Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/27/2018

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

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

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Financial Crisis
» EU on Brink: Eurozone Faces Repeat of 2011 Meltdown and This is Why
» Facebook Insiders Dumped $4.1 Billion Weeks Ahead of Record Crash
» Facebook Market Value Plunges
» Huge Second-Quarter GDP Gains; Some Say Unsustainable
» Trump vs. The Fed: America Sacrificed at the NWO Altar
 
USA
» Amazon is Under Fire After the ACLU Found That Its Facial Recognition Technology Identified Members of Congress as People Who Have Been Arrested
» Giant Hogweed is Bad, But This Wild Parsnip Plant is Worse
» Marine Veteran, Man Wearing Trump Shirt Violently Attacked Near Trump Star in L.A.
» Peter Thiel: Political Correctness is an Indicator of Greater Social Illness
» Plano Teen Accused of Planning ISIS-Inspired Attack Gets Indicted
» Snoopware Installed by 11 Million+ iOS, Android, Chrome, And Firefox Users
» Twitter Stock Plunges 21% After Earnings Show Effects of Fake-Account Purge
» Twitter Disavows Shadow Banning, But Facts Say Otherwise
» UnAmerican Obama, American President Trump
 
Europe and the EU
» AfD Joint Second Most Popular Party in Germany
» Almost Half of Swedes and Danes Would Prefer Nordic Union to EU: Poll
» Belgium: Firearms and Other Weapons Found in Brussels Shopping Mall
» Facebook Wants to Reduce Visibility of Voice of Europe Posts
» France: Le Pen Backs Censure of Macron for ‘Trying to Hide Facts’ In Aide Assault Case
» French Church Set on Fire and Spray Painted With the Words “Allahu Akbar”
» Italy: Ousted From FS for New Govt’s Spoils System — Mazzoncini
» Italy: Raggi Hails Closure of Camping River Roma Camp
» Italy: ‘Absentee MP’ Mura Ousted, Says M5S
» Massive Increase in Wildfires in Netherlands
» No Need for Changes in Gov’t: Polish Ruling Party Leader
» Surging Support for UKIP on Brexit and Immigration, New Poll Shows
» Theresa May’s Chequers Plan Sending Voters to Join UKIP in Droves
» ‘They Are Coming After Brexiteers’ Activist Fined £20k by ‘Remainer’ Electoral Commission
» UK: Lawless London: Armed Thugs in Shoot Out With Police in Forest Gate
» UK: Lawless London: 17-Year-Old Jailed for Stabbing 14-Year-Old in Face and Neck
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» UN Human Rights Commissioner Takes Parting Anti-Semitic Shot at Israel
 
Middle East
» We Won’t Miss Him: Sydney-Based Leader of Islamist Group Who Called for Sharia Law in Australia is Detained in the Middle East With His Wife
 
Far East
» China’s Strategy in Isolating Taiwan
» Eyewitnesses Report Explosion Outside US Embassy in Beijing
 
Australia — Pacific
» Group of Foreign Students Are Kicked Out of Melbourne University After Handing in Dodgy Medical Certificates Using ‘Fake Doctors’ Found Online
 
Latin America
» Britain and Ecuador Are Again Trying to Figure Out What to Do With Wikileaks’ Julian Assange
» Facebook Cracks Down on Right-Wing Group in Brazil Ahead of Elections, Sparking Outrage
» Thousands Gather to Prevent Assange’s Handover and Extradition
 
Immigration
» 600 Migrants Armed With “Flamethrowers and Feces” Break Through Spanish Border in Morocco
» Bavaria Tightens Borders Amid German Rethink on Migrants
» ‘European Commission’s Days Are Numbered, ‘ Says Orban as EU Piles Pressure on Hungary Over Migrants
» German Conservatives Are Reshaping How Europe Treats Asylum Seekers
» How a Record 539,000 Immigrants Moved to Australia in the Last Year — and 75% Ended Up in Crowded Sydney and Melbourne
» Hungary Adopts New Tax on Pro-Mass Migration NGOs
» Italy Slashes Asylum Seeker Benefit Payments
» Native Swedes a Minority Within Four Decades as Number of Muslim Children Explodes — Study
» Pakistani Migrant Arrested for Trying to Set Fire in Greece
» Powder Keg Paris: As a Devastating Report Reveals 300,000 Illegal Migrants Are Living in One French Suburb…
» Spain’s Overwhelmed Coastguard Says it Can’t Cope With Migrant Influx, As 700 Rescued in One Morning
» UK Family Return From France to Find Sudanese Stowaway Had Hid in Campervan for Four Days
 
Culture Wars
» Summer Camp Indoctrinates Children in ANTIFA Neo-Marxist Curriculum
» The Big Social Media Companies Are Being Used as a Weapon to Advance the Agenda of the New World Order
 

EU on Brink: Eurozone Faces Repeat of 2011 Meltdown and This is Why

The bloc focused on immigration and Brexit at the most recent EU summit, but Europe’s real threat stands somewhere else, according to Lorenzo Codogno, macroeconomist and former general director at the Treasury Department of the Italian Ministry of Economy.

