Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/3/2019

A group of more than fifty migrants stormed the port of Calais and were able to get on board a ferry bound for the UK. The port was closed for a while as a result, stranding a number of British tourists in France.

In other news, thieves entered the rectory of a priest in Perugia, evidently looking for money from church offerings. Unable to find any cash, they stole the priest’s antique Beretta pistol. The priest says he will now defend himself with his rifles.

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USA
» Bipartisan Bill Would Stop States From Denying Occupational Licenses Due to Student Loan Debt
» CNN Analyst and Former Obama Admin Official Compares Trump’s CPAC Speech to Hitler
» Congress Advances Gun Registry Via “Universal Background Checks”
» Dershowitz Suggests Press Blackout During “Orgy Island” Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Hearing
» Destroying America From Within, Part 2
» Faith No More: America’s Trust in Mainstream Media Hits Rock Bottom
» Green Land Grabs on Steroids
» Is a Second Civil War Coming?
» James O’Keefe: “Heroic” Facebook Insider Exposes “Nefarious” Practice of “Deboosting”
» Lyin’ Matt Schlapp Denies Banning Conservatives From CPAC
» New Jersey High School Bans Limos, Party Buses, & Luxury Cars From Prom to Promote “Equity”
» Trump Makes the Elites Pessimistic on Foreign Trade. Good.
» Washington Post Walks Back Smears of Covington Boys After $250m Lawsuit
 
Europe and the EU
» Anti-EU Populist Estonia Party Sees Support Soar in Shock Election Result
» Brussels Swipes at France Over Economic ‘Vulnerabilities’
» France’s ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters Back on the Streets, Police Respond With Teargas
» Greece: Holocaust-Themed Game Shocks Jewish Community
» Hungary: Juncker to be Replaced With Timmermans on Posters
» I’m Profoundly Against TAV Says Toninelli
» Islamic State Fighter Got Medical Treatment in Sweden, Then Returned to Fight
» Italy: Priest Says Will Defend Self With Rifles After Pistol Theft
» Italy: Reopen Brothels Says Salvini
» Italy: Victim Reports Priest 30 Years After Alleged Abuse
» League to be Top Italy Party at EP — Polls
» Tommy Robinson Should be Banned From YouTube, Says Labour Deputy Leader
» UK: Leaver Leadsom and Remainer Hunt Push May’s Deal, Say Brexit Delay Would be ‘Betrayal’
» UK: Trade Union Barons’ Lobby Wants Tommy Robinson Banned From ‘Public Spaces
» Wheelchair-Bound Yellow-Vest Pepper-Sprayed by French Cops; Another Man Shot in Face
 
South Asia
» India to Achieve Universal Household Electrification by January-End
 
Far East
» Exposed Chinese Database Shows Depth of Surveillance State
» How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World: Conclusion
» Specter of Communism: Chapter Eighteen: The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Ambitions (Part II)
 
Australia — Pacific
» Exclusive: Schools Face Being Shut Down for a Year to Weed Out Muslim Extremist Teachers Under Radical Plan That Could See Male Teachers Sacked for Refusing to Shake Hands With Women
 
Immigration
» 90 Irregular Migrants Held in Aegean Region
» Calais Chaos: UK-Bound Ferries Held After ‘100 Migrants’ Storm Ship Heading for Dover
» Calais: Dozens of Migrants Storm Ferry in ‘Co-Ordinated Attack’ On UK Border
» Foreign Thugs Who Commit Violent Crimes Against Women and Children to be Kicked Out of Australia or Refused Entry Under New Crackdown
» Gang of Migrants Allegedly Raped Underage Italian Girls, Lured Them With Drugs
» German Police: North African Migrants More Prone to Criminality
» Italy Has Been Left Alone Over Migrants — Conte
» Italy: Migrant Arrivals by Sea Down 95% in 2019 — Salvini
» Italy: San Ferdinando Tent Camp Clearing Ordered
» Swedish Policeman Rants About ‘Scared and Confused’ Migrant Boys With Guns in Bizarre Video Message
 
Culture Wars
» Canadian Court Rules Parents Can’t Stop 14-Year-Old From Taking Trans Hormones
» Merkel Successor Kramp-Karrenbauer Under Fire for Anti-LGBT Joke
 
General
» Report: “11 Christians Killed Every Day for Their Faith”
» The Real Reason Why Globalists Are So Obsessed With Artificial Intelligence
 

Bipartisan Bill Would Stop States From Denying Occupational Licenses Due to Student Loan Debt

In at least 18 states, unpaid students loans can be grounds for denying someone an occupational license—even if the applicant is otherwise fully qualified.

