Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/30/2018

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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Financial Crisis
» 3 Things That Happened Just Before the Crisis of 2008 That Are Happening Again Right Now
» Don’t Get Distracted by the Trump/Fed Soap Opera — the Crash Will Continue
» Greece Retains EU’s Highest Rate of Unemployment
 
USA
» Alex Jones’ Final Midterm Message Email Deemed ‘Dangerous’
» Ann Coulter: ‘Trump Will be the Last Republican President’
» Back-to-Back Earthquakes Shatter Roads and Windows in Alaska
» ‘Battle’ Over as Trudeau, Trump, Pena Nieto Sign ‘New NAFTA’
» Caddell: Trump Will Lose 2020 if He Doesn’t Change Incompetent WH Team
» Child Sex Offenders, Gang Members Arrested Near Texas Border
» Democrat Leaders’ Willingness to Lie, Cheat and Steal
» Exclusive: FBI Raids Home of Whistleblower on Clinton Foundation, Lawyer Says
» FBI Raids Home of Whistleblower on Clinton Foundation, Lawyer Says
» FBI Raids Recognized Whistleblower’s Home for Clinton Foundation Docs
» Federal Employees Warned Not to Engage in Trump ‘Resistance’ Activities at Work
» Google Employees Debated Burying Conservative Media in Search Results After 2016 Election
» Google Engineer Advocates Burying Breitbart, Conservative Sites to ‘Reverse Things’ In 2020
» Google Debated Gaming Search Results to Bury Conservative Media
» Here Are Another 45,000 Reasons to Patch Windows Systems Against Old NSA Exploits
» Indiana Solicitor General: Cars Can be Seized if Driver Exceeds Speed Limit
» Midterms: How Much Did the Partisan Fake News & Tech Giants Aid Democrats?
» ‘Murphy Brown’ Features Trump Supporters Beating Reporters
» Obama Official Helped Prepare Dire National Climate Assessment
» Oil’s Plunge Propels Gas Prices Toward Lowest of This Year
» Popular Analysis of the National Climate Assessment Misleads the Public on the Economics of Climate Change
» Provoking New Crimes Rather Than Uncovering Past Crimes: Mueller’s Modus Operandi
» Study: Liberals Treat Minorities as if They’re Stupid
» Twitter Shares Fall After Reports of a Conservative Boycott
» US Police Raid Bishops’ Head’s Offices in Sex Abuse Probe
» White Liberals More Likely to ‘Patronize’ Minorities Than Conservatives, Study Finds
 
Canada
» No Good Will Come of Trudeau’s Embrace of Islam
» White Identity Politics in Canada
 
Europe and the EU
» Ambulance Crews Increasingly Assaulted and Stabbed in England and Need Police Escorts for Visiting Some Patients
» Beware Merkel’s EU Army: It’s an Empire-Builder — and Guarantor
» Breaking: Yellow Vest Protests Spread to Brussels as Working Class Europeans Rise Up
» Defiant in Face of Mass, Popular Protests France’s Macron Vows ‘No Retreat’ On Globalist Reforms
» Delingpole: Emasculated UK Police Make Shock Discovery — The Public Prefers Dirty Harry Tactics
» EU President Tusk Warns British: If You Reject May’s Deal, It’s ‘No Brexit at All’, No Deal
» Exposed: Bank of England Knew ‘No Deal’ Brexit Scenarios ‘Could be Misleading’, ‘Against Public Interest’
» French Protests Will Continue as Macron’s Answers Enrage Protesters, Politician Warns
» Germany: Berlin Vows to Crack Down on Arab Criminal Gangs
» Golden Age of Cinema Star Brigitte Bardot Joins Anti-Macron Protest Movement
» Hungarian Prime Minister Expects Complicated EU Budget Talks
» Italy: Highways Head Castellucci Doesn’t Respond to Prosecutors
» Merkel Escapes “Plane Crash” As Plane Has Technical Difficulties
» Migration Hardliner Salvini Most Trusted Politician in Italy — Poll
» Muslim Brotherhood, Islamists Have ‘Infiltrated’ Swedish Political Parties Since 1980s, Claims Academic
» Neanderthals and Humans Were Hooking Up Way More Than Anyone Thought
» New Institute Will Build Closer Relations Between Polish and Hungarian Youth
» Salvini’s Right-Wing Lega Takes Massive Lead in European Elections, While Italy’s Left is Decimated — Poll
» Sign of the Times: British Schoolchildren to Receive Counter-Terrorism Training
» Top Eurocrat Verhofstadt Hits Back After Hungary Mocks His Migrant Crisis Denial
» UK: Child Knife Deaths Set to be Highest in Nine Years, Reveals Hidden Data
» UK: London Police Consider Deploying Openly Armed Officers in Gang Areas
» UK: Leftist Council ‘Blocking’ Major Inquiry Into Child Abuse by Grooming Gangs in Rochdale, UK
» UK: Official Figures Show Number of FGM Cases More Than Double in a Year
» Wait, What? MSM Thinks ‘Populists’ Use Cute Cat Pictures to Brainwash You (Video)
» WTO Debunks Brexit Scaremongers: ‘Nothing in Rules Forces Anyone to Put Up Border Posts’
» Yellow Vest Protests Spread to the Netherlands: Protests Announced in at Least Two Cities
 
Middle East
» New York Fraudster Bought $62,000 of Cryptocurrencies for ISIS
 
Russia
» DNA Shows ‘Siberian Unicorn’ Roamed Earth With Humans
» Specter of Communism: Chapter Fifteen: The Communist Roots of Terrorism
» Ukraine Blocks Russian Men of Fighting Age From Entering Country
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia Denies Proud Boys Founder Visa for ‘Bad Character’
» Devout Muslim Rugby Star Sonny Bill Williams Refuses to Pose With Scantily-Clad Ring Girls at Press Conference for Boxing Match (But Opponent Stu Laundy Doesn’t Seem Bothered)
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Ebola Outbreak in East Congo Now World’s Second Biggest
» South Africa Land Seizures: High Court Rejects White Farmers’ Legal Battle
 
Latin America
» Macron Threatens to Veto EU-Mercosur Trade Deal if Brazil’s ‘Tropical Trump’ Pulls Out of Climate Accord
 
Immigration
» 1/3 of Migrants in the Caravan Are Sick, Some With Deadly Diseases
» 8-Year-Old German Girl Bullied and Stabbed by Arab Child at Migrant Majority School — Teacher Covers it Up
» Ambassador: Merkel’s Migrant Disaster Fueling Populist Revolt
» British Politician: Elites Want Unlimited Migration to Create Third World West
» Canada: Petition E-1906: Withdraw From the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
» Danish Prime Minister Calls it ‘Wrong’ To Force EU Nations to Take Refugees
» Hungary Warns EU That Migrant Visas Will Cause Large Masses to Come Into Europe
» Nabbed! Convicted Murderer Who Was Traveling With the Caravan Migrants
» Spain: Pakistani Migrant Punches Female Doctor as Being Treated by Her is ‘Against His Religion’
» Syrian Refugee Jailed Over Germany Bomb Plot
» Trump is Right: CBP, ICE Collaring Gang Members at Border Daily
» UN Migration Pact Will Flood Europe With 59 Million Migrants, MEP Warns
» Warning: The UN’s Refugee Pact is Even Worse Than Its Migration Pact and Both Will be Signed in December
 
Culture Wars
» Jesus Banned From Christmas Program at Virginia Middle School
» Netflix Accused of Promoting Sex Trafficking in Drama Series ‘Baby’
» Virginia School Bans Christmas Carols Mentioning ‘Jesus’
 
General
» Globalists Fearful as Nationalism Threatens Global Warming Propaganda
» New Species of Ancient Whale Was All Gums and No Bite
 

3 Things That Happened Just Before the Crisis of 2008 That Are Happening Again Right Now

Real estate, oil and the employment numbers are all telling us the same thing, and that is really bad news for the U.S. economy. It really does appear that economic activity is starting to slow down significantly, but just like in 2008 those that are running things don’t want to admit the reality of what we are facing. Back then, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke insisted that the U.S. economy was not heading into a recession, and we later learned that a recession had already begun when he made that statement. And as you will see at the end of this article, current Fed Chair Jerome Powell says that he is “very happy” with how the U.S. economy is performing, but he shouldn’t be so thrilled. Signs of trouble are everywhere, and we just got several more pieces of troubling news.

