Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/26/2018

After French President Emmanuel “Toy Boy” Macron criticized Italy’s migration policies, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini responded by saying, “We don’t take lessons on law and humanity from Signor Macron.” Mr. Salvini pointed out the hypocrisy of Mr. Macron, whose government turned back more than 50,000 migrants at the Italian-French border.

In other news, a Chinese national who is also a U.S. Army reservist was arrested in Chicago on charges of spying for China.

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Financial Crisis
» Italy: M5S Pressing Tria to Raise Deficit to 2.4%
» Why Rising Rents Across Spain Are Causing a New Crisis
 
USA
» Former Catholic Doctrine Chief: Abuse Inquiry Must Address ‘Active Homosexuality’ Among Clergy
» NASA Has Found Two Exoplanets With Their New Planet Hunter
» St. George Man Tells Police He Stabbed Friend to Death After Hearing Spirits’ Warning
» Tired of Vatican Stall, U.S. Bishops Open Investigation Into McCarrick’s Sex Abuse
» Twitter Refuses to Suspend ANTIFA Account That Engaged in Doxxing, Threats & Targeted Harassment
» U.S. Army Reservist Arrested in Chicago on Charges of Spying for China
» We Are Living Nineteen Eighty-Four
 
Canada
» Maxime Bernier is Furious After Being Interviewed by the CBC — and He May Have a Point
» Tarek Fatah: Why Raif Badawi’s Wife Supports Maxime Bernier
 
Europe and the EU
» 1984 Now: EU Thought Police Say “Hate” Must be Regulated Out of Media
» Belfast Councillor Jolene Bunting Suspended From Duties ‘For Criticising Islam’
» Denmark: Copenhagen Gang Conflict Has Resulted in 11 Arrests: Police
» Denmark Police Charge 2 in Investigation Into Shipping Drones to ISIS
» EU Court Rules Politicians’ Expenses Can be Hidden From Public to Protect Their ‘Privacy’ And ‘Integrity’
» EU Politicians Accused of Interfering in Poland’s Internal Affairs
» Finalnd: Helsinki Holds Design Contest for 5G Base Stations
» France: Mohamed Number One Baby Boy Name in Large Paris Suburb — Other Islamic Names Dominate Top 20
» France vs America: Macron Puts Globalist Case Against Trump at UN, Hints at Anti-U.S. Trade Deal Boycott
» French Rapper Makes Song About “Killing All White Babies and Hanging Their Parents”
» Germany: Merkel Admits ‘She Was Wrong’ As Her Position Gets Weaker by the Day
» Hungarian MPs to Vote on Rejecting Sargentini Report in October
» Italy: Watchdog OKs Foa as Rai President
» Italy: La Verità Bids for Panorama
» Italy: Former Bari Soccer Boss Giancaspro Nabbed on Finpower
» Italy: Three Arrested Over Brutal Villa Robbery, Gang Leader Sought
» Jimmy Jumped on Me Says Asia Argento
» Letter From Crete: The Summer of Greek Discontent
» Massive Drop in Remoaners: Only 16% of Brits Want to Remain in the EU, New Poll Shows
» May’s Brexit Will Spell End of Europe — France Finance Minister in Staggering Comment
» Muslima Says Up to 150 Jihadis Live in Ireland and Laugh at Ireland for Underestimating Their Threat
» PM May: ‘No Deal’ Brexit Better Than Canada-Style Trade, Britain Will Slash Taxes After Leaving EU
» Romania: Media: Al Dahra Invests Another USD 500 Million
» Swedish City Wants to Stop Gang Crime With Coffee and Sandwiches
» Swedish Media and Churches Cover Up ‘Jihad’ Against Christian Places of Worship Because it Could Shock the Public
» ‘Symbol of Islamisation’: Muslims Celebrate German Church Becoming a Mosque
» UK: Labour MP Calls for ‘General Strike’ To Overthrow Brexit, Government
» WikiLeaks Names New Editor-in-Chief, Replacing Julian Assange
 
Far East
» Ex-Google Employee Warns of ‘Disturbing’ China Plans
 
Australia — Pacific
» Muslim Leader Says Severed Pig Heads Have Been Dumped at the Gates of His ‘Religious Site’ After He Refused to Abide by Australian Law
» Terror School: Why Returning Jihadis Could Soon be Teaching Your Children Under a Radical New Plan to Fight ISIS — as Authorities Admit the Threat is ‘As High as Ever’
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Ghana Officials Question China’s Ambitions in Bauxite Mining Plan
 
Latin America
» Britain, Ecuador Seeking an End to the Assange Standoff
 
Immigration
» Czech Prime Minister Faces Storm at Home Over Child Migrants
» Immigrant Mass Murder Suspect: Salvadoran Deported 6 Times Has Allegedly Been Beating Homeless Men to Death in California
» Italian Interior Minister: “We Don’t Take Lessons From Macron on Law and Humanity”
» Italy Govt Touched Bottom on Aquarius — HRW
» Italy: Gang That Smuggled Migrants From Libya Busted
» Italy: We Don’t Take Lessons From Macron Says Salvini
» Lily Allen Admits She Was ‘A Moron’ Over Calais Migrant Camp ‘Apology’
» Number of ‘Dangerous Migrants’ Increased by 400 Per Cent — German Intelligence
» Proud to be a Racist: ‘Final Solution’ Senator Claims Immigrants Come From ‘Broken S***holes’ And Islam ‘Is on a Mission to Take Over Australia’
» Putin: EU Politicians Encourage Migration by Offering Large Social Benefits
 

Italy: M5S Pressing Tria to Raise Deficit to 2.4%

(ANSA) — Rome, September 26 — The ruling anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) is seeking agreement with its government partner the League to persuade Economy Minister Giovanni Tria to raise the deficit-to-GDP ratio in the next budget to 2.4% in the update note to the DEF economic blueprint, sources said Wednesday.

