Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/2/2018

French President Emmanuel Macron is considering declaring a state of emergency after the “Yellow Vest” demonstrations morphed into violent riots. While touring the damage on the Champs-Élysée, Mr. Macron was greeted with anger and derision from crowds of onlookers.

In other news, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked Germany to send more warships to the Black Sea to protect Ukraine from Russian aggression.

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USA
» All ‘SNL’ Wants for Christmas is for Mueller to Arrest Trump, ‘Only Other Option is a Coup’
» America Take Note — Dr. Jerome Corsi is Not Suicidal
» Americans Respond to Alex Jones’ Censorship and Twitter Bias Towards Conservatives
» Black College Lacrosse Player, 21, Is Arrested for Spraying N-Word and Swastika Graffiti Targeting Himself and Other Minority Students in Two Incidents That Terrorized the Campus
» Cereal Killers: Monsanto Weedkiller That Can ‘Probably’ Cause Cancer Found in Children’s Breakfasts
» Elizabeth Warren 2020 Preview: Donald Trump ‘Cozies Up to White Nationalists, ‘ Inspires ‘Domestic Right-Wing Terrorism’
» Florida Election Official Brenda Snipes Rescinds Resignation After Governor Moves to Suspend Her
» ‘He Fired With Tragic Accuracy’: U.S. Cop Who Shot Dead Australian Woman in Her Pyjamas After She Called for Help ‘Intended’ To Murder Her, Lawyers Say
» Landlord Tells Harvard Student to Move Out Over Legally Owned Guns
» Microsoft Will Give the U.S. Military Access to ‘All the Technology We Create’
» New Jersey Mayor, Councilman Filmed Brawling Outside Casino
» Peter Thiel Predicts ‘Reformation’ of Higher Education in Speech to Student Journalists
» Representative Stephanie Kifowit Must Resign
» Scientists Urge World to Share DNA in Centralized Database “For Your Protection”
» Socialist Losers Given the Wheel of the Democratic Party
 
Europe and the EU
» Allahu Akbar Shouting Man Waving Hatchet Threatens People at German Christmas Market
» France: Paris in Flames: Violence, ‘Insurrection’ In Third Week of Yellow Jacket Protests
» France: “There Are Whole Parts of the City That I’ve Been Warned Not to Enter”: An American Shocked by the Real Paris
» French Govt Considers Imposing State of Emergency After ‘Yellow Vest’ Protest Violence
» Fury as MPs Plan to Keep UK Under EU Trade Rules if May’s Brexit Deal is Rejected by Parliament
» German Government Apologises for Serving Pork Sausages at Islam Conference
» Hapless French Government’s Scare Campaign Against Le Pen Didn’t Work
» Homosexuality in Clergy Concerns Me — Pope
» Macron Considers State of Emergency After France Experiences Worst Civil Unrest Since 1968
» New Patriotic Greek Party Wants Higher Birth Rates and to Protect Europe From Islamic Colonisation — Interview
» Orban Hopes the European Elections Will Result in Politicians Who Understand That ‘We Are in a Different Era’
» Sharia Britain: UK Proposes Six-Year Prison Sentence for Brits Who Criticize Islam
» Spain: Ruling Socialists Under Pressure as Far-Right Eyes Andalusia Seats
» Sweden: Housing Shortage: 636,000 Stockholm Residents in Housing Queue, Only 85 Vacancies
» Swedish Poll Shows Populist Gains, Greens and Liberals Teetering Around Election Threshold
» UK: 98-Year-Old British WWII Veteran Dies From Injuries Inflicted During Violent Robbery
» UK: Authorities Forced Victim of Telford Grooming Gang to Bring Her Child to Rapist
» UK: Ex-Brexit Secretary: ‘No Deal’ Not ‘Doomsday’, Will Free Britain From ‘Dead Hand of EU’
» UK: Labour MP Who Employed Drug Con Son Resigns After Threatening to ‘Smash’ Journalist’s Face With Bat
» UK: Tory Activists Go on Strike and Refuse to Deliver May’s Brexit Deal Leaflets
 
Middle East
» Commander of US Navy’s Middle East Fleet Found Dead
» Tunisia and KSA Clinch Deals Worth 100s of Millions of USD
» U.S. Navy Admiral Scott Stearney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
 
Russia
» Ukraine Urges German Naval Presence in Black Sea
 
Far East
» Genetically Modified People Are Walking Among Us
» Samsung’s Folding Screen Tech Stolen and Sold to China
 
Australia — Pacific
» Exclusive: ‘They Make Him Out to be a Monster’: Bassam Hamzy’s Father Defends His Killer Son After Seeing Him for the First Time in 12 Years — as the ISIS Sympathiser’s Life in Supermax Jail is Revealed
» ‘Walk to School, Make a Sandwich and Switch Off Your Devices’: Baby Boomer Slams ‘Selfish, Virtue-Signalling’ School Kids Who Skipped Class to Protest Against Climate Change
 
