Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/31/2019

In the last two days London has been terrorized by one or more attackers who viciously stabbed people in the back. Authorities believe the victims were chosen at random. Two men have been arrested, and police say they are thought to be lone wolves who have mental health issues.

In other news, Italy has passed a new self-defense law backed by Matteo Salvini. It will allow citizens to use firearms to defend themselves against home invasions without having to fear prosecution.

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A Moment of Clarity

You’re driving down a winding country road late at night. Up ahead, just barely within range of your headlights, you catch a glimpse of a moving shape. Uh-oh — could it be another one of those #@%&?!# deer? After a split second your guess is confirmed: you see the twin red pinpoints of its eyes. And then another pair, and another — the little red winking lights of four or five deer, looking like a row of error codes on a modem. The creatures leap into the road, eager to throw themselves in front of your car and send it to the body shop, and possibly you to the hospital. You brake hard and swerve… Phew! Your luck holds — you miss them by a couple of yards.

Yes, we denizens of the Virginia Outback are all too familiar with the awful moment when the view ahead becomes well-lit and clear enough to see that another close encounter with a deer is on the way. It’s a moment of ghastly clarity.

That’s what the last four years at Gates of Vienna have been like for me. Beginning with the Great Migration Crisis in the summer of 2015, some of the previously obscure underpinnings of currently unfolding events have sprung clearly into view, as if a row of light switches by the door to reality were being flipped on, one by one.

I could list any number of processes that make up this ongoing moment of clarity, but for simplicity of exposition, I’ll condense them into three major categories:

1.   The coordinated, planned invasion of Europe by masses of third-world migrants.
2.   The election of Donald Trump, and the consequent events that followed it.
3.   The global de-platforming of Tommy Robinson.
 

What these events have in common is that they reveal the otherwise occluded machinations of the international elite who strive to manage global affairs to suit their plans. The interference and manipulation have become so obvious that even non-paranoid people can’t help but notice them.

In the following analysis I’ll draw on vast quantities of data that I’ve absorbed over the past few years, without including any links. However, anything that is speculation will be clearly marked as such.

1. The Great Migration Crisis

When the columns of (mostly young male) migrants marched into Europe through the Balkans in the summer and fall of 2015, it quickly became clear that the whole operation had been planned in advance. Yes, Angela Merkel took advantage of the Dead Baby Moment when the corpse of little Ayan was carefully arranged and then “found” on a beach in Anatolia. No good socialist lets a crisis go to waste. Yet the logistical process that followed was far too large, complex, and expensive not to have been arranged ahead of time. Endless caravans of buses were lined up at various national borders to carry the migrants from one photo-op to the next, when they took those brief walks across the frontier that created such good visuals for the media.

And the culture-enrichers were carrying €500 notes to spend at their first stops in the European Union. Where did they get that kind of cash? Almost nobody uses that denomination of banknote in the EU.

A couple of years later it became clear that the EU itself was the cash cow for the migrants, when a credit card company acknowledged that it had partnered with the EU — which had guaranteed repayment of the debt — to hand out prepaid cards to migrants when they arrived in Europe.

Early in the game it became clear that George Soros was heavily involved in the process of migration. His NGOs ferried the “refugees” across the Med, handed out maps and instruction booklets, and chartered the buses that carried them onward towards Germany. But Mr. Soros wasn’t playing the philanthropist — he made that explicit when he told an interviewer that he expected to turn a profit on all his dealings.

Governments across Europe fell into line with the plan. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stood alone against the migration, and has become the sworn enemy of Brussels as a result. Until Matteo Salvini became Italian interior minister last year, Mr. Orbán was the sole governmental leader on the continent to actively resist what was happening.

Mass migration into Europe is not intrinsically profitable for anyone except the culture-enrichers themselves. Yet lots of people — people-smugglers, businesses, NGOs, and local governments — have been making money off the process. So who is paying for the population transfer?

Somebody wanted those migrants to get to Europe, and was willing to pay billions of dollars to make it happen.

Three years later, an exactly analogue of the process could be observed in the migrant “caravans” traveling from Central America through Mexico to the southern border of the USA. That was also a complex logistical process costing a lot of money. The trek overland through several countries had to be organized and supplied. Local officials had to be paid off to allow it through.

Who bankrolled all of that?

I don’t have any definitive answers to these questions, just speculations. I’ll get into those later.