Mr Codogno said the eurozone is facing three factors similar to those that triggered a sharp acceleration of the government bond crisis in Europe during the summer of 2011, causing the European debt crisis.

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

Facebook Insiders Dumped $4.1 Billion Weeks Ahead of Record Crash

“SEC May Want To Take A Look”

For all the mockery he is subjected to on a regular basis, both here and elsewhere, Dennis Gartman issued a very prescient and timely warning ahead of Facebook’s earnings. As we noted yesterday in our note why Gartman thinks that this is a “This Is A Dangerous Time”, the (formerly) regular CNBC guest pointed out the following troubling fact:… note the chart this page, courtesy of RBMP Capital, of the huge and increasing sales of Facebook by its founder, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, over the course of the past several years and most notably over the course of the past several months. When owners sell this aggressively… no matter what the excuse they might give…only the foolhardy do not pay heed.

Today, Gartman understandably takes a victory lap, and writes the following:

Facebook closed at 4:00 p.m. at a new all-time closing higher of $217/share, but when the news came out if fell swiftly to $173/share… a loss of just over 20%! This is fascinating in light of the massive “insider selling” of Facebook shares by non-other than Mr. Zuckerberg himself in recent weeks and noted here yesterday.

As a reminder, Facebook’s crash overnight has been so massive, at one point the total value lost was over $150 billion, greater than the market cap of bitcoin, making it the biggest stock collapse in history.

Bloomberg has also picked up on this insider selling deluge, and writes that “nine Facebook insiders combined to sell about $4.13 billion worth of stock since the Cambridge Analytica data-mining scandal first surfaced on March 17.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Market Value Plunges

Facebook loses $150bn in 2hrs after warning of company’s growth slowdown Facebook’s stock lost roughly one-fifth of its value in after hours trading on Wednesday following the company’s disappointing earnings report and warning of worse-than-expected user growth.

The social network’s stock dropped about seven percent immediately after the earnings report was released, and then plummeted to a loss of more than 20 percent during the company’s call with investors. Its valuation has fallen by $148 billion.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Huge Second-Quarter GDP Gains; Some Say Unsustainable

During President Trump’s celebration of the second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) report in the Rose Garden on Friday morning, he said that “We’re on track to hit the highest annual growth rate in over 13 years. And I will say this right now and I will say it strongly: As the [trade] deals come in one by one, we’re going to go a lot higher than these numbers, and these are great numbers.”

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

Trump vs. The Fed: America Sacrificed at the NWO Altar

There is a disconnect within the liberty movement over the notion of where to find the root source of globalism.

A segment of people within the movement seem to think that the fount of globalism resides within America itself; that American imperialism is the foundation of the globalist scheme and the dollar is the single most important mechanism supporting their power. This is an naive oversimplification of the problem.

Numerous misconceptions stem from the idea that globalists actually have loyalty to the U.S. system. For example, over the past several years you might have often heard the argument that the Federal Reserve would “never end QE,” that they would “never let stock markets fall,” that they would “never raise interest rates,” that they would “inevitably go to negative interest rates,” that they would “never cut the balance sheet,” etc. etc. All of these assumptions were based on the idea that central bankers and globalists need the U.S. economy and the dollar system in order to maintain financial control of the world in general.

All of these assumptions also turned out to be completely false as the past couple years of fundamentals show the direct effects of the Fed pulling the plug on its artificial support of the U.S. economy. Particularly, we have seen a spike in corporate and consumer debt not seen since before the crash of 2008. Business interests are scrambling to take up the slack left by waning Fed stimulus, and they are digging themselves into a grave-like hole in the process.

Not only this, but we have numerous examples of Fed officials admitting that a crash in markets and the economy would occur if the Fed cut off support. This includes current Fed chairman Jerome Powell, who outlined the result of balance sheet cuts and interest rate hikes back in 2012. Meaning, skeptics cannot argue that the Fed is somehow “unaware” of its own actions and the consequences. The central bankers KNOW exactly what they are doing and what will happen as a result. They are bringing down the U.S. economy deliberately as multiple sectors hang by the thin thread of low but steadily rising interest rates and Trump’s tax cuts.

This has caused considerable confusion for many alternative analysts. They have spent so long operating under the notion that the Fed will protect U.S. markets, protect the dollar and thus protect itself. What they refused to accept was the possibility that the Fed is actually a suicide bomber whose goal is to eventually destroy itself and everything around it, thus bringing down America from within.

But why would the globalists do this? For those that assume the U.S. economy represents the “goose that lays the golden eggs,” what I describe above is inconceivable. In order to understand what is happening and why, we must cast off the lie that America is a golden goose that perpetually supports the globalist agenda. Rather, America is more like a host to the globalist parasites, and once the host is drained of all vitality, the parasites will leave and move on to bigger and better targets.

In other words, just as numerous empires before it, the U.S. system served a purpose for a particular window of time. It was exploited as a means to an end, and now the banking elites are moving on to a “new world order” in which America plays a far diminished role. This is why the Fed continues to act in a manner that appears bewildering to so many people. This is why the Fed is taking actions that they have openly admitted will cause a crash. They WANT a crash.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Amazon is Under Fire After the ACLU Found That Its Facial Recognition Technology Identified Members of Congress as People Who Have Been Arrested

Amazon is under fire after the American Civil Liberties Union performed an experiment using its facial recognition software.