They said a government summit may take place Thursday afternoon in Rome.

Tria pledged earlier on Wednesday that the government’s 2019 budget law will stoke growth without sparking alarms about the management of Italy’s public debt of over two trillion euros, while Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio, the M5S leader, said a new budget summit was needed because there was still “a lot of work to be done”. “It will be a budget of growth, not of austerity, but also one that does not create doubts about the sustainability of our debt,” Tria told retailers association Confcommercio. “We have to give a sign to the financial markets, to those who lend us money.

“We should be careful because sometimes if you ask for too much, then you have to pay higher interest rates, and what you gain, you lose in interest”.

He added that businesses will get tax cuts from the 5-Star Movement-League government first, saying that “we’ll address the problem of (income tax) IRPEF in the coming years”.

Tria is reportedly under pressure from the M5S to allow Italy’s budget deficit to rise to finance the key elements of the government’s programme — a basic income, a pension overhaul that would bring down the retirement age and a flat tax. “I swore that I would work in the exclusive interest of the nation, and not of others, and I was not the only one,” Tria said.

“Naturally everyone has their own vision. But, as they say, in science and in your conscience you have to try to interpret your role properly.

“Despite what the newspapers say, I’m optimistic about doing my best”.

There is “strong resistance” on Tria’s part to including an overhaul of the 2011 Fornero pension reform in the budget bill, M5S sources said Wednesday, saying the M5S is insisting on its inclusion. The sources said Deputy Premier and M5S leader Luigi Di Maio, the labour and industry minister, had stressed the Fornero overhaul, as well as a basic income, should be in the budget bill at a summit with M5S ministers Tuesday.

Tria is resisting pressure to let the budget deficit exceed 2% of GDP. A fresh government summit is needed to iron out differences on the 2019 budget bill, Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Di Maio, the M5S leader, said Wednesday.

Asked about the prospect, he said “that is sure, there’s still a lot of work to do”.

He did not say when a cabinet meeting might be called.

The government is set to approve an update to the DEF economic and financial blueprint, but there are various views on how to include all three flagship measures: a basic income, flat tax and pension overhaul.

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Why Rising Rents Across Spain Are Causing a New Crisis

Capsule flats, price rises forcing tenants out: rents in Spain are soaring post-crisis, fuelling concerns of a new “bubble” in a country still traumatised by the collapse of its housing sector.

Ruth Melida is in a jam. In April, she found out that the monthly rent of her flat where she lives with her unemployed husband and two children would rise from €605 to €999 ($710 to $1,170).

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Former Catholic Doctrine Chief: Abuse Inquiry Must Address ‘Active Homosexuality’ Among Clergy

The former director of the U.S. Bishops Secretariat for Doctrine said this week that any serious investigation into the clerical sex abuse crisis must address “the issue of active homosexuality among the clergy and the bishops.”

Capuchin Father Thomas Weinandy told the National Catholic Register that Pope Francis’ convocation of the national heads of bishops’ conferences scheduled for February 29, 2019 to address the abuse crisis could either be an effective instrument to deal with the problem or simply a show for the media.

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NASA Has Found Two Exoplanets With Their New Planet Hunter

NASA’s space telescope The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), discovered two exoplanets in two days. The first one was found on the eve of Wednesday, September 19. And the latest one on the following day. These two planets are similar to the Earth. They’re much closer to our planet than Kepler-452b. This exoplanet was discovered in 2015, by the Kepler Mission. And is 1,400 light-years away.

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St. George Man Tells Police He Stabbed Friend to Death After Hearing Spirits’ Warning

ST. GEORGE — A judge last week ordered Victor Manuel Hernandez to stand trial for first-degree murder for allegedly choking and stabbing a man to death in June.

Hernandez, 21, of St George, is accused of killing 23-year-old Luwing Leonard Lopez during an argument that took place at Lopez’s apartment in the 200 block of South 100 West on June 21.

Judge Jeffery Wilcox in 5th District Court issued his ruling at a preliminary hearing where additional details of the killing and Hernandez’s arrest on June 22 were brought to light.

Suspect arrested in trailer park killing

St. George Police Lt. Rich Tripplett testified to statements made by the defendant during three interviews with police June 22. He said Hernandez was read his Miranda rights during the first interview at 12:45 p.m., but not during the two subsequent interviews that took place hours later on the same day.

Hernandez denied killing Lopez in the first interview, which was held at the police station and conducted by Tripplett and St. George Police officer Nick Garcia, who were both fluent in Spanish and able to communicate with the defendant.

At 7:45 p.m. detectives conducted the second interview in which Hernandez allegedly confessed to killing Lopez, but said he had an accomplice named “Geremo.”

The third interview was conducted at 8:45 p.m. when detectives showed Hernandez photos of the knife, clothing, a pair of shoes and other evidence, at which point Hernandez confessed to killing Lopez, Tripplett testified.

It was during that interview that Hernandez told police he and Lopez had been friends for several months, and went to the apartment on on South 100 West after Lopez invited him over to “do drugs.”

They both smoked marijuana, but then Lopez began smoking methamphetamine. He offered the pipe to Hernandez, who told him that the “pipe was cursed, and that he didn’t smoke out of a pipe.”

Hernandez also told detectives that he and his family members have a “sixth sense” and have the ability to hear spirits.

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Tired of Vatican Stall, U.S. Bishops Open Investigation Into McCarrick’s Sex Abuse

The U.S. bishops conference (USCCB) is opening its own lay-led investigation into the serial homosexual abuse of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Pope Francis denied a request for a formal Vatican inquiry.

The online Catholic news site Crux announced Wednesday that the USCCB has will soon begin an investigation into the McCarrick case that will focus on the four dioceses in which McCarrick worked: New York, Metuchen, Newark, and Washington, D.C.