Under these laws, state licensing boards can prevent applicants from earning the money they need to repay the loans that disqualify them from licensure. It’s a nonsensical cycle that can lock qualified workers out of good-paying jobs. There’s no benefit to the public—consumers’ health and safety is not threatened by workers who owe student loan payments—though the policy does, like much else in the world of licensing, serve the interests of existing license-holders by limiting competition.

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

CNN Analyst and Former Obama Admin Official Compares Trump’s CPAC Speech to Hitler

“That sounds a lot like a certain leader that killed members of my family and about six million other Jews in the 1940s”

One CNN analyst and former Obama administration official was clearly triggered by President Trump’s rambling, expletive-filled, two-hour-plus CPAC address.

During an appearance on CNN where she offered some “informed commentary” on Trump’s speech, Sam Vinograd, a former member of Obama’s national security council, said Trump’s “xenophobic” talking points about immigrants and white heritage reminded her of “certain leader” who presided over a genocidal European regime during the first half of the 20th century.

[Comment: Typical communist and globalist tool. ]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Congress Advances Gun Registry Via “Universal Background Checks”

Under the guise of mandating “universal background checks,” Congress is working on a gun-control plot that would ban all private sales of firearms and essentially create a national gun registry. Among other concerns, gun-rights advocates warned that the scheme would enable future confiscation of firearms by government while making countless law-abiding citizens into criminals.

Whether the radical bill will become law remains unclear. But with the Senate likely to vote it down and the White House threatening a veto, gun-rights groups are cautiously optimistic while gearing up for a fight just in case.

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

Dershowitz Suggests Press Blackout During “Orgy Island” Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Hearing

The legal team for Attorney Alan Dershowitz has cautioned against press access to a hearing regarding Dershowitz’s former client and associate, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — who was given a slap on the wrist in 2008 by then-US Attorney for southern Florida (and current Labor Secretary) Alex Acosta. Epstein sexually abused dozens of underage girls in his Palm Beach mansion, while Acosta is under fire separately of the sealed records appeal.

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

Destroying America From Within, Part 2

We have no idea how many cases in America are tried in their shariah court instead of the courts of the land. Some say that there are already shariah courts in America. It happened at the Republican National Convention last year, and it’s happened at just about every right-wing protest I’ve covered in the past few years: People tell me Sharia law is coming to America. Muslims secretly want to impose their will on all of us. In fact, there are already “no-go zones” in United States, and we must act now to stop them from spreading.

Where do they think this is happening? In places like Dearborn, Michigan, and Dallas, Texas. Dallas in particular has become a center of anti-Sharia protests, inflamed partly by reports from Fox News, Breitbart, and others that an Islamic court had been established there to decree medieval justice in America. The protests were loud enough that Texas passed a bill last summer to ban “foreign law” from being applied.

Could this rogue Islamic court be real? And what evidence led Texas to act? In the episode above, I travel to the real-life Islamic Tribunal in Arlington, Texas, to ask one of its founding imams what he does there. Then I meet with Texas State Rep. Dan Flynn, a Republican who represents a rural district outside Dallas and who sponsored the new legislation. He insists the bill doesn’t target Muslims, but the law’s backstory suggests otherwise.

There is proof that there are American courts that have used shariah to adjudicate some cases. In my opinion these judges should be removed form the bench and barred from ever being a judge again because they are sworn to uphold the Constitution not Islamic law. CSP has found that at least 146 cases have been identified where the U.S. court system has allowed a Shariah court to adjudicate.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Faith No More: America’s Trust in Mainstream Media Hits Rock Bottom

Authored by Robert Bridge via The Strategic Culture Foundation

Gone are the days when US consumers looked to the nightly news and print media as a trusted source of information, and especially if they hold conservative views, according to a new poll by the Columbia Journalism Review.

Things are going from bad to worse for the US legacy media as its trust credentials have reached an all-time new low, as if that were possible. It has even achieved a lower trust rating than lawyers and members of Congress.

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

Green Land Grabs on Steroids

Special interest environmental groups got stung recently by an 8-0 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that held private landowners cannot be compelled to forego future economic uses of their property and at their own expense convert their land into suitable habitat for an endangered frog. Now radical greens are eyeing even bigger land grabs.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Is a Second Civil War Coming?

