Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/6/2019

A man in Barcelona attempted to attack police officers with a knife while shouting “Allahu Akhbar”. He said that he was a messenger sent to kill everyone. Police managed to subdue and arrest the would-be killer before he hurt anybody.

In other news, Pope Francis sent a telegram offering condolences to the victims of recent tornadoes in Alabama. His Holiness said that he was praying that Alabama would import migrants to help with the clean-up.

OK, so I made that last part up. But still…

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USA
» Berkeley Suspect Pleads Not Guilty, Banned From Campus
» Climate Science’s Myth-Buster: It’s Time to be Scientific About Global Warming, Says Climatologist Judith Curry.
» ClimateGate Continues — The Mann Hockeystick University of Arizona Emails Are Now Public
» Fake Hate: ‘Yellow Sticky Substance’ On Mayor’s Car Was Pollen, Not ‘Hate’ Vandalism
» Man in MAGA Hat Mobbed, Has Hat Stolen as Stephon Clark Protest Spirals Out of Control in Sacramento
» Man Walks Into Grocery Store, Stabs Woman in Throat in Northwest Fresno
» Pope Francis Sends Condolences to Alabama Tornado Victims
» Sharia-Compliant Deal Includes Amherst Student-Housing Complex
» Tim Pool Destroyed Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde on Joe Rogan’s Podcast
 
Europe and the EU
» Austria Tells Militant Fighters Looking to Return: You’re on Your Own
» Bank of England Downgrades No Deal Project Fear Predictions by Half
» Brexit Plot: Corbyn Holds Secret Talks With Tory Remainers to Keep Britain Shackled to EU
» EU Elections ‘Last Chance to End Nationalist Nightmare’ — Verhofstadt
» French Guards Blockade Prisons After ‘Radicalized’ Inmate Stabbed 2 Officers
» Grenoble: 65 Vehicles Burned After Several Nights of Riots
» Man Arrested for Trying to Stab Police and Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ in Barcelona
» Orban: Hungary is Defeating Anti-Semitism While Western Europe Imports it
» ‘Robust, Strong Views’: UK Attorney General Fails to Make Breakthrough in Brexit Talks, 23 Days to Go
» U.S. Ambassador: Chlorinated Chicken Brexit Scare Stories ‘Designed’ To ‘Reduce Trade’
» UK Children Given Lessons on How to Treat Stab Wounds
» UK: Father Found Guilty of Acid Attack on Own Son Over Custody Battle
» Vatican: Catholic Church Membership Worldwide Surpasses 1.3 Billion
» ‘We Believe in the UK’: Aston Martin Confirms Loyalty to Brexit Britain
» Wife of Al-Qaeda Chief Wins Human Rights Case After Claims UK Airport Police Violated Her Privacy
 
North Africa
» The Independent Recommends Single Women Go Hiking Alone in Morocco
 
Middle East
» Report: Jamal Khashoggi’s Body Incinerated in Oven at Saudi Home
 
South Asia
» WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured and Killed People
 
Australia — Pacific
» Morrison Government Bans Milo Yiannopoulos From Entering Australia
» The ‘Trick’: How More Cooling Generates Global Warming
» Welcome to the Family! Expert Discovers Three New Species of Colourful Spiders the Size of a Grain of Rice
 
Latin America
» Venezuela Releases American Journalist After Full Day in Custody: Media
 
Immigration
» Lesbos, Greece: 36 Locals Arrested for Raising Giant Christian Cross to Scare Off Migrants
» NJ Forks Over $1.6m for Illegal Immigrant College Tuition
» No Place in 21st Century for Closing Borders — German Bundestag President
» Pope Francis Visit to Morocco Will Focus on Migrants
 
Culture Wars
» Anti-SJWs Launch “Alita Challenge” To Boycott Man-Hating Captain Marvel
» Colorado Drops Case Against Christian Baker for Refusing to Make Transgender Cake
» Justifying the Devolution of Journalistic Standards.
 
