Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/12/2018

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing serious criticism over the revelation that there was no legal objection to closing the borders during the Great Migration Crisis of 2015. The leader of the FDP party said that the leaked document exposes Mrs. Merkel’s duplicitous behavior.

In other news, Pope Francis said that the greatest dangers confronting the world are climate change and nuclear war.

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Financial Crisis
» Clinton’s Real Legacy: Glass-Steagall and the Banking Collapse
 
USA
» Activists Fly Banner Over Jets Stadium, Urge Team to Support Gun Control
» An Evening With Tucker Carlson: America’s Elites Are on a Ship of Fools (Video)
» California Wildfires Set for $25 Billion in Damages as Death Toll Hits 31; Suspected Looters Arrested
» Facebook Fired Oculus Founder for His Political Beliefs and Pro-Trump Donations
» Fort Lauderdale Airport Shut Down… “Suspicious Package” Turns Out be “Provisional Ballot Box” In Rental Car Trunk
» How Much Did the Partisan Fake News & Tech Giants Aid Democrats in the Midterm Elections?
» Jim Acosta Violated One of the Oldest Rules of Journalism
» Midterm Elections: A Disaster Denied, And What is Coming
» Police: 11-Year-Old Stops Would-be Kidnapper by Using ‘Code Word’
» Pope Francis Reins in U.S. Bishops’ Measures Against Sex Abuse
» Provisional Ballot Boxes Discovered Inside Avis Rental Car at Ft. Lauderdale Airport
» Rick Scott Wants FL Recount Treated Like a Crime Scene… Wants Voting Machines Impounded… Democrats Are Furious
» When Customers Can Skip the Cashier Line, What Happens to the Nation’s 3.6m Cashiers?
» Why Trump is Right on California Wildfires
» Will Trump be the Last Republican President?
 
Canada
» Canada’s Trudeau Hijacks Armistice Centenary to Make Thinly Veiled Attack on Trump
 
Europe and the EU
» “Indications” That Former Justice Minister Influenced Wilders’ Hate Speech Case, Lawyer Says
» A Melancholy Centennial
» Dr. Gorka Sets French President Straight on Calling Nationalism a Bad Thing: “Do Your Homework…” [Video]
» EU Council Prez: ‘Brownshirt’ Populists a ‘Fundamental Threat’ To Europe
» EU President: Trump Not ‘Tuned in’ To ‘Strong, United’ Europe, Claims Nationalism a ‘Fundamental Threat’
» Europe Should Become an “Empire” Says French Finance Minister
» Germany: Key Merkel Ally Horst Seehofer Resigns as Leader of Bavarian Christian Social Union
» One Company Wants to Implant Microchips Into the Hands of “Hundreds of Thousands” of Global Workers
» Peter Jackson’s ‘Mesmerising, Spine-Tingling and Utterly Harrowing’ Remastered WWI Footage Leaves the Nation in Awe of the Director’s Work — and the Heroics of the Men He Featured
» Pope Francis: Chief Threats to World Are ‘Climate Change’ And Nuclear War
» Spain’s Pro-Open Borders Socialist Prime Minister Calls for Second Brexit Referendum
» UK Set to Expand Stop and Search Powers Amidst ‘Disease’ of Knife Violence
» UK: Gas Engineer Suffers Horrific Burns to His Crotch After E-Cigarette Explodes in His Pocket and Douses Him in Flammable Battery Acid
» UK: Khan’s London: Man in Critical Condition After Being Stabbed in Costa Coffee
» UK: May on the Brink: PM 48 Hours From Activating ‘No Deal’ Plan as Boris Slams ‘Total Surrender’ To EU
» With Looming Deadline Italy’s Populists Defy EU, Warn of “Suicide”, “Massacre” For Italy
 
Middle East
» Louis Farrakhan Caught on Video Chanting “Death to America” During His Visit to Iran… Democrat Leaders Silent
» Saudi Journalist Tortured to Death After Online Identity Exposed by Regional Twitter HQ
 
Australia — Pacific
» Calls to Deport Extremists Quicker After Somali-Born Islamic Terrorist Stabbed Three, Killing One, In the Heart of Melbourne
» ‘Out of Line’: Muslim Leaders Demand the Prime Minister Apologise for ‘Irresponsibly’ Blaming Islam for the Melbourne Terrorist Attack
» ‘This is Exactly What the Terrorists Want’: Primary School Cancels Class Trip to Melbourne Over Security Fears After the Bourke Street Attack
 
Latin America
» 100 ISIS Terrorists Caught in Guatemala… How Many in the Caravan?
 
Immigration
» Bulgaria is Latest Nation to Withdraw From UN Migration Pact Following U.S., Hungary
» Germany: Angela Merkel Faces Major Criticism Over Leaked Secret Migration Papers
» More Than 250 Migrants Rescued Off Spain’s Southern Coast This Weekend
» Row After Malta Accused of ‘Dumping’ Illegal Immigrants on Populist Italy
» Vatican Official: Migrants Can Teach Western Women How to ‘Be Feminine Mothers’
 
Culture Wars
» Campus Anti-Semitism Teaches Unbridled Hate for Israel
» Madness on the Campus
» The State Weaponizes Education to Create Ignorance
 
General
» UN Demands Ban on Trump-Style “Nationalist Populism”
 

Clinton’s Real Legacy: Glass-Steagall and the Banking Collapse

Back in 1998, during the twilight years of the Clinton Administration, Pam Martens, a former Wall Street employee turned activist warned America about the growing corruption in finance and government. It was too late however, as Bill Clinton was already locked on course to gave Wall Street a parting gift that would eventually ruin the lives of millions of working Americans, as well as Greeks, Icelanders and so many others globally.