Civil wars are horrendous and bloody affairs. That’s why we should avoid them. They happen when two sides cannot settle on who runs the country. When they can’t reconcile the matter through elections, the country falls apart. When one side does not accept the election results, we have a countdown to a civil war.

This is the thesis put forth by journalist Daniel Greenfield. It rings true on many levels.

Does the fact that Democrats are rejecting a duly elected Republican president really mean they don’t accept the results of any election they don’t win? If so, we may be already nearing America’s Second Civil War.

[Comment: When the communist start losing expect them to import foreign communist troops to help them. This is all stoke by Soros money funding leftists and radicals.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

James O’Keefe: “Heroic” Facebook Insider Exposes “Nefarious” Practice of “Deboosting”

On Friday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Project Veritas founder, James O’Keefe, joined me to discuss their latest undercover sting investigation with a Facebook insider that revealed how the social media giant was “demoting bad content.”

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

Lyin’ Matt Schlapp Denies Banning Conservatives From CPAC

Laura Loomer stripped of press pass, removed from event

Infowars confronts conservative pundit Matt Schlapp over CPAC’s decision to revoke independent journalist Laura Loomer’s press pass and eject her from the event.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

New Jersey High School Bans Limos, Party Buses, & Luxury Cars From Prom to Promote “Equity”

What better way to put the fun back into prom night than banning limos, party buses or luxury vehicles?

At least, this was the thought process of one New Jersey high school, which has implemented a new policy to ban such vehicles on prom night as way to deal with social inequality. How, exactly, does that work? We have no idea.

According to a report on NJ 101.5, Lakeland Regional High School superintendent Hugh E. Beattie claimed that the new policy is about safety and “equity”. He doesn’t want students who can’t afford a “snazzy ride” to feel left out. Calling it a “group decision made by the Administrative Team”, he says the only way to now arrive at the school’s prom — being held at the Rockleigh Country Club — is to take a chaperoned school bus at a cost of $15 per person.

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

Trump Makes the Elites Pessimistic on Foreign Trade. Good.

The 2016 election was a shock to the foreign service community. Hillary was their ideal candidate. In her, the boys from Foggy Bottom knew they could lead the “world’s smartest woman” around by the nose with flattery and faux bowing and scraping. Donald Trump, however, was their worst nightmare. This barbarian was uncontrollable and threatened to upend the world as they know it. And worse still, on a personal note, since winning the presidency, Trump has frozen out a great many of his pre-election critics from the plumb government positions they crave.

The inbred blob is infected with groupthink. It acts as if America’s destiny were to lead the world forever, no matter the cost. If the American people refuse to shoulder their assigned responsibility to self-sacrifice for the world community, we are lectured that global chaos of biblical proportions will ensue. Part of the reason for the mentality of the foreign service crowd is that since the end of World War II, the U.S. has basically protected and bankrolled much of the world. This is the only environment these people know and are comfortable with. For all of their supposed education and credentials, thinking out of the box is not their forte, even when that box is knee-deep with their failures.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Washington Post Walks Back Smears of Covington Boys After $250m Lawsuit

The far-left Washington Post published an editor’s note Friday night admitting its leading coverage of the Covington High School story does not line up with the facts.

Nowhere, though, does the Post apologize or even say it regrets smearing a group of innocent Catholic boys.

Here’s a portion of the Post’s statement, undoubtedly published on a Friday night for the same reason politicians release bad news on Friday nights: to limit the exposure and damage:…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Anti-EU Populist Estonia Party Sees Support Soar in Shock Election Result

AN ANTI-EU Estonian political party saw its share of the vote soar in parliamentary elections that brought a surprise win for the centre-right Reform Party.

The populist Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (EKRE) won nearly 18 per cent in Sunday’s ballot, securing 20 seats. The radical right party saw a surge in support with its fiercely anti-immigrant message. Reform Party leader Kaja Kallas is set to become Estonia’s first female prime minister after her party won 29.3 per cent of the vote, increasing their seats by four to 34, but she must now form a fresh coalition government.

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

Brussels Swipes at France Over Economic ‘Vulnerabilities’

Brussels (AFP) — The European Commission took a swipe at France on Friday noting the country’s economic “vulnerabilities” due to high public debt and weak competitiveness.

The comments from Brussels came in a commission report to the European Parliament assessing 2019 economic and social development in the European Union.

“France is experiencing imbalances,” the report said. “Vulnerabilities stem from high public debt and weak competitiveness dynamics in a context of low productivity growth.”

