Monthly Archives: November 2018

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/30/2018

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A group representing white South African farmers has lost its legal battle to overturn parliamentary legislation permitting the expropriation of white-owned farms without compensation. The group had brought suit on the basis of the government’s use of an external contractor to prepare a report that recommended the legislation.

In other news, the retired movie star Brigitte Bardot has donned a yellow vest and joined the protesters demonstrating against the fiscal policies of French President Emmanuel “Toy Boy” Macron.

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AfD: The UN Migration Pact Will Destroy German Sovereignty and the Welfare State

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Corinna Miazga is a member of the German parliament for the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany). In the following video Ms. Miazga discusses the UN migration compact — what it will mean for the national sovereignty of Germany and the rest of Europe.

Unfortunately for Germany, the Bundestag just voted in favor of the migration pact, and Chancellor Merkel will sign it next month in Marrakesh.

The presentation has been broken up into two parts. Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Video transcript #1:

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Britain’s Populist Revolt Is For Real

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***UPDATE***

Tommy’s live-streamed latest video with details on the Brexit Betrayal Rally can be seen here. The fellow from UKIP gives a short summary of past betrayals. You Brits will know who he is but I’m guessing Gerard Batten.

Dr. Turley provides details on British populism. It’s far bigger and less dark than the UK media would have you believe:

Here’s an excerpt from the August 2018 essay, “Britain’s Populist Revolt”, quoted by Dr. Turley in this video:

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…Recently, a prominent liberal politician suggested that Brexit was driven by pensioners who longed for a world where “faces were white.” References to angry old white men are never far away. Arguments that are implicitly about generational change are popular on the liberal Left because they do not require people to engage with the actual grievances. The world becomes a progressive conveyer belt; intolerant old men will soon die; tolerant liberals will soon rise.

What gets lost in these debates is the actual evidence. Contrary to rumour, Brexit was supported by a broad and fairly diverse coalition of voters; large numbers of affluent conservatives; one in three of Britain’s black and ethnic minority voters; almost half of 25-49 year-olds; one in two women; one in four graduates; and 40 percent of voters in the Greater London area.1 Brexit appealed to white pensioners in England’s declining seaside towns but it also won majority support in highly ethnically diverse areas like Birmingham, Luton, and Slough. [How’s that for ‘diversity’?] You don’t hear much about these groups in the media vox pops in retirement homes and working men’s clubs in poverty-stricken communities. Had these other groups that are routinely written out of the debate not voted Leave then Britain would probably still be in the EU.

Nor did these voters suddenly convert to Brexit during the campaign, which is another common misconception. One point that is routinely ignored is that British support for radically reforming or exiting the EU was widespread long before the referendum even began. Britain’s National Centre for Social Research recently pointed out that levels of British support for leaving the EU or radically reducing the EU’s power “have been consistently above 50 percent for a little over 20 years.” This is what the ‘short-termists’ cannot explain. If Brexit was an aberration, a by-product of wrongdoing, then why were so many people unhappy with this relationship long before the Great Recession, or the arrival of Twitter or Facebook? The currents that led to this seismic moment were decades in the making. [my emphases and aside – D]

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One can reasonably infer that the lying media fed a sense of isolation amongst very diverse population groups whilst concomitantly spreading that delusion as a core belief. This is the old Divide and Conquer shell game of elitists who want to control behavior by limiting what one is permitted to think.

Thus is “racism” dressed up as the mortal sin when in reality it is an inherent part of the human condition. A love of ‘diversity’ is just another Naked Emperor.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/29/2018

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Canada’s budget agency says that it costs the Canadian government $14,000 per annum for each migrant it takes in, making a total of $340 million for the past year. However, I assume those dollars are loonies, so it’s not really all that much money.

In other news, in London the Metropolitan Police reportedly drop all investigation into about one-third of reported crimes after the initial phone call from the victim.

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ISIS Operative Tries to Poison the Water Supply in Sardinia

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A devotee of the Islamic State was planning to poison the water supply in a Sardinian town, but was arrested by police before he could carry out the attack. He is said to be of “unknown origin”, but arrived in Italy from Lebanon. Some reports describe him as a Palestinian.

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below is a report about the arrest from ANSA (Hat tip Insubria):

Anti-Terrorism Operation Near Nuoro

ISIS affiliate ‘planned to put rat poison in water supply’

(ANSA) — Rome, November 28 — Police officers belonging to the special NOCS unit staged an operation to stop a suspected Islamist terrorist at Macomer in the Sardinian province of Nuoro on Wednesday, sources said. A 38-year-old ISIS-affiliated jihadi suspected of planning to put rat poison in the water supply was arrested, the sources said.

He was also said to be planning to use chemical weapons.

Police described him as a “lone wolf”.

He was said to be a foreigner of so far unknown origin, who came to Italy from Lebanon, sources said. He had been living at Macomer with a Moroccan woman.

The man was caught while trying to make a getaway aboard a van.

