Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/22/2019

A member of the Virginia House of Delegates is planning to hold committee hearings where the accusers of Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax will appear as witnesses. Del. Rob Bell (R-Albemarle) wants the two women — who have stated that they were sexually assaulted by Mr. Fairfax — to have their say.

In other news. Pope Francis spoke out publicly against the anti-immigration policies of Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.

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Financial Crisis
» Italy: EU Rules Don’t Permit Anti-Crisis Moves — Tria
» Once Hailed as Unhackable, Blockchains Are Now Getting Hacked
 
USA
» Antifa Threatens to ‘Shut Down’ Conservative Event
» Democrats Took $60,000 Junket to Attend Beyonce Concert in South Africa
» Exclusive Interview: John Oliver Billboard Turned NPC by Guerrilla Artists
» IRS Analyst Charged With Leaking Financial Documents on Michael Cohen
» Judge: Plea Deal in Jeffrey Epstein Sex Trafficking Case Was Illegal
» Kamala on Smollett Arrest: ‘We Must Speak the Truth: Hate Crimes Are on the Rise in America’
» Leftist Thug Caught on Video Assaulting Conservative Activist at Berkeley While Students Laugh
» Mass. Woman Charged With Assault After Attacking MAGA Hat-Wearing Man in Bar
» Miley Cyrus Rips Into Trump: ‘Racist, Sexist, Hateful A**hole’
» NJ Bill Would Ban Trump From 2020 Ballot Unless He Releases Tax Returns
» Ohio Music Shop Owner Posts Sign Turning Away Trump Supporters
» Police: Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Solicited Prostitute
» R Kelly Turns Himself in to be Booked on Ten Counts of Criminal Sex Abuse Involving Underage Girls Just Hours After Details Emerged of a Vile Video Showing Him ‘Having Sex With a 14-Year-Old’
» Real Violence Caught on Camera: Student Recruiting for Conservative Turning Point USA on UC Berkeley Campus Punched in Face by Leftist Thug
» Sanders: We’ve ‘Come a Long Way’ In Making Democratic Party ‘More Progressive’
» The Average Time Until a Great Civilization Collapses is 336 Years, And the U.S. Is Now 242 Years Old
» Trump to Use ‘Nuclear Option’ To Recover $2.5 Bn More From California’s Failed High-Speed Rail Project
» Tucker Mocks CNN’s Don Lemon for Playing ‘Holy Victim’ Over Smollett
» Virginia: Republican Delegate Plans Committee Hearing Where Fairfax Accusers Can Testify
» YouTube Monetizes Pedo Videos, David Gergen Projects His Rape Fantasies
 
Europe and the EU
» Brexit: Britain Enjoys Record Budget Surplus as EU Faces Black Hole in Coffers
» Concern as Soros-Backed Ventures Buy Major Polish Media Group
» EU Targets Caterpillar, Samsonite & Xerox for Auto-Tariff Retaliation
» Five Stabbing Attacks in Germany on the Same Day
» France: Jewish Population of Paris Suburbs Rapidly Decreasing
» Italy: Man Who Hit Passerby With Bar Cleared Due to Schizophrenia
» Italy: No Stoppage for TAV: Project Will Go Ahead Says Salvini
» Italy: Father Albanesi Says Was Abused by Priests
» Italy: Furore After Ex N Korea Envoy’s Daughter Taken Back by Force
» Macron: France Could Ban Hate Speech Convicts From All Social Media for Life
» Macron’s Yellow Vest Concessions Backfire: French Leader’s Popularity Rating Fails to Rise
» Merkel Offers European Union Support in Dispute Against Populist Hungary
» Sweden Protests Hungarian ‘Personal Attacks’ After ‘Nazi’ Policy Comparison
» Swedish Court Convicts Pensioner for Saying Somalis Are ‘Lazy’
» The Biggest Little Whorehouse in Germany
» UK: 100 Pro-EU MPs Could Rebel Against Government to Delay Brexit Rather Than Accept No Deal
» UK: Brexit Boost: Nigel Farage to Poach Senior Tories From Under May’s Nose for Brexit Party
» UK: Ninth Labour MP Quits ‘Broken’ Party Over ‘Culture of Anti-Semitism’
» UK: University Suspends Student UKIP Member, 19, Who Sparked Outrage by Saying the NHS Should Not be Free to Immigrants and Complained About the ‘Islamisation’ Of Britain During Class Discussions
 
Balkans
» Letter From Serbia: Kyle Scott: America’s Bolshevik Ambassador
 
North Africa
» Egypt Building Sharm El-Sheikh Wall to Protect Tourists
 
South Asia
» Muslim Guys Grievously Hurt Hindu Man as He Prevented Obscene Videographing of His Wife’s Nudity in Bathroom
 
Far East
» Chinese Kindergarteners Forced to Sign Atheist Manifesto
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia’s Mental Health Crisis Deepens as the Number of Children Taking Anti-Depressant Pills Doubles in Just Six Years to 100,000 After Spate of Youth Suicides
 
Latin America
» 1 Dead, 15 Injured as Venezuelan Soldiers Open Fire on Civilians Near Brazil Border: WaPo
 
Immigration
» Danish Parliament Passes Restrictive Migrant Laws
» Gay Muslim Migrant in Blonde Wig to Represent France in Eurovision Song Contest
» Illegal Alien Accused of Raping Child in North Carolina Before Fleeing U.S.
» Italy’s Immigration Policies Risk Wrath of Pope Francis as He Challenges Matteo Salvini
» Migrants Attack Unarmed Officials as They Cross From Guatemala Into Mexico: Watch
 