Latin America
» Brazil’s New Leader Wants to Ease Gun Laws. Supporters Are Ready, And Training.
» China Agrees $9 Billion Currency Swap With Argentina
» Multiple Grenades Explode at the US Consulate in Mexico
 
Immigration
» Almost 80% of French Don’t Want to Accept More Migrants, According to New Opinion Poll
» Breakthrough for Anti-Mass Migration VOX Party in Spanish Regional Election
» EU Confirms Funding for Migrants Massed at Bosnia Border, Locals Say Crime Rife
» E-Verify Would Stop Illegal Immigration — But Congress Won’t Pass it
» Italian Far-Left Group Promises ‘Civil Resistance’ Against Salvini Migrant Decree
» Judge OKs Sanctuary Cities, Rules Anti-Sanctuary Law Unconstitutional
» Mexico’s New President Signs Deal to Halt Flow of Migrants
» Shock Video: Migrants Land Boat on California Beach 100 Miles From Border
» Tijuana Mayor Says Migrant Caravan Organisers Should Face Criminal Charges
» Tijuana Shuts Down Migrant Caravan Shelter
 
Culture Wars
» Girl, 10, Gets Jesus Into School Xmas Song
» Pope Francis Warns Christians Not to Become ‘Paganized’ At Christmas
» Pope Francis: There is ‘No Room’ For Homosexuality in Priesthood
 

All ‘SNL’ Wants for Christmas is for Mueller to Arrest Trump, ‘Only Other Option is a Coup’

‘I don’t need a lot for Christmas. Just a perfect magic spell that solves the whole world’s problems and put the white guy in a cell,’ sings cast

In what was supposedly a “comedy” act to close out the latest episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, the female cast members got together to sing their rendition of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You”.

But the person they had their eye on was Special Counsel Robert Mueller, or, at least a report that would put Trump in jail. Because, according to the SNL cast, “the only other option is a coup. Straight Africa.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

America Take Note — Dr. Jerome Corsi is Not Suicidal

I know Dr. Jerome Corsi personally and can assure readers that he is NOT suicidal. Please note the emphasis on the “NOT.” Oh, and neither am I. It’s sad that in America today such a “disclaimer” is advisable, even if it is done somewhat tongue-in-cheek (or perhaps not). Considering the statistical anomalies surrounding the mortality rates of whistleblowers, witnesses and others related to certain members of the “Deep State” and their operatives, it just seemed appropriate to write.

Now that the obligatory formalities are complete, I wish to share with you a story of political persecution in America taking place in real time by the front-line offense of the Deep State or the permanent bureaucracy doing the dirty work of the seemingly untouchable elite. .

Earlier this year and only a few short months before Special Counsel Robert Mueller began his campaign of harassment and intimidation against my friend and professional colleague Dr. Jerome Corsi, we shared breakfast at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. We spoke about a number of things, including the ongoing assault against President Donald Trump by what is commonly referenced as the “Deep State.”

Our breakfast conversation was sobering as we discussed a number of things, including his most recent book, Killing The Deep State, and the blowback it was causing.

Dr. Corsi is a Harvard educated Ph.D., a well-known investigative journalist and a prolific author. He has authored 20 books since 2004, including two New York Times bestsellers. It is interesting to note that the information contained in one book in particular, written by Dr. Corsi and published on May 17, 2011 titled Where’s The Birth Certificate? would apparently become relevant to the questioning he was forced to endure by Aaaron Zelinsky, one of Robert Mueller’s “angry Democrats” and not coincidentally, a former assistant US attorney under Rod Rosenstein. Also lacking in coincidence, perhaps, is that Zelinsky is a staunch Democrat and a frequent contributor to the Leftist publication Huffington Post. In addition to Aaron Zelinsky, Dr. Corsi was subjected to interrogation, ridicule and was even mocked as detailed in a recent hit piece published in The Rolling Stone by Jeannie Rhee, a former Deputy Attorney General under Obama and a die-hard Hillary Clinton supporter. Even more disturbing and ironic is that Rhee was Hillary Clinton’s lawyer just three years ago, representing her in her legal e-mail troubles.

During our time together, we discussed censorship by the big tech giants of conservative truthtellers, as well as his thoughts about what might be on the horizon for anyone daring enough to take on the Democratic-Socialists embedded inside American government.

At that time, I shared my concern about the blowback he was experiencing, which I posited was payback for not just his latest book, but his years of shining the searing spotlight of truth on many high-profile denizens of the DC swamp. He said nothing to suggest that he disagreed. One thing that seemed certain during our time together is that much greater political payback seemed to be in the offing. And it was. In spades.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Americans Respond to Alex Jones’ Censorship and Twitter Bias Towards Conservatives

Debate over free speech rages after Big Tech bans Infowars

Owen Shroyer takes to the streets of Austin, Texas to find out how average American citizens feel about big techs’ political censorship campaign that targets conservative voices across the United States.

