Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/9/2018

Belgian authorities have busted a ring of human traffickers who were smuggling illegal immigrants into the UK. Most of their clients were from Eritrea and Sudan.

In other news, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley has resigned from her post.

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Financial Crisis
» Heavy Tax Burden Leaves UK Families Poorer Despite Strong Wage Growth
» Italian Interior Minister: No One Will Stop us on Pension Reform
» Italy Bottom in Eurozone for Growth — IMF
 
USA
» “The Land of the Living Dead”: Inside San Francisco’s Most Disgusting City Block
» ANTIFA Protesters Block Portland Traffic, Nearly Start Riot During Patrick Kimmons Vigil
» BLM and ANTIFA Agitators Take Over Street in Portland to Protest Police Shooting
» Democratic Staffer Held Without Bond in Senate ‘Doxing’ Case
» High School Teacher Busted Passing Out Anti-Trump, Anti-GOP Flyers: “Vote Because Rich Right-Wingers Want You to Stay Home”
» Kavanaugh Protesters Caught on Camera Being Trained What to Say
» Men Seeing Drastic Drop in Sperm Count, Study Claims
» Michael Savage Calls on Trump to Order Arrest of ANTIFA Members
» Minnesota Teacher Resigns After Posting Call to ‘Kill Kavanaugh’
» Network Coverage of Trump 92 Percent Negative, Lacks Diversity, Report Says
» New York City’s Islamist Grant
» Nikki Haley Resigns From Post as UN Ambassador
» Nikki Haley Steps Down as U.N. Ambassador
» Whole Foods Forced to Get a Restraining Order Against Berkeley Vegans
 
Canada
» Man Charged in Fatal Kitchener House Explosion
 
Europe and the EU
» (Watch) Tommy Robinson: “Most Honourable Morning I’ve Ever Had”
» “In Facing Islamism, Our Elites Have Betrayed Us”, Says French Top Journalist in Mindblowing Interview
» 87 Percent of Leave Voters in Northern Ireland Say Delivering Brexit More Important Than ‘Peace Process’
» ‘British Citizens Should Prepare for the Day That a Chemical Attack Comes’ — Minister of State
» Chaos in Paris as Protests Erupt Against French President Macron
» Conservative Journalist’s Young Children Threatened With Rape and Death — Swedish Media Ignore it
» EU Delays Brexit Paper, Expects More Concessions From Appeaser Theresa
» German Court Jails Teens for Gang Rape of 13-Year-Old Girl
» Germany’s Angela Merkel No Longer Leading the Charge on Climate Change
» German Industry Fears ‘Massive Crisis’ of No-Deal Brexit
» In Eastern Europe We Don’t Want to See Our Christian Values Lost, The West Has Lost Its Soul — Polish MP
» International Terror Investigators Increasingly Uncovering Links to Sweden
» Italy: Valpolicella Consortium Flies to Canada, US and Switzerland
» Italy: Orban, Le Pen Nothing to Do With Us — Di Maio
» Spain: Islamic Leaders Want to Build Massive New Mosque in Barcelona as the Number of Muslims is Growing
» Top Eurocrat Juncker Attacks ‘Stupid Populists’ In Attempts to Reach Out to Eurosceptics
» UK: Former Brexit Minister: 80 Tories Ready Vote Down May’s ‘Half-in-Half-Out’ Brexit
» UK: Heartbroken Mother Found Hanged After Son Took His Own Life Following False Rape Accusation
» UK: Khan’s London: Police Use of Force Up 79 Percent in Five Months
» UK: Leftists and Labour Members Racially Abuse Black Tory London Mayoral Candidate
» Vatican Synod: Sexual Abuse in the Church ‘Cannot be Skimmed Over Tangentially’
» Warsaw Showcases Women’s Fight for Polish Independence
» White British Disadvantaged Boys Are the Least Likely of Any Ethnic Group to Make it to University — Education Secretary
 
Russia
» Full Report: Skripal Poisoning Suspect Dr. Alexander Mishkin, Hero of Russia
 
Far East
» Google Lied About “Dragonfly” China Censorship Project According to Leaked Transcript
» New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australians Are Revealed to be the World’s Second Biggest Drug Users — Consuming More Than Eight Tonnes of ICE and Three Tonnes of Cocaine a Year
» Right-Wing Firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos Announces Another Tour of Australia — and Says it’s Bad News for Waleed Aly, Clementine Ford and Yassmin Abdel-Magied
 