Culture Wars
» Charles Barkley Mocks Jussie Smollett on TNT Halftime Show… Shaquille O’Neal Can’t Stop Laughing [Video]
» Couple Sues Planned Parenthood Over Failed Abortion of Son
» Feminists Screaming About ‘Transgenderism, ‘ Their Own Demon Child
» Former Democratic VP Nominee Calls Babies Who Survive Abortions Fetuses, Says He Opposes ‘New Requirements’ For Doctors Who Deliver Them
» Jussie Smollett’s Hate
» LGBTQ Group Severs Ties With Tennis Great Martina Navratilova After Remarks on Trans Athletes
» Pope Francis: Feminism is ‘Machismo in a Skirt’
» UK: Top Police Chief Wants to Discriminate Against White Recruits to ‘Shock the System’
 

Italy: EU Rules Don’t Permit Anti-Crisis Moves — Tria

‘Hastily approved 10 yrs ago, work during growth only

(ANSA) — Rome, February 22 — Economy Minister Giovanni Tria said Friday that European Union rules “hastily approved almost a decade ago may work during periods of growth but do not respond to the need to face the swift slowdown now happening.” Speaking at the opening of the academic year at Rome’s Tor Vergata University, Tria said the rules should be revised “because they do not allow to take into account the changeability of economic conditions and therefore prevent discretional adjustments of policies and end up acting in a pro-cyclical or even structurally deflationary direction”,

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Once Hailed as Unhackable, Blockchains Are Now Getting Hacked

More and more security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms, and some are fundamental to the way they were built.

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

Antifa Threatens to ‘Shut Down’ Conservative Event

An Indiana Antifa chapter encouraged people to shut down a Christopher Columbus-themed event hosted by a conservative commentator at the University of Notre Dame.

The school’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter plans on hosting Michael Knowles, a podcaster for The Daily Wire, for a lecture, titled “Columbus: Hero Not Heathen,” on Thursday night. But not if a Michiana, Ind. Antifa chapter has anything to do with it. Knowles will discuss the “truth behind Columbus and his mission that brought about the America we know today,” according to the event description.

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

Democrats Took $60,000 Junket to Attend Beyonce Concert in South Africa

Five members of the Congressional Black Caucus took an official three-day trip to South Africa to be feted as VIPs at a Beyonce and Jay Z concert, according to congressional disclosure records.

The stated purpose of the $60,000 trip in December was to attend the “Global Citizen Mandela 100” concert, the stated purpose of which was to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the late Nelson Mandela and raise awareness of global poverty. The extravaganza was headlined by Beyonce, Jay Z, Ed Sheeran, Pharrell Williams, and Chris Martin.

Democratic Reps. Gregory Meeks, Barbara Lee, Bobby Rush, Terri Sewell, and Hank Johnson attended the event with VIP backstage passes. Also at the concert was Deborah Birx, U.S. Global AIDS coordinator and special representative for Global Health Diplomacy.

According to disclosure forms, the trip was paid for by the nonprofit group Global Citizen, an organization that lobbies governments to fund anti-poverty programs. The event was co-sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, Coca Cola Africa, CISCO, NedBank, Vodacom, HP, and Microsoft.

The lawmakers, all members of the Congressional Black Caucus, flew business class to Johannesburg, South Africa, for the concert and stayed in a four-star hotel from Dec. 1 to Dec. 3, according to the disclosure records.

The National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group, said the all-expenses trip made a “mockery” of House ethics rules that prohibit members of congress from accepting paid trips that are not directly related to their official duties or that “create the appearance that the [individual] is using public office for private gain.” […]

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Exclusive Interview: John Oliver Billboard Turned NPC by Guerrilla Artists

My friends at The Faction are at it again, with more guerrilla art warfare. This time, they’ve turned a billboard in Hollywood for John Oliver’s HBO show Last Week Tonight into an NPC billboard…just like they did with fellow late-night Trump-hater Bill Marr not so long ago! They obviously didn’t want John to feel left out.

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

IRS Analyst Charged With Leaking Financial Documents on Michael Cohen

An Internal Revenue Service employee has been charged with leaking confidential government reports that described financial transactions made by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.

John Fry, an investigative analyst with the IRS in San Francisco, was charged with the unauthorized disclosure of suspicious activity reports, or SARs. Such reports are meant to flag potentially unlawful financial conduct to government investigators but do not necessarily indicate wrongdoing.

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

Judge: Plea Deal in Jeffrey Epstein Sex Trafficking Case Was Illegal

A U.S. District judge on Thursday ruled that federal prosecutors illegally signed a plea agreement with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and hid it from his more than two dozen underage victims.

“Epstein used paid employees to find and bring minor girls to him.,’’ wrote U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra of Palm Beach County. “Epstein worked in concert with others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others.’’

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

Kamala on Smollett Arrest: ‘We Must Speak the Truth: Hate Crimes Are on the Rise in America’

Might it be that all the racial animus drummed up by the fake news media and politicians like Harris is having real world consequences?

Democrat 2020 presidential front-runner Kamala Harris has been trying her best to avoid questions over her calling the so-called attack on Smollett an “attempted modern day lynching.”

Harris finally issued a statement on Thursday after Smollett was officially arrested saying we should focus not on Smollett’s staged attack because that “distracts” from the “truth” that “hate crimes are on the rise in America.”

[Comment: Kamala’s stoking racial divide like a good communist.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Leftist Thug Caught on Video Assaulting Conservative Activist at Berkeley While Students Laugh

A conservative activist was assaulted at UC Berkeley on Tuesday while recruiting for the conservative non-profit organization Turning Point USA. The unprovoked assault, captured on video from two angles, shows a man wearing a black shirt and pants accosting Hayden Williams, a campus representative for Leadership Institute. The assailant angrily shouted obscenities at Williams, knocking his phone out of his hand, and punching him in the face. The man accused Williams of “encouraging violence” just before attacking him.

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

Mass. Woman Charged With Assault After Attacking MAGA Hat-Wearing Man in Bar

A Massachusetts woman has been charged with assault and battery and disorderly conduct after attacking a man wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat in a bar last week, NECN News reported.

Police in Falmouth, Mass., were called to the Casa Vallarta bar at about 8 p.m. Friday after Rosiane Santos, 41, allegedly went on a drunken rampage, verbally assaulting and attacking a man who says he was minding his own business.