[Comment: The tech companies ran a large bait and switch operation. Pretend to be good until near monopoloy is achieved and money rolls in, then bring the hammer down.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Black College Lacrosse Player, 21, Is Arrested for Spraying N-Word and Swastika Graffiti Targeting Himself and Other Minority Students in Two Incidents That Terrorized the Campus

A black college lacrosse player has been arrested in connection with two incidents of racist graffiti found in a dorm on the Goucher College campus in Maryland.

Fynn Ajani Arthur, a 21-year-old from Brunswick, Maine, was charged with two counts of malicious destruction of property on Thursday night in Baltimore County.

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

Cereal Killers: Monsanto Weedkiller That Can ‘Probably’ Cause Cancer Found in Children’s Breakfasts

A hearty bowl of oatmeal is a healthy way to start your day, but according to a new study, that bowl of oatmeal can contain dangerous levels of glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical linked to cancer.

The study, carried out by the non-profit Environmental Working Group, found that 43 out of 45 popular breakfast cereals tested in three locations in the US contained traces of glyphosate. 31 of these contained dangerously high levels of the chemical.

Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, a weedkiller manufactured by Monsanto. Roundup is the most popular weedkiller in the US, and last week a court in California ordered the company to pay $39 million in compensation and $250 million in punitive damages to a school groundskeeper who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after years of using Roundup at work.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Elizabeth Warren 2020 Preview: Donald Trump ‘Cozies Up to White Nationalists, ‘ Inspires ‘Domestic Right-Wing Terrorism’

“He undermines the free press and incites violence against journalists.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) spoke at American University Washington College of Law in a speech billed as foreign policy-focused; however, it included criticism of President Donald Trump and his policies and claimed he promotes white nationalism and encourages “domestic right-wing terrorism.”

“He cozies up to white nationalists,” Warren said on Thursday. “He undermines the free press and incites violence against journalists.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Florida Election Official Brenda Snipes Rescinds Resignation After Governor Moves to Suspend Her

‘Fighting this to the very end,’ says Snipes lawyer

Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes has rescinded her resignation after Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) moved to immediately suspend her.

Snipes’s attorney announced Saturday that the elections chief would fight Scott’s order, and that the governor intended to embarrass and “tarnish [Snipes’s] record.”

“Dr. Snipes hereby rescinds her resignation,” attorney Burnadette Norris-Weeks said, according to NBC News.

Snipes originally announced resignation last month after Republicans in the state accused her of illegal activity during the tense recounts of the Florida Senate and gubernatorial races, and was set to step down in January.

Scott, who is leaving his post to become senator, issued an executive order on Friday ordering Snipes to be immediately removed and replaced over “widespread issues with voting.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘He Fired With Tragic Accuracy’: U.S. Cop Who Shot Dead Australian Woman in Her Pyjamas After She Called for Help ‘Intended’ To Murder Her, Lawyers Say

Prosecutors allege former Minneapolis police officer accused of using ‘tragic accuracy’ to shoot dead Australian life coach Justine Damond Ruszczyk ‘knew exactly what he was doing’.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Landlord Tells Harvard Student to Move Out Over Legally Owned Guns

Roommates searched room for guns after finding MAGA hat

A Massachusetts landlord told a Harvard University graduate student that he wanted her to move out of her apartment because her legally owned firearms made some of her roommates uncomfortable.

“Since it’s clear that Leyla wants to keep her firearms, it would be best for all parties if she finds another place to live,” Dave Lewis, president of Avid Management, said in an email to the household obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The request that the student, Leyla Pirnie, move out came after her roommates searched her room while she was not home and found her firearms. That prompted one of the roommates to email Lewis requesting he verify that Pirnie was in compliance with applicable firearms laws.

“We discussed with Leyla that all of us are uncomfortable with having firearms in the house, and that their presence causes anxiety and deprives us of the quiet enjoyment of the premise to which we are entitled,” the roommate wrote to Lewis.

Pirnie said she feels her roommates violated her privacy and now they and her landlord are trying to violate her rights.

“A few weeks ago, I came back to my apartment from a weekend trip and was confronted by one of my roommates who asked if I had guns in the house,” she told the Free Beacon. “After being told far too many lies to count, my roommates finally admitted that they searched my closet, under my bed, and all of my drawers in pursuit of finding my guns.”

While she was given several different explanations for why the roommates entered and searched her room, the 24-year-old said she felt her political beliefs and where she is from played a significant role in the roommates’ actions.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Microsoft Will Give the U.S. Military Access to ‘All the Technology We Create’

As tech companies such as Google wrestle with employee objections to working with the U.S. military, Microsoft Corp.’s president is throwing his company’s support behind the Pentagon.

Microsoft is “going to provide the U.S. military with access to the best technology… all the technology we create. Full stop,” Brad Smith said Saturday during a panel at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.

Smith acknowledged that “there is some angst” in some workforces, including Microsoft’s, about tech companies’ involvement in military contracts.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

New Jersey Mayor, Councilman Filmed Brawling Outside Casino

A Democratic New Jersey mayor brawled with a local councilman, a casino surveillance footage released on Thursday shows.

Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam was caught on camera in a vicious fight with the city’s Councilman Jeffree Fauntleroy and other unidentified men outside at the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino last month.