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Twitter Refuses to Suspend ANTIFA Account That Engaged in Doxxing, Threats & Targeted Harassment

Twitter, the company that perma-banned Alex Jones for being rude to a CNN reporter, has refused to suspend an account that openly engaged in doxxing, threats and targeted harassment.

The ‘Smash Racism DC’ group, which was founded by an Antifa-supporting professor who has encouraged his Twitter followers to “assassinate Mike Pence” as well as to kill cops and local politicians, was responsible for the harassment of Senator Ted Cruz and his wife in a DC restaurant on Monday night.

Following the confrontation, which was at least equal in its malice to Alex Jones’ confrontation of CNN’s Oliver Darcy, the Smash Racism DC account openly doxxed political commentator Gavin McInnes, posting his phone number which resulted in McInnes receiving death threats.

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U.S. Army Reservist Arrested in Chicago on Charges of Spying for China

A Chinese citizen was arrested Tuesday on charges that he helped China in an effort to recruit engineers and scientists at U.S. defense contractors for possible espionage.

In a 17-page criminal complaint dated Sept. 21, federal prosecutors charged Ji Chaoquan, 27, with one count of knowingly acting as the agent of a foreign power.

The Associated Press writes, “Ji made an initial appearance in federal court in downtown Chicago, looking tired and fidgeting as he stood before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael T. Mason. Ji huddled with a Chinese-language interpreter for much of the 15-minute hearing. But when the judge asked if he understood his rights, Ji lifted his head and said in English, ‘I understand.’“

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We Are Living Nineteen Eighty-Four

Truth, due process, evidence, rights of the accused: All are swept aside in pursuit of the progressive agenda.

George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is no longer fiction. We are living it right now.

Google techies planned to massage Internet searches to emphasize correct thinking. A member of the so-called deep state, in an anonymous op-ed, brags that its “resistance” is undermining an elected president. The FBI, CIA, DOJ, and NSC were all weaponized in 2016 to ensure that the proper president would be elected — the choice adjudicated by properly progressive ideology. Wearing a wire is now redefined as simply flipping on an iPhone and recording your boss, boy— or girlfriend, or co-workers. …

Statue of limitations? It does not exist. An incident 36 years ago apparently is as fresh today as it was when Kavanaugh was 17 and Ford 15.

Presumption of Innocence? Not at all. Kavanaugh is accused and thereby guilty. The accuser faces no doubt. In Orwellian America, the accused must first present his defense, even though he does not quite know what he is being charged with. Then the accuser and her legal team pour over his testimony to prepare her accusation.

Evidence? That too is a fossilized concept. Ford could name neither the location of the alleged assault nor the date or time. She had no idea how she arrived or left the scene of the alleged crime. There is no physical evidence of an attack. And such lacunae in her memory mattered no longer at all.

Details? Again, such notions are counterrevolutionary. Ford said to her therapist 6 years ago (30 years after the alleged incident) that there were four would-be attackers, at least as recorded in the therapist’s notes. …

Then we come to Orwell’s idea of “memory holes,” or mechanisms to wipe clean inconvenient facts that disrupt official ideological narratives. Shortly after Ford was named, suddenly her prior well-publicized and self-referential social-media revelations vanished, as if she’d never held her minor-league but confident pro-Sanders, anti-Trump opinions. And much of her media and social-media accounts were erased as well.

Similarly, one moment the New York Times — just coming off an embarrassing lie in reporting that U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley had ordered new $50,000 office drapes on the government dime — reported that Kavanaugh’s alleged accomplice, Mark Judge, had confirmed Ford’s allegation. Indeed, in a sensational scoop, according to the Times, Judge told the Judiciary Committee that he does remember the episode and has nothing more to say. In fact, Judge told the committee the very opposite: that he does not remember the episode. Forty minutes later, the Times embarrassing narrative vanished down the memory hole. …

According to some polls, about half the country believes that Brett Kavanaugh is now guilty of a crime committed 36 years ago at the age of 17. And that reality reminds us that we are no longer in America. We are already living well into the socialist totalitarian Hell that Orwell warned us about long ago.

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Maxime Bernier is Furious After Being Interviewed by the CBC — and He May Have a Point

After a CBC interview aired Sunday, Maxime Bernier’s Twitter account launched into an angry rant, accusing host Wendy Mesley of a “smear job.”

The tweets linked to the video, arguing that Mesley fabricated a story “about a libertarian conspiracy funded by US billionaires, and implies with her repeated questions about it that I violate Canadian electoral laws.”

Mesley pushed back on the same platform, saying she never made that claim. Bernier said she implied it via repeated questions.

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Tarek Fatah: Why Raif Badawi’s Wife Supports Maxime Bernier

Not many people in Canada would consider Ensaf Haider, the Canadian wife of Saudi political prisoner Raif Badawi, as one of the “stupidest people on Twitter.” But that is exactly how supporters of Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada were described by Paul Wells of Maclean’s while appearing on CBC TV’s show Power and Politics the other day. Haider is among the thousands of Canadians showing their support for Bernier.

That evening, CBC invited its so-called Power Panel comprising supporters of all political parties, dressed up as ‘observers’, ‘experts’ or ‘analysts’ to disparage Bernier, laughing at him with an air of disdain accompanied by giggles and non-visual high fives.

One would hope common decency and balanced journalism would have required at least one participant in the panel who would rebut the insults being hurled not just at Bernier, but also his supporters.

Host Vassy Kapelos is one of Canada’s finest current affairs host. She is a delight to watch as she goes head to head with the toughest and meanest, but on that evening, she let her guard down and the mockery continued.

The worst moment came when Wells denigrated Bernier’s followers. “Basically his [Bernier’s] voter base right now is the stupidest people on Twitter,” he said with a haughty arrogant laugh as others giggled while host Kapelos revealed her seeming approval of the insult, with a “No comment.”

The next morning, Haider went public with her support of Bernier, tweeting, “Finally, a new party is born in Canadian political life, @ PeoplesPCa. Remember that name well.”