ACLU found that it incorrectly identified 28 members of Congress as people who had previously been arrested.

Amazon says that its software is designed to be used in conjunction with humans, and that the ACLU used the wrong settings for its study.

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

Giant Hogweed is Bad, But This Wild Parsnip Plant is Worse

Reports of the giant hogweed burning, blistering, and blinding both humans and animals have been going around lately. But there’s another plant we should worry about that’s even worse: the wild parsnip.

Giant hogweed and wild parsnip are closely related; both are a part of the taxonomic family Apiaceae that also includes carrots, celery, parsley, coriander, and fennel. Wild parsnip is more dangerous than the giant hogweed mostly because it’s more abundant. It has burned and blistered more people than the giant hogweed has. According to The Democrat and Chronicle, the spindly plant with yellow-green flowers is all over the place, it’s uncontrollable, and it has a bite. “We have a lot of people that call with wild parsnip burns,” said Naja Kraus, who heads New York state’s effort to control giant hogweed.

Wild parsnip, sometimes also called hobo parsnip, is the free-range version of the well-known root vegetable. Like the giant hogweed, it made it’s way to the Americas from Eurasia and is now a noxious weed; and dangerous ones at that. One woman, horribly found this out the hard way.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Marine Veteran, Man Wearing Trump Shirt Violently Attacked Near Trump Star in L.A.

Video footage shows a Marine veteran and a man wearing a Trump shirt being violently attacked by leftists near the Trump Hollywood Walk of Fame

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

Peter Thiel: Political Correctness is an Indicator of Greater Social Illness

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel addressed a group of young conservatives on Wednesday evening.

Speaking at the Turning Point USA High School Leadership Summit on Wednesday evening, Silicon Valley giant Peter Thiel spoke to students about America’s current political climate, his views on President Trump, and the dangers of political correctness.

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

Plano Teen Accused of Planning ISIS-Inspired Attack Gets Indicted

Matin Azizi-Yarand, 17, was indicted on one count of solicitation of capital murder, a first-degree felony, and one count of terroristic threat, a third-degree felony.

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

Snoopware Installed by 11 Million+ iOS, Android, Chrome, And Firefox Users

People often use ad blockers, disk-cleaners, and similar utilities to stop online trackers from monitoring their online activities. Now, researchers have uncovered a host of apps and browser extensions downloaded more than 11 million times that keep a list of every website ever visited and send it to servers operated by the developers.

The snooping wares affect both Android and iOS users, as well as those who installed Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox extensions, according to a blog post published Tuesday by AdGuard, a developer of ad blockers and privacy tools. AdGuard cofounder Andrey Meshkov said in the post that the extensions and apps make a list of every exact address of every page visited and combine it with a unique identifier he believes is generated when the extension or app is first installed.

“There are numerous ways of discovering your real identity from observing your browsing history,” Meshkov wrote. “It can be straightforward, for instance, there is no ambiguity in who can visit this page: https://analytics.twitter.com/user/ay_meshkov/tweets. Even if you do not happen to visit such pages, there is still a high chance of exposing your real identity.”

The post identifies the following wares:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Twitter Stock Plunges 21% After Earnings Show Effects of Fake-Account Purge

Investors pummeled Twitter Inc.’s stock in Friday trading as the company reported that user growth had turned negative, even as its quarterly results beat Wall Street expectations on the top and bottom lines.

Twitter shares TWTR —20.54% fell 21% during Friday’s regular session to close at $34.13. Before Friday’s losses, the stock had gained roughly 80% this year, while the S&P 500 index SPX —0.66% climbed 6.1%.

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

Twitter Disavows Shadow Banning, But Facts Say Otherwise

A Vice exclusive story on Wednesday caught Twitter red-handed engaging in the practice of shadow banning prominent GOP politicians, removing their profiles from drop-down searches. Since then, the social media platform has struggled to provide an adequate explanation for the phenomenon.

“We do not shadowban,” a Twitter spokesperson told Sputnik Wednesday. However, Twitter employees were secretly filmed earlier this year explicitly bragging about doing just that.

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

UnAmerican Obama, American President Trump

Globalists want open borders, no sovereignty for any country, and the destruction of any form of individualism be it yours, or that of any group or state. To stand against the people who call for a one world order is considered to be racist, therefore, racism must be used to subdue the alleged racists who simply want to defend individualism.

In South Africa, in an attempt to “end racism”, the property of people who have white skin has been seized by the government because of the white skin color of those white property owners. Yet, somehow they don’t believe what they’ve done is racist.

Remember the leftist and Obama mantra, “Only white people can be racist.”

Obama preached in South Africa that we should have greater global wealth redistribution, and in his speech he scolded the successful members of the world for “having more money than they need.” In other words, wealth needs to be redistributed from the prosperous countries to the not-so-prosperous countries, and to be successful and to do well in your endeavors is greedy and should not be pursued.

Obama’s statements were anti-American, and pro-communist.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

AfD Joint Second Most Popular Party in Germany

European politics continues to change at a rapid rate, with the anti-Euro AfD now the joint second most popular party in Germany, according to a new poll.