Bryton Turner said it was due to the MAGA hat he was wearing.

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

Miley Cyrus Rips Into Trump: ‘Racist, Sexist, Hateful A**hole’

Pop star Miley Cyrus attacked President Donald Trump in a new interview, calling his presidency “detrimental” to America.

“You know, I said I would move away if he became president. We all said a bunch of shit we didn’t mean,” Miley Cyrus told Vanity Fair.

“Because we really thought: Maybe people will listen. Maybe people actually realize how detrimental this will be to our ing country if this happens. Obviously they didn’t,” the “Wrecking Ball” singer said.

[Comment: Ironic, since she has a detrimental effect on the youth of America.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

NJ Bill Would Ban Trump From 2020 Ballot Unless He Releases Tax Returns

A bill introduced by New Jersey Democrats would keep President Trump’s name off the state’s 2020 ballot unless he releases his tax returns, according to NorthJersey.com.

The new legislation, approved Thursday by the state Senate, was passed once before in 2017 only to be vetoed by then-Gov. Chris Christie. It would keep any candidate from appearing on the state ballot unless they make their tax returns public. Of note, New Jersey’s current governor, Phil Murphy, is a Democrat…

In March of 2017, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow embarrassed herself and her network when she published leaked partial copies of Trump’s 2005 tax returns — revealing that Trump paid a higher tax rate than Mitt Romney in 2011 and Bernie Sanders in 2014, along with Barack Obama at 18.7% in 2015 and Warren Buffet at 17.4%.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Ohio Music Shop Owner Posts Sign Turning Away Trump Supporters

An Ohio music shop owner placed a sign in front of his shop turning away supporters of President Trump, saying he felt “unclean and dirty” from doing business with them.

The owner of Joe’s Music Shop in Willoughby, Ohio, placed a sign outside his store outright telling those who support Trump to go “shop somewhere else,” WOIO reported.

“Dear Trump sympathizers, I am truly sorry, however, I feel unclean and dirty accepting money from you. Please politely shop somewhere else,” the sign read. “Sorry, I would rather starve and close the store than participate in wrongdoing. Many blessings to you. I hope you understand.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Police: Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Solicited Prostitute

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots, faces charges of soliciting a prostitute after he was twice videotaped in a sex act at a shopping-center massage parlor in Florida, police said Friday.

The 77-year-old Kraft denied any wrongdoing. The case comes amid a crackdown on sex trafficking from Palm Beach to Orlando in which police planted cameras in massage parlors.

Kraft was not immediately arrested. Jupiter police said a warrant will be issued and his attorneys will be notified. They said details about the misdemeanor charges against the owner of the Super Bowl champion team will not be released until next week.

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

R Kelly Turns Himself in to be Booked on Ten Counts of Criminal Sex Abuse Involving Underage Girls Just Hours After Details Emerged of a Vile Video Showing Him ‘Having Sex With a 14-Year-Old’

Rapper R Kelly has surrendered to police in Chicago after an arrest warrant was issued for him on ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

Robert Sylvester Kelly, 52, surrendered on Friday night at the 1st District Chicago police station, hours after the Cook County State’s Attorney office issued a no bail warrant for his arrest.

Kelly arrived at the station in a large black van with tinted windows at around 8pm CT. He exited the vehicle wearing a puffy blue coat, entered the station house, was handcuffed and led away.

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

Real Violence Caught on Camera: Student Recruiting for Conservative Turning Point USA on UC Berkeley Campus Punched in Face by Leftist Thug

The media has literally spent the last two weeks covering the manufactured MAGA hat hate crime against Empire actor Jussie Smollett. They had no video evidence, no witnesses and a “victim” who was unwilling to share his phone records to corroborate his story about being attacked by two white men, wearing Make America Great Again hats, who “dumped bleach” on him, put a “noose around” his neck, shouted racist and homophobic slurs, while adding, “This is MAGA country!”

Unfortunately, the Jussie Smollett story provided the media with a much needed anti-Trump shot in the arm. The story came at a critical time, as President Trump was gaining in popularity in the polls, while at the same time, he was exposing Democrat leaders for refusing to fund a wall on our southern border, as a way to keep Americans safe and to protect the jobs of American workers.

But what happens when a conservative student is physically attacked and punched in the face by a stranger who doesn’t agree with his political views? What happens when an innocent student is violently threatened and assaulted by a total stranger, simply for exercising his constitutional right to free speech? Is it okay with the media that this student was attacked on the UC Berkeley campus, for peacefully recruiting members to join Turning Point USA, a conservative group created for students? What happens when there’s a video to go along with it? If we had a fair-minded media, wouldn’t they want to expose the video to show what happened to this poor conservative kid?

So far, the only place you’ll see this disgusting attack on an innocent student is on social media. The student who was attacked in the video is white, he’s a conservative, and he probably supports President Trump. He’s not worthy of media coverage. He’s nothing more than collateral damage in the left’s war on America.

Watch the horrific attack here (***WARNING*** Video is graphic)

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sanders: We’ve ‘Come a Long Way’ In Making Democratic Party ‘More Progressive’

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that “we have come a long way, I think, in transforming the Democratic Party and making it into a more progressive party.”

Sanders said, “I’m proud that we changed the political discourse in this country, that ideas that today are widely accepted, are part of the mainstream, are being supported by many Democratic candidates, if you will recall, three years ago, these ideas [were] considered to be radical and extreme and fringe ideas. So, we have come a long way, I think, in transforming the Democratic Party and making it into a more progressive party.”

He added, “[M]any of the major issues that I have been talking about for years are now widely supported by the American people.”