Bernier responded immediately, welcoming the world-renowned human rights activist in the fold of his party. He tweeted: “Very happy to get the support of Ensaf Haidar, wife of Raif Badawi and a courageous defender of free speech in the world.”

For a politician being attacked for his supposed anti-immigrant bias, an endorsement by Badawi’s wife as well as from a group called ‘Muslims For Max’, left the so-called Power Panel gurus scratching their heads. Perhaps it’s because it’s likely, not one of them has ever run for office, campaigned for a candidate or toiled for a political party, yet they are the experts and we are the “stupidest people on Twitter.”…

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1984 Now: EU Thought Police Say “Hate” Must be Regulated Out of Media

They’re not really sure what hate is but are sure of this: They hate it. And thus should “it” — as represented by discrimination, exclusion, and a “dangerous nationalism”— be purged from the media via regulation.

So says Vera Jourova, the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers, and Gender Equality. As Politico reports:

Racial abuse, discrimination and the “bad version of nationalism” that promotes exclusion and hatred are on the rise, and the media may need to be regulated to help curtail the problem,… Commissioner Vera Jourova warned today.

A “dangerous” version of nationalism is “not only visible in the rising popularity of the extreme parties” but is also evident in the political mainstream, which “accept[s] some part of this rhetoric of division,” the commissioner said in a speech in Vienna, according to pre-released notes obtained by Brussels Playbook.

Jourovà called on politicians and the press to take action.

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Belfast Councillor Jolene Bunting Suspended From Duties ‘For Criticising Islam’

A Belfast city councillor has been suspended from council duties for four months while investigations are carried out into complaints about public statements she made about Islam.

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Denmark: Copenhagen Gang Conflict Has Resulted in 11 Arrests: Police

A flare-up in gang related shootings in Copenhagen has resulted in 11 arrests in the Danish capital.

The individuals arrested in the operation will face preliminary court proceedings behind closed doors on Wednesday, Copenhagen Police have confirmed on Twitter.

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Denmark Police Charge 2 in Investigation Into Shipping Drones to ISIS

Copenhagen police arrested and charged two people with involvement in attempted terrorism abroad as part of a case linked to attempts to send drones to Islamic State in Syria.

Working closely with the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET), the two were detained in connection with a long-term investigation, Copenhagen Police said in a Wednesday, September 26 release. The two are suspected of being part of a network that is part of the case.

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EU Court Rules Politicians’ Expenses Can be Hidden From Public to Protect Their ‘Privacy’ And ‘Integrity’

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that the expenses of Members of the European Parliament can be kept secret, to protect their “privacy” and “integrity”.

On top of their regular salary, MEPs receive a €4,416 “general expenditure allowance” every month to cover office expenses, and a so-called “subsistence” allowance of €313 a day to cover accommodation and living expenses.

Unlike with travel expenses — which MEPs can also claim, first class — they are not required to provide any invoices or receipts in order to receive these allowances.

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EU Politicians Accused of Interfering in Poland’s Internal Affairs

Inviting a Ukrainian woman to the European Parliament after Warsaw had her expelled from the Schengen area amid spying claims is tantamount to “interference in Poland’s internal affairs,” Polish MEP Ryszard Czarnecki has said.

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Finalnd: Helsinki Holds Design Contest for 5G Base Stations

As wireless broadband licences are auctioned and next-gen networks are being developed, Helsinki is holding a design contest for 5G base stations in the city.

As 5G networks are being developed across Finland, the city of Helsinki is holding a design contest to create suitable-looking base stations.

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France: Mohamed Number One Baby Boy Name in Large Paris Suburb — Other Islamic Names Dominate Top 20

Mohamed tops the list of most popular name for baby boys in Paris’s migrant-populated suburbs, French broadcaster BFMTV reports.

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France vs America: Macron Puts Globalist Case Against Trump at UN, Hints at Anti-U.S. Trade Deal Boycott

France’s Emmanuel Macron has used his speech to the United Nations General Assembly to put the globalist case against the pro-sovereignty, strong borders vision outlined by U.S. President Donald Trump.

At home, the embattled French President is facing tumbling approval ratings,and fierce resistance from rising national populist parties in Italy and Central Europe he has denounced as his adversaries, which are challenging his efforts to cast himself as the main player in European Union power politics.

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French Rapper Makes Song About “Killing All White Babies and Hanging Their Parents”

Nick Conrad’s Hang White People called for white babies to be killed and their parents hanged. It has been suspended from YouTube for violating the company’s terms of service with anti-racism groups calling it an incitement to violence and racial hatred, BBC News reports.

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Germany: Merkel Admits ‘She Was Wrong’ As Her Position Gets Weaker by the Day

‘I was wrong’, she admits on Monday. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel had to apologise for mistakes in how she handled the controversy over ex-intelligence chief Hans-Georg Maassen, saying that the coalition will now focus on” solving people’s problems” as “we have been too preoccupied with ourselves in many areas.”

“That has got to change,” she added, in regards to Brexit, digitalisation, the care sector and diesel regulations as issues needing focus.

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Hungarian MPs to Vote on Rejecting Sargentini Report in October

A government proposal to reject the Sargentini report is scheduled to be submitted to parliament early in the second week of October, daily Magyar Idok said on Wednesday.

The paper noted that Prime Minister Viktor Orban had welcomed in a letter the support of MEPs who expressed support for national sovereignty by backing Hungary in the European parliamentary vote on the report by Dutch Green MEP Judith Sargentini.

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Italy: Watchdog OKs Foa as Rai President

Journalist, 55, takes over at State broadcaster

(ANSA) — Rome, September 26 — The parliamentary oversight committee for RAI on Wednesday approved journalist Marcello Foa as new president of the State broadcaster.

Foa, 55, was approved with 27 ayes, three nays, one blank ballot and one spoiled ballot.