General
» Scientists Detect ‘Shocking’ Drop in Male Fertility, And it’s Linked Back to Our Homes
 

Berkeley Suspect Pleads Not Guilty, Banned From Campus

Zachary Greenberg, the 28-year-old man charged with assaulting Leadership Institute Field Representative Hayden Williams, pleaded not guilty at his first court appearance in Oakland, California on Wednesday, during which he was also ordered not to go within 100 yards of the UC-Berkeley campus.

Greenberg, who police say is the man seen in the viral video punching Williams multiple times, damaging Williams’ cellphone, and threatening to “shoot” Williams, pleaded not guilty to three felony counts and one misdemeanor count, according to Williams’ attorney, Harmeet Dhillon, who was inside the courtroom.

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

Climate Science’s Myth-Buster: It’s Time to be Scientific About Global Warming, Says Climatologist Judith Curry.

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This brings us to why Curry left the world of the academy and government-funded research. “Climatology has become a political party with totalitarian tendencies,” she charges. “If you don’t support the UN consensus on human-caused global warming, if you express the slightest skepticism, you are a ‘climate-change denier,’ a stooge of Donald Trump, a quasi-fascist who must be banned from the scientific community.” These days, the climatology mainstream accepts only data that reinforce its hypothesis that humanity is behind global warming. Those daring to take an interest in possible natural causes of climactic variation—such as solar shifts or the earth’s oscillations—aren’t well regarded in the scientific community, to put it mildly. The rhetoric of the alarmists, it’s worth noting, has increasingly moved from “global warming” to “climate change,” which can mean anything. That shift got its start back in 1992, when the UN widened its range of environmental concern to include every change that human activities might be causing in nature, casting a net so wide that few human actions could escape it.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

ClimateGate Continues — The Mann Hockeystick University of Arizona Emails Are Now Public

After years of trying to suppress their release, and finally being ordered to be released by a judge, they are now public, and we have them here. This will remain as a “top post” for a day, new stories will be below this one.

There’s quite a treasure trove, but also some duplications from previous releases.

First a look at the release letter from University of Arizona:…

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Fake Hate: ‘Yellow Sticky Substance’ On Mayor’s Car Was Pollen, Not ‘Hate’ Vandalism

Lamar Mayor Darnell Byrd-McPherson thought she was the victim of a “hate crime” last month after finding her car one morning covered with a “yellow sticky substance.”

In a statement she sent to WPDE in early February, a defiant McPherson said, “Love conquers hate and my husband and I refuse to be intimidated by those who perpetrated this act of vandalism which I classify as an act of hatred.”

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

Man in MAGA Hat Mobbed, Has Hat Stolen as Stephon Clark Protest Spirals Out of Control in Sacramento

More than 80 demonstrators were arrested in Sacramento Monday night, after a protest against the district attorney’s decision not to charge the police officers who shot an unarmed black man last year spun out of control.

Agitators reportedly blocked streets as they chanted for justice, keyed cars, and yelled at residents in their homes. At one point, a man who came to the rally wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and his daughter were mobbed by protesters and his hat was stolen off his head, video footage shows. The man told a reporter for the Sacramento Bee that he came to the rally in the MAGA hat to see what would happen — and he found out.

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

Man Walks Into Grocery Store, Stabs Woman in Throat in Northwest Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Police say a man walked into a grocery store and stabbed a woman in the throat at a grocery store in northwest Fresno.

The incident occurred at the Grocery Outlet Center at Shaw & Brawley on Wednesday morning.

Witnesses said a man, seemingly at random, walked into the store and stabbed her in the throat while she was checking out at the counter.

She was rushed to the hospital.

Officers are investigating the incident.

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Pope Francis Sends Condolences to Alabama Tornado Victims

ROME — Pope Francis sent a telegram Wednesday to victims of the recent Alabama tornado and their families, promising prayers and solidarity.

“Deeply saddened to learn of the tragic loss of life and the injuries caused by the tornado which struck Alabama in recent days, His Holiness Pope Francis expresses heartfelt solidarity with all affected by this natural disaster,” reads the telegram, which was signed on behalf of the pontiff by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

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

Sharia-Compliant Deal Includes Amherst Student-Housing Complex

Sharia-compliant lending has come to Buffalo — sort of.