[Comment: Real meaning — “ We’ve ‘Come a Long Way’ in Making Democratic Party ‘More Communist’ “ ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Average Time Until a Great Civilization Collapses is 336 Years, And the U.S. Is Now 242 Years Old

Every great civilization throughout human history has eventually collapsed, and if we want to have any hope of escaping the same fate, we need to be willing to learn some lessons from the past. Because many of the same factors that caused the collapse of previous civilizations are weighing very heavily on the United States of America today. According to the BBC, the average lifespan of a great civilization is 336 years from beginning to end. But that doesn’t mean that America will make it that long. Our nation is currently 242 years old, and there are signs of advanced social decay all around us. If we remain on the road that we are currently on, there are many that believe that complete and utter collapse is not too far away.

Ultimately, what does a “society” consist of?

According to Luke Kemp of the University of Cambridge, societies are “just complex systems composed of people and technology”…

[Comment: Creation of private Federal Reserve and subsequently manufactured boom/bust cycles leeched wealth out of the USA into private bankster hands. The greatest period of economic growth in USA history was the period without a private central bank.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump to Use ‘Nuclear Option’ To Recover $2.5 Bn More From California’s Failed High-Speed Rail Project

The Trump administration announced this week that it was canceling nearly $1 billion in grant money for California’s now-defunct high-speed rail project — and President Donald Trump is coming for the other $2.5 billion.

The $2.5 billion has already been spent — but California has failed to deliver the high-speed rail (on time, or at all) as promised.

Therefore, the Trump administration argues, the state has to repay federal taxpayers.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Tucker Mocks CNN’s Don Lemon for Playing ‘Holy Victim’ Over Smollett

With spicy hot takes like these, it’s hard to believe Carlson’s still allowed on TV!

Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked CNN host Don Lemon for playing a “holy victim” in an epic rant on the Smollett case Thursday night.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Virginia: Republican Delegate Plans Committee Hearing Where Fairfax Accusers Can Testify

A Republican lawmaker said Friday that he plans to hold a committee hearing to allow two women who have made sexual assault allegations against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax to appear before a General Assembly panel and tell their stories.

From the floor of the House of Delegates, Del. Rob Bell, R-Albemarle, said he will schedule a meeting of the House Courts of Justice Committee at a later date and allow Vanessa Tyson, Meredith Watson and Fairfax to speak.

“This will give all parties a chance to be heard,” Bell said.

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

YouTube Monetizes Pedo Videos, David Gergen Projects His Rape Fantasies

Youtube is currently under fire because companies have been pulling their ad campaigns from the platform because there are reports that indicate pedophiles are commenting on videos of young children.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Brexit: Britain Enjoys Record Budget Surplus as EU Faces Black Hole in Coffers

Post-referendum Britain has defied the scaremongers to post its largest monthly budget surplus since records began, strengthening its hand against the ailing European Union as the Brexit deadline looms.

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

Concern as Soros-Backed Ventures Buy Major Polish Media Group

Polish efforts to reduce foreign ownership of the country’s media have been dealt a blow, as organisations linked to globalist financier George Soros took control of a major radio group.

Agora SA, Poland’s largest publicly-traded publisher, which was “shored up” financially by the Hungarian-born billionaire in 2016 amidst sinking sales of its globalist flagship daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, on Wednesday announced it had agreed to buy a 40 per cent share in Eurozet, a media company which owns several radio stations.

The remaining 60 per cent stake in the group, whose assets include the country’s second largest station, Radio ZET, will be held by SFS Ventures, part of Soros’ Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF).

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

EU Targets Caterpillar, Samsonite & Xerox for Auto-Tariff Retaliation

As bureaucrats in Brussels wait for the other shoe to drop following the completion of the Commerce Department’s report on whether auto imports represented a “national security threat” (spoiler: they do), they are once again making it clear to the White House that, if it follows through with 25% tariffs on imported cars and car parts, the EU will swiftly retaliate with tariffs of its own. And according to Bloomberg, the EU’s trade officials are targeting Xerox, Caterpillar and Samsonite for retaliation should the US move ahead with auto tariffs.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Five Stabbing Attacks in Germany on the Same Day

Earlier this week five stabbing attacks occurred on the same day in different German cities, with several hospitalised and at least two migrant suspects in connection with the attacks.

The attacks have generated considerable media attention in Germany, where this level of violence once was rare.

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

France: Jewish Population of Paris Suburbs Rapidly Decreasing

As France experiences a rise in anti-semitism the heavily-migrant populated Paris suburbs are seeing their Jewish communities dwindle as families choose to move away.

While no official statistics exist on the number of Jewish families leaving the Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis, Jerome Fourquet, director of polling firm Ifop has claimed that the number of Jews fleeing anti-semitism has soared over the last 15 years, BFMTV reports.

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

Italy: Man Who Hit Passerby With Bar Cleared Due to Schizophrenia

In Milan

(ANSA) — Milan, February 21 — A 32-year-old Cameroon man who hit a Serbian waiting for a Milan tram over the head with an iron bar three times in January last year was cleared of attempted murder Thursday after a judge said he was suffering a psychotic episode due to schizophrenia.

Franklin Njuakeh was said to have been suffering from “complete mental infirmity” because of his schizophrenia, a court heard.

The victim has partially lost his hearing.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: No Stoppage for TAV: Project Will Go Ahead Says Salvini

Can be revised says deputy PM, League leader

(ANSA) — Rome, February 22 — The completion of the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail (TAV) link has not been stopped but the project has merely been “revised with the aim of bringing the project to completion,” Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and League party leader Matteo Salvini said on Italian TV Friday.

Salvini is in favour of completing the TAV while his government ally, the 5-Star Movement (M5S) of Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio is against it.

The M5S is pointing to a cost/benefit analysis commissioned by the government which has said the project spells a loss of 7-8 billion euros.

“There is no block on the TAV,” Salvini said on Mattino 5.

“There is only a revision of the project with the goal of taking the project to completion.

“I’m doing and I will do everything possible to make sure the TAV is completed, the project can be revised and money can be saved, but the train pollutes less and costs less than cars.

“The building work was already stopped and I hope it gets back up running as soon as possible”.

