Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/1/2019

Yet another Brexit-related motion has been voted down in Parliament. This one would have established a customs union between the UK and the EU. Once again, Guy Verhofstadt warned that a “hard Brexit” has become inevitable.

In other news, a second woman has come forward to accuse former Vice President Joseph “Creepy Joe” Biden of “inappropriate touching”.

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Financial Crisis
» Jean-Claude Juncker Mocks Italy Over Recession — Claims Brussels Was Right
 
USA
» (Watch) The Chicago Fire: America at Its Best
» A Second Biden Accuser Comes Forward
» Chicago Mayoral Candidates Make Final Push Before Election Day
» Cloward and Piven on Steroids
» Democrats, The Media, And the Big Lie
» Dueling Protests Monday in Response to Kim Foxx and Jussie Smollett
» Founding Fathers Under Attack: Students Demand Thomas Jefferson Statue Removal
» Giuliani Predicts ‘Criminal’ Evidence Against FBI, DOJ Officials ‘In Six Months’
» How to Combat the Green New Deal
» Judge Jeanine Goes Nuclear on “Arrogant, Condescending, Lying, Leaking, Haters of You and Me”
» Mark Zuckerberg Asks Governments for “New Rules” For the Internet
» ‘Seattle is Dying’ Because Liberalism is Killing it
» The Dangers of Government-Funded Artificial Intelligence
» The Latest Scheme to Turn Gun Owners Into Criminals
» Wealthy San Francisco Liberals Fight Homeless Shelter Being Built Near Their Mansions
» World Exclusive: Trump Plans to Prosecute Hundreds of Deep Staters in 2019
 
Europe and the EU
» Czech Prez: Brexit EU’s Fault, No Second Ref for 10 Years, May ‘Ridiculous’
» Eurocrat Juncker Calls Cameron ‘One of the Greatest Destroyers of All Time’
» Haka to Mark Assange’s 7 Years in Embassy
» Hungary Slams Global Liberal Fake News Producers
» Microchip Implants, Artificial Intelligence, 5G and the Mark of the Beast
» Salvini to Bring League’s European Allies to Milan
» Tommy Robinson’s Brexit Rally Speech Touches on Panodrama, Social Media Bans
» UK: Brexit Betrayal Averted: MPs Vote Against Customs Union — ‘Hard Brexit Nearly Inevitable’
» UK: ERG Vice Chairman: Anti-Brexit MPs Launching ‘Coup Against the British People’
» UK: MPs Vote Against Every Brexit Option… Again. Clean, No Deal Exit Still Default
» Videos: Yellow Vest Protesters in France Beaten for No Reason Whatsoever
 
Middle East
» Iranians Leaving Islam by the Thousands
» Turkey Mourns Christchurch Massacre, Ignores Attacks on Non-Muslims
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘Australia is My Home… People Make Mistakes’: ISIS Recruit Who Fled Sydney to Fight in Syria Issues a Desperate Plea to be Allowed Back Into the Country With His Pregnant Wife and Children
» Inside the Christchurch Killer’s Mind
» The Worst is Yet to Come: Home Prices in Sydney Are Set to Plummet by Up to $60,000 in Just One Year — and Melbourne Trails Closely Behind as Investor Exodus From Australia’s Big Cities Continues
 
Immigration
» African Migrants Who Hijacked Tanker in the Mediterranean Sea Face Up to 30 Years in Prison for Terrorism
» Over 1M Illegal Aliens Expected to Arrive in U.S.: ‘Merkel-Style Disaster’
» Pope Francis Disses Trump’s Wall, Compares Populists to Hitler
» Raw Video of a Stream of Illegals at the Open Border…buses Pick Them Up When They Cross!
» Vatican Cardinal: Encouraging Immigration Misrepresents the Gospel
 
Culture Wars
» Bret Easton Ellis: Twitter Language Policing Has Become “Hysterical”
» Twitter Blocking Users From Following Anti-Abortion Film in Second Recent ‘Glitch’
» Western Culture Has Died a Politically Correct Death
 
General
» RingMesh Chainmail Vest
 

Jean-Claude Juncker Mocks Italy Over Recession — Claims Brussels Was Right

JEAN-CLAUDE JUNKER has mocked the Italian populist government, claiming Brussels had “foreseen” Rome’s economic growth would not be as outstanding as announced by Italy and that he “isn’t sure” the country will crawl out of the financial crisis it plunged more than 10 years ago.