A student-housing complex in Amherst is part of a large international transaction, in which a Florida-based student housing management firm is partnering with an unidentified Middle Eastern investor that bought into properties in several states.

Colonie Apartments, a 184-unit community at 2061 Sweet Home Road near University at Buffalo’s North Campus, is one of six properties that are part of the deal. It was valued at $14.03 million, according to a deed filed with the Erie County Clerk’s Office.

What’s unusual is that the joint venture between Vie Management of Miami and the foreign asset manager is structured to comply with Islamic laws governing finance, which prohibits payment of traditional interest. That’s a growing but still lesser-known area of specialty in the United States that has become increasingly important as Muslim investors become more active around the world.

           — Hat tip: Mark Spahn [Return to headlines]
 

Tim Pool Destroyed Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde on Joe Rogan’s Podcast

Independent journalist Tim Pool’s debate with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Twitter “Legal, Policy and Trust & Safety Lead” Vijaya Gadde on Joe Rogan’s podcast Tuesday was three and a half hours of riveting entertainment.

I always knew The Great Tim Pool was woke, but I never realized he was this woke. He started the show by pointing out their rank hypocrisy and ended the show by explaining to Dorsey that all the deplatforming he and the rest of Big Tech is taking part in is going to lead to a civil war.

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

Austria Tells Militant Fighters Looking to Return: You’re on Your Own

VIENNA (Reuters) — Austria said on Wednesday it would not help repatriate any citizens who fought for Islamic State and other militant groups, as countries across the West wrestle with how to deal with returning militants.

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

Bank of England Downgrades No Deal Project Fear Predictions by Half

Mark Carney has revised down predictions on the economic ‘disruption’ of a no-deal Brexit by half, after the Bank of England governor had been criticised for his “misleading” November predictions.

At the end of last year, Mr Carney’s office predicted that the UK economy could be between 4.47 and 7.75 per cent smaller within three years of a clean Brexit as opposed to following Prime Minister Theresa May’s soft exit plan.

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

Brexit Plot: Corbyn Holds Secret Talks With Tory Remainers to Keep Britain Shackled to EU

JEREMY Corbyn last night held talks with Tory Remainers plotting to keep Britain shackled to the European Union.

The Labour leader and key anti-Brexit MPs in the party discussed proposals that would keep freedom of movement and make the UK follow single market rules in the meeting with Conservative former ministers Sir Oliver Letwin and Nick Boles. The plan would also leave the country bound by future decisions made by Brussels without any power in the process. Mr Corbyn last year privately admitted to Labour MPs the Norway-style deal would leave the UK as a “rule taker”.

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

EU Elections ‘Last Chance to End Nationalist Nightmare’ — Verhofstadt

This year’s EU election will be the “last chance” to kill populism, Guy Verhofstadt has warned, calling for sovereignty-destroying “reform” which would transfer national powers to Brussels.

In an interview with five influential establishment newspapers from across the continent on Tuesday, the veteran MEP and Brussels’ Brexit coordinator gave his backing to the vision of a federal EU superstate unveiled by Emmanuel Macron earlier this week.

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

French Guards Blockade Prisons After ‘Radicalized’ Inmate Stabbed 2 Officers

Prison guards have blocked access to 18 prisons in France after two colleagues were stabbed in a brutal attack by a ‘radicalized’ inmate in Normandy, RT.com writes. The prisoner’s wife, who was visiting at the time, died in the incident.

About 60 guards have blocked the Condé-sur-Sarthe prison in north-western France, the scene of Tuesday’s horrifying attack, setting fire to tires and palettes outside the secure facility. The two guards were seriously injured in the stabbing, and the suspect was shot and wounded by police.

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

Grenoble: 65 Vehicles Burned After Several Nights of Riots

Around 65 vehicles were burned in one night after a series of riots in the French city of Grenoble following the death of two youths being pursued by police over the weekend.

The riots began on Saturday night following the deaths of two teenage boys, aged 17 and 19, who were being pursued by police after they failed to stop at a checkpoint.