Piedmont Governor Sergio Chiamparino on Friday called for a “popular consultation” or referendum on whether to complete the rail link or not.

Salvini reacted by saying: “We are always and in all cases favourable to referenda”.

The House on Thursday approved a motion from the M5S and the League committing the government to “wholly rediscuss the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail (TAV) line project, applying the accord between Italy and France”.

A tussle between the government coalition partners over the controversial rail link has been going on for months now.

The M5S has long been against the project and its calls for the project to be ditched have increased after the new report commissioned by the transport ministry said it has a negative cost-benefit balance of seven to eight billion euros.

Salvini reiterated on Thursday that he thinks it should go ahead. “The aim is to revise the project, save where it is possible to save, and move forward,” Salvini said. But Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano of the M5S said the project should be terminated.

“It’s a project that would cause the Italian people to lose seven billion euros,” he said.

“As far as we are concerned, it should be stopped completely”.

Transport Minister Dario Toninelli said Thursday the M5S would find a solution on the TAV with the League “at most in two weeks”.

“At most in two weeks time we will communicate the solution.

We’ll find a solution with our government allies,” he said.

Toninelli added: “Enough talking about the TAV. The citizens want to hear about so many other projects”.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday that it was up to France and Italy to decide whether to press ahead with the TAV. “It’s a decision that the two republics, France and Italy, must take,” Juncker told reporters. “We’ll see who wins”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Father Albanesi Says Was Abused by Priests

It stayed with me for 50 yrs says charity shelter chief

(ANSA) — Rome, February 21 — Father Vinicio Albanesi, president of the Comunità di Capodarco charity shelter, on Thursday revealed that he had been sexually abused by priests as a young seminarian.

Speaking on Italian bishops’s broadcaster TV 2000, Father Albanesi said “I should have told them to go to the Devil, because they were unworthy. And all this has remained inside me for 50 years.

“But I didn’t have feelings of guilt and that helped me to look at the priesthood with an open, sunny, beautiful spirit”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Furore After Ex N Korea Envoy’s Daughter Taken Back by Force

Govt tension as M5S call on Salvini to report to parliament

(ANSA) — Rome, February 20 — Political tension bubbled in Rome on Wednesday after reports that the daughter of North Korea’s former envoy to Rome, Jo Song-gil, was taken back to Pyongyang from Italy by force in November. The girl’s father, Jo Song-gil, had gone missing in November in an act that was seen as an attempted defection.

The operation to forcibly take the daughter back took place before she made an attempt to be reunited with her parents, according to a report by South Korean news agency Yonhap.

“Did North Korean intelligence kidnap the daughter of Ambassador Jo Song-Gil? Very serious incident,” tweeted Maria Edera Spadoni, a senior MP for the 5-Star Movement (M5S).

Spadoni also called on Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of the League, the M5S’s coalition partner, to report to parliament on the case “as soon as possible”. Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano, also an M5S member, compared the case to that of Alma Shalabayeva, the wife of Kazakh dissident Mukhtar Ablyazov who was abducted in Italy in 2013, allegedly with the help of Italian police.

Shalabayeva and her daughter returned to Italy six months after their controversial deportation, which caused an international scandal.

“If confirmed, the story of Jo Song-gil and his daughter, who was kidnapped by the North Korean intelligence in Italy, would be a case of unheard-of seriousness,” said Di Stefano.

“When something similar happened with the Shalabayeva case, I went directly to Kazakhstan to meet her and see what happened and we ascertained the direct responsibility of then Interior Minister (Angelino) Alfano. “Whoever is responsible will pay, you can be sure of that”. Yonhap said the source for its report was Thae Yong-ho, the former number two at North Korea’s London embassy who took refuge in Seoul in 2016. “I don’t know how many children Jo had, but the one who was in Italy was taken back to North Korea,” Thae was quoted as saying.

“Jo is currently with his wife”.

ANSA sources said that the daughter is a 17-year-old high-school student. Jo started his diplomatic mission to Italy in 2015 and took over the functions of the ambassador after Ambassador Mun Jong-nam was expelled in October 2017 following North Korean nuclear tests.

Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero said he could not comment at the moment as the ministry was still looking into what happened.

“Afterwards we will draw the appropriate conclusions,” he said. The Italian foreign ministry issued a statement saying the North Korean embassy in Italy on December 5 2018 informed the Italian foreign ministry that former chargé d’affaires Jo Song Gil and his wife had left the embassy on November 10 and that their daughter, having asked to return to her grandparents in her country, returned there on November 14 2018, accompanied by embassy female staff.

The Italian foreign ministry said it had “no other information on the affair”.

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Macron: France Could Ban Hate Speech Convicts From All Social Media for Life

French President Emmanuel Macron has floated the idea that those convicted for crimes of hate speech could be banned from social media networks permanently.

President Macron floated the idea at the annual dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIR) saying that a new bill to fight against hate speech online was being tabled for May of this year broadcaster BFMTV reports.

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Macron’s Yellow Vest Concessions Backfire: French Leader’s Popularity Rating Fails to Rise

FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron’s popularity rating remained low in February, a poll showed on Friday, after a series of emergency concessions failed to defuse the political crisis sparked by the anti-government yellow vest revolt.

The BVA-Orange poll of 1,012 people, conducted between February 20-21 for RTL radio and business newspaper La Tribune, showed that 30 per cent of French people have a “favourable” opinion of Mr Macron, down one percentage point from last month. But his dissatisfaction rating remains high, with 69 per cent of respondents holding an “unfavourable” opinion of the centrist. The violent demonstrations weakened the 41-year-old leader’s authority and credibility, dragging his approval ratings to record lows in December amid a fierce backlash that started out as an outcry over planned fuel tax hikes.

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Merkel Offers European Union Support in Dispute Against Populist Hungary

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the head of the European Union’s executive branch has her full support in the face of a new Hungarian government campaign alleging that EU headquarters has purposely weakened the bloc’s external borders to let in more migrants.

