Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/31/2019

Three men in Michigan — Muse Abdikadir Muse, Mohamed Salat Haji and Mohamud Abdikadir Muse — are being held in federal custody awaiting trial on charges of trying to join the Islamic State. The case has a Mohammed Coefficient of 66.7%.

In other news, the prime minister of Libya said that 800,000 transient migrants are temporarily residing in his country while they wait to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.

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Unaccompanied Foreign Criminals in Catalonia

Catalonia, like much of Western Europe, is having difficulties with its “unaccompanied foreign minors”. The following article describes the problems experienced by towns in Maresme Province that have local contingents of Puir Wee Bairns living in nearby refugee facilities.

Many thanks to Pampasnasturtium for translating this article from the Catalonian daily La Vanguardia:

Neighbors restless in Canet over the deeds of ‘unaccompanied foreign minors’

A group of youngsters hosted in a summer camp hostel perpetrates burglaries, thefts and harassment of female teenagers

Caption for photo [not shown]: A meeting of the Canet de Mar’s town council security commission (Source: Twitter).

The neighbors of Canet de Mar’s Can Salat Busquets borough, the newest area of the town, have instituted a community platform to look for solutions to the high number of crimes committed in the area by a group of unaccompanied foreign minors [‘menas‘: ‘menores extranjeros no acompañados‘] hosted in the Can Brugarola summer camp villa, owned by the mayoress, Blanca Arbell [her political party: ERC —Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya‘, Republican Left of Catalonia].

Last Friday some fifty neighbors gathered to decide on the public demonstrations to be held after a considerable number of robberies by a group of seven to ten of these youngsters. ‘We know it’s them because we’ve caught them stealing inside our houses, and they have threatened us,’ the neighbors explain. ‘They’ve stolen from or broken into all of the houses.’

‘We’ve seen them jumping fences from one garden into the next,’ they confirm. The feeling of insecurity can be felt on the upper area of Canet. The actions of these minors has also terrorized teenagers. ‘They molest us and they follow us home as they stalk us’, explained a [female] teenager to the community platform. In other situations they surround their victims to steal their mobile phones. ‘Three times we’ve reported to the police the sexual harassment of our daughters, but reports result in nothing,’ a family complained.

Police, as acknowledged by the mayoress, who showed up at the neighbors’ meeting to try to convince them that crime has gone down, are overwhelmed. ‘At night, in Canet there are only three policemen to patrol a town of 14,000 inhabitants.’

Police refer to delinquent unaccompanied foreign minors hosted on the mayoress’ summer-camp villa as ‘shortbread’ [‘polvorones‘]. ‘With the profit obtained from hosting them she should be paying for private security for us,’ some of the neighbors insisted.

Canet’s problem is common to all the towns and cities of Maresme Province that host unaccompanied foreign minors. Arenys de Mar, Cabrera de Mar, Dosrius, El Masnou, Llavaneres, Caldetes, Mataró and Montgat also have them. In the adjacent Arenys de Mar, the town council has set up patrols of civic agents to reinforce police action during the time periods these groups habitually act.

‘They’re minors who come from Canet,’ states the mayoress, Annabel Moreno. They used to steal from elderly people via muggings, which creates a high sense of insecurity. Such is the level of worry about the actions of these teenagers that some mayors have required the presence of the board of directors of the regional government’s Infancy and Adolescence Affairs Department [‘DGAIA‘: ‘Atenció a la Infància i l’Adolescència‘] during a meeting that all of the affected town councils summoned to demand solutions.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/30/2019

More than 2,000 lay and clerical members of the Church of England have signed a petition opposing the Anglican position on transgenders. Opponents believe the church’s liturgy celebrating a change of gender can be harmful, especially to children.

In other news, the natural gas utility in central Minnesota is asking people to turn down their thermostats and limit other uses of gas to prevent a catastrophic shortage during the record cold snap.

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Salvini: Crazy Like a Fox – Or an Italian

This is why I got a Matteo Salvini t-shirt for the Baron for Christmas:

What is the Italian equivalent for “joie de vivre”?? Salvini has it. His cup is full and running over.

Dr. Turley’s assessment of other leaders’ risks is spot on. TPTB don’t like populists. But regular folks do indeed like the way things are going in countries that don’t want to surrender to the EU machine.

Culture-Enriching Battery and Murder in Naples

In a particularly nasty case of brutality towards children, an “Italian” of Tunisian descent beat his stepson to death, and came close to killing his stepdaughter. Neither the video below nor most English-language articles about the incident list the ethnicity of the stepfather. However, according to the Neapolitan section of the national daily La Repubblica and the regional newspaper Corriere Adriatico, the alleged perpetrator is 24-year-old Tony Sessoubti Badre, “born in Italy of Tunisian origin”.