Latin America
» Need to Flee Venezuela? Pay Huge Bribe or Stand in Line Forever
 
Immigration
» $23 Billion Bill to “Fully Fund” Border Wall to be Introduced This Week
» Belgium Smashes Human Trafficking Ring ‘Smuggling Migrants Into Britain’
» Fears of No-Go Zones as Muslims ‘Colonise’ Czech Town and Buy Dozens of Houses in City Centre
» Former BBC Editor Admits ‘Patronising’ Corporation ‘Got it Wrong’ On Immigration
» France: Two Homosexual Men Attacked, Beaten in Paris After Kissing in Public
» France Should Create ‘Solidarity’ Tax Credit to Encourage Citizens to Welcome Refugees
» Hillary Clinton Attacks British Tories for Backing Orban, Demands U.S., Europe Respect Human Rights of Migrants
» Italy: Gambian Who Attacked Police Risks Expulsion
» Salvini and Le Pen Form Anti-Mass Migration ‘Freedom Front’ Ahead of EU Parliament Election
» Short Sentences for African Refugees Who Hacked Man’s Head With Machetes
» Spain’s Socialist Government Causes Invasion: Migrants From 30 Boats Picked Up by the Coast Guard
» Swedish School Burns Down in ‘Migrant Dominated’ Area — Two Teenagers Arrested
» Viktor Orban: A Stable Turkey is a Precondition for Hungary Not to be Endangered in Any Way Due to Overland Migration
 
Culture Wars
» De Blasio Signs Bill Adding Third Gender, ‘X, ‘ to Birth Certificates
» UK Govt to Give Private Junior Schools LGBT Lessons Opt-Out
 
General
» Climate Alarmists: ‘Act Now Idiots, ‘ You Only Have 12 Years to Save the World
» The IPCC is Still Wrong on Climate Change. Scientists Prove it.
 

Heavy Tax Burden Leaves UK Families Poorer Despite Strong Wage Growth

High levels of taxation are throttling families, as new statistics show household disposable income falling fractionally, despite pay levels rising.

While recent data showed wages rising at the strongest rate for three years, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures published Monday revealed the average Briton had £4,813 disposable income in the second quarter of 2018 — 0.1 percent less compared with the same period a year earlier.

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

Italian Interior Minister: No One Will Stop us on Pension Reform

Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Tuesday said “nothing and no one” would stop the government overhauling the 2011 Fornero pension reform after both the bank of Italy and the IMF said it should not be touched.

Salvini, the rightwing populist League leader who made scrapping the Fornero a key campaign pledge, said “on the Fornero reform nothing and no one will be able to stop us.

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

Italy Bottom in Eurozone for Growth — IMF

Italy is still the bottom of class in the eurozone for growth, the IMF said on Tuesday, even though the fund revised down its GDP forecasts for France and Germany.

The IMF said it expects Italy’s GDP to rise 1.2% this year and 1% in 2019, down from 1.5% in 2017.

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

“The Land of the Living Dead”: Inside San Francisco’s Most Disgusting City Block

Over the last year or two, San Francisco has become notorious for having some of the dirtiest major city blocks in the United States. In fact, things have gotten so bad that the city has employed full-time workers that it pays almost $200,000 per year to clean up human feces on the ground which, along with heroin needles and litter, have put the city streets into total disarray.

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

ANTIFA Protesters Block Portland Traffic, Nearly Start Riot During Patrick Kimmons Vigil

Antifa protesters blocked traffic and almost started a riot during a Saturday march and vigil for Patrick Kimmons, a black Portland man shot by police on September 30 after he allegedly shot two people and approached officers holding a gun.

“Protesters Started a Riot in Downtown Portland!” tweeted videographer Brandon Farley, who, according to his Twitter feed, records “disruptive events in downtown Portland, Oregon.” The disturbing video shows protesters running down the street, and a group chasing an older white-haired man to his car.

[October 6th — 4pm — SW 4th and Salmon]

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

BLM and ANTIFA Agitators Take Over Street in Portland to Protest Police Shooting

Portland authorities allowed a small group of Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters to take over a busy street in downtown Portland over the weekend, where they redirected traffic and bullied drivers — and it wasn’t for the first time.

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

Democratic Staffer Held Without Bond in Senate ‘Doxing’ Case

Jackson Cosko, the former Democratic staffer accused of “doxing” Republican senators by leaking their personal information, was ordered held without bond Tuesday, with the judge saying he posed a risk to the community.

Prosecutors revealed investigators found cocaine and methamphetamine during a search of his possessions, and speculated he may have been under the influence when, according to police, he used his government credentials to post personal information of some lawmakers at the height of the grueling Kavanaugh-nomination fracas, and broke into a senator’s office while threatening to release other information.

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

High School Teacher Busted Passing Out Anti-Trump, Anti-GOP Flyers: “Vote Because Rich Right-Wingers Want You to Stay Home”

A Philadelphia teacher decided to take political matters into his own hands by passing out anti-Trump, anti-Republican flyers…in school! Little did he know that the State GOP chairman Val DiGiorgio is an alumnus of the high school! State GOP chairman Val DiGiorgio was made aware of the flyers by a fellow former Central High School student.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Kavanaugh Protesters Caught on Camera Being Trained What to Say

Brett Kavanaugh’s fancy sideshow filled with mobs of protesters just became funnier than expected! Some of the protesters were caught on camera being trained on what to say! To top it off, the person who was training them is highly involved as a co-founder of a Bernie Sanders group called the People for Bernie.