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Egypt: Proposed Law to Muzzle Muslim Scholars and Thinkers

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Ashraf Ramelah sends this report on a bill to further restrict criticism of Islam in Egypt. It appears to be similar to the Austrian law that was recently reaffirmed by the European Court of Human Rights in the “hate speech” case against Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff.

Egypt: Proposed law to muzzle Muslim scholars and thinkers

by Ashraf Ramelah

Egyptian “democracy” is an endless comedy if you’re not suffering at the hands of it. Last month Amr Hamroush, a graduate of Al-Azhar Institute and a member of the Egyptian Parliament as well as secretary of the Committee of Religious Affairs and Endowments introduced a resolution to criminalize the act of “insulting historic figures.” Hamroush’s resolution is written in vague terms and lacks definition for “historic figures and symbols.”

Using the term “mockers” for those who criticize and “insult,” the bill’s author says the issue will not be up for public debate. Such would have a negative and dangerous effect on Egyptians, he adds. The parliamentary bill was under review for the entire month of October and is now up for discussion in the fall session.

Historically, Egypt’s government addressed restrictions on speech just two other times. The more recent was an amendment to the constitution in 1977 called “The Law of Defective Values.” With this, Sadat muzzled opposition voices to his visit to Israel and the subsequent signing of the Camp David peace treaty. Many years earlier when King Farouk came under criticism by Egyptians, he amended the 1923 constitution by adding “The Law of Perfection of the Royal Identity” and included the statement, “The king is the supreme head of the state and above criticism.”

Today’s speech bill is unlike the previous two diktats. It does not aim to restrict outcry against the Egyptian president, political leaders or a specific political issue. Egyptians already know not to cross this line. Neither will it limit expression against Egypt’s ancient heroes, the gods or the glorious past. Certainly, the bill will not guard against disparagement of Christian symbols — Christian leaders, biblical figures or the bible. None of this disturbs the state.

Instead, the proposed bill aims to end public discourse about the religion of Islam — its doctrine, political ideology, scholarship and history. In recent years, various Muslim thinkers focused on the parallel texts of the Quran and brought thought-provoking facts to light challenging official narratives. Ostensibly, scholars set out to produce full proof and secure within the Arab-speaking world (in particular in Egypt) the argument that ISIS terrorism is not based on the fundamental precepts of Islam, the “religion of peace.” However, instead, scholars came to the unwelcome consensus that the origin and source of terrorism is indeed the core doctrine of the religion of Islam — refuting categorically that Islam is a religion of peace.

Their conclusions prompted Al-Sisi to initiate his renowned “renewal of Islamic discourse,” an effort with Al-Azhar Institute to reform interpretation of Islamic doctrine in order to cleanse the hate and violence. Al-Sisi has been so far unsuccessful. While free thinkers and scholars were able to prove their conclusions, Al-Azhar religious scholars were unable to prove the opposite — that Islamic doctrine leads to peaceful co-existence. Furthermore, as a result of their research, many Muslim thinkers determined that Egypt should be a secular state with no state religion. All of this has been a thorn in the side of the Al-Sisi government and its connection to the religious deep state.

Over the past decade, Islam Al-Beheiri, Sayed Al-Qimni, Nawal Al-Saadawi, Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid and other thinkers such as Yossef Zydan were all convicted for the offense of analyzing the life and conduct of Islamic religious icons and figures. Each of them illustrated something other than the official narrative of Al-Azhar Sunni Institute. Every scholar, researcher and broadcaster was shut down, and some were jailed.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/28/2018

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The trafficking of illegal migrants across the Channel into Britain has accelerated as smugglers hurry to beat the implementation of the full Brexit. Most of the latest migrants claim to be Iranians.

In other news, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini announced that the Italian government would not sign the UN migration pact.

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Blundering American Ambassadors Unmask the War on Terror

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David Boyajian’s latest report discusses the less-than-pristine policies of the State Department when it comes to dealing with the Great Jihad in the Middle East.

Blundering American Ambassadors Unmask the War on Terror

by David Boyajian

We know that U.S. ambassadors tend to be bureaucratic and boring.

If you challenge them forcefully, however, the resulting outbursts can provide stunning insights into their ineptitude and State Department policies.

Consider the mind-boggling statements made by then-Ambassador to Armenia Richard M. Mills during the Q & A at Holy Trinity Armenian Church in Cambridge, MA.

I had bluntly questioned Mills about the Turkish government’s support for ISIS and similar jihadist/terrorist organizations.

Though this occurred two years ago (March 3, 2016), his answers remain relevant to America’s so-called “War on Terror” and the ongoing wars in Syria and Iraq.

When posing my question, I said that I would be handing everyone in the audience a study entitled “Research Paper: ISIS-Turkey Links” by Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights.

Dr. David L. Phillips, the director of its Program on Peace-building and Human Rights, oversaw the study. The widely-published Phillips is a foreign affairs adviser for the State Department and the United Nations.

Using dozens of sources, the study definitively established that Turkey was providing weapons, ammunition, financing, transportation, training, and recruits to ISIS in Syria and Iraq and to other terrorist groups such as al-Nusra, an al-Qaeda offshoot.