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

Peter Thiel Predicts ‘Reformation’ of Higher Education in Speech to Student Journalists

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Peter Thiel is an optimist.

Standing before a room full of nearly 100 right-of-center student journalists on Friday night, he told the crowd “we are not on the losing side of history.”

But a “reformation” needs to happen first, the billionaire tech mogul and libertarian philanthropist said.

“Universities today are as corrupt as the Catholic Church of 500 years ago,” Thiel said.

During his speech, he spoke of an academia that has shut down debate, excommunicated conservative scholars, and insisted a college degree is the only way to “salvation,” that being a good job and solid future.

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

Representative Stephanie Kifowit Must Resign

House Speaker Michael Madigan and the Democratic Party of Illinois must demand the resignation of State Representative Stephanie Kifowit.

Representative Kifowit stated on the Illinois House Floor that she wished to harm the loved ones of another State Representative because he disagreed with her on a policy issue.

The comments are shown in this video and in this transcript:

“To the representative from Lombard [Peter Breen], I would like to make him a broth of Legionella and pump it into the water system of his loved ones so that they can be infected, they can be mistreated, they can sit and suffer by getting aspirin instead of being properly treated and ultimately die.” ?

Regrettably, Representative Kifowit did not take responsibility for her comments, but instead claimed that she spoke hypothetically, although the video and transcript show otherwise.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Scientists Urge World to Share DNA in Centralized Database “For Your Protection”

Remember, you have nothing to fear from this ultimate invasion of privacy if you have done nothing wrong…

Bloomberg’s Kristen Brown writes that in a new paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, researchers suggest that the best way to protect genetic information might be for all Americans to deposit their data in a universal, nationwide DNA database.

[Comment: Next step, putting the electronic summary of the DNA into the chip that public will be “encouraged” to implant.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Socialist Losers Given the Wheel of the Democratic Party

Likes of Ocasio-Cortez and Beto future of the party?

It only took 24 hours for the smug Democrats and Mockingbird Media to circle their wagons after the Honduran caravan stormed the border and border patrol responded with non-lethal force.

Potential 2020 presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke weighed in, claiming, “It should tell us something about her home country that a mother is willing to travel 2,000 miles with her 4-month-old son to come here. It should tell us something about our country that we only respond to this desperate need once she is at our border.”

Beto either doesn’t do his homework or chooses to ignore the billions in aid USAID has given to Honduras over the years. In 2017 alone the US gave $181 million to Honduras. And we know for a fact due to the courageous efforts of Project Veritas, that Beto’s campaign aided the caravan.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Allahu Akbar Shouting Man Waving Hatchet Threatens People at German Christmas Market

A 38-year-old man has been arrested on Saturday after threatening people at a Christmas market in Witzenhausen, Germany.

Around 8:30 pm the police received several phone calls about a man with a hatchet walking along the pavement in the direction of the local Christmas market.

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

France: Paris in Flames: Violence, ‘Insurrection’ In Third Week of Yellow Jacket Protests

In the third straight week of protests by the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Jackets) movement, hundreds of protestors were arrested as violence and arson took place across the country with smoke blanketing the Paris skyline in what has been called an “insurrection”.

While protests took place across France, much of the violence and arson took place in the French capital in what was seen as a further escalation of violence from the previous protest last Saturday.

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

France: “There Are Whole Parts of the City That I’ve Been Warned Not to Enter”: An American Shocked by the Real Paris

As an American, I’ve always wanted to go to Paris. You see it in the movies all the time and it just seems like the most amazing place in Europe.

And now I’m here, reporting on the huge protests taking place in the city and across the country against Macron’s carbon taxes.

That’s not the only thing shocking about seeing Paris for the first time:

The streets aren’t all French. The people are unhappy and terrified. There are whole parts of the city that I’ve been warned not to enter — and I’ve just learned that one part of the city, Seine-Saint-Denis, is now being completely dominated by economic migrants camping out in the streets, draining public services and creating social tension.

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

French Govt Considers Imposing State of Emergency After ‘Yellow Vest’ Protest Violence

The French government will consider imposing a state of emergency to prevent a recurrence of France’s worst riots in years, but while it is open to dialogue it will not change course, its spokesman said on Sunday.

Masked, black-clad groups ran amok across central Paris on Saturday, torching cars and buildings, looting shops, smashing windows and fighting police in the worst unrest the capital has seen since 1968, posing the most formidable challenge Emmanuel Macron has faced in his 18-month-old presidency.

Disturbances also rocked several cities and towns and across France — from Charleville Mezieres in the northeast to Nantes in the west and Marseille in the south.

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

Fury as MPs Plan to Keep UK Under EU Trade Rules if May’s Brexit Deal is Rejected by Parliament

Unless MPs back the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal in Parliament on 11 December, Britain will be unable to make trade agreements with other countries, in a revelation that has angered typically divided staunch Remainers and Brexiteers.

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

German Government Apologises for Serving Pork Sausages at Islam Conference

The German Ministry of Interior has issued an official apology to the people attending the German Islam Conference in Berlin for having served pork sausage.