Let’s watch the video of the Kavanaugh protesters being trained on what to say, where to go, what to do, etc.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Men Seeing Drastic Drop in Sperm Count, Study Claims

Brace yourselves, ladies and gentlemen: We have a sperm shortage.

A new study shows that male infertility has been skyrocketing — with the amount of men seeking treatment going up seven-fold and the quality of semen dropping dramatically over the last 15 years.

“This is a public health concern,” said Dr. Ashley Tiegs, lead researcher on the seed study.

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

Michael Savage Calls on Trump to Order Arrest of ANTIFA Members

Homeland Security should “round up the leadership”

Radio host Michael Savage has called on President Trump to direct Homeland Security to arrest prominent members of Antifa, labeling the organization a “domestic terrorist group”.

During an interview with the American Mirror, Savage said the group should be treated like the new Weather Underground.

“I think they have declared themselves to be a terrorist organization,” said Savage, pointing to a story from last month about how Antifa members strategized how they could carry out “ambushes and assassinations” to further their political agenda.

“They’re absolutely a domestic terrorist group, what else would anyone call them?” asked Savage.

He then called for the Department of Homeland Security to “round up the leadership and arrest them,” adding, “what else do you do, wait for them to kill people?”

Savage warned that the left are “in a revolution” and would continue to enact it by “smearing and destroying anyone who stands in their way — first verbally and then physically.”

“They are absolutely on the warpath. There’s very little opposition,” he added, noting that those on the far-left still revere Communist regimes that engaged in mass executions of political enemies.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Minnesota Teacher Resigns After Posting Call to ‘Kill Kavanaugh’

A Minnesota teacher has resigned from her position after allegedly making a Twitter post encouraging someone to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“So whose [sic] gonna take one for the team and kill Kavanaugh?” the unnamed teacher allegedly posted following Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

The teacher was originally placed on paid leave pending an investigation by Rosemount, Minnesota’s Independent School District 917 into her post, but has since reportedly resigned.

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

Network Coverage of Trump 92 Percent Negative, Lacks Diversity, Report Says

President Donald Trump has received 92 percent negative evening news coverage from the main broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC.

“Over the summer, the broadcast networks have continued to pound Donald Trump and his team with the most hostile coverage of a President in TV news history,” Rich Noyes of the Media Research Center (MRC) said in an Oct. 9 article.

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

New York City’s Islamist Grant

On August 21, the New York City Council announced $250,000 in grants made to 14 Muslim community organizations, in collaboration with the New York Immigration Coalition. Alarmingly, three of the grant recipients are linked to Islamic extremism — the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA).

Worse, it seems that ICNA, in particular, plans to use the money not for civic improvement but for religious proselytizing.

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

Nikki Haley Resigns From Post as UN Ambassador

According to AP, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is set to resign today and will make her annoucement in the Oval Office.

Fox News is reporting that Nikki Haley is claiming she wants to “take a break”, and will be leaving by the end of the year.

[Comment: Another globalist open borders stooge ousted.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Nikki Haley Steps Down as U.N. Ambassador

Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., resigns. NPR Diplomatic Correspondent Michele Kelemen talks about Haley’s work there and what this might mean for President Trump’s international policy.

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

Whole Foods Forced to Get a Restraining Order Against Berkeley Vegans

A Berkeley, California, Whole Foods Market was forced to apply for a blanket restraining order after becoming the target of a radical vegan group hell-bent on “exposing” the natural foods chain’s animal welfare violations.

The Guardian reports that Whole Foods filed for the order after a group called Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, threatened to “Occupy Whole Foods” for the entire month of September, subjecting the store and its shoppers to in-person protests, demonstrations of “animal slaughter,” and, perhaps most horrifying, a drum circle.

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

Man Charged in Fatal Kitchener House Explosion

A 58-year-old man is charged with first-degree murder in connection with a deadly house explosion in Kitchener.

Waterloo Region Police say the man, whose name was not released, was arrested on Monday, nearly six weeks after the explosion that rocked a quiet residential neighbourhood in August.

The blast levelled one home and caused extensive damage to some nearby residences.

The body of 58-year-old Edresilda Haan was found in the backyard of the destroyed home and her death was ruled a homicide.

Another man who lived in the home, who family members previously identified as Haan’s husband, was seriously injured in the blast and police say he remains in hospital to this day.