2. The election of Donald Trump

Twenty-five years or so before the 2016 election I noticed how unpopular mass immigration was with American voters. Polls routinely showed that somewhere between 60% and 80% of the population said they opposed immigration, and some considered it an important issue. It seemed that an aspiring presidential candidate could do well if he included a prominent anti-immigration plank in his platform. Yet no one ever did, and that seemed peculiar. How could a pragmatic politician resist such an electoral advantage? Yes, it was considered a “populist” position, and everyone knew that populism was bad. Still… the issue could have helped a candidate win an election because it was, well, popular.

Fast-forward to 2016. As the campaign progressed, and Donald Trump deftly picked off all his opponents during the primaries, it became clear that the reason no one ever took up opposition to mass immigration was because they were not allowed to. The intense vitriol aimed at Mr. Trump from both parties — what we now refer to as the Uniparty — made it clear that primaries were designed to weed out any opponents of immigration. And that was OK with the Republican establishment — they didn’t really want to win elections that much anyway, as their rush to join #NeverTrump proved.

The events since January 20, 2017 have provided more evidence that the political establishment (a.k.a. the Swamp) in Washington D.C. is prepared to use all its wealth and power and influence to push Donald Trump out of the Oval Office. And the major issue that makes Mr. Trump so popular is his staunch opposition to mass immigration.

Why do all those wealthy, powerful members of the entrenched elite want so badly to bring millions of illiterate immigrants into the United States?

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The Michael Coefficient

According to the German government’s statistics, 10.6% of the knife crimes in Saarland were perpetrated by Syrians and Afghans, yet no specifically migrant-related names could be found in the list of the top eleven first names of the perps.

My bet is that variant spellings of traditional Muslim names reduced the incidence of any specific first name — Mohammed, Mohamed, Muhammad, Mahmoud, Mehmet, Mahmud, etc. — whereas Michael is normally spelled only one way.

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

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/30/2019

Three young migrants have been charged with hijacking a merchant ship that was diverted to Malta earlier this week. Two of the suspects are minors, and all three face up to thirty years in prison if convicted.

In other news, the Danish government has decided that the children of “Danes” who traveled abroad to fight for the Islamic State will not automatically be granted Danish citizenship and given Danish passports.

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New Zealand Mosque Attack: Egypt’s Grand Imam Schools the West on Terror Equality

Ashraf Ramelah’s latest essay reports on the reaction of the grand imam of Al Azhar to the Christchurch massacre, and the way Muslim leaders worldwide have used the opportunity posed by the atrocity to further their plans for Islamic expansion.

New Zealand mosque attack: Egypt’s grand imam schools the West on terror equality

by Ashraf Ramelah

The following includes a brief review of how Islam realized its presence in a country such as New Zealand (Muslims are one percent of the population) by way of intentional Islamization efforts and export across the world. The grand imam of Al-Azhar Institute, Ahmed al-Tayeb, responded to the New Zealand tragedy with comments consistent with the context of this background.

The supreme religious leader of Arab-Muslim Sunnis reacted to the Mar 15 fatal mosque shootings in New Zealand with a statement that shows us his real concern. While he is the one individual in the whole world positioned to use this opportunity to create positive reforms of Islam by saying something like “terrorism must be stopped,” he instead expressed relief that Muslims are not the only terrorists.

Under the banner of the popular Egyptian slogan, “Terrorism has no religion,” the grand imam stated that “It’s time for people in the East and West to stop repeating lies concerning Islamic terrorism.” In this quote, the lie he refers to is that terrorism belongs solely to Islam. The white, non-Islamic Australian gunman as reported by the media was a fact that debunked this assumption for the world to see.

It was not an issue of sympathy, prayers and eulogies for the head imam, but of politicizing the perpetrator and the crime. Al-Tayeb’s fixation was with having another example of terror on the world stage — the infidel and “Christian.” His focus has been entirely on blaming those who single out Islam for the terror business.

Please know that the grand imam of Al Azhar has never condemned the killings of Shia Muslims murdered by Sunni Muslims, any ISIS aggression, or any Muslim attacks on Christians and their religious institutions. Instead, through public and private TV channels, Al Azhar imams have instigated the notion that Sunni Muslims must occupy Rome, the White House and recapture Spain.

As the facts of this horrible incident were uncovered, sympathy from New Zealanders began to pour forth with various actions binding non-Muslim to Muslim, including interfaith gestures. Many Christians delivered flowers to the outside of the mosque. Many entered in. New Zealand’s prime minister opened an emergency session of parliament with the religious Islamic greeting, “Al Salam Alikom,” attended the Muslim ceremony for the dead, wore a hijab, and recited Koranic verses.