The three-third majority required was this reached.

He had been approved by the RAI board last Friday.

Earlier Foa said he had never intended to “offend or disrespect” President Sergio Mattarella when he tweeted “disgust” after the head of State rejected anti-euro economist Paolo Savona as economy minister.

Addressing the RAI parliamentary oversight committee, Foa said “it’s not my habit, I rarely attack or lack respect, far less with regard to the top figure in the State, because of my feelings of esteem in his regard, out of respect for his role as servant of the State and his history, which saw the supreme sacrifice of a member of his family”.

Foa was referring to Mattarella’s elder brother Piersanti who was assassinated by the mafia in 1980.

Mattarella’s rejection of Savona — later moved to the European Affairs brief — spurred the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement to briefly call for his impeachment.

Foa is widely expected to be ratified later Wednesday after three-time ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi dropped the opposition that caused the journalist to be rejected in an earlier oversight body vote.

On Tuesday Rai union USIGRAI said there is a risk of “illegitimacy” over Foa’s probable ratification. The union wrote to the parliamentary Speakers Roberto Fico and Elisabetta Casellati as well as to the parliamentary RAI oversight panel urging them to carry out “an in-depth assessment to ensure the legitimacy, beyond all reasonable doubt, of the vote you are about to take”.

The RAI board on Friday voted to nominate Foa its new president.

The board also nominated Foa, the government’s pick to lead the network, in July, but parliament’s oversight body of the State broadcaster failed to ratify the appointment.

This time, however, Foa is expected to get a majority vote as Berlusconi’s centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party is tipped to drop its opposition.

Deputy Premier and 5-Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio said Foa was “an independent journalist” and said he hoped the oversight body would approve him this time around.

He said the whole process had been “in the light of day”, denying secret deals.

Berlusconi reportedly agreed to Foa at a meeting with ruling League leader Matteo Salvini where he reportedly received assurances on his Mediaset media empire, RAI’s rival.

Foa is a controversial figure due to previous Euroskeptic, pro-Putin, anti-vaccine, anti-gay and anti-immigrant stances and his sharing of fake news including Hillary Clinton’s supposed Satanic dinners — as well as the tweet against Mattarella.

The centre-left Democratic Party (PD) leader on the RAI oversight body, Davide Faraone, said Foa’s appointment had been the product of a “shameful shady deal” between the government parties and Berlusconi.

He said it was an affront to “democracy and parliament”.

In other statements to the oversight body Wednesday, Foa vowed to uphold RAI’s “pluralism” and “independence”, as well as its “capacity to serve readers with humility and intellectual honesty”. Foa is a former foreign desk chief at the Berlusconi conservative family newspaper, Il Giornale.

He was hired by the late doyen of Italian journalism, Indro Montanelli.

The FI chief on the oversight body, Giorgio Mulè, said Foa had “reassured” him and that Berlusconi’s party would vote for him, making his approval inevitable.

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Italy: La Verità Bids for Panorama

Belpietro bids to take over Mondadori newsmagazine

(ANSA) — Milan, September 26 — Conservative editor Maurizio Belpietro’s La Verità newspaper has made an “irrevocable offer” for Mondadori’s newsmagazine Panorama, the Berlusconi-owned publishing house said Wednesday.

Belpietro, a former editor of Berlusconi family daily Il Giornale and of Panorama, set up La Verità in September 2016.

It has seen a surge in readership among conservative voters.

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Italy: Former Bari Soccer Boss Giancaspro Nabbed on Finpower

Skimmed 3.4 mn euros

(ANSA) — Bari, September 26 — The former owner of Bari soccer club, Cosmo Antonio Giancaspro, was placed under house arrest Wednesday in relation to the alleged fraudulent bankruptcy of energy company Finpower which he headed.

The case involves alleged irregularities between May 2013 and January 2018 when the company went to the wall, sources said.

Giancaspro, together with Campanian businessman Giovanni Ferrara, Finmpower’s other chief, is alleged to have skimmed 3.4 million euros from the company’s books.

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Italy: Three Arrested Over Brutal Villa Robbery, Gang Leader Sought

Man suffered head injuries, woman’s ear cut

(ANSA) — Lanciano, September 26 — Three suspects were arrested and their leader sought on Wednesday in relation to a brutal robbery at the home of a couple in the central province of Chieti at the weekend, sources said. The man, a well-known surgeon, suffered head injuries due to multiple punches, while the robbers cut the ear of his wife.

The three suspects, Romanian nationals, were captured as they were seeking to get away, allegedly in the same car as the one used in the raid on the couple’s home.

They had 3,400 euros with them in cash, the sources said.

Police said they were now seeking the alleged gang leader, who was “perhaps a Puglian”, according to the victim of a previous brutal robbery, Massimiliano Delle Vigne.

Another previous victim, accountant Domenico Iezzi, told police he “could perhaps identify them if they were presented to me”.

The latest victims, Doctor Carlo Martelli said he and his wife Niva Bazzan were “calmer” after the arrests.

Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said “these beasts should rot in jail”.

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Jimmy Jumped on Me Says Asia Argento

Actress-director to give version of events on Sunday

(ANSA) — New York, September 26 — Asia Argento said Tuesday Jimmy Bennett jumped on her and not the other way round.

Speaking to DailMailTV, the Italian actress and #MeToo figurehead said “it was Jimmy who jumped on me,” claiming that she had been the victim of sexual assault when he was 17 five years ago.

The 43-year-old director, who in October accused Harvey Weinstein of raping her at the 1997 Cannes Film Fest, also called fellow #MeToo leader Rose McGowan a “liar” for accusing her of not stopping Bennett from sending nude pics of himself since he was 12.

Argento will give her full version of events on Sunday night on La7.