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

(Watch) The Chicago Fire: America at Its Best

The most famous fire in American history happened in Chicago on October 8, 1871. But it’s not the fire that was so remarkable; it’s what happened afterwards. Lee Habeeb, host of the nationally syndicated radio show “Our American Stories,” explains in this video by PragerU.

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

A Second Biden Accuser Comes Forward

A second woman has come forward accusing Vice President Biden of touching her inappropriately.

A Connecticut woman says Joe Biden touched her inappropriately and rubbed noses with her during a 2009 political fundraiser in Greenwich when he was vice president, drawing further scrutiny to the Democrat and his history of unwanted contact with women as he ponders a presidential run.

“It wasn’t sexual, but he did grab me by the head,” Amy Lappos told The Courant Monday. “He put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth.”

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

Chicago Mayoral Candidates Make Final Push Before Election Day

CHICAGO — On the last day before Chicago’s mayoral runoff election, the two remaining candidates are both pushing to get out the vote, and encouraging residents to choose between two different messages.

Frontrunner Lori Lightfoot was at the Garfield Red Line Station on Monday morning greeting commuters. She then crisscrossed the city, encouraging as many people as possible to get to the polls Tuesday.

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Cloward and Piven on Steroids

Many Americans are asking why the Democrats and their running dog RINO accomplices in Congress are so adamantly refusing to move to even slow, much less stop, the massive invasion of illegal aliens across our southern border. It’s an excellent question to which there are seemingly myriad answers, many of which are partially correct. However, underlying them all is one that is now fundamental, the driver, that is propelling the juggernaught: the Cloward and Piven strategy.

Students of leftist strategy and tactics are familiar with Cloward and Piven, but everyone who cares about preserving America as a free, capitalist, constitutional republic needs to be, too. You may remember hearing the names occasionally during the Obama years. They were mentioned sometimes as the creators of the strategy that the Obama radicals were pursuing, but since the strategy is a revolutionary leftist one, and the Ministry of Leftist Propaganda, aka, the “mainstream” media, did not want the public to realize that Obama was out to destroy America, little was said about it, and the subject was always changed as quickly as possible.

So, what is it, and why is it so important to understand it now?

Developed by two “professors” at Columbia University (supposedly, one of Obama’s alma maters) in 1966, it was a plan for overloading the welfare system to the point that it could no longer function — not enough money, people, resources—bringing about its collapse. Extended to the entire system—healthcare, education, jobs and unemployment, housing, and so on—it would all be overwhelmed, and the country would collapse. Revolution without guns.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrats, The Media, And the Big Lie

How were the Democrats, and their allies in the mainstream media able to suspend rationality and manipulate the emotions of so many Americans for so long? They followed the playbook first established by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels and utilized by others such as Joseph Stalin. It is often referred to as “The Big Lie” theorem.

In 1925 Adolf Hitler in his screed entitled Mein Kampf coined the term “The Big Lie.” A principal tool of propaganda defined as the use of a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” The execution of this strategy and the mindset of those prone to utilize it can be summarized in a report issued by the Office of Strategic Services during World War II:

“His [Hitler’s] primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Dueling Protests Monday in Response to Kim Foxx and Jussie Smollett

Hundreds of opposing protesters converged in front of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s downtown office Monday, continuing the fierce and divisive reaction to prosecutors’ decision to drop all charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett.

Members of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police rallied outside the Cook County Administration Building, many wearing buttons that read “Foxx must go.”

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

Founding Fathers Under Attack: Students Demand Thomas Jefferson Statue Removal

Students at Hofstra University protested a statue of Thomas Jefferson on Friday at the second annual event, titled “Jefferson Has Gotta Go!”