Thanks to aggressive rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, the average rate on a 30 year mortgage is now up to about 4.8 percent. Just like in 2008, that is killing the housing market and it has us on the precipice of another real estate meltdown.

And some of the markets that were once the hottest in the entire country are leading the way down. For example, just check out what is happening in Manhattan…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Don’t Get Distracted by the Trump/Fed Soap Opera — the Crash Will Continue

“Central banks are essentially a legally protected counterfeiting scheme”

At the beginning of 2018 I wrote extensively on what was likely to happen under the administration of Jerome Powell, the new Federal Reserve Chairman. In my article ‘New Fed Chairman Will Trigger A Historic Stock Market Crash In 2018’, published in February, I predicted that the Fed would continue interest rate increases and balance sheet cuts throughout the year and they would knowingly initiate a crash in equities.

To be clear, this was not a very popular sentiment at the time, just as it wasn’t popular when I predicted in 2015 that the Fed would launch interest rate hikes instead of going to negative rates in order to start a catalyst for economic crisis. The problem some people have with this concept is that they just can’t fathom that the central bank would deliberately crash the system. They desperately cling to the notion that the Fed and other central banks want to keep the machine rolling forward at any cost. This is simply not true.

The claim is that the banking elites are “required” to keep the system propped up in a state of reanimation because they are reliant on the system to provide capital and thus “influence.” The people that assert this argument don’t seem to understand how central banks operate.

As most liberty activists should know by now, central banks are essentially a legally protected counterfeiting scheme. Using fractional reserve banking at a ratio that is secret, central banks create their own capital from thin air, and they can infuse capital into international banks at will when it suits their purposes. There is no “profit motive” for the banking syndicate. They can print the cash or digitally conjure it anytime they wish, and they can use it to purchase tangible assets before their printing diminishes the buying power of the currency, passing price inflation on to regular citizens.

Thus, keeping the system in perpetual positive motion is not necessary in terms of the transfer of wealth from the population to the banking class. In fact, economic crisis events are very useful to the elites because these events allow the banks to buy up concrete assets like natural resources, businesses and properties for pennies on the dollar…

Today, Jerome Powell is taking the exact actions in policy that he originally admitted would cause a crash. Powell is not tightening out of stupidity, nor is he tightening out of a misguided error in policy. Powell is tightening because the banking elites WANT a crash. Period.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Greece Retains EU’s Highest Rate of Unemployment

Unemployment in Greece dipped to 18.9 percent in August of this year, from 19 percent the previous month, but remains the highest rate in the European Union, according to figures made public on Friday by the European Commission’s statistics service Eurostat.

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

Alex Jones’ Final Midterm Message Email Deemed ‘Dangerous’

Google’s latest dirty trick: claiming conservatives’ emails are ‘dangerous.’

Infowars emails are being deemed “dangerous” or malicious by Google AI bots evidently auto-flagging our content, Infowars readers are warning.

Contacting us Tuesday, one Infowars listener claimed a recent email sent from Infowars regarding “Alex Jones’ Final Message on the 2018 Midterm Elections,” was deemed not just spam by Gmail, but ominously “dangerous.”

“The left are trying to shut down your emails now,” the alarmed Infowarrior said. “They have a giant red banner on top of all your emails to me that read:

“This message seems dangerous. Many people marked similar messages as phishing scams, so this might contain unsafe content. Avoid clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information.”

The Infowars reader, who works in the education field, also sent a screenshot of the message they received:

In another screenshot sent by a reader, Gmail claimed Infowars’ email contained “content that’s typically used to steal personal information.”

[Comment: Another reason not to use Gmail — in addition to their scanning of your email.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ann Coulter: ‘Trump Will be the Last Republican President’

“Why even fight the Florida or Georgia elections?”

Best selling author and conservative pundit Ann Coulter — who early in 2016 predicted Doanld Trump’s presidential win — said that because of changing demographics and the propensity of many young immigrants to vote for liberals, Donald Trump “will be the last Republican president.”

In a Nov. 28 interview with Editor in-Chief Alex Marlow on Breitbart News Daily, Coulter said, “Every day, more and more immigrants turn 18 and start voting, canceling out all of your votes. It’s about five more years. Trump will be the last Republican president.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Back-to-Back Earthquakes Shatter Roads and Windows in Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 shattered highways and rocked buildings Friday in Anchorage and the surrounding area, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning for islands and coastal areas south of the city.

No tsunami arrived and there were no immediate reports of deaths or serious injuries.

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

‘Battle’ Over as Trudeau, Trump, Pena Nieto Sign ‘New NAFTA’

The road to rewrite the North American trade agreement was a “battle,” U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto joined him for a signing ceremony on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires.

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

Caddell: Trump Will Lose 2020 if He Doesn’t Change Incompetent WH Team

Veteran pollster Pat Caddell told Breitbart News that President Donald Trump will not be re-elected if he does not change his White House team and “purge” the Republican Party of politicians and consultants “bought” by the “donor class.”

Caddell joined Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight for an interview with Breitbart News Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Child Sex Offenders, Gang Members Arrested Near Texas Border

Rio Grande Valley Sector agents arrested multiple sex offenders and violent gang members during a two-day period beginning on November 26. Those included two MS-13 members, an 18th Street member, an alleged sex offender with an active warrant, and two men convicted for other sexual offenses.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrat Leaders’ Willingness to Lie, Cheat and Steal

While many politicians lie during political campaigns, it is likely that politicians have lied to voters from the beginning when people were free to choose their own leaders. To lie is nothing new under the sun. Humanity developed upon the Earth by humans acting prematurely based upon a lie. However from the beginning of the millennium, politicians seem to exhibit a greater tendency to freely lie more frequently to the people. Possibly it is perception, but it also seems that candidates and leaders of the “Democratic” Party may be guilty of using lies more often than those from the GOP.

It is true that the leaders of both major parties promote candidates that lie because they are prepared to do whatever it may take to win elections. However, lies that appear more spectacular seem to have originated from Democrats — especially from America’s former president, Barack Obama. He even has no problem lying when he is no longer campaigning. His recent attempt to claim credit for the improving economy is a good example of Obama’s use of lies.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Exclusive: FBI Raids Home of Whistleblower on Clinton Foundation, Lawyer Says

The FBI raided the home of a whistleblower who was in possession of documents regarding the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, according to the whistleblower’s lawyer, Michael Socarras.

The whistleblower, Dennis Nathan Cain, had turned the documents over to the Department of Justice’s inspector general and both the House and Senate Intelligence committees, according to the lawyer.

The FBI rummaged through Cain’s home for six hours, even after the whistleblower handed over the documents, according to Socarras.