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Letter From Crete: The Summer of Greek Discontent

by Srdja Trifkovic

Greece is lovely most of the time and irresistible in the late summer, so I am back for a second stint in two months. Mercifully there are fewer tourists around now. There is no line to get into the palace of Knossos and even the ferry to Santorini is half-empty. The intense heat is gone, the sea is balmy, the locals hospitable.

Not all is well, however. Greece is an economically stagnant country, burdened by an impossibly high external debt, and in the midst of horrendous demographic decline. It is ruled by the SYRIZA government (acronym for the Coalition of the Radical Left) which came into being in 2004 as an alliance of Maoists, Trotskyists and greens, but whose leaders have reneged on their old pledges to resist dictates from international bankers and Brussels bureaucrats.

The nation is deeply divided along political, social and cultural lines, arguably more so than at any time since the 1967 colonels’ coup. Discord reigns, with 79 percent of Greeks saying they are dissatisfied with the country’s political system—the highest such figure in the developed world. Even the wildfires in Attica, which killed 99 people last July, have further eroded the trust in government and produced a pile of lawsuits for criminal negligence by surviving family members against senior state officials.

Greece’s misfortunes have been aggravated by the willingness of the country’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to turn from a Maoist demagogue into the poster boy of the European Union. The man who named his second son Orpheus Ernesto after his hero “Che” Guevara has followed, over the past three years, a policy of fiscal stringency and tax increases, dictated by foreigners, which has left over a third of the population of 10 million near poverty…

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Massive Drop in Remoaners: Only 16% of Brits Want to Remain in the EU, New Poll Shows

Remain support has dropped dramatically. The latest poll by BMG poll for the Huffington Post has revealed that a mere 16 per cent of Brits want to remain in the EU when they are given a full range of options.

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May’s Brexit Will Spell End of Europe — France Finance Minister in Staggering Comment

THE European Union should never accept Theresa May’s Brexit plan because it would spell the “end of Europe”, France’s finance minister has said as he claims Brussels is too busy to care about Britain.

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Muslima Says Up to 150 Jihadis Live in Ireland and Laugh at Ireland for Underestimating Their Threat

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A young Irish woman who converted to Islam and was radicalised in UK has revealed that she met the two London jihadis Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane on at least 20 occasions both in the UK and in Ireland.

She claims that at least 150 Muslim extremists are currently living in Ireland.

And she says we are viewed as a ‘soft touch’ by UK radicals — who easily travel between the two countries via the North because they do not have to show any papers.

She said such radicals “laugh” at Ireland because they see us as being “backward and behind the times” in the authorities’ assessment of the threat of radical Islam……

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PM May: ‘No Deal’ Brexit Better Than Canada-Style Trade, Britain Will Slash Taxes After Leaving EU

Leaving the European Union (EU) without any deal would be better for the UK than a Canada-style free trade arrangement, Theresa May has said.

The comments, made by the Prime Minister arriving at a United Nations summit, distinguish her position from leading Brexiteers such as Jacob Rees-Mogg who say a free trade deal is the preferred option.

In a speech at Bloomberg in New York, the Prime Minister will also outline a vision for a low-tax Britain to attract businesses from around the world.

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Romania: Media: Al Dahra Invests Another USD 500 Million

UAE company wants to buy more agricultural land

(ANSA) — BELGRADE, SEPTEMBER 25 — The UAE-based Al Dahra Holding will invest another USD 500 million in various sectors in Romania in the next five years, local media have reported. Al Dahra aims at purchasing additional agricultural land in the European country and will invest in modernising the existing portfolio of agricultural machinery and technologies, the portal Business Review said, recalling that the agricultural giant has acquired the largest Romanian farm producer, Agricost, last summer and a concession of at Braila island on the river Danube, one of Europe’s largest farm.

According to Romanian media, Al Dahra wants to increase the grain and compound feed production by 2022, to create a grain collection center and acquire an operating point at Constanta port to facilitate grain exports and fertilizer imports.

Moreover, Al Dahra will modernise the facilities in the port of Braila for increased cargo and vessel traffic, Business Review added.

Al Dahra is one of the biggest agribusiness companies in the world and it operates in over 20 countries.

The Al Dahra investment plan in Romania will be “implemented in several phases in the coming years and will support the Abu Dhabi Government’s strategy of securing long-term food needs,” Business Review said.

Recently, Al Dahra has acquired one of the biggest agriculture and food producers in neighboring Serbia, the company PKB.

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Swedish City Wants to Stop Gang Crime With Coffee and Sandwiches

The shopping mall Nordstan has long been a gathering place for criminal migrant gangs. That is, however, about to end, Samhällsnytt reports.

Social and law enforcement agencies have agreed to buy a ‘coffee bus’ where the criminal youths will be offered a cup of coffee — as an option to their usual activities — robbery, theft and drug dealing.

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Swedish Media and Churches Cover Up ‘Jihad’ Against Christian Places of Worship Because it Could Shock the Public

Alhemskyrkan Church in the town of Skellefteå was vandalised with threats of Jihad and death spray painted on the church. A church representative brushed off the threats as “innocent” vandalism, after admitting that this wasn’t the first incident of Islamic hatred toward Christian church’s in Skellefteå.

According to local Swedish newspapers, the police are aware of the incident and claim they are particularly concerned about hate attacks against Christian churches.

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‘Symbol of Islamisation’: Muslims Celebrate German Church Becoming a Mosque

e former Capernaum church has been turned into a mosque, Austrian tabloid Wochenblick reports. The “Al-Nour” mosque was opened at 5 PM this afternoon, converted from the former Hamburg church into a mosque.

The church, which was consecrated in 1961, was re-designed in 2002. A 1.5 million euro renovation overwhelmed the Evangelical Lutheran congregation, thus leaving the building empty for years.

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UK: Labour MP Calls for ‘General Strike’ To Overthrow Brexit, Government

A Labour MP has called for a “general strike” to overthrow the Tory Government and potentially allow for a second referendum that could block Brexit.