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

France’s ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters Back on the Streets, Police Respond With Teargas

France’s “yellow vest” protesters took to the streets on Saturday, for the 16th straight weekend, some clashing with police who responded with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon.

By 2:00 pm (1300 GMT) around 5,600 people had joined the protests throughout the country, most of them in the capital Paris, well down on the estimated 11,600 out on the streets at the same time last week, the interior ministry said.

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

Greece: Holocaust-Themed Game Shocks Jewish Community

In a country where anti-Semitism thrives, Greeks describe a Holocaust-themed game offered by an escape room company as “an undeniably entertaining adventure.” Anthee Carassava reports from Athens.

In Greece, Schindler’s List isn’t just seen as an epic, landmark film in the history of Holocaust storytelling. It’s an escape room based on a Holocaust-themed game that is taking Greek youth by storm, much to the chagrin of the Jewish community.

The outcry has prompted the company, Great Escape, to change the game’s name — a direct reference to Steven Spielberg’s film on the Holocaust — to “Secret Agent.”

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

Hungary: Juncker to be Replaced With Timmermans on Posters

Speaking to Die Welt, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused the European left of staging the attack against his party in the European People’s Party (EPP).

According to Orban, the left is using “salami tactics” and his critics in the EPP are “useful idiots”. He said that after his government, the left will attack Italy and Austria.

Orban told Die Welt that the government’s controversial billboard campaign, which features George Soros and Jean-Claude Juncker will end on March 15. He said that Juncker will be replaced by the Spitzenkandidat of the PES, Frans Timmermans.

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

I’m Profoundly Against TAV Says Toninelli

PD presents motion of no confidence in transport minister

(ANSA) — Lecco, March 1 — Transport and Infrastructure Minister Danilo Toninelli said Friday that he and his 5-Star Movement (M5S) remain “profoundly” opposed to the controversial TAV Turin-Lyon high-speed link. The M5S have long been against the project on environmental and cost grounds. Their calls for the project to be ditched have increased after a new analysis commissioned by the transport ministry said the rail link would have a negative cost-benefit balance of seven to eight billion euros. However, the M5S’s government coalition partners in the League want the project to go ahead. Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and League leader Matteo Salvini has said the project could be revised to cut costs but should not be abandoned completely.

“The TAV could be useful after 2070 but I’m the infrastructure minister and I would feel responsible if another bridge collapsed and people died tomorrow and I could have used the money from the TAV to do maintenance on that piece of infrastructure,” Toninelli said. The new cost-benefit analysis has come under fire from some quarters for alleged bias and so the team of experts that compiled it was asked to do a supplementary analysis.

Toninelli said Friday that the supplementary analysis had given the thumbs down to the project too, with a negative cost-benefit balance of 2.5 billion euros in the “realistic scenario”.

The opposition centre-left PD, meanwhile, said Friday that it would present a motion of no confidence on Toninelli for allegedly blocking progress on public work projects all over Italy.

The premier’s office, meanwhile, denied reports that Conte was warming to the idea of having a scaled down ‘mini-TAV’ version of the rail link to bring down costs.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Islamic State Fighter Got Medical Treatment in Sweden, Then Returned to Fight

Islamic State fighter Khaled Shahadeh is said to have not only returned to Sweden from the Middle East for medical treatment, but was able to return to the battlefield afterwards.

The 28-year-old is one regarded as a particular threat to Sweden should he return to the Scandinavian country yet again, Expressen reports.

Shahadeh went to fight for the Islamic State in Syria, but the ISIS fighter returned to Sweden after being injured in the shoulder during a battle, according to his father.

After coming back to Sweden, Shahadeh’s injury was treated by Swedish medical professionals — after which he once again departed the country and headed back to Islamic State controlled territory to fight for the terror group.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Priest Says Will Defend Self With Rifles After Pistol Theft

I’m a League sympathiser says Umbrian cleric

(ANSA) — Perugia, February 28 — An Umbrian priest told ANSA Thursday he was ready to defend himself with his two rifles after burglars made off with a 1930s Beretta pistol earlier this week.

“Voting preferences are secret but I’m a sympathiser of the League,” said 73-year-old Father Antonio Mandrelli, referring to Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s rightist party which is pressing for an expansion of legitimate self-defence norms on a par with American ‘stand your ground’ rules.