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

Hapless French Government’s Scare Campaign Against Le Pen Didn’t Work

Violence continues in Paris as a tax protest has spiraled out of control. The anti-French, pro-globalist government of Emmanuel Macron has lost the streets and there are loud calls for the president’s resignation.

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

Homosexuality in Clergy Concerns Me — Pope

‘Fashionable mentality influences life of Church’

(ANSA) — Rome, November 30 — Pope Francis is concerned about homosexuality in the clergy, the pope says in a forthcoming book-interview with Claretian missionary Fernando Prado entitled La Forza della Vocazione (The Force of Vocation).

Homosexuality in the clergy and the consecrated life “is something that concerns me,” he says.

“It is a very serious issue”, the pope says.

“In our societies it even seems that homosexuality is fashionable and this mentality, in some ways, also influences the life of the Church”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Macron Considers State of Emergency After France Experiences Worst Civil Unrest Since 1968

French President Emmanuel Macron is considering imposing a state of emergency in France after violent protests in Paris saw the Arc de Triomphe vandalised and hundreds of arrests.

President Macron was met with jeers and calls for his resignation by bystanders as he toured the damage along the on Sunday morning after his return from G20 in Buenos Aires.

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

New Patriotic Greek Party Wants Higher Birth Rates and to Protect Europe From Islamic Colonisation — Interview

In my series of articles on the new conservative parties likely to take seats in next year’s EU elections and in their own countries’ internal elections, this column focuses on my friend and great patriot, Failos Kranidiotis of Nea Dexia (the New Right).

I first met Failos and his colleagues when they applied to join the ENF’s pan European party, the Movement for Nations and Liberty (MENL).

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

Orban Hopes the European Elections Will Result in Politicians Who Understand That ‘We Are in a Different Era’

Concerning the European Parliament’s decision to hold another vote on “migrant visas”, the Hungarian Prime Minister said that “it seems that we will have to keep on voting until we arrive at what they consider the right outcome”.

Viktor Orban added that “this institution calling itself a guardian of the rule of law will easily transgress the norms of that rule of law”.

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

Sharia Britain: UK Proposes Six-Year Prison Sentence for Brits Who Criticize Islam

BRITS who are hostile towards religion online could face up to six years in prison according to new proposals.

The Sentencing Council for England and Wales has proposed massive changes to public order offences and anyone perceived as targeting a “protected” group online could face jail time.

Breitbart reported that if UK citizens criticize “race; sex; disability; age; sexual orientation; religion or belief; pregnancy and maternity; and gender reassignment.” you could be jailed.

If you have a large online audience you will get an even longer sentence with those “in a position of trust, authority or influence” being warned that if they abuse their position to stir up hatred,” they will face jail.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Spain: Ruling Socialists Under Pressure as Far-Right Eyes Andalusia Seats

SEVILLE (SPAIN) (AFP) — Spain’s most populous region Andalusia went to the polls yesterday in the first of a series of tests for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

The vote was Sanchez’s first electoral test since he took office in June after winning a surprise vote of no-confidence in parliament against the previous conservative Popular Party (PP) government of Mariano Rajoy over a corruption scandal.

His Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) has ruled Andalusia since 1982, and pre-poll surveys suggest that while it will be re-elected, it will win fewer seats and once again without an absolute majority in the southern region’s parliament.

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

Sweden: Housing Shortage: 636,000 Stockholm Residents in Housing Queue, Only 85 Vacancies

Sweden’s housing shortage has now reached a new record for the capital city of Stockholm where 636,000 people are in the queue for municipal housing with only a mere 85 vacant properties available.

The figures are much the same across Sweden with a total of nearly a million people in municipal housing queues in Sweden’s three largest cities, Stockholm, Malmö, and Gothenburg Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.

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

Swedish Poll Shows Populist Gains, Greens and Liberals Teetering Around Election Threshold

Sweden is still without a government over two months after the national election and a poll shows a new election could see an increase for the populist Sweden Democrats.

The poll, which is itself a compilation of various polls, was released by Sifo this week and shows the populist Sweden Democrats gaining at 19.2 percent, ahead of their historic 17.5 percent in September’s national election, and ahead of the conservative Moderate party, broadcaster Sveriges Radio reports.

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

UK: 98-Year-Old British WWII Veteran Dies From Injuries Inflicted During Violent Robbery

A 98-year-old WWII veteran has died after being brutally beaten and left dying when burglars broke into his home and stole a TV worth £20.

Peter Gouldstone who lived in Enfield, London, served in Italy during the Second World War as a telephone engineer and then worked for the post office until he retired.

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

UK: Authorities Forced Victim of Telford Grooming Gang to Bring Her Child to Rapist

A victim of the Telford grooming gang has revealed she was forced to bring her child to see her rapist or be arrested.

The girl was targetted by the mostly Pakistani-heritage gang, which victimised up to a thousand mostly White British girls in the West Midlands Town, when she was just 14, and gave birth to her child when she was just 15 — and was forced to allow her rapist access.