Wall Street On Parade writes:

“In this video she testifies before the Federal Reserve on June 26, 1998 as to why it would deliver a devastating blow to the U.S. financial system to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act. Seated to her left in this video is Galen Sherwin, then President of the NYC-National Organization for Women, who testified against Wall Street’s private justice system which, then and now, prevents both customer and employee claims from being heard in the Nation’s court system, delivering further impunity to Wall Street’s crimes.” Watch:

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Activists Fly Banner Over Jets Stadium, Urge Team to Support Gun Control

Hours before the New York Jets played the Bills on Sunday, a group of activists flew a banner over the team’s stadium urging them to support gun control.

The impetus was the Jets recent agreement making MGM Resorts International an official partner of the Jets.

[Comment: Very likely funded by Emperor Palpatine.]

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An Evening With Tucker Carlson: America’s Elites Are on a Ship of Fools (Video)

This event was held October 16, 2018 and hosted by the Independent Institute. Tucker Carlson discusses America’s elites, a group whose power and wealth from government privilege have grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has floundered.

The people who run America now barely interact with it, and in his #1 New York Times, best-selling book, Ship of Fools, Carlson offers a blistering critique of our new overlords. Traditional liberals who worried about whales and defended free speech have been replaced by authoritarians who hide their hard-edged agenda behind identity politics. They’ll fleece you while lecturing you about bathrooms, plastic straws, and safe spaces.

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California Wildfires Set for $25 Billion in Damages as Death Toll Hits 31; Suspected Looters Arrested

Update: PG&E and Edison International stock prices are crashing as analysts warn that the potential wildfire costs could soar…

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Facebook Fired Oculus Founder for His Political Beliefs and Pro-Trump Donations

Every so often, Silicon Valley’s virtue-signaling, shadowbanning, anti-conservative media titans appear in Congress or devise a quick PR campaign to show to the world just how truly impartial they are with zero liberal bias. And every single time it backfires as their true ideological face quickly emerges from behind a fake, hypocritical mask.

Take the case of former Facebook executive, Oculus co-founder and virtual-reality wunderkind Palmer Luckey, who was a rising star of Silicon Valley when, at the height of the 2016 presidential contest, he donated a modest $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Clinton group. His donation sparked a backlash from his colleagues, which then led to him being put on leave, and six months later he was fired.

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Fort Lauderdale Airport Shut Down… “Suspicious Package” Turns Out be “Provisional Ballot Box” In Rental Car Trunk

The Florida midterm just took another crazy turn with the discovery at the Fort Lauderdale Int’l Airport of a box in the trunk of a rental car. This wasn’t just any box…

The AVIS Rental Car employee who found the box contacted FDLE. It turns out that the SOE (Supervisor of Elections) box found in the trunk was labeled “PROVISIONAL”, according to Laura Loomer who just tweeted out an exclusive photo:

The last person to drive the car was a Broward County SOE employee named Noah Holliman (photo below).

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How Much Did the Partisan Fake News & Tech Giants Aid Democrats in the Midterm Elections?

What impact did the anti-Trump, anti-GOP bias of the Fake News media complex, together with the leftward tilt of the Google-Facebook-Twitter complex, and deep-pocket Democrat donors have on the recent midterm elections? It’s difficult to say with any precision at this point, since data regarding many aspects of these factors is not yet available.

But what is evident thus far is that Big Media, Big Tech, and Big Money dramatically aided the Democrats — and the more liberal-left Democrats, at that — in many races. Despite these huge advantages in the form of support from the “mainstream” media and the social media titans, along with an historic fundraising frenzy that saw Democrats greatly outspending Republicans, the party of Obama-Clinton-Pelosi-Schumer failed to pull off the “progressive” Blue Wave that many so-called experts predicted.

Yes, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters & Co. are going to be back in control of the House of Representatives come January, which is, undoubtedly, a frightening thought to millions of Americans. The Democrats picked up at least 26 House seats, and that could grow to 28 or 30 by the time recounts are finalized. However, considering historical precedents and the predictions of even bigger GOP House losses than actually occurred, President Trump was not out of line in declaring the results a victory. It is more usual than not for the party in control of the White House to lose seats in the House and/or Senate in the midterm elections. In the 1994 midterms, Bill Clinton lost 52 House seats and Barack Obama lost 63 in the 2010 midterms.

Considering the relentless demonization of Trump and the GOP by Big Media and Big Social Media, and seen in historical context, Trump’s House losses are relatively modest. According to a tabulation of evening newscasts of the three major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) during the eight-week pre-election period of September 1 through October 26, media coverage was overwhelmingly anti-Trump and anti-Republican.

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Jim Acosta Violated One of the Oldest Rules of Journalism

The conduct of a handful of so-called reporters during President Trump’s news conference was disgraceful beyond measure. This is not journalism, this is narcissism…

There was a time not long ago when young journalists were taught not to become the story. Apparently, many news organizations have flipped that lesson on its head.

But we are witnessing something more insidious here than media trash talk. Plain and simple, we are watching expressions of personal hatred.