The campaign by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government, launched ahead of European Parliament elections in May, has added to long-running tensions between Budapest and Brussels.

Government posters featuring EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Hungarian-American financier George Soros have recently started appearing in Hungary and in the country’s newspapers and magazines.

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Sweden Protests Hungarian ‘Personal Attacks’ After ‘Nazi’ Policy Comparison

The Swedish embassy in Hungary has protested “personal attacks” from Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen toward a Swedish minister who compared the country’s new family policy to 1930’s Germany.

[Comment: Moron. Soon this woman will not be allowed outside without a burkha.]

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Swedish Court Convicts Pensioner for Saying Somalis Are ‘Lazy’

A Swedish court has convicted a 70-year-old man of “hate speech” for claiming on social media that Somalis are lazy and don’t work.

In a unanimous decision, the district court of Uddevalla handed down a guilty verdict, ordering the man to pay 60 daily fines of SEK 120, for a total of SEK 7200 (700 euros).

[Comment: This is a Breitbart article. Yesterday’s was a Voice of Europe article.]

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The Biggest Little Whorehouse in Germany

Once one country does something stupid, the question on everyone’s mind is, who’s next? Thus, when France went psycho-liberal in 1789, everyone attacked the French, and when the Russians went Soviet, we adopted a policy of containment.

Ideas tend to move from place to place. One person says something stupid, and the other stupid people hear him, and the next thing you know, you’re getting tortured in a gulag. This is why Christ said a man who accepts the words of a prophet has a prophet’s reward. The prophet speaks first, but it takes the heart of a prophet to hear one. The question, whenever you hear a prophet or a moron, is whether your country is full of prophets or morons. This is why the liberals have taken over the school system and the media and why nearly everyone, until the Enlightenment, was heavily in favor of censorship. Simply put, we took one look at our neighbors and knew they’d fall for anything.

This time, they fell for whoring. Germany, in a move that stunned even the scandalous Italians, decided to turn itself into Las Vegas, and now the English and others are worried. The Germans, like everyone else caught with his pants down, had an excuse. They said they did it to protect women. Too dangerous on the streets with pimps and such, so they decided to move prostitution into brothels.

What happened next was obvious. A large surplus of abused and ruined women, usually abandoned or molested as children, many of them from Bulgaria and Romania and already mastered by pimps, flooded the country. Mega-brothels opened overnight. The number of Johns increased exponentially. Prostitutes became a mainstay at their carnivals; mega-pimps became nouveaux riches; and the German people, once known for alcoholism and Nazis and other hilarious monkey shines, became known for taking advantage of Europe’s unfortunates. Even when the Germans are helping people, they’re hurting people.

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UK: 100 Pro-EU MPs Could Rebel Against Government to Delay Brexit Rather Than Accept No Deal

A delegation of four Remainers in Theresa May’s Cabinet have confronted her and warned her she must delay Brexit rather than pursue a clean, No Deal break with the EU.

As many as 100 anti-Brexit MPs could back an amendment tabled by Labour’s Yvette Cooper and Tory Oliver Letwin which would see Brexit pushed beyond March 29th rather than allow it to take place on World Trade Organization (WTO) — or “No Deal” — terms, the Guardian reports.

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UK: Brexit Boost: Nigel Farage to Poach Senior Tories From Under May’s Nose for Brexit Party

EXCLUSIVE: Senior Tories from the “heart of the Conservative party” are poised to join the new Brexit Party if there is a delay to Britain leaving the EU, it was claimed on Friday.

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UK: Ninth Labour MP Quits ‘Broken’ Party Over ‘Culture of Anti-Semitism’

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party has suffered its ninth defection in a week over its handling of a series of anti-Semitism scandals, with a Black Country MP walking out Friday.

Dudley North MP Ian Austin revealed his decision to leave Labour through an interview with major West Midlands regional newspaper the Wolverhampton Express and Star, where he made clear his decision to leave was down to the anti-Semitism now infesting the party.

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UK: University Suspends Student UKIP Member, 19, Who Sparked Outrage by Saying the NHS Should Not be Free to Immigrants and Complained About the ‘Islamisation’ Of Britain During Class Discussions

A student who claimed the NHS should not be free to immigrants and lamented about the ‘Islamisation’ of Britain has been kicked out of his university.

Sebastian Walsh expressed his controversial opinions during class seminars and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) decided to suspend him after they received several complaints about his behaviour.

The 19-year-old student also branded halal meat ‘barbaric’ and ‘inhumane’ and vowed to friends he would never eat at Subway or KFC due to the way the animals are killed.

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Letter From Serbia: Kyle Scott: America’s Bolshevik Ambassador

by Srdja Trifkovic

On February 19, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic received Venezuela’s Deputy FM Ivan Hilland reiterated Serbia’s position of non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs. The following day U.S. Ambassador in Belgrade Kyle Scott responded with a tweet (in Serbian), warning that “Serbia is on the wrong side of history” for not recognizing “the provisional president Guaido.”

“The Venezuelan people are hungry under the dictatorial rule and more than 50 countries in Latin America, North America and Western Europe have stood by the people of Venezuela and the provisional president Guaido,” Scott said on Twitter.

His Excellency is wrong: there is no such thing as the right or wrong side of history. Any such notion is a progressivist fallacy. It reflects a mindset tethered by ideological blinkers. It breeds irrational belief in history as a moral agency in itself—a force bending toward perfection and morality—and subsequently in the correctness of one’s own judgment which is not amenable to evidence and reason. (Scott is also wrong in implying that the U.S.-led regime-change operation in Venezuela is making progress; in fact it is stuck, but more on that another time.)

Ambassador Scott’s tweet reflects a faith-based belief system; a labored, naïve and unsustainable understanding of “history.” Way above Mr. Scott’s station, it prompts megalomaniacal visions and policies inimical to the interests and constitutional tradition of the United States…

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Egypt Building Sharm El-Sheikh Wall to Protect Tourists

Egypt has started the construction of a six metre wall around the popular tourist hotspot Sharm El-Sheikh, in a bid to protect foreign tourists from the ongoing conflict in the Sinai Peninsula.