“This has been happening for years and it’s an absolute disgrace,” the victim — named as “Alison” to protect her identity — told the Daily Mirror.

“I was forced to take my child to a contact centre to see my abuser, where I had to sit across from him. He wanted to hurt me by targeting the thing I loved most in the world,” she said.

“It was just another way of trying to control me. Despite the fact I’d repeatedly tried to tell police and social services what was going on, the court allowed him to see my child.

“I was told I would be held in contempt and arrested if I didn’t take him to the contact centre,” she said.

“They made me feel like I was the one in the wrong. I was terrified I’d go to jail.

“The whole thing was extremely traumatic. It gave my child nightmares for years.

“It seems like the rights of victims always come second to the rights of perpetrators.The system re-traumatises victims like me. It allows for further emotional abuse.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Ex-Brexit Secretary: ‘No Deal’ Not ‘Doomsday’, Will Free Britain From ‘Dead Hand of EU’

Former Brexit Secretary David Davis has said Britain should accelerate its preparations for a “No Deal” Brexit, explaining that trading with the European Union under default World Trade Organization (WTO) terms is far from a “doomsday scenario”.

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

UK: Labour MP Who Employed Drug Con Son Resigns After Threatening to ‘Smash’ Journalist’s Face With Bat

Labour MP Kate Osamor has quit the shadow front bench after reportedly attacking a journalist who asked questions about her son’s conviction for having £2,500-worth of drugs with the intent to supply.

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

UK: Tory Activists Go on Strike and Refuse to Deliver May’s Brexit Deal Leaflets

Tory Activists have gone on strike and are refusing to deliver Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit leaflets, we can reveal.

Steve Double, Tory MP for St Austell and Newquay, is not happy with the most recent literaute arrivals from Tory HQ. His constituency received what look like several boxes of pro-Withdrawal Agreement fluff, financed by what you can only describe as a mug of a Tory donor.

However, he is having none of it. Along with Tory activisits he has downed tools and took to Twitter to announce a refusal to deliver the offending leaflets:

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

Commander of US Navy’s Middle East Fleet Found Dead

After only seven months leading the US Navy’s Fifth fleet, Vice Admiral Vice Admiral Scott Stearney — who led the American Navy presence in the Middle East from its base in Bahrain — has been found dead in his residence, the Navy announced Saturday evening.

Stearney, a Chicago native and graduate of the University of Notre Dame, assumed control of the fleet from Vice Adm. John C. Aquilino back in May after Aquilino had served in the role for only eight months. He was in his late fifties at the time of his death.

The circumstances surrounding the admiral’s death are not yet known. Bahrainian authorities are cooperating in an investigation, according to a statement released by the Navy.

“The Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Bahraini Ministry of Interior are cooperating on the investigation, but at this time no foul play is suspected,” said Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson. While no foul play is suspected, one twitter user pointed out, it’s rather early in the investigation to definitively rule out ‘foul play’.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Tunisia and KSA Clinch Deals Worth 100s of Millions of USD

Protests against visit by Bin Salman

(ANSAmed) — TUNIS, NOVEMBER 29 — During a recent visit to Tunis by Saudi crown prince Mohamed Bin Salman, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia clinched accords worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The news was given by Tunisian presidential advisor Noureddine Ben Ticha to the local radio station Jawhara FM, which said that the agreements included a 500-million-dollar loan with low interest rates to Tunisia from Saudi Arabia and 120 million dollars in project funding. The two countries will soon be discussing Saudi Investment Bank interventions in several infrastructure projects in Tunisia, Ben Ticha said, adding that “the Saudi crown prince has clearly expressed economic support from the Kingdom to Tunisia”. There was opposition to Bin Salman’s visit to Tunisia from hundreds of Tunisians who protested in the center of the capital against it. The Tunisian journalists syndicate (SNJT), many civil society associations and the Tunisian National Women’s Union (UNFT) were also against the visit.

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U.S. Navy Admiral Scott Stearney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide

Vice Adm. Scott Stearney, who oversaw U.S. naval forces in the Middle East, was found dead Saturday in his residence in Bahrain, officials said. Defense officials told CBS News they are calling it an “apparent suicide.”

Stearney was the commander of the U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet. Rear Adm. Paul Schlise, the deputy commander of the 5th Fleet, has assumed command, the Navy said in a statement.

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Ukraine Urges German Naval Presence in Black Sea

Ukraine’s leader called on Germany and its allies to boost their naval presence in the Black Sea to deter Russia from further aggression in the region and said Russia was blockading Ukrainian ports on the nearby Sea of Azov.

President Petro Poroshenko says Russia has deployed a large number of troops along its border with Ukraine. He alleged in an interview published Sunday that Russia intends to push inland into Ukraine following a clash in the Black Sea between the countries’ forces.

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Genetically Modified People Are Walking Among Us

And, so far, they’re just fine. America needs a sober debate about the pros and cons of Crispr instead of a paranoid ban on the technology.

It felt as if humanity had crossed an important line: In China, a scientist named He Jiankui announced on Monday that twins had been born in November with a gene that he had edited when they were embryos.