Yes, it’s true that most journalists lean far left and their bias sticks out like so many sore thumbs. That’s been true for a long time, but political bias is an insufficient explanation for the Jim Acostas of our time.

They hate Trump. They really, really hate him. There’s nothing professional about it.

They are not alone. Take a poll of almost any major newsroom in America and the vast majority of those working there, if they are being honest, will confess that they too can’t stand the existence or the sound of Trump.

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Midterm Elections: A Disaster Denied, And What is Coming

When Donald Trump was elected President, a “hiatus” was granted from the nonstop march toward socialism/communism that reached a zenith as never before. Now that hiatus is shrinking, as the Communists and Marxists begin new offensives under their playbook “Rules for Radicals,” offensives targeting every area of the society.

Their plan should be obvious: to keep the President “backpedaling” and the economy faltering, in order to set the stage for the 2020 election. All of this I have written about before, and it came to pass with the Midterm elections. If they keep the President on the defense and keep pushing the “social issues,” it will render his administration ineffective…not delivering the change back toward the right that the voters wanted to see in 2016.

The Wall Street Journal published a piece on November 9 entitled “Democrats plan to pursue most aggressive gun-control legislation in decades.” They have been receiving plenty of help on this one, with the Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, and the recent murders by a former Marine last week. Here they come again! All of the legislators…with armed protectors paid for by you, mind you…clamoring for the guns. Here’s a piece of it for you:…

Ocasio-Cortez just entered the House of Representatives at the “sage/sagacious” age of 29, and she is a self-described “democratic socialist” who favors single-payer healthcare, gun control, abolishing border controls, and declared that she would support the impeachment of the President. She was also part of Bernie Sanders’ campaign movement in 2016.

Lenin espoused some “gems” that should be considered. Here is one that falls in line with the “newly discovered wonderful possibility of socialism” the Zero-generation and twenty-somethings have fallen in love with hook, line, and sinker:

“The goal of socialism is communism.”

New York just placed a “democratic socialist” in the White House…a declared socialist, among all of the hidden Marxists camouflaged under the “progressive” or “democratic” monikers.

Gun control, coming at us once again, and once more, a quote from Lenin for you:…

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Police: 11-Year-Old Stops Would-be Kidnapper by Using ‘Code Word’

An 11-year-old girl from Arizona stopped a would-be kidnapper in his tracks Wednesday after she demanded he give her a “code word,” police said.

The girl had been walking with her friend near a park 45 miles east of Phoenix on Wednesday afternoon when a man pulled up next to them in a white SUV, demanding she get in the car, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Thursday.

Police said the man claimed the girl’s brothers got into a serious accident, telling her she needed to come with him. The 11-year-old then asked the stranger for a “code word.” The man did not know the answer and responded by fleeing the scene.

“We came up with a code word, and this one time, it saved my daughter’s life,” the girl’s mother, Brenda James, told KSAZ. “She told me that a guy tried to take her.”

“I never thought it would be used, but I’m proud of her for remembering that and knowing to use that,” she added.

[Comment: Codeword — an excellent idea.]

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Pope Francis Reins in U.S. Bishops’ Measures Against Sex Abuse

Pope Francis has temporarily suspended efforts by the United States bishops to address the issue of clerical sex abuse, ordering them to wait until he can meet with them in February together with the presidents of other national bishops’ conferences from around the world.

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Provisional Ballot Boxes Discovered Inside Avis Rental Car at Ft. Lauderdale Airport

Provisional ballot boxes from the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office were reportedly discovered in the back of an AVIS rental car at Fort Lauderdale Airport on Sunday night, as first reported by investigative journalist Laura Loomer.

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Rick Scott Wants FL Recount Treated Like a Crime Scene… Wants Voting Machines Impounded… Democrats Are Furious

Americans have been watching example after example of suspicious and likely criminal behavior taking place in Broward County, including a former election worker who, in a sworn affidavit revealed that she was fired after reporting that she observed four election workers filling out stacks of blank ballots in a locked, secured room in the Broward Co. Supervisors office in October 2016. Numerous photos and videos have also revealed irregularities in the handling of votes, as well as suspicious ballot transport activity. After watching the shenanigans taking place in Florida, why would any American trust the outcome of the election results in Broward and Palm Beach counties?

Elections need to be free and fair and without the appearance of cheating to win, otherwise, Americans will no longer have faith in our ability to have democratically elected lawmakers and officials. Elected officials who sit in some of the highest seats in our nation, should never be chosen simply because one Party is more capable of organizing dirty, behind the scenes shenanigans than the other.

Governor Rick Scott is attempting to put an end to Americans worst fears of organized voter fraud that affects the outcome of our elections, by demanding that the election recount in Florida is handled like a crime scene…

Politico is reporting that Gov. Rick Scott wants recount efforts in Palm Beach and Broward counties handled like a crime scene, arguing in court filings on Sunday that past election mishaps in those counties warrant the involvement of law enforcement.

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When Customers Can Skip the Cashier Line, What Happens to the Nation’s 3.6m Cashiers?

The new wireless checkout that Walmart, Target, and other retailers are rolling out for the holiday season may lower stress for shoppers — but tension may be building among the roughly 3.6 million people nationwide who work as cashiers.

It’s another nail in the occupational coffin. Amazon opened its first store with checkout-free shopping and automatic billing almost two years ago, and self-checkout at Walmart, Target, grocery stores, fast food restaurants, and some department stores is further reducing the need for people manning registers.