The anti-mass migration party is currently sitting on 17%, tied with the SPD, and they’re snapping at the heels of the CDU/CSU coalition.

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

Almost Half of Swedes and Danes Would Prefer Nordic Union to EU: Poll

A significant proportion of Swedes and Danes would prefer to be part of a ‘Nordic union’ between Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland rather than the European Union, a new poll shows.

The Sentio poll for left-wing Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen asked around 1,000 people in each of the three countries which kind of partnership they would prefer: the present situation with Sweden and Denmark in the EU (and Norway in the European Economic Area), or a new Nordic union with joint policy in many areas.

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

Belgium: Firearms and Other Weapons Found in Brussels Shopping Mall

On Tuesday officers from the Brussels-Capital-Elsene Local Police Services carried out searches of a number of shops where they suspected that illegal weapons and fake goods were being sold. In the Agora Gallery they found 1,500 weapons including 868 Airsoft firearms, 230 knuckle-dusters, 50 flick knives and a machete.

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

Facebook Wants to Reduce Visibility of Voice of Europe Posts

Today we received a message that Facebook wants to reduce the visibility of our posts on the network. The reason? After thousands of social media and website posts we made our first mistake.

AFP, one of Facebook’s fact checkers rightly said one of our videos was not from London. Of course we are sorry for that, as verifying news and telling the truth are among our most important standards.

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

France: Le Pen Backs Censure of Macron for ‘Trying to Hide Facts’ In Aide Assault Case

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Rally party, formerly known as the National Front, has signaled her readiness to support the opposition’s motion of no confidence in President Emmanuel Macron’s government over the incident with Macron aide Alexandre Benalla allegedly beating a protester.

Earlier, France’s opposition Republicans party announced plans for a motion of no confidence in Macron’s government, with its leader Christian Jacob saying that “the government has failed and must be held responsible in front of parliament.”

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

French Church Set on Fire and Spray Painted With the Words “Allahu Akbar”

A church in Orleans was set on fire on 25 July. Police discovered the words “Allahu Akbar” spray painted on a wall, 20minutes France reports.

On Wednesday night The Saint-Pierre du Matroi church in Orleans was set on fire with “criminal intent”, according to police sources.

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

Italy: Ousted From FS for New Govt’s Spoils System — Mazzoncini

Rail operator’s ethical clause not respected — ministry sources

(ANSA) — Rome, July 26 — Renato Mazzoncini said Thursday that his dismissal as the CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) along with the rest of the board of the Italian rail company was down to the “decision of the new government to apply the spoils system”.

On Wednesday Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli, a leading member of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), announced he had sacked the board of FS and halted a planned merger between FS and motorway company ANAS.

In a letter to employees, Mazzoncini said the results of the last three years showed he had done a good job, with “the best balance sheets ever, with average profits of 645 million euros.

“Today the company is worth 2% of the country’s GDP and employs 81,000 people directly and 240,000 indirectly,” he added. Transport ministry sources rejected Mazzoncini’s assertion, saying the decision to fire the board was linked to the failure to apply an ethical clause relating to the CEO position.

The sources stressed, however, that this did not imply any illegal or illegitimate conduct.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Raggi Hails Closure of Camping River Roma Camp

Rome working for legality and protection of rights — mayor

(ANSA) — Rome, July 26 — Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi on Thursday hailed the clearance and closure of the Camping River Roma camp in the capital. “Legality and the protection of people’s rights are the principles upon which our efforts to go beyond Roma camps is based,” Raggi, a member of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), said via Facebook. “As of today, Camping River is closed.

“It is unacceptable to keep financing places like this which aid ghettoisation and, above all, where the living conditions do not protect the rights of children, women and men. “A third way based on inclusion, the respect of legality, the protection of rights and the respect of obligations is possible”. The European Court of Human Rights had called for the clearance of the site to be suspended after an appeal by three inhabitants. The Rome city council sent the court the information it requested about this issue and has said the clearance was necessary due to sanitary problems.

Some residents of the camp staged protests outside the camp and said they had been mistreated.

“This morning they came to throw us out. They treated us like animals,” said Florin, a 31-year-old resident of the camp.

“There was violence. They pushed the women and used pepper spray on a lady.

“Some people fainted. The women were screaming”. Deputy Premier and M5S leader Luigi Di Maio, however, said that the clearance of the camp was legitimate.

“We have spoken to the local police and they have denied that any type of clash took place,” said Labour and Industry Minister Di Maio. “The clearance was peaceful and I consider it legitimate”. The first family to leave the camp, a household of five people, were set to be received at a facility provided by the council that will enable them to stay together. At the moment, 24 people have accepted an offer to be housed at structures provided by the council’s social services department, in addition to those who had already left the site.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: ‘Absentee MP’ Mura Ousted, Says M5S

Movement cites yachtsman’s 96.8% absentee rate

(ANSA) — Rome, July 26 — The 5-Star Movement (M5S) said Thursday yachtsman-MP Andrea Mura has been kicked out of the anti-establishment group, citing an absenteeism rate of 96.8% in parliament that had caused a furore.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Massive Increase in Wildfires in Netherlands

The number of wildfires in the Netherlands increased significantly this year. So far in 2018 there were already more wildfire reports than there were in the entire 2016 and 2017, according to figures from alarmeringen.nl, RTL Nieuws reports.