Incredibly, Mills angrily replied that Turkey had not helped jihadists/terrorists in any way.

The ambassador even claimed that if some jihadists had entered Syria from Turkey they did so only by sneaking past Syrian refugees who were crossing in the opposite direction. To its credit, the polite Armenian American audience refrained from laughing.

Mills’ hyperbolic defense of Turkey was particularly incongruous, as American-Turkish relations were even then headed downhill toward today’s quagmire.

Moreover, the ambassador’s vindication of Turkey went even further than had the Obama administration.

Indeed, in a rare moment of frankness Vice-President Joe Biden himself told a Harvard University audience (Oct. 2, 2014) that “our allies” Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE were “our largest problem in Syria … giving hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons” to jihadist organizations.

These included, said Biden, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, “extremist” jihadis, and ISIL [ISIS].

Though Biden never withdrew his statements, Pres. Obama soon forced him to apologize to Turkey and UAE to spare them and America further embarrassment.

Mills also vehemently denied that Turkey was buying oil from ISIS.

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Viktor Orbán Gives Chuck Norris a Tour of Budapest

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You all know who Chuck Norris is (well, if you don’t, here’s his Wikipedia entry — he’s famous for his martial arts movies, and is also a Deplorable). Mr. Norris recently visited Budapest, and was chauffeured around the city by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán himself. Not surprisingly, Mr. Orbán’s tour of the city included training demonstrations by Hungarian special forces (TEK).

Our Hungarian correspondent László, who sent the tip for the video, remarked: “This footage helps you recover from seeing Macron dancing with black criminals.”

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:

Who Doesn’t Love a Tommy Rant?

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This one is, among other things, a plea for the unaffiliated in Britain to join UKIP.

Tommy calls UKIP a great chance “to form a proper resistance”.

For us Americans, this is somewhat insider baseball, but for our British readers, it sounds like things could turn a corner – an unbloody, legal corner. If his ideas bear fruition, there is hope.

I look to our British readers to give us more information on this in the comments.

[Yeah, I know. Tommy’s language wouldn’t make it if he were a commenter or essayist on Gates of Vienna. But this is a live-streamed video…I’ll take it as is.]

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/27/2018

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The founder of a Muslim television station in New York State has been convicted of beheading his wife in 2009. The defendant and his wife had founded the station to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims.

In other news, a Christian chapel in the Austrian city of Linz will broadcast the Islamic call to prayer during December to show that Islam is a religion of peace.

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Och, the Puir Wee Bairns — I Mean: Ay, las Niñas Pobres!

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I doubt there’s anyone among our readers who hasn’t seen the photo above. It’s the North American equivalent of the Dead Baby photo from the beach in Anatolia that enabled the Great European Migration Crisis of 2015.

As the migrant “caravan” approached the American border at San Ysidro, an uncountably large number of journalists, especially photographers and videographers, embedded themselves among the “refugees”. This was the moment they had all been waiting for — a chance to document the atrocities of the Norteamericanos against the poor innocent migrants who had walked all the way from Honduras (well, they may have ridden buses a li’l bit, here and there) to get to the land of peace and freedom and welfare handouts.

And then those dastardly fascists fired tear gas at the desperate, innocent migrants! Including the women and children!

The photographers watched those women and children closely, because there were so few of them. 95% or more of the members of the caravan were young men of military age. But there were a few women with kids, and when the opportune moment came along — when the tear gas canisters flew into that dry riverbed — a photographer snapped the photo that went around the world fifty times before the truth could put its pants on.

I hope he drove a hard bargain when he peddled it to the media outlets, because it appeared everywhere. A woman and her kids were tear-gassed! Oh, the humanity! We’ll show that again and again and again!

The woman was eventually tracked down and interviewed, but nobody asked her why she took her little girls into a situation that was known to be dangerous. Unless her IQ was under 70, she knew it was not a good place for children. But she took them anyway.

None of the reporters asked her that, because it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that a woman with her babies was fleeing the tear gas launched by those evil Americans — and the magnificent opportunity offered by the photograph of it.

This is the Dead Baby moment of the Great Mexican Border Crisis of 2018. Except that in this case, the babies didn’t get killed; they didn’t even get hurt. That’s why I’m willing to post the photo of them.

A few weeks ago I wrote a post entitled “Och, the Puir Wee Bairns!” about the systematic use of globalist propaganda exploiting conveniently provided images of children. This photo is the San Ysidro version of the same phenomenon, but this time we have to say, “Ay, las Niñas Pobres!”

I predicted there would be a Dead Baby moment on the Mexican border, but I expected it to happen before the midterm elections. I still haven’t figured out why the caravan’s managers waited until now to pull the trigger.

Get Back to Where You Once Belonged!

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The German government has apparently become disenchanted with the two million culture-enrichers it has welcomed into the country since 2015. Now it’s offering to pay them to leave — and support them for a year after they get back home.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation from the German-language service of RT, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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