Technology continues to race ahead. The question is whether artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, and other developments will cut job opportunities for people who may have few alternatives.

Cashier jobs are hardly the only ones eyed for replacement. Short squat robots in Washington, D.C. roam the city, delivering take-out food to customers. Self-driving cars could eventually replace cab drivers and people moonlighting for Uber or Lyft.

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Why Trump is Right on California Wildfires

How “green policies” are burning the Golden State to a crisp

As huge wildfires continued to devour forests, homes, and businesses across California over the weekend, President Trump lashed out at the destructive, deadly policies long pushed by environmentalists that set the stage for the Golden State’s now-routine fiery catastrophes.

“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” President Trump tweeted Nov. 10 at 3:08 a.m. “Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!”

On Nov. 11 at 4:40 a.m. he followed up with: “With proper Forest Management, we can stop the devastation constantly going on in California. Get Smart!”

In-between the two tweets, Trump used Twitter to urge people in the affected areas to “evacuate quickly,” praised the “[m]ore than 4,000” who are fighting the Camp and Woolsey Fires in California, and to express sympathy for the fire victims.

Idiot celebrities and clueless politicians weighed in across the fruited plain, eager to attack Trump…

But as usual Trump is right —at least in a big-picture way— and his critics are wrong…

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Will Trump be the Last Republican President?

Trump is a one-off, an exception. Unlike Obama, Trump is the one we have been waiting for, after a string of wet noodles named Bush, Romney, McCain, and Ryan to name a few. But the Republican bench is thin. Who is the heir apparent? I don’t see anyone with the charisma, fire in the belly, energy, and commitment to conservative principles and values.

There is no one out there who can connect with the people as Trump does. If any of the other 17 were to win the presidency, they would be overwhelmed by the media onslaught and siren song of the establishment and globalists, pushing for Chamber of Commerce objectives of lousy trade deals, open borders, and moderate judicial picks.

It’s the demeanor to not only get elected, but also to govern like a boss. That’s the rare combination in Donald Trump and no one else…

Hugh Hewitt wrote a book whose title says it all, “If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat: Crushing the Democrats in Every Election and Why Your Life Depends on It.” Look at Arizona, a Senate race won by a Republican, now through the miracle of “finding” votes after the fact, is all but certain to be flipped to the Democrat.

Florida, with close results for Senate and Governor on election night, the losers having already conceded, is in the process of being hijacked by the Democrats. The Florida agricultural commissioner race has already been stolen and flipped to the Democrat. The Senate and Governor races are heading in the same direction. Unless the GOP fights back hard, these two races will also be stolen.

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Canada’s Trudeau Hijacks Armistice Centenary to Make Thinly Veiled Attack on Trump

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the Great War Armistice centenary Sunday to lash out at populism and nations that do not conform to narrow ideas of globalism, making a series of apparently thinly veiled attacks on U.S. President Donald Trump…

“Attacks on the media are not just about getting your preferred political candidate elected, for example, they are about increasing the level of cynicism that citizens have toward all authorities, towards all of the institutions that are there to protect us as citizens.”

He added: “When people feel their institutions can’t protect them, they look for easy answers in populism, in nationalism, in closing borders, in shutting down trade, in xenophobia,” reports Canadian broadsheet the Toronto Star.

[Comment: Another globalist puppet, like Macron, vomiting against “nationalism”. Basically saying, public should believe their dear leaders and all mainstream media propaganda like good cattle class.]

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“Indications” That Former Justice Minister Influenced Wilders’ Hate Speech Case, Lawyer Says

There are “indications” that former Minister Ivo Opstelten of Justice and Security urged the Public Prosecution Service in 2014 to prosecute PVV leader Geert Wilders for hate speech over statements he made about Moroccans, Wilders’ lawyer Geert-Jan Knoops said. He asked the court for “further investigation” into the question of whether the Minister influenced this case, Knoops said to RTL Nieuws.

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A Melancholy Centennial

by Srdja Trifkovic

After four years and three months of unprecedented carnage, the Great War—the most catastrophic event in all of history—ended one hundred years ago, on November 11, 1918. That war destroyed an effervescent civilization, unmatched in its fruits and vigor. A decent and on the whole well-ordered world was wrecked for ever, thrown into the abyss in which we live now.

“The summer was more wonderful than ever and promised to become even more so, and we all looked out on the world without any cares,” Stefan Zweig wrote long after it was all over. “That last day in Baden I remember walking over the vine-clad hills with a friend and an old vine-grower saying to us: ‘We haven’t had a summer like this for a long time. If this weather continues this year’s wine is going to be beyond compare. People will always remember the summer of 1914.’“

We will always remember that summer indeed, and not for the exquisite Spätburgunder. The final verses of Philip Larkin’s MCMXIV summed it up:…

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Dr. Gorka Sets French President Straight on Calling Nationalism a Bad Thing: “Do Your Homework…” [Video]

Dr. Sebastian Gorka is spot on with his response (see video below) to the French President’s remark that “nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism” (see below). Gorka asks how nationalism is a bad thing and tells Macron to do his “homework”. We agree! Being proud of your nation is what we need more of but then the globalists don’t think it’s a good idea and are fearful of Trump messing up their agenda. Macron should have gotten the message by now that President Trump is nothing like globalist Obama and won’t be pushed around.