In 2016 a total of 1,293 reports were made of forest, heath and other wildfires. In 2017 there were 1,530. The wildfire report counter for this year already stands at 1,728.

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

No Need for Changes in Gov’t: Polish Ruling Party Leader

The leader of Poland’s ruling conservatives has said there is no need for changes in the government before parliamentary elections scheduled for next autumn — unless “something extraordinary” happens.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the Law and Justice party which swept to power in late 2015, told public broadcaster TVP on Thursday: “I think that there shouldn’t be any such changes, that at the moment we should act in a stable manner.

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

Surging Support for UKIP on Brexit and Immigration, New Poll Shows

Voters are increasingly looking at UKIP again when it comes to the issues of Brexit and immigration, according to a new YouGov poll.

A huge 31% of Leave voters now back UKIP when it comes to border policy and 26% of Leavers back the party as the best on Brexit.

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

Theresa May’s Chequers Plan Sending Voters to Join UKIP in Droves

It should be a wake-up call for the Conservatives. A new YouGov poll shows a massive 31 per cent of LEAVE voters now backing UKIP when it comes to border policy and 26 per cent believe UKIP would best manage Brexit.

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

‘They Are Coming After Brexiteers’ Activist Fined £20k by ‘Remainer’ Electoral Commission

A Brexit campaigner fined £20,000 by the Electoral Commission has hit back saying he will fight the decision because “they will keep going after those who support Brexit”.

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

UK: Lawless London: Armed Thugs in Shoot Out With Police in Forest Gate

A shoot out between police and a group of men in East London resulted in three people being arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

Officers were called to Forest Gate after reports emerged of people being seen with a gun.

Armed police attended and the people involved tried to flee in a car — when the car chase ended, shots were fired at police, who also fired back.

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

UK: Lawless London: 17-Year-Old Jailed for Stabbing 14-Year-Old in Face and Neck

A 17-year-old who nearly killed a 14-year-old when he stabbed him in the face and neck has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.

Rimel Hanchard attacked the youngster in Croydon — his injuries were so bad that he gave some final words to paramedics to tell his parents if he didn’t pull through.

Judge Richard Marks QC said: “This is another example of a very serious stabbing in the street set against the pre-existing trouble in the area.”

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

UN Human Rights Commissioner Takes Parting Anti-Semitic Shot at Israel

Natan Sharansky has written about what he called the “new anti-Semitism,” which “is aimed at the Jewish state.” He described his ‘3D’ test “to help us distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from anti-Semitism.” The 3D’s stand for “demonization,” “double standards,” and “delegitimization.”

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the outgoing head of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, displayed once again how he has satisfied all 3D’s that define today’s brand of anti-Semitism.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

We Won’t Miss Him: Sydney-Based Leader of Islamist Group Who Called for Sharia Law in Australia is Detained in the Middle East With His Wife

Former Sydney taxi driver Ismail al-Wahwah, the spiritual leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia, was detained at a Jordan airport on Wednesday while travelling to the Arab nation with his wife.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

China’s Strategy in Isolating Taiwan

China has a plan to “isolate” India and Japan and project its power with an aim to control the Indian Ocean region, a US lawmaker warned on Thursday. Beijing, he said, has its eyes set on Taiwan, which it claims as part of China. The American lawmaker went on to say that Beijing’s plan is to turn neighbouring country Taiwan into “a major nuclear and conventional military base.”

By doing so, China will be able to project its influence into the Indian Ocean and be able to control the disputed South China Sea, he claimed.

Expressing concern over China’s growing economic and military power, the US lawmaker warned that Beijing’s long-term plan and ultimate intention is to “isolate both Japan and India” and have a major influence in the Indian Ocean region.

The American lawmaker, Richard D Fisher, of the International Assessment and Strategy Center told lawmakers on Thursday that Beijing has come up with a strategy for gaining eventual global military access called the “debt trap diplomacy”.

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Eyewitnesses Report Explosion Outside US Embassy in Beijing

Witnesses say there has been a large explosion at the US embassy building in Beijing, China, with videos and pictures posted to social media showing a large cloud of smoke and what appear to be police vehicles surrounding the area.

Beijing police said the blast was caused by a small homemade explosive device, detonated by a 26-year-old man who hurt only himself.

It comes amid a number of conflicting reports, and after Chinese state media described the incident as “an attempt at self-immolation” and that a woman was in police custody.

A witness told Reuters a Chinese police car appeared to have been damaged in the incident.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Group of Foreign Students Are Kicked Out of Melbourne University After Handing in Dodgy Medical Certificates Using ‘Fake Doctors’ Found Online

The University of Melbourne has expelled 18 students in 2018 for producing fake medical certificates, which is more than twice the number of students let out four years ago.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Britain and Ecuador Are Again Trying to Figure Out What to Do With Wikileaks’ Julian Assange

Ecuador and the U.K. have resumed discussions about the status of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has resided at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012.