The thieves did not find the money from recent collections that Father Mandrelli had hidden in his rectory.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Reopen Brothels Says Salvini

Although not in govt contract with M5S

(ANSA) — Monfalcone, February 28 — Italy should reopen brothels which were closed by a landmark 1958 law, despite the move not being in the government contract with the 5-Star Movement (M5S), Interior Minster and League leader Matteo Salvini said Thursday.

“I was and I continue to be in favour of reopening brothels,” said the rightist leader and deputy premier.

“It’s not in the government contract, because the M5S don’t agree, but I continue to think that taking this business away from the mafias, the streets and from degradation, also from a health standpoint, is the right path and that the Austrian model is the most efficient one”.

Pia Crove, founder of a prostitutes’ civil rights group, said “I think Salvini’s brothels are a system of mass distraction.

“They always talk about the issue in electoral campaigns, when they don’t want to face real problems”.

Crove pointed out, for instance, that “in Germany only 6,000 out of 200,000 sex workers registered to pay taxes”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Italy: Victim Reports Priest 30 Years After Alleged Abuse

Clergyman under investigation in Lecce say reports

(ANSA) — Bari, March 1 — A 40-year-old has reported a priest in the province of Lecce for alleged abuse suffered at the age of nine around 30 years ago, local newspapers reported on Friday.

Lecce prosecutors have put the priest under investigation for sexual abuse of minors and violence.

The victim reportedly now lives abroad.

There are said to be allegations that the priest abused other people too.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

League to be Top Italy Party at EP — Polls

2nd only to Germany’s CSU-CDU, M5S to have 21 seats

(ANSA) — Brussels, March 1 — The anti-migrant Euroskeptic League party will be the top party in Italy at the May European Parliament elections, according to opinion polls out Friday.

Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s far-right group will be second in the EP with 28 seats behind Germany’s CSU/CDU with 34, the EP poll said.

The League got just six seats in the last EP elections.

The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) is down a seat from the last such poll on 21, compared to the 14 seats it got in 2014.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Tommy Robinson Should be Banned From YouTube, Says Labour Deputy Leader

The deputy leader of the UK Labour party, Tom Watson, has called for Tommy Robinson to be banned from YouTube “as a matter of utmost urgency”, RT.com writes.

Robinson was permanently removed from Facebook and Instagram this week after the silicon valley behemoth said the anti-immigration campaigner repeatedly breached its policies on hate speech.

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

UK: Leaver Leadsom and Remainer Hunt Push May’s Deal, Say Brexit Delay Would be ‘Betrayal’

Cabinet ministers Andrea Leadsom and Jeremy Hunt — the former a Leave-supporting party leadership runner-up, the latter an ex-Remainer and party leadership hopeful — have penned a joint article extolling the supposed merits of Theresa May’s deal with the European Union, and denounced efforts to delay Brexit as “a betrayal of the referendum result”.

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

UK: Trade Union Barons’ Lobby Wants Tommy Robinson Banned From ‘Public Spaces

Britain’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called for Tommy Robinson to be banned not only from social media, but from “public spaces” as well.

“So Tommy Robinson’s been banned from [Facebook] and Instagram,” gloated the lobby group via Twitter — which had itself banned Robinson some months ago already.

“About time. Now we need to ban him from public spaces too,” they added.

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

Wheelchair-Bound Yellow-Vest Pepper-Sprayed by French Cops; Another Man Shot in Face

As the Yellow Vest protests rage across France for the 16th straight week, shocking footage has emerged of police brutality. Apparently a Friday call for calm by President Emmanuel Macron doesn’t apply to police.

In one clip, a French policeman appears to blast a wheelchair-bound man in the face with pepper spray.

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

India to Achieve Universal Household Electrification by January-End

India is all set to achieve 100 per cent household electrification by the month end, with 2.44 crore families having received power connections out of the targeted 2.48 crore under the Rs 16,320 crore Saubhagya scheme, an official said. The Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) was launched in September 2017.

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

Exposed Chinese Database Shows Depth of Surveillance State

[…]

The discovery by Gevers, a Dutch cybersecurity researcher who revealed it on Twitter last week, has given a rare glimpse into China’s extensive surveillance of Xinjiang, a remote region home to an ethnic minority population that is largely Muslim. The area has been blanketed with police checkpoints and security cameras that apparently are doing more than just recording what happens.

The database Gevers found appears to have been recording people’s movements tracked by facial recognition technology, he said, logging more than 6.7 million coordinates in a span of 24 hours. …

Joseph Atick, a pioneer in facial recognition technology, said that facial recognition products can use algorithms to recognize and track people in a crowd, but that privacy regulations in Europe, for example, make it much harder to launch a wide-scale application such as that of SenseNet.