Without love of country, what type of military would you have? The US saved France from the Germans and they do this to us on a day of remembrance? It’s no wonder Macron’s approval rating is so low.

French President Macron disrespected our president during his trip to France by saying “nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism”:

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EU Council Prez: ‘Brownshirt’ Populists a ‘Fundamental Threat’ To Europe

Populist sentiment poses a “fundamental threat” to the EU, European Council president Donald Tusk has said, proclaiming next year’s elections a battle between pro-sovereignty “brownshirts” and plans for a globalist superstate ruled from Brussels.

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EU President: Trump Not ‘Tuned in’ To ‘Strong, United’ Europe, Claims Nationalism a ‘Fundamental Threat’

European Council President Donald Tusk has said that the United States is not interested in a “strong, united” Europe and called nationalism a “fundamental threat” to the European Union.

The former Prime Minister of Poland turned top Eurocrat made the comments at a speech in his home country on Saturday, the day before Poland celebrated the 100th anniversary of its rebirth as an independent state, with Poles taking part in a march through Warsaw on Sunday condemned by the mainstream media as “far-right” nationalism…

Tusk’s notion that his vision of Poland may be different to that of the President of the United States does appear to be shared by the current Polish administration, after the country’s ambassador to the U.S. and the U.S. ambassador to Poland penned a joint article hailing the strong ties between the two countries that have been developed under President Trump, writing that “the bond between the United States and Poland is stronger than ever.”

Tusk also criticised the rise of “nationalism,” calling it a “fundamental threat” to the EU and saying it is “illustrated most clearly by Brexit.”

[Comment: Another globalist puppet who is a traitor to his own nation (ie not the EU — that i not a nation).]

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Europe Should Become an “Empire” Says French Finance Minister

To compete with United States and China

France’s finance minister has called on Europe to become an “empire” so that it can better compete with the United States and China.

Asserting that “it takes courage to stand in the way of the government” of Donald Trump, Bruno Le Maire told Handelsblatt newspaper that, “Europe should no longer be afraid of using its power and [become] an empire of peace.”

“I’m talking about a peaceful empire which is a constitutional state,” he added…

In an interview published last month, the country’s former Interior Minister warned that mass immigration could bring societal breakdown within five years.

“Communities in France are engaging in conflict with one another more and more and it’s becoming very violent,” said Gérard Collomb, agreeing with the interviewer that some form of societal breakdown like partition or secession was a major concern.

“How much time do we have before it’s too late?” the interviewer asked Collomb, to which he replied, “I don’t want to create fear, but I think there’s very little time left….It’s difficult to estimate, but I would say that within five years the situation could become irreversible. Yes, we have five, six years to avoid the worst.”

[Comment: Peaceful, yeah right — more likely a tyrannical EU politburo running things…this is why mass migration is being implemented. Destabilization of nation states prior to implementation of a tyrannical government — in essence it would be a new USSR — the EUSSR. Remember, problem, reaction, solution. Globalist elites create the problem — mass migration. Destabilization is the reaction. And surprise, surprise the “solution” is more centralization and power in their hands.]

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Germany: Key Merkel Ally Horst Seehofer Resigns as Leader of Bavarian Christian Social Union

Horst Seehofer, a key ally of the Chancellor, has announced his resignation as leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), following Angela Merkel stepping down as leader of allied party the Christian Democratic Union.

Mr Seehofer, who formerly served as Prime Minister of Bavaria, made his announcement Monday saying that he would resign as leader of the CSU but would continue his role as Federal Interior Minister, Die Welt reports.

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One Company Wants to Implant Microchips Into the Hands of “Hundreds of Thousands” of Global Workers

It is really happening. At one time, the idea that large numbers of people would willingly allow themselves to have microchips implanted into their hands seemed a bit crazy, but now it has become a reality. Thousands of tech enthusiasts all across Europe have already had microchips implanted, and now a Swedish company is working with very large global employers to implement this on the corporate level. In fact, Biohax recently told one of the biggest newspapers in the UK that they have been talking with a “major financial services firm” that has “hundreds of thousands of employees”…

Biohax, a Swedish company that provides human chip implants, told the Telegraph it was in talks with a number of UK legal and financial firms to implant staff with the devices.

One prospective client, which cannot be named, is a major financial services firm with “hundreds of thousands of employees.”

For security-obsessed corporations, this sort of technology can appear to have a lot of upside. If all of your employees are chipped, you will always know where they are, and you will always know who has access to sensitive areas or sensitive information.

According to a top official from Biohax, the procedure to implant a chip takes “about two seconds”, and it is usually implanted in the hand…

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Peter Jackson’s ‘Mesmerising, Spine-Tingling and Utterly Harrowing’ Remastered WWI Footage Leaves the Nation in Awe of the Director’s Work — and the Heroics of the Men He Featured

Viewers have hailed Peter Jackson’s ‘mesmerising’ new film that uses remastered WWI footage to paint the brutal reality of the Great War.

They Shall Not Grow Old aired on BBC2 to mark Remembrance Day yesterday and was created using the Imperial War Museum’s archives of silent black-and-white war footage.

The images have been colourised, retouched and stabilised before being dubbed with a soundtrack of banter, explosions and screams from the men who fought for Britain between 1914 and 1918.

Over the top runs a commentary made up of more than 120 war veterans as they reflected on the conflict in recordings captured in the 1960s and 1970s.