Police did not say how many charges the suspect is facing in relation to the explosion, but say they include one count of first-degree murder and one count of arson with disregard for human life.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

(Watch) Tommy Robinson: “Most Honourable Morning I’ve Ever Had”

When Tommy Robinson stopped at a service centre recently, he was recognized and greeted by several young military men who approached him for selfies.

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

“In Facing Islamism, Our Elites Have Betrayed Us”, Says French Top Journalist in Mindblowing Interview

While inter-community violences have now been recognised by none other than France’s ex-Minister of Interior, top journalist Yves Mamou is accusing the French elites of closing their eyes on immigration and the Islamisation of the country.

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

87 Percent of Leave Voters in Northern Ireland Say Delivering Brexit More Important Than ‘Peace Process’

A large majority of Northern Irish Brexiteers believe delivering Brexit is more important than potentially jeopardising the peace process in the divided province.

‘The Future of England Study’, conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Universities of Cardiff and Edinburgh, discovered that fully 87 percent of Ulster voters who backed Brexit believe an “unravelling of the peace process in Northern Ireland” would be a price worth paying to “take back control” from the European Union, according to the Belfast Telegraph.

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

‘British Citizens Should Prepare for the Day That a Chemical Attack Comes’ — Minister of State

The British Minister of State for Security claims that reports show the risk of a chemical weapons attack is rising in the UK.

Recently in a Security conference Ben Wallace, British Minister of State for Security, stated that the terrorist threat of a chemical attack on British soil is rising.

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

Chaos in Paris as Protests Erupt Against French President Macron

France has been hit by protests and strikes organised by unions against reforms brought in by Emmanuel Macron’s government.

Five protesters were arrested as violence broke out at the Paris demo as images emerged of French armed police officers tackling protesters, injured people and police using tear gas to control the demonstrators.

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

Conservative Journalist’s Young Children Threatened With Rape and Death — Swedish Media Ignore it

being threatened with his life and the rape of his wife and young children.

As we’ve reported before, people call Lamotte and tell him that he should be slaughtered, that his wife should be slaughtered and that they are going to f*ck his entire family.

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

EU Delays Brexit Paper, Expects More Concessions From Appeaser Theresa

The European Union (EU) has delayed publishing a fresh version of its Brexit plan, in anticipation of the Prime Minister making more concessions and bowing to more of their demands.

The bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier was planning on publishing an “annotated” draft declaration on Wednesday, laying out their demands for a future trade deal.

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

German Court Jails Teens for Gang Rape of 13-Year-Old Girl

Four teenagers have been handed jail terms for gang raping a 13-year-old girl in a small German town. A court heard how the group ambushed their victim and dragged her into a nearby forest.

A regional court in western Germany sentenced four boys to prison on Monday over the gang rape of a 13-year-old six months ago, local media reported.

Prosecutors said eight boys between the ages of 14 and 17 accosted the girl in the town of Velbert in April when she was walking home from the swimming pool. They pulled her into a nearby patch of woodland and gang raped her until a woman passing by intervened…

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

Germany’s Angela Merkel No Longer Leading the Charge on Climate Change

An alarming report from the United Nations climate panel has been met with a shrug from the German government. Angela Merkel once promoted herself as a champion of climate protection, but those days are long gone.

No expense was spared on Monday at the German Environment Ministry in Berlin. The room was packed. Two deputy ministers and a climate researcher were taking questions from journalists. A video link was set up with South Korea, where the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change had just presented its latest report. Hans-Otto Poertner, a polar researcher and biologist from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, was on the line. He co-wrote the alarming report, with more than 90 other authors and editors from 40 countries…

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

German Industry Fears ‘Massive Crisis’ of No-Deal Brexit

The industrial association that represents some of Germany’s largest businesses has revealed the anxiety felt throughout the continent at the prospect of a no-deal Brexit in comments which could strengthen Britain’s negotiating hand.

The urgent message from the Federation of German Industries (BDI) warns if the United Kingdom leaves the European Union unilaterally in a so-called ‘hard’ Brexit there would be a “massive crisis” in German industry.

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

In Eastern Europe We Don’t Want to See Our Christian Values Lost, The West Has Lost Its Soul — Polish MP

We had the privilege of talking with Member of Parliament Dominik Tarczynski of Poland’s Law and Justice party. He is also the Vice President of the European Conservatives in Council of Europe, Chairman of the subcommittee on TTIP, a lawyer and a former film-maker.

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

International Terror Investigators Increasingly Uncovering Links to Sweden

International terrorism investigators say they are finding an increase in links to Sweden in their terror investigations.

Since the 2015 Paris Bataclan massacre, European Union member states have seen increased cooperation among law enforcement and intelligence agencies to combat terror. According to prosecutor Solveig Wollstad, Sweden’s National Representative of Eurojust, more and more cases are linked to Sweden in some way, SVT reports.