For Muslim expansion, the tragic event has brought some hope. Muslims are embraced. Their Friday worship will now be welcomed in the open air to be heard even by those who currently hold no real interest in Islam. Also, as a result of the horrible tragedy, New Zealand will now allow outdoor speakers for the Islamic call to prayer. Consequences such as these will advance the grand imam’s and the Vatican’s “Ark of Brotherhood” interfaith pact to spread togetherness throughout the West. Their agreement was signed earlier this year in Abu Dhabi.

Arab-Muslim reaction to the New Zealand tragedy

In the Arabic press, much was made of hatred toward Islam, escalation of hostilities, prejudice and growing Islamophobia with various reactions from Arab-Muslim leaders. A cleric and scholar from Al Azhar Institute pointed out that the gunman was not killed this time, whereas Islamic terrorists are always killed on the scene. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed the escalation of hostilities toward Islam. He called on the West to take emergency measures to prevent such disasters.

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Stroll Around the Grounds Until You Feel at Home

A “sharia scholar” from the Salafist scene in the Netherlands caused consternation when he visited an Islamic school. School officials, however, have reassured Dutch infidels that they have nothing to worry about; the eminent scholar did not teach the students, but only walked around the place.

Many thanks to C for translating this TV news report, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/29/2019

Today is Brexit Day — after four long years since British voters decided to leave the EU, today is the day that the UK is supposed to have left. However, the House of Commons voted against Prime Minister Theresa May’s latest incarnation of her “deal” with Brussels, so there is going to be no Brexit just yet. Disaffect members of Labour and the “Conservative” Party have joined forces to found a new party called Change UK (CUK).

In other news, in the English Channel the UK’s border protection force intercepted two boats carrying up to 19 illegal migrants, a day after 14 other migrants landed on the coast of Kent.

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Update on the War in Gaza

Our Israeli correspondent MC sends the latest news from Sderot:

Although you may be reading in the news about a ‘peace deal’, the reality on the ground is different.

The past three days have seen sporadic shelling and bombing (outgoing), with continued kite and balloon attacks.

Tonight we are hearing artillery and gunfire with aircraft etc.

The area has all the signs of a military campaign in the making. We passed a field full of tanks coming in from Ashkelon today. Given that it is Shabbat, this is serious. Normally things stop at sunset on Friday, but not tonight. Expect some move soon.

It appears that Hamas’ control may not have be as complete as they would have us believe, and that a faction in Gaza is trying to provoke instability.

For those who are interested, here’s the story from Arutz Sheva on the “peace deal”:

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Matteo Salvini: “This is About a Criminal Traffic in Human Beings”

On Wednesday a Turkish oil tanker, El Hiblu 1, rescued more than a hundred migrants from the Mediterranean. Unlike most of the “rescue” vessels in the Med, El Hiblu 1 was a commercial ship, and not an NGO vessel tasked with ferrying culture-enrichers to Europe. To do his duty under international maritime law, the Libyan captain of the ship decided to drop his new passengers off on the coast of Libya, which was the same country they departed from, and had the closest port.

When the migrants caught wind of their destination, they mutinied against the crew and hijacked the ship, forcing it to set a course for Malta. There they were taken into custody and their leaders arrested.

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini referred to the hijackers as “pirates”. Needless to say, the Vatican, human rights groups, and the EU did not agree with his characterization. While the ship was still at sea, Mr. Salvini made the following video to explain his position.

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

Below are excerpts from five articles about the hijacking and its aftermath. First, from the BBC:

Rescued Migrants Hijack Merchant Ship Near Libya — Reports

Migrants have hijacked a merchant vessel that rescued them off Libya’s coast, ordering the crew to head towards Malta, reports say.

More than 100 migrants aboard the cargo ship are said to have acted after being told they would be taken back to Libya.

Malta’s military said the ship would not be allowed into its waters. Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini described the hijackers as “pirates”.

The Vatican’s response, from ANSA:

Migrants ‘Hijackers Out of Need’ — Vatican Daily

After withdrawal of Sophia op ships says Osservatore Romano

(ANSA) — Rome, March 28 — The migrants who hijacked a merchant ship and forced it to go to Malta instead of taking them back to Libya did so out of necessity, Vatican daily L’Osservatore Romano said Thursday.

‘Hijackers Out Of Need’ was the front-page headline over a report into the hijacking of the El Hiblu I on Wednesday.

“The night was one of strong tension after the withdrawal of the Sophia operation ships,” the daily said.

It said “it all happened while traffickers resumed putting to sea, thanks to good weather conditions, one dinghy after another”.