The pair were riding a scooter without a helmet and were involved in an accident as a result of the pursuit that took their lives, Le Figaro reports.

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

Man Arrested for Trying to Stab Police and Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ in Barcelona

A man has been arrested in Barcelona for attempting to stab police officers while reportedly shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’. The person, whose identity has not yet been revealed, claimed he was a ‘messenger’ whose mission was to ‘kill everyone’, according to Spanish national news site El Pais. Catalan police, Mossos, have confirmed that the incident occurred at around 3.15pm this afternoon.

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

Orban: Hungary is Defeating Anti-Semitism While Western Europe Imports it

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has slammed accusations that his country is anti-Semitic, saying that mass migration has led to a true rise in anti-Semitism in Western Europe.

The Hungarian leader’s remarks came after he was questioned about anti-semitism in Hungary and accusations of anti-Semitism over his campaigns against the influence of left-wing billionaire George Soros in an interview with Germany’s Welt.

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

‘Robust, Strong Views’: UK Attorney General Fails to Make Breakthrough in Brexit Talks, 23 Days to Go

The UK Government’s top lawyer told a television news crew as he returned to London from Brussels by train Wednesday morning that Brexit talks the night before had been “robust” — British English for an extremely heated shouting match.

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

U.S. Ambassador: Chlorinated Chicken Brexit Scare Stories ‘Designed’ To ‘Reduce Trade’

U.S. Ambassador Woody Johnson has said scare stories alleging a bilateral trade deal would endanger Britain’s food standards were likely “designed” by the EU to “reduce trade” post-Brexit.

The Ambassador made the comments in defence of a piece he wrote for The Telegraph on the weekend when he condemned the “EU’s ‘Museum of Agriculture’ approach” and said that the UK should ignore the “smear campaign from people with their own protectionist agenda.”

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

UK Children Given Lessons on How to Treat Stab Wounds

Children in high knife-crime areas are being taught how to deliver first aid to stab victims, details of the programme emerging less than a week after two teenagers were stabbed to death in separate attacks and a knife gang entered school grounds and threatened pupils.

Run by charity Street Doctors, school children are taught how to deliver first aid to stabbing victims through role play, and learn how to stem blood loss, reports The Times.

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

UK: Father Found Guilty of Acid Attack on Own Son Over Custody Battle

A father has been found guilty of organising the spraying his own son with acid at a Home Bargains store in Worcester, England, along with five other men the prosecution said had been enlisted into the plot.

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

Vatican: Catholic Church Membership Worldwide Surpasses 1.3 Billion

The Vatican released its annual yearbook for 2019 Wednesday along with its most recent official statistics, which shows growth in Church membership on all continents.

According to the Annuarium statisticum Ecclesiae 2017, which furnishes statistics from the latest year for which verified data is available, the number of baptized Catholics in the world now exceeds 1.31 billion.

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

‘We Believe in the UK’: Aston Martin Confirms Loyalty to Brexit Britain

The CEO of Aston Martin has affirmed that the British luxury car company’s future is to be firmly maintained in the UK.

At the launch of three new Aston Martin concepts, the Vanquish Vision (pictured), the SUV Lagonda, and the Valkyrie at the Geneva Motor Show, Bloomberg asked chief executive officer Andy Palmer whether the “made in the UK” branding will “continue after Brexit?”

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

Wife of Al-Qaeda Chief Wins Human Rights Case After Claims UK Airport Police Violated Her Privacy

The wife of one of Al-Qaeda’s top recruiters in Europe had her human rights breached after she was stopped, questioned and detained without reasonable suspicion, European judges have ruled, RT.com writes.

Sylvie Beghal, 49, a mother of three, was returning to Leicester after visiting her husband, Djamel Beghal, in a French prison when she was stopped at East Midlands airport in 2011. She claimed the action undertaken by police violated her right to privacy and family life.

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

The Independent Recommends Single Women Go Hiking Alone in Morocco

Just three months after two young Scandinavian women were savagely beheaded by ISIS terrorists while hiking in Morocco, the British paper The Independent has issued a travel guide for single women recommending they “travel solo” to Morocco in honor of “International Women’s Day.”