The statue has been the center of controversy on the campus and has been defaced with “DECOLONIZE” and “Black Lives Matter” signs and stickers. According to a media advisory sent by the Jefferson Has Gotta Go (JGG) campaign, the protest was held outside Hofstra Breslin Hall at the statue. Organizers included “students of Hofstra University, staff from Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, and supporters of Hempstead community.”

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

Giuliani Predicts ‘Criminal’ Evidence Against FBI, DOJ Officials ‘In Six Months’

Deep State actors broke the law to overthrow Trump

In an interview with Jeanine Pirro on Fox News, the former New York City mayor predicted that evidence of criminality on the part of top FBI officials both currently and no longer in the administration would be uncovered.

“What they did here, I believe, over the next six months, we’re going to uncover evidence, I believe, that what they did here was criminal,” Giuliani said. “Somebody made this up, Jeanine. Somebody conceived this. And they superimposed it, and they went out and tried to prove it.”

“And we have to find out: Who’s the brains behind this? Couple of, four or five possibilities. I think we’ll find them,” he continued.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

How to Combat the Green New Deal

We need to avoid speaking in purely economic terms and instead explain to everybody why individualism and capitalism offer a more profound morality than does socialism. In particular, we must emphasize that individual work — personal enterprise — combined with the freedom to make one’s own choices regarding the form of that striving can create a world in which people realize a personally defined sense of purpose. We must present capitalism and individualism as ideals toward which a person can move only by making the required effort. We must cast our case in moralistic terms rather than materialistic ones.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Judge Jeanine Goes Nuclear on “Arrogant, Condescending, Lying, Leaking, Haters of You and Me”

Judge Jeanine started her opening statement by saying, “The biggest scandal in American history, bar none—the attempted coup of the United States Government. They conned you, they gamed you, and they lied to you. Over and over and over for three years. They destroyed lives, reputations, and families, and in the end—no one coordinated with Russia—no one—not Donald Trump, not any Trump, not anyone on the campaign. After two years of prosecutors savagely striving to indict the President and everyone in his orbit—years of the mainstream media, the talking heads, the networks, cable and otherwise, they lying, liberal, Hollywood hypocrites, trying to convince you that he was an illegitimate president. But in the end—nothing. No collusion—no obstruction—nothing.

Judge Jeanine was just getting warmed up, as she tore into the reckless intelligence community leaders, “And they didn’t care whose lives they destroyed. What mattered, was that they destroyed the outside, the one that we, the forgotten men and women of America put in the Oval. The outsider that convinced us that status quo was a choice, and that he could do better. They chipped away with unending zeal, desperate for any connection— threatening families and witness and individual civil liberties to obtain their corrupt goal of removing the President of the United States. All the while, in spite of it, President Trump worked tirelessly to better our lives, our economy, and the security of this great nation. You know, we constantly hear about voter suppression from the left, but the biggest voter suppression effort ever, took place at the highest level of our government, as they tried to oust the man they couldn’t control. And when you think about a coup, you think of the military, but here, the effort to discredit this president was by law enforcement manipulation, the intelligence community, and the law enforcement community, the DOJ and the FBI. And the snake at the head…CIA Director John Brennan.

The outspoken judge continued, …

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Mark Zuckerberg Asks Governments for “New Rules” For the Internet

As the world’s most popular social media network, Facebook has found itself tasked with ensuring the internet remains a safe place for billions of people — a task it’s failed at with seemingly increasing frequency.

Now, the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is asking governments and regulators to step up and share some of that responsibility for keeping their citizens safe online.

“I believe we need a more active role for governments and regulators,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Saturday op-ed in The Washington Post. “By updating the rules for the Internet, we can preserve what’s best about it — the freedom for people to express themselves and for entrepreneurs to build new things — while also protecting society from broader harms.”

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

‘Seattle is Dying’ Because Liberalism is Killing it

If you haven’t seen the KOMO News special Seattle Is Dying, you need to. (Watch it here.) The hour-long show does a sound job of depicting the ugly decline of one of the most beautiful places in America. However, the piece misses the forest for the nasty, dirty, twisted trees.