But in some ways this news is not new at all. A few genetically modified people already walk among us.

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Samsung’s Folding Screen Tech Stolen and Sold to China

Samsung’s latest bendable screen technology has been stolen and sold to two Chinese companies, according to prosecutors in South Korea.

The Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office charged 11 people on Thursday with stealing tech secrets from Samsung (SSNLF), the office said in a statement.

The prosecutors allege that a Samsung supplier leaked blueprints of Samsung’s “flexible OLED edge panel 3D lamination” to a company that it had set up. That company then sold the tech secrets to the Chinese firms for nearly $14 million, according to the prosecutors.

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Exclusive: ‘They Make Him Out to be a Monster’: Bassam Hamzy’s Father Defends His Killer Son After Seeing Him for the First Time in 12 Years — as the ISIS Sympathiser’s Life in Supermax Jail is Revealed

For the first time in more than a decade Basam Hamzy, a convicted killer and founder of the gang ‘Brothers4Life’, saw his father Khaled who was sitting in the front row of court supporting him.

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‘Walk to School, Make a Sandwich and Switch Off Your Devices’: Baby Boomer Slams ‘Selfish, Virtue-Signalling’ School Kids Who Skipped Class to Protest Against Climate Change

A baby boomer has unleashed on ‘selfish, virtue-signalling’ school kids who protested against climate change in savage social media post.

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Brazil’s New Leader Wants to Ease Gun Laws. Supporters Are Ready, And Training.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — For Natalia and Rubens Ortega, the only remaining question is: Glock or Taurus?

The young couple signed up for a gun-training course at a shooting club in São Paulo just days after Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right former Army captain, was elected Brazil’s next president on the strength of his promise to upend the status quo and combat crime.

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China Agrees $9 Billion Currency Swap With Argentina

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) — China and Argentina signed a $9 billion currency swap deal to boost the crisis-stricken South American country’s foreign currency reserves, its central bank announced Sunday.

Struggling to recover after a currency crisis earlier this year, Latin America’s third largest economy sought the help of the International Monetary Fund — which approved a $56 billion loan package.

Now, this latest agreement will “contribute to greater financial stability and also facilitate trade” between China and Argentina, according to the bank’s statement.

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Multiple Grenades Explode at the US Consulate in Mexico

The consulate said that it was made aware of the security incident following a report by Fox News that said that two grenades were thrown at the US consulate Friday night. In a statement on the consulate’s Facebook page, they said that no one was hurt in the incident. They said: “The Consulate was closed at the time and there were no injuries.

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Almost 80% of French Don’t Want to Accept More Migrants, According to New Opinion Poll

According to an opinion poll on immigration conducted by Ifop, in partnership with the Jean Jaures Foundation and the American Jewish Committee, 52 per cent of French men and women believe that France welcomes “too many foreigners”.

A further 27 per cent believe that France welcomes “enough”, meaning that a total of 79 per cent of the country’s citizens believe that France should not welcome any more immigrants.

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Breakthrough for Anti-Mass Migration VOX Party in Spanish Regional Election

Right-wing populist VOX has entered a Spanish regional parliament for the first time after gaining 11 per cent of the vote in Andalusia on Sunday, according to exit polls.

VOX has won 12 seats in Spain’s most populous region, according to preliminary results where around 99 per cent of votes have been counted, Reuters reports.

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EU Confirms Funding for Migrants Massed at Bosnia Border, Locals Say Crime Rife

As the EU confirmed it was spending taxpayers’ cash on migrants seeking to break into the bloc, Bosnians have pleaded for the Balkans migration route to be shut down amidst increasing “militancy” from newcomers.

Authorities in border towns in Bosnia, which is outside the European Union, have been struggling to cope with increasingly bold and forceful attempts to push through police lines and onto EU soil since mid-October, when thousands of third world immigrants began camping near the border with EU member Croatia — reportedly following misinformation that Croatia was set to open its frontiers.

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E-Verify Would Stop Illegal Immigration — But Congress Won’t Pass it

According to the U.S. Border Patrol, no less than 1,500 illegal migrants violate our southern border with Mexico every night. Dr. Steven Camarota, http://www.CIS.org, stated that an average of 500,000 illegal migrants cross into the USA annually. They arrive via legal visas that they disregard and remain in the USA to find jobs. They arrive as anchor baby mothers. They arrive as workers.

An estimated 7,000 to 10,000 people from Central America rush our southern borders in an attempt to illegally cross into America for jobs and a better life. The entire world sends us 1,000,000 (million) legal refugees annually, and we absorb them via our U.S. Congress that can’t seem to see our country bursting at the seams with too many people already and another 100 million about to be imported over the next 30 years.

The biggest draw for illegal immigration: jobs.

This mass transit of humanity crossing our U.S. borders continues after 40 years. Why? Because our U.S. Congress refuses to pass the most powerful law to stop them: E-Verify. That law, strictly enforced, would stop employers from hiring illegal aliens in their workforce.