The demand from Laura Smith, who has represented Crewe and Nantwich since the 2017 snap general election, received a standing ovation from Labour supporters, including the shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon.

Despite enthusiastically standing and applauding, Mr Burgon later denied he or the Labour Party backed such a strike.

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WikiLeaks Names New Editor-in-Chief, Replacing Julian Assange

WikiLeaks on Wednesday replaced Julian Assange as editor-in-chief with onetime spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson.

The ramifications of the move are unclear.

“I condemn the treatment of Julian Assange that leads to my new role,” Hrafnsson said, as The Daily Dot reported, “but I welcome the opportunity to secure the continuation of the important work based on WikiLeaks ideals.”

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Ex-Google Employee Warns of ‘Disturbing’ China Plans

A former Google employee has warned of the firm’s “disturbing” plans in China, in a letter to US lawmakers.

Jack Poulson, who had been a senior researcher at the company until resigning in August, wrote that he was fearful of Google’s ambitions.

His letter alleges Google’s work on a Chinese product — codenamed Dragonfly — would aid Beijing’s efforts to censor and monitor its citizens online.

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Muslim Leader Says Severed Pig Heads Have Been Dumped at the Gates of His ‘Religious Site’ After He Refused to Abide by Australian Law

Dr Mustapha Kara-Ali became embroiled in a bitter feud with Hawkesbury Council after it launched civil action against him for carrying out illegal land clearing and earthworks.

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Terror School: Why Returning Jihadis Could Soon be Teaching Your Children Under a Radical New Plan to Fight ISIS — as Authorities Admit the Threat is ‘As High as Ever’

Australian jihadis could soon be teaching the country’s youth under new plans unveiled by one of Australia’s leading counter-terrorism strategists and former deputy police chiefs Nick Kaldas.

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Ghana Officials Question China’s Ambitions in Bauxite Mining Plan

The Chinese regime explicitly states that a major goal for OBOR is investment and control of foreign mineral deposits, which will power the growth of different Chinese industries. For example, China has controlled cobalt mines in Congo that are being used to make electric car batteries. New energy vehicles (NEVs) are among the 10 tech sectors that Beijing has targeted for development, as part of the regime’s plans to turn China into a high-tech manufacturing hub.

According to statistics provided by China’s Ministry of Natural Resources, in the first half of 2017, Chinese companies signed 17 acquisition deals of foreign mines with a total value of over $10 billion. Many of China’s OBOR projects have come under scrutiny for saddling developing countries with heavy debt. …

Ghana is already sitting on a mountain of debt. Ghana Web, citing statistics from Bank of Ghana, reported that the country’s debt stood at about 154.2 billion cedis (about $32.3 billion) as of May 2018, which amounted to 63.8 percent of Ghana’s GDP (gross domestic product).

IMF has recently warned of countries that are at risk of debt distress, with Ghana among a list of African nations where China holds the majority of its external debt, according to Reuters.

What could make the debt situation in Ghana direr is the fact that the $2 billion agreement is part of an overall $19 billion loan facility, according to multiple Ghana media reports. Part of the loan will be used to build a 4,000 km (about 2,485 mile) railway connecting several Ghanaian towns such as Sunyani, Techiman, and Kumasi.

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Britain, Ecuador Seeking an End to the Assange Standoff

Ecuador’s president said Wednesday that his country and Britain are working on a legal solution for Julian Assange to allow the Wikileaks founder to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in “the medium term.”

President Lenin Moreno told The Associated Press that Assange’s lawyers were aware of the negotiations. He declined to provide more details because of the sensitivity of the case.

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Czech Prime Minister Faces Storm at Home Over Child Migrants

As Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis defended his government’s decision not to accept even a single migrant at the EU summit in Salzburg, trouble was brewing for him at home.

A proposal for the Czech Republic to take in 50 Syrian orphans, has gained increasing support, and the prime minister is being showered with requests to break from his policy and make a humanitarian gesture. Andrej Babis spent the past two days defending the Czech Republic’s and the Visegrad group’s zero tolerance to migrants policy in Salzburg, on the argument that migrants needed to be helped in their country of origin.

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Immigrant Mass Murder Suspect: Salvadoran Deported 6 Times Has Allegedly Been Beating Homeless Men to Death in California

The story in the Washington Post says that a suspect in the California beating deaths of three homeless men, and four more brutal attacks on homeless men who survived, had been deported six times, but was still at large in the US. [Man suspected of killing California homeless men with a baseball bat was deported six times, police say, By Allyson Chiu, September 26, 2018]

He’s also suspect in the “missing persons” case (as in, no one has seen them alive recently) involving his own aunt and uncle in Texas.

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Italian Interior Minister: “We Don’t Take Lessons From Macron on Law and Humanity”

A diplomatic row between France and Italy is emerging after French President Emmanuel Macron criticised Italy on its migration policy.

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Italy Govt Touched Bottom on Aquarius — HRW

Leftwing do-gooders’ insults ‘medals’ says Salvini

(ANSA) — Rome, September 26 — The director of Human Rights Watch for Europe and central Asia, Judith Sunderland, on Wednesday said in an article on the Aquarius migrant rescue ship that “the the current Italian government’s inhuman approach to refugees and migrants has touched the bottom once more.” Sunderland repeated claims that the government, led by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, put pressure on Panama to stop the ship using its flag.

The Aquarius, operated by SOS Méditerranée and Doctors Without Borders, was rejected by Italy and sailed on for three days before before finding a landing spot in Malta.

Its 58 migrants will be distributed among France, Spain, Portugal and Germany.

Salvini responded to Sunderland by saying that “the insults of the leftwing do-gooders are all medals”.

He said “Italy has received in the last few years 700,000 immigrants from all over the world, and yet we keep getting unwanted lectures on reception.

“The migrant smugglers are inhuman”.