Part of the root of the problem in Seattle is political, but Seattle Is Dying virtually ignores the liberal politics behind Seattle’s foul decline. As John Sexton at Hot Air put it, “[t]here’s really no escaping the fact that the current situation is the result of political decisions.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Dangers of Government-Funded Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is widely seen as a strategic technology and has thus engendered national development plans from countries across the globe to promote its progress. For quite some time, the United States has been conspicuously on the sideline. The American AI research community has, by and large, bemoaned the lack of Federal leadership in this space with many calling for a Kennedy-esque “moonshot” plan to come out of Washington to cement American leadership in the AI space. This past month, the Trump White House released the Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence to provide direction and support for technological advancement in this space.

The response to the EO from the research community has been muted at best. Far from receiving the requested moonshot with the requisite funding and supporting agencies, this EO mostly lays out principles for AI development to be followed by Federal departments. It directs agencies towards prioritization of AI by using existing funds and to seek out collaboration efforts. Further, it directs the National Science and Technology Council Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (among other agencies) to draw up plans and coordinate efforts among Federal agencies to develop grants, project proposals, and reports to be written on areas of development and collaboration within the next 180 days. Beyond that, there is very little concrete action laid out in the EO, which is why it has been criticized so heavily by those in the research community.

In other words, the research community apparently feels the EO doesn’t go far enough.

In truth, however, even this limited EO goes much too far.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Latest Scheme to Turn Gun Owners Into Criminals

Gun-owners, they are coming: on March 21, a Fredericksburg man was prosecuted and convicted of the misdemeanor crime of merely holding a B.B. gun in public. I know because I was in the trial, as the attorney defending Mr. Wolff.

The Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms. However, gun control activists are trying to criminalize gun ownership. Their next step is that you are a criminal if you take a gun out in public. If they have to let you own a gun, you can’t ever take it out of its case.

Liberals continue to try to criminalize private ownership of guns, despite losing a key battle in District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S.Ct. 2783, 2820—2821, 171 L.Ed.2d 637, (2008). Unlike conservatives, left-wingers never quit. They intend to win the war eventually and disarm the American people.

Now they claim that it is illegal to “open carry” a firearm. The mere existence of a gun if anyone else is around now has become the crime of “brandishing” and/or “assault” (which means frightening people, contrary to popular misunderstanding) or both.

In Virginia, in the Fredericksburg General District Court, my client was charged with two counts of “brandishing” a firearm under Va. Code § 18.2-282 and two counts of assault under the all-purpose (vague) Va. Code §18.2-57, for a single incident that took no more than 30 seconds. (In my own defense, I took the case knowing that Virginia statutes are bad and need to be challenged by a campaign of appeals.)

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Wealthy San Francisco Liberals Fight Homeless Shelter Being Built Near Their Mansions

A wealthy liberal neighborhood in San Francisco whose residents cast the most votes for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election is fighting against a proposal to build a new homeless shelter near their gated mansions.

Mayor London Breed has sponsored legislation to fast track a homeless shelter that would house 200 people. However, wealthy liberals living in the affected area have set up a GoFundMe to stop the project which has already hit $80,000 of its $100,000 target.

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

World Exclusive: Trump Plans to Prosecute Hundreds of Deep Staters in 2019

President preparing his greatest counter punch to date to free America from globalist control

President Trump is preparing to exact justice upon the Deep State actors who propagated the Russia collusion hoax and tried to overthrow a duly elected president in a silent coup.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Czech Prez: Brexit EU’s Fault, No Second Ref for 10 Years, May ‘Ridiculous’

The President of the Czech Republic has suggested that Brexit is the fault of the European Union, that Britain’s referendum on leaving the bloc should not be re-run for a decade, and that the British government under Theresa May is making itself increasingly ridiculous.

The elder statesman, 74, described the Brexit situation as “organised chaos” since the British prime minister broke her promise — repeated 108 times from the House of Commons despatch box — to deliver Brexit on March 29th, instead agreeing a delay with the European Council.

