugees are now living in tents in a public park in Nantes, France, after being evicted from an abandoned house in the area.

French locals have been outspoken of their presence, with some saying their presence “is negative for Nantes, just like for every city they have settled”.

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Hungary to Join U.S. In Rejecting ‘Dangerous’ UN Migration Pact

The United Nations (UN) migration compact is a “threat to the world”, Hungary has said, announcing that the nation will follow President Donald J. Trump’s America in rejecting the globalist agreement.

The draft for the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which claims that huge movements of people across borders are “inevitable, necessary, and desirable”, was approved on Friday by all UN member nations except the U.S., which withdrew last year.

Rejecting the document, which was summarised by President Trump as plans for a world in which there are “no borders, everyone can come in”, the White House said the compact was “simply not compatible with US sovereignty”.

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Hungary Pursued by EU Over ‘Stop Soros’ Migrant Law

The European Commission says a law in Hungary that criminalises support for asylum seekers is illegal amid a battle with the country over EU migration.

Hungary has now been referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for “non-compliance” with EU legislation.

Viktor Orban’s government passed a law in June stating anyone “facilitating illegal immigration” could face prison.

The law was dubbed “Stop Soros” after the billionaire philanthropist Hungary accuses of supporting Muslim migrants.

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Non-Citizens Legally Register to Vote in San Francisco School Elections

San Francisco began registering non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants, to register to vote Monday in the November election for the city school board, reported The San Francisco Chronicle.

The move follows passage of a 2016 ballot measure by San Francisco voters opening school elections to non-citizens who are over the age of 18, city residents and have children under age 19, reported the publication.

“This is no-brainer legislation,” Hillary Ronen, a San Francisco supervisor, told the Chronicle. “Why would we not want our parents invested in the education of their children?”

“We want to give immigrants the right to vote,” Norman Yee, also a county supervisor, told KGO.

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Revealed: The Top 10 Immigrant Groups Moving to Australia Permanently — With One Nationality Entering the Country at a Rate of 50 People a Day, And Most Buying Property

More immigrants settling permanently in Australia since the turn of the millennium were born in India than anywhere else, and a majority of new arrivals have bought their own homes.

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Spanish Search and Rescue NGO Spreads Fake News About ‘Refugee Deaths’

The Catalan NGO “Proactiva Open Arms” has been accused of spreading Fake News by both the Italian government and the Libyan Coast Guard.

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Swedish Government Targets Polygamists as Illegal Practice Boosted by Migrant Influx

Sweden’s Ministry of Justice has launched a probe into how to end polygamy in the country. Although prohibited by law, the government has struggled with how to deal with asylum seekers who arrive in Sweden with multiple wives.

The government investigation seeks to determine the legal implications surrounding the known cases of polygamy in Sweden. According to Helen Fritzon, Sweden’s minister for migration and deputy minister for justice, the probe also aims at “preventing the continuation” of the practice. Several hundred polygamous marriages have been reportedly registered with the Swedish government.

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Szijjarto: UN Migration Compact Extremist and Biased

Hungary is quitting the approval process of the United Nations Global Compact on Migration, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting.

“For us, the number one priority is Hungary and the security of Hungarians,” he told a press conference. The document goes completely against the security interests of the country, he added.

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Undocumented Migrants in Spain Will Have Universal Healthcare From Day One

Undocumented migrants will have access to public healthcare the moment they set foot in Spain, according to a draft government decree to which this newspaper has had access.

The draft, which the Health Ministry has sent to regional governments, eliminates the need to hold a Social Security card, and even dispenses with the requirement to sign up on the municipal register (known in Spanish as the padrón) before being allowed to use Spain’s health services. Regional governments will decide what documents are necessary to access the system in their territory.

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UK: Idiotic Manchester Uni Students Vandalise Rudyard Kipling Poem Because He’s ‘A Racist’

Idiotic students at Manchester University are stepping up their censorship game.

The poem ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling has been painted over in what is tantamount to an act of vandalism and replaced with one by Maya Angelou because Kipling apparently held racist views.

Kipling, who was born in India in 1865, was, unsurprisingly, quite favourable about the empire.

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UK: Manchester Students Deface Poem by ‘Racist’ Kipling

Students have defaced a mural featuring Rudyard Kipling’s If in a stand against his “racist” work.

The author’s 1895 poem was painted on a wall of Manchester University’s newly renovated union building.

But student leaders erased the work, replacing it with a piece by Maya Angelou in a bid to reverse “black and brown voices” being written out of history.

Riddi Viswanathan, student union diversity officer, said elected members representing students felt Kipling was “not in line with our values”, singling out his poem The White Man’s Burden.

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UN Envoy: 1.1 Billion People Face Risks From Lack of Cooling

New data from 52 countries in hot climates reveals that over 1.1 billion people face “significant risks” from lack of access to cooling including death, a U.N. envoy said Monday.