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Italy: Gang That Smuggled Migrants From Libya Busted

Bangladeshi charged 6,000 euros a head

(ANSA) — Genoa, September 26 — Italian police on Wednesday busted a gang that smuggled migrants from Libya to Italy.

The brains behind the operation, police said, was a Bangladeshi businessman who charged migrants 6,000 euros a head to get from Libya to Italy, and arranged for them to get humanitarian permits to reach Liguria.

They were then obliged to work in the businessman’s firms and pay to sleep in property he had leased, police said.

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Italy: We Don’t Take Lessons From Macron Says Salvini

He locked borders, turned back women and children-deputy premier

(ANSA) — Rome, September 26 — Interior Minister and Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini on Wednesday hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron for saying that there was a “political crisis” between Italy and the rest of the EU over migration. “We don’t take lesson on law and humanity from Signor Macron,” said Salvini, the leader of the rightwing League party.

“In recent months he locked the border with Italy and turned back over 50,000 migrants, above all women and children”.

On Tuesday Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte said that Macron “only represents France, while Europe is composed of 27 countries”.

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Lily Allen Admits She Was ‘A Moron’ Over Calais Migrant Camp ‘Apology’

LILY Allen has apologised for her infamous “apology on behalf of the UK” when she visited the Calais refugee camp in 2016, saying she was “foolish” and “clumsy” — but says she did so with “good intentions” in mind.

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Number of ‘Dangerous Migrants’ Increased by 400 Per Cent — German Intelligence

The German government ministry responsible for refugee processing received over 10,000 referrals of suspicious behaviour by migrants in 2017, Die Welt reports.

In 2015, the number of migrants referred to the German security service was 571. In 2016, that number rose fourfold to 2,418. And in 2017 it rose again, fourfold to 10,597.

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Proud to be a Racist: ‘Final Solution’ Senator Claims Immigrants Come From ‘Broken S***holes’ And Islam ‘Is on a Mission to Take Over Australia’

Queensland senator Fraser Anning has declared he is happy to be called a racist in a meme linking Muslims with ‘a barbaric cult’ — a month after he called for a ‘final solution’ in Parliament.

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Putin: EU Politicians Encourage Migration by Offering Large Social Benefits

The flow of migrants from the third world to EU countries will not stop as long as the countries’ politicians continue to hand out large benefits, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

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6 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/26/2018

  1. You know, the sad thing about Věra Jourová is that she used to be a pretty good politian. Before becomming a member of the Brussels gang, that is. They brainwashed her thoroughly.

    Really surprised someone considered hatred aimed at whites as racist, guess there are still some decisions-making people with common sense among the bunch.

    Is Sweden for real? Coffee sure won’t make those “youths” stop…

    I sure hope Andrej Babiš is gonna keep firm in his decision to not take the “orphans”. Especially since they were supposed to be almost adults (ages 12-17). It was later offered they could pick out some children, ages 5-10 or so, but honestly we have enough of our own orphans. How can we offer to help foreigners if we have our own citizens that don’t receive the support they’d need?

    • I noticed that about Vera Jourova too. She might have been ‘reframed’ to fit the agenda using some advanced mind control techniques, like blackmail and threatning – or there might be something even more vicious at play – MK Ultra stuff.

      And on the other news, the ‘Syrian orphans’ seem to be a proper mass media technique played on Czech people, controlled opossition if you will. I doubt that Babis would cave in under todays circumstances, when 99.9% of Czechs absolutely refuse to accept that we would make a better world by taking in 50 teenagers. The internet forums are quite clear about this: 50 Syrian orphans? Why not 50 Czech orphans, or orphans from Lybia, Sierra Leone, Yemen, Eritrea…?

      • It is a certainty that these “orphans” are simply a “foot in the door” to enable liberals in the Czech Republic to open the door fully to further immigrants beyond the few mentioned. These “orphans” would suddenly remember family members who they need to come to them in that country.

        They must have been paying attention to the “children kept from their parents” nonsense here in the U.S.

  2. “NASA Has Found Two Exoplanets With Their New Planet Hunter”

    “The first exoplanet, discovered on September 19, is called Pi Mensae c. Its size is about 2.14 times Earth’s radius and 4.82 times Earth’s density. The preliminary studies have indicated that it has an iron core and also contains water, methane, hydrogen, and helium. Pi Mensae c is at a 60 light years distance from the Earth.”

    Two factors impact gravity: mass and size. Also density and size since density is mass divided by volume, a measurement of size. Surface gravity is also a function of distance from the core.

    Thus a planet of this size and density is unlikely to constitute a livable habitat for Homo sapiens sapiens although if other factors were favourable life forms evolved there could exist, although any structurally advanced organisms would likely be short and squat by our standards – but perfectly normal by theirs.

  3. The jihad against Christian churches in Sweden hits close to home. My brother-in-law married a Swede, raised three kids, and worked in Skellefteå until he retired this past year. He and his wife are Social Democrats, of course. When they visited us in 2014 they were all for “immigration” because he was an immigrant (totally assimilated) and his wife was vociferously convinced that they must “help” these poor people who had “no choice” but to leave their native countries. At that point, I believe most of the issues that were starting to make themselves known were confined to southern Sweden.

    When they visited us last year, there was no talk about this subject whatsoever. I don’t know how religious they are now, but I know that all three of their kids were baptised and confirmed Lutherans, and for all I know, attended services at the defaced church. They might not be feeling quite so generous now that the problem is closer to home…

  4. In the North Caucasus, 1,000 newly converted Muslims in six months.
    It is assumed that they are not among the “ethnic Muslims.” The authorities are still afraid to voice the essence of the problem and suggest controlling the imams and strengthening the Cossack communities (Cossacks have long been something like clowns with whips) https://lenta.ru/news/2018/09/27/islam/

    With 1,000 neophytes in six months, the authorities should not dance “Swan Lake” around the imams . They must restore the Gulag.

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