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

Eurocrat Juncker Calls Cameron ‘One of the Greatest Destroyers of All Time’

Jean-Claude Juncker has said that Remain-backing former Tory Prime Minister David Cameron was “one of the greatest destroyers of all time” for stopping the European Commission from being involved in the UK’s 2016 referendum Remain campaign.

The president of the European Union’s unelected executive arm told the regional parliament of Saarland, Germany, on Monday in comments reported by The Telegraph, “We were forbidden from being present in any way in the referendum campaign by Mr. Cameron, who is one of the great destroyers of modern times.

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

Haka to Mark Assange’s 7 Years in Embassy

Plans are being made to hold a New Zealand haka outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London to mark seven years since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought refuge in the building.

Richard Hillgrove, a New Zealander who is doing PR work for Assange, says the stunt in June will be a protest against “a modern-day crucifixion in the heart of London”.

The Maori ceremonial dance is famous as the pre-match ritual of the New Zealand rugby team.

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

Hungary Slams Global Liberal Fake News Producers

Any politician “deviating from the Liberal mainstream”could become the target of attacks by “globally operating liberal fake news factories”, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told public Kossuth Radio.

Szijjarto mentioned US President Donald Trump for example, whose remarks on NATO the media “misinterpreted” and who was accused of benefitting from Russia’s alleged manipulating the US presidential election. That allegation “held out for two years” and “nobody has apologised for the fake news since it collapsed”, he said.

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

Microchip Implants, Artificial Intelligence, 5G and the Mark of the Beast

Without a doubt, 5G is the technology that will usher in the Mark of the Beast.

The Mobile World Congress meeting took place in Barcelona, Spain back in February. Representatives from the telecommunications industry, auto industry, microchip industry and banksters (100,000 people in all) met to discuss the future of wireless technology. The main theme of this year’s meeting was artificial intelligence and intelligent connectivity. So how are cell phones, microchips, artificial intelligence and wireless phones connected? And why were auto manufacturers, the microchip industry and banksters involved?

Well we learned from the meeting that 5G (5th generation cell phone technology) will enable the widespread use of autonomous cars, and that’s why auto manufacturers were there. What about the banksters and the micro-chip industry? Well 5G will allow banksters to implement a cashless banking system that could be used from any cell phone by merely swiping a microchip implanted in a person’s hand. That’s why the banksters and micro-chip representatives were there. Oddly, during the meeting, a man volunteered to come on stage and have a microchip inserted in his hand. How are microchips linked to wireless phone technology?

According to MSN, “During the presentation at the Mobile World Congress, organized by Spanish bank Sabadell, a man named Pau who had already been fitted with a chip, made a payment by placing his smartphone over the skin covering the chip. After reading several reports about the goings on at the meeting, Revelation 13:16-17 immediately came to mind. “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Salvini to Bring League’s European Allies to Milan

Italian Interior Minister and Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini, leader of the anti-migrant League party, told La Stampa on Wednesday that he is organising an event in Milan to bring together “all European allies of the League” to “propose a reform to the European Union”. He said he spoke with some of his European allies on the phone on Monday, because they “wanted to come to Italy”. Or to Milan specifically, the city Salvini hopes to regain control over.

Who these allies are is still unknown, but it’s likely they aren’t close to Macron: “France imposes strict rules on others, but it is the first to break them”. The antipathy for the French dates back to Sarkozy who they say the “the chaos in Libya is the work of Sarkozy’s attempt to substitute ENI with Total”, referring to national energy giants in Italy and France, respectively.

Which direction Salvini decides to go in will become clear after European elections on May 26. That is when polls say the alliance between the two mainstream parties—the conservative EPP and the socialist party S&D—will end, and the scale will tip in favor of more anti-establishment parties. At the moment, Salvini’s allies are not in the same group, but the hope is to unite with Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Poland’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski, France’s Marine Le Pen, Sweden’s Jimmie Akesson, Holland’s Geert Wilders, Germany’s Alexander Gauland and Austria’s Heinz-Christian Strache. “About 20 movements to propose a new Europe of nations with,” Salvini said…

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

Tommy Robinson’s Brexit Rally Speech Touches on Panodrama, Social Media Bans

Tommy Robinson told the crowd at the Brexit Betrayal rally on Friday, March 29, that today “should have been their independence day,” before introducing his documentary film Panodrama.