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

Here’s an English-language report (giving no name or ethnicity) from ANSA:

Mother’s Partner Charged Over 7-Yr-Old’s Murder

Boy allegedly beaten to death, sister injured

(ANSA) – Naples, January 28 – The partner of the mother of a seven-year-old boy who was allegedly beaten to death at the weekend near Naples has been detained and has been charged with murder and attempted murder after also injuring the boy’s sister, sources said on Monday.

The suspect denied committing murder during questioning overnight and said the boy fell down a flight of stairs, the sources said.

His version of events is being compared with that of the dead boy’s mother and his sister, who was injured and taken to hospital.

The head of the ward there said her injuries were “chilling”.

“Her face is all swollen and there was blood on her scalp, injuries probably caused by a brutal beating,” said the surgeon.

The suspect is said to be a 24-year-old who was born in Italy to foreign parents.

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A Potpourri of Political Insanity

One of the symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome is the staging of grotesque anti-MAGA theatrical productions on Broadway and in other urban enclaves of Progressives in the United States.

Based on the following article, a similar process is underway in Germany concerning the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany). This is a review from the Swiss Daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung of an anti-AfD production that recently opened in Dresden. Many thanks to JLH for the translation:

Theater Against the AfD: At Them With a Roar

Premiere in the Dresden State Theater of “A Nasty Surprise.”
A grotesque aimed at the AfD. And unfortunately also at the audience.

by Daniel Haas
January 28, 2019

This piece is played with a megaphone. Although there is actually no megaphone. But that is the acoustic effect. Bellowing, ranting, wailing, all at maximum volume. The idea appears to be: When the circumstances are jarring, protest must be even more jarring.

Premiere of “A Nasty Surprise” at the Dresden State Theater. Full house. Tension. It is a grotesque aimed at the AfD and beyond, at the new rightists and the zeal of their identity politics. The director and PR team had reckoned with disruptions. It wouldn’t be the first time AfD followers disturbed a premiere.

But nothing happens. No uproar, no scandal. And you would have to say that interrupting shouts or other disturbances would have disappeared in the general tumult. “A Nasty Surprise” — staged by Volker Lösch — drowns itself out. Whatever there is of extreme political attitudes in Germany, “A Nasty Surprise” scrambles them into a potpourri of political insanity.

Höcke, Gauland, Poggenburg

Eight of those somehow left behind by history, the losers in the Wende, victims of Treuhand,[1] fans of conspiracy theories and concepts of ethnic/national renewal move the action. Together, they set sail in an iron steamboat. The ideational compass is the “bluebook”—a collection of quotations from rightist-nationalist popular songs.

Höcke, Gauland, Poggenburg. Anyone who has uttered scandalous opinions is given voice. “Political Correctness lies like a blight on the land,” is quoted from “Preacher Höcke”, and that is the salvation utopia for this traveling band. That you can escape the left-liberal mainstream if you hew closely enough to the commandments of radicalization.

At some point the thing gets out of hand. The veneer of German brotherhood develops cracks. The ship’s company dissolves into rich and poor. The sausage and sauerkraut diet weakens both body and soul. Paranoia spreads, driven by a cadre of informers. Ultimately, common cause is made with representatives of the Islamic State. Swinging their machetes, they have boarded the boat. After a skirmish, however, they prove to be ideologically compatible. The finale shows them all steering for a landing in the Saxon legislature among shouts of “Heil Allah.”

Saxony, like Thuringia and Brandenburg, is attuned for the elections. The legislative election takes place on the first of September. The latest polls predict that the SPD/CDU coalition will lose its majority. The AfD meanwhile is at 25%. The fear of a coalition of CDU and AfD expressed by democratic spirits at the State Theater is understandable, but ultimately senseless. A blue-black coalition is now off the table, since National Intelligence has made the AfD a surveillance test case.

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The French Police State Edges Towards Lethality Against Rioters

In the last few weeks we’ve featured several reports on the use of flash-balls against Yellow Vest protesters in France. These supposedly non-lethal weapons are alleged to be the humane alternative to the use of live ammunition against rioters. They can do significant damage, however; they have disfigured a number of protesters, and in several instances victims have lost the sight of an eye.

It seems inevitable that a weapon that can do that much damage will eventually kill somebody. The following video discusses the increasing use of dangerous weapons against protesters in France. French police and gendarmes now routinely use anti-riot weapons that are far more damaging than those used in any other Western European country.

As a matter of interest, the armored personnel carriers in this video appear to bear an insignia with the EU circle of stars, rather than the tricolore. They don’t yet seem to have the full logo of the European Gendarmerie Force (EUROGENDFOR or EUGENDFOR, as shown at right). However, I’m sure it will be a simple matter to convert them into a full EU operation when necessary. That will be useful to both Brussels and the French state: Latvian or Portuguese gendarmes probably won’t be as averse to shooting out the eyes of French protesters as native French troops might be.