The film has proven to be a hit with audiences who hailed the director for showing a whole new generation of Brits the true horrors of the First World War.

Taking the Lord Of The Rings director more than four years to complete, Jackson edited hundreds of videos to produce the final piece, which masterfully melts black and white scenes into brightly coloured video.

Computers were used, not only to add colour to black and white footage, but to remove imperfections, fill splices and reconstruct missing frames from film that was shot with far fewer frames per second than today.

Jackson’s painstaking efforts humanise the story of the Great War in a way that can scarcely be done now that no veterans remain alive.

Emotional viewers, many of whom had grandparents and other relatives who died in the conflict, even called on Jackson to be knighted for his work on the film — despite the fact he already has one — receiving one in 2010.

[Comment: Elite family feud that triggered WWWI was used to decimate the young patriot population of nations involved in the war. Note how each sides upper military used the “tactic” of walking in hail of gunfire to take the next trench. Lions led by donkeys. Such tactics are not insane but positively malevolent. From the point of view of the elites, it was a great success as millions of patriotic young men were killed (those patriots would have objected quite vociferously at putting their nations in subservience to a such a thing as the UN). And the elites wet dream of a fledgling UN was born — — the League of Nations… ]

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Pope Francis: Chief Threats to World Are ‘Climate Change’ And Nuclear War

Pope Francis highlighted on Monday what he considers two main threats to humanity, namely the “immense crisis” of global warming and the possibility of nuclear war.

In his address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the pope urged his listeners to do all they can to assist humanity in facing the most pressing threats facing the planet, noting that in the first place these are “the immense and ongoing crisis of climate change and the nuclear menace.”

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Spain’s Pro-Open Borders Socialist Prime Minister Calls for Second Brexit Referendum

Spain’s pro-open borders socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, has called on the British government to call for another Brexit referendum so their country can “come back to the EU”.

The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) leader made his remarks in an interview with POLITICO, saying: “If I was Theresa May, I would call a second referendum — no doubt.”

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UK Set to Expand Stop and Search Powers Amidst ‘Disease’ of Knife Violence

Prominent Labour MPs have spoken out against reports that Britain will expand the use of stop and search amidst rising knife violence, blasting the police tactic as “racist”.

Officials from the Home Office have reportedly been in talks with officers over the past two weeks to discuss police chiefs’ proposals to drop the requirement that “reasonable grounds” are needed before a suspect can be subjected to a search.

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UK: Gas Engineer Suffers Horrific Burns to His Crotch After E-Cigarette Explodes in His Pocket and Douses Him in Flammable Battery Acid

A man suffered horrific burns to his crotch after his e-cigarette exploded in his pocket.

Darren Wilson, 37, from Liverpool, needed skin grafts from his backside to repair his scrotum and left leg.

Mr Wilson’s excruciating burns were made even worse by the battery acid that was flung on to his burns by the surprise explosion…

The father-of-three has been in hospital since Friday and faces another two weeks.

The device was not plugged in and was not being used when it malfunctioned.

Darren explained how he is in extreme pain and needs morphine just to go to the toilet or wash.

He said: ‘I was wearing my work pants and tried to get it out, but it burnt through and burnt all my b******s and my left leg.’

Explaining the moment the device exploded, he said: ‘I have been refurbishing my house. I was stood by the kitchen door and next thing I thought someone had thrown a firework into the doorway…

‘I looked down and my pocket was going off like a banger; it was fizzing and sparking and all smoke was coming from it.’

The gas fitting firm owner also explained that his burns needs to be re-dressed by doctors every eight hours.

Darren’s friends who were helping re-decorate his house rushed to his aide when they saw him screaming in pain with smoke billowing from his trousers.

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UK: Khan’s London: Man in Critical Condition After Being Stabbed in Costa Coffee

A young man is in “critical” condition after being stabbed in a north London Costa Coffee in broad daylight.

Emergency services were called to the coffee shop on Bowes Road, North London, shortly after 11:30 am on Monday to find a man in his 20s had been stabbed on the premises, reports the BBC.

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UK: May on the Brink: PM 48 Hours From Activating ‘No Deal’ Plan as Boris Slams ‘Total Surrender’ To EU

Theresa May’s premiership is skirting disaster, with Brexiteers accusing her of embarking on a strategy of “total surrender” in the face of a 48-hour deadline to either secure a deal with Brussels or activate ‘No Deal’ preparations.

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With Looming Deadline Italy’s Populists Defy EU, Warn of “Suicide”, “Massacre” For Italy

After the latest GDP data showed that Italy’s economy didn’t grow at all during the third quarter amid a spreading European slump that’s likely inspiring panic in Brussels, the country’s emboldened populist leaders are refusing to surrender in what has become a political game of chicken with the EU over a proposal that calls for an expansion of Italy’s budget deficit to 2.4% to fund pension benefits, welfare programs and tax cuts.

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Louis Farrakhan Caught on Video Chanting “Death to America” During His Visit to Iran… Democrat Leaders Silent

Nation of Islam leader and prominent antisemite Louis Farrakhan led chants of “Death to America” and claimed that “America has never been a democracy” on Sunday during a solidarity trip to Iran, ahead of the re-implementation of US sanctions on the country this week.