“The technology around the world is becoming uniform and it is just the political climate that is different and leads to different applications,” he said.

According to a company registry, SenseNets was founded in the southern China city of Shenzhen in 2015 and is majority-owned by Beijing-based NetPosa, a technology company specializing in video surveillance. SenseNets’ website showcases partnerships with police forces in Jiangsu and Sichuan provinces and the city of Shanghai.

[See also: https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/10/22/china-voice-biometric-collection-threatens-privacy ]

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World: Conclusion

[…]

The world is experiencing a revival of traditional culture and morality in alignment with the universal values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. At the fore in this renaissance is Shen Yun Performing Arts, which tours on five continents. Using the medium of classical Chinese dance, Shen Yun brings these values to audiences around the world.

The West has begun to recognize the communist infiltration and its subversion of traditional culture that has been taking place over the past century. The cleansing of communist elements and deviated modern culture has begun across many spheres, including law and governance, education, and diplomatic relations. Governments are becoming more vigilant against communist regimes and their enablers, greatly stemming communism’s influence on the global scene.

[The Epoch Times is serializing a translation from the Chinese of a new book,

How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World (https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-how-the-specter-of-communism-is-ruling-our-world), by the editorial team of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party (https://www.theepochtimes.com/nine-commentaries-on-the-communist-party-introduction_3942.html).

See also:

Shen Yun Performing Arts: The Significant Cultural Event of Our Time (https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-shen-yun). ]

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Specter of Communism: Chapter Eighteen: The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Ambitions (Part II)

[…]

When a branch of China’s state-run broadcaster was established in London, nearly six thousand people applied for ninety positions that required “reporting news from China’s perspective.” The CCP encountered an enviable problem: too many applicants. People’s eagerness to work for the CCP’s mouthpiece reflects the decline of the Western media industry and the threat that the CCP’s foreign propaganda poses to the world. …

China’s theft of technology and patents is hard to combat and prevent. Kathleen Puckett, a former U.S. counterintelligence officer in San Francisco, said that China puts all its efforts into espionage and gets everything for free.

China moralized, rationalized, normalized, and militarized its stealing spree. It launched a “war against everyone” to loot advanced technology from the West, using patriotism, racial sentiments, money, and prestige. Such appalling conduct is unprecedented historically. …

The CCP has developed asymmetric weapons, such as anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft carrier missiles. In terms of conventional weapons, the CCP has attempted to surpass the technological supremacy of the United States by having a larger quantity of matériel targeting those prize assets. The CCP has grown economically and technically, giving it greater operational space to implement cyber warfare, outer-space warfare, and other unconventional high-tech attack vectors against the United States, as addressed in the last section.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Exclusive: Schools Face Being Shut Down for a Year to Weed Out Muslim Extremist Teachers Under Radical Plan That Could See Male Teachers Sacked for Refusing to Shake Hands With Women

State schools could be shut down if principals in New South Wales fail to tackle Islamic radicalisation. One Nation has unveiled a five-point plan designed to protect public safety.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

90 Irregular Migrants Held in Aegean Region

At least 88 irregular migrants were held in Turkey’s Aegean region, security sources said on March 3.

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

Calais Chaos: UK-Bound Ferries Held After ‘100 Migrants’ Storm Ship Heading for Dover

BRITISH holidaymakers were stranded in the Channel after up to 100 migrants trying to reach the UK broke through security barriers and climbed onto a ferry at the port of Calais and forced its temporary closure.

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

Calais: Dozens of Migrants Storm Ferry in ‘Co-Ordinated Attack’ On UK Border

Dozens of migrants stormed a ferry in Calais, France, in a bid to break into Britain on Saturday night, in what police called a “co-ordinated attack” on the French docks.

Between 9:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., more than 50 migrants managed to board a Calais Seaways ferry which had just sailed in from Dover, England, with 211 passengers and 75 crew members on board, local media reports.

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

Foreign Thugs Who Commit Violent Crimes Against Women and Children to be Kicked Out of Australia or Refused Entry Under New Crackdown

Officials will now be prevent those who have been found guilty of domestic violence from entering Australia after the order by Immigration Minister David Coleman came into force.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Gang of Migrants Allegedly Raped Underage Italian Girls, Lured Them With Drugs

A gang of five migrants have been arrested after claims that they lured four underage Italian girls with drugs, imprisoned them, and took turns sexually abusing one of them.