Leaders of the hijacking arrested, from The Telegraph:

Five Migrants Arrested After Maltese Special Forces Raid Brings End to High Seas Hijack Drama

Five migrants who allegedly led the hijacking of a tanker in the Mediterranean to avoid being returned to Libya were arrested in Malta on Thursday after special forces stormed the vessel to take back control.

The five men, some of whom were led off the merchant vessel in plastic handcuffs, were among 108 asylum seekers who were rescued by the El Hiblu 1 tanker north of Libya on Tuesday.

The tanker was ordered by Libyan authorities to take the migrants to Tripoli, but they allegedly subjected the 12-man crew to physical threats and forced the vessel to sail north instead, towards Europe.

A Breitbart account of the events:

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A United Europe… Or Else

Long-time readers are familiar with Heiko Maas (center in the photo above). Mr. Maas is a Social Democratic politician who has been serving in cabinets under Chancellor Angela Merkel since 2013. He was Justice Minister during the Great Migration Crisis of 2015, and on Groping and Raping night in Cologne on New Year’s Eve of 2015. Now he is Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In the following political commercial for the upcoming European parliamentary elections, Heiko Maas lays out the case against nationalism and in favor of a warm, fuzzy, diverse, and compulsory United Europe.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling. If I understand it correctly, the martial music you hear in the soundtrack was not included in the original video:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/28/2019

The BBC was forced to apologize and pay damages to the president of Ukraine. The Beeb was forced into this humiliating action because of a report it published in 2017 that the Ukrainian president had paid $400,000 to extend a meeting with President Donald Trump. The BBC now acknowledges that the story was untrue.

In other news, members of an anti-Islam party in Denmark burned a Koran during a confrontation with Hizb ut-Tahrir in front of the Danish parliament.

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Hey, Macron, Tais-Toi! Consider Louis XVI…

The Baron and I were discussing this latest unfortunate incident in the Yellow(ed) Vest demonstrations. [They’re getting yellowed with age on those French streets, y’all. That poor woman was a “jolie jeune fille” when these marches started so long ago. Now she’s a discard being lectured by Macron.]

Macron! Of all people!

Rumors are he has a helicopter on standby… when the going gets tough, he evidently plans to get going.

Well, those Yellow Vests used a forklift to open some gates, remember? Emmanuel had better hope one of them doesn’t have an anti-aircraft gun in his sac à dos.

Here’s the late Alan Sherman, a favorite of Americans of a certain age, warning Louis XVI what was gonna happen. Macron should pay careful attention.

Mr. Sherman’s lyrics are below the fold.

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Superficial Wounds?

The following video from France shows the mayor of Nice attempting to minimize the severe wounds suffered by Geneviève Legay last Saturday during the Yellow Vest demonstration. Ms. Legay sustained multiple skull fractures when the police charged the demonstrators. The mayor’s story (and presumably that of President Emmanuel “Toy Boy” Macron) is that the poor woman accidentally fell down, and she really shouldn’t have been there, anyway.

Here’s what President Macron said about what happened:

French President Emmanuel Macron has told a newspaper he hopes a 73-year old yellow vest protester who suffered serious head injuries after being charged by police in Nice, gains “wisdom” over the incident.

Anti-globalization activist Genevieve Legay remains in hospital Monday after police advanced aggressively on people defying a protest ban Saturday.

An Associated Press reporter saw Legay, who was waving a rainbow flag marked “Peace,” fall to the pavement, blood spilling from her head.

In an interview published in Nice Matin Monday, Macron suggested Legay didn’t behave “responsibly,” saying that “fragile” people shouldn’t attend “places that are defined as prohibited.”

He added: “I wish her a speedy recovery, and perhaps a form of wisdom.”

Wisdom?? What an arrogant twerp of a gigolo!

Mr. Macron is evidently not keeping the example of King Louis XVI in mind. Although he reportedly does a helicopter standing by, just in case…

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

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Terror Plot Thwarted in Wiesbaden

The key phrase in the following report from Wiesbaden is “Salafist scene”. There is a large Salafist scene in Rhine-Main because there are thousands of culture-enrichers in Germany. If there weren’t a lot of migrants, there wouldn’t be a Salafist scene.

How much of a Salafist scene do you think there is in, say, Budapest?

Regardless of how well “integration” is working, or whether there is only a “tiny minority of extremists” causing the trouble, you don’t get Salafists unless you have Muslim culture-enrichers. That’s the simple statistical fact of it.

A tiny minority of zero is zero. That’s the size of the Salafist scene in Hungary.

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

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