FBI agents raided the home of a recognized Department of Justice whistleblower who privately delivered documents pertaining to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One to a government watchdog, according to the whistleblower’s attorney.

The Justice Department’s inspector general was informed that the documents show that federal officials failed to investigate potential criminal activity regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and Rosatom, the Russian company that purchased Uranium One, a document reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation alleges.

The delivered documents also show that then-FBI Director Robert Mueller failed to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct pertaining to Rosatom and to other Russian government entities attached to Uranium One, the document reviewed by TheDCNF alleges. Mueller is now the special counsel investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

“The bureau raided my client to seize what he legally gave Congress about the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One,” the whistleblower’s lawyer, Michael Socarras, told TheDCNF, noting that he considered the FBI’s raid to be an “outrageous disregard” of whistleblower protections.[…]

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

FBI Raids Home of Whistleblower on Clinton Foundation, Lawyer Says

“The bureau raided my client to seize what he legally gave Congress about the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One,” the whistleblower’s lawyer, Michael Socarras, told TheDCNF.

FBI agents raided the home of a recognized Department of Justice whistleblower who privately delivered documents pertaining to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One to a government watchdog, according to the whistleblower’s attorney.

The Justice Department’s inspector general was informed that the documents show that federal officials failed to investigate potential criminal activity regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and Rosatom, the Russian company that purchased Uranium One, a document reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation alleges.

The delivered documents also show that then-FBI Director Robert Mueller failed to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct pertaining to Rosatom and to other Russian government entities attached to Uranium One, the document reviewed by TheDCNF alleges. Mueller is now the special counsel investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

FBI Raids Recognized Whistleblower’s Home for Clinton Foundation Docs

The FBI is being accused of “serious misconduct” and “outrageous disregard of the law” after raiding the home of a recognized Department of Justice whistleblower earlier this month, Richard Pollock of The Daily Caller News Foundation reported in a shocking exclusive Thursday night.

The raid happened after former FBI contractor Dennis Nathan Cain privately transmitted documents pertaining to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One to the Justice Department’s inspector general and the Senate and House intelligence committees, according to his attorney.

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

Federal Employees Warned Not to Engage in Trump ‘Resistance’ Activities at Work

The Office of Special Counsel has issued new employee conduct guidelines warning federal workers that they are not allowed to engage at work in “resistance” activities to oppose President Trump.

In general, federal employees are free to express opinions about government policy or individual politicians, but they are not allowed to advocate for or work for partisan organizations or causes while in the workplace. The new rules claim that anti-Trump activities amount to illegal political activity.

Violations of the new rules could result in reprimands or even firing, the office now says.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Google Employees Debated Burying Conservative Media in Search Results After 2016 Election

Google employees debated demoting conservative media outlets in its search results after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election over Hillary Clinton, according to internal chats.

The chats were obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation and acknowledged as real by a Google spokeswoman.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Google Engineer Advocates Burying Breitbart, Conservative Sites to ‘Reverse Things’ In 2020

A recent report claims that Google employees internally discussed burying search results for conservative media outlets like Breitbart News and The Daily Caller. One Google engineer made his intentions clear by commenting, “let’s make sure that we reverse things in four years.”

A recent report from The Daily Caller claims that employees at tech giant Google discussed burying conservative media, including Breitbart and the Daily Caller, within the company’s search results. The article claims that employees referred to both news outlets as “opinion blogs” and discussed de-ranking the websites within Google’s search results in an attempt to “make sure that we reverse things in four years.”

[Comment: Time for anti-trust breakup of Google.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Google Debated Gaming Search Results to Bury Conservative Media

Following Donald Trump’s election win, Google employees discussed gaming their own search results to bury conservative media outlets, newly uncovered communications have revealed.

The material, which was obtained by the Daily Caller, features Google engineer Scott Byer lamenting how, “This was an election of false equivalencies, and Google, sadly, had a hand in it.”

He then urged Google to change its algorithm to bury conservative sites like the Daily Caller and Breitbart.

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

Here Are Another 45,000 Reasons to Patch Windows Systems Against Old NSA Exploits

Earlier this year, Akamai warned that vulnerabilities in Universal Plug’N’Play (UPnP) had been exploited by scumbags to hijack 65,000 home routers. In follow-up research released this week, it revealed little has changed.

Having revisited its April probing, the web cache biz has come to the conclusion that the security nightmare it dubbed “UPnProxy” is still “alive and well.”

The only way to truly secure a router from UPnProxy attacks is to reflash the hardware, clearing any attacker-injected configuration and installing patched firmware, where available. Oh, and turn UPnP off, which has been standard advice for a decade.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Indiana Solicitor General: Cars Can be Seized if Driver Exceeds Speed Limit

In oral examination, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer got the Indiana solictor general to admit that he believes it is constitutional for the police to seize someone’s car for driving five miles per hour over the speed limit.

Yep. Civil asset forfeiture has become such a boon for state law enforcement that its proponents are admitting to the U.S. Supreme Court that the application of the policy is nearly without limits.

On November 28, the case of Timbs v. Indiana was taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the outcome of the case could have far-reaching implications for the practice of seizing the property of those suspected of criminal activity.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Midterms: How Much Did the Partisan Fake News & Tech Giants Aid Democrats?

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 are 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 a historic fundraising frenzy that saw Democrats dramatically 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 almost 40 House seats. 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 to be victory. It is more usual than not for the party in control of the White House to lose seats 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. And this time around, the Trump GOP increased its Senate majority.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Murphy Brown’ Features Trump Supporters Beating Reporters

The CBS reboot of Murphy Brown featured a storyline where one of the show’s reporters is beaten and put in the hospital after attending a Donald Trump rally.

[Comment: Up is down and down is up. If he were attending an antifa rally this would have been more realistic.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Obama Official Helped Prepare Dire National Climate Assessment

A former Obama administration official with ties to a liberal advocacy group funded by Democratic megadonors George Soros and Tom Steyer helped prepare the Fourth National Climate Assessment, whose dire predictions have since been attacked as overblown.

Andrew Light, who worked on the 2015 Paris accord negotiations as a senior adviser to the U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change under Secretary of State John F. Kerry, served as a review editor for the assessment, overseeing the pivotal final chapter that concluded under a worst-case scenario that global warming could wipe out as much as 10 percent of the U.S. economy by 2100.

Now a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute, Mr. Light also spent five years as senior fellow and director of international climate policy at the Center for American Progress, which was founded and now led by longtime Democratic insider John Podesta. The center is also financed by liberal billionaires such as Mr. Soros and Mr. Steyer.[…]

[RTWT at link]

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Oil’s Plunge Propels Gas Prices Toward Lowest of This Year

Americans are paying less to fill up their SUVs for a seventh week in a row as the price of gas slides toward yearly lows.

“Many states will see prices continue to decline,” said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy, which helps drivers find cheap fuel. Gas prices generally track the price of oil, but lag one to three weeks, said DeHaan of the impact on consumers from fluctuations in crude.

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

Popular Analysis of the National Climate Assessment Misleads the Public on the Economics of Climate Change

The Executive Branch’ s recently released Volume II of the National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a massive document that is being cited as yet further evidence that the U.S. government should act quickly and boldly in the fight against climate change. The coverage in the New York Times was typical: “ All told, the report says, climate change could slash up to a tenth of gross domestic product by 2100, more than double the losses of the Great Recession a decade ago.”