The alleged migrant rape gang consisted of three Albanians and two Moroccans aged between 17 and 20-years-old. They are accused of locking up four Italian girls in an apartment after inviting them over with the promise of alcohol and drugs, Il Giornale reports.

Investigators say the young migrants, who came from “non-disadvantaged, integrated and working families”, lured the underage girls in July of last year after meeting them through school.

After arriving in the apartment, the migrants locked the girls in the apartment so they would not be able to escape. After the girls begged to be released the migrants threatened them saying they would throw them out of the window.

One of the girls was then separated from the others and stripped off her clothes as the five migrants sexually abused her and filmed the ordeal on their mobile phones.

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German Police: North African Migrants More Prone to Criminality

The president of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has admitted that North African migrants are more prone to criminality and has called for police to focus their attention to prevent them from forming organised mafias.

BKA president Holger Münch said that police needed to tackle issues of North African migrant crime before criminal structures can emerge as has been the case with Arab clan mafia groups, Die Welt reports.

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Italy Has Been Left Alone Over Migrants — Conte

Shortsightedness will cause problems for everyone says premier

(ANSA) — Rome, February 28 — Premier Giuseppe Conte on Thursday reiterated the assertion that Italy has been left alone by its European partners to cope with flow of migrants across the Mediterranean from North Africa. “Up to now, Italy has been left alone and it has saved Europe’s honour,” Conte said at the presentation of the annual report of Italy’s intelligence network.

“But if we continue to proceed with short-sighted interests, Europe will continue in a spiral of crises that we won’t come out of.

“It is a problem that regards everyone”.

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Italy: Migrant Arrivals by Sea Down 95% in 2019 — Salvini

Interior minister gives data for Jan 1 to Feb 28

(ANSA) — Rome, March 1 — Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Friday that 262 migrants arrived in Italy via sea in the first two months of 2019, down 95% on the 5,247 that landed in the same period in 2018.

The League leader said that 1,099 migrants were repatriated in January and February (1,013 were forced to leave while 86 went voluntarily) — four times the number that arrived.

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Italy: San Ferdinando Tent Camp Clearing Ordered

Houses migrant farm workers

(ANSA) — Reggio Calabria, February 28 — The mayor of the town of San Ferdinando in Calabria on Thursday ordered the sprawling migrant farm worker tent camp there to be cleared after fires killed three migrants there over the past year.

First citizen Andrea Tripodi said he ordered the “immediate clearance” of the camp, which houses migrants working in the fields of the nearby Piana di Gioia Tauro.

Over the last year there have been fires in the camp that have caused the deaths of three migrants.

The ordinance, translated into French, English and Arabic, has been delivered to all residents of the camp.

The interior ministry said all of the regular migrants among the around 1,000 immigrants would be found a place in rceeption centres (ex-SPRARs, CARAs, CAS).

Two years ago some 2,700 migrants were registered in the camp.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Swedish Policeman Rants About ‘Scared and Confused’ Migrant Boys With Guns in Bizarre Video Message

A video with the title “It has gone too far” by the police in the Swedish no-go zone Rinkeby/Järva has been viewed over 1.8 million times in the past few days.

Unfortunately it’s not because the police finally have said something based and accurate. On the contrary — it’s extra everything of the same nonsense as usual.

The reason they made the video is because two “boys” in the multi-cultural zone were trying to shoplift pastries at a local grocery store — and pulled out guns when they got caught.

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

Canadian Court Rules Parents Can’t Stop 14-Year-Old From Taking Trans Hormones

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada ordered that a 14-year-old girl receive testosterone injections without parental consent. The court also declared that if either of her parents referred to her using female pronouns or addressed her by her birth name, they would be considered guilty of family violence.

As previously reported, Maxine* was encouraged by her school counselor in BC’s Delta School District to identify as a boy while in seventh grade. When Maxine was 13 years old, Dr. Brenden Hursh and his colleagues at BC Children’s Hospital decided that Maxine should begin taking testosterone injections in order to develop a more masculine appearance.

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

Merkel Successor Kramp-Karrenbauer Under Fire for Anti-LGBT Joke

The CDU leader mocked the idea of gender-neutral bathrooms during a Carnival-themed program on public broadcaster SWR. Politicians and activists called the incident a “travesty.”