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

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/29/2019

The Upper Midwest is facing a record cold snap in the next few days. The weather forecast says Minnesota may see temperatures as low as -30°F (-35°C) with a wind chill of -60°F (-51°C). The governors of three states — Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin — have declared a state of emergency.

In other news, Remainers and Brexit supporters within the Conservative Party have reportedly agreed on a compromise that will send Theresa May back to Brussels for further negotiations, and thus prevent a no-deal Brexit.

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Greta Thunberg, the Teenage Spear Point of Radical Climate-Change Alarmists


A Swedish teenager named Greta Thunberg has gained international fame by starting the “school strike” movement to stop “climate change”. She even spoke at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos.

I suppose you could say she’s the Ahmed the Clock Boy of the environmental movement — a photogenic kid guaranteed to tug at the heartstrings of Progressives who get all mush-brained about the Puir Wee Bairns.

Nash Montana, who translated the material below, sends these extra details on Greta Thunberg:

Who is this girl, who is supposedly 16 years old but looks and talks like she’s four? She who is now being hyped up as the spokesperson for thousands of school-ditching kids? She is the product of her parents and of an eco-communist media world that has almost destroyed her early on in life in order to use her:

“Greta Thunberg was born to the Opera singer Malena Ernman and the actor Svante Thunberg. According to her own statements when she was 8 years old she became interested in climate change and she engaged in environmental protectionism by keeping the lights off in her house. Later she decided not to fly anymore. At age 11 she became depressive and started to self-harm and quit eating due to her anxiety about the climate. She then was diagnosed with the Asperger’s syndrome, OCD, and selective mutism. Later she engaged herself publicly against climate change.”

The translated article from Apollo News:

A student’s look at Greta Thunberg: How the climate-changers have instrumentalized a girl

The 16-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg has become the symbol of a young person who doesn’t want to be cheated out of her future. But she is a sick child who is being instrumentalized by the green elites in a perverse way.

The figurehead of climate change, at least according to the media, is Greta Thunberg. The by now 16-year-old Swedish girl has for weeks been in the spotlight. With her campaign “school strike for the climate” she has (supposedly) inspired millions of students and encouraged them, to demonstrate for “better climate politics”. Young people are fighting for a political issue: We here at the LJB do the same. But nonetheless I have to exercise criticism here, especially now, as I just became of legal age, that I am a young adult.

To pull off a political movement as a student is quite a lot of work. We experience this every day. For me, each week is a new balancing act, to write for Apollo while at the same time be prepared for final exams and other school requirements. But I get it all done — and mind you, without my just walking out of school on a Friday. Maybe I could organize that: School strike for Liberty. [He writes “Freiheit”, freedom, but I think in this case he means “liberty”… but it could be debated, I guess. —translator]

No doubt most people who emulate Greta and go to demonstrate believe the message they are representing. And I certainly don’t want to open that can of worms about climate change, because for that I have neither time nor space. Let’s just say it this way: A lot what so-called “climate activists say” can be thoroughly doubted. And still the narrative of the impending climate apocalypse is being pushed through the mainstream media as if there’s literally no tomorrow. Should we therefore blame these kids when they believe this stuff? If at all, then only conditionally.

Great Thunberg was born in the year 2003. The student has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, OCD, and “selective mutism”, which is a psychological condition in which patients suddenly stop speaking. At age 8, according to her own statements, she began to be interested in climate change. This led her into a full-blown depression at 11 years old, including refusal to eat.

Let’s be honest here: a girl that because of a political position develops full-blown depression at 11 years old is not really suitable to be the mouthpiece for such a campaign. A girl like that needs help. Meanwhile she is advocating for very radical positions: “For me most things are black or white,” Thunberg wrote in The Guardian (which is a classical example of a borderline disorder). In plain text: Completely and utterly, or not at all. And for Greta, the choice is clear: Completely and utterly. So capitalism has to fall as a consequence. She calls for a boycott of Black Friday and demands basic changes in consumption and lifestyle. As is more often than not the case, anti-capitalism and “environmental protection” again go hand in hand. We do not know whether she was co-opted by the political Left or whether she is just used much more as a poster child.

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Eric Zemmour: The Deep Puritanism of Politically Correct France

Eric Zemmour is a popular (and politically incorrect) French commentator who appears regularly on television discussion panels. In the following clip Mr. Zemmour discusses the fourth anniversary of the Islamic terror attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo.

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

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/28/2019

The Polish government is considering blocking George Soros’ acquisition of Poland’s second-largest radio station. Mr. Soros is competing with several other potential buyers, including supporters of the ruling party, in his attempts to acquire the station.

In other news, the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a church bombing in the Philippines that killed at least 20 people.

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Exams at the Berlin Police Academy Are Rigged to Favor Migrants

For an American having long experience with the “affirmative action” scam, this news report from Germany is a dog-bites-man story. Yes, of course there is a quota, and the system is rigged to push migrant recruits through. And the academy official being interviewed is either clueless or dishonest.

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

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