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

UK: Brexit Betrayal Averted: MPs Vote Against Customs Union — ‘Hard Brexit Nearly Inevitable’

MPs have marginally rejected a motion for Britain to remain in a customs union with the EU by just three votes, but Guy Verhofstadt immediately warned a “hard Brexit becomes nearly inevitable”.

Ministers voted 276 to 273 against the option tabled by Ken Clarke, which called for any withdrawal agreement and political declaration to include at least a customs union with the European Union. On Mr Clarke’s customs union motion, the division list showed 230 Labour MPs voted for it along with 37 Conservatives, five Independents and Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb. It showed 236 Conservatives voted against it along with 10 Labour, 14 Independents, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, 10 DUP, and five Liberal Democrats.

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

UK: ERG Vice Chairman: Anti-Brexit MPs Launching ‘Coup Against the British People’

A senior Tory Brexiteer has warned that “up themselves” parliamentarians, led by Remainers from his own party, are launching “a coup against the British people” in order to “destroy Brexit”.

Mark Francois MP, vice chairman of the influential European Research Group (ERG) faction of Tory Brexiteers, told talkRadio’s Julia Hartley-Brewer, “What is happening is that in the House of Commons a group of MPs, led by Oliver Letwin and Dominic Grieve — both of whom have lost the support of their local Conservative associations because of their appalling behaviour — have basically tried to launch a coup against the British people.”

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

UK: MPs Vote Against Every Brexit Option… Again. Clean, No Deal Exit Still Default

MPs have voted down all four of their preferred Brexit alternative options, including a soft Brexit, a second referendum, and cancelling Brexit, after Parliamentarians had voted down Prime Minister Theresa May’s controversial Withdrawal Agreement for a third time last week.

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Videos: Yellow Vest Protesters in France Beaten for No Reason Whatsoever

Macron’s decision to go full authoritarian could backfire horrendously

Despite media attention waning, police brutality against Yellow Vest protesters in France shows no sign of slowing, with two new videos depicting unprovoked violence that wouldn’t look out of place in a dictatorship.

In the first clip, shot in Toulouse, a police officer runs out of his vehicle before violently grabbing a man doing nothing other than washing his face. Another officer then whacks him over the head with a baton.

Reinforcements then arrive and threaten people filming the incident while the man is being arrested and dragged away.

“The man was washing his face in the water and they start hitting him with sticks — why?” asks one woman.

A second clip out of Besançon shows a riot cop run up to a man wearing a yellow vest and smack him in the head with his baton. The violence is particularly egregious because the man is not even being detained or arrested.

The man is then seen profusely bleeding from his head as fellow protesters urgently call for a medic. Police then spray the entire area with tear gas.

Experts say that President Macron’s decision to meet the protests with increasing authoritarianism could backfire horrendously.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Iranians Leaving Islam by the Thousands

The rule of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is collapsing. The previously solid castle shows many cracks that continue to grow. In the past, when individuals were willing to sacrifice their life under any circumstances for the sake of Islam and any criticism of Islam, even in their own mind, considered sin, today it is easy to criticize and challenge religion. A nation that, at the forty years ago, preferred to speak of Ayatollah Khomeini, saint like and almost godly, now he is openly reviled without any fear of retribution.

What is the first Muslim country in the world that has the smallest number of true Muslims, you might ask? Such a country is none other than Iran. And this is seen in the virtual world of Facebook or Twitter and other Iranian websites that criticize and reject Islam. This is not possible in other Muslim countries such as Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Arab countries where you cannot joke about Islam without dire consequences, except when it comes to the Iranian nation.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Turkey Mourns Christchurch Massacre, Ignores Attacks on Non-Muslims

Since the March 15 massacre of dozens of Muslims at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, Turkey has joined the rest of the world in condemning the murders, praying for the victims and commemorating the event by laying wreaths at the sites of the slaughter.