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

Italy: Valpolicella Consortium Flies to Canada, US and Switzerland

Targeting strategic markets, beginning with Vancouver

(ANSA) — Rome, October 9 — The Valpolicella 50th Anniversary Tour is about to kick off. The internationalization activities of the consortium are set to begin on October 10 in Vancouver and later make stops in Chicago, Washington D.C. and Zurich. Canada is a strategic market for Valpolicella wines that in 2017 accounted for 25% of total Valpolicella exports, 17% of Valpolicella Ripasso and 6% of Amarone.

Among the activities planned in Vancouver is a “walk around tasting” and a media dinner held in collaboration with Town Hall Brands and Consorzio Tutela Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG, with the support of the Italian consulate in the city. On the same day there will be a competition for those working in the sector that will give the possibility to the winner to gain access to the second edition of the Valpolicella Education Program.

The program is course for certification of Valpolicella wines and territory to train new experts that will be held in Verona January 29-31, 2019. The Valpolicella 50th Anniversary Tour will continue in the US October 15-17 in Chicago, where wine tastings and institutional meetings will be held. The international activities of the consortium for the tour will end in Zurich, Switzerland, on October 29 at Metropol. A “walk around tasting” will be held in collaboration with Vinum, a top wine magazine for readers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and the Consorzio Tutela Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore.

Two institutional masterclasses by Christian Eder, the correspondent in Italy for Vinum, will also be held.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Orban, Le Pen Nothing to Do With Us — Di Maio

Fico says M5S will never sit with Le Pen

(ANSA) — Rome, October 9 — Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio said Tuesday that his 5-Star Movement (M5S) will not be making alliances at the European level with rightwing figures such as Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban or French National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen.

He was speaking after fellow Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of the M5S’s government coalition partners, the League, attended an event with Le Pen in Rome on Monday ahead of next year’s European elections. “Orban and Le Pen have nothing to do with us,” Di Maio said.

“We are neither a rightwing, nor a leftwing group.

“Orban and Le Pen are rightwing and they are the League’s partners, not ours”.

Lower House Speaker and M5S bigwig Roberto Fico echoed those comments, saying the M5S would never sit with Le Pen.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Spain: Islamic Leaders Want to Build Massive New Mosque in Barcelona as the Number of Muslims is Growing

The Muslim leaders of Europe and Asia have laid the foundations of a new bureau that will study the building of a great mosque in the city of Barcelona.

As part of the meeting between spiritual leaders from different countries held this Monday in Barcelona, the principal imams of Europe and Asia area have decided to study the suitability of building a great mosque in Barcelona.

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

Top Eurocrat Juncker Attacks ‘Stupid Populists’ In Attempts to Reach Out to Eurosceptics

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has attacked “stupid populists” whilst attempting to reach out to Eurosceptics as predictions point to federalists losing out in May’s European Parliament elections.

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

UK: Former Brexit Minister: 80 Tories Ready Vote Down May’s ‘Half-in-Half-Out’ Brexit

Former Brexit minister Steve Baker has said up to 80 Tory MPs are considering voting against the Prime Minister’s “half-in-half-out Chequers [Brexit] deal”.

The prominent Brexiteer said that at least 40 MPs would vote down Theresa May’s deal, even after “every possible technique” is used by the Government to persuade or force MPs to toe the party line.

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

UK: Heartbroken Mother Found Hanged After Son Took His Own Life Following False Rape Accusation

Karin Cheshire, 55, was found hanged at her family home in Southampton, Hampshire on July 18. The heartbroken mother-of-two took her life after her son Jay Cheshire, 17, died by asphyxiation as a result of hanging following a withdrawn rape allegation.

Following the rape inquest, Karin said: “The rape allegation was the main reason he killed himself.

“She accused him of rape and said he was a sexual offender. He was absolutely distraught. Two weeks later she said she withdrew the allegations.”

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

UK: Khan’s London: Police Use of Force Up 79 Percent in Five Months

The number of times London’s Metropolitan Police resorted to using force has surged 79 percent in just months, as the capital’s crime wave takes hold.

The official number also revealed that black people were far more likely to have force used against them, leading to accusations of racism.

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UK: Leftists and Labour Members Racially Abuse Black Tory London Mayoral Candidate

Socialists and Labour Party members and supporters have bombarded the Tory candidate for London Mayor with racist abuse, berating him for being a right-wing black man.

Shaun Bailey, the man who will attempt to unseat Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan in the 2020 election, has been labelled a “lying coconut”, a “vile disgusting Uncle Tom” and a “token ethnic” by left-wingers on social media.

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

Vatican Synod: Sexual Abuse in the Church ‘Cannot be Skimmed Over Tangentially’

Some members of the Vatican synod on young people proposed a more direct approach to addressing clerical sex abuse Tuesday morning, as well as the need to highlight the Christian call to a life of chastity.