Rachel Kyte told a press conference that “millions of people die every year from lack of cooling access, whether from food losses, damaged vaccines, or severe heat impact.”

The U.N. envoy, who is promoting the United Nations goal of providing sustainable energy for all people by 2030, said nine countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America with the biggest populations that face major risks are Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan and Sudan.

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12 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/19/2018

  1. Th financial freemasonry, believers of the universal religion of human rights, cannot tolerate a state sovereignty against their will to dominate. They want to choose who comes in and goes out. Who has the rights to immigrate and spit on the new promised land (mostly from far distant culture, like african muslims) and who must shut up. The chaos is artificially stimulated by international economic institutions (like ECB and IMF). Hungary must be punished by the wheel of ze(u)ropan justice (it could have been the Strasbourg court as well or some other court, they have plenty of it from which to choose, with many different names and acronyms, like the devil they never come out with their real name which is the antichrist). This is to give a lesson also to other countries (Austria, Italy, Czech Rep., Poland, Slovakia, etc), who might escape the multicultural progressive dream which has already gone wrong and is going to end up one day like Babylonia.

    • “The European Commission has initiated legal action against Hungary due to the “Stop Soros” law. Officials in Brussels are referring the case to the European Court of Justice”

      The fact is, any multi-national organization with regulatory power will sooner or later press to have its power expanded. Such an organization, almost by definition, is unaccountable. By representing different constituencies of dramatically different views and values, the organization assures itself of freedom from constraint as long as the money flow continues.

      The so-called European Court of Human Justice is just another self-serving, grasping bureaucracy.

      The US and other Western countries would do well to pull out of the EU, the IMF, and definitely the UN, which is a hotbed of Islamic expansionism. But, the UN would still be the UN without the OIC (Organization for Islamic Cooperation): a collection of slimy opportunists chasing after the fat salaries, copious benefits, and light workload of UN bureaucrats. And to obtain these perks, the bureaucrats try constantly to bring a higher proportion of the resources of the constituent countries under its control.

      The US and certain other countries are still strong enough to ignore, or even withdraw from, organizations like the UN, but it won’t remain true forever.

  2. Catholic Poland, fighting Islam for centuries and surviving both the Nazi and Marxist tyrannies….KEEPING THE FAITH. Now, the EU attacks…..

    • If the Visegrad Four continue to band together, they can stand up to the EU. Poland’s problem is her debt…that allows the EU to stand on its neck.

      • Dymphna.
        It is not Poland’s debt which creates problems in its relations with the EU. In 2017 Polish debt achieved 50,6% of of its GDP (Spain – 98,3% of GDP, Portugal – 125% of GDP, don’t even mentioning Italy with 131,8% of GDP or Greece – 178% of GDP).
        The problem is that many major infrustructural investment in Poland (motorways, railway lines) have been carrying out with the support of EU funds (even up to 85% of total costs). If the EU cuts this financial support, Poland will not be able to continue these projects alone and it will definitely impact our economic growth.
        On the other hand, for the first time in its history Poland is able to attract foreign (Ukrainian) workers who contribute financially to our tax and social systems. This demonstrates that the Poland’s economy develops and is getting stronger.

    • She was passionate in her address to Trump. But he is the Executive and can’t “pass a law” as she urges him to do. I suppose he could issue an Executive Order (Obama specialized in them), but I don’t see how anything he set up on his own could limit The Bigs.

  3. “China, rather than Russia, is the “most significant” long-term threat to the United States, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday.”

    Now examine the close ties that many politicians have with China and China business ventures. You could put the Clintons at the top, but they aren’t the only ones.

    • Having lived in China for 10 years I’ve seen its rise to the world stage. They have laws such as no foreign workers can do a job that a Chinese person can do, builders, shop workers, factory workers. This protects their people whilst the west bows down to leftist Marxist fascism, importing terrorism via the enrichers. The Chinese government and indeed its people will never accept this.

      Western police forces look like they are a private military, armed to the teeth. In China the police still wear flat caps, blue shirts and a tie, no weapons are carried. The west claim they can’t track illegals but in a country of 1.3 billion they are able to and deport very quickly.

      You may say people are too scared to commit crime but is that a bad thing? Punishment for murder, rape, drugs is met with swift justice but if the rule of law is adhered to there are no problems. The country is safe and clean.

      The multinationals came here to gain better pricing forcing smaller companies to do the same thus robbing the west of jobs. Is China to blame?

      • China is to blame for much suffering among its own people.

        http://markhumphrys.com/china.html

        It is a place which sells slave labor. I try to avoid Chinese foodstuffs or vitamins. For the most part, its products are shoddy. Once upon a time, Japan’s export goods were below par, but they’ve long since surpassed the West. China, not so much.

      • safe? If you are a swift athlete and you manage to jump aside when a car uses the sidewalk.
        clean? maybe people don’t throw away waste and the smog in Peijing is a photoshop hoax.

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