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

Report: Jamal Khashoggi’s Body Incinerated in Oven at Saudi Home

The body of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was never recovered because it was incarnated in a large outdoor oven at the Saudi consulate general’s residence in Istanbul, Turkey, a new Al Jazeera report revealed.

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

WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured and Killed People

Down the road from the crocodile ponds inside Nepal’s renowned Chitwan National Park, in a small clearing shaded by sala trees, sits a jail. Hira Chaudhary went there one summer night with boiled green maize and chicken for her husband, Shikharam, a farmer who had been locked up for two days.

Shikharam was in too much pain to swallow. He crawled toward Hira, his thin body covered in bruises, and told her through sobs that forest rangers were torturing him. “They beat him mercilessly and put saltwater in his nose and mouth,” Hira later told police.

The rangers believed that Shikharam helped his son bury a rhinoceros horn in his backyard. They couldn’t find the horn, but they threw Shikharam in their jail anyway, court documents filed by the prosecution show.

Nine days later, he was dead.

An autopsy showed seven broken ribs and “blue marks and bruises” all over his body. Seven eyewitnesses corroborated his wife’s account of nonstop beatings. Three park officials, including the chief warden, were arrested and charged with murder.

This was a sensitive moment for one of the globe’s most prominent charities. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) had long helped fund and equip Chitwan’s forest rangers, who patrol the area in jeeps, boats, and on elephant backs alongside soldiers from the park’s in-house army battalion. Now WWF’s partners in the war against poaching stood accused of torturing a man to death.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Morrison Government Bans Milo Yiannopoulos From Entering Australia

The Morrison government has banned right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from entering Australia in a fresh crackdown likely to infuriate his conservative supporters but please critics who believe he is anti-Semitic.

The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age can reveal the controversial speaker was told this week his visa application had been rejected and he cannot enter Australia.

He has a month to appeal the Department of Home Affairs decision, which was made on character grounds.

In June last year Paypal suspended Yiannopoulos after he used the online payment system to send $14.88 to a Jewish journalist.

The number 1488 is used by white supremacists and neo-Nazis because ‘14’ represents the mantra of securing a future for white children and ‘88’ represents “Heil Hitler”.

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

The ‘Trick’: How More Cooling Generates Global Warming

[…]

COOLING the past relative to the present has the general effect of making the present appear hotter — it is a way of generating more global warming for the same weather.

The Bureau of Meteorology has rewritten Australia’s temperature in this way for the second time in just six years — increasing the rate of warming by 23 percent between Version 1 and the new Version 2 of the official ACORN-SAT temperature record.

Temperatures from the Rutherglen research station in rural Victoria are one of the 112 weather stations that make-up ACORN-SAT. Temperature have been changed here by Blair Trewin, under the supervision of David Jones at the Bureau. …

The Bureau has also variously claimed that they need to cool that past at Rutherglen to make the temperature trend more consistent with trends at neighbouring locations. But this claim is not supported by the evidence. For example, the raw data at the nearby towns of Deniliquin, Echuca and Benalla also show cooling. The consistent cooling in the minimum temperatures is associated with land-use change in this region: specifically, the staged introduction of irrigation.

Australians trust the Bureau of Meteorology as our official source of weather information, wisdom and advice. So, we are entitled to ask the Bureau to explain: If the statements provided to date do not justify changing historic temperature records, what are the scientifically valid reasons for doing so?

30 years of NOAA tide gauge data debunk 1988 Senate hearing climate alarmist claims

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In all more than 200 coastal locations are included in these measurements with more than 100 of these coastal locations with recorded data periods in excess of 50 years in duration. None of these updated NOAA tide gauge measurement data records show coastal location sea level rise acceleration occurring anywhere on the U.S. coasts or Pacific or Atlantic island groups.

Three decades after the politically driven speculation and conjecture offered at these 1988 Senate hearings NOAA tide gauge data fails to confirm or otherwise support these alarmist claims.