Yet this claim is extremely misleading, as I’ll demonstrate in this post. The projection of a 10-percent hit to GDP is an extremely unlikely (less than a 5-percent chance) event even if we assume we are in the most pessimistic of emission scenarios, while the scenario itself rests upon an assumption that progress on renewables and other technologies occurs much more slowly over the next century than it has already occurred historically. This means that anybody citing the NCA projections isn’t allowed to also tout imminent breakthroughs in wind and solar, because such optimism renders the NCA projections invalid.

Even more astonishing, the NCA gives projections of the “cost of inaction” on climate change, but does not give any estimate of the costs of action on climate change. (It’s a bit like a mechanic warning that you need a new part to avoid engine failure down the road, but refusing to tell you how much the part will cost.)

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Provoking New Crimes Rather Than Uncovering Past Crimes: Mueller’s Modus Operandi

Even if Mueller could prove that members of the Trump team had colluded with Julian Assange to use material that Assange had unlawfully obtained, that, too, would not be a crime.

Merely using the product of an already committed theft of information is not a crime. If you don’t believe me, ask the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian and other newspapers that used material illegally obtained by Assange with full knowledge that it was illegally obtained.

In the end, Mueller should be judged by how successful he has been in satisfying his central mission. Judged by that standard and based on what we now know, he seems to be an abysmal failure.

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

Study: Liberals Treat Minorities as if They’re Stupid

It’s not usually as ridiculous as Al Gore trying to sound like Martin Luther King, Jr. at black churches or Barack Obama using a “ghetto-style accent” before black audiences. But a new study shows that Democrats really do talk down to minorities, whereas white Republicans speak essentially the same way to both white and non-white audiences.

As the Washington Times reports, “Yale and Princeton researchers found that both white Democratic presidential candidates and self-identified liberals played down their competence when speaking to minorities, using fewer words that conveyed accomplishment and more words that expressed warmth.”

This is typically known as playing upon people’s emotions — otherwise called “demagoguery.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Twitter Shares Fall After Reports of a Conservative Boycott

Twitter shares fell sharply on Thursday, dropping more than 8 percent in early-day trading.

The tumble put Twitter on track for its biggest one-day percentage drop in more than a month, according to Bloomberg, which said several traders and other news outlets attributed the downturn to a Politico story published Wednesday night that noted Fox News hasn’t tweeted in weeks as part of an apparent boycott against Twitter.

[Comment: Twitter stock price went up 0.48% on Friday, Nov. 30.]

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

US Police Raid Bishops’ Head’s Offices in Sex Abuse Probe

Cops discover ‘secret archive’

(ANSA) — New York, November 29 — US police on Thursday raided the Texas office of the head of the American bishops conference, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, in a probe in which he is suspected of covering up sex abuse cases.

The police came out of DiNardo’s offices in the archdiocese of Galverston-Houston after a 10-hour search with what US media called the cardinal’s “secret archive”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

White Liberals More Likely to ‘Patronize’ Minorities Than Conservatives, Study Finds

[Liberals present themselves as warmer, less competent to minority audiences]

White liberals present themselves as less competent when addressing minorities, while conservatives use the same vocabulary no matter what the race of their audience, according to a newly released study.

Yale and Princeton researchers found that white Democratic presidential candidates and self-identified liberals played down their competence when speaking to minorities, using fewer words that conveyed accomplishment and more words that expressed warmth.

On the other hand, there were no significant differences in how white conservatives, including Republican presidential candidates, spoke to white versus minority audiences.

“White liberals self-present less competence to minorities than to other Whites — that is, they patronize minorities stereotyped as lower status and less competent,” according to the study’s abstract.

Cydney Dupree, assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, said she was surprised by the findings of the study, which sought to discover how “well-intentioned whites” interact with minorities.[…]

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

No Good Will Come of Trudeau’s Embrace of Islam

Trudeau’s critics accuse him of siding with Islamists in a way that endangers Canada and the West. Tom Quiggin, a former intelligence contractor for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a court-appointed expert on jihadist terrorism in both the federal and criminal courts of Canada, said that Trudeau “has a nine-year-long record of supporting the Islamist cause while refusing to engage with reformist Muslims.” He added, “Trudeau’s position on Islamists should be of concern to both Canadians and Americans… The price of Canada’s submission to the Islamists may indeed be high.”

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White Identity Politics in Canada

This double standard against Euro-Canadian identity has to be openly discussed if Euro-Canadians are going to survive as the rightful majority in Canada. The meaning of multiculturalism, and what the Charter means by multiculturalism, will be determined by the proportion of non-Europeans in Canada and the willingness of Euro-Canadians to affirm their collective identity.

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Ambulance Crews Increasingly Assaulted and Stabbed in England and Need Police Escorts for Visiting Some Patients

There are now 1,400 addresses ambulance staff have branded ‘no-go areas’. Around eight paramedics are subjected to a serious attack every day, as they try to carry out their work saving the public.

The North West service, with 756 addresses red-flagged was the country’s worst area for assaults. Some have been stabbed, throttled and even sexually assaulted in their line of work.

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Beware Merkel’s EU Army: It’s an Empire-Builder — and Guarantor

What’s an empire without an army? It’s just a thought, an ambition, a dream. This reality explains the proposal for a European Union army. So says an author and social commentator who writes that we should not just be incredulous and ridicule the proposal — we should be alarmed. For he believes the EU military would ultimately have a dark purpose: to, if necessary, kill other Europeans.

Writing at American Thinker, David Archibald finds it odd that the army was proposed by French president Emmanuel Macron and quickly supported by German chancellor Angela Merkel. After all, Merkel has allowed her nation’s military to remain in a degraded state during her 13-year tenure; in fact, all Germany’s submarines and most of its fighter force are nonoperational, “with similar stories in its helicopters and other systems,” Archibald writes. As for Macron, “the head of the French military quit last year after the president made a surprise €850-million cut to the country’s defense budget,” the commentator also informs.

So why are these military-busting tightwads suddenly willing to lavish money on an EU army?

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Breaking: Yellow Vest Protests Spread to Brussels as Working Class Europeans Rise Up

Protests in Brussels of yellow vest protesters are getting out of hand as police cars and streets are ravaged by angry working class Europeans.

According to Belgian newspaper HLN, police try to control a group of rioters in Brussels near “Kunst-Wet”. Tear gass and water cannons are used on them.

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Defiant in Face of Mass, Popular Protests France’s Macron Vows ‘No Retreat’ On Globalist Reforms

French President Emmanuel Macron, under fire from swelling protest, insisted Thursday he would “never retreat” and cast himself as a progressive voice on the global stage.

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Delingpole: Emasculated UK Police Make Shock Discovery — The Public Prefers Dirty Harry Tactics

Everyone in Britain is loving the police’s latest PR move: ramming criminals as they try to escape on mopeds — then posting the video footage on social media.

Chief Inspector Jim Corbett: “To mitigate risk to the public & also offenders, we use a range of tactics including tactical contact. There has been a significant reduction in motorcycle & scooter crime with a decrease of 10,974 offences to date this year in comparison to 2017”…

Indeed, about the only dissenting voice came from looney left rent-a-gob MP Diane Abbott, who tried in her usual way to make political mileage out of the news story by claiming that police were acting as though they were “above the law.”

Which for those of us lucky enough not to be Diane Abbott is all very good news indeed, for a number of reasons.

Reason 1. The British police appear finally to be waking up to the idea that their job is to prevent crime.