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Saudi Journalist Tortured to Death After Online Identity Exposed by Regional Twitter HQ

Another Saudi journalist was reported tortured and killed at the hands of Saudi authorities last week, but this time the Saudis may have actually had assistance from Twitter in uncovering the identity behind a controversial account which led to the detention of the journalist.

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Calls to Deport Extremists Quicker After Somali-Born Islamic Terrorist Stabbed Three, Killing One, In the Heart of Melbourne

Peter Dutton said he is open to suggestions to improve the response to terror after Hassan Khalif Shire Ali crashed his car and stabbed three people — killing one — in Melbourne on Friday.

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‘Out of Line’: Muslim Leaders Demand the Prime Minister Apologise for ‘Irresponsibly’ Blaming Islam for the Melbourne Terrorist Attack

Kuranda Seyit, from the Forum on Australia’s Islamic Relations, said Prime Minister Scott Morrison was trying to wedge Muslims and non-Muslims following the Melbourne terror attack.

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‘This is Exactly What the Terrorists Want’: Primary School Cancels Class Trip to Melbourne Over Security Fears After the Bourke Street Attack

A primary school has posted a message to social media saying they have cancelled a class trip to Melbourne over security fears after the Bourke Street attack.

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100 ISIS Terrorists Caught in Guatemala… How Many in the Caravan?

Judicial Watch reports that 100 ISIS terrorists were caught in Guatemala. This raises the big question of whether there are more traveling from Central America to our southern border:

In a startling revelation, Guatemala’s president announced in the country’s largest newspaper that nearly 100 ISIS terrorists have been apprehended in the impoverished Central American nation. Why should Americans care about this? A caravan of Central American migrants is making its way north. Let’s not forget that Guatemala is one of the countries that bombarded the U.S. with illegal immigrant minors under Barack Obama’s open border free-for-all. They came in droves from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala through the Mexican border and for years Uncle Sam rolled out the welcome mat offering housing, food, medical treatment and a free education.

What most Americans don’t realize is that Central America is the portal for migrants from Africa and Asia. These migrants have one goal…get to the US for the generous freebies we give to just about everyone crossing our southern border illegally. This is also a great way for terrorists to enter. Fake passports are easy to obtain in Guatemala so the illegals from everywhere go there and then work their way north.

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Bulgaria is Latest Nation to Withdraw From UN Migration Pact Following U.S., Hungary

Eastern European Union member state Bulgaria has become the latest nation to either signal or confirm that it would be withdrawing from the United Nations (UN) Migration Compact, following a growing exodus from the plan led by the United States.

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Germany: Angela Merkel Faces Major Criticism Over Leaked Secret Migration Papers

Ms Merkel is under pressure over the leaked government document which revealed that there were no legal objections to closing Germany’s border in 2015.

FDP party leader Christian Lindner rounded on the German Chancellor, saying the secret document has “shed a glaring light” on Ms Merkel’s migration policies.

Mr Lindner said: “The revelations shed a glaring light on the government practice of Mrs Merkel.

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More Than 250 Migrants Rescued Off Spain’s Southern Coast This Weekend

Spain’s maritime rescue services and the Civil Guard rescued 258 people from the coast of Andalusia, in the south of the country, this weekend. The rescued migrants were taken to different cities in the southern region: 139 were transferred to the ports of Malaga, 41 and Almeria and 15 to Vélez-Malaga.

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Row After Malta Accused of ‘Dumping’ Illegal Immigrants on Populist Italy

Malta has ordered Italy to give priority to “life at sea” rather than border control after Matteo Salvini accused Valletta of aiding illegal immigration.

The Italian interior minister and deputy prime minister had denounced a “hostile act” from fellow EU member Malta after migrants who landed on Lampedusa Friday claimed they were helped to reach Italy by Maltese authorities.

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Vatican Official: Migrants Can Teach Western Women How to ‘Be Feminine Mothers’

Migrant mothers can teach Western women “to be both a feminine woman and to be mothers,” because of their unique experience of motherhood, a Vatican official said this weekend.

Gabriella Gambino, one of the highest-ranking women in the Vatican Curia, said that mothers in Western countries often have difficulty being both “woman and mother,” while migrant mothers more easily integrate these different dimensions.

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Campus Anti-Semitism Teaches Unbridled Hate for Israel

Have many of our universities become hotbeds of Anti-Semitism by backing academic boycotts of Israel and siding with the Palestinians?

Abundant evidence shows they have!

In a development directly related to boycotts, anti-Semitic incidents on U.S. college campuses continued to grow in 2018, with at least 384 recorded incidents in the first half of this year, according to a new report that also shows the number of genocidal expressions towards Jews hit new highs on campuses.

The campaign for an academic boycott of Israel was launched in 2004 by a group of Palestinian academics that formed the Palestinian campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) as part of the larger Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.

The campaign calls for international pressure on Israel, in this case against Israeli academic institutions, all of which are said by PACBI to be implicated in the perpetuation of Israeli occupation, to achieve BDS goals.

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Madness on the Campus

We all know good and evil, right and wrong. Yet, so few today seem willing to make even the smallest sacrifice to stand for good and what is right.

UC Berkeley Student Senator Isabella Chow did, and is paying dearly for it.

I first read of Isabella Chow’s “crime” at Campus Reform, which wrote about her daring to abstain from voting on a symbolic bill that she said would compromise her Christian values. And now more than 1,000 hysterical UC Berkeley students have signed a petition demanding that she resign.