However, Congress passed laws in the 1970’s, still on the books that state that anyone who hires, houses or transports illegal aliens faces a $2,000.00 fine for each illegal hired, transported or housed. And, up to five years in prison for hiring, transporting or housing an illegal alien.

The legislative and the executive branches failed to enforce those laws for the past 40 years.

Those illegals send $69,000,000,000.000 (billion) in cash transfers back to their home countries annually. Mexico: $26 billion; China $16 billion; India $11 billion; Philippines $9 billion; Vietnam $7 billion. Please understand that illegal alien employers pay off the books, so they don’t pay federal, state or local taxes. Thus, you not only get bilked out of your tax dollars, you pay for all those services for illegals in your state.

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Italian Far-Left Group Promises ‘Civil Resistance’ Against Salvini Migrant Decree

The far-left L’Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d’Italia (ANPI/National Association of the Italian Partisans) has promised to engage in “civil resistance” following the confirmation of the new migrant and security decree drafted by populist interior minister Matteo Salvini.

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Judge OKs Sanctuary Cities, Rules Anti-Sanctuary Law Unconstitutional

A federal judge in New York has ruled the Trump sanctuary city crackdown illegal Friday — but even went further and also ruled the law Congress passed requiring information-sharing is unconstitutional.

Judge Edgardo Ramos’ decision frees sanctuary jurisdictions in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Washington, Massachusetts and Virginia to continue their policies without fear of losing federal money.

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Mexico’s New President Signs Deal to Halt Flow of Migrants

As one of his first acts in office, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his counterparts from three Central American countries have signed an agreement to formulate a plan which will stop the flow of migrants seeking asylum in the United States.

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Shock Video: Migrants Land Boat on California Beach 100 Miles From Border

Police arrested half the migrants and two suspected human smugglers

Residents of a California beach community witnessed a surprising incident as a small boat packed with illegal aliens made landfall. The migrants made their way to the beach resort located about 100 miles from the Mexican border in a small panga boat.

Officials with the Laguna Beach Police Department tweeted a video showing the boat making landfall early Thursday morning and 13 illegal aliens running on shore. Police say that U.S. Border Patrol agents responded quickly and took custody of seven of the migrants and two suspected human smugglers who were allegedly waiting to pick up the migrants, the Orange County Register reported.

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Tijuana Mayor Says Migrant Caravan Organisers Should Face Criminal Charges

After calling the migrant caravan a “humanitarian crisis,” Mayor Juan Manuel Gastélum said he cannot continue to fund the shelters for migrants without federal support.

Gastélum said that due to the arrival of the caravan, he could be forced to raise taxes for Tijuana’s 1.7 million residents, who have already suffered from Sunday’s clashes on the US border, Fox News reported.

Around 6,000 Central American migrants, who arrived in Tijuana in order to try and cross the US border, stayed in the tent city camp, with the conditions worsening after nights with heavy winds and rains, leaving wet clothes, sleeping bags and litter all around town after the overcrowded areas were flooded.

Gastélum said the blame lies on the unidentified organisers of the caravan. He said they should be held accountable and face criminal charge

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Tijuana Shuts Down Migrant Caravan Shelter

MEXICO CITY — The city government of Tijuana announced Saturday that it has closed down a migrant shelter at a sports complex close to the U.S. border that once held about 6,000 Central Americans who hope to get into the U.S.

Officials said all the migrants were being moved to a former concert venue much farther from the border. The city said in a statement the sports complex shelter was closed because of “bad sanitary conditions.”

Experts had expressed concerns about unsanitary conditions that had developed at the partly flooded sports complex, where the migrants had been packed into a space adequate for half their numbers. Mud, lice infestations and respiratory infections were rampant.

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Girl, 10, Gets Jesus Into School Xmas Song

After left out so as not to offend non-Catholics

(ANSA) — Venezia, November 30 — A 10-year-old girl launched a petition and managed to get Jesus’s name put into a school’s Christmas song after it was left out so as not offend the sensibilities of non-Catholic students.

The incident happened on the Riviera del Brenta between Venice and Padua.

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Pope Francis Warns Christians Not to Become ‘Paganized’ At Christmas

Pope Francis urged Christians to be “watchful” at the beginning of the Advent season, warning them to avoid spiritual laziness and falling into worldliness.

“Even we Christians, who are also the people of God, risk becoming worldly and losing our identity, ‘paganizing’ the Christian style,” the pope told some 20,000 pilgrims and tourists gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for the Angelus prayer Sunday.

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Pope Francis: There is ‘No Room’ For Homosexuality in Priesthood

It is a mistake to downplay the seriousness of homosexuality, Pope Francis said in an upcoming book, insisting that homosexuals have no place in the priesthood.

In the book, the pope recounts an interview he had with missionary Fernando Prado, who asked him whether homosexuality was a problem, suggesting that it is not a big deal for priests to be homosexual since it is “just an expression of an affection.”

“That’s a mistake,” Francis replied. “It’s not just an expression of an affection. In consecrated and priestly life, there’s no room for that kind of affection.”

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