Despite Egyptian officials denying the existence of the project, the Guardian shared verified pictures and videos of the wall taken by local residents showing completed and unfinished parts of the barrier.

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Muslim Guys Grievously Hurt Hindu Man as He Prevented Obscene Videographing of His Wife’s Nudity in Bathroom

Islamically attacked and injured Piplu Shil in Rangunia Hospital.

Nirmal Bairagi | HENB | Chittagong | Feb 22, 2019:: In a very brazen move one perverted Muslim guy sneaked into a Hindu house early in the morning at 5.30 am and started videography of a bathing woman in the bathroom without her knowledge.

When some neighbour came out for morning walk and saw the the Muslim guy in a very odd situation on shooting something in mobile camera. When they understood that the miscreant at the bathroom window was engaged to grab the nudity of a Hindu woman…

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Chinese Kindergarteners Forced to Sign Atheist Manifesto

The Education Bureau of the Chinese district of Lishan has launched a campaign to eradicate religious belief in kindergartens, which includes having the schoolchildren sign a commitment statement promising to avoid religious activities.

Both pupils and teachers are now required to “sign a commitment statement promising they won’t browse religious websites or participate in religious forums,” according to recent reports.

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Australia’s Mental Health Crisis Deepens as the Number of Children Taking Anti-Depressant Pills Doubles in Just Six Years to 100,000 After Spate of Youth Suicides

The number of children on anti-depressant pills has doubled in six years to 100,000 as clinicians warn that Australia is suffering a mental health crisis.

The figure has soared from 50,804 in 2011-12 to 101,174 over the last financial year, according to the Department of Human Services.

This is the first time the number has reached over the 100,000 mark as the supply of antidepressants across all age groups has increased since 2012-13.

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1 Dead, 15 Injured as Venezuelan Soldiers Open Fire on Civilians Near Brazil Border: WaPo

Just hours after Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said a U.S. humanitarian aid convoy for Venezuela could provoke clashes and create a pretext for removing President Nicolas Maduro, a staunch Russian ally, from power by force, The Washington Post reports, according to an eye-witnesses and community leaders, that Venezuelan soldiers opened fire on a group of civilians attempting to keep open a segment of the southern border with Brazil for deliveries of humanitarian aid, leading to multiple injuries and the first fatality.

President Nicolas Maduro had warned that the aid is a pretext for a U.S. intervention and had locked down his nation.

The Washington Post details the deadly events started at 6:30 a.m. on Friday, a military convoy approached a checkpoint set up by an indigenous community in the southern village of Kumarakapai, that rests on the main artery linking Venezuela to Brazil. When the volunteers sought to block the military vehicles by standing in front of them, soldiers began firing assault rifles, wounding at least 12 people, four of them seriously. One woman, Zorayda Rodriguez, 42, was killed.

“I ask the armed forces , is it constitutional for them to fire against unarmed indigenous people?” said Jorge Perez, a local councilman in Gran Sabana, the district where the town is located who said he was present when the soldiers opened fire. “Is it constitutional to kill indigenous people?”

At least 30 neighbors took to the streets following the shootings, kidnapping three soldiers, according to Carmen Elena Silva, 48, who had joined in the roadblock, and George Bello, a spokesperson for the indigenous community.

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Danish Parliament Passes Restrictive Migrant Laws

The Danish Parliament has passed new restrictive migrant laws that will introduce a ceiling on chain migration and allow an uninhabited island to become a deportation centre.

The new changes have long been advocated by the populist Danish People’s Party (DF) who welcomed the new law calling it a paradigm shift on migration Sveriges Radio reports.

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Gay Muslim Migrant in Blonde Wig to Represent France in Eurovision Song Contest

Bilal Hassani, a 19-year-old from Paris, recently won France’s selection contest for Eurovision with his song “Roi.”

Hassani was born to a Muslim family of Moroccan origin, is gay and performs in colorful wigs and heavy makeup.

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Illegal Alien Accused of Raping Child in North Carolina Before Fleeing U.S.

An illegal alien has been charged with raping a minor in Harmony, North Carolina, before fleeing the United States and then attempting to cross back over the U.S.-Mexico border.

Illegal alien Jesse Jacinto, a 20-year-old from Mexico, is accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on October 8, 2018, according to the Iredell County Sheriff’s Department.

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Italy’s Immigration Policies Risk Wrath of Pope Francis as He Challenges Matteo Salvini

POPE Francis has spoken out against the anti-immigration policies launched by the country’s interior minister Matteo Salvini.

The head of the Catholic Church was seen proudly holding a pin reading “Let’s open our harbours” during a meeting focused on welcoming migrants and people in need. The sentence on the pin has become the catchphrase for people fighting Mr Salvini’s anti-immigration rules, who during the summer of 2018 started closing the Italian harbours to dinghies and rescue ships carrying asylum-seekers. Pope Francis happily took a picture with Nandino Capovilla, an Italian priest who runs an organisation called Amadou near Venice, helping young refugees get back on their feet, with the pin in his hand.

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Migrants Attack Unarmed Officials as They Cross From Guatemala Into Mexico: Watch

Members of a Central American migrant caravan violently attacked unarmed Mexican federal immigration officers with rocks and other blunt objects Tuesday after government officials tried to block the group from illegally crossing into Mexico from Guatemala.

Newly released video taken from inside one of the Mexican government vehicles shows a group of about 1,000 people walking down a road in Tapachula after refusing to turn around. Similar videos and pictures circulated by Mexican media confirm the incident took place Tuesday.