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EU President Tusk Warns British: If You Reject May’s Deal, It’s ‘No Brexit at All’, No Deal

The United Kingdom’s can take Theresa May’s “worst deal in history” negotiated settlement with the European Union or leave it, but there will be no renegotiations at all, European Council President Donald Tusk warned as he arrived for this weekend’s G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Echoing talking points already repeated in near-identical language by leaders including Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker themselves to the effect that there could not be any deal to the United Kingdom except the one already agreed, Polish politician turned Eurocrat Donald Tusk said at the globalist summit the only other options meant no deal.

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Exposed: Bank of England Knew ‘No Deal’ Brexit Scenarios ‘Could be Misleading’, ‘Against Public Interest’

The Bank of England’s reputation has taken a severe hit as previously unreleased minutes reveal staff knew their dire “No Deal” Brexit predictions “could be misleading” and “against [the] public interest.”

The central bank has been under fire from Brexiteers since publishing a “No Deal” scenario in which GDP collapses by 8 per cent in a year, as has its Canadian governor, Mark Carney — a controversial former employee of the Goldman Sachs banking corporation which ploughed hundreds of thousands of pounds into the Remain campaign during the EU referendum, along with several other multinational financial giants.

Even former members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) such as Andrew Sentance — a committed Remainer — stepped forward to say the prediction was not a “real-world scenario,” and suggested it was “undermining its credibility and independence” by publishing such “extreme scenarios and forecasts.”

Now The Telegraph has revealed that the Bank knew full well that its reports could be “against [the] public interest” by giving “a suggestion of apparently precise scenarios [which] could be misleading and liable to misinterpretation,” citing previously unreleased minutes.

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French Protests Will Continue as Macron’s Answers Enrage Protesters, Politician Warns

Saturday marks two weeks since the high-visibility or ‘Yellow Vest’ protests began in France in response to the rise in petrol prices by President Macron’s government.

The activists are named for the high-visibility jackets required to be carried in every vehicle in France which have been worn in the protests since they began on 17 November.

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Germany: Berlin Vows to Crack Down on Arab Criminal Gangs

Officials have allowed parallel world to emerge

Seized by fears of being labeled xenophobic, Berlin officials have allowed a parallel world to emerge in Germany’s capital — one inhabited by criminal gangs of Middle Eastern origin. But is it too late for a crackdown?

After years of inaction, Berlin law enforcement authorities are finally taking the growing issue of migrant gangs seriously. The city’s government on Monday announced a crackdown on migrant criminal gangs, unveiling a five-point plan which they said would help tackle the issue. Their new crime fighting strategy includes enhanced cooperation between police and the prosecutor’s office, as well as social welfare and youth services. Together they hope to crowdsource information-gathering on gang activities.

[Comment: Social welfare and youth services!?… that’ll teach ‘em!]

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Golden Age of Cinema Star Brigitte Bardot Joins Anti-Macron Protest Movement

Long-time French cinema star Brigitte Bardot has joined and expressed her support for the anti-Macron Gilets Jaunes, or Yellow Jacket, movement releasing a photograph of herself wearing a yellow vest.

The film star released the photo of her wearing the high visibility vest that has become the symbol of the movement that began as a protest against fuel taxes in France on Wednesday alongside the caption, “with you!” Il Giornale reports.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Expects Complicated EU Budget Talks

Arriving at the summit of the Friends of Cohesion group in Bratislava, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that there will be complicated negotiations on the next seven-year EU budget, but an agreement will be reached.

The prime minister said that there are more than a dozen EU countries with identical interests on the most important issue for the coming year: the creation after the elections to the European Parliament of the EU’s next seven-year budget.

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Italy: Highways Head Castellucci Doesn’t Respond to Prosecutors

ASPI chief probed over Genoa bridge collapse

(ANSA) — Genoa, November 28 — Giovanni Castellucci, the CEO of highways company Autostrade per l’Italia (ASPI), on Wednesday exercised the right not to respond to questioning by prosecutors probing August’s Morandi-bridge collapse disaster in Genoa in which 43 people died.

Castellucci is among 21 people who are under investigation in relation to the collapse of the Morandi bridge. ASPI and another company, SPEA, are also being probed. The manager declined to answer to the magistrates’ questions and instead made a statement during an hour-long meeting, judicial sources said.

Speaking to reporters, Castellucci appeared to confirm reports that he was set to quit ASPI to focus on its parent company, Atlantia. “Given the important role that Atlantia has taken up recently at the global level, the process of reducing my responsibilities in Autostrade, which started before the tragedy, has resumed,” Castellucci said.

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Merkel Escapes “Plane Crash” As Plane Has Technical Difficulties

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is going to be late to the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina today.

As it happens, the bus was late. Well, her Airbus that is. A “technical problem” caused the pilot to abort its planned 15-hour flight to Argentina one hour after takeoff.

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Migration Hardliner Salvini Most Trusted Politician in Italy — Poll

The Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has made very public his anti-illegal immigration stance on television, radio and social media.

He has also become known worldwide due to the scuffle between the European Commission and Italy’s 2019 budget.

On Thursday ANSA reported that the last week’s poll saw Salvini with 50 per cent, he was ahead of the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s 46 per cent.

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Muslim Brotherhood, Islamists Have ‘Infiltrated’ Swedish Political Parties Since 1980s, Claims Academic

Academic Sameh Egyptson has claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups have been systematically infiltrating Sweden’s political system since the 1980s.

Penning an opinion piece for Swedish newspaper Expressen, Mr Egyptson, a researcher in interreligous relationships at Lund University, believes that the Egypt-founded Muslim Brotherhood is attempting to bring forward an Islamic agenda in the West by using democratic systems, in Sweden specifically through the Islamic League in Sweden (IFiS) and Sweden’s Muslim Council (SMR).

“In my studies and research documents, I found that Islamists already negotiated with political parties in the 1980s about voting in elections. A report in Arabic written by Sweden’s Muslim Council (SMR) 2001 described a historical chapter that not many people know about,” he wrote, quoting the document as saying:

SMR collaborates with IFiS to establish an Islamic political group to co-operate and coordinate with the Swedish parties to educate political cadres. These cadres will mingle with the parties and fight for the Muslim minority’s rights through these parties.

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Neanderthals and Humans Were Hooking Up Way More Than Anyone Thought

Way more sex happened between Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans across Europe and Asia than scientists originally thought, a new study finds.

Scientists initially thought that interbreeding among the two groups was more isolated to a particular place and time — specifically, when they encountered each other in western Eurasia shortly after modern humans left Africa. This idea stemmed from the fact that the genomes of modern humans from outside Africa are only about 2 percent Neanderthal, on average.

Subsequent research, however, has found that Neanderthal ancestry is 12 to 20 percent higher in modern East Asians compared to modern Europeans.

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New Institute Will Build Closer Relations Between Polish and Hungarian Youth

The Polish Speaker of the Parliament, Marek Kuchcinski, has met with the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly, Laszló Kövér, in Krasiczyn, southern Poland. The main points on the agenda included bilateral cooperation within the framework of the Visegrad Group. The two speakers also used the opportunity to meet with the youth attending a new initiative in Polish-Hungarian relations, the Waclaw Felczak Institute for Polish-Hungarian Cooperation.

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Salvini’s Right-Wing Lega Takes Massive Lead in European Elections, While Italy’s Left is Decimated — Poll

Italy’s Lega Party, the Party led by Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, have added an astounding 27% to their poll rating in the latest poll for next years European Elections.

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Sign of the Times: British Schoolchildren to Receive Counter-Terrorism Training

British schoolchildren as young as nine years old are to be drafted into the national security effort as the terror threat level remains “severe.”