BBC News reported Friday that leaders of the two countries are discussing Assange’s fate. Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, however, made it clear that he never condoned Assange’s activities and that Assange has been a “stone in our shoe.” The two countries previously attempted to negotiate Assange’s potential release in February, but British officials were unwilling to cooperate, according to Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa.

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

Facebook Cracks Down on Right-Wing Group in Brazil Ahead of Elections, Sparking Outrage

Facebook has shut down an alleged network of almost 100 ‘fake accounts’ with conservative leanings in Brazil. The government there now wants explanations from the social network, amid a backlash over apparent election-meddling

“As part of our ongoing efforts to prevent abuse and after rigorous research, we have removed a network of 196 Pages and 87 Profiles in Brazil that violated our authenticity policies,” the social media giant said in a statement. “These Pages and Profiles were part of a coordinated network concealed by the use of fake accounts on Facebook and hid from people the nature and origin of their content for the purpose of generating division and spreading misinformation.”

While Facebook failed to name the victims of their censorship, the Free Brazil Movement (MBL), announced that their accounts were “arbitrarily removed” by the social network. They labeled accusations against them as “absurd,” noting that over half a million of their followers were affected by Facebook’s decision.

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Thousands Gather to Prevent Assange’s Handover and Extradition

Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno admits discussing Assange with the UK government this week. He says, “the only person I haven’t spoken to is Mr. Assange” and that the “only thing” he wants is a guarantee that Assange won’t be executed, which is already a guarantee in EU law.

Thousands of Julian Assange supporters are now collaborating in an international movement called #Unity4J and have formed a 3,000-strong (and growing) “non-violent digital army” to take actions in support of Julian Assange’s asylum rights, human rights and press freedom.

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600 Migrants Armed With “Flamethrowers and Feces” Break Through Spanish Border in Morocco

Some 800 sub-Saharan migrants attempted to cross the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta at 6:45am through a high fence. While 602 of them succeeded, 15 law enforcement officers were injured in the clashes and later taken to a hospital, the Spanish Civil Guard reported.

Migrants attempted to cross the seven-meter high fence separating Morocco from Spain at 6:35 a.m. They threw stones, homemade shielrs, Molotov cocktails, feces and hashish at law enforcement representatives and used sprays as flamethrowers. The migrants also tried to cut the barbed wire on the fence with scissors and hammers. Once inside Spanish territory, they threw stones at cars of the Civil Guard.

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Bavaria Tightens Borders Amid German Rethink on Migrants

In 2015 many thousands of migrants from around the world arrived in Hungary and Austria. But their country of choice had another name; Germany. Insiders travelled to Bavaria, to revisit areas at the heart of the migration debate. The tiny village of Pfenningbach, situated close to the border with Austria, is one such community. Around 300 people live there and many of its residents have signed a petition against converting an empty building into housing for some 100 asylum seekers.

Christian Erntl is among the founders of this local protest movement determined to send a message to Berlin that migrants are less welcome than they were before. He took us to woods behind his garden to explain his concerns. “Around here, we found huge numbers of backpacks and clothes,” he says. “All along the path leading up to the woods, backpacks and clothes were spread all around.”

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‘European Commission’s Days Are Numbered, ‘ Says Orban as EU Piles Pressure on Hungary Over Migrants

Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban has said that the Jeane-Claude Juncker-led European Commission’s days are “numbered”, with its mandate expiring in May and Eurosceptic parties set to make gains in 2019 elections.

Prime Minister Orban made the comments during his Friday interview on Kossuth Radio in relation to the Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, recently launching infringement procedures against Hungary over its “Stop Soros” law and related constitutional amendments.

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German Conservatives Are Reshaping How Europe Treats Asylum Seekers

The conservative Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), a coalition partner of Germany’s embattled Chancellor Angela Merkel, wants to solidify its reputation as a right-leaning political party that’s tough on immigration—and it’s shaking up European policy in the process.

On Friday, the state of Bavaria unveiled its own Center for Asylum and Repatriation to handle the cases of the migrants who have entered Germany from across the Middle East and North Africa. But some experts say that the new center, which will facilitate efforts to deport some migrants from Germany’s southeastern state, is mostly symbolic.

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How a Record 539,000 Immigrants Moved to Australia in the Last Year — and 75% Ended Up in Crowded Sydney and Melbourne

Half a million immigrants moved to Australia in just one year. The net pace, factoring in people leaving, was also high with 74 per cent of them moving to Sydney and Melbourne.

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Hungary Adopts New Tax on Pro-Mass Migration NGOs

The Hungarian government has adopted new regulations this week which will see any organisation or non-profit that advocates for mass migration face a 25 percent tax on any funds spent on promoting migration.

The new law defines support for mass migration as: “Any programme, action, or activity aimed directly or indirectly at promoting immigration and is achieved by: a) conducting media campaigns and seminars and participating in such activities; b) organising education; c) building and implementing networks; or d) participating in propaganda activities that present immigration in a favourable light,” French magazine Marianne reports.

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Italy Slashes Asylum Seeker Benefit Payments

Populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has ordered that benefits for asylum seekers be substantially reduced, saying the money saved will be given to police working overtime shifts instead.