The issue of child sexual abuse in the Church “cannot be skimmed over tangentially in a few short sentences,” reported one of the English language groups (“Anglicus A”). “The shattered trust, the trauma and lifelong suffering of survivors; the catastrophic failures in case management; the continued silence and denial by some of these awful crimes and sins — these issues cry out to be named openly by the Synod.”

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Warsaw Showcases Women’s Fight for Polish Independence

The role of women in Poland’s efforts to regain independence 100 years ago will be shown in an exhibition that opens in Warsaw on Monday.

The exhibition, entitled Women in the Fight for Polish Independence, will focus on the efforts of women from the League of Women of Galicia and Cieszyn Silesia and the League of Women.

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White British Disadvantaged Boys Are the Least Likely of Any Ethnic Group to Make it to University — Education Secretary

Education secretary, Damian Hinds will launch Opportunity North East, aimed to tackle issues that hold back “young white British boys” which are the least likely of any large ethnic group to go to university.

The North East will see a £24m boost to standards in Education along with help from university & business leaders.

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Full Report: Skripal Poisoning Suspect Dr. Alexander Mishkin, Hero of Russia

Bellingcat can now report that it has conclusively identified the second suspect, who travelled to Salisbury under the alias Alexander Petrov. We already produced evidence that “Alexander Petrov” is not an authentic persona, but an undercover alias for an officer of a Russian security agency. In a later report, we established that “Petrov” was specifically working for Russia’s military intelligence, the GRU.

We have identified “Alexander Petrov” to be in fact Dr. Alexander Yevgeniyevich Mishkin, a trained military doctor in the employ of the GRU. Furthermore, multiple witnesses familiar with Alexander Mishkin and his family have confirmed to us that he, like Col. Chepiga, is a recipient of the Hero of Russia award, which is bestowed by a special decree by the Russian President.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Google Lied About “Dragonfly” China Censorship Project According to Leaked Transcript

According to a leaked transcript, Google lied to the media regarding their secretive Chinese search engine, according to The Intercept.

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

New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom

The discovery shows that China continues to sabotage critical technology components bound for America.

A major U.S. telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its network and removed it in August, fresh evidence of tampering in China of critical technology components bound for the U.S., according to a security expert working for the telecom company.

The security expert, Yossi Appleboum, provided documents, analysis and other evidence of the discovery following the publication of an investigative report in Bloomberg Businessweek that detailed how China’s intelligence services had ordered subcontractors to plant malicious chips in Supermicro server motherboards over a two-year period ending in 2015.

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

Australians Are Revealed to be the World’s Second Biggest Drug Users — Consuming More Than Eight Tonnes of ICE and Three Tonnes of Cocaine a Year

Out of the 23 countries examined, Australia ranked second highest in the use of the four most common illegal stimulant drugs.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Right-Wing Firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos Announces Another Tour of Australia — and Says it’s Bad News for Waleed Aly, Clementine Ford and Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is ready to unleash on Australian public figures in his second tour Down Under.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Need to Flee Venezuela? Pay Huge Bribe or Stand in Line Forever

The going rate for a black-market passport is more than $2,000, over 68 times the monthly minimum wage.

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

$23 Billion Bill to “Fully Fund” Border Wall to be Introduced This Week

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy plans to introduce a bill this week that will fully fund President Trump’s much-promised border wall, according to an exclusive report by Breitbart.

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Belgium Smashes Human Trafficking Ring ‘Smuggling Migrants Into Britain’

BELGIUM has broken up a ring of human traffickers who smuggled mainly Sudanese and Eritrean migrants into Britain for a charge of up to £2,200 (€2,500) each, justice officials said on Monday.

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Fears of No-Go Zones as Muslims ‘Colonise’ Czech Town and Buy Dozens of Houses in City Centre

The Czech Republic is at dire risk of becoming a society with no-go zones as a result of migrants, according to activists.

According to Iva Prochazkova, a civic activist, the Czech Rebulic is in danger of becoming a society filled with ‘no-go zones’ where migrant crime and civil unrest are rife.

In an interview with Sputnik News, Iva highlighted problems arising in the Czech city of Teplice, a resort town where the majority of visitors are Arabic tourists.

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Former BBC Editor Admits ‘Patronising’ Corporation ‘Got it Wrong’ On Immigration

Former BBC editor Robert Peston has admitted that the publicly-funded corporation “got it wrong” on immigration and was “patronising” towards voters who wanted to control it.

The 58-year-old journalist, who hosts ITV’s midweek political programme Peston and serves as the broadcaster’s political editor, made his confession in comments to the Cheltenham Literature Festival reported by the Daily Mail.

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France: Two Homosexual Men Attacked, Beaten in Paris After Kissing in Public

Two homosexual men in the 19th arrondissement of the French capital were physically attacked and taken to a hospital over the weekend after kissing each other in public.