The plans to expand the Government’s Action Counters Terrorism programme covering 11— to 16-year-olds to include younger children in Years Five and Six of primary school — roughly equivalent to elementary school in the United States — were unveiled by a senior police officer at the Olympia’s International Security Expo, according to the Evening Standard.

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Top Eurocrat Verhofstadt Hits Back After Hungary Mocks His Migrant Crisis Denial

Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt has said Hungary’s billboard campaign mocking the Eurocrat’s claim there is no migrant crisis reminds him of “the darkest days in European history,” and has called for the EU to speed up mechanisms to punish countries like Hungary and Poland for deviating from “European values.”

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UK: Child Knife Deaths Set to be Highest in Nine Years, Reveals Hidden Data

This year is likely to be the worst in nearly a decade for children killed by knife attacks, with 35 already murdered in 2018.

There hasn’t been such a deadly 12 months for children since 2008, when 42 young people aged 19 and under were killed in knife attacks, official data reported by The Guardian reveals.

The newspaper claims the figures had not been made public before and that it took a 10-month negotiation with the Home Office and 45 police forces to obtain the sensitive information.

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UK: London Police Consider Deploying Openly Armed Officers in Gang Areas

London’s Metropolitan Police are considering sending visibly armed officers on patrol in gang-plagued residential areas, amidst the city’s on-going violent crime wave.

The move is almost unprecedented on mainland Britain, excluding Northern Ireland during the conflict years, with the Metropolitan Police previously restricting patrols with visible firearms to high profile areas at risk of a terror attack, such as the Palace of Westminster, Whitehall, and Buckingham Palace.

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UK: Leftist Council ‘Blocking’ Major Inquiry Into Child Abuse by Grooming Gangs in Rochdale, UK

Rochdale Council has been accused of blocking a major child abuse inquiry, Politicalite revealed.

Campaigners from Parents Against Grooming, a grassroots organisation of parents who have been affected by the child grooming scandal in Rochdale have been consistently campaigning for a full inquiry into the role played in covering up abuse by Rochdale Borough Council — abuse which allegedly included victims who had been found dead “in mysterious circumstances.”

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UK: Official Figures Show Number of FGM Cases More Than Double in a Year

Government figures have revealed the number of female genital mutilation cases coming to the attention of local government has more than doubled in just a year, with social workers now dealing with 30 FGM-related incidents a week.

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Wait, What? MSM Thinks ‘Populists’ Use Cute Cat Pictures to Brainwash You (Video)

After a futile half decade of trying to explain the rise of anti-immigrant and law and order parties in Europe, mainstream media outlets believe they have solved the riddle of their success: cats.

The breakthrough was achieved when Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, gave the game away by posting pictures of felines sent to him by his 3.3 million Facebook followers last week. He received not only an impressive 30,000 likes, but more pictures of cats — something he could use to further boost his popularity!

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WTO Debunks Brexit Scaremongers: ‘Nothing in Rules Forces Anyone to Put Up Border Posts’

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has shot down a key Brexit scare story, confirming there is “nothing” in their rules which would require a so-called “hard” border between EU Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland following a “No Deal” Brexit.

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Yellow Vest Protests Spread to the Netherlands: Protests Announced in at Least Two Cities

The yellow vest movement is spreading through Europe. The mostly working class protesters from France, have already seen their protests spread to Belgium’s Flanders and Wallonia.

But now the Dutch have announced protests and people will hit the streets in the city’s of Nijmegen and Den Haag (The Hague), the Post Online reports.

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New York Fraudster Bought $62,000 of Cryptocurrencies for ISIS

A 27-year-old woman in New York has pleaded guilty to financing the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS or Daesh).

According to a release from the US Department of Justice, between March and July 31st, 2017, Zoobia Shahnaz of Brentwood, New York, committed multiple acts of fraud against financial companies in the US as she was preparing to fly to Syria, but was intercepted at the airport before she could do so.

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DNA Shows ‘Siberian Unicorn’ Roamed Earth With Humans

Plot twist — “unicorns” apparently did roam the Earth once, but they were more like rhinos than horses.

Researchers are learning more about the fuzzy rhinos called “Siberian unicorns” after DNA tests of fossils are providing insight into their extinction. Paleontologists say they were around much longer than originally thought, living until at least 39,000 years ago. This means the animals lived among humans.

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Specter of Communism: Chapter Fifteen: The Communist Roots of Terrorism

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Vladimir Lenin relied on terrorism to take power in Russia. In 1918, Felix Dzerzhinsky, whom Lenin regarded as a revolutionary hero for his role as director of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka), said plainly, “We stand for organized terror — this should be frankly admitted.” [2]

The Marxist Karl Kautsky, who in 1919 published Terrorism and Communism, gave a comprehensive overview of what would come to pass under the proletarian dictatorship that Lenin sought to establish. Examining the violence of the French Revolution, Kautsky concluded that Lenin’s Bolsheviks had inherited the terrorist character of the Jacobins and would repeat it. [3]

Yuri N. Afanasyev, a Russian historian, blamed Lenin for founding a policy of state terror, violence, and lawlessness: “Violence is actually our entire history,” Afanasyev said. [4] …

Eighty-two aircraft hijackings were carried out in 1969 alone. Many of them were the work of the PLO with support from the Soviets and Chinese communists. Pacepa recalled that when he visited Sakharovsky’s office, he noticed a sea of small red flags dotting a world map. Each flag represented a hijacked plane.

Sakharovsky boasted to Pacepa that the tactic of aircraft hijacking was his own invention. Between 1968 and 1978, the Romanian security directorate made weekly aircraft deliveries of military supplies to Palestinian terrorists in Lebanon. Archives from the dissolution of East Germany show that that in 1983, the East German Foreign Intelligence Agency sent $1,877,600 worth of ammunition for Kalashnikov assault rifles to Lebanese terrorist organizations. Czechoslovakia provided Islamic terrorists with 1,000 tons of Semtex-H, an odorless plastic explosive. …

The primary victims of Islamic extremism are the people of countries from which terrorists originate. While the media focuses its attention on terrorist attacks that target Western society, the vast majority of those killed are Muslims. Similarly, the more than 100 million deaths caused by communism were nearly all those of people living under the rule of communist regimes.

Terrorism is inseparable from communism, which itself is the greatest root cause of terrorism around the world. Until these toxic roots are dug out, mankind will not enjoy a single day of peace. Only by recognizing the role of communism in the terrorist activities that plague our world, and by standing on the side of traditional moral values and faith can people safeguard themselves against this menace.

[The Epoch Times is serializing a translation from the Chinese of a new book, How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World, https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-how-the-specter-of-communism-is-ruling-our-world by the editorial team of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. https://www.theepochtimes.com/nine-commentaries-on-the-communist-party-introduction_3942.html ]

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Ukraine Blocks Russian Men of Fighting Age From Entering Country

Ukraine has blocked Russian men between the ages of 16 and 60 from entering the country as a feud with Moscow over a naval incident continues to escalate.

The ban, which was announced Friday, will last 30 days and run alongside a declaration of martial law implemented this week, The Associated Press reports.

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Australia Denies Proud Boys Founder Visa for ‘Bad Character’

The founder of the far-right “Proud Boys” group was denied a visa to tour Australia after failing the character test, ABC News Australia reported Friday.

Provocateur Gavin McInnes applied for a visa to visit the country next year for “The Deplorables” tour, a speaking tour with U.K. far-right activist Tommy Robinson.

He was reportedly notified several weeks ago that his visa was denied because he was found to be of bad character. The window for him to appeal the Home Affairs Department’s decision closed on Friday, ABC News Australia reported.