The new policy will greatly reduce the amount of money asylum seekers receive but will also limit access to integration courses for those who have been approved for a residency permit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports.

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Native Swedes a Minority Within Four Decades as Number of Muslim Children Explodes — Study

1. The fertility rate of native white Swedes is much lower (1.6) than the country’s overall fertility rate (1.9);

2. The Swedish parental system fails to deliver more babies;

3. The number of children with an Islamic name is growing at a fast pace. Since 2010 it has increased by more than 30%, so that now around 8 to 10% of the newborns in Sweden have an Islamic name.

4. The native white Swedish population will be a minority within a maximum of 40 years. The same source shows that 22% of the newborns have a non-Western migration background.

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Pakistani Migrant Arrested for Trying to Set Fire in Greece

A Pakistani migrant was arrested for trying to set fire near the military camp of Perama on Wednesday. The arrest has been confirmed by the local police.

Perama is an area with a high concentration of refugees. The migrant was arrested and interrogated after being charged and prosecuted with arson. Local police confirmed to our reporter that a Pakistani migrant has been arrested in the area.

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Powder Keg Paris: As a Devastating Report Reveals 300,000 Illegal Migrants Are Living in One French Suburb…

ANDREW MALONE explores the tensions in a community at odds with mainstream society

On a steamy summer’s night, the sounds and smells are of Africa. Hawkers grill meat on fires built inside shopping trolleys.

Others sell corn, which pops on the flames. People jostle and sweat; thick smoke hangs in the air.

West African women — les Reines de Marchand, the Queens of the Market — sell fake designer clothes. Hustlers in sunglasses work the crowds.

‘Burrha! Burrha!,’ they shout, holding bags of counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes.

Some voices are from sub-Saharan Africa — Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sudan, Eritrea, Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone. Afghans shout and joke in Pashtun; others speak in languages I have not heard before.

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Spain’s Overwhelmed Coastguard Says it Can’t Cope With Migrant Influx, As 700 Rescued in One Morning

Spain’s coastguard union has warned the service was completely “overwhelmed” by surging numbers of migrant crossings, as more than 600 people were rescued from rafts in the Gibraltar Strait in just one morning.

The union for Spain’s Maritime Rescue agency issued an urgent call for resources to help it cope with the “massive arrival of immigrants” on the country’s shores. Crew reinforcements were desperately needed to guarantee they could continue saving lives, it said in a statement.

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UK Family Return From France to Find Sudanese Stowaway Had Hid in Campervan for Four Days

A STUNNED British family returned home after a 500 mile trip from France to discover an Sudanese immigrant had hitched a lift for four days underneath their £35,000 motorhome.

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Summer Camp Indoctrinates Children in ANTIFA Neo-Marxist Curriculum

While many American parents are aware of the neo-Marxist indoctrination that’s occurs in public schools across the country — at times they even fight against such programs — those same parents may be unaware of the indoctrination that is instilled into the young minds of children sent to summer camps right here in America.

“Camp Kinderland is a multicultural summer camp and community that honors U.S. progressive secular Jewish roots through a commitment to economic, racial, and social justice. Kinderland’s summer programming and year around activities integrate progressive values with arts, recreation, and activism in a compassionate and caring environment,” the camp’s mission statement reads.

In the words of the administrators, the camp’s values include “social, economic, and racial justice,” in addition to “diversity,” “community,” and “respect and compassion.”

Camp Kinderland was established in 1923 by Jewish union activists in New York, who wanted to provide a summer escape from the city for working class families. The founders of Kinderland believed that Jewish culture includes a responsibility to social justice. The camp program focused on the labor movement, and other progressive causes. Over the years, they have honored and celebrated the International Brigades in Spain, anti-fascist efforts in the World War II era, economic reform and the civil rights and anti-war movements, among others.

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The Big Social Media Companies Are Being Used as a Weapon to Advance the Agenda of the New World Order

In 2018, we have seen an unprecedented crackdown on anti-establishment voices on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. When they were first created, these social media platforms were essentially neutral, and they really did greatly contribute to the marketplace of ideas. But now there is a tremendous effort to censor voices that are a threat to the establishment, and in recent months we have witnessed the greatest purge of conservative voices in the history of the Internet. Anything that does not conform to the agenda of the elite is being labeled as “hate speech”, and countless anti-establishment voices have had social media accounts either “shadowbanned” or terminated completely. Needless to say, this could dramatically affect the outcome of the elections in November.

And it isn’t just political voices that are being silenced. As you will see at the end of this article, Facebook has been shutting down dozens and dozens of alternative health pages.

Why would they do that?

Well, the New World Order absolutely hates when people start questioning conventional medicine, vaccines and the giant pharmaceutical companies. Rather than engaging in legitimate debate, they would rather shut down dissenting voices instead.

Before the Internet came along, the elite had a virtual monopoly over the flow of information in our society. They owned all of the television networks, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, etc.

But then the Internet happened, and all of a sudden ordinary people like you and I could communicate with one another on a mass scale without having to go through the gatekeepers. It was a wonderful thing, but we all knew that it wouldn’t be like that forever…

And like I said at the beginning, it isn’t just political voices that are being censored. Global Freedom Movement recently compiled a list of 82 major alternative health pages that have been taken down by Facebook…

[Comment: This is why CIA venture capital arm built up Google, youtube, twitter, facebook portals — to control dissemination of information. Google’s search algorithms that rank anti-globalist pages low is the most insidious.]