The attack took place on Saturday night at 10 pm along the rue du Maroc in the heavily migrant-populated north of the French capital, in the 19th district which borders the troubled suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis.

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France Should Create ‘Solidarity’ Tax Credit to Encourage Citizens to Welcome Refugees

FRENCH lawmaker Aurélien Taché has suggested creating a “solidarity” tax credit to encourage citizens to take refugees into their homes.

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Hillary Clinton Attacks British Tories for Backing Orban, Demands U.S., Europe Respect Human Rights of Migrants

Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has scolded British Conservative Party politicians for backing the anti-mass migration Prime Minister of Hungary and demanded that Europe and U.S. deal with migration crises with “respect to human rights”.

“I hope the people of Europe and the European Union will resist the backsliding we’re seeing in the east,” Clinton told the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at Oxford University on Tuesday.

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Italy: Gambian Who Attacked Police Risks Expulsion

First effect of Salvini decree

(ANSA) — Rome, October 9 — A Gambian migrant who attacked police at a migrant centre in Foggia risks expulsion under the new Salvini migrant and security decree, the interior ministry said Tuesday.

Omar Jallow, an asylum seeker who obtained humanitarian protection after an appeal to the magistrature, was to have had his status re-examined by the Foggia territorial commission.

But under Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s new decree he risks being stripped of the status and being deported, the interior ministry said.

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Salvini and Le Pen Form Anti-Mass Migration ‘Freedom Front’ Ahead of EU Parliament Election

Italian populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and French National Rally leader Marine Le Pen have announced the formation of a “Freedom Front” to unite populist parties going into next year’s European Parliament elections.

The two party leaders met in Rome Monday to discuss the concept of a united anti-mass migration, anti-Islamisation populist movement across Europe and laid out the proposal for cooperation among the populist parties noting that they were looking for the right candidate to lead the new group, Il Giornale reports.

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Short Sentences for African Refugees Who Hacked Man’s Head With Machetes

Two refugees from Somalia have received short sentences for splitting a man’s skull and mutilating his hand in a machete attack in Melbourne, Australia.

Abdirizak Mohamed Scek, 25, and Said Abdirahman, 28, gave “no explanation” for their savage attack on Nathan Brett, who was left with “a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain, and his finger hanging by a thread”, according to the Daily Mail.

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Spain’s Socialist Government Causes Invasion: Migrants From 30 Boats Picked Up by the Coast Guard

Salvamento Maritimo (SM), the Spanish Coastal Rescue service, has collected 1,181 illegal migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, who no doubt were aided by African people-traffickers and their associates at open-border minded “NGOs”.

These almost 1200 migrants were collected from 30 different boats in one weekend, according to SM’s own Twitter page, proving once again the homing beacon effect that the Socialist government is having on illegal migration routes into Europe.

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Swedish School Burns Down in ‘Migrant Dominated’ Area — Two Teenagers Arrested

On Sunday night, Gottsundaskolan — a secondary school with around 450 students, wasburned down in the troubled and migrant-dominated “vulnerable area”, Gottsunda in Uppsala. Two of the school’s three buildings were completely destroyed, and the third building was severely damaged.

Two teenage girls were arrested by the police suspected of having started the fire. Due to their young age they were released after interrogation, but suspicions of aggravated arson persist.

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Viktor Orban: A Stable Turkey is a Precondition for Hungary Not to be Endangered in Any Way Due to Overland Migration

Hungarian security and Turkish stability are directly linked, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Budapest on Monday.

“A stable Turkish government and a stable Turkey are a precondition for Hungary not to be endangered in any way due to overland migration,” Orban said at a joint press conference after the talks. It is Hungary’s interest that Turkey should remain strong and able to maintain peace in its region and control illegal migration to Europe, Orban said.

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De Blasio Signs Bill Adding Third Gender, ‘X, ‘ to Birth Certificates

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday signed a bill that adds a third gender category on birth certificates issued in New York City.

The new non-binary identity category, known as X, is for those who don’t consider their gender to be male or female.

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UK Govt to Give Private Junior Schools LGBT Lessons Opt-Out

The UK government is reportedly set to give private primary schools an opt-out on controversial requirements meaning young children have to be taught about homosexual lifestyles in a bid to encourage “tolerance”.

Since the Equality Act was passed in 2010, the “active promotion of respect” for sexual and ethnic minorities has been mandatory in all state and independent schools across England and Wales in order to meet inspection standards.

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Climate Alarmists: ‘Act Now Idiots, ‘ You Only Have 12 Years to Save the World

An ever more desperate sounding climate change lobby is urging “unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” to avoid climate Armageddon in a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The IPCC calls for massive investments in renewable energy to meet climate-change goals, claiming that avoiding a catastrophe will involve “annual average investment needs in the energy system of around $2.4 trillion” between 2016 and 2035.