Immigration Minister David Coleman reportedly banned McInnes from traveling to the country out of fear his presence would promote violence.

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Devout Muslim Rugby Star Sonny Bill Williams Refuses to Pose With Scantily-Clad Ring Girls at Press Conference for Boxing Match (But Opponent Stu Laundy Doesn’t Seem Bothered)

Devout Muslim Sonny Bill Williams and his team requested the women, dressed in a golden ensemble, be removed from the media event on Thursday.

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Ebola Outbreak in East Congo Now World’s Second Biggest

KINSHASA (Reuters) — The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is now the second biggest in history, with 426 confirmed and probable cases, the health ministry said late on Thursday.

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South Africa Land Seizures: High Court Rejects White Farmers’ Legal Battle

The case was thrown out of court after being brought about by Afriforum, which represents mostly white Afrikaners and challenged a ruling made by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s plans for land expropriation without compensation. The group questioned the legality of a parliamentary committee report which recommended a change to the constitution to forward by the leader, who has made land redistribution a flagship policy after replacing scandal-hit former leader Jacob Zuma earlier this year. Afriforum blasted the report and claimed the committee had illegally appointed an external service provider to compile the document. Judge Vincent Saldanha said: “The relief sought by the applicants… is dismissed.”

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Macron Threatens to Veto EU-Mercosur Trade Deal if Brazil’s ‘Tropical Trump’ Pulls Out of Climate Accord

The progressive president of France Emmanuel Macron has threatened to veto the European Union-South American trade deal if Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement.

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1/3 of Migrants in the Caravan Are Sick, Some With Deadly Diseases

Tijuana health officials have said that of those migrants in the caravan at the United States’ border with Mexico, about one third is being treated for health concerns. Migrants who came with the caravan are suffering from respiratory infections, tuberculosis, chickenpox, and some other serious health issues, Tijuana’s Health Department warned on Thursday morning.

A spokesman for the Tijuana Health Department told Fox News that out of 6,000 migrants currently residing in the city, over a third of them (2,267) are being treated for health-related issues. There are several migrants who have contracted serious diseases that are life-threatening. So far, there have been three confirmed cases of tuberculosis and four cases of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)/AIDS (advanced immunodeficiency syndrome). Lesser illnesses that pose little threat to life include four separate cases of chickenpox, the spokesman said. And at least 101 migrants have lice and multiple instances of skin infections, the department’s data shows, according to a Fox News report.

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8-Year-Old German Girl Bullied and Stabbed by Arab Child at Migrant Majority School — Teacher Covers it Up

A news item from German broadcaster Sat 1 tells about the traumatic experience 8-year-old Yara had at a migrant majority school. She became an outcast, was bullied and even stabbed.

Little Yara was the last person in her classroom who spoke German at home. Her school can be characterised as a migrant majority school with Turks and Arab migrants as students.

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Ambassador: Merkel’s Migrant Disaster Fueling Populist Revolt

[Comment: It was not a ‘mistake’. It was and is an intentional plan to implement the Kalergi plan of decontstruction of nation states.]

The US Ambassador to Germany says the migration disaster overseen by Chancellor Angela Merkel is a major driver for the nationalist-populist revolt sweeping Europe.

Ambassador Richard Grenell discussed the impact the on-going migration crisis and open borders are having on Germany and Europe as a whole during an interview with Tucker Carlson.

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British Politician: Elites Want Unlimited Migration to Create Third World West

We’ve already seen an early step involving language manipulation, with illegal aliens euphemistically rebranded “undocumented workers.” But the larger goal, if British politician Janice Atkinson is correct, is to remake the West through massive Third World migration.

Atkinson, an independent member of the European Parliament for South East England, is warning about the “Global Compact for Migration” (GCM), a little known United Nations scheme. As she wrote in a recent Voice of Europe piece:

The ‘Global Compact for Migration’, in the works since April 2017, is a rather hushed up plan to move large numbers of people from the third world to countries with a strong, sustainable economy.

In other words, the United Nations along with all the countries who have signed up to this plan want to move large numbers of people from Africa, the Middle East and Central America into Europe, North America and East Asia.

The key aspects of the plan reveal that illegal immigration will in future no longer be treated as a crime:

‘…protect the safety, dignity and human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their migratory status, and at all times…’

They also reveal that the United Nations wants regular migration, over an indefinite period:

‘…the development of a Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration…’

And the plan also outlines what they see as the need for steps towards a world government:

‘…make an important contribution to global governance and enhance coordination on international migration…’

In fairness, Atkinson’s quoted lines don’t explicitly state that illegal migration would be “decriminalized.” Yet reading between the lines isn’t hard given how immigrationists have so often tipped their hand.

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Canada: Petition E-1906: Withdraw From the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

Canadians: It is URGENT that you sign this petition:

Petition E-1906: Withdraw from the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

Several of our allies, notably the United States of America, Poland, Hungary and Austria, among others, have withdrawn from the United Nations’ global migration pact citing its threats to their sovereignty, peace, order and good governance.

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Danish Prime Minister Calls it ‘Wrong’ To Force EU Nations to Take Refugees

Danish Prime Minister Lars Lökke Rasmussen has demanded that the European Union waive a clause requiring member states to take in asylum seekers calling the measure “wrong.”

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Hungary Warns EU That Migrant Visas Will Cause Large Masses to Come Into Europe

The European Parliament holding another vote on “migrant visas” is “unacceptable”, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Wednesday, and called the procedure “anti-democratic”.

Gergely Gulyas insisted that the proposal, which has been once rejected, would be put to vote “without any real changes” and added that its proponents would “keep on trying until they get the right answer”.

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Nabbed! Convicted Murderer Who Was Traveling With the Caravan Migrants

When Customs and Border Patrol officials arrested 46-year-old Miguel Angel Ramirez after he illegally entered the U.S. near San Diego, he was only four months out of a Honduran prison after serving 10 years for homicide and three years for robbery.

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Spain: Pakistani Migrant Punches Female Doctor as Being Treated by Her is ‘Against His Religion’

A doctor from Linares (Jaén) has received a brutal punch from a young illegal Pakistani because he resisted being treated by a woman. According to what he said on Wednesday before the judge, the reason is because “his religion forbids him.”

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Syrian Refugee Jailed Over Germany Bomb Plot

A Syrian man has been sentenced to six and a half years in jail for plotting a car bomb attack in Germany. Prosecutors said he planned to kill or injure about “200 people” at an undisclosed location.

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Trump is Right: CBP, ICE Collaring Gang Members at Border Daily

Border Patrol agents arrested an MS-13 gang member on Saturday who had crossed the border illegally after hiding among migrants who planned to apply for asylum.

The man was not Salvadoran, as MS-13 members usually are. Nor was he arrested at the San Ysidro crossing at San Diego on the other side of the border from Tijuana, where nearly 6,000 migrants await application for asylum.

But his arrest demonstrates once again the danger of criminals hiding with the Tijuana contingent. The estimate is that between 500 and 600 — about 10 percent of the contingent — are criminals. This latest arrest was only one of many in the last seven days. In Texas and Arizona this week, agents collared a number of gang members and sex fiends trying to enter the country illegally.

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UN Migration Pact Will Flood Europe With 59 Million Migrants, MEP Warns

Janice Atkinson MEP: A Call to Action!

UK and EU citizens, get your heads out of the Brexit shambles long enough to write a letter to your heads of state before its too late!