This is a fitting response to a mass shooting of innocent people, but there seem to be some problems with it where Turkey is concerned.

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

‘Australia is My Home… People Make Mistakes’: ISIS Recruit Who Fled Sydney to Fight in Syria Issues a Desperate Plea to be Allowed Back Into the Country With His Pregnant Wife and Children

Mohammed Noor Masri, 26, this week said he wants to get his Australian pregnant wife Shayma Assaad and their three boys one out of Syria.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Inside the Christchurch Killer’s Mind

Although the press has been to quick to label the gunman a white supremacist, his pro-European, pro-white stances are surprisingly more racially and ethnically nuanced than he is given credit for. The gunman prides himself in that he has “spent many years travelling through many, many nations.”

Everywhere I travelled, barring a few small exceptions, I was treated wonderfully, often as a guest and even as a friend. The varied cultures of the world greeted me with warmth and compassion, and I very much enjoyed nearly every moment I spent with them. I wish the different peoples of their world all the best regardless of their ethnicity, race, culture of faith and that they live in peace and prosperity, amongst their own people, practicing their own traditions, in their own nations.

However, he then warns,

But, if those same people seek to come to my people’s lands, replace my people, subjugate my people, make war upon on my people, then I shall be forced to fight them, and hold nothing in reserve.

In his nature-based ideology, he compares differing ethnicities of people groups to invasive species that can only despoil the environment — which therefore demands they be repelled. Such cultural, ethnic, and racial mixing will invariably upset the ecological balance of any given “local only” self-sustaining bioregion.

With regard to the planet’s future, the gunman complains: There is no green future with never ending population growth. The ideal green world cannot exist in a world of 100 billion, 50 billion, or even 10 billion people. Continued immigration into Europe is environmental warfare and ultimately destructive to nature itself. The Europe of the future is not one of concrete and steel, smog and wires, but a place of forests, lakes, mountains and meadows. Not a place where English is the de-facto language, but a place where every European language, belief and tradition is valued. Each nation and each ethnicity are [sic] melded by their own environment, and if they are to be protected — so must their own environments. There is no traditionalism without environmentalism.

He later venerates ancestors along similar lines.

Thus, the so-called traditional “conservatism” the press has been quick to hang on the neck of the killer has nothing to do with free markets, free enterprise, free speech, or freedom of religion. On the contrary, the killer’s “conservatism” is strictly based on a much more pointed form of racist identity politics — an identity politics completely indigenous and nationalistically rooted, born, and raised in each country’s own biological-ecological milieu — a tribalistic biopolitics of sorts at the very least — that is dead set against the classical liberalism of America. Closely related, the gunman especially denigrates the American melting pot at the end of his manifesto.

As such, the gunman unsurprisingly mocks the political results of American conservativism:

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The Worst is Yet to Come: Home Prices in Sydney Are Set to Plummet by Up to $60,000 in Just One Year — and Melbourne Trails Closely Behind as Investor Exodus From Australia’s Big Cities Continues

All of the countries’ largest cities, except for Hobart and Canberra, will see a decline in their housing markets over the next few months, the experts said.

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African Migrants Who Hijacked Tanker in the Mediterranean Sea Face Up to 30 Years in Prison for Terrorism

Three teenage migrants were charged in Malta with seizing control of a merchant ship and using force and intimidation against the crew, which is considered a terrorist crime under Maltese law.

One of the accused was identified by the court as Abdalla Bari, a 19-year-old from Guinea. The other two are a 15-year-old from Guinea and a 16-year-old from Ivory Coast, who could not be named because they were minors.

The suspects pleaded not guilty during an arraignment in Valletta, the Maltese capital.

The tanker, El Hiblu 1, was hijacked in the Mediterranean last week. The captain said that rescued migrants had begun to riot and threaten violence when they saw that the ship was returning them to Libya. According to the captain, they forced it to turn north toward Europe.