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The IPCC is Still Wrong on Climate Change. Scientists Prove it.

The NIPCC is U.N. climate alarmists’ worst nightmare.

The IPCC is a political organization, not a scientific body. It was formed by the United Nations in 1988 for the purpose of establishing the need for a global solution to the alleged problem of anthropogenic climate change. Note that the mission of the IPCC was never to study the causes of climate change; were that the case, it might have devoted some of its billions of dollars in revenues over the years to examining solar cycles, changes in ocean currents, the sensitivity of climate to greenhouse gases, or the planet’s carbon cycle. The IPCC has spent trivial sums on these issues, and the authors of and contributors to its voluminous reports have few or no credentials in these fields.

Now consider the NIPCC. It is a scientific body composed of scholars from more than two dozen countries, first convened in 2003 by the great physicist S. Fred Singer and later chaired by another great physicist, Frederick Seitz. The NIPCC’s only purpose is to fact-check the work of the IPCC. It receives no corporate or government funding and so has no hidden agenda or axes to grind. Most of its participants volunteer their time; a few receive token compensation for many hours of effort.

The NIPCC views the claim that human greenhouse gas emissions are causing climate change to be a hypothesis to be tested, not a preordained conclusion. It asks whether the null hypothesis — that changes in climate are natural variability caused by a multitude of forcings and feedbacks — has been disproven. Its research reveals thousands of studies published in peer-reviewed science journals supporting the null hypothesis, meaning that the IPCC’s mountains of data and expressions of “confidence” are irrelevant, meaningless, and ultimately wrong.

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10 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/9/2018

  1. “The urgent message from the Federation of German Industries (BDI) warns if the United Kingdom leaves the European Union unilaterally in a so-called ‘hard’ Brexit there would be a “massive crisis” in German industry.”

    Not mentioned by the “remain” politicians and BBC, but Britain as one of the EU powerhouse economies is a very important market for German exporters. The idea that BREXIT would hurt German industry is rarely discussed.

    • Indeed. My beloved lives in Winchmore Hill, a prosperous part of North London. A least a third of the cars (and some houses have three outside) are Mercedes or BMWs, with the odd Porsche or Audi for variety !

  2. “Act Now Idiots, ‘ You Only Have 12 Years to Save the World'”

    The climate-change alarmists are sounding more-and-more like Jehovah’s Witnesses, every day.

    Meanwhile, the JWs are *much* less annoying than (a) they used to be and (b) the greenies. Never thought I’d say that!

    • They worship the creation instead of the creator…The ‘greens’ that is. For It is well within Mankind’s ability to make forest out of Sahara, instead of making another Sahara in the Amazon. But that would take some real effort, not just printing money and giving it away to the green lobby, which is run by some very rich people who fly private jets…

  3. Sorry off topic, but freezoxee.com is offline, under attack! I keep getting a 403 forbidden area text,

    Some left nazis are attacking http://www.freezoxee.com

    Anyone here know anything????? this is disturbing, i cant open there site anymore

    The leftist are now the new nazis, its confirmed!

    • Here in the Netherlands I can open freezoxee with the Opera browser plus vpn without a problem.

  4. Re the rape and murder of Bulgarian Journalist – indeed it was a deed of a young Gipsy who is now arrested (or a search is going on for him) in Germany. No politics except the politics of race and identity. Of course the news started with “The Roma ghetto lives in fear of reprisal”, the Gipsies stopped their children from going to school (as if they went there before), “Anxiety among Roma people” etc.
    I wish a person with better English and more time on her/his hands than me would describe the history of Gipsies in Eastern Europe. This is an experiment running over nearly a thousand years that proves with perfect clarity – integration is impossible for these people.

    • The Roma gypsies are originally from north India, they are genetically and linguistically related to Punjabis. One theory has it they were forcibly displaced during the time of the Islamic invasions of India, i.e. taken as slaves and then sent further out in the Muslim regions. However, not sure how they ended up in Europe and why they’re so unproductive.

      • From what I’ve read some years ago, they were the lowest of the low and hence eventually left India in search of a better environment and fair enough freeloading off Europeans seems like a better option.

    • So I tried looking up some kind of source material, but fair enough there seems to be only notes on how badly everyone treated them, instead of at least mentioning they aren’t too keen on becomming a functioning part of society either. This, however, was an interesting find and something England might want to rethink to put into force once more (towards a different group, however): “In 1530, England issued the Egyptians Act which banned Romani from entering the country and required those living in the country to leave within 16 days. Failure to do so could result in confiscation of property, imprisonment and deportation. The act was amended with the Egyptians Act 1554, which ordered the Romani to leave the country within a month. Non-complying Romanies were executed.”

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