Isabella’s Crime

The UC Berkeley Queer Alliance Resource Center asked the student Senate to pass a bill condemning the Trump administration for considering publishing guidance on a legal definition of gender that would require it to match a person’s sex at birth.

Think about that—requiring a legal definition of gender that would require it to match a person’s sex at birth has campus snowflakes and the politically correct speech police in a lather. Yet when a baby is born, the doctor declares, “It’s a boy,” or “It’s a girl,” not “it’s a Pansexual, 2/Two-Spirit, Gender Variant.”

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The State Weaponizes Education to Create Ignorance

A hundred fifty years ago, at least some Americans recognized that all serious discourse depended on the use of the faculty called Reason.

Formal debate, science, and law all flowed from that source.

A common bond existed in some schools of the day. The student was expected to learn how Reason operates, and for that he was taught the only subject which could lay out, as on a long table, the visible principles: Logic.

This was accepted.

But now, this bond is gone.

The independence engendered by the disciplined study of logic is no longer a desired quality in students.

The classroom, at best, has taken on the appearance of a fact-memorization factory; and we should express grave doubts about the relevance and truth of many of those facts.

A society filled with people who float in the drift of non-logic is a society that declines.

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UN Demands Ban on Trump-Style “Nationalist Populism”

BRINDISI, Italy — The United Nations is seriously stepping up its campaign to undermine free speech, online freedom, and a surge in opposition to globalism worldwide. Pointing to what it calls “international law” against racism and “intolerance,” the UN is demanding a global crackdown on fundamental human rights as well as what is described as “nationalist populism.” In particular, the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment must go. As part of the attack, political and economic ideas the UN hates — populism, concern about corrupt elites, nationalism, individual liberty, borders, and more — are also now officially in the UN’s crosshairs. Basically, opposition to globalism and open borders is now racism that must be crushed by government, according to the arguments made in a new UN report to the UN General Assembly and the UN “Human Rights Council.” Christians and conservatives have a giant UN bullseye painted on their back.

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14 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/12/2018

  1. “According to a top official from Biohax, the procedure to implant a chip takes “about two seconds”, and it is usually implanted in the hand…”

    With the latest advances in AI and bitcoin and computer miniaturisation, it seems like we are quickly heading for this:

    “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

  2. Tell the satanist Poop: 1) Better a nuclear war than the current unbearable situation In Europe.
    And as far as “climate change” is concerned: 2) Nobody with the sound mind believes in fairy tales.
    What a pity I cannot curse in English!

    • If he were better informed, the Pope (along with the environmental lobby) would be aware that the most immediate non-human threats to our survival, especially in the more technologically advanced nations, are an EMP from the Sun (around ten years overdue) or the eruption of the supervolcano under Yellowstone Park (several thousand years).

      • Make no mistake. The Vatican keep their popes well informed, very well informed.
        The Pope is likely the best informed person on the planet.
        But… he’s a marxist, nuff said.

  3. I would not let this news out of the most important: GREECE has been totally sold out, now it is turn to dismount also the soul of that country. So the government is simply declaring it has no more a main religion, because now they have multiculturalism and paganism. This is the end of the financial institutions plot to destroy a country, their citizens and also damn their souls.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46122997
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/09/greek-abolish-church-state-religion/

  4. “Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the Great War Armistice centenary Sunday to lash out at populism and nations that do not conform to narrow ideas of globalism, making a series of apparently thinly veiled attacks on U.S. President Donald Trump…

    “Attacks on the media are not just about getting your preferred political candidate elected, for example, they are about increasing the level of cynicism that citizens have toward all authorities, towards all of the institutions that are there to protect us as citizens.”

    He added: “When people feel their institutions can’t protect them, they look for easy answers in populism, in nationalism, in closing borders, in shutting down trade, in xenophobia,” reports Canadian broadsheet the Toronto Star.”

    These quotes leaves me at loss for words. It is utter madness. Yes, no doubt the American Revolution was the easy answer, and the courageous few who rejected the easy answer moved to Canada. #Things that make you grateful for Trump.

  5. The emperor pope holds everyone on earth’s real birth certificate. The courts deal with the dead, thus the person is a legal fiction or artificial person as defined in law by bouviers dictionary. This is a satanic system and biblically would be described as the beast system.

    Jesus said you must be born again.as he knew we were born DEAD in our transgressions and sins. He actually said let the dead bury the dead. This is why satan and his minions deal legally with dead souls known as corporations. Judge Anna von Retz blows the lid off the whole wicked scheme at her website. Read her letter to Pope Francis, exposing the Vatican and its wickedness.

  6. Merkel is a traitor to her own people and country, she should end up on trial for treason, not making useless speeches. Where is German law and order? I guess disappear with all Merkel mess, she did a very good job, she turned this beautiful country to a [dark]hole…

  7. What does this Vatican official mean by calling migrant mothers’ experience of motherhood more unique than for example, mine? Personally, I don’t think that I have anything to learn about “how to be a true woman” from cultures which, like in Afghanistan, forbid women to leave the house without their husband’s consent. In other words: What has become of the Catholic Church? What are they thinking? Are they thinking at all?

    • One Russian conspiracy theorist wrote about Macron, even when he was not given much political significance. He said he would be president. He also connected this with the name Emmanuel.
      He is a strange conspiracy theorist. Once he even starred in a cameo in the film Wachowski.

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