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hand-picked successor as leader of the Christian Democrats (CDU), came under fire on Sunday as a video of her making jokes at the expense of minorities began to do the rounds on social media.

Kramp-Karrenbauer appeared on a live broadcast of a Carnival celebration on Thursday, dressed in festive clothing and charged with entertaining the audience in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg.

Making fun of Berlin’s reputation as a hip and progressive haven, she referred to the “latte macchiato party” that has “installed third-gender bathrooms,” in hipster cafes. Mocking the idea of neutral bathrooms that are made with a mind to making gender non-confirming and transgender individuals more comfortable, the conservative leader joked: “It’s for the men who can’t decide if they want to sit or stand when they pee.”

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

Report: “11 Christians Killed Every Day for Their Faith”

Last year, Christians were persecuted more than ever before in the modern era — and this year is expected to be worse: “4,136 Christians were killed for faith-related reasons,” according to Open Doors USA in its recently published World Watch List 2019 (WWL) of the top 50 nations where Christians are persecuted. “On average, that’s 11 Christians killed every day for their faith.” Additionally, “2,625 Christians were detained without trial, arrested, sentenced and imprisoned” in 2018, and “1,266 churches or Christian buildings were attacked.”

Whereas 215 million Christians faced persecution in 2018, 245 million will suffer in 2019, according to Open Doors — a 14% increase, that represents 30 million more people abused for their faith. This means that “1 in 9 Christians experience high levels of persecution worldwide” (note: all quotations in this article are from the WWL 2019).

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

The Real Reason Why Globalists Are So Obsessed With Artificial Intelligence

The globalists have long held AI as a kind of holy grail in centralization technology. The United Nations has adopted numerous positions and even summits on the issue, including the “AI For Good” summit in Geneva. The UN insinuates that its primary interest in AI is in regulation or observation of how it is exploited, but the UN also has clear goals to use AI to its advantage. The use of AI as a means to monitor mass data to better institute “sustainable development” is written clearly in the UN’s agenda…

Mass surveillance is impossible to manage by humans alone; the amount of sheer data is overwhelming. So, one core purpose of AI for the globalists becomes clear — AI is meant to streamline mass surveillance and automate it. AI is meant to scour social media or electronic mail for “key words” to identify potential miscreants and opposition. It is also meant to monitor public sentiment towards specific issues or governments. The goal is to gauge and eventually “predict” public behavior…

To understand this ideology or cult built on blank slate theory, we must consider the fact that globalists often exhibit the traits of narcissistic sociopaths. Full blown narcissistic sociopaths make up less than 1% of the total human population; they are people who actually lack any inherent empathy or the normal personality tools that we would associate with humanity. It would not be an exaggeration to say that such people are more like robots than people.

I have also theorized that luciferianism is a religion designed by narcissistic sociopaths for narcissistic sociopaths. It is a kind of binding or organizing tool to gather sociopaths into an effective group for mutual benefit — A club of parasites. If this theory is true, then it represents something that is rarely if ever dealt with in mainstream psychological or anthropological observation; the existence of a cabal of narcissistic sociopaths conspiring together to hide their identities and to become more successful predators.

To summarize, luciferianism is the perfect belief system for narcissistic sociopaths. They are, in a way, inhuman. They are blank slates devoid of humanity, and so they adopt a religion which treats this notion as “normal”.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

7 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/3/2019

  1. I like that italian priest.Berettas are the arm of choice for double 00 agents.
    Double 00 priests remind me of those fifties movies about Don Camillo, the smartass and rogue priest and his antagonist, Peppone, commie mayor of the place.

  2. “…When Maxine was 13 years old, Dr. Brenden Hursh and his colleagues at BC Children’s Hospital decided that Maxine should begin taking testosterone injections in order to develop a more masculine appearance…” – will such “doctors” ever face justice?

  3. Amazon has banned Tommy Robinson’s “Mohammed’s Koran” but they sell this?

    Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

    Bezos is one evil person

    • Bezos is one evil person

      Bezos is evil

      There, fixed that.

      PS: Your courtesy bonus anagram

      Bezos vile nosie ponser

  4. Birmingham school stops LGBT lessons after parents protest
    Hundreds of children withdrawn from Parkfield community school for day

    https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/04/birmingham-school-stops-lgbt-lessons-after-parent-protests
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    How cute. Would they listen to British parents? Or put pressure on them with juvenile justice?

    I watched this conflict and could not understand: who would be closer to the heart for the leftists?

    I thought they would be LGBT. I was mistaken.

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