The UN Migration Compact explained by Janice Atkinson MEP. The compact will be signed on 11/12 December if we don’t do something now! May, Merkel, Macron and other leaders will sign this and bind our countries to a no borders agreement.

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Warning: The UN’s Refugee Pact is Even Worse Than Its Migration Pact and Both Will be Signed in December

In parallel with the highly criticised migration pact, the UN has also prepared a refugee pact. Both these treaties are intended to be signed at the conference in Morocco on 10-11 December.

Even if the pact is not legally binding, it refers to obligations. Thus, a kind of soft laws that restrict the sovereignty of the countries.

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Jesus Banned From Christmas Program at Virginia Middle School

It’s that time of year again: Christmas decorations are going up outside homes and businesses. Christmas trees adorn nearly every home. Nativity scenes are taking their place outside churches and public squares. And another school is banning Jesus and faith from its Christmas programs.

This year (so far) it’s Robious Middle School in Midlothian, Virginia, where school officials have assumed the role of Grinch and nixed the inclusion of Christmas carols that refer to Jesus or Christian faith.

David Allen, whose child attends Robious, told local television station WWBT that he received an e-mail from the school’s choir instructor informing him that officials from Robious Middle School had made a decision to ban the singing of holiday tunes that included any direct reference to Jesus. “We had a few students who weren’t comfortable singing a piece I have done many times in the past,” wrote the Robious Middle School choir teacher, “but it is of a sacred nature and does mention Jesus.”

Allen said that the gist of the decision by school officials was that they wanted to avoid songs or the mention of anything “of a direct sacred nature” in order to be sensitive to an increasingly “diverse” student population.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Netflix Accused of Promoting Sex Trafficking in Drama Series ‘Baby’

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation is accusing Netflix of glorifying sex trafficking in its new series Baby, calling the company “completely tone-deaf on the realities of sexual exploitation.”

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Virginia School Bans Christmas Carols Mentioning ‘Jesus’

To celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ, the Robious Middle School in Midlothian, Virginia, has banned any Christmas carols that mention the name of Jesus.

School administrators reportedly explained they had made the decision to “avoid singing anything of a direct sacred nature” in order to be “more sensitive to the increasing diverse population at the school.”

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

Globalists Fearful as Nationalism Threatens Global Warming Propaganda

Sovereign nations with anti-globalist leaders are not going along with the agenda.

Citizens of the world are waking up to the totalitarian elite and are bringing back nationalism to defeat the globalist agenda.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

New Species of Ancient Whale Was All Gums and No Bite

A new fossil discovery is helping researchers piece together the origins of the unique baleen filter feeding system in whales.

Baleen is a feeding structure that allows whales like the humpback whale to filter out prey while taking in large amounts of seawater.

Baleen is not like teeth but instead is made up of the same proteins as human hair and fingernails. In that regard, baleen is like a giant strainer made of stiff bristles.

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

12 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/30/2018

  1. I think, I believe, I hope the EU spring has begun. Yeah, it has been easy to tread on white men and accuse them of every negative epithet. But that abuse cannot be taken any more. Even a worm will turn, and even kick.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1052573/Brussels-riots-belgium-protests-violence-EU

    In the name of democracy and human rights the Traitors surrender their own nations to the enemy, without hesitation. Sell out their honor if they have any left. I doubt it. How can you make such a mess and be proud of your policies and praise them. How cannot you be aware of what is happening and what is going to happen. ? The traitors are so conceited as if they are blind and see everything well and could not be better. Nothing to change or reform.

    • “How cannot you be aware of what is happening and what is going to happen. ? The traitors are so conceited as if they are blind and see everything well and could not be better”

      I have long come to the conclusion that they are fully aware of what they do but that they also think they’ll get away with it.

      Or at least be able to slither off to well pre-planned bolt-holes.

  2. re: No Good will Come of Trudeau’s Emrace of Islam:

    In the summer of 2018 the Liberal gov’t of Trudeau created a program to give funds to organisations that could provide jobs for youth. One of the main obligations for the groups applying for this grant was to agree with the Liberal platform on abortion. Interestingly, some of the muslim groups which applied for the grant received the money. The few Christian groups that applied were nearly all rejected. Christian groups in Canada are nearly all firmly against abortion and so did not consider applying for the grant. However, muslim groups are also vocally against abortion. What then ocurred? It appears the gov’t wrote the required attestation in such a way that the muslims could agree with it without actually agreeing with actual abortion. The attestation reads: “Both the job – and my organization’s core mandate – respect individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as other rights. These include reproductive rights.”

    The phrase: “reproductive rights” is vague enough to allow anti-abortionist muslim groups to agree with it. As this phrase can be interpreted in different and quite contrary ways, the muslims were given a chance to meet the requirements to receive the grant.
    I believe this was the gov’t plan since they would not want to anger their muslim voting base which was a deciding factor in their election victory.

    Christian groups however were not welcome, apparently, to receive the grant as they were expected to condemn the stipulation of accepting abortion. Muslim groups tend to have less of a moral dilemma with accepting opportunities to receive access to power or money if they simply must publicly agree with simple and vague statements; statements which could also imply the Islamic stand on an issue. Christian groups wrestle with this process much more and worry to a greater degree of how the public may interpret the groups’ public stance on moral and contentious issues.

    I am sure the gov’t knew Christian groups would reject the Liberal requirements to access the grants. I also believe Trudeau worked with the muslim community to craft a list of requirments that they could accept while simultaneously retaining their firm stand against the immorality of the Trudeau gov’t social platform.

  3. re: Virginia school bans carols mentioning Jesus.

    This reminds me of the days when I led a Christian mission to a home for the menally ill.

    We would open each meeting with several Christian praise songs.
    One day a muslim teen living in the home joined us but stated “I can sing the praise songs with you but only the songs that don’t mention Jesus”.

  4. re: British children to receive counter-terrorism training

    Just teach them what the gov’t teaches the adults:

    “Run, Hide, Tell”

    It doesn’t get more childish than that.

  5. A message to white South African farmers re. land seizures: leave the country, the sooner the better. Today it’s your land that’s being taken. Tomorrow it will be your lives. With very few exceptions, Jewish people in Nazi Germany could not believe anything bad would every happen to them. And that was “white on white”. You people are dealing with “black on white”. That adds an extra layer of resentment. It doesn’t matter for how many generations you have inhabited South Africa. It doesn’t matter that very few black people were living on the land initially. It doesn’t matter that you built the country into what it is today. This has to do with revenge. Remember Zimbabwe. Just get out, even if you lose all your material possessions. Australia will receive you. So will Russia with her rich and fertile lands.

    • Come to Canada also.

      I know several families of white South Africans who have come to Canada several years ago.

      Great people. Hard working and friendly.

      We would be a better country with more of such people.

  6. Re South Africa, “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.”

    Not the beginning of the end, but a certain marker along the way to it. Zimbabwe Mark 2 here we come.

  7. Re: “Golden Age Cinema Star Brigitte Bardot…”

    No offence to the lovely BB, nor nostalgia on my part (I was born in 1948), but the Golden Age was the late 1930s, ’40s and early ’50s, especially in the US, Britain and France: Film Noir, Wyman and “Casablanca”, Michael Powell, Renoir and Carne…

    • Aaaaargh! Not “Wyman”, but William Wyler, director of “The Best Years of our Lives”. Wyler was Jewish, but accompanied his crew in B-17s over Nazi occupied Europe to make the documentary “Memphis Belle”; they began filming with another bomber and crew, but it was shot down on a raid when the film crew were not aboard. He also had an affair with Bette Davis, so was not lacking in testicular fortitude!

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