The latest updated NOAA coastal tide gauge measurement data shows locations likely to experience only inches of sea level rise by mid century (not one to four feet as climate alarmists speculated to Congress in 1998) with that increase consistent with long standing and unchanging rates of sea level rise measured at these coastal locations.

The longest NOAA tide gauge data record is at the Battery, New York with a 162 year long measurement period. This location along with all other NOAA U.S. coastal locations show no sea level rise acceleration occurring over the past 30 years despite scientifically flawed assertions otherwise by climate alarmists.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Welcome to the Family! Expert Discovers Three New Species of Colourful Spiders the Size of a Grain of Rice

Australia’s spider population has welcomed the addition of three tiny, colourful but totally harmless species.

The newly discovered species of peacock spiders, who call Western Australia home were officially named on Wednesday.

Named by spider taxonomist Joseph Schubert, the new species are now known as Maratus aquilus, Maratus felinus, and Maratus combustus, each identifiable by their distinctive patterns.

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

Venezuela Releases American Journalist After Full Day in Custody: Media

CARACAS (Reuters) — Venezuela’s government released an American journalist and his local colleague on Wednesday, after they spent more than 12 hours in custody in a move that drew further international condemnation of socialist President Nicolas Maduro’s government.

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Lesbos, Greece: 36 Locals Arrested for Raising Giant Christian Cross to Scare Off Migrants

Police arrested 35 Greek citizens and an Albanian man on the Greek island of Lesbos for raising a giant metallic cross meant to deter migrants and refugees from reaching the island.

They were arrested on charges of arbitrary occupation of public property and erecting an illegal construction.

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

NJ Forks Over $1.6m for Illegal Immigrant College Tuition

New Jersey reportedly granted $1.6 million in financial aid to illegal alien students as part of a new program that allows illegal alien college students to apply for financial aid.

A total of 513 “DREAMers” received $1.6 million in state financial aid during the fall 2018 semester, according to NJ.com. Forty colleges in New Jersey are accepting at least one illegal alien student using financial aid, including The College of New Jersey, Rowan University and Seton Hall University. Rutgers University is accepting the highest number, 150 illegal alien students, awarding a total of $623,109 to the students, or around $4,150 per student.

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

No Place in 21st Century for Closing Borders — German Bundestag President

Shutting the door on mass migration is not an option in the 21st century, German parliament president Wolfgang Schäuble has said, urging Brussels to speed up plans for an EU army in order to kill nationalism.

In an interview with local media on Monday, Germany’s parliament chief said he wanted progress towards a joint European armed forces to advance “much faster”, and admitted to feeling “impatient” on the issue.

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

Pope Francis Visit to Morocco Will Focus on Migrants

Pope Francis will focus on the situation of migrants when he visits Morocco at the end of March, according to the nation’s bishops.

In a press conference in Casablanca Tuesday, the archbishop of Rabat, Cristobal Lopez Romero, and the archbishop of Tangier, Santiago Agrelo Martinez, told reporters that the pope would be coming to Morocco as a shepherd, reaching out to the peripheries.

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

Anti-SJWs Launch “Alita Challenge” To Boycott Man-Hating Captain Marvel

The backlash against Captain Marvel has reached a boiling point ahead of Friday’s premiere, after star Brie Larson slammed the number of white male movie critics reviewing her films — while others have taken issue with the feminist marketing campaignbehind Marvel’s “big feminist movie.”

The ensuing flood of complaints against both Larson and Marvel Studios resulted in a 28% drop in box office projections, while popular movie review site Rotten Tomatoes made site-wide changes, removing their “Want To See” feature from the website.

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Colorado Drops Case Against Christian Baker for Refusing to Make Transgender Cake

Colorado has announced it is dropping litigation against Christian baker Jack Phillips for his refusal on religious grounds to make a cake celebrating gender transition.

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that Mr. Phillips had been unjustly punished for refusing to make a same-sex wedding cake in 2012, Phillips was assailed with requests to make cakes celebrating Satan, marijuana, and sexually explicit imagery, with some of these requests reportedly coming from a transgender Colorado lawyer, Autumn Scardina.

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Justifying the Devolution of Journalistic Standards.