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Charles Barkley Mocks Jussie Smollett on TNT Halftime Show… Shaquille O’Neal Can’t Stop Laughing [Video]

During a halftime segment on their TNT show, the hosts of the NBA show, Kenny Smith, Ernie Johnson, Jr., Shaquille O’Neal, and Charles Barkley, were discussing some of their past predictions that had no chance of happening. As Johnson Jr. got up to post a ridiculous message to the wall, he asked what was the most ridiculous prediction on the wall, that has no chance of happening? That’s when Barkley started laughing and said “two black guys beating a black guy up,” a reference to the Jussie Smollett fake hate crime.

Shaquille O’Neal can be heard laughing uncontrollably in the background, asking, “What kind of hats were they wearing Chuck?” Barkley, still laughing, responded, “MAGA, MAGA hats.” Shaq continued to laugh, while Johnson walked back over to the table, saying, “I can’t believe you, Chuck.” The hosts, who seemed like they were egging him on, as Shaq asked, “Did they pay with cash, Chuck?” Charles couldn’t resist, saying, “America, let me just tell you something. Do not commit crimes with checks. If you’re gonna break the law, do not write a check.”

Barkley then moved to the two brothers who were hired by the Empire actor to commit the fake hate crime against him. Barkley mocked the ignorance and simplicity of their plot, saying, “You think they put that on the receipt—face mask, rope, bleach?” Shaq responded, laughing, “At the same store!”

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Couple Sues Planned Parenthood Over Failed Abortion of Son

An Idaho couple who sought a drug-induced abortion from Planned Parenthood in 2016 is suing the abortion vendor for failing to end the life of their son and leaving with them the costs of raising “an additional unplanned child.”

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Feminists Screaming About ‘Transgenderism, ‘ Their Own Demon Child

Say, “Be careful what you wish for” or call it the law of unintended consequences. For decades, feminists screamed, “I am woman, hear me roar” — now it’s “Hear me squeal — a man just walked through our door!”

The issue? Men claiming womanhood (MCW, AKA “transgenders”) are invading women’s spaces — such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and prisons — and are entering female competitions, taking away gold and glory. Examples are MCW who in recent years won “women’s” titles in weightlifting, cycling, sprinting, golf long driving, and even a beauty pageant.

This is no pretty picture to feminists. Wizened old Germaine Greer took heat in 2016 for saying men getting a medical procedure “doesn’t make them a woman.” Ex-tennis star Martina Navratilova is currently being ostracized for writing that having MCW in women’s sports is “insane” and is “cheating.” Feminist writer Meghan Murphy just sued Twitter for banning her for tweeting “men aren’t women” (my, my — employing white male linear logic!). And feminist Julia Beck (video below) was kicked off a Baltimore LGBT committee for using masculine pronouns when referencing, the nerve of her, a man.

Now, I’ve produced more material inveighing against “transgenderism” than you care to know (and that I care to have written). Yet there’s something here preventing me from endorsing these feminists’ fight unreservedly; it’s a striking blindness to a striking truth afflicting both liberals and most conservatives.

To wit: Feminists are now merely being hoisted with their own petards. They themselves laid the foundation for the transgender agenda they bemoan.

Let’s take a trip down Bad Memory Lane.

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Former Democratic VP Nominee Calls Babies Who Survive Abortions Fetuses, Says He Opposes ‘New Requirements’ For Doctors Who Deliver Them

In a letter to one of his constituents, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) spoke dismissively of a piece of legislation that would ensure medical care is provided for infants who were born alive after a failed abortion attempt. In the letter, he describes a baby that has already been born as a “fetus.”

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Jussie Smollett’s Hate

Conservative pundits have pointed out that Democrat elites and the so-called “mainstream” media were quick to accept actor Jussie Smollett’s story of being assaulted by two Trump-supporters.

It is clear now that he lied. Smollett said his attackers were white and that he would have been believed without question if his assailants had been “Muslim,” “Mexican,” or “black.” They were black.

When asked why he thinks this happened, Smollett answered, “I have gone hard against 45, I have gone hard against this administration.” The mainstream media were all too happy to embrace any story that promotes their belief that President Trump and his supporters are racist and “homophobic.”

However, Smollett and the leftist media have a broader focus for their hatred than this president. They hate America. The alleged Smollett attack was designed not merely to prove that this president and his supporters are bigots, but to demonstrate once again that America is a hateful place where racism and homophobia run rampant.

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LGBTQ Group Severs Ties With Tennis Great Martina Navratilova After Remarks on Trans Athletes

A LGBTQ organization announced Tuesday it was severing ties with tennis legend Martina Navratilova after comments she made regarding trans athletes.

Athlete Ally, a nonprofit whose mission is “to end rampant homophobia, transphobia in sport and to activate the athletic community to exercise their leadership to champion LGBTQ equality,” said they were removing the tennis great as their organization’s ambassador and from their advisory board.

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Pope Francis: Feminism is ‘Machismo in a Skirt’

Pope Francis said Friday that the Church does not want “ecclesiastical feminism” since every form of feminism ends up being just “machismo in a skirt.”

The pope’s off-the-cuff remarks came in response to an address by Dr. Linda Ghisoni, the undersecretary of the laity section of the Vatican’s Department of Laity, Family, and Life. Dr. Ghisoni delivered her remarks to the participants in a major Vatican summit on clerical sex abuse.

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UK: Top Police Chief Wants to Discriminate Against White Recruits to ‘Shock the System’

Sara Thornton, head of Britain’s National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), has said the law should be changed so forces can actively discriminate against white recruits in order to increase diversity.

Currently, discriminating against people in job recruitment on the basis of certain “protected characteristics”, including race, sex, and sexuality, is technically illegal under the Equality Act of 2010.

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3 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/22/2019

  1. Dinesh D’Souza

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    How telling it is that we have all these prominent #FakeHateCrimes blamed on MAGA supporters and scarcely any documented real ones? Even the so-called #UniteTheRight rally in Charlottesville was orchestrated by a guy who was an Obama supporter & Occupy Wall Street leftist!

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  2. I can never understand why people like Bernie Sanders and his ilk think turning America into another socialist toilet is progress. They refuse to learn from history.

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