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14 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/27/2018

  1. In Kazan, a scandal broke out after a blogger in shorts from Moscow (20 years) danced near the main Tatar mosque
    (the background is the song “What do you want, a policeman?”)

    The threat to the girl, and the Muslim community demands to strictly punish the “blasphemer”
    In social networks, arguments arose: was there an insult to the feelings of believers?

    https://www.ridus.ru/news/280749

  2. Did anybody tell the Spanish the more you rescue the more will come?
    Oh wait… the Italians told them didn’t they.

  3. Pay attention, as the information on the American resource “Radio Liberty” for the North Caucasus. Apparently, serious “uncles” are interested in escalating.

    The title is:
    What is cheaper: to shoot a military man – or to torture to the death of a fellow countryman?

    The article goes on to say that the Ingushetian police accused of torturing detainees received much shorter prison terms (3-10 years) than Caucasian militants who shot Pskov paratroopers in 2000 (17 and 18 years)

    And the following conclusion is made:
    This is Russian justice: the life of the military who came to kill the inhabitants of the mountainous republic is more valued than the lives of civilians tortured to death in the offices of “servants of the law.”

    https://www.kavkazr.com/a/kartina-dnya-27-iyul/29394540.html

  4. UK Family Return From France to Find Sudanese Stowaway Had Hid in Campervan for Four Days

    Yeah, yeah, I’ll buy that just like I just bought London Bridge for the third time.

  5. “A STUNNED British family returned home after a 500 mile trip from France to discover an Sudanese immigrant had hitched a lift for four days underneath their £35,000 motorhome”

    Has something happened to education in Britain since I left my homeland?

    Here, in a national newspaper, we have “in [their campervan]” in the headline, but “underneath [their] motorhome” almost directly after the headline. Then we have “for for days”. The daughter, according to the article, is called “Summer 17”; the man spoke “broken english”. Then we have “…….. the other immigrants (sic) relative or friend.” Later, “Mrs (sic) Patterson offered the man the popular French drink, Orangina and mini cheddars.” (Who would’ve guessed that the French put mini cheddars in their Orangina?)

    Is the written form of my language no longer taught over there? And how did such writers get a job with a national newspaper?

    • Excuse late response (I’ve been on holiday), but I’m reminded of Scorcese’s remake of “Cape Fear”; the near-superhuman killer Max Cady (de Niro) managed only a few hours under a camper!

  6. “Some 800 sub-Saharan migrants attempted to cross the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta at 6:45am through a high fence. While 602 of them succeeded, 15 law enforcement officers were injured in the clashes and later taken to a hospital.”

    The Spanish people may wake up too late. The Moors are in the process of recolonizing Spain. Since the Italians woke up and refused entry to migrant ships the do-gooder Spanish government has opened it’s doors. Of course all that will do is signal that Spain is the weakest link in the European soft underbelly. The trafficers and migrants will focus now of Spain as the easy touch and the numbers will simply increase.

    • Baucent: Agree, the globalist leaders ruling Spain will keep allowing invaders in, France has more invaders (I read) than any other European country but Spain is catching up. The non Muslims are condoning this by not resisting, as these two countries are rapidly transitioning into an Islamic state, with other countries soon to follow. Obviously history hasn’t been taught for sometime in the classrooms, but can be found online.

  7. UK government lies , nothing new.

    Well I am having fun researching into a link you posted previously on denial of british nationality to Hong Kongers, has taken me into PRC and ROC UN vote, US UK relations of the period… reminder UK voted for PRC then US took first full stage with Mao… anyway here is just one example of failure to proper account by UK, in other words lie (and there are much more contorted illogical attempts in other areas of nationality law, this one is just plain simple obvious). For those interested:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/historical-background-information-on-nationality

    PDF states that the british by descent provision of 1708 act of Anne where descendants of british were to be counted as natural born in perpetuity was repealed in 1711. Completely false, the relevant chapter V was not repealed at all, Read original texts or

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Protestants_Naturalization_Act_1708

    The guide then states that the act of 1772 allowed male line to two generations born abroad – yes and no, the original text tries to make it look like an extension but in fact it is a restriction to via male parent and no longer perpetuity.

    In fact the status only truly changed in 1914 act, where those by descent were no longer considered natural born and were then outclassed into a small category, later changed to female line if no marriage, now eased to all born after a certain date. The guide completely misses this (and the flow of text in actual law is corrupt and incoherent in places).

    The only reason I think they lie is to cover manipulation with more manipulation – the territorial aspect of providing nationality used during empire backfiring from a by descent perspective. The short of it is THEY DON’T CARE beyond the managing of people as a resource and keeping something of a presentable face in the process. Simple omissions – not. It is very purposeful if you study it all in depth.

    Maybe I will put together a very brief history on Hong Kong if I figure it all out properly. I know I am using gov as a notepad here, but it is all very relevant in the wider context of UK government evolution and approach, its style of management.

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