Abstract:

This study investigated how highly experienced environmental journalists view the professional norms of objectivity when covering climate change over time. Elite journalists were sought, and all had a minimum of 10 years of experience in climate coverage. In-depth interviews revealed a paradox: Most still profess belief in objectivity even as they reject or redefine it. Participants said that journalists should use objective practices and refrain from revealing their own biases, including advocating for the environment. However, participants have radically redefined the component of objectivity known as balance. They now advocate a weight-of-evidence approach, where stories reflect scientific consensus.

[Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264705024_Climate_Change_in_the_Newsroom_Journalists’_Evolving_Standards_of_Objectivity_When_Covering_Global_Warming ]

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Scientists Detect ‘Shocking’ Drop in Male Fertility, And it’s Linked Back to Our Homes

The homes we live in and the food we eat might contain chemicals that reduce male fertility — and that goes for both men and their dogs, new research suggests.

Recently, experts have grown ever more worried by what appears to be a ‘shocking’ drop in human male fertility.

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10 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/6/2019

  1. ‘Robust, Strong Views’: UK Attorney General Fails to Make Breakthrough in Brexit Talks, 23 Days to Go

    Barnier to Cox, “Depart Fornicating!” Robust indeed.

    Cox to Barnier, “Not with her I won’t!”. Pragmatic to the end.

    Later, Barnier to Juncker, “I stuffed the Roast Bifs again! Of course.

    Juncker to Barnier, “Good, where’s my bottle?” Tremors starting.

    Barnier to Juncker, “You’ve had your five today.” Nervous smile.

    Juncker to Barnier, “Depart fornicating!” Hitting him with an empty Napoleon Brandy bottle.

    End of negotiations.

    • I love “Depart fornicating”, an elegant, amost Shakespearian avoidance of the expletives which Dymphna would rightly modify.

  2. The increased consumption of genistein (main component of soy) is what I believe is destroying western fertility. Soon we won’t be able to have children naturally. Soy is the cheap protein added to all our food. Scientific papers who it interferes with the endocrine system (hormones), upsets cycles and in lab animals even causes abnormalities in the urinary tract. This is also called the penis if I’m allowed to use that word here. The vegan craze will finish us off. Early study showed it could kill off rabbits!
    https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/soy-alert/studies-showing-adverse-effects-of-isoflavones-1950-2010/
    It’s touted as preventing breast cancer but a the wrong concentration and after getting breast cancer can increase breast cancer.
    They don’t call them SOY BOYS in asia for nothing. Poor people eat more soy than rich people in Asia. I’ve spoken to asians about this and they believe soy is a problem.

    • Fermented soy isn’t harmful, nor are fermented vegetables in general. But you’re right about the deleterious effects via soybean oil, which is in many processed foods. Agreed regarding breast cancer.

      OTOH, secondary sources – e.g., eggs from chickens fed a lot of soy – are also a problem. It can be difficult to avoid unless you buy pastured organic eggs. Same goes for butter and beef: more soy unless you buy pastured organic varieties.

      Modern food is a mess. You get what you pay for. American rice, even the organic varieties, have a heavy load of arsenic. You can soak it in acidulated water and rinse well before cooking. Or not eat grains at all, especially if you have weight problems – what is known now as diabesity.

      • How about eating oats?Oats are very healthy and help lower cholesterol levels.Eat oats as porridge in the morning and skirlie at lunchtime or at supper.

        • It depends on the health of your endocrine system. If it has been compromised, then any grain will have a deleterious effect. No grain, whole or otherwise, is “healthy” if your blood sugar can’t handle them without making you feel far hungrier than you would from eating fat and protein – e.g., eggs and bacon.

          Also, your cholesterol level has more to do with the health of your liver since the body produces most of the cholesterol present in your blood. What matters in cholesterol values is the amount of LDL and other even smaller lipid particles.

  3. NJ has gone 100% Marxist Democrat with the Ivory Tower leading the destruction, as usual.

  4. Re women travelling alone in North Africa. A friend of mine did this and took a ski-stick with her – poking men with this tended to damp their ardour.

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