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Over 1M Illegal Aliens Expected to Arrive in U.S.: ‘Merkel-Style Disaster’

Over one million illegal aliens are expected to be added to the United States’ illegal population — which includes between 11 million to 22 million illegal aliens — this year, alone, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have confirmed.

Breitbart News analysis revealed that at current projections of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, Catch and Release levels, and visa overstays, the nation is set to admit and resettle about one million to 1.5 million border crossers and illegal aliens this year.

Acting ICE Director Ron Vitiello confirmed to Senator Lindsey Graham that at current rates, the U.S. is on track to admit about 1.2 million illegal aliens by the end of the year.

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Pope Francis Disses Trump’s Wall, Compares Populists to Hitler

Pope Francis used strong language to condemn populism Sunday, suggesting that it gains followers through fear as Hitler did in the 1930s.

“I see that many people of good will, not only Catholics, are a bit gripped by fear, which is the usual message of populism,” the pope told reporters aboard the papal plane returning from Morocco to Rome.

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Raw Video of a Stream of Illegals at the Open Border…buses Pick Them Up When They Cross!

The video below is a look at just how open our border is and how the illegals are just surrendering to the border patrol so they can get into detention. Once in detention, many are released into America with a “promise” to come back for a court date. What a joke!

This is a video my husband shot this evening leaving the farm West of Mission, Texas. 300+ people, a DAY get bussed from this location. 1 bus in the morning, 1 bus at noon, and 1 bus in the evening. Towards the end of the video you’ll see the useless border wall that’s been in place since late 2007-early 2008.

It’s useless because there are no gates on it. Just huge gaping spaces every quarter mile or so because Obama halted the construction when he took office. You’ll also see a border patrol agent step into the clearing so the illegals can see he’s there waiting for them.

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Vatican Cardinal: Encouraging Immigration Misrepresents the Gospel

The prominent Vatican Cardinal Robert Sarah, as his newly released book is causing furor in Europe, said it is wrong to “use the word of God to promote migration.”

The Guinean cardinal, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship, said that using the Bible to promote migration constitutes “false exegesis,” adding that it is better “to help people flourish in their culture than to encourage them to come to Europe.”

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Bret Easton Ellis: Twitter Language Policing Has Become “Hysterical”

In an interview with the New York Times, literary icon Bret Easton Ellis says language policing on Twitter has become “hysterical”.

American Psycho author Ellis, who identifies as a centrist liberal, has repeatedly enraged bi-coastal elites by refusing to get caught up in Trump Derangement Syndrome.

This extends to Twitter, where the writer of an upcoming non-fiction book called White slammed the echo chamber idiocy that dominates the social media sphere.

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Twitter Blocking Users From Following Anti-Abortion Film in Second Recent ‘Glitch’

Update: The glitch has been attributed by at least one user to the suspension of the Unplanned account in which most of their followers were dropped upon reactivation. As Twitter’s system rebuilds the follow count, it can act unpredictably. If true, it’s still not a good look considering they haven’t sufficiently explained the suspension in the first place.

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Western Culture Has Died a Politically Correct Death

The political correctness people are the most alienated and emotionally weak element in the society

It is amazing the power that politically correct kooks have acquired over language, art, and literature. It is a sign that the West is culturally dead.

When high museums rename paintings because some emotional weakling declares the name to be offensive, it becomes obvious that the custodians of Western culture have lost their belief in Western culture.

When universities cover up murals because of a claim they are offensive to people whose presence on the campus is miniscule if present at all, you know that learning is no longer the purpose of the university.

When a people are afraid to use the words and terms of their forefathers, you know they have been intimidated to abandon even their own language and ways of speaking.

Western culture today consists of pornography, sexual deviants, whinning whimps devestated by mere words, self-hatred, and craven cowards afraid to stand up for themselves against the onslaught of hate directed toward them by political correctness freaks.

The political correctness people are the most alienated and emotionally weak element in the society. Yet they dominate in the media, entertainment, universities, and art world.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

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